Chaos Will Reign

Chapter Twelve: Chaos Spreads

As Suoh and Erii talk in the medical ward, both finally come to the agreement to take up Ava and Damien on their offer. While Erii is hesitant at first, she ultimately felt it was best for her to break away from Chaos. After all, if they didn't appreciate all that she's done for them, they don't deserve her help at all.

Ava, meanwhile, was in a meeting with the rest of the Gods. "Okay. So, does everyone understand the rest of the plan from here?" Ava asked.

"I'm honestly more surprised you managed to convince one of Chaos's fairy's to defect." Lacie comments, still hung up on that.

"Well, we can't infiltrate the Temple of Chaos without her. In exchange for her help, she gets her freedom, a home, food, and just an all around better life for her. So it's a win-win." Ava smiles.

"And what about Suoh? You know, since he betrayed you guys." Aileus asked, seeming a bit cautious of him in the room behind her.

"He's also turning over a new leaf. Chaos sees us as pawns. Weak, and not worth his time. Well...with enough pawns, even a King can be trumped." She says. "With Suoh and Erii's help, we can finally make our comeback, and get on the offensive."

Tine claps her hands together and smiles. "That's wonderful. And I'm amazed that you came up with this plan yourself."

"The student is becoming the master, it seems." Aella giggles.

Ava smiles as well, and sees a snake sitting at her windowsill. She recognizes it immediately, and opens the window to let it in. However, not just one snake entered, a whole horde of them. Pretty soon, they would start to merge together and form Kheios. "Kheios?!" Ava asked, a bit alarmed.

"Oh calm down, Ava. I'm here as a friend. I wouldn't dare hurt you." He says with a light laugh.

"Last I heard of you, you were the one who released Chaos from their seal." Ava says skeptically.

"Ugh, don't remind me..." He rolls his eyes and leans on the wall. "I was going to give you some valuable information, but now I don't want to." He sasses her.

"I trust you, Lord Kheios." Suoh speaks up, hoping that his trust would help Ava as well.

Hearing this, Ava weighs her options, then sighs. "You know, I've worked with you a long time. Against all of my better judgements, I trust you. What's this info you have?"

"Well...now that Erii has been captured, Chaos has made himself a backup plan if that could happen. Care to elaborate on this, Erii?" Kheios asked with a smile.

"When we stole the save data from Glitch, the God of Bugs, Chaos had me duplicate the data I got. And if I were to be captured, that duplicate data would be given to my twin sister, Anny." Erii answers, sounding ashamed.

"Hmm. So in the end, we didn't completely stop them from taking save data." Veto says.

"My lord!" Líf's voice sounds from Veto's call box. "It's Ghastelle! The Temple of Abundance is under attack, and Ghastelle is there!"

"What?!" Veto abruptly ends his call, and rushes out to save his daughter.

"Sounds like they want the Goddess of Abundance's save data next." Kheios comments.

"What do we do about that, Lady Ava?!" Tine asked.

"Well...!" Ava was a bit flustered by this. She wasn't expecting them to make a move so quickly, much less go after someone outside of her calculations.

"If you want some input..." Lacie says to get her attention "we should leave this to Lord Veto. Lady Eponine is tough, and Lord Veto will only make her tougher. The two make a devastating tag team. To make things easier on yourself, it's best to let them handle this situation on their own." Lacie says.

"Agreed." Aileus nods. "Veto beats me every year in the tournament, and Eponine is always close behind him. They can handle this."

Ava, taking in the opinions of her fellow gods, nods along. "Very well then... We should focus on our preparations then." She says.

———

Anny seemed to be the source of the attack against the Temple of Abundance. The crazed fairy seemed to be going on a rampage, burning the Goddess's fields and crops to the ground in an attempt to drag her out. It would have worked, if the resident dragon wasn't there to fight for her. Despite Eponine's protests to make sure her dragon was safe, she insisted, and rushed out without hearing another word. Seeing the dragon girl seemed to annoy Anny, as she sighs. "Who the hell are you? Where's the Goddess?" She asked, clearly irritated.

"I am Remi, the great Dragon of Abundance! Leave this place now, or else you will suffer the consequences!" Remi announces, her horns shining a brilliant gold color. Remi's platinum blonde hair shone as well.

"Bah! How boring. Well, I suppose it isn't so bad. I've always wanted to kill a dragon...!" Anny smiles and raises her arm up, creating a magic circle. In a split second, crimson flames would spew out from the circle, engulfing the land, and Remi if she didn't move.

"Get down, Miss Remi!!" A male voice calls out, as another dragon flies over to protect her. The hot flames seemed to be absorbed by the dragon, as it hums low to offer comfort. In the same breath, a young man with red hair would leap into action, holding what looked to be a twin sword. One blade on one side of the hilt, a second curved in the opposite direction as the first.

"My Lord...!" Remi gasps in surprise, as the red flame dragon takes flight to help her friend.

"Miss Remi, get to safety!" The young man calls, as he spins his blades in his hand. With his instructions, Remi nods, and runs off to save whatever crops remained in the fields. "Vile fiend...! You'll pay for what you eat done to this beautiful land!"

"Yeah? And who are you supposed to be?" Anny says with a soft groan.

"My name is Lord!" He introduces himself.

After an awkward silence, Anny just couldn't hold back her laughter, as it bursts out loudly from her small vocal cords. "Ahahahahahaha!!! Are you serious?! What kind of pretentious asshole called himself "Lord"?! Oh my god, your parents must have hated you!! Ahahahaha—!" Anny's laughter was soon cute off, as the young male throws his weapon at her. She quickly evades, and gets serious again.

"Laugh all you want. I'll still defeat you!" He shouts.

"Hah. Little runt thinks he's all that in a bag of chips, huh? I'll show you your place, Extra!!" She exclaims as her body is cloaked in a black aura. The orb she surrounded herself in starts to grow in size, as it explodes away from her to reveal a new form. Anny had increased in size, becoming the height of a normal human. Her white dress had become a bodysuit that turned black down her legs, with black high heel boots to match it. She wore black gloves with sharpened fingertips, showing some fierce claws. Her wings had been moved from her back to her head, blending in seamlessly with her now platinum blonde hair like a fairy wing crown, as elf like ears and completely black eyes and red irises complete the look. "Ahahahaha! Ooh, now this brings back memories! I haven't used this power since Master Chaos was sealed away...! Consider yourself lucky to witness this, mortal!" Anny announces as she creates another magic circle above herself. "Now...! DIE—!"

Just as she was about to launch her powerful attack, she gets shot in the head by a wind arrow, cutting off her exclamation. Completely caught unawares, Anny's body starts to dissipate. However, due to having a god's safe data, Anny wouldn't fully die, and would just be reborn later. Lord, seeming confused, guess that it was the Goddess of Abundance that dealt the killing blow. "Man... I was just getting fired up, too."

"Save it for next story, kid." Veto says, Ghastelle in his arms. "The word count is already too high, so we're cutting the chapter off here." He adds.

"Huh?" Lord looks at the God of Death in confusion. "Wait, what do you mean cutting off—?!"