(While in prison, Griffith receives a vision from the God Hand)
VVoid
We shall meet again, at the appointed time and place. We are kindred, your kinsmen, oh blessed one...
“Unfinished Business” · Season 1, Episode 15
In this episode: Dean Winchester (940), Damon Salvatore (715), Sam Winchester (665), Olivia Benson (637), Stephen Fry (608), Narrator (554), Clark Kent (523), Nate (486)
SSilat
The outcome has been decided. Drop your weapon and order your men to surrender or I'll take your head on the count to three. One... Two... Three!
Guts (blocking Silat's deathblow): Four. Don't let that street performer get the better of you. On your feet.
Guts!
Draw your weapon.
Wait a minute! (Casca swings her sword at him) Are you trying to kill me? Casca!
I said draw your sword!
Casca(while forcing Guts to fight her): It's all your fault! Griffith and the Band of the Hawk, it all went to hell because of you!
Because of me? How so?
How stupid are you? Damn you! You are the one Griffith wanted! It was always you! You were the only one!
Who the hell are you?
Pay heed, struggling one. Soon, a storm of death and madness that will rage around you that no mortal can atone for. But, pay heed struggling one. Struggle, squirm and fight. That is the only sword with which you can hold death at bay. Ne'er forget this.
Hey! What do you mean? Wait!
CCharlotte
A thousand years ago, the land was embroiled in war and turmoil. One rose to put an end to the chaos: Supreme King Gaiseric. In his lifetime, he forged a vast empire that spanned the entire continent. His lineage remains a mystery, but his skill at arms was famed, and they say he always wore a skull mask to battle.
Judeau I've heard stories of the legendary Skull King. But he was mad with power, so Five Angels were sent to deal with him. This led to the elimination of his army and the empire he'd built.
Wasn't it four?
Casca! The Keys!
[Guts and Judeau see the horrific scars on Griffith's face.]
T-This can't be... T-This cannot be Griffith...
[The door is locked]
TTorturer
You're trapped in here. You're locked in.
Was it you who did this to Griffith?
TTorturer
I never got to work on someone so pretty before. He weathered torture so well. First, I cut his tendons so he wouldn't run away. Then, when he wasn't sleeping or eating, I tore off his skin and fingernails. I branded him with glowing iron and bathed him in boiling water. We've been as close as a married couple for the past year. Look at what I have for my collection! (He shows off Griffith's tongue.) It's my charm. His tongue, see?
[Guts breaks the door and runs the torturer through in the shoulder, suspending him above the pit.)
This is where you die. You won't be going to Heaven double-tongued. (He cuts the torturer's tongue out.) Your breath is rancid. You'll fit well in Hell.
TTorturer
Please...! Don't do this...!
I can't hear you. Speak properly.
(Guts drops the torturer, causing him to fall to his death.)
VVoid
I bid thee welcome to this distant setting, this abstract time. Ye lambs of the un-godly God-born of man, enjoy this sacred nocturnal festival to the fullest. Thee, honorable child, consecrated by the laws of Causality, the Hawk. Thou art the Chosen One. At this time, at this place. The one chosen by the hand of the Great God. We art kinsmen, O blessed King of Longing.
VVoid
What is it you fear? We, who are infinitely more powerful than you? Or perhaps it is the future, the path which you were destined to follow.
UUbik
Before we delve into your future, let us return once to the foundation of your past. Then we shall know what exactly it is you are.
OWOld Woman
What are you shouting about?
All these people are dead!
OWOld Woman
Weren't you the one who killed them? None of them would have died had you not claimed to be on your way to the castle.
But I didn't force anybody...
OWOld Woman
Silence! You should have known from the start. You should have known what kind of place you'd come to.
Known?
OWOld Woman
Listen here boy, the only path that leads to the castle is by paving a road of corpses. Stop here and you'll end up a corpse yourself.
I... I'm...
OWOld Woman
You're such an idiot. Now you regret what you once thought was a good idea. Just looking at the castle from the alleyway couldn't satisfy you, could it?
GGriffith (thinking)
I knew the consequences. But... I cannot apologize. I will not. If I should apologize or feel regret, then everything would have been for naught. I will never reach the castle if I do.
GGriffith (coming to from his vision)
Was that... an illusion?
UUbik
No, this isn't an illusion. We merely held up a mirror to your own consciousness.
VVoid
You have longed for the castle in the heavens, paving your way there by piling up corpses. That is you.
VVoid
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.)
Griffith! (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...)
...I sacrifice.
(The hand-like altar begins to close its fingers around Griffith. Griffith smiles.)
Griffith!
(Griffith is encased in the hand. Guts frantically starts to try and pry the gigantic fingers open, calling Griffith's name.)
VVoid
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.)
VVoid
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.
NZNosferatu Zodd
You finally showed yourself. You've been our enemy for millennia. I was never quite sure you would use this chance.
I see you have been appointed gatekeeper, Immortal.
NZNosferatu Zodd
I take no interest in their mindless banter, "old friend."
GGriffith (sinking deeper into the Astral Realm while his men are slaughtered)
Where am I? Their deaths are flowing through me. I feel nothing. My memories are slowly overflowing. Why...? Why do men... I see... So that's why...
[Guts is surrounded by thousands of Apostles, several of them holding the mangled remains of the members of the Band of the Hawk.]
You bastards...! ...DAMN YOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!
[At the same moment...]
UUbik
The birth!
SSlan
The Fifth Blessed King.
CConrad
A new demon king!
VVoid
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]
...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.]
... 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.]
(...gasp!)
[Femto continues, staring at Guts all the while. More tentacles from the Apostle restraining her begin to pull her legs apart.]
...what the hell are you doing...?
(gasping and writhing)
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.]
UUbik
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.]
D... Don't look at me...
SSlan
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!
UUbik
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.]
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