Chapter 5: Strings
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As they all pay close attention to Zamiel's words under the influence of the hallucinogenic item, Koneko asks once more "Are you listening to me, what did you mean by that just now".
Zamiel then stands up with a slight wobble "Like I said ya talking marshmellow, the pig escaped and i was the one who sent those dumbasses to get rid of it before king jackass noticed but I knew it was too late once I got a read on the fallen angel girl over there" pointing at Raynare slumped on the floor.
Raynare, who had stared in a daze at the man, said "Wait, so you know where I came from?" as he replied simply "Yeah, I'll tell you if you wish to know because it won't be long til you guys snap out if it and probably will want to kick my ass" as he took another puff from the now small blunt.
She cracked her neck says casually while slumped "Sure, lay it on me, not like it'll make sense coming from an asshole like yourself".
He then says "Everyone listen up, the reason I kept you guys in a timeloop is because the God you knew was the last of the fakes throughout the multiverse, with each one now gone after the defeat of a group of high level criminals known as Dark Lords, the true God has regained his full form".
Ophis then has a brief moment of thought as his words are heard and says "I-I remember it, it was a universal war and I remember the wave of energy that destroyed everything, the energy was lilith, she sacrificed herself to save us all with...your energy" as she stares into the floor stoically.
Zamiel then clasps his hands replying "You are right sweetie, which is why eventually I came along and restarted everything as if it never happened, but as for lilith, she's not dead as you think, in fact she awaits us on our destination".
Ophis then says to him "Lil-lilith...she's alive?" and he says "Yes, I promise" as he sees her laughing slowly as black tears begin to fall from her eyes while she laughs hysterically. Azazel then says "Okay, so after all that, what made 'God' so different?"
The man then sits taking off his coat putting out the blunt in a nearby ashtray and says "Not different, back to normal, the God you knew was told to be benevolent, but that's not his true nature like most deities i've encountered, it was I who separated God in fragments so that his reign of terror would end, but due to the interference of your deceased counterparts during that battle, God is whole again and now existence itself is in danger".
Vali , who appears to have regained some control said "If you were the one who defeated God before, why retrieve us if you have such power?" and he replied "Three of your Earth's years ago, I went to do just that, but when I faced God, he made a treaty with me never to interfere with existence unless i approved as it's guardian or else i would finish the job, little did I know God stole some of my energy and was a lyin-" but was rudely interrupted by a shouting Asia who said "STOP IT!"
Everyone then faced her as she stumbled to her feet and continued to say "Your wrong, God can't be like what you say, God is good I know it, what you say can't be true at all" as she begins to tear up.
Zamiel then sighs and says "Kid, If you really want proof, then I can show you what's happening at that station now, but I need to know if your leader wants that answer" as he looks to Rias who stares back in confusion.
Rias then says "Why me specifically?" as she stares in suspicion. He then says in a serious tone to her "Because what you will see might seriously change your lives, espcially yours alone, which is why I brought you guys here, so a simple choice can be made here, either I leave you all to live your life as it was before, or you can accompany me to stop all this once and for all and restore peace before that monster tears shit up, so what say all of you to this".
As they hear this, the group looks amongst each other in wonder, to have heard that the lives they've come to know, might be masked to a hidden truth had been much to take in for all of them.
But they soon began to nod at each other as Sirzech, Michael and Azazel stood before as they said in unison "We accept" and he said "Cool, but now I have a personal question for Rias, what would you do if you had to face yourself in a fight?"
She then raised a brow and said as she thought for a second "Well I would face it as I have other things from the past battles i've experienced, why do you ask?".
Zamiel then said with a plain look "Because now you will have to put those words into action after I show you what God did with my stolen power, EVON play the footage" as the A.I says "Playing Black Knight data file retrieved" as a large holographic projection from above the room for all to see.
As the footage begin to start, they all bear witness to a shadow appearing from where they left as the figure of Davina stands in clear view, causing everyone to stare in shock.
Davina then continues to view her surroundings as she sees two approaching medics who spotted her from afar and she appears behind them in a blink of an eye, just before their bodies slowly split down the middle.
The video's audio plays an alarm that says "Warning!, Anomimaly detected in the Medic deck" as several armed guards arrive to surround her.
One of the guards says "M-Ms. Gremory what ar-Aaahh" as she grabs him by the throat and proceed to gnaw at the guard's face revealing razor sharp teeth resembling a shark.
Then 3 guards proceed to try to subdue her with a binding spell from 3 magic circles, while another aims a broadsword at her.
Davina then proceeds to forcefully shatter the spell as she grabs the armed guard and headbutts the mask off the guard as he falls to the floor, revealing it to be a fallen angel who says in a plead "Wait, you can't do this Gremory, we had a treaty amongst factions, Master Azazel won't stand for such carnage" as his head begin to gush blood.
She then leans down to him and says with a chuckle "You say that, but here I am standing over a meal, so tell me why should I spare your lives after many like you betrayed the holy father" as she traces a finger seductively across his bleeding head, licking the blood off her finger.
He then starts trembling in silence as she says "But you are too sweet to eat, so here what i'll do, i'm going to stab you in the side a bit, then you get to watch everyone kill themselves for my amusement" as Davina stabs him with a smile.
The remaining guards, to shaken to fight try to run, but they find themselves stuck on a black liquid entrapping their legs as it quickly spreads across them leaving black vein traces.
Then one of guards then start gouging out their own eyes, while others, begin slamming their heads on shards of debris on the floor.
As the footage continues, 3 more screen appear as they reveals the substance has now spread across the entire station causing all crew members to begin hurting themselves.
Some are shown to be assisting others by dropping large objects on each other, then on themselves. Others are seen on another screen cutting jagged lines into their chests & faces as they seem to be smiling impossibly wide from ear to ear in a way that causes their faces to split open.
Davina is then seen walking around the station past the people as she reaches a room with a large monitor, then walks up to it and thrusts her fist into it, pulling out what appears to be a small silver device.
She then shines a light from the pendant on her forehead as the device is traced with the small beam of light as she said "Left without a trace and deleted everything, even for someone like Zamiel this is clever, oh well it's only a matter of time before the others find them" before crushing the device.
Then across the screens, the black liquid that had been spreaded across the station quickly made it's way back to Davina, leaving the mangled bodies behind as she then slowly approached one of the screens.
She then picks up a hidden camera as she says "I know you see this Zamiel, you may think you're one step ahead but Yahweh has grown tired of your games, you can't protect your little girls forever, I will find Ophis and Raynare, and I will deliver them to my master and then you will meet your end, and as for the Red Dragon Emperor and his friends, I have something special in mind for them, now if you excuse me I got a meal waiting for me before I destroy this place" as the camera then cuts off along with the rest.
As the footage ends as the group stares in horror at what they had seen as the blunt's effects began to wear off on them, and the first to speak was Michael who said in a cracking tone "So he wasn't lying after all" as all eyes turned to him.
Baraqiel then asked him "What do you mean Michael?" as he replied "Do you remember before the war, when Raziel said that God wasn't being himself, I now see this is what Raziel meant" as he hung his head downwards.
Then Issei slammed his hand down and said angrily "What the hell did we just see? That thing was wearing Rias face, Zamiel what's going on here?".
Zamiel then stared at the boy and said plainly "It's as you saw kid, that was the Rias Gremory, but not the one you know, this Rias was killed in the Apocalypse war for Earth-s that ended in the erasure of that entire universe" .
Rias, who had still been shakened up by the sight of her doppleganger, robotically approached Zamiel as he said "Umm, are you ok there?".
She then said with her head down "Tell me, where is she now?" as he said with a straight face "You aren't ready for the Ulu yet, I know this is-" as he is grabbed by the collar and held roughly against the wall.
Rias then jerks him upwards off his feet and says angrily "Do you think I care about what you think? Do you even care what we feel about all this? How can you just act natural with all this? You may look and talk like your humane but as far as what you've displayed, your just as much a monster as these things that have come for us!" as she generates a dense ball of destruction aimed at his face.
She then asks coldly "So I'll ask you again, tell me how to find her or i'll beat it out of you however I can".
Issei then calmly places a hand on her shoulder saying "Buchou, I know your angry, but this isn't the way to go about this, lets calm and put our heads together on this, your better than this" as he stares at her in anticipation.
Rias then looks intently at Zamiel and closes her eyes as she cancels out her intended attack, releasing her grip on the man.
She then begins to let out a single tear as she hugs him, then he says "Its ok, we're in this together" as he is bombarded by an assisted hug from Akeno who says "There there we're all here Rias" smothering the two.
As everyone stares in awe at the tender moment, it is interrupted by a sudden laugh as Zamiel says "AHAHAHA! Man you guys almost had me, I hadn't had a demon stand up to me since Grayfia tried to hit me for spilling wine on her wedding dress while saying 'Hey kool aid' cuz back then she was faaatt, Sirzey must have worked some weight of in the bed am I in the ballpark or wha-!" as he is knocked into a wall.
Zamiel thens sees two joined fists coming at his face and catches them, revealing one of them to belong to Sirzech, and the other from Grayfia.
He thens stands up to say "Aw did I strike a nerve? Tough shit Grayfia you were gaining and you both know it so cool it will ya were almost uuuahh!" as he is kicked in the crotch area by Grayfia.
Sirzechs then says "Nicely done my dear, now are you prepared to show us some respect for once" and Zamiel replies grunting "Suck..my...ass hehe ooof!" as he is punched in the face by the latter.
Then they both proceed to take turns assaulting him as EVON interrupts saying "Sir we have arrived if you're done putting on a show" catching the two devil's attention as they halt to stomp Zamiel.
Everyone then runs to look out the nearby window as they see a an enormous white planet with ships flying back and towards it, then they see a collosal sized multi colored dragon like creature bigger than tcome close to the ship they were inside of as it looked at them and said "Welcome my liege, I along with your family await you at home".
Zamiel then approaches the window after getting off the floor and says "Ah draciel, how's my wife is she mad at me for being gone a while?".
Draciel then says "She is now, she strapped a telepathy camera on my back to see what you did this time and request your immediate summons" as he then notices the others inside.
He then says "Ah, I see you've gathered guests, another crisis I presume" as Zamiel says "Afraid so big guy but nothing I can't handle like I normally do, i'll meet you there in a few ok and make sure Kate behaves herself" as Draciel echoes a soft wail and nods as he flies quickly into the planet's surfaces.
Vali then says slightly surprised "That aura, it felt like a Dragon King's, just what other secrets you have?" as Zamiel says "Alot, but have patiencee and all will be revealed".
Michael then opens his eyes wide and says abruptly "I- I must go, I felt a disturbance elsewhere" as Irina looks in worry and says "Lord Michael, do you need assistance?".
He then says to her "No need, this will only require myself, no danger will come I promise" as he then leaves in a brief flash of light.
EVON then announces "Landing now commencing, oh and sir good news! We just got renewed for another season of -" but is interrupted by the latter who says "Shh! not here you idiot, ignore him everyone it's unrelated to this ok" as he chuckles nervously.
They give him a strange look but continue their gaze of the new surroundings as they begin to descend towards the planet and Zamiel says "Welcome to Neoisha, my homeworld" as they begin to the futuristic terrain.
Zamiel then notices, all but two individuals are gazing who sit apart from each other as he says to himself "I hope I can make this right for them, I hope they can understand why I sent them away from their mother" as he pulls out another blunt to light it and takes a deep hit.
A/N: With the crisis now clear to them and Zamiel sheading light on how things work , they are determined to stop the new threat that searches mercilessly for their whereabouts, more of this chaotic adventure will continue in the next chapter