Previously on Children of Omne, Lincoln and Ronnie Anne confront the embodiment of the mania inside the Exile, a strange boy that calls himself "Magatsu". After having a very strange converstion, The Calamity turns Exile's memories to dark creatures. The battle to save a fallen soul begins now.
Lincolns POV
The creatures that have come out of the coffins seem to be beasts associated with the elements; lava, storm, quake, gust, sand, shadow, abyss, frost, Gaia, and soul. There's something about them that seems familiar. I also notice that chains around the center coffin seem to be connected to the other ten. The calamity yells "It's not too late to submit to me. I'll transport you back to your home dimension and won't have my guys beat you to a pulp!" I yell back "No thanks, cause I'm (throwing feathers in the air) FEARLESS!" An angelic portal opens and and Fearless, a bird-like canine begins attacking the beasts. I get out my sword and mirror shield and start slashing some of the beasts.
Ronnie Anne starts dancing and yells "NOQODI" a dark portal opens and a giant bat, files and starts attacking. Ronnie Anne starts shooting at the Beasts. One of the beasts roars and the ground shaking. The Lava Beast, shoots a blast of magma at Fearless, forcing it back to Paradiso, with a cry and a blast of lighting being fired seemingly randomly. It blasts through the room bouncing off the walls. The stray lightning bolt strikes the red chain on the center coffin and it shatters, the coffin starts shaking as if there is something or someone imprisoned inside it. Magatsu, The Calamity yells in pain. Then the Lava Beast, starts to cry, and roar in anger. Then the beast dissolves into a red orb that travels into the red-colored coffin. Magatsu yells out "Alright kiddies, NO MORE PLAYING AROUND! BEASTS, ERADICATE THEM FROM THE FACE OF THE OMNIVERSE!"
The sand beast starts radiating his elemental power manipulating the environment. The entire room starts to shake and sand starts to fill it, forming a desert environment. We switch to our Purgatorian forms and take flight. The quake beast slams his arm to the ground making boulders fly up at me and Ronnie Anne. The Gaia Beast adds his power to the mix, surrounding us with dark energy. The soul beast, along with the abyss beasts, starts to attack me in a coordinated assault. I grab my feathers throw while yelling, "Fairness, even the odds!" I start to feel an invasive entity entering into my body, it's incredibly dark, ancient. It's Magatsu. The area around becomes nothing more than a black void. I see the remaining the beasts, before I can do anything they transform into dark versions of my sisters, excluding Lynn.. They start walking into the darkness. They start yelling "Lincoln help us!" I start trying to walk to them, but then a bright light appears, and I hear Ronnie Anne yelling "Lame-O you have to fight it! Magatsu is trying to possess you!" Then I hear my sisters again "Lincoln save us! You can save us once more!"
A third voice now rings out, "If you truly believe that they are you're real sisters, than you're a bigger fool than I once was. Listen, even if you manage to drive off Magatsu, you two will be stuck here in his soul realm, making everyone believe that you're both in comas.." I start to walk to the light and a hand grabs my shoulder. It's another me. He speaks to me in a tone without hope or remorse. "You need to finish this! Everyone knows I can't do this. Not alone. Now go! Go to her!" I run towards the light and I awake once. I see us on the peak of a tower below a star bound night sky and Ronnie Anne dancing and yelling "TELOC VOVIM!" A large millipede like being then appears from a portal and circles around a larger version of Gaia Beast. It then begins constricting the creature, managing to shatter it. A green orb then travels through the top of the tower, probably returning to its grave and shattering its respective chain on the center coffin. Magatsu cries out as he is somehow forced out and says "Why won't you die! I've seen both of you die dozens of times before. May the fires of hell consume you both, while you Scolopendra, go back from the hive from whence you came!"
He points his finger at the creature and hellfire begins erupting from the demon, consuming it. Magatsu then appears right in front of her in a maddened state, "I don't why you're alive, Father killed you in front of my eyes and his! I will make sure the job is done." Time slows down as Ronnie Anne attempts to stab Magatsu. Milliseconds before the knife makes contact he disappears. He reappears on top of a Perch. He yells "Almost got me, then again I have been proven to be a liar. Ha ha ha ha! It's really what even I want to be." The storm monster starts launching lighting bolts at us. Magatsu yells, "Make em crispy! I haven't eaten in aeons!" Me and Ronnie Anne barely dodge them, the only thing affected is our hair standing on end. Magatsu yells "When I hold you down, Oh the fun i'll have." Lightning keeps striking. Mictlantecuhthuli then tries to attack the storm monster. The storm monster barely dodges the attack, it fires a bolt of lighting at the demon, knocking it down, breaking two more chains on the coffin.
The storm and soul beasts turn into orbs and return their original places. Magatsu cries out then yells "Oh you worthless insects! Ever heard of a place called Nanking? In a few dimensions, it was the sight of horrific war crimes. Mass murder of civilians, burning, looting, even burying people alive. Though, there was also mass destruction as well. Ha ha ha ha, hedonism at its finest. What happens there will be merely the tip of the spear compared to what I will do to you. Ha ha ha ha, inappropriate puns." The sand and quake beasts renew their attack. My and Ronnie Anne, manage to run over to their chains and break them with our weapons. Causing more pain for the calamity judging by his reaction. He yells "damn you!" The environment starts to transform into an arctic environment. I start to shiver for a moment, then I hear the sound of what seems like wind. Then I feel it, it pierces my skin like a knife, filled with ice and cold. I then see the two beasts of ice and wind. The ice beasts fires a blast of elemental ice energy while the wing beasts amplifies it with a shot of F5 scale wind. Causing me to feel another breath of cold wind. I hear Magatsu yell "You want to know something funny? I thought I would let you die in a quick blaze of heat and flame, but no you put me through unnecessary pain by the very fact that you live. Therefore, you need to die a cold, unforgiving death. Man doesn't engage when they know others have lost. They let them die a slow death. Like the Sergeant at arms."
Sergeant at arms POV
I keep shooting at the zombie like things. The radio screeches and I hear from one of the soldiers, "Sir, we found a member of parliament on the borders of our jurisdiction. We have captured her without incident. Returning her to Parliament then we will join the fight ASAP." I yell back, "Is she corrupted?" The radio hisses then responds "No sir." I hear screams and see one of my men, being bitten by a manifestation I shoot it in the head. The manifestation immediately slumps to the ground and then I look down at is victim. The Victim writhes in pain, I reload my weapon and aim it at his head. He yells "Please no." ***BANG****
Ronnie Anne's POV
I'm Freezing, I don't think I will survive this for much longer. Me and Lincoln meet eyes and I say to him "Even the fires of hell will seem a relief to this blasted cold, albeit for a few seconds, but a relief nonetheless." He replies "We can't even get close to them. What are we going to do?" Magatsu yells out, "You know, if you say you're sorry, I will let your spirits leave here once your minds die. That way you don't have to wait till your physical bodies die." I look out at the two beasts working in perfect sync. Then in a flash I see Malicous, a demon with sphere like lower and disfigured head along with a fiery creature that looks like Fearless ambush the wind beast group at its neck while the demon holds it down, for some reason, I wasn't the one who summoned it. Maybe Lame-O was the one who summoned the other one
The wind beasts roars in pain, it slowly devolved to a chorus of screams, from there it the chorus of voices gets quieter and quieter until it goes silent as the heavenly beast rips the wind beast's throat off its body. The body along with its throat, dissolves into an orb, and breaks the chain on the center coffin while traveling to its coffin causing Magatsu to wince in pain yet again. While distracted, the two of us hide behind a rock wall. The ice beast blasts the heavenly dog with a stream of cold turning it to solid ice before smashing it to bits and pieces. Magatsu then yells "You think you won! Letting your guard down is the first trick in book in Getting Killed 101! My beasts! Search for the two brats and destroy them on sight!" The ice beast along with it's other remaining companions begins to search for us. I whisper to Lincoln, "Nice job summoning the bird-thing." He seems confused at the statement, "I didn't bring him out. I thought you brought the demon." I reply back, "If I summoned Malicious, he have a weaving hair-like barrier around it and as far as I know, it didn't have one, who do you think brought them to the fight?" Magatsu yells out "Oh, just to show my displeasure I am cutting you off from your summoning powers. This maybe Exile's soul realm, but in here I control everything. Soon I'll even control Exile, won't that be fun. Oh the fun i'll have, the depravity, oh it will be amazing."
Lincoln's POV
The ice beast locks eyes with me and fires a blast of cold. I jump dodging it, the blast of ice turning the ground into ice crystals. Magatsu yells "Behind you!" The ice beasts turns around and fires a blast at Ronnie Anne. Barely missing her by centimeters. She yells "Lame-o, break the chain!" The beast immediately fires another blast at us. We barely dodge it, then we hear the sounds of a gun going off. I look up and see Magatsu with a sniper rifle. (opening and closing and the bolt action) He yells "Would you please stand still, a shot in the head you won't feel a thing! (Bang) DAMN IT, WOULD YOU HOLD STILL." I keep constantly moving. Between the ice beast and Magatsu firing a bolt action rifle, I can barely stay still for a few seconds. I barely dodge a blast by the ice beast when the sound of another crack as the bullet. The bullet breaks through the ice like it was nothing. I jump up in the air and use my light speed. Magatsu yells while aiming the sniper rifle at my head "That won't help." chuckling in pure sadistic pleasure whispers to himself "he hehe ha ha ha ha. Not one bit." He pulls the trigger and the bullet slowly files out of the gun. As soon as the bullet is out of the barrel. I go back to regular time. I fall to the ground and the the ice beast readies another blast, but the bullet blows through it's icy skull with a ear splitting CRACK! The ice monster falls down and turns into an orb, that then proceeds to break its chain. Magatsu winces in pain. He says "Welp, I think I am quite done with all this stalling."
I laugh and say "Last I checked, you have no one left." He smirks and then I feel hands around my throat, and in front of me appears the shadow beast. I look over at Ronnie Anne and she is staring into the eyes of the abyss beast. I reach for anything, and find one of my feathers. My eyes start to become blood shot, my lungs burn for air, my heart begins to get slower and slower. Until the feather to its body. It immediately starts burning and releases my throat. It shrieks in pain as Magatsu does the same. It turns into an orb, breaking it's chain and setting the coffin on fire. Magatsu yells "Why did you do that! You just condemned 50 souls to heaven." I throw another feather at the abyss beast. It immediately starts burning. Magatsu yells the most blood curdling scream I have ever heard. Magatsu then yells "You… sent 50...souls to hell…" he continues to yell. Until the coffin of the shadow beast explodes. The abyss beast turns into an orb, seconds before impact. The impact knocks Ronnie Anne unconscious. Magatsu roars, then releases a giant pulse of energy, as I look at fifty orbs burning into nothing. Then the second coffin explodes and everything goes black.
Sergeant at arms POV
I keep shooting the manifestations. At this point, the rest of the security forces are using the heaviest weaponry they have and still are barely holding them back. I don't know how much longer we can hold them back. I then see a huge pulse of energy coming out like a nuclear bomb originating from the Gate. I say "Oh no no no no NO, those kids. God forgive them." The pulse flies past me I can feel it gaining strength as it travels further. The radio hisses and my last remaining field team says "Sir, what was that?" I say to him, "Discharge from the curse. Not deadly here, but once it leaves Exile, it'll start an inescapable genocide, the force will destroy the dimension he is in, then transport him to a brand new one." The staff says "So all the work he did to influence those kids dreams. Where for nothing?" I respond "Negative, he is in a different dimension." Another blast rushes through.
Lincoln's POV
My vision is blurry. I look around and I see Magatsu limping and clearly disoriented. He manages to gasp out. "You just… destroyed… two dimensions…" I look around and I see me and Ronnie Anne are lying on the ground next to each other. Magatsu says "Soon i'll be able to take complete and permanent control. I'll enforce the curse again and the Mania will be in control for all eternity!" He sits on top of my and puts his hand on Ronnie Anne's throat. He starts counting "10...9..8..." I start looking for anything to get him off me and save. I find a piece of of strange material, from one of the coffin. Just before he gets to one, I stab him in the gut with the wood. He grunts and then looks down as he start bleeding. He gets up and says "No, no, no I refuse to honor that deal we made." Despite what he says, I can feel the air pulsating with magic. He starts to fall over and yells "No no no no!" The magic enforcing the mania breaks and I see darkness flowing back in the chamber and the center coffin is destroyed. Exile is free, and he is angry.
Sergeant at arms POV
I am out of ammo and manifestations are about to mull me. I resort to pistol whipping. It only last for a few seconds and just as I am about to be bit. The manifestations all fall down and darkness starts to fly away from them. I look at them all, including the ones I killed. They look more and more normal and alive as well as unaware of what happened. I say, "By the First God, those kids did it."
Lincoln's POV
I go up to the center coffin. It's Magatsu, now nothing more than a head with a damaged and severed upper torso without any limbs. I look at the calamity lying on ground with magic coming near him. He says "Don't heal me, protect the curse." The magic immediately flows to the center coffin shutting it and sealing it with a seemingly impenetrable chain. I go up to him and say "What the hell is this?" He replies "in the center coffin is my physical body, the conductor for the curse. Ha. when you take out the mind and spirit, the body become nothing more than a husk to filled. I used it as an instrument. It's true that if my body dies then the curse kills everyone. (He begins spitting blood) this on the other hand is merely an extension. I reply "I can save you, but you have to promise not to enforce the mania ever again. Or do you want to die and I assume go to hell?" He spits more blood and says "I'll be back when the curse has enough spare energy to bring me back. Besides, (spitting blood) don't (cough) threaten (ach) me with a (ahhh) good (spitting up blood) time." Magatsu closes his eyes and disappears, the faint sound of fire, hellish screaming and laughter in the background.
Hey boys and girls thank you so much for reading this chapter. Well it seems like Ronnie Anne and Lincoln's misadventures in Exile's soul realm are complete. After a grueling fight that is. We want to apologize for the long wait. As summer it's hard to get together. Thank you for your patience and more chapters will come out as soon as we can. Join us next time for more adventure on Children of Omne. Until then make your own destiny.