Xcalibur -A NEW WORLD- Ch. XXI (Yearly Lives Timeskip pt. 1: Death of a Bachelor)
This is Xcalibur -A NEW WORLD- Season 2: Years of War
Disclaimer: This one is quite difficult to write and probably sad. Also the next following chapters are Timeskips before the true climax occurs. As such, the times gone by could be a few years but due to their demihuman origins, they may age slower than anticipated. They may retain their youthful years of 18 even if they are beyond that age. Unlike human race that age normally unless cursed by some magic or blessed with divine gifts. That said, I hope you guys enjoy. Also, some themes may not be suitable for younger audiences, hence it is still rated T and not K+. But I'll try not to let it go to M.
The ENDERS, the organization of malevolent beings gathered in one purpose: to disrupt the balance that was once maintained by the Almighty Creator, given to His sons - Michael Demiurge/El-Shaddai and Samael Morningstar/Lightbringer. Now the order is hanging by the thread, but there are those who dare to take action and prevent the destruction of the world. The Creator left the world to them, and only by a certain condition will He return in full glory to rule again. That condition is end the Divine War of Planet Dissidium: Home of Celestial beings.
Lincoln explained why he was gone for so long to his adoptive sisters. The parents, the ones who adoptive him, are either in awe or glee to see him again only to find out what is his race is. They learned that he is a Nephilim, a creature of both light and darkness, a hybrid born out of the love of an Angel and a Demon. Even still, that did not stop the Loud patriarch and matriarch to love their adoptive son. He was their dream come true, a prayer answered to them. In their barrenness, they wished for children. For the last few years, they are only granted five daughters during their reputation as a foster family. When Lincoln came, Lucy was next then the cousins that are birth and adopted the same time, up to the young alchemist and the last is an infant of the Esperkins. Although most of the time they got girls, they accepted the fact that Lincoln/Ludociel is the only boy they ever raised. They all took the time to get together and get close once again.
When Bobby came to Lincoln, he reintroduced himself to him and his delinquent sister, Ronnie Anne. It seemed that Ronnie Anne is infatuated with Lincoln so much, just as some other girls he once met in is life in Ouroboros and in secret schooling from Royal Woods Academy.
Bobby: How come a lot of girls are getting your attention?
Clyde: Yeah, buddy! What's your secret? How'd you tame Ronnie and Haiku from getting out of hand?
Lincoln: I'll tell you, but do promise that you'll only call me Lincoln. My real name, Ludociel is for Ouroboros members only. [they nodded] it lies in my power. The power bestowed upon me. That and I my real father is an Incubus demon before becoming a General. My mother was immune to his charms but still married him since it was his audacity. She only married him when he proved that not all demons are evil and they are indeed capable of love.
Bobby: Power huh? Does that involve the Commandments?
Lincoln: Yes. In fact, it was I who split them in ten equal pieces and gave them to my sisters. When they awoken, they've retraced my connection with them and was able to use that power again. Because of the development, I get to retain the original feature of the Commandments and use it at my will even if the girls still have it.
Clyde: So you're the 11th Commandment?
Lincoln: Correction Clyde, the 0th Commandment. The Commandment of Love.
Clyde: Love? Is that why you can charm them?
Lincoln: Yes, but such effect doesn't work against manipulated people. They had to retain their freewill for the power to gain effect. Also, Bobby! You're welcome!
Bobby: For what?
Lincoln: For saving Loan. When Lori tragically saw you die, her awakening of her origin strained her physically and endangered Loan's development. During her Commandment's awakening, I noticed the danger and took Loan out of her mother's womb. The process however could lead a premature baby so I placed Lori in an Incubus sleep before using arcana to utilize an Athenian birth, a birth via the head. Because of this process, Loan had a part of my own genetic composition and for her biological parents, you and Lori.
Bobby: So that means, we are her parents? The three of us? That's going to confuse her or anyone in the future. (There is a such thing of an offspring having three parental DNA, just look it up. Example is four parental DNA or Tetraparental offspring)
Lincoln: She can call me uncle if necessary, plus it will make nursing her much easier with the three of us. However, being born from Lori's head, she may develop a mentality same as her. She can be a manifestation of Lori's knowledge, behaviour, fears, doubts, creativity, multitasking skill, etc.
Bobby: I understand bro, I'll keep that in mind.
With that discussed among sibling-in-laws, Lincoln though that maybe it's his turn to find love. Ronnie Anne is a good candidate but she tends to bully him when she gets the chance. Haiku, well she still infatuated with Clyde but only in a bare minimum. She accepted that Penelope or Chloe will have a piece of his heart but not hers. Afterall, who would date someone similar to Lucy, a goth with fascination with the morbid and macabre? Lincoln would. Polly Pain has someone who is crushing on her, who is one of Lincoln's friends in school: Rusty. But she rejected the thought since he's a Casanova wannabe and a bit of perv more so. Being an Incubus descent, I'd be considered the same if it wasn't the Angelic DNA that helps me preserve resoluteness and abstinence from those tendencies. Giggles only view me as a prankmate and nothing more. She is interested in my other friend, a Porcupine beastman, Zach Gurdle. Tabby, an aspiring rockstar like Luna, only thinks Liam as a bandmate. I hope it wasn't because of being a cyclopes that she didn't pursue him as a love interest, Liam's a good friend that he kept my secret safe until needed. Paige is only interested of my Nephilim physiology and if ever, she want a child to share her interest in alchemy, while Girl Jordan has been a childhood friend from the lioness beastmen. Now that she knows my origin and real name, I think she is no longer embarrassed of her bipolar disorder of being arrogant even in front of me.
And then there are other girls too. Thanks to my Nephilim physiology and their demi-human physiology, age doesn't matter. They can be older than 25 when I reach 18 and still remain that youthful look thanks to their longevity and my nigh-immortality. Caroline Pyrona, aka Carol Pingrey is Lori's real twin sister and another candidate.
But those are for another time in the future.
A few years passed and peace was maintained for a while. No reports of an attack from the ENDERS ever since. Loan is three years old. Leni and Chaz are still a boyfriend/girlfriend thing and they're planning on following Lori's steps and desired to get married. While both of their friends supports them, Lincoln wanted what's best for Leni and made him promise to not break Leni's heart. Daniel recently asked for Dana's hand to be his girlfriend, in which the bewitching frostwoman agreed. Lisa then asked Lincoln to meet with her privately in a bunker that contains Lisa's Gideon Journal.
Lisa: Here we are dear brother unit. The Gideon recording device. This is where I kept secret files that I received from Darcy and soon, Lily.
Lincoln: I recognize the device Lisa. There's something missing to make Gideon's AI upgraded and updated to anything. Like a timeline vault of possibilities. The tech is similar to Sir El-Shaddai's Celestial computer.
Lisa: Then, is there a way to progress on raising Gideon's AI software?
Lincoln: Yes, it lies here. [Lincoln shows him a piece of Celestial tech] install this tech that also supported by Esperkin technology. With this Gideon should be upgraded, as an interactive artificial consciousness.
Lisa followed Lincoln's instructions and installed the device in Gideon's Hard-drive to upgrade the journal into something more extraordinary. After a few hours of tinkering, they reboot the program.
Gideon: Good day, Ludociel, Lisa. It is a pleasure to finally speak to you. I am Gideon, your artificial intelligence guide and supervisor.
Lincoln: Gideon, no need with the formalities. Just call me by my adoptive name, Lincoln.
Gideon: As you wish. Would you like me to initiate journal recording Ms. Lisa Loud.
Lisa: You know me?
Gideon: I do, thanks to the upgrade. You are Elisabeth Einstein or Lisa Loud as your adoptive name. The tech that was installed on me is both Esperkin and Angelo tech from Michael Demiurge. Thanks to that, you can now have glimpse of the future without the help on an Esperkin.
Lisa: Impressive!
Lincoln: Now you know why Esperkins are rare yet valuable asset. Which is why they almost went extinct.
Lisa: But once we get glimpse of the future, what then?
Lincoln: We cannot change that. If we are to do so, we can only change small parts of the future but not the bigger parts. It is to avoid timeline paradoxes and time crises.
Gideon: Indeed, what was written shall be done in accordance to the course of fate. Anything small is acceptable but bigger changes in the timeline may pose a threat. One that should be avoided at all cost.
Suddenly, an earthquake shaken the two foster siblings from the bunker.
Lisa: What in Einstein's name?
Gideon: It seemed that an earthquake had occurred. Normally the tectonic plates are in stable state so it must be caused by an external force.
Lincoln: Gideon, scan the whole world for the epicenter then give us a detail of the quake.
Gideon: As you wish. Initializing scan, analyzing cause. It seemed that a space anomaly has opened a rift of time-space that opens to a different dimension.
Lincoln: Are there anything else?
Gideon: An individual is exiting the rift. Race, Demon/Vampire. An archduchess nonetheless.
Lincoln: We have to go! They're invading again. Gideon, give us the location!
Gideon: Affirmative, the anomaly's location is Green Tee golf course.
Lincoln and Lisa went with the others to see if they can encounter the anomaly. Lincoln called some members of the Ouroboros to help them just in case they can't handle the threat alone. The teleported to Green Tee and saw the portal closing. Beside the closing gate is a woman of great beauty with vampiric lineage. She had scarlet hair, an umbrella of pink and red and clothing similar to a noblewoman, frilly, girly dress. What feature she is having is that her horns of red are shown and her back had bat wings of pure ebony. Her horn had an accessory of an ENDER.
Lincoln: An ENDER, and an archduchess of all.
Lucy: I had this uncanny feeling that I know this person. I've read her in Grandma Harriet's collection of arcane knowledge.
Frilly Archduchess: Oh what a fine young woman you are. I'd like to have a taste of you so I can stay young as promised.
Luna had a nosebleed from looking at her beauty, prompting Sam to slap her back to reality and had her close her eyes. Among the members of Ouroboros, the one that appeared are Rivelias, Shina Azrael, and Bartholomew "Berial" Alucard.
Berial: It cannot be!? She's…
Shina: You know her?
Berial: I do. She's founding mother of the vilest vampire clan that opposes the Van Helsing and Dracula clan. While Vlad became a vampire after his death and becomes the Impaler Count Dracula before founding the Alucards and surrendering to the Van Helsing, she and her clan remained in servitude in diabolic occultists. Her children weren't saved and had to be burnt for their heresy as she remained in such cruelty. She has been reported to be a sadistic torturer and a human turned into vampire via cannibalism. She's none other than… Elizabeth Bathory the Blood Countess. Those who follow her example are called the Bathories.
Rivelias: And you're telling me she's been reanimated?
Berial: No, but she was given a demonic vessel with her original body intact. She has been reborn as a demon. But what I can't understand is how.
Elizabeth Bathory: Simple young Alucard, A deal had been made with Maderas. I serve him and spared me from the pain in exchange of being an ENDER like his group.
Shina: Your SOUL should had been banished to the eternal void after the flames of Scheol consumed you. So this time, when we kill you, there will be no reincarnation for you and your kind!
Bathory: I'd like to see you try.
Lucy: Everyone, be careful! She's strong. Our commandments alone won't work.
Lincoln: I know, she's a lost cause. Her demonic hypnotism isn't strong but she willingly chose to side to evil. She can't be redeemed. I can't charm nor weaken her.
As they prepare to battle this fiendish vampire, they had to make sure that there are nobody in the vicinity. Bathory summoned her henchmen, damned SOUL that followed her example, including her occultist family.
Lincoln: The rest of you deal with the summoned shades. Berial, Rivelias and Shina, you're all with me in taking on Bathory!
The rest of the Sisters of the Commandment spread out to fight the group of shades. Lincoln and Berial summoned their weapons, Lincoln's exorcism katana, Masamune, and Berial's Vampiric claws. Rivelias acts as support by creating a wall of fire and ice. Shina summoned her scythe to fight against the evil vampire demon. The four of them then charges at the vampire, with Berial starting with a claw thrust that Bathory blocks with her demon spear. She then swipes her spear and causes a powerful wind force that pushes Berial back. Lincoln then charges with his katana. Bathory sidesteps away as Lincoln misses his fast rush. Bathory notices an incoming projectile from Rivelias's elemental sprites and dodges them. Bathory also blocks the incoming scythe boomeranging from Shina and Bathory slashes her spear to attack Shina. The daughter of death parries the attacks with her scythe and Berial springs back into action and enhanced his hand with a bat wristblade. Berial charges and his wristblade hits Bathory's right biceps.
Bathory: Ow, that hurts! You will pay!
Berial: Lincoln!
Lincoln catches Bathory in an opening provided by Berial. Lincoln uses Judgement Cutter and creates a vortex of spatial slashes that wounds Bathory.
Shina: Good job, Lincoln. Time to send her back to Scheol!
Bathory: Don't underestimate me! Bathory's Emporium of Pain!
The elemental barrier of Rivelias is replaced by a mist of darkness as their arena becomes a rooftop of a nobleman's castle from Esced, Hungary. During the fight, Rivelias casts a fire spell that exploded on the floor when Bathory dodges the incoming projectile. The roof floor that was hit by the fire attack reveals the chamber from a hole created. The chamber is a place of torture and blood pool used for bathing. Lincoln and Berial saw the room and was horrified of the place.
Berial: Now I understand why they call her Blood Countess of Hungary.
Lincoln: All those innocent virgins she condemned to death. Stopping her will free them from the pain.
Meanwhile outside the Bathory castle. The walled golf course is evacuated but the heroes are fighting the condemned shades that followed Bathory's footsteps. There is one man that is still inside the course, in the course cafe restroom.
Chaz: I got to get out of here. It's chaos outside. [Chaz notices that the Sisters are eradicating the threat.] The Sisters, then that means… Leni's here.
Chaz went out to find her but he unfortunately got bumped by one of the shades. He was noticed by the ghoulish specters and was attacked until he fainted. The shades grabbed him as a hostage.
Back to the Bathory castle roof, the Blood Countess seemed to be weakening and most of her servants have been neutralized. The Sisters finished their duties to support Lincoln.
Lori: We literally didn't sweat at all.
Luna: Yeah, dude. It was chilling and the players are now free birds.
Shina: Time to send you back to where you belong.
Bathory is exhausted from the battle. Anytime now, she will be returned to Scheol and face her fears. Her sentece during her life of abuse and torture led the royalty and other nobles to burn her families and accomplices while she was confined in a dark room with only one hole to pass through for air and food. The place is so confined and sealed of by guards that she developed a severe claustrophobia. And when she died, her SOUL was sent to Scheol for her unrepentant, insane and murderous personality. Her carnage was all to for keeping her beautiful youth, blood as bathwater for her skin. Her sadism that was evident, and her desire for human flesh and blood led her to become to be cursed into a vampire. Now she lost against the heroes. She will return to that place of hellish horrors.
Bathory: No, I can't. I serve Maderas, and failure will just drive me back to my torment. I shall serve Maderas to my full extent. I will destroy all of you if I had to. Then your blood will be my bathwater, I will be beautiful and young!
Lincoln: There's no saving her. And even if we return her, Maderas will just use her again like the others. Her SOUL can be used as puppet of food for the Demon clan.
Bathory noticed one of her shades carrying Chaz. She immediately teleports to the shade and took Chaz as hostage. The heroes noticed her and saw what she is about to do.
Leni: CHAZ!
Lincoln: Oh no!
Berial: Stop her!
Bathory: Too late!
Chaz: Leni… I'm sorry.
Bathory took Chaz's soul and ate it. Bathory's strength restored and she recasts her castle back. She then summons more shades to fight them.
Leni: AAAAHHHHH!
Leni's sadness filled rage caused her to summon treants, golem made of trees. They aide the heroes in stopping the damned shades from getting out of hand. The rest of the Loud sisters went to assist Leni out of condolence and compassion. Lincoln filled with anger and Berial resentfully scorns the founding mother of the Bathories. Shina delved into her angelic powers of death and rebirth as Rivelias unleashes full esoteric sprites and faeries.
Lincoln: You'll pay. BATHORY!
Bathory summoned a long whipsword and slashes with fluidity. Berial blocks the incoming serpentine attacks with his vampiric wristblades. Shina creates violent reaping slashes that redirects the attacks away. Rivelias's magic is at maximum and she creates a full cast of arcane elements. Ranging from ripping her skin with violent winds, burning her with fire and damaging her beautiful complexion with ice and lightning.
Bathory: My… beauty.
Lincoln: Time to die. And this time there's no hell for you!
Bathory: Please… I just wanted….
Lincoln: Bye, bitch!
Lincoln unleashed the full extent of power and created a slash vacuum that cut down Bathory's arms and limbs. Then the vacuum slashes aimed at her demon hearts and damaged them all. Last is Bathory's ENDER accessory.
Lincoln: You're done.
Bathory's SOUL left her body. Lincoln dragged her SOUL and saw her true figure. A beautiful girl without the horns and tail and other vampiric feature. She is then heard crying…
Bathory's SOUL: Why… why? I've a good girl. All I wanted is to be beautiful. I've been a good girl. Why?
Leni: You think your pretty! But you're a bad girl!
Bathory's SOUL: Bad?… How dare a mere animal talk back to me! Your kind's blood is what's keeping me so lovely… all you poor, uncivilized people are nothing more than mere livestock. All nobles are humans, but you commoners are just food for me. Is it wrong for me to have food… to breath? Do you feel sorry when you crush an insect, an ant?
Lincoln: And that's why your fruitless search for beauty ends here. True beauty is found in the heart not on the skin. Your evil deeds had shed the blood of innocent people. Time to send you to the void.
Lincoln summoned Xenolith's blade, the Soul Devourer, and let the weapon devour and ravage the SOUL into power for the blade. The battle is over.
Afterwards, a funeral is held and after a month of grieving, a burial. Berial, sent Chaz's parents home safely and there was no invasion occurred. The members of Ouroboros reported the casualty and Michael and Samael felt this failure.
Berial: Master… deep in my heart, I wanted to lie and tell them that his soul is resting in Heaven. But we all know that a SOUL devoured by demons are turned into power or mana for them. Their memories are sent into the void after then.
Michael: I know that. It hurts too.
Samael: Only Father can do the impossible, but He's absent for now. The only ones moving are us and the Angels.
Michael: Heaven is a place of joy. A Paradise to all righteous. If their souls are sent there, maybe they can create a Chaz based on their memories and relive those moments for eternity. But they can never search the unsearchable.
Samael: Basically, they'll be enjoying a company of a replica based on how they remember him. But there is no genuine soul of him resting there. Scheol however is where wicked souls are sent for punishment. Demons and sinful people are sent there and if not pardoned, their souls shall be sent into void or nonexistence. The process however is decided by higher-ups. If a soul desires repentance, there will be challenges to attain a ticket to the Necropolis/Purgatory.
Berial: Meaning?
Samael: Someone who is also in authority is either captive or helping Maderas and the Bael Zebul clan. Only they can allow a soul to become a demon. That and they are using ancient forbidden then, Maderas is the high threat.
Back to Lincoln and the Loud House. Leni is still grieving at the loss. Lincoln entered her and Lori's old room in hopes to cheer her up.
Leni: I want to tell you something Linky.
Lincoln: What is it.
Leni shows her garden and the tall tree that she has been taking care of. From it is a massive flower that seemed to appear like a cocoon.
Lincoln: When did this happen?
Leni: Weeks after Loan's third birthday. Chaz and I tied the knot. Then I bore a seed and planted it.
Lincoln: I see. I know how Dryad copulate and increase. So both of you had done it. I'd say congratulations but I still feel sad that this developing Dryad will not have a father.
Leni: I'd like you to… be the godparent. You're all I can think of.
Lincoln was shocked at what Leni desired. Lincoln accepted the role of being a substitution father for the developing Dryad. The nymph will recognize him as uncle or father. Lincoln didn't care, for the incoming baby needs it. They both returned to Leni's room and Lincoln was worried that his sister couldn't sleep though the night.
Lincoln: Want me to sing a lullaby for you? It was Luna who usually do this so…
Leni: Yes.
Leni slept to her bed and Lincoln sat beside her, caressing and patting her head. Lincoln started humming his lullaby then softly he sings the lyrics:
Bless me, with the leaf off of the tree
On it I see, the freedom reign
We are falling, the light is calling
Tears inside me calm me down
Midnight calling, mist of resolving
Crown me with the pure green leaf
Praise to the Father, blessed by the waters
White night, bright sky
The angels cry
Bless me, with the leaf off of the tree
On it I see, the freedom reign
We are falling, the light is calling
Tears inside me calm me down
Midnight calling, mist of resolving
Crown me with the pure green leaf
Praise to the Father, blessed by the waters
Black night, dark sky
The devils cry
Lincoln saw that Leni had fallen asleep. Lincoln kissed Leni's forehead and bid her goodnight then leave her room.
In Scheol, dark throne-room.
Maderas: So bathory lost. No matter, she's just an expendable unit. Ha ha ha ha ha ha!
From Samael's hidden chambers
Queen of Succubus: Damn it! Maderas, you've done it now. His majesty will not be pleased of this. My love, my love, please hurry and stop this puny rebellion.
The night is bright yet dark for the events of tragedy hits. Even then, the cycle of life and death continues. Some wish the war finally cease so that they can all live in harmony.
In the void, a sparkling light is afloat and roaming to nowhere. An angel traveling from the void took the sparkling light. He is also carrying some sort of book.
Book angel: Master, it appears an essence is lost in the eternal void. Here it is. I picked it up for you.
The master seemed to be a figure of a robed man sitting on a throne whilst his entire figure is glowing in such bright light that none can see his face.
Master: Thank you, Metatron. You may keep track of my children's progress.
Metatron: As you wish, Your Holiness. Also, Father… the Nephilim's back. As God, you will treat his judgement fairly like you said you will.
The angel left the Master. The Creator then summoned a weighting scale that is also a vessel of pure essence of power.
Creator: I see that you have lost your way. You were devoured aren't you. There, there, no need to be sad. I will preserve your memories at least. That way, when the Nephilim is victorious and chooses to love the world, you can have a chance to be reincarnated into a new being. Until then, your essence will stay here in the Holy Vessel of Origins.
-END-
AN: And that took three days to make! Finally this chapter is done. It's a bit dark and gloomy for a birth story of Leni's Dryad daughter but that's how it's going to roll. Leni's daughter already have a name but feel free to take a guess. Anyways, I hope you like this chapter. Next timeskip will be another birth story. Until then, leave a like, follow, review and enjoy. God Bless, Stay Safe and Shalom/Peace!