Chapter 16: An Almost Peaceful Afternoon
It was a peaceful afternoon.
The sky is blue, the sun is shining, and the clouds are floating aloofly through the sky. You can feel the gentle breeze of the wind passing through just as the birds peacefully hum and chirp…
"KYAAAAAAAAAAH!!!"
"OH MY GOD! WHAT THE HELL IS THAT!"
"SOMEBODY CALL THE HEROES!"
"KILL IT! DO SOMETHING! ANYTHING! HELP!"
The screams of the innocents, remnants of the dead scattered everywhere, blood decorating the whole place as the God forsaken demon from Hell wreck havoc around the city, laying waste to the life of the numerous Humans flailing around and taking it for it's own nourishment as massive fires blazed to the background.
A floating six eyed, rectangular boulder with a grotesque vertical mouth separating it's left and right eyes cheered. It's deep, earth rumbling voice etched to the minds of everyone, creating tremors through the very earth itself that send numerous building collapsing.
Multiple people died in an instant.
Oh my, was that not something that you had in mind when the word "peaceful" came up?
The screams and the fire continue in the background as the demon continued to laugh as it devour the souls of the innocent.
There was a reason that it was written as "It was a peaceful afternoon" after all.
Lucas observe the unrestrained chaos.
Flailing civilians, incompetent heroes, rampaging demons that is unfamiliar to the fragile conceptions of humanity's understanding.
He sighed, Of course, something like this would happen this exact day.
The demon roared as it devour another hero.
"Poor Vii-chan, misfortune and tradegy always did like following him on his birthday."
A scythe made of sparkling black fire spawn in Lucas' hand.
Lucas scratched his head, his face covered in bony white mask that he always wear as Azrael. "Damn Satan, so many deaths. Vii-chan won't be happy with this. And I don't think capturing the demon's alive for research purposes would be enough to make up for it, cause it certainly didn't for me."
He tap to his earpiece, "Axel-chan, I spotted one of the targets, could you please tell the others to secure the perimeter? I don't want anyone interfering in my fight."
"[Roger, Uncle.]"
The sunny sky that the news promised earlier is no where to be found.
It was instead replace by the thick and ominous dark clouds as the snow crash down and the frigid cold winds blow harshly.
Nishiya Shinji shivered.
The harsh cold is making his Quirk borderline useless. It feels like his body will break if he as much as try to use his Quirk. It even drove him to the point that he had to force him self to move just to avoid freezing and dying.
Mt. Lady is currently out of commission.
So does Deatharms, who is currently frozen solid in a thick layer of ice.
Along with the numerous civilians that was in the same state as him.
Imprisoned in thick Ice, neither dead or alive.
A deep voice cackled, "I'm surprised that you're still alive."
It perch on a giant ice berg, looking down at him and everyone else like they were nothing but a ant beneath it's foot that doesn't even worth killing off quickly.
It body was covered in long snow white fur. At sat there at the edge of the giant ice, all it's fingers appears to be nothing but a sharp, black claw. Red eyes gaze in to them from it's head that appears to be a horse skull with black antler like horns at the side of it's head. He could vaguely see a white pointed tail swishing in the background.
"What ever, I've had my fun anyway. But boy, now I'm hungry." It whined as it's clawy hand rub their stomach.
They then suddenly stopped, their attention snapping back to Shinji.
His instinct screamed at him to run away immediately at all cost when it did.
"I've always did wondered what a frozen sentient wood would taste like."
Move! Move! Movemovemove—!
Shinji force his body to move but he can't, no matter how hard he tried, his body is too weak and cold to move.
The thing just laugh, watching Shinji try to escape in futility. It then stood up from it's self imposed throne, crouching. Preparing to make a jump on him.
Shinji panicked, he doubled his efforts to move but found it impossible to do so.
But before the thing could have move, a stream of blue fire was shit at it, making it jump away from the scorching blue fire.
"What the…?!" The thing exclaimed in surprise. Shinji felt hope spark inside, the only person that could make flames that hot. Back up came.
"You…" the thing narrowed it's glowing red eyes to the perpetrator. Shinji followed it's line of sight and confused when he saw someone he doesn't recognized.
The only person with a fire Quirk strong enough to produce fire hot enough that it turned blue is Endeavor.
So who is this person?
"Ah, looks like I wasn't late. Good, my credentials as a driver would be really wrecked if I'm late."
The person stand in front of Shinji with his back facing them. He wear a black uniform and a hat that somehow remind Shinji of a private driver. Shinji didn't know any Hero who had the same costume.
"W-w-who are y-y-you…?"
The Man turn to him, giving him a better look at him. He had a short black hair and electric blue eyes. He seems to be in his twenties and actually look more of a driver than a hero.
The Man blinked at him, adjusting the light blue scarf in his neck before grinning at him.
"Hitokage Endō, The Head Chauffeur of the Satooya Mansion at your service, Kamui-san."
Just as the man introduced himself, a large surge of ice travel at high speed towards them.
The man named Hitokage raised his fist as it light up in blue flames.
He then promptly punched the incoming avalanche with it.
The avalanche disperse in to hot steam and Shinji would have gawked if he was able to.
"You…" Shinji and the Man turn to the thing that had talk.
"You're not like these fodders." Shinji would have been offended at being called a fodder if he wasn't at the brink of dead by freezing right now.
"Not only that you manage to break my ice, you manage to actually melt them."
The chauffeur laughed, "hahah, I really had a good training."
The thing chuckled, "I see. Hitokage Endō, The Head Chauffeur was it? My name is Cernnohne, the Frost Demon of the Hell Escaping Frost Pillars…"
The surrounding shaked as large multiple ice pillars rose from the ground at the city's proximity and reached the clouds at a very fast pace. Another one rose from the ground, but this time it only appeared and serve as a platform for The White Thing.
It's sinister glowing red eyes stare deeply in to them. In to their Souls. As though it's stare alone is enough to freeze them to death.
"Please entertain me for a while."
"A Demon with manners, interesting," Hitokage grinned, and cracked his knuckles, "this would be fun."
The two move in a blur as Fire and Ice dance and collided.
Toshinori knew that he shouldn't have wasted his remaining time in apprehending small time villains. Gran Torino, Recovery girl and even Mirai (who he was currently not in a good terms with for reasons, unfortunately) had told him time and time again to retire or at least use his time wisely, and not interfere with every crime he encounter when the heroes in the local area could have dealt with them.
He tried, really. He really did. But alas, his heroic instinct still prevail whenever he encounter a crime in his walk.
Now, that decision seems to bite him back dearly. Is dark thought that run on his mind as he spew blood from his mouth and steam slowly erupt from his overworked body.
Don't be mistaken, he would never regret apprehending those small time villain and helping those nearly citizens in need of helping. (No, never in Toshinoris life that he would) it's just that, he wish that he could have perhaps manage his time better.
If he did, he wouldn't be in this situation right now.
So many lives that have been loss.
The villain (or was it? It didn't gave him the impression of it being Human at all) laughed, sending tremors on everything. Laughing, as if all the lives that it had taken were nothing sort of important. Mocking him for his weakness. Toshinori would have like to think that he knew better than to be affected by the villains ploy and dance on it's palm. But he just couldn't, not with all the lives that he had failed to save.
Toshinori send a [Smash] directly in to the villains rocky rectangular face, intending to defeat them as quickly as possible before he run out of time that the was able to use.
Something happened however.
The villain, withstand it his punch.
A [Smash] that he had put one hundred percent and had enough power to level an entire street had no effect whatsoever on the villain.
The villain once again laughed, sounding more and more sinister everytime that he hear it laugh. It's six eyes full of twisted glee as the bisected mouth in the middle twitch.
Then it talked.
"WhAt Is tHe MaTTeR AlL MiGht? DiD i gEt yOuR NaME RigHt? Is thIs ThE BeSt ThAt yOu CaN dO?"
Toshinori didn't raise to the obvious bait. Opting to grab the floating stone villain and suplex it to the harsh earth.
The act send tremors through the multiple establishments as an explosion of dust and smoke take place to the area that he had suplex the villain.
Multiple earth spikes that are as tall as skyscrapers emerged from the ground at high speed.
Crippled as he is, Toshinori still has speed. Mach 1, perhaps Mach 2 if he really pressed in to it. Far cry to his Max speed at his prime but still fast nonetheless.
The onslaught of steep earth spikes continue at a set pace, quickly consuming the surrounding area and leaving him no space to move. He [Smash] the pillars to gain a breathing space.
A mistake, as the smashed debris began to move on their own and began to attack him.
He manage to evade the most of them but his limit hit him just before a few rocks hit him.
Blood spew from his mouth, surprised by the force that the rocks and boulders had. The villain move with speed more than t's appearance would suggest it had. It slammed to him so hard that he went flying through multiple buildings.
Even far away, Toshinori could still hear the earth shaking laughter that the villain let out.
"Is ThIs AlL yOU hAd J̗ͯR̩͌G̟͋O̱ͩL̜̈́Q̖̅J͙ͥ?" Toshinori hear it goad as it floated to the air, calling him with a title that he was unfamiliar with.
"I mUsT SaY iM DiSsApOiNtEd."
Toshinori shaked his head and pulled himself out of the rubble. Silently thankful that the perimeter has already been vacated and thus made him free to move.
He looked up at the villains floating form. The nature of it's Quirk still evades him. Levitation, advance earth and rock manipulation and shock absorption. And if the earlier reports were true, then it also includes minor fire generation and manipulation with all the fire it created earlier.
Toshinori felt dread pooled on his none existent stomach.
It felt like he was fighting one of All for One's henchmen with the myriad of abilities that the villain showcased.
He shake the thought out of his head, silently wishing that he's just being paranoid. He clenched his fist and readied for another jump.
The villain maybe tough, but there should be a limit right?
He pump [One for All] on his legs and made a jump, immediately appearing in front of the villain, surprising it.
He'll just surpass his limits and overload the villains shock absorption till it couldn't take anymore.
He'll break his limits, just like the old times.
[PLUS ULTRA]
"[TEXAAAS]…!"
"[SMASH]!!!"
Far above the sky, a teen with white hair and white glowing feathery angel like wings hover near the clouds. Observing All Might battle the middle class Earth Demon.
He munch and ate from the pack of marshmallow on his arm.
Before he met Azrael and Deku, he was only able to observed things from his Aunt's house with his Quirk. And even that is not as good as being able to personally watch things. But with Deku's absurdly powerful Quirk, he was able to move and use his Quirk to levels that he hadn't even thought to be possible.
No more backlashes and weak constitution.
His Quirk that he once thought to only operate only within the Many Worlds Interpretation Theory and Phalaenopsis Paradox now reach and operate on a Multiversal scale. Foreseeing outcomes and realms that he hadn't thought could be possible.
And he could still feel it growing stronger as time pass.
He is free to fly and do anything to his twisted heart's content. Having an almost nigh unlimited power at the tip of his fingers with no one capable of defying him.
Except Azrael and Deku with their reincarnation circumstances that made them immune to his Quirk and Deku's reality warping powers that could literally blink him out of existence if he so much as will it to be.
Shiranui let out a sigh.
He return his gaze to the two fighting titans. Silently watching and standing by in case things derailed and All Might is unable to deal with the earth demon. It would be a really bad thing if the number one hero die after all.
Now, Deku just need to do his part and rescue his cousin and the other brats from Hell.
Mikumo stand in the middle of a flowery grasslands.
The sky is a vibrant color of sky blue with a tint of purple with a few clouds aloofly floating around.
The wind blows, and Mikumo was greeted by a strange breeze unlike anything that he had ever experience before in his current and old lifetime.
He frowned.
The spell that he had used was derived from the same one that Shira-kun had used to accidentally traverse to Hell and summon feisty demons equal to their numbers. He made a few adjustment so that it would be akin to a one way street unlike Shira-kun's two way swapping magical array.
It should be working just fine and without a problem. Just sending him straight to the sector of Hell that Ame-kun and the others went to.
But then, go figures. Something or someone just had to mess with the spell.
It's like someone had block and prevented him from entering… Hell…
"…"
"Satan dammit."
The RnD and the Occult division are busy ants.
Much more now that there is a demon invasion currently happening in the country.
A woman with glasses and long dark brown hair on a ponytail stare on the hologram screen. She adjusted her clothes, especially the chest area. She grumbled, she knew she shouldn't have tried wearing laced undergarments today.
Stupid fortune cookies and fashion magazines…
She stared at the hologram screen once again. The longer she stared, the more she had the urge to sigh.
Why she was the one in charge is still a mystery to her. She may be the current Head of the Occult division but that doesn't really translate to her being a leader material.
She's a Researcher. Someone who specialized in History, Demonology and the Obscure. She study and manage the Satooya Occult Library which practically makes her a glorified librarian. Why did the Boss thought that it would be a good idea to leave her in charge while he and his cousin were out?
"[Status…]"
Oh, Axel… bless him good. It was a good thing that the A.I. is helping her manage things here or else, she wouldn't have known what the Hell she was suppose to do.
Someone from the RnD answered, "Our sensors had manage to pin point the multiple supernatural anomalies all around the country!"
"How many?"
"We detect six! Four known location with two still unknown. We had already deployed Endō-san against the confirmed Frost Demon, All Might is currently fighting the Earth Demon at the next city with Shiranui-san on stand by in case things got worse than they're already are while Lucas-sama is taking care of the Fire Demon in Tokyo along with Endeavor!"
"[Uncle wasn't happy with Endeavor showing up]" Axel's screen avatar twiddle with his fingers. Sounding nervous because he had let Endeavor get near Lucas-sama while fighting.
"[He's currently stringing curses in german]"
Right, make sense. Lucas-sama did gave off the battle junkie vibes. He wouldn't like it if someone interrupt his playtime.
"I'm… sure that he isn't angry at you, dont worry." Axel didn't look convince with her words, if the avatar's expression on the hologram screen is anything to go by.
"What about the last one?"
"The Quirked Canaries and the Nomi Clan from the Satooya Forest had informed us that the fourth one is wrecking havoc at the Forest!"
God why? Vii-sama won't be happy with the news. "That can't be good."
"[Kitty-san—I mean Schrödinger-san and Tsurumi-san has been dealing with the Forest Demon.]"
"Good—"
"[Schrödinger-san is livid]"
"Not good." yeah, of course he would be angry. Like, who wouldn't? If someone just barge in your own territory like they own the whole place?
"[I'll inform the Head Chef to prepare three whole tuna right away]"
"Yeah you do that." Schrödinger-san would certainly be in a bad mood after this all demon shebang. She hope that a three whole tuna would be enough to satisfy him.
Anyway…
"Send the Emergency medical teams on to the field, Inform the Medic Division ASAP. Vii-sama would be livid if we just ignore the other city in favor of Mustafu and the Satooya district."
"Hai!"
"Nita-san we had detected the fifth one!"
"Where?!"
"It's roaming in the sewer systems!"
She twitch and grumbled, "Of all things to lurk in, it just had to be the sewers."
"[Send Rikoi-san, he used to live in the sewers. He would know it like the back of his hand.]"
"Good idea." She nodded at the suggestion and played back on her chair.
"Now we just had to search for the six and last one to appear and everything will be alright."
For some reason, both of the RnD and the Occult staff look at her in horror. "Nita-san! Don't go counting chicks yet! You'll jinx us!"
Oh, so that's why…
A wooden entity spread it's roots throughout the forest.
Because blood thirsty as it is, it wasn't exactly the most terrifying demon in Hell. It had earned it's standing amongst the middle class demons by patience instead of brute force like the other demons in Hell mostly do.
Unlike the others, it had preferred through planning and a steady pace of laying out foundation and gathering strength. It's plan was simple, create it's own stronghold and blend in to the surrounding vegetation.
Being mostly made of wood, no one would have notice.
So imagine its surprise when it found out that the forest that it had sunk it's roots was already taken by some powerful entity.
"You had made a big mistake if you think that you could just sunk your dirty roots in this place."
It was confused, understandably. What is this being?
The entity seems like a cat. At first it thought that it was some kind of holy spirit residing in the forest, a Yokai that had claimed the forest as it's territory or a local deity.
But it turns out that the demon is terribly wrong in it's assumptions.
The cat like being is nothing but a mortal feline with superpowers. But it was so strong that it couldn't be really called normal or a mortal at all.
No. The closest thing that it can be called is a demon and even that is putting it lightly.
No mortal entity, much more a cat, should be this powerful.
"Am I a cat? A demon? A God?" The feline then snorted, as if laughing at a joke that only it knew.
It loom over the demon, possessing size that it's kind shouldn't have. Ethereal crimson eyes glowed and stare at the wooden demon. It's black fur seems to absorb the very presence of light around it as it's tail swish and extend to length that the demon could no longer see its end. It bare down its fangs, ethereal blue fire gush out as it spoke.
"I am Schrödinger, the lord of this forest." The being said, raising one of it's paws, it's claws gleaming in light that shouldn't be present.
"And you're trespassing my territory."
It's paws rushed down, and all the demon knew is a never ending pain.
Tsurumi stared at the wreckage and the talking black house cat innocently cleaning it's paws.
…right in front of the mauled and still screaming demon burning in blue fire that it annihilated.
Tsurumi sweatdropped. He had come with Schrödinger as a back up but it looks like he wasn't really needed here in the first place.
As expected of the Boss' familiar.
"Thank you for your help Tsurumi-kun."
What help are you talking about?
"…I didn't do anything."
Schrödinger rolled his eyes, acting like he's dealing with some kind of idiot.
"Without you, finding this wood demon would have been more troublesome than what I would have like it to be. You are a great GP— Tracker, I mean tracker."
He was just about to say GPS didn't he?
Schrödinger turn to the still burning and screaming demon. Tsurumi twitch in annoyance at the shrill screaming that the demons is letting out. Why didn't just Schrödinger kill it quickly?
"Schrödinger-san? Are you not going to do something to the demon? It's getting really annoying listening to it's screams."
The black cat blinked. "Ah, apologies. I just want to see the pathetic radish suffer a bit more for touching this forest. Don't worry, I will end the thrash as soon as I'm satisfied."
Tsurumi nodded stiffly, hiding a shiver. They say that pets sometimes mirror their masters. They couldn't be more right on that point. Just remembering what the Boss did to the Aogumo is enough to give Tsurumi nightmares.
He briefly wondered if he would somehow turn in to a sadist as well just by association.
Another shiver run to his spine.
Better not thought about it too much then. He should just join Schrödinger on watching the demon burn for touching the beautiful forest that he had spent painstaking months working on.
Yes, sounds about right.
After all, it's the gardener's job to take care of their Boss' garden. Which includes pulling out weeds and killing pest infesting the garden.
Zenchi wipe the sweat from his forehead.
Too much injured, too much death.
Some of the crew were busy melting the ice covering most of the victims. It was a hard task since it wasn't anything like a normal ice. But they managed with some staff from the Occult division helping.
He adjusted his now short pink hair from obstructing his sight. He put his hands that glowed in green light to the wounded woman in front of him.
The wounds closed, not even a trace of it was left when he healed it with his Quirk.
"Zenchi! Come here once you're finished, this girl over here is critical and had severe injuries!"
"H-Hai!"
One of the medic staff put a hand on his shoulder, "Go kid, I'll take care of this one when she wake up. You're needed somewhere."
"Thank you!"
Zenchi immediately went towards the other patient. He saw the Head Medic tending multiple patients while waiting for him. The doctor noticed him and pointed him to the heavily injured young girl. The Head Medic was actually reluctant to let him participate at first in the rescue and medical operation, saying that he was too young and is still healing from years of trauma. Him, having a strong healing Quirk didn't matter at all in that front. But Zenchi reasoned to her that his Quirk would be a huge help in healing the injured, helping more people than they normally could without him around.
She reluctantly agreed to bring him with them after that.
"I already patched her so all you need to do is heal her with your Quirk."
He nodded, "I understand."
While Zenchi is healing the little girl under the doctor's supervision, a black haired woman with red sclera and no pupils pass by.
The woman has just been cleared recently and is now healed.
She was listed to have severe infection and viruses running around her system with multiple laceration throughout her body.
She walked out of the tent silently, not one person noticed her walk away.
Once far away from everyone, she grinned, showing multiple rows of razor sharp teeth and a tube like tongue wriggling inside her overly stretched mouth. Red smoke could be seen being emitted faintly from her mouth.
She spoke one word. Her own voice overlapping with another voice that didn't sounded like it came from her body.
"Fools" she smirked through the chaos. Silently laughing on how she went under everyone's notice. She looked to the setting sun, basking in it's glory like it's her first time doing so.
She chuckled to herself, "it looks like Lady luck have smiled upon me." She then vanished in a cloud of red mist.
Zenchi just finished healing the little girl in front of him. She should be awake after a few hours after the session.
"Ito-san, I'm done! Ito-san?"
The head blond doctor supervising him blinked. "You're done?"
"Hai, she should wake up after a few hours."
"Good, take a rest. You need it."
"O-okay, but! You should rest too Ito-san, you looked like you were thinking of something earlier."
She flick a finger on his forehead, "twerp, worry about your self first."
The pink haired boy yelped and rubbed his forehead, "H-Hai!"
She silently shaked her head and sighed. She ignored the nagging at the back of her head that told her that she just let something incredibly dangerous get away under her nose.
She watch the underage boy walk out of the tent. Zenchi must be right, she might need some break, it seems that she's been over thinking things.
Endeavor panted, he could feel himself overheat from Quirk overuse. The flame all over his body are all extinguished.
Majority of his sidekick are all down and no longer in any condition to fight at all. While most of the other heroes that had came at the scene earlier are either dead or devoured.
He turn to the culprit.
The massive titan like villain composed of fire and lava laughed sadistically. Mocking them for all their efforts.
"What's wrong human? Out of fire already?"
Enji scowled and gritted his teeth. He mustered his remaining strength and reignited his flames.
His flames rages, and readied to strike.
Then a voice suddenly intrude.
"I've already told you, this isn't something that you could handle, Indie-san."
Endeavor turn around and found Azrael floating in the air lazy wielding a black wispy and sparkly scythe.
"You villain…"
Lucas rolled his eyes.
"Yes, yes, sure, law offender equals to being a entity of pure evil that deserve to rot in jail for all eternity. I've heard that already for like the nth time. Not that I, or anyone for that matter, care about what you actually feel anyway."
Endeavor bristles at the comment, he growled and glared at him.
Lucas snickered, right before deflecting a giant orb of lava courtesy of the massive Fire demon that looked like it's appearance was ripped off of Heatblast and one of Iblis' Muspells.
"How rude of you."
The demon grinned, flames gushing out from it's mouth as it did so.
"You're strong… for a human, that is."
Lucas chuckled, "You too. For a middle class demon that is."
The demon stopped on it's tracks. It's flames flickering, the molten rocks flowing out of it's body shifts. It's gaze sharpen, as it's body immediately went on defensive.
"How did you know that, mortal?"
A twisted cheshire like grin with curly corners appears on Lucas' mouthless bone white mask, his eyes glowed and twinkled in mischief. Lucas laughed, but it came out as multiple overlapping voice that grate and send shivers down Endeavor and the remaining Heroes' spine.
No one can move, feeling a extreme pressure that keep on crushing them, gluing them to the pavement making them feel weak and helpless like a new born child.
Lucas shifted his scythe, three set of sparkling iridescent black and white wings sprouted from his back.
"W̻͚̊̉́h̪͓̊̚͏a̫͍̍͐t̥͙ͯ͊ ̼̖̾ͩ͞d͖͉ͩ̌͝o͇͕̒̇́ ̸̝̭ͤ́y̺̹ͣ̀͏o̡̝̬͗͑ư͎̬̌͛ ̬͕͋͐͠t͎̖̏̾́h̸͓̭͛̃ǐ̺̙ͮ͢n̤̜ͬ͂́k̷̖̥̋̎?̧̫͙̿͛"
Every part of Fire demon's body blared in danger as he stared at the etheareal black and white entity in muted horror.
"What are you…?"
Lucas chuckled at the demon.
"Just a simple Human touched by [Death]"
He lift his scythe, staring directly at the demon's eyes.
"Nothing more, nothing less."
Under the city, something lurked in the murky waters of the city's sewer system.
It traverse the dark, cold sewer, following the flow of contaminated water. Webbed feet making a splashing sounds as it wade through the waste waters.
It felt the chaos made by the others above the ground.
It snorted.
Those fools, creating so much havoc without a second thought. Not even thinking of a long term plan after their rampages.
Impulsive fools, the lot of them.
It's obvious that the Human world had change drastically with the time that they had spent in Hell under the orders of Satan.
One look at the current humans is enough for him to realize that.
What a bizarre phenomenon, Humans having abilities called [Quirk].
How Dangerous.
Majority of them are weak, but he knew that there are some that are powerful enough to truly kill him and the other five.
He already felt the presence of one of them vanished permanently. The others are still busy rampaging and enjoying their knew found freedom and sensations that their physical body experience.
Not that he didn't understand. There is such a huge difference compared to just possessing someone after all.
But then again, most of the other demons that came with him here are relatively young. They wouldn't know anything about the Human realm as it was before. They wouldn't have known the exhilaration that the Human realm hold, so they would probably be overwhelmed by the sensations.
The the scaly Water demon pause in his tracks, sensing something wrong in the waters besides the unholy amount of contamination that it has.
He sink to the dirty waters, fully hiding his scally body from sight completely ignoring and by passing the waters shallowness. His fins vibrates, sensing something move in the waters besides the water current.
He waited.
And waited.
And wait yet again.
But nothing came out.
He knew there is something. He could feel it. Through his fins, his gills and the spores scattered on his scaly dark turquoise skin.
He as just about to move on when the wall suddenly exploded as torrent water surge through.
A red haired man with a feral grin jumped out of the water.
"Get out of my turf you demonic mer-fucker!"
The water demon jump away from the feral human trying to maul him with its sharp claws.
The red haired human grinned with sharp teeth, "DIE!"
Confusion run over the water demon, Is it him or the humans of these era are much more demonic and feral than what he remembered them to be?
I love you…
"We're sorry!"
Y̵o̵U̢ ̛l̵ò ̧v̨E̶ ̷m̷E̵…͏
"W-we didn't mean anything—! Please spare us!"
W̛̯͆ ̪͗͢E̖̾ ͚̆͜R̨̭ͤ ̷̲̍Ę̩͊ ̛̻ͥ ̻̆͞Ạ̶̈́ ̛̯ͯ ̢̥̎ ̥̉͜H̳͋͝ ̫͒͝A̦ͥ͜ ̶̹̔P̡̗̏ ̛͚ͪP̪̓͜ ̬ͩ̕Y̨̒ͅ ͍̆͜ ͕ͪF͖̓ ̻̈͟A̤̔́ ̰̀͟M͚ͬ́ ̧̰̄I̶̮̚ ̵̭̌L̩͆ ̗̇͜Y̷̦̐…̷̩ͫ!̫̋͏̭ͣ͞
"Heavens, please! Make it stop—!"
Mikumo stared at the cowering Yokais in front of him. They were being held down by some cartoon like appendages, their eyes are also being held wide open by the same appendages.
All the while being forced to watch a singing and dancing human sized Purple grinning Dinosaur Abomination.
The song grates to their nerves, to their heads. While the very image burned their eyes and in to their brains. Etching it permanently to their miserable long spiritual life.
…if you get what that means, then kudos to you.
Mikumo was just silently travelling this specific spirit realm that he had ended up in when some spirits appeared out of nowhere and thought that it would be a great idea to pull mean tricks on him.
Like summoning a miniature rain clouds and thunderstorm over his head, throwing shit on his face and pushing him over a cliff that he was so sure that didn't existed just earlier.
Mikumo was already in a bad mood with his children being in Hell and missing along with the demons appearing out of nowhere, on top with Satan blocking his way through Hell. Needless to say, them trolling him out of nowhere didn't do anything good on his mood.
If anything, they only made it worsen.
He cackled at their responses, "Pray tell why should I do that?"
…Okay, yes he is relieving some of his stress, sue him. But then again, who cares? Certainly not him.
The yokais shrieked and continue to beg him.
"W-we'really sorry, we'll do anything you want!"
"Please! My eyes! Oh Gods it burns…!"
Mikumo grinned further at their words, "Anything… you say?"
"Yes! Just, please make it stop!"
Mikumo hummed and looked as if he was trying to mulled over it, tilting his head to the right, giving the impression of a cute and innocent Human that looked like it couldn't hurt a fly.
"Hmmm… I don't know, it's not like you guys could help me go to the gates of Hell anyway. I need to meet someone there you see, sky I really need to go there."
All the yokais look at him as if he was crazy, "Y-you want to go to Hell?!"
"Are you crazy?!"
"You'll die there!"
Mikumo scratched his head and sighed at the three Yokai's words.
"I see, I guess I just had to ask someone else then."
He then started walking away, "And I guess I'll be leaving you guys with the nice purple dinosaur while I find someone who could help me."
The Yokais looked at his retreating back in unrestrained horror. The thought of being alone with the horrifying purple entity was enough to send them to the edge of insanity.
"NO! Wait! We'll do it! We'll do it!"
"Yes! We'll do it! Don't leave us alone here!"
"We're sorry! Please believe us!"
Mikumo cackled, before smiling so bright and sweetly that the Yokai thought that they would be blind with how bright it was.
…If they hadn't been exposed to the purple abomination that is.
"Oh, how generous of you three!"
He snapped his fingers and their binding vanished along with the Barney tortur—entertaining them with it's song and dance.
The three cried in relief and happiness and they practically sing like a bird when he asked them to.
So Mikumo listened.
They told him to go south and search for the sea of ever burning flames.
There, he would find a giant black Tori gate in a island covered in black sand in the middle of the sea of flames.
And that gate would send him to the boundary between Hell and the Spirit realm.
…not exactly what he was opting for but just like they say, beggars can't be choosy.
After learning and squeezing the three Yokai dry from every information that they had, Mikumo travel straight ahead to the south and search for the sea of flames that they had told him.
Meanwhile, the three Yokai were just happy that Mikumo was gone and hoped that he wouldn't come back ever again.
That said, Mikumo may have been gone but the trauma he gave them certainly won't be, no matter what they do.
The travel was not as long as Mikumo thought it would be.
Just an hour of traveling and he could now see the light of the sea of flames ahead of him.
Him riding a motorcycle that run on max speed certainly did help in that part.
He hummed as he ride on his bike, [All-Fiction] has been acting strangely ever since he had stepped his foot in to this Spiritual realm. It was like the very realm is fighting him everytime he use his Quirk.
It's still working as it's supposed to however. It's just, he had the feeling that his Quirk won't work on the same scale that it could when on Earth.
It feels as though he could only warp and erase things that are within his reach in this realm.
That said, his reach wasn't really limited to what his physical body could reach, so it still remain as powerful as it was. He just need a more nudge when he want to warp or erase something and just on a more limited scale and not on a planetary scale like when it was on Earth.
It may have been due to the fact that he wasn't an actual citizen of this realm. Which would make sense on why the reality encompassing this realm seems to fight back whenever he change something.
After a few minutes, he had finally reach his destination.
He stared at the bright place lit by scorching red flames.
He whistled, those three wasn't really kidding when they told him that it was a see of ever burning fire.
He pulled out a sunglasses and grinned as he put it over his eyes.
Looks like he could still have fun on his birthday after all.
Some Ogres are hanging around the sea of fire.
Normally, it was prohibited to go near to it due to how dangerous it was and it being a portal to Hell.
But this particular gang of Onis are relatively young and rebellious, completely ignoring the elders orders to stay away from the place. For it was said that sometimes, Dangerous Demons from Hell and entities beyond comprehension sneaked through the cracks of reality at the gate at the center of the sea of fire.
But that was just hoax told by the elders to prevent anyone from going near the said place.
Many Yokai and spirits has been hanging around the place but no one has seen a thing even now.
The Onis are hanging around on a cliff with the sea of fire just crackling below them. Admiring how the place just seems to burn and burn all the time without a hint of calming down.
A small blue skinned Oni turned to the gang leader nervously, he looked really out of place in the midst of scary and burly muscled Onis with clubs and iron pipes, "Aniki, is it really okay to be here?"
A big red skinned Oni laughed, the blue Oni is just new to the gang after all, it's actually his first time being in the sea of fire so he can't really blame him if he's afraid. "Ha! Don't be a coward now newbie, have some backbone would ya?"
The young Oni fidgeted, "But the Elders said…"
Another Oni snorted, "We've been hanging around this place for years and we haven't seen anything here except fire."
The small blue skinned Oni turned to the sea warily and stiffened, "Really?"
"Yeah, Mado is right. We've been hanging around here before you were even born, and not once we saw anything here."
The blue Oni looked scared all of a sudden, "Then what is that?!" He pointed near the center of the sea.
The rest of the gang rolled their eyes at the young Oni but still looked at the said direction.
They turn to the sea of fire and stare at the area the small Oni is pointing at.
What they saw is fire, fire, fire, a shirtless man in a swimming trunks with black shades riding a jetski, fire, fire, fire and fire, more fire and—hold up.
They narrowed their eyes and stare at the thing, baffled.
It looked Human, though they aren't really sure. After all, what would a human, of all things, do in a place like this? The Human-not-human had black hair, black shades, black swimming trunks and is riding on that jetski thing that humans ride on a beach. And what's more is that the man nor the vehicle wasn't affected by the scorching flames at all!
…What the Hell?
"…you know what? Let's get out of this place."
"Y-yeah, it may be the heat fooling all of us."
The young oni look at them ridiculously, "Wait, what? But it's really there!"
The leader Oni stared at him with dead eyes, "It's an illusion kid, it isn't real."
"B-but—!"
The leader shake him hard, "Repeat after me; 'It isn't real'"
Confused, the young Oni followed, "I-It isn't real…"
"It's just an illusion."
"J-just an illusion…?"
"Buy gold."
"Buy gold—wait, what?"
The leader nodded to himself, as if everything is good and nothing is wrong, "Good, now let's get the Hell out of here! I don't want to deal with Eldritch Abominations."
"Yes, Aniki!"
The young Oni sputtered and looked at everyone, confused, "W-wait a second! What was that about the gold—!"
They ignored him and promptly leave the area.
Mikumo park his jetski on the black sand covered beach in the middle of the sea made entirely of flames.
He pulled up his shades and examined the small island.
The sand is black, and seems to be made of fine obsidian. There's a typical Japanese shrine at the center of the island and is surrounded by dead pitch black leaveless trees.
At the middle of the shrine, the Black Tori gate that is his goal stand, guarded by two giant skeletal statues in shinto priest outfits, each wielding a naginata.
They must be the guard of the gate, Mikumo mused.
He step forward and the statues began to move.
"State your reasons for stepping on this land."
Mikumo stare at the guards as they did the same to him, "I wish to pass through the gates of Hell."
The guards remained silent for a moment, watching Mikumo's every move.
"…why does someone like you who had been touched by [Death] multiple times yet still remain alive despite of it want to cross the borders separating Hell from the Spirit world?"
Mikumo look at the guards soulless eyes directly, "My children you see, has been stranded at one of the sectors of Hell. The major problem is that they are still alive and not have yet to passed away when they accidentally end up in that realm."
He then smiled softly, "They may not be my blood, but I genuinely care for them. That is my reason for coming in to this place, to rescue them."
The guards turn to each other, silently communicating on what to do with Mikumo.
The two turn their heads to him, "We have deem you worthy of passing the gates. Normally, only the dead or those beings who had originally belonged to Hell are allowed to pass through. But considering your circumstances, that is not a problem."
They must be referring to his status as someone who had already died yet still live, and not his status as someone who had reincarnated.
The two tapped their weapons in to the ground twice and the space started to twist at the gate.
"Pass, think of your children and you'll be sent to the sector that they currently reside."
Mikumo smiled brightly and gave the guardians a bow, "Thank you for your understanding and generosity!" He had thought that he would still need to manually search for the kids when he reach Hell, but it turns out that it's not. Those spirits earlier had told him that the gate leds to the boundary between Hell and the Spirit realm, and not a direct path to Hell. The guards may have done something with it to be like that.
"We are just performing our duties, nothing more, nothing less."
Mikumo smiled and nod in understanding.
"I still thank you nonetheless."
With that, Mikumo walk through the gate thinking about Amehiko and the other children.
He just hope that they aren't in any kind of eminent danger.
A/N:
Words: Over 7500
I just watched a Barney Horror stories in Youtube so there's that.
And did anyone catch that small Gravity falls reference? No? Anyone?
Also, favs and follows finally reach on hundreds, yay! I didn't think that was possible for me.
Omake 1: What if Shiranui and Lucas went with Mikumo?
"This isn't Hell." Shiranui said looking at their surroundings.
"This is the Japanese spirit world, are you sure that you did the ritual right?"
"Of course he did!"
"Then why are we here?"
Mikumo twitch, "…Accursed Satan and his machinations."
"Wait, what are you—"
Lucas blinked, "Oh right, Satan black listed Vii-chan to hell."
"He's what?"
He paused, "Ah, sorry. I mean, Satan blacklisted us." He corrected.
Shiranui stared at the cousins, "…I have heard of someone having a homecoming party upon coming in to Hell once they'd died. But never I have heard of anyone being blacklisted."
"For some unknown reason, Satan got a whiff of our plan to take over Hell when we died from our first life. Now we're black listed, I'm pretty sure that Heaven and Purgatory are pretty much of limits to us as well."
Shiranui closed his eyes and briefly wondered why is this his life. Sure, he's a neutral evil on a multidimentional scale, and knew Hell existed, he's been a celebrity in it in one of his parallel version after all, but blacklisted? Sumimasen, what the fuck? Even his Quirk couldn't have seen something like that.
"Forget it, we're going to Hell in the roundabout way then."
"I wonder what kind of Yokais and Kemonos that we would encounter."
"Hopefully, something that could eat you."
"Kinky, I didn't know you're in to that, Shiranui-chan."
"Forget it, talking to you is exhausting."
"Come on, Shiranui-chan don't be like that!"
"For Trinisette's sake, someone, please make him stop, and Deku stop laughing."
Mikumo ignored him and continue laughing his ass off.
Omake 2: Curious Guards
Mikumo was just about to stop in to the gate when the guardians stop him.
Mikumo blinked, "Is there something wrong?"
The guards stare at him as if they were trying to decipher a large confusing puzzle.
"You are a confusing being…"
Mikumo chuckled, "I get that a lot."
"You are a being capable of literally flipping this realm if you wished to, we could see that much despite your lack of presence."
"What we do not understand is why you have chosen to visit this place when you're completely capable of entering Hell without much of a second thought."
Mikumo's face went blank as he and the guardians stare at each other for what's seems to be eternity. After a few moments, Mikumo finally talked.
"Satan black listed me to Hell. That's why I can't enter Hell, he's blocking my attempts at entering his realm."
"…"
"…"
"…you may go on your way now, we apologize for the delay."
"Thanks."
What's up? I'm alive folks! And believe it or not, I'm currently being bombarded by myriad amounts of ideas that I don't even know what to do first. Ideas spanning from Naruto, KHR, Minecraft, Pokemon, Blue Exorcist and Original Trilogy stories that I still have no idea how to start. There's just so many ideas that I don't know where to start. My drawing skills has been rusting because I literally have no fucking idea how to manage things.
On top of my inherent and overwhelming laziness along with my somehow short attention span, it's literally a recipe for disaster.
What kind? I don't know.
So yeah, sorry for the rant (I don't understand, why do I always have the urge to rant in these part?) and if i dont have any idea on when I would be able to finish a chapter on this thing, or Satan forbid, when to actually start one. But I'm trying, probably not enough, but I try.
Anyway, if you guys don't mind, please take a peak at my other fic, the Katekyo Hitman Reborn one if you are interested on it at least (or if you haven't already). I would really appreciate it.
That said,
Thanks for reading! Favorite. Follow. Review. Schwarz out.