"...The Unholy War has now reached its end...
Blood was shed, and lives was taken...
Standing in front of the Hall of Honor...
Piercing their gazes toward each other...
Everyone has fallen except them two...
Those whom have slain the gods, they do..."
"He was the mage cloaked with darkness...
The embodiment of sinister and hatred...
The one known as the rebirth of Odin...
Whom shall turn the World Tree to nothing..."
"She was the warrior covered with light...
The embodiment of justice and might...
With the sword surpasses even gods...
She cuts through time and alike what's not..."
Asgard, 30 years ago...
The Great Hall of Valhalla is covered with blood and corpses. A gigantic spell circle is constantly spinning above the Yggdrasil. The eclipse has casted the sunlight out of the Nine Worlds.
None have survived the battle but two. A young man, and a young girl, both standing still in front of The Throne of Hlidskialf.
The man has the look of total darkness. A young mage with pale skin and jet-black hair. He is well-covered in black robes and cloak, with odd golden patterns along their seams, all drenched with blood.
But the most sinister part is his eyes. They are as deep as bottomless black holes, yet scorching with the flame of rage and hatred. As if they would swallow everything he looks at, and then burn them down for eternity.
The girl is, yet, nothing but total opposite.
A beautiful and delicated young lady in the graceful armor of silver, firmly holding her brilliant sword in her left hand, while looking straight into the mage's eyes without fear. Her azure eyes and long sky-blue hair shine under the sunlight, as if they were born to ward off the darkness coming from her opponent.
- Why... why did it end up like this...? Why did you choose to oppose me?! Have you forgotten what they've done to us?!
Said the black mage with his frustration.
- Shut up! - the girl shouts - Have you ever thought what would've been... if they were like you... like us... Stop this madness! Don't drown yourself deeper into this unmeaning hatred!
- Never!
His voice is filled with rage, as he starts to blame the girl.
- Feeble! Weak! Don't you remember how weak we were then, and how painful fate we have suffered because of being weak? Gods or human... It does not matter as we have thought it would be...!
His painful words pierce her soul.
-... please... Don't say it...
- I was... No! We were all wrong! Wrong! From the very beginning!
The mage cried into the dark sky with agony. Like he has just realized there was no one to blame but themselves in the first place.
- The gods were right... This filthy world is beyond cure... - said himself with hatred - I shall end it with my hand, and none of you shall ever be able to stop me!
The black mage takes out a radiating orb from his robe of darkness. The girl's expression turns worse, as she immediately thrusts herself forward, trying to strip the orb from his possession.
An evil grin appears on the young mage's face. He levitates himself into the air to dodge the attack, then his attire disperses and turns into a thick layer of black mist. It quickly covers their entire surroundings and solidifies into numerous shards, showering down where the girl is standing.
The girl is not losing to him one bit. She gracefully avoids the assault with her unmatched speed and launches her counterattacks every time she has a chance. However, none of them have the chance to reach their target.
The battle becomes fiercer and fiercer, yet none of the two get the upper hand. The gigantic spell circle above the sky then starts to fade away when the sun slowly makes its return. If this keeps up, his plan will be ruined in the matter of minutes. A faint smile shows up on the warrior girl's face.
Then comes the demonic grin from the mage.
He suddenly throws the orb toward the girl. Its radiating light dazzles her eyes for a brief moment. It was no more than a blink of an eye, but it's more than enough for the mage to pierce his shard of darkness through his opponent.
It's fatal strike, too much for a girl to withstand the fight anymore, no matter how strong she is. The girl collapses and coughes up lots of blood.
- It ends... here...!
The mage grins, as he takes up the orb and raises it up toward the fading spell circle. It stops spinning gradually, then brilliantly shines after taking the enormous amount of energy from the orb. A gigantic black hole appears above the Yggdrasil, and starts sucking the reality into that bottomless void.
The World Tree has now reached its end...
However, someone just doesn't allow it...
The girl rips out her left shoulder plate, revealing a strange seal that roughly resembles a pendulum clock on her arm. Energy starts to overflow from that seal, crystalizes and lights up her body. Time begins to freeze itself according to her will. All of her injuries are cured instantly, as she grasps her sword once more and destroys the orb before the mage's surprise.
The orb is crushed into 7 pieces and falls down to Midgard. The girl quickly grabs one of those pieces and holds it firmly in her hand. Time then gets back to its normal flow. The spell circle and the black hole, both vanish into thin air. No more eclipse, either. Only warming sunlight remains.
*utterly surprised*
- How could you...? Don't tell me you've already... No! It's not possible! You've got nothing left to pay for it!
*silently standing, until her crystalized body started to crumble, then said with crystalized voice*
- Without this, you won't be able to harm this world once more. I will escape with it... to a place your hand cannot reach...
*realized what happened, then laughed with insanity*
- Hah hah hah! You think you can escape with that body of yours? Nonsense! Even if you could... No matter where you go... No matter where you hide... Even at the end of hell, you shall never be able to escape from me! The pieces, I shall find them all, and this time none shall be able to stop me from cleansing this filthy world!
*smiled faintly, then started to glow*
- There is a place, where you won't be able to reach, until the time has come...
*suddenly realized her intention, then immediately tried to take back the orb's piece with all of his remain*
- I will escape to the future...!
The girl vanishes with the orb's piece after finishing her words, leaving behind the mage...
...and his own painful laugh of insanity.
"Then left the mage before the Hall...
He was trapped there, and all alone...
Without the Core, his power's away...
The world's now safe, until that day..."