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Post by IDEK on Dec 30, 2016 23:24:10 GMT
Chapter 4- Other World
Abigail Blake's eyes opened.
She turned in the bed, staring straight up at the ceiling, or she would've, but she found the ceiling was completely obscured by copious amounts of fog.
She could hear the sound of someone screaming, the girl jolted awake, noticing the door to the room was open, she bolted out of it and jumped down the stairs- turning her head to see the living room on one side and...
There was a Lady with short blonde hair and red eyes, lying tied up on the ground, Looking to be in tears and screaming for help, Another girl, looking to be in her late teens, with black hair, a tired expression and foggy grey eyes was standing nearby, with her foot pressed into the girl's Hip, she Pushed her foot down.
Abigail's heart made it's way into her throat, she saw a door on the other side of the hall and ran for it, bursting out of the house.
There was nothing...
in front of her was...nothing.
Abigail ran into the nothing, Her Speed remaining at a constant as her footsteps resounded as she ran through the nothing, turning around to see the house fading out of her eyesight.
She turned back- looking ahead of her, and continued to run for it.
Meanwhile, at the Vixerello house.
Jess was currently talking on the phone with the police, about Chihara breakin in her house and trying to steal from her daughter's room.
"So, have I got everything right?"The Police officer on the phone asked. "A Short Lady with Blonde hair called Chikara broke into your daughter's house and tried to steal her jewelry?"
"Yes. And I believe she is a part of the circus crew, working for the magician Leonidas." Jess said.
"Ah."The Officer said. "...Y'see, This is very interesting to me, because, just yesterday, that exact circus crew filed a missing person report, for a 27 year old female with short blonde hair by the name of 'Chihara Suzuki'"
"Wait, she went missing?" Jess asked.
"Yes,Yesterday."The Officer said. "But thank you for telling me this, any information as to her actions yesterday will be useful in tracking her down, and the fact that she attempted to steal some jewelry- very helpful indeed."
"Of course. I would also suggest asking Mr.Leonidas himself some questions, considering the incident with...giant ink thing that almost ate my son and now his staff member breaking into my house, it's quite reasonable to be suspicious about his actions." Jess said.
"We're already on it, believe me. But nothing's turning up."The Officer said. "Especially anything about this 'Ink Monster' We haven't found a trace of anything like one."
"Huh, I see. Well, thanks for listening." Jess said.
"Alright, have a good day maam."The Officer said,
they hung up.
Jess simply sighed.
Athena and Trixie just arrived home.
"Hey mom, me and Trixie are going to see what dress I should wear for the dance tonight." Athena said.
"Okay, dear." Jess nodded.
Athena and Trixie then went upstairs.
Amell was holding a play station 2 controller, but wasn't playing anything on it, the screen was blank and it wasn't even on.
He Put the controller down and walked up to Jess.
"So, who's gone missing now?"Amell asked.
"The girl who just broke in our house and tried to steal from Athena." Jess responded.
"...Huh,really."Amell said.
"Yeah. The Circus crew sent out a report about her missing. I believe Athena said something 'Keira' dragging her out of the house and disappearing." Jess said.
"...I trust her even less now, Whoever she is."Amell said.
"Yeah. There's also that foggy house that Abbie is in and we don't know where that is. And we still don't know what's Leonidas's deal." Jess said.
"...This whole thing is a mess."Amell frowned.
There was a knock on the door, Amell walked over and opened it, there was a green haired boy, as well as a blonde boy in a Sweater.
"Hey.Amell, I was wondering if you were going to come over our house today?"The Blonde boy-Eric, asked. The Green haired one-Joseph, Abigail's brother, was silent.
"Um...I don't think i will."Amell frowned.
"...Really, c'mon Mate. Don't wuss out on us."Eric Said.
"I mean, it's just."Amell started.
Joseph just turned to look at Amell, he looked like he wanted to say something- but he wasn't.
Jess walked over to the two.
"Oh, hello Eric, Joseph." Jess said.
"You were on the news that day."Joseph said- instead of a greeting.
"Yes, we were. And we really don't want to talk about it either." Jess said.
"But you were there. Where my Sister was."Joseph said.
"Yes, but we haven't found her there. But don't worry, we know for a fact that she is somewhere alive and safe." Jess said.
"Where is that?"Joseph asked.
"Um, Joe...You alright there man?"Eric asked.
Joseph ignored him.
"We aren't quite sure yet. She was somewhere in a White Expanse, inside a foggy house in the middle of nowhere, sleeping but that's about it." Jess said.
Joseph stared intensely at Jess.
"Hey, Joe...You alright?"Amell asked "You're eyes look..really intense."
Joseph walked away, not saying anything to them.
"...He's been like this ever since his sister vanished."Eric frowned.
"I wonder why."Amell said,deadpan.
"It's understandable why he feels this way. Anyways, you're here to pick up Amell?" Jess asked.
"...I just wanted to know if he would come round my house today, since i don't have anything to do right now."Eric said.
"I'd rather not."Amell said.
"And why's that?"Eric asked.
"...He...had a hard time recently and trying to cope with everything now." Jess said.
"Really?"Eric asked, then sighed. "Ugh, came all the way here for nothing."
With that, he left.
"...I swear, Eric's just a asshole sometimes."Amell frowned, closing the door.
"So, what do you want to do now?" Jess asked.
"...
...I... I don't know."Amell frowned, sounding stressed. "I'm.. Still Tired, i guess. I just..."
He wiped his eye.
Jess sadly looked at him.
She crouched down and gave him a hug.
"...Honey, it's okay. Don't cry." Jess said.
"I'm not Crying."Amell said, starting to rub the same eye.
"Look, just don't stress yourself, okay? We'll figure this out somehow. We'll save Abbie and find out what's happening." Jess said.
"Hmm...Yeah, You're right."Amell said. "...I guess i'll go round Eric's anyway- i need to relax."
"Okay, but just to be sure, take your phone with you so then you call me if something bad happens or worse and I'll be there." Jess said.
Amell nodded, searching his jacket for his phone, he felt around adn felt it in his pocket, then walked out of the door- closing it behind him.
In the White Expanse, Abigail was still running, sweat trickled down her face as her ponytail bounced up and down her back, strands fraying and her breathes getting heavier and heavier.
Eventually she found she had to slow down, and when she did- she saw a curtain.
There was nobody near it, and it wasn't hanging from anything, just a curtain propped up as though it was covering a window, as she got closer, she could see every single stitch on it.
a Piece of it tore, and then immediatly started to fix itself.
Abigail reached out and touched it, her hand went right through it- a hole opening up in the curtain for her to reach through.
Then a hand reached out of it, gripping her wrist, Abigail screamed as it pulled her in, tearing the curtain in twain- the giant tear proceeded to stitch itself shut.
Abigail was on the ground, in a dark room- a suspicius red liquid was flowing to a hole in the floor. The hand holding her had vanished.
Abigail gasped, standing up, her eyes instantly came face to face with a series of stalactites on the ceiling that resembled hands, each one reaching out as though they were going to grip onto her and pull her away at any moment.
Startled by seeing the hands, she fell to the floor, the suspicious liquid staining the small of her back and the back of her skirt, she pulled herself up and ran in the opposite direction, kicking up the liquid.
Athena and Trixie were out of the house, most likely on their way to meet up with Donald and Trixie and eventually to apologise to Martin.
Jess was currently thinking about what she should do. She thought about confronting Leonidas but she din't have any proof. She thought about trying to find out where Abbie is but Marick wasn't around to...
"...I got it! Ark!" Jess called out.
Ark immediately showed up.
"Could you open a portal to where Abbie is? I want to find her?" Jess asked.
"Are you sure? It could be dangerous." Ark said.
"I'm gonna take the risk. If she is in trouble, I have to save her." Jess said.
"Very well." Ark nodded.
He opened a portal to Abbie's location.
It was...the area that Jess found herself in when she tried to read Leonidas's Mind.
It looked damp, Almost like a cave- the walls were uneven and lumpy, and there was red liquid flowing along the ground.
Jess stepped into the portal and looked shocked when she saw where she was.
"...This is...this is the same place I was when I tried to read Leonidas's mind...Abbie!" Jess called out, walking a bit slowly through the cave.
The liquid on the floor stuck to the soles of her shoes,
The Sound of water running reverberated through the caves, there was no response to Jess's call.
Jess just attempted to get rid of the liquid of her shoes before she continued walking, looking around.
There was a giant hole in the cave, from which some jelly-fish-like creatures, with tendrils coming from the top of their bodies that resembled flower petals floating up into the air, pushing themselves around as though they were underwater.
A Couple of Jewels resembling the one Keira gave Athena could be seen scattered around on the floor- rolling down the cave due to the force of the liquid.
Jess just 'eugh'd when she saw the creatures before she spotted the jewels.
"...Those Jewels...look like the one that Keira gave Athena and used it to bargain with the Legion." Jess said.
She continued walking through the cave.
"So, What did you get me for my birthday, Keira?"
"I ain't telling you, Vera. That would ruin the surprise!"
"C'mon, Pleeeaaase?"
"Fine, Fine, You know that man you always wanted to see?"
"could it be!?"
"Hahaha, You got it!"
a conversation played in Jess's head, it wasn't from the cave, she didn't hear it. It entered her brain and played itself like a intrusive thought.
"...The hell?" Jess just thought before she shook her head off and continued walking.
"I'm just saying, I know you love him!
"What, No I don't! I mean, Sure he's Big, And Muscular, and Handsome, but he's way out of my league! Besides, he works with my dad- it would be weird."
"But I bet if I get you to see him, Then you'll be able to at least look at him. He Performs Shirtless, you know!"
"Ugh, you made it weird Keira."
"Fiiine, i'll just give this spare ticket to someone else then."
Something that vaguely resembled a Human Crawled past a corner as soon as it entered Jess's line of sight-making a strange whooshing noise.
"...Hello?" Jess asked, walking up to the human.
It turned to look at her, standing on all fours. It's limbs were all the size of roughly half a leg. and it's body looked as though someone had painted it roughly with black paint.
It's orange eyes glared at Jess and it hissed at her, before scampering away.
"...This feels like a bad LSD dream." Jess said before she continued walking.
"Help! Heeeeeelp!"
Abigail's voice could be heard from the back of Jess's mind. The Red liquid on the floor started to leak out from the ceiling.
There was a Hole in the middle of the ground, and when Jess turned to look up she could see the stalactites that looked like hands, reaching out and grasping for her hanging from the ceiling, now with the red liquid oozing out of the cracks leaking down them, dripping off their fingers.
Jess's eyes widened before she used her telekinesis and ripped the arms apart and dropped them on the ground and kept the strange liquid off her body.
"ABIGAIL! CAN YOU HEAR ME!" Jess shouted.
"Help! Where am I! What's going on!? Somebody Help me!"Abigail cried out, her voice strained
There were sounds of footsteps from all over-making it hard to tell where she actually was, and hands started to sprout from the walls- all of them with jewels in their palms.
Jess just used her telekinesis to keep the hands far away from her as her eyes glue purple, attempting to use her psychic abilities to find out which direction Abbie is at.
"Go Forward, turn a Left, then another Left, and then a Right,
she's behind a mahogany door- it's not hard to notice, it's very out of place in this damp cave"
"...Okay, is this you, Keira!?" Jess asked.
"you better hurry."
"Ugh, fine!" Jess said.
Jess did what presumably Keira said and went forward, left, left, right and reached the mahogany door and immediately tried to open it.
It opened easily.
On the other side was a beautiful flower garden, Bubbles were floating in the air- there was absolutely no sky, however.
Abigail was on the ground, staring up at one of the Jellyfish Creature's- this one significantly bigger than the ones Jess saw earlier, it's petals were wide open and Tendrils in the center of it were sliding out, trying to wrap themselves around her, She was edging herself away- seemingly too terrified to stand up. One of them managed to get itself around her Leg,
She tried kicking it off, then Bashing her leg against the Flowerbed she was fallen on in a attempt to free herself. But the creature's tendrils started retracting, trying to pull her into whatever was this thing's Mouth.
"HEY, LEAVE HER ALONE AND FUCK OFF!" Jess yelled.
Jess used her telekinesis to pull the thing off Abigail before telekinetically lifting Abigail right in her arms.
The Thing was lifted off her, floating into the sky, while Abigail got pulled into her arms,
More Tendrils Flew out of the creature- Smacking at Jess and Snatching Abigail back, It wasn't able to stop Jess from holding onto Abigail, so they both were sent into the air when it's tendrils retracted.
Jess focused and ripped the tendrils that were holding Abbie with her telekinesis and landed on the ground on her feet with Abbie still in her arms.
She then levitated the creature with her telekinesis and smashed it against the ground.
The Creature floated back up, looking a bit battered but otherwise okay. It Floated itself higher and then Swooped down at them. Knocking them to the ground, Abigail fell out of Jess's grip and slid into a flowerbed.
She got herself standing upright, still panicking and breathing heavily, The Jellyfish saw her and took another dive towards her, she held her hands up.
The Flower's she had landed near all spontaneously grew in size; charging right into the creature, trying themselves around it's petal-like-tendrils and holding it in the air, there was a inhumane gargling noise as it ejected more tendrils but those got caught in the flower's growing stalks as well.
Abigail kept her hands in the air, she looked surprised at what just happened.
Jess looked equally surprised before she turned to Abigail.
"...Did you...do that?" Jess asked.
Abigail turned to jess.
"..I-I don't-I don't know...!"She muttered.
The Creature burst out of the flowers, all their vines and elongated stalks falling to the ground and vanishing; new flowers taking their place in the garden as the Jellyfish-like-entity grew so many tendrils out of it's mouth that they couldn't be counted; they all went rushing in towards Abigail.
Grass sprouted around her- grass so tall nothing inside of it could be seen, Abigail screamed, but the tendrils kept uselessly flailing about in the tall grass, trying to locate her.
Jess, attempting to take advantage of the tall grass, turned to Abigal and grabbed her.
"Let's get out of here!" Jess said.
She ran through the giant grass, going straight towards the door.
The Creature noticed them, right as they got to the door, as it opened and Abigail got through, a tendril wrapped itself around Jess's chest and pulled her back- retracting into it's mouth.
Many Blades of Grass burst out from under it, Stabbing the Creature right through it's mouth, it didn't even make a sound, the petals all wilted and all the tendrils started to fall off. Jess hit the ground roughly and a Shaken Abigail called out to her.
The Creature's body slowly fell to pieces, one half hitting the ground and then fading into the dirt, the other half still propped up by the blades of grass that impaled it.
Jess immediately got up, looking a bit bruised up but she grabbed hold of Abigal and ran out of there through the door.
"ARK, OPEN UP A PORTAL AND GET US THE HELL OUT OF HERE!" Jess shouted out, hoping Ark would hear her.
A portal appeared in front of Jess and she jumped through it.
Jess and Abigail landed back in the Vixerello house and the portal behind them closed.
Abigail immediately broke down crying. shoving her head into her hands.
"What on..What the FUCK...What...What was that...!?"She gasped.
Jess crouched down and puts her hands on her shoulders.
"I don't know, Abbie, but atleast it's over now. You're back to where you belong now. Amell and Joseph will be so happy to see you." Jess said.
"Oh- Oh God- Shit- There was- There was someone else back there- There were other People- I- I could hear them-"
"...Other people? What about your friend, Ryoma? What happened to him?" Jess asked.
"He-He wasn't there-But, I could Hear other People- And, in that house- There was this lady- She was tied up- and- I think Sandra was crushing her hips- And- Fuck- Ryoma!"Abigail suddenly yelled- as though she had just remembered him.
"...Sandra...Do you happen to know someone else called Keira?" Jess asked.
"...Keira?...No, I don't-I-I Don't think so."Abigail wheezed
"I see...well, can you atleast tell me what happened at the circus? Why did Sandra drag you out of there and did Leonidas do something to you?" Jess asked.
"Leonidas I- He took Ryoma backstage- and- I followed, then, There was this weird hallway, and all tehse pictures on the wall, and- I ended up getting grabbed, then Ryoma- got hit by- something purple and- ended up- I ...I don't know he just- wasn't there...She just pulled me away- someone was crying...Then we left the circus and- ended up here."
"...I see." Jess said, looking angry now.
Jess then got up.
"Well, either way, you won't have to put with that no more. I'll take you back home." Jess said.
She got her phone out and called Amell through his phone.
There wasn't a answer.
...Then Amell ringed back.
"Hello? Mom, What is it?"
"Amell, I want you to meet me in front of Joseph's house. There is something important I want to show you there." Jess said.
"Ah,Okay!"Amell said, there was a conversation that was hard to here followed by a "God Damnit Amell I was just about to win!"
"Sorry!"Amell said to Eric- probably forgetting his phone was on, as there was the noise of him walking down the stairs and a door closing.
Jess closed her phone and turned to Abigail.
"Let's get you back home where you'll be safe." Jess said as she held Abbie's hand and began to walk out of the house.
Ark turned to Jess.
"You did a good job back there. Marick will be happy about this." Ark said.
"...I know." Jess said before she walked out of the house.
It cuts to Amell standing in front of Joseph's house as Jess eventually arrived there with her car. She stepped out of the car along with Abigail.
"A-Abbie!?"Amell asked, surprised.
Abigail didn't say anything, she just waved meekly.
"I had Ark bring me to wherever she ended up in and I had to fight against a weird Jellyfish monster but I managed to get her out of there." Jess smiled.
"Oh god...Abbie! Are-Are you Okay!?"Amell asked, running up to her.
Abigail opened her mouth, but her eyes suddenly widened.
"Look out!"She Called out, pushing Amell to the floor, a Purple Beam flew right over their heads- hitting a street sign; which completely disappeared.
The Sky took on a purple hue, a image of a clock appeared in the air- the hands staying perfectly still.
Franziska was there, at the other side of the road.her eyes pure white and the crystals around her neck all glowing.
"It's her again..."Abigail whimpered.
Jess turned to Franziska, glaring at her.
"...So, Leonidas was behind this after all. And I'm guessing that the ink creature you 'got rid of' din't disappear after all, huh? It's in those crystals!" Jess said.
"...Forget all that."Franziska said. "I have one question for you. Where's Chihara?"
"I have no idea. Keira or Sandra as Abbie called her, dragged Chihara and disappeared after she invaded my house and put her in that White Expanse place that Abbie was in." Jess said.
That second Franziska's face contorted with Fury.
"...That...Fucking Bitch."Franziska scowled. "What the Fuck did she do!?" She yelled. "What. The Fuck Is that Bitch Doing!?"
"I don't know. But what I'm more curious about is what the hell Leonidas did to Ryoma if you don't mind answering us." Jess said.
A Sigil appeared above Franziska as Wind whipped around her.
"I have no Reason to answer your Questions!"She said, wind Sending Amell and Abigail flying into someone else's Garden,
they both froze mid-fall, as though time had stopped.
"What the Hell do you know about this Keira!?"Franziska asked, two purple dragon-line beams of energy coming out of the sigil and smacking into jess, one wrapping itself around her and hoisting her In the air, the other just swirling around.
"All I know is that she is some random girl who showed up at my daughter's school and gave her some random items that belong to you guys I guess and then showed up again at my house when your friend invaded my house! Now release me or you're gonna regret it!" Jess said, her eyes glowing yellow for some reason.
"Believe me! I already Regret Coming Here!"Franziska said, Raising a arm,the Dragon Threw Jess onto the Roof of Abigail's House. The Other one then Charged into her- sending her flying off of it.
as Jess fell, a Third Dragon-Beam emerged and charged into Jess, sending her flying right through the fence- landing on the road.
Jess just got up, her eyes still glowing yellow as she lifted some trees with her telekinesis and threw them at Franziska, each of them hitting her.
the second to last tree shattered, and the final one was intercepted by one of the dragon beams.
Franziska's eye glowed even brighter, purple flames appearing around her, a jet of flames came out right from Under Jess, catching her alight.
Then two of the three dragon beams charged right into her.sending her flying and spreading the purple flames on the tarmac road.
Jess landed on the ground, before she slowly got up and her glowingness of her eyes increased.
"...I din't want to use it, but you gave me no choice!" Jess said.
Jess began glowing yellow before her entire body got covered in a yellow ball and once the yellow ball vanished, Jess looked very different.
Her hair was no longer in a ponytail, her long hair was let out and it was black instead of brown, wearing a black dress, with black wings coming out of her back, holding a staff and had yellow eyes. It was exactly like the form she had when Nexeen absorbed the others but now she was in control.
Jess then flew very fast towards Franzika, punching her right in her glowing eye, sending her flying. She reappeared behind Franzika and punched her in the head, sending her crashing on the ground.
There was the sound of something Cracking and falling to pieces, Franziska vanished, and there were pieces of a crystal on the ground where Franziska would have landed.
A Humanoid Siluhuette burst out of the remains of the crystal,it's hair moving skyward and taking the form of a starlit night, it put it's hands on it's hips and then folded it's legs, two bright- pupil-less eyes staring at Jess.
"Oh Now look what you did!"Franziska yelled, appearing behind Jess with a Sword made of flames, she Sliced at Jess's Neck-
the two then got hit by a kick from one of the siluhuette's stick-thin-Leg's, sending both of them flying onto the other side of the street, Franziska rolled out from on top of Jess.
"Oh thank Goodness, it's one of the weak ones."She Muttered, turning around and starting to run. The Creature spawned next to her again and kicked her right in the neck-sending her flying elsewhere.
Jess just opened her wings and started shooting some crystal shards at the creature, impaling it in shards.
the Shards tore right through the creature, leaving holes in it's form.
It turned to her, then Appeared in front of her, kicking her in the chin and sending her flying right out of the street, Franziska appeared behind it with her flaming swords, but it teleported behind her, grabbing her necklace and throwing it away.
The Sky turned back to normal, the flame swords, disappeared, Amell and Abigail hit the ground, the dragon beams all vanished.
The Creature's empty eyes stared into Franziska's as it pulled her closer to her, she then kicked it, tearing right through it's body and working herself free, she made a immediate run for the necklace.
Jess just flew right towards the creature and now that she was in her mega form, her telekinesis was more powerful and she began to telekinetically rip the creature apart.
it Was torn to pieces with ease.
It's hair Fanned out and floated upwards, spreading and taking the form of a perfect starlit night.
That Night then Jumped Onto Franziska, she vanished into it as it turned from a sky into a ball, flying around this way and that.
"Oh God!"Abigail Screamed.
"What is that thing!?"Some Random Civillian asked, running out of their house to see it.
"Abigail!"A Voice that was unmistakebly Abigail's mother called out, running towards the child.
Amell just stared, before sending a gust of wind at the Ball- it unfurled into the Night sky it was earlier-Franziska having completely vanished from inside it.
"What IS that Thing!?"The Same Civilian from earlier asked.
Jess just used her enhanced psychic abilities to cram the night into the ball that turned into earlier and then smashed it against the ground.
It didn't move after that.
Then- a blue beam washed over it, the Ball turned into a Almost black liquid that got pulled into a portal.
Franziska was on the other side of the road, holding the necklace with all the crystals on it.
She then vanished-taking it all with her.
Jess returned back into her normal form.
"...Bitch." Jess cursed before she ran over to Amell.
"Are you okay?" Jess asked.
"I'm...Fine"Amell said. "...What happened?"
"That woman froze time and attacked me. I had to use my 'special' form to fight her, then a strange thing was unleashed out of her crystals, it was easily defeated, then...that happened, I crushed it into the ground, it stopped and she disappeared." Jess summed up the entire fight.
"Oh.."Amell said.
"...What was that thing?"He asked.
"It...reminds me of that...jellyfish."Abigail managed to say.
"Jellyfish!?Abbie!"Abigail's mother cried out, hugging her. "Oh my god you're alright! Where were you?"
"I...I don't know.."Abbie cried, hugging her mother back.
Joseph and their Father both ran out of the house.
"Sis!"Joseph Exclaimed, running towards her as well, their Father held himself back, stunned.
Jess just turned to look at the family and sighed in relief.
"Atleast she is back to her family again and she is safe." Jess said.
"...So...When you found her...did you see anything?"Amell asked.
"...Some strange stuff really, some jellyfish monsters and had to fight one to save her...and during the fight, when she raised her hands...some plants popped out of nowhere and attacked the Jellyfish." Jess told Amell.
Amell looked at Abigail- his gaze went from seeing her and her happy family, to seeing the transparent image of a elderly lady with white hair, wearing a dress with flowers on it- standing near a flower patch on the next house over.
She turned to him, as though she saw him, and put her finger to her lips, before fading.
Abigail Cried as she pressed her face further into her mother, who patted her on the back and hugged her affectionately, meanwhile her father was trying to hold in tears of joy and her brother was badgering her with questions, trying to make sure she was alright, and wasn't harmed in any way.
Jess saw the elder lady aswell before she turned to Amell.
"...Also...I heard some...voices in my head when I was in...whatever Abigail was in...it sounded like a conversation between Keira...and someone called Vera." Jess said.
"...I wonder what kind of place that was."Amell whispered.
"...I have no idea...but I know one person who might know what it is...and possibly known the connection between this Keira, Vera and Sandra...Leonidas." Jess intently said.
"...You going to ask him?"Amell asked. "I'm coming with you."
"Not now. One of these days, I'm planning to confront him. Ryoma is still missing and from what Abbie said, Leonidas took him to backstage and he got hit by some purple stuff. We still have to save him and put an end to whatever Leonidas is doing. And chances are that Keira, Sandra, Vera or whoever it is will be there aswell." Jess said.
Amell nodded.
It cut back to the House in the Nothingness, The Girl opened up a cupboard, seeing no food in it, she opened another, finding nothing but a series of files, she closed it- one of them fell to the ground.
As she opened the fridge,dragging the messed up, pleading form of Chihara towards it, the file fell onto the ground, revealing the file's name for anyone to see.
'The Tragedy of the Cailloux Troupe'
She brought a knife out of the fridge- which was stuffed with all kinds of kitchen utensils.
"I-I'm Telling You Ple-Please! Stop-! I- I had nothing to do with this! I Didn't even know her!"Chihara pleaded.
The Girl brought the knife down- but Chihara dodged it, kicking her in the Shin and knocking the girl to the ground,she then grabbed the knife with her toes and used it to cut her feet free.
The Girl then Brought another Knife out and swung at Chihara with it, tearing through the hoodie she was wearing. Chihara then kicked her into one of the cabinets, Knocking the knob of and causing it to swing open- several more files flying out.
Chihara cut her wrists free in the confusion and grabbed a knife, Slicing at the Girl with it.
When the girl was hit with it, she vanished into fog.
"...Wh-What...?"Chihara asked, standing up, She then felt something get shoved into her back, her pupils dilated- she turned around with the knife,
It hit The Girl again- and she turned into fog again. Chihara panted for breath, blood coming out of her mouth. she dropped the knife, feeling the Knife that was shoved into her back, and took more steps, trying to leave the house.
"I...I can't believe it... It really was...her...I just..."
The Girl appeared behind her again, this time with a Axe, She brought it down on Chihara's head.
The Blonde Lady fell to the ground, a static-like liquid boring out of the head wound instead of blood.
The Girl then picked up Chihara's foot, and began to pull her out of the kitchen- leaving the static-esque trail in her wake.
End of Chapter
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Post by Master Psychic on Dec 31, 2016 12:00:08 GMT
THE ATHENA SAGA
CHAPTER 10 THE DREADFUL ATE
At Athena's high school. The four teenagers were sitting on the bench, looking bored out of their skulls.
"...So, Jaden's hasn't contacted us in awhile." Donald said.
"Probably because they haven't found the damn Jewel just yet." Zack said.
"Thanks to me, anyways." Athena said.
"Come on, girl, you have to stop blaming yourself for what happened." Trixie said.
"Still, if I was patient, we would have the Jewel in our possession." Athena said.
"Well, next time we get the Jewel, it will be ours." Donald said.
"I hope so." Athena sighed.
"So, Martin knows about us too." Zack said.
"Yup. Din't think we'd have to put him in our group too." Trixie said.
"He could be a great help us, especially in finding the Jewel." Athena said.
"I guess." Zack shrugged.
Martin walked up to them.
"Hey guys." Martin said.
"Hey." They responded back.
"So, when are we going into the Space base that you guys talked about?" Martin asked.
"When we will be contacted by the guy in charge in case something but...nothing so far." Athena said.
And their communicators started ringing.
"Finally." Trixie said.
"That's him?" Martin asked.
"Yup." Athena said.
"What's up, Jaden?" Zack asked.
"Meet me in my office." Jaden said.
"Before you do, could you teleport someone else beside us, he could be a great help to us." Athena said.
"Very well." Jaden responded.
The five got teleported out of there.
At the ISP base.
The group was going towards Jaden's office while Martin just looked around, looking wow'd by the base.
"I feel like I saw this place once in a dream...maybe it wasn't a dream...maybe it was...destiny." Martin said.
"...Yeah, whatever floats your boat." Trixie shrugged.
They entered in Jaden's office, who was waiting for them. He looked at Martin and raised an eyebrow.
"...Yeah, this is another school colleague of ours, Martin." Athena said.
"...Since when did saving the world become a social school club now?" Jaden asked.
Athena just shrugged.
"Well, welcome to the ISP base...Martin." Jaden said.
"I promise I won't disappoint!" Martin said.
"...Right." Jaden said.
"...So, the mission?" Zack asked.
"Oh, yes, that. Well, we spotted a Legion member in the fourth Universe, and is currently staying in a ancient temple of sorts. Some ISP agents were sent to investigate and to come back with some information regarding the Legion or the Jewel itself. But they haven't came back yet or sent a report in awhile which made me worried that something might of happened to them." Jaden said.
"So, you are gonna send us to find them and bring them back here right?" Donald asked.
"Exactly. They might have some important information that could prove useful in our fight against the Legion, or any possible info about the Jewel's whereabouts. And hopefully, this time, someone WON'T decided that blasting into pieces with a beam will solve the problem." Jaden said, his eyes looking at Athena.
"Ugh, I said I was sorry like a thousand times now!" Athena said.
"Anyway, Make sure that you bring those ISP agents back here alive." Jaden said.
"Well, I guess we should get going then." Donald said.
"Wait, I'm not a exactly a fighter myself so...maybe I could them in some other way that doesn't involve me getting tossed around like a beach ball." Martin said.
"Well, what are you experienced at?" Jaden asked.
"...I'm good with computers." Martin stated.
"Ah. Well, I do know how you could help then. You could watch the area from the computer and give advice or help to the others that will help them in the mission." Jaden said.
"Oh, that sounds cool." Martin said.
Jaden opened his drawer and took some earpieces and walked to the four.
"Take these. You will hear Martin's voice in these and he will tell you what you should do next." Jaden said.
"Okay." Athena nodded as she picked her earpiece and puts it in her ear. The others did the same.
"Well, teleport us there already." Trixie said.
"Hold on. Try to teleport Leon here aswell before you bring us there." Athena said.
"Alright." Jaden sighed.
Leon was teleported beside Athena who simply looked at her and nodded.
Athena, Donald, Zack and Trixie were teleported out of there.
"Now, let me show you the computer you will use." Jaden said.
Jaden and Martin walked out of the office.
Athena, Zack, Leon, Donald and Trixie were teleported into the Fourth Dimension, Hastur's world.
It was currently raining outside and they were on a mountain. In the distance, they could see the ancient temple that Jaden talked about.
"So, that's the Legion member's hideout? You know, for a organization of criminals, you'd think they would stay in a much bigger place or something." Zack said.
"Well, it does help cover them up, to avoid anyone suspecting that it could be the Legion's hideout." Athena said.
"Will we seriously need to walk all the way there?" Trixie asked.
"...We won't need to walk actually. Leon could take us there." Athena said, looking at him.
Leon simply nodded.
Donald heard some weird footsteps behind him. He turned and spotted some strange figures behind him...figures with yellow eyes.
"...Um, guys...what are those?" Donald asked, taking a step back.
The other four turned around and spotted the figures. The two figures were monster like creatures whom vaguely resembled humans and had yellow eyes. They clearly were Others. The two had some yellow collars on them, similar to Ate's.
"...Those things...are Others." Athena said.
"The hell are Others?" Zack asked.
"They are creatures who are born out of negative emotions. And this is their true forms." Athena said.
"That sounds creepy." Trixie said.
"Be ready to fight. From what Dad told me, these guys are tough to beat." Athena said.
Three more Others showed up behind them, wearing the same collars aswell.
"Ah crap." Donald said.
One of the Others shot acid at them.
The group dodged the acid and Athena shot a powerful beam at the Others.
The beam hits a Other and it disappeared, leaving behind a item.
One Other stretched it's arm out, grabbing Trixie by her face and hitting her against the ground.
Leon lunged towards the Other's arm, grabbing it with his feet and ripping it apart, releasing Trixie.
Zack sets the Other on fire and it disappeared, leaving yet another item behind.
Athena shot a beam at a Other and it got hit and disappeared.
A more hulkier Other jumped towards Athena and smacked her into the ground.
Donald smacked the Other in the head, attempting to see if it will disappear that way but it din't.
The Other grabbed Donald by his body and began to crush him.
Athena shot another beam at the Other's head, hitting it and it's head exploded.
The Other's body disappeared, leaving behind a huge item.
There was one more Other left and that one got taken out by Trixie, and she impaled it with her Lance and it disappeared.
"Well, that takes care of them." Zack said.
"What's with the random items they leave behind?" Donald asked.
"Dad said they tend to do that after they get defeated. Now, let's get to the temple before more of them show up." Athena said.
Athena got on Leon and so did Trixie, Zack and Donald and began running towards the temple.
When they were reaching it, two more Others showed up.
"Oh, we have to deal with them again?" Trixie asked.
"Not a chance. Leon, jump over them!" Athena said.
Leon roared as he jumped over the Others and landed next to the Temple.
They got off Leon and Athena shot a large beam at the Others, destroying them both and leaving behind more items.
"Let's get inside!" Athena said.
Athena and her friends got inside the temple.
When they entered in, the area they were in was large, filled with lots of candles and there was Buddha Statue in the middle of the room.
"...I don't see anyone here." Donald said.
"No sign of any ISP guys or Legion members." Trixie said.
"It's probably another trap again." Zack said.
"Hold on, maybe Martin can help." Athena said.
Athena clicked her earpiece.
"Martin, can you hear us?" Athena asked.
"Yeah, loud and clear." Martin said.
It cuts to Martin sitting in front of a computer in the ISP base, wearing a headset, the monitor showing him the group.
"So, what do you need?" Martin asked.
"We can't see where the ISP agents are, or the Legion members. Can you somehow manage to find them?" Athena asked.
"Hold on, I'll use the camera." Martin said.
Martin used the camera, looking around in the temple and spotted something at the right side of the room the group was in. He zoomed in and it was a trapdoor.
"I see a trapdoor in the room." Martin said.
"Where?" Trixie asked.
"Check it to the right side of the room." Martin answered.
Athena walked to the right and spotted the trapdoor, walking towards it.
"Hey, you're right, it's a trapdoor! Thanks, Martin!" Athena smiled.
"No problem." Martin said.
Athena opened the trapdoor and there was some stairs that would take them downstairs.
"Let's go." Athena said.
Athena and her friends walked downstairs.
When they got there, they were in another large room with a fireplace but in it was a ISP agent who was surrounded by three Others who were about to tear him apart.
"H-Help me!" The ISP agent cried
"It's one of the agents!" Donald said.
"And he is about to get squashed!" Trixie said.
Athena shot a beam at a Other, destroying it.
The two Others turned around and Donald smacked one to the ground while Zack hits the last Other with a fire beam, engulfing it in flames and disappearing.
The group ran up to the agent.
"Are you okay?" Athena asked.
"Oh, thank you so much for saving me! But what are you guys doing here?" The ISP agent asked.
"Jaden sent us after you guys went missing." Donald asked.
"Oh, I see. We managed to get some info on the Legion members, but we got ambushed by these...these things! Oh, God, the other agents! Please, you've gotta help the rest of the agents! There are still some left!" The Agent said.
"Relax, how many are we talking about here?" Trixie asked.
"There are still five of us nearby. Please hurry! I beg of you!" The Agent said.
"Don't worry, we'll save them in no time." Athena said.
The Other who got knocked to the ground got up and was about to slash the group with it's knives.
Athena just turned around and shot a beam at the Other, it disappeared and left it's knives.
"That was close." Donald sighed.
Zack turned to the agent.
"You should get out of here, now!" Zack said.
"Yeah, of course!" The ISP agent nodded.
The ISP agent immediately teleported himself out of there.
Athena puts her hand on her earpiece.
"Martin, can you spot the other five agents in this temple? If there any of them left?" Athena asked.
"I'll check." Martin said.
Martin checked the entire temple out and managed to find three footages of some three other agents.
"Okay, in the next room, there is one agent hiding behind a pillar, surrounded by Others who haven't found him yet, one is being ambushed by them next to a locked gate and the third is in a wine cellar." Martin said.
"What about the other two?" Athena asked.
"Haven't found them yet. Just focus on these three first." Martin said.
"Alright. Let's split up, me, Leon and Zack will go and save the one next to the gate, Trixie you handle the one next to the pillar and Donald you go and find the one in the wine cellar." Athena said.
"You got it, A." Trixie nodded.
"Sure." Donald sighed.
"Come on, let's get in the other room." Zack said.
The gang ran towards the door that would take them to the next room and opened it, entering inside.
The room looked like the first one when they entered in the temple but had a different statue. They spotted the two ISP agents, one right next to the gate and the one behind the pillar and they were surrounded by Others.
"Let's get em!" Athena said.
Athena, Zack and Leon went upstairs, to the Agent who was next to the gate and Athena shot plasma bolts at the four Others surrounding him, knocking them on the ground.
The Others immediately got up and charged at Athena, Zack and Leon.
Athena dodged the Other's attacks and shot a beam at it, destroying it.
Zack got hit by one Other who had boxing gloves but he raised his head and looked at the Other and sets it on fire. The Other vanished and left it's boxing gloves behind.
Athena shot another beam at a Other and it vanished and then she got attacked by a vicious Other who looked like a dog.
Leon grabbed the Other with it's teeth and ripped it to pieces.
Athena got up.
"Thanks, Leon!" Athena said.
Athena turned to the Agent.
"Don't worry, you're safe, now get out of here!" Athena said.
The ISP agent nodded before he teleported away.
Trixie went to the Others who surrounded the Pillar and Trixie lunged at one, stabbing it in the eye. The Other vanished and disappeared.
Trixie aimed her Lance at the other two Others.
"Come and get a piece of me, you freaky ass monsters!" Trixie said.
The Others charged at Trixie.
Meanwhile, Donald climbed up the stairs and opened a door which was next to the gate and entered inside. It was the wine cellar and it was crowded with 5 Others in it.
"Oh man." Donald sighed.
Donald turned to Athena.
"Athena, can you give me that gun of yours?" Donald asked.
"Sure." Athena nodded.
She threw the gun right at Donald and he catched it.
"Thanks." Donald said.
Donald immediately shot a beam at a Other, destroying it.
The Other next to it turned around and got blasted by a Beam aswell.
Donald jumped down and began shooting at the rest of the Others.
Two Others charged at Donald while...One was currently drinking all the wine that was in the room.
Donald dodged the Other's attacks and shot beams at them, destroying them.
He then shot at the Other who was drinking the wine and his blast got deflected by it's huge ass belly.
He raised an eyebrow before he brought out his hammer and charged at the Other, smacking it in the head.
The Other responded by jumping up in the air and landing on Donald, squashing him.
"Guys, a little help here!" Donald yelled out.
Zack entered in the cellar room and ran up to the Other, kicking it off Donald before setting it on fire.
He then snapped his fingers and the Other exploded.
Donald got up.
"Are you okay?" Zack asked.
"Can't feel my arms, but other than that, I'm okay." Donald said, looking annoyed.
The ISP agent, who was a woman, went out of hiding.
"...Are..those things gone?" The woman asked.
"Yeah, they are. You are safe. You should go back to the base now." Zack said.
"Oh, thank you so much!" The ISP woman said.
The agent teleported out of there.
"Come on, let's reunite with the others." Zack said.
Donald just nodded before they went out of the room.
Trixie eventually managed to take care of her Others as she turned to the ISP guy hiding behind the pillar.
"You can come out now, you're safe." Trixie said.
The ISP agent went out of hiding and sighed in relief.
"I better get a raise for this one. After risking my neck for the damn information." ISP agent said.
The ISP guy teleported out of there.
The teens and Leon regrouped.
"All right, that's three of them so far." Donald said.
"There should be two left." Athena said.
"There is no other place they could be hiding." Trixie said.
Zack puts his hand on his ear piece.
"Yo, Martin, can you try to track down the last ISP guys?" Zack asked.
"I'll try." Martin said.
Martin tried to look deeper into the temple to find any sign of the last two agents and managed to find something instead.
"Aha! There is a lever in the room, it's hidden behind a portrait! You can use that to find the other agents." Martin said.
The group looked around for the portrait.
"There it is!" Donald pointed, at the portrait to the left.
Athena walked up to it and threw it to the floor, exposing the lever.
"Martin was right, there was a lever hidden behind the portrait." Athena said.
She pulled the lever and a wooden floor panel opened, revealing a staircase.
Trixie turned to see the staircase.
"I'm guessing this will take us to the last agent guys." Trixie said.
"And there will be Others there too." Donald gulped.
"Let's be ready for whatever will happen in there." Athena said.
The group nodded as they climbed the stairs, heading downstairs.
Downstairs was a small room and in it were the two last ISP agents who were surrounded by two Others and right behind them was Ate, who was smiling at them.
"Ahahaha! How funny! Hey there, if you value your lives, better be ready to fight for it!" Ate said.
The two ISP agents who looked very scared shot at the others. Their shots had zero affect on them.
The group arrived there and spotted the Agents, the Others and Ate.
Athena turned to Ate, glaring at her.
"That's enough!" Athena yelled.
Ate turned to the group. When she spotted Athena, her eyes glew yellow.
"Oh, it's you guys. Came here to save these useless pawns?" Ate asked.
"Yeah. And also here to kick your ass!" Zack said.
Zack's hands were on fire and shot a massive fire ball at a Other. The Other got hit by the ball and vanished.
The Second Other turned around and stretched it's tendrils towards the group.
Trixie sliced through the tendrils before Athena shot a beam at the Other, destroying it.
They turned back to Ate who simply smirked.
"You guys aren't total amateurs, atleast." Ate said.
"So, you're one of the Legion, I suppose?" Donald asked.
"Yes, I'm Ate, the twelve member of the Legion of Crows. If you've come to interfere, you're just asking for it!" Ate said, her eyes still glowing yellow.
Athena took a good look at Ate.
"Her eyes...they are yellow...and she doesn't have eyelashes either...and she wears the same collar as the rest of the Others do...you must be a Other yourself, aren't you?" Athena asked.
"Huh, wow, took you that long to figure it out, huh Einstein? If you think you're so tough, try to fight me then!" Ate said.
Athena got out her gun and shot multiple plasma bolts at Ate.
The plasma bolts...suddenly stopped in midair before they could hit Ate.
Athena was shocked by this.
"...My plasma bolts...they stopped!" Athena said.
"You're not the only one with the power here." Ate said.
Ate then moved her hand and the plasma bolts went flying right towards the group.
Athena and her friends ducked as the plasma bolts hit the wall.
Athena aimed her gun at Ate and shot a large beam at her, trying to destroy her.
Ate got out her own gun and shot a equally large beam at Athena.
The two beams hit each other, making a clash.
The beams eventually exploded, knocking both Athena and Ate back a bit.
Athena looked shocked as she saw Ate's gun.
"What the...that gun of your's...is almost like mine's...but my gun once belonged to aunt Eliza...wait...are you...my mom or my aunt's other?" Athena asked.
"...Hahahahaha! Close, but not quite. Why don't you figure it out for yourself, after all, you are the Prodigy child, aren't you? Daddy's favorite, right?" Ate asked.
"Shut your mouth!" Athena asked, looking angry.
"Oh, did I get on your nerves? Good. But you don't really think that you're a match against someone as powerful like me, huh?" Ate asked.
Ate snapped her fingers and three more Others appeared right in front of her.
"Let's see how strong you are after going up against these guys! Of course, that's IF you have the time to do that much." Ate said.
"What do you mean!?" Trixie asked.
"Think about it, maybe it'll come to you. Of course, it will be probably too late at that point...See ya! Hahahahahaha!" Ate laughed as she teleported out of there.
"HEY, HOLD ON!" Athena yelled.
One of the Others got in front of Athena and attempted to slash at her and she dodged.
Suddenly, the room began shaking.
"What was that!?" Donald asked.
"That Other...she rigged this temple with some sort of a trap!" The ISP agent said.
"A trap? What kind of a trap?" Zack asked.
"She said she was gonna take us all out by destroying the whole place!" The second ISP agent said.
"Are you serious!?" Donald asked.
"We better get the fuck out of here!" Trixie said.
"But what about them?" Athena asked about the Others.
The Others charged at them but Zack sliced them in Half with his hands covered in fire.
"Fuck them, we have to get out of here!" Zack said.
Athena turned to the ISP agents.
"Follow us!" Athena said.
They nodded as they followed the group and ran back upstairs.
Once they arrived there, they began to look around.
"Where do we go from here!?" Donald asked.
"We should go get out of here through the entrance in the first room!" Athena said.
"Right!" Zack said.
The gang ran out of the room and made it to the other room and marched upstairs through the trap door.
Once they get there, they looked around and Trixie looked horrified.
"Oh, you gotta be fucking kidding me!" Trixie said.
The entrance was blocked by some giant rocks, preventing them from escaping.
"Fuck me!" Zack said.
The temple began to shake more harder than before.
"Now what!?" Donald asked.
Athena touched her earpiece.
"Martin, any tips on how do we get out of here!? The exit is blocked!" Athena said.
"Well, the only other way to get out of here is through the back. You have to go through the gate in one of the rooms to make it out of there!" Martin said.
"The damn gate is closed!" Zack said.
"Then we'll just have to make a hole in it!" Athena said.
"You guys better hurry!" Martin said.
The gang ran out of there and went downstairs again.
They ran to the room with the locked gate. They ran upstairs and went to the gate.
Athena got her gun out and aimed it at the gate.
"Stay back, guys!" Athena said.
Athena shot a massive beam from her gun and it pierced through the gate, making a giant hole.
"NOW LET'S GET OUT BEFORE THIS ENTIRE PLACE COLLAPSES ON US!" Athena yelled.
The gang ran through the gate and were running as fast as they could.
It cuts to the temple and...
BOOM!
It exploded and pieces went flying everywhere.
Jaden and Martin looked shocked before Martin attempted to contact the others.
"Guys, can you hear me!? Athena? Trixie? Donald? Zack?...Guys!" Martin said.
"...Oh God...don't tell me..." Jaden said.
"Martin?" Athena's voice was heard.
Martin looked relieved.
"Athena, are you okay!?" Martin asked.
"Yeah, I am. We made it out just in time." Athena said.
Jaden grabbed the headset from Martin and puts it on himself.
"What about the agents?" Jaden asked.
"They're alright. The last two are right behind us while the others got back to the base." Athena said.
"Of, thank Goodness. Well done, we'll teleport you back to the base in a few seconds." Jaden said.
It cuts to Athena and her group outside, they were far away from the destroyed temple.
"Thanks, we appreciate it." Athena said.
Athena turned to the others.
"Man, that was close." Zack sighed.
"Good we thing we got out of there or else, this would of been our resting place." Donald said.
"J-Just don't think about it anymore." Trixie said.
"Are you two okay?" Athena asked the agents.
"Yeah, we are. Thanks for saving us. We have managed to collect the information on the Legion. They are in our hard drives." ISP agent said.
"That's good news. Thanks." Athena said.
The group got teleported out of there.
It cuts to a cliff where Ate was sitting on the edge and had her eyes closed while Kross and Seth were standing right behind her.
When she reopened her eyes, she look pissed.
"GAH!" Ate yelled.
"What's wrong?" Kross asked.
"Damn it! They escaped!" Ate said.
Ate got up and ran past Kross and Seth, trying to give chase.
"Wait!" Kross said.
Ate stopped and turned to them.
"What's the point in following them now? Or are you suggesting that those Other creature that Sin and Veronica brought in are more effective than my soldiers? Don't forget, you wear the same collar as them, if you go out of line...you know what will happen next." Kross said.
Ate just angrily stared before kicking the ground.
"Damn it!" Ate cursed.
"I say we attack the ISP base." Seth said.
Kross turned to Seth.
"What?" Kross asked.
"They have been annoying us for far too long, and they rescued those agents who managed to extract the info about us." Seth said.
"So, what you are suggesting is to invade their base and kill many birds with one stone?" Kross asked.
"Exactly." Seth said.
"One small problem. They have recruited powerful Omnipotents and now that we lost Henry, it will be hard to kill them in a indirect way. And we can't afford losing more men and resources. A invasion is out of the question. In the meantime, you two should resume the search for the Jewel." Kross said.
"And what do you plan on doing?" Ate asked.
"I shall report to the Black Crow about the info they stole from us and ask him what to do next. If they blab any more, this will all turn into one big headache." Kross said.
"Indeed." Seth said.
"When I catch up with that bitch, I'll make her pay for all of this!" Ate said.
"Let's go." Kross said.
Kross, Seth and Ate teleported out of there.
Back at the ISP base.
The group were in Jaden's office, with 6 small hard drives on his desk.
"So, they used Others for this one?" Jaden asked.
"Yes, and all of them were wearing the same collars. Those collars are probably their own only tools of controlling them. Ate wore the same one aswell." Athena said.
"Looks like they are getting more stronger in terms of military strength. But thanks to all of you, the agents returned to their homes safe and sound and we managed to get some information about the Legion, each of the info stored in these hard drives. All we need to do is extract the info out of the drives." Jaden said.
"I could handle that task. Plus, if the data in those hard drives are encrypted, I could manage to decrypt them and get the info you need." Martin said.
"Alright, I'll leave it up to you to get the data. We are getting closer to find out the Black Crow's identity at last, aswell as his Infinite Multiversal Hypnotism Plan aswell." Jaden said.
"Yeah, but we still haven't found the Jewel." Zack said.
"I'll have Yarim try to locate the Jewel and have her search the entire Universe out. Once we manage to find it's location, we'll contact you. In the meantime, you are all on standby." Jaden said.
"Okay." Donald nodded.
The group got teleported out of there.
In the next day, at Athena's school.
She was walking towards her school, but she seemed to be thinking about yesterday.
"....Who is this Ate girl? Who's Other did she come from? Did it come from someone who I know? Or could it be...mine's? But that's impossible. I was never in face in face with a Others crystal before. So how..." Athena said.
"Yo, A!" Trixie called out, walking up to her.
Athena turned to Trixie.
"...Oh, hi Trixie." Athena sighed.
"Are you okay? You look kinda upset." Trixie said.
"...I'm just...thinking about that Other, Ate. She seems to have some sort of a grudge against me. But for what, I don't know." Athena said.
"Well, she is a member of the Legion so she is not exactly one of the good guys. You shouldn't let this affect you, just forget about it." Trixie said.
"...Hm...you're probably right." Athena sighed.
Athena and Trixie continued till Athena suddenly stopped. She felt someone's presence and near a alleyway, there were two yellow eyes watching her.
Athena immediately turned around and...the eyes weren't there anymore.
"...What was that?" Athena asked.
"What's wrong?" Trixie asked.
"....I thought...I sensed something. Guess I was wrong." Athena said.
"Girl, you need to chill already. There's no one spying on you, now come on, we'll be late!" Trixie said.
Trixie grabbed Athena by her hand and ran into the building.
Back at the alleyway, Ate stepped out of the shadows, glaring at Athena.
"...Enjoy your moments with your friends and family, bitch. Because those moments will be your last ones, and they will become MY friends and family." Ate said.
Ate walked back into the shadows and vanished.
END OF CHAPTER 10
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 1, 2017 12:58:10 GMT
THE ATHENA SAGA
CHAPTER 11 THE CAVERNS
At the Vixerello house.
Athena was laying on her bed, just watching the ceiling.
She was mostly thinking about everything that happened ever since she met the Legion and got involved with the ISP.
"...This has been one insane turn of events, from one situation to another. We aren't even close to finding the Jewel yet or defeating the Legion. Heck, we don't even know who this Black Crow guy is and why is he doing all of this. And besides him, there are those guys: Veronica, Sin and Ate. All of them seemed to be connected to me and have something against my family. They along with the Black Crow are what worry me the most. Donald almost died trying to save me, should I even involve my friends in this anymore?" Athena asked herself.
Suddenly, her phone started ringing.
Athena got out her phone and answered.
"Hello?" Athena asked.
"Hey, Athena, it's me Donald." Donald said.
"Oh, hi, Donald. Is there a problem?" Athena asked.
"Not really. I just wanted to check on you, that's all." Donald said.
"Oh, okay. I'm doing fine, thanks for asking." Athena said.
"Cool. Nice to know." Donald said.
"...Donald, I have a question." Athena said.
"Sure, what is it?" Donald asked.
"...Did I make the right choice in involving you guys in this? With the ISP and Legion stuff? Instead of living out your own normal lives, you are risking them by helping me fight some monsters. I feel like it's my fault for dragging you guys into this." Athena said.
"....Honestly? I'd rather prefer fighting against monsters than living a normal boring life. Sure, getting some good grades on tests is a nice hobby, but you don't get to fight robots, lizards, villains and other bad guys out there in normal life. So, I think we made the right call in being in this with you." Donald said.
"Even after you almost died?" Athena asked.
"Yeah, that sucked, but I got saved right on time so it's not that bad. Don't worry, you din't make any mistake in involving us in this superhero stuff." Donald said.
"...Thanks Donald." Athena smiled.
"Happy to help out a friend." Donald said.
Athena smiled before she closed her phone.
"...Donald is right. I think I made the right choice in bringing them into this." Athena said.
She was about to walk out of her room till her ISP communicator rang.
"...Oh boy." Athena sighed.
Athena answered the call.
"Hello?" Athena asked.
"You and your friends better get to the base. This is very important. Meet me in the office." Jaden said.
"Sure." Athena simply said
Athena hanged up on Jaden.
"...Can I atleast get one normal day where I don't have to fight evil?" Athena asked.
She sighed before she called the rest of her friends.
"Guys, we have a emergency." Athena said.
On the ISP base.
The group was walking towards Jaden's office.
"So, have you managed to get the info on the Legion from those hard drives?" Athena asked.
"Trying to decrypt the data from the drives has been a hard task but nothing is impossible. In fact, I'll continue to decrypt them here, with Yarim's help." Martin said.
"Neat. So, whAT do you guys think the reason is for Jaden calling us here?" Zack asked.
"Maybe they found the Jewel?" Donald suggested.
"Nah, that would be way too easy. Considering our luck, it's probably the Legion burning another city again." Trixie said.
They entered in the office and Jaden and Yarim were there.
"Good news, everyone, we managed to locate the Jewel!" Jaden said.
"...Wow, that was fast." Trixie said.
"Indeed." Donald said, adjusting his glasses.
"Really? Where is it?" Athena asked.
Yarim pressed a button and a hologram of Earth appeared.
"I spotted a trace of big powerful Energy on Earth, and it's the same as the Jewel's. It's located on this area on the planet." Yarim said as a blue flashy point appeared on the globe.
The hologram changed into the area the Jewel was in. It was the ruins where Omalley fought Kikez and Saturn.
"...I recognize this place. My dad once took me and Amell to this place and told us about the story our grandpa fought against some powerful aliens and accidently caused Earth to explode." Athena said.
"...Oh, yeah, that happened...how the fuck did Earth respawn?" Trixie asked.
"Surprisingly, dad doesn't know either." Athena shrugged.
"Anyways, the Jewel is somewhere in these ruins. It's source of energy is coming from this cave specifically." Jaden said as the hologram switched to a cave.
"So, let me guess, we have to get in the cave before the Legion do, grab the Jewel and bring it here?" Zack asked.
"Absolutely. Once we get the jewel, the research team will try to find a way to neutralize it's power and destroy it, and putting an end to the Black Crow's plans. We can't fail this time, the next time I want to see you young ones back here, I want to see you with the Jewel. Understood?" Jaden asked.
"Yes." Donald said.
"I promise I won't fail again and I'll bring the Jewel here, no matter the cost." Athena said.
"Good. Martin, as usual, with give you the help you need from up here." Jaden said.
"Speaking of which, Miss Yarim, can you help me out with the hard drives that the agents gave us? I haven't managed to decrypt them yet." Martin said.
"Oh, sure thing, kid." Yarim nodded.
Martin and Yarim walked out of the office.
"Well, bring us there." Athena said.
Jaden pressed a button and they were teleported out of there.
At the Citadel of Crows.
The 10 members were in the Meeting room, with Chronos's receiver on the table, all of them heard the conversation in the office.
"And just like that, the fools told us all their plans once more." Chronos smiled.
"Indeed. And we managed to find out where the Jewel is once again. Doctor, do you the Jewel's specific location on Earth?" Black Crow asked.
"Yes. It's located in these ruins, this is the place where the Neonytian Saturn destroyed the planet." Chronos said.
Chronos pressed a button on his remote and the screen on the wall showed the ruins.
The members walked closer to each other to get a closer look. Ate wasn't able to see anything past Micro.
"Hey, I want to see too! Would you mind getting your large metal ass out of the way?" Ate asked.
Micro simply ignored her. She sighed before she walked up to the Chameleon and nudged his shoulder and gestured at the screen.
Chameleon nodded as he morphed into Mori and Ate got on the top of his head and had a better view of the screen.
"So, this is it?" Kross asked.
"Yes. The energy is coming right from this cave." Chronos said, the screen changing to the cave where the Jewel is.
"I see. Well, for this mission, I will require the most capable members of the Legion to go and get the Jewel. So, who is volunteering?" Black Crow asked.
"Allow me to be the one to lead the search for the Jewel. After all, I have the most powerful advantage of the group thanks to the branch. And I'll have the Crusher Bots with me aswell." Chronos smiled.
"Very well, Doctor Chronos. You and your-"
"I'll go aswell. I was getting bored of sitting here and doing nothing. Besides Henry, I haven't sacrificed anyone to any of my blood rituals in quite awhile. I want to take a shot at those humans myself." Seth said, getting up.
"Indeed. If that's your wish, then you and Chronos will go into the cave and get the Jewel. And if Athena Vixerello and her friends get in the way, you know what to do." Black Crow said.
"Yes." Chronos smiled.
"Heh." Seth simply grinned.
"Failure will not be tolerated this time. Now go." Black Crow said, hitting the floor with his cane.
Chronos and Seth teleported out of there.
Athena, Leon, Zack, Trixie and Donald were teleported to the ruins.
They looked around for the cave as Trixie touched her earpiece.
"Hey, Martin, can you give us the direction to where the cave could be?" Trixie asked.
"Hold on, let me check...just go to the left, walk a bit and you'll eventually find it." Martin said.
"Kay, thanks." Trixie said.
"Let's go." Athena said.
The group went to the left and began walking to the cave.
It took them a bit but they eventually reached the cave and looked at it.
"Huh, that's one big dang cave." Donald said.
"No kidding. I can't see shit in it. It's too dark." Trixie said.
"Let me help." Zack said.
Zack opened his fist and a fire ball appeared on his hand.
"This should give us some light." Zack smiled.
"Huh, smart." Athena smiled.
"Thanks." Zack said.
"Save the congralution kiss till after we get the Jewel." Trixie said as she went ahead.
Athena just raised an eyebrow at that but shrugged it off as they walked into the cave.
Zack illuminated the place with his fire ball and nothing dangerous was happening so far.
Athena touched her ear piece.
"Martin, where exactly is the Jewel at?" Athena asked.
"It's at the end of the cave, in a large area. You'll have to walk to get there. It'll take awhile." Martin said.
"Yeah, because that would of been way too easy." Trixie sarcastically said.
"Well, complaining about it isn't gonna make things go much faster." Zack said.
"Shut up." Trixie said.
The group just continued to walk.
Suddenly, a stalactite fell of the ceiling and was landing towards Donald, about to impale him
Donald raised his head and his eyes widened.
"GAH!" Donald yelled, jumping out of the way and the stalactite hits the ground.
The others turned around and looked shocked.
"Donald!" Athena said.
Donald got up.
"I'm okay...I thought I was gonna die there for a second." Donald sighed.
"Damn, you are lucky." Zack said.
"Lucky is not how I would put it." Donald said, walking back to the group.
"We should stay a bit closer to each other now." Athena said.
Donald simply nodded before they continued walking.
They walked in the cave a bit more before Athena pressed her earpiece.
"Martin, are we there yet?" Athena asked.
"Just a bit more walking and you'll get there eventually. Now, if you please, I have to crack the info for once and for all." Martin said.
"Thanks." Athena sarcastically said.
"Well?" Trixie asked.
"Just a bit more he says." Athena said.
"Oh brother." Zack said.
They continued walking till Donald suddenly stopped.
"...Yo, what's up?" Trixie asked.
Donald pointed forwards.
"Look." Donald said.
The group looked at what Donald was seeing and spotted lots of flashing red eyes in the darkness.
"...What are those?" Zack asked.
"...Something not good." Athena confirmed.
The figures stepped out and they were the robots...and there were lots of them.
"Ah, it's the damn robots again." Trixie said.
"And there are many of them." Donald said.
"You fought these guys before?" Zack asked.
"Two times I think. It was when we met the Legion and when they attacked Kodama." Athena said.
The robots aimed their weapons at them.
"Ah, shit." Trixie said.
"These guys are just here to delay us from getting to the Jewel. If we stay here and fight them all, they'll take off with the Jewel and it's all over." Athena said.
"What are you suggesting?" Zack asked.
"Some of us might need to stay here to fight them while the rest goes to get the Jewel." Athena said.
"Well then, I'll do the robot smashing then while you guys go and get the Jewel." Trixie said.
"And I'll help her. You three can go ahead and get the Jewel, we'll take care of these guys." Donald said.
"Thanks guys. Just try not to get yourselves killed." Athena said.
"Don't worry, by the time you come back here, all the robots will be a pile of bolts. Just go!" Trixie said.
"Okay! Zack!" Athena said.
"Gotcha!" Zack said.
Athena, Zack and Leon ran past the robot horde and continued going deeper into the cave.
The robots aimed their weapons at Donald and Trixie.
"Hey, Don, let's have a contest. Whoever has the highest score at smashing robots, the other will have to buy the winner's lunch." Trixie said.
"Sounds cool. Let's start!" Donald said.
The two charged at the robots.
Zack, Leon and Athena continued running into the cave, Athena pressing her earpiece.
"Martin, how much further!?" Athena asked.
"You're getting closer, just keep running!" Martin said.
"Okay, thanks!" Athena said.
"Hope Donald and Trixie can handle those robot guys!" Zack said.
"Me too!" Athena said.
Athena suddenly stopped as she sensed something.
Zack turned to her.
"What's wrong, we have to hurry!" Zack said.
"...There is something coming towards us." Athena said, feeling a sudden chill while Leon whimpered in fear.
Some footsteps were heard, coming towards them.
Zack turned around and prepared himself.
The figure stepped out of the shadows, revealing itself to be Seth, who was staring at the young ones.
"...Humans...we meet at last." Seth said.
"...Who...who are you?" Athena asked.
"...I am...Seth...of the Ganymede Clan." Seth said.
"...He is a demon. His presence is the same one I felt when Henry died...he must be the one who killed him." Athena said.
"And he is here to stop us from snatching the Jewel, obviously." Zack said.
As Seth stretched out his left arm, a weapon popped out of his sleeve. It was a human weapon, a Armscor 40mm MGL(Multiple Grenade Launcher) and had some chains attached to it.
Zack turned to Athena.
"You and Leon run out of here and get the Jewel. I'll stay here and keep Creepy McBaldy here busy." Zack said.
"Are you sure? He might be pretty strong." Athena said.
"Trust me, I'm a Omnipotent. This guy can't be that strong. Now go!" Zack said.
"Uh, right! Leon!" Athena said.
Leon nodded as they ran past Seth and continued running forward, going to the Jewel.
Seth stared at Zack.
"...So, you're a Omnipotent?...I wonder how much I'll get paid if I kill you right now." Seth said, as he loaded bullets in his weapon.
"Huh, don't count on me dying, you freak. Now show me what you got!" Zack said.
Seth finished loading his bullets and smiled as he began shooting multiple bullets at Zack.
Zack quickly ducked and doged the bullets.
He shot a fire ball at Seth.
Seth dodged and was still shooting at Zack.
Zack hid behind a giant rock and kept shooting fire balls at him.
Athena was currently riding on Leon, trying to get to the Jewel as fast as she can.
Eventually, they arrived at the area Martin talked about as Athena got off Leon and looked around.
The area was pretty large and there were stalactites in the ceiling.
"...Jewel has to be somewhere around...Ah, there it is!" Athena said, smiling.
The Jewel was currently sitting on a altar in the middle of the room.
"Let's grab it, boy!" Athena said.
Leon nodded as they ran towards the Jewel.
Suddenly, the stalactites fell off the ceiling and they landed around Athena, trapping her.
"The heck?" Athena asked.
Athena looked up and Chronos floated out of a hole in the ceiling, in reality he was actually using his telekinesis to float as he landed on the ground in front of Athena.
"Salutations, Miss Vixerello. Allow me to introduce myself, My name is Doctor Chronos, the most brilliant science from the most superior race that has ever existed, the Neonytes." Chronos said.
"...I see...So you are a Neonyte, huh? My dad told me about you guys. You are pretty strong." Athena said.
"Indeed. And right now, I plan to get that Jewel and complete my life's work. So, I suggest you don't interfere if you don't want to feel pain." Chronos said.
"I would say the same about you. Unfortnately, I'm not a coward." Athena said.
Athena then lifted the stalactites with her telekinesis and threw them at Chronos.
The stalactites stopped in midair when they were right close to Chronos's face and they began floating around his head.
"Yes, well, you see, I happen to have the same ability as you do. As one human said "Anything you can do...I can do better!" Chronos said.
Chronos launched the stalactites back at Athena.
Athena dodged them and shot plasma bolts at Chronos.
Chronos teleported out of the way and doged the bolts.
He teleported in front of Athena and kicked her to the ground.
Leon lunged at Chronos, bitting him in his left arm. Chronos din't seem to be pain, he simply looked annoyed.
"Bad Kitty!" Chronos shouted.
Chronos lifted Leon with his telekinesis and threw him against the wall and landed on the ground. He lifted some remaining stalactite and dropped them around Leon, trapping them.
Chronos turned around.
"Now where we-"
Athena kicked Chronos in the face, not seeming to phase him at all.
Chronos just lifted a stalactite and threw it at Athena.
Athena stopped the stalactite in midair and shoot a beam at Chronos, managing to hit him and knocking him into the wall.
She then threw the stalactice at Chronos and it managed to impale him in the chest.
"Gah! It can't-t B-be!" Chronos dramatically yelled as he fell on the floor. Apparently dead.
"...Well, that was pretty easy." Athena said, looking surprised.
She attempted to walk to the Jewel and...
Suddenly, the stalactite that stabbed Chronos flew towards her.
"HUH!?" Athena asked, before she ducked.
The stalactite hits the wall.
She turned around and spotted Chronos on his feet, not dead, smiling and there was a hole in his chest.
"...What? But how are you?" Athena asked.
"Alive? Hahahah. Dear child, were you expecting to fight a average easy to kill Neonyte but instead you found yourself facing a GOD!?" Chronos asked.
His chest hole started to vanish and his shirt repaired itself aswell.
Athena looked shocked.
"How...is this possible?" Athena asked.
"You want to know my secret? Hehe, well, since you are so curious..." Chronos said.
Chronos pulled out a vial containing some white substance out of his labcoat, showing it to Athena.
"This, my dear human, contains the essence of the deceased Omipotent of Life, Demeter. She had the power to control life itself, even revive people and of course, she was immortal. You see, in that dreadful year when Hastur killed many of my people, I had began to think about the worst possibilities about my species's future. While there are billions of us in the Multiverse, there is a chance that one day, the Neonytes might stop breeding, or possibly adapt to the same interests as the humans in which they'll lose interest in the opposite sex and start dating the person of the same sex. Not to mention out very short life spans that doom us to our very short lives. And so, I decided to come with a way to prevent a possible extinction in the future, to extend our life spans. I even went to the Council to have them fund my research to make a serum to extend our life spans, but of course the only thing those pigs ever cared about the most is money, not the people. With nowhere else to turn to, I decided to perform the experiment somewhere secret but it turned into a disaster and as a result, I lost my right hand." Chronos said, looking at his right robotic hand.
Athena just listened.
"I got recruited by the Legion and when we recruited Henry, I found out about the Omnipotent of Life and her power and decided to wait till she would eventually die and get the sample I need to make sure this solution would work. Once she finally died, I managed to get a sample out of a piece of her tree and tested on myself. And as you see, it worked! Thanks to this serum, I won't have to worry about getting killed by my short life, I cannot be hurt and I can't be destroyed! I am IMMORTAL! And soon, once the Black Crow controls everything with the Crown, with no one to stop me, I'll take the entire tree for myself and duplicate the Serum and give it to all Neonytes! Soon, we will become a powerful race of Immortals! I shall save my people from extinction!" Chronos said.
"Living forever isn't the right answer. People just aren't meant to live for a eternity, they just sometimes die, either for the right or wrong reasons and nothing can change that." Athena said.
"Nothing you say? Well, what you just saw right now was the contrary my dear. Right now, you are standing in the way of my race's salvation and if you dare take away our chance of survival, you will die!" Chronos said.
Chronos puts the vial back in his coat before he telekinetically lifted Athena in the air and threw against the wall. He began to hit her against the wall many times and wasn't stopping.
Athena shown to be visibly hurt but she shot a beam at Chronos.
He teleported and Athena was dropped on the ground.
He teleported back and grabbed Athena with his robot hand before throwing her against the wall once more.
Back to Donald and Trixie.
They were currently smashing as many robots as they can.
"So, Donald, how many bucket heads did you destroy?" Trixie asked.
"About 50 of them." Donald said.
"Ha, I got 60 of them. Keep trying or else you'll buy lunch." Trixie said.
"Not a chance!" Donald said
Donald then smacked two robots in their faces at the same time with his hammer while Trixie stabbed one in the eye with her Lance.
With Zack and Seth.
Zack was dodging Seth's bullets and setting ablaze at the same time.
Zack got a bit closer to Seth and shoot a fire ball at him.
Seth continued to shoot at him till a fire ball hits his shoulder. This just made Seth smile even more.
"Hit more! Hit me more, Omnipotent." Seth said, looking ecstatic.
"What is this guy? He doesn't even look hurt. Is he a masochist?" Zack asked.
Seth just lowered his weapon a bit, smiling as he shot at Zack.
One bullet managed to hit Zack in the shoulder, causing it to bleed slightly.
"Shit!" Zack said.
Zack then charged at Seth, grabbing his face as his hand got covered in fire.
"Hehehehehe." Seth just cackled while Zack was grabbing his face.
"Eat this!" Zack said.
Zack shot fire right into Seth's face, sending him flying into a wall.
With Athena and Chronos.
Athena was currently getting telekinetically tossed around by Chronos.
He eventually dropped her on the floor.
Athena coughs up some blood on the ground.
Chronos approached Athena.
"Come on, I'm sure it's not that hard to hit me. Just because I'm nice, I'm gonna give you a chance to hit me in the face." Chronos said.
Athena got up, glaring at him before she attempted to punch him and he dodged.
"Oops, too slow! Now my turn!" Chronos said.
Chronos kicked Athena in the chin, sending her crashing into a wall.
Chronos then levitated a stick towards him, grabbing it and started to use it as a baton and lifted all the stalactites in the room, and began aiming them at Athena, while using the stick as if he was sort of a conductor at a musical. The stalactites flew at Athena and were ready to impale.
Athena jumped out of the way and shot at Chronos.
Chronos teleported and reappeared in front of Athena, grabbing her face and smashing her against the wall.
Donald and Trixie continued smashing more robots. There weren't as many as they were before.
"So, score?" Trixie asked.
"About 92." Donald said.
"Huh, mine's 88. Nice job. But I'm still gonna win." Trixie said.
Trixie then dodged the robots attacks and sliced three of their heads off with her Lance.
Donald just smacked a robot into the other robots, causing them to explode.
Back to Zack and Seth.
Zack just waited for Seth's next attack.
Seth slowly got up, smiling at Zack.
"Congrats, Omnipotent. You are the first person to actually get the drop on me." Seth said.
"I bet being overpowered feels like a bitch, huh?" Zack asked, smiling.
"...But now, let the real fun begin." Seth smiled.
Seth puts the weapon back in his robe as he pulled out his Lance and charged at Zack, he was suddenly very fast.
"WOAH!" Zack said, dodging his stab, managing to cut his hair strands.
Seth kept attempting to stab Zack with his Lance, striking at him very fast.
Eventually, he managed to stab him in the leg.
"GAH!" Zack yelled.
Zack punched Seth in the face, knocking him away from himself.
Seth looked at his Lance and grinned.
"Finally. Let the Blood ritual begin." Seth said.
"Blood ritual?" Zack asked.
Seth removed his robe, revealing his body...which had lots of stab marks all over himself. It din't seem like stabs from someone else, it's more like he mutilated himself.
"...What the?" Zack asked.
Seth licked the blood off his Lance, Zack's blood.
Symbols started appearing all over his body and the circle with the Sigil appeared around his feet.
"What are you doing!?" Zack asked.
"This is me commencing my Blood Ritual. Every time I get someone's blood and taste it, I perform my rituals to sacrifice the invidual who's blood I took." Seth said.
"SACRIFICE!?" Zack asked.
"Yeees. And every time I perform a ritual, I become much stronger. Here, take a look." Seth said.
Seth stabbed himself in his arm with his Lance.
Zack suddenly felt a sudden pain in his own arm and it began bleeding.
"GUAH! WHAT THE FUCK!?" Zack asked.
"Hahahaha! Every time I stab myself, you will feel the same pain I inflict on myself. And if I stab myself in the most vital points of my body...you will be dead." Seth said.
"And so will you!" Zack said.
"No. I won't die from the stabs, they'll make me more powerful. Now, human, prepare yourself for a endless round of pain!" Seth said.
Seth stabbed himself in his other arm.
"GAH!" Zack yelled in pain, his arms were both bleeding.
Seth then stabbed himself in his legs.
Zack fell on his knees, can't managing to handle the pain.
Seth then stabbed himself in the stomach.
"UGH!" Zack coughed up blood.
Zack shot a fire ball at Seth. Suddenly, a purple barrier appeared around Seth from the circle around him, repelling the fire ball.
"YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!" Zack yelled.
"HAHAHAHAHA!" Seth laughed.
Back to the Chronos fight.
Athena looked exhausted and was slightly bleeding from Chronos's beatdown.
Leon was trying to find a way to get out of his stalactite cage.
Chronos was walking towards Athena
Athena shot a beam out of her gun, piercing him in the chest.
The hole in his chest just started to fix itself up and there was no trace left of his injury. Chronos shook his head as he approached Athena.
Athena charged at Chronos attempting to punch several times but he dodged.
He eventually grabbed her hand with his robotic one and began to crush it.
"AH!" Athena yelled in pain.
Chronos then punched her in the face, sending her crashing into a wall.
Athena felt a massive pain in her body as she attempted to get up but couldn't.
Chronos walked up to her and grabbed Athena by her hair.
"Oh, how sad it is to see such a weak inferior lifeform, getting defeated by a superior being. Oh well, no use crying over spilt milk as I say, heheh." Chronos smiled.
Athena opened her eyes, glaring at him.
"Once I finish you off and take the Jewel, I will check on Seth to see if he got rid of your friends yet. If he failed, I'll gladly do the job myself." Chronos said.
And that's where Chronos fucked up as Athena's body suddenly started to glow yellow as she kicked Chronos in the face, letting go off her.
"..Don't...ever...threaten my friends...to my face...ever...AGAIN!" Athena roared.
Athena then charged at Chronos, punching him in the face.
Chronos was taken back by this and before he could defend himself, Athena began to land a series of kick and punches to his immortal body. She managed to make some bruises on him but they slowly began to heal.
Athena punched Chronos, knocking him back slightly and landed on his knee. Taking advantage of this, Athena ran to the cave's wall, ran up to it and jumped over to Chronos's back, smacking the back of his head with her boot. That was basically Marick's finishing move the Curb-Stomp.
Chronos fell on the floor.
Athena jumped in front of him and kicked him away from her.
Chronos slowly got up and looked pissed at Athena as his wounds began healing themselves.
"Y-You wretch! How DARE you hit a scientific prophet like me!?" Chronos asked.
Athena, instead, aimed her gun at Chronos's head and shoot a massive beam at him.
The beam hits Chronos in the face and sends him flying out of the cave and was launched into the sky. He looked like a shooting star now.
Athena lowered her gun, looking tired, waiting to see if Chronos will come back. A few minutes passed and he din't.
Athena sighed in relief as she stopped glowing and turned to Leon, telekinetically lifting the stalactites trapping him and throwing them away as he ran over to her.
"I'm okay, boy. Don't worry." Athena smiled, patting him.
She walked up to the Jewel and slowly snatched it.
"...Finally got you, you little bugger. Now's let meet up with our friends and stash this thing somewhere safe." Athena said.
Leon nodded.
Back with Donald and Trixie, all the robots were smashed into pieces and they looked tired.
"...So, final scores?" Trixie asked.
"167." Donald said.
"Damn, mine was 165. Good job, you actually won." Trixie said.
"Now you owe me a free lunch." Donald smiled.
"We'll talk about that after we meet up with Zack and Athena and see if they got the Jewel." Trixie said.
"Right." Donald nodded.
They ran out of there, going to Athena and Zack.
At the Seth fight.
Zack looked like a bloody mass and he was on his knees, looking like he was about to give in.
Seth looked bloody aswell and was enjoying putting Zack in lot of pain.
"What's wrong, can't feel your legs anymore?" Seth mockingly asked.
"...You...son of a bitch...wait till my friends get here...then you're fucked!" Zack said.
"ZACK!" Athena shouted.
Athena and Leon arrived there with the Jewel and Athena gasped as soon as she saw Zack.
"No, Zack!" Athena yelled.
Seth turned to Athena.
"Hm, all that talk about him being immortal and yet he failed to kill you." Seth said.
Athena tossed the jewel at Leon, catching it in his mouth.
Athena shot a plasma bolt at Seth. The barrier around him appeared and repelled the plasma bolt. Seth laughed at this.
Donald and Trixie arrived there aswell and their eyes widened when they saw Zack.
"Oh my God, Zack!" Donald yelled.
Seth stabbed himself once again and Zack screamed in pain.
"S-Someone just fucking stop him! I can't take it anymore!" Zack yelled.
"LEAVE HIM ALONE, YOU DAMN CORPSE!" Trixie shouted.
Trixie charged at Seth with her Lance but got knocked back by the barrier.
Donald attempted to smack Seth with his hammer but also got smacked by the barrier.
"Hahahahaha! Nothing can get passed this barrier! Now, feel free to watch your friend's demise at my hands as I plunge this Lance into my heart!" Seth said, aiming his Lance at his own heart.
Zack's eyes widened.
"NOOOOO!!!" Athena shouted.
"GOODBYE" Seth yelled.
Athena aimed her gun and was charging a very powerful beam in her gun. She shoot the massive beam at Seth and it hits the barrier. The beam was still going as it kept hitting the barrier. The beam managed to pierce through the barrier and hits Seth in the chest, the beam going through his body and bursting out of his back.
"GAH!" Seth yelled, looking surprised.
The circle with the Sigil vanished as Seth dropped his bloody Lance. He had a massive hole in his chest and his eyes had shrunken as he blankly stared at Athena, with blood coming out of his mouth.
"...I-Impossible..." Seth only said.
Seth dropped on the ground. His body slowly turned into a pile of ashes. He was pretty much dead.
Donald and Trixie looked surprised.
“…How, how did you manage to blast him through the barrier?” Trixie asked.
Athena looked at her gun.
“…This gun was originally built to resurrect a God but it was also used as a weapon against demons. That guy was a demon and so…that’s how it worked.” Athena said.
Zack sighed in relief.
"...Thanks for saving me again...Athena..." Zack smiled.
Zack then landed on the ground, passing out from exhaustion.
"ZACK!" Athena yelled out, running towards her friend.
Donald and Trixie did the same as Donald puts his hand on him.
"...He is still alive, but we have to get him to the base to have him healed up.
"R-Right!" Athena said.
Suddenly, a hologram of the Black Crow appeared before them.
Leon roared, getting their attention to the hologram and Athena glared at the Black Crow.
Black Crow looked at Seth's ashes and looked annoyed as he turned to Athena.
"...Did you really have to kill another one of the Legion? Do I have to kill someone from your side just to make things even?" Black Crow asked.
"...You'll get to kill someone from my side only over my own dead body." Athena said.
"Be careful for what you wish for. It appears you managed to get the Jewel before we could. Congratulations, young lady. You may have won the battle...but we haven't lost the war. We will fight to our deaths to get the Jewel and nothing will stop us." Black Crow said.
"And your welcome to try!" Donald said.
Athena got up and walked up to the Black Crow.
"...Black Crow...just who are you? Why are you doing this?...Why cause all this pain and misery to everyone? Just why!?" Athena asked.
"...I believe that we are past introductions, my dear. My name is simply the Black Crow and nothing else. I am nothing but a ghost who has been forgotten by History and everyone in general. The only reason I still exist is to complete the Infinite Multiversal Hypnotism Plan. It's not worth existing in this world that knows nothing but despair." Black Crow said.
Athena simply stared at the Black Crow intently.
"But...since you are so curious...I'll give you a glimpse of my life..through my own eyes." Black Crow said as his eyes started to glow brightfully yellow and started to cover the entire room.
Athena closed her eyes...and when she reopened them, she found herself not in a cave but somewhere else.
"...What...what is this?" Athena asked.
She was currently in a village. Not Kodama but looked rather similar to the Snow village but there wasn't any snow.
Athena looked around and some villagers passed right through her like she was a ghost. No one could see her. She looked around and the village looked pretty poor, with lots of starving villagers, begging for food. The houses looked dirty and there was a young child with short black hair, wearing a black buttoned up shirt, a black scarf, with a small crow sitting on his shoulder and watching two villagers carrying a body bag out of the village.
"...That child...is that...the Black Crow?" Athena asked.
The scene suddenly changes to the young boy who is presumably the Black Crow and was walking on the road, with his crow on his shoulder, just walking very slowly as his eyes were glowing yellow.
The scene cuts a few years later and boy was now a teenager, still carrying the same crow with him on his shoulder...and was walking away from a gang of bandits who were on the ground, bloody and dead. The bandits had their weapons attached to each other's chests, meaning that the teenager din't kill them...he used his mental power to make them kill each other. His crow caw'd and 11 other crows showed up and started feasting on the corpses of the bandits.
The scene then cuts to the teenager now as an adult, in front of a giant city...which looked the city that Omalley or rather Ultima used to be in till he moved into the main dimension and married Lynch. The man simply smiled as he entered in the city. It then cuts to him in one of the New Rebellion's bases, wearing the same uniform as them and sitting right next to Callus and some other Rebellion leaders, his eyes glowing yellow and smiling.
It then cuts to various scenes of the Black Crow meeting the other Legion members.
The Black Crow was meeting up with Kross and the Kheogs on a pretty tiny planet, giving them the chance of finding a new better home for them.
Next was Black Crow and Kross on a Neonytian planet, walking towards a destroyed lab, with Chronos laying in the ruins, his right arm hand missing. It cuts to him being in some other place, in a medical room, on a bed, with the Black Crow sitting beside him.
Next was the Metalmen's universe, with Micro attending a trial in front of his peers and getting exiled. He came across the Black Crow and accepted his proposal.
Next was the Lovian Planet. Black Crow and Kross were in front of Zhovet and some Lovians and had a crate with them. When the Lovians opened the crate, they found some useful high-tech armor and gadgets that would keep them safe from the sun and Zhovet shook the Black Crow's hand.
Henry got teleported into the Citadel of Crows, right before Verita wiped everyone's emotions and looked very confused and scared before the Black Crow entered in the room and explained to him why he is here. Henry was reluctant but eventually accepted, deciding that he had enough of the mutants and their powers.
Next to join was Seth, as Black Crow was in front of his clan's temple, handing him over some money and Seth taking it, accepting his proposal.
Next was Black Crow, Zhovet and Chronos meeting Kelou in the First dimension, in front of Emynx's grave.
Next was the Fourth Dimension, Hastur's world as Black Crow was in a house, sitting at a chair and the Chameleon was bowing before him.
Next was Newrum City in a different universe...or atleast...what used to be Newrum City since everything was now in ruins, with lots of corpses everywhere, some of the corpses looked like the members of Meredith's Mafia and Locrian's loyal fans. Black Crow was talking with Veronica and Sin who were standing in front of...Rita and Veradis’s corpses, alongside Jashin’s corpse.
And finally, next was the Others dimension, a world filled with Others who were in their human forms and doing activities as normal citizens. Sin was currently holding a rampaging Ate in his hand, who attempted to kill the Black Crow and Black Crow and Chronos were right next to him. Chronos walked up to Ate with a familiar looking collar and placed it on Ate's neck, causing her to stop. Sin dropped her and Black Crow began talking with Ate and she accepted whatever proposal he had for her.
The last scene then shows the entire Legion of Crows, beginning their search for the 5th Jewel of the Crown of Deity.
Athena was suddenly back in the cave and the Black Crow's hologram wasn't there anymore.
"...Where did he?" Athena asked.
"Athena, forget about him, let's get Zack back to the base before he dies!" Trixie said.
"Oh right!" Athena said, running up to Zack.
"Hold on, Zack, we'll get you healed up very quickly." Athena said.
At the ISP base.
Zack was in the Medical bay, getting treated by Vlad. The others were just watching.
"...He is gonna be okay. He got severly bruised up but he will live." Vlad said.
"Thank you." Athena said.
She turned to Zack who simply looked at them.
"Don't worry, guys. I'll be okay. Atleast I won't have to go to school tomorrow. Heh." Zack smiled.
"Zack..." Donald said.
"Don't worry about me. Atleast we succeeded in getting the Jewel." Zack said.
"Yeah, we did. Good thing I saved you just in time." Athena said.
"Yup, good thing you did...Thanks Athena." Zack said.
Athena just smiled.
"...Let's let him get some rest." Athena said.
"Sure." Donald nodded.
They walked out of the medical bay and went to Jaden's office.
Jaden looked at them and smiled.
"Congralutions. We finally got the Jewel in our hands now." Jaden said.
"Cool. Where is it?" Trixie asked.
"We stashed the Jewel in a secret base in my dimension. Can't risk keeping it here or otherwise the Legion would try to attack us. The research team will analyze and come up with a way to destroy it and put an end to this Crown of Deity fiasco for good." Jaden said.
"That sounds like good news. Zack will be alright, right?" Athena asked.
"He will heal up eventually. We couldn't of done this without you guys." Jaden said.
"It's what we do best." Trixie smiled.
"Yup." Donald said.
"By the time the research team will come with a answer to how we deal with the Jewel, you're on standby." Jaden said.
They nodded and walked out of the office.
Martin walked up to him with a bunch of papers in his hands.
"Hey guys. Good work, we did it." Martin smiled.
"Thanks, Martin...what's up with the papers?" Athena asked.
"We managed to crack those hard drives and got the info we needed about the Legion. These papers contain all the info about them. Here, take a look." Martin said.
Athena took the papers and began reading.
"...Huh, Kross is actually 110 years old, Micro was exiled by his own people after he disacted some humans to find out more about emotions, Ate came from a dimension of Others who only spawn in there if one's emotions from some universe are strong enough, Veronica and Sin are both from a different Earth in a alternate timeline, and the Black Crow..." Athena's eyes widened.
"...What's wrong?" Donald asked.
"...The...Black Crow's real name isn't listed...but he is from the 10th Universe and...he was one of the leaders of the New Rebellion till it was defeated in the war by the Spartan Five." Athena said.
"...Wait...Wasn't your grandpa one of the Spartan Five guys?" Trixie asked.
"Yeah...But...if the Black Crow was a part of the New Rebellion then...how is he still alive?...That war happened like many years ago." Athena said.
"...Maybe he too is immortal?" Donald suggested.
"...Possibly." Athena said.
"...Just who is this man? And what's his name?" Athena asked herself in her mind.
It cuts to the Citadel of Crows, with the 9 members of the Legion.
Half of Chronos's face was covered by his hair, it was regenerating from Athena's blast and looked angry while the Black Crow looked disappointed.
"...Vixerello managed to kill another member of the Legion. Seth is now gone. And they have the Jewel too." Black Crow said.
"Blast it!" Zhovet yelled, hitting the desk.
"What do we do now?" Ate asked.
"I say we attack with everything we have on the ISP and destroy them till they surrender us the Jewel." Kross said.
"...I don't think we might need to do that." Veronica said.
She got out her claymore and smacked it against the table, smiling.
"...Me and Sin will be the ones to bring the Jewel and take a shot at the ones who keep interfering with our plans." Veronica said.
"Bah! Like you and your reptile friend could be able to handle them! Compared to you and your abomination, I am Immortal! I'll be the one to get the Jewel even if it's the last thing I-"
SLASH
Chronos's head landed on the floor, as he glared at the one who slashed him, who was of course Sin.
Sin approached Chronos's head, his face was now shown. It was green, had sharp teeth, his red eyes were glowing purple as he was staring at the head.
"...You failed because you underestimated your opponents. And so did the rest of you. If this girl is really a part of the same family as Omalley...then I will be the one to put her to rest." Sin said, as he got out of his sword.
"When I will strike...I will strike as fast as lightning...and she won't see it coming...and it will be the last mistake she will make." Sin said.
"Yes. You and Veronica are the perfect ones for the job. Who else to put down our little troublemaker...other than the two most strongest members out of the Legion?" Black Crow asked, smiling.
Chronos simply spat as his head was put back on his body, Ate and Kross glared at them while Chameleon smiled.
Veronica looked at her claymore and smiled as she began glowing.
"This should be...interesting..." Veronica said.
END OF CHAPTER 11
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Post by IDEK on Jan 2, 2017 16:18:46 GMT
AMELL SAGA-
Chapter 5-The Jewel and the Girl
At the Vixerello house.
Jess was currently getting herself dressed up for her meeting with Leonidas.
"What's the point of getting dressed up?"Amell asked. "This is probably going to end with a battle, it's going to get stained."
"Well, I'm certainly not gonna confront him in my pajamas, so." Jess said.
Amell yawned,
"I guess?"He shrugged,accepting that response as he glanced over to the clock so he could see the time.
The time was 1:23 PM
"...Can't we just go now?"Amell asked.
"Alright, fine." Jess sighed.
Jess walked out of the house and she and Amell got in the car.
She drove off to the Schzofield Gardens.
"..So, Abigail hasn't left the house in a while."Amell said. "She still talks to me over our games. She just hasn't gone outside."
"Well, she has been living in that...whatever that place was, so, can't imagine how much that experience affected her mentally." Jess said.
"...I hope she gets better."Amell said, as the sound of police sirens got louder and louder.
They drove up to the Schzofield gardens to see ...
There was police tape blocking the entrance.
Officer Jenson was outside-talking to a Muscular Shirtless man with a handlebar Moustache.
The garden itself was totally void of human life. Just by looking- everything that was there had been removed.
Jess walked out of the car, along with Amell and turned to Officer Jenson and the buff guy.
"Hello there, Officer Jenson, was it?" Jess called out.
"Ah, Hello, Miss Vixerello."Officer Jenson said. "Something appears to have happened here, we'd have to ask you to not enter the gardens today."
"What happened this time?" Jess asked.
"We Found Chihara's dead body in the forest."Officer Jenson said. "There was another one of those creature's near it."
"...Oh...I see...I was actually gonna talk to Mr.Leonidas about her...din't know she died." Jess said.
"She looked to have only died yesterday.I don't think I'm authorized to reveal exactly how she died. But since you've already seen these creatures before, there's no harm in telling you that we don't think the creature that was near her was what killed her."
"Then what did?" Jess asked.
"Another Human."Officer Jenson said.
"But who would do it? I can't imagine there being someone who has a grudge against the circus staff...I mean, possibly the besides the parents who got angry with the circus for their lost children." Jess said.
"Exactly."Officer Jenson said. "...And also, the last time she was seen- was when someone dragged her away from your house, correct?"
"Yeah. My daughter said it was 'Keira' or atleast, that's who we think it is." Jess said.
"Do you have a physical description of this 'Keira'?"Officer Jenson asked.
"...Well, from what my daughter said, shr had black hair swept her right shoulder, foggy grey eyes, mole on her cheek and wearing a red cardigan" Jess described
"....That's not Keira Rosley."Officer Jenson commented under her breath. "Thank you for your information ma'am. Do you mind if I ask you a few more questions about your run in with Chihara Later?"
"Of course." Jess nodded
"Um, Excuse me. Officer?"The Muscular Man-Myshtaski asked, intervening in the conversation.
"Ah, Of course Myshtaski. Thank you for your help. When we find the rest of the troupe we'll see if their story lines up with yours, But for your own protection I will have to ask you to accompany me to the police station, I'd be great if you co-operated."
"Of-Of course, Officer."Myshtaski said, sounding nervous.
"I'll see you in a couple of hours."Jenson said to Jess as the two walked into a police car, Myshtaski getting in the seat next to Jenson- who was driving.
They left.
"...Okay, so the Keira girl Athena talked to wasn't the Keira from the news." Jess said
"So who was she..?"Amell asked- peering out of the car window.
"..I can guess either Sandra as Abbie called her or...Vera, the girl who's voice I heard along with Keira in that place." Jess said
"...Huh."Amell said.
"..Wait, the Officer said 'when I find the others' right?"He asked- eyes widening. "Does that mean they're not here!?"
"Yup. That means that Leonidas is not here either." Jess said, annoyed
Amell frowned. he Leaned back in the chair and tried to focus his mind on a single point.
There was a feeling welling up inside of him and he tried to focus it into his eyes. He tried to envision exactly where Leonidas was.
He burped.
"...Drat!"He Cursed, his attempt to use a Phrophet's eye leading to some minor flatulence and nothing else.
Jess just shook her head off
"Well...Ark can basically open portals to anywhere so...he could open a portal to either Leonidas, the mystery girl or Ryoma." Jess said
"There was also that creature the Officer mentioned, that was in the forest with the dead girl."Amell said.
"Yeah...so, where do we go?" Jess asked
"Well, the creature should be right over there."Amell said- gesturing to the gardens and the forest- seeming to not care about the police tape or the investigation currently going on.
"Amell, the police won't like if we go there." Jess said
"Yeah, I guess you're right."Amell frowned- leaning back in the car seat. "...What's the biggest...priority.. right now?"He asked,having to remember the word
"Well, Ryoma is still missing, so we could find out where he is with Ark's help or find the mystery girl." Jess said
"... She was the one who dragged the Thief off, wasn't she? Then she turns up dead in the forest."Amell said. "...That's suspicious."
"Yeah. We should probably try to find her first." Jess suggested.
"So where is she?"Amell asked.
"I don't know. We'll have Ark open a portal to her and try to find out who she really is." Jess said as she got in the car and drove off.
Amell was silent as they drove.
Jess arrived back home and she and Amell walked into the house.
"Hey, Ark, we could use some help." Jess called out.
Ark walked up to her.
"What do you need?" Ark asked.
"Could you open a portal to the mystery girl that Athena saw twice?" Jess asked.
"I'll try." Ark said.
Ark opened a portal to 'Keira'
The Portal glitched out, it's form whirring and distorting.
Fog started to billow out of it, despite it's constant whirring and distorting- it had appeared to have opened.
"...What's happening?" Jess asked.
"I don't know. Whoever is inside must be causing it." Ark said.
Jess looked at Amell.
Jess peered her head in the portal, trying to see if there is anything inside.
There was too much fog for it to be clear, but a building that looked like a church could be faintly seen.
Jess peered her head out of the portal and looked at Amell.
"...There is too much fog but I can see a church. Do you want to go inside the portal with me?" Jess asked.
Amell nodded.
Jess held Amell's hand and went through the portal.
They walked through the fog and were going towards the church.
They appeared to be walking on nothing.
Apart from the church the only other landmarks were the streetlamps on either side of them as they made their way.
in front of the church was a sign, welcoming any who entered it to the church of Wallshore.
"...Wallshore?"Amell asked- reading the sign. "What kind of name is that?"
"No idea." Jess said as they entered in the church.
There was a stained Glass Image of someone resembling Franziska in a white Robe- with 6 white orbs surrounding her, the Light from this window shone down onto the church.
Suddenly,a brick wall fell to pieces,the girl who called herself Keira jetted out of the hole and landed roughly on one of the chairs- getting up to her feet with ease, she turned back to face Leonidas-now wearing a cloak, who emerged from the fog with a grimace on his face.
"L-Look, It's him!"Amell called out. As the mystery girl was suddenly in front of Leonidas, she gestured at the magician and he was sent flying back out of the church, she then vanished.
Jess looked surprised before she peered her out of the church to see if Leonidas was still there
The fog was thick, he couldn't be seen.
The Fire he was summoning to fight off the mystery girl however- was plainly visible.
Jess then went off to where the fire was coming from and stopped right there.
"Hey, buster! I want some answers, now!" Jess called out to Leonidas.
She then got shoved away by the mystery girl-
"Shit-!" Hey, Get out of the Way!"She called out- her voice sounding rather threatening. "I'm trying to deal with this guy!"
"How Dare you Speak to me like that!"Leonidas shot back- fire Being sent flying in Keira's direction. The fog was getting thicker, it was impossible to see anyone, only Leonidas's fire and a faint image of the two were visible.
Keira floated away from Leo's fire- before charging at him and knocking him to the ground- she then got blasted by some ink and sailed right past Jess.
Jess just looked over to where Leonidas was at and telekinetically lifted him over to her
She turned to the mystery girl.
"Look, as long as you're not the one behind all of this crazy shit that has been happening in these last couple of days, then consider me on your side, because I was looking for this guy aswell!" Jess said.
She then turned to Leonidas.
"Now, magician, explain yourself!" Jess said.
Leonidas had vanished.
the girl whizzed past her into the fog- The sound of flesh hitting steel resounded throughout the area as the fog all started to vanish,
Leonidas was on the ground, wheezing. the girl's foot was pressed right into his neck.
His arm spasmed around and he managed to reach his staff- he smacked it into the girl's head and then stood up- vanishing after taking one step.
Jess hurried to the girl and helped her.
"Look, I'll help you against Leonidas, okay? But after this, I want you to tell me the whole story." Jess said.
The girl just smiled, and nodded. She grabbed onto Jess and then ran off.
Amell was...still in the church.
"This just doesn't feel right."Amell said, trying to use a phrophets eye- once again, he couldn't.
He frowned, He wasn't able to help out in any of these fights- or any of the battles his mom fought, he was always just there.
He was brought out of his thoughts when a portal opened up and a pale, noseless figure with light blue hair- wearing a navy blue jacket walked through.
"W...What?"The figure said, looking surprised to see Amell.
"Heh, where's your nose?"Amell asked, smirking.
"We don't have noses, but that's not important. Do you... Do you have any idea where you are!?"He asked.
"...No, Not really."Amell said- looking a wee bit uncomfortable.
"You're..You clearly shouldn't be here. You need to come with me."The Man said.
"WHa-What? But- Who even are you!?"He asked.
"Right, sorry. My Name's Ra."The Neonyte said. "But seriously, we need to get out of here."
Jess was just looked behind her.
"Shouldn't we go back to pick up my son aswell? I don't want anything bad to happen to him." Jess said.
"He's the son of a guardian, right."The girl asked. "nothing will go near him."
"Yeah, but he is not exactly the strongest one out of the family. He has a few wind abilities, but other than that, he is not very powerful." Jess said.
The girl then stopped. "Well, if you want Leonidas to get away, you can go to get him."
"I don't want him to get away, but I also don't want my son to be in peril in whatever this dimension is." Jess said.
"...Alright. I'll chase him myself, you take care of your son."the girl frowned, as she vanished as well.
"Ugh, for fuck sake." Jess said.
Jess then went back to the church.
"Amell!" Jess shouted.
"But I'm not leaving!"
"Look- I'm sorry kid but I don't know how the hell you got here, and if you don't want to litera-"
The Argument between the neonyte and Amell was cut short when Jess marched in.
"Another person?"The Neonyte asked. "How many of you are there!? Also How did you get here!?"
"...Um, first, who are you? And why are you here? And it's only just me and my son here. Also the mysterious girl and a magician" Jess asked.
"Right, Of Course. My Name is Ra Alise. I'm a Operative for the Neonytianian Services. I received a tip that there was unusual Antaxite activity So I came here to check.
I wasn't expecting to find Four Humans- or any humans- for that matter turned up here. So I was quite surprised.
You don't look to be spirits, That's good. as long as you don't die you'll be okay- but we really should get out of here."
"Why, what's so dangerous about this place?" Jess asked.
"...
This Dimension was created a side effect of one of our methods for executing dangerous criminals."Ra said. "Their Spirits are sealed inside Antaxite. A Couple of years ago we discovered that all of their spirits were creating this bizarre, uninhabited realm. They don't have any afterlife. They don't deserve one. But places like this church we're standing in began to spawn in a new dimension. We're not sure how this happened, but it did.
Once- out of curiosity- instead of using the Antaxite to kill the neonyte; we threw a living one on death row in here. When they died, instead of their soul being used to create a new area in this dimension, the soul distorted and took on the non-sentient form of a bizarre, absurdly powerful creature- it looked like a wad of jelly-and we could not destroy it.
We put a lock on anything teleporting anyone to this area for a long time. But Since last month this area was accessible again-and now there's more of these weird creatures residing here."
Jess listened and then she realized something.
"...Oh shit...does that mean that the weird creatures we saw so far...were those spirits that died here!?" Jess asked.
"Most likely, yes."Ra Said. "And of course, since this place was made of Neonyte spirits it is very unstable and often changing. Particularly the worst of the worst, It has this...nasty effect on the minds of anyone who's here for too long
The neonyte we sent in as a experiment lost their mind and used their power to incinerate themselves to stop the voices."
As soon as he said that, a Torrent of Flame burst out from the church confessional, more geisers of fire burst out of the floorboards of the church.
"But- What was that about a Magician and a Mysterious girl!?"Ra asked- as Amell edged away from the flame geisers. "What's been happening in this Place since the lock Eroded!?"
"...I don't know. There is a mysterious girl who might have a grudge against a magician who might be a bad guy and three people disappeared. One of them was a girl and she was put in this place once, but was in a foggy house in the middle of nowhere that is till I saved her. We came here to get some answers about the disappearance of those people." Jess said.
More Fire Geiser's sprouted inside the church,
"...Well, this doesn't matter- we need to get out of here now!"He said, grabbing the two Vixerello's.
They teleported into a quant house with a almost ruinous looking vibe. Wherever they were now, the sun was still rising.
"Okay, okay, you're both out of that place."Ra asked. "I'll go back and try to find those people who disappeared- I promise. But if you two died in there..."
"The only ones missing are two teens. Ryoma Takahashi and Keira Rosley. We believe that the magician had something to do with their disappearances and we thought the mysterious girl was Keira, but she wasn't." Jess said.
"...But the Magician and some other girl are still there, right?"Ra asked.
"Yes. She went after the magician and vanished. I wanted to go with her to get him but I came back to see if my son was alright." Jess said.
"As a Good Mother would."Ra said. "But, if you don't mind-"
He was cut off when he heard the sound of a door opening.
"Ah, Welcome home Maat!"He called out.
A Neonyte girl with cyan hair, wearing a blue shirt and some shorts- as well as a bag with some art supplies sticking out that was slung over her shoulder- walked into the room.
"Did you bring someone in from work again?"She asked- sounding bored.
"No. But it's private business."
Maat looked over the two humans, before walking through the room into the backyard,
"...That's my Daughter, Maat."Ra said.
"She doesn't have a nose."Amell said.
"...So, I'm guessing we are on a different planet, huh?" Jess asked.
"Yes. I don't live on earth."Ra said- as he watched his daughter bring out her art supplies and pull up a image on her transceiver, she began to sketch out the scenery on the photograph.
"Sorry but I had no idea where you actually lived. And my House is the first place on my contact list."He apologized- looking towards the two.
"This is Chrysyl.A Rather small planet populated by Neonytes. I trust you've heard of us."
"I think My Grandmother mentioned you guys once."Amell said.
"That's nice, can I get you anything while you're here?"Ra asked. "Since you are here- you might as well try some of our menu."
"I see...speaking of which, you see, my daughter recently encountered someone who is a alien like you guys but is immortal and is with a group called the Legion of Crows. Know anything about that?" Jess asked.
"...
Ah, That would be Chronos. Wouldn't it."Ra sighed-walking up to a cupboard and pulling out some liquid. "I don't know the guy. But he thinks of our lifespans as a curse. It's just equivalent exchange really- surpised he didn't see that."
"I guess he simply feared the worst for your race. So, would the Antaxite be able to work on someone like him?" Jess asked.
"Well, you could throw him in there if you knew how to activate it."Ra said- as he poured some of the liquid into a cup and began to stir it. "Or if you had someone who could rip his soul out. His Body would still technically be alive. But it would be more like a coma than a real death."
"I see. Well, besides Chronos, my daughter Athena is currently working with the ISP to beat the Legion and among the staff is a Neonyte girl with pig tails and makes weird weapons." Jess said.
"Never met her."Rha said. "We have over 60 planets, Miss. You can't expect me to memorize every neonyte in the universe."
"I understand." Jess said as she looked around the house.
"...Well, I would love to stay and hear more about your planet, Mr.Alise, but we have to back home now before something else happens. We have a magical talking griffin who can hear my voice and open a portal for us back home. And I have to answer a police officer's questions about someone from the circus." Jess said.
"I'm Sure, best of luck to you."Ra said. "When I'm done with this drink i'll be back in the Antaxite Depths and will try to find that girl and Magician you told me about."
"Okay. Though, do you have any cell phone or something to contact us in case you find them or the missing victims?" Jess asked.
Ra Tossed a small ear-piece Jess's way.
"I'll call you on that."Ra said, when she caught it.
Jess puts it in her pocket.
"Thank you. Ark, get us a portal back to Earth." Jess called out.
A portal appeared beside Jess and she entered through, taking her back to the Vixerello house.
Amell followed her, waving the Alien goodbye.
The portal closed.
"...Y'know, despite not having a nose, and having those weirdly dilated eyes, his daughter was pretty cute."Amell commented.
"...I guess so. Well, now we know what's up with those weird creatures we saw and the place that the mysterious girl stays at." Jess said.
"Yeah."Amell said. "..It's kind of...Eugh...Thank god we-you got Abbie out of there."
"Yeah...but this bring up the question how the magician was able to get there. And for how long did the mysterious girl stay there." Jess said.
"...Wait, what is a Antasite?"Amell asked-mispronouncing it slightly. "That...Exorcism, Thing? What does it even look like..?"
"My guess it's some sort of jewel that is used to trap the souls of criminals and other people. But that probably doesn't have anything to do with the Jewel from the powerful crown that those Legion guys are desperate to find." Jess said.
"What about the Jewel That girl gave My Sister!?"Amell asked.
"...Do you think it was the Antaxite thing?" Jess asked.
"Well, maybe?"Amell shrugged " I mean, That Circus girl who died wanted it? Didn't she? and, those things around that Kimono girls' neck, didn't one of the creatures get pulled into it?"
"...Yeah, it did actually...Oh God, it explains how those circus freaks have those creatures at their disposal. They probably stole the Antaxite Jewel somehow before the mysterious girl took it from them and gave it to Athena." Jess said.
"They have multiple of them! there was like six hanging from the kimono girl's neck!"Amell Said- sounding panicked.
"...Shit." Jess said.
Amell Broke into a run- heading straight towards Athena's Bedroom.
Jess ran after him.
"Why are you going to your sister's room?" Jess asked.
"Didn't she leave the Jewel there!?"Amell asked back.
"I guess, but she used it as a trade to fool the Legion members." Jess said.
Jess opened the door and looked around.
Athena wasn't in the room and Jess looked around for the Jewel. She picked up Athena's Shadow girl Jacket and went into her pockets and pulled out the Jewel.
"Oh, there it was." Jess said.
Amell Picked up a random object and Smacked the Jewel out of Jess's hands with it- He then proceeded to Step on it Repeatedly- attempting to destroy it.
"...Do you think that's a good idea?" Jess asked.
"Well It'll destroy it!"Amell Said- looking concerned. "And Probably realize the Soul that's stuck inside of it as well!"
"...We should probably return it to Ra, he would probably also want to know about the circus staff somehow getting their hands on Neonytian jewels." Jess said.
"But- Someone's probably stuck in there!"Amell Frowned.
"But it could be one of those dangerous creatures though." Jess said.
"That's still a person, isn't it!?"Amell asked- clearly distressed.
"Okay, I'll try to use my power to see who is the person inside it just to calm you down." Jess said.
She puts her hand on the Jewel and her eyes glew purple, trying to sense who was person's soul trapped in the Jewel.
....
A Birthday cake. There was a girl with blonde hair in a green dress sitting on a birthday table in front of the cake. The Other chairs were resided in by stick figures drawn in crayon. There was a family portrait taking up the entirety of the wall, but everyone's faces were all blurred out by black crayon.
It looked a bit like a distorted memory.
"...It looks...like a girl with blonde hair in a dress sitting at the table and it's clearly her birthday party. There are stick figures sitting in chairs...it's more of a memory actually." Jess said.
"You're getting a memory?"Amell asked.
"Yes, strangely. I don't know who the person is though." Jess said.
"...Whatever. She looks human, right?"Amell asked. "So there's no harm in destroying this Gem."
"...I guess so. But how?" Jess asked.
Jess looked around and spotted a nearby trophy in Athena's room, probably won it at a contest or something. She then hits the Antaxite with the Trophy, attempting to break it.
It doesn't break.
"Ugh!...Gra!"Amell made some frustrated noises, "You managed to break one earlier didn't you?"He asked. "How did you do that!?"
"Well, I turned into my mega form during my fight against Franziska and when I punched her, the crystal broke and that thing was unleashed." Jess said.
"...Then...If one of us manages to turn into our Mega form then we can smash this easily!"Amell said, grinning.
He stood up on Athena's bed- held his arms out and began trying to focus his energy.
Nothing Happened.
"Just wait..Almost got it--!"
Jess simply sighed before her eyes glew yellow and turned into her mega form.
She grabbed the Jewel from Amell and crushed it with her own hand, hoping that no giant monster would come out of it.
The Second she crushed it,
A Burst of Lines- as though drawn in crayon- just flew from it, bouncing from all of the walls and breaking Athena's bedroom Window, the Lines all swerved together and Expanded- taking up the entire room.
As though it opened a worm-hole, the two found themselves falling. Amell could be heard calling out for Jess- but she couldn't see him from behind all of the crayon lines and the birthday hats that had began to appear
Jess hit the ground- it felt like a velvet carpet. There were giant crayon drawn stick men jutting out of the ground, and lines of crayon were shooting up into the sky.
There was no sign of a monster or Amell anywhere.
Jess got up and looked around.
"AMELL!" Jess shouted.
There was a sound that resembled Amell's voice- but it was too far away to be made out.
Another Crayon-drawn Stick man Fell from the sky and hit the ground- their head sticking into the soft carpet.
Jess just opened her wings and flew very fast towards the sound of Amell's voice.
She couldn't find him.
When she got to where she heard his voice, what she saw instead was a giant image which had stuck itself into the floor by one of it's corners.
It was a family photo, The girl in the memory she saw earlier could be easily made out. Next to her was the mystery girl- who's eyes looked clearer and hair looked neater. She looked happy.
There was also a lady with long black hair wearing a white dress- the fourth person in the photo was clearly...Leonidas.
He looked younger, he had his arms around both of the young girl's shoulders and was smiling right at the metaphorical camera.
"There's the mystery girl...the girl with her is probably Vera...and Leonidas." Jess said
More Crayon-drawn stick men started to fall from the sky- as though it was a storm.
The Mystery girl in the Image's eyes turned to stare right at Jess. her Happy expression not changing.
Jess felt creeped out before she used her powers to find out where Amell is.
Amell was above her. it seemed.
Jess then flew up towards Amell
It seemed some of the Lines of Crayon that were sprouting from the floor were keeping some platforms elevated.
on one of them, was Amell-
"M-Mom!"He called out, running towards her as his mother landed in front of him.
"There- There doesn't a-appear to be any monsters here but...Why did we get teleported when we broke that jewel?"He asked.
"I...don't know, Amell. I think we may be experiencing the memory I saw or something. I did see a family photo of the mysterious girl, with the girl I saw in the crystal, a woman with black hair and white dress and Leonidas." Jess said.
"...Ugh,Let's just... Let's just get out of here."Amell frowned.
"Even if we do, we'll have to somehow close the worm-hole that just opened in Athena's room." Jess said.
"Ugh...But..How do we do that?"Amell asked.
Just as he asked that, a Light shone down from the sky- Ra Jumped down and landed next to them.
"What did you two just do!?"He asked. "You two leave for two minutes and you're already back here?"
"...Well, Amell got panicked about someone's soul being trapped in the Jewel and wanted to release the soul. And we landed in some deceased person's memory instead." Jess said.
"Kid, That's very Dangerous, what were you thinking!?"
"Exactly what she said! This is someone's soul, right?"Amell asked.
"Well, while that is true..It's still dangerous!"Ra said. "Come on, Let's just get out of here!"
He grabbed them and then they teleported into Athena's Room, There was a portal on the floor right next to her bed- the edges of the portal looked to have been drawn with crayon.
"Now I need to deal with this as well."Ra frowned. "Ugh, Damnit I wasn't prepared to deal with a wormhole."
"Any ideas on how to close it?" Jess asked.
"Eugh."Ra sighed, pulling out his transceiver and holding it over the wormhole, he pressed a button. Nothing happened.
"..This doesn't usually happen, People don't usually break Antaxite.
It only happened once before and then never again."
"...Maybe someone from the Unigard can close the portal." Jess suggested.
The Crayon portal expanded in size.
"Hold on, I just sent for backup, requested someone with black hole powers who could close it. If this portal stays open for any longer something could easily come out. and we don't know any of more of that, but just in case you two should leave the room!"
Jess nodded as she took Amell out of the room and left.
Eventually, a other- younger looking neonyte appeared.
"Drat, how did this happen?"
"Someone broke a Antaxite- trying to free whoever was inside."
"Well, I can tell that this was not a neonyte in there. so that's one good thing."
"Yeah,yeah, can you close it?"
"Hold on..."
"...Do you think they knew?"Amell asked his mother, as the door to Athena's room closed.
"...I don't know." Athena shrugged.
"That they knew...that those creatures in those jewels were people who died?"Amell asked. "Because, if the neonytes whose souls were put in where what made the place- but not the creatures. then more than just one person had to be thrown in while alive...and..."
"...Do you think the mystery girl was thrown in there aswell?" Jess asked.
"...I Don't know."Amell said.
"...She did take Abigail there,though."Amell frowned. "Didn't she?"
"Yeah. But possibly to save her from Leonidas who was doing something to Ryoma." Jess said.
"You idiot that didn't fix it- that made it bigger!"
"I'm Trying alright? I Don't know what this is or how it was made! IT's ahrd to close a portal you haven't opened yourself!"
"But you get payed to do this!"
"Ok, Let's see Anyone else try to close a Antaxite portal that was made with a soul we've never put into one before! That's going to end so amazingly!"
"...They haven't made any progress."Amell deadpanned.
Jess sighed before she got her phone and called Marick.
"...Marick, I-...oh, you already saw it with your prophet's eye? Ah...so, could give like send one of the Unigard guys to close the worm-hole that we accidently unleashed in Athena's room...Okay, thanks." Jess said.
"Well, Kenward should show up any moment and close the worm-hole." Jess said.
"That's good."Amell said, looking uneased.
"Okay, Okay, it's 1 centimetre smaller. that's better than the nothing you were doing earlier!"
"SO how about you shut up so I can focus on this!"
Jess facepalmed before Kenward eventually arrived through a portal.
"Hello there, Jess and Amell." Kenward said.
"Hi. So, you know what's going on, right?" Jess asked.
"Yes, Marick told us. I'll handle this." Kenward said.
Kenward entered in Athena's room and looked at the two Neonytes.
"I'll deal with the worm-hole before it causes more damage." Kenward said.
Kenward raised his hands and the worm-hole shrunk and was successfully closed.
"Oh what do you know, someone who actually knows how to close portals."Ra said.
"Hey, Buddy, If you want me to close a black hole I could do that easily."The other neonyte said. "This ain't a black hole."
Ra just rolled his eyes and then turned to kenward "Right, thanks for your help here."
Kenward nodded before he walked out of the room and turned to Jess and Amell.
"I trust you two will be able to handle the rest." Kenward said.
"We will." Jess nodded.
Kenward then walked through the portal and it closed.
Jess and Amell walked back through Athena's room and looked at the Neonytes.
"...Well, good thing it din't get worse." Jess said
The other neonyte left- looking annoyed.
"I'll be going back to the Antaxite Depths. You two have your own business to attend to, I assume?"
With that, Rha vanished.
"...I din't even get to tell him about Leonidas having the Antaxite Jewels." Jess said.
Ra then re-appared.
"Wait, what was that!?"He asked.
"How did you hear her?"Amell asked.
"Not important, what did you just say?"
"...Well, you see, the mysterious girl I told you about gave my daughter some random items at school, one of them was a Antaxite jewel, the same jewel we smashed. She stole it from the magician Leonidas and his circus crew who somehow got their hands on the Antaxite Jewels that contain some dangerous monsters." Jess said.
"...I see."Ra said. "I'll have some questions for both of them when I find them, then."
With that, he vanished.
Jess turned to Amell.
"...Well, I think that's all we can do for today. I should probably go and answer Officer Jenson's questions anyways." Jess said.
Amell nodded.
Athena then arrived back home and walked into her room.
"...What just happened here!?" Athena asked.
"Um...Nothing...!"Amell said,
he then left the room.
Athena furiously followed after Amell.
"Oh, no you don't! Why is my window smashed and why is my jacket on the floor!?" Athena asked.
"Honey, wait, actually!" Jess said, following after her kids
Amell let out a scream of pure terror.
Marick, who arrived home, simply just smiled and shook his head off
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 2, 2017 16:35:10 GMT
THE ATHENA SAGA
CHAPTER 12 THE MERCILESS SIN
The chapter starts at Athena's high school.
Athena was currently sitting at a bench and was currently thinking.
"...Man, I can't be wasting time with school right now. The Legion of Crows could be up to something no good, and we're just sitting here." Athena said.
Her friends approached Athena.
"Hey." Trixie said.
Athena turned to her friends.
"Oh, hi." Athena said.
"...So, what's up?" Donald asked.
"Nothing much. Just thinking about the Legion and stuff." Athena said.
"Really? Come on, we just got the Jewel, could you stop worrying about the world exploding for once?" Trixie asked.
"Yeah, but the Legion might attack the place where they hid Jewel and we would be in deep trouble." Athena said.
"I doubt they were able to figure out where the ISP stashed the Jewel so quickly." Zack said.
"Unless they have a device that let's them know about all the conversations we had with Jaden in the Base." Martin said.
"...Yeah, that would be pretty bad." Donald said.
"But, either way, come on, let's go, school just finished so let's hang out." Trixie said.
Athena got up.
"Yeah, I guess-"
And their communicators started ringing.
"Oh for fuck..." Trixie sighed..
Athena picked up her communicator and answered.
"What now?" Athena asked.
"Get to the ISP base, it's a emergency!" Jaden said.
"Huh, another one? Alright. Bring us in." Athena said.
They got teleported out of there.
At the base.
The group entered in Jaden's office.
"So, what happened now?" Zack asked.
"The Legion had found out where is the place where we stashed the Jewel and are going to attack it any moment now." Jaden said.
"...Seriously? Already?" Trixie asked.
"Uh oh..." Donald said.
"So, what do we do?" Athena asked.
"Well, for starters, you go there and defeat the Legion members who will show up to steal the Jewel! We can't let them take off with it, cause if they do, we are done for! The research team din't come up with a solution to destroy the Jewel just yet so we have to prevent the Legion from taking the Jewel no matter what." Jaden said.
"Don't worry, we'll send those sons of bitches back to where they came from." Zack said.
"Yup." Trixie said.
"I'll be here giving you guys help as usual." Martin said.
"Right. Alright, Jaden, send us in." Athena said.
"Good. I'll teleport you to the base where the Jewel is." Jaden said.
Jaden teleported them out of there, right to the base where the Jewel is.
At the base.
Mibyll was in the corridor, fighting against three robots.
"Man, there is no end to these guys! Get out of the way, already!" Mibyll yelled.
He charged at the robots and punched one robot's head off. He grabbed the other two robots and smashed them both together before dropping their pieces on the ground.
"Mibyll!" Trixie yelled
Athena, Trixie, Leon, Donald and Zack showed up
"Are you alright?" Donald asked.
"Good to see you guys but you're late! The enemies started their attack ages ago!" Mibyll said.
"We din't think they would be here so soon." Athena said.
"Come, let's hurry! Show us where the Jewel is!" Zack said.
"It's right in the area behind me. You guys go, I'll handle the rest of the robots who will show up." Mibyll said.
They nodded as they ran past Mibyll, going to where the Jewel.
They arrived at the area where the Jewel was. It was a large room and inside the room was Veronica, who was surrounded by a large barrier with four generators around it. She was currently attempting to break a metal cage that contained the Jewel.
"...It's her...Veronica." Athena intently said.
Veronica turned to the others.
"...Oh, well if it isn't you guys. It's been awhile since we last saw each other...and you made a new friend it seems." Veronica smiled.
"What are you doing you crazy ass girl!?" Trixie asked.
"What do you think? The Jewel is mine. But because you guys put it in a cage to protect it, I'm now going through all the trouble to break it." Veronica said.
"Don't kid yourself, lady! We're not handing over the Jewel!" Zack yelled.
Athena aimed her gun at the barrier Veronica set up and launched a beam. It hits the barrier but it doesn't affect it.
"It din't work!" Athena said.
She is quite cunning. She set up a powerful barrier so then we wouldn't interfere." Donald said.
"This is no time to admire her work, she's gonna steal the Jewel!" Trixie said.
"Calm down. Look!" Zack said.
He pointed at the generators.
"Those generators must be the source of the barrier. If we destroy those, the barrier will go away." Zack said.
"Alright, we'll crush those generators in two seconds and then we'll handle Veronica." Athena said.
"Hm, don't think so." Veronica said.
She snapped her finger and four robots landed in the room.
"You guys wouldn't mind buying me some time while I get the Jewel, do you?" Veronica asked the robots.
The robots approached the gang.
"Oh, great." Zack sarcastically said.
"We have to smash these guys and the generators at the same time let's go!" Athena said.
The four split up.
Athena and Leon smashed their first robot and went to the first generator. Athena shot a powerful beam at the generator and it exploded.
"One down, three more to go!" Athena said.
Donald dodged the robot's slash before he smashed it's head with the hammer and went to the next generator.
"HIA!" Donald yelled, smashing the generator with his hammer, causing it to explode.
Trixie just dodged the robot and went to the generator.
She stabbed it with her lance before kicking it. The generator went off but din't explode.
Trixie then turned to the robot and stabbed it in the eye with her Lance.
Zack simply sets the robot of fire before he went to the generator and punched a hole in it with his hands on fire.
The generator bursted into flames.
The barrier then vanished.
Veronica simply sighed in annoyance.
"Seriously? Chronos really needs to update them from total failure to average once I get back." Veronica said.
Veronica turned to the group.
Athena aimed her gun at Veronica.
"You're not going anywhere." Athena said.
"...You want to bet?" Veronica asked.
"Indeed I do!" Athena said.
Athena charged at Veronica till suddenly.
Lightning hits the ground in front of Athena.
"What the!?" Athena asked.
A voice was heard cackling.
"...Poor, poor Athena...thinking she has what it takes to save this doomed world...and yet failed to realize...that she already lost." A voice said.
"What the hell?" Trixie asked.
"Who's there!?" Athena asked.
Suddenly, a fog appeared around the group. Veronica smiled at this.
The five looked around aiming their weapons, being prepared for what's gonna happen next.
Someone was walking out of the fog, going towards Athena...and it was...Sin.
Sin stood in front of Athena, looking down on her with his cold red eyes.
"...It's you." Athena said, glaring at him.
"...Who is that?" Zack asked.
"Veronica's scally boyfriend, that's who." Trixie said, not afraid of him.
Leon whimpered in fear a bit.
"...Sin." Athena intently said.
The fog vanished as Sin began to walk around Athena, circling her. She did not let her guard down. "...So, you are a Vixerello, correct?" Sin asked.
"...Yes." Athena answered.
"...So, that fool Omalley is alive in this world...and he actually succeeded becoming a Vixerello. And here I thought that was a task that couldn't be achieved. How interesting." Sin said, still circling Athena.
"...So...is he your father?" Sin asked.
"...Grandfather." Athena said.
Sin stopped in front of Athena, still looking at her with his eyes.
"...So, he had a child aswell. Where are they now?" Sin asked.
"Somewhere doing something more important. I am my father and grandfather's replacement, and you will lose to me." Athena said.
Sin just chuckled at that.
"Amusing words...coming from a family of a weakling who dedicated most of his life and power on a worthless human." Sin said.
"Don't talk about them like that! Considering that you look just like him but you don't act like him at all! Tell me...are you Omalley?" Athena asked.
"No...I killed that weakling back in my dimension." Sin said.
"...Just...who are you guys!?" Athena asked, looking angry.
"We already told you, we are from a different universe, similar to yours but a bit different because of the events. But, since you insist, let us tell you about our story. Let's start off with me, first. I'm sure you're familiar with my father...Aro." Veronica said.
Athena's eyes widened.
"...A-Aro!? You're...you're his daughter!?" Athena asked.
"Indeed. Technically, he is my creator." Veronica said.
"...But...but how!?" Athena asked.
"Here is the thing: Multiverse theory is one cruel bitch. You see, in my world, my father came back from the dead to get Omalley's powers and during the final battle with your 'grandparents', Lynch left in the middle of the battle, thus leaving only Omalley and my father to fight it out. Omalley was the winner in the end but my father retreated...but now without paying the consequences however." Veronica said, before a flashback started.
In the other universe.
Aro was in his old lab where Tarus killed him and he...was heavily bleeding from his chest, having a 'V' shaped scar on it. He was slowly dying. He tossed a bloody knife on the table, the blood on the knife was Omalley's. He slowly puts the instructions on how to give birth to a new lifeform with the DNA on the table before he walked up to a file cabinet. He opened it and pulled out a plastic paper bag, containg some hair strands that once belonged to his ex-girlfriend who was turned into a mutant, Angelica. He pulled out the strands of hair, covered them in his own blood and walked up to a machine with a tank, above it. He puts the bloody strands of hair in the machine and pressed a button, delivering a message to the being who will be born out of the machine.
"...Kill Omalley...Kill Omalley." Aro weakly said.
Aro fell on his knees, coughing up more blood before he fell on the ground. Dead.
The machine started to produce the human with Aro and Angelica's DNA. A few days passed and a human child with black hair was seen in the tank filled with water, currently sleeping, with the message being repeated in her head over and over again. The human child slowly opened her yellow eyes and stepped out of the tank, letting water out, her exposed body wasn't seen. Her eyes looked around, examining the world with her eyes for the first time before finding Aro's corpse on the ground and walking up to him.
"My creator died from your grandfather's fatal attack but not before creating me and leaving me with the message that kept repeating in my head over and over again....Kill Omalley. With that being my only thought process, I decided to fulfill that goal but I couldn't do it alone." Veronica said.
Little Veronica spotted Aro's knife with Omalley's blood on it, along with the instructions on how to create a powerful being and took the bloody knife.
"My father din't give a name. After all, he only created me with the purpose of exacting his revenge on his enemy. I looked up on the computer to find some fitting names to give myself and found one...Veronica. Once I found some clothes, I went to explore the outside world for the first time." Veronica said.
Veronica was currently walking in the forest till she stepped out of the forest and walked up to a road and spotted a small figure on the road. It was a small green lizard with red, laying on the red, severly bleeding and was in deep pain. It was crying for help.
"...And that's when I first met my first and only friend. He too, was like me, we were both alone in the world, relying on ourselves to survive. the poor thing got hit by some careless humans who were driving a car. I couldn't let him suffer like that and I took him back to the lab and began developing the strongest being my creator wanted me to." Veronica said.
We see the lizard wounded lizard in the tank that Veronica was born from, as she was adding Omalley's DNA to the little reptile. Eventually, the reptile began to grow, to the point it was the size of a human. Once it opened it's red eyes, it stepped out of the tank, having green shoulder length hair and it's body was naked and green, looking down on the little girl who gave him a second chance at life.
"...I named my friend 'Sin'. As he represented Humanity's sins." Veronica said.
"...Can you hear me, Sin?" Young Veronica asked.
"...Yes...Veronica...my friend." Sin said.
Young Veronica smiled.
"Once Sin was born, we decided to go the Universe where my father's enemy lived at and to carry out his goal...to kill Omalley." Veronica said.
It cuts to Omalley, who was wearing the same clothes from his alternate future and was walking in the desert, looking devastated till he stopped and saw two beings in front of him. Veronica, who was carrying a claymore and Sin, who din't wear clothes.
"We found Omalley. It wasn't hard to find him, we found him at a desert. We told him that we were here to kill him and the weird part about this was...he accepted. He simply stood there and waited for us to kill him. And so..." Veronica said.
SLASH!
Omalley's upper body was on the ground, and his legs were next to him while Veronica and Sin stared at him, with Sin's hands covered in blood and so was Veronica's claymore. Omalley eventually turned into dust and vanished for good. A drop of water hits Veronica's head as she and Sin looked up and stared at the sky as it started to rain for some reason.
"We killed Omalley and our goal was fulfilled. But then, there was next question...what was there left to do? I was born with the only objective to kill Omalley but there was nothing else. We din't have anything else to do or anywhere else to go. Sin got a hold of Omalley's clothes and weapons and we travelled around the world on Omalley's planet for years, trying to find some goal for us. Anywhere we went, we got rejected by humans, who did not like us because of how monstrous Sin looked and continued travelling, but the result was the same, we couldn't be accepted by anyone. Humans clearly despised us. After years passed, we eventually found two companions who were imprisoned in a city and brought them along on our journey...till they turned on us." Veronica said.
SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH SLASH
Pieces of Maya's body landed on the ground, with bloody tears on her cheek and a fully grown Veronica standing in front of Maya with a bloody claymore, while glowing a familiar aura. Sin was standing in front of a currently heavily bleeding Inka, who was simply crying out for Tara before he eventually died. Sin and Veronica continued their travel.
"We encountered some obstacles on our way." Veronica said.
It cuts to Veronica and Sin slashing through some Others who were unleashed in the world. Apparently, a midget went to a island full of crystals and found out it can produce beings made out of negative emotions and lost control of them. Next it cuts to Veronica and Sin who were in a ruined Wellham, with lots of people on the ground, looking very thin and had bloodshot eyes. They turned around and saw a being coming out of a alleyway, with a dead human in it's hand. It was Nexeen, who was simply smiling at the pair.
"Now, give me your incredible energy!" Nexeen said.
Nexeen charged at Veronica and Sin as they both dodged and began fighting the alien. The fight went on for a bit till Nexeen hits the ground, looking heavily injured as Veronica was descending down towards him and.
SLASH!
Nexeen got sliced in half and landed on the ground and Veronica and Sin continued their journey.
"And then...we witnessed the humans at their worst when we arrived at Newrum State City." Veronica said.
Sin and Veronica were on the edge of a cliff, watching A battle occurring at Newrum City, with dozens of Others who were in pieces right behind them. At Newrum, there was a huge battle happening between Locrian and his forced led by Bonita and Amila, Meredith and her Mafia, Jashin and his Red Moon and Verita and her Group. It was a insane battle.
Locrian was in his mega form, clashing against Jashin and Verita.
Meredith was shooting at everyone with her blaster.
Abraham threw his explosive cards atmafia members such as William, Alfred, Todd and Malcolm, his cards exploded and they got caught in the blast and died.
Rebecca was sending out as many puppets as she can before she got set on fire by Amila and landed on the ground, screaming in pain.
Emynx accidently stabbed Leonard, confusing him for Jebediah.
Eventually, the fight stopped when a sudden figure appeared in the sky. It was Tara...who looked like her Academy self, but now more demonic and wore the same armor as Erebus, glaring down at everyone.
"You idiots had done enough! Now it's time you disappear of the face of the Earth!" Tara yelled out.
She launched some darkness beams out of the sky and Lea-Maria, Meredith, Lacey, Mary, Shannon, Daron and Joe got hit by the beams, and screamed in pain as they slowly got vaporized.
"NO!" Someone yelled out.
All the attacks went to Tara now but she easily deflected them before summoning some dark spears and launched them at everyone, stabbing them.
When Emynx got stabbed, a Nuclear explosion happened, taking Newrum with it. When the explosion was done, the entire city was destroyed and almost everyone was dead. The survivors just ran off.
Tara looked at the ruined city and spat. Zoey, in her demon form, appeared beside her.
"...Don't you think you went a bit overboard?" Zoey asked.
"Fuck em, they deserved it. Let's go home." Tara said.
Tara opened a darkness portal and went in it, dragging Zoey with her and the portal vanished.
"And from that moment on, we saw how disgusting humans truly are and found ourselves a new goal: Get rid of humans and replace with a new species of mutants, the only true world where me and Sin can be actually accepted. And we joined the Legion to fulfill that goal." Veronica said.
The flashback ended and it cuts to the base, with Veronica's eyes being covered by her black hair, and she wasn't smiling.
Athena simply looked shocked, not being able to believe any of this.
"...I...can't believe it." Athena said.
"...Holy fuck." Trixie said, looking horrified.
"...Now you know our story...and why we will do anything in our power to get this Jewel and create a new order in our world. And not you or anyone else will stand in our way." Veronica said.
"...I...won't let you two get the Jewel. I don't care how awful you two got treated, no one gets away with killing my grandpa and hurting others aswell! I will stop you!" Athena yelled.
Veronica sighed.
"It appears we have no choice." Veronica said.
"Indeed. I will handle Vixerello, you take out the rest of the trash." Sin said.
"Deal." Veronica smiled as she jumped towards the others, getting out her claymore and looking at them.
"Are you ready to die?" Veronica asked.
"We are not planning on dying today, you psycho bitch! Let's go guys!" Zack said.
Donald, Trixie and Zack charged at Veronica and she simply dodged their attacks before kicking them in their faces with her spiky boots.
Athena and Leon were facing Sin, who was simply waiting for their attack.
Athena and Leon charged at Sin, attempting to hit him.
Sin easily dodged their attacks and punched Athena in the face, knocking her into the ceiling. He grabbed Leon by his tail and threw him aside.
Athena got off the wall and shot some plasma bolts at Sin. He easily dodged the plasma bolts.
She then shot a massive beam at Sin.
Sin got out Omalley's shield and aimed it at Athena, smiling.
"SHIELD...OF THE JUST!" Sin shouted.
A red beam was blasted out of the shield and hits Athena's beam, making a clash. Sin's beam overpowered Athena's and hits her, sending her flying into the wall, hurting her.
"Of course you would use my grandpa's attacks." Athena said as she got off the wall.
"Yeees. Now, what are you gonna do next, Vixerello?" Sin asked.
"THIS!" Athena shouted.
Athena used her telekinesis and attempted to pull the shield from Sin's grasp. Sin din't let go of it and aimed his shield at Athena again.
"SHIELD OF THE JUST!" Sin shouted.
Sin shoots yet another beam at Athena and she dodged it before she could get hit.
Meanwhile, her friends were facing Veronica.
Veronica attempted to slash at Donald who managed to dodge her stabs in time.
Trixie charged at Veronica with her Lance. She dodged and Trixie ended up stabbing Donald in his leg.
"AH!" Donald yelled.
"Shit, I'm sorry, I was trying to hit-"
Veronica then kicked Trixie in the face, knocking her on the ground.
Zack shot a fire ball at Veronica.
She deflected the ball with her claymore.
Zack just kept shooting more fire balls at Veronica and she used her claymore as a baseball bat to smack the fire balls away.
At the last fire ball, she smacked the fire ball and it went back to Zack, hitting him.
Back to Sin and Athena.
Athena lunged at Sin and attempted to kick him.
He easily blocked most of her attacks with his shield before he smacked her in the face with it.
"You're fighting a battle you can't win." Sin said.
"Says you!" Athena said.
Athena charged at Sin again.
Sin shot another beam out of his shield again but Athena jumped over him and landed behind him.
Athena shot a beam from her gun, hitting Sin in his back, knocking him away from her a bit.
Sin's back was a bit bruised up but he turned around and got out of his sword now.
He charged at Athena with great speed, attempting to stab her.
Athena dodged his stabbing attempts till he grabbed her with his tail and stabbed her in the leg.
"AH!" Athena yelled in pain.
Sin then kicked Athena away before aiming his sword at her.
"GUIDING LIGHT!" Sin shouted.
A beam of light erupted out of the sword and hits Athena, knocking her into the ground.
Athena got severly hurt by the beam and slowly got up, coughing up a bit of blood. Her left arm looked a bit injured and her leg was currently bleeding.
"Surrender." Sin said.
"NO!" Athena refused.
Athena just shot multiple plasma bolts at Sin and he easily deflected them with his shield.
Veronica was currently having a sword-hammer fight with Donald.
Donald's every attempt at hitting Veronica failed and Veronica kicked him in the face once more and knocked him on the ground.
Zack summoned a circle of fire around Veronica but she easily jumped over the circle and stabbed Zack in the stomach with her sword.
Trixie charged at Veronica with her weapon but Veronica immediately backhanded her in the face.
"Come on, I know you guys are much better than this." Veronica said.
"Trust me, bitch, we are much stronger when we're serious!" Zack said.
Zack shot a beam of fire at Veronica and her claymore got engulfed in flames.
"Oh, a fire claymore. Sweet, thanks." Veronica smiled.
Veronica then slashed Zack with the fire claymore.
Sin was currently beating the snot out of Athena.
Athena was about to punch him but he grabbed her by the throat and stabbed her in her arm, causing lots of pain.
Sin then threw her aside.
Athena landed on a random box, smashing it in the process.
Athena looked pretty much hurt as she slowly got up, coughing up more blood as she looked at the monster.
Sin then aimed his sword and shield at Athena.
"SHIELD...OF THE GUIDING LIGHT!" Sin shouted.
Two beams erupted and both of them hit Athena, knocking her back in the wall.
Athena just continued to get up, despite looking very hurt.
"You're still going? I'm impressed." Sin smiled.
"...Then prepare to be amazed by what will happen next!" Athena said.
Athena lifted some boxes and threw them at Sin.
Sin slashed through the boxes and while he was doing that, Athena charged at him and shot a beam at Sin's face, hitting him.
He got knocked to the floor but he puts his hand on his face, glowing green and began to heal himself.
Veronica just watched the fight that was happening..
"Hm, seems like Sin is taking a bit of a beating from Athena. But no matter what, he will still win no matter-"
Veronica then suddenly got smacked by Donald's hammer.
Trixie then stabbed her in the gut with her Lance before kicking her in the face.
Zack shot a beam of fire at Veronica, hitting her and sending her crashing into the wall.
Veronica got up, slowly building but was still smiling.
"Ah, so you can actually fight. Good." Veronica said.
"And that's just the start, psycho!" Zack said.
Sin immediately got up and charged at Athena with great speed.
Athena attempted to dodge but Sin punched her in the face before kicking her in the stomach, knocking her on the ground again.
Sin then jumped very high in the air, bursting through the roof and summone a storm, charging his sword.
"FURY OF THE STORM!" Sin shouted.
Sin descended down towards Athena and struck her with a blast of lightning, getting everyone's attention.
After Sin's attack, Athena was currently in a hole made in the ground, looking pretty hurt and wasn't able to get up.
"ATHENA!" Trixie yelled.
Trixie attempted to run towards her but Veronica jumped in front of her.
"Sorry, but we can't ruin their fun." Veronica said.
Veronica punched Trixie.
Sin jumped in the hole and walked towards Athena, grabbing her by the throat.
"And here I thought you would put more of a challenge than Omalley ever did. Such as a waste of good genes." Sin said
Athena tried to free herself out of his grasp, but he had a strong grip.
"Once I'm done with you, I'll find this universe's Omalley. And when I'm done with him, I will find your family and see just how strong they are compared to you...And if they're weak...well, I don't have to tell you the obvious part." Sin smiled.
Athena's body glew at Sin said that. She grabbed Sin's arm and started to twist it much to his shock.
"...DON'T...YOU...DARE...THREATEN...MY...FAMILY!" Athena yelled.
Athena then kicked Sin in the face hard, knocking him out of the hole and back in the room.
Athena jumped out of the hole and charged at Sin while glowing.
Sin immediately got up, aiming his shield but Athena kicked the Shield out of his hand before punching in the face.
Athena then began punching Sin repeteadly in the stomach and wasn't stopping.
She then punched Sin in the chin sending him flying in the air. Athena jumped after him and smacked him in the back of his head with her boot, sending crashing into the ground.
Veronica and the others turned. Veronica only looked slightly concerned about her reptile friend.
"Ha! See that, your friend is getting his ass whopped by Athena, and you will be next." Zack said.
"...I sincerely doubt that." Veronica said, turning to them.
Athena landed on the ground, angry and waiting for Sin to get up.
Sin slowly got up, looking a bit bruised and smiled at Athena.
"Ah, so there is some power inside you after all. Guess you aren't such a disappointment after all." Sin said
"That comment won't save you while I'm taking you apart, if you haven't noticed, I literally got you against the wall." Athena said.
"And don't think that I don't appreciate the effort, however...you will never...ever...defeat me with that power." Sin said.
Despite the bruises, Sin looked pretty fine and was able to walk.
"I am Veronica's guardian, and we will not rest till we make a new race for ourselves. A world where we can finally live in peace. And you and your weakling friends won't stop. You will never be able to destroy me" Sin said.
"Then what do you call what just happened to you right now!?" Athena asked.
"...Pity." Sin smiled.
Athena's eyes widened.
"I'm just using half of my power right now. Now, it's about time I show all of my strength!" Sin said.
Sin began to glow as he began floating in the air.
Veronica smiled.
"Seems like Sin is getting serious now...and so should I." Veronica said.
Veronica began to glow with Lime aura, the same on as Kikez's.
"What the!?" Donald asked.
"It's a good thing my creator still had some of that Neonytian blood lime around in his lab." Veronica said.
Veronica aimed her weapon at Athena's friends.
"Would you care to try?" Veronica asked. Sin began to evolve while Athena and Leon just watched in fear.
Eventually, Sin's transformation was over and he now looked like Slyfer except he had green armor, with black wings and sharp claws.
"SLYFER, THE GUARDIAN OF DEATH!" Sin shouted.
"...No...it can't be!" Athena said, stepping back.
Slyfer-Sin landed in front of Athena, smiling. His left arm turned into a scythe.
"...Now, let's begin." Slyfer-Sin said.
Slyfer-Sin flew right towards Athena with amazing speed and stabbed her in the stomach with his scythe.
Her eyes widened in shock, not being able to move.
Slyfer-Sin began to multiply stab her body many times.
Leon charged at Slyfer-Sin, bitting him in his wings.
Sin turned to Leon, stabbing him with his scythe.
Leon roared in pain before Sin threw him against the wall.
Leon dropped on the floor, bleeding and was in pain.
Veronica charged very fast at Zack, stabbing him in the stomach, her claymore bursting out of his back.
"GAH!" Zack yelled.
He fell on the ground.
"ZACK!" Donald yelled.
"OH, YOU BITCH!" Trixie yelled.
Trixie charged at Veronica but she grabbed Trixie's hand and snapped it.
"AH!" Trixie yelled.
Veronica threw Trixie against the wall, knocking her out.
Donald charged at Veronica who din't move from her spot and simply stab Donald in the stomach with her claymore.
Donald fell on the ground.
"Three down, one more to go." Veronica smiled as she turned to Sin and Athena.
Athena, despite being stabbed multiple times, she shot a beam at Sin but he easily slapped it away as he floated in the air, looking down on Athena.
"...Why..How!?" Athena asked.
"Because you're green." Sin said.
"...You mean-"
"No, not like me, you idiot. As in, you're a novice, a amateur. You've been surrounded by fighters who had seen more action in a week than you've seen in your entire life! Hell, at your age, Humans called Ryo and Angel were able to handle Hastur more than you can handle me. Face it, you've lost." Sin said.
"...No...I...I CAN'T SURRENDER! AND I WON'T!" Athena yelled.
Sin sighed.
"Fine then. Let me show you the real difference between your power and mine then." Sin said.
His scythe turned back into his left arm. His sword and shield returned, aiming them at the sky as a portal appeared above him and so did thousands of portals around Athena.
"Now then, Athena Vixerello...rest...in peaaaace." Sin hissed.
Sin combined his sword and shield's beams and the combined beam flew into the portal and the beams erupted out of each portal and all of them hit Athena, hitting her.
Once the beams stopped, Athena hits the ground, losing consciousness.
"...No..n-no...D-daddy! Please! Help...me..." Athena said, shedding a tear.
Athena closed her eyes.
She and her friends were on the ground, bleeding and unconscious.
Slyfer-Sin landed right beside Veronica, changing back to his original form.
"Well, that took longer than I expected." Veronica said.
"Indeed." Sin said.
Sin's tail grabbed Athena by her throat and aimed his sword at her head.
"Now, let's dispose of them and take the Jewel." Sin smiled.
Suddenly, a roar was heard in the room.
Ark flew in the room, grabbing Athena from Sin and right beside Leon, dropping her next to him. He roared at Veronica and Sin.
"...A giant griffin. This was unexpected." Veronica said.
A fog appeared before Veronica and Sin, as they looked around.
"...This..ends...NOW!" A voice shouted.
Marick stepped out of the fog, with his hardlight sword, looking very, very angry at them.
Ark opened his mouth, beginning to heal Athena's friends with green energy.
Marick simply continued to angrily glare at Veronica and Sin.
"...I suppose this one is her father." Veronica said.
"Yeees...Omalley's son." Sin said, stepping forward.
"...Indeed I am Omalley's son...Sin...and Aro's daughter...and unlike the Omalley you fought in your world...you'll find that in my world, Omalley succeeded in his goal and din't fail...and while you have my father's powers...I am a combination of both of my father and mother...and I tell you to this...you two can get away with anything...but the only thing that you can't get away with...Is...Hurting my daughter! BEAST SPIRIT EVOLUTION!" Marick yelled.
He changed into his evolved form and charged at Sin and Veronica with his claw gauntlets.
Sin grabbed his claw gauntlets with his own hands and stared right into Marick's eyes and so did Marick. The ground cracked beneath their feet.
They both jumped away from each other, looking at each other in the eyes.
"...You do have some interesting power compared to these fools. This should be fun." Sin smiled.
Veronica then heard some footsteps.
"...Hold on, we have company." Veronica said.
Some ISP agents showed up, aiming their weapons at Veronica and Sin.
"Don't move! We have the entire place surrounded, there is nowhere you can escape!" A ISP agent said.
"It appears we might have to get the Jewel another time now." Veronica said.
"Indeed." Sin said, still staring at Marick.
Veronica turned to one of the agents who nodded at her.
The agent suddenly threw a smoke grenade on the ground, covering the entire room in smoke.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!?" One of the agents before they began to cough and closed their eyes.
The agent who threw the grenade changed into the Chameleon and he, Veronica and Sin ran out of the room.
When the smoke cleared out, they were gone.
"They're gone!" The agent said.
"I can assure you all that we will meet again...and we will get the Jewel...and considering that we defeated your special little agents...there is nothing that can stop us." Veronica's voice was heard.
"SEAL THE EXIT! DON'T LET THEM ESCAPE!" The agent yelled.
The ISP agents ran out of there, going after the Legion members.
Marick just slowly turned his head to the direction The Legion members went to, still angry.
"...Next time...it will be different." Marick said.
He walked up to the injured Athena as Ark finished healing Leon.
"Ark!" Marick said.
Ark nodded as he went to Athena and began to heal her.
"...Athena...please be okay." Marick said, looking a bit worried.
All her wounds slowly started to vanish but she din't wake up.
"Athena? Wake up, it's me!" Marick said.
Athena slowly opened her eyes, noticing Marick.
"...D...Daddy?" Athena asked.
"Yes, it's me." Marick smiled.
Athena immediately hugged her father.
"DADDY!" Athena yelled.
Marick just accepted her hug and said nothing.
"...I...tried to stop them...I did everything in my power to stop them..." Athena said, her eyes were flowing with tears.
"I know you did...it's not your fault...it's my fault...I should of been here...don't worry...the next time they will show up...things will be different." Marick said.
Her friends eventually woke up aswell.
"...Ugh...what happened?" Donald asked.
"...Where did those two...oh God, the Jewel!" Trixie yelled, realizing it.
Marick turned to them.
"Don't worry, they din't take the Jewel. But I'm sure they will come back. And when they do...they will pay." Marick intently said.
"Oh...that's...nice." Donald said.
"Nice, my ass! We just got our asses kicked by those freaks!" Zack said.
"I can't believe how strong they were." Donald said.
"...How are we gonna stop them?" Trixie asked.
"...I don't know..." Donald said.
Marick simply held Athena in his arms like when she was a little kid and walked her out of the area, with Ark and Leon following.
"...Athena took a more serious beating than we did." Zack said.
"...Yeah...when I'll catch up with that thing, I'll rip it apart! No one does that to my friend!" Trixie said.
"...If we can stop them." Donald sighed.
They walked out of the area.
Back in the ISP base.
The only ones in Jaden's office were Zack, Donald, Martin and Trixie who looked pretty sad.
"Sorry...we were able to protect the Jewel, but they got away." Zack said.
"And we got our asses kicked too." Trixie said.
"And Athena?" Jaden asked.
"...The fight affected her more than it did us...it's kinda hard for her you know." Donald said.
"...I see...Seems like these two are the most strongest and dangerous members of the Legion...but it's a good thing you are all still alive. I don't know how I would of felt if you all died back there. I would of took responsibility if something happened to you young ones for dragging you all into this." Jaden said.
"Atleast we're still alive." Donald said.
"For now..." Zack said.
"The Jewel is still in our hands and the research being conducted has resumed aswell. And if we can destroy the Jewel, The Legion will lose the war that they brought upon us...I'm sorry to have caused you so much trouble." Jaden said.
"...It's no big deal...when they come back...we'll be prepared for them. I guarantee it." Trixie said.
"...Yeah. We should go home now...I feel pretty tired." Zack said.
Donald, Trixie and Zack walked out of the office.
Martin looked at the ground, looking sad.
"...I should of been there to help them. Instead, I sat at the computer and watched them getting beaten to death...I'm not gonna let that happen again." Martin said.
Martin walked out of the office. Jaden simply puts his head against the desk and sighed.
At night, at the Vixerello house.
Athena, Marick and Leon were in Athena's room. Athena was just currently trying to process everything that happened today.
"...The...the prophet's eye showed me what was happening...and showed me the events of Veronica and Sin's world...and it wasn't easy for me to watch...if I din't show up in the fight...you could of died and I couldn't do that mistake again...just like I did with Shawn..." Marick said.
Athena was just silent.
"...I din't get involved too much because I thought you wouldn't need my help, I thought you could take those two on your own but I was wrong...the next time they attack, I will be there...And I think your grandpa will be interested to know about Veronica and Sin aswell...after all, Sin does want to have a fight with him...and I'll give it to him." Marick intently said.
"...No...dad, I'll handle this." Athena said.
Marick turned to Athena.
"Athena, you can't do everything on your own. I couldn't defeat my stronger enemies without the help of my students and other friends. You will need my and your grandfather's help to defeat Sin and Veronica." Marick said.
"...But this is my fight. Sin called me weak, saying that I wasn't a challenge at all...I want to prove him wrong...I want to show how strong a Vixerello really is. I won't lose to him the next time I see him. Besides, I doubt grandpa would like to hear the details about how he failed in another universe" Athena said.
"...Yeah, you have a point on that one, he wouldn't like that at all. But still, Athena-"
"No, dad, me and my friends are gonna handle Sin and Veronica on our own next time and that's final! Beside, you must know of a way to defeat them, right?" Athena asked.
Marick looked at Athena and sighed.
"...Seems like you inherited the stubbornness from both me and your grandfather...the same stubbornness that Sin doesn't have...and that's why he will lose." Marick said, slightly smiling.
Marick looked at Leon before he turned to Athena.
"...There might be a way to beat Sin, and possibly in his Slyfer form aswell. He and Veronica are very powerful together...but I have a feeling you and Leon will be much more stronger than them if you fight as one." Marick said.
Athena looked confused.
"Fight...as one?" Athena asked.
"Indeed...Just stay still for a bit." Marick said.
Marick's hands were glowing with gold energy.
"Change of Fate!" Marick shouted.
A gold beam of energy hits both Athena and Leon and they both glew at the same time. The beam stopped and they stopped glowing.
Athena and Leon looked confused.
"...Dad, what did you do?" Athena asked.
"Your grandfather once used this ability when he first arrived in this world on both Akarusa and Nikko, the ability called 'Biomerge Evolution', it would allow them to fuse into one to defeat Fuzen when he was a villain and the fusion was a success. It's not as strong as Fusion Evolution, but once you and Leon fuse into one, Sin might not stand a chance against you two as one. Your friends will most likely handle Veronica and they will be prepared aswell. In fact, Martin will decide to help you guys aswell in the battle." Marick said.
"...Huh, I see...how do we activate the fusion?" Athena asked.
"If the battle seems lost, use the words 'Biomerge Activate!' and you and Leon will combine into one. It worked on Fuzen, and it should work on Sin." Marick said.
"...Oh, okay..thanks, dad..I'm sure me and Leon can now manage to handle that monster now." Athena smiled.
"I hope so...but, if this doesn't work either...then...I will get involved, wether you want to or not...I don't want to lose you, Jess or Amell like I did with Shawn, Athena. Please, do not turn me away if I want to help." Marick said.
"Okay, dad, I got it...good night." Athena said.
"Good night, Athena. Be careful." Marick said.
"I will." Athena nodded.
Marick walked out of the room and looked at Athena one more time before closing the door.
Athena turned to Leon and pat him on his head.
"...When we face Sin next time, he won't see it coming. We will both defeat him as one and show how powerful the Vixerello family really is. Right, Leon?" Athena asked.
Leon nodded.
"Good." Athena smiled.
END OF CHAPTER 12
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 3, 2017 13:46:05 GMT
THE ATHENA SAGA
CHAPTER 13 A DANGEROUS TRADE
Athena was seen running towards her house, looking like she was in a hurry.
She slammed the door open, entering in.
"Mom! Dad! Amell!" Athena called out.
"Welcome back, Athena!" A voice said.
Athena turned and her eyes widened when she saw Sin and Veronica sitting next to each other on the furniture.
"You know, it's rude not to greet your guests. Your family did the same mistake. Right, Sin?" Veronica asked.
"Indeed." Sin said.
"What did you do to them!?" Athena asked.
Veronica gestured her head to the corpses of her parents and brother. Marick and Jess were laid on the floor with Amell on top of them.
Athena dropped to her knees.
"No...no...NO!!!!!!!!" Athena yelled.
Veronica and Sin approached her.
"Oh, don't be sad...you'll join them aswell in a few seconds." Veronica said.
Athena looked at them with anger in her eyes.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Athena roared.
She charged at the two and tried to hit them, but her fists went through them. She kept punching and kicking but they din't have any effects.
"Hm. Oh well." Veronica said.
Athena then got double stabbed by Veronica and Sin's claymore and sword.
"AH!" Athena yelled as...she woke up.
It was all a dream.
Athena looked around, sweating and saw that she was in her room in her pajamas.
Athena sighed before she laid her head against the pillow.
"...Why can't I dream of ponies sometimes?" Athena asked herself.
She turned to Leon who was waiting for her to wake up.
"...Morning, Leon...in case they'll attack today, you'll be ready, right?" Athena asked.
Leon nodded.
"Good boy." Athena smiled.
Athena got up and began to dress up.
After getting dressed and having breakfast.
She walked out of her house with Leon and to her surprise, she saw Donald, Martin, Zack and Trixie standing in front of the house, waiting for her.
"Morning, A." Trixie said.
"...Oh, morning, guys. What are you doing here?" Athena asked.
"We wanted to see how you were after the Sin fight." Donald said.
"Yeah. Sorry for not being able to do much in the fight and help you out." Zack said.
"Especially me." Martin sighed.
"Don't worry about it guys, it's not your fault." Athena said.
"Yes, it is. If only we were stronger, we could of defeated them." Donald said.
"That's why we had Cirak train us like crazy for the next time we fight those guys." Trixie said.
"Oh, I see...well then, I guess all of us are prepared then." Athena said.
"Wait, do you have a plan on how to deal with Veronica and Sin?" Donald asked.
"Well, dad gave me a way. And hopefully, it will work." Athena said.
"Oh cool. Can't wait to see what it is." Trixie said.
"Yup. Prepare to be amazed." Athena said.
Suddenly, their communicators started ringing.
They answered the call.
"You all have to get up here. Now." Jaden responded.
"Oh, boy." Trixie said.
"Let's go." Zack said.
They got teleported out of there.
They reappeared at the base.
They entered in Jaden's office and Jaden and Cirak were there, looking greatly worried.
"Jaden, what's going on? What's wrong?" Athena asked.
"Well...we just received an ultimatum from the Legion of Crows. They've sworn to launch an all-out on some dimensions if we don't hand over the Jewel." Jaden said.
"What!?" Zack asked.
"There are already scores of towns from the 4th Universe attacked by Others, Kheogs and Lovians. We've sent out as many agents as we can, but..." Cirak said.
Jaden closed his eyes.
"With these soldiers in their ranks, they're a force to be reckoned with." Jaden said.
"We can't just sit here! What are we going to do, Jaden!?" Trixie asked.
"...We could offer to meet their demands, then jump them when they approached...No, never mind. The risk would far outweigh the benefit." Jaden said.
"That certainly sounds like a long shot..." Martin said.
"Don't say that! It makes it sound like we have no chance of winning!...Ah, wait a minute...if we can't win either way, then...Alright, then that's the plan." Jaden said.
Jaden turned to Cirak.
"Cirak, contact the Jewel research team. If fortune's our favor, we may outwit them yet." Jaden said.
"Alright." Cirak nodded, as he left the office.
"As for you guys, I want you to help me with this task." Jaden said.
"Okay...what do we do?" Donald said.
"Well, first of all, I want you, Athena, to meet the Legion at the Black Forest and deliver the Jewel to them." Jaden said.
Athena looked shocked.
"What!? Are we seriously making a deal with these guys!?" Athena asked.
"...Don't worry, I've got a couple of tricks up my sleeve. Your friends will lay low, and keep an eye on things. When they're about to get their hands on the Jewel, I want you all to ambush them. Got it?" Jaden asked.
"...I think so...?" Athena asked, confused.
"Well, if you are sure about this, then let's do this." Trixie said.
"Right." Donald said.
"The research team should give you the Jewel and we'll have you teleported to the Black Forest." Jaden said.
They nodded as they began to walk out of the office except Martin.
"...Martin, are you coming?" Athena asked.
"...I'll catch up with you guys later. Don't worry." Martin said.
"Okay." Athena nodded.
They walked out of the office.
Martin turned to Jaden
"Mr.Jaden, are you certain about this? With the trade?" Martin asked.
"...I've got everything covered, Martin. Just trust me on this. Now I'll have to send a message to the Legion of Crows." Jaden said.
Martin nodded, unsure before he walked out of the office and was going towards the weapon's room where Lyra was.
At the Citadel of Crows.
The 9 members were currently in a living room. Black Crow was looking at the fireplace, Chronos was sitting on a chair, tinkering with the vial containing Demeter's essence, Zhovet was eating, Chameleon was currently changing into other people, Veronica and Sin were leaning against the wall, Kross and Ate were playing chess and Micro was sitting in the middle of them, watching the game.
Ate looked mostly bored and randomly moved a piece.
"...I should of known better than to expect a proper challenge from a Other." Kross said, placing a piece.
Ate was quiet.
"...Such interesting dialogue. I get better conversation from the android." Kross said.
"You do acknowledge that I'm in the room, correct?" Micro asked.
Kross moved another piece.
"Check!" Kross said.
Ate simply stared before she knocked over her own piece.
"I win again. Huzzah." Kross sarcastically said.
"It's just a game." Ate said.
Kross, looking irritated, got up and knocked the chessboard off the table, with the pieces.
"You disgust me!" Kross said.
Ate just stared before she got up and walked out of the room.
"Join the club." Ate simply said.
"Tch." Kross said.
Suddenly, the hologram of Jaden appeared, catching everyone's attention.
"We received message, Black Crow and the ISP has no choice...but to accept your conditions. Our group, lead by Athena Vixerello will hand over the Jewel in the forest known as the Black Forest, the place where you found the Jewel in the first place. Send one of your men to pick up the Jewel and we're done." Jaden said.
The hologram vanished. Some of the members looked surprised.
"Well, well, it appears Mr.Jaden finally made a right choice for the first time." Black Crow said, drinking from his cup of tea.
"I din't expect him to give up so easily." Chronos said.
"Well, after me and Sin trashed his group, it's no wonder they decided to give up after seeing that they have no chance against us." Veronica said.
"Indeed. That's why you two will go and make the trade. Since you scared the pants off them, might aswell do it again. If it's a trap, do what you must." Black Crow said.
"Yes. It will be a pleasure to finish off Vixerello myself." Sin said.
"Heh." Veronica smiled.
"Now go." Black Crow said.
Veronica and Sin walked out of the room.
Kross just watched them leave before he turned to the table and saw Micro sitting in Ate's chair, with the chessboard and the chess pieces back on the table.
"New game?" Micro asked.
Kross looked at Micro, blinking.
On Earth.
At the Black Forest.
Athena and her friends were in the area of the forest, waiting for the Legion to show up.
Donald, Zack and Trixie were hiding behind a log while Athena and Leon were in the middle of the area, with the Jewel on the ground, waiting for the Legion.
Eventually, Leon suddenly growled.
"...I can sense him too, Leon...it's him." Athena intently said.
She looked at Leon.
"...We can't reveal our trump card just yet. We have to wait and make him think we are defeated and then we'll fuse." Athena said.
Leon nodded.
They both turned around and saw Sin walked right towards them.
"...Ah, Athena Vixerello. Surprising to see that you're still alive. And you din't bring your father and grandfather with you?" Sin asked.
"No. I can take care of myself very well, thank you very much." Athena said.
"That's not what happened last time. When we fought, you barely stood a chance." Sin smiled.
"Look, as much as I want to hear you talk smack about me, are you here to get the Jewel?" Athena asked.
"Yes. Word of advice...don't try anything stupid." Sin said.
"Just shut up and take the Jewel already!" Athena said.
"I don't trust you, girl, I've got my eyes on you." Sin said.
"Don't be ridiculous, I'm not planning anything. Besides, you already beat me once, why risk getting myself killed by tricking you?" Athena asked.
"We'll see..." Sin said.
Sin approached the Jewel, crouching down.
Athena's friends looked ready for a attack, without spotting some familiar generators around them.
"Okay, guys, let's get him!" Zack said.
Sin grabbed the Jewel.
"I'll take this." Sin said.
"LET'S GO!" Trixie said.
Her friends attempted to charge at Sin, till a barrier appeared, blocking them. Athena, Leon and Sin were surrounded by the barrier, trapping them together.
"What the hell!?" Zack asked.
Donald noticed the generators.
"It's the barrier generators from before!" Donald said.
"Oh, and you guys had a good plan too. A Ambush." A voice said.
They slowly turned around and spotted Veronica behind them with her claymore out.
"You..." Trixie angrily said.
"Seems you like you guys haven't learned your lesson yet. Do I have to punish you once more?" Veronica asked.
"Yeah, well guess what Miss Freaky, we have trained ourselves when you and your boyfriend would come back. And now, you'll soon see that things are different now." Zack said.
"Let's put that to the test then." Veronica said.
She charged at them.
Athena turned to her friends and Veronica before she turned to Sin.
"We are in this barrier with no way to escape...Good." Athena said in her mind.
"You are not the only ones who can pull a fast one." Sin said.
Sin threw the Jewel into the air and it was grabbed by the Chameleon, who was wearing a jetpack.
The Chameleon smiled as he flew away.
"HEY!" Athena shouted.
Athena shot a beam at the Chameleon but Sin jumped in the air and repelled the beam.
He landed on his feet in front of Athena, looking down on her.
"Our business here is done. Now, it's time for round 2." Sin smiled.
Athena and Leon din't look afraid as they looked ready.
"You first...Sin." Athena said.
Sin charged at Athena and Leon with his claws.
Athena and Leon dodged out of the way and Leon jumped behind Sin while Athena jumped in front of Sin.
They both began to attack from the opposite sides.
Athena attempted to punch him while Leon attempted to bite him.
Sin blocked Athena's fist and his tail grabbed Leon.
He threw them both aside.
Sin grabbed his shield and aimed it at Athena.
"SHIELD OF THE JUST!" Sin shouted.
He shot a beam out of the shield and was going to Athena.
Athena dodged the beam before shooting her own beam from the gun at Sin.
Sin blocked the beam with his shield.
Leon jumped on Sin, clawing him in the face.
Sin kicked Leon away from him before he charged at the tiger.
Athena kicked Sin in the face, away from Leon.
Sin looked at Athena before looking at his shield and then threw it at Athena.
The shield hits Athena in the face before it flew right back to Sin, like a boomerang.
Sin lunged at Athena, kicking her in the stomach, knocking her back before he aimed his shield again.
"SHIELD OF THE JUST!" Sin shouted.
He shot another beam at Athena and she successfully dodged it.
She turned to Sin, aiming her gun at him.
"Hm, you're managing to avoid my fatal attacks quite well. Better than last time." Sin said.
"I learned from my mistakes yesterday and now I'm ready to tear you apart." Athena said.
"We'll see about that." Sin smiled.
Sin got out of his sword and charged with speed at Athena, attempting to slash her.
Athena ducked his stabs before kicking him in the face.
Leon attempted to claw him but Sin kicked him away again.
Athena lifted many trees with her telekinesis and threw them at Sin.
Sin cuts through the trees with his sword, each and every one of them.
While he was cutting the trees, Athena focused on Leon and telekinetically lifted him over Sin.
She dropped him on Sin.
Leon began to claw his face in, taking him by surprise.
"GAH!" Sin yelled.
Athena took advantage of this and shot plasma bolts at the creature, hitting him in the chest.
She shot a beam at him before he blocked the beam with his shield.
He aimed his sword at Athena.
"GUIDING LIGHT!" Sin shouted.
He shot a beam out of the sword, right towards Athena.
Athena just simply dodged the beam before charging at Sin.
Back with Athena's friends.
Veronica was currently attempting to chop Zack into pieces with her claymore.
Zack dodged every stab and kicked her in the stomach.
Veronica wasn't phased by the kick before she attempted to charge at Zack again with her claymore.
Trixie got in front of Zack and attempted to hit Veronica in the eye with her Lance.
Veronica easily blocked the Lance and kicked Trixie back.
Donald was behind Veronica and smacked her with his hammer.
Veronica immediately turned around and stabbed Donald in the leg.
"GAH!" Donald yelled.
Veronica then kicked him in the face with her spiky boots before lunging towards Zack and stabbing him in the stomach aswell..
She pulled her claymore out and attempted to cut Zack's head off till it got blocked by Trixie's lance.
Trixie then attempted to hit Veronica with her Lance and she blocked it with her claymore.
The both of them began dueling it out with their weapons, each of them attempting to get the other with their own sharp weapon.
While they were fighting, Zack took the opportunity to hit Veronica with a fire ball and he succeded.
Veronica got knocked back but she immediately got up and charged towards Zack.
Donald smacked Veronica with his hammer before Zack shot a fire beam at Veronica, knocking her on the ground.
Veronica slowly got up, with blood on her lips and smiled before she licked it off her face.
"Huh, you guys have improved compared to last time. Nice job." Veronica said.
"Yeah, bet you din't see that one coming." Trixie said.
"Well then, guess the kid gloves are off then." Veronica said.
Veronica began to glue with Lime Aura.
"Let's dance!" Veronica said.
Veronica charged at the group with her claymore, in her Lime Aura.
Athena and Leon were currently dodging Sin's stabbing attempts.
Athena shot some plasma bolts at Sin while Leon attempted to claw him once more.
Sin blocked most of the attacks with his shield before he shot another beam out of it towards Athena.
Athena dodged the beam once again and shot another one of her's at Sin.
Sin got hit and knocked back.
Sin then aimed both his sword and shield at Athena and Leon
"SHIELD OF THE GUIDING LIGHT!" Sin shouted.
He shot two beams out of the sword and shield and each of them were going towards Athena and Leon
Athena and Leon began running from the beams, going to each other's directions while the beams followed them.
Athena and Leon catched up to each other and began running towards Sin as the beams followed.
Athena and Leon jumped over Sin and the beams were now going straight towards Sin.
"Huh!?" Sin asked.
The beams hit Sin, sending him flying and knocking him into the barrier.
Sin jumped and landed on the ground, looking slightly bruised and looked at Athena and Leon.
"..Hehehehehe, you are now more of a challenge than you were in our last battle. Yes, indeed." Sin said.
"That's right, Sin, we now know all of your techniques and know how to counterattack them." Athena said.
"I see...well then, are you actually prepared for this!?" Sin asked.
Sin began to float in the air and was glowing. He was evolving into his Slyfer form.
Athena and Leon looked at each other.
"Now, the real challenge starts." Athena said.
Leon nodded.
Sin changed into his Slyfer-Sin form and landed in front of them. His left arm turning into a scythe once more.
"We shall end this, now." Slyfer-Sin said.
"Indeed we will. Go ahead, do your worst." Athena said.
Slyfer-Sin flew towards Athena and stabbed her in the stomach with his scythe.
He began to stab her multiple times with his scythe.
Leon charged at Slyfer-Sin and he got stabbed aswell.
Slyfer-Sin then fatally stabbed Leon before he threw him on the ground beside Athena.
Athena, while she was slowly bleeding, aimed her gun at Slyfer-Sin and shot a beam at him from her gun.
Slyfer-Sin easily deflected the beam and stomped Athena in her stomach.
He aimed his right arm at her.
"Mystic Beam!" Slyfer-Sin shouted.
Slyfer-Sin shot a white beam at Athena, hitting her and sending her further on the ground.
Athena was too injured to continue.
Back to the Veronica fight.
Veronica charged very fast at Zack, ready to stab him.
Zack focused and a fire sword appeared in his hand, blocking Veronica's claymore.
"I've learned a few of tricks of mine while preparing to face you again!" Zack said.
Zack then kicked Veronica away from him as he charged at her with his fire sword
Trixie charged at Veronica at the same time.
Veronica blocked Zack's sword with her claymore and blocked Trixie's Lance with her hand.
Donald then charged towards Veronica with his hammer and slammed her in the stomach, knocking her into a tree.
Veronica immediately got up and ran very fast towards Donald, stabbing him in his arm before stabbing him in the other arm.
She then grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and threw him against the tree.
Zack shot a beam of fire at Veronica and she blocked it with her claymore once more.
"HIA!" Trixie yelled as she charged at Veronica.
Veronica blocked her once more and Zack punched her in the face with his hands caught on fire.
Trixie headbutted her in the face before stabbing her with her Lance.
"UGH!" Veronica said.
Donald, despite being stabbed, charged at Veronica and smacked her in the stomach with his hammer, knocking her on the ground.
Veronica slowly got up and she looked actually very angry for once, not even smiling.
"...Okay, what just happened?" Veronica asked.
"We just overpowered you. Did you honestly think you were gonna get the drop on us again?" Trixie asked.
"Yup. We trained very hard and learned some useful teamwork moves in case we would have to fight you and your bodyguard again." Zack said.
"And they proved to be very useful." Donald said.
"You're not so tough without that pal of yours." Trixie said.
Veronica just spat before she looked over to Sin and smiled.
"...Well, either way, seems like your friend is now finished. And once Sin is done with her, you'll be next." Veronica said.
Her friends immediately looked over to Athena.
Athena and Leon were both critically injured and couldn't get up.
Sin walked over to Athena and Leon, smiling down on them.
"Now then, Vixerello. Any last words you want to share with me, so then your father can atleast know what they were before I'll eventually face him?" Sin asked.
Athena looked at Sin...and smiled.
"Yeah...BIOMERGE ACTIVATE!" Athena shouted.
Sin looked surprised.
"What?" Sin asked.
Athena and Leon began to glow as they slowly floated off the ground and flew right into each other.
A they both got engulfed in gold energy and Sin closed his eyes, not being able to see them.
Eventually, the fusion was done and Sin looked at what was in front of him.
Athena now had yellow fur all over her body, with sharp teeth, sharp claws, a tail and her eyes were glowing purple.
"You had two fight me and Leon separately. Now it's time you fight us as one!" Athena said.
Sin did not look intimidated.
Athena's friends looked shocked.
"...Was I hallucinating...or did I just see Athena merging with her own pet tiger." Trixie asked.
"I saw it too." Donald said.
Zack turned to Veronica, smiling.
"So, what were you saying?" Zack asked.
Veronica simply turned to Zack.
"...It's not like it's gonna matter, anyways. Sin will win eitherway and you three will be-"
Veronica suddenly got punched in the face very hard and was knocked into the barrier.
The one who punched her was Martin, who was suddenly wearing some metal gloves.
"Four." Martin corrected.
The other three looked surprised.
"Martin!?" Trixie asked.
"Holy shit, what's with the awesome gloves?" Zack asked.
"Oh these? Lyra gave them to me, as a way to defend myself and to use it to kick some bad guy's butt." Martin said.
"Huh, cool." Donald said.
"Well, this is gonna be fun." Trixie smiled.
Veronica slowly got up and she din't look happy. Her cheek was red as a tomato from the punch.
"....You..." Veronica said, her voice sounding threatening.
Veronica charged at the four with her claymore.
Back to Sin and the fused Athena.
"Tch, Biomerge Evolution is weak in comparison to Fusion Evolution. What you are doing right now Is delaying the inevitable." Sin said.
"Perharps you're right...why don't you try it for yourself?" Athena asked, getting her claws ready.
Slyfer-Sin opened his wings and flew very fast towards Athena, about to stab her with his scythe.
Athena used her tiger speed and jumped over Sin, dodging the stab. She then kicked him in the head.
Sin looked surprised for a bit till he turned and attempted to stab her again.
Athena easily caught the scythe with her own hand, not letting it go.
She then slashed Sin's face in with her claws.
"Gah!" Sin yelled.
Slyfer-Sin punched Athena and attempted to stab her again.
Athena then ran very fast and slashed Sin in the face.
She ran back towards him, using Leon's speed and slashed Sin once again.
She ran again and slashed Sin once more, causing him pain.
Slyfer-Sin aimed his right arm at Athena.
"MYSTIC BEAM!" Sin shouted.
He shot a white beam at Athena.
Athena ran and dodged the beam as she was landing towards Sin and slashed him in his chest, leaving some scratch marks on his armor.
Athena then kicked Sin in the face with all her strength, knocking him into a tree.
Slyfer-Sin looked confused by this as he looked at Athena.
"How...how..." Sin said.
"Simple. Did you ever see a cat and a lizard fight against each other? Let me tell you this: the cat is always much faster than the lizard and more bigger than the lizard. A cat can easily rip a lizard to shreds. And right now, I'm the cat and you're the lizard. And right now, you are getting beaten by the cat." Athena smiled.
Sin growled at Athena as he charged towards Athena very fast, managing to slash her in the face with his scythe.
Athena then punched Sin in the stomach very hard.
"UGH!" Sin said.
Athena then punched him in the face, knocking him on the ground.
Veronica and Athena's friends watched and Veronica looked actually shocked.
"...Is...that...Sin...LOSING!?" Veronica asked.
Veronica attempted to disable the generators to get to the battlefield till she received a punch from Martin and a fire beam from Zack.
Veronica then turned to them, looking royally pissed.
"JUST DIE!" Veronica yelled, losing her composure.
Veronica charged at Zack and slashed at his fire sword, actually managing to shatter it. The ground beneath her cracked.
Zack actually looked surprised and as Veronica was about to deliver the finishing blow, Trixie stabbed her in the back with her Lance.
"GAH!" Veronica yelled.
Donald then smashed her with his hammer and received a combo punch from Martin, knocking her into a tree.
Veronica spat some blood out as the four approached her.
"You're not going anywhere." Zack said.
Back to Sin and Athena.
Sin's scythe began glowing as he flew towards Athena.
Athena got her claws out and ran towards Sin.
They both hit each other's hands, the scythe with Athena's claws.
The two fighters landed on the opposite sides, the two were on one knee. Both waiting for the other to fall.
A few seconds passed and...
Slyfer-Sin's scythe shattered into pieces.
Sin's eyes widened.
"...W-what...but how..." Sin said.
Sin slowly turned around and Athena punched him hard in the face, knocking him on the ground.
Sin looked at Athena as she approached him.
"...This...this is all wrong. I have the power of the Mega Evolution, you shouldn't be so strong! How, explain yourself!" Sin asked.
Athena stopped in front of Sin.
"How...it's thanks to Leon. He and I are unstoppable as a team, and no one can bring us down. Just like how you and Veronica are very strong together, but right now, you both are separated. Without the other, you two are losing. I wouldn't gone this far if it wasn't for my friends and family. They are the reason why I managed to get here so far...You, on the other hand." Athena said
Athena grabbed Sin by his hair and lifted him to her face.
"You are nothing more but a pitiful lizard who is using the powers of a guardian who did a lot to earn them, you got them for free thanks to Veronica. Only he understands the powers he uses. You're simply just a fake who selfishly used his powers to hurt others and to help a insane woman in her quest, who only sees you as a weapon and nothing more." Athena said.
"....Be quiet!" Sin said, looking angry when Athena said that.
"Wake up, Veronica doesn't care about you, she is using you!" Athena said.
"SILENCE!" Sin yelled.
Sin's left arm returned and smacked Athena in the face as he got up.
"I almost died at the hands of the humans! Veronica saved me and in return, I became her friend! How dare you mock our bond!? I will exterminate you off the face of the Earth!" Sin yelled.
Sin floated in the air and aimed his sword and shield in the air, as a portal appeared above him and so did the mini portals around Athena.
"ATHENA VIXERELLO, REST IN PIECES!" Sin yelled.
Sin shot a combined beam from his sword and shield into the portal and multiple beams shot out of the portals, going towards Athena.
Athena jumped very high in the sky, dodging the beams and heading towards Sin.
Sin looked shocked before he aimed his hands at Athena.
"MULTIPLE MYSTIC BEAMS!" Sin yelled.
Sin shot multiple white beams at Athena.
Athena dodged every beam before she reached Sin.
Sin flew away from Athena, fleeing away from her.
Athena caught one of Sin's wings and twisted his wing.
"GAH!" Sin yelled in pain.
Athena then kicked Sin in the back of his head with her feet.
With one snapped wing and a hit in the back of his head, Sin was descending towards the ground and crashed down.
Slyfer-Sin looked very injured and saw Athena from above, descending towards him.
Sin aimed his hand towards Athena.
"MYSTIC BEAM!" Sin yelled.
He shot a huge Mystic beam at Athena.
Athena grabbed her gun and began charging a very powerful beam out of her gun.
She shot a massive beam and it pierces through the Mystic beam, descending towards Sin.
Sin's eyes widened as the huge beam hits him.
"GAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Slyfer-Sin yelled in pain.
Once the beam was finished, there was nothing but smoke.
Veronica looked absolutely shocked and her eyes were twitching.
"...No...No!" Veronica yelled.
She deactivated the generators, the barrier vanishing and made her way towards Sin.
Once the smoke cleared out, there was a small crator and Sin was back in his normal form and looked heavily injured and bleeding, Omalley's clothes that he was wearing were torn up.
Athena landed on the ground and approached the defeated Sin.
Sin looked at Athena.
"...Do it. Finish what you started." Sin said, not looking afraid.
Athena simply looked at Sin.
"...No. I'm not gonna finish off a injured opponent. I'm not a killer like you. And I believe that there may be some good in you. You have my grandfather's DNA, atleast you must have his wisdom aswell. Humans are not as evil as you and Veronica might think. You can get a second chance and try to redeem yourself for your actions, Sin and learn that humans are not your enemies. My dad said that everyone deserves a second chance, and I believe you do aswell." Athena said.
Sin simply stared at Athena, not knowing what to say.
Athena held out her hand towards Sin, to help him get up.
Suddenly, Veronica charged in, smacking Athena away from Sin, while in her Lime Aura.
"GET AWAY FROM HIM!" Veronica yelled.
"V-Veronica!" Sin said.
Veronica charged at Athena with her claymore.
Athena grabbed her claymore with her hands before Veronica could stab her and kicked her away from her.
Athena aimed her gun at Veronica.
"Don't make me do this!" Athena said.
"Oh, but I want you TO!" Veronica yelled.
Veronica charged at Athena with her claymore.
Athena shot a large beam from her gun, going towards Veronica.
Sin's eyes widened.
"NO!" Sin yelled.
Sin immediately got up and jumped, landing in front of Veronica, lifting his arms, shielding her from the beam.
"Sin!?" Veronica asked.
Sin simply turned to Veronica, with a weak smile on his face.
"...I'm sorry...Veronica...hope you can forgive me." Sin said.
Sin turned back to the beam and got hit by it. The beam engulfed his entire body and he was slowly being erased by the blast.
"SIN!!!!!!!!!" Veronica yelled, looking devastated.
Athena's eyes widened.
When the beam was finished, pieces of Sin's organs landed in front of Veronica.
Athena looked shocked by Sin's actions as she lowered her gun.
Her friends looked equally shocked aswell.
Veronica's eyes were white as she landed on her knees, tears hitting Sin's remains
"...You...you...killed the only friend I ever had!" Veronica yelled, her eyes were filled with tears.
Veronica desperately looked through Sin's pieces and grabbed one of his cells with her hand and looked at it.
"Sin, it's-it's gonna be okay...I'll go back to the lab and I'll put you back together, and bring you back more stronger than you were before...and you'll be my friend again and I'll be your best friend...and we'll continue our plans..." Veronica said, her eyes flowing with tears.
The cell in Veronica's hand suddenly bursted into fire by Zack and it turned into dust.
"There's no way that abomination will come back again." Zack said.
Veronica slowly looked at Athena and her friends, her eyes were glowing with Lime and she began to slow with a huge Lime Aura.
"...You...MURDERERS!!! I'LL KILL YOU ALL!" Veronica yelled.
The ground beneath Veronica shattered as she ran very fast and immediately impaled Zack in the chest, with her claymore.
Zack's eyes widened.
"ZACK!" Trixie yelled.
Veronica pulled her weapon out and began slashing Zack over and over again.
"DIE! DIE! DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Veronica roared.
Athena aimed her gun and shot a beam at Veronica, sending her flying throughout the forest.
Athena stopped her beam and looked at the others.
"Let's find out where she landed!" Athena said.
Athena ran very fast, using Leon's speed while the rest followed behind her.
They reached at the edge of a cliff and Veronica's hand was currently hanging off the edge while still holding the claymore in her other hand, her eyes looked very soulless.
Athena ran towards the edge and held out her hand at Veronica.
"GRAB MY HAND! COME ON!" Athena yelled.
Veronica simply stared at Athena.
"...Keep your pitiful attempt at mercy to yourself." Veronica said.
Veronica then stabbed Athena's hand before letting go off the edge and was falling towards the water from below. Veronica aimed her claymore in at her own chest and...
When Veronica fell in the water, her claymore was stuck in her chest and it was bleeding.
Veronica was slowly sinking to the bottom, having a smile on her face.
"...Sin...it seems like our plans of making a new world where we can finally be accepted has failed...and now...all I want is to see you again...to hold your hand once more." Veronica said, her arm raised in the water, trying to clutch something...that something being Sin's hand.
"Wether we end up in Heaven or Hell, atleast we'll be together again...Forever." Veronica said.
Veronica closed her eyes as she was slowly loosing conscious and continued sinking into the abyss, her body vanishing.
It cuts back to the surface as the group watched in shock at Veronica's attempted suicide.
Athena and Leon separated from each other and Athena's hand was bleeding while looking shocked.
"...Is she gonna come back?" Trixie asked.
"....I don't think so...Sin was her only friend and she lost him. She couldn't live in a world without him and so...she took her own life just to see him again." Athena said.
"...That's...pretty dark." Zack said.
"...Yup, it is." Donald said.
"...I feel kinda sick." Martin said.
"...I guess they were friends in a twisted way...Oh shit, I forgot! They took the Jewel!" Trixie said, remembering.
"Shit! Jaden's gonna be pissed." Zack said.
Athena din't say anything as she walked out of the forest.
The others turned and followed her aswell.
Marick watched the fight from a distance.
"...Seems like she din't need my help at all...though, I certainly expect the fight to end like that...Veronica is far more different from Aro, that's for sure. Unlike him...she already had the ability to care about someone." Marick said.
A portal appeared behind Marick and he went through it, disappearing.
It cuts to the Citadel of Crows.
Chameleon walked up to the Black Crow, with the Jewel in his hands. The other Legion members were right behind the Black Crow.
Micro analyzed the Jewel.
Black Crow took the Jewel and smiled.
"...Finally. After 80 years of waiting, my moment of triumph is finally here. And it's thanks to all of you. Now, it's time we insert the final Jewel-"
"It's a fake." Micro said.
Black Crow slowly turned to Micro.
"...Excuse me?" Black Crow asked.
"The Jewel you are holding is a fake. It's not the real deal." Micro said.
Black Crow and the other Legion members looked shocked.
"WHAT!? A FAKE!?" Kross asked.
It cuts to Jaden's office.
The group were standing in front of Jaden's desk and they din't look happy.
"...I see. So they made off with the Jewel, then?" Jaden asked.
"...Yeah. Sin and Veronica are gone, but they have the Jewel with them." Donald said.
"With any luck on our side, we can perhaps locate the Jewel's location and find their hideout...Though, if we don't...then so be it." Jaden said.
The group looked shocked.
"Wha..wha...what are you talking about!? That's the last Jewel of the Crown, right!?" Trixie asked.
"How can you be so calm right now!?" Zack asked.
"Well...the thing is...you see..." Jaden said.
"Jaden..." Athena said.
"...Well, we were keeping this as a secret before the mission, but...the Jewel you guys lost...was actually a fake." Jaden said.
"...." Was the group's response.
"....A FAKE!?" Then they responded.
"Then, then...where's the real jewel!?" Martin asked.
"Still being analyzed in the secret base from my universe, of course. The one The Legion took with them was a dummy Jewel the researchers made based on the data they gathered." Jaden said.
"AND YOU DON'T THINK YOU COULD OF TOLD US THAT BEFORE THE MISSION!?" Donald yelled.
"Sorry, but I had to make the deal look genuine by keeping you all in the dark and it worked. We still got the Jewel and in exchange, the Legion lost two valuable members of their group. And I wasn't the one who came up with the plan actually." Jaden said.
"Wait, you din't?" Zack asked.
"No, it was Athena's father. After the Legion gave us their message, your father showed up and gave us the idea about giving them a fake Jewel." Jaden said.
"...My dad, huh? Nice." Athena smiled.
"...Wait a minute, if they find out it's a fake, they'll come looking for us all over again!" Trixie said.
"By that time, the research team will have a way to destroy the Jewel and prevent the Legion from getting the power of the Crown. As long as we can buy some time, we can still come out on top." Jaden said.
"...Well, I guess it makes sense." Martin shrugged.
"Yeah." Donald said.
"Well, thanks for the help. We'll call you when we managed to find a way to destroy the Jewel for good. In the meantime, you are on standby." Jaden said.
"Cool. Bye, Jaden." Zack said.
The group got teleported back to their planet.
Back to the Citadel.
The Black Crow looked infuriated for the first time and he broke the crystal in pieces, his fist now bleeding from the shards.
"...Those scoundrels!" Black Crow said.
"What happened to Veronica and Sin?" Ate asked.
"It appears that those two perished during the fight. Not only did we fail at getting the Jewel again, we also lost our powerful members too." Chronos said.
Chameleon looked angry as he changed into Tara.
"I had enough of these cunts! Let's just kill them already!" Tara-Chameleon shouted.
"...It's time we put an end to this foolishness. The Infinite Multiversal Hypnotism Plan has been delayed for far too long. We launch a attack on the place where they are holding the Jewel. And this time we won't fail!" Black Crow said.
"We'll destroy the base, and then we'll destroy them and anything else that stands in our way!" Kross said.
"Yes! Let's start the destruction!" Zhovet said.
"It's decided then." Black Crow smiled.
It cuts to the Vixerello house.
Athena and Leon entered in their room, looking tired and saw Marick, who was in front of her, waiting.
"Welcome back. And congratulations." Marick smiled.
Athena just smiled.
"Thanks...though...I din't expect Sin to do that." Athena said.
"Neither did I. Sin, who was a monster who had your father's face, his abilities and weapons...also seemed to have the power to care and love someone...and that someone turned to be Veronica...and he sacrificed his own life to save her's. And Veronica, the daughter of a madman who only cared about himself and power, actually cared about someone. If there is anything I actually respect about those two...it's that and nothing else." Marick said.
"...Yeah...And Jaden told me that you came up with the plan with the fake Jewel." Athena said.
"Indeed I did. I had to come up with a plan on how to deal with Veronica and Sin and to trick the Legion at the same time and it worked. I did want to tell you but Jaden insisted that you and your friends shouldn't be told so then the trade could work. But, the plan worked eitherway and the Legion lost their most powerful members." Marick said.
"...Well, thanks dad." Athena smiled.
"Yup. But now, the true battle will begin now that the Legion will use all their powers to get the Jewel. This will be the most important battle of your life. Are you prepared to face them?" Marick asked.
"...Yes, I am." Athena nodded.
"Okay. If you are in trouble, don't forget, you can use my help to beat them. I'll always be watching and help you in the best way can." Marick said.
"Okay, I understand. Thanks for the help, dad." Athena said.
"Don't mention it." Marick smiled before he walked out of the room.
Athena looked at Leon and smiled at him.
"...We are getting closer to beat them now, Leon. We and our friends will save the world just like my parents and grandparents did...and nothing can stop us from beating the Legion!" Athena said.
Leon just happily nodded.
END OF CHAPTER 13
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 4, 2017 14:50:14 GMT
THE ATHENA SAGA
CHAPTER 14 UNDER ATTACK
The chapter starts out with Athena in front of her house, standing against a tree, with her eyes closed.
"...The Legion will surely do their best to get the Jewel back and they won't show us mercy...I hope we are ready for them now. Though, now with Veronica and Sin gone, they'll have difficulties in fighting us...though, there is still that Ate I'm curious about...who's Other is she? And why does she hate me the most?" Athena asked.
Athena's communicator rang.
She picked it up and answered.
"Hello?" Athena asked.
"It's me, Jaden. You and your friends need to show up at the base. I think we may of found a way to finally destroy the Jewel." Jaden said.
Athena looked surprised.
"Really? That sounds good!" Athena said.
"Indeed. You and your friends meet me in my office, I'll tell you the rest of the details." Jaden said.
Athena nodded before she closed her communicator.
She got out her phone and called the rest of her friends.
"...Hey guys, listen, this is big news." Athena said.
It cuts to Trixie, in her house, listening to Athena.
"...So, we finally found a way to destroy the Jewel, huh? Cool. Now we can teach the Legion a lesson in how not to fuck with us. Alright, I'll meet you guys at the bus station." Trixie said.
Trixie hangs up on Athena.
She looked at a photo beside her bed. It's shows a younger Trixie and her dad.
Trixie picked it up and looked at it sadly.
"...Dad, I wish you were still here. I bet you would of been proud of saving this world from danger." Trixie said.
"Trixie, your friend Athena is here!" Her mom called out.
Trixie looked surprised.
"Huh, that was fast." Trixie said.
Trixie puts the picture back as she walked out of the room and went downstairs.
She opened the door and Athena was there.
"Oh, hey, A, din't realize you would make it here so fast." Trixie said.
"Yeah...just follow me." Athena said.
"...Okay." Trixie said, raising an eyebrow.
Trixie followed Athena to the back of Trixie's house.
"...Uh, Athena, shouldn't we meet up with the others? You know, to find out Jaden is planning to destroy the Jewel?" Trixie asked.
"Oh, we will...though, the others we're gonna meet up...won't be the ones you expected to meet." Athena said, with a monotone voice.
"W-What?" Trixie asked.
'Athena' changed into the Chameleon
Trixie's eyes widened as she attempted to run off but the Chameleon grabbed her by her arm.
It cuts to Athena who was walking up to the bus station and Donald, Zack and Martin were waiting there.
They turned to Athena.
"Hi, Athena." Donald said.
"Hi." Athena waved.
"So, where's Trixie?" Zack asked.
"Wait, she is not here?" Athena asked.
"No, she isn't." Martin said.
"Huh...that's weird." Athena said.
Athena grabbed her phone and called Trixie.
There was no response.
"...Trixie isn't answering." Athena said, sounding concerned.
"Maybe she forgot her phone?" Martin guessed.
"I don't know. Maybe we should go to her-"
Suddenly, Trixie showed up.
"Hey, guys, sorry for being late!" Trixie said.
"Oh, there you were. What took you so long?" Athena asked.
"Oh, you know, the usual stuff, with my mom. That's all. Now come on, let's hurry, Jaden won't be waiting for us forever." Trixie said.
"...I guess you're right." Athena said.
"Well, let's go." Zack said.
The group teleported out of there.
At the ISP base.
The group entered in Jaden's office.
"Jaden, did the research team really find a way to destroy the Jewel?" Donald asked.
"Thankfully, yes. The results of the research have finally come through. But, in order to destroy it, we had to extract all the powerful energy it contained and then we can smash it to pieces. In the meantime, we need to protect the Jewel from any attacks from the Legion while the energy extraction is going on." Jaden said.
"I'm sure we can handle this." Athena said.
"Actually, that's the plan. You all will be teleported to the secret base where we are keeping the Jewel. Follow instructions, and protect the Jewel in case the Legion shows up." Jaden said.
"Right." Martin nodded.
"No problem." Zack smiled.
Jaden teleported them out of the office.
The group were in front of a huge building, in Jaden's universe. It was the base where they were keeping the Jewel in.
"Alright, here we are." Donald said.
"If we can protect the Jewel from harm, the mission will be success." Martin said.
"Yup, it sure will." Trixie smiled.
"Let's not waste any time. Come on." Athena said.
The group walked into the building. When they entered inside, it was full of ISP agents who were mostly guarding the place in case the Legion would dare to attack again.
Martin walked to one of the ISP agents.
"Excuse me, do you know where is the room where they are keeping the Jewel in and are extracting it's energy? We have been sent here to protect it from harm." Martin said.
"It's in the third floor. Second room on the right." The ISP agent said.
"Okay, thanks." Martin nodded.
Martin walked up to his friends.
"Well, you heard what he said, third floor, second room on the right." Martin said.
"Okay." Athena said.
They walked up to the elevator and pressed the button, entering inside.
They pressed the button which would take them to the third floor.
Once they arrived there, they looked around and spotted the second door to the right.
"That's where the Jewel is, right?" Zack asked.
"Yup." Martin confirmed.
The group walked up to the door, opened it and entered inside.
The room was a lab and the ones inside were Dasawert and Mibyll who were looking at the Jewel which was on a machine and had some plastic tubes attached to it, with blue energy going through the tubes. It seems they have started to extract the energy from the Jewel.
The group walked to them.
"Hey, guys!" Donald said.
They turned to the group.
"Oh, you guys made it cool. We just started to extract that powerful energy from the Jewel." Mibyll smiled.
"Cool." Trixie said.
"Let's just get this thing smashed to bits already." Zack said.
"Just be patient. The energy extraction is nearly done. Just wait for a few more minutes and we can destroy it." Dasawert said.
"Agh, man, I don't know if I can wait for that long!" Zack said.
"Let's just wait, Zack. Waiting won't do harm to anyone." Athena said.
"Yeah, but the Legion bozoos could show up to take the Jewel from us." Zack said.
"And we'll stop them from taking it." Athena said.
Trixie walked up to the Jewel, smiling at it...pretty weirdly.
"...You know, I never got to see the Jewel for too long with my own eyes...but now that I'm looking it from another perspective...it's actually pretty. Shame we have to destroy this to keep the world safe." Trixie said.
Mibyll looked at Trixie, raising an eyebrow, looking suspicious.
"...Hm." Mibyll said.
"...Yeah, I guess it's pretty and all, but this thing can still cause lots of trouble if someone uses it for the wrong reasons, like the Black Crow for example." Athena said.
"Oh, I guess so." Trixie shrugged.
"Trixie, are you-"
BOOM!
The entire lab shook when the explosion was heard.
"What the fuck was that!?" Zack asked.
A ISP Agent ran into the lab.
"What happened!?" Athena asked.
"The Legion's yellow-eyed creatures! They're attacking the base!" The ISP agent said.
"So they came here after all!" Donald said.
Athena turned to Dasawert and Mibyll.
"What do we do?" Athena asked.
"Leave the Jewel to us. You take care of those monsters down below and take them out." Mibyll said.
"I'll stay here and protect the Jewel with Mibyll. Won't let any of those Legion assholes get their hands on it." Trixie said.
"Okay. Me, Martin, Leon, Donald and Zack will go and deal with the Others." Athena said.
"Follow me, this way!" The agent said.
The group followed the agent out of the lab.
They ran outside the base.
There were four Others standing in front of them.
"There you are, you rotten monsters!" Zack said.
"So they're just gonna flood us with sheer numbers of them?" Donald asked.
"We can easily take these guys down. Now, let's do this!" Athena said.
Athena shot a beam at one of the Others, destroying it and leaving behind a item.
One Other looked like a giant elephant and ran towards Donald, ready to squash him.
Donald dodged and smashed the giant monster's legs with his hammer.
The elephant-Other got hurt and crashed on the ground, disappearing.
Zack got his fire sword out and slashed one Other in half.
Then he got slammed by some bulky Other.
Martinlifted the Bulky Other with his mechanic gloves and smashed it against the ground before Athena shot a beam at it's chest, making a huge hole in it.
The Other than vanished.
"Okay, that's four of them down!" Zack said.
"Is that all of them?" Donald asked.
8 more Others showed up.
"Shit!" Zack said.
"Stay here and destroy those creatures. I'm going to call for reinforcements!" The ISP agent said before running off
"At this rate, they'll infiltrate the base aswell if we don't stop them." Athena said.
"We have to hurry this up and get back there, fast!" Donald said.
"We'll take care of these guys and then head for the base!" Martin said.
One small Other launched it's long tongue at the group.
Martin caught the tongue and crushed it with his mechanic gloves. He charged at the smallest Other and punched it hard in the face, knocking it into the wall. The Other vanished.
Two Others with swords charged at Athena, attempting to slice. One of them got clawed by Leon.
A Jello like monster Other ate Zack and Donald and are now inside it.
Flames exploded out of the monster and Zack and Donald were now covered in it's jello.
"Yuck." Zack said.
"Once I get back home, I'm taking a shower!" Donald said.
A buttefly Other charged at them but Zack shot a beam of fire at the Other. It fell on the ground and disappeared.
Athena got stabbed once by one of the Other monsters till she telekinetically lifted it and threw it into three more Others
Athena shot a large beam at the Others and two of them got hit and disappeared.
Martin punched a Other in it's chest but it din't hurt him.
The Other hits Martin and knocked him on the ground.
The Other grabbed Martin and was about to break his back, Bane Style, till Athena shot a beam at the Other, destroying it.
Martin got up and looked at Athena.
"Thanks!" Martin said.
Athena nodded before she turned to the remaining Others.
One Other who had spider legs for arms attempted to stab Zack but he sliced through the Other's arms before slashing it in half.
Donald smashed the last remaining Other in the face before Athena shot yet another beam at the Other and it disappeared.
"Phew." Donald sighed in relief.
Athena and her friends walked up to each other.
"So...that's all of them?" Martin asked.
"Maybe." Donald said.
They looked around for more Others.
"Come on out! You guys haven't had enough yet, have you!?" Zack asked.
"What's going on? It's too early for them to be giving up..." Athena said.
BOOM!
Their eyes widened as they turned around.
There were explosions coming out of the base, in every floor.
"HOLY FUCK!" Zack yelled.
"The Base is exploding!" Martin said.
"Oh God, Trixie is in there!" Athena said.
"We have to get in there, fast!" Donald said.
"Right, let's go!" Athena said.
The group charged towards the base, entering inside it.
Inside the buiding, the first area was currently on fire and there were no agents around. The group began to look around.
“Holy shit.” Donald said.
“To think, the flames are all the way here…we better hurry!” Zack said.
“If we don’t hussle, Mibyll, Dasawert and Trixie are going to…” Martin said.
“Let’s go! We can’t take the elevator without getting ourselves into a death trap so let’s take the stairs!” Athena said.
The group began to run upstairs, going to the third floor
They passed by the first floor, which was completely on flames and no one was there.
They continued running and were getting close to the third floor and they stopped when they saw flames on the stairs, blocking their way.
“Oh, come on!” Donald said.
“Hold on, let me handle this!” Zack said.
Zack aimed his hand at the flames and they vanished.
“Huh, good job, Zack!” Athena said.
“Don’t mention it. Now, let’s hurry!” Zack said.
The group continued their run.
They eventually arrived at the third floor which was also on fire.
They looked at the door to the lab and it was closed.
“Trixie, just hold on!” Athena said.
“…Hey, do you guys hear voices?” Zack asked.
“What are you talking about!?” Donald asked.
“Just shut up for a minute and listen!” Zack said.
The group was quiet as they heard some voices coming from the lab.
“I’m tired of this charade, reveal your identity already!” Mibyll’s voice was heard
“W-what are you saying!? We can’t fight each other now, that’s exactly what they want us to do!” Trixie said
“Oh, is that right?” Mibyll asked.
“What’s going on in there?” Martin asked.
“…I…have no idea…but it can’t be good.” Athena said, looking angry.
The sound of someone hitting the floor was heard.
“GAH!” Dasawert yelled.
“That was Dasawert!” Donald said.
“We have to get in there and see what’s going on!” Zack said.
The group ran towards the lab.
Inside the lab.
It was currently on flames and the ceiling was destroyed, revealing the night sky.
Mibyll and Trixie were currently facing each other. Dasawert was on the floor. He was knocked out.
Mibyll charged at Trixie, attempting to punch her.
Trixie dodged and kicked Mibyll back.
Trixie jumped in the air and was landing towards Mibyll.
Mibyll moved out of the way and Trixie kicks the ground, making a crack.
Trixie turned to Mibyll, smiling.
"Heheheheh, how did you know?" Trixie asked.
"Simply looking like Trixie wasn't enough. She never showed any interest in the Jewel before so why should she now? But I'm sure someone like you who wears people's faces on a daily basis din't knew that." Mibyll said.
"Tsk. This is why I hate you 'normal people'. Of course, there are some who wouldn't be able to know the difference..." 'Trixie' said.
Mibyll saw the group entering in the room.
"Guys!" Mibyll said.
"Trixie, Mibyll! Are you guys okay!?" Athena asked.
"What happened to Dasawert!?" Martin asked.
"Guys, help me! Mibyll is an imposter! He tried to kill me!" 'Trixie' said.
"...What?" Athena asked.
"Are you serious?" Donald asked.
They walked forward to Mibyll, looking at him.
"Yeah, I attacked her but I'm not a imposter. Unlike that one behind you!" Mibyll said.
"...What?" Athena asked, sounding angry.
"Don't be fooled guys!" 'Trixie' said.
Trixie walked up to Zack's back.
"Trixie?" Zack asked.
Trixie grabbed a knife out of her pocket.
"...I warned you not to be fooled." 'Trixie' said with a monotone voice
Before she could stab Zack, Athena ran up to Trixie and punched her, knocking her on the ground. She was mad.
They turned around and looked surprised.
"Holy crap!" Martin said.
"...That's...that's not Trixie! Definitely!" Donald said.
"It's the Chameleon." Mibyll said.
Athena glared at the Chameleon.
"...How...How dare you mess with our heads!?" Athena asked.
"How dare you mess with our plans?" Trixie-Chameleon asked.
"I don't think a phony like you is in any position to complain!" Zack said.
"Phony, huh? Well, this Phony knows exactly what happened to your friend. And I won't say anything." Trixie-Chameleon said.
"What did you do to Trixie!? ANSWER ME!" Athena asked.
"Enough talk. Let's fight." Trixie-Chameleon said.
Trixie-Chameleon grabbed the laser sword and charged at the others.
The Chameleon attempted to stab Martin first but he immediately dodged out of the way and punched him in the face.
Donald attempted to knock him out with his hammer but Chameleon jumped out of the way.
Zack threw fire balls at him but he dodged.
Leon lunged at the Chameleon and he grabbed him by his tail and threw him aside.
Mibyll and Martin charged at him at the same time, punching him in his face, knocking him on the floor.
Chameleon immediately got up and kicked both Martin and Mibyll in the face.
He managed to pierce Mibyll right in his shoulder with his laser sword.
A beam from Athena's gun immediately hits Trixie-Chameleon, knocking him on the floor.
Athena looked pissed as she slowly walked up to the Chameleon.
Trixie-Chameleon attempted to grab his laser sword but Athena telekinetically threw it away before lifting the Chameleon and hitting him against the floor many times.
She eventually dropped the Chameleon and walked up to him.
The Chameleon changed back to his normal form and Athena grabbed him by his jacket.
"Where is Trixie!? Where is she!?" Athena said.
The Chameleon simply glared at her.
"TELL ME!" Athena yelled.
The Chameleon spat in her face.
Athena then punched the Chameleon.
She dropped him and got on the Chameleon, beginning to punch him several times in his face and she wasn't stopping.
She just punched him and punched him continuously, even getting his blood on her fists.
The Others just looked at her in shock.
"Athena, calm down!" Donald said.
Zack ran up to Athena and grabbed her fist before she could do anything else to the Chameleon.
"LET ME GO!" Athena yelled at Zack.
"Athena, he's had enough! Beating him to death isn't gonna lead us to Trixie." Athena said.
Athena just looked at Zack before she turned to the Chameleon.
She raised her fist and punched him one more time before stopping.
Athena slowly got up, looking sad.
"...Trixie..." Athena said.
"Well, well, look who screwed up big time." A voice said.
Athena clenched her fists when she heard that voice.
She slowly turned around and saw Ate, who was standing behind her, smiling.
The Others turned to her aswell.
"It's her!" Donald said.
"Ah, you're here! Good, I have been waiting to take out my frustration on someone, so might aswell be you!" Zack said.
"You do that, and your Other will surely come out and cause more trouble for you guys." Ate said.
Athena glared at Ate.
"...Give...Trixie...BACK!" Athena yelled.
"Hey, don't yell at me, missy! It's my fault you can't even keep a good eye on your friends! You have of record of always letting people down and getting them killed." Ate said.
Athena's eyes glew as she angrily looked at Ate.
"SHUT UP! You don't know now anything about me! You're nothing but a stupid Other who toys with others to make them feel bad about themselves! You're just trying to trick me!" Athena said.
"...Well, that's one rude way to talk about your own feelings, don't you think?" Ate asked, folding her arms.
Athena's eyes widened.
"...What?" Athena asked.
"Din't you get it by now? I AM your Other!" Ate yelled.
Athena and her friends looked shocked.
"...You're...her Other!?" Zack asked.
"...But, how!?" Donald asked.
"...Athena...And Ate...Just remove the H, N and A...and you get Ate...her Other." Martin said.
Athena looked shocked.
"....But...how are you my Other? How do you exist? I was never around a Other's crystal before." Athena said.
"There is a dimension where Others are born. I believe one of the ISP guys is also one of my own kind who was also born in that dimension. Those who were never exposed to the crystals can still create Others if their emotions are strong enough to give birth to Others in the dimension I spoke of" Ate said.
Ate pointed at Athena.
"And your self-doubt and pity are the reason why I exist! It's because of YOU!" Ate yelled.
"...Me? But...I din't even know you existed..." Athena said.
"Of course you din't, because the only thing you care about in this world is only you! Trying to be the big hero like daddy, but always failing! Always constantly worrying about living in your dad's shadow, feeling that you may not be able to be as great as your family of heroes, to feel worthless...it's thanks to these feelings of yours that I'm here! And I despise you for it!" Ate said.
Athena just looked at the ground, looking shocked.
"When I was born in the Other Dimension, I din't get a family like you. Probably because they din't manage to develop enough negative feelings to give birth to my family. I was alone, the only places I could stay in and call it home was the darkness...and no one was able to accept me. When I cried out for help, no one could hear my voice...there was only silence. I din't have any friends, companions, parents, a sibling like you! That's why I hate you so much, it's because you have everything that I don't! The only thing I could remember is the name of the main self whom I was born from: Athena Vixerello. When Henry discovered your name, I knew it was the perfect chance to finally take you out! The reason I joined the Legion is so then I can finally get a family, and kill the main self who gave birth to me...and now, I finally have the chance to do it. I'll finally be happy once I'll get to kill you!" Ate said.
Athena clenched her fists.
"...No. I'm sorry about your loneliness, but that doesn't mean you have to blame me for it! I won't let you kill me! I will stop you and the Legion and save Trixie, even if it means that I'll die trying!" Athena said.
"Well, so be it. Go ahead and try to stop me, daddy's girl." Ate said.
Athena telekinetically lifted the floor panels out of the ground and threw them at Ate.
Ate, also having telekinesis, immediately deflected the panels away.
Zack shot some fire balls at Ate.
Ate just turned and telekinetically threw the balls back at Zack.
Zack dodged the balls.
Ate got her gun out and some plasma bolts at everyone.
Martin got hit and was knocked to the ground.
Mibyll charged at Ate, attempting to hit her with his steel fists, and she dodged his attacks.
Ate kicked and punched Mibyll before telekinetically throwing him into the wall, right next to Dasawert.
Ate telekinetically lifted some sharp pointy objects and threw them at everyone else.
Donald smashed most of the objects with his hammer forgive charging at Ate.
Donald's attempts at hitting her failed as Ate grabbed the hammer and kicked Donald in the face, knocking him on the ground.
Zack charged at her with his fire sword and Ate smashed his face in with Donald's hammer, knocking him back.
Ate threw the hammer aside and telekinetically lifted Zack's sword and shoved it in his chest.
"GAH!" Zack yelled.
Zack fell on the floor and made his sword vanished before it could seriously kill him.
Ate turned to Athena and telekinetically threw more stuff at her.
Athena blasted most of the objects with her plasma bolts before shooting a beam at Ate.
Ate jumped over the beam and landed behind Athena.
Athena turned around and kicked Ate in the face.
Ate punched Athena in the face.
Both of them backed away from each other, looking each other in the eye, clenching their fists.
Athena and Ate charged at each other, delivering punches and kicks to the other.
Athena blocked Ate's kicks while Ate blocked her fists.
Athena eventually kicked Ate in her leg before telekinetically throwing her aside.
Ate got up and both of them began lifting every object there was in the room with their telekinetic powers and threw them at each other.
The two girls destroyed every object in the room with their kicks and punches, not hurting each other at all.
Athena eventually aimed her gun at Ate and shot a massive beam at her.
Ate did the same and shot a beam at Athena aswell.
The two beams clashed and weren currently trying to pierce through the other and hit the one shooting the beam.
Both Athena and Ate use all power into the beams.
Ate's beam was slightly pushing Athena's away.
"NO!" Athena yelled.
"Looks like you're losing, Athena! Don't worry, it's in your destiny to lose anyways! After all, every time you tried to fight the Legion, you always failed and got knocked back! No matter how much you try, you will always be a failure! The failure who failed to stop the Legion, to failure who failed to save her friends and last but not least, the failure who is gonna die right now!" Ate yelled.
"...N-no! NO!" Athena yelled.
"And once I kill you, I will replace you and I will become your parents's new daughter. And I'll become Amell's sibling. And while we are it, I think I would be a much better friend to Trixie more than you ever been to her! If I was in your shoes, I would of saved her from the Legion! Something that you failed at once more!" Ate yelled.
After Ate said, Athena looked angry, those words basically determined her not to give up.
"...No...way!" Athena said.
"Huh?" Ate asked.
Athena's beam began to push Ate's beam back.
"W-What the!?" Ate asked.
"...You're...you're not gonna take my family away from me! I'M NOT LOSING THIS FIGHT TO YOU! I'LL END THIS NOW!" Athena yelled.
Athena's beam pierced through Ate's and it was going straight towards her.
"SHIIIIIIIIIT!" Ate yelled.
The beam hits Ate and knocked her into the wall.
Ate fell on the floor, she was damaged by the beam so much that she can't get up. But she wasn't fading away yet.
"...Damn...IT!" Ate yelled.
Athena looked a bit tired before she turned to the others who got up.
"Athena, are you okay?" Donald asked.
Athena simply nodded before she turned to Ate and walked up to her.
"...Goddamn you! Why can't I win!? Why can't I get what I deserve!?" Ate asked.
"...Give it up. You'll die if you keep going. Now, where's the real Trixie, answer me!" Athena said.
"...Trixie...By now, I expect...that she's no longer in this world." Ate said.
Their eyes widened.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY!?" Martin asked.
"What do you mean by that!?" Athena asked.
The others walked up to her.
"Answer us. Or I'll make you disappear right now." Zack threatened.
"...Why are you so concerned...about that girl? Why is she so precious to you?" Ate asked.
Athena looked at the ground.
"...Trixie...she was my first friend. Ever since she moved into Erinfort, she was sad because of her father passing away. I was there to give her comfort and ever since then, we became good friends, friends who always trust each other and have each other's backs. I promised that I wouldn't let anything bad ever happen to her and I intend to keep onto that promise and I will save her no matter what! NOW TELL ME!" Athena yelled.
"All right, all right...Trixie...is...most likely..." Ate said.
Her head turned to the Chameleon.
"GO!" Ate yelled.
The Chameleon got up and ran towards the Jewel, grabbing it before morphing into a vulture and flying off with it.
"HEY!" Zack yelled.
Zack shot a beam of fire at the Chameleon but it din't him as he vanished into the distance.
"You gotta be kidding me!" Mibyll said.
The others turned to Ate.
"What a evil monster!" Martin said.
"Hey, you! Call that asshole back, right now!" Zack said.
"...Sorry...but if this is my choice..." Ate said, as she slowly got up. Her eyes were glowing yellow and a dark aura appeared around her body.
"Huh!?" Athena asked.
"What is she doing!?" Donald asked.
"Guys, stay back!" Athena said.
Ate began to float above the group.
"...I'm taking you...ALL ALONG WITH ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Ate yelled
Ate changed into her monster form. She took the form of 10 year old Athena, but wearing a smaller Shadow Girl costume, with the same yellow collar attached to her neck, glued to a giant red V letter and there were nails impaled in her hands and feet, thus attaching her to the V sign and above her head was a big white Halo with 6 floating Orbs made out of Light.
Athena looked shocked by what she was seeing.
"...This...is my Other...true form..." Athena said.
"I AM THE TRUE SELF!"
"Jeebus Christ!" Zack said.
"What do we do?" Donald asked.
"...We have no choice...but to fight!" Athena said.
Athena shot a beam at Ate.
a floating Orb absorbed the beam, thus preventing Ate from taking damage.
Ate's Orbs flew towards the group.
One orb of Light smacked into Donald, making a mini-explosion of Light and knocked him into the wall.
"Donald, are you okay!?" Athena asked.
"I can't see anything! I'm seeing spots!" Donald said.
Zack shot fire balls at Ate but they got blocked by the Orbs.
Ate's Halo began to charge and shot multiple beams of light at everyone out of the Halo.
Everyone got hit by the beams.
"Well, this is difficult!" Zack said.
"No shit!" Mibyll said.
Athena shot at Ate with her own beam but a Orb took the hit and absorbed the beam.
It then flew towards Athena and exploded in her face, knocking her on the ground.
Leon charged at Ate, ready to claw her but he got smacked by another Orb.
Mibyll and Martin charged at Ate, jumping towards her and punching her small form.
The small form got slightly knocked back before charging the other Orbs at Mibyll and Martin.
They both got hit and the Orbs exploded, knocking them on the ground and temporarily blinding them
Zack shot a massive ball of fire at Ate but the Orbs blocked the fire ball.
Her Halo charged again and shot multiple beams of light at everyone.
Zack got hit and so did everyone else.
Athena immediately got up, looking hurt and turned to Ate immediately.
"How do we take out this monster!? It's possible with that Halo and those orbs!" Zack said.
Athena began to think before she looked at her gun.
"...I have an idea." Athena said.
Athena aimed her gun at Ate.
She began to charge something, but it wasn't a beam. Instead, a small ball out of the gun. It grew a bit slightly.
Ate saw this and charged yet another Orb at Athena.
Leon jumped and he took the hit instead, knocking him on the ground.
"Are you okay, boy!?" Athena asked.
Leon was hurt but he nodded.
Athena then concentrated on the ball she just made. It began to grow much bigger. She was focusing all her energy into the ball.
Ate launched the 6 orbs at Athena, all at once but she immediately dodged the Orbs and they hit the wall, making many mini-splosions of light.
Athena's ball grew very big.
"Alright, this should be enough!" Athena said.
Athena then aimed her gun with the giant ball at Ate.
"Ate...you may be my Other, but I can't let you hurt my friends like this! It's time I end this now!" Athena said.
Athena shot the massive ball at Ate.
Ate summoned the 6 orbs back and they hit the giant ball, blocking it, attempting to deflect it back to Athena.
Athena then aimed at the ball and shoot a massive beam at it.
The beam hits the ball and the ball was pushed through the Orbs and was going towards Ate.
The giant ball hits Ate, making a huge explosion.
"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
Ate's scream was heard.
When everyone opened their eyes, they saw the pieces of the yellow collar on her neck on the floor and Ate was still there, but the 6 Orbs suddenly vanished and her white Halo shattered into pieces.
Ate changed back into her regular form and landed on the ground, she looked very hurt and couldn't get up.
"No...no..." Ate said.
Her form began to distort and was glowing blue.
"No..no...dOn'T LeT Me DisaPpEar, pLeAsE!" Ate begged.
"Huh?" Athena asked.
"...Please...I don't want to go there!...I don't want to be alone again!" Ate said, her eyes were filled with tears.
"...Is she...crying?" Donald asked.
"...They...they used me...they put this collar on me to make me obey...they used me like a toy!...They din't care what would happen to me!...THEY DON'T CARE IF I DISAPPEAR!" Ate yelled.
"...Should we even listen to her?" Zack asked.
Ate's tears hits the floor as her form continued to distort and looked at Athena.
"..There's...nothing in there...nothing...I don't want to go away...I don't want to go to...sleep...forever." Ate said.
Athena looked sadly at Ate as she approached her.
"Athena, stay away from her!" Mibyll said.
Athena turned to them.
"...She may be a member of the Legion...but...she is still me...she was born out of my feelings...I don't like her for what she did...but...she is still a part of me nonetheless." Athena said.
Athena then crouched down and hugged Ate.
"...Don't...let...go of me." Ate said.
"...I won't." Athena said, closing her eyes.
Ate just weakly smiled and she began to glow with gold aura.
"...Thank...you." Ate said.
Ate began to glow brightfully yellow and everyone covered their eyes.
When they opened them, Ate was gone. She vanished.
"...What happened?" Martin asked.
"Where is she?" Donald asked.
Athena got up and looked at her own hand. She was suddenly getting images of Ate being born in the Other dimension, hiding in places and desperately looking for someone to take care of her, being found by the Black Crow and putting the collar on her. It also shows a image of her in the Citadel, being chained up and being shocked by the collar as Chronos pressed a button on his remote, continuing to shock her till she obeyed.
"...She is gone...for good." Athena said, looking sad.
"...Oh...I see...are you okay?" Donald asked.
Athena simply turned around...she din't look okay.
Dasawert woke up and rubbed his head.
"Can someone tell me what just happened!? My head hurts...the Jewel, what happened to the Jewel!?" Dasawert asked, not seeing it in the room.
"...They took the Jewel. They got us." Mibyll said.
"...F-Fuck!" Dasawert said.
"...Yeah." Zack said.
The group got out of the lab and walked into the third floor.
"Those Legion guys are making our lives difficult down to the very last, huh?" Zack asked.
The entire building suddenly began to shake.
"The building is beginning to crumble from the explosions now!" Dasawert said.
"We have no choice! Let's go!" Mibyll said.
The group immediately ran downstairs, trying to get out of the building before they perish along with it.
They reached the entrance and ran out of the building.
The ISP agents were there, seeing the group running out of the building and ran to them.
"Are you okay!?" ISP agent asked.
"We are. But they got away with the Jewel." Mibyll said.
"...Shit!" The ISP agent said.
"Thankfully, we extracted enough energy out of the Jewel. Without that energy, even if they put the Jewel in the Crown, it will be useless...but, they might find another way to put the energy back in the Jewel." Dasawert sighed.
BOOM!
They turned around and the building exploded into pieces, landing on the ground.
"...Well, there goes the building." Zack said.
"Yeah. And the Black Crow has both Trixie and the Jewel in his hands." Martin said.
Athena angrily looked at the ground.
"Damn it!" Athena said.
Athena turned and tried to run off.
"Where are you going?" Zack asked.
Athena turned to them.
"Where do you think!? I'm going to find Trixie!" Athena said.
"Calm down. We should go and report to Jaden first." Mibyll said.
"But something could happen to her while we're sitting here talking!" Athena said.
"So, we go back to the base and get a search team dispatched to follow the Chameleon. It's better than finding her yourself." Mibyll said.
"How can you be so laid-back at a time like this!?" Athena asked.
Martin walked up to Athena and puts his hand on her shoulder.
"Athena, I'm sure Trixie is okay wherever she is now. She certainly won't let the Legion guys do anything bad to her. She is stronger than we give her credit for. Think about what would be the best course of action right now." Martin said.
Athena simply looked at the ground, looking sad.
"...Alright, we'll go back to the base." Athena said.
"We'll put together a search team to follow the Chameleon's trail and find their stronghold" Dasawert said.
"Once we get any information, we'll notify you right away." Mibyll said.
"...Thanks...I'll be waiting." Athena said, but she din't look happy.
At the Citadel of Crows.
The Chameleon walked up to the Black Crow, Kross, Chronos and Micro as he gave the Black Crow the Jewel.
Black Crow looked at it.
"Ah, the Jewel at last. Well, Micro, is this legit?" Black Crow asked.
Micro analyzed.
"Confirmed. It is the Jewel of the Crown of Deity." Micro said.
"Excellent. Then we can begin-"
"But the energy inside the Jewel has been sucked out. Without the energy, the Crown will be powerless." Micro said.
"...And how do we get all that energy back and put it in the Jewel?" Black Crow asked.
"I might have a suggestion. The Morphers used some machine that would extract energy much faster for their nourishment. We could use the same technology to absorb energy from the residents of this universe and inject all the energy into the Jewel. If we would manage to get some Omnipotents, the process would be much faster. And of course-" Chronos said.
"LET ME GO, YOU BLACK SHIT!" Trixie's voice was heard.
Zhovet entered in the room, carrying a angry Trixie.
"I SAID LET ME GO!" Trixie yelled.
"Ugh, shut her up! Her voice is giving me a headache!" Kross said.
Zhovet attempted to make Trixie stop but she smacked him in the eye with her elbow.
"AH! She hit Zhovet in the eye!" Zhovet said.
Black Crow walked up to the captured Trixie.
"Now, now, there is no need to be so hostile, Miss Trixie." Black Crow smiled.
Trixie spat in his face in response.
Black Crow simply removed the spit off his face.
"...Hm, maybe being put in a cell will help you cool off for the night." Black Crow said.
"Just wait till my friends here and kick your old wrinkled ass, you Godfather looking motherfucker!" Trixie said.
"Ah, but I'm afraid that by the time your friends might possibly show up to save you...you won't be conscious for that." Black Crow said.
He turned to the other Legion members.
"Kross, Zhovet, Chameleon and Micro, you all will go and find any residents and capture them to inject their energy into the Jewel. As for her..." Black Crow said.
He turned to Trixie.
"...She will be the last one to extract the energy out of her body." Black Crow said.
Trixie's eyes widened.
Back to the ISP base.
In Jaden's office, Jaden looked pissed.
"YOU IMBECILES! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!? WE WERE THIS CLOSE TO DESTROYING THE JEWEL!" Jaden yelled.
"...Jaden, save your preaching for later. We need to get to Trixie!" Athena said.
"I know. Trixie was captured by the Chameleon and most likely took her to where the Legion is hiding. We'll have the ISP agents dispatch a research team to find their hideout." Jaden said.
"We'll go and join them then!" Zack said.
"No, you're all on standby." Jaden said.
"WHAT!?" Athena asked
"Listen. Despite being a normal citizen, Trixie has been trained by the very best here. She knows how to defend herself from the Legion members. She is still in training, but she should be able to protect herself." Jaden said.
"..But...but..." Donald said.
"I'm not telling you to abandon Trixie. But if you all go chasing after the Legion now, you could put her in danger. So, you all should believe in Trixie. Wait for the research team to find their location." Jaden said.
Athena angrily looked at the ground.
"...Blast it all!" Athena angrily said.
"So, we just wait?" Martin asked.
"Yes. Dasawert told me that he managed to extract the powerful energy out of the Jewel so the Black Crow can't put it in the Crown just yet. I suspect he will try to find some energy and put it in the crown before he can begin to commence his plans. By the time we find out where he is hiding, the entire ISP will go there and fight Legion and defeat them for once and for all. And when we find out, you will be there to assist us in the final battle. Got it?" Jaden asked.
"...Yes." They simply said.
They walked out of the office.
Donald turned to Athena.
"...Don't worry, Athena. We will save Trixie and we'll take down the Legion for good." Donald said.
"Yeah, that's right. Trixie is strong, she won't die that easily." Zack said.
Athena was silent as she continued walking.
"...She is taking this pretty hard." Martin sighed.
"...Yeah." Zack sighed.
"...Trixie..." Donald said.
Later, back on Earth.
At the Vixerello house, Athena was sitting next to a tree, looking pretty sad.
Marick appeared right beside her and walked up to Athena.
Athena din't look at him.
"...Athena, I know things may look bad now right, but you can't give up just yet. You can still save Trixie and defeat the Legion. I know you can do this." Marick said.
Athena simply got up and turned her back to him.
"...I'm nothing but a failure...who only just made things worse...and will never be able to do anything right...ever." Athena said.
"Athena, don't say that. Do not EVER say that." Marick said.
Athena turned to Marick, with tears in her eyes.
"Well, guess what, dad, it's TRUE! Ever since I joined in this fight against the Legion, I did nothing but screw up! Every time I got myself involved in, I got my butt kicked several times! And when I won, it was mostly on luck! I almost got Donald killed once because the Jewel escaped from my hands, I almost got Zack killed during the fight with the demon while I was trying to get the Jewel and now I got Trixie kidnapped by the Legion because I dragged her into this! I'm not a hero, I'm a screw up! I'm a failure who only knows how to make mistakes and gets her friends almost killed every day!" Athena ranted.
Athena lost her cool and began to cry uncontrollably.
Marick just hugged Athena.
"...It's okay, Athena, it's okay. Let it all out." Marick said.
"...I failed to save Trixie and I failed to prevent the Legion from getting the Jewel. I'm a failure, dad." Athena said.
Marick stopped hugging Athena and looked at her.
"...Athena, you are not a screwup. Me and your grandfather made more mistakes than any man, woman or child out there. Your grandfather instead of doing the right thing and hugging your grandmother back at Xutha's remains, he din't and when he was supposed to wait and see how the Kikez event will turn out, he instead fought her and Earth got blown up as a result. And I wasn't there to save Shawn on that day, and that's one major mistake that I will never forget and it will always haunt me. Those 'mistakes' as you call them, are nothing compared to those. Trust me, you are not a screw up." Marick said.
"...But..but...what else is there to do? Every time I try to do something good, I still make mistakes." Athena said.
"You act as if you already lost the fight and the world. But let me tell you something: you din't. The battle has just started and you're thinking of giving up just now? Do you think Trixie and your friends would appreciate that? You have to stop worrying about the mistakes you made and focus on saving Trixie and defeating the Black Crow for good. And no matter what happens, I'll be there to help you." Marick said.
"...O-Okay...thanks...dad." Athena said, sniffing a bit.
Fawn suddenly appeared right behind Marick.
He turned to her.
"Hello, Fawn." Marick said.
"Hi...I saw what just happened right now and came here to give Athena some good news atleast: Trixie is fine for now. She is locked in the Legion's cell and right now, they are searching for people to grab and snatch their energy and inject them into the Jewel. She should be fine by the time the ISP will find their Citadel and fight them" Fawn said.
"Fawn, do you think we should go right now and fight the Black Crow now and put an end to all of this before things can get worse?" Marick asked.
"...Well, I checked a timeline where you and Athena go after the the Legion after they begin to capture the residents, and when you show up, Zhovet brutally snaps Trixie's neck so...you shouldn't fight them right now, wait till Jaden finds their Citadel." Fawn said.
"Okay, but should I get involved in the final battle and help Athena?" Marick asked.
"...I can't really say much without accidently changing the timeline and making things much worse, but I'm sure Athena and her friends can handle Manuel's allies and save Trixie." Fawn said.
"...Manuel?" Marick asked.
"Oops, let that one slip, did I? Sorry, just forget about that minor detail, Athena will eventually find that out. You could still assist in the ISP's fight against the Legion's army of robots, Kheogs, Lovians and Others though so...you could get involved in that atleast." Fawn said.
"...I see...well, thanks for the help, Fawn. We appreciate it." Marick said.
"Kay. Also, I checked tomorrow and Athena is gonna angrily stomp a ant hill out of anger so...try not to do that, okay?" Fawn asked Athena.
"...Okay. I won't." Athena said.
"Kay, bye." Fawn smiled.
Fawn vanished.
"...Well, you heard what Fawn you said. You have a chance to save Trixie." Marick said.
"Yeah, I will...I guess you could help me out in my fight against the Legion soon." Athena said.
"Don't worry, I will. I won't miss this for one bit. We will stop them, Athena. Just like how your grandfather and the older heroes who were with him and me and my students, you will make a impact on the world itself by defeating the Black Crow." Marick said.
"...Okay, dad...I got it...I will save Trixie and defeat the Black Crow and the Legion for good." Athena said.
"That's the spirit." Marick smiled.
He began walking towards his house before he turned to Athena.
"Are you coming?" Marick asked.
"...Yeah. Just a few more seconds and I'll be inside the house." Athena said.
Marick nodded before he walked into the house.
Athena turned to the sky, looking at the stars.
"...Trixie, don't worry, me, Martin, Zack, Donald and Leon will come and save you. And together, we'll defeat the Legion for good and save the world." Athena said.
She raised her fist to the sky.
"And I won't let anything stand in my way!" Athena smiled, her shadow on the ground resembling Ate.
END OF CHAPTER 14
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Post by IDEK on Jan 6, 2017 0:13:51 GMT
Amell Saga
Chapter 6 - Birthday
It was raining inside the Antaxite depths.
Leonidas Ran through the Paper street- the Rain staining the paper ground that crumpled under his steps- and crumpling the houses that lined the area. He breathed heavily, sweat and tears running down his face,
"Get back here!"Yelled the girl who was chasing him- Giant Knives fell from the sky and Landed in front of the Magician- forming a wall that blocked him from leaving. Leonidas turned around- gasping loudly as he backed away from the girl who was approaching him.
"G-Get away from me! Haven't you done enough you Evil Child!? Leonidas Cried out- reaching into the back of his shirt for his staff. "First You Take Chihara! Then You Take me, and force me to relive this nightmare, What more could you do to me!!"
"...After what you've done...I could do a lot worse..."The Girl responded- the paper ground lighting on fire behind her.
Leonidas pulled his staff out- Firing a Array of Doves from behind his cape, The Girl sent a Knife in his direction but with a wave of his cape it vanished. Leonidas smashed his staff onto the ground- a Line of Ink burst out of it and covered the girl- knocking her to the floor.
When she got up, he had already made his exit.
The Girl's face distorted, before she too vanished.
In the far distance, outside of the paper town. Ra was watching, he cursed slightly, and then ran into the town.
Jess was currently at the police station, answering Officer Jenson's questions.
"Have you ever seen Chihara Suzuki before the day of the attempted theft?"
"No. The only ones I met at that circus were Leonidas and his other staff member, Franziska. On the same day when I went to find my son and that creature attacked" Jess said.
"Do you have any idea why Chihara wanted the Jewel?"
"That random girl I told you who I thought was Keira showed up at my daughter's school and gave her the Jewel. She probably stole it from the magician." Jess said.
"Do you have any idea what this Jewel might be?"
"...Well, I kinda do...but you really believe me without looking like a crazy person here?" Jess asked.
"What, is it a family heirloom, something valuable, or does it have magical significance?"
"Magical significance sort of...and a bit otherworldly" Jess said.
"We're already aware of Aliens, maam. It's really no surprise. You can tell me."
"...Well, those jewels that Franziska wears are the same as the jewel that Chihara was looking for...and those jewels belong to some aliens actually and have the power to trap souls in them and...create different unstable dimensions from the souls...and some souls end up turning into weird monsters like that ink monster thing...yeah." Jess awkwardly summed up.
"...Oookaaaay then."Jenson frowned- writing it down, and then putting some question marks next to it
"Eitherway, next question. What exactly transpired between Chihara, your daughter, and This mystery girl?"
"Well, my daughter came back from school then found Chihara in her bedroom, looking for the jewel, she pushed her on the floor and before she could run off, the mystery girl showed up, she launched some doves against my daughter and they got eaten by the family pets and the mysterious girl knocked her out with a chair and dragged her out of the house and vanished." Jess said.
Jenson nodded- writing this down.
"Have you seen the mystery girl since then?"
"No." Jess said, even though she saw the mysterious girl yesterday in the Antaxite world, but then again, she already made herself sound crazy with the Jewel explanation.
"I see.
Is there any time I'd be able to talk to Athena about this?"
"She...is sort of busy right now. You know, school and all." Jess said.
"Where might I be able to find this mystery girl?"
"Honestly, she kinda pops up at random. Don't even know her real name or where she lives." Jess said.
"I see."Jenson said. "Well, we looked over her description and lined it up with public records and we found some people who resemble her, with black hair,gray eyes and a mole."
"Oh, I see. Mind if I see the pictures to confirm it's her?" Jess asked.
Jenson put 3 separate pictures on the table,
One was of a rather large girl with a mole on her left chin, with grey eyes and messy black hair.
Another was of a girl with frizzy black hair, with steel grey eyes- a mole on her cheek, and a face of a supermodel.
the Last one was clearly the mystery girl, but her hair was shorter and her eyes were clearer.
"Okay, the last one is definitely her." Jess said
"Hmm. I see."Jenson said-faltering slightly. "...That's, interesting, This girl.."
"...What is it?" Jess asked.
"...Her name, is Lara Cailloux."Jenson said
"...Lara...Cailloux? She's...related to Leonidas?" Jess asked.
"Yes. Leonidas has two daughters. They live with his wife in a town called Wallshore."Jenson said. "According to the public records, anyway."
"...Huh..I see...does his other daughter happen to be called Vera by any chance?" Jess asked.
"Yes."Jenson said. "...Why do you ask?"
"Oh, I was just curious that's all. Heard the name before. And what's his wife's name?" Jess asked.
"Why do you want to know?"Jenson asked- her expression steeling.
"Well, seeing as how both Leonidas and the mystery girl are connected and for some reason her being in Erinfort and stealing stuff from her father, it would help make the situation a bit more clearer." Jess said.
Jenson looked a bit uncomfortable.
"Look, I'm sorry maam. But I may have already told you too much, You're not with the police I'm afraid."
"Oh, I understand. Well, if there are no more questions, I should probably go home now." Jess said.
"Why... did you know the name of Leonidas's Second daughter?"Jenson asked.
"...I, sort of heard the name from somewhere when I was trying to see if there was some connection between Leonidas and that creature that attacked my son." Jess said.
"...Right."Jenson said sceptically. "You can go now."
Jess nodded before she got up and walked away.
She walked past Trixie's mom who was currently reporting to another police officer about her daughter being missing.
Jess got in her car and went back to the Vixerello house.
Amell was standing right at the front door.
"...So. How was it?"He asked, with a rather unusual expression on his face.
"...Well, I learned something very important about our mystery girl. Her name is Lara Cailloux, she is Leonidas's daughter." Jess said.
"...I see."Amell said, with a rather dark tone to his voice. "...And you found out who That girl in that weird wormhole was too?"
"...It's most likely Vera...Leonidas's second daughter." Jess said.
Amell's face twitched slightly.
"...I see, of course it is. He has daughters now."
"...Amell, are you okay?" Jess asked, raising an eyebrow.
"...Have you noticed? I've done absolutely nothing but just tag along with you."Amell frowned.
"Honey, that's not true. You helped me out during the fight with that ink monster. It was about to get me if you din't knock it into the tent." Jess said.
"...That's one time."Amell frowned.
"Well, it's not like this whole mystery...circus...Antaxite thing is over yet, you can still manage to help me out in some other ways." Jess said.
Amell frowned. "...That's what I want to do."He said- winding a cup off a table and whirling it around in the air. "But as cool as this is, it's no phrophet's eye. Is it?"
"Yes, well, the prophet eye wasn't exactly very helpful during that time when the demon kids were around, their presence was causing the eye to see only static. So, I would prefer wind powers over Prophet's eye anyways." Jess said.
"Well What about all the times the demon kids weren't?"Amell asked- whirling the cup back onto the table- a light breeze knocking it over
"Well, at one point, the prophet eye showed a vision of Verita actually giving up and leaving but in reality, she...or they rather got destroyed so, it's not the most reliable source of info." Jess said.
Amell frowned in response. "...I see.
...Did Athena show any signs of powers when she was my age?"He asked. "I forgot. I mean, I still remember memories, but not when they happened, whatever."
"...When she was 7 no. When she was 10 years old and Marick took her to New Dawn Labs to train her, she unlocked her powers. At that day, I was with you and your friends and watching you play football." Jess said.
"Huh."Amell said. "I think I was already floating back then."
"Yeah. Well, either way, while you may not have the same big powers as the rest of the family, powers are not the ones that make the man. Most of Athena's friends, except maybe Zack, don't have powers but still can manage to help out." Jess said
"True, but you're still the one who's doing most of the work here."Amell said. "...Whatever nonsense we end up facing today, I'm going to do my best to help out as well!"
That's the spirit." Jess smiled
"..,Well, Ra said that he was gonna look for those two, so I guess we should call him through the ear piece to see if he needs help." Jess said
Just as she said that
"Hey, Jessica. I almost had them. But they both vanished!
I'm currently at a town made of incredibly damp paper- jesus Christ this place just gets stranger and stranger- And, I think I found something, you might want to see this."
"What is it?" Jess asked
"...It appears to just be a image, but. It looks a awful lot like you."
"...Like me?...send me and Amell at where you are right now so we can see it for ourselves." Jess said.
From the ear-piece, a holographic image appeared in front of Jess- it looked to be a photograph.
On the wall was many and many a series of photographs, they made up a picture of Athena Vixerello when arranged the way they had been- she looked to be flying across the skyline of a city.
"I'm saying it looks like you, but this girl looks younger, and has a bit of a wider face as well."Ra said.
"...That's my daughter, Athena." Jess said.
"..I see."Ra said. "..That's actually weirder."
"...Yeah, definitely. I don't recall Athena being able to fly." Jess said.
"Also- It's in the Antaxite Realm."Ra said. "What's this doing here?"
Amell stared at it. "She looks like a superhero."He said.
"...Well, she is sort of a vigilante, helping her dad fight crime so...also, that mystery girl, who's name is Lara came to her school and gave her the items, along with the Antaxite jewel. And then they met again later in my house when Chihara showed up to get the Jewel back...I wonder what's her connection with Athena." Jess said.
"Well, this is not what I was intending to do. But I lost track of them and found myself looking at this instead."Ra said.
"You can handle yourself in here, I assume?"He asked. "I heard about how you managed to kill one of the jellyflora's.I'll keep trying to tail The two. If you get here, i'll leave this mystery for you-if you want to handle it."
"Yeah, I think me and my son can handle this." Jess said.
"Alright. Prepare yourself."
Athena and Amell were teleported.
They appeared in a Rather normal looking house- in fact- it looked almost identical to their own house, the colours were a bit too bright but that was really the only oddity besides the photographs covering the entirety of the left wall.
As seen in the photo- when looked at together they made the image of Athena flying over a city skyline. Ra was standing next to it.
"Be careful, the Outside is literally wet paper."Ra said. "I'll meet you guys later"
He walked out of the door. leaving the area.
"...This is our house."Amell commented, once Ra had left.
"...Indeed. But why does it exist?" Jess asked as she looked around
"...I don't know."Amell said, his voice drifting off slightly.
Jess just walked around in the fake Vixerello house, trying to find some clues.
it looked almost exactly like the Vixerello house.
In the kitchen, there were images of Lynch and a siluhuette of Omalley talking while watching a TV,
Amell walked upstairs, when he entered the room that would be Athena's, it was just a dark room with nothing but the portal that had opened in the real Athena's room inside it.
Jess after checking the kitchen, she walked upstairs and looked into Athena's room and spotted the portal.
"...Where do you suppose that would take us?" Jess asked.
"...Probably where the one in Athena's actual room took us."Amell guessed.
Jess walked into the room and looked through the portal, to see if there is anything inside.
It was more of a window,
it just showed the other side of the Damp Paper Town.
"...I see the Paper Town Ra told us about." Jess said.
"...Huh."Amell said- leaving the room and looking into his own.
When he opened his door, a Tiger was sleeping on his bed- surrounded by bird skeletons.
"..Oh."
Jess looked in Amell's room.
"...Is that supposed to be Leon?" Jess asked.
"...I think So."Amell said.
Jess then walked into her and Marick's bedroom.
There was a image of Chihara's dead body there, occasionally the image would get covered with white noise.
Blood stains on the ground, and a giant hole in the wall where the window would be.
The wallpaper was replaced with a wallpaper with a dove pattern- instead of the one they actually had.
"...Well, this is freaky." Jess said, slowly walking out of the room and closing the door.
"What was it?"Amell asked.
"...Basicaly, image of Chihara's corpse and some other disturbing things...like blood stains." Jess said.
"...Oh."Amell said- as they walked downstairs- Amell walked towards the kitchen.
At the table where the vixerello's would eat dinner- was a different family.
Leonidas, Vera, The Mystery girl and the Grown lady from the photograph were all sitting there instead.
"...Wh...What?"Amell asked.
Jess looked into the kitchen and raised her eyebrows.
"...It's the magician and his family." Jess whispered.
"On our dinner table."Amell whispered.
"...They aren't moving...I think we might be experienced a memory here perhaps." Jess said.
"What's it doing in our house, though?"Amell asked.
"I have no idea." Jess said, as she waited for something to happen with the Cailloux family.
Eventually, the TV turned on- showing a news report of how 'White Arrow had saved the police of chief's daughter'
The picture shown of White arrow was clearly Leonidas wearing White Arrow's clothes.
"...And now I'm traumatized." Jess said, with a WTF expression on her face.
"I wish my family was like yours."
"All of us stronghearted, all of us noble."
"It could've been so easy."
Amell Turned around to see Lara Cailloux was sitting in a chair right behind them, looking pensive.
"...But, that's not how it went at all."
Jess turned around to see Lara.
"...Oh...Lara...Leonidas has escaped, huh?" Jess asked.
"...Heh."Lara smiled.
"...Wait, you caught him?"Amell asked.
Lara grinned. combined with her distant, foggy eyes- it looked rather supernatural.
Jess just stared at her.
"...Lara, it's time we hear the whole truth now. No more vague clues or mysteries, I want to hear what the fuck happened." Jess said.
"...You want to know."She said- her grin fading.
"...Find out for yourself."
With that she turned and left the house through the door.
Outside of the house- it wasn't a paper town, it was what looked like a small- actual- town at a beachside.
Jess peered her head out of the house, looking around before she and Amell walked out.
The houses looked real, and the town itself did.
There was no sky, oddly enough.
Circus music could be heard in the distance.
"...The Circus." Jess said, holding Amell's hand
They walked along the road, passing a sign that read 'Welcome to Wallshore'
The Town at first looked to be bustling, but all the citizens were lacking colour and faces.
"...We haven't left that weird place, have we?"Amell asked.
"...I think Lara has changed the place into her hometown. She is probably trying to show us the more important details." Jess guessed as they walked.
They reached a circus, it looked to be closed- but there was a big gaping hole where the door should be.
"Looks to be closed."Amell said, "Let's go in."
Jess nodded as they walked inside the circus
It was the exact same area Amell had walked into back at the Schzofield gardens. Exact same black door and everything.
"...Back there, that was where I found the ink monster."Amell said.
"Huh. So, is the door unlocked?" Jess asked.
"It opened on it's own when I went there."Amell said, walking towards it.
sure enough, as soon as he put his hand on it- the door opened.
"...Okay then." Jess said as they walked inside the room.
the Room was filled with candles.
There was a girl with white hair and orange eyes- who was controlling the flames of all the candles.
"Wow!"Leonidas grinned, applauding the girl "That's amazing."
"Really? My dad always said it was evil."The Girl smiled.
"But it doesn't have to be. So, Hey, If you want. I can show you some more powers."Leonidas smiled.
"Heh, No thanks. I'm just glad I'm finally going to get a job."The Girl laughed.
"Right, so, When do you want to start?"Leonidas asked with a smile on his face.
"Tomorrow would be fine."
"Right, tomorrow it is."Leonidas smiled. The Girl exchanged phone numbers with him, then waved and left the room. When she Left, Leonidas's face turned from a happy, amicable one to a dull, almost sad one.
"...Once again, another special human. I can't do what she can."He muttered.
The Candles all went out- the entire room disappearing and leaving a hallway in it's place.
"...Huh." Jess said before she looked around at the hallway she and Amell were in.
"This is...the exact same hallway...I found that ink creature in."Amell shivered.
"Oh...I see." Jess said before she walked through the hallway, trying to find some more memories of what happened back then.
Eventually- the Hallway changed, to a kitchen.
"Ma! Pa! I'm Home!" A Little girl with blonde hair smiled as she ran in, a Lady with Black hair wearing a blue long sleeved shirt looked away from the food she was cooking when the girl ran into her arms.
"V-Vera! Be careful, I'm in the middle of cooking this!"The Mother exclaimed, setting Vera back on her feet.
Leonidas was leaning against the window- he laughed slightly upon seeing this.
"Hey, Guess what Ma! You were right!"Vera smiled "I tried it out just like you said and made tons of friends!"
"Oh, really?"Leonidas asked.
"I was talking to my mom."Vera said. Leonidas and Vera's mom both looked as though someone stabbed them in the gut.
"V..Vera! That's rude, Apologize to your step father!"Vera's mom chastised.
"....Sorry."Vera mumbled.
"Haha, Don't worry, it's fine"Leonidas smiled. "So, you tried your trick out did you?"
"Yep! They all flew!"Vera smiled. "I think all the birdies made friends as well!"
"But, you are controlling them. So, Are they really making friends?"Leonidas asked.
"I'm not kon-trawl-ing them. They just listen to me, that's all"Vera pouted- hugging her mother tighter.
Everyone vanished, but the kitchen remained.
"...She could control animals?"Amell asked.
"Guess so...wait a second...you don't think that girl is...Chihara?" Jess asked.
"...I don't think so."Amell said. "...Leonidas doesn't look any younger here."
"Oh. Huh. So, he is not her actual dad." Jess said as she waited for the next memory/scene.
It didn't happen,
Eventualy Amell took a step into the kitchen, looking around it, the fridge burst open, revealing several bags of Antaxite, as well as a note.
Amell picked it up.
'Don't tell anyone I got these for you, okay?
Is big secret. Everyone would flip.
~Omesata F.'
"...Omesata F?" Jess asked.
"...I guess...this is who he got those jewels from."Amell frowned.
They left the Kitchen, and found themselves in a circus.
Myshtaski was performing, holding a entire whale with only his finger. Lara, Vera and their mother were all in the audience, as well as a girl with straight black hair and purple eyes- Vera and the black haired girl were both laughing at each other.
The rest of the people in the crowd were lacking in colours and identifiable features.
The backstage curtain was open, a arrow that didn't look like it belonged there was pointing inside. As though outright telling the two to enter the backstage area.
The Vixerello's obliged, walking backstage.
"It's just, she had the same power too. Everyone other than me and Lara have the ability to control them."Leonidas could be heard saying.
"Wow, make me feel even less special, why don't you?"A Unfamiliar voice laughed. "It's alright Uncle, really. You might not have any powers, but you still managed to organize this circus, Didn't you?"
"Well, yes, but anyone with a eye for business can do that."Leonidas frowned. "But that's not all either, Vera is my Niece-Well, Second cousin, really, But Basically my niece. Yet she looks at me as though I shouldn't even be there.And even Alice- My own Wife- refers to be as Vera's 'step-dad' I'm more than that!"
"Still, after her husband leaves, she marries someone in the same family. A Little weird."
"I know, Chihara, but. It just worked out like that."
Then Candles turned on; revealing that no one was backstage at all. It was a room devoid of people- filled only with boxes and ropes hanging from a nonexistant ceiling.
"...Chihara." Jess said before she looked around in the room.
There was no one there.
The Room eventually faded out- into the shore of a beach. It looked to be snowing on the beach, but once Amell's eyes adjusted it became clear it was raining scraps of torn paper.
Jess looked up.
"...Paper?" Jess asked, raising an eyebrow.
"This is still that crazy world, after all."Amell frowned.
Someone that looked suspiciously like Elizabeth Balanque was talking with Leonidas in the distance, after having their conversation, the old lady left- her form fading away. Leaving Leonidas alone.
"why are they so special.
They're the ones with the powers. I'm just a normal man.
Why am I normal!? Everyone else in my family can talk with animals, can control animals. I can't!? Why's that!
The Thoughts got louder, as they increased in volume and intensity Amell's head started to hurt; the scenery started to blur as though everyone's eyes had crossed.
Amell stumbled around a bit
"Why am I So Plain! I'm not a Magician! I'm just a Normal, Average Man! She's so Specia- She's a Literal Disney princess and that ten year old twerp doesn't even give me the time of day! Step dad or Not I'm still related to her!"
The Scenery blurred and spread out- as though everyone's eyes had switched sockets.
"It..Hurts..."Amell Mumbled. "...S...Stop it..!"
Leonidas vanished- everything returned to normal, the snowfall of paper continued on.
Amell was on his knees- his face contorted in pain and his hands gripping onto his hair.
Jess immediately crouched down and puts her on Amell's shoulder.
"Amell, are you okay!?" Jess asked.
"I..I...M..Maybe...?"Amell Asked, his eyes wide. "...I don't even....know what that was..."
Jess helped him get up before she remembered the lady who was with Leonidas.
"...That lady...she looked similar...to the mother of one of those demon kids...she was affiliated with the Red Moon." Jess said.
"Red Moon..Was that the Old Lady that summoned the demon?"Amell asked- still clutching his ached head.
"Yes. And if Leonidas now has powers...now we know how he got them. And from who." Jess said.
Amell looked at the paper-snow as it fell, as the scene distorted and changed.
It was Franziska, in the candle room. adjusting a few ornaments.
"You're lucky I'm doing this one favour for you, Leo."Franziska frowned. "But why do you need me here?Didn't you hire out AK49?"
"Yes. But apparently it doesn't work like that. She needs to get it from somewhere, and she can't do anything with nothing."Leonidas said. "That's why I purchased this."
He pulled a Antaxite out of his cape. Franziska's lone visible eye widened.
"An Antaxite?"Franziska asked. "You got those from Omesata, did you not?"
"Yes. But I didn't get any way to use these. I don't have soul removal powers, Do I?"
"...And that's why you called me here."Franziska frowned. "You need a soul to get powers out of for AK49 to put into you. But you can't get the soul out on your own.So you called me."
Leonidas nodded.
"Well luckily for you I've used these charms before. Who's soul do you want?"
"I don't care who's. Anyone's will do."Leonidas said.
"...Oh my God." Jess said, looking angry.
The Scene cut- the Candles were all billowing, their flames reaching the top of the sky and flaring all out.
The Pyrokinetic girl Leonidas had talked to earlier was lying in the corner of the room- her eyes foggy and empty. There was a mass of Flames within the Antaxite Jem Franziska was holding.
The Old Lady was there, a scroll in front of her and a arcane sign etched into the floor. On the other side of the circle, with both of his arms out- from this close, The Lady's form was smudged-and had a slightly blue hue to it. as though she shouldn't be there.
The Old Lady held her arms out; her eyes glowing- Fog coming out of the arcane symbol and the Antaxite gem being whisked into the fognado it generated- eventually flames shot out of the Gem and made a beeline right for the magician- the entire scene got covered and when the flames faded...They were at the flower garden with the bubbles in the sky.
"...Thank you for your help, Miss...?"
"My name is Melody Cross, Dear. But let's keep that between you and me. Don't want anyone knowing I'm still running around after what happened, do we?"
"Ah, of course."
"And let's not forget, if I somehow find myself coming down. you're coming down as well."
"...That lady didn't belong there."Amell said. "...She looked...see through."
"...Yeah." Jess said.
"...Is she a ghost or something?"Amell asked. "And while I'm asking questions..where are we? This doesn't look like a memory anyone would see, does it?"
"...I don't think so. I think Lara...or whoever she is using her ability or something to make us see the whole story." Jess said.
"...Maybe."Amell frowned.. "Hey, look, over there!"
In the flowers, Lara and Vera could both be seen in the distance- as well as a girl with straight black hair and purple eyes- it wasn't clear earlier; but the Vera looked to be youngest one there- the two black haired girls both looked to be about the same age.
Doves suddenly appeared- all flying around the area- Vera called out and the Doves followed her instructions; putting on a form of air show for the two older girls.
"There's Lara and Vera...but who's the other girl?" Jess asked.
"...That's the other girl that appeared when we tried to look for Keira."Amell said.
The Scene changed- it was the two sisters- half of the garden was now a bedroom- they were talking to each other and laughing, whatever they were saying must not have been important. because The Vixerello's couldn't hear it.
There was faint circus music in the distance, the two looked out of the window to see Chihara performing a trick with some animals- then Leonidas making flames appear from his wand- the crowd was enamoured.
The Girls and the bedroom faded away to show a Man who looked to be in his 30s walking towards Leonidas, with a smile he introduced himself and displayed his own power- telekinesis.
It then cut to him unconscious- being dragged to the room full of candles. Franziska was there, but the blue-transparent form of the Old Lady was not.
A Couple of seconds later, Leonidas put two Antaxite jewels onto his staff- one on each end. He smiled as he looked at it.
"...That...bastard." Jess said, looking angry.
Then it cut to Newrum, a Kid separated from his parents to show Myshtaski his own super strength.
Mysthaski pushed the kid away- telling him to go back home- the kid frowned but did so anyway.
Then The next week- a girl with glasses in a black dress walked up to him, then vanished from sight.
It then cut to Franziska- looking a little bit disgusted, but ultimately- she still started chanting- now wearing several Antaxite's around her neck- one of them started glowing and something was pulled out of the girl.
Franziska glared at Leonidas has he left with a 3rd glowing jewel.
"Damnit...!" Someone- Franziska- could be heard thinking.
"...These guys are so gonna get it when I get my hands on them." Jess said.
"That muscular man did..turn that one kid away..."Amell said.
Then, it cut to Vera and the black haired girl with purple eyes walking out of a school- deep in conversation
"So, What did you get me for my birthday, Keira?"
"I ain't telling you, Vera. That would ruin the surprise!"
"C'mon, Pleeeaaase?"
"Fine, Fine, You know that man you always wanted to see?"
"could it be!?"
"Hahaha, You got it!"
"Really? You got me the New Pegasus Pony Game!?"
"What, no, I got a set of tickets to your dad's circus show."
"...Why'd you get me that?"
"Because I know there's someone there you liiiike"The girl with purple eyes grinned, rubbing her hand on Vera's head
"And you made it weird, Keira."
"I'm just saying, I know you love him!
"What, No I don't! I mean, Sure he's Big, And Muscular, and Handsome, but he's way out of my league! Besides, he works with my dad- it would be weird."
"But I bet if I get you to see him, Then you'll be able to at least look at him. He Performs Shirtless, you know!"
Vera glared at Keira mockingly.
"Fiiine, i'll just give this spare ticket to someone else then."
The Scene faded. Leaving Jess and Amell in a room full of candles and Antaxite Jewels.
"...So, that was Keira." Jess said, looking around the room.
The Candles all flickered out; and then re-lit themselves, revealing the Black creature that resembled a human- but with the calf-long legs.
It hissed at them and then crawled up the wall.
then the Candles flickered out again, the scene changed to another time- there was a 16 year old who showed Leonidas she had the power to freeze time- it cut to Her unconscious in the room while Franziska and Leonidas argued.
"I have had it up to here with you!"Franziska yelled. "Constantly Constantly Constantly Why do you bring so many people in! Why am I Having to pretend to be a fortune teller for your gain! You've brought me 3 Kids, Exelsior!"
"I may have, I may have,"Leonidas frowned "But, I'm finally special like they are"
"If someone takes that staff away from you you'll just be snivelling on the floor."Franziska growled.
"But, if I ever got found out- who would be brought down with me?"Leonidas smiled. "You ripped their souls out anyway. even if you disagreed. You greedy harlot."
Franziska's face contorted. She moved her arms around- and a portal opened up- the Unconscious teenager got pulled into it.
"Here!"Franziska yelled. "You want me to throw them in your jewels? Here they are! But I'm not Sucking their souls out anymore!"
"Hey, as long as this still works- and you don't stop- that's fine with me."Leonidas smiled, holding the new jewel.
"She threw her in..without sucking her soul out."Amell said. "...That girl must have died inside the dimension..."
It then slowly faded, more and more people being sucked into portals into the Antaxite- more and more gems in the candle-lit room. More around Leonidas, eventually...
The Candles went out again, leaving the Vixerello's standing in darkness. Oddly enough- they could see each other crystal clear.
"...Where are we now?" Jess asked.
Tears started to leak out of Amell's eyes. dripping down his face onto the nothing they were standing on.
Jess crouched down and puts her hands on Amell's shoulders.
"...I know, this is all very messed up." Jess said.
"...I'm going to take him down."Amell whispered.
"...You won't do it alone. I'll be there to help you...using other people's souls to give himself powers...is unexcusable. Tomorrow, we'll definitely find him and take him down...unless Lara did the job already." Jess said.
"...If she did...Then I was just tagging along again...For no reason."
He walked on ahead.
Jess just followed him, trying to find their way out of the darkness.
Amell eventually found a curtain and pushed past it.
The area looked to be a series of floating islands under a golden sky. There was a letter at Amell's feet.
'Dear Alice Cailloux
I'm sorry.
I promise i'll be there.
Manuel Cailloux'
"...Manuel Cailloux?...Could this be Vera's real father?" Jess asked.
"...I think so."Amell said, as he walked along the island's edge.
Doves were taking up the entirety of the sky above them, while the clouds below them still were glowing yellow.
There looked to be many featureless people- looking to be about Amell's age- most of them wearing birthday party hats- they looked to be leaving the area; jumping off the island into the cloud below.
Amell turned around- to see Vera was behind him, holding a single dove in her hands. It was another memory. She wasn't really here, he could somehow tell- despite how...real she looked.
Jess turned to look at Vera aswell.
"...What did happen to her anyways? What happened to Lara aswell." Jess asked.
Candles sprouted up out of the ground- like weeds.
Walls appeared on either side of the island,
Leonidas appeared.
As well as a broken Antaxite jewel- at Vera's feet and a Birthday Cake.
"What is that Thing!? How Long have you had it!? What Else have you been keeping from us you Asshole!"
"You Can't Talk to me Like that! There were People here and Like it or not you're my Daughter, Damn it!"
"You're not my dad! Stop Calling me that!"Vera called out.
"I just wanted to wish you a happy birthday! But you Decided to Fucking-"Leonidas said.
"No! No! I hate you! You Stole my dad from me, Didn't you!"
"What- No! He's still Alive! You saw him the Other Week!"
"I used to see him Every Day!"
Vera ran out of the room, Leonidas ran after her- the area turned into a the room with all the jewels in it, Leonidas grabbed Vera by the arm- she then grabbed the nearest object; one of the Antaxite jewels-
Time suddenly skipped.
Vera was on the ground outside the house, Leonidas looking over her with a expression of shock. There was a creature roaming around behind them- one of the floral jellyfish- Birthday hats and candles were strewn all over.
Alice was on the ground as well- crying and being dragged away by people in firemen uniforms.
Leonidas dropped to his knees, tears falling down his face. Everything faded into smoke- it was back to the candle room, Vera's body, Franziska - looking scared, pulled something out of the girl and put it in a Antaxite Jewel.
Lara could be seen from behind the door.
The Scene disappeared- they were back on the floating island.
"...THAT ASSHOLE!" Jess yelled at the top of her lungs.
"W-Wait!"Amell Yelled- tears running down his face. "She- She took out the Antaxite Jewel- He..He looked Sad too,Right? He- he did, I- I know he did! It's possible- We didn-We didn't see her Die- The-Maybe she threw the Jewel at him-a-and it broke- the- Then the Creature Killed her.. Or something- I-I-I-I...!"Amell Stammered.
A Gate on the far side of the floating island opened up.
Jess just angrily walked over to the gate, walking past it with Amell.
There was the sound of a choir.
Statues of Angels were all littered throughout the area; placed randomly- at the very edge of the area was a shrine- a body lying down on the alter.
The Statues of the Angels turned to look at the two Vixerello's as they walked towards it, ascending up some stairs as the sun rose in perfect timing- dying the entire area gold and casting light on the body.
It was Lara. She looked to be sleeping.
"...Lara?" Jess asked, as she walked up to her sleeping form.
Lara didn't respond, her head turned away from Jess- but she was clearly asleep.
Lara's head turned towards another floating island. Another one with Angel Statues- this time they were all around it's border- apart from one area that looked as though it would've been a port.
Jess saw the island before she nudged Lara, attempting to wake her up.
Lara didn't.
"No point waking me up."Lara said- Appearing next to her, her foggy- empty eyes staring right into Jess. "That's not even me. I'm really back in the real world."
Jess turned to Lara.
"...Well, we saw Leonidas' actions...and what he did to Vera...so, did you get him?" Jess asked
"Oh, Yes. He's as good as dead."Lara said. "If you want to watch he's over there."
She pointed at the other island.
"...I see...and the rest...like Franziska?" Jess asked.
"Somewhere."Lara said. "They're not as important to me.I'll take care of them later."
"...Okay...well, I saw what happened to those people...to Vera...the same thing happened to me once...and I won't forgive people like Leonidas for that...and so, me and Amell will help you in taking this guy down!" Jess said.
"...Sure."Lara said.
Lara vanished. a Bridge appeared behind the shrine- leading to the island surrounded by angel statues.
Jess looked at Amell.
"Are you ready?" Jess asked.
Amell nodded, tears still running down his face.
The Two walked down the bridge, paper-cut-out's of angels appeared behind them. cheering them on. The Choir got quieter and a rather discordant circus tune took it's place.
They walked into the island.
"...Oh..."Amell said, his eye's widening.
It was a circus- without a tent; the sky above the island looked stormy- thunder was crackling admist the water-paint like sky. Doves Flying past it would get electrocuted by the thunder and fall to the ground.
There was a creature that looked like a lion; but with a fish-shaped head and a tail that was spawning doves- wearing a saddle and some broken restraints around it's legs. It Jumped down from one of the statues and swiped it's tail at a Bleeding- Crying,screaming Man. It swiped at him with it's teeth- blood shooting out like a rocket- and the entire paper crowd cheering.
"W-Wa-Argh!gh-gHLA-phla-Plhea-!"The Man Stumbled on his words as he coughed up blood, too much blood coming out of his mouth and nose for him to be able to talk as the creature Sliced at him again- a Cane and a Wand flying out of his tattered Cape and clattering to the ground- a Floral Jellyfish grabbed onto it with a retracting tentacle and began to smash the two into the ground; shattering many Antaxite Crystals stuck in it.
"Phla-Phela-Lha-Rgha!"He Spluttered, beginning to try to walk away- the Creature's Dove-spawning tail Sliced at Leonidas's Leg- His Foot went flying and another creature began to feast on it. He Started to try to crawl away- crawl towards the exit.
His eyes widened-seeing Jess and Amell in front of the exit.
Amell started to back away. As a Creature that looked like a Pelican- but with a sword for a break rose into the sky.
Jess used her telekinesis and repelled the Pelican away.
"Jesus Christ, that's enough!" Jess called out.
The Lion-Creature than Ran towards the Man- Biting into his Leg.
"Hulaahpa- Whaa-!"Leonidas Garbled- trying to crawl towards her.
One of the Jellie's spat out it's toungue- Which stuck to Leonidas's same leg.
"No it isn't."Lara said, appearing Behind Jess- the Pelican Being Propelled back towards the man.
Jess turned to Lara.
"Lara, we don't want to kill the guy, we want to bring him back to the real world to face justice! Killing him won't bring back all the people he killed!" Jess said
"I know."Lara said. "I'll do that once he's gone."
The Pelican thrust it's sword-beak into his Back. He coughed up more Blood, More Creatures began leaving their seats and circling around him- some attacking him, others just waiting.
Jess then levitated Leonidas away from the creatures, dropping him behind her back before turning to Lara.
"Lara, enough!" Jess said.
Lara's hair flared out behind her.
"...you didn't have to see it."Lara said. her eyes gaining sharpness.
"So YOU HAVE NO SAY IN THIS!"Lara yelled- Jess being sent flying- she flew straight into a angel statue; which began to crack and fall.
"MOM!"Amell yelled, running past Lara towards the mass of Creatures- which were still making a beeline for Leonidas,
He got scratched by one as he tried to run through it, he continued on- his leg starting to draw blood as a sharp creature ran past him.
"Gha!"Amell gulped, falling to the floor, Lara cursed- waving at him- sending him flying into the spectator seats- where he landed harmlessly.
Leonidas's scream's lost their strength as the Creatures all piled around him. Blood soaking the Floor and dripping off the edge- his arm was still moving around- although it was hard to tell if his body was being jostled or if he was somehow still alive.
Lara looked at the sight and smiled.
"...Finally."She said.
She got hit by a blast of wind, sending her flying right down the port and nearly off the Island, She looked up to see Amell was standing and had sent it.
Lara frowned slightly, before vanishing into a puff of smoke.
The Angel Jess had landed on began to falter and started to fall into the clouds.
Jess immediately levitated herself and got off the statue, landing right next to Amell and looked at Leonidas.
"...Jesus Christ." Jess said.
Amell just stared at the sight.
He couldn't even be seen, just his hand- which- by the manner it was shifting about- was clearly not being moved by Leonidas himself.
Amell frowned, his eyebrows furrowing. "What did she mean, earlier."He asked. "By 'i'll do that after'."
"...Maybe she referred to the people that Leonidas attempted to use their souls to power himself up?" Jess guessed.
"...
I see...That's them, isn't it."Amell said. Looking at the Creatures- the Pelican and a few of the Jellies had started to leave the sight- other creatures were content to continue.
"...Do you Think Vera's among them?"He asked.
"...Possibly...I think Lara might try to go after the rest of Leonidas's staff. We can't simply let her kill them just like she did Leonidas. What he did was very wrong, but murder is never the solution." Jess said.
Amell said nothing.
Continuing to stare at the blood soaking the Island itself.
Jess held Amell's hand.
"...I'm really sorry you had to see this...let's go." Jess said as they walked off.
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 6, 2017 0:18:29 GMT
THE ATHENA SAGA
CHAPTER 15 THE FINAL FIGHT
PART 1
The chapters starts at Athena's house.
Athena was in her bedroom, staring out the window, waiting.
More precisely, waiting for the fight with the Legion and to save Trixie.
She just kept looking out the window.
Eventually, her communicator rang.
Athena immediately picked it up and answered.
"Yes?" Athena asked.
"We finally found their stronghold at last. It's time." Jaden said.
Athena smiled.
"Good. Me and the others will show up aswell." Athena said.
"Yes. Be prepared for what's about to happen next." Jaden said.
"We will." Athena nodded.
She closed the communicator and began to dress herself up. She dressed up in her Shadow Girl costume, thinking it's a fitting way to finish the Legion the way she started out.
She looked at her mask and thought about putting it on or not. She decided not to, seeing as how they know her name and face anyways.
Athena turned to Leon.
"Okay, Leon, this will be it. Today, we save Trixie and stop the Black Crow for good." Athena said.
Leon nodded as they walked out of the room.
Athena walked out of her house and Zack, Donald and Martin were already there.
"So, are you guys ready?" Athena asked.
"Yup. We are." Donald said.
"I have been waiting for this day for awhile now." Zack said.
"We surely won't fail. Trixie is counting on us." Martin said.
"Yeah. We won't let the Legion succeed in their goal. Today is the day when we finally defeat them." Athena said.
They nodded.
Athena got her communicator and called Jaden.
"Okay, get us to the base." Athena said.
Athena and her friends were teleported out of there.
At the ISP base.
Jaden, Athena and her friends were walking in the hallway, going towards the council room.
"I'm sure I don't need to tell you about how dangerous this will be. This will be a fight for the entire Multiverse itself." Jaden said.
"We know. And we are prepared for it." Athena said.
"That's what I wanted to hear." Jaden said.
They entered in the council room and there was Cirak, Lyra, Mibyll, Vlad, Dasawert, Ymarac and Yarim. Jaden sat at the end of the table and looked at everyone.
"Okay, you all know why we are here. To discuss our plans on how to deal with the Legion and defeat them for good." Jaden said.
Jaden looked at Yarim.
"First, the location of their hideout." Jaden said.
"The Legion is currently staying in the second Dimension, on a mountain, there is a giant Citadel with lots of Crows circling it. That's their main base." Yarim said as a hologram of the Citadel appeared.
"Indeed. The Omnipotents of that Dimension weren't aware of the Citadel's existence. They kept themselves hidden pretty well." Jaden said.
"The last ones of the Legion are these guys." Dasawert said as holograms of Black Crow, Chronos, Kross, Micro, Zhovet and the Chameleon appeared.
"Yes, these six. And they also have an army of Kheogs, Lovians, Others and some robots. We have to stop the Black Crow before he manages to refill the last Jewel with powerful energy. We strike at him with everything we got or else, everything will be over for us and for every universe out there." Jaden said.
"So, what's the strategy plan?" Mibyll asked.
"Cirak, you and your forces will handle the Legion's army, Mibyll you will assist in destroying the soldiers on the battlefield, Lyra, you upgrade your weapons and get the Neonytes who you are in contact with to help us, Vlad, you help out with the Others, Dasawert, you will handle with the intel, Ymarac, you'll free the prisoners captured by the Legion from their cells and Yarim, you will be with me." Jaden said.
Jaden turned to Athena and her group.
"You will have the job of infiltrating in the Citadel and defeat the Black Crow and his allies. And also save Trixie at the same time. But remember, we can't let the Black Crow get his hands on the Crown or else, this was all for nothing." Jaden said.
"We understand perfectly. No one will stop us from saving Trixie and defeating the Black Crow." Athena said.
"Very well." Jaden said, as he turned to everyone else.
"It's time we get started. Call every agent and get into every ship and be equipped with powerful weapons: it's time we take down the Legion of Crows for good." Jaden said.
They all nodded.
"...Trixie...here we come." Athena said.
In the second Dimension, in the Citadel of Crows.
In a large area, the Black Crow, Chronos, Kross, Micro, Zhovet and the Chameleon were on a platform and the Jewel was attached to a machine and there was a person trapped to the machine and he was screaming as his energy was being extracted from his body and injected into the Jewel. The screen on the machine was showing how much energy the Jewel has now.
Eventually, the energy extraction ended and the person passed out.
"That's the 15th one who's energy we extracted." Kross said.
Black Crow turned to Chronos.
"Well, doctor? Is the Jewel full yet?" Black Crow asked.
Chronos looked at the screen and the number was 60%
"Not yet, but we are close now." Chronos said.
"I see. Well then, it's time we bring in Miss Trixie. Micro, go and pick up our...hesitant volunteer." Black Crow said.
Micro nodded as he jumped off the platform and landed on the floor, going to where Trixie was.
The Chameleon changed into the Black Crow.
"We are almost there. Just a few more steps and everything will be under our control. It's a shock to think about how many Legion members have died to reach this point." Black Crow-Chameleon said.
"Indeed. Kelou, Henry, Seth, Sin, Veronica and Ate. We wouldn't have come this far without them. Thanks to them, everything is moving according to how I envisioned it. And most importantly...the power of the Crown will soon be mine." Black Crow said.
"LET ME GO!" Trixie yelled out.
Micro walked back into the area and flew to the platform, with Trixie in his large robot hand.
Micro shoved Trixie into the machine, trapping her.
"Now, Miss Trixie, this might be a painful procedure, but after a few seconds, you won't feel anything else for awhile." Black Crow said.
Suddenly, the entire Citadel began to shake, catching them by surprise.
"The hell!?" Zhovet asked.
"What's going on!?" Kross asked.
Black Crow turned on the screen and saw a large ISP ship with Jaden in it, accompanied by other ISP ships, shooting at the Citadel.
"...Oh, bugger me with a fish knife, they're here!" Black Crow said.
"Ha, told you my friends would show up!" Trixie smiled.
"These fools just don't know when to quit till they're defeated." Kross said.
"What should we do? We can't let them damage the machine!" Chronos said.
Black Crow turned to Kross.
"Kross, gather all the troops and have them attack the Intergalatic crew and you will lead the assault. Do not let them get in the Citadel." Black Crow said.
"Yes. I'll crush them all." Kross nodded.
Kross teleported out of there.
Black Crow turned to the rest.
"Chronos, Micro and Zhovet, you three will go into each floor and prevent any intruders from getting here. Chameleon, you stay here with me." Black Crow said.
The Chameleon nodded.
Chronos, Micro and Zhovet teleported out of there.
Black Crow turned to the machine.
"I already lost a war once. I won't lose this one aswell. Let's continue the energy extraction." Black Crow said.
Outside the Citadel.
Every Kheog and Lovian ship flew out of the Citadel while the Others and robots bursted out of the Citadel, along with some Kheogs and Lovians. Kross was in a more bigger ship, sitting in the pilot seat, leading the attack.
"DESTROY THEM!" Kross ordered.
The ships began shooting at the ISP ships.
The large ship Jaden was in was protected by a force field and the other ISP ships attacked the Kheog and Lovian ships.
"Take out all the troops! We can't let them destroy any of the ships!" Jaden said.
The clash between the ISP and the Legion's forces began.
Meanwhile, in the forest.
Athena, Zack, Donald, Leon and Martin were seen running very fast, going towards the Citadel.
"Come on guys, we have to get there, fast!" Athena said.
"Don't need to tell me!" Zack said.
In the forest, Mibyll was seen fighting off four robots, his body was in steel mode, waiting for them to attack.
The robots charged at him and he grabbed two of them and smashed into each other before the punched the other robot's head and then smashed the last one.
More robots showed up.
"Mibyll!" Donald yelled.
Mibyll turned to see the group behind him.
"You guys are going to the Citadel? Come on, you should hurry, Trixie is waiting for you." Mibyll said.
"Don't you need help?" Martin asked.
"I got this covered." Mibyll said.
Mibyll punched the ground and all the robots fell.
"I'll join you guys later, now run!" Mibyll said.
"Right!" Athena nodded.
The group ran past Mibyll as the robots got up and charged at him.
They ran out of the forest and headed towards the mountain.
Once they reached there, they saw the clash between the ISP and the Legion, with ISP agents shooting at the Kheog and Lovian soldiers with their weapons while Vlad, in his Other form, was dealing with the Others.
"Holy shit, this turned into a war, quickly!" Zack said.
"Let's let them handle this, we have to get to the top very quickly!" Donald said.
"I know one way to get there. Just hold on." Athena said.
Athena used her telekinesis and lifted herself and her friends, levitating to the top of the mountain.
Kross located Athena and her friends from the ship.
"Well, well, look who showed up. The group I was looking for." Kross said.
Kross was ready to blast them.
"This will be a satisfaction." Kross said.
Suddenly, The ship got hit by bullets.
"The Devil!?" Kross asked, looking at who shot at the ship.
It was Cirak, in a ship of his own, flying towards Kross's ship.
"Kross, you son of a Kheog whore, I read your book!" Cirak yelled.
"Ah, if it isn't the maniac himself, general Cirak. Once I'm threw with you, I will bury your remains where they belong, in the mud!" Kross said.
"Don't think so, you planet-humping, shitile!" Cirak yelled.
Cirak began shooting at Kross.
Kross dodged the shoots and started shooting lasers at Cirak, hitting his ship.
Both ships charged at each other and clashed.
Athena and her friends got to the top and were in front of the Citadel.
"Let's get inside! We can't waste any time now!" Athena said.
The group ran into the Citadel.
When they were inside, there were torches around them and walls made out of stone and in front of them were some stairs.
Then ran to the stairs and when they looked up, they saw had a lot of climbing to do to get to the first floor.
"Oh, you gotta be kidding me." Zack said.
"We can't use our time with this now. I'll just take us directly there with telekinesis." Athena said.
Athena levitated herself and her friends to the first floor without needing to climb the stairs.
They were now at the first floor. They were in a hallway with more torches and nothing else.
"These guys weren't even trying to be creative with this place." Donald said.
"Let's go." Athena said.
The group began to ran through the first floor.
While running, Zhovet bursted through a wall and got in the group's way.
"So, you don't like the décor, eh? Well, what do you know, you lousy humans! Hahahahaha! So, you want to get to the Black Crow? Well, try to get past Zhovet then!" Zhovet said.
"Ugh, this guy again!" Athena said.
"We can't deal with him right now! The longer we waste our time, Trixie's energy is being sucked out!" Donald yelled.
"But how?" Martin asked.
"...Leave him to me." Zack said, stepping forward.
"What!? Zack!" Athena said.
"Don't worry, I'll be okay. This guy's weakness is fire, right? I should handle him pretty well. You guys go ahead and try to reach the place where the Crow and Trixie is. I'll catch up to you after I finish this guy!" Zack said.
"...Okay, fine, but come back to us alive!" Athena said.
"I'm not planning on dying today so you won't have to worry about that." Zack winked.
Athena nodded as she, Leon, Donald and Martin ran past Zhovet and continued.
"Hey, where do you think-" Zhovet said.
Zhovet got hit by a fire ball, right in his armor and he angrily turned to Zack.
"It's you and me now, big buy! Let's go!" Zack said.
Zack charged at Zhovet, shooting multiple fire balls at him.
Zhovet blocked the fire balls with his wrist braces before he punched Zack in the face, knocking him back.
"Do you really think a puny human like you can handle someone as powerful like Zhovet? Zhovet is one of the most mightiest warriors of the Lovians, and nothing will stop Zhovet from defeating the scourge of the Sun once and for all!" Zhovet said.
"We'll see about that, ugly!" Zack said.
Zack's hands were on fire and charged at Zhovet.
Zhovet blocked Zack's fists with his wrist braces and attempted to punch Zack again.
Zack dodged and he headbutted Zhovet in the face.
"GAH!" Zhovet yelled.
Zack kicked Zhovet in the stomach before shooting a fire beam in at Zhovet, hitting him in the armor and launching into a wall.
Meanwhile, Athena and her group reached the second floor. This one was a bit different.
In front of them was a wooden bridge and when they cross it, at the left were some prison cells and they'd have continue their way to the next floor to the next bridge past the prison cells.
The group ran onto the bridge and then took to the left and looked at the prison cells before they saw one open prison door and inside it were Ymarac and 15 or so prisoners who looked very exhausted.
The group ran to them.
"Ymarac, who are these guys?" Athena asked.
"These prisoners are residents of this dimension who had been captured by the Legion." Ymarac said.
"T-they absorbed our energy using some strange machine...They said they were injecting it into a Jewel. It din't matter how broken and weak we grew...they just kept doing it." One of the prisoners said.
"Well, now that we're here, you can finally rest easy." Donald said.
"Are there any more of you that have been captured?" Athena asked.
"No, it's just us." The prisoner said.
"Alright, Ymarac, get these guys-"
"W-wait!" A prisoner who was on the floor said.
They turned to him.
"A young girl with black skin was with us..." The prisoner said.
"What!? Was her name Trixie!?" Athena asked.
"Y-yeah...they took her from the cell she was locked in a little while ago." The prisoner said.
"Don't worry about us anymore. Please, go and save that girl! You need to hurry or she'll..." One of the prisoners said.
"Please, tell me, where is she now!?" Athena asked.
"In the final floor of this place. She was taken by a giant robot from the Legion. They're gonna extract her energy right now." The prisoner said.
"...Trixie." Athena said.
Donald turned to Ymarac.
"You should get these guys to safety." Donald said.
"Yeah. Mont will take care of these guys." Ymarac said.
Ymarac teleported out of there with the prisoners.
Suddenly, the floor was shaking as a part of the ceiling collapsed.
"WOAH!" Martin said.
Chronos levitated out of the hole in the ceiling and landed in front of the group.
"Foolish earthlings, for interfering with our plans, you will face your end at the hands of Doctor Chronos!" Chronos said.
"Ah, crap, this guy too!?" Donald asked.
"Let me handle this one!" Martin said.
"Are you sure? This guy is immortal." Athena said.
"Immortal or not, we can't let him slow us down! You heard the guy, Trixie's life is in danger right now! You and Donald need to get out of here and save her!" Martin said.
"...Thank you, Martin. Be careful." Athena said.
Athena turned to Donald and Leon and they nodded.
Athena, Donald and Leon pushed Chronos out of the way and ran on the bridge, before going to the next floor.
Chronos turned to Martin.
"You just made a grave mistake, little man." Chronos said.
"Maybe...But I surely won't regret it!" Martin said, hitting his mechanical gloves's fists together.
Chronos levitated pieces of the ceiling and threw them at Martin.
Martin smashed through the pieces as he ran towards Chronos and punched him in the face, smashing his glasses.
Martin just punched Chronos multiple times before knocking him on the floor.
Chronos's face was severly bruised but it instandtly healed before he got up and levitated Martin, hitting him against the wall.
"You would stand me against me!? A Neonyte, a force of nature, a GOD!?" Chronos asked.
Chronos then smacked Martin against the ceiling before painfully dropping him on the floor.
Chronos approached Martin, grabbing his neck with his robot hand and lifting him to his face.
"Now human, do you still think you stand a change against me?" Chronos asked.
"...Probably not, now. But, it doesn't mean I have to give up!" Martin said.
Martin punched Chronos in the stomach, letting go off Martin
Martin then grabbed Chronos and twisted his left arm before he smacked him against the cell
Athena, Donald and Leon were now in the third floor, running in a hallway, with lots of boxes and statues in it.
"We can't be too far from Trixie now. Just a bit more running and we'll be there!" Athena said.
Suddenly, some lasers went flying towards them.
"ATHENA!" Donald yelled.
Donald pushed Athena out of the lasers's way.
Athena immediately got up.
"Thanks again, Donald!" Athena said.
"Don't mention it!" Donald said.
They turned to the direction of the lasers and spotted a big flashing red eye in the darkness. Micro stepped out of the shadows, looking down on Athena and Donald.
"You are in the way once again. I advice you do not get involved and run. Now." Micro said.
"Not a chance, Decepti-Trash." Athena said.
"You should leave him to me. You and Leon go ahead." Donald said.
"Are you sure you can take him. Cause last time-"
"Yes, I remember. Besides, I want some payback for him throwing me in the air when we last fought! You just go and save Trixie! We'll meet up when I'm finished here" Donald said.
"Okay. Just be careful." Athena said.
Athena turned to Leon.
"Let's go boy." Athena said.
Athena and Leon ran past Micro and went ahead.
Donald charged at Micro and smacked his legs with his hammer. It obviously din't work.
Micro slammed Donald with his fists, knocking him into the wall.
"...Ow." Donald said.
Donald immediately got off the wall and threw him hammer at Micro's head.
Micro catched the hammer and threw it aside.
He began shooting lasers from his eyes at Donald.
Donald ran off, dodging the lasers, going towards his hammer.
He grabbed the hammer and began deflecting the lasers with it.
Donald was running towards Micro while deflecting his beams.
When he deflected one beam, it his him in his reactor core, making a crack on the glass.
Micro then shoot a massive beam out of his eye, hitting Donald and knocking him into a box, breaking it.
"...This...will be tougher than I expected." Donald sighed, feelings lot of pain.
Athena and Leon were now in the final floor.
They were running fast till they reached a big door at the end of the hall.
"This is where the Black Crow and Trixie must be at. Get ready, Leon." Athena said.
Leon nodded.
Athena opened the door and ran inside.
She looked around and spotted the platform the Black Crow and the Chameleon were on. Trixie was in the machine and her energy was being extracted and the number on the screen reach at 80%. Trixie was screaming in pain.
"TRIXIE!" Athena yelled.
Black Crow and Chameleon turned around and looked down on Athena.
"Ah, Athena Vixerello. We finally meet face to face at last. And here I was just about ready to harvest your friend's energy." Black Crow said.
Athena glared at the Black Crow.
"Release her...RELEASE TRIXIE, YOU OLD GEEZER!" Athena yelled.
"Hmph, insults will get you nowhere, my dear." Black Crow said.
"Does it look like I care? It's over, Crow. You are surrounded, there is no way you can escape now!" Athena said.
"Don't be so dense. What reason is there for me to run? I only need to inject the energy of one more person into the Jewel and our preparations for the Infinite Multiversal Hypnotism plan will be in place." Black Crow said.
"And are you sure that this plan of yours will succeed? Just like how the New Rebellion succeeded during that war you lost a long ago?" Athena asked.
Black Crow looked a bit surprised when he heard that.
"...You know about the New Rebellion?" Black Crow asked.
"Yes, I do. And you were defeated by the Spartan Five!" Athena said.
Black Crow stared at her before smiling.
"Heh, the Spartan Five...how many years has it been since I heard that name? Well, now it appears that Miss Vixerello has grown wise to my game, Chameleon." Black Crow said.
"...Tell me..who are you!?" Athena asked.
"...Very well. Since we are at the endgame now, I suppose it's fair to tell you my story now. My true long and forgotten name is...Manuel Kraven. Former resident from the 10th Universe and one of the former leaders of the New Rebellion" Black Crow, or rather, Manuel said.
"...Manuel...Kraven...Fawn mentioned his name just yesterday!" Athena said in her mind.
"You see, Athena Vixerello, I did not have the same advantages as you in your universe. Since I was born, I lived in poverty in a small weak village. I've seen fights, sickness, death and worse. My parents...died sooner than I expected. The only company I ever had were the crows. They were like companions to me. I was one of the few people who had powers. When I discovered my ability, I thought it was destiny. The power to change one's mind, to make them think differently...it was interesting. To see how much I could change everything with my power, I left my home and went to travel around the world till I reached a city. The one in charge was Hallend. He was weak at leading his own people. I met some who were unhappy with his decisions, like Callus for example. And so, I decided to see how much I could change things with my power. I convinced Callus to help him in defeating Hallend and we formed the New Rebellion together, by using my mental powers. Eventually, the war started and everything was going well...till the Spartan Five showed up." Black Crow said.
Many years ago, in the Frozen Dimension.
Black Crow, looking more younger and in his New Rebellion outfit, was watching the battle from the distance and saw the Spartan Five(Ultima, Kenward, James, Hanson and Belock), fighting the New Rebellion and winning. The Black Crow din't look happy.
"The Spartan Five, made out of Ultima, Kenward, James, Hanson and Belock defeated the New Rebellion and locked up Callus. Thankfully, I escaped but for the first time, I had to endure the worst feelings that a human could ever feel...defeat." Black Crow said.
The Black Crow was walking through the forest, looking at the ground.
"I din't have anywhere else to go, and it wouldn't of been long till the army would of found me and imprisoned me aswell. I thought that this was my last stop...till." Black Crow said.
Black Crow stopped walking when he noticed a huge computer with multiple monitors. The Black Crow approached the machine out of curiosity and looked through the monitors. It was the Paradox machine
"I found my ticket out of there. It's a good thing that Gods are so careless with their own creations, so then others can use them for their own benefits." Black Crow said.
Black Crow pressed some buttons and he vanished. He reappeared in the main Universe, right in Newrum State City. The Black Crow looked around at his new surroundings, looking surprised by where he was. He looked at a random newspaper on the ground and picked it up. The year date was 2041.
"I was in a new dimension. Before I could figure out my next move, I decided to settle in this dimension." Black Crow said.
It cuts to the Black Crow who was in a pretty crappy apartment and watching TV. He was watching the Omnipotent Tournament in which Hastur won on the Omni channel, he was watching the final 3 round.
"I found out about the existence of Omnipotents and decided to find out more about them. I managed to find a list of them and apparently, the dimension I was wasn't the only with Omnipotents, there were 11 more universes with them, and possibly more if we count the parallel ones. Among them was the Omnipotent of Mentality, Lea-Maria. She had the same power as me, except her far surpassed mine's in comparison. And I discovered that one of the Omnipotents, Kamest, had the power to make artifacts and one of them was the Crown of Deity, the artifact which would turn a person into a God and give them unimaginable power. And then it hit me. With this Crown, my power will grow to a unlimited level and I could have the power to change dozens of Universes's minds and thoughts...I could be able to change everything and put an end to conflicts forever. I decided to find the Crown, but I couldn't do it alone...I needed a team. Team of powerful entities. And that team happened to be the Legion of Crows. And my name was no longer Manuel Kraven, it was the Black Crow, the man who's presence is a sign that...a murder is about to happen to those who stand in his way." Black Crow said.
It cuts back to the present.
"...So, this is my story." Black Crow said.
"...If what you are saying is true then...what is this Infinite Multiversal Hypnotism plan that you are telling me about?" Athena asked.
"Ah, that. Once the Crown's power will be mine in a few minutes, I will ultimately become more powerful than you can ever imagine. I will use my powerful mental ability to change the entire Multiverse's mindset. I will declare myself the King of the Multiverse, and what I say goes. Everyone will be under my control and wars, racism, deaths and anything else will be a thing of the past." Black Crow said.
"...That's...that's insane! You are basically brainwashing everyone into becoming your slaves!" Athena said.
"No, they won't become slaves. Mind you, you will still have your own will and thoughts and your own desires...except, you won't have the will to do bad stuff anymore or to go against me. My plan will be far more successful than Hastur's and Verita's, who thought by taking over universes with force and removing emotions would make everything much better. Black Crow said.
"Your plan is not different from them. Your gonna use mind control to stop people from doing what they want, everything they will be doing from now on will be out of your own will. That's not what the people would want." Athena said.
"Hm. Since when has Mankind ever known what it needs? Many said that we should leave it to the new generations to fix the mistakes of the old, and yet, the new generations made even more mistakes and caused so much damage. It's time for someone from the old generation to correct those mistakes. Only I have the vision to create a perfect Multiverse, all worlds will be united under my rule, no more injustice or suffering, if I demand obedience, it's only for the greater good, to create a new order. Now then, miss Vixerello, are you gonna stand with me...or against me?" Black Crow asked.
"I'm 100% against you! I won't let you take over the entire world! And I won't let you sacrifice Trixie just to make that happen! I will stop you right here and right now!" Athena said.
Athena aimed her gun at the Black Crow and Leon was standing right beside her.
Black Crow sighed.
"Chameleon, you know what you have to do." Black Crow said.
Chameleon nodded as he jumped from the Platform and landed on the ground.
He shapeshifted into the White Arrow and shot at arrows at Athena
Athena deflected the arrows with her telekinesis before charging at the Chameleon.
White Arrow-Chameleon charged at Athena and Athena dodged most of his attacks and he kicked him away from her.
The Chameleon changed into Meredith and began shooting at Athena.
Leon dodged the bullets and charged at Meredith-Chameleon, bitting him.
Chameleon changed into Zhovet and punched Leon off him.
Chameleon charged towards Athena, about to crush her.
Athena dodged and punched Chameleon in the face, punching him multiple times before he blocked her attack and changed into someone else.
Back outside.
The war was still going on.
Some Neonytians in their ships showed up and started attacking some Kheog ships.
Jade and Yarim were at the battlefield, shooting at Others and robots.
"More of them just keep coming!" Yarim said.
"We have no choice but to take them all down! Athena and her friends will take care of the Black Crow!" Jaden said.
"Let's hope so!" Yarim said, before she shot a rocket out of her massive rocket launcher and it hits some Kheogs, sending them flying.
Cirak and Kross were currently having a spaceship fight, shooting at each other.
"Come on, Kross, you know you can't win! Give it up!" Cirak said.
"Give it up!? You fool, do you know how long I had to wait!?" Kross asked.
Kross shot a laser at Cirak's ship, hitting it.
"Putting up with a group of psychopaths, especially that repressed momma's boy and that idiotic Lovian, who actually went to find the Jewel in a fucking SOUP STORE!" Kross yelled.
Kross shot multiple lasers at Cirak's ship, making holes in it.
"The plotting and murdering, all for this moment. Soon, the Kheogs will rise to power again once the Black Crow will get the Crown. We will finally get our own proper planet and no one will stop us, not even you!" Kross said.
Kross shot more lasers at Cirak.
Cirak dodged the lasers and began shooting bullets at Kross's ship, hitting it.
Cirak attempted to slam his ship against Kross's but Kross dodged and shot his ship from behind.
Cirak's ship turned around and flew towards Kross's ship, began firing at him.
Back at Zack's fight.
Zack was currently avoiding Zhovet's kicks till he kicked him away from him.
Zhovet punched ground, many some cracks, causing Zack to fall on the floor.
Zhovet jumped towards Zack, about to land on his body with his feet.
Zack rolled out of the way and Zhoved landed right beside him.
Zack grabbed his leg with his hand on fire, causing Zhovet to scream in pain.
Zack got up and shoot a massive beam of fire at Zhovet's back, sending him crashing into the wall.
He waited for Zhovet's next move.
Zhovet slowly got up, looking very pissed but then he smiled at Zack.
"Heh, don't think you've won just yet, Omni. Zhovet was just getting started." Zhovet said.
"Is that so? Well then, I better melt you very quickly then!" Zack said.
Zack started running towards Zhovet.
Zhovet looked at his left wrist brace and pressed a button. Suddenly, a holographic image of a full moon appeared and Zhovet started glowing purple, his muscles increased and his eyes turned from yellow to purple.
Zack stopped, looking surprised.
"Is he powering up!?" Zack asked.
The super powered Zhovet turned to Zack.
"Tonight, Zhovet dines on Omnipotent soup!" Zhovet said
Zhovet charged towards Zack, making a hole in the floor from where he was standing.
"AH!" Zack yelled, barely dodging Zhovet as he missed him and Zhovet punched a wall, shattering into pieces.
Zack attempted to shoot a massive fire ball at him but Zhovet immediately turned around and ran very fast towards Zack, punching him right in the stomach.
"GAH!" Zack yelled, spilling out blood out of his mouth.
Zhovet kicked Zack and knocked him to the floor.
Zack slowly got up till Zhovet punched him in the stomach again and began running towards the wall with Zack on his fist before smacking him against the wall.
"Zhovet will plant himself a Omni-dumbass tree!" Zhovet said as he smashed Zack against the floor, making a small crator.
Back with Martin.
He was currently repeatedly punching Chronos in the face till he knocked him to the floor.
Chronos took the hits and he began healing very fast thanks to him being immortal.
Martin charged at Chronos and was about to hit him again.
Chronos grabbed the remote out of his coat and pressed a button.
The mechanical gloves on Martin suddenly stopped working and Martin's hands suddenly felt really heavy as they hit the ground.
"What the!?" Martin asked.
"Those gloves were Neonytian-made. Did you honestly think you could use our toys without pulling strings?" Chronos asked.
He then levitated the gloves away from Martin.
"Oh crap." Martin said.
Chronos turned the cells and ripped every bar with his telekinesis and launched them at Martin.
He wrapped Martin's body in metal bars, preventing from doing anything else before levitating him over to Chronos.
"Foolish human, there was no way you could kill me! I am Immortal!" Chronos said.
"Well, let's see what the Antaxite has to say about that." A voice said.
Chronos and Martin looked around for the voice.
"Who said that?" Chronos asked.
"ME!" Lyra said, coming out of a black hole and entering in the room, equipped with weapons.
"Lyra!" Martin said.
"A Neonytian...Ah, I see, you came here to help me." Chronos smiled.
"Nah, actually, I came here to help him." Lyra said, referring to Martin.
Lyra aimed a weapon at the bars wrapped around Martin's body and shot at them, vaporizing the bars and Martin fell on the floor. Lyra then shot at Chronos, hitting him and making a hole in his body.
"By the way, take this!" Lyra said.
She threw a Antaxite Jewel at Martin and he catched it.
"Okay...what am I supposed to do with it?" Martin asked.
"Since he is immortal and can't be killed, you have to trap his spirt into the Antaxite. That's the only we can beat him since I couldn't get any Neonytes with soul destroying powers here." Lyra said.
"Oh, okay!" Martin said.
The hole in Chronos's body disappeared as he angrily turned to Lyra.
"Do you have any ideas about what you are doing!? I am trying to save our own kind by turning all of us immortal! You are trying to kill the one who found a cure to our short life spans!" Chronos said.
"Yeah, but you see, not everyone wants to be immortal. I can't imagine any of us ever wanting to live a very long life without going insane, and also the fact that some of the bad Neonytians would take advantage of this and it would be harder to kill them to by giving them a immortality elixir. Plus, you're helping a group of bad guys who want to enslave everyone...so, you have to be stopped." Lyra said as she shot at Chronos.
Chronos got hit before he telekinetically lifted Lyra over to him, grabbing her by the throat with his own robot arm.
"It's easy for you to say, since you weren't the one who had to be dragged in wars to heal the wounded and have everyone put their faiths on your shoulders and in the end, failing to save them! Once I have the entire Tree, I will finally be able to actually save many Neonytian's lives and not fail them again! AND YOU WON'T STAND IN MY WAY!" Chronos yelled.
He threw Lyra aside but she got sucked in by a black hole before she could hit the wall and she vanished.
Chronos turned around and levitated the Antaxite Jewel from Martin, grabbing it.
"You are not gonna seal me in the Antaxite! I am the one who figured out a way to save millions of people's lives and you won't-"
Suddenly, many black holes appeared around Chronos and lasers flew out of them, hitting Chronos, dropping the Antaxite as it rolled over to Martin.
"The hell!?" Chronos asked.
Martin turned around and Lyra was back in the room, with black holes around her and shooting many lasers through them and they fly out of the holes around Chronos, hitting him and making holes in his body.
"Hurry, use the Antaxite!" Lyra said.
Martin immediately grabbed the Jewel and aimed it at Chronos.
"Okay, Antaxite, GO!" Martin said.
...The Antaxite din't do anything.
"...Oh come on, work!" Martin demanded.
Martin began to hit the Jewel with his palms.
"Work, you stupid thing!" Martin yelled.
Chronos, meanwhile, was still getting shot at and had holes in every part of his body and his body wasn't regenerating very quickly.
Chronos, looking pissed, began to glow.
"ENOUGH!" Chronos yelled.
Every part of the area began to be teared apart by Chronos's telekinesis, along with the bridges.
The floor was being teared up aswell and the floor beneath Martin shattered.
"AAAH!" Martin screamed.
Martin held to what remained of the floor, preventing himself from falling to death while holding the Antaxite in the other hand.
Chronos, who was glowing and all the pieces of the area floating around him, launched all the pieces at Lyra, each of them hitting her at the same time.
With Donald.
Donald was currently getting tossed around by Micro.
Micro was about to pancake him with his robot arms till Donald rolled out of the way.
Donald got up and attempted to slam his face in with the hammer.
Micro dodged as he shot yet another laser at Donald, hitting him in the chest.
"UGH!" Donald yelled.
He puts his hand on his chest and began coughing up blood.
Micro approached Donald, ready-ing his laser eye, aiming it at his head.
Suddenly, Mibyll bursted into the area, in his steel form, puching Micro in his eye, knocking him on the floor.
Mibyll landed in front of Donald and turned to him.
"You okay, dude?" Mibyll asked.
"Nope. Not okay at all." Donald said.
Mibyll helped Donald get up before they turned to Micro.
Micro slowly got up and his eye was flashing red, meaning he was pissed.
"There's no way to damage him! Anything I try to do, it doesn't make a scratch on his body!" Donald said.
"I fought one of these giant robots once back in a Tournament years ago. He was tough as this guy. Dasawert said that a Metalmen's weakness is their reactor cores." Mibyll said.
"Reactor cores?" Donald asked.
"See the green thing at the middle of it's chest. That's the reactor core. If we manage to break the glass and land a hit in the reactor core, the core will explode and it will take him with it. That's how we will beat him." Mibyll said.
"Oh, I see. All we have to do is somehow break the reactor core and he is done." Donald said
"Yup. Now let's take this sucker out!" Mibyll said.
Donald and Mibyll charged at Micro.
Micro attempted to smash them with his fists and they dodged.
They immediately jumped to his reactor core and Donald hits it with his hammer while Mibyll hits it with his fists.
More cracks appeared on Micro's green glass.
Micro grabbed the two and threw them against the wall before beginning to shoot lasers at them.
Donald repelled the lasers with his hammer before getting an eye idea.
Every laser he would repel, he would deflect it to Micro's core. Donald hits every laser like a baseball and hits his core, making more cracks, to the point where the glass will shatter soon.
Micro stopped shooting lasers at them as his hands changed to cannon hands and shot two massive red beams at the two.
Mibyll and Donald got hit and were knocked into the wall.
Micro grabbed them both and began slamming them against the area many times.
Back to Athena.
Athena was currently landing hits on the Chameleon who kept changing his forms.
He now changed into Ponek and was charging towards Athena.
Athena jumped out of the way and missed Ponek's fatal punch as the punch hits the ground, making a hole in it.
Athena shot a massive beam from her gun, hitting Ponek-Chameleon and knocked him to the floor.
He then quickly changed into Verita and shot a white beam at Athena as soon as she landed on the floor.
Athena then dodged the white beam before she telekinetically lifted Verita-Chameleon and began slamming him against the floor many times.
When she dropped him, the Chameleon changed back to his normal form.
He got up and lets out a scream of pure rage, the scream was a mix of all the voices of the people he shapeshifted into.
The Chameleon suddenly changed into a huge chimera, with multiple eyes and mouths all over his body, and arms, claws and tendrils coming out of his sides.
Athena shot a massive beam at the Chimera-Chameleon but he repelled the beam easily with his arms.
Athena charged at the Chimera and attempted to punch and kick it but every attack was blocked by the monster's arms.
The Chimera grabbed Athena and threw her against the floor.
Leon charged at the Chimera.
Chimera shoot multiple beams out of it's mouths and they hit Leon, hurting very badly.
Athena attempted to levitate the Chimera but he was too heavy.
The Chimera then shot the beams at Athena, hitting her and injuring her badly.
Athena fell on the floor.
"If you don't want to die, you should surrender." Black Crow said.
Athena simply crawled up to Leon while glaring at the Chimera.
"...No thanks! BIOMERGE ACTIVATE!" Athena yelled.
Athena and Leon fused once more and Athena was back in her tiger like form, her claws aimed at the Chimera.
"Now, bring it!" Athena yelled.
Back outside.
Both sides were still fighting each other.
Kross and Cirak stopped their ships and looked each other. From the looks of things, it seems they were about to deliver each other the final blow.
They both began to fly very fast towards each other's ship, with their fingers glued to their weapon's trigger, shooting lasers and bullets at each other, hitting the two ships.
They were both heading straight towards each other, they were about to crash against each other til..
Cirak's ship flew out of the way and got behind Kross's ship.
"This one's for Kelou, you son of a orange bitch!" Cirak shouted.
Cirak shot two rockets out of his ship and they hit the back of Kross's ship and it exploded.
Kross's ship was now descending towards the ground with smoke coming out of the back of the ship.
Kross's eyes widened.
"By the name of Eyrilia!" Kross said.
The ship then hits the ground and it bursted into pieces and flames.
Kross's helmet flew out of the large fire and landed on the ground. It was on fire and the orange visor was broken. There was a hand coming out of fire but it wasn't moving. That's presumably Kross's hand.
"YEEHAW!" Cirak triumphantly yelled out.
He then turned to the other Kheog and Lovian ships and began shooting at them.
Jaden and Yarim were currently shooting at the Others surrounding him.
He turned when one Other was about to stab him and then it got hit by a beam of light and it vanished, leaving behind a item. Jaden turned and the beam of light came from Ark's mouth, and Marick was riding him. Marick's head turned to the Citadel and flew towards it.
Zack was slowly getting up, he was heavily bleeding and his clothes were torn up
"That all you got, Omni?" Zhovet asked, with his hands on his hips
Zack was charging up a huge fire ball at Zhovet.
"Oh, this is gonna be good." Zhovet smiled
Zack shot the fire beam and Zhovet ran towards him, repelling the beam away and punched Zack again, sending into the wall again.
Zack vomited some blood out as he fell on his knees.
"Look at you, wasted and gasping for air. But I'm not finished just yet. When your body will be torn to pieces then...you will have Zhovet's permission to die." Zhovet smiled.
Zack landed on the floor.
"....Shit..I can't get up...I can't beat this guy at all." Zack said.
Suddenly, Zack heard a familiar voice.
"What, you're gonna let this stupid alien actually beat you? Dude, you're more stronger than him." Doged's voice said in his mind.
"...But how? I used everything I could and he powered up!" Zack said.
"Then you should power up aswell. You are a Omnipotent, you have a Omni form of your own. Use it." Doged said.
"But how?" Zack asked.
"Just concentrate and become one with your power. Close your eyes and let it flow through your body...and then beat this son of a bitch!" Doged said.
Zack closed his eyes and focused...when he reopened them, they were on fire.
His form was now lit on fire. He achieved his Omni form.
Zack got up and looked at Zhovet.
"Huh? Your form, it's different!" Zhovet said.
Zack then ran up to Zhovet and punched him in his face, crashing him into the ground.
Zhovet got up and that fire punch melted half of his face, leaving the other half intact, looking shocked.
"WHAT!?" Zhovet asked.
Zack then summoned a huge fire ball and threw it at Zhovet.
Zhovet immediately blocked the fire ball with his heavy braces before repelling it and the fire ball hits the wall.
When he turned to Zack, he saw him flying right towards Zhovet and he delivered one punch to his chest, shattering his armor.
Zack din't stop there as he plunged his fist into Zhovet's chest and he bursted through Zhovet's back, making a huge hole in his chest.
Zack landed on the floor on his feet, not turning to Zhovet.
Zhovet, with a hole in his body, stopped glowing purple and his eyes were blank.
"...No...no...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Zhovet yelled
Zhovet's body exploded into flames.
Pieces of black goo landed on the floor and the walls, along with pieces of Zhovet's armor.
Zack changed back into his normal human form, smiling as he turned around.
"...Thanks a lot for the help, man." Zack said.
Zack then ran out of the hall, going to where Athena is.
Meanwhile, Lyra was getting hit by every piece torn out of the area, each of them being launched by the glowing Chronos who was sadistically laughing at this.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! This is what happens to those who cross me! I will crush you completely!" Chronos yelled.
Martin was currently lifting himself out of the hole and crawled to the floor, or what remained of the floor, with the Antaxite in his hand.
"...After this is over, I'm definitely hitting the gym." Martin said.
Martin then looked at the Antaxite and smacked it.
"Come, you stupid rock, wo-"
The Antaxite began shining, as a way of showing that it's working.
"YES!" Martin smiled.
Martin then looked at Chronos.
Chronos telekinetically lifted Lyra towards him and grabbed her by her neck with his robot hand.
Martin looked around and spotted one of Lyra's weapons next to his leg.
He picked it up and aimed it at Chronos.
He shot a laser out of the weapon and it hits Chronos's robot hand, destroying it and Lyra was dropped on the floor.
"NOW WHAT!?" Chronos asked.
Chronos turned to see Martin, who was aiming the Antaxite at him and his eyes shrunk.
"Hey, Doctor Immortal! Enjoy your eternal prison!" Martin yelled.
Chronos attempted to levitate the Antaxite out of Martin's hand but he got sucked in by a black hole from above.
He was thrown out of another black hole and was flying towards Martin and his legs got plunged into the Antaxite. He was slowly being pulled into the Jewel.
"NO,NO,NO,NO! YOU CAN'T DO THIS TO ME! I AM CHRONOS, I AM IMMORTAL! WITHOUT ME, THE NEONYTES WILL PERISH!" Chronos yelled.
His entire body got sucked into the Jewel and his head was about to be absorbed aswell.
"CURSEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" Chronos yelled before he completely vanished into the Antaxite.
The Antaxite stopped glowing and Martin landed on the floor, looking exhausted.
"Phew." Martin said.
Lyra walked up to him and picked up the Antaxite.
"I'll put this somewhere safe. You should go and join your friends." Lyra said.
"....I could...but he tore up the bridges to pieces." Martin said, looking at what was left of the bridge.
"No problem." Lyra said.
A black hole appeared behind Martin which would lead him to the next hall.
"Oh, thanks." Martin said.
Martin got up and walked through the black hole and it vanished.
Lyra teleported out of there, along with the Antaxite.
Donald and Mibyll were on the ground, looking pretty injured and there were cracks on Mibyll's steel form.
Micro walked up to Mibyll and picked him up, ready to rip in half with his hands.
Donald got up and slowly picked up his hammer, looking at Micro.
"...Okay...here goes nothing!" Donald yelled.
Donald charged at Micro, looking right his reactor core, just one more hit and the glass would shatter.
Donald jumped right towards Micro's chest.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Donald yelled as he smacked Micro in the chest with his hammer.
The glass protecting the core shattered into shards.
Micro dropped Mibyll when that happened.
Donald landed on the floor, on his feet, before he threw his hammer at Micro's chest.
The Hammer hits Micro right in the reactor core, and it was now stuck in his chest.
Micro looked at his chest as the core began to shine green and looked at Donald and Mibyll.
"...No..." Micro said.
BOOM!
The entire area got covered in a green explosion.
Once the explosion was over, the entire area looked devastated.
Mibyll shielded Donald from the explosion as they both got up and turned to see if Micro was still there.
When the smoke cleared out, Micro was on the floor, his body had multiple cracks, din't have any legs anymore, his right arm was gone and was crawling towards the two with his own arm left, with sparks flying out of his damaged body.
"...I...Can't...Go...Offline...Just...Yet...I...Still...Have...To...Receive...Emotions...I..Still...I...Have...To...Discover...Love...I...Still...Want...A...Heaaaaaaaaaart..." Micro said.
His red eye then shut off and his lifeless body dropped on the floor, with oil dripping out of his body.
"...I used to like robots. Now? Not so much." Donald said.
"Well, that takes care of him. You should go ahead and join your friends. They are probably fighting the Black Crow right now." Mibyll said.
"Right." Donald nodded.
Donald then ran out of there as Mibyll sat on the floor, looking too tired to go after him.
Back at Athena.
Athena was running towards the Chimera.
The Chimera shot multiple beams out of it's mouths once again.
Athena dodged every beam and jumped at the Chimera, clawing it in the face.
The Chimera roared in pain before it tried to grab Athena with it's arms.
Athena slashed through every arm before lunging towards him, kicking him in the chest.
The Chimera was knocked on the floor and attempted to get up.
Athena then jumped very high in the air and aimed her gun at the Chimera.
She shot a big beam out of the gun and it hits the Chimera, making a large crator in the ground.
The Chimera screamed in pain before the beam stopped.
The Chimera slowly shrunk as it changed back into the Chameleon, who was now heavily wounded and unconscious.
The Black Crow wasn't happy.
Athena landed on the floor as she and Leon separated.
Athena turned to the Black Crow.
"...Now...you're next." Athena said.
"...Continue to interfere...and the girl dies." Black Crow said, his hand on the machine lever, pulling it and beginning to extract Trixie's energy much faster.
Trixie screamed in pain.
"STOP!" Athena yelled out
"It's too late, Vixerello. With this girl's energy, the Crown of Deity will be at it's full power at last! It's unfortunate she won't be able to survive this." Black Crow said.
Athena then looked at Trixie and tried to think of a solution.
"...Trixie will die if the extraction is complete...there's gotta be a way to save her and stop the Black Crow for good...but how?...maybe..." Athena said in her mind.
"....This is gonna be risky...but it's the only way to save Trixie." Athena said.
Athena then looked up at the Black Crow.
"Hey, Manuel! Let Trixie go, and in her place...You can have all of my energy!" Athena yelled out.
Leon looked shocked.
Black Crow looked surprised.
"What!?" Black Crow asked.
Lightning strikes in front of Athena.
"Athena, what are you doing!?" Marick's voice was heard in Athena's head.
"...Listen, dad, Trixie won't be able to survive the energy extraction. Thanks to me being a Vixerello, I won't immediately die after most of my energy is sucked out by that machine. Look, I have a plan: after Trixie is let out of the machine, send Ark here to heal her and once my energy is extracted, have Ark heal me aswell. Once I'm healed, me and Trixie will go after the Black Crow and immediately blast him before he gets the chance to put the Crown of himself, thus putting an end to him once and for all." Athena told Marick through a mind message
"...I see...but it's very dangerous what you are doing." Marick said.
"I know...but Trixie is my friend...I won't forgive myself if I let her die." Athena said.
Black Crow stopped the machine and Trixie passed out after having most of her energy sucked out. He turned to the Chameleon as his eyes glew yellow.
"Chameleon." Black Crow said.
The Chameleon immediately woke up as his eyes glew yellow aswell and teleported to the Black Crow.
Black Crow turned to Athena.
"...Excuse for a second, my dear. We have to discuss this." Black Crow said.
Black Crow and the Chameleon went into the room right next to the platform.
Athena looked at them leaving before turning to look at Trixie.
"...Well, dad?" Athena asked.
"....Fine. But, Athena, promise me...not to die. Okay?" Marick asked.
"...Don't worry. As long as Ark will be here, I'll be alright." Athena smiled.
Eventually, the Black Crow walked back into the room, his eyes still glowing yellow and turning to Athena.
"Well, Athena, we found your proposal rather appealing. You certainly have a lot of energy, plently for me to absorb, much more than this girl has to offer." Black Crow said.
Athena glared at him.
"What's wrong? Be quick about it! Do you fear for your life now?" Black Crow asked.
"...No. I was just thinking. Now, let Trixie go and I'll get up there and let you have my energy." Athena said.
Black Crow nodded as he lets Trixie out of the machine and her body hits the floor.
Ark immediately showed up and picked up Trixie's unconscious body and landed right next to Leon. He opened his mouth and began healing Trixie with green energy.
Leon looked as Athena was going towards the platform the Black Crow was on.
Leon whimpered at Athena. She simply turned to him and smiled.
"Don't worry, boy. I'll be okay." Athena said.
Athena turned around and then levitated to the platform.
"Get in the machine." Black Crow said.
Athena attached herself to the machine and the Black Crow pressed the button. Athena's energy began to be sucked out of her body and injected into the Jewel.
Trixie, after being healed by Ark, slowly opened her eyes and looked around
"Where...where am..." Trixie said.
She looked at Ark.
"...You're...you're the giant bird who saved us last time, right?" Trixie asked.
Ark nodded.
"Don't worry, you're safe now. Athena saved you." Ark said.
"Athena! Where is she-"
"AAAAAAAAAAH!"
Trixie looked up and her eyes widened when she saw Athena stuck in the machine, her energy being extractor. The number on the screen reached to 90%
"ATHENA!" Trixie yelled.
"Ooh...this energy is even more powerful than I imagined! With this, we'll ready for the Coronation in no time!" The Black Crow said.
"G...GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Athena yelled.
Trixie turned to Ark.
"YOU HAVE TO SAVE HER!" Trixie yelled.
"I will. She'll be moving away from that machine soon. When she does, I will heal her and then you two can go after him." Ark said, turning to the Black Crow.
The number on the screen reached to 100%
"Hehehehehehe! Yes, it's finally finished!" Black Crow said.
Black Crow stopped the machine and Athena passed out. Black Crow pulled the Jewel out of the machine, now glowing with powerful energy.
The Black Crow ran out of the area, going to the room he previously ran in next to the platform.
Ark then immediately flew up to Athena and pulled her out of the machine.
He flew off the platform and landed next to Trixie.
He dropped Athena and began healing her with green energy, restoring her energy.
Trixie crouched down and held Athena's unconscious form.
"Athena! please wake up!" Trixie said.
Ark eventually stopped healing her.
"Don't worry, she is fine now." Ark said.
Trixie looked back at Athena who slowly opened her eyes and looked at Trixie.
"...Trixie..." Athena weakly said.
"Athena!" Trixie said.
Trixie hugged Athena.
"Oh my God, you made me so worried! Don't do that ever again!" Trixie said.
"...Sorry...it was the only way I could think of to save you. By offering myself to give the Black Crow energy, I saved you from dying." Athena said.
"...You shouldn't done that, Athena. You could of died too!" Trixie said.
"Better me dead than you or any of the others. But, either way, we're both okay now. I'm glad you're safe." Athena said.
"...You saved me again. I can't believe I ended up with such a good friend like you, A. Thank you." Trixie smiled.
"No problem. But it's not over yet." Athena said, getting up.
"We still have to catch up to the Black Crow...and finally finish him off." Athena said.
"That asshole messed with us for the last time! Let's get him!" Trixie said.
Athena turned to Ark.
"Tell dad that we're okay. We'll finish the Black Crow for good." Athena said.
Ark nodded before he flied off.
Leon walked up to Athena and she nodded at him before looking at the platform.
"...Black Crow...you're next." Athena said.
Zack, Donald and Martin eventually reached the final floor and they reunited with each other. They were in front of the large door.
"Are you guys okay?" Zack asked.
"Yeah, we are." Martin sighed.
"Athena and Trixie must be behind this door. Let's help them out." Donald said.
"Yeah. It won't be a easy fight, but we can win this." Zack said.
Martin and Donald nodded.
The Black Crow was now in a large empty area, in the middle of the room was a small pillar with the Crown of Deitiy on it.
The Black Crow picked up the Crown and inserts the last Jewel in the middle of it, alongside the other Jewels.
The Crown began to glow very brightfully, it was now restored to it's full power.
"Hahahaha! At last, the time has finally come! The time to fulfill my goal!" Black Crow said, picking up the Crown
"Sorry...but that's not gonna happen!" Athena said.
"WHAT!?" Black Crow asked.
Black Crow turned around and Athena, Trixie and Leon were behind him.
Athena shot a huge beam out of her gun and it hits the Black Crow, the beam bursting through his back.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Black Crow yelled in pain.
He hits the floor, dropping the Crown.
Athena lowered her gun.
"...We...we did it!" Athena said.
"...Wow...that was...very easy." Trixie said.
The two of them walked up to the Black Crow's corpse, his eyes were now blank.
"...And this marks the end of the Legion of Crows." Athena said.
"Finally." Trixie sighed.
"...Now, all we have to do is hide this Crown somewhere safe so then no one could ever find it again." Athena said.
Athena turned around and the Crown wasn't on the floor anymore.
"...Huh, where did it-"
"ATHENA, LOOK!" Trixie yelled.
Athena looked and her eyes widened.
The Black Crow was suddenly alive, without a hole in his chest, and was holding the Crown in his hands, grinning at them.
"...But..but how, I just blew a hole in his chest!" Athena said.
Athena turned around and the Black Crow who was on the floor and got blasted in the chest changed into the Chameleon, who's eyes were now blank and wasn't moving it all. He was dead.
"NO!" Athena yelled, turning back to the real Black Crow.
Athena, Trixie and Leon charged at the Black Crow.
The Black Crow puts the Crown on his head.
"Check...Mate." Black Crow smiled, as his eyes began to brightfully glow yellow.
A golden pillar surrounded the Black Crow as it bursted through the ceiling, where everyone can see it from outside.
Everyone from the ISP turned and saw the pillar coming from the Citadel.
"...Jaden...do you see that?" Yarim asked.
"...No...NO!" Jaden yelled, realizing what happened.
It cuts to Donald, Zack and Martin and the entire Citadel began to shake.
"...Guys...what does this mean?" Martin asked.
"...We are fucked. That's what it means." Zack said, looking angry.
It cuts back to the area where Athena is.
Athena and Trixie simply stared at the golden pillar.
The pillar eventually vanished and the Black Crow looked completely different. The crown was on his head, his eyes glowing yellow, he was no longer old, he looked young, had shoulder length black hair, without his moustache, shirtless with chiseled muscles, two black wings popping out of his back and was only wearing black pants without shoes
He floated towards Athena, Trixie and Leon.
"Hear me out, Multiverse! I am your new King, the Black Crow!" The Black Crow said.
He turned to the three in front of him and pointed at them.
"Now, either surrender...or perish by trying to defeat me!" The Black Crow said.
TO BE CONCLUDED.
END OF CHAPTER 15
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 6, 2017 13:33:09 GMT
THE ATHENA SAGA
CHAPTER 16 THE FINAL FIGHT
PART 2
Athena, Trixie and Leon were currently standing in front of the new and powerful Black Crow.
"...He...he did it...he put the Crown on himself and is powerful than before." Athena said.
"Doesn't make any difference to me. We'll take this guy down right here, right now!" Trixie said.
"It is useless to fight me now. You are delying the birth of a new and perfect world. Why continue fighting for this miserable pit of misery?" Black Crow asked.
"It may not be perfect Mr. I'm a Hypocrite who takes people's energies just to make a better world, but this doesn't mean your way will be good for everyone! I'm not giving up my own free wil!" Trixie said.
"...She is right. We won't back down after all of our struggles and battles. We'll defeat you even if you are a God now." Athena said.
Leon just roared in agreement.
"Still trying to play heroes, huh? Fine then. You will soon see how this was a huge mistake. Once I'm threw with you, I can finally begin the Infinite Multiversal Hypnotism plan at last." Black Crow said.
Black Crow flew a bit higher and his body began to glow yellow.
Athena, Trixie and Leon got ready.
"Even if we attack him with all we got, there's little chance we'll manage to destroy him." Athena said.
"We'll never know unless we give it a shot though, right? We can't just give up here and run away!" Trixie said.
"We should atleast be able to stall him until the others arrive aswell." Athena said.
"Yeah, sure. Now, let's teach the Black Crow what happens when you mess with the wrong guys!" Trixie said.
Athena, Trixie and Leon charged at the Black Crow.
Black Crow opened both his hands and clicked his fingers.
Suddenly, Athena, Trixie and Leon got struck by yellow lightning.
"Ouch!" Trixie said.
"Well, that hurt." Athena said.
Athena got out her gun and shot a massive beam at the Black Crow.
Black Crow stopped the beam from hitting him in mid air before he moved his arm and the beam moved back to Athena, about to hit her.
Athena rolled out of the way as the beam hits the Chameleon's corpse, and the corpse was now nothing but pieces of organs and intestines thanks to the blast.
"That was close." Athena said.
Trixie threw her Lance at the Black Crow, attempting to hit him in the forehead with the Lance.
Black Crow easily grabbed the Lance before he levitated and launched it back at Trixie.
Trixie dodged the Lance before she grabbed it off the ground.
The Black Crow raised his hands and suddenly, multiple pillars of gold began to appear out of nowhere at random.
Athena, Trixie and Leon got hit by the pillars and were knocked on the floor.
"Shit!" Trixie said.
Athena telekinetically lifted some objects and threw them at the Black Crow.
The Black Crow easily deflected the objects into the wall, shattering them.
Athena began to shot some plasma bolts at the Black Crow.
The Black Crow closed his wings, shielding himself from the blasts and the plasma bolts hit the wings without doing damage.
When the Black Crow reopened his wings, he sent out a gust of wind, knocking Athena, Trixie and Leon on the ground.
Black Crow then summoned some yellow silhouettes of crows and launched them at the three.
The crows began to claw at them, leaving some bruises on their arms and legs.
Leon jumped at the crows, clawing them and grabbing them with his mouth, before eating them.
Athena shot plasma bolts at the crows while Trixie stabbed them with her Lance.
The silhouettes vanished.
Athena then charged towards the Black Crow and jumped at him, attempting to punch him.
The Black Crow grabbed Athena's fist and began to crush her hand with his strong grip.
"AH!" Athena yelled.
The Black Crow tossed Athena away, knocking her right into Trixie and they both fell on the floor.
Black Crow raised his arms once more, and the golden pillars appeared.
Athena, Trixie and Leon got hit once more, doubling the damage.
Athena, Trixie and Leon just attempted to slowly get up, looking a bit wounded.
"Ugh!" Trixie said.
Trixie fell on one knee.
"Trixie!" Athena said.
The Black Crow clicked his fingers once more, looking at Trixie.
Athena gasped as she ran towards Trixie.
She pushed her out of the way and she got hit by yellow lightning instead, knocking her on the ground.
"GAH!" Athena yelled.
"Athena!" Trixie yelled.
Trixie and Leon ran up to her.
Athena slowly got up.
"...I'm...okay." Athena said, despite her body saying otherwise.
Trixie turned to the Black Crow who clicked his fingers once more.
"This isn't good!" Trixie said.
Trixie grabbed hold of Athena and they moved out of the way, dodging the yellow lightning.
The Black Crow turned to them.
"I am invincible. Abandon this pitiful resistance." Black Crow said.
"Argh! How are supposed to defeat this guy!?" Trixie asked.
"...I don't know...but we can't give up just yet!" Athena said, looking determined. She definitely doesn't want to lose.
Back outside the Citadel.
The battle was still going on.
The ISP agents and some Neonytes were currently fighting some Lovians and Kheogs.
Yarim aimed her rocket launcher and shot rockets at some Others, hitting them and they exploded, leaving behind items.
She turned to Jaden.
"We can't continue fighting them here! The Black Crow now has the power of the Crown! We have to get in the Citadel and help the rest!" Yarim said.
Jaden got his communicator and called everyone.
"Attention, everyone, the Black Crow managed to gain the power of the Crown after all! All of us will need to get in the Citadel and defeat him!" Jaden said.
"I would personally love to pound that son of a bitch, but right now those Lovians and Kheos are getting the way! There's no way to get past them!" Cirak's voice was heard.
"There's also those Others and Robots! We can't let them be and cause a rampage throughout this universe!" Dasawert's voice said.
"Figured it would be too easy." Jaden sighed.
"Now what do we do?" Yarim asked.
"...We're gonna have to put all of our trust into Athena and her friends and hope they'll manage to stop him before it's too late." Jaden said.
Back with Athena.
Athena, Trixie and Leon were preparing themselves for the Black Crow's other attacks.
"Are you okay guys!?" A voice asked.
They turned around and Zack, Donald and Martin showed up, running towards the girls and Leon.
"Zack! Donald! Martin! You're alive!" Athena said, looking happy.
"Yeah, we are." Zack smiled.
Donald turned to Trixie.
"Trixie, are you okay?" Donald asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks for asking." Trixie said.
Black Crow looked at them.
"So...if they're here...that means...the rest of the Legion has perished...I'm the only one left now. Seems I won't be able to keep my end of the bargain for the Legion now." Black Crow said.
They turned to the Black Crow.
"So, there is the Black Crow...and he has the Crown on his head." Martin said.
"And he is as difficult to beat as we expected him to be." Trixie said.
"Well, that's nice." Zack sarcastically said.
Athena just slowly walked towards the Black Crow and fell on her knee.
"UGH!" Athena said, feeling too hurt from the Black Crow's attacks.
Trixie ran up to Athena and helped her get up.
"Jesus Christ girl, you're hurt! Don't push yourself too hard!" Trixie said.
"...I would...if I could." Athena said as she slowly got up, ignoring the pain.
"You should probably rest while we take care of this guy." Zack said.
"No, we'll take him on together. I want to help you guys beat this jerk for once and for all and then we can finally end this." Athena said.
"Okay, if that's what you want." Donald nodded.
"All right guys, come, let's do it!' Trixie said.
"Hey, wait a second, Trixie, aren't you exhausted? You look a bit tired." Martin asked.
"I'm still okay. Besides, I wanna beat that asshole within an inch of his life for what he did to me!" Trixie said.
She turned to Athena.
"That's okay with you, right, Athena?" Trixie asked.
"Yeah, it's okay." Athena said.
Athena turned to the Black Crow and so did the rest.
"Now, Black Crow...Manuel Kraven, it's time you pay up for your crimes." Athena said.
"This time, we're defeating you for real!" Trixie said.
Black Crow did not look intimidated.
"Three more fighters will not make any difference. I'm still powerful enough to crush each you into dust." Black Crow said.
"Technically, he is sort of right. With that Crown of his head, he is now a powerful God." Donald said.
"And I'm also a God of fire, but I still managed to get my ass whooped a few times. This guy isn't that different. There has to be a way to beat him!" Zack said.
"Martin, do you might have any ideas?" Athena asked.
"...Well, can't say for sure. But..." Martin said.
The Black Crow clicked his fingers once more.
"Watch out! Guys move!" Athena said.
The group moved out of the way, dodging the yellow lightning.
"Once again, abandon this useless opposition. There is no need to fight for this multiverse now. The battle is already over." Black Crow said, turning to them.
"This isn't good. How do we attack when we don't even know his weakness?" Donald asked.
"...Actually. I think I may know what's his weakness! It's literally sitting on his head!" Martin said, pointing at the Crown.
"Oh, that's right, the Crown!" Athena said.
"Exactly! If we manage to take the Crown off his head or destroy it, he will turn back to his powerless form and that's how we'll win!" Martin said.
"Alright, this'll be the game plan then." Zack said.
The Black Crow's eyes began to glow, he was ready for another attack.
"The time has finally come to finish the war with the Legion of Crows." Athena said.
"Let's put an end to this headache once and for all!" Zack said.
"You're gonna see what we are made of! Let's go!" Trixie said.
Athena, Trixie, Donald, Zack, Martin and Leon charged at the Black Crow.
Black Crow launched some gusts of wind from his wings, sending the group flying.
Zack shot a big beam of fire at the Black Crow.
The Black Crow shielded himself with his wings but they were now on fire.
As he attempted to put out the fire, Donald jumped at him, smacking the Crown with his hammer.
The hit din't seem to make a scratch on the Crown.
The Black Crow smacked Donald away. Martin, who had some guns from Lyra, shot multiple times at the Black Crow, hitting his Crown.
Black Crow stopped the attacks in mid air and launched them back at Martin.
"SHIT!" Martin yelled, dodging the shoots.
Trixie got behind the Black Crow and jumped at him, piercing him back with her Lance.
Din't seem to hurt the Black Crow as he smacked Trixie with his wings, knocking her and her Lance on the ground.
Athena and Leon lunged at the Black Crow, both attempting to hit him.
Black Crow easily blocked most of their attacks with his hands.
While they were keeping him busy, Zack and Donald got behind the Black Crow and Zack launched a beam of fire at the Black Crow and Donald threw his hammer at him.
The beam of fire and the hammer hit the Black Crow's Crown.
It only managed to make one small crack at best.
Black Crow threw Athena and Leon aside as he turned to Donald and Zack, levitated them and threw them into the wall.
"Well, atleast we managed to make one crack on the Crown. Even if it's small." Donald said.
"But it won't be good enough." Zack said, getting up.
Black Crow raised his arms and summoned the pillars once again.
Most of the group began to dodge the pillars that popped out of nowhere. Only Martin got struck by one pillar and was knocked to the floor.
"You okay, Martin!?" Athena asked.
"Don't worry, I'll live." Martin sighed, as he got up.
While Black Crow kept attempting to hit them with pillars, Athena shot a beam at the Black Crow, hitting his Crown, managing to make another small crack.
Black Crow then touched the beam and it suddenly turned yellow. The beam then went back to Athena and hits her, knocking her on the ground.
"UGH!" Athena yelled.
She slowly got up. She spat some blood out before she focused on the Black Crow again.
"You all managed to beat the Legion members atleast once. Now..." Black Crow said.
Black Crow's eyes glew yellow as 11 silhouettes of Sin, Veronica, Kelou, Seth, Henry, Ate, Chronos, Zhovet, Kross, Chameleon and Micro appeared in front of the group.
"Let's see how you can beat them twice." Black Crow said.
"Oh, fuck me." Zack said, looking annoyed.
"We can take care of them easily. Let's just dispose them quickly!" Athena said.
They nodded as they charged at the silhouettes.
Henry silhouette began shooting at the Group.
Martin shot multiple lasers at him, hitting his body.
Zack then summoned his fire sword and cuts the Henry silhouette in half and it vanished.
Chronos levitated some objects from the area and threw them at the group, Chameleon shapeshifted into Sin and launched multiple Mystic beams, Micro shot lasers, Sin shot his Shield of the Just beam and Kelou launched some shockwaves at them.
Most of the group got hit by the silhouettes.
They got and each of them split up to the Other Silhouettes.
Athena attacked both Sin and Veronica, hitting and punching them.
Donald charged at Kelou, who sent out more shockwaves at Donald.
Donald doged the shockwaved and smacked Kelou's guitar with his hammer.
He destroyed Kelou's guitar before he smacked Kelou's silhouette in the face, sending him flying.
Kelou's silhouette landed on the ground and vanished.
Donald turned around and saw Martin dodging Kross's stabbing attacks.
Martin shot at the Kross silhouette, but he din't vanish.
The Kross silhouette threw away his helmet and was about to bite Martin till Donald smacked him right in the jaw with the hammer, knocking him on the ground.
Kross's silhouette vanished.
"Thanks!" Martin said.
"Don't mention it. I wanted to get some payback on that guy for awhile now." Donald said.
Trixie was currently sparing with Chameleon and Ate, dodging their moves.
Chameleon shapeshifted into Trixie and charged at her with the laser sword while Ate shot a beam at Trixie.
Trixie dodged the beam and immediately stabbed Trixie-Chameleon in the chest before stabbing it in the head. Chameleon's silhouette vanished.
Trixie then charged at Ate's silhouette who kept shooting beams at her and Trixie stabbed her in the chest before stabbing it in the head aswell.
This did not seem to affect Ate as she punched Trixie and pulled the Lance out of her body.
Leon bites Ate in her leg, stopping her from moving before a beam hits Ate's silhouette and it vanished. The beam was from Athena.
Trixie turned to Athena and gave her the thumbs up.
Athena nodded before she turned her attention to the silhouettes of Sin and Veronica.
Zack was currently dodging Seth's bullets and Zhovet's punches.
"Geez, din't think I would have to fight these guys again!" Zack said.
Zack jumped away from the two silhouettes before he changed to his Omni form again and shot two giant balls of fire at them, hitting the silhouettes and they hit the wall.
Zhovet got burned to a puddle of black goo thanks to the ball and so, his silhouette vanished.
When Seth's silhouette slowly got up, Zack flew towards him and punched a hole in his chest. Seth dropped his weapon and he vanished aswell.
Zack then turned and saw Athena who was blocking herself from Sin and Veronica's attacks.
Zack lits Veronica's silhouette on fire and it vanished.
Athena then kicked Sin away from her and shot a beam from her gun, vaporizing his silhouette just like she did with the original him.
"Okay, Sin and Veronica are gone too, now we only have to take care of Chronos and Micro now!" Athena said.
Chronos levitated Martin and Donald and smacked them on the ground while Micro shot lasers at them.
Zack flew towards Chronos and punched him, sending him crashing into a wall.
He then grabbed Chronos by his face and sets him completely on fire before exploding him into flames.
Chronos's silhouette vanished.
Everyone turned to the last silhouette which was Micro and shot lasers at them.
"Okay, let's take the big guy out and then the Crow is ours!" Zack said.
Athena looked at the Black Crow before looking at Micro, seeing how big he was and if she could jump on him and get to the Black Crow to pull the crown of his head...
"...Guys, don't destroy him just yet. I have an idea. And it might work." Athena said.
"What is it?" Martin asked.
"...Just watch." Athena said, as she charged at Micro.
Micro was shooting at her and Athena dodged the shoots and got on Micro.
Athena climbed up on Micro's body and got to his head and turned to the Black Crow.
She lunged at the Black Crow and managed to land on him, taking him by surprise.
"Ah, I see now! She took advantage of Micro's size and used him to get to the Black Crow and pull the Crown of his head!" Martin said.
"Sweet!" Trixie said.
"Zack, I suggest you hit Micro in his chest, right in the reactor core!" Donald said.
"Sure." Zack shrugged.
When Micro turned to them, Zack hits his reactor core with a massive beam of fire and he fell on the ground.
His silhouette vanished.
The others turned to Athena.
Athena puts her hand on the Crown of Deity and attempted to pull it off the Black Crow's head, using all of her strength.
It...wasn't working.
"...What? Come on!" Athena said.
Athena kept pulling and it wasn't working. The Black Crow just stood still, staring at her.
"...It isn't working." Donald said.
"...Great, the Crown is now attached to his head like a chewing gum glued to someone's hair. This is just nice." Zack sarcastically said.
"...Are you done yet?" Black Crow asked.
"....Um, kinda?" Athena guessed.
"Good." Black Crow said.
Black Crow grabbed Athena by her throat and threw her into the others, knocking them on the ground.
Black Crow clicked his fingers once more and they got hit by yellow Lightning, hurting them even more.
The Black Crow was now hovering above them.
"This fight is over now. The longer you fight, you will get closer to your deaths. Why keep fighting for a universe that knows nothing but pain and misery?" Black Crow asked.
Athena looked at the Black Crow, glaring at him.
"We are not gonna give up. We will keep fighting and fighting till you will be defeated. We won't give up our free will to you! You will not enslave the entire Multiverse!" Athena yelled.
"As I said before, you will still have your own free will and thoughts, just minus the part about you wanting to do bad stuff or cause a war. That's it." Black Crow said.
"Yeah, we won't be doing any bad stuff because you tell us not to. That's out of your will, not ours. You will basically brainwash everyone into becoming your slaves who will do your bidding and not do anything about it!" Zack said.
"You talk as if the apocalypse will happen if I win, but really it won't. What will happen is the birth of a more happier beginning for you. Let me show you." Black Crow said.
His eyes glew brightfully yellow as it covered the entire room.
Suddenly, the group found themselves back on their planet, with the Black Crow, in his old normal form, standing in front of them. Erinfort appeared right behind them. It looked more cleaner.
"Why continue fighting for a lost cause instead of accepting a new happier world? Here is what will happen once I'll commence my plan." Black Crow said.
Civilians appeared around the group and they were all talking to each other and they seemed to be getting along. Criminals were redeeming their ways, bullies weren't picking on other kids anymore, everything seemed to be perfect.
"...It looks like...everyone is getting along." Donald said.
"Exactly. That's what I'm planning to do with my power: to make a world where everyone can finally put their differences aside and accept each other. In fact, I could make your wildest dreams come true." Black Crow said.
The group suddenly began to see some images of their own dreams with their own eyes.
Athena was seeing herself, Marick, Jess, Amell, Omalley and Lynch at a family picnic, having a good time.
Trixie was seeing herself hugging her father with tears in her eyes.
Zack was seeing holding a trophy after winning a race and his parents were behind him, his dad giving him a noogie.
Donald was seeing himself looking very thing and the same girls who bullied him were now older and were in love with him.
Martin was seeing himself and Athena kissing each other.
"You are only hurting yourselves by continuing to fight. All you have to do is just give up. and you won't suffer anymore. Together, we can tear down this flawed reality and make it into a new one, full of purity. A universe without pain, a changeless world of perfect and eternal...stillness." Black Crow said.
The group looked at each other, they weren't sure what to decided.
Black Crow held out his hand towards them, his eyes glowing yellow.
"All you have to do now is hold my hand...and accept your future." Black Crow smiled.
The group turned towards the Black Crow and walked towards him. It seems they were accepting his proposal.
They were slowly reaching out their hands towards his hand and...
"NO!"
Athena then suddenly punched the Black Crow in the face.
The world they were in shattered into pieces as they were now back into the area, Athena's eyes glowing purple.
Black Crow had a bruise on his cheek and was surprised by Athena's punch.
The others looked confused.
"What? What was I...I was...seriously gonna accept his offer!?" Trixie asked.
"He was manipulating your minds into accepting his false world of happiness. I clearly saw it through my own eyes." Athena said.
Athena turned to the Black Crow.
"Your world will not be as happy as you think, everyone will be under your control, everyone forced to get along won't be out of their own will, it will be out of yours! We will be forced to like each other! The only way to achieve one's dream is through lots of work and effort, you can't just have everything given out to you on a silver platter. My grandfather told me once this, no matter how many times you get beaten and knocked to the ground, you have to keep fighting to accomplish your goal and he is right! I will accomplish my own goals without your help! And we will put an end to you right now!" Athena said.
She aimed her weapon at him and so did everyone else.
Black Crow looked irritated at them.
"...Fools." Black Crow said.
He clicked his fingers and they all got struck by yellow lightning, knocking them on the ground.
"Instead of accepting your future, you keep trying to fight for some worlds that are already doomed!" Black Crow said.
He hits them with yellow lightning once again.
He then raised his hands and the yellow pillars appeared, hitting them once more, increasing the damage.
The group were on the floor, each of them were bleeding and looked heavily bruised. Athena looked absolutely injured and when she attempted to get up, her legs hurt.
"Gah!...No...I can't...fall...now." Athena said.
She slowly got on her legs, looking at the Black Crow, slowly aiming her gun and shooting a beam at him.
He repelled the beam easily.
"Foolish child. In this world, power is the only thing that matters to everyone. You and your friends? Your just people. In the great scheme of events, nothing you do has the least bit of significance." Black Crow said.
Black Crow levitated the gun away from Athena before levitating her next and smacking her into the ground, hurting her more.
"I'll waste you and millions like you before I let anyone else present themselves as a risk to my vision of the future. It's my duty as the King." Black Crow said.
"You...don't know...what the word 'duty' means." Athena said.
"You can't win." Black Crow said.
"...Well...if I die...atleast I'll die taking you with me...ugh!" Athena said, falling on her knees when attempting to get up.
"Why don't you give up?" Black Crow asked.
"Why don't you?" Athena asked.
Black Crow shot a yellow orb at Athena, hitting her and knocking her to the ground, making her unable to get up again.
Black Crow was about to deliver the finishing blow on Athena.
The others noticed this.
"ATHENA! NO!" Trixie yelled.
Zack, Leon, Donald, Trixie and Martin slowly got up and got in front of Athena, aiming their weapons at the Black Crow.
"If you want to get through her, you have to get through us!" Donald yelled.
Athena slowly raised her head.
"...G-Guys...no!" Athena said.
Black Crow clenched his fist, aiming it at the group and suddenly, their bodies froze, not being able to move.
"S-shit, I can't move my body!" Zack said.
"Me neither!" Trixie said.
"This can't end this way!" Donald said.
Athena's eyes widened.
"GUYS! NO!" Athena yelled.
Athena's body began to glow yellow as she immediately got up, ignoring the pain.
Black Crow summoned a large yellow orb, aiming it at the group.
"You and the vermins from the Intergalatic Space Police are a threat to a safe and stable world. Now, disappear from my sight." Black Crow said.
Black Crow threw the giant orb at the group.
They tried to move out of the way, but their bodies were frozen and couldn't get out of the orb's way.
Athena ran towards her friends and got in front of them, shielding them from the orb with her arms as her body's glowing increased and her eyes were also glowing.
Suddenly, a gold sphere appeared around Athena, repelling the Orb and it hits the wall.
"What?" Black Crow asked.
The others were surprised at what just happened as they looked at the sphere Athena was.
The sphere vanished and Athena looked completely different. Her left eye was black while the right eye was yellow, had long yellow hair, her hat was now white and metallic, her jacket was now made out of metal and looked like a white armor, her skirt was also made out of metal, her glove were white and metal, her shoes turned into boots and had a pair of white wings coming out of her back and was glowing yellow. She easily levitated her gun right back into her hands.
Marick and Ark were somewhere in the Citadel, going to where Athena was. Marick saw Athena's transformation with his prophet's eye.
"...Yes...she did it..she unlocked her power to evolve. Now, it's time I help her out. WARP EVOLUTION!" Marick yelled.
He changed into his MagnaUltima form.
"Now, let's go, Ark." MagnaUltima said.
Ark nodded as they both flew to the area Athena, her friends and the Black Crow were in.
The others looked surprised by Athena's new form.
"...A-Athena!?" Donald asked.
Athena just turned to them, smiling before she turned to the Black Crow, glaring at him.
Black Crow looked at her new form and wasn't happy.
"...That form...Ate, you din't simply disappear...you betrayed me." Black Crow said.
"Ate is now a part of me. And she is more happier than she was when she was with your group! Now, Black Crow, it's time to pay! Are you guys ready?" Athena asked.
"Hell yeah we are!" Trixie nodded.
"Let's get him!" Zack said.
Zack turned into his Omni form and shot a massive fire beam at the Black Crow.
Black Crow easily deflected the beam before he raised his hands and summoned the pillars to hit them again.
Athena dodged the pillars and flew towards the Black Crow, about to punch.
Black Crow blocked her fist easily.
Athena took advantage of the block and headbutted the Black Crow in the forehead, making another crack on the Crown.
The headbutt sent the Black Crow flying into the wall.
"Holy shit, Athena knocked him right into the wall!" Martin said.
"Yup, we're definitely winning this!" Trixie smiled.
Black Crow flew out of the wall and looked pissed before he opened a black hole and attempted to suck the group in it.
Martin grabbed one of Lyra's guns and sets it to overload as he threw it to the black hole.
The weapon exploded and the black hole closed.
Black Crow launched some more golden orbs at the group.
Athena easily levitated the orbs out of the way and launched them towards the Black Crow, hitting his crown instead of his body.
More cracks appeared on his crown.
Athena's gun evolved aswell, looking a bit bigger than before as she shot as powerful bigger plasma bolts at the Black Crow, hitting the Crown of Deity and making bigger cracks.
Black Crow clicked his fingers and attempted to hit them with yellow lightning.
The group dodged the yellow lightning at Athena flew towards the Black Crow and punched him in the face. She then grabbed him by the neck and threw him against the ground, making a crator.
Black Crow flew out of the Crator and started shooting rapid beams at the group.
The group dodged his beams as they ran towards him and each of them began to land their own hits at the Black Crow.
Leon lunged at the Black Crow, bitting him in his leg before getting up on him and clawing the Crown, leaving some scratches before jumping off him.
Donald threw his hammer towards the Black Crow and the hammer hits his Crown, making another crack.
Martin shot lasers at the Black Crow, hitting the Crown and making more cracks.
Trixie threw her Lance at the Crown, hitting it and making another crack and the Lance landed back in Trixie's hand.
Zack shoot a large ball of fire at the Black Crow, hitting his Crown and setting it on fire, damaging it.
Athena flew towards the Black Crow and punched him in the Crown, making another crack and sending him flying into the wall once more.
Athena landed on the ground and was preparing a very powerful beam out of her gun, ready to launch it at the Black Crow and hit his Crown, with the intent to destroy it.
MagnaUltima landed right next to Athena.
Athena looked surprised to see her father.
MagnaUltima simply turned to Athena and smiled at her, nodding.
Athena smiled back, nodding aswell before they turned to the Black Crow.
Black Crow flew off the wall and looked directly at the group, looking very angry.
"Enough!" Black Crow said.
Black Crow was charging a massive golden beam at the group with his own hands.
"BEGONE!" Black Crow yelled.
He shot the large yellow beam at the group.
Athena aimed her gun at the Black Crow while MagnaUltima raised his sword at him.
"MAGNA BLAST!" MagnaUltima shouted.
Athena shot her large powerful beam from her gun at the Black Crow while MagnaUltima launched his beam of Magna.
The two beams clash with the Black Crow's beam.
Black Crow was putting all his strength and energy into the beam and so did Athena and MagnaUltima.
"NOW, ATHENA!" MagnaUltima shouted.
"OKAY!" Athena shouted.
Athena and MagnaUltima put all their energy into their combined beams and they increased, easily piercing through the Black Crow's beam and were heading towards him.
Black Crow's eyes shrunk when he saw the beams coming towards him.
He got engulfed by the beams.
The Crown of Deity was also caught in the beams and more cracks appeared on the Crown and...
The Crown finally shattered into pieces and the 5 Jewels flew off.
The Black Crow reverted to his weak, old form and his body was slowly getting disintegrated by the combined beams. The Black Crow din't seem to look angry, furious, scared or anything like he did...he looked calm and sad actually.
"...So...I lose again, huh?...Guess I should be used to this already...seems like I my attempts at changing the world with my powers had failed...I failed as Manuel Kraven...and now I failed as the Black Crow. Well, my Legion...Kross...Chronos...Micro...Zhovet...Henry...Seth...Kelou...Chameleon...Veronica...and Sin...we couldn't achieve our goals together in the end...atleast Ate is satisfied now...guess I'll have to apologise to each and every one of you when we will reunite in the afterlife..." Black Crow said.
Black Crow then looked at the group one more time and weakly smiled.
"...Well done...Children...of the New generation." Black Crow said.
Black Crow's form was eradicated by the beams. There was no single trace of him left.
The beams have stopped.
The group looked around.
"...So, is he dead?" Trixie asked.
"Yes, he is. He accepted his defeat." MagnaUltima said.
Donald immediately dropped to the floor.
"Phew, finally!" Donald said.
MagnaUtlima turned to the group.
"You all did a good job, today. You saved the world." MagnaUltima said.
He then turned to Athena and puts his hand on her shoulder.
"Especially, you, Athena." He said.
Athena smiled before she reverted back to her normal form.
"...I couldn't of evolved without Ate's help." Athena smiled.
MagnaUltima changed back to Marick and he smiled at her.
Suddenly, the area began shaking as it began to fall apart.
"What's going on, now!?" Zack asked.
"The entire Citadel is beginning to fall apart!" Martin said.
"Ark!" Marick yelled.
Ark flew in the area and he opened a portal.
"Let's hurry." Marick said.
The group ran through the portal and it closed before the entire area collapsed.
Outside.
Most of the Others and robots had been eradicated by the ISP
The two sides were still fighting each other till Lyra turned to the Citadel.
"LOOK!" Lyra shouted, pointing at the Citadel.
Jaden and Yarim looked and saw the Citadel falling apart.
"The Citadel...it's...falling apart." Yarim said.
"...Does this mean..." Jaden said.
The entire Citadel eventually crashed to the ground, leaving behind a huge cloud of smoke.
"The Black Crow has been killed!" A Kheog soldier said.
"We have to retreat!" A Lovian soldier said.
A portal appeared and all the Kheogs and Lovians ran through the portal before it closed.
"They retreated!" Ymarac said.
"...Holy shit...does this mean we won?" Mibyll asked.
"Possibly...but where are the others who entered in the Citadel?" Jaden asked.
Everyone looked at the ruins of the Citadel, to see if there were any survivors.
There some figures walking out of the smoke.
The ones who walked out of the smoke were Athena, Marick, Ark, Leon, Zack, Donald, Trixie and Martin as they walked over to the ISP.
"They're alive!" Yarim said.
Everyone ran towards them.
"Are you all alright?" Vlad asked.
"Is the Legion...?" Jaden asked.
"Yes, they are. The Black Crow and the Crown of Deity are gone!" Athena smiled.
The ISP army cheered.
Yarim hugged Jaden, who looked surprised.
Lyra was shooting lasers in the air out of happiness...and a random ISP ship hits the ground after behind hit by Lyra's lasers
In the distance, Gafust and his Omnis were watching the whole fight, Melnnos and Mekat were standing alongside them, seeing that they din't need to get involved after all.
Marick turned to Athena and smiled at her.
Athena smiled back before she turned to her group and they high-fived each other.
The war against the Legion of Crows was finally over.
It cuts back to the ISP base.
In Jaden's office, Mibyll and Dasawert were standing in front of Jaden's desk and the 5 Jewels of the Crown were placed on his desk, in front of Jaden.
"Ah, so these are..." Jaden said.
"Yeah, I was able to retrieve them from the remains of their Citadel." Mibyll said.
"Seems like the energy inside them protected from the combined beam that was used to kill the Black Crow and destroy the Crown. Without the Crown, the Jewels are practically powerless and they won't be able to do any more harm from now on." Dasawert explained.
"How do you plan to dispose of them?" Jaden asked.
"Well, it's not like it will do any harm just to leave them alone, but...if we get rid of them, a certain someone wants to do it herself." Mibyll said.
"Hm...very well then. It will be a fitting way for her to make amends for giving up half of her energy to refill the Jewel. Now, I believe it's time to start the ceremony." Jaden said.
A few hours later and there was a big party happening in the base.
The ISP agents were currently drinking and having a good time.
Lyra was eating every food there was in the room while Vlad looked at her weirdly.
The group of kids from Demeter's world happened to be there and they were happy to have the branch from Demeter's tree back in their hands, somehow surviving the collapse of the Citadel, despite that Chronos sucked all the essence from the branch to turn himself immortal.
Jaden was at the podium and Athena, Martin, Zack, Donald and Trixie were behind him.
"Ahem, if I could get your attention please? Thank you. Now, allow me to present you the heroes who helped us in our mission to defeat the Legion of Crows. Without them, we wouldn't even be here right now! Please give a round of applause for our heroes from the 3rd Dimension: Athena, Trixie, Donald, Zack and Martin!" Jaden announced.
Everyone began to applaud for them.
"Holy crap, we're heroes! We're heroes! We saved the entire Multiverse!" Trixie said.
"I feel so nervous right now." Donald said.
"Someone please pinch me and tell me this isn't a dream!" Martin said.
Zack pinched him.
"Ow, I was kidding!" Martin said.
Athena just smiled, shaking her head off before she saw Cirak approaching them, holding a tray with 5 crests on them.
"As reward for saving us all, you will be rewarded with these crests! Use them well, Privates! You deserve em!" Cirak said.
The group looked at their crests and each of them picked them up.
Athena got the Crest of Evolution
Trixie got the Crest of Friendship
Donald go the Crest of Courage
Zack got the Crest of Reliability
Martin got the Crest of Love.
"...Huh, these are pretty cool, I guess." Trixie said.
"Yup. They will be pretty useful for us later on." Athena smiled.
They lowered their crests as they looked at the public that was cheering and applauding for them
Back on Earth, in Erinfort.
The gang: Athena, Leon, Donald, Trixie, Zack and Martin were currently on a cliff, sitting on the ground while Athena was sitting on a large rock and looking at the sun.
"...So, I guess it's over now." Trixie said.
"Yeah. I thought this was never gonna end." Zack said.
"Well, I'm honestly glad it did. This whole hero stuff was getting painful and tiresome for me. Din't give me enough time to study for school." Donald sighed.
"Atleast we still have those communicators from the ISP, in case another intergalactic threat pops up what we need to take care of." Martin said.
"Yeah, I guess." Zack shrugged.
"Well, I reunited with my mom and she was happy to see me back home and alive. She literally cried when I came back home. She promised me she would try to make more time for me." Trixie said.
"Huh, that's nice." Donald said.
"Yup. Tomorrow, we're going shopping, the good ole daughter-mom bonding process." Trixie smiled.
"...Well, now that this is over, we can go back to focusing on school again. Next week, we're having a big test." Martin said.
"Ugh, dude, don't remind me. Now I wish that our adventure in fighting bad guys din't end." Zack sighed.
"...I'm sure it's not over just yet. Sure, we defeated the Legion of Crows, but they won't be the last villains to cause havoc, I'm sure of that. Peace won't last forever. My dad told me that after they defeated a threat, another would pop after a few years so...if we are lucky and a new threat appears, we might be the ones who have to stop the threat once more." Athena said.
"That would be nice." Donald said.
"Yup...so, do we go now?" Trixie asked.
"...Not yet." Athena said.
She looked at her hand and she was holding the 5 Jewels of the Crown.
"...Wait, aren't those..." Martin said.
"The Jewels of the Crown of Deity. Can't believe this whole thing started because of these Jewels and their crown." Athena said.
"So, what are we gonna do with them?" Zack asked.
"Well, Jaden mentioned that with the Crown destroyed, these Jewels are powerless. They won't be a threat to anyone anymore." Athena said.
"Oh, cool. You should probably keep them, they look pretty nice." Trixie said.
Athena got off the rock, landing on her feet.
"Actually...there is a reason I wanted us to meet at this cliff." Athena said.
Athena walked over to the edge of the cliff as she looked at the Jewels in her hand.
"...You five..." Athena said, as she clenched her fist.
"Get lost and never come back!" Athena said as she threw the five Jewels away as they flew in the distance, landing in separate places.
"Alright, that should take care of it. We can relax now." Athena said.
"Aw, it was kind of a waste of some pretty jewels." Trixie frowned.
"Meh, I don't feel too bad about it." Zack said.
Athena turned to her friends, smiling.
"Well, let's go home." Athena said.
The group nodded as Athena, Donald, Trixie, Zack, Martin and Leon walked off the cliff and were going back home.
Marick and Ark were watching from the distance. He smiled at them before he turned to Ark.
Ark nodded as Marick got on him and they both flew off in the distance.
END OF CHAPTER 16
THE END
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Post by IDEK on Jan 7, 2017 12:11:30 GMT
Amell Saga Chapter 7 - Funeral
Leonidas's body had been left to rot by the creatures-There wasn't a single one in sight. There were- however- several Neonytes looking around the area; some taking photographs, others inspecting cracks in the ground that were made during the slaughter.
Ra looked over Leonidas's Bloody, Bloody body, looking saddened. Neonyte in a doctor's coat walked up to the body and started levitating it-getting ready to take the corpse out of the realm.
"No, Leave it."Ra said. "He died here, so we have more pressing matters."
The Neonyte nodded- putting the body back down.
"Jessica, Are you still here?"Ra asked- talking into a earpiece.
"Me and my son were just getting out of here. I'm sure you already found his corpse, right?" Jess asked.
"Yep. He's dead."Ra said. "Haven't found the girl yet."
"I think she may plan to go after the rest of the circus staff. Leonidas's assistant Franziska might still have some Antaxite Jewels with her." Jess said.
"Hmm."Ra said. "Haven't seen any other people around here."Ra said.
"Yeah, they might be on Earth. Also, I learned about who gave Leonidas the Antaxite Jewels to make himself powerful. His name is Omesata. Do you know him?" Jess asked.
"...That's not even a Neonytianian name."Ra said. "Must be a pseudonym."
"Hm, I guess. Well, me and my son are going back to Earth to find Lara and stop her from murdering more people. When we told her that killing Leonidas wouldn't bring back the souls of the people he killed, she mentioned she plans to do something about that after she killed him." Jess said.
"...Oh."Ra said.
"..OH. That's not good."
"How so?" Jess asked.
"you know how Sucking someone into a Antaxite puts them in this realm, while breaking the Antaxite released them?"Ra asked.
It cut to a sword-beaked pelican flying over them, A Portal suddenly opened up around it and it vanished inside it;the portal closing immediately.
"That's how the creatures appeared in your world- Their Antaxite was broken."
"...If she breaks all the Antaxite, the creatures will be free!" Jess said.
"And I believe you already experienced what those things do."Ra said.
"I'll try to track her down in case she's still here- or find that Franziska girl you told me about; You might want to hurry on your end, I just saw one of the sharp ones vanish."
"Okay. If things get worse on Earth, we might need your help. I don't want to endanger your life especially since you have a daughter, but you know more about these things than we do." Jess said.
"It's alright. Just keep your son safe as well!"Ra said.
Amell stared up at Jess, before running on ahead.
Jess then was running after Amell.
"We really need to get to Lara now! If she catches up to Franziska and smashes the Antaxite, we're gonna be the guests to a parade of really ugly and powerful monsters!" Jess said.
"That's where I'm Going!"Amell said.
"Where, to the Schzofield Gardens?" Jess asked.
"Yes!"Amell said. "Once we get there, I remember the hallway in the flashback, that Candle Room must be somewhere in there!"
"Okay!" Jess said as they continue to run and make their way out of the Antaxite world to get to the Schzofield Gardens
Before they found the exit,
they found a cave made out of newspapers, all of them headlining missing people.
They ran through it, intending to get out of the realm and into the Schzofield gardens.
Right at the end of the cave- right in front of a portal, they found another body.
It was Keira Rosley. the Real Keira Rosley. she was lying on the ground with her eyes closed- her hands on her chest. Flowers were arranged around her- as though this was where her funeral took place.
"...Oh.."Amell said. "That's Vera's friend, isn't it."
"...Yes, it is...I was wondering what happened to her aswell...guess now we found out." Jess sighed.
"She went missing at the same time as Abbie and Ryoma."Amell said. "...I think...for some reason, I get the idea that she was following Leonidas- but then he caught onto her."
"...Yeah...Abbie mentioned that Leonidas took Ryoma to the backstage for some reason...could he of had powers too?" Jess asked.
"Wouldn't be surprised."Amell said- as he walked into the portal.
Jess just followed Amell.
She looked at Keira's corpse one last time before going through the portal.
They were in the hallway.
"...This is the place I found that ink monster. I wonder who it was."Amell said- grabbing onto Jess's hand.
"...Hopefully, not Keira or Ryoma." Jess said as they began to find the candle room.
they walked through the hall, pictures, medals and paintings began to fill the walls, it got darker and darker, Eventually- they reached a part of the hall where they couldn't see anything in front of them.
Walking even further onwards- Jess bumped into a wooden surface- a door.
"...Ow." Jess said, before she attempted to open the door.
The door opened,
Inside was the candle room...
Several of the candles had been knocked over. There was a lone broken Antaxite crystal; but nothing else, The room had been completely cleaned out- any candles that would've been upright had been removed as well. Even the Arcane circle looked to have been scrubbed away with something- as only a stain remained.
"...Ah, come on! We're too late!" Jess said as she looked at the broken Antaxite crystal.
"...There's only one."Amell said. "Where's the rest of the crystals? This place had tons of them!"
"...Either Franziska ran off with the rest of the crystals...or Lara got here before us." Jess guessed.
"None of those sound good."Amell said- walking up to the crystal. "...Where's the monster that came out of it?"He asked.
"...I don't know. Eitherway, we have to get out of here and find out where Lara or Franziska are at." Jess said.
Amell dropped the jewel pieces he was holding and nodded.
Then- they heard a sound resembling a rather shrill animalistic cry- coming from outside.
"That must be the creature."He mumbled- running out of the room and through the hall to where the noise was.
Once he left the hallway- he found himself in the circus tent, several props were boxed up, and all the seats were piled- as though it was all being moved.
He continued to run on and once he left- he saw the sword-beaked Bird was flying through the sky-calling out loudly.
Lara was riding on it.
Jess followed Amell and then looked at Lara.
"Lara, stop! You don't know what you are doing!" Jess said.
Lara didn't seem to hear her; the bird she was riding on flew above the clouds- out of sight.
"Drat."Amell frowned- levitating himself. He Then began to Push himself further upwards- trying to chase after her.
Jess also levitated herself by using her telekinesis, going after Lara.
They Went above the clouds- to see Lara in the distance, the bird spread out it's knife-esque wings and started to fly at a greater speed
"Get back here!"Amell called out- zooming himself across the wind- he knocked into Lara's back and nearly knocked her off- grabbing onto her cardigan as the bird did a 360; keeping himself from falling.
Jess got on the bird aswell and looked at Lara and Amell.
"Lara, you need to stop! If you break the rest of those jewels, something bad will happen!" Jess yelled out.
Lara turned her head to look at Jess.
"It's not going to be bad."She said. "Besides. Didn't you Break a couple already?"
"Well yes- but we didn't know what was going to happen!"Amell yelled.
"...Oh.Hey, what happened to the Jewel I gave Athena?"Lara asked.
"...Well, Amell got scared about there being a soul trapped in the Antaxite Jewel and we ended up smashing it...was that...Vera's?" Jess asked.
Lara just smiled.
"...I see..Thank you."
The Bird Suddenly Increased in speed- started swerving left and right and flying every single way it could, Knocking Jess and Amell around- they were barely able to hold on to it's knife-like-feathers.
Lara-somehow, was staying on with ease.
Jess was holding tight onto the feathers and Amell.
"ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL US!?" Jess asked.
"You managed to fly here."Lara said. "Just let go of the bird and float back down."
The Bird continued- this time spinning and diving through the clouds.
Jess continued to hold onto the bird.
"WHERE ARE YOU EVEN GOING!?" Jess asked.
"If I tell you, then you're going to try to stop me."Lara said.
"W-Wait, No we're not!"Amell yelled out.
"Are you sure?"Lara asked. "You seemed to disagree with what they did to that scum earlier."
"Well, it depends if you're going to kill Franziska and the rest of his circus staff. If not, then where are you going!?" Jess asked.
"...Franziska hid the rest of the Antaxite when Leonidas was teleported. She hid them all in a garbage dump. I'm going there."Lara said.
"How do you know this?"Amell asked.
Lara turned to look at him- and just pointed at her eyes. "...I see a lot of things."She said. "Franziska does as well, which is why she's already out of town."
"What about the rest, like the muscle guy?" Jess asked.
"Can't see where he is. Probably still at the police station."Lara said. "...I wouldn't kill him, he tried to save a life."
With that- the bird swooped down; they were at a giant garbage heap- Lara had vanished in the clouds,
The bird then swooped straight into the sky; Amell and Jess falling onto the ground.
"And here we are."Lara said- appearing on a pile of garbage. "...But before that, There's something I'd like you to do."
"...You want me to break the Antaxite Jewels, don't you?" Jess asked.
"..You don't have to,But when we find them. that would be nice."Lara said. "But that wasn't what I meant, Mom."
Amell's eyes widened at that statement.
"That scum died in Vera's realm."Lara said. "That means his soul is there- but since a crystal wasn't used to bring him there- he's never going to be able to leave- so we can't bring him out by destroying these crystals,can you find his soul for me, please? Before or after you break the Antaxite, of course."
"...First of all, did you just call me mom?" Jess asked.
"...Oh...That was a mistake."Lara said. "Sorry."
"...Okay, but how do you expect me to find his soul exactly?" Jess asked.
"...Look for it. It's probably not far from where he died."Lara said.
"...Alright, but if you break the Antaxite, what do you plan to do? Cause we can't let those monsters loose and rampage throughout the city." Jess said.
"Don't call them monsters."Lara said- her hair fanning out behind her.
Within the garbage heap, many objects started to glow.
"I'm freeing them. And they're going to be able to do what they've wanted to since they were first stuck there."She said. "And that's it.Just Find That Scum's spirit and make sure he doesn't get to leave."
"Lara, this is dangerous. Many people could get hurt as a result of this." Jess said.
"Like they were?"Lara asked.
"Yes, but now the one who hurt them paid the price. There is no way to bring them back to life now, what's done is done." Jess said.
Lara smiled.
"...Shut up."She said.
"...I changed my mind...I'm going to go kill Franziska now."Lara said- sneering. "I mean, she was the one who threw everyone in there.
She deserves it too."
With that, Lara vanished.
"...Ah great...wait a minute...while she is gone, we could take the Antaxite out of the garbage dump and take them to Ra." Jess suggested.
"But how are we going to find them?"Amell asked. "There's like, a thousand of them."
"well, okay, there's less than a thousand, but- still a lot!"
"...I could use my power to lift them all out of the trash heap." Jess said.
She used her telekinesis to lift all the Antaxite Jewels out of the trash heap, going towards her.
The second she did.
Lara suddenly re-appeared In front of her-Jess was sent flying into a pile of garbage,
"M-Mom!"Amell called out; only to be sent flying into the sky.
"Shit, not what I was planning on-!"Lara grumbled. the Antaxite Jewels now all floating in the air.
Thinking on her feet; Lara sent them all to a Conveyer Belt- which lead to a trash Compactor... Which..somebody activated.
a Jewel entered the Compactor; then there was a nasty breaking sound- a figure obscured by glowing sheets- with only a bony white hand sticking out- emerged from the other side and entered the sky, circling around the trash heap. Then another one went in; and a Jellyflora flew out.
"You're not stopping me."She said- looking deep in thought.
Jess immediately got up and levitated Lara, knocking her into a garbage pile before running up to the trash compactor and deactivated it before it could break any more Antaxite Jewels.
"Lara, trust me, I feel really sorry for you, but this has to stop!" Jess said.
The Trash Compactor re-activated itself, and Jess was sent flying into the air.
"You don't even know what I'm Doing!"Lara yelled- appearing in front of her and grabbing her throat.
"Let go of my Mom!"
Lara got whooshed down into the trash pile- where she evaporated.
Amell and Jess both got sent flying down to the ground- landing with a painful thump.
Jess got up and helped Amell.
"Are you okay?" Jess asked.
"I'm- I'm Fine."Amell said.
5 Other Antaxite Jewels got smashed; creatures emerging from the other end of the compactor.
When a Floating Eye emerged from the other end; a Shield appeared around the Device.
"That things making a shield!"Amell gasped.
Jess looked around, finding some nearby glass shards before she levitated them and plunged them into the floating eye. the Floating eye wailed in pain and went further upwards- still functioning- it made a shield appear around itself- as 2 more creatures emerged from the trash compactor.
"Jess! What's going on out there!?"Ra called out- his voice blasting Jess's ear. "This Place is loosing whatever small amount of physics it even had!"
"Lara shoved the jewels into a trash compactor and is releasing the creatures! One of them made a shield around it and we can't destroy it!" Jess said.
"What!?"Ra Yelled. "Oh shit, that's not good- That is not good! I'll be right ove-ARGH!"
There was some white noise and the sound of something being unplugged.
"Ra? RA!" Jess yelled.
No response.
Amell started using gusts of air to send pieces of trash at the creatures- One creature which was literally a tiny ball with tons of tentacles on it- started flinging pieces of trash back at him. He jumped out of the way of the incoming garbage.
Jess looked at the creature and used her telekinesis to rip the tentacles off it and dropping them on the ground.
The Tentacles only stretched out.
The Creature made a strange siren-esque noise- it's tentacles then smacking Jess into a pile of trash.
More and More creatures started to emerge from the other end- some of them familiar, some of them not-all of them blatantly looking like they did not belong.
Jess got up as her eyes glew and she turned into her mega form.
She aimed her own staff at the trash compactor and fired a beam, which pierced through the shield and hits the compactor, destroying it and sending the jewels flying before more creatures could come out.
"NO!"Lara suddenly yelled out from..everywhere?
Jess suddenly hit the ground- then got sent flying right to the trash Compactor, Amell reached out and tried to grab her- but she hit it's remains.
"YOU RUINED IT!"
The Remaining Antaxite crystals all started floating and Pelting against Jess.
"YOU RUINED IT! I WAS GOING TO SAVE THEM AND YOU RUINED IT!"
Jess closed her wings, shielding her from the Antaxite crystals.
"Save them how!? By letting them cause havoc on the planet!?" Jess asked.
"BY BRINGING THEM BACK! I WAS GOING TO FIND THEIR BODIES, AND GET THAT BITCH TO PUT THEM BACK!"
More Crystals slammed into her; one breaking by sheer force and letting out a eight legged mouse with a burning tail- it just ran off into the trash piles.
"THEN, ONCE I DID THAT, SHE WAS GOING TO DIE! THEY'D ALL BE HAPPY! MY SISTER WOULD BE HAPPY!"
As she said that, thunder ran out- and it suddenly started to rain.
"Lara, I can understand how are you feeling, believe me, cause I have a sister and she felt the same pain you once did, but killing people and releasing some dangerous monsters isn't gonna make her happy! You are becoming what Leonidas was, a murderer!" Jess said.
There was quiet.
"...Then I won't kill Franziska. But she's still going to put them all back."
"And what if it won't work? What if she can't put them back?" Jess asked.
"Then they can do what they want. This wasn't my idea."Lara said.
Among the rain-droplets, stick figures started to fall onto the ground as well- the Creatures that had been released all stopped in their place, more and more stick figures were falling down.
Lara appeared, standing on the conveyer belt- picking up a antaxite jewel that was at her feet, and smiling purely.
"W-What's going on!?"Amell asked-running up to them.
"...You did break her jewel open after all."Lara smiled- turning to look at them with a innocent smile on her face.
"...What are you doing now?" Jess asked.
"...I'm not doing this."Lara smiled. "She is."
"Wh-Who is!?"Amell asked.
"..My sister, who do you think?"She asked- her smile fading.
It briefly cut to the Antaxite Realm, The Neonytes were all in a giant cylindrical coliseum area- with ink-based plants growing out of it's windows.
Ra and someone else where both hiding behind a pillar, Ra turned his head to see a Giant- deep black lizard with what looked like jewels embedded painfully into various parts of it's torso and it's eyes.
It turned to look at them and the right-eye Jewel spewed fire at them. Ra backed away as the Pillar started fading into butterflies.
The floor around them started to shift- a mouth appearing on the ground in front of the other Neonyte.
"W-..Wha..?"The Neonyte asked.
"The souls that made this place must be loosing their synchronization!"Ra realized "We need to get out of here before it swallows us up!"Ra yelled.
It briefly cut to Athena's bedroom, the portal had re-opened, it looked like something on the other side had tried it's best to rip it open again, and left a giant tear in space on her carpet.
The Clouds started to part- lines of crayon were falling from it, pillars of crayon striking the ground- the Creatures continued to float around the area- all watching.
A Birthday cake fell out of the clouds next.
"B-But we Closed the portal! Didn't we!?"Amell asked.
"Maybe she just opened it again."Lara said. as a light started to shine out from the hole in the clouds. "...Hey, Sis!"She called out. "It's so great to see you again!"
Jess simply glared at Lara before she looked up at the hole in the clouds.
A giant photograph emerged- a light shining from behind it.
The photograph was one of Lara, Vera, alice, and another blonde man- their real father.
Then out came a chair, then another chair- then it started to rain chairs- one of them- a chair with a birthday hat hanging off of it and multiple broken jewels embedded floated down-
A Holographic image resembling Vera- but with a blacked out face was sitting on it- looking to not be conscious.
"Sis! How are you?"Lara called out. "I got rid of him, Just like you wanted!"She called out.
The Image's head lolled slightly, it didn't respond to her. The Photograph however, turned to Face Lara.
Jess turned to Amell.
"We have to do something!" Jess whispered to him.
Amell looked at her- shivering slightly.
"I know- but what?"He asked.
Lara started floating- so did all of the Chairs that had fallen out of the sky- they all started to line up in the air- a Giant sheet appearing- taking the place of a table. All of the Creatures that had been released went towards the table- floating near all of the chairs. The Vera-Image was sitting at the center of the table- still on her chair, Lara next to her, the Photograph floating above them.
Jess just turned her head to Lara, Vera-Image and all the creatures, trying to see what they are doing.
they were just sitting (or floating) at the table, only the small ones- humanoid ones, or Lara herself were actually sitting on the chairs.
More Stick figures were falling out of the sky.
Then- Ra appeared from a portal- on the Conveyer belt.
"J-Jess! What on Earth is goi-"Ra turned to see the table of creatures. "- WHAT IS GOING ON!?"He asked.
"...And who are you?"Lara asked, her mouth not moving.
Jess turned to Ra, sending him a mind message.
"The portal in Athena's bedroom has opened again. Apparently, it wasn't Lara who did it, it was the one who was inside the Jewel we smashed, her sister, Vera." Jess's mind message said.
Ra's eyes widened slightly- turning to look at the dinner table of monsters.
"W...Which one is she?"He asked Jess- using his thoughts.
"...That one." Jess said, pointing at the Vera-image.
A Human-sized, Quadruped, Metallic Lizard jumped out of the hole in the clouds- which had started to distort into a portal.
The Lizard then jumped down onto the floating table- then onto the trash compactor- which began glowing as it seemed to fix itself.
Ra started sending blasts of light at it- The Lizard's Mouth Extended and it shot towards Ra- who jumped out of the way as it's mouth clamped shut.
"Well at least this is just a giant lizard, and not a kheog."Ra muttered- as the Creature went in for another bite.
Jess levitated the creature in mid air before she smashed it against the ground and began to tear it in half with her telekinesis.
"Me and Amell will try to handle them! You go and try to close the portal in my house in Athena's bedroom! Get one of the Unigard guys if you have too!" Jess said, sending her mind message to Ra.
The Creature didn't get pulled in half at all. It simply snapped back in place and then leapt to Jess- as the Trash Compactor started up again- more Antaxite Jewels heading towards it.
Ra nodded and then teleported.
He was in The Vixrello house- A Human-shaped creature with Calf-sized Limbs scittered down the stairs and out of the front door.
Ra shivered slightly upon seeing it, and made his way up the stairs-
The Portal was taking up the entire bedroom floor- somehow everything hadn't fallen in. Several Tiny creatures- the size of small children or smaller- were crawling out of it and making their way past Rha- one that was literally a floating candle whizzed right past him- burning part of his shirt off as he walked over to the portal and gazed into it.
"...How am I going to deal with this?"He asked. "This is Ra Alise! Calling in for Backup!"Ra said into his transceiver.
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A Florajelly had emerged from the sky portal and grabbed onto Jess- pulling her into it's mouth-
Amell was on the ground- trying to fend off the Metallic Lizard by using his air powers to smack it with some Garbage- it covered it's face but eventually it's mouth extended and it took a giant chomp out of a cube Amell sent at it. Amell paled slightly but didn't let up.
Jess shoot a massive beam from her staff into the Floraljelly's mouth, bursting through the back of it's head.
The Florajelly fell- disintegrating.
The Vera-Image then started crying- it sounded like a 1,000 Babies crying in unison.
"You...Bitch."Lara said- her mouth not moving.
Amell eventually stopped throwing garbage at the Lizard- it glared at him slightly- then turned up to see the Vera-Image shedding tears made of paper.
It's eyes widened; they were pure white- but Amell could see concern in them- the Lizard then moved from Amell and Jumped to Jess- it's Mouth Elongating as it leaned straight into Jess...
"STOP!"Amell called out- sending the lizard flying- it crashed into the table sheet, skidding along the party table.
Jess just landed on the ground, on her feet, before aiming her staff at Lara, Vera and the creatures.
"This is your last chance...stop...Now!" Jess said.
The Vera-Image kept crying.
Lara frowned.
The Portal in Athena's bedroom absorbed itself, vanishing.
"Um-."Ra said- into the earpiece he communicates with jess with "The portal in your daugher's bedroom. It closed up on it's own."
"...Really? Then that means...Vera or Lara must of stopped it." Jess said.
The Hole in the Clouds turned into a Portal-
The Remaining Soul Creatures- which was only like- 20 of them really- Jumped out simultaneously, a Lizard with Gems in it tried to get out- but a Shield appeared under the portal that trapped it at the last second.
The Photograph looked up at the Lizard- the Shield started compressing- squishing the giant Gem-Embedded lizard; that tried to fire beams from it's gem to destroy the shield; it didn't work- the Orb Tightening around it- leaving it no Wiggle room at all.
"...That's Dad's soul. Let's deal with him later."Lara said, her mouth not moving.
"...Right now...We Take back what's ours."
Bubbles poured out of the portal- avoiding the Giant Lizard stuck in shield and floating down- flowers started falling down as well, as the trash heap started taking on a rather...odd hue.
"Shit! I think The Portal's too big! That world is made out of souls! Whatever's happening is tearing everything apart!"Ra exclaimed into the earpiece. "I'll be right over there!"
"Okay!" Jess yelled out.
Jess turned around and tried shooting beams from her staff at Lara, Vera and the creatures.
It hit the table- which exploded into butterflies. The Vera-Image's Chair lifted it up closer to the orb the Gem-Lizard was contained in- still crying tears- this time actual liquid- that; after getting a certain distance from the image- washed straight to Jess and Pushed her down- the Creatures all separated from where the table was and started whirling around- a Few of them Going in to attack Jess, others just watching.
None of them were heading for Amell- who tried pushing them away- whenever he did; others started trying to get to her as well.
Jess used her telekinesis to push them all away before shooting crystal shards out of her wings, right towards the creatures. The Creatures got hit- but none of them died.
"STOP HURTING THEM!"A Chidlish voice called out- the Photograph flying higher up- Little cartoonish suns appearing from behind the Photograph and flying towards Jess- exploding once they got close enough to her.
Jess got knocked in the ground when that happened.
She got up and turned to the Vera-image.
"Then stop the damn portal if you don't want me to hurt them!" Jess yelled out.
"NO. I'M STOPPING YOU."The Childish voice said- the Vera-Image making no movements to signify it was talking.
More suns came out from behind the photograph and blew up once they got close enough to Jess.
"Mom!"Amell called out- only for a shield to appear- blocking him off from the battle that was going on- as a Florajelly grabbed onto Jess's arm and another to her other arm- the two started to pull in opposite directions.
Meanwhile- the tears from the Vera Image continued to Grab onto Jess and push her against the ground.
Jess immediately looked around and focused as she used her telekinesis to tear the tendrils of the Florajelly's off her arms and blasted the tears off her.
She launched a beam from her staff at the photograph.
"NO!"Lara suddenly yelled- jumping up to protect the photograph.
The Beam hit Lara- who's form evaporated, and then hit the photograph- tearing it in half.
The Chairs then all fell to the ground.The Creature's all stopped what they were doing to watch as the two halves of the photograph fell.
The Vera-Image was the only one still looking at Jess.
"You...Fucking....Bitch..."Lara's voice said, coming from nowhere and everywhere.
Several Lara's appeared on either side of it, all holding each other's hands.
"YOU JUST TRIED. TO KILL MY SISTER!"The Lara's yelled simultaneously- all turning into Fog and Flying towards Jess; a cloud of Fog burst around her as the Lara's all surrounded her- with knives and Axes, they started cutting and slicing at her.
One Nicked her arm- the other sliced at her wing- chopping it off, another one Sliced at her head but missed when she dodged it.
"mom! MOM!"Amell yelled out, trying to break through the shield by winding piles of garbage at it- they just harmlessly bounced off.
Jess looked pretty injured as she levitated the Lara's and smashed them against the ground before shooting beams at them from her staff.
Whenever they were hit- they just dispersed into Fog and reformed- continuing their onslaught, while the creatures looked over the two torn halfs of the Photograph, the Vera-image still crying in the distance.
Jess got hit two or three times before she shot crystal shards at them and levitated them away from her.
"I-Is the Real Lara anywhere near here!?"Amell asked; as the Lara's still continued.
Ra got out from where he was and shot at the Lara's as well- it had just as little effect.
"These clearly are just holograms, But the weapons they're wielding are real!"Ra said- adjusting a eyepiece he was wearing as he shot. "The Real one should be somewhere around here!"He said.
Amell then looked around and ran around the edge of the shield.
Jess, while dodging their attacks, uses her psychic powers to defect the real Lara.
There was a psychic signal coming from behind a trash pile- outside of the Shield.
As Jess found it- Amell started running straight for it immediately, he saw what looked like a metal sheet- and started to move it.
"Ugh-Haa.."He mumbled, straining under it's weight- before he managed to knock it over.
What he saw underneath it, was a sleeping girl with messy black hair, and a mole on her cheek wearing a red cardigan.
"Mom."Amell thought- directing them towards Jess. "I found her! She's asleep!"
"I can't really attack her while I'm inside the shield so try to stop her with something!" Jess thought before she dodged another hit from the Lara's Amell lightly slapped her. It had no effect.
Jess just kept dodging the Lara's before she attempted to shot a beam at the shield, attempting to break it.
The Beam got reflected right towards her- Although it hit some Lara's and evaporated them.
Amell slapped Lara's sleeping form some more. "I...I can't hurt someone who's not even conscious!"Amell spluttered.
"Just wake her up then!"Ra said- shooting at the Lara's- 2 of them didn't reform at all.
Jess then closed her eyes as she focused on the real Lara, sending out a really loud mind message in her head.
"WAKE UP!" Her voice said in Lara's head.
Lara's eyes shot open-
The Lara's, the portal, the Vera-Image- it all vanished.
"Urk-Wha...What am I...Why...You!"Lara grumbled, looking at Amell.
"Get out of my way!"Lara yelled- pushing Amell aside and running up to the Shield. "Vera!"She called out "Vera! Vera! Are you Okay Sis!?"
There was a bizarre gurgling noise...coming from everywhere.
"W...What was that?"Ra asked- readying his blaster.
"Oh..Thank god, Thank goodness you're okay!"Lara smiled, tears running down her face.
The Two halfs of the Photograph both floated up to where the portal was- re-attaching themselves easily. Wings spread out from behind it and a geometric pattern spread out from it to the sky within the shield- which started to fade away as the Creatures all started floating up again.
Amell then Winded Lara Off to the wall of the trash heap- winding himself there too.
"...S..Shit! That Thing is Vera's Soul!?"Ra asked.
"Seems like it. That's why Lara took the hit when I launched a beam at the photograph." Jess said.
"I'm right here!"Lara called out.
"...Are you actually going to attack her?"Amell asked.
"Guess so." Jess said before she launched two beams from her staff, at Lara and the photograph.
"NO!"Amell said- running in front of Lara before the Beam could hit her.
The Beam that would've hit the Photograph missed when it flew out of the way- Stick figures flying out of it and Flying towards Jess- all of them ramming into her.
"Amell, what are you doing!?" Jess asked before levitating the stick figures off her.
"Everyone Stop!"Amell Said- somehow un-harmed by the Beam. "Everyone Stop it Right now!"
The Photograph didn't listen- sending more stick figures at Jess.
"I SAID STOP!"Amell yelled- holding his hand out towards the stick figures-
a Bright light shined in his hand and then flew out towards the stick figures- expanding in size and absorbing them. The Photograph flapped it's wings and everything there watched.
"I... You're all.. You all suffered! You don't deserve this! But- We...No matter how this mess goes- if you're just fighting then Noone's going to be happy at the end of it!"Amell Yelled.
"That's very nice and all kid but there souls were distorted by that dimension-"Ra said.
"Shut up! You Weren't stuck there!"Amell said. "You can't tell Just by looking at them!"
"Yes, I can!"Ra said. "These things were attacking you less than a few seconds ago, why are you on there side!?"
"I'm not! I'm not on any of your sides!"Amell yelled. "I just want this to stop! L-Leonidas is already Dead! And They're all out of that dimension...What else needs to happen..."
"...Amell." Jess simply said. Before she looked at Lara and the photograph.
Lara...was just walking towards the photograph.
"...Sis..."She said.
The Photograph was just flapping and moving around.
"...Sis...!"She said, louder.
More stick figures fell from the sky.
"Sis, It's okay!"Lara yelled. "It's Okay Sis! He's dead! That's his soul right there!"She yelled- pointing at the Gem-Lizard stuck in the orb.
More Chairs fell from the Sky.
"SIS, LISTEN TO ME! IT'S ALRIGHT! IT'S OVER!"
The Photograph's Wing smacked into Jess.
"Mom!"Amell called out. running towards them. Ra started to shoot at the Photograph but Lara pulled a gun on him- shooting him in the foot.
"Don't hurt her!"Lara yelled. "Just, Get out of here!"
Lara then got smacked with a wing- rolling onto her side.
"U-Urgka-! No! It's Alright! She's just Overwhelmed!"Lara called out- as Ra sent a blast of Light towards the photograph- it blasted right through and the photograph cried- swaying about and smashing it's wings aimlessly, more stick figures rained down on the neonyte.
The Creature's then all started to distort- they started loosing control too. Charging towards Jess and slicing at- grabbing- or just trying to eat her.
Amell backed away- his eyes wide. ".W...What's happening?"He asked. "...They were all...perfectly calm minutes ago..."
...In a black void, there was a image of Vera and Leonidas having a argument....
Memories of that argument where running throughout the void.... Occasionally a memory of Alice or Lara would resurface and bring a smile to her face... but for the most part.. it was just that argument...
That argument and it's memory, and the memories of her time with Her friends were spreading throughout the distorted realm, reaching every other soul that had been twisted after it died there....
Amell started crying.
He looked at a lion-like creature with dove's spawning from it's tail- currently at the back of the pack, just slashing at the beams of light Ra was blasting at them. Somehow, he knew that one was Chihara's Soul.
"...M....Mom...."He muttered. Watching as Creatures stopped targeting her- some of them going for Ra.
Jess levitated the creatures away from Ra before turning to the Gem-Lizard monster.
"Her memory of Leonidas is making Vera unstable. She has the power to control the animals and because she is focused on Leonidas, she is losing control of them!" Jess said.
"...We need to get that Out of here!"Lara yelled.
The Shield holding Leonidas's Soul burst- the Gem-Embedded Lizard fell down- clawing at the Photograph-which flew away from him.
Out of one of the Lizard's gems- a Burst of Ink shot out- trying to strike the photograph, out of another, came a sea of Doves- that tried to peck at the Photograph.
Amell sent a Wave of Light at Leonidas's Soul- sending it flying into a trash pile- then he sent a gust of wind at it- knocking it further into the pile.
It burst out of the pile- jumping and trying to reach the Photograph. The Photograph spawned a birthdaycake- which it sent flying right into the Lizard's face- knocking it back down.
Jess levitated the giant lizard and began smashing it against the ground before shooting a big beam from her staff towards him, hitting him in the chest.
A Gem on the Lizard's chest Shot out a web of Ink, another one sent out a wave of fire at Jess.
Jess dodged and shot beams at the Lizard, destroying the gems on it's chest before turning to Ra.
"Is there a way to send it back into the Antaxite Dephts or atleast destroy it!?" Jess asked.
"T..The Portal!? Ra asked "Is it Still Open!?"
"I think it disappeared when Lara woke up!" Jess said.
"Shit!"Ra yelled, Looking around. "A-Another Antaxite!"He Exclaimed, rushing over to it.
A Nine tailed creature made out of silk whipped the Antaxite away. Ra Shot at it and then Ran towards the Antaxite again- this time grabbing it.
"I got it!"
The Lizard then shot up and clawed at Jess.
"..Y...You...Were..There...."Jess heard, from inside her own mind "You watched me get torn limb from limb!"
"Catch!"Ra yelled- tossing the Antaxite to Jess.
It hit Leonidas's Soul in the gem instead. Knocking it over, the Antaxite rolled away a couple of inches.
Jess levitated the Antaxite into her hands before levitating the giant lizard in the air and aiming the Antaxite at it.
"I tried to save you but Lara clearly had other ideas! And you weren't any better! Taking the souls of innocent people just to give yourself powers, just to make yourself feel special! Even taking the soul of your own daughter! People like you disgust me the most!" Jess said.
The Lizard growled at her- A Shot of Fire shooting out of the gem sticking out of it's eye.
Jess smashed the Lizard against the ground before it could do anything else.
"Now, magician, for my next trick, I'll make you disappear back to where you belong!" Jess said, as she levitated the Lizard, sending it towards the Antaxite.
the Antaxite began glowing as the Lizard went inside it- as though it was made for the lizard.
There was a faint image inside of the Antaxite. The Lizard was back in the dimension.
The Creatures however, were still going wild- and the Photograph itself was still flapping about chaotically.
Jess tossed the Antaxite back to Ra before she turned to the creatures.
"Vera is still thinking about Leonidas! There's gotta be a way to calm her down!" Jess said.
Lara ran up to the Photograph.
"Sis!"She called out. "Sis! He's gone now! He's back where he should be!You're Safe!"
The Photograph couldn't seem to hear her- it was still flapping about aimlessly, a Piece of trash got flicked and was sent flying.
Amell felt a light feeling in his chest. For a few seconds... he was imagining Athena in Lara's position.
"I'm Sorry!"He called out- starting to climb up a pile of trash. A Creature Flew right past him- barely missing him- he continued to climb up. "I- I know you all suffered because of that man!"He cried out,the light in his chest began to manifest physicially. "And I'm sorry for what happened! It's all Alright now!"
Jess looked at Amell for a few seconds, looking at his chest before she looked at the Photograph and flew up to her with her only wing.
She puts her on it as her eyes glew purple.
"Vera! I know you can hear me! Please, calm down and listen to Amell!" Jess said, making a telekinetic call to her.
Amell started Glowing- completely, it was as though there was a star climbing the pile of trash.
"It's all Okay now, It's over! It's Over!!"
Amell's Bright light took up the entire Trash heap. Temporarily blinding everyone there.
..When the light faded, they had all moved.
Lara, Vera's Soul and all the other creatures, were all on a Golden Walkway in what looked to be the middle of outer space.
There was a small object floating in front of Amell, a crest.
"It's okay."Amell said,tears leaking down his face. "Leonidas is finished. Lara freed you all. You can all relax. Find your true afterlifes, can't you?"He asked. "The ones you should've had, not the one he forced you into for his own gain."
"It's all okay now. You can move on, all of you."
The Light returned...
Back at the trash heap, everyone was unconscious, all the creatures had vanished, including Vera's Soul.
Lara shot awake, looking over the area, she saw Amell's unconscious form still gripping onto the pile of trash. Feeling a presence, she picked him up, pulled him to the top of the pile, and looked over him. There was now a necklace around his neck- looking closer.
She could see the crest of Kindness.
Lara looked over him, her clear eyes leaking droplets of tears.
She left a piece of paper on the ground near him, then walked away.
Jess awoke, a couple of minutes later. Lara, and all the creatures were gone.
Jess got up, looking confused before she turned to see Amell.
"AMELL!" Jess yelled as she ran to him and picked him up.
"Amell! Amell! Answer me, please!" Jess called out.
Amell opened his eyes, slowly.
"..M..Mom.. What happened?"He asked.
Jess looked happy before she hugged Amell.
"Amell, oh my God! I'm so happy you're okay!...I honestly don't know. I tried to calm down Vera and then you started to glow, I couldn't see anything and when I woke up, Lara and all the creatures were gone and I saw you there, unconscious." Jess said.
"...I...I was talking to them."Amell said. reaching for his own heart, he felt something else. fiddling with it, he grasped it and looked down at what he was holding. "...I just..told them what I was thinking, they could all move on...And they did."
He was staring at his crest.
Jess looked at the crest and she looked surprised.
"...The crest...of Kindness..." Jess said.
She turned to Amell.
"...Amell...you...managed to calm them down and helped them finally find their peace." Jess said.
"Heh...Did I.. Really do that?"Amell asked-scratching the back of his neck.
"...Yes, you did. Looks like you inherited something from your father after all...the ability to show mercy and compassion to the people you fight." Jess smiled.
She then turned her head and saw the piece of paper
"What's this?" Jess asked, picking it up.
'Dear Vixerello Family.
I'm Sorry I caught you all up in this. But on the other hand, I made the right choice in getting you involved.
I saw my Sister, she's happy now, I'm sure of it. Her mental powers were enough for her to effect everything in the antaxite realm- So everything there had to suffer what she did as well as her. Now none of them have to worry anymore.
Leonidas is still there, but in a way, he's gotten what he wants, I still don't feel any pity for him. but that's not important.
I have someone I need to see, My Mother. I'm going to try to move on- and she's going to need me to be with her when she moves on herself.
Sincerest apologies
Lara Anne Marie Cailloux'
"...Looks like Lara finally managed to find her peace aswell...it's all over now at last." Jess said.
She reverted back to her normal form before she puts her hand on the earpiece.
"Ra, can you hear me?" Jess asked.
"I can hear you just fine."Ra said- standing up- having fallen unconscious on the conveyer belt.
Jess turned to him.
"Oh, I see. Well, it's all over now. We shouldn't about the Antaxite jewels ever again." Jess said.
"It's fine."Ra said- picking one up off the ground.
"...It's empty, the ones that left from the portal emptied their gems without ever breaking them."He said. "...I'll just be taking these then, and also finding out who this Omesata person is."
Amell wiped his eyes. "...I didn't even need to fight."He whispered to himself.
"Well, I guess this is where we part ways then. It's been nice meeting you, Mr.Ra. Take good care of your daughter." Jess said.
Ra nodded, picking up some more Antaxite jewels from off the ground.
Jess turned to Amell, smiling.
"I guess we can finally go home now. Athena and Marick should probably be back from them their final fight against the Legion." Jess said. Amell nodded, smiling.
"A-And after that, Maybe I could go to Abigail's house- to play a game with her or something. And, And after that. We're going to Wallshore! To see Lara!"
"Sure thing." Jess smiled as they started to walk away.
It Briefly cut to a train station in a quiet, sunny town.
A Train arrived, the doors opened, and only one girl in a red cardigan walked out. Noone went in.
The Girl walked out of the train station, putting her ticket near the entrance, and then walked down a sand pathway to the town square.
A Man working at a fruit store turned to look at her- as though he hadn't seen her in ages.
The Girl walked out of the town square, and down a pathway facing a sandy beach, eventually she reached someone's front garden, she walked up to the front door, and knocked twice.
there was silence, slowly, the front door opened.
"..L-Lara!?"The Lady who opened the door- Alice Cailloux, asked- she was in a wheelchair, but otherwise- looked almost the same. "I-Is that really you? Where have you been?"
"It's not important. I'm home now, Mom."Lara smiled.
A Neonyte crew had started to Collect Antaxite crystals,
"I'm just glad no one else died."Ra sighed to himself, as he watched them all collect the remaining crystals.
"Um, Sir! Sir!"A Neonyte called out- running towards him with two Gems. "These two still contain some souls!"He said.
"...Ah, that one is Leonidas. The guy who caused this. we won't want to let him out."Ra said.
"Ah, right."The Neonyte fumbled. "But, the other one?"
Ra looked at it, he took it off the Neonyte and looked inside of it.
"...Ah, this is good."
A Portal opened up on a road in Erifort,
a young child with black hair stumbled out of it, looking shocked.
He took a step forward, then another.
A Lady came out of a house.
"Ryoma!, Ryoma, Oh god You're safe!"She Smiled. Running towards the child- who looked too far off to register the fact that she was hugging him.
On the other side of the portal, Ra smiled- holding a empty Antaxite crystal. "...He was alive. Barely."He said. the portal closed with him on the other side, still talking into the earpiece.
"When Franziska hit him with the beam she knocked him out, they put him in a Antaxite while he was alive. Somehow- he managed to live long enough to still be human when Lara put her plan to set them all free into motion."Ra said, talking into the earpiece. "Although he was a fair bit out of it, I don't know if he'll ever be the same again.
Still, that girl's going to be happy isn't she. Abbie, I'm sure the earth police force is very happy to hear of this. But please, I don't need to be there in person. I'm just happy to see these kids back with their parents.
Speaking of Kids and their parents, It's time I pay my daughter a visit too. Good luck with your Children Jess, they sound like they're going to be a handful when they grow up."
Myshtaski was with Officer Jenson at the police station, Pictures of Jewels, and Of Franziska and Leonidas's faces were on the table.
"And that's...Everything that they did."Myshtaski said. "..God, I just feel...Like I could've done something."
"It's alright, It's alright."Officer Jenson said, re-assuringly. "We already received word of Leonidas's death. so he can't be brought to justice. But Franziska, she's still out there somewhere, and when we catch her. She'll be going exactly where she deserves to go."
"It's just..I really, really thought I knew them. And I had to go along with what they did, god, though, it was so horrible. I'm so glad to be away from them now."Myshtaski sighed. "But, I'm not sure what I can do, from here on out."
"Well, you're free to stay in Erifort if you want."Officer Jenson laughed. "We already have folks like White Arrow and Shadow Girl helping out, but we could always use some extra muscle."
Myshtaski smiled. "I'd like that."
Meanwhile, in the second Universe, Gafust's world.
It was a few moments right after the battle with the Legion as it cuts to the ISP resting and celebrating their victory.
Mibyll was currently checking out the remains of the Citadel.
The injured members were getting healed by Mont.
Lyra and Vlad were discussing while Lyra was holding the Antaxite that contained Chronos.
"...So, he is inside that?" Vlad asked.
"Yup. He is the last member of the Legion. And thanks to him being immortal, he won't be killed by the short life span or can even kill himself. He will live forever inside the Depths." Lyra said.
It cuts inside the Antaxite, where Chronos was on the ground, curled up in a ball, rocking back and forth, shivering with white eyes and tears on his face. He was surrounded by nothing but white mist.
"...Someone...please talk to me...someone, please just answer me....SOMEONE JUST SAY SOMETHING!" Chronos yelled out, his yell echoe'd throughout the area.
It cuts back outside.
"...I see. What do you plan to do with him?" Vlad asked.
"I think I'll hand this over to the Neonytian Services. They know how to deal with these. Don't know if it would be a good idea to lock it in the ISP base where anyone could accidently break it and release him." Lyra said.
Vlad simply nodded.
Athena's gang was currently sitting on the ground, resting
Marick and Athena were currently watching Jess and Amell through a image video. Athena sighed in relief.
"Mom and Amell are okay. We managed to solve two crises in one day." Athena said.
"Indeed. You and Amell landed quite a impact on the world. You saved the entire Multiverse from the Black Crow while Amell saved Earth and some souls. I'm proud of both of you." Marick smiled.
"Yup. Well, we are Vixerello's after all. Hope I'll get to see Lara again very soon." Athena said.
"And you will. We should check to see if everyone else is okay and then we can go home." Marick said.
Athena nodded as they walked up to the others.
THE END
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 7, 2017 23:49:09 GMT
(So, I'm posting this for IAB since he can't copy it on his XBOX)
Marick: The White Arrow
Chapter 1: Rampancy
It's been a few days after Athena, Jess, and Amell's adventures.
Currently, Athena and Amell were in school, Marick was not home all night.
A portal opened inside the Vixerello house's living room and Marick stepped out, wearing his White Arrow outfit. By the look on his face, something major had happened, whatever it was, it wasn't good.
Jess was sitting on her furniture, watching TV before turning to see Marick.
"Oh, welcome back...are you okay?" Jess asked.
"Well considering the entire city is gonna probably hate me, Lance won't want my help, and I'm gonna seen as a villian. No, I'm not okay." Marick started, as the TV then switched to the news.
A male news reporter appeared on screen with a mall behind him.
"Police can confirm that Mathew Walis, a criminal who escaped jail a few days ago, was killed by the White Arrow last Night. Those who saw the incident say the man was running from police, when The White Arrow showed up, shot him with an Arrow, and got away." the reported said.
The screen switched to an older Lance, who was the head of the police force.
"He's never acted like this before." Lance said. "This kind of behavior can not be tolerated."
It switched back to the reporter.
"The police are still undecided on how to approach the situation." the reporter said.
Jess looked shocked before she turned her head to Marick.
"...You...you killed him!?" Jess asked.
Marick pulled out a file and handed it to Jess.
"Here's what they didn't tell you.
That man did horrible things, everything from killing, theft, and I dare not mention the other things there. it's part of why I've been absent for several weeks.
All these criminals, locking them up....it isn't working anymore Jess, it just isn't.
I lock them up only for them to get out weeks, sometimes days later, so I lock them up again, this time a different jail, only for them to escape AGAIN." marick said, clearly frustraited at the situation.
For the past few weeks I've been tracking down criminals who escaped, because they just go back to doing all these horrible things right after escaping, i give them chance after chance, and yet, the same thing keeps happening.
I even used Prophets Eye, only to see an endless cycle where people will get hurt......unless.
...I do that..
So now i have to decide whats more important, my morality, or the lives and well being of others." Marick said.
Jess sighed.
"Yeah, it's really a shitty situation but killing them isn't gonna make things better around here. Our kids had been through a lot these days and seen so much messed up stuff and the last thing we want is them hearing that their own father is killing others." Jess said.
"So what on earth am I suppose to do then?
I looked at each of these jails, the police force isn't good enough to keep them locked up, they find all sorts of ways to get out.
Sometimes by force, orthers through manipulation, others with loopholes, they find a way no matter what, they are smarter, and more dangerous.
I can't just sit back and let all these innocent people get hurt, and for once I can't think of another way." Marick said.
"...I don't know...but murder shouldn't be the solution. When it comes to big threats like the Jashinists and the Legion of Crows then maybe, but killing ordinary thugs shouldn't." Jess said.
"I know it shouldn't, and it isn't.
But...I...." Marick then just sighed..he had no idea what to do, and for once looked unsure, prophet's eye couldn't help him, malcolm and sora couldnt help him, and he's all out of ideas.
Jess just walked up to Marick, putting a hand on his cheek.
"Look, I don't have ideas how we could deal with the criminals besides putting them in bars and hoping they never get out of there ever again. But I really don't want the only solution to be killing them. I saw a man getting brutally ripped to shreds by a emotionally unstable girl who wanted to get revenge and I don't want you end up doing the same one day. I don't want our children to think that murder will always be the solution to their problems." Jess said.
Marick nodded.
"Not to mention how bad a feel for not being there to help you, Amell and Athena.
I know yall had it under control, but I felt like I should've been there, I should've been with you all. Instead I was dealing with these criminals, and only got to help Athena at the end, and I know it's what she wanted, she wanted to prove herself, but still.
Not to mention how I didn't show up at all to help you and Amell." Marick said. Clearly with the combination of not being there, not knowing how to handle these criminals, was actually getting to him. "Ya know, times like these I wish I could just switch to deadpan like my mom, but sadly i'ts not so easy." Marick said.
"Well, being deadpan about the situation wouldn't help either. Besides, it's not like our city is the one with crime problems, there are most likely dozens of criminals in other cities aswell." Jess said.
"I know...
Its just....there's got to be" marick started before Ark, who deactivated shadowcloak appeared beside them.
"Mind Games." he said, "Sorry to intrude, but...Mind Games." Ark said.
"What do you mean?" Marick said.
"You and your father are masters at mind games, so...why not put that to use?" Ark suggested.
Jess raised an eyebrow.
"...Are you sure that would even work?" Jess asked.
"Well, in theory yes, depends on how he approaches it.
He can use Mind games to put enough fear into criminals where they will be too afraid to commit any more crimes.
But on the other hand, go too far, and they may become too afraid." Ark suggested.
marick just stood there thinking.
"...Well, not all criminals are the same you know. Some criminals do what they do either because they are out of jobs and are broke and steal so then they can support their families, some do it because they're really desperate...or some are just plainly insane." Jess said.
"Indeed,
So he would have to use his Mind games differently for each person, enough so they learn there is another way, but not enough to scare them into a insane asylum." Ark said.
"That....could work...
I can use prophets eye to find out what their story is, and act accordingly." Marick said.
"I suppose so...though, the city might be a bit peeved off now after what happened so you should be careful in what you do next." Jess said.
"I know.
Now i have to solve the problem of...dealing with an entire city....whose angry at what i did....
...I have an idea but....it might....welll...
Should i do city wide mind shockwave? to remove their memory of the event?" Marick asked.
"..Not sure if thats the best choice to make." Ark suggested.
"True but what else do I do? make them think it wasn't the real white arrow?" Marick asked.
"You should them that you want to redeem yourself by not killing the next criminals you're gonna face and then you can do your...Mind Games or whatever without scaring them too much." Jess suggested.
Marick nodded..and smiled.
"Thank you Jess...and Ark." Marick said.
"Ark open a portal to Malcolm and Sora, I'm sure they're waiting for me." Marick said and Ark did so. Marick walked through, it closed behind him.
"I don't think Athena or Amell know yet, probably for the best." Ark said.
"After all that stuff that happened to them in this crazy month, I really don't want them to hear that." Jess sighed, sitting on her furniture.
Ark laid down.
Marick walked out of the portal to both Sora and Malcolm....both staring at him.
"...I made a mistake, i was frustrated and didn't see any other way. But i do now, i promise it wont happen again.
If you don't forgive me, then that's okay, go ahead and go." Marick said.
"I imagine your dealing with a lot, so we will let this one slide.....just..don't ever do that again." Sora said.
"We mean it....ever." Malcolm said.
"I know, i promise....now then, get the live area ready, i got something to say to Erinfort." Marick said.
Not long later, on every TV and channel in Erinfort, includeing Jess's, The White Arrow was seen, much to everyone's surprise.
"I made a big mistake.....things got out of hand, and I...well we all know what i did.
I put on these clothes and armor to save this city, to stop these criminals from causing you harm. And over the last few weeks, criminals have been getting out of jail, and quite easily. So in that moment, i didn't see any other way.
I understand if you all hate me for what I did, but I promise never to do it again, i found a new way to stop these criminals, this time, with no bloodshed.
Judge me as you will, but I won't stop protecting this city from harm." The White Arrow said, as the screens all went back to normal.
Jess just briefly smiled for a bit.
"...Let's hope everything will go well." Jess said.
....The news came on, same reporter as before.
"The EFPD have made their decision...
A warrant has been put out for The White Arrows arrest..."
END OF CHAPTER 1: RAMPANCY
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 8, 2017 18:02:12 GMT
Chapter 2: Judgement
Late at night, in The base of the White Arrow, the TV screens were showing the news.
Chief and leader of the EFPD had this to say about The warrent for the arrest of The White Arrow" a news reporter said.
"After what he did, how can we trust him? how do we know hes telling the truth? the entire city cant recover over night, we have to do something, even he isnt above the law, and we will find him and bring him in." Lance said.
"So....this is gonna be fun." Malcolm said.
"I dont blame them." Marick said, wearing his White Arrow outfit, still feeling a little bad. "But either way, we keep doing what we do. Next time a criminal escapes, i do it the right way." Marick said.
"Lets hope it works." Sora said.
moments later, the compuer starts beeping.
"Let me guess, more escaping?" Marick asked.
"Yup, 3 thugs escaping in a armored car, armed and dangerous, arrested for multiple murders during a gang war...says here they were locked up in prison 6 times, the last 3 by you." Malcolm said.
marick then walked to his motorcycle and got on.
"marick..." Sora started.
"Yes?"
"...Be careful" Sora said.
Marick nodded and drove off.
With lance.
Lance was in his office, looking through some files.
"Sir!" a policemen walked in.
"What is it?" lance asked
"The three men from that gang Lotus has escaped! they took a police vehicle!" the policemen said
"...Get all units over there." Lance said as he put the files up
"No doubt The White Arrow will show up...this is our chance." Lance thought as he left
Marick was chaseing down the car and caught up.
he pulled out his Bow and shot a exlosive arrow, causeing the car to swerve.
"HES TRYING TO CRASH US!" thug 1 said
"BE QUIET! I GOT THIS!" thug 2 said.
Marick shot a few arrows at the wheels, causeing the car to spin out of control, it came to a stop.
Marick stopped, got off his motorcycle and aimed his Bow at the car. the thugs were getting out they tried running when an Arrow landed in front of them, they turned around and seen The White Arrow.
"Oh look, its the innocent killing White Arrow! what are you here to kill us too?" thug 1 asked.
"No...im here to set you straight." Marick said.
"yeah, good luck with that!" thug 3 said, shooting at Marick, who quickly ducked behind a car.
"Go ahead White Arrow! what are you waiting for! you seemed to kill that guy no problem, why hesitate on us!" thug 2 said continueing fireing.
"ENOUGH!" Marick shouted suddenly, the guns were jammed, and everything went dark.
the three were now in a dark foggy room, a single light on the three.
"What?..where are we? what are you!" thug 1 asked,
"That depends on who you ask" The White Arrow said, walking to them.
the thugs tried to fight....but couldnt move.
"Why..." Arrow said.
"What are you?...and why cant we.."
"I SAID WHY!" Arrow shouted, lightning strikeing around him.
"You were in a gang war, you call yourselves Lotus...and i wanna know why...
and if you wont tell me....i'll find out myself." Arrow said.
the thugs were just silent for a moment.
one of them started crying....the third one.
"Im sorry!....i..i had too!" he said.
Arrow just stood in front of him.
"..Go on.."
"They killed them!....they....they killed my family man!...." thug 3 said.
Arrows Prophets Eye was visible, though not for the thugs, only for him. he was seeing this thugs past.
a dinning room was seen, a little girl with black hair with a party hat on sat at a table with a man and a women, and the third thug.
"It was my sisters birthday.." thug 3 commented.
"Hey danny! did you get me anything?!" she said with a large smile on her face.
"I sure did! take a look!" Danny said, handing her a preasent.
she looked excited, she opened it to see a toy dinosaur.
"YAY!" she said, hugging Danny. "thanks brother!" she said.
"Anytime!" he said with a smile.
in the background, gunshots were heard.
"whats that?" the women asked.
"probably just fireworks." danny shrugged off.
it wasnt long before those gunshots were a whole lot closer.
the man and women looked out the window and there was two large gangs outside, on gang began retreating....right towards their house.
"OH GOD! LOCK THE DOORS!" the woman shouted seconds before bullets began flying in, hitting the women, and man, and girl.
"NOOOO!!" Danny shouted, running to his little sister.
"NO NONONONO NO NOO NO!" he said, in shock, hugging his sister before running to cover, tears flowing down his face.
Eventually the gun shots stopped one of the gangs found him in their and apoligised, blameing the other gang on the event.
Danny believed him and accepted his offer and everything went back to the foggy room.
"Im sorry for what happened to you....but this? it isnt right." Arrow said.
"You didnt lose your family! you have NO IDEA WHAT I GO THROUGH EVERY DAY!" Danny said.
"No...i dont...but even i know...this isnt what they would've wanted, they would've wanted you to live a good life, be a good man, what would your sister think?" Arrow asked.
"I....i..." he started.
"You have a chance to right your wrongs, its what your family would want." Arrow said
he just started crying.
"Oh, your gonna try and convince us now? wonderful, good luck." thug 2 said
Arrow stepped in front of him.
"I joined the Lotus by choice, its the way i am." thug two said.
Arrow used prophets eye, and all he seen was darkness.
"So...your right....well....allow me...
You see....even the darkness has a fear." Arrow said as all thug 2 saw, was his greatest fear before him.
What he saw was himself, with tons of money, that money was vanishing, he was seeing himself a poor man.
"That wont be me...IT WONT!" he shouted.
"Oh....but it will....unless ofcorse you realise what your doing is wrong." Arrow said.
"No...this is just a stupid trick....this isnt even real..." the second thug said.
"Huh, then perhaps you wont mind liveing that life for a while huh? where nothing goes your way and you are left with no friends, or family, or anyone." Arrow said as everything around him changed. suddenly he was living that life. in reality he looked sad.
Marick went to thug 1.
"Do you really want to test me?" Arrow asked.
"...Nope." thug 1 said simply.
"Thats what i thought." Arrow said.
suddenly they all were back on the street. and police sirens were heard.
The police arrived, lance included.
"Put your hands behind your heads! your all under arrest!" a policemen shouted, the thugs co-operated.
lance aimed his gun at White Arrow.
"Surrender...Arrow." Lance demanded.
"I told you i wouldnt do that again, your just gonna have to believe me." Arrow said, he turned around fired his zipline and began to get away.
"FIRE!" Lance said and the policemen shot the rope Marick was useing, stopping the zipline. Marick landed on a car.
"I wont ask again....surrender." Lance said.
Arrow turned to Lance.
"No." he said. shooting a smoke arrow at the policemen, it landed near them and created a fog. Arrow got on his motorcycle and got away.
Lance looked angry when the fog went away.
Danny was still crying, thug 2 looked scared, and thug 1...just didnt have the energy to care anymore.
Later on Marick arrived back at base.
"Whoa....didnt see that coming." Malcolm said.
"I know, i did what i had to, but thats the first time ive had to use Mind Games to that extent...im gonna need a break." Marick said.
Sora nodded. "Get some rest." she said.
a portal opened and marick walked through, it closed behind him.
the portal took him to the living room, by this time at night Athena and Amell should be in bed.
Ark had created a image video for Jess so she could see the whole thing as it happened.
"...Well, it worked atleast...but not enough to convince the police." Jess said.
"And i have a feeling it wont for awhile, Lance has allways been stubborn when it comes to these things." Marick said.
"Well, some people react differently to other situations I suppose." Jess said.
"Yup.
To my surprise, that was the most ive used my Mind Games abilitys, it actually took a bit out of me.
im gona have to get used to it, and get some rest." Marick said.
"Okay...I made dinner for you just in case you would come back hungry." Jess said.
"Ah thanks." Marick said, walking to the dinner.
"I call dibs on cooking next time!" Marick said.
"You wish." Jess smiled.
"Dont make me bring out my chef outfit!" Marick said, smileing.
it wasnt long after Marick was done eating that he went to the bedroom before jess did, as he was more tired.
By the time jess entered the bedroom, marick was awake, despite being tired, casualy stareing out of the window into the night sky, alot was on his mind.
Jess, In her pajamas, walked up to Marick.
"Is there something bothering you?" Jess asked.
"...I still think about it..
Every night, i never really talked much about it....but..
Shawn...he was the only student...i couldnt protect.
If i would've been there and Ark....i...we could've saved him.
There isnt a day that goes by where i dont feel bad about that, i even worry i might make that mistake again.
i definitely know how my father felt when he realised his big mistake, though unlike his, i cant really fix mine.
the only comforting thing about it is Shawn is with Fawn forever now...which kinda rhymes i just realised." Marick said.
"...Marick, you need to stop guilt-tripping yourself so much. There's nothing you can do now. I told you this when you returned from your first fight with Jebediah. It's not like Shawn hates you for not being there. I think he is having a fun time in the White Expanse than he did on Earth" Jess said.
"I know...i know..
Its just....these things hit harder on a guardian then any other person, its not a choice, its part of who we are...how we are...its in our very being itself...from the moment we become a guardian, the burden to protect the ones we love. Its how we evolve, the burden to keep those we love safe.
Being a Guardian comes at a cost." Marick said.
"I see...but still, you should let it go. Atleast the others are still alive and doing well...and you also have me, Athena and Amell." Jess said.
marick turned to jess.
"...Your right...
But...if anything like that happens to Athena or Amell..
We have to be there for them, their gonna need it.
Lets hope that nothing like that ever happens to them." Marick said.
"...I hope so too. But, after what they've been through, I'm sure they're now ready for whatever will happen next." Jess said.
"indeed.
now then, im tired." Marick said, putting his Arrow outfit up and going to bed.
"Goodnight." Marick said, smileing
Jess gave him a kiss on the cheek.
"Good night." Jess said before she went to bed herself and tried to catch some sleep.
Then Marick fell asleep.
The next day, Marick had slept in, Athena and Amell were once again at school at this point.
He put on his normal clothes and he went to the living room.
before he could say anything. Prophets Eye activated...
once it stopped Maricks eyes widened and he looked concerned, he quickly ran upstairs and got his White Arrow outfit on, his bow and arrows and came back down.
"This is very very bad." Marick said.
"What happened?" Jess asked.
"The EFPD, in an effort to get my attention, are about to put a warrent out for Shadow Girls arrest, thinking shes in on it.
Like i said, very very bad, and i got less then 4 hours to figure out a way to stop them." Marick said.
"...Fuck. I don't know...try to convince them that Shadow Girl quit working for you or that she left town maybe?" Jess suggested
"That could work..." Marick said, struggleing to think.
"If...if they are in the process of doing this, the warrent itself hasnt been made, its not official....yet.
i need to break in, stop production of the warrents, find lance and figure out a way to convince him otherwise...or something!
I'll use mind shockwave if i have to." Marick said.
"Okay...just...be careful not make the situation worse than it is right now." Jess said.
"I won't...
if all else fails....i may have a backup plan....but i'll need your help." Marick said.
"...What do you want me to do?" Jess asked.
"I may be gone longer then useal, if so you'll have to cover for me when Athena and Amell get home.
And make sure they dont believe the news." Marick said.
"Alright." Jess nodded.
"Ark, open a portal, i have some work to do." Marick said and Ark opened the portal. Marick walked through and it closed behind him.
"Im sure he'll figure it all out, hes been in worse situations then this." Ark concluded.
"Let's hope." Jess sighed.
Arrow appeared in a alleyway, with the police station ahead.
inside, Lance was in a room with a window, sitting on a chair in front of a computer and the machine createing the warrent.
"Its allmost done." Lance said, he himself was createing it.
Marick used a zipline arrow to get to the roof of the building beside the station, he parkour'd from rooftop to rooftop until he got to the one with a view of lance, the computer, and the machine.
"Gotcha." he said, aiming an Arrow right at the machine.
Lance looked up and noticed a figure on a rooftop, it didnt take him long to realise who it was.
"You son of a.."
and an arrow went right through the Machine, another one through the computer.
Lance ran out of the room.
"ALL UNITS THE WHITE ARROW IS ON THE ROOF OUTSIDE OUR STATION!" Lance shouted as the entire taskforce began to give chase to Arrow.
they quickly got in their police cars and chased the White Arrow, who was running along the rooftops to get away.
he thought about shooting a smoke arrow but thought it was too dangerous.
as he kept running the next roof was too high up, so he decended down and ran down the alleyway, heading to the next street.
"CUT HIM OFF!" lance shouted, police cars now on that road.
Arrow turned around only to see both ways were blocked
and no visible way back up, not to mention snipers on the other rooftops preventing a Zipline escape.
The White Arrow was trapped.
Lance pulled his gun out and walked to The White Arrow.
"No more running! no where to go! now SURRENDER!" Lance said.
"What on earth makes you think Shadowgirl had ANYTHING to do with the mistake I made?" Arrow asked
"Oh that? well, we figured since shes been absent, shes left you. That warrent was just to get you over here, infact that wasnt even the real machine.
Why else would i do it by a window where you could easily stop me? but now that you mention it, good idea, afteral whats to stop her from doing the same?" Lance said.
"Dont you dare....she has NOTHING to do with this..." Arrow said in an angry tone.
"One call is all it takes and the warrent is out....but i could change my mind.....if you turn yourself in." Lance said.
The White Arrow just stared at him....angry...in his mind he took a bit to think and....
"....Fine." Arrow said.
the police then handcuffed him. and took him out of the alleyway to the police car.
the news was showing this on camera, it was on Jess's TV
"We can confirm, The White Arrow has been arrested." the news reporter said. as it shown The White Arrow being put into a police car, which drove off.
Jess's eyes widened.
"...G-God...NO!" Jess shouted.
Ark sat next to Jess.
"Jess dont worry, he'll be fine.
I honestly think this was his backup plan if he had no other option." Ark said.
Jess just sighed.
"...Just how am I gonna explain this to the kids?" Jess asked.
"Well...
i honestly dont know, but you are resourceful.
He has a plan, you can say he needed to get inside the police HQ, but he didnt say why." Ark suggested.
The door opened and Athena entered inside, being greeted by Leon.
"Mom, I'm back." Athena said.
"...Oh, welcome back, Athena." Jess said, turning off the TV.
"Where's dad?" Athena asked.
"...He is sort of busy. Again..." Jess said.
"...Oh, I see." Athena said.
"...Yeah. So, anything special happened at school?" Jess asked.
"Besides Zack getting himself some new wheels on his motorcycle? Nothing much." Athena said.
Ark went over and layed down, making sure to not have any thoughts related to Maricks situation.
In the police car the White Arrow was in.
it shown The White Arrow who was looking down.
He looked up and had a slight smile.
"Now me and Lance can have a much needed talk." The White Arrow said in his mind.
END OF CHAPTER 2: JUDGEMENT
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 9, 2017 16:53:05 GMT
Chapter 3: Legacy
Hours after his arrest. The White Arrow was sitting in an interrogation room, on a chair with a table and mirror in front of him, a chair on the other side of the table, a single door, still handcuffed, we was sitting there....waiting...
Not long later, the door opens and its Lance, he closes the door behind him, looking at Arrow.
"Ya know, i wonder why you people still insist on the one way window, every knows theres people behind it, might as well replace it with a normal window, it'll probably cost less." Arrow said.
Lance just walked up to him.
"Aren't i the one supposed to be giving the silent treatment?" The White Arrow said.
"...
You helped protect this city for years....we worked together countless times....now all the sudden you decided to be judge....why?
Do you have ANY idea what your doing to your legacy? the legend you've created for yourself?
children, the poor the helpless all these people....they looked up to you...you were there hero...and for what? for there hero to murder a man...because he thought it was the only way? because he thought the police weren't good enough?
Did you honestly think there wouldn't be any consequences for your actions? did you think we could just let it slide?
You need to-"
"Im gonna stop you right there...
You have no idea who i am, or why i do what i do, and you want to talk to me about my legacy?......Tell me, do you know why i wear these clothes?....this outfit? its to protect those i love, i wear it so those i lock up never know my name.
I decided to keep this city safe because i care about this city, and those within it.
Yes, i made a mistake, and i will regret it for a long time, but you shouldn't judge me for a single mistake." Arrow said.
"Then what do you think i should do? let you go? it aint gonna happen, besides, how do i know your not lying?" Lance asked.
"You dont....but ask yourself this...have i lied to you before?...
The answer is no...i havent......All i want is for you to let me prove that im telling the truth...that is it" Arrow said.
"Sure...And how am i suppose to do that?" Lance asked. He clearly didnt believe Arrow.
"Im sure you can think of something." Arrow said.
"..Yeah whatever...im not just gonna let you get off easy, your gonna stay here for a very long time." Lance said. he shook his head and began to walk towards the door.
Maricks Prophets Eye appeared and he was looking right at lance intently, though nobody could see it but him. The Upside down black triangle began to spin rapidly. He was clearly doing something to lance, but what was uncertain.
Lance stopped.
Prophets Eye went away. Lance he then went back to Marick.
"Your serious about proveing yourself?" lance asked.
The White Arrow nodded.
"Fine...
tomorrow night, we will take you to the Lotus main hideout, they defeated their rival gang a few days ago, nows the time to take them out and put them behind bars.
we will wait outside, your going in...by yourself...bring to us the two leaders, without killing anyone.
Do that, and we will forgive you....deal?" lance asked
The White Arrow nodded.
"Deal."
Lance then walked to the door and opened it, some policemen came in and took The White Arrow away.
...
Later then night. The White arrow was laying down in his bed in his cell, his Prophets Eye appeared again, the upside down triangle began to spin rapidly again...
Meanwhile, in the Vixerello house, Athena and Amell were sleeping, and Ark was by Jess.
Jess was currently sitting on a chair, with a worried look on her face while rapidly tapping the floor with her foot
"Theres no need to worry." Marick said smileing, literately appearing behind her, full Arrow custume and all.
Jess immediately turned around and saw Marick.
"Marick! You...you broke out of jail?" Jess asked.
"Nope.
Mind Games, a powerful tool indeed, let me be in 2 places at once, im here phisicly but there visibly, cant do this for multiple hours though, it aint easy.
Sorry to worry you but Lance forced my hand." Marick said.
Jess sighed.
"Okay, so what's gonna happen now?" Jess asked.
"Well, lance interrogated me, and he wasnt believeing anything i was saying, he clearly didnt trust me.
So as he left, i had no choice but to use my mind abilitys to...alter his perception, and make him change his mind.
Tomorrow we go to the Lotus's hideout, i have to get inside and bring them the two leaders, after that, everything will be fine." Marick said.
"...Brainwashing? Seriously?" Jess asked.
"Not exactly....But yeah, kinda.
What else was i suppose to do? stay in jail and hope he changed his mind? meanwhile making you worry and Athena and Amell realise whats actually going on? i cant break out, doing so would make them put out a warrent for Shadow Girls arrest.
Which is not an option.
I didnt force it per say, just got him to see it a bit more from my perspective, he was being stubborn, its not even permanent, only until its done, then he will go back to being just as stubborn as before, but still agree to the terms.
I'd rather do what i did then make things harder on you." Marick said.
"...Well, okay. As long as it's not permanent, it's fine. As long as you do this only once and not multiple times." Jess said.
"I dont plan on it.
I just didnt want things to get any worse, ive already worried you enough these last few days." Marick said.
"Okay, I just don't want you to resolve all of our problems with altering people's minds, that's all. I mean, the Black Crow's solution to everything was to brainwash everyone with the Crown so then no one would ever do anything bad out of their will again. I just don't want you to end up doing the same too." Jess said.
"Dont worry, that wont ever happen." Marick confirmed. he then went over to her, and put his hand on her cheek.
"I truely am sorry for what i did, this mess could've been avoided if i didnt get fustraighted, had i just taken the time to think of a way, this wouldn't of happened.
Yes yes i know stop guilt tripping and all that, but i needed to say it." Marick said.
"...Alright." Jess said, putting her hand on his hand.
"...Just go and do your thing so then we can finally relax for once." Jess said.
Marick smiled and nodded.
"And now, watch as i magicly vanish." Marick said, deadpan. And then poof, he quickly faded away, and was fully back in the prison cell, and began to sleep.
"Well, its nice to see he figured things out afteral." Ark said.
"...I suppose so. Let's just hope this won't go haywire." Jess sighed.
Athena, who was supposed to be in her bed was awake and was on the stairs, listened to the entire conversation before she slowly went back into her room.
"Indeed." Ark said as he looked at the stairs, then went and layed down.
END OF CHAPTER 3: LEGACY
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Post by Master Psychic on Jan 10, 2017 19:32:24 GMT
Chapter 4: The White Arrow
The next day, Arrow was being escorted in a police car to the lotus's hideout, there were several other police cars around his, head to the hideouts location.
They gave him his bow and arrows back and he was no longer handcuffed.
Not long later they arrive at the location, an abandoned portion of ErinFort, tons of old buildings no longer being used.
they stopped by a normal sized house. Everyone got out of their police cars, as did Arrow.
Lance walked up to him.
"They are in there." he said pointing to the building. "the basement is actually their underground fortress, you know what to do, so go do it." Lance said.
The White Arrow nodded and went inside the house, he aimed his Bow, looking around for any hostiles, the house was decades old, with decaying walls and furniture, it opened many doors which let to different rooms but no basement.
after a bit of searching he found it, a staircase leading down to the door.
as he walked down, he had flashbacks to his Academy days, when he took them to see the door with the locks. In truth he kinda missed those days, back when things were simple, and fun. Back when the only thing his students had to fear, was whatever challenge he came up with, back when his only fear, was his inability to help them become better, and even then he know he could do it.
He remembered all the days he spent helping his students, knowing he was prepareing them for the future, which at the time was far far away, knowing that, for that time, despite the minor conflicts of personalitys, it was peaceful, no real threat, besides those crystal creatures, but other then that, no real threat.\, no danger.
"You never really realise what you've got until its gone...
But enough of that....time to get back to reality." Marick said in his mind.
there were two thugs standing guard at the door, they heard the footsteps and were ready to ambush The White Arrow.
Arrow opened up the door and walked in, and right as one of the thugs was going to ambush him he spun around and hit him with his bow, and as the other thug charged at Arrow he spun again and kick him in the stomach, he tossed the first thug away and kicked the second one in the stomach again, went to the side, and knocked him out with the Curb Stomp, he hit the first thung in the stomach with his bow, and did the same to him.
Now that he was done fighting them, he shot them with tranqs arrows, making sure they stayed knocked out.
Now that that was done, he looked around.
and what he saw was a small fortress infront of him.
"Ah, wonderful." he said apon entering.
he walked in, seeing multiple guards roaming around on patrol, likewise he shot them with tranqs, avoiding detection, he kept moving. going from room to room, tranqing all the guards, he reached a room with 3 thugs in it.
he shot one with the tranq, dogded the second and third thugs attacks, and began to attack them both his his bow, smacking the second thugs head with the bow to knock him out, rolling past the thirds attacks and shot him with a tranq, he then continued onward.
he finally got to the main room, he just kicked the door open, quickly shooting the four guards in front of him with tranqs. the room itself was large, a few side walls, couchs and TVs, it was basicly the living room of a mansion, with a staircase leading up to the second floor, on the balcony of which, the two leaders were standing.
"Oh look who it is! its The White Arrow! arent you supposed to be in jail?" leader 1 said.
"Nope, they let me come here, to stop you two."
"We wont fall so easily!" leader 2 said, as they both brought out their machine guns and began to shoot at Arrow, who quickly got to cover, he peaked out every now and then, shooting his arrows at them, though he missed due to all the gunfire.
he saw a light on the ceiling above them, he switched arrows and shot an explosive arrow above them, it hit the light and exploded, causeing the glass to scatter, and making the place darker, the leaders ducked away from the explosion, which gave the white arrow a chance to run towards them, he knocked their guns out of their hands, he dodged their attacks and hit them with his bow multiple times, kicks upon kicks and punchs they faught, ultil he tossed the first leader over the railing, making him land on a table below.
he kicked leader two in the stomach and used the Curb Stomp to knock him out, he then shot the still recovering first leader with a tranq to knock him out, he did the same to be safe for leader one.
before he could grab them more thugs ran in.
His prophets eye activated and started spinning, the area was covered in shadow and fog, the thugs couldnt see anything.
when it lifted, The White Arrow, and two leaders where gone.
Arrow repeared at the entrance to the fortess and carried them upstairs, and to the outside.
Lance and a few policeman ran up to him.
"There, they are knocked out and will be sleeping fro a bit" The White Arrow said.
"Good job, your free to...go" Lance said, the mind game sstarting to wear off.
a portal opened and Maricks motorcycle appeared and he hopped on it.
the mind games wore off, lance had realised the deal he made, but since hes a man of his word, he cant go back on it.
"HEY WAIT!" Lance shouted.
Arrow just turned to him and smiled. "A deals a deal, your a man of your word." Arrow said, before speeding off.
Lance looked fustraight, he just marched to his police car and drove off.
next, a bit at night, we see Marick standing on a rooftop overlooking the entire city.
he used prophets eye to see the news for tomorrow.
"Everyone seems confused as to why lance let The White Arrow get away, reports say he made a deal with him and he ultimately fufilled it, however the city mayor has a big problem with letting a killer...on the loose, therefor lance has been stripped of his dutys as a policemen, and the warrent is out again for Thw White Arrow" a news reported said.
"Fine Erinfort, you leave me no choice." Marick said, his prophets eye was glowing and spinning, he held his hands out.
"MIND SHOCKWAVE!!!!!" he shouted, a large purple shockwave erupted through the city, effecting everyone except Maricks family and friends, making them all forget this event ever happened.
He used prophets eye again afterwards.
"Last night the police found the leaders of the Lotus gang knocked out outside their hideout, the police say the White Arrow once again helped out." the news reporter said.
"Last night was...really strange, we werent even sure how we got there, but all that matters is the gangs leaders were finally put behind bars, thansk to our friend The White Arrow." Lance said.
Marick smiled and went back to base.
once he showed up.
"Im back." Marick said.
"Indeed you are, so...is it over?" Malcolm asked.
"Yeah, its over, though i did have to use mind shockwave on the city, but quite frankly im okay with it, this incident is better forgotten then remembered, speaking of which, i think i got some explaining to do." Marick said, pulling his hood back and taking his eyemask off and putting it in a pocket.
"Go do what you need to do." Sora said.
Marick nodded, "Ark, take me home." Marick said and a portal opened, he walked through and it closed behind him.
he was now by Jess.
Jess just looked at Marick.
"...Okay, so apparently now Lance is calling you friend despite what happened...what did you do?" Jess asked.
"I saw the future, and seen that tomrrow the warrent would once again be out for my arrest, and thus this mess would continue.
I decided this whole mess has gone on long enough, so i made everyone except me, my family and friends, forget this event ever happened, dont worry thats all i did, nothing major." Marick said.
"...I see...I guess it's for the best, maybe." Jess sighed.
"I wouldnt have done it is it wasnt for the best, i had no other choice...
So...i believe i have some...additional explaining to do." Marick said, refering to Athena.
"To who?" Jess asked.
"Athena." Marick said.
"...She found out, din't she?" Jess asked.
"Yup, heard the entire conversation last time we spoke.
Prophets Eye shows me many things." Marick said.
"...She hasn't said anything about you today so I don't know what she is thinking right now." Jess said.
"Well, i'll go talk to her then, you want to come with me?" Marick asked.
"I'll leave it up to you. She is most likely still awake in her room." Jess said.
"Fair enough, i'll be back." Marick said, he went up stairs and walked to her room.
He sighed to himself, then knocked on her door, seeing if she was awake, and if he could come in.
A few seconds passed and Athena opened the door. She looked at Marick.
"Oh, dad, you're back." Athena said, not sounding too enthusiastic.
"...Can i come in so we can talk?" Marick asked, sound a little bit sad in his voice.
Athena just nodded as she let's Marick inside.
Marick took a seat in a chair.
"...If your mad at me....dissapointed...annoyed...fustraighted...or a mix of everything...quite frankly i dont blame you.
Ask any questions you want, say whatever is on your mind, no matter what." Marick said, rather calmly, once again a little bit saddened.
"...I heard the conversation you had with mom yesterday and I saw the news...you apparently killed a criminal. A ordinary person without powers. After all this time you told me that I shouldn't kill anyone ever unless it was a really dangerous powerful person or if I din't have a choice." Athena said.
"I did, and i still stand by that.
At that moment in time Athena...i didnt feel like i had a choice, every single time i locked them up they escaped, nothing i did worked, combined with me not being there for your mom and brother, not being able to help you though thats more understandable. I just....got fustraighted...i didnt see any other option, even prophets eye couldnt help me.
I made a mistake, and if i could go back in time and fix it i would, but i cant, whats done is done, and i'll have to live with that." Marick said.
"...But still, you shouldn't of killed him. By killing anyone who doesn't follow the law or is bad...that does not make us any different from the previous villains that you mentioned like Hastur and Verita." Athena said.
Marick sighed.
"I know Athena, i know, i screwed up, i made a mistake that i'll have to live with for a very long time.
This is why i didnt want you to know, after what you've been through these last few weeks, the last thing you needed to hear was your father being an idiot and making a stupid and very bad mistake like this." Marick said.
"...Okay. You're not the only who made many stupid decisions in these last couple of weeks...I was just getting concerned that you were going to betray your own code and end up on the same path as the Black Crow and the Legion." Athena said.
"Athena i would never do that, ever.
I just got fustraighted and screwed up, but if it makes you feel any better, its finished and thankfully over with.
So. any other questions, or things you'd like to say?" Marick asked.
"...Maybe I should of helped you more on your missions as White Arrow. If I did, then you wouldn't of been forced to do what you did." Athena said.
"If anyone should've been helping anyone its me helping you, your mom and brother, but i was busy dealing with these dang criminals.
DOnt even get me started on how bad i already feel on that, let alone the other stuff thats been on my mind." Marick noted.
"...Well, since I don't have to worry about the Crown and the Legion anymore and it will probably be awhile till the ISP will have a new intergalactic threat, I have free time to help you out as Shadow Girl again." Athena said.
Marick smiled.
"Nah, you deserve a break after saving the world." Marick said.
"Well, beating a few crooks isn't as exhausting as fighting against some powerful people now that I have the hang of it. Seriously, I mean it." Athena said.
"I think your stubbornneess has surpassed my own, very well." Marick said smileing.
"Well, like father and daughter I guess." Athena smiled.
"Indeed.
But we wont begin tonight, i need some rest.
Goodnight Athena." Marick said.
Athena just walked up to Marick and gave him a hug.
"Good night, daddy." Athena said.
Marick smiled and ofcourse accepted the hug.
afterwards he went to the door, closed it behind him, and went back to Jess.
"Well, i talked with her, and everything is back to normal again....atleast whatever is considered normal in this house." Marick said.
"Well, after all the clusterfuck that happened in this huge month, I can safely say we are far from normal." Jess said.
"Fair enough.
ANd jess...thank you, for helping me, for everything really." Marick said, smileing.
"...Don't mention it. If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't even be here or have two wonderful kids...and a wonderful husband too." Jess said.
Marick smiled and gave Jess a hug.
Jess just smiled and accepted his hug.
"...Guess we should be off to bed now. It's getting late." Jess said.
"definitel-"
"Hey Marick! are you still awake?" a familer voice was heard through maricks earpiece, which he forgot tot ake off.
He just smiled and rolled hsi eyes.
"yes malcolm...im awake, what is it?" Marick asked.
"Its those two leaders...there about to escape the prison." Malcolm said
"ReallY....huh.
WHich side of the station?" Marick asked.
"Umm...the left?" Malcolm asked.
"Okay." marick said, he looked at Jess.
"One moment." he said, walking to and opening the front door, brought out his bow with two tranq arrows and aimed upwards......
..and then fired the arrows off.
"All done." Marick said, closeing the door and going back to jess.
"What? what do you mean? they just got....out...." Malcolm said, appearntly marick hit them.
"See ya tomorrow." Marick said turning the earpiece off.
"Now then, yeah, we should get some sleep." Marick smiled.
Jess nodded as they marched upstairs.
They eventualy went into their room, Marick looked out of the window, and the fireflys could be seen, it was a beautiful sight as allways.
As a result he thought about the Academy again, thinking of the fireflys he made appear at night, remember again how peaceful that was....so he was lost in his own train of thought for a moment......until...
"What if....what if i brought the Academy back for next generation?" Marick asked...kinda out of nowhere.....but considering his recent flashbacks, it wasnt too surpriseing, granted since he forgot to mention them to jess, it did seem kind of out of nowhere.
Jess raised an eyebrow.
"...Um, not so sure about that really." Jess said.
"I suppose..
Its just...when i was hunting the leaders of Lotus....i found a staircase which led to a door, kinda like the one in The Academy....
I had a brief flashback to it all....thinking about how relatively peaceful it was.....how there wasnt really a threat, the only thing they had to worry about was whatever challenge i had for them, they had nothing to worry about, sure there was minor conflict but thats due to their different personalitys....but still...it was a true learning expireance for all of us...even me, and im the teacher.
Back then it was only me, but if i were to do that, you could help, aswell as some of the other graduates.
It was just a thought." Marick said.
"...I don't know, everyone is kinda busy with their own stuff and probably have their own kids. And that includes me too. Besides, I don't think you will be able to find 12 new different people who had the same problems as the others and expect them to work the same as the last ones did." Jess said.
Marick was silent for a bit...thinking...
"Fair enough." He said, he began putting his White Arrow outfit up.
"Goodnight." He said smileing
"Good night." Jess said as she went to sleep.
Marick went to bed aswell and closed his eyes.
"Well...sometimes things are better left behind...The Academy was great, but who knows what would happen the second time around. atleast things are back to normal...
Though...now that Amell and Athena have proven themselves....i dont care what threat shows up, whoever or whatever they are....Nothings gonna stop me from helping my family next time...
..Nothing." Marick said in his mind before falling asleep.
END OF CHAPTER 4: THE WHITE ARROW.
MARICK: THE WHITE ARROW - COMPLETE
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