Here is the second one.
Chapter 08 : Fallen Creator
On Fraxinus
The inside of Fraxinus was tremble. The sheer amount of dark aura that has burst out from Dante body let into a state-like catastrophe. The wind gazing like crazy, the three was swoop away and some of it even fly away to sky. The sky turned to dark that nearly any sunlight wasn't passing down to ground. Even with protection of Fraxinus's territory, the airship is still affect by the abnormally wind that gazing like a storm.
"Uwawawawawa!?"
"What the hell?!"
"Everyone! Hold yourself! There's another one coming!"
With fast announcement from one of crew, the others hurried grab something to hold their selves. Not just a sec, the airship was hit by powerful shockwave and tremble greatly. Due of shock, the territory that make Fraxinus invisible was worn off and reveal the ship as clear in broad day. The ship even slants about 15 degree to right side.
"Stabilize the territory's realize now!"
"We'll try commander!"
With Kotori command, all crew swiftly work with their thing to stabilize the territory. In few sec, the territory was stabilizing and the ship regain its composure. Everyone who was holding to not fallen from their place let out a sigh of relief.
"What a terrifying power… even with just shockwave can affect the ship that was has territory protection."
As Kannazuki explain, everyone agree with nod. They're (minus some of spirit) was witness how powerful when spirit got inversed but this thing they're witness and feel if more than that, even beyond from that.
"Is this… something that Dante was holding back in entire year…?"
Miruko who was stand up say it with expression of disbelief. All this time, she don't even think what the reason and what was Dante keep secret from her, from other spirits, from everyone about what is inside him for entire year, and now… she know it.
Back to place
The dark aura on Dante place slowly becomes smaller as the surround become calmed. The [Worst] who in place was fly few meters from her previous place to evade the shockwave from the burst of dark aura before.
"Kahahaha! With this, finally his highness has arrived on this world! Everyone… on your place… you can witness it… the appearing of The Creator!"
As she announce, the dark aura dissolve from Dante and only reveal an empty destroyed place there.
"Eh…?"
The [Worst] was dumbfounded. Something she was expected was not here, rather not showing anything at all.
"What happe—"
Before she can finish her word, she senses something coming closer to her from her back really fast. Instinctively she swipes her big metallic arm to parry whatever was coming closer. As her big arm make a contact, her composure on air become unstable as the powerful pressure move her own being from her place like a dust was swipe off.
"…!"
In instant, she has thrown off to ground fast that make her bounce off several meter from her crash point. Crashing on ground, she uses her strength to hold her body and stop her body from crashing farther. When she stops, she looks toward sky with shocking expression.
Standing on sky, a figure just retain its composure after attack her on her back. The figure was Dante but now he looks different. A jet-black armor covering his lower half and he were bare chests, revealing a strange red colored line on his entire body. His right arm was warped by chain that connect to a giant black sword with strange red line that seen split apart the upper part and the downward part. In the sword, there're 10 holes that 8 of them give an illuminate red light. Dante himself, his hair was stand up as his face showing a raging expression.
"*RRRRRROOOOOOAAAAAAAARRRRRRR*"
He let out a roar that can even shake the ground, even if he was on air. The [Worst] who see him shook his head as she was in disbelief.
"No… it can't be… that thing… that this is not The Creator! It was not him!"
When she still on her disbelief, Dante charge forwards her in unbelievable speed, match the same speed as a jet fighter entering a sonic boom. Not anticipated it due still on her disbelief state, she fail to guard against it and thrown out several meter from her place.
"Don't bullshit me! How can you turn into that thing, Dante! You… the one who chosen to bear The Creator power to be him, but… but…! How you end up like this! This is not what I want!"
"*RRRRRROOOOOOAAAAAAAARRRRRRR*"
Not waiting for any time, he charging again to her, but now she was out on her disbelief and confront him with full hatred.
"Is this happen… then it will happen… I got no choice to end you here and now!"
They're attacking each other, exchanging each other attack with other attack. Dante attack was not like a swordsman-like pattern he always go with but more like berserk-state-like pattern where he ruthless attack [Worst] without even think what is in front of him. He only attack forward like he was say, "Anything must be destroyed!". The [Worst] find difficult to fight him due her attack not give any effect to him. Even if she able to land hit on him, he don't give any sign of pain and keep repeating attack like he don't care getting hit.
"This is… this is madness! You… Dante… you're not a human, not even a spirit anymore! You're a monster!"
Using her power, she summon her clone to aid her on fight. When she holds his sword, her clones come closer to land attack, but they're take a wrong step.
"sakkannadSANDALPHONkohhonnho"
When he saying something in inhuman words, he readied his other hand like ready to slash something. In instant, [Worst] clones was slice off into half by sudden slash from his other hand. The real [Worst] see what was slash them off. A big sword, embodied by bright light, she know that sword. It was Sandalphon, Princess/Tohka Angel.
"How…!?"
In Fraxinus
When everyone witness Dante monstrous fight, Tohka suddenly fall to her knee while breathing hard. Shido who see it hurried to her with worried expression.
"T-Tohka!? What's wrong?"
"I… I don't know Shido. Somehow… I feel something, forced to out from my body…"
When Shido still comfort her because he don't know what happen to her, Reine take out her device and begin to analyze Tohka strange behavior. Kotori also concern about it and look toward Reine's device.
"Are you found out what happen to Tohka?"
"Yes. From what I get, the path between Tohka spirit mana toward Shin body becomes unstable. Rather it goes circulates between them, the spirit mana from Tohka body was go to somewhere else, or more like forced to go to other path that suddenly connect to their path."
"Another path!? Is that possible!?"
"I must say I also don't know it was possible or not. However, from my analyzing, that is what happens here."
When they're still thinking, their eyes look toward the screen and surprised. The beserk-state Dante was go against [Worst] and more than that, he wield Sandalphon on his hand.
"So there's where the spirit power goes though. It was go to Dante! But… how?"
"I don't know. Shin was the one who seal Tohka power and Dante just recently interact with her. I can't get any conclusion about it. However…"
"However…?"
"I think… all spirits that Shido seal their power, must prepare themselves."
"For what?"
"For what happen to Tohka too."
Back to battlefield, [Worst] who surprised to how Dante somehow can manifest Sandalphon snap back and launch herself to air to evade Dante.
"Go back to your place you monster!"
Transforming her big arm into gatling-like shape, she shooting him rapidly with large amount needle-like claw launching from her fingers. Dante who not fast enough to realize it get rained by attack. She shooting him again and again without stop, making a smoke covered the entire place.
"zaajjekkeZADKIELffelleuele"
Again, with inhuman words, suddenly something burst out from smoke and leaps out to sky. [Worst] look to it and see a giant white rabbit with it mouth open, readied to shoot freezing laser from it. Using her time, she summon one close and use it as stepping stone and leap farther to sky. The giant white rabbit finish it charge, shoot forward the freezing laser, and freeze out the [Worst] clone. She look toward the giant rabbit back and see Dante standing on there when one of his hand inject to giant white rabbit.
"So there you are…"
Realize [Worst] on sky, Dante using his sword to launch big dark energy-slash attack to her but she evades it by forcing herself to ground. Dante also arrive on ground while ride on giant rabbit.
Meanwhile, on Fraxinus it was Yoshino turn that she falls to ground unconscious. Lucky Shido who just finishes bring Tohka to side to rest able to grab her before her face meet the ground. As he see on her, she have similar symptom as Tohka.
"Now was Yoshino… who will be next…"
As Kotori watching he screen she suddenly feel powerless as falling from her commander seat. Reine in act catch her before she can fall from her seat and lean her to the seat. She feels same as Tohak and Yoshino but she able to endure it more than them. The screen view Dante who just fall to ground as giant rabbit turn into light particle. Some of his body part who has wounded by [Worst] attack covered by flame and healed. Reine understand that Dante was using passive power of Kotori spirit power to healing his wound.
"Tch… he using my… power without… my permission…"
Her face showed not happy as what happen. If she has a chance to talk to Dante later, she mostly will kick him on face first without hestitate. On battlefield, [Worst] seem not like when Dante just healed his wound.
"Even full barrage will not do anything on you. If you just turn into Creator; this is will not take this long and painful you know?"
"*RRRRRROOOOOOAAAAARRRRRR*"
He seems not care what she say and just let out a powerful roar. Upon seeing his state, her first angry face because the results of her plan turn into nothing gives a sympathy expression to him. Seeing his raging face, she somehow sees a flashback, of his face when he gives a strong… but kind expression, thrust his hand, giving a help to him… but… what she give… is the reason… to hate her…
"(Ugh… this complicated feeling… I hate it… but why? All the time I have, why I feel this complicated feeling now? Urgh…! Forget about it already!)"
Shrug off what is in her mind, she launch herself to Dante. Using his big sword, Dante swing it toward her. She easily read it and guard against it, but the sheer power of his attack thrown her off to sky. Without waiting, she rolls on sky and adjusts her composure on sky.
"Close combat not effective against him, then…"
She straight her arm and turn it into Gatling-like shape again. However, from her back release a massive black shadow and covered her in sphere-like dome.
"Let see how you counter my attack now!"
As her sound echoing inside shadow dome, barrage of her spear-like bullet coming toward Dante. Dante either guard against it or reflect it but her barrage is too much that starting to hit him enough. The land was destroyed by her attack that cover the entire area by dust of smoke.
"(Maybe this is enough to kill him, unless that annoying regenerative abilities active once again.)"
As she keeps barraging the place, something was off. The air surrounding was gradually coming toward Dante location, as it was suck off.
"…RAPHAEL…..EL….KANAPH…."
Suddenly, a large amount of wind coming toward Dante place, forming a large typhoon that blocking her spear-like bullet barrage. Inside the eye of typhoon, Dante just want to standing after down in one knee, wielding a large bow with large arrow that readied to be fired. He looks to sky and after know the exact place of her, he aiming it toward her and shoot it. As the arrow fly to her, a large amount of wind following it as making a twister behind. [Worst] attacks not affect it and it keep coming closer in speed of sound.
On Fraxinus, Yamai's twin also falls to their knee. Luckly Miruko was near them and she able to hold them up.
"Dammit!"
Canceling her Gatling-like form, she put her big arm forward as forming a shield-like form. The arrow hit directly to it and keep piercing forward.
"Gugh… to… much… power… to hold back…"
She can't hold it much longer as her hands shield-like form begin to crack. Finally the crack make effect as her shield-like form forced to cancel. The arrow successfully destroying one of her big metallic arms, revealing her normal arm.
"Tch! This is—"
When she's still hovering on sky, a large silhouette was coming closer to her.
"nenehkaahwNEHEMAHhakaahsanlakanSANDALPHONhohongudieho…"
Dante, holding both Sandalphon and Nehemah, a Demon King version of Sandalphon on his hands while his black big sword strapped on his back by chain flying toward her. He then brings them to side of him, straight to right and left.
"…..HALVANHELEV!...PAVERSCHLEV!..."
Now his sound not let out an inhuman-like word but a normal word. From both side, coming a throne on each side from thin air and was break apart to piece. The pieces engulfs each sword, change it into massive sword.
On Fraxinus, Tohka suddenly screaming as she feel something painfully on her chest, as something forced to out from her body. Her spirit mana leaked on her body and even can see bare eyes. However, some of it was more darken than other. Looking to that Reine take her device in fast and activate something on it. As she finally found what she want, she's shocked.
"What happen Reine!?"
"Her reading… becomes too much unstable. Right now, Tohka condition like between her normal condition as spirit and when she's become inverse."
"What?!"
Looking her sister screaming like that, Shido know it was not good. He's hurried toward Tohka and holds her to decrease her pain as she's still screaming.
Back to other place, Dante readied each massive sword to each side. [Worst] who looking that feels there's no way to evade her on her condition now.
"Is this… my end…?...NO!"
Dante swing the massive swords to her with the energy fully charged. The energy inside massive swords clash each other, making a bigger energy-like attack toward her and engulf her completely.
"I can't end like this…! I… I…!"
Her sound can be heard again as she disappear, engulf by massive energy-like attack from Dante that keep move forward, coming to some mountain and destroy it completely. As it was disperse, only give a scenery-like a meteor was falling there change the scenery completely.
Upon seeing no trace of the [Worst] Dante let out a roar as his objective was complete and slowly decent to ground, remain silent.
Focusing on Fraxinus
After all, they're witness and Tohka finally calm down, they're fall to silent. Other spirits also able to stand on their two feet again. All crew begin to examine Dante and all other possibilities that will happen next. Miruko walking to front and looking to screen with sad expression.
"You're going that far… just to finish your revenge… Dante…"
She keeps not belief what she was witness as she keeps her both hands on her chest. Suddenly, a crack appears in thin air inside the bridge of Fraxinus. Everyone was alarmed as readied for anything. Therefore,, the crack open and launching something from inside of it.
"You're…!"
Miruko was shocked as she looks toward something that launch off from the crack. It was Nishiro on his complete manifest form, holding the dead body of Yuki on his embrace.
"Keep… the surround… clear…"
He is ordering other to stay away from him. The other keeps away as he put Yuki body gently to ground. Let out his hand, it was shine brightly in pale blue color. He then place it on Yuki chest and inject the light on her body again and again.
"Come one… live… beat… beat…"
He keep inject it repeatedly without rest a sec. For quite some time, Yuki finger suddenly move a little. Everyone become tense, as they're looking closer. Her finger moving slowly. Suddenly, she opens her eyes, gasped and breathing heavily as she wakes up from her place. Everyone who look on that like seeing something like miracle was happen in front of them.
"How…? How she can…"
"This is one of secret that I keep for myself, even from Dante."
Nishiro said to everyone as he stands up.
"Maybe you already know it Miruko-san. Dante… maybe different from Shido's regenerative power that he get after sealing Kotori spirit power, but he can also able to revive like him when he get a wound that can kill him. However..."
"However…?"
"He needs spirit mana to do it. His body… builds it as it own so he don't need something like Kurumi do. It was originally my power, aside from sealing power he get too."
"Wait… you mean Dante can seal spirit power because it was your spirit power!?" said Kotori.
"Yes, Kotori. It was the explanation of why he can seal spirit power beside from how you know about how to do it. However…"
"…?"
"As the time flowing, my spirit power mutate inside his body, making a similar power to mine. However, different from mine, it was more forced. Rather than take it gently, it was… forced to out from spirit body."
"Forced out…?"
"Well… either Dante or people from Yggdrasill still not telling you, but hear it. Not all of spirits that Dante save was doing by using word, persuade them, and more… make them fall to him but was there's time that spirits are not listening to him so he's using force to do it."
"You mean fight them!?"
"More or less. The objective is to weaken them so the spirit power that protect them will make something like hole on it, and that was the right time to do sealing by force it out from body without spirit concern."
"Is that can give spirits trauma rather than make them feel save?"
"Of course it was. However, Yggdrasill was exist to help them move on from their trauma—"
Nishiro suddenly falling down as he was explaining. Everyone surprise as coming to him, Shido was support him from not falling again.
"Thank… ugh… looks like the drawback has come…"
"Drawback?"
"As I say, Dante able to revive as long there's a spirit mana inside him. What I do to Yuki is similar process. I inject my spirit mana to Yuki body to revive her, but the drawback as my spirit mana decreasing is this."
Nishiro showing his left hand and make everyone surprise. His hand was between appear and disappear.
"W-what happen to your hand!?"
"As I said once again, the drawback of using my power was decreasing my spirit mana inside me. In addition, to manifest my form like this, I need it. It takes a lot of it to revive Yuki so now it become unstable to manifest my form for more longer. Moreover, thank to Dante current condition, the link between him and me has cut off so I can't get any of my spirit mana that most of it stored inside Dante body."
"How long you can keep it?" ask Kotori.
"For now… 30 minutes at most. Using it more than this will decrease remaining of time. So… I can't waste more time."
He try to stand up by himself, but his strength keep decreasing and make him fall again."
"What do you mean by wasting your time?"
"Look toward Dante."
As he said, everyone look on screen, showing an unmoving Dante.
"Maybe you think nothing strange happen to him but not. I can feel…his life energy decreasing overtime as long he keeps become like that. If we keep it like that… he will die."
"Die!? Then what we should do!?" ask Miruko.
"Seal him…"
"Eh?"
"I say seal him. Seal his power like sealing spirit power. If we can do that… at least his condition will save… for quite of time."
"Well… even if you say that, how you can do that? I don't think Dante will just keep unmoving… forget about it, do sealing like sealing spirit power mean we must make him fall—"
Before Kotori can finish her words, Nishiro stop her with "stop" sign from his hand.
"There's other alternative…"
"What is it?"
"Force Sealing… I need to use Force Sealing to do that."
"B-but how? You say we must weaken the spirit first but Dante condition…" said Shido.
"Luckily, he was on weak condition. You're already witness it, yes? The [Worst] attacks able to hit him then it mean his spirit power was really in weak state. I have a chance to do it."
"But can you that? With your current condition?" said Kotori.
"I…"
"Then we will help you." Shido said .
"Help me?"
"Yes, everyone also want to help, right?"
Shido asking everyone. Firstly, there's no respond until Tohka and other spirits nodding in agreement.
"Yes Shido. We will help Nishiro to make Dante to his sense again." Tohka said.
"I-I also… want to help too." Yoshino said shyly.
"He is troublesome person, but! He was our friend so as friend we must help him." Yoshinon said.
"I still don't think it was a good idea. However, because it was my idiot brother who asking it, well… can't be help. We will also help you." Kotori said with little sigh.
"Kuku… we can't just let him pass to the other side before he pay off from using our power without our agreement." Kaguya said.
"Agreeing. Helping Shido to save him is agreeable." Yuzuru said while nodding.
"Well… I don't really like to help other man beside darling, but… because darling trust him so I'll trust him too, a little." Miku said with little-care tone.
"I-I don't know we can success or not, but if we can help… I still don't sure it will success but… alright. I also help too, even I little worried about it." Natsumi said hesitate.
"…I also will help." said Origami strangely shy.
"Everyone…"
Nishiro feel his weight on the case lift a little from what he hears. Even if they're only not long know Dante inside or outside, they're want to help him. In this kind of situation, he just wants to cry in relive but he keeps strong in mind and just smile a little.
"Alright… thank you everyone…"
When thanking everyone, his strength keeps decreasing. Knowing this, he put his plan faster. Using everything, he got for now, he build a new plan to seal Dante while including everyone.
"Okay… then we will go with my plan, but first… Shido come here."
"…?"
In confuse, Shido coming toward Nishiro. After he arrives, Nishiro take his left arm and begin to glow.
"You want to help right? Then first you must help my condition now."
"How I can do it?"
"Trust me. I know what I should do. Don't worry, it will not hurt."
The glow shines more brightly than before. Suddenly, it burst into blindly light and makes everyone covering their eyes. As the light, finally calm down, Shido open his eyes and found out Nishiro was gone.
"Where he go?"
Shido asking to take other attention but other than answer, their eyes was look directly toward his left arm. When he look to it, he surprised. Right now, Shido was holding fully manifest Raziel when his left arm showing a familiar blue light line.
"Can you hear me Shido, everyone?"
Everyone jolted as familiar sound echoing through the bridge.
"Huh!? N-Nishiro!? Where are you? I can hear your voice but we can't see you."
"Of course you can't. I was inside you Shido."
"I-Inside me!?"
Everyone quite shocked from Nishiro statement. Kotori the coming toward Shido to clarified the situation.
"Can you explain why?"
"I can. First, as you know, my current condition not even let me to stand with my own two feet, but I found the solution."
"And that solution is possessed Shido?"
"Not possessing. I just use his body as temporary host body, as I do with Dante's but only temporary. With this, I can reserve most of my spirit mana to do what we must do later."
"I see…"
"Don't worry about it. There's no side effect of this hosting thing. Beside… I kinda feel strange about this."
"What do you mean?"
"From you know, it need take few years until Dante fully synchronize with me in this hosting thing, but Shido… I can feel it more easily as my power just easily synchronize with him. For make it sure… Shido, are you feel something different with your body now?"
"Well… yeah, I feel strangely light and… I can't describe how I feel right now." Shido said.
"I see… you also regain my enhancement too. Therefore, you're like a half spirit right now. However, don't worry about it, I sure it will disappear after I leave your body and it will turn to normal again."
"I…I see…" Shido said hesitate.
"Alright. Then, what is your plan?"
"Here's my plan…"
