SORRY I'M VERY VERY LATE FOR THE UPDATE! Please forgive me, I have work and school... \(TAT)/
Anyway, the other reason for it to be late is because I am planning the sequel as well. The chapter is not going to be long as it is just a part of the chapter. Now without further ado, enjoy.
Chapter 12: Third Spirit Wars-Dropping the Masquerade
More shadows appear and turn into shape of men, increasing the amount of male Spirits rapidly.
All of them are armed with swords, spears, bows and crossbows, some are heavily armored, some are lightly armored with a tunic.
"..."
The male Spirits are quiet as they slowly open up their eyes. Their vision is greeted by the human avatar of their lord, and surrounding their lord are wizards.
"Nanaya..."
A male Spirit whose hair is blonde, with blood red eyes in a suit of black armor that is gold streaked, glares at Arashi."
"Alastor, the greatest champion of hell. The chief executioner of Burning Hell! Surrender Nanaya, you can't win us."
"Alastor…"
"I can't believe that I will be fighting the last Nanaya to help my lord, I respect the fact that our lords have a high regard on you. But you are still going to die of a horrible death. Not even death can save you now…"
"I died once… And I can die again… Death is not what I fear anymore…" he tells Alastor.
Arashi who is thinking on getting everyone working together to vanquish the Spirits from hell. But still, the calm action of hell only confirms Arashi's suspicion on a masquerade.
"This is my only chance…"
Surrounded by the lesser fallens, wizards and hunters. Arashi only hopes to get the wizards to face their common enemy.
"EVERYONE! PLEASE, WORK WITH ME TO KILL THEM!"
The sudden request shocks every wizards in the scene and the leaders of the world.
"THEY ARE HERE NOT ONLY TO KILL SPIRITS, THEY ARE ALSO KILLING US!"
The male Spirits who have learnt of the plan, remains silent.
Qliphoth
"What is this?..."
Westcott is baffled by Arashi's intention.
"Great, phase 1 is complete."
The telepathic communication between Westcott and Nanoka restarts.
"What exactly is this, Mr Nanoka?"
"Nanaya won't come back anymore thanks to the delay. Now, get the male Spirit to get that Nanaya. After that, the great power shall be yours."
Westcott lets out a stealthy smile as he hears that.
"Mr Westcott, your orders? The Spirits..."
"Ellen, tell them to hold their fire. I'll talk to the Spirits."
Ratatoskr Ships
Everyone is anxious as the male Spirits have appeared. Everyone are praying for Arashi's safety.
"Yggdrasil ready to move out!" Dante reported.
"Wait for my command." Mr Woodman ordered.
"Yes sir!"
Shido look at the screen, praying in his heart that Arashi can get everyone to deal with the male Spirits.
"The hunters is there as well."
Back at the battlefield
"HEY! SELF-PROCLAIMED WORLD'S STRONGEST WIZARD!"
The call from Nanaya not only irritates Ellen and also drawing her attention.
"WAKE YOUR BOSS UP! STOP BEING A FREAKING PUPPET!"
"Tsch…"
"Greetings. Spirits…"
Westcott voice is once again projecting from Qliphoth. The male Spirits look up into the sky where Qliphoth is.
"I represent everyone here, we were hunting the man that stands in front of you all. He is Nanaya, the kind of people that hunts Spirits like you down!"
"WESTCOTT! Argh..."
Arashi retorted angrily, but it only backfire at Arashi as the Lord of Wrath attempts to wrestle for control.
"I hope we can work together to kill Nanaya…"
As if they are all perfectly scripted, the male Spirits all cheered.
"Ooorah!"
"DIE NANAYA! Surrender to Lord Amon!"
Arashi eyes are wide open as not only his plan has failed. The fact that the troops of hell are so well disciplined is a surprise to him.
"Surrender, Nanaya. You have no allies, commoners hate you, Spirits hate you too." Westcott added in an attempt to invert him.
Upon hearing that, his heart is slow consumed with rage and despair. The rage on the hunters and fallens. And the despair to know that his friends may die. A sign that Ratatoskr ships pick up.
Arashi let out a sarcastic laughter, laughing on how oblivious Westcott is.
"What are you laughing about?"
"I'm laughing how worthless is your life and your soul… Mind telling me why did you invert Spirits, before any of us die?"
Westcott gives off a laugh stealthily and decides to let the young man know before he meet his demise.
"They can't hear me, only you can. I want to be the god of this world… This world is diseased, it has to be cleansed, including you!"
"Do you even know the pain of inverse?" he questioned.
"Pain? They won't feel it once they are dead…"
After hearing that, Arashi lets out a loud laughter. Puzzling everyone at the scene.
"Very well… I always thought CEO like you are greedy... You only cared about getting your pockets filled... I for once thought I existed to get rid of useless people like you, but I'm wrong..."
Westcott only smiled as he is amused by Arashi's statement.
"So... You are surrendering?"
"You are different… You're not greedy... YOU'RE JUST BATSHIT INSANE!"
Arashi clenches his fist into a pouch, grabbing the Spirit magic infused stones and throws it into the air. The stones pulsate with bright white light, and it spreads. A large barrier consists of 10 beams of white light covers the crater including every wizards, Ratatoskr's ships and DEM.
The sighting makes all male Spirit very rowdy as the scent of deadly magic is in the air that can only be sensed by them. The hunters are also surprised as they never expect there was a trick up in Arashi's sleeve. They know it is a very deadly spell that was being casted.
"God of the world…Let me tell you, you don't even have the what it takes to ascend! Pain… The pain of soul bending into darkness… UNFORGIVABLE!"
Nanoka who is looking from the summit communes with the hunters.
"My lord, are you alright?" Jays Gray asks.
"Yes. Now, work with wizards to capture Arashi. Lord Amon will be unleashed and we will be victorious!"
"Yes, my Lord!"
He only smiles when he see that, seems to have predicted all these.
"Show them... Who are their gods now..."
"Listen… No one is leaving here alive… It's either everyone dies… or I die… Now…"
Arashi and Nanoka say this in unison, starting the battle."
"LET'S WELCOME CHAOS!"
Arashi's eyes glow blue as he unsheathes both of his blades and charges at his front. Hunters, Wizards, Fallens proceeds to stop him. With the shadows infusing his blades, with a few swift swings, the limbs, body parts blood are splattered. Unfazed by the blood, he dashes, hacks, slashes and deflects. He has to keep running as the hail of bullets and magical rounds rains down.
Fraxinus
"Why can't we move out now?" Shido asks.
"The ship Qliphoth has a weapon of mass destruction, we have to be very careful. If Westcott see you, we are all finished." Kotori explained.
"If you think bombs can kill the lesser fallens so easily, you are terribly wrong here…"
Yuki's statement surprises everyone on board.
"That bomb contains artificial magic. And beings of hell and heaven are resistant and eats these magic."
Back on Arashi
The rage, the pain in his head has clouded his judgement as he mercilessly rips his enemies apart. The Lord of Wrath's essence is starting to overpower Arashi's soul unknowingly. He has forgotten his rules of killing. Striking the death of their existence with the two sharp pieces of metal at each of his hands.
As many of his enemies flood him, the shadows gather and summons many swords of shadows and encircle him. Those who are close by are ripped to shreds by the summoned swords.
"Muhahahahahahahaha... More! More! WHERE ARE YOUR GODS NOW?"
More blood are spilled as Arashi let out the inner evil willingly. A beast whose pain can only be numbed by focusing on killing. The ripper stabs and traces his adversaries with only a short sword and a switchblade at hand.
"There are too many of them... NEVERMORE-HARVESTER!"
The gray ethereal blades are now summoned as Arashi sheaths both of his blades. Locking on to a target in front with many of them in his way. He attaches both of his blades, as he runs towards them, the flooding of adrenaline slows everything down, with his precision, the ethereal blades phases through the territory, physical body and weapons. With the blades power being channelled, the lesser fallen's eyes and mouth pulsates with light as their soul explode into flames.
"All units, lay down suppressive fire!" Ellen commanded.
Her command is being doubted by many others who feels that something is not right at all. But they carry her command out as they can't afford to risk a full Nanaya return.
"This is weird, I feel like everyone is being fooled by something…" Ryouko commented.
"What? Just what is it?" Origami asks while firing the gatling cannon.
"I… Don't know… That Nanaya, something must be very wrong here…"
The more hails of fire raining down, Arashi is forced to switch to a solid sword instead.
"NEVERMORE-ABYSSAL REQUIEM!"
The shadows erupt as the two fiendish dark blade are formed, some wizards in AST and DEM fears it as they know it as Arashi's trademark weapon. His proficiency is immediately evident as the bullets are being deflected around by the swords, some even hit other hunters, wizards and even the lesser fallens.
"Let me help you, Arashi..."
Nanoka uses his powers and many shadowy man appears in the battlefield's sky. They hold the shadow blades in air. The shades have wings that allow them to fly.
"SHADOWS! FIRE!"
Some wizards open fire at the shades, but the agile dark beings easily evade their shots. The wizards are even stunned to find out that there are so many of them, the shades can even deflect the bullets from the gatling cannon.
Arashi can feel that the bullets raining down on him has decreased. But he couldn't care much as he focus on the enemies on the ground. He then see Alastor at a distance and rushes up to him while enduring the pain in his head. The voice of the dead keep haunting his sense of hearing, he couldn't distinguish their cries over those that are still alive.
"ALASTOR!" Arashi shouted.
The black-gold lesser fallen sees the young man charges at him. Arashi summons the shadow blades to help deflecting the shots, and then leaps in air in an attempt to hack down Alastor. But the executioner disappears into field of lightning, resulting Arashi to miss that attack.
"NANAYA!"
He hears a girl's voice at the right only to see Ellen flying in. Instinctively, he dodges her attack and leaves a distance between the two enemies.
"To bring him down, we have to work together…"
Ellen is annoyed by the fact that she has to work with the Spirit. But she has no choice as Westcott started this. Arashi can hear that as he is holding his head in pain.
"Do your worst..."
Arashi immediately blast a wave a shadows at Alastor, forcing him to move away. Arashi then sprints at Ellen, his vision can see the invisible territory of hers, he aims his throwing knife at the death of the territory. Ellen can see the knife and proceeds to stop it with the dusts.
"You need to try harder than that!"
The dusts the gathers outside of the territory, forming a small barrier that stops the knife in place. Arashi is surprise to see that as the blade did not hit. He summons more shadow blades and propels them towards Ellen and Alastor. However, Alastor summons lightning from his hand and shoots at one of the swords. The lightning arcs also jumps between the barrage of shadow blades, destroying the swords before it can reach them.
"Tsch…"
Arashi dashes towards Ellen with both blades swang back to his shoulders, his speed surprises Ellen and Alastor as they never expect him to react so fast.
Ellen's adrenaline rushes and focuses on stopping the swords. The dusts start to gather, as the blade edges almost making contact on her territory, they are stopped by the diamond barriers.
Arashi is surprised to see that, the barriers have no lines and points. He attempts to retract from the attack but with no avail as the swords are stuck in place
"Tsch"
"So... You can't destroy things that don't have fixed shape..."
"Harvester!"
The swords switches back to ethereal form which easily phases through Ellen's territory and dusts. But with her prowess of territory control, the dusts now forms a pair of cuffs that locks his arms in place.
"Shit..."
Fearing Ellen will break his arms, he channels his mana and transform.
"NEVERMORE!"
His dark tendril wings appears and shrouds him, the shadows erupt into the Fiend of Shadows.
"Inverse? But this is not an inverse signature."
Ellen retreats a distance as the fiend nearly consumes her vision. The fiend then roars.
"YOUR SOUL IS MINE! RIPS THEIR SOULS!"
"STAND YOUR GROUND! Defend yourself!" Alastor commanded.
"SHADOW'S REQUIEM!"
Nevermore channels the souls and rips open his rib cage, releasing all the maddened souls of the dead to ravage his foes.
The coalition is nearly torn apart as the dead souls and the shades rips through the ranks, tearing as many foes as they can. Even Westcott starts to worry for his plan.
"He is strong... What a pity that I will have to use force against him..."
"YOU CAN'T RUN FROM DEATH!"
Nevermore suddenly appears closer to Ellen. Recognizing his attacks, Ellen moves to the side, only for the fiend to blast a dark fireball that explodes meters in front of her to stop her. Nevermore then raises his arms and a hellish blast of shadows to follow up, knocking her to the ground as her territory protects her from the blast.
As the blast clears, the fiend appears before Ellen with the dual blades. As he swings it, the diamond dust gathers once again to form a barrier. Only to be shattered by the unholy strength of the fiend.
"Ughh..."
Nevermore now towers Ellen with his sword aiming at her. Seizing this chance, Alastor transforms as well. A field of lightning gathers and he turns into an electric being that is contained in a suit of armor. His helmet has three horns with slitted visor. The transformation amuses Westcott.
The lightning being reaches out his hand, a stream of lightning links Nevermore and Alastor. Nevermore stops his action as he is in pain.
"ARRRRGGGGHHH..."
The fiend now disappear revealing Arashi. The young man kneels down holding his head in pain as he is being drained of mana. Invisible to everyone due to his hood, his arms are covered in curse marks. Seeing Arashi no longer a threat, Westcott orders a stand down.
"Cease fire, cease fire."
"Chain him up!"
The lesser fallens uses their powers to bind Arashi who is in no position to fight back.
"Ellen, once Ripper is sent to the ship, fight the male Spirits."
"Yes, Isaac."
"Thank you for helping us, we are taking him."
Ellen approaches the lightning being with caution. But, without warning, Alastor blast a lightning right in front of her.
"WHAT?"
Ellen immediately gathers the diamond dusts to form a sword and on a defensive stance.
"What is going on?"
Westcott is alarmed by the turn, he immediately place his hand on the button that launch the weapon of mass destruction that will kill everyone.
"You are not taking our lord…"
Alastor's statement puzzles everyone. Nanoka then prepares to execute the next step as he stretches himself.
"Well… Well… Can't believe I managed to do this… Let's do the Order 66, Majestics, my men and my lords…"
"Your lord?" Ellen questioned.
"He is the container of our lord. You humans are fools… Thinking of seeking powers that doesn't belong to you." Alastor answered.
"What are you saying? Handover him now before I kill you!"
Upon hearing that, the male Spirits immediately burst into laughters. Only to puzzle everyone even further.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA…."
"Kill me? You have seriously underestimated hell…"
"KILL THEM!" Nanoka ordered.
"ARRRGGHHHH!"
The scream of wizards surprises everyone as the hunters rips the wizards apart with their cursed weapons.
"DEFEND YOURSELF!"
The clash between the hunters and wizards now hastened and it sends ripples within the ranks. The lesser fallens now spreads out leaving Alastor to handle Arashi and the rest to kill wizards.
Westcott cannot comprehend on what is going on question his ally furiously.
"WHAT IS GOING ON NOW, NANOKA?"
"You're a fool to have trusted me. You want to be a god? How naive… I work for the hell, now the hell will be the gods that reign this world…"
Realizing he had been betrayed, Westcott furiously push the button. Launching the Magic Decomposition Bomb. The bomb explodes in mid air into magic particles that can devour anything in its path. But the particles are being distorted into vortexes as if something is sucking them. The sighting shocks Westcott as the male Spirits are literally eating the blast.
"What in the world…"
The male Spirits have entered a bloodthirsty and battle hungry trance. Then the male Spirits transforms into their true form, the sighting of demons now sends fear to the whole ranks of wizards, even Ellen is now scared as she cannot comprehend on what is going on. The demons look twisted, some look like horned being with red skin, some made out of lightning, fire, ice and darkness.
"Thank you, you just unleashed the thing that make them hungrier… Muhahahaha…"
Wescott regains his composure and ordered.
"KILL THEM!"
Battlefield
"You… They called your clan the gods of death. But look at what you have become."
"Gods of death? We called ourselves the shadows. Our sins can never allow us to be a god."
"Shadow… Then you are a shadow that already lost its light. Look around you, the Spirits you have protected, everyone that you have protected. Where are they?"
"They don't have to know on why I'm killing."
"Very well. Time to put an end to you."
Alastor reaches out his hand blue energy escapes from Arashi's eyes and mouth, it is his soul that still resists the control of Amon.
"You are doomed, Nanaya. Soon this world will be part of the Burning Hells…"
Amon's voice now pierces his mind, but Arashi's defiance continue to restrain the Sin Lord from taking over him.
"NOOOOO…."
Ratatoskr Ships cluster
"YGGDRASIL MOVE OUT!"
"YES SIR!"
"Kotori, time to send him."
The Spirits are worried about Shido as the boy is told to go alone.
"Be careful, Shido." Kotori tells Shido.
"I will, don't worry."
"I'm going with you." Yuki requested.
"No, is too dangerous." Shido denied.
"Only I can keep my brother in control."
Woodman hesitates for a while and agrees to send her.
"...Alright..."
"I'm coming along too."
Tohka volunteered along with others. It is evident that Woodman is in a tough spot as he knows this means risking the Spirits' lives. Then suddenly, Kotori volunteers too.
"Mr Woodman, I am going with them!"
"WHAT? But Camael…"
Before he can finish, Kotori interrupts him.
"If there's a good reason to use that power, then I can control it without losing myself."
"...Alright... I want all of you to come back alive!"
"YES SIR! Kannazuki will take control from here."
"Be careful, commander."
"I will…"
Then suddenly, a distorted, noisy figure appears, recognizing the figure as Phantom, everyone is surprised to see Phantom reappear again.
"The circle is not complete, without the full powers of the Spirits, there is no way you guys can pull him away from the hell. Tokisaki Kurumi…"
Kurumi is surprised to hear her name being called and then, shadows engulf her and she transforms. She is wearing Elohim astral dress, regaining the clock face on her left eye.
"What? Zafkiel…"
"The archangel has chosen you, Azrael's eyes can only kill the existence of the powers of Zafkiel, which its existence can be recreated again. Be careful next time…"
Phantom disappears once again. Kurumi is delighted to have her powers back, she also realizes that Zafkiel has also leaves her with enough life force to use her powers too.
"Okay… Let's do this!" Kurumi is excited.
With everyone ready, the ship's teleportation device activates, sending Shido along with the Spirits got send to the battlefield. Sensing the presence of Spirits, some demons look at Shido and the rest. And they charge at group.
"SPIRITS! SPIRITS!"
Then suddenly, the demons are sent flying by a magical cannon blast by the ships.
"GO GO GO! GET TO ASSAILANT! YGGDRASIL! SEND THE DEMONS FROM WHERE THEY COME FROM!"
The soldiers of Yggdrasil is clad in what appears to look like a muscle suit, holding a magically powered pulse rifle. Mana decides to help out the wizards.
"Oni-chan, I'm helping them out."
"Okay, be careful."
"You too."
The group then rush towards Arashi who is a distance away from them while more Yggdrasil soldiers appears on the battlefield, covering the team.
At Arashi
"ARRRRGGGGHHHH…"
Alastor continues to suck Arashi's soul, only to be met with resistance.
"GIVE IT UP! HEAVEN CANNOT SAVE YOU!"
"Let him go!"
Shido draws his laser blade and the Spirits are in their half-Spirit form as well, charges at Alastor's group.
"Kill them!"
The chief executioner rallies 2 demons to stop the Spirits. But suddenly, shadows gathers around Arashi and it forms into Nevermore. A separate being without the flames.
"What?"
"Mmmmrah!"
The fiend of shadows keep hurling balls of dark energy at the lightning being, driving him away. And then raise its arms in the air, conjuring hellish blast of shadows from the ground. Alastor has no choice but to retreat and rejoins the other demons.
The fiend then transform into a young man who look exactly the same as Arashi. And then disappears, re-appearing at the backs of the demons, stabbing the both of them at the back on the point with the dark sword, surprising the group.
"Two Arashi?" Shido exclaimed.
Yuki recognizes that the young man in front of her is not the real Arashi. But rather the demon within Arashi.
"Satsujinki…"
"I believe we told you guys not to turn up at all…"
His cold eyes is an instant giveaway of his identity with that cold smile.
"Nevermind… Save him…"
All of them gets to Arashi's side, who is clearly in pain from the mana drain as one of his eyes is in blood red.
"Arrrrrggggghhhh…."
"Hang in there…"
Yuki channels shadows into Arashi, refilling his mana to suppress the sin lord within.
"Hah… Hah… Hah…"
The pain subsides as his vision clears, to his surprise, he sees Yuki and the rest whom he told them not to follow him.
"Why? Why are you guys here?"
"To save you of course, you idiot!"
"Sorry, you have a place within our hearts. I'm not going to let you die like the vessels before you. Neither am I going to let you fall deeper into darkness…"
Although Arashi is happy to hear that, he doesn't show it. Shido is his true friend since the death of his friends.
"Are you just gonna lie there, let you and let everyone else die?"
Arashi gets back up only to see someone who look exactly like him looking at him.
"Now, we can finally settle this, eh?" the young man said to Arashi.
Satsujinki and Arashi are ready to settle the struggle once and for all.
"Of course… I'm claiming you once and for all." Arashi answered.
"Without darkness, without death, then real Nevermore will not be completed." The two say in unison.
"Amon must be killed, and that means you must be killed. I'm claiming the dead souls for myself."
"I have the reasons to live, yes Amon must be killed. But I am not going to give up my soul just yet. And I am claiming the dark as well."
"I SHALL BE THE ONE BE THE FIEND!"
Both of them shouted as their eyes glow with the Eyes of Death activates.
"HARVESTER!"
"ABYSSAL REQUIEM!"
The two summon their twin blades and point them at each other.
"YEAARRRGHH…"
The two then charge at each other. The physical swords of Satsujinki cannot be parried by the ethereal blades of Arashi, only for Arashi to dodge the sword. The same goes for Arashi, Satsujinki dodges his blades. With the young men determination to live, the fight got fiercer and Arashi is pushed to the ground. Satsujinki then sprints at the downed young man, Arashi grabs a fistful of sand and throw it at Satsujinki, blinding him temporarily. And then, Arashi sweeps Satsujinki's legs, causing him to fall down.
"IT'S OVER!"
Arashi then joins up the ethereal blades, impaling Satsujinki at the chest.
"Ughh… Hehehe… So, this is the end eh? Very well, let the fiend reborn once more..."
Satsujinki then disappears into shadow which Arashi absorbs. Arashi then turns into the fiend of shadows without fire. The fiend lets out a roar as the blue flames of the dead engulfs the fiend, Nevermore is reborn.
Onboard of Qliphoth
"MASSIVE SPIRIT SIGNATURE DETECTED! IT IS... RIPPER, HE HAS TURN INTO A DEMON! AND THERE ARE MORE SPIRITS AT HIS SIDE!"
Westcott is seen being frustrated as he realizes the mistakes he had done, but he sees Shido and the other Spirits too, surprising him.
"Mr Westcott! The HQ, is under attack!"
"What?"
"There are 4 people, they all have Spirit powers. AGHH!"
The man is then being torched alive by fire. Westcott is now enraged as his plans are falling apart.
Battlefield
Nevermore's rebirth has attracted everyone's attention. Everyone stopped fighting for a moment.
"Shido!?"
Origami is surprised to see Shido on the field. It is disturbing for her to see Arashi is there as well.
"Nanaya? Yuki and Arashi too..."
Ellen also noticed the Spirits too, and to her horrors, Yuki is with them.
"What in the... Reverser?"
"KILL THE SPIRITS!"
"WAKE UP YOUR BLOODY IDEA EVERYONE! Westcott tried to kill all of you. The male Spirits are Spirits from hell… Except him, he can still handle himself, but to ensure everyone you love, treasure, we must work together to defeat the hell. Yes, the Spirits took a few lives when they appear, but what about demons? They appear, and won't stop until everyone is this world die. We don't care what feuds all of you have, join the Spirits, me and him."
Arashi is happy to see Shido being determined to protect the Spirits, after Shido had finished, he shouted.
"OR DIE LIKE THOSE BEFORE YOU! ALONG WITH THE DEMONS AND ANYONE WHO DARES TO HARM THE SPIRITS!"
Arashi threatened the wizards with Westcott immediately sneered at Arashi.
"And you are one of them, Nanaya won't stop until your goals are achieved! KILL ALL OF THEM!"
Many wizards who are upset about the attempt to kill them along with the lesser fallen now rebels against DEM.
"SCREW YOU WESTCOTT! SCREW YOU DEM!"
DEM wizards now regroup as the coalition breaks up. Anger builds up within Westcott's mind and he roared.
"KILL THEM ALL, MY WIZARDS!"
"KILL THE DEMONS! PROTECT THE SPIRITS!"
The wizards clashes with the lesser fallens and wizards of DEM. Despite being forced to fight two sides, the DEM wizards lead by Ellen still prove to be match as a single DEM wizard can even handle a few other wizards and at least a lesser fallen or a Spirit hunter.
"Lord Alastor, the humans have…"
"Kill them all, re-capture that Nanaya!"
The demons now having the hunters at their side, engages the wizards.
Focus on the group
"I can feel it…"
Arashi's whisper alerts everyone.
"What?" Yuki asks.
The puzzled young man cannot describe the feeling, he can hear a faint sound, as if he knows what is it.
"There is something calling for me… I think I know the name..."
"Is it Amon?" Shido asks.
"No… It feel… Something that I am very familiar of… But before that…"
Arashi now look at Shido.
"Shido, bear with it, it is gonna hurt a little."
"Wha… ARGGHHHH!"
Before Shido can fully react, Arashi's shadow with the sword exits his shadow, inflicting pain onto him.
"What?"
The rest of the Spirits engulf into particles of light, wearing their full astral dresses again. The Spirits are surprised to see that their powers have returned.
"Our powers... But how?" Kotori is very puzzled by the phenomena.
"To fight them, you need your full power. And Shido, take this."
He conjures a shadow blade, a blade that is similar to Abyssal Requiem. Shido is surprised that he can't feel anything negative from the sword.
"This won't strain your body or soul. Your Psychic soul is good enough to resist the evil side. The sword is now of your command."
With the Spirits in their full power, Arashi now steps forward. Shouting at Qliphoth.
"HEY, WESTCOTT!"
Westcott glares at Arashi, Shido and the rest of the Spirits through the screen.
"SO YOU LIKE THE FRENZY SIDE OF INVERTED SPIRIT EH? WHY DON'T YOU TRY ME?"
"Call it, Arashi!" a ghostly voice commanded.
"COME FORTH! AZRAEL!"
The black wings covers Arashi once again with the fires burning. The souls of the dead that are in the battlefield gathers Arashi. The massive energy signatures alarms both DEM and Ratatoskr ships.
"INVERSE!? FOR REAL?" Kotori exclaimed, which surprises everyone.
Not only Kotori, Westcott opens his eyes widely in horror as Arashi inverts at will. As the energy erupts, Arashi's astral suit has changed to a more armored black leather cloak complete with a hood and trousers along with boots, still donning the visage of Nevermore. Giving him an assassin like look, coupled with the aura that spells death. (Okay, he look exactly like a Demon Hunter in Diablo 3) His wings spreads out with two colors, with his left wing black and the right wing radiant blue.
"I want to protect my friends, my sister, those that I love! Grant me power, AZRAEL-HARVESTER ZENITH!"
"As you wish…"
The shadows and the dead souls gather to form into a physical gray blade, everyone recognizes that the blade is the physical form of Harvester. The sword then suddenly changes into a pair of scythes.
"Harvester Zenith… The scythe that vanquishes the very existence of being in a world."
He opens his eyes, revealing his eyes with black sclera and even brighter blue eyes.
"Even if you have asked for cooperation, you still lust for revenge. Old habits die hard eh? Like all of those who died in front of you. The dark side is very strong within you..."
Alright, that's all. Arashi's wings signifies his action, the dark wing represent his sins, while the bright wing signifies his resolve to protect those that he love. Like every inverse Spirits in the DAL universe, Arashi's new Astral suit does not have a name.
I also would like to seek opinion on whether I should release the stories of Nanaya. One on how Arashi and Kyo took the oath to kill wizards and hunters to protect Spirits despite them unwilling to do so. And the other one being a twist on what will happen to Shido's mission to seal Spirits if Nanaya still exists. Give me your opinion through reviews and PM.
Finally, I PROMISE I WILL RELEASE THE NEXT PART AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! Thank you.