It has been many months since the action caused by the great being that wiped the surface texture of the planet. Turning the surface to a bleached planet where the only thing left was simply ruins of the now white world. Where but a scant few remains of the human race now wander about to continue on while pondering just what the hell was happening.
One of them, a simple man on a motorcycle, was relaxing on a sofa. One of the few remains of the old world while he ate some canned food. On his lap is a notebook as he jotted down one of the things he saw.
'A strange shift in the big storm.' He wrote down while eating his food but quick to ration it for later. 'Before the storm seemed to be constant. Ever moving. But after some kind of...light...it's like it's settled. Calming down.'
This brave young man then closed his notebook, done for the day. He then laid down as he looked up the ever blue sky that never shifted to night any longer. Sighing as he missed the stars.
'I wonder if I'll find all the answers to what happened here?' The man thought as he just continued to gaze at the sky. 'If I can discover something that at the very least, will allow some form of prosperity?'
The man known as David Bluebook has spent quite a long while doing what he could to survive. It wasn't easy though, and he felt no closer to any answers. Yet he continued on, all while heading towards what he felt might give him answers. Area 51.
But until he reached this place, he would continue his journey. Find food. Journal his days of what he knew. Then sleep while looking at the blue sky, as looking at the bleach earth was rather depressing. At least the sky was a bit better along with those two lights.
"...huh?" David then sat up. "Lights?"
It was then David realized something. Because of whatever occurred to the earth, no stars could be seen at all. So...then how was he seeing two lights now? Particularly, a bright gold and purple light in the sky.
"Alright then." The God of Darkness said as he looked at the bleached earth. "So how are we doing this? Because I still say we blast the planet a few times with a few city destroying beams."
"Yes. Because destroying is always the answer." The God of Light would be rolling his eyes of he had any. "But no, for now I just want to test something. Particularly, just what it is that's covering the planet."
"Ah yes, that." The God of Darkness looked at the earth. "It does seem that something is covering the world. Like a type of membrane of sorts or whatever."
"And as such, I want to see if I can blast through that." The God of Light raised his hands. "Starting now." Then like so, the God of Light emitted a great light that flashed all across space. One so bright the few humans left in the bleached earth below actually saw something for the first time since the devastation of their world. A light that then fell onto the earth in an attempt to breach through whatever barrier surrounded the planet.
"?" Only for the light to suddenly vanish away once it made contact with the earth.
"Oh." The God of Darkness chuckled. "Talk about failure."
Instead of showing irritation at his brother's words, Light instead became interested. "Intriguing." He raised his right hand towards the planet. "Let me try this again."
Another great flash attacked the surface of the world. Like before however, the light failed to even breach the planet at all. Dark began laughing at this point, but Light continued to see just what was going on. After his third try though and observing very closely, he then discovered the answer.
"Oh. I see now." He then said as he narrowed his vision upon the planet. Particularly the seven massive storms that could be seen across the planet's surface. "I thought my attack was being diminished or incapable of doing any damage. But instead, it seems that my attack is being...absorbed."
"Really now." Dark floated closer to his brother. "You mean to say there is something out there absorbing the power you sent?"
"It seems so." Light nodded. "I'm not putting in my all, but to absorb my energy like so is a rather impressive feat. In fact," Light then got closer to the planet and observed the surroundings of the outer edge of the planet's surface. "I think...That whatever is going on down there, is absorbing all forms of energy out here in space." Radiation, gamma rays, and so on that occur in the nebula known as outer space.
Dark became more interesting now. Even asking a rather good question. "Absorbing all this energy for what?"
"I don't know." Light admits, as for some reason he could see. See the past properly that is. As Gods, the Brothers wielded gifts above normal humans. From energy manipulation to the power to destroy and create. In fact, the abilities the Relics forged by the God of Light were abilities the two could use themselves. The Relic of Knowledge in particular knew the past and recorded all, and while it took time, Light could also see the past. Yet here and now, it wasn't helping him at all in figuring out what this barrier that absorbed energy is or does.
So...perhaps he should find out another way.
"Stand back brother." Light tells Dark as he raises both his hands. Aimed at the storm residing in china. "I think it's time to see what the purpose of the absorption does."
"Gladly." Dark moves away not wanting to get burnt as after a few minutes of concentration, the God of Light focused himself and then unleashed his power upon the storm cloud below. A silvery-white light that then clashed onto the surface of the storm, yet as predicted nothing bad seemed to even be happening. No, instead the very storm seemed to be absorbing the divine energy the God of Light was unleashing.
Seeing this, the God of Light unleashed more power yet nothing still occurred. Yawning, Dark just floated about wondering just how long this would take. Deciding to have some fun, Dark just decided to throw some destructive energy balls at the moon itself. Not caring that those who remained were now seeing small but noticeable craters on their moon from purple flashes. Though then again, for the humans that remained they were actually happy to see something occurring and were eagerly watching the strange silver light on the horizon and the purple flashes hitting the moon.
One group however, is not happy.
"Hey! Wodime! What the hell is that!?" Inside a room, where only one man remained, he was listening to five allies that while not here physically, were here in the form of holograms as they were now in the next meeting. An emergency one that was called upon by the leader of the group known as Crypters.
A man with great intelligence and power, with long golden hair and sharp eyes as he viewed his fellow Cryptors. All of whom have been called by him as they came to this meeting because of an unknown intervention.
One that Wodime was here to talk about.
"I ask you all to remain calm for the time being." Wodime spoke while his Servant Caenis just huffed at him.
"Oh sure." Caenis rolled her eyes. "So easy to do until one steps outside the Lostbelt, looks at the sky and sees the fucking moon getting blasted at by that thing!"
"Thing?" Kadoc said as he looked at Caenis. "So you know what's going on?"
"Come now Kadoc, sweetie." The handsome and beautiful man known as Peperoncino says with a big smile. "Surely you can stay calm and listen to see what our leader is saying."
"Yeah man." Beryl Gut grinned. "Don't get your panties in a bunch. I bet your old girl Ana would want you to stay calm."
Kadoc's eye twitched but said nothing. Instead, he looked at Wodime as did the rest of the Crypters waiting to see his answer. Because they were all called instantly by him to explain something big was happening. Something they all sensed more so as the Chinese Lostbelt was stated to be growing at an unnatural pace while in the surface world flashes of great light is being seen.
Once everyone was calm, Wodime spoke.
"I received a message from one of the Alien God's disciples. And apparently, two extraterrestrials are currently above the planet's surface." He told them all while then showing an image of none other than the God of Light and Dark, the latter being the cause of the moon having damage now.
"Now that is certainly interesting." The one to speak is Daybit, who instead of looking frustrated or suspicious like some of the others, instead showed great curiosity as he observed the two invaders from beyond. "Are they here because of our benefactor's actions, or simply because they came?"
"The latter." Wodime answered. "The disciples of the Alien God claim that their benefactor has no knowledge of these two, and that they just arrived out of nowhere. However," Wodime then showed another image. "Before Chaldea was destroyed, a certain video was acquired from there. One that shows promise."
The video then played, where it showed none other than the Master of Chaldea alongside Mash, Romani, Da Vinci, and to the rest of the Cryptor's, two figures made of a golden color and dark color speaking to them.
"You've got to be kidding me." Kadoc moans while Beryl laughs.
"Oh." Beryl grins. "So you're saying Chaldea's Master met these two?"
"Indeed." Wodime says. "And while I do not know they're reasoning for being here. They're appearance is causing trouble." The leader then turned to the most silent of the Cryptors. Hinako Akuta. "Right Akuta?"
The woman herself snarled. "Because of that golden bastard, he's causing my Lostbelt to grow at a faster rate than it should."
"Uh...isn't that the whole point?" I mean, last Kadoc checked, the Crypters are in a competition. Granted, Wodime was the real winner considering how tough his Lostbelt is, but if Akuta's was growing fast then that had to be a good thing. I mean, thanks to whatever that golden guy thing was doing, Akuta's Tree of Fantasy was absorbing that energy and now growing bigger.
"No. It isn't." Akuta growls to Kadoc's surprise. Before anybody else can comment, Wodime spoke up.
"Regardless of reasoning, the Alien God wants these two gone." Wodime then declares to all of them. "According to what we know, these two seem to wield enough energy to travel between stars, and their intervention may cause problems against the earth itself." While the Crypters plans are to supplement the current order with their own, that won't happen if these two screw up the planet and wiping it out.
"That is indeed a concern." Peperoncino nods as he understands what Wodime means. "But these guys are in space, and I doubt we have rockets lying around. Do we?"
"And last I also checked, aside from us and those disciples, none of the Lostbelt Kings can even leave their respective Lostbelts to deal with them." Kadoc adds while Beryl begins to whistle for some reason.
"Regardless they must be dealt with before they do permanent damage." Wodime tells them all as the new image shows the storm in china now growing bit by bit from the energy it was absorbing. "Otherwise we'll be facing our own problems sooner than later."
Akuta gritted her teeth, knowing that problem was the Lostbelts growing and then clashing, thus attempting to battle to see which Lostbelt wins while the loser gets destroyed. And while this bastard was making her Lostbelt grow...she knew that once it hits another Lostbelt, it'll make her Lostbelt King realize the truth, fight, and then lose. Akuta couldn't let that happen.
Wodime also had their own problems with this as well. Particularly as his own Lostbelt King, who was already monstrously powerful, seemed to have noticed these two interlopers. With what was worrying being that Wodime had the intuition to guess he might use them as...a power source for his plans.
'They need to be destroyed, and soon.' Unfortunately, as Kadoc said that while the Cryptors and their 'allies' of the Alien God forces did have the power to fight back and even destroy these two, they were currently in space. Meaning reaching them wasn't going to be easy unless they had a method to travel into it or a power that can reach them regardless of distance.
"?" Wodime then noticed both Akuta and Beryl were now gone. While he understood why the former left, as Wodime knew her true reasoning for being worried about her advancing Lostbelt, he didn't know Beryl's reason. Just what was he planning?
Back in space, the God of Light continued to send his energy. Watching as the storm below continued to grow in fascination while his brother kept on pelting the moon and sending small chunks of the lunar body off of it. However, as the God of Darkness mindlessly did this, the deity then saw something in the corner of his vision.
"Hm?" It was a bright flash, and came from somewhere else on the planet. Narrowing his vision, the God of Darkness got closer to see just what it is he saw. Then shouted as he saw a stream of light heading towards his brother. "You idiot!" He then rushed toward Light who noticed it to later. "Look out!"
Dark then shoved Light away from the incoming light.
Where a second later Dark screamed as the strange light, instead of hitting his brother, instead went through his arm. As in destroyed utterly with Dark cursing as he saw his entire left arm was gone.
"Brother!" Light said with worry as he saw Dark cursing at his missing limb. Sure it would regenerate, but it wasn't as if it was any less painful. Another flash came, and this time both brothers saw it coming. A golden lance of sorts heading right toward them.
"Oh no you don't!" Dark yells as he then raises his right arm and sends a stream of destructive energy at it. Yet to his shock, the lance kept on going despite hitting his energy forcing the brother to move away unless he wanted to get killed. Light instantly sent a beam of energy himself at where the lance came from, but just as it was going to hit wherever the lance came from the energy was absorbed by the strange mechanism the planet had.
Becoming upset, Light got closer to the planet realizing he won't be able to deal with this lance if his attacks kept on being absorbed. So without hesitation Light sent even more energy at the storm cloud as whatever absorbed his energy greedily accepted it making the storm slowly grow even larger. Hoping that maybe he could overload whatever was taking his energy so he could get back to attacking where this lance came from.
Unfortunately by doing this, whatever sent that lance decided to try again. As once more more lances came, and while they seemed to be a bit different than the first two, weaker in some way, they were still incredibly dangerous.
Dark wasn't having it though as he got serious and launched his own destructive energy lances at whatever these things were. He was a being that fought his brother for countless years of battle. Both never really held back, and both injured one another greatly. So naturally, Dark had battle experience as he sent his attacks at those spears. Both of the attacks clashing though to Dark's frustration, while one or two of the enemy's lances were destroyed most kept coming at him forcing him to dodge.
"Coward!" Dark yelled as he launched more attacks. "Come and face me!"
His only response was more spears.
Roaring in anger, Dark just launched his attacks at them while forced to dodge the lances that survived his blows. Also doing his best to protect Light whenever some were aimed at his brother.
For the God of Light, he continued to make the storm below grow and grow. Yet to Light's own anger, it was like nothing he did was overloading the absorption feed. Then, it occurred.
"Guh." A link was established, and suddenly he saw many branches unfolding over the storm. Where Light then felt his own energy being sapped at directly. Instantly massive amount of Light's energy was being pulled straight out of him. Forcing him to try and pull back only to be incapable of doing nothing as whatever these branches were, just kept absorbing his energy and very life-force out of him as the storm itself grew much, much larger as it slowly covered the landmass it was on.
"Brother!" Dark then saw Light, his sibling being drained by this...storm. Realizing Light was slowly being drained of life, Dark became more than a little upset. And volatile. "Alright, fine then." Dark darkly says as he then expends a mass amount of energy, releasing a wave of pure destructive energy at the lances and actually destroying them all. More would be sent, but Dark now had enough time for another matter. "You want energy," Dark declared to the storm below that dared to try and steal a God's life. "Then take THIS!"
Without remorse, Dark sent a world ending energy stream at the storm. One that amazingly the storm absorbed into. However, up until now it was used to the more creative energy it was taking from light. Now, it was forced to handle that and the destructive energy sent at it. Destructive energy that was more than causing-
-damage to the Fantasy Tree below.
"No...NO!" Akuta yelled as she saw the Fantasy Tree of her Lostbelt finally reveal itself. A massive 'tree' that overshadowed the damn emperor's own tree as it has finally absorbed enough energy to reveal itself to all the inhabitants of her Lostbelt's shock.
Yet all Akuta could feel was horror as she saw the tree cracking. As the energy it absorbed was of destructive nature and was tearing at it from the inside out. Where Akuta then began running toward the emperor's home to see him while contacting her Servant to head toward the tree as well.
Watching in horror as her Fantasy Tree Mayall was slowly breaking apart from the foreign energy crippling it.
Yet this energy was being detected by not just her own Lostbelt inhabitants. But by others.
"Guys! We have a problem." Particularly of Chaldea, as Da Vinci called everyone in the Shadow Border's conference room.
Goredolf showing frustration at his nap being interrupted. "Alright, what is it this time?" Goredolf yells. "Are we under attack?"
"No." Holmes speaks up. "But we do have another problem." He looked at Da Vinci who nodded and spoke to everyone in the room.
"As of this moment, our sensors are detecting a massive fluctuation with our next target, the Chinese Lostbelt." Da Vinci then showed an image of the storm surrounding the Lostbelt. Particularly, at how it was growing.
"What...what is causing this?" Mash asked as she saw how the Lostbelt was shifting in size.
"Yes. Explain!" Goredolf said with worry. "I mean, this is clearly a problem."
"Ya think." Ritsuka said with the Director scowling.
"We don't know the exact reason," Holmes then interrupts before an argument can occur. "But I can say this, we do know the source of this energy. It's coming from space."
"Space?" Ritsuka tilted her head. Suddenly, entering the room was another figure. One who was with them since the end of the Grand Orders and hid from the Mage Association due to their...nature.
"Yes. And the energy we're detecting matches one thing." Before Holmes answered, the figure spoke.
"My Master." Everyone turned and saw none other than Grimm Ushiwakamaru, who had a hopeful look on her face. "I...I recognize this magnificent energy. It's...It's my Masters power."
"Wait. You mean the God of Darkness is doing this?" Ritsuka says as she looks at Da Vinci.
"From what our scanners show, this energy matches the ones we took back when the God of Darkness and his brother Light were at Chaldea." The younger back-up copy of Da Vinci responded. "We just don't know why this is happening." More so since Solomon sent those two away, they hadn't seen them in over a year. Despite their Grimmified Servant remaining thanks to the immortality given to her by the God of Light.
"You don't think that maybe...maybe this God of Darkness is actually working with the Alie-" Before Goredolf could finish that sentence, the Grimmified Servant raised her blade at him in a snarl. Surprising him and the others as he said in a terrified tone, "W-What are you doing?"
"Silencing your foolishness." Grimm Ushiwakamaru says with a snarl. "As if my Master would do something like helping this new foe."
"Really." Holmes nonchalantly said. "Can you give us a reason?"
"Easy." The Grimmified Rider said. "Because my Master isn't one to just needlessly torture humans. He'd just kill them all to extinction. He's many things, but not a sadist."
"That's...not exactly any better." Ritsuka points out with Mash nodding alongside Fou.
"Doesn't matter. I'll just contact him." Grimm Ushiwakamaru says surprising the rest of the crew in here.
"Wait," Ritsuka yells. "You can just contact him?"
"Of course." The Grimm Servant says before frowning. "Though I couldn't before because of...distance I believe. Or the fact they were elsewhere. But now that my Master is closer here, I can now contact him." Closing her eyes, the Grimm Servant then began to send a mental message to her Master. 'Master. Master.'
One that Dark felt as he sensed a presence in his mind. "What in the-"
"Master. Are you there?"
"Oh my gosh I can't believe it." Dark chuckled. "You're still alive!"
Dark didn't expect his little creation to live still.
"Indeed I am Master." His servant spoke. "I have been with Chaldea since that coward Goetia sent you away."
"Goetia?" Dark says confused. "Why-no, never mind. I can't talk now. Too busy."
"Busy?" His servant spoke confused. "You mean with the Lostbelt?"
"Lostbelt? Wha-never mind. I'll contact you later." Before Grimm Ushiwakamaru could say more, Dark cut their connection and refocused on mercilessly sending the destructive energy down below. As a being attuned to destruction, he could destroy anything he sought. Oddly, whatever this storm was is resisting instant destruction. But he could easily change that as he sent more energy at it to wipe out the damn thing. There was just one problem.
Vmmmmm!
That the fact was another lance was coming at them. This one however emitted more power. It's strength is different from the last ones Dark saw and could actually kill them on direct impact. Both were in its path, and both couldn't teleport away in time. Which left two solutions.
Take the hit and hope they survive, though they would then be at the mercy of their remains being absorbed by this damning storm.
Or...Dark could sacrifice a large chunk of his power and then drag his brother away from the storm while using his remaining power to penetrate through the barrier.
The choice was obvious.
"FUCK OFF!" Gather and utilizing about around 90% of his power, with all his might the God of Darkness stopped sending energy at the storm and instead directed and threw a massive beam of energy with the concept of destruction embedded in it at that golden lance. It clashed against the powerful lance, and with all the power he poured in it it destroyed the damn thing and the remaining energy of the beam which was now about five percent continued on until it burst through some other storm cloud where it'll likely cause a good chunk of damage.
Still, Dark felt weakened and his own power was dwindling. Same with his brother as it had all been nearly absorbed. So with the last of his energy Dark decided he had no choice but to use that method as he grabbed his brother and broke the link between him and whatever was draining him. The two then hurling toward the bleach world below all while sending a message to his Grimmified Servant as the two burst through the clouds.
Unaware of the damage caused by such his actions.
"Master." Akuta's Servant, Prince of Laling, spoke right by her side. "Is everything...okay."
"...I...think so." Aluta said as she was in front of the Fantasy Tree. "Although...it looks like things are going to be different." Particularly, with how the Fantasy Tree was slowly falling apart. It's 'bark' falling off of it and the branches looking rotten. It seems that the tree here just managed to survive the destructive energy it absorbed, yet only barley as it looked ill with some parts of the tree looking bloated.
Even so, the Fantasy Tree did it's job and absorbed much divine energy from what Akuta no doubt knew was from those two Gods. Her Lostbelt has expanded greatly, covering all of China and so on. Yet it all came at a cost, and not just her Fantasy Tree looking like it was going to fall dead.
"Amazing." Akuta flinched as she heard his voice. "I had thought you were lying before, but to think...my land really is a Lostbelt. Hehehe. Hehehehe!"
All this time Akuta had been doing her damn best to not enter this stupid competition. Hell, ensuring her Lostbelt King didn't even know the truth of the Fantasy Tree while leaving him oblivious. But now…
"I see what I must do." Lostbelt King Qin Shi Huang said with a grin. "It seems much talk must be done, Akuta."
Now...Akuta must fight the others.
"..." In another land in another place, one looked down on her kingdom. One that should have been eternal and perfectly defended. Instead…
"Your majesty." A massive woman of great stature and blonde hair came with the latest report. "I have arrived, and," The woman gave a slight gulp. "It seems the attack from the stars have destroyed much of the outer section of the capital while killing the fairies that have been there. Including…"
Her loyal fairy knight didn't even need to say it. Morgan already knew that she had been there, to deal with some rebels and to torture them as she had taught the girl to do. She had been there since the morning, and had been there when the destructive purple light came down on that section of Camelot and vaporized everything to where not even ash remained.
The attack had come from one of the two beings she had detected from her home. Where she used her Rhongomyniad to destroy them both, only for the dark one to waste most of his power to destroy just one of the many spears she held for a threat greater than him...and the one she called a daughter.
Hand gripping her staff tightly, Morgan moved away from the vaporized section of her kingdom and walked back to her castle. Where she would scry for her new targets. The Olympus Lostbelt Beryl told her about and how big it was growing will have to wait, including the Chinese Lostbelt which was now the second biggest.
She had two Gods to hunt, and the dark one will pay dearly for what he has done. Very much so.
Somewhere near the ocean, a massive crater is seen. One that was formed when a mixed 'meteorite' fell from the sky and slammed into the bleached earth. One that Chaldea headed to instantly the second Grimm Ushiwakamaru told them of the message she received. Who then rushed as fast as she could to where her Master and his brother were at.
Sensing something was wrong and had long since moved ahead of the Shadow Border. "Master!" She shouted. "Master!"
She could tell they were weak. Sensing the great energy they had was diminished to a shadow of what it once had been. Shouting to see if they were even still alive.
"Oh shut it already." Then, to her delight her Master's voice came. A voice coming from the crater she was heading at. "I'm good along with this idiot here."
"Call me that when I'm not listening."
The Grimmified Servant was relieved. Glad that if her Master and his brother were talking, then they were good. But then she realized something. While glad her Master spoke, his voice was rather….feminine?
Soon Grimm Ushiwakamaru came upon the crater and jumped down. Where at the center she sensed a weakened but divine presence. One that she laid her red eyes upon.
"...huh?" With her jaw dropping at the sight before her.
"Yeah. Yeah. Get a good look I guess. Damn." A young femine voice then speaks out in anger. "Can't believe I took the flower's path."
"Yep. This is weird." The God of Light agreed with the God of Darkness.
Where in the crater instead of two colorful Gods with male physiques and no genitals, instead Grimm Ushiwakamaru saw a pale skinned young lady in her early teens. She has dark purplish hair and light purple eyes with dark veins around her and has fair features due to her half-English background. Her outfit is an unbuttoned purple dress, revealing her chest and more reddish veins on it.
Besides her being a taller young teenager having medium long golden hair and silver eyes, she appears to be very beautiful and wears her a yellow-silver jacket, white blouse with shorts and stockings.
The former also had ram horns sticking out of her head with the latter having antlers.
"Yep." The new Pseudo-God of Darkness then crosses her arms. "This sucks."
"Definitely." Light can agree with 'her' sister there.
Yep. The Brother Gods are now the Sister Gods. Where they faced and tried to see if they could overturn the bleached earth, and failed epically. Some reviews told me I was hyping up the Brother Gods a lot. I'm really not.
While I believe they could destroy regular Servants with ease considering their power, I'm not foolish and am fully aware many characters in the Fate universe can actually kill them. The Tree of Fantasy in China nearly does that to Light and Morgan to Dark and Light.
To escape, Dark used a good chunk of his power to save himself and Light while forced to utilize human vessels with girls I'm certain many of you will recognize. Their actions though left consequences however, such as the Chinese Lostbelt being much bigger and second to Olympus but with the tree now very unstable and the emperor wanting to start challenging the other Lostbelts.
Plus Dark's attack killed many fairies in Morgan's kingdom, including her daughter sadly. Yeah...she's gonna bring hell to Chaldea. That's not even mentioning Zeus's own schemes to use two Brothers as big batteries for his escape plan.
On the bright side, Chaldea gains two new allies with Grimm Ushiwakamaru still around having been with Chaldea since these two were ejected to the void and even helped them if only because she was bored. Now I'll see ya next week while I figure out what Classes and skills the Brothers will have while also going back to Fuyuki. If you have any suggestions for Class and Skill for the Brothers and Grimm Ushiwakamaru, then that'd be cool. Until next time.