See, You Are In A Different World

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The bus finally reached its destination, Las Vegas, the city where stars shine and where everything that makes Hollywood ‘Hollywood'. The group walk out and wasted no time as Ayame felt Tachibana's presence not too far from the bus station. 

“Alright, where is he?” Heather said as they continue running while they follow Ayame. 

“It's farther south,” Ayame said as she felt the presence getting stronger and stronger. Luckily, Heather gave her a drink that can provide her enough energy to track Tachibana with ease.

With no people nearby, the two flapped their wings, Heather took Amis while Ayame took Hässlicher, and as for Troy, his shield help him follow them. As they followed a linear path southwards, they finally reached the place they are looking for but it was different than they thought. They went to the back and slowly descend until they reached the ground. 

“So, this is it huh?” Troy said as he looked at the abandoned theater, they were expecting to be a mansion but no, it was a theater. 

“We don't have much time, let's go.” Heather hesitated, everyone followed as the angel burst the gates and so the search begins. 

“Listen, we'll split up. You three will take the east wwhile we take the west.” Heather ordered, they all nodded as the group split apart, knowing that this is the faster solution to find Tachibana in this large theater but also the problem of easier exposure. 

“Okay, where is he….” Amis said as they keep on looking. While searching they heard a knife was being sliced, a squeal as the knife was being carved, they began searching for that sound but this was a huge mistake. They reached the echoes of the squeal of the knives and saw a man in a corner, carving his knife with another. 

“Seems to be we have guests.” Said the man in a deep voice, it echoed across the hallways as the three look at him menacingly look. 

“Who are you?” Troy asked the man as he continued sharpening his knife. 

“You can call me Maahes, the Egyptian God of war, weather, lotuses, and cannibalism.” The man said as he reveals his face, it wasn't a human one's but he has the face of a lion. He has a human body with a head of a lion, his face looks menacingly, the three tried not to be scared as the deity look at them. 

“Where is Tachibana.” Troy hesitated as he wanted to know where the demon is, they don't want to waste time anymore, they want to end it as soon as possible. 

“Oh? It seems that you were late for the party, he already left.” Maahes told the roman. 

“What do you mean he left?” Troy asked him once more. He was in a state of disbelief as everything they went through went worthless.

“He left, he went back to Tokyo to continue his reign.” Maahes explained, Amis felt something, something that was awakened from his body, was it the feeling of injustice or anger. 

“AMIS!” Troy shouted as the knight all of the sudden charges without any support from either him or Hässlicher. 

“I WOULD NOT ALLOW OUR JOURNEY TO BE WORTHLESS!” Amis raged as he charged to Maahes with his sword in front of him. The deity was chilling but for Amis, he went full outburst. 

“You fool Amis! Stop!” Troy cussed the knight, he couldn't believe he could tell that to Amis but here we are. 

“Hmm.” Maahes then look at the knight as he realizes his emotion was the one who told him to charge, he broke his honor and felt like he doesn't deserve to be called a knight anymore. 

“I, Maahes, the Egyptian God of war, I have come forth for Sir Amis to be charged off from his duty.” The deity stated as he throws a knife to the ceiling and all of a sudden, the ceiling cracked and a strong tremor occurred. 

“AMIS!” Troy shouted as debris from the ceiling fell to the knight with no mercy, he couldn't help him as the debris continue falling. 

“TROY NO!” Hässlicher said as he grabbed Troy who almost got hit by one of the debris. 

“WE NEED TO SAVE HIM!” Troy argued to Hässlicher, he knows it was too late but saving him would be worthless. 

“What else can we save him? We are not Heather or Ayame, we are just regular human beings who were gifted with unique powers.” Hässlicher stated, Troy couldn't help as he sees his best friend died. 

“So, who's next?” Maahes said to them, before anything could happen, he got punctured in his stomach.

“WHAT THE?!” the deity shouted as he got the donut. He felt something was sparking in his hole, he felt the immeye pain in that hole as he saw the first was deep enough to penetrate him.

“This is what you get.” Heather coldly said as she removes her hand from the deity, it fell to the ground and slowly turn into ashes. 

“Heather, good timing. We need to heal Amis.” Troy stated as he began finding the knight from the fallen debris.

“No.” Heather look away as she rejected Troy's command. 

“What do you mean no?” Troy said as he stopped from finding and look at the angel.

“I said No.” Heather sniff as tears fell from her eyes, she began wiping away all of her tears.

“Why?” Troy asked her, Ayame couldn't tell Troy the truth since Heather was the only one that can tell all about it. 

“He said that if he died and lost his honor of being a knight, there is no revival.” Heather coldly stated as she looks down on the ground, Troy couldn't do anything but leave the debris and stood up. 

“His death may be useless but he live the best with his last 3 days.” Ayame said. 

As silence came into the air after the death of Amis, a glow from the debris began shining, everyone looks at it and saw how to formed into a stream, slowly connecting to Troy. The roman felt he was getting stronger and then it hit him, Amis gave his last strengths and powers to Troy in order to finish the journey. After the stream finally ended, the glow died out, Troy stood up, prepared as anger was finally in his veins to push forward and to finally end Tachibana.

“Troy, It's up to you now.” Hässlicher stated to the roman. Before anything heroic happened, his phone dialed. He then looks at it and saw Kagura, she was calling him. He places it in his ears and called her.

“Troy, I got some bad news.” Kagura stated to him.

“What?” Troy asked her.

“Listen, Tachibana is back. Here in Tokyo.” Kagura said. He then heard a large explosion in the background and everything felt so urgent. 

“Okay, we'll be there.” Troy said as he ended the call and look at the group.

“We need to go, now.” Troy said. 

“Let's go.” Heather said as they left the theaters and went to the nearest airport, the McCarren International Airport.