The Truths of Existence, (Roleplay/IC/Sign-Ins Only)

by **Naval Monte** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 5:25 am

Elizabeth

"I never heard of a Gurotian before but I do know that Cryssa is an Alveranian, not an elf." Tessy stated, giving Elizabeth a side glare. "Sorry for the confusion I shouldn't have let Elizabeth kept calling Cryssa by the weird nickname." Elizabeth placed her right hand on the back of her head pretending to scratch it as she turn away from Tessy while whistling a tune, looking at everything in the room but her now angry girlfriend.

When Fauna asked on whether or not they want her to take them to where Cryssa was both of them jumped at the chance. "Please take us to her!" they both screamed out. Tessy was nervous when Fauna mentioned on the trip being unpleasant but she would do anything to save her adopted niece. Elizabeth was less than nervous than Tessy since she has been into multiple realms that were not suited for human beings before, her reason for joining in was to make sure that Tessy can get out of there alive along with Cryssa.

Elizabeth soon heard Alzis's voice from the other side of the portal, from the sounds of it not only has she heard what they were talking about but she doesn't like what she heard. Soon the roar of Razides can be heard, most likely the ones working for her now ready to enter back into the room to drag Elizabeth and the group into the hotel. "Okay speed it up Fauna we need to get that place quickly before all hell breaks loose."

Alzis

Alzis knew that sooner or latter the girl would come back to annoy her about learning everything that the "mage" knows, but wanting to bring her into the void was something Alzis can not allow. "If you're going to bring me anywhere than that miserable section of existence is one area I refuse to be anywhere near." Alzis used her telepathic powers to send in images of one of the shadowlands near her world. Shadowlands are in-between realms created by the collision of two different realities that were too close to each other, they also act as afterlives for souls who's actions in life and personal attitude towards themselves can be best described as neutral.

The shadowland shown to Celestia in telepathic images was a gray dimensions, made asphalt and concrete, roads and waystations, a shadowland named Phlegethon. "This place is much better for us to be in than the void." Alzis explained, hoping that dimension would be accepted by the string. Alzis heard what was going on from the portal and when she was furious when she heard that Elizabeth, the other bard and Tessy were planning on leaving to some other realm instead of heading towards the hotel like planned.

"You two bring our chain smoking friend into this hotel now! I want her alive but you have my permission to rough her up." she ordered giving to of her men a smirk, to which the responded back with their own demented grins as they shed away their illusionary forms to show their true infernal forms. These razides were much hulkier than most and had large iron spikes on their backs and shoulders, they also had smaller spikes on their heads that act like horns. The two demons began to crawl on all four as they head towards the portal, roaring out to signal their coming.

by **Charmera** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 7:31 am

Sigra's office.
"You wanted to see me Jhas?" Spoke Sigra, offering his fellow a seat on the other side of him. He smiled as warmly as he could to Jhas. The Enigma whom no one know anything about. Jhasban was perhaps even a false name. It was honestly rather exciting being around him. It was also concerning. He only popped up in times of need. Even his voice was uncertain, strange, like an echo of an echo, Unrecognizable.

"Ahmarhan." Sigra sighed and frowned as Jhas spoke that name.

"You think it's them? This phantom name you drew from the ether. Really Jhas?" Sigra spoke. "I thought we were done with this after the last one..."

"You know this isn't the Dark Ones, and none of our old enemies fit this. But Sixteen other cases over the years this council has operated do fit this. An assailant attacks with overwhelming force and kills one of ours, then disappears into nowhere. This is a pattern. To ignore it would be stupidity."

"So what Jhas?" Spoke Sigra. "We bring back the Star corps of a whisper within a whisper, unleash the full fury on a force that may not exist. Which we know nothing about."

"No. They are far too powerful. From what I've heard, overt hostility is met with merciless slaughter. It's why I told you to keep that name in confidence. You know the reds would begin moblizing as soon as they can." He paused. "But I'm not content with doing nothing either. We need to gather intel. Find out more. My contacts are... very slippery at best. They don't like to be out in the open long, and I haven't been able to contact them since the last time I did." He spoke. "But, if we brought back the Strider program..."

"Strider? That was dangerous at best and suicidal at worst. You remember them. It's how we met our worst enemies. We've retreated inwards for a reason." Sigra span in his chair, now facing away from Jhas

"I know, but perhaps now is time to reach outwards once more. There is strength in relying on others, or have you forgotten when you taught me that?" Spoke Jhas...

"that's-" He replied, but then stopped when he saw that no one was there. Sighing. Typical Jhas. Disapears as soon as things get good.

Still, he was right. They needed allies. He would need to talk to the others about this...

by **Generailia** » Mon Nov 23, 2015 11:30 pm

Adwith

Adwith had been slightly surprised by Crowe's sudden and rather loud response, but he was still able to keep his composure due to the fact that he had been expecting such a thing even though his eyes widened a bit. But the Shienaran hadn't expected Celestia to confront the stranger who came with Elizabeth and Kyne at all really and certainly not so soon after her arrival. Yet the borderlander couldn't help but grin at such a sudden change of events..since the woman's odd mood changes and significant combat skills might have been the death of him if she kept hounding that arrogant woman like she had been for quite some time now. Yet the guardsman decided not to eavesdrop on the conversation between the stranger and Elizabeth being how he had learned the hard way that nobles and the other abnormally rich and clever merchants really didn't approve of such a thing.

But the woman's sudden and rather rude cough had easily caught the Shienaran's attention, yet she simply spoke a few words of which sounded rather unimportant before immediately leaving. Yet he was unable to respond being how one of the three rather odd woman suddenly spoke..so he of course listened rather halfheartedly. Yet when he heard one of them mention the word Ahmarhan his face turned into a scowl until he heard the voice within his head practically scream. Light soldier! I could have sworn that you were at least intelligent enough to keep your face unreadable around this woman, unless you wished to just end the life of such a dangerous little thing and be done with it. This of course caused the borderlander's face to gradually revert back into the rather cold expression he had before hand as he refrained himself from responding to the madman. When the abnormally flirtatious man suddenly began to speak yet again, which of course caused the guardsman's expression to make it quite clear that he was moderately startled at the randomness of it. But the man slowly regained his composure as he listened to what Crowe and Fauna had to say concerning such a topic in silence while his face occasionally made his opinion of such a thing painfully obvious. Yet Adwith was certainly surprised at everyone's rather on point guesses but such a thing couldn't compare to his astonishment that the female bard would help them complete their quest. Such shock caused both the Shienaran and Leonel to miss the fact that both Alzis and Celestia had taken their leave completely. This shock remained throughout Tessy's lone response and was finally broken when they both screamed out. Yet the borderlander was unable to throw in his own approval as a roar echoed throughout the room that reminded him of the abominations he had faced in the past while the long dead aes sedai was completely stunned by such a sudden turn of events. So the guardsman's blade was drawn in a movement that would have been nothing more then a blur to the untrained eye as changed for the portal..while any sense of reasoning left within him was blinded by rage as he practically tackled saidin before everything seemed to slowly fade to a eerily familiar blackness.

Aeris

Aeris had only heard bits and pieces of what Crowe said since her unneeded paranoia that such an alien feeling would arise yet again left her fairly distracted. Yet the demonic feline had been surprised when Celestia approached Alzis at first but what she heard the being say made it perfectly clear why she had done such a odd and random thing. Yet the cat ignored the conversation between both the rather pale woman and the feminine figure simply because it didn't really interest her or even concern herself or the undead thief who still seemed to have started to daydream yet again..but such a thing was rather difficult to read due to the fact that his dead and unblinking eyes where remaining as still as they always seemed to as he stared at a nearby wall for a reason currently unknown to her.

Yet after Alzis suddenly coughed before more then likely suggesting that they should enter the portal as well the cat had nearly gotten out of her chair as she watched the woman exit with the intent to follow when she heard one of the three goddesses start speaking. Which of course caused the demon to both slowly and silently sink back into her seat as she listened to what the woman had to say. But after the word Ahmarhan was uttered her smile twitched as her eyes went wide..yet the girl was just able to keep her cool as she listened far more intently simply because she wanted to know how they heard of such a name and if the group that her summoner "rescued" had any relation to them. When suddenly, Crowe began to speak yet again so Aeris quickly decided to listen being how she would honestly be surprised if such a being didn't know of such a thing. So the adolescent demon wasn't really surprised when confirmed her suspicions and the fact that he announced his uselessness against them really didn't surprise him either since the power that the being possessed was one that would more then likely appear in her dreams when she is finally able to get some rest of course. The girl had also remained rather neutral when one of their companions announced that she was assist as well..which wasn't really surprising since they were within their own separate group beforehand.

But the demonic feline hadn't expected there to be a reply so suddenly, but the she had been confused when the woman before her used the phrase "Alveranian" being how she had never seen such a being before and this "Cyrssa" girl must be rather important if not interesting for such a ragtag group to form together with the simple purpose of saving her. When out of nowhere a roar of obvious demonic origin echoed throughout the room..and she faintly saw bony stand up with such force that his chair practically flew onto the ground as he clutched his chest and began muttering something that was more then likely to be some sort of spell. So the cat suddenly turned into her demonic-form as her sinister seeming and feeling weapons appeared on her belt as her senses all seemed to heighten at once..but she felt an intense urge to stay as far away for the woman near the pale-mage as she possibly could which was rather odd being how she hadn't experienced this in her human-form. Which was when she realized the soldier running towards the portal with a face that made it quite clear that reasoning with him would be near impossible..at least for the moment and the time needed was a luxury she didn't current possess. So the demon moved at a speed far faster then a large percentage of her kind which caused her to appear in front of him while he was just a few feet away from the portal, yet he didn't even seem stunned so she did the only thing she could think of and used air to trip him before throwing him up against a nearby wall.

Sadly, he seemed to hit a chair in the process and the sword of steel breaking ringed in her ears as her smile fell slightly. Yet Aeris couldn't afford even a simple slip in concentration as she turned towards the portal and only heard the pale girl yell ever so faintly as she faced the thing and force her smile to grow a bit larger as she said in a rather threatening tone while her right-arm was directed at the berserk man who seemed to have lost all reasoning. "I'm dreadfully sorry but could you please stop screaming like newborn infants and get back into the portal? Since I do not have the time to concern myself with you simple grunts..but if you are still foolish enough to continue I'll just have to drown you in a puddle of your own blood." The final words were said with a noticibly high amount of glee..which the demonic feline wished was forced but a part of her was actually looking forward to delivering the rather poor threat that she had made up on the spot. Yet the cat knew that her claim that they were weak was a lie, since she could see from their power alone that they'll put up a hell of a fight. But she waited nonetheless as she slowly began to draw her dagger while keeping a smile that made her intent to stay true to her word painfully obvious across her face that hadn't appeared in what was starting to feel like years since she would rather sleep then do what she was about to do to the beings in front of her.

by **Kaidou** » Tue Nov 24, 2015 8:04 pm

The Hotel

"Just jump over!" Felix yelled from the Hotel. "I'll shut them out!"

A desert dimension

There was nothing that could have prevented it.

Master Klingsor, a proud, muscular figure, standing on one side of the sandy valley, his good arm holding the black box containing the red gem, his mace arm by his side, ready to strike. On the other side of the valley stood Adrian, Wilhelmus, Kizaru, and Father Christmas. Four guardians had convened just to take down a single rogue guardian.

"Gentlemen", declared Klingsor. "I may have the gem, but that is not enough." He pointed his mace at Wilhelmus irreverently. "I want my Trident back", he yelled. "It was given to me by the Holy Spirit of the Hotel, and it will be mine once again."

"We revoked your position", said Father Christmas. "You betrayed us, and we can't let you have it back."

"So we'll do anything it takes to end you, traitor", added Adrian.

"Oh, look!" said Kizaru. "The sun appears to be going down alreadyyyyyyy…"

Klingsor chuckled, before leaping over the valley and swinging his mace, smashing Adrian's head off his neck. The decapitated head dissolved into sand, before coagulating and forming back on Adrian's neck.

That same moment, all three of the other Tenshi pounced at Klingsor and stabbed him with their respective weapons, sending spurts of blood cascading onto the otherwise anhydrous sand.

That was very unexpected. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure this could be a good time to test out the power of this red gem.

With a swing of his mace arm, Klingsor tore all the weapons out of his body, breathing heavily and grinning a bloodied grin. He hurled the box onto the floor, shattering it and revealing the red gem. That same moment, he charged through the four guardians, kicking all of them a few paces backwards from where he stood.

"I suppose Harakiri Haikarakainen will have no use for this gem", he said, sneering. He grabbed the gem and jammed it down his throat. Immediately, he was surrounded by a bizarre red glow, one which, telling from his screams, caused Klingsor extreme anguish. This lasted for just a few seconds. Once it was done, the glow disappeared, and Klingsor was back to normal, except that the wounds in his body were gone.

"Now", he said, grinning lopsidedly and licking the leftover blood from his face, "Let the party begin!"

…

Barukana

"My Lord Maju."

"What is it?"

"One of our colonies has been infiltrated by Haikarakainen's Autonomous Action Unit."

"Is that so?"

"Yes, Lord."

"I've not heard of this Autonomous Action Unit before. Tell me about it."

"It consists of three mercenaries who are working for the IGSE as a galactic cyber-espinoage force that steals information and assassinates people. The members are:

"Yarunam the Chicken, a Bronilese sniper and hacker who was formerly a warrant officer in the elite Russane Army. He murdered his officers, before taking their tech secrets and running off to be a mercenary."

"Jack Jack Jack 4467, a cyborg created by Haikarakainen for the specific purpose of torturing people. It has racked up a body count of 1,000."

"Glove, a human sorcerer who specialises in summoning demons to do his bidding. We don't have much information on him, except that he is extremely powerful, and is possibly the most dangerous of the group."

Maju remained silent, before crushing a table with his bare hands. "Carry on", he said.

"There was one other person, but as far as we know, he is dead. His identity was never ascertained."

"Ah."

"Should we go after them?"

"No. We can't seem to replicate the Genesis Bomb, which means we'll have to be on good terms with Haikarakainen."

"Yes, Lord."

…

by **Contamenesia** » Tue Nov 24, 2015 11:06 pm

Wolf

Wolf appeared before Haikarakainen, interrupting his current moment. "Dont be alarmed. If we wanted you dead, you would be dead. You opened the letter?" it wasnt really a question, as Wolf already knew that he had, it was merely a test of character. "Our organization has taken an interest in you. though dont get the wrong idea. if you live or die matters not to us. You see.... there is some information we did not give you in the letter. Information that will put you in advantage of certain others, but you will have to act quickly. You will not have much time."

Meanwhile,
another letter was mysteriously sent to Maju across the dimensions. In it detailed the requirements needed to bond with the String, as well as a very detailed discription of the ritual needed to circumvent these requirements, as well as the current location of both the True Immortal and the String. Again, the letter detailed nothing else.

Celestia

Celestia had enough with the delays. She unravelled her body and seized Alzis, wrapping aroun her. She could sense Alzis' ability trying to reach into her memories, but such an act would Kill the mortal, and that would not do. So Celestia began to glow an irridescent white, repelling the ability, nulling it. "Celestia will learn it....she knows the way..." part of her finger unravelled and shot into Alzis' forehead, but did not harm her. Once inside, Celestia once more touched Alzis' trueself. and this time, she began to pull on it, subsequently also pulling all the other bodies containing Alzis to her as well, though this process would take some time, but Celestia was patient....

Fauna

Fauna opened a portal immediately, and ushered the others to go in, well, those that were coming with her to save Cyrssa. "Adwith! Elizabeth!, hurry up!" she called. to her surprise Crowe jumped in as well, however, as soon as the last person that was going jumped in, she jumped in as well, closing the portal behind her.

Time had no meaning here. words, actions, and senses were all out of order, one could not tell a second from a century here, nor was there any linearity of any kind here. it took her a moment, but she finally used the Silent Song and made a bublle around them, which allowed those within to regain their sense of time and linearity. To her surprise, Crowe had already done this as well.

While this action, to her only took a few seconds to do, she had no clue how long the others had to wait before the bubble was up.It could have been years, centuries, hours or only minutes to them, but she hoped they still had their sanity. "Is everyone okay? I dont know how long it may seemed to you, but it has only been a few seconds since we entered. Time has no meaning here, but these bubbles that me and Crowe created should help you keep your sanity...." she said, with clear worry in her tone for them...

Jason

"Well, her intentions for you were sisnister, i dont know what they were, but i could hear it in her music. Just as i heard yours while you were still..confined. But if you still want her to take you, then by all means i wont stop you. i dont help lost causes..., however your choices are your own. If decide you would rather not go with her, i would say that that is the more sensible choice." He sighed, "She may not be truely evil at her heart, but her music is tainted with it, though i've heard worse. I do not trust her, words will not change this fact."

by **Kaidou** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 2:45 am

Contamenesia wrote:WolfWolf appeared before Haikarakainen, interrupting his current moment. "Dont be alarmed. If we wanted you dead, you would be dead. You opened the letter?" it wasnt really a question, as Wolf already knew that he had, it was merely a test of character. "Our organization has taken an interest in you. though dont get the wrong idea. if you live or die matters not to us. You see.... there is some information we did not give you in the letter. Information that will put you in advantage of certain others, but you will have to act quickly. You will not have much time."

The sudden arrival of the Ahmarhan prompted Haikarakainen to sit up in his seat, emptying his glass of whisky quickly and leaving it aside. He knew who the Ahmarhan were, and as far as he was concerned, he wasn't about to let them think that he was trying anything stupid.

"Yes", he said, "I've received the letter. I've also dispatched some mercenaries of mine to go after the string, to try and find out more about it, at the very least." He poured a glass for Wolf, before pouring another one for himself, which he left aside, awaiting the Ahmarhan's acceptance or declination of the drink. He glanced over at the men sitting on his left, without so much as a turn of his head.

They knew what he meant. Without a sound, all of them deferentially left the room, leaving Wolf and their boss alone.

"What services of mine is your organisation really in need of?"

Contamenesia wrote:Meanwhile,
another letter was mysteriously sent to Maju across the dimensions. In it detailed the requirements needed to bond with the String, as well as a very detailed discription of the ritual needed to circumvent these requirements, as well as the current location of both the True Immortal and the String. Again, the letter detailed nothing else.

Maju smirked.

"I suppose now would be a good time to mobilise more of the Army?" he said to the Generals, who stood beside him silently. "Now, we don't know how powerful this thing is. I want every last soldier mobilised. Prototypes too; we'll need every single man we can get."

"And the Genesis Bomb too. Get that ready as well. While you're at it, send word to the scientists in all 460 of our colony galaxies, and tell them that we're putting the Tenshi campaign on hold for the moment."

"Who will fight the Tenshi, sir?"

"Me."

Within moments, the entire Maju army of over an octillion men had been mobilised. Numerous portals were opened on Barukana, and the masked soldiers charged through…

by **Naval Monte** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 3:53 am

Elizabeth

"Jump over he says, well pal those bastard demons are coming from the hotel so I doubt jumping over would be easy." Elizabeth thought as she moved away from the table, unwrapping the bandages on her arms as she yelled for Tessy and Kyne to get by her side. The moment the two Razides finally leap through the portal the table that everyone was sitting in front of was destroyed by their combined weight. Elizabeth saw the Moon Sisters move away from the table before the two demons entered, the middle sister taking Serena with her.

Elizabeth saw Aeris get between her and the two demons, the occultist couldn't help but smirk at the young demonese telling them to fuck off. "I think I may start to like the little hellrasier." she said, now having all of the bandages off her arms. The two razides responded with one swiftly backhand the demonic feline away from them, it's claws scratching into her skin as she is sent flying across the room and on to a near by wall. Kyne threw several of her knives at the demons and the second one in almost blinding speed manage to destroy them before the blades can hit them.

The moment Fauna the portal Elizabeth thought of running to it but the Razides blocked the way. "Where do you think your going insomniac? Our boss still has yet to use both you and your cursed toy for our mission yet." One of the demons said as they moved closer to Elizabeth. Elizabeth looked at the demons with a cold and disinterested expression, opposite to Tessy who was obviously scared at seeing actual demons in front of her while Kyne glared at the beings with utter hatred. "Just tell your boss that I'm going out to do some errands. I promise I will be done quickly." the demons don't seem to by her words as they drew closer to the three women. "Our boss told us to spare your life but she never said anything about the other people in your group. Come with us now and maybe we will let you pick which one in your group you want spared." the two demons began to cackle, enjoying both the look of fear they were getting from Tessy and the look of hatred from Kyne.

Elizabeth simply rose her left her and open her palm in front of them. On her palm was a tattoo of a circle with a ring of Hebrew scripture around with small sigils located at the bottom right and left of the circle, inside the circle was a smaller circle in the center inside an upside down triangle, the smaller circle had a strange symbol in the center. Inside the triangle were three symbols. Elizabeth gave the demons a smile quite similar to Aeris once she saw them expressed a look of horrified recognition. "Right about that deal I have a better proposal. Fiat Bloddy Lux!" after she uttered those words to Tessy and Kyne's point of view the two razides simply screamed in pain as their bodies disintegrated, but to anyone with extra sensory awareness they would have saw a bright flash appeared in front of them and engulf the room in it's glow, destroying the demons.

"The best part about spells that are losing their power is that they get easier to use as time goes on." Elizabeth stated as she saw Kyne go to Adwith to pick him up and take him to the portal. Elizabeth turn to Tessy and saw that she was still scared about what she just saw. "Yeah those were actual demons Tess but those sods are dead now. Right now instead on worrying about them let's focus on getting Cryssa." Tessy nod her head in agreement and soon the two of them charged towards the portal with Kyne following closing behind with Adwith.

When Elizabeth entered the realm she nearly threw up once she felt all of her senses go out of whack. The moment she uttered a curse her world were a jumble mess of words that she couldn't understand. Elizabeth felt like she was in random spots throughout the realm yet nowhere at the same time, she felt as though she was trapped in her for months if not years yet she remember clearly that she has only been here for a few seconds... or was it hours... or days? Once the bubble was around Elizabeth she heard Fauna confirmed that they have indeed been here for only a few seconds.

"I think years of experience with magic that bends time and space and the occasional walks through Metropolis helped me out somewhat cause I'm sure if I was any ordinary bloke I would have gone mad by now." Elizabeth explained, reaching down to her pockets and found a strange square shaped object inside her coat pocket. "How the hell did this thing get into my bloody pocket?" Just as Elizabeth was about to take it out she felt Tessy hugging her from behind, Elizabeth felt Tessy shaking from what she went through. "For now it looks like she is still sane but I wouldn't be surprised if this experience has left some sort of mental scar on her." Elizabeth gloomy thought as she decide to ignore the strange object in her pocket for now. Just than Tessy decided to speak to the two bards.

"How are we going to find Cryssa in this place!" she said almost shouting but stopped herself from doing so since she was too close to Elizabeth's ear. Tessy was worried on how Cryssa is now since the Ahmarhan forced her to be trapped in this realm, she hopped that by the time they found her she wasn't insane.

Moon Sisters

The Moon Sisters knew that Alzis lost her patience with the newest members of the team the moment they heard the roars of the razides. All three left the table and took Serena with them the moment the Razides the leap towards the table, destroying it and scattering broken wood all over the floor. They saw the demons go pass the feline one and head towards Elizabeth, Tessy and Kyne. They wanted to intervene but all three notice that Elizabeth was in no bit worried about them. Just as Elizabeth shown the strange symbol on her palm they covered their eyes as light engulfed the room and the screams of pain from the demons echoed out from the room to the otherside of the portal.

Once the light was gone Artemis was the first one to act, using her powers she conjured within the pockets of both Elizabeth and Adwith a special items that once used would not only allow the three sisters to know where they are but would also give them a nice award once they complete their mission. Knowing that their time in this realm was up they went into Felix's portal. Once on the hotel lounge they found many members trying their best to pull Celestia away from Alzis who she now had wrapped up with one string going inside her forehead. The woman's face was frozen with a look of pure shock as the string dig it's way deeper into her very being, touching her true self and pulling on it.

The three sisters saw this and knew that now was the time for them to put the string out of commission for a while. Silently chanting they used their powers to create a special sort of powder, this powder carried with it special properties to cause anyone who makes contact with it to become disoriented. They controlled the wind and soon the powder flew towards both Celestia and Alzis, the powder also landed on anyone who was close to them and immediately the effects of the powder kicked in with most falling down to the ground.

The Moon Sisters felt a cold chill run down their back as they felt the opening of many portals to the hotel, they felt that many beings have entered within those portals. "Oh no, we need to leave this place now!" all three shouted at once to Felix. With Hecate creating her own portal to a random realm.

by **Kaidou** » Wed Nov 25, 2015 7:20 am

Without so much as a second thought, Hiccup leapt onto Toothless and charged through Hecate's portal. The two landed on a large, grassy plain, one that had a mild, soothing fragrance. That, however, was not his concern then. He looked back at the portal, at the rest of the group. "Hurry", he said, "let's go through!"

Felix didn't move, however. Something about these new guests perturbed him.

Who are these guys?

He concentrated and attempted to catch a glimpse of the intruders.

… Maju???

He saw it; Maju's gigantic army, charging out of a number of portals opened from Barukana, all of them charging down the colossal corridors of the Hotel, some of them opening portals to other places and going through them. It was a army that looked just as endless as the one that had attempted to attack Father Christmas' base; the only difference here was that their commanders rode on the backs of gigantic, rotting dragons that spewed a hideous black fire that burned parts of the Hotel.

At the same time, two of the Hotel's Tenshi were battling against the troops desperately.

"Vhat ze fock ist goink on?" a voice screams in Felix's projection. "Zese guys are effreyvhere now!"

From what he could see in the projection, four other portals opened up above the Maju Army's endless stream, from which four other Guardians leapt, including Adrian and their former host, St Nicholas. This was, beyond any reasonable doubt, a legitimate threat to the safety of the Hotel.

"Oh, these guuuuuyyyyys", came another voice, one that had an air of lightheartedness about it despite the gravity of the situation. "I've seen them quite a few times befoooore…"

The projection cut off with a wave of Felix's hand.

"Everybody", he said weakly, as he made his way to the portal, "These invaders aren't exactly unfamiliar…"

…

???

"Klingsor."

"Ah, this is Glove, is it not?"

"No shit. Klingsor, Haikarakainen wants you to go to the Hotel."

"How convenient; my four opponents just went there. What does he want?"

"The string is there."

"Yes, aaaand?"

"So is Maju's Army."

"Well…"

…

by **Charmera** » Thu Nov 26, 2015 5:03 am

Contamenesia wrote:
Jason

"Well, her intentions for you were sisnister, i dont know what they were, but i could hear it in her music. Just as i heard yours while you were still..confined. But if you still want her to take you, then by all means i wont stop you. i dont help lost causes..., however your choices are your own. If decide you would rather not go with her, i would say that that is the more sensible choice." He sighed, "She may not be truely evil at her heart, but her music is tainted with it, though i've heard worse. I do not trust her, words will not change this fact."

"I..." She paused. "I need to know why I was created. I need to find out what I don't remember. Because what I do remember..." She spoke, then stopped again. "If what I remember is true, then I have something very important to do. I just have to figure out what." She explained. Then paused, looking to Violet, whom had gone into her own room. "Thats... ironic. It seems like words are her trade. Words becoming miracles. Wishes. Making dreams come true." She paused. "How did someone who has such a seemingly kind job become so... bitter and selfish?"

by **Naval Monte** » Fri Nov 27, 2015 2:25 am

Tandem

3 days earlier

It wasn't so bad now thought Juila as she saw it again in her mind, it was not so bad. It was calling to her, calling across the cold spaces .The heaving, goggling thing in Cairo was only part of it. In Cairo, she had wet herself and curled up and clawed at her skin and screamed and screamed until the injections ﬁnally took effect and the strong straps held her tight to the bed. The Professor had tweaked his yellow grey moustache gravely and talked nonsense, while Marco, sweet Marco, held her hand and told her that she would be all right, that they were going home to Canada.Of course, she was never going to be all right. That had been the last of her, ﬂaking away like a scab.

Present

"I'm not sure if doing this is a good idea Alice. I mean how are you sure Julia has CDC?" Tandem asked, Alice hiding a small camera in her hat and checking her tape recorder. "Trust me Tom, I have studied this illness on the net to know what are the supposed signs if someone has it and Juila has most of them. Besides how else am I going to prove or disprove that CDC is real if I don't talk to her." she hide the tape recorder inside her coat pocket, her expression looking more gloom. "Besides she has been quiet recently and I want to make sure she is okay... I heard that people who have CDC tend to disappear and I..." she couldn't find the will to finish her sentience.

During the time Tandem has stayed with Alice he had found her to be both energetic and eccentric but at heart a caring person and in some days have asked him about how Julia was doing since he was often left alone in her apartment and in some days manage to chat with Julia whenever she come out for the few minutes she forces herself out of her apartment. "Your not alone, I'm too worried about her." the woman who is Alice's neighbor was quiet, more so than usual. In fact no one has heard anything about and it is now getting to the point that the owner of the apartment complex was planing on calling the cops tomorrow. Shaking those thoughts away Tandem knocked on the door loudly hoping that would get Julia's attention, yet she never came by the door.

"Great how are we... Alice!" Tandem shouted as Alice push him away from the door and with a lockpick that she was hiding in her pant's pocket began to work at the lock, in a few minutes she had the door unlocked. Turning to see a surprised Tandem she gave him a big goofy smile with her eyes closed. "My cousin Ellie taught me how to pick at locks when she came over to visit. I should really thank her when she comes back." turning to the door Alice gently open it. "Come one, get in before someone sees us." Tandem didn't say anything and instead chose to quietly follow Alice into the apartment, this wasn't his first time breaking into places.

The first thing that caught them was both how dark the apartment was and the smell in the apartment, it was a terrible odor. "Oh God! what is this smell!" Alice whispered loudly. Tandem stay silent but the smell was disturbingly familiar to him, in his long journey throughout existence he had many unpleasant encounters, most of whom didn't involve the Ahmarhan, this smell was one of the many signs of something terrible waiting for them. "Alice we need to leave and call the police." he said as he grabbed on to Alice, but Alice simply picked up her phone and turned it on, using the phone light to illuminate the darken room. "Oh my god..." Alice gasped in horror, Tandem didn't show it but he too was worried on what he was seeing.

The walls and floor were covered by a brown slime mixed with the floor having tiny dots of dried blood, the slime had both dried and wet patches. All the furniture in the room was torn to pieces and as they took a step them heard their feet stepping on water. Following the source the found the kitchen sink was off but it had flood some time ago, checking inside they found to their horror patches of shredder skin, muscle and bones clogging the drain. Tandem can hear Alice breathing deeply and quickly, she was panicking. He gently grabbed her shoulders and she fidgeted at his touch, when she turn to face him her eyes were wide as saucers and her teeth were shivering. "Alice we need to leave now. Something happen to Julia and we can't stay here or else..." Tandem never had a chance to speak as soon they heard the sound of someone else stepping on the wet floor, turning they found the landlord looking at them.

"What the hell is going on in here!" he yelled at them, waiting for them to respond. From beneath the dusty floorboards something that was once Julia Brown knew that people have disturbed it's home. It had been a long and brutal trail but now she was quite chipper about her new state of being, these people think that she was murdered and now one of them was yelling for explanations on what had happen to her. She understood, now.

she stroked her skinless face with the tipof the slug-like object that had replaced her hand. A burning sensation like bile was heaving in her. The petty little people were in her apartment! One of them was female with long and messy hair, in her previous life Julia longed to have hair has long as the woman, the second man would have been attractive to Julia once upon a time and the last one was an pudgy bald man who she remembered was her landlord, she remembered that she never quite liked him. There was three of them. Furless apes. Thick, fatty lumps of ignorance. Yes. Just like Marco and the Professor. They were infection, an irritation, like boils. So, like boils, she took the nearest one and squeezed, until it burst.

Tandem and Alice tried to calm the landlord down as he started yelling at them to explain on why they felt the need to break into Julia's apartment and what on Earth happened to her, a in Tandem's mind was worried that the land lord thought that they murdered Julia. However just as they were about to explain their faces frozen in terror, the landlord looking at them confused before a slimy slug-like tendril wrapped around his head and squeezed it until it burst like a zit.

The... thing, before them was something that before have trouble to describe. It appears to have a almost human face and head but skinless with a large grinning mouth with many rows of shark-like teethes, it's large bulging white eyes stared deep into them. It's long slug-like appendages moved about it's hard larvae like body like snakes. The body was covered in the same brown slime that was on the wall and floor. Alice was stuck in place by fear, she can barely move, she can barely scream or even breath. All she can do is stare at the abomination like it was the devil it self coming over to steal her soul.

Tandem too had the same feeling but the bio augs in his system soon helped him break the fear induced hold that the creature had him on. "We need to get out of here now!" Tandem shouted as he grabbed a hold on Alice, before she can say anything Tandem activated the nexus manipulator and both her and Alice vanished, yet the creature manage to grab on to Tandem's leg, though vanishing with them.

In the same world were Jason and his group were in a bright flash appeared close by them and from the flash the Alvaranian and human appeared... along with the creature. Tandem screamed in pain as the slug-like tentacle not only painfully wrapped itself around his leg it also crushed it, causing a sickening crack to be heard by anyone near by. Another tendril wrapped it's self around Alice and began to constrict the young woman like a constrictor suffocating it's prey. Alice was having a hard time breathing as the creature moved close to her, opening it's mouth wide as it was moving close to bite off her head.

Tandem's appearance changed to show who he really was and grabbing a hold on one of the tentacles on Alice pulled himself up, ignoring the pain as he began to pull the tentacles off Alice. Feeling it's grip on the woman loosening the creature let her go to make the strange long ear man stumble as it pounce on him. Now on top of him it was ready to sink it's fangs on to him but soon found that the young woman it tried to eat was not hitting it on the head with a large stick. The creature simply hit her with one of it's tentacles and the slime covered girl was sent hurling away from it and it's prey, never once realizing or caring that it had an audience for it's gruesome feast.

by **Generailia** » Sat Nov 28, 2015 3:13 am

Adwith

Adwith's mind seemed to be as silent as the void surrounding him while his body was in a blind and beast-like fury. Yet the Shienaran could still faintly feel saidin somewhere withing the blackness as Leonel's wild laughter slowly began to make it's appearance. But the borderlander didn't really care as both began to slowly close in on him, yet this odd approach along with his mindless state began to slowly fall apart as he felt the familiar feeling that one gets after being lifted into the air. This would have caused the face that the mercenary sees in his dreams to appear before him yet again along with the memory that lead to such a thing becoming nothing more then a memory if he didn't feel a sharp pain hit his face which quickly pulled him back into the real world. Sadly, such a thing was quickly nullified by the appearance a agonizing pain in his back that was made far worse when the ever so familiar sound of shattering steel ringed in his ears.

This surprised both the guardsman and the voice within his head as the eerily familiar feeling of some invisible force restraining him moved throughout the parts of his body that wasn't affected by the pain. Yet the man quickly broke through this shock as he looked down at his broken blade and simply stared at it while the madman said something he simply ignored. The blade was his own and one that his father had given to him on one of the very few days that he actually smiled without the thing being forced upon his face. The sword had been with him through countless battles and even taken the lives of a fair amount of shadowspawn along with a rather high amount of humans..more civilian then military and the memories of both were vague to say the least since he was more of a emotionless monster then a man when he took a large number of them. But the thing that hurt him the most was that he didn't feel the urge to cry yet again..and instead felt the familiar feeling of some part of him that he'd never get back being ripped out of his grasp. So the Shienaran ignored everything happening in the outside world for a fair amount of time as familiar voices echoed faintly within his mind as he quietly let go of saidin.

Thankfully, both the usual feeling that ran through him when he let go of the power was deafened by the pain upon both his face and his back. Yet the borderlander wasn't prepared for the deafening sound of inhuman voices screaming in pain as such a thing quickly broke of his blank stare as he quickly heard the long dead aes sedai growl. Do you mind explaining to me why you turned into little more then a monster for a fair amount of time?! No, that question can wait. What I am far more curious about is why you simply stared at your broken sword as if it were your lover?! The guardsman couldn't help but smile, since he realized the voice might be rather annoying and immensely dangerous but it was one that would likely be with him till the day he finally died. Suddenly, the mercenary felt himself be carried toward one of the many strange portals that nearly every stranger that he had just met at the meeting seems able to summon before he was brought into an empty and timeless world. Time seemed to slow..as the man was left clinging onto the hybrid for what felt like weeks as the only thing keeping him sane was Leonel's seemingly endless complaining and the fact that he didn't feel along. Since he could always see both Kyne and the rest of the group out of the corner of his eye. Then, a odd sort of bubble appeared of which was immediately accompanied by Fauna's reassurance that only a few seconds had passed. This had so completely dumbfounded both Leonel and Adwith that they both missed what Elizabeth and Tessy had stated. Which was when the Shienaran suddenly felt both the unfamiliar weight of something in his pocket along with the empty sheath along his back. Yet the borderlander remained silent for a few more seconds as he turned towards the woman who had carried him before saying in a noticeably weak tone. "Thank you for your assistance but...I do believe that I will be able to..handle myself from here on. So if you would be please flaming release me..I would greatly appreciate it." The mercenary gave her a small smile as he attempted to hide his shame at needing to be carried yet again with a fair amount of faked impatience in his tone when he spoke.

Dennis and Aeris

Dennis wished he could sleep, since his one attempt to eavesdrop lead to him hearing about some sort of "alvrianan" and "garatan" which certainly confused him to say the very least. Yet the Lich was glad that he was ignore them..since his occasional glances at the strangers who he had occupied into the meeting made it perfectly obvious that what they were talking about was at least fairly serious. But the sudden and very likely demonic war quickly threw the thief back into the real world. So the creature quickly stood up with enough force to send his chair practically leaping towards the ground as he quickly grabbed his chest and began to mutter the words needed to shield his heart as he closed his eyes in order to deepen his concentration. But when the mage finally opened then he saw that the demon that had been sitting next to him seconds before hand was had sent the soldier flying with a ridiculous amount of ease while probably breaking a few bones along with his sword in the process.

So the undead thief carefully examined the cat-like adolescent as a fair amount of shock ran through him after seeing her stand against the demonic creatures that came through the portal..just to get bitch-slapped across the room with a ridiculously high amount of ease. So the mage began to mutter a rather minor spell that he occasionally used to distract a few demons from his world before making his mistake, but he was distracted by the fact that the pale girl who was a fair distance away from him was about to attempt some sort banishing spell that would make Dora proud as she lifted her arm and opened her palm. Which revealed some fairly familiar symbols that the Lich had trouble making out before saying something that sounded like the words of a spell. This of course caused a small amount of black mist to appear around him..that practically through him across he room with the force of a skilled sumo wrestler as he heard a scream of pain radiate throughout the room as he saw the demons turn to ash. Which was when he noticed that the fairly childish bard had summoned a portal, this caused him to think to himself as he stared at the thing in complete shock while he noticed Aeris attempting to rise from the corner she threw herself towards immediatly after the woman opened her palm just to fall again.

So the thief simply thought to himself as he noticed the mist around him rise while his face became that of fury. The bitch was a fucking mage?! Damn it, the girl was decent looking as well. But why the fuck is everyone alright with entering giant glowing vaginas that could literally lead anywhere?! I know I was alright with it..but the prick seemed to be my only hope of escape from all of this weird shit so I didn't question it as long as the fucking thing didn't lead me to whatever shitfest that "dragon of chaos" guy tossed me. The creature didn't realize this but..the mist surrounding him began quickly became more numerous then it even had before as it continued to grow. Yet the demonic feline watched all of this unfold in silence as she leaned up against the wall in an attempt to at least restore enough energy to make her escape..which was when she saw her summoner rise and take a few wide steps towards the portal that the female bard had summoned before immediately collapsing. This of course panicked the cat as used the small amount of energy that she had to throw herself towards him. Then the demon attempted to gaze into the smoke and all she saw was his eyes..which seemed to be somehow changing colors as the corpse-like glaze that had covered his eyes seemed to somehow be rapidly disappearing. Yet the girl knew that he was in pain and that the group would likely leave without them if they didn't hurry..so she used what little energy she had lift to lift him off of the ground and leap threw the portal. While the massive amount of pain that had grasped the Lich's heart quickly became insignificant when compared to the thing that was practically clawing at his mind of which he was barely keeping at bay.

The adolescent demon was hit by the usual amount of varying powers. Yet she also sensed a significantly high amount of other powers as well that quickly gave the already wounded and exhausted girl a immensely painful headache that took a fair amount of effort to ignore. But the demonic feline kept walking nonetheless towards the portal that was more then likely summoned by one of the goddesses for a fair amount of time as she quickly noticed Felix walking towards it as well. Suddenly the cat lost patience and panicked, using the little energy that she had left to rocket them through the portal and stop herself once she was a fair distance away from it. This of course caused both of this to still hit the ground with a fair amount of force..and the demon to finally lose consciousness before she could even examine her surroundings. Yet Dennis had it far worse, as his defenses finally fell before his mind seemed to be overwhelmed by some invisible force as he felt the pain in his heart finally fade away before he was completely shrouded by darkness.

by **Kaidou** » Mon Nov 30, 2015 4:19 am

As the wind whipped across the grassy plains of the random dimension, both Hiccup and Toothless looked up at the rest of the group. Somehow, time seemed to pass faster in that dimension than in the Hotel, though by just a little bit. After just a while, the figure of the Angel Felix leapt through the portal and landed on the ground.

"You're safe?" he said, panting heavily.

"Um... yeah", replied Hiccup, rather sheepishly. Despite the time they had spent together in the Alliance, the two were still a little bit awkward around each other.

"I've gotten two pieces of news", he said. His face was shadowed by his unkempt hair, which was much more unkempt than usual. His face was devoid of any traces of happiness whatsoever, much unlike before.

"What is it?"

"Firstly, the Maju Army is withdrawing from the Hotel, for one reason or another. They've lost about 4,000 men to the Tenshi, and the rest have gone back to their colony galaxies."

"That's not a bad thing, though. What's with that glum face?"

"Secondly..."

Felix cleared his throat and glanced uneasily at the open portal, from which the gentle perfume of the Hotel wafted through. They were unable to hear the sounds coming from the other side.

"Adrian Gandorum of the Desert is dead."

Some time earlier

The battle between the six Tenshi and Maju's army could not have been prevented in any way. According to Mera's meticulous calculations, it was only a matter of time before Maju unleashed his armies upon them. Now that the String was within it (they all sensed its presence), the onslaught of the Maju Army was imminent.

Yet, none of them were willing to back down, not when the entire Hotel was at stake. As such, the six who were available then planted themselves firmly in front of the Maju Army and prepared to fight to the death.

For some reason, however, despite the endlessness of the Army's numbers, they didn't seem to be fighting as seriously as they had been in Dimension 888,815. It was as if they were aware of the fact that, in the Hotel, the Tenshi were at their strongest.

What was unexpected was the sudden arrival of Klingsor.

"Foolish Guardians", he laughed, entering the Hotel and clearing a path for himself through the hordes of the Maju troops. Clearly he was not on their side. "You do not understand the futility of this battle against the threats against the Hotel. Why do you think I left you all???"

The other six Tenshi were well aware of Klingsor's entry, as well as his new power, that power that he had obtained from the Jewel of Pyhädunkelheit. Both Illushu and Adrian motioned to battle against Klingsor, but Father Christmas pulled up in front of the two of them on the back of an immensely muscular reindeer.

"You handle the Maju Army; their Generals are appearing. Leave Klingsor to me!"

Klingsor chuckled.

"Surely, you won't want me to fight Kizaru instead?" he asked mockingly. "He was the one who cut off my arm, after all. I have no feud with you, aside from your membership in the Guardians."

"That is more than enough to warrant a fight with you, Klingsor", snarled Father Christmas, gritting his teeth. He yanked his fur coat off his back and hurled it onto the ground, revealing his gigantic, tattooed arms. Without hesitation, he drew Pestilence from its sheath, before taking out the Eternal Sceptre and biting it. With his free hand, he drew Famine.

He will attempt to knock me down with his beast, before leaping off and stabbing me with both of his sabres. Then, once I'm pinned to the ground, he'll use his Sceptre to annihilate me.

The reindeer, with a shriek and a vicious foaming of the lips, collapsed onto the floor. Father Christmas climbed out from under the reindeer, gasping and attempting to keep the Sceptre between his teeth. His steed had a black, smoking arrow buried in its jugular vein.

"Wha..."

"Aha, you didn't expect that now, did you, Nicholas? I ate the Jewel of Pyhädunkelheit; I have his powers!"

He was caught off guard when the old Tenshi leapt across the room and slashed Klingsor across the chest, sending spurts of blood gushing forth. Klingsor reeled backwards and clutched the wound, laughing as his new dark energy filled it up.

It was then that a spike of sand reached across from an upper lobby and impaled Klingsor. On the other side, the sand coagulated, forming the figure of Adrian Gandorum, his single eye blazing with fiery rage. Drawing his nodachi, he swung it at the fallen Guardian.

"Adrian, why do you want to get involved in matters that don't involve you?"

Adrian stopped and gasped in shock. For some reason, he could not turn back into sand.

"Aha, I suppose you didn't know this either; my new power can annul Devil Fruit powers!"

Swinging his mace, Klingsor struck Adrian in the face, sending him crashing onto the ground with a scream and a spurt of blood. As the nodachi fell to the ground, Klingsor pounced upon the Tenshi, seizing the sword and stabbing him in the abdomen.

"Now, you shall die!"

Adrian wriggled about in agony as Klingsor pushed the sword deeper and deeper into his abdomen. It was the first time in over 300 years that he had felt genuine pain. And it was definitely much worse than he remembered it to be.

With a final gasp, his struggling arms fell limp.

"Aha, the Eternal Scales are mine!"

That moment, a sword slashed Klingsor in the side, as Father Christmas, in a fit of rage, pounced upon Klingsor and assaulted him with blow after blow.

"You will pay for this treachery, Master Klingsor!"

Klingsor laughed louder with each slash of the sword. Before anyone knew, he pulled open a portal, and leapt across to another dimension.

"I'll be back for those Scales, mark my words!" he screamed, just as the walls of the nexus closed off.

Father Christmas stood by, panting and looking down at the body of his comrade lying on the ground. Silently and solemnly, he stooped down and picked up the Scales, before kissing them reverently.

"Farewell, Adrian", he muttered. "Your Scales shall find a new wielder."

...

by **Kaidou** » Mon Nov 30, 2015 8:24 am

Lobby 0

In the magnificent throne room of the Hotel, Father Christmas, Mera, and Wilhelmus were seated in their thrones, the Scales of the deceased Tenshi resting on the table in the middle of the hall.

"I didn't know it would have come to this", said Father Christmas despondently. "First Klingsor, and now Adrian. And we've got the first one on the loose trying to bring us down, on top of Maju."

"Well, we've got to go through this whole, nightmarish process once again", muttered Mera, her chirpy demeanour more muted for once. She anxiously scratched her back with her hind leg.

"Why don't we go after Klingsor first?"

"You see, with Adrian dead, Klingsor would have gained a great reputation, not only as a former Tenshi, but as a former Tenshi who has also killed a current Tenshi. Such a task has great consequences; not only is it supposedly impossible for the vast majority of Existence's inhabitants, it is also the first time it has ever been done."

The trio sat silently for a moment, each of them deep in thought, but all aware of what the other two were thinking, somehow. Father Christmas and the golden dragon were familiar with the monumental task of selecting and appointing a new Tenshi, and Wilhelmus was beginning to see the difficulty of doing so.

It was then that a muted knocking on the doors rang through the hall.

"Sir?" came the voice of Lieut. Gen. Ener Hallurm. "There's somebody who insists on making a transmission to you. He wishes to do it immediately."

Father Christmas glanced at both Mera and Wilhelmus, who nodded one after another. Turning back to face the door, Father Christmas continued, "Enter!"

The doors flew open, and Ener Hallurm walked in, followed by a second elf of lower rank, carrying an open laptop.

"Place it on the table", said Father Christmas.

The elf did so at once.

The moment the computer touched the wooden surface of the table, the screen flashed brightly, before a large red 'X' appeared on the otherwise blank screen. As all three Tenshi present leaned forward to take a closer look at the screen, an encrypted voice rang through the computer's speakers.

"Greetings", it said. "I presume I am speaking to the Tenshi of the Hotel at this point in time. If you are not a Tenshi of the Hotel, then I advise you to destroy this recording and carry on with your life, not because it contains anything particularly sensitive, but because it will most likely take up a very large amount of space on your device."

"What's he saying?" asked Mera. She coiled her tail around her throne in mock impatience, before leaping up onto the backrest of her throne to observe from above.

"Now, I should like to proceed to the point that I wish to make.

"My name shall remain a secret for one reason or another. As of now, you may all refer to me as "X", not because the alphabet is a initial for a mononym, but simply due to the fact that it is associated with the unknown.

"Why am I sending you this recording? That's a question that, I presume, you are all dying to ask me at the moment, and I really do thank you for listening in to my extremely lengthy introduction.

"I know how to take down Maju."

Father Christmas paused the recording in shock. "What do you make of it?" he asked the others. The two other Tenshi sitting by remained silent, but obviously surprised (Wilhelmus, being a human, displaying this more than Mera). Eventually, Wilhelmus gestured at the computer in his usual, semi-polite semi-gruff manner. "Carry on", he said.

LG Hallurm pressed the play key on the keyboard.

"Unfortunately, for security reasons, I shall not be disclosing the method of doing so in this video, in the fear that Maju's men seizes it. If you wish to know, then I should like to suggest that we organise a meeting to dispel any doubts that you may have about the authenticity of my claims. Since you are the Tenshi I am addressing, I presume that you should know where I reside, and how you may contact me; such information is not available to those who do not possess the gifts of omniscience and near-omniscience.

"In any case, I believe that this recording already contains everything that I should like to tell you thus far. If you intend to make contact with me, please approach the one who has passed you this recording; he would have been approached by the only person in Existence who has ever made direct contact with me thus far.

"I await your reply."

With that, the screen turned to static.

For a moment, the three Tenshi sat silently, all of them staring at the Scales and the laptop which sat innocuously on the table. Father Christmas, however, soon sat up, nodding at Hallurm.

"Please approach the man who approached you and tell him that I accept X's proposal."

Hallurm saluted, before taking the laptop and marching out of the room with his aide. Once they were gone, Father Christmas stood up and picked up the Eternal Scales from where they rested.

"Well", he said, "it seems we've found Adrian's replacement."

With a flick of his fingers, Father Christmas opened up a large blue portal that looked nothing like the usual ones that were used to travel from place to place. This was a portal that could only be opened by wielders of the Instruments, for they served only a single purpose.

"Strike the gong!"

As Lobby 0's lone attendant smashed the hammer into the golden gong above the golden throne, the old Tenshi hurled the Scales into the portal.

"Go", he said quietly, deep in thought, "find your new wielder."

The moment the portal disappeared, Father Christmas turned back to face the two others, who stared at him in shock.

"I know", he said. "I just had this feeling that the Scales… were much more decisive than the Trident was…"

by **Naval Monte** » Mon Nov 30, 2015 9:13 pm

Moon Sisters

The battle

"I'm not the only one here who thinks that these guys are putting a half arse fighting performance right?" Artemis asked to her two sisters as she conjured razor sharp winds to cut down more soldiers. The other two agreed with the younger sister's statement as Selene healed the bodies of some of the injured soldiers, only she healed their wounds incorrectly. Hecate used her powers to not only evoke the spirits of some of the dead soldiers to fight for her but even rose the corpses to act as undead body guards and cut down their former comrades.

When Klingsor arrived the three sisters couldn't join in as most of Maju's troops began to move to their spot. Despite the amount of elemental attacks, undead servants and distorted healing magic that they used on the soldiers the sisters were far too late to reach the battle site where Klingsor and Adrian fought, once they reach the site the found Father Christmas carrying the eternal scales and Adrian's now lifeless corpse. Artemis broken down into tears and held on to Selene as Hecate chanted a prayer to help Adrian pass into the afterlife in peace.

Current time

The Moon Sisters did not attend the meeting with the other Tenshis as they felt that they most protect the members of the alliance should Maju send his troops to attack them again, however they saw and heard the meeting through a dimensional window link to Lobby 0. Artemis was still upset with Ardain's death with even Selene looking rather somber about the tragic event, Hecate was even more quiet than usual, only speaking whenever she was saying the incantations for a spell.

After they listen through the strange message left by the mysterious sender and saw the scale being sent out to find it's new owner none of the sisters said anything as the window closed. Of course most wonder on who was the sender of that transmission and why they want to destroy Maju. Hecate ever the cynic was suspicious of the man's claim and thought that he may be working for Maju and that he was leading them to a trap. But with the scale now gone she couldn't let that thought cloud her judgement now.

"So who among us is going to tell them about what happen at the meeting?" Artemis meekly stated, for a while none of the other two sisters said anything until Selene got up and walked to the alliance members. Once she sat down close by them she began to tell them about what she and her sisters saw and heard in the meeting, about Klingsor's reputation growing due to killing Adrian, the mysterious X and the scale now finding it's new owner. "It would seems that our goal on taking down Maju only has gotten more difficult but if this X is to be trusted than there is light at the end of this tunnel." she than turned to Felix.

"I know you feel despair for Adrian's passing but right now we need to make some new plans of action. Right now we can't go after Klingsor since we have no idea where he is at the moment and our newest members have so far fled to a region of existence were our magic can not see into to find this Cryssa that they talk about, maybe once they find her they will be more willing to work with us." she explained. The other two sisters finally walked up and sat next to Selene with Hecate speaking up once she sat down. "If you want we can try to locate this X. Right now finding this individual seems to be the only objective we can do now." the crone stated.

Realm of the Avatars

In a random alley way in one of the cities in the world belonging to the avatars time and space warped and bend in unusual ways. Soon the distortions on the fabric on four dimensional spacetime turn into a tear, a tear that was a two way portal linking this world with another. From the rift a strange humanoid creature existed from the tear. The strange humanoid's body was covered by tattered black robes with a hood, it had long spindly legs.

The creature scurried off, away from the alley and the tear. Most people couldn't see it due to both a veil of illusion around it and because of it's incredible speed as it moved through the streets and began to climb up the walls of the buildings, the only signs of it's passage were the birds it disturbed as it moved forward and a few flower pots that fell down to the streets below that it knocked over. This creature purpose for being here is right now unknown but it didn't came here because it wanted to, it was still working off it's debts that it owe to a being much more powerful than itself.

by **Kaidou** » Mon Nov 30, 2015 11:48 pm

Lobby 0

"Basically", began Father Christmas, about to explain the recent happenings to the sisters. He was, however, suddenly cut off by a call from a voice outside.

"He is here!"

The doors opened slowly with a loud creak as the two Elvish guards pulled them backwards to make way for the new Tenshi.

He certainly didn't look like one who would be described as a Guardian of the Hotel. Despite being a good 174cm tall, he was hunched over, with his hands jammed into his pockets. His hair was white, unlike his predecessor's, and it was much longer and a great deal more unkempt, reaching down to his collars and his upper lip. His skin was neither pale nor tanned, but somewhere in between, such that it was hard to describe. His eyes, which were dull and baggy, stared at the Guardians assembled in the room from behind a pair of thick, black framed glasses. The golden Eternal Scales, he held in one hand.

"Gentlemen", he said in a distinctly Scottish monotone, "My name is X, otherwise known as X."

He shuffled towards the table, before standing next to a vacant seat with a pair of scales engraved on the top. Pointing at the throne, he said, again in the same monotone, "I presume this is my seat?"

Wilhelmus and Father Christmas nodded uneasily, while Mera simply looked down at him from her perch. Illushu, Kizaru, and the Moon Sisters' seats were conspicuously unoccupied, though the latter were clearly watching.

"Good; so my inference from the scales up there was correct."

With that, the strange individual who introduced himself as X climbed onto the throne, before kicking off his flip flops and squatting down on the chair. He scratched his head and gazed at the ceiling, with a tinge of awe apparent in his otherwise blank expression. The other three Tenshi stared at him uncomfortably.

"He's nothing like I expected him to be", whispered Wilhelmus to the Moon Sister who was present.

"Well... X..." began Father Christmas, with audible discomfort in his voice. X raised his hand.

"I know what you want to ask me already", he said. He flicked his finger. Immediately, a large roll of paper burst out from thin air, before landing in his open palm. He proceeded to hop off his chair, before sticking his feet into his slippers and shuffling lazily across to the table, where he unrolled the paper.

"Please look here", he said, as he removed his glasses and tossed them onto his chair. With that, he hopped onto the table and squatted down on one corner of the paper, which was filled with numbers and diagrams."

"I, in the few years that I have been active, have monitored a good number of these megalomaniacal nut-jobs for one reason or another. I have, on one occasion, come across Maju, or at least, an account of a battle that he had with an Ahmarhan."

"The Ahmarhan???" Mera was, for once, completely shocked. "He's survived an encounter with one???"

"Yes, yes", X dismissed casually. "That's not important. What I have found, however, is that there is a way to make Maju commit suicide unwittingly.

"You see, I have, from certain reliable sources, ascertained that Maju's gigantic army is actually nothing but a farce, a distraction that he waves about in people's faces. The real power of Maju lies in his immense mastery of magical attacks and defences, as well as the arcane martial arts of his home planet. Now, we shall, perhaps, take a look at Maju himself. Down here, I have a photograph taken of him just as he uses a certain technique called the "9 Black Arms". Here, you can see that the arms of dark energy are wrapping around what appears to be an invisible rotund object of some sort; They curve rather like parabolas, before shooting off in a tangent to said invisible rotund object, as asymptotes to these lines, which I've drawn in pencil here. Now, let's take a look at this other photograph, an attack which he calls the "16 Godly Black Arms", if I remember correctly. From what my sources tell me, this technique was one that he used against an Ahmarhan when the latter was administering the recruitment test for him. As compared to the previous one (which he used against a warlord with no Ahmarhan or Tenshi ties whatsoever), we can see how much of a difference the power of this stronger opponent makes. As you can see, after increasing the contrast in the image (since this picture was, presumably, taken in a dark place), the black arms are flaring out much further back on this rotund object, meaning that the asymptotes are closer to 180 degrees or, if you prefer it, П radians. From the looks of it, Maju also appears to be straining himself a lot more than in the earlier picture. When we examine the picture, we see that the black arms are actually a lot more forceful than they would appear to be on a quick glance. Here, one of the black arms has collided with an interplanetary body, at the speed of 7.6 x 10^11, if my estimations are correct. That is more than enough to rip a hole in a small planet, given the power of the arms."

The other three Tenshi stared blankly at the person squatting on the table.

"In other words, we will simply have to force Maju to an attack that is more powerful than his "16 Godly Black Arms". That way, it will be easy to redirect his attack on him, ergo causing his death at the hands of himself."

Wilhelmus glanced at the others, before looking back at X.

"It's a good thought, but what is there that we can use that can surpass an Ahmarhan?"

"We mustn't forget that the Ahmarhan at the time wasn't attempting to kill him, but was merely testing him to see if he was worth recruiting. Now, an Ahmarhan on all out battle mode would have obliterated everything, but one who's merely testing a recruiter wouldn't go to such an extent."

"You can't mean...!"

"Yes, that's exactly what I mean. We are going to find something to use against Maju. And I know just what."

...

by **Kaidou** » Tue Dec 01, 2015 12:08 am

Naval Monte wrote:
"So who among us is going to tell them about what happen at the meeting?" Artemis meekly stated, for a while none of the other two sisters said anything until Selene got up and walked to the alliance members. Once she sat down close by them she began to tell them about what she and her sisters saw and heard in the meeting, about Klingsor's reputation growing due to killing Adrian, the mysterious X and the scale now finding it's new owner. "It would seems that our goal on taking down Maju only has gotten more difficult but if this X is to be trusted than there is light at the end of this tunnel." she than turned to Felix.

"I know you feel despair for Adrian's passing but right now we need to make some new plans of action. Right now we can't go after Klingsor since we have no idea where he is at the moment and our newest members have so far fled to a region of existence were our magic can not see into to find this Cryssa that they talk about, maybe once they find her they will be more willing to work with us." she explained. The other two sisters finally walked up and sat next to Selene with Hecate speaking up once she sat down. "If you want we can try to locate this X. Right now finding this individual seems to be the only objective we can do now." the crone stated. Selene asked for Hecate to create a portal back to the hotel and she did just that.

Felix's listless expression brightened up ever so slightly at Artemis' consolation.

"For starters, we should establish a headquarters for ourselves right here", he said. "The time difference between this place and the Hotel has made me weak, so unfortunately, I can't do much right now."

He turned to face Artemis directly. "Perhaps we could try to locate this "X", whoever he is? I am pretty sure that he should be willing to help us, considering the fact that he took the trouble to contact the Tenshi." He sat up.

"There's nothing we can do now, is there?" asked Hiccup.

"Well…"

…

Arkenau

News of the Chancellor's return had reached the ears of the citizens of Arkenau. By this time, all of them were already sick of the anarchy that was resulting as a result of Valheitler's disappearance, and his return made them all jubilant.

Haikarakainen wasn't interested, however.

In his private lounge in Parliament House, the CEO of the IGSE lay sprawled on the dining table there, before sitting up to witness the sudden arrival of one Master Klingsor, who appeared to step through a portal that led to the Hotel, from which hordes of Maju's soldiers were retreating.

The masked soldier made to attack Klingsor, but Haikarakainen stopped him with a wave of his hand. "He's an ally", he said.

"Mr. Haikarakainen!", greeted Klingsor jubilantly. "I have killed one of the Tenshi."

Haikarakainen grinned lopsidedly. "That does not really concern me very much, but it's comforting that I have such people working for me", he said. "I presume Glove has contacted you?"

"Indeed, he told me to come here."

"Yes. Listen very carefully.

"I am aware that Maju is currently beginning a campaign to seize the errant Thread of Existence and to merge with it. I can't allow that to happen. You see, an Ahmarhan approached me earlier, and told me that I will have to merge with this thing. So, we'll have to stop Maju. I've already dispatched the Autonomous Action Unit to do their job, but I'll need all the help I can get."

^Ignore this

So… another Tenshi has fallen. I really do not see the point in having so many of these guardians, when it would simply be better to attempt to enlist the help of one of the Existential Dragons.

Nevertheless, that fool Maju seems to be quite active nowadays. But no worries; I shall get him when he least expects it! Ha! Ha! Ha!

by **Naval Monte** » Tue Dec 01, 2015 2:09 am

Moon Sisters

"Headquarters creation is rather simple for us." Artemis created several objects and drawings on the ground for a ritual. After many minutes has passed she has created several golems of different types most of them being closed to the element earth and it's different variants. She than created several materials to make a building and soon the golems walked over to the materials and began to work on making the headquarters.

"It will take them a while to be finish. Though if you want my opinion I know of something that can be even better than this headquarters." she said, turning to Felix she finally had a smile on her face. "There is this building, no building would be the wrong word. It's a being in the form of a building called the Theater of Illusions. The theater can give us many things but the most important thing it can provide for us is both protection and travel. You see the theater isn't bound by time and space, it can move anywhere it wants at any time and if it wants it can go into any other dimension." Hecate open yet another window so she can see what is happening in the meeting with the other tenshis.

"The only problem now is to have some become it's owner cause if we go in now it would treat us as intruders and well... you don't want it to see you like that." The Moon Sisters remember a their first encounter with the Theater of Illusion. They came in trying to convince it to have them as it's latest owner but denied them. Hecate decided to speak before Artemis can say anymore. "You wish to find X right? Well you don't have to look far, he is with the other tenshis now cause he is the new owner of the eternal scales." she said, moving the window so Felix can see the mysterious X.

"Right now you can talk through the window, if they question how you can see Lobby 0 just mention that we allow you to see it so you can ask X whatever questions you have." Selene was moved away from her sisters and went to the still unconscious demonic feline that was in their realm. She felt bad that they have ignored her for this long but she knew that demons were far tougher than most beings and plus having to deal with the grief of losing a comrade while paying attention to an important meeting didn't give her enough time to heal her.

Going down on her knees she moved Aeris so her head was rest on her lap as she touch the demon's forehead. She began to say a small prayer in a Gaelic sounding language and soon a stream of healing energy began to wash over the cat, healing her body and restoring her energy. So far they have kept Dennis trapped in a devils trap of some sort, though in truth they were mostly trapping the being that replaced Dennis. The three sisters can sense discord and traces of chaos from the being, they were positive now that this being was a goddess and they have a suspension on who it can be and they know that soon the trap will not work with the being that is about to appear.

by **Kaidou** » Tue Dec 01, 2015 7:16 am

Felix did not have to ask any questions, for the boy squatting on the table turned his head and looked at him.

"Ah", he said cooly. "It would appear that we have some observers. Tell me, are you also attempting to fight Maju?"

"As a matter of fact", said Felix, a little bit perturbed by the boy's stoic and calculative manner, "I'm currently chairing an alliance to take down Maju. We happen to be working together with the Guardians of the Hotel to achieve that end."

"Well, then I suppose that it would interest and benefit you and your allies to listen in on this conversation", came X's reply. "I must ask that you do; we most certainly do not want any unexpected results from members of either faction doing things that may lead to unnecessary complication."

He turned back to face the other Tenshi in the hall. "Now, some of you may ask, "X, what is powerful enough to make Maju use a suicidal technique, if not Ahmarhan intervention?" Well, I have, as of now, made contact with a certain businessman, who has agreed to sell me (or rather, my subordinates) a certain weapon known as the Genesis Bomb..."

"Harakiri Haikarakainen?" Hiccup gasped. "Why would you work with that sociopath?"

The boy turned to face the old Viking. "It's Machiavellian, if I may say so. We want to take down Maju, but all of us combined do not have the means to do so, and it simply wouldn't do to sit around and wait for the Ahmarhan to descend upon us and aid us in our petty little endeavours. They, after all, have much more pressing matters to worry about, do you agree?"

Hiccup nodded silently.

"Besides", said X, "Haikarakainen is, to my knowledge, also attempting to take down Maju for his own purposes, though I am 94.64% sure that the latter is unaware of this fact. We could establish a temporary alliance with him to take down Maju, and then we can part ways."

"That simply would not do", said Hiccup. "He's committed numerous atrocities too!"

"My duty is not to decide whether or not Haikarakainen is a good or bad man and whether or not we should associate ourselves with him. The thing is, he does not pose a threat to the Hotel at the moment, whereas Maju does. I don't read the future, but if he attempts to turn on us, then we will also take him down."

The others remained largely silent, before Mera spoke up, her chirpy voice restored. "Well, why are you interested in getting rid of Maju, and how do you know that your strategy is going to work?"

"You see, I have tangled with Maju and his sort numerous times, not in person, but on a very deep level; I know his mind almost as well as he and his goons do. He is a childish sore loser who would rather kill himself than be finished off by one stronger than him, something that I understand considering the fact that I am also a childish sore loser. I can guarantee that, if Maju is forced to his limits, he will attempt to do completely unthinkable things. It's a risky plan, but I can tell from all of your facial expressions and body language that the risk is one you're all willing to run. Do you all agree?"

Silence, along with a few scattered and subtle nods here and there.

"I suppose it's logical to take that as a yes, then."

"As for why I want to oppose him? Well… I'm bored…"

by **Kaidou** » Tue Dec 01, 2015 7:44 am

Barukana

The sudden appearance of two massive people (one of whom almost double the height of Maju himself) and a robot armed with torture devices would have been frightening to anybody. To Maju, however, they were simply an eyesore.

One of the men suddenly disappeared, while the robot and the large one, dressed in a long purple robe, both lunged at him, only to be swatted aside by a gigantic black whip with spikes. The robot exploded upon hitting the ground somewhere behind (killing a few of Maju's minions), while the man in the purple robe grunted as he lay on the ground, bleeding and coughing. Without so much as a bat of his eyelid, Maju stepped over to where he lay, planting his foot on the man's shredded belly.

"Who are you?"

"I won't tell you."

Maju smiled sadistically, waving his hand over the man's face.

"Who are you?"

"I am Glove. I am a member of Harakiri Haikarakainen's Autonomous Action Unit."

"What are you doing here?"

"I have been assigned to assassinate you."

"Is that so?"

That moment, a bullet tore through the sorcerer's forehead, sending a splattering of blood crashing onto the ground. Maju maintained his blank expression as the wound filled itself.

"Are you people stupid?"

With a flick of his hand, he cut off the man's head, before turning to face the sniper. In a flash, he leapt up and slashed the man, who screamed and crashed to the ground, sending a cloud of dust spewing into the air.

"Harakiri Haikarakainen. So you want to do this, eh?"

...

by **Generailia** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 12:00 am

Dennis

Dennis could make out the voices from beyond the void surrounding him. But the Lich felt as if he was being slowly pulled father way with every moment that passed until the occasional sounds that his surroundings made seemed to just barely whisper into his ear. This of course caused the thief to be fairly surprised when Felix's voice broke the silence after seemingly appearing out of nowhere, but he quickly got over his shock and eavesdropped on the conversation that he could barely hear even with his abnormal experience with such things.

Yet the creature was surprised to even hear that Maju's Army was even there..but he would have grinned if he could after hearing that they were falling back. Sadly, whatever joy such a thing caused faded after hearing a that a man he hardly knew had died. This of course caused the mage to somehow think to himself while his rather vague memories of the man slowly flowed through his mind. Damn it, the guy was a bit of an asshole but he didn't deserve to die because of it! Hell, he did help us deal with a pretty shitty situation so he was at least better then the body-building grandpa I had to deal with once he left. The undead thief simply sighed sadly as whatever shock he would have had at being able to do such a thing naturally was very easily blocked out by fairly horrid mood that such knowledge had caused.

The darkness somehow seemed to slowly get brighter even though it did so by such a small margin that the mage thought he was imagining things at first. But the fact that he could hear the voice of one of the three goddesses a lot more clearly, yet the fact that such a thing suddenly stopped itself before completely reversing killed whatever joy might have appeared. But the Lich listened nonetheless as he barely noticed the fact that it was swallowing him in at a far slowly pace then it had before and once she finished explaining what happened he needed to take a few seconds to fully comprehend everything that he had just heard. Yet he was able to do say just in time to hear the last few sentences of Hiccup's response. But the thief was only able to make out bits and pieces of the goddesses's response and by the time they finished speaking he finally dissolved into the darkness as his consciousness finally left him.

An excessive amount of black mist had appeared around Dennis while the mysterious X spoke yet the sister's spell kept such a thing from spreading. This odd mist had surrounded the thief and just barely covered the fact that his corpse seemed as if life was being slowly restored to it. Yet anyone who looked at the smoke for a fair amount of time would easily notice that something abnormal was happening within it. Then, shortly after X began giving his explanation as to why his strategy would work, the mist seemed to be drawn into the mage's corpse as it levitated ever so slightly. This process continued until X finished giving his rather simple reason why the he was apposing the excessively powerful sorcerer. Once all of the smoke had seemingly entered his form after having been flouting into the thing at a noticeably slow pace whatever force that had caused the thing to flout stopped as he feel to the ground. Then the creature rose at a reasonable pace before turning to face the moon sisters along with the window and the Tenshi on who seemed to be on the opposite side of the thing as a smile that was fairly similar to the one that Aeris and Elizabeth had shared except for the fact that there was a bit of the thief's own mischievousness to it as well.

Dennis's eyes also seemed to have turned from it's usual blue color to a oddly dark green that seemed to be somehow gleaming even though the area surrounding her was fairly well lit before he looked down at himself in surprise for little more then a second..then his left hand seemed to suddenly grasp his shoulder as both his skin and bones distorted in a manner that made it obvious that if the being didn't have the thief's odd ability then the pain might have been excruciating. But this only lasted for about a minute or two as the last few moments of it went by in such a way that made it's the fact that it was having a bit of trouble rather obvious. But when the mess finally ended it showed a woman whose physical appearance was only slightly above average that also seemed to be in her early twenties wearing the same clothing that the thief had worn before hand, and the look of frustration that temporarily covered her face made it obvious that she didn't mean for the thing to remain as the faint aura of discord that had surrounded her grew ever so slightly as she turned her attention towards the goddesses as her smile returned while the fact that she ignored everyone else made it perfectly obvious that she wasn't very pleased if the glare didn't give it away. Yet she calmed herself down in a surprisingly fast manor before simply saying in a voice that was obviously female that also seemed to echo for a bit. "Hello again, it's been awhile hasn't it?" The strange woman's eyes gave away the fact that she was actually furious as she mentally clawed at the invisible force that both lowered her power and kept her trapped while still standing in a manner that seemed surprisingly arrogant for someone who was in such a situation before her smile grew as she asked. "Do you wish for me to tell your 'friends' my identity or would you rather do it yourself?" The odd woman's smile grew as she watched the beings on both sides of the window from the corner of her eye while also ignoring the demon who seemed to be slowly regaining her consciousness for some unknown reason.

by **Naval Monte** » Wed Dec 02, 2015 9:38 pm

Moon Sisters

The sister's eyes narrowed when they heard the voice of the being inside the thief, it was all too familiar to them. "Eris, I see that no matter how much you change there are some parts to you that will never change." Selene stated looking at the being before her. "You know I actually preferred your old look, seeing you as a man is really weird." Artemis said with a grin, she is aware that Dennis was acting as a decaying puppet for the goddess of chaos and discord but since woman is still trapped the younger sister might as well get some jokes out before she was free.

"How on Earth did that idiot manage to get you inside him I rather not know, but why are you here goddess?" We don't have time to deal with your nonsense." Hecate turned to the group. "It would appear that we have an... old acquaintance.... of ours present. I'm sure most of you are familiar to the lore about Eris right?" the crone said, her tone making it blatant that she was not pleased on seeing the goddess being in the same realm as her.

Taking her sight away from Eris, Artemis looked at X through the window and made projection of the newest members of the alliance that currently are not present along with the two bards. "We also encountered two bards and more members for our alliance. But so far one of the bards, the female, outright refuses to join with us and this new group seems more focus on saving another person that was taken from them to the point that once they found the location of the person they are looking for they immediately went there." The sisters than created a second projection inside Lobby 0 showing the events that happened before they entered the hotel and Maju's army attacked.

"Do you have any ideas on how to convince this team to join? Cause right now we could use every help we can find and I fear that once they succeed on their quest they will leave the alliance." the younger sister than turn her gaze back at Eris. "Also Eris how much do you know about what your host has been up too while you have been sleeping?"

by **Kaidou** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 11:15 am

Neither Hiccup nor Felix paid any attention to what was going on with Dennis at that moment; both of them were listening intently to Adrian's successor as he laid out the plan with which they were to defeat Maju.

Still, though, Hiccup was having doubts about making deals with Haikarakainen, even if it was to defeat Maju in the long run. After all, wasn't the original plan to take down the Chief of the IGSE before going for the sorcerer general? The plan was certainly becoming more convoluted than it had already been.

Still, what X was saying then seemed logical. So he listened anyway.

"As I was saying", said X. His voice trailed off as he clutched his stomach.

"Ah", he remarked. "I need to eat something. Don't mind me." Flicking his fingers, he pulled out a large box of pizza, which he placed gingerly on the table, before picking up a slice with just his thumb and his index finger, holding it right at the corner of the crust. Slowly, he raised the slice over his head, before carefully biting off half of it.

"As I was saying", he said with his mouth full, "I've gotten some of my subordinates to buy a Genesis Bomb from the Inter-Galactic Security Enterprises. That's the easy part put out of the way…" He turned to face Hiccup, gazing at the old man with his pitch black eyes. "So we won't ever have to come into contact with Harakiri Haikarakainen, if that is what you are worried about."

Hiccup merely shrugged, and attempted to avoid eye contact with the boy crouched on the table.

"Anyway…" said X. He hopped off the table and stuck his feet back into his flip-flops, before gulping down the last slice of pizza. "I suppose that's that for our plan." With another flick of his finger, the pizza box burst into flames, incinerating everything and leaving nothing left on the table. "Your call, people."

by **Contamenesia** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 3:01 pm

Celestia

Celestia suddenly was hit by a strange source of magic, at which point she lost consciousness. Her body completely unraveled, revealing her true form: The Existencial String. it was impossibly large yet so small, eternal in length yet could fit in the palm of your hand. it radiated with ever changing colors, its beauty a true wonder, its very being could not be described. the thread was so thin, yet it had the strenght of Everything. it was both soothing and volatile at the same time, a personification of Infinity broken. light inaudible whispers eminate from it, the voices soothing and mysterious, brimming with knowledges no mortal could hold...this was the Stolen String. The Crime that could not have been comitted, yet was.....

Fauna

Fauna smiled, her voice soothing, "Dont worry. We Bards can navigate, just follow us..." she gave them all a hug, a simple act of comfort, but they all looked like they needed it. She and Crowe led them a ways for a walk that seemed to take almost half an hour, when they finally came across the endless corridors that was the Ahmarhan Limbo Prison. Any who was not a Bard or of the Ahmarhan would wonder here forever, but Fauna and Crow's magic helped show the way. it was another few minutes before they came a cross a hallway filled with prison cells. and in each of them, except for one, was Cyrssa each a different parallel version of her. the one that did not had a differnt girl, whom was also Alveranian, she was crying, and her legs were broken. "Well this is the place....As you can see, the Ahmarhan do not operate in only one timeline. they precide over all of them and all universes, and multiverses. every dimension. All of Existence."

Serena

Serena Awoke, but the lightning bolt had left her blind. she could see nothing around her. "H-Hello? I-Is anyone there?" she cold, a tinge of fear in her voice.

Jason

Jason shrugged. Then suddenly two people and a strange crature appeared, with creature attacking the other two. Jason responded so quickly, it almost seemed as if he had planned for this to happen, yet he hadn't. Jason still had his sword drawn, and without a word he charged, cracefully jumping over the beast cutting off the limb that had seized the man. However he did not stop there, as he was now with the Calm. he could hear its music, and thus synched his movements to it. every attack and move was perfect. he struck exactly where it was weak and dodged its attacks and movements as if he had fought the creature his entire life. It wasnt a fair fight, any who watched could tell the fight was clearly in Jason's favor. no matter its's moves, Jason could not be caught off guard or surprised. The Calm was with him. And with the Calm, none could even tell he was still injured from his encounter with the Beetle from before...

Wolf

Wolf ignored the drink, it was irrelevant. "Our interest in you only extends as far as that of you being a potential canidate for the next Apox. Now onto business. There a few details that we negletic to mention, such as the requirement of bonding with the String, It normally requires True love's Kiss. but..." a folder containing several pages suddenly appeared in his had, which he slid to Haikarakainen. "This is the ritual that will allow you to circumvent that. Follow the instructions exactly, or your attempt will fail. it also gives you coordinates of both the Immortal and the String's current location. Oh, and if i were you I'd hurry. Maju is already making his move for it. That is all." And with that, Wolf vanished, returning to the City of the Ahmarhan.

by **Naval Monte** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 5:43 pm

Elizabeth

Elizabeth followed through the bards since she has no interest on being lost in this mad world. When she saw the corridors appear before her and the group Elizabeth was torn on whether they reminded her of the Labyrinth or Inferno, but she soon picked the latter once she saw that it was a prison. "What... why are there so many Cryssa?" Tessy asked once she saw the many Cryssas locked up, it was clear to everyone that seeing her adopted niece locked up was troubling her. Soon one of the bards explained that each Cryssa present was a different one from a different timeline along with explaining the vast scope that the Ahmarhan operate.

"Yeah we get it they are the alpha and the omega, right now I'm more concern about finding our Cryssa." Tessy looked at Elizabeth and asked her about the other Cryssa's, the street witch gave her a somber expression. "Sorry luv, but we can't stage a prison break of that level without having over powered warden's come down and kill us all before we can even blink." Elizabeth looked at the one Alveranian that was not Cryssa. "Kinda strange that in a prison filled with Cryssa's they have this one elf that is different from her. Judging from her broken legs I take it that they don't treat their prisoners well in here."

Moon Sisters

"Don't worry dear, I will fix up soon." Selene said, walking over to the now blind Selene. She placed her hands on Selene's eyes and soon she began to use her powers to fix her vision. Artemis looked over from where the Fates and Alzis were, they have been away from the group ever since they have arrived in this dimension and from the looks of a few mages that have went insane are trying to uncover whatever knowledge they can get from the string, though so far all of their efforts seem to be in vain. "At least they are covering the string from Eris's sights so that's one good thing." the younger sister thought as she looked back to the goddess still trapped.

Hecate was the only one of the sisters who was paying attention to the meeting with Adrian's successor and so far this man has proved himself to be well when it comes with his intellect, but she wish to see how well he does once put into battle. "So far I find no fault with your plan but I believe we should have a back up should something happen to the bomb before we can use it on Maju." the crone thought for a while on what else can push Maju to his limits, inspiration came when she took a stray glance at Alzis's group. "I think I know of a world that would be have plenty of beings that could push Maju to his breaking point. Now none of them are in the same level of power as the Ahmarhan but I'm confident enough that if we find the right entity in that world we can destroy Maju." she finally turn her sight back at X. "Of course I rather have this plan as a back up one cause I feel that the Genesis bomb is a more secure plan than the one I have in mind."

Alzis

Alzis felt that soon the string was about to pull out her true form, she felt fear the likes of which she never thought was possible for her to feel as the string kept it's assault on her. Alzis was too distracted with her own fear and panic to have sensed the arrival of the Moon Sisters and their spell, she only realize that a spell was casted once Celestia fell unconscious in front of her. Seeing the string take on it's true form was a breath taking and surreal moment, seeing the string has a young girl for so long being faced with what it truly is was weird for her but in the end Alzis moved those feelings away as she ordered some of her own people to move the string to the second portal.

Throughout her stay in the realm she had over heard the meeting between X and seen the awakening of Eris. "Great so not only did that damn peddler of shoddy magic ran away but that annoying lich was a vessel for a being similar in power to a Daeva. This day couldn't get any better." to add to the list of annoyance for Alzis having some of her own mages go insane as they try to understand the secrets contain within the string was not helping her, though this problem was one that she was expecting to find.

Once Hecate mention on knowing a world filled with beings that can push Maju to his limits Alzis knew that she was referring to her world and was glad when the crone said she wanted to use something from Alzis's world as a last resort. "If we're lucky than your plan will never come to pass crone. That world is one that is best left alone."

Tandem

Just as Tandem's life was flashing before his eyes as the jaws of the creature was getting close to his head he saw a swordsmen appear out of no where and cut the tentacles that were holding him, freeing the Alveranian from the strange creature. The next minutes were spent with Tandem and Alice seeing Jason fighting against the creature, well not so much fighting it as more of massacring it. No matter what sort of attack it used on Jason he seem to know how to counter or defend against it and than attack it's weak point.

The creature than began to change it's tactic and threw dirt at the man, most likely to distract him with the dirt so it can make an escape but the man dodged the dirt and kept on attack the creature. Soon with one last swipe the creature let out a blood curdling scream as it collapse down to the ground, Tandem couldn't tell if it was dead or not but he didn't want to stay to know the answer. "Thanks for the help pal. I guess I owe you for saving my life, I really don't have much to give so you're gonna have to wait for be to repay you." Tandem said trying to get up but hiss in pain as his legs were still broken, now with the creature's tight grip gone the bio implants began to heal the damages in his leg. Away from them Alice was looking back and forth at Tandem, Jason and the supposedly dead creature, extremely confused and scared on what is going on. "Can some one tell me what the hell is going on!" she shouted, getting everyone's attention.

She turned to Tandem. "Why on Earth do you look like an elf now and what was that thing?" she than looked at Jason. "And who are you and why were you able to beat it so easily? Are you some sort of monster hunter or something?" she asked, shaking on what just happened to her and what may happen now. Tandem wanted to say something to Alice but couldn't find the right words to say now.

Kalameet

In another world the black dragon of chaos has appeared after resting in his realm of chaos, the dragon was most displeased on the reason it had to rest on his own personal haven. "Freaking bard and her magic. I swear one of this days I will find some sort of loophole in that bard rule and will exploit the hell out of them." the dragon was now floating on above of several islands.

It was one a variant Earth were it technology was advance and there were sapient animals living with humans along with living breathing dinosaurs, this world also seems to be protected by a group of superhuman fighters with some members being aliens. "Just got to avoid those losers and I can make my wish in peace." the dragon, in the form of a black scaly namekian, flew off to find the Dragon Balls.

by **Kaidou** » Thu Dec 03, 2015 9:29 pm

It was at that moment that Celestia, the female embodiment of the Thread of Existence, decided to unravel herself to reveal her true form.

Both Felix and Hiccup were taken aback at her sudden transformation, but that was not what shocked them the most; rather, it was the fact that a portal appeared to be pulling itself open at one side. The Tenshi, too, had noticed this, and had jumped across the portal into the grassy world.

"It's possible to deduce who might me coming over", said X monotonously, as he shuffled across the portal and hopped over. "Considering the fact that there's nothing here that might interest others apart from the String itself, I can conclude that whoever is coming across either wants to fuse himself with the String, or wants to kill us on Maju's behalf."

That deduction was correct; from across the portal came three men; Haikarakainen, Klingsor, and Don Vorth. Once they stepped over, the portal shut off, sending a blast of red light flashing across the entire landscape.

"Gentlemen", said Haikarakainen, grinning maniacally and letting his tongue fall out. Now that he wasn't Jayden Dan Valheitler anymore, he could allow himself to be much less restrained. "I've come for the String; hand it over."

"We won't be giving anything to you!" roared Father Christmas, as he drew both of his swords. Before he could do anything, Don Vorth raised a finger and fired off a shockwave, knocking one of Father Christmas' swords out of his hand. Father Christmas grunted and took out his Sceptre, before pouncing and charging straight towards Vorth…

"Room."

Within a split second of X uttering that single word, a gigantic bubble appeared, arching over Father Christmas, X himself, and the three intruders.

"Shambles."

That moment, Father Christmas disappeared and returned to his original position. Instead of him charging towards Vorth, it was a burning meteorite.

It all happened in a split second.

"Leave this shit to me!"

With a deft flick of his wrist, Haikarakainen pulled five strings out of the air by solidifying the gases, slicing the meteorite into six parts. That same moment, Klingsor chuckled deviously, before slowly walking into the meteorite's trajectory.

This should be interesting.

His body suddenly turned into a mass of blackness, a sort of blackness that couldn't be described as darkness, or night, or shadow, or smoke. It was simply blackness. From within the blackness, a single red eye flashed, sending a blast of crimson light bursting forth. Immediately, the meteorite disappeared into nothingness.

The colour drained from Felix's face.

"Pyhädunkelheit???"

"Indeed", said Klingsor. "It seems that I can command the spirit of Holming Faustus much better than you can."

Father Christmas, Wilhelmus, and Mera stood facing Vorth and Haikarakainen directly, with X standing facing Klingsor (both standing between the Tenshi and the IGSE boss).

"I have to say", said Haikarakainen to X, "your intellect is certainly very astounding, as is your power. Still… I don't think that will be enough."

"Why are you here?"

Haikarakainen pointed at the now unravelled string behind the Tenshi. "That", he said. "It belongs to me."

"Says who?"

"MAJ Wolf of the Ahmarhan."

Silence reigned for a few seconds as the shock of what Haikarakainen had said began to sink in. Haikarakainen chuckled, before saying to X, "Tell me… Is Mr Doflamingo one of your aliases?"

"Indeed, Doflamingo is me."

"Is Mrs Elsa Lawliet also one of your aliases?"

"Lawliet is me too."

"So it would appear that you now have two Genesis Bombs on your hands."

X remained silent, licking his lips thoughtfully.

"But let's cut all that bullshit now", said Haikarakainen to the rest. "Give me the String, or I shall be very displeased. And you all know what happens when I am displeased."

Barukana

"What???"

"I'm afraid it's true, Lord."

With a lunge, Maju seized the commander, crushing his neck and dropping the lifeless body on the floor.

"Open a portal! We are sending all of our troops to that planet right now!"

"I'm afraid we can't do that, my Lord. Apparently, somebody has cast a Spellbinding circle on Barukana. We are trapped here for sixteen hours!"

"What the…!!!"

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