Chapter 12:

Invasion in Gehenna

Crossover


On the next day, the sun shone brightly as usual in Pandemonium as Lucilia waited patiently in front of the school gate under the heat of their hot sun. Since it's Gehenna, their temperature was twice as hot than on Earth. In the distance, Fuyu and Hikaru were loudly fighting with each other as they continued walking towards the gate.

Lucilia waved and greeted happily at the boys who were still a few distance away from her, "GUYS! OVER HERE!"

"Lucilia. I thought you were on duty at this time of the day", Fuyu said to Lucilia in a straight face as he punched Hikaru directly by the nose with his right fist as if nothing had happened.

"About that… I slipped out during our morning rounds in the city so that I could see you guys. I don't want to miss out on my chance, and I would hate you to skip in celebrating the event as important as your graduation, after all", Lucilia awkwardly replied as she scratched the back of her head with her right hand.

Hikaru swiftly kicked Fuyu by the ●●●● while the poor victim silently fell down to the ground in pain from the background as he replied to Lucilia in worry, "Won’t you get scolded for breaking the rules? I heard that the punishment for breaking one of the rules is cutting one of the red threads that connects us and our mortal vessel to keep us from feeding ourselves of their negative energy or emotion."

Fuyu stood up from the ground as if nothing happened and sighed deeply in relief, "As long as not all of the fifteen threads are severed, she will be safe for now. just don’t do it again, alright? We don’t want you to disappear on us."

"That’s the only thing that we have agreed on", Hikaru agreed.

Fuyu said in panic as soon as he saw the huge clock on the wall in front of their campus, "Oh, shoot! we’re going to be late on our first day. My dad is going to nag at me for hours when I get back home if I 'dishonor' our law."

Hikaru sweat as he awkwardly smiled and replied, "Like father, like son. If you’re already this short tempered, that means Satan is scarier when he gets flipped off."

Lucilia suddenly interrupted the boys' heavy conversation without breaking a sweat, "Did you guys already look through your diplomas? You could see the squad number you’re going to be assigned with."

Both Fuyu and Hikaru took their red with white stripes diploma from their pockets and opened it like a scroll. They read the contents silently and Fuyu replied,

"Yeah. I’m assigned to Squad 6, apparently. It’s fine with me."

“I belong to Squad 4 starting now, it seems”, Hikaru said as they both closed their scroll and placed it back to their pockets.

Both Squads 4 and 6, in which where Fuyu and Hikaru’s squads will be in the future, belonged to Profectus Platoon (Latin for Vanguard), which specialized in attacking and defending against the enemy directly, and were placed in the front lines. The last platoon that was not yet mentioned was Auxilium Platoon (Latin for Support), in which they specialized in healing and information gathering, and were placed at the rearguard.

A sudden loud alarm rung all around the city of Pandemonium. The three teens were surprised, and their expressions suddenly went dim and serious. Lucilia said in cold sweat,

“You might want to hurry now… since… well… squad 6 is stationed near the China District, and Squad 4 is located near the Philippines District."

“EEEEEHHH??!!! Why didn’t you say so sooner?!”, Fuyu and Hikaru screamed in surprise and the three of them dashed away from their position.

Fuyu said as he ran at high speed, “I might be able to make it in time if I use Obnixe Amoveo (Latin for Instant Shift), but man now I regret not mastering it fully. I could only teleport up to 800 meters for ten times.”

Hikaru, who was beside Fuyu, felt envious and said, “Lucky you. I can only teleport up to 200 meters for five times.”

“It’s because I’m a prodigy. Of course, I could execute it better than you since I'm better than you in every aspect. I could do everything better than you ever could”, Fuyu smirked.

“HUH!!? TCH…”, Hikaru looked furious like an angry dog growling at its opponent but went back to normal and asked, “Lucilia, can you do a—” A massive explosion could be heard from afar that caused the three teens to stop somewhere on the streets of the city, and a brief earthquake followed afterwards. Lucilia asked as she looked around,

“What’s happening over there? I just hope that no one was hurt.”

Fuyu awkwardly said, “I never mentioned this before, but you’re too kind to be a daemon.”

A loud feedback could be heard as the PA system from all over the city turned on.

“ATTENTION TO ALL DAEMONS. THE SECURITY ALERT IS CURRENTLY AT LEVEL 3. TEN OBERBEFEHLSHABERS ARE CURRENTLY DETECTED IN USA DISTRICT, BRAZIL DISTRICT, ENGLAND DISTRICT, SPAIN DISTRICT, FRANCE DISTRICT, ALASKA DISTRICT, INDIA DISTRICT, AFRICA DISTRICT, RUSSIA DISTRICT, AND AUSTRALIA DISTRICT. WE REQUEST THAT EVERY TOGAE (Latin for Civilian) SHALL ACTIVATE THEIR ‘EMERGENCY LOCKDOWN SEQUENCE’ TO ENSURE YOUR PROTECTION AND SAFETY FROM THE INVASION AND AN ORDER WAS GIVEN TO SEND FIVE SETS OF P.F.A (acronym of the 3 platoons) TO EVERY DISTRICT MENTIONED EARLIER. I REPEAT… THE SECURITY ALERT—“, a female announcer’s voice could be heard from the PA system around the whole city.

The three teens were running in a straight path as the buildings continuously started to lower their steel shutters for a lockdown.

“TEN OBERBEFEHLSHABERS (German for Commander-in-Chief)?! I KNOW, TOO LONG, BUT ARE THOSE GUYS INSANE? WHAT’S THEIR MOTIVE FOR CAUSING THIS KIND OF MESS THIS TIME?”, Hikaru said as they continued to run.

Fuyu steeled his resolve and declared, “Never mind that. For now, We should all split up and meet up with our respective squads for now.”

“Roger that”, both Lucilia and Hikaru agreed and the three of them instantly split up in three different directions.

Fuyu suddenly disappeared to instantly teleport away from his current position, Lucilia grew huge black feathered wings from her back and flew up to the dark blue sky, and Hikaru jumped and ran swiftly on top of the buildings' roofs one after the other.

One hour later had passed since the invasion of the Gotts had begun. In Weipa City, Australia District, there was one male Oberbefehlshaber standing in front of the soldiers who were lined up into six columns and five rows. That man, who had ash blonde hair, eyes as red as blood, iris as brown as a grizzly bear sleeping in the forest, a scar that looked like it was caused by a sword cut on his nasal bridge, wore a pale maroon colored fur scar that was hanged around his neck, a lime green and white stripped t-shirt, a dark turquoise colored pants with a pair of poleyn, and a knee-high brown boots, was Arawn Faust. He was known as a Celtic God of Terror of Revenge by the humans.

“Alright, you dummkopf (German for Imbecile)! Our job here is to go wild till our heart’s content. Got that?!”, Arawn yelled on top of his lungs towards his soldiers.

All soldiers, who were wearing different mask designs, replied and cheered in unison, “JA, HERR (German for Yes, sir)! Hooray for Oberbefehlshaber Faust!”

Fuyu was running swiftly on an empty field. He observed his dusty surroundings and thought to himself,

“For some reason, I’m having a bad feeling about this catastrophe. I have to see the situation myself to make sure if I’m right or not.” He then increased his speed to run faster than before and continued to focus on his thoughts, “Since I used Obnixe Amoveo (Latin for Instant Shift) for about three times now, I still have seven more to go. I’ll just have to run for now to save my technique rather than just waste it entirely for travelling.” He suddenly looked like he was shocked with lightning and stopped running.

“What was that bad feeling just now? It was kind of creepy, even for me”, Fuyu said as his pupils suddenly turned white, “It’s a good thing that I’ve trained hard enough in order to increase my natural keen senses. Plus, to add the new technique, Alacer Sensus (Latin for Keen Senses) that I’ve just mastered last week, my senses would multiply tenfold! I guess…”

In Fuyu’s perspective, all of his surroundings turned black with white outlines, he then saw the Oberbefehlshaber (German for Commander-in-Chief) and his soldiers who were having a conversation in a distance far away from him.

Fuyu thought to himself, “Enemy detected. Now for me to amplify my sense of hearing…" He saw the Oberbefehlshaber and his soldiers as the color black with white outlines as the Oberbefehlshaber was talking about something, but it was inaudible.

Back to where Arawn and his soldiers actually were, the God of Terror intimidatingly declared the plan to everyone,

"Now stick all of what I’m going to say through your thick skulls, alright?! Listen well and listen good… Our only job is to attract all the Daemons' attention to us, the Voraus Squads (German for Advance, Ahead, or In Front) with the ten Oberbefehlshabers leading it, for the Ausblenden Squad (German for Hide) to enter Pandemonium so they could remove the Infernum Summa (Latin for Hell Core) out of their Daemon Kings’ castle and out of their territory once and for all!"

Fuyu, who was silently spying from a distance, looked worried as he thought to himself and formulated a plan while both of his pupils were still colored white,

"How did they know about that? Not even the other members of the Seven Princes of Hell were aware of its existence. Besides me, only Hikaru and Lucilia were the only members of the seven princes who knew about it since our fathers Satan, Lucifer, and Beelzebub were formerly working alongside each other in ruling Gehenna as Le Livre des Esperitz (French for The Book of Spirits) until Beelzebub's death many years ago and was officially declared that the Four Crowned Princes of Hell became the new highest-ranked position amongst Gehenna's Kings. If the Infernum Summa is out of Gehenna’s territory, it’s goodbye for us all. I have got to go back to Pandemonium and at least buy some time for them to realize the situation. Why did I have to forget my iSkull now, of all times?! Curse you, past me!" He then swiftly ran back towards Pandemonium's direction as his pupils went back to its original color.

"Hmmm… Guys, change of plans", Arawn smirked wickedly as he noticed something that no one else did, which was the young man who spied on them.

Somewhere in Pandemonium that was about a hundred miles away from Russia District, Squad 20 were running with its Nauarchus (Latin for Captain) and Legatus (Latin for Lieutenant) leading the group in front of it. Lucilia was running alongside the other Squad members while they were forming a line of eight columns and six rows. Lucilia’s iSkull suddenly rang, took it from her front pocket, and answered it,

"Hello? I’m sorry, but Squad 20 is currently approaching Russia District to meet up with the invaders, and I can’t—" She was interrupted by the one she was speaking to from her phone. It was a young man, who had indigo-colored eyes, hair as gray as Cumulonimbus clouds approaching for a big storm, pale blue colored pupils, who had reindeer tail and horns as sharp as a knife, wore an apple blossom colored loose tucked in polo shirt, an ebony clay-colored pants, and a pair of colored black dress shoes, named Furfur Verity. He was the Great Earl of Hell, a liar unless he entered a magic triangle where he always spoke the truth, and the current vice-captain of Squad 6, in which Fuyu was supposedly in, but he's busy at the moment... Trying to stop the Gotts' plan and all...

"Sorry to bother you, Lucilia, but Fuyu's not in our HQ right now and we were supposed to head towards Africa District with a squad each from Auxilium and Umbra Platoon. My captain is also very pissed off over here. Do you might have an idea of what he's doing right now?", Furfur's voice said from Lucilia's phone.

Lucilia explained, "What? But right after the security alert, Fuyu, Hikaru, and I immediately split up in order for us to go back to our respective squads. I also can't contact him since he forgot to bring his iSkull today."

Furfur, who was standing inside a huge triangle symbol that was scribbled on the ground as he held a GPS using his left hand, pleaded, "Could you fetch him for me? We managed to track him with the help of the Diploma Scroll he still has right now. It looks like he went to Australia District but ran back to Pandemonium. I can’t take care of him since all Legatus (Latin for Lieutenant) need to assist their Nauarchus (Latin for Captain)."

"Alright. I’ll gladly fetch him for you", Lucilia's reply was heard directly from Furfur's phone in a clear voice.

"Thanks, Lucilia. I owe you one."

Lucilia turned off her iSkull, raised her right hand and asked, "Nauarchus and Legatus, permission to pull out." She immediately left the group and ran away from it swiftly.

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