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

[Kaidou]

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.

This would be a fitting soundtrack

Without any hesitation, Hiccup patted Toothless briefly on the back, before diving down, towards the part of the beast that had surfaced. As more of the evil smelling smoke continued to billow out from its stomata (that was what they looked like), the hideous quivering of the abhorrent thing became less and less torturous. It was almost as if it was relieving itself through the vapour. The moment the first whiff of the smoke reached the three, Toothless whined and closed his eyes, Hiccup making a gesture which suggested that he felt the same.

"Just one hit, bud", he consoled.

5… 4… 3… 2… 1…

Before anybody else could say anything, a blinding flash of blue plasma illuminated the entire night sky, sending blue rings of light emanating through the sky. A massive explosion burst forth from the body of Ogklrygma, and the black figure of the elegant Night Fury regained altitude, cutting through the air and heading backwards. A furiously deafening, baritone roar boomed through the entire ocean, as the exposed surface of the monster, receded back into the ocean. A massive chunk of it had been blasted away, allowing sickly red blood to diffuse into the ocean under the cover of night. The smell of cauterised amphibian flesh permeated the air.

"So the smoke is flammable, eh?" remarked Hiccup, wiping his eyes as he steadied Toothless in the air, drawing his fiery sword and whirling it about with his left hand, keeping his right hand free. "We should probably… um… watch out. It's more than likely that it'll come back up. It didn't seem like the blast went all the way through to… you know…"

It was just then that another leg thrust itself through the water, shooting straight into the sky. Before Hiccup could react, a burst of pure white fire sprayed on the leg, as the glimmering, golden figure of Mera soared through the air and landed almost gracefully on the side of the leg. As the beast attempted to flick her off its leg, the dragon continued to spray relentless amounts of fire on the leg, searing through the armour and charring the flesh. Eventually, though, she was forced to jump off.

"There's something coating the Vermin", she panted exasperatedly.

"Then we will just have to take it out the old way, then."

"We're not here to take it out. We're here to find Gabriel."

Hiccup looked down at the thing.

"If he's in that thing by now…"

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Madagascar III

Just as Henry and Master Lam both seized the wheel of the ship, yet another massive wave rocked the bottom, sending the vessel lurching upwards, then downwards, then to the side. Through the spotlights of the ship, a faint white outline could be seen below the surface of the water; in a split second, the body of the Majestic Vermin penetrated the surface of the water, throwing the ship to one side violently.

"Master Lam", bawled Henry, storming off, "I need you to hold on to the wheel."

"What does it look like I'm doing???" replied Master Lam.

Henry chuckled, running below deck. A brief moment later, he charged back out, brandishing a machine pistol in one hand, an AK47-ish rifle in the other, and a very large plastic bag filled with ammunition hanging from one of his forearms.

"Bring it on, you slimy bitch!" he roared, climbing onto the railing of the ship and discharging a relentless hail of bullets at the body of the thing. "In the name of my motor- wife and kids! You ain't gonna win!"

…

The sudden lurch of the ship caused Steiner to fall off his stool, landing on his butt on the ground.

"Oof", he said stoically and incongruously. Facing Alice, Steiner gestured to the unconscious elf lying on the bed.

"Make sure he's safe."

…

[Naval Monte]

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Veira was glad to be holding on to Hiccup when he made the dragon fly down to the vermin. The woman fought back her gags from the foul odor coming from the smoke that it billowed out. Veira was grateful for her mental endurance for becoming stronger for years of dealing against demons and creatures from beyond, she knew that if it wasn't for that than she would have quiver in fear over the presence of the vermin.

Just as the two were making signs that they disliked the smell Veria joined in. Veira closed her eyes once the blue plasma illuminated the night sky and only opened them again once Toothless began to regain altitude. "So I take it that you have the most powerful dragon breed from your world?" she asked seeing the damage that Toothless inflicted on the vermin. When Hiccup said about the smoke being flammable Veira thought about it and concluded that the smell of the vapors probably came from flammable chemicals inside it.

"Why can use this information to our advantage but I suggest you be careful as well, we may accidentally harm ourselves if the next explosion proves to be too powerful for us to control." she warned. As Hiccup began to warn Veira about it still being alive his words came true as the leg breached out of the surface and aimed at them. Veira knew that her telekinetic powers wouldn't work as the leg has too much mass for her to work with, but the timely intervention of Mera put away any mental apologizes to Crowe on not returning back alive.

Soon they talked about finding Gabriel and Veira closed her eyes to focus on finding Elizabeth with her telepathy, for a while she didn't say anything. "Elizabeth is also inside and she thinks she is inside one of it's stomachs. She also told me that Gabriel is inside the vermin as well and is attacking it from the inside. I told her to do the same." Veira explained. "Apparently Jason was told to come along to convince the thief to come back as well but she has her doubts on the boy being able to do that.... She is now telling me that she is encounter the antibodies of the vermin." Veira explained more as she still kept the telepathic channel between her and Elizabeth.
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Alice didn't seem to listen to Steiner but as an invisible force field surrounded Tenzou's body it became clear that she did. The young woman soon closed her eyes and she was out of her trance like state. Looking confused for a while it took her a while to remember everything that had happened in her trance state, Alice wondered why she went in that state in the first place.

With Tenzou now in a force field she made a copy of her form, leaving it down with Tenzou as she ran out of the room and into the deck. Outside she saw Tandem still holding on to the machine that they both brought, the Moon Sisters helping Tessy and each other as the boat rocked from wave after wave. "Tandem, what is going on?" she asked. The man told her everything that is going on from Gabriel leaving to the vermin now acting out.

She heard Henry firing his bullets at it. Alice teleported and appeared next to Henry, she summon several electrified spears and fired them at the spot where the vermin was. The spears not only hit the vermin but electrocuted both it and the surrounding waters. "You don't mind having some help right? If Steiner asks why I'm up here tell him I'm also down stairs with Tenzou."

[Kaidou]

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Shinigami Eyes
Leung Nam-kuan VS Omo Majar Senga Duma
死神の眼
梁先生 VS オーモ　マジャ　センガ　ヅーマ
Part I

Dimension 1,105
The Japanese Restaurant

梁南光
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"Omo Majar Senga Duma."

The three eyed bounty hunter stood just outside the Japanese restaurant, two keris in his hands. With an artful whirl of his body, the bounty hunter pointed both his weapons at Leung, as the Grandmaster stood facing him. Hayashi threw the curtains of the restaurant open and poised himself, ready to clash with Omo Majar, but Leung beckoned to him to get back, before facing Omo Majar straight in the eyes (his normal ones).

"You should know better than to try and interfere in these things", said Leung, twitching one of his cheeks voluntarily.

"I know exactly what I want", said Omo Majar, "and I am not afraid to execute my plan exactly as I want it."

"No doubt, the Toto Army has been on the move, hasn't it? It was one of the armies that contributed to the downfall of the Jiang Dynasty, was it not?"

Omo Majar stroked his own face, gently fondling the horrible scar on his forehead.

"Yes", he said.

Without warning, the bounty hunter lunged forward and thrust both his keris at Leung, who deftly stepped aside and landed a heavy punch on Omo Majar's forearm. The muscle was rock solid, however, and though Omo Majar reeled to the side, the recoil also forced Leung back a few paces. Without warning, a keris flew through the air so quickly that it almost seemed like it was leaving trails of blue flame. Leung was barely able to lightly deflect it with his forearm, causing it to fly in the other direction, past Omo Majar, and into a wall, where it buried itself with a fearsome, ringing echo. With the remaining keris, Omo Majar slashed at Leung numerous times at an almost superhuman speed, the latter dodging with some amount of effort.

Before long, Leung ducked unexpectedly, sweeping his leg across the ground and knocking Omo Majar off his feet. The bounty hunter corrected himself in midair and pushed himself off the ground with his palm, sending himself flying upwards. He corrected himself, before allowing himself to plummet back towards the ground, kicking furiously at Leung, who responded with an equally aggressive chain punch. A split second later, Omo Majar threw himself aside, rolling across the floor and leaping back onto his feet, facing Leung dead on.

"We've tested the water enough already, haven't we? Leung?..."

...

[Naval Monte]

Ranch 2345
(OOC: Track for the fight below

Wu and his soldiers have taken an elevator that lead down to a new level. This next level was much darker, with the only sources of illumination being both alarm lights tinging the monochromatic room red and the ceiling lights that were both weak and blink occasionally. As they walked deeper they found bodies for the first time since they enter the facility. Many of the bodies looked as though they have been rotting for days on end yet their clothing still look new.

"What the hell happened here." one of the soldiers asked as she investigated one of the bodies. Soon Wu's sense warn him that he and the others were not alone and several crystals shot out from the floor, ceiling and walls. The crystals were blue, purple, black, white, red and green, each one release a slight glow to them. From the floor a figure emerged from the cracks. The being can be describe as a long robed being wearing a large wizard hat. The being was mostly grey in color and it's face was covered by a cloth hiding the bottom portions while a grey leather hood, it's eyes covered by goggles and Wu believe that it was wearing a beak mask since he can see a beak shaped bump on the cloth. The entity was holding a crystal ball on it's hand.

The soldier screamed out as the body she was investigating groan and began to move along with the others. The being moaned and it rubbed its orb and more orbs appeared. They were purple and they had a glow around them with large crystal spikes growing as they went to Wu and the soldiers. Wu ordered the soldiers to open fire and most targeted the zombies which thankfully were easy to kill. The orbs were much more difficult as they required a hail of bullets to shatter them, one orb was about to stab a soldier and the crystals immediately began to fuse into his body until he was a crystal statue.

The new statute began to move and grabbed a Chinese soldier and lift him up, his body slowly changing into the same crystals as well. "Wu what is that thing?" one of the soldiers asked the old general. Wu has no idea what the being is but he can sense a great and terrible power from it. He knows that they can't win against it and all should flee from it. "We need to retreat now! We can't win against this thing!" Wu shouted. The robbed being fired off several pale blue projectiles that killed a few Chinese and Wu's soldiers. A few soldiers were caught by the zombies who not only held them down but took one soldier to the being. The being began to change the unfortunate soldier into a crystal humanoid.

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Golgorthric

The world of Golgorthric was a dying world. Most of the great civilizations have all perished due to a series of environmental and supernatural disasters along with wars and civil unrest. Now in this land of beautiful decay the last refuges of the native inhabitants either walk around seeking for death as a curse makes them undead or try to survive in a dying wasteland.

The knights of St. Luminia have traveled to this world in order to seek every single scrolls, manuscripts and artifacts of this world before it dies, to make sure that the secrets of this world don’t go with it. Like in Numenera the knights found yet another one of the mysterious watchtowers. Leviathan, like the other high ranking knights, knows of the truth behind her faith and she took it surprisingly well than most.

For her she doesn’t quite care if her faith was true or not, for Leviathan she appreciates the power of community and unity her faith brings to her people. The knights have all notice the massive waves of arcane energy released by the watchtowers and have went into worlds that had them. Right now there is still no official leader yet. Behemoth hasn’t been seen after the news of Sol’s death, Ziz was still recovering from the lost of her husband and Levi herself was still recovering from her fight against Alzis, her left eye now lost due to her encounter against the god.

The knights were aware that the grand masters have lost their position since their home base was conquered by the Iuzun, which is another reason why the knights are in Golgorthric. To find the arcane secrets of this world and of the watchtowers to use them as weapons against Iuzun and Nixa as they consider him an equal evil that must be stopped at all costs.

[Kaidou]

The Ranch

"Bloody zombies."

With a grunt, Colonel Feng drew his sabre and whirled around, lopping the head off one of the zombies. He was, however, grabbed from behind by another, and though he was able to lop off the hand that seized his, the thing kicked the sabre out of his hand without so much as a flinch, coiling its maimed arm around the colonel's neck in a deadlock.

"Save me!" he screamed at one of his men. Zhangqiu took out his own sword and attempted to hack at the zombie, but was hit by a stray bullet. He screamed in pain as a burst of blood showered out of his side, before collapsing on the floor.

"You useless fools!" screamed Colonel Feng, desperately kicking at the zombie which held him; it was no use. Slowly, blue crystals began to grow up the side of Feng's ridiculously reflective boots.

"Wu! Jensen Wu! Don't just stand there! Save me! You faggot!"

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Dimension 4,047,212
Yudja
Islands of the Oracle

The planet Yudja, the only inhabitable planet in the whole of the massive Dimension 4,047,212 (which was sixteen times the side of Dimension 29, already a massive dimension compared to the majority of others), was covered completely in water. Save, of course, for a small cluster of stony islands at the northernmost tip of the Mars-sized planet. Stony islands that were held up by a powerful Deep Magic.

It was a Deep Magic that sealed the planet off from all beings of darkness. A protective shield of light that surrounded the entire system that the planet was found in.

On the Islands resided an old man. He had no powers of any sort, but was gifted in a different way; in wisdom, in knowledge, and in discernment. The name of the man was completely unknown, and as such, the select few who knew of his existence dubbed him the Oracle.

It was that day, one of the countless days in the Oracle's billions of years of life, that Sir Galma, one of the three Mythic Knights of the declining Order of St Luminia, decided to visit him. Or rather, was compelled to visit by forces invisible.

He arrived on his own, appearing in the ocean upon exiting the portal. With a powerful kick, the Knight propelled himself out of the water and shed his armour, leaving it behind; now, he was clad merely in his maroon robes. Armour was not needed when speaking to the Oracle.

With no hesitation, Behemoth used his telekinesis to stand on the water, before silently walking towards the North, towards the Oracle.

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"You seek aid in combating the forces of darkness?"

Behemoth nodded reverently.

The old man sitting in front of him clearly didn't look like the billions of years that he really was; and yet, there was something about his sunken, cataract-clouded eyes that betrayed the vast troves of wisdom within the man.

"There will come a time… when a darkness will appear that will consume all other darknesses… and lights too… It is not a darkness. It is a nothingness."

The expression plastered across Behemoth's face betrayed some amount of shock.

"What else?"

"The Deep Magic that protects this place will soon wear off", said the Oracle. "Before that happens, the Ten Grandmasters must appoint their next successor. For I have also seen something else…

"Master Leung Nam-kuan will die at the hands of a three-eyed man."

"A three eyed man???" Behemoth exclaimed.

"But not before he raises a successor", added the Oracle, breathing in deeply.

Behemoth looked away briefly, before turning back to face the old man. "A successor?"

"That is all that was revealed to me by the Spirit of the Hyena", said the Oracle. "What must happen is this; Master Leung must bring his successor to these islands. It is here that his successor will be raised."

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[Kaidou]

Birth of a Death God

Omo Majar Senga Duma was born 442 human years ago (about 94 in Dark-Fairy terms), on the planet of Kyaing Hlaing, in the Zaran System, Galaxy 44, Dimension 29. Both his parents were warlords; his father, Arashin Senga Duma, was the commander of the 20 million strong Toto Army, a mercenary force that operated within the Zaran System, and his mother, Saa Roaakk, was an assassin who aspired to make it to the Black List, then topped by the legendary General Grievous, who had a kill count of 52,016.

Omo Majar's birth spawned a massive argument among the upper echelons of the Toto Army and the government of Kyaing Hlaing (which was heavily influenced by the Senga Duma Family), and for a myriad of reasons. There was a dispute over whether Omo Majar's name should be in Alfa-Japanese, a curious descendant of Japanese and the indigenous Alveranian language, or in Thrajkaran, the indigenous language of Kyaing Hlaing. It was eventually decided that half his name be in Alfa-Japanese, and the second part in Thrajkaran. As such, the Alfa-Japanese word "Omaon" and the Thrajkaran word "Myyara" were bastardised and merged into a single, quadruple name.

The more important issue, however, was the succession of the Toto Army; While everybody else believed that Omo Majar should succeed his father, Arashin Senga Duma himself believed that his son should earn the title of Commander of the Toto Army. Omo Majar responded by beheading his father in the middle of the night and parading the disembowelled corpse all over Kyaing Hlaing. Impressed by his decisive resolve, the clansmen of Kyaing Hlaing submitted themselves to Omo Majar. He was only 12 at the time.

Eventually, Omo Majar began to push out of his own solar system, heading into (and conquering) different systems and, when he was 100 human years old, into an entirely new galaxy. With the entirety of Galaxy 44 behind him, Omo Majar was confident of his own abilities; however, the moment he stepped into Galaxy 43, held as a colony by the Japanese Dimensional Empire, his entire Toto Army was decimated by the forces of Fleet Admiral Kitaharada Jūrō (北原田 十郎); 300,000,000 soldiers was reduced to just 12.

With a humiliating retreat, Omo Majar fled from Galaxy 43, but not before taking a hostage; an embassy secretary named Ludan Oogath. Slowly, as they made the arduous intergalactic journey to a hiding spot, pursued by the Japanese Fleet and what seemed like IGSE agents, Omo Majar's 12 fanatic followers were reduced to 9, then 8, then 4, and then to just himself. Himself and Oogath.

Over time, the emotional and bitter Omo Majar Senga Duma found it too much of a hassle to look out for Oogath and, blinded by emotion, cut her bonds, on condition that she not run away. She instantly took out one of Omo Majar's pistols, pointing it at his forehead and preparing to shoot him. Yet, for some reason, she could not pull the trigger. She could not allow herself to descend to the level of a murderer like the man who stood before her. With relentless tears streaming down her face, she dropped the pistol on the floor and dropped to her knees, preparing herself for whatever punishment was headed her way.

To her surprise, Omo Majar did nothing.

As the months of being on the run together went by, the relationship between Oogath became more and more of a reluctant romance rather than a prisoner-captor bond. Though Omo Majar denied it furiously then, he knew deep down what that feeling truly was.

He didn't experience anymore of it.

In a swift move, the warship of Kitaharada Jūrō caught up with Omo Majar's ship. Except that it wasn't the warship of the Japanese Fleet Admiral; it was a battleship of St Luminia. With no mercy, the soldiers of the Order stormed Omo Majar's ship, slaughtering Oogath and taking a furiously bitter Omo Majar captive.

For 52 years, Omo Majar, already known as a dangerous fugitive for his actions in Galaxy 44, remained under the custody of the Behemoth Army in Galaxy 44. For 52 years, he could not take his mind off the horrific death of the woman, the woman whom he had felt a strange attraction to. In those 52 years, he had said to himself countless times that he would learn the identity of the knight known as Behemoth, and that he would hunt him down and slaughter him.

His tides turned when a Shinigami visited him.

The Shinigami, whose name was never revealed, offered Omo Majar Senga Duma an irresistible deal; by trading off half of his remaining lifespan, the recipient of the Shinigami Eyes would know the name of any person he encountered. After all, Omo Majar's existence was already pitiful and meaningless without Oogath; why would it matter if half of what remaining was taken?

But Omo Majar Senga Duma had other plans. In a stunning display of agility, he wrestled the Shinigami to the ground, forcing it to grant him whatever power he desired. The Shinigami, impressed with Omo Majar's feat, acquiesced.

There, in the prison room, with nothing but a sewing kit and a fruit knife, Omo Majar cut open his own forehead and took one of the Shinigami's eyes; with terrifying precision, he transplanted a Shinigami Eye into his own forehead.

That was not all he took.

That much was evident, for he was able to destroy the entire prison facility and open a portal to who knew where.

And from then on, Omo Majar Senga Duma wandered the Multiverse, rebuilding his Toto Army, increasing his skills and carrying out mass assassinations, with the ultimate aim of destroying the Knights of St. Luminia.

[Contamenesia]

Gabriel

Gabriel tossed a grenade from his pocket into the the stomach digestive juices of the beast as he left the fourth stomach and entered the fifth. The grenade detonated, and while it did little harm to the beast at all, it would present and create even more difficulty for Elizabeth whom was following him, (he of course did not know this, but this action simply felt right) the grenade was a distortion grenade that was in experimental prototyping. It was designed to temporarily distort reality within a small radius, It's effects varied, and was usually only lethal if one was caught in the middle of it, and while the Serpent may feel discomfort, it would not truly harm it. As Gabriel entered the fifth stomach, he felt that he was in the right place, and pulled a rather long metal rod out from one of his pockets, and quickly he jabbed it into the stomach juices of the Serpent, it just felt....right. it wasn't long before the rod struck the jewel and shot it out of the intestinal juices, and while it was in the air, Gabriel pulled out the case that he had stolen from Alzis' just a week ago and sealed the Jewel inside, without touching it. he then locked the casing, which sealed itself both physically and magically. and when he turned around, his job complete, he jumped in surprise, as right before him, standing on a floating pile of debris, was Jason.

Jason

It took no more than a second for Gabriel to regain his composure, "A bit of a strange place to meet, yeah? in the bowels of an impossibly huge, weird ass monster? You that desperate?" Gabriel asked with a chuckle. Jason remained eerily Calm. "i don't think you understand the consequences of what you are about to do...." Jason said in a calm tone.
Gabriel smirked, "It's just a gem in the middle of monster's belly. And its mine. The world isn't going to explode if i take this." Jason drew his sword. "You idiot! that Jewel might not destroy this world, but the BEAST of whom's belly you are in surely will! It's movements alone are enough to cause major catastrophic global Earth Shakes." That seemed to get his intention. Gabriel frowned, "Well...i haven't killed the thing. it's not like i needed to..." Jason rolled his eyes. "So? what if the beast goes on a rampage?" Gabriel shrugged, "Not my problem. Catastrophe happens everywhere, hell i even went through the Zombie Apocalypse, you can't expect me to stop forces beyond my control, now can you? Granted i did single handedly end the zombie apocalypse...." Jason had no idea what this 'Zombie Apocalypse' was, but that was besides the point. "Nothing is beyond one's control, and if you kill this serpent or Take off with that Jewel, you will be dooming countless innocents to die an undeserved death."

Gabriel scoffed, "Fine, i can see how killing the serpent may end badly, but i had no need to do that. But i still don't see why i shouldn't just take this Jewel and walk away, i see no harm occurring from it. After all, This jewel is not linked to anyone's life source. i can tell it isn't. I don't see any reason i shouldn't open a portal and head off to my next adventure, taking this Jewel along with me...." Jason remained silent, as Gabriel had stumped him, he wasn't sure how to respond.

[Naval Monte]

Elizabeth

More Antibodies were destroyed as Elizabeth created more distortions that allowed her to cut into space itself. Many slashes appeared and the antibody cells never stood a chance against the spatial magic. She feel that she was gaining on him, a predatory smile appeared on Elizabeth's face. When the grenade was thrown Elizabeth flew away from it and just as it explode she was away not to be caught in the middle of the blast but she can see reality being distorted around her.

Elizabeth would normally feel fear or even disorientation from being caught in a sudden reality shift like this but in her new state the reality shifts feel almost natural to her, almost like home. Elizabeth began to apply her own quintessence and target the existential patterns that were being changed and shifted around to create the distortions, fixing the mess that Gabriel. By the time she was done and flew after him she found that she was too late to stop him from taking the jewel.

She saw from the air Jason and Gabriel talking with each other. Once it was clear that the thief manage to stump Jason the former witch's eyes narrow down at the two and flew down. Once her feet landed on the stomach the juices began to freeze beneath her feet. However it wasn't ice that was freezing them, if anything the juices just stopped moving and become solid almost on their own free will.

"You do realize that if you leave and cause this beast to go on a rampage than not only would you be letting every single innocent life on this world perish but that horn lass that you like will also die as well." Elizabeth said to the thief as she began to clean her talons, looking bored.

"Also that jewel as an important mission that goes beyond your petty little adventures. For starters we have a demon plague that needs to be attend to and one that I'm really itching on dealing with. But that jewel is also important for my group because we need it and another item to act as a buffer against a greater force than the demons. One that not even your luck can't protect you from thief." she told the man now looking at him as she began to hover above the frozen juices.

"Before you mention how the demon horde don't mean much to you, me or Jason I will admit that the horde is less of a threat to us, but the normal people who you easily disagreed they will have a difficult time dealing with them. That jewel will save many of their lives and you may not care about their lives but there are a few of those so call normal that I personally care for and whose lives and well being I will protect to the bitter end.".

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The Ranch

Wu didn't do anything to save Feng instead he seem to just be muttering some chant while having his palm facing Feng. Yet soon the crystals soon lose their energy and they shattered easily but Feng as a result lost some of his energy as well thanks to a power draining curse cast by Wu. "Call me a faggot again I may not help you next time." he threaten. Wu knew that there are some insults he deserves but being called that was not one of them.

One of Wu's soldiers shot the zombie in the head but they were soon hit by a spiky crystal orb that slowly turned them into a crystal statue under the wizard-like beings control. The Zombies soon had crystals growing on their bodies but still kept on moving, if anything the crystals made them move even faster. "Let's go now!" Wu and his soldiers along with the rest fled from the being with more being killed by either the magic shots or be the zombies.

They ran even deeper into the facility and along the way two more soldiers were taken by the decaying man that was in the upper level as he ran through the walls, leaving a trail of rust and decay behind. Eventually the found yet another elevator for them to use to go down but found more people, this time it appear as though their bodies were being controlled by mechanical creatures that resembled prophesies.

"What in the name of the Holy Buddha was Alzis doing in this ranch over at the hills." Wu heard one of his soldiers say as they saw the cyborgs working towards them. The soldiers fired at them, slowing down the cyborgs as they moved around them. Two soldiers were caught and immediately the cybernetics within the corpses began to infect the captured soldiers. Soon Wu and the others were in the elevator and before the cyborgs can get them the doors closed and they began to move down.

[Contamenesia]

Gabriel

Gabriel chuckled not even the least bit intimidated by Elizabeth. "Well i am not the bad guy here. And Luck has nothing to do with any of my abilities. Luck is probability, and if you have heard of my abilities, then you'll know that Probability does not apply to me or what i do. nothing i do involves chance, yet by chance its as if it completely does." he sighed, "As you can see i'm not much on the whole "philosophy" nonsense. The Greater Good is Bullshit. The Future is unknowable, risk or not, one cannot be afraid of it. Life isn't something you think through....its best to just let things happen. The Universe is a much nicer place when you do. However, if you are so convinced that this is creature is such a threat, then i offer only this: Meet me up on the surface in two minutes, and if you do, we'll talk. But if you aren't there, then, well neither will i be." With that in blur of an eye, he pulled out his automatic shotgun and fired a hole into the side of the Serpent, causing water to rush in, Gabriel swam outside and floated up to the surface, almost coincidentally right next to the boat he had parked earlier, as if he had planned the whole thing, though he didn't. Once on the boat, he waited, but had a strong feeling it really wouldn't take them all that long... He could see two dragons in the sky, one which had two riders upon its back.

Saya

Saya frowned. "I couldn't possibly answer your question if i tried, i simply don't know. Now i don't really care what Magic mumbo-jumbo you claim to use, but if you try to cause any trouble here, i won't hesitate to put you in the dirt where you belong, do you understand?" she said in her naturally intimidating tone. She gave all strangers that came to her house the same warning, friendly or not. She would not let any harm come to those she cared for.

[Naval Monte]

Elizabeth

Elizabeth listen to what he said and she snorted when he mentioned on letting things happen. "Yeah I can give you some good examples why just letting things happen is never a good idea." she replied back, thinking much from her past experiences on why some of Gabriel's words won't work well for her. "As for me I'm not joining the demon hunting because of some greater good. All I want is revenge for everything they did to me and my kind and for the force greater than them? Nothing more but survival mate."

When the thief told her and Jason to meet him in the surface in two minutes she ponder on how he was sure he can even reach there himself to make that sort of demands when the man made a hole on the creature and made the water from the sea rush forward. Elizabeth was taken by surprise and was hit but she quickly teleported out of the creature. Elizabeth appeared somewhere in the water and swam up, eventually breaking through the surface.

Elizabeth appeared close to one of her water spouts and while she was being pulled to it she wasn't worried. Once she was dragging inside of it she span around it and until finally she flew out. From the air she can see the two dragons above her and the thief below. Elizabeth flew down and was soon floating above him. "I'm here so let's have this little chat of ours." she crossed her arms in front of her chest as she spoke.

From her point in Toothless Veira can see both Gabriel and Elizabeth. "Great neither Jason or Elizabeth got the jewel. We need to stop him before he leaves with it." she told the viking.

---

Alexandra

Alexandra put her hands forward and looked threaten. "I won't miss honestly. My only intentions so far is to find my daughter and maybe get a nice meal before I leave, that's all." She knew that she can easily beat Saya if she became a threat to her but Alex didn't came here to cause trouble. Alexandra put down her hands. "Can you tell me how Elizabeth is like? I haven't seen her for a long time and I want to know if she is doing alright." she said in tone that made it clear that she was worry about her daughter's well being. Alexandra knew that life most certainly was rough for Elizabeth after her death and she wanted to be there to help her daughter in anyway she can.

[Contamenesia]

Saya

Saya went to the Kitchen, grabbed a few cups and began to pour tea. She then handed a cup to the strange woman, before having a seat at the table. "Hmm....i don't honestly know her all too well, but she seems like a good person, but definitely a bit....odd. And Pale, almost sickly so...dark rings around her eyes, and she says the weirdest things. She and that Fire throwing idiot, as good hearted as he may be, are an interesting pair to say the least...."

[Naval Monte]

Saya

Saya went to the Kitchen, grabbed a few cups and began to pour tea. She then handed a cup to the strange woman, before having a seat at the table. "Hmm....i don't honestly know her all too well, but she seems like a good person, but definitely a bit....odd. And Pale, almost sickly so...dark rings around her eyes, and she says the weirdest things. She and that Fire throwing idiot, as good hearted as he may be, are an interesting pair to say the least...."

Alex grabbed the cup of tea and took her seat at the table. She smelled the tea and took a small sip, savoring the taste before swallowing it. Being a ghost trapped in the shadowlands meant that she couldn't experience some things she had in life which include tasting different foods and drinks, to her this tea was the soma of the gods after not being able to drink anything for so long.

When Saya gave her a brief description of how Elizabeth was like she frown. "I know that pale skin runs in the family but none of us are like that... as for the dark rings I was afraid of this." she look down at her cup, seeing her reflection from the tea in the cup. "This is going to sound crazy miss but the reason me and Elizabeth haven't seen each other for so long is because she saw me die in front of her." Alexandra sighed and soon told her about how she and her husband, a police detective at the time, met each other when investigating a cult who had global reach and how during their adventure on figuring out and weakening the cult they found out about the Archons and Daevas who the latter was using the cult as a puppet for their own gains.

She told Saya about how she raised Elizabeth alone after her father died and about the ritual she and her husband did just before Elizabeth was born, how they thought their copy of the ritual was a fake and they did it simply to spice things up in the bedroom. She told her how both her husband suspect that the Archons and Daevas were behind many conspiracies and how she suspect that her husband's death may have been a plot by one of the two powers and how she died and believe that the monster who killed her was an agent hired and summon by them.

She than told Saya how she appeared in Inferno and manage to escape to the shadowlands, the in between grey dimensions that existed in her world and other realities. How in those worlds she discovered the truth about how mankind were once gods whose powers and sense were sealed away and were force to be prisoners in a illusionary world. Just to prove to Saya that her story was rule she turn into a being of light before the woman for a few minutes before changing back.

"I know it's an insane story Saya but what I told you is the truth. If I know my daughter she probably found out about the world as well. As you can see the illusion that held my people is now gone since my divinity has return. You mention that she said weird things and was a bit odd? How so and what did she say? I think some of those weird things I can help out with."

[Kaidou]

Ogklrygma's back

With a graceful twirl in the air (more practical than anything, to prevent Veira from falling off), Toothless landed on the back of the beast, next to Jason and Elizabeth. Mera, on the other hand, kept her distance.

"What's been going on?"

…

---
Shinigami Eyes
Leung Nam-kuan VS Omo Majar Senga Duma
死神の眼
梁先生 VS オーモ　マジャ　センガ　ヅーマ
Part II

As both men stood facing each other outside the restaurant, Omo Majar's third eye on his forehead began to twitch. The bounty hunter gritted his teeth, apparently trying to tolerate a horrible pain, presumably in his third eye, but otherwise maintaining his stance. Master Leung, on the other hand, kept a steely, emotionless expression, matching his motionless position.

"What do you want, anyway?"

Omo Majar sneered.

"I'm a free spirit", he said. "I am hunting down a certain man by the name of Galma. You have met him before; you will tell me where he is."

"I most certainly will not."

The bounty hunter roared and whirled around like a blur, his keris glinting in the light of the Hotel's luminescent lamps, charging straight for Leung, who dived straight in and deflected Omo Majar's weapon hand, sending it upwards. Omo Majar attempted to kick Leung's shin, but the Grandmaster used his other leg and locked it around the former's knee, causing both to fall to the ground.

Both combatants recovered with ease, though Omo Majar's more muscular and lithe figure allowed him to jump backwards and land in his original position. Leung executed a backflip and landed a few steps backwards, both his fists outstretched. With a furious spit, Omo Majar charged back towards Leung, who ducked deftly, sweeping both his feet across the floor in rapid succession and throwing Omo MAjar off balance by striking his left ankle. The bounty hunter countered by striking Leung's collarbone the moment he touched the ground, causing his larger opponent to flip over and land on his back.

Leung was able to jump back onto his feet, barely executing a dodge against one of Omo Majar's keris thrusts. He seized Omo Majar's arm, striking the muscle and causing Omo Majar to drop the keris with a scream, as an electrifying shock seared through his arm. With a cry of rage, Omo Majar twisted his torso backwards, striking Leung again. The Grandmaster reeled backwards, before leaping and launching himself towards Omo Majar again.

The bounty hunter was barely able to block a forceful kick from reaching his face. The kick was charged, however; Leung's leg was on fire. The moment the leg made contact with Omo Majar Senga Duma's crossed arms, the bounty hunter coated his forearms with haki, causing a gigantic burst of electricity and fire to crackle throughout the vicinity.

[Kaidou]

The Hotel
Door to Dimension 666

"Here is the place."

Ludwig stood before the door, both his hands in his pockets, his head bowed and his eyes shadowed. Beside him stood Bonnie, the little teddy bear bard, whom he had not known personally till just recently. A single tear dribbled down the side of his grizzled face as the spirit silently stood before the door, pondering and contemplating.

Maju was insane and megalomaniacal, that he knew. But Nixa… Nixa was completely different. Maju was crazy and bloodthirsty; Nixa was pure evil, pure darkness. The door of Dimension 666 itself, rotting and hideous, was testament to that. But what he had decided to do needed to be done. There was no doubt about it; the gambit had to be played out. Counting on the Ahmarhan was useless.

"Alright", he said quietly to the teddy bear beside him. "From here on, I must go in alone. You may watch if you wish, but please do not interfere. This is my responsibility."

With a grunt, Ludwig shoved the door open, allowing a gust of wicked black smoke to blow across the threshold of the door, into the corridor of the Hotel. He stepped across without so much as a flinch, before shutting the door behind him.

The entire dimension was dark, despite the gigantic fires that raged below. From the door, a long bridge of greenish obsidian and pumice led to a single monolith that jutted out from the fires. Pulling his coat over his shoulders, Ludwig slowly walked across the bridge, towards the monolith, leaping over at the last part and landing on his feet on the massive rock form.

On the monolith was a gigantic black throne made of ashes and ribs. All around it, pale candles that emanated a cruel green light were positioned, such that the throne itself was inaccessible except by flying or leaping across.

On the throne itself sat the black, armoured, masked figure of Nixa.

"What do you want", asked the figure. "Ludwig the Phoenix."

"What have you done to Father Christmas?"

Nixa chuckled.

"I didn't do anything", he said. "He simply accepted my dark spirit into himself; in other words, he is a traitor. Why would you want to save the soul of a traitor?"

"Because it is my responsibility", said Ludwig. "It is my responsibility, as the one who appointed him to the Council of the Tenshi."

Nixa roared in hideous, devilish laughter. With a grunt, he leapt off his chair and landed on the ground, just in front of Ludwig, whom he towered almost 150cm over. He reached for his mask and pulled it off, casting it to one side and revealing his face, that face which was both fair and corrupted at the same time. As Ludwig looked up defiantly at the young, yellow eyed face above him, Nixa chuckled wickedly, his voice no longer distorted by the demonic mask that obscured his face before.



"What exactly is your proposition?" he asked, his voice not entirely unpleasant. In fact, it was a voice that was almost hypnotic.

"I want you to restore Father Christmas' spirit in full", said Ludwig. "At this moment, he is naught but a wandering wraith, devoid of any power whatsoever, held together solely by the power of the Bards and what remains of his will, weak as it may be now. You will restore him to his former self, and free him of your dark grasp."

"And what shall I have in return, Ludwig?"

Ludwig smiled solemnly and forlornly, looking at Nixa dead in the eye, his head raised pugnaciously.

"You may have me", he said.

Nixa's face twisted to an expression of confusion and mockery.

"You???" he said.

Ludwig nodded.

"This deal is too good to be true", he said, smiling viciously. At the same time, two devilish, ghostly faces appeared beside Nixa's young countenance. On the left was Maju the Sorcerer, his ghostly expression contorted into one that suggested fiery, intolerable agony. On the right was Sargon Phlagosteuris, former Grand Commander of the IGSE and former wielder of the Yami Yami no Mi, his face a twisted, sick grin of sadism, partly obscured by his faint, white dreadlocks.

As Ludwig silently stood before Nixa, the latter bent over, his face almost touching Ludwig's.

"It's a deal", he said, licking his lips. "Seven days from now, at this very spot. I shall bring the body of Father Christmas, and I shall restore it to its former glory. You will bring the spirit of Father Christmas, which I will return the body to. In exchange... I shall take your life."

Ludwig nodded solemnly. "Done."

Nixa chuckled, before taking the mask and placing it back over his face.

"Begone, now!"

Ludwig turned around and walked back out of the Dimension, across the bridge, and towards the door. With some hesitation, the Spirit pushed the door open, facing Bonnie with a weak smile on his face.

"Let's go", he said. "There's nobody in there worth playing with."

...

[Naval Monte]

Logan

The sycamore and it's many copies were floating around a Watch tower in a dimension that the IGSE recently discovered. Logan knew that for whatever reason the Watchtower had significance to the sycamore so he and his army took out every single IGSE personnel in the dimension. The grey sand and bedrock moved whatever direction the wind was blowing and dust devils can bee seen forming.

"Now let's see why you are so important to this ship." Logan began to mentally input the commands to link up with the Watchtower, but once more the Sycamore refused to obey. "Why now do you refuse to listen to me Sycamore!? You didn't object to all of my previous commands so why now with this tower you disobey me?" he screamed out, all of his doubles having the same issue. Logan's only response from the Sycamore is that they are coming. "Who the hell is they and why are they coming?" the furious man shouted.

Logan got his answer when several rifts formed and from them came... things. The things that Logan saw were to his best guess beings but he refuse to call them as such. Not a single one had an anatomical form that suggest that nature had a hand in creating them, instead they all belong in a abstract painting made by a mad artist. The world around them began to change as well with only the Sycamores and Watch Tower still retaining their forms, but the fleet of ships were being pulled away from each other from the currents of reality ripples.

Every single beings never had a form that was similar to the other, each one changing in appearance, width, height and form of matter they are in. Logan began to laugh wildly at the absurd imagery around him. The Sycamore open it's own rift and took both the real and double Logans to other worlds. Logan once more appeared in a IGSE dominated universe. Should anyone establish contact with the man they would hear him laughing to himself like a madman, in his mind he can hear the alien voices of the beings that he saw, chanting and singing as they performed their macabre dance that changed the very fabric of reality that Logan was in.

---

Golgorthric

Leviathan was now in the courtyard of the decaying castle city of Lorthic, the capital city of Golgorthric. Her spear pierced through the head of one of the many undead that are now plaguing the world. From on top the building dead dragons can be spotted, their scales blowing off their decaying bodies as dust in the wind. The entire castle and city was decaying as well but Leviathan noted that the city was still beautiful despite the state it was in.

"General, we are close to the archives and vaults of the castle. We have already clean out the library." one soldier said to Leviathan. "Of the towns nearby and the kingdom close to it?" the soldier told her that they were still trying to breach both the wall and magic barrier of the next door kingdom and that they are almost done with the towns. "Get our mages to deal with that barrier and keep working on the town's. Our time in this world is almost drawing to it's end." The world was starting to feel colder with each passing hour.

The pale white sun above was burning out and instead of turning into a red giant and incinerating the world it was going to perish like a campfire when it has no more wood to burn. From above Leviathan can feel something was coming down and sure enough from multiple rifts mechanical angelic like beings can be seen, she remembered them as the same ones that attacked her home world.

Leviathan's sights soon were turn back to the ground as demons roared attack and attacked her men only for them to be attacked by the angels. Leviathan knew that these angels did not came here to assist her and the knights, they have their own mission and the demons are an enemy to the knights are their enemy as well. "Do not let a single angels and demons live! I want all of their kind exterminated." Leviathan shouted, her men charging forward to deal with the two new threats.

Outside of the walls of Lorthic a loud explosion can be heard. From where the explosion came from a large plume of dust can be seen along with crack suggesting a crater. From the crater a large stone hand grabbed the edge and pulled the rest of the body up. The massive form was humanoid in shape and wore an old, rusty, and faded armor with tattered and dirty robes. The chains on the chain-mail clang loudly and it's large sword was dull and rusty, looking nothing more but a massive hunk of iron and steel. The face of the creature was nothing more but a gaping hole, allowing all to see the other-side of the hole. The giant roar out, it told everyone that the Archon Netzach has arrived.

[Kaidou]

Dimension 14
Fukuzuru (福鶴)
Kotetsu City (虎徹市)
An oden shop


The two men (one tall and muscular, the other short and scrawny, but both clad in dark blue kimono) sat together inside the oden shop, silently eating the daikons and eggs that had been boiled in the soup. Neither of them talked to each other; they simply gave the occasional glance, as if they were waiting for the other to speak.

"Miura Tarō (三浦　太郎)… and Yamashita Takeshi (山下　武)."

Both of the men turned to face the one who had uttered their names. Miura (the tall one) roared out in laughter and stood up, seizing the man and slapping him on the back.

"Father Christmas!" he boomed, much to the surprise of Yamashita and the oden shop's proprietor (a small little granny sitting behind the counter). "We were so worried about you! So you managed to survive?"

Father Christmas smiled weakly and showed Miura his palm. Though he had a corporeal body… it was almost as if it was blurred around the edges, like a ghost or an apparition of sorts. Miura reeled back slightly, but maintained his composure.

"As you can see", said Father Christmas somewhat grimly, "not quite."

"Oh", said Miura, falling silent.

"Do sit down", said Yamashita, dragging a chair over from another table. Turning to the old lady sitting behind the counter, Yamashita said politely, "Can we have another bowl? Without the daikons."

The old lady smiled and proceeded to fill another bowl, placing it on the table.

…

"So Wilhelmus is dead."

Father Christmas nodded.

"That is most unfortunate", he said grimly. "Because it was by my hand that Wilhelmus perished. I will likely be scarred with this memory for eternity."

"It wasn't by your hand", said Yamashita, wiping his mouth with a serviette, "it was by Nixa's. Wasn't it?"

"You see…" said Father Christmas, not daring to meet the short man's eye, "I allowed him to enter me secretly. I was clouded with anger at Haikarakainen for stealing the Ice Corps. I badly wanted to take revenge on him, and that seemed…"

Both of the Japanese men stared at Father Christmas somewhat incredulously.

"I'm sorry…"

Miura stood up and brought his empty bowl back to the counter, before resuming his seat at the table.

"No use griping about things that have already happened", he said. "Now, we have to make sure that what you mentioned earlier doesn't happen."

"Do you want to continue this discussion at the onsen?"

"You forget", said Father Christmas, "that I have tattoos. I can't go in there."

(In Japan, people who have tattoos are not allowed to go into onsen, as tattoos are traditionally associated with the yakuza.)

"Oh."

…

On the streets

"In any case", said Yamashita to Father Christmas, "I've got a bad feeling about this whole business that you've mentioned. Something tells me that the Shogun may or may not be… you know…"

"Shh", said Miura. "Let's not discuss such things so openly. You never know who may be listening. Nowhere is safe now."

Father Christmas remained silent and looked up at the sky.

So… the Shogun of the Intergalactic Japanese Empire is the one who is in possession of the Eternal Sceptre now… Clearly, he must be in league with Iuzun somehow, but the whole isolationist policy of the Empire seems quite incongruous. Something fishy seems to be brewing…

[Contamenesia]

Gabriel

Gabriel smirked, "You obviously just haven't done it right, anyways. Now to our....negotiations. Say that i do hand over this Jewel....What do i get in return? If you offer money or nonsense like that, then i'll just leave with it here and now. And Threats won't work, you could vow to hunt me for the remainder of your years, but i won't be intimidated, Lassy. I already have nine of those already, a tenth is no different. And don't give me the "Well I'm different" speech either, I've heard them all. I don't care what powers or abilities you have, once i leave, i am gone. and you cannot stop me from doing so." He said in a surprisingly diplomatic tone, though his expression retained his usual smirk. "Now what will you offer me? If i am going to give up something that could lead me to yet another amazing adventure, what do you have to offer me?" It wasn't greed in his tone or eyes like anyone else would have, no he wasn't driven but such a whimsical tomfoolery. Instead one could see the adventure-starving eyes of a man who lived for adventure, who lived for danger, risk, mystery and the unknown, a man who sought a new adventure with all the craziness and impossibility held therein...

Bonnie

Bonnie's form suddenly changed from the cute Teddy Bear to a Bear that could only be described as something out of a Nightmare. Bonnie's size grew to twenty times the size of her other form and more than a thousand times its weight. the very sight of this form not only instilled fear, but just spewed the very essence of Evil, at least that is what one would sense from it. After a terrifying roar of achieving its new form, Bonnie sat down, now looking down upon Ludwig, with its head being above his. When Bonnie spoke, the voice was surprising gentle, soothing, and kind, but the gender of the voice was unidentifiable, (partly because Bonnie wanted it that way), not at all what one would think the voice of such a terrifying and evil presence one would think this form would have. "I am not sure your actions are wise. the Rokuo are dying off, even Alzis will perish. Now you are sacrificing yourself as well. Surely there are other options....I am a Bard after all, i could deal with Nixa for you, for a price of course. Nothing in life is free, i get that, but i am not sure if your path is the right one. Looks can be deceiving, and i embody that quite well, just because you only see one path does not mean that their only is...."

Saya

Saya sighed, "It sounds no stranger than what i know...." she pardoned herself from the table, then went into Cyrssa's room and grabbed a device, and then grabbed holographic display that Cyrssa had built and put it inside it. Saya was no tech genius, but she had learned her way around Cyrssa's inventions, she then went back in to the kitchen and presented it to the woman. This is the knowledge i have lived with since a wonderful woman and her daughter came to our world. Cyrssa's mother is dead, but i have taken under my household and raised her along with my son and the Twins..." She had a sudden, grief-ridden hesitation when she mentioned Tak... But she quickly hid it away. "Anyway this here tells the grim fate of an amazing people known as the Alveranians. Please, just watch..." and with that, she hit the button and the video began to play before them.

[Kaidou]

The Hotel

Without so much as a glance at the Bard's new form, Ludwig continued walking down the corridor, followed by said Bard. Both his hands were thrust deep in his pockets.

"This is something that I cannot relegate to a higher power. It's my responsibility; Father Christmas is one of my own."

"Besides… there is no need for that", he said. "The entire gambit has been planned out to the very last detail. Nixa will not know what has hit him.

"The only thing left is for Father Christmas to retrieve the Eternal Sceptre."

…

Madagascar III

"Land! There's land ahead!"

The massive waves that roiled beneath the ship continued to grow stronger and stronger, only that this time, there was a distant island in sight. The booming voice of Henry Saladass alerted pretty much everybody to it. At the same time, the massive body of the Vermin continued to throb beneath the vessel, as bullet after bullet and bolt after bolt buried themselves in its tough reptilian hide, barely penetrating the vicious armour. There was very little blood in the water.

Both Master Wong and Josiah charged to the bow, bending over the side, not daring to climb all the way to the end like Henry. Though it was faint, the sight of land was unmistakable; not only were there rocky formations, the bright searchlight beaming through the wickedly thick fog.

"Didn't Tenzou say that the journey was going to take a week?" asked Master Wong. "It's only been slightly more than a day in Chphlyggnu's time."

"I'd say the Vermin's waves have got something to do with it", replied Josiah.

The figure of Steiner emerged from below deck and appeared beside the two.

"The waves were of unnaturally large proportions", said the white haired boy, one hand jammed deep into his pocket and the other's thumb in between his lips. "In a fantastical world like this, there's no telling how far we can travel like that."

"This ship is impressive", said Master Wong to himself dreamily.

"We've got company", hollered Henry.

Just as the waves began to jump further into the air, the sight of land was supplemented by that of three warships. Each was almost three times the size of the Madagascar III, and were all ridiculously heavily armed. The sight of soldiers aiming heavy weapons could be seen; whether it was at the Madagascar III or at the Vermin, nobody knew. The question was answered when an RPG-7 (or rather, a weapon that looked like an RPG-7 but was three times the size) round blasted off, striking the side of the Vermin's body and causing a massive explosion that sent a shower of blood and gore into the air. The Vermin boomed in pain, before retreating beneath the water, leaving shiploads of foul smelling blood in its wake. Henry leapt backwards onto the deck and placed his weapons on the floor.

At the same time, the three warships circled the Madagascar III, effectively cutting off any routes for it.

"Surrender", boomed a mechanical voice from a megaphone. "You have trespassed the borders of the Ura Republic!"

"I knew the journey took a suspiciously short amount of time", said Master Wong drily, taking out his bamboo pole. "Seems like we've gone off course."

"What's going on?" asked Josiah incredulously.

"We're gonna have to fight these mofoes", said Henry, grinning wildly and picking up the machine pistol again.

...

[Naval Monte]

Elizabeth

Elizabeth didn't say anything as the thrift kept talking. When he mentioned money she pulled a few of her feathers with new ones growing to replace the old ones. She looked at the feathers and they turn into banknotes, the harpy smiled as she now has several new ideas that she can use her new money making ability for. She set the dollar bills on fire and let the wind carry them off, a shield surrounded her to protect the harpy from the waves caused by the vermin.

When he mentioned to have nine threats placed on them Elizabeth would have asked on who they are but she wasn't in the mood for it. Elizabeth sat down on the air almost like she was sitting on an invisible chair standing on the frozen water, her leg over the other and her arms crossed in front of her chest as she lean back. "So money isn't going to work and I doubt drugs, power, knowledge and sex will work as well. Oh poor me I can't think of a thing to give you?" Elizabeth bemoaned, though it was obvious that she was acting as she dramatically covered her face in a way that made it look like she was going to cry.

She looked at the thief with the usual mischievous grin, her fangs elongated. "Tell me, does the name Naegling rings a bell to you? You see we need that little jewel because for us to find Naelgling we need it to help us find the void sword." the harpy explained. She moved one of her head wings so she can see it as she carcass the feathers with her talon. "But you wouldn't be interested in something as mythological as Naelging, I mean who would want to go on an adventure to find a sword that may or may not exist."

Elizabeth thanked Crowe in her mind for revealing the story of the sword, she knew that moment she told Gabriel the void sword he would be caught in her web and would return with the group with the jewel.

---

Tandem

Tandem still held on to the rails of the ship as the waves rocked it about, the Moon Sisters doing the same thing. They all saw the distant island with Alice being the first among them to see since she was close to Henry's spot. Alice turn into a similar harpy form that Elizabeth was in only with her main colors being white, red and purple and the gauntlets and greaves being made of crystals. She flew up and shot out chains of lightning at the vermin but even though the electricity arc around the vermin's body she couldn't see any signs of it doing harm to the vermin.

"Alice I can use some help." Tandem screamed out, the young woman heard and flew down to him. Once she was close to him Tandem gave her the bag containing the machine. "Can you use your power to send this into a room that would be safe for it." She nodded and as she stared down at the bag it vanished and reappeared inside one of the rooms. The two heard how they have arrived to their destination quickly and joined in the same train of thought that the vermin's waves helped them reach the island quickly.

Once Tandem and Alice saw the three ships and saw them attacking the vermin Tandem was ready to think that they found allies in this world while Alice look at the ship's suspiciously, her senses warning her of new danger. When orders came from the ships to surround everyone knew that they were wrong about the ships. Just as Henry showed that he was ready to fight the Moon Sisters conjured a storm and strong winds, thunder can be heard from above along with flashes of lightning. Alice floated away from Tandem as electricity streaked across her body. Extending her hands towards one of the ships a bolt of lighting fired out and hit the ship. She flew high and fired off several electrified feathers at the deck and on to the soldiers.

The Moon Sisters strike down the deck of another ship with lightning from above. "Henry got another gun with you?" Tandem screamed, he wanted to join in the battle as well but doesn't have enough time nor resources to make his own weapon.

---

Alexandra

Alexandra was surprised to see that Saya was not only calling her crazy but claim that it wasn't as strange as something she knew, that got the woman's attention. When Saya pardoned herself from the table Alexandra closed her eyes, concentrating she looked through the history of the house. She saw images of the past along with hearing the sounds and feeling the emotions of the past. She was experiencing the past moments that happened in the kitchen. Most of them were of Saya and her family but as she kept on going she gasped as soon as she found both Elizabeth and Adwith, Alexandra surprised on seeing her daughter now grown up.

When she heard Saya coming back Alexandra open her eyes and focus her sights back on the present. When she explained that the device belonged to a woman and a daughter that came to her and contained knowledge that Saya lived with she wonder if this daughter was the long ear girl she saw in the visions. Alexandra can feel the grief contained with Saya and knew from experience what is the source of her grief.

Alexandra watch silently as she saw the same video feed that her daughter saw and watch as the Alveranians fell to the Aharmhan. Once the feed was done she looked at Saya with a glare. "What were those... things." she asked, referring to the beings in armor who she refused to call human. Mostly because she saw that some of them didn't appear human by their built and she knew from experience that not everything with a human-like built was necessarily human, even if it looked like one.

[Kaidou]

Madagascar III

The biker pirate sneered and tossed Tandem the assault rifle on the floor.

"Let's take these mofoes down!" he boomed, firing his machine pistol upwards indiscriminately. A few of the soldiers on the other ships fired back, prompting Henry to adopt a more balanced approach to fighting the three warships.

This was complemented by Master Wong, who calmly ran along the edge of the ship's railing, using his bamboo pole to deflect bullets masterfully, before jumping onto one of the warships and landing among the soldiers, whom he swept off balance using his weapon. A few muted screams rang through the air as a number of soldiers tumbled into the freezing water.

At the same time, soldiers from the third warship (which seemed to be the most packed of them all) began to jump over to the Madagascar III, quite clearly with the intention of commandeering the vessel. They were countered by Henry (and his massive stock of bullets), Master Lam with his deceptively simple style, and Steiner, with his lethargic yet forceful kicks. Josiah, too, had managed to arm himself with a rifle from a soldier who had presumably fallen into the icy water.

"There seems to be a good number of them", said Henry, firing the machine pistol relentlessly at the other warships.

"Thank you for pointing out the obvious", replied Master Lam. "If we can sink one of those ships, we may be able to carry on."

"But then they'd send more", pointed out Steiner matter-of-factly.

"Well… not if we get rid of these guys and put some distance between us and their coast."

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Dimension 29
IGSE Military Headquarters

"Lord Iuzun!"

"What is it?"

"It appears that Yuuma Haikarakainen is no longer in the secret Japanese medical facility. Our sources show that a tall man in a black robe had entered the facility and unhooked her from all the medical equipment, before bringing the bed out. However, she was still alive at the time, which shows that there is clearly a third party, other than us and the Grandmasters, who are interested-"

"I suppose now would be a good time to tell you."

"Yes, my Lord?"

"I'm not interested in eliminating the Silver Bloodline."

"Um… yes, sir."

"If somebody plans to murder the sister of the former CEO of this company, then I am certainly the last one to be interested in it. It holds no importance to me. What I am looking out for… is the Azanur."

…

[Naval Monte]

Madagascar III

Tandem caught the rifle and soon his biomods started to adjust into a more combative capabilities. The ones on his eyes allow him to see from across long distances and another set increased his spatial reasoning and reaction time as he began to fire at the soldiers from the deck. The mods in his body allow him to not only see the incoming bullets from the soldiers heading towards him back respond in time to dodge and fire back at them, taking those soldiers out.

"Just because I don't like violence doesn't mean I can fight when the moment calls for it. I just prefer to settle most matters in more peaceful manners." he said to anyone who can hear him. Tandem's expression wasn't of angry like Henry but of a eerie calm. He knows from years of survival that one should never let their emotions take too much control when thrown into a life and death situation, Tandem needs to stay calm, cool and rational throughout this fight.

Alice kept firing off more streaks of lightening that chain off to more soldiers the closer they were to each other while firing off barrages of feathers that cut through the ships. When Alice heard Master Lam mention on sinking one of the ships she turn to the Moon Sisters who also heard the request. Alice flew high up in the air as the sisters began to chant. The four women soon created a waterspout close to one of the ships and the watery tornado hit the ship.

As the crew was distracted by the waterspout Alice began to use her new powers to make the ship rise on it's own, making it look like the waterspout was pulling it up in the air. The illusion broke when the ship moved close to another and it dropped, not necessary on top of the other but close enough that it rocked violently due to the waves the impact created.

“You guys mention on being able to leave if one ship was sunk, well we have one ship down so take us out of here.” Artemis said, causing bursts of fire to appear on the deck of one of the two surviving ships.

[Contamenesia]

Gabriel

Gabriel laughed, "A Sword? Really? a Sword? what would i need a Sword for? i admit the mystery is a little intriguing but the prize is well....of no use to me. If the best you can offer me is a quest for a sword, then i may just as well leave here and now.....unless...you have a better bargain?" he said, as he felt that there was indeed something better that she could offer, it was a strong feeling, so of course he went with it....

Bonnie

"Really? All this just for Santa Clause?" Bonnie said, reverting back to the Teddy Bear form. "Well i guess little children still need to get their presents, but geez. But if you say you have a plan, then fine. your losses are your own, i guess. but i think i'll tag along. Perhaps i'll find more people who play with me!" Bonnie said with an innocent little teddy bear voice.

Kyuubi

Kyuubi looked down at her feet, "U-Um, well....perhaps we should get back to the others? It seems they might be in trouble...." she said in a nervous and slightly frightend tone. She didn't exactly like this difficult position, but part of her loved it. She was always a person who liked to multitask, and here was quite a challenge. She had to fool Mantis' Darkness sense, so that she appeared no different than a normal person, Fool Crowe's Damage sense, so that she felt like flesh and blood, and fool Wasp's identity Sense by completely embracing her current personality, giving absolutely no thought to her connections to the Ahmarhan. And then she also had to fool Beetle's great sense of intuition. He was the strong silent type, but definitely not an idiot. He could easily be subtle when he wanted to be, which she had to take in account for all whilst maintaining everything else, on top of that, she was also manipulating the energy around them subtly so that she would appear normal to all physical senses, including hearing and smell. she gave off the fragrance of crushed tulips, and she manipulated sound energy within herself so that her "body" sounded human in everyway, including a heartbeat, breathing, and etc. She was doing all of this at once, and doing it well too, something to be proud of, though she made sure not show it. Right now, she really needed to get back to the others...she still had to follow her orders.

[Naval Monte]

Elizabeth

Elizabeth snorted at him, obviously annoyed at him for laughing. But she quickly grinned back at him. "Ah you want an adventure, well here is the thing with the sword. The sword is locked up in a multiverse that most can not enter and the jewel that you want to take off with is the key for us to get inside the multiverse." she explained, yet by her expression it was clear she wasn't done.

"Now as for the sword and jewel we need those two to protect us from a secret organization called the Ahmarhan. The group apparently finds the best people around existence so they can rule everything. Supposedly they are acting as our guardians but from what I've seen from them they are tyrants." she spat out. The Aharmhan card, her desperate attempt on getting the damned thief interested on working back with the group and give them the jewel.

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Crow

"You remind me, I have to go back because I have a special friend waiting for me back in my private retreat." Crow told the others. He walked over to Kyuubi and gently grabbed her hand and bow before her. "I wish you luck and safety my dear maiden." he said in a courteous tone, not really thinking that what he was doing may be taken as flirting. Crow got up and let go off Kyuubi's hand, turning to the others and simply waving them goodbye as he walked away from them, going to the chaotic battlefield that was once the town. He soon vanish as a portal to the abyss opened and he was taken back to his shack to meet with Freyja.

[Contamenesia]

Gabriel

Gabriel raised on an eyebrow, "Ahmarhan, you say? Tell me more about these....Ahmarhan....." he said as he felt he was getting closer to another adventure of a lifetime.

Kyuubi

Kyuubi blushed, not knowing that she was blushing, and suddenly Beetle picked her up and the next thing she knew, she was on a boat, no scratch that, a ship. And hell was all around her. Wasp, Mantis, and Beetle were already there. But she wasn't surprised, the Ahmarhan could easily step outside of time, so it was no real surprise they were already here before her, except Beetle who had brought her. They were all wearing their full armor, so they definitely stood out from the rest of the people. Wasp turned to the Moon Sisters, "So, need any help?"

[Naval Monte]

Elizabeth

"Now we're getting somewhere." the mage thought as she moved several feathers from her body and made them transform into a fan. As she moved the fan up and down she spoke. "The Ahmarhan from the same source that I got for the void sword states that only the best and most dangerous version of any person is allowed to join, all others don't even exist as far as they are concern. They have an armor that protects them from everything because it removes them from existence itself, which means your power will not work on them. If you want to know some good examples I met. The one that we have on our group not only makes people forget his face once they stop looking at him but he steals everything from you, not just your powers. I have that happen to me and well... let's just say you don't want to go through with that experience."

Elizabeth stayed silent, holding on to her arms and shivering a little at the memory of him taking away her very essence so easily. "The next one I met was able to move and make two realities merge into one and the last one was about to beat one of his own while they still worn the armor that I mention was crazy overpower. Though their king was a hot, which is the one thing I can say is a good thing about them." Elizabeth grin soon take a mischievous turn. "The things I would do to that lovely goddess. Hell the things I would allow her to do to me, all just to have her in bed with me for one night."

From the back of Toothless the telepathic link between Veira and Elizabeth was still open so she can hear what Elizabeth was saying. "That woman is truly insane." Veira sighed, cutting off the link the moment Elizabeth's mind was going into scandalous territory. Veria told Hiccup what Elizabeth and Gabriel were talking about and how Elizabeth was sweet talking the thief to hand over the jewel in exchange for adventure in which he deals with the Ahmarhan.

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Moon Sister

The Moon Sisters turn to them, surprised by their appearance. "Where have you been and who are those two?" the sisters asked. Thunder boomed as massive streaks of lightening rain down on one of the ships. Alice flew buy. "We took out one ship and have two more left." she fired off metal feathers at another ships and the feathers pierced through the hull. Tandem was still firing at the soldiers at the decks of the ships, ignoring the appearance of the Ahmarhan for the time being.

Tessy knowing that she wouldn't do much in the battle grabbed and carried Cyrssa down to the bottom level, keeping both herself and her niece safe down there for the time being until the battle is over.