Fantasy The Divine Conquerors Ⅱ - Main / Ravenscourt

Hitori felt some magic not to far from the group heading towards them though it didn't feel hostile so he ignored it for the time being. While everything was going Hitori's ears perked up a bit when he heard someone coming near the group. The sound of a tree branch crunching beneath the weight of someone's foot was enough to alert Hitori. Turning his head to the woman that came closer to the wild group.

She stopped at a reasonable distance from the group and introduced herself to them. Hitori gave a nod and smiled at her.

"Yo Hitori Kage. Nice to meet'cha!"

While the massive knight and susan spoke with their hands Hitori looked over his shoulder towards the sun. It was a nice day out today the winds were calm as well making the scenery nice. Hitori let off a soft sigh before looking back at Kotori with a smile, she didn't answer his question about the strange guy that was with her, but no matter. Another source of magic could be sensed coming towards them which made Hitori tense up a bit. His attention was instantly directed towards it. Some distance off a voice could be heard speaking in a strange language unfamiliar to hitori. It must've been coming from the magic he was sensing edging closer and closer to the group. Soon after sounds of wheels rolling at rapid speeds picked up to Hitori and he got ready for whatever to come to light.

It was a strange egg cart coming down at high speeds creating craters beneath it after every bounce. Tipping over Hitori watched it not move, he didn't act off of excitement even though he felt off about the woman that bounced up crying for a "Carmen". The woman was a decent height and carried horns on her head. Nothing outlandish that Hitori hasn't seen so far. Usually things with horns in their head were savage beasts that meant destruction on his world. Though people of Valucia seem to be born with this physical trait rather then being entitled as a monster.

The woman started moving unusual as if her broken body was coming back together. It was an awful sight watching her force her ligaments back together. Hitori closed one eye while watching the woman put herself back. She started strangely mentioning someone having a woman's scent. Hitori didn't really understand what was going on so he remained silent for the time being. Once the egg cart got back up and trailed behind the woman who was now walking towards them Hitori got even more tensed up like a predator ready to pounce on it's pray.

As she got closer and closer she started strangely sniffing the air. Looking towards Kotori then Charon. As she turned back to Kotori she got closer to the archer.

Before the woman's hands could get any closer to Kotori, Hitori stood in between the two with a seirous look on his face. "I don't know exactly what's going on, or what the hell your talking about, but I suggest you back the hell up." Hitori said with a serious tone and his fists clenched.

Standing at the edge of the clearing, Bastion watched as the different summoned interacted, each watching the other with caution and curiosity alike. The situation was volatile and it appeared that a single wrong move from any of the people in the area would be enough to throw things completely out of balance. Kotori’s words lingered in the brawler’s mind; she thought he was weak. She believed something as petty and transient as corruption would be enough to change Bastion’s nature. He brought a hand up to his chin in a moment of pondering and then lowered both muscular arms, watching once more. The insult was dismissed then as Bastion realized she was just young and inexperienced.

The unicorn did not like Bastion that much, which was unsurprising given Bastion’s nature. Beings who could see the true and most base nature of other beings often did not like Bastion. Being an avatar of annihilation was not a good thing to most intelligent life. Kotori herself seemed unaware or uncaring of the Unicorn’s attitude and Bastion’s potential; What seemed likely was that she was the type who judged others on actions rather than potential or possibility. As the brawler came to this conclusion, a smirk appeared on his face. She was the trusting type. Bastion chuckled and wiped an imaginary tear of laughter from his face, those types were quite fun. They liked to see the best in people, try for redemption rather than destruction.

The metal behemoth before them was immobile for the most part, making so few moments that Bastion could understand near immediately that this was a machine. Would probably make a good adversary from what Bastion could tell. There was probably no need for Bastion to introduce himself to this thing. But the other more sentient beings needed introduction, that was apparent. Bastion was about to introduce himself when a boy with spiky black hair leapt from the surrounding forest, flinging a fireball at the machine. Kotori stopped the attack with a gust of wind magic, keeping the meeting from escalating the moment the threat of violence appeared.

An apathetic looking girl that Bastion thought he recognized wandered into the clearing shortly after the appearance of the black haired boy. They all seemed to know each other for the most part, they seemed quite close in fact. Bastion wondered how long they had all known each other. The black haired boy who had sent the fireball blazing towards the mech did not seem like the type the Unicorn would like much at all. But Bastion himself admired the lad’s recklessness and potential for violence. He hadn’t waited even a moment before resorting to violence, entering the scene with the intent to destroy. Bastion watched Hitori for several seconds, examining the young man with empty eyes. The more Bastion looked at Hitori, the more he recognized the boy; This one was very alike to Bastion. He held an endless capacity for violence and destruction that Bastion saw in himself, only Hitori seemed somehow even more eager to annihilate than the brawler himself.

Bastion would need to have a conversation with the black haired lad. But moving past the violent young man, Bastion looked at the others who had entered the scene. A woman had been following the Golem it seemed. She introduced herself as some sort of religious person who worshipped… the sun. Bastion shook his head and figured it made some sort of vague sense slightly, stars were important to life and were pretty massive and powerful if you thought about it. It was still odd but Bastion could understand it.

The erratic woman from earlier also rolled into the scene, acting like more than a bit of a crazy person, cracking her limbs into place, crying and screaming about children and smells and French weirdly enough.

As Bastion analyzed the people in the clearing, as they introduced themselves to each other, the black haired boy pointed in Bastion’s direction. Bastion noticed it and waved casually before strolling over. As he walked over, the crazy woman approached the unicorn group. “Im Bastion Fortress, warrior extraordinaire and newly summoned, just like you folk I assume. If any of you want to spar or explore this world together sometime, I'm very available. The offer is even open to you strange horned woman, so long as you dont try to kill me in my sleep haha!”

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"It is alright Charon, I do not think this one is aggressive towards us." Kotori called out, noticing the android fanning out to flank the metallic knight.

She carefully watched its interaction with Susan, noticing they seemed to be communicating through hand gestures. It was something incredibly new to her, but in her brief time spent in Valucia she had learned to take things into stride. Perhaps the strangest thing was the smile that kept creeping onto Susan's face. It was as smug as a cat's, but Kotori was glad to see it nonetheless. The girl had been near emotionless since their battle with Hodir, and apathetic since the destruction of Castellan. This, she hoped, was a good sign.

Yet another newcomer made their appearance, a girl with dark hair and a sturdy sword. Yet what set her apart was not her unusual garb, but the way she reacted to Wakinyan. She spoke to him directly, even bowing with respect.

The pale beast turned his attention towards the woman, eyes regarding her silently for a moment. A soft breeze stirred the trees of the clearing as Wakinyan inclined his head slightly, a rarity for mortals. Even before she spoke, he could see the essence of her soul and the remnants of a divine. His voice would echo in her mind like far off thunder through a canyon.
It was a brief exchange, lasting only until Wakinyan turned his attention back to the Golem, but it struck a deep joy in Kotori's heart. She couldn't help but look at the woman in wonder. A soul deemed worthy by Wakinyan. Such a judgment had only passed to one other here in Valucia, Csilla the moonchild. If that was true, then perhaps...

"Greetings, Hamriah. You stand before Wakinyan, great divine beast of the heavens," Kotori said, placing a fist over her chest and bowing her head respectfully, "I am his keeper, Kotori. It is rare for a soul so untainted by corruption... I can see why you are chosen of the sun" she couldn't help but smile warmly, feeling a wave of relief, "It is an honor."

Wakinyan snorted, impatient once more. He promptly ignored Susan's words, purposely turning his head away to avoid giving her any satisfaction for the deep irritation he felt. His ears were pressed flat against his head, but pricked up at the sound of something approaching. When the egg cracked he turned around, slower than he should due to the amount of people under his feet. He let out a roar like thunder colliding, and the sunny skies quickly turned to grey.

Kotori hardly heard it, or anything else that was being said. She was staring in horror at the broken remnants of the lady's legs, and how effortlessly she began to 'repair' them. It was just as the restless dead had done in Castellan and the twisted horrors of flesh. Even the splintering of bone brought with it the memory of stars and blood between her teeth.

A pain gripped Kotori's stomach, causing her to groan and take a step back from the woman. She placed a hand over her mouth and stomach, feeling faint. Through hazy eyes she could see the woman approach, asking desperately about a daughter. She moved to Charon first, then swung back to Kotori. As the wave of sickness subsided and her vision cleared up again, Kotori could not help but feel a sense of familiarity about the woman. They certainly had never met, and yet...

"Who-"

The woman reached out only to be blocked by Hitori. This was immediately followed by a crack of thunder and a bright flash of heavensfire striking down upon Aede... and likely Hitori. The divine beast had aimed for the horned woman just as Hitori had moved in to stand in front of Kotori. If he was too close, the smite would fork and wound them both accordingly.

Charon simply tilted his head at the exchange between Susan and Golem, and then tilted it the other way when Kotori declared the thing to not be a threat. The android wasn't entirely convinced as his experience is that fleshies were a little too quick to trust their first impressions of something. Susan in particular took to it way to quickly, but he kept his thoughts to himself, for now. Instead the soul-eater turned his attention to the strange woman who showed up. The age of her soul would have him salivating if he was capable of such things. But before he could ask questions or otherwise respond to her seemingly mad ravings, the Horny Horse lashed out with divine smiting.

While he wasn't sure why the unicorn would suddenly attack, Charon figured that it wouldn't hurt to restrain the woman, just in case. Darting forward, the giant metal man reached into the heavensfire to wrap his arms around the woman in a hug.

Before she could lay a hand on the human girl, a boy of her same age jumped between them. She repulsed backward, staring down at him with her blank "face," which was only a void of darkness with smoky purple as her eyes. "You protect a foul human that laid hands on my daughter?!" At the other man with a burning ball as a head, she tilted her head. "What an ungentlemanly thing to request a lady of." Aede returned her attention to the boy, but she didn't have time to strike at Hitori, though, as at the same moment came two others. One, the metal golem that she smelled Amicia's scent on, and the other, a tremendous force of lightning, stemmed from the one-horned horse.

Having it all happened so fast, she couldn't comprehend exactly what happened—who struck who. Just that none of them welcomed her. She screeched out and strained her vocal cords, breaking into a sudden wail. "Why does everybody hate us..." she wept, but no tears flowed, dangling motionlessly in Charon's grip.

The ground shook for a few seconds as a pale white structure emerged from the ground, circling her and Charon. It slowly rose, leaving Charon with enough time to back out. Eventually, its shape—an usually large eggshell—could be made out, progressively enclosing Aede. "Everywhere, they treat a grieving mother like this..." she continued, lurching out with her hands to stop only a small portion of the shell from rising. It left a small bind for her to peer through, gazing straight at Kotori. "Such a poor, small soul, wandering with no one she knows... Have you no pity? No soul? When I last saw my baby, she only stood as tall as my knee! You don't get to rid me of her again!"

Over the hills, three creatures wandered into view. They would have rivaled an elephant in size, donning a dog-like body meshed with an abnormally colossal head of a human. They stared motionlessly at the group as their cone hats twisted themselves to reveal a wooden mannequin flying a pink kite overhead. They steadily approached, as if curious about the creatures beholding them. They weren't running at them yet.


"You don't get to do this to me!" she cried, letting the rest of eggshell encase her. Her screams faintly pierced the shell as it toppled over. The nearby Egg Cart wheeled in front of Aede, rolling into it to roll the egg away from the group of summoned, though slowly. "What did you do to my dear Amicia?!" she practically begged, followed by her distraught weeps. They were identical to the cries of the grieving mothers in Castellan.

"Illusions," Charon states dismissively after glancing at the three strange creatures. Ignoring the things, the soul eater turned his attention back to the strange not-dead fleshy and the egg like structure encasing her. This was perhaps one of the strangest fleshies he had ever encountered, but luckily something she had said had updated her status in his systems as now being a valid target for destruction. "The only small child I've been around was a demon. You are saying you are mother of a demon and are here doing threatening things, thus I get to HUG YOU!" With that declaration the android charged at the Egg Cart, his thrusters flaring to life, as he attempted to shoulder tackle the thing with the intention of knocking it over.

A dark room that had no voice nor sound that echoed through the walls. For a moment there would be rain, moments there would be sunlight, and times when this room seen the brightest of day. A knight with damaged armor and cape walked through the room reaching the unlit mass. Raising his blade high he pierced it into the mass lighting up the entire room with a bright flame, creating the bonfire that had lost it's fire. Surging power through the host entire body. There he sat in front of the bonfire by himself in the crumbled room that was apart of a massive castle. The room's ceiling was torn off and it was similar to a thrown room, with the pile of mass in the middle of the room. Painting's of Eldian's past were engraved on the walls, possibly even throughout the entirety of the castle. There he remained silent watching the world's night sky. It was a beautiful night and yet the bonfire's embers sparkled up into the sky creating it's own stars. The knight's attention turned when he heard the strange sound of swishing in the room. A formation of blackness spiraled in the wind on the other side of the bonfire.

"You who invade my kingdom speak of your name."

"I did not invade, yet had finally awoken due to the boys reach for greater power."

"Those golden flames. Are your doing?"

"Yes."

"Heh.. He only needs one source of power which is me, I am the very foundation of his magic power! We are one!"

"That may be true to a certain extent. I cannot allow you to continue plaguing his mind into the darkness, he shall not walk the path of the shadow. You've let that bonfire lose it's light to conceal his Eldian magic."

"I AM THE ONE WHO PROTECTS THIS WIMPY BASTARD!!! WITHOUT ME HE'D BE LONG DEAD THE FIRST BATTLE HE GOTTEN HIMSELF INTO!!!!!!!!! THESE DAMN WOMAN AND FUCKING HORSE HE SURROUNDS HIMSELF WITH WILL BE THE ONES THAT'LL BRING HIM TO HIS DOWNFALL!!! THAT HORSE WILL BE THE DEATH OF US SOONER THAN YOU KNOW IT!!!! THAT ARCHER HAS NO UNDERSTANDING TO DEAL WITH GODS! THAT GOD HAS HER BEND TO HIS WILL SO SHE TURNS A BLIND EYE TO HIS ACTIONS!!!! YOU THINK WE NEED YOUR SOURCE OF POWER WHEN ALL YOU DO IS CHANGE HIS HAIR GOLDEN AND GIVE HIM THE EXTRA DAMAGE TO DEAL WITH DEMONS AND THOSE OF EVIL HEART!? THAT'S A BIT COPYING IF YOU ASK ME!!!!! THAT VOID MAGE WILL PUT HITORI'S DUMBASS IN SITUATIONS HE WON'T UNDERSTAND FOR HER OWN ENTERTAINMENT. The only one I trust around him is that woman starchild! She is the only one who has yet to give off any intent of ending our lives!"

"Which is also true, but you seek control over his body. I cannot allow that. I seek a brighter future for the young deity. Those who he surrounds himself should be of his choosing and not yours. I have just now awoken so I have no idea of what you speak of. Yet for such a foul creature as yourself be so entitled to feel worry over the deity's life shows there's something deeper to your motives. I will watch over him from here on. You've must've figured what that Coiled Sword will do now that it is the source of power for the flames."

"Who are you to decide what goes on in this world!!! WHO THE HELL EVEN ARE YOU!!!!???" Black summoned his blade from flames grabbing the hilt and jumping over the bonfire preparing to strike the knight. The knight jumped out of the way, being launched back a bit from the sheer force of black's strike. The strike left a small crater where black swung down on. The demon dashed through the dust cloud preparing to cut the knight's head off. Barely ducking the knight was then forced to dodge a barrage of sword attacks from Black. Black's fighting style was mostly using the extended chain on the bottom of the sword to swing long range while using brute force and swift up close swings. The knight got cut a few times getting blown back.

"I am what Hitori needs! He needs to believe in instinct!!!! If he has no understanding of that simple battle intuitive then he will die!!!! If all you do is planning on "aiding" him then you have no place in this world at all!!! YOU WILL GET US ALL KILLED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Black smashed the ground with the tip of his blade sending a shockwave slash towards the knight giving him a massive cut.

Black realized something off as the knight he thought was the real one detonated, before he had a chance of turning around the Knight placed his hand on Black's back. A magic circle appeared on black's back.

"Speak your name."

"*****"

The knight's eyes under his helmet would open wide from the name the demon mentioned. He had no choice, but to activate the spell at this point now that it was already inflicted on the person. Black was then drawn towards the coiled sword that was pierced into the bonfire.

"My name is "*******"

"Just because you got me now! I will come back!!! I will not Succumb to you!!!!!!!!!! Remember this though!!! Black will be king..." And with that Black was completely drawn into the sword with a word being uttered before his departure. "Instinct..."

"For now.. You rest..."

While Hitori stood between Kotori and Aedehana he hard a serious look in his face and his fist were balled up ready for action at a given moment. The strange horned woman questioned Hitori why he would protect Kotori and it made him even more agitated. "You dare call her foul!!! She's done way more good than you could ever imagine!!!!! KOTORI IS MY FRIEND SO WHOEVER OR WHENEVER I HAVE TO I WILL PROTECT HER!!!! I don't know what happened to your daughter! But if she reeks the same evil as you do! Then... Her fate was sealed the minute she stepped forward to Kotori and Wakinyan! So like I said back the hell up!!!!" A surge of power rushed through Hitori's body out of no where, he had no idea where it came from. Hitori's fist burst in flames as he prepared to punch Aedehana with a fierce blow that'd send her flying through the forest. At the moment before the Heavenfire came crashing down without even a notice Hitori felt his body acting unusual as if it was going against what he was thinking.

"Instinct..."

In that moment his arm jolted back and his body made an evasive step back in the nick of time right before the Heavenfire slamming down inflicting massive damage on Aedehana. Hitori covered his face with his left arm and held onto Kotori's shoulder so she wouldn't fly off by the intensity of the attack from Wakinyan. As the woman said her last words to Kotori, he let go of her shoulder knowing she was okay now. Yet a new threat emerged as some egg dogs emerged from the cliffside. Hitori's mouth drooled.

"FOOD!!!! EGG DOGGS!!!!!!"

The mention of them being illusions from Charon made Hitori's head tilt in disappointment. "Man and Castellan is lacking on some grub I was hoping we finally found something smash on..." He said while his stomach growled. For a moment he looked at the palm of his hand wondering where that voice came from and why his body moved against his free will. It made him scared to think he possibly had no real control over himself.