"Br-Brother, you say!?" Lord Reaper was left speechless.
"He's Shiishiigami's, and even Gaia's... Older brother!?" My mother asked.
"That means his father and mother were more than likely amongst our creators!" My pops went on to state.
"Tuh... My mate has younger siblings and family here? That means... Shiishiigami isn't a..." Zozoly eyes darted towards Shiishiigami. Her body moving on its own as it cleared the distance instinctively.
"Hm? What is she-
Before Seightahn could even completely react, Shiishiigami used the tips of his finger nails as blades and stopped Zozoly's strike dead in its tracks.
"Mhm, I've gained a lot of wolf traits from my wife, so I know just by the smell that you're my sister-in-law. And Seightahn over there is definitely my brother. He smells just like Gaia, Xenophia, and I." He plucked Zozoly away. Staring at all of the opposing combatants before him.
Zozoly got frustrated and attempted to leap back in with even more strength behind her strike.
"Tch, for a sister-in-law, you sure are annoying! But that's alright, Seightahn's sister-in-law will take care of ya." Lord Reaper stepped back as a blur with eleven tails smashed into Zozoly, knowing her back once more.
"Hm?! Wait... I know this essence. Tch, even she's here in this Omniverse!? Dammit... Thanks to our pack, I can't even acknowledge who she is. Damn that Kiimillima!" That bastard Seightahn watched as the queen of wolf gods landed next to her husband. Their essence signatures were even higher than my parents' own. Nevertheless, they were all monsters to me in regards to their stature and essence as deities.
But despite all of this, I couldn't help but become infuriated when realizing this family has both saved and terrorized my home Colossaverse. Bringing turmoil and sorrow of the highest pinnacles to my home, to my people, to my family!! How couldn't I be mad, huh!?
"S-So... This bastard is brothers with the deity who helped bring a cycle to the Omniverse. One that doesn't allow the deities to eternally remain without fail. To out an end to any actual rise of massive terrorists groups who could lose a threat to their very own home Omniverse. Is all these people do is take and control the livelihood of others!?" I stared at Tahny and Lord Reaper with fury within my eyes. My family could feel my essence reaching a very high boiling point.
"Hey Zee, I know how you feel and I damn sure know what you're thinking! Don't you dare DO IT!!!" ZeeNastasia shouted at me as I slowly stomped towards Lord Reaper.
"Woah, big sis and I truly aren't that different, are we?" ZeeNasia thought to herself as she watched me march onward.
"Tuh, you can feel however you wish to feel about it, Lady ZeeNanasa. Fact is, I've saved more lives than I've taken, and...
"My ill deeds have nothing to do with my younger brother, sister, nor their extended families. Not even my son has anything to do with them, he himself is a good kid, he even lives here within this Omniverse. Heh, dickhead even thinks he killed me way back when. Even got to see him during all this destruction I've caused. When? I won't say, but it was quite wholesome." Tahny explained, stopping me with his mere essence, showing off his actual fifth form finally. It was identical to his false one during his spat with Lord Ripper.
His fancy wear turned black, red and gold. His vest was blood red, his button up was gold whilst his pants, fedora, gloves, and loafers were jet black. He wore three golden rope chains around his neck, along with thick, golden bracelets that cover his forearms. His loafers had golden buckles in then to match the other golden accessories. His mask was skull like, just like Lord Reaper, but it only covered the ridge of his nose and downwards. His horns curled up like a goat's own, whilst his wings became a scarf around his neck. Completing his refined, fifth release.
"Hm... That's quite the form he's taken, but it's not something Adolph needed his Infinity form for. Hun... Hype will be enough, mortal bodyage reflection... 26." Lord Reaper commanded.
"Will do, dear. Let's show our distant family what we're made of. ZeeNihilo, Devastasia, Rampaging Ersula, and Eraser YeeRasurum. Step forward!" Lady Kiimillima commanded.
Everyone came forward within their Infinity forms, prepared to take in Tahny and his Five Commanders. Zozoly was the first to flash forward, aiming for Lord Reaper once more. But just as she closed in, four tails grabbed her body and threw her into the next Gigatoverse over. Kiimillima tapped her husband on the shoulder before chasing after Zozoly. The other commanders attempted the same thing, only to be countered by my mother and the others. They separated the commanders on the battlefront and forced them into one on one showdowns. Leaving only the brothers to stand there, confronting one another in a very unprecedented manner.
"Hmph... I've no time to waste easing into things. You're as dangerous as they come, brother Seightahn." Lord Reaper summoned forth a level of essence that nearly made us all feint. His bloodlust was overwhelming, especially when you think about his blatant disregard for our presence here.
"Oh wooow, you know you're one to talk, Shiishiigami. You're a monster just like Adolph, dangers to this Omniverse. Just. Like. Me!" Tahny's essence skyrocketed just like Lord Reaper 's did before him.
"Mhm... I'll say it again, Adolph never needed his Infinity form for the likes of you. Allow me to show you." Shiishiigami rose his hand and pointed at Tahny.
Before Tahny knew it... His body was slightly caved in as blood poured from his nose. He looked up at Shiishiigami before being blitzed with a swift jab to the face.
"Woah... Your dad is fucking strong, Shiitania!" I stated as I now fell back, my anger completely calmed.
"Yeah, but so is my supposed uncle, he even struck dad during those two blitzing hits. My dad just easily nullified it." Shiitania explained as she carefully observed her dad.
Shiishiigami glared at Tahny, then he turned to smile at all of us before forcing open a domain that swiftly took he and Tahny away quite quickly. Completely nullifying any chances of our verse being destroyed by their fighting.
Within the new verse created by Shiishiigami, there lied nothing, but beings and objects that were tethered to death. It was a completely Grim realm and carried a strong sense of death that suffocates any who breathe it in. And if you resist that, it causes hallucinations of death and murder to occur within the soul of the victim. Seightahn used his control of Wrath and Combat to counter the effects of this realm. Each death he saw merely made him more furious. More abundant with wrath within his soul, which equaled more power. But what he didn't know was that Shiishiigami gains strength from each death seen by a victim. Because within different timeline of reality created by this ability. A version of you is created, one that's made to die for his cause, literally. With their amped prowess, they rush forward at full power to take the other down.
Seightahn released his legendary Punch whilst at this heinous level of power and capability. Shiishiigami recognized the attack from what he observed earlier on. Shiishiigami flicked his wrist and fist, clashing with Tahny's strike head on. The strike caused total death to the entirety of Tahny's attack. Making it look like nothing more than a normal punch. Tahny began to throw a flurry of these after smiling at what he just witnessed. They traveled all throughout this grim verse, growing and clashing all the while. It didn't take long before Tahny finally showed what his wrath was truly for.
"Hohohooo? You're damn good, little brother Shiishiigami. If even go as far as to say you're a little better than Dolphy. Which just means you can handle this, just like he wouldve been able to had he stayed to play some more!" Tahny pulled back his hands as he joined them to form a ball.
"Mhm, what's this? An odd build up of essence like no other. And it's all made of wrath, which means his source was changed to wrath."
(Note: Sources are the means of fuel for a beings prowess and stature. Usually, that Source would be pure essence, but beings throughout this verse can change it on a whim to better match their concept of use at the time. In this case, that would be Wrath.)
"Hmph!! Take this... Wrath of the Apocalypse!!!" Tahny shouted as he unleashed an unholy amount of wrath with his technique.
"Wooooaah!! That's quite the attack, brother TahnTahn. Looks like my real won't survive this clash."
"TahnTahn!? Wait... Clash!?" Tahny looked beyond his attack to see a skull growing behind Lord Reaper. The skull grew large enough to be equal to a Gigatoverse. Devouring the apocalypse before it as it releases a counter blast. The blast nullified the odd concept within the attack, leaving nothing more than two blasts clashing. The resulting collision and force blew the verse Shiishiigami created to smithereens.
The two of them blasted out at full speed. We all watched as Shiishiigami completely matched all of Tahny's close quarters combat prowess with skeletal hands. Each one was smashed to bits, but replaced by two more in the process. By the time ten seconds had gone by, Shiishiigami already had more than forty thousand skeletal hands at his disposal. Swinging every fist onto Tahny's person. Landing however many blows he could. Though Tahny, who was also the Conceptual Emperor of Combat, was able to block, dodge and counter each punch. But instead of breaking them, he intertwined Erasure, Impairment, Control, and Domination all into one package. That package was then fused to his Origin Concepts of Wrath and Combat. Making it possible to destroy the hands without activating their multiplier/healer concept.
"Ah, that's quite the beat amount of amazing concepts you got there, Brother Tahntahn. I shall answer in kind!" Lord Reaper decimated his own army of skeletal fists, throwing Tahny off his rhythm within that same instant.
As Tahny leapt back to gain some distance, he could see a void of essence come his way as it formed a dome with a wide field around it. It was the representation of Lord Reaper 's range. That range was equivalent to the entire Colossaverse as a whole. Meaning.... There was no where for Tahny to escape to that Led Reaper wouldn't reach in time. By the time he came to this realization, he was already sliced in half by his younger brother.
"It's best, you not underestimate the Deities of the fourth Omniverse, TAHNTAHN!!" Lord Reaper shouted proudly as some sort of bladed weapon was wisped away by his essence.
"I see, you are a truly powerful foe, o' brother of mine. Makes me realize that training will be quite necessary indeed." Tahny regenerated as his two halves came back together.
"Hmph, that's quite the compliment, indeed." Lord Reaper got back into his stance awaiting Tahny's next move.
All whilst this was going on, just above them and the rest of us lied Kiimillima and Zozoly. They both showed visual damage from their high pace fighting. Way above even then lied my auntie Ersula as she took on the mighty Amaymonei in head to head combat. She was busy trying to find a way to truly erase Amaymonei's strange attacks. Every attack that comes her way, or even attacks hit by her essence... They all widdle away without fail. Valaksee took on my uncle, YeeRasurum not too far from where Ersula and Amaymonei are. Well off into the distance was my mother facing down with the strange warrior, Kalukahna. Whilst my father sat somewhere within the distance, trading devastating blows with the mighty Lilith-Zohrd. Everyone was in the midst of a heated battle well beyond the prowess of what we've witnessed until now. Excluding the displays of Lady Hera'May and her husband, Lord Adolph the Ripper.
Lord Reaper and Tahny even went as far as to increase the output. It seems Lord Reaper doesn't like doing close quarters with someone who's mastered the concept of Combat. So he forced Tahny into a battle of pure concept VS concept warfare. Throwing his weight around using his essence at first. That was until he morphed his source into that of Death. Forcing Tahny to counter with usage of multiple concepts tethered to Wrath for the best results. Their constant clashes made our verse shake to its very core. Rattling with every movement they made within this crazy battle. Space was warped and turned into a gigantic skull that released minions who form black holes when they die. These skeletons had the very shape of the cosmos wrapped around their bones. Each one was meant to be a sacrifice that would create a hole within reality, one that would absorb the essence and source from Tahny's attacks and techniques.
"This technique of his is insanity. Adolph truly was telling the truth when he said that our style of warfare is well within their grasps." Tahny thought to himself.
"Hmm... He's been using corruption to mess with the transfer of essence through my black holes. He caught on quite quickly, but can't stop the act of his attacks failing." Lord Reaper thought as he and Tahny locked eyes.
By the time their battle started to affect multiple Colossaverses at once, the others soon followed suit within this extended process. We all looked at the twelve of them as threats to our very Omniverse at this point. But before things could truly escalate, a breach within the balance occurred. Kalukahna, the Horseman of Death ended up using their concept. She summoned a rift within the realm that connects us to the realm of the passed. The true realms of Risen, Fallen, and the intricate in-between. This very rift, changed everything for the battle we were witnessing. But it wasn't a change that shifted the tides in their favor. For it was none other than Lord Reaper himself who changed the tides. He consumed the hole she created and added on to his essence reservoirs. She attempted to strike him down, but was met with a heavy ax kick to her head. She was able to stop herself after a single astronomical unit. Staring at Lord Reaper as he devoured and digested her powerful attack.
"Hrmn!! I smirk at all of you as I stare, simply because I've already seen your fates in this battle. It's been decided!" Lord Reaper disappeared before anyone could react to his words.
He grabbed Tahny like a geeky teenager's action figure whilst protecting his true form and size. Squeezing Tahny tightly before witnessing his arm turn into salami slices. He laughed and smiled as Tahny turned to land another strike. But as he did, the slices he created turned into skeletal versions of Shiishiigami. Each one held on of the five main elements at their disposal. They all rushed towards Tahny who used his combat concept to defend himself. Purposely allowing them to get too close so that his techniques were launched last minute. Barely scraping by him as he manages to block and dodge their attacks. Building his own personal reservoir of Wrath, separate from his natural reserves. Once it reaches its peak, he'd reveal a technique none of us has ever seen from a Wrath user amongst we Deities.
"Huh!? What the hell did he just do!?" I asked as I watched this phenomenon take place before my very eyes.
"He's doing something I've never witnessed before. Not in either lifetime I've come to live within." ZeeNastasia stated.
"Yeah, but then again... We've never met someone who has actually mastered one of the Seven Deadly Sins." YeeRashuri added on.
"We're waaaay out of our league here. Though... I'd love to get to that level!" Heemy stated proudly.
All of us thought the same thing though. That goes for Annihilo-Sect, the founders of Young STRIFE, and the infamous current three leaders of Young STRIFE. We all smiled as we watched Tahny and Lord Reaper go head to head alongside the others.
"Ah, so you made them all wrathful against one another. Now every single skeleton I created with those same ingredients will fight its kin. Heh, that's fine!" Lord Reaper smirked at his brother
"Hmm... Did he just say ingredients? Does that mean he can make a phenomenal amount of differing types of skeletons?? He's even more advanced than Kalukahna from what I've seen!" Tahny thought to himself.
Lord Reaper held out his hand as his smirk turned into a gnarly smile. His wife kicked and broke the left half of Zozoly's ribcage to force her back. This gave Lady Kiimillima the opportunity she needed to assist her husband. She sent out her essence in spades. Creating an incredible storm of essence that would be imbued into the next batch of skeletons. But right as she gave her husband what he needed, Zozoly kicked her in the jaw. It sent her flying into the distance with ease, yet she still managed to stop herself after just a few thousand miles. She smiled at Zozoly as she wiped the blood from her lip. Lord Reaper created new skeletons using Kiimillima's essence as the source. Each skeleton that came out looked a bit different from the other, but they all had the same signature for essence type. They quickly eliminated the other skeletons whose wrath was feeding Tahny like he was at a major buffet. After that, they rushed into battle with Tahny in all our battle.
With each skeleton he afflicted with Wrath not being able to spred their infected essence. Not a single skeleton was the same as the other, their core essence was if Lord Reaper's type. Whilst the essence they would and hold throughout is related to Lady Kiimillima's essence. Life is ever changing... And so is the essence within these skeletons. Making it easy to destroy the one that's infected as they continue to press Tahny. He smashed them to pieces using his bare fists. Each strike used a different type of Annihilation to crush them without leaving a trace. Lord Reaper laughed as he dashed towards Tahny, transforming each skeleton he touched into a master class scythe. He used those to tear our realm a new one, bringing about a storm of purgatory. It caused a hole to form within our Colossaverse, one that Uncle Annihilo allowed to come about. It gave rise to a being like we've never seen before! A gigantic being that looked the skeleton of a stuliathan. An actual leviathan class stuliathan that came through with a spatial attack like no other. It engulfed the entire Gigatoverse we were battling in. Covering all with a new type of black cosmos that embodied death and the like. Kalukahna was able to gain strength from the particles she absorbed. But she would soon realize that comes with a price.
"Tch, who knew my younger sibling would be so damn annoying with his concept usage. We're definitely kin!" Tahny grinned at Lord Reaper. But that quickly turned into a frown when he witnessed Kalukahna being overtaken by my mom.
Her body was paralyzed and poisoned by the death particles she took within her. Putting her in quite the pinch, especially since she was actually quite surprised that her mastery of the Paralysis and Poison concepts didn't prevent this from happening. Which made her realize Lord Reaper and his beast gave greater holds on the concepts than she does. Tahny couldn't stand for this, so he summoned a massive construct to deal with it all. A colossal fist came from the depths of the void, crashing into every single piece of matter there was to be found. The fist erased any and all concepts it ran into by copying them. Then annihilating them after nullifying their affects. All with the single fist he summoned from below. It was inevitably able to disable the technique that Lord Reaper summoned. Lord Reaper merely laughed once more as he used his scythe to take the fight to Tahny. Tahny called him a fool for daring to step foot into the domain he has complete control of. They crossed blades several times over. Even going as far as intercepting my dad and Lilith-Zohrd during their struggle against one another. Lilith was thrown back by their clash, retaliating as quickly as he could by throwing a reason shattering fist at Lord Reaper. Lord Reaper managed to quard against it whilst my dad stopped the sneak attack Tahny had planned. The both of them blew their opponents away with ease, smashing through their defenses as they chase after their respective opponents. Clashing and thrashing without ever showing cases of a clear winner. It wasn'tong before Tahny grew irritated by his inability to defeat his younger brother. It became a taxing assignment for the both of them as far as that goes. Everyone became fatigued from the high stakes battle they now participated in. Most of us watching hadn't noticed the many years that went by as this continued. It was easily seven years before Lord Reaper and his wife could break through Zozoly and Tahny's defenses. By then, Tahny had grown to a level of wrath no one thought was possible. His wrath created a sphere so soaked in power that it became five times the size of my uncle Annihilo. And he was already far bigger than your average Colossaverse. So even with him being pushed back, he posed a threat that was just as great as any other time he came for us.
"Hmm... Kiimillima, dear, are you still good to go within your Hype form? Or is it high time we increased it to the next level?" Lord Reaper asked.
"Hmm, no need. It's best we await the usage of their sixth Release. Only then will it be necessary, my love." She responded.
"Mhm, you're correct, but I'm still bothered by something I've come to notice." Lord Reaper stared at Tahny and his subordinates whilst his mind raced.
"And what could possibly have you bothered so much, Shiishii?" Lady Kiimillima asked.
"We've managed to push them back far more times than they us. Yet they've never bothered changing forms to better increase the results. I've come to question that heavily as a result. Almost like they're stubbornly insisting on finishing things in their current forms. Or is it..."
"Ah... I get what you're saying now, my love. It's definitely a strange and unfathomable conundrum. What could be their real reasoning- HRMN!? Do you sense that!?" Lady Kiimillima's wolfic instincts took over as she looked towards Tahny. His essence had become strange as the wrath he created began to condense.
He was busy absorbing it all as it went through this odd and unfamiliar process. The result began to morph his body as if he were undergoing another transformation. Just having that ridiculous thought simmer through our minds made it all clear to everyone who was on our side. Tahny had finally had enough, but just as he was about to go beyond his current reaches of strength, breaching high into territories he hadn't entered in many eons. A strange occurrence came about and his essence... Was dispersed
"What in the? What IS THAT!?" I asked as I stared at a figure staring right back at us. The being was even bigger than our Colossaverse.
"It can't be!" Kiimillima shouted.
"Captain Shiishii... Doesn't he look like the being from the-
"Yes he does, but let's not go around stating anything about that. Just as we promised to never mention the missing four. Especially HIM." Lord Reaper gave my pops a very serious look whilst saying these words. It made my dad straighten up a bit even.
They both stared at the beng alongside everyone else as he looked down at Tahny and his subordinates.
"What is the meaning of this ×@×&1!?" Tahny was infuriated by the being's actions.
His wife grabbed his arm to calm him down, as if to say "Watch your tone". Though that didn't do much to calm him down and make him back off. Tahny pointed to the being in anger whilst telling it off. That was until two being spoke to everyone. Revealing just who they were to Tahny in the others.
"I won't sit here and act as if you haven't been granted freedoms beyond any other subordinate of mine. BuT!!! You'd do best to recollect who it is that runs our group. And as the LEadER, I expect you to obey what has been ASkEd of you, Seightahn."
"Tch, yeah yeah, yeah. My bad, Xay. But there's no chance in the verse that you'd waste your time projecting yourself into this Omniverse for that trivial matter. So I ask you now, why have you come? My mission imhas yet to en-
"It EnDs here and nOW."
"Cut the malarkey you overgrown glutton. I've yet to subdue my brother and capture our targets. You've all promised me an unlimited timeframe for this specific mission, Xa-
"I know what has been said and promised. Do not insult my InteLlIgeNce, Seightahn. Besides... I have a better target than those two traitors. The two that decided to serve my traitorous brother, Luci."
"My father is his brother!?" Shiishiigami began to step towards the being with curiosity brimming in his eyes. His glare fixated on Tahny and the like.
"Hm... Another asset to his forces approaches. But there's no time, we must make haste. Return to me at once, Seightahn, Zozoly, Lilith-Zohrd, Kalukahna, Amaymonei, and Kalukahna. I have better work for you than dealing with insects that lie beneath us."
"I can still finish, Xay!!"
"I could cARe less, SEIghTaHn, do as I ask, nephew!! And you... You don't have what it takes to face neither I nor your brother in true war."
"Tuh, yeah, we'll see about that one, ×@×&1!" Lord Reaper rebuttals, snarking and frowning at the being before him.
"Heh, foolish God. You're very amusing, BuT do be warned... I have knowledge of the illustration that depicts our battle. A battle you are surely to lose...
The being stared at us all as it began to disappear. Locking eyes with ZeeNastasia, Lady Kiimillima, Shiitania, Clarissa, Lord Shiishii, ZeeNasia, myself, YeeRashuri, and even YeeNasia.
"Ah what wonderful concepts to feast on later down my path in this existence...
He had completely phased into the void of the realm leaving behind a hole within the void that leads to their realm. All of the commanders Tahny summoned slowly walked into the hole whilst staring back at us. Glaring at their respective opponents before bidding our verse farewell. Tahny stayed behind, staring into the eyes of Lord Reaper. Smirking if only to hide the anger he still held onto. Knowing it'd all have to wait until another fortunate day within his life. A day where he could return to finish everything he started. He slowly turned around as he raised his right arm and snapped his fingers. Reversing the destruction and damage caused to our homes. On top of a few other things.
He looked off into the distance well beyond our verse, almost as if he were staring at someone. Then, all of a sudden, he'd turn around to mention some choice words to us all. Just before vanishing before our very eyes, leaving behind the many people he scarred within these last few dreadful years. They'd be scars our verse may never recover from, but one could definitely hope. I shed tears knowing I was nothing more than helpless throughout most of it. The entirety of Annihilo-Sect and our help felt the same way.
What did we protect?
What did we prevent?
What could we accomplish if it were to happen again?
Would we even be strong enough??
These questions rattled our very cores within that aching moment. But the guidance of our predecessors and the arrival of some familiar faces would soon come to make us move beyond those questions for now. Instead, we'd smile through it all as we welcome parents who were once forced into deep slumbers, as well as subordinates and masters we all loved and missed.
Everyone would come together to stand tall and repair our homes after such an eventful, heart wrenching experience. Showing our will to move forward after losing so many to a fiend who was simply carrying out orders. A fiend we grew to fear and pray he'd never return. But in the countless millennia that'd pass after such events...
We grew to fear that presence and name once again. Alongside an impeding threat that was predicted well in the past.
Five-hundred, seventy-five thousand years later...