The Truths of Existence, (Roleplay/IC/Sign-Ins Only)

[Novia Soviet Socialist Republic]

Sarah

Sarah hopped onto the boat and sighed before looking at her rifle, pulling the circuit breaker back to make sure everything was in working order with it. Energy weapons may be practical these days but that doesn't mean they couldn't get jammed up like old weapons, especially on guns such as this which required a manual reset of the circuit breaker after every shot. She looked around at the group and sighed once again, knowing this wasn't the weirdest company she had ever had in her life which is saying something considering the people surrounding her.

Svaboda

Svaboda followed the elf woman, noticing how unnaturally beautiful it was. It was really surreal to him in a way. He jumped a little when the golem hugged him but soon relaxed and hugged her back "So it seems we are safe" He said with a small smile, an arm wrapped around the golem as they walked. The Monolith cultists followed close behind, all of them cautious as ever around these strangers that now surrounded them. Not that was really new, back in the day Monolith cultists used to kill anyone who wasn't part of their little cult. Now they were just distrustful of anyone not in their cult.

The Overseer & Lord Baskervilles

Lord Baskervilles and his group of Black Hand soldiers cornered The Overseer in a room, all of them pointing guns at him as Baskervilles walked in "Nice try old chap. But it's time for you to..." He spoke too soon as black tendrils flew out of the Overseer's back and impaled 4 Black Hand soldiers against the wall "Oh...it seems you have your powers back. No matter. I'm taking you back dead or alive" Baskervilles snarled as he drew his sword, a great blade made of deep crimson metal. The Overseer grinned and pulled his tendrils out of the Black Hand soldiers, sweeping them across the room and killing several other Black Hand soldiers before lunging at Baskervilles with them. Baskervilles parried, severing the ends of the tendrils from their foul host causing the Overseer to grunt and wince "The Warden has sent you on a suicide mission my lord" The Overseer said as he began to shimmer in shape.

Baskervilles looked at the Overseer in confusion and prepared to strike at him when a blast of darkness engulfed the room. Anyone in the Restaurant would have heard a loud explosion as the door to the room blew off it's hinges and flew against the wall with Lord Baskervilles flying out close behind and slamming into the wall, knocking him out. The Overseer disappeared from the dimension, knowing he would have to find Sarah later. As for now, he could finally go back to Drakesing and continue his revenge.

Drakesing City
Drakesing Artifact Facility
Kyle Helgan

Kyle looked around the chamber, approaching the sword and resting a hand on it's pommel with a frown. The ground shook which confused him slightly making him assume he triggered an earthquake. That's when his radio went off "Hype Man, get your squad outside we're under attack!" The Colonel yelled at him prompting him to run out of the chamber with his squad close behind before they ended up outside. Gunshots rattled around along with explosions. VTOL gunships flew overhead opening fire on an unknown force outside the walls of the facility. That's when a great shadow loomed over Kyle and his squad. Kyle looked up to a building near by and saw a huge dragon, made of darkness with piercing red eyes staring at him with a toothy grin "The one known as Oleg. You are of his blood, but not him" The Dragon said in a deep, growling voice as several winged monstrosities flew over the walls and screeched at the group. Looking around, Kyle saw all the troops up on the wall and in the towers guarding the perimeter against a yet to be seen horror.

Summoning a laser chaingun, something usually seen attached to vehicles for anti-air defense, Kyle switched it on and readied it. The dragon sneered "I admire your courage, Helgan. But it is for naught. Die now, in vain" With that, the dragon flew off, snatching up a VTOL on the way as the flying beasts swooped down and attempted to claw at the group, letting out a horrific screech as they did. The group opened fire on the beasts, hitting them with energy weapon attacks that caused deep, cauterized wounds. As Hype Man dealt with one, another tried sneaking up behind him prompting Temple to speak up "Contact behind you!" He yelled before blasting it in the face with his Anti-Matter rifle causing it to die in a vibrant blue explosion that scattered a deep purple liquid everywhere. Something they could only assume to be it's blood. So continued yet another battle in Drakesing, a city renowned for such happenings. First with the Russians and now with...whatever those things were.

[Naval Monte]

The harbour

"Done." Tandem exclaimed as he took a step back to see his new invention. The machine that he made while not winning the looks department was a fearsome device. In short words it can be best described as a massive cannon with legs, the cannon walking around with a pair while extra ones are used to make it stable when it's about to fire.The cannon walker had a level of semi autonomy but in the end Tandem was in control of the machine.

Tandem can see more cannonballs coming at his direction. "Rapid fire mode now!" he ordered, the AI within the machine responded and after the extra legs came down the cannon pointed at the directions of the cannon balls and quickly fired off quick, invisible, bursts of high power laser beams. The cannon balls were nothing more but a melted fragments when they collided with the shores, away from Tandem and the machine.

"Now target the closest enemy ship!" the machine obey and changed it's settings. It fired yet another invisible beam that caused a giant, heated, melting hole to appear at the bow of one of the ships. Massive plumes of steam can be heard along with the sizzling sound of metal melting and water boiling, more water rushing inside the sinking ships and more crewmen either focusing their efforts to save the ship from capsizing or abandoning it than to keep on firing at the shire.

The cannon fired at more ships as Alice flew away from the one she was in to find a another target. The few times she tried to board another ship it was struck by the high charged beam from Tandem's machine and as she looked for more ships to terrorize she looked on a approaching group of ships heading towards them and flew to the water, making a loud splash when she dived in.

As soon as one of the ships reached the spot Alice dived in massive tentacles broke through the surface and as the crew fired their guns at the tendrils both them and the ship was electrocuted. The voltage not only affected the surrounding water to kill both fishes and swimming soldiers but the gases and ammunition inside the boats all ignited, causing a large explosion that everyone can see, hear and feel. The entity known as Alice screamed loudly as her tentacles were harmed in the explosion, as they went back into the water blood can be seen even though the wounds were now regenerating.

Seeing that they know have a sea monster attacking them the new ships focus their attacks on the water instead on the harbour, just as Alice planed. Tandem moved on to target the new ships that were busy with searching for Alice.

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Ranch 2345

"What do you mean it's gone?!" Wu shouted at the radio. "Sir both the team and gel are gone. The door is now open for us to travel inside the base... should we do so sir?" Wu sighed as he rubbed his temple. He was not expecting to loss his people like this, by now they know how to deal with the demons invading the many world in the multiverse. "Go in soldier and stay vigil." Wu ordered. The soldiers compiled and all of them entered the door which lead to a small hallway to an elevator. Once all the soldiers boarded the elevator they all went down as power was still working in the base.

Once the elevator reach down the underground levels of the ranch the soldiers left the elevator and walked down the halls. The halls had only three color pallet; white, black and grey. The soldiers saw no signs of anyone else being down there. "Site is clear sir. Should we have the Chinese enter?" Wu agreed and soon establish contact with the Chinese. "If you all want to save your homeworld I suggest you send in a team to follow mines down in the underground levels." Wu said.

Back at the underground the soldiers checked the room and in one room one soldier peeked through a small looking glass and found a woman huddled in a fetal position at the corner of the room. "Commander we have someone in this room." the soldier looked inside and to his surprise found no one was in there. The commander looked and she too found no one else inside, she slapped her comrade on the back of the head and told him to move along. Neither of them saw that the woman in the room was now outside watching them, as one soldier looked behind the group the woman was gone.

The soldiers reach an area of the underground that was the mess hall. Most of the soldiers got orders from Wu to stay put until the Chinese arrive and while most soldiers were sitting around playing cards, sleeping or checking on their gear, a few were looking around the drawers and fridge if they can make something to eat and drink. "I can't believe this. They have plates, forks, spoons, and cups but nothing to eat." one soldier complained, only to have another jokingly reply back that maybe whatever made the people disappear also made the food vanish. "Very funny." the soldier said.

He took a cup and walked over to a vending machine, once seeing it almost as a joke the soldier types down on the touch pad Vodka. To his surprise the machine actually worked and on the cup was his order. "Holy... hey fellas come over here." the soldiers gathered around the vending machine and the soldier who ordered Vodka was soon showing them what the machine gave him, soon some of the soldiers began to experiment with the machine as they waited for the Chinese.

[Kaidou]

Dimension ???
IGSE Headquarters No. ???

The graceful landing of Iuzun's personal ship was greeted by a colonel in No. 3 uniform who marched out towards the ship and stamped the moment the airlock opened. The ramp came down, and the stunted Alveranian CEO of the IGSE slowly walked out, pulling his black fur coat over his shoulders and nodding at the colonel.

"Sir, the Board of Directors awaits your arrival."

"Just in time, then."

The hall in which the IGSE's Board of Directors communicated with the IGSE's CEO was an oval colosseum like area that was darkened in such a way that the seven Directors' faces and bodies were all obscured. All the CEO standing at the bottom could see were their silhouettes. Clichéd, but effective at concealing the Directors' identities.

"Iuzun", said the first Director, lighting a cigarette discreetly and holding the stick between his gloved fingers. "Some of our shareholders are unhappy with the fact that the IGSE is embarking on highly aggressive military campaigns. We need an explanation."

"It's the Inter-Galactic Security Enterprise", said the stunted bounty hunter sardonically. "If we don't do security work, then what do we do?"

The board remained quiet, save for a few muted whispers.

"This should never have happened", said one of the Directors to the first one. "Harakiri was compliant and acquiesced to our demands. This man… he is a wild horse!"

"He sits right at the top of the Black List, after all", said the third Director. "What more do you expect? Haikarakainen was a fool to hire him; this man turned out to be his demise. Serves him right."

By this time, the squabbling of the Board became much louder. Six of the Directors were raising their voices, some even pointing rudely and flashing the backhand gesture ("read between the lines", in business terms). Amidst the squabbling, Iuzun simply stood still below the seven podiums, looking up at nobody in particular.

That moment, the seventh Director, who had remained silent all through the meeting, raised his hand. The other six Directors promptly sat down in fear, keeping absolutely still. Remaining completely silent, the seventh Director withdrew a pen from a drawer under his table, before promptly scribbling a note, folding a paper plane, and tossing it to Iuzun, who seized it with a look of confusion on his face. The Alveranian unfolded the note and read it, before folding it back up and nodding at the seventh Director.

"It will be done", said Iuzun.

With that, the Alveranian swallowed the note and turned around, walking out of the hall.

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[Contamenesia]

Gabriel

Gabriel chuckled. "Yeah....no." he said, as he jumped into an empty boat and started up the engine, "I don't need you guys. Group or not, plan or no, doesn't matter. I don't need a crutch. one must learn to let things be. The universe is much kinder to those who let its river flow the path it wishes to take. You may sink and die, torn away by the rapids. but guys like me? we have adventures you'll never see..." he said with a grin, as he started the boat. Without thinking, he reached into his pocket and threw a grenade into the air, not sure what it would do, but it felt like the right thing to do. it detonated releasing a powerful sonic blast, disorienting anyone in the immediate area, however when the effects faded off, Gabriel had already taken off, far from the docks. He had no idea where the Serpent who had the jewel was, but he followed the path that felt right. He knew it wouldn't be long now. His next adventure awaits......and the jewel, and perhaps a few other things, would be his.

Crowe

Crowe entwined his hand with hers, guiding her to the outside of the of Hotel, when suddenly, in the distance, he heard a loud boom, like a jet just broke the sound barrier, except like it did so just twenty feet away. Crowe's ears began to buzz slightly, but other than that he was okay. He dashed outside to see what the hell happened, pulling Veira along with him. "What the hell? What happened?" he asked. It was Kyne who answered first, wincing, "THAT STUPID GUY WHO SMILES A LOT JUST TOOK OFF IN A BOAT, AND USED SOME SORT OF VOODOO TO AFFECT OUR HEARING!! HE SAID HE WAS GOING AFTER THE JEWEL!!!" She said unneccessarily loudly, though it was clear that it was because her own ears were ringing and he doubt she could hear very well at the moment. He gave the group a moment to recover before speaking.

"Wait....that was Gabriel, right? As in Gabriel Weston, the Accidental Thief? And you just said he went after the Jewel? By himself?" Crowe asked, a worried look on his face. Kyne scoffed, "If the idiot wants to die, let him." Crowe stepped forward, his tone serious, "No, i don't think you get it. That man isn't simply a clairvoyant with extreme luck, no. He is different. Probability doesn't apply to him, okay, and i mean that literally. If that guy is who i think it is, then he has absolutely nothing to worry about....but that isn't the problem. If Gabriel does get his hands on the Jewel, and since he isn't doing it as a part of this group, that means we aint going to see that Jewel ever again, he will vanish without a trace and ANY hope of obtaining that Jewel will vanish with him. Gabriel Weston doesn't guess at things. he follows what feels right to him. I know that may sound cheesy, but this what makes him a bit terrifying. Gabriel always makes the most optimal choice and path that benefits him. And because of his Clairvoyance, there will NEVER be a situation where he is helpless. He is capable of making his own path even when the paths given to him are both dead ends. Gabriel will likely be able to steal the Jewel Without killing the Serpent, but if not, then Gabriel WILL kill the serpent, take the Jewel, and leave, regardless of consequences to everyone else here. Yes, i know the Serpent is formidable, but that is from the viewpoint of a warrior. Gabriel isn't a Warrior, he's a situationalist, in fact the best one there is. That Serpent wont even have a chance.Though Idiotic and Crazy he may seem, don't underestimate Gabriel....We need to get him back, we have to stop him. Once he has that Jewel, and trust me, he WILL get that Jewel, then this entire little quest of yours will all be for naught and no one will see that Jewel ever again for thousands of years..." Crowe's expression was serious. If this Gabriel was the same Gabriel Weston he had met five years ago...and he just took off on his own....then they were all in big trouble.....

Fauna

Fauna nodded. "To combat the effects of this realm, there are several methods, but the easiest to is to change the properties of this realm. I am going to sing a song that will do just that. It won't cause anyone any harm, but i warn you that what you may witness may be....unsettling..." she said, As she sat back, breathing in deep. She hesitated as this was definitely one of her sadder songs, but she felt assured no harm would come to those around her, after all that was not the intent of the song, only simply to change the reality around them, so that the dampening affects of the realm would be momentarily negated so the sisters could heal Cyrssa. Everything went quiet. And she made it so that only those on the boat would hear her song, and of course they in turn would here nothing else but her song.....She took one final breath, then began to sing...

https://youtu.be/989srijf4OA

As she began to sing, the world to the eyes of all in the boat began to change...Fauna began to blur into a painted picture of herself, still beautiful and elegant. then her hair turned to a golden-yellow, and the world around them seemed to become that of moving paintings. the waves, the boat, the sky, everything except those on the boat appeared to become paintings that could move. it was then that the story was weaved. She told the sad story of Mary, with herself taking the role of Mary....The world moved with her words, it was if the world was no longer the one they were in before, and thus the Moon Sisters could feel not only sheer power of the song being sung, but their own power returning to them, no longer being surpressed. However all that was occurring would only last as long as the song....



Kyuubi

Kyuubi was impressed with herself. She literally created a bruise from nothing. Not only had she made the illusion of the bruise vanish, but she also had to make it so that Crowe would feel it leave her by manipulating the energy that his senses would feel, so that to him it would feel like any other bruise he had removed before but gave it the soreness one would expect from a blow from Wolf, and then using the energy that transferred from her bruise to Crow to create a real bruise upon his face which was completely identical to the false one that was previously on her own face, and she did so all seamlessly to the point that she knew Crow nor anyone else would take notice. She had done it all so subtly....

"A-A man in armor that looked like a Wolf...." she said with a blush, looking away. She had no idea how to handle the situation, with Mantis, Beetle, and Crow now appearing as well. Still, she knew if she kept low, even they wouldn't discover who she really was. Though it did get a lot trickier to do so....but she could manage. Wasp suddenly chuckled wryly. "You know, you are the last person i expected to come here. You and i barely even know each other...And say what you might, you know your excuse wont fool the King. Please....just leave....dont drag yourselves down with me.

[Kaidou]

The harbour
Madagascar III

"Stupid fucker", swore Henry, rubbing his forehead and looking at the general direction in which Gabriel's boat had headed off in. "Why'd we even agree to bring him along? He's gonna be the death of all of us."

The effects of Fauna's temporary magic strengthening appeared, at least to some of the magic wielders (even casual ones like Mera), as a strange painting. The warships continued to fire upon the Madagascar III, but this time, things were different. The moment the song began, the figure of the white haired Steiner leapt high into the air, pointing upwards with one finger.

"Dan."

That same instant, a gigantic bubble appeared around a gigantic area, followed by the sudden disintegration of some of the warships surrounding the Madagascar III. In a brief moment, the white haired boy shut off the bubble and landed back on the deck of the ship on his feet.

"I cannot see Gabriel Weston anywhere", he said to Master Wong, walking towards the control room of the ship. "We will have to go after him as soon as we can."

"Perhaps I can help", said Hiccup, smiling as childishly as his octogenarian face allowed him to. "He cannot have gotten far." The old Viking clipped his sword to his belt and turned to face Crowe. "Do you want to come along? It's important that we stop him as soon as we can."

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It was at that moment that the figure of Tenzou Húrin came charging down the street, clutching his sword and his treasure chest and heading towards the dock.

"He's here!" yelled Master Lam, climbing up the stairs and clutching the wheel of the ship. "It's time to go!"

The elf climbed up the ramp onto the ship, dropped the treasure chest onto the floor, and collapsed into a heap, clutching his chest and breathing heavily.

"Dad!"

Josiah leapt off the edge of the poop deck and landed on the main deck, charging towards where Tenzou lay on the ground and helping his stepfather sit up. The elf was barely alive, clinging on to his life dearly. He didn't look at the treasure chest or the Hanzō sword next to him; only at his son. The relentless blizzards continued to whip across the ocean and the ships.

"You can carry on without me", said Tenzou weakly.

"No! You can't die!"

"You're ready to see the world as it is, without rosé lenses."

The boy clutched his stepfather's clothes, sobbing uncontrollably.

"Gasshau is in Lunemura; that is the other reason I suggested going there. I have a gut feeling… that he can… help us."

"What… what do you mean, Dad?"

Tenzou caressed his stepson's face with his hand, smiling weakly. His eyelids slowly began to close, stopping just short of that.

"Learn about the world… and become strong."

With that, the elf collapsed onto the floor and lay there motionless.

"Move out of the way!" screamed Steiner, pushing aside the people who stood by and looked at the sudden, unexpected spectacle. "He's had a heart attack!" The white haired boy gently nudged Josiah, who was trying his best to hold in his tears. "Please move aside. He can still be saved."

With that, he tore Tenzou's shirt open and began to compress the elf's chest.

"Somebody get an AED. Is there an AED?"

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[Kaidou]

241 years ago…

Dimension 29
Kyaing Hlaing System
Kyaing Hlaing

The sudden explosion of one of Kyaing Hlaing's 6 moons was a horrifying phenomenon that was seen by everybody who was on that side of the planet. Chaos ensued within minutes, and full scale riots broke out all over the planet once news spread. It lasted till two more moons exploded, and massive battleships descended upon the planet from space.

"The House of Balakas is invading us!"

The ships had been identified. The maroon markings on the sides of the star destroyers were unmistakable. The Rokuō Kai Balakas was upon Kyaing Hlaing.

Local resistance groups attempted to put up a defence against the troops of the House, but were relentlessly pushed back. With over 700 generals on their side and a gigantic army of magicians, droids, Devil Fruit users, and even dragons, the armies of Kai Balakas were a formidable threat to be reckoned with; the army of Kyaing Hlaing learned that that very day. The troops of the Grandmasters had pledged to leave Kyaing Hlaing alone 200 years ago, in a treaty which the leaders of the planetary government now came to regret.

The first victory against the Balakas Army came 4 months into said Army's campaign against Kyaing Hlaing. The gigantic capital of Nayuram that had been under the occupation of Man Balakas' trusted General, Rothur, was overthrown by a small invasion force led by an unknown local general.

"General Rothur!"

The elderly minotaur was hunched over his information pad, a smile of intolerable hatred and fury plastered over his face.

"What is the meaning of this?"

The lieutenant, battered, maimed, and generally in an unpleasant condition, saluted Rothur.

"They say that a native General has led a counterattack force against our troops stationed in Nayuram City. We don't know who he is, but our sources say that he is a fearsome man, standing at almost 250cm tall, with arms that dangle below his knees and a third eye on his forehead. He's executed our men gruesomely."

"We can't let this be. Get my armour; I'm going in."

"But sir…"

"We're doing it, you idiot! Who the hell do you think I am???"

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Nayuram City (capital)
Kyaing Hlaing

General Rothur's massive recapture task force of 30,000 men was defeated in three days by the troops stationed in Nayuram, which were supposedly outnumbered 52 to 1.

By the time Rothur made it to the city, none of his men were alive anymore; every single lamp post in the city had the naked body of an officer or NCO hanging by the neck, some in good condition, some cut apart, others nothing more than bags of meat. The minotaur clutched his vibro-axe, walking through the streets and snarling furiously.

"Who knew these men were all such trash", he said to himself.

It was at that moment that a loud thumping sound rang out from behind him, accompanied by a shockwave and a cloud of dust. The minotaur whirled around to face a man as muscular and gigantic as he was. The most horrifying thing, however, was that the silhouette in the dust matched the man described by the lieutenant earlier.

"Who are you???"

"I am Omo Majar Senga Duma."

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"Omo Majar Senga Duma? That's a name I've never heard. You are the one who defeated the armies of Balakas stationed here?"

The man was still shrouded in a cloud of dust.

"That's right."

"How can a nobody defeat the armies of a Rokuō?"

"Oh, you'll see…"

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2 days later

The Tenshi Master Klingsor and Mera the Golden had been dispatched to Kyaing Hlaing's capital to keep the situation under control, but reached the city finding it very much empty. Apart from a few maimed soldiers who reeled back in shock and attempted to hide from the two Guardians, there were no living people in sight.

A crater spanning over fifteen kilometres sat right in the middle of the city; every single skyscraper there had been levelled. At the bottom of the crater lay the mangled, headless body of a minotaur.

"Somebody seems to have been here earlier", remarked Mera chirpily, in a manner rather incongruous to the gruesome state of the city.

Klingsor jumped into the crater and stood beside the corpse at the bottom. A shattered axe lay just close by.

"Somebody powerful, from the looks of it", said the fairy sorcerer, clutching the Eternal Trident and scratching his chin as he looked at the body below. "We should probably be careful; he could be anywhere."

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And yet… I don't sense anything. Could he have left already?

[Naval Monte]

Moon Sisters

"Change the properties of a realm?" The sisters thought with surprise. It's true they are goddesses but there are feats that even they have trouble with and changing the very essence of a realm is one of them. They became anxious when Fauna warn them of seeing unsettling things, though their job as harden them to things that most would consider to be unsettling and disturbing.

Once Fauna began to sing they saw the world around them turn into a moving painting. Throughout the story they felt the power of the song, as it kept on going they soon felt their own powers returning. Once they powers fully returned the sisters quickly got to work on healing Cyrssa. Once all of her injuries were gone they looked up on Tessy. "We helped you niece. All we have to do is wait for her to wake up." they said to her gently. "We have no time for that." everyone in the room heard Elizabeth's voice and soon the bloody mist appeared and took on Elizabeth's demonic looking form. "We have to get out of here fast. Not only are the others leaving but I set this place on fire."

The sisters looked at the former mage now elder goddess with their mouths wide open, even Tessy was looking at Elizabeth as if she realize how insane her girlfriend was. "Ellie. Why did you set this place on fire?" Tessy try to stay calm when she asked Elizabeth the question but it was clear that she wanted to yell out her girlfriend for her action. "Well for starters this hotel is going to be blown up either way and the second reason is the fact the army of this nation is going to use it as a base and after what they put Alice through I will not allow them to have this building in their possession." Tessy was not aware of what happened to Elizabeth's cousin to make Elizabeth want to burn down a possible base for them to use but she can guess that it was terrible by Elizabeth action and hatred towards them.

The moon sisters knew what Elizabeth was talking about and simply stay quiet, it was a strange way but they guess any form of payback is doable so long as she wasn't harming an innocent person, they were thankful that most of the staff have already left the building. The sisters soon created a portal. "Let's go." Tessy while still carrying Cyrssa followed them into the portal. "No thanks sisters. I will catch up with you all later. I have to warn bony and his demon kitten about me lighting the whole place on fire." The sisters nodded and closed the portal.

Once they arrived it took only a few minutes for them to reach the docks, by than they heard what Crowe said about Gabriel taking off and the risks of him getting the jewel first now that he wasn't a member of the group. "Are you kidding me? We wasted our time finding that guy and now he is going to ruin everything for us because he was bored?" Artemis yelled out in frustration. As more cannonballs fell they were destroyed by either Tandem's lasers or by the Moon Sister's razor winds. "Calm down sister. We will find him." Selene said. "Gabriel is alive and as such we can track him by his life energy, unless of course his power has made him into the undead." The Moon sisters began to concentrate as they focus on finding Gabriel by using his life energy as a tracker on his movement. The sisters left the portal open for Fauna to get through

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Elizabeth

Once the portal began to close Tessy looked back as she smell smoke through the portal, Elizabeth gave her a smile and waved before turning around. "Well time to find bony and warn him before he gets his arse roosted." As Elizabeth turn around with her eyes closed she walked forward until she felt that she bump into someone, opening her eyes she saw both a confused Elizabeth and Dennis. "What the hell? Why the hell is there another me?" Elizabeth looked at her double with the same level of surprise, she was even more surprised to feel her power weakened again.

Before Elizabeth can say anything they both saw the world change into it's painting and had their powers return. The other Elizabeth looked at her hands and a maniacal smile appeared on her face. Before either the other Elizabeth and Dennis can say a thing she turned into her mist form and left. "Bollocks did I really look that crazy before? Why hasn't anyone told me that I look like a loony?" Elizabeth was shaking her head as she turn to Dennis. "Right you and kitten better get out of here now. She... me... this is bloody confusing. This whole place is going to blaze like a campfire soon so get out of here." she explain as she smiled at the lich. "Well have to go now, need to somehow get back in my time line before I somehow cause a time paradox." Elizabeth took a step and soon found herself in the room again, with Fauna still singing her song. "This is going to get annoying fast." Elizabeth swiped her hand and a wave of reality ripples came out and destroyed the front door.

Once she stepped out she saw shocked soldiers at the front yard. "Monster! Kill it!" the soldiers fired their guns at her but none of the bullets hit her, instead they floated on mid air, quantum locked. "Cute chaps. I'm off to see my girlfriend now, destroy a few of those planes and maybe some of your toys and before I forget I'm going to get that jewel, kill the serpent and see your precious government burn to the ground." Elizabeth then send the bullets back at the soldiers, killing some but leave others alive to tell their generals about her.

Elizabeth soon used her wings and flew off, she saw a squadron of fighters flying to her direction and she smiled. "Let's see what these new powers can do." Elizabeth unleashed the same wave and several of the planes were destroyed. The planes fired their bullets at the woman but she quickly dodged them, pulling off fast maneuvers that the planes couldn't do. Throughout her journey to the harbor Elizabeth took out a few of the planes and focus her wrath on some of the soldiers down at the ground, mostly having the flaming wrecks of the planes land on the soldiers.

By the time Elizabeth arrived at the dock she made a graceful landing with her eyes close, striking an elegant pose with her left arm raised. "You couldn't help but to show off huh?" Tessy chuckled, finding Elizabeth's dramatic pose funny. "It was cooler in my head." Elizabeth looked over at the Moon Sisters. "What are they doing and why is the portal to the hotel still open?" Tessy explained to her that Fauna's song was the reason she can do magic and she told her about Gabriel. Elizabeth face palmed, sighing as tentacles started spurting from her body, Tessy can hear Elizabeth growling. "That fucking idiot. I swear I'm gonna skin that bastard alive if he gets to the serpent." Elizabeth snapped, her voice sounding more like a diabolical creature than her own, her form turning more monstrous the more her rage consume her.

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Veira

Veira smiled at Crowe entwined his hand with hers and lead her outside the hotel. Even outside she used whatever powers she can use to make sure the soldiers didn't shot them, which was implanting telepathic suggestion to ignore them. She like Crowe heard the loud boom and felt Crowe pull her to the direction. After a while she reach the harbor and heard what happened about Gabriel and saw everything else until she was now seeing Elizabeth turn into an amorphous blob with a vaguely humanoid ship. Tentacles, maws and eyes covered her dark form and her waist alone where five mouths and her shoulders four eyes with many tendrils on her back and her hair being made of nothing but them. She can feel the woman's rage leaking out of her being.

"You still think it's a good idea to get close to her?" Veira whispered to Crowe as she looked at the form nervously. Veira saw Tessy gently put Cyrssa down on the ground walked to Elizabeth, once she was in front of the abomination she began to talk to her. Veira was expecting Tessy's efforts to end horribly, especially when Elizabeth grabbed her arms. But instead of pulling her arms out of her socket she moved them to touch her cheeks which they along with her head turn back to the previous form she was in, soon she reverted back to the semi-demonic looking form she was in.

"I got to learn how that woman is able to calm Elizabeth down. Maybe we can start by befriending her? I'm sure Elizabeth is more likely not to kill me if her lover likes me." Veira said as she watch Elizabeth warp four of her six arms around Tessy's waist, the other two hands still holding on to Tessy's arms until she let them go. The three women heard a loud roar from the sea and saw many giant tentacles come out and drag the ships that Steiner didn't sink down to their watery grave. "Okay who summon the Kraken to fight for us?" Veira asked out only to have Tandem respond back. "That was Alice. She has been using her powers to fight them off ever since we left the hotel." Everyone saw the water being disturbed as something was moving to the shore.

From the beach everyone can see a creature with seaweed like robes, the few patches of skin seen they can see it has has a faint silver iridescent sheen to it, like the
scales of a fish; her hair is long and green as glass, framing a face with higher cheekbones and a wider mouth, rising from an inhumanly perfect long neck, the skin broken by two long
rows of slits above her clavicle. On her back were long green tentacles with large suckers with sharp teeth, the tentacles slowly returning back to her body until they were now strange squirming wings.

Veira and everyone else's attention soon went to Tenzou. They saw what happened to him and Stiener was calling for help.

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Alice

Alice heard the cries for help a part of her screamed to do something. Without a response or warning she teleported to the site where Tenzou was and knelt down next to him. She raises her right hand and spreads her fingers, revealing the delicate tracery of webbing; placing her hand on his chest. "Let me try to help him." she asked, before anyone can see anything she began to deliver powerful volts of electricity on to his heart, making the elf's body jump.

Alice kept doing this and soon she found Tessy at her side. With Tandem he saw Elizabeth fly up into the air. "Oi viking. I'm joining you. I'm not going to let another bloke ruin my day." before Hiccup can say anything Elizabeth took off to find Gabriel. "I'm joining with Crowe. My telepathy still works under this planet's atmosphere." Veria said, she wonder if Hiccup can tell that she was no longer Alzis.

Tandem ordered his walker cannon move away from the harbor and self destruct, that way no army can get their hands on it. As the walker moved away Tandem he saw that Tessy carried Cyrssa to the boat as she went there. He soon joined and saw Alice trying to bring Tenzou back to life.

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Alzis

The room that Alzis left in was a mess. He was furious when he lost one of his bodies, so furious that when some of his own workers came in to check on him Alzis killed them on the spot, not even realizing they were there until he stopped. Normally he wouldn't be this upset on losing a body. but on most cases he was sure on getting them back. But after what Crowe did not only did he lose a body but somehow the connection was severed between him and that one, the bard was able to make that one become her own individual being.

"That's impossible! How can that bard do something that not even the mightiest archmagi back in Gnosis failed to do?" Alzis was now being plagued by many disquieting questions, most of them heading back to his death. "So the situation as really devolved to this point. I can't believe I'm forced to do this." Alzis walked into a room and saw Kalameet along with windows showing both the Archons and Daevas. "So Alzy, you finally came to join us. What do you want us to do?" Kalameet chattered as a swarm of locust.

Alzis hated the fact that he was now coming to them for assistance instead of the other way around, but he knew that all three beings in the room needed help with one matter or another. "I needed to clean up some things, tie up some loose ends. Now, let's begin our meeting." Alzis closed and locked the door, activating the silence wards to make sure no one will listen in along with every other types of wards to prevent anyone from knowing about the meeting taking place.

[Kaidou]

Madagascar III

"No no no", said Steiner hastily, withdrawing just before Alice delivered her shock. "Don't do it anyhow." The boy leaned towards Tenzou's head, placing two fingers and tilting the elf's head backwards, while leaning his head close to Tenzou's mouth and watching his chest. There was absolutely no breathing; the body was still. Steiner delivered a single rescue blow; Tenzou's chest rose. Another rescue blow, and his chest rose again.

"Cardiac arrest confirmed."

With that, Steiner relocated his landmark on the elf's chest, before giving a hasty string of directions to Alice.

"We don't have an AED, so we have to make do. One cycle of CPR is 30 chest compressions and two rescue blows. Deliver a 1000V shock after every three cycles."

Not saying anything more (having already gotten his instructions across), Steiner began CPR.

…

"It's confirmed."

Master Wong emerged from the control room of the ship, just as Felix (who was in the boiler room) started up the engines. The Grandmaster was holding a smartphone in his hand. Those not standing around Steiner (he had motioned to the rest to stay clear and mind their own businesses) crowded around Master Wong, who activated a hologram, revealing a bounty poster.

"He is here."

WANTED
GELMAGOSHI POLGAPARELL
ジェルマゴーシ●ポルガパーレル
For Attempting Ogsmeina, Piracy, Grand Larceny, Assault of a Government Official, Destruction of Government Property, Contempt of Public Institutions

€60,000,000
฿48,000,000,000,000
USD90,000,000,000
¥320,000,000,000
£2,000,000,000,000

---

"We should be able to find him with a bit of telepathy… right?" asked Hiccup. He kept his hand on the sword hilt that hung from his side.

"Sure we can", said Mera, smiling sweetly and incongruously. "That's like how I traced his trail to the metropolis and found him there."

"That was a bad mistake", said Henry, spitting off the edge of the boat. "We never should have brought that motherfucker along. He's going to be the death of us all, that stupid grinning bitch."

"No use complaining now", said Mera. "We just have to locate him, punish him badly, and make sure he doesn't ever follow us on quests again. Assuming we're still alive, that is. Fufufufu…"

Hiccup turned to Veira. Clearly, she wasn't that same personality that had followed the group across; something had changed. In any case, though, that was not a very opportune moment to inquire into such matters.

"Are you able to track him?" asked the Viking. "If you can, then come along; Toothless should be able to carry both of us. We'll find him together and stop him from bringing about this world's last day!"

…

[Kaidou]

241 years ago…

Nayuram City
Kyaing Hlaing

"Somebody's here." Klingsor's eyes darted to the side, as the Tenshi raised his Trident, poised and ready for an attack.

That same moment, a dark figure appeared in the sky, before plummeting towards the ground and landing in front of Klingsor, causing the shocked Tenshi to reel backwards and land on his back. He quickly leapt to his feet and whirled his Trident in a circle in front of him, only to have it stopped by a wavy keris blade, a shower of sparks accompanying the parry.

(A keris is a traditional Javanese/Malay dagger that sometimes has a wavy blade.)

…

KLINGSOR
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…

"Who are you???"

The man with the dagger, who towered 50cm above Klingsor, deftly whirled around, dislodging his dagger from Klingsor's Trident with a ringing, metallic sound. Klingsor, in response, leapt forward and aimed the Trident at the man.

He will attempt to disarm me with his dagger. I must be on my guard.

Sure enough, the three eyed man whirled around in a circle and slashed across the air, leaving a cut on Klingsor's forearm. The Tenshi, in retaliation, slammed the handle of the Trident into the man's abdomen, causing him to reel backwards a bit. This did not faze him, for he leapt into the air upon stopping, whirling about in the air deftly and landing on Klingsor's shoulders. With a grunt, Klingsor attempted to shake the man off, but to no avail; he continued to fight with Klingsor while standing on the latter's shoulders.

After a certain amount of sparring in that awkward position, the Tenshi was able to shake the three-eyed man off. The latter backflipped in the air and landed on the ground in a semi-crouching position, his wavy dagger glinting in the sun. Klingsor, too, whirled his Trident around and adopted a new stance against his opponent.

"What is your name?" he asked the three eyed man.

The man stood to his full height.

"I am Omo Majar Senga Duma", he said.

That same moment, Mera landed behind him, snorting out a shower of sparks.

…

MERA
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…

"You're not bad at all", said Mera coyly.

Omo Majar chuckled darkly, before whirling his keris and charging at Klingsor.

"Stay out of this, Golden Dragon."

[Naval Monte]

b]Madagascar III[/b]

Alice was about to ask Steiner why he was getting in her way until he began to perform CPR on Tenzou, she soon delivered the the shock that he wanted after the three cycles and kept doing it. For Alice she needed to see Tenzou to come back to life, to show that her new powers can be used to save lives as well as take lives and cause mass destruction. "Please come back to us." she quietly whispered.

Veira saw the poster and new that if Elizabeth was still around she would be laughing her ass off at the man on the poster, hell Veria covered her mouth to stop herself from laughing. "Sorry about that. It's just that man resembles someone from back in my old home world... my old world...." Veria quietly said. Now that she realize it she honestly has no place to return to now that Gnosis was gone for good. She look at Crowe and was reminded that the lost of Gnosis now wasn't a big deal as she agreed to go with him on his adventures for as long as possible.

"Assuming Gabriel isn't immune to psychic phenomenons than I will be able to find him. I suspect the the reason my telepathy still works is because the serpent's powers doesn't register magic and psychic powers as the same." Veira theorized. Without having it as a specimen for her to study she can't be a hundred percent sure on her theory being true. When Hiccup asked for her to get on Toothless she asked.

"Bring him down so I can get on board. If we're lucky than Elizabeth is probably slowing him down, I have a feeling she would reach him before us." Veria would get on Toothless once Hiccup brings him down and Veira would concentrate on picking up Gabriel's presence.

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From the sea Elizabeth decided to experiment more with her new found spacetime powers, teleporting to a spot that Gabriel will go through in the future.

Now at the spot Elizabeth dive bomb to the sea and began to use her powers to create a massive iceberg. Elizabeth knew that she probably wasn't going to keep her powers for long so before they fade away she will do whatever she can. Elizabeth knew that the iceberg that was still growing will last long after her magic becomes weak again but just encase Gabriel cross by while she can still use her powers she created a distortion of spacetime. Now anyone who crosses through the spot will endlessly appear back where they started until they run out of gas or when Elizabeth ends the distortion either by her own will or by having her powers weaken again.

Feeling that neither the iceberg nor spacetime distortion are enough she began to create clones of herself. Most of the clones were terrible, indescribable things vaster than any subway train—a shapeless congeries of protoplasmic bubbles, faintly self-luminous, and with myriads of temporary eyes forming and un-forming as pustules of greenish light all over the tunnel-filling front that bore down upon all they saw. The clones moved to the surface, where they began to crush some of the jetting ice formations and slither on the frozen terrain.

They kept a close eye on the surface for the thief and have a telepathic link with Elizabeth, she saw through their eyes. As the a few clones stayed underwater to create more icebergs Elizabeth planed on what she will do to him once he arrives at the spot? Of course she wasn't going to kill him, maybe maim and injure him enough that he can not leave on his own? Yes, that sounds fair and manageable.

[Kaidou]

Madagascar III

On the eighth cycle of CPR, Steiner moved backwards, as Tenzou suddenly coughed.

"Enough!" he said, both to himself and to Alice, lest she attempted to shock him again. Still in his kneeling position, the white haired boy tilted the elf's chin and leaned close. There was breathing- it was very slow, almost zero in fact, but it was still breathing nonetheless. Steiner chuckled to himself somewhat sardonically.

"So we managed to fall within the 30% revival rate", he said, wiping his sweat. His left hand (which was underneath his right) was swollen, and he was drenched with sweat, but the procedure was a success, and that was what mattered. Leaning forward, the boy crossed Tenzou's legs and stuck one of his hands beside his cheek, before grabbing his other side and gingerly rolling the still unconscious elf into recovery position. With that, he smiled at Alice innocently.

"Do you mind going below deck to see if this ship's medical bay has ACLS facilities?"

(ACLS = Advanced Cardiac Life Support)

…

With a graceful burst of air, the Night Fury swooped down from the sky and landed beside Veira. The old Viking smiled at her, adjusting his prosthesis with one hand and extending his other hand towards her, so as to pull her up.

"Let's go", he said.

Henry Saladass chuckled.

"I'm gonna teach that upstart Gabriel a lesson when you guys catch him. I swear on my motorcycles… sorry… I swear on my wife and kids. Make sure he's still alive."

"I suppose we'll try our best", said Hiccup. "Of course, we all know how dangerous he is, so if we have to kill him, then we'll just have to do it."

"Easier said than done", snorted Mera, preening herself by the side.

"I'll take my chances", replied the old Viking, his youthful energy from 60 years ago visibly returning to his body.

…

"Josiah?"

The boy, who had been sitting listlessly inside the command room, suddenly perked up upon hearing Master Lam Kim An's voice.

"Yes?"

"They've managed to revive your stepfather, but…"

Josiah leapt off the edge of the chair.

"Eeh? He's still alive???"

"Apparently so. He's still unconscious, though, and we don't know if the medical room of this ship can keep him alive. I'm willing to stake my chances on it, though. Not to mention we've already set off; we should be able to procure some medical services when we reach Lunemura."

Just shortly after Master Lam finished, Josiah grinned widely.

"Great!" he said.

[Kaidou]

Ranch 2345

By the time the Chinese soldiers had reached the mess hall, the soldiers of Jensen Wu were already there. The moment they entered, the former took out their rifles and held them up, ready to open fire lest the traitorous Wu attempted anything silly. Once that was done, a muscular, uniformed man with no small amount of ribbons and proficiency badges emerged from the ranks, accompanied by two slightly lower ranked men armed with batons. The uniformed man marched towards Wu and faced the slightly aged traitor dead on.

"I am Colonel Feng Xuan Xiang (酆宣祥)", said the colonel. "By order of General Soong Meng Li, acting commander of the Jiang Dynasty's troops, you are under arrest. But first, you will show us around this complex and bring us to the Genesis Bomb which you were speaking of."

Turning back to face his troops, Colonel Feng pointed accusingly with his thick, hairy index finger.

"A word of this to anybody else", he said ominously, "and I'll have you thrown into the Detention Barracks."

With that, fe faced Jensen Wu again. He motioned for both his bodyguards to move back, so that he could speak with the traitor privately.

"Wu "Wei Ba"… You were always one step ahead of me even though we were from the same cohort. Me and you, we're peers, and yet, you surpassed me in every aspect. In Officer Cadet School, you won the Sword of Honour; I was merely a Sword of Merit recipient. In Artillery, you were double promoted. In Infantry, you were also double promoted. Let's not even talk about our time in the Fleet."

Colonel Feng drew closer to Wu.

"I was posted everywhere with you, and yet, I could never reach your level of expertise. Yet, you wasted your skills by defecting to join the traitorous bandits of Alzis. For that… I will make sure that you suffer when you are brought to book for your treachery. I will show you that I can still surpass you yet."

Having finished his monologue, Colonel Feng clapped his hands together once and whirled around to face his two bodyguards, who (telling by their ranks) also doubled as assistant commanders of his platoon.

"Lieutenant Wang, Captain Zhangqiu."

"Yes sir?"

"We will follow Jensen Wu to the Bomb of which he speaks."

…

[Naval Monte]

Madagascar III

Alice heard what Steiner said she stopped, her arm having arcs of electricity around them and her skeletal structure of her arms being visible through her skin. Once Tenzou began to show signs of having a possibility of living. Alice began to change back into her more human form as relief wash over her body, being glad to see proof that her powers can be used to save lives. When Steiner asked her to check below the deck to find the ACLS she nodded and her form flickered like static, vanishing before his eyes.

In the deck Alice checked through the deck in the form of a speeding ball lightning, it took her a few minutes to find a room with a ACLS. Returning back to her human form she flickered again and appeared before Steiner. "I found the machine. Let's go now." she exclaimed rapidly, grabbing both him and Tenzou and the three flickering away from their spot to the room were the ACLS was.
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Veira grabbed a hold on his hand and got on Toothless. When Henry mentioned his motorcycles Veira gave the man a small smirk. "You know before my world was destroyed there was a spell in which a mage to crossbreed either a human or animal baby to possess traits of other animals, machines or otherworldly beings. Your devotion to your "family" reminded me of a mage who crossbreed his kids with moterbikes." The tone Veira spoke in made it hard to tell whether or not she was pulling Henry's leg, the chuckle didn't help.

She closed her eyes and focus on finding Gabriel's thoughts. By the time she opened her eyes she spoke. "I found him, just keep going straight. I should also warn you, Elizabeth as made some roadblocks to slow him down and you may not like what you might see once we reach her." Veira warned the old viking.

[Kaidou]

Madagascar III

"We don't have a doctor, do we?" he asked. "In that case, how do we provide ACLS for him…? Then again, his heart rhythm has already been restored (thank God for that), so I suppose we just have to make sure he doesn't lapse back into cardiac arrest…" Steiner climbed onto a stool and rummaged through one of the cupboards.

"There has to be some GTN in here; we should have that around, in case he has another heart attack. GTN… GTN… Glyceryl trinitrate… Glyceryl trinitrate… Ah, there's aspirin. That'll do for now." The boy, still crouched over on the tall stool, tossed the tube of aspirin to Alice.

"This thins the blood", he explained. "GTN dilates the blood vessels… wait, is it the other way round? Or am I correct…? In any case, either one would work if he has another acuity myocardial infarction."

…

"That's fine", said Hiccup. He patted Toothless on the head and rubbed his own back unconsciously. The stiffness of old age was, it seemed, now gone.

"Let's go!"

With that, Toothless took off with a snort of excitement, flying straight on, just as the fiery sun of the Chphlyggnu System rose in the East.

…

6 Days 19 Hours to the Lunemura Republic

[Contamenesia]

Crowe

Crowe turned to Veira, "Honestly, its a sign of amateur use, really. Its irony really, they awaken the powers by connecting deeper into themselves, yet they take such ugly forms because they have a disconnection from their "real" selves. they may be able to use chaos magic to some degree, but they clearly have no real control over it. Some even think that those forms are actually how they are supposed to look. Comedic, really, because it's not. they may consider those forms to be "true" forms, but they are not. just a sign of amateur use of magic, powerful magic, but amateur none the less." When hiccup gave him an offer to chase after Gabriel, Crowe declined, "It's best if i stay here. perhaps Jason, you should go. you are the only one who could catch him. Elizabeth is about to learn the difference between her and Gabriel....both as thieves, and as survivors...." Crowe said with a frown, not realizing how informed and insightful he was showing himself to be.

Gabriel

Gabriel pulled out the White Powder from his pocket, and began to lightly cover himself in it. Immediately it cut off all magical connections that were scrying or detecting him, though he did not know this, it simply felt like the right thing to do. Suddenly he felt that he would need to use his dimensional transporter, as the road ahead had the feeling of danger. He opened a portal in front of the boat and sped through it, though left the destination at random, yet he felt it would take him to his destination. He was correct. Once on the other side he immediately felt that he was in the right place. The Serpent was below him, not yet aware of his presence. He smiled. He closed the portal behind him, then opened another one in the middle of the water, immediately causing a whirlpool as water was sucked in. He then jumped into the portal and appeared in an realm devoid of anything except the water that was now flooding in. He smiled as he created another portal put a rebreather in his mouth and jumped through, all his actions seemingly planned, though they werent. And this time he appeared right above the beast, submerged in the water. The portal behind him closed, but the portal that was sucking in the water remained. he had a feeling he would be needing it. "Alrighty beasty, you are ugly, but you have something i need...."

Bonnie

Bonnie smiled with glee, "Yay! maybe they will play with us too? i'll even play a fun song for them if they are nice!" Bonnie said in an adorable voice, combined with the cuteness of her or his teddy bear form. Bonnie seemed completely oblivious to any sort of danger, and seemed so cute and innocent....

Jason

Jason nodded his head, "I will go." But before he could leave, Crowe stopped him, "Look, don't kill him okay? He isn't unreasonable, it might be tricky to convince him, but he isn't the type that can't be reasoned with. Plus we still need him. We just need to get him back on our side. I think what set him off was everyone stalling the mission. Gabriel doesn't tend to work that way. Please stop him from taking off with that Jewel....but don't kill him. and if he takes the Jewel, convince him to comeback. And then stop the earthquakes....well whatever happens...." Crowe trailed off, Jason nodded again, "I get it. I'll be back." And with that, Jason focused deep into the calm, then suddenly dashed forward in blinding speed and began to run across the ocean to find Gabriel. Unlike magical senses or scrying, Jason's calm was not affected, he could hear Gabriel's music and headed strait for it. He passed Elizabeth shortly, cutting through the time space warp without even the slightest notion of hesitation.

???

Now that Svaboda was save, she felt like it was time for her to continue exploring other worlds. She gave Svaboda a heaping mountain of gold and supplies, though it wasn't even a dent in what she had. She then smiled and casted a spell that opened a portal to an unknown world, She turned, ready to continue her search....

[Naval Monte]

Madagascar III

"Well their power seems to be making those goddesses over there scared even though they are amateurs... But I think telling them that they have no control over their powers won't help them on calming down." Veira looked over at the sisters as they used their powers to make Fauna appear in the boat. She noted the Crowe was acting much differently than how usually appears, but she had first hand experience to know that there is more to the bard than he lets on.

When he told them on having Jason go and how Elizabeth was about to learn the difference between them. "I'm still going after him encase Jason can't convince him to come back. Don't forget I use to be connected to a manipulator. That boy may be able to catch up with him but we still need more than just him to convince that grinning fool to come back." Veira told Hiccup to fly forward and soon the two flew off to find the thief.

Back on the boat Tessy heard what Crowe said about both Elizabeth and Alice having a disconnect between them and their true form. "You said before that Elizabeth and by extension Alice were goddesses imprisoned. Do you think that them being imprisoned lead to this disconnect between them and their "real" selves? Is there a way to help them on getting reconnecting them?" Tessy asked. Tandem heard what Crowe too and while he didn't say anything he wanted to help Alice as well.

Down in the medical bay Alice was getting hit but a surge of new information as Steiner was looking at the bottles in the room. She manage to catch the tube of aspirin while still looking distracted. "You were right about GTN, it dilates the blood vessels. It's best we only give him a small amount of GTN so his body doesn't develop a tolerance for it quickly and weakens its effect." she drone on in a monotone voice, appearing as though she was in a trance as more of the cosmic knowledge in her head stream before her mental eyes.

Alice walked over to Tenzou's body and when she look down she saw not only the heat being produced by his body but the electrical impulses from his brain, the chemicals in his body flowing through his body and many other systems of the body working, almost as though his skin and clothing was transparent to her. More of her senses now awakening as the atmosphere for now as no effect on them.

On the deck the Moon Sisters can sense a massive area of magic coming towards them. They don't know how long it will take for them to reach the area but they can sense several living beings in that area. The area that they are sensing is the icebergs made by Elizabeth and the life forms are the shoggoth-like clones.

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Elizabeth

Elizabeth was still waiting for Gabriel under the water, a massive fortress of ice surrounded by smaller ones awaiting the thief and anyone who comes across the area. As Elizabeth was about to close her eyes to get some few minutes of sleep she felt the thief disappearing suddenly, making her wake up. Suddenly she felt Jason rushing through and cutting the spacetime warp that she made.

From the water Elizabeth emerged in the form of an enormous ropy, black serpents or worms with bat-like or umbrella-like wings. The form is continually shift and change, twitching and writhing, so that it is hard to view them. The curiously distorted heads turn to where Jason ran, and grotesquely great clawed appendages twitched. She flew off and chased after him.

"Let me guess, you're hunting down the thief as well? Well next time don't break through others traps." she screamed out in Jason's head. Flying and teleporting as she followed him to find the thief. The clones stayed around the icebergs, their maker never giving them orders to follow her.

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Ranch 2345

The moment the soldiers of Wu saw the Chinese most had their rifles held up as well, with the ones around the vending machine dropping their cups of various liquids down to the ground, half of which can not even be drank by normal human beings. Wu manage to get his soldiers to calm down with a simple gesture and ordered them to move deeper into the labs. Wu didn't even flinch at the news of his arrest as he was expecting it the moment he chose to defect back.

Once Colonel Feng made his bodyguards he listen to the man's tail. After Feng's monologue Wu kept silent and simply lead them down the complex. He never really thought of anyone wanting to surpass him and simply did his job because that what he was ordered to do. However even though he was good in the military he never felt much enjoyment out of it, instead he felt more at home being surrounded by the old relics and manuscripts that were inside the museum that his father worked in.

For Wu uncovering the truth of the cosmos was that made him feel alive, the military was there simply because it payed enough for him and his family to have comfortable lives. Yet as he thought back he finds that he still surpasses Feng in more areas now that he came out of The Fates, after all Feng does not possess the powers that he has gain by working with The Fates.
As they walked down the hall Wu and his soldiers saw a strange wooden statue depicting a distorted humanoid figure. The hands and feet having the color that resembled dried blood, the larges eyes being a faded green and black painted circle for a mouth.

The bulbous head was pointed at them as the forearms were pressed on the wall. Most soldiers got the shivers from the statue. As Wu blinked for second he saw a female apparition, the same one that one of his soldiers saw. Blinking again he shook his head and found that the apparition was gone and that he was the only one to have seen her. As the group walked past the statue they all heard a sickening crack and turn to find one of the Chinese was dead and the statue was now next to the corpse.

"The fuck? The statue killed him!" One of the soldiers shouted, all of them keeping their eyes on it. From behind the soldiers a decaying humanoid rose from a dark rift and walked towards them, patches of the floor rusting and corroding as he stepped on it. Before two soldiers can react the rotten man grabbed them and pulled them into the rift. The soldiers turn as the soldiers screamed and as all looked at to the dark rift they heard yet another crack and found the statue had kill again.

"Move back now! Keep your sights on the statue." Wu ordered. Some soldiers fired at the statue yet the bullets did nothing to harm it. From the end of the hall that he and the others came from Wu can see shadowy figures standing there, watching them. From above Feng gel-like slime landed down on the man, should he look up he will find that it came from a crack on the ceiling.

The cameras in the facility watched the soldiers, none knew that behind the lens something was watching them.

[Kaidou]

Chphlyggnu

The Vermin knew who was above it.

The fact that it was large enough to coil around a planet the size of Neptune twice didn't diminish its senses by any amount. Every little bit of unnatural movement was felt by the Majestic Vermin of Chphlyggnu, the public enemy and private ally of the twenty Republics. Of course, the part of its body which held the Jewel was going to be hard to find; that it had 419 stomachs and 200 intestines certainly didn't help.

It was just then that a naval fleet of the Hok Republic was passing by above that very spot. Between the lone straggler and an entire fleet of very technologically advanced battleships, the Vermin clearly decided that the fleet was the greater danger. Without any hesitation, it raised a gigantic, insect-like leg, tearing through the surface of the water and throwing a large half of the fleet into the sky. The gigantic size of the leg and the immense force with which it tore through the water had even sent one of the smaller ships into space.

The remaining ships attempted to turn around and leave, but the resulting super-waves were enough to tip them over.

With that done, the gigantic insect leg crashed back into the water and resumed its dormancy. The lone man swimming above it for no apparent reason wouldn't be much of a threat, anyway. Oglrygma's armour was much too thick for someone of such a tiny size to penetrate it.

…

Madagascar III
Medical Room

"That won't be very difficult", said Steiner to Alice, still rummaging through the cupboard, not facing Alice at all. "When you dissolve it in water, just keep the concentration low. I'm no doctor, but I think 0.100 mol/dm^3 should be alright for starters. The point is just to keep his blood pressure as low as possible. I presume you know how to calculate moles per decimetre cube? If you don't, you could let me do it."

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Above the Chphlyggnian Ocean

Just a few moments after Hiccup had left the ship upon Toothless' back, the graceful sound of Mera gliding through the air became quite audible. The old Viking turned his head, silently observing the lithe figure of the Tenshi cutting through the air like an eagle.

"I'm not ready to let an 80 year old amputee go after the Multiverse's luckiest thief alone, much less Jörmungandr", she said jokingly. Hiccup smiled back and pointed at Mera, equally jokingly.

"I don't suppose we'll be able to hold off on our own if Gabriel turns hostile?" Hiccup asked, both to Veira and to Mera.

"To tell the truth, I've never met Gabriel apart from that single encounter in the City", said Mera. "But I daresay your luck is pretty good, especially for an 80 year old. I'm sure Adrian would be able to ramble on on the times that you cheated death when you lot were on that crazy espionage quest in Arkenau. Right?"

Hiccup chuckled weakly and bashfully.

…

Ranch 2345

The slime that landed on Colonel Feng's head didn't go unnoticed. With a sudden, swift motion, he drew his vibro-sabre, activating the fierce, chainsaw-like blade, looking up at the crack on the ceiling. Another drop of slime landed on his forehead, dribbling down his face.

"肏你媽…", swore the Colonel. "What the hell is that?"

"I don't know, sir", said Captain Zhangqiu, a burly officer who was certainly more brawn than brains. "It looks like some sort of slime."

"Thanks for pointing out the obvious, you dumbass", said Colonel Feng angrily, wiping his face on his sleeve. Turning to face Wu, Colonel Feng snarled and spat on the ground.

"We'd better be getting to that place fast", said the Colonel fiercely. Clearly, he was almost at the end of his tether. "I don't want to encounter any more slime ceilings or golems."

[Naval Monte]

Madagascar III
Medical Room


"I can do it." Alice replied back in a monotone voice, focusing her attention on the elf. She was now seeing more on his form, his thoughts, his atomic structure and his very soul. From the soul she found two things that were both new yet oddly familiar to her. The first was quintessence, raw material of reality, the primal force that is both the source of magic and for all things in existence. From quintessence she saw the existential patterns that the primal force wove itself into, making the building blocks or Lego bricks of reality and existence itself.

Alice extended her hand above Tenzou and soon wisps of quintessence left her hand and enter Tenzou, going inside the patterns that make up his being. In Alice's mind and soul she was seeing all of the information pertaining to the elf, whether or not Steiner can see the quintessence coming out of Alice's hand and entering Tenzou she didn't pay a mind to. Instead she was following a more primal and instinctive command to do what she is doing now.

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Above the Chphlyggnian Ocean

"For me or should I say Alzis Gabriel is wanted for stealing artifacts that the Fates own along with destroying Fate property and killing some of the workers. Other than those incidents I don't know much about the thief." Veira didn't mention what Alzis did to the one man whom Gabriel impersonate as was never heard from again, the woman had help from the inside to disappear before Alzis's wrath can fall on to her.

When Hiccup mentioned Arkenau for Veira that adventure felt so long ago, probably because she wasn't herself at the time. "If he does turn hostile I may use one piece of information to stop him from killing us. Though what I will tell him may either make him spare me alone or won't work at all on him." she cryptically said, not ready to tell them the news quite yet.

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Ranch 2345

Wu looked at the slime on Feng and was instantly reminded of the first team that reported it and went missing. "We have to leave now!" Wu screamed. His team and the Chinese did so, with yet another soldier being killed by the statute as the cracked ceiling finally broke and scream can be heard. Once the door was locked Wu and the others went down and saw guns lying on the floor, there was no signs of a struggle in the halls.

As they moved deeper they saw two teddy bears walking hand to hand landing a parade of animate toys, from above paper birds and planes flew above along with mechanical and jeweled bugs and balloon that displayed a consciousness. Most of the soldiers were asking themselves if the vending machine from the mess room laced their drinks with LSD but generally felt calm around the strange things in the room.

They soon found a room with kids who were drawing on the walls and floor, their drawings coming to life. "What the hell is going on here." One soldier said. Wu moved forward. "Why are you kids here?" the kids ignored him and continue to draw, some of them making toys and paper birds and planes, all of which came to life. From the corner of Wu's eyes he could have sworn to see a shape moving pass the halls. As he looked at the hall the kids stopped and look up at the soldiers, each one staring deep into their souls. The kids all look normal but as most soldiers stared into their eyes they felt that something was wrong with the children.

The children pointed up and the soldiers follow, on the wall showed vague human-like shapes all gathering towards a strange tower. "The watchtower is our beacon." the kids said in perfect unison, they all return back to their activities. Wu asked them what they mean by their words but they all ignored him. Wu just grumbled and move forward, once more none of the soldiers saw the woman floating above them.

The next room that they found themselves in had a long catwalk with branching paths, on the middle was the same wooden statue from before, it's head looking at the soldiers.

[Kaidou]

Dimension 29

The whole of Dimension 29 had been swallowed up by the troops of the IGSE, charging through on their gigantic starships and destroyers, scooping all 2,006 of the planets in the whole of the universe. The fall of the Jiang Dynasty was a severe blow to the Grandmasters who, without the support of the Emperor's Army, now exercised a much weaker hold on its former lands.

The corpse of the recently killed Emperor was, by order of Anneliese "Dark Titan of Terror" Elsa Jones and Grand Commander Antinoos, stripped completely naked, its genitalia cut off, and the remaining parts stuck in a cage and paraded through the streets of Duchang, Shen Tang's capital. The procession was recorded and broadcasted to every single planet in Dimension 29, even those which were uninhabited. It was at this point in time that Iuzun "Nibelung" Nebra, the Rokuō, CEO of the IGSE, and Greatest Bounty Hunter in the Greater Multiverse, made his most radical decision yet.

The entire IGSE Supreme Headquarters was shifted to Dimension 29. Previously, the Operations HQ had always been moving by order of the Board of Directors, but with Haikarakainen's death and the sudden instability (not to mention the sudden decline of three Rokuō, viz. the Grandmasters, the Fates, and St. Luminia), the stunted Alveranian bounty hunter had received orders from the IGSE's Board to move the Supreme HQ to a new dimension, one that was both stable, easily accessible, and not prone to sudden implosion. After all, the IGSE wasn't just a military force; it was a trans-universal corporation.

It so happened that Dimension 29, formerly the home of the now displaced Ten Grandmasters (reduced to seven), fit all the prerequisites. After the Emperor of Jiang's disgraceful death at the hands of Grand Commander Rushikk Antinoos, Iuzun did just that.

A few of the Directors had originally objected to the decision to move the HQ, but the Chairman of the Board (i.e. the seventh director) had decided in favour of it, and when the Chairman decided in favour of something, one jolly well did it. He wasn't the Chairman for nothing, after all, though his true identity remained shrouded in mystery.

The shift of the IGSE's headquarters was met with massive military "celebrations" (i.e. a gigantic parade), held in the new IGSE Military HQ which had been constructed on the planet Kyaing Hlaing. It comprised an almost countless number of battalions (just a dent in the IGSE's military figures), the oldest members being the Dragon Ithorian Corps (its members averaging at 600 years old) and the youngest being the Youth Brigades (averaging at a mere 15). The new base, which was completed about 6 months ago, covered the entire planet, rather like Gol Kol's prison, except that this time, the planet in question was twice the size of Jupiter.

With a sense of glee, Iuzun silently and stoically watched the parade's processions. How his logisticians had managed to procure 10 million sets of No. 1 uniforms for the occasion (and in all sizes, catering to the 80m tall Titans and the 1.7m tall Youth Brigade members), he did not care; after all, Iuzun was a pragmatist, and a heartless one. So long as the job was finished, the means were irrelevant.

Within Kyaing Hlaing was a secret room, built over 400 metres below the surface of the planet and only accessible via an elevator that activated only through either one of three individuals' fingerprints; Antinoos, General Yllo Ykyryju (the Deputy Grand Commander), and Iuzun himself.

The room was outfitted with the largest number of magic jammers ever seen in a confined space; there were over 20,000 of the horrible, scientific calculator-sized devices fitted on the immaculately black walls of the 60x60x60 room. Inside the room were twenty six 3x3x1 pedestals, all fitted with metal racks that extended from the ground beside the four corners of each pedestal and extending some distance above said pedestals. Cruel, spiked chains fitted with bronze (or what appeared to be bronze) manacles at the bottom hung all over the rack, as did other strange objects presumably used as restraining devices. All the pedestals had a small screen outfitted at the bottom; some were off, but some were lit up with a sickly red light that displayed text in black.

Tenshi
Artemis, the 1st Moon Sister
Wielder of the Pendant, I

Tenshi
Selene, the 2nd Moon Sister
Wielder of the Pendant, I

Tenshi
Hecate, the 3rd Moon Sister
Wielder of the Pendant, I

Tenshi
Mera, the Golden
Wielder of the Ring, I

Tenshi
Chevalier Kizaru II, Satyr
Wielder of the Javelin, I

Tenshi
Steiner Magnus Sveinlaugsson, "X"
Wielder of the Scales, II

Tenshi
Zatōichi, Blind Swordsman
Wielder of the Hammer, II

The rumours were true. Iuzun was, in fact, a Tenshi hunter. And he intended to fill the pedestals with Tenshi. Not dead ones, but barely living ones, scraping by on shreds of life, tortured day and night by the horrible devices lurking in the dark corners of the black room, yet unable to give up the ghost.

He would see to it that any Tenshi Ludwig attempted to appoint would end up in the pedestals, chained like an animal, pure agony coursing through their veins for the rest of eternity.

Even as the room was locked away by all three men, who proceeded to take the elevator and exit the lowest dungeon in the entire Kyaing Hlaing base, yet another screen on another pedestal lit up, black words dotting themselves across the eerie redness of the screen.

Tenshi
Koro Sensei, the Intangible
Wielder of the Trident, III

The Eternal Trident had been reforged, and yet another Guardian of the Hotel had ascended to the immortal hall of Lobby 0.

[Contamenesia]

Crowe

As he watched Veira fly off with Hiccup and Toothless, he turned to Tessy and sighed, "Yeah, i can help. But if i am going to help them, i am going to need them, and you, to trust me. I wont lie, the method is dangerous, but only to themselves. They will need a strong mind, not simply a strong will, but a strong mind. The enemy that my method will show them is themselves....and sometimes people just arent strong enough to face who they really are...." Crowe said the last part in a quieter and distant tone. He turned to all the others, look. we need to get ourselves to a safe location. And fast. I am honestly not worried about the mercenaries. Any of the mercenaries that matter wouldnt bother with the bounties on most of your heads. Besides i can promise you that whatever bounties these people put on you wont be even be a small fraction of what's on mine. I have thousands of multiverses worth of bounty to my name. We are in no more danger than when we all first met, now let us focus on the task at hand.

Jason

Jason ignored her, "I dont know who you are trying to scare with that nonsensical form of yours but i can tell you its not working and definitely wont work on this Gabriel fellow, i can hear it in his music. An odd tune really...but no less pleasant." Jason finally arrived, stopping inside the boat Gabriel had taken off in, however it was empty however there was a whirlpool close by, yet somehow Gabriel had parked it perfectly so that it was close to the serpent, but just far enough that it wouldnt be pulled in by the whirlpool. Jason could sense the Whirlpool was unnatural. its bottom slipped into another realm. "He's underwater. He is about to confront the beast...as Crowe said, i do not hear the music of Death approaching. He will not die from this encounter...."

Gabriel

Gabriel kicked the Serpent in the snout it didnt hurt it, but it got its attention. It lunged at him and swallowed him whole. He suddenly kicked a small spot to his right with all his might. It just happened to be the perfect spot: a nerve cluster was in the area where kicked, causing the serpent to writh in sudden pain. Gabriel then ran forward through the first stomach, completely avoiding the bodily fluids as if he knew exactly where they were and had planned the whole thing, of course to which he didnt and hadnt. He pulled out the blade he had stolen ealier and cut straight through the intestinal lining, exiting the first stomach and cut yet another hole into the second, continuing the adventure. He didnt feel like the Jewel was in this one either, so he kept going. Any efforts the Seprent made to stop him, kill him, or simply get rid off him, he countered perfectly as if he was expecting every attempt, though he wasnt. As he cut his way into the third stomach, he feel himself getting close, though he still had a few more stomachs to go. it wouldnt be long now.

Elynia

Elynia followed the group but elected to remain quiet. things were a bit too hectic for her to do her mission. she would have to wait until everything settled down. She quietly followed the others, doing very little to draw attention to herself, though she wasnt hiding.

[Kaidou]

Above the Chphlyggnian Ocean

Possible Soundtrack

Hiccup was barely able to pull Toothless aside to dodge the gigantic insect leg that thrust itself out of the choppy surface of the ocean. The old Viking screamed, both him and Veira getting drenched in a shower of seawater as the leg, as thick as a sequoia and as tall as a skyscraper, thrust itself towards the sky.

"What the hell is that thing???" he yelped in shock. Mera, too, whirled to the side, spraying a gigantic burst of fire at the leg and lighting up their surroundings, dispelling the darkness like. It did little but char the side of the appendage, causing a cloud of steam to rise; from the looks of it, whatever it was wasn't hurt that badly.

"Could it be…???"

At the same moment, the figure of a steel battleship came plummeting down from above the clouds, followed by a large number of screaming men, some dismembered, some disembowelled, some whole, and some completely unrecognisable as men. Hiccup cringed, as did Toothless. This was no time to sit around and feel sorry for people, though; just as the figure of a man fell and struck the side of the leg with a splatter, the old Viking chief turned to face the lady sitting behind.

"Don't mind me", he said. "I'm gonna have to pull off some stunts."

It was just then that a gigantic bulge in the water rose; it split, sending two massive walls of water charging away, revealing a grey, reptilian mass underneath. More of the gigantic insect legs rose out from the water, towering over the black dragon and the golden dragon. The body of the thing underneath was almost like a landmass in proportion, a filthy, slimy, abhorrent landmass.

"What could this thing even be?"

Davath Republic

The tremors were felt by everybody living in the Davath Republic, including those in the ivory tower of the Capitol. Davath, after all, was an island, separated from the greater landmasses of Chphlyggnu. They had known long ago that the thing lurking below the depths was coiled all around and jamming the tectonic plates of the planet; what they didn't know, of course, was that there would come a time when the Vermin would be provoked from its slumber.

Before anybody was able to react, a gigantic fault line opened up, illuminating the entire island, splitting the island into two and causing the houses, buildings, and forests situated along that line to collapse and plunge into the fiery abyss of the below-crust. Capitol, sitting on top of a mountain, was shaken right to the foundations. A man standing on a balcony flew right off, falling head first into the magma within the cracks.

President Laurence Asathur of the Davath Republic knew, in his heart, that he was screwed. Nothing he could say or do could prevent the destruction of his republic.

With no hesitation, the President donned a flight suit, before climbing into a B2 stealth bomber and flying straight into the air. The deranged President began to recite poems to himself in all the 12 languages that he was fluent in, till he finally crossed the ocean and came upon the gigantic insect appendages of Ogklrygma the Majestic Vermin.

"So long, mofo!" he screamed from inside his cockpit. With a final roar of insane laughter, Laurence Asathur fired all the missiles within the aircraft, before flying it straight into the leg, going up in a ball of flames. The leg crackled, breaking in half at the point of impact and collapsing, landing in the water and sending a gigantic burst of water flying straight into the air.

The Vermin took little notice, apparently.

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Madagascar III
A yardarm

"What are you doing up here?"

Noticing that Josiah was sitting on the highest yardarm of the foremast, Master Wong had climbed up to see if anything was wrong. The Grandmaster had taken a liking to the boy, and seeing him sitting up on the yardarm seemed rather contrary to his personality. The moment he called, the boy looked down.

"Eh?" he said, grinning, "I'm just looking at the stars."

"The stars?" Master Wong looked up. "Ah, I see; they're beautiful."

Josiah pointed to a vague, bluish shape in the sky.

"That's Namida", he said. "It's the closest planet to Chphlyggnu, and it'll be the first thing we see if the sky is opened. Everything's actually closer than what we see; it's just that the magic-weakening atmosphere, combined with the light of our sun, cuts everything off. Once the sky opens, we'll see a gigantic orb in the sky."

Wong sat down beside Josiah on the yardarm and looked up at the little bluish orb in the sky. Josiah looked at Master Wong.

"Do you think we'll ever get to see the sky open up?"

That moment, the ship lurched to one side. The snow on the side of the yardarm flew off, and both Josiah and Master Wong grabbed the yardarm, the former yelping in shock.

"Well", remarked Master Wong, clutching the yardarm under his armpit and looking around for a way to get down, "seems like it's highly possible that you're gonna get what you wished for."

"All hands on deck!" screamed Henry. "All hands on bloody deck! We need to steer the ship away from these big-ass waves!"

…

The Hotel

The corridors of the Hotel were filled with the sound of numerous Maju Army battalions filing through in an extremely, almost nightmarishly orderly fashion. By this time, the entire Maju Army had undergone a complete makeover; while they still retained the ubiquitous white masks, their leather armour had been scrapped in favour of spiked, metal suits. Most carried long spears; a few carried machine weapons, and a few, the magicians (who were distinguished by their blue anodised armour) were unarmed.

Nixa's reorganisation of the Maju Army was, by any definition, a fearsome and terrifying success. Already, the former splinter of the originally octillion-strong Maju Army had surpassed that number, and was, unlike under Maju, completely at odds with all the other Rokuō, partly because Nixa was more daring and certainly more intelligent, and partly because a few particular Rokuō (viz. the Fates, the Grandmasters, and St. Luminia) had been severely weakened.

The only real threats to Nixa were the Tenshi and the IGSE, the former comprising only eight people at most. No, ten. Assuming the Sisters were separate entities.

It so happened that one of the Maju Army battalions making their way through the Hotel's corridors that day suddenly ended up lying on the floor, every man in it very much dead and unmasked. The faces of the troops, while outwardly human, displayed expressions of horror that no man could ever reproduce. Blood was splattered all over the floor, and weapons were strewn all over. Before long, the adjacent battalion also suffered from the same fate; all their men, too, ended up on the floor.

"What is the meaning of this???"

One of the Maju Army mages looked on at the mess and bawled out in horror and fury. Both battalions, totalling several hundreds, were all dead; he was completely alone in that particular corridor.

It was at that moment that he noticed somebody there whom he had not noticed before; it was a man in what looked like a janitor's uniform, except that it wasn't; it was as yellow as the petals of a sunflower, and instead of the usual human appendages, it had tentacles. That, and the fact that its head was large, perfectly rotund, and had a silly grin plastered on it eternally. The yellow octopus humanoid thing seemed preoccupied with mopping up the gruesome remains of the Maju Army battalions.

"Who the hell are you???" screamed the mage at the thing. It merely looked up at him, beady eyes twitching ever so slightly.

"Oh?" said the strange janitor. "I didn't see you there. Good morning."

"My morning isn't good!" roared the mage. "It's fucking ruined!!! And I will track down the one who killed my battalions. I will tear out his oesophagus and jam it into his rectum!"

"That sounds painful", chuckled the janitor, scratching his head and looking at the infuriated mage with his incongruous smile. "Still, it always pays to be honest, regardless of the situation. I admit; it was me who killed your soldiers."

The mage clenched his leather gloved fists.

"Why you… Do you know that I am Lieutenant Vaapat of the Maju Army? What gives you the right to interfere with the almighty Maju Army?"

The janitor sneered and threw aside the mop, before reaching into his uniform and withdrawing, to the mage's horror, the Eternal Trident, all three of its prongs attached and glinting magnificently.

"I think I've got more speaking rights than you", he said.

The mage didn't say anything. After all, the very moment the Trident appeared, the upper half of his body was nowhere to be seen, and the lower half of his body lay on the ground.

"So they were serious about it, eh? The whole invasion, and all…"



…

[Naval Monte]

Above the Chphlyggnian Ocean

Elizabeth didn't know what Jason was talking about, she didn't know that in her rage she changed. When she looked down at her body she realize what she was and seem to have grimace. "Yeah I couldn't care less on what I appear as when someone breaks my spells." Elizabeth began to change, this time she had a more humanoid form. The form she was in had a majority color of white, black and blues. Her skin was still pale white however her forearms were now black harden scales and her fingers and hands looked almost like a bird's talon, her legs below the knees were of a similar story. Both the forearms and shins looked more like parts belonging to gauntlets and greaves.

Elizabeth had four massive avian wings on her back, all four black with white highlights with the top wings having blue on the top. Elizabeth's long hair were made of mostly long feathers with smaller wings on the top and back of her head. Her face along with eyes were similar to her human form so to most remained unchanged. Elizabeth wore an attire made of feathers and metallic scales that was form fitting, showing the curves of her body. The outfits was made of mostly feathers around her breasts and even allow a modest amount of cleavage to be shown and allow thighs, arms and shoulders to be visible.

Elegant of form and graceful in motion, most would agree that this form was a better one that Elizabeth has been when compared to the rest. By the time both her and Jason reach the site were Gabriel it was too late for them to stop him from attacking the vermin. Around the two of them the clouds began to change, showing the signs of tornadoes appearing in the area. The wind began to howl and flashes of lightning can be seen from the clouds.

"I'm not letting the bastard take that jewel even if I have to help that damn vermin!" she shouted, thunder booming as bolts of lightning can now be seen. Soon she saw the gigantic insect leg thrust itself out of the surface and Elizabeth chuckled. "So much for it being the world serpent." she dryly commented. She felt Hiccup, Toothless, Mera and Veira being in the area. Veira was also surprised on seeing the leg.

When she saw the battleship plummeting down and the state of the crew she felt only somewhat sorry for them but it wasn't in the same level as Hiccup, after all sights like those on the battleship wasn't new to her. When Hiccup turn to her and told her she was going to do some stunts she looked at him worriedly and held on to the old king for dear. "I didn't want to reveal this now but I'm pregnant, so please be careful but do not be afraid on performing any stunts that can save us three." she spoke in a hush tone so only Hiccup can hear her.

By the time everyone was seeing the vermin in all of its grotesque glory waterspouts descended down and began to circle the area but weren't close to the vermin. "So this is the vermin huh? Second thought I'm going to take that demon jewel before that idiot does." she turned to Jason. "You try and convince him to either work with us or not leave with the jewel. Who knows, you might distract him long enough for me to take it before he can reach it." Elizabeth then flew off to find the mouth of the vermin.

Elizabeth soon found the mouth but found a swarm of tentacles were guarding it and the breath of the beast smelled smell like a cross between human vomit and rotten fruits, only mildly pleasant when compared to the scents of Inferno. "Sorry ugly but I'm not willing to be the main star in a hentai shot." she flew down and swiped her hand, creating a razor sharp slashes within a distortion of space itself. As more of the tentacles were sliced Elizabeth wonder if the vermin can even feel pain or if the damage she was doing too small for it to be noticed. The woman hated being this close to the vermin, Fauna's powers may be allowing her to use her powers but she can still feel the vermin's powers and in her new state she feels sick even being near it.

As she dodged and sliced through more tendrils she made a fast dash and even as she enters the mouth the tentacles still chase her inside until she reach their limits of how far they can go. "Bye bye. Maybe in the next life you guys can meet a nice Japanese school girl who might find you freaks attractive." she laughed out loud. Going deeper inside the vermin to find the one spot in it's body where the jewel is and steal it before the thief.

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Madagascar III

Tessy gulped when Crowe told her that they have to face themselves and that there is a chance this encounter will hurt them. "Is this method really the only way for them? Isn't there another way to help them..." Tessy said solemnly, worry about losing Elizabeth to this method or for Elizabeth to be devastated if Alice wasn't strong enough. "I want to believe that Elizabeth is strong to handle this trail but... I'm scare of losing her." Tessy confessed.

Tessy looked down as she grabbed her right arm. She will admit that some of the forms that Elizabeth turn into are ugly and horrific and she was surprised and scared when she saw them. But she still defended Elizabeth from the Moon Sisters and stay with her because she knows that inside it was still the same woman she loves. When Crowe began to talk about the bounties Tessy ignored it as it wasn't her main concern.

"As I see it I rather get some form of diplomatic immunity just so I can lower the chances of having to bother with those bounty hunters." Tandem replied, fixing one of the machines that he and Alice planned on making. Tandem was annoyed with Gabriel as well since the thief practically made their machine and the battles and incident they went through meaningless. Tandem was now making the machine now to blow off steam. Suddenly the ship lurched to one side and Tandem held on to the unfinished machine he was making as he slide down.

Tessy on the other hand was caught off guard and fell down and slide until the ship came down. The two of them saw the waves coming towards them, Tessy more terrified since she never seen waves before in her life.

[Kaidou]

Above the Chphlyggnian Ocean

Before Hiccup was able to react to the news of Veira's pregnancy, the gigantic leg beside him coiled horridly, throwing pillars of water into the air. The abomination that had surfaced was now writhing horridly, spewing out massive plumes of white smoke into the dark sky.

"That smoke must be what's weakening all the magic on this planet", said Hiccup, taking the hilt of his fiery sword and directing Toothless in a circle around the insect leg. "I see how we can stop this thing; it'll be difficult, though. Hang on tight."

That moment, Hiccup flew even higher into the sky, above Mera, above the leg, even. From just below the clouds, he looked down at the gigantic, slimy body to which the leg had been connected; folds of filthy skin under the leg suggested that it had been purposely pulled out of the water.

"From the looks of it, it'll open up its breather thingys to release more of that white smoke soon", said Hiccup. "We just have to aim for its insides."

Mera, despite being some distance away, got the message.

"Are you ready… um… miss?" he asked.

…

[Kaidou]

Ludwig

Ludwig chuckled, looking down at Bonnie, who seemed intent on following him.

"You're a bard, are you not?" he asked. "You should know, full well, how evil some beings can sink to. I doubt the one we're visiting today will have any intention of playing games with you."

The numbers on the doors transitioned from four digit numbers to three digit numbers as Ludwig and the teddy bear thing made their way closer to Nixa's tenebrous domain.

…

Dimension 14
Greater Japanese Galactic Empire
大日本天国

Kuma City
熊市

The doors of Kuma Castle were thrown open, and a man charged inside, falling flat on the ground and burying his face in the floorboards.

The audience consisted of a number of ministers, a few generals, two retainers and, of course, the daimyo himself; Miura Kibayoshi (三浦 牙善), one of the Seven Daimyo of the Japanese Galactic Empire. He was a short, scrawny man, described by some as a monkey, others as "that skinny bastard". In truth, he was anything but.

"What is it?"

The man raised his head, the rest of his body still prostrate.

"It would appear that the Jiang Dynasty has fallen."

The daimyo nearly flew out of his seat, but managed to maintain a stoic appearance. The other people in the room entered into rapid murmurings and hushed expressions of horror. The man who had brought the information remained prostrate.

"What of the three ships we sent there?"

"We lost contact with the Hideyoshi, my lord; we presume that it has been downed, as we have also received reports of Takada's death. The Ieyasu and the Nobunaga are still trapped in the Multiverse."

The daimyo turned to one of his retainers.

"This is ridiculous."

He turned back to the man.

"Leave us alone for a moment."

…

[Naval Monte]

Above the Chphlyggnian Ocean

Before Hiccup was able to react to the news of Veira's pregnancy, the gigantic leg beside him coiled horridly, throwing pillars of water into the air. The abomination that had surfaced was now writhing horridly, spewing out massive plumes of white smoke into the dark sky.

"That smoke must be what's weakening all the magic on this planet", said Hiccup, taking the hilt of his fiery sword and directing Toothless in a circle around the insect leg. "I see how we can stop this thing; it'll be difficult, though. Hang on tight."

That moment, Hiccup flew even higher into the sky, above Mera, above the leg, even. From just below the clouds, he looked down at the gigantic, slimy body to which the leg had been connected; folds of filthy skin under the leg suggested that it had been purposely pulled out of the water.

"From the looks of it, it'll open up its breather thingys to release more of that white smoke soon", said Hiccup. "We just have to aim for its insides."

Mera, despite being some distance away, got the message.

"Are you ready… um… miss?" he asked.

…

Expecting a reaction from Hiccup about her pregnancy so when the gigantic leg came out besides both her and Hiccup she was surprised but quickly looked neutral at it. When Hiccup theorized about the smoke being the source of the magic weakening properties of the world the woman thought and spoke. "You may be right. But right now we have no idea to be sure if that smoke is the source to this world's unusual properties." she replied back.

When Hiccup flew higher she held on to him since this was her first time riding a dragon and doesn't want her first experience to be her last. When Hiccup asked if she was ready Veira nodded her head yes, ready for him to go inside. Inside the beast Elizabeth was not cutting through everything she sees, only things that get in her way.