Mally, Penelope and Theodore ran down a street to the Entertainment District. In front of them, they saw smoke and explosions up ahead. Crowds of people were running to the opposite direction due to getting away from the chaos.
Once they made it to where the chaos was, they discovered a very disturbing sight. They saw a war happening between the Impure Members and the Earth City Soldiers. Looking at the both sides, they appeared to be evenly matched. Surrounding both sides was a ruined area that was once the Entertainment District. Only a few buildings were left standing.
Both sides were fighting on the ground. Troops and soldiers were engaging with blade clashes and arrow shots. In the air, each side had ships that were engaged in combat. They flew around the ruined area firing shots to each other.
Theodore looked at the sight with anger on his face.
Theodore: “This is taking it too far! These people are just trying to live their lives!! The Impure Order is trying to take that away from them? We have to stop them!!”
Penelope: “I’m with you Theodore!! We can’t harm them but we will drive them back by force if we have to.”
Mally: “Penelope, you handle the Impure Members on the ground. I will handle the Impure Members in the sky. Theodore, make sure that the citizens here are evacuated to safety.”
Theodore: “Will do.”
They were about to commit to Mally’s plan until they saw darkness emerging out of nowhere. They looked with shock on their faces. The darkness emitted a force that pushed them back a bit. They struggled to maintain themselves in standing position. Emerging out of that darkness was Mansan. He had an amusing smile on his face. The Dream Club Members went into attacking positions.
Penelope: She expressed anger. “You!!!”
Mansan: “Hello, Destined Guardians… How was your day like in the Dream Existence? Pleasant?”
Penelope: “You are going to pay for what you did to our bodies!!! How dare you prevent us from waking up!!!”
Theodore: “The citizens don’t deserve this! If anything, they deserve to return to Earth! Give them back their physical lives!!”
Mansan: “It is too late for the citizens here… Once one physically dies, there is no coming back to physical life…”
Theodore: “You fiend!!”
Mansan: “Why be upset with me? After all, it is you that wanted a dream experience. Even since your high school years, the physical life you were given was never good to you…”
Theodore: “You don’t get the right to choose whether we should wake up or not! That is our call! We may not know how to wake up but sooner or later, we will find a way!”
Mansan: “Just realize that the physical world is going through a major change… At least you won’t be there to witness what Humanity will become in the future…”
Mally: “You plan on claiming Humanity into Impure Members… What are doing is deplorable…”
Mansan: “Only for the members of Humanity that embody corruption within them… As for the rest of the Human Race, I have something else planned for them. It involves the Impure Members… They are facing your new allies as a test for them… If they pass the test, they will return to the physical world…”
Mally: “We won’t just sit here and watch the world be ruined by your own hands. Everyone has a weakness and you aren’t an exception.”
Mansan: “As long as you are weak, you will never know my weaknesses… Since you three are here, I can’t allow you to interfere in this war… Don’t worry; you will get the chance to fight…”
Mansan tapped his book pendant for three dark spheres to emerge to their sights. The dark spheres appeared to function like black holes. The Dream Club Members felt the suction from the black hole trying to drag them in. For that reason, they moved back to a distance while maintaining their fighting stance.
Out from the black holes, they saw three people dressed in dark cloaks. It showed that they were the remaining Impure Lieutenants.
The first one was a person dressed in a dark purple cloak. On the person’s body, there were random shapes on it. They appeared like miniature forms of technology. Looking at his face, it looked like it was moving all over the place. His nose, eyes, mouth, hair and ears kept moving to different areas on his head every minute. One moment, he looked somewhat normal and at other times, he appeared like a disfigured being.
The second one was a person who dressed in a dark pink cloak. He appeared as if he was trying to be fancy. His body appearance seemed like he worked as a beauty model. Despite the beauty he was radiating out of himself, he had a deeper evil that was contained within him.
The last one was dressed in a dark green cloak but wore a dark outfit that allowed her to express herself. Looking at her, she had no irises as her eyes radiated whiteness like her mouth. Despite that, she appeared to be the least monstrous of the lieutenants. She was giving smiles to the Dream Club Members.
Mansan: “If you can stop these Impure Lieutenants, maybe you can save the citizens here from extinction…”
Mansan faded away leaving the Dream Club Members to face against the Impure Lieutenants. The Dream Club Members appeared with a look of concern on their faces.
Dark Being 6: “So you must be the three Destined Guardians that managed to defeat our peers… They acted overly confident why you managed to beat them. Don’t think that we will be making the same mistake as them…”
Dark Being 5: “We are here to make sure that your so-called prophecy ends today… You will never have the opportunity to stop the Impure Plan.”
Dark Being 4: “Once we claim you, we will be performing a lot of tests on you… You will become our test subjects. I can’t wait for us to work on your bodies…”
The Dream Club Members looked on in a defensive position.
Unexpectedly, Dark Being 6 summoned her weapon then charge towards Theodore. Theodore immediately summoned his blade. He managed to block her blade. In the process, he was being pushed to another location in the ruined area.
Mally and Penelope summoned their weapons as did the two other Impure Lieutenants. They charged towards each other. Mally and Dark Being 5 clashed weapons while Penelope and Dark Being 4 clashed weapons. They ended up exchanging blade attacks until they separated to different parts of the area. Despite being in separate locations, the Dream Club Members were still nearby.
At another location, Theodore was sliding by the force by Dark Being 6’s blade. He soon emitted a blast that pushed her off him. She landed to a distance. Theodore looked at her to watch what she was about to do.
Dark Being 6: “We finally meet face to face Theodore… I learned what you had done in the Conversion Room. It might be a huge feat for you but to us, it’s only a minor consequence… It is simply too late to stop us now…”
Theodore: “I don’t think so… We might be at a disadvantage since you have your ‘lord’ with you. No matter what, we won’t give up!! I know that we are destined to stop you!”
Dark Being 6 laughed out appearing amused by Theodore’s words. She then summoned her powers out to the ruined area around her. It caused the ruined buildings and the parks to gradually disappear into energy. The energy was in the form of particles similar to atoms.
A look of shock was on Theodore’s face as he began charging his weapon of green energy. At the same time, his opponent was forming a large ball of energy from the particles.
She then unleashed it towards Theodore forcing him to unleash his mind onto her. It came out in the form of a green sphere. Dark Being 6 watched as her entire surroundings were consumed into his mind.
Dark Being 6: She looked on amused. “I don’t think so…”
She caused her energy ball to explode causing Theodore’s mind to shatter in the process.
Dark Being 6 and Theodore stood face to face.
Theodore: He looked at her with hints of worry. “This is going to be tougher than I thought…”
At another location in the ruined area, Penelope and Dark Being 4 were engaging against each other. They were mostly exchanging blade clashes. They soon stopped fighting to look at each other. Dark Being 4 gave off a crazed grin while Penelope looked at him angrily.
Penelope: “You’re a freak of nature… I will crush you the same I did for Bastructour…”
Dark Being 4: He started to laugh evilly. “You are that confident… Are you? You won’t be once you realize what we have already realized…”
Penelope: “And what would that be?”
Dark Being 4: “Why ruin the surprise?”
Dark Being 4 laughed crazily before raising his weapon into the air. Penelope went into a defensive position awaiting his attack. Dark Being 4 unleashed orbs of purple light from the ruined environment. They fused into each other forming robotic creatures. The robotic creatures appeared near her size but were in the shape of apartment buildings. In one of the windows on the creatures, there were their eyes that were radiating dark red light. They had four arms that were made of concrete.
Penelope: “Two can play at this game…”
Penelope summoned from her powers 30 energy soldiers in the form of orange light. She positioned them in front of her. With the influence of her blade, her energy army started to attack. Dark Being 4 laughed out crazily to influence his creations towards Penelope’s army. When both sides clashed, it caused a force of energy that radiated outwards. It was followed by an explosion that caused some ruined buildings to collapse to the ground.
At another location, Mally was facing against Dark Being 5. They were exchanging arrow shots as they were moving behind and in buildings. Their arrow shots hit random areas of buildings and the ground. When they were face to face, they shot a lot of arrows to each other. Their attacks canceled each other out. Mally and Dark Being 5 soon stopped their firing to stare each other seriously.
Dark Being 5: “Impressive… For an earthling, your powers have the possibility of rivaling mine… Don’t think that for a moment, you have what it takes to defeat me…”
Mally: “We may not have the means to stop your lord but you, I can manage… As long as we can at least stall the Impure Plan from succeeding, that’s an accomplishment however small for us.”
Dark Being 5 summoned darkness out of himself. Mally stepped back in fear to see Dark Being 5 emit a dark aura around himself. He appeared like he was shrouded in demonic energy. He then started to charge towards Mally.
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Mally moved back to a distance before charging her weapon. Through her charged weapon, she fired the ground around him. In a few moments, later, discs of steel emerged from the ground. While spinning, they moved towards her before orbiting around her.
She used her arrow shots to influence the discs to Dark Being 5. Every time a disc hits the ground, it ends up exploding like a bomb. Dark Being 5 had to break some discs while avoiding other discs. Despite Mally keeping him at bay, he was gradually getting closer to her.
Mally: “My attacks could ward him off but not forever… If he manages to charge head on, I’ll be at a disadvantage.”
Away from where the Dream Club Members were fighting against the Impure Lieutenants, the war between the Earth City Soldiers and the Impure Members were continuing. In the sky, there were ships of opposing sides shooting against themselves. Their shots hit buildings and the ships of their enemies. One of the Earth City ships got hit causing it to crash into a building. The building collapsed to the ground from the impact.
On the ground, the Impure Members and the Earth City Soldiers were fighting against each other. They were using their weapons to defeat their opposing side.
Derry and his soldiers were moving back allowing the Impure Members to approach them further. The Impure Members increased their firepower that the soldiers had to act on the defensive. They had to use their shields to protect themselves. They resisted against the rain shower of arrows but they knew that they couldn’t resist forever.
The Impure Ships moved into an arrangement ready to attack in unison. The remaining Earth Ships went to an arrangement of their own.
Derry: “Wait for it…”
Suddenly, explosions occur from the ground upward blasting the first and second row of Impure Members. The Impure Members exposed by the explosions were instantly defeated. Some of the Impure Members moved out of the way while others tripped from the stampede.
Derry: “Now!”
The soldiers released themselves from their shields. They fired a rain shower of arrows down to the Impure Members. Their attacks caused some to be defeated and some to be injured. While the Impure Members were disoriented, the Earth City Soldiers charged with their weapons. The Impure Members seeing the approaching soldiers decided to charge. It led to a clash pushing some members of opposing sides back.
The Earth City Soldiers and Impure Members were clashing with their blades while others their arrows. Some were using their fists and kicks against each other.
One Impure Member had slain a soldier down across her body.
A soldier shot an Impure Member down.
Another Impure Member shoved her blade through a soldier’s body.
Another soldier slashed an Impure Member across his waist from behind.
A soldier kneed one Impure Member up his chin bringing him up to the sky a moment. The soldiers jumped up to the sky to knee him down to the ground.
Another Impure Member spin kicked a soldier in the stomach before fatally slashing her.
Up in the sky, the Impure Ships and the Earth City Ships were engaging against each other.
A soldier blasted a ship down to a forest outside the city.
Another soldier exploded a ship mid-air.
An Impure Member fired on a ship causing one side of it to break apart before finally exploding.
Two Impure Members moved through top and bottom of a soldier’s ship causing them to scratch its surface. That led to the soldier’s ship exploding.
One lucky soldier blasted a ship into another Impure Ship. They both spin against each other before exploding.
Derry was facing against a group of Impure Members. He slashed one down then blocked a sword by another. He kicked that troop in the stomach to force him back. Turning around, he deflected an arrow shot by another Impure Member. He returned the favor with his own arrow shot which hit the Impure Member's right chest.
Derry turned his attention to an Impure Member that was knocking his soldiers out of the way. He glanced at Derry with an amusing look. He had slain two of Derry's soldiers down to meet him.
Derry: “Your kind won’t destroy this city!! We won’t allow it!!”
Impure Member 1: “You and your allies may have stopped us countless times… Unfortunately, all of it was just training for us… Eventually, you will be too weak to defend this city… Just be aware that we are simply holding back… Now, it is time for us to win!!”
The Impure Members started to gradually become faster and stronger in their abilities. The Earth City Soldiers couldn’t keep up. It led to the soldiers being slain or shot down by their enemies’ weapons. The Impure Ships easily were able to shoot down the Earth City Ships to the ground.
Derry looked at the emerging situation with fear on his face.
Derry: “This… This can’t be…”
Impure Member 1: “Realize that it is game over for your city… Realize that you are no longer a threat to us anymore…”
The Impure Member moved in quickly causing Derry to block with his blade. While Derry's blade was locked with his enemy's blade, Derry's blade was starting to crack from his enemy's blade's power. Eventually, Derry’s weapon shattered. Derry quickly move back before his enemy could cut him down.
In a helpless situation, Derry watched as the Impure Member quickly came to him. The Impure Member quickly slashed Derry three times on Derry’s body causing Derry to fall to the ground unconscious.
Mansan smiled when he was observing the progress the Impure Members were doing. He then looked at the Dream Club Members and the Impure Lieutenants fighting evenly against each other.
The Impure Members were starting to go after the citizens of the city. They were blasting down buildings and breaking into buildings in order to harm the citizens.
Mansan snapped his fingers for the Impure Members to stop what they were doing. They started to go where their lord was.
Back at the location where Theodore was battling against Dark Being 6, she soon moved back to a distance laughing. Theodore looked at her with a curious look.
Theodore: “What’s so funny?”
Dark Being 6: “I guess it is time for me to go… It’s such a shame that I won’t get the chance to finish you off here…”
She started laughing before running off from Theodore. Theodore looked on with anger.
Theodore: “I’m not letting you escape here after what you have done to this city!!”
Theodore started to pursue after her.
At another location, Dark Being 4 had his blade locked with hers. He soon gave a crooked grin before blasting Penelope away from him.
Dark Being 4: “It’s too bad that this can’t be the fight to the death…”
He gave off a crazed laugh before fleeing from Penelope. Seeing him running off made her react in anger.
Penelope: “You coward!!! Come back here and face me!!!”
Penelope moved off to pursue after him.
At another location, Mally was avoiding dark aura attacks by Dark Being 5. She was doing her best to avoid getting touched by his aura. Soon, his dark aura shrank down back into his body confusing Mally.
Dark Being 5: “It seems that our lord has summoned us… For this reason, this fight is postponed… Be lucky that my lord has called off the war…”
He moved off hoping on many ruined buildings until he was no longer in Mally's sight.
Mally: “I better stop him. He’s too much of a threat for this city…”
She started to chase right after him.
The Impure Lieutenants moved to where Mansan was. The Dream Club Members with determination chased after them. Soon, the Dream Club Members were able to meet up again. They soon faced the Impure Lieutenants with their Lord, Mansan. Behind them, there was an army of Impure Members. The Dream Club Members looked out to find in horror that the Earth City Soldiers were defeated. Among them, Derry was on the ground injured. They looked on with anger on their faces.
Theodore: “What have you done with our allies, you fiend!?!”
Mansan: “They did what they were ordered to do… It seems that Bastructour has trained them well… They are now ready to return to the physical world. It is there they will make it into the image of the Impure…
They will do so by waking up in that existence as ordinary people. People from the physical world wouldn’t think much of their behavior. The Impure Members will start to take positions of power. Soon, they will overtake the governments in the world… In their positions of power, they will cause social and economic chaos… They will take peoples' lives who resist a new world order… With that, they will force the world and Humanity to plunge into a Dark Age… A Dark Age that they will never emerge out from…
If you paid attention to the news you will know this to be true… Humanity helped to make this easy for us. You’ve been in the physical world before. You should have seen how corrupt and dark Humanity is becoming… It is their choice to embrace Impurity and we, the Impure Order will be willing to recruit them all as Impure Members...”
Mally: “What you are doing is despicable… We will train ourselves so one day we can stop you. One day, we will find a means to reverse what you are going to do to the physical world.”
Mansan: “You can go ahead and try but realize that the physical world is already doomed… Humanity had made sure of that…”
Mansan, the Impure Lieutenants with the Impure Members faded away into nothingness. The Dream Club Members were now alone. With the sense of defeat and anger on their faces, they observed the destroyed part of the city.
Mally: “It’s horrible what the Impure Order had done here… Is this what they will do to the physical world…?”
Theodore: “This is what they do... They are the bad of the baddest group I've ever seen... Doing all of this just to stop the Awakeners...”
Penelope: “I don’t care about their viewpoints of how they think they are saving this existence!! They had no right to do this to the people here and the people on Earth! They will get what they deserve soon enough including Mansan!”
They went to where they saw hundreds of Derry's forces on the ground. Some were unconscious, some were half conscious and some were still conscious. They all appeared severely injured and unable to move. Arrows were scattered around them along with burnt marks on some areas of the place. It showed how fierce the war was. Among the group of fallen soldiers, they found Derry who was severely injured and unconscious. They observed the blade wounds Derry’s opponent gave to him. The Dream Club Members rushed over to help him.
Mally: “Stand back. I’ll heal him.”
Mally summoned a universe blanket from her weapon. She places it over Derry. His body started to glow in purple light making his injuries slowly disappear. Once her blanket disappeared, he was fully recovered. Derry started to open his eyes out of shock. He got up into sitting position quickly to look around the ruined environment.
Near him, he noticed the Dream Club Members looking at him. He placed his hand on his head as if appearing relieved from their presence.
Derry: “The Destined Guardians are here... Where have you been…?”
Mally: “We were denied of helping you because the Impure Lord was here… We had to fight his Lieutenants and for that reason, we couldn’t help you…”
Derry: “Really…? I see… Then there is no hope for any of us or even the physical world… My forces and I tried to defend this city but they were too strong... They left us helpless... They destroyed our buildings out of sick pleasure…. They even tormented our citizens...”
Penelope: “I finished off the lieutenant responsible for this but it didn’t matter… The Impure Order continues to be trouble for this place... If only we were stronger, we could have stopped this...”
Derry: “Let me and my forces handle the Impure Members... This is personal what they done here...”
Penelope: “You already handled them and lost. They are too strong for your forces now.”
Derry: “I’ll just have to find a way to make my forces and I stronger... I just don't know how...”
Mally: “Why not we arrange a meeting to discuss what we could do to help you. We have solutions that could benefit you well. I just hope that our three remaining friends that are in the physical world can manage. I feel that they are in grave danger due to the Impure Members arriving on Earth…”
Theodore: “Derry said that we are the Destined Guardians. That means that our friends should be Destined Guardians too. I feel that they will find a way to survive in the physical world somehow.”
Mally: “I don’t think so given that we had failed to save this city… Let’s hope that they end up lucky…”
Penelope: “I’ll be angrier if my friends get harmed by the Impure Members there…”
Derry: “Come to the Grand Hall Area. It is there where I will hear on what you have to say that will solve this problem.”
In the Grand Hall; the Dream Club Members stood in front of Derry who was relaxing on his throne. He appeared to be trying to internally recover from the war.
Derry: “I thank you for doing your part in saving our city… If you weren’t here to save us, I believe this city would have been destroyed…”
Penelope: “It didn’t matter… Mansan decided to spare this city… We all didn’t stand a chance against the Impure Order…”
Theodore: “What’s the story? Why are they attacking you?”
Derry: “I am trying to figure out that myself… What I learned so far is that to them, it’s a sick game… Every few months or so, they ended up invading our city and destroying what they can get their hands on… I’ve noticed over the months that the Impure Members were growing stronger and wiser… It was getting more difficult to defend this city… I’m now worried that if they arrive here again, they might succeed in taking over this city…”
Mally: “I have a solution. Will you allow us to help you? We want to join with your forces against the Impure Order. Theodore, Penelope and I have awakened our powers. Will you give us the privilege to work with you against this threat?”
Derry appeared to think over Mally’s request for a while.
Derry: “We can’t send you back to the physical world. The Impure Order has become too strong. For these reasons, we need all the help we could get. I will grant you that privilege for now.”
Mally: “Good. I have the blueprints to a machine that if altered, could help us to return back to the physical world. I might even be able to use their technology against the Impure Order. Is there a place here where I could have this done?”
Derry: “Yes. In the Technological District, there is a science lab that can help you. I will allow you to meet up with a highest-ranking technologist there. His name is Andrew. Maybe he could help you with your machine blueprints.”
Mally: “Very much appreciated.”
Penelope appeared to be thinking for some time until she started to speak.
Penelope: “Derry, I have an idea to toughen up your forces. I just figured it out just now. It is my training camp. The idea came from my time in the Battle Forest and the war we had to endure here. Will you allow me to build this camp?”
Derry: “Certainly. After all, it will benefit my forces. You could do so in the forest outside this city. My forces sometimes do training there.”
Penelope: “Before I build this camp, I need to know how strong your forces are.”
Derry: “I will arrange for a top commander to meet you and show you our armed forces Penelope. There, you'll be able to test how strong they are.”
Penelope smiled while agreeing with him.
Theodore: “I’ll use my mind to create something that helps me to understand the Impure Plan. I'll see how Mally, Penelope and my dream experiences fits together. From them, I could understand what the Impure Order is up to. It might help us to know their weaknesses.”
Mally: “Since Theodore, Penelope and I know our objectives, let’s begin with our work.”