Here's Chapter 9 of the story, I got this out ASAP since I know you'll be wanting to know what's happening next, but anyways here's the new chapter, enjoy.
I OWN NOTHING!
Chapter 9
Lily jerked as she suddenly felt something strange pass through her, she turned to try and locate the source of her discomfort and came up with nothing abnormal, but still somehow she knew her brother was in trouble.
"I gotta go Mrs. Summers," She said to her instructor then hurriedly picked up her stuff and left leaving a group of baffled students and one very confused instructor.
Gilgamesh jerked awake in the dream realm he shared with Nem, he rubbed the sleep out of his eyes as he lifted his head from Nem's lap where it's been resting for the last few hours.
Nem furrowed her brows and a frown formed on her perfect features.
"What's wrong Love?" She asked brushing a stray lock of golden hair from her eyes.
He shook his head.
"I felt something strange just now." Gilgamesh responded, then felt the same feeling again. "No, it is something." He turned to Nem. "Sorry Nem, I have to cut our date short for now, I need to go check on something, I'll make it up to you I promise."
Her green eyes twinkling Nem smiled at him.
"No worries, but don't die on me okay?"
Gilgamesh laughed bitterly.
"I don't plan on it, but the big guy upstairs may have issues with that." He winked at her, then disappeared from his subcontious.
Gilgamesh jerked up right in his bed as he returned to his body, he straightened hiss clothes and went to his crystal ball to find out what was happening.
A gift to him from the sorcerer supreme the crystal ball carried mystical powers that allowed him to see any part of his current world.
"Alright, let's see what's going on." He said to the ball, it glowed red once then slowly images appeared in the ball images that showed his current self, sitting with a silver haired girl in a coffee shop surrounded by Purifiers armed to the teeth, and he was shocked by the image, not by the men, but the fact that he didn't remember this scene.
But that's impossible. Nem said in his head as she was able to hear his every thought.
Trust me Nem, no one's more aware of that fact than me. Gilgamesh thought. I need to go investigate.
With that he threw on his leather coat and left.
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Un-fucking-believable. That was what Zane thought as he heard the gunshot, did there have to be violence every time he came into this town? Apparently there does.
His mood quickly changed as he noticed the men had their guns pointed at him.
As the people screamed and ran for the doors, strangely enough the men let them pass until only Zane and Sarah were left behind.
A man in front of the group pointed at Zane and talked to who appears to be the leader of the soldiers, and who also appears to be a member of the KKK.
"That's him, that's the mutant who almost killed us." The man said, and Zane recognized the voice, this was the guy who led the group of attackers the night his brain was skewered.
To that Zane couldn't even stop himself before he snorted.
"Oh bitch please, I made sure not to kill you, like I'd go to jail for manslaughter for sub-human filth such as yourself, as for the rest of the gentlemen, please have a seat I'll buy you all a drink and we'll talk about our current... predicament." Heavy emphasis on the 'dic' part, because if Zane didn't play his cards right he and Sarah may both be screwed… maybe literally? Hopefully not though. 1
"You do not speak in the Lord's presence abomination!" The member of the KKK shouted without responding to Zane's comment, and that told him all he needed to know about who these men are.
"You're the Purifiers." Zane said, it was a statement of fact.
The man puffed his chest out proudly.
"Indeed we are the Lord's hand and wrath for obliterating heathens such as yourself, and I am Michael Abr- "
"Okay you can spare me the long names, now tell me what you want." Zane said pulling Sarah behind him, mostly because he didn't want her to get hurt, but also because he knew that if he did let her get hurt Dante would mess him up.
"Heathen- "
"It's Zane, thank you very much."
Michael snorted.
"I do not use human names to address inhuman demons like you." He gestured to him and Sarah.
Zane shot Sarah an amused look, then turned back to the Purifiers.
"Look I know how 'demons' is like a serious insult in your culture, but to the rest of the world, especially with all the videogames and movies floating around, being a demon is simply epic, so thanks," he turned to Sarah again, and pretended to shake his head disappointedly at her outfit. "Even though some of us do not dress like an appropriate demoness."
Sarah's face turned a little red at what Zane implied.
"You think it is 'epic' to be a demon?" Michael asked taking Zane's attention back to him.
Zane laughed.
"Well of course, to have the powers to wipeout entire cities at your fingertips, knowing that you are capable of doing almost anything and everything without repercussions, but yet you are still enslaved to your own ideals," Zane smiled as he held his hand in the air and allowed his power to flow, and instantly a black flame appeared in his hand, the soldiers tensed and aimed their guns at him, but Michael signaled for them to hold. "It's much like being a billionaire in this world where money is everything. I mean heck I can buy a country right now and turn it into my own empire and wonderland compiled of RWBY, and videogame references, turn the citizens of that country into slaves with no purpose but to serve me, yet I don't for it is not my ideal. But just knowing that I have the power to accomplish such is truly exhilarating." Zane extinguished the flame and sipped his newly acquired cup of coffee.
"Is that how you see demons Heathen?" Michael asked.
Zane smiled a little at the anger in the man's voice, the first step to defeating an enemy is always to defeat them mentally first, he sat down in a comfortable couch and cradled the coffee mug in his hands.
Sarah on the other hand seemed nowhere near as at ease as Zane was acting so she stood behind him.
"It is indeed, Pater." Zane answered the man's question, using the Latin word for father.
The Priest shook his head disapprovingly.
"I see so you are a Heathen indeed, an abomination envy of the Devil's ideals." Michael said with a sigh.
Zane raised an eyebrow.
"Oh no you are mistaken, I think demons are interesting because I see them as a reflection of myself." Zane explained.
"And how do you figure?" Michael asked.
Zane smirked and flicked a finger, instantly a wave of anti-matter crushed every single gun in the room.
"Because I'm an Omega."
Sarah gasped as the soldiers shifted and muttered nervously.
"Now, you can try and kill us, fail miserably, and get killed yourselves." Zane continued like nothing happened. "Or Father Michael and I can make a deal."
"What is you want demon?" He asked.
Zane looked him up and down.
"Based on your tattoo I see you're in the navy SEALs?"
"Indeed I was."
"Was?"
"I left the navy to join up in this glorious crusade."
"I see; did you receive any hand-to-hand combat training while you were there."
"You already know the answer to that, so stop beating around the bush and get the answer."
"Fine I suggest a good old fight of hand-to-hand combat to settle this, you win I go with you without complaint."
"What? No Zane I won't let you risk your life for me." Sarah complained, but neither man paid her attention.
"And if I lose?" The priest asked.
"We both go free." Zane said gesturing to himself and Sarah.
"And how do I know you won't use your powers to cheat?" Michael asked.
"You don't, but I will give you my word." Zane shrugged.
"The word of a demon," The Pastor laughed. "Alright, I accept the challenge Heathen." He nodded to the rest of his men and they formed a ring around him.
"By the way," Zane said before they started. "Can I talk to my friend in private before we start?"
The soldiers looked to their leader to confirm.
Michael nodded.
Zane turned to Lily and they exited the ring as the soldiers parted.
The second they were out of earshot, Sarah turned on Zane and hugged him.
Zane gasped as her tiny body slammed into his with a surprising amount of force.
"Sarah?" Zane asked.
"I'll be asking the questions." Sarah said without taking her head out of Zane's chest, so her voice sounded a bit muffled.
"Alright go ahead."
"Why did you suggest this fight if you're an Omega?" She asked.
Zane scratched his head before answering.
"Sarah, contrary to popular misbelief Omegas aren't gods, we also have limitations, I'm an Omega because I can literally un-create the universe, but the drawback is anything I touch with my powers will die with no exceptions, so as much as I want us to get out of this, I won't kill all of these people for it." Zane hugged back as he explained his powers.
"Yes, but I can use mine and freeze them." Sarah objected.
"Can you make sure that none of them die of it?" Zane asked, when she didn't respond he continued. "Because I'm telling you right now if you use your powers at least one of them will die, so…." he forced her to look him in the eyes. "Are you ready to kill? Ready to take a life? Ready to take them away from all their loved ones? To completely erase their futures?"
Sarah hesitated the clenched her fists and frost started to form around them, for a second Zane was afraid she was going to say yes, but to his relief she stopped and shook her head.
"No I can't."
"Then this fight is mine, don't worry though- "he winked. "I'm not going to lose."
"You better not." She said reluctantly letting go.
Zane turned and walked back into the ring as Sarah used her powers to create an elevated platform made of ice, making the soldiers highly nervous, but Zane just smirked, but wasn't sure whether that was a scare tactic or just a way of getting a better view, but that thought faded from his head as he took the fighting stance he was so familiar with.
"Let's play." Zane challenged, still smiling.
The Pastor wasted no time in engaging as he barreled in with a left hook, Zane caught the punch easily, but then immediately shouted as he felt something electrocute and shock him.
Zane stumbled away as Sarah gasped.
"Hey that's cheating!" She shouted, but Zane held a hand up and signaled for her to be quiet.
"It's no problem, it was my fault shouldn't have trusted sub-human filth." Zane spat, then allowed his smirk to return to his face. "Well at least now it's a fair fight." He said gesturing to his now limp arm.
Zane combatant didn't say anything as he came in with another punch, Zane took a deep breath and allowed all his muscles to relax as he thought of his master's favorite quote of all time: "Water can flow, or it can crash! You put it in a bottle it becomes the bottle, you put it in a cup it becomes the cup, so be water my friend." Such is the true essence of fighting, to be able to adapt.
Just when Michael's fist was centimeters away from Zane's throat, he dropped the ground with a speed that was almost in human and landed a kick to the Purifier's knee, he went down, but Zane refused to allow him to drop to the ground as he rammed his shoulder into the man's stomach knocking him back, then followed up with a single swift and powerful palm strike to his chest that slammed him into the wall. But the purifier wasn't so easily beaten he came in again and tried to sweep Zane off his feet, but Zane quickly vaulted over the man's leg landed on the other side of the man to knee him in the back of the head, a blow that should've knocked Father Michael out, but he just stood back up, turned and punched Zane in the stomach so fast Zane didn't even have time to react. Causing Zane to bend over in pain.
Sarah bit her nails as she saw the Purifier tower over Zane, just when she was about to ignore Zane's warning and help him anyways, he roared and came up with an uppercut so hard it sent Michael stumbling back, but Zane wasn't quite finished, he rushed forward with a kick to the man's head, then another to his chest, then another, and another, and another, to the point where his kicks were so fast and furious that they became a blur, kicks that kept Michael from even trying to defend himself as every time he tried to us an limb to defend himself Zane just kicked it out of the way, Sarah watched in shocked disbelief as Zane finally ended his onslaught with one punch so hard it sent the bloodied purifier tumbling away like a leaf in the wind and slammed in to the other wall so hard that Sarah could swear she felt it.
Zane groaned and wheezed as he finally put giant down for good, though for all his talk he had a hard time standing up right as the Pastor hit him way harder than expected, Sarah came down from her platform to help him stand as the soldiers ran to check on their commander.
"I can stand on my own Sarah." Zane said trying to act tough.
"You sure?" She asked uncertainly.
"Yes, I'm sure."
"Alright then," Sarah let go.
Zane stood up straighter, for about 5 five seconds before falling the ground.
"Ow!" Zane complained, then turned his pleading eyes to Sarah. "Okay on second thought, I may need a little help.
Sarah laughed as she put her one arm around Zane's shoulder, and another around his waist as she helped him up.
Zane sighed, there was a position he can be comfortable in, even if Sarah's arm brushed against his aching ribs, it was worth it.
When Sarah looked up at him, her eyes twinkled and Zane felt his throat turning a bit dry as he focused on her pink lips, and how irresistible they looked. Just as he lowered his head a little, the moment was interrupted by another gun shot, quickly followed by several others.
Son of a prostituted whore! Zane thought as Sarah quickly raised an ice shield around him.
"What the hell was that?" Zane asked, but Sarah didn't respond, instead she collapsed to the ground and him with her.
Zane scowled and looked at her to find that one of the bullets made it through, and lodged itself in her abdomen.
"Oh, no, no, no, no, no." Zane said as Sarah clutched her midsection, Zane quickly knelt by her side and tried to stop the bleeding by applying pressure, but the blood still seeped through.
"Zane," Sarah wheezed.
"Don't talk now save all your energy Sarah, I'm not letting you die on my watch, and I sure as hell ain't- "
"Zane!" She shouted as forcefully as she can and Zane stopped talking.
"Just stop talking for a second." She put one of her hands on Zane's neck before lowering it and kissed him.
Zane froze at being suddenly kissed, in fact everything faded away until all he felt was Sarah's tongue sweeping against his, after getting over his initial shock Zane will himself to move and returned the kiss with everything he had, then the kiss stopped abruptly as Sarah's head dropped to the ground and smiled, as her strength ran out.
"Oh hell no! Lady you don't get to kiss Zane Haides without recompense, and you sure as hell don't steal my heart the second before you bail out," Zane said as he tried to apply even more pressure to her wound.
Sarah smiled a little as her eyes fluttered shut.
Zane felt as if ice water ran through his veins as Sarah closed her eyes, he swallowed and shook her.
"Sarah?" He asked.
No response.
Tears rolled out of Zane's eyes as anti-matter slipped out of him and seeped into the massive ice wall, parts of the wall dissolved as the rest turned pitch black.
Zane threw his back and roared as the now blackened ice shattered and sent shrapnel flying everywhere the purifiers all ducked down to avoid being impaled, and miraculously none of them did, but Zane stood up with a hooded gaze and Sarah in his arms, then waves of darkness rolled out from under him and crashed to towards the purifiers like a wave, but before they can be consumed by Zane's power the Purifier Zane knocked down earlier pressed something on his watch then he and his group disappeared leaving the anti-matter to dissolve nothing, ironically.
It was then a blue light flashed behind Zane, he turned and found Lily walking through it, she yelped as she saw the black matter surrounding them as she manifested a blue plate for her to stand on.
"Zane? Oh my God what happened?" Then she focused on the bloodied woman her brother held in his hands. "Holy shit is that Sarah, what-"
"They shot her." Zane said through gritted teeth.
"They? Who?" Sarah asked.
"We had a deal and then they just shot her." Zane said with glassy eyes.
"Zane you're not making sense. Who shot Sar-"
"None of this makes sense!" Zane shouted as he finally turned his attention to his sister.
Lily forced her Plate to rise higher as the sea of darkness rose up and dissolved every last inch of the coffee shop, and seeped onto the side walk causing the pedestrians outside to run off screaming.
"Why would they do this Lily? Why the fuck would anyone with a heart hurt Sarah? She's so kind and she never hurt anyone in her life, why would they do this?" Zane asked.
Lily swallowed as she tried calm her brother down, he was past the point of listening to reason now, but she needed to keep him from destroying the city, she now understood what Alex meant when he said Zane could destroy the planet, in fact the entire block was already gone, filled with nothing but anti-matter.
"Brother, you need to calm down, don't worry we'll get Sarah help, but right now you need to calm down." Lily said in her most soothing voice possible, and slowly she saw the sanity return to her brother's eyes as he realized who was talking to him.
"O-okay." Zane licked his lips then snapped his fingers, Lily expected the darkness to disappear, but they didn't in fact it looked like they became even more violent and moved at an even faster pace.
"Bro what are you doing?" Lily asked as she started to panic.
Zane looked shocked.
"I don't know! I'm trying to control it but it's not listening to me!" Zane shouted trying hard to pull back control.
And Lily couldn't do anything except watch as Zane's powers consumed more and more of the city.
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Gilgamesh arrived in the middle of a sea of anti-matter and gaped at the amount of it dissolving the town, if the power was any stronger this planet would no longer exist, thank goodness he wasn't able to make the concentrated stuff yet, though this still needs to be stopped.
He headed for the center of the black void and found, his sister, and his younger self cradling some girl in his arms, the same girl he didn't remember.
Nem you're the mental manifestation of my subconscious coming into contact with the mind stone, correct? Zane asked.
Yes.
That means you're aware of all my past memories correct?
Yes, which now that I think about it, makes me wonder how I can be interested in you at all, especially romantically. She teased.
Hey, I'm too cute to not like, Zane defended himself. But are you sure I don't remember this girl?
Yes, I am I thought I told you that in our room.
You did, I was just hoping that maybe I'll have one less headache.
Taking a deep breath Gilgamesh shouted to Lily.
"Hey Lily, what in the name of God is going on here?" He asked.
Lily turned and saw him.
"I'm not sure myself, I arrived like this I think Sarah got shot on her date with my brother." Lily answered.
Gilgamesh growled and tried to talk to his younger self. "Hey, kid listen you need to hurry up and control those powers or this town wouldn't exist and neither would your friend, not to mention your sister."
Zane snarled before he glared at Gilgamesh.
"Oh gee, control my powers why didn't I think of that? The question is how?"
"Fine, imagine a well in your head, got that?"
Zane nodded and followed Gilgamesh's advice.
"Now imagine all your powers are draining into that well, but not too fast." Gilgamesh continued.
Zane didn't answer, at first he felt nothing, then he felt the anti-matter slowly flowed back to him, happy that it worked so he willed it to go faster, then he felt all the anti-matter he generated all came rushing back, he concentrated even harder to erase the last of his powers, he opened his eyes and found himself on the ground with all the anti-matter gone.
"Holy shit I actually did it." Zane whispered too tired to do more, just as he started to fall forward he remembered Sarah, suddenly all the fatigue faded as he caught himself and he ran to his sister.
"Lil, I need you to teleport us back ASAP."
She didn't need to be told twice the second he within an arm's reach she reached out and placed a hand on Zane's arm then in a flash of blue light they were gone, leaving only Gilgamesh behind.
Gilgamesh laughed bitterly.
What's wrong Love? Nem asked.
"I just realized that after all these years I'm still the one who's being left behind." He whispered under his breath.
You chose this fate Love, when you decided to come back.
I know we are the children of our own decisions.
Precisely.