Maliik stood there in his own blaze of glory, staring at his healed body. Realizing he had finally achieved what he had been searching for. For a body that could handle his current level of Light. It left him with a feeling of bliss and harmony he had never known before. It was a magnificent feeling, one that would set the tone for his latah growth. Mastah Gawayans and I couldn't be happier with this sudden growth within our pupil. He became the strongest of his Generation at just the young age of fifteen. A mighty achievement for one of his caliber. But to our surprise, after healing himself… he was spent and wound up feinting right in front of us. Diane managed to catch him before he fell, but what she discovered once touching him was something we higher deities don't usually go through. It was easily the first time in history that a Luminarian would fall to such a thing.
Diane: "His body is boiling hot. It feels as though his composition altogether has become a star of unmatched proportions. If we don't contain him, he'll start burning through the material of the clan!"
Dannadise: "Tch, dammit all! Diane, fuse your Light essence to Gawayans own and I will do the same! With our added potency, you should be able to contain him until we get him to the House of Beel!"
Gawayans: "Rogah!!!"
He formed a light with his hands out in front of him. It would go on to absorb his essence along with Diane's and my own.
Diane: "Why the House of Beel?!"
Dannadise: "They have the strongest Light Room out of any of the Houses. It can be used to contain him while we figure out what has happened!"
Diane: "Alright, that makes sense, let's hurry up and go then!"
Gawayans: "Hmph!" *Nod*
He lifted the bubble of light to bring Maliik to our side.
As far as Light Rooms go. They are rooms used to concentrate light into a massive singular point. They help revitalize us and heals our wounds when we're too tired to do so ourselves. They allow us to build our essence by using its own light to try and surpass our own. A tug-o-war scenario that helps strengthen our light heavily. This room can also be used to contain unstable light with its own and even has features that allow us to feed the room in case of a bad situation. One where a membah of our clan could possibly have an unstable light that surpasses even the most efficient room in potency. A scenario like the one we find ourselves in now. Maliik's heat and light was causing even the Beel's room to malfunction up until Xeno and I added to its fuel.
Xeno: "What in the verse is this!?"
Dannadise: "A sudden illness that fell him after he suddenly took the most potent Light attack Gawayans had to offah!!"
Alexander: "Wait…"
Xeno & Alexander: "WHAT!?"
Gawayans: "Mhm…"
Dannadise: "Eeergh… NRGH."
Xeno: "Danna, you dumbass! You absolute buffoon, you allowed them to do this!?"
Dannadise: "Uhhh…"
Gawayans: "Lady Xeno, we-
Xeno: "Shut your focking pie hole, Gawayans!"
Gawayans: "Mhrrmn!"
Xeno: "Yeah, yeah… groan all you want, wankah. You two could've killed him with that farce you pulled. Two beings well over a million years old let a damn fifteen year old instruct then during THEIR training session. Now look at him! I've never seen such bullshit!!"
Alexander: "Xeno, I need you to calm down. And you two, don't let my calm demeanor fool you. Not only do I agree with Xeno, logically, but… I'm also infuriated with the reckless choice you made. Let's hope it all works out in the end, because I've never seen an illness like this one, mate. Upper deities aren't supposed to be affected by natural illness and disease."
Michael: "Indeed, we're not, but in this case… it's very possible."
Gawayans: "Lord Michael, did you bring- ah… so you did."
Dannadise: "Michael, dear."
Michael: "Quite the risk you've taken, babe… but all will be ok. I've brought Lady Nagita and Lord Lancelot along with me as well."
Nagita: "H'What in the verse has happened, Dannadise!?"
Lancelot: "Mhm… go ahead and explain it, please."
We waltzed into another room after everyone has supplied their Light Room with enough essence to sustain and stabilize Maliik. Returning his vitals and body to normal for the time being. But he was still burning up to an unfathomable degree. Making their urgency for this explanation and its solution. I would be the one to take the center stage and explain how this situation came to be. Diane would be the only one to stay in the waiting room that was attached to the Light Room. She wanted to stay by her best friend's side whilst he dealt with this. She held a slight smirk on her face when she honed in on his essence signature and PSL.
Dannadise: "Alright, to make a long a story short, Maliik had grown very frustrated with his growth and how his body couldn't contain even a large portion of his total Light signature. He had spent years trying to go beyond his limit on his own in the most heinous of ways. You two knew of this, right?"
Lancelot: "No honestly. My frustration has grown whilst my anger has subsided. Seems I've been a bad parent."
Xeno: "Oh, Lancy…"
Nagita: "He's right, big sis, Xeno. How could we not notice his discomfort even whilst helping him train?"
Dannadise: "Indeed, but it goes even further. Maliik discovered what a Drive Form is and wished to replicate it using his Senkozen genes. He had attempted to do so on his own for months before making this drastic request. One where he would have Gawayans throw his most powerful Light based technique at Maliik. He wished to take it head on and use it as a catalyst for this very specific evolution. And so he did."
Xeno: "Tch!"
Gawayans: "Be angry all you like, I simply granted my pupil's wish. Something tells me he would've asked his parents or even you, Xeno if we stuck with our refusal."
Dannadise: "He most certainly would have."
Alexander: "I don't doubt that at all."
Lancelot: "Neither do I. He seemed to be seeking out a powerful light user. Who bettah than the man with the strongest Light?"
Gawayans: "Hmph, I'll have you know that I have the second strongest Light now."
Nagita: "Wait…"
Dannadise: "It's as you think, Nagita. Your son now has the strongest Light. And just so we're all clear here… your son's body can only hold thirty-five percent of his total Light source as of now. And even that small number can compete with Gawayans. He'd need about sixty percent to surpass Gawayans. I studied the event thoroughly!"
Nagita: "No… way."
Michael: "Good, because it is that very same light that is hurting him now. His body temporarily rose to a level needed to access the light that would've been necessary for countering Gawayans completely. For his body to shoot back down rapidly, even if into a stronger version. It's not enough to hold the amount of light that was accessed. His own essence is eating away at its vessel. His soul longs for a stronger body, or… something to lighten the load until that body is ready."
Everyone in the room grew silent upon hearing the true situation.
Michael: "Hah, so now I ask you both, Nagita and Lancelot…"
Lancelot: "Hm?"
Nagita: "Umm… yes?"
Michael: "Allow me a few days to form a very potent Light seal. One that can lighten the load… definitely, but also one that must be mastered by Maliik during his training, Gawayans and my lovely wife."
Dannadise: "Will do, dear."
Gawayans: "Yes, we shall make sure our student is ready!"
Lancelot: "Glad to hear it, because I'm in. I approve of this, so long as it can save my son from himself."
Nagita: "I bear an agreement to this sentiment. Please do what you must, King Michael! Save our boy!" *Bow*
Michael: "I will do just that, Lady Nagita, Young Lord Lancelot. Now let us all disperse at once. I have a seal to create!" *Blink*
Dannadise: "Indeed, looks as though I have a new regimen to write for latah in his studies." *Blink*
Gawayans: "Likewise!" *Blink*
Xeno: "Mhm, Alexandah, Nagita, Lancy… let's go and join Diane. Let's watch ovah our boy."
Nagita & Lancelot: "Right."
Alexander: "Lead the way, babe."
Everyone goes about their days starting their parts for saving Young Maliik. Michael would spend nearly a week creating his seal for Maliik. Gawayans and I came togethah aftah days of separate plotting and editing. We wished to devise a scheme that would best help our young pupil during his times of need. Times where he'll have to be able to control his Concept entirely so that he isn't damaged by its greatah strength. Whilst we all prepared to make sure his greatest wish could come true, though he still has to do all the heavy lifting. We find Maliik slowly simmering down in heat as his face showed more comfort with each day that would pass within the week. His mothah and fathah stayed by his side along with Diane. Maliik could feel their care through the essence he senses. It made him even more comfortable and lax within the room. By the fourth day… Nagita reported to Xeno as she returned. Telling her that Maliik had a bright smile on his face within the room while in his temporary coma.
The week would go by finally and Michael had finally completed his seal. He walked into the Light Room as everyone gathered. Bringing about his seal from his chest while instilling it with essence well beyond Maliik's level. This would be so that the light would finally die down completely and leave Maliik to slowly release it as his essence and body grows ovah time. Michael would go on to place the seal on Maliik's chest. It then sunk into his body, blending to its natural essence and form. Finding it's way to his Origin Concept and fusing to it. Lowering it's potency to just above that of Maliik's current level. A level that was now at 42 on the scale. Easily the strongest teenager of this current version of the Peace Era. I could see it all clearly with my heightened Mental Zenchi. It only took moments for Maliik to vanish before our eyes…
*FLASH*
Dannadise: "And so he rises again!"
Nagita: "Indeed!"
Everyone sat there with great big smiles on their faces. Especially Diane who now sat in front of Maliik. He stood there with his head down and his essence set ablaze. Everyone could feel his excitement within this moment. So much so that Lancelot even began to walk towards his son… until.
Maliik: "Diane… can you-
Diane: "Of course, knucklehead. What are best friends for?"
Maliik: "Heh, Perfect!" *P-Pew**PEW* … *kaPLOOOW*
His essence skyrocketed once more right along with Diane. Their essence matched the othah and fused as they clashed against the othah.
Dannadise: *pw~innng* "Everyone, up your shields!"
Xeno: "Ah, I see now!"
Everyone brought their shields about as Diane and Maliik initiated a grand clash between the two. Their fists hit each othah with incredible force, shaking the House of Beel entirely from its very core. We all smiled in excitement as we watched these two go at it. The clash didn't last long, more so it was just a small warm up to allow Maliik to stretch. Their final punches would be their most powerful though, and the combined force sent a shockwave through the entire clan. Upon its flash of light having come and went, we see Maliik and Diane laughing aftah such a mighty display. We had assumed that it was ovah, but just then… Maliik allowed his essence to explode even further with light. It shot out of the House of Beel and donned itself to the clan. A signal that a new Light has finally taken its rightful place at the top.
You could all look onward at the light. Stopping all that they had been doing to bear witness to such majesty. It was from that day forward that our peace would be even more apparent. And in the quake, many millennia would go by for young Maliik and many othah Luminarians. We had a few bumps in the road here and there, but it did nothing to stop our prosperous times. Though, we as a clan would come to notice strange occurrences within our Colossaverse and then some. This was a stir that would cause many of our strongest membahs to go and assist the Huntahs in their quest. For some odd reason, more beings from beyond had begun to surface again.
It would be many more years of this occurring, with we leading deities of each civilization being tasked with withholding this secret. So that those who help repel them can get their job done without a huge uproar occurring. So we withheld the information and guarded our homes whilst our Omniverse wages war in secrecy. It was as though the Era of Chaos was bearing fruit at the time. One that has sprouted in current times. To make mattahs worse, movements of an odd group could be seen within the shadows. Their moves seemed to always be undah the covah of an invandah. It made it hard to track the little buggahs. So eventually, we naturally forgot about them, especially as the invadahs had nearly ceased their intrusions upon our great Verse. It wasn't until the birth of anothah of Xenophia's grandchildren that I noticed a change in the verse. Almost as if the balance shifted evah so slightly as the Era of Peace grew darkah. And it was all noticeable aftah I locked eyes with a baby tainted in darkness. A Baby of Chaos much like myself way back when, and their name was…
Brittany: "I'll call this little one…
Billiam… Billiam Senkozen-Beel."
Next Chapter: From a Dark Past
to a Brighter Present.