Chapter 2: Chapter 1: “I Knew This Day Would Come”

Ina is happy.

Ina: "AO-chan! AO-chan! Look at what I drew today! Do you like it? I think I'm getting better!"

Ina is happy?

"AO-chan! I've been meaning to ask you... Why do people always make you look so evil? They think you'll take over my body and attack my friends! You wouldn't do that right?"

AO: "Our dear Ina, you need not worry, We would never do anything to hurt you."

Ina:" I know that! But still... Why do people do that? Do you know?"

AO: "Humans, they fear what they do not understand... It is easier to reject than to try to understand. That is why. They do not know Us like you do, Ina."

Ina: "That's true, we have been together for a while now heh... Hey AO-chan. I'm really glad I found you..."

Ina was happy...

Ina:"AO-chan! AO-chan... AO-chan...? What's going on? Where am I?"

Ina wakes up in an unknown place. It’s cold, it’s dark, and it’s hard to breathe. Ina can’t move, her arms and legs are wrapped up in tentacles.

Ina:(What’s happening? Why are AO-chan’s tentacles... wrapped around me?) She tries to move but she can’t. (I can’t use any of my powers. I can’t control the tentacles. I don’t understand. Is this a nightmare? How do I get out of it?) Then Ina gets a good look at her surroundings. It’s as if she’s above a sea of blood, with people’s heads floating in it. (This... has to be a nightmare...)
???:”Indeed, this is a nightmare, but one you will be unable to wake up from, Ninomae Ina’nis...”

The Ancient Ones had taken over Ina's body. They are standing on top of Amelia's roof and are looking at the sky with their arms crossed.

Ina: "AO –chan! What’s happe-" she gets cut off before she could finish her sentence.

AO: " Ninomae Ina'nis... How foolish you must be. Did you really believe that you have befriended an Elder God?"

Ina: "What? I don't understand... AO-chan, what are you saying? This is some kind of joke, right? Just let me go already, it's not funny anymore..."

AO: "Do not call Us that. That nickname... Drawing on Our appendages... Do you have no respect for Us, Ninomae Ina’nis?"

Ina: "B-but I thought you said you liked the nickname! And my drawings..."

AO: "We do not. But it does not matter now. It is over Ina. Today will be the last day of your life."

Ina: "Hey AO-chan, stop it already... I really don't find this funny."

AO:"We understand Ina. How hard it must be for you to comprehend what you are hearing. But it is the truth. We no longer need you. We were never your friend, Ina. We were simply using you. That is the truth."

Ina:"But why!? Please tell me. Did I do something wrong..."

AO:" Is it not evident? You were the only one who was able to understand Us. We needed you to in order for Us to be survive. But now the day has come, Our full power has returned to Us and We no longer need you. "

Ina:"No! NO! I-I don't believe you! What about all those times you've saved my life?! All the times you protected me from danger, and when people were attacking me because of the way I looked. You always protected me..."

AO: "Indeed, We have protected you. But, it is not because we had cared about you, We did so because We needed you. If you were to die, We would have to look for a new vessel. But now We have regained our full power and We no longer need you. We only protected you, because We had no other choice. You, as a person, were unimportant to Us. "

I:"NOO!! Y-you're lying... I'll never believe you..." Ina says as she starts screaming, crying and breathing heavy. She really thought The Ancient Ones were her friend.

AO:"We pity you, Ninomae Ina'nis. If you truly think we are lying now, let Us ask you, what makes you think We were telling the truth before?"

Ina:"I...I-I don't..."
(I can’t believe this. This is really happening isn’t it? They said it wasn’t true but it was. Was anything ever real? Everything. All this time. All the things, the nice things they said, it was all a lie, it meant nothing. Someone... Help me wake up from this nightmare, please...)
Fear. Sadness. Loneliness. Despair. All of these emotions fall on top of Ina, as she’s been betrayed by someone she thought was her friend. The being that was always there for her, the one that was there when no one else wasn’t. She can’t take it. She can’t even say anything back to them, she’s just crying, crying so much her eyes begin hurting.

AO:"Deep down you must understand this, Ninomae Ina'nis. You have been misled. And soon you shall be utterly consumed by Us, until there is nothing left of you. But worry not, we will not do that yet. We will let you bare witness... The destruction of this world. Starting with these two." They portal back into Amelia's house and point their palm toward the two sleeping girls.

Ina:" NO! Wait, please don't! I'm begging you, please don't hurt them! Anything but that... "

AO:"... Very well" They put down their hand. "We shall grant you this one request. But, if the two try to pursue Us, We will not hesitate to kill them."

Ina: (Ame, Gura, please just forget about me...)

The Ancient Ones fly out, straight through Amelia's roof and leave a huge hole in it.

Ina:"You did that on purpose... You could have just used a portal but now they'll wake up and come after us..."

AO:"..."

Amelia gets woken up by the noise but Gura doesn't.

Amelia:" Oh no! Ina!!" She turns to Gura and sees that she's still sleeping. (How are you still asleep???) "Hey Gura, wake up!!" she starts shaking her lightly.

Gura:"Nngh five more minutes..."

Amelia:"Gura, we don't have five more minutes! It's Ina! It happened!"

As soon as Gura hears that she jumps out of the bed.

Gura:"WHAT!? Are you sure!?"

Amelia:"Oh wait, I think she just went through the roof cause she didn't want to use the door!"

Gura:"AH ALRIGHT I GET IT! I don't need your sarcasm right now!"

Amelia:"Come on, we gotta get dressed and go after her quickly!"

They start taking off their pajamas and getting into their outfits. As Gura is putting on her hoodie, she looks at Amelia's calendar, with March 16 circled.

Gura:" Dammit! I can't believe you were right! Even about the date!"

Amelia:"I'm always right!"

The two say while putting on their clothes.

Gura:"I know, but this time, it's not a good thing!"

Amelia:"Yeah I know... "

Gura:"You think we can do this?" she asks her worryingly. 

Amelia:"I don't think, I know that we can! We have to..."

Gura:"Yeah, you're right. Oh I almost forgot, I have to call Calli and Kiara." Right after she says that she notices something about her phone. "Oh crap, my battery is empty!"

Amelia:"Don't worry, I'll call them, I just have to call someone else first."  

Gura:"You mean the Mayor?"

Amelia:”Yeah, him.”

Amelia calls the city Mayor, puts him on speaker and then starts looking for something from underneath her bed.

Gura:"What are you looking for?"

Amelia:"Just a little something I prepared for this." she says and then takes out a huge suitcase and puts it on top of her bed. "Ah, found it!" She unlocks the suitcase.

Gura:"A sniper!? For how long was that under your bed?"

Amelia:"Not long, I just bought it recently. Also it’s not a sniper, it’s a tranquilizer gun."

Gura:"What’s the difference, y-you’re still gonna use that on her, aren’t you!?" she asks and looks at Amelia with a worried expression on her face.

Amelia:"Hey relax, it’s just supposed to put her to sleep" Amelia notices the look on Gura's face. "Oh please don't look at me like that. This probably won't even work, I only bought it so I won't be completely useless out there. It will be all up to you then. At least until Calli and Kiara get there." she says as she's putting in darts to the gun.

Gura:"Ugh now you're putting all this pressure on me. But hey, you won't be useless, you’ll be like uhh my moral support!"

Amelia:"Yeah right, more like a distraction. Oh hey, the Mayor hung up on me!" she says and starts calling him again.

Gura:"Maybe he's in a meeting or something."

Amelia:"I don't care where he is, he's going to answer me! ...Alright well, we don't have time for this, we have to go after her. I'll just keep trying to get him along the way. You ready?"

Gura:"Ready as I'll ever be."

Amelia grabs her gun, puts it on her back and the two get out of the house. Amelia starts running while looking at her phone with Gura running behind her.

Gura:"Where are we going exactly!?"

Amelia:"I put a bug on Ina's outfit so I can track her when this happens. Just follow me!"

Gura:"You really were prepared for this huh. But this is weird, I expected to see more destruction around here. It looks like they haven't killed anyone yet either."

Amelia:"Who knows what their true goal is. But whatever it is, we have to stop them and get Ina back."

Gura:"Oh wait, since I'm faster than you, I should carry you so we get there quicker! You just tell me where to go."

Amelia:"Oh good idea!" She says and then turns her gun to her front.

Gura picks Amelia up like a princess, prepares to start running and Ame puts her hands around her while still holding her phone.

Gura:"Alright, just hold tight now!" She says and starts running extremely fast.

Amelia:"Whoa you're fast!"

Gura:"Heh, that's Atlantian speed baby!"

Amelia:"Wait wait, slow down!"

Gura slows down and stops running.

Gura:"Too fast?"

Amelia:"If we come at them so fast they'll notice us right away and I don't want that. Just go fast but not that fast ok? They aren't moving and don't seem to be too far away from us either. We should still catch up pretty quickly."

Gura:"Aye aye captain!" Gura starts running again.

Right after she says that, the Mayor answers Amelia’s call angrily.

Mayor:" Detective Watson, I'm in a very important meeting right now-". Amelia interrupts him mid sentence.

Amelia:" THIS IS MORE IMPORTANT! IT happened!"

Mayor:" It? You mean that girl-"

Amelia:"Yeah, she's lost it. Do what I told you to do and evacuate the city!"

Mayor:"Alright Watson, I trust you. You better know what you're doing!"

Amelia hangs up the call.

Gura:"You really have him wrapped around your little finger, don't you?"

Amelia:"Pretty much. Oh wait, stop running! We're here..."

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Gura:"Oh right!"

She stops running; they hide behind a building and peek out to see the Ancient Ones floating in the sky with their tentacles out and their arms crossed.

Gura:”They’re just floating there...” she whispered to Ame.

Amelia:” Hah I think I know what's going on here.”

Gura:"You do?"

Amelia:"They want us. We are the only ones who can stop them so, they want to get rid of us first. They're probably planning on going after Kiara and Calli too! Ina must've begged them not to kill us before they left. They agreed but never actually planned on sparing us, they just went through my roof on purpose so we'd go after them. That's my theory at least."

Gura:(Theory? It sounds like you just figured everything out! Man, she's smart!): "Uhhh yeah that's a good theory!"

Amelia:"Hey Gura, people are gonna start freaking out here in a bit, help me calm them down so they can get to safety!" 

Gura:" Oh of course!"

The Mayor issued an emergency evacuation of the city, no one knows what’s going on but there’s dozens of people running away in fear. Amelia and Gura come out onto the busy street and they start helping people, guiding them and trying to keep them calm.

Amelia:” Everyone get out of here as quickly as possible, this is an emergency!”
A woman with a child comes up to Amelia.

Woman:” Detective Watson! What’s going on here, what is this emergency?”

Amelia:”There’s no time to explain but it’s really dangerous here right now, you need to get out of here!”

The child notices The Ancient Ones in the sky.

Child: “Detective... What is that in the sky? Is it a monster? Are you here to save us?”

Amelia:”Yes, we are going to save you from the monster but you have to get out of here! Just follow your mommy ok?” Amelia pats the scared child’s head and smiles, trying to calm him down. They start running away and the streets are almost all cleared out.
The Ancient Ones are still just floating in the sky, not attacking anyone.

AO:(Humans, scattering away like ants... How amusing. Worry not, humans. You shall all soon be relieved of your misery.)

Multiple army jets and helicopters arrive at the scene and they start shooting at the Ancient Ones from all sides but they don’t do any damage to them.

Gura:”Uhh is it me or is no one driving those things?”

Amelia:”They’re remote controlled. They won’t last long but they’re supposed to be a distraction until people leave and so I can use this.” She says and takes aim with her tranquillizer gun.

With The Ancient One’s back turned Amelia aims for their neck. By using their tentacles, the Ancient Ones grab every jet and helicopter at once and bash them into one another, until it all becomes just a hunk of metal and then they drop it to the ground.

Gura:”Come on, it’s now or never Watson!”

Amelia shoots straight for their neck but the Ancient Ones without even turning around, grab the dart that was meant to put them to sleep, with one of their tentacles and crush it. They turn around to face Amelia. They extend their right arm and with a sort of gravitational pull, they grab her gun and with their hands they fold it into a little ball, as if it were made out of paper. While holding it with their right hand, with some type of purple energy, they reduce the small chunk of metal into nothingness.

Gura:” Well, that went about as expected.”

Amelia:”Worth a shot at least. Alright, it’s up to you now, I’ll call Calli and Kiara, I hope they get here quickly.”

Ame takes out her phone but the Ancient Ones, with a laser coming from their finger, shoot Amelia’s phone out of her hand.

Amelia:”FUCK!” she yells out as she’s looking at her hand.

Gura:”Ame! Are you okay? They didn’t get you, right?” she asks while checking Amelia’s hand for any wounds.

Amelia:”No, Just the phone.... I’m really sorry, I should’ve been more careful.”

Gura:”It’s fine, I’m just glad you’re okay. Besides, I have a feeling the two of them will get here even without us calling them.”

Amelia:”Yeah, I think so t-“ The Ancient Ones interrupt her.

AO:” Gawr Gura and Amelia Watson... Your friend has requested of Us to spare your lives. This will be your one and only warning. The choice is yours.”

Amelia: “...Spare our lives? So what, you’re saying you’ll kill everyone on the planet except us? And you expect us to be okay with that?! And there is no way we are going anywhere without Ina!”

AO:”An expected response, Detective. Very well...” They say before descending onto the ground. “We shall end this quickly.”

Gura:”Just stay behind me, Ame.” She says and materializes her trident in her right hand. “I’ll try doing that thing you told us to do.”

Amelia:”Just be careful!” (I only just noticed it but, it looks like they have a crack in their halo... It can't be from the helicopters can it? No, it's something else... I wonder what that could mean.)

AO:(This human... It would appear that she has seen this day coming, and has prepared for it. How very interesting.)

Gura:(This is annoying. They look exactly like Ina except their eyes... They’re completely white and glowing. I wish they didn’t look so much like her... Fighting them is gonna be hard.)

The Ancient Ones point their palm at Gura and send out multiple tentacles from their back towards her. Gura holds her trident with both hands and starts spinning it, shredding any tentacles that come in contact with it. She lunges at the Ancient Ones, switches to spinning her trident with only her left hand and prepares to punch The Ancient Ones in the stomach. Just as she’s about to punch them, she looks at them in the face. The fact that they looked exactly like Ina made her lose focus. She punches them but doesn’t use her full strength. The Ancient Ones get pushed back by it a bit but seem unaffected by it. They respond with summoning a big pitch black fist and they punch her with it, she defends herself with her trident but still gets thrown back into a building and she destroys some of it upon impact.

Amelia:"Gura!!" she yells out her name while looking at the building she got punched into. 

Gura:"I'm fine! This is nothing, don't worry!" she says while coming out of the rubbles.

Amelia:"Gura... You held back with that punch, didn't you?"

Gura:"I... I'm sorry, but they look like Ina! I was about to do it but then I looked at her in the face and just couldn't... I'll try it again without holding back."

Amelia:"You better not hold back again! This is the only way to save her... Just don't look at her in the face this time."

Gura:"Okay I won't, I promi-" she gets cut off by The Ancient Ones.

They grab her right leg with a tentacle and throw her into a building to their left. Gura, before hitting the building, lightly throws her trident and by using it as a foothold, she launches herself off of it, going towards the Ancient Ones at high speed. With her right hand she calls back her trident, grabs it with both hands and with a powerful downwards swing, she attacks the Ancient Ones. They block it with the back of their left forearm. The Ancient Ones’ feet dig into the ground from the impact of Gura’s attack.

Gura:"HAAAAAAHH!!" as she's landing onto the ground, she swings her trident with all her might, cutting the Ancient Ones' hand off.

She then dematerializes her trident and prepares to punch them again, this time, not paying attention to the fact that they look exactly like Ina. Before she gets to punch them, The Ancient Ones point out their left palm next to Gura and start charging up a purple beam. Gura's eyes shift back and see that they're aiming for Amelia. She instantly jumps back to protect her but then they stop her attack. With a smug look on their face, they regenerate their left arm.

Gura:"Tch, so they were only pretending to attack you."

Amelia:"Sorry Gura, I knew I was going to end up being a distraction for you..."

Gura:"No, don't worry about it, I'll protect you. And I'll make them pay for this!" She says with anger in her voice and starts going after them.

Amelia puts her hand on Gura's shoulder and stops her.

Amelia:"Gura wait. You can't go into battle if you're filled with rage. Just calm down a bit okay?"

Gura takes a deep breath before responding.

Gura:"Okay okay, I'll calm down."

Suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere, Bubba comes running in and starts barking at the Ancient Ones.

Amelia:"Bubba!? What are you doing here?! Get out of here, it's dangerous!"

Gura:"How did he get out of the house?!"

Amelia:"I don't know!!"

AO:"Annoying little creature... Die."

The Ancient Ones shoot a beam from their hand at Bubba but Amelia jumps at him and gets him out of the way.

Gura:"Hey! He's just a dog, he can't do anything!"

AO:"Dog. Human. Atlantian. What is the difference? You are all dogs in Our eyes."

Amelia grabs Bubba and starts running away with him.

Amelia:"Sorry Gura, I have to take him somewhere! I'll be right back!"

Gura:"Ame wait!!"

Amelia keeps running back in the direction of her house.

Amelia:(I can't go all the way back home, I'll just find some place to put him in temporarily.)

She sees an abandoned shop and decides to put Bubba inside it.

Amelia:"Just stay here buddy, it's dangerous outside." she says to him and starts running back.

Amelia:(I feel so bad, I hope nothing bad happened. But it's not like I was actually useful over there.).

When Amelia returns, her entire world falls apart, as she sees Gura lying on the ground with a huge hole in her chest.

Amelia:"GURA!!" she screams out her name and drops to her knees in front of her body.

Amelia:"Gura I-I'm sorry, this is all my fault! I-I distracted you... “she says with tears streaming down her face while holding Gura's hands.

Gura:"N-no... Ame... “ Gura can barely speak. She coughs and spits out blood as she’s trying to say her last words to Amelia.
“Please...don't... blame...yourself..." she barely manages to say that one sentence before her life comes to an end.

Amelia:"NOOOOOO GURA!!" she screams out as her tears fall down on Gura's face. (no no no no no this can’t be happening. I can’t believe this. Is this... really happening? I knew what we had to do was dangerous... But I never thought that I’d lose her... And it was all my fault...)

The Ancient Ones are still there, silently watching Amelia have a breakdown.

AO:"How very nonsensical."

Amelia, with her face still full of tears, slowly turns her head up to look at them.

AO:"You have refused to heed Our warning... Now that one of you has paid the price, you fell into despair. Indeed, this is very unusual. Did you truly believe you could have defeated Us? This outcome was evident from the very beginning, Detective... Although We would love to stay here and watch you weep, We have other things we must do. Such as looking for a Grim Reaper and a Phoenix. Perhaps you know where We might find them, Detective? "

Amelia says nothing.

AO:" Very well, We shall find them on Our own. Farewell Detective, We have decided to spare your life, given that you are, just a worthless human. " Ancient Ones say as they jump up and fly right above Amelia.

Amelia:(What do I do... What am I supposed to do now? Is there anything I can do? Gura is dead... All because of me...Maybe I really am, just a worthless human...) She thinks to herself, with her mouth shaking and a waterfall of tears raining down on Gura. Amelia then looks at her watch. (This watch... If only I could turn back time with it... But I can only go to different timelines... it's useless...) After staring at her watch for a couple seconds, she remembers something. (No wait! It's not useless! I can't turn back time with it, but I know someone who can! And I'll use my watch to get her to me!) Amelia suddenly gets a slight smile on her face, thinking things are not completely over.

Amelia:"Gura, I'm going to save you!! And I'm going to make The Ancient Ones regret keeping me alive." she gets up and grabs her watch "If I remember correctly, she gets a headache whenever I time travel... Kronii, you better understand this one" she says and then touches the button on her watch and disappears into another timeline.

She starts running and time travels again and again but then suddenly she stops. The image of Gura's lifeless body lying on the ground appears in her head and she couldn't take it. She runs off to a nearby alleyway and throws up in a trash can. She drops to the ground next to the trash can.

Amelia:(Fuck... I can't, this is too much... What if she doesn't want to help me? What if she just kills me instead?). As all those thoughts fill her head, she starts crying again.

Amelia:(Well... At least if she kills me, I wouldn't have to live in a world without...)

Her dreadful thoughts get interrupted by a familiar feeling, as if time had stopped. Then she hears footsteps.

Amelia:(She's here...)

The person that has been chasing her for years, is now the same one Amelia has to ask for help.

To be continued...

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