Chapter 10; Awakening of Xyn! The Four Felons return, 10 days to Destruction!?
The group returns to the Planeptune basilicom unexpecting the revival of the Deity of Sin and the Awakening of the Demoness of Shadows.
"So it was even with the Four Felon… both sides were the keys to bringing both powerful beings out…" Adam says
"And we all walked right into it also… I should have noticed sooner…" Alex says
"What's done is done! We gotta destroy that Demon before it spreads chaos all over the world!" Selena shouts out
"... well she does have a point and I would bet Jeff would have said that." James says
"You bet I would! I am not gonna let some creature of demons destroy our homes!" Jeff shouts out "Right now we gotta go and defeat her before everything is turned to chaos, so whose with me?" They all agree and return to the Gamindustri Graveyard and follow the path to the center of the clouds are at with storms rumbling. They get to the spot and could see a large crystal with a person inside it
"Is that her? Inside the crystal?" Tempest asks
"Yea that is… the dark feeling is really strong so it has to be." Isaac says and they see the crystal starting to break apart and the eyes open and it shatters revealing a teenage like girl floating down to the ground as shadow essence forms a shadowy dress on her with her red eyes glowing, her black hair, and a black shadowy aura appears around her as she spawns a scythe
"Spread… darkness…" Xyn says and grips the scythe and charges at the group and everyone jumped away and Isaac has his barrier to rebound her attack and jumps back dodging her horizontal attack and he strikes her back though she uses powerful force to push him back and she clashes with Alex's queen knight and she slices the knight causing Alex pain "Shadows… come forth…" she opens portals from the floor and small shadowy creatures come out and the group fights off the creatures
"Sky Dragon's Wing Attack!" Tempest swings her arms causing wind blades to slice them up
"Fire Dragon's Roar!" Selena blows a large stream of fire getting a large group of shadows disintegrated and she gets hit by a dark energy ball from Xyn which Jeff tosses a large fire ball at her and Xyn uses her power to force it to vanish and that gives Isaac the chance to fire a bomb arrow at her back which causes the fire ball to explode
"Foolish mortals… you shall feel my wrath…" Xyn says and a shadow pulse spreads around her pushing all of them away, although Jeff who is carried by Ruby flies up and straight towards her
"Dragon Slayer's Secret Art; Crimson Lotus Phoenix Blade!" engulfed in flames he charges straight forward smash straight into her and crashes into the ground with sheer force and created a crater in the ground
"Is she down?" Selena asks as Jeff gets up and looks at her and smiles
"Yea, it's finally over." he says and she tackle hugs him
"Yea that totally looks like they are a couple." the three guys say in their thoughts seeing the two
"I can't fall… must… regenerate…" the Demoness says and her body floats in the air and turns into black smoke and they see the clouds stop spinning for a moment until it spins in the other direction and swirls downward to her
"What the heck is happening to her?" Mark asks
"Is it not over yet?" Adam asks
"That is gonna change soon! Neos attack!" Seth commands and he charges and goes through the smoke not able to land a physical blow "What? Did it not make contact?"
"Seth, I felt that she is trying to restore her power… it is impossible to make any physical or special contact with her." Neos explains as she is now surrounded by a crystal once again and recovering her wounds "it is best that we feel for another plan of action." as they decide that the ground suddenly starts causing a huge tremor
"Kyaaaaaa! What's going on?!" Selena asks scared as Jeff holds her
"it doesn't seem like Xyn… is it the Deity of Sin?" Jeff asks
"No time to chat, let us get back to Planeptune and find out what is going on." Kaylin says and everyone hurries and get to the Basilicom and learn that the Deity of Sin wasn't destroyed but fused into the Graveyard, and also the Four Felon have been revived one in nation and demand all citizens to put their belief in the Deity of Sin Arfoire or they will be killed with a ten day limit. "Ten days… will that be enough to make plans."
"We can get some time to prepare, I have something I gotta do." Isaac says
"Yea, same here. I have gotten something that is needed." James says and all the guys go their own ways
So the first day they go through a whole day of regular stuff though Jeff and Selena are having some time together
"It's been so long, yet we have no clue about where Igniaus is at…" Selena says
"Yea, but long ago I met with his spirit before… though he would tell me something someday." Jeff explains
"Strange, I wonder what he wants to tell you…" Selena says
"Our only objective is to get ready to fight the Four Felon and rid them out of the nations before things get worse." Jeff says and Selena nods agreeing though Neptune was still watching them from the Basilicom seeing with binoculars seeing them chat
"Now that I think about, how are you doing with the goddess of Planeptune? You are her protector." Selena says
"Neptune? Well she was interesting at first… although the way she spurts out strange comments makes me question about her." he explains
"Well I think she's cute. Are you both dating?" she asks
"What?! No! The guys asked me if you and I were dating!" he tells her and she blushes "I wasn't sure if you'd…"
"Uh well… I wasn't expecting it really, but I feel like you are asking me to…" Selena says blushing deeply "but honestly I wouldn't mind for us to be a couple."
"Geez Selena, you sometimes know ways to embarrass me." Jeff says blushing "but it makes me feel ok with it, but let's go out once all this madness is over."
"Ok, that sounds like a plan. Though I would feel bad for leaving Neptune out, she seemed to care a lot about you." Selena says
"Maybe, though her comments just make the situation awkward…" Jeff says
"Well I can talk with her a bit if you want." Selena says and he shrugs
The second and third day wasn't much but James was told by Noire that someone from the prison section escaped which is the female scientist that planned the project for the Saints Serum
"Look James, I should have told you before but it escaped my mind so I forgot… please don't be mad…" Noire tells him as he is working on something
"I'm not mad, I am just worried that she might do something horrible. It also explains why Vexon was smiling before, he must have broke her out before I finished him off." James says getting armor parts together
"What are you even doing?" she asks him
"I am making power armor from that factory we shut down, I am gonna say that it's not ready to be used since I am barely in the middle of working what it can do once I put it on. I can store it in the gauntlet and bring it out and automatically attach onto me." James explains "I lost one fight, but I won't lose to the Four Felon."
Up to day 6 Isaac and Mark visit Lowee with Isaac going into the forest and seeing if he can find the legendary Sword of Sealing Darkness
"Dammit, if only I know where it is…" Isaac says to himself while his brother is at the Basilicom helping out Alex and Seth with their decks specialized to fight against Xyn "hmm… I found some torches… and the flames are being blown… wait… could it… no, it can't be that easy." he picks up a torch and gets it lit up and follows the small pieces of flame and end up in a different area completely and finds a sword inside a pedestal "Is that it? The blade I heard so much about?" He walks up to it and could see the shiny blade with the blue handle and grips the hilt of the sword and starts pulling it out which he can feel it slowly loosening up and finally pulls it out and then turns it up and raises it high which shines with a bright light "This is the one, well I better head back before they get worried."
Back at the Basilicom Alex has finished his deck set up for the battle coming, while Seth is looking at his new card still unsure why he has strange feelings from it. Unbeknownst to him that the spirit of the card has appeared for a moment and Alex looked at his brother and got spooked for a moment
"Something wrong bro?" Seth asks him
"Uh well I thought I saw something strange…" Seth and Mark looked confused and looked to see what he was talking about
"I don't see anything…" Mark says
"Yea, you must be a bit tired and-" Seth stopped for a moment realizing he saw a spirit for a moment and looked again to see there was nothing "strange… was I seeing things before?" at that moment Isaac walks into the room
"Dude where have you been? And… what in the heck is that?! Is that a new sword or…" Alex asks him and notices the shape of the blade and the hilt "wait that isn't no ordinary sword…"
"My goodness you actually found it?"Mina asks walking into the room "I have heard rumors about it inside of Lowee's deep forest areas. And here you are holding it in your hands, and since it belongs to you we will give you this." she gives him a holster that has interesting designs and shethes his new sword and straps it on him "use it with care, it is a powerful sword that banishes evil. With it we may be able to bring peace to the world."
"We are preparing ourselves for the most ultimate battle ever, the girls are searching for the Ancient CPU that had fought against the Deity of Sin." Alex says
"Lets hope they find her and learn how we can stop her as well as the Demoness of Shadows." Mark says
Days pass to the eighth day and the girls return to explain they have learned of a way to stop the Deity of Sin for good, so Histoire suggested them to relax before the big fights. So they get the chance to relax in the hot springs and separate the guys and girls
"Mmm this is so good, I've had such a hard day of working myself out and no time for relaxing!" Selena says feeling the water
"Yea, it really brings warmth to then skin." Tempest says next to her
"So uh how did you and Jeff meet?" Noire asks
"Well it was years ago while Igniaus was still teaching him and I was being chased by an ancient dragon that I accidentally disturbed and Igniaus got rid of it. So he taught both of us to have Dragon Slayer Magic, and sometimes always teased Jeff of him trying to do a roar like this." Selena explains and breathes out a small flame
"Then how did you get separated? Wouldn't he have been with you years ago?" Noire asks "he did ask all CPUs if we saw his father that raised him."
"Honestly, I wish I knew… for some reason when I woke up I could not find Jeff nor Igniaus anywhere…" she tells her "as time passed I searched all around the nations and found no trace, I heard there was action going on somewhere before from some people but when I got there it was already to late…"
On the other side the guys or more likely the younger brothers could hear the conversation
"So that is how she and bro met…" Adam says
"Kinda strange huh? You know your brother so well but he never once told you about that girl." Seth says
"He never told my either! I was told that he met this girl once and nearly forgotten her, though he never went further than that." Ruby says
"Speaking of… why isn't he and the others in here?" Mark asks
"I was told Histoire needed to talk to them for a bit." Noble says
In the meeting room the Four Protectors were there with Histoire as well as Silvia
"Thank you for arriving to this meeting, I wish I could tell you everything but I don't want to cause panic… first off my actual name is Silvia, I used Titania for an alias. I have a request for all of you for the future." she tells them
"What is this request you ask of us?" James asks
"I can only give you small details for the smallest moment… but this is for future emergencies currently… I once had a sister who was always glad and happy to be with me, but things kinda changed when he was around." Silvia explains "Now I want the Four of you to promise never to reveal this to any of the CPUs or anyone else. It might be ok for those that are given the Fairy mark. I have you tasked to go to an island located a far distance, this may be difficult at first but I can not do anything. Until the time is right I will alert you when you are needed."
"Whatever the problem, we will handle it!" Jeff says
"Why do you not want us to tell the goddesses or the others?" Isaac asks
"This task is far to difficult for them to handle, they wouldn't last a minute even with a group that large." Silvia explains "I will explain more when the time has come."
"Now you may go and relax with the rest of the group for tomorrow." Histoire explains and they leave the room
"I wonder if they will be able to reseal my sister, she has caused so much problems for us before…" Silvia says
"Have faith in our Protectors, I am sure they will be able to restore the seal on your sister." Histoire says
"Yes, I know I may put them at risk to fight powerful foes but they must succeed in this mission that may take a whole year for them." Silvia says "but they must also be careful if he is around on the island."
Ok so the last part is gonna be for a separate story in the future, just not now cause I need to do some planning for it later. Anyway, with the information given to the group to have strong desires stronger than the Deity of Sin then peace will be returned to the world. Also will the guys be able to destroy the Demoness of Shadows? Find out in the final chapter!