This screeching….

Ughhh

Make it stoppp….

…

Think about them

Make it stop

…….

Think…..

…......

…..

***

“Think about this carefully Apollo,” Mr. First still trying to persuade the young man…

“…..

No,

I don’t believe you,

I won’t be fooled…

Death is irreversible, and even if undoing it was possible it would go against the laws of nature”

“Those laws apply to mortal beings correct?

If you ascended past that, would they still apply to you?

I’ll answer that for you…

No,” Xezus starry blue hypnotic gems of eyes now pull the bruised Apollo into their gaze,

He wants to defy the supreme one’s words, but the more he stares into those eyes….

“You are from Soterra correct?

Well that city was founded by my orders many years ago,

All the people of Gaia with the highest potential were organized there.

How else is it that an isolated city would have the most knowledge of magic on Gaia?

We left those people to grow and govern themselves because eventually, the peak human specimen would be born from that city,

Originally I had thought it was Brandon, but even he went insane from power,

I was planning on killing you to further traumatize Kage, but now as I’ve exchanged blows with you,

I see that you are the peak human specimen from Soterra,

The perfect candidate to usher in a new era with me.”

……

“Me…..?” Apollo echoes, now fully entranced stutters…

…..

…..

“Y–”

“–Smells like bullshit to me…” a third voice suddenly interjects,

“Accuuhhh!” yawns Kage picking himself up,

“This is the most self control I’ve had ever,” the androgynous being brushes back their deep black curls from their face

“hmm,

I remember a lot more than I did before…

We are friends right Apollo?”

“Huh, Kage?

Yeah?” Apollo blinks confusedly out of trance,

“The other woman died” Kage informs him coldly

“Himari, I think she was called, do you want revenge?”

“For someone who was just recently drained, you seem to be quite lively,” Mr. First cautiously speaks to Kage, unsure himself on what to make of Kage this moment

“Nah, I’m still drained,

But I’m also pissed off too…

People like you piss me the fuck off.”

“Are you offended by appearance, or is it my status of supreme leader?”

“No, it’s just that….

You are a fucking abomination,

I can smell the stench of the mana on you,

There are two ways humans can obtain mana,

Either be illegally born like this hybrid Apollo

Or be given the life force of mana beings,

And I don’t think any angels, or one of my demons would ever willingly give up their life for you, which means torture,

You tortured them until they chose to give up their life”

“Well, this is an unforeseen development,” mumbles Xezus, As he does an entourage of people warp to his side

“We already have the Amadeus Orchestra ready, sir” one of the people, doctor Frankenxtein speaks

“Are perhaps thinking about using that annoying sound on me again?” Kage overhears

“Because it won’t work,

You don’t even understand what its is do you?

It isn’t a weapon,

Only when I can’t control my power I get affected by it’s sound,

But right now,

I am in control…

As a matter of fact,

Phew♪

KRAPOP!!

Frankenxtein and the other people spontaneously combust on the sound of Kage whistle,

“Hahaha!” he chuckles

“It’s called an oxygen bomb,

If I had this kind of power back on Tellus I wouldn’t have joined those pirates,”

“Kage, you don’t have to go this route,” breathes Apollo in stern but horrified tone,

“Shut up!

Your kind also disgusts me angel, if we weren’t friends, I’d kill you too”

“So you have finally shown your true self Amadeus!” declares Xezus

“True self?”

WHUMP!

Merely seconds after speaking, Kage blitzes up to the supreme leader, gut punching so hard it knocks his spine out,

“Whaa!” Even though he cannot feel pain, Xezus drops to his knees exclaiming out of pure shock,

“You see,” Kage cracks his knuckles

“I’ve heard and seen and a lot of things during my lives,

One being that I was a corpse of dead gods

????

Where the fuck did that rumor start!?

Contrary to what you were just bullying into me Mr. First

About how I was an object or I’m not a human all of that shit,

False,

I am a human,

Always have been,

I am just what you are trying to achieve isn’t it?

This body, my body, my power, you want to know how humanity can progress to this point don’t you!?”

Whack!

Kage slaps him,

“Don’t you!?

I saw your little tricks against Apollo,

Yellow flare red flare, spatial mana this, nova grenades that, blah, blah, blah,

All that power you posses….

But yet you still can’t defy our rules, can you?

Your power can’t even work in the Venus Forest let alone the entirety of Gaia,

So you hatch a plan to open the rings up to each other, to slowly and overtime develop ways around that,”

“Marvelous deduction,” Xezus still keeps his superiority complex despite his current state,

“If you say you are human, and you have the knowledge of how humanity can progress to your state,

Then why hide it?

Even you can tell I’m not a bad or even person am I Kage?

I am a man who has seen his people on the brink of extinction multiple times because of YOUR rules YOUR balance,

Because of YOU we are–”

“Shut the fuck up!

Blame yourself!

The people of Terra’s greed for both power and all knowledge made them like this!

And still, you want more!?

You want to know what I’ve experienced in my lifetime child?

I’ve seen planetary genocide,

I’ve witnessed the end of everything before,

That is where humanity’s progression leads,

What you so desperately obsess over

You all will die, done finito, extinction!

Things are balanced how it is to prevent a repeat of that,

Even now as I speak, it seems like it already has begun to repeat…..

But I will cut off this arm before it’s too late and body dies with it,

Hhhhhh” sighs Kage,

He stops talking and stares up at the colorful sky,

The rain has now dissipated only a few drops here and there but for the most part gone,

“I need to go home, to fix this proper, but for now….”

Pointing upward Kage mimics the action of firing an arrow

…..

And I he does; the sky begins to shine brightly as a response

“You know, I’m actually fond of archery,

So for this work of art, I’ll call it…

Judgement: Million arrows,

You like it?” he smiles slyly,

Fehw!–Fewh!–Fehw!–Fewh!

Fehw!–Fewh!–Fehw!–Fewh!

Apollo watches on a bafflement an horror, as the spears of light begin to line the sky,

The rain had just stopped but a new shower was due,

“Kage…...

I am Kage…

I really don’t know why I gave myself this name,

Kage is my name as a human to myself

But to everyone else,

I am a God.”