Happy holidays!
Nice to meet you, and thank you for taking the time to read my fanfic!
This story is the sequel to my previous fanfiction, The Light Within the Darkness.
I'll be honest, I did not spend as much of my time on this storyline as I did on the first part.
I'll be brief about the summary of TLWtD.
Vintage betrays Lune, who gets badly injured and nearly dies. Keima finds her unconscious one day and hides her in the abandoned school theater, giving her a place to recover for as long as she likes. Soon, Vintage turns their attention on Keima, and try to capture him on the school rooftop after school. Elsie comes up as this happens, and the demons there attack her as well. Haqua shows up just in time to save them, but dies in the process. A loose soul infects Keima, turning him into a bloodthirsty monster. Using Haqua's scythe, he cuts down the massive amounts of demons there. Lune shows up to support him, but the loose soul almost kills her. Keima falls into a coma immediately after, leaving Elsie alone to find a way to save him.
Long story short, she does. An old, illegal spell that can kill the spellcaster can use the power of the goddesses to awaken Keima. The only people knowledgeable enough to perform this spell, however, are in Vintage.
Lune, for whatever reason, offers her abilities to help Keima.
Vintage repeatedly goes after Elsie, but she escapes, usually with Lune's assistance.
We find out that Haqua's spirit was absorbed into Keima, and a fraction of it lives on inside his consciousness.
The goddesses meet in Keima's house one night to perform the life-saving charm. Outside, Loose Soul Team demons fight off the Vintage demons, who show up in their full force. The ending forked off into two different directions.
Ending A: Keima is saved, Lune dies saving Minerva.
Ending B: Everyone lives, Lune disappears, and a demon threatens Keima from a distance.
This story is different from my usual style of writing. I am terribly unsure of this style, and I apologize in advance for any awkward moments.
Happy reading!
-FrozenDeluxe *.*
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***###***=Start of chapter ++[Setting Change]++ [Author's Note]
***=Break
Ladies and gentlemen, let's watch Vintage get beaten again.
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"Reality is a jerk. The more you try to ignore it, the more it challenges you to your face."
-FrozenDeluxe
++[Maijima City]++
It was a snowy Thursday night.
Keima and Elsie walked back from the game store. Naturally, Keima took his time in selecting only quality dating sims. He walked while playing his PFP.
Elsie, meanwhile, was heavily weighed down with shopping bags bulging with Keima's games. She struggled to keep up, but was focused on keeping his Divine Brother content with her.
"Brr...it's cold!" Elsie shivered.
Keima showed no indication of hearing her.
The only sound that could be heard was the snow crunching underneath their feet.
"Kami-Nii-Sama," Elsie said as she looked at Keima with concern,"are you alright?"
Keima put away his PFP but kept walking. He had a faraway look in his eyes. He kept his gaze level with the sidewalk in front of him.
She did have a good reason for asking.
Ever since the week-long ordeal that took place not too long ago, Keima had been more...isolated. Sure, he had always refused to make contact with reality, but this time, he was bent on avoiding it altogether. In school, all he ever did was play dating sims on his virtual reality console, oblivious to the other students. He didn't even complain when Nikaido whacked him with a textbook for not paying attention- something that she made sure to tease him for.
Even after all of the Goddesses' hosts showed concern for him, Keima stubbornly refused their help.
"A god like me has no reason to lower himself to the problems of those beneath him," he told them before returning to his games.
Why was he so...cold?
They reached their house.
"Elsie," Keima said suddenly.
She looked at him.
"I appreciate your concern, but I'm fine," he kindly assured her.
Elsie sighed,"But you always say that."
A flash of emotion crossed Keima's eyes for a brief moment, but he quickly concealed it as he started walking towards the door.
Elsie ran to catch up.
Obviously, Keima was being plagued by something. Why did he continue to put himself through so much pain, even though so many people offered to help?
They went inside the warm house.
++[Unknown Location]++
"These are the houses we're targeting," a hooded demon explained to an audience of other hooded figures.
In front of the one talking was a scale model of Maijima City. Seven houses were highlighted in red, and several others were marked in green.
"Are we aiming for the houses in red, or green, milady?" One of the demons in the audience asked the speaker.
The one briefing them paused for a moment. "The red houses are our priorities, because those are the goddess hosts."
"What are the green houses, then?" the unsure demon questioned.
"Those are possible hosts for goddesses, in case the ones in red aren't." the leader explained.
"Any more questions?" she asked.
No one spoke.
"Good," the leader said,"let's get our stuff ready. There's a snowstorm tonight, and it will be perfect for covering our mission."
They all nodded and left the room.
On the map, six orange minifigures milled around in their red houses, minding their own business. Eventually, they went into tiny beds and glowed a light blue.
Of the highlighted houses, two of the red ones that were next to each other were marked in pink.
DANGEROUS- the labels read.
Meanwhile, two miniature green people walked into one of the pink houses...
-End
A/N: Any problems? Please PM me immediately, so I can salvage the remaining story line and save myself the embarrassment!
-FrozenDeluxe
Chapter written: 8/30/15
Chapter posted: 12/5/15
Chapter updated 12/11/15