"Well we are thoroughly fucked." Almaz grunts over a table as the few remaining characters gather. "Overlord Baal killed off two main characters, took over all the underworlds, conquered the human realm, started an assault on the heavens, and it's only been three hours."
"Oh come on Almaz, cheer up!" Beryl coaxed, trying to stay positive "we don't need those two to save the world!" Her words were met with indifference and despair. The fact that the two strongest overlords were just annihilated and a rampant devil god was taking over all of creation made Almaz less than positive. That, and Almaz was not in a good mood to begin with.
"By my count, we'll be dead by dawn" Almaz glanced at his watch, then took another shot of Bloody Mary.
"Don't say that" The Princess screamed "There has to be some way…maybe we could do some power leveling or something?" She was grasping at straws.
"No good, his level keeps increasing by increments no less than a thousand. Having him kill us would only add fuel to the fire" He stated , clearly pissed at such ignorance.
"Stop being so mean, what's gotten into you Almaz?" The Princess said, giving the perfect set up.
"I'll give you a hint, his name was Logan" Almaz grinned spitefully.
Raspberyl interjected "That doesn't give you the right to act like a-" But Almaz cut her off.
"Oh, well sooorrrryyyyy . But While SOMEONE was porking my wife, I was getting rear ended by a man in tutu." He took another shot.
"Hey you can't say that to my lady!" Kyoko and Asuka shouted, clearly insulted by Almaz's bad attitude.
"Oh, well if it isn't the Lesbies- I mean lackeys. Enjoying your new found memories of your lady? Not very delinquent of you two, you know, swinging that way." Almaz said with a dry tone.
"W-we don't know what you're talking about" They both cried defensively.
"Oh come on! One of you has 'This feeling!' as a battle cry and the other keeps a picture of Raspberyl under her pillow!"
They both looked at each other and then at Beryl, who was clearly in shock since this was the first time she heard of this.
"Enough of this foolishness" Salvatore declared, slamming her fist into the table "This bickering will get us nowhere. As punishment for wasting our time, I order all of you to formulate two thousand battle plans to fight Baal, each with a five million percent success rate!"
"While I agree with the idea of coming up with a plan to fight Baal, you suggestion is lacking both elegance and common sense." Master Bigster said, all while showering glitter over everything.
"By the way, not to get off topic, but where are we?" Almaz said, looking outside the room and seeing a pleasant scenery of green fields and blue skies.
"Inside my heart. I had Geoffrey teleport us here at the last second, right before Baal blew a hole into existence" Beryl explained, inching away from her sidekicks. "Unlike Mao, I like to organize my heart and keep trying to make it like a humans. But it's hard, since I've never seen a humans heart. Alive that is."
"Oh" Almaz said thoughtfully, know noting that the pleasant scenery outside looked kind of pasty and fake if you stare at it long enough. Well she IS a demon, but nice effort none the less he thought. "Wait, did you say Geoffrey? Where is he?"
"He went off to help Adell fight Baal in Celestia. They're the only reasons Baal hasn't succeeded yet. But we don't know how long they'll last." beryl looked down and almost looked as if she was about to cry. "If only those two didn't.."
"Enough of this crap" Etna shouted, disgusted at the little demon girl "I can't stand this useless character development. I'm going to Celestia." She stopped at the doorway "To fight" she emphasized this, then she left.
"I'm going too! Since most of this is my fault anyway" Flonne suddenly shouted, who was sitting quietly in the corner looking glum. "Wait for me Etna!"
"Those two lack elegance, but more than make up for it with spunk" Bigster pointed out for no other purpose than to get few more lines in the story.
Almaz stood up and began to move towards the door. "Almaz, you too?" Beryl looked at him as if he was insane. "Well it's better than just sitting around waiting for him to find us. It's time to take action."
"I agree!" Princess Sapphire shouted, shoving her fist in the air. "It was getting a little stuffy in here anyway." She ran to the door next to Almaz's side. "Come on, this is no time to wallow in self pity, we have one last fight to win!" she shouted almost gleefully.
Beryl smiled and stood up "You're right. What kind of delinquent sits around being lazy while the world is taken over. If I'm going to be the Greatest Delinquent of all time, I have to defeat the number one honor student. And with Mao gone, that just leaves Baal. Right girls?"
"My lady.." surprised with their masters new confidence, the two stood and their mistress to lend their support "We will follow you anywhere"
"Good, now let's go!" Beryl set of to the door and led the main cast outside, where they were confronted by a pair of very lost and confused demons.
"Uhh, not to be a bother, but how do we get out of here?" Flonne said exasperated.
…
"I am a being of solitude." an immense voice boomed. The sound itself shook the skies and ate away at the very fabric of reality. "So I have no use for insignificant beings like you"
Adell picked himself up and got ready for the next blow. Baal summoned another bye-bye panel and with his mind threw it at the young hero. The block explode and cripple the man, his legs gave out, and he hit the ground. Hard. Baal turned his attention to Aurum, who was in the clouds, beginning his descent attack. Baal summoned another block and threw it at the Ex-hero, nearly annihilating him in the process. He fell near his red haired comrad and cursed under his breath. "All this while I was trying to raise the ultimate overlord, when you were here all along." Aurum said while standing up and healing Adell with some candy he found. "If only I had known sooner" he laughed, smiling an evil grin.
Dear me, has the super hero lost his mind? How pathetic." Baal laughed. Or at least it sounded like a laugh. Is body appeared to be that of a man made of stars and darkness, an eternal paradox. This made it hard to tell if he was smiling or not.
"I just think he's excited. I mean, who wouldn't be, this is too much fun!" He grinned through broken teeth. Then they charged the ungodly creature before them.
Beryl and the others showed up shortly after.
"WHAT THE HELL!" Almaz screamed, staring at the corpses of the all the fallen angels.
"It was a massacre" Sapphire said, almost speechless.
"And there's the one who caused it" Beryl shouted, her voice full of contempt.
And there he was indeed, holding the super hero and demon hunter, both in each hand. His eyes were dark, but stilled seemed to burn a hole in your retinas if you stared at them long enough. His physical shape was that of an omega sentinel, but the feature were all messed up. You could see galaxies and constellations, huge payloads of energy inside him. But it was his appearance that was so frightening, it was his power.
"Hey Almaz, what's his level?" Beryl said after getting the courage to ask "Almaz?"
"What is that?" he replied "is-is that an infinity symbol?" He stuttered.
Beryl saw for herself and sure enough, it was an infinity symbol. She almost lost her composure at the sight. And then a few seconds later she lost her composure at the thought of it. "I didn't think it would be like this." she started, then stopped. She didn't come here to be frightened, she came here to get vengeance. "Come on guys, it's now or never." She then readied herself for the attack, wielding her delinquent rule book. "Yeah, whatever, let's play" Almaz said, smiling to himself. They all readied their weapons and charged.
Lights flash and soon Almaz found himself alone, charging the strongest overlord in existence. He didn't care. At the realization that his friends might have just been destroyed only made him angrier. Holding his sword even tighter, he muttered a single phrase. "Help me goddess" and swung.
The sword hit with a tink and evaporated. It wasn't even a manly tink. It was the kind your wine glass makes when you propose a toast. Almaz was then lifted and slammed into the floor, then again, then again, and then again. When he was ready to lose consciousness, he was thrown onto a green floor panel labeled 'teleport' and then found himself laying next to the others who were in similar condition to himself.
"What happened?" he asked, knowing full well what happened. They got their asses kicked. Bad. But he wanted the others opinions on the matter. "Wait, where's Beryl?"
She was being held by the neck not too far away from them. The others looked, and when they tried to help were only met with 'no entry' blocks. Beryl gasped at the air around her, while the air in her lungs turned sour. Baal laughed in amusement and threw her aside. "Is there truly no one to rival this power!" He lift his foot and was getting ready to curb stomp the young succubus. Beryl's vision began to fade. She closed her eyes on her impending doom. "Mao…"
There was an explosion .
Then, realizing the explosion wasn't the one involving her head, she opened her eyes. Baal was laying a few yards away on the grounds. But this hadn't caught her attention as much as the figure standing over her. It was a certain glasses wearing demon who had hair like he just got out of bed and wore a red lab coat as a cape. "Mao!?" Beryl cried, almost at the brink of tears.
"Honestly Beryl, if you can't beat one measly devil god, what's the point of being the Number One Delinquent?" Mao said, casting a healing spell on her.
"When did you-how did you?" She was too happy to form complete sentences, but paused to recompose herself "When did you learn that trick?" asking the first thing to come to mind, which seemed stupid afterwards.
"Do you two mind, we need to hurry this up a bit. He's standing up." Laharl complained in the background, holding a red scythe over his shoulder. Mao himself was holding a black blade which pulsed with red bursts of electricity.
"Laharl!" Flonne and Etna both yelled. Flonne hugged Laharl with tears in her eyes and Etna hit him on the head for several reasons, but most of all making her worry. "Stupid cockroach, what took you "she said, happy to see that the trio once again had three members.
"Sorry we're late" Mao answered for a blushing Laharl who was trying to brush off Flonne "but death wasn't making things any easier." And sure enough, on closer inspection, the others found that the young overlords were covered in injuries, one of Mao's arms was covered in bandages and Laharl was missing an ear. When asked, they both brushed it off as circumstance.
"Before we get our welcome home party, which you all will be paying for, we have loose ends to tie up" Mao stated while turning to a still dazed Baal. "You INSECTS, YOU WILL PAY FOR ANGERING THE GREAT DEVIL GOD!" Mao and Laharl just scoffed and looked at each other. "Alright so if fighting him together will end in defeat" Mao started ."And fighting him one on one will get our asses kicked" Laharl continued ."There's only one thing to do" they smiled to each other.
"What is that?" Beryl asked, feeling left out. Instead of answering, Mao pulled out a giant red stone in the shape of a tear.
"How many of you have played Soul Nomad?"
AN: The long awaited (By very few) fourth chapter is here. So to all my loyal fan (I am talking to the both of you now) sorry for the wait. I sorta hit a writers block, then completely forgot about this whole story in its entirety. But what ever. Any way hope you enjoyed it, if not, whatever. I'm tired and it's one in the morning, so sweet dreams dood.
