Here's Chapter 13! Ifrit's story! Enjoy!

I grumbled as I lumbered down the wall of an old temple holding my right arm since it was in pain. Once again, I been used as a pawn, a fool and downright just a brick wall for a bunch of stupid people who I don't even know that well. Idiots. Who do they think they are, anyway? Grr. Boils me up just thinking about it.

As I lumbered my way into through the temple, I went into a room where I see my fellow aeons were sitting in the room talking among themselves. I sighed deciding to walk over to them hoping to get a little bit of sympathy. Soon, Valefor noticed me.

"Oh, Ifrit! Welcome back!" She greeted cheerfully. I couldn't help but feel a little better. "How it heck?"

I merely mumbled. "Great if you like being a tank for a Jumbo Flan."

"Eww! I can't stand those things!" Cindy said sitting out her tongue.

"ESPECIALLY when you have to be the one to get rid of it." Sandy nodded.

"Take a seat, Ifrit." Bahamut offered holding out his hand.

I let out a small sigh. "All right."

I then did as I was told to. However, as I did so, I grumbled under my breath.

"Hush, you overgrown baby." Shiva scolded showing no remorse for me. As usual.

I growled as I glared down at the ice woman. "I don't need your bleeding-heart sympathy!"

"Good because you don't deserve any." Shiva said sharply. "You are not the only one who had to face a Jumbo Flan before so quit whining like a child."

"HEY! Like you weren't upset whenever you had to fight one of those creeps!" I shouted.

"Maybe but I would had been less vocal than you."

"Hey!

Shiva and I had always been having fights with each other. Mainly because of our opposing elements and conflicting personalities. She is just so… Ugh. She NEVER have anything nice to say about me and says I am the weakest aeon even though my power over fire and physical strength is without a doubt one of the strongest forces here.

"Now, now." Ixion spoke up. "Now is NOT the time for fights like these."

"That's right. Ifrit needs time to recover." Valefor nodded.

Shiva and I glared at each other for a moment before turning away huffing. Stupid ice queen. Showing no sympathy for me. However, she wasn't the ONLY person to do that to me. There were quite a lot of people who shown no remorse for not only me but all of my fellow summons.

"You know, none of us should really need to fight those stupid Jumbo Flans or anything kind of monsters just because a bunch of mortals are too afraid to fight them themselves…" I grumbled.

"Oh no, Ifrit. Not again." Ixion said rolling his eyes.

I merely ignored him. "What? I am right? Why do we have to serve those mortals as if we were their slaves? We have more power than they could ever have!"

"Ifrit, we been over this a thousand times." Bahamut said shaking his head. "We are not their slaves. We are summons."

"That's right. We are like guardians. They summon us when they have an enemy they can't defeat themselves." Valefor explained. "After all, the time it took you to take down that Jumbo Flan would probably taken THREE times as much."

"Then if we are guardians, where is OUR reward? Where is OUR piece of the mind?" I snapped. "The only "prize" we get hen Yojimbo gets Gil and that is completely useless in this place!"

The samurai in question simply chuckled tossing a coin himself. "What can I say? I used to be a hit-man back in the mortal world. I guess old habits died hard."

Everyone groaned at this comment. I would had joined them but I am on a roll.

"Exactly! How come we always gets stuck in the world when the mortals get to frolic around in it! It's not fair! We deserved to stay in the world we are "guarding"!"

Bahamut groaned as he held his head. "Ifrit, please! Our worlds are separate for a reason! Our power is just too great to hold in that world."

"Oh, and this cruddy giant boulder we call a planet is any better." I retorted. "If anything this world is too small for our strength!"

"At least there are very few of us." Mindy piped up much to my annoyance.

"THIS IS NOT FUNNY!" I shouted making everyone jump. "Aren't you guys MAD? Aren't you guys JEALOUS?"

Everyone stared at me with blank faces after I finished my rant. Hopefully, that means they were thinking deeply about this.

"It's not that we don't WANT to go back to the human world." Yojimbo said. "But what's gonna you do about it?"

"Yes. We are stuck here for a REASON." Valefor explained. "There is much we could do anything."

"In other words, behave." Shiva snapped.

I growled at this before glaring at my so-called friends. I then turned around and stormed off without a single word. I heard somebody called out to me but I didn't care because I didn't wanted to talk to anyone. How could those guys be so passive? We are entitled to the mortal world just as much as those weaklings are.

I sighed as I went to another part of the temple. All I want is what is fair for me and my comrades and that is our own world instead of this barren wasteland we live in. Why do those losers get the more lovely piece of the planet instead of us? It's not fair. Grr! If only I could make things the way it SHOULD be. For ME. As I continued to grumble to myself, I looked up.

Much to my surprise, I saw some kind of glass shard being surrounded by a dark aura. I could sense the extreme power emitting from the shard. As I looked in awe, I decided to go and grabbed it. However, as I did so, my world went black.

Ugh. My aching head. Whatever hit me, hit me HARD. I slowly sat up and looked around at my surroundings.

I was in a dark castle of some kind which somewhat looked like the temple where I resided in. I got a bad feeling about this.

"So you are finally awake, eh?" A dark female voice said.

I turned to see a petite young girl.

"Who the devil are you?" I asked simply.

"Haven't your mother ever told you to mind your manners?" The girl said rudely.

I snorted out some steam at this. "Haven't YOUR mother ever told you to respect your elders?"

The girl merely smirked cockily at this. "True. The other elders I respect are the ones I actually liked."

"Watch it, twerp!" I snapped.

She simply chuckled making me even more angrier. I hated people like this.

"Where the heck am I, anyway?" I demanded.

"Mevious' castle." She replied.

"Mevious' castle?" I asked confused.

"Yes he summoned you so you can joined his troops." She explained.

"Say what now?" I asked more confused than ever.

The girl simply shrugged. "You will find out soon enough. Now get up."

I growled at the thought of being bossed around by a little girl. If Shiva ever found out, I would NEVER live it down. However, I knew I wouldn't get anywhere just by arguing with her.

The girl then nodded. "All right. Let's go."

I followed the girl not liking the scenario. For some strange reason, I been transported into an unknown location with some guy named Mevious wanted to order me around.

A minute later, we walked into a strange throne room. There, I found five strange people. An overweight chef. A short, fat plumber. A green floating robot. A black-clad with creepy eyes. And some kind of effeminate weirdo punk. Ugh… I hate those types. I deal with too many of those in the past. Good or evil.

Then, I saw the big lug on the throne. Oh great. It was another pretty-boy. This time, with long wavy sea-green hair. I along with everyone else demanded to know why we were here. All he did but had this smug smirk and his face and made us wait for another person who been teleported here. Grr… I already hate that guy. Thankfully, I didn't needed to wait long as he walked in. He seemed like another pretty-boy only this one actually focused on his muscles. He didn't seemed competent when he hit on that white-haired man. Man, that was priceless.

Anyway, this Mevious guy wanted us to form a small army. He wanted to engulf this world with darkness by collecting pieces of something called a Twinklestar which acted as an actual wishing star. However, he had two women named Queen Memory and Lord Ran stopping him.

Also, he created a dark version of the Twinklestar of people's sins. My being Wrath. Oh hardy-har-har! I am Wrath because of my short temper! Hilarious! Humph! I have a good reason to always being angry. Now, I may be no saint but I have my own morals and that is against helping this creeps like these with dark ambitions. The others would never forgave me if I did that.

Then, he said that if we get the star pieces, he will grant any wish for us. Seriously? Any wish? If I could have one wish, it would be so equal rights for us summons. On the other hand, am I really willing to endanger the lives of an entire world to do so. So I gave in and volunteered. However, I was the last one to do so besides that robot and he looked like a nervous breakdown! Yeah, not the best thing I done in my life but hey, there was too much on the line to risk.

Apparently, we needed vehicles to fight Memory's army. A vehicle. Why? Is this an air attack army? Because I could easily burn down planes with one well-aimed flame. Still, I shrugged it off and listened to what three boys had to say.

"Okay, before you need to battle Queen Memory's forces, you will need a vehicle." The tallest boy nodded.

"Don't worry, our special mechanical skills will pick out the perfect vehicle." The youngest boy agreed.

"And yet, we can't get ourselves a girlfriend." The middle one smiled.

The other ones kicked him in the shins. I watched wincing as the poor schmuck fell on his face.

"Don't mind him. So want to see your vehicle?" The tall boy asked.

"Um, I guess so." I shrugged.

The tall and short boy walked off. I slowly followed casting the downed boy a glance but decided to ignore it. I walked until I stopped and saw something.

A giant meteor.

"THIS is my vehicle?" I asked in disbelief. What kind of vehicle is that?

"Yes. We are aware of your demi-god-like strength and fire power decided to just give you something to fly on." The tall boy explained.

"This particular meteor reacts your powers over fire." The short boy explained.

I raised an eyebrow wondering how come they know so much about me. But then I shrugged it off, I did what they asked creating a flame in my hand. Much to my surprise, it started to float. Trying to do a little experiment, I raised the flame a little to see the meteor rising up a bit. It actually works. Man, I don't know how but these runts did they homework. I couldn't help but smirk.

"Maybe this won't be so boring after all…"

Level 1

Mevious told me that the first star piece was in a forest. Ah… A forest. I remember those. Back when we were allowed in the mortal world. So anyway, descending my new meteor to the ground, I got off it and started to look.

However, I didn't had much luck. Grr! Everything here is too big and lush. It is like trying a needle in a haystack. Hey, wait a minute. If what that Mevious said is right, then the Twinklestar would be of great magic. If I burned down part of this forest, I would surely find the star piece. After all, this forest is doomed either way. So I creating a flame, I decided to start something a certain bear would frown upon. However, I then heard a voice.

"Oh, man. Where is that star piece?"

I raised an eyebrow before turning to the direction of the voice. There I found some kind of tall, skinny red creature with a wonky eyestalk and his arm cut off. He was a peculiar sight but I saw weirder. My main concern is WHY he was out here. If he was part of Memory's forces, I would show him no mercy.

"Hey, you!"

The creature turned around to look at me and jumped after seeing me. Heh, My build tends to do that to people.

"Um, hey there. Sorry. But who are you?" He asked.

"What's it to ya?" I said with a smirk. "The better question what were you saying about star pieces?"

This immediately made the creature all sweaty. "You overheard me?"

"It was a little hard NOT to." I said with a smirk. "Now I take it you are part of Memory's forces?"

"Y-Yes? She recruited me." He sputtered.

"Then, that makes us enemies." I explained before summoning a flame. "You see, I been recruited by Mevious."

"Seriously!" He asked. "Sorry but in that case, I have to be rough with you!"

I couldn't help but laugh at his pathetic attempt to be a tough guy. Sure, he easily was taller than me but only because he was more skinny than a toothpick. I could easily break him in two with one bear hug. Luckily for him, I decided to have some fun and defeat him in the sky.

Ifrit faces-off against Wilt. Ifrit wins.

Level 2

Heh. Just as I figured. He was a decent opponent but nowhere on my level. Anyway, I actually managed to find the star piece WITHOUT burning down the forest. Heh. How lucky is that. Anyway, Mevious said the next star piece would be in a snowy plain. Ugh. I hate the cold. But that's obviously because of my element. Thankfully, it wasn't that cold and I could always use my powers to warm me. That being said though. I don't want to hang around this place long.

With a smirk, I gotten a brilliant idea. The forest couldn't grow back so easily but there will always be snow here right? Waving my arm, I sent a giant flame towards a random snow bank. As if I expected anything else to happen, it melted almost instantly. Much to my delight, a star piece was revealed. Heh. That was too easy. I went over to try and grab it until…

"Stop!"

My eyes widened before turning around. There, I found a tall teenaged girl in a school uniform with a creepy yellow cat at her side.

"And who the devil are you two?" I asked narrowing my eyes in case they were enemies.

"The name Chiyo-Chi-Chi." The cat said.

"And um, I am Sakaki." The girl replied. "Listen, can we have that star piece please?"

I merely snorted at their naiveté. "Ever heard of finders keepers? Besides, why do YOU want it?"

The weird cat merely tilted his head. "Are you part of Mevious' army?"

"No. I am just collecting these things as an hobby." I said sarcastically.

"Just a foul-mouthed man." The cat said.

I growled. There was something about this cat that rubs me the wrong way and it WASN'T just the face.

"If you are itching for a fight for this star piece, then fine! Bring it!" I growled.

So it seemed like I had another battle. This time against TWO people thankfully, they don't looked that tough to give me too much of a hassle.

Ifrit faces-off against Sakaki. Ifrit wins.

Level 3

I beat the high-school girl and her creepy pet. Ugh… Good riddance. I hope I never see that abomination again. Anyway, I picked up the star piece and went off. Next, I had to find a star piece on the clouds. Heh. Not where a normal person would go but I went to go bizarre places. I "parked" my vehicle as I got off and began to look.

As I did so, I pondered about what I was doing. My wish is for equal rights between summons and humans. After all, we are entitled to it, right? Still, if anyone else found out what I did to get the rid, they would had never forgave me. But I didn't had a choice! Our lives were miserable there! I know what I am doing is wrong but I am merely doing what is best for my people. Then, why do I feel so guilty? Suddenly, I hear a couple of familiar voices.

"Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!"

"As you would say, gimme, gimme, NEVER give."

I blinked twice before heading over to the direction of the voice wondering what was going on. There, I found Wario with his clothes torn and his car behind him destroyed. In front of him was a well-dressed young man and a little rabbit girl with some kind of light blue animal.

"You had lost fair and square." The young man scolded. "I am more than entitled to this star piece."

Wario growled at this. "Fair schair! I NEED-a that star piece to get my dream of unlimited riches!"

The man simply narrowed his eyes. "Humph. If THAT'S why you wanted to engulf this world in darkness than it only strengthen my resolve!"

"Hey!"

I raised an eyebrow. Wario actually lost to that pansy? He looked like he didn't even liked fighting in the first place. Neither did the kid for that matter. Speaking of which, her animal friend noticed me and gasped.

"Oh no! Another bad guy!" She screamed getting everyone's attention.

The boy narrowed his eyes. "Just as I feared. Are you with Mevious' forces?"

Sheesh, these guys ask a lot of stupid questions. "Of course I am!"

"Then, that makes us enemies." He said sternly. Heh. Like I ever be intimidated by a pretty-boy.

Suddenly, Wario came out of nowhere and grabbed the star piece out of the boy's hands and ran off.

"Hey, I didn't needed your-a help!" He shouted. "I could had-a gotten it without your distraction!"

I couldn't help but groan. What distraction? The little girl called out distracted the boy and his carelessness made him lose the star piece.

The boy immediately ran after him to make up for his stupid mistake leaving the rabbit girl and her pet who both looked ready to chase after them. Raising an eyebrow, I walked forward.

The rabbit girl saw me and gasped before stepping back a couple of steps. "Um, w-what do you want?"

I simply shrugged. "Sorry but I can't afford to have you help your friend and get that star piece back."

"B-But…" She sputtered. "We got it first!"

"Tough noogies, sweetie." I said shaking my head. "We'll do whatever it takes to get those star pieces. I recommend you surrender now before you get hurt."

"N-NO! If I do that, Mevious would get all of the star pieces and he would hurt this world!" She snapped. "I can't let you do that!"

"Chao chao!"

I sighed as I shook my head. Amazing. I could easily defeat those runts and yet they are willing to get hurt anyway. Can't say I didn't warned them… Poor deluded children.

Ifrit faces-off against Cream. Ifrit wins.

Level 4

Well, I beaten those kids. Thankfully, those children were tougher than they looked. Heh. Almost gave me a decent fight. Almost. Anyway, since Wario got the star piece, I decided to leave. Apparently, the next star piece is in a grassy field next to a field. Heh. Hopefully this shouldn't take too long. After all, it is not as large as the last three places.

"Oh, well if it isn't Ifrit!"

I raised an eyebrow to see Vexen storming over while looking a little peeved for some reason.

"I don't suppose you know where that star piece is do you?" He asked.

"Heck should I do." I snorted. "I literally just got here."

The black-clad man growled. "Great. I am stuck here with another stereotypical body-builder!"

I growled at this. "Hey! At least I HAVE muscles! While you have… Your eyes!"

"Excuse me!" He snapped. "Attractiveness means nothing in situation like these!"

I snarled before smirking. "Do you say that just to calm you down?"

The man merely grunted in pure annoyance before walking off to start searching. Sheesh, I know he wasn't that much of a people's person but he just attacked me out of nowhere. That was unlike him.

"What's YOUR problem?" I snorted. "Besides your obsessive with sniffing felt pens?"

He growled before whirling around. "If you really must know, I just been humiliated by one of Memory's soldiers."

I raised an eyebrow. "You lost a battle?"

"No! One of those fools actually tried to take me for a fool!" Vexen shouted.

I couldn't help but smirk. Vexen was always bugging us about not slacking it off. I loved seeing him like this. "So who is this person who humiliated so much?"

"It was…" Vexen started before he froze looking surprised. I raised an eyebrow before turning to the direction where he was looking to see three figures. The first one was a tall yellow dog with a somewhat childish attire. The second one was a panda with freaky-looking eyes. And the third one… Wait… Is that? No, it couldn't be…

"YOU!" Vexen shouted immediately running forward. "We meet again, Vivi!"

Vivi immediately jumped in his place stepping back. "Oh no! Not you again!"

"Oh yeah, me again!" Vexen growled. "You won't get away from me this time!"

The dog rolled down at Vivi. "Vivi, is this the psychopath who was attacking for you for no reason!"

"I HEARD THAT!" Vexen shouted. "And I have you know that I have a valid reason for doing this! That little brat kept feigning innocence that we weren't from the same world!"

The dog raised an eyebrow. "Really?"

"No! I haven't even MET this guy before!" Vivi insisted.

"Don't play ignorant with me! I may had never met you before but I know that you are a resident of Twilight Town and one of Sora's friends!" Vexen shouted.

"Sora? Who's Sora?" The dog asked confused.

"That's what I want to do. He been screaming his name to me ever since he first saw me!" Vivi insisted.

"Grr! Again with the supposed stupidity!" Vexen said. "You admitted that you are Vivi and yet you don't know Sora OR any of his allies!"

"That's because this is a different Vivi."

Everyone immediately turned to me.

"Come again?" Vexen asked. Cool. Now I actually get to sound intelligent in right of him.

"Ifrit?" Vivi asked surprisingly Vexen big time.

"Yes, it is!" I said with a smirk.

"What are you doing helping MEVIOUS?" He said in disbelief. "Do you know what he intends to do?"

"I am aware of that. But I am also aware that he is giving an once-in-a-lifetime chance." I coolly said.

Vexen looked back and forth between the two of us. "Wait. You two know each other?"

"Technically. Summons like me went through many time eras." I explained. "I was in Vivi's era."

"Really?" Vivi asked surprised.

"Then… Are you in my era?" Vexen asked.

"Not really. You see, this Vivi is a different Vivi. Similar personality. Same taste in clothes and different." Ifrit explained. "In other words, in some way, he is the guy you are looking for and in a way, he is not."

The four people simply stared at me shocked. At least three of them anyway. The panda remained stoic. Is he always like that? Anyway, it IS pretty mind-screwing when you think about it. There is another dimension that have a version of the same person in each of them. I wonder if I should had told them that though. Time paradoxes aren't very fun. Then again, it DID shut Vexen up completely.

"Hey, Vexen." I said.

"Y-Yes?" The wielder of ice said.

I gave a small smirk. "You can go after him now if you want. I'll distract the mutt and the panda for you."

Vexen blinked twice. "Um, thank you, Ifrit. Yes, they most likely came here for the star piece, anyway so it is the wisest choice."

Heh. Looks like Vexen's back to his "trying too hard to look professional" stunt again. At least he praised so I can't bug him about. Anyway, I am heading towards another battle. This time, against the mutt. Too bad it is literally going to be too easy. I think I saw swirls replacing his eyeballs.

Ifrit faces-off against Muto. Ifrit wins.

Level 5

Too easy. The battle was far too easy. Meh. As long as we get rid of those two and got the star piece, I can't complain. That makes four star pieces. One more and I would actually get that wish. Yes, I am sooo close to that wish, I could taste it. All I had to do was try to find the last one in a dark ruin. Thankfully, I created fire and illuminated the cave so that I could navigate through it easily. Then, I saw a bright sparkle up again. Could it be? Heh. It is! It is the star piece! Jackpot! I was about to go and grab it until…

Um, is that a giant accordion? Then, I noticed that pansy kid from before riding it on the other side.

"So we meet again." The boy said narrowing his eyes.

"So it seems." I said confidently. "Look, the score is 4 to 0, we all know that you and your friends pretty much lost so just back down."

The boy narrowed his eyes. "Mevious is already dangerous enough with four star pieces. It would be dreadful thinking about what will happen if he will get the full power of FIVE star pieces."

I rolled my eyes. "Sheesh, talk about persistence."

"I do not care what if all hope seemed hope." He said narrowing his eyes further. "I will NOT let Mevious have that Twinklestar. How could you work for such a man? Have you no shame?"

"Hey! Mevious made me an offer I wouldn't refuse! One wish! Do you honestly think I would blow it now after coming so far!" I snapped.

The boy simply shook his head. "What is it you want to actually DESTROY an entire planet?"

"Just wanted to make life easier for me and my allies." I said.

The boy raised an eyebrow. "Would your friends had liked what they were doing?"

I paused for a moment. "Look, shouldn't we be fighting now?"

"No. You know what I say is true." The boy said. "Your friends would had been appalled by your actions. I am not going to judge that helping your friends would be selfish because for all I know they could be unfairly in a horrible situation. However, you cannot deny that they would resort to something like this.

I stood slack-jawed at this. He was right. They would had all suffer than do something like this. If Mevious asked them to do this task. They would had refused in pure disgust at asking. Suddenly, I realized he was trying to get me. And it was working.

I growled before readying myself. "I said, shouldn't we be fighting now!"

The boy simply sighed. "Oh, very well."

I snorted out steam. How dare he try to outsmart me? Maybe a nice burned hole in that hat got to teach him some respect for power.

Ifrit faces-off against Cecil. Ifrit wins.

Final Battle

I slowly moved my vehicle towards the ground. I then hopped off the rock and hummed a jovial tune before taking the star piece and grabbing it. I then looked at my opponent. His clothes were torn and tattered with bruises on his body. His accordion was destroyed.

"Heh. I must admit. You are tougher than I thought. But in the end, my flame rages on top!"

"Indeed, you did!" A familiar voice said behind me. I turned around to see my leader.

"Mevious!"

"I must say, Ifrit. I am impressed! At first, I thought Gaston would collect the star pieces first because he is the leader, but as I can see, you got all the star pieces for me! Impressive!"

"Heh heh heh. You actually thought I would be bested by that narcissist? But anyway, thanks. So do I get my wish now?"

"But, of course. Give me the star piece and I will grant you your wish."

This is it. Giving one more star piece, I could give my friends a home for the better forever. I had fought all those battles for this wish. I was about to hand it over. However…

"I will NOT allow you to get the Twinklestar, Mevious!" A new voice said. We both turned to the direction of the voice to see a pink-haired woman.

"Hey, is this broad?" I asked.

"Yes, it is! It is my old foe, Queen Memory." Mevious said.

She went over to the downed Cecil.

"Are you all right, Cecil?" She asked.

"Queen Memory, forgive me…" Cecil said weakly.

She then glared daggers at me. "How could you? You could very well brought the end of my world and for what, your selfish wish!"

I growled at this. "What is with long-haired people trying to get into my mind today?"

"Ignore her, my friend. After all, the winner of this battle is already confirmed." Mevious shrugged.

"No… No! I don't care if you gotten all of the pieces of the Twinklestar! I don't care if you defeated my small army! I will NOT let you win and destroy my home, Mevious!" Memory snapped.

"Oh, yeah! And what are you going to do?" Mevious smirked.

Suddenly, Memory started to glow a white light blinding us.

"I sense great power! What the heck is going on?" I asked.

"No! It can't be!" Mevious said in disbelief.

"It is. The spirit of everyone of this world and flowing through me right now. They want to protect their home and THAT'S how I will defeat you!" Memory snapped.

"Drat! Not here! Not after coming so far!" Mevious snapped.

Suddenly, I noticed something. My glass shard was glowing a dark black. And so was the star piece I got.

"What now? What power is this?" I asked.

Mevious smirked. "Ah, it's not too late to turn this game around! Here! I will give you the other pieces of the Twinklestar! Use your desire to get your wish to defeat Memory!"

"What? Hey! I handed in MY end of the bargain! Fighting this woman is not part of the deal."

He then shoved them in my arms. "I know. I know. But unless you don't, you will never get your wish!"

I growled in anger. This was just an excuse for to prolong my wish! If he wanted to defeat that woman so badly, why don't HE fight her? Lazy pretty-boy. Humph. Fine seeing that I had no choice. Lady, you had messed with the wrong demon and you are literally going to be burned for it.

Astro Man faces-off against Memory. Astro Man wins.

Epilogue

Okay, I'll admit it. That broad was tough. I could see how she was the queen of this world. Mevious then walked over to Memory who was on the ground battered and bruised with a few tears in her dress. He then picked her up by her neck.

"Tsk tsk tsk. Memory, you don't know why to quit, do you? The reason I gave you a heads-up about my plan and have you find a way to counter it is because fighting you, it will be too easy! And as you can see, my men easily defeated you easily!"

He then started to put pressure to her neck. I winced a little

"You know, I wanted to kill you so you don't have to face the new fate of this world. But, now, I will let you live so you can suffer."

With that, he threw her away like a rag doll. He then turned to me.

"Now, then, about your wish."

I smirked as I punched into my palm.

I stood in front of Mevious with Lord Ran, her dark Rabicat and the Griffon Brothers at his side.

"Well done, Ifrit! It wasn't easy but we managed to defeat Queen Memory's army and kept the Twinklestar! And, despite being an evil master, I will keep my word grant you my wish!" Mevious said in an out-of-character happy mood.

"Thank you!" I said with a grin

"So… What IS your wish?" Mevious asked before I took a deep breath.

"I live in a world of summons like myself. However, this world is far too small for us. We used to share it with the mortals of our universe but he had to retreat because apparently, our power is too great for their world. Well, staying in that cruddy world, didn't really helped either!"

"So that is your wish?" Mevious asked.

I smirked. "It used to be."

"Huh?" Mevious asked confused.

"Well, I been thinking about this a lot. If any of my friends ever found out what I did, they would never forgive me. Plus, nothing personal but I don't like you. I think it is just your hair but something about you just ticks me off. But at the same time, I wanted my wish so I decided to think of a way to get it with you falling on your face in the end."

"S-So what are you saying?" Mevious asked as everyone started to sweat.

I smirked evilly at this. "Mevious, I wish for you to sacrifice every last bit of your dark power to help restore our world."

"E-EXCUSE ME!" He asked in disbelief.

"Hey, look on the bright side. At least you get to live." I smirked. "Though when my wish is done, you probably wouldn't have any dark energy at all."

He growled. "Very well, your wish will be fulfilled!…"

"Oh, and one more thing." I said. I was enjoying this.

"What?" Mevious said.

"By every last bit, I mean EVERY bit." I said. "In other words, don't even think about getting the last laugh by attacking me."

Mevious' eyes widened in horror. Ha. Saw through him like a book.

"Now THAT'S out the way, you may proceed." I said. Mevious' face was priceless.

A week later, I sat on a giant canyon watching a beautiful sunset by myself. Ever since Mevious used every last bit of his power to restore the world. It was definitely more beautiful. Best of all, I get to smack around a bunch of people AND a pretty-boy without having to destroy a planet. All in a day's work. I don't even care about serving those mortals anymore.

"There you are."

My eyes widened before turning around. There, I found Shiva.

I grunted. "What is it I did this time?"

Shiva merely narrowed her eyes. "Humph. Brash as always."

"And still as straight-forward as always." I returned.

"Well, I actually wanted to speak with you." Shiva said.

"Sure, I am all ears." I said.

Shiva then put her hand on her chest and breathed in for some reason. "Listen, I wanted to thank you."

I was completely taken into a loop. "Wait. What?"

Shiva growled. "Did I shudder? I wanted to thank you for helping to restore our land."

I was still stunned. Shiva had never had a nice thing to say about me before. Not even when I felt I deserved praise and sympathy.

"Um, you welcome." I said stunned.

"Also, I am surprised you managed to do so WITHOUT getting revenge against the mortals." Shiva said.

I merely shrugged. "All I wanted to our world to be treated equal like the mortals do, really. I thought the only way to do so was to get back our world.

Shiva raised an eyebrow. "Goodness. That is very mature of you, Ifrit. Maybe there IS hope for you, anyway."

I growled at this. "Hey!"

Much to my surprise, Shiva giggled. "But apparently not much though. Hey, may I stay with you for a while? The Magus Sisters are being annoying again."

I blinked twice seeing Shiva like this. Just like there was hope for me, there was hope for Shiva as well. He was actually warming up to me. Mainly out of respect. Wow. I couldn't help but smile.

"Sure, Shiva."

There's the chapter! How was that? I always intended of having Ifrit as an anti-hero with a seriously bad attitude problem and fighting for a (though scrappy) noble reason. Anyway, review away!