Chapter 20: Kore Ga...Requiem...Da
(Second POV, let me know if you all like this style)
In a pillar of flames, your body suddenly blew apart. Everyone was confused by what happened, including Euclid. When the flames dispersed, the only thing left was the sentry and a pile of ashes was all that remained of your body. Issei's punch was easily blocked by Euclid because the boy was too distracted by your apparent death.
"Um, does he normally do that?" Euclid asked while pointing at the pile of ashes, and everyone didn't know how to respond.
"Normally, he makes everyone else explode..." Akeno looked at the ashes, and she noticed how they appeared to be moving. "Weird, how are those ashes moving without the wind?"
"So, this is the power of requiem."
The ashes gathered around Euclid, and began forming the body of a familiar selkie, with some key differences. The most obvious difference in your body was that your body's color was a pitch black color, like the abyss in the ocean. Taoist Talisman-like tattoos covered every inch of your body, with the tattoos glowing a light blue color. Your eyes glowed the same color as the tattoos, and they appeared to have no irises. Your back's tattoo depicted a turtle shell, while the rest were just the same kind of writing you would see on talisman. Most of your clothes were destroyed, except for a convenient pair of pants you were wearing, which were now made black thanks to the flames.
"Ah, so you're going to avenge those children who died?" Euclid sounded confident as he flew away from you, still holding Rossweisse.
"I don't recall them or the magicians being dead." You stood still, and Euclid noticed that the building the children and magicians were inside of was completely unscathed. "I took the explosion in their place."
"What on Earth?" Euclid asked before dodging out of the water of Akeno's lighting bolt. "Hey, are you trying to heat my beautiful sister?!"
"That's not Grayfia, that's Rossweisse, and she is a member of Team Gremory. Akeno then smiled. "And for the record, I wasn't aiming for you in the first place. I just knew distracting you would provide enough of a chance."
Euclid was confused by this until he noticed Rossweisse was missing from his arms, Euclid turned his head behind him to see you were carrying Rossweisse before setting her down beside Asia next to your sentry. Euclid was beyond pissed and confused by this, not only did you take away Rossweisse from him, but without him knowing. Euclid summoned a silver magic circle and aimed it at Akeno, the queen piece didn't have enough time to dodge, so she created a defensive magic circle just as Euclid's magic circle launched a silver beam of magic towards her. Akeno's magic circle shattered upon impact with the beam, and the beam went straight through Akeno. Akeno felt no pain, so she looked down to see that while the beam did indeed go through her, it didn't do any damage.
"What the?!" Euclid was confused before turning towards you, only to see a massive hole in your chest where Akeno was hit with the beam. "No I see...all damage is reflected onto you, so I wonder what happens if I kill myself?!"
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." The hole in your chest was quickly regenerated in the blink of an eye, with tattoos never fading even once. "In this form, I am Genbu and Genbu is me. So tell me, why would a shield apply to my enemy?"
Before Euclid could figure out what you meant by that, you appeared in front of him and delivered a sucker punch to his face, managing to crack some of the Boosted Gear replica armor. Euclid was knocked out of the air and straight towards the ground, but Euclid landed on his feet. Euclid looked up at you to see you land on the ground, with black colored lightning coating both your hands. Euclid didn't know how to respond to the lightning, so he shot a beam of magic energy towards you, only for you to shoot a condensed beam of black lightning to counter the beam.
"Impossible, what on Earth is going on?!" Euclid shouted as his beam was countered by the lightning.
"I told you, this is the power of Requiem." You informed Euclid before Euclid's beam ran out of energy and allowed the black lightning to strike his chest. "I should have told you, this form of Genbu doesn't grant me one ability of Genbu, but all of them."
What you were doing was using Genbu's ability to not only copy magic you see, but also amplify it. The lightning was an amplified version of Akeno's Divine Lightning. Why was it black? You combined it with your god slayer magic. The divine lightning struck Euclid in the chest, causing him to clasp his hand over his chest before you dashed towards him with both of your arms covered in a layer of magic, forming lances with both your hands. Euclid used the replica armor's boosters to shoot himself upwards, getting him out of the way of your attack. As Euclid soared into the air, he was suddenly punched in the guy by Issei in his Crimson Queen Promotion. The punch knocked Euclid into the sky, and you aimed both your palms towards Euclid while Akeno prepared a divine lightning magic circle above. Black lightning struck Euclid from below while normal lightning struck Euclid from above, causing Euclid to cough up blood.
"Xenovia, Kiba, Irina!" Rias outed the names of the three knights, and Euclid tried flying away, but before he could, you created a black barrier in front of him, blocking his path.
Kiba and Xenovia appeared on Euclid's sides before slashing him with their respective swords, with Kiba using Gram and Xenovia using Durandal. The swords both cut through Euclid's sides, only for magic circles to appear all around him. A silver colored explosion engulfed him and the two knights, yet Xenovia and Kiba were unscathed. Meanwhile, your skin was missing, revealing all your muscles. You opened your mouth and smoke came out. Your skin regenerated before you created another magic circle, this time sending a black wave of energy towards Euclid. Euclid ducked down and flew onto the ground before boosting towards you. You dodged Euclid's punch before grabbing his arm. You increase your grip, causing cracks to spiderweb their way across Euclid's replica armor. You delivered a powerful uppercut to Euclid's jaw, and the helmet fell apart instantly to reveal Euclid's horrified face.
"That was for trying to recruit Rossweisse against her will."
You delivered a sucker punch to Euclid's face, breaking his nose with an audible crack, and maybe a part of his skull?
"That was for trying to attack this school." You covered your hands in black lightning and the purple flames of Incinerate Anthem. "And this is for attempting to kill innocent children."
With a thunderous boom, your fist collided with Euclid's chest, forcing the devil into the ground. You weren't done yet. You delivered a barrage of punches to Euclid's body, every punch that collided against his chest created a pillar of purple flames and black lightning that reached the sky. It only took five punches to completely shatter Euclid's armor. You raised both of your hands to move into the skill, looking down at Euclid's beaten and battered body. Bruises covered every inch of him, he had six teeth missing, and blood coming from every visible hole on his body. Your fist was about to collide with Euclid's chest, but out of nowhere, your body went back to normal, and Genbu's shield+anchor appeared in front of you.
"I guess I've reached my limit..." You began walking away from the broken body of Euclid, which was barely twitching.
"He defeated Euclid..." Azi Dahaka looked at you with all three of his heads, in a shocked manner. "Grendel, we're leaving, that's an order as your superior."
"Why not, look at that selkie kid, he looks exhausted!" Grendel pointed at you, and in response, you glared at him. "I could take him on with one breath."
"Hey, remember that time when he and everyone else here oneshot you through the power of friendship?" Azi Dahaka glared at Grendel. "We're leaving, that's an order. Damnit, to think we lost the last Longinus, Rizevim won't let us hear the end of this."
"Ugh, fine, let's go, Dahaka." Grendel groaned in annoyance as a red colored magic circle appeared beneath both his and Azi Dahaka's feet.
"We'll meet again, child of the sea, and as for Ladon. We'll bring him back thanks to the power of the grail." Azi Dahaka growled, and Grendel looked at him in a confused manner.
"Wait, I thought they had all the Longinus and their users?" Grendel questioned the three headed dragon, who sighed.
"They have Valerie Tepes, the original user of the grail." Azi Dahaka explained to the dark green dragon. "We only have one out of three parts of her grail. So they have the other two."
"Damnit, we'll get you back for this Sealboi!"
Both Grendel and Azi Dahaka disappeared in a flash of light, leaving nothing but destruction to show that they were there in the first place. Euclid tried teleporting away too, but Kiba made a magic absorbing sword, plunging it into the ground to absorb the magic from the teleportation circle. You looked up at the sky to see it slowly return to it's usual red color, decorated with an aurora borealis. You heard the sound of footsteps running towards you as you felt your legs begin giving out on you. Just before you began to collapse, a graceful set of hands placed themselves on your shoulders, keeping you up. You looked up at the person who saved you to see a familiar head of red hair.
"Good job today, (Y/N)." Rias greeted you with a smile before kissing your cheek and helping you stand straight. "Thanks to you, everyone's alive, but try not to use that power too much, I don't like seeing you hurt, my love."
"I'll only use it in emergencies." You and your gruel friend then began walking to the building where the magicians and children were, with Rias supporting you so you didn't collapse. "Still, I can't believe I used that new mode, what was in again?"
"God Savior Mode." You and Rias turned around to see Vagus wrapping multiple black chains around Euclid's unconscious body. "Relics weren't designed for revenge against the gods, they were designed to save people from the gods."
"Vagus, how and when did you get here?" Rias asked the man with closed eyes as he picked up the wrapped up Euclid.
"Vagus got here only five seconds ago, sorry Vagus couldn't have helped more." Vagus apologized. "Vagus knew something was wrong, so Vagus went to go get Grayfia and Sirzechs. Vagus was about to get through the barrier, but it went down before Vagus could go through it, it disappeared."
"You know, you talk a lot like Riser did before (Y/N) beat him up." Rias commented on Vagus' verbal tics, and the man chuckled.
"Sorry, but Riser's and Vagus' reasons are very different." Vague walked at your side, carrying Euclid like a sack of potatoes. "Riser speaks in Riser's way because Riser likes his name."
"What about you?" You asked the man dawning the black cloak. "What's your reason?"
"Vagus doesn't want to forget Vagus." Vagus laughed, and both you and Rias were confused.
"Rias, (Y/N)!" Before either of us could ask Vagus what he meant, we were suddenly hugged by another set of red hair, Sirzechs. "I was so worried about you guys, is everyone okay?!"
"Everyone's fine, amazingly, we managed to fend off the invaders pretty well." Rias informed her brother before looking around. "I'm surprised Serafall didn't come."
Just as Rias said that, you noticed something fast moving towards you. You picked up Genbu and protectively shielded Rias from the fast flying object. The flying object flew right past you, and you noticed that the thing flying past you wasn't an object at all. The thing flying past you was Serafall, wearing her iconic magical girl outfit and bearing a determined expression on her face. Serafall dashed past the four (five if you count Euclid) of you without even taking notice of your guys' existence. Rias and you were both confused, Sirzechs was startled by her sudden appearance, and Vagus didn't even flinch. Neither did Euclid, but he was either unconscious or dead. Shortly after Serafall made her appearance, Grayfia soon appeared too.
"Grayfia, Darling, was that Serafall who just passed by?" Sirzechs asked his silver haired wife, who was looking at Euclid with cold eyes. Grayfia was too focused on her younger brother, giving him a glare that made me grateful we were on the same side. "Grayfia?"
"Hm, what is it, Sirzechs?" Grayfia stopped glaring at her little brother and wore a softer expression while looking at her husband.
"Are you okay?" Sirzechs asked the silver haired maid, who nodded. "I've never seen you so angry before."
"My apologies, but my own brother becoming a terrorist annoys me to no end." Grayfia joined her husband. "So Sirzechs, should we better protect the school or perhaps move it?"
"I don't think so..." Sirzechs looked around at the damage done. "The only reason the school was attacked was because the magicians had information on Trihexa, right? Well maybe they'll leave the school alone from here on, because the magicians were going to be placed under better protection."
"We should also set up anti magic machinery and increase the guards around Auros to decrease the chances of an attack on the school." You suggested as you continued walking.
"Vagus thinks everyone should start training." Vagus spoke up suddenly. "Vagus sees great potential in everyone, but they require proper teachers, so Vagus volunteers the remaining members of Vagus' team."
"Why can't we train them?" Sirzechs raised an eyebrow, and Vagus raised both his hands defensively.
"Because Vagus' Team knows a bigger threat that everyone needs to prepare for." Vagus was serious, and you were scared of what he meant.
"(Y/N), Rias, over here!" Issei called out to the two of you from the door of the building that the magicians were in. "Everyone's okay, but they're kind of scared and I don't know how to calm them down."
"Well (Y/N), looks like the fight's not over yet." Rias joked with you before guiding you into the building. "Xenovia and Irina got Asia and Rossweisse, they're just inside, so let's try to explain the situation to the families and magicians."
"Sure thing."
A random thought occurred to me: I wonder what Yozakura and her team are doing.
(Meanwhile, in Israel)
Somewhere in Israel, a Aston Martin DB5 was driving through the main city of Jerusalem. In this car, Yozakura sat in the driver's seat while Sarah sat in the passenger seat, holding onto her signature firework launcher. In the back, there were six seats facing each other like a limo. Except there wasn't as much leg room, but just enough to allow six people to sit there. In the back seats, Raynare, Mittlet, and Kalawarner sat on one row while Nemo, Nahele, and Dohnaseek sat in the other row.
"So why are we here in the first place?" Raynare wore a leather jacket, violet t-shirt, and jeans. The other fallen angels were allowed to wear their usual outfits, but Yozakura had Raynare change.
"Zenorse sent us a text for us to get something." Yozakura informed the dark haired fallen angel. "He wasn't really specific, but he gave us an address and told us that we'd know when we found it."
"Yep, that's real helpful of him." Sarah groaned while cracking her neck. "I have an itch that only explosions can scratch, so let's blow something up!"
"This area is really sensitive, so let's not." Yozakura parked her car outside a certain building. "Looks like this is the place."
The place where Yozakura parked in particular was a small clearing of buildings and rubble. There looked to be nothing special in this area in particular, but Yozakura and her squad still walked out of the car to begin looking around. Yozakura looked at her radar pocket watch, luckily seeing no one around.
"Weird, there's no heat signatures for another 30 meters." Yozakura informed the group as Nahele and Mittlet stretched together. "Nahele, stand guard and make sure no one shoots us. If they attempt to attack any of us, they're fair game."
"THEIR SPINES SHALL MAKE EXCELLENT BELTS FOR THE SKIN PANTS I SHALL MAKE!" Everyone's favorite wendigo shouted, and his straight jacket came undone while his muzzle slipped off.
"Everyone else, help me look around for something you all think is important." Yozakura ordered, and in response, her older brother whistled to get her attention.
"Oi, Yozakura, I found something, but it's covered in rubble." Nemo informed his younger sister while standing at a pile of rubble with Kalawarner beside him.
"You think Nahele could move it." Kalawarner guessed before the rubble was suddenly cut into a pile of small pebbles by Yozakura's strings. "That works."
What Nemo and Kalawarner found was a glowing white arrow that emitted a strong magical energy. The arrow wasn't the focus here, it was what the arrow was connected to. The arrow appeared to be sticking out of what looked to be a shriveled up corpse. There were defining features of the corpse, but due to Nemo's talent as the Ultimate Archeologist, he managed to piece together a few key details.
"He's a Galilean Jew, likely died 2,000 years ago, his hands and feet were pierced with nails to hold up against something, and he died due to parts of a spear piercing his organs in the torso." Nemo pointed out, and everyone gathered around the corpse with the arrow sticking out of its shoulder.
"With that description, there's only one possible explanation as to who this could be." Dohnaseek looked at the corpse and tried touching it, only for his hand to burn. Dohnaseek violently pulled his hand away. "This holy energy...it's so powerful that even fallen angels can't touch it."
"Yep, this must be the corpse of Joshua, Son of Joseph, or Jesus Christ, whatever people like to call him." Nemo looked down at the corpse. "What's it doing here of all places? And how is it so well preserved?"
"This must be what Zenorse was after, he needs us to obtain the power of 'the Miracle'." Yozakura thought to herself. "Still, why does he need us to get it?"
"This may be a crazy thought, but what if he wants it to make sure someone else doesn't get it?" Kalawarner suggested as Yozakura walked back to her cat to get a body bag. "This looks like something that might interest Rizevim."
"I think he's too distracted with Trihexa to care about this." Sarah guessed before shrugging.
"Well whatever the purpose is, we need to move fast." Yozakura informed her group before walking towards the body with a body bag in hand. "I have a feeling Zenorse is hiding us from something. By taking this body with us, we're taking a massive risk and making ourselves targets to literally everyone."
"So where are we going to take this thing?" Sarah asked while holding her firework launcher.
"We're taking it to the mansion of course, we'll decide what to do from there." Yozakura said while preparing the body bag.
"Wait, what about the Buddha, don't we need his body too?"
"I think he's still using his body."
(A/N: WORSHIP NAHELE. Also I just learned his name means Forest, which isn't too far off.
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