(AN: so here we are back again on the third Chapter of Ophis: The Autarch of Helghast Shinobi. it took longer than expected but i'm glad I manage to completed it. I also,want to thank Killzone Wiki to help me create this chapter. Okay without further ado, let the story begin! oh and before we begin I better remind you my readers that this is a triple crossovers with HS DxD, Killzone, and Naruto along with minor crossovers. Right now i'm going to dwell on Killzone verse before i jump into Naruto verse.)
Disclaimer: I do not own HS DxD, Killzone, or Naruto... If there's any chance I own those franchise then Issei is a former child soldier, Jorhan Stahl loves Rock songs and Helghast is the good guy, and Naruto have many jutsus during the first-half of the stories
Story Start!
Dimensional Gap
The gap that separate heaven, underworld, and earth alike and considered as the void of the world. This kaleidoscope-looking realm was filled with the power of Nothingness, the power to remove everything from existing in the world
If any living being steps into Dimensional Gap without proper protection will be completely erase from existence leaving nothing behind either they're humans or supernatural alike
Originally the home of Ophis until Great-Red the True Dragon kicked her out from her kaleidoscopic home
"Hmm… good ol' memories" Ophis thought as she float around the gap toward her servants locations
Unlike most supernatural being, Ophis herself is a living representation of nothingness. Wielding said power, she's granted the immunity of this destructive power and thus doesn't need any kind protection from the power of nothingness loitering around on this realm making her the true ruler of this place
At first Ophis didn't know how Great-Red can resist the nothingness in her home but after searching some of her memories, she remember that Great-Red is a dragon that represents dream.
Then she know how he can survive in this realm
Great Red can control dreams
He can make dreams into reality
If he want himself to exist in this realm it will happen
If he want Ophis to lose it will happen –and it did-
Now, if he had this kind of power, turning dream into reality, why didn't he create his own realm to live in and choose to kick her out of her home and occupied it?
Why he took her home?
And how dare he interrupted her number one favourite activities in her top ten to do list:
Doing nothing while floating around in Dimensional Gap:
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Okay… maybe he did a favour by kicking out Ophis from her home
'And I feel like a certain pink-coloured idiotic Starfish in Hawaiian pant' Ophis inwardly grimaced. She once watches a cartoon where it is contain a foolish happy-go-lucky yellow sponge and his friend the idiotic pink Starfish with Irina and Asia.
She quickly asked Irina to change to another… entertainment –as she put it back then- when she somehow feel insulted when she watched one episode where the idiot starfish said 'Nothing, I just finished' before pulling out a To-do list with a badly written 'Nothing' and proceed to cross it with a pencil
Anyway, Ophis scoffed the idea of another worlds exists somewhere in this world. She thought Rizevim was only a bastard of a madman who want nothing but to see the world burns by using petty excuse to conquer another realm by using Trihexa
But now she had to give him some credits
There is another realms
Another realms accessible via Dimensional Gap
And she found it by accident when she accidently unleashed certain amount of power when she trained herself to get a better grasp of her power while that bastard seems to found it first by researching Dimensional Gap thoroughly
And Ophis hate… no, Ophis LOATHE to admit that Rizevim managed to made a gateway to another worlds while the house owner can't do this shits for over 4.5 BILLION YEARS
'But thanks to him I can try to fulfil Tou-san dying will… and treat my bleeding heart' yes treating not curing despite her best effort to cure it, she can't. And the only way to sway herself away from madness was to treat her heart by living in the other world
For each world she visited the first thing she always do was making acquaintance/friends with local population
Then she blend in with them, try to understand their societies more and study their world history
And then, she explored the world and study it very thoroughly for every conflict she met, for every local/world events she went, for every cultures she took a likings and many more
If there's anything in some worlds that need for her aid, she would happily oblige and start to work immediately
Another thing she would do was making her name in other worlds whether it's a medieval worlds or future worlds, but she usually does this on medieval worlds since it quite easy such as slay a dragon –tho, Ophis felt it kinda ironic but hey it's evil dragons- rather than future worlds where she need to be aware about bunch crap load of politics, economies, modern societies, public opinions, Internet etc etc. But despite this there's a future worlds that actually enjoyable
And after several amount of time, Ophis depart from the world and go back to dimensional gap she would review and recap her progress before jumping to the next world
~Ouroboros~
"Is the gateway ready?" Ophis asked her servants. Unlike many living beings, Ophis gave her servants several blessings. One of her blessing is giving them the immunity from the destructive power of Dimensional Gap hence why they are not wearing any kind of magical barrier
"Yes master, the gateway is ready to use all we need now is the location" Regret replied behind him and her partner was a large magical gateway in the form large spiralling mass of red energy
"Alright without further ado, we will go to-"Ophis paused midway through her sentence as if she realized something
"Master?" Suffer spoke "what's the matter?"
"I… don't know… where we are going next" Ophis said sheepishly
"…Master… don't tell me you forgot to arrange your next schedule… again?" Regret sighed and scrunched his face
"Hey! I'm in one of those moment, okay? I rarely forgot my schedule this is only… cyclical occurrence…? Yeah cyclical occurrence" Ophis retorted
"See? This is why I told you to take a good rest or sleep every day or every time we finished our travels but nope, you decided to stay awake al decades long claiming 'I must make a reviews of our travel, I don't have time for sleep you're the one who looked need more sleep Go take some sleep, I'm fine' and now where it lead us?" lectured Regret "seriously, why you care more for us, your servants, rather than yourself? You need rest and sleep just like the rest of us"
Ophis just rolled her eyes half listening to her servants "Yes, GRANDPA… I will take your advice to my heart" Ophis said mockingly emphasizing the word Grandpa
Regret's eyebrow twitched in annoyance quickly retorts "says the OLD HAG who lived for 4.5 Billion years" Regret said mockingly emphasizing the old hag
"YOU TAKE THAT BACK!"
"Nope, don't wanna"
"Regret…"
"Nope…"
"Take that back or I'll make you…"
"Nuh uh"
"Regret… I'm going to say this one more time… Take. That. Words. Back or I will smack your head so hard until your eyes pop out" Black aura started to gather around Ophis indicating she didn't approve her servant attitude
However being named after the feeling of sorrow or remorse, Regret decided to living up his name "Then make me… Old Hag" He laugh before vanishing in electrical crackling
"THAT'S IT! Come back here you little-" Ophis raged. One could see her bright red of filled with rage and steam coming out from her ears before she too starts vanishing leaving black-trails behind
Suffer who only watched her master and her partner throwing jabs at each other can only palm her mask and sigh
"Immortal and their antics"
~Ouroboros~
5 minutes later
"How'd you fell? Master?" Suffer asked her Master who now sporting a smile on her face
"Heh, never better I really need that. Thanks for asking"
"Your welcome" Suffer kindly before turning her gaze at her bruised partner lying next to her master "How about you, Regret?"
"Get… Wrecked so… bad… Totally… Worth it"
The hooded servant shake her head at her partner before turn back her gaze at her master "Now as much as it is fun for you to use my partner as punching bag, would you please select our next destination?"
"Alright then I guess it's time to work. Since I didn't plan where we going next we just select random destination" Ophis move towards the gateway and held both of her hands forward and channel her energy toward the gateway. When her energy made contact with the gateway the red spiralling mass of energy started to spin faster. And faster. And faster until it turns into translucent image of a fast food restaurant goes with the name 'WcDonald'
"Hmmm… nope already visited" she wave her hand to her right side changing the image on the gateway to another realm with the image of a boy with dirty-brown with a ring of blond hair
"Hmm… nope already visited… and too plain for my taste"
Ophis wave her hand again and the gateway change the image again to reveal a realm with America and Russia wage war at each other
"What's this? World War 3? Nope I don't want to my next travel start with two superpower countries murdering each other"
"I thought you said you will gladly help any realm if they have serious problem" Regret asked while being healed by his hooded partner
"Yes, but this realm's humanity doesn't have any alien/subterranean humanoid creature/space zombie or anything like that attacking them only humans from different countries fighting from one big misunderstanding… so no"
Ophis wave her again and the scenery change into a night time where she can see a teenage kid with red hair dual-wielding short blades.
"I already visited this realm twice so no"
Ophis wave her hand again and the scenery change into a medieval looking with many people dress as nobles
"NO!" Both of Ophis Servants exclaimed
Ophis turn around to see her servants in confusion "Huh? Why?"
Suffer spoke with a venom in her voice "Didn't you recognize their clothes? Hell, you should've recognize all of them well"
"Master you knew well how that place filled with corrupted Noble" spat regret "beside aren't you the one said you don't want to do anything in that realm?"
Ophis turn her gaze back at the gateway and studied their appearances carefully until she fully recognize it
"You were right… sorry I didn't realise it sooner" she said in cold monotone voice
Ophis quickly change their destination again this time the realm changed into an image with a shirtless young man with a girl a bit shorter than the young man swooning over the Shirtless young man. The shirtless young man then say "tell me do you ever dream being a vampire?"
One could see Ophis and her servants grows a tick mark with the former's eyebrow twitch violently
"Is this how vampire represented these day?" beneath his mask, Regret's eyebrow is also twitching
"Unbelievable, I don't think I can look at modern time Vampire the same again" Suffer said sarcastically
Ophis turn around facing her female servants "Hey! I took offense in that. One of my brother figure suffered similar yet different fate"
"Your brother figure is a vampire?"
"Yes! Er, no… I mean… she's er, He's a Dhampir half-human half Vampire"
Suffer look at her master in confusion "What do you mean by SHE? I thought HE was your brother?"
Ophis is about to retort but quickly bit her lip she didn't want to degrade her brother figure any longer "You know what? Drop it. I don't want to talk about it, end of discussion"
Hearing her master, Suffer shrugged and decide to drop the topic "Okay"
Ophis once again wave her hand to her side and another realm appeared this time an image of 10 figures
One figure was a man in blue-red and white uniform with a star on the middle while wielding a shield with the same pattern
The other figure was a man in red armour with a glowing core at the centre of his armour and both on his palms
The other figure is a tall green hulking man covered with muscle
Ophis didn't bother to look at the others as she knew who these people "Nope we're not going there"
"Why? As I recalled Suffer and I haven't visit this world and they looks like a bunch of good guys" Regret asked at her master refusal
"I've visited that world once long before I recruit you, and I quickly become their target"
"Master, you didn't do something stupid in that realm right"
Ophis quickly turn her gaze at "No I didn't, Suffer, in fact I did a lot of good things. But, I made a mistake by releasing some of my power in that realm"
"You're not killing any one aren't you, master?"
"Of course not" Ophis replied "It's just that… when a powerful creature unleash certain amount of power that represents their elements how did you feel?"
Suffer put a hand on her chin "Well for magical being represents fire beings we can feel the warmth and rage of the fire, for those who represents water we can feel the feelings of calm and soothing like water"
Regret continue "Earth is like strong-willed and full of determination and wind is like feeling a… freedom or something"
"Correct" Ophis applaud "now both of you aware of what I represents right?"
Both of her servants nod
"Then surely you know what the feeling is when I unleash my power?"
It doesn't take a long time for her servants to connect the dots
""Impending doom and destruction"'
"Correct. And that's why I always being chase by them. Anyway let's find another realm" Ophis dismissed as she wave her hand once more the image of a planet from orbit.
The planet looks just like earth but with some part of it covered by green mist
Ophis grin when she saw the image "looks like we finally found our destination, Helghan. The home of Helghast people"
Regret perked up when her master confirmed her next destination "Really? I never thought you want to go back to that place again"
"You kidding me? Of course I want to go back to that place I… we did so much to that planet to the point I considered it as my second home" Ophis said dreamily "Man I wonder how Helghan this day!"
"Yeah me too, I wonder how the soldier I personally trained doing today. How long we've been gone?"
"Twelve years, Regret, Twelve years… damn times sure flies fast I wonder how's Visari doing these day" Ophis said but keeping the last part to herself
"…Master can I asked something?" Suffer clearly confused by sudden happiness
"Go ahead, Suffer"
"Why do you look so happy? And what is Helghan?" the hooded servant asked
"Ah yes, I recruited you eight years ago right? Well I guess it's time for a quick history lesson. Ten year before I recruit you, I visited this realm with Regret and we… gift the people of Helghan their long lost desire… a place to call home" Ophis explained and quickly draw magic circles with glyphs the magic circle than projects a hologram of Milky-way galaxy
"Now, Helghan is a planet located at this…" she touch certain part of the galaxy with her thumb and her index finger before making a 'zoom' gesture, in response to her fingers the galactic map zoom to a star system known as Alpha Centauri revealing two earth-sized planets "… star system along with a planet name Vekta. Vekta more or less is a clone of Earth while Helghan is harsh and uninhabitable planet with many valuable minerals. Both of this planet once controlled by a wealthy company named Helghan Corporation a massive energy, industry and mining conglomerate dedicated to make a better place for the earth colonies of Vekta and Helghan-"
Suffer cut-off "Wait what happened on earth?"
Regret quickly answer "World War 3 happened and before you ask not that 'World War 3' we watched seconds ago no, this realm's World War 3 occurred in 2055 – 2059 the aftermath of the war caused the humanity to lose too many of their resources and land forcing them to go to space exploration to find another resources that's why you can see human colonizing Vekta and Helghan. Also just to lighting up master's job, in 2116 Helghan Corporation realised the economic importance managed to win a colonialization right allowing them to colonized Alpha Centauri System"
"I see… sorry for cutting you off please continue master"
"Nah, its fine and thanks Regret." Ophis said
"Anyway, in 2129 The Helghan Corporation's colonies land on Vekta and established civilization on it along with the years that comes by Helghan Corporation reached their platinum age at the year of 2190." Ophis touch the earth-clone planet to reveal some kind of holographic timer and she set the time back to 2190 to reveal a beautiful city with many futuristic design
"During the interval of 2129 - 2190 Helghan Corporation changed itself into Helghan Administration and even managed stockpiled their money to buy the right of Alpha Centauri system. UCN –United Colonial Nations an organization dedicated to watch over humanity and their colonies- who short on money and drooling over the amount of zeroes in it quickly accepted leaving the Alpha Centauri Completely under Helghan Administration control leaving them flourishing" Ophis smiles
"And as a sign of goodwill, in 2133 the Helghan Administrator agreed to funds the ISA –Interplanetary Strategic Alliance- a body that allowed individual colonies the ability to integrate defensive capabilities to their specific requirements as well as enjoy full partnership in a unified defensive alliance of multiple colonies." Ophis continued
"However" Ophis zoom out the system and swipe the map to Sol System and zoom out on earth and revealed several peoples on meeting
"Their ruling Organization, UCN begin to worry about the Helghan Administration's stranglehold on the economy and any autonomy demands other colonies might demand. They also become frustrated that the Helghan Administration is profiting off colonial endeavours that the UCN itself has underwritten. So that's why they issued to strengthen their army, United Colonial Army or UCA. They also made a new taxes and regulations which ends up revoking Helghan Administration's contract they sold to them 74 years ago" Ophis said frown marring her face
"The Helghans refuse this, and tried to talks with the UCN but fails since both organization and corporation do not budge on tariffs and Self-defense."
Ophis zoom out from Earth back to Alpha Centauri system and touch Vekta and set the timer to 2199 revealing a man on a podium giving speech to the people of Vekta "Then on 2199, The Helghan Administration declares Alpha Centauri is an Independent entity which sparks a war beetwen UCN and Helghan Administration"
Ophis reset the timer again to 2204 this time the image of destroyed fleets and space stations "The end of the war is devastating…" Ophis said solemnly "While the UCA and ISA suffered minimum casualties the Helghan however is suffered the worst as their soldier didn't receive a proper training and losing a lot of their assets"
"What! How come they didn't trained their soldiers properly? In a worlds like this they at the very least should've receive training basic military training! It is just the same as sending civilian with guns to war" Suffer roared seemingly angered and disagree with the Helghan Administration decision to go to war
"Simple Suffer, they were a peaceful Colony"
Suffer blinked two times "What?"
"Helghan Administration were a peaceful colony" Ophis repeated "they were an organization dedicated to provide their people with better life. They may have weapons but the sole purpose is to defend their home planet not to wage war and their 'military' were mostly Polices and Volunteers"
"Then why declared a war with UCN?"
"Good question. In the eyes of UCN, Helghan Administrator reap profit from their hub system from every colonies that visisted Vekta and they seems to 'Stole' many of earth-origin Shipbuilders with their fortune while in the eye of Helghan Administrator they saw UCN has gone mad because they suffered economic depression and will do 'anything' to fill their pocket. With that set in mind the Helghans declared war against UCN to defend their people"
"I see… then what happened to the Helghans?"
Ophis zoom out from Vekta and move the map toward Helghan, The harsh planet with ferocious storms and electrifying skylines. And set the timer with a range from 2209 – 2347 and multiple image coming up none of the images are pleasant many of the pictures are sick Helghans
"After UCN and the ISA seized their all of the Helghan Administration's assets and everything they got including their home planet Vekta. After that, they commenced a 'Greatest Exodus in History of All Mankind' as they put it, to Helghan"
"Forced to leave their original home, took their wealth for their own greed… unbelievable" Suffer said "and for one hundred and thirty eight year? They managed to survive this hellhole by a sheer willpower alone? I'm impressed" Suffer complimented
"They don't have willpower Suffer just an empty husk living their day waiting someone to save them" Regret corrected
"What do you mean?"
Regret look at his master gesturing 'may i?'
Ophis nod her head "sure go ahead"
"Thank you master" Regret move toward the galactic map and took some pictures and move it forward
"During the course of the year 2209 – 2230 the people of Helghan started to face many Issues including health and economic Issue. The health Issue is already common occurrence as many of them started to getting sick due to the Helghan's harsh environment and the economic Issue reached its peak at 2230 when the need of maintenance cost for their recently Upgraded factories arise, combine with continuous embargoes and larger populations caused the lack of vital supplies. This, made the peoples to grow more resentful towards the ISA and their collaborators and at the same time lose their faith on Helghan Administration since they can't handle the situation as good as before they were as good as dead"
"Wait hold on" Suffer cut off "I thought master said UCN they're having problem with, why they grow more resentful on the ISA?"
"One, after the end of the war, Vekta was handed over by the UCN to the ISA to watch over Alpha Centauri activities. Two, the ISA were the one who put embargoes on Helghan and instigated an unfair trade with them and three, they killed the most during the war" Regret quickly answered
"Damn… Continue Regret"
"Okay now, I forgot what the exact date, but around 2347," Regret picked a picture of a man in his fifties with bald head and wearing a decorated black coat
"a single titular figure named Scolar Visari -a politic ambitious man- arise by gathering the people of Helghan giving them hope for the future. And at the same time initiated a coup by overthrowing almost-defunct Helghan Administration and seized control all over Helghan and proclaimed himself as the Autarch of Helghan and change the name of the humans live in Helghan as the Helghast" Regret continued
'Helghast… Haunting spirit from hell' Suffer thought
"And around this time Master and I enter this world to fulfill their long lost desired, home" Regret finished as he put back the picture back and close the holographic map
"I see… just one question though"
"What is it Suffer?"
"Why did you and Master decided to help them? I can deduced that under the leadership of this Schoolar-"
""Scolar"" Regret and Ophis cut her off correcting the younger member
"Uh… right Scolar Visari. Under his leadership the Helghast will probably went into Ultranationalist-Totalitarian Militaristic Empire state since Visari is a man who looks very ambitious not to mention vengeful and bitter person. Why or rather what made you want to help them Master" Suffer asked
"…" Ophis close her eyes for a seconds "Because I saw myself in them" Ophis turn around facing the image of Helgan on the Swirling gateway
"They remind me of what I'd become over a millennia ago… vengeful… bitter… defeated…" Ophis said solemnly "and look what happened to my home world just because of this three simple negative emotions" Ophis said sadly 'and to my family'
Ophis turn her gaze back to Suffer "That's why I decided to lead them back to the right way… not because I want to avoid war with the UCN and the ISA hell no those bastards deserve to be taught a lesson for their unfair trade toward the Helghast especially at 2330 – 2350!" Ophis exclaimed "Sorry. But it's because they have mislead toward the side of evil and clouded by Visari's vision of vengeance completely disregarding their ancestor's vision of peace and I need to correct that before it leads to the same path I took"
"I see… thank you for the exposition master, for a second I thought you were supporting their ideas of war"
"Heh… your welcome Suffer, can't blame you though… Visari's do looks like a depressed bad guy with bald head and frowny face" that made Ophis and her servant laughs
It was true though. A decade in Helghan made Ophis and Regret pretty close with the Autarch of Helghan to the point where one might consider them as best friends but damn… The Autarch of Helghan is a freaking ice cube never once they rarely saw him smile, never once they saw him crack a joke even during his free time, and always put the same frown on his face
It frustrated Ophis to the point where she's almost say 'Fuck It' and proceed to pinch his cheeks so bad before scrunch it with her bare hands while screaming 'come on smile GODDAMNIT!'
But Ophis was better than that, ripping a page from her second mother-turns-into-Aunt figure she just decided to get along with it while throwing some jabs at the cold Autarch
"So what did you do at Helghan?"
"Oh nothing big, I only created several three or five layered-massive transmutation magic circle complete with elemental glyphs fuelled by Regret's Senjutsu here and there and deployed it" Ophis said casually
Suffer's eyes widened "Nothing big? NOTHING BIG?! Master that five layered magic circle enough to cover roughly 25% of planet's surface with nothing but healthy vegetation! What you did was terraforming their toxic home planet into THIRD earth! That's not something you simply considered 'Nothing Big'! You must be-" as Suffer ranted on Ophis couldn't help but smile at her achievement on Helghan
The hatred of Helghast people mostly revolves around ISA and their allies especially the UCN for taking their original home of Vekta and let the ISA occupied it like it was their own property while the founder were shunned and oppressed by them
Honestly, Ophis didn't really mind if the Helghast decide to attack Vekta to reclaim their home however as told before, if they really let their hatred grow uncheck it will cause something they will regret on the future
So that's why she decide to made Helghan their home by Terraforming it into 'third earth' and made them realise their ancestor true motive behind the colonization plan
"Master, are you listening to me?"
Ophis snapped back into reality and blinked at her servant "I'm sorry did you say something?"
Regret snickered at her master response totally ignoring his partner rants
Suffer seems to grow a tick mark at her master realising she ignoring her the whole time. She was so ready yell in frustration but hold it in
"It's nothing, never mind it"
Ophis blinked "Sorry for ignoring you but I heard the first one. I see no big deal in it besides I'm doing this so they can enjoy what they never felt before I rather considered it as community service than a god giving them their blessings" Ophis explained
"Anyway we're wasting time here let's end the history lesson and step into this world" as Ophis finished, both of her servants walks towards her while Ophis locked her next destination
After confirming her next destination both Ophis and her servants were covered in bright light. Her last thought before completely gone from Dimensional Gap were:
"I wonder how's my little princess doing all these years?"
(AN: So, what do you think? is it good or bad? please leave me a review. Criticism is accepted, flame will be delete or i'm going to use it to grill my chicken for my dinner tonight. Rectha101 signing off)