Darling in the FranXX: Gods Rising

Chapter 2: Time Anomaly

A/N: *checks last update date*

Good lord, it's been two months since I last updated this. I blame you eternally for this bro. Hopefully the next chapter won't take as long. Also since I forgot to put this in the last chapter, disclaimer!

Disclaimer: I do not own Darling in the FranXX or its characters, they belong to their respective owners. I also do not own Kurisu or Liz, they are owned by my brother, Kurisu Time here on fanfiction. I do, however, own Reaper Alpha, Jonasan, and the gods and goddesses, they're mine.

"So, Reaper, what are these things, if you don't mind me asking?" Ichigo said, staring at the creatures that were surrounding Reaper Alpha.

"These are associates, or pets, that we have acquired while working for Death." Reaper said.

"Yes, but what are they?" Ikuno asked still kind of in shock at seeing things previously seen only in fairytales.

"Lilith is a vampire/succubus, depending on her mood. Ruby is a werewolf, Bregalad is a Rowan Ent, Owl's ice wolves as well as Havana's light lynx, Spirit, are shadow constructs, Ivy and Fang are…" Reaper trailed off looking at Snake for an explanation.

"The best I've come up with are shadow enhanced creatures." Snake said.

"That, and Draco, of course, is an Ancient Black Dragon." Snake said.

"How do they exist though?" Miku asked. "The two tigers I can understand as well as the wolves and the lynx, but the others? Did they exist on Earth before?"

"They actually did." Reaper said. "Supernatural creatures were a byproduct of humanity's creation. Humanity was made by the Fates although their reasons for doing so were, and still are, unknown. During humanities early years, it seems that humans had some latent divine energy from the Fates, as such, when humans began to think about what may be hiding within the dark, that latent energy activated and created many of the supernatural creatures that existed in stories."

"Reaper Command was well aware of the various supernatural creatures that inhabited the world with us and made sure to keep tabs on them and track their numbers." Raven said. "The Reaper squads acted as caretakers, keeping humans away from the areas claimed by the supernatural as well as dealing with any who got out of hand. A few years before APE took over the world government, they abruptly vanished, with no trace of them to be found."

"Lilith, have the others begun to return to Earth?" Crow asked.

"The Werewolves and Vampires have yes, the Ent's never left, they just fell into a slumber. I haven't heard anything from the Elves, so it is unlikely they are coming back, and the other monstrous species are staying in their respective realms. The Kemonomimi returned the moment that the VRIM died but have gone silent recently." Lilith replied.

"What about the dragon's, Draco?" Reaper asked.

Draco rumbled in draconic for several minutes with Reaper nodding every now and then while everyone else just looked on in confusion. Once he was done, Reaper translated.

"Draco said that the elders and ancients are searching for a new home in the mountains before they allow any of the young dragons or hatchlings back."

Owl looked at Reaper in confusion. "Since when could you understand draconic, Reaper?"

Reaper sighed. "I have been able to for a while. It took a long time and a lot of laughs from Draco when I mistranslated what he said."

Hiro cast a sidelong glance at Lilith. "Are they going to be a problem for us?" Hiro asked, he had read several tales about vampires and none of them were good.

Reaper noticed the glance. "Lilith and her kind are not a threat to humans. They have other ways of getting what they need."

…

Time skip: 3 weeks

It had been about three weeks since the first battle of the End War. With the bulk of the demonic army driven back, the angels could now prioritize building the defense of the various human cities. The walls around Gran Crevasse had been finished about a week after the first battle. Three-foot thick walls of holy stone, a type of stone only found within the quarries of Heaven, surrounded the city, warded with the strongest blessings of protection the angels could muster.

As promised, humanity was kept out of the war. People were free to keep doing as they wished and only when people were traveling between cities did the angels get involved, acting as escorts, so groups didn't get hit by demon patrols. Otherwise, all intel flowed into and out of the fortress the angels had built and to the capitol to Ichigo's office as need be. Other than the occasional announcement from Ichigo, humanity was kept in the dark.

…

Reaper Alpha were currently setting out on a mission from Death. In a strange twist of irony, Lucifer had decided to use the remaining abandoned APE facilities as bases for his army. Reaper and his squad were headed to one such facility, courtesy of Draco. Death had discovered the base a few hours ago and, since he decided to remain neutral, was going to leave the base for the angels to find. However, Death discovered a time anomaly within the base, so he had to send in Reaper Alpha to deal with it.

The base in question was a subterranean base was about 100 miles away from Gran Crevasse and about 50 miles away from Cerasus, a city that was nestled at the base of the mountain range where the Blue Volcano, the Klaxosaur home city, was located. The base was practically out in the middle of nowhere which confused Snake as it was an extremely unlikely place for a time anomaly to form.

There were obvious signs of demonic activity in the area. Several of the trees were dead and replaced with obsidian trees and the grass was beginning to turn a blood red color. Around the entrance to the facility, the demons had erected several obsidian walls and watchtowers to defend the area, although it wouldn't help them much. Draco landed about 3 miles away from the facility, just outside the sight range of a demon and allowed Reaper Alpha to get off. He would fly high above the base until Reaper called him to return. After a quick survey of the area, Reaper gave his orders.

"Raven and Crow use your Deadshots to take out the guards in the tower. The rest of us will shadow walk through the wall and deal with the demons on the inside of the walls. Go." Reaper said.

The group silently advanced toward the gate. When they were 500 yards out Raven and Crow split off from the main group and, from behind nearby cover, began to silently take out the demons standing on the watchtowers. The others approached the walls and quickly phased through and dealt with the guards inside the walls. Once Crow and Raven rejoined the group, they systematically eliminated the demons outside the facility. Opening the door to the underground part of the facility, Reaper quickly realized that the base would be too large for them to root out as a group, so Reaper split them up into their usual pairs and they went hunting through the facility, both to eliminate the demonic presence from the area and to find the time anomaly within.

The base was several miles of long hallways and endless rooms which made it easy for the demons to hide from Reaper Alpha, the result was that it took several hours to clear out the base but thankfully most of the demons were the imp type. It took a while, but eventually Reaper and Havana found the warlord that was commanding the demons within the base. After a few close calls with the big brute, he was dealt with, it was during this fight that Snake ran across the time anomaly.

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POV Change: Snake

Cypress and I were doing another sweep through the center of the facility when Chronos began to lightly hum. As this only happened when there were time anomalies nearby, this meant that it was close. As we passed another hallway I felt Chronos lightly tug me in that direction.

"Cypress turn here." I said.

"Why?" She replied.

"Chronos has picked up on the time anomaly. Its somewhere down this hallway."

Cypress and I started to walk down the hallway. When we reached another intersection, I felt Chronos tug me to the left, so we went that way. This happened for several minutes until we stopped outside a room about halfway down the 10th hallway we went down.

Opening the door to the room, we saw that it was filled with a variety of magma energy scanners and several banks of monitors. And there, in the center of the room, floating at about head height, was a crack that was emitting a blindingly bright white light. The crack was about six inches long and 2 inches wide and was pulsating so the light it was expelling grew and dimmed.

"This isn't a standard time gate anomaly." I said with a frown. "This is a full-blown rift."

There are two forms of time anomalies. The first is a Time Gate, like the one that Fang wandered through. The second, and more dangerous, time anomaly is a Temporal Rift. Temporal Rifts were tears within the temporal continuity with one end anchored in reality and the other within the time continuum itself. The continuum is made up of the infinite timelines that make up reality and the universe itself and thus matter cannot exist within it. What makes Temporal Rifts so dangerous is that they absorb whatever, or whoever, is in the space around them, and since matter cannot exist within the continuum, whatever comes into contact with the continuum is converted into energy since the continuum exists in a pure energy state. Quite a painful way to go for a human or any other animal.

"This Rift has been around for quite some time." I muttered examining the rift. "Several millennia at least. It's a wonder that this entire area hasn't become Fragmented.

Temporal Rifts can cause irreparable damage to an area. If left unchecked, they create more and more Temporal Rifts until the area is nothing more than a maze of Temporal Rifts and the temporal continuity within the area begins to collapse and the area becomes a Fragmented. While not as destructive as, say, a spacequake, Fragmented areas are hostile to anything that enters them as the object or person is literally removed from existence. Fragmented areas require divine intervention to repair but even then, the area is never 100% back to normal. Chernobyl being one such example.

"I'll call this in to Reaper, but we need to make sure the area is completely clear of demons first before I try this. This thing is going to fight me tooth and nail, I'm sure of it." I said, bringing up my communicator.

"Snake to Reaper."

Reaper appeared on the screen just as he finished swinging Harvester. "Not the best time Snake." Reaper said, annoyed.

"Sorry Reaper." I apologized. "I wish to inform you that I found the anomaly that master mentioned. It's a Rift."

"A Rift? Shit, no wonder APE set up shop here, they were probably trying to study it. How old is it? Can you tell?" He replied.

"Several millennia. Perhaps even older."

"Several millennia!? Is the- Woah!"

Reaper had to dodge out of the way as the warlord took a swing at him and he swung Harvester at him in retaliation and finally managed to kill him.

"Asshole. Anyway, is the area Fragmented at all?" Reaper asked.

"Negative, which is odd considering it's age."

"Alright, send your coordinates and stay there while we finish moping up the last of the demons. We'll be there soon."

"Coordinates sent. Snake out."

I turned toward Cypress. "Reaper and the others will clean up the last of the demons then make their way here. Any idea as to what they were trying to do with this?"

"Still working that one out." She replied looking over the equipment.

…

POV Change: Third Person

When Reaper and the others entered the room where the Rift was located, they saw Cypress examining the equipment that was surrounding the Rift while Snake was frowning at the Rift itself.

"Cypress, Snake, sitrep." Crow said.

"All the equipment down here was designed to analyze the Rift. Each one of these scanners feed in to several supercomputers that are doing some kind of complex analysis. While I don't understand all of it, the gist of it is that APE was studying the Rift to see if it could be used as a gateway. Whether that was to go back in time or across it I don't know." Cypress said.

"Knowing them, probably both." Owl snarked.

"Snake?" Reaper asked.

Snake turned toward Reaper and shook his head. "This isn't going to be an easy close, no matter what I try. Due to the age of the Rift, it is going to fight tooth and nail to stay open. Also, as with most things, with age comes strength. This is going to be one hell of a fight to close."

"Are you going to be able to close it?" Havana asked, concerned, they had seen Snake close Rifts before but never one this big, and even the small ones that he closed left him utterly exhausted.

Snake smiled at her." I can do this Havana, don't you worry."

"Let's get this started then." Reaper said as he and the others casted a shadow dome about the area.

Rifts were notorious for large energy surges as they were being closed and that energy can be harmful. The shadow dome was constructed so that, as the Rift began to release energy, it would harmlessly disperse against the dome and not run rampantly around the room and start to overload things. With a nod from Reaper, Snake turned toward the Rift and began to attempt to close it.

…

POV Change: ?

Inside the Rift.

How long have I been in here? A Millenia? 2? It's hard to tell. I've watched civilization grow and change over the years and it's always been in the positive direction, until APE showed up. APE. The very word made me growl. In every timeline that I have viewed, they have always managed to fuck it up and it ended in the annihilation of humanity, except for this one.

The appearance of Reaper Alpha drastically altered the timeline in ways that not even I couldn't figure out. I watched as the Fates threw challenge after challenge at them and saw them conquer them all. I am glad that, with the introduction of Reaper Alpha, Zero Two got the happy ending she wanted. It was saddening to see her try and try only to fail in succeeding to achieve her happiness. Seeing her get the life she wanted, it made me happy, but it also reminded me of Liz and Jonasan.

Jonasan, my poor brother. The news of my disappearance must have shocked the man. He disappeared a few short months after I did, and I was never able to find him, no matter what timeline I searched in. He's long dead by now, no doubt. He wasn't immortal like me and Liz and I wish that I could have told him who we worked for, it was the only secret we kept from him.

Liz, my beloved wife. The news of my disappearance broke her. I was forced to watch as the woman I loved slowly became consumed by the fires of rage. Her beautiful sky-blue eyes which I so loved changed to burning crimson orbs of hatred. I sat and watched as Liz asked for a mission in which she could lose herself in her rage and saw Death give her the mission to eliminate a planet of regenerators, beings who defied Death by being unable to die by normal means. I watched as Death sent her off without telling her how to kill them, even though he knew.

I did not hate Death. I knew he did what he did for a reason. Sending Liz of to kill the regenerators was so that she could kill to her hearts content over my disappearance. The only thing I did not understand was why he refused to let us tell Jonasan who we worked for and what we did. I hated having to lie to him every time we went out on a mission, saying that we were going away for a trip and wouldn't be back for a while. I hated the look of utter betrayal on his face whenever he saw the scars that Liz and I came back with. And I absolutely hated the way he worried about us while we were gone. He would send us letters every two weeks if we were going away for months at a time. Giving us updates on what was going on at home and with him. Never once outright saying that he was worried but managing to express it with every word. It was like he was writing the letters to us to reassure himself that-

I felt a tug at my back. Ignoring it, I continued to observe the various timelines around me, trying to figure out Lucifer's endgame, not that I could do anything about it being stuck here and all. I could watch the timelines shift and change all I wanted but I couldn't do a damn thing to change them.

The tug turned into a vacuum, the sensation feeling like the same one that brought me to this strange plane. I watched as the timelines faded from view and I was consumed by darkness, but then a light slowly began to grow in my vision. A way out perhaps? As the light began to grow I got a blinder of a headache as a felt something about me shift. As the light engulfed me, the last thought I had before passing out was that perhaps I was finally free.

…

POV Change: Third person

Former Demon Base

"Come on, you son of a bitch." Snake growled. "Close!"

Snake was drenched in sweat from the effort of closing the Rift. Raw energy was flying about the room as the Rift glowed brightly causing Reaper Alpha's cloaks to be blown back behind them. Like Snake guessed, the Rift was fighting to remain open.

"Almost…Got it…" Snake said.

After another few minutes of struggling with the Rift, Snake let out a triumphant yell.

"Got it!"

The Rift let out a bright flash of light, temporarily blinding everyone. A thump was heard not a second later as something hit the floor. When Reaper Alpha could see again, what they saw shocked them. There was a man lying unconscious on the floor who was not there before. Havana hesitantly checked for a pulse.

"He's got a pulse." She said.

"H-H-How…?" Snake stuttered.

Someone had, somehow, gotten sucked inside a Rift, and survived. It was physically impossible! The pure energy state that the fabric of time existed in should have ripped his body to shreds! Yet, here he was, whole, on the floor of the facility, unharmed.

The man was about 5'7'' and had short black hair. He was wearing a tattered, deep blue cloak with clock patterns on it. The man looked to be about 28 and had a black yang symbol on a necklace. The necklace was hovering just above the man's chest and had a gold corona around it before the glow died and the necklace settled.

"Uhh, Reaper?" Raven asked.

"Take him back with us. We can't leave him here to be found by the demons. Hopefully, when he wakes, he will be able to tell us how he got inside a Rift, how he survived, and what that glowing necklace was about." Reaper said.

"Does he look familiar to anyone else?" Havana asked examining him.

"Very faintly." Crow replied. "But I don't know where from."

…

Gran Crevasse

Medical Ward

Time Skip: 1 week

It had been a week since Reaper Alpha returned from their mission to the demon base where they found the man who came out of the Rift. Upon their return to Gran Crevasse, Havana immediately admitted him to her hospital to do a through examination of him. The man lacked any identification, so she was unable to look him up in their systems but, after she checked him, aside from being in a coma, the man was perfectly healthy. Snake hypothesized that, since he was in the Rift and somehow survived, his body had not taken well to shifting from a pure energy environment to a physical one, and that had thrown his body into shock.

Havana had come in to check on him again and was checking his pulse when the man woke up, violently. His eyes snapped open has his arm shot up and grabbed Havana by the throat, lifting her off the ground. The man's eyes were pitch black as he stared at Havana as she tried to take his hands off her throat. Reaper, who had sensed Havana's panic, shadow walked to her and kicked the man in the sternum causing him to release Havana as he went flying across the room.

Reaper caught Havana as she began to cough and massage her throat.

"Are you alright?" Reaper asked, concerned.

"I'm alright." She rasped. "Just caught me by surprise."

Reaper gently put her on the ground. He then summoned Harvester as he turned toward the man who had attacked his wife. As he stalked toward him, the black in the man's eyes began to clear as he clutched his head.

"By the Creator, my head! I feel like Jonasan set off a firecracker near my ear again." The man said, shaking his head.

"You have 30 seconds to explain why you attacked my wife before I cut your head off." Reaper said.

This caused the man to look up and see Reaper standing between himself and Havana with Harvester drawn.

"What the hell are you talking about?" The man asked.

"You have been asleep for the past week since we found you and the moment you wake up, you attacked my wife. WHY?" Reaper demanded.

"Oh." The man said as he stood up, he then bowed low to the two. "It was an involuntary reflex, I've had a few too many unpleasant awakenings so it's become a habit. My apologies."

While Reaper relaxed his stance, he still kept himself between the man and Havana as a precaution. Them man straightened up and looked at Havana with concern as she was still rubbing her throat.

"Are you alright miss?" The man asked.

"I'm fine." Havana said as she stood up.

"Who are you?" Reaper asked.

The man blinked at him. "Kurisu, Death's first rider." The man said as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

Reaper tensed and brought Harvester to the ready again.

"You lie. The first rider died over 4 millennia ago. I will not ask again, who are you?"

The man looked confused and started muttering to himself. "I was in that thing for 4 millennia? The timelines must have really messed with my sense of time if it's been that long."

Reaper, who had had enough of this, decided to call Death himself to settle the matter. If the man was indeed the first rider like he claimed, then Death should easily be able to verify it. If he wasn't, then Death could interrogate the man himself as he was far past his allotted expiration date.

The man was still muttering to himself when Death appeared within the room. As Death gazed upon the man, Reaper felt a sense of… confusion from his master.

"Kurisu, what are you doing here?" Death said, jerking Kurisu out of his musings.

"Lord Death?" Kurisu asked confused.

"Yes." Death floated around Kurisu as he examined him. "You did not turn up at the Castle of Judgement as you should have when you died. Yet, you turn up here several millennia later, alive and well and far stronger than you should be. Explain."

Umm, I'm not sure how I got here but…" Kurisu started to explain before he was cut off.

"He was inside the time anomaly." Reaper interrupted. "The anomaly turned out to be a Temporal Rift and when Snake closed it, he popped out."

"Hmm. That shouldn't be possible, the Creator is going to want to know about this. Reaper, prepare a room for a meeting and assemble your squad. I want to know every detail about your latest mission." Death said.

"Yes, Master." Reaper said as Death disappeared from the room.

Havana muttered something in Reaper's ear and he nodded. He then looked back toward Kurisu.

"My wife, Havana," He gestured toward her. "wishes to do an examination of you since you are awake to make sure she didn't miss anything during her initial one. Threaten or otherwise harm her again, and first Rider or not, I will kill you. Understand?"

Yeah, yeah, yeah." Kurisu said as he sat back down on the bed he awoke on.

…

Earth Orbit

From outside Earth's gravity well, three figures were rapidly approaching, one was cloaked in a ball of red, and the other two were cloaked in a ball of white. As the figures came to a stop it was revealed that they were Liz, Jonasan and Lady Luck.

Jeez, Earth has changed in the millennia's that I have been gone." Liz said.

When Jonasan said nothing, she looked at him and, to her shock, saw that his right eye had turned an electric blue.

Scanning. 74.08% Nitrogen, 24.96% Oxygen, 0.87% Argon, 0.10% Carbon dioxide. Atmospheric conditions approaching Pre-Magma levels. The voice seemed to come out of nowhere.

After the voice finished speaking, Jonasan's eye turned back to its original sea blue color.

"Jonasan, what the hell, or who the hell, was that?" Liz asked carefully.

"Who that?" Jonasan asked. "That was Jade, she is an AI that I bought from another human world several decades ago."

Hello

"An AI." Liz said slowly.

"Yes." Jonasan replied.

"And where is she, exactly?"

Jonasan pulled his collar down a bit and Liz saw that there was a small metal disk implanted at the base of Jonasan's neck.

"She is implanted in your head?!" Liz asked in shock.

Yes. Do not be concerned, Liz. I am causing Jonasan no harm by being here.

"She comes with nanobots too." Jonasan said helpfully as he held out his hand.

A thin line of metal extended from Jonasan's neck, down his arm and into the center of his outstretched hand. Liz watched in fascination as a small disk was made in his hand, seemingly out of nothing. When the disk was finished it activated and a figure appeared above it. This figure was Jade.

(A/N: Think of Cortana from Halo 4 but with longer hair that extends down to her upper back and is green in color instead of blue.)

Jade bowed to Liz. Hello Liz. I am Jade, AI companion and personal assistant to Jonasan. It is nice to finally meet you.

"Umm, hello." Liz replied, she wasn't to sure what to make of this situation.

"Hello again, Jade. I hope you are doing well." Luck said in greeting to Jade.

I am Lady Luck. You haven't been attempting to seduce my master while I was updating, were you?

"Jade!" Jonasan whined while turning red in the face.

"That is none of your business, Jade." Luck said hotly.

Hmm. We'll see about that.

And with those parting words, the nanobots destroyed the disk and retreated into the disk at his neck.

"That was very disturbing Jonasan, I hope you realize that." Liz said.

Jonasan shrugged. "Hey, she has been worth every cent I paid for her, so I don't really care."

A flash of pink coming from the other side of the earth then caught their attention. The pink flash was soon followed by a green one.

"What was that?" Liz asked.

"Hmm. It appears Love and Life are going at it, although the odds are heavily skewed in Love's favor for that particular matchup."

"Why are Life and Love fighting? What happened while I was gone?" Liz asked.

"Ah that's right, I forgot to tell you two." Luck looked dead at Liz. "The Apocalypse Seal has been broken."

Liz's eyes widened in horror. "The End War." She whispered.

Jonasan grimaced. "That's not good. My Lady, where do you stand?"

With the End War going on, he would have to side with whomever Luck and Misfortune decided to go with. While he was almost positive Luck would have sided with the Creator, Misfortune was always a wildcard. Liz would, undoubtably, side with the Creator, if Misfortune pledged them to Lucifer…

Luck sighed. "Jonasan, drop the formality, at least when we are among friends. I've known you for over four millennia, such formality isn't necessary unless other gods are in earshot. And to answer your question, I decided not to pick a side, so you are free to choose as you wish. The same goes to you Liz as Death decided to do the same thing."

Jonasan let out a sigh of relief. He really didn't want to fight the Creator or the Riders if he didn't have to. However, there was one more important question to ask.

"Where do everybody's loyalties lie?" Liz asked.

"Will, Knowledge, Emotion, Love, Humanity, and the Riders sided with the Creator while the Elementals and Life sided with Lucifer. Death and I are unofficially sided with the Creator."

"Riders? I suppose that makes sense, with Kurisu gone and myself occupied, master would need others to fill in our positions." Liz mumbled.

"Life sided with Lucifer? What is she playing at?" Jonasan wondered.

"Nothing good I imagine." Liz growled. "But we can discuss that later. Where is Kurisu?"

Standby.

Jade hacked a nearby Reaper Command satellite and fed the system an image of Kurisu to find him. She quickly got a hit from when he passed by a camera at a place called Gran Crevasse.

He is someplace called Gran Crevasse. It is a large city in the center of the Eurasian continent.

"Ah, I know where that is. Come along." Luck said as she descended toward the earth, Liz right behind her.

…

The trio landed in the center of the city, near an absurdly large Sakura tree. Looking around, the way the city was designed vaguely reminded Jonasan of how some of the larger cities in America used to look when it was still a thing. Fortunately, there was no one in the park at the time of their landing so there were no screaming mortals, to Jonasan's relief.

"Jade?" Jonasan prompted.

He's in the large building with the gold dome to your east. It appears to be some type of government building.

"Race you there?" Liz asked with a smile, knowing that Jonasan never turned down a challenge.

"Sure, but be warned, I've gotten a lot better over the last few millennia." Jonasan said.

"I'd be disappointed if you hadn't." Liz replied.

"Well this ought to be interesting." Luck said. "On three. One…Two…Three!"

The pair took off like a bullet with Liz leading initially but Jonasan soon overtook her and left her in the dust. Luck chuckled at the display before flying toward the building in question, her Chosen wasn't even trying.

…

"How?!" Liz asked in shock as she was leaning up against the building attempting to catch her breath while Jonasan was barely breathing quicker.

"Simple, training." Jonasan said with a smirk.

"Bullshit. Were you running all out?"

"Nope. To be honest I wasn't really trying."

"What?! Just how fast can you go?!" Liz asked, aghast.

Jonasan shrugged. "I'm not totally sure."

"Did we have fun?" Luck asked as she descended.

There were people all around them, yet no one seemed to bat an eye at the fact Luck could fly on her own or the fact that the two of them were dressed very oddly. They didn't even get a single double take. Liz had finally recovered her breath and the three of them entered the building. As they did so, Liz just had to ask.

"Luck, just how common are godly appearances and other such things around here?"

"Quite common. It's not unusual to see an angel or a god or goddess pop in and out of this building." Luck replied, as they began to walk down a random hallway.

"Surprising, and Jonasan, do you know where you're going?"

"Yup." Jonasan replied while tapping his ear. "I have sensitive hearing, which is both a blessing and a curse let me tell you, as such I can hear him having a conversation with Death, the Creator and a couple other's down this way."

As they continued down the hallway, Liz could hear Kurisu and the Creator talking, confirming Jonasan's statement.

"Now then, Kurisu, mind explaining just what happened to you?" The Creator asked.

"Well…"

The trio had reached the door and discovered it to be locked. Fed up with things getting in the way of getting her rightful explanation from her husband, Liz placed a hand on the door and Flash Froze the door and the surrounding wall. This caused all conversation to cease on the other side of the door and Jonasan heard several weapons being drawn. Jonasan approached the door and, after wrapping his finger in purple energy, tapped the door. The tap caused the door to explode into the room, filling it with an icy mist. As the trio walked into the room Liz leveled an icy glare at Kurisu.

"You have some explaining to do." Liz said.

…

Code 089: It's getting quite crowded in here. Why are you all here again?

*Explosion goes off it the background*

Code 089: And why are Love and Life fighting here?

Knowledge: *walks out of a random door* We're here because its more interesting here than in our respective realms. So many interesting worlds. *walks through another door*

Death: *in the distance* Who are you mortal?

Emotion: What do you call this place 089-chan?

Code 089: The Nexus.

Will: Why do you call it that?

Code 089: Well it seems to be the nexus of several worlds, hence The Nexus.

Will: Alright then.

*Explosion occurs*

Code 089: Why are those two fighting here of all places?

Luck: The outcome of their fight was undetermined in the chapter, so they moved it here.

Code 089: If they aren't careful they are going to destroy-

*Explosion*

*burning paper starts raining down*

Code 089: *sighs* -some of my story ideas. Welp, hopefully I remember what that one was at a later date.

Misfortune: I'm sure you will. So… when am I going to get to have some fun with my Chosen?

Code 089: Might I remind you that this is a T rated fic?

Misfortune: But you can change that.

Code 089: Yes, but I'm going to need a lot of convincing to do that.

*Explosion*

Code 089: Will you guys go and break that up while I wrap this up?

Creator: Sure. Oi! You two! *The remaining gods and goddesses depart*

Code 089: Anyways, as always, reviews and criticism are greatly appreciated, and flames will be used to roast marshmallows. Ciao!

Kemonomimi: describes humanoid characters that possess animal-like features.