Jeremiah 33:20
Verse Concepts
"Thus says the Lord, 'If you can break My covenant for the day and My covenant for the night, so that day and night will not be at their appointed time,
Those with Prayers
The One Who Stands in the Way (Exception Theme) - Tokyo Afterschool Summoners Original Soundtrack
It had started out with the immediate destruction of the nexus. The guild known as the Missionaries got rid of the issue as soon as the madness hit the city.
Succor was offered and given to those that underestimated this event and feared the pain of death. There was no way of broadcasting this offer, but through the SUMMONS app.
Many flocked and joined their ranks as they helped gather others.
Many also saw them as a prime target.
Maria had hoped that good intentions would win out. But now she had no choice but to agree with Zabaniyya.
*Roar!*
They had to fight to protect others.
The sound of the wyverns echoed as the angels, the winged men of the Missionaries guild, brought the beasts down from the skies.
Lances of fire shot through the battlefield outside burning away purple pestilence that poisoned many on the grounds with her.
She gasped in pain, the latest victim from the battle gazed at her in concern. The thorns around her took the pain of others into herself. But she feared she was close to reaching her limits.
"Maria it's time for a rest," Hati told her.
" Th-there's still too much to do," Maria responded," those being evacuated?"
Many new players were not aware of what it truly meant to use this app. The pain was real, the death was real. it wasn't, but it was scary enough for them to come to their doors.
"Those guys wussing out of this fight already got out a while ago," the hyena therian assured while leaning on a wall.
"And miss Gabriel?" Hati asked.
"~Oh~ no worries, our i~d~o~l-chan is covered deeper in the school," the hyena therian assured.
"I see," Maria smiled at him," my thanks Nyarlathotep."
"No worries our, dear, Madonna," Nyarlathotep said brightly.
But Maria could see it didn't truly reach his eyes. Like most of the time when they spoke with one another, he was distant.
She looked around to those getting up to rejoin the fight against the forces of the Tycoons.
Why were they fighting with us? A silly question Maria thought, the Tycoons viewed them as a threat to their power.
Despite them being peaceful and helping others, the Missionaries had a sizable amount of influence in Tokyo.
It was as simple as that, a cruel perspective to take out a potential obstacle.
No more, no less.
"I still don't understand why they targeted lady Grabriel," Hati growled in frustration.
The one and only angelic female, Maria questioned the gender once. But it had something to do with her summons to this Tokyo. The summoning to this Tokyo can cause odd shifts, even transformations one didn't see coming. Maria assumed the angel of the same name was masculine in all cultures.
This world truly didn't surprise her anymore.
"To bum everyone out of the fight, no better way to put a damper on everyone's spirits than to take out the lovely maiden, ya dig?" Nyarlathotep answered.
"I guess," Hati answered.
"So got any word on the princy lad and his hanger-ons?" Nyarlathotep asked while sticking his tongue out. Those guys didn't particularly like being around him.
Rep and all that jazz.
"Shinya and the others are securing the back from an attack by a Therian manipulating the wind," a nether angel answered as he descended.
"I see," Maria commented, "then those attacking our flank?"
"Confirmed to be Hakumen and her retinue, along with an unknown bull transient," he angel reported.
"I see, please keep safe with the others," Maria said to the angel.
He nodded towards her, a dispassionate gaze of judgement at her form. He rejoined the wall of angels covering the skys against more draconic intrusions.
Everyone on the ground then shook as it trembled.
"Hm!?"
Maria didn't even get a chance to call out to anyone. A large and exceptionally muscular bull therian the size of a house rammed through the school wall sending many flying.
Hati covered Maria from the debris.
"Nice going Gyugyu!" A female voice.
Maria knew that voice and dreaded dealing with the owner.
It was a well dressed feminine biped fox with nine tails in oriental outfil with a golden headdress and ridiculously high heels.
Those with Desires
The Wonder of Computers (Hakumen's Theme) - Tokyo Afterschool Summoners Original Soundtrack
"Now to find that little idol," the fox stated with her flaming nine-o-tails whip at the ready. Running to her was a tall Xolotlzquintle therian wearing a well made suit with a security armband around his right bicep.
"Please stay close lady Hakumen," whined the dog," I can't protect you if you run off like that."
"Then keep up Xolotl, honestly!" Hakumen griped at her bodyguard.
"Hakumen, don't forget what we talked about," the bull she called gyugyu said as he shrunk down. Only his tattered pants were left on his buff person.
"Yes, yes, convincing that little girl to help with that project," Hakumen dismissed with a wave of her hand," also your new suit is held by an aether maid back there. hmph, this event makes things much more inconvenient."
The bull therian sighed and agreed, " it certainly does, I hope I don't have to go through anymore suits today."
Hakumen looked him up and down then shrugged," but it does give some interesting sights doesn't it?"
The bull laughed as he flexed," I can't argue with that, gyahahahah."
He left back through the hole as a group of mobsters and maids went past them to begin the Daikanyama ransacking.
Hakumen imagined their victory, but she knew this was just the beginning.
Once the 'special' event was over and done with, surely the fight between her, Ophion, and Lucifuge would come to a head. A true guildmaster was needed in the Tycoons now. This event made that clear, it also was a chance to demoralize their enemies from taking advantage of the Tycoons civil war.
She refused to be on the back foot, being the one to claim victory at Daikanyama would raise her standing!
Then she could start planning for the appearance of her liege!
Suddenly there was a shadow covering the sun, Hakumen looked up in shock at the sight falling from the sky.
"What in the world?" Hakumen asked out loud.
Xolotl was already on the move, he snatched up his mistress in his arms and ran the opposite direction. The massive thing falling from the sky had everyone in rapt attention.
Nyarlathotep calmly walked away as Hati dragged Maria from the field.
Xolotl saw that they weren't going to make it past the object's shadow. So he made a snap decision.
"Mistress Hakumen, forgive me," Xolotl said with a gentle smile.
"Xolotl wha-aahhhhhh!" Hakumen yelled as she was thrown out of the shadow with a roll.
She caught sight of her bodyguard being smothered with the others that failed to make it out.
The thing was cold to the touch and smelled sweet...
Hakumen stood up with rage on her face.
Her dumb dog just got crushed under several metric tons of pudding.
That would simply not do!
She activated the flames of her nine-o-tails.
"Get to digging! We need to find all survivors and regroup with that boy, Seth!" Hakumen ordered.
"Yes ma'am!" the surviving mais]ds and mobsters saluted.
On top of said mountain of pudding with a dumb grin on his face laid Ryota.
He was teleported into the sky, but his desperation to survive saved him. The healing pudding kept him alive and well.
He could only think one thing.
"Best. Sacred. Artifact. Ever!"
Those without Succor
Memories of Battle -Danze Delle Spade- (Ikebukuro Underground Labyrinth Battle Theme) - Housamo OST
"Man, this is just boring!"
"Gotta agree with Kengo on this one," a swift jab smashed a minion into a dungeon wall," this is boring."
A red head with a well built body wearing a leather cestus on his forearms with matching Greece sandals and a pteruges skirt of leather around his hips. A wing like cape hung over his shoulders.
His hetero chromatic eyes were dispassionate at the weaker minions they were fighting. He wished the giants were more common, those took some effort.
"Keep farming those minions!" An ax wielding dwarf barked. If all went as planned the profit would reach over a million.
They just had to follow his time table!
He hung back with a bored muscular scantily dressed purple therian. His outfit were leather straps that strategically accentuated the contours of his body connecting with pieces of armor that didn't obstruct his desire to show off.
"Hm, when do we switch out?" the flamboyant therian asked while playing with a lock of his mane," joining Garmr outside to beat back all the teams against us would make a much better use of my time."
"For the last time just wait until it's your turn to go outside," the dwarf griped.
The nexus appeared in the lobby area of the arena. Considering how the entirety of Ikebukuro was affected by this one place it was no surprise it would be close by. That meant a lot of people came to try and take it out initially.
Then they sent out Macan, the survivors never came back.
" Ah, but Andarvi," the therian addressed," this is pretty uninteresting, even you have to admit that."
"Working boring jobs for profit is what most normal people do, Bathym ," Andarvi said, waving off the therian.
Bathym stuck out his tongue," sounds like needless misery to me."
"To make profits it will cost you blood, sweat, and tears," Andarvi announced," if you want to have fun at your job then figure out a passion and make it work for you."
"You mean what I do everyday~ hohoho," Bathym chortled, the dwarf rolled his eyes.
Not everyone found what he did fun.
"Oi Pollux, shouldn't it be Macan's and Kamui's turn!?" Kengo called out to the red head.
"Yeah," the red head then called to the dwarf," where are those two anyways!?"
"Macan said that the minions are boring and don't have a taste, Kamui never came in!" Andarvi answered.
He checked their point counter, still below quota.
Below them in what could be amounted as a dungeon, in a certain cell laid a massive stout tiger therian.
His fur was golden with darker stripes, white went down from the bottom half of his maw down the front of his torso. His matted mane was wild spiky and long with wild bangs covering his large grass green eyes.
He was bored; he thought this event would be fun. That there would be loads of people to fight, but he got hamstrung to the Rankers team. It pissed him off, but as long as there were fun fights it wouldn't be so bad.
He was wrong, it was boring too.
He was Macan and he was bored.
After he fought outside most people cleared out. The traitors that tried to turn on him were a nice light snack. Onikawa was able to escape in the chaos. Apparently he was the cause of the whole traitor thing. Too bad it was Kengo who beat the guy in the end.
The tiger thought of giving Kengo another bite.
Macan just wanted something to sink his teeth into and to have his own flesh bit into.
A childish giggle left his mouth at the thought.
Would be nice if there was someone like that around.
There was another beep from his phone, he took it out of his loincloth. His phone had been beeping periodically throughout the day.
"Cthugha?"
Then again that red scalie guy didn't have many people he tried to talk to. With not much else to do Macan flipped through the messages and saw there were a bunch.
He groaned, but he looked through them.
…A mysterious girl with a lightsaber?
A secret district of mages and an army?
Hidden under Tokyo bay?
24th portal in Tokyo?
But the thing that caught his attention is the thing about super strong people.
He looked through the many many messages.
Timeloop?
Monster eats everyone in the battlezone?
"Black Beast eats everyone, even me?" Macan said out loud.
He didn't have an issue with that.
He got another notification.
"Don't worry we're gonna save all of you…" Macan read.
There was a selfie attached to the message, it was a picture of a red dragon therian.
In the shot with him was one of those western dolls in a school uniform.
Macan squinted his eyes at the shot, it was a really doll-like girl. Her mismatched eyes of amber and green made something inside Macan say that she was strong.
A smile slowly found itself forming on his lips revealing sharp fangs. His eyes flashed dangerously as he sat up. All this waiting wasn't doing anything, he needed to go out and do something he hadn't done for a while.
In that cell a tiger stood to leave with glowing eyes.
It was going out to hunt for prey.
Those without Knowledge
Where Time and Space End (Reminiscence) - Tokyo Afterschool Summoners Original Soundtrack
'Thump"
"This is ridiculous," a white bear therian stated while taking a seat on the floor.
"Leib, is it really okay to ignore everything that's going on?" asked a floppy eared yellow dog therian looking towards the fires and smoke from the boat they were on
"We're in a battlezone, a city wide one, everything will be put back to order after it's been properly closed," the bear said as he took a drag of his cigarette.
The dog gave him a flat look at the sight of him sitting down and smoking. Then hilarity ensued as the yellow dog nabbed Leib's pack of smokes.
"Cu Sith, give em' back!" Leib exclaimed.
"Nope!" Cu Sith yelled as he chucked a pack of smokes overboard, "cherish your last one!"
"Yare yare," Leib mourned.
He grimaced as the pack sink below the waves.
"Khu-fufufufu." was heard from a blue haired stylish schoolgirl with glasses.
"It's not that funny miss Benten," Leib commented.
"S-sorry, just your face," Benten said as she sat with her biwa," I couldn't help it."
"Yeah, yeah," Leib sighed with a hand to his face.
He glanced around the ship, it was wooden and archaic. But it was like it was made yesterday, not a surprise.
It was a Sacred Artifact after all.
Fenrir stood with his arms crossed at the beakhead with the wind trailing his hair and jacket at his back.
The boar in monk robes stared approvingly at the wolf therian.
"Guys a definite babe," he boar therian observed with a perverse giggle.
Then a chill went down his back. He turned to see another glowing lightly grey furred bear in a lab coat baring down at him.
"I sense evil coming from you," the bear therian stated.
"Eh!? I ain't that bad!" the boar declared at the unfazed glowing bear.
"Darn, bunch of land lovers," a buffalo therian with a peg leg commented from the wheel of the ship. He was dressed how one would think a ship captain in the Victorian era would wear.
A little ways away was a large blue crocodile therian, he had on an orange speedo a matching ascot, yellow cap, and striped shirt. His droopy eyes combed the surrounding ocean for any sign of strangeness.
"Anything Makara?" Asked a young pudgy boy wearing a middle school jacket, water resistant overall and boots.
The croc there shook his head and answered, " If I knew what I'm supposed to be looking for I would tell you but..."
Leib turned towards the large young man in the green parka with a hiking staff. A green gem in his forehead glowed. The closer they got to wherever they needed to go to get the certain info requested by a certain diminutive game master the brighter that gem glowed. Info that Leib and the beast tamers were interested in. In the end of the day it was because some secondary data was intriguing.
A possible underwater subterranean district under Tokyo bay? A New portal taking shape? Shadow wars being fought against different factions leaving kernels of data? A world interfering with Tokyo before the place got cut off by the walls?
That caught Leib's attention, especially when the ones responsible for the event are from Ao. This mysterious world popped out of nowhere and is causing trouble.
"Zao, we any closer?" Leib asked while savoring the last fag he'd smoke for a while.
"The dragon vein I'm sensing is really…" Zao struggled to find a word to describe," something."
It was different from the other mountains, like somehow the order of it was warped. Like it's been conquered long ago and had been modified. Zao didn't know how to feel about it. The mountain's natural state was already long gone.
Zao wanted to know how and why.
"Hey Leib, what's that?"
The bear with green framed glasses sat up from his seat and saw a blue mote of light over the sea.
"Hm," he held his chin in thought.
It was like a summoning from a portal, but not, It was odd.
There was a bright flash of blue.
Shiro and Nomad, soaking wet and hacking out sea water, were strewn on the deck.
The boy put on his glasses and took a deep breath before saying," thanks."
"No problem," Makara said with a smile.
"Shiro?"
"Zao-san! What are you doing here?" Shiro said to the giant young man.
"There is a mountain I must climb," Zao declared with shining eyes.
Shiro's face was flat as he muttered," figured out the obvious."
"Now how in the world did you bunch end up ou' here anyways," the buffalo therian asked.
"Botched-khuk-spell," Nomad hacked out with some water.
He resisted the urge to shake the water off like a wild animal. He would use a towel like any other human.
"Got a towel?"
"Just shake it off like any darn cat'," the buffalo griped.
Nomad grumbled under his breath as he walked away from the group to shake off the water.
Shiro took out his phone and checked the map function. He frowned at how their team was scattered out of the city.
There was another flash of light, this time white.
*Thump*
Shiro looked up and found himself staring up at a very tall shark therian. White going from the bottom half of his maw down to his hips area. His confused face glanced around the ship at the bewildered occupants. His body was peppered with scars from off-white markings on his head to tail.
He only had on a speedo.
He had narrowed blood red eyes, they glanced at each person on the ship.
"Where am I?"
"Um, on a ship in Tokyo Bay," Benten answered.
Everyone was surprised by the new summoning. The shark therian eyes landed on the girl and he grinned.
"Well, hey there cutie, the names Typhon, what's yours?" he asked brightly.
"...oh no, it's the aquatic version of the porker," Benten groaned facepalmed.
"You know you like me," the portly boar said while ignoring the gaze of the bear behind.
She gave the boar therian a look and said," no Ganglie, like tots no."
"Heheheh, I'll whittle you down eventually," Ganglie announced with a perverse smile," persistence is key."
The bear behind him growled, Ganglie felt sweat form from the leer.
"Jambavan leave the man be, as long as he ain't touching anyone it's fine," Leib ordered as he eyed Typhon.
It was odd to have someone just pop in, they were still in a battlezone. Did the citywide version still allow for summoning in an enclosed space?
"Oh, uh got distracted by the cutie- hey there handsome how ya doin'?" Typhon looked towards the less wet Nomad.
"...I ain't in the mood of being hit on, so don't bother," Nomad griped.
He was still trying to get the excess water off. He could evaporate it with fire, but this fire resistant underwear is probably reaching its limits. He would rather not go full exhibitionist, it'd be harder to find work if he started trending online.
Owing Andarvi for finding him more jobs wouldn't be helpful either. His debt to the dwarf would raise more problems in his life!
"Oh-pf, shot down on the double. Uh, right where am I?" Typhon asked sheepishly as he walked around the deck.
Shiro knew that some transients were big, but this guy was the biggest person on the ship. Shiro wondered if it was a trick of the light but it was like the man's height was fluctuating. He tried in vain to clean the bay's water from his glasses with his already damp handkerchief.
Blazblue Mashup- Anothen Chaos
Then Shiro felt a pulse of something.
"There!" Zao exclaimed with a bright smile catching everyone's attention. His third eye pulsing with energy.
"Uh, what is this feeling?" Makara asked as he looked around nervously.
"Turn your eyes towards this path," Fenrir announced.
They turned towards the beakhead and saw a multitude of lights gathering. Slowly a body formed from those lights.
"Whoa, a babe," Typhon and Ganglie exclaimed together. Both turned towards one another then grinned. Both saw that the other were men of culture.
"What type o' pony show is this? Get off the beak of the ship before you fall off, ya dumb brat!" The buffalo exclaimed
"Whose that?" Shiro questioned. That voice was familiar, but a bit higher pitched than he remembered.
Shiro finally put on his smudged frames and squinted at the figure on the beak.
He then exclaimed," Saya-san!? No her eyes weren't red!"
But she was different, the skin was peachier, her face was narrower.
Her eyes were closed as she landed gracefully on the ship's beak with her bare feet.
Her form fitting black bodysuit accentuated the curves of her body, it also had white over the groin area. A gust of wind blew making her cloak-like shawl flutter in the wind. it had a golden piece of fabric resembling a necktie. It split into 3 large folds, which are colored gold, black, and white. The two folds on the sides of her cloak are emblazoned with a large lambda letter and the text "No. 11" under it.
He also blushed at the revealing outfit she had on. He pondered on why those legs were bare of any clothing from the mid thigh down...
It was that adult stores fault. He saw too much, now he's been corrupted like Kengo!
"loading … loading," not Saya muttered.
Her eyelids opened slowly, red eyes glowed as she said, "system activated."
Her eyes shifted towards each of the person, then zeroed in on Zao, she then advised, "target, attempts to forcefully breach the defensive barrier is an ill-advised action."
Above her a portal opened from there fell a large object, it stopped right behind her.
"A sword?" Nomad questioned with narrow eyes. He had a feeling his report to Claude was going to get more interesting.
"This is your only warning, I repeat, this is your only warning," she stopped talking as the blade flashed.
Her face was covered by a visor with horn-like antennae and a single, glowing red eye. Over her jumpsuit, a harness attached to an orange jewel and to her shoulder guards. Those shoulder guards were gold and white, with a gray part on the nape of her neck. The shoulder guards were attached to her arm guards. Small blades similar to the floating swords sound were mounted on them. Her battle gear's most distinctive feature is the plate armor covering her legs. These armored leggings are mounted with blades. Her hips, upper arms, and armored leggings had glowing gold lights on them.
Her breasts bounced in their compartments, Shiro felt heat burn his face.
He has definitely been corrupted!
"Nice," Typhon and Ganglie complimented as their eyes looked up at the girl up and down.
Then their eyes narrowed at the eight sacred artifacts floating around her. Each was a single edged gunmetal blade with a green edge, and purple grip.
Leib stared at each and wondered how she could use so many sacred artifacts at once without backlash. Cu Sith was already in front of his tamer and felt his fight, flight or freeze response go wild.
This girl was dangerous!
Fenrir stood his ground with narrowed eyes at the powerful creature before him.
Makara put Eita behind him, the boy could tell when the sea was full of danger. But this girl was making his own defensive instincts go haywire.
Benten had narrowed and angry eyes at the girl before them. She took all the attention just now and she has the gall to threaten them. If the girl started something she was going down!
The captain of the ship stared at the strange bird on his ship's beak. He knew a storm when he saw one.
Zao's eyes narrowed towards her, the third glowed fiercely. She was threatening him for trying to climb a mountain.
That would not stand!
"You are to turn back effective immediately," the armored girl announced.
Her eight blades pointed towards the group, a pulse of power was felt as green glowed off of her.
"Or I shall be forced to eliminate you!"
Next: Triumvirate or Jitter Doll
It took me a bit to get it all to flow at all, but prelude to chaos is done.
Anyone give me your thoughts I'd love to hear it.