Link Fangirl01: Well I'm kind of shooting for that, I'm one of those guys that never feel that the bad guy should be hated per se, but you do need to understand why his death/removal needs to happen, even if you feel a little sorry for him. A hint tho, Leonus left Achron sealed away because of his actions, he earned it fair and square. His current conquest against Seraphin was not his first attempt to take the omniverse by force.

Chapter 22: God's and Devils

Elely and Flopin stood on the observation deck of the Valorous, Elely occasionally closed her eyes and glowed orange while she watched the progress Yugo and Adamai made with Jack, now that the two had left the training and were headed in separate directions, she decided to join her brother. Flopin stood fairly still watching the lights that clashed together beyond the fleets, she knew without asking that he could see the battle far better that her.

"What's happening?" She asked him

"Pandawa is fighting some Dark blue guy with electric knives." He said

"Pandawa uses electric knives?" Elely asked in disbelief

"No silly," Flopin said "Pandawa has bamboo staff with spear heads mounted on each side, and he swings his barrel like a weapon too. The other guy has electric knives."

"What about the golden guy?" She asked.

Flopin frowned "He's fighting their leader," He said "He shape shifted a few minutes ago, but since then I haven't been able to watch, they move too fast."

"I wish we were out there." Elely said.

"Are you crazy!" Flopin replied diverting his attention from the battle "We'd be killed almost instantly!"

"No we wouldn't!" Elely said "I'm strong and you're good at shooting things!"

"That's not enough!" Flopin said back.

Elely grunted "I'm just so bored of sitting here."

"We're safe here though." Flopin said

"How to you know?" Elely countered "Ships are getting attacked."

"The captain lady said we were on the flagship," Flopin answered haughtily "She said it's really rare for this ship to get boarded, whatever that means."

"Maybe boarded means 'not get attacked'" Elely saind sticking her tounge out.

"I'm pretty sure it doesn't" Flopin said turning back to the battle. Eliatrope and the blonde kid from earlier were fighting some guy in a hood, Eliatrope was healing a wound of some kind and the blonde kid was slamming the hooded guy's scythe with a hammer, probably trying to break it.

Goultard fought with a guy in red armor, his chained sword was swinging every which way. Sacrier fought two guys, one in black and one in dark green, the black one had a big a sword and the green one attacked with a whip of somekind.

Elely's face blacked his view and he frowned "C'mon Floppy I'm bored." She said

"Don't call me that!" Flopin said angrily, his face turning red with embarrassment.

"I'll call you floppy until you help me!" Elely said putting her hands on her hips.

"Fine, let me think!" Flopin sat down and thought hard on what to do, he just wanted to watch the battle progress, he didn't want to deal with his sister right now. Wait, maybe that would work.

"Hey Elely," Flopin said

"Yeah." His sister answered.

"When you use your power to see dad fighting," he said "we can see too by toughing you, right?"

"Yeah," Elely said, how was this supposed to help her? She wasn't gonna find anything interesting watching dad, he was just wandering around the ship.

"Well, maybe it works for my powers too," Flopin said "If you touch me, maybe you can see what I can see."

Elely perked up, that made sense! "Okay," she said happily "Let's try."

Flopin stood up and looked out the observation glass, Elely stood next to him and put her hand on his shoulder.

"Anything?" Flopin asked

"No," Elely said disappointed.

"Let me try again," Flopin said "Maybe I have to concentrate."

Flopin closed his eyes and thought hard about his abilities, he didn't know what else to do, he basically just wished with all his little heart that Elely could see what he could see. He didn't think it would work, he opened his eyes and looked at the fight, seeing Seraphin and Achron briefly come back into visible speeds before rocketing off for another volley.

"WHOA!" Elely said "It's like I can see forever!"

Flopin smiled, apparently it did work. He looked down at his hands curious, his body was glowing a sort of bronzeish yellow color, similar to his arrows. He smiled, he had powers and he could share them, that made him truly a Demi-god.

Alarms were a new thing for Yugo, he had no Idea what they entailed, only that they meant something bad. The only time he had heard one before was when he was aboard the flagship of the New Soffolkian fleet at the Crimson Claw Archipeligo so many years ago. He wasn't sure why they were used or what they did, other than make a lot of noise, and thus make it kind of hard to think.

He quickly discovered that the alarms were not coming from a direction per se, there were things all over the ship that caused the noise and you could hear when you passed them. He eventually asked someone where to go and they had pointed in this direction. He ran quickly to find what was behind all of this and found himself in a large and amazing room.

At first he thought he had exited the ship, but soon realized he was looking through some clear substance like glass, before him lay an enormous bronze platform with stations on it in several places, the glass like substance formed a sphere so massive in scope that it had to go from top of the ship to the bottom and from it he could see all that was happening around the vessel.

"Welcome to the observation deck sir," A man said politely "Is there something I can help with?"

"The alarms," Yugo said "What should I do to help?"

The man looked him up and down, clearly seeing him as a child. "Um sir, I'm not sure that would be wise."

"It's alright," a femine voice said from behind the man "Why don't you go keep those two kids entertained before they break something Bosch."

"Yes Admiral," The man said and proceeded to walk on to towards the center of the platform.

"Now then," The woman said "As you were told earlier I am Rosaline, how can I help you?"

"You were with Jack." Yugo said "I want to help fight, but I don't know where to go, this thing huge, I can't find anything here."

"Don't worry," Rosaline said "Let me take you to the teleportation deck, from there you can go to a vessel in need of assistance."

"Thank you," Yugo said "How far is it, if it's close enough I may be able to Portal to it myself."

"I highly doubt it," Rosaline said "It's three decks down." The way she said it made it sound pretty far so Yugo chose to go with her. She pushed a button on the wall behind him and a small glass looking tube came up.

"Get in," Rasaline said "I can't accompany you, but I'll program this to take you to one of the telporter rooms."

"Okay," Yugo said he didn't know what program meant, but he understood that she would use it to get him where he needed to go. Just before he got in he spotted an orange haired individual entering, he was about to get the same spiel from another man on the deck but Yugo called him over.

"Percedal, c'mon you're gonna miss the fight." Percedal rushed over as fast as he could, panting as he hopped in the tube with Yugo, Rosaline waited patiently for them to get settled in.

"Off you go then," She said

"I don't miss fights!" Percedal said at the same time ignoring Rosaline's words.

"Good, because we're about to teleport right into one!" Yugo replied as the tube descended at high velocity, suddenly stopping at it's intended destination.

The duo got off and saw a series of emty columns around them, people were entering these columns and disappearing. They walked up to one and looked at it but couldn't ascertain how it worked.

"Can I help you gentlemen?" A voice said from behind.

"Yes!" Percedal answered "Send us into the worst fight you can!"

"Yeah!" Yugo seconded hyped and ready for battle.

The man looked at them dumbstruck for a moment "A-are you sure you want that?" he asked "These battle can get-"

"Yes!" they both yelled at once.

"Oh, well okay," the man said "Don't say I didn't warn you."

"Alright Rubilax!" Percedal said pulling the sword out and talking to it "Time to smash some heads in!"

The man thought Percedal insane talking to an inanimate object, then thought he was insane when the sword spoke back.

"Yes!" It replied "Desruction and carnage, my favorite!"

Choosing to ignore this event the man looked at his hand held device and looked through the various ships and their conditions, he herded the two towards two columns right next to each other and typed away furiously at the keyboard. He pulled his microphone down and initiated comms.

"Illumnis you're about some backup," he said "Very enthusiastic backup… with a talking sword."

"Copy that." The reply came from Illumnis "Prepping Teleport recievors." The man waited a few moments typing away again at his keyboard "Reciever Prepped, fire away." The man gave a thumbs up signal to Percedal and Yugo and pressed a button.

Lights swirled and made patterns around them as the were swept through some odd starlit corridor at break neck speeds, everything was white and blue for a several moments before reality came crashing back into play. Another room, much like the one they were just in, but smaller and stripped down more awaited them. An individual jumped from a podium where he had been tapping away at something.

"You're here to help fight right!" the man, really more of a boy said frantically "Cuz we got bad guys nearly at the door here, soon we wont be able to teleport in any more help."

Percedal stood up after heaving ad puking on the carpet "Sounds like fun," he said weakly.

Yugo made a grossed out face, then turned to the boy "He's not used to teleporting."

"Could've got here on my own." Percedal complained.

The boy frowned, this didn't look all that promising. "Well, I hope you're ready, cuz they could be here any minute."

"why wait?" Percedal said "Rubilax, you want to fight outside the sword? I kinda want to test out these god powers."

"No problem," Rubilax said The iop recited the incantation and rubilax appeared before them. Percedal slammed his fist into Rubilax's head three or four times causing the little shu shu to become a much larger more fierce looking enemy.

"That's it, Now I cause some Havoc!" Rubilax said

"Be careful Rubilax," Yugo said to the demon "You can only get so big in here."

"That's okay," Rubilax replied "If I get too big I'll just split into clones."

The boy smiled "Good to have you us Rubi."

"Don't get chummy with me-"

"It gives you goosebumps," Yugo finished for him "I know."

The three stood ready and charged out the door, the sight that awaited them wasn't pretty, demonic an humanoid forces in crimson armor laid waste to humanoid forces in golden armor, several magic users were holding a line and keeping the creatures at bay, but they clearly wouldn't hold out for long.

"Hey Knuckleheads!" Rubilax yelled, the battling stopped momentarily while the crimson armored forces looked in Rubilax's direction "Come get some!" several of the humanoids smiled and rushed the demon, while others shot from a distance. They quicly found out Rubilax's terrifying power as he laid to waste the forces intended for the teleporter room. He allowed himself to shrink a little before smiling.

"No fair Rubi," Percedal said disappointed "I wanted to kill some."

"You'll get plenty of chances." The two rushed forward into the next room as the golden clad members of Seraphin's fleet stared in awe. Yugo approached them

"Are you all right?" he asked

"W-we are now," one of the wizards said "Thatks to, whatever that is."

"That's Rubilax," Yugo said "Stay here, we'll take care of the rest."

"All by yourselves?" The wizard asked in disbelief "Are you insane."

"No," Yugo replied "Just very at good at what we do."

He followed Percedal and Rubilax through the door seeing the two join forces to destroy the armies before them. Rubilax had split into ten of himself as he army hit him more. They didn't seem to get it. Percedal floated around and slashed at people with rubilax's emty dagger while causing fire and red spear-like stones to appear at random killing some others.

Yugo jumped right in targeting a group of enemies that had sequestered itself off to the side, they seemed to be working at getting a door open

"Hey fellas, need some help?" He asked pleasantly

"Yes, damn it all it about-" the officer said as he turned around and saw Yugo standing there, glowing blue. "You're not one of ours are you?"

"Nope." Yugo said , he unleashed his blade and shiled and cut the man in two, he quickly moved on to the large thugs that he had kept as body guards and made short work of them, stbing one while he blacked the other with his shield and spun slashing that one in the back. He tapped the one at the door's back and he turned to get knocked out by Yugo's wakfu shield.

The eliatrope smiled at his handiwork and turned to see what the others were doing. The room had been more or less cleared, a few stragglers running for their lives.

"Are you even trying Yugo?" Percedal said while looking at the pitiful four he had managed to take out.

"Not really," he said "This one'll wake up in a few minutes, we can find out what's going on from him."

"We should just kill him." Rubilax said

"I'm with Rubi." Percedal added

"Well he's my kill," Yugo said "So I get to decide what to do with him."

"Whatever," Percedal said throwing his arms in the air "They put up some kind of energy barrier, it'll take a bit to figure out how to destroy it anyway."

Things were not going well, ever since he had pulled the lights they seemed to just keep getting worse. On the bright side, they had figured out how to kill the big demon things, on the not-so-bright side there were more and more of them spewing from every door in the place. Even Ush was finding it hard to dispatch them all.

Lucian had the biggest advantage of them all since they were weak to energy blasts, Ruel was angrily trying to slash them with his shovel, but he was also clearly getting tired, and ending up behind the rest more often than not. Evangalyne and Cleophee were also pressing their advantage as their energy based arrows were like fire to ice for these creatures.

The young eliatrope teleported towards another minotaur like beast and forced himself through several portals flinging himself at terminal velocity towards the beast and impacting it in it's back. The creature roared and doubled over, losing it's balance and slamming onto the ground, Lucian used the triple portal trick he had learned to blast the creature's head incinerating it. And cauterizing the neck.

He was beginning to pant again, he didn't have the energy to keep this up, his blasts took a lot out of him and there were still more minotaurs coming. He lept off the dead one's back and landed behind Cleophee, the two of them stood back to back as she fired arrows and he kept pulsing energy waves at his enemies.

"You getting tired?" Cleo asked

"Yeah," Lucian said "Any more of those potions?"

"Only one more." She said "You need it more than me, go ahead and take it."

"No, I can't do that to you." Lucian said "If you only have one keep it for yourself."

Why did he have to say things like that, get her heart all littery and weird? She huffed in frustration, this kid was innocent and pure, but still strong capable a combination she never thought was existant, figures Yugo would create it of all people

"You really should take it." Cleo said "I'm nowhere near out of stamina yet."

"But you might be later," he said "and then you'll wish you have it then."

"Not if I don't have you!" She said before she could stop the words, she quickly snapped her mouth shut and would've tried to cover it weren't for the hordes of Minotaurs closing it constantly. It was out in the open now, all she could do was hope for the best.

Lucian didn't respond at first, dropping two or three Minotaurs before he did.

"You really care about me that much?" he asked, the question was genuine and innocent, it didn't come off as intentionally romantic, which just made it all the more romantic. He wasn't afraid to show his soul, something she had never been able to find in someone, except Percedal, but he was taken, Eva got all the good stuff, well everything but Lucian.

"Yes, I really do." She said with a heavy sigh, she spun her bow and clocked another minotaur in the Jaw, their bodies were starting to pile up around them, the other minotaurs were starting to have to climb over their fallen brethren to get to them at all.

"Then if you really feel that way," He said innocently "I'll take it."

She pulled it out of her bag and offered it to him, he grabbed it, it was bigger than the last one. He pulled the top of and threw it back. After just a brief moment he was clearly energized and he summoned two portals and over lapped them, swinging the beam to hit as many as he could. Despite the enormous amount of energy this move took he didn't feel exauhsted. In fact he felt invigorated. It was like something had been unleashed inside him, like a knot that had been clenched in his soul had been undone.

Everything was like a blur to him, everything but him and Cleophee. She watched in awe as he dispatched the minotaur's by the hundreds and kept begging for more, he even came up with new tricks as he worked, discovering he could overlap two small portals over his hands to rapid fire smaller energy blasts, most of them enough to rip through a minotaur's chest.

He felt alive, he didn't know how else to describe it, his body was lighter, his mind was brighter and his power was deeper. The last potion didn't do this, and he was certain this one didn't either, it couldn't just be that, was this because of Cleophee?

Ruel also watched in awe, and when it was over and the Minotaurs dispatched, the two climbed from the trench of bodies they had made. He shook his head, every generation seemed more powerful than the last, his time as a warrior was up and he knew it.

"I think it's time for me to go back home." Ruel said aloud "You two seem to have this handled."

Lucian and Cleo didn't hug or hold hands or anything, they just bumped fists and smiled they had found something, they weren't sure what yet, but it was something deep for both of them. Eva noticed it too, she smiled, there might be hope for her little sister yet.

Author's note: Well that's done! I don't really have much to say this time, I have to get up early for work (Seriously if it's not one thing it's another, cutting into my writing time, don't they know I have fun stuff I want to do instead of their stupid work!). It does pay the bills tho.