Shattering Humanity-Chapter 275: "...It’s Not Over Yet."
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God.
Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;
perseverance, character; and character, hope.
And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. -Romans 5:1-5
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[Tristan and Stephanie’s Home]
Everyone watches as Stephanie quickly turns and prances over to the door.
She opens it to see MamMon and Nephilim patiently awaiting invitation to enter.
Stephanie: "Oh!
Madame MamMon!
General Nephilim!
Please come on in, we weren’t expecting you."
While in the living room, Isfet turns to the smoking Ichythis and whispers.
Isfet: "Is everything okay?
I could hear you earlier.
Do you know that Nephilim guy or something?"
Ichythis ashes her cig and takes a drag before answering.
Ichythis: "No, I don’t know anything about the actual man she’s referring to, but I do know about their secret clan."
Isfet: "...Secret...Clan’?"
From down the hall, Tristan appears and sees his new guests entering his home.
His expression is of both surprise and bliss as he holds out a chair at the table for MamMon
Tristan: "General Nephilim Sir!?
Madame MamMon DæMon!?"
Nephilim: "Good morning everyone.
I hope we haven’t been of any trouble coming here this early.
I assure you I too did not plan for us to group together like this."
The General takes a few sniffs out of the air in confusion and looks at Tristan.
Nephilim: "Does it smell like cigarettes in here?"
From the living room, Ichythis and Isfet enter.
Upon meeting once more since the last time, Isfet and Nephilim immediately EyeEngage then disengage.
Nephilim: "Oh Ms. Hathor, I didn’t realize you would be here."
Isfet rubs her arm nervously.
MamMon DæMon: "Last night I took the liberty of rescuing 3 individuals from the destruction on Roronora City caused by our enemies."
Stephanie’s lime green eyes fill with tears and she swivels her head to look at Tristan.
His head down in disappointment, Tristan is unable to make eye contact with her knowing their home city is destroyed like Son Goku City.
Stephanie: "Tristan i- is this true?
Is our home...is it all gone too?"
Tristan clutches his fists, unable to get the words out, so MamMon does it for him.
MamMon DæMon: "I feel like in times like these, dear Stephanie, where your memories originate is no longer as important as whom you create those memories with."
Everyone(other than Peyton) sits down at the large dining room table that was used for their previous discussion the night before. Only this time, General Nephilim has joined the discussion.
Ichythis sits down at the table, and pulls out her newly opened pack of fags, removing one.
Sitting across from her, Nephilim looks over and both individuals with red left eyes, but right IceEyes, EyeEngage.
They quickly disengage as Nephilim smiles politely at the new woman.
Nephilim: "Do you mind if I bum one off of you, Ma’am?"
Ichythis lights up her own cigarette and takes a drag while sliding him one and her lighter on the table for him to take.
Nephilim: "Thank you, Ma’am.
I’m Nephilim.
I hope we can have a pleasant future working relationship."
He holds out his hand. Ichythis looks at it then back up at the man’s closed eye, smile.
After witnessing her smoking buddy’s suspicious reaction to the General’s name, Isfet is watching to see if her friend accepts the handshake. Which she does.
Ichythis connects and grips the man’s hand firmly, making the smile go away and the shock of her strength catches the General off guard.
Ichythis: "The name’s Ichythis.
I think I saw you around Roronora City a month ago after Laban fused that guys face in with the curb.
I was on duty that night."
After everyone is finished getting settled in, Nephilim lights his cigarette.
MamMon looks over at Stephanie with her usual confident smile and rests her chin in her the back of her locked together hands.
MamMon DæMon: "So dearest Stephanie, do you mind showing the General here our fresh, new discovery after last night?"
With a confused look, Nephilim’s eyes move from MamMon to Stephanie but quickly widen in surprise once Stephanie activates her majestically divine golden lime green SanguineSoulSeiõrShield.
The cig almost falls out his mouth.
Nephilim: "Stephanie...Darling...H-How?"
The young woman of the house figgits in her seat while explaining.
Stephanie: "W-Well l-last night we were having a discussion about a story and something in my head just ’clicked’ when I heard it.
I remembered how it felt when I first was able to create a SoulSeiõrShield, but now, this new form of Seiõr, is invigorating to say the least."
MamMon smirks at the innocent details to how she received her new form of magic.
She then turns to the General puffing out two lungs worth of smoke.
MamMon DæMon: "I was hoping you would bring your little assistant along with you today, General."
Nephilim swivels himself in his chair with a smile towards his colleague.
Nephilim: "Unfortunately, now that I have those two rambunctious boys at home to look after, Silpheed has taken up the role of oldest sibling pretty well.
I’d say I’m extremely proud of Silph’s commitment to all the young ones I’ve taken in."
MamMon moves her mouth to the side, uninterested in sibling compassion and dedication.
MamMon DæMon: "Hmm, yes, well I only say that because I may have been able to awaken her own abilities as well."
Bethany’s ears twitch hearing the reveal of Silpheed’s born gender.
Bethany: "Her?!"
Nephilim holds his palm out to the over zealous young woman.
Nephilim: "Silpheed had an accident almost a decade ago and we’ll leave it at that like I’ve told you before dear Bethany."
From the living room, Petra can be heard shouting at the TV.
Petra(other room): "Nooo! Don’t give up!
You have to save her ’Fire Foot’!"
Bethany goes back to being bored while the discussion continues
MamMon DæMon: "Last night, we discovered not only does that Yang Vessel have the ability to control a massive army of those aliens, both large and small variants, but also the fact we have someone of our own who can possibly defend our territory from his wrath."
Tristan is sitting next to his wife to be while they all discuss Katsu’s capabilities.
His head turns to the DæMon.
Tristan: "What do you mean?"
MamMon looks over at the scolding over protective man.
MamMon DæMon: "Why, she’s the most important person to the protection of Erinyes territory, dear Tristan.
This battle with your old pal, it’s not over yet."
[Outer Sanpaku]
Katsu is running alone through the empty cement underground passage, his sneakers making an echo with every step.
A big wide smile is on his face as he can see the light at the end of the tunnel, knowing what is just beyond the bright, afternoon light.
Katsu(thinking): *This is it!
It always changes, just a little, but enough that it never gets old!*
He comes running out of the underwater freeway tunnel just in time to watch the finale to Shelly’s fight.
Shelly(in the distance): "’Everyone wants to be special.
Not everyone wants to put the work in’."
Stars appear in Katsu’s eyes as he hears the awesome motivational saying.
The ’Titan of Beasts’ gets angry and with his half charged SunSword, covered in the pitiful SoulSeiõr, he charges for Shelly.
The two continue their battle between the abandoned cars outside the tunnel’s entrance.
Zeke: "How dare you think..."
Zeke whiffs a downward slash and Shelly side dodges it.
Zeke: "Jeremiah and I..."
He horizontal slashes only the air while Shelly does a split out of danger and quick jabs him in the gut.
Zeke: "...We HAVE worked hard!!"
Shelly swings one of her legs around to begin her momentum into a spinning motion on her back.
Kicking back upwards she dodges another attempt to chop her up and vaults cleanly over her opponent, with a jabbing rabbit punch to the back of his head on the way down.
She throws two more quick punches to the back of Zeke’s head, jumping backwards before he swings around with his sword.
Shelly is now playing and toying with her food.
Her Mach 2 speed is too much for the entry level SeiõrShield user to keep up and she continues to land various jabs to his body.
After two minutes of continuous abuse, Shelly stops, stands on top of a car, and looks as Zeke is out of breath from swinging his sword so much.
Zeke: "Hehe, you sure... hit me quite a bit.."
Shelly once again takes out the Seax and says one thing...
Shelly: "I am going to finish this with the next punch, so you better hope your eye ability can save you this time."
Off to the side, Katsu has both fists pumping in front of his chest as he watches on in excitement.
Jeremiah finally catches up to him and approaches from behind.
Jeremiah: "Aye, are you sure you don’t wanna f-"
Katsu: "Shhh!!!"
Jeremiah raises an eyebrow but then shrugs and watches the final attacks of the two respectable contenders.
The after image of Shelly disappears out of plain sight, and reappears right in front of Zeke.
Jeremiah(surprised): "What the Hell?!"
In slow motion Zeke’s symbiote releases the wave of collected kinetic energy, received from his attacker.
HOWEVER, this time Shelly’s Seax is able to cut through the wave, she uses that momentum to 360° spin and lands a direct Mach 2 speed haymaker to the temple of Zeke, sending him flying.
Jeremiah: "Zeke!"
This time, the damage is sent right through Zeke’s own body as the punch turns his brown human eye all white and his IceEye goes haywire in every direction. Before losing consciousness, he mutters out...
Zeke: "H-How?...
Jeremiah...."
His unconscious body lands on the hood of a car and Shelly lands with both feet on the ground.
[Winner By Knockout: Shelly]
Shelly lands on her two feet, Madame Fryer by her side and her blue eyes staring at the defeated challenger once more.
She removes her weapon from her teeth and footsteps can be heard running towards her.
She turns around but not prepared for a surprise Katsu hug.
Katsu: "You did it again Shell!!! You won!!"
Shelly is blushing, and then buries her face in Katsu’s shoulder, but not for long until...
*SLASH*
The sounds of close by glass shattering and the growing rumbles of destruction can be sensed.
The same tall city building Shelly had almost got launched into, gets cut diagonally in half down the middle and the sliced half begins to fall.
Katsu and Shelly both look up at the affects from another destructive force.
However, Shelly grows a huuuge smile on her face.
Shelly: "Katsu...
It’s not over yet."
