Pile them up. Take all you have left. All you need to do is chant the phrase... "I sacrifice." And you shall be granted raven-black wings upon which you shall soar the heavens.
(Suddenly, Guts arrives.)
GutsGriffith! (pants) Griffith.
GGriffith (while looking towards Guts)
Yes... amongst the thousands of comrades... and the tens of thousands of enemies... there was only one man... you were the only one... who ever made me forget my dream.
(A long pause...)
(The hand-like altar begins to close its fingers around Griffith. Griffith smiles.)
Guts
Griffith!
(Griffith is encased in the hand. Guts frantically starts to try and pry the gigantic fingers open, calling Griffith's name.)
The threads of Causality have now been bounded. The promised time has come.
(Void casts the branding spell, marking everyone in the Band of the Hawk with Brands of Sacrifice. The Apostles transform and begin to attack the Band, overwhelming and slaughtering them.)
The lives of those who bear the brand, from the last drop of blood to the last moment of your agonizing death, will feed life to the new child of darkness.
[Guts is surrounded by thousands of Apostles, several of them holding the mangled remains of the members of the Band of the Hawk.]
Guts
You bastards...! ...DAMN YOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!
[At the same moment...]
CConrad
A new demon king!
Our new kinsman, to wear the mantle of evil. The Wings of Darkness... Femto.
[Griffith, transcended into a Godhand, hatches from a Behelit-shaped egg, rising to his feet with a scream of mixed fury and agony]
Guts
...huh?
[Griffith, reborn as Femto, spreads his wings and descends into the crowd of Apostles to meet Guts. He lands gracefully, several feet from Guts. Guts stands, shocked.]
Guts
... Griffith, you...
[Femto outstretches his hand; a tentacle holding Casca lowers her down to him. Guts gasps at the sight of his lover in this state. Femto brings the outstretched hand to Casca's breast, groping it. He then places his other hand in between Casca's legs, rubbing her nether-region.]
[Femto continues, staring at Guts all the while. More tentacles from the Apostle restraining her begin to pull her legs apart.]
Guts
...what the hell are you doing...?
Guts
STOP! What the hell are you doing?!
[An Apostle -- Borkoff -- lunges forward and bites on his arm, holding him in place. Femto, meanwhile, has the tentacles of the Apostle restraining Casca to turn her to him. She opens her eyes to see Femto standing over her.]
CCasca (recognizing him)
...Griffith?
[Femto forcibly kisses her, making her eyes widen in horror as she realizes what Femto is about to do to her. As Guts watches with seething hatred, Femto moves to penetrate Casca by force and begins to rape her. Guts snaps and struggles against Borkoff's jaws clamping down on his arm. Femto looks up from Casca, staring at him with contempt as he forces Casca against her will. Guts turns back to Borkoff with his sword and stabs at the monster's teeth, hoping to get free, but his sword breaks. In a split-second decision, he resorts to chiseling his arm half-off, then pulling until his arm disconnects, freeing him. Yelling furiously, Guts charges at Femto, stabbing towards the Godhand's eye with his broken sword. Femto stops him mid-charge, holding him in place with telekinesis.]
How foolish... what can a mere human do against a being who has transcended the mortal coil?
[Ubik suddenly gasps as Guts begins to break free of the grip, slowly inching his sword towards Femto's right eye. Femto responds by hurling Guts in the air, making him land in the same spot he lost his arm. Femto has Casca turned around so he can continue violating her. Guts gets back up, but several more Apostles dogpile him, halting his final attempt to save her. Femto continues to rape Casca.]
How delightful. It might move me to tears. Love, hate, pain, pleasure, life, death. All of it here to enjoy, right before our very eyes!
This is to be human. This is to be evil.
[Guts watches tearfully as Femto forces another kiss on Casca as he rapes her. As he does this, one of the Apostles restraining Guts stabs into his right eye with its claw, the last picture in his right eye being of Femto sticking his tongue down Casca's throat. Suddenly, Femto finishes, letting the exhausted and humiliated Casca topple sideways onto the ground. Guts lifts his head and wails in agony and despair.]
[Guts finds himself attacked by ghosts that proceed to enter his body, but he manages to force them out.]
Steel yourself Struggler, or they shall consume your flesh.
[The Skull Knight has arrived.]
The Brand of Sacrifice attracts creatures of darkness, bound to consume your body to the last drop of blood. That is the fate of those branded, Struggler.
[Guts runs up to the Skull Knight and borrows his sword.]
Guts
In short, this is another battle. It is no different from any other battle. No different!
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