Brian waited until his Matriarch had left, not wanting to contradict her in the very least. To
say anything contradictory to Her was incomprehensible. She was his MATRIARCH after all,
her word was law among the Pride. Once she
"To say that all Nazis were humans is actually rather incorrect, and dare I say, prejudice."
Brian said, politely waiting till Mr. P, Mother Glen, and Gillian II had left. "Gypsies, Jews,
ANYONE who wasn't part of Hilter's vision of a perfect ideal Germany paradise were
targeted, but his personal hatred against Jews put them at the top o the list. In particular
when he decided kicking them out when he'd just have to do it again after he conquered
where he had kicked them out TO!
Gargoyles aren't concerned about right or wrong, good or evil, it isn't in their creed, their
creed in fact speaks AGAINST thinking in such terms. They protect their charges to the
bitter end. When Germany expanded, Gargoyles died. When allies invaded Germany,
Gargoles also died, this time fighting the allies protecting the German towns, cities and
building they had for longer than any human had been alive.
There were even LEOMAN in Germany's command structure. But not in any of the roles you
think of when thinking of Germany and the war. They had no idea of the Holocaust, of the
genocide. Leoman saw him as just another politician who had rise to power via popularity
rather than ability to govern and ultimately harmless in the long run. Contrary to what
most children are shown, Hitler and his fellow Nazis didn't just barge in and take over, he
was elected via -popular vote-. Not to mention thanks to German propaganda, everyone in
Germany thought Poland had invaded them! The ones who did learn quickly began
smuggling Jews out of Germany.
Dragons weren't nearly as prominent in the SS, not only due to much, much, MUCH smaller
population, but also by being welcome by the Descendant of the Sun, the Emperor of
Japan, who have always held dragons in religious admiration much like their Emperor
before he formally admitted at the end of the war he was not a god, merely a descendant
of one. The war as a whole pretty much shattered the sense of racial unity that dragons
were so proud of.
Hilter's legendary charisma also appealed to -many- Lupmans and Felmans, lupmans
seeing the Nazi philosophy as appealing to the 'old ways' of the lupman that the young
and reckless had only learned of in idealized fiction and nostalgia of their grandparents
and great-grandparents. And the old fantasy that American Lupman had betrayed their
cultural heritage.
There was no storage of Lupman in the SS, who had the letters engraved on their
backside... which made it a lot harder for them to vanish into the mists like their human
and felman comrades did when the war ended. For felman it was simpler charisma based,
and yes, Felman WERE targeted for being 'biologically inferior in every way' while Lupman
and Leomans were seen as models for Hilter's dream of human supermen. Felman who
were Nazi supports either knowingly or unknowing were simply turned a blind eye to.
Similar to how the Japanese were declared more or less 'fellow members of the same
stock.' "
Mal'akh declared, "That last part doesn't make a lick of sense!"
"You're absolutely right it didn't. But it enables the Germans to work with the Japanese
without in their minds betraying their thoughts of being the master race."
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Glass Marie of course had to add another contextual filter around herself as well. Otherwise
her mother Eliza, would become worried sick by now. Marie didn't like doing this in the
least. But it wasn't permanent, and this was a story that had to be told. Eliza had Rick to
keep her company right now. Glass Marie that part of Rick would have wanted to use the
magic to become her sister instead of her father, but a husband was what her mother truly
needed rather than another child right now. 'I wished she was still a normal child who'd
have loved the idea of a new sibling, it would have made things easier.'
"Samantha 'helped speed things up?' They didn't-!" Maddex's heads said.
"She and her sister Alissa were two more to be added to the 'collection' though they stayed
with their family. And since the witches had gotten better from their early days that had left
the original Joella catatonic, they were left with a trace of magic instead of going mad when
exposed to the infinite chaos, not enough to do magic on their own but enough for the
witches to use them as part of their medium. Perhaps it was due to being touched by the
witches' magic already on the same day which enable the chaos to more easily assimilate
into their being. Either way, they didn't go insane when eating candy that opened their
minds to the Infinite Chaos, which proved to Joella that her foster parents nor the candies
nor herself were in any way responsible for the disease of insanity that was plague
Glendale.
In a way, Joella was the witches' greatest weapon. She became their justification. She had
given them a -future- even as they sought to freeze progress from cradle to grave. It was
in their minds for -her- that they sought to create a perfectly fair world where no one had
to grow up and no one had to die and no one was ever mean to one another and rules
didn't apply at all in any shape or form so everyone was free."
Even when as a middle aged woman she learned her foster mothers were responsible for
the game, she thought anything bad that anything evil that happened from the game was
simply their good intentions back firing."
Maddex shook his heads so hard they banged into each other, "OW!" "OW!" "How could-"
"How could-" "-she think that-" "She think that-" "of those-" "of those-" "-horrid
monsters?" "-horrid monsters?"
Glass Marie said, "Believe it or not, the witches were Joella's main inspiration in life for the
rights of others and their happiness. They had been, as far she knew, making a better
world for her sake."
Betty asked the next obvious question, "The children who they 'infected' MUST have still
had families. They just LET THEM wander to the witches?"
"The first thing the witches did with their new 'familiars' was place a geass on the families
so they didn't mind their children being taken care of en mass by a family of three women
and a bunch of non-purians.... The geass itself was a taxing endeavor, but the witches
knew it was worth it. "
"They managed to get all this done before Marie Cruz saw them hang before the end of the
year?" Maddex's head asked amazed.
"It wasn't like the witches opened up their orphanage in January and Marie and her group
showed up the next day..."
And when the witches did face justice, while it was due process, their fate was a fairly
foregone conclusion."
Betty asked, "Why didn't they give Joella magic? And if they thought what they were doing
was positively right, why did they keep it from their 'daughter?' "
"Long story short? Golgotha knew what was coming, or at least knew they'd face the 'dog
of god.' They had originally thought the fairies would continue their work if something
happened to them. It did occur to them once or twice to expose Joella to the infinite chaos,
but deep down, gogotha feared what would happen if something went wrong."
Maddex, "In other words she was willing to risk the children of strangers but not her own."
"Yes. And so since they never gave Joella magic, they were hoping to keep her out of the
crossfire of their climatic battle with the 'pack of god's dogs' ... That was why they made
sure that during the final conflict Joella was with her 'grandfather'..."
"Ma-, Goldwyn," Joella remembered the strict rule of not using that word. "Why do you
always hide your face?"
"Eh? I'm not hiding-"
"Is it because of your hurt there?"
"I'm not hurt-"
"It's okay ma, Goldwyn. You don't need to hide it." Joella kindly pushed the hair out of the
way, looking at the half of Golgatha's face that had made her name so fitting.
Golgatha cringed back, and covered her face again. Joella didn't cry out in terror or cry at
the sight like Golgatha had always thought she would... Instead Joella just stared at her.
"You don't need to be ashamed Goldwyn... it doesn't matter what you look like, I still love
you." Joella hugged her. Herodias started at this show of affection.
Allie and Samantha chose that time to finally find Joella and tell her a happy new year!
"It's a pity we couldn't make them all children." Golgatha told her siblings after seeing the
cuter interaction, and no longer being ashamed of her own face.
"Yes Mistress." Herodias said, in spite of now supposedly being ancient she looked still like
an adult rather than one that should have been dying from old age by now. "But remember
you ARE going to need help in running the place for the children who have received your
gift. We must balance out those we free with those we convert into help."
"And then, we can finally begin?" Gomorrah asked excited sounding like a little girl herself.
Happy at the thought of having someone to take Solome's place in her heart.
"Yes dear." Said Gaal petting Lilith. "These children we've liberated will be the ultimate
force for good and rescue everyone of Glendale from their slavery. And then we shall take
the entire colony, then on foreword, and foreword, until we ourselves will just have to sit
back and watch as the world is remade into a paradise."
Betty asked, "Why girls? Children I understand given their prejudice towards adults. But
were they sexist too?"
"Not really. They simply figured that girls would be compatible with their magic than boys
somehow. But at the same time, they knew they'd need at least some boys to balance it
out. That's how it worked in their heads."
It would still be a month before the witches got the 'orphanage' officially open, but the
ground work was now complete. The spell had started, and it had already begun to grow.
"And on New Years Eve of this year, the world will change forever." Gaal declared proudly.
"That was the Game wasn't it?" Betty asked, "The magic they were powering up in that
years to turn the planet into a mad house. It became the curse."
"...yes. They were cut short of their goal. But there was still more than enough to inflict a
powerful self replicating curse with all their power, their familiars, and the infected children
all together."
"I don't like the look of those clouds." Kathrine spoke her mind referring to the mass of
dark clouds with green lightning arching from one to the next.
"-I- don't like the look of those clouds." Captain Wesley himself declared, "Helmsman,
move'er around them and give us a wide distance."
"Aye aye sir!"
However, the clouds MOVED.
Much, much, MUCH later, Marie Cruz flicked a piece of severed green tentacle off her
shoulder, her nun dress and Kathrine' stained with black blood that thankfully didn't show.
"So we are all agreed," Marie Cruz said in a tired, exasperated voice, "We shall under no
circumstance speak of or discuss the gigantic green octopus demon who tried to eat our
souls and twist our bodies."
"YES!" Vatican said, his polished marble body made rough by the wind and sea air now
stained dark green in nearly every place, 'This is going to take months to scrub out!' The
Gargoyle said, who were not totally without vanity.
"Agreed!" Captain Wesley said, also deciding to ignore nuns fighting with knives and spears
and passing it off as just part of the twisted imaginary that THING had tried to impose on
his mind and that of his crew.
"I've already forgotten it!" Kathrine lied. The tentacles had focused on the little felman more
than any of them and she was surrounded by the impaled and severed things. She had
enough trouble on this voyage already when the elder lupman captain of a spanish ship
had tried to kill her when their vessels had crossed and had ranted that Kathrine smelled
like, 'That damn red cat she-pirate!'
"Good!" Draco said, "Then perhaps we can continue this voyage across the deadly waves
without further nonsense!"
A week later they crossed another ship, that while wooden as ship were meant to be,
seemed odd somehow, and the captain aboard simply addressed himself as 'Baron' and had
been perhaps a little -too- polite around Kathrine commenting that she reminded him of a
very dear friend of his.
Even eleven years ago when fate had set Marie and the witches on their respective paths,
the puritan's church male numbers were not what they once were. The Praying Town had in
fact been created for the sake of converting the native indians for the sake of increasing
numbers to the puritans. This of course, had the puritans in Glendale even more
determined to see through the storm.
Marie was so focused on the witches, she had no clue that the first of four wars between
England and France and different native American tribes would break out that year as she
her group fought Gaal, her sisters, their familiars, and 'converts.'
"The new family the witched created to be their helpers treat the witches' own 'daughter'
so much like royalty that any other child would have been spoiled rotten, but as I said, this
Joella was no ordinary child, her heart, memories, mind, and perception were all
idealizations."
Maddex's heads implored, "BUt what happened to Alvin's family? HIS OWN daughter?"
"She'd be born again when Alissa became a woman, married and gave birth to her..."
Betty shook her head, "But you can't just ERASE people!"
"It didn't, it simply pushed her birth foreword over two decades... and yes it did cause
damage to existence. And Alvin's wife was now an adult woman with no husband or child
and would find another man, he wouldn't abuse or harm her, but she'd never be as
remotely happy as she was with a husband she could no longer remember."
Marie thought of her hair. The years she had left it short like a boy should, only to wear it
long again and having to learn the mannerisms that came with being female, which led to
Kathrine and Zoey thinking she was boy sneaking into their group on a dare. Now she was
a nun, and cutting her hair short was naturally expected of her. Of course Kathrine had
done the same thing (unlike female leoman, female felmen were not 'bald') but for Kathrine
it was a new experience (hair length was another thing dictated by felman tradition). The
last time she had worn her hair this short, it was when she had met three little girls in her
dreams who wanted simply to be hers and Mutt's friend. Before the giant crow had
appeared in her dream and had kept them apart. The crow who had reminded Marie Cruz
of her foster father.
"I will bring justice to those brides of Satan." Marie Cruz said under her breath.
"And for the record, though no one in the party knew it, the final battle with the witches
happened on the anniversary of when Marie's parents, and those of the witches, were
killed. Marie's by lunatics who want to pull all of Spain into a never ending plague, and the
witch's of course by perfectly honest and decent people who gave into their fear and
paranoia. It had begun with Golgotha and Marie, and it would end with the two of them."
"And they would use the drugs then?" Lawrence asked.
Glass Marie tilted her little blond head, "Yes, and no. the witches had made several
defenses for themselves to prevent themselves from being murdered like their
grandmother had. And had placed similar protective Geass' around Joella. No throwing
knife or dart, made of iron or otherwise, could penetrate their defenses. Marie and her four
comrades learned that the hard way."
Lilly nodded vigorously, "Oh that's right! Marie met the fourth witch hunter when she
landed in the new world!"
"Yes. And Marie found she'd have some detective work trying to pin down where Glendale
was."
"But what was that you said? About no typical weapon would get through their protection?"
"No it wouldn't. As I said, after they learned that the hard way... Marie remembered what
she had read, asked questions, became a grave robber, and made a set of throwing knives
carved out of the bones of a very particular old woman's grave."
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"Should we put these on display again?" The gargoyle Library asked his Lupman companion
in the basement of the Glendale museum.
"The ivory throwing knives?" She asked, or everyone assumed they had been elephant
ivory, "Maybe, it's a fifty-fifty shot, people will either want to know about the game, or
pretend even harder it doesn't exist, could go either way."