Author's note 1
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There's a lot of details and other fun surprises that was lost in this website.
You'll be missing out on it.
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"President!" a girl wearing nothing but a jacket over a bikini shouted over to her president, who is busily brushing her hair and dusting her uniform. Even as spotless as it was.
A pale elf, elegantly sitting on her wheelchair, legs weakened from a sickness beyond her control, turned to her friend and the only person in the clubroom.
"Hm? What is it, Eimi?" She asks.
"President Himari, look." She pointed to the screen, and the mountains of data that follow soon after. Letters confined with numbers. Conjoining into lines and lines of coherent chaos as the influx kept coming down and down endlessly.
"What the….?" The elf blinked, and she immediately sprung into action. "Has Decagrammaton become active again?" She scoured the data as it kept on flooding.
"No. Binah is acting on its own." Eimi answers, still skimming through the data herself.
"Near the old Abydos school building? But, why… wait, wait. There's something we missed. The data pointed to something else at play. Something to cause Binah to emerge." Himari bit her lip. They all pointed at something that suddenly surge without an explanation.
Yet she doesn't understand what. It all just spoke of a powerful thing that racks up their numbers sky high.
"…Eimi, do we still have a drone operating in Abydos?"
"We do. I had already sent it towards this anomaly." Eimi huffs.
"Fufu. As expected of the beautiful sickly hacker girl's loyal assistant." The crippled elf proudly puffs her chest.
Her assistant stared blankly. Unamused, just like the previous millionth time she had spoken such a useless thing.
"…Get some help, president."
White noise.
Everything is ringing in her ears.
Her mouth tastes like iron.
Everything hurts.
Everything aches.
Nothing feels right anymore.
All she saw is darkness. An everlasting void without an end. Lingering. Intoxicating. Enveloping her in its glory as she dug her fingers into the ground. Scrounging to pry open her eyelids to see once more.
Yet there was nothing.
What was she doing again?
Memories fading away like summer rain, a gentle whisper as her overloaded mind tried to pick and pry what was left.
Her brain racks up the memory.
…Yes.
She remembers now.
…Sensei…
She screamed. Then…
That happened.
The ground to shake under her. A miniature earthquake that didn't register upon her tunneled mind, hyper focused on her enemy that she fought for what felt like an eternity.
Their eyes met and minds sync into one chant.
"DESTROY. DESTROY. DESTROY."
Before it fell apart and she finally realized the folly far too late.
The ground broke apart,
and the beast appeared.
She stared at it.
The gaping maw of the beast.
The metallic fangs threatened to swallow her whole.
The pain coming from her cheek, a gap in her row of teeth… then blankness. This is where she was now. Blind and frozen on the sands.
Once more, her hands tried to pry her eye open. To grasp upon the disappearing, fleeting grains that enveloped her body.
"…Sen…sei." She felt her mouth to recover. Her throat roughly spewing out letters that formed into a word. Broken as it was as she lingered between reality and nightmare.
Standing in the middle of limbo, with her body desperately clung for the material world.
Open.
OPEN.
Praying for a miracle for her heavy eyelids open.
Blinking open at a sight of mist and iron. Blood and tatters as she grasped into the being that stood in the distance.
"…Gr..RRH…"
The being took its steps. Sending a low growl that felt even more deafening than the burning building, the minor explosions, and the low hums of a tank.
Her dying, exhausted heart beat faster as the sound of the beast finally registered into her mind. Her spine shivered and everything went to overload as her crackling brain cells see what stood.
Everything screamed for her to run. To flee. To escape. To lie down and pray to whatever deities that exist for salvation.
Yet she couldn't stop staring as adrenaline and panic came into one unholy concoction that send her broken mind past its breaking point.
"GRROAARRR!"
DELIRIUM.
INCOPREHENSIBLE HORROR LINGERING TO THE BACK OF A PRIMITIVE MIND.
A SURVIVAL INSTICT THAT HAD EVOVLED IN THE DAYS OF OLD.
THE WOLVES.
THE NIGHT.
THE BLOOD AND SLAUGHTER.
THE GLIMPSE OF A CULLING.
EVERYTHING CAME CRASHING INTO ONE, AS THE ROAR SURGES ACROSS THE DESERT ITSELF.
EXPANDING FOR MILES ON END LIKE A TRUMPET OF THE APOCALYSE, SHOUTING THE COMING OF A LAST HERALD.
A LAST SURVIVOR OF A FORGOTTEN, FADED PAST.
A BEAST.
AN ANIMAL.
A PREDATOR.
A WEREWOLF.
A MONSTER.
Her mind couldn't take it anymore.
Her eyes rolled to the back of her skull as her head landed softly on the golden grains. Pink hair was strewn unceremoniously as her heart beat slower and slower.
The adrenaline leaving her systems. All that remains is nothing but a pathetic whisper.
Silence.
Pure silence as everything stopped for her.
Halo flickering before it disappears.
And the PMC Mercenary was destroyed.
"There it is! THERE IT IS- THERE IT IS!" Black Suit pointed, laughing manically as he saw it in its full glory. The cards perfectly placed down as it came into this satisfying finale.
"I DID IT. IT EXPECTED IT TO FAIL AND YET IT DIDN'T… HEHE… HAHAHAHAHA! THERE IT IS… THERE IT IS!" In a manic frenzy, he kept pointing to the screen like a child exited for a new video game.
"THE GOD DEVOURING SERPENT REACTED TO THE BEACON. TO THE MYSTIC AND TERROR INTERMINGLING WITHIN THE DIMMED GOD OF THE SUN. IT REACTED TO THE PURE STRENGTH THE MONSTER OF LEGENDS HAD RADIATED. IT FELT THE TERROR AND IT FELT THE NEED TO DESTROY THE THREAT FOR THE SELF PROCLAIMED DIVINITY!"
Black suit rambles on as the delirium reached his mind, the burning pale flames rising and blinking as he kept watching.
Oblivious to the silence that came with his declaration.
"…To bring a beast from nightmares. A legend made reality. You are insane, Black Suit. To make him your subject of observation when you can't persuade him into our side." The painting spoke.
"Yet… it is… it is… something that I cannot comprehend. Where the seams of reality and nightmare had blended into one. So, I tip my hat to you, suit. I tip my hat to you. I wish you have something in mind to… once more, make peace with our organization."
"OF COURSE!" His body shouts.
"This is it… THIS IS IT!" the mannequin finally shouted as well. "YOUR ARTISTRY BRILLIANCE IS ALMOST AS BRIGHT AS I TO SEE THIS… THIS MAGNIFICENT FINALE!"
He raised his creaking hand before clenching it.
"Ah… how magnificent. In fact… I think I have a lot of ideas coming in now. I shall make it into reality later on. What do you think, madam?"
Yet she didn't answer. Her mouth was wide open as it kept mumbling like a goldfish. A flash of recognition.
"…I thought it was a dream." She whispered. "…I thought I was dreaming." She took a few steps back. "I thought that- I…"
She was in denial.
"Now I see.
It was reality."
And it turned to rage.
"You should've destroyed him, when you have the chance, Black suit. You've just brought death right into our doorsteps."
She took small elegant steps as her lips cracked into a ferocious scowl and her face slowly unfurls. Letting the researcher to gaze into her many eyes.
"You have brought an ace, an irredeemable monster of the fat bastard that CAUSED EVERYTHING TO HAPPEN. TO CAUSE LONDON TO FELL INTO A BLOODBATH AND EUROPE INTO SHAMBLES. YOU BROUGHT THE ONE THAT KILLED FATHER ANDE-"
Her lips stopped her speech. Her face stopped barely an inch from the black and burning onyx that met hers.
…Who?
A glimpse of a kind old man came before it distorts.
Who are you?
"…Ugh." And she retreats. Clutching her head before she shook it.
"Well… isn't that's a surprise, Madam." Black Suit cleared his throat. "So you're there as well?"
"Tch. Silence your tongue, suit." She reached for her fan, opening and closing it as a way to calm herself down. "I loathe the notion that I was connected to you."
"Well technically…" Golconde came into Black suit's defense before he was rudely silenced by Beatrice's growl.
"I have enough of this. I'm taking my leave back to my projects,
and deal with that beast myself."
Everything came into this perfect silence as THE WEREWOLF struck the mechanical beast. It all happened so fast.
Once, Hans and Hoshino was there, fighting before it came into a twist. An enormous beast made from steel broke through the ground, and attacked the duo.
Then… that.
That happened.
Sharp, otherworldly nails pierced through the armor and tearing through an eye
as the serpent screams.
Thrashing for a safer moment to attack, yet the BEAST was relentless. Slicing through wires and chasing the serpent as it did, forcing the prophet to attack instead of trying to find a perfect moment to defend and strike.
Turning back and forth from mist into a beast as fang and claw met the refined white alloy of the serpent. Uncaring at how many eyes stared at him, and at how many… had their minds assaulted by the delirium of his kind.
Because by the end of it, the serpent's grasp came upon him and he was dragged beyond the desert, out into the endless streaks of gold.
And the students could finally process at what they had seen.
Some remains mute, and some fell into a sobbing, trembling mess on the ground. Especially the mobs.
"…What… no… that's… no…" Chinatsu took steps back before she tripped and fell. Laying on the ground as she curled into a fetal position.
Iori mumbled something repeatedly. "No… no… no.."
Iroha clung to Ibuki for dear life.
"…Ugh… u…" Aru held the trembling and shivering Haruka. "Aru... Aru-sama… I'm…"
"Shh… it's okay." She tried to keep her brave expression, yet she was being torn apart the same. Trembling as she tried to keep herself sane.
Mutsuki was unresponsive.
Serika fell down, holding for dear life. "Stop it… stop." Begging for her beating heart to stop thumping so loud inside of her chest.
Ayane had fallen down on her knees, unresponsive.
Nonomi put her hands over her gaping mouth as her legs tremble along with her body.
And Hifumi had already felt the pressure to overwhelm her senses. Falling over and down for the count.
Nothing made sense anymore.
The blur between truth and legends became so intertwined, it cannot be discerned which is which.
Fading into a single uncontrolled symphony.
Yet it's real. It's reality. It's the truth, unfiltered.
The effect of the delirium, sending their minds into a burning frenzy.
All except… for a younger wolf.
Snapping back into attention, the gears churn in her skull. Dashing towards her shivering and unresponsive companion to grab what he had lent them.
"Arona. Can you track sensei?"
"I-I'm already on it."
"General direction it is."
Her foot stamped on the ground, preparing herself for a sprint before a hand fell on her shoulder. "…Sunaookami, S-Shiroko. Wait… for a moment."
Kayoko grunts, cold sweat still dripping from her forehead and down into her hoodie. Her shivering hands grasping on Shiroko's shoulder as her nails dug into it and causing the wolf to wince for a moment.
"I'm coming with you. I'm… I'm coming with. Don't stop me."
"…I'm going as well." A third voice, the still standing ace of Gehenna. Hina clenched her fist, shaking away the pricking terror grasping at her heart. "Onikata… Kayoko and Sunaookami Shiroko, was it…? Let me come with you.
I... want to know."
The younger wolf met their eyes. Their shaky, yet determined expression trying to find balance between the known and unknown. Between truths and legends.
Between reality and nightmare.
"…Nn." Finally, she relents with a nod.
"How long…?" Kayoko composed herself enough to let go of her grip. "How long… have you known?"
The question of the century. Shiroko should've expected that coming from her.
The younger wolf sighs. Remembering the day when they had met. At how she felt this… strange connection that seems to intermingle.
The white fur that adorned his skin. The gentle crimson eyes that met hers. White and black iris as if to balance out the dark and light he held.
A certain kindness he held within that silent expression and the pure strength he wore around him.
Slowly, her eyes locked on the fallen olive field cap he once worn on his head. Turning on her heels as she picked it up and dusting the sand that had come lingering on the fabric. Staring at it before donning it on her own head, uncaring at how her wolfish ears awkwardly folded back to fit into it.
"From the beginning.
We're kindred."
The sand was tossed apart, and the already broken ruins were pounded into dust as the serpent coils and wreathes.
A good distance away, the wolf rose back up. Covered in sand and blood as his crimson essence dripped from the gashes before it stitched itself back up. Glaring at the wreathing serpent with such intensity that could match even the sun itself.
The serpent met his eyes. Crimson and gold with the same intensity. Armor dented and scratched with mere fang and claw. Growling as it remembered the wound the wolf had made in one of its four eyes.
Still cracking and dripping with wire and electricity as it was torn apart from its sockets.
They kept on pressing for what felt like hours until it came to a halt between the prophet and the predator. Grasping for air, for a slight moment of respite before it came back.
A low growl left the mechanical throat of the great serpent. Artificial muscle and tendons coil and contracted as the glow of its halo brightened.
The wolf knelt and released his war form. Reverting into a gigantic wolf of mist.
Then with a bellowing scream,
the serpent made its charge.
Theme 24
Endless Carnival
With a burst of might as the serpent rammed into the wolf. Tossing him high as he evaporated into pure white mist, before he reemerged back in the natural war form of a Garou with his fangs wide open, clasping upon the armor of the serpent. Creating another gash on the growing number of damage on the prophet's armor until it shrieks and flung him away with a good thrashing. Sending him back into the sand before leaping back to meet Binah straight on.
"GROAAR!"
Another deafening scream came from the raging serpent as lightning crackled around it and came into a singular point focused on its gaping maw.
Crackle. Crackle.
KABOOM!
A scorching death ray came down into the ground, turning the sand to glass before it broke apart into shards again.
A symbol of pure power coming straight at him like an arrow that he narrowly dodged by dashing sideways. Scorching his already ruined greatcoat as it turned black. The Fera might be almost nigh immortal, but with enough damage and… a powerful special metal, he is as vulnerable as any other being.
And that attack will definitely be able to kill him.
Smoke and rage left Binah's mouth as Hans pressed on to attack again. A growling wolf sprinting towards the serpent on its four legs as mist surrounded its form, fangs bared and crawls glinting sharply upon the scorching sun, and Binah didn't wait a second to retaliate upon the charging predator.
The panels upon its back hissed and released itself as hidden rockets emerged and flew. Signals came to life as its targeting systems locked at the singular enemy charging restlessly to meet the serpent.
KABOOM! KABOOM! KABOOM!
Pits of burnt sand desecrated the land as Hans dodged whatever explosive came to his way. Nimbly as he sprinted closer and closer to the scourge until the moment calls.
He knows that the armor can be damaged by the sheer strength he had, but breaking them is another matter entirely. Luckily for him, there is a weak point he could exploit. The eyes… or the underbelly.
With a roar, the dire wolf leapt and swung his claws towards the soft black silicone right underneath its chin, breaking through wires and tearing the pulsing, beating silicone as shimmering gold liquid sprays out from the attack.
"ROOOARRR!"
Binah trashed once more, screaming and howling as it paints the sand shimmer with its "blood." Yet the wolf is not done yet. Snapping and biting upon the serpent's body, another tube was broken before he was thrusted into the dunes by smashing the captain down into the sands below in a magnificent bang. Releasing the grip from Binah's body, the serpent was able to make it's escape.
For only a short moment.
As the ground shook beneath them... and it explodes like a geyser, tossing sand and stone high before coming down like makeshift mortars. Easy enough to dodge, until it wasn't just that anymore.
Binah reemerged with a burning rage as electricity crackled all over its body. Growling as it making its dance.
The land shifts and change in a whim, the sand whispering and coiling before it came into a mighty storm.
A cleansing tsunami of sand and stone, mixed with iron and concrete.
Swallowing everything whole, along with the captain. There wasn't enough time for him to evaporate at the rising tide as he was swept away. Stone and steel piercing where he couldn't evade.
The usurper kept on. The storm rising up as entire regions swallowed again just to kill a single veteran of a long-lost night. Deeper and deeper as he was buried meters deep, caught in the heart of the storm.
As if that could stop him.
Gnashing his teeth, the wolf rejects and fought the storm in a burst. Coming in as an incomprehensible mass of mist. Bouncing through the debris, derelict buildings, and into the serpent without problem. The mass forming into a humanoid as his form emerged from the blur, and a kick was sent towards the cheek of the beast. Cracking it as Binah immediately retaliates. Electricity coursed through the armor and jolts towards the outstretched leg of the wolf. Burning through the already tattered garments , forcing him to disapate into mist to escape the crackling bolts… and the growing rage inside of the metallic heart.
Binah is not done.
The core of the beast intensified in heat, steam pouring in a burst from the serpent's panels, and a scorching death ray erupts through its roaring maw. Chasing the captain, uncaring of the energy it needs to expel such power.
Glassing the sand and turning the rest into a blackened mass as the laser kept on focusing on the captain's trajectory without a single ounce of care to that stood in between the powerful energy and the captain.
Derelict buildings scorched and melted to a glowing cinder. Sands thrown up and down before turning into glass and back.
Unlucky critters, instantly vaporized.
All of that to kill a single threat. Yet this single threat had proven himself to be a foe worthy of eradication for its deity.
Everything for ITS GOD.
BE BRAVE MY PROPHET.
MY GUARDIAN.
The powerful beam glow brighter in intensity as the USURPER kept on tracking the BEAST. Burning through the energy storage as it kept on tracking.
Faster and faster.
The captain can't dodge forever.
HE WILL FALL.
But eventually, the beam dies out. In a small growl, Binah was forced to shut down the laser and thrashed around. Tossing the sand to create a blinding storm, catching the captain inside it.
Enough for a third burst to pierce through the body of the old wolf. For the death ray to hit him right on the crosshair.
Burning his flesh as he was flung out from the storm
with a gaping hole in his side, and torn macabre leftovers of an arm.
Everything ring in his ears. A dull, aching screech as he flew with the wound that could kill a mortal ten times over.
The captain clenched his fists, trying to regain his footing and force the healing factor to emerge faster than it had been before. Making lost blood, rebuilding organ and muscle, stitching his skin… but the sudden dive halted the wolf's focus.
Then the ground shook, and he was met with the maw of the mighty serpent. Roaring to swallow him as the wolf defiantly roars back. Facing death head on like he had been many years ago, and he would gladly face it again.
But a blur and a sudden force coming to his side stopped him from facing the great maw head first.
"Sensei!"
Mighty gunshots struck the serpent. Not enough to do significant damage, but enough to distract it as a familiar presence, so bright and so full of life pushed him aside.
A smaller white blur, huffing and puffing as she held him. Down on the sand, with her above him.
"…Nn." She nods with an unreadable expression hidden under her azure scarf as his field cap donned awkwardly slowly shifts down.
"…Mm." Hans raised his remaining hand to stroke her cheek as she leaned to his touch. A suffocating feeling to have his kindred this close. "Thank you." He whispered. In which Shiroko replied by a slow nod. Hiding her faint blush by raising her scarf.
She could stay like here forever, but they have a problem to take care of.
She offered his hand and he took it without hesitation.
Rising up, he firmly place his hat onto her head.
And with a nod, the wolf rejoins the combat.
Binah tried to recover. Analyze the sudden shift in the situation, yet the overwhelming hailstorm of purple and black tinted bullets whistling with the unrivalled power of a lord interrupted its thoughts. Bashing through the armor, piercing through the air as it struck the pale armor of the beast.
Not enough to damage it, but enough to annoy it.
The threat of that monster… at least should've been a little hindered for now. Its attack had done the damage, now it's time to finish off these insects.
And make its deity proud.
Overcharged unstable energy crackled around the scourge as the thunder came upon its beating core. Energy amassed upon the cannon as it slowly being aimed at the two rats.
A punk aimed and fire a screaming bullet at it, and Binah felt the strange pressure upon its iron heart.
But that is not enough.
HUMMM….!
A howl of a raging wolf emerges as it ran and leapt, bursting through sand and mist with a burning rage in his eyes and mania on his growling jaw.
The wolf raised his one remaining arm as the other still slowly regenerate.
Striking another eye of the serpent as it was being distracted by his students. Uncaring at how the beast screeched and explodes in a mix of electricity and energy around it, and he was flung out with another stump for an arm.
"Sensei!" Hina shouts as he landed next to them. Still with the same expression as the mist dissipated. Leaving him in his homid form, ignorant of the horror in the Head Prefect's eyes. "Y-Your arms…!"
Their eyes met as he nodded. Raising his stumps as it slowly kneads fresh tissue and bone. Injecting life and form into the mangled pieces of flesh he had left. His regeneration was getting slower as expected, considering he was burning through stamina.
"So… I guess the cat's out of the bag, huh… sensei?" Kayoko interjected. Wiping her anxiety with a mask of indifference. "Or… the wolf's out of the den. I never had… expected you to be such as this…"
Shiroko immediately cuts in. Leaping out from her sprint. "Sensei has his secrets. You should keep it to yourself after we're done here. I trust you do the same… Head Prefect." The younger wolf spoke with a little hostility.
"N-No. I get it. I'll keep this to ourselves." Hina calmed her beating heart, instead focusing on his regeneration. Mesmerized by the way his flesh molds and clicks like clay. Shifting through as he flexed his newly made fingers, and curled it into fists.
The serpent's screams spreads in the background. Trashing and flailing as golden "blood" sprays from the deep gash the wolf had made upon its eye.
He gestured at the two demons, pointing them at the beast before gesturing at the eyes. "...Target... it." Then, he met the younger wolf's eyes with a nod. "Shiroko."
"Nn."
"Understood."
"Okay."
The serpent's rage grows as its blood kept on painting the ground. Golden and crimson lightning emerged and surrounded its screams before coming into a powerful death ray that glassed the ground straight towards the strike force.
"Go." Hans erupted into a fine mist as he dodged with the rest. Shiroko rolling sideways, Hina jumping right and Kayoko stepping to the side.
The hasty plan was in motion.
"Target confirmed." Hina narrows her eyes as her power surged. A dark aura surrounding her before it focused upon her heavy firearm.
RATATATATAT!
Even with the enhanced bullets, it dealt a pathetic amount of damage Binah could ignore as it fired its rockets and tossed sand and debris towards his assailants.
Yet when Hina's aim rise, the serpent finally understood her aim. Within an instant, it snapped its head down, so the bullets struck another part of the pale armor.
"….Haah." Kayoko let out a small sigh and raised her pistol upwards. "Everyone. Focus on your thoughts. Don't let it in." Kayoko warned and a cacophony of screams left in her wake. Surrounding the area, and everything around it.
Hina closed her eyes. Thinking of the past and her warm bed.
Hans and Shiroko focused on their target. The whispers reaching their minds as they charged, yet this time… they won't let the dark whispers in.
"Go."
The duo rushed, Hans tearing chunk after chunk, and Shiroko exchanged her rifle for grenades. Even if it does minimum damage, it's still damage nonetheless.
Binah felt it, a horror that resonated within its core as its mechanical mind came into a frenzy. Unregistering the bullets, explosives, and the wounds of a wolf riddled its body.
Then another eye was torn apart from it's socket and explosives resonated within its skull before it could break free from the dark illusion.
Wires torn apart, and more of its golden blood sprays.
A small prayer.
A small thought that free its mind.
For the grace, and the might of the lord.
For the home of the holy.
For the faith, for the way of the sword,
Binah would gladly give its life so boldly.
In a resonating shriek, the grand illusion broke apart and serpent dove into the sand before coming back up with a tidal wave. In and out and in. Again and again as it further desecrated the land it rules.
Its mind coming in focus. Electricity coursed through its veins and firing up the systems it had within the mechanical brain.
Currently, the biggest threat it had is the beast.
The rest of them are manageable. Except… that.
That punk.
Binah felt the same rage he had for the wolf.
How dare she.
How dare she fill his mind with horror and deceit?
How dare she to defile his mind with the unimportant, half-forgotten past?
The monster, that demon, and the young wolf might be brash and strike head first, but it felt that the punk was different.
She is no brute. She is no fighter.
She is a tactician through and through. Calculating eyes met its own remaining, with endless potential as every move even in that brief moment it had made, she had started on unwinding the thread and form strategies.
Because of that, she must fall as well.
"Sensei, hold on!" Shiroko held into the captain, grasping his arm as the storm kicked up in its intensity. Concealing the figure of the serpent as its second dance continued on. Sending more into a whirlwind before the serpent disappeared.
"It's… gone? Everyone, watch-" Kayoko warns, a moment too late.
The next thing she knows, she felt a sudden light.
A burn.
And a dull numbness in her body.
"KAYOKO!"
Hina shouted as the crackle of energy struck the punk directly.
But a blur rammed through and caught the flying body of the strategist first. Her hoodie burned and dangles like useless fabric. Some scorch marks were there, riddling her flesh. Yet she's still breathing.
Relatively… quite unharmed enough as her eyes met his. Mumbling a silent thank you.
If he was even a few milliseconds off… her wounds would be more severe than this. He's glad... he had made it in time.
But the same can't be said to the captain,
Having to dive directly to death ray, his every fiber had been riddled in burns. The stench of his flesh melting under the heat and strength filled their noses.
Putting Kayoko down, he clenched his fists and howls. Forcing his body to return to mist and regenerate as he met the eye of the one hiding in the heart of the storm.
A raging warrior running on fumes, preparing himself to face the aspect of the wyrm one last time.
"…Shiroko."
"Nn."
"…Hina."
"Got it."
"…Kayoko…"
"Don't tell me to sit this one out. I can still fight."
The captain shook his head.
"Lead us…
we need... a new plan."
"GROOOAARR!"
The serpent screamed. Howling in a great challenge. For them to come forth and finish it off. To end this combat once and for all and for it emerge victorious for the name of its deity.
"The same like before… target the eye. It still have one left." Kayoko flashed him a smirk. "Then we'll get our victory."
The captain nods and pointed to the serpent.
"…Engage."
One more time, the Garou faces against this aspect of the Wyrm.
But this time, the wolf is not alone.
Himari fell from her wheelchair like so many times before crawling back to it. Her eyes glancing at the unresponsive assistant of hers that had fallen into a fetal position.
The elf had no idea what the hell was happening to her, but she trusts that she'll recover eventually because there is another thing that she couldn't take her eyes off from.
Fangs and claw.
White and grey mixing together.
And a low, horrible howl.
Yes… she saw it all. The way it- h-he… clashed with Binah. She saw the way his wounds patch up, and the way he turned himself back and forth between forms. Into a wolf, an even bigger direwolf, a cloud of mist and…
And that.
The most favored form he wore right now.
A werewolf.
The sensei, the most mysterious sensei… this is his secret of his strength and might. This- this is something that came from raunchy teenage novels and shows. From badly written love stories that contributed nothing but a good laugh.
No.
Not this.
Not this absolute reality.
She refused, rejected that such truths exist. Yet… considering the way the world works, this is not entirely impossible.
What's next? Vampires, wraiths, fairies, and mummies?!
Himari grits her teeth. Maybe the biggest danger is not Decagrammaton- but…
No… no. She'll study him more. Hans-sensei had been nothing but a blessing to Kivotos, even without meeting him personally she knows that is the truth.
Yet, there is nothing wrong with being a little cautious.
"Huh. Looks like its… going to rain soon."
Binah charged a beam followed by a volley of missiles, challenging them to go straight to it. Brave the storm, and attack it. Strike it down, and destroy it. For them to know futility and despair.
In which they accepted.
Weaving through the volley and dodging the glassed sand. Even in this handicap, the blinding storm and the danger of flying debris, the charge kept on.
Unstoppable.
The serpent glares, coiling up its body before screaming and tossing. Debris and rockets mixed with the thunder, the embodiment of its might and fury.
"Head Prefect, focus on the projectiles!" Kayoko shouted. "Open up the way for Sensei and Shiroko!"
"Got it."
RATATATATATATAT!
Hina sprays her MG42 bursting the dark tinted bullets towards the incoming projectiles as it explodes into a thousand pieces and a mighty firework, before it went and struck the resilient armor.
Missing the underneath, and the one remaining eye as the serpent curled and blocked the incoming dark and amethyst tinted bullets.
Breaking the bullets apart as it came upon the armor of the serpent. Growling before it continued on to try and push back his incoming foes.
Charging the beam of focused energy and unleashing it to the tactician again,
Missing her entirely.
"Heh.. I won't be caught a second time." Kayoko flashed a small exhausted smirk towards the serpent. Uncaring that if it could see it or not.
Though she doesn't care either way.
"GROOOAARR!"
The howl of a direwolf intermingled with the hiss of a serpent. Behind the direwolf sat a pup. Endless potential, boundless might, holding a single grenade left in her previous assault as it held on to the white tainted fur of the wolf.
Binah must choose between blocking the attack from Hina, and the incoming wolves. Charging and growling, as it dodged every projectile it shot out.
Piercing into the storm, and zipping into it like a bullet.
Overwhelming odds.
So, it made the choice.
Of attacking.
The serpent roars before swiping the area with its massive body to toss the wolves away, and a sandstorm following in its wake.
'Hold on.'
Hans growled as sand came upon him. Dashing, and forming into a half blur of mist and physical form. Left. Up.
And leap. Almost like he was stepping on air, dancing and weaving through the gaps and projectiles without a second thought.
Even if he was running on fumes, he wouldn't let anything hit the young pup gripping his back so tightly.
He won't let a single hair touched from her head.
Spinning and spiraling around. Climbing the back of the snake as it trashed and tossed. Scraping its body on the hot and glassed sand to form a half-baked form of defense.
Weak on it's own.
But it's powerful as a simple distraction.
BWOOOOO…!
A charged death ray on the serpent's jaw. Crackling with thunder before it came out in a flash.
When did that thing had a chance to charge it? There is no time to leap. If he dodge now and turn to mist, Shiroko would be in danger.
The divine light would cleanse them all...
If not from the intervention of the devil herself.
RATATATATATAT!
A burst of dark striking the serpent, like stones upon an iron wall.
Useless.
Irrelevant.
Yet the iron wall, as unbreakable as it was, has one weakness.
One glaring weakness.
A blinking target that is just begging to be shot.
Binah saw his targets, pushing in the pistons and moving the mirrors to focus. Uncaring of the small fry pathetic.
Yet as it struck him... Binah realized his undoing.
NO.
IT MUST-
THEN DARKNESS.
THE EMBRACE OF THE ABYSS.
And Binah screams.
I CAN'T SEE
I CAN'T SEE
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I CAN'T SEE
HELP.
HELP.
HELP.
SAVE ME.
SAVE ME.
SAVE ME.
SAVE ME.
SAVE ME.
SAVE ME.
SAVE ME.
SAVE ME.
SAVE ME.
SAVE ME.
SAVE ME.
"SAVE ME!"
At the moment, the monster had made its way to the empty, crackling eye sockets.
A pin yanked fell to the ground. Disappearing from sight, and buried forever.
"This is for Abydos."
The younger wolf shoved the grenade into the eye socket of the serpent. Sending it tumbling deep into the veins of the serpent.
Ticking.
Clicking.
Before erupting in a burning inferno.
BINAH...
I CANNOT… SAVE YOU. I CANNOT BRING YOU… SALVATION.
Every liter of blood boiling, and every circuit fractured. Systems failing, breaking apart, and the code that's holding it together suddenly become meaningless.
On that moment, the snake that destroyed Eden for a false God, shatter lives and loves… had burned from within.
A single grenade.
That's all it needs.
KABOOM!
A single, measly grenade broke apart everything that it had.
As its desperate screams ended in a burning ball of wrath and despair, without thinking of nothing else but whys and apologies.
I'M SORRY.
I'M SORRY I CANNOT DO MUCH MORE.
I'M SORRY THAT I LEFT YOU TO YOUR FATE.
…I CAN ONLY WISH YOU GOODBYE.
I CAN ONLY WISH FOR YOUR WELL DESERVED REST.
SO REST WELL.
WE'LL MEET AGAIN… MY PROPHET.
The voice of its deity ringing in its burning mind.
I see.
…The r e's no need for
apo logies… my lo
rd.
… so rry… for… do bting… yu
…I'm s r
y…
T h
at
I
Ha
ve
Fai
led.
She had been running for hours now. Tumbling down back down to that night where the moon doesn't move, and the stars stood still.
No winds, no movement.
Just her.
Her tumbling and running endlessly into the night. Where exactly is she going?
Nowhere.
Somewhere.
Everywhere.
Anywhere.
"Senpai…?" Her voice hushed as the woman standing in the middle of the desert stares into the horizon. With her back facing the young, feisty pufferfish.
"What are you doing here?! It's going to a sandstorm tonight!"
"Mm, my cute Hoshino-chan. Just wait for a moment. You'll want to see this."
"See what?! Senpai, hurry and let's just…!"
Yet it's too late. The dust kicked up, and spun around as a large wall of dust emerges from the horizon.
"SHIT!" Hoshino screamed and rushed into her senpai's side, trying to pull he away from, and back home. "Yume-senpai! Hey! Come… ON!"
There's still time!
Th-they can make it!
Yet somehow, she can't. Her upperclassman is rooted to the spot. Her feet digging into the sand… like she was slowly being swallowed.
"
Ho
Shi
No.
"
Hoshino slowly let go. Her heart thundering in her ears as she took a step back. Then two. Then three as her senpai slowly being swallowed to the sand.
"
Like
I
Said.
You'll
Want
To
See
This.
"
Badump.
Badump.
Badump.
Slowly, her next twisted. Twisted as her body kept going down and down and down.
And down.
And down.
And down.
And down.
And down.
And down.
And down.
And down.
And down.
HER FACE, DISTROTED, EMPTY, SCREAMING. WISHING FOR RETRIBUTION THAT WILL NEVER CAME. A MEANINGLESS SALVATION FOR FOOLS.
POINTING FINGERS.
WRATHFUL. DEMMANDING.
AN UNENDING STORM, SWALLOWING EVERY ENTITY WITHIN.
"
BECAUSE THAT'S ALL YOU DO.
YOU DID NOTHING BUT SEE MY DEATH.
YOU FAILED ME.
NOW YOU HAVE FAILED
YOUR KOUHAIS AS WELL.
"
"AAAAAAAHHHHH!"
Hoshino wakes up with a scream. Tossing away the suffocating blankets that had stuck into her body, damp with her own sweat before she felt the jolts of pain that struck her body like lightning. Crawling up from every part of her body like spiders with daggers for legs.
"Ow… ow… ugh… ow…" Not only her body is in shambles, her head is currently a victim of hammers being pounded into her skull over and over again as she laid in the soft cushions of an infirmary bed.
As if that will dull her pain.
She scrunched, leaning down until her face almost meets her knees.
"Haah… haa.."
Every part of her is covered in bandages and band aids. Fingers, abdomen, chest, neck, face. Everything hurts. Bruises filled her body, and her left cheek felt so numb.
Where is she? What had happened? Why is everything so… foggy? All she remembers is that fight then…
Ah... right.
The serpent.
Her eyes glanced at the bedside. There, a bloody tooth sat covered in tissues.
She had lost a tooth.
Hehe. Sensei really did a number on her.
He really did... destroyed her.
Her hand instinctively went to rub her swollen cheek. A plaster was there to help with the swelling.
The metallic taste is still faintly there. More if she licked where her tooth should've been.
"…Ugh…"
The senior held her throbbing head. Her mind still spinning not only from the pain and discomfort, but… from the same dream that still lingers on to this day.
Even if she had awoken to the real… world.
What happened since… then?
Her eyes scanned the entire room she's in. An unmistakable smell, and interior she had known from the back of her hands. There's no mistaking it. She's in Abydos' infirmary... late at night. What is even the time now? How long had she been sleeping?
Then footsteps, and the door opened.
"Hey, you're finally awake Takanashi Hoshino."
"…You…"
Hoshino blinked and rubbed her eyes. Trying to make sure that she was indeed… real. "Why are you here? Whe-where is sensei? How long have I been... unconscious?"
Indeed, that is quite curious. Why would she remain here? Maybe she's still… recovering? Those bandages and band aids that marked her skin indeed told a story.
"...Answer me, Head Prefect."
Hoshino glares before wincing in pain.
Hina sighs. "I'm not your enemy. Sensei is- he is here. He's fine, but you can't exactly see him because of your current wounds." She paused. "As far as I know, you've been asleep for a few hours. It's... around 8 PM by now."
"...I see. Then why are you still here?"
"We do not wish to go back first." She answers with a small sigh. "All of us prefer to stay here… and keep our hopes up."
"Hope for…? What happened?"
Hina shrugs. "Too many. But that could be saved for a later."
"What do you mean?" Hoshino narrows her eyes.
"Because don't tell me you forget about the most important thing you have to face today." Hina walked away from the door and her kouhais stare from behind the young demoness.
"!"
"I'm going back to Chinatsu and Iori. See you." The Head Prefect waved her hand, before leaving them alone.
"W-Wait!"
Yet she had already left. Leaving Hoshino alone with her fate.
One by one, members of the Foreclosure Task Force entered. Worry and relief came upon their eyes before it instantly melted into anger. Creeping up and high as they took their steps towards her.
Their expression almost unreadable as their lips remain on a thin line.
Hell, even Nonomi as well.
"U-Uhe…? Ow… um- g-g-good day?" Hoshino try to give them the same lazy smile.
They didn't answer back.
"U-UM…"
Their gazes pierced her soul as they stood right next to her.
"P-Please… don't hurt me."
All of them came at once as she winced. Closing her eyes for the worst and clutching the bedsheets with a small shriek.
"Hiiih!"
Instead, all of them came down on her. Coming down in a gentle, yet crushing bear hug.
"…Y-You guys…"
"Shut it Hoshino." It was Ayane that said this first. Burying her head on her senpai's shoulder and letting her tears to flow down softly.
"Nn. Ayane is right." Shiroko follows next. Burying herself with Hoshino's long pink hair. Sniffing the faint scent of sunlight, sand, and gunpowder.
"You're such a jerk… you know that, Hoshino?" Serika buried herself in the hug, right below Ayane as she let her tears flow gently as well.
"Mm. You're the worst, Hoshino. You caused so much trouble that I have to clean up you know~?"
Nonomi squeezed Hoshino right into her ample mountains. Leaning down to hold her head among it all.
"…I'm… sorry."
"Shut it, Hoshino."
Everyone spoke in unison before they left the hug.
All of them are battered, in need of a shower, and riddled with wounds and bruises. Yet still they kept a wide smile.
A gentle smile that convey one singular thing.
"Welcome home."
A pause. A pregnant silence as Hoshino felt the prickling sting from the corners of her eyes.
She does not deserve them.
"…Ugh… uugh…"
Her hands shifts, to wipe her flowing tears. She hated this… she wanted to stay strong and yet… here she was, balling her eyes out.
Though…
What's so bad about that?
"…I'm home… everyone."
Author's note
Just one more chapter. The epilogue.
What do you think of this chapter? The grand reveal of the wolf.
This is the effect of the Delirium. A supernatural terror grasping the hearts and minds of mortals.
In time however, they'll be immune from it.I hope the fight against Binah is satisfying and not to dragged out. I was stagnating on it so long... hmmmph.
Oh yeah, what do you think of the boss title? I was inspired by Calamity Infernum's. God I love Terraria.
Anyway, see you on the finale.
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