Hello again from ItWasTheVoices with another chapter of 'Angels and Bloodties'. Our hero in the story was able to free himself from the ritual through the help of the archangel of light. But now he and his friends must face the final boss of this story, thanks to Seraphina herself. Can they destroy the final boss without killing the knights themselves?
A Story's Final Boss
The three unconscious knights float up into the air by an unseen force swarmed by various orbs of light. Their eyes open glowing an unsettling blue before all three cry out in an inhuman pitch, piercing everyone's ear drums. The orbs of light consume the three into a shape shifting ball, creating a bizarre creature from the knights.
chaos gawks at the corrupted knights' form emerging from the twisted ball of orbs. The horrifying fusion emerges first by pulling its four arms into the real numbers domain in a translucent body. It's second set of arms embrace it's torso like a strait jacket after it crawled out of the blob. The body cracks and contorts upright like a stiff mannequin with its limp legs. The face was covered by a mask that morphs into an angry face. Various veins start to glow blue around the creature's body, illuminating it's sickly pale skin. The creature's body cracks again and it roars to life with a pained shriek. The mid-section of the fusion starts to glimmer a sphere trapped in the center, rings rotating around the sphere. The first set of arms move in front of the sphere pulling out a lance from it's abdomen. chaos turns around to see KOSMOS activate the Hilbert Effect around the ritual chamber. The android instinctively reacts to the corrupted knights as she detects a familiar anomaly she was programmed to eradicate.
"KOSMOS, what are you doing?" Shion said covering her face from the intense light show.
"Shion, the anomaly emerging from the waves appears to have Gnosis-like qualities. I have initiated the Hilbert Effect to bring the gnosis's physical body into real numbers space," KOSMOS replied.
"What?! This thing?! Are you saying this thing is a gnosis?" shouts Jr.
"It can't be, this can't be a gnosis," chaos whispered staring up at the corrupted knights.
"Argh, but how? They're, not even human," Jin grunts trying to stand with the others. chaos frowns realizing what was causing this...
"Son of a bitch! Seraphina must be using the brat's human half to corrupt their power. Her consciousness is rejecting the conflicting wills," Albedo interrupts chaos coming to the same conclusion. chaos closes his eyes with reservation. The silver haired teen could feel his body was still influenced by the ritual, his skin was still paler and his eyes still dark as night. chaos needed to channel his strength to stop the now corrupted knights. But how? He didn't want to hurt them, and yet, if he were to do nothing, everyone and everything would be decimated. He tries to focus his energy out of Lucifer's influence, golden light faintly glowing from his hands.
"I told myself I wouldn't let anyone else die because of me." The others turn to him to see chaos begin casting a circle around everyone, finishing a weakened protective spell for his friends. The Testaments look at each other and stumble to their feet slowly. They move closer to each other directly eyeing the horrifying gnosis with awe and determination.
"We don't have time to waste. Let us begin," Voyager said. The other Testaments raise their hands to form a defensive attack against the giant gnosis. Shion and the others watch the men form an anomaly to keep the destructive will from hurting them.
"What good do you think that will do?" A dark haired woman lifts herself up from leaning on part of the mechanism, feeling the affects of the link being severed. The group's eyes dart to Lucifer bleeding out trickles of light from her body, grinning bitterly. Her body was slowly being ravaged by the effects of the knight's corruption with blue veins appearing around her eyes.
"You pitiful humans, you think using your master's power will stop him and the others from destroying you? You will only find yourself being absorbed by this unruly force. All...all it can do now is mindlessly scorch all it perceives as discord with fire. And you filthy, imperfect creatures, will soon meet that fate soon."
"Not if we have anything to say about it!" Shouted an angry Kevin. Shion cries out to the Testament, "Please you have to stop. If she is right, then that means you'll be destroyed." The Red Testament turns his head to look at Shion through his cracked mask. Shion quietly recognizes the man's eyes, knowing it was truly who she thought it was. Kevin turns away and puts more of his strength into the anomaly.
"Leave this part to us, Shion. You and Yeshua must stop them, or everything we've done would be for nothing," Kevin pleaded. She lowers her head and nods before charging up her M.W.S. and stands beside chaos. Ziggy, Jin, Jr. and KOSMOS all move up beside chaos and look up at the giant gnosis again shrieking at them. The gnosis starts to wave it's free hand around to cast blue flames at the group, who quickly dodge them. Jr. returns the attack with a Storm Waltz hitting random parts of the gnosis' body. The sphere in the center spins forming a barrier of lances around the gnosis, and it shoots them at Jr. and Jin. Jr. gets scratched up dodging the lances while Jin gets missed completely.
Shion casts a boost ether to increase attack power on the fighting party while shouting for KOSMOS to attack with X-Buster. KOSMOS performs her X-Buster hitting the gnosis several times with strong blows. Blue light starts to illuminate from the gnosis and a burst of painful blue auras rains down on Shion and KOSMOS, like it reflected the attack back at them. The attack throws Shion down on the ground screaming, her health already at a critical mass. "Shion!" Jin shouted and rushes to defend her. As he sprints towards Shion with sword ready to block the projectile auras being shot at them, one set of beams gets dangerously close to impaling his chest. Jin hears from behind him the clanking sound of the beams hitting KOSMOS's blade from the R-BLADE, costing KOSMOS half of her sword.
"Thanks KOSMOS!" Jin replies with gratitude before making his way to Shion safely. He gets Shion out of the way to cast a healing ether, her health near recovery to fight again. The siblings then form a timed double attack at the giant gnosis and leaves some scarring on the creature.
While the siblings try to fall back for Ziggy to form a special attack, Jr. spots the semiconscious Albedo about give way to exhaustion.
"Albedo, hang on!" cried Jr. The strawberry haired boy then hastily dodges the gnosis' attack, yelping when a bluish beam hits him on the foot.
"Oh sorry. I thought I would take a nap while you handle this," snarks the frail Albedo as he stumbles forward.
"Not the best time for your fucking sarcasm, Albedo!" snarled Virgil. The Blue Testament's hands started shaking before he started to grunt and stumble forward himself.
"Keep it together! This thing isn't even weakened yet," Kevin shouted. The four cloaked men looked relieved to see the hostile creature contort looking like it was defeated. Ziggy's last attack neutralizes the blue flames and beams, sending a new set of cracks along the gnosis' face. The face of the gnosis contracts again after Jr. and Shion perform an Angel's Requiem, the angry mask it wore morphs into a giggling unsettling smile.
"Oh great! Now that thing looks pissed." Jr. muttered and dashes quickly with Shion to avoid a wall of light blue rushing towards them. The two barely avoid being flattened by the psychic attack, hearing the gnosis let out another unsettling laugh. chaos nearly escapes until the psychic attack shocks him through the legs, irritating his darker form more. Ziggy, Jin, and KOSMOS sustain damage from the electrical beams. The three fall over with blue sparks coming off of Ziggy's back. "Jin! Old Man! You guys okay?" Jr. shouted.
"Oh no, KOSMOS!" Shion shouts looking at the android.
"Shion, I have sustained 40% damage to my eternal hardware. Maximum output has dropped to 28% with 22% discrepancy."
"You two would design something that does math while it's being destroyed," mumbled Virgil to Kevin. The red Testament tries to retort when the four testaments see the gnosis turn another attack towards them. "Um, gentlemen, I think he's trying to murder us now..." Kevin's eyes go wide with horror. The gnosis sends a new wall of electrical beams to the Testaments, with the Black testament shouting for them stand their ground. chaos and the others watch the Testaments get attack with the silver haired teen cringing when they got hit. The blast damages most of the barrier they produced with one of the testament finally fainting after the attack. "Owwwwww…" goes Virgil sprawled out on the rubble.
"We would get flattened by one of 'his' old attacks," mumbled a disheveled Voyager.
"chaos, hurry, I don't think 'team cloakies' is going to last much longer by themselves." pleaded Jr., who watched as the four men try to hold their own again. The boy and chaos rushed to help heal Ziggy and Jin, while Shion helped repair some of KOSMOS's damages. Although the group was going as fast as they could helping the others, Albedo desperately pleads to the shorter brother to hurry as the gnosis continued to attack. The White and Red Testament could finally see a strategy the gnosis formed as they continued to be attack by the hostile creature.
"Rubedo, listen you jackass! That thing is using some of the knights' attacks. Wa-wait for the next attack to start up again. It's trying to attack in a pattern."
"A pattern?" Jr. and chaos watch the attack start to form from the gnosis, the creature appearing to start casting another set of blue flames at them. The creature he saw was bursting through them with a rigid set of blue flames from Melvina. He could recognize the wall of electrical beams from Wilhelm's powers, and the last set involving lance shaped beams most likely from Liddy.
chaos and Jr. nod to each other and split off towards their respected double attack partners. "Jin! Code Ice!" shouts chaos. He jumps and flips over towards the now healed Jin, then twirls and molds a blue light in his gloved hands. He fires an icy blast towards the gnosis as Jin readies his sword. The older man swings the blade towards the iceberg the gnosis became trapped in, and damages the gnosis with one strike.
"Jr, Shion, now!" chaos rushes forward and performs his special attack 'Demon Banisher' to lower the creature's attack power. Once he was done, chaos feels himself stumble forward dizzy. He grabs his head feeling nauseated, the soulless black eyes still never changing on his face. Shion and Jr. afterwards form a second Angel's Requiem, their attack causing more damage thanks to the 'Demon Banisher'.
The gnosis' face starts to crack further, the cracks spreading a little further down it's face. "I think it's working! Shouted Shion. The mask suddenly starts to morph from it's smiling façade and contorts into a frozen face of fear and despair. The gnosis lets out an inhuman howl, summoning several spears to spring up from the air and stab at the party. "Oh great, now it's raining death!" squeals Voyager before the group is sent flying is various directions screaming. After the dust clears, half the party is seen eating dirt, with Albedo as the latest Testament to faint on them. "No, Albedo!" Jr. shouts. Voyager and Kevin are left holding up a defensive attack on the gnosis, looking worse for wear.
"No, we're perfectly fine. Thanks for asking," grumbled a now pale Kevin and Voyager. chaos, Ziggy, and Jr. were left standing. The three much like everyone else, was starting to lose what ether power they had left to fight the gnosis. KOSMOS after a few minutes recuperates to stand and scans the gnosis advancing with another attack.
"The gnosis has sustained approximately 80.6221% damage in real numbers space. Several more attacks should finally dismantle the gnosis," KOSMOS reports distracting the gnosis with several gun shots. "Yes, but be careful KOSMOS, this thing doesn't look like it will let us destroy it so quickly." Shion replies. The scientist moves to help Jin up from the ground again. Ziggy finishes healing himself with another healing ether, and rushes up to KOSMOS to form their double attack. The gnosis responds by bashing the ground making it shake with the large spear smashing into various parts of the destroyed room. The ground crumbles and sprouts out several lances from the established spear it held.
The group somehow manages to dodge the deadly attack, chaos holding back his dizziness to get away from the malevolent auras. chaos and Shion were standing close together panting from exertion. The scientist watches the android continue to use her X-Buster to weaken the gnosis further. "Shit, there has to be another way to defeat this thing." grunted Shion. chaos looks towards his hand, now panting heavily. He felt sick, as if his mind was whirling with how tired he strangely felt.
'Is this all from fighting the ritual? Or is this part Seraphina's plan?' chaos grunts keeping himself standing. Shion checks over chaos beside her and starts to charge up her M.W.S.
"chaos, I'm going to use up my last ether supply to form a double attack. I don't know if this will work, but if we time it with one of KOSMOS's X-Busters, we might bring it down enough to destroy it. Hurry and help me!"
chaos takes a breath in and moves over towards her. chaos calls out to KOSMOS to form 'Twin Buster'. The android glances back and darts backwards amongst the gnosis' patterns attacks. She stands in front of Shion, who gives her the signal to form a X-Buster. Before she releases the attack, Shion charges the attack with her M.W.S. KOSMOS arches forward and rapidly stands upright to shoot the beam attack with a direct hit. The blast severely damages the glowing sphere in the middle of the gnosis' body with chaos taking note of the opportunity to strike.
"Now's our chance, aim for the abdomen!" chaos shouts. Ziggy, Jr. and Jin provide cover for the two performing on last double attack. Intricate symbols appear in front of Shion's weapon with chaos ready behind her. He helps hold the M.W.S. steady aiming for the sphere. The symbols in front of them glow as they both shout, "Dual Spell Ray!" The blast throws Shion off her feet into chaos's arms, the teen almost losing his grip on her. chaos and Shion fall back from the double attack landing on their backs. The two spots the blast hit most of the sphere in a near direct hit, the gnosis contorting with violent jerks.
Everyone stops and waits with suspense waiting for the gnosis' response. The testaments lower their guard watching the gnosis tense up and howl. To their relief, the creature howls while numerous cracks throughout its physical form.
The malevolent creature dissembles, releasing the three knights from the fusion. Two of the three emerged from the 'gnosis' face first. The unconscious Wilhelm and Melvina fall through the destroyed entity like reflections of the other on opposite sides. Voyager muster enough strength to help Kevin catch the two spiraling down to the chamber ground. Just as the two land with the unconscious knights, a wave of energy sends them flying backwards knocking down Jin, Shion, and Jr.
Virgil wakes up and pulls himself up, accompanied by Albedo sitting up from the rubble from the shockwaves. KOSMOS attempts to block a new shockwave with a stronger barrier. Only chaos and Ziggy were lucky to be safe enough behind her shield. The shockwave barely pushes them back towards Virgil and Albedo. chaos glances back to everyone who got knocked over to see them get up with steady movements. The four Testaments, from what he could sense, were practically drained of available power after they finally destroyed the overpowered gnosis. In Voyager's grip, Melvina's eyes flutter open to see the destruction going on around her. She looks out in front of chaos and gasps to see Lucifer standing down the aftershock.
"Ma...mother?" The dark archangel somehow was still standing after all that. Lucifer despite her manic smile was still weakened by Seraphina's trap, blue veins enveloping her figure. chaos watches her look up at the aftershock and gasps watching the young woman emerge from the wind and debris. Lydia was still enveloped in the blue veiny lights throughout her body, holding out her hands like a mindless puppet. Lucifer begins to laugh madly at the brat consumed by Seraphina's wrath.
"You, you really know how to get on my nerves. Don't you sister. That stupid girl, how could you let yourself be tricked into sacrificing your flesh for Seraphina's will. Is this, all thanks for setting off your metamorphosis? Heh, heh, heh...well, I happily accept. Give yourself to her will, my ungrateful blood. Let her devour you like she will devour me! Oh bringer of judgement, you sadistic bitch, cleanse me with your fire! HAHAHAHA!" Lydia's body spills out a storm of light blue light that rushes up to Lucifer. The light blue light shows a brief image of the ghostly Seraphina reaching out for her sister and embraces her. Lucifer, with a smile of serenity, bursts into a cluster of blinding lights.
"Mother!" Melvina shouts in shock watching her disappear into the unknown.
chaos gawks at the archangels disappearing into the imaginary domain, losing their access to the lower real numbers domain. He and the others stare dumbfounded by the sudden end to their fight with the dark archangel and the corrupted knights. chaos couldn't convince himself this was happening, now knowing Seraphina cut off their ties to the imaginary domain on her own.
"No, no mother. You can't be," Melvina shudders in shock. She turns to Voyager who holds her back in silence. The man's face was blue with anxiousness as he says, "I...don't think it's over yet."
"Come on, come on. Wake up!" Kevin pats Wilhelm's cheek quickly looking just as panicked. He switches to shaking him to no avail until Jin stops him. The albino man remained motionless in his arms clinging to life, the man barely breathing in his grip.
"We need to get him to a hospital. His injuries are too severe," argued Jin. Ziggy moves over to help them when he feels what was making Voyager anxious. He turns back and shouts with wide eyes, "Take cover!"
A strong ball of pink energy pulsated around them and nearby sectors like an electrical surge. It's shockwaves bringing some of the characters back to their knees screaming. A pink Lydia was continuing to scream in an inhuman pitch as her body started to burn up from the energy. The world around the group was blowing debris and wind, concrete, runes, and walls crumbling at the seams, pulled into a cyclone before being flung off in random parts of the ruined facility. Within the center of the cyclone was the youngest knight, who started to show signs of burning flesh.
"Urgh! Now what?!" Jr. asked through his panic trying to keep his ground. "Shion, the anomaly from Lydia Vein has reached critical thresholds. Unfortunately, in my current output, it will not give you enough time to evacuate the facility without sustaining damage. Please seek shelter immediately," KOSMOS instructs Shion and the others. Melvina glances at her brother and watches her niece helplessly.
"Her meta…her metamorphosis was incomplete. Lady Seraphina knew this, and used this to distort her link…this is…too much power for her. Oh brother, I'm sorry I didn't listen. I should have listen...I..." Melvina holds herself consumed with guilt, wanting to resign herself to be taken out by the cyclone of death that came from Lydia. The others around her were still pulling in whatever energy they had trying to save themselves from destruction. The Testaments and KOSMOS try to keep a barrier up again, the four waning in composure seeing the barrier cracking from the massive source of energy. Virgil in desperation turns to chaos and the others.
"Anyone got any ideas on what to do about the teenage angst trying to incinerate us!" He shouts at chaos from a distance. chaos gawks at the random throws of spear shaped auras attacking the barrier and the surrounding area. He never flinches seeing the auras crush and crumble structures around them, ever inching closer to destroying every living thing nearby. Shion goes closer to the edge of the barrier shouting up at the girl. "Lydia! Lydia, can you hear me?! You have to stop!" chaos chimes in to Shion's pleads with saddened and still blackened eyes.
"That's right! Lydia, it's ok now! You don't have to be afraid. Everyone's okay now! Please, snap out of it!"
"What they said! Time to come back now!" Kevin shouts with more panic in his voice. The barrier continued to eroded away as everyone now dodges the malevolent wills attacking them again.
The girl's short hair was flowing around wildly, the girl appeared unresponsive to their voices. chaos growls in frustration, feeling useless in all the turmoil. 'Yeshua...' A woman's voice softly calls to him. He hears the woman's voice call him one more time, darting his eyes to the other side of the destruction. chaos's eyes softened seeing his late beloved looking at him. Mary's blue eyes stare directly at him through KOSMOS, kindly reassuring him, calming his inner self. Mary holds out to him an intricate light blue pendent, the one he remembered from many centuries ago around her neck. The one he gave to Angeles, and now, that same pendant was around his neck. chaos understood what he had to do. He nods his head and smiles at his beloved, who lets KOSMOS return back to fighting the anomaly around them.
He takes a deep breath in with fists of determination. He moves Shion back towards Kevin and Jin as he jumps into the fray leaving the safety of the eroding barrier. The silver haired teen rips the pendant from his neck and sprints toward the pink cyclone of death. Shion cries out to him to stop, begging him not to go near Lydia.
"chaos, the fuck are you doing?!" cried Jr. He ignores his friends' panicked cries dodging the lance shaped auras that kept trying to stab him. His eyes were set on the girl floating in the middle of the disorder, jumping up to her with one big leap. His body flew around the cyclone of energy before grabbing a hold of her arm. A shockwave of pain spread into his veins feeling like his veins were set on fire. He tries to hold back his screams feeling the veins and skin burn. chaos desperately reaches for one of her hands and clutches it tightly. He could see the girl's will slowly consuming her physical form like firewood, parts of her body had already incinerated in several places. Her eyes looking at him with bright pink sockets, not even acknowledging he was there. 'Please Mary. I hope you're right about this.' He takes the pendent from his glowing gold hands, putting it in her hand, and shouts an incantation over them.
"Angel Wings!" Suddenly, everyone becomes consumed by another bright light, covering their eyes reflexively as it devours them all.
chaos: I have to say, I am very impressed by how Shion and Allen constructed their own gnosis using Deviant Art sketches.
IWTV: Yeah, that was pretty impressive, I didn't know Shion could draw. Now for the big finale! Wait, why do I smell smoke?
chaos: Oh yes, I forgot to tell you about Jin and Voyager. They accidently lit themselves on fire...
IWTV: How do you 'accidently' do that?
Ziggy: They got too close to the sparklers used for the controlled explosions.
Jin and Voyager: AHHH! (rolls around the floor on fire).
IWTV: Great, I can already hear Kevin writing up a court case as we speak. Anyway, stay tune for the next chapter called 'My Dear Failsafe'.