Capítulo 25: Angels and Shadows 2
Can you all recommend some powers from fiction? Don't make them super overpowered, but something like street-level. I only got JJK and Chainsaw Man on the brain, so idk what else I can do.
James soon arrived at the hotel, still not noticing his shadow shifting before finally returning to normal. He opened the door and was greeted with a spear to the eye, which he quickly caught. "I see, you're still in tip-top shape, huh? Hurry up outside; I'm itching to fight right now." Vaggie said, spear in both hands and walking outside.
He let out a big sigh. "Why did I agree to this?" he mused out loud before slouching out, walking behind Vaggie, trying not to look at her ass…. And failing. 'God damn, did Angel Dust return my gooning instincts to me or something? Why am I so horny?' He straightened his posture and kept his eyes on the back of her head.
They soon got onto the outskirts of the Hazbin Hotel, and Vaggie tossed a spear at him. "You can go ahead and use your fancy tricks along with that spear; it won't make any difference, though." She arrogantly says as James grabs the spear out of the air, inspecting its crimson red visage and black tip.
"Are you sure?" He asks, putting his bottom hands into the signs of a dog. "Divine dogs!" He cries as his shadow begins to coalesce under his feet, a shadowy figure of 2 dogs formed beside him before their forms fully materialized. They looked like the same dogs but with swapped colors; they both were very big for dogs, being about the same height as James' bottom set of arms.
They also had the same 3 dots on their forehead, along with their yin and yang color palette. "Are you sure I should still use my tricks, Vaggie? It's 3v1 now." Vaggie stares at him unimpressed before flipping her spear in the air and catching it in a smooth motion. "Yeah, I'm sure. Besides, I got a theory about you that I'm itching to prove."
She bends her knees and quickly gets into a basic spear stance, the one James saw in his memories he stole before she disappeared from his field of vision. He quickly felt the air moving from his right side and dodged out of the way, barely avoiding the spear heading towards his back.
Vaggie isn't deterred by this though as she quickly hits the white diving dog with the butt of her spear and goes in for a slash down James' eye. He quickly moves his head back, but he notices something off about the spear. It looked ever so transparent, and before he knew it, he felt a sharp pain in his gut as he looked down and saw Vaggie's spear planted in his stomach.
Thankfully it wasn't deep at all, but it was definitely wrenched into there. Both he and the white divine dog moved in on Vaggie but only barely nicked her arm as she disappeared again. Now, James was fully locked into his surroundings, trying to sense the faintest breeze or subtle footstep.
He stayed like this for a few seconds before he thrust out his spear, clashing with Vaggie, who had come at him from his right this time, a wild grin on her face. "So I was right!" She yells, not elaborating on what she was talking about. The black divine dog quickly slammed his paw on Vaggie's back, sending her down with much more force than James or she had imagined. When her body hit the ground, it made a large spiderweb crack as she bounced off, disappearing and reappearing a few meters away from James.
"What you saw right there was called IM, instant movement. What you just used to counter me was the exorcist style every exorcist learns when they sign up. Considering that you didn't know about IM, it must mean that you've gotten my memories of my first years in the force, right?"
James clicked his teeth and shielded his annoyance with a smile, trying to provoke Vaggie. "You know, I never took you as the mastermind L type of girl, Vaggie. Kinda creepy." But she only returned his provocation with a smile. "Get ready and stay on your toes now!" She says this before she disappears again.
James didn't get the time to even react before Vaggie's spear was already heading at him from his side. Thankfully, his white divine dog sensed Vaggie before he could, trying to hit Vaggie as she successfully dodged. This continues on for many minutes, James' skin only being saved by the divine dogs' quick senses, yet he was rapidly adapting to Vaggie's fighting style.
At first he could only move his head before Vaggie struck and used signals from his senses to know where she would hit him. But now he could fully turn around and even predict where she'd end up next; it even got to the point where James unconsciously used parts of IM in his fighting, his and Vaggie's hands becoming blurs as they fought and dodged.
'This is insane.' James thought, getting saved from a punishing hit to the groin with her spear butt by his black divine dog.'I got 4 arms. I'm stronger, faster, and I'm jumping her.' Vaggie starts to turn up the pressure, making James have to start predicting further and further where she'll be. 'So why…. why am I the only one getting hit?"
The fight kept going, James unconsciously putting his cursed energy into the atmosphere, not burning off his reserves the slightest, but it was very visible for Vaggie, who used it as a way to check if she'd attacked there before, the cursed energy acting as an afterimage in her eyes.
Soon enough, Vaggie took advantage of James' flaring cursed energy, checking everywhere but behind him. She disappeared and reappeared right behind him to try and land a thrust of her spear in his back, but surprising to her, he turned around faster than those other times and locked spears with her.
When she looked into James' eyes, she saw a fierce look of determination on his face, and when she tried to disappear again, he tracked her. It's like he knew for a fact where she would dodge next and didn't even need to predict it anymore. 'Granted, I'm taking it pretty easy on him, but damn, I didn't expect him to pick it up this fast!' She thought, trying to disengage.
But James didn't let her go that easily; his black divine dog struck her from her right side, and she buckled under the force of the hit and was set up for a mean hit in the ribs by the butt of James' spear, his first clean blow in this match.
He put his spear up again and prepared to keep going, but Vaggie raised her hands and put down her spear. "I surrender, oh mighty spear user. Besides, that was enough for me to get my info anyway." She says. He stands still for a moment, rigidly standing before he collapses into the ground, breathing harder than he's ever done in his life.
'S-s-shit, how the hell am I so tired now?' He thinks, his black and white dogs falling on top of him, trying to comfort him. 'I remember I fought Alastor and the Goetia demon, but I wasn't even nearly as tired then…'
While James was thinking, Vaggie got up with a stretch of her arms and started to walk back to the hotel before he called out to her. "Vaggie, wait!" She turned around. "... Could you please train me?" She stared into his soul for a minute, an unreadable expression on her face, before smiling. "Sure, I'll train you. But just know one thing."
She quickly disappeared from his view as he felt a hand tap his shoulder. He turned around but saw nobody until he turned back around to see Vaggie crouching down to stare in his eyes. "There's a reason why nobody has killed an angel before, okay?" She flicks his nose and disappears again.
James simply lay down in exhaustion, breathing in and out. "I still can't tell… Was that some kind of teleporting magic, or was she just moving that fast? Why didn't she ever use this in the show?" Soon, he shakily sat up and decided to experiment with his 10 shadows while he was out here.
'Alright, I remember that Megumi could store things into his shadows, including himself… I wonder…' He thinks as he uses Total Concentration Breathing to take in a deep lungful of air before he sinks into his shadow.
It was like swimming for him, flailing in murky water, and barely moving. He opened his eyes and saw nothing. 'What did I even expect?' He asked as he swam even deeper. He kept swimming down until he felt something solid; he knocked on the solid part a few times. 'This must be the floor of this shadowy place.' He concluded.
But right before he was about to swim back up to the surface, he felt all the 'water' draining out. He reached for the bottom again but felt nothing as he was swept away by the inky tides. He fell for quite a while, being extremely disoriented due to the fact that he couldn't see or hear anything, and to make matters worse, he only had 6 minutes of air left.
Yet, thankfully, he didn't need to panic as he soon landed on solid ground again. He quickly coughed up a storm and stayed on the ground for a while; soon he got up and checked his surroundings.
It was like an old-timey office, with a wooden desk and grey coloring all around. There was only a chair in front and behind the desk, and he concluded that whoever sent him here must've wanted him to sit down. When he sat down, it wasn't long before a figure materialized into the chair in front of him.
The figure was distinctly feminine with a feminine body shape, yet no proportions of a woman, only a silhouette.
"This place exists between dream and reality, mind and matter... It is a room that only those who are bound by a "contract" may enter." The figure states and puts out her shape of a hand.
"Welcome to the Shadow Realm, my esteemed guest."
Capítulo 26: Shadows
(Can I confess something to you all? I don't really like Hazbin Hotel; in fact, I kinda hate it. The show, at least, I really like the characters and setting, but I really can't get down with the show, aside from my glorious king Adam.
(James POV)
"Welcome to the shadow realm, my esteemed guest."
I looked at the silhouette in utter confusion. How the hell did I even get here in the first place? Did she bring me here through my shadow? "Why, my guest, you catch on very quickly.". Did she just read my mind?
"No, I didn't, my guest." She says, making a teapot and pouring it directly into her mouth. "But, it's very surprising how I can't, I can only read your shadow. You see, the shadow is a reflection of the soul; the soul holds all thoughts and feelings inside of it, being aided by the brain or the equivalent in whatever has a soul."
"Your shadow holds all emotions you consider negative. Doubts, dislikes for things or people, hate, and depression. Yet what intrigues me about you is how I can only read your reasonable doubts about me. Interesting." The silhouette puts the teacup down and just starts to stare at me.
"Dude, you can't just bring me here to a whole new realm and just start dumping info on me like that. A 'hello' or 'My name is.' would have sufficed, dude." I say, looking at the surprisingly curvy silhouette… Am I really that damn down bad?
The silhouette looked at me in a tiny bit of surprise as she put down her teapot. "I apologize for that, my guest. You may call me Roo, the Root of All Evil." With her name mentioned, that entire room creaked under an invisible pressure, as if her mere name bent reality. "Wait, wait, wait, hold the phone. You're telling me the literal embodiment of evil itself has called me down here?"
After my question, Roo simply smiled before her form gained more presence. Instead of a shadow, she became more like me, an inky black figure, except way curvier. Her breasts and privates were covered up with black censor bars, saying, No Peeking.
"Why, yes, I have called you here." She says, "You see, that power you have of making beings from your shadows directly establishes a line with me directly, the ruler of the shadow realm." While she was talking, she made a teacup and gave me a cup of tea.
"That Alastor overlord also has a shadow ability, yet I can't even communicate with him, much less call him here like you." I take a long sip of the tea. "Though, perhaps that's because of your unique status as a transmigrator, isn't it?" I immediately spit out my tea all over the table and looked at Roo in shock.
Roo looked unimpressed at me, and with a snap, the tea I had spat out was completely gone. "Yes, I suppose that wasn't exactly a small thing to drop in casual conversation," she says, rubbing her arm in embarrassment, making the teapot float beside her. "Yeah, bro, no shit. How the hell did you even know that!?"
"You see, my guest, whenever a portal is formed, it briefly passes through my realm, not for long though, a picosecond at most, yet I sense all of them." She rubs her finger along the brim of my teacup that I had sat down on the table. "So imagine my shock when a soul, a human one no less, was transported into hell, somehow less than a picosecond."
My hands trembled with this knowledge, knowing that someone or something had tracked me down and proved there were 'gods' here, people that are way above my level of power that could basically do anything without me knowing. It made me feel worthless… Like, no matter what, my fate and entire being were determined on the whim of some being way stronger than me.
My hands trembled as I looked at Roo. "So why the hell did you call me here then?" Roo either didn't know or didn't comment on my insecurities as she spoke without a care in the world. "I'm sure you're familiar with the concept of gods choosing someone to represent them, like those chaos gods of Warhammer 40 Thousand, right?"
I gave a small nod and blinked. She disappeared from my sight as I looked to my left and saw her in a chair right beside me, putting an arm around my shoulders in an almost friendly gesture. "What I want to do is make you my champion."
I say nothing for a minute before asking. "...Why do you want to do that?" She looked at me, and for the first time I could see the shape of a face; unlike her previous silhouette form, she only had a mouth that was curled up into a smile that was just a tiny bit too big for her face.
"Why, you ask? It would be so interesting; think about it. The embodiment of evil sponsors a random mortal who transmigrated here? That just sounds like a ripe idea for the TV you mortals watch." Even without me blinking this time. She directly disappears from my line of sight and appears back in her chair on the other side of the desk.
"So, how about it, my dear guest? Would you like to take the deal?" I look down and clench my fists, contemplating my options. "What if I said I needed more information and time before I agreed?" Roo's smile dropped back into the nothingness her mouth was before. "That's fine. I won't end you because you wouldn't want to be my champion."
She knocks on the table twice, and it transfigures into ten recognizable symbols. Dogs, frogs, snakes, antlers, and a tiger. All symbols for the ten shadows. "For you, my soon-to-be champion, I will enhance these shadow creatures, along with the energy you use to summon them."
"Aren't you the ruler of this shadow realm? How are you going to enhance my cursed energy?" My question makes her mouth reappear and gives a smirk. "Do you really think the embodiment of evil can't help you with energy that's negative?" Yeah, that was kind of a stupid question.
"Super stupid question."
"..... Please don't do that again." The literal embodiment of evil starts to pout like a child. "Fine…. So are you going to be champion or not?" I rubbed my chin, deep in thought. "... Can I get like a month in time before I answer?" Roo shrugs her shoulders. "I'm the embodiment of evil; it's not like I'm going away anytime soon; take all the time you need."
She snaps her fingers again, and the floor starts turning murky, like sludge. "Just go into your shadow and think about me when you're ready to talk. You're welcome for the free healing, by the way." But before I could ask what she was talking about, I had already slipped into the shadows, only seeing the slight smile on Roo's face before resurfacing.
-Scene Break-
When I resurfaced from my shadow, I saw the now-familiar red skies of hell along with my divine dogs beside me, questioning looks on their faces as they saw me. "Sorry I checked out there for a bit, guys… You know what, I think I have enough cursed energy to just keep you guys out indefinitely."
To put it into BS numerical terms, I have about 2000 units of cursed energy; normally divine dogs use up 500 every 10 minutes, and I regenerate 350 a minute. However, with the six eyes, I can reduce the amount of cursed energy that divine dogs take up from 500 to only 5. The six eyes are truly overpowered bullshit, heh.
I swiftly got up and stretched all four of my arms and led my dogs into the hotel with me, patting their heads with my lower arms while walking. "Hey, Charlie." I walked into the hotel and called out to Charlie who was asleep on the coffee table before waking up, wiping her drool off of her face.
"Oh, y-yeah, what's up, Ja—" I hold up my two dogs and present them to her. "They don't need food or water, and they don't poop or pee or anything like that. Can I please keep them?" Before I could even blink, Charlie was already on her knees, petting and putting her face into my dogs' fur.
"You're good boys, aren't you? Good, good boys. You're so darn fluffy!" I looked at the dogs, and it seemed they were enjoying it, so I didn't stop Charlie's antics. "Of course you can keep these guys; where else would they go?"
I gave a small smile and started to shrink down into my normal form, reverting my extra arms back in and closing my stomach mouth. "You guys can track my scent, right? If you want to sleep in my room, just sniff me out, okay?" The dogs let out satisfied whines and went back to being pampered by Charlie.
I walked up the stairs to my room, thinking about my training. 'From what I can tell, I haven't even scratched the surface of Jujutsu as a whole, I only did domain amplification against Alastor of all people. I'm not expecting a domain after only a few days, but I definitely need to start training more. I'll start by accessing my inner domain by meditating. Isn't that what all the protagonists do?"
When I got to my room, I was greeted by Amery and Nifty in a yelling match about who would take my right side tonight because it's "the warmest side.".
But before I start training, I'll take a little break first.
(After this chapter, I'll definitely put in some filler.)
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