Disclaimer: On the off chance that someone tries to sue me, I own nothing except OCs.
Thanks a lot for you're reviews guys. They make me warm and fuzzy and keep this story going! People fail to see the connection between the [Bull] and Heracles. FYI Heracles doesn't really use a weapon, so his strength absolutely must be from [Earth]. The [Bull] is a symbol of Earth and Harvest. Like how Apollo was born from darkness (via a mother earth Goddess, likely Artemis), Heracles was from earth. Of course, it's all speculations and myths. Btw I'm gonna most likely avoid including additional Gods of presently popular religions.
Besides these, I don't think the anime does justice to how Godou really looks. He's Japanese unlike how his complexion suggests.
Anyways, enjoy, rate and review!
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Even when not possessed, Erica Blandelli was still a dangerous creature. Her manipulative personality and voluptuous body was hard for even the most experienced of men to counter. Let alone Kusanagi Godou, even the great Kusanagi Ichirou would find it an almost impossible thing to accomplish.
"Oh! Now you want me to kiss you!?"
"No. The safety of the people in Sardina dictates your need to apply [Instruction] on me via an oral method." Godou re-laid the 'scientific' and 'morally compelling' version of 'kiss me'.
"Ah ha! You do want to kiss me! Perv! " Erica replied in a somewhat strained voice, still in bed (a rather large double bed in another room, courtesy of Lucretia).
Godou really wanted to say 'Da, isn't that obvious?', but restrained himself. A tsundere Erica was amusing and fun to toy with, but time was running out. A single deity took days, if not months to study and reveal it's origin. Godou read everything about Beelzebub and Bael from Christian and Jewish sources but still it wasn't quite enough for the [Sword of Wisdom]. And to top it of, Godou found his mind void of any knowledge of Melqart and Verethragna, something to do with the one day limitation of [Instruction]. It should have been simple to get Lucretia to apply [Instruction] again via skin contact, but a Campione's ABSOLUTE resistance to human magic got in the way.
Suddenly an idea hit Godou's mind like a lighting bolt. Why didn't he think of this before? The perfect tsundere-counter was the 'jealousy' card.
"Oh, alright." Godou said in resignation while walking out the door.
In the corridor...
One...
Two...
Three...
"Hey! Where are you going?!" Erica yelled out loud through the door, her tone echoing of the corridor walls.
Godou retraced his steps and poked his head in through the door as entering the room would put Erica at ease, which would simply not do.
"Huh? I was gonna go and find Anna (Arianna)."
Whatever (small amount of) regret Godou has for lying was nullified by the sheer absurdity of the array of emotions Erica's beautiful face displayed. First she seemed confused... Then enlightened and ... Umm... Betrayed? Then... Maybe... Indignant and finally enraged. It was as if she was an actress practising facial expressions for a whole thirty seconds.
"WHY YOU BASTARD!" Erica raged as a steamy bowl of soup came flying towards Godou, only to be narrowly avoided.
"What is it?" Godou asked uninterruptedly as he stepped back in the room.
"'WHAT IS IT'? You're going to steal a maiden's chastity, because I, Erica Blandelli, refused you? YOU HAVE NO SHAME!" Erica raged on like an unyielding tornado.
"Oh, maybe Lucretia then. She's obviously more experienced than you in magic and kissing techniques. Hell, kissing her might even be an enjoyable experience unlike a certain..." Well Godou was about to aggravate the blonde knight further, but he was interrupted by the elegant chuckle of the Copper Black Cross' [Great Knight].
'Shit!'
"To think you'd go to such an extent, oh my, Godou, what a lecherous play!" Erica replied as she struggled out of the bed. This would be her 'ojou-sama' personality, contrasting to the tsundere personality displayed earlier.
"Well grovelling wouldn't get me anywhere and knowledge is what I need. It seems you're too smart for my ploy." Godou spoke nonchalantly as possible earning him a amused chuckle from the blonde knight.
"Oh well! There's my calling. Kissing must wait." Godou spoke, while activating the [Tempest], in response to the call of the sixth Campione. The King of Swords was approximately 8 miles south east, on the outskirts of the town, near the beach by the Mediterranean sea.
Godou manifested right beside Salvatore Doni, his so called Aneki (elder brother), as Verethragna must have in his myths. Everything around them was shrouded in darkness, except the gleaming red eyes and fiery wisps floating about. Amidst the darkness, low intimidating growls could be heard.
Although an imbecile 99% of the time, Doni was sharp as his sword when it came to battle. Speaking of swords, his Silvery one wasn't in his hand, only a gimmicky, blunted steel one.
Doni must have caught his accusing gaze at the sword, because in the next moment he raised it high and Sung his aria.
"I hereby swear, I forbid the existence
of things I cannot cut!" Doni spoke nonchalantly, but not in his usual flippant tone. Doubtless a great warrior, Salvatore Doni was truly incompetent as anything else.
With a purple, brilliant light, Doni's right arm turned solid silver and so did his sword. Bid stance was an utterly careless one, the type that would make kendo masters cringe at the very sight of it. But still, an unskilled man would never have the title of [King of Swords] in the first place.
"I'll leave Bael to you." Doni spoke and instantly ran off into the darkness like the idiot he was. Godou just lost their advantage in the darkness where both Bael and Beelzebub should be able to see perfectly in. This want ordinary darkness, but rather an authority as even the vision of a Campione obscured in it.
Come to think of it, Doni should have taken on Bael, the one with a physical form unlike the bug Beelzebub.
Godou's inane thoughts were interrupted as a searing pain tan through his whole body, starting from his unprotected back. Without the need to turn around, Godou could tell that he just suffered an immense blow from Bael on his back. The Demon King was of darkness, and by extension earth and strength of Herculean level.
"Too weak!", Godou boasted as he spun on his ankle and attempted a hand hammer on the location where Bael should have been. Instead Godou immense blow struck nothing but empty air and then solid concrete. The brute force crushed the surrounding area, forming a meter wide circular crater on the ground.
But Bael wasn't there. Thus, the darkness also impaired hearing and sense of place or time as there was no way a berserk demon like Bael didn't roar before charging. (Too much influence on Godou from Fate/Stay Night.)
Well it was safe to say that the [Darkness] belonged to either Bael or Beelzebub or maybe both. In that case, it's unlikely both of them used it at the same time. Doni's authorities were of [Steel] but Godou's [Storm King] was Sky. Basically, Gods without [Earth] attribute should be blinded and deafened.
To impair both this senses; [Darkness] was not merely the absence of light but a Divine material or spell.
"I am the strongest bearer of victory! Obstructions, be dismissed from my path!" Godou chanted as spectres of golden light came into existence, numbering in the thousands. When the information of the opponent was orated, the golden like took the form of a sword amidst a field of swords. But with only an incantation, Godou could only form light spheres.
Bringing out his ultimate weapon as flashlight hurt Godou's pride as a warrior, even though it shouldn't really exist.
Godou poured his Divine Power into this authority, making the light orbs multiply continuously. Soon there were thousands of lights floating about, repelling the [Darkness].
Bael must have chosen to stay away, not knowing the light's ability. Although the demon's previous attack was painful, it had no lasting damage on Godou's resilient body.
Responding to Godou's will, the light condensed to a certain point, repeatedly, radiating immense amounts of Divine Energy. This amount was really unnecessary, but Kusanagi Godou wanted to do in this [Darkness] thoroughly as possible.
"Fuck you, Bael." Godou declared uselessly as the immense condensation of light imploded on itself, and a striking wave of golden light purged the area of all [Darkness] lifting the veil of blindness and silence.
It was morning and a glorious one, where the Sun shone brightly in the clear blue sky. It would be a pity to tarnish it with [Storm King]. Although the perfect scenery was ruined by the three meter tall pitch black, literally bull headed demon glaring at him with red eyes.
Salvatore Doni and Beelzebub were nowhere around.
'Good for them.' Godou thought as he was well and truly pissed and about to level this place.
The seventh God slayer smiled coldly at the Demon. Even though this would be his first battle with a [Heretic God] as a Godslayer, Godou was confident in victory. The sheer boost in egotism that came with the title of Godslayer got to him.
With intention, the spell words and knowledge came flooring into Godou's mind. How [Authorities] functioned, itself was divine knowledge granted, no seized from the slain [Heretic Gods].
"For victory, hasten forth before me! O Immortal Sun, I beseech thee to grant radiance to the stallion. O Stallion that moveth Godlike with wondrous grace, bringest forth the halo of thy master!"
This time Godou summoned the Sun that is the [White Stallion] that represents the closest star to the earth. In many myths, a Sun God carried the Sun across the sky on a chariot and it was no different in Zoroastrianism. Apollo, Helios, Aten, Ra, Amaterasu were few of the hundreds of Gods that held authority over the Sun. Verethragna, too served such a God, namely Mithra, the Sun God of the Covenant.
And it was elementary knowledge, light triumphs over darkness that Bael represented.
A second Sun rose on the eastern sky once more, a brilliant white different from the blazing golden hue of the original. And of it, came down a blazing white stallion, gracefully galloping the distance between it and Bael. Even the huge monster grew weary and a red magic circle surrounded him.
"Teleportation..." Godou muttered in distaste as he shot forward, kicking the ground with his feet. Faster than the Stallion, he manifested before Bael and planted a solid punch in the Demon's literary rock hard stomach. Fortunately, Melqart's Herculean strength backed his attack, thus delaying Bael long enough for the Stallion to hit critically.
But there was just one problem.
Godou would be hit too.
Maybe not as fatally as the intended target, Bael, but solar flare wouldn't leave a Godslayer of [Steel] authorities, unharmed.
Bael let out a monstrous groan as the [White Stallion] collided with him head on. The pure embezzling white flames scratched the very earth beneath the [Heretic God]'s feet. Naturally the Sun had a purifying effect on darkness. The continuous on pour of solar flare purged the Demon King of the face of the Earth.
The battle wasn't challenging, rather truthfully, it was surprisingly easy. Maybe Bael being a demonic deity without human like conscience, lacked the pride/ego that represented a [Heretic God]'s might. There was also the fact that none would escape the [White Stallion] unharmed...
... Including Kusanagi Godou,
Now sprawled exhausted on the scorched ground, his whole body red from the heat and fire.
A symbolic image of a [Sheep] graced Godou's mind as everything went black.