Chapter 92: the beginning but also the end

"shhhhh~ its about to begin" hanurami playfully hit him as she looked down at the head and foot of lotus.

but then lotus's eye balls grew green and he opened his mouth and roared viciously.

it was almost like he was Megatron, because somehow he just wouldn't stay dead.

both of his remains flared up and fused together forming a ball of darkness about the size of a basketball but it was fluctuating like liquid metal on a magnet.

the eight magus's were puzzled as they looked up and saw nine humanoid figures made of pure darkness and had diffrent colored glows kinda like the one infront of them.

one of them started panicking as he knew who all of them were.

"there here! those who started from nothing, those born of the void and the creaters of the chaos clan,

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one to nine the names they go by are Eve, Marcel, Hanurami, Hinumi, Hiro, Rex, Kimora, Tarturis and Aiko" as he said that his DBM trembled, and ordered him to leave there immediately as it tried to posses his body but was unable to.

"what do you mean! who are they and why are they here!" the one who held a sword said.

"idiot! their the creaters of the citizens of chaos, they are the darkness itself, there he the nine darknesses" but as he said that he heard laughing from a few of them as they pointed to the blob of darkness close to the magus's.

"mortals, thanks for reuniting the entire family, but Ten looks hungry so how about you focus on him and not us" hinumi the fourth said as she was also one of them who pointed.

but as they heard that the same paniced guy gulped "there's ten?" but as he said that a fox emerged from the darkness and ran at them.

the fox had was made from the left over darkness and it was small and quick.

as it appeared the seven started charging up another blast barrage as one of them came at the fox ready to cut it down into peices.

but as soon as he was able to get in range to attack the fox, it would simply evade and it's size and agility made it hard to hit and almost impossible to hit if you include its unreal flexibility.

but then the magus's got a message from his BDM that communicated with the others, he jumped strait up into the air and seven beasts shot at lotus again.

he grinned as this was the end but then he felt an immense pain come form his sholder and then more pain come from his back.

the fox had its claws dug into the magus and then it was bitting down on his sholder.

the fox then immediately ripped out a chunk of flesh restoring its darkness and making it become a tine bit bigger.

the magus released a warcry skill stunning lotus and then he hit him off of him easily.

as lotus crashed against the ground that Chunk of darkness he got back was gone and he got even smaller making him a little bigger than palm sized.

lotus turned into a darkness mist as he crashed against the ground and he moved then moved to the seven magus's as he reformed into a running mini fox.

if it wasent for the light created by the crystals in the area, he would of blended in with the darkness.

but then as they fired another round of blast lotus was nowhere to he seen and they thought they finally won...but they were sadly mistaken as one of the crystals got shattered and a quarter of the roof became pitch black.

they looked over at the nine darknesses but they were just casually talking with eachother.

untill they heard a noise and lotus appeared from under one of them and bit one of their hands off and running away into that pitch black area.

he screamed in pain as this happened and he saw the green face of the fox tearing away at his arm slowly eating it with his small body.

but as he started swallowing the flesh, for each chunk of flesh, a chunk of darkness it would convert into inside of his stomach.

one of them started healing him as the other five made a defensive barrier and the final guy finally landed on the ground after using a slow fall skill called [feather falling].

lotus paid no attention to them as he contined to eat away at the hand and crush the bones in his mouth as well.

but then as he finished and returned back to that size of a basketball, he looked over at them as a black mist drool came from his mouth as well as a little bit of light red magus blood.

he dashed forward and jumped to claw at them, but as his claws hit the mana-feild it only made a slight scratch.

but then that same magus he bit into jumped at him and began his assult as he was inraged by lotus bitting into him.

lotus dodged and was forced into going back to a defensive state as one attacked him with a nlsde and the other magus's began charging more blast.

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(darknesses are going to be reffered as numbers for now)

meanwhile over at the roofs they all looked to Eve for answeres.

"weren't you supposed to keep an eye on him untill he was assigned his mission with Mel" seven said as she looked confused.

"well~. . .you know how melti can be, she's been keeping me busy and also I have been checking on him...every few days" one said as she was just goofing off with melti the entire time outside of campus.

"bol-shit, he's been corrupted by those heretic magus's and you haven't done shit, litterally all you've been doing was fooling around with Mel and his dumbass isolated himself working on something instead of trying to purifying himself" Nine yelled at her.

but as she did Chloe mumbled "corrupted?" and then Nine looked over to her.

"yea, he's been drinking the blood of you vile heretics and you're all potent with that icky stuff making which caused all of this, I don't just understand why he hasn't-" she said looking at the seven in disgust but then was inturupeted by her brother.

"don't forget Ten is also an incubus, it's almost natural for him to feed from his partners and or the people around him, it's not their fault, its kinda his for letting this happen" Two said as he didn't belive those were at fault for his feeding habits.

"but why'd he let himself get corrupted, and even if he did he can easily purify his physical body with darkness so why didn't he do it?" Three asked.

"I remember that when I talked to some incubus named Alice about...two maybe three thousand years ago, they said that by drinking the blood of a anyone they, they can feed, but they can also take the bad stuff from out of them, so maybe Ten was tring to purify that girl to get that disgusting goo out of her system" Two said.

"also don't forget that Ten is still an baby not even a child yet, he might of matured over the past 17 years but thats only because of his merge, I'm surprised that his real body isn't just a smal ball of darkness floating around randomly, but he actually has a "form"! ! !" Eight said looking down to lotus who was evading all of the magus's attacks.

"oh yea you weren't with us when Ten returned to the void were you, Ten came back home and was punished for a hundred years by father so technically he's a kid now" Nine said to Eight.

"wait he came home! but I was in the void this entire time and I didn't see him there, when did he come back and why didn't you all say somthing" he said as he looked puzzled.

Two started laughing "you were in your room and you were in a deep sleep after your last mission and didn't want to be bothered...also we told you and also your children of chaos did too,

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but if I remember correctly you said

awesome man I'll go visit him later, but then you never left your room" Two said making them laugh and Eight got embarrassed.

"you try fighting the god of war and his two lords so we could form an alliance with them" he said with a cute pout.

"you were sent there for battle experience and to get stronger, not just to form an alliance, and we only did that because he threatened are chaos children as well.

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Marcel could of killed them easily without even using half of his power" One said as she giggled and Johnny looked terrified as he was still under the foot of nine who was next to both One and Two.

"why is Ten even here? last time I checked he was a frshman of winter-spring University and he went by the name of Rin Ito and looking into his records he's a model student, so why is he even here at this crappy place" Rex/Six complained but then as he did Nine/Aiko kicked Johnny in the back slightly as she pressed her foot back down on him again.

"this angel knows somthing, after all he seems like he knows Ten well, and he even called Ten...lotus? so he must know something about this, plus you shouldn't be here either?" nine said giving Johnny a menacing look.

"oh really? haha hey tell us all the details boy" Two/Marcel said as he squatted down and looked him in the eyes but he didn't look back as he began trembling.

Two immediately looked disappointed as he looked at Johnny

"we can't kill him, he's a decentdant of the light bringer's, or do they go by the elder gods now?" Two said as he looked at the young God infront of him.

Johnny gulped as his identity was revealed and he was about to plead for his life but them One went into her dryadic body and sat next to him.

he looked shocked as he looked at Eve and then she spoke.

"don't worry we won't kill you, after all we don't want another grate war do we~? but now that you know my little brother Ten is a darkness and we know that your a light bringer how about we make an exchange,

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you tell us what we want to know about Ten, I mean lotus or Rin whatever you all call him, and we'll forget all about you and you won't have to worry about us hunting you and your holy people/children down" she threatened him and he had to think about this.

but then he felt the terrifying aura of every last one of them standing up there and he spilled everything.

they found out Ten was assigned a special mission to eliminate the magus's here due to him having yuki as transfortation and also that Johnny was just there to monitor lotus due to his return from a strange place and him refusing to talk give any information about it, so they needed to take precautions and not just that, one of the witnesses said they saw him using something dark and mysterious so they needed him to investigate incase Rin was a user of the heretic arts and needed to be eliminated.

after understanding the situation and decusing immenunst eachother they Nine got impatient.

"so they were his target's" she got him to stand and they looked over at the seven magus's and both Chloe and Johnny's eyes met.

he was shocked as lotus's partner was one of them but also the other four as well,

seeing as lotus was always chatting and with them and he made it seemed as if they were just normal students.

"why are you five. . . . .you're the magus's!?" he with a studder as lotus never truly told him the identity of them.

Chloe and the other were just as shocked, not just because of seeing him there as well and hearing all about him, but because they found out who lotus truly was and his purpose for being here.

they all felt betrayed, angry, but also a little saddened as they didn't want to belive it was true.

"okay since there his targets, how about I end his mission and we all can have a little chat later, just us ten and you too light bringer, now dosen't that sound grate" nine said as she walked forward and the others backed away as she was getting closer and dark gauntlets made of a black raging liquid appeared on her hands.

but then as she got a metter away she felt a wave of demonic killing intent target her and she also saw on the side if chloes neck and it was the Ito clans reaper Marking that glew black and red.

as soon as they all felt that small amount of killing intent, lotus suddenly appeared and punched Nine in the temple making her stumble over as he used all of his strength in the single attack making a Shockwave come off from it.

but unlike her who felt a little thump, his arm and a little bit of his sholder imploded and dissapered completely as it was like he hit a wall made of hard togu-tungsten.

all of then were shocked as this darkness with a humanoid body and green glow suddenly hit another darkness.

but then as his arm was complete destroyed he jumped away and now infront of Chloe and the magus's, he hissed and snarled at Nine as his arm regrew itself but at a cost of his size.

all the darknesses were shocked as Ten shriked Nine and she was extremely pissed, Nine had the second worst temper of the darknesses and if he wasent her little brother she would of killed him in the spot.

"what the fuck!!! Ten what's wrong with you!" she said as she rubbed the side of her head,

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it didn't hurt but she was cought off guard and he suddenly attacked her for no reason.

his tail viciously swayed saying your an enemy and he didn't answer he just got on all four as his claws immersed and he slowly appoched in a circle like manner and his darkness raged and it told everyone that he wasen't playing.

"lotus!?" the magus's shuddered as this happened so quickly and they saw the one who was supposedly planning to kill them just protect them from another person wanting them dead.

"im trying to help you, why are you protecting them!" Nine said upset and then he suddenly attacked her again by jumping forward.

she got even angrier seeing as he didn't answer when she spoke and tried attacking again.

she didn't doge instead she grabbed his hand and swiftly kicked him, pushing him down to the ground and easily subduing him.

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she did the same thing to him as she did with Johnny but modified it by wrapped him in chains of darkness.

"you sould answer when someones talking to you Ten, especially when it comes to family!" she said and he viciously roared sending a Shockwave of wind moveing everything in waves like he was someone powering up in DBZ.

"Eve what's wrong with him!?" she said as she was about to gag him and throw him in the back of somebody's van.

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"oh! I know what's going on! this happened to me one time, but I guess it's diffrent for him since he's chose a diffrent race.

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but once the merged body is on the border of death but still dead, we go on a rage and become farrel while using are darkness to try and restore it and revive or body instead if waiting to heal up it up.

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luckily father saved me before I completely destroyed the fairy monarchs forest, but I needed to recover in a nature potent area becuase my merged body's a dryad and I ended up absorbing all of the life there.

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but for Ten, his is an incubus and there's not really any info on that lost race, so I guess just let him go wild, after all he's not that strong so he shouldn't cause to much chaos" she said rubbing her chin thinking of where she could drop him.

"that didn't help in the slightest...but him going farel is kinda reasonable" she then looked down at Ten/lotus and tightened the chains.

"hey little bro I'm gonna take you home to the void to see if we can fix you, could you give us a little hint tho" she said in a sweet voice as she gagged his mouth.

but as she said void lotus immediately acted very defiant and he started kicking his legs at her and he kept squirming around like he was being kidnapped.

"yeah. . .about that" Eve said as she had a slight laugh and they all looked over to her confused except one.

"Ten hates the void with a passion, plus that collar won't allow him to return, I tried to remove it but it was...yeah it didn't go well" she said embarrassed that she couldn't even remove it.

"what do mean he dosen't like the void? it's our home and that doesn't exclude him either!" she said but then Eve looked over at Six/Rex.

as she did he just whistled and looked away but then Four hit him over the head telling him to admit what he did.

"okay maybe I should checked on him instead of leaving him floating in the abyssal plains of the void.

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but I did tell him how to go to his room and that would of teleported him to our home" he said in his defense even tho he left out alot of details to lotus.

"how about we take him to the chaos kingdom in the... oh yea. . . . . .oh wait! what about the choas village in the mid east of this continent, he could like it so much he returns to normal" seven/Kimora said naively.

"last thing we need is him killing our clans-kin" Five/Hiro said even tho they weren't darknesses, the kin were the byproduct of the darknesses.

"plus he's so young they might not even accept him, their not even beings if the void, their just mortled in the end and you know how they can be sometimes" Four/Hinumi said looking down on eveyone there.

"and?" Eight/Tarturis replied annoyed because of his attachment to the choas clan since he was the one who led them.

"lets just bring him to the wild and set him free to do whatever he wants, he'll find somthing to do" seven said as she looked over at the roof that lotus fought on and there was just pools of blood with a half eaten magus still on the roof.

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they continue talking for a while and they even asked a few questions to the non important ones and then they were just going to bring him to the Oxford forest and leave him there.

Four squatted down infront of lotus and ungaged him and seeing that he was exhausted and calmer so she tried communicating with him.

"hey Ten~ if you behave well untie you, but if you continue being a bad boy well have to punish you~" as she ungager him he licked her hand making her smile with her pink glowing face and two fanged mouth.

"hey I think he likes me~" she said pulling out haha I'm the favorite now card.

but then Marcel thought this was kinda suspicious so he was about to say somthing but then Ten/lotus bit the tip of her finger off consuming a tiny bit of her darkness.

"oww!. . .you!!!!" she was upset as her finger regenerated almost instantly but then she noticed a build up of his power and darkness as he started growling viciously and his green darkened and his darkness raged again.

as it did the chains broke and both Nine, Four, One and Two jumped away as his darkness spiraled and expanded instantly.

it shot up and enlarged untill he became three storys tall and his darkness condensed into a litteral dragon and he roared releasing a black and green flame.

but as he did both electricity and flames came out as his frost shrouded his dragonish body like armor and then black and green electric flamed spikes came out of the ice going down his spine and tail while electric raged all around him.

four of the darknesses jumped away and conjured their weapons ready to seriously fight whatever he became.

but as for the other six they just looked in anticipation as somthing entertaining was about to happen.

lotus was about to charge up a maxed out [seto] using all of his manipulations together, but then his eyes flashed a crimson red, black, blue, and then to a gentle green.

making him about to lash out in rage but then as this happened the darkness dragon suddenly collapse and started condensing into a single point.

it kept going down untill Ten was formed again and standing, but then the darkness molded into an exact copy of his physical body.

as soon as it did, it started gaining color as the darkness condensed again and his darkness faded as his physical body started to appear from the head down.

after it appeared lotus looked around and he saw nine darknesses with three of them had their weapons drawn and then the others just observed,

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then he looked to Johnny who fell to his butt and looked terrified as well as the seven magus's who were just like him.

when lotus saw all of this he squinted his eyes as he looked at them "did I miss somthing important???" but then as he did his darkness flared up again releasing a black mist and he fell to his knees passing out as his physical body reappeared and he leaked some mist out.

Marcel laughed at this "looks like we don't have to help anymore, but it looks like he couldn't handle such power seeing as he's so weak and he's not even in the body tampering stage" he said seeing as all the excess darkness started leaving lotus's body since he couldn't hold nor absorb all of it.

"what should we do with him?" Nine asked asked as she was shielding the magus's with a dark barrier.

"kill him of course" Marcel said with a poker face and both Eve and Aiko transformed into litteral giant monsters with sharp claws, fangs, spikes, and raging darkness which defined that a savage beasts.

"just kidding~" he said putting his hands up in a playful way.

they both returned to normal and Aiko/Nine picked up lotus "I'm taking him with me, young god you're coming with me and this mission is over understand!" she said as a tentacle of darkness grabbed him and then the three dissapeared.

as she did this it seemed as the reunion was diminished and half of them didn't want to go yet, and their excuse for coming was because of hearing Ten's cry for help before he turned farel.

but now they had to actually return to what they were doing before and they all were on mission's too, which none of them liked since it didn't involve fighting.

"so....anyone wanna stick aound and see how this plays out" Eve said but they all declined due too being busy with their own stuff.

Eve then looked over at the magus's as they all left in diffrent directions except Marcel who stayed.

"so what should I do with you all" she said with a mischievous grin.

"big sis how about you play with me instead~" melti said as she appeared next to her.

"melti? what are you doing here?" she said squinting her eyes at how suspicious she was and ecpecally since then field of darkness didn't dissapear yet.

"I saw you lave and followed you this entire time, also leave the heretics be, their your brother's responsibility and he should and will take responsibility for them" she said as she flapped her bat like wings and hovered around Eve in circles wanting to play.

" 'sigh' fine lets go then" she said walking away from the other's.

"what do you plan on doing with us and what's going to happen to lotus!" one of them said as he was still upset and terrified down to her core but needed to know what was gonna happen to her people and since he had feelings for him as well and he needed to know for Chloe's sake as well.

the two turned turned arount but Marcel answered instead.

"it's simple, you all aren't at all important in the slightest and the only reason your alive is because Ten cares for you bunch.

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oh and as for Ten, he will go home to shadowfall, and he will return to his life as a collage student untill we assign him a mission after the upcoming tournament and winter brake comes.

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but I would forget about him if I were you" he said bluntly as he walked up to Eve and intentionally leaked information out to gain some entertainment for later.

"let me tag along, I'm bored as well" he agreed and the three left.

but as they did all the magus's could do was just sit their as their legs refused to move.

"fuck that, lotus might of been using us and planed to kill us but I don't care, I planed on killing him on multiple occasions so I'm not letting something as...major as this brake him apart from us" Joshua said as he was the first one to brake free of the terror that they all faced.

"didn't you hear them, he's-" joshua inturupeted her "shut it, who cares about what they said, unless they kill me than I won't give in, stop being pussy's and get up, after all aren't we magus's, noting will control us and nothing will stop us from doing as we please and if that means fighting those...things, than I don't care anymore, I'll fight till my last breath after all their not the bosses of us, Chloe is and no one else" he said passionately followed by

"plus lotus killed our rival gang so thats a win for use anyways haha~" he said in a chilled tone.

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meanwhile aurora just got in as the dome of darkness dissapeared, but as she did she got an system prompt saying mission completed.

and just like that she got a earth-grade staff and a tone of Exp for doing nothing.

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meanwhile in lotus's room there sat Johnny and Nine having a "little" chat.