"Valeria!"
"Wake up!!!"
The two very confused girls tried to cast healing spells, but nothing happened.
"What's happening to her?" Miyuki asked herself. As she did so, she felt the now familiar disturbance again, reminding her that something else was in the room with them..
Something that could be responsible for whatever that was happening to Valeria. Using a short telepathic message, she called out to someone she knew could somewhat help.
Aqua rushed, appearing in the room the three were in. Following the message Miyuki had given him, he immediately began searching for any anomaly.
"What the hell happened to her! I heard your shouts.... What happened?" Aqua asked Poki, who was holding Valeria's head, trying to heal her.
"I... I don't know....." Poki muttered as her hands started trembling. Blood tricked down her nose as her skin gradually went pale.
Aqua casted a Celestial grade healing circle all around them, trying to heal them.
"Aqua..." Miyuki muttered as she fell on one knee.
"What the hell is happening!!! I can't sense anything at all! What-"
"Aqua.. I feel a disturbance.. There is something here.." Miyuki said telepathically.
"She said the same thing before! But I can't sense anything at all!" Aqua thought as he coughed.
"Wait.. Did I just-"
He suddenly felt a warm liquid that tasted like metal in his mouth.
"Am I.. Bleeding??"
Behind him, Miyuki struggled to remain conscious as she tried to clearly sense whatever she had felt before.
"Damn it... I can't sense it well.. If I lose consciousness... Mitsuki will come here, and that is one thing I want to prevent.... Whatever this thing is... It is trying to somehow lure Mitsuki here-" She suddenly felt intense amounts of pain at her chest area, causing her to fall flat on the ground.
"Damn... It... Am I still this weak.." She wondered as her consciousness faded away.
"Miyuki and Poki are down too!... I need to-"
He suddenly froze as he felt an ominous presence behind him. It was not a powerful presence, rather, it was one full of bloodlust and concern..
Mitsuki stared at the three unconscious girls and the pools of blood below them. He did not talk at all as he bent, touching the blood, trying to confirm whether what he was seeing was real.
The being in the room stared at Mitsuki, waiting to see what would happen.
"Well well, Mitsuki Ichiro... Let's see how you will heal them.. That way, I can determine your form ." The being thought.
A golden crest covered the floor, swallowing up Aqua and the three unconscious girls.
"Teleportation?? I guess I should follow them then..." The being thought, waiting for Mitsuki to go through the crest.
"You there.." Mitsuki said as the golden crest shattered.
"Can he sense me? Impossible.. Lady H-"
Before the being could even contemplate what had just happened, he felt a tight grip on his throat, shattering whatever was in his neck.
"I am talking to you," Mitsuki said, tightening his grip on the being's neck even more.
"The hell do you think you are doing... Hurting those three girls..."
Mitsuki saw his surroundings change into a wooden like room as the being appeared, revealing what one thought they could only see in nightmares.
The grotesque being slid out of Mitsuki's grasp, standing right in front of Mitsuki.
Everything about it was grotesque indeed; standing at around ten feet tall, the being had pale skin that was partially covered with silver scales. Several spikes surrounded its shoulders like a collar of some sort. Its eyes looked like molten silver and besides from that, there was no other facial feature, except a mouth that seemed to stretch all across its face, with sharp spiky teeth all around it. Its overall skeletal frame was adorned with jagged spikes all over of different sizes and its long hair looked heavenly or rather, almost divine as it gracefully floated behind it.
"I see.. So you can sense me.." The being said as it fixed its neck.
"This means that he has a more powerful form than we initially thought. I should go report this... But I don't think that he will let me.." The being thought as he looked at the crimson red aura of pure bloodlust around Mitsuki. Mitsuki quickly unsheathed his Katana and coated it up with pure red cursed energy.
"What was the point of hurting them, if I may ask?" Mitsuki asked.
"It was just but a simple test to check if your form has the capability to heal them, that is all." The being replied nonchalantly.
"So... You mess with their souls?" Mitsuki asked, staring at the figure. His anger was rising quickly, even when he was trying his best to calm himself.
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Aqua looked around to where they had been teleported to, but he could not see a thing.
"Did Mitsuki teleport us? No no way... He is not powerful enough to teleport me yet.. So somebody else did... Is it Lord Aurendor?" He wondered.
Herald, back to where he was, stared worriedly at the four that he had teleported.
"Mitsuki isn't here.. He was able to evade my teleportation!" Herald thought as he remembered what had transpired some moments ago.
Mitsuki was amazed by the fight between Aurendor and Zain.
"Woah.. I couldn't see a thing until when they slowed down!" He said.
"I told you didn't I? That was a mid tier fight though, none of them truly went all out you-"
Herald suddenly sensed a change in Mitsuki's mood. His eyes seemed blank and his excited expression suddenly changed into a worried face. Without speaking, he vanished as his bloodlust started oozing out of his body.
"Mitsuki?"
Concerned by the sudden change, Herald immediately started tracing Mitsuki, finding him in an instant.
"No... Why is a Silvern Reaper there?! There are some unconscious gir- his sister is there too!! If he fights that then his form will be known!" He thought as he immediately tired forcefully summoning him together with the others in the room.
Herald now looked at the four in front of him, knowing what had to be done.
******
" Is it now okay if I take my leave?" Aurendor asked, looking at Zain.
"We still need to see the potential in your chosen one, but you can leave for now. Prepare him for the 'Meeting', understood?" One Higher Celestial said.
"Yes, as you wish. I will make my chosen worthy enough for you all to notice him." Aurendor replied with a slight bow.
"Aurendor." Herald called out telepathically.
Aurendor looked at Herald who was still next to his Creator. His eyes were serious, as if he was trying to convey a hidden message to him.
"Something is not quite right.." Aurendor thought as he appeared back in Avalon. Immediately he did so, he froze.
"You have sensed it right?" Herald asked telepathically.
"This.... a Silvern type species? What was it-"
Aurendor immediately tried summoning Mitsuki, but nothing was happening.
"He isn't here!!!"
Aurendor's eyes glowed silver and his surroundings distorted into a blurry mixture of colors, as if he were bending space itself.
"Herald! He isn't in my universe at all!!!" He said telepathically as he kept on searching and searching.
"Then my fears are true... He is in the Abyssal Temple.... The Silvern Reaper opened it..." Herald replied as he summoned Aurendor to where he was.
"Can we do anything?"
"I doubt.. All we can do is try to connect to Mitsuki using your master's weapon.." Herald replied as he went around in circles.
"Why is this happening.. It just happened at a very oddly perfect time... But which Celestial made a pact with a Silvern Reaper?? It was banned!"
As they kept on thinking, an idea struck Aurendor.
"Wait... Maybe it is a celestial demon who did... Celestial demons are very very sensitive to potent curse energy auras... One might have sensed him back then when that incident happened..... Damn it.."
"That might be possible... But.... a Silvern Reaper is going overboard.. Let's say that your theory is right.. It means that whatever is inside Mitsuki is worthy enough to actually use a Silvern Reaper.." Herald mumbled, now concluding that Mitsuki is hiding a very dark secret, a secret that can lead to massive destruction and war, or even more.
"A Silvern Reaper is generally weak somehow, it might be on par with Mitsuki... But that's not the issue.. The issue is their analytical skills.. Every movement, skill, response, body physique, aura and the like is all analyzed in order to try to determine the Celestial form that you might be.. And it is all being sent to the Celestial who formed a pact with it... This will put us in a disadvantage... But.... Mitsuki will think it through, right?"
Herald shook his head as he showed Aurendor the state of the three girls.
"I don't think he'll be thinking straight at all."
As if to prove that, a red glow emanated from Herald's hand.
"Herald..."
"I thought he would remember my rules... Damn. This isn't going our way at all."
"Don't tell me..."
Mitsuki's eyes glowed an intense electric red as a crown formed on on top of his head.
"Yes, Aurendor... Mitsuki has activated the Orchestra of Chaos: Gamma stage"
It seemed that Mitsuki was determined to beat the Silvern Reaper, and so as the mastermind of all this gave the command for analysis to start, the fight began.