Encantadia: Rise Of Dark Pirena (Part 1/5)
Encantadia Season 2 FanFiction Subplot
Note: The timeline of this fanfiction story are started from where Encantadia 2016 left off..It's my first time doing this kind of stuff but I tried my best to make it consistent from the original story..I also made my own depiction about the concept of a creature's "suppressed darkness", including the idea of dark side and good side of one's soul..It's a fanfiction story with non-linear storytelling.
After her relative absence during the remaining part of the TV Series, Amihan is back to save the Encantadia from advancing apocalypse.
"My dedication to protect and save anyone would always give me enough strength and motivation to fight" - Sang'gre Amihan!
"If my pre-written fate is to die today..Well, I have to rewrite it" - Sang'gre Danaya!
"Once a Sang'gre always a Sang'gre and we put ourselves on the line to protect all things valuable to us" - Sang'gre Alena!
"If you really wish to have my body and soul, you must take it by force" - Sang'gre Pirena!
"Though you found vindication, you always have a stink from the past" - Celestia!
Part 1
Prologue
Chapter 1 - Celestia's Awakening
Chapter 2 - Goddess Cassiopea's Vision
Chapter 3 - Unknown Encounter: Pirena's Strange Feelings
Part 2
Chapter 4 - Revelation: The Dark One
Chapter 5 - Tears In Battle: Sang'gres In Trouble
Part 3
Chapter 6 - The Return Of Amihan
Chapter 7 - The Savior Of Encantadia
Part 4
Chapter 8 - Bending Reality: The Power Of Imagination
Part 5
Chapter 9 - Redemption: Battle Of The Goddess
Epilogue
Disclaimer: Encantadia and its characters is a television property owned by GMA Network..Also, the conceived battle scenarios and dialogues of this Encantadia Season 2 Fanfiction subplot story are heavily inspired from various video games and anime series.
Prologue
Time after Hagorn’s death together with the downfall of evil God and Goddess..Was the time where peace and harmony has been restored, and inhabitants of Encantadia could live without the rolling wave of war and conflict..The bond between Cassiopea, Emre and their champions – the Sang’gres of Lireo are indestructible and light seems to shine over the realm for a long time..But force of evil will do everything to destroy the current order of their existence.
Arde, God of underworld named Balaak regained his power after returning to his place, and absorb the thousands Ivtre of good Encantados that he acquired during the time of Adhara’s quest..Now he needed someone who can bring more Ivtres off that kind to replenish what he consumed.
Celestia, the manifestation of Pirena’s suppressed darkness, a renounced evil version of herself when she returned to good side, now hunting her..She has been manifested and took a breath when Arde uses his power to extract her from Pirena’s soul..The prophecy had told of her coming - banisher of light, bringer of death, destroyer of all things..She’d come with serious threat to wipe the whole Encantadia.
Emre, God of Devas brought Amihan back to life and she been told that her premature death was not her preordained fate or a mistake, as she meant to live much longer alongside with her Apwes, Ybrahim, Lira and all precious diwata whom she protect with her life..He also found it more reasonable to resurrect her because Encantadia needed its legendary heroine in upcoming war as well as to face the very recent threat..Given her life anew, Amihan has embraced the role of formidable Savior who descend from Devas for a sacred task.
Celestia is arguably the strongest creature who ever exist in Encantadia because of the exceptional power of darkness within herself..What’s more terrifying is, that power are still not absolute until she can successfully absorb the whole part of Pirena’s soul and takeover her body..If that happen, she could have a power comparable to a Goddess or herself become one of them, and the future of Encantadia can be consumed by chaos and terror which may lead to extinction..But Amihan will do everything she can to stop this from happening..As the Savior of the realm and vanquisher of darkness, she will arrive in time to save everyone.
Chapter 1
Celestia’s Awakening
Pirena had a really really bad dream about the creature with a face concealed by a mask who save her from danger, but then turn to kill all her loved ones including Mira and destroy everything important to them..She tried to help them but she can’t move like she was restraint by a chains..Then that mysterious being called her name and told her that I’m coming for you soon to have our union..Suddenly woke her up in nervous, coincided with Mira entering the room and asked her what happened..Pirena told her daughter that she had a nightmare she thought was real, a sort of premonition but she was confused about it..She quickly hugged Mira and thanking Emre because it was just a dream..Later on, Pirena suddenly feels like something missing to herself but she don’t know what and things are begin to act weirdly for her..She approach Hara Alena and Danaya at the main hall and ask them what happened when she fell asleep early..They told her that nothing as everything is in normal.
Meanwhile in Balaak, Arde is done of giving evil Pirena’s soul her own vessel, assuming the name and sacrificed body of Ice Kingdom’s tough female warrior called Celestia..This new creature was spiritually and physically revamped by Arde, who were given an innocent pretty looks and mischievous personality to counterbalance her roles and motives as a Bringer of Death.
Without a question, Celestia has possessed old Pirena’s way of thinking, desires, and strong will to own everything that give her so much power..But Arde corrupted this soul and made her a complete masterpiece of pure evil who without any positive feelings and emotion..The only nice thing about Celestia is her outside appearance but so hideous overall.
The power she possessed seems no limit and she also have her own Brilyante called Gem of Dark Flames given by Arde, which is more powerful than any of the Brilyante owned by the Sang’gres..Equipped with devastating power, Celestia begin her journey to fulfill the given tasks which include of tracking down her other self Pirena..However, she only unveil her true identity to the target victims so that she can easily convey them to its demise, while uses different semblance every time she crosses path with the Sang'gres.
Chapter 2
Goddess Cassiopea’s Vision
Cassiopea went to Lireo and informed the Sang’gres about this mysterious creature in her vision who will bring more deaths in Encantadia..She told them that this creature’s presence is more disturbing than a threat pose by Ice Kingdom’s impending invasion..The incoming enemy are much stronger compared to all enemies they had faced before, so they must be prepared.
Pirena asked Cassiopea if the creature in her vision are similar to what appeared in her dream? She answered - maybe, because the said creature are related to one of the sang'gres..Then Pirena's started to worry about what happened in her dream, while the others got confused on what Cassiopea was talking about..Imaw, the old mage from Adamya raised a question on how it become related to one of them, but she replied - the sang'gres will know if they can meet the creature.
And Cassiopea told the Sang’gres to find the creature before it found them..She has a premonition that worst thing will happen if they won’t address it properly..The future will defend on them because if they failed to stop this creature from achieving what it came for - the prophecy come true and Encantadia will face its oblivion..That's why, eliminating the threat is very important than anything else..She also warned the Sang’gres to be careful and more cautious to interact with other creatures along their journey because the one they looking for has a tricky identity..They must be together to have a chance or survive against this enemy.
The Sang'gres have requested Cassiopea to accompany them in their mission..But she refused and explained the role she has, as Goddess of Vision - the shepherd of all creatures and guide them to the path they chosen..Moreover, the deities except those evil ones are bound in a sacred rule to not personally intervene the creature’s act of fate..And it forbid her to fight alongside with the diwata anymore..The only thing she can do is to warn them and share the vision seen by her eyes.
She also said - the three Sang’gres may not be able to defeat this enemy but the savior can, barring all fate-altering event capably caused by evil god’s intervention..But doing their best are much needed nonetheless to distrupt the creature from forfeiting more lives until the savior has arrived..Cassiopea drop some hint about the Savior which is someone they knew from Devas..It offered everyone some glimpse of hope and sigh of relief, they are guessing that it would be Amihan but who knows?
Chapter 3
Unknown Encounter: Pirena’s Strange Feelings
The three Sang’gres – Pirena, Danaya, and Hara Alena are started to embark their very important mission to find the mysterious creature told by Cassiopea..They first decided to visit the Creek of Truth to know whose this creature they searching for, so that they are aware if they will crosses path with her.
Pirena: Creek of truth, show us the identity of this creature who may come from Cassiopea’s vision.
The Creek of truth shows the picture of the creature that they were looking for..Her overall identity was not revealed but she is a girl with athletic body and long hair with a sword at her right hand while her face are concealed by darkness..But Danaya have some compliment about the creature’s figure.
Danaya: In fairness, she got a better shape for a villain.
Pirena: Ssheda for that Danaya!
Alena: But I’m just wondering, why does the creek of truth do not show her full identity?
Danaya: That’s what I wondered too.
Pirena: Seems that there’s something who restraint it to display the whole truth, maybe it’s another, one of the evil god or goddess doing.
Nonetheless, what was shown in the Creek of truth is right but the Sang’gres didn't know that Celestia like Pirena, has the ability to “shift face” so that no one could track her down after killing her victims..From the Creek of truth, the Sang’gres resume their journey and now they are headed to Hathoria where they see a woman attack by an unknown thief..Pirena fight him and the thief opted to run away and never comeback.
Danaya: It wouldn’t be safe for you to walk here alone because there’s so many bad creatures who wander around this place.
Alena: Do you want us to accompany you back home?
Woman: It’s not necessary my dear Sang’gre, because my companion is already here.
Pirena: That’s good..If that is.
Alena: I hope that you can reach your preferred destination safe.
Danaya: Divine Emre, may guide you.
Woman: Avisala Eshma for everything, Sang’gres.
Then both parties walk separately, but less than a hundred steps away, the Sang’gres heard voices of the Encantados that has been attacked..They quickly headed to the location of the voices but what they saw was the fresh dead body of the two creatures that they were met few moments ago..In a nearby area, they saw a burning village and the Sang’gres use evictus to quickly reach the place..In the area, they find out that they are bit too late because the attackers are already gone and all they left behind was the dead bodies of their victims.
Danaya: Tanakreshna! Who did this very horrific incident?
Alena: Whoever do this, they were all cursed creatures.
Pirena: What is this feeling?
Alena: What do you mean, Pirena?
Pirena: Seems that there is a strange creature who watching and following us since we leave the creek of truth..Sometimes I can feel her presence just ahead of us.
Danaya: But I can’t sense anyone else except us and these dead bodies.
Alena: Even me, I couldn’t felt what you perceived, Pirena.
Pirena: Trust me, we are not alone.
Danaya: But it’s weird, there is no retre who come to fetch these dead bodies and bring them to Devas.
Pirena: That’s what I noticed too because normally they supposed to be here to rendezvous these corpses.
Alena: And there’s also something strange of their remains..But wait, what is this? Instead of, they just fade like a slain Hathor in the past when they were still under the curse of the Brilyante?
Pirena: If they gone like this, they surely bound to Balaak instead of Devas.
Danaya: Maybe they don’t have a place in Devas because of their ill-doing when they were alive.
Alena: Perhaps, you’re right.
Pirena: Let’s go, before we caught up by some unwanted enemy here.
The Sang'gres leave the area as they travel to the Cliff near the territory of the Ascano where they encounter their new enemy, carrying the insignia of Ice Kingdom who spying the area.
Pirena: Ssheda!
Alena: What's the problem, Pirena?
Pirena: We’ve got some company.
The enemies appeared and call themselves Blizzaga – an elite group of high-skilled warriors under the command of Astra – the strongest Mashna of the Ice Queen.
Danaya: Estasectu! They’re coming.
Astra: Avisala Sang’gres, we’ve finally met each other.
Pirena: Pashnea, who are you and where you came from?
Alena: You’re armor, weaponry, and the insignia printed at your shoulder are all signs that you are not from the three kingdoms of Encantadia.
Astra: I’m Astra, Mashna of the Ice Kingdom’s Special Commando Unit - the Blizzaga.
Pirena: Blizzaga?
Danaya: Former Hara Amihan and I were accidentally encountered them before at the borderline of Lireo, but without him..They were tough, some of them can cast ice magic with a power almost comparable to our Brilyante..As I remember, we forced to pull back because most of the warriors who with us were seriously wounded..We'd back in the place immediately to confront them again but they already leave and never return.
Pirena: We surely have an upperhand over them now, what’s the fight of their power against our four Brilyante? Alright, why are you here and why did you killed more innocent Encantados, and some of them are my precious Hathor?
Astra: What have you say? We didn’t do that, we just here to enjoy the view and we have nothing to do with your accusation.
Pirena: Liar! You are here to enjoy the view in how the lives of our same race end through your swords! (Summon her Brilyante ng Apoy)
Danaya: Ssheda Pirena, you must control yourself.
Alena: Don’t do it Pirena, that’s a request from your co-hara.
Pirena: If you can afford to stand here and let them get away for their crime..I’m different!
Then Pirena aggressively attack Astra and company while leaving her two sisters standing.
Astra: This hot-headed one should learn how to cool down (then cast his ice magic with incantation).."Avalance of destiny, freeze the flesh of my enemy, Ice Blizzard, I summon thee!"
With so much aggression and out of control, Astra are easily knock off Pirena with Ice Blizzard that risen beneath her feet and frozen her body from toe to shoulder, basically stunned her, prompted Danaya and Alena to approach Pirena and try to protect her.
Alena: Tanakreshna! What you have done to her..You must pay for it!
Astra: tssssk!
Danaya: Let’s do it, Alena.
Alena: Alright!
But before unleashing their Brilyante and attempting to fuse its power..They already caught by Astra’s Ice Blizzard, freezing their bodies and served the similar fate with Pirena.
Astra: You should not step on the area with ice shards because that’s the extension of my power, so when you does, it was like excavating your own grave..I never thought that a Sang’gre are reckless enough to be fell into a trap easily.
Pirena: You must kill us when you have a chance because if I can escape here..I will burn you, pashnea!
Astra: Hold on to that hatred.
Alena: Tanakreshna! What you needed to us?
Astra: Nothing, but we have to clean up ourselves from your accusation regarding all the killing incidents that recently happened in Encantadia..We did not killed anyone here especially innocent because just like you we also live with honor..Doing such thing is truly against my principle because as a warrior, I preferred to follow the path of least bloodshed if possible.
Danaya: But if it wasn’t you, who?
Astra: We don’t know but one thing is certain, it wasn’t us because we never had a planned to do some pre-emptive attack.
Pirena: What’s your proof to convince us that what you tell us are true?
Astra: We did not ambush you when we had a chance but instead we opted to met you in front and tried to interact with you in friendly manner..And we shouldn’t be in this situation if you weren’t attack us first.
Danaya: Maybe, he's right.
Pirena: But how did you possess so much power since you don’t have any of the Brilyante?
Astra: Knowledge Sang’gre, as we studied all your moves including your instinct in battle, the way how you use your Brilyante, and the limitation of your powers.
Pirena: Pashnea! You mean you’re spying on us for the long time?
Astra: From Ice Kingdom, we watched your every battle while we still gathering our strength that we can use against you..Now we almost completed our long preparation.
Alena: So you have a plan to invade Encantadia?
Astra: The Winter War..Now could you please excuse us Sang’gres because we still have some task to catch up.
Alena: What do you know about the Winter War?
Astra: You will going to learn everything about it when the right time comes..Avisala Meiste!
Pirena: Wait, if you don’t have a plan of killing us and if you don’t mind, could you please release us?
Astra: No, we just let your destiny to decide, if you can survive here, we will meet again (and the Blizzaga leave).
Pirena: Pashnea!
Alena: What he supposed to meant by all he said?
Danaya: This is not the time to worry about that Alena because we have this problem in front of us now, in how can we free ourselves here?
Left behind while frozen, the Sang’gres can do nothing but wait until the ice on their body going to melt..But due to water composition of the ice, Pirena can’t afford to be exposed by it for a long time or else she continue to weaken and she could die..Alena and Danaya tells Pirena to be strong but seems she couldn’t hear them anymore..On the brinks of very worst situation, a strange warrior has arrived and free them up.
Danaya: Who are you and why did you help us?
Mysterious Warrior: It’s not necessary for you to know my name..The most important thing is Pirena must be saved.
Alena: Who you really are, why do you know the name of our sister?
Mysterious Man: You will be able to find out very soon (and he leave).
Danaya: What? Wait!
Alena: He’s already gone..So many strange things are recently happened here.
Danaya: You are right (while she heal Pirena).
Alena: Are Pirena okay?
Danaya: She’s okay now and we just need to wait until she fully recover her strength.
Alena: Thanks to Divine Emre.
Later on, Pirena has completely recovered and woke up
Pirena: What happened?
Alena: We were saved by a Mysterious Warrior who didn’t give his name, but there’s something about him.
Pirena: It’s not necessary who he was, most importantly he helped us and I must thanked him..Otherwise, sorry to two of you, because of my aggression I put your life in danger..Ì’m your older Apwe so it should be me who protect you and keep away from risk not the opposite.
Alena: It’s okay Pirena, no need for you to say sorry because you didn’t make a mistake..We are sisters and it’s our responsibility to help and protect each other regardless whose younger or older..All we need to do is to face it together no matter what happen.
Danaya: She's right, and you don’t have to feel guilty of yourself..We’re not just a sisters or family here, in battlefield we are also a comrades and the true comrades must protect and don’t leave each other behind.
Pirena: Avisala Eshma, my sisters.
The three Sang’gres hugged and smiled with each other then they suddenly remember their long gone sister Amihan.
Danaya: I remember our other sister Amihan..Her presence, love and embrace of belongingness like what you offered to me.
Alena: I’m longing for her too, I hope she’s happy in Devas.
Pirena: I know that wherever she is now, she’s happy and I missed her like you did.
Danaya: If Amihan is here, she would ease things up and make us comfortable because we know everything is gonna be fine.
Pirena: I have a feeling that we can see her again..I hope she’s the one chosen by Emre to help us because we really need her presence and strength to face this heavy challenge.
Alena: That will happen for sure but what we can do now is to believe and pursue the task we have.
Pirena: But after all what happened and we encountered here, I have a growing worry about Lireo and all the Sang’gres that we left there.
Danaya: You don’t have to worry about them because we leave the Lireo to a very capable hands of Lira and Mira with the younger Sang’gres..Also, Paopao is there with his Brilyante ng Diwa.
Alena: And the Lireo are heavily protected by impenetrable shield from our Brilyante that won’t allowed any creatures with a bad motives to enter the palace..It also have a capability to repel any outside attack..That’s why there’s no need to worry.
Pirena: Still, you can’t take away my worry especially we both know how strong and dangerous our new enemies are.
Danaya: Yeah, but all we can do now is to believe and trust the younger Sang’gres ability to lead and protect Lireo during our absence.
Alena: Also, don't forget that we're in the middle of this very valuable mission to preserve the future of Encantadia.
Danaya: And we should not lost our faith and courage until we can go through this together.
Pirena: I understand..Thanks for the reminder..Now we must move on and resume our journey to find that mysterious creature.
They continue to travel North and again they encountered more dead bodies everywhere with similar scenarios to the other places they passed by..Now they were convinced that what happened to the dead bodies and why they couldn’t see a retre is an irregularity.
Pirena: It’s getting worse.
Alena: Yeah, the longer we travel, the more Encantados we seen dead.
Danaya: What’s more disturbing is the fate of these Encantados where their body is cannot be taken to Devas due to the absence of retre..Now, I'm no longer convince that they were all bad creatures who deserved to be in Balaak.
Alena: Take a look at this on what is shown by Brilyante ng Tubig, I think it can explain everything in why there’s no retre who going to fetch these corpses, because even if they are already dead, the presence of their ivtre are still remain.
Pirena: Because normally, the body can only be attracted by a Retre if its ivtre are already leave it and departed for Devas..In this case, retre are fooled to think that these creatures are still alive..And these corpses like those we seen before them are all cursed and their Ivtre has been sealed inside their dead body until they will fade together and transported elsewhere.
Danaya: What could be the reason behind all of this?
Pirena: No one knows but only the cursed god or goddess who has a capability to maneuver this kind of Phenomina.
Danaya: But Ether and Arde were both defeated and lost its power after the last battle.
Pirena: They may lost its might and cursed again..However, they were still a god and goddess who can easily make any impossible things possible.
Alena: You're right, but whatever type of logical explaination it has, we must be careful.
Pirena: Another thing, it’s been a puzzled for me to think that every time I feel this creature who I told you watching and following us..I mean before we arrive this place, I felt her presence here but when we arrived, her presence are relocated or lost, then we found fresh corpses..I don’t know if it’s just a coincidence or what but it’s always been the case since we started to see dead bodies..Seems like every time I feel her presence in that particular area, death for all Encantados there are inevitable.
Alena: Maybe it’s time to rely your strange feeling and intuition Apwe, so that we can track this creature down quickly.
Danaya: Very suitable suggestion and it’s only be you who can lead us to this creature Pirena.
Pirena: As of now, it’s just a theory but I believe it will work.
They continue their journey and they foresee a village ahead of them..Pirena told her sisters that she couldn’t feel strange presence at the area and they check it out, and yes, there are Encantados in that place located at the Northeast of Adamya, where they peacefully live, thankfully they are safe and the Sang’gres interact with them.
Their next destination was the Adjantao with hope that they can find the mysterious creature there..When they got away from the village, Alena suggested them to used evictus since they already know where’s that place..But Pirena feels the strange things back and she perceived her presence near the forest of Adamya..The Sang’gres rushed their way to the place pinpointed by Pirena’s sense of feeling, but what they see is a little girl who cried because according to her, she lost her way back home..Then Alena talk to her while Pirena and Danaya talking to each other.
Danaya: This is just a little girl Pirena, are you sure about it?
Pirena: I can feel the extreme evil inside that creature and I can’t be wrong.
Danaya: Alena, stay away from her, quickly!
Alena: Why?
Celestia unsheath her sword and try to impale Alena.
Celestia: You die!
Alena: Water Shield!
Luckily, Alena could timely protect herself using the Brilyante ng Tubig that prompted Celestia to playfully pulled back and disappeared while laughing maniacally.
Celestia: hahahahaha..chase me if you can Sang’gres, we play.
Danaya: Seems that she’s toying with us all along, pashnea!
Pirena: For once, our theory was true and now we know how to find her..And chances are great that this creature, whoever she is, was the responsible for slaughtering so many Encantados including the overall irregularities that happened..And probably, she’s the one we’re looking for.
Danaya: Right, that’s also what I think, but Alena are you okay? Don’t move I going to heal you.
Alena: I’m just okay Danaya.
Pirena: Are you sure? You should be careful next time.
Alena: Avisala Eshma!
Danaya: Do you still feel her?
Pirena: She’s gone, for now.
Alena: We must follow her as soon as possible to prevent her from causing more deaths.
Danaya: That’s exactly what we have to do.
The Sang’gres pursue Celestia to stop her from taking the life of so many Encantados, and find the answers on why she did all of this?
To be Continue….
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