Date A Re:Live
Chapter 74: Movie Chapter/Finale: Mio Salvation, Part 2
By : Tohka_Yatogami
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Summary
Even a similar story can take it's own path. Shido and Mana are amnesiac siblings living with their friend Kotori, however the past catches up to Shido when he nearly runs into a space quake, and his world changes as one girl asks... "Are you here to kill me?" (Stronger Ratatoskr, weaker DEM, games & movie are canon to story) [Shido/Tohka/Harem]
This chapter is the second round of the three for this arc finale, and... I need to apologize, because like I've done a few times before... I forgot to say what the arc emotion was ^^; *chuckles embarrassingly* This one is unique, because the emotion in question is all of the emotions we've had up until now! That's right, the Mio Salvation arc is a culmination of everything, because with the epilogue, there will be no emotions, just a resolution to the story.
The Spirits have all awakened their Ethereal Forms, and now's the time for them to stand up against the feared Diabolus that was hinted back in the Sephira Fury arc's final chapters, only with Choronzon (who is now Ellen for reasons the heroes don't understand) having fused with it. This means it's a mashup against a bio-organic weapon fueled by the main antagonist and his wife. This is not going to be an easy battle, as the Diabolus is an upgrade of the Deus.
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Now, with all of that said, time to begin this chapter and reveal how Mio finally awakens her powers!
() - Angel Talking
[] - Archangel Talking
{} - Demon King Talking
«» - Spirit's Code Name
‹› - Important Term, Phrase, or Detail
「」 - Insert Song Beginning, or Ending
【】 - Voice made by an Announcement, or through an Announcer
『』 - Electrical Voice or Machine Speaking
"Mom, do it now!" Shido screamed.
"You've got it!" Rinne replied.
Taking a deep breath, she focused her power, with the other Spirits all throwing out their hands to empower it. Choronzon's eyes widened before he charged his counterpart attack.
"Harmonic Convergence!"
"Chaotic Divergence!"
The two blasts hit, but due to the Ethereal Forms gathering together, Rinne's attack won the day, and burned right through the Demon King's body.
"Yes, we did it!" Rio cheered.
At that moment, the sound of Choronzon's voice was heard as the remains of its body kept moving.
{"You... really think that the battle... would be won-"} Choronzon questioned mockingly.
"As simple as that!?" A familiar female voice screamed.
Everyone's eyes widened at that, as it was one that normally yelled in rage at the Spirits... yet was supposed to be dead.
"That voice, it's..." Maria gasped.
"It's Ellen, but how?" Marina questioned.
Ellen, now revealed to how somehow become... or possibly had always partially been Choronzon in some manner (when considering Westcott was the Devil's reincarnation), kept laughing as she threw her roots into the sky.
The cracks already formed began pulling apart even more until finally... an evil, even larger, and black-colored version of the Deus that the group had fought after freeing Kurumi could be seen. This was the machine they nearly had to fight near the end of last year... the dreaded Diabolus!
"Time to unleash our full power!" Ellen screamed loudly.
[Yes, the beginning of the end starts now!]
Choronzon's body suddenly rooted itself inside of the Diabolus, making the machine even larger, and making spots of it glow as Choronzon's roots merged into it as an endless power source, and defense against its core.
"Great, now it's a bio-organic life form, my powers can't work on that!" Maria panicked.
"I don't think mine or Mayuri's can either... we're being locked up of most of our battle options the longer this is going on." Marina replied, growling a bit.
The Diabolus unleashed a hellish scream, readying itself as it began growing in size.
"Please tell me that didn't count as a jinx..." Mayuri gulped, noticing the non-Sephira Spirits paling at the coincidental timing.
「 Campione: The Power of God Killing 」
An alarm began to blare, making everyone see the Fraxinus arrive onto the scene.
『"Stand back everyone, we'll take that thing down! Just lend us all your strength to do it!"』 Ryouko ordered, readying the Mystletainn.
Noticing this, Rinne put her hand up.
"Everyone, we're going to transfer our power to the Mystletainn, give me it to send over!" Rinne alerted them.
"Right!" Everyone shouted.
All of the Spirits put their hands out towards the First Spirit, who soon tossed it into the ship's signature weapon.
『"MYSTLETAINN HAS BEEN FULLY CHARGED, WAITING FOR FURTHER ACTION."』
『"Convergent Magic Cannon: Mystletainn... fire at Maximum Overdrive!"』
The Fraxinus unleashed its ultimate attack at its highest level, slamming into the still growing Diabolus with all of its might. Everyone waited for signs of the damage, and after a few seconds... everyone suddenly began to worry at the lack of what they were hearing.
「 Insert Song Disconnected 」
It wasn't long before they got an answer to why they didn't hear anything being destroyed, which was the Diabolus eating the Mystletainn beam like slurping up a spaghetti noodle!
"It's eating the attack..." Mio gasped in horror.
Ryouko and the other staff on the Fraxinus all watched in horror, soon seeing their greatest weapon having completely backfired on them.
"You made a poor decision, and now you'll pay the price!" Diabolus shouted, simultaneously using Ellen and Westcott's voices to speak.
The Diabolus unleashed a powerful wave that shot across the city, immediately causing geysers of lava to spew out as the sky turned a dark red, with those in the shelters beginning to panic as they began shaking; the power shorting out seconds after only made their fears grow worse.
"W-what's going on!?" Yoshino panicked.
"The Diabolus... it's destroying the whole world just by existing on it..." Mio answered, her eyes shaking.
"It's what!?" Everyone exclaimed in horror.
"At this rate, Tenguu City will be the conduit that marks the world's complete annihilation by a small supernova in... less than an hour!" Mio revealed, starting to hyperventilate.
Dread and horror filled everyone's eyes as they heard this
"Quick, get us information! We need to form a plan!" Ryouko ordered, sweating heavily.
Right as she said that, the ship's systems suddenly went black as everything shut off, with sparks flying form the systems. Everyone screamed as the consoles began exploding.
"What's happening!?" Kannazuki shouted.
"I... don't know..." Ryouko breathed, a worried look on her face.
The Diabolus' eyes lit up, causing the AST to all crash into the ground as their CR-Units struggled to protect their Maryoku.
"Come on, don't give in... we have to make it to them!" Artemisia grunted.
With the worst wave passing, the CR-Units regained their strength as they flew into sight of the battlefield. However, they quickly wished they had been late upon arriving.
Before anyone knew it, the entire Fraxinus was suddenly hit by a storm of beams that came out of nowhere, making explosions go off across its frame. The Spirits all watched in horror as the ship continued to get attacked, exploding even more until it hit the ground... then outright imploded!
"Oh my god..." Cecile breathed, covering her mouth.
"I didn't see anyone try to get out, which might mean... no one did." Leonora replied, crying as she saw the sight.
"Everyone..." Artemisia breathed, closing her eyes.
The AST leader screamed as once again, this battle made her feel powerless to do anything that wasn't watching innocent people lose their lives.
"No..." Tohka breathed.
"Those bastards, we'll make them pay!" Kurumi cried, aiming her Archangel at Diabolus.
She screamed as she fired her shots at it, managing to actually show signs of doing damage.
"It's working! Everyone, attack it at once!" Kotori shouted.
Tohka immediately slashed a hurricane of slash waves, with Origami unleashed a thick blast of light beams. Following that came a blizzard from Yoshino's hands, and Remiel's mouth. Kotori unleashed a cyclone of fire, with the Yamai twins enhanced the tempests of their combined bow attack.
Natsumi had the land rise up, then become like a pillar of nuclear energy that lacked radiation, giving Miku a chance to unleash a meteor-sized impact of her sonic scream. Nia ripped out some papers that immediately slammed pure force against the dark machine. Finishing things up, Mukuro fired her signature spatial beam attack, which had a locking effect added to it, hoping it would disrupt the Diabolus' systems.
"Give it everything!" Shido shouted, unleashing all his harem's elements in a Roaring Slash Blast Wave.
Mana screamed as she fired off a void blast, with the Arusu sisters and Mayuri combining their elements to make an unstable reaction against the diabolic machine. Finishing things up, Rio and Rinne blasted out a surge of their power, turning it into a swirling stream.
Everything reacted together, creating a powerful flash that engulfed the Diabolus' body inside of it.
"Nothing could survive that." Artemisia remarked.
However, she was proven wrong when the Diabolus showed it did survive, albeit with incredible damage across its entire body.
"Holy crap! It took that all, and survive it!" Mana exclaimed.
"The good news is the attacks are working, let's just hit it again to-" Mayuri replied.
Suddenly, the Diabolus glowed as it immediately healed from the damage, having Choronzon's roots extended to become replacements over the damaged areas. Seeing this, everyone gasped at the sight.
"No way!" Natsumi exclaimed.
"Does this mean any damage we do will just be undone?" Miku worried thought aloud.
"You misunderstand, the attacks did work." Mio clarified.
Everyone looked at her, while she stared at the Diabolus with a deep focus in her eyes.
"Your attacks disrupted its flow of power, but there was just too much for your scattered attacks to physically destroy its body, letting it recover. You'll need more, and there's only one way to do that." Mio explained.
She immediately grabbed Tohka's hand, confusing her and the others... until they saw their Astral Dress start to glow. All of them created a ring in the air, which soon overlapped above Tohka, and created a rainbow of energy within it.
That energy rained down onto Tohka, causing her Astral Dress to change back to its original form, but then start changing again.
"What's happening?" Tohka asked, looking surprised.
"Tohka, you represent the Sephira of Malkuth, which is tied to the Earth... that makes you the only one that can unite the full power of the Spirits into one vessel. At least, unite it in the sense that I'm making you use it." Mio explained.
"I can... feel a new strength!" Tohka noticed, looking at herself.
At that moment, the Diabolus began charging up an attack, which caused the nearby buildings to break apart. Tohka gasped as she saw where it was aimed.
"The Diabolus is about to attack us!" She warned.
"No, we're defenseless and immobile until I can finish this!" Mio panicked.
"We're what!?" Everyone screamed in horror.
A storm of Dark Reiryoku fired off from the Diabolus' entire body, and right as it was about to slam into the group... Artemisia and the AST all flew into their path, uniting their powers into a combined territory.
"Artemisia, thank god with your timing!" Mana smiled.
She smiled at them, only for the group to see their territory immediately shatter, and then their CR-Units burst apart, making them all fall to the ground.
"Everyone, no!" Maria shouted.
"This is... all we can do..." Saya grunted.
"Please, don't let our efforts be in vain!" Mikie begged, soon hitting the ground.
Seeing the sight, Tohka's eyes widened.
"EVERYONE!"
「 Date A Live II: Opening Theme 」
Mio and Shido were blown away, with the others covering their eyes as the transformation began. Still screaming, everyone saw their Archangels vanish as Tohka's Astral Dress changed into a fusion of all of theirs, making the Angels float around her.
In her other hand, Sandalphon reformed, but with a new look that made it seem like it had been given a new frame.
"What is this?" Shido asked.
"The power to use every Spirit's strengths in a single entity, but only temporarily." Mio answered.
Tohka opened her eyes, with her power flaring out of the wings that were now part of her Astral Dress, and half of the Angels placing themselves on either side of her body.
"This... is the Full Form!"
Diabolus readied itself, and opened slots on its body to reveal more weapons.
"Zafkiel!"
Out of nowhere, the Diabolus' colors inverted, showing it had been frozen in time.
"She used my powers!" Kurumi gasped.
"Of course, this is what Mio meant by our powers being too scattered. Now they're all in one place!" Kaguya realized.
Holding up her two swords, Tohka readied herself as time resumed around the deadly machine. The Diabolus unleashed a storm of shots, only for Tohka to circle her swords around her, creating a wormhole that ate the attacks, then sent them all right back!
Everyone cheered as this happened.
"Raphael!"
She swung her swords like an X-shape, which caused a tornado of energy shots to slam into the Diabolus, and push it back.
"Camael!"
"Zadkiel!"
Tossing her two swords, they slashed across the machine's arms, burning and freezing the limbs entirely.
"Time to finish this!" Tohka shouted.
Raising her arms up, she whistled a bit, making her two Angels start to curve like boomerangs.
"Sandalphon!"
She caught the sword in her right hand, and it glowed.
"Shekhinah!"
The Archangel flew into her left hand, also glowing the same way.
"Angels Unite!"
Tohka zoomed forward at the Diabolus, which immediately roared before charging at her covered in a thick coat of Dark Reiryoku that vaporized everything in its way.
"Time to meet... your end!" Tohka screamed, glowing with everyone's color.
Spinning around, every Angel managed to attack at once, leaving a huge burst of rainbow to explode across its chest.
Following this, the Diabolus froze in place, making everyone stare as they waited, hoping for the result that they wanted to occur. A few seconds later... the Diabolus' body suddenly began to swell and bubble, making the machine begin to flash.
"This can't be happening..." Westcott and Ellen's voices screamed together.
The Diabolus exploded into nothing but thick white smog, right as Tohka's Full Form vanished, changing back into her Ethereal Form.
「 Insert Song End 」
Everyone cheered as they saw the DEM's greatest weapon get destroyed.
"I did it!" Tohka cheered.
"We've finally stopped the DEM!" Origami cheered in reply.
As everyone cheered... they failed to realize something until a minute or two passed. When it finally did, they saw the world was still with a dark red sky that had been cracked in places, and the land was still getting worse and worse.
"Hold on, if we won... why's nothing going back to normal?" Natsumi questioned.
Mio blinked in confusion, and then suddenly screamed in pain as she held her head, getting everyone's attention.
"Did you really think that this was over?"
Everyone's eyes turned at the sight of the white smog, which suddenly turned black, and began swirling together.
"The whole point of Westcott letting me reside in him was to revive me, and while I did want to honor that deal... he never said anything about me continuing on my own if he died, and I had already recovered enough to restore myself!"
"The... the Devil, he's... he's alive..." Mio breathed in horror.
At that moment, the smog hit the ground, causing the city to start rupturing in that area as it became an incubator. Following that, a hand rose up, signifying the unseen monster was finally going to reveal its true form to the members of Ratatoskr.
Rising from the ground, the Devil finally came, revealing a humanoid with a six-legged Centaur body. The Devil's skin was a dark crimson red, having neon yellow eyes that almost seared into your soul. His head was hairless, having six black horns resembling a Ram's that were placed on the top, behind his ears, and the bottom of his chin. He had also six arms, which (alongside his feet) had claws like a dragon's, finishing with a spiked tail.
"Oh god... that's definitely the Devil." Yuzuru remarked, noticing the three limbs that numbered the same total.
Laughing loudly, the Devil glared at them all.
"Now, the time has come... I shall destroy this world like I destroyed Heaven! I will finally achieve my goal of wiping out all of reality!" The Devil cackled, opening his mouth to reveal a sickle green viper as his tongue, and the asymmetrical, purple-colored fangs that were his teeth.
"We won't let you!" Nia shouted.
All of the Spirits flew at the Devil, ready to finish him off, until...
"WEAK!"
A sudden wave of power flashed by, making all of the Spirits freeze in place, and then before anyone could react.
They all screamed as their Astral Dresses were suddenly shred apart, and slammed to the ground with fatal force, leaving only Mio and Shido unharmed, with those watching only sure Shido was safe because he had been holding Mio since he rescued her from Choronzon's prison.
"No..." Shido breathed, feeling his eyes shake.
As the Spirits laid on the ground with lifeless eyes, they suddenly twitched, feeling the life return to them.
"W-what happened?" Tohka asked.
("This is... the end for me...") Sandalphon said weakly.
Tohka looked, seeing her Angel begin to dissolve away, leaving the purple spirit of the being it once was to follow. Tohka gasped as she held it, with everyone else doing the same with their Angels.
"Sandalphon, what's happening to you!?" Tohka asked, shaking with fear.
("I... couldn't let you die, when... only my time had already ended. Goodbye, my... friend...") Sandalphon cried, soon going near silent.
At that moment, Tohka's Astral Dress disappeared, restoring her prior outfit as her eyes returned to their human appearance.
"Their powers... they're gone." Ashley gasped.
"He didn't attack them, and that was enough to take them all out." Katie whimpered, holding onto Artemisia.
The Devil laughed at that, raising his hands up.
"Now, the world known as Earth... I command you to start dying! Show the world its fate, starting with this pathetic city, and the country it sits on!" The Devil commanded.
The darkened sky began spreading to the rest of the world, which caused those areas to suddenly experience natural disasters of all kinds.
Tornadoes... hurricanes... blizzards... firestorms... earthquakes... tsunamis... floods... sandstorms... volcanic eruptions... forestation... famine... rampaging wildlife... complete failure of technology... all of which were even happening in places they could never occur.
"Father..." Mio breathed, crying at what she saw.
As this happened, she suddenly fell, which made Shido go after her, though he soon crashed as his harem's loss of powers slowly began to affect him.
"Mio, wake up! Please!" He begged.
She started to disappear into rainbow light, making Shido panic as he saw it.
"Shido, I'm so sorry... I failed you... I failed my father... I failed everyone. The Devil is going to destroy everything, because I couldn't do anything... I was just a useless extra without the power to do anything but support you, so such an end... what could be more fitting for me?" Mio apologized, crying as she neared her end.
"Don't you ever say that!" Shido screamed.
Mio looked at him, feeling her vision starting to blur as she began to go blind with her coming death.
"How can you say you didn't do anything? All your life, that's what you've been doing!" Shido shouted.
"H-huh?" Mio was confused, and struggling to do even hear him now.
"Even with your false memories... you never gave up looking for me and Mana never gave up protecting us! You never gave up fulfilling the wise of my father, and your father in either of is forms! You never gave up the search for the Spirits! From the very start, never giving up has been who you are!" Shido exclaimed.
Mio suddenly felt her eyes widen, and her deteriorating senses began to stop.
"The truth is... no matter what you are, who you are, or what you do? You'll always have been someone that I'll always be proud of! Even after all the pain, the suffering, and the tragedies you've had to live that were real and fake... you've never lost your hope! And because of that, after getting to know who Mio Takamiya is after these last few months?" Shido continued.
"I'm pretty sure just like the rest of my girls... I love you." He admitted.
Mio's eyes widened at that, feeling tears in her eyes.
"Shido..." She breathed.
At that moment, the maelstrom of confusion in her heart began to settle, and as it cleared, she finally realized it.
"I... I feel the same way, I love you too! If only I had realized this sooner, and hadn't let things fall to this! But now, I can't deny it... I love you more than anything!" Mio cried, finally confessing the feelings she couldn't deny anymore.
Knowing she could disappear at any moment, she moved forward, and took the chance she might never get again... and kissed Shido.
「 Tenkai Knights: Arrival of the Tenkai Wolf 」
At that moment, her body began to glow with an iridescent sheen, surprising both Shido and herself.
"Mio?" He asked in confusion.
"W-what's happening to me? I feel... something growing!" Mio gasped.
A huge wave of power blasted out, creating an odd sensation in everyone, while managing to make the Devil stumble upon making contact with the ultimate Demon.
"What is this!?" The Devil demanded.
Mio's body began floating into the air, before it slingshot itself to the area where the Qliphoth symbol had been. The very Tree of Death representation appeared... before it turned white, and flipped the other way, turning it into a Sephirot representation!
The red sky and the cracks suddenly vanished, undoing all the disasters across the world. The light that began echoing even caused those who had died to suddenly get up, having had their life returned to them.
"No... no, it can't be! How is this possible!"
From the Fraxinus' wreckage, Ryouko and her crew all got up, realizing they were alive.
"Wait a minute, if that's Mio up there, then..." Ryouko gasped.
"She's awakening!" Kannazuki realized.
The Sephirot suddenly shot light at each of the Sephira Spirits, which the ripples caused the Non-Sephira Spirits all felt their pupils whiten once again, regaining the elemental aspects of their powers.
In return, the Sephira Spirits suddenly shot some remnant Reiryoku from their hearts, alongside Shido, into the Sephirot.
"These are the 10 Sephira, and with the bonds formed between them... the 22 Paths have been forged, now all of the aspects are complete. The true infinite light of Reiryoku shall awaken..." Mio chanted, almost as if it wasn't her speaking right now.
"Kabbalah!"
A massive surge of Reiryoku exploded around her, making her look like a rainbow star, shining brightly while somehow not blinding a soul.
Curling into a ball, Mio's body began spinning in place, and that's when everyone saw it happen... her Astral Dress began to form as it glowed around her current outfit, and made them vanish to replace them.
"She did it!" Shido realized, smiling brightly.
A pure shiny platinum sheet formed around her, taking the form of a dress-like Toga that you'd expect to see on a Goddess, suddenly blooming leaves of the same color across the upper rims. Gold accents began drawing themselves around the dress, which stretched near the neckline to create a connecting necklace, it was gold in color, with a shape representing the three veils of the Sephirot, having its tip connected by two strings to the two strands near her neck.
In her hair, the sight of more leaves formed, soon blooming into flowers that by extension, braided some of her hair like with Rinne's, only hers weren't as long. Branching out came the sight of golden ear pieces, which glittered for a brief moment. Finally, the last piece came as a ring attacked to part of her dress' back, with wings forming on each of ten spots (some hidden by her body) that had ten shapes Rio was able to recognize in an instant. Once they were formed, her dress split apart, revealing her bare feet.
Looking closer, each Sephira Spirit felt a pulse, and those ten spots were all filled with ten familiar spheres.
"Wait, are those..." Tohka gasped.
"Yeah, those are the Sephira Crystals!" Origami confirmed.
Finally opening her eyes, Mio took a look towards the Devil, who was shaking in both anger... and to his own surprise, fear. The Sephirot vanished, leaving Mio to descend near the ground, staring at the mortal enemy of her father.
"This is it Devil, because the power that my father left me... I've finally awakened it!" Mio declared, her eyes shining with her restored hope.
「 Insert Song End 」
Everyone looked at the Spirit of Origin's awakened power, the strength that came from being the daughter of God... the strength of someone that could easily be called a Goddess, just like her current appearance.
This was the true final battle.
Oh yeah, this is it! Mio has finally awakened her full power! While it won't be next chapter that I specifically explain how she did, I think you can all tell that it had to do with that kiss that finally makes her the last member of Shido's harem. As for the others, while they may still be without their powers, I can assure you that it won't be much longer.
Next chapter will end this arc, because now... the time for Mio to fight with the Devil is here! The progenitor of the Spirits, and the progenitor of Demons will finally bring this final battle to its ultimate conclusion! I'm already excited for the end, so I hope you all are as well, because what happens next will need to be seen for it to be truly believed!
Until next time everyone, and stay awesome! ^^
Shido's Passive Abilities :
Tohka - 100%, MAX (Form a mana barrier automatically)
Origami - 100%, MAX (Teleport Dodging)
Yoshino - 100%, MAX (Dampen enemy territories)
Kotori - 100%, MAX (Healing from fatal wounds minus losing his head, doesn't work on wounds caused by blunt force)
Kurumi - 100%, MAX (Hide in his shadow, and only his)
Rinne - Maxed (Summon a second copy of an Angel)
Natsumi - 100%, MAX (Transform into Shiori)
Kaguya - 100%, MAX (Flight)
Yuzuru - 100%, MAX (Weight Manipulation)
Miku - 100%, MAX (Pain Reliever)
Maria - Maxed (Restore dying/withered/dead vegetation and plant life)
Marina - Maxed (Remove toxins or other harmful substances, either from a living creature or an object)
Rio - Maxed (Create a soothing aura of Reiryoku to reduce a sealed Spirit's anger)
Mana - Maxed (Share a mental link that can be turned on and off at will)
Nia - 100%, MAX (Photographic Memory)
Mayuri - Maxed (Disrupt any Reiryoku near him with a special magnetic field)
Mukuro - 100%, MAX (Safely use all 100% of his body's physical power)
Mio - Maxed (Unlocks the Sephira Spirits' remaining Ethereal Forms)