Journeys of the Golden Rings
Chapter 27: A knightly visit
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I hummed as I floated in some random forest on the surface, exploring, when a old Sudoku book fell in from of me from a portal, me catching it, almost on reflex.
“Alright, who’s this?” I mused to myself, holding it up to my face.
“I am Sir Alonne, protector of innocent and nature. Samurai who wields the demon sword Oji, Herald of Mayhem. If you wish for an audience with me, write eighteen, seventeen, four, and eleven in a row on any page of the book,” said a strong, masculine voice.
I hummed thoughtfully, before deciding to meet this displaced, quickly scribbling the numbers down in some random page of the book… even though I could just open a portal using this to track his world, if I wanted.
Suddenly, a fiery portal appeared above, and out of it stepped a very tall and muscular man, standing at a high of ten feet, and garbed in ominous armor with a gaping maw for a visor, the rest being made of some black bone like substance. The man quickly landed onto the ground, towering over me.
“Hey there.” I said, floating up to eye-height with the person.
“Hmmm… One attuned to the shadow, and the light. Interesting…” came a gravelly, rough voice that I noticed seemed to come from a long sword on the man’s back. The man himself seemed to ignore this, and bowed.
“Konichiwa, I am Sir Alonne. Nice to meet you…?” he greeted before asking.
“Itazura.” I said, smiling.
“Mischief, huh? Well, you do look the type,” the man noted. He looked around, noticing the forest and it's greenery. “So, what do you need?”
“Just wanted to meet ya.” I said, shrugging.
“I see. Can I ask what you are? I’m not terribly good with keeping up with the media, I’m a bit of a hermit.”
“Well, I’m a hoopa.” I started, before glowing as I shifted into my ‘normal’ bound form. “We usually look like this, except I’m a shiny, so…” I added, shrugging… even though I had no shoulders at the moment.
“Hoopa?” the man queried.
“A pokemon… though usually can’t shapeshift, that’s because of my… special, status.” I said with a grin, changing back to my usual form.
“Special status, huh? Might I ask what that is?”
“Well, on top of being part succubus from my displacer, I’m also the Goddess of this universe.” I said. I could easily imagine the guys eyes bulging out.
“You’re a Goddess!? Crap, I knew I should have brought a gift!” he cursed under his breath.
“It’s fine, I get enough from the inhabitants on this planet anyway.” I told him.
“Sugoi…” he uttered in amazement.
“Oh snap out of it, cupcake. So she’s a goddess, so what? Get over it,” scolded the blade.
I chuckled at the blade, amused at what it had said. “Your sword there has the right idea.” I said.
“Oh no, I simply couldn't! You're a Goddess, you deserve the utmost respect!” Alonne insisted.
“Whatever floats your boat.” I said, shrugging. “Cmon, follow me, there’s a village nearby we can rest at.”
“Hai, Goddess-sama!” I chuckled amusedly, turning and floating towards the village. “Umm, so… what’s the state of the world currently? Is there war?”
“Not that I know of, it’s really peaceful… though I think that may possibly be because I actually bother to check in on my worshippers, unlike most Gods and Goddess’.” I told him as we traveled.
“Oh, good. I’m still kinda new to things, and my first experience with a Displaced was helping him fight a really ridiculous and powerful monster. His world is apparently at war with them for the third time,” Alonne explained.
“Sounds fun.” I said as we got to the village. It was one of the more… fanatic ones, with a very large golden statue of me right in its center, and several smaller of some of the other people around here that had helped the inhabitants of this world and got viewed as a God/Goddess for it.
“Not really. I nearly died, along with him. Though apparently he’s an Undead, so he can actually come back,” Alonne shuddered at this. “Man, I really hated that Sanguine Knight.”
“Sounds less fun now.” I said as we got near a tavern. “Want something to drink?”
“Sure,” He said. I opened the door with Psychic as we entered, going over and floating cross-legged at the bar.
“Whatcha got, barkeep?” Alonne asked.
“Whatcha want?” The barkeep asked, cleaning some random glass.
“Got any dragon ale?” Alonne queried.
“Sure.” The barkeep said, nodding and walking off as he nodded at me, knowing already what I wanted.
“So… Can I ask what your story is?” Alonne questioned out of nowhere.
“Sure.” I said, before I started telling him about everything I had done so far… minus the sex scenes.
“Sounds pretty crazy, Goddess-sama. But what did you mean by, ‘play’?” Alonne queried.
“You don’t really need to know.” I said, waving it off as the barkeep brought us our drinks. Alonne simply shrugged.
“Alright then,” he said, taking a swig of his ale. “Hmm, not bad, but still not as good as Drunken Dragon.”
I shrugged, drinking my own drink. “Can’t please everyone.” The barkeep said, shrugging and walking off to serve someone else.
“Got anything fun to do around here?” Alonne queried.
“Ignore him. His idea of fun is meditation, training, and fishing. Totally boring guy,” the sword snarked.
“Hey!” Alonne said indignantly.
“I wouldn’t mind a good spar.” I commented.
“Sounds good to me! Just means extra training!” Alonne said cheerfully. Oji laughed at this.
“See?”
“Shut up!” Alonne said hotly.
I laughed at this, very amused at all of this. “Let’s go then.” I said, dropping a bar of gold on the counter, teleporting me and him to a random open field. Alonne back flipped to gain some distance before drawing out Oji and getting in a stance.
“Ready when you are, Goddess-sama!” Alonne called from across the field.
I smirked, deciding to try something out. I reached up, grabbing my horns… and pulling them off of my head, two new ones appearing in the old ones place. “Let’s see if this works.” I mumbled to myself, using Sacred Sword, making two golden swords replace my horns.
Alonne seemed to simply fly across the field as he lunged straight for me, smacking me to the side with the flat of Oji before jumping up and flipping over my head, landing behind me and kicking me in the keister and onto the ground.
I laughed, flipping upright and using Quick Attack, speeding behind him and slashing him across the chest and stomach with my swords. This seemed to have no effect however, not even leaving a mark on his armor, and he grabbed me by the head before slamming me down, then kicking me so hard I slid through the dirt a bit.
I simply laughed more at this, getting up without a scratch. “Wow, looks like I’ll actually have to use some of my power here.” I said, vanishing from his view without using a pokemon move, using pure speed alone.
“What-?” he began, but was interrupted as I punched him in the gut. This sent him rocketing across the field, me standing where I punched him, the horn swords gone.
He came speeding back, and slashed the air multiple times, sending waves of demonic energy toward me. I saw them coming, simply putting up a Protect and blocking them with the wall of energy.
That was when I realized it was a distraction, as I felt his boot meet my face, easily cracking the Protect. I simply stood there, not allowing his attacks to send me flying this time, grabbing his armoured foot and tossing him away. He came back, leaping with some kind of demonic energy, but simply landed in front of me, doing nothing. Then, he bowed.
“I’m beat. You got me. I can't beat you without resorting to lethal force, and I refuse to do that to an innocent,” Alone stated.
“Alright.” I said, shrugging, holding out a hand. He took it and shook it, and I could tell he was smiling. That smile fell as we both heard a number of ungodly shrieks coming from a nearby forest.
“Oh no…” he said.
“What is it?” I asked, already dragging him in the directions of the screams.
“Banshees. They were what drove Luna-sama of my world to being Nightmare Moon,” Alonne said.
I narrowed my eyes, not liking the sound of this, speeding up. Once there, we found three fillies about to get slaughtered by bipedal shadows with wings and glowing red eyes, floating, robed women behind them, whispering words of despair.
I growled, letting go of him and charging a beam in my hand, shooting it towards the banshees, evaporating them. But more seemed to simply appear out of nowhere, hissing.
“The Pale One shall conquer this world, why delay the inevitable?” One asked, it's voice raspy.
“Tell the Pale one that if it wants me world it can come kiss my ass.” I growled at the banshee. The banshee’s hissed and laughed at the same time.
“Fool. He has no need for you. This world has already been Seeded, there is little you can do,” the banshee replied.
“And pray tell, why do you think that?” I asked.
“Because, little girl, you are a prop, a false deity. The Pale One is the one true God of all!” The banshee said with another laugh.
“Then this pale jackass is in for a big surprise if it thinks it can just mess with my universe.” I said, grinning, pulling out my bottle, a aura of power around it that the Banshees picked up on.
They hissed, and started to turn into mist, but before they did, one said, “Mayhaps you should be more focused on those fillies… And your little town!”
“Cowards.” I said, putting it away, idly waving my hand to remove the banshees effects from the fillies. “Cmon, let’s go save that town.” I said.
“Right!” Alonne agreed.
I teleported us into the town, ready to fight. But what I saw made my heart sink. A giant Undead dragon, with sickly brown scales that were flaking and falling off, revealing sickly, mottled pink and brown skin, was breathing toxic breath in the town.
I immediately used Gust, making the breath go up and harmlessly dissipate into the air. The dragon seemed to take exception to that, and instead swiped at a house with it's claws, easily rending it in two.
“I got this! I’ll do damage control, you focus on fighting that thing!” Alonne said before taking off, rushing inside the house before it collapsed and coming back out with a family in tow.
I nodded, glowing as I shifted myself as large as I could without opening my bottle, charging the dragon and socking it, making it fly out of town, me heading right after it. The dragon got up quickly, and roared, sending it’s rancid breath at me, and as the cloud obscured my vision, I felt it’s tale wrap around my leg and start slamming me into the ground over and over again.
I got annoyed, floating and making myself stop right above the dragon, grabbing it and lifting it high into the sky, golden wings erupting from my back as I used Fly, before I used Cut to remove it’s tail from my leg.
I gave it no chance to react, tossing it up before I used Dragon Tail, doing a front flip and slamming the golden tail that formed on me to send it flying.
The dragon flared it’s decayed wings out and stopped itself, before charging at me full tilt. I didn’t let it reach me, using Dragon Breath on the thing, shooting the beam at it and knocking it back for a couple seconds, before the beam ripped through it. It dispersed into a white, shimmering light, while ashes rose high into the sky. The dragon now gone. But the Banshees said the world was Seeded, and I needed to know what that meant.
I shrunk back to my normal size, teleporting to Alonne. “What does it mean that the world was ‘seeded’?” I asked.
Alonne took off his helm, letting me see his black hair and brown eyes with tanned skin. He looked like he was about to give me some kind of world shattering bad news, which I suppose he was.
“To be honest, I can't really say. This happened with my first foray into the Multiverse too, and even then I still didn't know what it meant. Twilight-san said it usually means that it's being prepared for The Pale One though.”
“Then how do I stop it?” I asked. He hung his head.
“I’m sorry, Goddess-sama, I don't know that either. I just he’s been plaguing my world since the Princesses became monarchs,” Alonne said shamefully.
“Then I’ll just have to kick the Pale Ones ass.” I said with a growl. “But first… let’s cut it off from the rest of itself.” I state, snapping my fingers and erupting a dimensional barrier around both my world and my universe.
“How? It’s an inter dimensional being, whatever you cut off, it might regrow and just come back,” Alonne pointed out.
“That’s why I’m killing what I just cut off, I can feel it trying to grow stronger now, let’s go.” I said, putting a hand on his shoulder and teleporting us to where I felt the damn thing. We arrived in a beautiful crystal cavern. Every wall was made of crystal, and every crystal glittered and gleamed in the faint light like an Aurora.
“This… This looks like the caverns from Dark Souls…” Alonne noted, staring in awe at the crystals.
“Let’s focus on getting this parasitic pathetic excuse of a god outta my universe and world, shall we?” I asked.
“Oh, uh, right!” he said, before glancing around. He pointed to a number of crystals sticking out of the ground leading further in. “I think we should go that way!”
“Okay, lead on.” I said, smirking. Alonne strode forward, and we walked along the crystal pathway, before coming to a giant gap in the floor, like a ravine. To my surprise, Alonne continued on towards the edge.
“You think it’s down there?” I asked.
“Nope!” he said confidently, and made to step off the edge.
I rolled my eyes, making a wall in front of him. “Then why are you about to jump down a hole?”
“Three words,” he said, holding up the same amount of fingers. “Invisible, secret walkways.”
“You do that, I’ll just float across.” I said, floating to the other side.
“Pfft, lame,” he said. I chuckled at how he could be so humorous before a big fight. I watched him walk along the secret walkway, hearing his boots clanking on it, and after a short while, we were on the other side. He was smiling like a doof, standing proud like he had won some sort of prize.
I giggled, patting his head playfully as we went into the next room. What I saw made me facepalm, as I saw clams with legs. Tiny legs that looked like they couldn't support a thing. But apparently they could, because these clams were huge.
“Deal with these, please.” I said. He nodded and took Oji out, and with two simple slashes, the clams were rended in two by dark waves of energy.
“There you go, Goddess-sama,” Alonne reported.
“Thank you, let’s get going.” I said. After that, we walked into a humongous room, where a shining, thin crystal sat in the far back. But as we made to approach it, a gigantic crystal golem wielding a blue, metal blade with a golden hilt jumped down from above, cracking the crystal floor. It roared in challenge… Somehow.
“How did that thing roar? It has no vocal cords,” I questioned, tilting my head.
“Goddess-sama, fighting now, questions later!” Alonne said, obviously worried as he glanced up at the massive blue greatsword in the golem’s grasp.
I rolled my eyes, sending a Blizzard at the golem and freezing it solid, before calmly walking over to it, using Sucker Punch and shattering it into tiny pieces. But the blade glowed an ominous blue, and it reformed, the blade emitting a wave of that same light at me, and for once, I felt real pain.
“Be careful! That's the Moonlight Greatsword! It’s pure moonlight made into metal!” Alonne warned.
“Okay then, plates, on.” I said, a brief glow coming over me before I froze the thing again. “If I can’t shatter you, I’ll disintegrate you!” I said, shooting a Solar Beam that did just that to the pieces. Once again, the blade reformed the monster, and let a bigger wave of light. I dodged it, only to feel a fist collide hard with my back, slamming me into the wall across the room.
“Goddess-sama!” Alonne cried out, before growling and unleashing waves of dark energy at the golem with Oji.
“Alright, I’m pissed now.” I growled, appearing in front of the sword, and removing it from existence, before I turned to the golem again, sending another beam that re-disintegrated it.
“Okay. Remind me not to get on your bad side,” Alonne said, watching me warily. I took a deep breath, calming myself.
“Let’s just go get the asshole parasite already.” I said.
“Well, in the game, the source of the guy’s power was that crystal over there,” Alonne said, pointing to the crystal at the back, which looked rather fragile.
I teleported right next to it, immediately kicking and shattering it. Immediately, the light in the crystals that made up the cavern went out, and everything started to collapse.
“Uh… Goddess-sama…? I think we should go, like, NOW!” Alonne urged. I nodded, snapping my fingers and getting us out of there. “Phew…”
“Well, that was fun.” I said, smirking.
“OUR SOULS ARE FREED!” Alonne cried.
“Sure buddy, you want to go home now?” I asked.
“Yeah. Sorry for yelling, that just felt like it took a while. Thought I should be dramatic,” Alonne said.
“It’s fine.” I said, giggling.
“Hey, if you ever need something, just hit me up. I don't do much during the day, so feel free. We could go out drinking,” Alonne proposed as he held out a fist for a bump.
“Sure, sometime.” I said, fistpumping him, filling him with a little power.
“What was that surge of energy?” he queried.
“Call it a blessing.” I said, smirking. “It’ll let you use some energy, like fire, ice, electric, whatever, with your sword there.”
“Sweet! Thanks, Goddess-sama!” Alonne thanked me.
“You’re welcome, Alonne, now our contract is complete, farewell.” I said. With a wave, the large man disappears, but a small box is left in his wake, one with a note.
Curious, I tilted my head, picking it up and reading the note.
“For you and any friends.
—Sincerely, A.”
I tilted my head the other way, opening the box. What was inside made my mouth water. Inside, was Takoyaki, Maki rolls, and Onigiri. In heaping helpings, too!
“This is sweet.” I said, smirking.
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