Shattering Humanity

{The North Pole}

[In the middle of a heavy arctic snow storm, there is no visible difference between the SeiõrSnow that is falling constantly around the world and the real snow that falls in the appropriate climates.]

A single figure in a cloak with archaeopteris trees, long green fern leaves covering the very top of the trees, but atleast 3/4ths of the trunk is branchless. The individual stands out easily amongst the pure whiteness all around them. They are also unaffected by the punishing winds and the ice crystals from the sky. The large flakes whipping in the wind would feel like needles to the average human skin.

A curious, hungry polar bear is seen creeping up on the slow pacing biped. By the time the bear is within 50 yards away, the cloaked figure stops and stands still. Their back still turned to the hunting predator.

The humongous beast begins to charge the stationary meal in a way resembling the gallop of a horse.

The bear roars, scaring the other arctic mammals close by that are usually the prey to the apex predator. As it stands on it’s hind legs and swipes down on the misfortunate person, the claws and giant paw go through the after-image of it’s victim and suddenly the sound of a slice connecting to flesh is heard, but from behind the bear.

The giant white beast lets out a sad, dying roar and falls to the cold snowy ground in front of the individual in the tree patterned cloak.

From behind the new mysterious figure, an arctic hare hops out from a snow bank. The white rabbit looks at the cloaked figure kneeling over the dead polar bear, that lost to a creature 5 times smaller than it.

The cracking of bones being forced from their proper positions mixes with the sounds of slicing flesh and the tearing of muscles heard, as the still warm blood squirts on the snow covered ground, it melts the natural snow.

After completely stripping the bear of it’s insulated protection, the figure starts walking while wearing the pelt of their prey over their cloak. The jaw of the polar bear is cut off, so resting on the of the hood of the cloak is the bear’s open eyes and it’s top row of teeth.

With the ability to easily defeat one of the most deadliest carnivores on the planet, the stranger continues on their way, leaving the skinned remains of their victim behind and the blizzard consumes them.

{Roronora City Fast Food Restaurant 3pm}

Saku: "Welp, I don’t know if what I saw with Princess Rebekah’s ability can be changed, but within 6 hours, MamMon DæMon is gunna have an small army of Seiõr users pull up here in Roronora and she gunna try making a few outlandish demands."

Shelly quickly grabs Katsu and forcefully nudges him out of the cushioned booth.

Katsu: "Ahh! Sh-Shelly!?"

Itsuka looks over to the princesses to her left and smiles calmly towards them.

Itsuka: "Will the Princesses please excuse me, and allow me to exit the booth? We’re going to go back to Sanpaku, Princess Kawaii. Do you wanna bring your new friend and show her your home?"

Both princesses nod and scoot out of the booth table. Itsuka grabs Saku, beginning to do the same as Shelly, until Laban grabs Saku’s other wrist. Itsuka turns around and the two women EyeEngage with anger in their eyes.

Saku is comedically annoyed with the situation and both the girls fighting over him, like an object.

Don Laban: "Where do ya think ya goin with MY Saki?"

Itsuka: "Away from here, you psycho! Didn’t you just hear what he said? Your superhuman sister, who is clearly stronger than you, is on her way with an army of amateur magic users at her command. Shouldn’t you be warning your people and preparing your own defenses?"

Saku gets visibly more irritated.

Don Laban: "Whatever Saki saw with his advanced foresight, obviously wasn’t that big of a deal, cuz he’s not freaking out over it like you and Skalmönd’s over dramatic asses. And to make it clear Saki, since fate doesn’t actually exist, yes, the future you saw can be changed. If anything happens to me, Rebekah is the first person that is given the news. There’s been countless times Rebekah foresaw her receiving the news a successful assassination happened on me. After I’ve taken those would be assassins out, she sees a different vision. Lil Rebekah has saved me so many times in fact, no actually trained assassin would even entertain the offers to those I then have imprisoned for conspiracy."

Meanwhile, Katsu is struggling and unsuccessfully trying to stop Shelly from dragging him along, but his attempts are futile as his sneakers squeak across the polished tiles.

Katsu: "Shelly, relax! There’s no need to freak out!"

Shelly stops right at the exit and Katsu can feel her shaking. Katsu’s eyes go from her teal painted nails with the incredible grip around his wrist, up her arm, passed her shoulder, to the gorgeous blue eyes of the living Valkyrie descendant.

Katsu: "Shelly...if Roronora City is our ally now, we’re no longer fighting like it’s an away game. They won’t be able to catch us off guard now that Saku has fore...sight..."

He stops talking after noticing Shelly’s eyes filling with tears, and her bottom lip quivering.

Shelly: "Katsu, why did Saku and now Laban, accuse you of being someone I know you aren’t? Why did Saku tell Itsuka, that you have a mysterious grudge against him? Please tell me they are mistaking something, and you aren’t actually a two faced jerk, pretending to be this sweetheart that I lo-"

Katsu: "Shelly..."

The sudden cut off surprises her and Shelly looks up, feeling the "area of effect" that Katsu gives off when serious. She makes eye contact with the single green eye and the alien symbiote eye she had "gifted" to Katsu over a month ago.

Katsu: "Shelly, I promise you, I will always be the person you’ve known your entire life, and you will never see me change in a way you or my parents would be disappointed in."

Shelly remembers her and Itsuka’s first girl-to-girl talk while Katsu was passed out from the eye transfer.

Katsu: "To tell you the truth, when I first woke up with this alien symbiote, like the huge nerd I am, I thought I could finally live the life as ’the Main Character’ like all my favorite heros I watched growing up. That WE watched growing up. But then I remembered, after seeing you asleep at the side of my bed...

...I remembered-...

...I remembered, ’the Main Character’ has to go through so much hardship, and the most important people to ’the Main Character’ are always in the most danger."

The Yang Vessel looks over at his "contemporary force" in the middle of a comedic situation with two girls fighting over him, while he is having a serious conversation.

Shelly looks over too as they both remember the night after they successfully conquered Roronora City and what Saku told them.

{FLASHBACK}

Saku leans back with his arms folded, his broken left hand/wrist in a small amount of medical wrapping, looks at Katsu and explains his reasoning.

Saku: "You know, while you both were out cold, I thought about today, and I’ve decided that I am fine with playing the bad guy to some, to make sure other good people can be happy in this world too. That means I’ll make some decisions and others may try to stop me. Somehow, I feel like I was created to be the ’lightning rod of hate’ in this world."

He looks at Shelly.

Saku: "I’ll prove to everyone, including myself, that as a loner, pushing people away, focused on gaining more power, that there is a good side to the ’bad guy’."

He looks down at his best friend and scratches the 4 year old pup’s ears.

Saku: "I know I can righteously hold that ’Mantle of Malice’ and give the world an outlet to dispose all of their hate. While also guiding those who are lost in the shadows of darkness, towards the light of happiness."

{END FLASHBACK}

Katsu: "And sometimes, ’the Main Character’ has to be the bad guy for the sake of peace for his friends. I don’t think I’d be able to even pretend to be the bad guy. So I was worried about, who’s ’the Main Character’, Shell?

We’ve already lost both our sets of parents, Shelly. I’ve been given a special ability that can control these alien monsters that killed them. When I snapped on Saku, it was the morning after we got our ’blessed abilities’, and I wanted him to know, even if he IS ’the Main Character’, he better not test you and I together. Because in the end, we would end up killing him if he did. Beating his ass like we did in the press box of this city’s stadium was just a taste for him."

Shelly looks back over at the booth they abandoned.

Dom is stuffing to-go bags full of burgers and fries, passing a completely stuffed bag to Jormungand right before Drakaina pulls her little brother away from the Gunner. Friend has appeared from under the table and is being pet by both the princesses. His tail wagging wildly left and right as he lays down.

Friend: "RrrUuff!"

Princess Kawaii looks at her new sister princess and grabs her hand.

Princess Kawaii: "Come on! Buppy’s saying we can ride."

Princess Rebekah: "Are you sure? I don’t think it’s a good idea for us both to-"

Princess Kawaii pulls her anyway and they both stand above the large dog. Princess Kawaii in the front and Princess Rebekah in the back. As Friend easily stands up, the princesses get lifted off the ground and they are both riding on the back of the strong furry soldier.

Friend turns to face the three remaining humans sitting in the booth, arguing.

The women are still EyeEngaged but now, both have popped off their alien eye to it’s 2nd Stage and have smokey auras. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

Don Laban: "...And besides, who said you’re allowed to decide where my daughter goes?!"

Itsuka: "Oh, nooow you want to think about her? And are you saying you would rather her be here, where she can get hurt in the middle of an attack?! Gee, I can tell you haven’t had a proper mother figure in your life if that’s your parental decision making."

Saku has finally had enough and pops off his superior eye. He looks at the other side of their booth and with a *POP* out of existence, he immediately *POPS* back, flipping sides of the table and slides out.

Itsuka and Laban disengage their eyes to watch Saku walk away from two beautiful and strong women fighting over him.

Laban(chuckles): "Ha! That’s three incredibly useful eye abilities, I’ve given my Saki. Compared to your, what, ’tactical’, bipolar exposing, mirror ability?"

Itsuka gets flustered and jealousy tears begin forming from the harsh truth exposed out loud. She isn’t able to find a better comeback.

Laban: "As far as I’m concerned, from the short history between you two, I’ve expressed more of my love in the less time I’ve known him, so you can shove that up your-"

Saku: "LABAN!"

Everyone pauses and Friend, while the girls are still on his back, lies down on the floor with his head down, scared of the loud, scary tone of his master. While Laban flinches and puts her head down, now flustered.

She slowly lifts her gaze, her PoV EyeEngaging with the stern Anjell Eye user.

Saku: "First of all, and this memo is for the both of you, I’m neither of your property and both of you need to grow the fuck up, got that?!"

Both flustered girls side eye each other then quickly look back down at the table, ending with simultaneous nods.

Saku: "Now, if you two are done, since we did heavy endurance training, the tank of my SeiõrStorage makes it less taxing on me physically to use two abilities at once or keep an ability active continuously. I can also combine abilities, so I can use Laban’s Nye-Omnipotence ability within Princess Rebekah’s Foresight ability."

Dom scratches his temple, confused.

Dom: "Wait, so how does that work? I thought that Omnipotence N-Eye showed you any realistic question you wanted to know that has already happened."

Saku: "Yea...since Princess Rebekah’s ability only allows her to see her own personal future, with my ability combo, I can see how D and the rest of Sanpaku will be without us there or anyone else in the world. Other than MamMon DæMon. The Foresight ability doesn’t work on Laban’s sister, whenever I tried, her body would disappear."

Laban DaeMon: "Short term foresight is easily achievable to anyone well trained in Seiõr Control, my sisters never have a truly set plan to their actions, and will always have branching backup plans that have their own branching backup plans. Because of that psychology, it makes Chronical Warfare impossible against DæMons who foresee someone else trying to use foresight to get an advantage."

With his Anjell Eye popped off, a Yin aura, Saku looks at his hand, a small bag of SeiõrBeans *POPS* into his open palm.

Saku: "So they’re just constantly running ’audibles’, okay."

He turns to look at Shelly and Katsu at the exit.

Saku: "But I’m not worried, because we got D and Tay protecting Sanpaku from that Nephilim dude. While our Ace here runs the table on all the bums, that bitch DæMon throws at her."

From the booth, as she gets up, Laban snickers at the beautiful woman who defeated her.

Laban DaeMon: "Oh yea, I almost forgot to mention, Skalmönd. Since you took one back already, from me, I should let you in on a little secret."

Shelly: "I don’t trust anything that comes out of your mouth, Laban."

Laban DaeMon(chuckles): "Oh, but you don’t have to believe me right away, Skalmönd. Once you come face to face with my older sister, you’ll know I’m not fibbin’."

Shelly’s eyes narrow, but she’s listening. So is everyone else within the fast food restaurant.

Laban DaeMon: "Since you apparently have not only inherited your ancient grandmother’s looks but also her fighting style and tenacity, I’m sure the weapon my sister has will really peak your interest."