Chapter 4: Finally

Author's Note: I made this chapter deliberately longer to make up for the shorter chapters prior to this one, so you'd better like this chapter (:-) Enjoy!

So Ainz waited for the night of the full moon, which was an extremely long wait for him, since when Aries had visited him, it had been the night of the new moon. He knew he was putting the other floor guardians and the Pleiades on edge, but he was just so anxious; on more than one occasion he'd snapped at them for breaking his train of thought, and had gotten Albedo so upset that she had fled from the room in tears, and wasn't seen for the rest of that day.

He would most certainly find a way to apologize to everyone, even if they, like the loyal servants to him they are, would say that he did nothing wrong.

And then, after so long, the night of the full moon came upon them. Ainz could hardly wait to see Miyako again, after all this time. He'd just finished a meeting with the floor guardians, who had each given him an analysis of what was going on their respective floors. The only interesting thing to be said was that Shalltear swore she had seen Pandora's Actor on her floor without him telling her he was going to be there, and Ainz made a mental note to talk to Pandora's actor about that. After the meeting, Ainz went to his business quarters and looked down at his Ring of Ainz Ooal Gown.

Even though Aries had made the means of getting to Miyako's guild sound simple, Ainz was still nervous. What if it didn't work, and he ended up stranded? But he had waited so long, a little bit of doubt wasn't going to stop him, so, throwing caution to the wind, he closed his eyes and thought of that one time he had gone to the guild, the day Miyako left.

When Ainz opened his eyes, he found himself in front of two tall silver doors with light gold branching through them, lacing the two doors together, and knew that he was here, in front of Nowg Laoo Snia, Miyako's Guild. Something about the atmosphere surrounding the place told him that it was invisible to the world.

Ainz hesitated for a second before gingerly knocking on the huge set of doors, and the next instant the gold untwined itself until it was on their respective doors, and the doors opened, revealing a long hallway with a high ceiling. Ainz took a deep breath (or whatever breathing was for a skeleton) before making his way through the threshold. As soon as Ainz entered, he heard the doors close shut behind him.

Ainz began to walk through the corridor. It was as silent as the grave, and he couldn't even see the end to it. After a while, it seemed as if the hall was never ending.

'Well, what if it is?' Ainz thought despairingly; he very vaguely recalled a discussion with Miyako around the time she had first started Nowg Laoo Snia about the different enchantments placed upon the structure, and he thought she might have said something about never-ending halls. It wasn't that he hadn't been paying attention. It was more that fact that it had been so long ago.

Ainz was just about losing hope when a huge shadow passed over him. Ainz looked up just in time to leap back as an immense black and white Barn Owl landed in front of him, from seemingly nowhere.

The Owl's eyes were large and pure ovals of black against a looming white face. Its long wings bordered its white chest, and its scythe-like talons clicked against the ground as it landed. The creature held itself upright, towering over Ainz, and looked down on him with an air of wisdom and slight arrogance.

"Ahh, a trespasser," The owl began to speak, in a slight drawl of a voice filled with grander. "Normally I would have already started attacking, but I sense an air of greatness from you, so I shall give you a small amount of time to leave, otherwise I will have no choice but to attack you."

Ainz mentally scoffed. This creature had another thing coming if he thought he could take on the Ainz Ooal Gown. But Ainz wasn't here to fight.

"Calm yourself, wise owl," Ainz began, raising his hand up to show that he meant no harm. "I come here in peace. I only wish to speak with Lady Izumi."

"How do you know Lady Izumi's last name?" The Owl asked, lowering his head so that him and Ainz where now eye to eye. The owl squinted his eyes.

"Unless…" The owl seemed to be thinking really hard, then its eyes widened until they were almost the size of little moons, and it gasped.

"Could it be…? Lord Ainz?" The owl stared unblinkingly at Ainz before spreading out his wings and lowering his head in what was obviously a bow.

"Forgive my behavior, I did not realize who you were," The owl said, looking up slightly from his bow.

Ainz gestured with his hands for the owl to rise. "The fault is mine. I should have told you who I was."

"Speaking of such, I should tell you who I am," The owl said as he put one of his wings over his heart. "I am the area guardian of the guild Entrance Hall and the guild Library, Wane, at your service."

Wane then lifted his head and let out a long, ear-splitting screech, and the air seemed to waver. Then it seemed to shatter as a huge door appeared in behind Wane. Wane stopped screeching and looked down at Ainz.

"I have raised the spell cast upon the hall, and these doors will lead us to the rest of the guild."

"Follow me," Wane ended, and Ainz walked past and opened the doors.

Beyond the threshold was a colossus dome, with the top seemingly opening up to outer space. Along the perimeter of the dome were ten magic circles, and in the middle of the dome stood three beings.

One of them he recognized immediately as Aries. The one next to her was a large hovering creature wearing a white, red and black dress from the medieval times and a heart shaped mask over her face. The creature that seemed to be conversing with the two turned around, and Ainz saw that it was an angelic creature similar to Albedo with the fact that black wings sprouted from its hips.

This creature wore a sleeveless black jacket over a white and black striped shirt. A long black skirt reached down to her knees, meeting with knee high high-heel boots. Atop her head was a top hat, and off to the side of her head was a halo with ten arrow like point jutting out and an inner halo inside of that halo. Her pupil lacking eyes were orange, fading to red, with black circling the iris.

"Wane," The angelic creature turned around and took a few steps forward, addressing the owl. "What is this?" Her voice was light and sounded as sweet as honey.

Wane bowed his head. "La Muerte. This is Lord Ainz. He has come to see Lady Izumi."

"Ah, I see," The angelic being in front of them known as La Muerte nodded, then bowed her head to Ainz.

"We are graced with your presence, Lord Ainz. I can take him from here, Wane." La Muerte addressed the last part to Wane.

Wane nodded. "As you wish," and with that, he turned around and walked back through the doors, the doors in question closing behind him.

"This way, Lord Ainz," Ainz turned around to face La Muerte and followed her to the Aries and the other creature. La Muerte gestured to the other two.

"This is the guardian of the second floor, Aries," La Muerte gestured at Aries, "and this is the guardian of the fourth, fifth, and sixth floor, Draega." The two guardians in question bowed to Ainz.

"We are graced by your presence," They both said, afterwards getting up and turning towards the magic circles. Aries went to the second one, and Draega went to the fifth one. Light began to circle around them, and the next second they were gone, having teleported.

La Muerte now turned to Ainz. "Lady Izumi's Throne Room is this way," she gestured towards a pair of doors he hadn't noticed before, and as they began to walk to them, the doors opened on their own, and the room on the other side took Ainz's breath away.

Like almost all the other places he had seen, the roof was high above them, to the point that he couldn't even see the top. The roof also seemingly opened up to the sky, displaying how it would look from the outside, with the sun narrowing in on the horizon, the blue having already turned into orange. The room itself was silver all around, with the floor being covered by a long, golden and white carpet. Like Ainz Ooal Gown, sticking out from each of the columns where banners representing each of members of Nowg Laoo Snia.

It took Ainz a few seconds, being in awe by his surroundings, to realize that besides him and La Muerte, there was someone else in the room, Ainz looked in front of him to see a huge cherry blossom tree, its black branches colored with beautiful pink stretching up to the ceiling, its black trunk growing from the very ground. Cradled safely in the curve of the roots was a silver throne, and sitting on that silver throne was none other than Miyako.

She and Ainz stared at eachother for a few moments. Then, Miyako smiled warmly at him, then finally spoke.

"Hello, Lord Ainz. It looks like we finally meet again, after so long."

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Yep, I'm leaving it there. I honestly wanted to continue it, but then I think it might have been too long, so I'm leaving it there.

I hope you enjoy it; I put a lot of effort into it, so you'd better like it!

Also, a question from me to you: Where do you think I got the inspiration for Wane from, because I did get it from somewhere. Let me know what you think in the comments, and I'll see you NEXT TIME! Peace! (:-)

-LunaRose2468