The void and the battlefield began to spin. I frantically attempt to Annihilate death from the body of my Heemy, yet nothing worked. Thousands of attentos alongside some of my comrades who had essence to spare. We panicked, the very void that normally doesn't affect me, I began to feel the chill of its vacuum. I was cold to the bone, so much so that I never even felt the blast that struck me. The damage was minimal, but that discovery had yet to mean a damn thing to me. I was absent of mind, my soul screamed, but my conscience was blank. I could barely fathom the surroundings, the events around me, any of it! All I could do was stare at the lifeless body of my beloved. I felt like a failure, a nuisance to his very existence. How could I allow this to happen!!?
"H-Heee... m-myyyy??" I could barely walk forward with wiping out parts of the void. My essence even began to disrupt the essence of my own teammates. Leaving some of them vulnerable to attacks they had to dodge like a scared puppy.
"Zee!? ZEEE!!? Get a hold of yourself- nrgh!? GAAAAH, annoying bitch!!" Kolipso shouted.
"ZeeNanasa!? Ayo ZEE!? Say b, what done got into shorty!? We need'er, bruh!" Jah'malle desperately blocked the beams from Maleignos's mass assault.
"H-H-Heee- myyYYY!?" My essence got even more violent, brazen and wild as it danced fiercely.
"Big sis, what the fuck are you doing!? SIIIIIISS!? Nrrrrrgh!! She can't hear a thing we say!!" ZeeNasia stood in place with Seikosen, smashing every attack that came their way.
"Hmph, it seems I have no choice." ZeeNastasia marched towards my with an infusion of essence being woven into her right hand.
Within moment, I couldn't even perceive the massive amount of bloodlust she sent towards me. I hadn't even come to perceive the large amount Maleignos had specifically been pushing towards me as well. I was truly in a state of trance, the concept of despair becoming my unknown weapon as it turns my essence into a negative mass. One I was ready to fire off into the very void, scorching all its path. My wrath would be known, my despair and suffering would be my blade. And all would be my enemy in a blind rage that couldn't hope to be qualmed. In those moments, I was instinctively drawing power from my future self, I wanted the might she had acquired so I could tear this verse asunder. Hoping to tear a hole into the Stuliathan one so that I may rain down my mighty vengeance upon them. It would all be a visual representation of my wrath!
"M-My... Heee-Ee-eemyyyy-yyyy?? He's gone? Gone?? Tuh... I'll destroy it all.. right.. NO-
Before I knew it, a hand smacked me across the face and brought the light back into my eyes.
"Huh?" I was perplexed, befuddled even.
"You done with the temper tantrum now, bitch?"
Kolipso stood over me like a wall.
"Heh, she beat me to it, eh?" ZeeNastasia chuckled a bit.
"Just like mine earlier, this will do us no good. We need to steel our resolve and make sure their sacrifices aren't for nothing."
I could barely believe she struck me, but her words echoed through my soul as I turned to face her. Reality sat well within my senses, everyone returning to normal as I absorb all Events created by my Annihilation tantrum.
"We need you here, Zee. We can't allow what Josie and Heemy caused when they selflessly gave themselves up to Lord Shiishiigami. Don't forget he absorbs the event as well, immortalizing their sacrifices within himself. They bring us hope, they are our light. We will take that light and fuel the very nature of what it means to grasp victory from the clutches of despair!! NOW RISE, ZeeNanasa!!!!"
"Nrgh!? I-I hear you loud and clear, KOLIPSOOOOO!!!"
My essence burst forth like a supernova of unparalleled magnitude. It wasn't my complete evolution just yet. But when it did occur, I noticed something in the horizon that gave me hope. It was as if I could see the very soul of Heemy guiding me to the door. The very wall that has always blocked a person's true awakening. A door Heemy must've been trying to blow down, but he couldn't in time before Maleignos made his move. Even so, his shining eyes showed no regret, he saved his very light from being extinquished. Giving birth to a new light well beyond what I initially saw back when we first met. It was grand, a remedy for the abyss that nearly took me over. I was ready!
"ZeeHEEEEE!! Let's see what I can do here. To make up for that blunder from earlier. This shall be my apology to you all!" My eyes turned into a golden, crimson light that pulsed like lightning! I was completely locked in, ready to defeat Maleignos for the greater good of the Omniverse. And so that Josie, Heemy, and many others didn't die for nothing!
Maleignos screeches like a mad titan, turning that bone chilling screech into a mighty roar. One that was filled with a rather high count of concepts and bloodlust. The very concept of bloodlust, mixed with a large amount of essence, Abyssal essence. Only possible by turning your Source into a concept itself, the Abyss concept to be specific. All of his eyes locked in on me, ZeeNasia, and Nikola, the greatest threats to him. More importantly, Nikola and ZeeNasia are the greatest threats to Atomen himself. He was very adamant about making sure we could not get to his boss.
"Heh, he's declared war on the three of us, how hilarious. ZeeNasia, Nikola, Annihilo-Sect!!!"
"Yes, boss ZeeNanasa!?" They all replied.
"Let's get our mission done. Eliminate... Maleignos!" I gave the command, sowing several moral booster and focus heightening concepts into my voice.
"GOT IT!!" Everyone shouted.
"Seikosen, summon your light. ZeeNasia, Nikola, with me. The rest of you support us and Juno in where you fit in! We're about to beat him into space dust! For HEEMY!!"
"For HEEMY!!"
We charged towards Maleignos in unison, bathing in the light created by Seikosen. Maleignos roared and swam back well out of our sight. Swimming right back towards us at speeds unheard of by such a large being. We clashed like a hurricane hitting the eastern shore of the United States. Whilst we clashed, Harpenyoloko and Minatotowein teamed up to keep as much of STRIFE away from Atomen as possible. As of now, only twelve of STRIFE's members were engaged in battle with Atomen. Three more were assisting Annihilo-Sect and I against Maleignos. Leaving the remaining sixteen to go head to head with the powerful Harpenyoloko and Minatotowein.
"Young STRIFE, Hakeem, Shiitania... We'll lead the way against Harpenyoloko. We can leave Chezzims to strategize for us, as he's been doing for the rest of STRIFE." Clarissa commanded. Blocked a storm of acidic feathers from the likes of Harpenyoloko. She caught a few and transferred literal Life into them. Bringing them sentient life, flinging then all back at Harpenyoloko to be used as her familiars.
"Roger that, Lady Clarissa!" Many shouted from behind her person.
Her younger brother foresaw the counter Harpenyoloko was planning. He changed the events by sending his pole forward in gigantic form. It tore through the spatial feathers she hid within the void. Harpenyoloko was taken back by his ability to see their every location. She barely had any time to think it over properly, for she was rushed by Zeramera and Zo'Elgor II. She blocked their blade attacks, several thousand that were meant to keep her in place. She was especially cautious of Zeramera's katana of light. Yosiah began to charge some odd ray of essence alongside his father, Yahddai the ArchRisen. Odin came from above her head, smashing his mighty hammer into that wing of hers. Their collision created a shockwave that folded space around them. Odin demanded that she be still in that next moment using a powerful speech technique. It was derived from Speech itself, using control, Command, and even resonance to make it work more precisely. Harpenyoloko was now stuck in place thanks to this strange technique mixture. Leaving us with the best opportunity we could ask for, one where Shiitania, Xenoshaa, Hakeem, and Clarissa could rush her.
"Let's make some magic happen, yeah!?" Clarissa asked.
"I'm more than ready, Rissa. She's had her way for far too long, don'tcha think!!?" Shiitania shouted.
"Yeah, I have had it up to here with her antics. Those Annihilo-Sect goons can't be the only ones to push one of these three to their limits!!" Hakeem shouted.
"Well said, Hakeem, my boy! It's going to be a jolly smackin' show, innit!?" Xenoshaa shouted.
All four came together, smacking Harpenyoloko around whilst she was still heavily paralyzed by the commands of Odin. Every time she adapts to the essence and concept type used in the technique. Odin shouts the same thing, but it's casted in the essence of one of the nine realms. Allowing Clarissa and the others to continue pummeling her to literal space dust. She would regenerate in a near instant, which gave Odin just enough time to paralyzed her once more, flipping through his realms all the while. Every other time she was able to come back from being turned into dust, she would be more set for defense. Placing her body in the perfect positions whilst coated in more and more Stuliachi each time. Eventually, she was able to prevent the words of Odin from even reaching her thanks to her new found affinity. By then, she could finally counter Clarissa and the others, preventing them from being capable of pummeling her again. No longer wasting essence on reviving through regenerative means. She was essentially immortal through regen so long as she had essence. But we could tell she had more than two types of Immortality under her wing, just like the others.
"Pretty impressive battlefronts you've collected. Even Maleignos was forced to bring out his full power. Bravo indeeeeed, but you still..."
Harpenyoloko blocked a punch from Clarissa, one that went beyond time and space themselves. Harpenyoloko merely grabbed it from the future of an alternate possibility and fused it to the Clarissa in front of her.
"I'm not like Minatotowein and Maleignos. Even Atomen has to be weary of me when I choose to disagree with his plans. Think of it as, 'Our Invasion', instead of just his!" Harpenyoloko blew Clarissa back before she could even react to and process this new information. Shiitania and Xenoshaa flanked her from both sides, attempting to knock her head off, but Harpenyoloko blocked their attacks, used her winds to blow them both away. She then shit right after Yosiah and his father.
"Not so fast, doll! Activate the Concept; Beast: Bladed Warterror Mimicry!" Zeramera's body turned into that of wolfman like beast within the skeletal face of a lycan. Her katanas fused to her arms and turned into natural armaments. Her body was brolic, large, and very toned. Her tail was three times the size of her body, and she was fifteen feet tall now. Harpenyoloko attempted to charge right through her, but was stopped by the swipe of her blade. They began to exchange attacks several times over. Zo'Elgor came from behind and attempted to break up their little dance. Zeramera noticed his approach, she set him up perfectly by increasing her stats suddenly. It caught Harpenyoloko off guard and knocked her off her rhythm. Allowing Zo'Elgor to slash into her using his sacred, dragon blade. A large curved blade capable of copying all elemental concepts and their many combinations.
"DOHHH!!! Why youuuuh!! That was quite the lump of essence you threw into my body, Zo'Elgor, was it?" Harpenyoloko grabbed the blade of Zo'Elgor's Dragon sword. She used her skin and flesh as a trap, enlarging the bone the blade struck into in order to gain an unholy grip on his weapon. She folded her body in and out, flipping her front side and back side with one another. She smiled at Zo'Elgor before snapping her fingers. That snap activated a mighty technique that forced Zo'Elgor to fly a few thousand light years in the opposite direction. Xenoshaa immediately replaced him along with the twins of Good & Evil, Ahura and her brother, Aroro.
"I think we'd make the perfect support for ya, Lady Xenoshaa!" Ahura states.
She and her brother clapped their hands together, infusing the very nature of their Origin Concepts into their cores. Then they send the essence directly into Harpenyoloko who has shown low affinity for their concepts. As well as the concepts of Light, and even Strife! Harpenyoloko could feel her entire being become split into two conflicting sides. Something that was made worse by the touch, and infusion of Xenoshaa's violent version of Strife essence. Her mother could be seen as more of a, Hax user, a mage type, a caster, healer, attacker from mid to long range type of fighter. Whilst Xenoshaa learned to use it in all forms of close quarters combat, and even a large amount of mid range tactics for the Strife concept. This one around, Xenoshaa was copying her mother and controlling the very nature of conflict within Harpenyoloko. Making her two sides fight wars from the particle level, all the way up to her very cells and organs. They all acted independently, sentient and making their own rash decisions. It would take quite some time for Harpenyoloko to get a hang on her situation. Leaving her open to an attack coming from Odin, and his younger siblings, Bor, Hera'Lis, and Sain'Peets. They all followed their older brother and smashed their weapons into her body alongside his legendary hammer, Mjölnir. She was flung into the void, immediately catching up to Zo'Elgor himself.
"What the!?"
"Yo, Harpenyoloko, was et!? Be one with kōngxū" (The Void/Emptiness). He smacked her with a dragon palace pillar to the back of her conflicted body.
She was flung into a head on flying punch delivered by Clarissa. She made the conflict even worse by actually bringing every individual particle within Harpenyoloko's body to life. Making the fighting even worse, far more ferocious than before. Shiitania appeared below her spinning, flilling body, preparing a mighty attack. She charged her mighty Death essence into her fist and plowed it into the solar plexus of Harpenyoloko.
This occurrence wove death into her every particle, allowing the particles of Good and Evil to kill one another. When one dies, it is revived by the Life woven within. As the revival occurs, conflict within revival occurs as well, causing a split revival. Forcing every particle to split into two as they revive, creating more strife, causing more life to come about. Life that would soon know the sweet release of Death. Creating a successful cycle of Stride, Life, and Death.
"This is actually bad, these Deities are tricky with the way they use concepts. I wonder how Minatotowein is doing?" She glances over at the massive Minotauric Stuliathan. He was facing Uncle Sam and Mansamoho in an all out brawl. Every time someone else would come to intervene, he merely sprout another torso from his massive body, that torso feeds off battle and heated exchange. Damage even adds to his mass overtime if it is within his ability to withstand. That helped the first create new tissue that would soon become a complete, and brand smacking new body for the torso. Successfully manifesting a clone through battle, one that has its own measure of essence to call upon. This would continue until all eight of the STRIFE members assisting in that battle had one of their own to face. Every one of them split the battlefield up, allowing them to separate the many Minatotoweins. Helping members from all over the Omniverse came to assist their leading STRIFE member so long as they were injured. Doing something as reckless as that has allowed many a few to die during this conflict. Such are the many things that can take place when fighting for days on end against opponents more powerful than you.
Lord Zzaint used a few of his Gifting Elves and the powerful Manic Reindeer who held pull his massive sleigh during the night of giving. One specific reindeer that joined his ranks during the Christmas Terror calamity, the reindeer known as Rudolf the Raging, Red-Nosed Reindeer. He was powerful and just as capable as Zzaint himself. He and the legendary elf known as Jack. Their control of the winter concept and the ability to gift those with many different concepts is exceptional. A rare trait within deities natural born to this Omniverse.
"Take out his legs Rudolf!" Jack shouted.
He plucked his ears to creat vibrations using the long, frozen helix and antihelix of his ears. The waves created by the vibrations rung through the body of the Minatotowein clone. It shook the monster's core, allowing Jack to read the body, anatomy, and weaknesses of said body.
"Lord Kris Kringle, Brother Rudolf, give me more vibrations!" Jack demanded.
"Will do, comrade! Follow after me, Rudolf!!" Lord Zzaint shouted.
They both blocked several punches from Minatotowein, countering with punches woven in Impact and Blunt Force. These two concepts allowed then to rattle the very cells within the body of the Minatotowein clone.
"Hrremnnn!!! Wretched deities!!" He let out steam from his nose and ears. Preparing to release a colossal breath attack.
"That's more than enough! Aim for his head and ribcage. They support that massive body of his!" Jack released a blizzard the size of a Colossaverse, then entrapped it within a dome surround Zzaint, Rudolf, and the Minatotowein clone.
"What the!? He trapped all three of us?? The fool!!" Minatotowein thought to himself.
He turned around to see a massive right fist smashing into his skull. It shattered the massive cranium into peanut brittle, causing blood to spray from the ears, eyes, nose, mouth, and skull wound of Minatotowein. He roared and yelled as elements of every variety came spraying out like a sprinkler hose. Rudolf would then ran his frozen antlers into the torso and ribcage of the clone's massive body. Blasting the body to smithereens in the process.
"HaHAAAAA!!! Mighty good job, comrades!!" Lord Zzaint shouted proudly.
He looked around and noticed that everyone else was finishing off the other clones whilst the main body continued to push Mansamoho and Uncle Sam back. Everyone rushed to their aid, ready to blitz and gang up on the main body. He sensed their bloodlust, fishing and countering their strikes, fleeing backwards all the while. He gained some distance, bulstering with a large amount of essence. His body began to morph as his muscles condensed heavily. His limbs went skinny, very long in length, toting three pairs of arms now. He now wore along, armorike fauld that heavily resembled a quilt. His skin and fur turned black, his arms and legs now had golden bracers in them with rings to cover his many fingers. His head now sported very large, golden horns. He had four large eyes that were all absent of pupils. They were all glowing red, fixated on the enemies before him. His navel ring danced from the force generated by his heavy breathing. His tail was massive, belong to that of a majestic fox. It was more than two times the size of his body, and that body was standing more than twenty-five feet tall. He smiled at us all, five halos formed on his back, chest, shoulders, and above his head.
"Heheee, time for the real show to start. I'm used to a lot of your tricks, eight members of STRIFE!" Minatotowein roared as he laughed.
Even Harpenyoloko formed new wings made of Good, Evil, Strife, Life, and even Death. Her feathers were reformed, nurtured for battle against those who dared to use such concepts against her. She had the entirety of Clarissa's forces pushed back and shocked. They weren't prepared to deal with those kinds of concepts, and only five of them would be alright without much of a hitch.
"Tch, I've had enough of this crap! Activate the Concept; Absolute Cheating: Cheater's Banquet." Clarissa pressed her hands forward and snapped her fingers.
The entirety of all visible existence turning into a back realm where everyone and everything, found everywhere was depicted by a white outline. Clarissa managed to keep her normal appearance in tact, sporting a cheating avatar, identical to her own appearance. It walked towards Harpenyoloko steadily, being watched all the while.
"Tuh, so you're a cheater too, eh Harpy!?" Clarissa stepped up to Harpenyoloko in brazen form.
"Heh, it's a shame that your cheating doesn't measure up to mine completely. I've accessed a future version of myself who is deemed the Archduchess, Empress, Great Lady, and Absolute Monarch of Cheating. So let's see how long you can last, Harpy!!" Clarissa grabbed the face of the Cheater's avatar created by Harpenyoloko.
"Tuh, you mean I have to deal with you, AND your possé outside of this place? Heh, fine by me, let's see who breaks first, Clarissa Senkozen!" Harpenyoloko redeaued her wings in both the Cheater's Banquet realm and the real realm.
She, Minatotowein, and Maleignos were all ready for whatever we could throw at them.
"You wretched...
"Deities won't be...
"Able to take us down!" Maleignos shouted.
"You will all stay here and entertain us until Atomen is done with your main forces. This Omniverse shall be ours!!!" All three proclaimed proudly. They were brewing with confidence and malice.
"Hahaahahahahaaaa!! Did you hear that claim by those Stuliathans, sisters!?" Shiishiigami asked.
"Yes, o'yes.. I heard the claim, brother!" Gaia answered.
"I as well, Shiishii!" Xenophia cracked her neck.
"It's high time we take over this battlefield once and for ALL!!" Shiishiigami allowed his malicious side to take over completely.
"STRIFE....
Show them the true terror of our might!!"