C254: End of the Beginning Pt6 x Finale
Date published: 9/10/2025.
Happy birthday to me. I originally planned to finish this whole story by today but didn't realize how much I had originally planned would have taken.
Also didn't help that the past few days I had been super lazy since I had no writing schedule. Though it did help me to visualize what I have planned after this story ends which makes me excited.
The schedule returns to normal 3 days work time and I should finish the last chapter or 2nd to last in this time depending on how much I can write in this time.
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"Resurrecion"
As Axel shakingly gets up, still far from his best state, he slams his spear down into the ground to help hold him steady. Due to how empty his reserves are, a small influx of energy occurs around him but he also notices plenty of energy begins to flow into the hollow who just stated his command.
After starting the 'Resurrecion' process his Zanpakuto begins to glow and then his body follows after as the blade seems to disappear. The clothing slims down to be form fitting as it is a mixture of black body and white shoulders with runic symbols adorned on the clothing depicting the magical stigmata he now possesses.
The final change depicts the hollow as a man of mixed American/Japanese heritage based on their complexion and overall build. A white vest reminiscent of grimmjaws yet with the previously stated eye stylized magic symbols and glyphs. This exposes a wellbuilt muscular body with pure white skin behind the vest due to the Hollowfication. The two most noteworthy things is that the left arm is completely missing yet the part of the vest around that area appears to be torn as if the arm was ripped off or his body mutilated. The other thing being a small orb embedded into the center of his chest that glows a subtle magenta color (pinkish).
A rapier rests in the right hand but not any old rapier but one closer to a sai or pitchfork as it holds 4 other small blades (for a total of 5) of a rapier barely a quarter of an inch evenly across the hilt from the main blade.
The previous hole in his chest is missing but a trail of blood is still present, originating from where the hole had originally been. Though this resembles something closer to an ink stain after being corrupted by the hollows energy and the closing of the wound. It is this very spot that Axel had noticed that there was an intensity, or rather an imbalance of yang energy compared to his yin energy. Likely caused by the reddish orb in his chest.
(no image this time around, couldn't make anything with ai since it just kept making the ugliest things ever, at most i had one that had a good outfit but not meeting full requirements. I'll at least show that)
'While it has gotten stronger once more, I'm sure it is chugging tons of energy and shouldn't have healed the full amount of damage I just put it through. I just need to hold out regain my energy and I can nuke it once more' Axel strategizes as he lowers his stance for maximum agility.
"Cero"
Suddenly a noxious blue glow gathers around the center tip of the rapier which then suddenly shoots at Axel at an unexpected angle. Axel finds himself once again outmatched as he loses a part of his arm up to the elbow and even half of his foot. Giving up the loose arm to help reforge the part of his leg he just lost.
The sensation of pain was vastly overwhelming as previously all of the hollows attacks had been much more manageable to dodge even if he had to lose some mass but this time it was different as his soul was directly struck and ripped off by the cero beam.
Axel can recover from these injuries but they need time and until then, he will remain in pain.
"UGH" BOOM
Axel had barely dodged the beam when the hollow had already recovered from using the beam before rushing at Axel and kicking him in the face. Axel is sent flying, crashing into his own wall as cracks spread out all around it.
This time the cracks are much bigger as the barrier had barely recovered from the previously free reigned energies. The current damage allows the 'curtain' of the barrier to be released, showing the outside.
The hollow spots two girls sitting down just outside the barrier, one who has half blue and half brown hair notices the barrier first and guides the other who has brown hair to look at the barrier. Both are shocked as the beastly hollow stands above the bleeding Axel. The last scene they see before Axel begins to get up and then the curtain returns. As for the ones inside, they see the girls calling out to someone but it is unknown who.
Yes, Axel's head is covered in blood from the previous kick as he doesnt have the time to fix his appearance. He unsteadily gets up, using the barrier as a pillar to help him steady himself. In that time, the curtain falls once more as the fake landscape is depicted once more.
"Your efforts are futile, no matter how you resist, you can't stop me from eating you and evolving even further. Within you I have laid the seeds for my own ascension. Through you, the victim, I have set the playing field. Your growth was interesting to witness but it was nothing special in the grand scheme of things I shall arrange." The hollow speaks as he steps closer to Axel. Even though they are missing an arm, the pure compression of their energy and magic spells allows them to create a new one out of said energy which grabs Axel by the neck and lifts him up against the barrier.
The hollow can feel that a part of the energy making up the arm is being devoured but his own countermeasures ensure that it would take hours for just this arm to be destroyed.
Axel's face reddens, not from loss of air due to the grip on his throat but half from shame of his weakness and second hand embarrassment of what he just said. As well as from the pressure of the roaming energies flowing through his body that Axel has concentrated in his head or more specifically his throat.
BOOM.
The energy is released in the throat where it knocks the hollow back while inadvertently decapitating Axel who grabs his head and reattaches it before dashing away whilst the hollow was stunned.
Swish
Axel barely gets a chance to breathe in his new position before something is sent flying that stabs into his guts and pins him to the wall. Cracks form all around him as the barrier is truly on its last legs now. Even all the people living, exploring and working on his territory find that the world shakes even though they don't detect any cosmic construct affecting this outer world reality marble.
All outside transport is locked down, essentially trapping all people on the moon sized planet. It is up to the wives and valkyries to uphold order as they utilize their divine energies to escort certain folks off that could cause problems while the others are reassured that everything is 'fine'. Yet while the vast majority are calming the people, a select few with Miyamoto-Gram Raikou as the leader begin to use the portal for something else.
In a strange prospering village with guards stationed around does Raikou appear alongside Syr who guides her to said village. The two guards who stand at the village gates raise their hands as they ask, "Woah there, we have a line if you wish to enter or visit Konoha" one of the guards states as he tries block their way and they do stop but Syr simply looks a bit up as she raises her hands to her mouth.
"Serena, Come here" The guards grow nervous as the world acknowledged strongest is simply called out by an unknown woman. One guard takes out his sword to attempt to take the two women down and take them in for interrogation when Syr speaks up once more.
"Come to Mama. Now" A tense atmosphere presses against the surroundings as nobody is sure what to do as it appears that the so called worlds strongest own mother is calling them out. The guards quickly sheathe their swords/tantos and the pressure only dissipates when movement is detected.
With a swish, a small gust of wind is produced as Serena, the first born of all children appears. "Uhh, what's going on? I could barely put the newborn down to bed. I haven't received news that I did anything bad." Serena says with quite a bit of confusion on her face as she looks between her mother and 'aunty' Raikou
"We don't have time to explain, total recall of all first generation is in effect. You can come back here later…if we don't all die" Raikou states as she leads the trio back to the portal and then they repeat the process with each of the following first generation children.
Meredith the second born was brought back from the heroic world, she was beating up a few villains when Aisha and Raikou came for her. Seiko was retrieved by his own mother Raikou in the middle of his date with Mei, it would seem his attempts with Nobara fell through and he changed ships.
Leera was also retrieved by Freya at the same time as both Leera and Seiko were in the same world. She had been simply chatting with her teacher, Gojo Satoru when the mother barged in and took the daughter away. Gojo naturally tried to stop this but was blocked by Raikou. He was naturally unharmed by Freya simply explained it was a family emergency and nothing to do with him. Gojo naturally tried to continue to pry until they reached where the portal was, entered said portal and he was left behind as it blocked him out.
The youngest amongst the first generation is in their late teens, Lara and Dara, the half twins of Tiona and Tione could have been recalled as well but they were half way considered to be the oldest of the second generation and it's better for them to stay away. Their powers would not help much here.
With all the children gathered, Serena takes the initiative to ask, "Alright, we're all here, care to fill us in on what is going on? Why isn't dad here to explain it in the first place"
"Thats the thing darling, your father is the one in trouble this time around." Syr states and then Raikou explains the situation about the original hollow that was the metamorphosed One Eyed Black dragon and how there was a stronger creature behind that monstrosity.
All in attendance, be they children, monster pets that had been granted human intellect and even new powers, or even the very same groups of gods and goddesses bound to Axel's so called Divinity now understand what is at shake. Especially when the world shakes once more while they describe the situation.
"Your father is in danger, we shall not simply stand aside like how we barely did anything but stall for time last time around." Raikou is one of the most pissed off from that incident but the sentiment is shared amongst all who had fought and been defeated back then against the One Eyed Hollow Dragon.
As they get to work, Axel continues to barely hold on against the Hollow who had undergone Resurrecion. With the rapier stabbed into his gut, he coughs up blood as the force of the strike had injured him internally.
"You're running out of tricks, it's just a matter of time now. You have put up a valiant effort but I am just better" The hollow states as if it was fact while they make their way towards Axel.
"More of an asshole perhaps" Axel retorts as he sets down both hands upon the hilt of the sword, he channels his [spirit Energy] to coat his hands this time around as he had been using it in conjunction with his previous attacks but the hollows soul is simply too robust. The former symbiosis between the hollow and human side had granted it enormous defense and resistance to even his own powers.
Yet what he is doing now is certainly unexpected as he channels said energy in a reverse devouring manner. He is letting his energy flow into the rapier, utilizing the power of [chaos] to corrupt said sword.
As the sword is an extension of its user, the hollow feels a deep pang of pain in his chest, the third proper pain it had felt due to Axel's actions. The first being when Axel had stabbed him in the back with his spear. The second was the followup to the first when he channeled the vast majority of the law energy he controlled through the spear back into himself.
This incident is now the third as the hollow rushes forward to backhand Axel across the face, and then grab his sword in an attempt to pull it out but Axel grabs onto his wrists and keeps him locked in place.
"Not so fast, i've grown quite attached to this sword, how about you let me keep it..grr, here where it is." Axel grunts in pain as he finally stops the flow of energy he was inputting in order to channel a few of his old powers.
Four extra arms sprout on his back while his body glows blue akin to a ghost layered over his own body.
Said four arms begin to wail upon the hollow's body as each strike is followed up by a ghostly arm striking alongside it, both physical and spirit limbs release a dual nature shockwave of power and devouring energy, utilizing the hollows own soul to heal Axel's as well as bolster his own power.
While the hollow had already gotten used to Axel's basic devouring, the shockwave template from his old buddies' power. While Axel current devouring power is focused directly on where he touches, the shockwaves instead spread this devouring force out before retracting it all back to Axel.
This premise showed to Axel that as long as he keeps a few tricks up his sleeves, he can hold his own for a while longer but he still doesnt see a situation where he can properly win without some sort of major sacrifice.
Speaking of sacrifice, other than the energy needed for him to heal and maintain his current strength, he absconds the remaining stolen energy to the literal law of sacrifice. This ensures that the stolen energy can't be retrieved by the hollow even if it tries.
This ensures that while this onslaught of attacks continues, the hollow will continue to grow weaker while Axel maintains his strength, if anything the more he bides his time, the more he regains his energy from his reality marble.
BOOM UGH
The hollow suddenly opens his mouth where a cero is primed, he bites down on it as he knows that Axel would already strike him before he could completely charge it and hurt himself more. The explosion that ensues provides a proper smokescreen for the hollow to finally extract his rapier, causing Axel to groan in pain as he falls to his knees.
As the smoke clears, Axel can see that he inflicted quite a lot of damage upon the hollow as his face, chest and arms are covered in bruises but they rapidly heal within Axel's sight.
Snap. Axel clicks his fingers together and this is one of the times where a red glow covers Axel as his gut wound heals rapidly. A portion of the energy he sacrificed had returned to him in the form of soul healing energy. He had essentially stored the sacrificial energy within himself but in spatial pockets like he did before. He designated a few pockets for emergency healing like this but he has something else in store for the hollow.
"Your efforts are for nought. You shall not be granted entry into the river of reincarnation anymore. I shall ensure you will bolster my strength." The hollow begins to speak in a sophisticated manner and it seems he himself is surprised by it before shaking his head a bit and stating resolutely.
"Im gonna eat you now, and shit out your soul"
"Yea yea Castlevania Death, i got it the first time around when you and the other guy threatened me. Lucky for you, I can accelerate the process."
"What?" the hollow states in genuine confusion as he truly doesnt know what Castlevania is, so many gaps in it's former partners memories due to him being an uncultured swine that refused out of principle to expand it's knowledge except in his single field of business and schooling.
Axel puts his fingers together in an intricate manner as he chants out.
"Divine Domain: Reverse River of reincarnation." A white light expands from Axel as the domain expansion is formed.
Standing within the white field with the projection of the river of reincarnation as a background decoration. Axel immediately regains his necessary memories to identify what to do as he drags his powers back into himself to powerup while he takes in what his opponent's situation was.
To be fair, he was fairly shocked as he spots not one but two individuals linked by a special cord with both having their own separate powers and memories but also many that amongst those two rows links together akin to a shared power. Yet the surprise doesnt end there.
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Official end of pt6 and now onto the finale. Continues where the last chapter left off
Word count thus far: 2966
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(elsewhere)
"Grandpa, I finally found him." A beautiful woman radiating an aura of purity, joy and life. The type of aura that makes any person instinctively choose to protect them whilst also being healed by them the longer they remain by said person.
"Who?" the bespoken grandfather questions as both are busy in their own fields of work. For example, he is busy reading a newspaper from another world. The woman rolls her eyes at her grandfather's antics as she explains.
"The hollow, I've found him."
"What? How?" The man now lifts his head from his crossword puzzles as proper confusion traces his voice.
"The boy I saved, he has a link to the river and I've detected his life sign from them."
"How could you find them when I'm the one in charge of it?"
"I still sense the leftover traces of my energy on his soul, it merged into his own powers so smoothly that he grew it alongside his other powers. Now will you get up?"
"Alright alright, im going" "OH Merry Men, get your dumb ass over here"
"You shouldnt call my father that, grandpa."
"I want to and I will. Besides." The aged man grabs a trident that rests beside him, resting it upon his hardy shoulder. "I know him better than anyone and he deserves it"
(Back in the domain)
The first soul of the two that Axel spots has the appearance of a regular early adult human male who sits downtrodden, with a depressed expression, even its original white soul clothing is pale, as if it's on the brink of fading away. On the other hand, there is the hollow, or rather the child who became a hollow against his will.
Appearing as no more than ten years old even though from the length of their memories, it's obvious that they are both hundreds of years old. Said child has a simple rabbit half-mask over his face with bunny ears on his head. Yet what is most curious is that the pinkish orb in his chest remained from his adult form Axel was just fighting.
The hollow child looks at Axel with a derisive grin. "You thought you could beat me just like this. We are locked in this state thanks to my half of the Hogyoku"
While the hollow says that, it seems that they are not aware of the rules of this domain and so Axel capitalizes on this moment to sever the last few orbs of the power pathway. This allows Axel to regain his own stolen energy but also the foundations of Luna's power which were stolen when the hollow initially appeared and attacked Axel's follower.
The hollow seems to have figured out something, possibly thanks to the orb in his chest but he grabs the two threads and begins to absorb them into himself, quickly regaining a good portion of his memories and powers, the two begin to fight again. Thanks to the current situation, the hollow has lost access to their Ressurecion state but neither one is in their full power state.
As such, Axel has the advantage until the time limit of his domain is reached and both return to their previous state. Axel would be willing to help the human half soul to regain their powers but the hollow side even pulls his memories and powers into himself, leaving the human half only with the emotions that his memories used to hold but now there is no recollection for him only the heartache of his accumulated suffering.
Of course Axel doesnt simply 'let' the hollow child do this, unleashing punches, elemental energies and spirit energy to gravely injure the hollow. Certainly enough before the domain collapses and both return to the barrier.
The hollow returns to his Resurrecion state but far weaker than they were before and 'somehow' missing a few memories of how his powers worked or techniques Axel has recently used against him. Meanwhile Axel, who had stolen the memories has a few plans in motion but for now, unfortunately he has to take down his barrier as their intense fight only serves as a drain to his energies from both his own and the hollows' powers colliding.
It also certainly doesnt help that his already low energy count just took a nosedive from unleashing his divine domain. Even if he regain his own energies, it's but a small percentage that he stolen blood and flesh held, nowhere comparable to his previous state but it was still worth it.
Afterall, he had stolen a few of the hollow's shinigami powers among other things which are held within another pocket dimension. There is also Luna's power which he has to return at some point but no point worrying about that now. One of the things he did learn is that the human soul's name was Xavier before he was reborn into a new body with powers.
WOOM
Axel takes back the twin Rhongomyniad daggers in the two corners of his barrier and immediately from their shift in position, the barrier becomes no more brittle than paper as a random gust of wind shatters it.
The first thing that Axel notices is that his energy begins to regenerate faster as he is steeped within Nature and the collaboration of other elements and divinities. The most obvious case being the layer of lava splashing around just behind him.
He isn't the only one confused as the hollow Xavier also notices that there was actually another barrier a few miles bigger than Axel's own. The hollow can also sense that Axel's energy is quickly rising. Now the pressure is against him as he doesnt know what Axel did but he won't stop his attacks now of all times.
With a Sonido, he quickly closes the distance and is poised to stab Axel with his rapier only for something else to intervene.
Or rather instead of something else, it's someone else.
"Eat Lead Shithead" A chibi girl with colorful skin wields a similarly colored shotgun filled with divine destruction energy that connects straight into the hollow's face like a mortar cannon hitting him straight on and blasting him away.
BOOOOM
Evil Xavier goes flying from the shotgun blast but he regains his footing, the shrapnel that cut across his face rapidly heals but he doesnt have the luxury of waiting as he finds a knife poking out of his chest. He turns around to find a young girl with multicolored hair and eyes is standing with her back to the hollow and her knife in reverse grip from his waist to his chest.
"This is all I can do…for now" She states and then disappears akin to a gust of wind, she was nowhere to be found according to the hollows soul sense.
"Im not done with you yet fucker" The goddess of Destruction charges towards the hollow with twin smgs' in her hands. The force between each shot is akin to a shotgun blast each time. She ironically named the twin guns, Peace and Joy. A monumental contrast to her iconic shotgun, Guts, as well as the very notion of these weapons being instruments of death naturally.
The hollow raises his hand to charge up a cero but as he is standing in place, he finds himself being crushed by something. Turning his head, he finds a ditzy girl with giant golden arms pressing her hands together as if to crush him into a pancake from far away.
He does find that a few of his bones do break from the pressure but changing the direction of the cero at the girl elicits her to stop her attack to dodge, or she would if someone else didn't jump in at the last minute slam the attack away with the force of her blade.
The hollow mends his broken bones as he observes that a purple haired busty woman had waved her lightning-covered sword to divert the attack away. As for where the cero disappeared after that, that is unknown.
The next attack comes in the form of Lucy appearing alongside another beautiful woman with milky black skin and a skin tight black outfit. Said Nubian woman blows into her hand and akin to dust. A swathe of poisons is unleashed onto the hollow.
The vast majority of these poisons prove ineffective against the hollows basic soul nature but he does feel himself weakening due to a paralytic agent that affects souls mixed amongst the others. Serenity has not experimented enough to develop a soul killing poison as she had no reason to but soul paralysis was one thing she did make to ensure a type of poison that superimposes itself onto other poisons, amplifying their effects.
In the midst of this poisonous cloud, a red ring manifests around the hollows body. Evil Xavier can feel that he is locked on from this ability but just assumes it's another one of these ladies' abundantly various powers.
It's not as if he could very well infer what would come next as a giant dragon conjuring spells and returning his own cero back at him is certainly hard to predict.
An assortment of explosions with the hollow in the center. Yet the result was contrary to their expectations, the vast majority of the magic was absorbed by the hollows special eyes as the authority of the previous Lino Doue now extends to absorbing magic and not simply blood and flesh to refuel himself like the original. That is the power of the Linou Stigmata.
The dragon clicks it's tongue as it just releases a breathe attack upon the hollow but a cero counters it with the dragon being pushed back and teleporting away.
"How many of you are there?" The hollow genuinely asks as he is now assaulted by the twin goddesses of war, Tiona and Tione.
"ARGHHH" One punches out while the other wields a mighty greatsword. With the hollow in the center of their pincer assault, he can only utilize one arm to subdue them both as he far surpasses them in physical arts but not in techniques as Tiona grapples the hollow, granting an opening for her sister to inflict a sizable gut wrenching cut upon his abdomen.
Tired of their little dance already, he lifts Tiona who is latched onto him and slams her into Tione, sending them both flying until they too disappear out of his sensory range.
"Annoying bugs" his annoyance hasn't even reached its limit as what looks like a pile of scrap metal appears before him, causing him to take a step back to witness its full size and find that it is larger than a 7 storey building. It is also not just any sort of assortment of metal but stacks of metal boxes. Atop the very peak of these stacks of boxes is a single woman who beings to glow a divine grey that resonates with each of the boxes as they begin to morph into something new.
Cling Clang ZWUT ZWIT. CLICK
while the boxes do not creak, they do slam against each other as they fit like puzzle pieces, even an assortment of floating tools set the sizable screws in place while others just lock in by themselves. The final result is far greater than the original set of boxes. Now reaching a proper 10 storey size, it can only be one thing.
"Thats a fucking Gundam. No, not just any gundam. Rx-78-2. You fucking bitches. How dare you desecrate his childhood." The hollow roars in defiance as he takes in the tall white and red with yellow vents mobile suit. It's an odd twist for all parties involved as they did not expect the hollow to actually defend his human half like this but it seems the evil one grew attached to the few creative bits that his human side had enjoyed as a child.
The hollow rushes forward only to be intercepted by a sizable war shield perfectly suited to the gundam as slots soon shift from the shield as cannons are seen within the shield that all lock onto the hollow before a barrage of missiles is released towards him.
Sasha, the goddess of machines rests atop the gundam as she speaks to a microphone. "I do apologize for the misinformation but as I have taken the original rx series suit and modified it into a new original product. It is now referred to as the CP-15-3 series. A homage to my homeland. Now. Synapse Burnout" The gundams yellow eyes glow a deeper red as a technologically superior flamethrower is shot towards the hollow.
Burns accumulate upon his body but he shakes them off as his super regeneration kicks in once more but he eventually bypasses the missiles as well as the laser heat vision of the robot. He raises his rapier to stab into the robots leg and then drags said blade upwards as he runs along the leg.
While the robot accumulates damage, Sasha is not worried as she states her next quick hack command, "Short circuit" Rods sprout along the robots body before lightning shoots out from them all, synchronizing all of their poles to zap the hollow away from the suit.
"Cero Obscura" "No You" The hollow retreats from the suit after being zapped and is about to unleash a barrage of Cero's but is intercepted by beams of light from the previous bountiful purple haired woman with golden gauntlets. The beams of light smack into him, causing a dust cloud to arise as he is sent flying once more.
As the dust settles, the goddesses all find that Evil Xavier's body sports an array of new holes in his body but nothing fatal. The vast majority of these holes were in his arms to disrupt the Cero attack.
The hollow huffs in annoyance and pain as he begins to naturally heal once more but he does not get a chance as with a flash of purple lightning, he finds that one of his arms had been separated from his body. A stream of blood flows out from the arm as it too is electrocuted and a followup zap spreads throughout his body, forcing him to kneel and even slowing down his regeneration.
The hollow stands there in place with only one arm as he surveys the current situation around him. An assortment of women with diverse but singular, focused, powers. His eyes have learned so much from them all, and their energies have all been transferred towards the orb in his chest. There is even the matter of Axel himself who had been resting and recuperating by Blythe and his wife Nightingale.
"So many interesting phenomena. I've learned so much that I can barely even hide my excitement. Let me show you" The pinkish orb shifts to a bright red as it hides the hollows body which only speaks out a single word in response.
"Resurrecion."
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Final Word count: 5464
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