*Is seen binge playing on the Final Fantasy series and Kingdom hearts series at once.* Yes! Yes! Eat a dick Terranort! *Notices the audience. I pause the games.* This chapter is shorter than usual but it does have the council in action and a few ideas for what I might do later on. Enjoy, I love you all!
Chapter 6. Fight! Fight! Peerage and Council Brawl!
OmegaKenichi Note: Let it be known my greatest fear is being eaten alive and I had to edit this horror show. So, yeah, enjoy!
Ragnorak note: No spoilers!
After laughing maniacally for several minutes straight, I calmed myself to mere chuckles and left my room. Walking down my steps, I heard light chatter and investigated. To my sweet surprise, Murayama and Asia had hit it off and were chatting it up. 'Apparently cannon is most definitely still intact.' I smiled lightly at this small friendship forming. Neither of them noticed me coming down, I had lived in this house long enough to know how to avoid the creaking steps, and being a complete introvert I had plenty of practice blending into the wall or crowds.
Issie however noticed me on the living room couch as he tried, and failed, in playing Bioshock 2. Oh yeah, I cranked it up to the highest difficulty last weekend. I guess I must be a rare breed of Gamer, because instead of making games boring I find them better than ever. Also helps that I can guess where every collectible is. God do I love my INT stat. It may not work often but when it does, splicers beware. Issei groaned in defeat as Delta was shot by a mad big daddy, one without a little sister no less.
"You suck at this game, dude," I told him bluntly as he tossed his remote at me. I grabbed the familiar Xbox controller and went to work. A few moments later I found the daddy he was harassing.
"Well, why don't you attack him while he's weak?" Murayama asked me, leaning over the wooden rails in the kitchen to get a better look. Asia just sat on one of the chairs near me and Issei. "Because that's a waste of EVE and ammo. A fact this moron forgot." One storm cloud over Issie and me stalking the wounded daddy. Luckily, the spider splicers still had headshot damage, or how I call it, harpoon-itis. The big lumbering alpha bubbles found a vent and banged on it, I waited a few more seconds and a little sister crawled out.
"What's wrong with that little girl?" Asia asked me. I explained Adam and how the little sister were used to create Adam. Needless to say both girls were shocked, stunned and disgusted at whoever made them like this. I zapped the daddy and charged with my drill. Issei barely got this fool down to a third of his health, better for me. Luckily, this breed of daddy didn't have a gun, but used a drill like mine to charge. That's what it tried to do at least, but I spammed the tried and true combo of zap and smack! Soon the big lard fell over with a dying gurgle, the little sister was in tears before I adopted her and went around for 'angels'. More questions with more answers and by the time I had finished and was bringing the youngin to a vent.
As always I had a choice to save or harvest, as per the norm I saved the youngin and received my Adam and a healed little girl. As I was about to give the controller back to Issei I heard the familiar screech that made everyone jump.
"The fuck was that?!" Murayama shouted.
"Big sister is coming." Issie and I explained cryptically. That made her glare at us and nearly demanded a explanation, if the big sister didn't once again screech, shutting her up and making her just as jumpy as before. I, however, was prepared and grabbed all the medkits I could scavenge, which was about three, before the third and final screech. I made Delta crouch and peeked around cover, until the target came in sight. Lanky and skinny, yet was armored to the utmost highest degree and had a giant needle sticking out of her wrist. Oppressive red light shone behind her diving helmet as I tried to stealth behind the chick.
That went as well as I thought it would, with her freaking out and pouncing on Delta, stealing over a quarter of my HP. I pelted her with gatling AP shots, whittling her health down. Switch to shotgun and I was both zapping her and filling her with flaming buckshot. Her HP was at the halfway mark before she cartwheeled back and tossed fire at me! I used telekinesis to pick one up, but got smacked with the second one. I was surprised to feel actual heat from it, but I shook off the strange sensation and zapped her once more. Drill rush to face!
It dented her HP a tad more and reduced it to the high thirties. She pounced again and I dodged, but it was the way I dodged that baffled me. Delta had done the equivalent of rolling away, even though rolling was never a feature in this game. The hell is going on?!
My mana began to drop rapidly as my vision clouded. I tried to blink it away, but instead it got worse. Then, it cleared up instantly, but I felt off. Heavier, bulkier. I looked to my left to ask Issei, but to my surprise it was a far more detailed view of Rapture, and to my front was the big sister circling me-wait a minute. Me?! I quickly looked back and my jaw dropped. It was all of us on the couch, with my body playing automatically and responding as so. What in fuc-
"Who are you?" A gruff voice ran through my skull and gave me a splitting headache. Wait, I looked down and saw that my hands were clad in not my usual armor, but a diving suit with the delta symbol on one of them.
"I'm in your body?" I asked the voice, which I assume is Delta, no response. The beast that used to be so sweet and innocent launched herself at me, I ducked out of the way before she could take my, no, Delta's head off. Why am I here?!
'Stats.' I called out to my Gamer powers, but they didn't answer. Instead a simple quest alert invaded my vision.
Side Quest:Punishment of daddy
Kill the Big sister [ ]
You have discovered a portal to a virtual dimension! This only happens when the Gamer plays a game or other form of media that has a personal meaning to them. They must beat the boss to leave this zone, while also using only the powers and items given by the game itself. Fail and they both die. You and the body your borrowing.
Rewards: Summon Delta. Room in castle. Summon Eleanor.
Failure: Eternal imprisonment and death of Delta and Eleanor
Oh hell no! I ain't gonna let that happen! I tried to zap the bitch, but instead I used levitation to smack her with a box. It worked as well as I thought it would, code for not at all!
I dodged under her needle and refused to let that thing touch me. I had much better luck firing up the drill and I managed to spin it fast enough to deal damage. Instead of dodging I grabbed the needled and trapped it under delta's armpit. The Sister struggled to get out, but I smiled crookedly. Big daddies aren't known for their strength and their weight for nothing. 'Eat this!' I shouted mentally and reved the drill and jabbed it under her arm and began working deeper into her armor. She was screaming in agony as she desperately tried to to escape from me. I think I was close to hitting something important when the drill stopped spinning completely.
'Huh, so it does have fuel. Shit!' I surmised as she escaped during my moment of panic. Stabbing my chest with that vicious needle of hers, I spat up blood, but that only impeded my vision. I tried to raise my arms to block her attacks, but something heavy smashed into Delta's stomach and sent me flying. I skidded on the floor, I could at least see the sparks through my bloody spittle.
She jumped on me and tried to stab my face through the glass portion of Delta's mask. I raised my hand to block, but I just got a new hole in Delta's hand. I gritted my teeth and let out a roar that sounded like a pot of whales, and smashed my drill into her helmet repeatedly. It may not have fuel but I can still use it to bludgeon her. My drill smacked at her helmet with a resounding thud of metal, until she stumbled from my last blow to her mask.
I slid Delta's hand out of the needle and pushed her off me. Fr good measure I used levitation to throw a fallen pillar(I think it's a pillar anyway) and sent her far away from me. . . Us? Same difference! I smashed my own glass visor, so I can see better and what do I see, but a fuel canister and Delta's shotgun within arm's reach.
"Of course!" I tried to say but it came off as more whale moaning. I 'quickly' grabbed the items, refueled my drill and loaded the shotgun and swapped out the ammo for normal shells. So, I can zap this bitch and because I have no idea how to change powers!
"C'mon! I'm right here prick!" Is what I tried to say, but whale moans. She got the message regardless and chucked fireballs at me. I dodged under the first one and telekinetically grabbed the second one and launched it back. She screamed from the flames but she had bigger problems, such as Delta's shotgun pellets were sent in her skull.
Electricity arched from the pellets that made contact and stunned her. I tossed away the gun and revved up the drill that saved my ass in the past. Let's see if it works now.
'Delta! Giga! Drill! Break!' I mentally screamed like a certain spiral warrior and rushed her! The drill that pierced the ocean drilled through her helmet and the soft skull underneath. She went slack on my, Delta's, drill. A small soul popped out of her corpse and I had the choice, but instead of saving and reaping. I had cure, or harvest. I clicked cure, since she's still a little sister and doesn't deserve being harvested.
However, my body didn't do anything against its will. I was surprised and I just realized something, I have no idea what the hell I'm supposed to do. So I tried to grab the soul but that gave me a warning that would change my choice to cure her. So instead I gave the small soul a gentle combing of the metal hands of Delta. I felt something click and the soul turned into a small little girl, barely six and she was crying. Brown hair that was barely to her shoulders and big blue eyes.
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry! I didn't wanna be mean, but I was so scared and I.I.I-" The little girl, who I guessed was how the little sister was before she went mad, cried hysterically. There was snot and tears everywhere, I smiled softly and scooped the little six year old into a comforting hug.
"Your, Sniff, not mad at me? Why? I was mean and bad." She was confused beyond belief. I simply held her closer to me.
"Because you didn't do anything bad. You were scared and reacted, everyone gets scared." I said and actually said this, not in Delta's voice either but my own. The little six year old with snot and runny eyes simply stared up at me in confusion of a child.
"But, I hurt you really badly mister-" She tried to say but I simply cut her off with a small chuckle.
"Don't worry about me, I'm more worried about you. You've been through much, haven't you, youngin?" I asked her softly. She simply nodded and starting crying again and buried her face in my chest, I pat her back and simply told her it's okay now. It took a few minutes but I heard a light sniffling and noticed she was staring up with me, big blue doe eyes of a child like herself.
"How are you so good at this?" She asked me. I simply smiled down at her and shifted the way I was sitting so she could sit on my lap.
"Well, I used to be a big brother and I was very good at it." I told her and she gave me a look of wonder, and it was then we both realized I said used to and was.
"Used to be?" She asked me. I gave her small sad smile.
"Yes, there was an accident and after that I could no longer be a big brother anymore." My voice cracked ever so slightly after finishing that statement. She noticed this and gave me a very warm hug.
"It's okay mister. I lost my family too." She told me, I hugged back and there we sat for who knows how long, could've been five minutes or perhaps five hours.
"There so cute Father." A very familiar voice said from behind us. I took a glance back and there was Eleanor and Delta not to far back. Delta looked like he was trying not to laugh, while Eleanor looked like she was gonna pop from who knows what. I also noticed she was wearing her whole Big Sister garb, the white one, just without the helmet.
"Yeah, yeah," I told her with a roll of my eyes. My two favorite bioshock characters chuckled at my reaction. A door was behind the duo and to that I sighed inwardly. "Hmm. Seems like this is my cue to leave." I murmured under my breath, but the little angel heard me and started to get upset.
"You can't leave yet. I don't wanna be alone again!" She all but wailed and held onto my leg, to that I smiled and scooped her up in my arms as I walked to the door.
"Don't worry, you're not alone anymore. Not only are these two people, I know, are awesome and will take care of you. Besides, something tells me we'll be seeing a lot of each other in the very near future." I told the little girl as she was still on the brink of tears.
"Pinkie Promise?" She asked me in a quivering voice, her pinkie outstretched. I simply smiled and outstretched my own and went through the motions.
"The most sacred of promises. As such they are unbreakable, it would be really crappy of me if I just left my new little sister here."
That caught her attention. "Well, we are fresh out of family to call our own. So, why not? Unless you don't wan-" I didn't even get a chance to finish before she managed to jump and hug my neck.
"Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!" She told me and to that I just sighed with a small smile and made sure she didn't fall.
As I handed her to Eleanor I realized something. "I just remembered. We didn't introduce ourselves did we?"
She also got the same look of realization and quickly went to fix that. "My name is Lily, what's yours?" I was about to say Mores but then I had a thought. She's had a shit life so far and I can't exactly lie to the poor thing.
"Well, nice to meet you Lily, I'm Spencer. See you soon youngin." I told her and rubbed her hair, she giggled and nodded in childlike innocence.
"Alright, Big brother." To that I smiled, perhaps the biggest I have in a while and gave her a thumbs up. I walked through the door and I was back on the couch, with two sets of screens in front of me. One for myself and one for the actual game.
Quest complete.
Rewards: a new occupant(s) has been moved into your castle. Summon Delta, Summon Eleanor, and two new rooms.
And the other screen for the Xbox had this to say about a new title I earned. It was called Big brother and it seemed like it increased the amount of ADAM I get from the little sister care packages and also that the ones I hadn't already cured would respond if I hit the vents.
"Yeesh that big sister was freaky." Murayama said, backing away from the game. To that I sighed and turned off the Xbox.
"It's not for everyone, but there is a certain beauty to it." I told her sagely. I stood up and stretched my limbs, they were really stiff but not without good reason. I can't believe I went into one of my favorite video games. Will that happen if I play Asura's wrath? Or god forbid, Dark souls. A shiver went up my spine as I thought about it.
'Nope. Nope. Nope. Not thinking about it, not at all. I like living. I like it a lot.' I kept this mantra up for about a few seconds(minutes?) and was only brought out by the doorbell. Oh thank god, a distraction. I opened my door to see Rias and Sona, with their respective peerages in tow. Kiba looked at the ground, seems like he realized he shouldn't have snapped at the person who could level his school.
"Ah, Mrs. Sitri. Rias. What are you doing here at this time of day?" I asked. Though truth be told I haven't the slightest clue what time it was.
{You really need to stop spacing out partner.} Bahamut reminded me and I agreed with the dragon. Though it is hard to do so without thinking about what's right in front of me. Well, I suppose that's not such a bad thing with all these very large valleys-
Smack! And there goes my skill. Thank god for that. "We came to bring you to the underworld." Sona informed me, even pushing in her glasses as to look sophisticated. Oh yeah, Riser fight. Almost forgot about that, well, almost.
"Well then… When shall we be leaving then?" I asked, a sadistic grin bloomed under my mask. Though they were none the wiser. Rias nodded and said.
"As soon as we find Asia and Issei. Have you've seen them? They weren't at his home and since your so close to him-" It was at this moment that Issei and Asia had somehow tripped on the wood floor, simultaneously might I add, and Asia had ended up riding Issie, thankfully they were fully clothed, though that didn't stop the two from blushing like idiots.
"Aww, seems are little kohai were getting to know each other more intimately. Are we interrupting something?" Akeno teased. The two stood up so straight I was worried they would crack something from the sudden shift. Redder than blood they shook their heads. I honestly thought there was steam coming out of their ears.
"That's enough Akeno." Rias sighed at her queen. That made Akeno fake pout and the two in question slacken a little in relief. I rolled my eyes at their antics though Bahamut couldn't help but chuckle.
"Hey. Murayama, I'm heading out, if you wanna leave please lock the door on your way. If you wanna stay then be wary of the dark souls games. They will kick your ass." I told her from the door. She simply nodded and put on netflix. I closed my door and when I turned around they were staring at me in shock.
"What? Is there some pancake on my mask?" I asked them, they all shook their heads. I shrugged and Sona snapped out of it.
"Well, we should be going." I nodded at her suggestion.
Sona and Rias, once she shook herself back to sanity, summoned a magic circle that covered all of us. I took out my phone and snapped a photo of it, meh, I could need it later. Since I don't think I can create a skill for magic circles.
The next thing I knew I was in the occult research club, I quickly connected the dots. With a yawn I brought out my summons and went over my plan to grind them into dust.
Pov flip! Third person narration!
"Hello all of devil kind! I am your immaculate host Jaclyn Rose! Can I get an applause?" The crowd roared in excitement as the narrator appeared on the screen. She wore a far too thin leather suit that covered practically nothing. Her giant E cup boobs were barely in their leather prision; One erratic movement and she'll end up flashing the audience, again. With strong european and caucasian features she was quite the beauty. Emerald eyes that scanned the audience and the stage itself for their applause.
"Today you lovelies have a special treat, even though its not official, we have a rating game between the ever beautiful Riser Phenix and company."
Riser's face appeared on the jumbotron as did the faces of his peerage, their were many males with nosebleeds that day. Issie and Saji were just the most noticeable. Rias and Sona facepalmed at their pawns actions but didn't do anything to correct them. "And a reaper in the flesh people! He calls himself Mores M. Operandi. His Peerage is a freaky sorts too. The stakes are as followed. If Riser wins, which we all know he will, that little reaper will serve his family for the rest of his life. If, by some miracle that reaper wins, he will be able to dissolve the union between Gremory and Phenix and supplied with a crate full of the rare Phenix tears every month until the rest of their lives. But we all know that little ghoul won't win, am I right?!." At that the crowd went berserk with excitement, this confused the newer and even some of the older members of Rias's peerage.
"Why is that so special?" Issei asked his master. Rias took a moment to find a way to word it as Mores' face was plastered on several jumbotrons, as were his council which caused some in the crowd to look in disgust and whisper about common decency, and how they wouldn't last a minute.
"Well, before they went into hiding the Reapers were one of the most influential supernatural race in the world. However, due to their status as bringers of death. Some people from all factions thought if they could kill them they would conquer death. So they hunted children in a effort to prove they were stronger than death. After a few months the reapers went into hiding, though the current Grim Reaper at the time was said to have executed not only all of them but several heads of the factions involved. Several of which were gods."
Rias told them, as she suspected they were shocked and horrified. Kiba was disgusted at the fact they hunted children in some vain attempt to conquer death, too many similarities to his own past for his liking.
"So, are you gonna keep babbling or are we gonna fight?" Mores told the whole of devil kind, right into one of their cameras. This caused them all to still in shock as he literally gave all of hell the finger. Jaclyn was speechless but coughed and went with it.
"My, aren't you enthusiastic to die." She told him, he simply shrugged.
"More like i'm tired of your bullshit and so are my friends." The camera panned up to show his assortment of monsters glaring at the screen and with Cerberus there it certainly gave weight to his power.
"Well, we're waiting for the rest-" She began but the Gamer simply laughed in her face.
"They'll be here when the game is in my favor and it shall be. But, you won't see what I'm planning. As I bet at least one of you out there are gonna relay my plans to Riser and his group of brainless hoes." Before anyone could stop him he crushed the camera and destroyed the others. Nothing but static for his side of the field.
Silence, before roars of anger and bloodlust filled the arena. The audience was pissed such a lower life form would dare ruin their entertainment. The announcer coughed and the crowd stilled. "Now, let the game begin!"
Riser sat with his feet rested on the principal's desk. His peerage in a straight line, ready to be ordered around. His queen and bishop were next to him, not to leave his side.
"You hear the crowd ladies. Riser want you all to do a pincer attack from three different directions on his territory. Mira, Shuriya, Burnet, Marion, Ni, Li, Ile and Nel." The pawns straighten up at the sound of their master's voice. "Riser requires you to be the first wave and the ones to charge in head first. With your combined strength you should easily overpower that reaper and his beasts, You are to promote to either knight or rook, gotta let him have a chance at victory. If you believe you are losing only then you are allowed to promote to queen."
The pawn squad nodded in unison. He turned his attention to the rooks and knights. "Isabela and xuelan. You are to flank him from the left and destroy any opposition in your way. Siris and lastly Karlamine. Riser need you two to attack from behind and to quickly destroy them. Is Riser understood?!" He shouted at them. The four clicked their heels together and saluted him. "It shall be done Master Riser." They said once more in unison. He nodded and told them to get to it. His remaining bishop asked what she could do. He simply told her to stay with him.
"Did you hear that?" A familiar big sister asked her master from the stands.
"Loud and clearly, continue to report if anything seems out of whack. Also, if any nobles approach you. Skin them alive." Mores told her through the link and received a affirmative. The creatures nodded and disappeared into the tree line, even Wraith had his orders as did Mores. He hopped out the window and went to work.
The aforenamed pawn squad began to encroach on enemy territory and just like their baby daddy told them they promoted to knight and rook level of strength. The pawn squad weren't paying attention to their surroundings and were cockily approaching their doom.
"This is too easy. Hey Burnet? Do you think we'll get a reward if we beat them all ourselves?" Marion asked her friend. The other french maid simply nodded happily. The two crazy chainsaw wielding psychopaths took up the front as they were one of their strongest. The two cat girls were on rear guard, even though they weren't guarding diddly. The other two were in the middle, since they were the weakest overall.
[BGM play 'Nobody will save you now' by Aviators]
"Hey lle. Do you think that reaper guy bleeds, I wonder if my chainsaw can break through his armor. Oh, what am I saying." Nel shook off her doubt as her twin did cartwheels next to her. It happened in less than a second, blood sprayed everywhere. Painting the forest canopy red. Lle coughed up blood and several pieces of her organs, the reason? A pitch black scythe had impaled itself in her stomach, her twin looked on in horror as her twin slowly began to bleed out.
"Nel. Help me! Please help me!" She begged her twin, but before she could the scythe had rotated so its blade was pointing up and with a tug Nel was sliced in two. Her corpse slinking to the ground, split open like some twisted experiment. The Gamer simply smelled the blood of his victim, as if it smelt good.
"Smells nice. Wish to join her, little girl?" The murder asked, the twin lept in pure rage as she instantly promoted to queen and swung her chainsaw to behead the bastard. She chopped him in two but he pulled himself together and mocked her for trying she lunged for him again.
But in reality he was but an illusion and what she had actually attacked was her precious twin, immediately eliminated and the illusioned betrayer attacked her fellows, believing them to be the Gamer. When in reality he sat in the tree line above them, observing the whole scuffle as his knights and keeper got into position, merely bidding time.
"Nel! What is wrong with you?! You just eliminated your own sister!" Shuriya yelled at the illusioned girl. Who only heard the twisted words of his spell. The young woman misjudged her step and was smacked with the ripping maws of the chainsaw. Eliminated easily enough. The rest of the girls manage to subdue her but couldn't break the illusion over her, though that was by far their worst problem as the Gamer gave his men the signal.
The cursed knights fell from above and impaled three pawns on impact, the two maids and the illusioned twin. The cat girls were about to fight but they were eliminated instantly by the dexterous assassin Keeper of the damned. His blades would've disemboweled and decapitated them, if they weren't pulled from the game. Mira, the only surviving pawn instantly promoted to queen and attacked them, but a cursed knight however smacked her so hard she was sent flying into a tree. She coughed up blood upon impact; the only reason she wasn't pulled was because of her promotion, but even then she was fading.
"H-how did you-" She was about to ask how they were defeated so easily, but two bone wings descended from above and landed in front of her. His blood red eyes stared into her own brown and he grabbed her by the throat and lifted her up, making sure to squeeze if she looked away.
"Because, I, unlike you, always plan and train to keep myself the alpha predator. Your master and your comrades grew arrogant and were slaughtered. Now," he began to apply pressure upon her adam's apple. She gasped for breath and tried to escape, but he was death after all.
Crack! And death leaves no survivors. She disappeared after he broke her neck The audience was stunned into silence, and entire set of pawns, destroyed methodically and purposefully.
"Ris-Riser's pawns have been eliminated. All eight of them within the span of a few minutes.." The narrator told everyone. Shock evident from the feat itself and how it was done, no explosions, no drama, just a massacre.
Riser stood up straight, eyes wide and shock palpable. His servants were shaking at the idea. Riser phoned his surviving servants. "They just wiped out all our pawns, be careful and stay on guard! Look at everything, do you copy!?" They answered, but everyone heard it, his fear was evident and how he would look periodically at his sister only reinforced his paranoia. They underestimated the reaper, they're paying for it.
The rooks looked at each other in concern. "Should we keep with the original plan?" Isabella asked her fellow, Xuelan looked hesitant but she nodded.
"Riser needs reassuring that we're gonna win. We are gonna show this to him." They nod in determination as they cautiously approached the enemy territory, unaware of hidden eyes watching their every step. It floated over the fallen sticks and twigs still left from the defenders shaking the trees. It gave the two a nod and they slammed their boots on the fallen twigs. Drawing the attention of the two girls.
"I think they're over there." Isabella told her fellow rook as they approached the trap. The hidden assassin stared down at its target.
'Mask one. Like master told me, kill her.' The inner voice of the Cthulhu-esque monstrosity resounded. Like lighting it struck, it's arm wrapped around it's target before it teleported back to its hiding hole.
"Isabella!" Xulan called out to her friend. The only response was her screams in pain as the Wraith devoured her whole, making sure to get every scrap of flesh but avoiding the main arteries and organs, making her technically able to survive. The second he finished with her she was eliminated and the Wraith was so close to his needed mass. It eyed the survivor with the lust of food as it drooled over her flesh and what it shall accomplish.
Xulan looked around frantically after she heard Isabella being eaten. "Isabella! If your still here, say something!" Silence as the devourer licked it's claws to get ever closer to its desired goal. The defenders took this as their cue and appeared out of the forest. Clanging their tower shields in order to draw her attention, and it worked wonders as she glared at them with a fury of unparalleled capacity.
She charged in with flaming fists and beat against the twin tower shields. The defenders didn't give an inch of ground as they drew their own blades. Waiting for the perfect slip-up. They pretended to buckle under her fiery kicks and took a step back as if they were barely holding. She took the bait and wound up a strong blow that would've made them actually shutter under the force. In that moment, she left herself completely open and their blades used her as a sheathe, cutting through muscle, bone and out to the other side. Elimination was quick as it was clean. Another set down, six to go.
"Riser's rooks have been defeated," the announcer whispered as the creatures slinked back into the shadows and regrouped with the others who completed their task. Riser was freaking out and was pacing around the office. Smoke billowed from under him as his bishops and queen tried to calm him down.
"We can't beat them, not split up at least." Riser murmured under his breath and phoned his surviving pieces. "Mission aborted! Mission aborted! Return to me now, before they find you!" Riser screamed through the magic seal. Mores' little spy only smirked as she watched the chaos unfold.
"Did you hear that?" She whispered into her earpiece. Mores nodded.
Riser's knights were running back to the main campus, emotions running wild as fear propelled them forward, but predator's were waiting to cut them off. Cerberus bursted out of the ruined school gym and glared down at its measly prey. They turned and tried to take the alternate route but no matter how fast they ran the three headed guard dog of hades was right behind them. Tired of the chase, it leaped and slammed one of its paw on the lacking knight. Before she could even scream one of the heads had slammed its jaw shut on her own head. Leaving Karmaline left, she was about to avenge her comrade when a rush of hellfire roared into existence and surrounded her.
Even though she was a servant of the phoenix clan fire still hurt her and these flames would incinerate her if she wasn't careful. However what she failed to notice was there was a rider on the guard dog. The remains leapt over the flames, its lack of skin and muscle made it light enough to jump over the grand canyon if it wanted.
Karmaline's instincts screamed at her to block and when she brought her sword to block she was horrified to see a grotesque skeletal abomination, mere inches from her face as she smelt the rot off it and its cold dead eyes as they shifted unattached to its skull. A rapier mere inches from stabbing her. She lifted her sword to fling the demon into the fire but was shocked when it did so, leaving her quite exposed, It flung its jade rapier and it sung as it soared through the air. She managed to block, but she was eliminated anyway. How? Well, it was simple, in her haste to block she left her hands, specifically her fingers, unguarded and the blade had made a small cut across her fingers. So why was that so dangerous, you may ask? Well, it was because that rapier was used by an archangel and as such.
"A holy sword!" Jaclyn screamed fearfully as the blade was collected by its current wielder. The remains looked to a camera spell circle and made a motion towards the audience. A threat, plain and obvious. It frightened them all, even those the Gamer considers friends as they stared at the holy blade that was once in the hands of a crusader. Kiba was livid, he knasshed his teeth as the remains waved it around in a threatening manner, before sheathing it and moving to regroup with Cerberus and the others.
"Eleanor, what's the situation look like?" Mores whispered into his earpiece, the one completely hidden behind his mask, as he regrouped with his whole council.
"Riser is losing it. He's freaking out. A perfect time to strike. How are you gonna beat his regenerative powers? They are stronger than anything I've ever encountered in Rapture." Eleanor asked Mores to which he laughed madly. To those watching it unnerved them all the more and some of them even began to quake in terror.
"Just watch. Somethings are better done than explained." He told the sane big sister and turned to his comrades. "Now, final plan, draw them out into the open. But, try and leave at least three for me and the others when they get here." Course Mores didn't say this with words but with hand signals. They nodded and sprinted towards the school, Mores smiled maliciously and went to his position.
Riser was worried. No, he was freaking out! All of his offensive pieces were systematically wiped out and destroyed in the span of half an hour. "What are we gonna do, my king?" Yubella asked; the legendary bomb queen was shaking in her boots. Ravel was rocking back and forth, her mind barely hanging on from the stress of the situation they were in. The other bishop was trying to keep them calm, but was failing horribly. That was when they heard the ground quake under them. They dared to look outside and their fear merely amplified as the monsters of death was charging towards them at breakneck speeds.
In their paranoid minds that can only mean one thing. Exterminate the survivors. Riser and his queen sprung into action when Cerberus rammed into the building. Riser grabbed his sister, while Yubella grabbed Mihae. The defenders slammed their shields in the building in near perfect sync with Cerberus. The building won't last long. They sprinted out the door as the assassins climbed up the building to intercept them. The remains of the Phenix peerage ran through a large hallway that led to an exit. Shame that it was full of windows.
The glass shattered under the multiple assassins bodies. Riser shot a blast of hellfire at them, but the keeper blocked it and managed to divert it into the floor, causing even more structural damage. The building began to collapse, but they still sprinted for the window to presumed safety. The remains used his light weight to catch up to try and stab them. Riser saw this coming and sent flames that swept the ground behind him. Surprised the remains stumbled and tripped over the flames, but it wasn't done as it hurled its blade at Riser's chest.
Shifting his body to the left he was able to divert it to his shoulder, yet the pain was excruciating. The holy blade melted through his flesh but wouldn't go further thanks to his magnificent healing ability. He held in his screams of agony as he ripped the blade out of his shoulder and tossed it into the wall. The remains was Naruto running across the wall itself in order to catch up to them. It grabbed its embedded blade and shifted its focus on the small little girl who watched with terror filled eyes as the beast began to target her. The remains launched off the wall and planned to stab the little girl through the skull.
Riser saw this and used his own body to protect his sister. The remains used the two walls and ceiling as launch pads to attack, and it was filling Riser with many holes, so many in fact his healing factor began to falter, sensing the weakness the remains used one last launch to impale the Phenix's heart on its blade, but Yubella had other ideas. She hurled the strongest bomb she could under the circumstances at the attacker, it did the trick as the remains was embedded in the nearest wall. The keeper gave up to take care of its fellow. Riser and his Peerage thought themselves safe, but the tentacle demon of Evolve teleported over its fellows. Over the flaming floorboards and used the ceiling to climb and crawled at a frightening pace nearly matching them and catching up. But, by this time they were already by the window and they jumped through it. All looked to be fine, but the Wraith had one last teleport and clamped its jaw on Mihae's thigh and used its claw to rip her away from Yubella.
"Mihae!" Yubella cried out as the demon dragged the screaming girl inside and feasted on her. Her screams gurgled over and she was said to have been eliminated. Enraged both Yubella and Riser charged their attacks to annihilate the demon of Evolve.
However, the building was starting to fall over, but the troops of death weren't done yet. The cursed knights were on top of the building and jumped off when they saw the angered forms of three devils. The devils looked up to see three humanoid shapes coming down with their swords drawn. The devils were able to dodge the first one, but the second and third hit their marks. One being Riser's spine and the other Ravel's leg. Yubella flew down to help get the beasts off them when they heard a roar of a true beast.
The creature they had fought was far, far larger than before. Large enough to make some drake's envious. Its razor sharp claws still glistened with the blood of its latest victim as it's soulless, beady, black eyes narrowed in on them. Intelligence gleaned in those eyes, intelligence that surpassed them all, but still the fires of hunger were alight.
Asia was dumbfounded. That was her guardian angel? It was so much bigger than a few minutes ago. That and he looked so much scarier now, yet he still held that visage of a guardian.
Back to the action, the Wraith held back on striking them for pulling its allies out of the collapsing building. When the building finally fell; a plume of dust settled around the area as the three devils huffed, exhausted and barely able to see. Though the dust settled and none of the creatures were in sight, only the master on a nearby hill. Riding a horse that seemed far too ethereal to be anything alive. He was alone, but not for long.
[BGM swap! 'Clattanoia'; Overlord OP]
"Call to arms!" Mores bellowed as a ghostly war banner appeared in his hands and he plunged it deep into the earth. The very fabric of reality trembled under this act as spirits of another world began to form into the physical plane. Mores himself underwent a transformation. His robe billowed outward as he grew to a staggering eight feet. His armor morphing to a far more dense and protective state, the robe now cape billowed as darkness acted like wind blowing it back. His mask was no longer a mask but a crown, a crown that morphed to show his face, except only there was darkness with two blazing red slits for eyes. The Witch King walks the earth again, and what's a king without servants?
The gallop of horses echoed across the empty battlefield as three figures rode up behind the Witch King reborn. The first one was the old king of Mark, Helm Hammerhand. The second was Suladan of a bygone age.
Finally, perhaps the most intimidating of them all. Of a height similar to the Witch King, rode in a ringwraith that was feared as he was renowned. Wearing no robe, but merely black armor that jutted out like mountains on his shoulders and arms. The back part of his armor stretching out to give the illusion of a cape. Its mask was a malefic hybrid of a spartan helmet with two devil horns, spiraled devil horns the size of a small child, sticking out of the back of his head. A darkened mace that radiated malignant intent as even the devils shiver from the pulsing darkness of that weapon. Khamul, the Black Easterling, second of the nazgul.
The Witch King acknowledged his forces and stared down at the devils with what can only be described as disappointment. It drew its blade, then brought it down. The Nazgul scream their horrid scream and they rode down to finish them off. The devils were petrified by fear, though Riser smacked himself out of it and shot off beams of flames to burn them to ash.
The Riders of Mordor took the flames head on. Riser smirked for the first time in a while, but it was wiped off as they rode through their mortal weakness without a single mark. He kept it up as did Yubella with her bombs, even little Ravel joined in the hopeless last stand. The Nazgul ground their teeth from the searing flames, but kept on their targets regardless. Suldan leapt off his horse, as did the King. Yubella barely had the time to scream before she was stabbed through the skull and heart, the Witch King stole the healing tears before she could use them. Eliminated.
Riser roared and created a flaming vortex with himself and Ravel at the base. A effort to create a barrier to hold them back, and it worked, for now. "We're gonna lose. We're gonna lose! Riser is gonna lose!" Riser smashed the ground beneath him, Ravel tried to keep him from creating an entrance, but he already did. A small hole, barely the size to fit a bug, yet it created a shadow in. The Witch King melted into the shadow and rose from darkness. The demon chuckled darkly as he sucker punched Riser.
Nose broken, yet regenerated Riser snapped and attempted to wail on the King. Unfortunately for him, this Witch king was far adept at dodging and deflecting than his predecessor. Dodge, weave, counterpunch, deflect. That's how their battle went, all of it being televised live as the two kings, only one of which was legitimate, battled each other. The Witch King had the upper hand in mobility and that was all he needed. Each blow he did on Riser caused the vortex to falter ever so slightly, revealing the Nazgul circling the base of the faltering shield. Ravel backed away from the immediate edge, just in case.
Ravel watched in astonishment as her brother, lorded as unbeatable in single combat, got his ass handed to him. His healing factor kept the damage to zero, but it was rather pointless when he couldn't land a hit on his opponent. The King was toying with him, enjoying the sense of power he held over his enemy and didn't let go. Ravel had enough, so in her recklessness she tried to tackle the Witch King. 'If I can pin him down, Riser can beat him. My power may not be as strong as his, but it still makes me invulnerable to any attacks to me.' She thought as she tackled the Witch King.
Except, the Witch King allowed this to happen and, using her own momentum against her, he kicked up and slammed his back into one of the weakest sections of the tornado. Ravel gasped as she felt something go through her stomach, when the King moved away she saw the sword of one of the Nazgul through her.
Riser snapped and bull rushed the Witch King but the fool forgot to keep the vortex up. It fell and the remaining three Riders all stabbed him through the vital areas and brought him down and held him there. The Nazgul that had stabbed ravel, which was Suldan, ripped the blade out of her. The physical wound healed, but Ravel screamed in agony as the poison worked its way through her body, mind and soul.
"What did you bastards do!" Riser demanded hotly. The Witch king merely stepped over to him and looked down.
"Oh? The little birdie can talk? How amusing." The creature spoke in low gravley voice that paradoxically made his ears ring from the frequency. Ravel continued to scream as she began to pale and hyperventilate. "Our swords are coated in a very delightful poison. A poison that destroys the spirit, mind, and body. The same poison is coursing through you, but that pesky healing factor stops the poison dead. Your sister, however..." The Witch King merely gestured to the little girl as veins began to make themselves visible and turn into a unearthly white. "..Her healing factor is far less powerful and so the poison goes through uninhibited. Attacking the mind and soul, which in turn affect the body. If the poison runs its course, she will become one of the faceless." The Witch king continued. Ravel's condition worsening at a rapid rate. Her eyes clouding and breathing becoming shorter and less frequent. Riser was on the edge of tears as his sister was dying in front of him, mere feet away and he couldn't do anything to stop it
"However. I can remove the poison if I so choose. Though this cost won't come free, you must forfeit this match. Do so and I shall extract the poison, choose not to and not only does your sister die. She will forever serve me as a husk of her former self. I would think fast Phenix. Time's about to run out." The Witch King told Riser pointedly as a new horse rode in from the edge of the horizon; at the same time Ravel was turning ethereal, like the many nazgul around her. A mask formed in the Witch King's hand, the same type of mask he wore before becoming the Witch King. Except this one seemed alive and as he began to place it on her, tentacles of darkness wrapped themselves around her skull and brought her closer to it. Ravel took what might be her last breath as a living being with will but-
"WAIT!" Riser cried out. "I Forfeit! I give up! You win!"
The Witch king didn't do anything for a moment, but he kept his word and crushed the mask into dust. The tentacles disappeared into ash and Ravel's color instantly returned to normal.
The Nazgul brought their swords out of Riser and the elder sibling cradled his sister. Happy she still lives. "I-I don't believe it folks. Riser Phenix, previously undefeated for over seventeen rating games, has given up. The match goes to the Reaper!" Jaclyn shouted in sheer excitement. Never before had she seen such an utter domination of a team battle involving a phenix member and never had she imagined they would lose.
Nobody moved for a singular moment, before Asia began to clap for her friend's victory. Issie followed, whooping loudly in support as the rest of his peerage followed suit. Sona's was next and the audience surrounding them all got in. congratulating the victor and saying how they knew he was gonna win from the beginning.
Pov return to Mores. First person.
[Bgm end!]
I let out a silent sigh of relief. I had won without murdering anyone! Though the Witch King in my head was making a very convincing argument for me to have gone back on my word. 'You fool! Your mercy just costed us a powerful servant!' The Witch King berated me mentally.
I shrugged non committedly. 'I believe I make the decisions now, Witch King, or would you rather me refer to you by your original title?' I asked the grumpy wraith inside my mind. He sighed before denying and saying to stick with his true title. 'Now time to leave my mind now, Witchy.' I told the original ringwraith.
'Fine. But I'm taking the nazgul with me.' He told me before leaving my mind. A powerful skill to be certain but it did have its drawbacks.
Call to arms(Active) Level: 2(0%) MP cost: All; The ultimate secret of the armor of ringwraiths. Summon your fellow ringwraiths to battle and done the crown of the Witch king himself.
Summons three Nazgul obedient to you and you alone. +400% to all defenses when in Witch king form. +60 to dark affinity while activated. Can not create any new skills in this form. Slot two affinities to give your servants, and yourself, a resistance to those elements, can not use the slotted elements when in Witch king form.
Slotted elements: Fire(+60% resistance to fire); Water(+90% resistance to water).
As he did this my body reformed to its previous state and the Nazgul winked out of existence one by one, with Suldan being the last to leave. I cracked my back as screen after screen pelted my vision.
Quest complete!
Level up x2
Level 200 reached!
Angel of death ranked up! You are now able to use four wings instead of two. Details in skill menu.
Key to Velvet room forged! Soon you shall be called in.
As a Reward you may pick one of three 'items'.
Familiar skill book.
Quest: 'Nobody of mine'
Buddha statue.
Increased standing with all allies and those they are close too.
Well, this is nice. Hmm, I took a look at the skill book and saw how it was the same generic skill that every gamer used. I rolled my eyes on that one and moved it aside. Hey, i'm not grinding up twenty more levels for a tiny creature that could blow my cover. That and I'm not some idiot that takes the easy way out. Cough! Gaming for Glory and Verdant Gamer. Cough!(Omega Note: Thanks for not including me in that statistic, buddy) The buddha statue was a bit more interesting, as it literally summoned Buddha to defuse a situation. Sadly it was a one time use only item, if it was multiple i would've done it. The quest was all that was left and this one I Observed it.
Side Quest: 'Nobody of mine'; Time limit: none.
Since the dawn of time darkness has always existed, as has the light. Two opposites keeping the balance. Most see them as two opposing forces beget to be in eternal conflict with each other. Few see them as neutral parties from which without the other nothing would exist. Convince them all light and dark were in fact meant to serve each other and make themselves stronger. After all, the deeper the shadow the brighter the light.
Objectives:
Become consumed by darkness.
Break through and confront your other self.
Convince him to join you and fight through the mindless dark to escape to the light.
Rewards: A true comrade. A keyblade and a possible servant.
Yes! A thousand times yes! I slammed my fist and accepted the quest. Must have! Must have! In my mad plannings I didn't notice Issie sneaking up behind me and smacking me on the back.
"Holy shit dude! That was incredible!" I chuckled at his enthusiasm. Asia came next and gave me a hug and peeked to see Wraith, who was now a stage fucking 3(!) floating a ways behind me, as was the rest of my council. I dismissed them but left Wraith here, I had ample mana to spare since Eleanor barely costs anything to keep here.
Speaking of the big sister, she hopped on the battlefield and sized up Wraith. "Whew! You got bigger!" She exclaimed. Wraith rolled its eyes and did what I didn't think it could, it spoke.
"You, smaller." His, I can say that with certainty now, told her. Proper grammar still eluded him but he'll probably get better at it later though. Eleanor twitched at the short comment, but stopped herself before things got too out of hand. I most certainly didn't activate death's glare and use it on her… Nope and I would deny it for the rest of time!
Asia stepped forward during my inner rant and approached Wraith. She pat it on the back to get its attention. "Hi mister Wraith. Remember me?" Asia reintroduced herself to Wraith. My summon simply turned around and looked down at her.
"Remember you. Thought I angel." Wraith said with broken grammer. Asia looked up boldly and hugged the slimy giant.
"You are an angel. At least to me." Everyone 'Aww'-ed at this, Issei himself was recording this as was Rias. Damn, where did I put that phone, did I drop it in the trees? Shit! I- never mind it was in my pocket. Though when I brought it out Wraith and Asia had finished hugging, with me inwardly cursing my armor for stopping me from feeling the phone!
In the corner of my eye I saw Riser look at us curiously, before shrugging and focusing back on his unconscious sister, who was sleeping peacefully now.
"So, I can assume Rias and I are no longer betrothed?" Riser asked, for once not in third person, I nodded and he chuckled good heartedly. "Thank Zechs." Now, that caused all our heads to turn at him. I'm quite sure my jaw was touching the ground.
"WHAT?!" Everyone, besides Rias, shouted at once. Apparently, we're still being televised. Good to know.
"Wait, you didn't wanna marry me? Why did you push for our wedding then?" Rias asked the bird. He laughed somberly.
"That was my father's doing. I had no intention of marrying you from the beginning. Like you my parents forced me into it, but to stop Ravel's own marriage contract with Astaroth. But, unlike you, I didn't get a way out." Riser finished with a sigh. As if a weight was lifted from his chest, and when he sighed I noticed the outline of a circular scar, a brand to be specific. It was old, like something from...childhood. Dear god. He branded his own child! That sick fuck!
Riser noticed my trail and moved his leather jacket to cover it up. Rias had a look that bordered on sympathy, she didn't notice the scar but must've realized she judged to harshly. While I was simmering with a unbottled rage that refused to disappear into the void. 'That fucker! Where is that coward?' My rage clouding my perception. Bahamut however, was able to talk me down.
{Easy partner. You can't let your rage control you. Calm yourself.} I nodded and took a breath, finally able to cap my overflow of emotion and toss the bottle deep into the pit.
"Well. That was certainly a match." A very familiar voice resounded behind me. I turned around to see Sirzechs and his father walking up to us. Though he was smiling it felt...off somehow. 'I know i'm gonna regret this, but Observe?'
Sirzechs 'Lucifer' Gremory.
Level: ?
Alignment: Chaotic good.
Titles: Strongest Super devil; Doting Older Brother; Easily Pissed-Off Siscon; Master Of Destruction
Bio: One of the four leaders of the underworld. The older sibling of Rias Gremory and master of his latent powers of destruction. One of the veterans of the war with the three factions and has personally fought with heaven's strongest, including the big man, and he survived. Currently, he is coming to destroy you for threatening his little sister when you first met her. In conclusion. RUN GAMER RUN!
Oh shit, That's a lot of killing intent he's sending my way, why am I so calm? I looked down to see I'm quite literally shaking in my boots, and I may have wet myself.
"Since you got my sister out of her marriage contract I'll give you a head start of thirty seconds before I come for you." He told me in a manner that was completely contradictory to the sheer amount of killing intent he's sending my way.
New quest! RUN AWAY! Time limit: Until either Sirzechs calms down, Rias talks sense back into him, or Ragnorak intervenes.
They say running is a cowards tactic. Well, those cowards lived! Stay the hell away from the super devil!
Objectives: Stay the fuck alive!
Bonus objective: don't get hit!
"Fuck my life."