Hey everyone. Long time no see. It's your pal, Jude Warble!
Now, to start off, i will answer the replies:
AnimeKing211: Yup. He is evil, indeed.
Now, i will show the list of pairings:
Akira x Naruko x Futaba x Lavenza
Shadow x Dragon x Hana x Sona x Serafall
Issei x Rias
Menma x Asia x Ann X Chie
Jean x Haru x Tamamo x Akeno
Blue x Makoto x Ravel
Yu x Yukiko x Rise x Marie
Kanji x Naoto
Minato x Elizabeth x Yukari
Accel x Kokoro
Misogi x Shiki
Note: I forgot to mention this, but Hana is actually a character from an 18+ fan game in called Re: Maid Ch. 1 featured in . Check the game out! (Though don't ever fall for the bad endings, because they are extremely sad).
That's it for now! I may add some more in the near future!
And now, without further ado, i will leave with the story. As always, Stay Breezy!
In the streets of Kuoh. Nighttime
The atmosphere was extremely tense.
Hana stood with Mother Harlot behind her, with Flynn unsheathing his katana out, entering a swordsman stance.
"I shall give you your first and last warning. Do not interfere. Your not my target" Flynn said tightening his grip on his katana.
"And i shall give you your first and last warning. Do not try to fight Shadow Otsutsuki, because if you do, i will be the one to stand in your way" Hana said with a calm smile, which caused Flynn to close his in silence for a couple of seconds, before snapping them open.
"Then you left me no choice" He calmly said before charging at Hana.
"Your on!" She exclaimed before the seven heads of the beast of Mother Harlot roared out.
[Persona 3 OST: Mass Destruction]
"Mother Harlot! Mabufudyne!" Hana exclaimed pointing at the charging Flynn, before hundreds of ice stars gathered around Mother Harlot, before they were launched towards Flynn, who proceeded to dodge or slice through each of them with his katana. He then neared Hana, about to cut her horizontally in half, only for one of Mother Harlot's beast heads to catch the katana in its mouth, preventing Flynn from slicing Hana in half. This gave Hana the chance to deliver a roundhouse kick to Flynn's face, causing the former Samurai to stagger away, leaving his grip from his katana. Hana dismissed Mother Harlot, catching Flynn's katana in her hands as it fell, before her palm held the kanji for 'Tyrant' on it, with blue flames surrounding it. She then clenched her fist with the sound of glass breaking following immediately.
"Lucifuge!" She roared before a huge purple creature with long horns on its forehead, wearing green priest ropes while holding a golden book, appeared behind her. Wasting no time, Hana declared her attack.
"Lucifage! Mazanadyne!" She exclaimed before green light started to surround the area Flynn was standing on, before it suddenly exploded into a huge hurricane, surrounding Flynn. The hurricane died after a couple of minutes, with Hana waiting with heated breath for the results, only to gain her answer when Flynn charged from the smokescreen resulted from the hurricane made by Lucifuge, catching Hana off guard, before delivering a punch to her face with his gauntlet, knocking her away several feet, to which made Lucifuge catch her with his free hand to prevent her from flying away. Flynn's attack, however, knocked his katana from Hana's hands, which made Flynn retrieve it once again, before he proceeded with his own attack.
"Thunder Gods"
"?!"
Whispering his attack while pointing his katana to the sky, several thunderclouds appeared around both Flynn and Hana, before thunder strikes proceeded to strike down on the latter, to which Lucifuge proceeded to protect its own master. Unfortunately, Lucifuge could take too much, since he is weak to electricity, before he disappeared in blue flames after tanking the attacks for Hana, to which Hana raised her palm once again, bearing the kanji of 'Tyrant' on it, before clenching her fist once again.
"Beelzebub!" She called out before a humanoid fly holding a can with several skulls on it appeared behund Hana.
"Beelzebub! Demonic Decree!" She called out, before several trees appeared around Flynn, with his feet stuck in what looked like red quick sand, before a building sized sickle appeared out of thin air, and it swung itself at Flynn. However, once the sickle touched Flynn, it shattered apart, shocking Hana to the core, where the shock was enough for Flynn to break from Hana's trap, before stabbing his katana to the ground.
"Deadly Wind!" He roared out, before a hurricane found itself instantly engulfing both Hana and Beelzebub, slicing them apart mercilessly, before Beelzebub disappeared in a burst of blue flames shortly afterwards, and the hurricane disappeared after a couple of seconds, dropping Hana to the ground, who had several cuts all around her body, with pieces of her dress being tattered. Nevertheless, she slowly stood to her feet, panting heavily while glaring at Flynn.
"I'm not done yet" She muttered before her hand was engulfed once again in blue flames with the kanji of 'Fallen' appeared in her palm, before she clenched her fist.
"Adramalech!" She roared before a cross between a human, a horse and a peacock appeared behind Hana.
"Adramalech! Hellish Brand!" She roared before Adramalech had fire gathered around his hands, before he unleashed it in the form of a fiery deadly beam towards Flynn, who reacted by pointing his katana at the fire beam.
"Ice Age!" He roared out before the floor of the battlefield was instantly encased in ice, before several ice thorns sported out of the floor, and the fire beam started to freeze, before being frozen completely, before reaching Flynn, causing Hana to grit his teeth. She then dismissed Adramalech, before the kanji in her palm changed to 'Megami' before she clenched her fist.
"Cleopatra!" She exclaimed before a beautiful woman with blonde hair and revealing royal looking Egyptian woman outfit with multitude of snakes replacing her righ arm appeared behind Hana, who could swear that she saw Flynn smirking arrogantly at her.
"Are you foolish? I can completely nullify Light and Darkness magic. You can't hurt me" Flynn said causing Hana to opt a smirk of her own, confusing the former Samurai.
"Well, yeah. I know that. I noticed that you can resist all kind of elemental magic, while nullifying Light and Darkness, since you hold the essence of Masakado, but thrre is still the fact that you hold no affinity to Physical and Gun attacks, but what you don't about Cleopatra..." Hana stopped her speech, before giving Cleopatra her command.
"Cleopatra! Mediarahan!" The Velvet Room Denizen exclaimed before Cleopatra waved her hands, causing white light to engulf Hana, before her wounds, alongside her clothes were both healed and fixed respectively, returning her to top condition. She then prepared her next command.
"Cleopatra! Dazzle Ray!" Hana called out before a golden beam of light got shot from Cleopatra's hands, traveling towards Flynn, who held his head high.
However, much to his shock, surprise and disbelief, the beam of light pierced through his chest, causing blood to gush out from Flynn's mouth with huge amounts, with a football sized hole being formed in the fomer Samurai's chest, before he fell to one of his knees.
"Wha...?!" Flynn gasped out.
"...Cleopatra, in particular, has two certain passive skills. The first one is Adaptive Tactics, which allows her to change her weaknesses in a random pace once her weakness is exploited, and the second one, is called Light Pierce, which allows Cleopatra to bypass Light magic resistance and immunity, which is how i was able to make a hole in your chest" Hana said smirking, which caused Flynn to grit his bloody teeth.
"Now, it's time to finish this!" Hana exclaimed with newfound vigor, before dismissing Cleopatra, and holding her hand out, showing the kanji of 'Tyrant' in her palm, before clenching her fist.
"Tensei Lucifer!"
Exclaiming this out, Lucifer came in his full glory behind Hana. This time, however, that was a different version of Lucifer. Instead of demonic wings or angelic wings, he had the appearance of a tall, bald, black man, who was wearing a golden yellow jumpsuit with golden yellow boots, with his left arm being larger than his right, and it was bloated as if it had a huge tumor in it, along with veins crawling around it.
"Now time for you to disappear!" Hana roared out, causing Tensei Lucifer to flash a wicked smile at Flynn.
"Tensei Lucifer!..."
She began to call out her demon, before declaring her attack.
"Evil Shine!"
Calling out her command, Tensei Lucifer raised its huge left arm, forming a huge golden sphere of light 3 times his height, before throwing it towards Flynn, who closed his eyes, awaiting his death...
...But it didn't come, as Flynn was suddenly teleported away from the battlefield moments before the sphere of light could make contact with him, wher said sphere made contact with the ground, causing a huge explosion of golden light that engulfed the entirety of Kuoh town, before fading after a few seconds. Hana then looked at the place where her opponent stood, before clicking her tongue in annoyance.
"Man...He ran away..." She said before sighing.
"Well, what's done is done. Time to report back to Master Igor" Hana said before snapping her fingers, causing a velvet blue door to appear in front of her out of thin air, before the door opened, which made Hana dismiss Tensei Lucifer, before entering through the door. Once she walked through the door, said door closed behind her before disappearing in thin air just like how it appeared.
[End Music]
Inside the dorms of Kuoh Academy
"What do you mean he disappeared?!"
This was the triple response, or rather the yell of Naruko, Dragon and Lewis to both Akira and Yu, who recoiled from the collective yells of worry and frustration coming from the 3 females.
After retrieving Minato and Minako, the SEES were completely overjoyed, even Junpei was acting like a whiny damsel in distress, crying rivers while hugging both Minato and Minako, who woke up shortly after entering the dorms.
However, this joy was soon replaced with shock and worry the moment Lewis asked about the whereabouts of Shadow, to which the boys replied that he somehow vanished with Nyx, and when they asked Igor, his smile just increased that it threatened to split his face in half.
"You guys said that he and Nyx disappeared in a flash, right?" Marie asked voicing out her opinion.
"Yeah? So?" Yu asked in confusion.
"So if we were able to track Nyx's signal, then maybe we can find Shadow's own signal" Marie suggested.
"That's a great idea, Marie-chan! Do it now!" Lewis exclaimed, impatience clear on her face.
"I'm originally Izanagi-no-Mikoto, so i am one of the embodiments of the Collective Unconsciousness, so i can connect to it to see Nyx there" Marie said before closing her eyes, trying to find Nyx's life signal, with everyone waiting around Marie with held breaths. Not a few seconds later and Marie opened her eyes in complete shock and disbelief.
"Marie! What is it, Marie?!" Yu yelled for one of his lovers.
"I...I can't find Nyx's signal at all. It's gone. She's dead..." Marie whispered shocking everyone around her.
"What about Shadow?" Yu asked.
"I can't find his signal either" Marie answered in a whisper.
"Do you think that...Otsutsuki-senpai is..." Yukari trailed in her words, fearing to blurt it out.
"Nah. He's alive and kicking. Don't worry about him. He will be fine" Menma said casually.
"What's wrong with you?! That's your friend! Aren't you worried about him?!" Furious, Chie yelled out glaring at both Naruko and Menma.
"We won't be lying if we told you that we are worried about him, but Shadow had told us to never be worried about him. Besides, he had been in worse situations, and he still kicked out of it in one piece" Menma said.
"Your just gonna brush it off like this?! He's your childhood friend! Won't you try to find him?! Just what kind of friends are you?!" This time, it was Yukari's time to burst in fury at Menma's face.
"We just can't do anything regarding this case. It's out of our hands. I swear if i was able to do anything, i would have done it. But Shadow himself will tell me not to do anything" Menma said calmly to Yukari. However, still frustrated, Yukari's anger caused her to say a phrase that was the last straw for the white haired teen.
"Of course you can't do anything! It's because your useless!"
"?!"
This phrase made Menma open his mouth, but the words couldn't come out from the shock.
"Honestly! I think the Aspect of Sacrifice suits you! It's better to sacrifice someone like you who doesn't care about his friends! People like you have no right or reason to live!"
Yukari's second insult made Menma's blood run cold in his veins, and his heart felt like it stopped. The feeling that he was expressing right now was the same when Asia died in front of his eyes back in the church...
...No. It was even worse.
"Yuka-chan! Stop it!" Naruko yelled out as Asia came by Menma's side, trying to comfort him, where Menma's hair was shadowing his eyes.
"Stop this! Please!" Naruko said, with her voice being choked a little bit, with tears forming on the corners of her eyes.
"Do you have any idea what have you done?" Accel said, slight anger apparent on his voice.
"Menma-san!"
"?!"
Directing their attention towards Asia's yell for Menma, the group of human fighters looked, only to find out that Menma was walking in a quick pace outside the dorms in silence, not even responding to Asia calling for him.
"I will go talk to him" Naruko said before running towards where Menma headed.
"Wait for me, Naruko-san!" Asia called out, before running after Naruko.
"Yukari. Why did you do this?" Mitsuru asked with gentleness and calmness in her voice.
"He is cruel! He is just abandoning his friend just like that! Isn't that disgusting?! How come can he call himself a friend of Shadow-san?!" Yukari yelled out furiously.
"Still, it's never like that. It was an unreasonable stat of anger from you. Just like a brat throwing a fit" Ryuji said.
"Sakamato-senpai is right, Takeba-senpai. If anything, you should have just listened even more to his reasons regarding his reply" Naoto said calmly.
"But..." Yukari tried to say anything, but her brain refused to produce a response.
"You owe him an apology, Yuka-tan" Junpei said.
"You also owe Uzu-kun an apology, Chie-chan" Teddie said to Chie, who hung her head without saying anything.
"Ya know, Menma actually suffers from PTSD" Jean said, making everyone direct their eyes towards the blonde boy.
"This all started when his father kicked him from the clan alongside Naruko. Both of them just spent their time in the streets. Then, Menma met a girl called Sakura Haruno when he was 13, and she told him that she is in love with him. They kept on dating for a year, until one day, she tricked him and told him that she never loved him, while humiliating him in front of lots of people. Needless to say, the shock was big on him, but surprisingly, he just smiled it off, and broke up with her. Still, this made him suffer mentally, since she called him useless and a sacrifical pawn, where Menma decided to work hard for his own sake so that people would want him around. It was really heart breaking for him, and whay Takeba-san did was the last straw" Jean explained, making everyone in the dorms opt grim looks on their faces.
"Everyone. I think i know what is preventing us from detecting Shadow" Lewis said completely changing the topic, and making everyone look at her. She grew silent for a few seconds, before saying only one phrase.
"His Incubus heritage is overwritting his existence"
Outside the school dorms. At the park of Kuoh Town. Nighttime
"Menma-san!" Asia called out for Menma, looking right and left for him.
"Bro!" Naruko called out as well, helping Asia in her search. Not a moment later, and they found Menma sitting on a bench with his head hung down.
"Menma-san!" Asia said smiling while running towards Menma, with Naruko following soon after. They looked at him in silence for a few seconds, where he didn't lift up his head to look at them, before they sat in silence beside him on the bench. Asia on the right and Naruko on the left. Both girls sat in sildnce for a couple of minutes, before Menma broke the silence.
"I...I wanted to be useful. I wanted people to look at me well. I didn't want to be a hindrance...But..." Menma trailed in his speech, which made Asia place her hand gently on his, making Menma whio his head towards the former nun, only to see her smiling warmly at him.
"Menma-san...Your not useless. I know that. That face of yours...It says that you have accomplished a lot by youself. Never lose faith in yourself at all, Menma-san" Asia said, making Naruko smile at this gently, before hooking Menma's neck by wrapping her arm around her, yanking Menma with absurd physical strength, shoving Menma's head in between her abnormally huge K-cups breasts, before catching the white head's head with both hands, causing Menma to comically flail his arms ariund in a futile attempt to escape suffocation from Naruko's knockers.
"Aw come on! What's with the sullen mode?! This ain't my Bro that i know! Cheer up!" Naruko exclaimed, while Asia was smiling gently at both brother and sister.
"What a great union you have here..."
"?!"
Right in front of Naruko, Menma and Asia stood the Konoha 13 with their Jonin teachers behind them. This made Naruko and Menma jump to their feet instantly, with Naruko entering a close combat fighting stance, and Menma creating Kansho and Bakuya in his hands, with both glaring daggers at the Genin teams in front of them.
"Asia! Stay back!" Menma called for the former nun, who was already hiding right behind Menma before he called out for her.
"Focus on support, Asia-chan" Naruko said.
"R-Right!" Asia said.
"Well, Uzumaki-kun. It's been a while. Tell me. Are you still the naive useless stupid idiot that i left before he decided to betray the village?" Sakura asked flashing a mocking smile at Menma, who gritted his teeth at response at the pink head, only for Asia to place a gentle hand on his shoulder, making him look at her, smiling gently at him, before smiling gently at the former nun, who then stepped in front of Menma, glaring towards the group.
"Menma-san is not a useless person! He's a hard worker that is willing to put his life on the line for the people he love and care about! He saved me from death, so i owe him my life!" Asia exclaimed in an oddly brave tone that contradicted her calm tone.
"Ha! Whaddya know? He is so long gone to the hybrid freak that he started brainwashing others! How sick!" Sakura exclaimed.
"Hmph. That dobe is mine" Sasuke said unsheathing his sword, before pointing it at Menma.
"Sis...Don't worry. We will save you. Bro...I really wished that it won't come to this...I will release you from your agony...And that abonimation...I swear i will kill it to avenge you!" Mito said spitting the last part like a venom..
"What?! Shadow ain't a freak! Shadow ain't an abonimation! He is the only one who stood with us when the whole village treated us like trash! When our so-called father kicked us out of our clans! If anything, Minato Namikaze is the real abonimation! And all of you are just mindless pawns of his who can't think for themselves!" Naruko yelled out, completely pissed off as their enemies were badmouthing her childhood friend.
"They are so far gone. This wretched abonimation had already replaced their brains with filth" Neji said coldly, before he activated his Byakugan, causing veins to spread around the corners of his eyes. He then looked at both Naruko and Menma, only to smirk shortly after.
"They don't seem to have any Chakra reserves, but they have something shaped as a sphere inside of them, but it seems to be dull and weak. This will be an easy mission. I don't understand why they are enlisted as SSS-Rank threats in the Bingo Book..." Neji said.
"Little girl, please step back. We don't want you to get in harm's way" Kiba said to Asia, brandishing his claws, while Akamaru entered a fighting stance, growling at Naruko and Menma.
"Please. Step out of the way. We don't want you to be injured" Hinata said to Asia in concern.
"Bro...Sis...Please forgive me..." Mito muttered out, taking out her nagnita, before entering a fighting stance with tears streaming down her cheeks.
"Please stop this! This is wrong! You shouldn't fight! Please!" Asia called out, clasping her hands in the shape of prayer, begging for the Konoha ninjas to stop.
"As much as it pains me, but this is who it is. Sorry, kids, but orders are orders" Asuma said finishing his cigar, before dropping its remains on the grass, stepping on it shortly after with his heel.
"We can't ignore Hokage-sama's orders. His orders are absolute. Forgive us, but your Konoha's property, so we are tasked to take you with us back to the village" Kunerai said calmly.
"I know that it's unyouthful, but this is how a ninja should be. Forgive us, kids, but this is the time to show you how unyouthful imprudence could be" Gai said before entering his Taijutsu stance, with the other teams following shortly after, except for Kakashi, who simply looked at Menma in a relaxed state.
"Menma" He called out to Menma, causing the white head to look at him.
"Remember when i told you that one day, we might meet as enemies? I suppose that this is the day" Kakashi said.
"Kakashi-san..." Menma whispered in slight sadness, before witnessing Kakashi whipping out a kunai from his pouch, before raising his headband from his left eye, revealing a Sharingan with three tomoes in it.
"Now...Come at me with the intent to kill, and don't hold back" Kakashi said.
"Time to end this, you filth!" Sakura exclaimed with a smirk, where Kakashi was seen visibly disgusted from this, before focusing his sight once again on the three in front of them.
Suddenly, a purple transparent dome appeared around Asia in the shapeof a seven petal rose, isolating her from the outside world.
"Menma-san!" Asia said in worry.
"Don't worry, Asia. I have placed you within the protection of one of my Broken Phantasm, Rho Aias. This will protect you from anything in this battle. After all...Your my precious friend" Menma said smiling at Asia, to which the former nun blushed pink at this, before puffing her cheeks in annoyance. Then she raised her arm towards Naruko and Menma.
"Luster Candy!" She exclaimed before orange, blue and green lights swirled rapidly around both brother and sister in the same fashion as electrons around nucleus, before it got absorbed inside both Naruko and Menma, where said two felt their powers skyrocket way above the roof from the buff given to both of thrm by Asia, which caused Naruko and Menma to look at her in surprise.
"Menma-san. I will have you know that i'm not some damsel in distress you have to save everytime. I will help both of you from the sides" Asia said with a determined look on his face, causing Menma to blush slightly with a shade of pink appearing on his cheeks, with Naruko grinning at this, before both of them turned to their enemies, with confident grins on their faces. Naruko cracked her knuckles, and Menma twirled her short swords.
"Let's rock!"
[Metal Gear Rising Revengeance OST: It Has To Be This Way]
"First move takes the win!" Sakura exclaimed, before she, Rock Lee, Gai, Neji, Hinata, Kiba and Choji chargd towards Naruko.
"Sun Authority: Aries!" Naruko exclaimed, before blood red light lined her own body, before disappearing shortly after, and she herself charged at them.
At the same time, Sasuke, Sai, Mito, Kakashi, Asuma, Tenten and Yamato charged towards Menma, where Kunerai, Shikamaru, Shino and Ino stayed back watching.
With Naruko, She punched forward, prompting Sakura to dodge, before trying to punch her in the stomach, only to fail as Naruko caught her hand and punched her square in the face, causing the Haruno's nose to burst in blood, where she opened her mouth in silent scream, stageering away from Naruko.
"Primary Lotus!"
"?!"
Instincts kicking in, Naruko whipped her head to the side to find Lee flying towards her with his right foot positioned in a drop kick and green chakra was swirling around him.
Naruko's response? She just grinned at this.
"Impressive. But still..." She trailed in hr speech, before catching Lee's leg before it could connect with her, since he was the first one to reach her with his attack, before using both hands to twist Lee's leg easily breaking it in the process, and prompting Lee to scream in pain, before she caught his broken foot with one hand, spun Lee in the air for a few seconds, before slamming him into the ground, making a crater that fitted Lee himself. She then looked in front of her to see Sakura wiping the blood off her broken nose, glaring with hatred at Naruko.
"You bitch! She roared before rearing her fist back, intrnding on punching Naruko in the face, only for the female blonde to yank Lee from his man-sized crater from the ground and position him in front of her, using him as a meat shield. Sakura's anger, combined with Naruko speed that was used to retrieve Lee from the ground and use him to take Sakura's punch, however, didn't give Sakura the time to consider the fact that she was going to harm an ally of hers.
"Cherry Blossom Clash!" The Haruno roared, throwing her Chakra-infused fist, but instead of hitting Naruko, Sakura punched Lee square in the face, causing his face to burst immediately in blood, which in turn made her recoil in shock from hitting her own ally. This gave Naruko the time to channel some Aura to her fist.
"Dynamic Punch!" She exclaimed before her fist started to glow dark orange in color, before she threw it at Sakura's stomach, and once it conected, Sakura's eyes nearly popped out of her eyes and her mouth opened up to make her spit a huge amounts of blood as her organs felt like bursting apart from the power of the punch, where said power created a shock wave behind Naruko's target, causing the land behind Sakura to be gouged out from the shock wave resulted from the backlash of Naruko's punch. Combine that with Asia's buff and the effects surely had brought Sakura to a near death state.
"Fang Over Fang!" Kiba exclaimed as he and Akamaru spun together like a drill, traveling towards Naruko, who just reacted by using Sakura as a meat shield, where Kiba hit her square in the torso, drilling into said body part, causing Sakura to scream in pain, before Naruko caught his drilling form and slammed both Kiba and Akamaru to the ground, causing both of them to faint immediately above the crater resulted from Naruko's immense strength. She then caught Sakura's mangled form by the hair, before tossing it towards Choji, who was charging towards her, causingbthe Akemichi to catch the bloodied form of Sakura, before he witnessed Naruko jump into the air, before delivering a Superman Punch to Choji's face, causing all of his teeth to be sent flying away from his mouth as if they were fired from a machine gun, before delivered a series of brutal combo of punches to both Choji and Sakura, breaking Choji's ribs and crushing Sakura's face, leaving a nasty dark purple bruise on both of Sakura's cheeks, before she jumped back, dodging a Gentle Fist from Neji, before Hinata joined in, delivering a twin Gentle Fist strikes to Naruko, but once their palms touched Naruko's abdomen, Neji and Hinata's palms, alongside their arms, broke instantly, making both of them scream in pain, shock and horror, which in turn gave Naruko the chance to channel Aura into both of her fists.
"Souketsu!"
"?!"
Throwing both her arms with her fists clenched tightly, Naruko slammed each fistinto the abdomens of both Neji and Hinata, causing both of them to spit out blood at the same time, having both of their ribcages completely obliterated, before being sent flying away, crashing into a tree, causing said tree to get yanked from its roots, where said tree cushioned the flight of Hyugas, who were knocked out cold from the physical power.
"Woot! I didn't even need my Persona! In fact, my Sun Authority was even not needed in this. All of this was a piece of cake!" Naruko exclaimed.
"Dynamic Entry!" Gai exclaimed before flying towards Naruko with his foot extended, to which Naruko dodged casually to the side. She then saw Gai standing with his face being blood red with veins visible around his forehead, with green Chakra swirling around him.
"To think that you would be youthful enoughbto pose a threat to me to the extent that i was forced to open the Seventh Gate. You may be the enemy, but i will never forget your name until the end of time" Gai said, to which it made Naruko sweatdrop at this.
"Please, stop being so dramatic" She said before witnessing Gai dashing towards her with neck breaking speed, creating a sonic boom behind him. He then had his fists coated in what seemed to be fire.
"Asakujaku!" He roared before delivering a series of rapid fiery punches to Naruko, with each punch creating a thunderous boom, but Naruko casually dodged all of them, before she caught one of Gai's punches, and proceeded to judo flip him, slamming him so hard to create a huge crater. She then backed away from Gai, who burst up to the sky from the crater he was in, before opening both palms towards Naruko while in mid air.
"Hirodora!" Gai roared before the white head of a blue eyed tiger was sent roaring towards Naruko from Gai's hands, who looked at it with a blank and bored look on her face, before she slapped it away once it came close to her, shocking Gai to the core, where said ninja witnessed his attack by blown away by a backhand slap, before slamming into the ground, creating a huge crater. This shock was able to distract him long enough for Naruko to deliver a powerful punch to Gai's stomach, making him spit out saliva, before falling to his knees, and falling face first to the ground with the Seventh Gate being forcibly dispelled, unconscious.
"Okay. Now that this is done, time to help Bro" Naruko said before running towards where Menma and Asia were, only to stop upon seeing Shino unleashing bugs on the shield surrounding Asia, and Asia herself seemed to be silent. She then looked at the supporting side of the ninjas, only to see Kunerai holding an unconscious Ino in her arms, with Shino unleashing even more bugs on the Rho Aias.
Clicking her tongue, Naruko cracked the knuckles of her right fist before aiming her right fist to the ground.
"Quake Shock!" She roared out before slamming her fist into the ground, causing the legs of both Kunerai and Shino to get buried immediately into the ground through violently fragmented area of the earth beneath the feet of the two ninja. She then ran towards both of thrm, before delivering a punch to each one of her two trapped opponents, knocking them out cold. She then went to Ino, before placing one ogpf her hands gently on her forehead.
"Sun Authority: Cancer"
"?!"
Just as Naruko muttered these words, Ino's eyes snapped open, before she screamed in complete pain, only to be silenced when Naruko elbowed her square in the face, breaking her nose in the same fashion as Sakura, knocking the Yamanaka out cold. Naruko then looked at Asia, only to see the former nun regainung her conscious slowly, which made Naruko release a sigh of relief, before she settled on watching Menma fighting from her spot to keep an eye on the Konoha ninjas in case they woke up.
At the same time with Menma, he was entering a dead lock with Sasuke, who was pressing his electricity-amped sword against his two short swords. He was then forced to push out of the way as Asuma slashed at him with his Chakra blades. He then avoided several wood bullets from Yamato, before swatting away several kunais and shurikens that came out from Tenten's scrolls. He was then forced to block a downwards slash from Mito's nagnita, before pushing her away from him. Sai then took out tanto and slashed at Menma, who stabbed Kansho in the ground, causing a bed of swords to erupt from the ground, blocking Sai's attack, which made Sai drop his tanto before taking out a brush and and an empty scroll, drawing something on it at neck breaking speeds, before a white and black bird with a drawing like animation movements came out from the scroll, before colliding with Menma's bed of swords, erupting into a fiery explosion, taking down the bed of swords with him and creating a smokescreen which obstructed the views of the Konoha Team, before several arrows of light came souring towards the Konoha Team from the smoke, hitting Sai in both arms and legs, making him grunt in pain before falling on the ground, completely immobile.
Menma then burst from the smoke, along with a hand-crafted sword that was crimson scarlet from hilt to blade, where the blade was a little curved from the area between the hilt and the start of the blade. He then pointed the sword at his opponents, before charging towards Sasuke, with his sword bursting into fire upon clashing with Sasuke's lightning coated blade, before pushing the Uchiha away from him, and slashing horizontally in the air creating a fire ark, to which Sasuke dodged by ducking underneath it.
"Now, Shikamaru!" Menma could hear Kakashi yell before he saw himself unable to move. He then looked underneath him, only to see that a black huge circle was around his legs, preventing him from moving, before he looked from the corner of his eyes, only to see Shikamaru with a hand sign while sitting in one knee, glaring at Menma.
"Shadow Stitching Jutsu, huh?" Menma muttered in annoyance.
"Amrita!" Asia called out before green light danced around Menma for a second, before the shadow binding was forcibly sucked from Shikamaru, causing him to fall on all fours.
"Impossible!" Shikamaru exclaimed in shock.
"Fire Style: Burning Ash!"
"?!"
And just after Menma was free of Shikamaru's binding shadow,, Asuma blew a cloud of smoke on Menma, before slamming both of his arm blades together, creating a small spark that got caught in the smoke, causing it to erupt into a fiery explosion.
"Menma-san!" Asia called out in worry and horror.
"I'm okay!" Menma called out from the smoke resulted from the blast, before the smoke faded, revealing that his right arm have been blown away, a huge hole found itself in his chest and the left side of his head was blown off alongside a brain part, which caused Asia to gasp in horror, covering her mouth with both hands with wide eyes in horror and shock...Before she saw the wounds and the missing parts regenerate in a second, vanishing as if they were nowhere to be found. Menma then turned around to face Asia, smiling gently.
"I'm okay, Asia. Do not worry" Menma said, before Asia calmed down after a couple of seconds, before she gasped once again, causing Menma to travel alongside her line of sight, only to end up turning around to see Kakashi with his right hand encased in lightning, and Asuma's blades were elongated with Chakra, and both were coming towards him.
"Lightning Blade!"
"Super Chakra Blade!"
Both roared out, which made Menma tighten his grip on the crimson sword in his hand, before stabbing it into the ground.
"Aestus Estus!" He roared out, causing a ring of flames to appear around him, blocking out both of the Jonin's attacks as they struggled for dominance against the fire ring created by Menma.
"Asia! Now!" Menma called out for the former nun.
"Mabufula!"
"?!"
Just as Asia proclaimed her magical attack, two light blue orbs formed above Menma, before they fired themselves towards both Kakashi and Asuma, encasing both their torsos and arms in a block of ice, causing both of thrm to recoil back, before Naruko ran towards both of them from Asuma's side with her fist glowing orange.
"Titan Fist!"
"?!"
Just as Naruko's fist was thrown, a huge yellow ethereal fist three times the size of Naruko came soaring from her own fist towards both Kakashi and Asuma, shattering the ice blocks encasing both of them and sending them flying away, burying them along the ground to create a path of destruction, before the ethereal fist faded, leaving two unconscious Jonins on the ground.
"Whoa! Made it by a hair!" Naruko exclaimed to her brother, causing both him and Asia to smile at her, before they saw their two remaining opponents: Mito on the left and Sasuke on the right. Mito was having a light blue swirling ball in her right hand, while Sasuke was having his left hand encased in lightning.
"Climax, huh?" Naruko asked before moving to stand at Menma's right side.
"Can't argue about that" Menma simply answered, with the two simply looking at their opponents, before both Mito and Sasuke ran towards both Naruko and Menma at the same time, with the two looking impassive as ever.
"Debilitate!"
"?!"
Moments before their attacks would connect, a black sphere with an orange orb, a blue orb and a green orb spinning around it appeared around both Mito and Sasuke for a second before disappearing, causing their running to become even slower and sluggish, and even their Chakra attacks became even dimmer. Nevertheless, they still threw both of their arms towards their opponents.
"Chidori!"
"Rasengan!"
"Foolish..."
"?!"
Right before attacks could connect, Naruko caught Mito's arm, with Menma catching Sasuke's own arm. At thst moment, Mito's face was streaming with tears while looking somberly at her sister, with Sasuke glaring daggers at Menma.
"Sis...Please...If your still there, then please...I want to save you...From this monster...I don't wanna lose you...Like Mom and Menma..." Mito said between sobs, causing Naruko's face to darken at this, tightening her grip at Mito's arm, causing the girl to wince in pain.
"I'm going to cripple you, so you can see your own sister being fucked in front of your eyes before killing you" Sasuke whispered to Menma with a dirty smirk, which made Menma's face darken as well, before bluish green glowing veins crawled all around Menma's body, with the white head tightening his grip on Sasuke's arm.
"GET OUTTA OUR LIVES!"
"?!"
And just they yelled this at the same time, Naruko and Menma increased their gripping force, twisting the arms of both Mito and Sasuke broken in one swift motion, causing both ninjas to scream in pain, recoiling away, with their Chakra attacks disappearing in the wind due to no Chakra supporting them. This gave Naruko the chance to attack. Her palms both engulfed in light blue Aura.
"Gentle Fist Crumble!"
"?!"
Naruko threw both palms, one to each one of her two opoonents, and just as she did so, multiple needle-like strikes started to hit every single spot of their body, specifically their Chakra points, before finally settling down after a couple of seconds, before both Mito and Sasuke fell to their knees, falling face first on the ground shortly after.
[End Music]
"Okay. We're done here..." Menma said letting out a sigh of relief, before snapping his fingers, causing Rho Aias to disappear from around Asia by bursting into purple dust. Once it did so, Asia ran towards Menma with tears streaming down her eyes.
"Menma-san!"
"?!"
Menma had absolutely no time to react as Asia slammed her head like a rocket right into his stomach, knocking off the oxygen supply from his lungs.
Not that he needed to breathe though, but that's not the point right now.
Menma was knocked on the floor alongside Asia, who sobbed on his torso while wrapping her arms around his waist.
"Menma-saaaaaan...! I thought...I thought that you were going to die...! Please don't do that again..." Asia said between sobs with tears raining down from her eyes, which made Menma opt a gentle smile before patting Asia's head gently.
"It's alright, Asia. I'm okay. Please don't cry. I'm not gonna die, not anytime. I will stay here to protect you" Menma said gently, before Asia looked at him while sobbing for a couple of seconds, before wiping off her tears, and opted a smile accompanied with a blush on her face.
"Oh?! This is awesome! I have to go tell mom!" Naruko exclaimed in odd happiness.
"Huh? Why's that?" Menma asked before witnessing Naruko zoom away.
"To tell her that she's gonna be a grandmother!" Naruko yelled.
Menma just sighed at this.
"Seriously, this girl..." He said.
Suddenly, he saw a cirxulat black portal that opened in the sky, before several people fell from it, which made both Menma and Asia look at them, standing up straight.
The first was a woman in her mid twenties. She had blonde hair and hazel eyes. Her outfit consisted of a red leather jacket with a tan cloak, red short shorts, a dark red belt with several shotgun shells, black stockings, red knee protectors, black high-heeled boots and lime green rimless sunglasses.
The second was a woman as well, and if Menma could accurately guess, she was around 15 at most. She had beautiful black long hair, gray eyes and a slightly tan skin. Her outfit consisted of a blue shirt, a short blue skirt, a white military belt with multiple pockets, black elbow bracers, blue combat boots, a white leather military hat with the belt left dangling on both sides of her face, and white goggles on the top of the hat.
The third one was a woman also. She had short cut brown hair, light skin, and reddish-brown eyes. Her outfit consisted of a white shirt, white shorts, a blue jacket that she was wearing on her shoulders, white knee bracers, white boots, a red kerchief around her neck, and minimal makeup (red eyeliner and red nail polish). She was also wearing a white mechanical gauntlet on her left arm and a katana strapped to her left hip.
The fourth person was a male, around the same age as the second woman. He had short messy dark gray hair, blue eyes, slightly pointed ears, and tan complexion. His outfit consisted of a dark gray suit with white collar shirt, black striped tie, yellow jacket with black sleeves and yellow trimm along the sleeves and black pants with black classic shoes.
The fifth person was a male as well, who was around 18, the same age as Shadow. He had silked back brown hair and hazel eyes. His outfit consisted of what looked like a white preist outfit along with white combat boots and a white mechanical gauntlet on his left arm, just like the third woman, along with a spear that had a a zigzag head. For some reason, Menma felt like that he have seen this spear before.
The sixth and the last person...Or figure, appeared to be a male in Menma's and Asia's eyes, having a pompadur hair style with brown eyes, with the abnormality being that his small body was entirely a green floating blop that almost reminded Menma of the slimes that he and his friends from the Great 12 fought during their time in the Elemental Nations if it wasnt for the fact that it attained a human form.
"Where are we?" The black haired girl asked in confusion.
"This pretty much looks like Tokyo, but it seems...Peaceful" The blonde woman said.
"Last thing i remember...Nanashi betrayed all of us and sided with Dagda to overwrite the universe using the Cosmic Egg. We then fought him, but we all died. Last thing i saw was him telling me that he is sorry, before he stabbed his sword to my heart" The brown haired woman said, nearly spitting her words as if they were venom.
"What?! No way! Nanashi would never do that!" The black haired girl yelled in shock.
"That's how it went out, Asahi. I'm sorry" The blonde woman said with a somber tone.
"Who would have ever thought that this kid would do that?" The green lump asked with gritted teeth.
"I trusted him as our leader...I thought that he would understand me since he himself is a non-human..." The gray haired young boy said while staring sadly at the ground.
"That's what happens when a man aligns himself with a god...Curse you, Dagda" The brown haired man said gritting his teeth in silent anger.
All the while where Menma and Asia were silently listening.
"Uh...Everyone, we have company it seems" The green humanoid lump said to his companions, making all of them look at both Menma and Asia, which made Asia flinch at this, before hiding behind Menma, who blinked at the party who gazed at him silently.
"Hey, kid. Can you tell us where are we?" The blonde woman asked with a smile, targeting the question at Menma.
"This is Kuoh Town in Tokyo, Japan" Menma answered in a simple tone.
"Kuoh Town? That's weird. Tokyo is supposed to be swarming with demons and angels alike. Unless Nanashi managed to overwrite the universe" The brown haired woman said.
"Overwriting the universe? Demons? Angels?" Menma asked in confusion.
"Sorry. We are just mumbling to ourselves" The brown haired woman said chuckling lightly.
"I don't know about that. I have seen things similar to that" Menma said.
"What do you mean?" The black haired young girl asked.
"First, i have to show my manners. My name is Menma Uzumaki, and this is my friend, Asia Argento. Pleasure is all ours" Menma said bowing politely to the foregin group, with Asia following suit.
"My name is Nozomi. Nice to meet you" The blonde woman said with a smile.
"My name is Asahi. Nice to meet you as well" The black haired young girl said.
"Name's Hallelujah. Pleasure to meet you" The young boy with gray hair said.
"Name's Gaston..." The man with a spear said with a scowl.
"My name is Isabeau. Pleasure to meet you" The brown haired woman introduced herself.
"My name is Navarre, but i think it would be unnecessary, since you win't be able to see me" The green lump introduced himself.
"Huh? Whaddya mean by that? I can see you crystal clear" Menma said.
"Whaaaaaat?!" Navarre exclaimed in shock.
"Wait. You can see Navarre?" Nozomi asked.
"Yup. I can see him. I think that he's a ghost, right?" Menma asked.
"Well, that's true, but how did you...?" Hallelujah trailed in his question.
"Wait! Is that Gungnir? The spear of Odin?" Menma asked nearing Gaston while gazing at his spear with a comical drool line traveling down his lips, causing the newcomers to sweatdrop at this.
"Uhh...Yes? But how do you know that?" Gaston asked, before Menma wiped his drool and composed himself, before coughing in his hand.
"Okay. Before we drift off the topic on how you guys came out from a weird portal from the sky, i think i have a theory: You guys are from another dimension parallel to this one. That's the only explanation i have regarding your case, considering the fact that Isabeau-san said that you guys died, and that would indicate that you were revived and then sent to this universe. Is everyone following?" Menma explained his theory to the newcomers, causing them to bounder their brains around said theory.
"Actually, i think your right. There's no other explanation to it" Nozomi said.
Suddenly, another person appeared in a flash of red, making Asia yelp in surprise, hiding behind Menma. The figure that appeared, however, shocked Menma.
It was a tall woman who was wearing a brown tight jumpsuit, with white poreclain-like face, black eyes, and black long hair with a crown of flowers above her head, finished with a red cape and a long bronze colored staff that had three luck leaves on top of it.
"Hello, child of man. My name is-"
"DANU!"
"?!"
And right before Danu could introduce herself, Menma hugged her staff with comical sobbing and tears, causing the other humans and ghost to sweatdrop, and for Asia to chuckle nervously.
"Who doesn't know Danu, the mother goddess of nature?!" Menma asked in his sobbing.
"Uh...Okay. Anyways, it appears to me that you know the situation here. Would you mind leading the way for us?" Danu asked calmly.
"Sure, ma'am. Menma Uzumaki at your service! Please follow me!" Menma said bowing to Danu, who nodded at this, before disappearing in the same fashion as she came.
"Um...Mister Menma" Asahi called for Menma.
"Yes?" He asked.
"What was happening here? It appears to me as if a fight was going on, and why there are people thrown around the park?" Asahi asked pointing to both the craters and the Genin teams of Konoha, who were unconscious and out cold.
"Oh! That made me forget!" Menma exclaimed before pulling his right sleeve up, revealing a strange black marking on his right arm. He channeled some of his Mana into it, before a puff of white smoke came out, revealing a large scroll in his hand after the smoke disappeared. He then opened the scroll on the ground, before channeling Mana i to it, causing the bodies of the Konoha 13 to disappear in consecutive puffs of smoke, before Menma rolled the scroll and it disappeared inside the black mark on his right arm in a small white puff of smoke. He then pulled down his sleeve, and clapped his hands together from the dust, before turning around to see the stupfied faces of the newcomers, even Asia was dumbstruck. Realizing what just happened, Menma chuckled while scratching the back of his head with a toothy grin on his face.
"I will explain that as well. But now, let's go somewhere safe. Shall we?"
Inside the school dorms
"Hmm...I see. Everything is clear now"
Gaston simply said crossing his arms while closing his eyes.
After everyone shared their opinions regarding the case they were in, as well as sharing the info regarding Devils, demons, gods, and several other mythological figures in both of the two parallel universes, they found out that Personas is the equivalent of Demons in the parallel world that the newcomers came from, where while Persona users can summon their Personas from within themselves, Demon summoners can summon Demons and gods from various mythologies from a phone app called the Demon Summoning App, where the origins of said app was unknown.
On the other side, the issue of being from a parallel universe was confirmed once Navarre mentioned the fact that a person named Toki, who seemed to be one of his own friends, wasn't with them once they set foot here in this dimension, only for Danu to theorize that Nanashi may have ressurected Toki to become his goddess to rule over the new universe, cementing the fact that Dagda is no more, and that YHVH was slain at the hands of Nanashi.
"Boy...All this talking about gods and parallel worlds has made my head blow up..." Ann said rubbing her temples with her fingers.
"This is really twisted and wicked. Still, i can't believe that this guy killed his frirnds to become a god!" Yosuke yelled out.
"There must be a reason why he followed that Dagda's orders. I mean, since he created a world free of gods, then that means that Dagda himself is no more. Add to the fact that you guys are still alive. Doesn't that mean that he returned you back to life and sent you here due to the fact that he felt guilty about killing you guys, right?" Chie voiced out her opinion, causing everyone present in the dorm's hall to look at her, making her flinch at their stares.
"What's wrong?! I was just saying what first came on my mind! Nothing else!" Chie said once again.
"I think Miss Chie is right. Nanashi is my childhood friend, and he would never abandon his friends" Asahi called out.
"That's not important right now. What's important right now is what to do now" Gaston said.
"Well, we can take care of this. For now, i think you guys wanna hit the hsy, right?" Naruko asked with a smile, where her breasts bounced slightly from just moving her head, which caused Gaston, Ryuji and Junpei's noses to slightly bleed, Akira and Hallelujah to blush deeply, and for the others, sans the obvious exception of Kokoro, Accel, Lucy, Chidori and Shiki to laugh at this.
"Huh? Gasty-chan. You nose is bleeding" Naruko asked in innocent confusion, causing Gaston to flinch at the nickname given to him, and for Hallelujah and Nozomi to burst out in laughter at this. Even Danu couldn't supress her giggling.
"Okay. There are lots of vacant rooms here in the dorms. I will talk to the school council president about this" Kokoro said not taking her eye off her iPad while tapping at it with her finger.
"Okay. Time to hit the hay. Let's escort our new guests to their rooms and call it a day" Menma said before ushering to the demon summoners to follow him, guiding rpthem to their rooms.
All the while where Lewis was completely silent.
"Please, Shadow...Return safe, my dear son..." She thought.
Unknown Location
A pair of blood red eyes opened themselves, only to see greyish white space.
Shadow sat up slowly, before looking around him with an impassive look on his face, seeing trees, grass and flowers, but what was weird about all of this was the fact that everything was greyish white in color, as if someone drew all of this with just their pencil.
"I see your awake"
"?!"
Shadow wiped his head to his right side, only to see a man wearing that had short grey hair and was wearing glasses that completely hid his eyes. He was wearing a red buisness suit and was sitting on a modern electronic wheelchair. On his side was a small girl that had black hair with black eyes, and was wearing a white dress, with a wheel in her hand, and she was barefooted.
"Welcome" The man said.
"Who are you? And where am i" Shadow asked the man with a cold tone, to which the man smiled calmly.
"My name is Stephen. And your simply in a dream, where i took this chance to speak with you" Stephen said.
"Talk about what?" Shadow asked.
"You are one of the 4 messiahs, who are destined to save this universe. In order to understand this, you must listen to the story from the beginning" Stephen said.
"..." Shadow remained silent, where Stephen took this as a sign of confirmation for him to begin the story.
"This young child here is the Goddess of Tokyo. She exists in a parallel universe as the heart of Tokyo and her people. Unfortunately, this isn't her form, as she lost her powers when the people of Tokyo lost hope underneath the tyranny of YHVH, who released Merkabah and Lucifer to fight against each other, with humanity being the third faction in the center, and in the middle of that, came the Divine Powers, a group of gods that were on the hands of YHVH, the former god of the parallel universe. Merkabah sought to destroy humanity under YHVH's orders, Lucifer sought to led humanity against YHVH, where the Divine Powers sought to create a new universe of their own to overwrite the universe created by YHVH, where said universe will be for the gods only. However, a god or a demon can't kill one another. At best, they can seal each other away. That's why Merkabah, Lucifer and even the Divine Powers required the humans in their battle" Stephen explained.
"What makes humans so special than gods?" Shadow asked.
"Humans hold the power of Observation, an ability granted to them by The Axiom. By giving an answer to no answer, one can turn it into faith, and in turn, turn it into a truth. It only requires both immense willpower and the words to use this ability" Stephen explained.
"So...What happened to those three factions?" Shadow asked.
"Merkabah and Lucifer were defeated by the humans, namely under the hands of a godslayer under the name of Nanashi, who also defeated the Divine Powers, where the Divine Powers held Shesha, a giant snake that can absorb souls. And by absorbing enough souls, he can turn into the Cosmic Egg, which would hatch to a universe using the souls inside it. The godslayer was given orders by Dagda, who revived him from death, and asked him to chose from between his friends and creati g a universe devoid from gods. He chose the latter, which caused his friends to turn their backs on him and try to stop him, only to lose their lives for it. He then rose to defeat YHVH, which he succeded at, before claiming the right to take YHVH's place, giving life to all the humans he killed, including his friends, but he sent his friends to another universe, namely your universe, so he do not feel guilty about killing them, since he already resurrected all the humans in the old universe after overwriting it, and that's why the Goddess Of Tokyo is seeking you to dethrone Nanashi from his throne. Despite this being said, he is not a tyrant at all, but the Goddess Of Tokyo here was hasty and thought Nanashi erased all of humanity, not knowing that he revived all those souls back to life in the new universe" Stephen finished explaining.
"So, Let me get this straight: You want me to help you dethrone Nanashi so the Goddess Of Tokyo can regain her lost powers, despite the fact that if she returned right now to this other universe, she will gain all of her powers back? That's so stupid if your asking me. Not to mention the fact that i hate those false gods that i can see by my naked eye. In addition to this, if i may theorize it, but Nanashi happens to be one of the 4 messiahs alongside myself and another 2 people, right?" Shadow explained and asked, to which Stephen's smile just widened at this.
"Seriously? Gimme a break..." Shadow grunted rubbing his temples.
"I know this is hard on you, but what if i told you that out of the 2 other messiahs, one of them happens to be a Devil named Issei Hyoudou?" Stephen asked, whch made Shadow's head perk towards the man on the wheelchair.
"The last one is in the Underworld, and happens to be an entity called an Adminstrator. He was a former human, but became a god as well after defeating the former Adminstrator, Canpos" Stephen answered.
"..." Shadow remained silent, but he looked annoyed.
"I'm sure there are lots of questions within your mind, but they will have to wait for the time being. All you have to do is recover, then gather the 3 other messiahs, to take down the Greatest Evil" Stephen said.
"What is that 'Greatest Evil'?" Shadow asked.
"That will also have to wait. In time, you will find out soon enough..." Stephen said, before bright white light engulfed the entire area Shadow was in.
The Underworld. Sitri Clan Mansion
"Ugh..."
Grunting, Shadow slowly opened his eyes and rubbed his sore head. He felt like Naruko and Dragon punched him several times in the head. He then looked around with half opened eyes to see that he was sitting on a rather luxury bed, one that only the royals sleep on. His eyes then noticed a familiar symbol on one of the walls: A dark blue magical circle. Narrowing his eyes on the symbol, Shadow's eyes snapped open upon remembering it.
"The Sitri Clan symbol...Wait. Does this mean that i'm in the Underworld?" He muttered to himself, before noticing thst his whole body, mainly his torso, was completely covered in bandages. He also noticed that he was wearing light blue sleeping pajamas that were made out silk...Or so he thought.
Brushing this away, he found out that his sword was nowhere to be found, probably confiscated, and he also found out that his clothes were nowhere to be found as well. He could understand the confiscation of Murasama, but why his clothes?
Shurgging this off, he stood up from the bed, before slowly walking out of the room, his movements being limp due to his aching body from being weakened, which caused him to use the wall as a support. Walking slowly towards what seemed to be a great hall, Shadow found people dressed in royal nobles clothes, with the only exception being a beautiful young girl who was wearing what appeared to be a pink magical girl outfit. However, once Shadow's eyes laid upon her, they widened in surprise. He felt a throbbing pain in his chest, the same pain he felt when his eyes laid on Dragon for the first time, but this time it hurt even more for some reason. He also didn't notice his eyes flashing bright green for second before returning to their normal blood red color.
"Do you have any idea what have you done, Sitri-sama?!" One of the nobles yelled at a black haired man.
"This is completely irresponsible from even you, Leviathan-sama!" Another noble yelled at the girl with casual clothes, making her puff her cheeks childishly.
"And what's wrong with helping a wounded person?!" Searfall yelled back.
"I agree with Leviathan-sama" A man with royal clothes said. And from Shadow's own perspective, he looked like a male version of Rias, and beside him were two individuals: One being a male with shorter red hair, and a woman with brown hair that looked exactly like Rias. Shadow theorized in his head that they could be the Male Rias version's parents.
"Lucifer-sama! That man is a human-incubus hybrid! He's from thr Makai Realm, and judging by him being the last Incubus, i would say that he is the son of this abonimation called Lewis Aensland!" One of the nobles said. However, the moment he said so, he was met by the dark faces of Serafall, Lord Sitri, Lady Sitri, the male version of Rias, Grafiya and the parents of the male version of Rias, causing everyone in the room to flinch at this.
"You are not to say anything about Auntie Lewis!" Serafall yelled out.
"But she caused us so much trouble in the Underworld. The Succubus race is a cursed race that needs to be exterminated, or else, they will exterminate us!" The noble said.
"Aunt Lewis is the one who trained us, the Four Satans, and without her, we wouldn't have been in our current position!" The male version of Rias roared out, which caused his mother to place two gentle hands on both his right shoulder and right arm.
"Sirzechs, calm down" She said, which made Sirzechs close his tightly, before relaxing his KI emission.
"Okay. I have an idea" Another noble voiced out his opinion, which made both the Gremory and Sitri families grimace at this, feeling that something bad will go out, so they remained silent.
"My opinion is to whip out the memories of this hybrid, and use him as a loyal weapon to the Underworld..."
"?!"
The words rang inside Shadow's head.
"...a loyal weapon..."
His eyes widened in fear, his body shivered immensely, his feet felt like jelly, threatening to betray him.
He backed away from the Devils slowly, ignoring the uproar that came from Serafall, Sirzechs and their parents, before walking as fast as his tired body could hold him. He then drifted to the right side of a corner of the mansion, only to find that it was a dead end.
Shadow's fear escalated. All what he could do was to sit on the floor, breathing heavily with bloody sweat raining down like bullets from his body. He feared from the same fate he had once again. He didn't want this to happen to him again, but what could he do inthis state? He was so weak that he can't fight back.
Slowly, but surely, he started to close his eyes from the fatigue kicking once again in his body.
...
...
...
"Young child. Are you alright?"
"?!"
Snapping his eyes open from a voice that called him, Shadow looked in front of him to find a rather tall figure, around 2 meters tall standing in front of him. His body was split between left pitch black color and right pure white color with a huge collar-like extension coming out of the nape of his neck, with the collar's right white half being straight up and having a swirl art design ont, and the collar's left black half holding the same design, only without the swirl inscription on it and its end was pointy in the shape of a spike, with a pointy long black horn in the middle of his head shaped like lightning bolt, reminding Shadow of Zetsu from the Akatsuki. The man's right eye was ocean blue, while his left eye was blood red. His right side face held a straight firm look on it with what looked like white facial hair that made it look like as if he was from the ancient times of Rome, while his left side face held a wicked grin on it with the teeth visible. The right side of his body held beautiful swirl-shaped art inscriptions on it, while the left side of his body was jet black, scaly and jagged in nature. His right forearm sported a lightning bolt-shaped arm blade made out of ice with his right hand from the wrist and to the fingers was transparent light blue in color as if it was made out of thin ive, while his left forearm sported a curved black arm blade with his left hand being jet black and clawed from the wrist to the fingers. Finally, his left foot had a white shoe on it, while his left foot was bare with it being scaly and clawed in the same fashion as a dragon's foot in legends and tales.
Also, Shadow could feel the divine aura coming from him.
"W-Who are you...?" Shadow asked in tiredness more that of shock.
"Welcome, young child. My name is Zeus. I have specifically came to you, seeing you as a wandering soul who was thrown into the abyss of life. I came here to make a deal with you" Zeus said.
"A...Deal...?" Shadow asked panting heavily.
"Before i reveal this to you, i want you to answer this question: What is your Justice?" Zeus asked.
"My...Justice...?" Shadow gasped in confusion that wasn't apparent on his face from the fatigue.
"Yes. Your Justice" Zeus said.
Shadow used what little strength he had to pounder Zeus' question to hum. His justice...Was to live in peace, away from the carnage he was thrown into...No, his justice...Was that his friends, his family, would have the right to live peacefully. He didn't care about himself. He only cared that his friends are okay.
"My justice...Is to see my friends...Living peacefully...With no fighting...No discrimination...No suffering...No illusions...No fallacy...I don't care what happens tome...I just want my family...To be living in harmony..." Shadow muttered his answer, which made Zeus' two halves smile gently at Shadow, before he placed his right hand on Shadow's head, and the moment he did so, Shadow felt as if his body was drenched in cold water, clearing away the burning sensation that was eating him from the inside out, before his body cooled away gradually, making the black haired youth inhale a deep breath of relief, before taking it out, feeling as if he was born again. He then settled on sitting on the ground, looking at Zeus with fully opened eyes.
"So, what's your deal?" Shadow asked Zeus.
"I want you...To become my godslayer" Zeus answered.
"Excuse me?" Shadow asked immediately after.
"The young child who defeated Nyx, becoming an independent godslayer...This will make everyone seek you, so i, Zeus, the Symbol of Life, shall lead you towards victory against the Greatest Evil" Zeus answered.
"..." Shadow remained silent, staring coldly at Zeus, which made Zeus understand that he had scratched everything, but prefered to remain silent.
"Stephen sent you, right?" Shadow simply asked.
"No, the Goddess Of Tokyo did. She used what powers that remained in her little body to summon me from the void of nothingness, after the new Creator erased the concept of gods in his newly established universe" Zeus answered, referring to Nanashi, which made Shadow close his eyes, taking a few breaths in and out, before he opened his eyes, looking straight at Zeus.
"Okay. I accept your offer, Zeus. Give me the power to deny this destiny...To deny this fate...The fate...Thst would take who are precious to me away...Give me your power" Shadow exclaimed quietly, albeit with vigor and indomatible will backing up his claim, which made Zeus grin in excitrment and proudness.
"Then our contract is sealed. You are a Hanged Man...With unnatural Fortune...Who seeks Justice, not for himself, but to those around him...And for that, i shall lend you Strength...Move forward, Child of Hybrid...And never fret!"
"?!"
And just as Zeus exclaimed this, he was bathed in white blinding light, before transforming into a marble-sized orb of light. Said orb flew towards Shadow, before phasing towards his chest. The moment it did, Shadow heard the mysterious voice that always rang in his head everytime a Persona was unlocked.
"I Am Thou...Thou Art I...Thou Hast Turned A Vow Into A Blood Oath..."
"It Shalt Be The Key That Breaketh The Yoke Of Thy Heart..."
"Thou Hast Awakened To The Ultimate Secret Of The Justice...Granting Thee Infinite Power..."
"Thou Shalt Be Bestowed With The Ability To Summon Yaldabaoth...The Ultimate Form Of The Justice Arcana..."
After the poem was finished, the image of a huge golden mechnoid entity with huge wings at the end of its torso, along with 2 huge hexagonal boxes strapped on each side of its waist appeared inside Shadow's head before disappearing shortly after. He didn't have time to rest as the voice sang its poem once again in his head.
"I Am Thou...Thou Art I...Thou Hast Turned A Vow Into A Blood Oath..."
"It Shalt Be The Key That Breaketh The Yoke Of Thy Heart..."
"Thou Hast Awakened To The Ultimate Secret Of The Hanged Man...Granting Thee Infinite Power..."
"Thou Shalt Be Bestowed With The Ability To Summon Hades...The Ultimate Form Of The Hanged Man Arcana..."
The poem was finished, before the image of a mechanoid figure wearing a black and red gothic lolita outfit holding a cane that had around 3 skulls on its top appeared in Shadow's mind, before disappearing after a few seconds. Not a second later, the voice chanted once again.
"I Am Thou...Thou Art I...Thou Hast Turned A Vow Into A Blood Oath..."
"It Shalt Be The Key That Breaketh The Yoke Of Thy Heart..."
"Thou Hast Awakened To The Ultimate Secret Of The Fortune...Granting Thee Infinite Power..."
"Thou Shalt Be Bestowed With The Ability To Summon Ariadne...The Ultimate Form Of The Fortune Arcana..."
Afterwards, the image of a mechnoid woman with flowing grey hair and wearing a grey silk dress appeared within Shadow's mind before disappearing as well. Not giving him time to breathe, Shadow grunted as the voice chanted its poem once again inside his head.
"I Am Thou...Thou Art I...Thou Hast Turned A Vow Into A Blood Oath..."
"It Shalt Be The Key That Breaketh The Yoke Of Thy Heart..."
"Thou Hast Awakened To The Ultimate Secret Of The Strength...Granting Thee Infinite Power..."
"Thou Shalt Be Bestowed With The Ability To Summon Hercules...The Ultimate Form Of The Strength Arcana..."
And just like that, the image of a colossal, statue-like, black giant male, who was wearing nothing but a huge irish skirt fastened to his waist by a huge belt with a huge, rocky axe sword in his hands appeared inside Shadow's mind before disappearing as well after a few seconds. However he grunted in annoyance as the voice rang once again.
"I swear i'm gonna kill Philemon and Igor for all of this headache that they are giving me..." Shadow thought.
"I Am Thou...Thou Art I...Thou Hast Turned A Vow Into A Blood Oath..."
"It Shalt Be The Key That Breaketh The Yoke Of Thy Heart..."
"Thou Hast Awakened To The Ultimate Secret Of The Death...Granting Thee Infinite Power..."
"Thou Shalt Be Bestowed With The Ability To Summon Thanatos...The Ultimate Form Of The Death Arcana..."
And after the poem was over, the image of a man with a helmet-like head thst took the shape of a weird skull, wearing a blue cloak with white boats and gloves, along with a row of 8 coffins floating behind the figure to act as pseudo wings appeared inside Shadow's head before disappearing. However, this perked Shadow's attention, since Zeus mentioned only 'Hanged Man', 'Fortune', 'Justice' and 'Strength', but didn't mention 'Death' at all.
"Probably because i defeated the concept of Death herself..." Shadow thought. He then stood up on his feet, his mind finally focusing on the yelling on the other side. He then took a deep breath, before walking casually towards the noise, only to find Sirzechs and Serafall being barely held by hundreds of guards, Grafiya and their respective parents from skewering apart the nobles, who cowered in fear from the sight of the two angry Satans.
[Pretty smooth, kid] Zeus said from inside Shadow's mind, and the human-incubus hybrid could imagine Zeus' stupid grinning face.
"Shut up" Shadow muttered before stretching his body, causing some bones to make crack and pop sounds.
"Man...Never thought my body was aching that much. Maybe because i didn't sleep for 15 years..." Shadow said while walking past the commotion made by the Devils, without them noticing his presence due to the fact that they were arguing to the point they didn't notice him. Zeus just rolled his eyes with a smirk at his godslayer.
"SAY SOMETHING ELSE ABOUT AUNTIE LEWIS AND HER SON AND I WILL KILL YOU ALL!" Serafall yelled from the top of her lungs with tears streaming down her eyes.
"WHOEVER HUMILIATES LEWIS AENSLAND AND HER FAMILY SHALL SUFFER THE WRATH OF THE GREMORY FAMILY! YOU GET IT?!" Sirzechs roared in ungodly anger, which made Shadow smirk, considering the fact that anger increases his power since he is the concept of Wrath in flesh, but still, he felt kinda sad that they were trying to defend him from-
Wait.
He smirked?
He changed...A lot...In only a few days...
"I wonder...What will happen to me...?" He muttered to himself, before headimg towards what seemed to be the kitchen. With comical half opened eyes, he searched his way through the drawers, only to find cream coffee, before taking some water from the tape, before the water flew from the tape's mouth and into his hand in the form of a huge puddle. He then increased its heat to make it boil while it's in midair, before placing it in a cup, along with some cream coffee powder, before taking out a sugar jar nearby, before he telekinetically held the jar, using Lucy's Vector arms ability, before pouring the sugar on his cup. Anothr arm took out a small spoon to stir the hot drink, before Shadow sat on a table and started drinking his cream coffe, with several other Vector arms preparing popcorn on a nearby oven. After a few minutes of silence, Shadow finished his coffee mug, before taking out the popcorn on a huge plate. He then went out, where the ruckus was, and sat on a sofa, watching Sirzechs and Serafall still being restrained by the guards from the nobles with an impassive look on his face. He silently sat with his legs crossed, while eating popcorn from the plate that was seated on his side on the sofa, and after a few minutes, he finished the popcorn and placed the empty plate aside. However, the ruckus did not end. Rolling his eyes from both annoyance and boredom, he stood up and lightly clapped his hands together, gaining the attention of everyone.
"T-The fiend! Restrain him!" One of the nobles yelled pointing at Shadow, which caused all the guards to surround him with their spears and swords pointed. All while Shadow was standing there, blinking with a cold look on his face.
"Seriously, you guys? I have been in front of you for 30 minutes, i drank coffee, ate popcorn, and watched this action show with light blue pajams that smells of a mix between strawberry bubblegum, mango juice, blueberry ice cream and white chocolate cake with almonds, but got bored of it and you make your debut to the show when it ended? How lame" Shadow said, before hearing a multitude of chuckles, only to see that the chuckling came from Sirzechs, his parents, Serafall, her parents and Grafiya.
"Shut up, fiend! Your now under the authority of the 72 Pillars of the Underworld! You will be a loyal weapon to us!" The noble said, before Shadow yawned in his face, before speaking.
"Can i have my clothes and sword, please?" He asked.
"We burned your clothes to prevent diseases from your kind to infect us, Incubus filth! We also took your weapon and gave it to our most elite soldiers!" Another noble yelled at Shadow grinning.
"..." Shadow just stared coldly at them, making them know that he didn't buy the latter one, albeit he seemed to buy the fact that his clothes were burnt.
"Okay. Can i have my sword, please?" Shadow asked calmly.
"Not a chance, asshole!" A noble yelled at Shadow. However, instead of standing impassively in his place, Shadow's eyes perked, and he scowled in annoyance, before he looked at his side, only to see that he brought the cover of the pot he that was used to make his popcorn to make sure to cover the popcorn with it so it won't get cold. He then moved and picked the pot cover in his hands and examined it.
"God...I really hate this word..." He muttered while looking at the pot cover, not yanking his eyes from it.
"Oh really?! Your an asshole! You mother is an asshole! The man who married your mother is an asshole! And all those that are from your friends and relatives are all assholes!" The noble yelled out once again, smirking at Shadow arrogantly, where Shadow had his hair shadowing his eyes, before he trailed his thumb all around the circular edge of the pot cover, causing several pieces of the metal to chip away just like as if he was sharpening a pencil. He then held the pot cover that now turned into a deadly metal saucer, before looking at the noble with narrowed eyes.
"Call me...'asshole'...One more time" He said to the noble, who smirked at this, where Sirzechs and Serafall, alongside their parents, smirked at this.
"I wouldn't do that if i were you" Sirzechs said smiling to the noble, who waved his warning away.
"Assh-GAAAAHHH!"
And right before he could throw another curse, Shadow threw the saucer in his hands, which cleaved through the noble's right arm from the shoulder and down to the arm, before blood sported from it with huge amounts, making thr noble hold the stump that was his arm and scream in horror, with the saucer sticking itself into the wall behind the now squimming noble, where the other guards stared in horror at Shadow, who was still extending his arm in the throwing motion that he used to throw the saucer, while his eyes were closed. Suddenly, everyone watched as several marks appeared on both of Shadow's arms, specifically starting from the back of his hand and up to his forearm. Each hand and forearm had the same symbol: A three blade fan-like design with a dot in the center appearing on the back of each hand, before several intersecting arrows traveled along the length of both of his forearms, with the only exception being the color: The right arm mark color was ocean blue, while the left mark color was crimson red.
AN: Think of the marks that Nanshi gained on his left arm after being reincarnated as Dadga's godslayer in SMT 4 Apocalypse, with the differences being that they would appear on both arms, with two different colors other than Nanashi's signature green mark color.
Shadow then snapped his eyes open, showing that his right eye became ocean blue in color, while his left eye was glowing crimson red, glaring daggers at the nobles and guards.
"W-What is that?!" A guard asked shivering in fear.
"He's a monster! Just like his mother! Run away!" Another guard yelled before both the guards and nobles ran in a hysterical fit of fear outside the Sitri mansion. After a moment of silence, Shadow sighed before clapping his hands together as if clearing dust from them. He then noticed Sirzechs, Serafall, their parents and even Grafiya were looking with comical wide eyes on Shadow, who stared coldly at them, blinking a few times before muttering his famous question that he asks during these situations.
"What?"
The Next Day. Kuoh Dorms. Morning
The situation was completely...Scattered and sticky.
First, Shadow's disappearance of the party. Second, the demon summoners that came out of the parallel universe to this one, and now...
Now, two Exorcists, namely Xenovia Quartz and Irina Shidou, where the latter happened to be Issei's childhood friend, where she appeared as a boy in her child days.
And now, they were in front of the two exorcists, with the weird exception of Kanji, Dragon and Yusuke, where the two exorcists were holding what they proclaimed to be pieces of Excalibur, which made the blood of both Yuuto and Menma boil.
"Why the hell are you here?" Menma muttered out his question from between his gritted teeth.
"Soshi-kun, calm down" Kushina said trying to calm her son down.
"We have came here to inform you about the fact that out of the seven swords of Excalibur, two were stolen from the church. We can't seem to find them right now, but reports led us here, in Kuoh Town" Xenovia said.
"Yeah? So? What does that have to do with us?" Rias asked.
"We are just here to tell you not to mendle with us, and do not ally yourselves with the Fallen Angels as well. We, exorcists, want to fulfill our own role as Exorcists by heading our orders from the church" Irina answered.
"Wait a second here. You barge in here, sit with a group that has more than enough power to obliterate you, and all what your saying is that we shouldn't interfere?! What the heck?! That total BS!" Hallelujah voiced out his anger, glaring at the two exorcists, before his hair changed to pink color, his eyes became black with no irises and sclera, his face became pale white, with pinks veins running on the sides of his face, which shocked everyone in the room, especially the Devils and exorcists.
"That's...A Nephilim?!" Sona blurted out in shock.
"Hallelujah! Calm down!" Gaston called out, placing a hand oon the Nephilim's shoulder.
"What the hell is that?! Do you have any idea what are you doing right now?! You literally mocking and making fun of everyone here in this room! Cut out that shit, okay?!" Hallelujah roared out at the two female exorcists, who composed themselves, before standing up and walking away.
"We have given you our warning. Remember it" Xenovia said waving her hand casually behind her, where Irina gave out a smile to the Devils and the group of fighters as a form of silent apology, before both stopped upon witnessing the sight of Asia.
"Your Asia Argento, right?" Xenovia asked.
"Yes..." Asia said with little hesitance and fear. Xenovia then said something that she shouldn't have.
"I see. To align yourself with Devils and become one of them, you have truly earned the title of the witch..."
"YOU BITCH!"
"?!"
And right as the blue haired exorcist muttered these words to the former nun, Menma lost all of his nerves, and punched Xenovia in the face so hard she crashed into a stone wall, breaking said wall in the process. Everyone watched in utter shock, especially Naruko, since she knew that Menma was never the kind to let his nerves slip from him to the extent that he would punch someone in the face, let alone a girl.
"Menma-san?!" Asia said shock.
"To bring a broken and fake story about Excalibur being broken is one thing, but to humiliate my woman?! This is something i can never forgive!" Menma yelled out, to which it made Asia blush deeply at the 'my woman' part, where Naruko and Kusgina's faces twisted from shock to shit eating grins upon hearing the last part. The rest was in confusion regarding the fake Excalibur statement that Menma talked about.
"Fake?! What do you mean?!" Irina yelled out helping her friend to stand up.
"Excalibur is the pinnacle of all swords, woven by the stars. It was even given more blessing than that of the Spear of Rhongomynaid, where the word 'Beautiful' is simply tainting it. This sword is peerless, and it cannot be broken. Those swords that your trying to gather, as well as those two with you, are merely swords made by alchemy only. Since the original Excalibur was returned to the Lady of The Lake with Bedivere's hands where he got orders from Arthur Pendragon herself to do that" Menma explained.
"Wait a minute, buddy" Gaston called to Menma.
"Yes?" Menma asked.
"You just said 'Herself'. Arthur Pendragon is a male" Gaston said, which made Menma chuckle.
"Poor people who don't read history. You do realize that magic was used in that era? Heck, it's being used by us right now" Menma said.
"Huh? What do you mean?" Rias asked, with everyone looking at Menma with full attention, and Jean and Blue giving him a thumbs up.
"Yeah. Okay. So due to the problems of not being able to produce a heir, Merlin, Artoria's father, used magecraft on Artoria to allow to produce semen for a certain, but unknown amount of time. During this period, she was enchanted by her sister, Morgan le Fay, who took some of Artoria's sperm, developed it within her own ovaries, and gave birth to the homunculus and complete clone of Artoria, Mordred" Menma explained.
"Prove it" Xenovia muttered.
"Excuse me?" Menma asked.
"Prove that those Excaliburs are false. Prove it" Xenovia said glaring at Menma straight in the face, where said male shrugged his shoulders, before holding his hand out, and once he did so, a sword instantly materialized in his hands. Its hilt was blue, its guard was shaped in a blue arc, and its long blade was golden in color, shining slightly.
"How dya like me now?" Menma asked smirking arrogantly.
"That's the true Excalibur! I saw in the books of history! It has to be it!" Asia exclaimed in awe, nearing towards the swords due to its beauty. Everyone, including the Devils, even were looking at the blade with bright eyes, admiring its beauty. However, all of them pouted once Menma made the sword disappear.
"Okay. You have proven your theory. Now give us the real Excalibur so that we can return it to the church for protection" Xenovia said.
"No way in hell this happening, Miss Seaweed Head! I ain't giving ya such a sacred relic! Also, don't you dare try to chance the subject! You owe Asia an apology!" Menma yelled.
"On my dead body" Xenovia said calmly while glaring at Menma who gritted his teeth.
"Okay. That's enough you two" Kushina said standing between both Xenovia and Menma.
"I'm gonna let this slip, because my mom said that, but there won't be a next time, Seaweed Head" Menma muttrred angrily at Xenovia, who scoffed before taking her leave with Irina, where the latter muttered an apology to Menma, before both of them left the school.
At that time, Kokoro's iPad made a ring, where she pressed on it with her finger, seeing it as a message. She read it carefully, before turning to Naruko.
"Naruko. It seems that Kanji, Yusuke and Dragon have company outside, and judging by the fact that he knew who we are, he seems to be seeking us" Kokoro said, before she yelped slightly in surprise as Naruko snatched her from the sofa with neck breaking speeds, before standing in front of everyone.
"Okay! You and i shall see it! Can't leave one lone female with two brutal men!" Naruko exclaimed in odd cheerfulness, before zooming towards the exit of the school while holding Kokoro under on of her arms, leaving the stupefied group of fighters and Devils alone.
In the streets of Kuoh Town. With Yusuke, Kanji and Dragon
"So, what do you three say? Care to join the Khaos Brigade?"
Kanji, Yusuke and Dragon all grunted at this at the same time...Especially Yusuke, since he was painting right now.
It all begun when Yusuke requested to paint a portrait of Dragon, to which the female happily accepted, and Kanji was to come with them since Yusuke saw that Kanji was able to neatly make extremely beautiful handcrafted pieces of art, so the blue haired artist requested him to come as well so he can pinpoint some mistakes in his drawing if there was.
And now, came a man by the name of Cao Cao, stating that he knows that they are a group of fighters that can summon entites of ancient times to aid them in their fights, and he gave them the invitation of joining the Khaos Brigade, but he was completely annoying and too persistant that not even ignoring him would do the trick of making him leave them alone.
Not to mention that for some reason, Dragon felt some malice aura coming out from him.
"Can you give me your answer right about...Now?" Cao Cao asked.
"Would you cut the shit already?!" Kanji yelled, having his patience being completely expired.
"Excuse me?" Cao Cao asked.
"I am really sick of you! What do you want from us?! Why do you want us to join your faction?!" Dragon yelled out her question in annoyance.
"The Khaos Brigade is a cult that consists of multiple factions formed of exorcists, angels, Fallen Angels and even Devils. And i'm asking you to join us. I can see that you were discriminated throughout your life, and we're gonna help you in that by waging another war against the three factions once again" Cao Cao explained. This, however, caused Dragon's blood to boil.
"What the hell are you saying?! You want to wage a war that would take so many lives just for your own selfish goals?! I would rather choke on my own breath on doing this! I'm not a killer!" Dragon yelled at Cao Cao's face.
"Yeah! What Dragon-san said! We are not killers! And we work independently! Such self-righteous offers are considered despicable! It's preposterous for us to accept to make a mindless massacre!" Yusuke was next in line to voice out her opinion, with Kanji only settling on glaring menacingly at Cao Cao.
"Then tell me, Last Dragon of Fantasies, Gaia, why do you still love that hybrid? Your own kind of Fantasy soughts to destroy the world, then why do you love those humans? Why do you fight with the, knowing that this hybrid will never see you or look at you?" Cao Cao asked, which caused Dragon's face to be twisted in horror. Not only because he discovered what she was and her true identity as Gaia, the Fantasy Dragon Empress, as well as the Last Fantasy in existence and the strongest dragon ever, but because due to the fact that he slapped the harsh truth of her never finding love in the world. She was in love with Shadow, but he couldn't see her feelings due to his past preventing him from feeling even love, and she didn't want to burden him with it.
Dragon's mind went blank. She solemnly stared at the ground, not hearing Yusuke and Kanji calling for her and not seeing Cao Cao smirk arrogantly.
...
...
...
[Persona 5 OST: Awakening]
"Are you going to give up just like thst...?"
"Guh?!...Augh...?!"
"?!"
Yusuke, Kanji and Cao Cao flinched upon seeing Dragon suddenly gasping, before clutching her head with both hands, with her eyes turning dark golden.
"To them...Your a fiend that should exist...Jeopardy and discrimination followed you despite that fact you wanted to blend in humans..."
Dragon's head felt like splitting in half, gripping her head tightly with clenched teeth, swaying right and left to shake off the migraine.
"And now...You face the truth of not being one with your true love...Such is the despicable words of humans to bring you down..."
"Is she...?" Kanji asked.
"Yes. I think so" Yusuke answered.
"However, with enough power, you will be able to show your true love to your beloved...Which forces me to make a contract with you...After all...The other you desires to be loved..."
"Gaaah!" Dragon yelled in pain even more.
"I Am Thou...Thou Art I..."
"You Salvation Is You Own Love...Once You Show Your Power...Your Love Will Shine!"
Dragon stopped shouting, before taking out her hands from her head, with her right hand having blue ethereal flames around it, with the kanji of 'Lovers' written on her palm, before glaring at Cao Cao with her now greenish blue reptilian slitted eyes, where said individual backed away in fear.
"Very well" She muttered before extending her arm to her side.
"Come, Kiara!" She exclaimed before slamming her palm to her heart, causing a pillar of blue fire to erupt around her, before disappearing shortly after, revealing a figure that towered over Dragon.
It was a woman that looked like that she was in her mid twenties, with F-cups breasts and flowing black hair shaped in twisting locks behind her with pink highlights, pure white skin, three vertical dots on her forehead and golden eyes. She was wearing a yellow long habit that was held into her head by her pink and black long horns that sported from the two sides of her head. Her outfit consisted of what looked like a 'white naked apron', which consisted of a revealing long white coat with belled sleeves and thigh high pink boots.
Cao Cao, Kanji and Yusuke looked at the figure, unconsciously drooling from the stunning figure of beauty right in front of them, with the Persona smiling at this.
It was when Dragon stomped on the ground hard enough to create a crater that fitted her leg that the boys came back to reality, wiping the drool quickly from their mouths.
[Persona 5 OST: Will Power]
"Your the last one to talk about love...You don't know anything about it...Vanish from my sight!" Dragon yelled the last part before Kiara released a wave darkness energy, hitting Cao Cao head on as the Darkness magical energy ate through the skin of his face and hands, gritting his teeth in pain, which made him jump backwards, as Yusuke and Kanji joined in, summoning both Goemon and Take-Mikazuchi respectively, with Yusuke in his Phantom Thief attire, brandishing his katana, and Kanji with a golden shield in his hand as his weapon.
"Seems that negotiation was a faliure. In that case, next time we meet, we will meet as enemies" Cao Cao simply said before disappearing in a black flash from in front of the three Persona users.
"It seems that we were late"
"?!"
The three turned around to see both Naruko and Kokoro in front of them, which made them relax before dismissing their Personas and weapons in Yusuke's and Kanji's cases, and battle attire in the case of Yusuke. However Dragon said only one remark.
"It seems we got ourselves in a sticky situation, right?"
The Underworld. At the same time
"So your Shadow Otsutsuki?! Unbeliveable!"
"..."
Serafall said in excitement, with Shadow looking at her in silence.
After his outfit was burnt down by the nobles, Serafall ordered the greatest of tailors to craft an outfit for Shadow. Right now, his new outfit consisted of a yellow half sleeved T-shirt, with a blue buttoned jacket that was opened to show the yellow T-shirt being worn above the T-shirt, with the sleeves being rolled up to just below the elbow, showing the red and blue markings on both of his forearms, finished with a pair of blue pants, with his katana being strapped to the left side of his waist.
[Just talk to the chick, kid] Zeus said to Shadow inside his mind, which caused Shadow to unconsciously roll his eyes, before eating a piece of his steak.
After realizing that he needs to stay in an area in order to control his Incubus heritage, Shadow decided that this place should be the Underworld. Not to mention that Nanshi is planning to take him down since he was one of the four messiahs, where he specifically was the messiah that the Goddess of Tokyo chose to dethrone Nanashi from the Creator throne of the Amala Network, the parallel universe to this universe he was in.
This was really annoying...To have such responsibilty thrown at him like th-
"Huh?"
"?!"
And just like that, the mysterious voice rang inside Shadow's head.
"I Am Thou...Thou Art I...Thou Hast Turned A Vow Into A Blood Oath..."
"It Shalt Be The Key That Breaketh The Yoke Of Thy Heart..."
"Thou Hast Awakened To The Ultimate Secret Of The Lovers...Granting Thee Infinite Power..."
"Thou Shalt Be Bestowed With The Ability To Summon Alice...The Ultimate Form Of The Lovers Arcana..."
Once the poem ended, the image of a young girl with blonde hair, golden eyes, pale white skin, a dark blue dress and black slippers appeared in Shadow's mind, before disappearing afterwards.
The Lovers? One of his friends unlocked their Persona. He guessed that it would be Dragon, since he actually realized how much she talks about 'Making Romance With Him One Of These Days', or that's what she says...
Blinking slightly, Shadow looked in front of him, only to see that Serafall, Sirzechs and Grafiya were looking at him with curious looks on their faces. Speaking of Grafiya, he told her that she, by any means, won't tell anyone of his comrades and friends, not even his mother, about the fact that he is in the Underworld, so that they won't be worried about him, or that no one here would hurt him. Grafiya was also the one that brought Shadow's Murasama back to him, and after telling them sbout his condition (But did not tell them the fact that he became a godslayer under the command of Zeus himself, as well as Stephen and the Goddess of Tokyo), Serafall and Sirzechs happily agreed to help him, placing him under their protection, with Serafall requesting that he would stay with her in the Sitri Mansion, to have a home of his while trying to master his Incubus training.
For some reason, he could see her drool at him...
Seeing that they were staring at him, he just stared coldly at them and asked.
"What?"
In the Nanashi Universe. Above the Amala Network. On The Universe Parallel to this one
Nanashi sat on his throne, with Toki sitting on his lap while snuggling into his chest and wrapping her arms around his neck, and Flynn was kneeling down in front of his feet.
"Forgive me, master. I couldn't reach Shadow Otsutsuki. Someone so strong stood in my way" Flynn said.
"That's okay, Flynn. It's alright" Nanashi comforted his godslayer.
"If you would love to, i can go and slay him, Master" Toki said with a smile, which made Nanashi smile back at her, before pecking her on the lips.
"My dear queen, i won't just place you in harms way. He's so strong, so when the time comes, i will be his opponent. I won't make the same mistake as Krishna or YHVH" Nanashi said, before looking to the sky and muttered out.
"Yeah...Soon, Shadow Otsutsuki...Soon..."
And Done!
Now, to list Shadow's Ultimate Personas:
Initial: Warble.
Fool: ?
Lovers: Alice
Chariot: Asterius.
Hanged Man: Hades
Hermit: ?
Magician: ?
Justice: Yaldabaoth
Judgement: ?
Strength: Hercules
Tower: Orpheus Telos.
Fortune: Ariadne
Emperor: Baal
Empress: ?
Priestess: ?
Aeon: ?
Sun: Metatron
Star: Samsara Lucifer
Death: Thanatos
Moon: ?
Hierophant: Daisoujou
Temperance: ?
Devil: ?
Hunger: ?
Faith: ?
Consultant: ?
Next Chapter: A 3 months timeskip, and the battle against Kokabiel
Until Next Time And Next Chapter!
Jude Warble, Out!