Twenty five years ago, a meteorite hit the surface of earth. It caused mass extinction of each and every species on earth. From the space rock escaped the radiations and chemicals, which caused some of the living beings to mutate, and gave them uncanny abilities. And thus began the new age of humanity, the Mutant Age!
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Todo picked up the paper and saw another labyrinth marked on it.
"(Gigi) What's on it?"
"(Todo) It has... Another labyrinth marked on it. *Turns the paper backwards* And there is another map here....."
Gigi also looked at the paper.
"(Todo) Let's go."
"(Gigi) Where?"
"(Todo) We are going back to the place."
"(Gigi) But why again?"
"(Todo) The prophecy of the second apocalypse. You said the information is kept here right? And we found this piece of paper again, which means that we can find another summoner scroll. The scroll calls it's owner itself, I already have one scroll, and now this is another. I don't think this is just a mere coincidence. This has to be something big."
Gigi thought about it. Then they decided that they will go for the second labyrinth.
All of them stood up and got out of the room.
As soon as they exited and looked in the front, they noticed that they are standing in front of the labyrinth.
"(Aura) Wait weren't we ju-"
She looked back. The room they were in just a few seconds ago was not there.
Mikasa felt a headache. Her mapping powers were getting all glitchy.
"(Todo) I don't think this is a good sign. We once again are trapped in this hodgepodge. Let's get this done as quickly as possible."
They walked inside. The maze was confusing. Thanks to Mikasa, they were able to go to the right path. They again found a guard creature before the main door. It was a big humanoid bear.
"(Cross) A'ight I'mma do it."
Cross walked towards the bear. It roared and then jumped to attack him. Cross shooted a fire ball that went straight through the bears stomach, killing it in an instant.
"(Gigi) You know you could have been a little less messier."
"(Cross) Messiness is fun."
They opened the door. It was not shocking to find another weird room for the scroll to be kept at.
Everyone tried to enter the room, but they couldn't, except for Todo. He could do it because he was the one chosen for the scroll.
He walked through the room. It was designed with religious structures, giving off the vibes of a holy place of worship. He saw the same altar, and opening it, he did not found a scroll, but a torn page.
It was the page that was missing from his scroll.
The scroll he owned had an incomplete warning:
'If the person rejects, they shall die and their soul will be damned. But if they use it, th-'
And the second piece of the scroll continued:
'-ey shall pay the price."
"(Todo) The price? What kind?"
Further reading, the scroll said:
'If a person wants his summon to appear before the given time of two weeks, he shall write the summoning with his own blood. By doing so, the entity will summon faster depending on the amount of blood used for summoning.'
Todo stood up. He then called the others in the room. They were now able to enter. When they reached, Todo asked Nat to cut his finger.
"(Nat) But, why?"
"(Todo) I need you to do so."
"(Nat) I can't!"
"(Todo) Do it, Nat. It's important."
Against her will, Nat took out a dagger. Todo offered his finger, and Nat cut off his index finger.
"(Todo) Alright you guys. Can you leave me alone for a bit?"
"(Vanda) Why?"
"(Todo) Need to do something important. You guys wait outside."
They went outside and closed the door. After a while, they heard an explosion. They thought of going inside, but then rejected the idea. Some time later, Todo opened the door.
"(Todo) Alright, haha, let's continue."
He was looking all worked up. He couldn't even stand properly, and was leaning on the wall. He was also panting.
A worried Vanda ran towards him. But Todo assured her that he is fine.
They walked back to the altar, and as it was expected, there was door behind it.
"(Gigi) Hey... It's a big door this time instead of a gate."
"(Chae) Let's go inside. We need to figure this out anyway."
They opened the door, and unsurprisingly found the Otherworld dimension once again. "(Smith) It's the Otherworld again."
"(Todo) Yeah, we should just go inside."
They walked in. This time, there was no threat in the world. The place was like a temple. Big, with many huge statues around it.
"(Gigi) Are we gonna find anything here?"
There was this biggest statue in the room. It was sitting in the front, like it was the main deity of this temple. It was the statue of a man who was sitting cross legged, with six hands. He was meditating.
Aura was already feeling uncomfortable because of this one statue, and to her dismay, the statue suddenly moved.
It's chest produced eyes, and it's stomach produced a big mouth.
All of them looked at it and got ready to fight.
The eyes looked at Todo together. And as Todo looked at them, he felt a hit.
A very powerful and painful hit inside his body that made his lose his control again. Cross and Vanda handled him. His head was bowing down, and he was breathing heavily.
He grabbed his neck tightly, as though nit allowing himself to breathe. The people looked at him with horror as his grip became tighter and tighter, seeming as though he will break his own neck.
Gigi grabbed his hand to let his neck go, but she couldn't. The grip was overwhelmingly powerful.
After a while, Todo calmed down. His grip became loose, and he stood up on his own. Then he raised his head. Tears were seen in his eyes.
He pulled out his tongue and said -
"(Todo) Damn geezer trying to order me around."
"(Chae) What are you saying."
"(Todo) See this big guy right here? He was trying to take me down by trying to take control of my mind. As long as I breathed, his control got stronger and more painful. So I choked myself as to not breathe and escaped his control."
"(Gigi) Why'd he do this to you."
"(Todo) I am the summoner here, right?"
Todo walked to the statue. The eyes looked as he approached them. He then raised his hand, and then took out his heart.
The people were horrified at the sight.
He then threw his heart inside the statue's mouth. It swallowed it, and then one of its arm repositioned, pointing towards a big plate filled with water.
Todo stood for a while, then felt a beat inside his chest.
*THUM THUMP!*
His heart regenerated inside his body.
"(Vanda) MASTER!!!!!!! ARE YOU OKAY?!?!?!?!?!"
Todo just looked back at them and smiled the things off. When everyone asked how he did this, he said:
"(Todo) I ate a Devil." They asked what he meant by 'ate a devil.'
"(Todo) Well, when I asked you guys to go out, I summoned a devil to get it's power. Like I did with the dragon to get it's power. But this time, the devil was summoned as a girl. And she asked me to..... Ehem..... Eat her out to get her power."
"(Everyone) WHHHAAAAATTTTTT??!!"
Todo calmed all of them down. Vanda complained how she was not the first one to be eaten out by him. Smith and Cross were envying him. It took a while for everyone to shut up. Then they proceeded their journey.
They opened the door and walked inside it. The room was dark, only to be lightened up a little by the lights that were seemingly attached on the ceiling.
Todo was waking in lead along with Gigi, when he suddenly realized something.
He looked around. Everyone was gone. He was suddenly alone.
Before he could think, he heard a voice -
"I never thought I'd meet you, grand son."
"Grandson? Who's this?"
"Mark. Mark Luther" Todo was confused. Mark Luther was the guy whose body Todo found with the map (Season 1 Episode 1). But now, he was in front of him, and above all that, he was calling him his grandson.
"(Todo) How are you here?"
"(Mark) How are YOU here?"
"(Todo) What do you mean?"
"(Mark) Don't be confused, Luke."
"(Todo) NOW WHO'S LUKE?!"
Mark signalled Todo to take a seat. He said he will explain everything if he let's him speak.
"(Mark) You, are Luke. Luke Luther, my grand son whom I never got to see, until now."
"(Todo) I am Luke Luther, your grandson? And you are my grandfather? But I already encountered your dead body."
"(Mark) That's the neat part. You, have somehow travelled back in time to meet me here." "(Todo) Travelled back in time?"
"(Mark) Tell me, son. And tell. Me the truth. You found the Summoners Scroll, right?"
"(Todo) Yes. I found it."
"(Mark) Yoh see. That's the reason you are here."
"(Todo) Care to explain?"
"(Mark) Luke, summoners scroll is not some normal magic. It is a cursed scroll that is destined to bring bad luck to the user. Yes, it chooses the person to place a curse on him. And it chose you. Which means that you ought to face problems. Of course you can do good things, and it will not stop you from doing so. But if you want to do good things, the scroll asks for sacrifices. And you cannot choose what to sacrifice. 'IT' chooses."
Todo didn't said anything. He went to the wall in front of his grandfather and sat. After a moment of awkward silence, Mark said -
"I am sorry, Luke...."
"Sorry? For what?"
"It happened all because of me."
"What happened because of you? Just say it already, everything you know."
"*Nods* I... Also owned a Scroll." Mark tells Todo that he too owned a Summoner Scroll and that Todo is not the first one to use it. It has been passed down through various generations, and will continue to do so.
"You say I am your grand son. Then why did mom and dad ever mentioned you?"
"Because fate doesn't allows them to. You see, Luke, we are living in a story. In this story, there are characters, and the characters have their own stories. And so I tell you, in conclusion, every story here is connected to each other. So was your parents."
"I never got to know my parents completely. I always thought they were hiding something from me. Now I realise what it was, gramps. The fact that I am experiencing these things are now just so common to me that I don't even feel surprised....." Mark then proceeds to tell Luke about Katherine, his daughter and Luke's mother.
Before the apocalypse, she started acting weird. That was the time Mark discovered the scroll. The curse was laid upon him. The scroll, as a sacrifice, took his happiness away from him.
When the apocalypse happened, Katherine was a part of the 7.2 billion dead people. And it was devastating for Mark.
With the scroll, he revived Katherine, only to find that she is not the daughter he knew.
She was thirsty. Her thirst for lust. To satisfy that, he summoned another being, a man, Jake, who will then go on to be Todo's father.
"If only she could live... Katherine..... I could have see her truly happy ever after."
Katherine was now truly dead. Her reincarnation was futile. She was consumed by her lust. And Richard fulfilled his purpose of satisfying Katherine.
Todo was devastated after hearing his parents backstory.
"I took shelter in the other words. But I guess I was not able to survive too, as you found my dead body. Heh, this scroll really is a curse."
"What if I...."
"Hmm?"
"What if I save her?" "What do you mean?"
"You said we have travelled back in time. Which means if I somehow travel more back in time, I can stop the apocalypse from even occuring in the first place?"
"You can't. It happened in mere minutes. No one knew what happened during the apocalypse. Even the moon disappeared. And even if you stop it, you would vanish, as Richard would never be summoned."
"Yeah it's okay. I am tired of living anyway."
Am exit door appeared. Todo stood up to open the door.
Mark stands up.
"Luke! Don't! I don't want to you to die in anyway! Think about your summons!"
Todo stopped. Then he looked back, with a depressing smile.
"Yeah. They'll be fine. I don't want my family to suffer either."
He exited the room. The heroes walking in a hallway realised that Todo is missing. Just when they pointed this out, Todo came out from one of the rooms.
"(Todo) You guys didn't noticed I was not here for like, 30 minutes?"
"(Gigi) What do you mean? It's just now that you vanished and came back from another room."
"(Todo) .....
Forget it. Let's get out of here."
"(Vanda) But why? Aren't we here to explore?"
"(Todo) No. We are going back."
They went back to the real world. And as it was expected - They were not in their timeline.
Of course they were in India, but it was before the apocalypse.
Todo told them everything about what happened. They decided to stay here until the apocalypse happens to try to stop them.
Night time.
Todo was standing on a rock in front of the cave they were staying for the night.
Vanda noticed that Todo was standing alone. She approached him.
"(Vanda) Master...."
"(Todo) Hmm? Vanda? You are not sleeping?"
"(Vanda) I couldn't. You are looking so stressed out...."
Todo hugged Vanda. She blushed.
"(Vanda) Ma- master!"
"(Todo) I am sorry, Vanda. I am doing this so that my family could stay happy. I don't care what happens to me or the world. I just want my family to stay happy."
"(Vanda) ...."
Todo then hold her shoulders. He looked straight into her eyes.
"(Todo) I promise you. Whatever happens, I will keep you safe.
And you promise me, no matter whatever happens to me, you will be forever happy. And you will also keep Aura and Nat happy."
"(Vanda) ...
Yes.... Yes I promise you, Master."
Todo smiled.
---End of Season 3---