Fallen Stars

Mystery Forty-Eight

Calm Before The Storm

The strong tornadoes blow Wrath away! The wind overpowers him!! DOOM has a weird expression, still holding onto his sword, resting it down.

DOOM: Answer me, Fear. Why the hell did you show up?

**DOOM**

Stellar: G2

Cosmic Path: Blood (Negative)

Sacred Companion: Chijū* (Forbidden)

Epithet: Madvillain, One-Man Army

Asterism: Apex Predators

Net Worth: 300,000,000

Fear: Don’t take that tone with me! We still have business to handle.

**Fear**

Stellar: G1

Cosmic Path: Wind (Negative)

Sacred Companion: Kazejū* (Forbidden)

Epithet: Stormfront

Asterism: Apex Predators

Net worth: 400,000,000

AN* Chijū means Blood Beast, and Kazejū means Wind Beast!

DOOM: I can handle this alone. He’s already finished.

Fear: What’s the crime in having some help?! We are a duo; you know?

After spinning around in the tornadoes, and getting cut up by the sharp wind, Wrath slams into the ground!

Wrath: …

Wrath gasps for breath, and his whole body feels in extreme pain.

Wrath: *sigh* (I have to deal with two people yelling out their attack names… This really is worse than death.)

Wrath rolls over to his belly, forcing himself to stand up. He stumbles, and blood drips from his wound, but they also heal slowly and he stands, wobbling.

Fear: (How is he able to still stand?)

Wrath coughs, clenching in pain, spitting the blood out of his mouth.

Wrath looks at his opponents, then looks to his side, side-eyeing everything.

Wrath: Controlling wind, and controlling blood…

Wrath’s wounds begin to seal, healing from the pain. He tightens his muscles, testing his strength.

Wrath: (There’s still pain, but I’ll be fine.)

Wrath finally gets in a stance and readies.

Wrath: Why did I have to run into two of you…

Wrath’s voice is picked up by the wind, the quiet whispers travel to Fear. She whispers back and the wind travels it to Wrath.

Fear: You don’t know? The Apex Predators move in pairs, so we can hunt down prey easily. DOOM has been my partner for years.

Wrath: (Apex Predators...?) Prey? You think I’m the prey? *grins*

Lightning cracks from the sky, while Wrath claps his hands!!

Wrath: **Lightning Strike**

Fear’s wind boosts around numerous cracks of unpredictable bolts striking down!! Striking all over the vicinity!! But Fear dodges easily, and DOOM. They both avoid the oncoming onslaught.

Fear puts a hand slightly covering her mouth, laughing. The surrounding synergy is grim.

Fear: This is who you’ve been fighting, DOOM? This kid is such a novice, he doesn’t even have a style. He’s just moving his hands around.

DOOM: …I noticed.

Wrath: Kid?! Novice?! I know the dwarf isn’t talking!

Fear: Dwarf?!

Fear turned into boiling anger.

In the sky, Zeus is fighting two versus one! Soaring the skies as a griffin, fighting both the wind beast and blood beast!

Moros: Why do you always have to butt in my fights?!

The wind beast flapped its wings while throwing wind pecks at Zeus!

Phobos: Oi, quit your crying, big baby.

AN* Phobos is the Greek personified spirit of fear and panic.

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Zeus zooms in!! Slashing Moros with its claws! And blitzes around Phobos!!

Moros: Run in, attack, run out. Rinse and repeat.

Moros takes the attack well.

Phobos: With no style to use, it has no foundation. How pathetic. Let me show you something, little battery.

Phobos flaps its wings repeatedly, summoning a mammoth of wind.

Phobos: **Tempest Style - Distressed Derecho**

The great grey winds bunch up, creating a cluster pocket of intense winds. Zeus tries escaping but is sucked in, straight into the eye of the storm!! Being hurled around between sixty miles per hour winds!!

**Meanwhile,

Draco’s Location**

**Rarrar’s Tavern**

Sitting at a restaurant on the luxurious side of El Dorado. The table is filled with dishes.

Draco: And what is this?

Draco points to a dish. Sitting across from him is Lich.

Lich: This is Bloody Mary Escargot. Snails enriched with nutritious blue blood and said to put a trance of fulfillment on the consumer.

Draco takes a bite.

Draco: Wow! This does taste good! And this?

Another dish, but a light meat dish.

Lich: This is from an undersea saltwater cave. Muriel Trench Venison. Flavors are said to burst out when you taste it.

Draco picks it up with his fork, taking another bite. And the flavor bursts out! And he has nothing but enjoyment over his face.

Draco: I want to order more!

Draco, using his fork, takes a bite from every plate on the table, in a snobby way.

Lich: You’re going to blow through your money doing that. Especially here.

Draco: I just won three million sols. So I can spend a little.

Lich: You reveal a lot of information so easily. Do you do that often?

Draco: Hm? No, not really. I usually don’t talk to anyone. But, since you’re in my group, I can share a lot with you. I only tell my friends stuff.

Lich: Oh.

Draco wipes his face with a light cloth.

Draco: So, tell me about yourself.

Lich: Aren’t you worried about your friends? You haven’t spoken to them since I met you.

Draco: Hahaha! Worried? About my friends? No way. They’re pretty strong. I’m sure they’re completely fine.

**Wrath’s Location**

Wrath: AHHHHHHHH!!!!

Wrath is spinning!! Twisting, turning, and hurling through the Derecho!!

He’s tossed out of the storm and flips, catching himself before he lands.

Fear: Those without a style are pathetic.

Wrath grunts.

Wrath: **Alternative Current**

The lightning coated surrounding Wrath changes in flow. Flowing in a reverse direction. Wrath blitzes and gets up close and personal with Fear! Wrath threw a right punch, but Fear saw it easily coming and dodged, but was hit with a left punch!!

Fear: (What?)

Fear saw Wrath's left kick coming and dodge it, but was hit with the opposite leg!!

Fear: (I see now.)

Wrath controls some lightning, throwing it at Fear from his right. Fear dodges the oncoming attack from the left. Lightning just barely dodges her.

Fear: (What you see is really the opposite.)

Wrath: (She figured it out pretty fast.)

After dodging, Fear and DOOM get side by side.

Wrath: …

DOOM holds his sword in the air, and blood comes spewing out. Fear mixes in her wind with his blood, forming strong bloody winds.

DOOM & Fear: **DOOM Tempest Style - DOOMster Dust Devil**

Six bloody dust devils come raging at Wrath!!

Wrath: Watch out, watch out!!

The strong winds caught him again despite his attempts to dodge them.

Wrath: (Even when he mixes his attack with something else, it’s still unavoidable?!)

Wrath wrestles the winds, sparking lightning from his body, trying to overpower them. But his arms and chest are getting constantly cut.

Wrath: (I have to be stronger!)

**Gold Light District**

Someone comes busting through the door into Carina’s office.

Mera: Ms.Carina!

Carina: Hm?

Mera: There’s a fight going on!

Carina: In the district?!

Carina, Baidam, and Rosa were stunned.

Mera: No! It’s taking place in Midas! It’s a tremendous commotion going on, and the entire district is being swept up into it!

Carina: What’s happening??

Mera: We’re not sure, but we know it’s a fight between three people. Two people are fighting one person.

The immediate thought that comes to Carina’s mind is an image of IX and X.

Carina: IX and X are ganging up on someone…?

Carina side eyes Baidam and Rosa.

Carina: If Dorado won’t take care of them, we will. We’re going.

Baidam has an outburst of excitement.

Baidam: Woooo, finally!!

Rosa: *sigh* Ok.

Baidam: Cheer up! We finally get to fight!

Rosa: Only you have been waiting for this moment.

Baidam twirled her chains.

Baidam: *shrugs* Maybe.

The three walk out of the office. Carina instructs her subordinates about keeping the Cathouse running, and making their way. Before getting outside, Carina grabs Asselli by the collar and drags him.

Carina: You’re coming with us.

Asselli: Jus-Just one more drink, bartender.

Asselli, who’s numb and disoriented, gets dragged into the upcoming fight!

**Wrath’s Location**

DOOM: Why do you continue to fight? No one will fault you for running away.

Wrath: *cough*

Wrath barely moving, slowly standing up, coughing up blood.

DOOM: What are your goals?

Wrath: *smirks* Yaha. I will be king.

DOOM: King of what?

Wrath: King of it all.

DOOM: …

The intensity changes around DOOM, back to his blood-lusted mode. Fear feels the surrounding aura changing and smirks.

**Years Ago**

On an unknown island, there sits a young boy in a red suit of armor, training his swordsmanship. His father comes by, giving him a word of advice.

His father is smoking a cigarette, he has bags under his eyes, his beard is a five o’clock shadow, and is extremely unkempt.

Doomer: Still training to become a Sword King? Jajaja.

The young boy stops training. His father leans against the wall.

Doomer: Listen here, boy. Anyone can be anything in this world. The possibilities are endless. But only a select few can be king. And you’re NOT one of them. It takes a real blessed individual to take up that mantle. Just give up. Life has no meaning anyway.

**End of Flashback**

DOOM: You have no idea how to be king.

Wrath’s sensibility changes.

Wrath: (HM???) ME? I DON’T KNOW??

Wrath’s mind goes haywire. Those words unlocked something in the back of his head!

DOOM and Fear form another combined attack, this time bigger than anything before.

DOOM & Fear: **DOOM Tempest Style - DOOMsday Supercell**

A massive bundle of wind and blood mixes. A tremendous wall cloud forms, with a super strong condensed funnel. Blood flicks everywhere while it forms.

Wrath’s eyes get larger the more he gazes at the Supercell.

[For the first time in Wrath’s life, he has experienced what would seem normal to everyone. This is his first time feeling fear. Or better yet, this would be the second time he has felt fear. When he encountered something exactly like this before. The great storm makes him think of that moment. But Wrath is smirking seeing this.]

Wrath: YAHAHAHA!!!

[What Is Wrath Thinking

About In A Time Like This?!]

Mystery 48 Fin