We find ourselves in a dark alley as we finish our talk. We seem to be right behind the Inn where we were, before we got abducted. As we look around we can´t find any traces of other suspects or the black coated man, who was called Zaito. The only thing we see, is a, ready to start, closed coach with a donkey span. I open the coach, but there is no one in it. '

“Looks like this was supposed to bring us away from here. Shall we go into the inn for a surprise visit? Haha I guess that bastard will shit himself, when he sees us.” I ask Mia while I examine the coach

“Hmm, I don´t know if its wise to cause a stir here, what if there are guests and they report something to the guards. It would be bad if they assume us for a crime, even we can´t escape easy in a town like this.” Mia explains with a thoughtful sight

“Yeah, that´s right. But what if we just go paying him a small visit as “guests of the inn” ? And I really hope that we´ll be alone with him in there.” me

“Maybe that´ll do. But one thing, can you leave this other man to me? Mia asks with a nasty grin

“Sure, he´s all yours. So lets go.” me

We walk out of that alley and directly head on to the tavern door. But it seems not to work out as planned, on the door we find a sign

Closed!

Out for vacation

“Is this for real? Man that asshole, he must have noticed something and just try to escape now.” I say while I try to open the door regardless the sign saying its closed. But I have no success

“ Mhh well nevertheless lets take our look inside” Mia says without any time for me to take a thought what she is doing.

Mia pretend to knock on the door, as the door breaks with her fist connecting to it.

I careful look around, but it seems no one has noticed, not even the beggar on the other side of the street seems to be concerned. So we both take our chance and walk into the inn.

Mia turns around, picks up the door and puts it again at its place, so now only a close look would discover the break-in.

The inn is dark and not illuminated, so Mia raises a finger and it immediately starts to create a flame above it. Even though the flame is small, it creates a bright light and we can see now nearly perfectly.

Mia throws the small flame up into the middle of the room and now the whole inn is illuminated.

The ground floor of the inn is not very big, the counter is straight in front of the entrance and beside that is a staircase leading to the upper floor. On the right is the guest area with a recess, where we sat yesterday and a bunch of tables and benches. Allover its a small inn for about max. 40 people.

Behind the counter is a door which leads into a small kitchen and a storeroom, but to our both surprise they were empty and they don´t look like something was stored here. At least not lately.

“ What is this? Here is nothing, only dust bunnies. I can´t believe that we ate here just a day ago.

The meal was great, but here is no sign of shortly prepared food. It just looks like not used for 50 years. Even the cooking pots are rusty.” I wonder out loud about this place

“That is really odd. And here are no other rooms left, so I suppose we should go upstairs and look for some hints there.” Mia says also a bit surprised

We walk up the stairs, just to find the next surprise. As we reach the upper floor and want to walk in one of the rooms there, we must find out, that they´re all locked. And only the room we were in before, has traces of usage. We decide to break into each room, but none of the rooms look like they´ve been used for years. And not a single hint for us is left.

“Well, this black baron knows to hide his stuff, how are we supposed to find him now?” Mia shouts a bit frustrated

“Mhh, yeah he is not bad at hiding his traces. But don´t give up so early, how about looking for another tavern. Maybe we can inquire some information about him or his whereabouts. And I also need to gather more knowledge about this world. The more we know, the better for us.” I cheer her up

“Yes thats a great idea! Why didn´t I thought about that.” Mia says and laughs

We go back down the stairs and want to leave, as we hear someone familiar talking to us from the inside of the inn.

“Hey there you two. Why not joining me here and explain who you really are?” Peter surprises us

We turn around and there he is. Peter is sitting at the place we just sat yesterday.

But this time he wears a plate armor and has a big great sword leaning against the table.

His armor is silver colored and on the right arm plate it has a semi skeletonized bear with angel wings as an emblem.

Is that really Peter in that armor.

The yesterday so clumsy and friendly looking guy, now just looks like a man who is willing to do anything for his duty.

Peter is about 189 cm tall and has brown hair, with a slight gray tone on it. His body structure is mostly similar to that of a bear, I would say. He has his beer belly but it seems one will better not underestimate the rest of him.

We slowly go back into the Inn and stand now in front of him.

“ Hello Peter... you look … different. How can we help you?” I carefully start the conversation

“At first: sit down. And then you have all the time you need to explain me, what the hell you are and where you really come from. And at its best, you also might tell me where this shit headed black baron is.” Peter slowly starts to show us a seat, always at the ready for pulling his sword

“Guess we have no choice” I say while Mia and I are taking a seat

“So who are you two? And what business do you have with the black Baron?” peter repeats his question more earnest

“Ähh... well. We are traveler from near the demon kingdom as we said before. And the back Baron just had abducted us yesterday and we managed to escape him.” I say knowing that this won´t be a satisfying answer

“Hahaha, just quit your jokes. I know that already. I am commissioned, from the Temple of Sephir, to arrest the black Baron. I am one of the high commander of the Knights Templar.

I know about Thomas alias as black Baron quiet a long time. And to accomplish to arrest him, I used you as a bait, but then I saw how you just managed to escape from that hell beneath us and this without even a scratch. You know what, I was down there, right after you two left. It was just as reported to me, the black Baron is one of the most popular slaver and organ trader in the underworld. But I saw all the dead body´s down there and then a question estimates for me. How could you possibly survive that without even been harmed? I decided to follow you and here you are, breaking into this inn and conjuring magic. So now explain...” Peter tells us all this in a threatening and slowly spoken voice

In an instant I gain a lot of new knowledge. The whole information about the Temple of Sephir is now delivered to my head by some mystical power.

The Temple of Sephir, this is the main religion of the Baharl and Finsterfir continents. The Temple is to be find in the middle of the Baharl continent and it is said to be as big as two capitals. The Temple of Sephir has over a thousand deity´s in their religion, containing divinity´s for even casual things like the god of good harvest and the god of beer, but also stronger deity´s like the god of love, wrath and pain. They even believe in me, the god of Equilibrium. Some of the deity´s were to have a name besides their title as god, so do I. It seems the name Van Hohenheim is already known and listed in their archives. But the access to those names is very restricted, so it appears only member of utmost high ranks have authorization to know about them.

The current leader of the Temple is called “The blessed one”. Every 400 years there is only one person in the Baharl or Finsterfir continent that can be selected as The blessed one. The nominee seem to have special powers, which were called gifts. They have a very high affinity for even tier 5-7 magic spells, which is very rare for humans. They normally can only conjure up to tier 4 magic spells. Also is the blessed one considered immortal, which is not entirely true. They live much longer than humans but mostly die at the age of 700 years.

But the most important gift the blessed one has, is that he is able to create a contact to the world of gods, which means he can see the future and can name the changes of the gods.

So he notice if a deity was to die and names the new chosen divinity and also foretells disasters.

The whole religion of Sephir is divided into two political forces. The first is led by the blessed one who is in charge of the temples and churches all over the continents and he spreads the religion mostly peaceful. But this does not mean that he has no military force.

The blessed one is in charge of the High Priest order, which are extremely talented battlemages.

The High Priest order has around 3000 members, who were commanded by the 7 high priests. The power fullest mages known, its said that a high priest can equal the power of an Archangel.

Archangel is the title of the highest ranked member of a deity´s clan

On the other hand, there is the Military force of Sephir. The so called Knights Templar.

The leader is called Sin of the gods, but the current leader prefers the name Blood Dragon.

He is one of the power fullest man of the world.

He is in charge of a total 1.000.000 Templar knights and is with that the third most powerful force of all continents.

The Knights Templar is divided up on 100 High Commander, so every High Commander is in charge of 10.000 templar.

All High Commander, are gifted with a special power. Those powers are given to them by killing an archdemon. Mostly the powers resemble that of an animal and in rare cases that of a mythical or even legendary creature. This power also gives one, an unnatural long life. So are the most High Commander over century´s old and they all share one thing in common. They all participated in the war, 300 years ago, against the demon kingdom. To defeat the demons.

Nowadays nearly everything known about the old race of demons is forgotten or destroyed and all High Commander were forbidden to leak any information. In short all High Commander are in no way inferior to the High Priests.

With this two forces the religion of Sephir has much influence in the politics and is even equal to the might of a king. In special situations the Knights templar even can abrogate the authority of a king.

°Wow it feels great to have knowledge about all that stuff, without doing anything.° Me

“So you are one of the High Commander from Sephir, if I remember correctly you are called Peter the grizzly. Your current rank is that of the 94 High Commander.” I spontaneously spit out

°Ohh, its so nice I even know the names of the High Commander now. And very interesting, they have an intern ranking from 100 the weakest up to the 1 the strongest. I begin to love my new self.°I think meanwhile I talk

“So, it seems you are aware of your situation by now. Then you surely also know to don´t take this situation lightly. And now answer my question, before I loose my patience.” Peter insists

°Mhh let me try something...

Mia... Mia... hey can you here me?° I try to reach Mia via mind

“Kyaaa...” Mia surprised shouts out loud

“It seems even your girlfriend has grasped the situation you´re in” Peter now very urgent replies

°Hohenheim, don´t give me a scare like that again... I was not prepared to hear you now in my mind. You really are a fast learner, even telepathy is no problem now for you??” Mia suddenly answers my call from before

°Ah hahaha , sorry Mia. I am surprised myself that it worked. But lets talk about our situation... I must give a reply fast from now. What do you suggest?° me

°mhh, I don´t know but I do know that he is a low ranked High Commander, which are really strong.° Mia

°Thats not very helpful. So you think we can´t beat him?°

°Hahaha, no thats not what I meant. I said they are strong, but for a human that is, you are a divinity . Ofcourse you can´t use any ability now, but it would be fun to tell him who we are don´t you think so too.° Mia sounds amused

°Haha, you are quiet the mad one. But very well you´ll have to protect me if it´ll end up bad for us.° I also amused agree to her plan

“Ok... Ok I´ll be honest with you now” Me

“Oh.. so finally ok go on..” Peter

“This might sound weird but its the truth. I am the new deity of Equilibrium … Van Hohenheim

I and my attendant came here in this world to restore the balance. And we tried to hide our true identity´s in order to not cause a stir. And then we met you, you used us as a bait for the black baron and we decided to not become slaves. Thats all and if you´re so kind would you please let us go for now, because there is someone who we need to repay for our beautiful hotel room from last night.” I explained to Peter with a slight amount of sarcasm

“Ahahahahahaha, you damn retard! Seems like you don´t value your life, so let me take that burden from you.” Peter laughs out loud and disappears

But of course only normal humans would conclude that he disappeared. In my vision I see Peter who enormously fast jumps up and grabs his sword, right after that he appeared behind me and give me a swing with his sword. I didn´t really realize what I´ve done in that moment, but it appears that I am also extremely fast. I stand up and catch his sword just between my pointing finger and my thumb. I made it unscratched and blocked that swing, but I seem to have not fully control over my body and so I underestimated the strength of Peter´s swing, he send me flying. And I fly away and crush directly through the wall of the inn until I land in a cloth stall on the other side of the street.

“Huh, wow that was a surprise, mhh oddly enough I dont feel any pain and even my clothes are unscratched. This is awesome... I really have some strength. “ I rejoice to myself

I stand up and want to walk back in the inn, as I hear Mia.

“Hahahaha.... you nasty dimwit. don´t think i´ll let you go after you hit my precious Hohenheim!” Mia says that but she totally sounds like she has the most fun in years

The following scene is not clearly visible for me, but I see how Peter is catapulted outside the inn, also crushing through the wall and stopping himself with his sword ramming into the ground.

His plate armor now has a really cute pattern on its chest in form of a cute small fist.

“Argh... what the hell is goin...” Peter clearly wants to say something but gets interrupted by me

I try to speed up myself and it seems to work out very well. I appeared behind Peter and give him a good old fashioned punch to his cheeks, hereby I try to not overdo it and restrain my self a bit in strength.

Peter instantly went flying and overturns 3 times as he gets stopped by a 50 meter distant, huge and massive protection wall.

“Uhhps... guess that was a bit too much strength. I hope he´s still alive... ah well I don´t mind.” I really start to enjoy the fight

“Ohhhhh, there he goes flying all that distance. I knew you would be fine all by yourself. Hehe and look at you now, not so long ago you couldn´t even use your sp and now you´re even able to control your body strength. I told you you are strong haha!” Mia seems to enjoy this as much as I do

By now the complete street is cleared from any pedestrian and only left alone stalls and we were here. But from the upper front windows we can see that we have quiet a lot spectators.

From not too far away we can hear the marching sounds of soldiers, coming towards our direction.

“ Ah damn, seems like we are not able to continue the fight with those douche bags around.” I sigh

“ Not so fast...” We hear peter as he comes walking back towards us very fast

Peter now looks a bit wrecked and his left arm seems to be broken, because its in an awkward position hanging down. The plate armor he is wearing, is now not more than a smashed wreck of metal. But allover it doesn´t seem to concern peter very much and he continues to sprint in our direction. As he reach our position he mumbles something, but I didn´t really got that

I prepare to give him another punch as Peter suddenly disappears for real this time. I have no clue where he is, but then I hear a painful scream from Mia.

As I turn around to Mia I see a 3 meter tall bear like creature grabbing a great sword, which is stabbed through Mia´s chest. And there is blood everywhere now, while Mia stops moving.

“MIAA! You bastard, what have you done” I scream to that monster

The monster now looks towards me and throws away his great sword and Mia sinks to the ground and lies there motionless.

“If that´s all you´ve got, I am disappointed. How disgraceful and you call yourself a god?

Don´t make me laugh.” The bear-creature says to me in a deep rough voice

“YOU... fuck you, I´ll kill you... I´ll tore your limbs apart and feed them to the birds.” I scream at him loosing my control

“ Hahahaha, come and try so. Oh you pathetic fake god.” Peter in his transformation provokes me even more

Then Peter disappears, again and I couldn´t react to anything. I just stare a whole into the air and it took me a time to understand what happens to me.

While I looked at Mia´s body lying on the ground, all bloody, Peter must have sprinted at me and gave me a brutal hit in the stomach. I felt an awkward pain floating through my belly and as I came to my senses I am flying away in an enormously speed. As I try to stop myself from moving I manage to get a hold on a wall. I grabbed the wall and the impact influenced a good amount of pain to me, but I stopped. My body is unscratched but I still feel a lot of pain.

I now am around 20 meters away from Peter but he just comes right after me, with Mia´s body in his hands.

Right in front of me he stopped.

“So and now I´ll show you what happen´s if you play blasphemous games with a High Commander of the Knights Templar.” watch and learn!” Peter raises Mia up in the air and put one of his 20 cm long claws at her neck.

“You wouldn´t!... Stop it... please” I desperately try to stop Peter

The last thing I see before I lose my consciousness, is that Peter slices Mia´s throat with his claw and then even beheads her and throws me her head before my feet.

At this moment I lose my senses, but my body acts on his own, out of instincts.

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3rd Person pov

Hohenheim begins to float and all around him a black and white colored atmosphere estimates. The ground starts cracking and the houses around him were shivering, as if an earthquake is showing up.

A strong wind raises and blows away small stalls and a lot of trash. He now floats calmly in the air and the atmosphere has turned itself to an nearly unbearable pressure. Even Peter in his bear form seems to have his problems with the pressure, so he goes down and cant even stand anymore.

Now Hohenheim floats towards him, and as he reaches him, some brave soldiers also have made their way here, withstanding the wind and the atmosphere with great difficulties.

“Yo... YOU! STOP THIS, YOU ARE ARRESTED!” They scream as group towards the unconscious me

But Hohenheim ignores them and slowly sinks to the ground, where Peter is, barely holding himself up, under big pressure. Hohenheim moves his hand towards Peters head and points at him with a finger, then he gestured towards Peters head, to raise. Peter now feels an irresistible urge to raise his head and so he does. He wants to speak, but the atmosphere gets stronger and the pressure literally sucks up his words.

At the same moment Peter raises his head and got a clear view of his tormentors face, Hohenheim opens his eyes and his body tint turns completely black, while his eyes were taking a white shining color.

The soldiers from earlier now start moving towards Hohenheim intending to attack him, when they come near enough. But the spiritual pressure takes its price and the soldiers can barely move forwards. But suddenly one of them gives the order to attack.

“FAST TAKE HIM OUT!” Soldier

With all the will power the´ve got left, they start to come nearer and swing with their swords at Hohenheim.

The same moment one soldier reaches him with his sword, the attack got repelled from an invisible shield around Hohenheim. But even if he didn´t got hurt, Hohenheim turns around and looks directly towards the soldiers. In one moment to another all soldiers were nothing more than bloody pulps lying at the ground, because they got smashed by an immense spiritual pressure that moment.

Hohenheim turns back to Peter, who still can´t speak nor resist from the urge to raise his head.

Then Hohenheim raises his right hand and a black colored aura begins to estimate above his pointing finger. Very fast this aura now turns into the form of a black orb. As the orb reaches the size of a Hand, Hohenheim catches it with his right hand and smashed it. Exactly that moment a strong wind appeared and the smashed orb seems to suck up every noise and every breeze of the town.

The complete sound begins to vanish and now everything is silent, even the atmosphere dissolves the pressure. But Peter can´t move nor can anyone move. Its like the whole pressure, which vanished, is now concentrated more strongly and distributed in the whole town.

Hohenheim moves his right hand towards Peter and opens it, as a small black orb is to see.

“Calamity Orb” Hohenheim whispers

With this words he instantly smashed the orb into Peters mouth and makes him swallowing it.

Peter begins to feel an immense pain from inside his stomach and his body estimates black shining cracks. He now looks as if he is exploding from the inside. The cracks start to break up even more and a few seconds later Peter shouts out, looking up the air as a black ray leaves his mouth.

Then he detonates and an all destroying energy spreads through the entire city. Everything that comes in contact with the energy gets wasted away in less than one second. The whole town is filled with scared and painful screams but they cease after a few seconds.

Everything that is left now is a, with black dust covered and shattered, wasteland. The whole city is gone and no one has survived that, except for the small area around Hohenheim.

Hohenheim is slowly sinking to the ground, recovering his body tint. Now he is lying unconscious

next to a black burned and open torn corpse. And a little away from them, 2 meter, a black coated man is standing with an unconscious, but unscratched, Mia on his shoulder.

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Hohenheim pov (back to normal)

I feel as if I partied a whole night. My head hurts as fuck and my right hand feels like, put on a hot cocking plate. But I wake up and find myself in midst of a destroyed battlefield. When I remember what happened and start to look around more closely. As I see the black coated man in front of me with my precious Mia on his shoulder.

“Ho... How?! I thought she got killed earlier?! What have you done to her... Who are you... And WHA... WHAT have I done??!”I completely don´t understand what´s going on

“Hahaha, well I must say, you really are a promising newcomer as deity. That power of yours is just magnificent... you destroyed a whole capital with just not even controlling your powers.

Ahh but where are my manners, sorry for the late introduce. I am Zaito the god of wrath, I have just allowed myself to give your strength a test. But be glad you passed, hahaha.

And about this little fellow here, ah dont worry. But I could not have allowed her to spoil my little test, so I put her asleep, she´ll wake up in a few hours.” Zaito reveals himself to me, with amusement on his face

“......You tested my powers??... You used my spirit guardian to get me losing my control. You asshole. And look at this whole place here, its total messed up by me... I killed dozen of people just because of you!” I scream at him

“ Ah well, it seems we have one without any sense of humor here. They are just humans, dont get so upset over a few thousand dead humans. And that woman you saw dieing was nothing more than a dummy I created.” Zaito muses around

“You fucking dimwit... dont do that to me!” me

“Oi.. oi.. dont get so cocky. You know what, if you are so concerned about those died humans just revive them with your powers, should be a piece of cake for the god of balance to reincarnate some dead humans. Hahaha” Zaito says amused

“I dont can! And you know that! I just cant use my powers yet. So revive them... now!” I say angered

“Hahahahaha, you are a funny one. How am I supposed to revive something that was punished to death with a strong spell as the Calamity power from the god of Equilibrium?? You know what I´ll tell you something about you as deity. If the god of balance, so in short you, is to decide to kill any mortal being with this dark power you used, there is nothing and no one in any world, except the Over God and a few higher beings, as well as the god of Equilibrium himself, who could undo that punishment. You my dear, are one of the strongest deity´s known. And so please tell me now, why are you so obsessed with reviving this human trash? “ Zaito laughs at me while telling me

“Hmm... I just want to repay someone who angered me, in other words I want to let him know how grateful I am for changing me back into my old self. I am talking about your accompany earlier. The black baron.” I surly respond

Ahahaha... you get funnier and funnier. But I can reassure you, because the black baron has made his way to the Baharl continent a day ago.

So and as I see our time is already up, lets talk again. And be sure we´ll meet again hahaha” Zaito throws Mia into my arms and disappears immediately

I walk, with Mia in my arms, into the fir forest, leaving the wasted city behind us and going deep inside it. As it gets night I summoned a tent, like I did before. I carve a rune into the ground and the tent appears right in front of me. I put Mia inside and also try to summon something else, I carve the celtic rune for the letter S in the ground and not long after that, a bottle with Sake appears. It gets dark and the night begins, but Mia is not to wake up now. So I decide to go asleep as well, thinking about what happened today and how cool I must have been. But I also think about the humans who died through me and if this was a thing I should have done.

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Mhh I don´t really know if this chapter is satisfying, but I hope so

I´ll upload it a bit earlier and I think you´ll get another chap sunday or monday

please let me know if you liked the fight and how I can improve, was my first time writing a fight