Oh My Goddess! - Valkyrie's Knight
Act IX-b
She shuddered when she heard the voice, gritty and dour, on the other end of the line. She dropped her cell phone when she heard it... 'No! No! Did I just...?'
She didn't get a chance to think further. This as the 'weirdest' tremor she ever heard, started to shudder 'all' around her. She looked around, seeing only Keiba nearby, who looked up. ""Eh? Was that a...?"
Thoughts ended at that point, as a shadow shot all around and about them, without warning! Chihiro considered, a point also nulled, when she caught glimpse of impossibility, rushing right at her, her shop...
...her town...
Just in time for all feeling to suddenly 'shift', and go black.
And then she woke up.
For a groggy moment, the Whirlwind owner felt her body, 'floating', to a standing type landing. She blinked wearily. "Wow... did I knock off again?" ...this before she started to 'see', and the reality of the impossibility around her, STABBED her mind! She gasped to the point of collapsing her vocal chords, as she swung her head all around. This several times, to get the picture to sink in of the surreal and abnormal.
All around her, as if in a stop motion caption, yet too real to think was magic, anything plain at that, was the immediate landscape of nearby buildings, and all matter that had anything to do with the panorama she was centered upon, all of it... as if in the midst of being torn apart to rubble, of the kind only Hiroshima and Nagasaki were known to have been inflicted.
She stood there stunned, a bit kooky looking with pipped eyes and all, as everything looked like it was 'about' to be flattened, with debris 'held' in midair! Torn off buildings, shorn trees asunder of root, pavement billowed and gutted from bare ground, soil fissuring amidst shredded grass.
Birds... animals... people... in huddled masses of 'just' being tossed about, before the end 'should' have hit them. All of this, frozen in time, it all seemed. All of it, at the apex of the blast that never completed. The sight of it, was as horrid as if all 'was' destroyed.
One could surmise Chihiro's mindset as a result. This as she... walked up too... and raised a finger, to 'push' a blade of in midair grass of blade. It 'shifted' to the touch, as if like pencil on a table. But it didn't fall. "Wow... uh... no more sake for moi." ...she warbled out.
She then realized, that if... and in turning to look, saw to her horrified gasp, the 'start' of the shredded ruins of her beloved Whirlwind. But worse, was that she saw her cousin, as Keiba was in the process of being tossed as well, just start of, with a large chunk of aluminum frame, about ready to impale him dead through!
Chihiro dropped to her knees and broke a sob, the tears she didn't realize, weren't impeded unto the ground. She kept sobbing anyway, wordless in realization of too many obvious things. Too many real sights that she was at the edge of her sanity thereof. Just too much in one blow.
All of which crunched to a sudden halt, as her mind registered, and thrust her head a split moment later, at something that gutted her soul on sight. This as Chihiro looked up, and saw armored death, towering over her.
The tears and sobs, were now shudders and stutters. This as the Dark Lord clenched his angered worst, screeched in armored hand.
And yet, Chihiro somehow 'knew' on sight... "...is... is that 'you'?" ...wordless of whom she suspected. Worded in return that was scalding to the ears. "You will come with 'me' now, if you wish to live."
Chihiro just blinked, and looked at him warily... "Uh... w... why are you still all sci-fi like?" ...she half-joked, before she felt her shirt YANKED up upon, to stare into those Void filled eyes! In toned return most dire... "Of such, nothing! Of myself, a truth you will now suffer unto!"
Chihiro's mind didn't last long beyond this. She fainted mercifully soon after. The Dark Lord just huffed in contempt, and then 'packed' her like a potato sack, over shoulder, before rising into the devastated air. As he rose ever higher, he took in marvel of the power his spell commanded. All sight, was indeed frozen. A stateless existence, that was now spreading it's last tendrils to the remainder of the World Plane.
All the better to keep the mortal fools from meddling. "All save for my prey." ...he spoke unto himself, before passing into the stilled clouds that still comprised of an air burst in frozen action.
Nothing had been spared from the Spell.
Chrono never felt such fear. Not for the longest time at least. Her voice was so hollow to suit. "Temporal wake... complete."
Ex conformed... "The phenomenon has encapsulated the entire World Plane sphere." ...this as from behind, Hirund looked at Frode, and gulped. "What a mess."
": Agreed. :" ...comes from a reverberating voice of the One, all about the stilled Hub chamber. This as Almighty had eye on this all as well. Another of the Higher Seat Gods suddenly spoke up. ": This is unconscionable. What other than to call this, but a Treaty Violation! :"
": To do what with Sir? :" ...the voice of Freyana asked, of the High god of the same name... ": Remind I must what you suggest to act 'with'? :"
": I suggest immediate measures! The damage is already too extensive! :" Sir demanded. Hirund listened to the two High Gods arguing, knowing no one of Heaven didn't hear. She felt cold knowing the causes of this all. Frode for his part, was only here to keep the Hub in place. (Of official reason anyway.) he however then heard from the General next to him. "Did we make a mistake... after all?"
": No. :" ...Almighty reverberated into the Hub. Knowing it was directed at her, Hirund sweated. Frode gulped no less. As in of cue, Thor thunders in... ": An awesome power not of his own true control! If 'he' knew in truth, this would not be occurring. :"
"And yet it has." ...Hirund whispers. A silence only broken by... ": A response do we have? :" Adonis's voice imparted. A voice that 'had' to ask of unwanted measure. Freyana's tone in turn made Hirund shiver, down to her wine red mane. ": I can think of one. If it was enforced by little choice. :" Of this, it seemed too obvious what had to be done. Even if it was, in all respects, her kith of upbringing.
": Hild has little time left over him. Such a measure would bring no benefit anyone. Not even unto Her :"
Freyana's voice shouted out, which made the goddesses in the Hub hold their heads in mutual migraines. Frode just shook his head while hearing it. ": You MEAN to allow that whelp allowance to EXIST! What damage could he else cause without 'truth', My Lord, if he is not halted! I for one 'question' the validity of such an off handed manner! :"
": Question you like, but you do not 'see' what I endure. :" ...a Mighty statement rather pointed in tone, which for some reason, gave Hirund a motherly like hope. Almighty then asked... ": How much time is left? :" ...asked, even if it seemed needless. Hirund complied nevertheless and answered on the looking of the holo screens, keeping track of the Contract, now well and open for all to see of celestial mode... "About an hour and forty minutes. By that world's chronometer standard." This Frode made silent prayer of such passing, unto the quick. He wasn't the only one, in Heaven all but across the board.
": I will keep faith until that time has elapsed. ::" ...this which Freyana outright objected. ": That's FOOLISH MiLord! :"
": It's my Will. Comply! :"
Freyana for some reason didn't reply back. Frode was sure shivering in kind. Hirund just whispered... "Nice one."
": I heard that General. :" ...Freyana 'did' respond with. Which freaked out the elder General, and made the goddess operators below giggle some. Frode shook his melon again, as Hirund simply grumbled. As such Almighty then imparted... ": The 'Test' is nigh. An opponent of oneself, is where this all leads. Now watch the unfolding thereof, of what My mind always intended. Of a result that will bring back one Lost for far too long. :"
Hirund didn't expect that, even despite the rumors from Thor, as of late. And of course 'whom' just spouted in kind... ": Cocky, off-handed bastard. :" ...Thor 'joked' quite openly. Almighty just chuckled, knowing the intent as ever.
Hirund just looked at the holoscreens, knowing her sisters were viewing the same in the Link. She just prayed, in full posture mode. "Take my prayer, to be of strength to see this through.
My goddess-son."
She wasn't soon very alone, in this...
"Dis... wha... dis... wha... dis... dis..."
Sora just creeped in the same tone. "Wha... wha... wha... wha..."
Otaki just poked at things... "Haha... they're like weightless." ...this Tamiya and Sora just shouted at him. "STOOP UT! / STOP IT!"
Sora looked around, the remains of what 'should' have been a classroom, where she and the twin twits here had been doing classes, finalizing, and remedial of respective note. (Sora wasn't the slacker to be sure.) All of this was however before they got hit with the same dark effect, everything else did. They then awoke to see the normally typical class room of college make, being 'hard shifted' from left to right, from where their forward seats 'had' been. It was like seeing the entire building being peeled apart in such vectors, solid brick, by solid brick. All like some onion being blasted apart around them.
The dream seemed as such, if not also for the detailed fact the cinder block bricks, stripped in particles of paint, were also being stripped themselves into chunks, this all in caption for the disbelief of them each. Sora just quipped... "Shoulda brought a camera."
"Yuh." Tamiya just huffed, trying to bravely piece together logic from this, and quite failing.
Just then, a crash of some weird kind makes them look towards the door, just before... "Otaki? Otaki-kun?"
Said betrothed jumped out of in midst of a strange, hastily erected shelter, made of desks and chairs, so done after (in midst of realizing even,) that they could still move things. Pointless, though forgotten of an iota, as Otaki jumps out, knocking a bunch of in midair debris all about. "Sayoko? Satoko puddin?"
Sora blanches... "Puddin?"
Tamiya just cries as Otaki smacks his way through the 'trash', wiping eyes to the tune of... "Is's lost muh man partnur!" Sora blanches at 'him' in turn... "Man partner?" ...before Otaki and a badly shaken Satoko return. Sora and Tamiya see and forget their mindsets, and rush over, with Sora and Satoko embracing in a hug both need on instinct. This a second before Satoko does the same for Otaki. "Oh my kun, I'm so glad you're alright!"
"Is anyone else out there alright?" Sora just asks in a start, Otaki fearful for Satoko's mind state, yet responded to anyway by her... "I... I don't know! Everyone else is just frozen... everyone... everything here is!"
"Jeeze." ...Otaki betrays out, before Satoko just glom-sobs into his leather jacketed chest. As they let Satoko cry it out, the three realize they aren't dreaming any of this. Tamiya imparts in full realization. "Dis 'is' bad."
Just then, a 'dark' sound cracks the air, like an artillery shot melded with plasma arcing. They all hear and look with a start, as beyond, out where the 'shifted' wall of peeled out of the way most, the bare opening to open sky, interspersed further up by wide spaced bricks, there they see something 'dark', in monolithic shape and form, rise higher, clearly into the frozen sky.
All they 'can' do is look. They don't dare do further, suspecting of at least three of them present, what they are seeing in the demonic. Otaki just quips in a low whisper... "'That' is bad."
Light neko coughing waifs up from a bit of rubble, before a slender hand of bronze skin, reaches in, and heft the small 'refuse' from under. "Look what we found." ...this as Velsper realizes and looks dourly. "Uh... -cough- ...oh..."
"You got it."
"Him too?" Mara quips, as Hild looks over the neko form of a detested demon. She then just tosses Velsper over her shoulder, at Mara. Velsper lands, but sure doesn't remain that way, as... "OW OW OW OW OW OW!" ...Mara attests.
"He... and she... is still of us, after all. One wonders, do We, how many others there are, that are in the same state now." ..this Hild looks upwards with, generally.
"Who cares."
Hild looks back dryly, as Entropia just looks bored, stomping on the frozen in mid air debris, and just smashing much of them outright. Hild just huffs... "Not a very elegant goddess, ever you were?"
Entropia just snarls back... "As... I... said..." ..and takes it out with her foot on a random piece of residence glass.
Hild just shrugs. "You'll care, quite soon. Just keep the 'others' busy, while Our Dark Lord completes his work. We don't want him actually going out of control, as a surrounded animal would react. Such would only bring harm our acquisitions."
"Who 'cares', said I."
Hild has enough of that and clenches her open left hand at Entropia, dragging her outright into a choke hold! The strength hardly misunderstood, Hild just seethes in return at her gasping, choking audience. "Petulant child. That poor form is why we always detested you. To think we gave Urd up for 'you'."
Mara and Velsper halt their 'rummaging', as Entropia shudders under catatonic words. Hild just steels in of certainty. "And you 'will' care, so that We gain Our bounty. Les we fail, and give credence to Our displeasure unto whom We detest, in our hand. Avoid this, by doing Our Commandment, as We hath said!" ...this she drops the Norn like coal. Hild turns and lets Entropia suffer the words, while she snaps to... "Mara! Velsper!"
"Yes'm!" ...she and Velsper the 'same' jilt to attention, the latter in Mara's shaking hands. Hild just imparts. "We want you two to be an extra eyes for Our Tool. He can't see all things, unlike certain 'beings', such We loathe into all Eternity. Can you two do 'that' much?"
Mara and Velsper just yelp back. "Yes'm!" ...and scurry away to some random direction! Hild allows such a self satisfaction of driven fear, drinking it in, to then just breathe in 'serenely', to then turn around and clap cutely with. "Well, better start preparations." ...as she starts with a flick of her hands outwards. And starts moving about various 'objects' all of about.
Entropia meanwhile recovers her anger from before, and while cursing 'very' silently', she brushes her hand against an picture frame. Seeing out of habit, she picks up a framed picture of the goddesses around Keiichi, before the time of the Wraith and the Knight. The sight of Urd alone in it...
She seethes at it, and shatters it in hand with full jealousy.
Hild halts for a second, as Entropia then phase jumps out of sight. Hild then just shrugs, and returns to her redecorating. "We'll have to finish with her when this ends." ...and starts seeing her warped imagination begin to form around the shattered courtyard.
"I don't feel good." ...this Keiichi looks downward at the ground, of wobbly nature.
Belldandy looks over. "Dear?" ...this Keiichi quickly replies, regaining solid enough footing... "Sorry, just not used to all this flying." ...this Bell in turn cradles his smiling face. Frigurina notes this at a glance, and silently thanks Keiichi for being strong for them all, Belldandy of most focus. Just then, she notes on the other side of her edge of vision, their escorts landing. Both not with joyous facades.
Lind just remarks outright. "Everything has stopped." ...this Phosus adds... "Apparently all time around us. Gravity and space-time alike are halted without fail."
Frigurina dourly sighs. "Impressive."
"Apology, but... how...?" ...Phosus queries, almost demanding. Frig just sighs, as Lind pegs in further... "...even... even if he did do that... even he shouldn't. That much power would destroy him." ..the last part, almost breaking the Valkyrie's spirit. Her steel returned on the spot of realizing.
"Alone, yes. Previously, no doubt." Frigurina retorted in similar, held back tone. "But Hild apparently knows the truth that we do. My Husband and I. Now you as well I am understood of" ...she speaks primarily to Lind of. Phosus hears, not in the loop just yet. Bell and Kei exchange a confused look, as Phosus asks quickly. "Pardon me, but would this have to do with..."
"-ATTENTION UNTO MY VOICE MOST COWLING!-"
It wasn't just them in this small group, that heard, and felt their limbs shake. Lind no less, looking upon in fear. More than one kind at 'that'. "No."
Chihiro's eyes snapped open at this tone, upon this vocal ground zero! "HOLY JEEZE!" She heard a screech of metal plates, and had her eyes locked back onto those soulless corneas.
"Oh... you..." Chihiro braved out.
The Dark Lord stopped for a moment, then slowly craned his armored head, one adorned in a set of curved backward, serrated, 'mohawk' like blades, with five side-wicked blades that took the place of the original angel feather versions, on both sides of the wretched helm. Given all the demonic monikering, and blade juts that covered them in vicious patterns, and of the same format all over the remainder of the saccloth armor, of the warped skin, the putrid oil in blood like hair, and everything else about him, the only thing Chihiro saw that were somehow recognizable... 'were' those eyes.
Chihiro just dryly retorted. "You know, after the first shock, you get old looking in that. Dunno why."
She suddenly felt the business end of his blade, pressed unto her throat, the other gauntlet quickly at her shirt collar as a response to that, of which she just gulps... "Old is good. Fine wines and antiques are like... -gulp- ...that."
The Dark Lord then erupts out, uncaring of Chihiro's hearing, or soul being shattered... "-Bring yourselves unto us, deity and target mortal alike! As is Her Command!-" ...Chihiro feels suddenly cold, as the Dark Lord continues his broad command voice, infernal and spiteful. "-Her patience is infinite, but 'not' Her time! You have in succinct, ten minutes, and that alone, to bring your entirety of persons, unto Her gaze!
Consequences...-" ...Chihiro gulps, as the blade edge is pressed into her neck. "-...for the Lady Chihiro, will be as dire as I am!-"
"That won't... -gack- ...get you points for a raise, dude." Chihiro struggles out with.
The Dark Lord ignores... "-Ten minutes... now 'less'. Arrive as you may, care not I. But if you care less so, she 'won't' soon after, at all!-"
Chihiro just snaps... "Come on! That stuff is..." ...and finds herself grasped at the neck in full, her shirt collar dug into her skin, and in full face of her former friend. A blood chilling response comes of... "I can lessen the wait, with a drop... .if you wish it." ...Chihiro blinks, and then realizes on looking down, the height they are currently. Such that are usually reserved for jumbo jets. Chihiro just ekes back... "No, I'm... good."
The Dark Lord just slits his obsidian eyes, and suddenly SHOOTS them right over to the 'in-progress' flattened Temple.
"Great." ...Urd quipped, rubbing her head, and aching ears. Skuld agreed, doing likewise. "How'd Chihiro get involved?"
Megumi looked back down the road, where they had weathered the strange event, and now the 'warning'. The lost time in the intern was actually missed now. Urd looked up and saw Demesus dropping back down like a rock!
"He's got that female he mentioned." ...the Valkyrie announced. Skuld just complains... "I wana ask why, but it'll just give me a headache." ...this Urd just remarks, her own migraine billowing. "It's likely everyone else heard."
"We did." ...this everyone looks up, as Peorth, Eihwa, Tsuyana and Thrud appear, Takano and Keima in between the sets of names mentioned, respectively, of the shoulder carry-on method. The others note Keima is out cold, as they land. Megumi... "Ummm..."
Takano just sighs... "Keima didn't like the idea of being carried here and all, so I solved 'that' problem for him." ...with a rub of a sore right knuckle, adding back to the goddesses. "You gals sure fly fast."
"First Class spell service actually." ...Eihwa noted, given the number goddesses of note that 'were' escorting. Thrud just groaned. "Are we that boned?"
Demesus cocked an eye. "Aye, though 'that' language isn't helping." ...this Thrud slit her eyes in turn. Eihwa however snapped. "Goddesses, we're on the clock!"
"Tha heck 'do' we do then?" Takano exclaimed, as Keima started to moan back awake. Megumi remarked in kind. "Yeah, this is 'so' a trap."
"Invitation, more like." ...Tsuyana, in her own way, corrected. Urd just retorted to that. "Hild's style 'shouldn't' be that harsh. She's really pushing something here."
"- Let's not dally then. -" ...this as Frigurina's voice echoes the air, a moment before a second First Class teleport occurs, this one with the remaining Morisato party at hand. Frigurina at the fore, swirls her hands back to plain level, and adds... "Hild won't. I know that much, given 'him' now."
"What do we do then?" ...Peorth asked, none of the flair of fancy was in any of them at present. Seemed the magic of such things had left them all, leaving the bones of dismay.
A hard thud hits the ground suddenly, everyone looking at the pointed down axe, Lind has produced. She just growls in military kind. "We fight." Phosus quickly nods. "Yes. We were going to do it anyway once we brought the mortals to the hideouts."
Belldandy however asks. "What of Keiichi and his family?" ...this said mortal looks at his kin.
"Don't know." Urd offers... "...however unless we know what we're up against, we won't know what danger Keiichi and the others will be in."
Eihwa offers... "A head on approach to this then?" Phosus picks her own earring off... "Our way of thinking."
"Hild's too, most unlike her." ...Tsuyana of her own earring. Thrud as well... "We have to outnumber her forces, at the very least." Demesus groans, likewise of her own earring. "It's still Hild, numbers aren't equating power here."
Lind picks a second earring off, for her second Axe, to a glance from Eihwa. "You forget her Seal, Almighty placed on her." ...this Demesus wackily objects. "Forget what! We don't know what we aren't told!" ...this Phosus rolls her eyes at. "Stop making excuses Commander."
Frigurina smiles, but imparts... "Worry not. I'll deal with her. I always could." ...with a fluttering of her right fingers.
Keiichi looked to Belldandy again, before he heard in surprise from her. "We'll protect Keiichi and his family."
"Add yourselves as well." Takano added, which made a lot of the goddess smile. Keiichi just gives a thumbs up. "Nice one."
A lot of nodding, before Lind remarked... "Then we have one of our own to save."
A nice two panel scene with them all together, looking nice and proud. It's a tear jerking experience. (Nevermind Keima is moaning in a delirium, while Urd is posing. "Hope they got my good side."
Skuld: "Ask Father for something more reasonable."
Urd: "I didn't ask for 'you', quite unreasonable."
Frig: "That's it! You kids stop, or no gaudy fight scene!"
Both: "Sorry Mom." )
"All done." ...Hild claps her hands to her left cheek, and hops once, quite unsettling and all. Not that she expected anything of it all to be used. A plain looking tea set party getup, set in the demonic mode. Hardly all that inviting. Not even one the Mad Hatter would find comforting to approach.
But at least one seat was occupied. "You're one strange broad."
Hild slit her eyes at a bound in seat Chihiro, bound with simple wire from the residence remains, left alone for the moment, while her captor was away for a few moments. The CEO just quipped. "Might as well call us 'The' strange broad. A rare note for a mundane muggle, like you, to be in such a presence." .this Chihiro balked back with bland eye at. "Whatever, miss 'you-know-who'."
The laugh that Chihiro heard in return, chilled her even worse than she was already feeling. This as Hild remarked in 'kind'. "If not for the likes of me, the purity that 'is' Evil, wouldn't have a basis to have such 'legends'. Fictitious or non."
Chihiro just sighed. "And therefore the good guys wouldn't look so good." ...this Hild made an ill light of, by flicking a curved, red spark from her left forefinger, at Chihiro's plate. Chihiro had to scramble back, a trick most hard, given her tied up state, as the empty plate suddenly had all a bunch of microbes all but 'explode' from pure thin air! "EWW!" Chihiro yelps, as she falls unto her back, as the plate 'writhes'.
This as Hild leans over her sweating head. "Or the good guys wouldn't fall so hard, my dear prisoner."
"How nice." Chihiro warbled out.
A heavy THUD, garners Hild's attention, before the strides of abhorrence come over, and YANK Chihiro back to a sitting position. One done 'all' too close to the nightmare plate. "Ahhh! Not so close!"
"A problem My Lord?" ...the Dark Lord demands of question.
"Semantics 'our' Dark Lord. Worry not." Hild smoothes her devilishly extravagant hair with.
The said Dark Lord then ironclads out, as he turns around to look 'at' the incoming targets, one seen way too easily from here... "They are coming. Here in mere moments in fact." ...this Hild hopped over and 'glommed' onto the black effidice (Something on sight that makes Chihiro cringe.) "Oh dear, they like knocking the front door down. Might as well go tell the others. And We'll keep the tea warm. Infernally so."
The Dark Lord just huffed actual smudge out, and broke away brusquely, and then zapped out of sight, a towering black flame in his wake, such was a vehement way to depart! Chihiro gulped, her throat already dry from too much of this now. She dared a look at the CEO. "What... what 'did'... you do to him?"
Hild just fingered her lips, rubbing them in circles, a lustful tone answering back, since the eyes didn't... "We made all his nightmares come true. Funny, We went on our word, not to make him do anything. Such our poor form." ...this as she turns, and brings out Oblivion, for a scared to the spine Chihiro to shake badly on sight of. Hild adds to this theme... "Oh well, 'our' poor form. And rapture alike of our Will."
The laugh is so demonic, Chihiro wouldn't sleep soundly normally for days.
Ones in her own bed, as was about to be demonstrated.
-A thousand kilometers above Temple Tarikihongan
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For once, Velsper regretted being able to keep a conscious soul, as he floated with the aid of Blue Lance's wings, with full sight of the monolith Hild corrupted. Mara next to him/her/something, was no less weak kneed. To the other, left side of the Dark Lord, Entropia held her silent dementia, her direly ego-bruised from Hild's admonishment earlier, still acid to her encoded mind. Such things a goddess should not endure.
Of such they had been like this for a few vile minutes, simply watching, from on corrupted high. This of course the three didn't dare 'enlighten' upon, since very little of the Dark Lord's responses, weren't calculated to feed of the fear, in result.
Mara and Velsper traded a look of... 'This 'is' a bad idea.' But said not of it, dare not at that.
"Keep them occupied, the weakling deities, away from my tasks." ...this he did finally speak, shaking them all out of annoyed doldrums. Mara quipped... "The goddesses will likely oppose us with all their power."
A deeper tone cracked out in response to that. "If you three are capable of Her infernal grace, you 'will' accomplish this task. This as I deal with the more worthy foe of demerit. If I give that much credence unto."
Velsper just held his/her tongue, as Mara only jittered out... "Yes... yes sir." ...as Entropia winced under the pressure of the tone.
"When the time is proper, 'I' will harvest the mortal chaff when they expect it, of the least." ...he grinds the last out, so wretchedly sounding... "That will be how we break them. The rest My Lord will complete of her leisure and superiority."
"So confident we are?" ...this they looked, two reserved, one venomously, as Entropia just blanches with..."All reports indicate that all other efforts here have failed. Even my step-mother's attempts." ...she drags the parental title out with, matching her disdain for all this.
Her 'reward' for this, Entropia saw and 'felt' his indelible shadow, eclipse her on approach. He seethed out, all contempt infused... "You are correct. Strange that you should look as of one that I now detest." ...this Entropia feels smaller by the second, in hearing. Worse so, as in viscous addition... "We shalt not meet again, so as if you wish to avoid my mistake of you, as one of 'them'. So alike, and so impotent." ...he raises a 'caressing' hand to her right cheek, stroking it across from left to right of cheek, chin included, all of which tremble and chill of sweat. This before her collar is clenched stiffly.
"Yes, we 'shalt' not meet again. If you wish to live. Doublet or Nor! Now fulfill Her Will without fail, in hazard of my warning otherwise!" Entropia is shoved back by the collar, leaving her in a further 'bruised' state, while Mara and Velsper 'really' wish they were not a parry to this all.
A sudden 'crack' of a sonic boom however refocuses everything, as the Dark Lord notes the sight of the enemy on direct approach. "And now it ends. Begone!"
The other demons phase out of sight, leaving the hateful visage to start drawing his warped morphemic blade of blood-dark purple. He then reforms it into a long and twisted shaft, still thin and elegant enough despite, as if made from a warped version of the Ash Tree root, and in the same twisted format, snapping out twin scythe blades at the top of the shaft, both blades particularly elongated and serrated looking, looking like of a very wicked 'T' shape. At the bottom, a third serrated scythe forms out, away from its author. The entire weapon pulsing with a demonic aura, almost wanting to weep blood from it. And hungry for the same, of 'any' format.
And all of it held with a bloody-oiled saccloth gauntlet, squeezing with such a hatred unto it, full sight of the Enemy on approach. The voice equaled this. "Come. To. Me!"
The flight of Combat Wings went on ahead of the rest of the group. It was obvious showing up all together would just cause too much risk, given whom Lind saw in all too clear sight of, now less than five kilometers from 'ground zero'.
Phosus of note, saw the devastation at its most affected areas, and shivered a kind Valkyries don't normally espouse. "How could he..." It wasn't a singular version that swept through most the others morale, save Lind. One whom was in a more rigid frame of mind, holding within the cage, memories of the one that she should be happy to be approaching. Not terrified beyond rational recourse. Of a kind her nominal Valkyrie self, should even feel at all.
She had allowed herself a moment, one too long, to seep in a happy memory, one that seemed anything of everything, of the time of that bivouac exercise she was under his training command. An image of a soul that was growing into true form, if still rough and jittery with his commands at the time. Of one she beheld her feelings, even if the other Valkyries 'knew' otherwise.
One that was halted on cue of Thrud. "Watch it!"
Lind snaps her head up, eyes in war rigid mode, as they come up on the foe they dreaded to face. This as the five shoot up, and meet in full person finally.
Demesus: "Almighty preserve."
It took a lot to make 'anew' additional jitters of the kind that exacerbated the previous. They were before the cause 'now'. In turn, the Dark Lord 'felt' that, seeing through eyes beyond Void within.
"Oh great." ...this everyone notes on a shot of unexpected cue, as Mara of voice, with Velsper on her shoulder, appears without authorization. This as Mara wanted to see the first of the foe, with Velsper more than raised of hair. The Dark Lord edged eye over, as the Demon First Class judged. "...now 'this' bunch has a 'magical girl' team." ...this in turn making the Valkyries growl at in perturbed kind.
"A loser and her cat." ...Tsuyana cocked back, getting the same irked reaction in kind. One snapped in black angered retort... "-I... said... BEGONE!-" ...with a raised hand of streaming black plasma in his raised left hand! Mara and Velsper didn't stick around to see what it could do.
And this Lind heard of the voice enough, upon this nightmarish meeting, to quickly judge. "That 'isn't' him." The other Valkyries look, and, despite disbelief, agreed... "Aye." ...they pretty much summarize of.
"Where are and be the mortal chaff!" ...in immediate antagonizing. Lind just snapped back... "Here soon enough!"
"Her Will is ended of patience. So has time attached." ...this as he 'flips' the free hand of left, from its plasma state, to one holding a long, thin needle, sheen of black polymer unknown, and deadly to the eye alone. "The cost was already informed." ...this with the tri-scythe twirled to the level, the needle held like a lethal javelin.
Phosus yelled in a hopeless attempt of dissuasion... "You can't be serious!" Lind just growled in kind... "Forget it. He won't listen. Look at the eyes for why." ...this Phosus looks, and sees with all reason to not so!
"I 'was' serious." ...the Dark Lord slams in further voice, before twirling the needle to suddenly 'throw' it backwards, knowing the Valkyries can see as easily as he throws, and where! This as way back at target point, Chihiro suddenly hears a ZIP above her right eyebrow and ear, before seeing a hair flutter down. And then a trickle of warmth in a slight dribble after, in the same area of the head. (Hild sees and blinks in surprise.)
Even Lind is shocked, as the Dark Lord reiterates. "Very so. Like my 'aim'. Now bring them unto Her Gaze!" ...forming a second needle from his powers, this time Lind sees as physical formatting of actual power. She stutters in her mind... 'Has it already gone too far?' But not in voice. "They're already here. If you care to look."
So done, as the Dark Lord sees them almost below his very feet. He then flat out demand. "Then they can hear me. -Surrender to Her Will NOW! Final chance!-"
Lind responds, by suddenly flipping the business end of both of her Axes, right at him, to make a 'point' of... "We won't allow. No demand otherwise will prevent our defense!" ...this the other Valkyries point-aim their Axes likewise. This in kind, the Dark Lord suddenly smashes the needle into a shower of demonic sparks, as he twirls his monolithic weapon in vile anticipation. The clarion call of battle's death slams out in kind with... "Defend then. Protect unto death cometh!"
Lind felt her body shudder, as she braced herself. "We'll do more than that!" And then Six Axes attacked as one Blade!
"Man, what a way to travel." ...this Skuld whines, as Urd pilots a 'large broom' like contraption, one the size of a bus, if a broom could be such a size, this carrying the rest of the troupe along. Peorth just snips out to this... "You should have stayed back there then! We need no pushovers for this battle."
"And you're here too then?" Eihwa cracks, which gets a number of jitters nerves, frayed some more. Keiichi just screams... "Cut it out! I can see the Temple!" Keima in turn looks around at the in close devastation, and gulps... "Surprised we can see anything at all." ...this Megumi ekes in the same tome. "No kidding. Too creepy."
Urd just announces. "It's about to get creepier." ...as they all see a dual of demonic teleports form dead in front of them all, angled up a good dozen feet. Keiichi just yells... "Mara! ...a... eh? Who?" ...in seeing the second supposed demon.
"NO!" Belldandy suddenly yelps, as does Urd, when they see the second 'demon' that is with Mara. Only three in the group see who it 'really' is, as Entropia stares with a black as saccloth glare, at her all too apparent kin. Frigurina sees, and immediately rears forth thoughts of the day her eldest daughter was exchanged for Urd, done one day apart from the other. A mother that at 'that' one singular moment, hated Hild, and to an extent, Almighty, despite fully knowing better why.
And all done, that somehow even Belldandy truly never knew of Entropia's existence. Such still however encoded into memory, when a shadowy half-truth was told of a Norn that was of them, and yet not, by the same progeny of Almighty, that Urd had been. Ever to keep the 'balance' of the Systems intact. Ever such a tragic merit for the core of families in both celestial realms. Ever a worry of power out of control from a second source. Such a myriad of distrust and vile discrimination all around.
Urd just echoes this in word of... "Entropia." ...she whispers, knowing the name is in the false somehow. Belldandy nods in all realizing. "Our eldest sister of twin age."
"But not of twin upbringing." ...the Dark Norn seethes out, words that cause Belldandy to shake greatly. Mara meanwhile just blabbers out... "So wonderful to see you wretches again. Some more often than others, but the tragedy is still the same anyway! HAHAHAHA!"
Megumi just groans. "What a mouth." ...which Mara hears to a renewed 'irk'. Entropia however brings the matter in direct. "What fools. You 'are' here to surrender, as the Dark Lord commands, from my step-mother's Will?"
Takano and Keima, listening with as much confusion, as their kith Morisato kin do, hear Eihwa snap back. "No such thing. By now beloved is busy getting his memories back! This I trust of Lind alone to well enough do!"
Mara cocks an eye, as Keiichi sees Velsper on her shoulder. (Which brings another problem of dark.) This as Entropia just snippets in acid fashion. "Memories? Gee, I hope they were good ones. What since they are all 'gone' now."
Skuld shouts out on... "SAY WHAT!" ...a stiff hand from Frigurina and Peorth each to still the goddess in turn. Entropia just mocks in laughing at them, informing through a raised hand. "Let's say my step-mother knows her stuff. And that 'stuff', is now holding another of your own hostage!"
Takano... "Chihiro." Entropia further... "And the Dark Lord's aim from even high above us now, is eagle eye. Infallible."
Keiichi just pips his eyes, and realizes on noting further detail. "Why do you sorta look like Belldandy?" ...this said Bell-chan looks over at, before Entropia -FUMES- at the statement! "DON'T you EVER compare me to the likes of that... that..."
Frigurina raises up hands... "Whoa... whoa there goddess! We have kids present!" ...this Entropia SCREAMS out in petulant fashion. "DON'T CALL ME A GODDESS!" ...and even throws a bad tantrum to boot! Whit not one not watching, don't teardrop unto. Mara: "Dang girl, lay off the caffeine."
Belldandy gulp-fuddles a bit, while Peorth leans over to Skuld. "I take back 'everything' I said about 'your' temper."
"Yeah... eh? HEY!"
Belldandy then just shouts out to a change of focus... "Please! I don't care what you think of me, but let Chihiro go and end this madness!"
Mara and Velsper for a split moment, agree to that thought, though Entropia hardly fiddles a moment on this, even shivering as she spouts... "Something I won't do. Even 'I' don't want the wrath of the Dark Lord unto me. Hild would enjoy such a punishment too much. And I've endured enough of them over the ages." ...she then levels a dire glare unto Frigurina. "I should give 'you' thanks for that." ...and then a dementia infused glare at Urd! "And 'you' for taking my happy life away in the first place!"
Urd just spouts... "It's not my fault!" ...added by Frigurina. "I had no choice! Hild forced it as much as Almighty did! I never wanted this to happen! I had no idea what Hild would do to you!"
A bared set teeth of angry in angry fangs, just barely manages words of fury back of... "Too late. For regrets!"
Mara and Velsper gulp, as suddenly, to the shock of them all, Entropia suddenly SHOOTS out 'her' angel, one all gray, from skin, to eye, to hair, to wings. And one with a glare as hateful as her mistress. This as even Frig is shocked to hear... "Now my soul, my Gray, let's even these odds up a slight bit, shalt we!" ...this as she used her fallen Angel's vile power, and Summons a quintet of dark beings of demonic mode. Skuld sees and gasps... "Spawn!" ...this as another vile format of a heavenly counterpart, ones that look of outline like the white-in-white Seraphim, but all black, with demonic red eyes, and their lower bodies forming into a scorpion like tail each, nasty and barbed all the lethal same!
Eihwa and Peorth leap up on immediate cue, and quickly shout. "We have this!" ...and both command of spell... ": Each unto us both, Sisters of Forever unto Testing, and Testing unto Forever, bring agents most pure and strong, replete each in equal number! :" ...and in so doing, summon two of their own Seraphim each! Mara boggle-eyed eeps... "Point of no return guys!" ...before the air above them all BURSTS with energy and screams of war!
Just as the goddesses flare into combat jumpsuit mode, Keima swiftly judges... "Move!" ...as Keiichi and Megumi act on it, with Takano hopping off after! Skuld follows them, just as Mara and Velsper shoot away from the initial parry melee of both sets of celestial summons, when the Dark Norn roars! "Punish them!"
Belldandy and Frigurina nod and then erect Holy Wall spells, while Urd starts throwing around Urd bolts!
At that point, all celestial heck breaks loose!
Chihiro, still shuddering at the stinger she's feeling on her right hand forehead, suddenly hears a strange explosion far off overhead. She looks, just before Hild is heard, sipping some of, one of Bell's favorite teas. "Ick. Eh... too sweet. We'll have to ask Belldandy dear about making a darker version of this stuff." ...nevermind the tea was a bitter dark green variety. Sheesh...
Chihiro just glares blandly at Hild, whom seems completely oblivious of the sounds that are suddenly erupting in two far off directions, all at once! Another reason to seriously loathe her.
Then, the 'loudest' screech of metal she ever heard, about pops her eardrums a split moment later! Chihiro just blanches in eyes and tone..."Sounded like a rally crash or something!"
Hild just rubs the edge of her procured tea cup, still not really paying attention. So it seemed.
If not for being used to his speed, Lind wouldn't have seen the first assault coming, given how fast the Dark Lord counter struck at her! She 'wasn't' expecting the speed he broke contact, to then in succession, attack Phosus and Thrud in equal brutality! He then flat out disengages and makes Tsuyana react to him, by 'zipping' right up to her, and then doubling back above her! Demesus sees this and shouts! "Wait! Lure!" ...which comes a split second too late, with Tsuyana a bit too hasty in complying with just that! Which leads her too far away when the Dark Lord leaps right back and makes a brutal SWAT of his scythe right at Demesus! The hit lands hard, parried barely, and forces her downwards, which forces Lind to react, the first to recover in the next split second! Which leads to a series of reactive chases to each half-parry attack, then leap away, and then slam a second round into a particular random Valkyrie, whichever is far enough away from the others! Keeping them all from aiding each other in these initial moments!
The tactic lasts only as long as the Valkyries keep playing dumb, so done as soon as Lind figures it out, and pairs up with Phosus. The other three pressing a pair of flanking attacks from whatever direction they can recover vector from! All the while the Dark Lord keeps pressing his current attack pattern, for the moment.
This before Lind realizes. "Oh no you don't!" ...and SHOOTS in, Phosus in dead rear concert, both splitting off a short moment when the Dark Lord finishes a pressing parry on Demesus again! Phosus peels off from the rear, Lind to the right where Phosus goes left, and just catches him off guard enough to get clocked by Demesus on the chin!
And her in turn gets back handed down lower in the sky! An act that he has stopped as Thrud flies in HARD, and kicks just as so! He catches this, and then flips his wicked scythe to twist Thrud in midair, and then flies off, to keep from being blindsided by a double backing Lind!
But runs a good ten meters to the east, right into a roundhouse kick from Phosus! And he turns 'that' into a rolling kick with scythe swipe in turn, both not caught in time, and smacks her back with a good scream!
And then turns in time to catch the SEVERE Axe slash, one caught to the deafening screech that tears through the stilled Prefecture!
Lind locks eyes for a moment, and finally sees the animal eyes she wanted all along. She 'voices' her regret to that, by suddenly screaming a harsh war roar, and presses her next attack, with an under swing of the low end of her left hand Axe shaft!
And with his return twist, uppercuts his own weapon to smack her backwards in equal turn!
Keiichi leads everyone towards an in progress, semi-blasted house. He hops over a 'diving-frozen-in-place' old woman in a purple kimono... "Excuse me."
Keima... "Pardon."
Megumi... "Sorry."
Takano... "Sorry... Hey, I let her try some Yokan last week." ...before Keiichi yanks at her with... "Not the time Mom!"
Skuld with Noble Scarlet skids at the opening of the 'peeling' house, and looks back, just before... "YEEK!" ...'both' ducking a knife like black feather that smacks into the partially torn wall behind her! She blanches back! "WATCH THE AIM!"
Skuld then hides nearby, as the others try to keep a 'low' profile as the chaos outside seems to grow more and more frantic! "Dang! I thought the Eater thing a while back was a battle!" ...this Keiichi yelps, as a ZAP outside guts the stilled air! Keima growls... "This is why I hate fighting! Too damn loud! No matter what the size!"
A spell induced explosion rocks the nearby area, and 'them' all, with Skuld just complaining... "I bet a week's worth of ice cream, we're making Hub go nuts, right about now!" ...as another explosion shatters off outside!
The Hub was going celestial-ape! Goddesses flying all about like mad!
"Third dimensional sphere damage at thirty-six percent!" Ere reports.
Frode barks at Ex in turn. "Shut down adjunct affected parameters, and prepare for contingencies. Keep the empowerment code lines to the goddesses down there active at all costs!" ...this all three Operators... "Right!"
Hirund meanwhile is focused on the battle she never imagined could occur. Frode did the same. Words lost meaning there, once again.
Frigurina kept further back, keeping up the shield that kept attacks away from the house the Morisatos were holed up in. Meanwhile, Urd kept on the primary offensive, shooting off all sorts of Urd-bolts here and there, while Entropia kept deflecting them. Eihwa and Peorth, with their Seraphim help, were all over the place against the uber fast Spawn. Energy bolts were flying everywhere, as Belldandy kept being torn between helping Urd, and shielding Keiichi.
"Witch!" Urd shot a bolt with.
"Goddess favorite!" Entropia in turn.
"Cur!"
"Bogus Sister!"
"Heathen!"
"Potion addict!"
The two suddenly locked hands for a second, just sticking their tongues out at each other, before flying back, and Urd whipping World of Elegance out, and shooting off a Flame-thrower spell, this Entropia reacts back with, with a similar Hellfire spell! The collision of the two spell energies just adds more devastation to the air!
Meanwhile the Seraphim and Spawn keep assaulting each other, while Peorth and Eihwa look around. Peorth of note... "Bonté divine, where did those two get too?"
Eihwa looks over, and then 'looks', just before suddenly shoving Peorth and herself clear, just before a demon energy ball suddenly slams down from above! The two tumble to the ground, but leap roll up together the same manner, to face a haughty laugh from Mara. The Demon just spouts out again... "Good, you two aren't as lazy as they say in Nidhog Central!"
Peorth growls, and reacts by suddenly shooting Gorgeous Rose out, and a whip vine in kind! Mara... "GLEEP!" ...and dives just as fast as she mocked of them of! Eihwa smirks in accent kind, off the attack... "Well you're just a joke in Heaven, aren't you demone-ragazza squillo!"
Mara leaps up and fires off another energy blast, but is in turn repulsed when Eihwa exposes Test of Purity, to suddenly throw up a reflection light-screen! Mara has to dive a second time, but then a third, just as Peorth follows up with a double vine whip attack! Peorth just warns... "Fais attention monstre! I got a Vine whip and razor leaf attack with your name on them!"
Mara growls, but then sees Eihwa look up. "Watch it!" ...with Peorth seeing and leaping in tine to avoid Velsper, with Blue Lance out, shooting off demon wind attacks!
"Logicamente impossibile!" Eihwa shouts, as Velsper cracks on landing... "I 'said' I still have powers. This baby ain't all that bad either. Just give it all up and we'll stop!"
Peorth just seethes dryly... "You give it up! Can't you see what Hild is doing, is wrong?" Mara just snaps in blanching kind... "Hey, were demons. We don't have to go with what you like."
Eihwa just cracks back. "Don't think you got my gist broad."
Velsper senses and looks over, as Mara just smirks, and then pulls her own 'tryst' on all things. "Maybe 'this' will change that." ...and then concentrates, starting to 'literally' wrench her 'own' new ally, out from her own back! Peorth and Eihwa watch in SHOCK, as in quite painful order, Mara produces her own Familiar!
Urd afar sees this and her wide eyes have small eye pips in them. "Oh crap."
Mara huffs, still not used to producing a soul partner, the process more painful for demons, than the goddess versions. She just snarls in this tone of... "So... time to meet my new partner. Intimidator!" ...this she suddenly throws her hand forth at the goddesses... "Time to shine girl!"
She stops however, and sees Peorth and Eihwa... giggling? ...no... laughing their arses off! Mara cocks an eye, before she sees Velsper... eh? Urd too? Even the summons are doing it? Mara blanches of an ego bruise. "HEY! Stop doing that!"
She looks at Entropia, whom is holding her own head in utter embarrassment, whom points for Mara to look behind her. She does so, in a wary fashion, and sees to her eye piping dejection, when she sees a pink/gray looking demon, with twin red-pink pigtails in a braid that isn't all that nominal, as well as freckles and a jaw setup fit for a red neck hick!
Mara just feels like she's been poisoned, such is her gray statuesque anime state for a moment. "I... I get no respect." ...as 'Intimidator' just teardrops in kind.
Peorth just laughs out... "Hahahahaha... Pippy Demon-stocking! WHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Belldandy however just chimes out, quite honestly. "What a lovely Familiar, Mara!" ...this Mara reacts by rubbing the back of her head, blushing. "Gee thanks." ...with Frig looking on again in further... "What is Hild's dang problem today?" ...before seeing Mara finally react to all the laughing. This as she and her Intimidator, grow appropriate, anime devil eyes at the teasing!
"-WILL YOU STOP THAT!-" ...she snaps, before she unleashes an unexpected demon water wall wave, one that shoots out like a thin sheet of a bubble dome, and causes all the shocked and surprised to suddenly cringe, Belldandy shoots out Holy Bell to throw up a double strength Holy Wind shield, protecting the house behind her, from the incredible torrent that showers over everyone in the immediate area, for a split second!
Eihwa, water drenched, her jumpsuit torn all of a sudden in places, with a Spawn and Seraphim each, splayed like wet carp on top of her, just moans. "Scusa Mara, scusa."
Mara however suddenly doubles over from HEAVY fatigue, as Mara gasps out, her Familiar suddenly draping over her back in the same. "N... not use... used to all that... yet."
Entropia snarls... "A fool." ...before she's belted across the face by a hand slap from Urd! "Takes one to know one! Watch your manners!"
Entropia snarls double so, and leaps back... "Watch THIS instead witch!" ...and suddenly throws her hands forward, and suddenly evokes... ": FIRESTORM! :" ...and shoots out heavy bolts, and balls, of fire-based-lightning, all OVER the place! Urd... heck, about everyone: goddess, demon, neko-demon, summon, all just scatter like the four winds at this manic display of power! Entropia just laughs out in a craze! "Watch you all run! Watch you all scatter! WHAHAHAHA!"
She doesn't see however, too focused on the brazen display, a gleam of light suddenly shoot in from the area of the house, and smack an arrow of light into the ground below her! She sees this a split second before.. "Eh?"
": Wind Arrow Burst! :" ...as Belldandy's spell causes the arrow below Entropia, to explode and throw her in a shower of wind driven light, well a good few dozen meters away! Right into a telephone pole, such was the burst force!
Urd sees in amazement, then back towards the Present author, who shows Holy Bell holding her Light-bow, Belldandy a look of mixed relief and angst upon her facade. Urd just nods, not espousing obvious nuances, and turns to Peorth. "Keep Mara busy, she can't handle that Familiar's power just yet!" Peorth in turn nods, while Velsper bounds over to a still stricken Mara and Intimidator. "Up broad, we can't stop for a nap."
Mara however groans out, almost too tired even in tone... "This... this isn't feeling good anymore." Velsper glimmers eyes of the same in fact, this Peorth sees from afar.
A 'new' explosion overhead then forces 'everyone' look upwards! Eihwa in particular sees and grimaces. "Cosa terribile."
Thrud and Tsuyana had their hands out thrust, looking at the results of another semi-effective attack, as their energy pulses were disrupted primarily by the demonic black gravity sphere that interceded. Behind, the barely visible 'enemy' reacts to this, with a hard burst of the same bubble, not only throwing the two Valkyries back, but also Demesus and Phosus on the proactive charge, sending them all harshly away!
Lind blunts the end force of this, to come up from a far low to upward trajectory, and SLAM into the extended sphere, to do the same in diluted (barely) fashion against their dark opponent!
The Dark Lord takes a brutal chin smack, but uses the momentum to spin them both in a long tumble, before Lind breaks away to spin around to deliver a huge swing arc of her right hand Axe! The hit lands with great force, smacking him back into the swing of Demesus's own Axe! And from there, a pinball effect of all five Valkyries of twice succession each, before Lind shoots in to deliver a end attack pulse of her own!
-SHHRRREEEEEEEE!-
Lind felt her soul frozen in an instant, as the sudden call of an angel SOS gutted the air, knowing it wasn't one from any of the angels around, the area. That lent to one, and impossible at that, cause!
"PHOSUS!" ...she heard Tsuyana shout, just distracting her enough to get leveled by a punch shot of all things, from her former sparring partner!
As she tumbles, Lind realized what could be going on, but rather than see anything first, she acted on previous experience, and threw out both Mints, shouting... "INCOMING!"
The Dark Lord was seriously taken aback, as Lind suddenly uses a Twin Ice attack, Cool Mint shooting off a beam at the same time Spear Mint discharges forth a Halo Blizzard attack! This gets a suspected intention, one Lind didn't want, as suddenly, the Dark Lord is thrust back again, and the beam attack clips the Angel Eater itself, as it was coming upon the distracted Phosus, her Burning Wrath saved on this split second action by the experienced Valkyrie Commander!
Lind sees over to a recovering Phosus, and then sees the Eater begin to be retracted alongside what looked like an elongated, dark gray and brown sheet of angel cloth, the kind of format, and running up to, a sight she 'never' expected to see! The one with the Dark Lord form of her former lover, hovering in waiting, for the Eater to fly back unto his bodily stern.
Lind just shouts out... "Bring 'all' your angels out! It's the only defense against the Eater's sneak attack!"
Phosus with Burning Wrath, take spot behind Lind and her Twins, as in procession, Demesus brings out Way of Gaea, Thrud unto Star Blade, and Tsuyana with Spell of Serenity, this as each angel looks more of standard note, compared to Lind's own Twin Mints.
Of all whit, are witness to their foe, just standing there for a moment, in monolithic fashion. The Scythe format weapon now frothing forth active demonic energy, like a form of dark steam. It as such even looked as inflammatory as intended. Lind then hears to the chill of her code, upon a dark, Mordor like tone of Tengwar. "Ilfirin rauta elye` mi mailea mahta! Mar ana Nis Selma!" ...the tone meant for ears beyond the sky littered battlefield. Other ears hearing it, betray tears, of such fear, on below.
On above, Thrud reacts to this with a harsh... "Avamme`!" ...Demesus accenting. "Hild will never have us, or your target. Not even the Eater will be enough to stop our defense!"
A blood curdling... "Fools!" ...before they suddenly see 'the' impossible moment of their ageless lives, as the Dark Lord suddenly clenches forward, as the Eater emerges in gross fashion, attached to the reason it is even here! Lind feels her actual code chill, her angels weep, her hope fade, the same of her companions as well, and many watching below now, as the author of the previous Singularity spell attack emerges.
"You fools have no IDEA of your foe now!" ...this the Dark Lord stabs out in wrenching, snarling agony, as a darkness of withheld jealousy older than most of known time, professed forth in the form of an Arch-Angel, one in full. Dark cloak and cloth garb of black, complete with a cowl of black, a full face mask the same. All of the vile offering laced with burning gold linings and trim, reflecting an inner demonic amber within 'those' edgings and trappings. This is echoed further primarily within the eyes of burning copper and bronze, of pigment most hateful. All of which runs unto the eye straining sight outwards of a WIDE arc span, unto it's two 'gargantuan' angel wings, of a fashion twice as long as the Dark Lord and Dark Angel combined are 'long'! They smolder of a physical profession of its ancient hatreds and immolation, out in expansion from its copper and bronze wings, darkened of the same smolder of a hatred that isn't meant for mortal realms!
It clenches it's gauntleted hands of black alloys unknown, the same amber burnt in gold edgings that screech as much together in clenching, as it's host's own gauntlets. It's flowing obsidian robes flailed about, amongst it's angel cloth of wretched note, all the while the Eater, clutched in place behind this Angel of Death, though not in formal command in any real form, looked on with its stalk antennas flailing about.
The complete sight of this was too much for Lind to initially take, this as she all but sobs out... "How... how could she 'do' this to you? You told me yourself who the 'real' you was!"
The Dark Lord didn't listen. However 'he' didn't need too. Something in that endless Void of a soul 'did' hear, but couldn't react yet, sundered under too much shadow within. This as the Conversion effects were slightly cracking further. The Dark Lord then simply pointed a full arm point of struck finger, left of note, yet beheld in hand with the wretched Morphemic scythe weapon. He only commanded... "Surrender your fall unto Her WILL! Betray your salvation of this, NOW!"
Phosus just reacted, with an off-comedy anime shotgun cock of her Axe shaft. (Still figuring out that one.) "Guess we'll have to beat some sense back into ya then." Demesus however comments... "Hope so. This wasn't ever a scenario in training chamber, to ever face."
Lind just raised her right hand Axe over head, slanted down angle with the bottom tip to her right. She voiced her own judgment of this glaring lack of training. "We face new dangers in our Heavenly Host's name, this we of the Valkyrie Combat Wings 'will' defeat this who faces us the same! This of my promise to save you. Without fail!" Her companions roar their equal challenge as one at this!
At that, both sides suddenly brute rush each other, joining battle most vicious, once again!
Frigurina whispered openly on seeing this development from far below. "This is begotten completely out of hand." Belldandy, seeing the same, shudders with no ability to think of what to do for once. She however voices... "Did Hild go 'this' far to turn him? Not even I knew of other Arch level Angels in existence."
Bell's mother in kind of focused fact. "Well you should not. They aren't as stable as normal angels are, in obeying their goddess." ...Frig then added... "And now a proto-god, this less is so." ...this Belldandy looks over, disbelieving a hint from Frigurina of what was apparently coming all this time.
Suddenly, Keiichi shouts... "Belldandy!" ...this said goddess turns and rockets unto. "Are you alright dear?" Keiichi in turn nods, despite shaking by all rights. His kind equal and the same. Skuld looks on as Keiichi offers. "We all are. But I think we need to start moving here. Start doing something too!"
Belldandy blinks as Frigurina hovers over. This Keima approaches, keeping a wary eye on the slightly less intense, but still active battle all around their area. Keima accents to Keiichi's mindset, and offers... "We should try to rescue Chihiro." ...this Belldandy responds in a grave voice. "But Hild will expect that."
Frigurina however injects... "I expect she will be seeing otherwise beforehand. Myself in a fashion."
Keiichi blinks as Takano and Megumi come up, pushing 'aside' the poor 'frozen' old lady in the kimono, Skuld looking out a nearby window with worry, and an ear as well unto, as Keiichi imparts. "Actually, we kinda... um... well..."
Frig smirks. "Using me as bait to lure off Hild? A ploy I wouldn't expect less of. My mind is the same therefore. Took you long enough in fact." Keima as well just smirks, albeit nervously for feminine space reasons. "That was the idea. Just long enough to get Chihiro clear of that witch."
Frigurina nods stiffly. "An excuse for us to have a little 'chat'."
Belldandy looks over, no less as worried as much as Skuld is. This just before a HEAVY aerial tremor smacks the area, the pressure wave causing the mortals to gasp for breath for a moment. Belldandy lunges over on the spot! "Keiichi!"
"I'm... I'm fine... dang."
Megumi/Takano: "What 'was' that?"
Frigurina just grimaces on looking up at the traumatic conflict above. "Time running out. I better get going then." ...she then looks to her two nearby daughters. "I expect you to help protect them when you get there."
Skuld balks. "EH! I'm going too?" Belldandy in turn just chides lightly. "We have to. Chihiro will need all the protection she can get, as well as Keiichi and his family." ...this Skuld nods in shaking apology. Takano just cocks an eye. "Who's family is it?"
Keima adds... "Well I..." ...Takano just snaps back. "I was the one who said 'yes' at the altar! It's 'my' family!"
Keima just ends up kissing Takano's feet, while Megumi and Keiichi just look on... "Can we divorce them, like some kids have?" Megumi quips. Keiichi just sighs. "Nope. That is one thing they 'won't' allow."
Belldandy and Skuld smile to each other, then look and then see... "Mother?"
Keiichi and Megumi look, as they see thin air! Keiichi just decries. "Jeeze! Give us a bit of warning at least!"
Keima just appears beside again, and imparts... "We better move, while everyone else is distracted."
At that, the group (Caption: Team Cuddly Angel,) move off quick, while Eihwa and Peorth keep Mara and Velsper fully distracted. Urd and Entropia is nowhere to be seen, and the Summons keep duking it out with each other with decent ferocity. When they get far enough away, Belldandy re-summons the oversized broomstick thingy, and helps get them the remainder of the way, with speed.
Sora points, as they drive along the partially obstacle riddled roadway, all the cars, trucks and such, in states of being blow away, all in the same relative direction, all making for tricky driving, as Otaki drives like a maniac! Satoko holds on inside the powder blue tri-wheeled truck, while the all too small truck bed holds Sora and Tamiya! This as Sora's pointing is needless, with the sight of all the fighting and energetic explosions easy to vector towards unto.
Even from 'this' far out, still only about half the city in distance away.
"Is this that Armageddon thing the books say about?" Sora just creeps out in tone, Tamiya just uneasily replies... "Hopes not."
Satoko just uses Otaki's arm as support, as well as an emotional brace, the sight alone of the battle, well ill enough to send her back to an 'uncertain' mindset. Otaki just quips. "I just hope we get there in time dudes and dudettes!" ...just before he swerves around a large, 'in-progress' tilted over truck!
Satoko nods. "I hope everyone else is alright." This as they head past a bridge, near an artificial channel water runoff.
Frigurina's hair fluttered about her, as she kept focus on one that she was about to meet. She grimaced at thought of what the heck Hild had been doing all this passing day of the Contract. "I can't believe she would make a mistake 'this' bad. Even for a lesson. Even for his Return. The stupidity of it all."
On this, she shot forward even faster.
Hild clacked her procured tea cup and sighed, both which drew an eye from Chihiro, who was still sweating at hearing more, than seeing, all the explosions, most of them, the weirdest she ever known, reality or fantasy. Chihiro heard Hild suddenly and generally remark. "Guess it's our turn finally. Been regretting this from the start. She never was a good listener."
Chihiro just rolled her eyes, but then heard from Hild's echo, seeing the demon queen's lack of physical presence without warning. "Worry not child, your saviors are fast approaching. As is the end game for all of this. Even with an hour to go, or about that much. So much the worse."
Chihiro just sneered out... "Who asked ya!"
Hild meanwhile appears a short distance away, above the water wall-drainage slant, below the street where the Temple itself is adjacent. This in time for Frigurina to suddenly appear, the glares alone making for a 'cute' greeting moment. Hild just seethed out, in a level tone... "Hello our Doublet."
Frigurina quips back in annoyance. "One of my few regrets that husband made regarding us. I wish I could forget that one." This the CEO in turn just flutters a bland hand back at... "A lot of that from ol Big Boy these Eras, isn't there not?" Frig keeps her eyes level. She then quips in a 'cute' tone. "Aye, thank you for that." Hild suddenly snarls in turn. "Watch your language wench!" ...which begets a good 'thick' giggle back from Frigurina.
The two then eye each other, Hild warning. "Try anything, and this planet won't survive." ..this Frigurina strike a pained chord back with... "As if you haven't been ruining the Plan all along, as this all stands."
Further snapping is suddenly cut short, yet 'another' major explosion erupts behind them both, this as Hild angles her head over. "Oh gee, we guess our creation is having too much fun." Frigurina retorts back in hardly a level fashion. "In this, you 'are' a wretch, ancient hag."
Hild just smiles rather deviously. "Have We now? Yes indeed? Please tell us so much more."
Frigurina just keeps a bland stare at her 'sister'.
Lind kept hammering away at the Dark Lord, with every chance she could when not knocked away, the other Valkyries keeping him penned in place as best they can, all the while keeping him from going further downwards with the battle! This despite more and more Gravity spells being used. A sight there alone that was making the goddesses around him severely worried, and exasperated all the same!
No less when Phosus's Holy Steam flood attack from Burning Wrath, met up with the Dark Lord's gravity orb hand shields, which sapped up the energy, despite the scalding nature of the Valkyrian attack! Demesus followed up with an Acidic Smoke attack from Way of Gaea that got the same sapped treatment!
He however didn't catch a hard blow from Tsuyana's Spell of Serenity, as a Dispel spell hits him, but he in turn forms several gravity bands that encircle his body, that sap up, and cancel the spell intended effect, despite the originating spell purpose!
Not even a double blade-hand format attack from Thrud's Star Blade, in concert with her own alpha assault got through, as the Dark Lord had Angel of Death and the Eater block the attack, sap the spell power from the Valkyrie Angel's arms, and then blast them both away in successive order, each!
Lind then flat out got fed up and shot in with a glowing hand of wrath! The Dark Lord turned unto after dealing off Thrud and heard... "You are irking me severely off now!" ...and hammered in, as her Twin angels shot off twin ice spells of the powerful nature! And in turn, Spear Mint was blocked by the Eater, Cool Mint grasped by the neck by Angel of Death, and Lind in turn, grabbed harshly unto the attacking and energized wrist by her growing nemesis of ill want!
Lind heard to her sudden terror in turn. "Your lack of compliance, is 'not' impressive." ...and then starts twisting at Lind's wrist, 'and' Cool Mint's neck! "Your power is pointless against my own."
Lind gasped, realizing she 'was' in immortal danger. Unto this Phosus suddenly shot in with a roaring Burning Wrath! "Get your corrupted hands off her, blast it!"
Lind isn't let go, but sees instead, his response as he turns his remaining unhindered arm towards, and blasts off a major gravity spell orb, one that easily could encapsulate Phosus! Lind shouts! "NO!" ...before Phosus sees and throws up a flame-steam shield in time...
...and within the explosion Frig and Hild noted, the orb still breaks through and shoots her all the way to the ground! Urd and Entropia the nearest, see Phosus slam to the ground, but then also see Phosus scream in agony, as the spell orb starts crushing her cells down to the encoded atom!
Lind gasps... "Let her go!" ...then feels her arm strained with a great wrench! The Dark Lord SNARLS back in turn... "Surrender if you wish it!"
Lind 'and' Phosus are saved, as the dark monolith then gets knocked for a loop all of a sudden, as Urd suddenly appears in the midst of the terse scene, with a bolt charged fist! "Wake up you dummy!" ...this catching the Dark Lord harsh enough to break concentration of several forms, breaking Lind and Phosus free of the nasty respective traps therein!
As the Dark Lord reorients his entire mutli-personal format, of great size and anger, Lind espouses... "Thank you, but this is getting worse." Urd nods back. "Way." ...before Entropia ZIPS up and snaps! "Don't ignore me!" ...and tosses out a huge number of Hellfire bolts! Lind knocks Urd clear and easily absorbs the blast nearest them into her hand glove gauntlets! The same of the other Valkyries around them, despite the mania of the moment! The Dark Norn sees and realizes... "You all don't fear 'my' power?"
Lind just huffs back... "You aren't the one we're here to fight, or to save!" The Norn in turn SNARLS, but then feels her body turn heavy and cold. This to the shock of Urd and the Valkyries, as the Dark Lord grabs Entropia's neck from behind. The watching become horrified, worse so as Entropia then hears... "I warned you not to be seen by 'my' eyes again!" ...of such a dire ironclad tone! Entropia's fears are realized, when suddenly, several vastly powerful magnetic belts of black power, suddenly envelop her, as her body is then painfully, and very visibly, subjected to a polarized magnetic-graviton field, from head to toe! (As if looking at a planet's magnetic field in a visible fashion!)
The shriek of agony is beyond all nerves to comprehend. Worse unexplained to them all, as to why this is even happening!
Even Urd can't take this, as Entropia feels her very code become rigid, as it's pulsed in an alternating current fashion, back and forth through her body, over and over, essentially 'shifting' her internal encoded electromagnetic field several times! The intensity causes more than one kind of friction and energy pain, before Lind thrusts her arms out. "ENOUGH!"
The next explosion of ice engrossed power that occurs, actually rips a 'slight', temporary subspace tear from sheer energy contact! This as Lind's ice powers shock the gravity spells that were inwardly focused on Entropia, to all an imploding rupture! Everyone on high nearby, is suddenly caught in the huge blast, and one by one, smack down to the ground!
It takes a few moments for all senses to recover from 'such' a huge energon implosion, before Lind sees a Dark form stand over another prone goddess body. One apparently of too much focus, for still an unknown reason. This seen when enough dust and spell haze clears, Lind alone realizes the Dark Lord is over Entropia's all but helpless body!
Entropia shakes with terminal fear, as the Dark Lord vehemently stares, and wordlessly forms a blast that 'would' kill her on contact! The Dark Lord just vents to the acidic words of... "Traitorous goddess SCUM!"
Lind shouts... "You can't!" ...and prepares to repulse the spell a second time with another similar attack!
"NEKO-BEAM!" ...everyone suddenly hears, as a simple looking laser beam suddenly shoots at the Dark Lord, connecting with enough power to blast back, and skid the Dark Lord back a good few meters! By this time, the dust clears, and about everyone, goddess, demon and summon alike, are watching to see the reaction to this sudden attack, this as Mara leaps over and grasps a suddenly exhausted little demon-kitty. The Dark Lord and Angel of Death, Tenshigui attached, all wrench their mutual sight at...
"Velsper?" ...from several knowing celestial voices!
"Watch it broad." ...Velsper snips back at Lind of note, suddenly tired from using about all his stored Reserve power from him and Blue Lance in a salvation act! One that even Urd is quite surprised by! Mara sees, and then looks to see Entropia still shaking with utter fear. The Dark Norn then shouts of a goddess's level of fear, not a demon's... "I can't take it anymore! We have to stop him! The Conversion..."
Lind shouts... "The what?" ...both just before they endure the most angry roar of black hate that a being of any kind can utter, stated of unkind of words most in most dire...
"-BETRAYED! YOU... WOULD... DARE?-"
Suddenly, he absorbs a dear amount of power from the hapless Eater, and then pumps in reverberation, a harsher, darker version, such all but causing the Eater's skin to deform, even turn unlife in format! They all shudder as Mara snaps... "He's taking full control of the Eater!"
About everyone, goddess and demon alike, suddenly realize that the Dark Lord has 'no' side to be on, no loyalty to have utterly, and therefore the dire situation they all mutually share! Lind heard herself shout out in reaction... "-HIT HIM HARD!-" And all celestial arrayed attack as one, as they 'all', save Velsper, attack with full might, as even Peorth and Eihwa shooting in, realize and join in on one BUTT-KICKING alpha strike! Even Entropia doesn't hold back, yelling out for her own part! "I'm so damn sorry!" ...and thrusts her worst power bolts into the strike!
They all muster their best assault attack, and assail the dark Shield wall the Dark Lord erects, pushing all with what power they can!
And all of it repulsed with 'far' too much ease, as the Dark Lord reacts by exploding a heavy burst of gravity laced demon wind! The sheer power of which tumbles all but the Valkyries, of their part skidded back hard!. Velsper and Mara tumbling back both whine... "Saw that coming! YIIIIIIIIIIPE!"
When things settle down, only the Valkyries are standing, if on their knees, the others trying to recover from such power. Urd for one off placed moment. "Can't say that wasn't impressive."
"Shut it Urd!" Mara cracks out in kind.
Lind of focus, huffing rather hard from all this power use, holding Cool Mint's hands from behind her, as Spear Mint holds Lind's chin up in place, all three equally huffing. She decries with such a tone. "Where's the limit on his power? Even 'he' should have a limit, at least on the base format of original being."
Phosus just remarks over, equally exhausted for that moment... "Must be the extra power from the Angel and the Eater."
"Mara..." ...Urd snaps back suddenly... "What did Hild do to him!" ...this Mara starts to outright answer... "She used her..." ...and interrupted as the Dark Lord suddenly remarks. "I see they already left this gathering."
Lind feels her blood code chill again, as their Foe snips upon this oily tone. "And now 'no one' is behind me to prevent now."
Thurd and Demesus gasp in simult! "Tricked?" ...before Lind shoots at... "Oh no you...!" ...and is suddenly forced to see the same Dark Lord suddenly BLAST backwards, and directly at the direction of the Temple!
In short order, everyone else is chasing, but even Lind isn't fast enough, not even Peorth, not even if Velsper was normal in body and power, can hope to catch up in time, this as...
Hild smirks... "Getting closer."
Frigurina gasps and looks down, then looks up back at... "How can you be causing such reckless actions? Even 'you' should know better than 'this'!"
Hild just levels a stone glare back... "Who is so reckless here? We only are ensuring the 'entire' lesson is learned, rather than your 'Beloved's' diluted version! One which will help nay, when Voluspa starts her return to the mortal planes! One that cannot resurrect Him in the final stroke of all of this! Who is the real fool here!"
Frigurina however retorts to this of... "Which all wouldn't be so exacerbated, if you had left well enough alone! Husband's Mighty work with the mortal was 'not' meant to be rushed! If the Seer does come, it'll be because of 'your' actions to speed things up, as they well should never have!"
Hild just growls in kind further. "Chide us as you will, you yourself in presence here, exacerbates the approach of Ragnarok, by having 'this' many goddesses on this Plane at one time! Voluspa grows impatient at this turning, with each passing moment! She may already be on the move even!"
Frig just gulps, but keeps her tone bland and level, such as the response of... "You forget your sending of the likes of Mara, and allowing Velsper to remain here as well. I doubt this fight is helping matters more. And then the 'likes' of your corruption."
Hild then sees Frigurina shudder with great wrath, roaring out in kind at the CEO, pointing even... "Will you 'ever' learn from your original Sin?"
Hild just cops a cute crack... "Nope. Not in my nature." Frigurina in hardly the mood, just seethes with a rare anger, even rarer shaking.
What happens next however, makes the fear a shared one, one even Hild cannot hide.
Keiichi sees and shouts... "We're here!" ...this as they shoot into the temple grounds proper, just in time to see Chihiro betray a gladdened look, one that ferments all of a sudden when Keiichi and Megumi hop off the 'broom', Belldandy in close concert! Chihiro just snaps... "If you say anything about damsel in distress, I'll kick your ass!"
Keiichi just chuckles/teardrops... "Uh... perish the thought." ...as Megumi and Takano reach behind and manage to untie her. This while Keima looks around at the infernal tea party getup around them, amidst the ruination of the temple grounds. "Someone has a gothic taste in style." ...this Skuld in addition... "Demons never had much taste."
Then all of a sudden , a tremendous 'vibration' tones unto the very air, one that shudders more and more, of such that makes them all creep out in unwanted waiting. This as Chihiro actually shifts to be behind Keiichi.
"I... think he's... coming."
Keiichi gulps, as they all can 'feel' the dark shadow physically approach, by aura alone! The feared moment then all too readily appears, as does the Dark Lord in person! Keiichi sees and creeps out in the same tone, that all but Belldandy do! "CRIPES!"
A split second after this, the Dark Lord shoves up a back hand of his right arm, causing a titanic Dark Shield Wall spell to form 'behind' him! One based off pentagrams of satanic symbols, melded with black and red Nidhegic code runes interspersed within, shimmering like flames upon the energon 'device' of make! Lind chasing, ends up running head long into the wall, and is effectively repulsed, causing all the rest behind to screech to a halt.
When they all see the dire scenario now apparent, Urd just bares her teeth... "This is bad."
The ones on the wrong side of that wall, find reason to compile their fears, with the tone most darkly directed at them...
"We have you now."
Chihiro cringes a bit further, while the others wonder what they 'are' facing. Keiichi just remarks... "What the heck is wrong with him?"
Belldandy just shouts, Skuld behind her now... "Cousin, what did Hild 'do' to you! This isn't the real you!" ...this Lind in equal turn behind. "Beloved! Please stop this!" ...with a hard smack of her hand upon the Wall!
All 'that' gets in turn, is a renewed demand, this time the most severely dire of them all. "Under Her demonic Will, all other else is pointless! Surrender if you wish to survive this day any further!"
"Fat chance bub!" Takano just snaps, and then gets snapped back in turn, to her diving behind Keima! "Then my patience is expired! As is your fate!"
Lind prepares her possibly final and most fatal inducing attack, just as suddenly, the wall falls without warning, and then starts trailing unto a spiraling encoded effect trail, that ends up going towards his darkened left gauntlet. What it does next, is something beyond their minds to comprehend, given the cruelty factor of it. This as the dark energy starts forming into a separate body of format, as the Dark Lord evokes a release on a Dark Seal spell, initiated by the Wall spell energy absorbed! And from that, the form of a person that makes Skuld cry with mindless fear! This as she screams... "-SENTARO!-"
None of them watching are false in their horror, as the Dark Lord holds the quite conscious, yet binded form of the very real boy of mortal name, in the Dark Lord's 'steady' right hand. One being squeezed at the neck, to a visible effect!
Takano has to catch Skuld... "Please don't hurt him!" ...when she lunges at them! Sentaro just stutters out from the pain... "S... sku... ld..."
The darkest tone returns to... "As is his fate included." ...as even Entropia can't stand what she sees.
They all then hear the masterstroke voiced, as the Dark Lord imparts... "Indeed. Not only he alone. But also several others that were approaching to gather him. The same now on approach even 'here' now. How many will it take to make your surrender complete!"
A moment of frozen apprehension, mindless and trapped for the rest watching! Even Entropia again seeing from rearmost, can't comprehend the malevolence of this moment!
Frigurina 'and' Hild are no less included. Hild just teardrops out... "M... My... what a splendid move." ...which Frigurina outright wrath tones back! "Are you serious?"
Hild just bares her teeth back at, fighting against the uncertainty that is now gripping unto even her! She wavers out despite... "If they cave in, it won't matter. ANY of it!"
Frigurina shoots a further furious look at the CEO. "Then I may have to step in." Hild shoots a glare in kind! "Do that, and 'we' will have to fight it out!"
Frigurina only tones back in a dour, yet soft tone... "Whatever it takes then."
Hild suddenly braces herself, and almost brings out Oblivion at this. A -SPIKE- of angelic energies however, cuts this terminal moment short, as they see, Frigurina vocalizing... "Lind?"
A terse moment that ends with Keiichi begging. "Please... you... you can't do this! You'll regret it forever dude!"
'Something' in the voice actually chisels through, as all of a sudden, the Dark Lord 'feels' a vibration spike-warp through him, this as the crack within, widens with more 'light' within stabs out, approaching the Receptor somewhere within that suffocation of soul! The rest outside watching for a split moment, see this as a rippling phase effect, as for a moment, thin lines of the 'true' form, the Knight Lord, phase out from beneath the Darkness covering it, before it starts to be pushed back down. A strange iron growl reverberates out, if like from within a tin can.
Enough time for Lind to act. This as she breathes once, and then let's go of her Axes. Phosus sees this and gasps...
...a split in split moment before Lind attacks the Dark Lord, outright slamming him free of Sentaro, and a good distance into the temple ruins! The rest see as Lind spins out of her Golden Eye assault! Sentaro falls, with Skuld on the spot to catch. "Oh Sentaro! Sentaro-kun!" Sentaro blaring his eyes. "Where am I?" ...in anime dizziness! Keima and Takano meanwhile exasperate. "That was fast!"
Lind lands and huffs, the attack taking a good wind of her for an instant! Mara just voices... "Did it knock him..." ...before the ground suddenly TREMORS, killing the thought outright. As well as obliterating a great portion of the temple ruins, as the Dark Lord gouges a great scour from the animal release of anger! Lind gasps, as they all witness sanity reach it's precipitous terminator!
One incredible roar, and a 'new' tower of black energon is exploded forth, piercing sky and ground alike like entropic daggers! All that rage froths out from it, as Lind shouts in dire fear, directed at her entrapped love... "He's nearing his limits!" Megumi just screams as she dives as much as all other do! "So is everything else!"
Lind looks and gets acknowledging nods from her Valkyrian comrades. Urd and Mara nearest then hear a lot of thuds, and see a bunch of Axes suddenly hit the ground in quick succession. Urd yelps... "HOLY!"
Before they realize it, all five Valkyries suddenly unleash 'all' their special attacks, enhanced with their mutual angels in concert, this as Lind's Golden Eye is joined by Phosus's Rubicon Slash, Demesus's Dimension Rift, Thrud's Phoenix Assault, and Tsuyana's Mana Bloom! In succession of consequence, the Dark Lord is slammed no less than five times, each, from the fury of a spin attack, full body kick and arm slash, a scalding rupture to his code powers, burned by a full body energy beam, and finally internally 'burned' of all supposed present magicks that are remaining in his body, that comprise his powers!
The assault is so tremendous, debris and bodies are thrown about, mostly as the others dive for cover, where ever they fricken can! And this now includes Hild and Frig above!
"Holy clouds!" Frigurina shouts, avoiding a HUGE boulder of debris! Hild just shouts! "That's 'holy SMOKES' you dim bulb!" Frigurina just snaps back! "YOU'RE THE DIM WATT HERE, WITCH!" This before they both just reactively scurry away as a large piece of concrete roadway actually shoots up past them!
Belldandy and Takano are covered by their respective loves, as Keiichi shouts out... "We're breaking new barriers in anime violence here guys!" ...this Keima just exclaims, "Or just plain violence!" ...ducking a teapot and metal I-beam in that order! Belldandy just shouts... "Everyone must be reaching their limits, even Cousin can't stand up to this much punishment for..." ...just as 'everything' suddenly stops -cold!- The chilling stillness is accompanied by a wretched sound of dark energies, as everyone one looks to the final horror of it all.
Belldandy remarks in blank shock... "What...?" ...as her vacant eyes see all five Valkyries are suddenly held within a new kind of black energy field, one that Belldandy 'feels' is directed against the very law of inertia itself! Belldandy realizes and can't seem to move like she can normally, with the 'lack' of the law of inertia to allow proper functioning movement of all limbs!
Keiichi screeches... "What the heck is this! I've never felt this weird just moving!" ...as he even feels his organs act weird. (Which is its own dire worry suddenly.) Megumi tries to move as well, but gets 'reflected' in both movements that cause up, down, inward, outward, and ripples the muscles so weirdly... "WHOA! I'm body feels like it's jelly!"
Suddenly from above, Frigurina shouts... "STOP IT IMLADRIS! YOU CAN'T HANDLE BREACHING THE PHYSICAL LAWS THEMSELVES! THE CONSEQUENCES ARE IMPOSSBLE TO CONCIEVE!"
"-RUIN! RUIN!-" ...his false voice just spikes back against, as insanity finally takes complete hold! The cracks within bursting too much of the old nominal soul, against the animal Hild wrought against it. The Conversion actually fighting within himself all the same at the same time! Worse of another unknown quantity within him, now breaching against empowered soul and mind alike. This as a tease of rubicon now edges into his eyes, in that moment of immolated anger!
Hild finally is frightened enough of the current spell effect, that even She is having trouble against... "We... no one has that power except..!"
Frigurina just shouts back, an act that causes her encoded lungs to react 'weirdly'! "You idiot! That's why that Arch-Angel was Sealed! Gravity is a Pillar of ALL of Existence! Everything! It's power is too unpredictable in the hands of those that can't understand what Gravity 'really' can do to all things!"
"Marvelous!" Hild shouts, snapping her mind in the 'wrong' direction! In the next consequence, she voices to the effect... "Now to complete the end result of Sin!" ...this Frigurina sees Hold suddenly phase out of sight...
Lind, meanwhile, trapped within a bizarre phantom of their minds, by the lack of inertia existing on the planet at that moment, suddenly sees Hild appear within a dark flare of demon whirl! Frigurina above sees and suddenly starts to chase down after! "Hild, DON'T DO IT!"
This Lind sees as Hild cups the Dark Lord's strained face, one far more than just in physical look. The CEO then engrosses herself before her tragic action... "Forget Contracts. Forget Plans. This will blow everything out the rulebook." ...and leans into to...
Lind gasps in emotions between jealousy, wrath, fear and everything else in between, seeing Hild actually kiss him fully! Frigurina screams on seeing... "That final Seal is forbidden! He can't control it yet!"
Too late as the kiss, breaking the power over inertia, but then actually causing the Dark Lord's body to rupture phased beams of red and copper, all about his format body! Hild for a split moment, at this, holds her rapture. The 'next', she realizes far too late, the mistake she just made! This as on top of all the rest of the powers he was flooded with, now that 'new' power of full format empowered tenth dimensional make, suddenly cascades forth! An actual rubicon light obscures all the dark features, as Hild is rebuffed back by the unleashing of full High Council level powers! This as the god within the mortal is shattered forth against all will to control it. And all will is already gone in the first place!
Hild, even knowing the mistake conducted, just shouts in her own manic laughter of an insane flood-driven moment of power unleashed! "I've done it! I've broken the Seal with Sin! His glory is... -SMACK- ...AUGH!"
Frig finally is fed up, and decks Hild across the chin! "You Sin wench of a dork!"
Hild barely realizes this, when suddenly the first pulse of godly might -explodes- out from the broken Seal within the overpowered form of her Contract! Ruby edged light just shines everywhere in a dark, terrifying brilliance as the power outright overwhelms the last sane vestiges of thought! The pressure aura is insane, like an instant typhoon to endure, the same of a scream worse than the winds of a similar typhoon!
All there is for a moment, is the intense scream of a mind that loses comprehension, the nightmare come to tragic life, in the fore! All eyes watch in horror, as Skuld alone covers Sentaro, this as Peorth and Eihwa then hear a sudden screech of tires behind them! This as the powder blue truck careens out of control! "JEEZZEE!" ...Otaki yelps, as his passengers all scream the same, before they are quickly saved by the seeing goddesses, and Seraphim still with, each! Shortly, the four and their vehicle are safe, though the sight of the screaming godling just kills normal small talk. Sora sees as pulses of red energy just burst out, like a star going into its death throes. "What's going on?"
"Is dat him?" Tamiya shouts, as Peorth just equals in tone. "We have no idea anymore!"
Up close, everyone within the temple grounds are buffeted by severely cascading energon driven winds and pressure, as Belldandy shouts... "He's cascading! He'll lose containment over that power!" Lind shouts in turn, with tears streaming out... "NO! HE CAN'T DIE!"
Hild however exclaims! (Despite such a shiner,) "Still enough time to..." ...before they hear the first words that come from a godling's form. A tone that somehow is even darker than before! Even worse than the Tengwar tone had been! "- Fulfill the Contract Binding! Sacrifice all to this Will! -" ...as 'another' party...
": A shattered mind, once more will be Mine! Bring me my Ragnarok SLAVE! :" ...as a strangely rubicon 'Realm' of the endless screaming torment, bears witness to the Ashen impart of a Will that knows a Seal is broken!
Such that Voluspa now plays her unwitnessed hand! The Soulless System encoding strings around her, burn of ashen-gray, melded with more and more of the rubicon, of the Enemy himself!
The connection is nearly complete...
Urd gasps... "He shouldn't even be remembering that! Of anything!" Hild cackles at this. "Marvelous isn't it! The raw potential of it all!"
Frigurina in turn just spins Hild around and barks... "One he would never willingly accept! You're killing him!"
Before they can all react, the godling suddenly 'acts' and -shoots- right at the frozen Morisatos, as Belldandy tries to act, throwing all her power with Holy Bell's help. ": Throw the Ultimate Wind, bind and spread into contraction, with no resistance that can sunder against this! This to save with! :"
Suddenly a massive Holy Wall, the most her strength can muster, spreads out as a web like wall, in the last ditch to halt the insane godling! One that is all too easily torn through by the RAW power assailing against it! Bell screams and yells with horror! "Too powerful!"
"BAD!" Keima yelps, as he dives over Takano, Megumi and Chihiro on a pure whim, Skuld the same over Sentaro, and afar, the rest seeing the tragedy come of zenith! Belldandy in turn throws herself over Keiichi, as the mad godling's hand reaches out to grab his intended target, a point that shows the power the Conversion had over him, and Hild's contract in of itself. Worse of another mind steering now.
All that pale in comparison to...
"YOU'RE GOING TO FAIL!"
Everything just dead stops, when Keiichi's voice stabs at the godling, Belldandy having flat out braced her body to take the brunt of whatever incoming blow, when she hears this! She realizes, when the godling halts for ever a split moment, as Keiichi's authoring voice reacts further with. "If you do this, you'll regret it forever! You promised to protect us always! If you go through with this, you'll go against your own word! You'll fail us all, Heaven and us alike!" ...this Keiichi's voice strikes a knife deep blow of chord, finished with... "You're a Knight, not this Monster! Come back to us!"
One split moment into this, Hild thinks Keiichi is mad. The next, the cracks of light within the Monstrosity 'finally' cascade from within, and finally are able to fight back! Without warning, the godling shoved backwards at his own head, and wrenches in an agony that has voice in equal tone to what Lind 'can' recognize! Suddenly, everything goes from a hopeless moment, to a renewed confused one, as the godling starts wrenching at his own head! As in so doing, some 'enlightened' colors start glowing forth, through the cracks splayed about the rubicon and saccloth colorations, a physical manifestation of the final fight taking place within! Belldandy sees, as Lind exclaims of cascading hope! "I felt him! He's fighting back!"
Voluspa suddenly endures the first result of full realization, when... ": No! You cannot escape My Will! Nooooooo! :" ...as suddenly a code cascade Shear effect REFLECTS back into the Soulless System, and crashes it! Voluspa makes a dire choice and Severs all connection lines, before her Realm is shorn all asunder!
And in the midst, all those angst, selfish riddles screams. Such was how close a call 'that' was.
However...
Hild shouts in disbelief! "WHAT? Even with the Seal broken?"
Suddenly that 'last' scream, one that accompanies all seeing the godling suddenly leap back up into the air! This as he stabs out through the screams of agony... "Qualme`, unquale`! Tele oiale`!"
Lind reactively shouts! "No! Don't destroy yourself!" ...and shoots up with all remaining speed! Hild gasps... "He wouldn't!" ...before Frigurina actually smacks her around some more! "How many times do I have to say you are a DOPE? You force him into god when he never wanted to be? Not ready beforehand for what was to come, and now you don't think he won't react to this? You just did Voluspa a favor!"
Hild... well... the words can't describe the feeling of the mistake she's enduring.
And then the sight of something all but utterly foreign to the likes of the CEO, another format unto the rest enduring, as the godling suddenly feels Lind clutch onto him above! Belldandy gasps... "Lind!" ...as the godling's 'dark side' tries to react by throwing back out Angel of Death, but this in turn is restrained by the 'light' side within, and then by physical measure from the Twin Mints!
Lind just exclaims out... "I said I would save you, and I meant it!" ...and starts to dump all her final spell power into starting to freeze the air around them! Peorth sees... "She's trying to put him into stasis!" ...this Eihwa exclaims... "She'll die if she finishes that!"
Peorth suddenly is shocked, and then all the rest that don't participate, in seeing in succession, the reaction of Eihwa and the four other Valkyries! To Lind's equal shock, she feels Phosus, Demesus, Tsuyana, Thrud and Eihwa clutch onto in split succession order!
A strangely surreal, serene, tragic, and extraordinary moment all rolled into one! This as the internal war within the godling's mind rages, Lind in turn tries to sacrifice her life to stop him, and in turn, the other goddesses attached, trying to disrupt them both somehow! Lind shouts with tears dribbling out like terrified star sparkles... "Get away! Please!"
"Never! We can't lose you both!" Eihwa cries out in equal visible tears, something in fact shared by all the adjoined goddesses, before Lind realizes she is doing the same! Phosus no less cries out. "Please! We love you both! Don't do this!" ...as Lind then feels a mind about to Sunder. She starts to heed her own sacrifice anyway! The others feel and fearfully brace for...
Keiichi just exclaims with Belldandy crying her eyes out over him! "This is going to be...!" ...as the scream cracks and...
...then...
...
...
...stops?
A strange spell shimmer plys the air around them, as Keiichi blinks. And then all around suddenly blink... and realize...
"Where's the boom?" ...Velsper quips, before they suddenly hear, instead of screaming agony, a 'rather' plain... "Ah... ah? Eh? Huh?" ...this everyone looks, as 'all' of a sudden, the 'Lord Knight' is seen in place of the 'Dark Lord', and even the 'god'! The blinking continues, as Hild gasps in hollow note... "What?"
"Where... where am..." ...this as the voice that is 'supposed' to be there, starts to sound out more normally. This as Imladris starts looking around in a daze... "What the... what is...?" ...this as eyes 'below' him blink a bunch. Frigurina herself blinks... "Indeed what 'is'...?"
For a moment, that confusion is replete over all seeing. This as Imladris feels his mind 'clicking' back on, feeling his nanites reengage, and he in turn fully feels like he's waking from a long nap. This before he feels his chest, waist, and legs binded and pressed upon. He looks down at this, and sees the Valkyries and White Goddess, all but sewn into him!
He blinks about a hundred times, before he looks 'thinks', and then gaffs... "Okay, did Urd spike me a mickey or something last night?"
Everyone not attached to the knight, facevaults in simult! This of course excluding Belldandy, whom realizes... "He's back! I think he's back!"
Hild and Frig both shout... "HOW!" ...as Hild suddenly yanks her pocket watch out, to snap it open, shouting... "Impossible! The Contract still had..."
That was when she and Frigurina saw the hands all at the zero hour... as well as the miniscule set of fading spell code-rings of a light blue Intracel code of note. Ones that Frig recognizes and realizes... "Well how about 'that'!" ...and looks 'up'. "Nice one Love!"
Hild BALKS! "WHAT! NO! Our Contract! AIIIEEE!" ...this Hild heard Frigurina reply. "What Contract. I think all that before ruined even 'that'. The Seal I think was the cause." ...the last put rather direly. Hild just sighed in turn, and closed the watch, now inert. "Yeah, you're right. Oh well."
Keiichi below however seeing, asks... "What do you mean he's back?" ...this Belldandy turns, as she, and they all hear and see, as Imladris is reglommed tightly by Lind, this time of a 'proper' glom of beloved note. This even the Valkyries that had been before locked in mind of most dire note, now gave full appreciation of a reunion, that seemed all too long, even years it felt like, in the return.
Imladris just gulped... "Wha...? Lind?" ...as said Valkyrie just cried with a joy she never thought possible. "You're back! You're really back!"
He for a moment, not realizing, just allowing the moment to flow. This before he suddenly clutches his head from a SHARP pain! Below, Keiichi and Belldandy gasp as much as everyone else. Skuld just exclaims... "Again?"
Belldandy warily remarks, rather worried to the lips... "I don't think so." ...this as the still attached renew their worry! Phosus exclaims. "What is it now?" ...before the sharp rush of information induced pain subsides. Imladris feels this, as the nanites downloaded the memory files of the past day, into the mind that was far too chaotic to remember otherwise. This results in Imladris still holding his head, and for a moment, holding it 'very' still.
Lind blinks... "Love?" ...before a 'new' lion's growl suddenly spikes the close in area. Lind then 'feels' the wrathful tremor that accompanied it. The other's attached then see his eyes slit open, and realize to Demesus's comment. "I 'think' he's miffed."
At this, Imladris swivels his eyes, before training them, and then his head in menacing fashion, towards the CEO. And then the shudder of fury building. The memories all now too clear in recognition.
And from that, in a seething rage... "Yooooooooooooooouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"
Suddenly, the Knight zips out from the grasp of all those goddesses with decent ease, and then right in front of Frigurina, to stare at with a glare of the most Holy wrath unto, one he now detests beyond all measure of redemption! Frigurina just backs off, as a new confrontation ensues!
Hild sees this, and tries to act nonchalant. "Oh please. So childish." ...while inside her dark soul, 'anything' but such. Imladris just keeps shaking with a growing anger he has no intention of holding back. Keiichi below, just voices to the same mind the rest are seeing with... "Oh, he's seriously pissed!"
Imladris then summons his missing Morphemic Blade, and reforms it into the Angelic Staff, this as he thrusts an arm at Hild, this as Frig backs off even further! "You...! You...! YOU LIED TO ME!"
Hild 'smirked', not realizing her own sweating brow. "We told you, you would do all We asked."
"Through enforcement! You essentially raped my soul! Forced me to harm when you said I would be then one to command such, and yet never DID!" He then huffs to the point of nearly hyperventilating! He yells in addition to this... "And you made me kill another to accomplish your goal!"
Even Frigurina is shocked to hear this, no less the other's onlooking, as Hild just warns... "And what do you think you are going to do about it? Fight us? You think to challenge me?"
Imladris prepared to do just 'that', as he didn't think about what power reserves he had left, not realizing he had an entire 'light side' power reservoir to draw upon! (The dark version was now all but expended, but the Angel within didn't mind this 'second' power form at all. And this didn't include other sources Imladris had full knowledge of.) All this as the knight rips all said energy into a visible tube of white energon, one that envelops his body, of an oval shape! The air just sunders of new sounds of tearing and sundering, from this buildup!
To think it would all turn into this in a span of five minutes!
Keiichi just yelps... "This doesn't look any safer!" ...as Megumi jumps up and without really thinking... "COME ON, KICK HER ASS!"
Hild reacted in turn by throwing out Oblivion to form her own power into an equal dark format attack to what was about to come upon her! Hild just seethes... "Bring it then if you think you can!"
Imladris just roared in kind, not caring for the fact he 'couldn't' actually defeat her! A different kind of 'no longer caring' theme had overtaken him, as he snapped out... "I HAVE HAD ENOUGH!"
Without realizing it, his unwittingly attached Angel appeared, as Hild saw it, as anything 'but' the 'Angel of Death' she originally called of it. This as the Angel helps focus what power the knight had left. And then he -RAMMED- it out, as a massive beam of power!
Hild did likewise, as she shot out her own dark version beam of incredible power, both beams locking into one incredible tug of war! The beam actually turning the raw atmosphere into a shorn plasma! Everyone further below for a moment turns away from the effects of the locked blasts, before Keiichi yelps... "Someone stop this friggen ride!"
Takano actually leaps into Keima's chest and arms! "This is insane!" ...causing them both to topple! Megumi gulps, as Chihiro feels utterly numb on her knees, seeing the great battle of good and evil in formal person! One that was despite all intentions, swiftly one sided, as Hild channels her far more fathomless power, into her power beam! The result, in seconds, is the 'dark' end of the interlocked beams, pushing the 'light' version back with wrenching effect. Hild just haughts out with fangs showing... "You think you can attack and match US in battle! FOOL!"
Imladris just reacts with a renewed burst, and shouts to effect... "I DON'T CARE! RUIN ME FOR ALL CARE OF ETERNITY! I DON'T CARE, I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU FOREVER!" ...and dumps every last vestige of power he has to offer. Incarnum, Holy, Positive, Raw Soul Force, everything he can possibly muster! The result is the beam pushing back the dark beam, but also causing a visible strain on the knight, as his hands and arms blister from the same gout of power!
And yet Hild just snarls... "Mock all you like, We're still the better here!" ...and increases her power towards limits allowed! The dark beam starts marching right back at the knight, whom gives no whit of inclination of the dire consequences, should he lose! Hild of course isn't considering 'that' format of consequence for the long term, not at that moment of mania flustered plasma shoved forth!
And as such in her blind delirium of equal Sin, doesn't see the simple flick of Frigurina's fingers, one that causes the goddesses in general proximity, especially the First Class goddesses, to suddenly feel their own power code swell! Belldandy gasps at this, as Keiichi looks over... "What? You okay Belldandy?"
Belldandy realizes, and looks at her Mother, whom is smiling of 'note', and whom Belldandy nods back in accepting. She then looks to Keiichi and promises. "Yes. Everything is going to be just fine." Keiichi blinks at this, then gasps, as Belldandy suddenly flies up.
Above, the dark beam is about ready to overwhelm the knight, whom shakes with the end of his rope, energy and life alike it seems! This as Hild laughs over and over, screaming in lust... "I've never felt so Dire! Oh this will be joyous to... eh?" ...and suddenly 'stops'.
Imladris suddenly feels anew energy infusing into him, from behind him. He feels it, and then looks back sidelong. "What Light?" And is shocked to see... "Belldandy? ...L... Lind? Wha?" ...and 'more' of goddess note. Hild sees all too readily... "YOU CUR!" ...she suddenly shouts at Frigurina, who is only holding position away from the conflagration. Rather, she just notes as Imladris has 'every' First Class goddess behind him, channeling their renewed slate of power into the Knight! He then also sees Urd, and even Skuld!
Hild from her infernal encoded sight, blanches at the sight of five Valkyries, and five goddesses, Norn and fanciful Sisters alike, all are holding their palms open, Intracel circle-code set around their palms, with their energies channeling into one of their true own! Imladris gasps at the realization, seeing goddesses with their Angels out, not realizing his own of extension behind him. All that energy is pouring into his soul, and each with a confident smile of fully knowing.
Something indeed never to be witnessed ever again! Keiichi is as much fearful, as he is giddy at the glorious sight! And Hild is no less vehement and truly terrified! Imladris in turn hears from Lind and Belldandy each... "Take our power as your own!" ... "Redeem for yourself and us all Cousin!"
The remaining goddesses nod in simult to this. Imladris barely realizes, before he then acts on this with a nod, and then focuses all of that incredible power into a 'new' pulse, one thrice as large as previously! The sheer force of it alone instantly shoves the dark beam back three quarters of the distance, as Imladris ROARS in final Wrath!
Mara realizes the situation, and tries to shoot in to push Hild away once again! "Mistress!" ...and in so trying, can't even approach due to the pressure aura from the new beam! Velsper alone gasps... "Whoa-boy!" ...as Entropia watches with feelings she's never 'had'! (And never knowing the same 'flick' affected her too!)
Hild realizes... "Is that so then?" ...as she has to up the card one more time, and shunts to dump even more power into her beam...
...and then feels her forearms suddenly sting! Like burned into by flaming bees stinging they did, as Hild realized... "The SEAL! Awww crap!" ...and realizes she can't extract any more power. Hild then realizes... "That... that Big... Big..." ...she manages to eke a look over at a 'broad' smiling Frigurina, as the apparent nature of the Seal takes formal note! This as the Holy beam is about to overpower her restrained beam.
She realizes, and then sighs, realizing... just before the beam hits.
"Oh well. We lose."
Keiichi dives as much as everyone else, as the largest explosion they've ever witnessed, completely rips across the atmosphere for kilometers around! Entire air rings pulse burst out, multiple times, such that the detonation was so FIERCE! The wind pressure alone just keeps everyone below pinned in place, praying like they never knew they ever could!
Ex, Chrono and Ere were furiously working their harp controls with all due speed! Ex shouts out! "The pulse is crashing the System controls again! At least a forty-three percent area of effect just up here!"
Frode heard Hirund snap shout out. "Engage the new safety protocols and suspend all operations for the time being!"
Ere acknowledged, but added... "It'll leave Dimension Three detached again!" Chrono however replied to that. "Not as long this time. The new System algorithms are designed to repair the System more quickly." ...this Ere remembers and nods.
Frode flat out pressed on. "Do it, the others down below can survive for a day, two at the maximum this all requires." ...this all three Hub Operators nod. "Yes Sir!" ...this as the Hub keeps it's manic atmosphere, as overhead voices inform of the shut down sequence. Frode replies to each one with his Network command codes.
Hirund meanwhile then sighed, as Thor's voice rang out. ": What a battle. Should I glorify it, or sunder it from Archives? :"
": I warned you all. :" ...Freyana quipped... ": Say not that I did. :"
": Oh zip the yap, as my former apprentice once said. :"
": Same to you! :"
Hirund just rolls her eyes. "Evolution is so grand."
": We heard that! : " ...whit Hirund wilted at the voice of two High Gods. Frode chuckles well and good, as the General then commented... "Wonder how His Lordship is taking this."
The lack of an answer begot her curiosity. It only grew moreso with more silence. The same for the rest of the Council, well soon enough.
It takes a good minute for the explosion to even start dying down, but somehow, despite it all, save for a few minor cuts and scrapes, the watching and knowing below are no less harm of wear, than the rest of the participants of this traumatic battle had been. Physically anyway. The mind was another matter.
One handled as the winds die down in the end, and Keiichi leaps up, and shouts up... "Belldandy!" Megumi does likewise, as Keima helps Takano up. Chihiro and Sentaro for their own parts, worrying if the explosion had its intended result. Sora is helped up by an eye brow cut Tamiya, Otaki the same of cut chin, for Satoko.
They all look up, the Summons, Seraphim and Spawn alike, equally curious. This as first nearest of note, Frigurina appears from the dispersing cloud, and soon, the goddesses, with their Angels, and an 'exhausted' tired Lord Knight, one with an equally fatigued Arch-Angel. Keiichi beams in exclaimed relief! "Bell! Oh thank god!"
Keima and Takano no less are relieved, though they then see Imladris was covered in 'blisters', a byproduct of his full body beam of force. No one refrains from their gasps in seeing and realizing, before they then see what they think is impossible.
This as the last of the haze laden burst cloud fades, and Hild is seen hovering still, without fail!
Chihiro blanches out loud... "What? Just how many hit points does that broad have?"
Hild, however on closer note, isn't unscathed. Whole still for the most part, bodily undamaged, her extremities are however quite singed and roughed up. She also sports a good number of blister wounds as well. Frigurina sees and realizes... 'She took a good brunt, the most she's seen in Eons.'
Imladris meanwhile just huffs, gasping for breath as he knows better to 'actually' have had any real damaging effect on the likes of Hild. However judging by the wounds Hild 'did' have, his expression of wrath had hit it's mark. Oblivion wasn't to be seen now either. He just snarls out... "Wench."
Hild just looks at her arms, shredded clothing, and feels her well ruffled hair. "Oh us. Well, at least the vacation to come will have a use." ...this Frigurina afar just rolls her eyes. "What a moron."
Lind from afar, is the first to however realize just how 'much' power Hild really had, an estimation that would dig at their minds for many ages to come. Something remised upon, as Hild just remarks, with a cough, expelling some soot. "Well, you got us. Took all you all had, but it's still your victory. Of course, destroying us, is impossible. As is destroying Evil in of itself, which We so very am."
The others sigh at this truth, though Imladris himself didn't feel any glory from the victory. He instead seethed out in the next, a mind full of exasperated questions. All that came out first was... "Why? Just... why?"
Hild floats in, Lind on guard as much as her equal Valkyrian brethren, but see Hild just stop a few meters away, looking all as if she didn't pay heed to her injuries. Urd just huffs at the power of her mother, as Hild proscribes... "In a word: Voluspa."
Imladris felt an 'old' animosity fill him, one easily felt by Lind. Hild noted the same in his eyes, and nods. "Yes. The name should fill you with anger. That wrath was 'why' you were remade."
Skuld blinks. "Remade?" ...this Imladris spats back... "What of this? This better not mean I'm some..."
"We fear it does." ...this Hild sighs out, then remarks with a finger pointed with indelible inference. "You'll learn soon enough why, though it should already be obvious to you, what since Voluspa is as powerful as We and our Doublet are. And you had to use all you had, with help, to fight 'me'. (Reduced and all further Sealed even.)"
Imladris gulped, the inference indeed unsettling. Belldandy remarks to this... "There 'should' still be no rush to this all. It will take a lot for Voluspa to enter this dimension. Even she has to follow such rules." Hild just waves a hand unto this, 'sitting' backwards as if in a recliner. "Yes yes, the catalyst bit. For us it's Urd for the most part, Mara: that stupid CD and all. You goddesses utilize effects from Intracel to be here. The same 'will' come to pass for the Seer as well. We 'all' need to prepare when the time will come."
Frigurina appears behind Hild, and accuses. "Is 'this' some fools excuse for all the brutality that came to pass this day?"
Hild smirks back with a crane of her head backwards, from the reclined position. All the well more annoying it was. "Well, We 'did' need an excuse to mold our mutual tool to meet 'both' of our needs. It takes a lot of planning to cause something that will meet with disapproval."
Frigurina slits an eye, as Hild declares for all to hear. "Given that Caceroth is already on the move again, as we speak even, 'in' this Dimension if such is missed. Of which We didn't the same. We decided to make our mutual knight, of the same complete tool we all are counting as our salvation through this mess. As if there wasn't a reason for demonic code to exist in a shell that knew of supposed purity, for so long."
Imladris felt insecure, behind the walls that held the angers for the one being he hated with blind passion. More than even Hild here before him. The definition were of such different leagues. And apparently back unto a real auspice to boot. Lind looked over and saw his face, as Hild imparted. "To this, we made our Dark Lord of Nibelhiem, of which is still placed as your new title here and now, young knight."
Imladris growled vehemently at that, enough to startle the rest around... "I'll never use that title! NEVER!"
Hild just sighs, as Frigurina moans... "Like she'll listen to 'that'." ...and in turn Hild flat out imposes... "Nonetheless, since we are in this same war together as you, and the wee lil fact of if the Seer succeeds, we 'all' die as one. And so to prevent our said wonderful demise, that Title is added now permanently to your own. Oh, and worry not actually of that 'kill' that became of the catalyst for the Title to attach. We simply used a clone of you, formatted when you first arrived in Nibelhiem. A rather dumb one even. Killing it did us all a favor really."
Imladris just felt chilled at hearing that, the vivid memory of 'that' all too clear as it was. He just restates of such an injured tone. "Still makes no difference, since I 'won't' use it."
"And yet we acknowledge it the same." Hild stresses as well. "After all, it matches your own soul, a balance of light and darkness, with that marvelous mortality within, the one that broke through Our... well... it's one of those rare ones." ...she then looks down and sees Keiichi, whom is sweating and clammy after seeing and hearing of Caceroth still being alive for certain. Hild just imparts... "The ones that matter here. They need protecting for us all. Even 'We' can appreciate that."
Imladris blinks, and then looks down and sees Keiichi. He does so, both in renewed appreciation of such fact, as well as an internal dour that will ferment a deep regret to come. He sees it, from the eyes of the rest of his mortal kin. One he tried to hurt, no matter what the excuse of cause. Imladris just looks back at the CEO. "Did it require the harm I inflicted beyond my ken?"
Hild just replied. "For one that hates the corruption of power, it takes an 'actual' example of that to base oneself by, to 'truly' stand for things against. A circuitous way to say, you needed a kick in the ass about your true reality. All for laughs and giggles. 'Twas it not good fun?"
Imladris just blares as dry a look, as the other goddesses behind him do, (though in Bell's case, it's a rather heavy sigh.) Frigurina just remarks... "I'll keep the version where he kicked your arse just now." ...she then pokes at one of Hild's welts, which makes the CEO wince loudly. "EEYOWTCH!"
"Wow, he 'did' hurt you." ...Frig keeps poking with, making Hild wince in several shades of purple pain. Urd of anyone else here, just blandly yelps... "That is unsightly!"
Imladris however then balks... "Migoddess Frigurina, please..."
Hild just chuckles despite the pain, which would last for a lot longer than she would at first realize. Still, she imprinted to effect the end of all this. "Anywho, at least We made sure he can't just call himself a plain mortal anymore. You'll see why when... eh?" ...she stops when Imladris suddenly looks really uncomfortable.
Imladris suddenly fidgets, when he 'feels' something 'WA-A-A-A-A-A-A-AY' off. He then realizes... "What the... ACK! YARGH!" ...and actually starts wrenching at his back! Everyone else around backs off, as in a rather painful display Lind all too readily remembers, the knight (with angelic help,) manages to WRENCH the Tenshigui out from his back! The tearing sounds alone, from the display, makes Urd, Skuld, Peorth, and Demesus sick visibly as a result. Sora below just blacks out again, for a moment in Tamiya's shaking arms. It's a wonder the mortals all alike didn't 'all' faint!
In the end, he holds the entire length and form of the Eater, like an oversized bug held by a kid! A very tired one to boot! Lind gulps, remarking... "Remember how 'that' felt." ...one in equal shock from the extraction. (Hence why it didn't attack anyone else outright!)
Hild and Frigurina each are aghast at this display, just before Imladris, huffing in brand new pains not meant for common mortality as a whole, stabs a new look at the CEO. He then growls from this, and winds up... "Here! I think this is YOURS!" ...and chucks the mentally messed up Eater at Hild! (Or such, who can tell.) Frig dives clear, as Hild gets a full body slam from the dangerous creature! The sight of it makes the angels combined, cringe a bit, above their mistresses. Hild is thrown back far enough, before Mara appears and catches her. "Gotcha My Lord." This as Imladris loses midair balance and Lind shoots in to clutch onto. "Got you!" ...and nuzzles into his cheek, something not remised by the others.
Hild sneers at this, and floats back near, hefting the Eater in her hand, the same Imladris did. Everyone then watches... "Hmm... guess this thing has caused enough trouble." ...and causes a red Nidhog code globe to appear around the Eater, and shrinks it all down to the size of a small beetle. She then looks at it, and then infers... "We'll decide how to dispose of it later." ...and crushes her hand, causing the Eater to vanish in a manner that makes the goddesses wonder if it is still alive now.
The demon queen then looks 'above' the knight, and remarks... "Hmm... guess 'that' will be tougher to deal with. Oh well, a fitting addition we think." ...this Imladris cocks an eye, then realizes something is behind him. This Imlade and Lind look up, the knight gasping...
Seeing 'his' apparent Angel stuns him to the soul! Mind on the matter from the goddesses around and mortals on below, is held short, when Hild then remarks. "Hmm... guess we should deal with this other matter beside me." ...this as she suddenly spin kicks Mara without warning, unto her rear, and sends her right at Urd and Peorth, by some measure! Urd yelps... "What the heck is this about?"
"Hey!" Mara just snaps as well, as Hild sneers... "Keep your voice. You and Velsper alike betrayed our mission first, since you both didn't have the stomach for watching my Tool's works in the end."
Mara grumbles, as Velsper hides behind Chihiro, by happenstance, as Belldandy remarks. "Pardon?"
Hild explains... "Too slow. We think Mara will be a better use as our emissary to... well... help, or something. We don't really care. Such to the effect of when the time comes of our mutual enemy's return to this arena of war. Besides, a second chance to rekindle a childhood friendship and all. We can have others deal with our market share, since there's plenty other demons on this Middle-Space of a Plane. Earth and all included."
Mara blinks, as Urd smirks, quipping. "Guess I get to beat you at karaoke once more." Mara just snuffs back... "We tied the last time I remember." ...this Skuld just frazzles. "You both still owe me a machine."
Belldandy sees hope in this, before hearing Hild add. "I still have one other here present to handle anyway. Even if we detest her presence for it all." ...this a look at a cringing Entropia, as Hild snips. "So come along 'little' wanabe demon."
Frig suddenly spikes into this... "No. I forbid this."
Hild turns around to face, as Frig's voice is as dead cold as deep space itself. Hild slits her eyes, as Frigurina imparts, seeing Entropia now nearby, well away from the celestial gathering. The proper mother here snaps in further agitation. "It's clear you never intended to give my true, eldest daughter, the same love that I gave 'your' Urd. In this singular case, I am taking my daughter 'back'!"
Hild blinks, seeing Frigurina 'fathomlessly' huffed and bothered, enough even to outright attack Hild with! Hild then sees behind that, the same caring of motherhood that she knows well of her own Urd.
Secretly, she was in some small way, glad Urd grew up in a happy atmosphere. If terse all the same by heavenly standards. All of such Hild more than readily admitted to herself, silently, could never truly provide. Hild wasn't 'that' motherly in the end. The War of Souls bit, as well as the Sin of Power, her original reason for her Fall, was still far too important to her.
Hild then shrugged. "Well. We can place that as booty for spoils. She never pleased us anyway." ...this afar, Entropia feels mixed emotions she detests overall. "As such We'll leave that decision to our mutual Dark Lord." ...this Hild turns back around, and sees a mix of angst at the name, and surprise at the impetuous 'mortal' remarked. Hild just imparts, arms folded... "So, will you claim Our step-daughter, as a trophy for acquisition? A handful she will be, We assure you, given the years of Our torment unto."
Imladris blinked, then looked down at the dour, displaced facade of the Dark Norn, a face he couldn't read at all. And then a look at Frig's, 'very, very' wanting face. As such he sighed, and then remarked to this, understanding being a proper ally here. "I don't claim trophies. I free souls. Liberate and give hope. Even 'despite' this battle. As such, 'that' is how you shalt release said Norn unto her Mother's proper care."
Hild just smirked at this, and fluttered her left hand at him. "Ever the magnanimous soul. We hope it saves us all, one day soon."
Imladris gulped at that, then notes Lind giving a proud smile. It wasn't the only goddess vein there. Nothing actually occurred else, save Frig and Entropia exchanging a most uncertain look. The same of many a goddess 'and' mortal watching of vein there. Upon this, Hild decides. "Well, guess Our damage is done. -wince- We'll be relaxing this all off for awhile, as we mentioned."
Imladris cocks an eye, but then looks around, and suddenly sees the frozen state of the landscape, left by actions he knows he caused, again despite excuse of cause. He grimaces, vocalized enough to be of note to the goddesses. Hild just rolls her eyes. "What a wuss." ...this stabbed back of a glare from a Valkyrie Confessed.
"Once too many times already." Imladris puts reactively, not explaining the fact he's 'seen' landscapes this devastated before. Worlds, battlefields, from one life to the next, true mind or amnesiac, he's seen it all too damn much. He finds a hateful reason of himself again for it, which Lind grimaces in feeling of.
Skuld nearby remarks to this travesty... "What 'do' we do? There's too much damage." Belldandy just exchanges a look with Frigurina, whom gives a pure look of confidence back, as such Belldandy then gives hope of... "You need to have faith."
This remark for a moment, leaves a preparatory silence, just before they 'all' feel it. This as they look around on instinct, Peorth remarking... "Do you feel that?" ...just before the sky suddenly turned into a pure, and heavenly fit sky, this as such that is such all around the planet! As such, Belldandy gasps with her hands to her mouth, one of rapturous joy this time. Such even despite her previous chime, she exclaims... "Father!"
Below no less in amazement, they see the True work at hand, from the one that 'can' repair the damage so wrought. On Above as a starter, all across knowable sight, the sky suddenly has numerous 'immense' heavenly cloud halos, ones that cause for one each, the vast Heavenly standard, the golden staff with IMMENSE angel wings that adorn each side, to shimmer down from on high, to ground level, each easily thousands of meters tall and wide! Peorth gasps, realizing the last time she saw them, it was that Norn driven spell after the temporal shear events Celestine caused, done at that time to recover all that temporal shear energy, and restore the present timeline.
Now it seemed, they were to be used to restore much more.
And from out from these massive portals, long lines of glowing blue-white Intracellic code sprout out, by the millions it seemed, as they form vast, interconnected, interworked Mandalas of the most incredibly vast size that even Hild has or would ever see or seen! (Prior unto or ever again!) Even being timelessness, didn't prepare for 'this' moment.
And then sky seemed to start... singing... of voices in a chorus that seemed to voices of all Existence at once! This causes the Mandalas to link together, and from them, the terrestrial ground beneath them all, glows with a fierce, yet majestic haze! Keiichi gasps, never having seen the like in even dreams of imagination! You can guess the mindsets of the other mortals, not as yet fully indoctrinated as compared to Keiichi!
And yet, the goddesses and demons watching, are no 'less' awed! Lind just chimed out in this tone... "He is so Mighty!" ...this as Frigurina alone as reason to swoon, and even fist pump out. "Oh yeah! You go hubby!"
Imladris agreed, (with Lind's assessment,) as 'the' Restoration Spell, one that shook even Heaven, and Intracel to a shocked core, engaged!
Upon activation, the goddesses prayed, their angels in serene echo, and the demons swelled with fear, as the Work was conducted. Hild watched in an awe of a Power she could never understand. This whit Frigurina then elbows in... "You decided to Fall. You missed out on a lot as a result." ...this Hild seriously grimaced, as the sight took a good while to complete.
Nothing was rushed. Many souls had to be 'retracted', repairs made across an entire World Plane, as time itself was restored to the Planar Axis, and from there, connections back to Intracel were reestablished. By the end of a certain 'number' of hours however, the Work was done.
Enough time for the goddesses and mortals to recover senses. To start dealing with the aftereffects of the day. And enough time for Hild to get an earful from Urd. Frigurina just sighed at it all, but worried more about her estranged Norn daughter. An easy task, this would 'not' become, whatever such task would become. Family or otherwise.
And by the Finish of the Reworking, it was a renewed day of same note, before the evocation of the Singularity spell. Whit by thank of Kami, no mortal knew better, and none was harmed, save for the minor wounds the 'knowing' mortals present had endured. Form all such, the damage was repaired. Of the visible kind anyway.
Others would take longer.
And all sure not before resolutions were dealt with. And the stakes understood. But not before...
-Within 'very' wanted, familiar temple grounds.-
Hild just got fed up with it all, this as Frigurina is readily kissing all anime-chibi-heart-bubbly towards the Sky. "This is too much 'purity' for us to take in one sitting. We need evil. Lots of anguish and suffering." ...this as she twirls a hand and her own power opens a new gate this time. Everyone watches uncertainly for a moment, as Hild just looked back at Urd. "Oh, and so you know daughter dear. This all didn't end 'our' part of the debt."
"Don't bother." Urd just spats back. Hild is however interrupted by Frigurina, as she zips over, and offers... "Gee, I must say this has been a lively visit. Thank you for all you did today!"
Hild holds her ears, Mara nearby doing no less! The CEO just shouts out... "I said belay that wretched language!"
Megumi and Keiichi blinks... "Eh?" ...Chihiro looking cock-eyed as well.
Urd then remembers, that even she has a problem with actually vocalizing thanks. Demons, don't 'like' such things from others not their own 'kind'. A quirk as strange as the demon weaknesses to various forms of mortal music. Not that it was something always apparent, since a demon could give and take thanks well enough, but at times of focus, it 'was' a dire annoyance to them. And not that Urd doesn't see an opening her goddess side can't take.
Urd just up the ante, and waves an arm as well. "Yup, Thank you for coming today!"
The mortals just stand there, eyes pipped in anime confusion, as Belldandy just decries... "You know she doesn't like that!" ...this just before Imladris gets it, and chuckles. "Such a thing indeed."
He then of unexpected note, then feels 'every' remaining goddess, save for the aforementioned, cloister around him, waving the same, all as one... "Thank you for coming Hild!"
Hild just loses it! "AUUUGGHHHHH! You goddesses never had any sense of decency for demon culture! I can't believe we all share a common ancestry! AIIIIEEEEEEEE!" ...and all but leaps up like crazy, into the portal! Urd just snickers at this... "Hey, that actually felt good. Not doing it again like that."
Takano for the mortal's part, just remarks at all this. "Okay, 'that' was weird."
"A good bit of that right now Mom." Keiichi remarks, before he's yanked by his shirt collar by her! "Danger's over! Back to not CALLING me that, boy!"
Megumi just inches away, as Keiichi feels a 'new' kind of hell take hold. He still is glad for it. At least it's a more preferable version. A needed laughter begins to return to the air of the Temple.
And soon enough after, as the sky returns to nominal life...
...the world is unchanged, once more. No grain is misplaced. No one that doesn't know better, will ever know.
And yet one that does, has a separate 'mess' to deal with. Imladris notes this, standing well away from all he previously thought were his own kin. Ones he can't look in the eye, turning away with even the slightest glance at him.
This as the next problem begins to fester. Apology. One he formally considers, then shoves that into acting, to formally rectify. He looks at them, then around at the goddesses, who for the most part, were 'also' keeping a bit of distance now from him, before he exchanges a knowing look with Lind. At this, the knight takes a step forward.
Keima of note, sees this, and despite reservation, remarks... "Here it comes." Keiichi and the other mortals look, their converse about their worry of well being for each other now focused on the approach of an expected apology. Belldandy for the goddesses of note nearby, smiles. 'Good, he's acting in a responsible manner.'
For his part, Imladris considered the full splayed and prostrated approach, before the ones he 'did' care about, the ones he never meant to harm. Ones he wondered if all was now damaged beyond mending. He still approached, considering how much was not enough, for a visible apology. He even considered some manic crying and some Ilmater worthy scarring, as he stepped closer and...
-snap-to-black-
Everyone looking saw Imladris suddenly freeze, and then smack to the ground! Lind shot over from her spot near the entrance, Phosus and Demesus equally in close, just reaching after he hits with a good thump! This as of a proper 'icing' to the dour cake that was eaten this day, this as Frigurina hovers over and holds a glowing 'inspection' orb of Intracel code makeup, over him. She then sighs... "He exhausted all of his energies. Even life force is at minimum. He's out of it for a few days."
Keiichi just remarks. "He'll be alright, right?"
Lind just cradles Imladris in her lap and nuzzles him. She flat out promises... "I'll make sure of 'that'."
If only the knight knew the replete smiles that Lind got for this statement. Eihwa just huffed. "Lucky goddess." ...before sharing that look for them both.
Takano then just moaned a half sounding joke. "Guess he'll just have to apologize to us later then." ...this Chihiro grumbles. "And then do a ton of makeup work for me. He's working this all off, I swear." ...this a good amount of laughter for Imladris's expense then serenades the air.
If only he had been awake for 'that' much, it may have prevented what happened in the following days. The rise after the fall, wouldn't have been so traumatic.
Or so special.
(End Act IX-b)
Author notes: Not quite done with this all yet. Sure been a complicated road to get just 'this' far. And yes I 'know' I have a lot of dang characters right now. That'll be dealt with as the story progresses. (I lied.) Been planned out for the next volume series. (The next chapter will be final Act for this 'volume', before going into more character spread Acts in the next 'volume'.)
Probably will plan a clean-up review of my combined chapters, to ensure readability and plot stability, among other things. Course since I'm going through a few real life events in the immediate term here soon, things might be slow in that department. Kinda want to keep the stories churning out mainly, so bear with me grammar wise and all that.
I've realized I'm more of an 'idea' writer, than anything a grammar teacher would ever truly approve of, not to mention the writing for the joy of the ideas that come out.
In the end, just have 'purely' so, enjoyed doing all this.
Still, this is all in the end as well, non-canon writing, so where I start taking all of this, is intended as my version of celebrating a manga that gave me reason to even do all this. It really comes down to it being as simple as that, added to the lack of moolla I make in this same time and effort.
Just hope the 'story' itself is what's focused upon. That's all I want.
And so, just so to chill out my writing at the end here...
(Valkyrie Drabbles - Part Thirteen)
"Oh Keiichi, thank you!" ...mini-Bell squealed, as said mini-K1 offered a simple bottle of soy sauce. Mini-Urd just dryly glanced at them, wondering... "How can this manga survive with this little romance?" ...this mini-Skuld blares at... "It's been the 'perfect' amount all this time! Shut up!"
Urd just considers trading Skuld for Sasami, or another more 'preferable' sister of anime fame, this before she then hears ol Imlade appear. He just remarks, all cute as a button as a chibi-dope. "Lind around?"
Everyone just points as one off towards an unseen area beyond the page panel, which creeps the bloke out some, this as Lind drags Gan-chan along, all tied up and such. she hops over, (smacking Gan's head on a rock, or something, in so doing...) She then chimes. "I got him tied up this time. Want that XP now?"
Imlade just chuckles. "Nay. Here." ...he suddenly offers, sweating for some nervous reason, as he hands over a card over to Lind. Said mini-Axe babe dumps Gan to handle the card, as if it was a diamond ring.
She then reads, and then everyone then suddenly sees Lind outright LEAP onto him, screaming! "I WANT YOUR CHILD!"
Imlade... "Wha! It's... WHAA! YACK! -mumble-muffle-muffle-mumble-!"
Skuld runs away, as Keiichi looks away, seeing things he couldn't even dream doing with Bell! Bell in turn just quips, flustered for her part... "Goodness, what did...?" ...as she and Urd hop over to pick up the dropped card, Urd having to watch her step, what with all those flailing limbs off the bottom of the panel.
Bell looks, and Urd 'teardrops' on the same, as mini-Bell remarks... "It's a Library Card."
Urd realizes. "Dang." ...and looks back at a rather 'tattered' scene. Urd just quips on this... "Good thing it wasn't a gift card for a bookstore, or such." ...this as Imlade flails for dear life, and air. Especially air.
Suddenly, Urd and Bell hear a moan beneath them, in tone of... "Hey. Girls."
Urd looks down, and Bell hops off, Urd snipping. "What?"
"Get off me!"
Urd just prods her heel in... "Whining again are we?" ...this Bell just smiles/sweatdrops.
Keiichi meanwhile just complains, looking back. "We're going to get rating complaints if this keeps up."
(Fin Thirteen)
(Valkyrie Drabbles - Part Fourteen )
Gan had to complain. "There's too many main characters here now. I'm getting even 'less' speaking parts now!"
Skuld and Urd look back. "Oh... did you say something?" ... "Who's the rat?"
Gan just goes rat-ape at the mini-goddesses, while a mini-Peorth just blanches at, in a finger pointing fashion. "Why is SHE here now?" ...this as a mini-Eihwa with a mini-Test-o-Purity out in the mini-open, just quips. "Smettere incoraggiamento Peorth."
Peorth just growls back... "I'll yell how I want too! And stop confusing the readers already!"
Mini-Bell and mini-Keiichi just look back, as Keiichi quips. "You'll get looks if you keep it up." ...this Eihwa ignores, all too busy keeping an arm on one side of her maschio trophy. Of course that means mini-Lind on the other arm, is all but yanking mini-Imlade by the arm, into a near full drag, just to get mini-Imlade out of mini-Eihwa's reach!
It just means... "YEOW! MY SPINE!" ...pain, for... well...
Mini-Keiichi just groans... "No normal days here." ...as Mini-Imlade spouts... "I'm not liking this field trip today so far!" Lind and Eihwa just mini-wildcat snarl at each other, shouting... "She started it!"
Peorth just groans as well... "Why Father on High, why?"
Gan just comments... "Where are we going anyway?"
Urd / Skuld: "Hey? Who are you?"
"CUT THAT OUT!"
Mini-Bell just offers... "I thought a nice walk would do us all good." ...this Keiichi beams. "Works for me."
Peorth cocked an eye, and wondered if the world would end, if Keiichi ever disagreed with Belldandy. She just shrugs, and then notes Eihwa shout! "Lassù!" ...and then suddenly drags Imlade with her, up the... uh... mini-road? Um... and in so doing, the same to mini-Lind who is still grafted onto Imlade's other arm!
Bell and Keiichi see this and blink in simult.
Bell: "That must hurt." Keiichi. "A lot."
Peorth. "I want another Secur."
Urd and Skuld look over Peorth's shoulders, to see Eihwa suddenly make a HARD right turn to cross the said road, this just before she in turn, is suddenly at the mercy of a Valkyrie yank of Newton's Laws! They all look, as Lind suddenly pulls Imlade in the opposite direction, back across the road! "No! This way!"
They all blink, as Imlade feels pain of the kind he still couldn't get away with in a birthing ward, (no matter the severity,) as Keiichi looks and then sees. "Ah... oh?"
Mini-Peorth sees, and MOANS... "Pourquoi le Dieu Tout Puissant, pourquoi?" ...this as Imlade is pulled in one direction towards a milk factory, the other towards a bookstore! Guess who's pulling whom apart towards where. (With their mini-angels helping even! Sheesh!)
Keiichi just blinks, as Bell remarks... "Interesting coincidence." ...Keiichi adding. "Who the HECK did the city planning on this one?"
Urd and Skuld just respectively quip, as Peorth wonders how to dispose of her Italien problem. "He sure goes through a lot." ... "Better him than Keiichi. He's so weak."
Gan: "I no longer want a wife."
Skuld/Urd: "Who are you?"
Gan: "WHAAAAHAAAHAAAAHAAA!"
Imlade: "Make it stoooooooop!"
(Fin Fourteen)