Toshii's Old House

Right before Kotaro touched the beast, a figure appeared in front of Kotaro and pushed him away. The figure turned into Will.

"Kotaro....." Will shook his head. "Your losing yourself. You can't defeat fear with anger. Anger is one of the many places fear is born."

Will turned to Tosh. "Hey Tosh."

The red lightning had struck Akio and he screamed in pain his automail arms had fallen off and out of nowhere his real arms came back his scar on his body left him and he fainted after this all happened.

Tosh fell to the ground and just simply looked up at Will, eyes widen. "G-Gio....?" she whispered in sheer disbelief.

Dante's eyes started to clear as he heard the voice of Will. "Zergio. Will Hawthorn." He shook his head, the lightning dissipated. He stared in front of him, Wills figure floating in front of him. "Then how do we stop it? And why is that tattoo hurting Tosh?"

Akio woke up and he stood up he looked at his arms they weren't really his one of these arms were kyte's the other one was of his lover. He pulled out a pocketwatch and started crying.

"The Tattoo hurts her, because of the fighting I've been doing." Will said. "It contains part of my soul. Since its only a part, I can never return to life. Toshii is still being plagued by a hostile energy, which lives within her Tattoo. Whenever I clash with it, it sends surges of energy through it, which hurt her. I don't wanna hurt her.... but it ends up that way."

Will walked by Kotaro. "You can't destroy someone else's fear. You can only help them stand up to it."

Will slid his arm under Tosh's right arm and helped her to her feet. "You see that beast, Tosh? I know its scary, but you have to stand your ground. With us, your safe, so don't be afraid."

Tosh was helped up by Will, still a bit shocked to see him. Tears welled up in her eyes as she hugged him. "Okay...!" she said, crying softly.

Dante shut his eyes tight. He shook his head and walked up to Tosh. "We are all here Tosh. We will help you no matter what."

Akio looked at the beast his eyes red again Kyte had tooken over. "Tosh Kotaro you both need to remember something if you fear something then you need to beat that fear Akio feared losing me but he hasn't truly lost me as you can tell now then Kotaro when we go back into the real world i want you to cut off Akio's right arm that's the arm of his lover he's the one who asked me to ask you he will then get another automail arm again but this is my request cut off both arms so he will learn to get over our death this is my last will." Kyte had said smiling and he looked at Will. "I don't know who you are but it seems we both are connected to these people in a way so maybe we should lend them our strength." He told Will

Tosh looked at all three of the people around here. She suddenly felt lighter, like a burden has came off her somehow. She smiled and wiped away her tears. "Okay!" she said.

"We will be with all the way." Dante put a hand on her shoulder. "You will never be alone." He looked at the beast. "No matter how bad things may seem."

Will smiled. "Thank you for the offer, but I've been resting for this moment."

He broke away from the group and walked towards the beast, who had been weakened from Tosh's bravery.

"Rememeber Tosh, you can stand up to anything if you have friends with you, and, although it hurts, that when you lose a friend, that everything will turn out just fine."

The beast tried swiping at Will, but Will caught the whip in his hand, which started bleeding. A alchemy circle appeared, and a white light covered the entire scenery. A moment later, the darkness was gone, and Tosh was in a city, in her mind, with a clear sky and shining sun, the beast gone.

"I've helped you for so long, but im tired, Tosh....." Will slowly walked over to her, and placed his hand on her Tattoo. A alchemy circle and black light covered it, the tattoo remaining after he removed his hand.

Will then laid down and closed his eyes. "I'll take the energy with me......."

Akio's eyes had gone back to normal and he looked around. "I don't know you that well Tosh but you healed me so you have my respect and protection i promise you i will not let you be alone especially since Kotaro seems to really care for you." He said then he looked suspicious. "Just wondering is there something going on between you two? because you two seem to know a lot about each other." He said laughing a little bit

Tosh frowned a bit, kneeling besides Will. She smiled, a single tear welling in her eye. She was happy. Happy to know she had friends always willing to help her. "Thank you so much.... Will." she said as the tear streaked down her cheek.; the last one she will shed for Will Hawthorne.

Dante placed a consoling hand on Tosh's shoulder. "Thats twice he's saved us. I owe him more then I do anyone else."

Tosh nodded, standing up, still looking at Will. "I'll never forget what you did for us..."

Dante put his arm around Tosh. "Thank you. You saved Tosh, and myself. I just wish their was more we could do for you." He closed his eyes.

Toshii and Kotaro returned to the real world in their own bodies, and Tosh's Tattoo remained, cleansed of all negative energy, just a normal flower tattoo. The flower she took from the Chimera lab, the one that sprouted after Will's death, was always missing a petal. A white spec escaped Tosh's mouth and flew to the flower, giving the flower its last petal. The flower slowly begun to disappear, the white energy disappearing into the air. The dark energy sunk into the ground, never to be seen again.

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Akio released the Alchemy and returned to the real world and looked at Kotaro. "Do you remember Kyte's request?" He asked holding out both his arms.

Dante took out Slyde and chopped off Akio's arms without a second thought.

Akio thanked him and concentrated extremely hard his automail arms seeming to still be connected to his nerves to they reconnected but the pain was so great he let out a scream and fainted.

Dante placed Akio on the couch before going back to Tosh.

Tosh was staring at flower as it went away but smiled to herself she turned to Kotaro and hugged him tightly.

Dante hugged her back. He said nothing. He just thought of everything that had happened.

Akio woke back up and looked at them both. "I'll be going now if you need me i'm usually in the eastern plains." He said and began to walk out but noticed the music box on his way out it seemed familiar to him but he ignored the feeling and then left.

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