Ezekiel 32:7
Verse Concepts
"And when I extinguish you,
I will cover the heavens and darken their stars;
I will cover the sun with a cloud
And the moon will not give its light.
Lives 1.2
From a room with a statue of his likeness, Ophion crashed through the ceiling.
"Gyahh," Ophion snarled when he extricated himself from the rubble.
The great rage on his face can only be described as apocalyptic. His subordinates didn't move a muscle lest they be the victims of his ire.
Except one who asked," Ophion-Sahib, what happened?"
He was a very strict looking young man with narrow eyes, large angry looking eyebrows, a strong chin, and a mouth in a perpetual frown. His uniform was closed as it should be with a red discipline committee armband.
The floating red jewels floated around him and behind his head an ornament appearing as a blazing halo matching his jewels. They flashed the moment he saw Ophion tattered and in a less than ideal state.
The dragon man's pants were torn, he was missing a shoe, and he was lacking his signature cape blazer. Dust and cuts covered his body from going through concrete, electrical wiring, and drywall.
Despite all this Ophion still looked powerful and intimidating
The young man's grip around the riding crop tightened as the vitriol ridden eyes of Ophion turned towards him. The passionate rage behind those eyes made the young man swallow.
He has never seen Ophion Sahib look so animated as this.
Ophion was about to bark orders at his fearful subordinates, but a spike of defensive instinct flowed through the dragonborn
"Nightmare edge!"
Ophion struck from above with his claws as he physically blocked the blade falling towards him like a guillotine. The black flames singed his hand, but with a grunt of force he pushed the charlatan back.
The mangy cur dared to continue his assault on his magnificence …
Ophon's eyes dilated in wonton anger.
The mutt had forced him, him of all majesties, to raise a hand in defence!
The subordinate of Ophion with the red jewels saw the rage in his master's eyes and immediately told the other men to escape.
"Ophion Sahib has been angered beyond anything I have ever seen by an intruder," He warned through the mike in his dress shirt's collar, "evacuate three floors down or you will be caught in his rage!"
"Understood Aizen-sama," the man heard through the receiver in his ear.
Aizen watched on and saw the creature that had angered his master.
What he saw filled him with a sense of dread.
"Now, to appear now of all times," Aizen muttered.
The line of passion clear as day between Ophion Sahib and the bearer of his master's affection.
How vexing it was to see that Sahib was being moved by this without his knowledge.
Ragna landed in a crouch with his blade drawn, he glared at the seething golden dragon before him.
"Che," Ragna glowered at the guy.
Just looking at him inspired anger in him for some reason. There was something inside him resonating with the man's image.
"Oi," Ragna called out to the simmering dragon.
With glowing red and green eyes Ragna demanded answers, " who are you to me and why do you vex me so much."
Ragna wondered why he used the word vex, he didn't usually talk like that.
Ophion regarded the beast before him with hate filled disdain.
"You bel…"Ophion stopped in mid sentence with wide.
Why did he try to converse with this thing? Was his demeanor shifting around this object's proximity? This mongrel's eyes tempered his rage.
Why!?
Ophion held his head, he growled a demand at Ragna, " what have you done to my mind!?"
"Your mind!?" Ragna shouted at him back ," you blasted cocksure common lacertilia, you're the one toying with my mind!"
He didn't even know what a lacertilia was! He didn't use the word blasted!
What did this scalie do to him!?
"Common Lacertilia!?" Ophion raged as he took a step forward.
Ragna growled as they both circled around the damaged venue. Eyes not leaving each other, they grew closer contemplating what the other meant to them.
They thought about the best way to rip the other to shreds.
Sitri watched from the hole in the ceiling as the two stopped before one another. Ragna was about quarter a head shorter than the dragon and less broad. His eyes never wavered as he glared up at Ophion's fiery leer.
The dragon man stared down at the thing before him. The fur was like moonlight with the tips of ears being black, a broad yet narrow figure. He recognized that uniform being from that school full of Eden's kind. The hunk of metal it lofted about had a crack in it exposing something else beneath it.
"I'm gonna ask one last time," Ragna announced , " who are you to me?"
Ophion gazed down at this thing, he felt a spark of familiarity at the defiance in its eyes.
It broke what little restraint he had mustered.
Ragna moved at the same time Ophion had tried to rip off his head. There were sparks flying as Ragna blocked the heavy slash with his blade. He threw a punch at Ophion's face, a wing blocked the blow.
A grunt left the dragon man's throat, the wing pushed Ragna back.
The wolf therian flipped back to the ground in a crouch. Ophion and Ragna stared at each other.
BBCP OST - Childish Killer
There was silence as the two just watched one another. The calm before the storm stood in that room.
Aizen watched in rapt attention, for these two were bound by a fate of love.
A fate that brought Aizen much ire.
Sitri swallowed at the tension the sheer weight those two guys were causing in the atmosphere. He took a step back from the hole and a bit of plaster fell from the ceiling.
A 'tak' was heard like a dong to start and the two lounged at each other.
A shock wave was felt around the room when they clashed.
"Grah!"
"Hah!"
Two shouts were heard as their fists clashed, both with gritted teeth at the force each put out.
With narrowed eyes both jumped back, Ragna swung his blade. Ophion batted it away at its flat side, he tried to claw through Ragna's heart. The wolf therian weaved under the strike, then swung his blade upwards at Ophions head.
The dragon man's head weaved to the left, he brought his fist down at high speed.
Ragna jumped back from the explosive force that left a hole on the punch left. He kicked off the ground and flew back towards Ophion. He flipped through the air and brought his own fist down.
Ophion's wing blocked the blow, a crack was heard beneath his feet. The floor gave way to the lower room.
Both 'che'd as they fell below, Ophion landed with a heavy thump.
Ragna flipped his body mid-air and brought his leg down in an ax kick.
Ophion saw the attack as futile, his leg would be pieced through by his horns.
Until his head smashed through the floor below.
His bleary vision obscured by dust and debris noticed the shocked group of maids and mobsters staring up at his head.
Ragna didn't let up and brought down his blade at Ophions back. Those tough scales prevented his sword from cutting through, but the force of Ragna's strength sent Ophion through the floor. There were screams and shouts from the people below as Ophion's body rocketed down through the next floor past them.
They saw Ragna jump through the hole after one of the top executives in the guild.
"Wha?"
"That was master Ophion!"
"We must assist him!"
"Yeah, no; Tampered love, clouded passion; A La Gryps!"
There was a flash of light with soft red feathers hitting them. Suddenly the crowd was far too distracted to follow their master.
The new objects of their affection were in their sights in one another.
Sitri wisely left before the undressing started.
He walked into the hallway, he heard another crash. He sprinted to the noise.
Just as he left Aizen was power walking to the crashes, until he heard the voices.
"Oh, yes!" A woman's voice shouted.
"Oh, babe!" A male howled.
Azen paused and looked towards the room.
His eyes dilated at the artificial links of love
"Deeper.." a males voice moaned through the door.
The look of horror on Aizen's could only be called hysterical. His mouth gaped larger, the sound of rhythmic thumping echoed in the hallway.
The gems around him began blinking as the red in his face slowly spread throughout his body.
"What do you all think you're doing!?"
Lasers could be seen from a distance from the tower all through Tokyo.
Tetsuya and his wolf therian ally wondered what those shots were as they flew off.
The Outlaws were going to regroup.
Ophion landed on all fours with a scowl on his maw. This wasn't some mere beast, it was clear that there was something more to it.
But first; Ophion moved faster than he had before and caught Ragna's wrist; this beast needed to be properly disciplined.
It might make for a fine pet one day.
He threw the surprised wolf therian to a wall. Ragna already oriented his body to land feet first.
Ragna looked up to see Ophion coming at him.
"Gyah!" Ophion shoulder checked him through the wall and into the hallway. Cracks formed on the wall Ragna slammed into.
"Che," Ragana went as he forced himself out of the way of Opion's claw piercing the wall. The dragonborn gave a low growl, his tail lashed at Ragna.
The wolf therian blocked the strike with his blade. The force sent him skidding down the hallway knocking over several potted plants.
He glared at the dragon taking his claw out of the wall. Those burning red eyes leered into his hetero-chromatic ones.
"Beast," Ophion began with a chuckle, " your defiance is oddly amusing."
Ragna gave him the flattest gaze he could muster and responded, "You've got a twisted sense fun, don't ya?"
"Hmph," Ophion went with a hand on his hip," plebeian forms of entertainment is hardly fitting for those who rule."
"Wow," Ragna sarcastically said to the dragon man with that posh nose turned up," it must be so rough being so high up."
"Not as if the lowly could comprehend the gaze of their betters," Ophion started with a claw cradling the egg around his neck," so scream while being torn to shreds."
The egg shaped gem glowed as creatures of a draconian variety flew at Ragna.
With a swing of his arm the head of a black monster jutted out of his shadow. A black being with white primal eyes with even whiter teeth. Ophion's eyes widened slightly as his drakes were consumed with a loud chomp a centimeter from his face.
"Gauntlet Hades!" Ragna exclaimed, he appeared as the beast's head disappeared in flints of darkness. A monstrous clawed hand grasped onto Ophion's flabbergasted head.
Sparking with infernal strength, Ragna swung the dragon man's form into a wall with a great crash. Dark electricity flowed through his body as he ran. Ragna gritted his teeth at the power his vessel dealt with.
His body, why did he think of his body as simply a vessel? No, that didn't matter now
The wall rent as he dragged Ophion through. Ragna moved like a bullet, screams and shouts were heard as squads of the members of the Roppongi guild were sent flying. Ragna left devastation with each step the ground cracked. Once grand carpeting and flooring were obliterated where his feet trespassed.
Dust and other debris were left in his wake while he dragged Ophion through the tower walls.
The blur of gold, white, red and black shot through the building. Going down floors, wrecking stairwells, and the occasional shout of pain from Ophion.
He had never been man handled like this before.
He wanted the wretch to pay a thousand fold for this humiliation!
Ragna gritted his teeth as the power thrumming through him started to hurt.
He ended up in a hallway with windows lining the walls. With a grunt he spun, Ophion careened through the windows. Glass shards fell as Ophion slammed through the row of windows in the hallway, sending glass littering everywhere.
The dragon man was sent out the building leaving Ragna slightly winded.
He looked out the window and felt his eyes twitch.
"Yare yare," Ragna muttered.
Ragna's eyes followed the rise of a large shadow blocking the light of the sun.
The large creature looking like a classical western dragon glared down at the wolf therian.
Ophion rarely found himself being in such a state that he'd take on this form. To think this cur brought him to this point.
Surely, it now knew it's folly. The great dragon thought this to be the truth.
Then Ragna punched him in the eye.
Sitri watched while hovering in the hallway as Ragna punched a giant gold dragon.
"Rooooiiirrrrrr!" Rattled the tower as the two fell from the tower.
"This guy really is as cool as he looks," Sitri commented with a smile despite being in enemy territory.
"You," a shaky voice said behind the cat therian.
Sitri turned towards a haggard looking aizen with blinking gems behind him. Sitri gulped at those harrowed eyes.
Aizen could see the ability to warp the fate of love in those wings. His hands gripped the whip in his hands at the reckless child before him.
"You are in need of, discipline."
Sitri flew as fast as he could out the broken window to get away from the weirdo.
"..No this girl, but," the boar man stood as he watched the large chested blond with a golden mane snuggle the young child to her chest.
"So precious," Saya gushed as the recently summoned therian snuggled more into her.
The boar man felt a twinge of familiarity from her, but a strike of envy at the child in her arms.
Still he was frozen in frustration on what to do.
"Um, I feel this is inappropriate miss?" Toji stated flatly, only to be ignored by the girl.
He sighed, this was grating on his nerves, but this girl was strange.
She appeared human enough, but that didn't role her out as a transient.
"Neh, Neh don't you think I'm cute too, how about a little hug?" Hogen asked in a failing attempt to be cute.
Toji just sighed at the sight.
"Hah, what is all this noise?" a groggy voice asked.
Coming towards them was a grey wolf therian wearing a green archer's hoari, stylized hamaka pants stuffed into green boot. His right side was showing defined muscles with his exposed arm cover in a red cloth arm-guard that stopped below his shoulders. He wore a green hat with a long red tassel flowing behind with his mane of fur. The mane went up from his collarbone then down his back.
His golden eyes gazed at each of them before they stayed on the girl.
"You have appear before this Temujin, my companion."
His eyes narrowed at the child snuggling into that which was his. He stalked towards the two ignoring the non-essentials around him and grasped for the child.
"Whelp, lest you draw my ire, remove yourself from my companion," Temujin ordered the younger canine.
At the same time Moritaka and Shino finished climbing the stairs. Moritaka saw that Saya had a new victim in her very skillful hands. He also saw that wolf therian grabbing at the boy.
Behind them was a muscular bestial looking man dressed in a police uniform. He pumped his arms with red covering the forearms leading to sealing ropes as he ran.
"Wait, when Saya-hime has someone in her grasp, forcibly removing them is volatile ," Moritaka called out, catching everyone's attention.
"Moritaka?" Saya said in confusion, she may have forgotten herself for a bit there.
Cute growls were heard as a grunt of pain came from the wolf therian.
"Another cutie," Saya said out loud.
The grey therian grunted as the pup had a vicious bite on his hand. But she felt like indulging the wolf was a bad idea for some reason.
"Ah finally arrived, Tajikarao," Hogen greeted while feeling up the man's rear.
Shino raised a brow as the man they ran into on the way to the shrine ushered the older officer to the side. The way that man looked upon Saya was not one Shino could let go.
He would keep an eye out for any odd moves from their side.
"To be attacked so blatantly, was this a trick to deprive me of my dominant hand, my companion?" Demanded the Temujin. Saya couldn't help but feel he was being playful despite his threatening tone.
The pup's angry face soon lost its rage.
He spat out the hand in his mouth; he'd rather not think about where it might have been; and looked around at the crowd around.
"Wh-where am I?" the child asked while tearing up.
"Oh, don't worry you're safe- why are you hiding behind that guy?" Saya asked as the child hid behind Toji.
"He se-seems reliable, also you're the scariest one here!" The young therian exclaimed while pointing at her.
"Eh?" Saya questioned with a tilt of her head," but he looks ready to cut anyone down."
The child looked up with wide eyes at the young man. His face was flat, but his eyes were rather annoyed.
"Saya-hi- Saya-do- Saya-ch," Moritaka struggled to say. He was embarrassed to have called her hime of all things
Shino looked like he was about to bust a gut at the boy's sudden embarrassment.
"Should we not find the rest of our team?" Shino asked with a smile.
The conversation between Tajikarao and Hogen was becoming a bit heated. He bestial man kept gesturing towards Saya. Hogen was much more serious faced than before as he heard the man out.
"Oh, right," Saya said as she stood.
The wolf therian had enough of being disregarded and demanded, "my companion, do not ignore me."
"..." Saya looked at him for a tick then looked at her phone. She looked back to Shino and said, "we're too evenly spread, we'll have to do more than one jump to gather everyone up."
Temujin growled in annoyance, to everyone else it was a threat. To Saya it was the same as a spoiled child being told no. Besides, if he behaved she'll play with him later despite the petulance.
"I shall follow you then," the boar man suddenly announced at Saya.
"….Kay," Saya said at the sudden announcement, " who are you?"
"Gullinbursti," the man answered.
"Why do you want to follow me?" Saya asked. She didn't have an issue with him, for some reason he made her feel comfortable. Familiar, just like the wolf therian, it was odd.
"I do not know where I am, but there is something about you I feel I must confirm and the only way to do that is to follow you, thus I will!" He boldly exclaimed.
"Just following a feeling, really?" The child asked flat disbelief.
"Oh yeah, I didn't get your name little guy," Saya stated suddenly with that familiar glint in her eyes; Moritaka sighed at the sight.
"I am Gullinbursti," the boar man greeted needlessly.
Saya smiled his way and introduced herself with a formal bow, "I'm Saya Tenjo Amanohokosaka Ayatsuki."
"Amanohokosaka," Toji murmured, a twinge from his blades left him pondering the name.
"Er, Agyo, miss, are you a noble?" He answered.
There was a strange air of calmness around the girl that simply felt that she was somehow cut from a different cloth than most.
"I don't remember anything before the past day, so I wouldn't know," Saya admitted with the shake of her head.
"You don't remember anything?" Agyo asked with knitted brows. She didn't act like someone who didn't have any memories.
Shino didn't know that; Moritaka just commented," I did hear about that from the teachers, but…"
"All I know is that I have something to do with this game everyone's playing, " Saya said.
"I don't believe you, " Toji stated," if you truly lost your memory yesterday you'd be helpless."
"I had a lot of people help me," Saya said back with crossed arms," they're still helping me, even now."
Toji just scoffed and said," are you responsible for these two being summoned?"
That caught Agyo's and Gullinbursti's attention.
"Well, during that spell, I did see several lights coming from the 24 portals in Tokyo," Saya stated," it caused a flux of sorts, so maybe." Saya shrugged, she kept the red eyed doppelganger to herself. That was more for the people she trusted than anything else.
"So you were responsible, send them back!" Toji ordered.
"What, can you really do that? Then send me back already!" Agyo announced.
"While I have chosen to follow you, afterwards I too will be required to be sent back," Gullinbursti added.
"No, I don't think I have that type of power," Saya plainly stated.
"Really?" Agyo questioned with suspicion.
"I really don't know if I can, memory loss remember," Saya answered.
"And yet you seem to be quite sure of yourself," Toji commented.
"Obstinance, can only be forgiven so much," Shino warned the boy. Toji viewed the therian with narrowed eyes, Shino was dangerous.
"Hmph, this show might amuse myself, I shall join you all," Temujin stated in amusement.
The girl said she saw something coming out from the 24…..
"Wait, 24 portals! There are only 23 in Tokyo!" Toji exclaimed, catching Hogen and Tajikarao's attention.
"Nope, 24 in total, the last one is hidden by a powerful barrier preventing others from viewing it," Saya calmly explained.
She didn't understand why everyone was so shocked. There were magic portals littering all over the city. They should be used to this type of stuff.
Was a new portal opening weird?
Agyo floated in the air as he and Gulinbursti wondered what was wrong
Then space shifted once more, but a familiar shift occurred around them.
"Gyahahahaha, found you noobie!"
There was a clash of blades echoing in the courtyard.
"Hmph, impressive," Jin complemented the false child before him.
"Hup," the tanned dark haired boy went as he was pushed back by Jin. He ducked under the blow of one of the warrior minions.
"Hai!" the boy exclaimed, he swung one of the five katana's with no less power than a great warrior. The Warrior's minions head was cut clean off.
"Hya," Jin punched a valkyrie's head in.
Then both charged at each other and swung at the other. The boy struck with high speed switching between blades as. The clash of blades echoed on as Jin matched each strike without pause.
Both grunted as they went past the other and struck down on the minions surrounding them.
Since Jin crashed landed in the workshop he and this false child had been locked in combat.
The minions dissipated and Jin turned back and struck with his blade.
"Che," the false child was pushed back to a wall.
"The end!" Jin exclaimed the boy tried to draw his largest blade, but realized he would be too slow. He was about to be ran through.
"Go! Talos!"
"Understood creator!"
Jin put a forearm just as the red headed darkly tanned colossus's fist slammed into him.
"Kuh," Jin was pushed back by the force from the…
"A doll…. Interesting," Jin muttered at the tall automaton before him. He slashed to the side, a valkyrie was parted in two.
But just as he was about to continue against this guild, a voice sounded from his phone.
"Ota Nexus! Destroyed! Winners! Team Craftings!"
Jin considered his next option as the minions dissipated. With a grunt he turned away and stretched his senses. The closest obstruction was north, he walked away.
"Wait, where do ya think you are going?" Jin turned towards the boy with his sword drawn.
"There is no reason to linger, Five in One," Jin stated as he began to walk.
The boy glowered, the automaton moved in front of the boy. From a speaker a grave voice asked," was the nexus your only reason for coming here?"
Jin paused then answered," there was no other."
The boy dashed past the doll to Jin. The armored one put up an arm, a magic circle appeared before him.
"Musashi!" the automation called.
The boy swung his blade through the circle towards Jin. Musashi gagged as Jin's fist buried in the boy's solar plexus. Jin then charged, snatching the boy by the collar of his hoari, then slammed Musashi into the ground.
"Khah," Musashi gagged at the air was forced out of him.
Jin then kicked the boy at the side sending the child rolling towards the worried looking doll.
"I have no qualms with the likes of all of you," announced Jin callously.
"I refuse," Musashi grounded out,"to admit defeat to one who does not know himself and most importantly does not know his blade!"
"..." Jin glanced with this blade and saw a crack in the blade.
He could see her waving back just fine.
With a scoff he walked off and he left the grounds of the technical school's gates.
As he went towards the next nexus he checked once more.
It was not time to reveal his true blade.
Next up is: prelude to chaos.