Chapter 7: Devourer of the World
Confronted with the unexpected presence of the Corrosive Hannibal, Mew grips the handle of his sword tightly and remarks while he had the chance "Kairi, you're not exactly familiar with this type of beast, are you?" The Corrosive Hannibal, which had been uncharacteristically docile for a few seconds, now lunged quickly at the two after acquiring the power boost from that mysterious crimson sphere. It only took the beast a moment to reach the two with it's gauntlet claw raised into the air ready for a swing, and Mew swung his sword up while coating it in flames to strike at the claws of the beast in order to repel it, though he failed to cut through the monster's claws at the same time, making his flames spread out in a small wave.
Mew quickly leaped to the right while the Corrosive Hannibal swung itself around and tried to strike both Kairi and Mew with it's tail, Mew swung his right hand out in front of his body and quickly created a lightning shield to block the tail even as it's sharp bladed tip discharged electricity from the shield as it grinded against it. The ground was swept up into a dusty circle as Kairi landed on the side of a ruined building and exclaimed while gripping her staff in both hands "I'm not attacking this thing until you explain what's going on here anyways!"
Mew was glad for Kairi's cautiousness, and as he swung his sword around once and gripped it in both of his hands he remarked "Well I don't know why this thing is here or what powered it up, but this monster is called a Corrosive Hannibal. It's one of the strongest Aragami, which are beasts-" Mew is interrupted when the Corrosive Hannibal rose it's hulking body up and coated it's right claw in black and violet flames, letting out a sky shaking roar as it tried to slam it down upon Mew, who widened his eyes and then performed a swift movement backwards, sliding along the ground as the claw slammed against the ground and sent cracks through the ground that erupted with black flames a moment later.
The Corrosive Hannibal peered at Mew through the flames with it's glowing eyes and panted a little, sounding to be in agony as it ripped it's claw from the ground and ran right at Mew again, as though he was the only thing it desired to hunt down and slaughter. Before Mew was attacked again, Kairi bravely leaped into the air and coated her staff in hard aura, throwing it down at the Corrosive Hannibal's head as she predicted it's movements, and once her weapon connected she dropped down and kicked the top of her staff as hard as she could with one foot while gritting her teeth and applying as much force as she could to force the Corrosive Hannibal's head to the ground.
Kairi then leaped right off of her staff and pulled it to her with a whip straight from her hand as she landed on the ground beside Mew and skid her feet around in a small circle to kill her momentum. As the Corrosive Hannibal spent a moment raising itself up off the ground barely fazed, Mew quickly explained "Anyways, Aragami are beasts composed of hundreds and possibly thousands of corrupt and semi-sentient beings called Oracle Cells. In the case of this Corrosive Hannibal, it's supposed to have been born when one of the weaponized Aragami called a God Arc was taken off and the rogue Aragami cells-"
The Corrosive Hannibal lets out an angered roar again and swings it's gauntlet in front of it's body before charging straight at the two, but Mew and Kairi swing their weapons in front of themselves and collide with the gauntlet to use all of their strength in order to push back against the impressive strength of the monster's charge. After a few seconds of fighting back Mew and Kairi both unleashed some flames and aura from their weapons in a single pulse that was capable of forcing the claw of the Corrosive Hannibal above it's head in recoil while pushing the two back.
Mew didn't waste a moment and continued to explain while the monster recovered "-took over the body of it's controller, a guy by the name of Lindow. But…It's odd, I can only sense the monster itself and not a body within. While that does concern me a lot, at least this means we can fight the monster without worrying about harming any innocent life." Mew ignited his blade with pure flames and swung it upward to send a crescent wave of fire at the Aragami, striking it's face hard and making it lurch to the left slightly, while Kairi coated the tip of her staff in a sharp aura spike and pulled back slightly, remarking as she prepared her attack "But how do we defeat this creature?"
"Just trying and hit the glowing core as hard as you can. I know that sounds simple, but the Oracle Cells can't function if it's core is destroyed." Mew remarks as the Corrosive Hannibal suddenly swung it's head forward and leaped backwards, slamming down atop a ruined building to destroy it the rest of the way before it swung it's tail around to create friction against the ground and cause black flames to form in a ring around itself. The Corrosive Hannibal then roared and the flames flew out in all directions, and the flames rise up to become a wall, with some of them climbing the sides of the dome protecting the area.
Kairi handled the wall of flames by leaping right over them and throwing her spiked staff straight at the core of the Corrosive Hannibal while Mew dispelled his sword and quickly punched at the ground to dig himself down underneath the flames. Kairi's attack met resistance when all of a sudden the stripes of golden flesh began to mesh together to protect the core, and the spike of aura on the staff plunged only through that. Kairi swung her right arm above her chest and remarked "You aren't getting off that easy!"
She then swung her arm out and poured some aura into her staff, causing the spike to extend out further and puncture part of the Aragami's core with a sharp thrust. The Corrosive Hannibal immediately reacted with pain and swung it's right claw to grab onto Kairi's staff, ripping the thing right out of it's body and throwing it away from itself without so much as a single moment of hesitation. As Kairi notices her staff go flying she quickly swings out an aura whip from her wrist and predicts where her staff would head so she could easily catch it and pull it right back to.
Following up on Kairi's efforts, Mew dug out of the ground directly below the Aragami's chest, but it seems the beast was able to detect the vibrations in the ground and thus leaped to the right, only getting clocked across the right of it's head by Mew's fist before he gets out of the way. Mew levitates in place and thrusts his arms at the beast to unleash a quick spread of flames against the Aragami's body, but the Corrosive Hannibal raises his gauntlet to protect himself from most of the flames while letting out an annoyed growl.
It coated it's left claws in black flames and waited for Mew's attack to end before swinging them upward to send three slashes of flames at his midair opponent. Drops to the ground and summons his sword as the Aragami fires three black spheres from it's mouth at, and after cutting through them in a single prolonged slash he remarks "You know Kairi, this guy's weak to divine energy. Lets use that against him to finish this quickly!"
Mew quickly goes for the white trigger on the handle of his sword with his thumb while Kairi nods her head and lays her hand atop the Angel Drive on her bracelet, but the moment the two click their respective activation triggers they are both rather shocked when nothing happens. The brief pause Mew takes as he clicks the trigger twice more gives the Corrosive Hannibal enough time to strike at him by running forward and ramming him with both of it's horns, not stopping until Mew is slammed against the barrier.
The swift and sudden pain from the impact causes Mew to temporarily drop his sword while the Corrosive Hannibal held him against the barrier and jerked his head up and down to rub the length of his horns against Mew's chest, ripping into his shirt slightly and nearly getting close to cut into his chest until Kairi flies down beside the Aragami's head and swings her staff as hard as she could like a bat. Whatever could be considered bones in the Aragami's head crack from the strength Kairi uses and it's head swings to the right from the impact.
Mew is freed from the horns of the monster and he quickly lands on the ground to pick up his sword, leaping backwards to put some distance between him and the monster while Kairi goes to town on them, coating her staff in hard aura and smashing it against the monster's face a few times until she actually manages to crack off the left of the Corrosive Hannibal's face, revealing some disgustingly detailed flesh and projection of bones representing the red extensions behind it's cheek. Kairi then drops to the ground and swings her staff upward to hit the underside of the Aragami's head and forced the front of the body to rise up temporarily. Kairi then tried to go for the chest again, but the Aragami quickly recovered with a flash of light coming from it's eyes and with a swing of it's body it brought it's right claw down atop Kairi.
Kairi was pressured as the Corrosive Hannibal spread it's claws out to prevent her arms from moving and kept her pinned flat against the ground while it opened it's mouth wide and prepared to fire off a blast of pure black flames. Mew came to the rescue by pulling out a still intact steel girder from one of the ruined buildings and throwing it at the Corrosive Hannibal with terrakinesis, bending the length of the girder around the Aragami's mouth so the very moment it fired off it's attack the black flames recoil back into it's throat.
As the flames caused the cracks in the neck of beast to split open from recoil, Mew pulled the girder off the Aragami's mouth and swung it at his chest as hard as he could to try and break through it's flesh and make the core vulnerable again. He manages to crack the flesh slightly, but the Corrosive Hannibal quickly recovered and with it's claws coated in black flames it grabbed the girder and melted it down to liquid form quickly. It then turned to look at Mew with it's devilish grin and as the black flames spread out from the sides of it's mouth it slowly begins to reconstruct the damaged skin on it's face.
Mew could hear every individual cell working to reconstruct the face, but he wasn't going to let the Corrosive Hannibal finish his effort and with his sword drawn he leaped at the Aragami and went to attack it with his ignited sword. As Mew brought his sword downward with all of his might, the Aragami quickly fired off another blast of black flames from it's mouth to try and counter the attack. But Kairi quickly got to her feet and blocked the Aragami's attack by summoning a barrier of aura around their mouth.
The flames did not recoil on the monster this time around and they quickly were increasing the luminosity of the aura to indicate that it could break through, but Mew had plenty of time to swing his sword and strike the recovering side of the Corrosive Hannibal's face, cleaving the new cells right off and making them fly away against the barrier, and the moment they make contact they disintegrate. Mew then lands on the ground and swings his sword around his body before igniting his sword with large flames, throwing as hard of a slash as he could against the Corrosive Hannibal's chest to cut right through it's flesh and strike it's core.
The Corrosive Hannibal stumbled back a little bit from that attack and hit the edge of the barrier, with it quickly putting it's claws in front of it's chest to protect itself from Mew attacking again. Mew then leaps back the moment his sword connects with the Aragami's gauntlet, proceeding to hold his sword cautiously behind his back while taking a few steps back as Kairi bombards the Corrosive Hannibal's body from the air with a barrage of exploding aura spheres, making a series of flashes appear across his body until Kairi lets up.
Kairi then lands on the ground and exclaims "Hey! Why can't we use our other forms?!" Mew responds bluntly with "It has to do with this barrier! Someone's interfering with our powers! Probably not going to let us have our forms back unless we stop the Corrosive Hannibal." The Corrosive Hannibal then slams both of it's claws against the ground and raises it's head up high to let out a roar while the searing scar on it's chest heals up, with Mew nervously chuckling before he remarked "Of course, that does leave us a little handicapped."
With it's claws dug into the ground, the Aragami erupted with black flames out of all of the pores in it's body and then fired off some flames at the ground from his mouth, causing a small tornado of black flames to spin across the ground towards Mew. Mew leaped and rolled to the right and then swung his sword forward to send a few wind blades at the claws of the beast, specifically targeting the gauntlet so the onslaught of attacks would break it apart slightly.
As cracks formed in the gauntlet, Kairi knew what Mew was planning and she quickly positioned her staff in front of her body to form some aura at the front of it into a large sphere, pushing the sphere once it's completed at the gauntlet itself. It blows up on the cracks and shatters the gauntlet, revealing a large tumor of flesh underneath it. The Corrosive Hannibal rips it's claws from the ground and stumbles back in pain while raising a claw to his head, shaking the pain off quickly while something works to regenerate the broken gauntlet.
The Aragami lunges at Mew and tries to strike him with it's claw, but Mew leaps straight up and spins his sword around before bringing it straight down atop the Corrosive Hannibal's head. But the Aragami reacts to Mew's attack by stopping itself midway through it's lunge and pulling back on his body, making it so Mew ends up striking the ground instead. The beast then open it's mouth and wastes no time in firing off a few black flame spheres into Mew's body.
Each fireball spreads out some flames from impact, with Mew being pushed back while he lifted himself back. The flames scuffed his body slightly and he flinched from each fireball, with Mew thinking to himself "He's picking up on my attacks now…For whatever reason, this beast has some intelligence…" Mew then brushes some blood from his cheek onto the back of his right hand while the Corrosive Hannibal stood upright and let out a roar once more, swinging both of it's arms out and summoning forth two triangular blades of black flames attached perfectly to it's wrists.
Mew widened his eyes for a moment, temporarily forgetting that the Aragami could do such a thing until the monster started swinging the blades at him while standing partially upright. The blades were swung at him in quick and rapid arcs, with Mew forced to leap back as the Corrosive Hannibal tore up the ground with the tips of it's blades, swinging up waves of black flames from each impact it made. It gets to the point that Mew feels more comfortable standing his ground and creating a shield of fire around his body to protect himself from the Corrosive Hannibal's violent attacks, giving Kairi a chance to try and attack the creature from behind.
But as Kairi leaps up and tries to stab through the back of the Aragami to hit it's core, the Corrosive Hannibal suddenly turns itself around after swinging one of it's swords and attacks Kairi with a backhanded slash from it's right blade. Kairi quickly draws her staff up to protect herself but the end of the blade manages to cut through her shirt and inflict a wound on the side of her body while hitting her hard enough to create a black shockwave and send her flying head-first into the barrier.
As the crystalline effect ripples through the barrier, Kairi falls to the ground on the side of her body while the Corrosive Hannibal stands up tall and roars at her for her attempt to try a sneak attack. Kairi grits her teeth and finds her vision blurred from the roughness of the impact, but she is able to hold onto her staff and slowly push herself back onto her feet. The beast was preparing for another attack though and slowly began to approach her, with Mew immediately leaping through his barrier and with his sword grasped in one hand he repels the blades of the Corrosive Hannibal as it turned to strike him.
Mew swung his sword a few more times to keep the Corrosive Hannibal distracted, repelling the Aragami's blades for a few seconds while Kairi gets a chance to finish standing back up. Kairi lays a hand on her forehead and shakes off the throbbing pain as well as she can, and once she's done she glares at the Aragami and slams her staff diagonally against the ground. With the staff coated in aura Kairi uses it to press a button down on the staff, causing the thing to separate into differing segments much like a whip.
Kairi sends the whip out right towards the left wrist of the Corrosive Hannibal, quickly wrapping around it tightly enough that the beast couldn't move it anymore, and his blade is plunged into the ground. Mew then slips past the creature's other blade and goes to plunge his sword into the core of the beast. With his sword coated in orichalcum to increase it's strength greatly, Mew pierced into the flesh and stabbed the core directly with a great deal of force, using tons of flames through the tip of his sword to burn at the core as much as he could until the Corrosive Hannibal used it's brute strength to shatter the aura whip and try to attack Mew with his blade.
Mew let go of his sword and flew back in an instant to land on the ground, skidding back a little as he then swung his right hand forward to dispel his sword for the moment. The Corrosive Hannibal dispels it's flaming swords and as black flames spurted out of it's mouth it laid his claws against it's chest and stumbled back, roaring in agony as the core pulsated a couple times irregularly. Mew thought it was possible that the Aragami was defeated with that attack. However, the beast removed it's claws from it's chest and slammed them both on the ground, hanging it's head low to the ground while pushing it's back up high.
As the Corrosive Hannibal pants a black blood from it's mouth, it lets out intervals of tired roars in a violent manner, as though it was experiencing the greatest pain such a creature could possibly feel. Then, the back of the creature starts to crack apart, the skin literally ripping off bit by bit until some grotesque liquid could be seen dripping off the raised skin onto a pair of wings that were rising up out of the back of the skin flaps. "What…the hell?" Mew murmured to himself as the wings spread out from the back of the Corrosive Hannibal.
The wings were large and thick enough to be able to carry the weight of the mighty Aragami, with red skeletal bones acting as hands on the back of the wings. The membranes of the wings are composed of a thinner variation of the golden strips of flesh covering the core, with rippling veins spread throughout the entire thing. The Corrosive Hannibal stops feeling the pain in it's body and lifts its head up, and as though the wings were always a natural part of it's body the Aragami flaps them to shake off the liquid and quickly takes flight into the air.
"Was this supposed to happen?!" Kairi remarked as the flapping of the beast's wings creates enough of a gale to require her to yell, and Mew exclaimed in response "No! This beast never showed anything like this…Whatever that strange sphere was, it must be accelerating the evolution of the Corrosive Hannibal's Oracle Cells. We need to take it down quickly or it might start adapting to your aura or become stronger than us!"
The Corrosive Hannibal opened the hands on the ends of his wings and summoned forth two black flame swords in them similar to what he was using before, and then it takes energy directly from his now stabilized core and compiles it into a sphere directly between both of it's claws. It fires the sphere down towards the center of the ground, and Mew could tell from just looking that it was an explosive attack coming their way. Mew and Kairi quickly leap off the ground and take flight towards the Corrosive Hannibal as the sphere connects with the ground and explodes, unleashing a bright blast powerful enough to level entire buildings.
The ground is wiped clean of any further ruins and flames, leaving nothing but the flattened ground on the battlefield. The Corrosive Hannibal rolls through the air to the right before Mew can attack with his sword, and then the beast opens it's mouth and fires a series of fireballs at him and Kairi. Mew counters with a series of wind blades coming out from the swing of his sword, but he miscalculates the move and ends up accidentally letting a couple of the spheres slip through and strike him.
Both spheres blow up upon contact and push Mew back, and this time the damage is enough to draw blood from Mew's mouth. As Mew quickly wipes it off he thinks to himself while slanting his eyebrows downward "That hurt more than it should've…Even with this monster's increased strength. Something's up, and it's reminding me a lot of those Vortexians…" But Mew could only go off some assumptions here, and it bugged him that so much was happening at once today. He tried to hide his annoyance with a smirk and laugh, but Kairi just had to look at him to recognize that he was worried about something.
She let out a melancholy sigh before focusing back on the Corrosive Hannibal, who flew straight at the two and tried to puncture them both with it's swords. They raised their weapons up and blocked the swords at the tips, but the problem with this plan was that they forgot the Aragami's claws were now open. The Corrosive Hannibal took it's claws and tried to plunge them into it's opponent's chests. Mew and Kairi couldn't willingly take the risk of keeping their guard up in this condition, so they quickly flew back before the Corrosive Hannibal was successful in it's attack. The Aragami then flapped it's wings to fly backwards, landing itself directly on the side of the barrier with it's claws digging deep into it to keep it stable.
Mew then looked at Kairi and remarked "Alright, I think it's time we end this. Wouldn't you agree Kairi?" Kairi nodded her head in agreement and with a firm expression she exclaimed "We're going to lose Alex if we don't get rid of this distraction!" Mew and Kairi then flew next to each other and placed their backs together while pointing their weapons at the Corrosive Hannibal, both of them putting on a smile before they swung their weapons out in front of them while grasping it in one hand.
"Ready?" "You know it!" Mew and Kairi respectively said to each other before Mew and Kairi thrust their weapons forward and unleashed two tornadoes, one of pure flames and another of aura. The two tornadoes spiral towards the Corrosive Hannibal and grow in size. The Aragami leaps off the barrier and takes flight to try and get away from the tornadoes, but Mew and Kairi guide them towards their intended target without losing their focus. The Corrosive Hannibal fires off some fireballs at the tornadoes to try and break them, but the tornadoes are moving fast enough to swallow up the fireballs easily.
The Corrosive Hannibal rolls to the right and folds it's wings inward slightly before swinging it's claws in front of it's core again and trying to compile energy again for another attack while Mew and Kairi are stationary. Mew and Kairi fly off away from the spot where the attack would hit, making sure they wouldn't even be near the edge of the explosion. They dive down and land on the ground, swinging their arms closer to their bodies so the tornadoes would be guided down in a sweeping arc towards the underside of the Corrosive Hannibal.
The two tornadoes finally combine together, both now as tall as the Corrosive Hannibal itself. But when merged together, the tornado rapidly expands into a towering one that swallows the Aragami within the center of it's expanse. The shining tornado of aura and flames sticks in place while Mew and Kairi prepare their next move, with Mew casually tossing his sword over to Kairi, who quickly examines it's shape and size and replicates it with aura twenty times over, placing all the copies of the blades in the ground around her in a ring.
Mew smiled and remarks in a complimenting tone "Your copying has gotten pretty good. I could probably put my elements on those replica blades if I tried hard enough." Kairi tosses Mew back his sword and swings her right hand forward while asking calmly "You think twenty will be enough?" Mew gripped his sword tightly and with a grin he remarked "Might be a little overkill truthfully, but so long as I can attack the core we'll be good."
The wings of the Corrosive Hannibal were nothing more than a detriment at this point, as they were caught up in the tornado, and even as it swung at the tornado with it's wingswords and launched fireballs it was unable to break through and only put cuts and dents within the surface. But the worst was yet to come for this mighty Aragami. Kairi pulled the twenty swords from the ground and threw them into the tornado, and the tornado became one with the blades and threw them all rapidly at the Corrosive Hannibal.
Mew and Kairi proclaim together as the aura swords tear apart the Corrosive Hannibal's wings and some of the flesh protecting it's arms and core "Aura Blade Tornado!" After a few seconds of attacking the Aragami, the tornado breaks open, and without the ability to fly the Corrosive Hannibal starts to drop towards the ground. The core was now exposed, and Mew gripped his sword tightly and ran forward while holding the weapon in front of his body for a couple seconds. Once below the Corrosive Hannibal he raised his sword upward and exclaimed "This ends now!"
Mew thrusts the sword right into the Corrosive Hannibal's core with all of his strength, creating a spear of flames to increase the length of his attack's reach, and he manages to pierce right through the back of the Aragami, putting a large hole through the creature. The Corrosive Hannibal stayed suspended in the air for a moment as it's core bulged around, the cells within unable to function anymore. Mew pulls his sword from the beast and slides backward, letting the Aragami fall to the ground and writhe around for a few seconds. The core explodes within the Corrosive Hannibal, and his body lurches around for a bit afterwards.
The beast finally falls entirely flat against the ground, with every cell in it's body crumbling down into nothingness, dying off rapidly without the core to sustain it. But before the Corrosive Hannibal died all the way, the glowing sphere that went within it's body rose up out of the pile of dying cells and went to the center of the arena. After a brief flash of light, the strange sphere shatters apart, and with it the barrier falls down. Mew stands upright and pants a little bit, and after brushing some blood off of his chin that dripped out of his mouth from overexertion he thinks to himself "Yeah…I think I'm right…That sphere was made of the same energy the Vortexians are using. But why was it this time I could use my elements against that energy? Grr…Solaris, Lunis…What the hell are you two doing here?"
"Brother!" A concerned cry calls out to Mew from afar, and he lifts his head up and turns to the right to see Riku running straight at him with a concerned look on his face. While Riku went towards him, Mew recognized that Alex's energy signature was gone, and while looking around he also saw a tower of smoke near where Alex was fighting. Something had been destroyed there, but Mew wasn't going to waste time investigating the matter while this more important ordeal was on his mind. Turning to face his brother, Mew remarked in a puzzled tone "What took you so long?"
Riku stopped in front of Mew, and as Kairi ran over to the two of them Riku quickly remarked "I couldn't reach either of you. Once I felt that energy spike from Alex and felt you two going towards it, I quickly got the survivors onto that custom raft and tried to catch up with you. But then you disappeared and all I was left with was a barrier in my path. I couldn't even get around it to go after Alex." Riku was clearly infuriated with that last part as evidenced by the way he gripped his right fist beside his body, but he tried to keep calm since his brother and Kairi were safe and quickly asked while looking between them "What the hell happened?"
Kairi quickly explained while Mew dispelled his sword "We were attacked by a creature from another world…What was it called again Mew?" Mew sighed and remarked "I'll have to show you that game once this whole thing blows over Kairi…" Though he took on a barely joking tone, Riku took offense to Mew's behavior and bluntly remarked "Now's not the time for this brother, what were you attacked by?"
"It was an Aragami…Specifically the Corrosive Hannibal. You should have memories of that, right Riku?" Mew remarked in a more serious manner, and Riku laid a hand against his chin and said in response "…Yeah actually. But that doesn't make any sense…Why would something like that be here?" Kairi pointed out quickly "It was brought here through a portal of some sort. Clearly against it's will too, since it attacked the Vortexian squad sent to ambush us. But then it was given a strange sphere and not only did it become a lot stronger, but it was hellbent on killing us both."
"Great, so not only do we have to worry about the Vortexians, Solaris and Lunis, but now someone's sending creatures from other worlds at us and powering them up. Either we need to stop this threat or find out information on what exactly they are using against us, otherwise who knows what'll happen next." Riku commented on, but Kairi said impatiently "Then like I keep saying, we should go after Solaris first!"
"It'd be the logical idea here, but again…We don't even know where to start. None of us can track him. If only we knew who Solaris was visiting, if we could figure out what that clue meant, then perhaps…" Riku began trying to think about that hint, and Mew and Kairi took a moment to do the same as well. It was Kairi who thought the most about the clue, as she was determined above all else to stop Solaris from harming this planet. But as she dug deep into her memories and recalled events from a couple weeks prior, she remembered something her mom had mentioned, that her earrings were given to her by a pair of old friends…Her earrings that were shaped like the moon and the sun.
Kairi would soon regret realizing this, and as she clasped her hands against the side of her head she began mumbling out "No no no…He wouldn't possibly…" The agony in her voice was heard quickly by Mew, who didn't take too long to realize what Kairi was worried about. With a biting of his lower lip Mew let out a "Tsk…!" and said "Damn it! I should have realized this much sooner…Of course Solaris would be going to Sancturia!"
Riku lifted his head up and remarked "Sancturia?" Kairi exclaimed while swinging her arms out "We don't have time right now! Explain it to him on the way Mew! Everyone's in trouble!" Kairi doesn't waste time in kicking off the ground and taking flight towards the north, and Riku remarked in a surprised tone "Wait…Why's Kairi's mom important in all this?"
Mew glanced at Kairi in the sky and back at Riku, and after a bit of running in place Mew quickly remarked "Well Riku…Kairi's mom was the wife of the original Elemental Overlord. And it seems she used to know Solaris and Lunis as well. I'm sorry, I have to catch up before Kairi falls into a trap." After speaking as fast as he could, Mew thrusts himself off the ground and speeds up to go after Kairi, while Riku just stood there for a moment with a stunned expression and remarked "The Elemental Overlord…Had a wife?" Firming his expression into a curious scowl, Riku quickly took off after his brother and Kairi, realizing that if nothing else, perhaps he'd be able to get some answers out of Kairi's mother…
Next Time: The Invasion Force from Two Worlds
