slayers_desire | here we go again

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here we go again

Clark had gone missing again. And this time, even though April still felt the bond, she couldn't connect to him through the bond. So didn't know where he was, or who took him, and was as confused as Lana and Chloe as they searched the barn for clues

However, April found something that didn't belong to Clark, but was not connected to his disappearance. It was a spool of thread. And it triggered a vision of Aurora. The last witch.

Knowing that she had to face her destiny, April left the mystery of Clark's disappearance in the hands of Lana and Chloe to solve. She needed someone to help her, and with Raya away there was only one person that came to mind.

Bizarro would help her. And April PINpointed to his new residence, hoping he was free. Her mind filled with concern for Clark, but also knowing that Aurora couldn't be left unattended.

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"Oh I might have to sacrifice a life or two. But it will only be those who oppose me." Aurora looks right at April with that statement.

He takes a short step sideways, still shielding April with his own body. "Not what I meant. The cost to you."

"There is no cost to me."

"I doubt that Aurora. Whatever the Third Evil is telling you is lies. It is corrupting you."

"You think you can see better than me? Let your boy toy step aside and touch me. WE will see who is right."

April paused. Thinking over the consequences carefully.

"And why should we trust you?" He'll follow April's lead, but he isn't going to budge an inch unless she gives him the okay.

"You can't. But she has no choice in the matter."

"She is right. I need to see every piece of the vision." April takes a breath. For the first time ever, she will touch Bizarro's mind with her gifts, I trust you to ensure I am not harmed

Moving forward, April reaches out her hands to Aurora. The Witch takes her hands, and almost immediately April screams as the vision takes over her mind, body and soul.

He steps out of her way when she tells him to, but the moment she screams, any thoughts of potential goodwill go out the window. The red kryptonite necklace keeps him from having violent impulses, but he still knows how to make the gestures and hopefully bluff his way through a confrontation, and he immediately steps forward to put a hand around Aurora's throat.

Unfortunately for Bizarro, whatever spell that Aurora cast on herself is going to duplicate his attacks on her -- to April.

For as soon as he starts chocking Aurora... April gets chocked by an invisible force.

He doesn't squeeze, partly because he knows about the spell, and partly because he doesn't know if he can. "Whatever you're doing to her, stop it." He has memories of her having visions before, but never this painful-looking, and it alarms him. Especially since he's helpless to do anything.

"I am not doing anything." Aurora lets go of April. "I can't help it if she doesn't care for what she sees. I think it is glorious."

April comes out of the vision, chocking back a sob. "Its horrible. Why do you want this to happen!"

"Because it is time that I get the power and respect that is rightfully mine."

He lets go of her once she stops holding onto April. If not for the spell, and the red kryptonite keeping him in check, he would've disemboweled her with his bare hands by now. "Right, because that's never gone wrong for anyone in history," he says sarcastically.

April attempts to reason with Aurora again.. but as she attempts to move forward... she is stuck. "What... You have done something!"

"Just a little spell. To keep you in one place."

"Why?" April knows she shouldn't ask. And seconds after she does, tiny little beams of sunlight flow from Aurora and pelt April. The combined magic and natural sunlight in the beams are enough to cause April great pain. And what is worse, is she can't move.

Bizarro doesn't know what to do. And so he does the only thing he can do: place himself in between April and Aurora.

To his surprise, it hurts just as much as the real sun does. And where the light touches his skin, it cracks into that familiar stone texture.

But he refuses to move. He'd rather take the pain than have April hurt. She may not love him, but he still has feelings for her.

Aurora releases more and more magical sunlight, so they are bathed in the stuff. April may not be able to move from her spot, but she can hold onto Bizarro. Her skin is blistering at the magical light.

And she can feel his pain.

She will have to fight fire with fire. Painfully, she removes the red kryptonite from his neck. "Don't hold back on attacking her."

He wants to tell her not to do it, but it's too late. And his eyes darken with blazing anger as he looks at Aurora, feeling the sunlight burning him as surely as the real sun does, his stone skin cracking further. "Wrong move."

He's weakened by the light, and he knows that hurting Aurora might hurt April, but he has no other choice. And, unrestrained by the red kryptonite, he's willing and able to let loose the most powerful blast of heat vision that he can manage.

All April can do is hold him tighter as the pain of the sunlight is soon mixed with a burning sensation of heat vision. Bizarro's attacks on Aurora are affecting her... but they affect the witch just as badly.

And April has her enhanced healing keeping her on her feet. Aurora is only in a human body, and the damage to her will be worse. SHe is knocked down, and bleeding after the heat vision attack.

Sensing something, April whispers, "That broke her first spell. Anything you do now won't hurt me." She is hurting and in pain, but they have to stop the sunlight if she is going to recover.

"I'm going to rush her," he says darkly. The sunlight is hurting him too, and the only thing he can think to do is to walk up and smash Aurora as hard as he can, something that would be fatal to any ordinary person. And he doesn't plan to stop until either she's dead, or the spell stops.

"Do it." April knows that without Bizarro shielding her, that she will fully enveloped by the sunlight too. But already Aurora is done. And she can't move to ensure that the witch is taken out completely.

He's seriously weakened, but still far stronger than a human. And, with his skin splintering under the intensity of the sun, he charges at Aurora, putting all his strength and speed into trying to put her down for good.

He smashes into Aurora good and hard, and there is a sickening crunch from the impact. After falling to the floor, Aurora whispers, "I leave you in light."

She glows brightly. As brightly as the sun that already fills the room. And disappears.

The intensity of the sun spell becomes stronger. April screams and falls to her knees.

He collapses too, his voice shattering into an animalistic roar, nothing at all like Clark's voice as he cries out in pain. All of his energy reserves are burned up, and dull green light shines from the cracks in his stone skin.

He tries to reach out to April, hoping she can still hear him. PINpoint out.

I can't leave you like this She protests. And battles against the spell that immobilizes her to attempt to move towards him. A tiny step is her only reward.

He's physically coming apart under the strength of the light, his copied form splitting all over, his inner essence burning away. I'm dead already. Get out before you can't.

I will never forget you. She promises. And manages to free a hand so she can PINpoint away.

She will end up in the barn. Sobbing. Bleeding. And her skin covered with sun blisters.

He manages to hold together until he can see she's gone. I love you. He can't help the thought from slipping out. And half-hopes she didn't hear it.

And then he closes his eyes, his body coming apart, his spirit dissolving under the sunlight into nothingness.

She did hear it. And it broke her heart that she couldn't return the emotion of love. But in those final moments he gets all her friendship and support and trust.

The first reaction to him being gone is denial. It lasts for a second before anger takes over. And she growls.

The growl strengthened by her pain and hunger.

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