What's going on everyone? It's Acallaris, bringing you all fourth (and not final) chapter of the Mythical Weapons Arc!

Last time, Alex admitted that he had feel-he was the son of Uhrevia along with Mr. Po-Tamazaki, and Silver to Neptune*throws paper down* YOUR NOT GETTING ME TODAY!

Ram: *blows a raspberry*

After that, the group went over to Lowee after getting a call from Mina, saying that they were going to retrieve the Alpha Claws and Omega Gauntlets

Before they left to retrieve the weapons, Mina gave Caem two red orbs that would help with obtaining the weapons

Now, what will await our group at the Mountain of Origins? Will they retrieve the weapons or will they be stopped? Find out on today's epis-chapter of The Awakening of the APL Aspirants *looks at Taem* Your going to try a lot harder than that!


Disclaimer: Hyperdimension Neptunia belongs to Idea Factory and Compile Heart

The Mythical Weapons Arc Chapter 4: The Alpha Claws/Omega Gauntlets Prt 2

Alex's Perspective

(Lowee, Mountain of Origins, 2:30 PM, An hour after Chapter 3)

The Mountain of Origins…I'm getting a weird sense of Déjà vu from this place, just replace the "mountain" part with "Cave" and you'll have 10% of my childhood

We were all surprisingly quiet, no one was asking "are we there yet" or making any kind of remarks, we were all just…silent

"Alex?" Caem tugged on my shirt which snapped me out of my thoughts, "I know this is kind of random, but do you think Zest is going to be okay?"

I had almost completely forgotten about Zest! I feel really bad for him, since he just lost his niece. I hope he gets through it ok…

"I hope he is Caem…" I answered, "He's got Vert to comfort him, hopefully that does something…"

The only person I've ever lost who was extremely close me was Silver, but I was surprised when I found out that she was actually alive and had disguised herself…


"We're nearing the entrance…" Storm slid down from the Rock she was standing on, "it's only 2 more miles from here…"

"2 more miles?" Neptune sighed, "I can't even walk a quarter of a mile, my legs are about to snap dude"

"I can easily solve that problem" Tam said before turning his back to Neptune and getting down onto one knee, "You know the drill"

"The Nepback treatment!" Neptune beamed, "You truly know how to treat me right T!"

By Tam's facial expression, I could tell that he was thinking something pretty negative but didn't want to say it. My guess is that he saying "Yet you don't know how to do the same to me…"


"Here we are, the Mountains of Origins…" Blanc turned her head left to right, "These walls have interesting hieroglyphics written on them…"

"Do you think you can make out any of them?" Kashi asked

"No..I can-" Blanc then slowly turned to Kashi, "Wait…why do you think me out of all people, would be able to read that chicken scratch?"

"I was thinking that since you read many books; you would've learn something interesting…" Kashi shook his head and sighed, "I guess I was wrong"

"Kashi, I'll kick you ass later once we're not in a mountain" Blanc cracked her knuckles before walking away, "However, you'll probably end up in another mountain once I'm done with you"

I looked down at Rult, I saw that he was sniffing around for something but he didn't exactly know what he was. I began to tap my chin before snapping my fingers

"Hey Caem? Mind if I can have one of those orbs for a minute?" I asked him

Caem shook his head and handed me one of the two orbs, I then kneeled down to Rult's size and held my hand out, Rult then started to sniff the orb before suddenly barking

"Rult? Did you find something?" Nepgear said

"Rawrf!" Rult wagged his tail In reply

Rult then ended up running up ahead without us, all of us gave each other quick glances before running after the pup.


We came to a split in the road, there were two branching paths that both lead to different sections of the mountain. We all looked at each path, wondering which one Rult could've went down

"Uh-oh, we lost Rult!" Compa said, "which way did he go?"

"Doggy went that way!" Rom pointed to the right path

"Rom? Are you sure?" Nepgear asked, "We don't want to get lost in this mountain"

"Uh-huh! I'm sure!" Rom shook her head "yes", "doggy was jumping in the mud earlier! He left left his footprints!"

"Mud?" IF looked down at her jacket to see brown spots all over it, "I should've know something was up! He couldn't of randomly wanted me to carry him like that!"

"I hope your right Rom…" Nepgear said

We all decided to follow Rom's Intuition and go down the right path. As we were running, I could hear the sound of a bell ringing; a dog bell to be more exact

"Rult!" Nepgear and I shouted

Eventually, we found Rult being surrounded by these some spider enemies. Before anyone could withdraw a single weapon, Nepgear and I looked at each other before looking back at Rult

"Hey boy!" I clapped my hands, "Go bit em!"

Rult then started to howl, all of us had to cover our ears that's how loud his howling was. Rult then started to grow, and when I mean grow I mean go from the size of a stuffed animal to the size of an actual car!

Rult's teeth then grew even more sharper than they were before, and his eyes would leave a streak of red everytime he had moved

Everyone except me,Nepgear and our siblings watched in terror as Rult began to tear apart the enemies one by one, he left no remains at all

Once Rult had "disposed" of the spiders, he slowly looked at us and started to walk towards us while growling. Eventually, he was up in my face and looked like he was going to kill me

"You did great Rult!" Nepgear smiled while scratching underneath his chin

"Way to go boy!" I said while rubbing his snout

Rult stopped growling at us and his eyes stopped glowing red, he then began to lick both me and Nepgear, the two o stood there laughing

"H-..how?" Kashi asked, "how long was that wolf able to do that?"

"About 3 weeks ago" Neptune answered, "it was when we came back from "volunteer work" and Histy was scolding the poor thing for marking his territory"

"Let's just say that Histoire changed her mind about finding Rult's parents" Tam said, "after that, she's practically afraid to even pet him sometimes"

"I…I would too" Caem said

Rult shrank back down to his original size and jumped into Gear's arms. In terms of finding where to go, we only had one path to follow and that was straight


(Lowee, Mountain of Origins, Shrine, 4:00 PM)

At the end of the tunnel, we had came to a stop when we walked into a Japanese themed shrine. Just imagine a regular shrine, but surrounded in waterfalls

Strangely though, half of the shrine was missing like a puzzle piece, nothing was there but an empty void of darkness with a pair of claws just floating in the middle of said void

"Hold it Alko! What did you just think?" Neptune asked me

"That there's a pair of claws floating in the middle of-" I finally realized what I had just said, "…ohh, I see it now…"

The Alpha Claws, we had finally found them, they were just floating there…waiting for someone to just run up and take them for themselves…before they fell into the void of course

By everyone's facial expressions, and by Caem constantly gulping, he was going to have to trust his heart and get the claws...

"I…I don't think I want to do this anymore!" Caem shouted, "I'm too much of a wuss to do it!"

"Caem we know you can do it" Blanc kneeled down in front of him, "nothing bad is going to happen to you"

"Something bad is going to happen!" Caem shouted, "What if I get controlled by Uhrevia just like Luth was and hurt you guys? I won't be able to forgive myself!"

"There's no way she would use the same tactic twice"

IF said, "If she does try that, we'll all be prepared to stop her"

"B-but how will I get the claws!?" Caem asked, "l'll just plummet right to my death before I could even transform!"

"Couldn't you transform then take the claws…?" Storm tilted her head and asked, "that seems like the most logical answer…"

"Storm? When I transform, I gain the same personality as my brother in his human form!" Caem said, "what I'm saying is that I'll be some perverted…brainless boy, who won't even remember half the things we just talked about!"

"Caem? That was a really mean thing to say about your brother" Compa scolded him, "you should know that better than anyone else "

"I'm…I'm sorry" Caem apologized to us, "I'm just a nervous wreck…"

Caem's never had this much of low self-confidence ever since he's arrived in Gameindustri, before that he was usually just the silent type who kept everything to himself and didn't really do what he just did at all

"I think you can do it Caem" Rom said, "you don't have to be scared, it really easy!"

"Rom it's-"

Rom kissed Caem on the cheek…Holy Hex Decimals! Everyone's reaction to that! Blanc and Kashi were both wide eyed and slowly looked at each other

"I thought everyone would've known" I whispered to Nepgear

"I thought so too…" Nepgear whispered

"You weren't nervous about that" Rom smiled

"…no…no I wasn't!" Caem said

I could feel that Caem had just gained a huge amount of confidence from the sudden change of tone in his voice, but that's what I'm sure everyone wanted to hear

Caem turned his head to the Alpha Claws and began to walk towards them slowly, we all watched as he took the two orbs out his pocket and looked into the void

Caem took a deep breath before lifting his leg an stepping out into the void, I almost had to look away because I didn't want to see if Caem actually fell into the void

"…I'm…I'm walking on air!" Caem said, "guys look! I'm actually walking on air!"

"We never had any doubts in you Caem" Blanc said, "Now, you know what you have to do"

Caem nodded and made his way over to the Alpha Claws, before he did anything else, he inserted the red orbs into the claws before putting his hands into them

The Alpha Claws were now glowing a light blue color, within the claws, the red orbs were also glowing a bright red color

"These look so cool!" Caem said as he started to swing his arms around

"Man! These things are awesome!" We heard a familiar voice say from behind Caem

All of have each other confused looks, we all looked behind Caem to see that the void was gone and was replaced by the missing half of the shrine, standing on the other half of the shrine however-

"Taem!?" We all shouted

Standing on the other side of the shrine, we saw Noire, Terra, Uni, Luth, Vert, and Taem. Taem however was wearing a pair of gauntlets that glowed red and had two blue glowing orbs inside of them

"Caem!?" Everyone on the other side shouted

"Huh?" Both twins turned around and looked each other, "….AHHHH! WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!"

Everyone was now extremely confused, I'm not even sure the smartest of people in our party could figure out how everyone else had gotten here!

"So…you've finally made it" We heard someone say, "…excellent…"

"Who said that?" Storm asked, "come out and show yourself"

"If you wish…"

Someone then appeared out of thin air and grabbed both Caem and Taem by their wrist. They were struggling but they weren't able to break free

"Let go!" Caem said

"When I said I wanted to get closer to women, I didn't mean it like this!" Taem said

"Stop complaining…" We finally recognized the person as Naylu, "You weren't like this before, weren't you?"

"Naylu, let the both of them go!" Kashi shouted

"Why would I do that Kashi?" Naylu turned her head towards him, "you never filled out the papers after all, so this is basically "kidnapping"

"Papers?" Kashi repeated

All of us summoned our weapons, while Nepgear simply put Rult down who just grew into a giant Fenrir once more and growled at Naylu

"I'm not going to fight, I'd just easily break all of your bones" Naylu then turned to Nepgear and I, "the two of you would know how that feels, am I correct?"

"Oh you little bitch" Tam cracked his knuckles, "I'm going to pound your face in even harder than I was going to before"

"If that's what you wish to do then fine…" Naylu said, "but first..."

I only blinked for a moment, but when I opened my eyes, I had saw that the Alpha Claws and Omega gauntlets had stopped glowing. I looked up in the air and saw the orbs levitating before they completely disappeared

"Aww crap" I heard Luth say

"Now then…I have something to ask all of you…" Naylu said, "when the word "orphanage" is said, what is the first thing you automatically think of?"

"Loneliness" Luth answered

"Tears!" I heard Ram call out

"….Fire…" Kashi and Taem muttered

"Fire you say?" Naylu said, "now I have something else to ask you, does the sentence "I was promised another life" run any bells?"

Most of us noticed that Kashi had dropped his Spellbook and was now clenching his fist.

"Kashi?" Taem said before Naylu tightened her grip, "OUCH!"

"One last thing…" Naylu said, "does the name…"Aria" mean anything to any of you?"

Something must've triggered in Kashi and Taem when Naylu said "Aria". But if I had to take a guess, this has to do with their past since the name doesn't seem to trigger anyone else

Naylu then lowered her hood. Naylu had short brown hair (the shade of brown almost made it look black) and brown eyes

"Aria…you…you died!" Kashi said, "the rubble…it fell on you! How are you still alive!?"

"I told you Kashi, I was promised another life" Aria answered, "That second life was given to me by mother"

"That Lady is evil!" Taem was trying harder than ever to break away, "She can't have any children even if she tried!"

"If only he knew…" Neptune shook her head, all I did was sigh

"I told myself that if I ever were to reveal myself to you…" Aria was then surrounded in a cyclone of flames, "Then I'd have to take myself out the same way I did before"

"Agh! It burns!" Taem shouted

"T-the pain is too much!" Caem shouted

This isn't going to be one of those moments where the heroes just stand there and watch the bad guys do what they want!

All of attempted to get close to Aria in attempt to rescue Caem and Taem, but we were only pushed back by the force that Aria was exerting. However, the only person who wasn't shot back like the rest of us was Kashi

"Kashi!" Blanc called out to him

"Aria…don't do this" Kashi said as walked into the fire (may I also just say that the guy is wearing a fur hooded winter coat?), "We can-ugh!"

I quickly checked the party status all on my phone, Kashi, Caem, and Taem were losing their HP dramatically! At this rate, they'll…they'll-

"Kashi…I apologize for all the trouble I have caused…but I cannot live with myself after what I have done to both you and Tamal" Aria said

"A-Aria! Y-you haven't done anything wrong to us!" Taem said, "You were so nice to the two of us! There's nothing that you could've done that would ever make us hate you! No matter how bad it was!"

"Tamal…burning down your old home…a week before your birthday…that…that is unforgivable in my part" Aria said, "You've lost so much…I thought…I thought-"

"So what if I lost all my memories of my friends?" Taem said, "This doesn't feel right, but you burning down the orphanage was one of the most unexpected birthday gifts I could ask for!"

"Tamal…" Aria said

"I didn't have a lot of memories or friends in that place, all of my memories were really bad and the kids there weren't really my friends!" Taem said, "but now, I've actually made a bunch of new memories and a bunch of new friends! I've got a family now Aria! That's what you always wanted for me, right?"

I'm wondering how Aria was able to shed a tear even thought she was being surrounded by fire….umm…Gameindustri logic?

"There's still one more person I want to be with, and that's you!" Taem gave her a giant smile, "please Aria, come with us! We can all be happy!"

"…Kashi…" Aria looked at Kashi, "Taem is now officially in your care…"

Aria then gave Caem and Taem to Kashi and pushed the three of them out of the fire.

"Aria! No!" Kashi and Caem shouted before there was a blinding light


(Lowee, Basilicom, 7:30 PM)

"Good news everyone!" Compa ran out of the infirmary with two of the nurse staff members following behind, "Kashi, Caem, and Taem are going to be okay!"

All of us let out a huge sigh of relief, you'd expect someone to die after having servere burns like that, but the three of them are strong like that…

"What they need is a lot of rest" Mina said, "Oh dear, this was absolutely unexpected…"

"I didn't think that Naylu would commit suicide in that sort of manner" Vert shook her head, "that was truly a terrifying sight, even for me"

"Uhrevia…she's sacrificing her own allies just for power! That's unforgivable!" Nepgear said

"Basically, she has no allies left…" Noire said before tapping her chin, "wait a minute…I feel like we're forgetting someone…"

All of us went completely quiet as we thought about who Uhrevia's last ally was, surely we could remember her name it was just…difficult for some reason

"Hey! That lady who tried to do weird stuff to me when Leanbox was burning!" Ram said, "Lax" Something or whatever"

"Laxtria!" Terra said, "theres a chance that Laxtria may be Uhrevia's final sacrifice in order to gain the power of Rune Staff"

"What are we going to do?" Rom asked, "the meanLady is you go get hurt if we don't do anything!"

"She'll only appear when we find the Rune Staff, so we have all the time we need" Luth said, "unless that succubus knows where that thing is, we'll be fine"

"It seems that we have a lot of work to do" IF said, "but the fate of the world depends on us"


(An hour later…)

"Um…hey, you guys doing alright?" I slowly opened the door

About an hour later, we were getting ready to leave and head back to our homes. I told everyone that I would go tell, Blanc, Rom, Ram, Mina, and Vert that we were heading out, but in reality I was also about to tell them something else

"Come in Alex" Vert said, "Is their anything that you need?"

"Um…yeah" I said, "I was actually about to tell all of you goodnight, we're getting ready to leave now"

"Oh really?" Mina looked at the time, "Oh my! I didn't think that it was getting this late! Rom and Ram, the two of you should have been in your bed!"

"But we don't wanna go to bed!" Ram said, "We want to stay here with Caem and Taem!"

"Uh-huh!" Rom said, "You can't make us!"

Whoa! I think this was the first time I heard Rom actually talk back to someone! Especially to Mina out of all people! Something tells me I should back away now, or else I'll be in the crossfire of Mina's fury

"Rom? Ram? Pleas do not-"

"Mina, if they want to stay up then let them" Blanc interrupted Mina before looking back at Kashi, "They're only worried about their friends…"

"Y-yes Lady Blanc" Mina bowed

"Umm…random question" I said, "but how's Zest doing? Is he all right?"

"Zest is recovering very slowly" Vert said, "but…you can expect from a person who has just lost someone very close to them"

"Oh…well, hopefully he gets better, I'm not going to rush him" I said, "but…um… I also have something to tell you; all of you matter of fact"

"Is it about your Mom, Mister Alex?" Rom asked me

I stared at Rom with a "•_•" expression, did she just…how does…did someone tell her and I just didn't know about it up until this point?

"…Rom?" I said, "How do you-"

"Your sister told Rom along with the rest of us..." Blanc said, "She wanted to save you the heart attack, since you were about to have one when you told Noire"

"U-...uh, when did Silver-"

"She did this last night" Vert said, "Right in the middle of your sleep; why else do you think she has been unresponsive all day?"

Vert is right about that, Silver hasn't been speaking since yesterday, she must've used up today's energy to tell everyone which is why she isn't here right now

"Wait…so are you guys…okay with it?" I asked

"Caem had the biggest reaction out everyone!" Ram said, "you should've seen the look on his face! Is was hilarious!"

"Um, that didn't answer my question" I said

"Yes Alex, we're fine with it, it doesn't effect who you are now does it?" Vert asked

"The only thing I have to say is that whether she's your mother or not, I'm going to make sure that we doesn't pay a finger on anything else once we're done with her" Blanc growled

"Heh…yeah" I said, "thanks…It's nice to know I can count you and everyone else it have my back"


And with that ends the chapter! Thanks for reading this chapter everyone, I really appreciate it since I was sick for the past few days!

Now, the chapter isn't actually going to end here, nope! Back in the Recreation Arc, I promised to show the "Forgiveness" scene as I like to call, between two cousins

Once that's done, then it'll be straight to the reviews, so I would like to thank you al once again for reading, and I'll see you guys later!


Recreation Arc Chapter 4 Ending: Forgiveness…

Taem's Perspective

(Lowee, Basilicom, 6:30 AM)

Ram and I managed to sneak back into the Basilicom before everyone had woken up. Even though there was a few people, they weren't a problem! We were ninjas!

I walked Ram over to her room, we were holding each other's hand ever since we had left my old home. I let go of Ram's hand and she began to walk to her room, but that wasn't until she turned around hugged me

"See you in a few hours, ok Taem?" Ram looked up at me with that cute smile of hers

"Yeah! Definitely!" I said, "And…uh, I know this is sort of weird, but do you think you can just stick to calling me "dummy?", our friends are going to think it's weird that your not"

"Oh…ok then!" Ram said, "I was google to do that anyways!"

Ram let go of me and finally entered her room, she waved at me as I waved at her before she finally closed the door.

Man! I have a girlfriend now! So…does this mean that I obtain bragging rights? I mean, most people tend to brag when they get girlfriends…but wait, those people are usually douchebags

As I was thinking about this, I was only halfway back to my room when I noticed that there was someone on the far end of the hallway. I slowly turned my head and saw Kashi

"…" Kashi stared at me

"…" I stared back at him, "what are you looking at? Are you trying to burn me with that look of yours?"

"…"

"I don't why you're here, your just a monster" I said, "You shouldn't even be here, your only here cause Blanc has this thing for you"

"…" Kashi started to turn around

"Yeah! You should just t-turn a-round and-and-and" I felt myself starting to tear up

Why am I accusing him? Kashi never had anything to with the orphanage burning down at all! He would never do such thing, because he would be harming me!

"Kashi! I didn't mean what I said!" I was crying like a little baby, "You're someone who was always there for me when I was down!"

I didn't care if I was waking people up! I don't even care that Caem, Ram, and Rom had the doors the their room opened and we're currently staring at me

"I missed you so much Kashi! I didn't want to accept that you died! I searched everywhere to see if I could find you!" I kept on crying, "I don't want you to go Kashi! You're the only person who didn't turn their back on me when I was out on the street!"

I don't have any more words, nothing more could I say to persuade him, those were many bottled up things that I had kept inside me that were morphed into sentences

As I was basically on my knees crying, I felt someone wrap their arms around. At this point, I didn't care who it was, I just wanted someone to comfort me

"I-….I…-"

"Shhh…don't say anything…just let all the tears out" Suddenly hearing Kashi's voice made me even cry more, "I'll never leave you alone…we'll be able to be together…"


REVIEW TIME!


To HeroOfTimeX3DS: Well, this story isn't cannon so it's practically unknown whether they have parents or not, I'm just going off of what I think the actual situation is


To Moonbunny: Yes they are! If I do plan on doing some sort of origin story, I might as well have a base to start off from…or whatever

Wait…did you just say…"anymore?" Why do you say that?

Caem: Um…the look distorted

Taem: I don't think "distorted" would be the word-Holy Momma Macaroons! They have breast! *nosebleed*

Well, if you were searching under "Acallaris" then you weren't going to find anything, as my Skype isn't based after that, it's actually "alpha39adventurer" (I created it while I was in 7th grade, which is the reason for the name)


(Questionès for the cast! I think we should be saying "Which DIMENSION will fund us")

Alex: I…I can't move my body

Nepgear: D-do you want me to help you?

Alex: No…I'll be fine…I hope

Blue Brother:…ugh…God I feel dizzy…and weird…what happen?

Acallaris:…

Blue Brother: What? You going to stare or are you going to answer?

Caem: That would have to be the Blue Thunder M-45!

Taem:…I'm starting to have regrets now…

Ram: *lifts up box* Taem!

Taem: I've been spotted! *runs to the door but trips and knocks himself out*

Rom: *gasp*

Acallaris:…umm…the hell?

Blanc: This is freaking ridiculous…

Noire: Shh! Don't say anything!

Rom:…umm…I forgot how to play

Caem: let me try *takes baton and plays Ballad of Gales*

Acallaris: Wait a minute! *sees a cyclone* that was the wrong song!

Hinato: We must examine the dimension that we are creating a portal too in small pieces, if we find any differences then we examine them to see if interacting with them would cause a rip in the space time continuum, it is a more complicated task than looks

Histoire: Wait! R31, please do not leave!

Hinato: Histoire, I would suggest that you-

Histoire: Hinato, I ask that you may not speak; you have already caused enough tension between everyone here

Tamazaki: If she went Tsundere: I'd probably get sick of her constant bitching on the 2nd day, if she were H

Yandere: I'd be gone in a blink of an eye

Neptune: Never!

Noire: S-shut up! I'm not getting jealous! She just doesn't know him! So that's why

Saori: Noire, I don't want to date Terra, I mean…that would be incest…although I don't think that would-

Noire and Terra: Incest!?

Zest: *comes out of hiding place* InZEST!?

Ram: Let's win this!

Rom: Yeah!

Luth: Your going down…"flatties"

Blanc: "flatties?" *growls* don't you all me a flatty! *runs up to Luth and sends him flying through a wall*

Neptune: Blanc's gone bananas! Every CPU and Apple for themselves!


To Geod Pony: 16? Why couldn't it be "15?"

IF: That was bad…

Acallaris: I know it was…