Strongest
Chapter 6: Alexander The Tyrant
Written By Illuminet
Disclaimer: The cast of characters from Makai Kingdom : Chronicles Of The Sacred Tome do not belong to me, and are the rightful property of N.I.S (Nippon Ichi Software) America.
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'...'-Indicate Thought
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Zetta's Netherworld, Overlord's Castle, Throne Room
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"Zetta! Zetta! Please wake up!"
Salome shouted as she held on to him, but her plea was never answered, and Zetta remained unmoving. The female Overlord turned back to face Trenia.
"Trenia...what's wrong with him? His breathing is so shallow...it's not an ordinary sleep habit of his. Something is definitely wrong."
She said to the little girl. Both of their faces mirrored the same expression of worry and concern. Trenia bit into her bottom lip softly as she lowered her head in thought.
'What's happening...? It has to be Baal, but how...? How can he have this influence over Zetta when Babylon made the wish in accordance to my terms? I...'
The little girl's thoughts were interrupted.
"Trenia...please...there has to be something we can do."
Salome said, clutching Zetta closer to her body. Trenia took a deep breath, regaining her composure.
"Lady Salome, please go to Overlord Valvoga's Netherworld and retrieve him. Talk to Ophelia, and tell her that I want her to assist you. If she's reluctant, just mention Baal's name and it should settle any problems. Bring Valvoga back here...no, in fact, take him to your Netherworld and be prepared for a battle at any given moment. This is Baal's doing, somehow. No one other than him would be able to...and he must not be allowed anywhere near Zetta, so please leave him here."
Trenia instructed. Salome looked very reluctant.
"But..."
Salome was not allowed to finish as Trenia cut into her argument.
"Please, Lady Salome, you must hurry. Put Zetta back in his bed and then go to Valvoga. Or this entire universe will be devoured by the jaws of the black beast...this is the best way to protect Zetta."
Trenia stated as she turned away. Her final words sobered Salome to complete attention.
"Where are you heading? Aren't you going to watch over Zetta?
Salome asked. Trenia shook her head.
"I am going to Babylon's Netherworld to retrieve him. We'll both meet you and Valvoga on your Netherworld."
Trenia informed her. Before the female Overlord could say anything further, a crimson fire enveloped around Trenia's body and she was gone, teleporting to Babylon's Netherworld.
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Zetta's Netherworld, Overlord's Castle, Personal Chambers (a.k.a Zetta's Room)
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Salome did as instructed and placed Zetta in the closest coffin in his room. She looked down at him for a few brief seconds, contemplating briefly if she should disregard Trenia's instructions and stay with him here.
'Trenia knows more about Baal than I could ever hope to grasp, so I should just do as she says. Still...I'm curious as to why she would want me to talk to Ophelia the most. Does Ophelia also have some kind of connection with Baal? Maybe when I meet with them I can ask, and maybe also learn what the deeper connection Trenia mentioned between Baal and Zetta is as well.'
She thought to herself. She looked down at Zetta a bit longer, before instinctively lowering her head, sealing her lips against Zetta's in a feather light kiss.
'Zetta...I will protect you with all of my being. I just hope it will be enough to deal against that mysterious Demon, Baal. So, please remain safe, Zetta.'
She ended the kiss, closing the coffin door as light surrounded her body, and teleporting herself away to Valvoga's Netherworld.
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Space Battleship Yoshitsuna
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'Dammit, what the fuck was that? Where am I now?'
Zetta cursed, thrashing around wildly as he remained surrounded in darkness, though not for long, eyes opening to find himself overlooking Prinnies working about on their consoles. Zetta realized he was in his body again, sitting in a steel throne in the Bridge area of the Yoshitsuna (though he didn't know it's name yet...heck, he still thinks it's all a dream).
'Well I'll be...I had a dream within a dream. First it was with that weird imposter, thought I have to admit he was one handsome looking Devil to be sure. That's simply because he was in the spitting image of your's truly! But what the hell happened to him at the end there? It was like he turned into some giant black...thing, for a lack of better words. Anyway, now I'm back in my dream body again, pun completely intended. Although I still can't move myself...'
He thought, trying to will his body to move by his own accord again. His right hand Prinny came to stand beside him, holding some papers.
"Lord B..."
Before the Prinny could say anything else, Zetta's arm came out and smacked the Prinny so hard he smashed against the wall with a loud thud. Luckily, the papers that the Prinny was holding were stapled, or else a large mess would have to be cleaned up. The Prinny looked up to him in surprise, and Zetta's mind was exactly the same way.
'What the hell did I do that for? Well, I mean...I am an Overlord after all so I am expected to command all authority by any necessary ways I see fit, but...oh well, it is my dream, so I guess it's to be expected.'
Zetta concluded to himself. The Prinny looked very frightened for a few moments.
"Lord...Zetta, dood?"
The Prinny said uncertainly. Zetta's head turned away from the Prinny, though his palm remained upright as if waiting for something. The Prinny composed himself as he went to stand by Zetta again, leaving the papers in Zetta's open palm. The Overlord brought the pages to his eyes looking at the image of another Netherworld. Zetta's mind was surprised yet again.
'That's...Alex's Netherworld. This is way out of character for me...I've never actually gone to his Netherworld ever in my entire life. Tch! There I go again thinking this is all real again when it isn't. Hm...I wonder what would actually happen if I ever went to assault Alex's Netherworld every couple of thousand of years or so. Just for a change of pace since he's ALWAYS attacking me on my Netherworld. Though this entire month since we last met, he hasn't really been doing anything, now that I think on it more. I was at my most vulnerable, too...Heh, oh well...this may still prove to be an interesting dream none the less!'
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Alexander's Netherworld, Overlord's Castle, Thunder God Haven
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"Well...guess I'll be off then."
Alexander, the Overlord known by many as the God of Destruction, said to his vassals.
"About time you did, too. I was getting pretty darn annoyed with you just laying around sighing all day for one whole month doing nothing but waiting until your arch nemesis finally re-composed himself as the strongest Overlord."
This was Alastor, Alex's kid brother, and Alex's left hand man.
(Mini-Note: Alastor is the name I decided to give the little boy who shows up in Alexander's picture at the credit screen of the Good Ending in the game. I just got it while scrolling through the dictionary. Alastor is, in Greek Mythology, a vengeful deity that's the masculine personification of Nemesis. Also, if I remember correctly, it's the name of a lightning powered sword in the game Devil May Cry. Guess it's only fitting then...but if anyone actually knows what that little boy's real name is, let me know so I can edit this chapter.)
"Shut up, squirt. I wasn't that depressed."
Alex snarled in anger. This in turn caused Alastor to start fuming.
"Stop treating me like a kid!"
The boy growled out. Alex just smirked.
"Uh, hello, Al? You still ARE a kid!"
Before the two could butt heads, Alex's right hand man, the Thunder Giant Raiden, stepped in between the two.
"Masters, please, just let it be. You need to save your strength for Zetta anyway, Lord Alexander."
Raiden said, and the two calmed down. Even though in terms of rank, Alastor and Raiden were equals, Raiden always referred to the other vassal as Master since he was related to Alex after all.
"Alright, fine...you better hope Salome ain't there with him, or your in for a world of hurt."
Al snickered, using that one little piece of information that he knew would get Alex all riled up, since he never did quite get over the fact that he lost one time to a female Demon who was a human in her former life and also Zetta's former apprentice. It worked wonders against Alex's ego, too.
"You little...hah, your lucky I have to leave. You'll get what's coming to you in the near future, though, count on it!"
Alex said after getting his anger under control again a second time.
"Yeah sure, whatever. Try to make this fight the tie breaker finally, okay? Something you could have easily done had you attacked Zetta earlier. I still don't get why you just didn't do that and get it over with. You afraid of him or something?"
Al asked. Alex shook his head, clearly annoyed with his sibling.
"You'll truly understand what I'm about to say when you get an arch rival of your own. They just aren't any fun to duel with when they are too preoccupied with other things. I want to prove that I can beat Zetta at his strongest, and then I'll become the strongest...no, I'll surpass him. I'll be even more Bad-Ass than Zetta ever could dream to be!"
Alex affirmed, his arms crackling with electricity as his anticipation grew. Before he could teleport to Zetta's Netherworld, however, another Thunder Giant came bursting through the double doors of the room.
"Lord Alexander, we're under attack!"
The Thunder Giant said urgently. Alex growled irritably.
"Ah, damn! Why now of all times...? Well, who the hell's attacking us?"
Alex demanded.
"Uh...it's a bunch of Prinnies."
The Thunder Giant said nervously. Raiden narrowed his eyes.
"Are you sure? Prinnies aren't that bloodthirsty to start wars. They aren't really much up for doing anything in all honesty..."
Raiden said.
"Please, Lord Alexander. These Prinnies are..."
Before the Thunder Giant could implore anything else, he was shot in the back of the throat, before falling on his stomach and fading away. A Prinny with a rifle came into view.
"Dood..."
Was all it said. Alex and the other two noticed a whole bunch of white dots in the darkened hallway, realizing they were eyes, which meant a whole swarm of Prinnies were awaiting them.
"Oh shit..."
Alex muttered. Raiden gulped.
"You can say that again."
The Thunder Giant said. Alex's eyes narrowed dangerously.
"I'd rather not. Come on, it's time to kick some Prinny ass."
Alex declared, six lighting orbs surrounded him and swirling around his body, each sphere turning into a golden rimmed drum with a thunder symbol pattern on each of them. These forms of drums were called Angel Beat. Al and Raiden also performed similar actions, summoning a Devil Beat and a Dragon Beat, respectively. The drums swirled around their bodies in a ring like formation.
"Alright, my left and right hands, follow my lead!"
Alex demanded as he hovered in the air before rushing at the Prinny infested hall, the drums following behind him in a single file order. Two drums came to Alex's sides as he beat against their surface with his palms, the other four drums went ahead of Alex, pulsing with electricity before powerful bolts lanced out of their surfaces and striking the Prinnies at random. Al and Raiden mimicked the actions as they flew after the God of Destruction.
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Alexander's Netherworld, Overlord's Castle, first floor near entrance
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"Damn Prinnies. There's no end to them."
Al complained, his drums transforming into a large ring of pure lightning that he made gyrate around his hips to take down some surrounding Prinnies that tried to swarm him. His lightning hoop cut them down like a knife through butter.
"I'm forced to agree, Master Alastor."
Raiden said as he tapped against his Dragon Beat, making six orbs generate off their surfaces before he shot them two at a time that created a decent sized explosion that caught a bunch of other Prinnies in it's blast radius.
"Just be patient. We're almost there."
Alex said as he brought his hands up in front of him, beating one of the drums of his Angel Beat as the other five swirled about in front of him, creating a force field that shocked any Prinny that came close to the vicinity. Alex was actually gathering energy with each Prinny that was foolish enough to come towards his generated barrier and tried to strike it down. Alex had a small grin on his face as his force field became unstable, and with one final hit of the drum he used made the force field explode with a large shock wave that decimated the remaining Prinny army along the castle ground. Once that was done, Alex hovered over the rest of the dead bodies, both of his army that had been slain in the surprise attack by the Prinnies and the Prinnies that he himself slain.
"Damn...These Prinnies are a lot different compared to the typical ones."
Alex said to himself as he went to the front doors.
"Yeah. Not only were they fighting with superior numbers, but also with a lot more intelligence than normal as well."
Raiden agreed.
"Hey, big bro, we should get going and see if anyone on our side is still alive."
Al said.
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Space Battleship Yoshitsuna
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'Ugh...again with all the waiting. Come on Alex...hurry up and get these Prinnies back up here. I know your better than this.'
Zetta's body waited at the end of the large nose of the Battleship as it hovered among the clouds, the Genesis being supported right beside him as his left hand rested over the pommel of it. The clouds below were starting to become dark, churning around in the sky with the scent of rain as thunder boomed in the distance. A storm was coming.
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Alexander's Netherworld, Spire Mountain
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"So this is where the bulk of the fighting is taking place..."
Raiden commented. Most of Alex's army were doing pretty good halting the Prinny invasion, though the number of troops at Alex's disposal were dropping rather quickly thanks to heavy laser fire from Justice Gear classed tanks. Backing up the Justice Gears were Sound Blaster vehicles that threw many magicians out of whack with their sound wave attacks, which in turn prevented magic users from attacking from long range with magic, and allowing the well armed Justice Gears to close in further.
"What the hell is that thing in the clouds?"
Alex spoke up as he saw the large black battleship descend slightly, dropping more vehicles to assist the Prinnies.
"Whatever it might be, it's sending reinforcements. It has to be taken down."
Raiden said. Alex nodded in agreement. Al looked to the darkened sky, sniffing the cool air.
"It's gonna rain soon. Along with a storm. I'm starting to feel sorry for those Prinnies. They haven't got a clue to what their going to be hit by."
The young boy said. Alex already was aware of this, and had a slight grin on his face, his destructive nature starting to show in his eyes as they faintly glowed.
"That thing's going down alright! Raiden, get all of our forces to retreat. Al, come with me. We're gonna do some storm cloud hunting!"
Alex flew to the blackened clouds overhead, Al not far behind him. Raiden played the retreating song on his drums. The remaining troops quickly did what the song allowed them to do, and they all fled across the field and up the mountain top, though they were easily being followed by the mobile vehicles even as the rain came and made the ground soft and muddy. The God of Destruction and his brother took a good chunk of the storm clouds with them, beating against their drums to summon a large, destructive ray of amplified lightning through they cloud they rode on. The lightning tore through the ground and enemy forces alike with the greatest of ease, until not a single Prinny or vehicle was left on the hell torn battlefield. Then the two set their sights for the massive battleship peeking through the dark clouds.
'Here goes nothing...'
Alex thought to himself as he steered the cloud towards the battleship. He turned back to face Al.
"Hey, little bro, we'll attack that thing up high first. Because it's above the storm, these clouds will disperse after a short time, so we'll need to head back down here and attack it low afterwards. If we keep revolving around in a circle, that thing's sure to go down in a little bit."
He said, before breaking through the surface of the clouds. He didn't attack it immediately like he thought he would. Al bumped into him on the way up.
"Hey, why did you stop?"
The young boy asked, but Alex never responded. He simply stared at the figure that stood on the edge of the large ship.
"So...you were the one who commanded those Prinnies...the one in control of...whatever that thing is...and you've even gotten your body back..."
Alex said softly, his eyes wide with awe as he looked towards Zetta, who's head was lowered as if he fell asleep standing up. Alex went from looking surprised to smirking arrogantly, his eyes gleaming with joy.
"I never thought you would actually come all the way here for a change, but that's fine with me...ZETTA!"
Alex had been so overjoyed with the chance to square things off with Zetta, he wasn't even aware of strange silence the Overlord had taken. The God of Destruction rushed over to the Overlord, his drums circling around him as electricity crackled all over his body and his battle cry echoing through the entire sky. Zetta remained deathly calm, only lifting his head slightly and opening his empty eyes to meet with Alex's gaze, as a black-violet flame like aura began emanating from the Genesis.
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Note: Eh, it's okay, but not nearly as good as the Seedle fight scenes. Well the sword type weapons are a lot easier to write about in comparison to using the drums, which are Alex's preferred weapon of choice in the game. I didn't want to make the drums completely like they were in the context of the game either, so instead of being connected in that kind of web like shaped thing on the backs of the characters who equip them, I decided to make them disconnected and moving around, and Alex being in complete control of their movements. Hopefully readers may be able to understand this more clearly in the next chapter's fight scene, as this one's only a filler chapter to it, so it doesn't reveal much. Another thing I don't like in this chapter is that I feel as if I made Alex and Raiden possibly too much out of character, so if anyone has suggestions, I'm all ears. And like I wrote in the mini-note, if anyone knows the canon name of the little boy who appears in Alex's picture in the Good Ending credits, please let me know, and maybe some background information on him if there is any...