Ram's POV
...Okay! So if I follow the instructions in this quest card... then the area where Weiz fought the Maniac should be around...
Ram: "HERE!"
..woooooshhhhhh....~
Ram: "There's nothing here!"
...It was just a plain of snow as far as the eye can see... well there's also the forest in the west but that's about it!
Ram: "hmm... I wonder if I got the right quest card though...AH!? Maybe Uni swapped it with a different one!?"
...Right!? That's gotta be it! It's that Sleight of hand thingy that MAGES. used!
Ram: "...Nah... It can't be... Uni's not a magician... but still..."
...There really is nothing in this place... No monsters, no treasure boxes... Just that big pile of red crystals sticking out of the groun-
Ram: "WAIT!"
...Red Crystals... cut down trees... and this reddish stain on the ground...
Ram: "I-is this.. b-blood...?"
...No doubt about it... this is the place! and from what I can see they really caused a lot of damage to the area... no surprise that Weiz was so injured...
Ram: "Mm?"
...Some of the bloodstains trailed off deep into the forrest...
Ram: "*Gulp*...Maybe this will lead to the Maniac...?"
All of a sudden...
SHINNGGGG!!!!
A burst of energy erupted deep within the forest, it reached high into the sky and then slowly faded away...
Ram: "That must be it!"
...I followed the trail...
...But it soon lead me to nothing again... I got so lost after that...
As I went deeper into the forest, time passed by and the sun started to set... The red sky masked the entire vicinity and things were looking quite bleak for me...
Ram: "Uuu~ If Only I could transform! I could just fly!"
...I couldn't feel any shares at all... it's like my feet were glued to the ground and it was frustrating!
Ram: "Haa... Just where is this Maniac even hiding!?"
...Rustle... Rustle...
Ram: "Who's there!?"
...I felt someone's presence... It surprised me a bit and now I prepared myself for whatever might come out...
Ram: "gulp!"
...Rustle...Rustle...
Ram: "Uuu~ If you won't come out... I WILL COME AT YOU! YAHHHHH!!!"
...I raised my wand high up into the air and tried to summon a big ball of ice to crush the enemy!
but...
Ram: "Eh...?"
...Nothing came... Where's my splendid Sphere of ice that will destroy my enemy!?
Rustle...Rustle...
Ram: "EEP!!"
Uhh... I'm kinda scared now... umm... I can't really do this now, can I? Rom... I wish you were here...
Ram: "NO! This time... I will stand and fight! HAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!"
...I charge with my wand in hand and I swing it down with all my might!
???: "OWWW!!!!"
Ram: "Wha-?"
Memoire: "Oww~ That hurt... I told you she wouldn't get scared..."
Uni: "Impossible! I thought that would totally scare Ram."
Ram: "Memoire!? Uni!? How did you find me!?"
Memoire: "Googly.com"
Ram: "...What?"
Uni: "No...*thunk*"
Memoire: "Auu~"
...Uni bopped Memoire on the head for some reason...
Uni: "Anyway, we found out where you were since we asked Weiz about the place through the phone."
Ram: "What!? You told him!? Aww... and I was going to surprise him too...."
Uni: "Or give him and Miss Blanc a heart attack! Seriously we need to go back now, we thought we'd scare you out of here, but clearly you won't back down so easily, so we'll just have to drag you back..."
Ram: "No! I'm sick of waiting and just sitting around in the Basilicom!"
Memoire: "Ram, I know how you feel, but worrying people isn't going to help anyone..."
Ram: "Mumumumu~"
...I can't argue back... To be honest... I actually feel like I will lose... but this sense for danger for power... I don't really understand it... but it's like... something is calling me... The moment I heard about something or someone beating Weiz...
...I just felt this sense of dread... but at the same time... I felt curious about the person who beat up the strongest lord...
Ram: "...hmm..."
...But I knew... The way I am now... I'm too weak to fight... I can't use magic... if only I was strong like Sis... or as sharp as Noire... or at least as agile and tough as Neptune... and maybe as voluptuous as Vert, because seriously her body is the only thing good about her...
"...Do you desire power..."
Ram: "huh?"
Uni: "What's wrong Ram?"
Someone just talked to me... Telepathically...
"...I ask you... do you want power..."
Ram: "Yes! Enough power to beat the maniac that roughed up Weiz!"
Memoire: "Who are you talking to?"
"...Then it is yours..."
Ram: "Ack!"
...Something wrapped around my arm! I feel it tighten up... it hurts!
Uni: "Ram! What happened!?"
Ram: "Agh... AGHHHH!!!!!!!"
...Something is surging through me! Something dark... it's... overwhelming!
"...Behold... The power of a beast!"
Ram: "AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!"
Memoire: "Uni! Run!"
...Memoire grabbed Uni by the arm and pulled her away from me... What is going on!? Is this it!? The Power I asked for!?
It's coursing through me... This feeling... it's the same feeling that I felt when I used red crystals to impale Weiz...
...No... It's much worse... It's taking over my body!
Ram: "S-stop...! Agh! Tch! GUHA!!!!"
I need to reel it in... but I don't think I'll make it...! The power that surged forth released a ray of red light energy into the sky... I'm... losing myself...
AGHHH!!!!
...My vision blacked out... I lost control... I'm falling....
"...This is my body now..."
Earlier in the Basilicom
Blanc's POV
...Weiz... He woke up just recently...but...
Blanc: "What's wrong...?"
Weiz: "huh...? O-oh nothing..."
...He just kept staring at me... and when I try to read his mind...
Blanc: "..."
...I hear nothing... he's not thinking anything... he's not saying anything either... geez... what is this creep up to?
Weiz: "Hey..."
...He spoke...!
Blanc: "What?"
Weiz: "Can I touch you?"
Blanc: "H-huh?"
Weiz: "I just want to touch you..."
Blanc: "What are you saying you idiot? Why would you want to touch me?"
Weiz: "I... don't really know... It's just this urge I get from looking at you."
Blanc: "What?"
...Where is this conversation leading to? I'm really confused now and I don't know how to respond to him...
Blanc: "So that's it? You just want to touch me?"
Weiz: "Yeah."
Blanc: "Haah... Fine... But I'll warn you... touch me like a creep and you'll regret it."
Weiz: "Got it."
...Should I really let him do this though...? Well... I haven't really seen anything from his mind... so I guess it's a clean call-
*funyu* He touched my cheek!
Blanc: "kya!"
Weiz: "Ah! Sorry! Did I surprise you?"
Blanc: "Y-you IDIOT! I didn't say do it now!"
Weiz: "Yeah... My bad... I was feeling a bit rushed..."
Blanc: "Geez...haa...fuuu... Okay... go ahead..."
Weiz: "Alright..."
...I watched his right hand reach out for me... it got closer and closer... The urge to push him back with all my might started to rise...Uuu~!
...No Blanc... don't... just don't mind it...think of it as a physical exam! Yeah that's right...
*funyi*
Blanc: "Hya!"
Weiz: "W-what's wrong!?"
Blanc: "N-nothing... it just tickled a bit... when you touched my ear..."
Weiz: "O-oh.... Okay... Can I go on...?"
Blanc: "Yeah..."
He continued to move his hand across my face... he gently touched it with utmost care, as it brushed along my cheek, I could feel his warm hand giving off this heat, his fingers awkwardly pinches my cheek ever so gently...
Weiz: "I'll be using my other hand now okay...?"
Blanc: "O-Okay, go ahead."
...His left hand moves, and once again his fingers touched the back of my ear...
Blanc: "Hau~!"
...I flinched for a bit, the sudden warmth given to my ears made me jerk to the side as I tilt my head to the direction of his hand. By doing so I could feel him tracing the lines on my earlobe, the feeling was surreal, almost like a shock went through my whole body and I felt a sudden chill run down my spine as well...
Blanc: "H-hey... Had enough yet...? Hamu~~nnnggg!"
Weiz: "Ah... just a bit more..."
Blanc: "G-geez..."
...He continues... My senses were stimulated... I felt the texture of his rough hand and the warmth it radiated... the rugged and yet gentle touches... The tracing... he touched my nape and I instinctively reach for his hand.
Weiz: "S-sorry! was that no good?"
Blanc: "Eh? Ah! no... go ahead..."
Weiz: "Uh, Okay..."
...I let go of his warm hand as it brushed through my hair... My hair felt wet, possibly due to me sweating... oh no, I hope I don't stink...
Weiz: "..." (She really does look like Luna... She's not just pretending is she?)
Blanc: "..."
...So he's still caught up on that... haah... if that's just what he wanted to know then he should have just asked me straight out...
Blanc: "Weiz... I'm not Luna..."
Weiz: "Ah!?"
Blanc: "...I'm not her... I can't take her place in your heart... No one can..."
Weiz: "I know..."
...I see his sorrow stricken face... I feel his pain...
Weiz: "..." (Agh! What am I doing...? Am I so desperate that I'd just want to believe that she's Luna!? Come on! Reel it in you greedy bastard!)
Blanc: "Weiz..."
...He's reprimanding himself... he knew what he was doing was wrong... but he couldn't help himself... He's lost... he's lonely... He doesn't know what to do...
Weiz: "I'm sorry... I didn't mean to let you feel this way..."
Blanc: "No... I'm sorry I made you feel this way... If only I didn't look like her... Then you wouldn't be reminded of your lost constantly..."
...Should I just tell him that Luna is actually inside that red gem of a HERETIC? would that somehow relieve him of this pain?
Blanc: "..."
...No... This is what's hurting him... the fact that he cannot move on... that he cannot accept the fact that Luna is gone... It's a sin in itself... degrading yourself by seeking something that has already been lost... It's true that Luna had just disappeared recently... but this uncontrollable greed for what he lost... to the point where he'd substitute anyone, just to fill that sense of longing...
Blanc: "Weiz..."
...But... On the other hand...
Weiz: "Hm?"
...Maybe... just maybe...
Weiz: "Eh...?"
Blanc: "I-If its just giving me pats.. T-then I can make an exception..."
Weiz: "O-oh...okay..."
...I placed his hand on my head...he ruffles it gently...
Weiz: "Ahaha..."
Blanc: "W-what...?"
Weiz: "It's a bit rough, but digging in deeper like this... you get to feel that warm and soft sensation..."
Blanc: "I see..."
...The tension started to drop and things were going smoothly... Huh, I guess the head pats did work...
Weiz: "Thanks..."
Blanc: "You're welcome..."
...He finally released my head and then gets out of his bed... He stood by the window looking at the city...
Ring...Ring...Ring...
Blanc: "Hm?"
Something in his pocket rang...
Weiz: "...A call? Memoire...?"
...it was a form of communication device... it had a screen and a speaker... kinda old fashioned compared to Schwarz's holovids...
Weiz: "What!? No way!"
Blanc: "What's wrong..."
Weiz: "The place is at the Lo Fields far up north... be careful and get her out of there."
Blanc: "What happened?"
Weiz: "Memoire called and told me that...Your sister went off to look for the maniac..."
Blanc: "What!?"
...Weiz filled me in on the details...
Blanc: "I see..."
Weiz: "I have to get there...If she does meet the maniac then it won't be pretty."
Blanc: "I'm coming with you."
Weiz: "Wha-? No! You're going to get yourself killed!"
Blanc: "My sister is in danger... I can't just sit here twiddling my thumbs waiting for news!"
Weiz: "I'm telling you! That bitch is out there somewhere and I will not risk you getting hurt over your own stupidity!"
Blanc: "Say what you want, scold me for all I care! I'm going with you!"
Weiz: "Tch... Do what you want..." (She's as stubborn as her as well...)
Blanc: "Hmph."
...I ignore that last bit... for now I need to go and save my sister...
Weiz: "The place is a bit far, let's ride the tamed Fenrir in the canine pit."
Blanc: "You can ride a Fenrir!?"
Weiz: "Of course... anything on this land belongs to me."
Blanc: "Maybe you want to scratch that one out... I don't think that's a fact..."
...SHIIIIINGGGGGGGGG!!!!!
Weiz / Blanc: "Agh!"
...A thin ray of purple light emerged from the distance, it reached high into the heavens and then faded after a few seconds..
Weiz: "That light!"
Blanc: "We need to move!"
Weiz: "Alright boy, let's go see what that was!"
Fenrir: "ARF! ARF!"
After grabbing some beef Jerky from the pit...We rode the dazzling blue beast into the white snow, it's body was built to withstand the cold and it's speed was amazing... no wonder it was his transport in this snowy fields...
Blanc: "But wait... I thought You could summon a board of ice to ride it?"
Weiz: "Yeah... well..." (I'm not really fully healed myself) "It's nothing..."
Blanc: "Weiz..."
...I reached for his shoulder...
Weiz: "kh!"
...He grimaced in pain... he was still injured!?
Blanc: "You idiot! Why didn't you heal yourself!"
Weiz: "I tried... but for some reason, that particular scar just wouldn't heal at all..."
...The scar that traced down from his left shoulder to his lower back... It was the deepest injury he got last night...
Blanc: "What could have caused this...?"
Weiz: "I don't know... but that blade... it looked awfully familiar... I think I saw someone from Planeptune use it once... Anyway... we need to hurry... Go boy!"
Fenrir: "ARF!"
... With Weiz's words... The beast exerts more force and we go faster, powder of snow takes to the air as we move... I'm still concerned about Weiz's injury but... for now I need to get to Ram fast...
WOOOSHHH.......
Blanc: "Brr..."
Weiz: "Feeling cold? Even with that coat?"
Blanc: "Yeah...Brrr....~!"
...I don't know why though... I mean I've been living in Lowee for as long as I can remember, and I've been wearing this coat for so long and I only felt a little bit cold...
Blanc: "Achoo!"
Weiz: "Here use my garb."
Blanc: "Ah! Thank you..."
...He gives me his garb and I wrap it around me... it was warm and it made me feel safe... but at the same time... I saw a streak of red that stretched down from his shoulder...
Blanc: "..."
...I stayed silent... I should focus on the task at hand... still I can't help but feel concerned...
Due to the distance the sun has started to set, and along the way we encountered several monsters that Weiz surprisingly handled easily... I guess I was worrying too much? As for myself... I can't even lift my hammer... This is so irritating...
SHINGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!
Weiz: "Another one!?"
Blanc: "A red surge of energy... It's close! Let's hurry!"
We rushed towards the red light... upon our arrival... we were greeted with an unpleasant surprise... We looked down from an overlooking hill... and...
Weiz: "What the hell...?"
Blanc: "Ram...?"
Uni and Memoire stood there terrified of the sight...
Ram: "RAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
...I see my dear sister screaming at the top of her lungs, her hair shining red as the sunset and her eyes glowing cyan... the area around her warped then started to crack... from those cracks red crystals started rising up from the earth...
Ram: "Ghhaaa! BEGONE!"
as she waves her hand the red crystals were launched towards Uni and Memoire...
Uni: "Tch!"
SHIIINGGGG!!!!
...Uni went HDD... she raised her cannon high into the air and summoned a magic circle above her...
B.Sister: "SCATTER ORION!!!"
...With those words, Uni pulled the trigger as the ray of light enters the magic circle, it splits into multiple rays that showers down in front of Uni and Memoire preventing the red crystals from reaching them.
B.Sister: "We have to knock her out of that form!"
Memoire: "On it!"
...Schwarz's daughter rushed forward and summoned a short laser blade, she holds it in reverse and makes her first attack...
Memoire: "Raikosen!"
...She phased out of our vision and then reappeared behind Ram leaving a trail of lightning in her path... Apparently she delivered an electric light speed blow, hoping to paralyze Ram... but...
Memoire: "No good..."
Ram: "Kh!"
...Ram summoned a red crystal shield on her right arm and guarded the initial impact... While she was hurt from the lightning strike... she is far from numb let alone going down...
Ram: "RAGHHH!"
...With a loud roar Ram summoned a red crystal sword in her left hand and took to the air, she swings the sword down, aiming to end Memoire...
Memoire: "Hup!"
...Memoire nimbly dashed below Ram and re-positioned herself behind Uni...
B.Sister: "Stop right now Ram! Or we will be forced to hurt you!"
Ram: "...Harr... I don't care... Hurt me if you want to!"
...She screamed... then suddenly...
Weiz: "ARgH!"
Blanc: "Weiz what's wrong!?"
Weiz: "...The Heretic... It's... AGH!!! AHHHHH!!!!!!!!!"
Blanc: "AhhH!"
...A burst of energy suddenly envelopes Weiz... his hair turned red and his eyes turned cyan... he's just like Ram now...
Weiz: "POWER....I WANT.... POWER!!!! RAAAAAGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!"
Blanc: "Weiz! Wait!"
...He lost himself!? What the hell just happened!? He jumped off the fenrir and rushed towards the battle... I couldn't stop him... Damn! if I could just transform...
Blanc: "I have to catch up! Come on boy!"
Fenrir: "Koon~"
Blanc: "This is no time for head pats! Chase that F$^&^#!!!!"
Fenrir: "ARF!"
...He barked once and started running forward... Damn! Weiz is running like a mad man! He is actually faster than the Fenrir!
Blanc: "Crap! Go faster and I'll give you a beef Jerky!"
Fenrir: "ARf..?"
Blanc: "Fine! Take the jerky! just take the freakin JERKY!!! TAKE ALL OF THE BEEF JERKY!!! AND GO FASTER!!! YOU STUPID DOG!!!"
...I fed it some of the jerky that Weiz brought...
Fenrir: "Arf? Arf? AAWWOOOOO!!!!"
Blanc: "W-whoa!!! WAHHHHH!!!!!"
...Okay this is too fast! too fast!!!! TOOO FAAAAAAAAAAAAASTTTTT!!!!!!!!
Uni's POV
B.Sister: "What happened to you...? Wait... You're not Ram, are you...?"
Ram: "Kh... It doesn't matter... I just... Want... more power...more destruction...more despair!!!"
Memoire: "She's possessed... We have to do something...If this goes on... I fear that it will not be something good..."
Ram: "Tch...Another one...?"
B.Sister: "Huh?"
...Memoire and I looked behind us...
Weiz: "RAGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Memoire: "Lord Weiz!"
B.Sister: "Uh oh..."
He was rushing towards us... Snow takes to the air as his feet tramples on them... he blazed right past us... his eyes full of unrivaled power...
Weiz: "RaGHHH!!!!"
B.Sister: "No! Stop!"
Memoire: "Lord Weiz, get a hold of yourself!"
...A battle axe appeared in his hands and with all his strength he hammers it down on Ram...
Ram: "Naive!"
...Ram jumps to the side... Weiz then follows her and hammers down the battle axe once again burrying the axe in the ground...
Weiz: "RAgh!"
Ram: "Hmph!"
...This time Ram rolls on the ground to dodge the attack, after she rolled, she slipped behind Weiz and then...
Ram: "Hah!"
...she used the crystal sword to carve a deep perpendicular cut into Weiz's right arm...
Weiz: "Agh!"
...He grimaced in pain... he staggers a bit but to our surprise...
Weiz: "Ahaha... AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!! YES! THAT POWER! GIVE IT TO ME!!!"
Ram: "Try and take it!"
...Impossible! After that blow he should just give up! then something hairy and blue appreared at the corner of our eyes...
B.Sister / Memoire: "KYAAAAAAHHHH!!!!"
Blanc: "Damn! I got here too late..."
Fenrir: "Arf! Arf!"
Blanc: "Yeah, yeah whatever here's your jerky."
Fenrir: "Om! NOM NOM!!!"
B.Sister: "Uhh..."
Memoire: "Miss Blanc... Why were you riding that beast!?"
Blanc: "Oh... sorry to scare you girls...This Fenrir is one of the tamed canines from Weiz's canine pit... don't worry about him..."
Clang! Bash! Crash!!!!!!
Blanc: "Agh! I don't have time to explain this! We have to stop these idiots from bashing each other's heads in!"
B.Sister: "I know but what do we do!? They are stronger and a whole lot more resilient than us. And Ram... I don't know what happened... but she's quicker, smarter and stronger than she used to..."
Memoire: "She's also manipulating the red crystals like their an extension of her own body... I've never seen anything like it before... Her sword and shield too... they give off this very powerful aura..."
Blanc: "Tch!"
...The battle raged on... Weiz summons a wall of ice that repels any projectile back to its sender...
Weiz: "Grrr..."
Ram: "Tsk... HAHHH!!!"
...Ram gets close to the wall, her shield then enlarges, she exerts force into it pouring enormous amounts of energy... she winds up for a devastating shield bash!
Ram: "RAGHHHH!!!"
CRACK! SHATTER!!!
Weiz: "Ngh!"
The ice wall breaks apart...
Ram: "Helm Splitter!"
...Ram jumps up and holds her sword with both hands, she delivers a heavy downward swing unto Weiz...
Weiz: "NOT ENOUGH!"
...Weiz then grabs his axe with his left hand and delivers a quick but crushing horizontal cut with it...
Ram: "Ahh!"
...Ram's crystal sword break... she is also launched high into the air...
Weiz: "Get back here!"
...Weiz then jumps to chase her... while still in midair, Ram summons another sword... she creates a magic circle at the soles of her boots and then kicks off from it... she dives downward, then spins once in mid-air... she thrusts her sword downwards as if piercing the ground...
Weiz: "Agh!"
...Weiz was stabbed on his left shoulder, blood trickles down as the two forces of nature stare each other down eye to eye... It's as if they were in slow-motion as they stared a each other...
Weiz: "I'm not losing to you!"
Ram: "Gha!"
...Weiz grabbed Ram by the neck... due to her small stature, Weiz easily threw her down to the ground...
Blanc: "Ram!"
...Ram hits the ground hard, but she wasn't down just yet... Miss Blanc in the meantime were at her wits end, she couldn't transform, she was too weak to carry her hammer, and the most irritating part for her is that she could only watch... Memoire and I tried our best to stop them, but none of our efforts seemed to matter...
B.Sister: "That's enough!"
...I fired 2 rounds one for Weiz and one for Ram, but to my shock, they just caught it while it was still hot and still in mid-air... they then proceeded to throw the blasts at each other, the bullets collided and created a huge explosion that masked the battlefield...
as the smoke clears up... We who were watching felt something off in the air... The two were channeling so much energy that the snow in the field started to melt... no... EVAPORATE!
Weiz: "Time to End this...Letzter Stardust!!!!"
Ram: "I agree...Ice Sword... ICE CALIBUR!!!"
...The two were preparing for a final attack!
Blanc: "No! Stop! both of you!"
...Miss Blanc runs towards the two, desperate to stop their attacks, she gets in between them but the two weren't about to stop...
B.Sister: "No wait!"
Memoire: "You'll get caught in the aftermath!"
Weiz / Ram: "HAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!"
...They unleashed their most powerful attacks...
Memoire: "Oh no..."
B.Sister: "Tch!"
...I rushed to Miss Blanc's side, She can't take that attack on her own, she'll be destroyed! If not her then I will have to take that damage... I'll endure it... I'm sure I can, and I am certain that a certain gadget Nerd will do the same...
B.Sister: "Kh!"
Blanc: "Uni!? What- are you-!?"
...The attacks were coming, Weiz had his Axe raised up high Ram as well, with her Red and Blue great sword... And we were in the middle of it all... I have to endure this! I need to endure this! As the only goddess here, I have to do this!
...But in truth I was scared... I'm not usually in the front lines... I just hang in the back and snipe enemies from a distance... The one who should be doing this really is-
-------SHING-------!
B.Sister: "What was that!?"
...Something glimmered in the dark forest followed by a purple hue of light, it then surged forward and came closer and closer... I could tell that it was a person... but it was too fast... I couldn't make out the face... and then as the light reached us, the person raised both hands side ways... My eyes couldn't believe what I was seeing... It was a girl... She held out her hands, no barriers, nothing to protect her at all... but she didn't need it... as the attacks finally came... the girl caught the sharp crystal sword and heavy axe with her bare hands...
Ram: "AghhH!"
...The attacks were nullified, the girl then knocks Ram out with a single combo and a blast of her gunblade... She turns her attention to Weiz...
Weiz: "You-!?"
She swings her gun blade upward causing a torrent of destructive energy to wash over Weiz...The Girl then summons a great battle-axe the one that Blanc uses in HDD... She hammers the ground which staggered Weiz, a magic circle then appeared below her and a familiar cannon appeared... It was mine! She blasts Weiz up into the air... The cannon vanished and then a Claymore appeared it was My Sister's! She flew towards Weiz and unleashed a devastating combo ending with a downward cut. While Weiz was still falling, the girl then chases after him... A Blue wand appeared in her right wand, Rom's Wand to be exact, she swings it upward and then sideways which made blue and red orbs of light appear and revolve around her, the blue orbs revolved from bottom to top while the Red Orbs revolved from left to right, forming a cross of sorts, this prevented Weiz from reaching the ground...
Weiz: "DAMN YOU!!!!'
...The girl wasn't done, a Red wand appeared in her left, it was Ram's, She then makes it levitate in front of her as rings of blade cuts Weiz dealing tons of damage, she then proceeds to smash the rings releasing a cold wave of energy that launched Weiz further back. She then summons a great spear, identical to Vert's and then proceeds to pierce Weiz multiple times with it... she finally drops Weiz to the ground by throwing the spear downward, Weiz then bounced off the solid ground and then...
???: "It's over!"
...The girl swoops in from the side and summons Neptune's Great Sword then proceeds to hack away at the enemy in impossible speeds... She launched Weiz into the air... As Weiz started to fall, the girl then finishes everything up with a sweeping slice with the Great Sword...
Weiz: "AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
...Weiz's pained scream echoed into the sky as another wave of powerful energy destroyed him...
The girl was then enveloped in white light... she became a bit shorter... but I can't be mistaking it
...I turn off HDD to look at the onslaught... Ram was easily knocked out... the Strongest man was destroyed... by none other than...
Uni: "Nepgear...?"
Nepgear: "!!!"
...It was Nepgear... but she looked different... her clothes, her style... everything felt so distant from the Nepgear I knew...
She turns to face me...
Uni: "Wh-what's wrong!? Why are you Crying...!?"
Nepgear: "It's really you... Uni...*hic* I'm so sorry...ahhhh!!! AHAAAA!!!!!! AHHH!!!!!!"
...She fell to her knees and started bawling, tears stained her face, I don't know what's going on anymore...
Blanc: "Hey! What's going on!?"
Nepgear: "Blanc too... You're here...! Oh I'm so sorry...please forgive me!!!"
...She clings to us like she was pleading for something, asking for forgiveness and such...
Blanc: "For What? For knocking out Ram? Or for totally Wrecking Weiz...!?"
Nepgear: "I'm sorry...! I'm so sorry...!"
Uni: "Nepgear... Snap out of it! What's wrong with you...Ah-!"
...She just kept crying... Then she pulls me in and gives me the biggest hug she could ever give me... all the while crying...
Uni: "H-hey... Calm down, I'm here... don't worry..."
Nepgear: "...sniff...ahhh...AHHHH!!!"
Blanc: "Haa... She's bawling again... Still..."
...Blanc looks at the place where Nepgear unleashed her deadly combo...
Blanc: "She was using our weapons back there... and look at this crater..."
...No wonder Weiz was completely destroyed... He was left on the ground knocked out and his upper clothes torn to shreds... Props to the guy, he survived that attack...
Uni: "Wait what about Ram!?"
Blanc: "She's okay, Nepgear only knocked her out thankfully."
Nepgear: "!!! I knocked out Ram!!!??? Ahhh!!! I'M so sorry!!!!"
Uni: "Ugh! This is really getting on my nerves now..."
Blanc: "Don't worry Nepgear, she's just asleep now..."
...Nepgear didn't stop crying at all...and she kept holding on to me...
Memoire: "There, there, that's a good boy..."
Fenrir: "Arf! ARf!"
...Meanwhile Memoire had the Fenrir carry Weiz like a sack of potato...
Blanc: "Let's head to the Basilicom for now..."
Uni: "Agreed..."
Crack!
Uni: "Hm?"
...I think I heard a cracking sound... must have been my imagination... For now we traveled back to the basilicom...
In the basilicom
...Nepgear presented us with a Sharicite, she said it was from Neptunio... after placing it in Weiz's hand... his wounds started to heal up... the large scars on his arms and back were healed as well...
Uni: "Hey Nepgear... Can I have a look at that for a bit..."
Nepgear: "Hm? Sure."
...She hands me the sharicite... I inspect it for a bit and then on the other bed I found Ram sleeping... I decided to place the Sharicite in Ram's hand...
Uni: "Whoa!"
Almost instantly a bright light envelopes Ram and then...
Ram: "AHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!"
...She starts screaming...she cries and cries as she covers her ears and starts rolling on the bed...
Uni: "Ram! Calm down!"
Ram: "Stop! No! Don't hurt them! NO! NOOOO!!!"
Blanc: "!!!"
...Blanc rushed in and held her sister tight, she gives her the warmest embrace she could offer...
Ram: "N-no! Sis get away from me! You'll get hurt! I don't want to hurt you! Please! Stay away! Stay away!"
Blanc: "Screw that! I'm not leaving you! Ram, I won't ever leave you!"
Ram: "*hic*...*hic*...Uuu..."
Blanc: "No matter how much you hurt me, no matter how much of a pain you may be...No matter how many of my paper works you doodle on... I will scold you, I will shout at you! But.."
...Her hold on Ram get stronger...
Blanc: "Even if you commit countless atrocities, or no matter how many people you hurt... I will be there to stop you, I will always watch over you, no matter how many pranks, no matter how many books you throw at me... I will always... ALWAYS BE WITH YOU!"
Ram: "*hic*...I-...I just wanted to be strong..."
Blanc: "Yeah..."
Ram: "But then someone talked to me... they offered me power... and I accepted...but then...kh! Uuu~... uwahhhh!!!!!"
Blanc: "Don't worry... I understand... It wasn't you... It's not your fault..."
Ram: "I just wanted to avenge Weiz too... I wanted to show you both that I can do something... That I can help..."
Blanc: "Yeah... I know... but Ram... you've helped us a lot already, in the past, you saved me and the other CPU's, you and Rom gathered shares to keep our Nation safe... You have done so much... and I can't thank you enough for that..."
Ram: "khu...ahhh...AHHHHHH!!!!"
...Her tears were unending... But I could see that Blanc really cared for her sisters, she has kept them closer to her heart than anyone else...
Noire: "Looks like things are settling down here..."
Uni: "Sis!"
Schwarz: "Stupid brother... What have you got yourself into this time..."
Memoire: "Daddy, you arrived."
...Sis and Schwarz were at the guild, in behalf of Blanc's request...
Noire: "Poor thing..."
...Sis approached Ram and gently brushed her hair...
Noire: "She's really terrified... well after that happened, I can't really blame her... By the way who stopped the rampage?"
Blanc: "Well..."
...To answer my sister's question, Blanc points to the girl standing still behind me...
Noire: "Oh! If isn't Nepgear...Hmm...? What's with that get up? You look weird."
Nepgear's POV
...She's walking towards me... it was an eerily familiar scene... her steps felt heavy, and her calm smile touched a scar deep inside my heart... she was reaching out her hand towards me...
Nepgear: "!!!"
...Suddenly, images flashed before me... The intense battle between her and my sister... and then her last moments... as we both tried to pull the sword away from each other she suddenly stopped... and then...
"...Don't ever let go of that sword..."
"...What...?"
...Red entered my vision... Noire's blood tainted my hand... and then Uni's... Then Miss Kei's words... they stabbed deeper than any blade... Noire and Uni's lifeless bodies then appeared before me and I... I...
Noire: "E-EHHHHH!!!???? W-WHY ARE YOU CRYING!? Hey! I didn't do anything!"
Schwarz: "What did you do this time!?"
Noire: "NOTHING! I just called her clothes weird but I didn't mean anything bad about it or anything okay!"
Nepgear: "!!!"
...I reached out my hand towards her own... and summoned her blade...
Noire: "Eh?"
Nepgear: "Please... take it..."
Noire: "Oh, umm... sure... Wait, it's my own sword! Why do you have- Ah!"
...Noire immediately inspects her own inventory... and finds the perfectly similar sword still present in her arsenal...
Noire: "No way... two of them...?"
Blanc: "Is it really that shocking...? Weren't those mass produced back in Lastation...?"
Noire: "Yes... but, take a look..."
...Noire raised her sword towards Blanc...
Noire: "My sword has Lastation's platinum seal... No other sword has this seal... but mine...For two to exist at the same time..."
...Noire then looks at me...
Noire: "If my guess is right... then, you're not the Nepgear we know... or are you even Nepgear?"
Everyone: "!!!"
...Shock was written on their faces, even little Ram who was crying... was just dumbfounded
Nepgear: "I am Nepgear... but...Not the one you know... Before I tell my own story, will you please tell yours first...? If you can, please tell me what happened during the battle with the Deity of Sin."
Uni: "Nepgear..."
Noire: "Very well..."
...They told me of their battles against the Deity, and I start to pinpoint where our timelines seperated...
Uni: "A rumor about a sword...?"
Blanc: "I believe I've heard of it."
Noire: "Me too, we thought it might have been a clue to defeating the Deity, but we scratched it out leaving it as a hearsay..."
Nepgear: "That's where we differed... In my timeline, we pursued the said sword... but..."
...As I continue to fill them in on the details... their expressions began to crumble, Uni was confused, Ram was scared, Noire was shocked, and for the first time, I saw Blanc's face of disbelief...
Uni: "...You...did what...?"
Noire: "..."
Ram: "Uhh..."
Blanc: "A-ah..."
From the very moment I saw Uni and Ram... I thought I was dreaming... but then... the memories... they haunted me... and so I told myself... these weren't the people that I knew them as... What I did was no dream, and my blood stained hands... They will forever more carry the burden of my sins...
Uni: "Hey..."
Nepgear: "Uni...?"
Uni: "What you've done... It was all for Gamindustri's sake..."
Noire: "We can't fault you for that."
Blanc: "I feel rather bad for letting you go through that though..."
Ram: "Nepgear...You're stupid!"
Nepgear: "W-what!?"
Ram: "Why would you use that sword!? Don't you know that you've got the best goddesses in your team!?"
Nepgear: "Huh?"
Ram: "The Amzing Ram! and the most Adorable Rom! We could have kicked that Deity's butt like we did in our timeline!"
Nepgear: "Y-yeah... Yeah!"
Ram: "Hehe~! Now that you got that! No more using that sword okay!"
Nepgear: "Yeah... To be honest, I can't really use the sword anymore..."
Schwarz: "Because, Neptunio took it."
Nepgear: "Yes..."
Weiz: "Tch... So it was that blade all along...?"
...Weiz woke up... he struggled getting back up for a bit so Blanc helped him up...
Weiz: "Yup... I don't feel it anymore..."
Blanc: "What are you talking about...?"
Weiz: "Whenever something powerful is nearby... Amon reacts... he wants to take that power for himself, and to be perfectly honest...I'd want that for myself as well."
Nepgear: "No! You saw what that sword did to me! You don't want that!"
Weiz: "More power means I can protect my people better... And THAT is what I need."
Blanc: "Weiz..."
Ram: "..."
Schwarz: "Brother..." (You are mistaken...)
...I felt a rather unpleasant cold come down my spine... This guy... he doesn't care about anything but just gaining power...
...That's all he wants...
Histy Notes:
Ram (RAMPAGE) - Her moves in this state resembles some of the moves that the Hero's Shade in Zelda Twilight princess teaches link.
The Back Slice
Helm Splitter
and Ending Blow to name a few
Nepgear (ULTIMA COMBO) - It's basically Terra's Desparation move in KH2 Final Mix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg22rOvCpSI
Author's Notes
I'm typing these final Notes 3 minutes before my work time... Oh well :D
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Chapter 33 (Greed: Verloren und bedauern)