Elfen High (IC)

[Hardened Pyrokinetics]

James sighed. "Alright, we'll go with your idea." He conceded. He still didn't like it, but if it was the best course of action, they had to.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

Elfen High wasn't the only place where demons were attacking.

In New York City, a large demonic army was ripping through New Times Square, but found themselves being blasted by the local police, as well as Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, who had borrowed some guns. Colbert unloaded a few bullets into the head of a demon who was charging at him.

At the same time in Vatican City, local Italian military and a few members of the Pontifical Swiss Guard, the rest currently keeping the Pope safe.

In Moscow, Russian military and civilians took on a few angels that possessed a priest and his bishops at the local church. Anzhelika Ivanov, the local chief of police fired her gun at the possessed priest, blasting his face. The priest began to heal, but then a tank round blasted him in the chest, killing him.

In Iran, the military fired at a few demons who had materialized in Tehran. A gunshot ripped through the head of the main demon, a twenty foot tall horned beast that resembled a bipedal tiger.

In Israel, a team of well-trained angels appeared. This was not very good for them, as they were quickly and swiftly handled by the military and civilians when they began blasting stuff with holy white light.

In Mumbai, a team of angels and demons appeared and possessed a few police officials. Despite expectations, the Indians killed them after they also began firing at them, and only a few of them began bowing and worshiping the holy beings that had appeared.

In Paris, the French military fixed their image by firing tank rounds at the unfortunate demon squad that had appeared.

Through all this, the news media and Internet went crazy, with proclamations of the end of the world, and Harold Camping stated this was definite proof of his prophecy. Others noted that the human militaries were handling the strange creatures that were appearing, so it couldn't have been divine...

Calliel frowned in Heaven's Hall. "Hmm..." he said. "They resist? They resist me, their Lord?" he asked angrily, and the angels left in Heaven, who obeyed Uriel, bowed reverently. It would be a bad idea to do else.

Calliel chuckled then. "Time to make an appearance." he said. And then he was gone. In Chicago, a massive storm hit, buildings falling everywhere, cars being picked up by the wind and carried off, the ground ripping open...

Calliel stood in the ruins of the Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church, waiting expectantly.

[Olthar]

Well then, if there are no more questions, let's get this plan underway. First, I'll need someone to go retrieve Desmond from Elfen High. I don't really care who, but I'll send anyone who wants to go. In the mean time, I'll be tracking down Calliel. So, any volunteers?

[Hardened Pyrokinetics]

A number of students, including the exploding-wood archer guy, volunteered to go find Desmond. James finally managed, with the help of a teacher, to drift over to Malakh. He kissed the angel soundly on the lips. "When this is over, we need to talk." James whispered to him.

[Nightkill the Emperor]

In Chicago, civilians fired at the strange being, who easily destroyed the bullets before they hurt him. Then the air force arrived.

"Gangway, the big boys are coming through." reported the pilot in one of the F-22s, and fired a few missiles down at it. The God looked up, and was blasted. Rick Sanchez, the pilot, would forever swear that the angel was mouthing "Oh shit."

"We hit him. I repeat, we've hit him." Sanchez reported over his mic, as the dust cleared. But the being was still there, and the wounds, though there were several, were disappearing quick. "Fucking Hell!" the pilot swore, and then stated, "Base, we have a problem, that thing is still alive. I repeat, it's still alive, the wounds are healing quick." He and the other three pilots fired more missiles, but the being had learned quickly, and was blasting each missile before it hit.
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Calliel was surprised by the invention the humans had, the missiles. Tank rounds could be dangerous if you weren't careful, bullets were pathetic, but these missiles were in a class of their own. He wished that one of the beings in his consciousness had bothered to learn about human technology. Uriel would be surprised to see they were more dangerous than expected.

But the foolish humans would not listen, and even these inventions would fall before him. When he controlled Earth, he would be sure to ban this technology. The humans were children, and did not deserve any of these inventions.

"I am Calliel." spoke the God telepathically, and every man, woman and child in the world heard these words, spoken in their native tongue. "I am the God of the heavens and the earth, and all else. I am your Savior, your Lord, your King, your Salvation. Bow before me, humans. Bow before me, and love unto me, your Lord, or the Heavens and Hell will unleash their fury on you."

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Rick Sanchez heard these words. And he replied in his jet verbally, though the being below couldn't hear. "Fuck that." Then he fired more missiles down on the creature, who destroyed them. Then that thing-Calliel- blasted his jet, and Sanchez started spiraling to the ground, out of control.

[Olthar]

Alright, off you go, then.

After opening a rift at the edge of the dimension, Victoria telekinetically pushed everyone who volunteered towards the portal.

When you find him, just jump back through, she said before they were sucked in, finding themselves back in the school with a shimmering portal floating next to them.

With that out of the way, Victoria hovered over to her crystal ball to begin divining Calliel's current location.

[Hardened Pyrokinetics]

The students spread out into groups of three, calling out for Desmond.

[Esternial]

Izanagi heard the distant voices of the students, turning its head as it finished up bisecting one of the remaining demons in the school. Slowly it followed the sound of their voices, eager to spill more blood and drink their tears as he impaled their bodies and ate their hearts. Only when he stood before one of the students, his sword raised and ready to skewer him like a pig and devour him whole, he suddenly felt something strange. Within his body, something began to move, twirling and spreading until a freakin' arm broke through its armour, followed by another and finally Desmond's head, crawling out of Izanagi like he just got out of a cab. The moment he had completely freed himself, Izanagi faded away.

"You're quite lucky I intervened before he turned your head into a lolly pop" Desmond said with a smile on his face, as if he didn't just say something completely disturbing.

"Why are you looking for me?"

[Hardened Pyrokinetics]

The archer stared. "Well that was creepy." He murmured. "Victoria needs your help." He led Desmond to the rift while other members of his group went out to tell the others. Once everyone was together, they wall went through the rift and arrived back at Victoria's Dimension.

[Esternial]

Desmond arrived at Victoria's dimension and looked around, noticing the large orb hovering in the centre that was undoubtedly Leviathan's handiwork. He didn't care much about it, so he turned his attention to his fellow God(dess)

"So, why have I been brought here?"

[Olthar]

Seeing the students arrive with Desmond, Victoria stopped her divination and hovered closer.

Well, it's really quite simple my dear, we need your help to destroy Calliel and all of Heaven...

Victoria then proceeded to once more go into her plan to exorcise Calliel and teleport a black hole into Heaven.

As you can see, I need you to whip up that time magic of yours to transport my dimension into a different time stream. It'll probably take me a few years to build up the matter for a black hole, and we've really only got a few minutes. So what say you?

[Nightkill the Emperor]

Michael nodded. "And that's it. I suggest we go to where Calliel is now, and fight and distract him so he can be exorcised. Victoria, you get the plans straightened out with Desmond."

[New East Ireland]

"I still need a vessel." Gabriel said, sighing. Damien took control again and looked at Michael. "You can get someone to be Gabriel's body, right?"

[Ameriganastan]

"Ooh, angel guy, angel guy..."

He was speaking to Michael

"Can i come and fight this uh...whatever his name who you need to exercise? Those demons weren't any fun to fight, and i need me a challenge."

[Olthar]

Don't worry, there'll be plenty of people where you're going. Calliel is currently in the middle of Chicago.

Opening another portal, Victoira telekinetically pushed everyone except for Desmond through before closing it.

Turning to the god, Victoira said, Alright, now that they're gone, we can begin. Though, before we start, I have something to do quick. I'll be right back.

Placing her hand upon the crystal ball, Victoria plane shifted out of the dimension, appearing back in the Élan sanctuary. Immediately after, she shifted back, leaving the ball behind.

That thing is quite useful. I wouldn't want it destroyed. Now then, let's start. While you slow down the dimension, I'll reshape it to ensure the black hole doesn't kill us.

Concentrating on the boarders of her dimension, Victoria shrank it down by about fifty feet, pouring the space into a separate, smaller sphere disconnected from the main one.

[Zarkenis Ultima]

Alastor knew what was coming. He knew it was going to be difficult, and thus he changed into his true form, his towering black armor refusing to reflect any light as he held his hell-born longsword in his left hand, an orb of concentrated dark energy in his right. He surveyed the surroundings, and turned to Michael.

"ARCHANGEL! On your mark, the Knights will come!" He shouted at the archangel.

L'Enfer, meanwhile, was preparing a portal, looking around for possible foes.

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Shyla was quite surprised when she was pushed out of the dimension by Victoria. She appeared in the middle of Chicago with the others, unsure of what to do. She decided to stay in the back and wait in case someone needed some healing, since that was really all she could do.

[Hardened Pyrokinetics]

James readied fireballs. "MALAKH! DAMIEN! KEEP THE ROOKIES BACK!" He ordered, the moved forward to try and find Calliel and put and end to him.
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The Archer had already found the New God, under assault by F-22's. He drew his bow and readied an arrow. "FACE ME, FOUL GODLING, LEST YE BE A SNIVELING COWARD!" The words tumbled out of him, and could be heard clearly by the being.

[Rupudska]

Alastor knew what was coming. He knew it was going to be difficult, and thus he changed into his true form, his towering black armor refusing to reflect any light as he held his hell-born longsword in his left hand, an orb of concentrated dark energy in his right. He surveyed the surroundings, and turned to Michael.

"ARCHANGEL! On your mark, the Knights will come!" He shouted at the archangel.

L'Enfer, meanwhile, was preparing a portal, looking around for possible foes.

Yuzuki jumped out of the portal and landed near Alastor. She grinned malevolently, this time her teeth looking more like fangs. She started to shimmer, then lean forward on all fours. After a few seconds, she appeared in her true form, a full 9-foot long beast. "I'm faster and stronger in this form than in my human one."

[Esternial]

Don't worry, there'll be plenty of people where you're going. Calliel is currently in the middle of Chicago.

Opening another portal, Victoira telekinetically pushed everyone except for Desmond through before closing it.

Turning to the god, Victoira said, Alright, now that they're gone, we can begin. Though, before we start, I have something to do quick. I'll be right back.

Placing her hand upon the crystal ball, Victoria plane shifted out of the dimension, appearing back in the Élan sanctuary. Immediately after, she shifted back, leaving the ball behind.

That thing is quite useful. I wouldn't want it destroyed. Now then, let's start. While you slow down the dimension, I'll reshape it to ensure the black hole doesn't kill us.

Concentrating on the boarders of her dimension, Victoria shrank it down by about fifty feet, pouring the space into a separate, smaller sphere disconnected from the main one.

"Very well"

Desmond closed his eyes and began to focus on manipulating time, deeply concentrated to maintain his control over a relative force such as time. Time began to slow down, although it didn't appear so to Desmond, who struggled to keep a tight grip onto his powers and the time flow around this dimension.

[Zarkenis Ultima]

Alastor glanced over at Yuzuki just as she transformed into her true, beastly form. Under his black helmet could be seen a smirk. "An Old Time Demon, eh? I'm starting to like you!" He said, and then looked ahead at the people who had already gone to attack Calleil, as he waited for Michael's mark to send in the Knights Of L'Enfer

"Ah, well, each to their own." He said, watching the battle. He wasn't going in without having his soldiers, L'Enfer was too stupid to guide them. He started wondering again how he had become general and had an order named after him.

"Dumb luck." He thought.

[Ameriganastan]

Laz appeared beside Yuzuki, banging his fists together and shooting an anticipatory jet of flame into the air. He was excited.

"Yeah! Lets tear some shit up! Woo!"

[Olthar]

Victoria didn't feel anything happen, but she could tell from Desmond's surface thoughts that it had worked and the dimension was now in a much slower time stream. Then, once the smaller sphere of space had finished growing, Victoria began creating small chunks of adamantine within it, each one taking almost ten minutes to form.

Looking over at Desmond, she smirked, I hope you're comfortable. We'll be here for a while.

Once she got a hang of creating matter, it became almost second nature to her. With nothing else to do, she took the ample time ahead to continue sorting through the information still partitioned away in her mind. With the two or three years they'd be here, she had plenty of time to go over it all and finally conjoin the partitions back into her main consciousness.

[Nature-Spirits]

Leomaris took mental hold of the water in Calliel's body and held it in place.
"I'm slowing him down, but I can't hold it forever! Do what you must, but quickly!"
He could feel that the water in Calliel's body was still moving, just not as quickly. He tightened his grip.

[New East Ireland]

James readied fireballs. "MALAKH! DAMIEN! KEEP THE ROOKIES BACK!" He ordered, the moved forward to try and find Calliel and put and end to him.

Gabriel flew from Damien into the body of a bystander, as Damien retrieved an MP5 from his bag. "Bring it on bitches!" he yelled, as he opened fire into a crowd of demons. Malakh looked at James. "Wait!" he yelled, as he flew in front of James and pulled him behind some rubble. "James, I need to tell you something before you go."

[Hardened Pyrokinetics]

James readied fireballs. "MALAKH! DAMIEN! KEEP THE ROOKIES BACK!" He ordered, the moved forward to try and find Calliel and put and end to him.

Gabriel flew from Damien into the body of a bystander, as Damien retrieved an MP5 from his bag. "Bring it on bitches!" he yelled, as he opened fire into a crowd of demons. Malakh looked at James. "Wait!" he yelled, as he flew in front of James and pulled him behind some rubble. "James, I need to tell you something before you go."

"What is it?" James demanded harshly, trying to focus on bringing down Calliel.