17 Chapter 17: Nova

Yamato stood before an ocean of tar and bones his eyes filled with mirth, This sight wasn't in the main laboratory rather.

One could call this a forbidden area of the underworld, a sea of evil, an ocean of blood, mist of impurity.

The surface of the water appeared to be completely smooth and still, like a huge, dark mirror.

Below the surface of the water lay bones that seem to belong to creatures from a different world entirely, with limbs that are long and twisted, and skulls with eyes that stare up with a malice that is all-consuming.

The air is heavy with a vile smell like a mix of ammonia and rotted meat, A bath of pure evil completely to erase any resistance on Kashin's half.

The boy for his account lay unconscious below Yamato, just post of returning from his mission he hadn't expected the sudden increase of gravity upon his lungs and was swiftly knocked unconscious.

With a swift kick, the boy's body submerged in a bath of evil the bones and blood mixing quickly with his skin.

Yamato sat down crossing his legs as a black diamond-like pattern spread from his palm to all over his body down to his ankle and circling around his heart, Kashin's body experienced something similar.

With his eyes closed Yamato concentrated, even a slight variable and all of his decade's works of progress and work may be redundant.

The transformation spell Yamato had maintained on Kashin for all these years shed quietly, His eyes turning blue his long black hair turning pure blood red, his skin turning paler.

He continued to sink below the surface of the water his body fully submerged, The bones and thick blood of countless beings entering his skin and nourishing him with natural energy.

The raw energy breaking the countless spells and charms Yamato had put on him.

However, one variable Yamato didn't account for was his awakening, The memory charm that had withheld him all these years was finally broken.

Who was he? what was he? Where was he?

Was he Kashin an unknown orphan serving Yamato the true inheritor of divinity? Or was he Aureolus Gremory The true heir of the Gremory clan? Was he the child of Venelana Gemory and Zeoticus Gemory? Or was he an orphan raised and created by Yamato in a lab?

Who was he? Why was he here? How did he get here? Why… Had his family abandoned him?… his confusion drove him onto the brink of madness sinking deeper and deeper into the seas of evil.

His heart was heavy with hopelessness bitterness and hatred.

Those pools of pride shot open the glow of purity from them lighting up the abyss around him, the anger and hatred one may feel on the verge of death and one may feel on the end of betrayal awakening the very wrath of the heavens.

"BOOM" With the sonic bang the surface of evil burst open the black tar-like surface opening as if ordered by its king.

But the black ocean of evil had its own consciousness refusing to submit, black tendrils of tar wrapped around the boy's body but all was for naught as they were repelled with an intense gravitational force.

Yamato's eyes shot open as he coughed up black blood something had gone horribly wrong.

"Lord Yamato! What's going on?!" Arjuna asked in concern to which Yamato didn't respond.

Arjuna didn't wait for Yamato's answer, turning himself weightless with gravity he charged at Kashin faster than one can blink.

"Gravity times 30" he whispered amplifying the weight of his fist just before the moment of impact so as to not lose any acceleration.

A shockwave of pure force went out from the collision making the eraths and ocean tremble, as Kashin was sent flying like a kite without its strings crashing somewhere randomly.

Arjuna's quick victory was short-lived however, as the dust settled and Kashin or Aureolus was before him with not a scratch on him.

His eyes were hazy and confused still reeling from the sudden memory intrusion still questioning who he was, and what he was doing, But instinct allowed him to gain subtle clarity, enough to focus on Arjuna.

"Looks like… you're still alive,"

Finally, after half a decade of having to deal with this today, he'd be able to fulfill his cherished dream of shredding him to meatpaste with his own hands.

Aureolus didn't waste a second he crouched onto the ground like a tiger ready to strike its prey, instinct told him to fight and he'd fight, he shot out like an arrow, The air cracked around him from the sheer acceleration.

"Gravity 20x." Instead of merely increasing the weight of his fist he rather ruthlessly condensed his arm and bones to a singular point.

Reducing surface area and thus increasing acceleration to an even further degree F=MA.

"Almighty push." an immense gravitational force comparable to the suction of a black hole but only in reverse.

The oceans below froze and then suddenly exploded the mountains cracked and forests howled, Countless miles of forest and landscape reduced to an empty barren wasteland.

The dust settled and Aureolus was seen standing his clothes tattered with scratches lining his body.

Arjuna grinned while up in the air unspoken glee and excitement for the fight in his every action.

The two didn't speak a word, after years of resentment they understood the other like one would after years of friendship.

The two charged once more their fists colliding in the air as the space around them cracked.

"Gravity times 30x2" Their voices were in sync as they increased the force of gravity onto the other countless times, The forces of nature mere playthings.

Aurelius broke the clash 'Zero Gravity' His body entered into a weightless form, and he glided in the air on the balls of his feet, spinning around with the force of a tornado his foot firmly meeting Arjuna's face sending the boy flying into several mountain peaks.

Those months of training with Heracles truly paid off, Aureolus would thank him but his mind was too preoccupied with battle.

Chasing after him, A hammer punch amplified going straight to Arjuna's stomach,

Thinking quickly Arjuna amplified the gravity on himself increasing it so fast that the ground beneath him cracked and broke letting him cleanly avoid it.

"Almighty Pull." A suction pulled the boy up to meet a fist weighing a thousand tons sending him crashing down "Almighty Pull." once more pulled Arjuna up to send him crashing to the earth's core "Almighty pull." the heavens whimpered as it very forces were toyed with.

Like a ping-pong attached to its racket, Arjuna constantly came back and was sent back with each hit progressively stronger and heavier.

'How is he… Just using so much natural energy without restraint?!' Arjuna yelled in his head though that didn't stop him from once more being sent to kiss mother Gaia.

"ALMIGHTY PULL/PUSH." Two opposites, two forces never meant to meet, A contradiction in reality.

The two forces met, but reality itself rejected it, Space started to tear as time and space bent and wrapped, Reality couldn't be contradicted but here we are.

The space tore and bent, and a blast of pure power spread a "void" appearing in which these two forces contradicted.

Both wielders of these god-like abilities were sent flying back coughing up blood from the contradiction.

Arjuna crashed onto his feet on the ground below, his shoes torn his bare feet gripping onto the stone beneath him, Blood dripped down his chin as those orbs of pure emerald held an almost insane lust for battle.

He looked up making eye contact with his brother in all but blood he licked his lips… Truly he loathed Kashin but he couldn't deny the thrill they gave each other.

"Looks like… You and I still got a lot left in the tank…" Arjuna said softly.

Aureolus didn't respond his eyes glowing with power, he spread his arms, balled into fists shaking his arms up and down violently to release the pent-up knots.

Without wasting a second, they charged.

Fists once more clashed, Aureolus's fist lost, it twisted his bones spiking out of his skin

But that was his goal allowing inertia to play to his advantage Arjuna's body weight was momentarily leaning forward.

Grabbing onto Arjuna's left wrist twisting his hip and slamming the orange-haired boy down into the mountain below.

Chasing after him consistently slamming his fists onto the other boy's flesh turning his skin and bones into meat paste.

Clocking his fist back he once more drilled his fist into Arjuna's stomach, leaning forward.

Arjuna took advantage of it, Grabbing onto Aureoles's non-tensed wrist and pushing it towards the sky grabbing under Aureolus's knees, ramming his head onto the other boy's stomach.

Like a bow out of its string.

Arjuna dragged Aureolus with his head and slammed the other boy onto Mother Gaia once more, the force from the impact causing Aureolus to cough up blood.

The amount of acceleration drilling through the soft flesh and bones.

Arjuna's orange hair turned blood red from being dyed by Aureoles's blood, his head completely through Aureoles's stomach, coming out from the other side.

Aureolus's ribs broken and exposed, his intensities falling out like fish being gutted.

Retracting himself Arjuna didn't stop his assault.

Getting on top and plumping Aureolus turning His handsome face into something akin to a lump of flesh.

"!" Aureolus growled grabbing onto Arjuna's fist with his teeth and yanking on it like a rabid animal ripping his arm out of its socket with no remorse.

"Weak force" A scorching amount of heat engulfed the two boys separating them and sending them flying.

Yamato arrived with an annoyed and royally pissed-off expression this was truly out of his expectations, A small variable he hadn't accounted for had led to such a drama.

His right hand was once more cut off, unlike Aureolus and Arjuna he didn't enjoy the ability to continuously spam nature's energy with no regard.

"My patience with you two brats is decreasing especially you Kashin…Gravity 40x…" the pressure of a mountain wrapped around Aureolus's injured body making him stick to the broken ground like plaster "Now be a good boy and be obedient…"

He gritted his teeth and pushed himself up to his feet regardless of the pressure, much to Yamato's irritation

"Gravity 30x" Arjuna himself applied almost the same amount of preasure determined to stop Aureolus here and now, he knew if this fight continued he'd lose for good.

Aureolus's eyes widened and he once more met the earth with the pressure of thirteen thousand stars and ten thousand earth slammed onto him, keeping him in place like a fish ready to be cut.

The black mark once more spread from Aureoles's palm reaching for his heart much like the one on Yamato.

'No… No I refuse… I don't want to die… I don't want to die… no no no no no no no I don't want to die… Help me. Mom Dad help me please I don't want to die…Sirzechs…Big brother help me…' He dug his nails into the cold hard ground trying to crawl away he wanted to survive… The cold touch of death and submission was something he didn't want to embrace.

He relied on instinct not logic, his heart called for his big brother, his family to save him, His memories so muddled that he couldn't even process how he got here or why, instinctually just calling for them.

'… I was anew… I was meant to be beautiful…. I was meant to be a beautiful star…. I can't die here' but a part of him needed to die here.

Yamato outstretched his hand everything was ready and with just a single moment of contact… Aureolus would be wiped from the face of the earth and his body used like a puppet on strings.

His eyes those pools of hatred shot open once more, rejecting death.

"Strong force… Nuclear fusion"

Yamato heard those words and recoiled no impossible… he wouldnt dare, would he? Was he so crazy as to do that? How had he learned of that?!

"Huh?" Arjuna turned around confused the night sky that was once pitch black and cold now reflected the everlasting sunshine of day and the warmth of the star itself, What was going on?

Hydrogen atoms in the atmosphere slowly condensed into a tiny extremely dense point making ripples in the surrounding space, bending the the fabric of space-time.

Tens of thousands of miles away

"What is that?" Sirzechs muttered his eyes focusing on a small rapidly expanding point of light across the horizon much like the rising sun in the human world…though it was currently midnight.

But the underworld had no sun Merely an artificial one but this light, this sunshine… only a true star could match it.

"Sirzechs you see that too right?" Grayfia said softly.

Human world: Olympus

"You feel that pressure, right brother…" Zeus said gently.

Poseidon nodded solemnly.

Human world: Valhalla

"Heimdall… this is coming from the underworld?" an old-looking man said softly his voice resounding with power.

"Yes, all father… It reminds me of… Morningstar…" Heimdall said solemnly, those eyes normally filled with unspeakable confidence now filled with unspoken fear.

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Around this dense core the hydrogen atoms in the atmosphere rapidly condensed and forcefully merged into one another, Making helium from the larger hydrogen atoms.

Processes of nuclear fusion happening right in front of their eyes.

Regardless of the pressure surrounding him, Aureolus forced himself up, His bones twisted and whined in protest his body broken and battered but his soul just getting stronger.

"This overwhelming intensity…"

The sun above him shone brightly its light illuminating his form, As if welcoming its god much to Yamato's fear?

The hydrogen atoms condensed into helium atoms faster and faster, the newly birthed sun in the sky above growing larger and larger from the initial size of only a foot in diameter now growing to hundreds of feet.

The heat from the newly born star melted the ground around them the smell of cooked meat rising in the air, the smell of the dead earth growing stronger.

Its density so great that the mountains below it were uprooted from their holdings circling it as if to give worship.

Arjuna stood frozen unable to move the sheer heat from the star burning through his flesh, Yamato froze trying to move but couldn't an aura of pure sovereignty forced him down, he was using everything to not be uprooted.

Aureolus's eyes glowed blue as the heavens above protested his existence, The shackles given to him at birth were now his weapons.

The chains that held him now his divinity.

The power of the sun in the palm of his hands.

"SuperNova." Gravity condensed around the star.

Ten thousand miles east.

"This pressure… it's coming from that place.." Kokabiel looked up from his work papers even though he was so far from the explosion, felt its pressure.

That sudden brightness akin to a star couldn't be mistaken.

"Kokabiel!" Another fallen angel, his leader walked into his room breathing heavily "That pressure you feel it right? I-it reminds me of Him…"

Human world: Heavens

"Big brother!… This must be a sign from Father! He isn't dead!" A beautiful woman said in excitement contrasting the solemn expression her brother wore.

"Gabriel… This isn't father… I'm afraid it's something… Beyond we can comprehend."

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A star, normally nearing the end of its life, implodes under its own weight….but a god doesn't postpone what he wants.

The intense pressure and heat within the star's core cause a runaway reaction, the pressure of gravity encircling it, leading to an immense buildup of energy.

Suddenly, the star's outer layers explode outwards in a powerful explosion.

The sudden eruption of light and energy from the heart of the star eclipsed the moon and bathed the underworld in its light and beauty.

A dazzling display of light in all colors of the spectrum, including blinding white, searing blue, and vivid purple, fills the previous empty night sky.

Underworld: devils home

Thousands of devils stopped in their tracks their eyes locked into the massive explosion of light that spread out from the horizon and covered the night sky in its magnificence.

"What's going on?" One devil muttered

"That looks like a human star…" Another said softly.

"No… It looks like a supernova…" Another smarter one said, "But that should be impossible…"

Countless beings with their own lives, their own thoughts, their own worries, stopped dead in their tracks just to observe the majesty before them.

Millions of beings stopped at once… As if the world was suddenly turned off.

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A powerful shockwave pushes outwards from the star and races outward at a hundred million miles per minute, ripping apart anything in its path.

For a moment, the supernova is the most brilliant point of light in the sky, outshining even the brightest stars.

The world bathing in its majesty.

The shockwave destroyed everything in its path ripping apart mountains, the earth, and space-time itself, reality was forced to bend and align once more from this new dynamic,

Arjuna Yamato and Aureolus being the ones to bear the full brunt of it.

The pressure of a collapsing star, powerful enough to bend apart reality how could they bear it with their mortal bodies?

Yamato and Arjuna's bodies were completely torn and ripped apart, turning to ashes and those ashes were wiped to oblivion.

Only Aureolus still stood underneath it all, half his face scarred and burnt, His body was incredibly powerful to be able to bear the force of a collapsing star, while minuscule in size to true stars impressive nonetheless.

Gravity twisted and convulsed, space-time portals or voids in reality appeared all over swallowing him whole.

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Bending the power of stars to his use? Sounds OP enough y'all said to not hold back soooooooooooo