Part TWO
 

>> By the Vortex, LeMonAde Version
>> January , 2002 :: 1215 hrs

     Suddenly the sky turned black. Huge crashing sounds could be heard from every direction.
     "Ade, Lemon, Leprechaun, haunter!" The shadowy figure appeared suddenly from the gloom. "Conar has destroyed the narrator and the core of LeMonAde! It's going under in a matter of minutes.." Suddenly a quick, burst of silver zoomed by them. "That's MetalMike."
     Ade pursed his lips, turned, and ran after Mike. The shadowy figure tried calling him back, but to no avail. Lemon quietly spoke, and though the wind whipped his words right back to everyone by him, it was still a strain to hear him.
     "Ade will not let his version die. You'll see." But the Shadowy Figure shook his head.
     "He will DIE. And you will too if we dont get out of here." Suddenly, the shadowy figure tossed the fruit into the vortex. "I'M A PAPERRRRRRR" yelled Lemon as Leprechaun, haunter and the figure followed through.
     A moment later there was an explosion, and the version began buckling in on itself. Meanwhile, two people were battling it out on the edge of a cliff. A silver haired boy had cornered a man in a sky blue robe to the edge of the precipice. The boy lunged out with a sword and hit the man with the flat edge, but the man turned back and whispered...
     "I win."
     LeMonAde gave its last sigh before it all crumpled into nothingness.

>> By the Vortex, Leprechaun Version
>> January , 2002 :: 1220 hrs

     Leprechaun stared at the vortex. The vortex was echoing the voice of despair LeMonAde had given out. Pictures of the version's lasts moments flashed over the rippling pool: mountains and lakes crushed to thin lines before becoming too thin to see, settings and characters being crushed by an immense power. For a moment, he thought he caught a glimpse of the book that had told Conar's story, it's splash of color on the cover reduced to a dull brown smash. And finally, Conar himself, grinning that he had finally won over his foe, but in the end destroyed himself as well.
     Haunter turned away. The sight was almost sickening. To think that was the same place as his beloved Ghost Version lay...and where they now lay on the ground, gasping for breath and holding back tears.
     The shadowy figure just stood up, showing no emotion. "You saw the mass destruction there...well, Sandy is in for something much worse. And when that happens two plots will be destroyed. Unfortunatley, I've forseen that Ghost will survive. Leprechaun and....the time where LeMonAde was...will not last long from now. And when that time comes Leprechaun will experience the same fate as doomed LeMonAde. But there is still hope."
     Leprechaun stood still for a moment, then suddenly felt eyes on his back probing him. He turned around and saw MetalMike standing about 20 feet away, walking in their direction. He had a sword drawn, bloodied at the tip, and he sported a tear in his shirt at his right shoulder.
     MetalMike walked up to the vortex and looked in, just as the vision of Ade's death appeared. He frowned and looked up. "That fiend, Conar...I was fighting PsychicJack, and suddenly Conar jumps in and KILLS HIM. He was mine! He was @#$%n MINE!"
     Inside Mike's eyes was a deep, feiry anger. He turned left and ran after something none of them had seen before: a figure in a blue robe, hastly hurrying east. Suddenly the figure in the shadows ran after MetalMike, and the rest followed.
     When they caught up, Conar was hidden underneath a crevice in the rock, pushed back by MetalMike's sword pushing against his own. "You little freak, you...kill PsychicJack, will you? Through you my father died, his creations all perished for nothing. PsychicJack killed my father and I didnt even get to avenge him."
     Leprechaun looked at the shadowy figure as if to say, "PsychicJack killed his father?" The shadowy figure answered in a low whisper, "In Plot B, he did. In C, Ade killed his father when he 'hit him with the back of his hand' from the book, but Ade convinced it was Conar's command...and in plot A it was Conar himself...."
     Suddenly Conar whipped a dagger from his pocket and hurled it at MetalMike. Mike wrenched to the left to avoid the point, but this was all Conar needed...he pushed back Mike's sword and lunged at him...
     And then something large slammed into Conar from behind. Conar yelled in shock and went forward about two feet before being met by the end of MetalMike's sword. Mike grinned feindishly and dropped his sword to the ground, whiping the blood off his hand and onto the corpse's back.
     But the rest were looking behind Conar: it was ADE. He was looking down at the dead man, frowning. He quickly turned around, hoisted a pack onto his back, and began to walk away.
     "Oh, thanks, Ade!" yelled Mike.
     "Yea, Good riddance, ya loony!" yelled Ade back.
     The shadowy figure once more spoke in his hoarse whisper..."Ah...this is the Ade I foresaw. Here, Ade is nothing like what you know him as...and he's on nobody's side. In A, he's with Conar, B, nobody, and C, with Mike..."
     Lemon sat down, his head spinning. He couldn't bare seeing his friend so different. Seeing the man who he had ruled over LeMonAde with him so opposite as he had known him hurt even the emotionless, stony shadowy figure. The figure turned his back to the man who was once Conar and looked toward the portal. "We should get out of here..Its not safe with Sandy so unstable."
     Leprechaun nodded as the shadowy figure reached out his hand and spoke a single word to change the vortex's route to Ghost. As this happened, the images of death and destruction became Ghost Version, looking like a reflection on the pool of energy. But something was not quite right. The image only lasted a moment, but there was no mistaking it.

     The image was of a silver haired boy and a blue robed man fighting.

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