Chapter 25: Fallen are Familiar
The Crystal Rave raged on late into the night but none seemed at all exhausted. Cres and chaos headed from the dance floor back to the entrance where there was a large space meant for feasting or just hanging out. Along the wall was a bar made up of the opal shelves and a smooth counter. A phoenix with lightning white hair and emerald eyes, Noropay, slip one wine bottle down the counter which the recipient cought easily.
"Hey Cres, chaos. What can I get for ya on this fine night?"
"Just two shots Noropay. Looks like you're gonna have to go combing soon." Cres added as his eyes scanned the shelves. At the other end of the bar was Noropay's girlfriend Shuri, a feisty girl that didn't let anyone touch her without permission.
Noropay shrugged, "That's ok, combing is fun especially when there's a few of the human's made up nasties around. You have to fight for your findings then. Here." he slid two small glasses across, "Just so long as no one decides to go to Margaritaville and back, I think we'll be fine till I can get out there to comb."
"So long as they're not Fallen." Cres frowned.
The barkeeper gave him a stern gesture, "Hey man, don't you dare bring up anything about the Fallen tonight got that? Right now you shouldn't even be worrying about that."
chaos gulped down his shot, "True." he didn't add what he had been about to say. Each side was unpredictable most of the times, and so you always had that nagging feeling in the back of your head.
Before Cres could bring his glass to his lips someone tapped him on the shoulder, "Hey Cres wanna see who can get the shot down first?" this was Carnico, one of the more younger phoenix's.
"Ok, your count."
"1...2...3!"
Cres swung his cup forword, set the cup down, grabbed Carnico's and downed his before he was over the suprise.
Cres grinned at him, "You never said 'who's' shot to down."
Carnico raised a brow,"Your good Crescent, your good." he began wiping his face with a napkin that Noropay had handed him.
"Never mess with Cres when it comes to games. He will twist the rules and beat you sore." chaos grinned from where he was sitting.
"I'll keep that in mind." Carnico smiled before turning away.
"I don't think I've ever seen chaos drink any alcoholic beverage before." Hammer wondered aloud.
"That's because he didn't--or atleast with us anyways." Matthews grunted.
The boys stood there talking and laughing for awhile before chaos pointed behind his best friend, "Hey, there's inochi over there with Nyima."
Cres glanced over his shoulder then back, "You wouldn't mind would ya chaos buddy?"
"If it'll keep her off my neck, go right ahead. Just don't try anything that upsets my baby sister." he poked him. chaos watched Cres sneak up on her and tap her on the shoulder. He must have said something because usually the little "angel of life" turned around to smack who ever it was. But this time she stiffened up like a soldier standing at attention. The youth couldn't see her face, but he could see Nyima's, and right now it was sneering playfully. Cres turned a blushing inochi around so that he could talk to her eye to eye.
chaos didn't get to watch long enough to see what other reactions she made because someone socked him on the shoulder, "Oh you wanna fight huh Gigame'? Haha!" chaos tackled the other phoenix and an all out wrestling match erupted. Shion couldn't help but laugh slightly. She was still getting accustomed to this new chaos.
"Boys. Always have to pick a fight somewhere." Keteya said, shaking her head at her love's kidness. She was sitting with death, Mei, and by now Nyima who plopped down on the huge velvet pillow beside her.
"Can't blame em. They're boys!" death retorted. She sagged deeper into her cusion and tried to relax.
"Anything on patrol death?"
The law bearer opened an eye, "Nay, just some Hell Hounds that chaos spotted. Good flight though, it really stretched my wings."
Keteya leaned forword to snag a few pitted cherries from the bowl in the center of the low table and popped one into her mouth, "And what about Nyima, how's the Watch Tower?"
"Still watching. I was lucky to get someone to fill my space."
Keteya swallowed, "But you're still watching with them right?"
The blue black haired phoenix rolled her eyes, "Of course I am, computer geek, Eyes of Truth, who better to manage the Watch Tower but me?"
death sat up, "Another one with True Sight. Everyone has their own special gift. You True Sight, Mei has a thing with fire, Crescent with charm, and Keteya with spirits."
"And what's your's and your siblings?" Mei asked.
The law bearer thought a moment before shaking her head, "Honestly, I don't know. Atleast not specific individual talents. All I know is, we extend my brother's power and fine tune it."
"Ah I remember, like that one time when we first found out of the Fallen's new weapon."
death drew circles on the floor with her finger, "Something like that." Nyima suddenly snapped her head up, pupils dialating and contracting almost like a robots.
chaos was shoving another off of him when he noticed Nyima, Keteya and his sister running out the doors, "Gotta go." he informed no one in particular. On his way he snatched up inochi's wrist, inturrupting a rather smooth conversation with Cres.
"chaos! Where the freakin' heck are we going!"
"To the Watch Tower I think." he kept running.
"You just ruined our lovely night you know that, right chaos?" Cres managed to pace him.
"Ya I know, it's an older brother's job to crash his little sister's first date."
Outside the air was a little cooler than normal but still at a comfortable temperature. The night sky was bright with glittering stars and full moon. Angelic pearl white wings sprouted from the trio's backs and they leaped vertically into the air. chaos felt his stomach give that familiar lurch that he always enjoyed at lift off. He pumped his wings strongly once, and propelled himself even further upward. They flew close to the mountain cliff face, swiftly ascending into the colder air of their home. One peak stood apart from the main chain of mountains, and it was by far the highest. Eventually the rough stone twisted into an elegantly crafted tower. Runes were chissled around the base of it. Flowing with the harsh air current, chaos circled once with it before landing on the stone walkway jutting out.
The Watch Tower was a singal circular room with polished obsidion terminals fitting the walls. At first glance you would think they were just slanted tables, but they were more than that. In the very center of the room was a raised platform with water in being held in by jutting amethysts around the edges.
Nyima was standing at one of the terminals shifting different shaped, flawlessly cut jewels across its surface. Another phoenix, the one that was filling in for Nyima, was across the room making her own adjustments.
"Ah so 'this' is what the Watch Tower looks like from the inside." inochi mused aloud, "So what's up Nyima? It's not the Fallen is it?" in all of her life she'd never been nominated to work in the Watch Tower.
Cres ran a hand through his white blonde hair, "Ok our night's ruined."
Nyima brushed past death and Keteya who'd been looking over her shoulder, "I hope it's not what I think it is." she changed the positions of two rectangular emeralds. The strange runes, shapes and symbols changed slightly.
She hissed, "Yioma why didn't you tell me this earilier?"
"I didn't know it would damage the pool otherwise--."
Nyima completely ignored the rest as she turned to another panel and began placing the crystals in different positions. After a moment of calculation the terminal began to glow from the inside. The hard surface rippled as a new amethyst shard was pushed out. The annoyed phoenix bent beside the pool and, after close examination selected one to slowly pull out.
"Out with the old, in with the new." she mumbled. Once the uncracked one was set the pool began to give off a low hum, "Let's hope it's not what I think it is." Nyima stepped ontp the surface of the deep water and stood in the center, "Back up you guys." The room went black abruptly.
Nyima lifted off the water, her eyes glazing over with a brilliance of color. Ripples continualy echoed across the calm surface. A graphical sphere made up of bright lime green lines formed around her. Statistics of their realm began to form, of all the animals, all that was approaching and leaving, everything. The jewels on the terminals began moving on their own accord. Nyima began selecting with a simple touch on the hologram. It was like a more complicated so to speak version of their own computers.
chaos squinted, "Hey, zoom in on that." Two half square lines joined together to create a targeting cross. The image grew, but it was still unrecognizable.
"Zooming in again, bringing up contrast, and sharpening image." Nyima's voice was almost robotic. She fiddled wth a few strange code shapes that only they understood and the results cleared.
Cres smacked the side of his head, "I knew it."
"Everyone head back down to the Haven. Yioma, take the battle flute and sound it."
"Got it." Yioma grabbed what looked a flat ended, elegantly crafted pipe and dove out the window. In the roaring wind she steadied herself as best she could, widening her flight feathers so that she hovered in place. Yioma took the pipe and blew. At first there was nothing to be heard. Then, a note that sounded like a wet finger on the edge of a wine glass gew louder and louder till it filled the air with an ear splitting screech.
"Fallen! They're coming, and they're coming fast!" inochi screamed as they dove down to the entrance. Instantly the Arena was emptied and the pheonix's spread their wings and took flight. The night air was tense suddenly as each of them landed at the outskirts of the jungle like forest. They all turned in time to see four giant winged figures dive out of the Guard's Temple. They easily covered the distance in a few strong beats of their wings. Three of the four surprised the crew of who they were.
In the lead was a calm faced Wilhelm, to his left was Cherankov, and to the right was Virgil and another man they didn't know.
"Wilhelm....Cherankov....they're both phoenix's? How is this possible!" Shion cried.
Nephilim closed her eyes, "Everything will fall into place Shion." it was apparent that the Guardian was not going to 'tell' them everything. Just show them who chaos had been back then.
"Ezekiel."
"What?"
"That's his full name. Ezekial Cherankov. Have you ever noticed no one, not even his high superiors had his first name. The Elder for some reason didn't want to give it out. But then, he's always been the shy type sometimes--or shall I say scared."
Wilhelm pointed towards the dark horizon, "Do not let them get close to Dream Haven. Go!"his voice didn't even raise above its normal void tone. As one being the young phoenix's sprinted out into the exotic desert till they were nothing more than a wave of light careening across the ground. Not more than four hundred miles from Dream Haven, the wave of light clashed with another wave and an all out battle began.
chaos came to a very sudden stop when Wilhelm appeared out of nowhere and yanked him off his feet by the back of his vest collar, "You know the rules very well chaos, all three of you." he glanced over at his sisters who were being set back down by Vigil and the other man, "You will wait until they need you." chaos crossed his arm in an almost pouty kind of way while glaring at the Elder. Wilhelm set him down without another word.
Explosions shook the ground, flashes of light filled the night sky, screeches of pain filled the air, and blood painted the ground sticky black. chaos scrunched his nose in disgust. Not at the gore, but at the smell of poison in the air.
In just a few short minutes a heavenly paradise had turned into a hellish wasteland.
Shion stared. Never had she seen any sort of battle at this degree of violence and brute force. Then again....she'd never seen huminoids capable of such destruction with their bare hands before. Had she been in her body, she would have thrown up five times over. Ditto for most of the others.
An orca like call pierced all the pandemonium. Wilhelm turned to see troves over troves of every kind of gnosis closing in from the left side of the battle, "They're going to try and tire us out with this battle," he looked at the Triplets, "so they can strike us as weak after."
Faster than the human could register, chaos, inochi, and death became comets exploding across the ground towards the new threat. The three constantly cut in front of each other like they were fighting for first place, then before anybody realized it, the Serenity Triplets had lifted off the ground and where now circling in a verticle formation. Strange symbols appeared as their energies connected one another, "Ready." something in the center of them began to spark, "Tri Beam!"
A solid beam of energy made up of rules too complicated for any human to understand burst forth and obliterated the entire first line of the gnosis army.
'They swarm like flies to a carcuss.' death spoke in thought.
'Beautiful observation sister.' inochi retorted.
chaos lifted his arms, body radiating with raw deadly magic. His sisters mirrored his movements, "Meteor Shower!" the attack brought hundreds of giant blazing meteors from the sky and pulverized the center lines of the gnosis. Still they kept coming. A few humanoid Floral Beauties sprouted insect like wings and came after the Triplets, tackling out of their formation before they could charge for another Tri Beam. chaos lost track of his sisters as he wrestled the huminoid gnosis in midair. He recieved many deep claw scratches and bite marks aimed for his neck but ended up on his shoulders. The youth beat his wings hard in a desperete attempt to get his vicious enemy off.
death smashed the Floral Beauty into the ground, creating a small crater. Her eyes blinked rapidly with red light. The gnosis screeched in frustration but instantly went still, disapated into dust and vanished once she looked into death's eyes.
There was a crack of a whip and death was jerked into the air from her neck, "Hello sweatie, having fun playing the Gimreaper?" death kicked at Pelligri's face as she flipped back onto her feet.
"Golden Noose!" her yellow glowing whip lashed out and the Fallen caught it.
"You've grown a bit in spirit shall you say?" Pellegri strained a little, trying to keep the other phoenix from pulling her forword.
"Yes, grown up to kick your sorry butt you rebel. You don't even know what's inside that temple, no one does. Why do you and your friends want it so badly."
The Fallen gave a mad, almost possessive grin, "That ability inside of that temple was stolen from all of us long ago. It was forcefully taken, it rightfully belongs to us! Are you not curious death? Don't you want to know what was stolen from us all?"
death glared, "Whatever is inside, was put there for a reason Pelligri. And I have no intention of finding out what." she turned her face just in time to feel the sharp breeze of an arrow graze her cheek, "Honestly, you guys should know better than to try and kill me and my siblings. It would endager both sides."
Pelligri turned and glared at the one who'd fired. Most of their weapons were tipped with poison, and poison crystals. This was one of the rare and only things that a phoenix had to truly fear. death took the chance to snap her whip out her rival's loosened fingers, "I hope you're ready." bronze colored energy spiraled around her slim figure up to the hand she extended to the sky, "Beautiful Oblivion!" death smacked her palm against the earth and sent the energy burning across the ground straight at Pelligri.
Wilhelm could see that the Serenity Triplets, now seperated would not be of much help. His wings spread out of thin air, lifting him off the ground with not even a single thrust. The others followed.
Wilhelm closed his crimson eyes, "Gate of Destiny." a vertical circle of glittering water literaly bubbled into exsistence. The ground shook violently. Phoenix's couldn't be affected by this ability, but gnosis could. Just like when Kos-mos absorbed them with her X-Buster the army of gnosis vanished without a strain. This was the quickest way, but now Wilhelm was drained and couldn't do anything else but watch now.
'death, chaos, inochi it is time to come back to me.'
'That's not fair! We wanna fight!'
'To me, now.' his voice was the same tone as it had always been. Very reluctantly, inochi and chaos rid themselves of their attackers and headed back. death however was not about to give up on her fight with Pelligri.
'death, you will come back now!' that was Virgil.
Once again the law bearer ignored the Elders and kept fighting.
'Stop death! Pelligri isn't worth it she's just egging you on!' inochi pleaded.
"Hey witch! Have you looked in the mirror lately? I think you need to fix your make up, here I've got the mirror just for you!" death lifted her hands and a mirror created of liquid solidified, "Illustrious Image!" Everything to Pelligri went invert as her reflection cracked and shattered. She fell to her knees in a daze. Someone leaped over her still form and sent a solid beam of light straight through death's heart. The light made it hard to see, but Shion could just see that it was Margulis.
Everyone froze where they were. The fighting stopped imediately. chaos and inochi stared wide eyed at their sister. All Wihelm did was feel a twinge of annoyance. death's body sagged heavily--no wait, she wasn't falling, she was disinigrating! The phoenix disapated into a pile of metalic black ash. There was nothing but dead silence.
Without warning something gigantic burst out of the small pile and screeched. The light enveloped the entire field until nothing could be seen but a nothingness of white.
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I have nothing to say really. Me just go sleepy bye bye cause I'm sleepy from staying up too late. Review please!
The Crystal Rave raged on late into the night but none seemed at all exhausted. Cres and chaos headed from the dance floor back to the entrance where there was a large space meant for feasting or just hanging out. Along the wall was a bar made up of the opal shelves and a smooth counter. A phoenix with lightning white hair and emerald eyes, Noropay, slip one wine bottle down the counter which the recipient cought easily.
"Hey Cres, chaos. What can I get for ya on this fine night?"
"Just two shots Noropay. Looks like you're gonna have to go combing soon." Cres added as his eyes scanned the shelves. At the other end of the bar was Noropay's girlfriend Shuri, a feisty girl that didn't let anyone touch her without permission.
Noropay shrugged, "That's ok, combing is fun especially when there's a few of the human's made up nasties around. You have to fight for your findings then. Here." he slid two small glasses across, "Just so long as no one decides to go to Margaritaville and back, I think we'll be fine till I can get out there to comb."
"So long as they're not Fallen." Cres frowned.
The barkeeper gave him a stern gesture, "Hey man, don't you dare bring up anything about the Fallen tonight got that? Right now you shouldn't even be worrying about that."
chaos gulped down his shot, "True." he didn't add what he had been about to say. Each side was unpredictable most of the times, and so you always had that nagging feeling in the back of your head.
Before Cres could bring his glass to his lips someone tapped him on the shoulder, "Hey Cres wanna see who can get the shot down first?" this was Carnico, one of the more younger phoenix's.
"Ok, your count."
"1...2...3!"
Cres swung his cup forword, set the cup down, grabbed Carnico's and downed his before he was over the suprise.
Cres grinned at him, "You never said 'who's' shot to down."
Carnico raised a brow,"Your good Crescent, your good." he began wiping his face with a napkin that Noropay had handed him.
"Never mess with Cres when it comes to games. He will twist the rules and beat you sore." chaos grinned from where he was sitting.
"I'll keep that in mind." Carnico smiled before turning away.
"I don't think I've ever seen chaos drink any alcoholic beverage before." Hammer wondered aloud.
"That's because he didn't--or atleast with us anyways." Matthews grunted.
The boys stood there talking and laughing for awhile before chaos pointed behind his best friend, "Hey, there's inochi over there with Nyima."
Cres glanced over his shoulder then back, "You wouldn't mind would ya chaos buddy?"
"If it'll keep her off my neck, go right ahead. Just don't try anything that upsets my baby sister." he poked him. chaos watched Cres sneak up on her and tap her on the shoulder. He must have said something because usually the little "angel of life" turned around to smack who ever it was. But this time she stiffened up like a soldier standing at attention. The youth couldn't see her face, but he could see Nyima's, and right now it was sneering playfully. Cres turned a blushing inochi around so that he could talk to her eye to eye.
chaos didn't get to watch long enough to see what other reactions she made because someone socked him on the shoulder, "Oh you wanna fight huh Gigame'? Haha!" chaos tackled the other phoenix and an all out wrestling match erupted. Shion couldn't help but laugh slightly. She was still getting accustomed to this new chaos.
"Boys. Always have to pick a fight somewhere." Keteya said, shaking her head at her love's kidness. She was sitting with death, Mei, and by now Nyima who plopped down on the huge velvet pillow beside her.
"Can't blame em. They're boys!" death retorted. She sagged deeper into her cusion and tried to relax.
"Anything on patrol death?"
The law bearer opened an eye, "Nay, just some Hell Hounds that chaos spotted. Good flight though, it really stretched my wings."
Keteya leaned forword to snag a few pitted cherries from the bowl in the center of the low table and popped one into her mouth, "And what about Nyima, how's the Watch Tower?"
"Still watching. I was lucky to get someone to fill my space."
Keteya swallowed, "But you're still watching with them right?"
The blue black haired phoenix rolled her eyes, "Of course I am, computer geek, Eyes of Truth, who better to manage the Watch Tower but me?"
death sat up, "Another one with True Sight. Everyone has their own special gift. You True Sight, Mei has a thing with fire, Crescent with charm, and Keteya with spirits."
"And what's your's and your siblings?" Mei asked.
The law bearer thought a moment before shaking her head, "Honestly, I don't know. Atleast not specific individual talents. All I know is, we extend my brother's power and fine tune it."
"Ah I remember, like that one time when we first found out of the Fallen's new weapon."
death drew circles on the floor with her finger, "Something like that." Nyima suddenly snapped her head up, pupils dialating and contracting almost like a robots.
chaos was shoving another off of him when he noticed Nyima, Keteya and his sister running out the doors, "Gotta go." he informed no one in particular. On his way he snatched up inochi's wrist, inturrupting a rather smooth conversation with Cres.
"chaos! Where the freakin' heck are we going!"
"To the Watch Tower I think." he kept running.
"You just ruined our lovely night you know that, right chaos?" Cres managed to pace him.
"Ya I know, it's an older brother's job to crash his little sister's first date."
Outside the air was a little cooler than normal but still at a comfortable temperature. The night sky was bright with glittering stars and full moon. Angelic pearl white wings sprouted from the trio's backs and they leaped vertically into the air. chaos felt his stomach give that familiar lurch that he always enjoyed at lift off. He pumped his wings strongly once, and propelled himself even further upward. They flew close to the mountain cliff face, swiftly ascending into the colder air of their home. One peak stood apart from the main chain of mountains, and it was by far the highest. Eventually the rough stone twisted into an elegantly crafted tower. Runes were chissled around the base of it. Flowing with the harsh air current, chaos circled once with it before landing on the stone walkway jutting out.
The Watch Tower was a singal circular room with polished obsidion terminals fitting the walls. At first glance you would think they were just slanted tables, but they were more than that. In the very center of the room was a raised platform with water in being held in by jutting amethysts around the edges.
Nyima was standing at one of the terminals shifting different shaped, flawlessly cut jewels across its surface. Another phoenix, the one that was filling in for Nyima, was across the room making her own adjustments.
"Ah so 'this' is what the Watch Tower looks like from the inside." inochi mused aloud, "So what's up Nyima? It's not the Fallen is it?" in all of her life she'd never been nominated to work in the Watch Tower.
Cres ran a hand through his white blonde hair, "Ok our night's ruined."
Nyima brushed past death and Keteya who'd been looking over her shoulder, "I hope it's not what I think it is." she changed the positions of two rectangular emeralds. The strange runes, shapes and symbols changed slightly.
She hissed, "Yioma why didn't you tell me this earilier?"
"I didn't know it would damage the pool otherwise--."
Nyima completely ignored the rest as she turned to another panel and began placing the crystals in different positions. After a moment of calculation the terminal began to glow from the inside. The hard surface rippled as a new amethyst shard was pushed out. The annoyed phoenix bent beside the pool and, after close examination selected one to slowly pull out.
"Out with the old, in with the new." she mumbled. Once the uncracked one was set the pool began to give off a low hum, "Let's hope it's not what I think it is." Nyima stepped ontp the surface of the deep water and stood in the center, "Back up you guys." The room went black abruptly.
Nyima lifted off the water, her eyes glazing over with a brilliance of color. Ripples continualy echoed across the calm surface. A graphical sphere made up of bright lime green lines formed around her. Statistics of their realm began to form, of all the animals, all that was approaching and leaving, everything. The jewels on the terminals began moving on their own accord. Nyima began selecting with a simple touch on the hologram. It was like a more complicated so to speak version of their own computers.
chaos squinted, "Hey, zoom in on that." Two half square lines joined together to create a targeting cross. The image grew, but it was still unrecognizable.
"Zooming in again, bringing up contrast, and sharpening image." Nyima's voice was almost robotic. She fiddled wth a few strange code shapes that only they understood and the results cleared.
Cres smacked the side of his head, "I knew it."
"Everyone head back down to the Haven. Yioma, take the battle flute and sound it."
"Got it." Yioma grabbed what looked a flat ended, elegantly crafted pipe and dove out the window. In the roaring wind she steadied herself as best she could, widening her flight feathers so that she hovered in place. Yioma took the pipe and blew. At first there was nothing to be heard. Then, a note that sounded like a wet finger on the edge of a wine glass gew louder and louder till it filled the air with an ear splitting screech.
"Fallen! They're coming, and they're coming fast!" inochi screamed as they dove down to the entrance. Instantly the Arena was emptied and the pheonix's spread their wings and took flight. The night air was tense suddenly as each of them landed at the outskirts of the jungle like forest. They all turned in time to see four giant winged figures dive out of the Guard's Temple. They easily covered the distance in a few strong beats of their wings. Three of the four surprised the crew of who they were.
In the lead was a calm faced Wilhelm, to his left was Cherankov, and to the right was Virgil and another man they didn't know.
"Wilhelm....Cherankov....they're both phoenix's? How is this possible!" Shion cried.
Nephilim closed her eyes, "Everything will fall into place Shion." it was apparent that the Guardian was not going to 'tell' them everything. Just show them who chaos had been back then.
"Ezekiel."
"What?"
"That's his full name. Ezekial Cherankov. Have you ever noticed no one, not even his high superiors had his first name. The Elder for some reason didn't want to give it out. But then, he's always been the shy type sometimes--or shall I say scared."
Wilhelm pointed towards the dark horizon, "Do not let them get close to Dream Haven. Go!"his voice didn't even raise above its normal void tone. As one being the young phoenix's sprinted out into the exotic desert till they were nothing more than a wave of light careening across the ground. Not more than four hundred miles from Dream Haven, the wave of light clashed with another wave and an all out battle began.
chaos came to a very sudden stop when Wilhelm appeared out of nowhere and yanked him off his feet by the back of his vest collar, "You know the rules very well chaos, all three of you." he glanced over at his sisters who were being set back down by Vigil and the other man, "You will wait until they need you." chaos crossed his arm in an almost pouty kind of way while glaring at the Elder. Wilhelm set him down without another word.
Explosions shook the ground, flashes of light filled the night sky, screeches of pain filled the air, and blood painted the ground sticky black. chaos scrunched his nose in disgust. Not at the gore, but at the smell of poison in the air.
In just a few short minutes a heavenly paradise had turned into a hellish wasteland.
Shion stared. Never had she seen any sort of battle at this degree of violence and brute force. Then again....she'd never seen huminoids capable of such destruction with their bare hands before. Had she been in her body, she would have thrown up five times over. Ditto for most of the others.
An orca like call pierced all the pandemonium. Wilhelm turned to see troves over troves of every kind of gnosis closing in from the left side of the battle, "They're going to try and tire us out with this battle," he looked at the Triplets, "so they can strike us as weak after."
Faster than the human could register, chaos, inochi, and death became comets exploding across the ground towards the new threat. The three constantly cut in front of each other like they were fighting for first place, then before anybody realized it, the Serenity Triplets had lifted off the ground and where now circling in a verticle formation. Strange symbols appeared as their energies connected one another, "Ready." something in the center of them began to spark, "Tri Beam!"
A solid beam of energy made up of rules too complicated for any human to understand burst forth and obliterated the entire first line of the gnosis army.
'They swarm like flies to a carcuss.' death spoke in thought.
'Beautiful observation sister.' inochi retorted.
chaos lifted his arms, body radiating with raw deadly magic. His sisters mirrored his movements, "Meteor Shower!" the attack brought hundreds of giant blazing meteors from the sky and pulverized the center lines of the gnosis. Still they kept coming. A few humanoid Floral Beauties sprouted insect like wings and came after the Triplets, tackling out of their formation before they could charge for another Tri Beam. chaos lost track of his sisters as he wrestled the huminoid gnosis in midair. He recieved many deep claw scratches and bite marks aimed for his neck but ended up on his shoulders. The youth beat his wings hard in a desperete attempt to get his vicious enemy off.
death smashed the Floral Beauty into the ground, creating a small crater. Her eyes blinked rapidly with red light. The gnosis screeched in frustration but instantly went still, disapated into dust and vanished once she looked into death's eyes.
There was a crack of a whip and death was jerked into the air from her neck, "Hello sweatie, having fun playing the Gimreaper?" death kicked at Pelligri's face as she flipped back onto her feet.
"Golden Noose!" her yellow glowing whip lashed out and the Fallen caught it.
"You've grown a bit in spirit shall you say?" Pellegri strained a little, trying to keep the other phoenix from pulling her forword.
"Yes, grown up to kick your sorry butt you rebel. You don't even know what's inside that temple, no one does. Why do you and your friends want it so badly."
The Fallen gave a mad, almost possessive grin, "That ability inside of that temple was stolen from all of us long ago. It was forcefully taken, it rightfully belongs to us! Are you not curious death? Don't you want to know what was stolen from us all?"
death glared, "Whatever is inside, was put there for a reason Pelligri. And I have no intention of finding out what." she turned her face just in time to feel the sharp breeze of an arrow graze her cheek, "Honestly, you guys should know better than to try and kill me and my siblings. It would endager both sides."
Pelligri turned and glared at the one who'd fired. Most of their weapons were tipped with poison, and poison crystals. This was one of the rare and only things that a phoenix had to truly fear. death took the chance to snap her whip out her rival's loosened fingers, "I hope you're ready." bronze colored energy spiraled around her slim figure up to the hand she extended to the sky, "Beautiful Oblivion!" death smacked her palm against the earth and sent the energy burning across the ground straight at Pelligri.
Wilhelm could see that the Serenity Triplets, now seperated would not be of much help. His wings spread out of thin air, lifting him off the ground with not even a single thrust. The others followed.
Wilhelm closed his crimson eyes, "Gate of Destiny." a vertical circle of glittering water literaly bubbled into exsistence. The ground shook violently. Phoenix's couldn't be affected by this ability, but gnosis could. Just like when Kos-mos absorbed them with her X-Buster the army of gnosis vanished without a strain. This was the quickest way, but now Wilhelm was drained and couldn't do anything else but watch now.
'death, chaos, inochi it is time to come back to me.'
'That's not fair! We wanna fight!'
'To me, now.' his voice was the same tone as it had always been. Very reluctantly, inochi and chaos rid themselves of their attackers and headed back. death however was not about to give up on her fight with Pelligri.
'death, you will come back now!' that was Virgil.
Once again the law bearer ignored the Elders and kept fighting.
'Stop death! Pelligri isn't worth it she's just egging you on!' inochi pleaded.
"Hey witch! Have you looked in the mirror lately? I think you need to fix your make up, here I've got the mirror just for you!" death lifted her hands and a mirror created of liquid solidified, "Illustrious Image!" Everything to Pelligri went invert as her reflection cracked and shattered. She fell to her knees in a daze. Someone leaped over her still form and sent a solid beam of light straight through death's heart. The light made it hard to see, but Shion could just see that it was Margulis.
Everyone froze where they were. The fighting stopped imediately. chaos and inochi stared wide eyed at their sister. All Wihelm did was feel a twinge of annoyance. death's body sagged heavily--no wait, she wasn't falling, she was disinigrating! The phoenix disapated into a pile of metalic black ash. There was nothing but dead silence.
Without warning something gigantic burst out of the small pile and screeched. The light enveloped the entire field until nothing could be seen but a nothingness of white.
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I have nothing to say really. Me just go sleepy bye bye cause I'm sleepy from staying up too late. Review please!