×Chapter 204×Goodbyes To The Old Age
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*Dxd World*
*Human World*
*America*
*Miami*
*Billionaire Ceo Mansion*
*5:57*pm
*1 Day Before The True War*
It was lively at the mansion of billionaire Ceo, Canko of the Canko industries, usual behind these walls would be a dreary loneliness but now today was different.
A multitude of billionaires were showing up one after the other, so parked out front were various million dollar super cars and expensive rides unlike anything the ordinary person could hope to even dream of having.
But there was a reason for a gathering of this magnitude, the Ceo of Canko was hosting a private concert and had brought in one of the most popular artist in america, singer, songwriter, Ava.
They had a stage set up and everything was pool side, chairs and tables were set along the walkway and still alot of space was left, it brought into perspective just how massive the mansion was and the riches its owner had.
Behind the stage were three familiar faces, Ava, Aniyah and Hazel, Ava was putting on make up and the others was helping her out with that and her outfit.
While fixing Ava's make up Hazel was a bit distracted luckily she was actually good so she made no mistakes."Um, Ava, did you..you know..hear anything from him..?"She asked trying to be casual.
."Huh, no I haven't, I haven't seen him since yesterday, I wonder why though, it didn't seem like he was angry, did he say anything to you?."Ava asked her back, she wanted to let him come to the concert, she had four placements, Hazel, Aniyah and one more, Lisa had to go to work.
Hazel appeared a bit worried as she thought back to the conversation they had, she still didn't chose yet, maybe he is waiting on her to chose.
."Have you guys maybe ever thought about the fact that we haven't exchanged numbers, so how are we to call him or him us."Aniyah spoke with a hand on her face because of these two idiots she called friends.
Hazel and Ava were stunned for a minute as it hit them like a train, how could they be so stupid and forget about that small detail.
.'Omg, I'm so dumb.'Hazel hid her face in her hands from embarrassment, here she was so worried for no reason.
Ava scratched her head."*Ahem* forget everything you've heard here today Aniyah, I promise we are not always this stupid haha."She said chuckling.
Aniyah shook her head."Luckily for you all Haile isn't here to see this embarrassing scene hahaha."She said chuckling lightly.
.""Good night everyone, I'm glad you all could make it to my little gathering, as you know my company has just crossed a huge milestone of 100B fortifyin our position in the top 1%"".
*Clap*!
*Clap*!
*Clap*!
.""Congratulations!"".
.""Congrats!"".
The voice of the Canko Ceo and an applause was heard by Hazel, Aniyah and Ava behind the stage, that was a sign for Ava to hurry up and be ready to go out on stage.
Ava took a deep breath as she composed herself for what was to come, all those people out there were billionaires, she can't afford for anything to go wrong.
Not only that almost everyone out there were men so she has to be even more careful of what she does or she might be taken advantage of, it really wasn't a joke.
.""Thank you very much, thank you all, now I've prepared drinks of all kinds and some light snacks for everyone with the entertainment, cause today we welcome a special guest to put on a show for us, give it up for the musical genius, Ava!"".
*Whistles*!!!
.""Yea!!!"".
.""Ava whoo!!!"".
This time a thunderous applause rung out, it seemed that Ava had some hard-core fans even amongst billionaires, safe to say that some wives were not very happy about that.
."Alright Ava, that's you're que, go out there and give it your best ok."Hazel said with a smile to Ava as she pat her shoulder encouragingly.
Aniyah smiled also."Yea give it your best."She said.
Ava nodded seriously taking another breath before sighing."Though I wish Haile could've got to come see me perform."She said before putting on a vibrant smile on her and walking out through the curtains.
Ava was given a mic by the sound engineer as she walked out onto stage."Is everyone doing great tonight?!."She said with charismatic energy and a smile.
As she stepped out the crowd's eyes lit up gazing upon her, she was truly beautiful, for a moment everyone was silent, then they broke out into roaring dignified screams.
.""AVA!!!"".
.""I've dreamt of this day for ages, I can see her up close"".
.""I know right, I got to get a private concert as well!"".
Ava secretly breathed a sigh of relief seeing that they were just like normal people like her, this is actually her first time performing for mainly billionaires and their families.
."Tonight I will be performing a new unreleased song, it name is Wish By A Star, alright, let's get it!."Ava said excitedly, she glanced back at the engineer with a nod, she took a step forwards.
*Dun*!
*Dun Dun*!
*Fshh*!!!
With every step Ava takes a flame comes up from the side of the stage and into the air bringing energy to the beat that dropped like a bomb.
.""~I say to you my friend, that nows the day when we begin,
That even when all else ends, we'll still be there, we'll still be here,
The fire in my heart I let you control, we Blazing, we blazing till we get old,
Thinking back on the time my heart got stole, wish you were here wish you were here~"".
Ava commanded the stage with her mere presence let alone her ethereal voice, she had the entire crowd possessed, the intent and truth that was displayed pulled at their heartstrings.
No one would ever know that this song she was performing was actually only written this morning, one would think it was weeks in the making but it was a song she casually wrote dedicated to her crush, Haile.
Back stage Hazel and Aniyah were suprised at this, Ava is of course a great singer and they knew that but something was different this time around, her tone had an extra dosage of passion.
Infront of this crowd Ava spilled her heart out on a plate and they eat it all up with vigor, coupled with her dance to take up all the stage space, it was practically perfect.
.""~You can have my heartttt(A4), I wanted to give you, but I know that we didn't have, the perfect of starts(A4),
There so many others, like multiple feathers, but, I want, all of it for meee(C5)~"".
Just like that the song was over, Ava breathed heavily as she was looking to the sky in her feelings, it wasn't even part of the performance this time around.
It was not just her that was affected, everyone was, then from one clap, a huge celebration ensued with a standing ovation.
.""Woohhhh!!!!"".
.""AVA, AVA, AVA AVA!!!"".
.""Again, sing it again, I'll double the money, no triple!!!"".
Hearing all this Ava was overwhelmed, she honestly didn't expect that this song would have gone over so well, she did this song only for herself, she didn't think they would love it like this.
Ava looking at the crowd with a smile on her face suddenly trembled as her eyes widened in shock, almost instantly everything disappeared and all she saw was tunnel of white.
But who was at the end of her tunnel, it was none other than Haile, as he said before, he was going to take a peek, he wasn't going to miss her performance.
Haile seeing her in shock mouthed something to her which she instantly understood and smiled brightly.
."Alright, you want to hear it again, if so let me hear your voices, show me how much you want it!!!."Ava said happily as the beat started playing and the other instrument came in one by one creating an incredible musical progression.
.""YEAHHH!!!!"".
.""Let's go!!!"".
Ava started another performance, this time was even greater than before, of course with Haile here this time she had no choice but to give it every ounce of her being and push pass her limits.
That night Ava sung the song 7 time back to back and each time was even better than the last, the song was definitely a hit.
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*45 Minutes Later*
The concert was now over and it was time for everyone to be leaving, people were sparking up friendships increasing their network and collecting numbers.
Ava was also showered with praises and promises to bring her in to perform again at different places privately, some were even willing to pay her up to 20 million upfront for exclusive rights to that song which she refused instantly.
She was also showed a video which was recorded half hour ago, it had over 7 million views already and many people wanted the song to be officially released, everything was just going right for her.
Ava had a happy smile on her face, with everything done she ran towards the garden side of the mansion, she saw Hazel, Aniyah, Nalisa, Haile and the other girl she mistook for his girlfriend.
.""Haile!"".
Hearing the shout, Haile looked over seeing Ava he smiled."Hey, Ava."He said gently as she jumped into his arms hugging him tightly.
."What are you doing here, I didn't expect this at all, but either way you have no idea how glad I am that you're here."Ava said happily and filled with energy, it did not look like she just spent almost an hour running up and down the stage performing.
Haile touched her waist."Of course, how could I possibly miss this, you were great, I'm glad it was the last I saw before I leave."He said nodding his head.
."Yes, huh....wait what leave!?!?."Ava took a step back in shock as her face paled.'W-what why, why now, everything was going so well, why now!!.'
Aniyah and Hazel were also shocked, it was so sudden, Hazel thought about what he told her last night also, did he forget about her was one of her thoughts.
."Yeah, I'm sorry, something urgent came up back home in Japan, but it's not like it'll be the last time you see me, I'll try to keep in contact."Haile said calmly, he glanced at Hazel letting his eyes glint with a golden hue for an instant.
Hazel's eyes widened.'Is it something to do with that?.'She thought seeing him signal it to her just then.
Ava glanced back and forth between Hazel and Haile, she saw that small exchange of looks, she wondered what it was about, but obviously it was none of her business.
."So yeah, our flight is in about 10 minutes, so we have to get going soon."Haile said as he glanced up at the moon calculating the time in his mind.
The three understood, no matter what they do he will leave anyway, it was only a matter of time, Ava rushed and hugged him again even tighter than before.
Hazel did the same after Ava."I'll miss you Haile, I'm sad it's over so soon, wish we could have more time."She said before releasing him.
Aniyah hugged him after, she then took out a pink phone from her pocket and pushed it into Haile's hand."Take this, it's my personal phone but I can buy another one, this way we can keep in contact."She said casually.
."Oh, alright then, don't worry I'll delete everything before I use it."Haile said with consideration.
Aniyah nod to him then to Nalisa also, Nalisa nodded to her as well giving a fairwell, though she wouldn't say friends but she did meet them personally.
Clernet on the side was a little grumpy as she was left out."Aren't we already late, let's get going before we miss the fucking plane."She said walking along before them.
Haile shook his head, he glanced into the eyes of each of the girl individually before taking Nalisa's hand and walking after Clernet.
Ava, Hazel and Aniyah watched him walk away from them and possibly from their lives as well but they could say nothing, after all, he already belonged to someone else.
."I never thought this would have gone so far, I thought this would have just been another party and then it's over, but he's really something isn't he."Aniyah said with wryly smile on her face as she shook her head in defeat.
Ava gained a sad hint in her eyes."But we unfortunately don't have a chance, *sigh*."She said with a sigh also feeling defeated.
."..I don't think it's over as of yet, it's only just started."Hazel said as her eyes narrowed.'This world has many secrets, but I will uncover them all, I just need more power, the government, they definitely know about all this stuff.'
Ava and Aniyah glanced at Hazel curiously, Hazel smiled with confidence."Alright, let's create a company, the three of us, but we need a business plan."She said with her hand on her chin.
Aniyah looked at Ava who chuckled, Aniyah rolled her eyes."I guess we're creating a business, leave the planning to me then."She said confidently as she took out her glasses putting them on suddenly feeling smarter.
.""Alright here's the plan, I already have my business Aani(A-Ah-Nai) so we'll build around that, I'll help you two with the funds but I want you two to start building two companies, a music label and a modeling agency"".
.""How this will work is, we'll manufacture musically artist and have them be marketer's for the Aani brand, we'll also have models solely to model in Aani branded clothing"".
.""With the fame of you two and all our money put together this should be easy work, then from there we'll start putting some of our models and singers as content creators on various platforms all marketing Aani"".
.""Eventually when everything is even out the Aani brand will "buy" your Music label Ava and your modeling agency Hazel, even though it will practically be the same already but it's best to leave it be for now"".
.""When we go home I will give 25% of the company to you Ava, 25% to Hazel, 25% to myself and put the other 25% in Haile's name, you all have any objections to this?"".
.""No.""Ava shook her head.
.""No.""Hazel.
.""Good, so then, one thing we have to do in the future is to by a sports team from every sport, or as much as it makes sense, then I will begin designing an Aani sports mode"".
Aniyah came to here and stopped, she looked at Ava and Hazel seriously."How much money does the two of you have, in my bank account I have 477 million liquid cash."She said spilling her earnings to them, if they were to move forward they have to trust each other whole heartedly.
."Oh, that's a surprise, I thought you had more than me, my liquid cash is 520 million."Ava said not minding it much, but she was still a bit smug.
Hazel was the most surprise."Now this it truly something, I beat both of you, I have 617 million."She said with a smile.
Ava and Aniyah glanced at each other, Ava scratched her head."Um Hazel, what we meant was just actual cash, I have my discography which is worth 955 million right now."She said gently not wanting to destroy her friends confidence.
."Yeah Hazel and mine is just short of 1 billion total assets."Aniyah said shrugging casually.
Hazel froze, she cleared her throat."*Ahem* all this stuff doesn't really matter, all our money will be one pretty soon anyway."She said a bit embarrassed.
.""Hahah"".
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*Up In The Sky*
*Plane First Class*
As time trickled down Haile, Nalisa and Clernet were already on the plane and headed with speed towards Japan, when they arrive it will be the beginning of a new Era, a new world.
Either way they were feeling nice flying in first class and it was actually the first time that Clernet's been on a plane so she was extra excited about it, she was looking around curious at everything.
."Woah, humans are really amazing, they can build things like this too, I'm impressed."Clernet said with amazement, the little weak creatures in her world were not this intelligent.
Nalisa found that curious."So what is your world like Clernet, doesn't it have technology or anything?."She asked thinking about a world like that, it would problem be similar to a hundred years ago.
."Well yes and also no, it has technology but we don't use raw electricity, we use mostly the energetic current generated by kinetic energy, basically motion."Clernet said with her hands on her chin, she knows the basics but she was never really interested in technology.
Haile looked at her.'Mm, isn't that similar to the accelerator created by those oldmen by in my world, use motion to generate energy?.'He thought to himself.
."Wow that's amazing, isn't that basically infinite energy generation?."Nalisa asked excitedly, she was interested in many things like that, she got involved in anything that could possibly allow her to see again, though her opportunities were very limited as she couldn't see the pages in a book and back then there was no audio books.
Clernet was kinda in-between on that."Well kinda but not really, infinite is a stretch, the materials that spins itself would not last forever so eventually it will stop but with maintenance overtime it will always produce energy yes."She said trying to explain it.
.""Excuse me, do you have a preferred drink of choice?"".
From down the hall a flight attendant walked up to them with a tray carrying various alcohols and non alcoholic beverages, along with some light snacks.
The attendant looked at Clernet and Nalisa while trying her hardest to avoid looking at Haile, she had seen him enter the plane, the temptations were not little.
."Uh yes, I'd like a Hennessey and a Martini, what are you two getting."Haile said as he glanced to Nalisa and Clernet, he looked back at the attendant."Also some salted nuts please."
The attendant nodded still avoiding his gazed, Nalisa didn't know much about drinks."Um, something delicious I guess???."She said confused.
."Get her a martini as well, as little alcohol as possible."Haile said saving her, it was a good drink to start with.
Clernet on the other hand was staring at the attendants neck which creeped her out a bit."Do you have anything with blood?."She asked with a cute smile on her face.
The attendant took a step back feeling a chill, she touched her neck instinctively as if feeling a threat to it.
."Uh get her a devils blood vodka or a Bloody Mary."Haile said hurriedly as he scratched his eyebrow, she's going to get them kicked off the plane.
The attendant nodded her head confused."Ok, here you go sir, your Hennessey and your martini."She said a bit disturbed.
She remained professional giving the drinks to Haile while avoiding him, then she turned to Nalisa giving her martini."Excuse me a moment ma'am while I go in the back for your devils blood vodka."She said hurriedly going through the curtains.
."Clernet don't do that again, scared the poor lady, her job is already hard enough."Haile said shaking his head at her antics.
Clernet rolled her eyes with folded arms."I was clearly only joking, can't you tell, why would I want some random human's very delicious blood."She said convincingly non-convincing.
Haile gave up, he could tell she really wanted to eat that woman, if he wasn't here then one more life would have been lost.
Quickly the attendant came back and gave the devil's blood vodka to Clernet who took it curiously, the attendant ran away again after giving nuts to Haile.
."Hmm, what is this curious concoction, I've never smelt anything like this before, let's see the taste...Mm."Clernet hummed in amazement at the strange taste that assaulted her taste buds, her eyes twinkled at the mysterious flavor she quickly took another sip.
Haile smiled at this, she could be so cute sometimes, especially when her mouth is not as foul.
He looked outside the window calmly as he drank his drink in thought.'I haven't seen the other's in awhile, can't wait to see their progress.'He smiled gently.
~~~~{Teaser}(×Chapter 205×)
*Dxd World*
*Human World*
*India*
*Aarav State*
*7:54pm*
*Few Hours Before The True War*
After successfully killing Mahabali with minimal effort the five Undead Gods took charge with vigor ordering a march towards the other indian states, they at first wanted to split up but was stopped by Hades.
Hades was not a stupid God, he had survived for a long time and it was not for nothing, he knew that the greatest advantage he has was his Synced Control ability but it only works if they are together.
If they break up too much to split between the states then that might show a weak point and they may be ambushed, so it's best to keep together and work their way up as a team.
With that they marched their way towards the next state ready to spread the seeds of chaos and usher in a reign of destruction.
And the mastermind behind all this secretly pulling the strings of the war, Hera, she was smiling with glowing red eyes."Heh, when will those pitiful Gods arrive."She whispered to herself....