Chapter 43 Sweet Poison
For Shana, everything now makes sense for the Grand Order…
She learned that it will be a new world, which would be created using the Reiji Maigo, and using the dead existence existing in the Abyss. It will be a world that would be sealed away from this world using fairy magic, a world that would be distinct than the one already existing… a world that will fix the instability that the consumption of existence has caused, a world that would ultimately fulfill the role of the Flame Hazes: to restore the balance of existence in the entire universe.
In fact, during her entire journey of knowing what this world, the world that Yuji wanted to dub as Xanadu, is, her heart is beating faster. If fact, all along, what she initially thought as something that could destroy what she ought to protect, the balance of existence, would be the one that would sought to fix it. But questions still lingers in her mind, and it is this: why does Britain wanted to defy this?
After Yuji and the highest ladder of Trinity explained everything to her, they went on strolling into a hallway. While doing so, Anti-Cosmo hovered over her, and tried to call her attention.
"Psst."Anti-Cosmo remarked. "So, it seems that you actually have a liking to the boy over there."
However, Shana simply ignored him, believing that it will cause more trouble in her side. However, she blushed, and believed that silence might be able to throw the topic off-hand… which she thought is irrelevant at this moment.
However, her heart is saying something opposite to what she is thinking.
Persistent, the Anti-Fairy hovered even closer, and started to try and ask her a trivial question:
"Do you know how babies are made?"
This question is what Shana is begging to question after learning about the pregnancy of Yuji's mother. As noted before, during the trip, Yuji revealed that his mom is pregnant after learning it from one of hisspies, and this enabled him to conduct a plan, a plan that he has in order to keep his immediate family away from disaster, and it is by removing himself from non-existence in their eyes. This caught her attention for a while, but she has no idea why the Anti-Fairy is raising the question of procreation up at this moment.
"As if a fairy like you would know the answer." She replied to him with starkness.
"Well, I can simply arrange that for you at a flick of a wand." Anti-Cosmo attempted to convince her to join in the conversation. "In fact, if you know how it was done, you would surely be enticed to do it yourself."
"Shana, Anti-Cosmo." Yuji called their names out, unaware of the conversation that Anti-Cosmo had engaged them. "I think it's time I reveal to you what we are planning to stop the KND."
"Oh, that is interesting." The Anti-Fairy grinned. He immediately dashed to him, but not before dropping some words of enticing:
"Shana, just follow your heart and do what you wish!"
Meanwhile, Britain overheard this comment that Anti-Cosmo is saying, and was completely clueless on why the Anti-Fairy is dropping hints on that thing.
However, as he is surveying, he and the KND now in-charge Numbuh 86 saw the room where the group that they are watching has entered. They noticed a lot of welding arcs and Unrestricted spells poured out by several Denizens working on what seemed to be missiles silos in a very large castle room clearing, and Britain was shocked that somehow, Dantalion is becoming the boss of this operation, as evidenced of him travelling across and even screaming to Denizens who do not adhere to what he wanted to accomplish. Yuji came near to the Bal Masque scientis and asked him "Dantalion, how's your work in regards to…"
Dantalion began to maniacally laugh, and caused him to just scream "Everything is perfectly set! I studied all the data and equipment that the Kids Next Door are using and they are a perfect challenge for us! I created all this equipment based on all the plans Anti-Cosmo brought us."
"WHAT?!" Numbuh 86 remarked. "Looks like this require some investigation… how could the Anti-Fairies get that? It seems we have a spy inside of our base."
"Well, you did place Anti-fairy magic measures, right?" Britain suddenly asked her, but she responded "Well, we are still planning to use that… but it always triggers… never mind…"
"Is the KND keeping something form me?" Britain immediately replied, but Numbuh 86 yelled back at him "You have no right to know what we are hiding, because that isn't bound to the contract!"
"Except you always break your own contracts…" Britain remarked in his mind.
"So, what are the things that you have created thus far?" Yuji blared in the speakers of both watching groups.
"We have Interceptor Rinnes, some useful explosives and traps, and even a work-in-progress Tunnel Network. This will be a very effective way to counter any attacks!"
"Looks like we have to prepare for all of that..." Numbuh 86 remarked "But they are hidden in tubes locked in existence-based-cubes… even the B.U.G.C.A.M. can't used its F.L.A.R.E.D.A.R. to find out what's inside."
"Fecor thought about this thoroughly…" Britain commented. "Well, we have to make plans for an assault before those things are commissioned."
"Well, how long will they be online?" Yuji then followed, causing the two to cut their communication. This caused Dantalion replied "It can be online on the exact day of our entrance to the Gate."
"Exact time?"
"May 13, 2013 at approximately 5:00 am."
"That isn't the exact time that we'll enter the Gate!" Bel Poel protested, but Yuji just raised his arm and said "That will do. It is a pleasure to take your achievement, Dantalion."
"Anyways, I've been working on a Superweapon that can destroy the KND mainbase…" Dantalion said to them. "But I have no idea where they are located…"
"On the Moon." Yuji replied to him. Dantalion then questioned "Near or Far Side?" and Anti-Cosmo described it as "Near Side." Everyone stared at him and Anti-Cosmo responded "What, I'm a fairy, I should know about it, right?"
"I highly doubt that you really are just helping Bal Masque." Shana remarked, to which the Anti-Fairy responded "Is it bad that I won't say anything about Moonbase?"
"A Superweapon?" Britain and Numbuh 86 responded simultaneously. Yuji then continued, this time in the Snake of Festival's voice "How much is it complete?"
"26%"
"Looks like it will take time." Bel Poel responded. "Hecate, what do you think about this?"
"All I care is what the Master wants to do after this, since this is the end of the tour." Hecate said, staring at Shana and Yuji strongly. Hecate just said "I still have the useless human emotion called jealousy, but it will take time for me to retain it until those memories from last time are completely removed."
"Jealousy?" Sydonay immediately stared at her. The voice of the Snake radiated from Yuji and replied "You have to understand that we have those similar emotions, Hecate, but since I created you for the purpose of fulfilling my wish, you must understand that those emotions will hinder your purpose…"
After that, the voice shifted to Yuji, who then said "I think it's time for me and Shana to have some lone time."
"I think so." Anti-Cosmo remarked. After that, Yuji and Shana parted ways with the other two, in what seemed to be an exclusive date for the two.
The B.U.G.C.A.M. decided to scan the silos again, against the wish of Britain. Britain protested to Numbuh 86 that Shana and Yuji might be speaking about something important regarding the Grand Order, and after a heated argument, Numbuh 86 lend him a single B.U.G.C.A.M. for surveillance.
However, the events that he spied next, which is already out of the KND watch lens out of NUmbuh 86's frustration, turned out to be something that he didn't expect to happen…
While Shana and Yuji are dating inside a place that seemed to be a restaurant in Bal Masque, Shana manages to ask Yuji "What are your plans to the Outlaw? You expect some resistance from them, right?"
"I already predicted that." Yuji turned to her "But I think it will spoil the evening if I shared it to you… besides, this might be the only time we'll be together…"
Immediately, a waiter, which looks like a Japanese teenager with brown hair and eyes, went to serve them and ask "Wine?"
"Yes." Yuji remarked, and this prompted the waiter to pour some to both of their glassware. Yuji tried to give a toast, with him saying "A toast, to the beautiful friendship between the two contractors of the gods of the Crimson Realm." Shana just simply ignored him, just focus in her meal, and replying "Yuji, you are acting much more noble than the last time I saw you."
"Well, Britain's gentleman training did work out for me in this one." Yuji said while bringing the wine glass down. "Besides, based on what I heard, you are actually older than…"
"Shhh…" Shana immediately shook her head, blushing hardly and responded "You aren't suppose to know that Yuji!"
Yuji simply laughed at Shana's remarked, and continued to give her praise. "Wow, you really are cute when you are angry!"
"Hell, no, this isn't even funny!"
"But all this time, you have no idea how children are conceive." Yuji tried to laugh the matter off, but Shana just paused a bit, thinking to ask a request.
But somehow, the waiter came in and spoke something unusual, saying "Well, you are still bound to the Moral Law, I suppose, you have to be married before you should do that thing…"
"Do what thing?" Shana asked, but Yuji simply responded "Well, what's stopping us anyway?"
"You do not even care of the consequence of what you are going to do then, unlike before." The mysterious waiter continued to speak. "But both of you are decided to do it, one out of curiosity, the other out of love, but is it really worth it?"
"And why does a Denizen have a care on what affairs mankind has?" Yuji's voice suddenly changed, as he stared at the waiter, who seemed to be surprised at his glare, and continued, this time in the voice of the Snake "Or are you really one?"
"Well, sorry to bother, but I'm one of the messengers prophesied to visit this world." The waiter suddenly replied, with a bit of panic from his voice. "I'm sent here to warn you and convinced you that no one will win this war."
"I knew it." The Snake said while trying to grab his wineglass and swirling it, which prompted Shana to observe this sudden change in Yuji's personality. The Snake of Festival then asked "Well, it is worth us trying to make our own path. That is what the Denizens do, and tell your Master that I'm just following their wishes in creating a new and better world, and there is nothing that could change that."
"Even the presence of a threat that want to destroy everyone?" the waiter immediately responded calmly. At that, Yuji responded "Well, ask Shana, then. She has viewed all views, and she wished to joined us."
"You have no access to her heart yet." The waiter immediately said. "But there is someone who wants that access to her. That being wanted to manipulate the two of you by making her violate anything of the Moral Law, and you know very well that Shana isn't that easy to fall for that. But no matter how strong she is, there is still a chink in her armor, and I'm warning you about that, Yuji, if you do what you think you will do, you will hurt her dearly at the end."
Shana heard all this, and this forced her to stand up and said "So, this is all what this means, for you to gain access to my heart Yuji?"
"This warning also applies to you, Shana." The waiter immediately responded. "You are already tempted and hooked because of your love for Yuji. Right now, there is a voice whispering inside of you, to just yell at me, since I'm obviously ruining your evening. I just don't want you to fall like how two of my friends have fallen, and besides…" he took what seemed to be a piece of bread from his serving plate, broke it and shared it to their plates. "Your real enemy is unseen. What you'll do later this night may make or break you. If you committed that mistake, you'll be easier to be manipulated, and you do not want that to come in your blossoming relationship…"
After that, the waiter left the tray on the table, and in an instant, he was gone. This caused Yuji and Shana to stand up, and try to search for him. Somehow, Alastor then remarked "A servant of His… why is He addressing both of you,instead of the two of us?"
"I have no idea." Yuji remarked. But somehow, Anti-Cosmo came and poof himself in, and commented "So, how are the lovers doing?"
"We're fine Anti-Cosmo, just…"
"Some inconvenience? Why, just enjoy the evening right? You love each other, and what Moral Law is he talking about? No one in the Crimson Law follows it anyway… besides, follow your heart, right Yuji, right Shana? I'm just here to show to you your real happiness, because nothing is wrong in love, and besides, you are curious about that concept of child conception, right Shana? What's stopping you from discovering it?"
Right after that, Anti-Cosmo just disappeared as well, prompting Shana, Yuji, even Alastor and the Snake of Festival, to ask a single question: why are all of this happening?
However, Yuji simply stared at Shana and asked "I'm still wondering why this is happening to us..."
"Yuji, I know... but..."
"Shana, look at me." Yuji stated while staring at her eyes. He then stated "I've promised that when we meet, we'll have a date. And I've fulfilled that. Shana, I love you, and can we spend the entire night together?"
However, even Britain was flabbergasted by what he has just witnessed…
What is Dan Kusco doing in this place, and what is he really warning about? Why is he warning about doing a ritual that nearly all unmarried couples are accepted to do, that intimate act…
But as his questions are raised, and as he watched the events that occurred in the next four hours, he began to ask a single question:
Is this battle really just between Crimson Denizens, Flame Hazes, and radicalized children? Or is this war has a bigger implication?
Somehow, he tried to shun his mind on what one of his persona is suggesting, who claimed that there is a spiritual warfare ongoing, and still tried to be a secular nation as he could…
But somehow, as he began to see the two sleeping together, one thing is sure: something is oddly wrong.
A/N: I still have no idea whether I should rate this fic a bit higher…
Please comment, because I felt I really have to address this issue a little further…
Anyways, I really appreciate reviews, and this time, the story will turn darker from this moment on, as the first Battle approaches in the horizon
