"Changing the past?" Medea glared at her former lover, as he smiled his usual smile that she hated now so much. "I always had suspected there was something wrong with your mind. At first, I thought it was just a creativity and imaginative vision of things, but now I really know what it is. You are out of your damn mind, Jason, and you must be the very last idiot in the whole world, if you think that I`ll be helping you out with this. Me, Lucifer and others have made damn well on making that place unreachable for anyone, especially the likes of you."
"Yes, the texts of Fates have mentioned of the fact that the doors to the Gates were sealed shut by three powerful blood seals, one of which belonged to you, my love." Jason noted out. "As if the fate itself has granted us a second chance at being together. A chance at making the world that we desire come to pass. Come now, Medea, do not tell me that you wouldn`t for us to be together again, to once again be husband and wife, for our children to be at our side, and all of Iolcos and Greece, with the rest of the world, kneeling before us?"
"To be together with you again?" Medea snarled at him. "I remember damn well not only how you`ve treated me, but also how I`ve fallen in love with you, bastard. You think, that after that scum of a God Eros had manipulated my heart and you`ve abused me for your own profits and joy I will ever consider going back to you?! I have been given a second chance at life and I didn`t waste it. I have a great family, I had a husband that loved, respected and cared about me more than for his own live. My parents have given the best of educations and their love for me. My children are my pride and joy in this world, born of love, not the cursed infatuation that was casted upon me. I don`t want to be with you, Jason, because the life with you was utter hell for me and I`d rather die than help you achieve your mad goals."
"You may say that you would rather die, my love, but believe me, once we are at the Isle and you open up those Gates, everything will be as it should be, my dear love. And those mistakes that you have made in this life, well they…" Jason was speaking absentmindedly, when his frame was suddenly sent across the room, slamming into the wall with blood spilling out of his broken nose.
Medea was never a brawler, or anything in terms of physical strength, agility and endurance. She was always the kind of woman that preferred to settle her problems through magic and not get her hands dirty, in literal sense. Her constitution never allowed her to develop any substantial physical prowess in her other life, and not much in this one either. However, when you are backed to the corner, with the most hated person standing right in the same room, spewing venom, madness and insulting ones family… Even a delicate woman like Medea, without her magic to back her up, is capable of some small miracles in physical department
Enraged and furious like a lioness, Medea`s right fist connected with Jason, putting all of her rage, anger and strength behind it and sending him across the room. She had taken a couple of lessons from her husband and dad in the matters of self-defense, so she knew where to strike and how. And it was a good thing for her as well that Jason was a fickle person, never one with the physical strength or anything outstanding that made him notable in physical senses, unlike with all the other Greek mythological heroes. He may`ve been an Exorcist now, but it seemed like it didn`t do much to improve his physical capabilities. Standing up and moving right towards his downed frame, Medea saw the holster for his pistol, with the gun in it, so she reached out to grab it, whilst he was still dazed.
Unfortunately for Medea, just as her fingers had touched the handle of the gun, something gripped her hand and tossed her away from Jason and towards the opposite end of the room. Landing on her back and hitting her head hard, Medea hissed from the pain, but quickly regained herself, looking at the suddenly appearing person right in front of her, as if out of nowhere and looking angrily at Medea, as she hissed from the pain.
"Of course… Should`ve known that he would be too afraid of even being in one room with me…" Medea said out loud, rising up and looking at the man that had defended her former husband. "So, Perseus, you`ve gotten the Hades` Helm back from its previous owner? Must admit, never expected him to lend it to anyone again."
"The old bones doesn`t know that I`ve "borrowed" it from him, plus it doesn`t really matter. The thing was mine in the first life, why shouldn`t I have it in the second one?" Perseus reasoned, while Jason stood up, hissing from the pain, and covering his broken nose with his hand, moving towards them both. "Man oh man, Heracles will have a field day when he hears that Medea has just sent your ass across the room in one punch." Perseus laughed up a bit.
"Shut it, Perseus." Jason hissed and glared at his former wife, before sending right into her stomach a strong punch, making Medea double from pain and cough out blood, dropping onto the floor, until Jason`s boots started to connect with her as he kicked her, fast and strongly. "YOU! LITTLE! UNGRATEFUL! WHORE!" With each word, Jason kicked Medea harder and harder, making her whimper in pain and clutch her stomach. "You should`ve been on your knees, kissing my shoes for a chance to be with me again! And what do I get?! You are my bitch, Medea! MINE, AND ONLY I DECIDE WHAT IS BEST FOR YOU, YOU WORTHLESS WHORE!" After delivering 21 kick in the stomach, Jason grabbed Medea by her hair and slammed her face three times against the wall, before letting her fall onto the floor, her beautiful face now in bruises and cuts, while from her mouth escaped blood, with Jason sneering at her. "Let this be a lesson to you, Medea: you either do as you are told, or the next thing I`ll do to you will be nothing compared to this. And if you refuse to comply even then," Jason kneeled before panting in pain woman and spoke closer to her ear. "Then you can kiss your new mother goodbye." Medea`s eyes widened, as Perseus had dragged into the room beaten and bruised form of Elena Anderson, unconscious and limp, with her face bloodies, clothing dirty in soil and her blood.
"M-mom…" Was all that Medea could get out of her, with pain practically killing her as she spoke.
"Her husband should`ve taken a better care of her, especially in protecting her from strangers." Jason smirked at his former wife`s fear and tears, mixed with blood falling from her face. "Now, my love, I believe it`s self-explanatory what you need to do, and if you don`t comply, then this old crone will bite the dust a little earlier than expected, from our friend`s descendant, Heracles. He has been looking forward to testing out his Sacred Gear`s Balance Breaker, and what better target there is than a living one?"
"Y-you… will pay for this… V-Vergil a-and m-my f-father will…" Medea tried to speak up, with Jason simply laughing at this one.
"Ah yes, the Dragonslayer Vergil and a Senator William Anderson… They won`t be able to either find us, or catch up with us in time." Jason simply stated in a prideful manner. "And besides, in the place we are at the moment, there is no way they can locate us properly. After all, this is the place where magic and dimensions go full haywire."
'Don`t bet on it, you bloody bastard…' Medea thought to herself, as the last of her conscience was starting to leave her. 'Vergil, my son, hurry up. I know that you and father are already on your way here…' Was the last thing that Medea has been able to think of before the light left her eyes and she passed out.
New York. Bleecker St. 177A. Five minutes after Vergil had teleported away from Kuoh.
The sounds of a busy and constantly moving city around him were nothing new to Vergil, as he was moving past the citizens of the busiest city in all of world. He was never much for ultra-urban places like that, preferring sub-urban or villages to it all, hence why he loved living on that villa with his grandfather and grandmother. To Vergil, the places like New York were far too noisy and a bit confined to a tight space, while smaller towns like Kuoh had breathing space and ample of place to look and turn around. However, whilst in any other situation Vergil wouldn`t have felt comfortable being in this city, right now he had much more important things to worry about, namely his mother`s and Yasaka`s kidnapping and how to find the place to which their kidnappers are headed as they speak. The Isle of Time and Fates is an elusive place, never in one spot and even in the one dimension. Finding out and catching it`s next locating is next to impossible unless you have the trans-dimensional charts and know how to make calculations and equations that allow you to predict the shifts in dimensional locations and standings. Such magical science was beyond Vergil or any other person he knew of, except for one man.
The only man to be fully considered a rival to the great Witch of Colchis and Sorceress Supreme, her male counterpart, Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Stephen Strange, to whom Vergil was already making his way, when he saw a familiar looking limo with four guards near, parked right at the entrance to the house. It didn`t take a second for Vergil to recognize all of those as a limo and bodyguards of Vergil`s grandfather, Senator William Anderson. Something must`ve happened, or Lucina had informed their Gramps about the situation and he was already here, otherwise what would a Senator of Massachusetts be doing in New York? Making his way to one of the bodyguards, all four were already near Vergil, when their chief recognized the grandson of Senator.
"Vergil? What are you doing in NY? Shouldn`t you be in Japan, with your family and mom?" The chief of security motioned to his men to stand down.
"School trip to NY`s and Washington`s academies, part of an educational exchange program between the US and Japan`s government, plus sightseeing with the class." Vergil quickly came up with the excuse to tell to his gramps` chief of stuff, who nodded to it. "We have a free time, so I decided to drop by and give Dr. Strange regards from my mom, but what are you doing here, Sam? Is Gramps and Grandma are in there too?" Vergil pointed at the door leading into the building, with Sam letting out a frustrated sigh and looking ashamed, a clear indication that something must`ve happened. "Sam, did something happen?"
"Yeah, kid." Sam simply said to Vergil. "About 4 hours ago, Ms. Anderson was reported missing by NY`s Museum of Archeology, where she was supposed to be doing so job for them, but…" Vergil`s eyes widened and his mouth was agape when he heard that his grandmother was kidnapped.
'What?! How?! Why… Son a of fucking cocksucking bitch! It must be Jason and his Argonauts again, no doubt about it!' Vergil practically roared in his mind, as his grey cells began to run full speed ahead. 'The bastard needed a leverage on Mom if she were to refuse helping him and she wouldn`t even think about assisting him anyway. And since me and Lucina can kill an Ultimate Class Devil on our own and Gramps is practically a living Draconian tank, only Grandma was available as a target for him and his lackeys! When I fucking get my hands on that shitbag, he`ll be begging for me to kill him!'
"Get in line, son. Jason and I have an appointment too, you know? After all, this is my wife that bastard had kidnapped and my mother-in-law too!" Lucifer chimed in. "Knew I should`ve disintegrated his soul way back in Greece when I first met him, but nope! If he is so much as touches a strand of hair on my Colchis` Lily, I will do to him what I did to Atlantis!" Much like his own son, Lucifer was not just pissed off, but bloody livid and wished to get his hands on Jason just as much, if not more, as his own son here.
[While I`m all for that SOB getting what`s coming for him, I think it would be best for all of us not causing the second Atlantis.] Spoke up a gruff and strong voice of Leonidas, King of Sparta and Hero of Thermopylae, and one of the previous owners of True Longinus. [What you did there was not just brutal, but bloody monstrous. And that`s coming from me, King of Sparta and a man that had killed over a thousand Persians in just two days!]
"My Grandma was kidnapped?! Then what the hell are you bloody doing in here, Sam?! Did you already inform FBI, Police and…" Vergil snapped out of his thoughts and practically yelled at Sam.
"All have been informed and they are looking for her, but Mr. Anderson, for some reason, has ordered to get him and Rosseweisse right here, to see this Strange guy. Don`t know what he can do to them, but they are right there, talking to him and his assistant as we speak." Sam pointed at the doors, with Vergil deciding not to waste any more of his time, moving towards it and knocking right at them.
In the next second, the door has opened up and from there stepped a Chinese man, dressed in dark robes, with bald head and a seemingly impassive look on his face. He immediately greeted Vergil.
"Mr. Vergil Grayson." The man did a small bow to Vergil. "I have to admit, I was expecting to see your mother, considering the situation that has come up recently. Is Lady Medea not available?"
"She is the main reason why I need to speak with Dr. Strange, Mr…"
"Wong, simply Wong. I am Dr. Strange`s attendant and the keeper of this Sanctum Sanctorum." Wong introduced himself, opening the doors and letting Vergil enter. "Please come in. Your Grandfather and his secretary are already here and are in talks with Dr. Strange." Vergil nodded to him and stepped inside the house with Wong, who began leading the way. "Now, if you are not here because of what happened with your Grandmother, than what could possibly bring the Sorcerer of Light and Chaos here? And, if you do not mind telling me, where is your mother, exactly?"
"Abducted, along with current Ruler and Sage of Kyoto Youkai and my Grandmother, all of whom have been kidnapped by the same person and his posy." Vergil replied harshly, catching a look of surprise on Wong`s face. "I have trustworthy information about their plans and where they are headed, but to get to them, I need the help of Dr. Strange. And in case you are wondering, it is in both his and mine interests that he helps us in this crisis, Wong."
"And what makes you say that, Mr. Grayson? While your mother and you have no quarrels with us and I sympathize with your tragedies, what is so beneficial in Dr. Strange helping you out in this one?" Wong asked of Vergil, who replied to him.
"Saving the time and space continuum from being raped and destroyed." Vergil simply replied, as the pair had reached the library of the Sanctum Sanctorum, where there was a heated argument between Vergil`s Grandfather and a man in his early forties, sporting a goatee and short black hair, dressed in blue eastern tunic, black pants, with yellow glows and red cloak over his shoulders, which seemed to be able to move on its own, all the while Rosseweisse was simply standing near the Senator.
"What the bloody hell do you mean you can`t find her?!" William practically roared at the Sorcerer in front of him, his Downfall Dragon Spear materializing in his right hand. "You are the Sorcerer Supreme and the best damn magical tracker in all of world, better than even my own daughter, and you can`t find my wife?! How the hell can you explain that to me?!"
"There can be a number of reasons as to why I have difficulties locating your wife, Senator Anderson, and while most of those can be avoided, there are still some difficulties that even I have no means of dealing with." Dr. Stephen Strange, Sorcerer Supreme and direct rival to Sorceress Supreme, defended himself without any hostilities leaving his mouth. "It is quite possible that your wife, The Sorceress of Nature, can be in a magical dead zone or in the area that has some form of dimensional anomaly. Those are the only reason why I wouldn`t be able to locate her."
"So you are telling me that my wife might bloody be somewhere like Chernobyl or Nagasaki?! Who the hell do you…" Anderson was about to burst in to an unending tirade of curses, when he suddenly saw his grandson and Wong standing near them. "Vergil? Wh-what are you doing here, son? Did Sam call you and Marina, and as a matter of a fact, where is she and Lucy?"
"Sam didn`t call me nor anyone, and I only found out about grandma, Gramps. And as for mother…" Vergil drew a breath, getting the worried looks from Rosseweisse, William and Stephen Strange. "Grandma wasn`t the main target of the kidnappers, Gramps. She is just a leverage… for Mom."
"A leverage for…" William trailed off, as his eyes widened at what his grandson was saying and realized just what has happened. "No… No, no, no! Vergil, tell me that you are…" This was one thing that William Anderson didn`t want to hear right at this moment, the worst nightmare for both a husband and a father.
"I`m not joking here, Gramps!" Vergil himself shouted at him, making Rosseweisse widen her eyes at this one, while Stephen Strange seemed to have connected the dots. "Mom was also kidnapped, abducted straight from Kyoto`s Museum and right now she and Grandma are in the same place with the people that kidnapped them and current Ruler of Youkais of Kyoto, Yasaka."
"The Sage of Amaterasu, Sorceress Supreme and Sorceress of Nature all kidnapped in a single day? Who in the world would even attempt such a thing and what for?" Rosseweisse asked out loud, looking at Vergil. "Vergil, do you have any leads?"
"I do, and I know who it is and where they are headed." Vergil saw the familiar fire in the eyes of his Grandfather, who looked in his eyes with a fully serious expression, while Sorcerer of Light and Chaos turned to look at Sorcerer Supreme. "Doctor Stephen Strange, sorry for a poor first meeting, but we really need your help on this one. Fates of not just my mother and grandmother are at stake, but of the entire reality itself are in danger as well."
"That is one kind of threats I don`t hear every day, especially coming from someone like you, young man." Doctor Strange dryly noted, but then adopted a serious expression. "But considering the fact of your reputation and that I know when a person is telling the truth, you have got my full attention, Sorcerer of Light and Chaos. How can I help you out?"
"Vergil, before that… Who are those bastards that took Mari and Elena?" William asked with a low voice gripping his Downfall Dragon Spear. "Do you know who they are?"
"Yeah… They are the Argonauts, newly reformed and led by mom`s ex-husband, Jason." Vergil stated, with William gripping his fists even tighter. "The bastard seems to have gotten reincarnated the same way as Mom and is now trying to get his hands on Gates of Cronus."
"The Gates of Cronus? The very Gates that have been said to be able to open a rift in time and space continuum, to send someone into the past or future?" Rosseweisse had heard of them from her grandmother. "I thought they were nothing more but a hoax, a myth of long bygone era, before Aesir and Vanir had even learned of each other."
"Oh, how some us wished that it was true. Those Gates and the Isle where they are located upon are as real as we are." Doctor Strange confirmed Vergil`s words, turning to him. "My teacher, The Ancient One, had told me about those Gates and where they were located, along with the catastrophe they can cause if activated. You have every right to be consider this a reality-ending threat, Vergil. However, if I recall correctly, my teacher has also informed of three blood seals being placed upon the doors into the room where Gates are located, with those seals belonging to Medea, Kurama, now passed away Ruler of Kyoto and mother of Yasaka, and Lucifer, the now deceased Satan of Underworld and Biblical God`s First Son. And while Jason may be able to break two of the Seals, the Seal of Lucifer won`t bend, since he probably doesn`t have any of the descendants of Lucifer with him, and even in that case, I am aware that that the Gate require both the Heart of Cronus and the Eye of Odin, to properly operate those Gates, and both items have been long hidden away."
"You are right on all fronts, Doctor, but I doubt that either of us here would like to risk our necks just sitting around and doing nothing." Vergil wasn`t here to bargain with Strange. "If myths are anything to go by, and I`m sure you have at least heard of them, Jason and Argonauts are a shrewd and cunning bunch of bastards and they have a way of getting what they want. I`m not going to just sit back while they have my family with them and are altering the very reality we are in, and I doubt you would do the same, Doctor. So, less you want to end up as a sandal bearer for that bastard of a coward Jason, you`ll help us out. You are the world`s top researcher on trans-dimensional geography and dimensional shifting patterns, meaning that you should be able to locate where and when the Isle of Time and Fates should appear."
"Hm, yes, I do possess the resources for doing that. And quite frankly, I wouldn`t want to let the fate simply run it`s course on this one either." Stephen sighed, turning to Wong. "Wong, prepare the Charts of Nostradamus, Runic Texts of Agmar and I`ll also need to draw the Pentagram of Agamotto to get a clear picture on where the dimensional rifts are opening up." Wong nodded and immediately summoned the needed texts and went to make the Pentagram. "Now, there is also the matter of finding out about the Heart and The Vision. The former was taken away by a Lucifer, so, if you really do have a contact with him, you should be able to get it, while the latter was taken by Medea, from I know, but where I do not know, but it would be in our best interests to get those before Jason get them."
"The Heart was taken by Euclid Lucifer, and he is long dead and he didn`t spill the beans about the Heart, from what Lucifer had told me." Vergil admitted, with Anderson looking his way curiously. "But as for the Eye… I have an idea where it could be, but you`ll need to excuse me for a minute." Vergil gotten the nods from Anderson and Stephen, while Rosseweisse stepped in.
"I`ll go with you. If that thing really is the Eye of Odin, I`ll be able to recognize it from its magical signature, as I`ve once served as Odin`s bodyguard. If I do not recognize it, then it`s a fake." Vergil nodded to her, opening up a portal for both of them and teleporting them out of the place.
Medea`s Personal Pocket Dimension.
Both Vergil and Rosseweisse materialized in the familiar looking location, where Vergil had spent more than half a year worth of normal time in here, while Rosseweisse had only just now stepped into, looking curiously around, as she looked at the purple and blue sky, a seemingly Midgard`s flora around her, yet it all seemed to her a bit strange and confined for some reason. Out in a small distance she could see a small Greek temple, towards which Vergil and Rosseweisse began moving, with the Valkyrie speaking up.
"Where are we exactly, Vergil?" She asked of the young man, who answered here right away.
"My mother`s pocket dimension, Colchis, as she calls it." Vergil said to Rosseweisse. "She had created this place during her first life and made it to be accessed by herself or only someone who had been here before with her. It`s a comparatively large place, compared in size to the region of Caucuses and geographical and topographical locals of ancient times, basically a recreated version of Mom`s former home. Lucina and I use this place to train, as time here runs at a different pace than in our own. A day in here equals a minute on the Human World, so unless you wish to be stuck here, stay close."
"Will do." Rosseweisse nodded to Vergil. "Still, to be able to create a pocket dimension like this one… I knew Lady Medea was powerful, but to this level, I couldn`t even imagine. She truly is the world`s strongest Sorceress."
"Yeah, she is." Vergil let out a sigh, as they`ve began to get inside the temple. "I haven`t been here before, but from what Mom had told me, it is her personal residence in this dimension here. This is where she would keep the Eye."
"Yeah, I agree and… Wait, are those…" Rosseweisse and Vergil stopped on their tracks and looked to their right.
Right before them, chained up to the wall and with magical circles that prevented usage of any sort of magic, hung three dead bodies of women, with clear signs of degradation of tissues, skin and smell. Rosseweisse took a step back from them, while Vergil decided to examine them for a few seconds before speaking up out loud.
"Phillipa Eilheart, Triss Merigold and Keira Metz, all three are notorious Sorceresses, leaders of now disbanded Lodge of Sorceresses and wanted criminals." Vergil concluded, looking at them for a second. "Hm… I`m not an expert on post-death medical examinations, but from the looks of it, they have been here for a long time, maybe over half a year in real time. That explains why I`ve sensed magical signatures of other people in the Kyoto`s Museum. They were probably a diversion to distract mother, while Jason snuck up on her and knocked her out. Mother must`ve transported them here and planned to deal with them later, but considering what happened, she didn`t have a chance and they died of thirst." Taking a couple of steps away from them, Vergil`s hand glowed with white and black energy and the three corpses evaporated on sight, without even ashes left away. "That takes care of it, now let`s get to looking for the Eye of Odin. Knowing mother, she wouldn`t have left out in the open and since she is a Sorceress, she would`ve hid it somewhere where only she could find it."
"I hear you, but from what I see, there doesn`t seem to be any place where she could place the Eye." Rosseweisse noted out, looking around.
They were inside a one big room, made of white stone, decorated with the golden ornate, pictures and tablets of the ancient Greece, Egypt and Middle Eastern origins from the ancient times. Furniture was made in a more modern style, with a dining table, six chairs, a big bed, night stands, wardrobes, bookshelves, filled with books, along with a small kitchen in the far end of the temple. Overall, it seemed while a little bit cramped, but still a livable place, nothing that stood out and could`ve pointed towards where the eye could be.
'Alright, Vergil, think. Those small grey cells are for thinking, as Poirot likes to state, so let`s think. Now, bed, wardrobes, tables and bookshelves are out- too obvious. Magical scanning doesn`t show anything- meaning small scaled jamming seal placed somewhere here.' Vergil decided to take a couple of looks at the pictures and tablets in the room. 'Mom was an archeologist, and I`m not a slouch in either, so maybe there`s a hint or something in here. So… Okay, early Achaean period, war with Troy, Greek colonization of Asia Minor, Persian expansion and aggression, Thermopylae and… Hold on a second…' Vergil stopped for a few seconds and looked much closer at the tablet that displayed the battle at Thermopylae, noticing something strange around it. 'This tablet… Hm, the position of the Spartans is to the right, while Persians to the left, with the sun shining at the Persians… Leonidas, during the battle of Thermopylae, when the sun risen or went to dusk, where would it`s beams lay?"
[The sun light would always reflect upon the shields of me and Spartans during that battle and nowhere else. This is one of the reasons why Thermopylae is called the Gates of Fire, because of the sun reflected upon the cliffs, it made it look like the passage was on fire. This tablet is a fake, to miss out on such an important detail like that!] Leonidas responded with Vergil thinking.
'Yes, that is it! My Mom is a damn professional and would never put a fake in her place, even if it`s one with such a small detail, but still…' Vergil tapped the sun on the tablet, pushing it deeper into the wall, and hearing a definite click on the other side.
Right as Vergil has done it, in the center of the floor, a tile moved away and from there upwards came a small altar, drawing the attention from Vergil and Rosseweisse, as they walked towards it. Both of them looked at it, seeing before them a small blue crystal, illuminating with a light and exuding a distinctly powerful energy. The crystal had a definite shape of an eye and exuded a very strong energy from itself. Rosseweisse spoke up out loud.
"No doubt, this is Odin`s magical signature, I confirm it." She looked at the dimly shining crystal. "By the Freya… There were so many rumors, legends and myths surrounding Odin`s discarded eye, but to see it in person… According to Sigrun, this eye had allowed Odin to see everything and all in the past, present and even future, giving him unlimited vision. He had discarded it when the pressure of knowing all had become unbearable, so carved out his eye and threw it away, and that is how he gained the eternal wisdom, through discarding the ultimate knowledge."
"Vergil, I wouldn`t recommend touching this thing with your bare hand. The Eye allows the user to literally see past, present and future, but it can shatter one`s mind and leave you brain dead in a matter of seconds. I myself had once tapped into it and trust me, the hangover that I had gotten after the bachelor`s party before my and Lilith`s wedding was like a flea`s bite, and that`s considering that I`ve partied for a week non-stop, and I held this eyeball for about 4 seconds and it was nearly lethal for me." Lucifer warned his son, who mentally nodded to him, summoning up gloves and a small wooden box, with which he picked up the eye and placed the Eye inside, sending it away afterwards. "Alright, with the Eye in our hands, Jason won`t be able to get it that easily, even if he… pressures Medea into giving it to him."
'Hate to think about it, but you are right. By the way, while you used the Eye, what did you see, if you remember?' Vergil asked of his father mentally out of curiosity.
"Honestly? At first I honestly thought I was hallucinating, but much, much later I found out that the Eye does see the future clearly." Lucifer chuckled a little bit. "I saw three things: first one was your mother in the wedding dress during our wedding; second one were you and Lucina on her first birthday with me and Medea there too; and as for the third… I think I`ll keep to myself, for now. Not sure myself about this one to this day, to be honest, but I know that Eye is workable and is powerful, immensely powerful."
"We`ve got what we wanted. Let`s go." Rosseweisse nodded to Vergil and he teleported them out of the place and back to Human World.
Back in Human World. Sanctum Sanctorum.
Not a second later, the pair reappeared in the placed, with William speaking up immediately.
"So?"
"We`ve got the Vision, but we can`t use it to find the Heart. According to Lucifer, the strain of using it can kill me in a second." Vergil simply stated, turning to Stephen Strange. "Anyway, Doctor, how long will it take to locate the Isle for you, once all is set?"
"About ten or twenty minutes, if I`m not disturbed. Considering that this is an Island, it`ll most probably appear in a massive body of water, like a sea, ocean or a large enough lake, and there aren`t that many dimensional rifts on the water mass, especially large enough for an Island to successfully materialize, but it`ll still take some time finding it. Had I had any of the Fates` texts or notes, it would`ve been a piece of cake, as, from my information, have created several spells and instructions on finding the Isle, but even so…" Stephen saw that Wong had come back, and with a nod informed him that everything was ready. "Alright, I shall begin the process immediately. I will inform you once it is all done." With that being said, Dr. Strange has teleported away, with William speaking up out loud.
"Bloody Helheim… First Elena, now Marina… When I get my hands on those bastards, Ragnarok will look like damn child`s play compared to what`ll do to them." Anderson promised to himself, turning to Rosseweisse. "Rose, inform the Senate and everyone else, that I am on a private business trip, out of reach or whatever the hell you can come up with. I want no political bullshit suddenly standing in my way from killing those damn assholes and rescuing my family."
"I`ll make the needed arrangements right away." Rosseweisse already took out her phone and began making the needed calls, while Vergil and William turned to each other and Vergil spoke up.
"If those guys are travelling, it would have to by a ship, so we`ll also need one as well, a fast one at that too." Vergil noted out, with William nodding to this one.
"In all of Nine Realms, there is no faster ship than one made by Ívaldi tribe of Nidavellir. And I`ve got one of them, Naglfar." William said to his grandson. "I`m sure you remember the legends about it."
"The ship made of the nails of the dead that shall carry the dead from Helheim to Asgard in time for Ragnarok." Vergil recalled what he had learned from the Norse Mythology about it. "So it`s the same as the flagship of Freyer, Skíðblaðnir."
"Yeah, though this one was gifted to Hel from the dwarves in her honor. And as for how it ended up in my hands, you better not ask." William simply stated to him, with Vergil nodding to this one. "We`ll need some serious firepower to take them on, you know? Who is coming along?"
"Lucina, Ishtar, White Dragon Emperor, Athena and her Vanguard, along with Riser and his Peerage. I was on my way to get you as well for this one." Vergil informed him, with William nodding to him. "Will Naglfar be fast enough to get to them in time?"
"It will be, I assure you. If you and I both power it up, it`ll be fast and powerful enough to catch on to whatever boat they are on and…" William and Vergil saw how Doctor Strange teleported back to them, holding the map of the world with him. "You`ve found them already?"
"Yes, I`ve got the location of the Isle. It has already materialized in the world, and has apparently gotten anchored down." With a simple spell, the map levitated above the floor and showed to everyone what was on it. "I`ve traced the patterns of movements of the Isle in Dimensional Gap and other dimensions, and I`ve estimated and calculated that it`s next place to materialize is here." Doctor pointed at the place on the map, pointing at the ocean east of coast of America, with Vergil and William widening their eyes at this one.
"The direct center of Bermuda Triangle?" Vergil spoke up out loud, looking at this spot. "That entire region is like one massive unstable trans-dimensional portal, with the borders between our world and Dimensional Gap thinning out to its bare minimum. Practically everyone who has ever been there ended up being transported out of this realm either into Underworld, or Dimensional Gap, or a completely different reality itself. How did the Isle get right in the center of it?"
"The Bermuda Triangle also operates like a magnet for trans-dimensional objects, attracting them from other realities and getting them into our world, and that place is riddled with hundreds of micro rifts and small portals opening and closing up all the time, because of some kind of trans-dimensional catastrophe that had happened there." Dr. Strange said out loud, with Lucifer deciding to say his piece.
"Not just 'some trans-dimensional catastrophe', but a direct meddling of the strongest beings in the Universe in the matters of reality, time and space." Lucifer spoke up to his son. "Around 5 and a half thousand years ago, that triangle was a normal and stable place, but overnight it became the hot spot for all manners of trans-dimensional anomalies in it. And all because Great Red, The Dragon God of Illusions and Dreams, suddenly decided to go to Dimensional Gap right from that spot and tore through the reality and went into it, creating a massive reality rift that needed to be closed up, and me, father, mother and Azrael went to fix it. That damned blasted Red Dragon God asshole nearly destroyed the world with that stunt, and because of that tear in the reality, Ophis, The Dragon God of Infinity and Eternity, was stuck in our realm. That place is just one big messed up reality glitch, and in a literal sense of the word. Navigating there will be one hell of a job for anybody, believe me."
"Well, according to Lucifer, this Triangle is gonna be one hell of a place to navigate and we`ll need to be careful there, extremely so." Vergil looked at the map for the last time. "So, it`s right in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle. Thank you for your help, Doctor Strange, I`m in your debt."
"Always a pleasure to help out a respectable colleague, and I bid you good luck." Vergil, William and Rosseweisse both nodded to this before turning towards the door and leaving, but before they left, Doctor Strange spoke up one more time. "Vergil, a word of advice for the future: when lightning strikes, meet it head on."
"What is that supposed to mean, Doctor?" Vergil asked of him, opening up a portal, with Stephen simply letting a very small smile.
"It means what it says. Trust me, you`ll understand when the time is right." Stephen Strange simply said to them, with Vergil teleporting away and William with Rosseweisse leaving the house to prepare for the journey.
Phew, sorry I was absent for a week, took a bit of time off for myself, but I`m back on the track as you can see. Don`t have much new to say to you, safe for the fact that things are heating up.
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