The Sanctified

Chapter 1, A Fateful Encounter

Oddio... It was an exhausting day for me, I was out stopping crime over on Earth 5, just the same old robbers and what not, only thing was, a prison break happened, I am not sure who broke them out, but gathering all of them back was difficile despite my powers.

Holding back was necessary, I do not know how anyone would react to see me use my causality powers in public, they only think I'm just a super strong lion with holy powers, not an extinct alien deity known as a Cosmic Creature, which I'm still trying to process a bit.

Tired, I went back to New Suramar where my parents awaited me, this time taking on the visage of lions like me, just recently I found out they were resurrected from death, how I missed them so....

"Stop any evil Leone?" my dad inquired.

I sighed of exhaustion, "Dalla luce.... A ton... just let me sleep, Per favore"

I could hear my mom in the background, "Don't worry Louis... he's been through a lot"

As I walked into Azure Tower, I passed by my alternate timeline counterparts, my fratelli, Hado, a Dalmatian, Daisuke, a Saiyan, and Shaldon, a Nightborne.

We were a diverse family, that is for sure, I still love my brothers either way.

Shaldon waved at me and approached me, "Hey Leo, you up to go to Conton City? We are doing some Time Patrol quests there! You might learn new moves!"

Hado cut in, "Oy Shal, I don't think Leo is in the mood right now, just look at him" and he was right, I looked like merda.

Nodding, the Nightborne mage understood what was going on and walked toward Daisuke.

Daisuke placed his hands behind his head in anticipation, "C'mon, I'm itching for a fight, let Leo rest, Valentina is waiting for us" and so they all left while I went upstairs to my room to rest.

It took quite a while, but ringraziare la luce! I was able to finally sleep.

"Sugar, wake up!" a spunky voice called out to me from the light within the darkness. I was confused.

Drawing out my Moonlight Shadow I prepared for a fight, "Who goes there?! If you are trying to attack my mind you won't succeed at all unless you want your mind to be devoured by the light"

The voice revealed itself, I saw a golden armored dark-skinned angel with an afro and lots of glam, "Calm down Leo, and put away that fighting aura I can perfectly see away"

Shocked I questioned her intentions as I called back Moonlight Shadow, "How do you know my name and just who are you?"

She smirked and did some disco pose, "Because I'm Cleopatra, Cleo for short, and I'm a whole lot of woman! I'm an omnipotent deity, not bound by dimensionality, I know everything about you and your future, and I am everywhere at once within this multiverse or beyond it, what you and your brothers call, an outerverse."

Cleo said a lot, which is why I was staring at her baffled and confused.

She laughed, "I'll just cut to the chase sugar, I was the one who resurrected your parents, am I looking for you to sell your soul to me? Heck naw!"

I was astounded at her spunk, yet was still processing things, so I let her continue for a while.

She told me my destiny awaited within a group called, "The Sanctified", according to Cleo, a ton of people like me are there in Rome.

I was thinking about refusing, but I could just sense, something was right here, after all, this is the woman that resurrected my parents, I was in her debt.

Cleo was styling herself casually as she told me the last part, "Oh do not worry, again, this isn't a scam, please just trust me, they'll treat you well, I know it, your destiny awaits there. Good luck Leo!"

In a flash of light, I was awake, like some hangover just finished.

I took a portal to Rome and went with the directions Cleo told me, standing before me was a church, everything in and out of it was just, white, and yellow.

Felt welcoming, I'll admit, I then saw some people, a male Void Elf, like that Trixie strega, a pink haired female with cat ears and a cat tail, her skin was quite pale, and lastly, a tall man with a gold face, he looked to be made of metal and was wearing armor along with a turban.

The Void Elf, waved at me, "Greetings, and welcome to our church, my name is Evangolo, I take it you're the one our goddess Cleopatra told us about?"

I was shocked! "How do you know about her?!"

The pink haired cat woman raised an eyebrow, "First of all, we pray to her daily, why else do you think this church-"

The gold guy cut her off, "Dakota, that is enough, let me explain things, we respect holy people like you, and we've heard so much about your.... Team Azure hero group, we also know you're not a lion, you're a Cosmic Creature, and a Guardian of Causality. I'm Stefano... how would you be interested in avenging your people by joining The Sanctified?"

I felt a bit brividi, "So what.... You guys going to venerate me next? I'm confused, why ask that?"

Dakota face palmed, "Because we wanted you to-"

Evangolo cut her off this time, "Dakota! Respect! Anyways.... We wanted you to be our executioner, we slay demons, in the name of Cleo, after all, didn't demons destroy your family and planet? Don't you want to take revenge?"

This time I was really ubriaco and drew out Moonlight Shadow, "Chiudi la bocca vergognoso!" I yelled as I prepared to hit the Void Elf with my fighting aura

Stefano, knocked both of us back, "Everyone calm down! Compose yourself, look, Leo, I think I should just tell you the bad news, we foresee, Acheron, the person that destroyed your world, is out to make sure your species is extinct, that's why we want you to be our executioner, you can hunt those demons down and eventually find Acheron, and avenge your people."

I calmed down and was confused, Evangolo on the other hand just got back up and walked casually to Dakota, scoffing.

"What...? Who is Acheron?"

Stefano told me of him, he was a Corrupt Deity, a race that's supposed to be the opposite of the Lost Deities, the race my parents were resurrected as. Their goal was to destroy concepts in the multiverse in contrast to Cosmic Creatures like me governing it.

"Vedo.... Very well, I'll consider your offer, tell me of my first mission"

And so began my side job, hunting down demons, as the last son of Planet Cosmic, I won't let my people down, my resolve will carve a way until it has found the core of it's trauma and obliterated it, la luce trionferà!