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"And do they got therapists for the dead?" Ionys added, raising a claw. "I'm taking one. For, like, ten years." <><><> The day Cibus defeated the scourge that had threatened their whole realm had been swiftly declared a worldwide holiday. While the name was still up for debate, current popular...

Ionys sighed. Building off of what Bahamut said, he took a few gentle steps forward, slow and deliberate, before kneeling down. He held out a hand. "I've been killed, but I'm getting a chance to turn things around anyway," he said. "Isn't gonna be the same. I guess it's only fair that you get...

Owen and Cal both looked at Bahamut with surprise. What... happened? Well, no. A lot had happened. And perhaps realizing what he had become, what he learned about himself, allowed him to look at his own past from a distanced view. Could that have been it? Or was it... time? Speaking of time...

Ionys gave Nate a 'don't throw this at me!' glance before composing himself, staring down the creature. He nodded. "...Yeah. It's fine." He looked off. "That's just how things go sometimes..." He stared at Ionys for a little longer. "What do I do...?"

"...No," he replied. "I... don't want..." "Then you don't need to," Diyem replied. There was no use in laying down reality to this creature, not now, in his own headspace where he should feel safe, if anywhere. But the memories, ultimately, will return, such is the nature of souls. It was...

"We're sorry for hurting you," Owen said, summarizing the sentiments of the team. "We didn't want to." "Then... why?" "We were defending ourselves... from pain, too." "I... caused that." He at least seemed to recognize this. "I... needed that..." The clouds calmed a little. But it felt like...

The clouds seemed to darkness and the wind picked up with a malevolent aura of warning. It seemed to surround Brisa only, like she could be lifted up and out of this realm with a single breeze. In the end, they were within the Blacklight's cleansed realm, but it was still its realm, and she...

"...Yeah. Yeah, I think I do." All who were able followed Diyem inside, taking a filament of darkness as the world around them disappeared. They were floating, flying through a great void, and then there was an overwhelming, bright light that they couldn't look away from... And then... <><><>...

So came the barrage as Diyem gave the signal. He raised his claws and snapped them, forming a bolt of black lightning that rallied them all to rush in. He called upon Eien, Ionys, Xernatus, and Sword to fall back and be ready to support, but he knew it wouldn't be needed. He instead watched...

Diyem shared a knowing glance at Bahamut, then at the others readying to strike. Yes. If they could coordinate it well enough... The Shadow leviathan charged his claws, whole body alight with the dark. "Hold one of your strikes, and I will assist once the others dispatch its outer body. That...

"Stop acting like the edgelord too cool for school," Cal countered. Owen tilted his head. "Doesn't he have fifteen years until he gets to that phase?" Owen ducked, narrowly dodging an incoming meteor, though that was meaningless considering he was still intangible. "E-everyone! That storm's...

Then came the onslaught--the onslaught of a new reality, desperate to persist. It was a never-ending hailstorm of attacks. No matter what they did, it seemed like that was going to come down nonstop. This thing was desperate--but it was also vulnerable. Finally, finally vulnerable. It has...

"Fine, fine!" Sword growled, staring daggers at the puppets. "You know, I don't really know what these guys are... But it's starting to really piss me off! Hey! You guys all yammering on about truth and despair... Guess what! I may not be all that smart, but I'm smart enough to know when...

"W̴h̶y̷ ̵w̷o̷n̴'̵t̴ ̵y̵o̴u̴ ̵f̸a̶l̶l̵?̷!̸" The Eternal Blacklight curled again, taking so many hits, completely overwhelmed by everything that had been dealt to it. Its defenses were waning; everything it was trying to do was nothing against the team's increased power. It looked like it was...

"Right... Aim at... at that one!" Eien nodded, then shifted her whole body toward that Divine Power. "This... is my best attack! One I learned... from you! H-here's... Oh, what did Nate say...? A-ah! Here's a taste of your own medicine!" The deafening roar sliced through the atmosphere and...

A ghostly figure appeared in front of Owen, and suddenly his mind felt horribly fuzzy. It spoke in an odd language, but he understood it so clearly. Too clearly. He couldn't get it out of his head...! "̶E̸v̶e̵r̶y̵t̶h̵i̴n̴g̸ ̴I̸ ̸d̸o̶.̴.̴.̶ ̷I̷'̶l̴l̴ ̶j̴u̶s̵t̸.̶.̷.̴ ̸f̸o̶r̵g̷e̴t̷ ̷a̸g̵a̴i̷n̷,̶...

"Xernatus," Diyem said, "protect Sword." "Right!" "And you..." He loomed over Dave menacingly. "Perhaps you can use some protection." "I just... n-need to aim it... at the core... right?" Eien said. "G-goodness, I've never done something like this before... while of sound m-mind! It's...

The sky was tearing itself apart. Rifts into the Null Realm encroached upon the world like a spreading disease, leaving cracks in the aether. Blacklight projections were looking like they were about to crawl through, weakly, dissolving in the Cibusean air. But every time they tried, they seemed...

"Everyone... refusing to stop. Spite? Stubbornness? Hah..." Diyem crouched down, smirking, staring the hazy beast down. They still couldn't see it. Not that he cared. Even against an unknown foe, when had they ever given up? Perhaps he finally understood an echo of what they felt. Shadows...

It was creating a vortex around all of this new and horrible Creation. Owen's spirit felt like it was being eroded away by that horrible miasma that he had to huddle back inside of the tree's ethereal bark, which was also peeling away from the oppressive force. On the tree, he felt a light...