Three years after Shiishii came back to us, a certainnn... chaotic event took place. It was around the same time that many joyous events were to take place in coming days. You had Amiyama Crimsonburst and her cousin, the assassin and fellow Annihilo-Sect member, Aiyama Crystalburst. Both were becoming the Emperor and Empress of the Phoenix Empire. An empire that chooses their leaders based on merit, power, and achievement. It is an independent empire that was once apart of the noble territory of Gahwardia, the God of War Clan. It won't it's independence when the previous queen challenged Lord Morzick for their freedom and forming an official alliance with Gahwardia. All for the goal of eventually becoming the twenty-first clan of the first Colossaverse. She won the approval through tested combat against Morzick. Combat in which she was able to fight him to a draw. Now... coincidentally enough, the previous queen's lineage has always seemed to be a step above the rest for spot of the Queen's position. So much so that she and her brother became the previous rulers. Now their mirror images in the form of their two kids have taken the mantles.
Currently, Amiyama and Aiyama are being assisted by her younger brother, Demetri "Swift-Hit" Crimsonburst, and Aiyama's elder sister, Soi-Flametress Crystalburst. But their event wasn't the only one occurring in the next few days within this Colossaverse. Many divine academies and institutes were holding their graduation parades and ceremonies in that same timeframe. Morpheus and many of his pals were amongst those graduating. Many festivals for clans and other civilizations would also be going on to celebrate such a vast amount of graduates. Gahwardia was actually busy planning a celebration for that, and the ascension of Aiyama and Amiyama. Which makes sense, Amiyama is his daughter-in-law after all and he's best friends with her mother and uncle. So easy to say that this Colossaverse was going to be busy. Because of this, the Assassins, Annihilo-Sect, and STRIFE II were working together to make sure no funny business occurs. We predicted that the Untold TRUTH would be making their move during such joyous, Colossaverse-wide, celebratory mayhem. We try our best to enjoy ourselves even whilst knowing this is a possibility. Unfortunately for us, we would come to find out that our hunch was correct.
But even before all of that crap, a few weeks before in fact. We ended up activating something terrifying in the hopes of creating a grand sparring partner for Annihilo-Sect. One with the ability to instill growth and evolution within us. The model would be an actual living dummy created by a Primordial being from one of the three primordial species. The model was donated by another supposed dummy who acts as a teller within our Omniverse. He's a shady cat with noble quirks that befit the business he likes to conduct. We actually had to help thw guy stop this dummy he donated to us. The damn thing was attempting to absorb the essence of the actual Celestial King, Lord Xeeron himself. Little did we know that the same ability he used back then, would be used on the entirety of Combattiumn's Annihilo-Sect. Absorbing our essence and pieces of every concept we all hold within ourselves. He became a ball of evolution that can adapt infinitely until his max is hit. Forcing an evolution to occur as a result. If you nearly kill him, he will evolve. Allow him to absorb too much of your essence and your concepts are foreign, he'll fucking evolve. He has so many condition to activate it, and he even used an empire found in the Gahwardian territory to thrust his evolution higher. Causing mayhem we were forced to hunt down.
"I've received word from Shiishii that the bastard is down within the Noble Empire,Earth Z. He's trying to destroy it all, and to make matters worse. He's already at a live where Shiishii actually has to take him a little serious in his current base form!" ZeeShift explained.
"Tch, he's evolved that far already!? Shiishii's already an 83 on the Power Scale Rating. He's damn near a multiversal threat on the HIGH complex level. So how has Graze Matter already risen so far!?" I asked, panicked was the tone of my voice.
"I don't know, big brother. All I know is, Shiishii's power just shot u-
We were teleported to Shiishii's location. It was there that we could see Ebon, Vashjai, Kishin, Morpheus, Hideaki, Hideaki's younger half-sister, Miikimo, and a bunch of injured mortals. One of which held the Sin of Pride, making the young man a member of the Seven Deadly Sins. He went by the name of Saint Z, and was a close friend to Shiishii and his family. I later found out that Graze attacked Saint and his friends, a mistake that would come to cost him. Knowing all of this, and realizing that Zenki's apprentice was amongst them. We sent the gifted group of mortals away to the Big Four. It would be there that they would ascend into true godhood, becoming greater deities than their mortal selves. By the time the fighting ended, and Ebon, who took over the fight, presumably ended Graze's life. We all went our separate ways to prepare for the fight we all knew lied ahead of us. A fight that would become one of the most heinous events in the entire Omniverse. Certainly the worst one within the first Colossaverse, that's for damn sure!
We return to the present time of that period. The eventful day where many would graduate and our friends would become the new leaders of their home Empire. An eventful day that brought smiles to us all, smiles we hoped would last forever. Even Shiishii and his siblings were all happy in their process of training. Well, three of them at least. Haydes was in a coma for very specific reasons, and Morpheus was busy graduating from the Dragon Clan's prestigious D-Drag, Deity Academy and Combat Institute. Amir and our daughter watch over Haydes, whilst Shiishii's daughter celebrates with Morzick and the Gahwardian Clan. Watching her mother's coronation on a live monitor being shown at the Gahwardian festival. All felt right in those blissful moments. That was until...
"O' greatly esssteemed Phoenix Empire! I am the deity known asss Ssslith Ssserpintosh. I've come to congratulate your two new leadersss with a gift like no other. An all out asssssault on your pathetic livesss." Everyone looked up, noticing an army appearing alongside Slith and other famed criminals. Noble ones at that. But that was the worst of it.
I'm every clan within the entire first Colossaverse sat a massive army being led by a captain from the Untold TRUTH. A massive siege on Combattiumn Prismo had now began.
"Let the Combattiumn Sssiege Incident.... Commenccce."
Their target in all of this? The total possession of all five keys found within the young group Haydes brought together. He succeeded early on, where the Untold TRUTH has failed time and time again. The group was called Le Destruccìon, and they were no slouches. Another failure was predicted for the Untold TRUTH, that's what we all assumed, of course. But this time, they came with force, they came with unwavering strength collected by breaking out powerful villains from the chaotic times. Beings capable of taking on OG STRIFE members. Hey made all the difference during this massive invasion.
The tides shifted every which way, during so, we came to realize four of the keys had already gathered within the Phoenix Empire. One of which had traveled with me to their location to assist in the elimination of the TRUTH's forces. The young lass that traveled with me was known as Sonya Senkozen. Youngest child of Lady Shiitania Senkozen, and the younger twin sister of the god Haydes killed. His own younger cousin, yet he killed him to protect the keys during his last failure at the life of Shiishii. Ever since, he has been imprisoned and serving STRIFE II as community service. She and I fought side by side through the many grunts that Slith brought with him. During this, Haydes would come to deliver a gift upon us all before traveling to where Shiishii Gaia and are located. That gift was the final key that we all thought was buried and hidden. But doing so attracted the leader of the Untold TRUTH. A Doom user of Black Lightning that goes by the name of XigXahm. His power was fierce, rivaling Gaia, Zenki, Morzick, and their other twin siblings. He was merciless, just like the rest of the riffraff he brought to stand against us. It took me, Soi-Flametress, and the strongest member of Le Destruccìon, Tailee Senkozen. She and her two younger twin siblings' parents were adopted by Shiishiigami, Xenophia and Gaia I. They were given their blood and essence to literally bring them into the bloodline. Their blood was potent enough to rewrite most of their genetic coding.
Now, by this time, the Colossaverse managed to hold them at bay, but that would only last so long as four separate clans began to lose ground. That's when the unthinkable came to happen. Shiishii, Haydes, Hideaki, ZeeShift and Kishin all finished their training. Blitzing towards the areas that needed them most, one of which, was our own. XigXahm had just finished being injured by the assault of the newly awakened, twins. Tailee and her twin sister, Meilee really took the fight to him. But he eventually overtook them, just like he did the rest of us, coming to the decision of wiping the Phoenix Empire off the map. Something that was only possible because of his powerful subordinate sealing Amiyama and Aiyama's parents within their palaces. XigXahm wasted no time in dropping a bomb made of Doom essence. It would've wiped out everything and everyone if not for Amiyama using her body as a shield. Her flames stopped it in its tracks with ease for quite some time. Saving us all until her essence began to run dry. By then, she would be saved by Shiishii, as well as the rest of us. Watching as he overtook XigXahm without transforming even once. Such was the strength he had cultivated by then. Even so... the Untold TRUTH achieved their main goal in retrieving the keys. And nearly achieved their other goal... the assassination attempt on Gaia II's life.
Graze Matter actually survived the assault of Ebon and ended up joining the Untold TRUTH. He was the final piece to their plan and the entire reason it actually ended up being a success. Because his true goal wasn't to win, that would be the bonus. It was to keep Gaia II from entering the fray and shifting the entire tide of their siege. She could've singlehandedly stopped XigXahm and made their mission a failure.
"Heh, you say you're here to kill me? You must be joking, Graze Matter X." Gaia laughed, then finished drinking her bottle of liquor.
"Indeed, you will fuel my evolution, and then-
The bottle was smashed in his face after she threw it at him.
"Yeah, yeah yeah, yada yada... yada. Let's just get on with it, Grazey." She smiled and chuckled as she fumbled around.
"G-Grazey!? Tch... Why you insolent, little-
He teleported to her six, flanking Gaia. Unfortunately for him, he was backhanded with drunken finesse.
"O-Oh nah! Y-you think some amateur hour s-sshidt like that cyan d'wurk on MEh, byITcH!?" She spun around and around until Graze managed to make it back to her.
"What the hell is going on here!?" Graze thought himself.
He rushed towards her once more, finding himself locked in mortal combat with one of the brightest minds of our time. She dodged every strike with masterful movement, nothing wasted even as she fumbles about like a bumbling idiot. She blocked all of his attacks whilst countering simultaneously. Pushing him back until he was forced to evolve thanks to their difference in strength. His newer form allowed him to even the playing field somewhat. But Gaia grows whilst in combat, advancing at alarming rates that his natural evolution could barely keep up with. Their battle tore multiverses asunder as they clashed repeatedly. Only for Graze to eventually be pushed into a corner. One were Gaia had him at the edge of evolution, yet... She wouldn't push him further. Frustrating him as she toyed with her opponent until four more signatures would come to join the fray. Captain-ckass combatant from the TRUTH. One of which was a pyro clone of XigXahm. This was the day the Omniverse thought it'd lose its second life goddess. But Gaia had other plans, turning the tables on her opponents with a hidden technique she only spoke of with those she trusts dearly. It allowed her to kill three of the five assailants that dared to come and assist Graze. In the end, it was nothing more than a failed assassination attempt.
A failed attempt that gave us information on powerful members from the TRUTH. Though it would all be for naught upon hearing they pretty much won the war against Combattiumn Prismo. Kidnapping all five key holders and a few others. Including Morpheus Senkozen himself of all beings.
Many trials and tribulations would come to follow those events. But they were mere distractions from the actual goal at hand. We as STRIFE needed to become stronger as we aim to keep the final key away from the Untold. Our opportunity would come in a form of a tournament hosted by the teller himself. In preparation for this, ZeeShift and I finally returned home, ready to train with our elder siblings so that we may finally break into the low percentile of deities that reached the level needed to manipulate whole Colossaverses. Everyone else in STRIFE II went on to do the same thing. Gaining strength necessary for taking back the keys from the Untold. Though, in the end... what they had wished for, would come true in the end. Taking many lives as a force beyond anything we've ever faced had come forth to claim our Omniverse. During these events, I lost a light within my life that I've held close to me for thousands of years. Shiishii... lost the same kind of light at the exact same time. Such was the despair we faced in this new Era of Chaos.
More than ten years has gone by, by then. We found ourselves at war with another Omniverse, tensions were high and treacherous behavior was at an all time high in our side. In my own mind, things couldn't get any more chaotic than it already was, but I failed to see the greater picture during those travesties. Flying through the void of the Omniverse, I had just got done playing a few of our enemy's forces. That's when I was suddenly teleported into a foreign realm by essence I've felt once before. In that moment, I saw a face I never thought I'd come to see in my lifetime. Not like this at the very least! I came face to face with a being I once hated more than the concept of hatred could actually bare. Now I sit here, talking with this being as though we were friends of some sort. But what choice did I have, their power was beyond me at the time and I did not wish to die in vain. Playing my part is all that need be done when you're speaking with the Sin of Wrath.
"So... What is it that you want from me...
Seightahn?"