Malika sat silent over holi's bed as several eyes stated at her."I know you think we want an explanation."said Jennifer.
"Yes, I do think you want one, but I'm not ready to give one right now."said Malika."We don't really care why she went beserk. Can we atlesst know what she knows about our dad?"asked Anna.
"Wait, you can't just do that. We deserve answers."Said Ryan."No, we don't her past doesn't matter because she helped in spite of our past, so if she's not ready to explain, we wait."said Jennifer.
"What if she never tells us?"asked irine."That doesn't matter it's none of our business anyway."said Jennifer.
"I can tell you that your father is alive from what holi told me through her connection with a friend of mine. Is that he is alive, but I wasn't told anything else."said Malika.
"Wait, how would she know that we need more information?"asked Michael."And you'll recite all the information thar pretains to you. I just don't have it, and I'd I wake her chances are it won't be pretty."Said Malika.
"We don't need any answers about him. We learned all we needed to know."said anna as she walked out of the room.
"Anna Wait."said Michael as he rushed past another teenage boy a year older than Malika.This boy had dark skin and brown eyes he wire a black body and carried twi grocery bags.
"Does anyone mind catching me up o speed?"asked the boy."Oh eruda, you say that like we know anything."said crimiya.
"Will it affect my life in the present?"asked Eruda."No, I don't think so."said Ryan."Will it affect the order of who cooks?"asked eruda.
"Yeah, it probably will."replied Ryan."Alright, it's Thursday, so it's malika's day, and if I read the room correctly, it's likely she won't be cooking.
So I'll take over because Jennifer's cooking is a split between either terrible or good, and I can't risk her finding another recipe online."said eruda.
"Hey, my cooking isn't that bad."said Jennifer."I never said it was, but you have very low attention span.
So you tend to try and have fun by making things you have no idea how and, in turn, ruin the things you do know how to make."said eruda.
"So even though I pretended not to care, I just noticed holi with a sword through her chest, and I can't ignore that."said eruda.
"She went beserk and almost killed us all."said Erina."Oh, that makes sense, but I suggest taking her out of her human form it's not very effective because of how her voudaju was made to flow."said eruda.
"Wait, what do you mean?"asked Malika."Her true form is a sword, meaning her negative and positive energy intertwine with no obstruction much less effective in a spread out human body."said eruda.
"How did you deduce that?"asked Malika."Well, in her human form, she's much more emotional and separation, but in her sword form, she's much calmer.
I realized that her voudaju is just run by pure raw emotion, and in her sword form, everything moves side by side.
While un her human form, everything is spread out."said eruda."I wonder why I never realized that?"asked Malika.
"It's only natural your the complete apposite."Said eruda.Malika tapped holi's forehead, causing her body to morph into 35-inch sword with a dark blade.
The sword had purple markings engraved on its blade and a purple diamond engraved into the
hilt.
"Alright, so what do we do now?"asked Jennifer."Well, I'll be starting to cook."said
eruda.
"I'll be heading back to the black market."Said Malika."Wait, Malika, I found something I think you'd be interested in."said eruda.
"What is it?"asked Malika.Eruda, then handed her a flyer for a business loan being offered by the kiper family.
Malika was obviously confused."Look at it with voudaju infused into your eyes."said eruda.Malika's eyes then glowed golden as the flyer in front of her changed.
"Come one, come all, voudaju users of all ages and ranks come participate in a battle royal in the underworld. All participants will battle it out for a chance at two hundred million lenure."
"Were you followed?"asked Jennifer."Yes,but they were taken care of."replied eruda."That sounds fun. Can we go participate?"asked crimiya.
"Of course, we'll be participating only naturally. This, it is definitely some sort of grand plan. what I don't know yet, but if we want to accomplish our goal of saving those who were taken this our next step."said Ryan.
"Hey everyone, come check this out."said may holing ipher start phone.The others turned to her as their eye's went wide.
"Is that a battle taking place in the middle of the city."said crimiya."No, it's gotta be fake."said
Ryan.
"That's impossible. I can see the voudaju emanating off them."said Jennifer.Malika's eyes glowed dark red.
A look of pure confusion came on her face as her eyes turned back to normal."It's real, and the worst part is I'm pretty sure I know who two of those people are."Said malika.
"Well, who are they?"asked Ryan."Remember the cloaked figure that froze you in time?"asked Malika.
"Yeah, how could I forget it happened last night."Said ryan."Well, this us him right here."said Malika as she pointed to aluro.
"Yeah, if I remember correctly, his name is time shifter."said Ryan."That's not his real it's aluro, and he is one of angelo's cardigans, aka holi's brother."Said malika.
"Wait, so who's this guy he is purple, but she's similar to the guy I saw yesterday evening?"asked crimiya.
"Well, that's iodine. Another cardigan usually they can't be here without angelo, so I'm guessing their responding to him being in a critical state."said Malika.
"Wait, so you say their his cardigan. What does that mean?"asked eruda."Well, a cardigan is a living being forged from the trickster codex, aka the book you saw angelo with."Said Malika.
"Tricksters codex isn't their a cult called the trickster cult is he a member?"asked Ryan."No, he's not a member, but if I guess correctly, angelo had likely lost control, and the conditions were just right, so he didn't go on a killing spree.
So he likely used his creation powers unknowingly saving these people, and they now think he's a god."Said malika.
"And you knew this and didn't tell us."Said ryan."I had a hunch, but it was not concrete."Said the Malika.
"So your childhood friend is a psuedo religious figure."Said Jennifer."Yes, but I'm guessing he himself wasn't aware."said Malika.
"So if their here without him, I'm guessing something happened to him."said
crimiya.
"Yes, I forgot if I mentioned it, but angelo turned their father into a cardigan.Which likely stripped him of emotional energy, which powers the cardigan.
Meaning he'd start to go insane and the cardigan trying to recharge would start going insane with him.
But this would take weeks, so he likely didn't think anything bad would happen. Unfortunately, a few hours ago, he was attacked and almost killed by an old enemy exelerating the process."Said malika.
"So I'm guessing these two came from out of the book to gather emotional energy and were attacked by a celestial, which is this old man.
Because the people who attacked angelo are not native to this universe, and neither is he, and I'm guessing the people who attacked him are coming for me next."said Malika.
"Why would they come for you?"asked Jennifer."Well, let's just say that we have a very bad history."said Malika.
"So I'm guessing this third kid is a freind of angelo."said Jennifer."Yeah those two must be his freinds."said Malika.
"Two their are only three people in the video other than the old man."
"Something tells me that means a genocide if some sort."said eruda.On the roof top, the two siblings sat looking over the horizon.
"So he's alive, and if it weren't for total strangers, we'd be dead."Said anna."What's with the attitude change all of a sudden?"asked Michael.
"Because he ran away, he was a coward who ran away and abandoned our family their is no excuse to why he didn't come save us."said anna.
"But still, we don't know the situation. Shouldn't we atleat try to find him."said Michael."Why are you so forgiving all of a sudden?"asked anna.
"We can't chase him, Michael. we are not the solutions to his mistakes if the way that girl knows him is as a monster that puts the responsibility on us.
And that's not fair. we are not supposed to atone for our parents' sins."said anna.We aren't atoning for anything, and if we run from his atrocities, we could end up repeating them.
Whether what she knows about our dad is good or bad, we have to face it, or we'll probably end up like him."said Michael.
"We won't end up like him because we'll never put ourselves his situation."said anna."What if theirs I day where of us has to chose the world or our family the chance it will happen isyoo high.
And we should never have to make that choice, so we'll need to be stronger, and i just need to hear his side and receive at least one more life lesson."said Michael.
"But we can get stronger and run from that life."Said anna."But not strong enough, we need allies people around us running away now means establishing now of those."said Michael.
"Yeah, but these people obviously have burdens of their own, and being involved with them could lead to more bad than good."said anba
"But that's something."said Michael."Ultimatly, it's not our call."said anna as Michael turned
away.
A man watched the two children from a distant building as a woman dropped down next to
him.
"So I guess i should have helped because according to this video, he's alive."Said the man as he waved the phone in front of the woman.
"Yeah, a huge failing on my part, but this time, we'll use everyone to make sure their are no last-minute saves."Said the woman.
Alex climbed out of the destroyed building as he grunted.He then lunged, getting into the air ze ding dust and debree everywhere as he sent a punch towards the old man.
The old man placed his banjo in his back as he smiled."I think using my relic is going to be easy in you brats, so I'll use my fist."said the old man.
Crystal surrounded alex's hand as he sent a punch towards the old man's face.But as the old man rushed to grab his wrist, he vanished, sending a punch towards the old man's back.
The old man twisted his body to the writer, flipping mid-air and launching a kick towards Alex's
face.
But the old man's leg was smashed to pieces like glass upon coming in contact with Alex's
face.
Before it could regenerate, a sword pierced the back of his chest as black markings spread across his body.
Time shifter then snapped his fingers as caiver felt all the bones in his body crack.Mikel then slammed a kick into the side of his face, launching him down to the ground.
The markings around caiver vanished as his leg regrew.His body started to glow as he grabbed iodine's spear, stopping it from piercing the back of his throat.
The old man pulled the spear, flipping iodine over his shoulder and kicking him in the face.Iodine was then engulfed in lightning as took the kick and was sent flying.
Caivers' leg then went limp as aluro swung his staff as caiver heart started to spin rapidly in his chest.
"Attach heat of the sun." caivers' chest then started to burn as he screamed in pain.Mikel then spun mid-air as the fire avatar of a dancing figure with several arms surrounded him.
Mikel then flipped as a giant flaming dragon flew at caiver.Caiver plunged his hand in his chest, yanking it out.
As he ducked a punch from Alex, he slammed his fist into Alex's gut, tearing a giant hole through it as his burning heart started to burn Alex's inside.
He then tossed Alex in the path of the dragon, but just as a smirk found itself on caivers face ge for d himself with a hole through his stomach.
The fire engulfed him as time shifter tapped his staff as caiver, and the fire dragon was forced into the depth of outer space.
Alex lay on the top of the sky scraper, panting as iodine stood over him."Damn, I only gave two uses left."said Alex as he looked down towards his necklace.
"The ability to make any phenomenon its opposite is truly phenomenonal."said iodine.Iodine then dropped to his knees as he started to cough blood purfusly.
Alex grabbed him as mikel flew over, holding an unconscious aluro."This is bad. Without these two, how will angelo complete the ritual.Said mikel.
"Well, I don't think we need to worry about that."said iodine as he pointed y
to the cheering people.
Tiny specs of light then started to enter both iodine's and aluro's body as they smiled."That old geezer dud something right."said iodine.
Just then, molten gold fell from the sky as the screams of countless people erupted from
below.
Before he could react, a punch flew towards Alex's gut, sending him flying.A giant silver arrow made of molten silver then flew at mikel's chest as he barely evaded it only to he met by a kick straight into the face sending him flying to the ground.
Iodine grabbed aluro as he blocked the cane of an old man wearing a top hat and black suit."Who are you?"asked iodine.
"Well knight of truth and jugement iodine don't you reconize me after the atrocities you carried out on my people."said the man as iodine's eyes went wide.
"Sorry you'll have to clarify, we killed many in. self defense."said iodine.A beetle looking humanoid creature then rapped his arm around iodine as the old smashed the cane into his head.
"Remember me?"asked the beetle like creature."Of course I do. How could I forget something so ugly."Said iodine as he spat blood.
Iodine was then kicked in the stomach as he coughed out even more blood.Aluro snapped his fingers as the two of them teleported a few meters away onto another building.
A woman with long dark hair and a snake like a lower body was rapped around Alex's body as she stared at him with vicious intent.
"Wow, you're quite beautiful if we aren't trying to kill me. I'd like this type of attention."Said Alex as he grinned at her.
Her grip around his body tightened as he looked into her eyes."Damn it, Alex, how can you be thinking about losing your virginity at a time like this much less to an ugly reptile."said mikel.
"Who are you calling ugly, you filthy human."Said the snake lady as her scales tightened around Alex.
Before mikel could rush to help several tentacles pierced his body as he turned seeing a giant amalgamation of worms coming out of a giant skull.
Mikel then coughed up blood as several thousand worms were injected into his body.Mikel screamed in pain as hundreds of worst started to burst out of his flesh.
"That's what you get for calling my sister ugly you filthy worthless human."said hundreds of litter voices that rang throughout mikel's head and body.
Mikel spread voudaju throughout his body, heating up his skin to an ungodly degree, but no matter what, he still felt the worms devouring his flesh going towards his brain.
Iodine and aluro were barely standing, staring down the old man and giant beetle like
creature.
"Hey, do you think Alex is okay?"asked aluro."No, but maybe mikels is doing better."Said
iodine.
"Who the hell is mikel."