Author's Notes: This is a chapter I've been looking forward to since the beginning of the story. Let's start from the beginning, I've had a theory about the main story that may or may be revealed in the main plot. I've always thought it was too much of a coincidence that Honest managed to get so much power so easily, while I can understand how his policies would draw in people like Aria's family, Ogre, Bolic and other corrupt officials that couldn't wait to abuse their authority; I couldn't wrap my mind on how Esdeath, in spite of her agreement to serve to satisfy her own needs, Run who wanted to change the Empire from within and other people with powerful Teigu that could easily use their powers to kill the Prime Minister. Because there had to be points that Honest's inhuman got on their nerves, even Esdeath occasionally, and had him at their mercy...and yet they never acted on it. Why would that be? Maybe because Honest has a person backing him and he promised this person to let the Empire rot in exchange for a selfish desire. It could explain why Honest runs the Empire the way he does when economically it doesn't make much sense.
I also remembered a detail from The Lord of The Path of Peace's background, that he had DANGER BEAST heritage, the same sort of magical animals that populate the world of Akame Ga Kill! Why would he have the blood of a Danger Beast, something that clearly looks like it would never be able to reproduce a child with a human, let alone several generations to succeed that child. It would be too hard to swallow that somehow ancient scientists injected his ancestor with Danger Beast blood and somehow it manifested in the Lord's generation. Then I thought, may there are Danger Beasts that can not only reproduce with humans, but are smart enough to know exactly what their doing. Perhaps, there's a special class of Danger Beasts that have all the power of their animal counterparts, but have the ability of rational thought to put those abilities for more creative uses. And obviously have the reproductive organs to impregnate humans with cross breed offspring that are in perfect health in comparison to most hybrids in real life. Maybe the one manipulating Honest is a Danger Beast him or herself and is a representative for a group of hostile Danger Beasts...a group called Hellions, a synonym word for demon. And that they would use Honest's influence and corruption of the capital to resurrect something that would a threat to humanity. And that's how I got the story, the rest of it is based on hints in the main manga.
Chapter 13: Kill The Hellions
Back in The Central Revolutionary Camp
Each of the Revolutionary Army members that had stayed behind to fight were cuffed in special restraints created by Circe to suppress Teigu powers, especially in Miyu, Sekairyu and Tatsumi's case. The rest had their Teigu taken and locked up in crates. Voluptasia went into jail carriages brought by Esdeath's forces easily to the surprise of the soldiers, being lured in with cookies brought by one of Winnifria's soldiers. The others went in quiet disgrace or simply thrashed in anger, thus needing to be held down by several soldiers. Tatsumi was arguably in the worst condition as he was squeezed between the two gigantic women, Esdeath and Winnifria who treated him like he was their favorite stuffed animal. Winnifria's girl fan club glared with envy towards Tatsumi for being so close to their commanding officer. Wave just looked on with a blank look of pity as he saw Tatsumi being at the mercy of the women, and regretted wanting ever to be pursued by Winnifria. Esdeath's affections on the other hand seemed normal to him and sighed as he saw Kurome hugging Akame tightly. The black eyed girl hugged Akame with great affection, while Akame stared with her trademark black circle shaped eye expression. Circe looked at Winnifria and shuddered when she remembered what she was forced to endure earlier.
Circe then manifested a masked featureless faced helmet of long horns, the headgear that hid her long hair. Einheima, Miyu, Sekairyu and Izanagi knew this feature as it was the mask she commonly wore in public to intimidate others, interrogation and wanting to talk about serious matters.
"You say that your son's seen the monster that disgraced the capital. Is that creature really the reason why you abandoned us," Circe asked in a deepened voice generated by her mask.
"That and you guys were becoming amoral by the time I left. The previous Emperor may have been a charismatic person, but he didn't share his father's shrewdness and ruthlessness. No wonder, he got axed off and his replacement being even more naive than he was-," Sekairyu said belligerently before Circe calmly slapped him with her iron manifested glove.
"You have a great mind for strategy, social affairs and warfare, but archaic knowledge you woefully inexperienced in. I bet you had someone help you figure out something we aren't aware of. Bring the little woman in the lab coat here," Circe spoke as she snapped her fingers, signaling the soldiers holding Einheima to bring her in front of her.
"You and your associate Math, have the knowledge of the age before the Empire's records, I'm guessing you two had a part in influencing his decision to start this ridiculous rebellion," Circe told Einheima with a serious face.
"Heh, I bet those kids of yours had nightmares of seeing that face every time they went to sleep, I'm not telling anything till we get to the Emperor, tin can!" Einheima retorted with her tongue sticking out.
"Very well, we'll just get the information out of her by force," Circe said as she generated various torture devices from her left forearm. Einheima grimaced in preparation for what was about to happen.
"I-I know what they are, don't hurt Ms. Einheima," spoke Voluptasia in a soft, stammering and sweet voice. Tatsumi blushed when hearing it and the girls aside from Circe commented on how adorable it sounded.
Voluptasia phased through her captivity and levitated before Einheima, shocking everyone. This made Tatsumi question her identity even more. She then turned to Circe and began to speak.
"M-Ms. Einheima and Mr. Sekairyu planned to go to the Throne room and use the former's bomb strapped to her chest to blow up the throne room once everyone of great importance was gathered in one location. The remaining forces would eventually reach the capital and kill off the rest of the Empire loyalists," Voluptasia said as she explained the secret plan that the two had conducted.
"You were going to what?!" Tatsumi yelled with the revelation of the true plan of his father.
"Traitor," Einheima snarled at being foiled.
"It wouldn't have worked. A non-electrical bomb with its scrap metal would be able to hit the Teigu marks of the Generals and the fires would incinerate the others. Even if that didn't go exactly according to plan, you counted on several factors. One, a bomb that is not a Teigu is out of Mr. Ocean's control and thus wouldn't be able to negate its properties. Two, bomb isn't alive thus Avalon wouldn't have worked on something without a consciousness. Four, the fact that you revealed a bomb without warning wouldn't have given Ms. Circe time to make a countermeasure. Five, Mr. Oda and Mr. Swaar's powers cost a lot of stamina to use in rapid succession. And six, the speed of the explosion would be too fast for any of the Teigu to activate in time to stop it. But, it's changed due to new factors. One, Ms. Esdeath now has complete mastery over time manipulation, something that she's improving on even now and two, THEY would've reacted before you set off the switch...I-in Ms. Einheima's way of speaking," Voluptasia spoke first in Einheima's voice and then back to her normal voice.
"Ok, no cookies for you for a week," Einheima told Voluptasia, making the latter sniffle with soft tears.
"THEY..you don't mean...," Circe spoke in a surprised tone.
"Who's THEY? That's a kind of vague answer if you asked me!" Tatsumi asked Voluptasia.
"You will be informed when we reach the capital," Winnifria replied as she grabbed Tatsumi and hugged him, much to Esdeath's displeasure.
Circe, Winnifria and Esdeath signaled to their armies to march back to the capital. The feelings of the rebels were of both confusion and shame in their failure. Cosmina was dragged in chains by Circe's forces, and Voluptasia returned to her containment.
Meanwhile on an Unknown Continent
The White Wing had flown with Leone's body still in his mouth and Dorothea still cradled in his arms, now resting after struggling for a long while. The creature had flown for several kilometers until it reached a continent with dark clouds overcasting it. The continent had dark spiral towers that look far more technologically advanced in comparison to the rest of the world, while surrounded by forests of black leaf trees. In the center of the strange mixture of woodland and metropolis was a colossal mountain with a peak shaped like a human skull with its mouth being the entrance to a cave. The white being went into the cavern and flew past several stalactites and stalagmites. At first it seemed like an average rock based and dark cave until halfway it changed into a more visceral, biomechanical with rivers of molten red blood flowed. Several appendages of tentacles, claws, hands and hooves splashed out of the rivers were reaching out for something, eyes of various animal species darted around and faces of every creature opened their mouths to reveal faces of even more creatures and they would open their mouths to reveal even more faces. For the creature, it was his home.
He then flew by a square shaped building made of the same organic mesh of appendages, eyes and mouths that emerge from the blood liquid. He landed in front of a stairway leading to an entrance of two large doors. He used his wing feathers as hands to pull the door open. It led to a room that was covered carved black stone and was filled with Danger Beasts being strapped onto tables hung on the walls. They were no windows, making the only exit the doorway that led into the room.
"It's rare from someone from your Faction to appear, Album," spoke a voice that came from the center of the room. It was a young feminine voice around 18 years old along with a deeper demonic voice speaking at the same time. It didn't surprise Leone as the Hellions she had met so far, possessed a normal voice that would overlay with a distorted demonic tone, it was just how they sounded. It was stoic and commanding voice with some deadpan sarcasm tone. The speaker a figure in a black cloak whose entire face was covered in wrappings except for her eyes with one red and another blue. She had shaggy black hair. The reason the person was identified as female was the fact that she crossing her arms to hold up her large bosom.
"(Giggle) It seems you're still obsessed with your attempts at replicating alchemy, Lady Aome," replied the White Wing now referred as Album in his shrill, now wheedling voice; as he spat out the remains of Leone and threw Dorothea to the ground. He walked toward Aome with the intention of groping her breasts. However, he was grabbed in the throat by Aome's black gloved hand whose arms was covered in wrappings.
"You revealed your true form to the humans, and now the elder's plans are at risk because of your actions," Aome told Album coldly as she gripped tighter and tighter on his neck.
"B-but, I needed to make sure that loose ends were tied up...Ow ow ow...It hurts! Unhand me you intelligent young lady (Aome's grip got even tighter) !", Album begged as he started to lose consciousness. Aome then released her grip and Album was then heavily breathing to catch air into his lungs.
"You're the only one from that long dead fool Notam's faction that still tries to uphold his contract with that pawn, Honest. Promising to corrupt that Empire of his to get rewarded, and that you've been masquerading as Notam in order to fulfill that agreement in hope of getting powerful allies for your success. Now go and put Dorothea to work; she has make up for two centuries of absence in helping our cause. Have our kind do complete surveillance over her actions so she doesn't escape again." Aome said as she shooed Album away and pointed to an unconscious Dorothea. Album understood, grabbed the petite alchemist and finally flew off in another direction.
"Make sure you finish what you're doing, we along with others have to meet up in the main building," Album shouted from far off in the distance.
Aome looked at Leone's body, gestured a beckoning sign with her finger and two slabs levitated down from the wall and landed parallel to each other. One table was empty while the other had a Jackaleo, the golden furred lion like Danger Beast with two onward pointing horns emerging from its skull. Bio-mechanical straps were tightly fastened onto the creature and attached to the stone. She then threw her body onto the slab, which then sprouted the same straps from its rocky surface to restrain her.
Aome then pulled her bandages to show her currently obscured mouth, as a rod emerged from her throat. She then pulled it out with her left hand. The "rod" was actually a scythe with a segmented edge and a uniquely designed guard. It was Adayusu, the Teigu that had once belonged to the Path of Peace member hired by Bolic, Holimaca. It had been reported by the Revolutionary Army network that it had gone missing.
"I lent it to someone, Holi-something, and it turned out that he wasn't able to use it to its full potential. So I went back to retrieve it and along the way I found two interesting fellows that had exploded themselves. Taking pity, I brought them back and got back Adayusu to be once again to used for our cause," Aome said to herself, as she struck both the Jackaleo and Leone's neck in the same place.
"Acervatim iam annectetur, Homo (pointing to Leone) cum Bestia (pointing to the Jackaleo being strapped to the table), Occultioris: Chimaera!" announced the cloaked figure in an ancient language. She wave the scythe upwards, causing the beast and the corpse of the girl to levitate. The two collided with the Jackaleo. The two were enveloped in a sphere of light. The sphere pops and a single figure lands on the floor.
The person had the appearance of Leone, but had wilder golden blonde hair with two, outward curved oxen horns and a third yellow eye on her forehead. Her clothing had been replaced by golden fur that covered her chest, her arms below the shoulders that led into her hands to make a glove like appearance, her waist going down to her slender legs ending in lion paws, but exposed her midriff. She had two lion tails from her behind; her main eyes had double set of pupils, one for her normal golden eyes and feral red eyes. Her belt Teigu, Lionelle had fused into her pelvis with the metal part shining brightly below her navel.
"It's still fits like a glove,I, the Mysterious: Adayusu- more accurately the Yin-Yang Cutter Adayusu. It can join things in harmonic unison or divide them in half. That Holi-whatever guy only used this power properly once out of sheer luck; it decided he wasn't worthy and sealed off its power of its own accord. It seems to really like me for some reason. So I've decided since I've got it back to test it out on others before it can be used for its TRUE PURPOSE! And taking advantage of the folks who come down here, it'd be a waste not to use their strengths" Aome boasted with dramatic emphasis before returning to her normal tone.
"Ok, you've been converted. Go to your respective unit and wait for further orders," Aome commanded the cat girl. The girl nodded and leapt from the room into a far off distance.
"Soon our army will be complete and we will take back the land that those humans call the Empire. The land that used to be called the Hell Kingdom, home to the strongest race, the Hellions," Aome said to herself in a serious tone.
Next Chapter: A note summary detailing Prime Minster Honest's life
