Meguriau Futari

**Meguriau Futari** is a Story Arc of the the Exteria Multiverse. It takes place in Interra, and follows the perspective of various characters.

## Main Arc

### A Looming Mystery

In France, Giovanna di Prava, a military officer who lost her comrades three years ago in a strange expedition, is called by presidential candidate Valki Yggdrasil at the beginning of year 2022. Valki asks of Giovanna to oversee a project alongside Alina Stine - to use powerful artificial beasts, Core Chimeras, in order to confront potential threats to France and the world.

In fact, soon enough, a strange creature emerges and attempts to kill Valki during a speech, but Giovanna, teaming up with Pelgeng Raines, a young girl who possesses a special bond with the fifth Chimera, manages to defeat it. She is then tasked with retrieving the president's son, Donnel Yggdrasil, a timid young man who seems to have attracted the presence of the emotionless Xanthanina Pyrina.

### Fighting the Numbers

Giovanna is given custody of Pelgeng, Donnel and Xantha, alongside another potential candidate for Chimera control, Muse Malebranche. Together, they train against several of these strange beasts that repeatedly attack them for no known reasons. While Xantha, amnesiac and lost, is given help by the enigmatic Anaxagoras, Donnel - mostly incompetent - manages to defeat one of said creatures by forcibly merging with his Chimera, almost at the cost of his life.

Xantha manages to heal off Donnel, spending time with him and learning about his past of neglect and loneliness. Beginning to suspect Valki's intentions, Xantha goes on to confront Valki, and learns from him that she is in fact a powerful entity, guardian to the Seven Pillars, sealed away by Valki. He then quickly leaves, protected by Anaxagoras, evading Xantha's anger and Donnel's own questions.

Meanwhile, young student Moana Swithel is recruited by Mr Dark, a businessman with enigmatic intents, who buys her off from impoverished parents and binds her to a stolen Chimera, Mark 8, with the help of Anaxagoras. Moana quickly grows in power, but Dark's specific rituals cause her to develop uncontrollable anger, lashing at Vectors and Chimeras alike in order to consume them and grow in strength.

### Unraveling the Truth

Giovanna starts to doubt Valki's intentions at the same time, and is contacted by Cyelde R. Eve from the SCP Foundation, who helps her understand Valki's motives, by hinting at his ties with Dark, obsession with the Seven Pillars, and his creation of the Core Chimeras, which seems to be intimately tied to the Cantor Vectors, the strange beasts Giovanna and her proteges keep encountering.

Further investigation on the subject, as well as the help of scientist Maria Schiffer, hints that Chimerae are much more dangerous that they seem - that they prey both on each other and on their own masters, devouring their identity until they are both one, then devouring each other until only one remains. As Giovanna learns that, Muse and Pelle's training is interrupted by an emergency.

Said emergency was Alina's experimentation on a synchronization between Muse and her Chimera, Mark 6, resulted in Muse losing consciousness and fading fast, and Mark 6 going berserk, only stopped by Pelle's quick reflexes and actions. Mark 6 nevertheless managed to flee, with Muse barely surviving thanks to Xantha's timely intervention. Donnel, however, has taken advantage from the incident to disappear as well.

### To Face the Dark

Donnel, in fact, has bonded with another Chimera and left after being unable to truly confront his father, trying to chase him, and instead encountering Moana. After a brief discussion, they both face off against a powerful Cantor Vector, and when Moana's Chimera consumes the Vector, she faints, causing Donnel to bring her to Valki's headquarters, where Giovanna, Alina, Maria and Eve investigate his computer.

There, they uncover a plan, formulated by Dark and executed by Valki as his underling, to feed Moana with the flesh and blood of several Chimeras and users, then use her dark nature to reinject her into Yggdrasil, the Tree of Life, in order to change the nature of humanity, freeing it from its fundamental restraints and reshaping the world according to Dark's vision. Now all unite to stop this apocalyptic vision.

### To the Final Sin

Alina and Maria devise a plan, for Moana to bait Dark into activating his ritual by consuming several Chimeras, then to use Donnel's ability to be devoured and resurrect afterwards in order to immediately stop Dark's influence. During that short window, all Chimera users quickly rush to the place between dimensions, Cantor, where Yggdrasil is hidden and Valki and Dark prepare the ritual.

Despite Valki's interference, the group manages to reach Dark, however he almost manages to seduce Moana into giving in to him anyway. A split-second realization allows Moana to understand he was only using her, and she uses her now-considerable power to annihilate him. Dark uses the last of his forces to reach out to Valki, but the latter has taken advantage of the distraction to steel a fruit from Yggdrasil.

Valki, revealing himself as **Soren Tuule**, admits he was only tricking Dark into believing him to be obedient, and taking advantage of his plans to further his own - by taking control of Yggdrasil and Xantha to erase the Earth's last several centuries and return to the past. Although he almost succeeds, Donnel manages to rach out to Xantha instead and stop her, while Pelle and Muse overwhelm and defeat Soren, saving the world.

## Other Arcs

A long time ago, Soren Tuule was the name given to an alternate Kieran Tuule who sought to find a perfect Timeline. Forming strong bonds with Ruine Harumageddon, Dokuta de Courssombre and Hina Harumageddon at the same time - despite the three of them openly viewing each other as enemies - Soren used his time-altering powers to avoid conflict between them by repeating events until he found the perfect road.

However, Soren found a limit to his powers when the ultimate battle between the three drew near. To learn the secrets of the universe, Soren made a pact with angel Dumah, who helped him steal an Apple of Eden from the Tree of Knowledge in order to find a way to unite the people he loved. This, however, resulted in Vectors lashing out, stripping Soren of his powers, and slaughtering everyone he loved.

Soren, unable to return those he loved to life, was met by a dying Dokuta, who gave him Donnel - a premature baby, his child with Ruine, birthed through an improvised ritual before Ruine's death. Dokuta gave her remaining strength to send away Soren to a distant future alongside Donnel. Now fully alone, bound by a pact to Dumah - now "Mr Dark" - and desperate, Soren took on the name "Valki" and began his own plan...

## Characters

* Xanthanina Pyrina
* Pelgeng Raines
* Giovanna di Prava
* Moana Swithel
* Donnel Yggdrasil
* Valki Yggdrasil
* Muse Malebranche
* Mr Dark
* Anaxagoras
* Alina Stine
* Cyelde R. Eve
* Maria Schiffer

## Trivia

* This Storyline is in fact tied to Sugisarishi Omoide and its sequel, hence the similar name.