disclaimer: This is just a fanfiction, Neither the Tate no Yuusha no Nariagari or Worm web Novel Serial are mine.
Author notes: Hello again. Sorry for the rushed work in the last chapter I fix somethings on it now the lines cutting the scenes are there too (for some reason mines disappear when in upload) .
I will try to explain things as they go (in the story).
I would like to put here that this story is AU, because with the 'four hero gods' coming on worm will have waves in the world, and as much I would like to go by cannon and make a 'fix fanfic' that will not happen here for a long time on this story, since that don't happen in real life easily (to have total and complete victory). The power in this fanfic is also a little different because all the capes have 'brute 0' or more in some form. This is because I can't see cops, swat, and other special forces using non-lethal force to take 'armed' man, I see them putting bullets on some villains or making their lives very difficult (the same thing that a 'normal' armed thug receive), also there a lot of people in the USA that are patriots, people that help in disasters and making charity to take some action to help there.
So with so many guns and people that can use it (and use them well), you are telling me that beings like 'Jack' or some other villains survive for years without receiving bullets to the brain or homemade bombs or axe to the face, car at 60 miles per hour at the face or just beat the crap out be 'normal people'. Well here they can survive small caliber bullets (they still hurt a lot), there is differences level of 'brute 0' a master will be weaker than a mover or a blaster. So is more difficult to kill capes.
In another matter, in this chapter, the four heroes are more near reality (material plane or Earth Bet) than the last chapter and act more human thanks to that.
Oh, the color of souls on this chapter Comes from undertale.
There is too much info dump here in this chapter I think.
Hope that you people like this chapter^^.
Well, let's put the show on the road again.
Revision: Yeah this chapter was too rushed ahead. I also close the window from my PC so this is the second time fixing it :(
Thanks again for the people that had advised me how many mistakes your here, hope that now the reading is easier.
Edit 11/13/2016: Again using the software.
Chapter 2: Power of the Gods.
The God of the Shield
'Location': between realities and times
Naofumi suggests to his brothers to just 'move' away from the foul one to make more 'distance' since the idea is to make it focus on them and away from the chosen at the same time that they send help to the chosen in the form of little pieces of them (avatars).
With all the power that the foul one was losing to leave the material plane and come here and the way that it try immediately to talk to them, probably means that it want something really bad.
Well now, Motoyasu is trying to buy us more 'time' through speaking with it (the foul one), Itsuki was trying to analyze it, and Ren to discover how to kill it.
So far we know that it very alien (even to us... and that say something), have an extremely small soul compared to its size, it can bend reality and it's Laws in many forms and is very, Very, VERY much desperate to reach some goal. Oh! also Itsuki have used his power to make a judgement, which the intent of find and see why this alien it's so foul to us and now we know that is because it's a planet parasite (Yucks!) well now we can act better since now we definitely want this thing dead with fire, bombs, and salt... (to be fair the metaphysical equivalents... so soul eater, soul crusher... and other stuff) to be sure that stay dead (many things that we fight have trouble to remain dead).
'WAIT' 'TRADE' 'HELP' 'THREAD' 'SPEAK' 'ZION' It seems to be trying to stop us from running.
Well, I believe that desperate is its. So it's name is ZION. Well, we 'look' to each other and steel our resolve… and run away. We are not stupid this being is losing power, and is a 'place' which is familiar to us, and we still don't know its power and how he can use The Laws. So no fight yet.
Zion (it 'send' that as its name) begins to focus his power to something on its center (look like a shard) and a light shoot from it to here, oh! interesting it can cut reality and even here (where between realities), we need to steal this idea for later use.
For some reason, that was a warning shot. We stop for instant (and so does it). Wait for 'some time'… and run away again this time doing two things, one we suck the mana 'where' he is 'standing' that make the material plane more 'far' from 'here' since there nothing to reality 'holds' to apply its Laws and to make things more 'real' and less conceptual. The second thing that we do is to split the party with each of us going in a direction.
Most of the times that would be a really bad move, and the first stupid action of a horror movie, but this Zion just have sent his equivalent to a 'Kamehameha' getting close to a 'Genki-dama' and used it as a warning shot (really 'far' from us), so it want us alive and don't know how much we can take. Or at last, this is what my brothers and I are 'seeing' from the energy and this situation.
He sends another (far weaker than the first shot) on Itsuki, and my brother 'bend' to his metaphorical belly (since here he is the unholy fusion of a cloud and thousand of birds), making a smaller target and trembling asking for it to stop. Zion does so and move 'closer' to him…. And then my brother run again 'looking' very bewildered (to a cloud… if that make sense).
I would like to comment that my brother is 'he who lead' or 'he who speak' since the hero of the spear was always good to make people come to his side (especially women) and on the millennia and eons that he lived he have become a great actor. Once he had entered a material plane and had led a movie as the main actor, that move was to be their 'Rambo'…. Now in that world, that move have replaced harry potter, Shakespeare, and lord of rings. They created a religion to his image, an entire culture to his action. Hell! Jerusalem is now unified because even with difference beliefs and we more than 50 years of a recent history of blood and hate there…. They could agree that 'Itsuki is life'. I still can't understand how that happened and I was there the entire time. Oh! And Firo has kicked his balls for thousands of years so he can fake being hurt just putting the word 'kick' on his mind, is super-effective.
So while Zion is hunting my brother, and he is faking his pain, we are still finishing the preparation to fight him, and as far I can see the avatars succeed to secure the life of the chosen. So now we prolong the battle for as long as possible and try to save as much as we can.
One should note while this battle occurs in a 'place' with no notion of time, we probably will still need to take an eternity to finish this fight, oh well. Let's start.
Present time
Zion
The warrior stop in the middle of what his was doing, that was shooting frozen rays to stop a flood… on Brazil. And look in the future, his future to be more exactly, for some reason he was extremely happy in there, that was odd because after his partner death he only feels sadness and emptiness. In the next moment, his future-self move and go between the dimensions, had him sense another entity? or had tried to commit self-destruction? Using his power he comes to the answer…and that no, so no new partner. Was he destroyed be a something else?…also no.
Zion tried for some time to understand his actions. And he looks in all realities to find something odd, and see nothing odd there to be find. With his depression starting again he gives up (again) and starts to move. If he sees the reason behind his action he will act, if not well he would still 'help the people' like that human had said to do.
Doing things like now, he finished to freeze the river (the entire river), with that the flood is gone, and the plantations for this area here in the state of Bahia will produce less food for this year, making a little more conflict and giving people worthy opponents in a form of more capes to they to fight. Well with his job gone he change direction to north to remove a block on a side road…. using anti-matter to do that.
The present time
The Third- Simurgh
It looks to the future and saw a change in it, She starts to seek the cause. At the same time, she stops its circling on earth furrowing its face and closing her hands. The second action was to make a wave in human society so they could try to find the reason behind this change.
The present time
Taylor.
Closing herself off, believing that the walls were closing on her give her state of mind. She gives ups.
Her father was in the morgue of the hospital seeing her mother, her best friends were still in the school.
Despair was rising inside of her. she closes her eyes and falls complete on the couch of the hospital, which she was sitting, she tries to escape the sad reality. That her mother was gone. Then a green light comes in front of.
A man with full armor appears with a cape on his back. The people in the waiting room start to move away from the cape. He locks his mask in my direction. A warm feeling passes my spine, my mind calms itself.
Wait! I can be only 12 but I know that is not normal. I was starting to get angry at his man. How dare him to chance my mind, how dare stops me from mourning my mother.
"You-" I start to.
He removes his helmet, and bend a knee and focus eyes his greens eyes on me (which were glowing).
"What happened to you?" He asks in a calm voice
"My mother has died," I said to make him stop bother me.
"Now can you-" I try to make him leave
"How long ago," He asked suddenly.
"Go, away" I yell. I try to rise and fall hurting my knees.
"Be healed," He said and a green light appears on my legs, and the pain on there go away.
"If I have enough power, my words are Law" What bullshit is… wait Mom!
"My mom-"
"How long" He demand.
"Two hours ago," I say thinking that is too late.
Naofumi – The Hero of Shield
I come to the material plane as close as I Could to the chosen location as I could, I note that my bag has stayed behind and now is lost between the planes, but at last my clothes have come with me. Well, no problem as soon as I can I will use my magic to call the bag from between the planes.
I look in front of me and I see a broken child, I that moment I start to manipulate the air around her and send mana inside her to calm here and send to my mana the feeling of calms. Oh! Shit. She has noted what I am doing.
She is getting angry, and far worse than that she is the chosen, by the reaction of my shield she is my chosen, and all the shields-beares can hold grudges for far too long. Well, that will not happen here.
I stop using my mana and I remove my helmet (using a bottom hide on the rear of it and other near my neck), after that I bend my back to look her's eyes at the same height (without come close to her).
And I start to question her, looking to her mana to have some idea of the state of her emotions and her soul (which all things comes from). I don't dare use my mana to look inside her, so I only use her 'aura', the light that irradiates .
Starting question she I that her mother has died. Well fuck, this don't look that was 6 minutes ago. The concentration of mana in this earth is minuscule. And I sense no After-life in this Earth…. But since she is my heir (one of dozen of them and all of them bring more skills to humanity) means that if I win her, then Avalon (My Earth) shall win a lot with this new hero. So let's do something very stupid right now.
The moment that she say 2 hours I fell relive, I shall have a destiny worse than death but I Can Do This.
I touch her with the gem of the shield, and I and the spirits of the shield (yeah I have two) send us inside it. (more or less the spirit world of the shield... lame but very descriptive).
Taylor
In less time that I need to blink, he had move and then I here. There is no floor, but I not falling, there is no light, but I am seeing. The something moves inside me. After that the cape was in front of me again, there was a kaleidoscope of light, my own form was making lights that were closer to red and purple for the most part. On the 'sky' there was two light one most green and the other yellow. There were coming here. Until the cape looks to them that is and shake his head.
"I need a lot of information and to gather as much power as can spare and a lot of what I cannot spare," He said.
"I will treat you as the equal that you are, and with that the respect that it demands, so if I saying something harsh, is more because I will not hide what I don't need to hide when speaking to you". Well, this doesn't sound good.
"I pretty sure that I can reverse your mother death" or not, Yeah! this sounds great.
"The price will my life and soul". Wait, what? , your soul?
"Not mine-" I start
"NO!, yours is quite precious, I exist in many places, in fact in some years another piece of myself will fall on this earth, he will not remember this conversation since he was not here, but if my heart of hearts, this stone inside of my chest is giving to him he will 'remember' " there was a circle of light there, so maybe the ball was truly inside him
"The heart is like a black box of the planes, do you know of them?" He asks in a small and kind voice and I nod.
"Well is like that, I and any other like me have three, of them, after I gone I will give to you two of mines and send the last to between the planes"
"So don't worry about me, Oh! the stones will always grow to number three, so if you want you can give to others, always have the one that I will give you because I will be able to bring you from the deads if you have it our if you have the shield inside yourself". He said.
"There just a small problem" what will he ask to pay for this work?
"Again don't worry for not matter your answer I shall bring her" that make me relieved.
"the problem is if a bring her, the way that I went to need to do that is" he take a breath.
"I will need to reverse time, well not exactly that but close enough" he can do that?
"The problem is time is in reality, as the four dimension, anything that will happen already happened is just not come yet" So this is a sick joke? Will we repeat this moment until the end of times?
"So to that to not happens," he said "I will send your soul to the past you, I shall note that is the only choice that I have since true reverse time is a titanic task" So far so good.
"To that, I need to give you at the very last the magen, think of that as smalls machines, they will use something like copy-paste of PCs".
"You know PCs and copy and paste?" I nod.
"Good, that is what I will do, give the magen to you that is".
"Then I will give to you two heart of hearts, one for you and one to give to your mother, because if we fail or she doesn't believe in us I have made plans so she can be resurrected" He can do that to everyone with the stones?
"I cannot do that now because the souls are no longer here" I sense that more to this but I focus on what he saying.
"I would like to see your soul and share knowledge with you so that I can put you at right time, and can give to you as possible since I will not be here for some time to help you". give me what? He not saying.
My grandparents would have words with me if they know that I speaking with a strange and they would skin my ass for allowing him in my soul, but with all the things that he has to say that he can do, the fact that he didn't steal it already give me confidence. I nod.
"Good," he said.
"Well let's get this start" He put his hand on his chest and the hand enters it, Ewww, and pulled from inside it, blue orbs that he could hold in his hands… it also beats like a heart.
"Here will go" he show it to me, I nod, he put close to my chest, I nod again, and it touches me and enters. In that moment I fell Complete peace and a sense of purpose.
"Now to make sure that you will remember this so that you can help your mother I will give to you the magen" he opens his hands on my face and start to fall light on me and it disappear after some time, it probably had entered me like the balls. "Again since I treating you as equal, I note that if I try to the same thing in the real world I would need to bleed and you would need to drink my blood" eww wwwww www!
"Fortunate to you that is not necessary here, the magen fourteen, that I gave to you now, give better reflexes, perfect memories and I mean perfect memory, capacity to survive minor brain damage without damage to the mind, and some minor improved to body"
"usually it's can also use to share information between users, I will block that after this and also the real improvements are locked if you give the magen to others, so if you give your blood to other people, they will improve but not as much in the physical department as you and all their performance will be worse that yours"
"So, walk really careful when dealing with strangers" "like me" he said blink and speak again "do not ever do this again even to me, unless you certain that you can trust and if you have any doubts just don't".
"Now I will see what is need from your soul and we will finish" I Nod.
I see again how I spend this day, the locations that I spend in it, and the last time that I was with my mother and I hear on my head '3 hours ago, still good'
I see my dad talking to the doctor and this time I hear exactly what happened 'drive and write, Taylor (he have learned my name?) you need to stop you mum to do that or convince her that she could die if she does that, I putting some memories on the heart that will go to her with your permission' I try to nod, and sense that he receive that. 'if even that don't work I suggest to you take it from her, I will note that since you will chance your actions she would not die in the new today even if you don't tell her what happened, but you must warn them about that, so that she don't die driving in the future and that what happened here, since you will need their help, since your parents are great people'.
'good', he 'said'. 'now, let's see what more you need'.
I see again the day that I go to the protectorate in the school trip, the many times that I learn about capes (from my parents and some from my school), the fights that appear on TV, endbringers, Scion, here he look and see again and again I hear 'don't ever go close to him, or the endbringers, unless I return and appears to be my full mental capacity'.
I think why I would need to worry about Scion 'I will share that later, just don't… sorry about holding that'.
and I would not come to fight endbringers-.
I now see things that I pretty sure I never did, like a gigantic turtle being burned alive with a fire that could blind with its's light, I see an arm with a shield holding a man on a mediaeval armor falling from the sky and burning like comets, I see an army running in my direction.
'I am the hero of the shield, and if your heart remains pure, and still try to improve yourself, one day, if you wish, you will be the heroine of the shield'.
what you mean with improving or being 'pure' I ask,
' I mean to improve in everything because that make the soul grown, so study, train, eat, all that is new or better counts as improvement' 'and pure I mean not break, fall or getting evil in general, not much on that one'.
We finally end, and I see again this void place.
"There is much I need to tell you are not much I can do for now since even here time runs, just very slow, and consuming power", he said.
"Inside your heart of hearts and with your permission I will put two spells, of summoning" "one of them will copy you and send to my earth, the second will copy you there and send you here just a moment later, I cannot make it longer. That copy of you will live there and be just like you because she is you in the same way that even after death, like the second me to come here will still be me".
"That is the only payment that I ask, well that and that you improve yourself, especially on arts or getting more knowledge of any kind, and I mean any kind will do, " he said again.
"if you don't wish to do so, I will still do all I can do to help, but this is all I ask" I nod, since there little, I could not do for my mother.
"Well, let's start them," He said.
We return to the hospital there is a security guard almost touching the hero… with a Taser on a hand and a spray on the other. But before I could say anything or the guard finish, the face of the cape, breaks in the middle and explode, sending many gears instead of blood, I didn't get afraid since him smile before that, the gear turn on and on in the air and the light at the hospital begins to fail. His back breaks to and wing made of gears appears, now everyone still here runs thinking on the endbringers or crazy capes, at the moment that some gears pass me, I am in another place, I see machines so strange that hurt to look and gears and words so aliens than I cannot express in words or feelings.
"Don't" I hear in my head, and eyes Close by themselves.
"I still too alien to your mind, when you are older and stronger I show this again if you wish".
"still on this, my own true name, that represents the essence of my soul, and them this name represent everything that I am is 'progress' I am one of the gods of humanity and you, beloved child, you is my heir, so if the other me use the heart of the hearts to talk to you, remember to ask me true name, you can share it with your parents, but to it when you are alone in your house with them".
I blink (how I did that with closer eyes?). See a big ass tree and-.
And in the next moment, I was in front of my mother she will leave in 10 minutes to go to work. I know that was not a dream for three reasons the heart of hearts, my perfect memory, and the world with a gigantic tree that I just saw (was that another world?) now and again I am here.
End notes: I chose again to upload this as soon as possible and to not put in the chapter what Naofumi made exactly, he, basically, have taken the soul of Taylor, will all the care of the world, them he goes between the planes and return to a time with Taylor mom was alive, he didn't go more in the past because more power was needed. The rest of power that was not used in the things that Naofumi said was used to strength the soul of Taylor and to speed her training since he was afraid to share pieces of his soul (to give his memories) would corrupt Taylor (and yes it could do that). So long and thanks again. For your time^^ .