Shini's eyes snapped open as he lurched up in his bed. His head was pounding. He turned and rolled off the bed and walked into his closet. When he returned he was in his usual attire. He went over to his dresser that had a large mirror on the back of it. He went to grab his comb and saw a little note attached to it. It was small and folded and had a small golden sword on it. "It's to early for this..." Moaned Shini as he shoved it in his pocket and continued to comb his hair.
When he open his door outside he could smell Simon's cooking and wondered if Clare had gotten up yet. He knocked on her door before walking in. "Hey Clare you up yet?" He said while pushing through the door way. She was sitting on her bed in her massive trench coat. She was petting ChiChi who was sitting in her lap and squawked at his arrival. "Come on in!" She chirped while looking up at him. Her eyes where red with irritation and her cheeks had dried tears on them.
"Are you okay?" Shini asked. "Look Clare I know its hard to accept but we have to do what we have to." He said while placing a hand on her head. She exploded into crying.
"I don't want to die, I don't want you, Leo, or Simon to die." She yelled while forcing her face into Shini's chest.
"It'll be fine me and Leo won't let want happened to our father happen to us." Shini promised her. She leaned back and looked him in the face.
"You always know what to say Shini. You're just like the dad I never had." She said while wiping a tear away.
They embraced once more before Shini stood and made his way towards the door. "Don't worry Clare we will all be fine. Now clean up and meet us down in the kitchen." He said while waving. She nodded and rushed into her closet.
Shini once in the hallway shut the door and put his back to it. "I hope I'm right." He thought to himself as he stood there. Leo had came from his room to see his brother standing outside of Clare's room.
"Good morning. Is she up yet, I'm concerned that she might be taking this a little to hard." Leo said while approaching his brother.
"I just spoke to her and yeah she is taking it hard but let her be I think she could use some alone time." Shini said while motioning for them to go to the kitchen.
Clare came from her closet with her signature baggy clothes and her trench coat. ChiChi flapped onto her shoulder, they both walked out into the hallway. She could she both Leo and Shini. "Hey! Wait up!" She yelled down the hall. Leo and Shini both turned to see her standing there. "Hurry up!" Leo yelled back. From her shins down flamed up as she instantly caught up to them. "Seems someone's a bit excited?" Shini commented with a smile.
"I had some confronting words this morning." She cheered. Leo looked between them with confusion on his face but after a few seconds blew it off as just weird.
Simon had just finished placing all the plates when the group barged through the door. Their laughter brought sound to the silent kitchen. Simon had spent the entire morning contemplating the war. "Morning guys." Simon said while throwing a hand up. Everyone sat down and began eating although there was an extra plate next to Leo.
Leo's face was cold and dark as he turned to Simon and told him to step away for a moment. As they reached the other side of the kitchen Leo's face hardened even more. "Is Hitoru here?" He whispered. Simon merely nodded. Leo lost it and dashed towards the exit, but as he went for the door nob out walked an average sized woman with black hair and gray eyes. He fell backwards onto his back. His face turned from anger to immense fear.
"There's my Leo bear!" She screamed as she jumped onto his and hugged him around his neck.
"Hitoru no!" he screamed while frantically trying to push her off of himself. She only smothered him even more. Shini came flying over the table and tackled her off of him. Leo quickly jumped up on his feet and walked over to Shini and helped him up. "Thank you." He cried. Hitoru had stood back up and grabbed Leo's arm like. "Didn't you miss me?" She mumbled. Leo turned to her and said "Of course I missed you but you scared me." he said squeamishly.
They both walked together to their seats as did Shini and Simon who had been completely confused about the entire event. Everyone ate breakfast until finally Leo turned to Hitoru. "Where did you go and why?" His question was heavy since everyone was thinking of the same question. About two weeks she had mysteriously vanished during the night.
"Well ugh…." She said while looking slowly around the room. "i wa-was contacted y your mother to spy on the dominion." She said while staring Leo in the eyes. Shini's face erupted in anger.
"You mean to tell me that you worked for that bitch!" He roared across the table as he smashed his fists into the table. All the food went flying and the table broke into pieces. Everyone was sent back into their seats form his sudden outburst. Hitoru looked down and began to softly cry.
"I only took her offer because it meant all of you guys wouldn't have to go to the front lines early." She screamed before running out of the room. Everyone just stared at Shini. Leo however had stood up, his profile was dark and his face was hidden in cold dark rage. He stomped up to Shini only his eyes showing through his expression. Leo cocked his arm back, it began glowing a dark purple. He slammed his fist hard into Shini's face. Shini's body vibrated then warped before he was sent smashing through the wall bringing the walls with him. He smashed through dozens of wall before he was outside and fell sixteen floors into the fountain in the courtyard.
Leo turned around and began walking to where Hitoru had walked out of the room. Clare and Simon both were standing in astonishment. "Leo!" Clare screamed while running to the hole Shini flew through.
"Hes a god he will be fine, in a few hours. Days maybe." Simon said while walking down the holes to get Shini.
Leo was walking down the hallways of the castle for several minutes before he could hear the sounds of Hitoru crying. He followed to sound until he reached the dorms. He finally found that she was in his room. When he opened the door he saw her sitting on his bed against the wall. She saw him open the door and began to cry harder as she jumped and ran to him. He caught her and they embraced as her crying began to stop.
"Its okay Hitoru." He whispered as they both sat on the bed. He was lying down with her as she caught her self and apologized for the out burst. Leo told her about what he did to Shini and she exploded in emotion.
"Thank you Leo I love you so much. Thank you for defending me but you shouldn't have done that to your brother." She said after kissing him.
"I lost control but hes fine, he is a death god." He commented before hugging her and standing. "He should be waking up any moment now. Why don't we go visit him." He said while helping her stand up.
Together they walked down to the courtyard. When they arrived Clare, Simon, and ChiChi where standing around Shini who had regained consciousness. Whey then walked up Shini teleported to Leo slamming a powerful punch into his chest. Leo went skipping across the courtyard. Shini's hands formed white and black auras as he jumped into the air. As he came down on Leo a large thick crystal jumped up from the ground slamming into Shini's chest sending him flying. Leo jumped up and spawned a scythe the size of his body. As Shini came falling to the ground Leo swiped his scythe towards him. Right before the weapon struck the time stopped. In between the two appeared Hitoru. When Leo recognized what was happening he shielded his brother with crystal. Before he could shield himself she pulsed and a force slammed into him and his brother sending them flying.
Leo skipped across the field and his brother slid to a stop. Leo's arm snapped backwards and his ribs were all shattered, he had also blood running from his ears, nose, and his mouth. Shini however was fine thanks to the thick crystalline shard he was encased in. Hitoru was standing we she was wen she pulsed. Simon and Clare ran over to Leo.
When they found him he was unconscious and saw that his arm and his side were dark with a bruise and his face was covered in blood. Shini stood and saw what had happened, he also saw the shattered crystal that protected him. "Leo..." He said to himself before running over to him.
Hitoru was with the group by the time Shini had arrived. They made eye contact but refocused on Leo. Shini pulled him onto his back and took him inside.
When inside he threw him down on his bed. Simon and Clare had to stay outside for his room was really small. Shini and Hitoru completely forgot about his incident and her disappearance as they tried to help Leo. He was unstable as she had ruptured some of his organs.
Both of Shini's hands glowed white as he placed them on his chest, he pulsed life energies into his chest. Hitoru used the same power but at a lesser extent to apply pressure. Together they stopped the bleeding and with Shini's healing powers he was stable.
After about twenty minutes Leo woke up. He panicked at first but soon realized what had happened and looked over at his brother and Hitoru.
"I'm sorry Leo I didn't mean for it to hurt you. I just wa..." she was cut off by Shini who raised his hand in front of her.
"It was my fault I over reacted when you told me that you were working with our mother." he said. "Hitoru was saving us. That's why she left." Leo mumbled as he painfully stood up.
Hitoru and Shini stared at each other before agreeing to forgive each other. Leo and walked over to the door and opened it. "Now come on out. I want to go to sleep." He said angrily.
Shini glanced at his watch to see that it was three in the morning. "Crap! Yeah I better get to sleep too." Shini said while leaving the room. Hitoru however stayed in the chair next to Leo's bed.
"Hitoru you staying or leaving?" He groaned as he painfully sat back onto the bed.
"I think I'll stay here and make sure nothing happens." She said while jumping form the chair and into his bed. They both covered up and she clinched to his arm as they both fell asleep instantly.
The next morning-
Clare woke up and quickly got dressed and headed straight for the kitchen. She had fallen asleep before she could hear about Leo's condition. She made her way through the door way onto the kitchen and saw Leo sitting with Shini and Hitoru. All were eating except Simon who took some time reading in the corner. Clare grabbed her plate off the table and sat next to the group.
"Morning guys. How do you feel Leo?" She said cheerfully.
"I'm fine. It'll take a lot more than that to kill me." he joked before shoving a fork full of hash browns in his mouth.
"All thanks to Shini" Hitoru said as she also ate some food. "Great to hear!" Clare commented while giving some food to ChiChi.
After breakfast in the war room-
"Okay so let's get to the point. My mother has asked for us to go to one of the enemy's forts and retrieve what is thought to be an astral artifact. Shini and I have been told that it posses magnetic powers so Clare your earth state should help us locate it in the fortress. When we get there me and Hitoru will lead the charge as Clare and Shini find the artifact. Simon you're in charge of the escape and cutting off any reinforcements." Leo said while showing off small written message he had gotten that morning from her mother's messenger.
"Does everyone understand?" Shini asked. Everyone nodded in unison. "Good because we leave in thirty minutes." He commanded.
Everyone dashed off to their dorms to gather weapons, armor, whatever they would need to infiltrate the fortress. Hitoru and Leo both went to his room where they sat on his bed talking about a sound battle plan since they would be the only one fighting an entire fortress of minotaurs, centaurs, elves, trolls, demons and countless other dark horrors.
Clare went to her closet and brought out her signature trench coat and some small shards of bone and placed the shards in her coat pocket. Simon didn't really grab anything except a large sword he kept in a secret panel in his closet.
Shini told the dragons that they would be gone for a few hours maybe even a day then proceeded to the forest to gather the souls of animals. As a death god you can never have enough souls.
Thirty minutes later-
Everyone was gathered at the edge of the castle when a transport came out of a black plane that spawned before them. "IS everyone ready your lordships?" The transporter asked.
"Yes. Here read this." Leo said while handing the transporter his battle plan so everyone would be dropped off where they needed to be and when. "Yes sir." He replied as everyone stepped into the window.
A few hundred feet above the fortress-
"Oi Wait ten seconds then follow." Leo said to Hitoru before he leaned and fell out the plane. AS he was falling he exploded into a purple blur. After about two seconds he hit the ground so hard and released all of the energy surrounding him that the entire courtyard of the fortress crumbled leaving only a few thousand soldiers and an immense crater.
After the explosion Hitoru jumped form the portal and entered free fall. Right before she hit the ground she pulsed ceasing her fall completely.
"Nicely one." She said to Leo as they both stared at thousands of creatures and demons rushing from the fortress's buildings at them.
"Let's go!" Leo roared before a solid cloak of darkness consumed him. He was completely covered in his crystals. They were like a fine silk as he wore them like robes. His entire body was covered as he began hovering into the air above the troops.
Suddenly his robes erupted open. The wing span was massive. Everyone of the monsters that looked into the cloak began screaming and stabbing everyone around them and their selves.
Each monster was experiencing a terrorizing nightmare illusion that caused madness. After a few seconds and five hundred deaths he ceased his mental barrage and his cloak faded. Hitoru pulsed at her feet sending her flying at the horde. She twisted and turned blasting the monsters into nothing. Every molecule completely disintegrated from her powerful pulses. She jumped and slammed her hands down forming an immense crater as gravity itself bended to her will.
The monstrous couple jumped back to each other to gain their breathe.
"Starting with the old nightmare trick? Come on you can do better than that lame trick." Hitoru mocked Leo.
"What ever miss gravity." He joked before summoning a scythe and dashing into the horde.
"Wait for me!" She yelled while crushing two monsters that tried to attack her with swords.
Meanwhile-
Shini and Clare had already been dropped off at the back entrance and sneaked past the guards. Clare's arms and legs were covered in rock as they walked. She could feel the magnetism form the artifact as they walked through the compound.
Shini followed her until they met a door. When he pushed it open it was a armory filled to the gullet with swords, bows, shields. "That's it." She whispered while pointing to a large black metal cube.
As they approached it it began glowing and Clare could feel the magnetism growing stronger. "Be careful." She told Shini as he touched the box. When he touched to cube an immense hand stabbed through the metal and grabbed his throat. Clare panicked and caught the arm on fire.
After a few seconds it let go and went back inside. Then the cube blew up as a tall titan stepped out swinging at Clare. She flamed up and let the strikes go through her.
"Calm down we are here to help." She tried calming the enraged beast. It merely smashed the ground where she was standing. She dashed over to the door and yelled for Shini. He however was already standing with both hands covered in black darkness. He jumped and slammed his fist into the titan's chest. He went flying through the wall and into the next room.
"Shini what are you doing?" Clare screamed at him.
"Run, its a titan. We shouldn't have come here." he said while running through the hole.
Clare's eye dilated at the word. 'a-a titan? There's no way that's possible. They're extinct.' She thought to herself before taking off towards the front courtyard.
Back to Leo and Hitoru-
"They hugh… Never stop coming." Leo said while out of breathe. He had blood running down his forehead and down to his chin form a Minotaur's massive punch.
Hitoru was exhausted but uninjured thanks to Leo constantly shielding her with his power.
A group of centaurs came rushing at Leo with their spears outwards. He quickly ducked under the spears and swung his massive scythe through their bodies slaying them. Hitoru continues to obliterate her way through most of the demonic archers and Minotaurs. Clare finally came running out of he building with troops following her. She umped down the flight of stairs leading to the courtyard and turned around to burn all of the ones following her. Although she was caught mid air by Shini's body which had been thrown through multiple walls by the fierce titan. The titan jumped after Shini but landed on top of some troops and began murdering all of them as he went.
Leo saw the beast and instantly knew it was a titan. He turned towards Hitoru and told her to get Clare and Shini and get out of the compound. He also said that he would hold off the beast as long as he could.
Hitoru yelled back at him for his stupid statement but was given the most murderous and terrifying stare by Leo. She hesitated but dashed towards Clare and Shini taking out troops along her way.
"How." Leo mumbled to himself as he vanished, only appearing as he slammed he scythe into the titan's back. It created a shock wave that spanned the entire compound. His scythe crumbled in pieces as they both went flying from each other . All the dominion troops surrounding them were completely destroyed.
Hitoru, Shini, and Clare all were watching at the gates as Leo and the titan both stood back up.
The titan began running towards Leo and Leo did the same only he was in his nightmare cloak. When they reached each other Leo ducked under a swipe from the titan and jumped into the air behind him and unleashed the nightmare. The titan turned and gazed right into Leo's trap. The titan was stunned for merely a second before grabbing Leo in the air and slamming him into the ground. He continued to beat Leo father into the ground punch by punch.
Shini saw this and lost it. He teleported behind the beast and grabbed its head. He let every thing one his souls he gathered earlier go. The group exploded in white light as you could hear the screams of hell be unleashed.
As the light faded Shini dropped from the titan and grabbed Leo and took off towards the exit. As he was running he felt a hand grab his shoulder and he instantly felt the fear of death rush through him. It was Leo's hand. He stopped and let Leo stand although Leo's body was black and he had red eyes.
"Oh god no. The Nightmare is back." Shini screamed while running to the gates.
Leo took one step before vanishing. He appeared at the titan's feet. It roared out and threw a mighty punch. Leo merely caught the fist with one hand and place the other on the titans throat. "Now die" Leo whispered as the Titan began screaming in agony. After a few second Leo let go allowing him to drop to the ground.
The beast stared up at the man in fear but as all beasts do when they are scared and cornered, he strikes back. This time Leo was hit in the head and was sent flying then skipped on the ground until finally stopping when he hit a building.
The titan finished standing and looked out and saw Shini and the girls at the gate. It began dashing towards them.
"What the hell is that thing." Hitoru asked Shini.
"That's a titan the first being to exist. Unstoppable strength, they were believed to be extinct thanks to me and Leo's old man. But how could one still be alive?" Shini responded.
"That's what you mother wanted Shini." Clare answered him. "That bitch!" He responded.
The titan reached them, Shini went to strike back but was easily swiped away by the beast. Now standing over the girls was this massive being with deadly intent and as it's arm came down on them Leo smashed into it's side tackling it several yards away.
Leo stood where the beast was once standing in front of the girls. His body was covered in a black crystalline film. His eyes were black with blood running down from them. "No one ignores my nightmare!" He roared in a demonic echo. Hitoru along with Clare both gasped in at his state. Leo slowly tuned to face them.
"Hi-Hitoru get out of here now!" He screamed as the titan came back and slammed a fist into his face. Leo leaned back like a limbo but lurched up and headbutted the beast a few steps back and followed up with a punch. The titan went sliding back a few more feet before engaging Leo in hand to hand combat that even the two gods couldn't follow.
Shini had gotten back up and grabbed the girls, he dragged them out of the compound and commanded the transporter to appear. Which he did. Shini through them in and told the transporter that they are not allowed to leave and that was an official royal order. He turned around and rushed to help his brother.
Leo was still in close quarters when Shini came back into the compound. Shini stopped and channeled his connection to the under world and the spiritual land of gods. After twenty seconds he formed a white globe the size of his fist and punched inside of himself. After a few seconds he exploded into a pure white
figure.
He teleported to the fight and slammed his leg into the titan's stomach pulling it off of Leo. Both brothers stood next to each other, one a demonic black god and one a white god of death. The titan jumped from the debris that he stopped in and teleported in front of the brothers. They just cocked back their fists and put everything they had into the hands. Leo went back to normal as his cloak seeped into his right hand. Shini turned normal as well as his white essence went into his left hand.
They both let lose and hit the titan's chest completely disintegrating him.
After the dust cleared all that was left was the both of them. Leo fell unconscious and fell on his back as Shini coughed up some blood.
The next morning-
Leo opened his eyes and jumped out of bed he instantly fell to the ground in pain. All of his ribs, his right hand and fore arm where completely devastated. He cried out in pain silently before standing back up and flopping onto his bed. Hitoru was still sleeping and woke up as the bed shifted.
"Leo? What are you doing?" She said in a worried voice as she helped him onto the bed. "Are you alright?" Leo asked her.
"Yes. I'm fine but you and Shini worried us all. What was that black thing you where wearing?" She asked him. "It's my nightmare mode. I got when I found an artifact before I became a god." He said while rubbing his side. "What happened to Shini and the titan." He asked her.
"He's in a little better condition but still hurt. As for the titan you guys destroyed him." She responded.
A few minutes later they both walked to the kitchen where Leo was greeted by the Guardians and his mother.
"Oh! There's my baby!" His mother screamed as she ran up and hugged him.
The other Guardians bowed in appreciation before approaching him and showing that they were impressed by his power to slay one of the only remaining titans.
Shini came in as they finished praising him. "Shini too!" Their mother proclaimed as they went to greet him.
Everyone sat down and ate and after breakfast their mother apologized for not telling them about the titan. She said that they weren't sure and that if it were to be a titan it wouldn't be awake.
Everyone waved them goodbye as the Guardians left the castle.
For the rest of the day Shini chilled out with Simon and Clare. Leo and Hitoru slept all day only getting up to use the bathroom and get something to eat.
As Leo was about to daze off once more a portal opened and his mother walked out.
"Leo I forgot to give you this." She said while handing him a small black rod. "I figured you earned a visit with Kamino." She whispered while vanishing back into her portal.
Leo stared at the rod as if he feared it before placing it in a drawer next in his dresser. He then turned back and got into to bed where he placed his arm over Hitoru and slept.
