Chapter Forty-One: War in the Clouds
With no higher to go, the First Senpai eventually stopped within the tallest clouds of Heaven. He turned around quickly, facing his son and readying his hands.
"Come now, father. The last time we battled it didn't end so well for you. Are you sure you want to do this?", the Anti asked.
"These hands aren't going to be used for fighting. Step back, my son. I don't want you getting in the way of my creation", the Good Senpai ordered. His son merely laughed. Backing down was no longer an option. Instead, the Anti-Senpai advanced forward, claws prepared to attack. He slowly inched his way forward on the soft ground of clouds, each step kicking up a clump of fluff.
"I am warning you, Anti! Do not provoke me! I will not hesitate to put an end to you!", the First Senpai yelled. His eyes lit up with fury and his arms rose at his sides.
A battle was now inevitable, so he did his best to prepare himself.
The son of the light and harbinger of the dark stepped mere inches away from his father. "I'd like to see you try", the Anti spit, taunting the old Senpai.
The First Senpai let out a thundering war cry as he lurched forward. His white sleeve covered arms clasped around the Anti-Senpais throat, pinning him to the ground. The Anti's jagged teeth released a rage induced smile. Another fight was something he had yearned for since the Third Eternity.
Launching his feet forward, the Anti-Senpai kicked his father in the center of his chest, sending him flying to a nearby patch of clouds. The Anti rocketed towards him, clawing at his father's face and scraping his cheek. Wiping his scar, the Senpai of good rushed forward, and gave his son a mighty push. It sent him far backward, and the Anti tumbled around, flipping, trying to regain his footing. He quickly stood up, extending his left arm and releasing a massive blast of dark energy to his father. The First Senpai narrowly dodged it, ducking as he returned an attack in the form of a jagged beam of light. His throw hit his son across his shoulder, and the Anti struggled to regain focus. The Good Senpai took this opportunity, and jolted forward and upward, preparing another blast to finish off his son. Pure light energy mixed within his palms, and as the Anti struggled to stand up, the First Senpai released it all, an incredible wave of destructive energy. It shot down towards the clouds, completely destroying a few before it reached the Anti.
The Senpai of Darkness caught the beam in his hands, shielding his palms with a layer of fiery energy. He briefly glanced down at the captured light, then grinned, looking back up towards his father. The Good Senpai was completely in awe. Before he could react, the light energy was returned towards him. It vaporized surrounding clouds, and the First Senpai winced before it collided with him.
Chapter Forty-Two: Through the Skies to the Flames
The energy shook his whole body and paralyzed him in place. Losing his breath, the Good Senpai fell to the ground. The Anti hovered slowly over to him. He whipped out a clawed hand and scraped his father's face once more. Then, he placed his hands together and crafted a glowing mass of dark energy. The Good Senpai was coughing and wheezing. Struggling to get up, he attempted to inch away from his son. His escape was futile. The Anti stepped over to him and kicked him in the jaw. His energy filled hands rose up to the sky, and then rocketed downwards in a fierce swinging motion. The fire's impact sent the Good Senpai shooting through a number of clouds. He plummeted to the land below at an incredible speed. The Anti rapidly shot downward, chasing his falling father.
He was going to destroy the Good Senpai for his insolence, and he was going to do it on his own land. A crater formed as the weakened First Senpai broke through Hell's surface. A volcano erupted, and the Anti shot through its smoke as he landed in front of his father.
"Just like before, father. Quick and painless. Farewell once again, my old friend!" The largest mass of dark energy the Anti had ever created now lived within the claws of his fingers. Blood fell from the lips of the Good Senpai. Agony filled his heart as the blood filled his lungs. Broken and beaten eyes looked above towards the son he had created. Destruction was coming to the Good Senpai all because he wanted to meddle with creation. Attempting to create never ended well for the First Senpai.
Chapter Forty-Three: Light and Dark Collide
Flames spit out from the dark fireball as it rushed towards its victim at lightning speed. The Good Senpai closed his eyes, and lowered his head to the ground. Bracing for the hit, preparing for decimation, the Senpai had no other option but to accept defeat. Seconds passed by. First a few, then even more. He hadn't been hit, hadn't been killed; the First Senpai looked up and opened his eyes. What he saw was a shocking sight to behold.
The Third Senpai had frozen the fireball in place mere centimeters away from the Good Senpai. He had then grabbed the Anti by his collar and hurled him all the way to the other side of Hell. The First Senpai rushed from his spot of defeat and flew to where he saw a battle occurring.
Laying at the bottom of a massive crater, the Anti-Senpai was wincing and moaning in pain. The Good Senpai landed and walked forward. An immense, snapped in half Hell tree lay adjacent to the wreckage. The Third Senpai had used the tree to bludgeon the Anti into the ground.
Shocked at the brutal carnage that lay before him, the Good Senpai squatted down next to the crater. "Son! Are you alright?"
"Father..behind you..", the Anti muttered, pain flowing from every syllable.
Something sharp and large smacked the back of the Good Senpai's head. He let out a scream of pain, before falling forward, landing next to his son face first in the crater. Struggling to move, the First Senpai flipped himself onto his back. It was at that moment that he realized who had hit him. The Third Senpai launched the ravaged tree into the air behind him and stepped towards the crater.
"Equal Senpai..my son and I have ended our conflict. Forgive us! Our quarrel is over, you need not harm us any further," plead the Senpai of the light.
Forging an orb of light in one hand and an orb of darkness in the other, the Third Senpai clapped his hand together. Multicolored, rainbow energy flowed and traveled throughout his interlocked fingers. The mass of energy expanded and grew as the Senpai of balance began to mold it. Harnessing the equal power of evil and good, the Senpai released the energy downwards.
The fusion sped towards the helpless Senpais, striking them both and shaking not only the entire crater, but Heaven and Hell alike, as the whole universe began to convulse. The mountains rumbled and volcanoes shook as the very fabric of reality began to rip. Slowly, the explosion faded out, popping and cracking as it left. Rainbow smoke flowed from the spot of destruction. The Senpai of balance waved his hand in a swiping motion, blowing away the smoke. Squinting his eyes, the Equal Senpai could see clearly what had happened in the crater.
The Fifth Eternity had ended.
The Senpais of Light and Dark were gone.
"Just like before, father. Quick and painless. Farewell once again, my old friend!" The largest mass of dark energy the Anti had ever created now lived within the claws of his fingers. Blood fell from the lips of the Good Senpai. Agony filled his heart as the blood filled his lungs. Broken and beaten eyes looked above towards the son he had created. Destruction was coming to the Good Senpai all because he wanted to meddle with creation. Attempting to create never ended well for the First Senpai.
Chapter Forty-Three: Light and Dark Collide
Flames spit out from the dark fireball as it rushed towards its victim at lightning speed. The Good Senpai closed his eyes, and lowered his head to the ground. Bracing for the hit, preparing for decimation, the Senpai had no other option but to accept defeat. Seconds passed by. First a few, then even more. He hadn't been hit, hadn't been killed; the First Senpai looked up and opened his eyes. What he saw was a shocking sight to behold.
The Third Senpai had frozen the fireball in place mere centimeters away from the Good Senpai. He had then grabbed the Anti by his collar and hurled him all the way to the other side of Hell. The First Senpai rushed from his spot of defeat and flew to where he saw a battle occurring.
Laying at the bottom of a massive crater, the Anti-Senpai was wincing and moaning in pain. The Good Senpai landed and walked forward. An immense, snapped in half Hell tree lay adjacent to the wreckage. The Third Senpai had used the tree to bludgeon the Anti into the ground.
Shocked at the brutal carnage that lay before him, the Good Senpai squatted down next to the crater. "Son! Are you alright?"
"Father..behind you..", the Anti muttered, pain flowing from every syllable.
Something sharp and large smacked the back of the Good Senpai's head. He let out a scream of pain, before falling forward, landing next to his son face first in the crater. Struggling to move, the First Senpai flipped himself onto his back. It was at that moment that he realized who had hit him. The Third Senpai launched the ravaged tree into the air behind him and stepped towards the crater.
"Equal Senpai..my son and I have ended our conflict. Forgive us! Our quarrel is over, you need not harm us any further," plead the Senpai of the light.
Forging an orb of light in one hand and an orb of darkness in the other, the Third Senpai clapped his hand together. Multicolored, rainbow energy flowed and traveled throughout his interlocked fingers. The mass of energy expanded and grew as the Senpai of balance began to mold it. Harnessing the equal power of evil and good, the Senpai released the energy downwards.
The fusion sped towards the helpless Senpais, striking them both and shaking not only the entire crater, but Heaven and Hell alike, as the whole universe began to convulse. The mountains rumbled and volcanoes shook as the very fabric of reality began to rip. Slowly, the explosion faded out, popping and cracking as it left. Rainbow smoke flowed from the spot of destruction. The Senpai of balance waved his hand in a swiping motion, blowing away the smoke. Squinting his eyes, the Equal Senpai could see clearly what had happened in the crater.
The Fifth Eternity had ended.
The Senpais of Light and Dark were gone.
Chapter Forty-Four: Arrival
The Sixth Eternity began just like the Fourth Eternity ended: The Third Senpai was floating in the center between Heaven and Hell. Only this time, he wasn't about to lose his life. He had taken the lives of two others.
The light. The dark. The Senpai of balance had destroyed both. He had failed to keep the Peace, and had created something much worse. The Voice had warned him that coming back to the World would only end poorly.
It wasn't wrong. There was no balance any more. A facade, like The Voice had said. No good, no evil. Nothing. It seemed that Time was beginning to take its usual course. Flowing, like always.
Unbeknownst to him, the Anti-Senpai got that day what he had been wanting for quite some time, though he never would have expected it to come to him the way it did. The Third Senpai was no longer the Senpai of balance, of Peace. Something had possessed him, taken him over like a parasite. The conflict between the Anti and Good Senpai had done something to the Third Senpai.
It had turned him into Chaos.
And so began the Sixth Eternity. The Eternity of Chaos.
Chapter Forty-Five: The Chaos Senpai
Chaos isn't something that can be easily explained. In fact, it may be one of the hardest concepts to explain. Chaos is disarray, insanity, disorder. It is complete mayhem, it is turmoil, it is pure havoc. These are not concepts simple enough to put into words. True to it's name, the Chaos Eternity was a period of complete insanity.
Chaos knows no order; it knows no pattern, no reasoning. Every action is unforeseen; every event spurred by it is one seeded with confusion.
Chaos was a concept born in the First Eternity. The Nothingness that preceded even the First Senpai was filled with Chaos. The sparks that birthed him were sparks of Chaos. Chaos is the root of Life. Time was the father of Chaos, and by the time the Sixth Eternity had begun, it had not witnessed Chaos in quite awhile.
Chaos's host, the Third Senpai, was no longer a Peace-loving deity who only seeked to maintain the universe's balance. He was the opposite; he seeked destruction, he wished to ruin, to tarnish all that had come before it. Being the only life in the universe, he did just that. There wasn't a thing in the World that could stop him.
Well, there was something. But the Chaos Senpai knew not of it's existence. Ignorant to the presence of anything else, the Chaos Senpai went to work. Heaven and Hell were his to ravage.
The Chaos thus began.
Chapter Forty-Six: Chaotic Power
The Senpai of Chaos bolted between Heaven and Hell rapidly, his movement quick and without pattern. Energy filled him, as though insanity was bottled within and was just itching to be released. He was deciding what to do first. Raspy, wicked laughter was the only sound in the World as he flew between the two lands, mind racing with what he could do to them.
All the power in the universe was locked inside the Chaos Senpai. He possessed the power to reshape the World, even to destroy it. But destruction would be too predictable, and predicable was something Chaos was not. So naturally, the Senpai of Chaos did something unexpected.
It created.
Perhaps created isn't the correct word. It multiplied, it duplicated.
Chaos had made a second World.
Chapter Forty-Seven: Replicating
The Chaos Senpai focused his mind and willed the creation to existence. Havoc and mayhem flowed from his body, like rivers of insanity emanating from their source. Incomprehensible energy traveled all about, wisping around, forming, creating. Heaven and Hell were being rapidly replicated, every intricacy cloned onto a new template. Each tree and blade of grass of Heaven, every boulder and magma filled crater of Hell, all of it was being born again.
The universe now had two realms in it's existence: the first World, and the second. Both of these realms were identical in any and every sense.
Two boring, identical realms, the first of which was born two Eternities ago; Chaos obviously wouldn't let them remain that way for long. It would have to do something to wreak some havoc on the realms.
And so it did.
Chapter Forty-Eight: Convergence
Chaos Senpai was pleased with his new World, but his satisfaction didn't last for long. Chaos was eager to destroy, to create, and to destroy again. It wouldn't allow for anything to remain untouched for too long.
The being of insanity traveled to the second World, rocketing to the other end of the universe from the original Heaven and Hell. He looked upon his creation, shaking with anticipation. All the ways he could ruin it, all the things he could do to it, everything rushed through his head in rapid succession. Eventually, somehow, the Senpai of Chaos settled on what he would do.
Chaos flew to the center of the lands, hovering in place in the air that flowed between them. The Senpai thrust one hand towards the clouds of Heaven in a slow and powerful motion. He then lowered his other open palm in the direction of the fires of Hell. Straining both arms, reaching in opposite directions, the Senpai of Chaos attempted to grasp both of the lands. Heaven and Hell bent at his will, as he slowly began to pull the two together. The lakes of Heaven began to fill with crashing waves and the mountains started to rumble from their foundations. Volcanoes and coarse deserts that were scattered among Hell's surface shook and cracked.
The lands were slowly coming together, massive chunks of ground steadily approaching one another. The Chaos Senpai was converging the Heaven and Hell of the second world.
Next chapters coming soon.