Einzberg-Planeswalker cycle
Chapter 2
The resort was something that Owin quite frankly didn't expect. They had gone to Evangeline's small cabin home & approached a little thing that seemed to be a doll house encircled in a glass housing. Owin was surprised to discover, however, that it in fact transported them into the mansion-like doll house within a different dimension. It had surprised Owin because this was so similar to planeswalking. Truth be told, Owin himself had created his own plane meant for his own relaxation just like this, but never one that was capable of slowing down time. He had never pursued such a bonus due to his immortality, but he never thought some inner rim plane was capable of such a thing. Truly, this world was full of wonders.
"Now then for the reason we are here" Evangelion said after they had finished entering the realm.
"If you'd like I have an easier way of showing you my power" Owin said as everyone began gathering weapons from strange little cards.
"What do you propose?" the girl named Setsuna asked. Now here was the hard part. If everything was going to go exactly according to plan, this moment would be key.
"Negi Springfield knows a magic that allows others to experience someone's memories, yes?" he asked.
"Uh, yes" Negi said, holding his staff in hand.
"Cast it, & I shall show you all just how powerful I am" Owin said with a smile.
They were on a large battlefield, where a large army had amassed. Everyone was watching a scene from Owin's past, a memory Owin had always treasured. They were all shocked at just how large the army was.
"Look at them all! There must be at least five million people there! No, more!" Asuna said in shock.
"Much more. You're way off. It's an army of Six billion soldiers, plus aircraft" Owin said.
"You're kidding! What are they all here for?" Konoka asked.
"To fight me" Owin said.
"No way! Why would they need so many soldiers just to fight one person?" Setsuna asked.
"You'll see. Look, the battle is beginning" Owin suddenly.
A few hundred feet away from the soldiers on the front line they could see a lone figure walking calmly. This figure was truly a sight to behold. The figure was wearing jet-black armor, & he appeared to be eight-feet tall, but he held no weapon in hand. Yet even then he was walking toward to the gargantuan army as though it were but a stroll in the park.
"Wait that looks nothing like you-aruyo" Ku-Fei said pointing at the walking figure.
"This form I'm wearing is an illusion. That is how I truly look like when I am wearing my armor" Owin replied.
"Why were you disguising yourself?" Setsuna asked.
"All in good time. The song is starting".
(This part of the story has Slayer's "Raining Blood" as the music that is playing.)
Then suddenly they could all hear music. A large guitar riff exploded & suddenly rain began to rain down from the sky. However they noticed that the soldier's began to scream, & the floor was painted a crimson red. Then the past Owin spoke in a loud voice that could be heard for mile's, a loud guttural roar.
"The Blood that rains down upon thee is thy own blood, come from the future to show you all just how much blood shall be shed. Thou now has the great Owinheim von Einsberg as thine enemy & none of thee shall escape my wrath! Today it shall rain Blood!" Owin screamed out. Then another guitar riff , & a large sword completely engulfed in flames emerged from Owin's right hand. Another guitar riff, & another identical sword emerged from his left hand. Another guitar riff, & suddenly his entire armor was engulfed in flames. Yet another guitar riff, & huge wings emerged from Owin's back, at least a thirty-five foot wingspan, wings completely composed of bright orange flames so that Owin looked like a giant torch. Then Owin charged.
The music that everyone could hear had reached a frighteningly loud chorus & Owin was literally sweeping right through the opposing army. With his mighty wings he was flying at supersonic speeds so that it looked as though he were simply teleporting. Every pass Owin would swing his mighty sword, & any within the path were set ablaze, every pass killing at least a thousand soldiers. They had lost count of the passes but it must have been at least thirty. At the thirtieth one, Owin stopped at the middle of the army & joined his swords together. He then began to spin them overhead at supersonic speeds just as the song was beginning a large thrashing session. Suddenly fire began to erupt from the swords creating a giant barrier that grew larger & larger the faster Owin spun his swords, burning millions of soldiers in the process. By now the song was playing a long section of drums & guitars playing, then suddenly it stopped as Owin split the swords again. Then loud singing began to play as Owin charged in at the remaining soldiers that were left, dodging every sword strike & responding with five or six long slashes that would catch at ten to fifteen soldiers each time. He would deftly dodge every bombing from the overhead airships, deliberately fighting in the enemy ranks so that the bombs would kill enemy soldiers. Every now & then they would see Owin launching large fireballs at the ships & watch the ships explode. Not only was Owin holding his own against an army a billion strong, he was winning. None of the middle-schoolers or even Evangeline could believe what they were watching. Here was a lone man fighting an army a billion strong, & they hadn't even landed a single hit.
"I believe that is enough" Owin said, & Negi taking the cue deactivated the spell.
"Who are you exactly?" Evangeline demanded, everyone else looking at Owin. So far everything was working perfectly. Now he just needed to go through the long part: telling them the story.
Fine. I will explain it to you all. There is quite a lot I will need to tell you & not all of it will make sense, so you might as well get comfortable" he said, & waited for everyone to be ready before he began.
"Okay. First I will need to explain to you this. How many of you have ever thought that they're might be other worlds besides our own, worlds infinitely different from your own?". Everyone raised their hands except for Evangeline & Setsuna.
"Well, there are. Many more. This is something referred to as the Multiverse. Imagine as though you were all standing on a beach, an incredibly large beach stretching for thousands of miles long. Now imagine that you are picking up a single tiny grain of sand from that large beach. That single tiny grain of sand is your plane, your single plain of existence" At this everyone gasped.
"Yes it is very hard to grasp. Each plane carries with it it's own universes, its own kinds of creatures, its laws of physics, even it's own afterlife & gods. This is what a plane is. These planes are watched over by beings known as the Blind Eternities. We still don't know what the Blind Eternities are, all we know is they are responsible for creating life & magic. We also know that they are the ones responsible for creating beings known as Planeswalkers, almighty beings capable of doing something that no other being is capable of doing: traveling in between the other planes of existence. I am one such a being. This is how I came to this world.About five thousand years ago, a great war erupted between an evil emperor capable of traveling between dimensions & a great planeswalker, perhaps one of the greatest to have ever existed. They committed horrible atrocities in their war, & created what was known as the rifts, tears in the very fabric of the multiverse. If left unchecked, these rifts would destroy the entire multiverse. Brave planeswalkers then discovered that these rifts could only be fixed if planeswalkers were to give over their lives, & finally a planeswalker known only as "thrice touched by fate" sealed the most powerful of all the rifts, & began a great event known as the Mending. However, the Mending had an immense toll on the Blind Eternities & weakened them. Previously, all of the planes were capable of producing only one type of magic: True magic, The Five Colors. However, these true magic spells needed Mana, magic life energy produced by the land & earth itself. It was the main power we planeswalkers had. However, the rift changed the way magic & mana worked, & so the multiverse itself was changed, & so we split the Multiverse up into three parts.
First was the Core. These are the worlds most like the Multiverse before the rift. In these worlds the Blind Eternities are at their strongest, & the five colors exist in abundance. Here is we planeswalkers make our home, & here is where most of us our born. Here every land produces mana in abundance, & it is called the core because these are the worlds closest to the middle of the multiverse.
Second is the Inner Rim, where this plane, your plane, is at. In these worlds the Blind Eternities hold very little power, & instead of producing the five colors of magic, all the spells & components of magic are made into one big mess which is highly inferior to true magic. Here lands produce only a finite amount of mana, & we planeswalkers are severely handicapped as we are unable to cast most of our spells. Next to no planeswalkers are born here.
Then lastly there is the outer rim, also known as the Dead Zone. Here is the Blind Eternities hold almost no power at all, & there is no magic. There we planeswalkers are cancerous, & our very presence alone is capable of destroying the plane. Thus we planeswalkers avoid these worlds at all cost, & thus it is impossible for a planeswalker to be born here.
That is the planeswalker story". Owin finished.
Everyone took a few moments to absorb the huge amount of information, but Yue was the first one to speak.
"I have a question".
"Yes?"
"That song that was playing when you fought the large army, was that True Magic?"
"No, that is for the next part of the story. Is everybody ready for the next part then?"
Everyone nodded.
"Fine. Now it is my part of the story, before I became a planeswalker".
"Like you all I was born in a realm located in the Inner Rim, under my true name of Owinheim von Einsberg. In my world, space travel had been done, & there were many planets in the realm that were already colonized. I am came from the village nation of Keld. If there was anything that set us Keldons apart from the rest of the Multiverse, it's that we were feared for our ferocity & fierceness in battle. This was due to a special ability that only we Keldons could do. It was called "Warsong". Through strict, brutal training & a type of magic, if you could call it that, we were grown to be the greatest warriors in the Multiverse, aided by the magical properties of the "Warsong". The warsong allowed us to do something nobody else was capable of at the time: It allowed us to take on whole armies single-handedly. In fact, it was a graduation ritual of ours that all ten-year-old boys were to go out & fight a one-thousand man army by themselves". This drew gasps from everyone in the room.
"Because of our amazing battle prowess, we were often hired by those outside of our planet, & we became a mercenary nation. Whole nations would pay vast sums of money to hire us, because it grew to be said that the side with the most Keldons on they're side would definitely be the winner".
"Wait, so you were a village of mercenaries? Who was your leader?" Yue interrupted.
"That was me. In our village, the one who obtained the highest kill count during a war was declared to be the leader, & I had achieved that in the battle you all witnessed, a total of three point four billion soldiers, seeing as how the rest fled before I could get my hands on them. Because of that, I was declared the leader, & I became a legend within the Keldon people." Owin finished.
"Wait, I have a question. Just why did you all decide to become a mercenary nation? Was there really no other direction to take the village?" Yue asked.
"What do you mean?" Owin asked.
"You couldn't do anything else but fight?"
"We fought well. People desired us to fight for them. They paid vast sums of money. Is it not customary to be paid for good services?" Owin simply asked.
"But still killing is wrong" Yue said incredulously.
"That's right. You all were simply creating war when we should be promoting peace" Nodoka joined in.
Great. That's exactly what Owin needed right now. Peace-mongers.
"You mean you actually believe in something so foolish as peace? Peace is an out-dated concept created by the weak once they have been persecuted by the strong" Owin said.
"You're wrong! If everyone would stop fighting, then they're would be peace" Yue said.
"& do you really believe fighting will stop? Humans live to fight. They have no other real purpose but to fight each other. I have been to many different realms in my time as a planeswalker, & in no world did I find a pipe-dream world such as yours. Conflict exists in every world, & you should be smart enough to know that" Owin said.
"But still, even if there are people who hunger for war, there are still people who want peace! Should those who desire peace do nothing & let war continue?" Yue asked incredulously.
"Yes, exactly. Those who desire peace are often weak, thus they should have no say in the workings of the world".
"But that's wrong! That's just the majority winning against the minority & the strong bullying the weak!" Yue said getting up.
"Then why don't you fight me about it?" Owin said. "Let's see which of our philosophies is true".
"I accept!" Yue said angrily.
After a while Yue was finally ready for the battle. The rest were trying to convince her not to do it.
"Yue, please don't do this! There's no way you're going to be able to beat him" Nodoka pleaded with her.
"Yes, Yue-san, you saw how he fought a billion strong army! There's no way that you can defeat him" Negi said.
"No. I have to fight him" Yue said angrily.
"But why? What's the point?" Nodoka begged, worried about her best friend.
"Because if I allow him to beat me, It's as though my grandfathers beliefs were wrong. There's no way I can allow him to say such things about peace when my Grandfather wanted nothing but peace! There's no way I can allow him to say such things!" Yue said, now beginning to cry. Now Nodoka understood. In this way Yue was just like Negi-sensei. When it came to her grandfather Yue would lose all reason.
"Okay, Yue. I understand. In that case, do your best" Nodoka said, smiling.
"Right" Yue said, returning the smile.
Finally it seemed as though Yue was ready for battle. Owin walked over to the large field that apparently Evangeline had set up for battle. "Aren't you going to use your Warsong, or you're sword?" Yue asked. "You are undeserving of it. I will beat you with my fists alone" Owin said, raising his fists. "You're going to regret that, Owin-san! Yue-san is quite good with magic" Negi said from the sidelines. "I don't remember asking your opinion, child!" Owin yelled. Apparently the memory did nothing to show them how powerful she was. Now he will have to show them.
"Okay, this battle will continue until one of you is unable to keep fighting. Otherwise, there are no rules" Evangeline said, standing on the middle of the sidelines. Yue pulled out her small wand. "Ready…GO" Evangeline said.
No sooner did Yue begin the first syllable of her spell before Owin appeared directly in front of him, teleporting at least ten feet. Her gave a elbow smash directly to her face, & he could hear the satisfying crunch as her nose broke & she bled onto his elbow. Then he kicked her straight into the air at least ten feet up. Then as she reached the apex, Owin teleported up & gave her a double-overhead smash sending her straight into the floor completely smashing the concrete. At this point, Owin decided to take a break. He felt he had made his point. This was done within three seconds.
Everyone rushed over to Yue's side. She was bleeding profusely from her face, & seemed to have a broken back. Konoka was crying because she didn't know if she could heal the wounds herself. Owin sighed & walked over to Yue. He then materialsed a small artifact he had begun using within which he could accumulate mana. He opened it for just enough mana, & used a white spell. He passed his hands over her wounds, & as though he were brushing off dirt, the blood & wounds & pain were instantly swept away. Yue looked up at him, not knowing what to make of the mysterious man. "First you nearly kill me, then you heal me?" Yue asked angrily. He then grabbed her by the scruff of her neck & pulled her up to his face. "Now you know you are weak. The weak shouldn't spout off nonsense ideals if they can't even back them up with power" Owin whispered. Then he set her down & walked away.
Because they had just recently entered the domain, they could not leave for about ten more hours, & so everyone decided they might as well rest. The dimension had taken on a time of night, but Owin didn't want to sleep right now. He was on the balcony, staring up at the artificial moon, a moon which cast a subdued yet beautiful blue light on the world, & Owin was simply staring, not even thinking about his plans for the moment. He was entranced by the blue light.
"It's beautiful, isn't it?" he heard. He turned his head slightly & looked at the person behind him. It was Setsuna. She walked over to the balcony & stood next to him. "Indeed" he simply said. "There's something I wanted to ask you about today" she said. "Of course. You people up to now have only come to me with questions. What is it?".
"Why have you been disguising yourself?".
"My true form would attract far too much attention".
"Why did you attack Yue?"
"Does it really matter? I healed her right after" He said, facing toward her now. She had on a very serious expression, & he could tell she was measuring him.
"Fine, then last question. Why are you here?".
"Do you really wish to know?" he said with a smile.
"Yes".
"For you".
Setsuna looked taken aback by what he said, as she began blushing. However she was quick to regain her composure.
"What do you mean?"
"Exactly that. Sakurazaki Setsuna, would you like to be my apprentice in Keldon swordsmanship?" he asked. Now the plan would be put into action.
"Why me?"
"I could feel you as soon as I entered this realm. I could feel one who would be able to take what I have to teach them, & use it as it's utmost. That person is you Sakurazaki Setsuna".
"Why would I want to learn something like that?"
"Who knows? For your own desires. To do with what you wish. Just know this." & now he stepped closer to Setsuna, close enough so that he could feel her breath & her his. She did not back away, but she spread her feet apart into a battle stance. "If you are truly able to learn my techniques, none in this universe will be able to oppose you. Not Evangeline, not Takahata, not even the principal. No one".
"What I desire is not ultimate power" Setsuna simply said.
"But of course" he said as he began to walk away. "Though you know," he said as he continued walking, "No one would be able to hurt your beloved Ojou-sama" he said, & he could hear her move & her breath stop. "I'll await your reply".
Now the seeds of the plan have been planted.
Well now I feel as though the story is coming along quite nicely. Owin really let Yue have it huh? & now we have some idea as to why Owin has come to this plane. What does he want to do with Setsuna? Will Setsuna take him up on his offer? What could he be after? You'll just have to read next time to find out!
Constructive criticism will be greatly appreciated!