Note: I don't own Disgaea 2
Note: I don't own Disgaea 2.
IMPORTANT ALERT: ALL MY WORK WILL BE ON HIATUS UNTIL THE CHRISTMAS DUE TO MY LAST SEMESTER BEFORE GRADUATING WITH MY DEGREE. I'LL BE BACK DURING THE CHRISTMAS SEASON AND CHANGE THIS CHAPTER'S TITLE.
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Adell opened his eyes, regaining consciousness to only feel himself suspended in complete darkness and bound by unseen chains that wrapped shackles around his arms. His legs were the only limbs on his body to remain an unchained, yet the fact that he couldn't see or feel any ground to walk on made any escape attempt impossible.
'Is this hell? It feels so cold.' Adell thought to himself.
"Welcome to my lair, child of sin." A feminine voice that dripped with evil echoed and Adell could see the darkness slightly illuminate to a dark purple-pink light. He was in a large chamber of sorts and the young demon slayer caught sight of a figure sitting on a throne made of bones with her legs crossed.
Pale blond hair stood behind her head and a pair of black eyes with red pupils stared at Adell from a beautiful yet cold emotionless face. The figure wore leather attire that hugged her figure tightly but left only her shoulders and arms completely exposed. It was Rozalin and yet it wasn't Rozalin.
'The real Overlord Zenon.' Adell thought bitterly, though it somewhat surprised him at first when he found out that the legendary "God of All Overlords" was actually female. 'Make that Goddess of All Overlords.' He thought to himself.
"You have crude ideas about hospitality, Rozalin." Adell replied.
"I am Overlord Zenon and I am a being of solitude!" Zenon snapped before raising her hand out and causing the chains binding Adell to painfully tighten.
Yet, the young demon slayer, having been through much worse conditions, could only smile as Overlord Zenon continued speaking, this time in a more calm voice.
"The one you know as Rozalin has and always will be a part of my being." Zenon continued. "But she was just a result of my rebirth into the Veldime's Snow Clan. It's a pity that demons cannot truly be killed but being trapped in the prison of your own mind is the same as being dead."
"What do you hope to achieve from this?" Adell inquired fiercely.
"That's something you'll see for yourself." Zenon replied. "And I certainly look forward to eradicating your surviving friends when I find them."
"You…!" Adell yelled with fury as he tried to break the chains around him without success. "I'll stop you and I'll bring Rozalin back, one way or another!"
"In your position, you can't do anything and don't say things that you can't back." Zenon spoke as she hovered close to Adell to caress his cheek with her right hand. "Rozalin is dead. You killed her after all."
That last sentence gave Adell a long pause. Zenon was right about him killing Rozalin. But then again, he painfully and regretfully did so to protect the others from the one person he had slowly and secretly fallen in love with.
Sometimes, you kill someone out of love in order to save that person or to release him or her from the pain he or she has. The pain that comes from taking the life you hold dear and wish to otherwise protect reflects that attachment. In the end, it's sometimes the most merciful thing you can do as living in eternal suffering is not the kind of life a person wants to live in. Death is only a transition, not an end.
'Reiko once told me that after that incident in the Shinra Tower.' Adell thought, though he still felt guilty for what he did. 'Death is a transition…' The demon slayer wanted to laugh at the potential irony there if it were applied to Rozalin. 'She did tried to tell me to kill her if she lost control, though.'
"In the end, I might have been as an act of mercy." Adell muttered as he looked away, only feel the goddess place both hands on the sides of his face. Despite the physical softness he felt, Adell knew that it was the direct opposite as Zenon averted her captive's gaze back to her eyes.
Zenon smiled as her red eyes glared through Adell's eyes and the demon slayer's screams echoed in the mental prison that he was sealed in. But it wasn't of physical pain. Rather, it was what he was seeing as the Goddess of Overlords continued to ravage his mind with complete ease. Mental attacks weren't new to Adell but he was very much unprepared for such a heavy magnitude. The excruciating pain on his mind was too much, yet he felt himself unable to break as death escaped him, denying Adell the desired end of the torment he was now in.
Since their unholy union, Adell belonged to Zenon and the demonic goddess was truly reveling in the experience of possessing the young man's body while unleashing the undisturbed torment of hell on his soul. Having seen the memories of her last reincarnation, Zenon did find a bit of value within Adell that was enough to keep him alive at least.
"Now then, child of sin, the only thing that's left is the road to perdition that we will travel down together." Zenon spoke before continuing to torture her captive while controlling his body in the realm of space and time that was Veldime.
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The Liliths, Skeleton Dragons, and the hordes of other demon types continued to swarm across the fields of corpses as they attacked the possessed Adell. Overlords and Demon Lords continued to pour in without an end.
Asagi, having watched the mass movements from the scope of a discarded sniper rifle, noticed that they were only running to their deaths as the possessed Adell seemed to have infinite energy that might have come from the apparent exploitation of multiple factors that included but not limited to the Dark Assembly for stronger enemies and statistic reincarnations, the Dark Court for more felonies, and constant trips into the Item World for better equipment. It was evolution at its best in creating a being that couldn't be defeated when fighting nonstop and its worst with the oceans upon oceans of blood being spilled all over Veldime.
It was bad enough that Zetta had left her in Veldime with the suggestion that she become stronger. It was worse when Adell soundly defeated her without much effort. Now it was even more terrible for Asagi to see two facts. First, she was completely outclassed and outgunned in comparison to all the demons and overlords that entered Veldime. Second, her hopes in achieving the same status on par with people like Zetta, Laharl, and Adell had plummeted down to zero.
Thoughts were interrupted as Asagi felt the earth tremble and shake. From out of the ground, tens of thousands of huge stone monoliths rose to form hundreds of giant statues with horns and black lightning crackled across the red-blood sky.
"No, that's…!" Asagi quipped as the statues, gaining long capes from out of nowhere, began to move towards the carnage that the possessed Adell was creating. A black Prinny with dark eyes and possessing such immensely terrifying power lead the army of Baal copies in battle.
Amid getting out of their impending pathway, Asagi reached the bank of the Dallos River before watching the large Baal army march off into battle. The water seemed to run clear instead of the red color that was normal for Dallos River.
"I wonder when he'll give me back my game if he survives.()" Asagi sighed in depression, unaware of the ground she was standing on was close to collapse. As soon as she started to move, the bank gave way and Asagi slipped into the water. The current hindered resistance and Asagi noticed the blue light of a portal under the water before getting pulled into it.
Nearby, the blue-haired Pleinair didn't seem to pay any notice to Asagi being pulled underneath the water right in front of her. The young demon girl, having been forced to flee the destruction of the news station she worked at, was mere soaking her feet in the water. In the middle of the river, Usagi was sitting on Samme's back while fishing. The former newscast crew seemed rather oblivious to the chaos in Veldime but, with their news station destroyed, none of them could really care as there were other job opportunities out in the world.
After Samme devoured the salmon caught earlier, Usagi quickly wrote his catch's measurements on a small record book. The demon rabbit plushie was a bit depressed that he lost his old journal of battle logs but decided to move onto better things.
"Usagi! I see something shiny down here and it's rising to the surface!" Samme called out as he swam around the river.
"Can you tell me what it is?" Usagi asked.
"It looks like a-" Samme was about to say before the demon shark plushie was pulled into the blue portal that he was about to identify, taking a yelling Usagi with him.
Relaxation broken, Pleinair looked up to see Usagi and Samme vanish into the water. Curious, the young demon girl waded into the water and felt something pull at her ankles and Pleinair saw the blue glow of a portal before vanishing underwater.
A few minutes later, a small boat was slowly crossing through the water.
"I'm telling you that it's not safe there anymore." A fat man dressed in the attire of a movie director was saying.
"It's not fair that Baal stole my spotlight to shine like a star.()" Axel grumbled. "I can't believe you knocked me out, Director."
"Be glad that you didn't end up like our cameraman when he filmed those close-up angles of Marjoly's figure." The Director replied. "But that's nothing compared to what Zenon is doing! The Dark Hero has to live for tomorrow! You're no good if you end up dead!"
Axel sighed but he couldn't deny the common sense that the Director was giving to him. While the Dark Hero did enjoy getting into danger, it wouldn't be worth the cost of his life.
"Alright then." Axel finally spoke. "But what do we do with the footage we have?"
The Director looked at the camera for a moment before looking at Axel. But before he could say anything, the boat began to rock and both men noticed the blue glow illuminating the water. A second later, they sank into the water with the boat into the portal and the water of the Dallos River closed over them.
An hour passed and a green Prinny on a rocket pack landed on the bank of the Dallos River. Having detected a strange anomaly on his sensors earlier and seeing four bursts on the monitor of his equipment, Kurtis ran some routine scans in where he felt the source was the strongest.
"When I left Veldime to deal with the clones made by the Earth Defense Force, I wasn't able to investigate this unknown anomaly thoroughly. But I must say that carrying out the prototype construction of Spiral Displacement Ordinance in that base was worth the time." Kurtis muttered to himself. "I just hope it's enough to negate whatever is here."
Pulling out a large emerald-colored bomb from his pouch, Kurtis hovered above the water on his small wings before activating the ten second timer. But a split second later, the blue light of the same portal opened and Kurtis felt himself getting dragged into the water. The SDO prototype, having completed the ten second delay, went critical before unleashing a large burst of light and crystalline particles that neutralized the unknown portal. And the water of the Dallos River, having been clear earlier, slowly began to regain its normal red color.
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() partial Disgaea 3 reference.
It was during the evacuation from Hurricane Ike that I managed to write this short chapter.
Even though the real Zenon always says that "I'm a being of solitude" line and other related dialogue, it would be boring not to give her some character. Surely, the real Zenon wasn't born with the same persona that she has as an adult and I do tend to see Rozalin as the other side of the same coin.
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