EDITED/ REWRITE: 13/7/2019
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Chapter/ Part 31: Brothers in Arms! [1]
"Lord Ash Albion." Ash ceased his tracks as he almost walked down the stairs to the foyer of Haunted Witch Manor by a voice calling his name, for the white-haired and tall man in white to turn his head to his left and gave a soft glare by seeing the Demon Council Leader walking towards him from the hall he walked out off; a calm, emotionless frown shown in the old man's face. "May I enquire to know, where are you going?"
"Golbez offered me to join him and interrogate both of our enemies at a new world they happen to arrive earlier. Unfortunately, Golbez just went off without me an hour ago, so I must as well meet Thanatos a bit late than I presumed." Despite his entire form still bears the fiery hatred inside for being near and have no choice to ally himself with the man responsible with the cruelty and deaths of innocent human and non – human lives for his iron-fisted tyranny, with the desire to reshape Purvana into what he sees fit; Ash kept his temper in check to answer the Demon Council's question with a composed scowl, seeing the old fool giving a few silent nods until the Demon Council leader assume aloud with his voice let out an aggrandizing tone and a scoff. "Ah, are you planning to erase that false Immortal?"
"Surely you have forgotten that the creator of Purvana made him alongside us and even as the Devil of Purvana, he is created as a genuine Immortal like our brothers and sisters! So I would recommend you to reconsider." Almost raising his voice and gritting his teeth when hearing what the damn old man refers to his little Thanatos with such revulsion; Ash elucidated as he turns his head away from the Demon Council Leader to walk down the steps, with the old man following the youth – looking ancient Immortal to voiced out his disgust of Thanatos, clearly ignoring Ash's sentence for his own goal. "But Lord Ash, that Devil is different from the Immortals and out of them; the fiend is disobedient, crude, and shameless to the very core! He even made Lord Iason and Lady Aisha bear the children of their disgusting partners…"
"I don't want to hear from someone who kills innocent lives, and claims this is for Purvana's sake. And you have no right to talk ill of Thanatos's efforts for Iason and Aisha; it's their choices, not yours." Walking towards the closed doors of the manor, Ash interrupted with a sharp tone right as the Demon Council stood in front of the stairs when he sees Ash slowly and slightly turn his head over his left shoulder to further exclaim to the old man, who managed to notice the pupil in Ash's left eye, under his fringes, slowly shrink to bear a sort of slit, when he spoke with a serene but irritated tone. "Oh yes. If I were to die in defeat from my fight with Thanatos…I want you to not harm Khalifa during the War. I've been aware that you find her disgusting for being my niece, even though we are all not related by blood, but I don't care. But if you do so much as to even attack her on the spot…well, you already know what I'm talking about."
Trying to silence the growl that escaped in his mouth when he looked at Ash's furious glare; the Demon Council Leader respond with a silent bow with his eyes closed when he heard the doors open before closing it with a soft thud, signaling the old man that Ash Albion has left the manor for him to slowly lift his body up and keep his posture.
However, the sounds of one's laughter brought the old man to turn his head to his left and notice the entrance of the kitchen is ajar for the Demon Council to witness the sight of Bill Cipher and his team, just returned from their failed attempts to return their prisoner who was reported to escape, with the sight of Bill giving himself a crude and overjoyed laugh and spilling his cup of tea over his eye patch and eye ,while Madeline de Autriche, Shinsuke Khalifa, Austin Trance, and Tengu ignore their leader to peacefully enjoy their tea and conversations.
The sight seems to disgust the old man further when he slowly grinds his teeth in fury of seeing that group seemingly not finding the situation very serious, for him to think to himself in his mind. 'Hmph! Laugh at your own failures, peasants! The lot of you will soon bow to the real God of Purvana! Especially you… 'Lady' Khaira!'
[Twenty minutes ago…]
"Master Thanos? Lady Azalea? Kia?" As soon as he arrived in the new world, although he appeared to find himself standing in the middle of a lava field with hellish – like orange and red sky, ground, mists of smoke flying around the area and even the smell of flames fills the air as some of the blazes ejected from the hardened ground; Cecil slowly walk through the blistering place while he called out his representative's name, as he immediately notice he is now separated from the ruthless and almost heartless Immortal and 'Devil' of his world, his wife Azalea and daughter Kia Albion.
Fortunately; Thanos's son Shiro is not with them, not because the young man may slightly intimidate the Dark Knight/ Paladin with the lad's psychotic behavior, but because Shiro just recently woke up from his temporary coma, since the incident with a castle's demolition and almost death from Will Ryan's enemy Willy. [Note: Chapter/ Part 12]
Slowly and slowly, Cecil kept walking further to the scorching field and slightly raise his voice to hopefully call out and search for the Immortal and his family, at the same time he witnessed and nearly got himself hit from the sudden geysers of boiling hot steam erupting from the ground that would shoot up from any direction the Dark Knight may lead himself to.
Suddenly, Cecil stopped his tracks when the dark purple – armored man notices a silhouette of a figure casually walking towards his direction from the thick fog concealing its appearance but when seeing it is a tall figure; Cecil gave himself a sigh in relief as he spoke with a composed and serene tone under his helmet. "Ah, Master Thanos. I thought I would…never…"
However, when he noticed the closer this figure walked towards him; the person behind the fog is growing taller and taller to even past Thanos's height of over seven feet, which slowly brought Cecil to ceased speaking to take a step back and hide the surprise showing in his helmet when he watches the figure composedly emerge himself out of the mists and reveal himself… "Cecil."
"Brother!? What are you doing here?" Shocked to see his brother and former enemy in front of the Dark Knight and in this world; Cecil gasped in surprise of seeing Golbez in a flesh, the last time he saw his brother was when Cecil and his friends saw all warriors of Chaos and Shinryu for the first time [Note: Chapter/ Part 10].
Lowering his helmeted head for the sudden appearance, Golbez gave a soft mutter with a tint of amusement to his young brother, while both witnesses a flash of purple dark mists with a pair of glowing yellow lights manifest and flew around the large, armored man for the mists to materialized into a form of Golbez's Shadow Dragon and float around and behind the dark warrior. "Cecil, I can clearly see how much strength you have obtained in this peculiar War. Hopefully, I entrust you and your friends shall continue in order to preserve and grow your abilities for your chances of defeating your enemies."
Hoping his brother will not hear the quiet gasp that escaped from his mouth underneath his helmet for the wise words from the wise mage such as his own brother and former enemy; Cecil silently respond with a soft nod until he may react something else when he watches the Shadow Dragon floating towards behind Golbez, the moment the latter continued with an offer that will surprise his younger brother with a flinch. "I may have left my representative on purpose to see how much your progress has been improved, I do hope you won't disappoint me with your failure; Brother!"
"Brother…" First giving himself a quiet but saddened mutter while he slowly lifts his lance in his hands, Cecil glance at Golbez with the determination and courage still hiding in his helmet when the Dark Knight decided to accept the offer of fighting his brother once and for all. "I may have trained hard with the help of my allies from both our wars and the War of Wars, to show I will not hesitate to prove my strength and will in our fight!"
Cecil Harvey (LV 16) vs Golbez (LV 17)
Information: Show your might to Golbez! (Music: The Four Fiends from Final Fantasy IV/ Dissidia series)
Golbez: (Crossing his arms in front, his Shadow Dragon is present behind) Prove this 'vow' of yours.
Cecil: (Holding his lance in a charging stance) As you say, the bonds with my allies are my strength!
Ignoring the random geyser of hot steam at random positions from the lava field that would nearly hit either of the two; Cecil first ran towards his brother as Golbez while he mutter a simple 'Target' to throw his lance at the towering mage, who managed to leap to his left with his Shadow Dragon following to avoid the sudden throw, and fling it's right arm to summon a large ling of dark energy and fire a purplish energy blast which unfortunately materialized behind Cecil, when he is standing in front of Golbez's vision.
However, it leaves an opening in Golbez as Cecil successfully summon his lance back in his hand with a mist of darkness and immediately jab the weapon through Golbez, who let out a grunt when the Dark Knight first remove his lance from his brother, while whispering what Golbez heard as 'Forgive' before Cecil again threw his lance at the mage to send him flying back and hit his back against a giant wall of a rock. (Golbez: 530 BRV to 309 BRV, Cecil: 478 BRV to 699 BRV)
"Darkness be with me!" Cecil declared as he summon and shoot four orbs of glowing dark purple and black energy of darkness which twirl forward to bring Golbez to leap up and avoid the attack when the orbs flew back to Cecil before disappearing, only for Golbez to dash towards his brother on-air and fling his arm upwards and conjure nodes from above their heads, a red line of a laser downward on Cecil with a blast of an explosion to send him off the ground and on the air. "Come…" (Golbez: 309 BRV to 381 BRV, Cecil: 699 BRV to 619 BRV…)
"I'll erase you!" Golbez lift both hands towards Cecil and repeatedly fire multiple beams of electricity that shocks Cecil on air, (Golbez: 381 BRV to 459 BRV to 0 BRV, Cecil: 619 BRV to 541 BRV until 3101 HP to 2560 HP)
Flying backwards from the attack; Cecil found his body lowering down before he let out a groan from falling towards the ground, the impact of his back against the hard ground releases a geyser of steam to send him flying back to the air in pain from the burning heat of the steam, (Cecil: 541 BRV to 500 BRV) but when seeing Golbez flying his way to him, Cecil let out a shout of "Beneath the light…" while his armor emits a bright white glow to change his armor from Dark Knight into Paladin for Cecil to flew towards Golbez while his weapon hit the mage with a blinding light (Golbez: BREAK! Cecil: 500 BRV to 1094 BRV until 1176 BRV)
For the Paladin to send Golbez flying in a rising arc until Cecil instantly swung his lance down, and slam his brother to hit his back against the ground, right where another shot of the scorching spring hit the mage in the back to send him blown almost a mile away. (Cecil: 1176 BRV to 1325 BRV Wall Rush to 0 BRV, Golbez: 2967 HP to 1642 HP - 156 HP Wall Rush = 1486 HP)
"Time to Part!" Seeing Cecil twisting his body on air but in front of him (Cecil: 0 BRV to 530 BRV), Golbez spoke as he lift both his arms to summon four gigantic rocks from below the burning ground to rise and immediately circle around the mage and Shadow Dragon an inch off the ground, while Golbez's body let out a bright glow of darkness with his dragon instantly fused itself in his armor for the head to mount on Golbez's shoulder as soon as the mage chant "Creature of Shadow!" (EX: Summon Shadow Dragon!) before Cecil was forced to be hit by one of the four boulders when Golbez threw them away in any direction… (EX Burst: Twin Moon!)
"Guide my inner shadow…Light and dark above…" After giving a kick to Cecil with multiple orbs of laser hitting him in a circular motion around him, (Cecil: 478 BRV to 402 BRV, Golbez: 530 BRV to 606 BRV) Golbez chanted to himself while letting his Shadow Dragon – fused armor let out an immense amount of light and dark energy translucently envelope his body until a shout of "Transcend the stars!" brought Golbez to lift his arms outstretched with multiple meteors rising around both him and Cecil, the former notice his Shadow Dragon's mouth above his left shoulder is letting out a light mists of white or light blue light with an icy chill.
'Very well…' Golbez muttered in agreement as he throw his arm forward for Cecil to receive damage from the sudden tornado of ice from the Shadow Dragon's spell (Cecil: 402 BRV to 219 BRV, Golbez: 606 BRV to 789 BRV) while the meteors instantly flew past him for the Dark Knight/ Paladin to get hit by one meteor (Cecil: 219 BRV to 183 BRV, Golbez: 789 BRV to 825 BRV), only for a giant meteor to follow the previous assault and slam itself against Cecil. (Cecil: 2560 HP to 1735 HP)
Not seeing Golbez's body let out another glow of light and dark to unfused himself from his Shadow Dragon, and let it flew around it's master when he again flew through the burning battlefield in fast speed; Cecil successfully regain his balance on air for him to summon a magic seal, named Searchlight, for what appears to be an orb of light towards Golbez to shoot several projections of light white light, the last of the multiple projectiles manage to hit the dark mage (Golbez; BREAK!, Cecil: 183 BRV to 796 BRV) before Cecil flew towards his brother to swiftly charge himself downward, with Golbez receiving a hit from Cecil's lance through the former's body, until the Paladin immediately rise himself to strike the mage countless times with fast swings before he had the guts to knock Golbez away to the sky. (Cecil: 796 BRV to 1054 BRV)
Without dropping himself to fall; Cecil sprinted to Golbez with fast speed, without warning or letting the taller mage sense his presence, when Cecil starts jabbing his lance to Golbez's back to let out a painful groan from the taller man when he was sent flying back, (Cecil: 1054 BRV to 1178 BRV) for Cecil to dash towards where Golbez was flown and repeat the action of stabbing his weapon to his brother to send Golbez flying another mile away, but closer to reach towards the boiling geysers of the ground (Cecil: 1178 BRV to 1302 BRV)
"I know my course!" Cecil declared to himself, while letting his body glow with a violent haze of white smoke and light in the Paladin's body (EX: Job Augment!), for the warrior of Cosmos to flew towards Golbez, this time he can sense his young brother's presence for him to twist his body with a swift twirl, but he hid the surprise in his helmet when he witness Cecil's weapon glowing with the same white light as his body, before Cecil swung his arms and lance up from below to hit his brother in a slash and give him the finisher! (Golbez: 1486 HP to 184 HP) (EX Burst: Soul Shift)
"This will seal it!" Quickly changing his armor into Dark Knight; Cecil threw a short flame of darkness from his right hand to hit Golbez and render him stunned (Cecil: 0 BRV to 147 BRV) for the Dark Knight to again revert himself back into his Paladin form when he shouts out "The moon leads me! …" with his body releasing more fogs of white light until Cecil immediately soar through Golbez into the air, transforming back into his Dark Knight form in a flash of dark purple light and throw his lance downwards to hit his brother.
"Light and darkness cast aloft!" Summoning his lance back in his right hand in a glow of darkness, Cecil repeat the action by flying through Golbez but with addition of multiple large orbs of darkness swirling through the dark mage and Shadow Dragon, until the finisher is ready for Cecil to again revert himself back into his Paladin form and flew to Golbez for the final time, and strike two large slashes of glowing white light with his red sword, in a form of a cross to let out a soft explosion with Golbez inside. After the cross of light has vanished from thin air, the fight is proven victorious when Golbez anguishedly groans from the attack. * Victory! *
Cecil Harvey: (First levitating to the ground, his right arm twirls his sword in front and around his body before lowering it with his left arm bends to hold it in front of his torso) I might've been lucky this time. (Cecil: LV to 18 (+2))
Once both warriors of light and darkness have stopped themselves from continuing their fight as Cecil unleashed the best of his abilities like Golbez; the Paladin quickly ran towards his brother, who is shown to look like he is unfazed from all of the attacks he was given, after letting his Shadow Dragon dismiss itself to disappear in a flash of dark purple and black light, for the towering mage to remark aloud with a calm tone. "No matter the strength of the advantages we both will receive during the War of Wars; the results will stay the same."
"Brother…" Whispering to himself with his eyes slightly narrow to show his sadness before, during and after his fight with his brother; Cecil continues to listen of Golbez's wise words whenever the warriors have a chance to stick it in their minds, only for the tall mage to wonder to the two of them with a soft tone. "Cecil, you and your comrades do have some of Shinryu's former warriors assisting you, for they have also believed serving the light is for their salvation. When that happened, I would question myself…if I were to do the same."
"Of course you can!" Cecil quickly responds with a desperate frown as Golbez let himself be silent to watch his young brother explain his desire to bring his brother back and ask for his aid once again, a hand pressed against the light purple and almost white armor piece on his chest while Cecil spoke. "Brother, it is never too late for you to join us! We were told by our new comrades; that they too believe that the light can shine upon anyone, regardless of their actions! So please…"
"Cecil." Hearing his name from his opponent to interrupt the Paladin and lift his head to glance at him in surprise; Golbez first lowered his helmeted head to give himself either a soft scoff or a quiet chuckle before slowly glaring at his brother, to clarify what he wants to say to his young brother. "You're still too kind-hearted to be a knight. But maybe, I wish to say this since we are summoned from the start of this strange War…"
"Where the fuck is that brat?" Finding himself, his wife Azalea, and daughter Kia Albion to be standing of some mountain with the large area of the ground around them and under their feet filled with healthy grasses with some flowers, which contrasts the white thick layer of snow covering the peak and the body of the mountain they are on; Thanos Albion complained of Cecil's sudden disappearance with a furious sneer in his face, while his hands softly gripped the long handle of his looming Grim Reaper scythe, as Azalea walk towards her husband from behind to softly assure with a faint yet calm smirk on her beautiful face; both parents left her daughter to walk around while looking around the area with astonishment. "Calm down Thanos. It might be because you kicked Cecil in the portal before the three of us walked in to get here. He could be elsewhere."
"Yeah…" First giving himself a bored mutter with a few satisfied nods, as he did purposely stomp his boot on the innocent young man's back before forcefully pushing him through the portal of Darkness in a form of a Corridor of Darkness, before Thanos turn his head over his shoulder to see their daughter standing in front of the mountain glacier a mile away and behind the two immortal adults. "Kia, be careful there."
But right as both Thanos and Azalea Albion notice her left prosthetic arm bend backward to give a thumbs-up behind her back as a silent response, wearing the fuchsia jacket that would normally be wrapped around her waist, due to the almost cold air…
"Thanatos. I'm always surprised that you normally become heartless to people, but act as a caring ruler for your family and your people." The instant and calm voice immediately brought the three to react and prepare themselves to fight for the newcomer, in case if it an enemy, with Azalea lifting her arms for her hands to let out a long flash of white light to summon her sword, while her hair and eyes swiftly changed color from dark brunette and chocolate brown into pure white hair and pinkish-red eyes, with the addition of her Berserk Markings showing on her face, neck, and breasts, and Kia quickly turn around to run towards her parents, when the three notice a flash of wind for the newcomer to reveal himself, a faint but sincere smile on his face.
"Tch." Releasing a click of his tongue for seeing his arch-enemy appearing in front of him, and his hand is holding a simple gun while his body is coiled around by his pet snakes to rest their heads on his shoulders; Thanos exclaim to his older brother with an irritated sneer and scoff for seeing him again, and being referred to by his real name. "Of course; the world needs a heartless Devil anyway, and even if I don't look like it: the only people I would show compassion are my family and the hybrids, cause my people are million times better than those fucking losers of humans and souls!"
"Well, I'm glad to hear that; although I would think by seeing you staring at me like that, you're planning to fight me as painful as you want for what I did, yes?" Ash first sighed in relief when he closed his brown eyes with a smile while he may not see the frightening glare and scowl shown in Thanos's face when Ash enquire, with both Azalea and Kia glancing at their husband and father with a displeased frown at first, before their turn their attentions to glare at the other Immortal when Thanos decided to end the conversation in order to go straight to the fight. "Yup. So hope you like to get your ass tortured, by the boy you fucked first!"
Thanatos/ Thanos Albion (LV 17), Azalea Klauser (LV 16) & Kia Albion (Assist) vs Ash Albion (LV 16)
Information: Defeat Ash Albion! (Music: Shiva Battle Theme from Granblue Fantasy)
Ash Albion: (Lifting his right arm to point his gun, the two snakes around his arms flicker their tongues; slightly curious) Thanatos…would you last a day without misbehaving?
Thanatos/ Thanos Albion: (Spinning his scythe around, over his head, before swinging his right arm down to slam the tip of the blade on the ground with a large thud; sarcastic) Fucking hell no. What fun would it bring if I don't?
Without wasting any more time as he is very impatient to get this over with; Thanos is the first of the family of three to start the battle by running straight towards Ash, who quickly aims his gun at his younger brother and starts shooting a barrage of bullets…
All dodged by Thanos when he start leaping his body, from either left or right multiple times, as he proceeded to run to Ash with his scythe lifted on his hands over his head, before Thanos swiftly send his scythe spinning around his body and above his head to form a sort of dorm of his scythe attacks in different directions, while Ash kept stumbling and flinching from receiving all of the strikes from that deadly weapon, (Ash: 587 BRV to 314 BRV, Thanos: 666 BRV to 939 BRV) until…
"Get the fuck out of here!" Once grabbing the handle of his weapon after god – knows – how many of that attacks coming from the large scythe; Thanos let out a furious, deafening shout as, with Ash's body against the curved blade which let out a glowing mist of almost black energy, Thanos twist his body and swung his scythe in a wide swing from above to send Ash flying with a painful gasp from the fourth older Immortal of the six, revealed by the Demon Council Leader. (Ash: 2295 HP to 1356 HP)
"Nice try!" Ash panted with a wheeze when he regains his balance on air to slowly levitate himself to descend to the ground, one of his snakes from his either of the arms wildly uncoil itself from his limb before the white reptile hurriedly land itself on the grass and scurry itself to whoever is near to its direction; in this case, Kia gave herself a shudder when the snake found itself to her prosthetic legs before hastily climb itself and wrap itself around the Akuma Host and send her stunned to not move, signaling the warrior of Shinryu to rocket himself to Kia for an attack.
Although he witness something to twist his body in the air and avoid a sword swing from Azalea, for the queen of Hybrid Hell and Berserk Klauser to start swinging each of her swords with a few smacks on the snake, until the white reptile squirm and successfully release itself from Kia due to feeling the intense pain.
"Run as fast as you can!" After the snake managed to slither itself back to its owner, after he lands his feet on the grass, to climb itself on him and wrap itself on his free arm; Ash lifts his gun and aim towards either of his brother or the females, but the moment he pulled the trigger down, six bullets first flew towards Thanos…
Only for all of those bullets to suddenly enlarged itself in a nick of time to be the same height as an average person, startling Thanos a bit, for the Devil of Purvana to let out a few painful groans from receiving five of those bullets in his body (Thanos: 666 BRV to 524 BRV, Ash: 314 BRV to 456 BRV) until the sixth bullet erupted into a large explosion that sent Thanos flying to the mountain glacier behind Azalea and Kia, before his back hit against the cold ice to receive another groan. (Thanos: 2409 HP to 1953 HP)
With a determined cry as she ran towards the enemy; Azalea gave a short leap with both her arms forming into a X to block any bullets from Ash, as he took a step to a side for Azalea to land herself at the last spot the Immortal stood, before both Ash and Azalea starts sending out attacks and counterattacks with bullets and punches and kicks in hasty spins of Ash's body and rapid sword swings from Azalea, one of the swings manage to jab Ash through the body with one of the swords (Ash: BREAK! Azalea: 543 BRV to 1270 BRV) …
"Enough!" Ash's body immediately let out a violent glow of white light, a pair of white angel wings sprouted from his back, his gun let out a long blade of white light and his eyes let up a bright glow of white steams of transparent smoke out of his brown eyes (EX: Angelic Ancient!) for him to jump on the air, with the wings flapping on his back to float above the Immortal and his family, the two snakes however have released themselves off their master's arms to do their job and aid their master by slithering around the grass until they again leaped off the ground and wrapped themselves around Azalea's body and arms together with a flinch, stunning her while Ash lifts his gun to aim at the woman as the gun lighten up a blinding white light from the inside of the gun…
"Light it up!" Until Ash pulled the trigger of his gun as not only a large bullet of white energy was shot from the barrel, but the blade of light extends itself to grow longer and soar towards Azalea to receive multiple hits from the blade of light that envelops her (Azalea: 1270 BRV to 943 BRV until… Azalea: 2168 HP to 1225, Ash: 1356 HP to 1570 HP) (EX Burst: Heaven's Light!)
Receiving a few hits from Ash's snakes hitting their heads against Azalea to send her flinching thrice with a gasp from each hit (Azalea: 934 BRV to 761 BRV, Ash: 587 BRV to 760), Ash lift his arm with the gun in his hand with his eyes closed and the blade of light in the gun suddenly let itself glow brighter and brighter with energy flowing in the 'blade', before Ash quickly open both his eyes wide and soar towards his opponent to swing a long slash and hit Azalea in each jump and strike, to repeat in a different direction around Azalea, a grunt released from Ash's mouth whenever he throws all four slashes around Thanos's wife. (Azalea: 761 BRV to 392 BRV, Ash: 760 BRV to 1129 BRV)
"Shine!" Once the blade of light finally dimmed to nothing from the barrel and revert into an ordinary gun; Ash lifts his gun to aim at Azalea to shoot a single bullet to flew towards Azalea and send her stumbling forward, the moment she hit herself in one of the four slashes of light surrounding her; all long lines immediately let out a bright white glow before the trap unleashed itself into a large explosion of light with Azalea hit from the inside. (Azalea: 1270 HP to 0 HP)
But as soon as Azalea was about to fall and land her body on the ground, while Ash Albion's body reverted back to his normal form with him falling to land his feet on the ground, assuming Thanos's wife will be retired…
"Seconds!" With a shout of out of nowhere; Ash, Thanos, and Azalea's bodies are found to be frozen in place where Thanos was shown to run towards his wife who's body is still stuck to the air alongside Ash's body; leaving Kia to be the only one able to move. Leaping herself off the ground, Kia rocket herself to sprint towards her mother for the Akuma Host to place both palms of her metallic arms on Azalea's tors,o while both bodies let out a soft glow of silver light, slowly healing the woman's body back from the severe injuries of that trap. (Azalea: 0 HP to 100 HP)
"Time starts now!" After letting out another shout; Kia used her time manipulation powers from her four – tailed wolf Akuma Gintoki to resume time back to normal while Azalea, feeling refreshed than earlier, let her body spin in a flip on-air as Ash noticed something is awry to mutter to himself in confusion. "W – What?"
[Finisher/ Special Triple Attack: The Family of Hell!] [Note: This can also be Thanos's EX Burst] [2]
"Let get this fucking over with!" Thanos shouted to both Azalea and Kia with an exasperated shout while glancing at the opponent as Azalea turn to stand in front of her daughter to voiced out a calm and soft order for an attack. "Kia, can you turn into your wolf and do the honors, baby?"
"Yeah, sure!" Nodding with a calm grin while cracking her metallic knuckles as the three notice a flash of silver light in a form of the face of a large clock has materialized in a second to float between the three and Ash; Kia followed her mother for the two to run towards Ash as Azalea ran through the clock – shaped light first but the moment Kia ran through the mark she must have created with her Akuma powers; her body and the clock let out a blinding grey glow of light for an instant before the 'clock' disappeared to show Kia has suddenly transformed into her four – tailed silver wolf; Gintoki.
Hopping on her Akuma – fied daughter's back to sit with both her legs rested on one of the two sides; Azalea let herself rest a bit as Gintoki immediately ran towards the surprised Ash, for the wolf to start its attack by swiftly swinging both its arms in different directions and hit Ash numerous times, with its clawed paws to send him flinching and grunting from each side of his body with his snakes also receiving the pain. (Ash: BREAK! Thanos from Kia: 524 BRV to 1139 BRV)
However; a whistle brought Kia/ Gintoki to stop their attacks as both the wolf and the mother of its host slowly turn around for the three, including Ash, to notice Thanos has now transformed into turn into a new form; still has a human appearance closely to his own, Thanos bear a slightly demonic form as he is taller, bigger and muscular than before, his skin is darker red or brick brown with four muscular arms, his long black hair is swept back to bear a few spiky strands at the back, his eyes are purely black eyes with a bloody red sclera and a ripple pattern in each eye, and wearing only a pair of black wide and baggy pants, with a dark red loincloth wrapping around his waist over his pants to hang down in front of his crotch and behind his backside to reach to his knees, an extremely long and black leather belt wrapping around his waist to let it hang down towards the ground with silver spikes adorning one side of the belt, and darker grey metallic boots that reaches to his knees with the ends of his pants stuffing through. [3] (EX: Devil of Purvana!)
"Now it's my damn turn!" Thanos, in his possible demon form, shouted to the three with a monstrous grin as he lifts all four of his arms up for all hands to tightly gripped the handle of his scythe (EX Burst: Darkness of Hell!); bringing Gintoki to quickly let it and Azalea disappear in a flash of a second and without a trace, which again brought Ash to his surprise, until he turned his head back to Thanos to see him already in front of the Immortal.
Before the four-armed demon immediately threw his scythe around himself to release the weapon and let the deadly weapon flew around him and Ash inside, hitting the latter with a wild speed of attacks from the blade entering through the body without cutting him in half, spiritually. (Thanos: 1139 BRV to 1526 BRV)
With a loud scream that is definitely ferocity, all four of Thanos's hands summon a large ball of dark indigo or black blazes of fire, for the four-armed demon to lift his arms in front of Ash, while the scythe continues to flew around the two but faster than earlier to continuously hit Ash more quicker than before (Thanos: 1526 BRV to 1772 BRV) until the balls of darkness immediately grew bigger and bigger till it grows as big as a large dome of a black void to trap both Thanos and Ash inside while the latter received double the damages. (Thanos: 1772 BRV to 1943 BRV)
Until Ash let out an agonizing scream inside the dome of darkness, signaling Thanos that he won this hellish fight between him and one of his older siblings. * Victory! *
Thanos Albion: (Twirling his scythe again, Thanos lower his right arm and slam his scythe to the ground in fast speed before looking forward) Don't mess with the fucking king!
As soon as Thanos and Kia reverted back to their normal forms while Azalea has been refreshed; the three stood in front of a panting and bloodied Ash Albion, kneeling with one knee touching the soft grass while staggering to breathe, his snakes that would always be present with their master have somehow disappeared without a trace or any other reason.
Although Ash seems to have some strength to move, despite receiving such fatal injuries, when he sluggishly lift his head to face his foster brother and his wife and daughter.
"T – Thanatos…" Wearily rising himself to stand with stumbles urging to him to quickly shook the defeated opponent to hurriedly jerk his body to stand with a slight hunch in pain; Ash panted as he starts to limply stride towards Thanos, who stoically watch his brother and former opponent, with his wife and daughter also watching but with a concerned expression from hearing Ash panting in pain, sadness, but also relief with a sad smile shown in the Immortal's face. "I…I'm a – actually glad…I've got to see how strong my cute baby has become. A – All those…promises you've been keeping…about being strong…You've managed…to fulfill them!"
"A-As promised…" Finally standing in front of Thanos with his bloodied white hands lifted, before gently dropping to place on the former's shoulders; Ash softly closes his eyes shut to let out a tear of happiness out of his eyes while he composedly leans his head closer to his younger brother…
And place his mouth against Thanos's with a soft kiss, not surprising Azalea and Kia when the two watch while Thanos's eyes, despite sharing the same ice-cold stare, almost lower both from the kiss he received from Ash until the three witnesses Ash Albion's body emits a soft glow of white light from his feet which slowly rise itself towards his form, slowly disappearing when the light climb higher until the light reaches to Ash's head.
With another glow of white light; what's left of Ash Albion, after the kiss, was the multiple spheres of white light dispersing the Immortal to disappear with Thanos slowly lift his head up to watch the spheres and tiny particles of light floating up to the sky, ending a warrior of Shinryu and his enemy.
"Thanos?" Azalea spoke with a soft and concerned frown as she and Kia watch the king of Hybrid Hell slowly turning around to glance at the two women, who now notice a sudden flash of black emerged itself and raise itself from the grass; showing a slightly pitch-black silhouette of Thanos but with slightly visible details on the silhouette's form with the exception of not having any facial features in it's face. The sudden black form of Thanos brought Kia to lift her right arm and point a metallic finger at the figure and softly voiced out with a calm frown. "Dad, your shadow's out again."
"I know." Thanos gave a soft nod with a faint smirk as he turns his head to his left, where his revealed shadow is floating, for it to glance at his owner when Thanos tranquilly demand his shadow with an order. "Go get me the brat."
With just an order with a few words; Thanos's shadow silently respond with a sharp nod before the three watch the shadow first let its body releasing faint mists of matching black smokes out of the back of his frame before it immediately kicked itself off the ground and shown it has transformed from a clear replica of the Devil of Purvana, into a familiar form of Thanos pet panther and snake hybrid. [Note: From Chapter/ Part 6 and 11]
First watching his revealed pet jumping down to run down the snow-covered mountain to proceed with its mission; Thanos notice something to glance at Kia for Azalea to also got her to face her daughter when Thanos muttered aloud with a cruel but playful grin on his face. "Kia, your wolf is also out."
"Kia, my siblings and I just received some interesting news." Ignoring Thanos's pointing a finger to show the four – tailed wolf on top of its host's head; Gintoki's voice calmly notify with a pleased tone to catch Kia's attention to react with a faint of surprise and curiosity, the sight of their daughter's face of what she is listening from her Akuma brought Thanos and Azalea to slowly glance at Kia with confusion showing in their faces…
[Hybrid Hell – ten minutes later]
"Cecil…" The Warrior of Light let out a soft mutter as he and everyone are present in the room has mixed reactions, but mostly surprised of seeing not only Cecil returning after Thanos, Azalea and Kia; but Cecil also brought a stranger inside when he spoke to get their attention with a calm but thrilled smile in the Dark Knight's face under his helmet. "Forgive for the sudden surprise, but my brother decided to join us in the war."
"It was my brother's suggestions for his desire since our previous war, but I do hope I can provide any of my services for the warriors of Harmony." Golbez gave a soft nod as he may notice Ai was about to lift both her arms with her fingers tightly gripping her guns with anger and determination to battle with a fighter from the enemy side, but only let out a confused and irritated noise from Squall quickly pull Ai's guns down with a cross expression to his own representative's behavior of 'shoot first, talk never', until everyone turn their heads to face Tidus when he gave Cecil a faint but serene smile in the athlete's face for the new addition. "Well, if that's what you always wanted; we won't stop ya. Who knows, maybe my old man will also have a chance to join us!"
'And Kuja too. He does look sad to join Chaos's group again.' Zidane lowered his head to think to himself with a soft frown, although he immediately lifts his head in surprise for everyone to glance at Thanos when he scoffed aloud with an emotionless sneer while he wrapped his arms over his torso, his words may have nothing to do with Golbez's decision to join his former enemies. "What's next; another thing to be pissed off about showing up from the door?"
"…It depends if it's something that can get any worse, or it may be a miracle to happen; Thanos." A female voice tranquilly exclaim as everyone notice Thanos's brown eyes narrow with a furious scowl, the moment he let out a loud 'Fucking shit…' by hearing the voice before he turned his body around for everyone, even Golbez, to witness the door already open to show a familiar group of people walking in the room while leaving the doors to slowly moved on it's own and advanced to close both doors shut; with Bartz revealing two of the women in the group, one of them is the owner of the voice, with an ecstatic grin on his face while the stranger gave a serene smile. "Hey, Bale! Ilias!"
"Hey you, mutt!" Elias quickly lift himself, which startled almost everyone when the pirate points a finger at one of them, also familiar to be one of Shinryu's warriors who is named Hyuuga, while Airu and Thanos recognized the other two beside the former and Bale are the albino slave Thanos was desperate to retrieve from the Demon Council Leader and the brunette who Shiro fell in love with at the ball before the attack by Bill Cipher's group. [Note: Referencing Chapter/ Part 5 and 21]
But before any fight was about to start the moment Hyuuga let out a flinch and quietly whisper out of Elias's earshot when the sunglass-wearing swordsman stares at the peeved pirate in a tint of fear. "HH – Hey Sephiroth…"
"Ah, Hyuuga. About time you showed up, and thanks for bringing Aya here. I'll be fucking pissed if something bad happened to the BOTH of you." Everyone but Azalea, the young brunette beside the albino slave he named Aya, and Aya himself react in surprise as they watch Thanos, his expression was shown to be collected after glaring at Bale with apprehension, the disdain with the blind but wise young woman is still in his core, walking towards Hyuuga...
Who also quickly got himself calm to glance at the king of Hybrid Hell with a calm, childish grin when he let out a sighed in relief with surprised eyes staring at the two's conversing each other, as if they know each other. "Ah yeah. Don't worry, everyone didn't threaten me to explain who I am; so I just said I'm a loyal soldier of the Demon Council Army…wait, how do you know Aya – tan?"
"Aya showed up at Hybrid Hell a month before the War of War started. So I made him my temporary slave; to make sure he won't return to the damn council. The old prick you were forced to work with had the balls to attack the Hell and announce the war after stealing Aya from us." Thanos answered Hyuuga's question while his words brought the sunglass – wearing man to react with a surprised reaction and glance at his friend in shock and let out a sound in shock. "Ehh!?"
"Hey um, Thanos? How do you know the guy that tried to attack us?" Mini Ladd lifts a hand to enquire the Immortal with a question while glancing at both Thanos and Hyuuga in confusion of the latter's status as an assist of Shinryu. [Note: Referencing Chapter/ Part 13]
The moment Thanos and Hyuuga stopped their conversation for the two to glance at the people present in the café area, with the former softly glare at everyone as he was about to answer the question… "Hyuuga is my eldest son."
3, 2, 1…
"WHAT!?" Most of everyone reacted in horror while those that did not scream could only show surprise as everyone stares at Thanos, Azalea who gave herself a chuckle with a calm smile, and Hyuuga who explain the revelation with a shy grin, while rubbing the back of his head with a childish expression. "Yeah, I may not look like it; I'm only 100,000 years old. But I did look like a kid when I was taken away from my parents, 35 or 36 years ago to join the Demon Council Army. The treatment there was horrible as fuck! Good thing I met up with Mom and Dad, during the War. I can't even wait to meet my younger siblings!"
'35 or 36…That's when Luka, Embryo, and I ran away from the Demon Council!' Airu thought to herself in shock while she did not hear Golbez enquiring Hyuuga with a soft, calm but also startled tone in his voice. "So, all this time; you've been secretly working with your father and the warriors; the same way as me?" But as soon as Hyuuga responds with the former warrior of Chaos with a clueless nod…
Hyuuga immediately reacts in horror from being confronted by angry shouts from some of the warriors, with the exception of the surprising fighters of Cosmos and Golbez, for the late reveal of Hyuuga's purpose in the War.
"Sho." As one of the few assists who is watching in surprise of Akira being part of the angry mob demanding Hyuuga; Sho gave himself a flinch when his name was called for him, Takehito beside Sho's left and Sosuke at his seiyuu's right on the couch to glance at Thanos, who is now standing in front of the oldest of the four seiyuus with Aya standing beside the Immortal's left as Thanos offered the surprised seiyuu, who kept moving his head to stare at either Thanos or Aya a few times until Thanos's question brought Sho to stare at the Immortal in a tint of shock. "…You said you know Aya as a character you voiced, who looks almost exactly like him in one of those shows. And even though my nephew and I talk just like you if we speak Japanese; do you mind if I can duplicate your voice for Aya to speak in Japanese?" [Note: mentioned in the omake of Chapter/ Part 13; Aya is a ROTD version/ parody of Ayanami from 07 Ghost, voiced by Sho Hayami]
"Ahh…. Hai, hai." First giving a sort of hesitant response while watching Thanos slowly pull his right arm out of the pocket of his robe, for his hand to hold a sort of ornament resembling a necklace with a long, thin silver chain holding two silver dog tags; Sho quickly respond with a calm nod as Takehito and Sosuke silently watch, with the former reacting in confusion, of Thanos slowly lifting his left arm to reach towards Sho's throat, after the seiyuu gently lift his head up as he can feel and see the Immortal's fingers pressing softly against the throat before gently pulling his hand back, to show the three Thanos's fingers are holding a sort of glowing light grey orb of light a size of a small ball with a tiny mist of smoke floating up to form like a tail.
As soon as Sho watch the orb pulled out from his throat by Thanos, he felt a sort of tickle in his throat to earn a cough, while he can hear to know he still has his voice; to everyone's relief.
"Thank you, Sho." Thanos nodded with a faint, genuine smile as the two seiyuus and two Akuma Hosts of the Eight – Legged Akuma watch the Immortal moving his left arm to slowly hold the strange orb, a possible duplication of Sho's voice, closer to one of the tags in the ornament for the orb to immediately shrink or sink itself in the tag, while emitting a faint glow until Thanos's fingers are now touching the tag while it continues to glow.
Once removing his fingers to dim the glow and ceased, Thanos lift the ornament to show the four of the tag that bears Sho's voice has now a written description, with only a few words to be read as…
Japanese (Shõ Hayami/ Yasushi Ohama)
"Kay Aya, even if you try to throw this away; I've already put a spell so that this will come back to you, as it is now yours." Thanos notify as he calmly lift his arms with the ornament with Aya slowly leaning his head up to watch the necklace being tied around his slender neck before Thanos took a step back after Aya stood straight with a gloved hand softly wrapping around his neck, for Takehito to enquire the albino soldier, with Sosuke glancing at the original host of Reaper with a curious and interested frown. "Ne, anata wa nani ka iu koto ga dekimasu ka? (Hey, can you say something?)"
First giving out a few, quiet coughs while not seeing some more eyes glancing at the about - to - be unmuted soldier; Aya slowly stare at Sho first before Takehito, until he glances at Sosuke, for the albino young man to start speaking his first words, a calm smirk shown in his pale face when he stares at the brunette, Akuma Host. "…Kudakero, Kyõka Suigetsu (Shatter, Kyoka Suigetsu)."
The sudden sentence brought Sho to almost flinch to give himself a laugh, while Takehito already start to laugh in amusement, when Sosuke narrow his eyes with a displeased smirk of Aya's first words when he gave a mutter to the grinning, formerly – muted soldier and original host of their Akuma, with Reaper also laughing in amazement to her two hosts. "Very funny." [Note: Aya's first words are actually Sosuke (Aizen)'s release command of his Zanpakuto in Bleach, the joke is that Sho voiced both Sosuke (Aizen) and Aya (nami)]
"What's all this about?" Another voice inquired in surprise when everyone in the room turns their heads to face the doors when they opened again to show another familiar group of Luka, Karma, Kanou, Rin, and …. "Embryo/ Em!?"
Seeing a shocked reaction from almost everyone but noticeably relief in their faces, including the stoic – faced people; the host of the nine-tailed fox Akuma gave everyone a smile when he questions everyone with a sort of playful tone in his voice, as he is now back from his capture from Shinryu's army. "Miss me?"
To be continued…
Omake/ Encyclopedia: Cecil Harvey, Golbez & Thanatos/ Thanos Albion
Riser and Lucy's voices: Tainted Repentance Encyclopedia! [Showing Riser, Lucy, Cecil, Golbez and Thanos presented in the TV room, the blondes stood at the right side of (your) the room while the Immortal and two warriors at the other side.
Riser: [A calm smile] Hi! Since we haven't been doing the Encyclopedia due to having a lot of omakes; Riser decided to become the host and focus on a character or few, just to have screen time. Now, we'll talk about Cecil, Golbez and Thanos Albion. [As the TV show Thanos and Ash's fight, glancing at the Cecil and Golbez] So Cecil, Golbez; how do you feel about finally reuniting to help each other in the future?
Cecil Harvey: [Glancing at his brother; a calm smile] I am more than happy that my brother will be joining us. I honestly hope we shall perform excellently. [Golbez only respond with a nod and a hmph noise]
Riser: [Closing his eyes with a smile] Ah that's good to know. Okay! So, Thanos Albion. Even though you said you loved your wife and family in a healthy relationship; it was revealed you like seducing men. Can you tell us what kind of men are you interested in?
Thanos Albion: [Crossing his arms with Cecil being confused, due to Golbez shielding Cecil's ears and eyes shut with his huge hands, stoic] The type of men I like to fuck are the ones I find handsome and arrogant, like sinners. Even though I would normally go with my nephew, the doctor of Hybrid Hell, as well as wanting to try with Sho and this J Michael Tatum… [turn his head to glance at Riser]; I would definitely want to fuck a blonde man.
Riser: [Nodding with his eyes closed and soft frown, oblivious] Ah right…
Lucy: [Narrowing her eyes with a soft glare while Thanos casually walk towards the phoenix demon, his body began to glow black] Um Riser…you're a blonde.
Riser: [Flinching in shock while noticing Thanos, in his nine - feet tall demon form, in front of him with a cruel, lustful smirk; shaking in fear] W – W – Wait! P - Please! Don't fuck Riser! Ah! Ah! Ah… I know, how about someone else!?
Thanos Albion: [Narrowing his eyes to change color into purely black with the red sclera and ripple patterns] Do you know anyone? I do know people with long blonde hair are so satisfying to see them lose control.
Riser: [First shaking in horror…until he blinked his eyes in shock to frantically stuff both hands in one of his pockets before pulling out a picture.] How about him?!
[One look at the picture brought Lucy to react in horror while Thanos's eyes changed back to brown to give a faint but noticeably interested reaction.]
[1] Reenacting Disney's Brother Bear with the obvious theme involving brothers, the title is actually referencing Will Ryan/ DAGames Cuphead song; Brothers in Arms.
[2] I honestly have no idea how to do an EX Burst for Thanos when I thought of making a Triple Special Attack, so for EX Burst; it is just Thanos's part of the combo.
[3] Although this is the first time in this story; Thanos's demon form actually debuted in my Cross Ange one-shot Long Live the God.