Destiny Seekers

CHAPTER 2: CZARINA, VIOLENCE'S SISTER

“How does it feel to take revenge on the god?” Mr. S looked at the head of Violence and his remains as he asked me, “He’s not dead yet, but he is already as good as dead to me…”

“We’re just humans after all,” I sighed. “But we still beat the god. It felt good…”

“Revenge is not always the answer though,” Mr. S patted me in the shoulder.

“Mr. O, can you hear me?” Mr. X established a line in our base. “Have your portal ready so that Master W can collect this piece of god.”

“It seemed like we’ve established connection to our home base,” Mr. S sighed in relief. “Now, we’ll be able to enter their domain every time…”

“Let’s head back then,” I said as Mr. O’s portal opened to get us in.

However, when it opened, the oldest member of the emissaries, Master W, welcomed us with his monstrous tentacles as it collected the remains of Violence so he could imprison him in Eternal Sleep. That’s right, Master W, the oldest member who only wore a half masked marked with the letter W only covered his mouth and nose part with it, has the blessing called Eternal Keeper to preserve our dead comrades and guide them to their eternal sleep as well as imprisoning those who dare abuse their power. Unlike us, Master W looked like he’s of the undead race because of his pale and purplish skin complexion.

After collecting the remains, including the head of the demonic god, and got the tentacle jump scare, we went inside the portal procured by Mr. O. Mr. O’s blessing is called the Gateway. He is capable of opening portals and take us to any place in the world as long as it is registered within his reach. Now that we had reached the Destiny Seeker’s domain, our plans would be set in motion.

“The gateway is closing, Mr. X,” Mr. O, who had the same voice and intonation as Professor Snape in the Harry Potter Movies, waited for him to enter. “Are you done there?”

“Yeah, I am,” Mr. X wiped off his hands. “Let’s go back…”

“Alpha Boss will be mad with your outrageousness, but what’s done is done…” Mr. W headed off with the secured remains of Violence as soon as the gateway to his room. “It’d be best if you report this one immediately…”

“Yes sir,” in unison, all of us saluted him.

Alpha Boss is what we call our leader. He is in fact, Lord Exal…

The reason he never turned us into gods was because of a betrayal by two of his previous emissaries. This story was told by us by Master W, who was there when it all started. The betrayers’ names were Abra and Spriggan. Abra was once hailed as Mr. H… he had the blessing of Calamity… or Catastrophe while Spriggan was the Mr. S before… the Mr. S we have now. Now, the one with the blessing of catastrophe is with Ms. H… well decided to let our real names be unknown… redacted… or just not mentioned.

“Well done…”

Surprisingly, those were the lines dropped by Alpha Boss instead of getting yelled at or getting punished. Wondering why, I would’ve asked… but Mr. S beat me into asking… and asked him first. To be honest, the future was very dim at this point…

“Why, you asked?” Alpha Boss, with fatherly voice played with his balance scales beside his desk.

Instead of a throne, like all of the gods out there, Alpha Boss decided that his special sit would be like that of an office desk… as if he is the CEO of the Emissaries of Balance. He, himself, introduced the Church of Libra, the religion Librium in the Main Universe where all Supreme Beings are known. Unlike the other universes, who have mortals only worshipping one, two, or three Supreme Beings, the main universe had all eleven. However, worshippers are still divided as to who they would prefer.

We were also known in our religion, known only by our Blessing and not our aliases. It also allowed us Emissaries to work within the confines of our mission in all the worlds without getting noticed or being known. As such, only a handful of trusted races of gods know of our aliases, that including the Essential Beings. Some race of gods know about our aliases though… just like the race of the gods from called the Verus (Reality Beings). It was one of the reasons, Mr. S failed his mission that time when he got caught and failed to recognize a god in the guise of a human.

I was inattentive for a while… while thinking about all of the things that had happened when Alpha Boss decided to answer why he commended us instead of the other way around.

“In a span of two months and a 11 days, we will be part of a war against every other gods. We had a meeting for the first time since I can no longer remember when and there had been factions within gods. We, as an independent faction and as a unit will stop them by any means necessary so that the Verse will remain in Balance.”

“I feel like… I don’t like the sound of that,” I suddenly felt uneasy… unable to see what would happen in this war…

“Great!” Mr. X cheered as he made a fist. “You won’t get mad if we go back to the domain of those Destiny Seekers and restore balance right?!”

It felt like Mr. X was obligated to say the restore the balance part… but… oh well…

“It would be better if you give these kids a chance to become gods, Alpha Boss,” Master W steps in. “If you ever agree on deploying us in the war instead of the Neuters… then it would change the Scales against the Fate.”

“I’m on board with going to war,” Mr. S sounded pressured, “but it would mean that we might say goodbye with our comrades.”

“You have a point, Master W.” Alpha Boss felt a bit concerned to lose us even if we were replaceable to begin with. He was just being a dad to all of us, “I don’t want you, my children to throw your lives away into the war. I have decided of a way to do it… but we’ll need all of you Emissaries so that you’d know about what’s in store for all of us.”

Meanwhile… moving on to the point of view of a Destiny Seeker… we head to their domain, The Providence.

Suoic Ipsus takes the center stage!

“Czarina-Czarina-Czarina-Czarina, while you were away in the arms of your other boss… Lady Naxo,” I cunningly and exaggeratingly lamented the loss of her brother, Violence. “Your brother… was attacked… here… in his domain… and we felt his presence disappeared. Could it mean that Violence is dead? What will you do… oh Czarina?”

Czarina, in her human form, is a tanned brunette with blue markings on her cheeks, and a skull with wings on her sternum right above her big breasts. The way she dressed is something to called as daring… at the very least… but it goes well with her beauty. She looked like she didn’t give a damn about what happened to his brother… although… she seemed to give a s**t about the note left by my destined rival… Mr. X…

“This message,” she said softly with her oh so daring voice, “it seemed that it is truly directed towards you… who is Mr. X and how did they get here in Providence.”

“About that…” I made a popping sound with my mouth, and raised my right hand, “I solemnly swear to have no idea how they got here… but I will tell you that… … … HOWEVER, I AM DELIGHTED TO KNOW THAT THAT DAMNED MR. X HAS RETURNED! … … I don’t have any idea who the hell he is.”

“What is Mr. X to you?” she continued to ask me, “What happened between the two of you?”

“Big brother was beaten by the one called Mr. X during one of his playtime with his playthings’ destinies…” making her way in our conversation was none other than my flat-chested little sister, Ara Kuneida.

I scoffed, “you had to say it, don’t you?”

“AH MY BEAUTIFUL FLAT-CHESTED FRIEND~” Czarina hurried over to give her a big hug. “I WAS GONNA LOOK FOR YOU FIRST, BUT THEN I FOUND OUT THAT MY BROTHER GOT IN TROUBLE!”

“It’s alright, Cow’s Breasts~” Ara hugged her back, “I knew that you didn’t mean it~”

“EHEM…” I pretended to clear my throat. “Let us go back… to our… previous discussion, shall we?”

“Of course,” Czarina smirked. “Astounding as it is, no one’s ever beaten us in our games with the mortals… you are a first~ and my brother seemed to be the second…”

“At least, I lived to tell the tale… not unlike your brother,” I glared at her.

“Mortals capable of taking down a god is indeed terrifying…” Ara licked her lips, “If only we had a footage of what took place in here…”

“Now that you mentioned,” I remembered being the one to vote against the use of those winged eyes, “we gods… love our privacy… you know? Not unless you want other to see you have s*x with your playthings, little sister…”

“I’m not a porn star,” she rolled her eyes, “and I only had s*x once… my larvae creations are the one’s doing my dirty deeds… playing with the fate of men so that they would cheat~”

“Who was the lucky guy that broke your hymen?” Czarina became intrigued.

“That is… a big secret,” she winked at her.

“Your girly discussions are quite irritating, I am leaving. Good luck to your brother if he’s still alive…” I turned away and left… wondering… how… and why…

That event where I was beaten by that human made me feel very-very humiliated as a god… I could never forgive that person… whoever he is…

I’m going to find you… and torture you to death…

“HAAAACHOOOO!!!”

“Whoa, Mr. X!” Mr. S moved away from him. “You’re gonna spread some virus here!”

Moving back to the Emissaries… in Mr. G’s perspective…

“Relax, Mr. S,” Mr. X removed his mask to wipe his nose. “I sneezed under the mask…”

“Where is Mr. G anyway?” Mr. S looked around for me while waiting for the announcement.

“I’m here,” I sighed and approached them.

“It’s hard to look for your mark,” Mr. S sighed…

“Mr. S, looking for Mr. G is quite easy… just call him out or look around for someone without the a mark,” Mr. X looked around and saw Ms. K also not wearing a marked mask… “Oh yeah… Ms. K had her mark as a collar or as a necklace? The point is-”

Before Mr. X could continue, Alpha Boss finally decided to discuss the plan.

“Now that everybody is here,” Alpha Boss looked at all of us Emissaries including the Neuters, “We shall proceed with the Code: BIG PLAN!”

“So does BIG PLAN mean something?” Mr. A, the Cyborg, curiously asked Alpha Boss.

“It does not…” Alpha Boss scratched his head.

It looked like the others were dumbfounded too…

“Goddamnit,” I whispered, “Who makes a code name with capital letters without using it as acronyms!”

“As I was saying,” Alpha Boss started his serious talk, “Let us get this out of the way first, the Neuters will be the ones deployed in the war at the Root of Origin! I am confident enough that they can take down a lot of those rogue gods! They cannot be tampered with, they cannot be controlled by any other races of gods, and they will only listen to us, the legal owners of these puppet gods! Second, I would like to commend Mr. G, Mr. S, and Mr. X for the capture of one of the rogue gods and also securing a gateway to the Providence, the Headquarters of the Destiny Seekers! Finally, All of you emissaries will be taking part of this raid in the Providence!”

“Say that again?” Mr. B looked confused. “We’re humans! We cannot go toe to toe against gods like Mr. S!”

“I agree with Mr. B,” Mr. L also raised his opinion. “Even with my top-tier Psychokinetic capabilities, the only way we could be a god would be to become one or at least have the god-repelling powers Mr. S has… or perhaps the luck-based powers Mr. X has!”

“Which is why I am giving you emissaries an additional Blessing!” Alpha Boss grinned, “I will give you the temporary boost to become gods for an hour and it can be used again after 24 hours. I’m sorry guys, that’s the only thing I can give you…”

Alpha Boss raised his hands up…

From the dark ceiling above us, each of us emissaries were hit by rays of light!

“I can feel it,” I said to myself, “the warmth is coursing through my body… and my soul…”

When the lights went out, Alpha Boss resumed his forum…

“You feel that,” he grinned. “I do not recommend that you try it now. You can do it during the raid! By the way, Mr. O, and Mr. W, will you two please step forward!”

“Yes, Alpha Boss?” Mr. O stepped forward.

Mr. W silently moved forward as well…

“The two of you, have the greatest job of all time, and that is two save those who are about to be killed by the Destiny Seekers!” Alpha Boss then turned to Mr. W. “I have a confession to make about Mr. W, my dear emissaries…”

Master W in front and faced us…

“Mr. W was once a Destiny Weaver once. To them he is nothing but a traitor,” Alpha Boss explained to us who were shocked about the revelation. “He left when the Weavers became Seekers… and helped me create the Emissaries of Balance. He… until now is a god… part Destiny Weaver and part Stable Being.”

“The reason that you are all named from A to Z is because we Destiny Weavers also had the same concept…” Master W started explaining to us. “Violence is simply… Letter V, Suoic Ipsus… Mr. X’s enemy is S, and of course I was once W… but I guessed they would’ve gotten a replacement for me…”

All of us fell silent…

We learned a lot and gained a lot from it…

Alpha Boss then teamed us into eight groups with three members each…

Mr. S was teamed up with Ms. R the Anti-alien and Mr. A the Cyber Initiative…

Mr. X went back to his original team with Ms. Y the Deus Eye and Ms. Z the Background Extra…

As for me, I also went back with my original team with Ms. E the Archives Provider and Sir F the Information Broker…

Ms. R the Anti-alien is a space ranger of sorts. Her armor is heavily inspired by highly advanced technology that can withstand outer space. Even without the armor, the vacuum of space will not affect her. Her job is to prevent massive extraterrestrial invasions from occurring.

Extraterrestrials or aliens are species of mortals different from human mortals. Sure, they are humans but the conditions that made them look like they aren’t humans are due to the change in their evolutionary chain. Some human mortals have also turned into extraterrestrials because of the conditions brought about by travelling through outer space for a very long time. The changes caused them to evolve into that of a perhaps a different form of human beings… lack of sunlight may perhaps change their skin tone into gray… and etcetera. Ms. R’s blessing includes the ability to withstand the vacuum of space, the ability to produce laser beams that could wipe out civilizations of alien invaders, and the ability to travel through outer space without any spaceship.

Mr. A the Cyber Initiative is part human and part machine. His body is a perfect combination of technology and biology. He is also the commander of most of the Neuters. Like artificial intelligence, he can also act like your daily dose of internet and s**t. Combat-wise he is very and highly capable.

Ms. Y’s right eye is the Deus Eye. It allows her to superiorly and accurately hit targets even from greater distances. It allows her to shoot very-very far with the using normal bullets from any kind of gun. Of course, with that Blessing… the following are included: Telescopic vision, Night vision, Heat detection and etcetera!

Ms. Z the Background Extra… or the wallflower… or the unnoticeable… or the invisible woman… or the ghost… or the inexistent one has the power to go unnoticed! She can drive as fast and reckless as she can and nobody would notice it! She can bypass security and stuff! She is like a natural born ninja… minus the fact that she doesn’t have ninja training and fighting skills…

Ms. E, my comrade, has the Archives Provider. She holds memories of the past! That means, she knows the true history of the world… However, aside from knowing the true history of the world and worlds out there… she has the power to erase memories… Knowing the past means knowing a lot of things including fighting styles of the old… So… we can actually work as a team!

Mr. F, however, comrade he may be to us, for him… we are… maybe… … because he seemed to have come from a land where he was a noble or a prince and he sees us as commoners. As for his blessing, he knows everything happening as of the moment. Of course the extent of all of our knowledge would be based on our current scope of things. Of course, he knows everything happening here in the realm of reality… curiously… not so much in the Central/Main Verse. The places he doesn’t know of are the godly realms… including the realm of Fantasy. He has the ability to bring back memories, and the ability to copy the current power of an opponent!

The plan’s been set!

The next time we jump in…

Mr. X and his team will take the center stage…