Demon Princess Magical Chaos

"Dammit." I gesture at Aurelia to follow me at her own pace before rising into the air and zooming across space. I fly toward the massive hand, which reveals itself to belong to a gigantic infant-like form. It slowly climbs out of the crater, its skin crawling with tentacles still setting into place. I don't know if that's Chaos-Juzual's idea of a sick joke or a representation of her imagination, but I suppress a shudder at its appearance.

Turning toward me with its black eyes, the giant baby opens its mouth beyond what should be physically possible for a human jaw. From within the black maw shines a light - an energy beam of some sort! I dodge the plasma by strafing to the side at a right angle in the middle of my flight while ignoring the massive g-forces acting on my body.

"Can you hear me, Mataku?" I try to reach the Primordial Terror inside the baby but get no response. I doubt my voice not created through the Imagination Engine, but in some other Crawling Chaos way, is reaching him now.

I know that the Imagination Engine can be accessed inside a Crawling Chaos's body from first-hand experience, though I don't understand how. Mataku had millennia of practice using it, as opposed to Chaos-Juzual, who, in turn, has over twenty years on me. I'm sure he can figure something out if he hasn't been digested yet. For now, I can only do my part.

Surrounding myself in plasma, I zoom toward the giant black baby intending to burn my way through it as I did with the buildings on Alverost's floating city. Then I reconsider my chances of making it through her body alive and gather the plasma into an enormous blade instead. Physically cutting a Crawling Chaos into pieces is a waste of time, but cauterizing the severed parts could at least slow down the rate of reconnection.

As I approach Chaos-Juzual, she opens her mouth once again. This time, instead of light, a multitude of tentacles shoot out like a stream of vomit, coming toward me with the intent to absorb me too. Dodging with a midair twist and swinging my plasma blade, I sever them all about halfway to their roots.

With a burst of speed, I fly close to the black baby and let my weapon do its work. Her reaction time is barely enough to take notice of me, but the tentacles extending from the massive body are unable to catch up to my movement speed. Cutting her all over, I notice that the burnt wounds are slow to close themselves, as expected.

All I need now is some decisive move to kill-

Suddenly, Chaos-Juzual lurches toward me at an incredible speed. If it weren't or Nymphy's eyes, I wouldn't have been able to react. Then I realize that this wasn't her intentionally changing things up to take me by surprise. Her massive form isn't stopping and flies past me out of the lunar atmosphere and toward Tokomaha's back - followed by moon rocks and dust.

The God of Growth has caught the moon and stopped it.

Damn, I can't have her leave the surface of the moon just yet. And who knows what she will do if she touches Tokomaha's giant form. Maybe she could bite off chunks of her body and gain even more mass that way. But more than that, her goal is to let the moon hit Earth, so she could use that opportunity to get the God of Growth out of the way.

"Aurelia!" I call out to the golden queen coming falling toward me. Catching her in an embrace in midair, I point at the giant baby. "Catch her!"

Extending a hand toward the moon's surface, she transmutes a massive area into gold. Then she points at Chaos-Juzual, who keeps getting farther away from us, upon which the lake of gold bubbles up and forms countless tendrils that shoot past us.

I watch as the mass of tendrils latch onto the giant baby's entire body and stop its momentum before reeling it in. Without Aurelia, I couldn't have done this; I would have had to use my own mass in place of the gold, and that would have been absorbed by the Primordial Crawling Chaos in no time.

But Chaos-Juzual realizes our reason for stopping her. She begins to spill out from between the gold, but Aurelia twists her hand and closes her fist. From the large gold tendrils, smaller ones grow and rein the spilling tentacles in. Then, with a swing of her arm, she pulls the massive blob of darkness back and slams her into the golden lake.

Spreading her arms, Aurelia pulls the entire lake together to seal Chaos-Juzual inside it. But the latter begins to glow from the inside, and the gold melts off of her body. The melting point of gold is nowhere near as hot as the point at which atoms break apart - the way it happened in Zylos. But once molten, Aurelia seems to be unable to control it.

That's where I come in. Gesturing at the ground around the golden lake, I create a massive sinkhole into which I drop Chaos-Juzual before covering it back up. I know that it's only a stopgap measure, as even rocks will eventually melt from her heat. But burying the Primordial Crawling Chaos in the center of the moon could be a viable option.

Suddenly, the cover I put over the sinkhole erupts. From within rises a massive woman with oily black skin crawling with tentacles. Of course, Chaos-Juzual can fly, and her physical strength won't be held back by only dust and rocks piled up on her.

She extends a hand toward us, from which a storm of tentacles sprouts. I wrack my brains to think of a permanent solution to this battle, but all I can think of is to burn away the mass as I did with Mataku's artificial Crawling Chaos. Only that, unlike that mindless creature, Chaos-Juzual won't be caught in a light barrier that easily.

In the meantime, Aurelia brings up the remaining gold that wasn't melted in an attempt to shred the approaching Primordial Crawling Chaos from below. As before, it won't do anything against this massive body since it will simply reconnect quickly. But even a distraction is better than nothing.

However, all of a sudden, the tentacles coming toward us stop before being pulled back. I watch as parts of Chaos-Juzual's form dent inward as if hit by invisible punches. Her face looks surprised, and even though the eyes are entirely black, I can see the panic in them. Then her arms and legs are forcibly retracted into her body, which loses its humanoid form and continues to compress.

"NoooooOOH?!" With a scream, which causes Aurelia to cry in terror before she falls unconscious from the mental strain, the giant face is pulled inward as well. As if a black hole opened up inside Chaos-Juzual, she shrinks faster and faster, until it all disappears into a sphere a little over one meter in diameter. Its surface shows a different galaxy and seems to lead to another dimension.

I can't adequately describe what happens next, but it seems as if space is turning inside out for that sphere alone. Then, a blob of black tentacles takes its place, from which four limbs and a head sprout. It quickly morphs into a humanoid form, which gains colors and grows clothes. Within a moment, it turns into Mataku as he looked like before Chaos-Juzual swallowed him.

"As I was saying." He states in a nonchalant tone, a sinister smile cracking his face. "Watch and learn."