Based on Sleepy Hollow, American Horror Story, Once Upon A Time and Neverwinter OL
Based on the characters from Danganronpa, Marvel Comics and A Certain Magical Index
Based upon "Legends of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" by Washington Irving
LOTM: Crossover - The Corbin Files - Chapitre Dix (also known as LOTM: Crossover - The Corbin Files Special: Pandora's Role) is a canonical New Year Special made as the tenth episode of LOTM: Witnesses of Sleepy Hollow & Sword of Kings Crossover - The Corbin Files. It happens mostly during EP 3-9 while retelling the story in the POV of Pandora (mostly), Mr. Gold and Sister Mary Eunice, explaining many things that Katarina Couteau did not know, and at the same time pushing the story forwards to set the final battle. The next episode will return to Katarina's POV.
A storyline by Officer Candy Apple and Prime ShockWaveTX
Set mainly during EP 3-9 (2013 storyline only) in this crossover with flashbacks from the past
Special Summary[]
We saw Pandora 3 times throughout the crossover, but did you know that in the previous episode, she had her own plan while assisting Katarina Couteau? Do you know that she was also involved in many things going on in Sleepy Hollow all along? This episode will undercover many things like --- षसहॐक़ख़ग़ज़ड़ढ़फ़य़ॠॡ।॥०१२३ ४५६७८९ॲॻॼॽ ॾॿঅআইঈউঊঋঌ এঐওঔকখগঘঙচ ছজঝঞটঠডঢণত থদধনপফবভময রলশষসহঽৎড়ঢ় য়ৠৡ১২৩৪৫৬৭ ৮৯ৰৱ৲৳৴৵৶৷ ৸৹৺ਅਆਇਈਉਊਏ ਐਓਔਕਖਗਘਙਚਛ ਜਝਞਟਠਡਢਣਤਥ ਦਧਨਪਫਬਭਮਯਰ ਲਲ਼ਵਸ਼ਸਹਖ਼ਗ਼ਜ਼ੜ ਫ਼੦੧੨੩੪੫੬੭੮ ੯ੲੳੴઅઆઇઈઉઊ ઋઌઍએઐઑઓઔકખ ગઘઙચછજઝઞટઠ ડઢણતથદધનપફ બભમયરલળવશષ...
Previously on LOTM: Crossover - The Corbin Files...[]
Katarina Couteau: (voice only) Previously on Previously on LOTM: Crossover - The Corbin Files...
Michael: Hush...
Michael took off his mask and hood with a malevolent grin, a grin that Katarina never saw before.
Katarina: You are... the Unknown Figure?
Michael nodded and then chuckled.
Michael: "Unknown Figure", huh? Is that what you named me, my dear? Don't worry, Katarina. I won't be angry because you gave me a nickname. In fact, I have been called in many things - angel or demon, saint or wicked. However, to you, I have a much, much older name, a name that you perhaps will never forget in your life...
Katarina nervously looked at Michael, and she was still not believe that he is behind all of this.
Michael: Give you some hint. Out of chaos, I will bring order. I will be crowned in Vatican and becomes St. Peter on my own. You should know who I am. The late Billie Dean Howard prophesied me... at least she died in your era. Since you are gonna die, I don't need you to keep it as a secret anymore, Katarina.
Michael then took a closer look at Katarina who immediately shivered.
Katarina: Uh...
Michael: It's "Anti-Christ".
Micheal then unbuckled two of his buttons and revealed a red pendant on his neck - a pendant with red crescent.
Michael: This, is the Blood Moon Wicked pendant of Serilda, the genuine one, given to me by Lord Moloch. I gave Misogi a replica to revive Serilda while keeping the real one. Using it, I will have immense power over Moloch's witch coven. From the ashes of the old order and the fire of the old era, I will rise a new world brighter than before. Now, do you believe me?
Katarina then started to review Michael's smiling face, his gentle spoken, his heroic moves... but the problem was, she realized that all of these were just lies. Finally realized that she was deceived all along, Katarina immediately busted into tears, and Michael's face became much more serious.
Michael: Don't cry, or you will not be beautiful anymore, Katarina.
Katarina slapped Michael with anger and hatred in her eyes. After all she had suffered, Katarina finally saw through Michael's dark heart under his mask of false benevolence.
Katarina: Why are you doing this, Michael? Why did you chose La Folia to frame?
For a moment, Michael was silent, but then, a smile had appeared on his face once again.
Michael: Oh, Katarina, I'm afraid that there are too much information inside it, something that you may not understand... but the point is, La Folia... is more than who you think.
Katarina: What?
All of a sudden, Katarina realized that La Folia was hiding things from her, but she did not know what it is. She and La Folia had met for years, but she don't think she was hiding something from her.
Michael: La Folia's name was cleared, but framing her is not what I want. I want to make her status exposed to people who dearly wants to know it... including her family. She is a lot more complex than you think, but that never fooled me. I just want to be modest, and as soon as this is over, I will let you rot in this tunnel.
Even though she eagerly wanted to know about La Folia's family, Katarina asked another question.
Katarina: Would you tell me your plan?
With a yell, Carl's arms started to change once again and people beside him were all stunted by this, but since knowing Carl was on their side, their confidence was even stronger than before. Having a plan in his mind, Carl turned to Acqua of the Back.
Carl: William!
Acqua: I know!
William Orwell, or Acqua of the Back had realized what Carl's plan is by simply looking at his arms. Then, Carl ran to Acqua of the Back and lands on his Ascalon, at which point he then swings it toward Carissa who was 10 meters away. With a smile on his face, Carl's fist bumped on the Curtana Original, destroying it, with the speechless Carissa still holding it up.
In just 5 seconds before the final strike, Carl froze in the air with a smile while Carissa looked at him with shock and confusion.
Carissa: ...... WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!?
Carl: Sorry to break it to you, princess, but I need to do this in your face.
Carissa: Aww, spare my face!!! ...~~
Carl's fist then strikes Carissa's face and sends her flying to the ruins of Buckingham Palace and later crashing on a London road. Thus ends the battle and the coup d’état with her defeat and the destruction of the source and symbol of her power, the Curtana Original.
The English Civil War ends... with a punch in the face. Revolution defeats the tyranny.
After the war...
After the defeat of Carissa and the destruction of the Curtana Original, Carl fell on the ground with his body, cloth and hair returned back to normal. Matt ran towards him and hugged him as Carl opened his eyes while regaining consciousness. Meanwhile, Acqua of the Back had spoke something to the Knight Leader before he left with Aureolous.
Acqua: There are some message coming from Russian Eastern Orthodox Church, since the New USSR had made their next move. Patriarch Krans needs someone to fight against King Hamdo in Moscow. I will go there since Vatican is not safe. Tell Villian that I left.
Knight Leader: William, it's an honor for me to meet I'm looking forward to see you again. I will place your truncheon in the Buckingham Palace to honor your contribution.
Nodded, Acqua then left with Aureolous for Moscow. Little did he know that the Knight Leader twisted Acqua's words a bit to make it look like Acqua of the Back was proposing to Villian.
Meanwhile, Elizard picks up the Curtana Second that she has thrown away before, chipped from the battle with the original. As she thinks of having Carl destroy the sword, the Knight Leader appears after informing Villian about Acqua's leaving.
Knight Leader: Your Majesty, sincerely apologize for participating this coup. What shall we do now?
Elizard: I don't blame you, since you were on your duty of doing things you must do. Don't worry about the people discovering the truth behind the spell that empowered them. If they did discovered it was magic, then they will simply tell themselves that magic exists... since there is no rule that says that magic should always be hidden. You are pardoned.
Knight Leader: Thank you, Your Majesty.
The Knight Leader then slowly left, and Elizard looked at Carl, who was leaving with Matt. Suddenly, she had found something strange and surprising to her.
Elizard: He looked so much like my late father... when he was young...
Just at this time, Rimea came to talk to her mother.
Rimea: What are we going to do to the participants of the coup? The Knights will not be punished, right?
Elizard: The New Light had surrendered and confessed their crimes, and they also joined the cause to fix this, so we don't need to punish them, either.
Rimea: However, what shall we do to Carissa, mother?
Queen Elizard lowered her head while looking pitifully at an unconscious Carissa.
Elizard: I will have her under control, my dear.
Then, all of a sudden, Michael drew a blade and struck Katarina's thigh, making her howling in agony. Then, Katarina bit her lips and glared at Michael.
Katarina: Finally, you let your true self revealed. I cannot believe it. As soon as I get back to my world, I will expose you to everyone in the world!
Michael scornfully grinned.
Michael: They won't believe it. The Catholic Church has been supported by 2 billions of people within 131 nations, and I will use their faith to work for me. Even if they had discovered that I had switched side to the KnightWalker Family after I become the Pope, they will believe that I was brainwashed by Crowley. Crowley, who is now a Cardinal of 2036, as well as Terra, shall shelter the blame for "brainwashing" the "gentle and wise" Pope Michael, people will shed tears down with dismay, and no one will ever consider that I am the mastermind all along! We'll wait and see.
With an angry face, Katarina spat on Michael's face, who merely brushed it off.
Katarina: You can cheat someone forever, and you can cheat everyone for a while, but you can never cheat everyone forever!
Michael: Then, I will leave you here to die. You are losing blood now, Katarina. How fast can you run? I have won.
With a devious chuckle, Michael put on his mask, cape and hood once again before disappearing in the air. Now, Katarina could do nothing but kept blaming herself.
Michael had a sense that Moloch did not want to tell him more things, and he hid his curiosity inside his heart. Triggers Hell. Michael had the word in his mind. His curiosity were growing stronger, but he knew that it was not the proper time, so he bowed to Moloch.
Michael: Thank you, master. Please give your orders.
Moloch then glared at Michael.
Moloch: You don't need to do anything for now.
Hearing this, Michael reacted in surprise as both of his eyes widened.
Michael: Master?
Moloch: Michael, August Corbin's death is now completely inevitable, yet the Horseman's rising will bring back Ichabod Crane. When Crane revived from his death, you can contact our secret agent in police station and make him to the place to arrest Crane. Crane will be our chess to the head of Death, so we need to wait.
Michael nodded when he finally understood Moloch's words.
Michael: Yes, master, I understand.
Moloch then turned back to the door of cave.
Moloch: After that, if you failed, never mind, I will be tolerant just this time, now bring Katarina Couteau into a trap. You can return back to your realm and become what you wanted to become, but remember, your soul is mine. Never fool me. Go and deceive those people that put trust in you.
Hearing this, Michael took off his hood and his cape, revealing his black cassock hidden under it. He then hid his pendant into his collar and replaced it with his crucifix. Michael was a bit of distressed because he still needed Moloch even if he had Katarina inside his trap and made everything go smoothly.
Though highly reluctant, Michael still politely bowed to Moloch.
- Michael: As you wish, master.
- Katarina: Michael is the mastermind... Michael is the mastermind... I am such a fool...
Injured and humiliated, Katarina lied helplessly on the ground. Michael gave her quite a knock. Streams of tears started to fall from her eyes but not because of her injury, but because of Michael's deception. She started to recall Michael's gentle and helpful attitude...
However, turns out that it was ALL lies...
Lies... Lies... Lies...
Lies... Lies...
LIES...
- Katarina: I don't think I could take it anymore......
Katarina started to sob in sadness. Just then, the wind had blown to Katarina with a woman's voice, a voice she once heard before.
???: Poor child, you must have suffered a lot.
All of a sudden, Katarina felt her leg was wrapped by some bandages. Someone was dealing with her injury, helping her from blood loss. She looked up and was surprised to see a familiar figure - the woman who once gave her the real Spear of Virtue in her dream.
Katarina tried to stood up, but she could not. She could only looked up to the woman who took care for her.
???: Oh, I can't believe that you fell because of Moloch's nasty plan, Katarina. How can you carry on the Cranes' legacy with this injury?
Katarina: Thank you...
???: You need to be alive, though I did not do it for you.
At first, Katarina had no idea what the woman had said meant.
Katarina: Then, why are you doing this? You helped me twice but you were not for me? What is your name, by the way?
???: I think you can call me whatever you want, but I prefer... "Pandora".
Katarina: Pandora... why are you helping me?
Katarina then put her finger on Katarina's lips, meaning to make her fall silence.
Pandora: Hush, this is between you and me. You know, Moloch is my enemy. He is also your enemy as well. My master, however wanted me to get close to Moloch one day... so that we can destroy him when the necessity comes. Waiting for more than 200 years, however, I have no chance yet to get to Moloch since the Four Horsemen is yet to ride. However, I can weaken him in many ways.
Hearing Pandora's words, Katarina was shocked and could not figure out whether Pandora was a friend or foe.
Katarina: You want the Horsemen ride?
Pandora: Perhaps, but maybe it was contrast to what you think. That is the time for us to strike at Moloch, but at first I need to weaken him so that I can take my best at him. Moloch will come out from Purgatory when the Horsemen of War rides on Earth, but only when all of the Horsemen came, his full power will be unleashed, but before that, I will seal the Death first... in my box... Then, Moloch will be only an immortal demon.
Katarina's eyes widened in surprise.
Katarina: You mean you are helping me for self-serving purpose?
Pandora: Not quite, since if Moloch wins, no one will be survive, so I had to take actions to protect myself, but I am different from Moloch, since we will bring goods to the Earth like my Master said. You see, I was also the one who advice Jennifer Mills to give in herself, so that Abbie Mills will be protected, otherwise the demon inside Jenny will driver her insane. What I did are good for you in a way, and... I am more like a builder than a destroyer.
Though feeling uneasy for Pandora's words, Katarina nodded.
Katarina: I wish it was true.
Pandora: I doubt this will be the last time we meet. However, no matter what happened, please don't forget me. Who knows? God's plan works in mysterious ways. Farewell. Your friends are coming. Tell them the truth about your false friend. Tell them about Michael Langdon.
Katarina wanted to speak some more, but Pandora disappeared instantly. Just then, she felt exhausted and wanted to have a sleep, when suddenly, she heard heavy footsteps. She then opened her eyes a bit saw Sonia Nevermind, Kyouko Kirigiri and Rentaro Satomi coming for her.
Sonia: Katarina! Katarina! No, what happened to your... Tell me...
Katarina then felt someone had cradled her, but she could not see who the person was since she was losing her conscious. Then, she heard Sonia's voice.
Sonia: Tell me... who had made you injured? ...
With her last efforts, Katarina spoke the name that even she will never ever believe it... before she fainted...
Katarina: It's... Michael... Langdon...
- Kyouko, Sonia & Rentaro: WHAT!?
Knapp: (off-screen) We don't have much time.
Katrina: (off-screen) No, Ichabod, please, don't leave me...
In a dark and wet cave underground, there were streams flowing through the tiny space between the rocks. The drips of water falling from the top had dropped on something. It made a splash. The thing was a decayed coffin. Most of the coffin was underneath a thick layers of mud, but some was not.
Suddenly, it began to shake. Then, an arm surfaced from the mud, and then... the upper body of Ichabod Crane appeared from the mud as well, coming back to life and trying to breath for air. Even with his good memories, Ichabod had no idea that he had been buried underneath his grave for almost 230 years. There were some frogs hopping near the place. As he tried to figure out what was happening, Ichabod crawled out from his decayed coffin and tried to look at himself.
The wound that the Horseman gave him was still there, on his chest. Ichabod then shambled his way to find the exit to this mysterious place. When he put his hand on a stone, Ichabod heard a strange noise and looked up. He was surprised to see a hole appearing right in front of him, letting air in.
Ichabod immediately crawled out from hole and found himself in a wood. He tried to walked ahead, but then he fell into a shallow river instead. Feeling very thirsty, Ichabod drank some water and went on his way through the woods. He walked onto a strange road with fog surrounding him. He touched the road and was very surprised that the road was not feel like mud.
Then, Ichabod looked around with confusion as he stood up again, observing the foggy road that leads to unknown. Suddenly, a strange bellow appeared behind Ichabod, and it sounded like an elephant. Ichabod turned back and then he could not believe what he had saw - an enormous metal chest with four strange wheel coming towards him. Fortunately, the thing just passed Ichabod without hitting him.
Ichabod had no idea that it was a truck.
However, there was something smaller, but also with four wheels, had appeared behind Ichabod, and it narrowly missed him before hitting a tree near a large sign. A crow was on the sign. A man went outside of the "four-wheeled thing" (which is in fact, a car), and Ichabod immediately turned back and ran away.
The crow on the sign had flew away as well. On the sign, the words were...
Meanwhile, Mana, Adam, the Bride, Poison Ivy and Asuha were trapped inside the tunnels with out the map. Adam tried to cut through the wall with his blade but nothing worked. Asuha nearly busted into tears as the Bride, Ivy and Mana tried to comfort her.
Adam: This wall is so... tough...
At this time, while cutting the wall, Adam tried to overcome his guilt caused by Dr. Frankenstein's remorseful death. He stopped cutting the wall and then he lowered his head with sadness. The Bride immediately came there and comfort him.
Adam: Dr. Frankenstein... I did not expect that he would die like this. Once, how I hated him, but now I could not help feel sorry for him. I should have found him and told him instantly after knowing his wife and his brother's true nature, but I went too extreme to kill them...
Bride: Adam, this is not your fault. Complaining has no use at all. We must do something to get out of here.
Before the Bride could finished, Asuha started to scream in horror.
Asuha: GET OUT!? But we're now trapped! Sister Mary Eunice, Michael, Katarina and La Folia still are not here! Maybe that demon Moloch had caught them! NOW, WE WILL NEVER GET BACK TO OUR HOME! OUR WORLD IS AT WAR, AND NOW WE ARE TRAPPED HERE LIKE THIS?!
Mana: Hey, listen...
Mana held Asuha's shoulder and tried to calm her down.
Mana: It's not over. I won't ever believe we have lost the hope.
Just then, not far away, Kyouko, Sonia and Kyouko had escorted an injured Katarina to the exit as Mana suddenly noticed them.
Mana: Thank God!
Mana immediately went to Sonia and looked at Katarina, who was extremely pale. Mana immediately asked her what happened, and Kyouko told her what had happened to Katarina. For a second, everyone's blood temperature dropped to nearly a state of Absolute Zero as a result of this shocking news.
Mana: HOW CAN MICHAEL DO SUCH A THING!?
Asuha: Oh, I cannot believe it, either! He... he treated us so well in Rome, and he saved us!
Just then, Katarina struggled herself to speak.
Katarina: Guys... I know it was very hard to believe this, but it was really Michael... He told me he is an Anti-Christ...
All: What?
Katarina: He showed the Grand Grimoire and the real blood moon pendant to me... Terra of the Left is simply a bait of his, and saving us is simply a ruse to gain our trust so that he can make himself a hero in everyone's eyes...
Filled with wrath and anger, Adam could not help himself from the impulse of killing Michael.
Adam: Then, I will kill him before he let all of us die!
However, Poison Ivy and Rentaro stopped him.
Poison Ivy: It's not the right time. Since he had the Grand Grimoire, Michael is the only way to allow us coming back to our respective worlds, and since La Folia and Sister Mary Eunice are not here, he might know where they are.
Rentaro: I agree. We need to get out of this tunnel as fast as we could. Who knows if that zombie witch, Serilda of Abaddon, is behind us?
Suddenly, a demonic shadow had appeared behind Rentaro, Sonia, Kyouko and Katarina, with its eyes glowed in sheer malice. Asuha and Mana noticed the demonic shadow and were both alarmed. The remaining team members had noticed the shadow not long afterwards.
???: Looks like that Michael had played you around, my friends. The master will be pleased to see you running around like a bunch of terrified mice.
Then, all of a sudden, the demonic shadow walked closer as Mana's torch had brightened its face - or more precisely, his face. It was Misogi, but his face was different from before and his expression was even darker. What is more, his eyes had soon turned white.
- Ancitif: (in Misogi's body) Ancitif never fails.
Hearing the name "Ancitif", the Team Witnesses members were all confused. They never heard of this strange names before. Therefore, it caused a tremendous silence. Ancitif (while possessing Misogi) was very much annoyed.
Ancitif: This is embarrassing. Maybe you people don't know my name, since this is the first time we meet, but at first allow me to introduce myself... with THIS!
Ancitif narrowed his eyes with full of spite and malice. Then, Katarina had floated from Kyouko all of a sudden, which Sonia, Kyouko and Rentaro reacted with horror and tried to pull Katarina down, but the demon then pushed her to a wall, bumping her many times.
Ancitif: AND LORD SAY TO THE CRIPPLE SOUL, "TAKE UP THY HAND... AND FLYYYYYYYY!!!!"
All of a sudden, Katarina was pushed by the demon and went all to a wall that was 10 meters far away. Katarina suffered a back injury with this.
Katarina: AHHHHHHH!!!
Katarina fell on the ground as Ancitif cackled in sheer malice.
Ancitif: NOW WOULD YOU PEOPLE REMEMBER ME NOW!? I am the voice in Jennifer Mills' head, urging her to kill Abbie!
Hearing this, Mana and Asuha reacted in total shock.
Mana: YOU!?
Ancitif: It will be too late to stop the Horseman, my friends. IT RIDES. Ichabod had revived as a result, but that is a calculated risk my Master is willingly to take... in our full plan. Corbin will die. This is his fate and... you can never undo it.
Like others, Mana tried to escape from Ancitif, but then she saw Michael stood there between them and an injured Katarina. Inside his cassock, Michael's eyes had filled with malice and evil. He tied Sister Mary Eunice in a shadow chain, and the nun was bleeding from her nose. This was strange because ghosts are not supposed to be injured, but... Michael had done it.
Michael was trying to conceal his real agenda again, but when he discovered everyone's eyes were filled with shock and horror, Michael realized that everything had changed...
Michael: Looks like Katarina had told you people about my true self, hadn't she?
Michael asked in a cold tone like that of a shell after its soul was sucked out by something.
Michael: Come closer and Sister Mary Eunice will be doomed to Hell. You think I can't do it?
Finally knowing this man true nature, Sonia looked at Michael as her eyes returned to red, as her heart soon filled with disgust since she suffered at the hand of "Unknown Figure" more than anyone else beside her. Once suspecting the monster's identity as Terra, Sonia once considered this "kind" and "heroic" man as her friend, but now she only saw him as a "fiend".
Sonia: (to Mana) Leave this to me.
All of the scene had flashed in Sonia's mind - abuse, threat, torture, deception and fake heroic attitude... She cried out loud at Michael as she lifted her gun, which was provided by La Folia when they were in Corbin's cabin.
Sonia: You liar! You blinded us! Release Sister Mary Eunice now or I will make you suffer 100 times worse than I have suffered! I finally know what you did in Shanghai, and regarding all of those unbearable things you had committed, as the ruler of Novosic Kingdom, I will sentence you - DEATH!
To Sonia's anger, Michael then chuckled deviously without showing any fear in his eyes. Instead, he narrowed his eyes and grinned like a psychopath. After two seconds, he became serious once more.
Michael: I will use my demonic way to alter the Christianity order, and the Catholic Church will eventually join the KnightWalkers. No matter how you resist this, Sonia, that Eckidina will still be pleased to let me join her! You know why? Because we both have dark sides...
Sonia: SHUT UP!
Michael did not express fear. He only shook his head as if Sonia's attitude had disappointed him.
Michael: Sonia... look at you. I see what you've become. I'm glad that I gave you up. HAHAHAHAHA...
Sonia fired a shot at Michael, but Michael had dodged it with inhuman speed. Feeling mocked, Sonia yelled at Michael as she ran towards him.
Sonia: THIS IS BETWEEN YOU AND ME!
Before Sonia could finished, someone had appeared behind Michael and attacked Sonia. Sonia and others were very shocked to see the attacker's face - It was La Folia! However, there was something very strange hidden in La Folia's eyes - vacancy and rage.
La Folia was obviously brainwashed by Michael. Michael had planted a tiny piece of his soul inside La Folia and thus controlled her mind. Sonia and La Folia engaged to a fight while the Team Witness members (including Katarina who struggled to get up) could not believe what had happened. They just looked at the fight with awful shock that La Folia and Sonia struggled in their fight. Then, after half a minute's fight, La Folia and Sonia had both drew their guns and pointed to each other.
Then, La Folia started to speak to Sonia as Michael behind her started to move his lips. It was made clear that La Folia was speaking what Michael intended to speak.
Michael / La Folia (possessed): Put your gun down, Sonia.
Sonia refused, however, as she noticed Michael was moving his lips.
Sonia: Never! I don't know what that liar had planted inside you, but this is not what you truly want to say. La Folia, I am going to save you.
The possessed La Folia walked closer to Sonia with menace.
Michael / La Folia (possessed): Sonia, you pathetic worm, who is living in despair and drowning in despair... tell me how will you fix me? If you want me to surrender, fine... there is only one condition, but you won't like it.
Hearing this, Sonia was a bit of relent, but she did not lowered her gun.
Sonia: Try me.
Michael / La Folia (possessed): Kill your lovely detective friend.
Sonia was enraged and tried to punch Michael, but the latter simply raised his hand and formed a invisible shield between them. Sonia then punched the shield but it never worked. Under Michael's possession, La Folia had pointed the gun to her own head. Sonia turned back and looked at La Folia with horror.
Michael / La Folia (possessed): Make a choice then, Sonia, if you are upset by this condition. Either I shoot Kyouko to hurt you... or I shoot La Folia with her own hand to hurt Katarina. Make a choice in 3 minutes or I will shoot Kyouko first and let La Folia eat the bullet.
Before Michael could finished, everyone behind Sonia was tied by purple chains made by evil shadows so that they could not move or interfere this.
Sonia: If you had to choose, why don't you kill me instead?
Michael / La Folia (possessed): That will be the last thing I do. By now, you must make a choice. There is only 2 minutes left. You don't want to see both of them die and hurt both you and Katarina, right? What will Katarina or Kyouko think about your hesitation?
Sonia's body started to tremble as she lowered her head with tears streaming down her eyes. She shivered in horror as she made her choice in a cracked voice...
Sonia: Shoot La Folia...
Katarina could not believe what had Sonia chose. Michael laughed out insanely and the possessed La Folia did the same.
Katarina looked at Sonia with shock and confusion.
Katarina: Sonia...
Without noticing this, Sonia had already broken in her mind.
Sonia: I had no choice, Katarina. You can punish me later as you want.
Michael / La Folia (possessed): In the end...
All of a sudden, Michael's eyes widened as the possessed La Folia removed the gun from her head and shot Kyouko in her shoulder.
Kyouko: AHHH!!!
Michael / La Folia (possessed): ... you lost.
Sonia: NO!
Sonia immediately went to Kyouko as Michael removed his soul fragment from La Folia and merged with himself. Then, he released everyone before leaving with Misogi (who was still under Ancitif's possession) via teleportation. Ignoring her back and leg injury, Katarina immediately ran to La Folia and Kyouko, as Sister Mary Eunice tried to cure Kyouko with magic.
With vacancy in her eyes and tears on her face, Sonia looked at an unconscious La Folia while trembling.
Sonia: Oh, no, what have I... done? ...
At this time, during the whole course of English Civil War, no one on land knows that a demonic plot was building right underneath the Atlantic Ocean.
In an old facility made by iron, centered in a ancient city beneath the sea bottom, many demonic troops summoned by Michael Langdon with black magic during his stay in New Orleans, had been working to transfer many corpses into a machine. The machine ground the corpses into dust and transported them via large pipes connected to a enormous cocoon.
Inside it, it was Michael Langdon's "finest" work that took 6 years to build. It will even make Leohart pleased if it impressed him enough. Michael's "work" was a gigantic artificial demon made by dead human's flesh and bone dust, forming an enormous humanoid figure with octopus tentacles.
At this time, a tall woman with hourglass figure, pale hair, greenish eyes, pale skin and a black had stood near a glass window, where she could observe the beast with great care.
Behind her, it was the dead body of her loyal bodyguard. Two minutes ago, the woman mercilessly impaled him with her sword, to make an example since this man failed to wake her up on time just now. This woman was so heartless and cruel, that she relished her feelings of frightening her minions by making examples.
The woman had a Hellfire mark on her left hand, meaning that she is a loyalist of Moloch. Just then, demon with green skin had whispered beside her. She smiled in a twisted way after hearing this.
???: Sounds like Michael succeeded in outwitting August Corbin AND the Red Haired Demon, while Carissa was defeated by a punch coming from "Firenza Junior", huh... Well played, Queen of England, but you can never anticipate us beneath ocean - Neo-Hellfire, with me as its leader.
The woman who called herself the leader of "Neo-Hellfire" then turned to the green demon with a dark smile. She then spoke to the demon her instructions before it left.
???: Tell Lord Moloch, me - Lady Melancholia - is going on well with our restoring of power in future... and I remain 100% loyal as always.
As the demon left, the woman named Melancholia quietly observed the cocoon and closed her eyes. She was happily imagining what will become if the beast was unleashed from its slumber state when matured. Even the KnightWalker Family will fall for this if it attacked land.
Melancholia: Even the KnightWalkers will fall for this... If Lord Moloch survived to this era, he will be pleased with this - our masterpiece. Brilliant as he his, Micheal Langdon will make Satan look like a tame saint in front of this beast. Even Leohart or Scathach will be surprised... if the latter is still alive... heh-heh-heh-heh...
Melancholia is Moloch's seemly loyal evil fairy and have abilities to travel through time. She is just as sick, twisted and corrupt like Lady Van Tassel and Eckidina, and she is very chaotic, but unlike the two other villainesses, Melancholia's evil obsession is mainly focused on the conquering of ocean as her first priority instead of land which is only her second priority.
Neo-Hellfire's logo
After Michael's pact with Moloch, the 2013 Melancholia split apart from her. This soul fragment of hers came to the 2036 Melancholia (who had became a Triggers Hell supporter) and possessed her future self who survived the Witnesses' Years of Tribulations, in order to avoid a time paradox. Under her past self's influence, the future Melancholia had became secretly loyal to Moloch while seemly loyal to Leohart, who did not even know Moloch's defeat at Team Witness' hand. The future Melancholia never told Leohart about it when she teleported herself into Hell and became his minion.
Having memories of both her past self and future self fused inside her head, this Melancholia told Michael about some lost buildings rested right underneath the Atlantic Ocean that once owned by a sub-faction of the old Tech of the End Cult which was led by the currently deceased black demon, Scathach. After that, Michael agreed to make her his assistant, making Melancholia quite pleased that she will do anything as long as it could prove her value to Michael so that she could express her gratitude on him. Melancholia was not appreciated by Moloch, and now she had received appreciation from Michael, which made her very happy.
The future Melancholia organized the remaining cultists of Moloch and other demonic worshipers to form an organization named "Neo-Hellfire", one of the reincarnation of Hellfire Club with Moloch as its deity. Since Moloch was defeated for good in the Old Timeline, why Melancholia named this organization is a question that only she could answer. The lost city, that this satanic organization chose to be their secret headquarters, once belonged to the lost Atlantis Empire, which sunk into the ocean a long time ago.
Within in the abandoned facility in the center, Melancholia helped Michael to build this gigantic sea monster, FOLIE, to hide bodies and many single evidence of many murders committed by Michael, allowing the latter to go free. FOLIE is the abbreviation for "Full of Lies, Insanity and Evil", and Michael gleefully called it his "Beast from the Sea".
Smiling, Melancholia reckoned that the monster will be hatched once it was 100% matured, which will took only days to achieve as long as they fed it bodies to strengthen it, and once it was released from the facility, it will spread pollution in the ocean and infecting ocean creatures and later land creatures, making them mutated into demonic zombies.
Also, there was tons of flesh inside its body that those flesh will formed into hundreds of zombies after another hundreds. Those zombies will be kept producing so that they will form a large army. They will be released once FOLIE attacked the land, and eventually... life signs of billions of people will be wiped, and the earth will be flooded into a globe full of polluted sea water.
However, in case that its creators died prematurely before this horrible plan started, Melancholia set a "Plan D" which Michael was totally appreciated. If one of its two major creators - the future Melancholia (not the past one despite possessing her future self) or Michael Langdon - died before the monster was 100% matured, it will be hatched itself prematurely even if it was not at its mature state.
Looking at the sleeping beast, Melancholia smiled heartlessly as she poured a cup of sea water in a furnace nearby, putting off the flame. Then, she threw the cup before opened a map on her table, and then looked at the Four Oceans carefully. She can't stop giggling while thinking about the monster's havoc it may wreck...
Melancholia: Since on this planet, the ocean is bigger than land, I reckon it will be much more... destructive... to send our power via sea water. I call it "hell-water", huh... Soon, people in this era will feel the power of Moloch's might. I need to calculate how much causalities it might cause. Once the monster has landed in ocean, everyone will be one with a living hell with NO HOPE LEFT...
Thinking of how billions of people will be drowned with the sea water and become fish food, Melancholia smiled with sheer malice and eventually, she cackled heartlessly.
- Melancholia: ONCE THE NEW POPE IS ON HIS THRONE, FAITH WILL BE NO MORE! THE KINGDOM OF GOD WILL BE FILLED WITH TEARS, TEARS OF GOD HIMSELF! I AM TIRED OF BURNING AND BOMBING, AFTER ALL. EVEN NUCLEAR WEAPON IS OUT OF DATE! WE WILL USE THE OCEAN ITSELF AS OUR NEXT WEAPON! LET US DROWN PEOPLE! LET THE SEA WATER FLOW WITH DESPAIR! LET THE GREAT FLOOD RETURN! HAHAHAHAHA!!!
With his gun and torch, Corbin then slowly into the stables looking for Abbie. Some of the horses were very upset, and Corbin needed to calm them down.
Corbin: Hush, shh, shh, easy, easy...
Meanwhile, at outside, Abbie was still searching in the yard when suddenly, she came to a small truck. Abbie went nearer to the truck and found no one inside. Suddenly, a rifle dropped from the vehicle. Just then, Corbin had contacted Abbie via his walkie-talkie.
Corbin: [This is Sheriff Corbin. I am not far away. Has anything happened?]
Abbie was surprised that Corbin had arrived, and yet she then contacted him and reported things immediately.
Abbie: We got a weapon on the ground.
Corbin: [Say again, Abbie? The signal is breaking up.]
Abbie: Some thing is wrong. We have a weapon on the ground!
Corbin: (paused) [Stand by.]
At this time, Corbin was still comforting the horses in the stables. When he heard about the weapons, Corbin had immediately felt danger was closing in. Meanwhile, when Abbie walked to a place not far away from the vehicle, she was horrified to find something - It was a corpse, with no head.
Abbie: Oh, my... CORBIN! I FOUND THE MAN I WAS LOOKING FOR! SOMEONE CUT OFF HIS HEAD!
Hearing this, Corbin immediately sensed something and lifted his gun to a place where a pale horse was standing. The horse was not screaming or whining like others, and it seemed that there was someone hiding behind it...
Corbin: This is the sheriff. Step out where I can see you.
Then, the person hiding behind the horse had came out. It was a tall figure with red military coat in 18th century style, very much like the British soldier at that time. It also held a broad axe as it glowed orange and was sizzling.
But the point is, this person had no head......
- Corbin: My God...
'The headless man then drew his axe as Corbin tried to shoot at him. Corbin shot every bullet he had at the headless man, but none of them had actually worked. At this time, Abbie had heard gunshots and immediately went to the stables where the gunfire began. When all of his efforts were futile, Corbin closed his eyes as the headless man then walked closer and closer, swinging his axe and...
- Ancitif: (background) You will die, August Corbin... at the hands of the Horseman of Death... and I will kill the sister. Must die. I will kill her. I will kill Abbie...
Outside of the stable, Abbie went closer to its wooden wall, when suddenly, something sharp had pierced through the wall. Terrified, Abbie screamed in horror and collapsed on the ground, right before the sharp thing came back to inside. Abbie crawled to the door of stable, when suddenly, the thunder boomed as a headless man who rode a pale horse rushed out of the door.
Abbie shivered with terror as she watched the empty neck of this mysterious creature coming from nowhere.
The rider rode the horse just a few meters away before he stopped. Then, Abbie watched with horror as the rider turned back to her. Abbie was shocked to see the headless man, and she noticed a mark of a bow and an arrow was carved on the rider's hand. The mysterious rider then rode away into mists.
All of a sudden, Abbie then turned back to see Corbin, and then, to her utter horror...
... she saw the beheaded corpse of Corbin.
- Abbie: CORBIN!
Abbie rushed to the beheaded Corbin and shivered in sheer fright. She then used her walkie-talkie to contact one of the police officers that were on duty - Andy Brooks. Brooks was inside his police car when he heard Abbie's calling.
Abbie: [OFFICER DOWN! Oh, my God... OFFICER DOWN! FOX CREEKS STABLES! REPEAT, FOX CREEKS STABLES, OFFICER DOWN!]
Hearing this, Andy Brooks immediately turned back to his car, but then he was forced to stop to avoid hitting mysterious man walking on the street. The man was none other than Ichabod Crane. Andy observed the face of the man and somehow, he startled. Then, he immediately went out of his car and pointed his gun to the man.
Andy: TURN AROUND! PUT YOUR HANDS ON YOUR HEAD!
The man looked at Andy with a strange look.
Andy: I SAID TURN AROUND, PUT YOUR HANDS ON YOUR HEAD!
Ichabod then nodded and immediately did what the police officer had ordered him to do.
Andy: ON YOUR KNEES!
Ichabod obeyed and knelt as Andy walked closer to him and cuffed him.
Interrogation room
After Corbin was killed, Abbie did not tell her colleagues about the mysterious girl who sent her to the stables. Later, Andy Brooks and Abbie Mills went into the interrogation room an hour after Ichabod was arrested, cuffed, and sitting behind the bars in utter confusion.
Abbie: It's not him.
Andy looked at Abbie with confusion in his eyes.
Andy: Are you sure?
Abbie nodded with confidence.
Andy: I know this isn't easy, Abbie, but please... take a closer look.
Abbie: Andy, I am sure. The man I saw was wearing some kind of old military uniform, like, um... red coat.
Hearing the word "red coat", Ichabod immediately looked up with some surprise on his face.
Abbie: He had something on his hand. I don't know, like a branding.
Ichabod: Did he carried his braodax?
'Hearing this, two police officers immediately went to notice this strange man who asked this question. Andy began to be nervous.
Andy: What?
Ichabod: The mark on his hand... was it a bow?
Abbie turned to Ichabod as well, with curiosity.
Abbie: How did you know that?
Ichabod lowered his head and mumbled in horror.
Ichabod: Oh, no, no... No, no, it can't be...
Abbie: Hey... who is he? When's the last time you saw him?
Ichabod looked right into Abbie's eyes and spoke an utterly astonishing word...
Ichabod: When I cut off his head.
This time, it was Abbie's turn to feel startled and surprised. She observed the stranger right in front of her with a face full of shocking expressions...
August Corbin: (narrator) [Over 100 witches who were put to death in Sleepy Hollow between 1712 and 1816. Town records suggest members of two different covens integrated into the populace and changed their names to stay hidden. Others spread out across the East Coast. Two covens representing good and evil. I found hundreds of unsolved cases just seem to have ignored. Murders, disappearance, and it's not just here. The case track back through Boston, D.C., Manhattan. I know they're all connected. I just... I don't know how.]
Within a dark temple, Pandora, now dressed in white, had holding a plate and kneeling in front of someone robed in black. The mysterious man had questioned Pandora for a while with a serious look.
Scared, Pandora looked at her master with some nervous expressions on her face.
???: Pandora, is there something new?
Pandora: Master, I found Ichabod Crane's child. He seemed lonely... and afraid. He is curious about the box you gave me, but I demanded him to return and-
???: Pandora... this is not the place for you to say something useless and nonsense. Say the most important thing.
Pandora: I foresaw his future. He will become... the second Horseman.
???: The Horseman of War?
Pandora: Aye, the Horseman of War.
(paused)
???: Perfect.
Pandora: Why?
???: You know the Horsemen answer to Moloch, don't they?
Pandora: Seems likely.
???: I had heard that... Moloch wanted to raise Apocalypse for merely one purpose: chaos. It benefits us to rewrite the order upon this world. I think there are potential chances for us to work together. It is only a matter of time. We should wait.
Pandora: How long should we wait?
???: Not for too long... roughly 230 years.
Pandora: That long? I... am sorry, but I am feeling somehow impatient, Master.
???: I had made you an immortal. You have already lived for centuries, and it isn't impossible for you to wait for another 230 years. However, we need the Witnesses' power to reach Moloch. When ALL of the Horsemen ride on Earth, you shall reveal yourself to public and bloom the tree. I will get what I deserved in this chaotic pit.
Pandora: I understand, my Lord, but... what if Moloch disagreed?
???: Hmm... and that is a real problem. However, to me, he is just a foot soldier. The real stage belongs to me. As I gained my power once more, I will rule the Earth with iron fist and those who had opposed me... shall DIE! (paused) Pandora, go to Sleepy Hollow. You have the box I made. Use it. Wait for the Witnesses to rise.
Listening to this, Pandora stood up and bowed to her master.
Pandora: Wait for my good news, my liege.
Almost 2 centuries later - Sleepy Hollow[]
Disclaimer
Some parts of this section are purely fictional and do not represent the real-life British Royal Family or Anglican Church. In the real-life England, it was Queen Elizabeth II who ruled the United Kingdom in 2013, and currently, being alive and well, she is still its ruler.
2 centuries had passed. Pandora was lurking in Sleepy Hollow and waiting for her chance to allow her master take control and outrank Moloch. In her disguise, Pandora had dressed up as a young woman with black suit and walked in the street of Sleepy Hollow.
Mr. Gold: I am sorry.
Mr. Gold, or Rumpelstiltskin, immediately went away after he bumped into a man - who is Atticus Nevins. Gold left the shop and walked on the street before he stopped. Pandora was curious about this man, since she had sensed an strange and dark presence from him.
At this time, Pandora's mysterious master had already belayed the order of allying with Moloch due to what Lady Van Tassel did to the last descendant of the Cranes Family, Jeremy Crane. He took it as a humiliation since he regarded Jeremy to be a key to ally with Moloch, and he thought it was Moloch who ordered to bury Jeremy alive. Therefore, the mysterious "master" ordered Pandora to find a chance to raise fear and weaken Moloch's power by targeting every existing allies of Moloch and assisting the Witnesses and their allies so that they could defeat Moloch as soon as the Four Horsemen all rides on the world.
Pandora of Sumeria is an immortal witch who served her deity master, so like Katrina and Serilda, she has a good sixth sense. However, Pandora stayed neutral between the good coven and the evil coven, since she is tired of the war between witches. She believed in no morality, only morale and her master. She will do anything, good or evil, as long as that does not harm her own master.
If you are a fan of Once Upon A Time, you will know that Mr. Gold, real name Rumpelstiltskin, is the current Dark One, possessed by the darkness itself and owned a magical dagger. Pandora had felt something strange within Mr. Gold and so she went towards him.
Pandora: I am sorry. I don't know if I may have a word with you.
To Pandora's surprise, Mr. Gold looked at her without any awkwardness as if he had knew that she would come.
Mr. Gold: Of course. You can call me Mr. Gold. Can I have your name?
Pandora: My name is Pandora. Glad to meet you. I just saw you bumped on someone... Wait, Mr. Gold? You are Rumpelstiltskin, the Dark One?
Mr. Gold: Yes, I am. Good to meet you... Pandora.
Pandora was surprised to hear that Mr. Gold recognized her despite her disguise. She wanted to say something, but she then thought it was OBVIOUS that she will be recognized since Mr. Gold is a Dark One.
Every people who are the Dark Ones are mostly well-known for their nigh-omnipotence and dangerous personality. For now, Mr. Gold had absorbed with the darkness once again and became the current Dark One.
Pandora: It's good to meet you here. However, I was just curious about the man you were bumped into. He looked familiar to me.
Mr. Gold: I did not see his face so I can't identify him. Is he your friend or someone else?
Pandora: It's not safe speaking in here.
Then, the two people went straight into an alley not far beside them, and they started to continue their conversation.
Pandora: The man is not my friend, but he is important to me - to us. My master wants him killed.
Mr. Gold: Really? How did you came to this place?
Pandora: I lived here a long time, so long that I could not even know how long I've been here, doing jobs under false names and many disguises, behaving like a normal person... while secretly executing my master's chief plan. By the way, may I ask... How did you come here?
Mr. Gold smiled to Pandora.
Mr. Gold: I came here because of someone who visited me.
Neverland was now in chaos. The heroic Peter Pan went missing and a tyrant had replaced him in his form. This worried someone who was sitting in his chair and dismayed.
???: How could this be? What should I do?...
Suddenly, the door opened and a short old man went in with two large and muscle bodyguards.
???: Ah, who have we here? Aren't you that hilarious Duke of Weselton?
Duke of Weselton: Indeed I am. I am glad that you did not name my county... uh, um...
???: Weasel Town?
Duke of Weselton: That is what I am talking about!
???: Sorry, so... what can I do for you, Mr. Duke?
Duke of Weselton: I am here to visit you. I heard you were in need of help from... someone else.
???: ... (looked at the duke in blank astonishment)
Duke of Weselton: Anyway... ahem, may I have your name, please?
???: My real name is mouthful. You can call me Mr. Gold, Duke.
Duke of Weselton: Uh, OK, Mr. Gold, would you please allow me to help you?
Mr. Gold: You can help me whenever I can. However, did you successfully compact with the adorable Queen Elsa of Arendelle, First of Her Name?
Duke of Weselton: No, I didn't. Why are you... wait, you knew her?
Mr. Gold: I only heard of her. I met her sister Princess Anna once. That was years ago, since my last visit of Arendelle...
Suddenly, a loud cry from far, far away had interrupt their talking. The Duke of Weselton was horrified, yet Mr. Gold maintained calm and inner peace.
One of the most bizzare punishments ever...
This voice came from Katarina Couteau from the year 2031, caused by the punishment she received. After her duel with Azul Jissele, her friend, La Folia Rihavein had punished Katarina with a... uh, a bizarre punishment.
Duke of Weselton: Oh, my word! What on Earth is that!?
Mr. Gold: (calmly) That screaming voice came from future and somehow went through the time. This is only thing I could tell for this is only thing I know about it right now.
Duke of Weselton: Will it effect our talking?
Mr. Gold: No, it won't. (drinks tea)
Nowadays[]
Mr. Gold shrugged his shoulders and continued his words.
Mr. Gold: However, I am not a fool. For a while I don't know how or when or why a greedy duke that failed to pact with Queen of Arendelle could ever assist my favor. Eventually, I did not follow my promise and I don't know where he is now. I suspect that he is NOT the real Duke of Weselton.
Pandora's eyes widened in curiosity and surprise.
Pandora: Indeed? How do you know?
Mr. Gold: When I look upon him, I sensed something dark and sinister. Also, I could see him being curious about the strange noise rather than get rid of Pan. What is more, I noticed that he had six fingers on each of his hands, twelve fingers in all.
Pandora: Oh?
Mr. Gold I wonder if the Duke really had this feature... otherwise it could be someone had disguised as him. I could see him behaved unnaturally, and I sensed something he could not hide from his eyes - darkness. I could also sensed a dark spirit of a demon king which bonded with his soul.
Pandora: Who? Satan?
Mr. Gold: No, I can confidently say that it is MOLOCH. When I heard something bad happened to Dr. Frankenstein, my suspicion began to arouse. Therefore, I went to find the Witnesses who are prophesied to be the people who end the reign of Moloch, and that is why I am here.
Pandora: Indeed?
Mr. Gold: In 2006, I arrived here for the first time before I left to assist Emma Swan in order to fight against a evil tyrant. I lost my son during the war, but then I had a wife. Even so, she needed help since she was trapped in Sleeping Curse and I am searching for an antidote. Me and Sheriff August Corbin once met after that... dreadful event. We are both interested on it and tried to figure out why, but we found nothing on it so that we need to stop when Moloch's power was closing in.
The First Spacequake
The "dreadful event" that Mr. Gold referred to was the First Spacequake, killing 150 million people and devastated the center of Eurasia. No explanation was given at the time of 2013.
Mr. Gold: Recently, I felt that Moloch's forces was closing in, so during the Christmas vacation, I arrived at here once again, hoping to find a cure and stop Moloch in the same time. Then, I bumped on that man before meeting you. Is there any questions?
Hearing this, Pandora lowered her head and thought for a while. She was accumulating all the information she gathered for 2 centuries in order to get a clue.
Pandora: (thinking) Hmm, the prophecy is coming true. Seems like Moloch is like Satan, Lady Van Tassel is the Whore of Babylon, Serilda is Apollyon, the Horseman of Death is the Creature that Once was Alive but Lives No More, and this false Duke of Weselton... Perhaps he is the Anti-Christ or the False Prophet...
Just as she was thinking, Atticus Nevins walked passed her, and Pandora startled for a moment. Mr. Gold sensed this and was curious.
Mr. Gold: What's the matter?
Pandora: Mr. Gold, hush...
Pandora and Mr. Gold watched secretly as Nevins (who ignored them) walked away. Pandora then sighed in relief.
Pandora: That was very close. The man you had just bumped in is... is Atticus Nevins, that notorious terrorist.
Mr. Gold: Really? Then, we need to call the police.
Pandora: No, I don't think conventional police stuff can deal with this monster. This kind of people are very witted and paranoid, and not to mention the forces of Hell is helping him. If we have any attempt to apprehend them, they'll know, and they will disappear. The only thing we should do is to help his enemies and bring him to justice without using legal ways.
Mr. Gold: But how do you know he was Moloch's follower?
Pandora: Two years ago, I once disguised myself as a FBI Trainee under the team of Agent Daniel Reynolds. After getting along well with FBI Secret Agent, Diana Thomas, I began to be sure that Nevins sold his soul to the Devil. I always suspect that there are a third Witness beside Crane and Mills, and upon I see Diana and heard about her story, I was sure.
Mr. Gold: Indeed?
Hearing this, Mr. Gold was shocked to learn that Pandora believed there was a third Witness beside the two.
Pandora: This Diana Thomas is in fact, Nevins' adopted daughter, but she loathed her adopted father after she accidentally found satanic decorations, some obscene and violent photos and also Satanism souvenirs with "Moloch Shall Rise" in his drawer, proving that he sold his soul to Moloch.
"........................................"
Pandora: Then, it was revealed that Nevins was behind Diana's birth parents' murder. Diana told many people - including Reynolds - that Nevins is a satanist, but sadly, no one believed her. She later married a young man and had a 4-year-old daughter, but sadly, her husband died... probably caused by Nevins or those Hessian mercenaries that allied with him.
At this time, Mr. Gold was very surprised when he heard the phrase "Hessian mercenaries".
Mr. Gold: What? Hessian mercenaries? I thought they are long gone.
Pandora: At least those who worked for William Howe, Benedict Arnold or someone else. However, those surviving Hessian mercenaries who had sold their souls to Moloch had the dark legacy carried on with them, and they continued hiding in this town to form a secret cult. Their descendants and secret apprentice carried on their legacy and those remnants are now everywhere, countless of them. By the way, with all due respect, when you bumped on Nevins... did you look at his hand or his upper body if he took his shirt off?
Pandora's question had made Mr. Gold felt curious. He shook his head.
Mr. Gold: His hand? No, no, not at all.
Pandora: Many of the Hessian soldiers... You know, some German mercenaries working for British army during world war, had sold their soul to Moloch after being tempted, and they formed a satanism party known as "Hellfire Club" and called themselves the "Shadow Warriors". The Hessian's who worked for Moloch shall have a tattoo on their body, mostly on their hands, chest or head, like the Horseman of Death himself. The Hessian mercenaries in modern days also had the mark, but more hidden.
Mr. Gold: What are we going to do then?
Pandora: I am finding a way to weaken Moloch so that I... I mean, my master... would take him down instantly. However, I need some allies to help Moloch's enemies secretly. You help me, and I help you to find the fake Duke of Weselton.
Mr. Gold: Very well.
Mr. Gold was glad to accept the deal. He needed a powerful partner to help him achieve the goals of him, no matter who he or she is. After all, he knew nothing about the Hidden One for now and only saw Moloch as one of his major threats.
Pandora: At first, however, we need to take down Duke Firenza in London. This man, as far as I know, was helping Nevins far away from London. He is also loyal to Moloch secretly and tried to fake himself to be such a scandal-involving and greedy, in order to make public think of the other way.
Mr. Gold nodded but then he asked one more question.
Mr. Gold: Moloch had so many followers, but why do you chose to assassinate Duke Firenza?
Pandora gave him a smirk full of confidence... and a bit of wickedness.
Pandora: My master also wants his new-born son.
London[]
At this time, Duke Firenza was surrounded by journalists everywhere about his scandal involved with a scandal involved with a corrupt wine factory that used national funds to build their business 5 years ago.
At this time, the 30-year-old Queen Elizard, Duke Firenza's sister, had just ascended on her throne for five years after King Thomas died. Because King Thomas had already took away the rights of heir from Duke Firenza when he knew that his son was a corrupt playboy.
For now, the duke is still the duke, but he did not become the king. Slowly, Duke Firenza went paranoid because of this. His mental state had already went unstable after his 5-year-old daughter was kidnapped.
2008
Two months before the ascension of Elizard, Firenza felt that he was plunged into a great shame. He wandered on the street in his disguise. He just want to be alone and relax himself from the stress. He felt better while wandering on the street as no one noticed him.
However, when he came back home, Duke Firenza was shock to find that his daughter went missing. A paper with a mark of eye was on the bed, with the signature "Hupert Zodiak" under it. Another shocking thing is behind the paper's back...
- Duke Firenza: The Zodiac Killer!
The Zodiac Killer was a serial killer who operated in northern California in the late 1960's and early 1970's. The killer's identity remains unknown. The Zodiac murdered victims in Benicia, Vallejo, Lake Berryessa, and San Francisco between December 1968 and October 1969. Four men and three women between the ages of 16 and 29 were targeted. The killer originated the name "Zodiac" in a series of taunting letters sent to the local Bay Area press. These letters included four cryptograms (or ciphers). Of the four cryptograms sent, only one has been definitively solved.
Suspects have been named by law enforcement and amateur investigators, but no conclusive evidence has surfaced. The San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) marked the case "inactive" in April 2004, but re-opened it at some point prior to March 2007. The case also remains open in the city of Vallejo, as well as in Napa County and Solano County. The California Department of Justice has maintained an open case file on the Zodiac murders since 1969.
Duke Firenza went so desperate to find his daughter, but he could not find her. He torn the paper to pieces and cried on the ground. Just then, the mirror beside him glowed and Firenza looked up. He reacted in horror as he saw Moloch, with an angry face, was looking at him.
Duke Firenza: Master, is this a sign?
In his mirror, Moloch glared at him... and Duke Firenza realized something would go terribly wrong.
Moloch: [You are too weak...]
Suddenly, a green light had hit the chest of Duke Firenza and made him fell on the ground. He then fell unconscious as his hair turned white all in a second.
A month later, Lady Firenza was pregnant, but Duke Firenza did not know that his blood type had been turned because of Moloch's mirror, and it had slowly drove him to the most painful suffer for five years... and the blood type was inherited by his unborn child, yet it gave him magical powers that the father himself did not know.Even so, especially after Lady Firenza died after giving birth to her child, Duke Firenza was drowned in guilt for selling his soul, losing his fame and losing his wife.
He named his newborn son Carl, and he dearly cared for his son. Duke Firenza stopped praying to Moloch, but to God, in order to atone his sins. He thought that those suffering on him were a divine punishment given by God himself, and so he atone his sins day after day. He lived as a solitude and took care of his son. He never appear in front of the crowd since he was too ashamed to show himself in front of the citizens of England.
2013
One day, after nearly five years, Duke Firenza was so distressed that he started to open the closet and threw every clothes out to release his frustration. Suddenly,
The video soon opened and the face of King Thomas had appeared on-screen. While watching the video, Duke Firenza was shocked to see his father's face, but the more shocking thing was that his father's speech.
King Thomas: [Etu Ilu, also known to English occultists as the Hidden One, was an extremely dangerous, hateful and horrible Sumerian deity. I believed of his existence. According to some Sumerian scrolls with myths that hardly someone knows, the Hidden One is a Lawful Evil deity who once wanted to rule the world and enslave humanity, driven by lust for power and hatred to humanity. However, his fellow gods, disgusted by his thirst for power, had banished him into the catacombs and took away all of his power. However, I was very scared recently because of the 5-year-old only granddaughter of mine, who is my son Duke Firenza's only daughter, went missing 10 years before I made this video, and a strange mark had appeared on her bed. I believed that the mark had represented the infamous Eye of Providence on the Hidden One's staff, and people said that the attack was caused by a group of demonic motorcycle gang known as Wild Card led by the infamous Satanist, Hubert Zodiak. The satanist had dealt with 12 different demon kings that represented 12 zodiacs, according to a close friend of mine, Sheriff August Corbin from Sleepy Hollow who had been studying something like that for many years. I also believed that it was Hubert who was behind the infamous case of Zodiac Killer. Even so, I had no idea why he wanted to draw the Eye of Providence on it. What drove him to kidnap my beloved granddaughter remained a mystery as well. However, I had a feeling that the Hidden One - a evil deity who is no less dangerous than Moloch or Satan - is about to rise once again. I was also worried about the son of mine who sold his soul. I can see remorse in his eyes. Taking the word "heir" from him is the only way to let him think it over. I beg the good people around the world, whoever you are, if you believe in justice, please help him.]
The tape was over at that point. Duke Firenza stood up with a strange look on his face. He stepped back to the room of his 4-year-old son, who was playing toys on the carpet. Looking at his son's naive face, Duke Firenza shook his head.
Duke Firenza: Too late... It was too late...
Just then, Duke Firenza felt someone was behind him and turned back, holding his gun at his hand. Pandora and Mr. Gold was standing behind him.
Pandora: I heard His Majesty talking about my master, milord. I am sorry for his death.
Duke Firenza: Who are you? Stay away from here!
Not scared by Duke Firenza's attitude at all, Pandora's eyes narrowed in malevolence. To Moloch's enemies and victims, Pandora was friendly, but to Moloch's followers and even ex-followers, she behaved like a stone cold beast.
Pandora: Moloch's follower, I am here to take your head alongside your child under my master's order.
Duke Firenza: I'd better let you know... no matter who you are... that I don't work for Moloch now.
Pandora: Nevertheless, do not ignore that Moloch gave you a "gift" before abandoning you. Your blood. It will slowly kill you but it will also give your newborn child immense power. I am here to end your suffering and we will take care of your son. I give you my word. I never ever harm a child. Hurting a child is disgusting.
Duke Firenza scoffed in scorn. Carl was startled and cried out.
Duke Firenza: Ha, you served the Hidden One, right? He is an evil deity who might be connected to Hubert Zodiak and the Wild Card's actions of kidnapping my daughter!
Pandora: What are you talking about? My master hates Zodiak and his men, can't you see?
Duke Firenza: Then, why did they drew the Eye of Providence at the crime scene!?
Pandora's eyes widened in sheer rage. She could never bear anyone who dared to use her master's name.
Pandora: The Eye of Providence had been missing for centuries. It once belonged to my master, and it was once on his staff. However, it was gone for now. As far as I know, Hubert Zodiak and the Wild Card is searching for the Eye, since they want to take one of my master's power sources in order to rule the world. Those demonic motorcycle clan... I always despised them.
Duke Firenza: Then, leave us alone!
Pandora: Oh, Duke Firenza... Without your child, you are already alone. You are an incompetent man, an incompetent father. I will help you to end your suffering once... and for all...
Suddenly, a soldier and a young woman with long blond hair had appeared behind Pandora and Mr. Gold. The soldier was a neighbor of Duke Firenza, name Matt Robinson, who was a soldier from Royal Air Force. The priestess beside him was none other than a 13-year-old Laura Stuart.In fact, Matt was the son of a warlock from Katrina Crane's coven, Sisterhood of Radiant Heart, but after Lady Van Tassel usurped the coven's leadership, Matt and his father, who did not want to work for a twisted leader like her, had betrayed her and escape to England.
On their way, however, Lady Van Tassel found them. Matt's father died trying to fight against Lady Van Tassel, and before death, he pushed Matt into a magical portal so that he could enter England. Soon, Matt abandoned magic after his father's tragic sacrifice in order to prevent himself from being killed by Moloch's forces.
Like Knapp, Matt lived in London for centuries as a solitude, and eventually he decided to join Royal Air Force to protect his country from terrorists in 2008. Because he never aged ever since he went to London, no one will know his true age and thought he was just a 20-year-old young man.
The only people who knows about this is Laura Stuart, and Matt was surprised when meet her three months ago, because her words sounds like a veteran instead of a 13-year-old child. They shared the secrets of each other and promised that they will keep it. As for Laura Stuart's secret, we will talk about that later. When they knew Duke Firenza was in trouble atoning his past sins, they were sorry about it and were always came there to help him, but it could not stop his descent towards madness.At this time, the two people stood near Pandora and Mr. Gold and stared at them.
Pandora, however, is not a person who will waste time. She raised her hand to the child, with a glowing blue flame coming from her palm. She did not mean to harm the child, however. She only wanted to intimidate the two rescuers.
Pandora: Don't make me do this. Don't force my hand. If you know what you are doing, please leave. I only want this child, alive.
Suddenly, without warning, Duke Firenza grabbed Pandora's hand, and before she could react, he pushed the blue flame into his chest.
Pandora: Huh!?
That was out of everyone's expectation. Duke Firenza's mental breakdown was so serious that he could not analyze the fact that Pandora never meant to kill his boy.
Blood start pouring down from Duke Firenza's chest as Pandora immediately went to the child and covered his eyes, avoided him to see such a gory scene.
Duke Firenza: I would rather... sacrifice myself... than allowing you... to hurt my boy...
Pandora could not speak for a long time before she whispered to herself.
Pandora: This is not sacrifice. This is suicide...
Duke Firenza, however, lost his consciousness and he fell on the ground. He was dead. Pandora was so shocked that she stood there for a long time like a stone. Matt Robinson, however, seized the chance and ran towards the child. He hugged the child from Pandora and escape the house under Laura Stuart's protection. Mr. Gold tried to catch him, but Laura used her long, magical hair to block him.
At this point, after 10 seconds of silence, Pandora had realized that the child was taken, but it was too late. She could only stared at Laura Stuart with fury. The three soon got into a serious confrontation.
- Mr. Gold: Well, this is awkward.
Act 2 - Hexenmeisters[]
London[]
Laura Stuart: Finally, Pandora of Sumeria, we meet face to face.
Pandora and Laura Stuart looked at each other with sheer rage, as if they had already know each other and deeply hated each other.When Laura broke the silence, Pandora scoffed and replied.
Pandora: Do you know? I am always aware about your supervision on me, Laura Stuart, and I know you deeply cared for Duke Firenza and his family. You know he served Moloch and kept helping him to atone his sins. I am also aware that your soul lived much longer than you looked like. You are observing me for years - an heathen, you may think, and I am aware of this.
Those words made Laura to feel a bit of surprised.
Laura: You are aware?
Pandora: Indeed, and yet you cannot kill me since I am different from Moloch. I posed no threat towards humanity. I have nothing to worry about you, either. I also know that you are secretly working for the Peace Foundation, a secret foundation dedicated to peace and harmony. You are much, much older than you look.
Hearing this, Laura's eyes narrowed in anger.
Laura: You seem to know a lot about me.
Pandora: I know more, and perhaps it was because I was raised by my master's wisdom.
Laura: No matter how and why you know about me, I will never let you or your master succeeded, no matter how you call yourself. Pandora? Delilah? Huh, whatever.
Pandora's eyes started to glow in red as she glared at Laura Stuart, this future Archbishop with no fear in her eyes.
Pandora: Huh, very wise, yet so arrogant. One day, your England will suffer from a civil war, and this boy will be your savior. However, that was not a part of my plan. You can take that infant and let a soldier raise him, Laura Stuart... or maybe I could call you Caroline Marlone.
Laura Stuart were shocked to hear the name and so she startled. She glared at Pandora with full of shock.
Pandora: Yes, 13 years ago, the real Laura Stuart died 3 months after her birth since Moloch devoured her soul to summon the Horseman of War, and now you are possessing her body. You are a spirit of an Anglican Nun died during Nazi Germany's invasion of England. Your former self, Caroline Marlone, sadly died in the bombing of German jet fighters in the street of London, but because of your devotion had never died and your dream had shattered all of a sudden, you became a restless spirit. To live on achieve your dream, you possessed some dead infants who died of sickness, making them your vessels throughout many years. You chose infants because if you chose children, teenagers or adults, people will suspected something due to possible personality difference, and you needed to possess the infant before their parents knew they had died. Your vessels can grow physically, having puberty and growth spurts, and can get old and weakened, just like normal females. However, the only thing you can't erase is that - Corpses are still corpses. It had decaying fumes. Therefore, you needed to buy perfume to pour it in your bath, but perfume was expensive.
As Pandora was glaring at her opponent, her tones became more and more menacing.
Pandora: However, you had found a natural remedy from China. The remained water after washing rice could be used to wash hair so that it could make your hair glow, and it is both cheap and free of chemicals. The most important thing for you, however, is that it had faint rice aroma, perfect for concealing the corpse's smells. 13 years ago, you found the dead infant of real Laura Stuart, whose parent's wish on her was so much like your dream you tried to achieve for so many years - BECOME THE ARCHBISHOP OF ANGLICAN CHURCH. Therefore, you possessed her and achieve YOUR dream in HER body. Now, standing in front of me is an Anglican nun who was supposed to be dead years ago. You shall use her body... AND COMPLETE THE GOALS OF BOTH OF YOU.
Hearing this, Laura Stuart - or Caroline Marlone in Laura's body - was startled in horror as the woman in black coat had told her about many secrets in her life.
Laura Stuart: Who told you so?
Pandora: My Master, known as the Hidden One - also my "husband" - since it was HIM who wanted Duke Firenza's soul. He knows many things about you... Caroline.
Before Pandora could finished, Laura bellowed in sheer rage with her true name.
Laura: DON'T... CALL ME THAT! EVER!
Pandora gave her a cryptic smile at her.
Pandora: Good, Laura, very good. However, I know why you need to keep the Firenza child alive.
Laura: What?
Pandora sat on a chair with a smile as she looked at Mr. Gold. Mr. Gold then gave his answers.
Mr. Gold: Duke Firenza was exposed in a magic power one day - Moloch's Dark Mirror. He happened to see Moloch when he was trying to raise the Horseman of Conquest / Pestilence and the lost Roanoke colony from his kingdom, but he managed to drive Moloch back to Purgatory after he cast holy power, but eventually... his blood was affected when Moloch scathed him. Two days before Carl was conceived, he abandoned Moloch due to his guilty conscience and Moloch worsened his blood situation as a punishment.
Pandora nodded as she added her addendum.
Pandora: The Hidden One wanted to "pact" with Moloch so that the latter could be destroyed or enslaved, before he outright ordered me to see Moloch as an enemy instead of a potential ally after Jeremy Crane's apparent death... and I, as his servant, will try to weaken Moloch by assisting anyone who had potentials to harm Moloch's goods. I can enter someone's dream, and I will do that later on two potential people who can harm Moloch, preventing them from being harmed by Moloch's power.
Hearing this, Laura was disgusted by this since she had now deemed that Pandora was none other than a illogical and deluded hypocrite. In her eyes, the Hidden One is a pagan deity while Moloch is a demon - thus both are equally dangerous. However, she wanted to know more answers.
Laura: Tell me who they are!
Pandora: One is a woman named Jennifer Mills, and the other had just came from future some time ago - and her name is Katarina Couteau. Perhaps, you will one day know her in future. My master had prophesied that a third World War is coming to this world 23 years later, beginning on the same day that Adolf Hitler raised the World War II, but it will be worse... far worse... and even YOU will not avoid it! That's what happened if you don't let the Hidden One rule humans! Your God cannot save you!
Feeling scared, Laura Stuart tried to run away from Pandora, and as she was running, Pandora's voice had appeared behind her.
Pandora: You and your soldier friend can protect that child, but seriously, how long you two can protect him? His life is destined to be harsh... and he could only blame his father for it. What a pity. Unless he could arrive at this world to kill me and avenge him, or his life will be full of misery.
Laura Stuart bit her lips and closed her eyes. Tears started to drop down from her tears. Now, the man she once care for had died, and eventually this had made Laura Stuart stone cold and morally ambiguous. Eventually, she would become the cold Archbishop of Anglican Church, all because of the man she tried to saved had died.
After that, Mr. Gold and Pandora then left as well. Gold was a bit of disturbed by Pandora's action.
Mr. Gold: Is that really necessary to kill him?
Pandora: I did not meant to kill him. He sought his own death.
Sleepy Hollow[]
Coming back from London, Pandora walked towards a lake with Mr. Gold and looked into herself in the water. Just then, her shadow in the water had turned into a dark man with robes covered on him. It was Pandora's master, known as the Hidden One.
Pandora: Master, I failed. I am sorry. The child is important to us, but I had just let him slip away from my fingers. I am just so foolish.
The Hidden One then started to transform into a blackened smoke and start surface himself from the lake, with his eyes glowed in gold. Pandora stepped back in horror, and perhaps Mr. Gold felt in the similar way.
Pandora looked at Mr. Gold and whispered to him.
Pandora: I'll handle this.
Then, Pandora looked into the eye of Hidden One as he started to speak in a deep, dark and sinister voice...
Hidden One: [Mercy had made you weak, Pandora. Love is what made us step back the most, and that is why love made me disgusted. Love is a weakness in humanity and you need to abandon it to make yourself stronger. You just want to see the child live so you let a Christian to save him and take him away. One day, the child shall seek vengeance on us for what we did to his father.]
Pandora: Master, I know, but I think we should leave the child alone first, since I am afraid that troublesome Hubert Zodiak is coming towards us...
Hidden One: [Silence! No matter how strong he is, Hupert Zodiak is just a mortal being. We have much more powerful magical power than the power he has. Gods' power are born to be harnessed, but Zodiak only gained power from 12 demons. That made him as incompetent as Duke Firenza and Lady Van Tassel! I never liked demons. Ugh, if I can have even use a little power of mine back while sucking the child's blood...]
Pandora: What!
Pandora reacted in horror as she heard her master's words. She was always hiding her fear while facing her master, but this time she could not hide it anymore.
Pandora: No way. You ... you want to KILL him?
Hidden One: [That is why I was angry with you, Pandora. You let a good chance slip away from our fingers and planted a time bomb in our foreseeable future.]
Pandora: But I thought...
Hidden One: [You need to do what I am telling you to do, Pandora. Without me saving you, you would of been sold to a slave market by your greedy father! Do you know what kind of feelings it is like to lose your power? Without power, you'll have nothing, not to mention ruling the world and bring "benevolence" on it! Therefore, in order to restore my power, you need to do anything I have you to do... slave.]
Pandora: Oh...
The word "slave" was so cruel that it made Pandora hurt. She nearly fell on the ground, but Mr. Gold helped him to regain balance. The Hidden One looked at Pandora coldly and started to sink back into the lake.
Hidden One: [Do not doubt my judgement. If you want to spare the child, very well, so be it. In fact, I don't mind if you help Moloch's allies if that did not harm ourselves, unless you show compassion, love and mercy. However, if I catch you once again showing compassion to our future threat, especially Moloch's allies, I will treat you... just as how Moloch treated Lady Van Tassel. You will remain in chains for eternity.]
Pandora: Yes, my liege.
After that, the Hidden One disappeared as Pandora remained in her position.
Pandora: (mutters) I will never fail you ever again, master. You saved my life. I am yours...
At the night after she went to Corbin's House, Katarina went to the bathroom and took a bath. Abbie and her had became friends, and they got along well with each other.
At this time, La Folia and others went to the local market to buy some needed supplies.
Hugging the pillow, Katarina could not fall asleep. Sister Mary Eunice went out of the mirror and covered Katarina with a large quilt.
Sister Mary Eunice: I don't want you to catch cold.
Katarina smiled at Sister Mary Eunice.
Katarina: Thank you, Sister Mary Eunice. You've been very kind to me.
Sister Mary Eunice: It is what I should do. After we get the Grand Grimoire from Eckidina KnightWalker, I promise that I will help you guys return back to your time to save your present and... our future.
Katarina then thought for a while before asking a question.
Katarina: Sister, a word with you if I may?
Sister Mary Eunice: Of course, Katarina, what is it?
Katarina: With all due respect, uh... Why did the Devil target someone so kind like you?
Sister Mary Eunice went silent. For a while, she thought that she was doomed to hell because her heart was tarnished by the Devil when she was possessed. However, she became a saved soul and eventually freed from demonic grip.
Sister Mary Eunice: The Devil not only targeted greedy or hubris people. They target everyone, even the most innocent one. My former superior, Sister Jude, once believed that I have a pure soul. The Devil, however, possessed me and I could do nothing but praying for death within my heart.
Hearing this, Katarina's tears began to appear in her eyes. She felt really sorry for what happened to the poor nun.
Katarina: You don't need to die for this, Sister. It is not your fault. The Devil possessed you and made you do the things you did not want to do... and you have no power to resist him.
Sister Mary Eunice: That's why I have to die, Katarina, so that others will live. No more people will die for the Devil. However, I am too weak to break the possession myself, so I had to die. Sometimes, the choice was cruel but you need to make a sacrifice in order to make things right. After I had died... I felt even more alive.
Just then, Sister Mary Eunice looked at Katarina and sighed sadly. Then, she spoke something to Katarina which surprised her.
Sister Mary Eunice: But I believe that you are strong enough to break your dark heart.
Katarina: My dark heart? Is there something wrong, Sister?
Sister Mary Eunice: Anyone could have a dark heart, but the priority is if you would allow it devour the last morsel of your soul. That is all for now.
At this time, in order to protect Katarina's mind, Sister Mary Eunice did not tell Katarina the whole truth. She had sensed that Katarina was possessed by some unknown power that was not even exist on Earth, a power that helped her to exterminate Aki Honda, the former leader of Mafusa Gang.
Sister Mary Eunice believed that it would drive Katarina insane if she did not control it, so she told La Folia and Asuna in order to make them take care of her.
Also, why Sister Mary Eunice did not inform this to Mana was because she felt that Mana was also some person that was not so simple, and she had sensed that Mana had already suspected about Katarina's power source. Therefore, it was needless to inform her for now. She began to think: "How many of us had a secret behind us?"
Katarina: Sister? Sister!
Sister Mary Eunice then returned back from her thoughts. She became very thoughtful after turning into a spirit guide. It made her much wiser.
Sister Mary Eunice: Oh, sorry, Katarina. I was just... Anyway, you need to have a rest.
Sister Mary Eunice stood up just as La Folia arrived in. She was delighted to see La Folia.
Sister Mary Eunice: La Folia, you are back. Very well, I arranged this same room for you and Katarina. Asuha's room is upstairs. I hope you will live well in this place. We will settle tomorrow and try to apprehend Nevins.
At this time, all of the people who would become Team Witness had no idea that Corbin was kidnapped by Atticus Nevins. When they heard about this on the next day, it would change their plan, making them to rescue Corbin as fast as possible.
La Folia: You've been working very hard, Sister. Thank you for everything.
La Folia happily laughed, and Sister Mary Eunice smiled as well.
Sister Mary Eunice: It's my pleasure. Now, it's getting late. Sweet dreams, you two.
With a smile, Sister Mary Eunice flew back to the mirror and disappeared. La Folia then took a shower as well, and she and Katarina then went to bed and closed the light.
Mirror world
Sister Mary was then sitting alone in her mirror world. In Sister Mary Eunice's version, her mirror world are the same as her office at Braircliff Manor. She could not take a rest since she was worried about Katarina. Just then, she felt someone was there at her door, so she stood up.
It was a man with a mask and blue coat. Sister Mary Eunice stood up with a smile while greeting him. It was made clear that she knew the man and he was not her enemy.
Sister Mary Eunice: Welcome, my dear friend of the Hexenmeisters.
The Hexenmeisters was a secret ancient order originated from Ukraine and routed in Washington D.C. who affiliated with Sleepy Hollow Freemasons and Sisterhood of Radiant Heart (before its corruption under Lady Van Tassel). For their current logo, they used the coat of arms of Yaroslav the Wise, the thrice grand prince of Kyiv and Veliky Novgorod, uniting the two principalities for a time under his rule.
Hiding in everywhere, the Hexenmeisters were targeting the servants of evil deities, and their first priority was the servants of Moloch and the Hidden One.
However, the priority of this organization is that the members believed that there was a Third Witness and even more, in contrast to Biblical lore. Sister Mary Eunice sees them as allies and will be glad to offer them service. Her alliance of Hexenmeisters is also the key reason that Katrina Crane found her, seeking her help.
Sister Mary Eunice: What can I do for you?
The Hexenmeister agent walked a bit closer and informed something serious to Sister Mary Eunice.
Hexenmeister: Sister, I think we have a problem. Etu Ilu, who was being sealed inside the Catacombs for centuries or even more, was about to arrive... in here.
Sister Mary Eunice: The Hidden One? I thought...
thumb|360px|link=Etu Ilu was the Hidden One's Sumerian name, and it was roughly means the "Hidden One" in English. Sister Mary Eunice knew this after she met the Hexenmeisters. At this time, she was a bit of surprised after hearing this.
During this time, Sister Mary Eunice had been analyzing many things, like Katarina's time travel and transformation, Moloch's invasion, the files of Corbin... and so she had acknowledged much information. However, she was feeling unexpected to know that the Hidden One, too, was taking his move.
Sister Mary Eunice: You said he went silent ever since he was sealed, utterly powerless.
Hexenmeister: Now, he was about to move and rival against Moloch. I detected that Pandora of Sumeria was coming and starting her plan in Sleepy Hollow in order to make the Hidden One outrank Moloch and rule the Earth, and the Hidden One tricked Pandora to make her believe he is well-intentioned. I know the truth. He will unleash tyranny upon the world, and anyone - even his loyal servant will be his slave. It was lucky for us that she never found the Eye of Providence or the Shard of Anubis.
The Hexenmeister sighed as if he was watching a pair of scales in front of him, with its left side carry law and another side carry freedom. Either side became stronger will cause misery to the world, either into tyranny or chaos.
Hexenmeister: They have been planning this since the birth of the American foundation, Sister. Those two forces are equally dangerous. If Moloch win, there will be no future for us, and Katarina Couteau will live inside a world full of hellish mess, and chaos will reign upon Earth. If the Hidden One wins, then the world will be ruled under the iron fist, and Katarina will become a slave of an hot-headed and horrible deity who proclaimed himself to be God... Chaotic evil and lawful evil, we are facing them both. No matter who wins, humanity shall lose. Fortunately, we still have the Eye of Providence, unbeknownst to the Hidden One and Pandora, and as long as we keep it, the Hidden One will still be powerless. For now, Moloch is our first priority and we are still finding the mysterious hooded man who worked for him, and now you are in charge of it.
Sister Mary Eunice: Yes, I am. Katarina told me about him... and I wonder who he is.
At this time, they both have no idea about the Unknown Grand Grimoire Figure's real identity, and therefore they could only assume the identity of him.
Hexenmeister: It is a matter of time, and since we are dealing with Moloch and the potential threat from the Hidden One, you will help me to do it. However, I wonder if it is worthy to make Katarina and her friends return back to their time.
Sister Mary Eunice's eyes widened in surprise. She walked closer to him.
Sister Mary Eunice: What do you mean?
Hexenmeister: I mean, I had some mild illumination of some foreseeable future that will make all of your efforts became a futile effort, all for nothing. Open your palms.
With serious doubt, Sister Mary Eunice opened her palm, and a white sphere had appeared on her palms. Sister Mary Eunice then held the sphere in her hands, trying to see something within it.
Sister Mary Eunice: Beautiful, but... sinister.
Sister Mary Eunice observed the vision carefully as the sphere on her palm start glowing in gold and white, and eventually, she was surprised to see the sphere turned into a small humanoid figure floating on her palm.
The figure was special. She was wearing a golden crown with a white veil attached to it. She had a white bow with a gem attached to her neck. Additionally, there are gold extensions attached to both her hips and forearms. The edges of her skirt fold together like flower petals, while the tips of her skirt are also gold in color.
Sister Mary Eunice looked at the petite figure inside her palm with shock. After a long time of dead silence, she opened her lips and spoke out in a weak voice.
Sister Mary Eunice: So this is the foreseeable future you said... An angel? Hmm, but she is not like the angels I saw in Heaven...
Sister Mary Eunice observed the angel but she could not find any mercy in her eyes. Her father once taught her that Angels possess mercy on humanity and will help humans secretly if necessary, but Sister Mary Eunice could not see mercy in the angel's eyes. She could only see vacancy and the sin of Pride.
Hexenmeister: Did you find anything strange, Sister?
Sister Mary Eunice: Very strange. She just looked like La Folia Rihavein and yet she had no emotions in her eyes... This is no angel. This is an impostor. Even worse than a devil.
The Hexenmeister walked around the room while speaking something that made Sister Mary Eunice felt horrid.
Hexenmeister: We once thought only demons could be dangerous, but that goes the same for angels as well. Some angels are devious misanthropes, and they want nothing else but to eliminate humans for their selfish goals... not to mention this. This person is different. She is not even a cherub at best - just some sort of phony, corrupt and draconic people who are just having angel complex... and with no humanity at all. This is La Folia's twin sister. Didn't she told you about her parentage?
Hearing this, Sister Mary Eunice was shocked by the Hexenmeister agent's words. Her eyes soon narrowed in sheer fury.
Sister Mary Eunice: UGH!!!
Within a second, she did a thing that even shocked herself. In anger and disgust, she quickly closed her palm and clenched her fist remorselessly, crushing the "beautiful angel" inside her palm and smashed the vision into pieces.
For the very first time, Sister Mary Eunice did this violent thing with her free will... all because she was greatly disgusted by someone who dare to proclaim themselves to be angels while doing disgusting atrocities. Her fist was shaking while she was answering the Hexenmeister's question.
Sister Mary Eunice: No, she did not. I never asked her.
Hexenmeister: I had checked La Folia's background with magic as much as I could, and I found some shocking things. If La Folia Rihavein and her friends return back to their world, they will meet this... thing that was her own sister.
Sister Mary Eunice closed her eyes tightly. Her body was trembling because of shock.
Sister Mary Eunice: She is La Folia's sister... I cannot believe it.
Hexenmeister: I only tell you a little about Rihavein sisters' history. Some of them are so horrid and so unbelievable that even I won't believe it. It is disturbing to know the whole thing.
Sister Mary Eunice: Why are you telling this to me?
The Hexenmeister walked a step closer towards Sister Mary Eunice, with a serious tone. Opening her eyes, Sister Mary Eunice looked at him with no fear in her eyes.
The Hexenmester started to explain all of this.
Hexenmeister: Think about your friends. You are pushing them into a pit while helping them to come back. They need to stay in Sleepy Hollow for safety.This future is very horrible and dangerous, and it could harm their life. Sister Mary Eunice, you are trying to save those lost souls and make them go back to their home, but in fact... You are pushing them into their tomb.
Sister Mary Eunice: No.
With confidence, Sister Mary Eunice spoke a large "No" to the Hexenmeister agent, which surprised him.
Sister Mary Eunice: That is only what some pessimists like you think. This is not safety. This is cowardice. They need to get back so that they can fight for our future, fight for humanity, fight for every poor souls.
Hexenmeister: Sister...
Sister Mary Eunice: I believe that letting them get back to their world is the only way to save them... and us! Though I can't see what happened, I am sure that their era is suffering and it need saviors! They will certainly save the world from such miserable terror. Sending them back does not mean we don't need them to take down Moloch or the Hidden One, but they have their own mission, a mission to save humanity, save God's hard work, save peace and harmony. Perhaps, this was their destiny all along.
Sister Mary Eunice then looked at the Hexenmeister with confidence.
- Sister Mary Eunice: I don't want to boast myself as an angel, but if there is possibility, I will become an angel myself, and I shall not behave like what La Folia's sister will become. I know what I am doing. I will protect everyone I cared for under my wings. I will fight for them and the Witnesses so that Katarina and her friends return to their home and fight for their destiny!!!
The Hexenmeister, for a while, was speechless. Sister Mary Eunice looked at him with determination in her eyes, and at last, he was persuaded.
Hexenmeister: I hope you know what you are doing, Sister. I am impressed.
Sister Mary Eunice, however, sat down and slowly calmed herself down.
Sister Mary Eunice: Oh... I am sorry for my overacting attitude. I was just... Anyway, I am more and more curious now. I was wondering if you could know about Katarina's past. I had so many questions in my head about her.
The Hexenmeister, however, shook his head, much to Sister Mary Eunice's dismay. Definitely, he found nothing.
Hexenmeister: I find nothing about her birth parents. I tried, Sister, I tried to, but... I only found a little about and Her parents are adopted. Many scenes of her childhood were blank. Details on her birth was blank. I just don't understand why.
Sister Mary Eunice then nodded. The Hexenmeister left as Sister Mary Eunice lowered her head and thought for a long time. Even so, she was determined to help Katarina and La Folia back to their world, because she believed that they would eventually survive the horrible ordeal.
Sister Mary Eunice: (think) * No matter what happens in the so-called foreseeable future, I will send them back like I promised. I will find the Grand Grimoire and cast the Traveler's Spell on them, to make them save their future... No, it is our future. *
Suddenly, Katarina screamed aloud and Sister Mary Eunice turned back. She saw Katarina was holding a letter in her hand and was shivering and trembling on the ground...
The old prison that once was Serilda of Abaddon's base would eventually become the lair of Atticus Nevins and Eckidina KnightWalker when Eckidina arrived at Sleepy Hollow.
At this time, Pandora and Mr. Gold had received some orders from the Hidden One to get Atticus Nevins and had him killed. At first, Mr. Gold was reluctant. However, in order to gain power and reunite with his wife, Belle, Mr. Gold agreed.
After tracking Nevins down, Pandora and Mr. Gold were hiding behind two respective trees and looking at a car riding to the old prison as Nevins came out with two henchmen of his. Nevins dragged Corbin out of his car and pushed him to the guards.
Nevins: Take him to the special cell, and make sure that he stays there.
The guards took the old sheriff back to their cell, but as Pandora was ready to take her move, she was surprised to see that Nevins did not leave. He was standing outside of the prison, as if he was expecting someone.
She, Misogi, Michael (who was yet to revealed his true nature at that time), Adam, the Bride and Terra was coming out of the old prison first. They all fell on the ground and Eckidina had to crawl herself up from the soiled land.
Just then, Eckidina heard a deep voice coming from a man. She looked up and saw Atticus who helped her to get up.
Nevins: You are awake... The master requires your service. Would you answer his call... Milady Eckidina?
Eckidina stood up alongside Misogi and Terra, whom Nevins was helping one by one. Dr. Frankenstein, Michael, Adam and the Bride, however, remained lying on the ground.
Eckidina: Where am I?
Nevins: You have arrived at Sleepy Hollow, milady. My name is Atticus Nevins. Our client allowed me to work with you.
Eckidina: Oh, yes, that hooded man... told me to take myself and those people to you.
Nevins: Then, that's right. Raise your men. Let humanity be afraid... Afraid of the KnightWalker Family. Afraid of its might. To seal our friendship, I offer you vengeance on an hated enemy who once tried to end your life.
Hearing this, Eckidina smiled in satisfaction. She knew who Nevins was referred to. She also knew that the person was within Sleepy Hollow as well, like her client say.
Eckidina: Katarina?
Nevins nodded with a smile.
Nevins: I want her dead, too, Eckidina, and that is why I am here to persuade you and your friends. I vow my loyalty.
Eckidina looked at him with confusion. Michael stood up and tried to walk closer to Eckidina, but two demonic troops had tied him up.
Eckidina: Why do you want her to die as well?
Nevins: Because she is keep protecting a man whom I want to kill, so she is my enemy, too. I believe, that the enemy of my enemy can be my friend. We will executed Corbin at the hands of our creature, the Horseman of Death, before we make Katarina pay for what she had done.
Nevins then closed his eyes and smiled.
Nevins: Oh, yes, I know all about you, like the fact that Katarina... ruined your fun to raise war on Earth. It just... simply does not feel right to me. Listen, I want to kill Kat, and you want to kill Kat. If we work together, she and her sidekicks will not stand a chance. The hooded man is right about you. You dislike Katarina.
Eckidina then walked closer to shake hand with him and asked a few more question.
Eckidina: That hooded man? The man who gave the Grand Grimoire?
Nevins: Indeed.
Eckidina: Good to meet you. I will give you a greeting way from an era of China to greet you.
Eckidina then walked towards Nevins and... shook hands with him.
Eckidina: Do you know what era of China did this greeting way was originated from?
Nevins: This era still exists, and its officially named "People's Republic of China".
Hearing this, Eckidina's arrogant smile faded and blushed in embarrassment before she quickly change the topic.
Eckidina: By the way, you have a master, aren't you? Who is your master?
With a smile, Nevins whispered the name to Eckidina and Misogi as if it was a name that have sheer importance.
Nevins: He is Moloch. The name means "king".
Eckidina: Moloch?
Eckidina was greatly interested by the words.
Nevins: The hooded man from future said that Lord Moloch will be eventually betrayed and killed, but he ask me to help you in this world in order to defeat the two Witnesses and stop this foreseeable future. Extending Moloch's life span will benefit a lot for you. You will have us as companions, and you will have eternal life and youth. You will enjoy the fun by raising the Hell on Earth.
Feeling interested, Eckidina nodded and turned back to Misogi.
Eckidina: What do you think, Misogi-Chan?
Misogi stretched his arms and his expression remained normal.
Misogi: I don't really know anything about Moloch, but since you can help us to take down Katarina, then we will definitely agree to do it.
Nevins smiled in satisfaction. The evil deal is done much easier than he thought. Just then, Pandora was feeling horrid. If Moloch rose from his realm, then the world will be his... For now, Pandora needs the Witnesses and their allies before she manage to find a way to defeat Moloch and allow the Hidden One to rise.
Pandora: (thinking) * Where did is this girl come from? She looks like having some serious skills if she really has. By the way, how could she get that book? *
Pandora could not even dare to breathe but seeing Nevins talking with the girl, not because she was afraid of a girl, but because she saw the Grand Grimoire in Terra's hand. Eckidina had gave the book to Terra so that she could shake hand to Nevins.
She felt that those three people who stood alongside Nevins are on the same side. However, Pandora then realized that the chance was there, so she nodded to Mr. Gold.
Pandora: Attack.
Just then, Mr. Gold drew his dagger from his pocked while Pandora showed her box from her pocked and summoned a sword. They both start jumping out and was ready to attack Eckidina, Nevins, Misogi and their minions.
It was such a surprise attack and immediately alarmed the three villains. Eckidina started running away from Pandora's sword attack while trying to gun her down, but Pandora had immediately and skillfully blocked every single bullet that shot to her from Eckidina, and even from the KnightWalker troops. Some of them had escorted their prisoners into the cell.
Mr. Gold had not noticed Dr. Frankenstein among the crowd. He and Dr. Frankenstein knew each other when they met in Enchanted Forest years ago before Dr. Frankenstein performed his experiments that spawned those monsters. They were neither friends or foes.
Eckidina: Who are you?
Pandora then threw her sword to Eckidina, and Eckidina had to carried a troop of her to block the sword. The sword struck into the soldier's chest and thus killing him. Pandora was highly disgusted by this, and so with sheer rage, she fired an energy sphere to Eckidina.
Eckidina childishly giggled and childishly giggled to Pandora, which annoyed her more. She yelled to Eckidina while restoring her sword and tried to slice her.
Pandora: My name is Pandora, your WORST NIGHTMARE!!!
Before she completed her shout, Terra of the left had stabbed her sword right through Pandora's arm, and being surprised by this, Pandora screamed in sheer terror.
Pandora: ARGH!!!
Covering her bleeding wound, Pandora had to kneel down with her left knee on the ground. She turned back and saw Terra behind her while glaring at her menacingly. Blood start dripping down from Pandora's arm.
Pandora: Huh...
Eckidina: Well, who's laughing now? Someone who dared to challenge me know comes to me with knees!
Eckidina smiled to Pandora, but the latter only glared at her with sheer menace.
Pandora: Listen, I don't know who you are or where you are from, but I shall not let you win since you have interest to ally with Moloch, who is my master's most hated enemy!
At this moment, Nevins tried to protect Eckidina from being harmed by Pandora, but Mr. Gold had immediately used telekinesis to choke Misogi and lifted him above the air. Nevins struggled in the air as Mr. Gold tried to strangle him, but all of a sudden, Misogi pointed his gun to Mr. Gold from behind after he ran towards the latter before he stopped.
Misogi: He is important to us. Do harm him and I will blow your head off.
Mr. Gold did not answer him. At this time, Mr. Gold noticed not just Nevins behind him, but also Terra who had just stabbed Pandora. All of a sudden, Mr. Gold realized that he and Pandora were way out of number and soon he rolled his eyes before he started figuring out another way.
Within old prison
During the fight, the troops of Eckidina who had gone into the old prison had escorted Michael to the office in order to discuss a way to deal with him. Adam and the Bride, however, were escorted to the cells made for the man made monsters made by Dr. Frankenstein, Aerisi and Eckidina.
During the way, the Bride had overheard the KnightWalker troops discussing something that caught her attention.
KnightWalker 1: I heard Milady Eckidina is gonna interrogate Michael Langdon herself, but I dearly hope it shall be rumors since I rather admire the bravery of Bishop Michael. You know how I hate cowards.
KnightWalker 2: Yeah, me, too. Last time, Eckidina tried to interrogate a Russian Orthodox priest before torturing him with that horrible noise that...
Fear... That was what was haunting the Eckidina KnightWalker Cruiser's bridge at that time.
Eckidina, the person that started all that war was sitting in her Commander Chair on the bridge of the ship. The bridge was an huge place surrounded by screens of computers. Everyone there were watching the war through monitors across the ship, even the guards watched the whole battle.
Eckidina was using HIV Drones to watch the battle, however, Tomas destroyed all drones a few hours ago. Eckidina simply sent more HIV drones to the skies of LC and Harbour Island and watched the battle, Eckidina knew the person who destroyed the drones was Mahesvara but she did not care about that.
After Eckidina fired the first shot of the Hlokaust Cannon, some officers killed themselves. That was not exaggeration, many officers there are not psychopaths like Eckidina, they were merely following orders. The first shot of the Holokaust Cannon killed 2 millions people throughout the Liberty City, so there were officers on the ship that showed regret and committed suicide. 5 people committed suicide in Eckidina's ship but Eckidina don't care about it (if she does not care about 7,000,000 of her soldiers in Liberty City, 5 people are nothing for her) and ordered the ship's guards to throw their bodies out of the ship.
Reynare, Eckidina's secretary, was standing beside Eckidina watching the battle, however, when the Hand of Apocalypse Satellite was destroyed, everyone looked at Eckidina expecting an horrible thing to happen. Even Reynare was afraid at that point, if Eckidina was about to do something horrible there, Reynare would be killed for sure.
Some there were ready to run because the most powerful weapon of KnightWalker Family was destroyed, with the satellite destroyed, many countries would stand up against the KnightWalker Family and many wars around the world were going to happen. Moreover, Eckidina was the person who created the Hand of Apocalypse projects, for as incredible as she may seem, Eckidina is a extremely intelligent person. She is not only an strategist but also a great developer of weapons and vehicles, most of the weapons of KnightWalker Family were called Eckidina. She is considered the most intelligent teenager of the world.
Eckidina: Well, we lost.
Everyone: !!!!!!!!!!!
Everyone let out voices of surprise, Eckidina was not angry, she seemed... Satisfied... As if she did not care if her troops were massacred.
Reynare: We lost Griffith, Tony Dracon, Cavalo De Troia and the entire All Joker Organization in this war. Are you sure we are going to let this pass?
Eckidina: Yes, I don't care. After all, I enjoyed this battle. Since my plan to kill Kyouhei failed, I planned to launch this attack in Liberty City for some fun and relieve my stress. That was a good battle. I really enjoyed it...
In other words, Eckidina was trying to destroy USA without reason, she was doing this fun like the GDP Commander in Harbor Island said before.
Reynare: I see.
Eckidina: But this is a problem...
One of the KnightWalkers on the bridge asked.
KnightWalker: What do you mean, Milady?
Eckidina stood up from her chair and walked towards the main window in front of the bridge. That window showed the entire Earth.
Eckidina: Hmm... Well, you see, since we lost this war, the survivors of our army in LC will be captured and interrogated. They will be able to discover our secret weapons and our best projects who are saved for the future. And not only that, they can reveal the location of our bases and plans to our enemy.
Reynare nodded.
Reynare: Now that you said that, this is right.
Eckidina: Eh, that should be enough. Luckily, I implanted chips in their brains.
Everyone: WH---!
Everyone let out scared voices.
Eckidina: What?... Oh, I forgot to say! I implanted chips in every single man of our forces before the invasion. It took me several days. You know, since our soldiers are actually slaves forced to fight for me, I thought they were going to give all my plans to my enemies without trouble if they were captured.
Reynare: What are you planning to do?
Eckidina: According to my Intel, there are 600,000 survivors of my military in LC and Harbor Island at this moment. There are many of them and the war is over, so they are useless now.
Eckidina said that while ignoring Reynare's question. Eckidina pulled a cellphone from her breast pocket and wrote a message on the mobile phone.
Eckidina: Eh, that should be enough. "Thank you for everything." There!
When Eckidina wrote that, an unknown program started to be downloaded to her cellphone. In the same minute, the download was finished and a message appeared.
The message was saying: "Download Complete. Starting Program."
Eckidina: That should do.
Eckidina smiled like a cute anime girl.
Meanwhile in Liberty City
Unfortunately, the battle was still going on but in smaller guerrillas. Civilians were far from any battlefield and the fighting spirit of the enemy forces were over, however, some of them refused to surrender to the enemy. If they were captured by GDP or KFP, they would be executed anyway.
Half of All Jokers and KnightWalkers decided to surrender, leaving 300,000 enemies out there. The enemy forces were in large numbers but were still outnumbered compared to GDP and KFP. The KnightWalkers were lost, confused and disoriented, they were almost out of ammo and had no communication with the others divisions. The battalions of the enemy were composed of 15 soldiers, however, this number was crushed by KFP who owned 30 well-trained and armed soldiers in each battalion.
KFP Soldier 1: Watch your flanks!
KFP Soldier 2: Mark your targets!
KFP Soldier 3: Watch out for any civilian in the area!'
On the KnightWalker side, they decided to retreat.
KnightWalker Commander: R-RETREAT!
KnightWalker Trooper: We can join forces with the 82nd Battalion! If we resist for some hours, we can escape from LC!
These soldiers, however, don't have plans to return to France, they knew that they would be executed. All the enemy soldiers who continue to fight are going to leave the KnightWalker Family and flee to Mexico, Brazil or Argentina that are neutral countries and don't have any link with this war. There, they could live a quiet life away from this insane war.
The KnightWalkers and All Jokers started to retreat.
KFP Soldier 4: They're running! Don't let them escape!
The KnightWalkers ran through the rubble of the buildings that were knocked down during the invasion.
All Joker 1: These guys are insane!
All Joker 2: Just keep running!
KnightWalker Trooper: Let's regroup and go to the docks. There must be some boat there. We can escape!
However, when the KnightWalker said that, a strong and acute noise echoed through their heads. The sound was so thin and sharp that looked like they had a plane horn inside their ears. The KnightWalkers couldn't contain the pain and screamed in pain. They were not the only ones, all 600,000 soldiers in LC and Harbor Island heard the same sound.
(- Sound heard by the KnightWalker soldiers. DO NOT open this if you have fragile hearing. Turn down the volume of this sound if you're going to hear. Thank you.)
The KFP soldiers ran after the KnightWalkers, after they ran some meters ahead, they found the KnightWalkers... screaming in pain.
KFP Soldier 5: What are they doing...
One of the KFP soldier noticed they were holding their heads as if something were inside their brains.
KFP Soldier 6: This is...!
The sounds of shots stopped since the enemy troops were unable to keep fighting.
KFP Soldier 7: The shots stopped... All divisions stop shooting... Is that possible...
One of the soldiers looked up and noticed the shots across the city stopped.
KFP Soldier 8: All of them... Are feeling the same thing.
".........."
The screams stopped. Few seconds later, the soldiers that were screaming stood up. Their eyes were dead like if they were brainwashed zombies. They smiled at the KFP Soldiers.
The KFP soldiers took steps backward. That reaction was normal, because the enemy was more like creepy psychopaths that came out from some thriller film.
KFP Soldier 6: Drop your weapons!
KFP Soldier 3: Drop your weapons now you or we are going to shoot!
The KFP battalion aimed their guns at the KnightWalkers and All Jokers. But no sound came from the enemy, only deep breaths came from the enemies' mouths.
After that, the All Jokers and KnightWalkers pulled their pistols in their belts and aimed their pistols in their necks. They were smiling the entire time.
KFP Soldier 2: IMPOSSIBLE!
KFP Soldier 3: STOP TH---!
Before the KFP Soldier could finish his words, the enemy forces shot themselves. Their bodies fell on the ground like dolls.
They were not only ones who committed suicide. After they shot themselves, the shots across the city started again, but that shots were not coming from the weapons of KFP and GDP; that sounds were coming from the KnightWalkers and All Jokers' guns, they were killing themselves at the same time like as if all that mass suicide was an end of a spectacle of horrors.
Laughs, shots and screams came from the KnightWalkers and All Jokers as they committed suicide. Some of them used knives, iron pipes, pieces of wood... Anything that could take their lives.
100,000 soldiers died in a second, another 100,000 soldiers died in 2 seconds, and yet another 100,000 soldiers died in 3 seconds. Gradually thousands of enemy soldiers were killed.
The city became a stage of a grotesque spectacle while the enemies killed themselves for no reason. Some KFP and GDP soldiers vomited. Some of KnightWalkers and All Jokers used knives to behead themselves, others used axes to rip their guts out, others cut their genitals, others threw themselves from buildings, others burned themselves... And many other types of suicide.
The destruction of Hand of Apocalypse Satellite and the destruction of KnightWalker fleet in Harbor Island was suppose to be the epic end of Liberty City War but Eckidina gave the Americans the most terrible and frightening end of all times. It was starting, the largest mass suicide of all time.
KFP Soldier 1: Jesus...
KFP Soldier 2: This is how it ends...
KFP Soldier 3: With the largest suicide in history... The Liberty City War ends.
The shots and screams stopped. Finally, all KnightWalkers and All Jokers of Liberty City and Harbor Island were dead. That mass suicide was the true official end of the war.
Eckidina KnightWalker's Cruiser
10,000 kilometers above Pacific Ocean
Space
2 minutes later
That was the drop of water, 3 officers killed themselves on the bridge after seeing one of the most horrific scenes in their lives. Reynare and the others watched all mass suicide through the main monitor of the bridge that was showing images of the LC and Harbor Island at several points.
There was not a single person there that was not showing signs of shock, some officers fled to the bathroom to vomit. Even Reynare was pale when she saw men and women who gave their lives for Eckidina killing themselves in cruel ways. Eckidina was smiling with a blush as if she was watching some kind of bizarre porn.
Eckidina: They may have been garbage, but seeing them all die at once like that this is still pretty painful!~
Reynare: Why didn't you keep them around to help?
Eckidina: Huh?! Because they're a bunch of shit piles! Their brains might function like I desire now because of my psychological tortures, but their specs aren't high enough to be useful.
Reynare: I-I guess so.
Eckidina changed her sight to Reynare and smiled.
Eckidina: You better be careful, too... Allied or not, I'll slice you up if you let your guard down!
Reynare smiled and nodded like what Eckidina just said was nothing.
Reynare: Okay!
After she said that, Eckidina jumped from her chair.
Eckidina: Well, we better get going to Japan! The Tech of the End, Atala, Revy, Haru and Azul Jissele... Or better saying... Yona Lindray, are waiting for us!
Just like that, Eckidina ordered her subordinates to change the route of the ship to Japan.
Eckidina: Turn around! We are going back to Japan!
All KnightWalker Workers: Yes, Milady!
The subordinates were recovering from the shock but her words woke them all. With that, all workers and officers returned to their positions.
Reynare: Milady, what about Misogi Kumagawa? He was in charge of the Hand of Apocalypse Satellite.
Eckidina: Ah... Hehehe. I almost forgot about him. Don't worry, Misogi-chan is a Cyborg like me. He's a High-Class Cyborg so that explosion was nothing to him. He can survive in space and can regenerate. However, Reynare, can you please go out there and rescue him? I want him in my ship before we land in Japan.
Reynare: Right away, Milady.
Reynare walked away.
Eckidina's cruiser started to move again and turned around. The ship was now going towards Japan.
- Eckidina: The Global Pact Defense, KnightWalker Funeral Parlor and KnightWalker Family... All of them lost this war. This war has no meaning, it was just for some fun. Because peace, hope and harmony are boring. No matter who won this war on the battlefield, there was only one winner...
... After all, if there was a single person who suffered, this means that I was the only winner. As long there is suffering in this world, that'd just be another reason for pain! Fufufufu.
Nowadays[]
Up to this day, even after 3 years, the mass suicide which shockingly ended the Liberty City War still haunted some KnightWalker officers and made them feel horrified.
KnightWalker 1: We better hurry.
Then, the KnightWalker guards immediately escort them when suddenly...
The Bride: LOOK! UFO!
The trick was old fashioned, but still it worked well. All of a sudden, the two KnightWalker guards immediately buy it and went to see the UFO.
KnightWalker guards: Where!? Where!?
Bride: HERE!
The Bride immediately kicked the two KnightWalker guards and cut off her ropes with a blade hidden between her fingers. Then, she immediately freed Adam with the blade.
Bride: Hurry up! We need to get out of here. I suggest that we get that book that Eckidina KnightWalker sent us here.
Adam nodded, and the two monsters immediately went towards the exit when suddenly, Eckidina appeared in front of them with a menacing smile. She had just came back from outside in case that something went wrong as they struggled with Pandora. Terra, Nevins and Misogi were now dealing with Pandora and Mr. Gold
Adam: Let me handle her.
Adam clenched his fist with anger as he glared at Eckidina with sheer rage. Now, all he wanted was to see her dead, but it was not about vengeance. It was about justice.
Eckidina: Where are you two going? Our game is not over yet. Now, time to experience round two!
Soon, several KnightWalker guards rushed out from everywhere around them and surrounded them.
Bride: We are surrounded!
Adam: You take half, and I take half. It's time to end all of this!
The Bride immediately rushed out and used her small blade to cut some soldier's throat. The blade was tied on her finger by Aerisi so that she could deal with her enemies.
Adam lifted his two axes and stared at Eckidina as she childishly mocked them, which made Adam and the Bride more annoyed.
Eckidina: Aw, look at this, just take a look at this! Two little lab rats are struggling to escape!
Adam: SILENCE!
Adam roared out all of a sudden, and EVERY KnightWalker guards around him were angry. Even if Eckidina felt greatly humiliated in front of the crowd, Eckidina still giggled like a silly child.
Then, however, her eyes narrowed in sheer malice.
Eckidina: FIRE!
Heavy gunshot was fired and while cutting her enemies, the Bride's arm was hit by a bullet. Adam was so worried that he had to turn back for a while before receiving a punch from a guard beside him, and the Bride had to stop after a loud scream.
Eckidina: That is what happened to creations if they resist their creator!
Then, however, the wound on her arm had immediately healed. Then, she continued the attack and cut the face of the gunman who had just attacked her. Seeing this, Eckidina was shocked and she stared at the Bride.
Eckidina: How...
The Bride immediately pointed at her and mockingly laughed.
Bride: Never forget, I am YOUR lab rat. Your technology made me even if... you... are... NOT - MY - CREATOR!!!
Adam had also punched Eckidina immediately stepped back as the Bride and Adam walked towards her and her guards. Adam immediately rushed to Eckidina and punched her. Then, he grabbed the Grand Grimoire and start recalling the spell Eckidina enchanted before hugging the Bride with him.
Bride: Come on, Adam! We need to leave this place!
Adam: Yes, we will leave here, but not returning back to our world. Instead, I will find those people whosavedus and find someone who can help us!
Then, Adam found the page of the Traveler's Spell and soon casted it. Soon, a large portal had appeared.
Adam: Come on, Bride!
Adam and the Bride got closer into the portal but as they were about to walked into the portal, but Eckidina had attacked Adam from behind. However, this time she did not use a gun, but an electric bar she grabbed from the guard since she realized that the conventional gunfire was useless. She hit Adam on his back with it.
Adam: AHH!!!
Adam was in so much pain that he dropped the book, and his back was scorched, leaving a wound. Even though it was regenerating, it was a bit of slower. Horrified, Bride immediately dragged Adam into the portal before the KnightWalker guards got them.
They have no idea that two people needed their help outside of this building.
Some guards got into the portal to chase them before it disappeared.
Guards: MILADY ECKIDINA!
The remaining KnightWalker guards turned back to see Eckidina, but they were surprised to see her uncaring attitude to the two prisoner's escaping. She simply picked up the Grand Grimoire as she looked at it, as if it was her treasure chest filled with gold bars, gems and jewelry.
She then smiled at her men as if nothing had happened.
Eckidina: Don't worry, men. Some of your comrades have gone after them. I bet they won't go too far away. I just want to know what happened to our new enemies. That is why Dr. Frankenstein needs to be taken more seriously since I suspect that it was him who was responsible for that... rebellious thing.
Eckidina then smiled as she was thinking about La Folia in her mind.
Eckidina: La Folia... I am looking forward to see you in Sleepy Hollow. My father failed to catch you in Tenguu City, but I will NOT fail to catch you and Katarina again in this world, heh-heh...
Outside the old prison
Meanwhile, Eckidina's leaving did not influence the fact that Pandora was injured and Gold was surrounded by enemies. Pandora tried to help Mr. Gold but she was injured so badly that she could hardly summon her box.
Misogi: I do not care who you are, but since you are now here to stop us, then you need to die for it.
Suddenly, a KnightWalker troop had came out and shouted, which greatly distracted Misogi!
KnightWalker: Commander Misogi!
Misogi: What is it!? Can't you see I am busy?!
KnightWalker: Commander Misogi! Adam Frankenstein and that female monster... had escaped!
Hearing this, Misogi immediately dropped his weapon since he was worried about Eckidina more than Pandora. Misogi was fanatically loyal to Eckidina would do anything she had ordered him to do, and he would definitely go to help her if anything happened to her. He was worried that she was in grave danger.
Misogi: ECKDINA-SAN!
Misogi was horrified as he immediately went back to prison, but Mr. Gold seized the chance and punched him while keeping Nevins on the air, when suddenly, Terra ran towards Gold and tried to attack him as well.
Terra: NOW YOU---
Just as Mr. Gold was about to be stabbed by Terra, Pandora used a magic to teleport himself back into her secret lair so that he could not be harmed. As a result, Nevins fell on the ground just as Pandora teleported herself away as well. Terra fell on the ground with his face first after failing to stab Mr. Gold.
Terra: Aw, man...
Misogi bit his lips for some seconds before running into the old prison immediately ran into the old prison in order to rescue Eckidina.
Inside the old prison
While running to Eckidina, Misogi was terrified by this news that Adam and the Bride escaped. He and many others had realized that two of their most important foes had slipped themselves away from their fingers.
However, when Misogi reached her, he saw Eckidina was behaving indifferently. She just stood there while humming a tune, much to his confusion. Eckidina turned back and showed the Grand Grimoire to Misogi.
Eckidina: I can see that. Losing these two perfect experiments is a risk I am willing to take.
Misogi: The Grand Grimoire?
Misogi was a bit of surprised and he looked at this book. It was indeed the real Grand Grimoire.
Misogi: I thought it was...
Eckidina: I had took it from Adam before pushing him into the portal. I am lucky to harm him with electric bar. It was just like a blink of idea in my head. It seemed that electricity is his weakness. The two even teleported some troops of mine by mistake. However, because of this, I am sure that they won't go too far away since they never really know how to use it...
Realized this, Misogi lowered his head and smiled.
Misogi: What about that woman named Pandora? I bet she will be a threat.
Eckidina: I just don't know where this clown came out, but fortunately I believe she is no match of me. If Pandora dares to come back, I will... eliminate her, period.
Eckidina the walked towards Misogi as she put her hand on his face, taming him like a doll. Misogi looked at her.
Misogi: Therefore, no one can ever stop us. We will end the life of Katarina and her helpers in a place with Nevins as our assistant, is that correct?
Eckidina smiled inhumanely like a total psychopath. She nodded in confidence.
Eckidina: Yes, it is. The reason I did not send Rentaro and Kyouko here was that I need them to be messengers to make Katarina know that I am here to take her down... and as for Sonia, aw, she cannot die in this prison or who will help me? Misogi-chan, trust me. None of them will leave my grasp. Lab rats shall never able to leave the experiment room... How amusing!
Sleepy Hollow[]
August Corbin's Cabin
Half an hour later
Pandora did not return back to her house, but was trying to search for August Corbin. Still feeling pain in her arm, Pandora stumbled in the woods and looked around. She found no trace of Mr. Gold. She was a bit of tired and tried to look for some place to stay even for a while.
Just as this time, she saw a cabin by a lake and ran towards it as fast as she could. She was searching for an house for half an hour in order to keep herself safe, and she had a feeling that it was August Corbin's cabin. Because of her injured arm, for now, Pandora could hardly do anything to protect herself with magic.
Then, after she got closer to the door, she knocked the door and quietly stood outside to wait. Then, Reverend Knapp opened the door.
Pandora: I am sorry. Is this Sheriff Corbin's house?
Knapp: Yes, indeed, what happened?
Pandora: I am... I am a familiar of him, and I had witnessed him of being captured to somewhere like a prison... I want to save him, but it was an epic failure to fight against that "girl"...
At this time, Knapp felt that something was wrong.
Knapp: Which girl?
Pandora: She calls herself Eckidina.
The thunder suddenly boomed as Knapp noticed Pandora's bleeding wound. Hearing Eckidina's name and seeing his wound, Knapp was horrified and immediately invited Pandora inside. He immediately went to find some bandages to cover Pandora's arm with it. At this time, Pandora was telling the things to him.
Pandora: At first, I was about to get Nevins before I saw him sending Corbin to a prison-like building. Then, that girl came out of nowhere... or from a portal, more precisely. I tried to save Corbin and some other people that were their prisoners, I reckon. However, I failed as I and another friend of mine were way outnumbered. I sent my friend back to my home to save his life, and I came here to tell you about it.
Knapp: Some of our friends are there to save him, so please don't worry. I will make things right.
Pandora nodded at Knapp with a smile, but then she heard someone was mumbling in a room. She was curious about that.In fact, it was none other than Jenny Mills.
Jenny: What have you done... How do you know...
At this time, Jenny was having a nightmare as she dreamed herself seeing Abbie's death. Pandora heard Jenny's words and was confused. She looked at Knapp.
Pandora: Who is that?
Knapp took a look at Jenny's room.
Knapp: Another unfortunate soul.
Pandora: I see. I need a cup of tea, please. It is so cold...
Knapp: With pleasure.
Knapp then stood up and went to prepare tea, and then Pandora closed her eyes. Her soul had now left her body and entered Jenny's room. She looked at Jenny with some sympathy in her eyes.
Pandora: (think) * Well, Jamestown, Roanoke colony, Hudson Valley and Sleepy Hollow... Looks like Moloch's fingers laid everywhere in this nation. So many souls are tormented by him with fear. This kind of fear is what I needed, but I will not see them suffer forever. *
Pandora then closed her eyes as she slowly entered Jenny's dream.
Pandora: I am about to help you, Jennifer Mills.
Jenny's dream[]
Jenny had a dream. She dreamed herself to be inside a large room with candles beside her. A mark of Freemasons could be seen on the wall, and then, when Jenny take a look behind her, she was shocked to find a beheaded corpse on the ground. Beside it, it was Abbie's head.
Seeing her sister's dead body, Jenny screamed in terror just as her cell phone rang. She grabbed the phone out from her pocket and answered the call.
Jenny: Hello?
Ancitif: [Jennifer Mills?]
Jenny: (shocked) Who is this?
Ancitif: [It's your conscience calling.]
Jenny then recognized the voice as the demon who taunted her in her head.
Jenny: Oh, you again. What have you done?
Ancitif: [What have I done? No, no, no, the question is... What have YOU done? That dead woman laying on the floor had betrayed you 13 years ago when your generations were children, remember? Like your mother, Abbie should receive her death penalty, but unlike your mother, she died because she unwittingly made a crime for the triumph of evil.]
Jenny: How do you know about that?
Ancitif: [I know everything. I was in your head, remember? Don't even think about coming back here, Jenny. You might want start running now, but the truth is, how far do you think you can run? Oh, um, I left a bottle of, um, Kentucky's, something adult for you. I left something else there for you, too.]
With shock, Jenny took a look on the table beside her. There was indeed a bottle of Kentucky's... and also a sharp razor beside it. The demon is mocking Jenny's disturbed and alcoholic childhood. Ancitif laughed as he hung up the phone. Jenny slowly walked to the table and picked up the razor.
Slowly and carefully, she put her cell phone on the table and went near a mirror beside her window, seeing her frowned self in the reflection... before cutting her own throat with her eyes closed and lied on the ground, bleeding. The blood soon flowed all over the hall...
Suddenly, the phone rang. It was Corbin's call.
Jenny: (recording) [This is Jennifer. I am not here. Please leave a message.]
Corbin: *phone* [Jenny, where are you? The Horseman of Death is coming for me and he will come for you. Now, please tell Abbie that--]
Hearing Corbin calling for help, Jenny attempted to grab the phone, but suddenly, a greenish and taloned hand, with six fingers, had took the phone away from Jenny. Losing all of her hope, Jenny's bloodshed hand slipped from the table with her last strength running out.
The hooded man hung up the phone and looked at Jenny with a demonic grin. He bent himself and whispered to a dying Jenny in a sarcastic tone...
All of a sudden, Jenny opened her eyes with fear. In fact, that was just another hallucination Jenny saw. She only picked up the razor, but she did not kill herself. Just as she was ready to do so, a female voice came beside her.
Woman: Greetings, Jennifer.
It was an unfamiliar voice and Jenny looked aside. Abbie's corpse had disappeared. She was surprised to see a strange woman, robed in black, was standing near the candles and mumbling something strange.
It was none other than Pandora of Sumeria.
Pandora: This place, Sleepy Hollow, does feel like home...
Jenny: Who are you?
Pandora: I am the queen of every hive. I am the fire on every hill. I am the shield over every head. I am the spear of battle. Who but I am both the tree and the lightning that strikes it.
Jenny: I do not know what you are talking about, but you seemed worried.
Pandora: It should not of happened. I have lived here for centuries, maybe even longer than this nation lasted till now. However, I felt something strange across the time. Some devious figure from future is interfering the whole thing and tried to twist the order. That worried me. Now, I am in this place for hundreds of years waiting for the time to share with you people just one belief. Like you people, I believe in something, too. I believe...
*Paused*
Pandora: I believe, THE ETERNAL REST IS FOR AN UNIMPORTANT MAN. That's all. I am worried about you, my dear.
Jenny: What do you want?
Pandora: I want to save you, my dear. Don't be busy ending your own life. You are important, so you must make a choice between your sister's life and your freedom. Jennifer Mills, I know who you are and I know why you are struggling. Sometimes decisions can be very tough and hard to make, but you need to make a choice.
Jenny: Yes, I understand.
Pandora: Now, imagine I am an angel, and I am here to take every sadness of yours away... Let me tell you what you should do...
Jenny: I'm listening.
Pandora: You must sacrifice your freedom, a free soul for a free soul... or Abbie will be destined to die under your hand... Remember this... We will meet again.
".............................."
Pandora then watched as Jenny disappeared - The latter was awakened. The whole room shattered like a broken glass, and Pandora stood there in a void of blackness. Suddenly, Pandora felt some strange feelings coming from behind. There was someone behind her.
Pandora: Who's there? Who dares to look upon Pandora? Show yourself.
Obviously, Pandora is not the only one who invaded Jenny's dream. The monster who helped Ancitif to create the hallucination to taunt Jenny... had surfaced.
Coming from darkness, it was the hologram of Michael Langdon who walked out with a glowing red light covering him. He was covered in his hood and mask, but then he took off his mask and looked at the place where Jenny once stood. He then spoke in a calm and malicious tone.
Michael: You've completed your work. Now, leave.
Pandora: Who are you that dares to look upon me?
Michael took of his hood and smiled wickedly to Pandora.
Michael: I am just a simple priest.
Pandora: Well, a priest, perhaps... but not so simple. Something else resides in you. It is you who should leave. You are making that demon to haunt that human girl, I know it.
Hearing this, Michael's smile faded. His attempt to hide his real agenda failed. The woman in front of him had some eyes that could see his soul.
Michael: Clever... but he likes it here. We both have. Now, that is a warning, Pandora. We have work to do.
Pandora: So do I, yet I come with well intentions, not you.
Michael: You are not a saint either.
Pandora slowly stepped backwards. She looked at Michael miserably as if she was looking at a corrupted and doomed soul from Hell.
Pandora: We will meet again.
Pandora disappeared all of a sudden, and Michael stood there before he silently faded as well.
Michael: ......
After his mind returning back to the real world, Michael started his next move by hitting the KnightWalker guard who was phoning Eckidina before freeing himself...
Sleepy Hollow[]
August Corbin's Cabin
Then, Pandora opened her eyes, with her soul returned back to her body, just at the right time that Knapp serve her tea. Pandora then slowly drank it.
Pandora: Thank you, Father, to allow me to stay here for a while... but I think I need to leave.
Knapp: Don't worry. You can stay here longer.
Pandora shook her head. Her instinct had told her that Eckidina did not chase her despite she was running away.
Pandora: I think the man who chased me has gave up, so... besides I have some more work to do. If someone later comes to here, no matter who they are, please don't tell them that I was here.
Knapp: Why?
Pandora did not answer. Despite his confusion, Knapp nodded and allow her to leave. Pandora soon left the cabin with the bandages on her arm. Her wounds are healing quickly. Then, she returned back to the secret lair of hers which was underground.
Thinking about the recent cruelty she suffered from her master, Pandora was mildly painful, but surprisingly, she was not heartbroken.
Pandora: (narrator) [Love is not what should be disgusted. My master does not understand love, but after all I did for him, he will understand my love and eventually learn... to embrace it. Love could be sensation, love could be loyalty, but one thing is clear: Love requires contribution and efforts. I hope mine will be effective.]
Now, back inside her secret lair, Pandora was walking towards a water pool while mumbling another spell. She then looked at the pool and it started to glow. Soon, Pandora watched a vision of Katarina battling against a creature of Moloch with her friends. Pandora took an look at the spear in Katarina's hand and frowned. The water was glowing so that Pandora's face was illuminated from the darkness.Her face was filled with satisfaction.
Pandora: Ah... another enemy of Moloch may requires my help. Another chance to weaken Moloch.
At this moment, Mr. Gold was looking at Pandora's box but he heeded her warning so he did not touch it. Mr. Gold then looked at Pandora with a complicated face. He was trying to figure out how she was planning.
In fact, the two people are just each other's counterpart, as they are both cunning, ambitious and complicated. Mr. Gold knew this and realized that Pandora could be an wonderful ally otherwise a cunning foe. They were allied because they both saw Moloch as their enemy.
Just as this time, Pandora started to say a spell out from her mouth very calmly.
Pandora: Innocent souls... call out to me. Send me a gift... that made them all see... what dwells in dark hearts... and faces concealed... Make the fear of our enemies... mine to reveal.
thumb|300px|link=File:PandoraAndHerBox.pngPandora then observed carefully to the glowing images within the scene and eventually she went back into the darkness, just as the box had opened in front of her.
Mr. Gold then looked at the box when all of a sudden, a bright light had appeared. Then, another spear appeared from the box. It was the real Spear of Virtue.
With awe, Pandora then looked at the spear before letting it came back into her box by itself.
Pandora: A special gift requires a special person to have, Gold. No matter where it is, as long as it still exist, I can still bring the lost artifact back.
Mr. Gold: Indeed, but do you have anything new... about the mysterious and fake Duke of Weselton?
Pandora turned to Mr. Gold and gave him a satisfying answer.
Pandora: I have just sent your words about the Duke of Weselton to my mighty master, and he said that... that "Duke Weselton" indeed was a fake. It was the same person who secretly made the Land Without Color chaotic, and I am pretty sure that the man was at somewhere within Sleepy Hollow.
Hearing this, Mr. Gold was a bit of surprised. He was familiar with Dr. Frankenstein and knew what he had suffered.
Pandora: It was also revealed that he had heard the screaming noise and was curious about the sound. Then, that is how he knew about that girl from another world. However, my master did not know about the red haired girl except her name: Katarina Couteau.
Mr. Gold: So that is the second person you want to help? Katarina Couteau?
Pandora: So far, she won't have a chance to cross my master, and vice versa. In fact, she is an useful tool to weaken Moloch. Since Ichabod Crane is not here yet while Abbie Mills is fearfully escaping from her dark past and, therefore, her own destiny... neither of the Two Witnesses could help me out, Mr. Gold. Diana Thomas' Third Witness identity is in dispute despite I truly believed she is, and so I could not rely on her, either.
Pandora then closed her eyes.
Pandora: It is time to take our new move. Stay here until I came back.
Heeding Pandora's advice, Mr. Gold just stood where he stood before Pandora disappeared. Mr. Gold then took a look at box.
Mr. Gold: That box... with every evil within this world...
Katarina's Dream[]
Catatomb
When entering Katarina's dream as she was in coma as a result of being attacked by the Pale Fiend, Pandora looked around and then built up an illusion with magic. The catacomb made by illusion was built as Pandora stood there. Katarina was lying in front of her.
Pandora: This is it...
Just as Pandora walked slowly towards Katarina, a sinister voice appeared behind her.
???: You really think that you could save her, don't you?
Pandora: Hmm!?
Pandora turned suddenly saw a monstrous figure appearing behind her. The monstrous figure soon became a bit of clearer as it turned into... the Man in Suit...
Man in Suit: So pathetic you are. You think all you did was for your master and tried to win his love. This is utter hogwash.
Pandora clearly realized that this was definitely not the person who met her in Jenny's mind palace.
Pandora: Who are you? Are you an ally of Moloch?
The Man in Suit's eyes lightened up in red, and those demonic eyes made Pandora unnerved.
Man in Suit: I am not an ally of Moloch. Not every allies of Moloch will be your enemy and vice versa. You prefer morale beyond morality, Pandora. No matter how your master behaved, even if he is cruel to the core, you choose to serve him. So unwise and so foolish.
Pandora: Don't you dare...
The Man in Suit chuckled deviously.
Man in Suit: You think you can save this girl so that she could help you to weaken your enemy? Poor, ridiculous woman, you really are. No matter what time is it now, this world is destined to fall into destruction, and I one day will invade this world. I will cause chaos that YOU will definitely not prevent this.
Soon, the Man in Suit had turned into a much more malicious and monstrous shadow - a large and purple shadow which looked like a demon... and Pandora immediately summon an energy shield to protect herself.
Man in Suit: There are no gods after all... but there is an Taken shadow!
Pandora: Oh...
Feeling fear for the very first time, Pandora bit her lips and closed her eyes before she heard Katarina moaning behind her. Pandora immediately looked back as she saw Katarina slowly stood up. Then, she turned back and saw the monstrous shadow had disappeared.
Pandora put her hand on her chest and sighed in relief, right before she start summon her box. The large box appeared and Pandora held it with both of her hands.
Katarina: Oh...
Pandora turned to a confused Katarina and decided not to tell her about the strange Man in Suit.
Pandora: Don't be afraid, my child.
Katarina turned back and saw a woman in black robes was standing near her with a large box in her hand.
Pandora: This may help you to fight against the creature attacking your friend.
Pandora chanted a spell with some language Katarina could not understand, and a bright red light came from the box. A spear appeared from the box. Katarina looked at it with utter surprise.
Katarina: Another spear?
Pandora: This is another Spear of Virtue, but the real one. It is the only holy item in my box so far. I found it in Paris after Joan of Arc was burned. Use it to stab that creature to death. Save your friend...
Katarina: Wait, who are---
Sleepy Hollow[]
Pandora's lair
Pandora raised her arms before Katarina and all of her illusions disappeared. Pandora then fell on the ground, now returning back to her lair, and a surprised Mr. Gold had helped her to regain balance.
Mr. Gold: What is going on?
Pandora: I...
Pandora tried to tell Mr. Gold about the Man in Suit, about the word "Taken", but she couldn't speak it, just like some... thing... had stuck in her throat.
However, Mr. Gold had saw a glimpse of this and pointed it out calmly.
Mr. Gold: I did not wish to terrify you, but I believe that you had experienced some horrid things in that girl's mind palace, am I right?
Trying to overcome her immense horror that she never had before, Pandora decided to do her major job instead of finding "who" or "what" the mysterious shadow is.
Even so, she had a feeling that she should tell anyone about it before the horror had plunged her into darkness.
Pandora: Maybe it is just me... I just... Aw, never mind. I just met some horrible monster in that illusion, and I guest that he tried to harm the girl but he soon disappeared.
Mr. Gold: What kind of monster did you met?
Pandora: It is hard to tell. However, he told a word that I never heard before... and I could not remember what it is except it comes with the letter A. I only hope that my own fear will make the rose buds bloom on that tree bloom as well...
Mr. Gold: What?
Pandora: Nothing.
Pandora smiled to Mr. Gold, and the latter crossed his arms and tried to recall every bad things he witnessed and experienced, even performed, like the Dark Curse...
Mr. Gold: There are so many terrible and strange phenomena's these years. However, that is not the point. When we made the whole thing completed, would you let me go?
Feeling unexpected, Pandora was first astonished by Mr. Gold. It was clear that Mr. Gold had his own agenda as well. Now, the two were also battling each other within their mind despite working together. It is not a fight of power, but a fight of intelligence.
Pandora: Uh, um... I suppose.
Mr. Gold: Promise.
Pandora: Aw, man... Yes, fine, I promise. Whatever.
Then, Pandora went more serious. She spoke something to Mr. Gold in a deep voice.
Pandora: Now, after I took a rest, I will go to the Munition Tunnel two hours later to have a check before I call you if necessary.
All of the scene had flashed in Sonia's mind - abuse, threat, torture, deception and fake heroic attitude... She cried out loud at Michael as she lifted her gun, which was provided by La Folia when they were in Corbin's cabin.
Sonia: You liar! You blinded us! Release Sister Mary Eunice now or I will make you suffer 100 times worse than I had suffered! I had finally know what you did in Shanghai, and regarding all of those unbearable things you had committed, as the ruler of Novosic Kingdom, I will sentence you - DEATH!
To Sonia's anger, Michael then chuckled deviously without showing any fear in his eyes. Instead, he narrowed his eyes and grinned like a psychopath. After two seconds, he became serious once more.
Michael: I will use demonic way to alter the Christianity order, and the Catholic Church will eventually join the KnightWalkers. No matter how you resist this, Sonia, that Eckidina will still be pleased to let me join her! You know why? Because we both have dark sides...
Sonia: SHUT UP!
Michael did not express fear. He only shook his head as if Sonia's attitude had disappointed him.
Michael: Sonia... look at you. I see what you've become. I'm glad that I gave you up. HAHAHAHAHA...
Sonia fired a shot at Michael, but Michael had dodged it with inhuman speed. Feeling mocked, Sonia yelled at Michael as she ran towards him.
Sonia: THIS IS BETWEEN YOU AND ME!
Before Sonia could finished, someone had appeared behind Michael and attacked Sonia. Sonia and others were very shocked to see the attacker's face - It was La Folia! However, there was something very strange hidden in La Folia's eyes - vacancy and rage.
La Folia was obviously brainwashed by Michael. Michael had planted a tiny piece of his soul inside La Folia and thus controlled her mind. Sonia and La Folia engaged to a fight while the Team Witness members (including Katarina who struggled to got up) could not believe what had happened. They just looked at the fight with awful shock that La Folia and Sonia struggled in their fight. Then, after half a minute's fight, La Folia and Sonia had both drew their guns and pointed to each other.
Then, La Folia started to speak to Sonia as Michael behind her started to move his lips. It was made clear that La Folia was speaking what Michael intended to speak.
Michael / La Folia (possessed): Put your gun down, Sonia.
Sonia refused, however, as she noticed Michael was moving his lips.
Sonia: Never! I don't know what that liar had planted inside you, but this is not what you truly want to say. La Folia, I am going to save you.
thumb|300px|link=File:Tumblr_n7estbFPfX1toqhwfo1_500.gifThe possessed La Folia walked closer to Sonia with menace.
Michael / La Folia (possessed): Sonia, you pathetic worm, who is living in despair and drowning in despair... tell me how will you fix me? If you want me to surrender, fine... there is only one condition, but you won't like it.
Hearing this, Sonia was a bit of relent, but she did not lowered her gun.
''Sonia: Try me.
Michael / La Folia (possessed): Kill your lovely detective friend.
Sonia was enraged and tried to punch Michael, but the latter simply raised his hand and formed a invisible shield between them. Sonia then punched the shield but it never worked. Under Michael's possession, La Folia had pointed the gun to her own head. Sonia turned back and looked at La Folia with horror.
Michael / La Folia (possessed): Make a choice then, Sonia, if you are upset by this condition. Either I shoot Kyouko to hurt you... or I shoot La Folia with her own hand to hurt Katarina. Make a choice in 3 minutes or I will shoot Kyouko first and let La Folia eat the bullet.
Before Michael could finished, everyone behind Sonia was tied by purple chains made by evil shadows so that they could not move or interfere this.
Sonia: If you had to choose, why don't you kill me instead?
Michael / La Folia (possessed): That will be the last thing I do. By now, you must make a choice. There is only 2 minutes left. You don't want to see both of them died and hurt both you and Katarina, right? What will Katarina or Kyouko think about your hesitation?
Sonia's body started to tremble as she lowered her head with tears streaming down her eyes. She shivered in horror as she made her choice in a cracked voice...
Sonia: Shoot La Folia...
Katarina could not believe what had Sonia chose. Michael laughed out insanely and the possessed La Folia did the same.
Katarina looked at Sonia with shock and confusion.
Katarina: Sonia...
Without noticing this, Sonia had already broken in her mind.
Sonia: I had no choice, Katarina. You can punish me later as you want.
Michael / La Folia (possessed): In the end...
All of a sudden, Michael's eyes widened as the possessed La Folia removed the gun from her head and shot Kyouko in her shoulder.
Kyouko: AHHH!!!
Michael / La Folia (possessed): ... you lost.
Sonia: NO!
Sonia immediately went to Kyouko as Michael removed his soul fragment from La Folia and merged with himself. Then, he released everyone before leaving with Misogi (who was still under Ancitif's possession) via teleportation. Ignoring her back and leg injury, Katarina immediately ran to La Folia and Kyouko, as Sister Mary Eunice tried to cure Kyouko with magic.
With vacancy in her eyes and tears on her face, Sonia looked at an unconscious La Folia while trembling.
Sonia: Oh, no, what have I... done? ...
Sonia then knelt on the ground as her sanity started to crack like glass. Crawling herself to the crowd, Katarina looked at Sonia with full of anger as if she was responsible for La Folia's condition. Her eyes were glowing in red. Sonia looked up and said...
Sonia: I know you will blame me for this, Katarina, but I never expected that he would do the contract thing.
Katarina: Is that what you say when someone in danger?
While saying this, Katarina stood up with all of her strength as Sonia turned back. Meanwhile, Sister Mary Eunice's healing magic was interrupted when she coughed blood out from her mouth. The Bride, Asuha and Mana were terrified about this.
Sonia lowered her head and start recalling everything she had done that Katarina had no idea - being the Jack the Ripper of the 21st Century. For now, only Michael and Kyouko knew the killer's true identity, but both of them kept it as a secret.
Sonia: I will not regret my choice to become one with the Ultimate Despair, but I was painful like you. I should have seen Michael's true nature and stop him before he is unstoppable. He will destroy everything. Why didn't I kill him immediately? Why am I so foolish? He destroyed me, and now he destroyed you and Kyouko...
Sonia cried. Katarina could not believe that Sonia cried, but it really happened...
Sonia: What is happening... to me?...
Katarina looked at Sonia, but this time... she could not help herself from feeling sorry for Sonia despite that she went into an insane Despair. Sonia turned back to Kyouko and spoke her word as if she was still the kind and friendly girl she once was.
Sonia: Kyouko, I am sorry, and I failed you. I also failed Katarina despite I don't know why I was having this feeling. I am sorry...
Kyouko, at this time, struggled with her injury.
Kyouko: Sonia, this... is not your fault... It was Michael who fooled all of us... Now, we need to get out of here.
Asuha: Sister Mary Eunice...
Once again, Asuha attempted to find Sister Mary Eunice for help once again, knowing she is always reliable. To Asuha and everyone else's horror, however, Sister Mary Eunice had lied on the ground after her healing magic was interrupted. She was badly injured and she covered her belly with her hand as if there is an injury at that place as well. She was shivering in pain.
Sister Mary Eunice: I... am weakened when I fight Moloch in my angel form... and that is how Michael attacked me successfully. At that time, I had to bring those holy spirits back to heaven for now because my power is not enough to make them stay here longer. They could only stay in this mortal realm for two hours... It needs 5 hours for me to summon them once again.
The words were just like a strong body blow at heart to everyone. Even the most reliable person in the team could do nothing now.
Sonia: Five hours? Every minute the whole thing is going critical, and we are about to die in here.
Suddenly losing all of her courage, Sonia lowered her head with full of sadness. She had realized that they had ALL became the puppet of Michael.
Sonia: It is my fault... Not because I joined the KnightWalker Family, but because I had used his plan... and fell into this endless pit.
Katarina saw Sonia's sad face and lowered her head. Not knowing why, Katarina started to feel sorry for what Sonia had suffered...
Katarina: (think) * Why can't it even make me better? *
Just as Katarina was hesitating if she would feel sorry for Sonia, a horrible voice had appeared.
Michael: (voice) [What is this? When did a cat mourn for mice?]
Sonia looked up and brushed off her tears, and then she turned angry once again.
Sonia: Michael! He is still here!
Michael: (voice) [Not really, this is only a magic that can make you hear my voice. I am not in this place, but still I have some unfinished business to do.]
As Michael was speaking, the two sides of the tunnel had many glowing red eyes, and soon several zombies came out, all dressed in the red military coat like the old British Army during American Colonization.
Michael's voice became more and more menacing.
Michael: (voice) [Those are some results of failure while Lady Van Tassel, Katrina Crane's stepmother, tried to bring the Horseman of Death on Earth. Even so, they will be a great army of my force. It is time for you to scream and shout and cry. I have more things I need to do.]
Katarina: You...
Michael: (voice) [Take them down.]
The zombie redcoats all showed their blades and swords, but luckily, none of them have guns. Katarina glared at the zombies and she believed that despite their disadvantage, they will definitely make those zombies get away from them.
Therefore, not fearing the redcoat zombies at all, Katarina immediately went one step forward and glared at the zombies before showing her two spears.
Katarina: Come on, you dreadful zombies, none of you will ever fight against us and get out of here alive. If you are afraid of me, you can surrender to us or just go away! Go back to your dreadful master, and I will challenge him if he dares to cross us again! None of you will survive this if you dare to harm everyone in this place!
Then, Katarina glared at the zombies and the zombies were seemly hesitated. Rentaro showed his thumb for Katarina's speech full of bravery, Sonia looked at Katarina with surprise, and Sister Mary Eunice smiled.
Asuha: I will reward you a little red flower! You are a sample of us!
However, just as Asuha was about to stick the red paper flower on Katarina's chest, Michael then spoke more which tempted the zombies.
Michael: (voice) [Oh, by the way, whoever kills those people will win a extra 20,000 dollars of salaries and a free trip around the globe to wreck havoc.]
Then, that was the time when the zombies were about to attack Katarina and her friends again. Katarina looked at the zombies as if she saw the golden marks of "$" in their sparkling eyes...
Asuha and others were horrified.
Asuha: Kat, what are you doing? Say another cool speech to freak them out!
Asuha then encouraged Katarina to speak another cool speech. To everyone's shock and dismay, however, Katarina's "another speech" was...
- Katarina: Aw, crap...
Then, the zombies yelled and attacked Katarina. Katarina then stabbed some of the zombies to death, and she kept making them away from her companions.
Katarina: Fine, you left me no choice!
However, with her injury, Katarina could not fight for too long and she soon felt tired and painful, and her friends went to help her, shooting at the zombies with guns. However, more and more zombies began flooded into the tunnel and the space became less and less wider.
Asuha: No, they are everywhere!
Mana: It is just too many of them!
At this time, La Folia woke up and saw Katarina in trouble. She immediately showed her pistol and start shooting at the zombies. Katarina turned back and saw La Folia with sheer excitement. It was very clear that La Folia was out of Michael's control, and Katarina believed that because she is her best friend.
Katarina: La Folia!
La Folia: I am sorry for what I have done to Kyouko, and therefore I need to save you from all of this mess.
Seeing hope, Katarina then pridefully yelled to Michael who was nowhere to see. Then, ignoring her injury, she started to attack the zombies before continuing yelling.
Katarina: NOW, DO YOU SEE, MICHAEL!? YOUR PETTY LITTLE PLAN DID NOT RUIN OUR FRIENDSHIP, AND IN FACT IT MADE US STRONGER!
Michael: (voice) [Katarina, you still have the bones to pick with me even if you are facing your demise. Now, I have something more to go on, and we will meet again... Then, I will do this with hard way.]
Katarina: STOP! SHOW YOURSELF!
This time, Michael did not answer, and despite everyone's fighting, Katarina was about to be plunged into a flood of redcoat zombies. Suddenly, a bright light had appeared not far away and when the zombies were exposed into the light, they all start turning into ashes, thus everyone in Team Witnesses was spared.
Everyone then turned to the end of the tunnel as they saw Pandora and Mr. Gold at the end of tunnel. Pandora walked slowly and gently as she looked at them. Her eyes glowed green in the dark.
Pandora: I do not expect that... you were surrounded by danger once again. However, you should be glad that I free you from all of your burdens.
Pandora then went closer to Katarina, but Sister Mary Eunice shouted out.
Sister Mary Eunice: You stay away from her!
Katarina had now recognized that the woman was exactly the person who saved her minutes before.
Katarina's flashback[]
- Katarina: Michael is the mastermind... Michael is the mastermind... I am such a fool...
Injured and humiliated, Katarina lied helplessly on the ground. Michael gave her quite a knock. Streams of tears started to fall from her eyes but not because of her injury, but because of Michael's deception. She started to recall Michael's gentle and helpful attitude...
However, turns out that it was ALL lies...
Lies... Lies... Lies...
Lies... Lies...
LIES...
- Katarina: I don't think I could take it anymore......
Katarina started to sob in sadness. Just then, the wind had blown to Katarina with a woman's voice, a voice she once heard before.
???: Poor child, you must have suffered a lot.
All of a sudden, Katarina felt her leg was wrapped by some bandages. Someone was dealing with her injury, helping her from blood loss. She looked up and was surprised to see a familiar figure - the woman who once gave her the real Spear of Virtue in her dream.
Katarina tried to stood up, but she could not. She could only looked up to the woman who took care for her.
???: Oh, I can't believe that you fell because of Moloch's nasty plan, Katarina. How can you carry on the Cranes' legacy with this injury?
Katarina: Thank you...
???: You need to be alive, though I did not do it for you.
At first, Katarina had no idea what the woman had said meant.
Katarina: Then, why are you doing this? You helped me twice but you were not for me? What is your name, by the way?
???: I think you can call me whatever you want, but I prefer... "Pandora".
Katarina: Pandora... why are you helping me?
Katarina then put her finger on Katarina's lips, meaning to make her fall silence.
Pandora: Hush, this is between you and me. You know, Moloch is my enemy. He is also your enemy as well. My master, however wanted me to get close to Moloch one day... so that we can destroy him when the necessity comes. Waiting for more than 200 years, however, I have no chance yet to get to Moloch since the Four Horsemen is yet to ride. However, I can weaken him in many ways.
Hearing Pandora's words, Katarina was shock and could not figure out whether Pandora was a friend or foe.
Katarina: You want the Horsemen ride?
Pandora: Perhaps, but maybe it was contrast to what you think. That is the time for us to strike at Moloch, but at first I need to weaken him so that I can take my best at him. Moloch will come out from Purgatory when the Horsemen of War rides on Earth, but only when all of the Horsemen came, his full power will be unleashed, but before that, I will seal the Death first... in my box... Then, Moloch will be only an immortal demon.
Katarina's eyes widened in surprise.
Katarina: You mean you are helping me for self-serving purpose?
Pandora: Not quite, since if Moloch wins, no one will be survive, so I had to take actions to protect myself, but I am different from Moloch, since we will bring good to the Earth like my Master said. You see, I was also the one who advice Jennifer Mills to give in herself, so that Abbie Mills will be protected, otherwise the demon inside Jenny will drive her insane. What I did is good for you in a way, and... I am more like a builder than a destroyer.
Though feeling uneasy for Pandora's words, Katarina nodded.
Katarina: I wish it was true.
Pandora: I doubt this will be the last time we meet. However, no matter what happened, please don't forget me. Who knows? God's plan works in mysterious ways. Farewell. Your friends are coming. Tell them the truth about your false friend. Tell them about Michael Langdon.
Katarina wanted to speak some more, but Pandora disappeared instantly. Just then, she felt exhausted and wanted to have a sleep, when suddenly, she heard heavy footsteps. She then opened her eyes a bit saw Sonia Nevermind, Kyouko Kirigiri and Rentaro Satomi coming for her.
Sonia: Katarina! Katarina! No, what happened to your... Tell me...
Katarina then felt someone had cradled her, but she could not see who the person was since she was losing her conscious. Then, she heard Sonia's voice.
Sonia: Tell me... who had made you injured? ...
With her last efforts, Katarina spoke the name that even she will never ever believe it... before she fainted...
Katarina: It's... Michael... Langdon...
- Kyouko, Sonia & Rentaro: WHAT!?
Nowdays[]
Katarina's eyes widened when she realized who the woman is. She turned to Sister Mary Eunice.
Katarina: Sister, she is the woman who gave me the real Spear of Virtue. What is more, this woman had just saved me from the bleeding after Michael stabbed me.
Surprised, Sister Mary Eunice looked at Katarina before she looked at Pandora. Pandora had already cured Katarina's injury once again, and Katarina stood up with full spirit once again.
Sister Mary Eunice: Indeed?
Pandora looked at Sister Mary Eunice with calmness in her eyes.
Pandora: Sister, I came here by no harm.
Sister Mary Eunice: How can I trust you? Katarina may see you like a savior who walks on the water, but you can never fool me. You are Pandora, don't you?
The name Pandora had made the whole team Witness feel surprised. They all took a look at Pandora and Mr. Gold with shock.
Sister Mary Eunice: Not exactly the Greek Pandora, but you are still as dangerous and seductive as her. You are no saint. If you dare to harm Katarina and her friends in any way... UGRH!
Just then, Sister Mary Eunice felt pain in her stomach and then, to everyone's horror, her spiritual body was bleeding. With horror, Katarina then noticed the belly of Sister Mary Eunice had a long cut by sword. Blood start pouring down.
Rentaro, Sonia, Asuha & La Folia: SISTER!
Nearly all of the Team Witness had ran towards Sister Mary Eunice, just as the nun collapsed on the ground, coughing blood and cried with tears on her eyes.
Sister Mary Eunice: Curse that Michael... He had weapons that could harm spiritual individuals... It is getting more serious...
La Folia: Oh, my... What will happen if a heavenly spirit bled too much?
In a weak and crying voice, Sister Mary Eunice said a shocking thing that shocked her friends.
Sister Mary Eunice: They will... be condemned... to Hell... or becoming nothingness...
Katarina: NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
Screaming, Katarina hugged Sister Mary Eunice and cried very hard. Sister Mary Eunice and many others, even Sonia, had tears in their eyes, too. For the very first time, Katarina saw fear in Sister Mary Eunice's once stoic eyes.
Pandora, however, just stood by and watch.
Sister Mary Eunice: I am sorry, *cough* Katarina, that I cannot... see Michael's true nature... I am such a fool. I suspected him once but since I saw you and him are seemly friends...
Katarina: He is not my friend. Not anymore. He is deceitful and fooled all of us. Please, Sister, please don't leave us...
Katarina cried in sheer sadness and horror. This was as sad as the feeling when she lost Eugen forever.
Sister Mary Eunice: I am sorry, but there is no way back... Perhaps my soul... is destined to be a belonging of the Devil... or worse. Goodbye, Katarina. I only want to see your smile... before I leave...
Feeling sadness and hatred towards Michael, Katarina bit her lips before she saw Pandora. She then immediately stood up ran to Pandora, much to the latter's shock.
However, to Pandora's and anyone else's surprise, Katarina knelt in front of her and begged her.
Katarina: No, please, do something! PANDORA! Is this your name? No matter who you are, please help her! I beg you! I believe you can cure a spirit! PLEASE! SHE IS OUR FRIEND! We need her!
Mr. Gold: She is right, Pandora! You once said you have the power to cure a fragile soul, did you not?
At first, Pandora stood stone cold still since she only works for her master to help Katarina, not the Team Witness itself. Seeing Katarina's attitude, however, even a woman like Pandora was deeply moved.
Pandora: I am not always that reliable... but I will see what I can do.
Pandora then raised her hands. Sister Mary Eunice could not speak at the moment, only looked at Pandora weakly. With her eyes closed, Pandora then spoke a spell and then something unbelievable happened. Sister Mary Eunice's wound had glowed in golden light before healing itself. The bleeding stopped, but Sister Mary Eunice was still weak and pale.
Seeing Pandora healed the nun, Katarina, La Folia and others were all surprised by this.
Pandora: She is fine, and she left the grasp of Hell. She just need few hours' rest.
While speaking this, Pandora went to cure Kyouko's wound while Katarina hugged Sister Mary Eunice with tears in her eyes. Sister Mary Eunice looked at Katarina and it took a while before she regained her consciousness.
Sister Mary Eunice: Katarina?
Katarina: Thank God... Sister, you are back...
Katarina was so excited that she hugged Sister Mary Eunice deeply. She had successfully pull her from the Hell Lords' grip.
Sister Mary Eunice: You saved me?
Katarina was like...
Katarina: Uh, sort of... but I made Pandora save you.
Sister Mary Eunice then looked at Pandora, but her eyes still filled with anger, to Katarina's confusion.
Sister Mary Eunice: You saved my life, and I am grateful for this. I am also grateful that you did not harm Kat and her friends, but I will not see you fall within your deluded mind.
To this point, Katarina was really confused.
Katarina: Why do you still hate her?
Sister Mary Eunice: I am not hating her. I am hating her master who nearly plunged humanity into a dystopia like Illuminati!
Everyone soon turned to Pandora who merely turned back. Despite her worrying face, Katarina was relaxed when she looked at Sister Mary Eunice who assured her to make everything fine.
Sister Mary Eunice: I will explain you on the way. We need to leave here. If she had anything troubling you guys, I will tell you.
Kyouko: Okay, everyone, please follow me.
Then, everyone followed behind Pandora and Mr. Gold, as Kyouko with the map was walking in front of all of them. Katarina helped Sister Mary Eunice to walk. Sister Mary Eunice told her story to Katarina, La Folia, Poison Ivy and Sonia beside her, and everyone could hear it. Pandora did not interrupted the story.
Sister Mary Eunice: (narrator) Many years ago, there was a battle between some deities, and the deities' enemy was named Etu Ilu, better known as the Hidden One - a hot-tempered Sumerian deity who tried to enslave humanity, but he failed. The gods chained him within a place known as the Catacombs and no one knows where it is. The Hidden One needed power, so he needed to find an agent, so his sealed soul had appeared in a dream of a poor girl whose real name had already lost in history. Maybe only she knew or she had already forgot as well. She had a sad story, since she was about to be sold by her abusive father to be a slave, but the Hidden One summoned her into the Catacombs and seduced her before used a magic spell to feed the abusive father of her to a lion. The girl sworn loyalty to him and fell in love with him. She will do anything he wanted her to do as her gratitude. The Hidden One gave her a magical box that was said to contain everything Made of Evil in the world. She became his most loyal minion before banishing her real name. She renamed herself after a figure in Greek mythology which is...
Then, Katarina, Sister Mary Eunice and their comrades-in-arms all said one name.
- Team Witness: Pandora.
Everyone, even including Kyouko who was leading them out of the maze, were looking at Pandora, as if they were asking that if they were telling the truth. Pandora nodded in satisfaction.
Sister Mary Eunice: Is this story accurate enough to your life story, Pandora?
Pandora: (sarcastically) Indeed, 100% accurate.
Sister Mary Eunice, however, shook her head.
Sister Mary Eunice: No, the only thing that is NOT accurate is that the Hidden One... never loved you.
Pandora shook her heads, and Sister Mary Eunice expected this. She believed that Pandora still lived in her false lies.
Pandora: He WILL love me as soon as I help him to wipe out Moloch, before we live in a world filled with peace and without war. Everyone will be happy for eternity.
Rentaro: Then, you sounded like trying to make yourself as a hero, but you are serving an tyrant... who on Earth are you, exactly?
Annoyed by her ambiguous motive, Rentaro questioned Pandora. However, she only gave him a cold answer.
Pandora: Even I don't know who I am... You can see me as a friend, an enemy or just a nobody. My master is not a tyrant at all, Sister. Besides, I am only a servant to my master, and it was my duty to stop Moloch and raise my master's glory. He saved and raised me when I was about to be sold by my father as a slave. Then, I became his wife and eventually vowed my loyalty to him. I know that he was suggesting me to get closer to Moloch so that we can get rid of him. Then, we will help humanity to rebuild their order.
At first, Rentaro, Kyouko, La Folia and Sonia all felt suspicious on Pandora's motives, but hearing Pandora's words had made them surprised. Even so, even Pandora herself does not know the Hidden One's nasty nature, not to mention the Team Witness who had not met him at all.
Sonia: You are such a strange person.
Sonia crossed her fingers and looked at Pandora, who simply nodded with zero anger. She was not angry at all. Just as this time, the people went out of the Munition Tunnel.
Pandora: Indeed I am, Sonia Nevermind.
Looking up, Sonia looked at Pandora with surprise in her eyes.
Sonia: How do you know my name?
Pandora: I can know many things, though I am not omniscient but that was not the point. I assure you that Moloch himself is far worse than the Hidden One. The Hidden One indeed loves me or he would never have saved me from that pit, and he is just unaware that what is real love.
Pandora then turned her sight from Sonia to Katarina before giving her a formal warning.
Pandora: Moloch, however, is completely loveless... and lack of empathy. Katarina, your enemy wants to bring Moloch's rule back to your era, and you must stop him before he did. The First Tribulation now starts after a hiatus for 232 years, and now...
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- Pandora: ... It costed your good sheriff's life...
"................................"
Everyone went silent and the whole team stopped...
August Corbin... is dead...
Act 5 (final) - Malevolent Souls[]
Sleepy Hollow[]
Everyone went silent and the whole team stopped...
Pandora sighed as Katarina shivered...
Pandora: I am sorry.
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- Katarina: You mean... Corbin... was...
Just then, Reverend Knapp not far away had saw Katarina before he ran towards her and told about Corbin's leaving and Eckidina's plan to lure Abbie...
The sadness soon filled in Katarina's heart once again as she trembled in horror. It was clear that Corbin will meet his destined fate... August Corbin, the man who helped her in many times, the man who she considered as her mentor... was gone forever...
Katarina: No... Corbin... no... NOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Pandora sighed as Katarina knelt on the ground and mourn Corbin.
Pandora: Complaining has no use, Katarina. The Horseman is here because of the man who summoned him. It was he who caused the death of Corbin. You should know who your true enemy is before you consider me as your enemy. I never consider you to be my enemy. Please understand.
All of a sudden, Knapp noticed and recognized Pandora, but before he could talk to her, Pandora left in the wind as Katarina looked at her with strange looks.
When Pandora disappeared, so many questions started to accumulate in Katarina's head She had no idea if Pandora is a hypocrite like Michael or just could not see her master's true face.
All it seemed that the unseen deity, known as the Hidden One, is cruel and megalomaniac like Sister Mary Eunice said, but how could someone so cruel defy Moloch's might and save a slave girl?
One thing is for sure. Pandora is far more complex than anyone could ever imagine.
Katarina: (thinking) * I hope you know what you are doing, Pandora. At least, you are not doing the right thing serving a hegemonic deity, but at least you were doing right things helping us. *
Just then, Mr. Gold came closer to Katarina and put his hand on her shoulders.
Mr. Gold: I am sorry for what happened on Corbin, since he is my friend as well, but I am sure he won't die in vain. Despite his sacrifice, you will not lose if you remain confident.
Katarina reacted in surprise as she looked at Mr. Gold in his eyes, while her teammates all have the same reaction as well.
Katarina: How can you be so sure?
However, Mr. Gold only gave her a cryptic look.
Mr. Gold: Because the First Witness had returned. Pandora told me that he is now in the police station, and now he somehow took the blame for killing Sheriff Corbin. It's getting late. You must find him tomorrow.
Hearing this, the whole Team Witness was surprised. Katarina could not control her impulse and surprise that she shouted out in shock.
Hearing this, people around her were all surprised while Gold still remained his cool.
Mr. Gold: Who else? His burial site is not far away from here, according to Corbin. You need to go to there as he will return back to retrieve a thing.
Katarina: What is it?
Mr. Gold then walked away calmly and soon he disappeared into the windy dark night. Katarina was too excited that she nearly fell. La Folia and Reverend Knapp immediately helped her to restore her balance.
Katarina: We must not let Corbin die in vain. We must find Ichabod. By the way, the Horseman's head is under your secret hiding place, and I suspect that the Horseman shall ride himself to the place. You need to keep the head's safe, but I...
Knapp: Katarina, don't worry about me. I will never tell the Horseman about the whereabouts of his head, and if I need to die for it, I will accept it.
Katarina: Be careful.
Just this time, Sister Mary Eunice walked closer to Katarina.
Sister Mary Eunice: We don't need to worry about the Hidden One just now. Some colleagues of mine hid a key thing, which would allow the Hidden One restore his full power, to somewhere safe, and as long as Pandora could not find it, no matter how hard she tried, the Hidden One will hardly become a threat. In fact, if you change to a new angle, in fact... Pandora and Mr. Gold are de facto our some sort of helpers who are so far helping us to weaken Moloch, after all.
Katarina: OK, but...
Sister Mary Eunice: However, Katarina, if you are still worried about them, I will keep an eye on them in case they become a horrible threat, especially Pandora. At this time, it was Michael Langdon and Eckidina KnightWalker who are the most imminent threats of us.
Hearing this, the people around all remembered what their major mission is - to stop Michael and return everything to normal.
Katarina: You are right. I will go with you.
Holding two spears in her hand and with tears in her eyes, Katarina stood up and had now restored her confidence completely once again.
Katarina: It's time to let this ended. Michael Langdon has to be stopped!
Katarina then looked at the night sky. The Blood Moon is now even redder than ever. Katarina glared at the blood moon with fury as she made out her vow.
Katarina: Believe me, Corbin. You will not die in vain. The Blood Moon shall be stopped... Michael will pay for his crimes... and MOLOCH SHALL NOT RISE! We will never ever let Moloch, Eckidina, Serilda, Michael or Terra win this battle even if I have to die for it.
All of a sudden, snow started to fell in the forest as the cloud covered the Blood Moon. Even so, Katarina knew that the Blood Moon was still there, and only destroying Serilda can make it return back to its proper color, ending its cycle of madness once and for all.
Katarina: I swear.
Then, one by one, the Team Witness had made their vow to Corbin's soul. Tears started to fill Katarina's eyes as the winds of winter kept blowing on her face. Nevertheless, she felt that her heart was burning hot with fire of justice.
La Folia: I swear.
Sister Mary Eunice: I swear.
Kyouko: I swear.
Poison Ivy: I swear.
Sonia: I swear.
Rentaro: I swear.
Bride: I swear
Knapp: I swear.
Mana: I swear.
Asuha: I swear.
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- Team Witness: WE SWEAR!
Arendelle[]
Hexenmeister Base in Arendelle
Nearly 800 meters away from Arendelle Palace
Ever since the Green Meanie's attack in Arendelle palace, the situation has gone critical, and Queen Elsa had arranged several holy orders to protect her since she had realized that devious monster who haunted Kristoff was returned.
The Hexenmeister Community is one of those orders that helped the queen to guard Arendelle, with more than 2,000 powerful warlocks of the community resided everywhere in Arendelle.
At this time, Kristoff had recovered and was currently under the Elsa's protection.
Inside the base, some of the Hexenemeisters were having a meeting discussing about Katarina Couteau's arrival in Sleepy Hollow. The first one who spoke about this was none other than the same agent that met Sister Mary Eunice in the mirror world.
Hexenmeister 1: Sister Mary Eunice still refused to make Katarina Couteau stay in Sleepy Hollow. I guess her unknown power will be more controllable since some part of the place was enchanted by Katrina Crane's coven. I believe it will strain her power.
Hexenmeister 2: I think Sister Mary Eunice is right. Katarina needs to fight the enemy from future. Letting her stay in 2013 will eventually make her weak as she aged. Then, when 2036 came, as the World War III came, humanity shall be doomed. It will be such a waste of a chance.
Hexenmeister 3: I just don't understand, my friends. Why do you think a young girl with some unknown and uncontrollable power will be a hope of us? Isn't Moloch our greatest threat? She could be an ally, but she is not the prophesied Witness! She could not help us from defying Moloch. I think it is better to make her and her friends to the future they belonged before we found out who brought us the terrible mess.
The Hexenmeister Community was a large order that filled with people who was born in different families and shared different personalities. For many times, they had odds on each other. Just as they were discussing, some sinister figure had approached them quietly like a walking cat. Then, suddenly, the door was broken by some immense power.
???: The Hell itself sends its regards, my dear Hexenmeisters.
Hexenmeister agents were all alarmed as they saw a creature with black skin, dark hair and red eyes were approaching them menacingly.
Working for Triggers Hell to conquest Multi-Universe, Blackheart is the son of Mephisto, the Hell Lord, or more precisely a souless demon made by him. The creature walked towards the Hexenmeister agents.
Blackheart: Die.
With just one word, several demons with their face full of sheer malice and sadism had came behind him. They attacked the Hexenmeisters despite the latter's hard efforts to fight them, some of the demons were killed by the fighting Hexenmeisters with holy lights.
Blackheart: Let me take them down.
Blackheart approached one of the Hexenmeisters and start to impale him with his sharp claw, and then he used mind control power to control some of the warlocks to slaughter their entire brethren before letting his minions to stab them to their death. The cruel and horrifying slaughter soon came at an end after 10 minutes of struggling.
Then, Blackheart had himself transformed into a more human-like appearance, with short black hair and pale skin, wearing black suit. While glaring at Queen Elsa's castle through the window, Blackheart grinned wickedly as if he was looking at a comedy show.
Blackheart: That is it, we are at Arendelle. Leohart had ordered me to get Arendelle crown from Queen Elsa and then bring it back to him, but why should I do that? I have power myself and I will become the new ruler of Arendelle with ice power. I will freeze the nation into an eternal winter once again, or I can make it boil in an eternal summer as well. Ah, I think this is perfectly amazing to rule a land like this, as long as I get that thing beside the crown...
Blackout: What is it?
The demon named Blackout who asked the question was one of the most zealously loyal demon in Mephisto's army, and was ordered to assist Blackheart in their plan. Blackheart looked at Blackout and smiled.
Blackheart: Contract of San Venganza.
Blackout: San Venganza... that town...
San Venganza is a town in Texas, U.S.A., once an inhabited center, now a ghost town. In San Venganza, every single inhabitant sold their own soul to Mephisto, Moloch and Leohart in exchange of something that led to their death.
The Contract of San Venganza was an ancient scroll created by Mephisto and it holds the massive power of all the souls of all the doomed townspeople of San Venganza. The Contract itself is a powerful demonic weapon. The Contract is the result of the entire population of San Venganza selling their souls to the Devil, thus giving the Contract an enormous power.
Contract of San Venganza
After all the population died, a man named Carter Slade, who had somehow acknowledged the existence of Triggers Hell, was sent to collect the Contract of San Venganza which contains all the damned souls of the townspeople, but feeling its power that so great as it will become Hell on Earth, he refused to give it to the Devil (who is in fact, unbeknownst to him, Leohart) and chose to hide it.
Blackheart glared at Elsa's palace and scoffed.
Blackheart: I just don't know where that energy came from, probably from that greenish creature those dead bodies once talked about when they are still alive, but that does not matter anyway. The point is, because of that so-called Green Meanie, I had discovered one vital thing... Even for the Snow Queen's own guarding defense, it still has weakness, and I will eventually know that it is NOT invincible!
???: Beg your pardon, my Lord.
The demon who said this took a disguise as a human being, just like what Blackheart was doing. His name is Wallow, a demon of water. Wallow was once named Max Pressman, a human who was the first recruit of Blackheart into his self-proclaimed Spirits of Vengeance.
Under Blackheart's influence, Pressman became insane and lost his free will, so lost he was that he even murdered his wife and attempted to murder his two children. A police officer shot him before he could so, but Pressman returned as a ghost-like entity, with only the face of Melinda's doll as his own. Then, he was called Wallow, able to induce and feed upon human misery.
Beside him, there were Gresill and Abigor, two Fallen Angels who disguised as human beings as well, and they were called the Earth Demon and the Air Demon respectively. Together, they became three most trusted guardians of Blackheart and helped him to do his evil works.
At this time, Wallow spoke and was quickly noticed by his master.
Blackheart: What is it?
Wallow: My lord, with all due respect, I don't know if we can be so smooth with this task since I heard that Queen Elsa had been made aware of demonic moves and was strengthening her guardian... and I greatly doubt whether we could deal with her ice magic.
Blackheart walked towards Wallow with sheer menace in his eyes.
Blackheart: Are you doubting my ambition, Wallow? Queen Elsa is nothing compared to the power of Triggers Hell, and we don't need Prince Leohart to take his move. I can kill her as soon as I summon the souls of San Venganza!
Wallow: You did not asked Prince Leohart's permission to gain the Contract...
Blackheart: Why should I? I CAN REPLACE LEOHART WITH MYSELF, DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND?
The air itself soon filled with dreadful silence. As Blackheart started to walk downstairs, the demons looked at each other and were all shivering in great terror. They are all afraid of the wrath of Leohart and any Hell Lords. They were worried about themselves when Blackheart boasted that he would replace Leohart...
Blackheart: At first, we need to get Queen Elsa's crown, which is also important. As soon as we get Queen Elsa's crown, we will make Arendelle boil... no matter how. Leohart is such a miserable creature, and I believe it is time to make the order of Hell to change a master. Leohart replaced Satan as its master, and it means that the master of Hell is replaceable! I will raise my own Legion from San Venganza and then my glory shall start. I will surpass Leohart and become the new king of Hell, and no one... not even Moloch or Zadkiel... will stop me. Then, I will find a chance to take down every Ghost Riders all around the world! I will one day find this mysterious Green Meanie before I made him bow in front of me as my slave! I... will rule the Hell, forever.
Following behind their leader, the demons were too afraid that they dared not even breath while listening Blackheart talking. Blackheart then walked out with his minions from the house before burning it to the ground. They quickly hid themselves into woods before Arendelle guards arrived to get them. Then, Blackheart continued his words.
Blackheart: By the way, I think the forces of Heaven had took its move as well, because we all heard those Hexenmeisters talking about Sister Mary Eunice, didn't we? I bet that they will rely on the Witnesses, and it will be our best chance to find the two Witnesses. Since Leohart is busy in conquering the whole Multi-Universe and torturing lost souls, I guess I will take my move. He will never see my plan going on as long as he did not ask.
Suddenly, Blackout had saw a purple flame appearing in front of him and it soon turned into a letter floating in the air. Blackout immediately took the letter before reading its content. Blackheart finished his speech just as Blackout looked at the letter with great horror...
Blackheart: What is it, Blackout?
Blackout: Orders from Hell, my Lord. We were ordered to leave Arendelle for now...
Blackheart's eyes glowed in anger.
Blackheart: I say, we should ignore Leohart's words while pretending to be unaware. There is an old saying in China, known as, "A general far away from the capital can defy the order of his king." (simplified Chinese: 将在外，君命有所不受。)
Blackout was getting more and more horrified.
Blackout: But this is what we all should obey, my Lord. Even if we don't obey Lucifer or Leohart, we shan't disobey his order... or he will be angry and instantly strike us directly before sending us to Leohart for further punishment... since he is... is...
While saying this, Blackout was shivering in terror with his face even paler than before, making Blackheart very confused.
Eckidina KnightWalker hummed a tune while wandering in the Sleepy Hollow Woods, and she felt happy to know that her bait had worked well in luring Abbie Mills. She was intoxicated in her success... when suddenly, a wind had blown and she had to stop spinning.
Michael and Misogi (possessed by Ancitif) with his hood was standing behind her.
Michael: Eckidina...
Eckidina turned back and saw her client behind her. She was so anxious that she asked about many things.
Eckidina: So, how did it go?
Michael nodded his head. Eckidina was still unaware of his real identity. She laughed out and tried to hug him. However, Michael merely stepped aside. Eckidina fell on the ground in a funny manner.
Michael: I don't want to make Misogi jealous. Hug him instead.
Eckidina stood up and cleaned the dust on her cloth. She then tried to hug "Misogi", but Ancitif had glared at her and Eckidina was pushed on a tree and knocked on it. Eckidina was horrified and she did not expecte this. She looked at the possessed Misogi.
Eckidina: YOU ARE NOT MISOGI-CHAN!
Michael: The work is done.
Michael smiled as he clapped his hand. Ancitif then left Misogi's body and returned back to Purgatory. Misogi collapsed on the floor while having confusion and panic.
Misogi: What have I...
Ancitif is a powerful possessing demon who can change his vessel all the time. Most of the vessels do not remember anything they did while being possessed.
Michael smiled as he walked closer to Eckidina. Eckidina was now like a lab white rat who trembled in fear as the needle stuck in its body.
Michael: Corbin's life is ended, and the deal ends, now. You will go back to your world and deal with your precious stuff - LN-666 Project. Eckidina, I have to say that you would have been in my favor... if you are more mature. Mass suicide for fun... That is really not in my taste. It was amusing to see for you, but soon it lost its taste.
Eckidina: No, you must be joking. THAT WAS FUN AND IT WILL BE FUN FOREVER!
No longer hiding his disgust on Eckidina, Michael shook his head and spoke his words in an ironic tone. During his talks, Michael slowly took off his mask.
Michael: I am serious, Eckidina. Can't you see?
Michael then looked up and glared at Eckidina and Misogi. They were both shocked to see the man's face.
Eckidina: MICHAEL LANGDON!?
Michael: Indeed I am. Don't worry. I am different than Aki Honda. If I become the Pope, then I will join your force. I think this is a good thing to make our companionship since there are many "good things" to earn from a spoiled kid like you.
Michael then used the Grand Grimoire to cast a portal between Eckidina and Misogi, and the portal started to suck them into it with immense force. At this time, Eckidina and Misogi could do nothing but screaming.
Michael: But not that much.
Eckidina: NO! NO! NO, YOU CANNOT SEE ME AS A SPOILED KID! OH, NOOOO---
Michael: Aren't you?
Then, within seconds, the portal had sucked Eckidina and Misogi into the portal no matter how much they tried. Then, the portal disappeared. Eckidina was sent back to her headquarters, and so was Misogi.
Now, taking the full control of the demonic plot at last, Michael could not stop smiling.
Michael: Finally, it is my turn. Eckidina, farewell.
With a smile, Micheal bit his thumb and made it bleed. He brushed a bit of his own blood on his pendant, which glowed red in response. Then, Michael's hair had turned whiter as a result of this.
Michael: Ha-ha, ha-ha-ha... HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Yes, yes, I can feel it... I can feel the power I took from Serilda is burning inside me...
Now, Michael had turned into his new form - Blood Moon Wicked "Standard" Form. He clenched his fist as his new power started boiling inside his body.
Michael: On a Monday, God created the world. On Tuesday, God drew the line between Order and Chaos. On Wednesday, God arranged each and every number. On Thursday, God permitted the ebb and flow of Time. On Friday, God explored every nook and cranny of the world. On Saturday, God rested. And on Sunday, God... forsook the world.
All of a sudden, however, Micheal felt his head hurt as he covered his hand on his head.
Michael: Ugh! No, I need to stay calm...
His fingers now turned metallic and became taloned. The mutation of him had started its first step and Michael's mental state started to go unstable. However, he was still far from completely insane. Then, having himself calmed down, Michael removed his hood and smiled in satisfaction.
Michael: This is it... This is very well. My power is rising... even though this is not enough. To truly make myself be one with the Blood Moon Wicked, it really requires a huge amount of bleeding.
Holding the Grand Grimoire and casted a spell, Michael then closed his eyes as he started to use his new abilities. At this moment, Michael could see and hear many things in his head... by speaking a bold speech the demonic prodigy made up all in one second.
Michael: The Hell itself that made me, it is your loyal servant who will relish your torture. Prince of Hell, if you can hear my pledge, please save me, guide me from my solitude. To Satan, to Moloch, to the Devil, and to Leohart the Prince of Hell whom I never know. Give me sign and I shall let God shed tears of blood. Fear shall feed my soul...
Then, Michael had saw some figures and heard their speeches...
???: [Humans were a failed creation of the Gods in this universe. He said to me that between all races he created in this infinite universe, humans are the most wicked ones. They're selfish, warmongers, cold and sinners. Humans only remember God when they are in trouble and as soon after their sins are forgiven they return to commit the same sin again and again in the infinite circle of sin... So that's why I'm here... I'll become the Angel of Apocalypse and wipe out humans! I'll wait for 4 billion years in this planet until the next intelligent race born so I can lead them to the right path... Where the humans failed, the next race will be victorious! With me as the Guide! I'm JUSTICE!]
Michael scoffed. He was disgusted by the arrogant speech, and he never liked angels.
Michael: Huh, what an angel, with such a holier-than-thou hypocrisy... She does not deserve to be that... but since the Devil himself is giving me a sign, I shall ally with her if possible... but I am curious about the "God" she talked about. Well, even so, it will be so much fun seeing the light to become as dangerous as darkness.
???: [The people of the world are builders. But look into their hearts, and you will find they also have have the power to destroy. I am that power. I am destruction! And I WILL destroy you! See from there, God! The God who created the humans. -- a failed work! Cry! Scream! Beg! At least say: "Help Me" Just beg to other Gods and people help you! HAHAHAHAHA! Of course, I'm going to kill you all...]
Michael: That voice sounds like Eckidina, but far more mature and sinister... Perhaps, she was a demon form of Eckidina... If that is true, it is a mistake to drive her back, but I will one day use her again. She seems like a demon, interesting... but what kind of demon would she be? Demons have many faces. In fact, I am really curious. I can work harder on studying demonology.
???: [Once I've finished tearing this world into pieces, I'll just use my Instant Transmission technique to move onto other planets. That is my destiny! I am the universe's end!!!]
Michael: An harpy... How insolent, but... looks like she is powerful. If possible, she could be a wonderful ally, otherwise a horrible threat... I need to be careful dealing her.
Michael tried to hear the voice, but the voice was spoken very deep and in an strange tone. For now, Michael could not understand it at all.
Michael: Who is this? Why won't he speak? Perhaps, that means he is an unspeakable terror... He may know many things I don't know, so I cannot interpret my speech. Still, my power remained limited. Even so, this sign is interesting...
This time, Michael did not say a word. His reaction to this was very serious. It was none other than the skull of the Horseman of Death. He immediately opened his eyes, and then every illusions started to disappear.
His expression became much more serious.
Michael: The Horseman's head is with that old man. Another work for the Horseman to do. I am sorry, Knapp, but we are not the same. We are different. I... am the different one. Only... I... live forever.
Moments later, Michael turned back as he smiled at Terra of the Left who appeared behind a tree. Terra smiled back as he applauded for Michael's plan.
Terra: Well done, Michael. You even fooled me. I am sorry that I spoke that to you in Burssel.
Michael: Nah, that's okay. That's what we dealt.
Terra: I am glad that you say that, and I am glad to know that you infrastructure into Moloch's dominion... and your own agenda...
Micheal Langdon's own agenda is to use Moloch to form his own legend. He was not 100% loyal to Moloch despite calling him "Master". That is how Melancholia admired him.
Terra: Since Corbin was dead, we will on go our plan smoothly. However, I felt that someone was interfering us all along...
Michael: Yes, I know. It was that woman... Pandora... but she won't last long. Her efforts and contributions will never be rewarded by her ungrateful master. I know it. I can see her ordeals coming. Humanity is selfish, gods are selfish, and thus they need a new salvation.
Terra: What about Nevins' body?
Michael answered with a smile on his face.
Michael: I will not be so forgetful that I keep Nevins' body in the place where it lies. This is my design, with no loose ends. Now, since Crane is here, we don't need Eckidina to tell us what to do. Without letting her know, I had brought Nevins' corpse back to Moloch in order to bring him back to life if we need him. In a time like this, I need to be cautious since Moloch never wants his minion to disobey his will... but as soon as I take down Katarina, I will get back to become Pope... Then, I can do whatever I want. You will be my right hand and beside me.
Terra: Indeed, you are such a genius. I cannot believe that you could carry the body back to Purgatory before you attacked Sister Mary Eunice.
Michael looked at Terra with a smile. The color of his eyes had now turned from green to red.
Michael: He is not as heavy as you thought.
- Michael: Now, it is time to take Katarina Couteau down and leave Crane to Moloch. No hiding. No hesitation. No mercy. It is the time for us to start our glory.
"............................................"
Pandora's secret lair
At this time, Pandora had been observing Michael's plan through a large mirror made by water inside her lair. She viewed most of the parts within Michael's plan and was impressed by it.
Pandora: A valiant battle, Michael Langdon, and now...
With Mr. Gold left for a while and was not beside her, Pandora then turned her body and face a large rose tree behind her. The enormous tree had 444,444 blossoms of red rose buds on it. Pandora needed to raise fear so that she could allow the rose to bloom. The more the roses bloomed, the stronger Hidden One will become. If every single roses on the tree bloomed, Pandora will find the Eye of Providence and the Shard of Anubis to plant them on a tree, thus opening a portal to allow the Hidden One enter the mortal world.
Now, on the tree, Pandora had already had 232 roses to bloom. She then planted Katarina her friends' fear when they faced all of the nasty situations into the tree. Then, a new bud had bloomed.
Finally, Pandora's agenda has been revealed. The reason that she did not help Katarina unless in absolute emergency was that she needed Katarina's fear to last longer so that it could make her own plan bear fruit, but to stop Moloch, she had to prevent Katarina's death as well... Pandora was doing this all because she fell in love with her master, the Hidden One...
Pandora: One more bud to blossom. One more fear to sting.
- Pandora: Love... is what the victory bring.
A Legends of Multiuniverse Crossover
LOTM: Witnesses of Sleepy Hollow & Sword of Kings
The Corbin Files
Episode 10 - Chapitre Dix
New Year Special - Pandora's Role
By Officer Candy Apple & Prime ShockWaveTX
To be continued...
MAD - Collections[]
First letter[]
Sonia: Izuru, please tell me three words with "I" as its first letter.
Izuru: Icon. Immense. Irritate.
Sonia: Tanaka, please tell me six words with "T" as its first letter.
Tanaka: Um... Terror. Tide. Taint. Tower. Team. Tame.
Sonia: Eckidina, please tell me ten words with "H" as its first letter.
Eckidina: (nervously) Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha.
All: ......
What the Head Say[]
American Horror Story: What the Head Said
By AHSFC subtitle group (China)
Note: This is a parody of "What the Fox Said"
Using footage from American Horror Story: Coven
American Horror Story：What the Head Said
Chinese textbook[]
Monokuma: Attention, boys and girls! For the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympic Games, for making Earth famous and powerful in this universe, and for taking off the hat named "useless" from we Earth people and putting it on the head of aliens, from this day on, we will attend Chinese language class, to learn this old language that had five thousand years of history! Enjoy this, please, because it is infernal level! Pupupupupu!
People from the 78th Class all had one Chinese book each person. The book was printed by Monokuma. Sonia, who knows many language including Chinese, was a bit of upset because there were many inappropriate words on it.
Some of her classmates started to ask her about these words, and she was glad to answer, but she was irritated when it caused misunderstanding.
Saionji: What does this mean?
Sonia: “你说什么？” (translates) "What did you say?"
Sonia intended to say that it meant "What did you say", but Saionji misjudged her.
Saionji: Huh, when on Earth did your ear have problem? I told you what this means!
Sonia: "What did you say".
Saionji: You know what? If you pretend to be deaf, fine, I'll ask Hajime!
Sonia: Wait!
Sonia was upset before Mikan asked Sonia about another sentence.
Mikan: Sonia-san, what does this mean?
Sonia: “我很忙。不要烦我。” (translates) "I am busy. Don't bother me."
Mikan: You...
To Sonia's bewilderment, Mikan ran away while crying. Sonia was tired of this and she tried to get away when Owari came to her.
Owari: Sonia, what does this mean?
Sonia: “用你的脑袋谨慎地想想看。” (translate) "Use your head and think of it carefully."
Owari: THEN I DON'T NEED TO ASK YOU ANYTHING!
Owari went away with rage, leaving Sonia sitting on the ground and drew circle with frustration. Then, she stormed out of the classroom just as Hajime arrived into the classroom.
Sonia: I... I can't explain this anymore!
Hajime: Sonia...
Hajime was confused.
Hajime: I don't understand. I never saw Sonia being so angry before. What happened?
Owari: Hajime, please translate this sentence for us. I know you are knowledgeable to.
Hajime: “用你的脑袋谨慎地想想看。” (translate) "Use your head and think of it carefully."
Owari: Why did you behave so rude to me as well?
Hajime: Sorry, Owari, but this is WHAT THIS SENTENCE MEANS!
All of a sudden, after five seconds of silence, everyone in the classroom screamed in horror.
All: MY GOD! WE MISJUDGED SONIA!!!
Soon, Monokuma was forced to take actions before the students punched him for teaching them rude sentences. The Chinese textbooks was replaced by a new one with much more appropriate and polite words.
Holding her new textbook, Sonia was very satisfied.
Melancholia's Tea Party[]
Melancholia: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Underneath her underwater facility, Melancholia was hosting a New Year tea party with many dolls on the guests seats. Among the "guest", however, Officer Candy Apple himself was tied on a chair with his mouth sealed by tape. The guest of honor was Michael Langdon... or at least a real-life sized doll of him.
At this time, while confessing her love to "Michael", this deluded dark fairy was merely talking to the action figure whom she deemed to be Michael in her deluded mind, yet she had no idea.
Melancholia: Michael, I love you so much. My love for you is higher than Mount Everest and deeper than Mariana Trench! It's like the water of Liao River flowing to the east! Do you know that?
Doll Michael: ......
Melancholia: I take it as an yes. Thank you, Michael.
Then, Melancholia stood up and poured a cup of Chinese green tea to "Michael" before sitting back to her seat once again.
Melancholia: By the way, I do hope this tea is your liking, Michael. It's made for you!
Doll Michael: ......
Melancholia: Splendid! I am SOOOO glad that you like it, and as you can see...
While speaking Melancholia then pointed at the dolls and a tied Officer Candy Apple with objections in his eyes.
Melancholia: I took the liberty of... inviting all of our friends.
Officer: UMMPH! UMMPH!
Melancholia: Ooh, Michael~ I feel so happy spending this precious time with you. I don't think that I've been even happier. Don't you feel the same way?
Suddenly, the doll of Michael lowered its head all of a sudden, and its face became very close to its tea cup. Melancholia immediately stood up and made the doll into its rightful position.
Melancholia: *gasp* Michael! Whatever is the matter? Are you sad? Aw, I would like see all of the beings on Earth cry except you. Forget about Moloch. We are both loyal to him, indeed, but loyal sometimes does not equal respect, like you said. We could forgo the tea and torture the guests instead...
Suddenly, Melancholia had heard strange footstep coming behind her. She felt suspicious and was immediately alarmed.
Melancholia: ... and who on Earth is making that dreadful footsteps? Who would dare to disturb us?
All of a sudden, Diabla entered the room with a wicked laughter. Drawing her Sword of Sorrow, Melancholia was frightened and she blocked Diabla's way between her and "Michael".
Melancholia: Stay back, you fiend! I will not allow the unwashed to see Michael!
Hearing this, Diabla felt being insulted and fought Melancholia with 0.00001% of her power. Melancholia was clearly no match of her.
Diabla: Is this what your New Year speech saying in front of your queen? Melancholia, I will teach you some manners by myself before I take Michael from you!
Melancholia: YOU ARE NO QUEEN OF MINE! NO ONE TAKES MICHAEL FROM ME!
The two struggled against each other while Officer Candy Apple tried to escape the chaos by crawling on the ground like a Caterpillar. No matter who wins, Officer himself knows he will face terror.
Melancholia: LEAVE US, DIABLA! YOU ARE NOT EVEN ON THE GUEST LIST!
As the two were struggling, Diabla accidentally knocked the table with her raising fist. The cup with tea had fell on the doll Michael and the tea splashed on its face. All of a sudden, Melancholia & Diabla stopped fighting and looked at the doll.
Melancholia: Michael?
All of a sudden, the entire body of Melancholia turned white and she covered her cheeks with her hands, screaming in shock and terror.
Melancholia: OH! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Sniffing and sobbing like a little girl, Melancholia knelt and cradled the doll Michael in her arms, as Diabla and Officer watched with bewilderment.
Melancholia: WHAT HAVE THEY DONE TO YOU, MICHAEL? WHY ARE THESE WRETCHED THINGS ROAMING OUR WORLD!? I WISH THEY WOULD LEAVE US IN PEACE. THEY'VE RUINED EVERYTHING!!
Pausing for a while, Melancholia went berserk. She summoned her black armor and had yellowish glowing in her eyes. She stood up and glared angrily to Diabla, as the latter looked at her with bewilderment a large drop of sweat on her forehead...
Melancholia: You are absolutely right, Michael! I will make someone pay for daring to disgrace our Neo-Hellfire!
Seeing this obsessive fairy, Diabla was speechless and had to do facepalm...
Diabla: Oh, dear...
Smog[]
Two air cultists, Dashar and Silviria, are a pair of twin brother and sister who zealously served Aerisi Kalinoth, the elven Prophet of Air.
One day, in a day of smog, a journalist asked one of the twins a question.
Journalist: Silviria, would you please tell me about your opinion with this smog? Is it serious?
???: Indeed, it is very, very serious, because... at first I wish you can come closer to see me more clearly, because... I AM DASHAR!!!
The Princess and the Beggar[]
Before becoming one of the Ultimate Despair, Sonia Nevermind had a happy life with her classmates in Hope's Peak Academy.
One day, as the spring is coming, Sonia happily went out for a walk, but just then, she heard someone was crying.
It sounds like an old lady.
Sonia looked around, wanting to find the crying woman. It did not take long for her to find the old woman.
Sonia: What is it?
Old lady: My wallet was grabbed by a robber, and he took it away. I have no money to take a subway.
Unable to see the old woman drowned in sorrow, Sonia immediately gave her own wallet to the old woman.
Old lady: Oh, thank you! Thank you!
The old woman smiled as she immediately went away. Sonia walked into the park to listen to birds singing. Just then, she met a beggar blocking her way.
Beggar: Please have pity on me... I haven't eaten for days...
Sonia: Another poor soul...
Sonia then invited the beggar to a nearby restaurant, and they had a nice lunch. Just as Sonia was about to pay for the bill, she put her hand into her empty pocket... and remembered that she already gave her wallet to the old lady. Fortunately, the beggar paid the bill for Sonia.
Sonia: Oh, I am really sorry, sir. Let's take a taxi to my home, so that I can fetch some money and return it to you.
The beggar jokingly replied with a smile...
Beggar: That's OK. You've already cheated me for one meal. How dare you cheated me again for taxi fee?
Sonia was... speechless!?
Sonia: ...... (>_<)
In the Next Episode...[]
Sleepy Hollow Woods
20 minutes later
Ichabod's former burial site
Following Ichabod, Abbie had walked on a river back and noticed a dam beside it. She then followed Ichabod into the cave, both armed with torches, and start looking around. Abbie then showed him how to use the electric torch.
Abbie: It's like a gun. Point, shoot. (opened the torch and a light beam came out)
Ichabod then start figured out the torch when suddenly, he heard Katrina's voice coming from somewhere.
Katrina: (voice) Entering from north.
In the torchlight, Ichabod immediately found a large book full of dirt on the ground. At this time, Abbie was still analyzing the cave.
Abbie: There... appear to be carvings on the walls, a... hole filled with clay. Surrounding the pit... approximately 20 feet from the entrance, there are what appear to be jars filled with liquids. Six of them shattered...
Ichabod immediately brushed off the thick dust on the book, revealing it to be a Bible. He immediately picked it up and checked it...
Ichabod: My God...
Just as this time, Katarina, Sister Mary Eunice and La Folia entered the place as well, but both Ichabod and Abbie had not noticed them. Abbie heard Ichabod talking and she immediately went towards Ichabod.
Abbie: What is it?
Katarina carefully walked downstairs as she looked at the two people.
Ichabod: A Bible. Seemed that it was buried here with me... with this passage marked...
Katarina: The Book of Revelations.
Katarina spoke as they walked closer towards the two people. Abbie immediately recognized Katarina since they had met once, but Ichabod only looked at Katarina with awkwardness.
Katarina: "And there before me stood a pale horse. And its rider held a bow. And his name was Death. And then a voice like thunder said, 'Come and see.'"
Ichabod was surprised by Katarina's words as he stood up.
Ichabod: How do you know about the Horseman of Death?
Katarina: I know more. Don't worry, Ichabod Crane. I and my friends are here to help you two. My name is Katarina Couteau, and I am a relative of the late Sheriff August Corbin.
Ichabod: I am sorry for your loss.
Katarina had to use her false identity that Corbin once gave her in order to get closer to Ichabod. However, Abbie was full of confusion this time. La Folia noticed the handcuff on Ichabod's hands and immediately realized what was happened - Ichabod had took fall for some crime, possibly Corbin's murder, which she and Katarina both know it was the work of the Horseman.
Abbie: What is going on here? Who are you?
La Folia: I am La Folia Rihavein, a friend of Corbin and this girl Katarina. Lieutenant Mills, please, listen to me. This quote tells of the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, and it needs to catch all of our attention.
La Folia then looked at Abbie with a serious look, trying to get her attention, but Abbie merely scoffed.
Abbie: Come on!
Katarina and La Folia looked at each other with a large drop of sweat coming from their foreheads, respectively. Even so, seeing the two girls out of nowhere somehow supported him, Ichabod was more confident.
Ichabod: The redcoats had ambushed us in the Hudson Valley... and in a desperate hour, Washington called me to his tent. The revolution, he explained, wasn't merely a war for the future of our country. It would determine the fate of every man, woman and child on Earth. He gave me a mission... to kill a man who'd reveal himself on the Hudson Shore. An unknown mercenary recognizable by a mark on his hand - that of a bow. However, situation had changed when I had found out that my wife, Katrina, was a witch after a long struggle with dark spirits made from the soul of a love one of mine, accidentally killed by Katrina in a fight. The summoner is the one who greeted me at the Van Tassel Mansion - Katrina's stepmother, Lady Van Tassel.
La Folia seemed interested and started to ask more.
La Folia: You mean Katrina's parental family name is Van Tassel, right?
Ichabod: Indeed, and they served a benevolent witch coven which I knew a little. Her stepmother, however, is a dark witch and poisoned the former Lady Van Tassel - Katrina's birth mother, so that she could seek Katrina's estate. Turns out it was her who was behind the Horseman of Death's rampage. Because of her interference, a friend of mine tried to pull me out of the mission, but Lady Van Tassel made the Horseman kill many people before kidnapping Katrina. I tried to save her life and shot at the Horseman, but he did not die... Then, because of Lady Van Tassel's ambush, I was severely injured. However, with my last breath, I cut off the Horseman's head.
Sister Mary Eunice: (thinks) It all matches Katrina Crane's words.
Katarina, Sister Mary Eunice and La Folia heard the story with great care, but Abbie still doubted it.
Abbie: Now, this is crazy.
Ichabod: Which makes it no less real.
Abbie: Filled trips is over, strange people. Let's go.
Abbie then turned back and was about to go, but Katarina stopped her.
Katarina: This Bible was left with him for a reason. The connections are all around us. You just aren't yet willing to accept them.
Abbie: Accept what? That the man I am after, the man who killed Corbin, is one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?
Katarina shook her head.
Katarina: Not just that. This is a part of an enormous conspiracy, Abbie. It's a long story, but... one day you shall learn, but--
Ichabod: Excuse me, miss.
Ichabod then walked forward as Katarina made her way to Ichabod. Ichabod looked at Abbie in the eyes and talked seriously.
Ichabod: When I beheaded him, that man didn't die... because he was never a man at all. He is Death itself, lieutenant, and somehow... he has returned to Sleepy Hollow...
- Ichabod: ... to finish what he started.
Ending - Evil Eye[]
Franz Ferdinand - Evil eye (Lyrics)
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Afterwords[]
From Officer: This episode is mainly made for Pandora, who should NEVER be ignored in this crossover even if she only had a few appearance in the previous episodes. You can see it as a part of the crossover, or you can see it as an independent yet still canoncial story. The next episode, however, will still feature Katarina as protagonist alongside Ichabod.
This episode marks the Mr. Gold's return and his involvement in main story alongside Pandora. Also, Mr. Gold's sub arc had merged with the main story as well, thus most of the seperated sub stories in The Cranes Arc had now merged one by one into the major storyline.
Some part of the story shall be Easter Eggs for the upcoming Death Arc, Firenza Junior spin-off and even Pandora Saga.
This MAD section (huge, right?) in this episode is the first MAD section appeared after its two episode's absence.
This episode also contained many remaining cut contents in previous episodes that were not used because of my birthday deadline. Time to resolve old problems.
From CIS: In 2016, we had so many notable events, like the Rio Olympic Games, Donald Trump became the next American president, the launch of Shenzhou XI, Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and so on. Anyway, 2017 is coming. The past is past, and what we need is to hold our present day and embrace a new future. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery, and today is a gift. Happy New Year to all of you!
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