A/N: Screw it, let's make more. Having too much fun with this. Special thing at the end.
Disclaimer: copyright stuff so I don't own genshin or metal gear rising
Signora smiled to herself, standing over the unconscious body of the General that is Kujou Sara. To think that she could let her stop her from leaving Inazuma and ruin the plans of the Tsarista was laughable. The Raiden Shogun simply stood unfazed, but irritated at the same time for harming one of her Generals.
"The way people charge in here as they please, so uncivilized…" She gave a sigh, as the Shogun stared coldly at her. "Anyway, as to the purpose of this meeting…"
The door burst open, rudely interrupting her. She grit her teeth as she turned to see the Traveler burst open with a frown. "Truly uncivilized indeed. Must you always be rude every time I meet someone?"
"Save your bullshit." Aether said with a growl as he cracked his knuckles. "I'm here to wrap up some business here with you." He points an accusatory finger at her. "You did plenty of shit back in Liyue and Mondstadt, and it's starting to piss me off."
Signora rolled her eyes. "Oh, please. I am a mere Snezhnayan diplomat! I have no idea what you're talking about." A small gasp turned the Fatui's attention to the Shogun. She widened her eyes to find the Shogun...in fear. Her eyes showed panic as she stood there in nervousness. "Y-you again?" She started. This made Signora very confused, she had never expected the Shogun to be this fearful, nor did she expect Aether's taunting grin.
"What is the meaning of this?" She faced the Traveler. "What have you done with the Shogun?"
"Oh, she's just nervous I'm here, that's all." He said with a smug tone. "Anyway, since there's no other legal way to get you out of this damn country, I'll challenge you before the throne!"
Signora could feel a vein pulse in her forehead. The nerve of this Traveler... She hid her irritation with a smirk. "You have nerves of steel, Traveler. But I doubt the Shogun would be cooperative-"
"Proceed." The Shogun said. The Harbinger could only sigh. "Fine then. I will make sure you will never come out of this alive." She takes a step forward into the empty space of the Tenshukaku, the air becoming colder than usual. Her confident strides are met with the Traveler's own, as he draws his sword. Signora forms her ice cold barrier as she sets the arena into a freezing battlefield as Sheer Cold kicks in.
Much to her surprise and annoyance, Aether isn't fazed from the cold and practically steps over the freezing ice. He even goes to take off his top, showing off his abnormally muscled body and how the cold didn't affect him. Compared to the scrawny figure he had when Signora took Venti's Gnosis, he was larger now. Veins seemed to pop out from underneath his skin. If he wasn't Signora's enemy, she would've found him rather handsome.
"You have the nerve to challenge me." She smugly taunted, preparing her attack. She summoned ice shards and wheels of ice towards the Traveler, to which he dodged and rolled away. Signora drops Ice Flowers to try and catch him off guard in his dodging, but it would appear that he was unaffected by them, in fact going far to taunt her with his seemingly invulnerability. Even going as far as catching glacial missiles mid-air and throwing it back at her. Signora had to dodge herself so as to not get hit by her projectiles thrown back at her. She scoffed. How dare he force her to fight on his terms. However, she notices the way that Aether moves around the battlefield. His arms and torso seemed to turn black whenever he got hit by any of the ice shards. An interesting ability, aside from his other, more known talent of using more than one element to his will. How come she was not informed of this?
And yet despite this, he doesn't use the elements at his disposal. An odd choice, really. Still Signora can only do so much with her Delusion. Only a matter of time before she has to switch to her other element and this fight will be over.
"What's this?" Aether held her Delusion in her hand. Signora widened her eyes. How did he get a hold of that so quickly?! Before she could stop him, he crushes it in her hand. The throne room is filled with ice as the elemental power broke free. The power released was so great, it prematurely activated Signora's transformation.
Aether was pushed back, both from the Delusion's destruction, and from Signora's transformation. He started to think that taking off his top every boss battle was a bad idea. Although he was invulnerable to physical attacks and some elemental attacks, it was really cold in here. He stood firm as Signora turned into what he can describe as what happens if a moth mistook a candle for the Moon. The icy cold atmosphere has been replaced with a fiery hot one, as she stood a few meters taller than him, her face covered with a moth-like mask of fire.
"You." She said with rage. "You caused much ruin for the plans of the Tsarista." She flicked her wrist as a flaming whip appeared, striking the ground. Flames erupted from the place she struck. It looked familiar to Aether for some reason, which made him smile. "I will enjoy carving you up to pieces! AND WATCHING YOU BURN!"
Aether grinned. "Let's dance, you overgrown firefly!" And with that the second phase of their battle began.
Signora roared as she struck Aether with her flaming whip, the fire burning the air around them. Aether dashed away, even he could feel the intense heat from the fiery weapon. She followed it up with another strike, scorching the throne room floor with fire. Aether dodged again, analyzing the situation. Even though he could definitely pummel this stupid witch, the nanomachines can only hold out for so long. His strategizing was interrupted when she struck the spot where he stood mere milliseconds ago, the whip splitting to three tendrils. The Traveler watched with interest as the struck ground erupted into geysers of flame. It was a good thing he moved.
Aether decided to use his sword as his main method of attack, using the enhanced speed and strength to launch himself and strike at Signora. His blade met a barrier of flame, before he was sent back with an explosion, making him land a few meters away from her. Aether wondered where that explosion came from, but his answer came flying towards him as a fiery butterfly honed in on him. He started to run to gain distance away from the butterfly, just as Signora lashed out with her whip, attacking twice. Aether rolled, dodging the attacks once more, but was hit on the second attack, the flame heating up the nanomachines quite intensely. He grit his teeth in pain as he maneuvered around the battlefield, dodging attacks and trying to keep the fire butterfly away from him. Apparently, the butterfly did not last long as it exploded after a certain period of time, which was good since Aether did not want a homing missile on his ass at all times.
He groaned internally as another Hellfire butterfly spawned soon after, honing in on Aether again. It was starting to get annoying.
"Impressive. You've survived this long, but this needs to end NOW!" Signora declared before emitting another roar, flaming wings appearing behind her. Aether looked up to see meteors crashing down on the throne room. How she was able to summon meteors indoors was beyond him. The throne room shook as the meteors landed, but unfortunately missed their target. It wasn't over, as she followed it up with a dark fireball barrelling straight towards him. Aether now had two projectiles going after him, the fireball about to intercept his escape from the hellfire butterfly. Now what?
He had an idea, but he doubted it would do anything good. He ran up the wall, the fireball missing altogether, but the slight slowing down made the butterfly catch up to him. The Traveler had anticipated this and grabbed the butterfly, the nanomachines responding by making his hand covered with the metal that has protected him thus far.
"Spicy butterfly coming right up!" He quipped before throwing it back to Signora. The Crimson Witch did not expect the butterfly to head towards her as the missiles exploded in her face, leaving her dazed. Aether grinned as he launched himself towards her from the wall, using this moment to strike. He slashed across her side, before rolling to spread out the energy. The attack did not kill her, but it wounded her greatly as she coughed out blood. If this was a video game, she would've had half of her health gone.
"You BASTARD!" Signora growled as she attacked with her whip once more, but was shocked to find that Aether grabbed the whip with his hand. He gave a sinister grin before he pulled back, the whip going along with Signora in tow. The Traveler moved the whip across the throne room, making the Harbinger crash into the walls of the room. With every impact, she cried out in pain. In the audience, the Shogun winces watching the poor diplomat go through the same punishment she endured in the Plane of Eurythmia. Her sides still ached from being smashed through pillars during that battle.
Aether continued the pummelling before he threw Signora to the ground, cracking from the sheer force. The Harbinger moaned in pain, shaking from the crater she now laid. Safe to say, a lot of her bones have been broken.
"S-s-so...powerful…" She muttered, coughing out more blood. She looked at her hand, to see that it was coated with red. "W-w-what are you…?"
Aether gave a smile, as his sword dragged across the wooden floor and made an eerie scraping sound. "Me?" He asked, tossing his sword up in the air before he caught it, twirling it in his hands. He turned his head to where the Shogun was, raising an eyebrow as if asking for something. The Shogun's stoic face seemed to falter a bit, before she answered with a nod.
"No!" Signora cried out. "You can't! If you kill me, it will be a declaration of war! The Tsarista will not be merciful to you or the rest of this nation." She groaned in pain after her outburst. It was too much. However, Aether was not fazed as he raised his blade.
"Let her try." He said, before he plunged the blade down. Signora gave out one last gasp, seeing the sword now embedded in her chest. She reached a hand to Aether in resistance, but promptly fell down.
La Signora was now dead.
Aether pulled out his sword and flicked the blade, the blood landing on the floor as the blade was now clean. He turned to the Shogun, giving her a bored look. "I am done with my business here. If you have nothing about my sister, then I will leave." He looked at the body of the Harbinger, before leaving the throne room.
Once he was far from the castle, he sighed as Paimon appeared beside him. She was still reeling from the fact that Aether was no ordinary Traveler, and now had practically committed a crime by killing Signora. "Do you have any idea what you just did?" She asked, the playfulness in her voice gone, replaced with seriousness and worry.
Aether looked at his form, then at his blade before shrugging. "I don't care what I do to this planet. The closer I am to my sister, the better." He said as he put away his blade and trudged on, ready to face whoever's next.
A/N: This was dumb. Here's the special thing.
Elsewhere...
Lumine's eyes opened to a rather confusing scene. No longer was she in her bed in the Abyss where the Order resided. Instead she stood before a man in white on a strange platform. The platform seemed to move on its own, and rather quickly. They were in a tunnel too, as there was barely any light except passing sources of lights in the walls of the tunnel.
She looked down to find that her dress was gone, replaced with a strange armor that hugged her figure. It was black around her torso and waist, but was white around her limbs. Yellow plates covered her shoulders. In her hand, her Teyvatian sword was gone, replaced with a sword resembling a katana from Inazuma, except she could feel strange vibrating from the blade.
After her sudden appearance in this world, her eye and left arm erupted in pain. She screamed in pain as she got down on her knees, clinging her left arm, only to find nothing there but blood. What was happening?! Her eye was bleeding and her left arm had been severed, and she just got here! Her right eye watered from the pain as she fought to stay awake from the agony.
"Well, this isn't what I expected." Lumine looked in front of her to see the one responsible. A man that was a few heads taller than her, wearing some kind of white armor. His brown eyes looked at her with intent as he put his hand over his stubbled chin. His right arm didn't match the armor, as it was black and red. A katana was in his right hand, the blade glowing red with electricity, also humming like her own.
"W-what did you do to me?!" Lumine asked, still horrified from the intensity of her injury. The man raised his eyebrow, but remembered that this was not his opponent he fought just earlier.
"Well, senorita, if you paid close attention your left arm is gone." He said in a sarcastic tone. His voice was also lined with an accent she did not recognize. It reminded her of Six Fingered Jose. "In any case, you seem to bit a confused." Gee, you think? "So allow me to introduce myself." He bowed. "I am Sam." He grinned before he suddenly lunged at Lumine, landing a dropkick on her abdomen. She cried out in pain as she was sent off the platform they were on. Adrenaline kicked in and she quickly reached out her right hand and grabbed the ledge, crying out in pain as her arm ached supporting her weight. She struggled to lift herself up, but she could feel her grip slipping
Her hopes were crushed even further when Samuel stood over her, smiling. "I'm sorry senorita." He apologized, though his tone suggested otherwise. "If we met on different terms and not in the place of my opponent, we could've been friends." He raised his red blade over his head. Lumine widened her eyes. She could only gave a yell of defiance as Samuel swung his blade…
The Princess of the Abyss gasped, sitting up from her bed in her castle. She was breathing hard and sweating. Her hand immediately went to her left eye, then her left arm. They were still there…
She gave a heavy sigh, relieved to find that it was a mere nightmare. Lumine held her chest to feel her heart race. She had never been this terrified ever since the Cataclysm and her capture by the Unknown God. She rubbed her eyes of tiredness and tears as she looked out the window of her bedroom.
Why did it feel...so real?