A Nearby Spaceship

Emperor Valerian Nebulous stares out the window of the flagship belonging to the Empire of Nebula. But no matter how many times he rubs his eyes or searches out of the ship with his senses, what he’s seeing doesn’t change. The same black and red mist fill the entire space in front of their planet while screeches echo out through space.

The emperor was at a loss for what he could possibly do to save the nation he leads from the swarm of monsters attacking them. Monsters that the angels call void creatures.

But then a strange woman appeared in space without so much as a spacesuit on to protect her or air to breathe. And she was so beautiful, yet despite that, emitted so much power that made his knees grow weak.

Then she transformed into a massive wolf comparable in size to the massive monsters they were being slaughtered by.

He watches for several minutes as the red mist slowly begins to overtake the black mist before eventually a large sphere of writhing red liquid that he’s pretty sure is blood appears surrounding it all. Practically forming a moon near their planet.

“What… are we watching?” the emperor’s brother, Reginald Nebulous, asks, the younger man standing next to him while also staring out the window.

But the emperor just shakes his head and mutters, “You tell me.”

All of the soldiers within the bridge with them run around from one place to another, scrambling to figure out what to do. But none of them manage to do anything other than increase the panic already within the room.

Then, under the gazes of all the people within the spaceship and outside of it, the massive red orb begins to shrink as loud sounds come from within. And once in a while, a faint black mist is occasionally expelled from within the red orb.

The orb slowly shrinks more and more until it begins to converge around five different locations. Making five different orbs.

Valerian’s eyes narrow ever so slightly as four of the orbs begin to morph to the shapes of the massive monsters within them. Monsters that appear to be straining against the red liquid.

But soon enough, their attempts to break out slow to a stop. And the orbs continue to shrink as loud screeches echo out from within them.

The emperor’s mouth parts opens, and his brother mutters, “Just… what is she?”

No one answers his question. Instead, every last person within the ship freezes and turns their focus on the five orbs as the four monster-shaped blobs of crimson liquid writhe once. Then twice.

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Then they pop, making red and black liquid spray out everywhere with no monsters in sight.

“She…” the emperor mutters, only to pause when the last of the orbs slowly begins to dissipate, revealing the beautiful woman with her face pointed forwards and a small, satisfied smirk on her face.

The woman is wearing a black jacket with red trim over a plain black shirt and black pants. Meanwhile her black hair tinted heavily with crimson is floating behind her, fanning out in an arc as she floats in the air with her arms crossed. And droplets of glowing red liquid float in the space all around her, illuminating the woman with wolf ears.

Like a-

“She’s like a goddess…” his brother finishes his thoughts for him. And it doesn’t take long for more people to say the same thing all around the spaceship.

Everyone in the ship gazes at the beautiful woman. At the goddess as she slowly looks around at the space surrounding the planet. Space that quickly clears up of the glowing crimson liquid that the emperor realizes is blood. Just that it was difficult to tell due to the red glow let off by the liquid.

And after the blood is cleared up, the emperor realizes that there isn’t a single monster left in sight. Then the blood making up the massive sphere around the planet slowly dissipates as well.

As if the blood was nothing more than an illusion.

The silence in the ship spans for several more seconds as the woman looks at each of the spaceships. Almost like she was searching for something.

Then her gaze locks directly onto their spaceship and her smirk turns into a smile.

Valerian opens his mouth to speak and order his forces to send someone out to meet her. Only for the woman to vanish in a flash of red light before reappearing again right in front of Valerian.

Inside of the ship.

Everyone freezes up before instantly reacting each in their own ways. Half of the people within the bridge begin bowing or kneeling. Others even kowtow, going down on their knees and pressing their foreheads to the ground.

Only a few soldiers reach to draw their weapons, but even they freeze like statues the moment their hands touch the weapons. Then they move to stand stiffly with their arms held parallel to their bodies.

But the goddess just puts her hands in her pockets and looks up above the emperor’s head and says, “Hello spirit, would you mind taking me to the next world that’s under attack?”

Silence fills the bridge.

Spirit? Next world? Attacked? What?

To his surprise, his contracted angel appears over his head, making a rare appearance. Since the angels of their world rarely ever show themselves to anyone. Not even their contracted partners.

Valerian fights the urge to kneel to his angel as she floats over to stop right in front of the goddess. His angel has long golden hair and is a little shorter than he is, with two angelic wings sticking out of her back through an open-back dress. The same outfit he’s seen her in the last four times he’s seen her.

“If that’s what you wish to have in return for helping us,” his angel declares.

And just as quickly as the goddess arrived, she vanishes again in a flash of golden light. A sign of his angel using her power.

Then his angel vanishes again without a word to the emperor.

Leaving everyone in the bridge shocked into silence.

Valerian’s mouth opens, then closes again. Then it opens again, and closes again.

What… just happened?

He stares for several seconds before eventually shaking his head and turning around, declaring, “Spread the news to the world! We have been saved! By the Wolf of the Blood Moon and Goddess herself!”

The silence within the bridge immediately shatters as cheers echo through it.