LightSpecter141: Why do I have the feeling things are gonna get...awkward with Relon?
Things are... going to be interesting with this revelation... and others... :)
FieLover: Oh no, no, no. Poor Rean, I'm scared to find out what Fie would do if she saw him in this state. But holy crap, Aidios-Relon is really something, I was really invested in this fic, but now I'm really really really invested! I have a bad habit of theorizing a bunch of stuff when I'm interested in anything, but this takes the cake for me! I can't wait what's gonna happens next~
And Andrew, castrate Shinn if you must... Hehe, jokes aside, this was really good, a good amount of information was given both to the characters and to us readers. :3
RIP Rean x Fie fandom~. I kid, I kid... or do I? Haha, come up with ALL the theories you want. I look forward to hearing them and glad you're invested!
And, uh, you know, um, maybe not castrate me! And more info is about to be unleashed.
Bugzoid14: Really interesting about Aidios I wonder how this is going to affect Relon's friends.
In a few ways and then some. Glad you like the idea :)
NERO TOVACK: Hey if Sara and Yujiro don't show up to save the day?,then what about that certain noble who was ordered to keep an eye on him to back him up? Along with anyone that is strong to take down Senate?
Next chapter. All that's being answered next chapter.
Speedkarate: Epic Chapter I love it.
Thank ya, thank ya.
Garudos: Despite on what the hell is going on, Relon will still and always don't believe on Addios?
That will come in two chapter but he'll be struggling to come to terms with Aidios for a long while.
HOLY CRAP, 6 Reviews for one chapter! THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH! Y'ALL ROCK!
Shinn: Heyooo. More mayhem coming up!
Andrew: Shinn.
Shinn: Yes?
Andrew: How's Rean?
Shinn: Dude... You will literally find out soon enough. Hush up.
Andrew: But!
Shinn: Shhhhh. Now, are you as hyped as I am for the OFFICIAL COLD STEEL ANIME COMING OUT IN 2022 on Funimation?!
Andrew: Wait, WHAT?!
"What's going on? Aidios? Ishmelga?" Elliot questions frantically looking all over the place.
"I don't know Elliot." Alisa shakes her head. "But one thing that I'm certain of is that isn't Relon." Her eyes lowering to Rean lying on the ground behind Aidios-Relon.
"Come now, Aidios. What kind of goddess takes over her host's body?"
"The very same question can be redirected at yourself, Ishmelga."
"Oh, that's where you're wrong." He chuckles. "I am still me. Although, if you wish to speak with him, then who am I to defy a Goddess?" Sephiroth grins, the black aura condensing around the man in a black dome before it dissipates. His white hair now pitch black.
"It has been some time, Aidios." Sephiroth greets, his voice sounding demonic.
"Not long enough."
"Come now, it was your choice to discard this wretched world and remain in the Beyond. Though I am curious, is all of you within that boy? Surely not."
"Once again; I can give that exact question onto you, no?" At this, Ishmelga-Sephiroth gives a laugh. "Always with the smart mouth. But tell me, do you sure believe you are strong enough to fight me? What do you have? Nothing while I have the force of an army right behind me." His arms extend to both sides, black flames engulfing his arms. "You see, Aidios. We both may only have a portion of power but there is a clear difference. You have only been instilled within that boy for 17 years. I have been with this human far longer!" He roars unleashing a pitch-black flamethrower destroying the very earth itself as it hurtles towards Aidios.
"Relon!"
Raising a hand with white cinders flickering, the attack is blocked shooting in all directions.
"It is true." Aidios speaks calmly. "I've given up on this world, it's people. Although, I am not the Aidios from the Beyond!" A white stream of flames gushes from her arm pushing back the black flames.
"So, you think that just because your soul has changed from what it once was, you believe you can correct the wrongs you've once caused! All the innocents that pray for you only end up not having those very prayers answered!"
"Coming from you, that means very little!" Both increase their power, the forcefield beginning to crack.
"My Lord, the forcefield!" Demeter calls out.
Glancing around, both sides cease their attack.
"Tell me, Ishmelga. Why stop?"
"Simple. It would be a pity if those Sephiroth gathered died. We still need them after all. Though I could ask you the very same, Aidios. You could have continued your attack. Why stop?"
"..."
"Could it be, your host stopped you?" At this, Aidios narrows her eyes. "So, I am right. He is fighting to gain back control over his body. He doesn't wish for his home to be damaged any more than it already has..." He chuckles darkly. "Demeter, lower the barrier."
"Y-Yes, sir!" Her scepter's orb glows before the forcefield lowers back into the ground.
"Rean!" The others call hurrying to the downed boy.
Lifting him, Claire presses her ear to his chest to widen.
"There's no pulse!"
"Elliot!" Alisa calls.
"I'm already on it! Tear!" He lowers the orbal staff to the boy, a noticeable glow around him.
"Come on, Rean!"
"Move." All look to Relon or at least what of him they can make out.
"What do you plan to do?" Claire questions.
"Heal him." All widen before laying the teen back down as they back away.
"Are you sure you wish to do that?" Ishmelga calls over. "You only have so much energy. Wasting so much on that boy isn't wise, you know."
Ignoring the man, Aidios kneels hovering her hand above Rean. A faint light appears from her hand as Rean's vile power emerges before subsiding. Placing the hand fully on his chest, the sensation of a heart beating comes in response.
"He'll be fine now." She gives a smile to the others as they check over Rean.
"You knew, didn't you?" Ishmelga calls out gaining the group's attention and Aidios'. "About that boy's power." He mentions, Aidios narrowing her eyes down at the resting teen.
"... Yes, I could feel it the day Relon met him. That boy... has a portion of you within him." She states, all widening at the revelation.
"Rean has... that guy's power?" Laura breathes out.
"Seriously?" Agria comments. "That explains why he went berserk."
"Though to think he can control a portion of Ishmelga's power..." The cloaked Lucinance mutters.
"Yes, it is quite fascinating." At the comment, Aidios-Relon turning and walking away from the group before stopping. "Do not worry, Aidios. I do not want him... yet. Taking back my power now would offer little to me. Though that now begs another question; why not eliminate him? You would be greatly reducing my strength."
"..."
"Once again, that boy stops you. Truly, I couldn't have asked for better circumstances!" He states joyfully before extending an arm to the side, a small portal appearing as Ishmelga reaches his arm inside pulling out a long sword.
"What kind of sword is that? It's so long!" Elliot wonders.
"A masamune." Aurelia answers.
"Goro, today we have been given a second chance at stealing her power." Sephiroth speaks lowering his stance with the tip of the sword pointed at Aidios, black flames becoming alit. "This time, the likes of that pesky witch or the Almighty Conflagration won't save you! Everyone..." He speaks to his Leaguients. "Do not interfere. Lucinances; our goal is to take down that vile Goddess!"
"Understood!" All immediately transform, the cloak burning to ashes revealing the final Lucinance.
A man seeming to be in his 30's with a muscular build, short military-like hairstyle consisting of mostly blue hair with pink highlights, pale red eyes, and wears a leather vest with black trousers along with black fingerless gloves.
"Agria, Krovanh. You know what to do." He states, black brass knuckles with a sharp blade at the outside flying from his pocket.
"No need to tell us, Asuma!" Agria grins clasping her hands together. "Krovanh!"
"Yeah!"
"Overdrive!" Both shout, the dark red and blue hue forming around the duo.
"Everyone, do not interfere. I cannot fight and ensure your safety at the same time." Aidios warns keeping her attention locked ahead.
"Can you win?" Claire asks.
"It is not a matter of winning, only stalling." She raises her hand. "Pippin!" The sword descending from the air to hover at her side.
"I continue to be bewildered by just how much influence that boy has over you. Not calling such a divine weapon by its given title and instead some privy name. You disappoint me, Aidios."
"Then I suppose it is good that I am not the true Aidios but only a mere portion." Aidios-Relon chuckle for Ishmelga-Sephiroth to narrow his eyes. "Once I have dealt with you, I shall disappear. So, before my time is up, I will use everything in my power to stop you!" Aidios snaps her right arm out to the side. "Join us, Angbar!" At her beckoning call, a small portal opens for her to reach inside before pulling out a sword of her own.
The weapon's blade a dark red color, sharp thorn-like ends above the handle and one point sticking forward along the blade. The blade holding a black center with gold markings just like Pippin.
Elsewhere
"What the hell?" A man halts furrowing his brows, his companion halting to look at him with a curious look.
"What is it?" A girl in armor wonders with cross arms.
"Hm? Oh, nothing."
"Then hurry up! My lord is waiting and we're late because of you!" She turns walking off.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." He returns to walking.
My connection with Angbar was just severed. Which can only mean one thing... He scrunches his eyebrows in thought. Relon, the hell is happening with you for Aidios to appear? Damn it, Auntie ain't gonna like this.
Forest Clearing
Gazing at the hovering sword, Aidios turns to Pippin.
"Though these circumstances are not favorable, I ask that both of you lend me your strength." Bot swords seem to look between one another, a silent agreement in the form of a nod. "Thank you." She gets into a fighting stance like Relon's, the blades hovering behind her.
"I'm going to relish this battle for what it's worth." Ishmelga states darkly, hovering off the ground. "Go." He orders, the three siblings bursting forward.
Appearing on both sides of her, the siblings' weapons are caught with ease by Aidios who with a spin sends them off to both sides. Asuma appearing inches away with his fist at the ready, its sides extending like a sharp knife made of fire.
Leaning back as he extends it forward, Aidios shifting her body to the left avoiding the punch. Correcting himself, he switches his attack to a roundhouse. Seeing it out the corner of her X-slitted eyes, she ducks down and to the right before launching a backfist. Asuma quickly correcting himself does the same, the force pushing both back. Rushing back at her, Aidios parries every punch to sense the two siblings diving at her from above.
Both swords leave her side intercepting the duo to their annoyance. Ducking another punch, she sees her chance which Asuma widens as she comes up with an uppercut. Retracting his hand to block, the man widens as Aidios feints turning around and lifting her heel to connect with his chin sending Asuma up and away.
Quickly recovering, both siblings push off the swords landing around Aidios. Looking directly at Asuma with the other two out her peripheral, Aidios widens at Ishmelga's disappearance. Snapping her head up, she widens at a large black fireball descending on her. Readying both arms, only one comes alit in white flames for her to click her tongue in annoyance at the reminder.
Reeling back her arm, she sees the three Lucinances ready attacks of their own. Unleashing her stream of colorless fire, the three retaliate with their own red flames. Pippin blocking one, Angbar another, and Aidios using her free hand to block Asuma's. Colliding with the huge fireball, the white streams of fire begins to slow its descent. Taking in a breath, the flames from the three shifts from being countered to absorbed as it streams of the red fire surge towards Aidios. Unleashing another burst of flames, it blasts through the attack zooming towards Ishmelga.
Narrowing, he flies out of the way as the three cease their attack.
"I believe it's our turn now." Aidios states, both swords returning to her side as she takes hold of both, Angbar's prickly appearance breaking away as it now looks like Pippin retaining its reddish color. "Prepare yourselves." She warns hovering just off the ground, her clear and cyan aura flaring before she disappears to the three shocks.
Looking around, Agria widens as she's kneed in the gut sending her shooting into the forest.
"Agria!" Both shout bursting towards the Goddess.
Looking at the approaching duo, Aidios vanishes once more for them to stop.
"This speed...!"
"No, this isn't speed." Asuma narrows, the two going back-to-back. "She's teleporting just like Demeter and the others!"
"That is correct." Aidios speaks calmly from above, both widening to swing at nothing.
Appearing in front of the younger teen, his eyes meets the distorted face of Relon's for the flat hilt of Pippin's to be lodged in his abdomen as he falls to his knees clutching his stomach. Disappearing once more as Asuma swings at nothing, he clicks his teeth looking around.
"Will you three cease this foolishness?" His eyes widen as they slowly look to his side to see Aidios-Relon standing next to him, a solemn expression visible.
Feeling his anger boil, he snaps his right arm for the questioning gender to squat under the attack.
"How unfortunate." She mutters whipping into the air and slamming her boot into his face sending him away.
"Lucinance Art: Phoenix Flower!" Looking to see Agria at the edge of the clearing pointing her scissor blade, a red orb forming for volleys of small fireballs to zoom towards Aidios.
Looking on, the attacks dissipate upon contact with her aura's shroud. Paying her no mind, Aidios looks back up at Ishmelga in the air. An amused look on his face. Glancing over to the Leaguients, they all remain idle like statues still. Sensing the two boys come return for more, her attention draws on Asuma. Fire bursting around him once more as she narrows her eyes.
His blue and pink hair now completely a gold color as his red slit eyes shift to yellow.
"Seems like using my first stage won't be enough so how about my second?!" Asuma questions bursting forward firing a blast of fire.
Cutting it with little effort, Asuma appears throwing a punch. Tilting her head out of the way, Aidios twirls Pippin in a reverse grip bringing the sword back up for Asuma to block it with his other hand. A smirk appearing on his as he brings his other hand back, Aidios ducking once more to jump back with Asuma chasing close.
"Let's have some fun, Goddess!" He roars both charging forward as they disappear, sparks flying everywhere for the two to appear away firing a blast of red and white fire respectively, the white overcoming it for Asuma to roll out of the way.
Looking back ahead, he widens to see Aidios bringing down both swords as he blocks them. A crater forming from the force.
"Don't forget about us!" Aidios jolts her head seeing both siblings already on her.
Clicking her tongue, she vanishes reappearing away from the three. Pippin and Angbar flying over to hover beside her.
"Don't waste anymore fire. Physical attacks are how we'll defeat her." Asuma states, the three getting into fighting stances.
So that's your plan, Ishmelga. You want to copy my own, do you? She thinks taking both swords in hand.
"Let's go!" The three take off, Asuma leading the charge.
Very well. Aidios' eyes falter as she lets go of Pippin, the sword hovering directly above her as she holds Angbar in her right hand.
"Pippin." She orders, the sword coming ablaze firing crescent after crescent.
Absorbing each, the trio stop on a dime as a blast of white fire comes into view. Dodging to both sides respectively, Krovanh widens meeting Aidios as he swings his twin blade to clash with Angbar.
"Krovanh!" Asuma calls, he and Agria rushing over for Aidios to force his weapon down before delivering a spin kick. The heel of her boot connecting with his cheek sending him crashing into the ground motionless.
"You'll pay for that!" Agria shouts for Pippin to launch more crescent attacks.
Slicing at the ground, smoke erupts obstructing the duo's view. Firing another white blast, both dodge to both sides. Looking up, Agria sees Aidios descending down with Angbar in hand.
"You're mine!" She lunges forth only to widen as Aidios throws her sword. "Ack!" Agria grunts from the force she's knocked back, Aidios continuing to punch the girl in the abdomen sending her crashing to the ground.
"Agria!" Slicing to her right, Aidios clashes with Asuma allowing him to push her away falling back in front of Group A. "Damn it..." Agria groans struggling to get up, both hers and Krovanh's Overdrive auras subsiding.
"Whoa..." Elliot awes.
"Words cannot fathom what I am seeing...!" Aurelia awes as well.
"What could you even say to that?!" Alisa exclaims with joy. "Relon, Aidios, whoever just took two out of the four down!"
"But remember what they mentioned earlier." Claire reminds gaining their attention. "Whoever that is in Relon's body has a time limit. Once it's up, we'll be in trouble."
"That is unless they can deal with the sheer number of enemies including whoever this Ishmelga is." Laura comments.
"Now I remember you." Aidios calls over to Asuma for his to furrow his eyebrows. "You and another, your brother I believe, watched over Relon after I was instilled within the infant."
"Oh, yeah? What's your point?"
"How could someone as strong as you be controlled so easily?" She asks with sincerity.
"No one controls me! What I did, I did of my own volition!"
"You betrayed your family." Aidios states firmly.
"What family?! Those people may have been like me, but they were just strangers! None of them were my own father and mother! Lord Sephiroth treated me like I was his own! What would you know?!" He burst forward.
"You poor child." Aidios retakes Pippin before meeting the man, both blades clashing with both knuckles. "So meeting this man, you decided to assist in the slaughter of your people?" She questions pushing off as both swing repeated blocking each other's strikes, Aidios lunging towards the man to be sent up and over flipping onto the ground. "Betray your own brother?"
"Shut up! I tried and tried to convince him to come with us, but he sided with that woman!"
"Because he refused to go down a path a dark and corrupt as yours." Her flat word making his anger boil over, Asuma bursting forward slashing at the teen. Aidios dodging each slash with ease.
"I don't need a Goddess who gave up on her own world to tell me what's right from wrong!" He finishes with a horizontal swipe, Aidios jumping back watching the man pant slightly. "Then our conversation is sadly over." Aidios dismisses disappearing for Asuma to widen pivoting on a dime to clash with Pippin.
Widening, he senses Aidios behind him.
"Sleep now." She murmurs delivering a firm chop to neck.
Leaning forward, his body slumps to the ground.
"W-Whoa...!"
"Was she still holding back even against him?!" Alisa wonders in awe.
"Face your judgment, Ishmelga. Your strongest have been defeated. Your Leaguients stand no chance."
"Oh?" He hums with crossed arms lowering himself back to the ground. "Are you sure they're defeated?" He extends an open hand forward, black flames dispersing to the three.
Jumping away, she watches as the flames vanish for red flames to ignite from the three downed Lucinances. Slowly, they all get up converging on Ishmelga-Sephiroth before snapping their heads towards Aidios-Relon. Their slit eyes present once more.
"What have you done?!"
"Hahaha. Nothing really. Taking these children under my protective care, all I did was slowly fill each with my power. Now, where were we? Ah yes..." With a snap of his fingers, red and black flames ignite around the three.
"Then that means you too are weaker." Aidios notes readying herself, both swords now in hand.
"Quite the contrary." He holds up a hand. "As I've stated earlier, I have been bonded to my host far longer than a mere 17 years. My power is still much greater than yours." He readies his masamune. "Now that you've exhausted much of your power, I can throw caution to the very wind you created and cut you down!" He declares bursting forth with the three close behind.
"Then I suppose I shall have to get serious." Aidios responds calmly detaching the cloth from Pippin's handle tossing it over to Group A, Laura catching it. "Look after that for me. Relon would surely be upset if something happened to it. Pippin, Angbar, just a little more. Flipping them both into a reverse grip, she dashes forward.
Unleashing black flames, Aidios retaliates with her own. Black and white flames gushing everywhere as the attacks collide. Jumping over, she spins swinging Pippin ablaze in its red flames downwards toward Ishmelga. Raising his black-flamed sword, he guards the strike. The sheer force causing a strong gust of air to rip through the domed forcefield.
Wasting no time, the three converge on Aidios. Pushing her off, she lands in a crouched position eyeing the four around her.
"This time, we'll take you down!" Krovanh declares lunging forward followed by the others.
Backflipping into the air, Krovanh clicks his tongue in frustration as Aidios lands on his back before jumping off crossing her blades blocking Asuma's strike. Sliding on the ground, Aidios digs her blades into the ground halting her acceleration. Glaring at Asuma, she widens as Agria jumps over him firing more fireballs from her scissor blade. Withdrawing her blades, she slices each and every one for all three siblings to appear in her face.
Raising her head, she vanishes reappearing away.
"Predictable!" Ishmelga snarls as Aidios immediately dives forward spinning to be tossed away from the force. "Is it wise to be teleporting so much, Aidios? That must take a good amount of your power."
Slowly getting to a knee, she eyes the four in front of her. Shaking away the discomfort known as pain, Aidios stands back up.
"It shouldn't be long now, Aidios. Show us what else you're capable of!" Ishmelga roars unleashing a pitch-black crescent of fire.
Breathing calmly as the attack hurtles towards her, Aidios grips the swords' handles tightly.
"It seems I must now." She mutters, a blast of white and cyan energy exploding around the teen nullifying the attack.
"Oh? It seems you still have quite a bit left. Is this all of it?" He wonders raising his head in amusement.
Condensing the aura back to its normal size, the distorting space vanishes completely. Breathing calmly, Aidios-Relon opens their eyes. Her red eyes burning brightly as too does its X-shaped slits.
"Pippin, Angbar, it is time." Her voice now sounding more mature announces as she holds both swords out in front of her.
"Hmpf!" Ishmelga grunts slicing the air sending multiple waves of black flames towards the celestial being.
With a twist of the handles followed by a click, a light envelops everyone's vision. Dying down, all look to stare at the majestic sight. Holding the handle at the middle with her hands, both swords are now a double sabre. The blades glisten in white flames as Aidios points the almighty weapon at her adversaries.
"They combined...!" Claire gasps.
"So that is what Pippin and its pair look like..." Laura murmurs. "It's... beautiful!"
Bursting forth with the sabre in one hand behind her, Aidios unleashes a torrent of white flames. Meeting it with their black flames, both attacks cease as the four see the boy-girl-girl-boy whatever you describe the two as gone.
Appearing in front of Ishmelga, she delivers a swing for an explosion to erupt sending the leader skidding away. Lunging at her, Krovanh and Agria swing their blades. Aidios block both to spin her sabre disarming both of their weapons.
"What the hell?!" Agria lets out as Aidios blitzes past them towards Asuma.
Jumping down towards the possessed teen, Aidios tucks the sabre before countering with a vertical strike upwards sending Asuma over her.
"Damn it!"
Bursting forth, her eyes lock on Ishmelga.
"So you want to fight me directly, do you?" He hovers off the ground readying his blade.
Reaching him, she spins the double sabre around herself before bringing it down clashing as both auras battle the other for dominance.
"Fight you?" Both push off emitting flamethrowers at the other to vanish appearing in the sky once more to clash. "No, I want to kill you."
"What kind of Goddess would utter such cruel words?" Ishmelga taunts pushing her off before flying towards her. "I can't help but wonder if that is what you are saying or the boy!" He shouts bringing his blade downwards sending Aidios plummeting for the ground.
Recovering, she eyes the three Lucinances readying a blast of fire. Correcting herself, she bursts forward towards them.
"Now!" Asuma orders, the three's fire becoming one as it shoots for the Goddess enveloping her.
"Yes!" Krovanh cheers still spewing flames.
Sensing something behind them, all widen as they feel something hard hit them sending them across the clearing scattered. Wasting no more time, she vanishes reappearing next to Ishmelga, the man already parrying her strike.
"Certainly, you are persistent as always!" He rushes after slashing diagonally which Aidios blocks spinning to deliver a horizontal slash which Ishmelga blocks as well.
"What's wrong, Ishmelga? Struggling to absorb me like last time?"
"Tch!" His aura flares knocking her away as both look to the other.
"Deciding to give them a portion of your power weakened you. Now it's simply a matter of who runs out of time first."
"Don't act all high and mighty!" He fires a stream of fire which Aidios blocks with ease.
"But that is my job, you see?" Aidios retorts unleashing a white stream of fire of her own slowly overpowering his. "Attempting to use Relon's plan of stalling for time would have worked had you not been so overconfident."
"You think you've won?!" He demands putting more strength behind his fire as both come to a stalemate.
"No..." She answers vanishing for him to widen.
Appearing behind the leader, she brings down her sabre for Ishmelga to vanish reappearing behind her bringing down his blade.
"I know." Swerving faster than he can follow, the flicker of black and white flames disperse as his masamune flies out of his hand.
"What?!" His eyes glaring at Aidios with her sabre' sabre behind her.
Smirking, his sword zooms down for Aidios' head as she doesn't bother looking throwing her sabre to meet the blade.
"Predictable." She flies forth as Ishmelga's hands burn in black fire.
Throwing a punch, Aidios tilts her head. The gloved hand skidding against her cheek as her arm burns bright in white fire. Catching it just inched with his other hand, Ishmelga fails to react as her none-flamed hand slams its fist into his chin sending the man up towards the weapons.
"Goro/Pippin, Angbar!" Both shout, their weapon going to their owners.
Grabbing his sword, he swings below to see Aidios gone once more.
"Where?!" He demands landing down.
"Above you!" Asuma shouts, all seeing what looks like a star descending towards. Coming into view, Aidios reels the sabre over her head as her white and cyan distorting aura returns. "Shimmering glow of divinity, purge thy foes!" She roars, her body and the double sabre glowing bright.
"Guys, run!" Alisa shouts grabbing Rean with Elliot's help as they retreat deeper into the forest.
"Get down, quick!" Claire states, all hunkering behind large trees.
"Disperse!" Ishmelga orders for the four all jumping away as she lands, her sabre digging into the ground for white cracks to form quickly spreading under their feet.
So fast! Asuma curses still in the air. Slowly lifting her head to glare at the retreating Ishmelga, she utters her final words.
"Scorched Earth." She mutters.
The cracks reaching the edge of the clearing igniting white fire for it to encircle the area trapping each and every villain as a veil of white fire takes on the shape of a dome high into the sky.
"Don't underestimate me, Aidios!" Ishmelga slams his hands together.
The ground rumbling for it to give revealing lava. Time slows as all fall looking at the lethal element beneath them. An explosion erupts as a red lava and fire break the dome's ceiling firing into the sky.
"What's even going on even more?!" Elliot shouts.
"I have no clue!" Alisa responds.
Appearing before the group, Aidios falls to a knee gripping her sabre. White particles rising to the sky as her aura veil flickers weakly.
"Relon!" Laura exclaims hurrying to help the boy-thing-goddess-whatever to their feet.
"Or Aidios, is it over?" Claire questions looking at the erupting attack.
"No... They've all survived."
"HUH?!"
"I couldn't destroy Ishmelga but... I've managed to make him spend much of his power." She explains turning and slowly swaying side-to-side back as the attack dies down.
"How could they survive something like that?!" Alisa questions.
"Ishmelga..." She answers for the lava to seep back into the ground as the ground reforms itself to reveal the villains all in black spheres. "That's how." She grips her sabre as the spheres shatter into particles showing all unharmed.
"It seems your last move was in vain, Aidios. I tire of this farce. I'll be taking that power now."
"Quite confident... aren't you?" She pants.
"Yes, for one reason alone." He comments, the three Lucinance stepping in front of him. "Tell me, has the boy encountered his cryptid yet?" He wonders sporting an evil grin, Aidios' eyes widening as the three reveal their arms as markings reveal themselves on their skin glowing.
"Launch chaos across the battlefield, Megidradon!" Agria shouts.
"Beat and slash those before you, Garurudon!" Asuma shouts.
"Destroy anything that dares to move, Leonine!" Krovanh shouts.
All three slam their palms onto the ground, the ground rumbling once more as three magic circles appear on the ground followed by spirals of red fire as the silhouette of three creatures become mass.
"Now then, Aidios. What will you do against these odds?"
Before her, three large creatures the size of Grunoja and the Great Elder. A mammoth with a fire exuding from its nostrils and its rock humps going down its spine. A large bipedal white wolf with blue stripes, large hands with sharp claws. And a large red-skinned lion with a blazing mane.
"Simple." She smiles raising her head in a victorious way.
BOOM!
Out of nowhere, a something slams into Garurudon sending it into a crater before Megidradon and Leonine are hit in the side sending them skidding to both side of the clearing crashing into tree. Landing in front of the tired teen, Aidios can only smirk at the man.
"Good of you to finally join us, oh Wandering Beast." Said man releasing a torrent of killing intent, all except for Ishmelga stepping back in alarm.
"Mr. Yujiro!" Laura calls happily for the man to look over his shoulder at the group before turning back ahead.
"So..." He begins, his voice that of a snarl and growl. "You're Senate..."