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Arc Two, Part Six: Reasons
DIMENSION: Ultimension
LOCATION: PCO - Patron Capital Operation. Located in the very middle of the Gamindustri map line.
Oh if any of you are wondering where "Gamindustri Main Arena" is, it's between Planeptune and Lastation.
TIME: (Unknown)
(Play BGM: Mega Dimension Neptunia V-II OST 05: Scene)
The room was made up of purple, black, green and blue steel. The room was empty save for a white table with six chairs surrounding it but four chairs are in occupied
"I guess that settled it." A slender woman with a straight, white hair that reached her hips. She wore a black tight, skin suit that covered the rest of her body with the exception of her head and neck. She also wore a black, mechanical boots with flames imprinted on it. Her eyes shone a green teal with a power symbols. "No wonder you're too confident, Planera."
"No shit," A shorter petite woman cursed. The woman had a light blue cow lick hair with long side bangs that reached her chest. She was wearing what resembled to be a white bathing suit with unattached sleeves. She also wore a thigh-length leggings. There's a shoulder guards made of up dark ice and had a blue visor on her eyes. Her pinkish red eyes with a power symbols shone. "That combatant nearly killed Guiborne which is against the rule."
The Goddess of Planeptune, Purple Heartress, looked at her fellow goddess: Black Heartress and White Heartress. The former was narrowing her eyes while the latter was having a cold look. "It wasn't my intention, White. Forgive me." Purple apologized. She was seating beside White Heartress with Black Heartress beside the former.
The Goddess of Lowee scoff, "I'll pass this for now, I'm not losing my faith to my people anyway."
"My, my," A mature (and voluptuous), tall woman murmured in amusement. Her green hair was flowing freely from her back. She was wearing a green tight body suit that covered all her body with an exception of her head, the same style like that of Black Heartress. A green, soft and fluffy, scarf wrapped around her neck. Her purple orbs that are her eyes with white power symbols shone. "I'm surprised you'd managed not to jab right at Planera, maybe your threat subsided." She mused.
Planera, or should we say Purple Heartress, sweat dropped at the green haired goddess who then gave her a wink before looking at the smaller goddess. "I-Is that true, Loweea?"
White Heartress, now named Loweea, frown as she snort. "It was, loud and clear from Leanmia. Even if I did, my anger wouldn't disappear anyway."
Planera winced as she made a weak smile before turning a look at the white haired goddess who's crossing her arms while eyes closed, in deep focus perhaps.
She tries to call her. "Lastana?"
Just as her name being called, Black Heartress (or Lastana) opened her eyes quickly as she darted her gaze to the Goddess of Planeptune. "Yes?"
"What were you thinking anyway?" Planera asked, curious.
Before Lastana could reply, she was stopped by a voluptuous woman responding to Planera. "Ah, maybe she's thinking about the two girls. You know, the Twin Blader? Apparently, she didn't want them to join but she was forced so she was contemplating about the children."
Angered not only by interruption but also wrong assumption, Lastana pouted at the green haired goddess. "That not, what I'm thinking about Leanmia."
Leanmia, the Goddess of Leanbox, made a small smile. "Oh? What was it?" She asked.
Planera watched Lastana sighed as she looked to the side.
"Lord says he's gonna come here."
That simple statement turned the atmosphere around to lowered down. Planera, Leanmia and Loweea wore a face of shock.
"W-W-Wait?!" The Goddess of Lowee stuttered badly. "When?!" She nearly shouted.
"First of all," Planera calmly said after recovering from her shock. "How did you know it?"
"Yes, that's the question." Leanmia nodded. Her small smile turned to a grimace.
"Ruby Heart said it." Lastana replied, before putting a finger on her chin. "I think he will arrive here by now."
Before anyone could say, a bright red light covered the room. The four goddesses closed their eyes and instinctively put their arms in front of their faces to block the light. The light slowly subsided... to reveal another person, opposite of their gender.
(BGM Stop)
LOCATION: Planeptune - Main Custody
TIME: 5:23 PM
The time was gradually turning now to dusk as Azure sat on the chair with his hands tied and covered in black metal with a hologram in front of it that shows finger prints. He is currently in the dark purple room where the metal door with no handle is at the far corner. A smooth table, made up of wood, in front of him with another chair on the opposite side of his.
Azure made a unamused look as his eyes narrowed at the person seating on the chair opposite of his side.
Nepgear gulped under his gaze, despite being the one chained down helpless, the aura of Azure is yet to dismissed thus making him intimidating. The Candidate of Planeptune swallowed all her nervousness as she tried to overcome her fidgetiness. "S-So, you're a CPU? Of what dimension, exactly?"
Azure stayed quiet for a few seconds before replying with a straight body position, his intimidating gaze changes to that of a neutral one. "Deltadimension was the name of my dimension."
"How did you get here?" Nepgear asked, getting a bit confidence.
"Uhh, honestly, I don't know." Azure made a nonchalant shrug before making a small smile. 'What the hell? It's not what I'm thinking?'
Nah ah ahh~
'... I forgot...'
"Goodness," Nepgear put a hand on her chest in surprise when she heard another voice. "Is it Author-san or Narrator-san?"
Azure then looked at the Candidate with a look that said 'did you just grow two heads?'. Nepgear noticed this and raised her hands in defense.
"Eh?! I-I'm just- uh... it's j-just..." She stammered badly. "I kinda got used a-around Onee-chan." She reasoned out.
Azure nodded and he looked up at the ceiling. There, a circular lens staring right at him. He stared at the lens before sighing as he returned his focus back to Nepgear.
LOCATION: Hotel - where the group stayed.
Eevee and Eliza could be seen resting and sleeping on their respective room while the other three people stayed in the living room.
"I hoped they're alright." Andrew sighed as he thought the two injured people with a worried expression.
Shade stared sadly at the floor. "First, it was Miss Shana, and now it's Mister Eevee and Miss Eliza."
Cameron made a sad look as he looked back each of his new friends. Now it just reminds him his own dimension where he carried on his own sufferings: alone and no one else. But then new people started appearing, maybe, just maybe... it'll be worth a shot for him to stay here longer.
"Hey," Cameron softly called out his two friends. "Let's not think negative here, okay? We can do this." Then he made a fist and a smirk. "We know we can."
Shade and Andrew looked st Cameron's eyes to see his unyielding determination: of acceptance of the transpired events. The boy, Shade, smiled warmly with an encouraging look while Andrew let out a small smile and a chuckle.
(Play BGM: Mega Dimension Neptunia V-II OST 19: Sa Ku Ra ~In Full Bloom~)
Mega Dimension Neptunia V-II OST 15: Decision)
"Guess you're right, my friend." Andrew complimented, as he raised his own fist. "We shall stand together."
"To one another." Shade said, now more confident. "We will work together." Then he raised his own fist.
Cameron looked at both of them with now a grin. "Let's show Gamindustri the fight we can unfold."
Then the three made a brofist.
Meanwhile, Eevee and Eliza, was still awake, heard them. Both smiled at the conversation.
Back at the custody where Azure was, he looked back and made a smirk.
LOCATION: Archlight Plane
"This form is more amusing than I thought." A petite woman said, looking amused.
She was wearing a white jacket with a shorts and a single white stocking on her right leg. She wore a white gloves and her hair is black and tied into a twintails completed with a blue necklace. She have a well-defined body of a lady-like.
"Say, is this form comfortable?" The woman smirked at the two new people as a golden book with a letter A symbol softly glowing. "Mister Mars, please stop staring."
There a few meters away from her are two opposite genders.
Mars growled angrily and blushed in embarrassment as he looked away while the blonde woman beside her glanced at the man with slight disgust in her eyes but she quickly put back her gaze in front of her.
"Tell us why we're here, whoever you are." The woman demanded an answer while looking around the calm atmosphere with those golden grass and glowing yellow clouds under the white sky.
"Ah, where are my manners?" The woman from afar giggled. "My name is Middonaito Shi, I am the person who sent you two here, Mara and Enyo."
Then the the woman looked straight at Mara and gave him a sharp gaze. "Or should I say, Vedrahkaal."
The name caught Mars and Enyo's attention quickly. The blonde woman, Enyo, managed to response quickly. "H-How did you know about Mars' name?"
"Oh?" Middonaito think as she put a finger on her chin and then she shrugged. "It's just my own mind, don't worry about it. Anyway, I'm going to bring you two, somewhere."
"What do you mean bring us somewhere?" Mars angrily growled as he gripped his axes and it slowly glowed red. "If you don't returned us to where we were..."
Middonaito rolled her eyes at the brown, scruffy haired young man. "I have no reasons for you two to return back to your dimension."
Enyo glared at her with a fierce look as her form glow green while Mars also gave Middonaito a bloody look.
"...return us to where we are..." Enyo snarked with cold and evil intent in her voice.
"...or we'll send you straight to hell!" Mars ended as he dashed towards Middonaito, holding his axes above him to cut the target in half.
Enyo turned into her Raven form and flew above behind Middonaito and dived straight at the back with her beak gleaming towards the blind spot.
And both attacks connected.
Suddenly, Mars sent Enyo's Raven form in the air as the latter was rolling and skidding on the rough grass as it let out a shrieked pain. "Enyo?!" Mars shouted in shock.
"Ooh," Mars heard a voice of a woman beside him. "A friendly fire, not good Vedrahkaal."
"Stop saying that name in front of my face!" Mars growled as he swung his axe to the side but no entity made its contact.
"I'm sorry, but I will tell you why on the way Mars and Enyo." Mars looked back in the front to see Middonaito holding Enyo's unconscious form. Suddenly the man felt guilty at what he did at Enyo and he shook his head. 'I'll apologize later after she woke up.'
"Please, don't cause ruckus in the place I'm going to put you two." Middonaito said as she stopped in front of Mars, with her eyes serious. "If you will listen, then in time, I will return you two back to where you two belong."
Mars stared at the woman with a doubt before sighing in acceptance. "Fine, I hope this trip was quick."
"Then please, don't struggle." She smiled and suddenly threw Enyo in the air. Mars instinctively jumped to catch the blonde woman and started to fall down...
(BGM Stop)
DIMENSION: Ultimension
...but he never felt the ground. Looking below, Mars saw a city he won't forget.
Lastation, the Land of Black Regality.
However, one thing he noticed.
"Oh no." Mars said as the gravity kicked and he turned his body, while holding the still unconscious Enyo around his arms, towards the Basilicom.
LOCATION: Planeptune Luberg's Hospital
TIME: 7:51 PM
The sound of a peculiar room, where a single occupant was sleeping, except for a quiet breathing coming from the girl. Her face was contorted to a very peaceful one. She looks like a young girl without any trouble. A window on the wall showed the cloudless, with few stars twinkling here and there, sky.
Just a several hours ago, before she went to slumber, a doctor came inside her room. Shana was delighted to know that she will be back to normal just a few more days. All her fatal and not-so fatal wounds are healed, the only things that she needed to worry is the small fractures that had yet to repair entirely.
Outside of the room, Ganache was looking inside, staring at the sleeping young woman. Of course it wasn't his intention to stalk to young woman so a few seconds stare is enough as he looked away, his eyes trying to find something that could attract his attention. He pondered something in his head as he pulled out a device with a small button with a symbol of Lastation in it.
He pressed the button as the hologram popped in front of his face. He clicked on the empty screen randomly, or at least that's what we thought. Then several details started to appear one by one. He swiped away the unimportant details as something caught his eyes: A call.
Curious, he pressed the 'Receive' line. After it, an image of a woman popped in the screen.
"Hi honey!" The woman greeted Ganache with a sweet tone and happy expression. "Will you come home here?" Her voice filled with optimistic and hope, something akin to that exciting person waiting for something.
The brown haired Director sighed sadly as he carried a weak smile, his mood was going high when he immediately see her but that mood went down at the words he was about to say. "I... I'm sorry my love, you see, Lady Black Heartress decided to give me a project about this new visitors that came from another dimension."
"I see," The woman's voice was now quiet, her tone was sad despite her face trying to be cheerful. "It's been two days since you'd visited here, it's getting lonely." She admitted.
Ganache made a sad smile as he replied, "Don't worry my dear, I'll be with you soon after this. I will treasure it when I get back there. Okay?"
"Okay..."
"Try not to get sad, or else I won't give you a mango!" Ganache made a smirk as he winked.
"M-Mango?!" Suddenly the woman became very happy and energetic. "Okay! Okay! I'm smiling! Here!" She tried to show him her biggest smile she could mustered. The cute act melt Ganache's heart to an extent of abandoning the job and instead go to where his wife was.
"Be sure to wait for me, my dear."
"You got it, honey! I love you! Nighty night!"
The call hanged up just as it came. Ganache's happy expression is visibly noticeable as he pressed the button of the device and the holograms disappeared. After that, he put it back to his pocket.
"Oh, it's you Ganache," The Director of Lastation's Defense tensed slightly as he turned around quickly. He sighed in relief to see the person.
"I'm sorry if I scared you, unintentionally." Histoire apologized as she held her tome in her hands. The blonde little girl looked with Ganache, but the man cannot be fooled by such appearance, despite having a now new body, he can still see the mature thinking of the Oracle of Planeptune.
Ganache put a hand behind his head and chuckled nervously. "It was nothing actually." Then it clicked to him. He immediately straightened his body and bend forward his upper body. "Greetings, Lady Histoire."
"Just call me Histoire, we've greeted many times without working hours." The Oracle giggled at Ganache's respective behavior.
The Director straightened back his body as he relaxed. "Forced of habit, Histoire." Then he asked. "So, why are you here, if I may ask kindly?
"I was watching the viral news about the boy from the competition," Histoire started. "I was about to call for Neptune but Magic had told me not to worry about it. Well, since all the work are done. I visited here for the said patient." She finished, before glancing at the door beside Ganache.
Understanding what she meant, Ganache stepped aside as Histoire thanked him. She opened the door slowly and quietly as to not make too much noise and entered the room with the door closing behind.
The Oracle of Planeptune scanned the room first before walking towards the sleeping beauty. She watched as the young woman heaves in and out the air before placing a hand to her forehead.
'I'm sorry Miss Sheavenby for invading your personal mind,' Histoire made a sympathy look. 'But if you're really the person that Blanc was looking for, then I had to be made sure.'
And then Histoire's eyes glowed softly as well as her vision turning white.
DIMENSION: (Unknown)
LOCATION: (Unknown)
TIME: (Unknown)
(Play BGM: Light Music - soft, uplifting, work, focus)
"Ah she's such a cute little baby, isn't she?" A beautiful woman with a wavy white hair and a pair of crystal blue eyes appeared to Histoire's vision. Then another person appeared beside the woman.
It was a tall man with a black spiky hair that reached down his shoulders. He wore a sweet smile and a pair of black but happy eyes. "Yes she is, my S."
That's all what Histoire could see in her eyes.
The woman looked at Histoire as her pair of small arms trying to reach out for the woman but with vain. The woman quickly understand what she meant, she only giggled as she placed a hand on Histoire's head which she only let her grabbed her fingers by the baby's tiny hands.
"How long since my sister left, A?" The woman, S, glanced at the man beside her before focusing back at Histoire.
The man looked confused before smiling back. "Ah, little F, cannot be forgotten."
"Is that a pun?"
"Nah, I'm just kidding. I believed she's still wandering around the city of Redisheds and Voidious." The man suggested.
"Goodness," The tone of the woman was noticeable, it was concern and with slight fear. "Shouldn't be that she's the one taking care of little Shana's nation?"
The man shrugged, "I don't know. T is always nowhere, meanwhile N is staying at Earthenious as of now. I don't know where K and Q are but I think they are in Redisheds, probably dating."
"Hmm," S nodded, still focusing at little Histoire who's happily playing with her fingers. "Where do you think is O?"
"Oh him?" A made a thoughtful look before replying back. "I think he's with the Chaoserns."
"I see."
That was all Histoire see before her vision turning white again. After a few more seconds, the scene changes into a new one.
She was inside of some sort of a living room. The room was cozy and mostly covered in red and black decorations with a weird symbol on the wall.
This time, unlike to the two persons she saw before, this one she can see clearly.
The handsome man had a pale skin with a fearsome look standing tall in front of her. His black hair with red bangs covering his left face. He wore a foreign outfit that fit to be looked like a prince because of the noticeable things that Histoire can identified: A red curved horn-like crown with a floating red eye on top of the young man's head. Although the Tome can tell that the young man had a very strong influence, she wasn't sure.
"Shana, where have you been?" He asked, his tone lacked of lively sound. He stared at her with those dull red eyes, as if he was bored to her existence. His lips turned to grimace, he look so unamused.
Histoire shyly looked to the side as she tried to reply... But she couldn't hear the words she's saying. Her lips are moving but no sounds came.
However, the young man nodded in 'confirmation'. "I see, please don't get for far too long."
Then after that, she saw the young man smiled before her vision turning white. After a few more seconds, another scene appeared.
(BGM Stop)
(Play BGM: Kindred's Humming Song)
She was now... in Lowee. She was seating on a smooth wooden bench with a lamp post beside the bench, illuminating the small area as snow continued to fall.
"Mina?" Histoire said, she can now hear herself saying something.
She looked to her side to see Mina Nishizawa looking back at her, the Oracle of Lowee wore a happy expression. It is noticeable when she looked at Histoire.
"Yes, Shana?" Mina asked, smiling gently.
"I... have to confess something..." Histoire said, biting her lip as her nervousness increased gradually. What she was about to say could be hurtful, and worst, painful for both of them.
Confused and curious, Mina's smile dropped as she asked. "What was it?"
Histoire slowly gathered her wits together to calm her wrecking nervousness at what she was about to say. "I am... I am...-"
DEAD
Then a pair of red eyes appeared as it glared at Histoire. She can see it, those pair of red eyes showed her how diabolic and evil those are. A scene played with uncountable corpses laid down around the said thing before throwing something, a pitchfork to be exact, at her.
DIMENSION: Ultimension
LOCATION: Planeptube Luberg's Hospital
TIME: 8:02 PM
Histoire gasped out as she let go of her hand on the still sleeping woman.
The Planeptune's Oracle's azure eyes shrank as her eyes widened in shock. She started to break into a cold sweat as her whole being shake, the unfathomable fear crawling to her being.
Similar to a dimension scale chaos that happened long time ago…
She then glanced at the young woman. 'What on Gamindustri did this child experienced?'
The only thing she can do was to keep this horrifying secret, for herself. She already saw many terrible things and many of those are totally not something you would know.
But the memories she gathered from the woman proven to be far incomparable than the evil thing she ever knew.
(BGM Stop)
Enyo and Mars (Vedrahkaal) were Bluebottlejr's submitted OCs.
If some of you wanted to submit an OC, I will think about it. Because I have many OCs in mind for this competition that wouldn't pressured me to look back and forth and analyze because I have it already in mind.
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