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Chapter 19 - Libertas

In the War Torn Nation, high up in the sky, a certain man loomed. Everyone in the distance ran for their lives, and pleaded for their lives. As they ran, grenades were thrown at them from above, and hellfire rained down. As many were killed, the Cold Hearted looked up in terror. She had seen many things in this world, but nothing was quite like it. The man in the sky nearly ended her life in an instant, as she barely escaped. Since this man fell asleep, the death toll grew in the hundreds, and rising.

Even moreso, it seemed as if he was unconscious this entire time. As many people died, and this man appeared and disappeared throughout the sky, the Cold Hearted could only look in horror, at seeing the mess he's made.

She said only a few words, but they made the situation all the clearer. "Why is he doing this? Don't tell me he's unconscious? This isn't right. It's the Adrenaline Junkie! He's gone mad!"

The man in the sky, standing unconscious, with his head tilted to the left, was teleporting things into the battlefield. It was a power she'd never seen him use before.

As she desperately ran for cover, she was teleported back into the battlefield.

"How did he do that?" She asked in horror.

As the Adrenaline Junkie ripped through the sky, magically teleporting objects into the the battlefield, he started to rush to the invisible barrier holding people in the War-Torn Nation.

CRASH!

As he continued to teleport cannons, firing off at the invisible barrier, his entire body continued to smack at the invisible, inescapable barrier!

Over and over again!

He could not only teleport himself, but teleport other items into battle, like bombs & grenades. These were abilities thayt he'd never used before! As the Cold Hearted desperately ran away to her best attempt, the Adrenaline Junkie began to teleport a giant volcano in the distance directly into the battlefield, it erupting at the sudden appearance, speading the hot fiery lava thousands of miles out, completing the ashy look of the destroyed nation.

"How can I get this little sociopath to wake up! He's destroying everything!" She said in blindingly furious anger.

As she tried to think of a way, she appeared. That woman. The one that the Cold Hearted desperately wanted to kill.

The Energy Psycho!

The Energy Psycho looked up, with her signature bloodshot eyes. "So, the Adrenaline Junkie! I'd heard that you were in my home country! I just didn't believe it!"

As she realized that the Adrenaline Junkie wasn't responding, she shot out in happiness, flying to punch him.

"When people say things..." She began a long monologue...

"...like all people are born equal, I find it ridiculous! In this world, where there are normal people, and those of us, us two, who can destroy the world! People like us, who have the power to truly change history! People with the powers to rewrite existance! Those of us who have ultimate power! How can we truly be equal? How can we truly be equal to them!?"

As she flew towards him, the Adrenaline Junkie blocked it by teleporting a giant mountain in front of her. As her fist crashed into the mountain, it completely shattered her bones. She began to scream & only continued her powerfully insane onslaught. To the Cold Hearted, it was as if 2 Gods had descended from Earth & began battle. As they clashed, she finally realizes something.

The Adrenaline Junkie! He was winning!

As the Adrenaline Junkie suddenly teleported hundreds of thousands of lit grenades in the air, the Energy Psycho looked up in horror, screaming out. "What the fuck!?!?" The unconscious Adrenaline Junkie must have teleported every live grenade in the nation to this one location. If this hit down, everyone would die! The Cold Hearted quickly encased herself in ice, using all of her power to create a barrier in order to survive the impact!

As the grenades hit down, the Energy Psycho tried to turn into pure energy, but her reaction time wasn't nearly strong enough!

Grenade fire imploded the battlefield!

As she was hit, rained down on by grenade after grenade, her damaged body, ripped asunder, was still barely held together, but she had been completely defeated. Nearly annihilated by a singular attack! As she desperately tried escaping, the Adrenaline Junkie began to teleport behind her, until the Energy Psycho landed on the ground, crying out!

"Hey, Adrenaline Junkie, see if you can dodge this!"

As she shouted that out, she stomped on the ground, creating a massive Earthquake that distracted the unconscious Adrenaline Junkie long enough to escape. As she shot away, having lost her first fight ever, she couldn't help but smile in beautiful ecstacy from having a battle so dangerous that she nearly died.

As she screamed in ecstacy, her voice rang out in the world!

"Adrenaline Junkie, my instincts are always right, it truly was a great idea to battle you! This has been truly exciting in every way imagineable! You've surpassed every expectation I've ever had! Stop me if you can! 1 month from now, I will truly be a God!!!"

As she shot away, having lost her first battle, she laughed maniacally, screaming about her insane ideals!

And as the Cold Hearted came to, she stared at the Adrenaline Junkie in the eyes, only hearing 1 word from his mouth.

"LIBERTAS!"

-Several Hours Later-

I woke up in pain, my entire body shaking. "What the hell happened?" I asked, unsure.

The Cold Hearted sat right next to me & could only say a few things.

"You... you were teleporting and attacking people in your sleep."

What? Attacking people in my sleep? That doesn't sound right.

"What was I doing?" I asked, dazed.

The Cold Hearted looked at me with a strange gaze. "You... don't remember? You were going somewhere, but you couldn't escape the invisible border that traps you in Hell. Wherever you were going seemed to be very important, you killed many people."

As I finally shot awake, everything clicked together in a single moment.

Sleep teleporting?

My mind raced back to the times I'd sleepwalk across town in the slums of New America. Is that what I was doing? Even before awakening my powers, I must have been teleporting across town, but why?

Even more thoughts came to life. How did I teleport into the War-Torn Country without knowing? Was I sleep teleporting then, too.

As everything clicked together, my heart began to race. As I finally asked the most important question. "Was I doing... anything in particular?

The Cold Hearted stared away, before looking me in the eyes and saying something horrific. "You did things that I don't quite understand. While asleep, it didn't seem like you were doing stuff at random. It wasn't sporadic. It was calculated. It was as if someone else was controlling your body."

As I heard that, even more instances came to light. Back when I first met S, she said that her village fought a shapeshifting man. That was likely me fighting while asleep.

The scariest thought, though, was if it wasn't me. What if someone's been controlling my body while I sleep?

As I thought of this, I realized that I would have no other choice but to go back to sleep. I didn't want to do that, but there was no other way. I could keep myself awake with coffee & pills, but that wouldn't solve the root cause of the issue.

As I looked around me, the entire area decimated from my sleep teleporting, I slumpt down in frustration.

Quickly, I turned to the Cold Hearted, and said, "Hey. Next time I fall asleep, see what I do." I said, as I lied down in anger, and in time, my eyes slowly shut, with sweet lullaby's ringing in my ear. I was falling asleep again, against my control.

-Meanwhile, in another section of the War Torn Nation-

S woke up, beaten and battered, completely destroyed. She thought back to the last moment she was ok.

She was attacked by the Adrenaline Junkie, and instead of killing her with an atomic bomb, he fell asleep, and then teleported her away to this War-Torn Nation. As she smiled, she quickly realized what this meant. It was finally happening. She was sure to meet her benefactor soon, and that worthless Adrenaline Junkie could die for all she cared!

But she was right where she wanted to be, the War-Torn Nation! She could finally kill the Energy Psycho, after all this time. She remembered the past, when the Energy Psycho was being used as a vessel for Libertas, and she somehow got out of it. When she snapped out of it, she said that it had something to do with the Red Thread of Fate, but S truly didn't understand what the Energy Psycho meant when she said that.

Regardless, S screamed out in rage, howling to the moon while transforming into many different forms "ENERGY PSYCHO!! WHERE ARE YOU!!!"

As she ripped through the entire War-Torn Nation, she killed hundreds! As she flew through the sky, transforming into many forms, she continued to think. She thought of her benefactor, and a particular moment in her past. In the memory, she was being hit with rocks by local kids.

As the kids shouted at her, they called her names like 'Freak' and 'Monster', and she could only sit there and cry. If she fought back, they'd be certain she was a freak. A freak. That's all she ever was. That was all she could be. But then, she met her benefactor. Her benefactor had spoken to her through dreams, talking of the gods, speaking of the ultimate war between Gods & their struggles to revive. Thousands of years ago, they had an ultimate war, and unfortunately, among them, the God of Freedom, the God of Libertas, died. All of the Gods had been waiting in secret, wishing to replace their vessels. They had planned, for hundreds of thousands of years. They set up precautions. They set up measures. They did everything in order to control the world. The ultimate war began when a single, most powerful God declared war against the other Gods.

The thousands of other Gods, foretold throughout history, teamed up, because this God wanted to change the world in his image. He wished to change everything.

The other Gods barely managed to defeat him & sealed his soul in a small, unbreakable orb, and shot it out into this world.

Ever since then, all of the Gods have died off, but they all set up measures in place so that they could be revived.

The Chaotic Demons & Celestial Angels! Those with insane powers, those with the power to change the world!

They were created. Everything was set in place for their existence, so that they could have their bodies be taken over for the Gods.

The Celestial Angels are vessels for real angels working under the strongest God!

The Chaotic Demons are the vessels for the other Gods!

As the memories of the past swirled throughout S, she could only think of 1 thing: Revenge!

She wanted to kill the Energy Psycho! She wanted to make her suffer! As she ripped through body after body, killing many people, a single voice was heard from above.

"Stop killing them all. They're innocent people."

As she looked up, she saw a handsome guy with a gothic style. He was wearing a floral print shirt that looked like it was for a woman.

"Get out of my fucking way! I must kill the Energy Psycho!!" S screamed in rage.

The man looked up and smiled. "Hello, my name is Road. If you're looking for the Energy Psycho, she's off resting. She just fought a battle with a powerful Chaotic Demon. But rest assured, even in her gravely injured state, she'd still be too much for you to handle.

As S snorted in anger, she screamed out. "So, you probably work for her, don't you? Well, i'll kill her right in front of you, then!"

Road smiled and looked directly into her eyes. "Well, I might not be one of the 4 Gods, but i'm just as powerful as them. Bring it on, kiddo."

As he said that, a spark illuminated throughout his entire body, and his eyes lit up. As he shot out, giant streaks of red lightning shot out. "Hey, you know how the War-Torn Nation has red lightning, right?" He asked.

"Yeah. That's my bad."

As he electrocuted the surrounding area with massive bolts of red lightning, S continued to draw back, revelling in pain.

She reeled from the attack, blinded by lightning, yet he continued to chase.

Smiling, Road looked up to S, and recited a speech in the midst of battle.

"Natural disasters. That's what the world is calling us after the incident you & the Adrenaline caused. They are calling for the death of us Chaotic Demons & Celestial Angels. But what they don't know, is..."

He pauses, as a giant lightning bolt strikes through S, ripping her morphing body into pieces.

"A normal human cannot stop a natural disaster. To face a natural disaster, you must be a natural disaster yourself. When 2 disasters collide, be it tsunami, earthquake, typhoon, hurricane or cyclone, the world sees an even greater toll taken on it. Don't you see? The endless power of lightning? That, in of itself, is a natural disaster, powerful enough to destroy the world. You cannot stop me. For I am lightning incarnate, a true disaster in human form. I AM LIGHTNING!!!"

As the giant fires of red lightning rained down on S, she felt truly hopeless, as if all hope of resisting was stripped away in an instant.

It was like she was naked in a storm!

Death surrounded her on all sides. Every angle. Every place she faced, death would continue to follow her. She no longer saw this man as a normal human. She saw him as the devil!

At that moment, she felt fear. An intense, crippling fear that gripped her heart & wouldn't let go. It reminded her of Beelzebub, the demon that killed many of her friends! But this time, this man struck her with an even more intense fear that rocked her to her core.

Road smiled, staring at her. "They prophesized that, in the future, the 5th God of the War-Torn Nation would set it free from the clutches of tyranny. Look's like it's not you."

While desperately running away from battle, S couldn't understand what Road meant from that. Hell only had 4 Gods. What did he mean by the 5th?

As she transformed into a deer-cheetah hybrid, her body turning into a hideous lookalike, she ran into a bundle of mountains. She thought she'd be able to give him the slip there. Unfortunately, upon the ground she stood, ripples of lightning grew from the ground up. As Road looked into the air, he instantly locked onto her like some sort of homing beacon.

As lightning shot out throughout the sky, S could only think about a conversation she once had with Libertas.

She asked Libertas. "Why do Celestial Angels and Chaotic Demons exist in this world? For what reason was I born?"

Libertas smiled, and only said, "My sweet angel. In this world, us Gods altered the very nature of reality to bring people from countless worlds over to this world. Among those people, were birthed Chaotic Demons & Celestial Angels. There are also Chaotic Demons & Celestial Angels in this world, too, but they were born with their powers. When transmigrating, the Chaotic Demons & Celestial Angels being transported only become ones due to the adaptation to entering this world. It's a spiritual mutation that the Red Thread of Fate gives them. They were the only ones who could bring us back. They were meant to revive us, and we'd be revived, with their powers. You see, among us Gods, roman, catholic, greek, hindu. Every religion that exists in history has a God associated with it, but what they don't know, is that all of those Gods are real."

At that time, S had looked at Libertas, and asked. "Among the Gods, who do you fear the most?" She said, genuinely curious.

Libertas smiled, only to respond quietly. "Every one of us fears the one true God, but there is only 1 God I fear even more than that. The God of lightning, with insurmountable power that allows him to destroy the world: Zeus. Unlike Indra, who can also use lightning, Zeus is not just able to control the weather. He's lightning incarnate. A fearsome existence that all of the Gods truly respect. I'll warn you, my child, if you ever encounter the vessel of Zeus, run,"

"He's unstoppable."

As S remembered that moment in her head, she came to an instant realization, and, finally being completely annihilated, struck by lightning strike after lightning strike, she ran into the woods, dissappearing from Road's view.

On that day, she had barely escaped witj her life.

Lucky to be alive, she fled into the woods.

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