A/N: Um just read it, the torture is almost over

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Chapter 19: The Divine Bow of God

Nel's clone passed through the mysterious doorway and when she walked in she saw a plain hallway. Nothing dangerous or out of the ordinary, according to her map, the control room was just down the hall to the left. As she took a second step, she suddenly noticed a lone figure at the end of the hall.

His eyes flashed brightly and she suddenly found herself in a white room. Wherever she looked it was only white. She seemed to be in an infinite plain of nothingness, she tried running in one direction and but the space she ran to, didn't get any closer.

It was a strange area, it seemed movements were relative and whatever she did, it didn't seem to matter at all in the area. She suddenly saw the figure she had seen earlier, out of the corner of her eye.

She regarded the man first. His mouth was covered by a piece of cloth and only his eyes and nose were visible. Two scars ran across each of his eyes which were acid green. His head was bald and he had a katana sheathed in a scabbard on his belt.

"Wh-Who are you?" Nel asked. She couldn't tell if the man had smiled or if he had even reacted to her. She soon got frustrated at his passiveness and she repeated her question, "Who are you!"

The man didn't move and in an instant he was suddenly right next to her. She attempted to move but she noticed she was suddenly laying flat on her back, with her hands and feet bound to the ground.

Th-This is a genjutsu! Oh man how am I going to get out of this? Her heart began to race as the man unsheathed his katana and raised it menacingly. He rose it above his head then he stabbed Nel in the abdomen. She thought she was going to die but she didn't, she only felt the excruciating pain one feels from getting stabbed.

The man stabbed, again, and again, and again. He didn't falter and continued to stab her with the katana. Finally, the man spoke. "You are going to wish that each successive stab will be the one to kill you. But no, I am not going to give you that satisfaction."

Nel gritted her teeth, she refused to give in to her torturer and give him the satisfaction of seeing her feel the pain. Nel remembered the short lecture Kakashi had give her on releasing a genjutsu. She also remembered the way one of her teachers had once taught her.

At this moment, Kakashi's method wouldn't work. She could barely concentrate her chakra at the moment. But she was able to keep a mental sanctity. She had trained her mind to resist being bendable or easily manipulated. She wondered if her assassin had even once thought of training his mind.

She focused on her mind, ignoring the excruciating pain that her body was receiving. She gathered her conscious, then tried to sense the mind of her attacker. She threw all the weight of her entire mental body against his, and immediately gained access. She felt as if she had broken down a poorly constructed brick wall. The attacker staggered back as he tried to get rid of Nel's conscious in his mind.

Nel suddenly felt herself thrown out and she was returned to her body. But in the process, he had to release the genjutsu and Nel felt herself get released from the illusion attack.

Nel awoke and found herself back in the hallway with the man in front of him. He had stumbled and fell on the floor, with a hand raised to his head. He quickly recovered and he glared at Nel.

"Hmm, good job, but genjutsu isn't my only weapon in my deadly arsenal," he said. He unsheathed his katana and began to glow electric blue. The air around his blade hummed as he moved it around.

Nel unsheathed her daggers and she took a few steps toward him. The man neither flinched nor bucked at her. He remained static and rooted to the spot. He gave her a steely glare and Nel was amazed at how composed he remained

She made the first move and leapt at him, she struck with short and quick jabs with her daggers. The man quickly whipped his katana to block her strikes. Nel smiled, she was only testing the man's capacity at first. She increased the speed of her movements.

She threw in quick feints, that caught the man off balance. Her dagger work only increased in speed and skill. She threw quick strikes at his neck then attempted to sweep him as she threw herself to the floor and spun her leg, trying to hook his leg. The man jumped back and examined her.

"Impressive, our kind is a dying breed. Few people practice the ninja arts these days," he said, almost in a hiss.

"Curious. Where I come from, you would only be classified as an amateur shinobi. Your genjutsu was impressive, I'll give you that, but your swordsmanship is poor. My father had better form than you," Nel sneered.

"Why you!" He put on a burst of speed, using his chakra to move quicker. Nel smiled. Gotcha.

"Mirror Slice!" she yelled as she jumped up high then timed it so that her daggers collided with his skull perfectly. The man let out a loud shriek of pain and fell to the floor, instantly dead. Nel's daggers protruded from his skull lazily. She smiled grimly and pulled them out of his skull.

She swatted the blood off her blades and sheathed them. She continued down the hall, making her way down to the door ahead. Suddenly she felt something hard penetrate her back. She let out a short moan but quickly turned around and saw the man was up on his feet again.

His head was badly disfigured from the strike but he was still alive! "Haha I told you I have more weapons in my arsenal!!!" He began to trot towards her slowly and was laughing maniacally.

Nel cast multiple symbological spells and threw them at her zombie-like foe. He just continued to laugh as the spells hit him hard and was thrown on the floor. He just picked himself up and continued to walk towards her.

His left arm stretched out like a rubber band and he hit Nel high into the air. Arghh, what the heck is this thing? She attempted to recover in the air but she was hit again by the opposite hand of her enemy.

His left hand molded into a lance-like weapon and he thrust it at Nel. Nel didn't have time to fully dodge the attack and the lance grazed her side and it produced a decent sized gash on her flank.

I'm gonna have to go for his head. She let out a loud battlecry and ran at her enemy. His long rubbery arms began to move to hit Nel again. She cast an ice spell and shot it at his arms, it froze them which gave her the opportunity to go for his head.

"NOOOO!!!" he yelled as he desperately tried to get his hands to thaw out of the ice on his arms. In one swift strike she cut his head straight off. His head slid off and fell to the floor.

Nel kicked the man's dead body. "Useless fucktard," she muttered. She made her way down the hall and passed through the doorway into the control room.


"Albel you ready to take this clown?"

"Heck yeah, this fool won't even know what hit him." Albel stormed in first, he brandished his katana with the ANBU sword sheathed in a second scabbard on his back. He had to quickly roll to dodge a burst of fire Nede released from his mouth.

"Careful Albel! This guy is packing heat!"

"I see that you fool! Why don't you haul your fat ass and help me out here!" Albel yelled furiously. He had to move quickly again to dodge a second burst of fire. Albel yelled at him again to help him out.

"Alright, Alright!" Cliff dashed forward and powered up his gauntlets. Nede unleashed a breath of fire. Cliff rose his hands to cover his face and body and safely ran through the fire. He strongly moved his arms to shut his mouth tightly. He lowered his hands and had a patriotic smirk on his face. He pumped his hands and gave Nede a good uppercut to the chin.

It sent him flying upwards, and he attempted to wiggle his damaged wings in vain. He ended up in a crumpled heap on the floor when he landed from the fall. Cliff and Albel looked on triumphantly, but Nede was soon on his feet again. He pulled a little remote out of a side pocket and began to laugh mischievously.

He slammed the button on the remote and multiple doors along the wall around them began to open up. Hundreds of soldiers began to pour out of the doors and had Cliff and Albel surrounded.

"Shit," Cliff whispered. The soldiers rushed at them and released wave after wave of gunfire. It was impossible to dodge all of them despite Cliff and Albel's skill.

"Damn it, we gotta take the fight to those fools!"

"A-Agreed, grab my torso!"

"W-What?"

"Just grab it Albel!" Albel realized he had no choice, so he tightly grasped Cliff's body. Cliff jumped up so high that the enemy gunfire could not reach them. When he reached the climax of the flight of his jump he hurled himself towards the sea of soldiers.

Albel jumped off him and immediately brandished his two swords and viciously began to tear away at the enemy ranks. Seconds later, Cliff crashed into the sea of troops and into the floor and huge amounts of dust were swept into the air.

Cliff's crash into the ground created a huge crater which caused a few soldiers to be tossed into the air. Cliff emerged from the crater as the dust cleared, with a dead soldier twitching over his left shoulder. "Who's next?" Cliff asked menacingly.

Cliff threw himself into the fray again and began to punch and kick everything within 5 feet of him. The soldiers were no match for a man of his skill at that range. Cliff was on a crazy rampage up until he was stopped by the presence of someone familiar.

Albel had fought his way to Cliff and was standing right next to him. "I guess we're gonna have to fight together, huh fool?"

"Guess so," Cliff said with a soft grin on his face. After a second the soldiers rushed forward again. Albel sheathed a sword and took out his shotgun. He rushed forward and began to rip and tear everything in front of him.

With his katana, he stabbed a man in the groin then shot him dead in the chest with the shotgun. He spun around 180 degrees to his left and cut an approaching soldier's head clean off with his katana. He spun around to his right and fired his shotgun at a soldier attempting to shoot him, in the kneecap. The soldier immediately buckled and fell over. Albel stuck his sword straight through the man's body, with an exposed back facing him.

Albel seemed to instinctively sense who was about to attack him, the number of dead bodies around him began to pile up. He cut an enemy's sword into two clean pieces then severed his body completely and saw a soldier approaching from the corner of his eye.

He rose his shotgun and squeezed the trigger, instead of a big loud 'boom', a weak little click was heard. "Shiiit," Albel whipered as he waited for his enemy to kill him.

Cliff suddenly jumped in from nowhere and flattened the soldier into the ground. He immediately got up on his feet and threw a backfist into the skull of an enemy approaching Albel. He spotted another soldier creeping up behind Albel and he leapt over him and kicked him with two feet straight in the face. As soon as they hit the ground Cliff punched the man twice in the skull to make sure he was dead.

Cliff returned back to Albel's side and they stood back to back, facing the multitude of enemies in front of them. "Damn man, how are we gonna take all these guys?" Cliff asked.

"We'll just kill all the fools!!!!" Albel yelled. Albel was about to charge forward again, but Cliff held him back.

"Wait, what the hell is that?" Cliff yelled as something began to fly toward them, it was Nede, his wings had been healed. He was flying towards them and then collided into the two of them. He flew them straight into the wall. He jumped back and then released a jet of hot fire at them, Cliff jumped in front of Albel and rose his fists to deflect the fire.

However, Nede didn't give, and only increased the intensity of his flame. Cliff gritted his teeth. "I can't keep it up, gah!" he cried out. The fire singed his forearms and he fell to the ground, grabbing the raw skin that had been exposed by the flames.

Albel took a quick look at Cliff and gritted his teeth. "I'm gonna tear your wings out this time, fool." Albel ran towards at Nede with his shotgun pointed menacingly at him. He released two rounds of fire at him, but the blasts were burned out by Nede's flame.

Albel stopped his advance and stood his ground, regarding the situation. He unsheathed the second sword and slung the shotgun over his shoulder once more and rushed toward Nede again. He threw one of his katanas like a javelin, straight at Nede's head. He breathed fire at it in an attempt to melt it, but Albel smiled. He focused his chakra into the katana and a green aura surrounded it. It passed through the fire unscathed and then shot through his mouth and stuck out the back of Nede's head.

The blade was sticking through his throat and was impeding his breathing. The blood began to clog his throat and it began to choke him. But Albel wasn't done yet, he dashed behind him and tightly grasped the part of his wings where they stemmed out of his back. He unsheathed his second katana and brutally hacked his wings off of him.

The white feathers became blood stained, then he rose his blade again and stabbed Nede in the back, but made sure he didn't hit the heart or any other vitals. He slowly walked to the front of Nede to look him in the face.

Nede's eyes were heavily dilated and he was spitting out every couple seconds or so. Albel grasped the hilt of his sword stuck in Nede's mouth and pulled it out. "You're dead you fool." Albel took one last look at him then slashed his head clean off.


Fayt burst through the huge doors that led to the upper levels of the Federal Tower. In front of him there was an abandoned security desk and an open elevator directly behind it.

"Looks like I was expected," Fayt whispered. He bravely stepped forward and walked past the security desk and into the elevator. The elevator was quite big and very spacious, it had room for at least 10 or maybe even 15 people. The walls were stainless steel and the doors slid very smoothly as the elevator closed.

Fayt felt very cold inside the elevator and his stomach was doing backflips. He had no idea what to expect. He felt the speed of the elevator begin to slow down, slowing its ascension. The elevator finally stopped and Fayt's heart began to beat faster as he waited for the elevator doors to slide open.

They slowly slid open and he cautiously stepped out. He was in a corridor, with paths to the left and right, and a door right in front of him. A small sign on the wall next to the door read 'Grand Suite'. Fayt couldn't help but feel that the powers that be were guiding him to go through it.

He walked up to the door and hesitated before pushing the door open. He slammed the door open and walked through it. He entered into a circular room with an upper level. Directly in front of him was a huge machine where there were two people that were hanging from it. As he got closer he suddenly realized that those two people were Maria and Sophia.

He ran to the machine and began pulling on the chains that bound them to the machine. He moved to pull out his sword but he saw something move from the corner of his eye. He spun around and saw a sinister looking man with red hair standing on the upper level of the room. Then on the lower level another man stood by the door.

"Lock the doors Cyril," the red-haired man said coldly.

"Yes sir, Lord Indalecio," he replied with a curt nod. Fayt turned his attention back onto the red-haired man, so this was Indalecio, the mastermind pulling all the strings.

"Mr. Leingod, it is quite the pleasure to finally meet in person."

"I'm sorry I can't say the feelings are mutual," he replied coolly.

"That's unfortunate. Anyways I see that you have been reunited with your friends."

Fayt remained silent, all he wanted to do was pound the crap out of the man in front of him.

"You know your friend Maria, she always said that you were going to come and save her. I told her I'd have you dead before you came, looks like she was right?" Indalecio smirked.

He was toying with Fayt now, just trying to press his buttons.

"She screamed so loud, just like the little bitch she is whenever I turned on my machine! It was so exhilarating to hear her writhe in pain like an ant! A creature that had to adhere to my judgement!"

Fayt had had enough and in a flash his ethereal wings appeared on his back and he was speeding towards Indalcio, with both swords brandished. Cyril jumped in the way and tackled him to the ground. But Fayt immediately blasted Cyril with a huge blast of energy.

Fayt had a blue aura about him and his eyes were burning hot white. He ran at Cyril with his two blades. Cyril attempted to block with his arms but Fayt was enraged. He cut Cyril's body into two pieces, which disinegrated upon touching Fayt's swords. Then he turned on Indalecio.

"Boy! Don't think you are the only one with symbological powers!" Indalecio's eyes grew red and they both dashed at each other. Ripples of energy pulsated from their heavy collision. Indalecio looked at Fayt then at Maria. "Wait! Kid, if you don't surrender yourself…I'll kill your friends!"

Fayt slowly calmed down, his eyes returned back to normal. "Alright, I'll do anything you want."

"Well I am happy that you are being more cooperative now," Indalecio said as his eyes dimmed as well.

Fayt allowed himself to be hooked up to the machine and felt a bit happier when Indalecio took Maria and Sophia off the machine. Indalecio smiled as he went to the console and turned on the machine.

Fayt gritted his teeth as some sort of energy coursed through his body, the pain wasn't enough to make him scream though. He looked to the left and saw a chamber that began to smoke. The pain soon dissipated and he saw a figure standing amidst the smoke of the chamber.

What the, it looks like…A man that looked exactly like Indalecio stepped out of the chamber, except his hair was black and his left eye was red. While the right eye was blue.

"Lucifer you look well," Indalecio said as he greeted the man called Lucifer.

"Indalecio…I need something to kill, now!" Lucifer yelled.

"Hmm, kill the blue-haired female," he said with a smile, as he pointed towards Maria.

"Perfect," Lucifer hissed.

Fayt yelled and began to thrash around, attempting to break out of his restraints. Then at that moment, something weird happened. He felt as if his body was being ripped apart into two different bodies. It was as if someone had ripped out his stomach and emptied its gruesome contents onto the floor.

Lucifer and Indalecio looked on and could only stand dumbfounded as the miraculous travesty transpired. Fayt's body glowed clear blue and split into two forms, the two bodies soon reverted back to a solid form and two figures stood in front of them.

On the left stood Fayt, normal as could be. On the left this figure that slightly resembled Fayt stood there. He had long blond hair and blue eyes, and he stood a foot taller than Fayt. He possessed a more muscular physique than Fayt, but they could have easily been brothers. He wore the same clothes as Fayt except while Fayt's clothing was black, his was all white.

Fayt still had his eyes closed, but he slowly opened them and looked around. He spotted Indalecio and Lucifer rooted to the spot, looking lucratively to his right. He turned apprehensively to see what had them so rooted on the spot.

He pivoted on his right foot and saw a man, no wait a teenager that looked like him, despite a few physical differences. The man looked at him and merely winked.

"The name's Ronyx," Ronyx said in an extremely cocky voice.

"Who the heck are you?" Fayt asked. Ronyx turned to him and merely shrugged.

"Well, I am you…a much cooler and awesome-er version of you, you called on your destruction gene for help."

"Wait I still don't get it."

"Well I am essentially your clone. Your alter ego, just as Indalecio has Lucifer, you have me."

Indalecio finally broke out of his trance. "Enough talk! Let's go!"

"Agreed!" Lucifer replied in a bloodthirsty tone. The two brandished identical axes and rushed at the two.

Ronyx smiled and a sword materialized in his hand. It was identical to Fayt's, but the blade was red. He easily blocked the two and pushed them back.

"Wow…" Fayt whispered. The two jumped back and began to brutally assault Ronyx. Ronyx beautifully defended agasint them, parrying each blow, reading their moves each time.

"You could help me!" Ronyx cried to Fayt.

"Erm, yeah!" Fayt yelled he jumped at Indalecio. He attempted to bash Indalecio's brains out, but he read the move too easily. He managed to lock Fayt and swept him off balance.

Indalecio rose his ax high above his head and heaved it downwards, using the weight of the ax to fall to the ground. Ronyx suddenly jumped in and gave him a good strong side kick.

"You ok Fayt?" Ronyx asked as he pulled him to his feet.

"Yeah, thanks!" Fayt yelled. Lucifer jumped at them like a madman and transformed his ax into a huge cannon. He began to fire huge bursts at them, and they had to scramble to dodge. Lucifer didn't stop there. He jumped up and the cannon turned into a deadly looking spear. He jumped over Fayt and was about to kill him, but Fayt blasted him with a quick burst of ethereal energy,

The blast sent Lucifer's smoking body across the room. Lucifer and Indalecio looked shell-shocked and glanced at each other from either corner of the room.

On one side of the room, where Maria was lying, she began to come to and groggily opened her eyes. Indalecio and Lucifer immediately jumped over to her. Indalecio got there first and held her by the throat.

"Surrender or I'll kill her!" he yelled. Ronyx and Fayt immediately stopped.

"I'm guessing she is important to us huh boss?" Ronyx asked.

"Yeah, you could say that," he replied sarcastically. But as they were about to move to rescue Maria, Lucifer continued to run over to Indalecio like the madman he was.

"KILL, KILL!!!!" he yelled and he thrusted the spear right through Maria and Maria choked out blood, as Indalecio let her go and she fell limply to the ground. Her eyes stared off idly into the distance as the last traces of life left her turquoise eyes.

"YOU DAMN IDIOT!!!" Indalecio fumed.

"ME KILL HERRR!!!!!" Lucifer roared. Lucifer began to beat on his chest like Tarzan, relishing in his triumph, but stopped as he noticed things in the room began to shake and objects in the room began to float. They turned around to see waves or energy emanating from Fayt.

Just as always his eyes were white blue, but this time real angel wings burst out of his back and a blue halo seemed to float over his head. He seemed very deadly, it was a beautiful sight to behold, but totally terrifying as well.

"Damn it he is losing control…Arghh, I have to remain under control to make sure he doesn't over do it…" Ronyx whispered. In a quick flash of speed Fayt rushed Lucifer and began to hit him as quick as lightning. Each strike was precise, each one targeting a vital organ.

Lucifer began to get bloodied, but it didn't seem to hinder him at all. Indalecio got angry and decided to get involved but was thrown backwards by a blast of energy from Ronyx. Ronyx playfully shook his finger at him.

Lucifer let out another howl of rage as Fayt's sword ripped through his flesh once more. Fayt was getting frustrated at the fact he could not kill his opponent. Nothing more would satisfy him then seeing his opponent fall to the ground with his sword sticking out of him.

Fayt jumped back and then forward and smacked Lucifer with the flat of his blade towards the other side of the wall. He charged his energy and the symbological symbol began to form on the ground as if some invisible artist was painting the lines with a very a large brush.

The huge blast of ethereal energy surged towards Lucifer. Indalecio sped towards his companion, quick as lightning. "Grab my hand you fool!!!" he bellowed at Lucifer. Lucifer grabbed Indalecio's hand and they began to spin until they looked like a spinning drill and drilled right through the blast.

Fayt gritted his teeth, as his anger grew; he let out a loud shout and increased the intensity of his blast. The blast began to push the two back and then completely shot them out of the room. The blast sent the two flying out the window and down in freefall towards the ground.

Fayt began to calm down and his angel wings all fell to the floor as his eyes dimmed and had to go down on one knee. Ronyx walked over and attempted to support him.

"You know that that wasn't enough to kill them right?" Ronyx asked sheepishly.

"Yeah….he was really pissing me off though, wait what the hell!!" Fayt yelled. The room began to shake and they looked up at the ceiling as it was suddenly ripped off by this huge being looking at them. It remotely resembled Indalecio, but the creature had green scales and the horns on his head were huge.

The creature was as tall as the building!! "Me kill you now!!" the monster roared in a deep and hulking voice.

"Shiitttt," the two muttered. Fayt's blue ethereal wings lit up and Ronyx's golden wings lit up as they flew up to engage their enemy. As they flew towards the colossal creature they were immediately swatted like flies by the creature's huge hands.

Fayt and Ronyx collided hard into the pavement on the street. They pushed the rubble off them and looked up at the gigantic creature in front of them.

"Fayt, I've got one move, I think it will work, I call it the Divine Bow of God," Ronyx said heroically.

"Wow really? That name is cute," he said sarcastically.

"No really though, essentially I am going to fire you at him."

"Sounds simple enough," Fayt replied.

"I'm going to need you to hold him off though," Ronyx said smugly.

"Great…" Fayt said, he jumped up and flied straight at Indalecio. He changed direction at the last second and began to fly cheekily around the giant's head.

Ronyx flew to about 100 feet in the air and his eyes began to glow golden. A vertical arc of symbological runes began to form in front of Ronyx. Then a thin golden thread that began at the top of the arc began to extend down toward the bottom end of the arc.

"Fayt! It's ready!" Ronyx yelled. Fayt nodded and dropped off and flew as quickly as possible towards Ronyx. Fayt positioned himself in the middle of the long arc of symbological runes.

Ronyx flew backwards and caused the golden thread to be 'pushed' backwards. He waited as Indalecio got closer, and then 'let go' and released the 'Divine Bow of God'" It catapulted Fayt towards Indalecio, who was running right at them.

Fayt surged towards the huge giant like a burning red rocket. As he got nearer and nearer to the beast runnng towards him, he released energy from alla round his body. He yelled loudly and bolted forwards until they collided and a huge explosion broke out. Fayt was thrown backwards and a flood images from the past three months hit him, from the time he left for vacation, the landing on Elicoor, Styx, Luther, the moonbase incident, all the way up until now. Fayt fell to the ground, bruised and battered, with blood running heavy from his head.

Fayt's eyes were slightly opened and he saw Ronyx walking towards him with Maria in his hands as he placed her on the ground. He pulled out the spear and touched his hand to her wound…and it simply disappeared.

Ronyx smiled cockily again and said, "We'll see each other again soon my friend…" His body began to disintegrate into golden threads that disappeared into the air.

Maria's body began to move and she opened her eyes and looked around confusedly. "Fayt! Fayt!" she yelled as she began to hit his body.

Then at that moment, Fayt Leingod the great protector and defender of peace, justice, and good blacked out, it had been an extremely long day.


Mirage looked on as she saw the Diplo II get struck by the green light and she felt as if the entire world had just ended. The great flagship did not collapse but it stopped moving and seemed totally immobile.

This is it, its the end...Mirage thought but suddenly she received an open line from the Diplo.

"Admiral Mirage, we've won! Its over! The Nedians have just formally surrendered! Their command has been defeated on the ground, we've won the battle!" one of the bridge officers exclaimed over the comm. line. The man began to ask her to reply but she just shut off her comm. line.

She sat back in her chair and tears of joy fell from her eyes, she took off the headset off her head and put it down on the dashboard. Just when it seemed like our fate was to be doomed...Fayt pulled through for us in the end. Maybe, just maybe we've finally earned a break from all this madness...maybe we've cleared the storm and have finally found a calm spot to rest. Well anyways, this chapter is over...it has indeed been a long day....


So there we go, the good guys have won and everyone is happy, just a few chapters left to tie up some loose ends, stick with me guys!

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