AN:
It has been a journey... I'd like to thank everyone who has stuck with this fic thus far. I know that this is an abrupt ending for Dragonborn's Might Makes Right. But I think it does the fic justice. It's short and sweet. And it hits just right for its purpose.
[Kuoh Town, the Highschool DxD franchise]
There is a saying: 'Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life.'
"MUAHAHAHAHA!"
And I particularly love being a giant, stadium-sized metal dragon that stood as tall as skyscrapers while breaking apart entire worlds. It was in the name after all. 'Hevno Kren.' Brutally Break. Of course, I was only here on this 'Planet Tortus' due to the arrangement for me to pay for Aether's and Rudeus' debts to the Company. With interest. The terms were simple: I travel to the world of their choosing and do what I do best. And what I did best was being a chaotic evil super dragon of metal.
"FO KRAH DIIN!"
(Frost, Cold, Freeze)
A single full Shout aimed at the sky. That was all it took to plunge this entire world into a deep ice age. Clouds swirled overhead like a furious hurricane, and the world's worst hailstorm began. Solid chunks of ice the size of sedans fell from the sky like meteorites to smash into the town. My gargantuan dragon form of metal dominated the sky line as I stomped my way across town to Kuoh Academy where the main protagonists were. It was strange how I haven't seen neither hide nor hair of the main protagonists despite destroying their hometown. Not even a single Devil or Angel had come to try and stop me.
"COWARDLY DEVILS AND ANGELS."
"They are not hiding from you, dragon." a voice echoed out the ruined town, "They are hiding from us."
A single teenager stood atop the clocktower of Kuoh Academy. Garbed in just a purple Japanese school uniform with some sort of snow-white historical chinese robes over it. Just from his outfit alone, I could tell… that he was a complete loser who tried too hard to look like some cool anime martial arts character but ended up looking like a moron instead. But despite it, the blue-shafted spear in his hand looked suitably intimidating. The Sacred Gear [True Longinus]. A weapon that pierced the flesh of God and was consecrated with His blood. A Spear imbued with the power to slay Gods.
… It'll make a fine toothpick for picking this idiot's bones out of my teeth.
"AH, THE 'HERO' FACTION. FRAGILE GUARDIANS OF HUMANITY."
"I see that our reputation precedes us. But it matters not." the teen uttered with a smug smile while running his hand through his hair like some vapid online model. He twirled the [True Longinus] in his hand in a graceful flourish- the moonlight gleaming off the holy blade consecrated with the blood of a god. The razor-sharp tip pointed straight at me.
"Foul dragon." He addressed me- his voice lowering and his mouth scowling, "You have trespassed onto the world that belongs to humanity and humanity alone. You have trampled on the people the Hero Faction has sworn to protect, and for that, you must be slain!"
"Know the name of your slayer, lizard!" the teen declared in his loudest and most valiant voice, "I am Cao Cao, the descendant of the famous Cao Cao, Cao Mengde, who was recorded in the Records of the Three Kingdoms."
He descended from an Ancient Chinese hero. Yes, I was in eye-rolling awe at it.
Completely unimpressed, I chuckled. The deep rumbling echoing across the ruined city.
"YOU AREN'T CAO CAO. YOU DON'T EVEN COME CLOSE TO BEING CAO CAO. YOU WILL FOREVER BE JUST SOME WHORE'S CROTCH GOBLIN WHO DEFILES THE NAME- PATHETICALLY DELUDING HIMSELF THAT IT HIDES HOW WORTHLESS HE IS WITHOUT HIS PRETTY STAFF."
It wasn't clear whether it was the insult about his name or about his mother, but either way, it seemed to have struck a nerve in him. Rage filled his blue eyes as he practically frothed from the mouth.
"You dare question my heritage!" He demanded- his Spear shaking in his angry grip.
"... YOUR MOTHER WAS AN INSATIABLE WHORE, AND THE BEST PART OF YOU DRIPPED OUT OF HER WHEN SHE WAS SUCKING AND FUCKING MONKEYS IN THE WILDERNESS. YOU WERE NOTHING BUT A PET MONKEY FOR HER TO SELL."
"I AM NOT A MO-!"
I struck.
"WULD!"
(Whirlwind)
Almost 600 thousand tonnes of Hevnokrenite dragon closed the meagre 300 metres between us in half an instant. The Cao Cao wannabe barely had time to raise his Longinus to block my strike. My sharp claws- each as large as vans- met with the Spear of Destiny. The Spear may have been made indestructible by the blood of God, but the same could not be said for the fragile mortal arms that wielded it, and he was sent flying into the air like cannon shot.
"YOL!"
(Fire)
A firestorm like a great forest fire burst from my massive maw- chasing after the Hero Faction's leader.
"Georg, now!" Cao Cao's pained shout to his allies reaches my ears, and immediately, a purple mist filled the sky. One would think that my flames would still burn right through whatever piddly magic that was there… But no. The Sacred Gear [Dimension Lost] was apparently more powerful than the Thu'um. Powerful enough that my flame dissipated into nothing. Every lick of flame teleported by the mist into the ocean or deep space. And any projectile attack I made will likely end the same way.
But that was fine. While they go on the defensive, I'll ramp up to something [Dimension Lost] can't displace.
"MUL QAH DIIV!"
(Strength, Armor, Wyrm)
Thrice the strength, my already indestructible hide hardening, and more powerful shouts. They had no chance now.
"WULD NAH KEST!"
(Whirlwind, Fury, Tempest)
It was like an entire city block worth of metal dragon had gone airborne after Cao Cao. Shooting through the purple mist, I saw my target: the falling Cao Cao who was downing some Phoenix tears to heal his broken arms. And I was ready for another swing of my massive claw.
"Don't underestimate humanity!" He furiously bellowed at me. The consecrated [True Longinus] lengthened to stab its consecrated blade against my metal hide. And to my great surprise- managed to gouge a metre into the Hevnokrenite.
"What?!" Cao Cao shouted- just as surprised as I was, but for a different reason. He likely expected it to go straight through me. And that was all the distraction I needed to swing my claw at the haughty human- slashing through his frail body in four parts…
…At least, it should have if something massive hadn't blocked my strike. A golem as large as I was. Towering over the surrounding cityscape. Resembling a muscular but headless humanoid with a single glowing red eye at its chest. It's inky-black skin looking like a shadow made solid. And worst of all, an insufferably smug Cao Cao stood on its shoulder- aiming a smirk at me.
"The Sacred Gear [Annihilation Maker]." He proudly introduced. "Able to spawn Anti-Monsters that are our enemies' weakness given form."
His blue eyes focused on me.
"Even yours, dragon."
Immediately gargantuan claw slashed through this 'Anti-Monster' golem. All four Hevnokrenite claws cleaved clean through the massive golem. And the great chunks fell to the earth- crushing houses underneath them. And while I was busy with that, the Spear of Destiny found its mark on me again- having taken advantage of me attacking the golem. Wit the force battleship cannons, the holy blade shot at my shoulder where armour was usually thinnest.
"Tch!" Cao Cao clicked his tongue as he found that it still failed to pierce through. Because fortunately for me, even at the thinnest part, my Hevnokrenite hide was still a good few metres thick.
Some would call this a small victory, but it was not a good sign that he was able to even damage Hevnokrenite to begin with.
I had to finish this fast before Cao Cao does actual damage.
"IIZ SLEN NUS!"
(Ice, Flesh, Statue)
I was expecting Cao Cao to be frozen solid in a pillar of ice, but then [Annihilation Maker] ruined everything by having another massive Anti-Monster golem take the hit for him. And once again, the Spear of Destiny slashed against my metal hide- gouging deep ugly canyons into my armour.
"RI-"
Two more Anti-Monster golems had formed from the darkness to wrap their arms around my mouth- preventing me from Shouting.
"All that reality-bending power just to be rendered useless by putting a muzzle on you." Cao Cao laughed. "Dragons are literally all-bark, it seems. You more so than the rest. Pathetic."
The Skyrim Spell [Lightning Cloak] swirled in my massive claws for just a fraction of a second before reducing the two Anti-Monsters to ash. And unfortunately, Cao Cao once again managed to block most of it with his consecrated Spear before turning around to blast a massive lance of light at me. Normally, it wouldn't even have scratched my hide, but the annoying teen aimed it right at the deep gouges in my hide. And for the first time, in a long while, pain exploded in my dragon form.
"Where are your taunts now, Dragon?" He jeered as he saw me wince- blocking lightning with his Spear every so often.
My eyes narrowed.
Time to break out the Master level of Skyrim spells then. My claws lifted up the glowing red orb of planetary devastation. That's it. I'm turning this entire world into ash. But even then, I was interrupted by four more Anti-Monster golems to arise- grabbing hold of my arms and snapping my maw shut once again. The still-active [Lightning Cloak] no longer affecting them- the sludge-like skin of the Anti-Monsters simply absorbing the lightning strikes.
"Hah! As if we'd let you do that!" He guffawed with a smug smirk, "The Sacred Gear [Annihilation Maker]'s Anti-Monsters can't be defeated by the same method twice! To think you've defeated two of them so far. But it doesn't matter if it's two or two hundred."
My eyes narrowed at that unfortunate and annoying piece of information about the unlimited number of these pests. But the same can't be said for the bearer of said Sacred Gear, I'd bet. Only one of those. My enhanced Skyrim Spell [Clairvoyance] pointed out that the rest of his team were in some other dimension.
But there wasn't much I could do at the moment:The Anti-Monsters had my mouth closed and my arms.
My mind raced, but that was all the time Cao Cao needed to strike at yet another weak spot with his god-slaying weapon. Searing hot pain blinded my vision as pain erupted from my back.
"Every dragon's weakness is the joint of its wings!" Cao Cao haughtily exclaimed- having stabbed at said spots. My massive metal wings falling to the ground with an earth-shaking crash. And suddenly, I was on my back- pinned by the four Anti-Monsters as Cao Cao stood on the shoulders of the fifth one. The Spear of Destiny pointed at the deep gouge where he had first chinked my Hevnokrenite hide.
"No one knows your name, and the Hero Faction shall keep it that way." Cao Cao boasted, "Your existence will be nothing but a footnote in our history, dragon."
Then he began his chant.
"O Spear. The true Holy Spear which pierces through God."
The chant final move, and even as I struggled against the completely BS strength of the Anti-Monsters, a moment of stark realisation came to me.
I had lost.
"Suck the ambition of the King of Domination sleeping within me and pierce through the gap of blessing and destruction."
If I was sure to lose this fight, then I will make sure that they don't win it either.
With a single thought, the six Infinity Stones of Power, Space, Reality, Soul, Mind, and Time.
"You. Announce th-"
"-What is that?!" Cao Cao demanded in utter confusion at the object that appeared above my head that was glowing with all the colours of the Infinity Stones. All six of them… gathered not in a gauntlet like Thanos, nor were they embedded into me like Ultron. No, they were coalesced into a form of such perfection that all those who saw it could only stare in awe and wonder.
The Mother of all Jumpy Dumpties.
Round like a ball and as large as an observatory, the fluffy rabbit-like doll looked down on both of us as if rendering judgement- a six-eyed dodoco with the six Infinity Stones inset on its face to serve as its eyes.
With all six Infinity Stones, Thanos snapped his fingers and made half of all life disappear with juice left in the stones. The Mother of all Jumpy Dumpties was going to expel ALL of the energy inside them in half of a Planck time. And, despite that length of time impossible with conventional physics, it essentially meant that The Mother of all Jumpy Dumpties had already exploded before it was even ignited- time, space and reality just couldn't comprehend the totality of the explosion and needed time to catch up. In other words…
We were already dead.
Everything. Cao-Cao. His allies. These anti-monsters. This city. This world. This galaxy. This entire realm of existence and its Heavens and Hells. This history of Multiverse… and Me.
All of it already erased- wiped away like it never existed. All in the single, greatest explosion the multiverse has ever seen…
…And fittingly enough, it sounded like Klee cheering... It sounded like my daught-
[In another place, In another time]
A hand gently shook me awake from my seat.
"Wake up…" a boy's soft voice roused me from my dreams.
My eyes fluttered open, and I was greeted to the skyline of a gently sprawling medieval city. Cobblestone streets, and wooden houses and stalwart castles and sedately-spinning windmills aplenty. And in the distance endless hills and plains of lush green grass that rolled with the brush of the wind. And here, I sat. Near the tallest point in the entire city- up atop the spire of a cathedral.
"Where… Where am I?" I sleepily yawned- my pale, slender hand rubbing the sleep out of my eyes.
"Monstadt, of course." the boy replied as he sat down beside me- honest concern filling his voice, "You make everyone worried, you know? Falling asleep on top of high things."
It might have been because I was still groggy, but there was something in his voice that seemed so familiar… So, I glanced at the boy sitting beside me. Sun-kissed blonde hair, eyes of molten gold, an outfit of white and gold. My heart jumped as I immediately recognised him.
"Aether?" My feminine and melodic voice whispered as I looked up at him.
"The one and only." He winked playfully before flashing an amused smile at me, "Are you still half-asleep, Heva?"
'Heva…' was that my name? Why did it sound so familiar in a different way? Then something clicked in my head. Hurriedly, I pulled out a compact mirror that I somehow knew was inside the pocket of my armoured dress. And with shaking hands, I flipped it open and looked into the mirror. Delicate features, wavy ash blonde hair that flowed down past my slender shoulders, ruby-red eyes set in a graceful heart-shaped face, rosy soft cheeks and soft pink lips. And I couldn't help but feel… incredibly relieved to see my own face once again.
"Are you okay?" Aether asked in a gentle tone- his hand giving my shoulder a reassuring squeeze, "You looked like you were having a bad dream."
"It was a nightmare." I choked out- feeling the tears well up at the corners of my eyes, "I was a violent dragon person obsessed with the adage 'Might makes Right', and I did cruel things to you and everyone. I hurt people, soooo many people. All for the sake of power and sometimes just because I could. And worst of all, I enjoyed it! It was against everything that I stand for! It was horrible, I was horrible. And- Mmmph?!"
Whatever I was about to say was lost as Aether's lips met mine in a deep kiss. And just like that, all my troubles and worries melted away as I gently returned the kiss.
"Hey, it'll be alright." He whispered- his golden eyes staring right into mine. "It was just a dream, I'm here for you now."
And I could feel the heat of my blush from that declaration.
"I need your Geo Catalyst on the latest excursion…" He invited me, "But only if you're free that is."
"I don't like hurting people… less so now." My soft voice mumbled out, but gave his hand a squeeze as I gave a hesitant smile up at him, "But for you, Aether? I'll do my best."
With a small grunt, he stood up and tugged me onto my feet as well with a soft clink of my platemail dress. And I couldn't help but notice yet again how I was just a bit shorter than him- my eyes only reaching to his mouth.
"Thank you, that means a lot to me, Heva," He whispered- pressing his lips to my forehead and making another blush erupt on my cheeks, "Want to go grab something light to eat before we head out?"
"Y-yes please." I whispered back- trying and failing to keep my voice from quavering. But that only made Aether chuckle, and myself pout in response.
"Since it was a bad dream…" Aether mused out loud for me to hear, "Does that mean doing the opposite will make your dreams come true?
"Do the opposite?" my soft voice whispered, "A peaceful life where the strong look after those who aren't?"
And I found out that the more I thought about it, the easier it was to smile.
"Yes, that sounds like a good dream indeed." I giggled- smiling bright at Aether as we glided side-by-side through the air above the city, I couldn't help but whisper to myself.
"It was just a bad dream…" he reassured me as I glanced at him- at the love of my life. And reaching out to him- our fingers brushing as we sailed through the air.
Yes… All but a dream, and I'm glad to have finally woken up from it. Because it was time to live my life for real this time.
- The End -
AN:
Some people, no doubt, have a 'WTF' expression on their face after reading this chapter…
Fellow author 'The Dark Wolf Shiro' has a discord server where I hang around… with, I quote from him, 'a bunch of other authors and a load of porn.' Here's the link for that: discord .gg/wd3tUYWVCd
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APRIL FOOLS!
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The Real Chapter 19 will be posted tomorrow.
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For those who actually thought this was real, Please watch out for more April Fools pranks from other people.
I had to nerf Hev into the ground in this 'chapter.' And this 'chapter' was actually twice as long, but I cut out the part where the waifus (Klee included) get slaughtered. Writing Klee screaming out in pain was the worst things I've done. I wanted to write an April Fools for the 'You got us there, Infonticus, you mischievous rascal.' moment, and not for the 'That was a horrifying and tragic scene of a little girl screaming for her parents as she died, Infonticus.' moment. So yes, let's have good vibes this April.
Also, the Aether scene made me want to vomit.
I do plan on visiting the Highschool DxD universe. Suffice to say, the real battle isn't going to be as merciful for the Hero faction.
Happy April Fools, everyone.