…
Traversing the infinite, back to where he laid, broken, bleeding, and dying, his soul sped up, feeling the pull, the power… From deep within, it clawed… From the chains, it rattled… From the core, it howled…
A single streak, through the heavens, a single light… A single soul… Amid an infinite expanse… Could it find its way home?
No, that was the wrong question… Was this soul worthy of returning… That was the right question…
…
"OH YES! This is bliss! The terror on your faces! It's absolutely priceless!" Dionysus laughed, filled with an intense joy unlike any other before, it filled his soul, and it gave him strength.
"Yes, this is truly a beautiful scene. A shame our children couldn't be here to see the bliss here." Erebus smiled, a truly wicked smile. "Hey, when are you all going to come on and help out down there? Start killing would you!"
That comment surprised everyone, however, nothing happened. The ones that Erebus had been talking to, they were the ones more focused on something else… Freeing themselves from their bonds, the 30 gods and goddesses walked out of the tower, refraining from killing a single person, mortal or god. They'd largely been told the plan, however, they had a very different perspective now.
"What do you think?"
"It's horrible. This isn't what we were told the plan would be."
"Agreed, this is a bit too far, yes, we wanted to kill some of the mortals so they'd reincarnate… But this amount of devastation… It's far too much."
"Erebus, you're trying to destroy Gekai."
"Of course I am! How else can it be made anew, if not destroyed?"
"So, you lied to us… Knowing full well, we'd go along with it, because we liked seeing mortals fight for lives…"
"The soul always burns the brightest while in peril…"
"I don't like this… I may be evil, but this is fucked up… Especially with what happened over there. And there, and there…"
"HEY! ORIGIN WOLF! YOU GET YOUR ASS UP NOW!"
That was when one noticed that the flicker hadn't actually faded yet…
"Heh, I see how it is…"
"Let's light the way, shall we?"
"Hmm, it's a shame to waste such a good chance. His body was perfect for sexing up. But I guess we should make amends for the part we played in this…"
The 30 gods and goddess sighed, and reluctantly turned into golden lights, leaving Gekai… They'd be restricted from coming back for a while, but they wouldn't be banned forever.
"Hmm? What's going on?" Erebus pondered… Doing his level best to hide his frustration. "No matter, things are going relatively according to plan."
The golden lights petered out, and finally disappeared…
…
Out in the infinite expanse, 30 golden lights shot out, in various directions. Each searching for something, acting like a beacon to guide the lost back home.
THERE IT IS! A gold light!
A single silver light, turned, and rapidly sped up…
I see it! Gekai!
"Welcome back Shurry…"
"Ouranos?"
"Indeed. The ones who left just now, they were the 30 you brought back from the dungeon-"
"I guess I should forgive their shitty attitudes… Just this once though."
"Something's different with you?"
"I learned what I really am, and the amount of work that went into me… I'm going to show them all, just what that work bought them."
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"Well I guess it's time to kill the rest of th-"
A single silver light came hurling down from the heavens, splitting the darkness, its target, glowed… and the healing began.
A finger twitched, an ear flicked, a tail bumped up… And the rhythmic beating of a heart, resounding like an army of drums…
The body, repaired, brimming with life once more…
"Welcome back my lifelong friend, Shurry."
"It's good to be back, Luna… Are you ready for this?"
"I already know everything, we are as close as one after all…"
"Then let's begin…"
"The chains exist… I'll-"
"No, I'll do it on my own. You focus on helping me maintain my sanity…"
He rose from where he once laid, up to all fours. Chains of the world, glowed, and…
His eyes glowed, a gleaming silver…
His howl, releasing a reverberating pressure wave…
Buildings holding on by the slimmest of margins… Collapsed…
A tug, a flail, and a chomp…
A sound the gods recognized as the sound of the end… But the end of what?
Erebus, and the evil gods were left speechless. However, they combined their powers, creating a powerful wave of arcanum…
However… They were too late… For with the snapping of the first chain, a new, powerful, full moon bent the waves up, around, and out of Gekai.
The second chain collapsed under the newly released power…
The third…
The fourth…
And finally…
Shurry was free at last, unbound by the weights he'd been carrying with him through his whole life. He'd never even noticed… But now… he felt it… He jumped up to the sky, behind the moon…
The next time anyone saw him… His body was the size of a city block… His powerful paws, creating pressure waves, that cleared the skies!
Against the starlit sky, and the moon light beneath…
He shook his head slowly as if shaking off the rust… His fur shook, trembling the air… And…
A howl to pierce the night, to pierce the darkness, to announce himself to life, he walked the world once more… To punish the gods…
The howl, heard around the world… Not a single man, beast, god, nor monster didn't hear this howl.
Wolves around the world, all over, howled in course with the mighty wolf's…
A certain monster deep in the dungeon smirked, as a shiver crawled the length of the many spines it was born with. And yet, it smirked… As if it was pleased a potential worthy challenger may soon yet appear.
A dragon far off from the city heard this howl as well, however, its response was a furious sneer. As it tried to roar, but the cage it was locked inside wouldn't let anything out, not even sound. For if there was the chance for something, the dragon would find a way to pierce that weakness. Instead, it was forced to sit there, furious, and continued to remain ready for the day it would be challenged. It was the apex predator, no one else should dare to attempt to dethrone him!
The scene in Orario had changed, and the gods around the world witnessed as the wolf that had once terrorized the world of the gods, was not only free, but reborn, here, in the world of Gekai… They all uttered the same word… The same name… Synonymous with the cataclysm… A catastrophe, yet not a monster… But a mythical beast…
"""F- Fe- Fen- rir… FENRIR!"""
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