Okay, to help show off the new year...
A past chapter
Lightning coarsed through the sky above as three of the four original penguins Skipper, Kowalski and Private were examining a golden coin. Now, as far as gold coins go, it didn't seem that odd, but said coin had a strange word of it, Ivlivs.
"So, what is the deal with this coin anyway? And why did Tonto seem to want it examined so badly?" Skipper commented as he leaned against the wall of their original base. Kowalski nibbled on it with his beak, and shockingly it went through his beak like it was a hologram.
"Egad!"
"Cheese and crackers!"
"Interesting shock words aside" Kowalski held the coin into the light as he continued to examine it "This coin appears to be some sort of Celestic Bronze like metal, a monster killer. But being pure penguin, the three of us are immune to it, interesting"
"Um, are you sure we aren't overcompensating about this coin. After all, it could just be a drachma" Private reasoned. Kowalski shook his head.
"No, we have a whole safe of coins we grabbed from Iris's temple after Rico's little escapade with the celestial bronze chainsaw..." they were lost for words about describing their lost comrade "but anyway, this coin isn't a drachma, if fact I wonder..."
"Wonder what, Kowalski?" Skipper demanded.
"COIN, TRANSFORM!" Kowalski yelled. The coin didn't do anything.
"And that was, what?"
"Sorry Skipper, I was expecting it to do something" he knocked the coin off the table, and it flipped a few times, and then transformed into a golden sword. The penguins stared at it in shock.
"So, that's what it does. We must send word to Tonto immediately, and to collect our 50 dollar research payment!" But they had no idea they were being watched.
In a darkened room
A dark figure, the darkness obscuring all but his piercing, electric blue eyes, was staring at a monitor intently. His eyes widened as he saw, through a secret bug in the Penguin's security system, they successfully activate the coins power.
"Blast those birds and Tonto, they have Ivlivs, and now all my work to silence that part of me" he groaned as he briefly flashed white, but held it back, like one would repress a belch or something "is going to be more difficult, than before. If that coin gets into that idiot Percy's, or that failure of a daughter of mine's hands...JULIEN YOU USELESS LUMP OF FUR!"
"Yes my dark lord of lightning whose made it so I can't speak his name" the dark armored lemur appeared to the stranger in a dark portal. These last few years, however, hadn't been kind to the lemur. His tail was now covered in bloody, matted fur, and he now had a scar running down his right eye.
"Be silent you pathetic mammal! I'm in need of your, services. I need you to destroy the Penguins, as inconspicuously as possible. You can still control the heartless, so make it look like they destroyed those birds once and for all, and then you must destroy the coin they have"
"Yes my lord, um by the way can I get a raise!"
"I SAVED YOU FROM THE GRAVE YOU IDIOTIC MONKEY, YOU WILL DO AS I SAY AND NOT COMPLAIN ABOUT IT!"
"I'm a lemur, not a monkey"
Back on City Zoo
Appearing via dark portal on top of the Zoo's bell tower, the lemur rubbed his hands together, before he began chanting. Now, this is not necessary for summoning heartless, but Julian is well, Julian.
"Dark sky spirits, HEED MY CRY! From the depths of darkness, the high reaches of night, and the bowels of hate, bring forth, the tormentor of the isle of flies and unruly children, rise and destroy them all, great Beelzebub!"
From the ground, a dark mist began forming, as the shadows flew into it and began to meld into a greater being. The shape soon began to take a distinct form. Its left arm, was a large spear, tapped off with a edge mixing Celestial Bronze and mortal steel. It was linked to a green body, with hair covering it in a way that resembled vines. The other arm was huge, with a giant arm for crushing things, and short, stubby legs. The heartless emblem adorned this arm like a tattoo. Its head was a snarling boars, with chipped tusks and yellow teeth. (This OC heartless is based off the Novel, The Lord of the Flies, that I was forced to read recently)
"ROARRRR!" The dark Julian cheered.
"YES, IT IS BEAUTIFUL! NOW MY PET, DESTROY!" the beast roared again, before turning on Julian.
"Hey, wait, what are you..." it pointed at him as a dozen darkball heartless flew from the shadows and attacked him. Julian activated his red lightsabre.
"HOW DARE YOU BETRAY ME HEARTLESS!" Julian yelled as he quickly sliced the heartless away, before Beelzebub grabbed him with his giant arm, and ate him. Julian screamed, as his lightsabre clanked to the ground. The lemur was no more. It was then that the Penguins burst out, and reacted in horror.
"GREAT HOOVER DAM!"
"THAT THING IS UGLY!"
"Um skipper, I think it ate Julian" Skipper glared at the private.
"Well that's at least one good thing. Though the guy was finally gone. But never mind that boys!" they drew their blasters they had in the first chapter "ITS TIME TO TAKE HIM ON!"
"ROARR!" The penguins started firing. With its giant arm, the beast blocked the attacks, before it charged. The earth shook with each step as it shot its spear out.
"Evasive maneuvers!" the penguins avoided a spear strike before Skipper flipped the Ivilis coin he still had on him. This time it transformed into a golden javelin.
"Wait, what happened to sword mode, well this is better than nothing..." Skipper shot the now javelin straight at the heartless. The spear struck it in the chest, as it began to roar in fury.
"Now boys, now!" The Penguins jumped and blasted with a fury into the beast. It stumbled backwards, its its giant arm tried to remove the spear. The penguins blasting continued, before it managed to knock it out of itself. The coin clattered to the ground, before it roared and charged at them. With its huge hand, it demolished part of the Penguin exhibit fence, and took a chunk off the concrete top as well.
"No, our base is open to the sky, attack!" Skipper jumped into the air and opened fire, the laser blasts doing little against such a powerful heartless.
"This is a job for science, or should I say the Auto Slap Rubber Glove Blaster!" Kowalski had the weapon from a few chapters ago as hundreds of pairs of gloves were blasted and sent flying at the monster like machine gun fire. They immediately began to distract the monster.
"Now, for the new Electro Pulse cannon!" a giant, compared to the penguins, blaster with a static ball thing on it was now being held by Skipper. Firing, a huge blast of static electricity struck the beast, and knocked it down. Trouble being, it completely destroyed the top of the base.
"NO, CURSE YOU BLOWHOLE!"
"Skipper, Blowhole has nothing to do with this" Private yelled as he returned, apparently having been retrieving Ivilis.
"He doesn't?" Beelzebub was done yet, it rose from the base, and roared into the sky. A huge ball of darkness began to gather in its large hand, as a huge dark laser flew straight at the penguins.
"FRANKLINS FEET!"
"WAHHHH!"
"SWEET RUSHMORE, BEHIND ME! GOOD THING I HAVE THIS!" Skipper tossed the pulse cannon behind them, and activated the Aegis shield they had found, and Thalia had lost. The huge golden bronze shield activated, spreading from a bracelet of bronze on Skipper's arm and covering him with room to spare, that his other penguin comrades took advantage of. The blast struck home, but the shield held firm, but it was being pushed back inch by inch. The dark energy pored around them like a stone would in a rushing river.
"URG!"
"NO, WERE PINNED LIKE FLIES SKIPPER! WE CAN'T BLAST FROM HERE, WE'RE BE HEARTLESS FOOD IN NANOSECONDS! WE MAY BE DOOMED!"
"Holy Dursely!" Private whimpered. But from above the distant Empire State building, a new person was observing the situation. The setting sun obscured her appearance, but some data could be seen. She had a black hooded robe, not so different from Organization 13, with a goat skin cloak as a cape. Intense eyes were visible under the hood, as was a single strand of chocolate brown hair.
"Ivilis..." she said to herself stunned, before jumping from roof top to roof top in an amazing burst of speed. She quickly appeared above the ongoing battle.
"It is, and those Penguins are in need of help. They fight like a legion, I'll give them that, FEATHER STORM!" from her hand, a storm of peacock feathers flew like a miniature typhoon. The feathers flew and struck the heartless, with amazing power. The giant heartless was sent flying into the stars, before it exploded into dark particles, as two hearts vanished, the heart that made it, and Julian's. The mysterious stranger landed next to the exhausted penguins, who eyed her in confusion.
"Hera?" Skipper said confused. The new comer shook her head.
"I'm not, but in some ways I am. My name, is of no importance. I have little time, so I ask of you, I must have Ivilis back. You may keep your notes on it, however, share them not with anyone of the world of Olympian Manhattan" Skipper aimed a blaster at her.
"And why, should I give it to you?" The stranger waved her hands, and the blaster was knocked out of his flippers.
"Because, it is the property of my champion, now hand it over!" grumbling, they tossed her the coin, which she caught with ease. She smiled.
"I am impressed, birds, by your show of prowess in battling that powerful heartless. Here, I can't use my full powers, but I can do you one service" she sent a blast of golden light into the air, as a deed rolled up like a scroll fell to them. They grabbed it gingerly.
"I believe your base is now compromised. With this, you may obtain a place for a new one. Call it, the blessing of the last true god of the Republic and Empire" with that cryptic note, the stranger vanished. The Penguins looked dumbstrucked...
"Um Skipper, there's a mortgage on it, Tonto' better be willing to help on that"