Two Destinies Chapter 6: The Assassins Ascend
Author's Preface: Sorry if this chapter is kinda shorter than usual… This chapter doesn't even focus on our six heroes, so… XD As usual, I don't own any of these characters, especially Barbatos! That guy scares me to death! And write reviews!
The priestess opened her eyes. A scowl quickly illuminated her face. She howled in anger and threw the magic Lens that she had been looking into aside, which now teetered precariously on the edge of the table. When her hand came back down onto the table with an angry slam, the shockwave of the blow to the table caused the Lens to bounce off and to shatter on the ground. The priestess growled and finally spoke.
"That boy…" She said quietly. Trying to control her anger, the priestess sighed and brushed off her white dress. The attempt failed. "That damn boy ruined my entire plan!" She raged. "Why didn't I take into account that he could have pulled that stupid stunt?" She saw the image of the boy to whom her anger was aimed at running up to that girl Reala and holding her as they disappeared in a flash light, and the imagery replayed itself in her mind. She could not remember that despised child's name to save her life, but thinking of his blue eyes glowing with defiant bravery as he went to protect Reala from the full force of her teleportation spell brought her much anger.
"My spell was meant to bring Reala to the edge of the universe…" She thought aloud, having calmed down due to not thinking about the boy anymore. "…To a place where she would never survive alone… An inhospitable place… Instead, it took Reala and HIM…" She paused for a second to try and recall the boy's name again, but it didn't come to her, so she continued. "It took them HALFWAY to the edge of the universe, and it just so happened…" The priestess' extreme fury returned as she yelled "THOSE TWO ENDED UP LANDING ON A SURVIVABLE PLANET!!!" Another fist slammed onto table.
She looked at the broken Lens on the floor nearby. "I saw him… I saw that damned boy through that Lens…" She had been spying through Reala's Lens to find out what exactly had happened to her and the boy. They had been talking about dreams, and that Reala had been having a nightmare where the boy was killed by the darkness. Oh, if only that had been true… The priestess thought upon seeing it. Part of her had wanted to see the dream that Reala had had. And supposedly, the boy had been having some kind of dream himself, but the priestess didn't care about his dream. She sighed.
"Those persistent roaches will be back to interfere again… I already foresee that… Unless I do something about it… But what?" For a couple minutes, the priestess tried to formulate a plan to completely eradicate those two, regardless of them being halfway across the universe.
Suddenly, the priestess had a realization. "The only reason they'll end up coming back is because of the magic in Reala's pendant… The boy's Lens has no such ability, or at least I'm assuming, since he's no Holy Child…" She chuckled, and then continued. "If Reala is brought back here without him, that boy will end up being stranded on that world… I just hope he likes his new home…" She laughed evilly for a minute. "I know just the person to do the job… BARBATOS!" The priestess yelled out, and, a couple minutes later, a tall man with dark skin, blue hair, and a scary air about him appeared.
"You called, Elraine?" He said in a deep voice. The priestess, whom the man had just called Elraine, smiled.
"Yes, I did, Barbatos…" She said. "There's something I would like you to do for me."
"What is it?" Barbatos smiled with an evil grin. "Would you like me to kill somebody?" Elraine shrugged.
"Fine, if you must, how about taking care of that annoying little blond haired boy once and for all?" Barbatos, who had the image of the boy in question clear in his mind, chuckled.
"With pleasure…" A second later, Barbatos added. "Wait, how, though? I thought he got sent away to the end of the universe…"
"HALFWAY to the end of the universe…" Elraine corrected with a hint of indignation, which was more aimed towards the boy than towards Barbatos, on her voice. "And yes, I'll send you there to get him." Barbatos frowned.
"How will I get back here once I've killed him, though?" Elraine laughed evilly.
"That's the original reason I called you here, Barbatos." She turned around. "That girl Reala has the power to bring both her and that boy back here, but she doesn't know how to use it, or, otherwise, they would have come back by now. However, we can use this to our advantage and make it so that she brings YOU and her back here… I'll give you this…" She handed Barbatos a small shiny Lens. "With that, you can activate her Lens and send both of you back here. And, if you force her to take you back with her instead of that damned boy, you'll strand him on that world… Of course, I'd prefer it if you just killed him once and for all…" Barbatos laughed.
"So, you want me to kill the blond brat and come back here with the girl, then?" Elraine looked back at Barbatos.
"Exactly." She said. "So, are you ready to go?" Her hand started to glow white. Barbatos withdrew his axe.
"Yes, I'm ready." He said. In his mind, Barbatos was already imagining those defiant blue eyes of the boy had just been ordered to murder finally filled with fear as he saw his imminent fate. He also saw Reala screaming out to him not to kill the boy. He could almost already feel his axe easily cleaving through the boy's skin and bones, and his bloody carcass falling lifeless in front of Barbatos' feet. The boy's golden locks were stained red with blood, and his blue eyes were drained of their life, closing for the last time. This imagery seemed so real to Barbatos and so... satisfying. Soon, he would make sure this fantasy would come true. Only then would he be truly satisfied.
Elraine released the energy that she had been gathering. Barbatos' body started to glow white, in the exact way that Elraine had remembered the boy and Reala had been glowing when she sent them away. Soon, the blue haired assassin had vanished. Elraine smiled.
"Good luck, Barbatos..." At this point, she replayed one scene where the boy had pointed his sword at Elraine in her mind. My name is Kyle Dunamis, and don't you ever forget it! I'm gonna be a hero just like my father, and to do that, I need to make sure your plans never succeed! He had said. After seeing this scene, Elraine added aloud. "And farewell, Kyle..." She spoke as if Kyle was right in front of her and she was talking to him directly. "I'll remember you as the little irritant who was a temporary speed bump in my plans." She laughed evilly. "I finally remembered your name, you little Goddess-damned child! Too bad I'll never need to use it again! Despite your threat back then, I WILL succeed, and you'll be unable to stop me!" Elraine burst out in an even louder evil laugh. "Little Kyle, you will be joining your beloved father in the afterlife soon enough!"
Barbatos looked around. He had ended up inside of some broken down fortress. There were two beds in the room, and they looked as if somebody had slept in them somewhat recently. Looking closer, he found a small shred of clothing. He looked at it closer and figured it had come off of Kyle's outfit. "They've been here..." He said quietly. "Where are those two now?" Barbatos left the building and went outside. He looked out and saw the gray sky and barren landscape. "What a pathetic little world..." He pulled out the small Lens that Elraine had given him. "I'll find you, soon..." He set off to look for his victims.
A day later, Barbatos stumbled upon Imen. Not exactly impressed, he started combing over the town, searching for clues as to where his targets were. Barbatos asked many people in the city if they had seen a small blond boy and a girl with pale skin and a frilly pink dress. However, he could not understand any of the people that he spoke to. All the people he had talked to looked at him strangely. Like them, Barbatos had dark skin, but he still seemed out of place, but why?
Barbatos soon figured it out: All the other dark-skinned people had some sort of object on their forehead. And these objects reminded him of... Lens? Why did these people who spoke a strange language wear Lenses on their heads? Soon, Barbatos' patience with these people had worn thin. Apparently nobody had any clue as to what he was saying as much as the feeling was mutual.
His patience gone, he grabbed one of the people and threw them to the ground. Other people around gasped and tried to restrain them. However, Barbatos was much stronger than any of the people, so he threw them aside and pulled out his axe to slay them. After a couple people had been killed, the rest of the passersby ran away, afraid for their lives. With victims lying around his feet, Barbatos examined the Lens-like objects on their foreheads and tried to remove one. After a fight, the object came off, and the victim's forehead was bleeding. Not that he cared. He took another look at the object. Now that he had taken another look at the object, Barbatos realized that it wasn't a Lens. He was ready to cast it aside, but he heard somebody's evil wheezy laughter and stopped.
"Hold on a second, there..." The person said in a language Barbatos could understand. It was a man who was a little shorter than Barbatos who had silver hair who spoke. "You might want to hang onto that..." The man wheezed and laughed again. Barbatos turned to face the man in question.
"Just who are you?" He asked, pointing his axe at the newcomer. The man laughed in his strange way again.
"My name is Hyades..." The man said. "I can see you understand me... And it's all because of that..." He pointed at the object in Barbatos' hand. "I've never seen somebody remove the Elara from another Celestian's head..."
"Celestian?" Barbatos asked. He looked at the object in his hand. "So, this thing's an Elara?"
"Oh?" Hyades chuckled. "You're not Celestian?" After examining Barbatos for a couple seconds, Hyades continued. "Then again, I can tell. You may have dark skin, but you don't have an Elara... Not counting that in your hand..." Hyades walked up next to Barbatos. "That and you don't speak Melnics..."
"Melnics? Is that the language that these people were speaking?" Barbatos asked.
"It's the language I'm speaking, too..." Hyades cackled. "You only hear me in your language because of the Elara..." He stopped and looked Barbatos over once again. "Now, are you going to stay there and keep holding that in your hand? I can help you with that if you need to put it elsewhere..."
"Why are you helping me?" Barbatos asked. "You seem to have some motives..." Hyades laughed.
"Because, I would like your help." He said. "You see, there's somebody that I'm hunting. She's a little girl with dark skin and large, puffy purple hair. Her name is Meredy..." Barbatos scoffed.
"I'm not interested in helping you find this Meredy person..." Hyades stopped laughing.
"Well, she also has these five friends I need to get rid of... There's a red haired man who has a skimpy outfit, a green haired girl in a dress, a blue haired boy in robes, a blond haired boy with red and blue clothes, and a brown haired girl with some really fluffy pink dress..." After hearing these last two descriptions, Barbatos grabbed Hyades by the neck and lifted him into the air.
"Did you say a blond haired boy with red and blue clothes and a brown haired girl with a fluffy pink dress?!?" He said.
"Y-yes, I did..." Hyades said, choking. "I-I can help you find them if you're looking for them..." Barbatos dropped Hyades and smiled.
"I am looking for them... I was ordered to kill the boy and bring the girl back with me to my world..." Hyades returned his feet.
"Yeah, those two are with my target, Meredy." Hyades held out a hand. "Well, does that mean you'll work with me to get to your victims?" Barbatos scratched his chin.
"I don't know..." He said. Hyades smiled.
"I know my way around Celestia, and you have the brawn to take down both of our targets. We're a perfect team... Deal?" Hyades held out a hand. Barbatos looked at the hand for a second.
"Very well..." He grabbed Hyades' hand and shook it. "I do seem to need your help. I only ended up here because of luck." Hyades laughed.
"Now, before we go on, what's your name? You know mine, but I don't seem to have learned yours..." Barbatos let go of his ally's hand.
"My name is Barbatos Goetia..." Hyades smiled. "Now, do you know where those six people are going?"
"I'm pretty sure they're headed to Luishka." Hyades said. "That's where Meredy's mentor lives."
"All right." Barbatos said, pocketing the Elara. "So, will you show me how to get there?"
"Yes, I will." Hyades replied. "Follow me..." Barbatos and Hyades then left the city and set off for Luishka, out to catch up to Meredy's group.
Author's Nota Bene: Uh, oh... This match made in hell doesn't look good for the heroes... Who will be victorious if they meet? We'll find out sometime soon! And yes, I sorta BSed the whole understanding Hyades with the Elara thing, because I don't think Sagura would make an Orz Earring for Barbatos... XD Write reviews, please!