Disgaea Jewel of the gods Chapter 51: Axel's bargain
"I remember you. You were one of the main reasons I couldn't have gotten revenge on Salome." Seedle said.
"You barely mannaged to survive Alex's attack. You should have taken advantage how you live, but now you're just leading up to your death." Trenia told Seedle.
"Spirit of the sacred tome or not, you're just a stupid girl. Die!" Seedle got out his sword.
"I already know what will happen to you if you keep playing with souls, and trying to abuse your power. You'll fail in the end, and die."
Seedle was unfazed. "I can change my own fate, and I won't let anybody get in my way of becoming stronger."
"Can you take this guy out?" Almaz asked.
Trenia tilted her head for a moment. "I dunno."
"...WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T KNOW?!" Mao yelled.
"I've never been in a fight before." Trenia answered. She held out her hands, and caught some snow. "Heh heh. It tickles a bit when it melts." Her entire demanor seemed to change.
"...THIS is your last resort?" Etna asked Pram.
"Well she IS the spirit of the sacred tome. She has to have a bunch of mana." Pram responded.
Seedle charged at Trenia. "Storm Blade!" Seedle tried to slash Trenia, but his sword bounced off of a barrier of mana. "What the hell?"
"Can you hold on for a while?" Trenia picked up Adell's arms that Seedle sliced off and walked up to him. "You must be really stupid to try and fight even after losing your arms."
"Giving up just isn't my style." Adell said.
"You got lucky, but if you don't know your limits, you won't be able to save anybody." Trenia put Adell's arms on his stumps. The skin of Adell's arms attached to his stumps, and they were put back together.
"What the...?"
"Now don't get any more of your limbs chopped off kay?" Trenia put her hands together, and healed the entire group. Anyone out cold, became conscious again, and any wounds were mended.
"What happened?" Marona asked.
"Pram arrived, and wrote in something called the sacred tome." Rozalin answered. "She used it to summon a woman name Trenia to help us."
"But all of us together couldn't defeat him." Master BigSter pointed out.
"I have a lot of mana, so I should be fine." Trenia walked to Kurtis next. "I've never tried fixing stuff before, but I can give this a shot." Trenia levitated pieces of Kurtis's peglegs, and put them back together, before it attached back to Kurtis. "There, good as new."
"How did you do that?" Kurtis asked.
Trenia turned to Seedle. "Ok, I'm ready now!"
"I can't underestimate that girl." Seedle threw his sword into the air, and it multiplied into 4. "Darkness Falls!" All 4 swords were hurled at Trenia.
Trenia flew in the air to dodge the swords. "Hmmmm. I don't have my friend the corn guy here, so I can't have him fight for me. So I guess I'll just have to fight on my own. How do I do that again?"
Seedle gritted his teeth. "Don't you dare mock me!" Seedle jumped in the air, and slashed at Trenia. Trenia caught the blade with one hand.
"Ok, I think I know what to do." Trenia punched Seedle down to the snow, and gathered mana. "Here it comes!" Trenia formed her mana into multiple shards and had them come down on Seedle.
Seedle stood up, bleeding. 'Damnit. She's really powerful. I even hardened my blood for that attack, and she still wounded me.' Trenia came down, and placed her hand on Seedle's chest, and sent mana energy through Seedle to damage him. "Ghaa!" Seedle coughed up more blood.
"I won't let you attack." Trenia had most of her mana surround her fist, before punching Seedle.
"What the...how did she hurt Seedle that time?" Almaz asked.
"Seedle can't manipulate his blood that's inside his body if he's manipulating blood outside his body at the same time remember?" Mao eyed Seedle's blood that was staining the snow red. "He was about to imaple her with the blood that he lost in the fight."
Trenia was repeatedly punching Seedle. "Hardening and manipulating your blood would need a lot of concentration right? That leaves you vulnerable."
"Shit!" Seedle got out his sword and attempted to stab Trenia, but she easily dodge. "What the...?"
"I could tell where you planned on stabbing me. I'm an oracle don't you remember? I can tell what you're going to do." Trenia snapped her fingers, and Seedle was set on fire.
"GYAAAAAAAA!" Seedle was howling in pain due to being burnt alive. "DAMN YOU!"
"It was written in the sacred tome that your selfish desire to overthrow god would lead to your end of existance." Trenia said, completley seriously. She shown no signs of letting the fire die out.
"She's...she's actually going to kill him!" Sapphire exclaimed.
Pram smiled. "I told you I had a plan."
"What if it's not enough though?" Ash asked.
"Pessimist huh? Don't worry. Even if Seedle beats Trenia, he'll be too weakened to do anything against us."
"And since we're fully healed because of Trenia, we can beat Seedle at his weakened state." Aramis said.
"I've got to hand it to you, that's a pretty good plan you got going there." Mao told Pram. "And for the dean of Evil Academy to acknowledge that is a great honor. Maybe I won't fire you as a teacher after all."
"I can change the future if I gain enough power." Seedle shot souls out of his body, and they exploded on Trenia. The shock of it caused her to lose focus, and unable to continue to burn Seedle.
"NOW!" Seedle rushed to Trenia, and slashed through her. Trenia collapsed, unconscious. Seedle raised up his sword to kill her. "Heh heh heh. Looks like I...win." Seedle collapsed shortly afterward before he was able to finish her off. His entire body was charred, and as he was unconscious, he could have easily been mistaken for a corpse.
"Seedle's down. We can kill him now." Pram said.
"Killing somebody who can't fight back isn't my style." Adell said.
Kurtis knocked Adell to the ground. "THIS ISN'T ABOUT YOUR STYLE!" He roared.
"K-Kurtis?" Jennifer reacted. She and Gordon were both surprised. They knew that Kurtis despised Seedle, but they never saw him so outraged before.
"Seedle is too dangerous to leave alive. And what about all that he's doing!? DID YOU JUST FORGET ABOUT THAT?!"
Adell remembered Seedle killing Fubuki. He also though of the trauma Seedle put Laharl and Gwen through by having them forced against each other, along with all the souls in the underworld that he either erased, or is about to erase from existance for power and demons, including the families of Kurtis and Marona. "You're right. I'm sorry."
Kurtis calmed down. "Just remember that there's a line between being honorable, and just making a mistake."
Asagi got out her guns. "Time to finish this bastard off for good then." She was about to shoot at Seedle's body until a portal opened up.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold off on that for a while will you?" Axel walked out of the portal, along with three men. One was a knight in armor with yellow hair, a large, muscular old man with white hair and a beard who was also wearing armor, and the final one was a young man with long yellow hair, part of it in a ponytail, and was wearing a blue jacket. Marona and Ash were shocked by the arrival of the men accompanying Axel.
"Don't get in our way Axel!" Adell ran to Axel to punch him, but the man in the blue jacket grabbed his arm, turned Adell around, and was holding the arm behind his back. "Don't get reckless kid. I can break your arm if I want to." He said to Adell. He then pushed him to the ground.
"Who are these three?" Sapphire asked.
"New recruits of Underlord Seedle, along with three of the finest warriors in Iviore." Axel answered.
"Wait a minute, you can't be working for him willingly." Marona said. The three men looked uncomftorable knowing that Marona was here. "I know you three. Walnut, Raphael, and Sprout."
"You know her?" Axel asked.
"Yes." The knight Raphael answered. "She's the brave girl who came up with the plan to seal away Sulphur."
The large old man Sprout got out his sword. "We're taking lord Seedle back to the underworld. If you try to stop us, we'll kill you."
"Mr. Sprout, what's Seedle threatening you guys with?" Marona asked. "You're kind people, I know you wouldn't do what he wants without a reason."
"Sorry, but that's none of your buisness." Walnut replied.
"Are we going to fight or what?" Mao asked.
"Actually, no." Axel replied. "We aren't going to fight you guys."
"Vasa Aer...wait what?"
"What do you mean we aren't fighting them?" Walnut demanded.
"They have us outnumbered, and most of them are stronger than you guys. We'd be walking to our defeat." Axel said.
"He has a good point." Raphael told Walnut and Sprout.
"So you'll let us kill Seedle?" Ash asked.
"As much as we'd want to, we won't. Seedle's the only one who can keep Sulphur under control." Walnut responed.
"Plus, he'll have my stardom rise if I help him out. No, you guys are just going to let us go with him.
"...Is he really this stupid?" Etna asked.
"What makes you think we'll let you go?" Rozalin asked Axel.
"Well we'd hate to erase Laharl's soul from existance." Axel answered. Etna and Flonne immediately rushed towards Axel, weapons in hand. "Ahhhh!" Axel yelled in fear.
Sprout blocked Etna's spear strike with his sword, before Walnut kicked her away. Raphael used his sword to cut through Flonne's staff, before knocking her to the ground. "Phew, thanks for that guys." Axel said.
"If you weren't Seedle's right hand man, we'd let them kill you." Sprout said. "In fact, when I get the opportunity to turn against Seedle, you'll be one of the first I kill."
Axel gulped, and picked up Seedle's unconscious body. "Even if you kill all 5 of us, Sulphur, Gwen, and Seedle's minions can still erase Laharl's soul from existance. If you just let us leave, we won't do that ok?"
"You're bluffing. Seedle said he didn't find his soul yet." Rozalin pointed out.
"You can always count on the dark hero to find things you haven't yet." Axel said.
"We can't let that happen to Laharl." Flonne said.
"Damn. Do we just let them leave?" Adell asked.
"While a hero must stop all evil, they must save others as well. We must agree." Gordon said.
'Why don't you disagree Mao? You keep saying how you're still evil right? Now's the time to prove it. Kill them, and let that brats soul be erased. He's only one guy after all, and he's already dead.' Dark Mao said in Mao's head.
'...'
'What's the matter? Isn't your E.Q unsurpassed? I was right. You're going soft after all.'
'Just shut up already!' Mao then decided to tune out Dark Mao.
"We agree." Rozalin said.
"Well I guess we'll be going now." Axel, Walnut, Sprout, and Raphael went back to the underworld with Seedle's unconscious body. 'My bluff worked out after all. Laharl isn't even in the underworld yet. High risks, but it sure payed off.' Axel thought.
"I'll take you guys back to Holt. You're been through a lot today, and you probably want to save the game." Pram said.
"Why are you helping us though? You never gave a crap about what happened to us before." Etna pointed out.
"I want Seedle dead like you guys do. I'd make an exception to what I normally do." Before anybody could respond, she teleported the group to Holt. "Also...I feel guilty for what I've done."
"GYAAAAAAA DOOD!" Prinny Laharl finally mannaged to push the statue of Death King Hugo to the center of Hades. "Done...dood." Prinny Laharl collapsed.
"You aren't done yet Prinny." Fenrich said.
"...What dood?"
"Do you honestly think that action alone would help you atone? That was just a test to see if it was even possible to be up to Lord Valvatorez's ultimate training."
"He's kidding right, dood?" Laharl asked Valvatorez.
"No. You still have much more work to do." Valvatorez answered. "Now, a foolish Prinny dropped our shipment of sardines into the lava. You'll have to go and get it out."
"But I'll burn to a crisp dood!" Laharl protested.
"If you have willpower, and the motivation of sardines anything is possible! Now go!"
Laharl started at the lava surrounding Hades. "God damnit dood." He jumped into the lava.
Here's the chapter. It seems like Raphael and Sprout are forced to work for Seedle along with Walnut and Laharl's mother. I enjoyed writing the fight between Seedle and Trenia though I did struggle writing some bits. I hope you enjoyed it.
