Chapter 2: Straga
Back at the Takagi mansion, the group and the survivors were trying their best at fighting off both the demons and "Them" at the same time. After Takashi fired a blow to the head with a Minion, the ground started to lightly shake for a moment and another. It was actually the footsteps of a Warden moving from behind the manor as it jumped over it and crushed a couple of "Them" in it's landing, though this did caused the ground to shake violently as everyone almost lost their balance. Souchiro dropped to the ground from the quake and lost his katana. He rushes to retrieve it, but it gets the attention of a Minion. He manages to obtain the blade, but as he is almost tackled by the demon, the same beast was then sliced in half. Souichiro looked to who killed the demon. It was Abaddon of the Hellguard, who had just arrived to fight off the demons. Abaddon lifted Souichiro back on his feet.
"I will be looking forward to fighting alongside you." Abaddon saluted Souichiro and flew off into the air.
Souichiro could only give a suspicious look at seeing Abaddon, wondering what his true motives were, but he shrugged it off as he continued slaying more "Them" and demons.
In the air, Abaddon witnessed what was happening on the battlefield. A Hellion pounced and was fired at by angels in front of it, while another angel was flying. The flying angel was soon tackled by a Minion and both fell to the ground. Then, the angels who were fighting the Hellion were soon put into a misadvantage as the beast knocked away one of them and grabbed the other, but was shot directly in the head by Hirano, who taunted a thumbsup pose.
"Uh, thank you." The angel thanked Hirano.
Just then, both the group and the survivors, the Hellguard and then the demons turned to the front gate as it showed to be War just entering the scene, simply just walking forward without any concern for either force.
"Who is that?" Saya asked, "Do you think he's one of us or one of them?"
"That man." Arisu said, "I also saw him in my dream last night."
It soon flashed back to the previous night Arisu had the nightmare. She was telling Shizuka that she also saw a large man in a red hood with a large blade in his hand.
Back in the present, Arisu was still looking at War.
"Is he going to help us?" Arisu wondered.
"I don't know, but what I want to know is..." Shizuka said as Arisu and Saya turned to her to find her with hearts in her eyes, "Do you think he has a girlfriend?"
"Damn it, Shizuka!" Takagi exclaimed in annoyance, "This isn't the time for romance!"
War continued approaching the estate as he then found Abaddon.
"Impossible." Abaddon exclaimed.
"Abaddon..." War said and drew out his sword, "What is this? Where are my brothers?"
"This can't be..." Abaddon remarked, "The other seals-"
"Behind you!" Hirano shouted to Abaddon's attention, who soon turned and found a zombie which then bit his wrist. Abaddon exclaimed in agony.
"Get off of me, you abomination!" Abaddon scolded the dead being as he tried to shake it off.
"My lord!" Uriel said as she dove down to Abaddon's aid and beheaded the corpse.
"How did this happen?" Abaddon asked in anger where this time a charging Hellion tried to attack him, but it was also slain by Uriel.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, War soon felt a paralyzing pain all around his body as he collapsed and knelt to his feet.
"Hey!" Rei called out to War and came to his side, "Are you hurt? What's the matter?"
Suddenly, as if on cue, she, too, began to feel the same pain that War was going through and it was unbearable for both of them.
"Rei!" Everyone, including Takashi reacted to Rei's state.
"The other seals WERE NOT BROKEN!" Abaddon shouted when, as if on cue, a giganticly large arm bursted from the ground below him. It was about to lower its hand to where Souichiro was.
"DADDY!" Takagi reacted.
But just before the hand reached Souichiro, Abaddon pushed him out of the way and took his place as he was crushed to death while saving Souichiro's life.
"ABADDON!" Uriel reacted at what she saw.
At this time, War and Rei were still still paralyzed from the mysterious pain earlier.
"What in Heaven's name have you done?!" Uriel reacted.
"What? But we didn't do anything!" Rei testified against her.
"She wasn't talking to you..." War corrected Rei, whom she and Takashi then turned to, "...and I answer the call."
Immediately, Straga, the owner of the giant arm that killed Abaddon rose from underneath the ground, causing the Earth to almost quake for a few seconds and was now halfway up . He roared ferociously as he then knocked away a nearby flying angel near him and his upper body collapsed next to Takashi's group and War and gave one last roar before battle.
Straga picked up a nearby car and threw it at War to try and crush him. The group managed to dodge it and this gave Takashi an idea.
"Hey, bug guy! Yeah, you! This this right back at that thing!"
"That is what I intend to do." War replied as he picked up the car and threw it at Straga and it knocked him down for a moment.
"Saeko, stab it's eye!" Takashi ordered Saeko.
"Right!" Saeko replied as she charged at the beast, but before she could get any closer to it, it let out a very loud roar and Saeko retreated.
Straga then lifted its arm in the air, charges it with raging flames and smashe it to the ground, creating a line blast towards War, but he misses and it hits one of the columns at the top of the entrance. Straga was about to try again, but War decided to use one of the cars that was tossed into the property after the first meteor's contact quake and threw it at Straga, repeating what he did before.
Saeko came at Straga again and managed to stab it in its right eye. She pulled it out in time to land safely back on the ground.
"I'll leave the rest to Arnold Schwarzenegger." Saeko affirmed to the other and left War to finish the demon off, which he was about to do, until he was stopped by the mysterious pain once again after a war horn was heard in the background and landed back on the ground on his feet. The Chaoseater is lost as well as it falls into the abyss created by Straga, whom laughs at War's failure. He then knocked Saeko against the wall of the stairway the others were at and she was unable to get up. Luckily she was brought back up by Arisu and Shizuka.
War uses a one-way feature on his Voidwalker to create a vortex to try and exit the battle.
As War was about to enter the vortex, a Phantom Guard attempts to attack Rei while she was down.
"Get away from her, you mother-!" Takashi called out to Rei as he charged at the Phantom Guard threatening her. However, the demon knocked him away, right at the portal. As he got in, it closed.
"No!" War exclaimed at the portal's closure and was knocked out by Straga.
Rei managed to take up a nearby rifle, but before she had the chance to fire, the Phantom Guard, however, swung its axe and sliced her in half, killing her.
As she witnessed everything almost exactly at it happened in her dream, Arisu could only glimpsed at the fact the world she once knew was coming to an end. Before she knew it, one of the Phantom Guards then tried to attack her from the side.
"Arisu!" Shizuka and Saiya reacted as they rushed to save her, but Shizuka was pushed back hard on one of the beams holding the structure of the porch, weakening it. "Get away from her, you bastard!" Saiya cursed the demon as she tried to attack, but the Phantom Guard grabbed her and stomped her leg and broke it in the progress, which the creatuere then punched her right in the face and it knocked her to the door. The demon was about to finally attack Arisu, but was shot to the head by Hirano. Hirano, however, was soon shot by a demon wielding a Fracture Cannon in it's hands, which the beast was also shot to the head by one of Souichiro's men. Hirano immediately fell to the ground with his hand to where the shot was at and layed on the side of the porch's column, which he noticed was weakened from the hits it dealt with, alongside the other column. Arisu tried to get everyone out of the way, starting with Shizuka, but wasn't strong enough to pull her out.
"Arisu, get out of here!" Hirano ordered her.
"No! I can't!" Arisu protested, "I can't leave you all here! Not like this!"
"There's no other way!" Saiya reasoned Arisu, "Get out of here while you still can!"
"I can't! I'm sorry!" Arisu apologized.
"Damn it, kid! Just get of he-" Saiya tried to get Arisu to run away, but was cut off.
"No!" Arisu shouted as she got down by Shizuka's side, "And if this is how it'll be, then I wish to die with all of you."
"Arisu, don't say that!" Shizuka said to the girl, "You shouldn't give up your life that way!"
"I don't care what happens to me!" Arisu admitted, "Just as long as it means being together with all of you..." She then wrapped her arms to Shizuka in a loving hug as a sign of her sacrifice.
"Arisu..." Shizuka exclaimed at Arisu's choice as she then returned the hug in a motherly position, "Even though we're probably gonna die, just know that I'll always protect you."
"Thank you, Mrs. Shizuka..." Arisu thanked Shizuka.
"So... This is how it ends, huh?" Hirano remarked at what going to happen to them.
"Looks like it..." Saeko replied, "But at least we died trying."
"Sure did." Saiya agreed now tearing up, "Goodbye... mommy, daddy."
"Daddy..." Arisu said in her head, "I'll get to be with you soon..."
As soon as they have accepted their fate, the structure finally collapsed on top of them, killing them all.
"Saiya..." Takagi's mother exclaimed in heartbreak and in tears after seeing this, "Nooo!" She then broke down to the ground as she had lost her own child.
"WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?!" Souichiro angrily questioned as to what was really happening.
"The Law..." War responded getting up, "...has been broken..." As he said this, he was then grabbed by Straga.
"And so have you, Horseman." Straga chuckled at War's defeat as he threw the Horseman in the air and caught him in its grasp and attempted to crush him, which he did.
Souichiro exclaimed in fury at what had happened as the chaos continued; angel versus demon, human versus dead and now, human and angel versus demon and dead.
(A/N: Sorry if this chapter didn't seem good, I was having trouble trying to think of how it would play out.)
