Chapter 10 - Mooah and Deo!
(AN: Mooah is 'Ice' in Enochian, and Deo is 'Selfish' in Enochian.)
(AN 2: In Darksiders, War is capable of using other ranged weapons for his own usage and to bring pain towards his enemies, as such, War has the ability to bend any ranged weapons to his will.)
The Red Rider, Sayaka, and Nagisa approached a frozen door at a chapel located at the far end of the town.
"So...this is it. The third fragment up front...one step closer it will be." Sayaka nodded.
War took out his Chaoseater, equipped it with Hellfire enhancement, immolated himself with an aura of intense Hellfire, and charged through the front door with a sweeping slash.
"So...you dare to barge into our domain to acquire the Goddess Fragments..."
Upon stepping in after the icy door shattered through, the trio could see two rag-doll figures descending from the chapel's ceiling. The left ragdoll had a grimace upon its face, big blue eyes, a elf-like cap with two 'tails sticking out, a black cloak that surrounded its entire torso and limbs, a icicle necklace, and a dark blue scarf around its neck.
The right ragdoll had loads of ornaments surrounding her body - pink frills, streams of red, white, and pink ribbons, rubies, and a broken bow.
"The ornaments that surrounded that familiar...they must be what Madoka usually wore in her magical girl and goddess outfit!" Sayaka frowned.
"More like her representation..." War frowned.
"Normomi nostoah as ol loncho ds pon ol allied Lin..." ("So it was you all who destroyed my allied Voids" in Enochian) said the right ragdoll. "Ol monasci oi Deo! Od olano gemeganza assure ol oi mad bodies gegmeganza ol ollor drilpi decoration, niis ol g-chis-ge loncho in niis oiad taking!" ("And I will assure you that your bodies will make a great decoration, for you are all mine for the taking!" in Enochian.)
"Olani vnig ipamis waste ol olani..." (I need not waste my time...) the left ragdoll followed with a firm, but cold voice. "Ol monasci oi Mooah!" (My name is Ice!)
"Nidali shock ol ollog..." War brandished his Chaoseater. (No shock to me in Enochian)
"Why would you trust this feline creature? You know that no good will ever come from trusting the damnation!" Selfishness, Deo's forst form, smirked.
"Or you could just cut the redundancy and give us what we want...You know you have no match for us." War frowned.
"No! Those fragments are mine! Mine, mine, mine, mine, mine!" Selfishness stuck out her tongue.
"Why do you trust Kyubey? You do know that if it weren't for Kyubey, our Lord would not have to descend into such a pit of despair and confined Madoka into such a cage where she will never be free. You might as well leave, less we unleash our wrath upon you; no good can come from trusting the deceitful creature..." Cold-heartedness, Mooah's first form, spoke calmly.
"Hey! Who do you call someone deceitful?" Kyubey shot back.
"Aren't you the persistent one, Kyubey? How do you defend yourself against the fact that you attempt to lure out Ultimate Madoka to steal her powers and used the power of Hope for you and your incubators' gain? The fact that you placed a near-dead Homura in the Isolation Field for the sole purpose of luring Godoka out says it all. Need I say more?" Cold-heartedness explained.
Kyubey's eyes widened and then burrowed into a defiant frown. "That was then! This is now! Homucifer had screwed me up so bad, how much do you think I would even temper a human's emotion anymore?"
"Ohohoho...so you have become thick-skinned now that you have allies backing you up, eh? Let me tell you...none of you here will get the fragment today!" Selfishness shot back.
"We only serve Homucifer to protect the fragments belonging to Godoka, in the event that anyone dares to use this powers for any dangerous purposes...We protect the fragments, the powers, from the forces that dared oppose us, question us, and from possible strong people like you all. Only we can bear those fragments, none of you all will!" Cold-heartedness frowned, only to blasted with a solid slam on its kisser with War's scythe!
"And allow the Void to terrorize the world? We would not allow it..." War frowned.
"Have you even felt what is it like to love? I doubt you would; you are so engrossed with your job, your own honor, or whathaveyou! Your own duties will have failed to see Homucifer's desires!" Selfishness shot out.
"Her desire to end her suffering? Her desire to be with Madoka? Do you think we would not know?" War grunted as he dashed in front of a shocked Selfishness, punched it, and sent it flying over towards a wall, knocking it out on the process.
"What?" Sayaka and Nagisa wondered.
"What blasphemy are you talking about? Don't you know that Homucifer had already achieved her dream?" Cold-heartedness frowned. "For her heart to be encased in the darkest pits of despair and love only to be inebriated by the darkness that grasped her from within; all our Lord wants was no more than the warmth of her love - to melt her once stone-cold heart. That I can understand...and will support my Lord till the End of Days."
"Really? Is that why every one of you existed? Is that why the Voids, created due to the absence of Hope and Light created by Godoka, existed in the first place?" War replied firmly. "Familiars are spirits tied to the owners. It doesn't take a dense person to know that your existence proved something - Homucifer was not proud of her own creation of this world."
"No...Homucifer is perfectly satisfied!" Cold-heartedness denied. "For the Voids to live...you must be out of your mind to suggest such treacherous lies!"
"Keep denying yourself that. Homcuifer is still a human nonetheless; a human turned devil due to the amount of overwhelming grief and sorrow that plunged her towards despair and beyond. I at first thought her actions were cowardly, but I realised that now...her soul needs release from the pain that she had suffered." War replied.
Cold-heartedness's eyes glowed blue as she shot out several icicle blades, "You petulant liar...Without us to assist her, there will be no Homucifer!"
"She doesn't need you...she just needs release from the sorrows she had been." The Red Rider encased himself with Stoneskin, charged towards a surprised Cold-heartedness, and knocked her out the same way he did to Selfishness - a Tremor Gauntlet smash on Cold-heartedness's face.
"But I thought she became the Devil because..." Sayaka shook her head.
"I have no rights to judge the emotional capacity that is romantic love between humans; I myself understand that her method is just a way to cope with grief. Is it a controversial one? Yes...but it's still a grief-coping way nonetheless. She might have just chosen poorly her grief consumed her before her ascension to Homucifer." War explained.
"But she could have adopted my method; seeing someone happy, makes me happy! You know, like what I did to let Kyousuke go!" Sayaka shot back, while Nagisa nodded along.
"Homura is not you, and you are not Homura. How can you be so certain that she will be able to do what you have done to cure your sorrows? Every one of us have ways to deal with grief, you cannot expect anyone to go the right way all the time; it's just not possible." War replied firmly.
Sayaka looked back and lowered her head.
"You must have felt that way because you felt that your friend betrayed you, right? That she went against her own beliefs and became the monster she had fought against, am I right?" War frowned.
Sayaka nodded; for there was nothing she could do to deny the Nephilim.
War's eyes glowed white. "Do not let that that hurt cloud your better sense of judgement!"
Sayaka and Nagisa's eyes widened.
"I have been betrayed by the ones whom I have trusted and served for millions of years...but I was too caught up with that and initially judged Homucifer's actions as cowardly. However, Sayaka, you could have been a lot worse!" War bellowed.
He continued. "You would have died before Volvina, or even die under the Voids that would terrorize the Balance should it spread too far! You are a warrior of Justice, Sayaka; you must never EVER let those assumptions let in your way of your correct sense of judgement!"
Sayaka mused on. How stubborn she was at thinking that Homura had betrayed her...
War was right, under ANY circumstances; she would have done the same as Homura - succumbing to despair.
In fact, she did, didn't she? After Kyousuke left her because he called her 'monster', didn't Sayaka herself became a negative entity she had been fighting against all along? The negative entity that was called - 'Oktavia'?
It was only after she let Kyousuke go, did she have the strength to live on as Godoka's most trusted sidekick.
Before then, she did not have the strength to cope with despair and grief.
Sayaka's mind clicked...
Homura was suffering the same way that Sayaka did. It just so happened that instead of becoming just another negative entity a la Oktavia, she became a goddess of selfish love called Homucifer
"Homucifer has her ways to deal with despair, just like you, Nagisa, and every one of us...We choose our own paths to take, it just so happened that Homura choose poorly. That is why we are here - to settle the score straight and to provide her with the alternative. We will provide her with the eternal rest she so desire and for that we need Godoka." War replied firmly.
Sayaka sighed and simpered after musing for a moment.
"War...thanks."
War tilted his head slightly, wondering why.
"You know what? I just realised that Homura is suffering the same crap as I did before. I just let the thought that Homucifer denied my best friend's dream - of providing Hope to the world - clouded my ways of judgement. Homura is indeed suffering and that's why Godoka wanted to free her from the suffering she has been, but her despair just so happen to temporary overpower the Entity of Hope so now we are stuck in Homucifer's creation." Sayaka simpered.
She continued, "I shouldn't just sit around and think that she should pay for what she had done...No...As Godoka's trusted aides, Nagisa and I will free Homucifer from the suffering that we once were in! Sorrow and grief is the culprit, and they shall taste justice by our blade so that we can free Homura!"
War nodded firmly. "That is what I would see from the human ascended to the embodiment of Justice..."
However, the trio heard squelchy sounds from the back-end of the chapel; the Void pool that had accumulated in the Chapel crawled out of the ground as a pool of black goo with star-like patterns upon its gooey body. Vines suddenly snatched up both awakening Cold-heartedness and Selfishness, who convulsed in horror.
"What is this? H...How can it be that the Void still lives?" Selfishness shot out.
"This can't be possible...the Void still lives...this is not the way I have to go!" Cold-heartedness struggled.
"We would have to destroy you, and the Voids...We might as well rid two birds with one stone!" Sayaka frowned. "Get choked, ya arses!"
"You...You all who still believed Kyubey's words...you will soon regret your own doings!" both Selfishness and Cold-heartedness shot back.
War gave a short grunt and took out his Chaoseater, ready to fight the Void-possessed familiars.
Both Selfishness and Cold-heartedness emerged out of the pool of Void as a large jester-like monster and an ice phoenix with a pair of dark blue majestic wings.
The jester-like monster had two cross-eyes with the usual items of pink frills, streams of red, white, and pink ribbons, rubies, and a broken bow surrounding her purple aura.
The ice phoenix had a huge ice crown upon its head, a pair of majestic wings with metallic blades clustered as feathers, huge blades upon the wings' edges, and giant metallic claws imbued with dark magic. Its breast was filled with feathers made out of dragon-like scales that spread out wide and proud and four dark sapphires decorating in a cross formation in its chest. Its back also had a halo in the shape of devil flames.
"We will feast upon your despair...you all will end in a field of emptiness; a wasteland filled with your corpses!" Mooah screeched.
"Mine, mine, mine, mine, MINE! Everyone of you belongs to me, AND ME ONLY! I will strewn your corpses and make you all my little puppets for my next puppet shows! HAHAHAHAHA!" Deo screamed as she swept the floor n front of her and summoned six horned Void Generals - buffed up and heavy armored skeleton generals with crimson flesh and wielding huge axes or halberds. The jester's shoulders summoned portals that called forth the help of tenVoid Archers - Void Demons that have gold-plated light armors with tainted gold helmets and wielding Void Bows.
Mooah destroyed the chapel's roof with her icy blast from her mouth and flew towards the sky, while Deo commanded her 'Void Puppets' to attack.
"Nagisa and I will take the archers!" Sayaka shot out.
While Kyubey hid towards a corner, War charged towards the Void Generals, brandished his Choaseater, and unleashed a several quick yet sweeping slashes towards the armored brutes.
One of the brutes attempted to deliver a massive cleave towards the Red Rider, but War managed to utilize his prosthetic arm to synchronise his block and countered the brutes with a one-two slash that blow them back several strides from the Red Rider.
The Red Rider then followed up with a massive swing, unleashed an uppercut that released a towering shockwave to sent them high up mid-air, and let loose with several swinging slashes that broke through most of their armor pieces in no time flat thanks to the Chaoseater's heavy hits.
Deo unleashed several Void Arrows from its reconstructed bow that surrounded her just minutes ago while Mooah screeched and rained down numerous metallic fan blades from its wings.
The Red Rider roared as he unleashed Affliction upon the field. Six long toxic serpents snaked through, plagued and distracted the Void Generals, and managed to consumed most of the blades and arrows. The Red Rider smashed both his Tremor Gauntlet and his prosthetic gauntlet on the chapel's ground, creating several towers of rock and concrete towers that shattered the remaining projectiles apart.
Mooah attempted a dive bomb while covering itself with a glowing purple Void aura, but a large Tremor Gauntlet burst through the rock covering as the Void Phoenix fast approached it. War emerged out of the rock covering, leapt forth towards Mooah's body, and plunged his Chaoseater deep through Mooah's metallic feathered body.
While Mooah attempted to get rid of War upon its back in agony, both Nagisa and Sayaka attempted to push through five on each side of the second floor's corridor.
Sayaka managed to deflect most of the arrows with her Hydro Balisong, while Nagisa deflected her fair share by transforming into Bebe - a doll-like dessert witch with long black sleeves with a red sweet wrapper as her head - took out her trumpet and summon Sebastian to deflect the arrows through sheer force alone. Sebastian was a shadow creature filled with many animal heads attaching to one big shadow core.
Bebe managed to get ahead of Sebastian, placed her lips in the trumpet's mouthpiece, and unleashed streams of bubbles that blasted the archers at high velocities.
Sayaka summoned ten cutlasses by her side, imbued them with highly pressurized arcane water, and commanded them to slice through the barrages of arrows that the Void Archers from her side were unleashing.
Deo gave off a screech as it used both of her hands, flicked her fingers, and creating a big shockwaves that threatened to blow both Nagisa and Sayaka away. However, Sayaka managed to retract her cutlasses back in time and twirled them around in a buzzsaw shield, effectively stalling the shockwave. Sayaka''s aura then glowed intensely as the buzzsaw shield's speed intensified, until the blade bodies came to a blur , and she threw it like a razor blade. The boomerang sliced through the Void Archers' weak armor, shattered their weapons, and sliced their bodies into half.
Nagisa summoned another Sebastian to take the shockwave and the shadow creature managed to pop out just in time to take the full impact, but the shockwave's massive force meant that it pushed the shadow monster several strides behind Nagisa and fell down.
War wasted no time in imbuing himself with Hellfire and plunged his flame-imbued Chaoseater deep into Mooah's flesh, causing the Phoenix to spit out its energy beam prematurely as the unfocused energy destroyed the chapel's several icicle structure, stalactite formations, and even some holding structures.
Thanks to Bebe's small structure, Nagisa's alternate form managed to scurry past the skeletal archers while the falling projectiles smashed the clueless enemies.
Sayaka dispersed her cutlasses and unleashed several streams of water towers. The water towers managed to destroy most of the projectiles heading Sayaka's but several debris managed to strike her chest and sent her flying. The magical girl of justice managed to imbued her soles with highly pressurized water, landed herself on the wall on both feet, called forth her cutlasses, leapt towards Deo's face, spun her body into a wheel at high speed with the cutlasses forming a large slash arc, and sliced every sinews upon the Familiar of Selfishness's face.
War continuously bashed Mooah's skull, grabbed the Chaoseater's hilt, delivered a slice across the phoenix's top body, plunged it back into Mooah's body, and unleashed Blade Geyser that sent the phoenix crashing towards the giant jester-like Deo.
Deo was sent crashing far behind the chapel, while the Red Rider landed in the ground and proceeded to deliver two sweeping slash, several cross slash, a swift uppercut, a massive flipsaw, and powerful charged stab upon Mooah's chest. The Red Rider the launched a massive charged punch on the Chaoseater's hilt as the blade that was halfway deep in the phoenix's chest impaled deeper within.
Moah screeched in pain as it unleashed a blast of darkness upon the chapel. War managed to stand his ground while he shielded his eyes, but both Sayaka and Bebe would have blown off had they not clung onto one of the stairs' handrails.
The Red Rider was just about to launch his Abyssal Chain onto Mooah when he was met with a swift smack by one of Deo's large palms.
"WAR!" Sayaka screamed.
The Red Rider gritted her teeth as he slammed his Tremor Gauntlet upon the palm, grounded both of his feet on the ground, cancelled the momentum thanks to his super strength channelled upon his legs, unleashed a massive punch on the palm, and sent it flying back towards the Familiar of Selfishness.
Deo was caught off guard by the swift counterattack; the deflected palm slammed upon its giant jester forehead as its aura that kept its items floating exploded. The broken parts of the bow came flying and landed in front of War.
"T...That is Godoka-sama's bow! Only those filled with conviction at protecting the universe itself can utilize this bow - Godoka used this because she wanted to be the embodiment of Hope throughout the universe where magical girl exists!" Nagisa shot out.
War frowned as he picked up the bow parts without hesitation. The bow parts, freed from Homucifer's restraining magic that were imbued upon Deo's body, glowed intensely as they reconstructed themselves into a long bow with pin flames of passion that resided upon both ends of the bow. As if reacting to War's power of Chaos and his symbolism of honor, the bow landed on the Red Rider as he clenched it with his prosthetic arm.
A gentle, feminine voice rang inside the Red Rider's ears, "Use me...Red Rider. I can sense the honor - to preserve the Balance in Humanity - deep inside your savage soul...so I will be of your service, for now. Please, use me well!"
War knew exactly what to do; he had used this trick several times when acquiring several weapons that were not his to begin with. During his time on the post-apocalyptic Earth to prove his innocence, the Red Rider had used this method whenever he accquired a weapon lie the Angels' Salvation Cannons, the Angels' Salvation Javelins, the Demons' Fracture Cannons, or the Angels' Redemption Cannons.
The method - Chaotic Acquisition.
The bow glowed red as War's power of Chaos flooded the bow and infused it with a deep red aura. As the glow faded, the bow's upper limb and lower limb had deep lines that glowed red and covered the metallic arrow vest. Two big skeletons resided upon each limbs and red tattered clothes could be seen flowing upon the bow's belly. The usual flames of hope that resided upon the bow stave and bow nock were replaced by Hellfire burning brightly with pride and honor.
Sayaka's eyes widened as she saw War's aura glowed as fierce as the raging fires upon the sun. "What...The...The Red Rider turned Godoka's weapon into one of his own!"
"Been there, done that...Have been using multiple weapons that Angels and even Demons in my world possessed." War replied.
"How can it be? Godoka's bow can only be activated while under Godoka's hands...unless it has some sort of sentience in recognizing him?" Sayaka's eyes widened.
Having experience over a million years in weaponry during his time as Horsemen, the Red Rider knew what to do. War attached his Hellfire enhancement on the Chaos Bow, pulled the nocking point without hesitation, gathered a large amount of Hellfire, and unleashed numerous clusters of large Hellfire rockets with small glowing orbs of light that surrounded each of them. The rockets homed in upon Mooah's chest, melted the icicle blades and blasts that Mooah had attempted to fire, scorched the Icy Phoenix's chests, and blasted it down from its flying haven; each blast from the rockets inflicting more severe damage.
Summoning his Ruin, War quickly rode towards the fallen Mooah, grabbed the Chaoseater by its hilt, dragged the Chaoseater across Mooah's chest, pulled his blade out of the abomination's chest and created a severe gash upon the phoenix's chest.
Deo plunged its hands on the ground as streams of giant pink ribbons erupted from the ground and snaked around to strike the Red Rider.
The Red Rider gathered a huge amount of Hellfire once more, aimed at the skies, pulled the Chaos Bow's nock, and unleashed the Hellfire missiles towards the skies. The Hellfire missiles dispersed and soon descended upon the ribbon towers like meteor showers punching upon small planets with sheer force. The Hellfire Missiles also collided upon Deo, broke the jester's bloated armor, and revealed its weak point - a blobbed mess of black Void.
Sayaka and Bebe joined in as they steered away the approaching towers that continuously erupted from the ground despite the meteor showers that burned other ribbons apart.
Sayaka managed to slice through the ribbons with her Hydro Slash Cut despite struggling to get out of several ribbons that managed to capture her. Bebe's small stature allowed her to dodge past several ribbon towers as she blew her trumpet to unleashed sonic waves to slice through the ribbons' silky fabrics. She also summoned several Sebastians to tank through the ribbon towers, with them self-destructing to neutralize the fast approaching attacks.
Despite having a massive disadvantage due to the huge gaping wound upon its chest, the Mooah managed to gather enough Voids to regenerate enough energy to get back on its stumbling feet and unleashed icicle towers erupting from the ground.
With the Familiar of Selfishness distracted, War managed to dodge past the Familiar of Cold-heartedness's icicle spikes that replaced the destroyed ribbon towers, leapt off from Ruin, brandished his Chaoseater, and flew straight into Deo's gaping mouth.
The ice and ribbon towers, as well as the icicle knifes attack from Prooar's wings, blew both Sayaka and Bebe after the shock that was witnessing Deo swallowing War whole. However, a crisp stab rang through the air as the Chaoseater's blade body drove out of Deo's belly and created a sweeping slash wound. A Blade Geyser attack combined with streams of Hellfire Rockets soon ruptured the Familar of Selfishness's chest as the Red Rider made a final clean slash that sliced Deo's belly up well and good.
A fountain of Void soon erupted from within as the Red Rider leapt out of Deo's body and landed with his back facing the fallen Familiar. Deo roared as his limbs flailed and fell flat on the ground; its aura soon dispersed into the thin air as the pink ribbons dropped dead on track.
Mooah's eyes glowed as it swept its wings, absorbed Deo's carcass, gave off a loud screech, and spread its wings out wide. The crystals that decorated Mooah's chest glowed crimson and streams of energy were unleashed upon Sayaka, Nagisa, and War, surrounded them, and enclosed them in a huge energy hemisphere.
Eight hemisphere stands emerged from the earth as the energy hemisphere solidified into an ice hemisphere with images of Deo's familiar form scattered throughout the ice's mirrored surfaces.
Without any hesitation, the Deos descended upon the trio with relentless force from multiple directions. The Red Rider managed to drove off most of them upon his side with Blade Geyser, followed by a huge Earthshaker slam upon the ground with his Tremor Gauntlet; the shockwave strong enough to sent most of the doppelgangers down to hell.
Sayaka sliced through the numerous Deos that threatened to overwhelm her with her Hydro Balisong all while dodging through most of their attacks by acrobatic flips, slide kicking, and back stabbing. The blue hair girl then unleashed Deadly Wink - a quick succession of slashes towards the Deo doppelgangers while travelling in an exceedingly fast zigzag fashion and slicing off the remaining doppelgangers upon her side.
Bebe played a stream of bubbles with her trumpet and imbued them with lightning elements, electrocuting the surrounding doppelgangers. Another blow from Bebe's trumpet unleashed a ring of bubbles that unleashed a strong electromagnetic field that paralysed the remaining doppelgangers, ending the combo by summoning a Sebastian to wipe them off the battle field by unleashing several energy blasts from their mouths.
The orbs began to glow and the Red Rider, knowing that it was a sign of Mooah's weak point exposing to them, unleashed a large sweeping slash upon two orbs, but they regenerated as soon as they were destroyed. War frowned upon realising how the orbs work - they would regenerate unless they are destroyed in large numbers - quickly pulled out his Chaos Bow, unleashed several streams of Hellfire Rockets towards one half of the orb stands, quickly turned around, and blasted the remaining half.
The ice hemisphere dispersed immediately and War unleashed several more Hellfire Rockets towards a stunned Mooah with the Chaos Bow. The phoenix crashed on the ground as War dashed towards the fallen avian, unload massive damage through devastating sweeping slashes, upper cuts, flipsaws, and switching between the scythe to unleash Reaper Blade - a spinning attack that sliced Mooah's body in a large radius around him. War ended off his combo with a large slam with his Tremor Gauntlet and unleashing a full blast of red-hot chaos that corroded the armor that protected its chest, exposing its glowing Void Core for all to see.
The Red Rider swiftly dashed to his right as Sayaka unleashed her Whirling Dance - a fast approaching high-speed wheel slash that slashed through the Void Core with unrelenting tenacity. The blue hair magical girl followed up with by unleashing a Cross Slash that tore through the Void Core and inflicting a wound so deep that the Voids themselves could never seem to recuperate.
Mooah screeched as it pushed both the Red Rider and Sayaka away with its Void Burst, but Bebe managed to cushion their momentum with supporting bubbles played from her trumpet.
The Phoenix of Cold-heartedness unleashed several streams of icicle ribbons from her chest that snaked around in intricate patterns, criss-crossing one another as they approached the trio. Its chest shot out numerous fans of icicle feather blades coated with Void Auras. Doppelgangers of Deo ran out of Mooah's Void Core and surfed through the ribbons, ready to pile themselves upon the trio.
Seeing it as a chance to improve the Chaos Bow's weapon experience, War replaced the Hellfire Enhancement with the Combat Lore enhancement that he received from the Maker Ulthane back in the post-apocalyptic days, utilized his Chaos Bow, and unleashed several streams of Hellfire Rockets towards the numerous approaching Deos. The Hellfire Rockets clustered around each doppelganger and blasted them into oblivion with heavy, stacking fire damage. Despite some doppelgangers landing upon the ground and unleashing streams of icicle bullets towards the trio, War stepped in the crossfire, activated his Stoneskin, tanked the damage, and unleashed Affliction to assist with Bebe and Sayaka's ranged attacks and destroy remaining Deo Doppelgangers.
The Chaos Bow glowed red and morphed into a slightly larger bow with brighter, crimson flames upon its upper and lower limbs. The bow's curvy body gained some sharp edges, spikes, and glowing red tattoos made of lava around the handle, belly, back, and its nock. Skulls around the sight window began glowing crimson and transformed into an image of long talon claws.
Streaks of icicle spikes erupted from the ground, but War quickly drew his recently upgraded Chaos Bow and unleashed several Hellfire Rockets with two more mini rockets attaching to each big rockets. The icicle spikes were smashed rather easily, to which War followed up with a quick Abyssal Chain that wrapped around Mooah's legs. With War's immense Nephilim strength, which he built over millions of years, the Red Rider managed to stand his ground and prevent the weakened phoenix from flying away.
Sayaka took the chance to clear off some space and commanded her cutlasses to unleash its fury upon Mooah's chest with quick, yet devastating aquatic slashes, jabs, and wheel slashes.
Bebe attained a huge height after climbing atop one of Sebastian's numerous heads and unleashed huge blasts of bubbles that struck the phoenix's chest. Mooah's struggle weakened tremendously as it crashed upon the ground.
War summoned Ruin, rode towards Mooah, jumped off the red Phantom Horse towards the phoenix's back, kept it down by a huge smash with his Tremor Gauntlet, impaled Mooah's back with the Chaoseater, grabbed its wings, and gave off a firm shout as he tore the phoenix's wings apart. Gooey Voids spewed out of Mooah's body as the Void Phoneix of Cold-Heartedness exposed its chest upon near-death.
"The Voids...you...you will never escape that which is nothingness itself...as long as I have my brothers to stop you!" Mooah screeched. It managed to lean her eyes slightly in Kyubey, Bebe, and Sayaka's path, but not enough for them to notice it.
Mooah hissed, "The One who create the Void...it will unleash hell upon thee; you all are just delaying the inevitable!"
Kyubey stared blankly upon the fading Icy Phoenix with both her big red eyes, seemingly breathing a sigh of relief if one could hear closely.
The Red Rider stood upon the chest of the dead Mooah, looked at where the Phoenix's eyes were staring upon, looked at the cat-like creature, and grunted softly.
"It's over..." War frowned.
Kyubey's eyes widened, as if her eyes was not wide enough, but soon heaved a sigh of relief upon hearing War continuing with, "The Familiar of Selfishness and Cold-heartedness is gone...thirteen more to go."
"Whew...I thought you are going to condemn me because of my past sins...ya know? I mean, what past is past...I myself am aware not to temper with Humanity's emotions..." Kyubey replied.
"Like as if we could trust you!" Nagisa hissed upon powering down from Bebe.
"Look, this is no time for talks! We still have to find the third fragment, after which there will still be another three more before facing that damned Devil!" Kyubey shook her head in exasperation.
"But it's still unbelievable...You're able to utilize your powers to temporary morph Godoka's bow into your own ranged weapon!" Sayaka gasped. "That means that whatever it is, the Bow must have reacted to your values at protecting the Balance from being broken somewhat!"
"I myself have acquired many weapons for my usage during my millions of years as Horsemen. Enforcing the Balance is my duty and as such, I have to be versatile in combat through usage of other weapons. I still prefer the Chaoseater..." War replied.
"But that's not it!" Sayaka shook her head. "That doesn't make sense..."
"What?" War wondered.
"The bow belonged to Godoka, and only Godoka alone. So why in all of Heaven's name can it be unlocked for your usage as the Chaos Bow? Unless the bow had some sort of sentience to recognize you...but how?" Sayaka wondered.
War recalled what the soft feminine voice said before he had access to the Chaos Bow. Sayaka, Nagisa, and Kyubey's eyes widened.
"Feminine voice? What if...yes, it must be! It must be Godoka! Part of Godoka's memory must have resided within this sentient weapon; every part of Godoka represented a part of her - including her Bow!" Sayaka shot out in excitement.
War frowned as he looked at the Chaos Bow that he held upon his right hand.
Godoka's voice was calling out to him...
Why?
Why would someone be so trusting towards a being that was nothing but blood, savagery, destruction, Chaos, anger, rage, and ruin?
Yes, Godoka might sense his honor, but that was no reason for that...
Back in his world, long before the True Armageddon was over, Hell hated him and Heaven hunted him. Feared by both Angels and Demons alike, War had many unpleasant histories with many, most of which would be best not to disclose it at all...
So why?
As War received the third fragment that descended slowly from the sky, he clenched his fists and his eyes glowed white with determination. For once he felt something that Huamnity themselves experienced during times of crisis...
Determination to find the truth...
To find the truth, about why Godoka had placed so much trust in him - the Rider of the Red Horse that all celestial beings feared.
He would find it...he had to...he MUST...