With A Snap

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Chapter 10: Such Misfortune

In a dark world, there roamed gods. They were banished there because their presence in the normal world could destroy it. Honestly, they were pretty good with it now. This New World was pretty much the same as the regular world but nothing living that they had to worry about. Better yet there were no lasting consequences, they could destroy everything and everything would reset.

They continued on as they spent their days when something happened. There a wave of something, something vast washed over them and rivaled their power-No-this was something far more powerful then them.

That was pretty obvious when one of their numbers dissolved into dust. And then another and another and nothing they did could stop it.

0000

Touma Kamijou was the most unfortunate boy in the world. In the city of science filled with amazing technology and esper power he was a number zero. The only thing special about him was his right hand, it had the ability to negate any supernatural force be it from espers powers or from magic.

He was at his school, instead the usual lessons and stuff he found a fair going on. A lot fo stuff had happened in the last few months so to recoup some losses the school decided for this fundraiser.

As Touma walked along he found a young nun dressed in a white almost tea cup like pattern habit. That was Index the Keeper of every magical grimoire, all kept inside her perfect memory, she carried along a small cat that was Sphynx

"Index Please," he pleaded with the nun, "don't get too much food, my poor wallet can't take it."

"Accept your fate, human," a voice spoke up from underneath Index's habit, a moment later a small head poked out.

That was Othinus, former magical god turned into a fairy and now freeloader of Touma's.

Touma lamented his fate, Index could and would eat a lot and there was little to nothing he could do to stop her.

As they walked along Index looked around for more food to eat and Touma tried to stop her.

Nearby the third strongest esper walked along, "There he is," Mikoto Misaka was an esper with the ability to manipulate electricity.

"Onee-sama! Did you come to see me?" A pink haired girl glomped on her."I know I told you I was recruited to patrol this school for the festival but I didn't imagine you'd come to keep me company."

That was Kuroko an esper with the ability to teleport and a member of judgement a sort of law enforcement organization.

"Ah, yeah, something like that," Mikoto told her, at a distance she notice a blue haired and a blond haired pair of boy joining a certain misfortunate teen.

Mikoto failing to see a pair of starry eyes turning towards her.

0000

Of course the world also had other things going.

In a dark secluded building a cabal of magicians gathered they planned to carry out a grand and terrible ritual.

In the center stood a magician dress in a black cloak and holding a scythe engraved with ancient runes. The spell was supposed to invoke the earliest depictions of the being known as the grim reaper. If the ritual worked their leader would essentially become death and be able to choose who lives and who dies, of course the ritual called upon sacrifices so pretty much everyone outside of the spell circle would soon drop dead. Since that was in the center of London the number would be exceptionally large amount of bodies.

As they began to chant the ancient spell the walls to the room broke apart as Necessarius raced in. Necessarius were a group of magicians that worked with the Anglican Church and they fought magicians.

A red haired Stiyls Magnus took a drag off his cigarette. Next to him was a tall young woman with long hair, she wore ripped jeans and held a kodachi. That was Kaori Kanzaki, one of the less than 20 saints in the world. Following close by were the Amakusa Church, Kanzaki's friends and followers.

Stiyls tossed his cigarette to the side, "Let's do this,"

With those words the group charge at the death dealing cabal.

0000

The world wasn't always adventure and magic.

In the streets of the Academy City an albino boy who went by Accelerator walked along with the help of a futuristic cane.

Nearby by were Misaka Worst and Last Order. Both were clones of MIkoto Misaka. Last Order was a small child dress in a blue dress and a white shirt, there were thousands of clones all connected via an electronic network and Last Order was the admin of it. Worst was the latest clones and who looked older than Mikoto she was made out of the negative aspects of the network.

Last order said, "Misaka wants to go eat! Misaka tugs on Accelerator's arm pleading with cute eyes."

"Shut it Brat!" Worst yelled. "We came out to do some shopping, not to fill your gut!"

Accelerator sighed, "We can get something to eat after we finish the shopping. Now move it."

Nearby a blond haired delinquent carried several bags as he followed behind a group of girls.

The girl with long brown hair was Shizuri Mugino one of the strongest espers in the city and known as Meltdowner. Saiai Kinuhata and Rikou Takitsubo both powerful espers in their own right and this group together were a members if a mercenary group known as ITEM.

Takitsubo paused and looked back at the blond, "Hurry up Hamazura."

The delinquent sighed but smiled, "Coming."

That pair were couple and were happy despite how crazy their life could get.

0000

Touma and his friends were on the ground as a girl with a large forehead stood over them.

"Can you three behave?" That was Fukiyose and the one who was responsible for this classroom.

Next to her stood a quiet girl with long black hair, that was Himegami and the only known person in the world to kill a vampire.

"Why am I getting lumped in with them?" Touma asked, "They were the ones arguing about bunny girls."

Fukiyose began to scold them in a rather epic fashion, just totally break them down.

Nearby a blonde esper known as Misaki Shokuhou eyes glimmered.

"I hope your not planning on causing trouble," an older girl with black said walked up to her.

"Kumokawa, it's a pleasure to see you." Misaki greeted her, in a less than honest tone. "Fear not I have no plan to ruin the day."

"There you are!"

The voice caused both girls to roll their eyes.

"I knew It!" Mikoto shouted at the blonde. "You have this weird electrical field, I could sense you. You're here to ruin my day!"

"It's not all about you Misaka." Misaki told her, "I'm just here to enjoy a day of my own."

Yeah that was wan't going to happen.

"Onee-sama!" Kuroko followed along by their friends raced for Mikoto.

That's when it happened.

"Touma! Touma!" Index skipped towards the pile of boys as they got up. "I need money for this snack!"

Something passed over the world and they felt it, something crawling over their souls.

"What? What's happening?!" Himegami let out.

She was usually quiet and stoic so her to yelled like that got their attention. Then they saw why she was panicking.

Bit by bit she saw her skin turn to ash and fall of her. She was dumbfounded, he looked at herself wasting away. When a vampire bit her they would die, she saw hundreds of them drawn to her blood turn to ash before her. They weren't monsters they were people, and she killed them. Her power was to kill vampires, for a long time she thought of it as a curse. Now as her body began to dissolve she wondered if this was karma, to die like those she had killed. She looked at the friends she made as tears filled her eyes.

"I don't want to go…"

Her body transformed into ash and was taken away by the wind leaving on lookers shocked and horrified.

"Himegami!" A pink haired small girl walked to them, well, I say girl she was a grown woman who looked like a pre-schooler. That was Komoe the teacher of these students.

"Wh-what happened? Where did Himegami go?"

The entire area was shocked and talking amongst themselves at the strange phenomena.

"What was that?" Saten one of Mikoto's friends asked.

Next to her a girl with flowers in her hair, Uiharu, "I'm sure it will be okay. We just have to get everyone calm."

"Right," Konori, a girl with glass tugged on the green arm band that matched "Okay, everyone please remain calm we have-"

"Konori!" Saten yelled out, "It's happening to-"

Uiharu yelled out as she turned into a cloud of dust.

Mikoto took a step back, "Kuroko? Please tell me its some sort of weird teleporting."

Kuroko shook her head, "I-I-don't know. I've never seen anything like this before. Whenever a teleporter teleport there is a small rupture into a higher dimension, I can usually feel it. But this-" Kuroko's words were caught in her throat.

"Yeah, I don't know. I don't feel the electrical field around them, it didn't disperse or anything. It was-"

Onee-Sama!"

It took the esper another moment to realize her own body was dissolving.

0000

"I will master death!" The magician is alive, "I will choose who lives and who dies! I will have dominion over-" He dissolved into dust.

"Was that apart of the spell?" the spear wielding Itsuwa asked.

Stiyls looked around seeing the cabal looked on scared as more of their members vanished, "I don't think so."

"Stiyls!" Kanzaki yelled out.

Ash dissolved Stiyls' body around them member of the Amakusa and the cabal began to vanish.

"What's happening?" Itsuwa asked.

"I-I- don't know." Kanzaki answered honestly.

0000

In the Anglican Church nuns started to panic as they too started to vanish.

Laura Stuart, the leader of the organization was confused. The church has some of best protection spells in the world and it wasn't stopping what was happening.

"Everyone please remain calm! We-" She didn't finish as her body was dissolved too.

0000

A blond man walked through a ware house were few men laid on conscious on the ground. All around them were cages filled with exotic animals.

Ollerus, was a man who could have been magical god. He touched one of the cages and smiled at a tiger cub, "I'm sorry these mean men were going to take you away from your homes. I'll get you back there."

Nearby a maid walked towards him, Sylvia sighed, " Why did we have to get involved?"

"Sylvia, these are endogenous animals and these men were going to kill them for trophies."

The animals began to squeal as many vanished.

Sylvia looked to find one of them men turn to dust.

"Ollerus!" She turned around an only found a cloud of dust where Ollerus stood.

0000

Bags dropped to the ground.

Mugino turned around to find Hamazura gone and the bags on the floor.

"Where did Hamazura go?" Takitsubo asked.

"That's super weird," Kinuhata looked around, "he couldn't have run off so fast."

"What the hell was he thinking just leaving them there?" Mugino walked over to the bags. "Takitsubo can you find him?"

Takitsubo had a power to track people as her eyes went wide, "I can't find him." She looked around, "I can't find him at all."

Dust engulfed her body and she was gone.

"What the hell was that?" Mugino shouted.

Nearby Last Order fell to her feet and clutched her head, "Misaka's head hurt, Misaka says as countless of the sisters starts to vanish from the network."

"What?" Accelerator said, "Someone killing the sisters?"

"I feel it too," Worst Confirmed, "the Network is changing."

"Misaka hurts!" Last Order struggled to say.

"Just tell me what's doing this," Accelerator told her, "tell my and I'll tear them apart."

"Misaka doesn't know,"

A shiver when down his spin as Accelerator twitched. He felt it, he felt his body start ti turn to dust. He flipped the switch on his collar but found it was useless. He could reflect vectors to reflect any attack but this didn't have vectors this was something he couldn't understand or calculate.

The strongest esper vanished into dust leaving two scared and confused girls.

0000

"Everyone please calm down!" Komoe tried her best to keep her students calm so much so that she didn't realize her own body start to come undone.

"Komoe!" Aogami Pierce yelled for his teacher before his own body was consumed.

Touma looked over to Tsuchimikado, "What's this? An attack by magicians?"

The Blonde shook his head, "I don't know, this is nothing I've ever seen."

Fukiyose was the next one to vanish.

"Index anything?" Touma asked.

"I've never seen this either." Index admitted, "I don't have anything about people turning to ashes, the level of magic needed to do something like this-there would be all sorts of stuff happening!"

"Kami" Tsuchimikado grabbed Touma's hand and put it on himself.

Touma's stared, Tsuchimikado was turning to dust too.

"It's not working," Tsuchimikado gasped his sun glasses slipped off, "this isn't supernatural, this isn't magic or and esper power. This isn't slowing it don't and it's not stopping it." He shuddered, "Kami, listen to me. Its not helping me, but maybe it's protecting you or for once your got lucky. But make it out of this and look after Maika."

Touma didn't get a chance to reply as he was gone before his lips could move.

Touma's mouth felt dry.

"Touma" Index clung to Touma.

"Index…"

The young nun cried as she held to Touma her body starting to dissolve.

Touma pressed his palm onto her head.

"It's not going to work, "Index told him,

"I have to try"

"Touma…" Index tried to be brave, "I'm going… I can feel it… I'm going…I- I-" she sniffled, "Don't be sad, I know you'll try something stupid, but please don't" she felt the ash crawl up to her chest, "I'm going to better place. I don't know what is causing this but I'll be going to a nicer place to me. So," the small nun made the sign of the cross, "may God bless you Touma Kamijou, my friend. Maybe god blessings never reached you before but maybe …" her voice faded into the wind along with the final bit of her ashes.

Othinus fell to the ground without Index holding her up, Sphynx the small kitten batting at the ashes on the ground.

"Human," Othinus said looking up, "this is bad, even when I was a magic god this was-its not destroying the world it's rewriting it. It's changing it."

"How do we stop it? How do we bring everyone back?"

"Pick me up! Pick me up!"

Touma picked up the small fairy like creature, "Touma…"

He started to notice she was dissolving too.

"Othinus!"

"This is where we part." Othinus held her head up bravely, if the nun could hold up her head in the last few moments then as a former god of war she could face dead with dignity. "If anyone can fix the world I know you can. Either try and be happy."

Touma watched her turn into dust in his hand and she did so all the while smiling at him.

Seria had already started to dissolve ignoring the panic all around them, once Mikoto was dusted Kuroko and Konori did their best to keep everyone from going into a full panic.

"Pick up, Mari!" Seria yelled into her phone, "Pick up!" She had to know her sister was safe, she had to know she was all right.

"Seria? Are you okay? I'm at the apartment and it looks like a riot is happening outside."

Seria took a finally breath of air as the phone hit the ground.

Misaki looked around in a panic, her own body was started to dissolve and she forced herself to do something she never did and ran. She ran to Touma and grabbed him.

"My Prince," Misaki smiled through her tears

Touma blinked, "Who are you?" She seemed familiar but he couldn't place her.

Her smile twitched, "I didn't think you'd remember." She caressed his face, "You never remember me. That is our fate," her body began to dissolve, "if you do remember something, remember that there was someone that loved you." She moved in and kissed him.

Touma blinked, he touched his lips and dust swirled around him. He could smell the faint smell of honey and he felt something warm on his face. He brushed a warm tear from his face.

He couldn't remember where it came from, he felt something was wrong, that something was missing.

Touma looked around and found only dust and terror.

Author's Notes: Okay a lot of people asked for the snap in the world of a certain magical index and there you go. I hope you guys liked it. Review people and I'll try to update soon.