New World Order: The Rift [ARC 2]

[AquilaTempestas]

"We have orders that must be followed," Siebold says turning to Wikstrom. "You know this."

Wikstrom grumbles. "Indeed. We will be in touch."

Morty frowns. "What? You're just going to let us go? After all this?"

"Orders are orders."

[Sakura Alexia]

"I don't care about your orders, do not put yourself in my way again" she glares.

"I don't want to see either of you ever again, you're useless mouthbreathers to me, find someone else to harass, I have actually important things to do"

[AquilaTempestas]

Wikstrom growls.

"You're more like a witch than an angel."

Siebold walks up behind Wikstrom. "This needs to stop.And I can't keep standing by and watching you be like this."

Before you can react or anyone else for that matter, Siebold rams his blade into Wikstrom's back.

The angel gasps. "....You...."

"Our orders are simple - do as Cynthia asks. But you seek to take matters into your own hands and defy Arceus."

[Sakura Alexia]

Cynthia grins.

"I told you you weren't worth of your wings. I, witch or not, have never defied Arceus because I am still trying to accomplish my purpose, while you are going around wanting to kill all my allies for what they are, you're not different from Sabrina" she says.

"Didn't think you had it in you to disobey a superior, I'm impressed" she tells Siebold.

[AquilaTempestas]

Siebold looks at Wikstrom.

You can see angel marks on the ground.

"I never liked him. It always as a holier than thou attitude."

[Sakura Alexia]

"Never met other angels except Diantha, she gave me an entirely different impression than him, he was too arrogant" she says.

"But I thought you weren't allowed to disobey a superior, is Arceus going to punish you now?"

[AquilaTempestas]

Siebold looks away.

"Most likely, yes. You ever wonder how demons came to be?"

[Sakura Alexia]

"Well that is just cruel" she says.

"For all the people I've disrespected and how much I disobeyed I shouldn't be a half angel either"

[AquilaTempestas]

He looks at you.

"Why do you think so many angels rebelled during the war? Because of all the laws. The rules."

After a pause he adds,

"The birth of a nephilim is a sign of war between heaven and hell. Chaos will follow the nephilim. Your mother came from a powerful line of witches and she led her people with great pride. The angels rewarded her with you."

[Sakura Alexia]

"I don't think all demons are evil, just tired of rules" she says.

"As far as I know my mother could not have a child, so she prayed an angel to answer her, I don't remember her..." she sighs.

"As for chaos, well, I think I'm involed in more than enough troublesome things to tell myself"

[AquilaTempestas]

Siebold nods.

"It is prophecy that a Nephilim will be born and determine the fate of the people - the innocent. The humans."

"Not all humans are innocent," Morty points out.

"And neither are supernaturals, but we do what we can - to protect humanity. The balance of good and evil."

[Sakura Alexia]

"And what if I had decided to just be evil?" she frowns.

"What if I didn't want this burden?"

[AquilaTempestas]

Siebold frowns.

"Then all would be lost. Your friends. Family. All would die and the demons would overtake this world and run it into the ground. Every living creature - nature itself - would die."

[Sakura Alexia]

"I didn't know what I was nor my purpose before, I could have very well joined Sabrina back then" she says.

[AquilaTempestas]

Siebold nods.

"You know about Ghetsis, don't you? Your connection to him."

[Sakura Alexia]

"Of course I do, not that I like that" she shrugs.

"I'm like one very far descendant"

[AquilaTempestas]

He nods.

"Indeed. Necromancers are fuelled by blood. That's how they get their power. But you can use that against them too."

Morty frowns. "Are you trying to give Cynthia ideas on how to kill people like me?"

[Sakura Alexia]

She shrugs.

"Not like any necromancer is a friend of mine except you"

[AquilaTempestas]

Morty frowns.

"I don't like it."

Siebold sighs. "Ghetsis is the Father of Magic. Also, the Father of Necromancy. He was able to keep himself from dying a true death because of blood. As long as someone of his bloodline lives... He will also live on. Blood is power."

Morty tilts his head to the side. "A blood connection. His life is linked to hers. Or anyone else in the bloodline."

"Yes."

[Sakura Alexia]

"I have already died once though" she says.

"How could this even be useful to me? If as long as I live he lives too?"

[AquilaTempestas]

"He draws power from you. It gives him the ability to return to life. You also have other relatives. A grandmother and a younger sister,' Siebold says.

Morty frowns. "So what? They have to die too?"

 

[Sakura Alexia]

"I am not sacrificing them for this, it goes against everything I ever fought for" she says.

"Also, if he's drawing power fro me, who says that he is not hindering me as well?"

[AquilaTempestas]

Morty looks at you.

"It's how Naoko draws her power. From her followers." He frowns once more. "So how do we stop Ghetsis?"

"Firstly, you need to remove his followers. The other six sages. Remove his protection. Each of them is a seal that must be broken to lower Ghetsis's defences," Siebold explains.

"That sounds complex. How are we even supposed to fight them?"

 

[Sakura Alexia]

"One of those sage sealed away my angel powers too, so I'm not at my full potential either" she says.

"Well necromancers have always drawn power from others, so it doesn't surprise me, the problem will be finding those seals"

[AquilaTempestas]

"Which means tracking down each of those six sages," Morty says. "And we have no way of doing that unless they find us first. We've already met one of them."

Siebold puts his sword away. "Yes. Tracking them down will not be so easy... But you should worry about your hybrid problem first."