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Two Weeks Later - Lisbeth's Shop
"Aw, look at little Kiyo with his new sword." Lisbeth said to Oblivion, as he walked in with Artemis.
"Ooh wow, thats a nice wooden practice sword, now don't hurt yourself, you wouldn't want that now would you?" Oblivion said to his son.
"No, that would be bad, I'm only allowed to fight the big monsters." Kiyo said.
Oblivion laughed and said, "Yeah thats right, oh, guess who uncle Artemis brought?"
"Did he bring Leo and Yuno!?" He asked, excitedly.
"Yeah I did, now be careful guys, this is a blacksmith shop after all, wouldn't want to hurt yourself with the tools." Artemis said, gesturing his kids to go play.
"So, are we gonna talk about anything important?" Lisbeth asked the other two.
"Well, maybe besides everyone needing upgrade weapons, no, not much." Artemis said.
"Good grief…" Oblivion and Lisbeth said at the same time, with a glum look in their eyes.
"Ah, you know, everything has been great since PoH's guild has been taken down by a ton, there's barely anyone who'd join, I've finally been able to meet up with some of the other empire leaders in FHO, and hold public events with them." Artemis said.
"Thats awesome, well, besides the fact that even if those people in DH were killers, that they had to be killed. Kind of a waste, don't you think?" Oblivion asked.
"Yeah, it kinda does suck for them, to be honest, but I mean, there's no going back for them, they chose that path." Artemis said.
Then, Artemis turned around quickly, nuding the table a bit.
"What is it?" Oblivion asked, startled.
"Just a presence I felt, something like I felt back at PoH's headquarters." Artemis replied.
"And what may that be?" Oblivion asked, suspicious.
"I don't know," Artemis said.
Just then a loud bang was heard and they looked to the door to see a furious woman in full plate with two slightly curved greatswords that had hook like spikes right before the tip, hanging in sheathed on her back.
"Fuck you, you piss smelling cunt!" The woman shouted.
Artemis immediately realized the feeling he was getting was from her, and the feeling was a foul one, it urged him to deal with this situation, as he already guessed, it was the aura a demon let out that no mortal man could sense.
Artemis knew that Oblivion could feel it too, as he was looking on edge, but he obviously didn't recognize the feeling as anything but nervousness.
Artemis charged the woman, startling everyone by the speed he used, he went even faster than Oblivion ever could, and he body checked her into the wall, purposely not throwing her through it, as he wanted this situation private.
"What are you doing here, demon?" Artemis asked harshly.
She growled and tried to get up, before feeling a very hot blade near her throat.
"No, you will tell me or I take off your head." Artemis snapped.
Oblivion stood there for a second before asking, "What are you doing?"
"This is no human, you feel it too, this is a demon, and she will tell me what she is planning, or her head will be off." Artemis growled.
"Planning? If anything, I was planning on fixing up my fucking weapons, and then I get attacked for nothing, just the fact I'm a fucking demon!" The woman was furious, but she did not dare to fight back.
"That's not what I'm asking, I'm asking about what you are planning to do in my capital, are you scouting for your boss?!" Artemis was reaching the end of his rope, he wanted answers.
"Boss, yes a boss, I abandoned that idea long ago, I am, by technicality, a renegade, gone rogue, or the betrayer, if you will." The woman snarled.
"So what you're saying is that you are now no longer part of the demon army of this realm?" Artemis was completely confused.
"No, as I said, I'm alone in this world, even so far as being hunted, I left after being demoted and being replaced by someone who calls himself PoH, or Prince of Hell." The woman seemed much happier now that she seemed to have gotten Artemis to believe her.
"I don't know if I should believe you or not, but any funny business and you die." Artemis sighed and took Hellfire from her throat, "Names Artemis, god of creation."
"Wait, you are the new god?! Forgive me for being such a fucking prick." The demon looked positively shocked.
"Wait, as a renegade demon, you bow to no one, so why are you bowing to me?" Artemis was very confused.
"I ain't bowing in submission, I'm bowing in apology," The demon girl replied.
"I forgot to ask your name, I won't ask for you to fight, but if you would fight with me, that would help the war efforts." Artemis was slightly reluctant but he was actually glad to hear that she wasn't part of PoH's regime.
"The names Jessie, and yes, if you know PoH, he's the current right hand of the devil himself, and as such, I'm willing to help destroy him." Jessie said.
"Destroying him is my job, but killing him here will only send him back to hell, and I won't go there yet, either way he's still banished for 100 years." Artemis sighed and helped Jessie to her feet.
"I can't face him anyways, my power is below his, and as such, he's all yours." She said.
Lisbeth, who sat silent, clinging to Oblivion the whole time spoke up, "You think she can be trusted, she's a demon, and aren't they cunning and very good at lying?"
"No, you are thinking of devils, demons are more brutish, and just plain old powerful." Artemis laughed as he understood the confusion.
"Oh," was all she had to reply.
"Asshole! I may be a demon and I may be powerful, but I'm a civilized lady, I'm not a brute, that's just my fighting style!" Jessie wasn't too happy with Artemis's word choice.
"While that may be true, demons by technicality are larger when in demon rage, which is used by building rage, which can be made by getting hit, so and your fighting style is because you have the strength and power of a demon, not many people would be able to use them but you carry yourself very confidently, which suggests that you can use those swords to great efficiency." Artemis said.
"Well, um, I guess that means you understand." Jessie wasn't sure how to respond.
"Now if you excuse me, I have a friend to revive," Artemis sighed and got up.
"Wait, revive?" Jessie asked.
"I need my friend back and since I can only do this on the 2 week anniversary of the person's death at exactly the right time and then and only then, can he be revived." Artemis said, he then walked out to headquarters to attempt to revive Nero.
"Before you ask, yes I am a demon, but I wasn't beforehand." Oblivion said.
"So your group is open to both gods and demons? That's surprising, I thought they hated each other." Jessie said.
"Ever since Artemis became the God of Creation, and when Wolf the God of Death revealed himself as 'alive', Artemis accepted certain demons into our group, but Wolf's son, and Arch Angel of Balance, Feolan left, after Artemis proposed me a deal, he offered me to be sent into Oblivion to earn lordship of the realm, funny considering the name I chose for SAO was Oblivion, I didn't think both the realm would exist, and me becoming the lord of that realm would ever happen. Because I took this path, I became a demon, which was a very difficult decision to make, as I care about my wife more than anything, well, my son Kiyo in the other room, I care just as much I do for my wife, and all my friends. Anyways, I mentioned Feolan before, he left after I left into Oblivion, due to him being an angel, and not supporting the cause. I took this path because I want to protect the ones I love with this power, I don't wish to cause havoc upon the world." Oblivion explained.
"That's quite the responsibility, taking such a power that can be hard to control to protect the ones you love." Jessie said.
"Yeah, it was after a friend of mine, Ellerin, was raped in here, by the same man who raped her before, a long time ago. I was there, unconscious, but when I woke up, I took the man's arm, and ripped it clean off, all that with just a single skill." Oblivion said.
Jessie nodded, they waited a little bit for Artemis to hopefully come back with Nero. It took about 20 minutes, but eventually, he came in, and so did Nero. "Ah shit, it worked!" Oblivion said.
"Yeah, and plus a little surprise along with that too." Artemis said.
"What would that be?" Lisbeth asked, curiously.
"Nero is now the God of War, and he was able to take that spot because Wolf killed Aries, the previous God of War." Artemis said.
"Nice." Oblivion said. "But Artemis, did you think all this would happen? Us becoming Gods/Demons? It's kind of weird for that to happen in this universe don't you think?" Oblivion asked.
"If I had picked a different universe, it would happen there, God gave me the choice to be here, so I took it, now I have the power to go wherever I please, not that I expected it to happen." Artemis said.
"Well how about that," Nero said as he tested his new power on a nearby practice dummy, "I can do work on it, sucks that we lost my weapon though," he turned and glared at Artemis, "You better get that back to me, or you'll be beaten to a fucking pulp."
Artemis laughed, "You may have the powers of a god, but not nearly as powerful as the god I was reborn from, so suck it up, besides, we were going to go finish off Death's Hand like, I don't know, next week."
"Sweet, so we got a week to train for this, hopefully, final attack on the DH base." Oblivion turned to Jessie, and said, "If you are gonna help, you better get ready too."
He left and as Artemis sat there, he thought, 'I'm going to take out PoH, but they can only truly die in the realm of hell, but what if I cross dimensions, and while fighting here, still gain the benefit of killing him there, but we have to do it at the right time, I'll get Jessie to help me with that.'