The Final Fall

This is Rose's finest hour...she is SUCH a brave character, it's hard to believe a coward like me came up with her! ^^ This is after Lucifer has knocked her down and is ready to kill her friends!

 

 

 

  

"NO!" Part of her screamed. "I am not this weak!!"

 

Her fist clentched by her side. No...she wasn't this weak. She was strong. She was powerful.

 

"Mother wouldn't give up like this!!!" Rose heard the voice in her head...it was her...but it wasn't...

 

"Mother wouldn't LET them die!" the voice screamed at her. "You wanted to be a fighter, you said you could handle everything...BUT YOU LIED!!!"

 

 

No, Rose thought. I didn't mean for-

 

"Mother would get up and Mother would fight for them!" the voice cried at her.

 

I'm trying....she thought weakly.

 

"NO YOU'RE NOT!!!"

 

Rose struggled to find something to say. She was trying...she was...

 

"Has everything we've done to get here meant nothing to you?"

 

No...You know I-Rose thought, stronger this time. I just-

 

"Have you saved Katrina over and over, just to let her die here? Didn't you want any of this to succeed?"

 

 

 

 

 

Yes! Rose told herself. This meant everything to me!

 

"Did you really push for this goal...to protect others...to save them? Didn't you say that Lucifer was going to pay for what he did to Vincent!?" Her stronger half asked her.

 

YES!!! Rose cried in her head.

 

"So get up...and fight for it!!!"

"Get up..." she spoke out loud, hoarse and quiet. "And fight..."

"Rose!" someone screamed.

Alphonse?

Drake?

Katrina?

She couldn't tell...

"No," she whispered agianst the dirt. she forced her eyes open. They were filled with the blurry sight of Lucifer moving towards the others.....ready to attack them...her friends...her new family...

"No," she said, louder this time. She moved her arms fraction of an inch. "No!"

Lucifer stopped and slowly turned to face her. His crimson eyes wide, he opened his mouth in surprise. Disbelief and amazement dominated his face.

"It can't be..." he whispered disbelieving. "You couldn't...no demon can...."

Rose pushed herself to her knees.

Just a bit more, body, She pleaded.

Lucifer scoffed.

"You've survived, human...count your blessings...you are weak...and hardly worth fighting..."

Rose forced herself to her feet and looked up at Lucifer, a new anger in her blue eyes as they hardened into ice once more.

"I've been many things during this journey...." she took a step towards him.

"selfish..." she took another step.

"angry..." assumed her fighting stance.

"and very vindictive...." and picked up her sword.

"but i absolutly refuse to be WEAK!" she cried as she charged at him.

He shot the familiar fire spell at her, over and over and over....She dodged all of them.

I want to be like my mother, she thought.

I want to fight like she did...

I want to think like she did...

Live like she did....

and die...like she did....

Fighting for something she wanted...something she cared for.

Rose looked at Katrina briefly, memories of their previous encounters flooding her mind...The last night around the campfire, swimming in the lake, cheering her on, healing her and always...always trying to prove her worth...worth she never had to prove....                                     

 "Well...I think you're plenty brave..." Katrina said whenever Rose was upset, smiling and clapping her hands. "You've faced things that none of us ever have!"

 

"You can do it Rose...I know you!" Katrina had cheered from the sidelines as Rose had fought with her sister. "You're stronger than she is!"

 

"I'm kinda pathetic and weak, depending on you guys all the time," Katrina had admitted shyly. The thought seemed to bug her, but she brushed it aside with a strand of her crimson hair. "But you don't really seem to mind that much...I like that about you!"

"You wouldn't give up and leave us here..." Katrina said, shaking her head of soft hair. "You're loyal and brave...I trust you with my life, Rose."

Katrina, Rose thought, as she saw Lucifer circling around her and bearing a striking resemblence to a hungry vulture.

I never told you this...but...

Lucifer swung agian...the bits of a sunrise began to show through, slowly but surely. The sunrise Vincent hadn't lived to see...the sunrise that would end Lucifers life.

Your really brave too....

Rose back Lucifer agianst the wall directly across from the stained glass windows. Pain bit at her every muscle, begging her not to move, but she silenced it. She was a proud warrior of Clatula; pain was nothing to her.

She smilied in weak satisfaction as the sun rose and her time as distraction was over. She ran and rammed herself into Lucifer, pinning him agianst the wall. While he was still in slight shock, she used her remaining strength lift her sword, her mothers sword, high above her head.

I didn't know if I could do this....until I thought of you...

"What are you doing, you foolish girl?" Lucifer screamed. The sun barely touched his shadow. He needed to stay there for merely a minute more. She grimiced at the thought. So Mim was right in the end, after all.

She plunged the sword deep into her chest as it pierced Lucifer, the pain being enough of a distraction to hold him in place for the few precious seconds.

...dying for everyone...not just the ones you like...but the ones you hate as well....

The sun touched them then. Lucifers body erupted in flames, burning him alive....along with Rose...The pain...was horrifying, but she bit her tongue and did not scream. She could feel Death's hand on her shoulder, pleasingly cool agianst such raging flames.

You're not weak...

She thought as she saw Katrina's mouth form her name...she was sure there was sound...but she couldn't hear it...

Her eyes slid closed and the volume of the outside world grew dimmer and dimmer, until it was no more...only her last thoughts to fill the silence before oblivion overtook her.

 

 

You're strong, too.... 

 

 

 

Author's Note

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