Beijing: Republic of China
Amelia Watson & Ninomae Ina'nis
Destruction is waiting for them at Beijing.
This city used to be a beautiful place with a nice view and fancying skyscrapers for both its citizens and traveler to looks at with admiration.
But now that the watcher has chosen it as her place to perform the ritual, everything has changed beyond recognition.
Many buildings collapsed and burning to the ground as siren voice can be heard over the city. Some survivors screaming and running away as the giant portal in the sky is
shining, ready to open and letting whatever at the other end get in our reality.
Amidst of the chaos. There is one woman standing at shouting something in the sky, she is wearing the thick ceremonial clothes and having a mask with one eye picture
drawing on it.
Watcher seems to be performing some kind of ritual in the middle of Beijing city.
Piles of human corpses are laying around her in a strange shapes of pentagram symbol.
" The 4th WAH! That b***h actually did it!" Ina'nis pants.
" Should I just shoot her?" Ame pulled pistol out of her coat pocket.
" Keep your ammo. Your gun is not going to work against her.
We need to find Nene, perhaps she could… Oh no!" Ina'nis running at the piles of rubbles near her and start digging with hands and tentacles until she finally finding someone
body being crushed under it.
If this minced meat didn't wearing similar yellow dress. Ina might not realized that she is looking at what left of Momosuzu Nene.
" Oh god! It is too late now." Ina sitting next to her teacher corpses, not sure what to do next.
Nene is not the kindest person in the world, but for a few months of practicing with this girl Ina'nis starting to feel some kind of friendship between them.
Seeing her turning into a meat loaf like this is-
" So you finally here." A voice running to Ina'nis ear before Amelia could finds some word to calm her friend's grief.
Both woman looking back and see watcher walking toward them with an ease.
The portal in the sky seemed to slowing down a bit as she is turning her attention toward Ina and Ame.
Ina'nis clenched her teeth. " She give you nothing but kindness and you murdering her!" She shouted.
" There is always a necessary sacrifices." Watcher shrugged.
Ina wrapping tentacles around one of the cars and throwing it at watcher face.
But white priestess simply waved her hand and sends it flying in different direction.
" There is no points in fighting. After all, your power is necessary for him to reaching this realm. Why don't you help us rules this unreasonable universe together! Make it
become right at last."
" You are the only thing that unreasonable in this universe!" Ina sneered, concentrating her power and ready to blasting it out at the watcher face.
" Very well." Watcher walking toward them again, she seemed to not in a hurry to fights.
Tentacles appeared around Ina'nis's back as she is readying to for the battles. Shadows around watcher's feet start moving as two similar face ANTI popping out of it.
" Wait! Is that?" Ame questioned, but Ina'nis is too focused on facing watcher to noticed.
She roared before flying at watcher with jet propulsion on her tentacles. Watcher and two ANTI starts running to as they were closing to each other.
" STOP!" Amelia yelled as the world is stop moving again, after sighed in reliefs. Watson walking toward flying Ina'nis an slapped her shoulder.
" Woah! What happened?" Ina jerks back to her sense not long after Watson touching her body.
" I stopped times again, perhaps we could find a better way to deal with all this. So, I need to discuss thing with you first."
Ina shook her head. " There is no points! The 4th WAH is already here and Nene is gone. I don't know how to stop the progress.
Unless you can running back in time-" Ina'nis stopped when she see the smirk on Ame face.
" Wait. You can!?" Ina yelled.
Amelia chuckled after she injecting some of energy boozing drugs in her arm. She then doing an exercise at the spot, waiting for drugs to running in every part of her body
and start running.
" Wait! What would I be like when the time running backwards?" Ina asked.
Amelia shrugged. " I don't knows. But if your body keep touching me. It should be fine."
" Okay then." Ina'nis then flying above Ame's head and let detective grabbing one of her tentacles, before Ame quickly running. Holding Ina'nis tentacles like some children
who running with balloon string in their hand.
…
After Ame keep running for a while, nothing happens.
Watson pulled pocket watch out of her coat and groaned, its needle isn't moving. So, she is just stopping time right now. Not turning it backward.
" Maybe it's because you still touching my body?" Perhaps you should let me go." Ina suggested.
" Nah! It's fine. I just need… a bit of concentration." Ame pants.
" Okay. But you need some rest first. I will- wait, what's happening?" Ina'nis looking around in confusion as the rubbles on the floor starting to flying up toward the broken
building where they used to be parts of it. Some corpses on the street start moving back to where they come from as Amelia in Ina'nis is running passed them.
" Told you! It is working!" Ame bragged as two burning cars that crashed against each other running backwards as the fire is gone and the driver's body flying back into the
vehicles, followed by the broken mirror.
" Okay Watson, don't stop moving now!" Ina pleaded as she saw the collapsing building start repairing itself in front of her. The corpses on the ground also moving, turning
alive again as Ame and Ina is going back in time.
Watcher also walking backward from where she is standing. Two ANTI is also sinking back inside the shadows as the progress goes on.
" If you met Subaru again. Tell her I am. Time. F**king. Traveler!" Ame laughing as the world is turning back to normal again little by little.
Overjoy by her success Ame starting to lose her focus and stumble on one rat as it is running backward to the sewer where it belongs to.
" Sh*t!" Ame falls down, almost hitting the ground if she didn't lean over watcher's body that happened to be standing there.
Ame brushes her coat and quickly running again. Ina'nis is also floating above her head.
" Are you okay?" Ina asked.
" Fine, as good as new." Ame beating her own chest to prove the point, Ina sighed. " Good, let's keep going.
Behind them, watcher's hands start moving.
…
When they finally going in full circle around the city of Beijing.
Ame and Ina running back to where Nene's corpses should be.
But there's nothing here, instead they find Nene standing in fighting position not far behinds, she and her husband probably trying to fight before watcher crushing them
under the building.
Ame slapped Nene shoulder and waiting for her to responses.
After a while, Nene stop moving backward and looking around. " What's happening? Where's the watcher?" She asked Ina'nis.
" We are dealing with her right now. My friend here, Ame she… What can I say? Turning the time backwards?" Ina mumbled, pointing at Ame who running at the spot to
listen the conversation.
Nene flinched. Ina quickly defending herself. " I know! I know!
Time and space magic are not something we should messing with, but everything is gone and I need her to-"
Nene holding both Ina and Ame hands in her palms.
" Please keep going! Ignore whatever I teach you months ago.
This is probably the best ways to handle this situation."
" Very well." Ame waves her hand before she starts running again.
" You guy having a conversation here. I will take care of the rest!"
…
Ame running passed the spot and feeling great when there is no dead and destructions awaits anymore. People start moving back to the normal place, like driving their car or
strolling around the street.
These buildings and street looks beautiful.
Maybe after all this is over, she and Ina can spend time chilling here and eating street food as a dinner-
Someone in the crowd yanking Ame off her feet.
The intruder's nails are clawing deep inside Ame's skin, detective wannabe yelled and looking at the attacker face, surprises when seeing that it was watcher who is dragging
and slamming her body against the wall.
" A time traveler? Interesting!" The woman said through her coat, ignored Ame struggling.
Before they could do anything else. Nene is jumping above their heads and kicking Watcher right into her face, knocking the white priestess down.
" Are you okay?" Ina'nis asked after putting Ame behinds.
" This is but a scratch!" Ame looking in horror as blood is dripping from her arm, parts of her sleeves is being torn open.
" Ouch!"
Ina'nis closing her eyes and imagining a picture of the wounds gone from Ame's arm. When she opens her eyes again, it is actually gone.
" Phew! Never know you are a medic too." Ame praised.
" Just using my power to close the gap of your wound. Careful, it might have some sort of side effects." Ina'nis warned.
" Pay attention! She is still alive." Nene raised her voice, pointing at the watcher who quickly get up.
The white priestess is chanting something and moving her hands in pentagram shapes, shadows start moving again.
But instead of summoning ANTI. Watcher shoving her hands that still red from Ame's blood inside the shadows near her feet.
Ame watches in disbelief as the black thing start moving, absorbing her blood and seems to be alive by it own.
" What the hell is she doing? Feeding her shadows?" She asked, looking at Ina and Nene when no one is answering her.
Ina'nis and Nene looks pale, as if they understand something Ame couldn't.
" ANTI can shaping the reality, but couldn't mess with time. It is different kind of magic." Ina said, realized that everything still moving backward even when Ame is standing
still and lose her concentration.
" But what if it can lays its hand on something that can manipulate time?" Nene asked.
" Like getting DNA of person who can do it or something." Ina added.
" Wait, Is she going to do Jurassic Park sh*t one me?" Amelia asked.
" Something like that." Nene admitted.
Two shadow twisting and swirling furiously as watcher letting her hand go at last and turn her attention back to them.
" Come here. You mortal." She laughed.
Ina'nis running at watcher, who moving her hands in pentagram shapes and making the building near them to collapsing again, aim precisely for it to falling on Ina'nis's head.
Ina summoning her tentacles and controlling it to shooting energy beams at watcher, but the falling building blocks the result of their fight from Ame and Nene's eyes.
" What should we do? Ame asked, noticed that everything is not yet to break from time backwardness, whatever inside these shadows probably controlling it to be that ways.
" Beat whatever that coming out of it. Which one do you want?" Nene pulling some small toothpick out of her pocket and swinging it.
Turning the item into some kind of big metallic staff that longer than her body.
" Wow! Is that a cult membership giveaway? I might join your community just to get one." Ame said excitedly.
" This is my home planet's products. Micro staff is our favorite weapon after all." Nene chuckled.
" So, you are alien too? Care to elaborate?" Ame pulling her VP70 handgun out of the coat pocket, she buy it in a very high price for believing that it is that cool gun in James
Bond's movie. Until internet searching revealed that Mr. Bond favorites gun is Walter PPK instead.
Anyways, it is a cool gun on its own. So, Ame has no problem to carrying it around just in case.
" Some called my race mountain dwellers, because we love to living in the hills and such. But human probably knows us as some kind of wood demons. Onikuma, Black wind
demonand such." She shrugged.
" Good, but what can you guys do, except from scaring people off the mountain?" Amelia asked, making Nene grinned.
" You wouldn't want to know."
One thing jumping out of the dark shadow. It looked like a chubby version of Amelia Watson in detective uniform.
The thing seemed to not taller than 2 feet, it's black eyes staring into Ame soul as she is pointing her gun at it.
" The hell is this?" Ame demanded answers from Nene who shook.
"This probably the best copy version of you that ANTI could come up with. Careful! We don't know what it can do." Nene explained.
Ame hiding behind Nene's back as the chibi Ame start performing a hiccup.
" Its eyes keep staring at my soul! Aren't you are head of cultist or something? Do something!" Ame yelled.
" Deal with that one then." Nene pointed at the second thing that walking out of the dark shadows.
It is looks like a male body builder in woman's detective uniform. Only its head that look similar to Amelia Watson reminds them of its origin.
" What the f** k is that sh*t!" Ame screamed as Buffson is walking towards her.
She then quickly hit Nene's shoulder. " Change my mind!" You deal with the big one, I will get the small."
" I knows you would say something like that." Nene's voice filled with contempt, but Ame decided to ignore it.
They switched their positions as the enemies are approaching.
Buffson punching Nene with its muscular fists, but mountain dweller blocked the attack with her palms and hitting the side of its body, send the monster to crashes against
the wall.
" See? Nothing to be scared of." Nene turn her head to reassured Ame before the giant quickly get up and slamming its shoulder at her, knocking both out of detective's sight.
Ame took a deep breath before aiming her gun at chibi Ame.
" That's it, Girl. Nothing to be scared of. There is nothing 9mm. Parabellum couldn't fixed."
Ame shoots her gun, creating a hole in the wall behind them, but chibi Ame standing still and staring into Amelia soul as if nothing happened.
" The hell?" Ame exclaimed, shooting her gun nonstop at the target. Then she realized that nothing is standing in front of her. The f**k?
A 'Hic' sound above her head makes Ame looks up at the same time as smol Ame is falling on her head. The crashes knocking both of them on the ground and when Ame is
struggling to get up and raised her gun. The thing is already gone.
Watson quickly running forward, looking up to find her enemy, but something hit her leg and then slamming her on the ground.
Ame shooting her gun at where the attacker should be, but it is disappearing before she could even have a proper look.
Come on!
…
Ninomae Ina'nis
Ina slamming watcher against the skyscraper wall and punching her face nonstop, but the white priestess moving her hands again and then the whole building is crushing
together.
Ina'nis moving her hands too and cancelled the spells in order to let everything falls down by earth gravity again, including them.
But black shadows that coming out of watcher's back turning into a blade and slashing Ina'nis body as they were falling from the building.
Before the blade could cut through her body, multiple tentacles appeared and blocking the attack in time.
Some of it also reaching toward watcher body and shooting energy beam at her.
Watcher roared and moving toward Ina'nis. Both woman slamming not the building again as their tentacles and shadows are moving nonstop.
Crashing together make them using power of space magic by mistake.
And before everyone else noticed. Watcher and Ina are already teleporting at the other parts of the world.
…
Eiffel Tower: France
Ina feeling the wind that keep beating her face as she is falling down from the top of the tower, her tentacles is wrapping around watcher's neck and strangling the white
priestess. She probably call this a winning if watcher's shadows didn't doing the same to her.
Ina'nis trying to use her jet propulsion but the white priestess chanting something and her power did not come. So both is going to crashing the Paris street soon if nothing
has changed.
" I am ready to dies. What about you?" Watcher laughed.
" Thanks! But I still loves my life enough. How about you go first?" Ina grabbing watcher hair with her hands and commanding tentacles to throwing watcher at the tower,
crushing parts of the power as she is trying to slow down her falls with tentacles.
Watcher wrapping her fingers around Ina'nis neck, and both is teleporting again while they were still falling and make almost everyone in Paris stares in horror at the
damaged tower.
…
Pinatubo Volcano: Philippines
The red-hot lava burning Ina'nis back as watcher is pushing her down toward it during their falls. In a few seconds they will be falling in the volcano under them.
She struggling and trying to grabbed white priestess arm, looking for a way to switching sides and be the one who pushing her enemy down before realizing how useless it is.
Whoever on top of this fight will met the lava in a matter of second after their enemy sinking in it anyway. Ina'nis must find the other ways.
She remembered what Nene teach about teleportation magic and quickly drawing an octagon shape on watcher body, thinking of wherever that is colder than this…
…
Olav coast: Antarctica
Ina'nis and watcher crashes on the ice and shattered parts of it before they could get up again.
Ina looking around in wonders. Where is she anyways? She can see only and infinities of iceberg in front of her. Is this a polar region?
South or North?
A squealing sound behind her made Ina turning back to see what it is. There are hundreds, if not thousands of Emperor Penguins gathering not too far from her.
So, this is South Pole after all. Ina wonders how can she is going to get back to Beijing again.
Watcher roared and raising both of her arms and the iceberg around her suddenly floating in the air by her power, hundreds of penguins that stuck on it squeaking as they are
starting to fall down.
" No! Not the penguin!" Ina shouted and quickly moving her hand in octagon shapes as watcher literally throwing an iceberg at her.
Tentacles growing from portal in the sky and capturing every penguin around it as Ina is controlling the iceberg to be flying back into watcher's face.
The berg crushing with the frozen ground and being cracked apart by forces.
Ina using almost all of her power to gently put the surviving penguin down.
" I know. I know. No need to thanks me." Ina said sarcastically when every penguin is already running away from her.
The ice under her feet starting to crack as the dark shadow appear and dragging her downward.
Ina has only a brief moment to take a deep breath before she is sinking under half frozen water.
She forced herself to open her eyes and seeing that watcher is now standing among the bright color starfishes at the sea floor, watching in silence as multiple shadows
reaching from her feet and wrapping around Ina'nis body like some strange tentacles.
Ina'nis closing her eyes and using ancient one power inside her body imagining a picture of sea floor under watcher feet to start collapsing, and when she opens her eyes, it is
actually happening.
The stone and gravel of seabed start breaking and falls apart.
Forcing watcher to stop whatever she is planning to do and swimming upward to avoid being trapped in the mess that's happening around her.
Ina'nis remembered something Nene use to teach about.
With her ancient one power. Ina'nis can easily bending the reality with enough practice, and that includes using portal magic.
Some kind of magic that will allow you to go anywhere you want with the right spells and clear picture of destination in your minds.
Ina'nis controlling her power and moving her hands in octagon shapes as she saw watcher and her moving shadows coming at her with incredible speed.
The portal open in front of Ina'nis and she quickly swimming into it, disappearing from watcher's sight in a matter of seconds.
White priestess looking around her in disbelief as her attacks hit nothing but cold water. Perhaps Ina'nis is already running away from this continent? She has to using her
power to find that girl again.
Watcher closing her eyes and linking her senses with the ancient one, trying to find a trace of his power from Ina's body in this big, messy world.
A portal open at the side of watcher's head and Ina'nis coming out of it. She spins her tentacles like a wheel and hitting watcher's face with it. The attack sends the white
priestess to bouncing against the giant iceberg as she is crashing it.
The 'cover' crystal necklace on Ina'nis neck start shining against as she recalls how to pulling the power out of it, similar to when she is fighting with Hachama at the New
York Water Tunnel.
Ina eyes is shining as she is moving her hands again, controlling iceberg and gravel sea floor to crushing together with watcher between them.
She then breaks the nearby giant iceberg and turning them into thousands of smaller ice spear and throwing the weapon at the watcher limping body, making the white
priestess disappear in the rain of spears that keep flying at her.
…
When it is all over Ina'nis realized that she hadn't breathe for a long time and should do it right away. Without ancient one power, she probably being drowned or frozen to
death by now, maybe even both.
So, she using her jet propulsion and flying upward until she is above the surface.
Water on her body quickly turning into ice as soon as the wind start blowing at her, so Ina guessed that she should get out of this place as soon as possible.
Ina'nis wonders if she need map in order to locate where Beijing is in the world when she feels that there is a ridiculous amount of magic power under her. She looks down an
seeing that there is a shining pentagram magic circle that as big as football field shining under the wave.
Ina has only time to creates a portal in front of her and flying inside it, before the giant dark energy beam will be shooting at where she should have been, the beam itself is
big enough to be seen by those who stay far more than hundreds of miles from it.
…