All Dreams Must End

 What a lovely life, so peaceful, so wonderful, cleaning the house, playing in the yard, watching movies together, friends and family even, the beach, the pool, parties, broken up only by that little Eldritch Albia's relation ship with Shahara's son. Oh the occasional battle, some guy and a fairy monkey thing introducing the girl to some convoluted rules involving the use of summoning cards and changing the grid battle zone into other environments...and her grandmother's mystic mirror revealing their true forms to the summoner; with little impact as she already saw two and in that previous fight her...heh...MewMew, transformed into her Dark Empress form and laid waste the artificial environment. But that is nothing in the long run it seems...oh no...more mundane life, more cooking, and cleaning, and playing, and oh look now sitting on the couch watching a movie as the girl falls asleep, how boring, and...oh...what are you doing my old rival...what...are you doing?

   In the still night air, MewMew, FiFi, and Gene stand upon Mirai's roof looking up at the sky. Twin blasts of chaos energy from MewMew's eyes in one direction into the sky, a spiral blast of red and black energy from Gene's mouth in another, and a blue laser like blast from FiFi in a third.

   "AAAAAHHHH!" screams Lohln in the middle of a meeting as she transforms into her arachne form in front of her human management staff. Even her clawed tentacles emerge before she regains control and transforms back to human form.

   "Sleep!" she yells out sending forth a green blast of energy knocking out the humans.

   "What the hell just happened?" she *huffs*

   Elsewhere Shahara is grinding her teeth holding herself from transforming as she is in a Nekojin form.

   "Mother?!" shouts Luke coming into her room as she grips her bed like a wild beast.

   "Stay back," commands Shahara, "I...I just need...to calm down...they...it...I can feel it..."

   Luke runs down stairs and grabs a bottle of water, when he comes back Shahara is back to being fully human, and already in her suit (granted she can magically form it on her).

   "Mother.." starts Luke as Shahara takes the bottle.

  "I need to go the office," says Shahara, "Its urgent, if I'm right..."

  As she leaves the house she spies three humanoid figures out of the corner of her eye standing on Mirai's roof, a man in a hat and cloak, and two women with horns. She turns and they are gone.

  "No..." whispers Shahara looking at the sky.

   ******

   "Yes," comes the voice of Lady Magnus of the Foundation over the monitors in this emergency meeting, "we have confirmed it, three more of the Obelisks were destroyed. At the same time. The satelites picked up three different blasts, originating from the same point on the Earth. Best we can tell some group building up their power thanks to the one missing must have pooled their strengths and took out three more. As the Obelisks adapt to attacks on them, they clearly had to use three different powers at the same time at the same intensity to take them out...I would say its unprecedented but..."

   She shows the footage of Chaos destroying the one almost a year ago.

   "We know from what part of the Earth," says Lohln, "the blasts came from, our obvious suspects would be Rhudra and Cynthia...the third would likely be Chaos, but she hasn't been detected."

   "No," says Shahara, "The Black Empress...or Dark Empress depending on how you want to translate it...is Chaos."

   "Absurd," says Echidaria over the monitors, "The Black Empress is a Celestial Abomination, and as you yourself and we know, currently asleep and whose avatar is a bound summon. Chaos is a dragon god."

   "What?" asks Shahara, "you were there...and..."

   *They won't believe you* a voice whispers into her mind as time holds still, *the spell is strong that she has woven. You cannot end the current madness little one...unless you start the Tournament of Darkness anew*

   "How would that do anything?" asks Shahara aloud.

   "The tournament," interjects Pamela, "if we were to start it again, the guide spell would point out every power life sign and where they are. No doubt any new players would be singled out, making them easy to find, and...keep them occupied. This really does feel like a play for power, given the timing someone no doubt...no offense, may think the current rulers are trying to stay in power, and are using...other means...to out them...you."

   "What?" asks Shahara

   "I can see that," says Lohln, "makes sense, with the power increases, and seals vanishing we have no way of knowing how many more like Paramalia, Azuaria, and those two Shadow Vampire progenitors may be showing up both from here and from beyond."

   -A vote is held and the next day is is scheduled to restart the tournament, after all they only need two more, and previous ones may not even qualify anymore if enough powers have awoken.

   Outside the chamber however Shahara is greeted by Gel, "Was that you?" asks Shahara.

   "My forgiveness," says Gel, "I don't know why you were un-touched by the spell."

   "What...spell?" asks Shahara, "and who cast it...on us of all beings?"

   "Why...Chaos of course," says Gel.

  "She is a summon right now," says Shahara, "she can't act out like that without orders...it was true even before the Obelisks were in place, so how can she do that now?"

   "Because," says Gel, "her summoner doesn't want the battles she has had, she just wants to enjoy her new life with her little friends. A little slice of happiness. The Dream of the Empress detected this...and acted on it. Having these...big bads as it were...know about her..already caused her summoner some grief."

   "How so?" asks Shahara.

   "Pamela," says Gel, "went to the house to recruit the girl. She put an end to that grief happening again. The girl is well off, and you already have her as an intern. Why she spared you from the spell...I don't know."

   Shahara eyes Gel, "why were you spared?"

   Gel smiles and her entire body glows, "All dreams must come to an end, Midgardia has been chosen to host the true tournament."

   Shahara *growls*, "what you you mean by that?"

   Gel turns black, forming a victorian dress of tar around her.

   "Hydera Dredge!" *growls* Shahara, "Okay, now I really want to know how you know what you know!"

   "My dear little pussy cat," says Hydera Dredge, "It will become apparent...when you start the tournament anew."

   With that Hydera Dredge vanishes like a ghost.

  "Since when can she teleport," thinks Shahara, "and change her apperance to look like a different type of slime....and....we are being played for fools again arn't we?"

   ******

   A green orb appears in front of various powerful creatures around the world as the voice of Shahara comes from them, "We announce the Tournament of Darkness has resumed, all..."

   There is a flash of green light around Shahara.

   "Where are we?" demands Shahara as she finds herself standing on a metal platform suspended in the air in a massive room whose walls, all a good distance from the platform are lined with large glowing green circles, "and what have you done with our powers?!"

   A man's voice comes from above, "our apologies, but you are being relocated to your proper dimensions. This room has sealed your powers. As per proper protocol, each of you here. Shahara, Lohln, Echidaria, Lorcelt (woman with golden hair wearing a buisiness suit), Sominel (Japanese woman in a bikini), Sairyu (Japanese woman in a matching bikini), and Solaria (red headed woman in a t-shirt and jeans), you are here because you are the most powerful beings that were on the Earth that weren't immediatly sealed or sent back during the purge."

   "Purge?!" demands Shahara.

   Another man's voice comes out, "Sorry, this is Tyros, and you already know Suranaku, his wording was off. You see we have solved your Earth's problem. After a careful cross-precent investigation, involving an event we were...alerted of by Precent Gamma that was about to hit your unfortunate, unprepared, and defenseless planet, we determined that none of you are native there. Given a legal...issue regarding jurisdiction we decided to give controlling matters to precent Gamma, we provided us with this holding cell...rather impressive technology. Now getting down to the basics; we also discovered Midgardia was down to only six Obelisks, being systematically removed...there are now twenty similar devices above Midgardia. The effect has been that anything multi-dimensional...Eldritch entities and summoned beings have all imediatly been sent back to their native realms...even if not born there...except for you all gathered here...who due my personal recomendation deserved an explination as you did alert us to the cross-dimensional problems and history. We would have done a temporal shift...but various conditions prevented that from being possible without just creating an alternate timeline...and thus not solving your world's problems."

   "What are you getting at?" demands Echidaria.

   "In short," states Tyros, "all supernatural beings remaining on the planet no longer have any powers, anything within three generations not born there have been sent back to their own worlds. Unfortunatly due to their connections with their summons, summoners have found themselves sent to the same worlds as their summons...this is likely very unfortunate for most of them. Our records have found the worlds all of you were summoned from during that...Hexian War...and will be sent back immediatly."

   "Now hold on!" demands Sairyu, "you can't just..."

   *green flash and they are gone*

   Lohn finds herself in her own mystic chamber, the great web in the grant library. There with her are Fang, Lupachnid, Kumira, and Pamela.

   "What has happened?" asks Lupachnid.

  Lohln proceeds to tell them. Shahara is in a forest looking up at a grey sky, Sairyu on a floating island in a twilight realm, Lorcelt in a desert with an unmoving sun, Echidaria stands beside Albia in a catacome dimly lit of eternal torches, Sominel in a grassy plane where she is quickly in the company of a bosom sorceress in veil like green clothes with long dark green hair.

  ******

   *yawn*

  A beautiful bosom woman sits up in a magnificent regal bed, the sheets fall off her naked breasts as she stretches her arms. Through sleepy eyes she looks around the room.

  "Huh," she says, "so this is where I was sleeping."

  She looks about the old world room with various desks and tables and stuffed animals, she feels by her pillow and finds a very small stuffed toy. She looks at it a moment and *giggles* putting it in her mouth as she does so causing her to laugh a little harder as she sets it back down. As she goes to stand however she feels something across her lap, under the sheets that fell off of her. Pulling them back she finds Mirai, whom she lifts up and hugs while rocking gently and rubbing the girl's head with her cheek. Mirai's eyes open and blinks as her face is right next to someone's large tits. She *screams* and flees from the bed.

   The woman *groans* and blinks her eyes, "why are you yelling Mirai?"

   The girl in her pajams stammers, "Who...who are you? Wh...where am I?"

  "What?" says the woman her dark blue eyes opening fully and glowing for a brief moment. She scratches her head through her long dark red hair and stands up.

   She looks about the room, at the bed, at Mirai, and says, "Wait...something is off here.."

  She waves her arms and summons forth black boots, black tight pants, a black corset like top, a black cape with a red inner lining, and looks at Mirai, "Now...hmmm,"

   "You...you're one of those Shadow Vampires arn't you..." stammers Mirai, "I...where...where is MewMew?"

   Before Mirai can say anything else the woman has grabbed her up and is hugging her, "You are so cute!"

   She kisses the top of Mirai's head and *mews*.

  "MewMew," says Mirai eyes wide open, "that voice...y...you...you're..."

  The woman sets her down and holds her chin in her hand and kisses her forehead, "mew"

  "Where...why?" Mirai is at a loss for words.

  "Indeed," says the woman, "this would the room beyond the door Mirai...and it would seem the dream is over and my hibernation is done...my last one was...complicated and without that summoning would have been over before long anyway...but even with that...you wouldn't be here...had the contract been broken...same effect you wouldn't be here...something else is at play. I had thought the dream would have lasted till your old age or other mitigating factor...but...well never mind we have things to attend to, come along Mirai, this will be for your benefit as well."

   As the woman reaches the double doors, Mirai says, "MewMew..."

  "Ah," says the woman stopping, "right,"

  She leans down, her lips nearly touching Mirai's ear and in a soft sultry voice says, "You may call me MewMew in private my summoner...however it would be best to call me by my proper name in this place."

   "Dark...Empress?" asks Mirai.

   "Oh right," says the woman standing up straight, "your grandmother's little toy...no...that thing wouldn't know me, only be able to make a vague connection by one of many titles I have gone by...no my dear...my name is Rhulan. I am a sorceress, well...a goddess...a demoness...a sorceres...Eldritch, cosmic whatever...."

   She waves a dismissive hand, "if I could be catagorized so easily I would never have earned being called a being of chaos not would I?"

  She laughs as she opens the doors and Rhudra is practically on her.

  "Mother," says Rhudra, "we have a problem...something has happend to Midgardia...I...we can't open the door to it...and all my vampires...like a hundred of them are here...they just showed up in the basement. I already had to kill a dozen upstarts and..."

   She sees Mirai standing behind Rhulan, "you...brought the girl back with you?"

   "She was on my bed," says Rhulan, "and...hmm..."

   She look at Mirai, "well...I think I know what happened now. Guess I better teach those fools a lesson in interrupting such a peaceful dream."

  Rhudra smiles and looks at Mirai, "Greetings girl, we were not properly introduced before..."

  "I know who you are," says Mirai grasping Rhulan's arm, "you...tried to take MewMew from me."

  Rhudra has to stifle a laugh, "Okay...uh..."

  "Mirai," says Rhulan.

  Rhudra looks between Rhulan and Mirai and says, "Mirai...the person whose arm you are holding, whose dream you cuddled with each night and played house with...is my mother...and where I was born she killed both the god and the devil of that world..."

   "and," says Rhulan, "the games are over...someone...ones...have interfered with me...they will be punished..."

   Rhulan smiles wickedly, "and...by others."

  ******

  In the depths of space a massive maze of a structure breaks apart, massive explosions as it pieces fly apart. Insect like alien creatures scramble for their ships as the thing they built the structure around, the thing they were studying for centuries has begun to move. A massive yellow and gold armored humanoid creature wearing a trenchcoat made of dark energy and a hat. In all their records it only ever moved once before, when they had rockets try to remove the hat to study the thing's head and odd face closer. Now it rises, giving no credence to their structure, destroying it as easily as one moves through air. It steps upon nothing as waves of nothing wash over it, and in an instant it is gone.

   Elsewhere in a world of soft light and white nebular clouds there is a large flat asteroid whose top is covered in flowers, save for the giant blue armor skin like female figure lying there, her blue flame like hair draped over the side of the asteroid, yet burning nothing. Her horn tips in what would be pools. She opens her solar flare like eyes and rises up and leers into the aether before vanishing in a blue flash.

   ******

   In a flash Mirai finds herself standing alone beside Rhudra,

  "Where did she go?" ask Mirai worried.

  "To solve your world's problem," says Rhudra, "no doubt, I take it the other two arn't with you."

  Mirai has a sad look.

  "My mother's plan," says Rhudra, "as...another aspect of her informed me after I decided to make proper contact...after that little...incident involving my servant's lack of tact. Was to establish Sahralia and Zahnon as your summons so in the event she had to wake up...this was likely to only be a part time hibernation. I had hoped to guide her Shadow Cataclysm or Netherworld Cataclysm as her dreams for my own ends there...but..."

  Rhudra *shrugs*, "The best laid plans of demons and gods...and demon gods...so..."

  "Goddess Wind!" a massive blast of green slashing air tears through the hallway slicing up a dozen Shadow Vampires. One flees to Rhudra and transforms revealing herself to be Marlana; now with her hand regrown.

   "Majesty," starts Marlana.

   "What is this?!" demands a woman coming around the corner smashing a vampire into the wall with her white cane, a woman in white sorceress robes, her brown hair done up as a bun, with a small Asian style white dragon with a wolf like muzzle floating about her.

   She marches right up to Rhudra, "I thought we had a deal Princess Rhudra! Your filthy vampires would not be here on my days with..."

  She looks past them, "The door is open...and..."

  She looks at the girl in the pajamas, "Please tell me this isn't one of your vampires' victims...you know I'd have to.."

  "No," says Rhudra, "and I do apologize Princess Holly, there has been some hiccup on Midgardia. Seems the mansion doors to there are sealed from their side, the vampires were all teleported here...and the girl I told you about...as well."

  "So this is..." says Holly looking at her, "How...old are you dear?"

  "Um..." says Mirai, "eighteen...and...are you...a vampire?"

  "Oh my no," says Holly realizing her ears are pointed, eyes glowing, and eye teeth elongated from anger. She shifts her ears and teeth back to normal as well as her eyes, "I am Princess Holly of the Light Elves of Juhn and the house of Lia of the Ravashira Empire here on Aesperia."

  "An...elf?" asks Mirai, "wow...never...met an elf before."

 "Astonished by that?" asks Holly, "yet had celestial beings as familiars...so nostalgic and adorable. I can see why Miss Rhulan likes you...but..."

   She looks at Rhudra and back at Mirai in deep thought, "I see...a seal that sent the summoner back to the origin of a dreaming one's true form...powerful."

   "Dimension Police were likely involved," says Rhudra, "I felt...Tyros...aura where I met their rulers."

  "by the goddess," says Holly, "this just got complicated didn't it?"

  ******

  Over Midgardia three beings appear, a woman in black dragon scale like armored body with hair made of black and red red netherflames, eyes of piercing blue flames, the giant blue armored form of Sahralia, and the golden metal plated form of Zahnon.

  The dragon goddess (Rhulan), aims her hands out at the fleet of obelisk like devices, summoning forth a massive black sigil, "Netherverse Blast!" releasing a wave of black and red energy that spirals about consuming one after the other of the obelisks.

  Zahnon calls forth two giant guns from spiral red galaxies and commences firing dark red energy bolts that destroy one after the other of the obelisks. Sahralia destroying them with sparkling blue and white energy blasts from her finger tips. Before long all the obelisks are gone.

   ******

   Mirai starts to fade like a ghost from the hallway, and finds herself back in her bedroom. A note on her bed.

 [We have taken care of the obelisks, FiFi and Gene will be back with you shortly after clean up. Don't worry I will visit regularly, just think of me as a wandering stray now.
                                                                                       Love
                                                                                       MewMew ]

   As Mirai steps out of her bedroom she is grabbed up in a hug by Luke, "thank god," he says, "I...sorry"

   He lets her go, "I've been...everyone...mother...Albia, Nikkie, You, your grandmother, Nikkie's mom...the council...everyone was just...gone..."

   They hear a scream next door and run out of the house over to Nikkie's house, she comes out the front door in her Nekojin form, covered in blood. Mirai *gasps*.

   "Its...not mine," says Nikkie, "I...was in a forest and some guy with an axe came at me and...I have to call my mother..."

   Luke starts to say, "Nikkie..." but a portal opens up beside him and Shahara in her white tiger humanoid form leaps out and tackles him, picking him up in a tight hug, "Luke...my baby...my boy..oh goddesses be praised...the portal opened..."

   Lohln suddenly teleports in front of them, "I remember everything now...child you summoned Chaos? and..."

   She looks at the sky, "and I couldn't be more thankful that you did..."

   Two lights come down from the sky, a blue orb and a gold orb stopping in front of Mirai and emerging from them are FiFi and Gene who leap into her arms.

   "Where is Chaos? er...MewMew?" asks Shahara looking up to the sky.

   "She'll be back," whispers Mirai, "she promised."

   ******

   Tyros is sitting at his desk in Stratalia looking over some paper work when his DP alert device goes off, "come on," says Tyros, "I was just..."

  He looks out the window, "oh...shit."

  Rhulan smashes through his window and hovers in his office.

  "I do have a door, your majesty...or you could have opened the window...maybe teleported in here or..."

   "Tyros," says Rhulan in a very serious tone, "I was having a very pleasant dream...I don't often get a dream that doesn't end with me either conquering or saving a planet...so want to tell me exactly HOW the Dimension Police were able to pull off a stunt like this?"

   "Well," says Tyros clicking his device under the table to communicate mode, "Midgardia is now under the jurisdiction of precent gamma...I was there to calmly explain to their old ruling council of gods that they..."

   "You are not Stratos," says Rhulan, "but you try to fill your grandfather's shoes since he retired I get that...however...it seems I can't hold directly responsible...after all those fools that...I am so not happy are trading information and tools now, has to over work them honestly..."

   "Well," says Tyros, "It is only temporary, my grandfather didn't permanently retire, but...oh...right...you arn't...sorry had this planned out better since they reported it sent the summons back...and you were...okay...never mind...sorry, but we're cut off now. What they set up is...insane. I mean they deported everything of significant power and sealed everyone else's powers...I mean...I...it doesn't seem right to me...but...not like we can..."

   "I destroyed the obelisks," says Rhulan shutting him up, "Well myself along with Sahralia and Zahnon...they too were having pleasent dreams...now they are there fully...only small...but will protect their...investment from such outside interference again. That world has had those beings on it for over two hundred thousand years...the Dimension Police had no right to even put those limiters there in the first place; even dreaming I got that...and now...if they go back there...they will be dealt with...with considerable vehemenence."

    She turns out the hole she made, "Oh, and also Tyros...I know your communicator is on and they are listening...so...yeah...Suranaku...fuck you."

  With that Rhulan flies out the hole, passing Holly in the air, the two stop and turn to face each other.

   "Miss Rhulan..." whispers Holly.

  "I didn't hurt him," says Rhulan, "I am just a bit groggy being woken up so suddenly, some breakfast and making sure the girl got home alright and I'll be in a better mood. Blasted Dimension Police...entitled assholes."

   Holly smiles and flies down to Tyros as Rhulan heads back to the castle.

  "So..." says Holly, "dad...still think it was a good idea to fill in for grandpa?"

  Tyros starts to laugh, "I just had God smash through my office wall and berate me for fucking up her dream...so...no."

  They both start laughing.

  ******

   On the moon of Midgardia a woman with blue skin, strange tight and revealing clothing yet oddly clearly made for a fighter of some kind, black hair, and aerodynamic backward pointing horns is watching the planet below and thinking, "Well...looks like The Overlord of Otherworld will be part of the tournament after all...and has made one hell of an entrance before I got a chance too...oh..."

   She eyes the planet zooming in on Mirai, Nikkie, Shahara, Luke, and now Albia whose tentacles are wrapped around look in afectionate hug, "and it looks like we might have a few more contestants as well." She focuses on Albia, FiFi, and Gene, "new and old."