AN: Welcome to another chapter of "Dimensional Shift". I'm really sorry about the very late update. A lot of things came up so I didn't have time to write. Well now we're back with Azure and the others who just escaped the academy city of Torifune. There they have made allies and those of Ragna's finally got to see the cruelty of Kira first hand. Now aboard the ship they had a surprise they didn't see coming, before them Amaterasu stands in all her glory and beauty. In this chapter we will meet the last person that fully completes Kira's highest rank and I will give information on Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi.

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Chapter 12: Corrupted Hope

Izanagi, Izanami, Tsukuyomi, Amaterasu and Susanoo are the five gods known in legend to watch over the world. Their existence not proven and to the common people they do not exit or they are subjects of mythology. Somewhere along the line in Azure's world someone was willing to cross the line to bring forward these entities. Slowly the truth begins to come to light as once more another goddess appears before them. Tsukuyomi, Amaterasu and Izanami are the known gods that have been found so far. So a question rises, why do these gods who did not live among them appear?

"Well well so there is another unbelievably powerful person here?" asked Azrael with a slight grin on his face as he looked at Kanade who's hair resembled flames. He was tired even if he hated to admit it and fighting anything at this moment would be suicide even for him. But it did interest him that beings of this caliber were standing before him.

"Indeed I am, I am sorry for this sudden revelation. I thought it would be more appropriate to keep myself hidden and reveal myself when situations had gotten quite dire" Amaterasu said with a smile on her face.

"So a giant monster trying to kill us doesn't count as a "dire situation"?" asked Terumi with his eyebrow slightly twitching in anger.

"Well It seemed you all had it under control..." said Amaterasu with an awkward smile.

"I must say, even I didn't predict these chain of events" Rachel said as she closed her eyes and let out a sigh. She then looked towards Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu who were standing next to each other.

"Another pain in the ass" said Kokonoe as she sighed. She then looked towards Azure who for some reason seemed to be less surprise than the others. This raised a question in Kokonoe's mind but she decided to keep it a bit for later.

"I am sorry if we are a bother to you, miss Kokonoe" said Tsukuyomi as she bowed her head in front of Kokonoe. "Geez these damn goddesses got way too much manners" Kokonoe thought as she let out a sigh.

"Oh are my "manners" a problem?" said Tsukuyomi with a slight grin on her face. Her long hair was being blow by the wind since the ars vessels that Kokonoe brought had an open deck you could head to. They were all standing there taking a break, the only ones who could not be seen present were Noel and Celica who were helping with the wounded.

"Don't read my damn mind" said Kokonoe as she let out another sigh, this time out of annoyance. She certainly disliked the thought of having someone in her mind knowing what she was thinking. Although she was always in someone else's business.

"This is surprising though. Who would've thought that there was another goddess among us and we didn't even realize it" said Jubei who then began to laugh. No one had ever passed his sharp senses but Amaterasu made it seem easy.

"I am sorry, I had to stay hidden although it sees someone already knew I was about my existence" said Amaterasu as she smiled and looked towards Azure. The others turned their head towards his direction and he begins to look nervous.

"What are all of you looking at?" asked Azure trying to play it off. In all honesty he had accidentally discovered something that he was not suppose to about a day ago. He decided to keep it to himself because he himself was unable to understand it. He let out a deep sigh and looked at the others expecting to receive the question he knew was coming.

"What is she talking about Azure?" asked Kokonoe. She already had her suspicions but now was time for her to get some answers. With a sigh Azure began to talk.

"Ok I admit it, I might've accidentally seen Amaterasu while she was asleep", everyone raised their eyebrow in confusion because they couldn't understand what he meant. "Considering how you guys look confused I will tell you what happened. It was the day before the mission..."

(Flashback...)

'These two really need to find a better pillow' Azure thought as he smiled. He slowly made his way out of bed and he slowly made his way out of bed and headed toward his sword. 'Might as well practice a little bit more since I can't sleep' thought Azure as he grabbed his sword. Suddenly a red like light begins to glow behind him and he turns his head.

"What the!?" he said as he looked towards the bed. Nu's hair was orange and seemed to be up in flames. 'What the heck is going on?' he thought but before he had a chance to figure out what was going on Nu returned to normal and the glowing stopped. "I have no idea what is happening but guess Imma make believe I never saw that. Well I will head to the garden...", he slowly made his way towards the door with the thought of what happened still in mind.

(Flashback end...)

"That's why I'm not so surprised. What happened that night wasn't normal so that's why I had my suspicions" said Azure as he let out a sigh and scratched his head.

"Why didn't you tell us?" asked Ragna as he looked at Azure.

"If I knew what I saw was a goddess having a nice dream I would've been more than happy to tell you guys about it. But since I had no idea what I witnessed, if I told you guys it would be like I said I saw a ghost but I can't prove it" Azure froze at the last word of his sentence.

"Couldn't you pick a better comparison" asked Ragna with a discomforted look on his face. Azure had the same look on his face and their reactions gained them some laughs out of the others lifting their spirits up seeing everyone was alright.

"You two are two birds of the same feather" said Jubei with a laugh. "Who would've figured that the fearless Ragna the BloodEgde and Azure would be afraid of ghosts".

"We're not afraid!" retorted Azure and Ragna in unison.

"Oh no look out! There is a ghost behind you!" said Rachel with a worried look on her face. Azure and Ragna jumped, turned around and closely held their swords in their hands. They both had a terrified look on their face and everyone on deck were laughing at their reactions.

"This shit is priceless!" said Terumi as he held his stomach out of laughing so much. "To think that the guy who wiped out an entire battalion and beat me to a pulp is afraid of a damn ghost" said Terumi as he began to stop laughing but Azure had a look on his face and if looks could kill that would be an instant kill.

"Oh want me to beat you to a pulp again?" asked Azure as a black aura surrounding him. He had told himself that Terumi was essential but right now he was starting to regret his decision.

"Now all of you calm down, it was a simple joke" said Valkenhayn as he let out a sigh. "Now we have more important matters to attend to", he then closed his eyes and began to stare at Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu. "There has been a repetitive pattern of people who survived Azure's world, and one thing I've realized".

"And what might that be?" asked Relius as he pushed his mask up. This was catching his interest, he also had noticed that there has been a pattern. But since he didn't know much about Azure and his world he couldn't just spout out anything that came to mind.

"Although this might be just me over thinking things, but haven't you all notice that those who came from Azure's world contain a goddess within them?", at that moment they all came to a sudden "aha" moment. He had a point and one that couldn't be overwritten and this then led Rachel to talk.

"You are indeed correct, and with this assumption in mind couldn't we also said that Azure might also have a higher being within him?" Rachel asked with a slight smirk on her face. Everyone looked at Azure who seemed like a lost sheep in a forest full of wolves.

"This might just be stereotypical, but I've noticed that all those with goddesses, gods or whatever have a different hair and eye color that differ from their original one" Kagura said as he leaned against a wall and put his game face on. "Thinking in this mindset Azure could actually have something inside him".

"That is impossible" Azure cut in. "The reason for this look is because of the black beast. When I met him in the boundary I still had the same look as the me of this world. But when I absorbed his power I go this look" Azure said as he looked at Kagura who then went back to thinking.

"Tis not impossible" Tsukuyomi finally cut in. "Something of that nature is highly possible for the beast had no play in those eyes of yours" she said with a smile on her face. "If you do not believe me ask the beast himself". Azure closed his eyes and called out to the black beast and a dark voice answered and everyone could hear its voice.

"You called?" the beast asked in it's usually voice. "This better be important you woke me up from a nice dream" the beast said with an annoyed tone.

"First off, You can dream!?" asked Azure stunned and confused. If the beast is him and he is the beast how can the beast sleep yet he was awake. He was getting himself confused by thinking of a logic that explained this until the beast answered his question.

"Of course I am able to sleep. I am no different from you. You draw out my power so occasionally I get tired since you are a reckless person. Because of this I finally decided to rest for a while" the voice explained in a high and mighty tone.

"Ok ok I get it. You need your beauty sleep" said Azure as he let out a sigh. "What were you dreaming about anyways?" Azure asked in curiosity his instincts though told him that he was not going to like the answer he was about to get.

"Nothing much, just dreamed about the good old days of devouring the world" the beast said in a ferocious tone. Everyone sweat dropped at this except Hakumen who was ready to unsheathe his sword and cut Azure down right there if necessary.

"O...k, did not need to know that" said Azure as he let out a sigh. "Black beast, aren't you responsible for the way I look right now?" Azure asked trying to decipher Tsukuyomi's words.

"Indeed I am, my power changed you but if you are talking about those eyes you have, those were not my doing. Your eyes were meant to be red and ferocious, as for why it turned into such a boorish sight I don't know" the beast said in what seemed to be a bored tone. It didn't care much about the goddesses as it did about finding out who the person inside Azure was so it bid it's goodbye. "I will leave now I have more important matters to take care of"

"Matters like what?" asked Azure.

"That's what I am trying to figure out" the beast said and then it left.

"Wow anyone confused by that?" asked Makoto as she finally came to the deck.

"Welcome back" said Tsubaki of Ragna's world.

"Well that was quite helpful..." said Izanami as she took over Saya's body once more. Her hair turned violet and her eyes red once again. "I must say I do not understand what is happening anymore so would you two tell us what is happening?" she asked as she turned to Amaterasu and Tsukuyomi.

"Certainly we would, but we ourselves can't actually explain it" Amaterasu said with a smile. "But our vessels know what is happening even if they themselves do not know the actual truth", she then turned to Tsukuyomi who nodded.

Tsukuyomi closed her eyes and then when she opened it again her personality had changed again. She had reverted back to the familiar personality which Azure had known for so long.

"Azure I will tell you what I know so far" Tsubaki from Azure's world said. But before she was able to talk she was stopped by Azure saying "Wait"

"Before we start...Tsubaki what of the others" Azure ask hoping to hear that someone else was alive.

"I'm sorry...They all fought until their last moments, Tsubaki then created a small rift and pulled one of Kokonoe's hologram devices and gave it to Azure. "Here take it...These were the last words they wanted to tell you..."

"Voice Code require. Impute voice code" the device spoke.

"May the flames of Justice protect this world" Azure said. the device began to open like a flower and a hologram of Terumi with one arm, blood coming out of his mouth appeared.

(Hologram plays...)

"Will this work?" asked the bloody Terumi as he turned his head to talk to someone.

"Shit hurry up, I don't care if it's working or not we can't hold them off at this rate" another voice answered, a voice that sounded like Kokonoe's voice.

"Is sleeping beauty asleep?" A voice which was undoubtedly Azrael asked. Ragna and the others are now intently staring at the hologram trying to find out more about their parallels counterparts. So far they understood one thing, that this must've been their last struggle.

"Shes inside the capsule, we just need to put it on autopilot so it will go to the ship which will take her to the boundary by itself. The ship is sturdy but it's going to be a rough ride, hopefully she makes it alive" Konoe said as she came close to the hologram. "Now say what you need to say, If Ragna manages to survive he can at least know the truth".

" Fine I will make this quick. Hey Ragna...Shit gotta say I've seen better days than this. The battle here is almost over and I gotta say it's not looking well". Terumi then began to cough out some blood and swore under his breath. "That bastard Kira did a number on us. He didn't kill us but he left us for dead. His damn army is here to finish the job and I have to say I am sure that we are not going to make it out of here alive" Terumi then let out a sigh and began to talk again. "We are sending your sleeping beauty Tsubaki to the world Kira will head to. Knowing how hard it is to kill you, so I am hoping you make it to that world as well. Oh and for the record I know she took your first kiss".

At that moment Azure and Tsubaki could feel heat rising to their cheeks. It was something that happened long ago but they had hoped that no one would ever figure it out. Well cats out the bag now and while this is something that is serious the atmosphere got a little awkward after Terumi's word.

"Terumi the capsule has been loaded, Tsubaki's on board shes ready to be sent to the Ark" Konoe's words could be heard.

"Well this is goodbye asshole good luck and survive. The fate of the worlds depends on you three. I can't explain anymore but I hope this will refresh your memory, Stop the Dimensional Shift or all is lost" suddenly the hologram closed at the sound of a rocket taking off.

"Did they make it?" asked Azure knowing full well the answer but he just wanted a conformation.

"I don't know...I woke up on the Ark and I was all alone and all power to the systems offline. Even the AI. I'm sorry..." Tsubaki said as she looked down. Suddenly Azure hugged her and slowly she began to let out all the bottle feelings. Even Kanade began to cry, their world was lost and their friends gone. Even a man made of steel would cry at something like this.

"My condolences" said Izanami as she bowed her head. She could feel that sting in her heart she felt when Azure looked like this. But this time it couldn't be helped, even Terumi himself kept his mouth shut. No one in the right mind would be acting at any disrespectful way.

"It's ok Tsubaki...It's not your fault. None of us could do anything" Azure clenched his fist at his own weakness and he became lost in thought, until he was snapped back into reality by a question, "The Question".

"Azure, What exactly is the Dimensional Shift" Izanami asked. Azure took a deep breath and began to think about how to explain the thing he wanted to forget most, the thing that led them to stop the System which watched over the whole world.

Imperator Room, NOL's Main Branch...

"Hikaru any news on Shuu?" KIra asked in a bored tone. Ever since he leveled Torifune there was no action and there were no news of his favorite opponent, Azure. As for Shuu he was the second in command. Nothing much was known about him but the only person who knew everything about him was Kira. They were like birds of a feather evil was their middle name and they were evil you did not want to play with.

"If you are talking about that clown I have not seen him" said Hikaru in an angry tone. This got her a chuckle from her master. He was always amused about how she reacted to Shuu, but the way she acted to someone else who will later be mentioned was more interesting to him.

"Hmm, that is quite strange. All I did was order him to retrieve the body of that vessel of Izanami from that rumble. I wonder if something came up" said Kira as he let out a sigh.

"How about the fact that the world was left in ruins and I had to keep the body safe and unscathed" a voice rang from the door and a man with black hair, black jacket, and a scythe walked into the room.

"How good of you to show up" said Kira with a smile. "You had me worried there for a moment" his smile than turned into a smirk and he looked at Shuu who just let out a sigh and looked at Kira with a frown.

"Next time let me finish the job first before you blow the shit out of the planet. I mean I almost freaking died! Screw you asshole!" Shuu yelled at the top of his lung.

"Watch your tongue!" said Hikaru as she drew her blade. Shuu smiled at her with a smile that looked really more like a smirk and she let out a sigh. Kira was still trying to figure out what was the relationship between these two. They were amazingly strong but the most surprising fact is that they never got along.

"Calm down I was only joking" said Shuu as he let out a sigh. But I gotta ask why did you want the body of this girl?" Shuu asked as he looked at the capsule behind him which contained the body of the Saya of Azure's world. He wondered why Kira wanted this body so badly.

"Oh don't worry you will know soon, I am just happy you brought her to me"

"Well whatever" said Shuu as he sighed. "I know you want me to do another job, that is the only reason you would worry about me. So what is it this time?" asked Shuu as he looked at Kira.

"Tsukuyomi" Kira said. Those words alone gave Shuu an idea of what Kira wanted. Shuu then smirk and looked towards Kira.

"Where is she?"

"She is aboard a Ars Vessel. Capture her and kill the others, make sure Bang Shishigami and Azure are surely dead" at the name Shuu twitched a bit and nodded. "Hikaru you go with him too to make sure he doesn't do anything stupid". Hikaru nodded and the two walked side by side out the room.

"Well then let's see if these two have what it takes" Kira said as a evil grin formed on his face. He began to laugh at how smoothly his master plan was working so far.

"So what is our plan of action Shuu?" asked Hikaru as she sighed. From past experience she knew that every time she worked with him he always did something else from what Kira had ordered. This alone gave her a feeling that it wasn't going to be any different from the other times.

"Well we are going to try to catch Tsukuyomi but I feel like we might fail. Because of this I have a plan B" a smirk crept up to Shuu's face and his eyes looked ferocious.

"And what is this second plan you have?" Hikaru asked but she wasn't expecting him to answer and she was right. The only thing he told her was, "Wait you will find out soon. Let's bring home a new comrade I feel like making things a bit more fun". With what Shuu said in mind Hikaru was trying her best to not guess what was going to happen because she had a feeling that she really was not gonna like it.

"Ok I will tell you what the Dimensional Shift is but first let me ask you this. Considering all these events are happening without interruption I can guess Takamagahara has been shut down right?" Azure asked as he looked at Terumi for an answer.

"Yep we shut those all mighty pieces of shit down, but what is it to you and the explanation" Terumi asked in an amused voice. This pissed Azure off because it reminded him of good old Terumi that trolled him multiple times.

"See the idea with the Dimensional Shift came with shutting down Takamagahara" Azure said with a sigh.

"Explain further" Izanami said and Azure continued on.

"In the world I came from the same thing happen. Izanami shut down Takamagahara which let the events that came after to happen without interruptions. But after the war is over we did the most stupidest thing we could have done" Azure said as he look towards the sky and let out a sigh of grief.

"What happened?" Celica who came in along side Noel asked. The others looked towards the two who finally came back. Noel seemed exhausted and Celica seemed worst, probably from healing multiple people. They were greeted and they stood along side the other to hear the story.

"We restarted Takamagahara after the fighting and the revolution ended" Tsubaki from Azure's world said. "We decided to restart it but under one condition Takamagahara was not to interrupt or intervene with the events of the world anymore. They were to let history run its course without intervention" Tsubaki explained further and where she stopped Azure picked up.

"They agreed to the conditions and we were fools to believe them. Takamagahara still had the goal to create the perfect world in mind and with this they created the D.S Plan" said Azure as he closed his eyes.

"I'm guessing that stands for Dimensional Shift" Kagura said.

"Yes, that is correct" Tsubaki added. "After Konoe and Relius got a hold of these plans they immediately reported it to Ragna who you now call Azure. After finding out what exactly the Dimensional Shift was Azure couldn't exactly let it happen because he was a leader and it was his job to protect the people."

"Wait Ragna actually cared for the people who tried to kill him?" Terumi asked with a smirk only to get smacked in the head by Azure. The others couldn't help themselves but smile at the sight. Terumi finally found someone who could actually keep Terumi in like.

"We shut down Takamagahara for good because of that and we put and end to the plan. But if Terumi said those words it means all this is related to the Dimensional Shift somehow" Azure said as he let out a sigh.

"Ok we understand the background but we still cannot understand what exactly the Dimensional Shift is" Relius stated and the others agreed with him and Azure took a deep breath and started to explain the madness which was the Dimensional Shift.

"There are many timelines and each timeline or world has a different story. This is something most of you understand now" said Azure as he looked at the other. "The Dimensional Shift wasn't just the name of the plan it was the name of the event. When the Dimensional Shift happens all the worlds or timelines come together to form a new timeline. A brand new one and the person who creates the new world chooses the rules and laws. They can make it to their own paradise if they wanted to" Azure said with a serious look.

"And what happens to the other timelines that existed kid?" Jubei asked with a pretty good feeling about what Azure might say.

"The other timelines disappear, well more like are destroyed. Everything get's blown to smithereens and a new world is born. Much like the Big Bang." Azure stated. The others stared in complete shock that their lives were at risk this whole time and they never realized it.

"Something like that is just mad!" said Rachel in disbelief. Izanami planning to create a world of death was bad but someone planning to kill every parallel world for their goals was even worst. It was madness with no end and the fact that Takamagahara came out with such a plan made it even worst.

"Is such a thing even possible?" Azrael asked. He wasn't much into this but the fact that someone was planning to use his life for their own goal was something he wanted to know more about.

"It's possible with the right things needed for it" Azure stated.

"What do you mean?" Ragna finally asked.

"For the Dimensional Shift to properly work you would need a stable power source. In their case they planned to make me unleash the Azure Grimoire and use it's power to do it. Apparently It didn't go as they wanted it to so their plans were foiled" Azure said with a sigh of relief. He certainly didn't want to be used as a freaking battery. "But if Kira is planning to do the same thing he would need an unbelievable amount of power" Azure said plainly.

"He is and they do have the power source" Amaterasu finally spoke. She walked gracefully over to Azure and stood face to face with him, "The power source is us the gods and goddesses", this few words opened everything up to Azure and he knew exactly why Kira went after Saya. He couldn't believe how blind he had been, and that sole fact explained a lot about why Kira would be here.

"What do you mean?" Izanami asked Amaterasu but the person who answered her was Tsubaki who was now back to being Tsukuyomi.

"Tis quite simple. Takamagahara notice that Azure's power was not quite enough. Because of this they invented a second plan and a second person to carry it out if the they should fail" Tsukuyomi said as she closed her eyes. She then looked to the night sky where the moon had slowly begun to appear.

"And that's Kira right?" Terumi said with an unhappy look on his face. No one tries to kill him and gets away with it. Ok maybe Azure but that was an exception to him, it's not like he could do anything about it at the moment.

"Correct" Amaterasu said with a smile that made half of the male on board feel their heart flutter. Some girls who noticed this "snapped" the boys out of it if you understand what I mean. Kagura learned what real pain was, Jin learned the "weight of justice"(got hit by a Izayoi's book), Ragna found out how accurate Noel could be and Azure learned how much a Murakumo sword weighted

"O-ok so ignoring all this pain he was planning to use you all as a power source right?" Kagura asked as he slowly got up from where he had been beaten down. It was so fast he didn't even see who hit him.

"Correct" Tsukuyomi said.

"How many god and goddesses did they summon?" Makoto asked.

"It should be four in total" Rachel added in. "In accordance to Azure's story Izanami already existed there. So with this idea in mind Susanoo, Izanagi, Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu were left" she said as she let out a sigh.

"Indeed, four were summoned but in all honesty only four are needed to provide the power needed" Tsukuyomi said.

"With that in mind why would he go to all the trouble to acquire another goddess if he already had four?" Ragna asked this time.

"Because there was one of us he could not handle" Amaterasu added. "That god was Izanagi, and his power was something that Kira could not handle. We don't know why but Izanagi overpowered his control multiple times so he left him as a pedestal" Amaterasu added in what seemed as a sad tone.

"What became of him?" Valkenhayn asked.

"I do not know"

"I have a question" Azure said finally speaking again. "Do you guys mean those pedestals within Takamagahara?"

"Yes that is correct. Why do you ask?" Tsukuyomi asked.

"Oh boy I think I know how those two became your vessels now" Azure said with a sigh.

"Indeed, we came in possession of them when they raided Takamagahara"

"Now that explains why I kept seeing the pedestals disappear one by one that day. Well they do say you will eventually find out in all due time, guess they were right" then something suddenly hit Azure. "Wait there were three pedestals which means one god or goddess was missing" Azure said and this caught everyone's attention.

"What does that mean?" Noel asked innocently.

"It means Kira has one of the gods in possession. It might be possible it's Susanoo but we still can't rule out Izanagi. With this in mind Kira has one god and one is missing" Azure stated.

"But why is he here?" Terumi asked.

"He killed the Izanami of your world, he's probably looking for a replacement" Relius said.

"That's exactly correct" a Random voice said from above. They all looked up towards where the voice came from only to see Hikaru which they already knew along side a man in black who had a scythe with him. "Yo nice to see you again miss Amaterasu" he said happily and Amaterasu's smile turned into an angry look. "Now, now don't be like that. We had so much fun in our last meeting. You almost killed me too which was so much fun" Shuu said in a grin that resembled Kira's.

"You are sick. I thought I killed you, you monster!" Amaterasu said as she drew her blade.

"Aww aren't you going to use that Murakumo? Such a shame" Shuu sighed and slowly descended to the ship. Everyone backed away since he was someone who was foreign to them so they did not know what he was capable of. "Now now don't need to be such scary cats. I only came here today to retrieve lady Tsukuyomi" he said as he let out a sigh.

"You knew where Amaterasu was this whole time!?" Hikaru screamed at Shuu and he sighed once more.

"Yes I did but I didn't want to capture her since I truly had a good fight with her. We can catch her next time is that ok with you princess?" he asked Hikaru only to receive a glare then a sigh.

"Fine we can do this your way this time" Hikaru said as she closed her eyes. Shuu smiled then grinned, but not at the target he had stated. He was looking straight at Azure and this gave Azure a bad feeling. In a blink of an eye Shuu was gone and appeared face to face with Azure. Azure Immediately backed up and took out his sword.

"Shit, that's what I call speed I didn't even see him coming. I better be careful or the next stop is my own coffin" Azure said as he became a bit nervous.

"Oh nice instincts" Shuu complimented. "I'm sorry but this might hurt a bit", in a blink of an eye he was gone again except when Azure notice this time there was a blade which seemed like the end of a scythe going straight through his gut.

Azure fell on his knees and began to spout out blood. He didn't see it coming and this hurt a lot more than Kira's for some reason. Azure could feel the pain and his consciousness slipping, but he did his best to stay awake.

"Azure!" Izanami, Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu screamed. The others tried to rush to his aid but were stopped by Hikaru.

"One more step and you die here" Hikaru said in an intimidating way but they were not willing to stop. Azrael suddenly jumped in but was blown away by Hikaru. Terumi, Valkenhayn and Jubei tried but they also suffered the same fate. With this the others observed that brute force alone was not going to get through her.

"Oh nice friends you have" Shuu said as he stared down at the bleeding Azure.

"T-thanks asshole" Azure said as he coughed out blood.

"Hmm this is why I was so interested in you. You're about to die yet you have so much spirit, this is the type of power we need" he turned towards Hikaru and smirk. "Hikaru imma need you to do your magical little thing" this made Hikaru's face turned red and shake her head uncontrollable.

"I refuse, I will do no such things!" Hikaru yelled in a flustered way.

"Come on this will help help Kira a loooot" Shuu said with a smile.

"What are you bastards planning?" Ragna asked trying to charge in but he was held back by Noel trying to stop him.

"Just stand there and watch the show" Shuu said.

"We won't let you!" Amaterasu said but when she charged in she found out she wasn't able to get close. A force field had surrounded the area where Azure was being kept and they couldn't break through. "Wha!?" Amaterasu asked stunned.

"Don't bother, Hikaru's barriers are the best. They are basically unbreakable, so if I were you I would just sit back and enjoy the show" Shuu said. Hikaru slowly began to approach Azure and kneeled in front of him.

"T-this i-is my f-first k-kiss y-you owe me for this. Bu-but since this is for my master it can't be help" Hikaru said in a low voice which only Shuu heard.

"Yeah yeah whatever just do it" Shuu said as he looked at the innocent girl. Suddenly Hikaru kissed Azure and everyone stood stunned. They had no idea how to process what they were seeing but Ragna noticed something was wrong. Azure's hair turned pure white again and his wound began to heal quicker. When Azure opened his eyes they were blood red and his personality seemed cold and not like himself. He extend his arm to Hikaru and helped the white haired beauty up.

"This is bad this is very bad" the black beasts voice sounded but not from Azure but from Amaterasu.

"What's wrong with Azure!?" Karin asked. This felt wrong, something about Azure seemed different and not just his looks but the aura around him had completely change.

"That girl has rewritten Azure's memory from zero. He doesn't know us the only thing going through his head is that he is part of their group" the Black Beast explained and this alone counted more for bad news than the fact that they couldn't help him. "He's blocked me out my voice can't reach him at this rate you will all be killed..."

"That's bad right?" Makoto asked.

"Not bad squirrel, very bad" Terumi said as a sweat drop appeared on his face.

"Can't this camera work on his?" Kirino asked Taking out the camera Azure used to snap the soldiers out of their mind control.

"Where did you acquire that?" Tsukuyomi asked remembering what Tsubaki had talked about the camera previously.

"I took it while he wasn't paying attention" Kirino stated plainly but before they could even make a plan the black beast cut them off.

"That won't do anything" he stated and the others looked confused. "He's not under any type of spell or mind control. They deleted his memory and put something new in, that won't have any effect on that"

"What do we do then?" Bullet asks.

"Hope they don't order him to sink this ship"

"Ah! Magnificent. A job well done Hikaru. The feat you have accomplished will help us immensily" Shuu said with a wide smile.

"But what do we do about Bang Shishigami?" Hikaru asked with her cheeks still red. He could not believe he made her use that power which she disliked so much, but as long as it was for her master it was fair game.

"Oh don't worry. Azure" Shuu turned his head towards Azure.

"As you wish" Azure said as he bowed. He slowly drew Kootenai. This sight proved that this was going to be bad for the others.

"Guys brace yourself here he comes" said Ragna as he drew BloodScythe.

"Azure do you recognize us?" asked Rachel hoping there was a little bit of sense in him.

"I do" this made the others smile a little. "Your are my enemies the one I must destroy" this made their look of happiness turned into one of horror.

"Sink the ship. Let's see if they can fly" Shuu commanded and Azure did as he was told.

-"Endless Requiem Of Darkness!" Azure yelled, his eyes emotionless and burning with bloodlust. The heads appeared and attack the deck of the ship penetrating the ship until coming out under the Ars Vessel. The ship slowly began to lose altitude and panic sprung onboard.

Ragna charged at Azure with everything he had. "Carnage Scissors!" Azure simply dodged it and attacked him right after. "Phantom Striker", this flung Ragna back who was caught by Azrael before he could fall overboard. Shun charged in but was easily parried and kicked backwards by Azure.

"This is not looking good" Kagura states. "We're all still exhausted we can't take him on even if we wanted it to"

"Dammit let's try this, Ouroboros!" Terumi yelled and finally the chain with the snake head at the end finally responded to his command. It headed straight to Azure who simply smacked it away with his sword. He charged at Terumi who dodge all of his attacks Terumi then jumped back and got ready to counterattack. "Eternal Coils of the Dragon Serpent!" the snake headed straight for Azure who countered it with a similar attack.

"Endless Requiem Of Darkness", the snakes and the heads of the black beast collided but the black beast proved to be stronger and overpowered Terumi's attack. Azure raced towards Terumi to land the final blow but Kagura intervened.

"Hey, hey I'm here too" Kagura said with a smirk.

"Then I shall destroy you too" Azure said emotionless.

"Geez gotta say liked you better the way you were before" Kagura said as he let out a sigh. The ship then began to shake and they noticed that they were losing more and more altitude.

"Oh this is our queue to leave" Shuu said as he got near Hikaru. "Come on Azure let's bail" Azure did a backflip and landed next to the two. "Till we meet again" Shuu said with a smirk on his face. The three then vanished leaving the ship falling to it's doomed.

"Such cowards!" Bang yelled.

"We didn't see your ass doing anything so lowed your damn voice" Terumi said.

"Azure..." Izanami said in the verge of crying.

"I know it hurts but there is nothing we can do" Ragna stated. "First we need to find a way out of this sinking boat. Civilians are safe but us and the soldiers left on this ship are done for if we don't do something" Ragna said trying to think of a way out of this mess.

"To think even the mongrel can say wise things at a time like this" Rachel said.

"Why you!?"

"You two less talking more getting the hell out of here" Makoto said and they nodded.

"I might have a way out" Tsukuyomi said.

"Really!?" the other asked.

"Hold on" Tsukuyomi said. She closed her eyes and just as the ship was about to make contact with a mountain the scenery changed. Ragna and the others along with the soldiers found themselves to be in something that looked like the inside of the ship.

"Woah...Where are we?" Kirino asked at the advancements inside the ship.

"Welcome to the Ark, one of the most powerful Ars Vessels in creation. This is the ship that transported Azure around and also the ship that brought me here" Tsubaki of Azure's world who was not back to her old normal self except for the white hair and the eyes stated.

"I know this is not what I should be asking but will you always look like that?" Luna asked.

"Yes, when you merge with a goddess you keep her looks" Tsubaki explained with a smile.

"Than that means Saya will also look like Izanami soon right?" Ragna asked.

"Ooh me like" Kagura said with a smirk only to be smacked by Makoto

"Hey can we focus here. Remember the enemy just got a 'Weapon of Destrucion' from us" Terumi stated. "To top it off we don't even know where they went" Terumi said sighning.

"Kokonoe you usually got this covered. Please tell us you have a tracking device on Azure?" Ragna asked hoping for the best.

"I...did but it's on the jacket which Saya is currently wearing" Kokonoe said with a sigh.

"Oh boy..." Noel said with an awkward smile.

"Well this is bad...if we don't find him we might have just lost this war" Tsubaki from Ragna's world said.

"And that is why we're also here. I transported us here so we could survive the sinking ship. But I also transported us here because this is the only place with the one thing that will always know where Azure is" Tsubaki said while walking. "Follow me", Ragna and the others began to follow her when a voice was heard from in front of them.

"Yay! Moon lady is back! And she brought Good Guy and some friend meow!" a certain Kaka stated.

"Tao, stop calling her that and she told you to behave" Carl said following after her. Carl's eyes then met with his father who stood behind Ragna. "Father!"

"Hmph" was Relius response.

"Oh boy" Ragna said as he face palmed. This meeting could either be a good thing or the worse possible thing to be happening.

Azure is now on the hands of the enemies and the fate of the world lies on a thin line. The search for him begins and on their way they have met up with Tao and Carl who can either prove to be a friend or an enemy, well only Carl can prove to be an enemy if he chooses. The race is on and time is ticking. What is this self proclaimed object which can find Azure? Will they be able to find Azure? Will they be able to stay on the Ark without blowing it to smithereens? Well you will find all this out next time. So until then.

AN: Phew that was a lot. Well I hope you all enjoyed it and I also hope you understood what the Dimensional Shift was. If you didn't understand you will understand it better next time when Tsukuyomi explains it again. We will also learn her skills next time sorry i didn't to it this time. Tsubaki of Azure's world will also gain a new name. So until then and thanks for reading. Bye! :)