Chidori Chinatsu: I'm A F#@king Magical Girl!

"Arcanimus...Sigmis? What the hell are you?"

"Holla! Bethink of me as a spirit advis'r." The fire imp told her. "I am the spirit of thy wand Sigmis!"

"This?" Chidori asked as she raised the wand. "So, you were the one calling out to me?"

"Yond's c'rrect. I wast assign'd to waiteth until the destin'd day at which hour thy pow'rs wouldst awaken and we couldst uniteth as one to saveth thy w'rld."

"Okay now we're getting somewhere. Who assigned you? And what are those monsters?" Chidori asked him.

He grinned and hopped up and stood on his feet and spread his arms out. "Mine own mast'rs assign'd me! The W'rld Saints!"

"Am I supposed to know who those are?"

"Patience, patience, young one. I'll explain. F'r thee seeth..." Chidori was sent hurtling through space once again.

"This again?" Chidori asked the stars and planets and suns flew past her at warp speed so fast they were all just glowing blurs to her. She flew through the cosmos faster and faster until she suddenly began to slow down and her vision was filled with light. Chidori blinked a few times to clear her vision and she was slowly set back down. As Chidori regained her bearings she looked around at her new surroundings. It was beautiful. Light everywhere. Golden Clouds. Sparkling Shimmering Water. White Clouds On Either Side Of Her. The Most Beautiful Flora Stretching For Untold Miles. Bizarre, beautiful, alien animals flew through the air and darted around playing together in the fields.

"What? What is this place?"

"Welcometh, Chidori Chinatsu. Welcometh to the sacr'd golden realm: Zyaemiagath. Home of the W'rld Saints." Sigmis declared cheerfully as he appeared next to her on the pier. "F'r thee seeth, The W'rld Saints art guardian deities of the univ'rses. Those gents w'rk to maintaineth balanceth in the cosmos and ensureth yond ev'rything continues to runneth most carefully upon the hour without disturbance 'r disruption. If 't be true something tries to disrupt the balanceth of the cosmos, those gents taketh steps to c'rrect t by selecting Chosen Guardians to act to defend the m'rtal realm from threats yond wouldst seeketh to bringeth about the endeth of w'rlds. In thy case, thou art a magical girl. Those gents f'resaw thy extreme potential and those gents kneweth thee wouldst beest the c'rrect choice to defend thy w'rld."

"....Okaaay...uhh...sooo...you are putting a lot on me right now. First thing's first, where are they anyway?"

"Up there. Castle Zyaemiagath." He pointed into the sky towards a waterfall and Chidori followed it up to the sky where she saw a massive floating island with a gigantic castle sitting on it. It's size, it's scale, even from all the way down here it was mind bogglingly large!



Incidentally, the Divine Continent is 34,278,890 square miles." He informed her.

"Ehhhhh? B-b-but...th-that...that's....that's twice the size of Asia!" She realized. "Th-that would be...what...58.2% of Earth's Total Land Mass! How...how...how in the hell did I not see it?!"

"Oh, The Divine Continent doest not cast a shadow. T only provides lighteth and joy to the Sacr'd Realm."

"Holy ⬧︎♒︎♓︎⧫︎ this is a lot take in..." She confessed. Chidori needed a minute to collect herself before she nodded. "Okay, so, uh, what's up? What do they need me for? I mean, if they're so powerful, couldn't they just squash the monsters? And where do these monsters come from? Who is their Goddess?"

"Ah, H'r. Thee hath heard about H'r didst thee? Aye, I supposeth I doth oweth thee an explanation. Thee seeth, th're art many saints h're in the sacr'd realm yond gaze and obs'rve the multiv'rse. All of those folk art kind and wise and gentle and loving and valorous. Unf'rtunately, as much as I wouldst liketh to sayeth oth'rwise, th're wast one 'mongst those folk who is't hath grown cruel and petty and vindictive." The sky turned dark red and a massive storm kicked up.

The wind roared with the violence and power of an angry God, savage and unyielding, with raw power beyond and wind storm. Lightning came next and brilliant shocks of red light lit up the dark sky and strikign down repeatedly to the unsuspecting ground, striking at random and cracking it open. Then the earth began to move as if it were a wave on the sea and buildings that had stood for centuries crumbled into their own foundations as Chidori fell to her knees and desperately tried to stay standing. Magma erupted out of the ground and the rain became rocks, the sky filled with a choking smoky powder and the air became hotter than fire. It was all around her. Choking her lungs as this paradise world began to fall apart around her.

Black shapes filled the sky. Monsters. All kinds of monsters from the deepest darkest depths of human nightmares began filling the sky and rampaging around through paradise, ripping the world asunder.

"Wh...wha...what? What's...what's happening?"

This wast the opening shots of a war. The only war the sacr'd realm hast ev'r seen. The lady is the one who is't did start t all." He informed her.

A shadow fell over the Sacred Realm and the silhouette of a massive massive being the size of skyscrapers rose up in the middle of the swarm of monsters. Massive angelic looking wings grew out of its back and spread out through the sky while a glowing halo appeared behind it. Many more humanoid shapes appeared behind Chidori, each of them as tall as the angelic being. "Wha...who...what...huh? Wh-what's going on? Who's the angel?"

"Yond is thy foe. The lady who is't did betray h'r fellow saints and hath grown petty and cruel. Maggedon Apokalyptinen!"

The army of monsters rose up around the woman and she raised her hands up into the air. Bright lights gathered in her hands and she thrust them forward, releasing impossibly powerful energy blasts at the other Saints, aided by the swarm of monsters, and the Saints replied in kind. The blasts collided and everything was swallowed in the resulting explosion as Chidori screamed and covered herself.


When she finally opened her eyes again, she saw the Sacred Realm being put back together, repaired as if time itself was winding backward.

"Wh..wha...what...happened? Did...they win?"

"Aye. Those gents didst winneth. At most wondrous did cost. The sacr'd realm itself wast sc'rch'd and burn'd in the conflict but aft'r subduing h'r, those gents w're able to repaireth the dimension."

The scene changed again and Chidori again saw the silhouette of Maggedon this time bound by innumerable chains and held aloft in the air alongside the remaining monsters.

Aft'r h'r defeat, Maggedon wast did banish from the sacr'd realm and condemn'd to the abyss f'r h'r cruelty and treach'ry. Nev'r again to beest releas'd."

Maggedon was pulled into a swirling black abyss, writhing and struggling against her bindings the whole way. Once she was successfully pulled in, the monsters were pulled into en masse.

"Okaaaay...soooo...shouldn't that be it? Case closed?"

"F'r many eons, t wast. The war wast wonneth. Howev'r, the lady did turn out to beest stout'r than those gents bethought. While the maj'rity of h'r pow'r wast did suppose to has't been stripp'd of h'r, the lady did retain m're of t than those gents bethought. The lady gath'r'd enow pow'r to weaken the dimensional barri'rs of the abyss. Unf'rtunately, the barri'rs broken w're between thy w'rld and the abyss. Even but now, only the weak'r of their kind can cometh through one at a timeth. Howev'r, the m're mis'ry those gents did spread through the w'rld, the m're strength their kind shall gath'r, which means the m're strength the lady shall gath'r. If 't be true the lady is able to gath'r enow strength, the lady couldst maketh t through the barri'rs h'rself and cometh to thy w'rld p'rsonally."

"You want me to fight THAT?!" Chidori exclaimed in disbelief. "I-I_i'm...i"m down to fight...anyone or anything but...THAT? Doesn't this seem like a God Job?"

"W'rry not. So longeth as thou art able to stand ho the abyssal feonds, then maggedon wonneth't beest able to cometh backeth. Yond's what i am h're f'r. To traineth thee so thee can saveth the w'rld."

"You haven't answered my last question."

"Unf'rtunately, th're art c'rtain rules on how much those gents can act within the m'rtal plane. Sev'ral, actually. All design'd f'r thy protection. Yond is wherefore champions art chosen. To act to saveth the m'rtal w'rld wh're those gents cannot act."

"...So...lemme get this straight. The World Saints have phenomenal cosmic power but can't act in our world because of some unknown cosmic rules except to elect magical champions to fight their war. There is unknown amount of alien monsters targeting our world to spread misery and suffering to fuel themselves and recharge and wake up their Goddess so she can come back for round two with The World Saints and wreak havoc on our dimension. Do I have that right?"

"Thou art c'rrect."

The scene changed to take them away from The Sacred Realm. Instead Chidori found herself once again floating in space this time over the Earth. It was beautiful. So utterly beautiful. Globes didn't do it justice. It was so wonderfully amazing to see it from up here among the stars knowing there was Billions of people just like her going about their daily loves on this wonderfully amazing and beautiful sphere.

"Knowing what thee knoweth anon, doth thee still wisheth to fight?"

Chidori looked down at the Earth for a moment as she gathered her wits and her hands balled into fists. She looked back up at the fire imp and nodded. "Yeah. Lets Fight. These bastards brought the war to us. They attacked our world, our people, our families. I'm not letting them get away with that. So bring it on. I'll make these bastards wish they'd stayed in The Abyss."

"Huh? Hey, now that I think about it, what is this Abyss place anyway?"

"Ah, well to bid the sooth I has't nev'r been th're but I've at each moment been toldeth yond t is the dunnest void. A lodging devoid of lighteth. A w'rld wh're th're is nay chance of escapeth. A lodging of punishment."

"Sounds pleasant." She quipped. "I can understand why they'd want to escape from a place like that but that doesn't justify dragging Earth into their quarrel." Chidori scratched the back of her head while she mulled over this for a bit until she eventually spoke up again. "Alright, wake me back up. I have some thinking to do."

"Of course. Thee'll waketh right backeth in the hospital. Rest assured, I'll beest right h're whenev'r thee needeth to talketh. Hallo!" He waved and Chidori woke up in the hospital.

She blinked her eyes a few times and looked around the hallway. "Okay. So. This is all happening." She sank into the chair and looked up at the ceiling. "Okaaay, so, this is all happening..." (I guess that explains the monster making those spheres to torture me and all those people....and my mother.) She closed her eyes as she remembered what happened. She remembered all of this people screaming in unison as their pain escalated out of control. She felt it when she was in there with them. She felt that excruciating pain. She felt what it was doing to them. Direct neural stimulation of every pain receptor in a person, causing unfathomable torture and only escalating its effects from there. It was by far the worst agony that Chidori had ever felt in a life full of pain. Not just her own but what she was feeling from all of the people suffering with her. (But I did something about it didn't I? Something. I don't know how but somehow I tapped into them. I tapped into everyone's pain and transferred it to myself along with the constant escalating effects of the spheres. It was indescribable unfathomable anguish. I had no damn way of understanding or describing that pain but it was....horrific. Nightmarish. It went completely beyond any form of description. But...it pissed me off. I was screaming and crying and suffering and it pissed me off. I tapped into all of that pain and I used it to fuel my anger. Somehow. I don't know how I did that either.) She rubbed her head. (I guess...rage is the only way to describe it. Magic and unstoppable blind rage.) She sighed. (Sure it all worked out but man oh man I got seriously lucky there. Now I've got all of this weighing down on me. Hell man. I really need to talk to Izzy and the others later about this. Because holy hell I am going to need training if I'm going to pull this off.) "But. First thing's first, right mom?"

"Chinatsu!"

She snapped out of her thoughts and shot up to her feet as she heard her adoptive father's voice. "Daddy!"

Chidori sped down the hallway and embraced the suited man as he was running up to her.



Kisaragi Kiyomori had raced to the hospital from the office at Odinetworks the moment he heard about what happened and he clearly looked like he'd had a panic attack and was only just now calming down. He hugged his adoptive daughter breathing hard and kissing her forehead. "Are you okay? Are you okay? Are you okay?"

"Yeah...yeah, I'm...I'm fine dad. I'm fine. It's alright. I'm okay. Kind of. Mom's the one who got hurt." She whispered to her adoptive dad while she hugged him. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry."

"It's okay baby girl. It's okay." He assured her.

"What? More of them? How many more? Are they all as dangerous as that first one?" Kiyomori asked her.

"A lot more." Chidori informed him. "A lot more and there's a whole lot of different versions of the monsters and they have a scary boss and..." She help up her wand. "I've been chosen to fight them."

"Chosen? Ch-ch-chosen? By who?"

"Uhhh as far as I understand a bunch of Cosmic Alien Gods who are living it up in a massive golden castle on their own flying continent in another dimension."

"...What?"

"Yeah that was my reaction too. I'll explain further when the others get here."

"Wha? Why not explain it to me now?" He asked in confusion.

"Well, I mean, you have to admit that it'll be easier if I only have to explain it once." Chidori reasoned.

"Alright that's fair. I think that-"

"Excuse me, Mister Kiriyama? Your wife is awake sir."

"Mom!" She grinned and sped past the nurse and into the room. From their perspective Chidori was there one second, then there was a gust of wind and the door flew open!

"Uhm? Huh? Wha? Where did she go?"

"TO see her mother I assume."

"Has your daughter always been that fast? Is she a speedster?"

"To be honest I'm not sure what her powers are right now. Thank you for all your help though all the same." He complimented the nurse. "You're doing an amazing job. Thank you."

He patted the nurse on the shoulder and hurried to his wife's side.


"Chinatsu? Chinatsu? Where am I?" Her mother asked. "I...had the weirdest dream. There was a monster attacking the city and we were running and then something happened...what happened Chinatsu? Why am I in the hospital?"

"It's okay mom. It's okay now. It's okay now." Chinatsu assured her adoptive mother as she held her close. "It's gone. The monster's gone. It went boom and it was reduced to ashes. It's all going to be okay."

"I already told you. There is no escape. Only suffering." The monster readied another sphere and raised its hand up, took aim and flung it at them. Kisaragi Jabami didn't even hesitate to shove her daughter out of the way as hard as she could.

"I LOVE YOU!" She screamed out desperately before the sphere swallowed her up as well. For a moment there was only pitch black darkness until it lit up with the green lightning. The inside of the sphere was illuminated to show Chidori the image of her beloved adopted mother screaming at the top of her lungs in pain while her body spasmed from the agony lightning.

"MOOOOOOOMMMMMM!" Chidori shrieked.

"MOOOOM! MOOOM! MOM!" Chidori continued to scream for her adopted mother as she slammed her arms against the sphere to no avail. It was too hard. No matter how hard she struck the sphere she couldn't so much as scratch it but she continued to strike it in desperation as she desperately screamed for her mother.

Jabami's eyes opened back up and she found herself floating in the middle of darkness. Darkness suffocating her body like a damp, musty, thick blanket, clinging to every inch of her badly battered bleeding body. It was closing in on her from all sides and she couldn't see a thing! It was the strange sensation you can only get when you're floating in zero gravity in pitch black darkness. The kind of feeling an astronaut would get if they were out there in space all alone with no light or anything else out there with them.

That was when the light shined around her and the green electricity began coursing through her body. It was more than just a slight tingle that ran underneath his skin. No, it was as though someone had attached a live wire to every inch of her body as her and her body began violently convulsing as the violent electrical current pulsed through her turning her pain receptors on overdrive.

Jabami screamed as the overwhelming indescribable pain flared up inside her.

And Screamed.

And Screamed.

And Screamed.



Kisaragi Jabami gasped and covered as the memories of the afternoon's events flooded back into her and she began shaking and trembling. She felt the panic begin like a cluster of spark plugs in her abdomen. Tension grew in her face and limbs, her mind replaying the attack and her subsequent torture inside of the darkness. Her breathing became more rapid, more shallow, her heart racing faster and faster. In seconds she was curled tight in her bed, her only movement the trembling of her limbs and salty tears darkening her sleeves.

"Mom! Mom! It's okay now! It's alright. I'm here for you."

"Jabami! Jabami it's okay. I'm here for you now. I'm here. It's okay now. You're alright. It's okay now."

Their arms were around her once more and Jabami felt the tension slowly leave her body as she embraced her husband and adopted daughter.

Yeah, as much as her Bio Mom loves her, she had a mental collapse after she killed her husband in self-defense and she's been in psychiatric care since and Chidori's own extended family has let her down, so her adopted parents are the closest she really has to a real family at the moment and you can tell by how much she utterly loves them and they definitely care about her just as much.

Back Downstairs!

Takako Yoshino, Wakamura Toki, Ichika Harime and Amaya Amaterasu finally arrived at the hospital and advanced towards the front desk only to be met with a line of people still being sorted out. "Ohhhhh! Poopy!" Takako groaned. "I knew this was going to happen but come on. I just want to check in on her. She needs her friends right now." She looked to the side. "Maybe I could..."

Wakamura Toki held her shoulder. "There's been enough chaos tonight you are not adding to it. We will stand in line, get signed in, and then we can visit her. She and her parents have had a long night okay? Especially her adoptive mother. We should be mindful of that and avoid potentially overwhelming them."

"Yeah, you're right. We'll wait. That'll be good. We'll be able to calm down." She sighed and rubbed her head. "Sorry. It's been a long day."

"It's been hard for all of us. But the monster is gone now. We can take a breather now. We'll see her when we're ready."

"Hard to believe she has Super Powers now though." Amaya added as she spoke up. "I always knew she was an incredible fighter but now she's a Superhero too? This is awesome!"

"To think, she'd be the one who pulled the Sword From The Stone." Ichika giggled. "I always figured it would be Phoenix honestly."

"Did she ever try?" Takako asked.

"Once or twice but she didn't put her all into it. She told me that she wasn't the one it was waiting for. I didn't quite get it at the time, but now I understand that Kami was waiting for this exact moment in time for his Chosen One to pick up her blade."

"Wooow. Am I rubbing off on you, Harime?" Amaya teased.

"Maybe. Don't get me wrong, I believe in tolerance, understanding and resolving conflict peacefully, but I also fully believe in vanquishing evil whenever it rears its ugly head and tonight? We were attacked by a being of pure evil."

"Where the hell did it come from though?" Toki asked as she crossed her arms. "And...how many others are there?"

"Okaaaaay...soooo...a Goddess. The enemy...is a Goddess." Hiro repeated to herself. "Even if she's a fallen Goddess...that's a bit of a mind screw." (ARIA? Do you have any files on this?)

(Sorry Hiro, I'm Blank. I have no files on these guys or their Goddess and there aren't any ties to Earth mythology as far as I know.)

(So there aren't any ties to our mythology and legends huh? Well that's a pain.)

"We're going up against the forces of a Goddess." Ava rubbed the back of her neck. "That's going to be a problem. So does that make that...thing the heroes fought in the streets....a demigod demon or something?"

"Kinda." Chidori shrugged.

"World Saints? Abyssal Feonds? The Abyss? This...Maggedon woman...I've never heard of any of it." Izzy confessed. "I'm going to have to research this now."

"S-so...does this mean my Sentai Theory was technically correct?" Amaya asked.

"Sentai Theory?" Chidori questioned her.

"Shinkenger and Magiranger. The villains are trying to cause misery and suffering and chaos to weaken a magic seal to let in more of them and overrun the Earth."

"That's strangely accurate actually."

"So that's what the monster was doing." Toki realized. "Please pardon my language here but holy ⬧︎♒︎♓︎⧫︎! H-how many people did that thing attack? How many people were suffering in those orbs or whatever they were before it was destroyed?"

"Far too many. That thing rampaged from the park into the city, capturing people in the spheres along the way." Ichika gulped. "Fortunately...as nothing too insane has happened since then we can assume however many people it captured it wasn't enough to cause any real changes." She placed her thumb in her mouth and lightly bit down on her fingernail as she pondered this. "I-I don't know about magic but this seal must be extremely strong if it's contained this Goddess and her children for so long. That must mean they'll need a lot of pain."

"That makes sense." Amaya crossed her legs. "The monsters never fully release the seal until the final episode anyway."

"Amaya...you do realize this is for real right?" Toki asked her in a harsh tone.

"I know." She replied quietly. "It's been a long and scary day. I'm coping."

Ichika rubbed her best friend's back. "It's okay. We understand. It's been scary for all of us today."

Amaya shifted her seat closer to her bestie and rested her head on her shoulder.

Toki sighed and rubbed her face. "I'm sorry. I should not have snapped at you like that."

She gave a thumbs up.

"Okay, so, Chidori?" Toki piped up. "Are you really supposed to fight these things?"

"It seems that way." She held up the wand. "Sigmis says I'm their Chosen Champion after all."

"The Chosen Champion Chidori Chinatsu. I like it." Takako complimented her.

"C.C.C.C. C4. I like that. I like that a lot."

"Uhm, okay, so...honey, darling, Chinatsu, you know we love you, but I don't think I can in good consciousness condone you fighting an alien Goddess and her army."

"Believe me mother, I understand but I have to do this. Leaving aside the destiny angle, these things are going to keep coming after us whether I'm a Magical Girl or not. If I have the tools to fight back and protect innocent people and the people I love, then I'm going to use them."

"Chidori, honey, this is different than those guys you've fought in the street or those maniacs! These are super powered monsters that for all we know might be borderline or actual DemiGods!" Her father insisted.

"Yeah. And I'm going to send every last one of them crying back to their Goddess."

"Oh don't worry. I'm sure he knows." Hiro assured her gently. "You won't have to repay a thing."

"Yeah but I want too." She replied.

"Alright honey. I understand how you feel. It has been a very long day for everyone. I think it might be best if you stay over at a friend's house tonight." Jabami advised her daughter.

"What? But what about you, mom? You need me here!"

"It's okay dear. It's okay. We'll be alright here. I just need to rest." Her mother reached out and held her hand. "We'll be okay but you need to rest too dear. If anything happens we'll call you. We'll keep in touch and you can come see us again first thing in the morning. We'll be home again before you know it."

There was a moment of silence before Chidori gave in. "Alright. Okay. I'll let you two sleep here. But just keep watch okay? If anything seems weird or scary, call me right away."

"We will dear. Don't worry."

She embraced her adoptive parents and then she stepped back and turned to her roomful of friends. "Okay! So....who am I staying with?" She laughed.

Toki did a headcount. "Well there is certainly a lot of us." She paused to consider the situation. "Alright. Hiro's house is about as secure as my own while having the benefit of being larger so we will have an easier time fitting everyone inside. If that's okay with you of course."

The Fire Imp sniffed the air. "Huh...Ok little guy, come on out! No use going stealth as I can sense you lot"

A scoff came and the white ferret appeared on the top of the bookshelf. It's crimson eyes glared daggers' at the IMP.



"Ah there you are old fellow! Long time no see eh" The Fire Imp smiled while placing his hands on his hips in a heroic pose(for some strange reason I picture him in Ninjor's voice)

'I thought I smelt a wet rat. Amazed to see you alive after all these centuries'

'Go **** yourself right back Lava Troll'

Looking up Ama made a face that she'd usually make whenever she sees something unbelievably Kwaii. "EEEEEEEEEE!!!" Squeed Ama, which caused everyone(sans Ava) to wince.

"Come here!" She outstretched her hands upward, "Come on little guy! There's nothing to be afraid of"

'Fear nothing! I was only scouting a potential prospect before the Dwarf interrupted my surveillance. Speaking of...' It glanced at Hiro and sniffed the air. 'Ahh. The same scent as that Guardian during the monster attack' It got up to it's feet and crouched like it was about to leap from the bookshelf. It leaped and glided from the bookshelf and towards Hiro. "Woah!" With one arm Hiro hugged the ferret while it lays comfortably on Hiro's chest.

"Full of surprises aren't you. Just watch the claws there, little guy" Hiro pets the creature with her other hand as the creature purrs affectionately.

"My name?" The Ferret Familiar asked. "I am Amatsumikaboshi. You may refer to me as Amatsu."

That's Ama-tsu-mika-boshi! (Dread Star Of Heaven, August Star of Heaven, Scarecrow Male Of Heaven, Brilliant Male, Divine Lord Of Middle Heavens.)

In Japanese mythology, Ama-tsu-mika-boshi also called Ame-no-kagase-o was originally a malevolent Shinto god. Under Chinese Buddhist influence, the god was identified with Myōken either as the pole star or Venus, before being combined with the god of all stars, Ama-no-mi-naka-nushi.

"Ama-ts-mika-boshi?" Amaya asked. "Uhhh aren't you a God of Evil?"

"Bzzzzt!" Ichika spoke up. "Shinto has no “Satan,” and Amatsu-Mikaboshi is neither a “god” nor “evil”; instead, he is a primordial force that existed before this world was formed. At some point, he may have been the only force in the world: Amatsu-Mikaboshi may be the primordial great void. He ruled the universe, if only because nothing else existed. Somehow during creation of the modern universe, his power was broken but never completely disappeared. Instead, his aura or residue remains. An alternative myth suggests that Amatsu-Mikaboshi was one of the imperfect children discarded by Izanami and Izanagi. Either way, Amatsu-Mikaboshi is in the world but not of the world. He has no clear, official part or function to play. He doesn’t even have a corporal form in which to manifest. He is a bitter, coldly angry, disenfranchised presence. He has no shrines and is not of much relevance to the average person (although his name appears in many comic books and role-playing games, where he is usually cast as a villain). He is an esoteric, abstract presence in the universe rather than a spirit with whom one can communicate directly. He may be the spirit of the most distant heavens: the celestial void or abyss." She explained to the group.

"After all, Shinto is a spiritual system that values harmony. Amatsu-Mikaboshi is associated with lingering energies and emotions, especially excessive ones that destroy harmony or create imbalance in the world (as, in essence, he does). He doesn’t necessarily share or incite these emotions: instead intense, uncontrolled emotions are perceived as sharing his essence. They are magnetically attracted to Amatsu-Mikaboshi, as he is to them, because they are made of the same stuff and potentially have the same effect: destructive disharmony. Thus excessive anger, envy, even love, which potentially leads to unhealthy obsessions, is perceived as belonging to Amatsu-Mikaboshi and expressing his essence. In later Buddhist perspective, this excess emotion was perceived as “sin”; hence Amatsu-Mikaboshi developed a reputation as Master of Sinners. He may or may not be associated with Yomi, a Shinto death realm. One theory suggests that Amatsu-Mikaboshi, a single, all-encompassing power, was broken and dispersed by the introduction of yin and yang forces into the universe (in Japanese: in and yo). Onmyoji (practitioners of a Japanese shamanic magical tradition) are masters of yin-yang and have sought to harness the power of Amatsu-Mikaboshi, possibly giving him a corporal form. In this form, he may be known as Ama-no-Kagaseo, the Brilliant Male."

The rest of the group applauded Ichika Harime while she basked in the praise.

Amatsu laughed. "Kid knows her stuff. I could go in depth about the greater cosmology but to save time, I'll just say she's on the right track."

"More or less." Sigmis agreed.

"Wait how does that work?" Chidori asked.

"Loooooong story." Sigmis and Amatsu replied.

"Coooool. Sorry about calling you an evil god!"

"Quite alright, Miss Chunii."

"You know though, it's sort of surprising you're not my familiar. Ama-Ama and Ama? Our names are perfectly matched!"

"Oh doth not w'rry fair one. At which hour thee doth findeth thy familiar 'twill beest someone p'rfectly suit'd to thy p'rsonality." Sigmis assured Amaya.

"YAY!"

"Okay then, back to business, how do we kill a Goddess?" Chidori asked Amatsu.

"Yeeaaaah about that. See, the thing here is, Maggedon awakening and crossing the barriers into this dimension is a loss for everyone here. It would be like trying to fight a Supercharged Godzilla. You kids aren't ready for her. At all. Hiro, Avalon, Izzy, you three are experienced and talented and incredibly powerful for your ages, and Chidori, you are a volcano of power, but she's on another level." Amatsu explained to the team in a dead serious tone before lightening up. "So instead of worrying about her, you should instead focus on fending off her forces to prevent them from causing misery which will provide energy and nourishment to the rest of their kind."

"Dammit, now I want to fight her even more." Chidori pouted.

(Was she even listening to me?) Amatsu asked Sigmis via telepathy.

(I've been in her head. Trust me, she heard everything.) Sigmis assured him. (You probably should've worded that better.)

Izzy giggled while Hiro flashed a subtle thumbs up to Chidori.




Toki ducked into a hallway with her mother and leaned against a wall while rubbing her shoulders. "Okay, so, mother...I consider myself a woman of reasoning and logic. Everything is simple, everything is logical, everything makes sense. Rules denote structure. Structure denotes stability. That is the ruling philosophy that guides my life. Everything that has happened, even the most twisted things, have all made sense and followed the rules of logic. Even Guardian's Superhero Adventures made perfect sense considering the capabilities of modern technology and the existence of superhumans. I am well aware of the existence of supernatural beings as well and they make sense and follow a line of rules. However. Having said that." Toki sighed. "Today has been...strange and I am having trouble adjusting to recent revelations."

"My dear girl, whatever is the matter?" Maki asked her daughter.

"Well...let me start at the Shrine."

Then Toki let the bomb drop. Explaining everything they'd seen today and learned today about the alien monsters, about Chidori, about magic, and about the Goddess that was behind the invasion.