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Postby Naval Monte » Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:38 pm

Seeds of Anxiety
Lludw Cigfrain
Morons in Black


"Finally we can go." Denton shouted as the doors for the trio were open. The two interdimmes would see Paige walking out, holding a dark purple book and a gun holster to her left hip. "I'm coming with you guys. The Fates like to use Tartarian and Infernal magic and entities, you guys will need my expertise on that matter to best deal with that." she gave them a small smile, the one having a confidant stance than from before. She felt assured of herself in this case because she was in her element.

Dowell looked over. "Sorry Paige but we don't have enough room. Blondie, Oswald, and the Pumpkin Queen are on the back seat." the woman frown slightly but merely shrugged. "I will find another car than." she looked at the three newcomers. "Let's see if you guys have what it takes to work in this town." the woman would walk away to find another car for her to ride in. Once the group was in the car Dowell looked behind through the rear view window.

"Okay since you guys are new to this and one of you think that this whole supernatural business is bullshit listen up. Regardless if you believe the Fates have black magic and can summon demons from the dark corners of existence they are not to be taken lightly. The bastards will be armed with guns they no doubt smuggle to be sold or to give into gangsters they bribed to work for them. Now chances are we are dealing with just that, hired guns being paid to do their dirty work. But keep your eyes peeled for anything strange. The Fates lost their boss in here and they have been fighting tooth and nail to keep their territories. Worse is that several big players were taken out or are severally weaken due to a shadow war that was waged in the town. That war has left a massive power vacuum that is making every small time gang and cult in the town turn the streets into a small scale occult war whenever the sun sets. The Fates are using some of their bosses pet projects to help them keep their power while gaining more. We might encounter some of them. So if you gut is telling you something is wrong chances are it is right."

He would turn on the car's engine with a simple turn of the key. "There is a chance we might encounter something else in the area. Either a new group who moved in to stake a claim in the town or another interdimmie like you three, either way consider this first mission as our welcome aboard party." Dowell would let out a harsh chuckle, his pot belly vibrating slightly from the action. "Let see how well you three will last on this god forsaken job." the man would begin to drive the car forward. "Also put on your damn seat belts. I ain't gonna get pulled over by the bloody cops because of you guys." he told them as he drove off to the warehouse. Behind him were other cars following the agent to the site.



A loud clang was heard, making the two skeletons stop in their track as they jolted in shock. The two would look around as they used floating bones surrounded by a magical aura to try and illuminate their path through the warehouse. They found walls covered in dry plaster and paint, some of the paint flaking off and covering the moldy and dusty floor with crusty sheets of dried paints and crumbles of plaster and shattered pieces of ceiling tiles. Light bulbs were either shattered or hang off their wires. Much of the windows were either covered in grime that made it difficult for moonlight and the electric lights from outside to shine through the age glass, the only parts of the window light from the outside could shine through was from the sections that were broken either into or from out.

The two skeletons even heard the sounds of water dripping, suggesting that the building was water logged and giving a good explanation for the mold present in this level. The two can see empty offices in the level. From the small rooms they saw chairs with their metal supports covered in dust and cobwebs, dust balls and desiccated insect remains trapped by the now abandoned trap and home of spiders who either left the room or died a long time ago. The metal of the chairs were now nothing more but patches of reddish orange to dark reddish brown, the metal being incredibly unstable to support any weight on it, granted if that wasn't enough to disway anyone from sitting on it the cut up cushions, covered in stains of an unidentified source with fungal growth being very close to the sites of the stains, might do it. The tables were also in a similar condition, their aged and rotten wooden exterior covered in dust left by time with some drawers either left wide open or lying on the floor.

Yellow and water ruined papers were on top of the tables, much of the words barely eligible to the monsters not that they had any concerns to read them. A few interesting items found were dusty, cobwebbed infested, typewriters and computers that seem to have been made in either the late 80s or early 90s, giving the two an idea for how long this warehouse was in use and possibly when it was closed permanently and lift to root by the elements and to be vandalize by rowdy teenagers, shelter for homeless drug addicts, and no doubt a meeting spot for questionable members of society. Sans eyes were on a pot holding the remains of a plant that was now just a thin, black, stick-like thing that drop over the pot and landed on the floor as a small spider climb up on it. He wonder if maybe meeting AEGIS in this situation was the right idea?

At the time they were confused and lost, they were desperate for answers and maybe a way to find themselves back to the New Republic as they were enjoying a small vacation in Coruscant. But now with a degree of hindsight he was thinking that if AEGIS was here than chances are neither he and his brother are alone in this building. The organization was very secretive on their duties, even when most members knew that they dealt with magical and other paranormal entities, objects, and phenomenon. Sans and Papyrus were both skeptical on their claims of monsters in their world being a threat, after all the humans in their world thought they were a threat long ago and they were sealed in the Underground. But being with AEGIS they realized that while not all monsters from their world was as bad as he heard from one very bigoted soldier he was right that none of the monsters in their universe were like the ones form his universe.

If Sans was being honest with himself he wouldn't call them monsters. Demons and nightmares are more apt names for them. The smaller skeleton shook his head as his mind wander to things he rather not remember right now due to his present setting. The warehouse was already creepy alone, no need to look for monsters in the dark. Except... there is a chance there is one with them, why else would AEGIS even be here?

"hey pap. you think maybe we should wait until the spooks are done with whatever they are doing in here and we met them outside?" he asked his brother, eyes on a broken fan that was pointing at him, the blades lacking the bar barrier to shield anyone from the blades of the fan if it was still working. The blades now were covered in rust and the edges seem to be blunted. A worrying sign that Sans saw was small brown spots on the blades. He didn't want to think what those spots were. As far as he was concern it was rust, nothing more. It was not blood and it wasn't used as a weapon on someone or something in this building some time ago.

Papyrus was looking at an old calendar that was dated to 1997, the aged and wrinkling papers showing a tropical beach with the month being on February. When his brother told him on leaving the building the taller skeleton looked down at him. "I MEAN, WE COULD SANS BUT WE ARE ALREADY IN HERE. I DON'T THINK THEY WOULD SHOT US BECAUSE THEY SHOULD KNOW THAT WE ARE ALLIES. I MEAN WE PROMISED ON GETTING THEM TO MEET WITH ASGORE, TORIEL, FRISK AND THE OTHERS ONCE THEY FIND OUR HOME WORLD." For once Sans wish his brother didn't speak so loudly as his voice echo throughout the quiet building.

"it's just well i was thinking. these are the guys that hunt bad monsters, demons, evil human magicians, and ghosts. if they are here than chances are this place isn't safe for us. so maybe it's best to leave here for both our sake and to not get in their way." Papyrus thought about what his brother said, his red glove hand rubbing his square chin as he "hmm" to himself. "YOU HAVE A POINT. WE AREN'T FAMILIAR WITH THE SORT OF THINGS THEY NORMALLY DEAL WITH AND WITH HOW THINGS LOOK IT SEEMS TO BE THAT WE ARE IN THERE WORLD. WISH WITH WHAT WE HAVE SEEN I THINK I CAN NOW UNDERSTAND A BIT WHY THEY ARE THE WAY THEY ARE. IF OUR WORLD WAS AS RUNDOWN AS THEIRS WE MIGHT ACT JUST LIKE THEM." A tone of pity and sympathy came out from Papyrus voice once he realized that the group that was seen as some within the Union as the "Token Evil Teammate" were infact people who became the way they were because they seem to live in a very rough universe.

Sans in a way to can feel some tinge of sympathy but he didn't let it reach the same level as Papyrus. He suspected that some of their behavior wasn't just because of their environment. They could have chosen to not do certain actions but they did because of some misguided sense of doing it for the "greater good". "why should i bother think about this? this isn't my world and so far they aren't like the demon from my world, they aren't going to kill anyone for no good reason." He disapproves of some of their methods and ideals, but he knows that not everyone in AEGIS is wholly bad, they are just good people forced to do crumbly things for a organization that is run by leaders who are amoral at best.

"well we will do something nice for them after they are done. now, let's get out of..." a loud gun shot would be heard coming from the air conditioner duct. The first gun shot would soon be followed by more gun shots as strange roars can be heard follow by screams of anguish and horror. The two skeletons were frozen on the spot, Sans having his magic eye flashing brightly with his eyes widen open, while his brother had his large mouth open as wide as he can possibly open it without breaking it off his skull. As the battle raged on it was Papyrus who spoke. "WE HAVE TO DO SAVE THEM BROTHER! WE CAN'T JUST LEAVE THEM TO DIE DOWN THERE!" He brother shouted.

Sans didn't react immediately as he was having flashbacks of another time when he heard many people dying. Of a world where piles of dust were the only traces of innocent souls mercilessly slaughter by a demon in human flesh, of his battle against the demon to stop the senseless genocide, of...

Sans was jerked out of his thoughts as he was pulled by his brother, his large gloved hand grabbing on to his smaller hand tightly, the older skeleton rushing down the hall and breaking through the doors with his own momentum and bones. "wait paps! we don't know what they are fighting, they can be fighting against some sort of super mutant or cyber demon or even a cthulhu knockoff!" Sans was panicking now, he wanted to get the two away from this fight now while they have the chance. They shouldn't be caught up with something that isn't their concern.

"WE CAN'T LEAVE THEM TO DIE SANS. THE GREAT PAPYRUS CAN NOT ALLOW SOMEONE IN TROUBLE TO BE LEFT ALONE, REGARDLESS OF WHATEVER DANGERS AWAITS ME." he declared, both boasting of his excellence but also showing off his honorable virtue to his lazy counterpart. While Sans normally loves the fact his brother was a nice guy in this moment he can feel that this was not the best case to be a nice skeleton. He knew that trying to convince his brother in the warehouse won't work, he needs to get them out. Just as he was going to teleport them the hall would suddenly become a blurred mess as they fell through the floor, the floor being so weaken by mold and age that it broke easily once the two skeletons stepped on it.

As the two screamed Sans would teleport the two to the floor without thinking, the two covering themselves as pieces of rotten wood fell on them. As the splinter rain finally ceased the two would lower their eyes, magical bones illuminating the room, the two gasping at what they saw as they can feel nausea and horror creep throughout their being. The floor was covered in blood and dead bodies, some being in pieces or as chunks of bloody meat and bone shards. They also saw brass robots torn to pieces, a few pieces used as weapons as they were impaled through the dead humans.

"I wasn't expecting the skeleton mafia to make a surprise appearance. I was told you all dressed funny but I wasn't expecting your attire to be so ridiculous." the two turn and they saw a young human male was the source of the voice. The most distinctive thing they saw about the human was his face, it was obscured by a plague doctor mask that only covered his nose and mouth. He had short, shaggy auburn hair, parted to the left. His eyes are thin, their irises small and gold, with rather long lower eyelashes and small eyebrows. From the structure of his eyes he was of Asian decedent if Sans was remembering his lesson of the different racial groups among the humans. He also possesses a small scar on the left side of his forehead, and three metal stubbs piercing through the lube of his left ear. The man wore a black dress shirt with matching dress pants, a pale gray tie around his neck and a belt with a long, thin buckle around his waist, and a long coat with white feathery collar and white surgical gloves.

Well one, the one hand that was absent of the glove was holding on to a scruffy blond guy wearing a suit and... sunglasses? At night? "Should I eat them master?" a man wearing a stitched up sack over his head with dirty and ragged clothing said to the other masked man who was his boss. The way the man twitch and cackled just set off all sorts of alarms to the two skeletons, especially as the amber eyes of the first man just made them feel like they were prey who trespassed on the liar of a predator who was not sated with latest hunt and was still searching for more victims. "Not yet Makami. I want to know why those jokers of mafioses think they can barge into our new territory and gather information on the current state of their group now that they lost their leader. Wish isn't that much of a surprise. What did that idiot think would happen if he aided the Ravenbound Witch?" the man shook his head.

The other man he held in his grip would speak. "Let go of me you damn ch.." he would never finish his sentence as he would let out an ear piercing scream. The two skeletons would see the man's veins bulged out as his skin began to bloat up, the skin turning red. They would see large tumors grow throughout this body and each one inflate into such grotesquely large sizes that the two fear that they would see them all explode, which sadly for them it was what happened. The first tumor to explode released a torrent of blood that shower on the concrete floor,a sickening wet pop was heard when the tumor exploded. More of the tumors began to pop and soon they saw the man's upper body just explode into a shower of blood and gore, coating the masked man and the sack man known as Makami in blood. "Disgusting. Giovanni, get rid of this filth off us and restrain the two." The man would shake his hand in an attempt to remove the blood and pieces of flesh stuck to his fingers.

"Gladly." they heard a deep, Italian accented, voice echo from the darkness. The two skeletons would feel their bodies stiffen as some force held them in place. They would try to move but not even the smallest nudge would occur, it was as though they were turn to stone. They would see the blood being pulled off the two men and flying up to form a sphere of blood. From the shadows they can hear tapping as well as foot steps. Coming out from the darkness they would see a man wearing the full ensemble of a plague doctor with a red scarf around his neck and on his right hand a cane similar in design to those used by Victorian gentlemen. "Greetings you two?" the plague doctor would give a slight tip to his hat as he bow. "I would give you two a warm welcome but unfortunately you two came to us at the worst possible time."

The two skeletons saw other people coming in, all of them wearing masks. Some wore plastic featureless masks or masks showing the faces of monsters that Sans remember seeing from Alphys animes and video games. He saw some wearing surgical masks and goggles on their eyes and some wearing classic ski masks used by robbers, a few just wore halloween masks. Some wore fancy clothing like the supposed leader while others wore more ragged and dirty clothing or wore eccecntric costumes like the plague doctor.

As the leader put on his glove he would see that his colleagues caught more survivors. "Where is Remy?" A woman wearing a red, tattered, kimono with her face covered by an oni mask would say. "The bastard never showed up. The man we thought was him was nothing more but a decoy made by that demon's toy robot." the masked man cursed. "He most likely won't care what we do with his men but we will find some use for them." he would look at the two skeletons.

The two were petrified on the situation they were in. None were sure what these people were going to do with them or if they will ever leave this place alive? "WH.. WHO... ARE YOU... PEOPLE..." Papyrus stuttered, his earlier bravado crumbled away just as one Fate member whose body broke down into dust by one man wearing an all dark attire with a skull mask and hoodie, the man killing his prisoner because he saw the Fate lackey taking out a knife.

The masked leader walked up to the two skeletons. "You can call us the Hyakki Yagyō." he would raise his right hand up. "And we are the new masters of this town." his eyes staring deep into the sockets of the two skeletons. "Now. Tell me who are you two and why you are spying on us?"

The two skeletons would see a shadowy imprint of a human rise from the ground. “Sir, a location own by the Fates close by was recently attacked. What do you want us to do?” the masked man kept his eyes on the two skeletons as he replied back. “Go with a few people to investigate who was responsible for the attack and see if we can get them to join us.” the shadow man bowed as he walked to the others to pick which member he would pick for the investigate.



Secrets of the Raven
Annwn
Scooby Gang


Elizabeth was silent as everyone was dragged before Andarta to see the birth of a new world, the witch rolling her eyes at the grandiose attitude the cultists were displaying. When they finally saw Andarta the witch saw the frail old woman that was once a walking goddess that was to date her most powerful enemy. "Bloody hell, what have you done to yourself Claudia? I know must of us mages aren't exactly the perfect example of good health, especially on the mental side. But this is depressing." the witch thought, feeling pity for the woman for how much she was destroying herself for this goal.

Of course she was somewhat grateful that Andarta's pitiful visage was brought to her attention; her mind was on the sights of the city and truth be told she felt as though she was almost going to black out again the more she saw it. Elizabeth saw more visions of the city during the walk: she saw it on the surface with a sun shining down upon it and the city populated by a diverse array of creatures yet she knew all of them were of the same species. She even saw the city floating in the recess of space and none of the beings that called it home were bothered by the lack of an atmosphere or gravity, hell they acted like they still were on a planet as the city flew through the cold and harsh abyss that was outer space. The music she heard throughout the city didn't help as it put her mind in a state to receive more of those visions.

The witch shook her head as she was starting to see herself being a queen of a desert world of magical people who practice dark magic and mixed it with technology. She wasn't just queen but a goddess, what was more strange than the outfit she wore was the fact she had twins. Another had her being in a space station trying to get some red headed soldier pants, unaware of the jealous female robot who wants to murder her for doing so. She also saw the same woman and robot pilot giant robots to fight humanoid clones with elongated heads in some city with many other people and aliens. "Okay it's official. This city is driving me nuts." the witch thought, almost missing Terry finally calling out Andarta for her actions.

The witch was quiet as everyone spoke to the cult leader, each one trying to convince her to see the error of her plan. When Wei joined in the witch glared at him. "Oh, so it isn't foolish when you join in? Bite me you hypocritical prick." The witch of course knew that vocally saying that would go against what was being done. As everyone implemented their own method to convince her to stop Elizabeth was silent as she thought on what she can say.

"Claudia." she heard her mother say. "You can use that Tower to undo your mistake. You can bring back the kids to their parents, erase the murders. You can even change your past so and Amelia can live the life you want? That is what you always wanted right?" she said, seeing the woman frown and squirm a bit. "Deep down you cherish those moments with her and believe me I know how it feels to lose someone dear. I wish that I can bring them back and spend all the lost time I could have had with them, you now have that chance. Instead of robbing generations of their future why not change your past so you can live in a better present and future?" she gave Claudia a smile.

Claudia seem to be in deep thought over it. "I will admit, the thought was in my mind several times when I found out about the Tower's powers." her voice sounded more tired than before, almost as though each plead to change her way and each one poking holes in her plan was draining whatever energy she had left. Elizabeth wonder if perhaps she would die from them just talking to her? A morbid joke she chided herself for having at this time.

"I truly wish I can erase the cult my parents were in, this cursed role I was in. To live a peaceful and normal life with Amalia." she grip the fabric of her robes that was above her blacken heart. "But we all know that such a wish will most likely have a price attached to it, it's simply too good to be true. Either we will never meet to begin with in the new world or my attempt will fail as the gods will just change everything so my change never happened, thus starting all of us back to this exact spot." she let out a hoarse chuckle. "Perhaps in another irritation that is what happened and now we are just back before we can begin the next possible loop." she shook her head.

"The plan will also make the sacrifices and efforts of everyone who made all of this possible pointless if I tried to erased them. That would be a more grievous insult to those who died so I can reach this point." she looked forlorn. "But I do like the fact we both had the same idea and can at least understand how it feels to lose someone wonderful in our lives."

When those words were uttered Elizabeth would speak up. "Make that three." she would look at her eyes. "You know I lost my family when I was young and that I lost my girlfriend years afterwards, hell I lost so many people who I was close with in my life. That lost still haunts me as much as the memories of what has been as well as the thoughts of what could have been." Elizabeth sounded calm but she didn't have the detached professionalism of Wei nor the emotionless monotone of Weiss. With Elizabeth there was a sense of empathy with her voice, even if she wasn't being highly emotional at the moment.

"Those people who died, many because they died by my actions or by my own hands, I do what I do because I needed to make their sacrifices, their deaths, mean something. I need to find some sense of redemption for all of my mistakes and actions, to know that maybe that somehow they don't hate me for what I did to them." Claudia looked at her. The calm mask that Elizabeth wore was cracking slowly as she spoke. "So we are the same in that regard. We both want to atone for our past crimes. So you can understand why this is my redemption." Elizabeth chuckled. "In a way I can, but this isn't redemption Claudia. This is just you running away. You aren't honoring anyone with resetting the world. That soulless utopia isn't one those kids want to live in. I think deep down you don't want that world either. I think you will be more content with just having the people you love back in your life and just cherishing every moment with them. Because if I was in your shoes that is what I would use the Tower for."

Her eyes went to the Tower. "But if you can't do it than try to use whatever you power you can try to actually save people; try to make this dying mess of a world slightly better. If not for you than at least do it for Amelia. Because be honest with yourself Claudia, do you think she would approve of what you have done, what you have done to yourself? You think she wants you killing people and robbing them of their free will in her honor?"



The Great Wizarding Rebellion
Anarchy in the UK
The Order of The Portrait of what Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash


The ruins of London were mournfully silent, as they always have ever seen the attack not so long ago. Even with the sun up the light felt much dimmer in the city than elsewhere in the UK. Many thought that magic might be to blame for the dark atmosphere in the city but many more chalk it up to the somber fact that many people have been killed and much of the cultural heritage of the city was also in ruins. What didn't help was the makeshift shrines and murals of those departed. Throughout different parts of the city one can not escape the candles, flowers, and photos of the many people who either have perished or remain lost from the dreadful attack.

The city is in essence the traumatic scar that was inflicted upon the muggles and it was the city that was the source of much of the hate that many muggles feel towards wizards and witches. For magic never existed than surely so many people wouldn't have died so senselessly. Many who come to the city are those who come to grieve for those they lost in the attack or search desperately among the ruins to find their love ones, either alive and hiding in the rubble or their bodies, anything would be preferable than to live with the mystery to their true fate.

Yet in the crowd of mourners and rescue workers a few have far more... less reputable reasons to be in the city. Scavenging. The ruins contain many items that many feel would find and sell to the highest bidder. A few wizard and witches even took it upon themselves to hide within the ruins as they felt that it would be the one place most muggles would not expect to find them. After all, who would willing live in the site of the supposed great sin?

Among the ruins a couple of youths were walking out of an abandoned shop, each holding bagged of ill gotten gains. "I can't believe no one thought to rob this place much earlier. We are gonna be rich when we sell these on Ebay." one of them said. As the youth went to their cars they didn't see the robbed figure watching them from the alleyway.

As the youths enter the car the driver would turn on the headlights and they and the rest would scream in horror as they saw a black robed figure standing before them. "What the fuck? How did that fucker get in front of us so quickly?" One shouted "Blimey, the wanker is a bloody ghost." a cockney youth shouted.

The driver would stick his head out of the window. "Oi, what do you want old man. We are busy." the robbed man remain still. "I need to know. What year is this?" the rest of the hoodlums looked at each other before laughing. "This bastard is a draft cunt. Let's get out of here before granddad here starts to tell us his war stories." the driver would ask the man to move. The robbed figure would take out a wand and without a word would send the driver screaming as he felt every muscle and nerve burning in excruciating pain, yet he also felt exquisite pleasure from the curse.

"I will not repeat myself you wastes of space, what year is this?" One would give him the answer. "I see. I guess time has flied by after my departure." he looked at the buildings. "Yes, a lot has changed. Tell me gentlemen, do you know what has happened to London?" the group now afraid told him everything the government told the public. The robbed figured threw his head back, laughing maniacally. "Oh I knew Fudge was incompetent but this?! This is so depressing it goes around to being hilarious." the man would keep on laughing.

During his laughing fit one of the youths would try to go to the car but suddenly the man would point his wand on the boy and his body would transform into spiders, making the others freak out. the robbed man put the wand to his neck "SILENCE!!!" he voice echo loudly throughout the deserted streets of London. "None of you will leave unless I say so! Now this one is important. Where is Madison Goodwell?" the terrified youths all looked at him, none saying a word.

"WHERE IS SHE!!!" he would flick his wand and a tree would combust into flames, only making the youths more terrified. The man shook his head. "Nevermind, talking to you muggles is like trying to talk to a chimp." He would look at his wand. "Hopefully my former servants will be of some use." he would look back at the youths. "I have a special message that I want you all to deliver." He would pull back his hood; revealing a pale man with red hair and brown eyes. "Tell the world that Ableton Ashel Renik has return from the dead and I will bring forth a new age upon both Great Britain and the world. Tell the pathetic masses of both world that the true wizard king has returned to the world and with it will arise a new order. The Eyes of the Midnight Sun!" he would thrust his wand in the air and fire a spell.

From the cloud they can see them converging on where the spell stopped, the clouds turning as black as the night sky. As many people in the city look on with horror and confusion they would say the clouds take on the shape of a raven being strangled by a snake, it's fangs bared upon the raven's face. But soon they would see the shape change from it. From the raven becoming a victim of a serpent they saw soaring in front of a sun with ten eyes.

The youths would see dark smoke flying in the air and the smoke crashing down, revealing people in dark robes. "Lord Ableton, we await your return my lord." the man wearing a beaked mask said. Ableton looked around. "I see some of you are missing? No doubt still locked up in Azkaban. A small hassle for us now that the Ministry is no more." he would look at the masked people. "All of you. When I finally signaled my return you all dutifully came to me." he would stretch his hands out. "It is loyalty like this that many kings award his subjects for. Yet..." his expression soured. "None of you so much tried to avenge my death! None of you lead to the Ministry's destruction! Not one of you tried to bring my back from the dead! I must say, I'm very disappointed in you all"

The beaked wizard would kneel before Ableton. "I apologize my lord. We never doubted for a moment that you will find a way to return from the veil of death, so we felt assured that we had no need to try and bring you back. Goodwell was protected by Dumbledore so we couldn't touch her and the Ministry I assure you would have been ripe for you to take over someday my lord. But AEGIS and their dark god ruined our plans." Ableton looked at the man with curiosity. "Dark God you say? You have my curiosity. I will spare you all as you all will help me in understanding this new world." he would point to the muggles. "But for you all. I offer these muggles for your amusement. Do spare one, I need that one as the messenger."

For the next hour unspeakable horrors occurred in the streets of London as the screams of pure terror could be heard as well as the laughter of mad men who acted like devils. When it was done and the dark mages flew off only one youth was left alive, frozen stiff in fear as he was surrounded by his dead friends. None paid to heed a strange mark burn to the wall of the shop. The symbol of a snake leaving the mouth of a skull.



The two yokais looked at Kiara with mild amazement, the two respecting the young girl for her surprising skills in combat. “Who taught you how to fight like that girl?” Tenzma asked. Toshinori looked at Madison. “We can’t keep her trap. If we did they will get her and who knows what those sorcerer will do if they have access to the dust in her body?” the tengu growled, his fist clenched tightly. “I don’t agree with what you are thinking but you’re right. We can’t keep her lock up.” He looked at her.

“If you feel like you are going to lose control at any moment tell us. We can’t have you attack us while we are trying to escape from this ship.” The tengu looked to the inugami and nodded. Toshnair walked to the door frame and began to remove the cards binding Madi in place.

Elsewhere in the airship gunshots were heard as the squad of AEGIS soldiers stay close with each other as they moved into cover, all of them firing bullets to the Aurors who were firing spells at them as they hide behind cover. The dragonflies and pterodactyl were captured by the aurors and while the woman used some of the trapped aurors as shields against spells she was being overwhelmed, it was only a matter of time before a spell hits her and she either dies in the struggle or is captured.

Elsewhere in the ship John Lennon incerated a wizard’s face with his eye lasers while Paul Mccarthy was dunking another’s head in the toilet, Ringo flushing the dial to give the wizard a swirly. George Harrison was strangling another auror. All four were singing as they fought against the aurors.

In another part of the ship two aurors looked at the carnage. One who wore a blue robes and was darker in complexion compare to most looked at the scene and shook his head. “They can’t be serious about all of this.” The other who was much younger and had longer hair would reply. “No, I’m Sirius. Those guys are just idiots.” the other auror sighed. “Indeed.” he would look to Sirius. “Find Goodwell Sirius. We need to reach her before the others do.” The auror hailing from the house of Black grinned. “When have I ever failed you Shackle old buddy? I will find her in five minutes at most.” the wizard would apport and begin his search for Madison. “Hopefully you will find her before that time period. If we want this nightmare to end we need Goodwell on our side.” Shacklebolt said, feeling as though something terrible was either going to occur or has.
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Postby Demincia » Sun Jan 26, 2020 2:14 pm

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Dawn Elissa


In the middle of their conversation, Dawn's voice came from the side of their eyeline. "Hate to interrupt this therapy session, I know how important they can be, but it is unfortunately a waste of time." She stepped forward with her arms behind her back. "Talking her down won't get you what you want, no matter how much you try to make her relate to you. She won't see things your way." As she walked closer, her eyes were on Andarta rather than Elizabeth. "You can try to sweet talk her all you want, but one doesn't have to be able to see the future like me to know you're wasting your breath on her."

She moved her hand from behind her back and held up a very old book, extremely familiar to both Ashwoods. "I do believe this is what you are trying to get from her?" she asked rhetorically. She also held the small cylinder in front of the book so it wouldn't be seen. "This is the part where you make a deal." she said with a sly grin.

A rift opened in front of Elizabeth's group and Celeste stepped out of it holding her hammer. Except... there was something wrong with her hammer: it was smeared in crimson. The Spacecrafter stood in front of them and tossed down something, a bible wrapped in a crucifix, very similar to the ones Lilith carried. "You've served your purpose. Stay out of our way now, unless you want to find out if she was right about her beliefs in the afterlife." the redhead said firmly. She glanced back at Dawn and nodded.

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Postby Rostavykhan » Mon Jan 27, 2020 12:02 am

The Great Wizarding Rebellion
Miria


Having the lights go out was all Miria needed, even if it was only a short moment. By the time they came back, she was clinging to the wall, torso contorted and head peeking back out into the hall, at the two Auror's who were busy with Madi and the others - were being the key word. Kiara and the others sure worked fast.

Miria bolted, and came up behind the group, only to slink forward and nudge one of the Aurors with her foot. They didn't seem much more dangerous than the one's they'd fought before. At least now she knew that, and with the information, Miria began to feel a bit more confident; unlike the monsters at the AEGIS base, she could deal with these guys. "These are the same people from the Ministry.", She nodded. "Right? Aurors? Wand-Weidlers. Magic users!", She said in a semi-hiss, rapping her fingers together. "By the way, taking out the lights like that was good! I can see in the dark, so if you do that more, I should be able to get the drop on some of them. I don't want you guys to be blind though. Hmm..."

She started to rub her chin and tap her foot. She needed to think! "How did they board the ship?", She asked, staring down at them. "And what sort of meeting are they trying to take Madi to? I don't like this."

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Katya was actually fixing her tie when Polly walked in. Her eyes seemed to narrow on the woman for a moment; so, she thought, that was the person they wanted her to meet. She grinned and clapped her hands together, and leaned forward. "I remember you!", She exclaimed. "Yes, you're the metal-weaver. The bloodletter! Still haven't gotten your memory back?", She asked.

Had she? Well, obviously not. The woman sighed, and lead back, clearing her throat and holding her arms behind her back. "Well, in that case, you were among the party of miscreants that I made company of after that kerfluffle in London. You were the rowdy one. One of them. You shot two men!"

Katya said that with a little too much enthusiasm. Then again, she had also shot a man. "Well, two murderers, any way...um...", She paused. For a moment, she just stared at Polly, eyes narrowing once more, as if she were conemtplating, thinking to herself. Her slightly off-kilter smile eased a bit, and the spoke up, in a more casual tone. "From what I recall, you were quite the hot-head. Liked to take the lead and tackle trouble head-on, very aggressive, very commanding presence. I found it rather amusing.", She nodded. "You also had that strange little albino girl about you; where is she, by the way? If you're not back to your old self, then I'd expect to see the little spook lurking about."
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Postby The Japanese Americans » Mon Jan 27, 2020 10:51 am

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As both Madi and Link thaned Lee for somewhat healing them, something hit a nearby window, causing Madi to half turn and see some sort of bird pressed up against a window, a letter tied around it's clawed foot.
The Witch eventually got the half stunned bird inside and untied the latter from its' foot, then read it silently before looking up.
"Fudge contacted me and told me to meet him at the Ministry. I'm not doing that, of course, I can handle things myself."

Right as she said this, the engines on the airship stalled and the ship fell a few hundred feet in altitude but was stabilized. There was some sort of commotion in the front of the ship and two Aurors appeared in the hallway and walked towards the group, wands at the ready. "We'll be taking over now. If you don't attack us, we won't attack you. I'm sorry Madison but attending this meeting will be mandatory."


Lee adopted a defensive position again. He didn't know who these people were, or if they were hostile. He decided to take his cue from Madi. If she attacked, he would, too. Under his breath, he muttered, "Mana Shield." The almost transparent bubble of mana appeared again. He didn't know if attacking would make the ship fall again, either. "From what I can tell so far, I'd say that listening to the magic users is probably a good idea for now."

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In all honesty, Kiara couldn’t fault anyone for their reactions to Madi’s unprovoked ingestion of what at the time must’ve seemed like nothing more than inert powder. Did the people of this universe go around eating all of the grey dust that they saw, or was that an instinct unique to this particular… specimen? She’d known that she’d have a hard time trying to get used to the laws and customs of another universe but this? It was something else. Thus, while everyone else bickered back and forth about what to do with the ghoul (although personally she would’ve chosen inaction she didn’t think that she’d be able to assert herself either) she mulled over the problem in her head. Currently, the group had some of the most advanced intellects and most powerful forms of magic in the universe available to them. Toshinori and Tenzma seemed to know what they were talking about and their minds were set on disposing of the ghoul; they probably didn’t know of a way to deal with her. Kiara could run some diagnostics and try to take the scientific route but her studies and observations only really applied to her home universe - she wasn’t sure how well the scientific method would work in this one. Madi herself was unable to treat her condition, if she’d been able to then she would’ve already. As for Kiara and Lee, their particular skill sets seemed to be particularly diverse and useful, albeit unpredictable and at times inconveniently limited. However, frankly, she just didn’t have enough of the pieces of the puzzle to fix Madison - or even to figure out if curing her was possible to begin with. Actually, come to think of it, she was technically in a story now; somehow, she’d forgotten that as soon as she’d left her home universe she’d thrown herself into someone else’s narrative. That being the case, it was incredibly unlikely that curing Madi wasn’t going to be a major plot point of some kind; ergo, fixing her wasn’t going to be as simple as applying gene therapy or casting a spell. However, there was one particular solution that’d shown promise, and based on the incredible amount of drama it could lead to, it seemed like the most logical - and the most dramatic - fix.

“I could try performing a blood flush,” Kiara volunteered. She said it as if she was suggesting that Madi drink two gallons of horseshit: her cheeks flushed and her voice trailed off as she realised just how stupid the suggestion was. Even a miniscule amount of exposure to her blood - a microscopic amount too small to even see - could put someone in a hospital for the rest of their life. Her old school had bricked up a classroom because she pricked her finger on a pair of scissors while she was in there; even a decade later nobody could look inside without bleeding from the eyes. “I mean… my blood did neutralise the dust earlier. I, uhh...” she withdrew even further into herself, if such a thing were even possible. Her head was downcast, hiding the fact that she was chewing on her lower lip. “I could… y’know, try to replicate the effect? As a last resort…?” She rushed the words out, saying them almost too quickly for anyone to hear. Doubt was already seeping into her mind about the endeavour, although that wasn’t anything new. Was her blood even what had triggered the reaction that she’d had to the dust or had the sensation of her blood boiling been a sensory misnomer? If there was even a miniscule chance that she’d gotten something wrong - an observation or a hypothesis - then there was an equally large chance of Madison going utterly bonkers which would defeat the purpose of curing her in the first place. Thankfully, before her internal monologue could completely derail the story, an inciting incident came barging in like it was a work of pulp noir. The ship tipped, drunkenly lurching to one side and falling a good two hundred feet. Kiara allowed Miria to hide behind her, although she herself didn’t feel particularly confident. The two aurors seemed confident enough, and their postures suggested anything but peaceful intentions. “You’ve no idea what you’re involving yourself in. Word of advice, the only reason that a guy would have someone stick their neck out on his behalf is if he thought there might be a guillotine waiting for him. Back off before the mouton falls.”

Said mouton did fall, and it fell hard. The whole ship was abruptly engulfed by noise and clamour, the shouts of fighting men and the screech of grinding metal. Everything was breaking down. In fact, she had a hard time thinking of a reason for the aurors to have announced their presence to the group instead of attacking them outright, considering how dedicated they seemed to be to overpowering the rest of the crew. She knew that it was inevitable that a fight would break out - probably a lethal one - and thus she knew that as one of the stronger members of the group it was her responsibility to ensure that everyone - the aurors included - remained alive. However, even if she hadn’t been charged with serving as a meat-shield for Miria, she still wouldn’t have thrown herself into the fray for fear of being injured. She could take many, many wounds without even being slowed down but even the tiniest of scratches could spell the end of everyone on the battlefield, both allies and enemies. The thing was, these two aurors had gotten the drop on the group and she was certain that they were quicker on the draw than anyone present: anyone besides herself, that was. She’d rejigged the ship’s wiring and echolocated her way through its insides enough to have memorised the positions and functions of nearly every circuit and wire in its chassis. She peeled off one of her fingernails and flicked it at the corner of the room. There was a muffled shattering noise, like the sound of a breaking wine glass. In total simultaneity the doors slammed shut and the lights blinked out, plunging the room into total darkness. She was on the two aurors in a flash, knocking the first one out with a lightning kick and taking the other down with a palm strike to the chest as she confiscated his wand. He fell against the wall, winded and disarmed. Kiara reached through the wall, gouging through the metal, and reattached the wires herself, restoring light - and functional door controls - to the room. “Is everyone alright?“ She sounded like a schoolchild who’d just witnessed a scissors-and-gluestick-related accident rather than a warrior who’d just incapacitated two men.


Lee hadn't reacted at all to the sudden darkness, knowing that most physical and some magic attacks would just deflect off of his Mana Shield. "Yeah, I'm alright."

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The two yokais looked at Kiara with mild amazement, the two respecting the young girl for her surprising skills in combat. “Who taught you how to fight like that girl?” Tenzma asked. Toshinori looked at Madison. “We can’t keep her trap. If we did they will get her and who knows what those sorcerer will do if they have access to the dust in her body?” the tengu growled, his fist clenched tightly. “I don’t agree with what you are thinking but you’re right. We can’t keep her lock up.” He looked at her.

“If you feel like you are going to lose control at any moment tell us. We can’t have you attack us while we are trying to escape from this ship.” The tengu looked to the inugami and nodded. Toshnair walked to the door frame and began to remove the cards binding Madi in place.


"If the need arises, I can bind her physically. Don't know how well it will hold up considering the amount of magic radiating from her could rip through the mana rope."

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Miria


Having the lights go out was all Miria needed, even if it was only a short moment. By the time they came back, she was clinging to the wall, torso contorted and head peeking back out into the hall, at the two Auror's who were busy with Madi and the others - were being the key word. Kiara and the others sure worked fast.

Miria bolted, and came up behind the group, only to slink forward and nudge one of the Aurors with her foot. They didn't seem much more dangerous than the one's they'd fought before. At least now she knew that, and with the information, Miria began to feel a bit more confident; unlike the monsters at the AEGIS base, she could deal with these guys. "These are the same people from the Ministry.", She nodded. "Right? Aurors? Wand-Weidlers. Magic users!", She said in a semi-hiss, rapping her fingers together. "By the way, taking out the lights like that was good! I can see in the dark, so if you do that more, I should be able to get the drop on some of them. I don't want you guys to be blind though. Hmm..."

She started to rub her chin and tap her foot. She needed to think! "How did they board the ship?", She asked, staring down at them. "And what sort of meeting are they trying to take Madi to? I don't like this."


"I think they teleported onto here. Considering that they seemed to recognize Madi, I'd say this is her home universe, and they use the same type of magic as Madi. Like that teleportation spell she used to get us on the ship."
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Postby Naval Monte » Mon Jan 27, 2020 4:55 pm

Secrets of the Raven
Annwn
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When Dawn's voice came from behind the group turn to try and see her, an effort that award some. Elizabeth was one of the lucky ones to be on the right spot to catch a glimpse of the red head walking towards Andarta. Hearing the goddess calling their efforts a waste didn't drew much of a reaction from Elizabeth. Sure she was annoyed that she chose now the time to show herself and to insult their plan at that. But she wasn't really surprised by her action. The goddess was pretty much adamant on killing Andarta to keep order with the spacetime continuum and while she was more "sociable" and "friendly" compared to her more homicidal and frankly terrifying sister she was still a goddess and as such can't not relate to humanity as well, not that she even wants to. She was content with her station. Good for her so long as she doesn't try to kill humanity or make them into her puppets.

That was in her thought until she saw Corpus Obscurus on Dawn's hands. The looks of confusion was shared among on, a few already feeling dread on why she was holding the book. Those who felt the dread soon found the reason why when Dawn gave the book to Andarta. While Dawn made sure no one else would see the cylinder Elizabeth felt the power of the object even in it's dormant state, something the others couldn't do.

Andarta looked at the two items with surprise before looking at Dawn. "What is your end game? You wouldn't just betray these people and give me what I need to make my goals much easier for nothing. What do you want?" the sorceress said. Suddenly Celeste appeared, brandishing her hammer. For a brief second a part in Elizabeth's mind hoped her sister would knock some sense into Dawn but that died long before she saw the blood on the hammer, Celeste would follow through whatever her sister does and worse did not care for any of them to stick her neck out for them. In Fact, she might be glad for this moment as now she has the excuse she needs to kill them.

When Elizabeth saw the blood on the hammer it seems she already had the chance to kill someone. "Wh... why is your hammer covered in blood?" Richard stuttered. The group was feeling a cold chill run down their body as they saw the blood, they all wonder who was her latest victim. They all receive their answers as a familiar hard bound, leather covered, book was tossed at them. They can see from the edges that the once white pages were yellow through age and a crucifix that was attached to a broken necklace chain. "No. No. No." was the words Elizabeth as the realization was hitting her.

It was Lilith's book.

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Elizabeth stared at the book as the revolution crashed on her like raging waves crashing upon rocks of a shore line. In her heart she can feel a venomous cocktail of emotions swirling within her. The occultists felt betrayed that the two goddess, one who did her part to help her and her mother reunite, would now just betray them and toss them aside like spent tools. Worse she felt as thought she could have trusted her, the one god who while not a major fan of humanity was not openly malignant or some convincing snake oil salesmen with false promises of power, riches, beauty, immortality, and paradise; all of which leads to the unsuspecting fools who believed in them to become that gods pawns and play things until they either perish by whoever they made into an enemy or by the god in question once it no longer needs them.

She felt sorrow for Lilith as she was one of the few party members who she liked; but more to the point she was a rare breed in her world, a genuinely kind soul regardless of her condition. That was enough to make Elizabeth overlook the fact she couldn't be more useful for the group. If there was one person who didn't deserve to die in such a horrible matter it was her. In her mind she thought of what happened to Phoenix? He was with her in the manor... was he killed too? If so than another good person cruelly taken before their time.

"This isn't fair!" were the words that repeated in her mind. She thought of all of the people who she knew that were unfairly and cruelly killed or had their lives ruined either because of being involved with her or being caught in some conspiracy from the secret world, especially those relating to gods and their cults. As the unfairness of both the situation and from her past experiences the main catalyst of her emotions began to bubble up much more strongly than any others, far more than fear, more than sorrow, more than even hopelessness. It was pure rage.

"You backstabbing ginger cunts!" she shouted. The swirling storm of venom that was brewing within her could be seen through her green eyes. "I was willing to give you a chance Dawn. I thought maybe you were different from the other gods. The fact you decided to get involved with my family drama when it didn't benefit you at all to do so was to me a clue that perhaps you do care because I don't know many deities who would go that far to sucker people. But you know perhaps I should have, being a supposed god of good is a very useful tactic of deception for your wretched kind. Because you all know that us mortals are suckers for any sense of validation and meaning for our existence. To feel like we matter in the cosmos, that we will be safe and protected, and that we could get what we want without having to put too much hard work. Just pray for you fuckers to give us what we want with worship, rituals, and sacrifice as payment." the words came out of her with as much venom she could muster from her being.

"But I guess I'm no different from the deluded fucks who we are against because I ended up believing that you are different from the rest of them." her hateful eyes turn to Celeste. "Why did you kill Lilith!? You had no reason to murder her. Did you also murder Phoenix too just so you can get off on seeing him beg for his life before you killed him too? I never liked you Celeste. No. I didn't just hate you. I fucking despised you. I only tolerated you because of your sister but sense the both of you decided now is the time to reveal your true colors I might as well get how I truly feel about you out of my chest since we're fucked no matter what happens."

The aura around Elizabeth would begin to darken, the swirls of colors all began to be consumed by darkness as the edge took on the same form of smoke. From the darkness only a few traces of purple, reds, oranges, and whites can be seen breaking out. Andarta looked at the aura with surprise and a growing sense of unease, Albert looked mortified as his face became pale. While they all can still feel that the aura was Elizabeth the feeling coming off it was similar to the power of the city, more alarmingly it's power was growing.

From Andarta's hand the smaller cylinder would unleash a loud sound, one only heard by Andarta and her cultists as well as the Elizabeth and the Order members, the two goddesses and Jackie were spared from the ring as well as the baby who was trapped in a cage made of earth. Everyone who heard the ring saw their world distort with color and saw distortions, many could have sworn to have heard static as well. They all held their heads as intense pain hit them all. Andarta dropped the book and cylinder as the runes on it began to emit a deep red glow.

The tower itself began to emit the same red light and from it the beam of energy also changed to fit with the new colors on the rune, hitting the white jewel and changing it's color. As the jewel began to change its color the runes throughout the tunnel began to change to red. Alex looked at the scene with great worry; they were too late to stop her before the tower was fully activated.

For the brief moment the shadow behind Elizabeth changed, sets of massive wings became visible from her shadows back. It was the witch in question was the quickest to recover, the pain not feeling as strong to her and as such it didn't stay for as long either. When she look at the two her eyes once more had changed, the green iris now being red with the scelra being black with many of the blood vessels still retaining their red coloration. "What the? What's wrong with her eyes?" one of the cultists said, they and everyone can now see the change as it didn't disappear as quickly as before.

The tower was still firing off it's red glow but at the center of the beam pools of inky black with shades of dark purple began to move throughout it like ink bolts spreading throughout water. While many of the cultists were understandably unnerved by what has transpired Albert was showing the strongest reaction; the man who was now as pale as a ghost, his body remain motionless as his hands trembled in fear. "This wasn't supposed to happen? The tower wasn't supposed to act this way." he mention as he saw beam of arcane energy being mostly black and purple with streaks of red on the edges. Worse the power coming off the Ravenbound Witch was greatly unsettling him too. Just how much was she changed by the tower?

Claudia looked at Elizabeth, her eyes devoid of life and emotion staring at Elizabeth's eyes that seem to be devoid of humanity yet fill with human emotions. She ignored the cosmic gears above turning at such a fast pace that each click produce sparks that rain down upon the city, making many to cast barriers to protect themselves. When radios began to broadcast the screams and warnings of rogue spatial and temporal anomalies as well as spontaneous non euclidean geometry that either made some cultists trapped as the city seem to have come alive and want them dead, or made others disappear within an enclosed space that itself became a miniature universe within another another such space. The song of the universe, it's angelic and discordant dirge to existence, was heard throughout the city and can be heard by all, the song echo deep within the labyrinthine tunnel that was at the heart of and those close to the entrance to the pocket dimension could hear the song coming from the otherside of the entrance. The aura of colors that once danced in the air of the city have becoming twisting streams and streaking bolts of shadows, some forming into spirals.

As Albert gave Claudia the book and the cylinder, urging her frantically to begin the ritual now, the woman still kept her eyes on the witch. "I think I understand why you can see anomalies as people Ashwood." Claudia said, breaking the silence that was in their staring contest. "You are more closer to being like them than anyone else. I wonder if you were ever truly human to begin with?" the woman would turn her back on the witch and begin to walk to the palace complex.

Albert looked over at the group and at the two goddesses. "What on Earth did you two do? That cylinder caused all of this. Why would you give us that damnable thing?!" the furious mage shouted. Some members of the group notice that while rage was heard in his voice it seems rage alone wasn't the only thing he was feeling, there was another emotion that was fueling that rage. It was fear. The cult leader was afraid. He was afraid of both the change brought about from the tower and Elizabeth.

The other cultists all looked at the group, some reaching for their daggers and guns. Many were thinking of ending the group before they can somehow break free or before they somehow cause anymore weird phenomenon to occur in the city. But while everyone kept their eyes on both the tower and the cultists Elizabeth kept her eyes on Dawn and Celeste.

“I swear I will find a way to make you two pay for this, you hear me. Even if it means burning heaven and earth I will destroy you and every last god on not only this universe but the whole bloody multiverse! But not just you, I will kill your wretched spawns, your followers, and even your father! I will destroy your world and everything you hold dear until you two have nothing left!” the look on her eyes now held not just pure malice but they can also hints of madness behind the inhuman eyes of the witches.
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Postby Demincia » Mon Jan 27, 2020 5:41 pm

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Dawn glanced towards Elizabeth with a sly grin. "I was never interested in saving your world, only my own. If your world is the price paid to ensure my own creation is safe, then I'm willing to lose it." She looked back at Andarta. "They were a means to an end. Once they outlived their purpose, we didn't need them anymore. Which is right now." She placed her hands back behind her back. "Do as you wish with this world, I don't particularly care either way. But do temper yourself. I don't want to have to come back here because your reckless has caused any more harm to my own universe."

When the gears finally clicked in Elizabeth's head, Celeste stepped towards her. "I didn't want to have to kill Lilith. In truth she was the one of you that I found most tolerable. Unfortunately, she didn't give me that option. She pieced together why I needed the book and she tried to stop me from getting it. Noble intentions and loyal to the end, she was." Her head lowered for a split second, before she was right back to normal. "I don't have any such reservations about killing the lot of you, though."

Elizabeth's emotional outburst directed at Celeste only seemed to amuse the redhead, whose grin grew more wicked with each venomous word. "Let it all out, girly. Maybe it will actually do some good." Finally it seemed that she had been prodded enough and things began to happen, and the Spacecrafter glanced backwards towards her sister who gave her a nod.

Dawn summoned her scythe into her right hand as for the first time, she laughed. She laughed right in Andarta's face after having ruined her plan. "You're adorable, you know that right? A mortal pretending to have power over a god. If you weren't so insufferable I might be tempted to keep you as a pet." she glanced back at her sister, who swung her hammer down at the restraints around Alex's wrists.

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When Alex saw the hammer coming down she closed her eyes, expecting the blow that would smash her spectral head into many soul shards. She heard the air swooshing around the hammer as she heard people call out her name or in Elizabeth's case mom. With her eyes closed the visions of all of her past moments were so much clearer. They were not a neat set of film like moments as most people expected, though with her first death it was so slow that she had the time to had all of her memories appear gradually in a neat order.

This time it was just a jumble of messes appearing before her, each one anachronistically depicting random moments of her life. The good, the bad, and the average; all of them appeared side by side or morph into the other. She saw what she wish to hold on to, what she wish to change, and was reminded of what yet she has not done yet now won't have the change to do. Among those, she wish she had a chance to truly spend time with her daughter now that they have reconnected.

As the hammer got closer she prayed that her soul shards will persist and that the others can arranged them back to form her body, that way she might have a third chance at life again. As the hammer finally struck down she heard chains shattering and when she open her eyes she saw the cuffs were smashed to pieces, the cuffs themselves loosening from the blow and falling off the lich. When Alex felt her powers return she would immediately send out a blast of telekinetic energy that send the cultists around them flying. Albert's robes fluttered but he and Andarta remained standing.

"Go Andarta! I'll keep these people at bay long enough for you to fix this and change the world." he told her as a rift open. Andarta looked at the group one last time before rushing towards the portal and entering. As the rift closed the old wizard looked at the group. "You people have no idea how long I have waited for this moment. Just as we were close to finally changing the world you had to ruin our plans." the group can feel his rage as he stare down at them. Above the wizard an orb of light manifested.

As the light began to fad the group would behold a figure both majestic and terrifying. They saw a woman with alabaster skin, so smooth and flawless that it felt fake in it's perfection. Yet the purity of white would end on her forearm and hands as they saw them covered in blood. Her head was covered from her nose and above by a golden helmet that had two great horns that curved upward and each point not only facing the other but ending in metal spheres. On the woman's hip was a long, flowy, tattered half slip with strands of tattered ribbons around around and flowing down her body. Golden sandals with interlocking laces extending up her shin could be seen down. On her back were six majestic wings that awe everyone who some them, some cultists in particular were so lost they remain motionless. Even with the group Simon and Nix looked at the angel with the same awe as the cultists as they lost their attention to everything else. All of that serves her well for her chest greatly detracts from everything else.

On her chest were exposed rib cages that were torn open to reveal a massive, beating, heart. The beat of the hearts banged out like a drum, each beat seemingly luring those who listen to it into a trance like state if they were caught by the aura of majesty she produces. This was an Akrasiel; fallen angels who once served as executioners and warriors in the Aetherim. Akrasiel would summon a great sword of vengeance from her hand; it's divine and dark essence oozing from the blade, the weapon craving for blood

Several more lights appear as more angelic figures appeared; they were all masculine in form and naked, their bodies drenched in blood and large bullet holes and knife cuts can be seen on their torso with some wounds seen on their shoulders, arms and legs. Two large reddish purple wings were behind them and on their shoulders four arms came out, each one holding different bladed weapons and firearms. Their face had large holes that erased their eyes and nose and the surrounding parts of their faces, leaving only their mouths behind as they bared their teeth, each one clinching them tightly.

The last beings to appear were dark bluish gray androgynous figures, each having four arms and holding chains with weights and sickles attached to them. They wore black and red robes of orient designs. Their black wings of metal matched with their iron helmets that resemble those worn by knights. The hands that were free all had eyes on the palms of their hands. Light blue veins under their skin glow faintly, most apparently on their arms.

The group were surrounded by angels. "I will not allow our work to end in failure. Not after all the time it took for us to get everything set for this moment." He would point to the group and the blood soak angels would point their machine guns at the group and open fire. Alex would conjure a barrier to shield everyone while the chain wielding angels would begin to swing their weapons around. Akrasiel would channel white flames on her sword and spew out the ivory inferno on the barrier to overwhelm the lich. However Alex still kept the barrier but even she flinched when she felt the power of the angel hit it.

"I don't know what the hell you two were thinking and we are going to have a long talk about this. But right now I need you two to get the others released quickly! I don't think I can handle multiple angels at once." she told them.
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The Great Wizarding War | Polly and Kiara

Kiara bound the downed wizard’s limbs with cords of iron pulled out of the walls. The repair bill for the ship would be hefty, but she was certain that she could fix anything that went wrong. “I never learned how to fight,” She mumbled, deflecting the yokais’ compliments. “I guess it was instinct.” The ship rumbled beneath her like a whale with a stomach ache, rattling as the clamor of gunfire and explosions echoed throughout its interior. At least the din wouldn’t leave her wanting for noise to echolocate with. “I could rewire a transceiver and use it to control the ship’s lights. I’m not sure whether that’d be very useful, though. I hear gunfire: the people using firearms probably have torches or night vision of some sort. Besides, it’d be counterproductive to blind all but four or five members of the group every time we got into a fight.” She wasn’t trying to herself or deliver information, she was trying to devalue her own contributions. The less relevant she was to the group’s success the better, she thought. She’d be free from all culpability that way, and be far less likely to bleed.



Polly squinted as soon as Katya finished her first sentence. ”You… you know about that? My memory loss?” Finally, her facade was slipping. She simply couldn’t maintain the composed attitude that she’d put on in front of AEGIS; the possibility of learning about who she had been was too tantalising. The apprehension she felt, the cocktail of fear and excitement that ran through her veins - it threw her off balance. ”I- I don’t remember anything, not from the last forty something years. I mean, I think… I thought that I was seven just after getting it erased.” She was using language to distance herself from her childhood identity. Anyone with a modicum of experience in complex discourse - that kind that had layers beyond just basic subtext - could’ve seen it. A woman in a black suit looked away from the security monitor and jotted something in her notepad. ”Bloodletter? Isn’t that an anachro-... ana-... old-timey kind of doctor? What do you mean by that?” She practically clung to the doorway, feet turned toward the corridor beyond Katya’s room. She was still undecided as to whether she wanted to stay and listen to what the woman was telling her. What she’d said so far hadn’t exactly been vilifying but it hadn’t been what Polly had wanted to hear either. ”Rowdy one… doesn’t sound like me,” she muttered to the floortiles. ”I shot two men? D-did they die?” And there it was, a caustic revelation. She was a killer. Or at least, she had been. If murder was in her blood - even if it had been justified - did that mean that she could return to being that kind of person? Could AEGIS or some other force convince her to kill? She couldn’t even begin to picture herself doing something so heinous.

When Katya began to talk about Polly’s own personality she jumped at the opportunity to change the subject. ”It sounds like I was quite the furtive, no… assertive person. Was I really that funny, though? From what I heard from the other people who knew me I was very grim.” She took Katya’s hint, however unconscious her acknowledgement may have been. She sat down by the woman’s bedside, crossing one leg over the other. ”Well, to be honest, I’m beginning to think that I wasn’t the best person before I got wiped. Thanks for telling me though.” She’d felt lost and centreless, with nothing to build herself around. She’d only attached herself to AEGIS in order to give herself an initiative, although that went unsaid. ”And that albino… you mean Miria? Bankhari.” She’d shown such respect, even a trace of reverence. Polly was horribly afraid that she hadn’t deserved the girl’s esteem. ”I don’t know where she is. We split up. She escaped from AEGIS with a load of other people who knew me, along with… I think her name was Madison?” She tilted her head toward Katya. ”She’s not with me. I hope I can meet her again someday. After I’ve gotten myself sorted out, that is.”

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The Great Wizard Rebellion
October 30th, 2019
The Flying Krock; somewhere above London; 9:00 pm


Madi was very, very annoyed. Sure, she was now free from the Tengu’s traps, sure, she was more or less unharmed, sure, the blue flames had finally died and was more or less “normal”, but yet she was still annoyed.

She wasn’t sure if it was the Aurors apperating onto the airship and taking control of it, the AEGIS soldiers deciding to attack the Aurors and said Aurors fighting back, or, just that she was surrounded by off world people and she now had to keep them somewhat sane, and hopefully safe, and more importantly, not dead.

To further validate her being annoyed, there was now a giant sun with ten eyes with a bird in front of it floating in the sky.

“Nobody talk to me.” was all she said as the Witch made her way to the cockpit/command room of the airship, where the Kremling King was being questioned by Aurors.

Two men turned to face her and she stopped halfway across the room, knowing that those in the hallway had followed her. The two men in question noticed her and walked up to Madi, then eyed those behind her.

“Wonderful, we have time travelers and off worlders to worry about as well.” muttered Sirius Black as he looked over the assorted cast gathered around him.

Kingsley Shacklebolt turned his attention on Madi. “Do you know how long we have been looking for you? Over a year. I’m sorry to say that people are calling for your blood, both Muggle and Wizard alike.”

“I’m aware of that.” Madi walked up to the viewing bay windows and looked out at the symbol in the sky. “You don’t know what that is, do you?”

Both Aurors shook their heads. Black stepped up next to Madi and looked down at her. “No, however, it was a snake strangling a raven before.”

Madi’s face grew pale and she simply stared at the Auror in silence before she looked back at the symbol in the sky. If anyone was to get close enough, they would hear her muttering things like “This shouldn’t be possible, I killed him, how is he back?” And “If he really is back, how am I going to stop him this time?”
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The Great Wizarding Rebellion

Waves crashed upon the sagged ebony spikes that jetted out from the uneven and wave battered coast of Azkaban. The dark skies were only briefly illuminated by flashes of lightning as rain pour down upon the dark and cursed grounds of the prison. The massive angular spire rose above the unhallowed grounds of the islands. The island once the site of many dark rituals and abominable experiments from a dark wizard whose name was lost to time. Even more lost than the name of the wizard was the numerous grimoires that once align his dark library, the equipment and items he had used in his rituals and spellcraft, and the many dark creatures he created that are now extinct thanks to the Ministry of Magic. Those books and every record ever made by the wizard, including records of his existence, were all stored in archives inaccessible save for a select few in the Ministry.

While Ableton was far from being those select few the man smiled as he held the old leather bound book, a gift from one of his agents within the Ministry. The man looked up as he saw the tattered robes of the Dementors fly close to him. He would open his arms. "My friends. The Ministry is now more. They refuse to feed you more wizards because they have destroyed themselves in their own sheer hubris and stupidity." He told the wraiths. The howling winds, booming thunder, and crashing waves almost covered up the sounds of fighting occurring within the spire, the few Aurors that were left abandoned in the prison to prevent a prison break after finding out how the Ministry was losing the war were now being picked off by dark wizards and witches who followed Ableton and prisoners who were being released.

"So I come to you with an offer. You all can either stay in this miserable place and starve? Or you all can come with my army, where you all can feed on both muggles and wizards alike with impunity?" Ableton knew the Dementors were intelligent creatures, oh so very intelligent. They ran this prison like a micronation filled with soul eating wraiths and deranged magi, it was they who helped formalize the old deal in which Azkaban owes its existence too. But they are like humans in one major regard, they can not resist their baser urges and instincts. The need to feed is a strong urge. So when the dementors agreed to his deal the wizard smile. "Wonderful."

Ableton would see Antonin Dolohov appear before him from a cloud of smoke. "We have freed everyone locked up in the prison. It's turns out most in the place were people the Ministry arrested on trump up charges or for supporting Goodwell. They all agreed to work for you to get revenge on their supposed heroine for abandoning them and against the government." the dark wizard chuckled. "Excellent. Now Dolohov, I have a very special mission for you." as the dark wizard heard what Ableton wanted him to do the dark wizard let a sadistic grin form. "It will be done by lord." the man would turn into black smoke as he fell off to gather his team for the mission.

Ableton looked up at the sky. "Oh how the mighty have fallen. You were once loved my so much Goodwell. Now you are a pariah much like I was. Will you strive to still be a hero when the whole world sees you as the villain?" he chuckled. "Even if you still try to destroy me like before you will find that I'm no longer the same man you once know. I have become something far more than you can comprehend, and soon the whole world will know of it. They will bow before me as this world's rightful king and god and you will be cast out like the false savior that you are."

The man would be surrounded by black smoke. "But until that day comes I will let you play your little game Goodwell. It will make the fall so much sweeter." he would fly off from the island as more wizards and the dementors followed him away from the island.



As spells and bullets flew throughout the ship no one noticed a few aurors sneaking off into the ship. Those wizards can hear conflict erupting throughout the hallways but they ignored it all, they have a special mission to carry out. The few times they saw Krooks appear they all cast bolts of green sickly energy at them, killing the lizards instantly. As they moved deeper into the ship it didn't take long before them to reach the room they sought.

When they open the door they saw the engine room, and within it the engineers. The wizards smiled. "Avada Kedavra!" the auror leading the party shouted as he hurled the killing curse, striking one of the lizards as it was knocked off its feet and fell on the ground motionless. The other wizards began to cast spells to kill the lizards and destroy mechanism meant to keep the ship afloat.

From the ship everyone would feel it shake as it began to slowly go down. "What on Earth? Why is the ship going down?" Sirius asked as he looked around. "I don't know but I have a bad feeling about this." Shacklebolt looked at Madi. "Do you know where machine that is keeping the ship flying is and can you take us? I fear that someone is trying to bring the vessel down."
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Postby The Japanese Americans » Fri Jan 31, 2020 7:24 pm

Skylus wrote:The Great Wizard Rebellion
October 30th, 2019
The Flying Krock; somewhere above London; 9:00 pm


Madi was very, very annoyed. Sure, she was now free from the Tengu’s traps, sure, she was more or less unharmed, sure, the blue flames had finally died and was more or less “normal”, but yet she was still annoyed.

She wasn’t sure if it was the Aurors apperating onto the airship and taking control of it, the AEGIS soldiers deciding to attack the Aurors and said Aurors fighting back, or, just that she was surrounded by off world people and she now had to keep them somewhat sane, and hopefully safe, and more importantly, not dead.

To further validate her being annoyed, there was now a giant sun with ten eyes with a bird in front of it floating in the sky.

“Nobody talk to me.” was all she said as the Witch made her way to the cockpit/command room of the airship, where the Kremling King was being questioned by Aurors.

Two men turned to face her and she stopped halfway across the room, knowing that those in the hallway had followed her. The two men in question noticed her and walked up to Madi, then eyed those behind her.

“Wonderful, we have time travelers and off worlders to worry about as well.” muttered Sirius Black as he looked over the assorted cast gathered around him.

Kingsley Shacklebolt turned his attention on Madi. “Do you know how long we have been looking for you? Over a year. I’m sorry to say that people are calling for your blood, both Muggle and Wizard alike.”

“I’m aware of that.” Madi walked up to the viewing bay windows and looked out at the symbol in the sky. “You don’t know what that is, do you?”

Both Aurors shook their heads. Black stepped up next to Madi and looked down at her. “No, however, it was a snake strangling a raven before.”

Madi’s face grew pale and she simply stared at the Auror in silence before she looked back at the symbol in the sky. If anyone was to get close enough, they would hear her muttering things like “This shouldn’t be possible, I killed him, how is he back?” And “If he really is back, how am I going to stop him this time?”


Lee was calculating. Calculating what had happened and processing it. Already, his mind was moving faster than the average human, thanks to his increased Int. He almost immediately came to an obvious conclusion. Then he calculated some more to make sure he was correct. "An old enemy of yours is back. And, judging from your pale expression and muttering, it shouldn't be possible because you either killed them, their organization, or banished them to another realm of existence. I'm betting on the first." He answered all this matter-of-factly, maybe a bit coldly.

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As spells and bullets flew throughout the ship no one noticed a few aurors sneaking off into the ship. Those wizards can hear conflict erupting throughout the hallways but they ignored it all, they have a special mission to carry out. The few times they saw Krooks appear they all cast bolts of green sickly energy at them, killing the lizards instantly. As they moved deeper into the ship it didn't take long before them to reach the room they sought.

When they open the door they saw the engine room, and within it the engineers. The wizards smiled. "Avada Kedavra!" the auror leading the party shouted as he hurled the killing curse, striking one of the lizards as it was knocked off its feet and fell on the ground motionless. The other wizards began to cast spells to kill the lizards and destroy mechanism meant to keep the ship afloat.

From the ship everyone would feel it shake as it began to slowly go down. "What on Earth? Why is the ship going down?" Sirius asked as he looked around. "I don't know but I have a bad feeling about this." Shacklebolt looked at Madi. "Do you know where machine that is keeping the ship flying is and can you take us? I fear that someone is trying to bring the vessel down."


"Shit!" Lee felt the ship going down. Calculating, calculating. That was what he did often now. A conclusion was reached, and a short set of actions was acted. "Deactivate Shield." He grabbed a nearby lizardman and pushed them into the corridor leading to the rest of the ship. "Take us to the engine room!"

---

"Are you crazy?! I'm not going there! We'll get massacred!" yelled the Kremling as he tried to get back into the cockpit of the failing airship. Meanwhile, Madi was arguing with everyone about staying put. "No, you are not following me down there, understood? I need you guys up here to stabilize the ship when I fix the engine."
K. Rool looked devastated. "This is my airship, I hope you understand that."
"Yeah, I understand, but your people need you up here."
The Kremling King seemed to understand this, and he began ordering the various Kremlings still in the cockpit to try to keep stabilizing the airship. Madi then noticed Lee leaving and followed, then overheard what was going on.
"No. You are not going to the engine room, you are staying here."
The lone Kremling ran past Madi back into the cockpit and she walked up to Lee. "Just what are you planning?"

---

"I'm planning on helping you. After all, it's rude to not help allies and potential friends." His body language indicated that he would not back down.

---

"Look, you have no idea what you're dealing with, I have no idea what I'm dealing with. You'll just get in the way, sorry." Madi glared at Lee as she started to walk past him down the hallway.

---

"So? I've fought against things that I didn't know about before. I'm great at improvising in fights. Besides, you can't stop me." He simply followed her.

---

Madi stopped walking and turned to face Lee, stumbling a bit as the ship dropped a bit, then stabilized some. "I canstop you." The overhead lights then shut off for a few seconds, then came back on, sending sparks everywhere. "If I had more time, I would stop you, but I guess you're stuck with me." With that, Madi spun around and ran down the corridor, vaulting over things occasionally. The Witch eventually reached the engine room and found a few Aurors trying to blow up the engine, so, she did what was most logical at the time and started to cast spells towards the Aurors, not caring what Lee did.

---

Lee smirked a bit when she had turned away. With this, he may be able to get her to realize he could handle himself in fights. He followed her, simply crouching and using his telekinesis to get over what Madi had vaulted. He reached the engine room as she did. He also saw the 'rouge Aurors' destroying the engine. Following Madi's lead, he lifted his hand out to them. "Spinning Mana Arrows!" As he said this, multiple arrows made of his blue-white mana appeared around him and flew towards the 'rouge Aurors.' They were aimed at the bodies and not the head. Mainly because they had less of a chance to miss and hit the engine.

---

The aurors heard Lee shouting his spell and they quickly turn and conjured barriers to protect themselves from the arrows. A few would fire off bludgeoning and cutting curses. One was casting spells that caused many machine to explode within the room. "We won't let you stop us Goodwell. You need to be stopped now!" one shouted as one fired off a binding spell at the witch.

---

Madi blocked the blinding curse and watched in horror as it struck the engine. The ship's power died instantly, the lights went out all across the ship, and then it was silent.

Then the ship started to enter free fall.

---

The spells hit Lee, but seemed to have no effect on his body. He cursed and yelled in pain, though. Furious, he reached out with his telekinesis and yanked an Auror's wand up. Unexpectedly, it stuffed itself up the nose of its user, drilling into the brain and denting the top part of the skull. That Auror was now obviously dead. And the ship started to free fall. He stabbed downwards into the floor of the ship, and because he didn't look, he had stabbed himself through the foot and into the floor. At least he was stuck to the floor now.

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Madi simply left via apperating, not taking anyone or anything with her. In a way, she might have doomed everyone on board, she might not have, but the next place she appeared was somewhere very far away, somewhere she had been before - Ireland's Eye. And she was alone.

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Lee just stared at where Madi had been a few moments ago. "Well that was rude." He telekinesis-ed all the Auror's wands up into their brains, except for one that had knocked himself out from hitting the ceiling. He stole their wand and put it in his Inventory. If they survived, they would be a hostage. "Nothing to do but wait now." And thus he waited for the ship to crash.
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Seeds of Anxiety | Avarice and Tone

Maybe it should’ve clued Dowell into the fact that bringing Avarice along for a car trip was a bad idea when the steering wheel heated up beneath his hands and started pulsating to the beat of his own heart. Maybe he should’ve panicked and gotten out when the windows started gathering mist despite it being relatively dry outside, and said mist smelled like tears: urea and salt. Perhaps he should’ve gotten on the phone and handed in his resignation papers when he checked the rear-view mirror and saw a worn out patch on the side of his headrest which, rather than revealing the downy stuffing of the driver’s seat, revealed that the interior of his chair was filled with flesh and a bundle of yellow eyes. But alas, he failed to spot the patch and convinced himself that the rhythmic squirming of the steering wheel was merely the car bobbing up and down. Halfway through the trip Avarice began absentmindedly picking at the seatbelt, whereupon the nylon frayed and revealed that the material beneath had been replaced by a tough white sinew. The car gave out a long groan. “Don’t worry, she does that all the time,” Dowell assured his passengers. “Metal fatigue. What’cha going to do about it?” ”See a repairman,” Avarice responded flatly. ”Besides, it’s a type-167 ascogonium-bearing mature ascomycota, not a girl.” she whispered under her breath. She toyed with the door handle and after a minute or so of meddling around with it, it demonstrated its prehensility by nuzzling her index and middle fingers. She glanced at Valerian, causing him to turn his head and - finally - catch sight of what was going on with her hand. She gave him a smile. His eyes flickered between the door and her face. ”Did you do that?” he said, half-squinting. ”No, Erwin Hilfinger and Julian Mesque did Thatte Cummingburt in 1885. Erwin and Julian didn’t even know the other existed, and they did the same woman in the same year. Thatte was an utter cougar.” ”Who taught you that metaphor?” ”It wasn’t a metaphor. She was really a cougar.” ”Then why did she have a name? Actually, nevermind; stop trying to distract me.” ”You’re the one who facilitated that tangent about Thatte.” ”About that what?” ”About Thatte. That Thatte.” He pinched the bridge of his nose and looked away. ”Look, can we forget about that stupid tangent and discuss what’s actually at hand?” ”Oh no, Thatte Stoupeid Tan’jent was a completely different person. Famously celibate, too.” Shut up. What’s wrong with Dowell’s car?” Ava shrugged, whereupon the seat behind her bulged as if it were a sack full of living eels. The back of Dowell’s headrest opened up like an eyelid and briefly revealed a bulbous blue eye, moist and pudgy with salty brine. ”It’s got tinnitus.” ”Let me rephrase. Why is it alive?” ”It consumes, excretes, respirates, yadda yadda. I don’t see how that’s relevant.” Valerian let out a short, shallow sigh. ”How was it born?” ”Well I saw a fungal spore underneath your nose so I picked it up and played around with it a bit. Squished it, squashed it, inserted some of the genes of a world ending leviathan, that sort of thing.” ”The-... undo it, undo that right now,” he hissed. ”Dude, you alright? Ending the world’s not a big deal. I’ll end the world right now!” his eyes widened just a tad as he began to ponder what she’d just said... ”Wait,” and expanded to the size of saucers once he’d finished doing that. Don’t you da

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pped, looked at her palm and smiled even more broadly, peeling her lips back to reveal featureless, pearl-white teeth. ”Oh hey, it worked!” ”What did you do?” ”Rearranged time just a little bit. I took a vertical slat out of the timeline and moved it forward about five seconds.” ”I don’t understand.” ”I moved a period of time forward through this universe’s timestream. And it should be coming up right about… n

re! Avarice, with her fingers freshly sna

ow. Whoa, did you feel that?” ”Whatever you’re doing, it had better not be breaking anything.” ”The only thing I’m breaking is continuity, man.” ”Well stop and tell me what you’ve turned Dowell’s car into.” ”A partially organic parabasidiomycete with a symbiotic bond with the organelles of a massive non autochthonic locally eschatologically incompatible terrestrial actinopterygii.” Valerian leaned back in his seat, feeling a grainy texture beneath the fabric of the car’s cushions, like he was brushing up against a sack filled with molasses and wet sand. ”Get rid of it. I don’t think Dowell would appreciate having a living vehicle.” ”There’s no need. Look out the rear window, it’s about to gestate!” He turned just in time to see a wet lump of metal, stone and green meat come tumbling out of the car’s trunk. Bits of gore and strands of muscle extruded themselves through tiny gaps in the vehicle’s chassis, seeping from the seams between metal plates and sliding out of its rear view lights. The blob, a roughly cow-sized mass of organs, synthetic materials and bones, landed on the ground with a soft slap. It grew limbs made of compacted mincemeat and raised itself off the asphalt, letting out a greasy pop, then it quickly tumbled into an alleyway, growing new limbs and dissolving old ones as it went, moving like a self-propelled tumbleweed. It was out of sight in an instant, far too quickly for Dowell to notice. Curiously, none of the cars behind theirs slowed down, nor did any of the bystanders react to the cow’s sudden escape. Ava put a finger to her eye and wiped away a tear. ”D’aww, I’m so glad for my beautiful agaricomycete...” ”That had better not become a problem.” She put a hand to her chest and wheeled around to face him. ”Never! I raised it to be better than that!” ”You knew it for five minutes.” ”It’s not the time that counts, it’s our perception of it.” She glanced out the window once again, still smiling but now sour with melancholy. ”I know he’ll make me proud.” Vale let out a long withheld breath and restored his upright - and uptight - posture, staring straight ahead. He’d kept his conversation with Ava as furtive as he could’ve but he still wasn’t entirely sure whether he’d managed to hide it from everyone else. It seemed, however, that Dowell hadn’t taken notice at all. The hole in his headrest was now devoid of sagging flesh and in its place there was sagging stuffing instead. Although, the issue of the meat-cow remained at large. ”That’s another problem to add to the list, then. Let’s hope we don’t get thrown into the same pot as the last director..”

Indeed, the story of Lana - who had ran over her career with a motorbike and ollied on its neck for good measure for the sake of a child - was rather legendary. Her failure to uphold AEGIS’ tenets and incompetent management aside, she had been in any mental state but a stable one following the battle of the Fold. She’d asked after the siren child for days, refused to eat or drink and buried herself in her bedsheets from dawn until dusk. The doctors and soldiers in charge of looking after her had been forced to pad her room and start feeding her food that required no cutlery to eat on plates exclusively made out of soft plastic. She was more aware of and more remorseful about her own negligence than anyone else. She had once been a candidate for the Oracle programme and now she was a prisoner in her own site; oh how the mighty had fallen, Winter thought as she gently plunged a hypodermic needle through a man’s iris. His sclera deformed like firm sponge, adopting an oblong shape not dissimilar to that of a football. He screamed inarticulately; coherence had long since evacuated his mind. “Oh be quiet, it’s not so bad. You’ll see things from my perspective soon.” She cooed. The plunger went down and a trickle of magenta entered his skull, soaking his brain in colour. His thoughts and sensations began to percolate through a new filter, not the one that men and gods used to process their surroundings but one that saw beauty and beauty alone. Race, gender, density, mass, reality and irreality; they became imperceptible and unimportant. Everything he saw, heard and remembered became expressed through colour and pulchritude in the same way that artists and bohemians wished that they could see the world. The man’s remaining eye glittered and turned a deep purple. The other one turned purple too, although that particular change was elicited by severe internal bleeding and not any anomalous revelation. Slowly, his screams ebbed away. “Gorgeous”, he mumbled under his breath as he stared at Winter. “Well, it’s an improvement I guess.” She pursed her lips and watched as the man’s veins began to bulge. Light burst through his skin in many thousands of places, perforating his body with tiny glimmering needles. She crossed her arms and tapped her foot. “Feli, you don’t mind me doing this?” The reaver looked up from the corpse - or rather, the gangrenous puddle - that she’d been soaking up with a towel. “Why would I?” The man curled up, holding his knees to his chest while his torso began to glow so brightly that Winter could see each of his organs; his heart beatings, his lungs swelling, his intestines writhing. “The last ‘all-knowing demigod’ who’d been ‘desensitized to horror and suffering’ that I worked with vomited as soon as I put the needle in my victim’s eye, got into contact with AEGIS and tried to have me arrested.” “And where is he now?” “In my cafe, working as a waiter.” “Ah.” “Yeah. It’s a fate worse than death, they say. And by ‘they’ I of course mean the pickled brains that I have in my basement.” “And why’d you pickle them?” “Because they said that working for me was a fate worse than death.” The man twitched and Winter turned her attention back to him. “Oh! This one’s already ripe.” She knelt beside him and plunged a syringe into the back of his neck, drawing out a vial full of spinal fluid. It was dappled with pink scintillations; curdled colour. She drew a curved knife, worn from use yet religiously well maintained, and swiftly carved off a few lumps of fat from his stomach and thighs, which she sealed inside zip-loc bags. “Gonna make some real good tallow from this lad.” She patted the three-pack of candles that she had in her messenger’s pouch just to assure herself that they were still there. Those particular candles had come from a serial killer from Brazil, she remembered. He had made such pathetic pleas for his life; she could only imagine how much more obsequious he would’ve been if he had possessed the faculties to be so articulate.

Felicity stood up, folding the towel in her hands. “I’m done.” She laid it on the ground alongside a number of other towels, all of which were completely sodden with a mucus-like green sludge. She took a sticker from her pocket and a pencil from the other before scribbling someone’s portrait on the paper and sticking it onto the towel. Each towel contained the liquefied corpse of one of the people she had killed on her way to retrieve Chandra’s hand. The portraits were of said people before she had turned them into paste. “You’re fucked up, y’know? I mean, this is almost meaner than destroying their bodies outright. You’re handing these peoples’ families their corpses back in the form of wet towels. It’s as fucked up as, say, a killer mailing his victims’ body parts to their relatives.” Felicity flicked her hands, throwing off nodules of decaying, bubble-filled flesh. The few solid remnants of her opponents resembled the interiors of wasp hives and were so noxious that not even flies had bothered to come to lay their eggs inside them. “It’s less morbid than turning people into candles.” was the reaver’s deadpan retort. “My tallow-swine don’t suffer. I mean, look at this guy. Do you think he even feels emotions any more?” Winter prodded the man with the tip of her shoe. His body was beginning to sag, melting like a snowman in summer. Ribbons of coral light rose from his cadaver, lingering in the air like smoke. The ribbons frayed into ever smaller threads, forming beautiful vertices and weaving enrapturing tapestries before fading into nothingness. The world seemed a little more pink, a little more lively. Winter raised a black-and-white polaroid and waved it through the ribbons, then watched as the picture was coloured in. With every life she took, with every body she gave to The Pink, the greater its power - and therefore hers - grew. “I appreciate you leaving this one alive, by the way. You didn’t have to.” Felicity exhaled through the side of her mouth. “Helping you helps me rid this town of the anomalies which gave that word such a stigma in the first place.” Winter nodded. “Yeah. The Fates, Andarta, the Fae, Kanopi… they’ve really made a mess of things.” The reaver examined her fingers. Before, when the other reavers had been alive, her arms had been blackened and skeletal, utterly consumed by decay. Now, as a result of Winter’s labours, they were clean and perfectly human-looking. She knew that it was in her best interests to keep her appearance as discreet as possible but it still bugged her just how heavy her limbs felt now that she had a little bit of meat on her bones. “Your cafe. Could you keep a demon prince imprisoned there?” Winter snickered. “You kidding? Of course. I could make ‘em wear frilly pants and perform a jig for the customers, too.” the reaver nodded. “Right. You might be receiving some new staff in the coming days, then.” The colour-bender grew uncharacteristically grim, hardening her brow. “Hey, I only employ people who deserve it. One of the maids - I think you may have met her, she had brown hair and yellow eyes-” “Emmy? I know who she is.” “Yeah. Well, she used to be a ghost ship. Real fucked up; she’d lay mines in the ocean and wait for ships to come along and wreck themselves. Then she’d come sailing along and of course all of the sailors would abandon their bombed-out vessel and try to board her, thinking that she was there to rescue them. Only then she’d eat them up like candies and embed them in her hull. At night, if you stood on the coast of Normandy, you could hear them screaming on the wind: a chorus of thousands of sailors and passengers - and those were just the ones who were allowed to stay above the water. What she’s going through now is heaven compared to what she did to them.” Winter pointed a finger at Felicity. “So make sure you only bring me scum, alright? The ones who really need to suffer.” The reaver paused. “Sorry, you turned a ghost ship into a hot, subservient maid?” “I guess I did. Why?” “Nothing, it just reminds me of a… Japanese tradition, was all.” The man’s corpse finally faded away, leaving behind a humanoid silhouette outlined in pink. Soon that faded too. “Alright. We’re done here.” The two women packed up their tools and strode out into the open air, leaving behind the old paperworks building as well as the miasma which had infested it. “So did listening to music help?” Winter asked as they stepped beyond the front door. Felicity tilted her head to one side in order to ponder the question. “I was too distracted by No Diggity to ponder the morality of my actions. So, yes: I think it helped.” the other woman smiled. “Glad to hear it.”
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Postby The Japanese Americans » Sat Feb 01, 2020 11:59 am

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Lee

Lee groaned in pain. Where was he? Grass... a path? He was not in the ship anymore. That much was obvious. He was lucky that he had been thrown out and not crushed in the engine room. He dug out one of his Health Potions and chugged it all the way. Then he stood up and looked around. He was near a stone pathway, with a giant palace across from him. He recognized it immediately. "Hey, that's Buckingham Palace." He turned around and found where the airship had crashed. Part of it was in the lake, but most of it was on the grass area. It had dug a deep furrow into it. If there was anybody still in there, they were probably dead. There were several bodies around him and the ship. It was unclear which ones were still alive. It also seemed like he had been thrown the furthest, somehow. "How the hell.... You know what, better not to question fate." He bent over a nearby lizardman. Beat up severely, some bones were broken. Probably hit some things on his way out. Lee put his hand on him and healed him. He would live. Then Lee stood up and looked at all of the bodies. He sighed and cracked his knuckles. This was going to take a while. He started walking around and healing those that were still alive.
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Postby Menschenfleisch » Mon Feb 03, 2020 5:18 am

Seeds of Anxiety | Avarice and Tone

As the car glided to a halt, Valerian looked out his side of the car and took in the building that they were supposed to be investigating. It was titanic, occupying more than half of the street, whose insignificant width magnified the apparent girth of the warehouse, as it made the walls seem much taller than they really were. His feet met the asphalt and his eye turned to the sky, a swirling grey mass. Everywhere he went reminded him of home. It seemed that in every universe there was an Earth, there were men, and there were failings in those men. He knew that it was self-centered of him to think so, but he sometimes imagined that the multiverse was playing a joke on him and continually sending him to worlds which resembled his own but were not identical. ”Just a joke? Not a cruel one?” ”No. The world’s been very kind to me, Ava.” He stuffed his hands in his pockets, feeling the humid air drifting across his cheeks. He could smell carbon and ammonia, the byproducts of industry. But even more than them, he could smell rotting flesh. It wasn’t a particularly rare smell by any means: the corpses of rats and birds were often left out in the open and allowed to waste away, forming bundles of carrion in often neglected spaces. However, the smell was particularly strong today, and it seemed to linger over this particular section of town. There had been a killing: quite recently, too. The stench of death was still wet and heady, whereas corpses in the late stages of decay had a certain dry and tinny quality to them. He let out a breath that was colder than the air. ”This ought to be interesting, at least.” Paige paced ahead of him, throwing him a brief sideways glance. A distrustful but optimistic haze hung about her, stretching out and mingling with the thoughts of those around her. Despite what they believed humans did not think as individuals but did so in groups. To say that a man had a mind of his own would be about as accurate as saying a neuron was its own living thing. Technically correct, but without considering the bigger picture, he pondered. ”That train of thought sure took a turn.” ”Sorry, what?” “In fact, the turn was so sharp that it derailed flew off to the side, colliding with a concrete palisade and flipping over, demolishing a suburban home and killing not just seventeen passengers but a family of five, precipitating a multi million dollar lawsuit demanding that the rail company repair its failing infrastructure and pay back the families of those affected.” ”You don’t need to be so specific with your metaphors.” ”Again, not a metaphor. Now, if pattern recognition has taught me anything (which it has), you’re going to ask me to elaborate.” He decided not to ask. ”Tch. You’re no fun.” The warehouse was almost completely featureless. Its ochre brick facade was falling apart and its windows were crusted with reliefs made of dust but its walls were otherwise solid. The only obvious entryway was the main gate, a squarish opening covered by two ogreish steel slabs. A walkway extended out from said opening, filthy with mud and grime. Amidst that grime, there were two arcs of cleanliness: quarter-circles where the dirt didn’t obscure the concrete. Paige’s hand dropped to her belt, rapping her nails on the criss-cross grip of her pistol. “Someone’s opened that door recently. In the last four hours, I’d think; that was the last time it rained.” she asserted. Dowell nodded sagely, standing a few paces behind her, close to his car. “Well, at least we didn’t call everybody out here for nothing.” ”I’ll take point,” Valerian added quickly before striding forward to pull open one of the doors. It yawned open with a gravelly, metallic screech, echoing all about the warehouse’s interior. Not the most subtle of entrances, but the window frames were too small for the group to fit through. Avarice, meanwhile, hung back and made idle banter with Dawson. ”So what’s your name? Your irises and earlobes remind me of a rosty that I ate this one time. She had a proper nice liver; it was as big as a basketball and a pleasant shade of purple. Actually, thinking back on it, she might’ve had Beckwith Weidemann syndrome. Might’ve been a bloated cadaver when I met her, too; that would explain why her liver was so darn big, I suppose...”

Secrets of the Raven | Jacquelyn

“This isn’t about me!” Andarta clenched her fists but she had hardly the strength to get her fingers to stay still. “I gave up on Amelia a long, long time ago,” there was no rasp to her voice, just an understated grief. “The dead should stay dead. The temptation to bring someone back, no matter how difficult, it… I killed children, for fuck’s sake. I did whatever I thought might bring her back. I killed demon lords, I spoke to the Black Sun, I engraved my initials on the heart of Whisperwood. I did the hardest things in the world and put myself through centuries of agony all for the sake of reviving someone who I had lost.” She sucked in a breathful of air. “Nobody should have to put themselves through that. As long as death - or the possibility of reviving someone - remains, there will always be someone chasing immortality or the life of a loved one. There will always be more of me.” She looked at Elizabeth, Terry, Alex. “Please, don’t talk about bringing people back. As long as that possibility remains people will hurt each other, hurt themselves in order to find a way to get back what they lost.” Though Elizabeth expected her next comments, those asking Claudia to consider what Amelia would want, to destabilize her, she merely lowered her head and let out a tiny, weedy breath. “Ashwood, you say that you’d bring your loved ones back as if that were a noble thing to do, but that mindset is precisely what I had to grow beyond. Death is a disease, one worth excising, but there would be no point to giving everyone infinite leases on life if they were to continue to suffer. What would the difference be between immortality on a decaying Earth and eternal torment in the abyss? And I’m sorry, but you clearly don’t understand what I want. There are certain forces which want to end this world or to harm its inhabitants. Azoth, the gods, the rulers of other universes - they all want a slice of the human suffering pie. If I could fix this world without getting rid of them I would but as it stands, the only way for all of us to survive is if we isolate ourselves from those malicious forces. Unfortunately, there are a lot of things that could not exist without said forces existing in our universe. Sirens, demons, ghosts, magic, they would all have to go.” Weiss called out, panic creeping into her voice as she realised that Andarta could not be swayed. “So why not just create a world without anomalies? You don’t need to remove everyone’s individuality or their capacity to suffer, right?” “But then I wouldn’t have solved the issue that I set out to resolve: human suffering. Why is it so hard for you to understand that all I want is for you to be happy? I know that you would be happier in the world that I’m trying to bring about. Maybe you wouldn’t be as complex, but why do you want to be complicated? Doesn’t it hurt you, having to juggle so much at once? To have to do so many things that you hate doing?” “No! Our lives would be unfulfilling and they would mean nothing if they weren’t filled with challenges!” “Then in the world that comes next, you’ll be able to make your own. You’ll be able to set your own goals, define who you want to be and what you want to accomplish. There won’t be any children wearing their fingers down to bones sewing clothes or any office workers dreading the arrival of each new day. There will only be artists, singers and dancers. It will be a perfect day, ad infinitum.” Claudia paused, half gasping for breath. “I know you understand how difficult it is to watch other people get hurt, to see dogs dying in ditches and kids with bruises around their eyes. And when you see them, you think: ‘why? Why do things have to be this way?’ The answer is that they don’t. There’s no big plan governing us, no all-powerful God who needs us to suffer, but we’re so conditioned to live with that pain - so used to it - that we don’t want to get rid of it: you’re like children who don’t want to leave your broken homes because you’re afraid of what might happen once you’re away from your parents!” She huffed and panted, clutching her chest. But her words were iron now, her mind made up. “I’m not running away. Not again, not ever. Even if I’m wrong right now, I promise that I’ll make it right. Maybe the first few worlds won’t be as good as this one - I’ll only be a beginner then - but I’ll do my best for you, no matter what. Even if it takes me a million years I will grant you the happiness that you deserve: the keys to Eden. Not giving up on you - not giving up on the whole world - was the hardest thing I ever had to do, but it’s one of the few things that I can say that I don’t regret.” And for a moment, they all saw what she had once been, and what they had once thought her to be. Titanic, regal, strong; Atlas willingly carrying the world on their back, knowing that even if they were not the only person who could bear that burden, they did so anyway because it was terribly painful.

But then Dawn and Celeste arrived, bringing with them blood and boasts. For the first time in as long as she could remember, like a swell on stormy seas, hatred surged from within her heart. Futile anger and fear coursed throughout her, driving her fingers to twitch and her jaw to clench. Yet, as much as she wanted to scream at them, as much as she wanted to attack, to leave a scratch on their invincible bodies, she knew that she was powerless. And beyond that, although she was loathe to admit it, the two deities were right: she was pretty insufferable. Her time was up: there was no more time to be dedicated to proselytization and introspection. She broke into a sprint, wrapping herself in the distorted folds of spacetime in the heart of the city and made for its central spire. Meanwhile, Jacquelyn spent the entire time between the goddesses’ arrival and her being freed wondering what their purpose within the story was even supposed to be. Was this a literal deus ex machina? Were those two meant to act as lubricant for the narrative or were they spanners that’d been artificially stuck in apparently unforeseeably smooth gears? Either way, as soon as she felt her chains falling away, she leapt to her feet and ran after Andarta, weaving past cultists and angels, vaulting over ferociously swung weapons and avoiding flashes of sundering light. But she was forced back again and again, either cordoned off by the angels’ rapacious weapons or physically tossed around by the distorted space that she inhabited. She made no progress except in regards to accumulating wounds, slowly growing more fatigued. She didn’t know how to navigate the city but she didn’t know what else to do, either. Thus, eventually, she found herself beside Terry, holding him by his shoulder and gesticulating wildly at Andarta’s receding figure. ”After her!” She roared. ”Get me to where she’s going!”

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Postby Demincia » Mon Feb 03, 2020 2:17 pm

Seeds of Anxiety
Lludw Cigfrain, Cymru
Rosanna Dawson


Rosanna pulled back her hair out of frustration and let out a prolonged sigh. "This isn't happening." she muttered to herself. "This whole trip has been a dream, you never went to London, you're going to wake up in Washington after you fell asleep at your desk." She opened her eyes and was still in Wales. "Fuck." she said.

A very small part of her might have wished that the bullets in her gun were made of silver, if for no other reason than to give her an easy out from the situation, though maybe a regular bullet would work better since everyone would assume she was dead and would just go away before she recovered. Unfortunately she knew Kivela wouldn't allow her to take the easy way out of the nightmare, mainly out of self-preservation rather than any actual concern for Dawson's well-being.

If it wouldn't cause her so much personal hassle, she might actually consider letting the spirit do what it wanted just to be done with everything, but the paperwork and followup that would have to be done for a werewolf sighting in the middle of town would be even more exhausting. Of course, Rosanna wasn't actually in any sort of state to hold back the wolf if it decided to come out, so she relied on the demon's apathy and desire to remain relatively incognito to keep it quiet.

Almost as a testament to how unpleasant the whole experience had been, one of the freaks decided to try have a chat with her. Even if it wasn't in the middle of something that was supposedly important, it was clearly something Dawson had no interest in continuing. "You wanna do me a favor and fuck off somewhere else?" she asked, not even looking over at the woman. "Thanks."




Secrets of the Raven
Devil's Pit Mine
Dawn & Celeste Elissa


Dawn rolled her eyes at Alex's insistence that they would talk about it later. "By now you think you'd realize a favor when you see one." She stepped in front of the lich and drove the pommel of her scythe into the ground so it stood up on its own. "What is an angel to a god?" she commented as the air around the weapon began to ripple, time itself being distorted. Flames directed at the group shot back towards where they came, and physical attacks were thrown off balance by forcing them to hesitate.

Celeste easily freed the rest of the group, each set of shackled shattering in a single blow from her warhammer. She picked Elizabeth up off the ground and brought her to her feet. "I'd snap out of it if I were you, unless you fancy dying down here." she said. "If you do, more power to you, but I doubt your friends would feel the same way."

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Postby Naval Monte » Sun Feb 09, 2020 6:26 pm

Seeds of Anxiety
Lludw Cigfrain, Cymru
Maniacs in Black


As the convoy of cars would drive through the narrow streets of harborside side Advent with ease and efficiency that give away that the drivers have been in these streets many times, giving the newly inducted agents a clue which of the many areas of the town would they expect trouble to brew.  The site of water logged, ramshackle , warehouses made in the 19th and 16th century flash by. Ancient brickwork faded by time and much of its luster and strength eroded by the elements. 

Yet they would see some had lights on, suggesting some of these ancient ruins had some use today. They saw junk and garbage litter the deserted, crumbling, streets. They saw creeper plants growing on the walls of buildings, weeds and vines stretching out from unintended gardens almost like tendrils from some antediluvian horror breaking free from it's earthy prison and its reaching out to grasp it's freedom or drag some poor unfortunate soul into its prison to keep it company in its chthonian oubliette.

While the town was experience a renaissance brought about new high tech and financial industries as well as it's more commercial and tourist ventures, it was clear that some parts of the town still show the degeneration that the post industrial economic shift and neo liberal reforms have done to both it and many other mining and factory towns. This part of Advent shows that the town still has ways to go before it can fully shake off its  insalubrious atmosphere.

Yet in the minds of the agents that was not the main focus. For those with aetheric detection devices or whose senses are more intune to occult forces would instead have another thing that would concern them. That something felt off with this part of town. Of course when they reached the warehouse the scent of blood was an ill omen of what transpired, did the deal went sour?

Regardless, most agents went into the structure once the door was open. Once inside they would be hit by the scent of mold, dust, and blood. The agents kept their silence as they now have confirmation of a deal gone bust, now they just need to see how much of a mess they need to clean up. As they went deeper into the building Paige would hear the soft sound of her shoe splashing on something wet. She hoped it was a puddle as water was leaking from the ceiling but the rancid smell hitting her nostrils told her that her luck was not going to be well.

She would soon realize her fear when a flashlight shine down on the floor to reveal the puddle of blood she stepped on. The agent with the light would follow the trail and he would find many dead bodies, all seemingly blown to bits. "Jesus Christ. What on Earth happened to them?" The agent uttered in shock.

Paige would look at the bodies more clearly and would notice something. "The clothing the bodies are wearing… well what's left of it. I think it belongs to someone who works with the Fates." Dowell and Denton would look at it. "Bloody hell she's right. They have the penchant for buying and using fancy stuff even when doing illicit businesses. Here we were expecting to see the Fates butcher someone who tried to con them on a deal, didn't think they would be the ones who we would be cleaning out of this place." 

Dowell said. The mood soon grew heavier as a ominous question now lingered in everyone's mind: Who would be ballsy and powerful enough to attack the Fates in their own territory? 

A loud bang would be heard throughout the warehouse. The agents would all huddle up, each one expecting an attack from whoever killed the Fates goons. When nothing tried to kill them for the few minutes they remained motionless the group began to move forward, albeit more hesitantly.

The sounds of water dripping from the ceiling would break the silence that hung in the warehouse. They found more bodies belonging to the Fates; each one either was blown or torn to pieces. Some were sliced, others seem to have been eaten, and others shot. A few seen to have been melted, incinerated, frozen, and others reduced to ashes. Yet they also noticed a few odd things, masks.

Some were made of wood and plastic, others of glass and metal, a few were even made of flesh. They found masks yet no clue on who owned them. The designs for each mask were diverse in design but a repeating pattern was noticed. Most bear oriental designs. The agents would place them in warded plastic bags as most heavily suspected the masks of being anomalous in nature. Them being covered in blood and ashes only reinforced the idea they were tied with what had occured on the warehouse.

"You guys think they were trying to sell Devil Masks and somewhere in the deal they lost control of the masks and those possessed by them started killing each other?" Denton would say. "It's a good theory but then why would the masks all decide to stay here?" Paige would reply back. "Those masks sometimes reject their owners and kill them so they can get a new one right? Maybe that and some of them dying during the fight might be reason the masks are still here?" He proposaled. 

"For some I can see, but all of them? No." She shook her head. "Something else is going on." Paige felt something vile from the masks but she wasn't sure what it was. But she didn't want them anywhere near her. The agents would find more bodies and occasionally a few more masks to collect.

The agents would soon find a large clearing and almost at the center were two skeletons standing there. "What the?" Dowell whispered. "So what should we do with those two skeletons? They are just standing there… like statues?" Paige asked the group, looking at the three new members the most. "This screams obvious trap but at the same time those two might give us answers on what is going on?" 

As the group debated on what to do with the skeletons something would be moving in the shadows 



Secrets of the Raven
Annwn
Cult Busters


The lich glared at Dawn. "This isn't quite how I want a favor to be repaid." She would mutter as she would hurl a blast of telekinetic energy at a few angels that got up, sending them in the air once more and hitting the walls of the building. The rest of the Order members got prepared to fight; Theodore unleashing a forest of spikes from his golem that impaled most cultists and a few angels. However the angels were able to break free from the spikes.

Valeria would take out two crystals and used them to cut her forearms, the crystals emitting a glow as streams of energy went into her wounds. The esper would fel her powers grow as she charged towards one of the many arm angels that had a spike through its chest, tackling it to the ground and beating it to the ground. A few of the faceless angels would aim their guns at the espers before they were reduced to dust. The survivors would look to see that Simon was the source, both he and a mostly healed Samson.

Rolo would fire bolts of lightning at some angels while Nix unleash chains and tentacles to bind, crush, and whip her enemies. Wei would began to fight some using wraith style while Richard called forth familiars to aid him. Weiss would sse that Akrasiel was now airborne and her sight was on Jackie and Terry. She would conjure a bolt of lightening and see the bolt be deflected by a sickle that took the attack, the electricity coursing through the chain and electricity would strike at the angel. While it was stroked the angel showed no damage as it just stood still until the electricity ceased.

It would swing it's weapon and send it to Weiss who would deflect it with a unseen arcane shield. Arkasiel would place her palm on the blade of her sword and as she rubbed across the length of the blade with the palm of her hand the Enochain sigils would glow, causing the blade to be covered by both a bright flash of light yet a inky blob of smokey shadow.

Elizabeth looked over at Celeste as she pulled her up. The sudden movement would cause her eyes to flicker almost like static on a tv, showing back to her usual jade green eyes. She would shake her head once she heard Celeste's words. "Yeah I saw what the after life was like so gonna avoid going there for as long as possible." She told the goddess. Elizabeth would hear Arkasiel let out a loud battle cry as she flew down to strike down Terry and Jackie.

Terry would quickly conjure a shield of compressed spacetime to block the strike, as a burst of holy and dark energy would come from the strike. "Damn it." Terry cursed. "I can try to take you to Claudia but we first need to get past that angel." He would grunt as he can feel the angel's power as it tried to break through it. "What the hell is going on with this thing? I thought fallen angels would be weaker than regular ones but this one still feels like a regular one?" 

As Jackie and Terry hid behind the shield they would not see what Celeste would see for a brief moment. Elizabeth's form briefly flickering into something dark, something with wings as evident by the sounds of wings flapping as the witch disappeared. The goddess would soon hear a loud scream.  

Suddenly they would hear the angel scream in agony which startled him. As Terry dropped the shield he would see several large slashes on Arkasiel, going from her face to her hips, in front of him was Elizabeth who was looking at her hands. When she turned to look at Terry he flinched back when he saw the dark eyes again. "I… I don't know what happened…" she said, obviously confused. "I saw you two were in trouble and suddenly everything went dark. Like I blacked out and the next thing I knew it I was here. What the hell happened?" 

As Elizabeth tried to make sense of what just happened to her. Akrasiel would use this chance to rise her sword, fully intending to strike down the witch that hurt her. Yet fate had other plans. Berith saw not only what happened with Elizabeth but also the angel wanting to retaliate. The demon lord would run towards the witch, shocking fast despite being a walking suit of armor. When he reached close to Elizabeth would take out his sword and get between her and Arkasiel, just in time for his blade to block the angels.

The demon lord would grunt. " I knew it. The angel was a seraphim, that is why she is so powerful even as a fallen one." He would kick her away. As he got into a battle stance he would say. "I will handle her. You humans try to stop the witch from completing her plans." He would rush towards Arkasiel before she can go into the offensive. As Berith forced the fallen seraphim to block his attack he was giving the three a chance to go to the city without being chased by the angel.

Elizabeth looked over to Terry. "I'm joining you two. Not only is the tower giving directions to the city but this is my case. I will be damned if I don't see it through the end." She told them. Terry knew that there was no way of convincing her out of it so he nodded with agreement. Elizabeth turned to face the tower. "Take us to Claudia. It's time we finish the Crimsonite chapter of my home town's story."


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Terry would chant and make a few elaborate gestures with his hands as the other angels turned their guns at the trio after witnessing what happened with Arkasiel. As the angels were close to pulling the trigger they would suddenly be ambushed from behind by Desprayes that leapt out of shadows. 

"You think I won't have my subjects hold on reserves?" Berith loudly boasted as block a strike aim at his head. "Now go!" He shouted as he punched Arkasiel on the stomach. Some angels that tried to attack despite the sudden assistance from infernal allies would find spells sent at them by the Order members. Spikes of Earth, Tendrils of Darkness, Balls of Fire, Bolts of Lightning, Blades of Wind. Much more were sent at them to give Terry the time to finish his spell.

The trio would see spacetime folding around them and before they knew it the trio were flying forward. Within the sphere of warp spacetime the saw everything blue shift until they just white replaced the blue followed by darkness. Yet as they went past everything in the world the group would suddenly felt the bubble being shaken and soon they would be in front of the great gate of the palace, the gates wide open for them.

The group would feel reality itself shake as they saw massive, claw-like, spikes emerge from on top of the spire. They would hear the sound of something cracking and from above they saw the crystal was developing cracks. The cracks would travel throughout the structures until it finally exploded into a sheet of crystalline powder; a black and red hellish orb of energy hanging over the city like a hellish sun, casting the whole city in a sanguine glow.

Elizabeth would take a running head start towards the place. As she ran deeper into the courtyard she would see more of the crystal flowers as well as statues of strange entities, beings with large wings and whose faces were like masks. The buildings were as large as the others in the city, each having networks of bridges and walkways connecting each other and staircases on them. Yet they also saw holes that suggest that some residences in the city prefer to fly around, which made sense with the statues.

The group would feel time and space was at it's most turbulent the deeper they went into the site, the eldritch power of the spire becoming almost suffocating the closer the got to it. Eventually they would reach another yard. The yard was circular in shape and from four points pools of water can be seen with them being between the garden of more flowers. At the center was the spire, and standing before it was Claudia and Albert.

Elizabeth would take out her gun "It's over Claudia! You can still choose to end this peacefully." She shouted, walking towards her. Elizabeth knew the gun would do nothing, hell even her intimation bluff was pointless. In truth she has it out to give her a small sense of confidence and comfort, something it was failing at if she was being honest.

"You can summon as much angels and demons as you want, you can even summon gods to do your bidding. But we won't let you rob people's freedom." She told the mage. "I can understand on wanting to change the world for the better Claudia, believing me I do. But this isn't the way. You are acting no better than the gods who perpetuate this endless cycle of misery and control. Please, I beg of you Claudia. Stop this now before it's too late."



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Yoshinori knew that the witch wouldn't make it on time to stop the ship from falling, with no option he cast a barrier around him and Tenzma as the ship fell.

When it crash the dragonflies were safe from within the barrier they were trapped in. The aurors not killed by the crash soon were stung by the monsters. Each one having their faces swell grotesquely large as they began to suffocate from their airways being blocked by the constriction being induced by their flesh.

Other monsters that were captured also began to take their revenge by killing surviving Aurors. With AEGIS the surviving soldiers were all stun by Aurors who recovered far more quickly than them. The two yokai would leave the barrier to look around, bring surrounded by a few survivors.

With Madi she woukd find one badly surviving auror who brought down the airship. "Figures that won't kill you, but no matter. It doesn't matter if you live through this now. You and the Ministry are finished. No one believes in any of you. Your legacy was tarnished by the fools on the Ministry and when the world needed you the most you abanonded it." He would let out a chuckle, ignoring the pain he felt.

"You don't deserve to be called a hero." He would raise up his wand to try and cast a spell on Madi.
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The Great Wizarding Rebellion

Yoshinori knew that the witch wouldn't make it on time to stop the ship from falling, with no option he cast a barrier around him and Tenzma as the ship fell.

When it crash the dragonflies were safe from within the barrier they were trapped in. The aurors not killed by the crash soon were stung by the monsters. Each one having their faces swell grotesquely large as they began to suffocate from their airways being blocked by the constriction being induced by their flesh.

Other monsters that were captured also began to take their revenge by killing surviving Aurors. With AEGIS the surviving soldiers were all stun by Aurors who recovered far more quickly than them. The two yokai would leave the barrier to look around, bring surrounded by a few survivors.

With Madi she would find one badly surviving auror who brought down the airship. "Figures that won't kill you, but no matter. It doesn't matter if you live through this now. You and the Ministry are finished. No one believes in any of you. Your legacy was tarnished by the fools on the Ministry and when the world needed you the most you abandoned it." He would let out a chuckle, ignoring the pain he felt.

"You don't deserve to be called a hero." He would raise up his wand to try and cast a spell on Madi.


Madi blocked the spell and threw the Auror against a nearby tree and walked up to him. "Maybe that's true, but there's still a few who are depending on me, and if I can keep them alive, that'll be a start."

The Auror tried in vain to free himself then eyed Madi. "I'm dead anyway, so I might as well tell you. The Muggles and AEGIS are having a meeting."

"Where?"

"Why should i tell you?"

Madi eyed the wizard for a moment, then cast Imperio. "Where is this meeting?"

The unnamed Auror tried to resist the mind controlling Unforgivable Curse, but failed. "Manchester. Parliament."

"Thank you." Madi knocked out the Auror with Stupefy, removed the curse, then apperated from Ireland's Eye to the parliament building in Manchester.
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The Great Wizarding Rebellion
Katya


"There's nothing wrong with being assertive!", Said Katya, the woman staring down and examining her nails. She still wasn't sure which fingers were cloned. "Also, humour is subjective. Well, that's what they say, any way. I like to think that I have a darker sense of humour, myself, but...I digress."

No luck. Katya sighed, then clapped her hands together. She was smiling still, but something was definitely off now. Her smile didn't quite reach her eyes. "Your friends escaped?", She repeated. A small twinkle shone in those blue eyes of hers. Interesting, she thought. She wouldn't ask too much about that. Had they escaped wherever the two of them were right now? Why hadn't Polly followed? Wouldn't her friends have helped with getting her sorted out better than AEGIS? Well, at least Katya had some semi-familiar company, and it wasn't that little bespectacled one who had tried to give her rabies the last time. "So, you're still struggling with that, then?", Katya asked, leaning to one side, and then the other. "Memory loss. Amnesia. Sudden personality shift. Whatever. Well, I personally have only known you for a short time - a few days at the most, if we count our entire relationship. I wouldn't personally say that you were a bad person, however. Trust me, I know bad people!"

Know. Knew. Did business with. Katya had known some shady people. Polly came across as a bitch to her, but not bad. She was good enough to help protect other people, and that was admirable. Katya wasn't sure how Polly saw herself now, or how she saw her old self. She wasn't sure why AEGIS was helping her with that problem of hers, either. Something about it felt wrong to her, though. Something was fishy. She wouldn't say that out loud, however. It was probably best to just play nice and not dig too deep, at least for the time being.

Miria

Miria's gut flipped as weight became weightless, as the sensation of feet stomping on solid ground turned to that of sliding and falling. The ship shook, the vibrations working their way through her small body, and then dissipating into the air as her boots lifted off. Miria whined and desperately grasped for anything solid that she could grab, but to no avail. Her world began to spin. The floor became the ceiling, and the ceiling the walls, and the walls the floor. Spells whizzed by her, and shouting assaulted her from every conceivable angle as the airship began its swift, violent descent. Miria felt her fingertips touch a piece of railing, to which the girl grabbed on to tightly, but the next flip sent her careening across the room, and her small anchor was ripped from her hand. The creaking of metal and explosion of the engine told her all that she needed to know - that she had better pray that she wasn't on whatever the ceiling was when the ship hit the ground, unless she wanted to be a splat on the pavement. In the tossing and confusion, her glasses were knocked off, and went tumbling out of her reach. Before Miria could even register the loss of her glasses (and her sight with them), the ship hit the ground, and Miria hit something hard and metal. The ship crunched and burst open underneath her, and the force of the impact hit her. She lost consciousness.

Miria would have landed closer to Lee...not that she realized it. When she came to, it was dark and fuzzy for her. She twitched, her movement making a jumble of pipes and panelling from the airships tumble over to the boy's right side. Miria's glasses had landed somewhere in the area as well, although she would need a little help locating them. The girl began to whimper, climbing up on shaky legs, only to stumble again. She felt a sharp pain in her chest, on her right side, and instinctively clutched her side. She didn't feel anything broken, but she was definitely probably bruised good. She was definitely terrified, and despite normally being more concerned with her glasses than anything else, the reptile part of her brain had seemed to have kicked in enough now for her to come skittering out, only to register movement - Lee - and crawl back behind cover with her teeth bared and eyes narrowed. First thing first, she definitely needed some calming down, and then she needed her glasses back. Otherwise, she was lost and confused, and likely to attack more than just stray Aurors or AEGIS troops.
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The Great Wizarding Rebellion

As Kayta and Polly talked with each other Caitlin waited away from the two, watching a clip she pulled out from this world's internet to kill time as she sat on a chair. She was watching a news coverage as a couple of people dressed in middle eastern attire surrounded a group of people who were found to be wizards and witches

From the subtitles they were hurling insults at the magic users for being followers of Ifirit and being infidels. A group dressed like ISIS members would stand next to them as they took out machetes. The magic users pleaded for their lives but no one in the crowd would listen as their executioners recited the sentence of their crime for practicing magic.

Just as she was going to see the men raise their machete up she would take off her helmet, yet she heard the screams of the people about to be beheaded as well as the cheers of the crowd. "Bloody launtics." Caitlin  said as she shook her head as she had her fingers go through her hair.

It wasn't just the middle east, everywhere in the world chaos erupted. Both normal humans and magical humans were fighting each other. It was as though everyone lost their mind and humanity, almost everyone in the world were behaving as mindless beasts; people drunk on blood and violence. 

She remembered seeing news clips of some suspected witches being burned alive in Spain and while the news article said the police are investigating it she doubt they are. "I can't believe we are working with these nutjobs." She muttered as she look down at the floor, looking back at her own reflection.

She can see bags under her eyes, results of sleepless nights born from her conscience. How can she pretend to ignore the atrocities happening before her? Sure her actions were atrocious but well... they were her own. Now she is being told to witness atrocities committed by others and do nothing. When she was assigned to the mission was fine on saving people from escaped anomalies that were dangerous; at least that was the slivered line when it came to performing the terrible actions she committed by working with AEGIS.

But seeing how most of these muggles acted she wondered if it was worth saving these people at all? 

Her musing on the failures of humanity would be interrupted when she heard a beeping coming from the helmet. Putting it on she would see a message icon blinking from the visor. The V.I. would turn on the video message, showing Anderson.

"September, I take it the mission went well." The woman smiled. "Yeah, we got to the Russian before the hooded freaks were able to have their way with her. Had to do some reconstructive surgery because of the curses that were inflicted on her by the creatures but we managed to reach the facility on time to save her from the worst. So far she's made a quick recovery and is talking with Johann's new agent." 

Anderson gave her a smile. "Good work agent. You and your squad did an admirable job out there." While Caitlin loved the praise she knew that he wouldn't be calling for just that. "Am I going to another mission sir?" Anderson shook his head. "No, instead you are to pack up your stuff. We are moving out to a new base of operation." 

That was surprising. "We're are we moving to sir?" Anderson gave her a grin. "I don't want to spoil the surprise. Make sure our guests are prepared to leave too. We are taking as much as we can while our old base is being repaired." Caitlin told him she understood and the call ended. She would take off her helmet. "A surprise huh? I hope this one is actually pleasant for once. Most surprises from AEGIS rarely are." 

She would get up and walk over to the two women. When Caitlin went over to them she would look at them. "I'm not interrupting anything am I?" She asked. "I got word we are moving out of this facility soon so if you two have anything to pack I suggest doing it soon." She told the two. When the doctor asked where they're going the agent shrugged. "I wasn't told much other than it would be a surprised."
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Tides of Change



The Civil War is over! With the valiant New Republic and MUDP as the victors the worlds ravaged by war can begin to heal. Earth, once a battlefield for the occupying forces of Venom, is now remade as the Federal Republic of Telluria with aid from Corniera, the New Republic, and Terrans. The enigmatic AEGIS Imperative is on the pursuit for fleeing First Order war criminals with New Republic intelligence agencies. However back on Zakuul they are studying ancient artifacts found on Rakata Prime. Unaware that their research will bring them into a new conflict.




The hiss of the sliding door was heard by the researchers but most had their attention on the object on the table. "What can you tell me about the object doctor." The elderly researcher turned to see Sato, her hands behind her back as she looked at the object that had most of the researcher's attention.

"Ah director. The object has been stubborn when it comes to sharing its secrets with us but we expected that. However we found that the energy it was resonating from was the much larger artifact from Rakata Prime. Our hypothesis on the two being linked was corrected." 

The researcher would turn back to see the object; a cylindrical shape relic the same size as a fully assembled blender or a large cat. The cylindrical relic was surprisingly organic in design; soft and smooth edges and made of a black material that have it the appearance of smoothed stone even though it was made of a metallic crystalline material. The same material the flowers in another lab reside in. The two items were found on the same site where the much larger identical spire was found; both submerged both underground and in dimensional planes simultaneously. 

The spire was in a pocket dimension where it was the heart of a city that defied explanation. Cyclopean towers made of the same material, great walls separating a palace complex, bridges on the air. The architecture was built in many dimensional layers, affecting how the expedition team saw the city… or didn't with some.

Sato wasn't done reading all the reports but she knew several incidents occurred within the city; some of which resulted in some members of the expedition disappearing, presumed dead as of now, and others being relieved of active duty due to the psychological toll the expedition infected on them.

She saw spiral patterns on the relic, patterns that she heard were on both the larger spire and buildings in the city. "Anything else you discovered about it besides that doctor?" The man began to chuckle, a tick she picked up whenever he was excited.

"Yes ma'am, the lesser spire as we call it can affect the greater spire. We believe the two are linked, so if we can control the lesser spire we can also affect the greater one." Sato was intrigued by that. "So have you found a way to control the greater spire through it yet?" The researcher smiled. "Nothing too drastic but we did have the energy levels of the greater spire raise by a little bit. It's not much but it's a promising start." 

Promising start indeed. The greater spire has tremendous power stored within it as well as being a treasure trove of knowledge on who made it and their ancient knowledge; perhaps even revealing who made the spires and why? The Spire is AEGIS personal research project. The Union was aware of it and while the New Republic wanted to be involved due to it being located in their universe they ultimately decided to give AEGIS sole control of the site. They had a galaxy to rebuild after all, some ancient ruins meant little to them right now.

"If they knew what those ruins had I believe the New Republic would have thrown a much harder struggle to be involved in our research program." The researcher told Sato. The woman couldn't deny that if the Republic knew what the Spire alone can do they might want to be the ones in charge of expeditions and studies over the ruins and relics. The fact that other relics were found besides the spires and flowers mean that AEGIS could unlock not only more secrets from the antediluvian builders.

"Perhaps what we learn from these relics could help push us closer to the technological parity of the other space faring civilizations in the Union?

The war showed many weaknesses within AEGIS, the most glaring was their lack of space based infrastructure, industries, warfare. They didn't even have spaceships until now and most aren't even ones they made; most being old and current ships given to them by their allies with many being modified to the latest weapons, engines, systems, and mores. Some were so radically changed that they transformed into entirely different vessels like the Cornerian Battlecruisers. They are still working on their own ships but even then it wouldn't be enough to catch up with their allies. The lack of matching infrastructure and population to work on and make the ships was hurting them.

While they are grateful for the help the Imperative still wishes to make their own ships so they can gradually not have to rely on their allies for everything when it comes to starships and space industries, the Imperative has to show that they aren't a weak link in the Union. 

Of course, they did prove their worth in the war on other avenues. Besides the paranormal and magictech research and development that Corneria wanted the Imperative for they also showed a surprising aptitude for intelligence gathering, covert operations, and asymmetric warfare. It was these methods that aided the Imperative in the war as the beginning they and the Union were losing badly.

The Imperative was the worst affected. So much so that some thought why they were even involved in the battlefield when obviously General Pepper wanted them for their occult experimentation and weird technologies, the laboratory and factories is where they belonged. But once AEGIS returned to the shadows, returning to their proper environment, the naysayers were soon silenced as the Imperative would begin to bring in positive results. 

Of course AEGIS will never fully disclose everything that was once done in the war, a fact that most members have to begrudgingly accept. But what was revealed was enough to point that AEGIS's spy network, covert ops, and raid fleets were a contributing factor in changing the tide of the war. While Venom and The First Order did find some countermeasures against some of the anomalous technologies used by AEGIS the fact the two factions could never fully combat against their magic and paratech entirely also aided the Imperative greatly in their darkest hours.

Sato was brought out of her musing of the Imperative's performance of the war and the current state of their space navy as the runes on the lesser spire began to glow black. "Why is it going?" She was torn between feeling anxious at the glowing artefact while also feeling strangely mesmerized by it.

"I don't know. It shouldn't be doing that." The researcher went to the computers in the lab to check on what was happening while Sato continued to look at the artifact. For the woman everything else in the world was absent, only she and the artefact were in the world.

Sato felt a strange call coming from the cylinder, she can almost feel as though it was beckoning for her to come forward. Normally she would recall her anti-psionic countermeasures training and try to resist against the obvious enchantment she was feeling, but she did not. She felt that she must heed the call of the relic. 

Sato heard the researcher saying that the greater spire was reacting to something and it was activated as well, causing the reaction to the lesser one. But Sato didn't register his words. As everyone tried to figure out what caused the spires to become active they did not see the director walking towards the object in a trance like state. 

As the spire began to emit a golden light now Sato began to reach out towards it, its light changing to a brilliant white as the light glow intensified. Sato heard someone shouting for her to get away from the relic but like before she ignored them. When Sato touched the spire a loud ring would be heard by everyone, forcing most to drop to their knees as they covered their ears. Yet Sato was immune as she still held on to the relic; her iris now red and sclera black as she saw visions before her eyes.

The lead researcher would try to pull her away from the relic as the computers warn of an energy build up from both the lesser and greater spires. Most researchers fled while the lead tried to save Sato. The director would utter a few words in a language the researcher did not know or heard before, suddenly the room would be engulfed by a blinding crimson light and the two would cease to be. 

From the lab massive pulse of energy would be unleashed that not only vaporized people caught in it but also machines. Yet as many on the site tried to flee from their doom mist never noticed that the ruins and native wildlife of Zakuul were affected, only AEGIS and their devices were affected. 

Throughout worlds that AEGIS that held other lesser spires the same event would occur as pulses of energy would not only vaporize everyone on the planet but the pulses would spread out into space to get even their ships. The pulses would travel throughout the galaxy, being detected by everyone but never affecting all save for those with ties with AEGIS. As the pulses traveled in speeds beyond hyperspace it didn't take long until the whole galaxy was cleanse of AEGIS'S presence. It was as though some wrathful god or eldritch force erased them from existence. The pulses would continue to travel beyond the galaxy and might keep going until they reach the end of the observed universe, perhaps they would keep going on after that?

Regardless, the galaxy would soon be in grips under a galactic mystery that will take time for it to get answers. 

What in the Force happened to AEGIS?
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A splitting headache followed by a loud groan of misery and pain were the first thing to have come out of Sato and the first action she did as she was regaining consciousness. The woman would rub her forehead as she sat up, groggy eyes looking at the dark room. She saw the lights were off, dust and weeds covered the furniture, and the windows were shattered.

"Bloody hell, what happened?" She mumbled as she got up. Her legs wobbled for a while and she lunged out to grab the edge of the desk to prevent herself from falling. "Okay I feel like I'm experiencing the mother of all hangovers. Think Sato, what did you do before waking up?" The woman closed her eyes, concentrating.

She remembered going to the lab to check on progress on their latest research project, musing on the Imperative's current state and where they should improve, seeing a war against magic eating bugs that control organic and synthetic matter. 

"Wait a minute, that last one sounds really off." she remembered seeing some strange stuff after that. She saw strange lights and chains, eyes within darkness, a black sun and blood red moon over a black city, galaxies and stars, the spire itself. 

As Sato thought on the strange dream she would hear someone else waking up behind her. Looking behind she saw the old researcher was rousing up from his slumber. "What's up doc?" She said in a playful manner, though it was once she forced to hide the fact she was confused and even anxious. She can feel that something was wrong.

The man would adjust his glasses and would look at Sato. "Are you feeling alright director?" Sato was confused by the question. Before she can say she is the researcher would see her hands on the table, close to the spire.

"GET AWAY FROM IT!" he shouted at her as he got up hurriedly. The action startled Sato as she backed away from the table. When she asked what happened the man would look at her. "You were in a trance ma'am. It happened just as something caused the greater spire to activate, triggering the activation of the lesser variants. You went to it and when you touched it this strange noise was produced that nearly made us all deaf. After that we saw that it was going to explode and I tried to get you out but you wouldn't budge. After that there was a bright flash and we both woke up in here." 

He would look around the room. "I expected a mess to be made by why are there plants in here?" Sato was wondering too. Why did the room change into its present state? "We need to find out if anyone else is in here. Hopefully there are other survivors." The researcher nodded and would follow Sato out of the ruined lab.

"By the way doctor. Did you had any strange dreams while you were asleep?" She asked, getting a simple no from the doctor. "Why you ask that ma'am?" Sato would turn her attention back to the darken halls they were walking in. "Just curious is all." She said as they felt their way through the hall, grateful for the few beams of light that enter through the shattered windows.

Sato decided to keep the dreams to herself for the time being. The last thing she needs is for everyone to think she was going crazy after the trance episode.
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After finding out that everyone on the planet was accounted for, including those from space, the first order of business was restoring links with Imperative command. Once the Janus Gate was set up everyone in Zakuul would soon find out that all of them were listed as MIA/KIA. Apparently in the galaxy they were in many saw them being vaporized and how the event through the galaxy into chaos over the fear of a galactic superpower that can wipe out all life in the galaxy.

While the Overseers are glad to see that the victims were not vaporized they were not to be sent back to the Zakuul they were stationed at, as a new base was made to replace them after they couldn't find any evidence to what occurred on the planet. Their first mission was to discover the other colonies and learn about the state of the galaxy.

Worlds like Odessa were found quickly and much like Zakuul everyone was accounted for and were rebuilding. Everyone on the planets were easily found but everyone on planets not owned by AEGIS or traveling in deep space were much trickier to find. 

During the search for missing ships and operatives they would learn about the state of the galaxy. The New Republic did not exist; instead it was the Old Republic. They would find that the galaxy was at peace for now but they knew that megacorporations would hold immense sway in the outer rim, a worrying development as their ships have technology not native to this galaxy or are but come from the future. They would be a tempting target for the companies as well as pirates. Worse is that these companies will be one of the factors to shatter the years of peace to create the Clone Wars

On the matter of Rakata Prime. It was the last world AEGIS tried to contact back as they waited for the people in there to reach them, even the folks on Korriban and Dathomir manage to contact them back eventually and both worlds weren't pleasant to begin with. But no one in Rakata Prime ever did.

With no choice a fleet was sent to investigate the world. What was found was classified to all but a select few involved in the expedition in the galaxy. Until further orders were issued no personal were to step foot on Rakata Prime.
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Over the oceanic, forest heavy world known as Kabal were five Dreadnaught-Class Heavy Cruisers with three GR-75 medium transport ships. The ships were deemed suitable to use in the galaxy right now as they can't allow certain ships to be seen due to the fear of time paradoxes, what with them having ships from both combatants of the Clone Wars and some shops from the future.

A year has passed since the Clone Wars started, with AEGIS staying neutral for the most part. During their long years in the galaxy they have built themselves as being a mysterious civilization out on the Unknown Regions, they also develop quite the reputation too. They have been called everything from space gypsies as their ships can be seen flying around the galaxy, merchants due to them selling both conventional and unconventional goods, the most popular being never before seen types of slugthrowers, and finally mercenaries and bounty hunters.

The Imperative has built a nice small empire out on the Unknown Region as they studied the galaxy, trying to figure out what will occur in it or not. Right now they found that everything they knew from the galaxy's history was playing out before them.

Right now they can't do much but the Overseers knew the truth about the war, damn well everyone in the Imperative knew the truth. The Sith were behind it and they were controlling both sides like it was one large game of chess.

Almost everyone wanted to try and stop Palpatine and prevent his empire from rising. But the question was how? As the ships proceeded down to the planet that question would plague the minds of some of the crew members. As well the worry of being caught in the crosshairs fire of the war. 

Both the Republic and Separatists are stuck in a gridlock, both sides are Loomis g girl allies to help turn the tide of the war, to give them the momentum to push them closer to victory.

Most wonder just how long will it be until one of the two decide to reach out for them to join their side of the war?

 
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Tides of Change
Origin System - Pluto Sector - Approximately 5 minutes away from Pluto Solar Rail Junction

All is quiet and still. The darkness of space is currently peaceful and serene, with nothing to disturb it. Stars glitter in the backdrop of the cosmos, with far away nebulae and clouds of solar dust intermixed within to create a beautiful tapestry of color. An occasional asteroid drifts by, with thousands upon thousands of smaller rocks in it's wake. The asteroids know no strife, no fear. They simply drift, blissfully unaware of the goings on of the system.

And then something disturbs their peace.

The roar of bright blue engines disrupts the asteroid's path as a massive silver ship flies by, it's course set on the gray sphere that is Pluto in the distance. They have been drawn here by a distress call from a nearby facility which has just been attacked by an assailant in black, faster than the eye can manage, stronger than the mightiest warrior. The facility's defenders couldn't stop it, as it cut them down effortlessly, and jumped up high among the rafters and ductwork of the building to vanish without a trace. Within a matter of minutes after the assailant struck, the facility lost power and an explosion rocked it as it's power core erupted into flame.

The Corpus manager of the facility was powerless to do anything as their attacker secretly escaped into the night. He paces back and forth, nearly tripping over his own feet, worrying over what the Board of Directors will do with him. He would no doubt be ruined, but would he be allowed to keep his life? He couldn't help but think not. But maybe, just maybe there would be forgiveness? Perhaps they would be understanding of his situation? After all, what was he to do? How could he hope to have stopped the force that had attacked them? How could he have combated that which had spent it's whole existence as the perfect warrior?

How could he have stopped a Tenno?

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There is a sound of metal docking clamps locking together, as a small vessel joins together with a larger, unseen ship. Within this ship, the bottom of the smaller ship peaks through an opening that leads into a passageway lit by blue lights along the wall. There is a cylindrical protrusion located on the bottom of the smaller ship, which rotates to reveal a figure magnetically attached to the other side.

The figure appears to be male. He is six feet tall, and where flesh would be there is instead an organic looking metal. White markings adorn the grayish black material, and a black scarf wraps around the figure's neck. His head is an eyeless helmet, with a single horn protruding from the forehead. Gold attachments, are affixed to various places on his body, and he carries a black and silver sword on his side, along with 2 white and gold side arms, and a purplish black rifle which is currently affixed to the back.

He steps down from the smaller ship, and a chipper voice suddenly fills the hallway. "Operator! You have returned safe and sound! Ordis is pleased that the mission went well." It says in a light masculine voice. The figure looks up at the ceiling as he walks, and a youthful male voice emerges from it's mouth-less form. "The reactor was heavily shielded, and it was a bit of an adventure figuring out how to bring it down. But we got the job done." He says.

It had been a simple mission really: they had received information from a Tenno operative that the Corpus had a new research center set up on a remote location of Pluto, where they were experimenting with new weaponry to combat the Tenno. Thus the figure had elected himself to infiltrate the facility and shut it down for good. First he broke into it's data vaults and stole all of the research that the Corpus had conducted, and then he made a move for the facility's reactor, destroying it and triggering a meltdown that would no doubt cause the facility to explode.

As the figure walks, there is a sudden flash of teal light as a young human emerges from the dark figure. He has medium length brown hair, and a small glow shines from behind his teal green eyes. There is a large blackish teal scar that runs down the side of his face, and two small silver devices are attached to his cheek bones. He wears a black and white outfit, with large black boots and a black scarf. He wears dark gray, almost organic arm pieces, and he has a strange gauntlet-like device attached to his right arm. Pulling the scarf from his face, the human is clearly quite young; no more than 15, yet his eyes portray a person who has seen and experienced far more than his age would portray.

His name is Tath.

The dark figure - Umbra - follows Tath as he continues to walk, eventually entering into a larger room with a series of machines and consoles filling it. "Of course you did, Operator! There is no reactor room that your skill cannot breach!" Ordis says, prompting Tath to roll his eyes. "And why are you trying to butter me up, Ordis? Did you break something while I was gone?" He asks. "N-no, of course not, Operator. I am simply giving you a compliment, nothing more. I assure you that I have no ulterior motive for - sUcking up to tHe BosSsSSs.." Ordis replies, his voice changing to a harsher and distorted tone.

Tath smirks and shakes his head. "Just messing with you, Ordis, I appreciate the compliment." He says as he walks up a descending ramp toward the navigation console. "Oh. Oh yes, of course, Operator! Ordis knew you weren't calling his performance into question! Speaking of, I've already taken the initiative to set a course to the Junction. We can depart when you are ready." The cephalon said as Tath stood before the large window gazing out into the blackness of space.

Tath is not dull, he realizes what Ordis is doing: he's trying to cheer him up. Had his mood really been that obvious? He thought he had been doing a good job of hiding his distressed thoughts from Ordis, but the cephalon was clearly far more perceptive than Tath gave him credit for. He frowns. "Thanks, Ordis." He says, his voice lowered a bit. There is silence for a moment while Tath sifts through his thoughts. How long had it been now, 6 weeks? It had felt longer.

"Of course, Operator. ... Can... Can Ordis do anything else for you?" Ordis asked, which prompts Tath to shake his head. "No, no it's fine. I'm fine, Ordis. You don't need to worry about me." He replied. More silence as the shape of the Pluto Junction comes into view, then Ordis speaks. "Operator... I am saddened by the Lotus'... change of heart as well... I just want you to know, that I will never abandon you like she did." Tath winces a bit. He realizes that Ordis is trying to reassure him, and it does comfort him to a degree, but those words also carry pain.

Had it really all been a lie? Was the Lotus nothing more than an embodiment of the desperate wishes of a lost and scared child searching for a mother? She seemed to think so. "This is what I am" she had said before trying to kill him, and her partnership with the Corpus scientist Alad V had bred knew horrors that were intended to empower the Sentients once again. All evidence seemed to suggest that the Lotus was gone, and that only Natah remained.

Tath didn't want to believe that.

He responds after a while. "Thanks, Ordis, that means a lot." He looks dejected for a moment, but clenches his fist and shakes his head. There would be time for grief later. Right now there was a new threat fast-approaching the Origin system that needed his and all the other Tenno's attention. "Anyway, what's next on the agenda?" "Yes, of course. I recieved a transmission from the Clan while you were away. They are requesting that all Clan members meet at the Dojo to discuss our next course of action in preparing with the Sentients." Ordis said. Tath nods. "Right, so that's our next move then. Set course for the Dojo." He says, and Ordis moves the Orbiter into the Solar Junction's transference ring accordingly.

"Understood. Commencing Junction transference in: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1." There is then a buildup of energy as the void energies surround the Orbiter from the Junction, and with a flash of light it is shot forward into a gateway leading into the Solar Rails: the network connecting the Junctions through the void. Swirling clouds of teal and light blue filled the windows of the Orbiter as the vessel burrowed into the Void. The Junctions were established by the Orokin empire long, long ago, and they allowed for nearly immediate travel between the various planets of the Origin system.

Tath wasn't sure what his fellow Tenno had in mind to deal with the oncoming Sentient threat, but he figured that the Clan wouldn't have called it's members to gather if they had no idea for a course of action. Will it be enough though? Tath thought. We're not just fighting an ancient enemy anymore. We're fighting our former leader now as well. She knows us better than most of us know ourselves. And... are we... no, am I prepared for what must be done? Tath's thoughts slipped away from him when he realized something strange: they hadn't exited Void transference yet. It should have been near-instant, so why were they still -

Suddenly the ship shook, and sparks flew as bolts of green energy began to strike the ship. The blues and teals of the Void began to fade, and they were replaced with a greenish-black vortex. Tath was nearly knocked prone by the sudden shift, and he grasped the navigation console desperately to hold on. "What the?! Ordis, what is this?!" He asked, struggling to look at the readout on the monitors. "Ordis is unsure, something has torn us from Void transference! These readings don't make sense! Time, space, they're all fluctuating wildly! I cannot-" Another surge of energy strikes the ship, triggering another tremor, much stronger this time.

Tath is thrown forward, striking his head into the control console. With a shout of pain, he falls to the ground, the world spinning around him wildly. He feels hands reaching to cradle him, but he doesn't see their owner as the world around him begins to fade to black. He fights to maintain consciousness, blinking again and again, but each blink get's heavier. After one final exhausting blink, he sees something: a figure sat on the control console with it's legs crossed.

He sees himself.

The other Tath is smiling at him, a wicked glow filling his blank eyes. Tath cannot move, cannot think, cannot feel. All he can do is look back. The other Tath then simply waves at him, as if bidding him farewell, the smile still plastered to his face.

And then all is quiet and still....

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Tath's eyes open slowly, and struggle to focus as he returns to consciousness. Everything hurts, and he feels himself still being held. He looks around to see who is doing so, and his face focuses on a horned head with a single white eye surrounded by sickly pink flesh looking down at him. "Ugh... Umbra?" Umbra nods, the eye taking on a more relieved look. There is a flash and the sound of sparks as the damaged codex console desperately tries to cling to life, and then the relieved voice of Ordis rings out. "Operator! You're awake! Oh thank the stars, I was beginning to think - yYyou'd BiT the DuUuSssss - I'd lost you! Are you alright? Do you need medical attention?" Tath groans and blinks rapidly. "N-no, I think I'm alright. What happened?"

"The Orbiter was caught in the vortex for an hour after you had fallen unconscious, and then we finally exited it. I'm afraid we've suffered severe damage." Ordis explained. Tath sighed and looked at Umbra. "You can let me down, I can stand." He said. The Warframe hesitates for a moment, and then complies, gingerly setting Tath on his feet. He shakily regains his balance, and then addresses Ordis. "What sort of damage?" "Main power is at fourty-eight percent, life support is at seventy-one percent, our foundry system is offline, main engines are shot with only thrusters remaining, the Void cloak is offline, and worst of all the Arsenal system is down." The cephalon explains.

Tath sighs. "Without the Arsenal system, that means I can't gain access to my other Warframes and weapons..." He looks at Umbra. "I guess it's just me and you for now then." Umbra nods, and then Tath seems to register all of what Ordis said, his face suddenly becoming far more concerned. "Wait, the Void Cloak is down?! But, that means we're completely exposed!" "I am aware, Operator. I am making it my top priority for repairs. Or else we're TOataLly sCrEeEeeeEwwwe-" Ordis replied.

Tath leans against a wall, trying to gather his thoughts. "So do you know where we are?" He asked. "Analyzing... WhAt tHeeeee?! This doesn't make any sense! Operator, according to our positioning data we are eighty-five million, nine-hundred thirty-six thousand, seven-hundred fifty-five light years from the Origin system!" Ordis exclaimed. Tath's eyes widen at this. "What?! But, how?!" He asked. "I don't know, and what's even more confusing is that the ship's calendar states that we are roughly thrity-five thousand years in the past! A L-loNg time ago in a gAlaxY faaaaaaar- I cannot explain this!" Tath found himself sighing again, slamming his fist into the wall. "Great... well is there anything else?" He asked. Ordis is silent for a moment, and then answers. "Oh... Well, there's that." He says in a cautious tone of voice. Tath looks confused for a moment. "There's what?" He asked, looking toward the window.

He soon gets an answer.

A fleet of starships was in orbit above a verdant world, and the Orbiter had emerged from the vortex directly in front of them...

"Well crAaAP."
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Postby Naval Monte » Mon Feb 17, 2020 9:55 am

Tides of Change

The first to spot the disturbance in spacetime was the Dreadnaughts Vindicator, her captain sending out a warning to all ships to steer clear from their intended path. The ships would begin to slow down while departing from their path, two Dreadnaughts and two transport  to the right while two other Dreadnaughts and a lone transport went the other way.

The lone Dreadnaught that lead the fleet would pull up away from the mysterious ship, almost scratching its hull.  Soon the small fleet would remain motionless as they began to orbit around the verdant world.

Captain Wilson, a bushy hair man, looked at the holomap of the planet as a rift emerged. "Bloody hell, after all these years finally the rifts start to show themselves." The man began to rub his thumb and pointer finger through his beard. 

The ship's design didn't fit with anything in Imperative records nor the Union, he was sure of that. The VI within the ship would soon support his observation as no ship they have learned from the Union match the one in front of them. The vessel was entirely new.

The holographic image showed a ship that was angular and sleek, colored in matte black and dull gray with bluish green lights at random parts throughout the ship. The ship had large protrusions from behind that no doubt were the engines. The ship was also emitting traces of an unidentified energy signature. 

Wilson could tell that the native Kabalans no doubt detected the strange activity from above. It was only a matter of time before they showed up to investigate as well. "Captain, we've detected another rift on the planet itself." An officer on the bridge said. 

"Another one? Looks like Kabal is at center stage for the latest multiverse drama." The captain jokes. Yet he was worried if the new arrivals could be the type willing to cause trouble? The galaxy was already in a state of chaos thanks to the war; Kabal is a good example of that.

The people of the planet were suffering from starvation and resource shortages thanks to the Trade Federation abandoning them due to heavy Republic taxation. The fleet was sent to help out somewhat with the issue and make some credits, but they knew that eventually the world would join the Separatists in frustration and in desperation. After that well they can't do much for the world, whether the Seps defends them or they get bombed back to the stone age by the Republic is something for fate to decide.

"Try to patch a comm link with the mysterious craft. Hopefully they aren't too spooked by us." The officers would do as they tried to patch through the other ship. From one of the Dreadnaughts three starfighters came out. The three starfighters were Z-95 Headhunters. Yet these didn't look like the standard Headhunters used.

The colors of the crafts were black, gray, and white. The wings of the Headhunters had four laser cannons instead of the usual two and a few inches below the nose were canards. Two massive engine turbines were on the wings but four engine tubes stuck out from the turbines to release the energy being produced by the engines. Tath and Ordis can see a fifth engine nozzle that wasn't activated on the headhunters bodies at thier aft. he crafts body seemed longer than a normal Headhunter.

The three starfighters would fly down to Kabal, ignoring the Orbiter. Instead the warrior and cephalon would get a transmission.

"This is Captain Wislon of the Vindicator, we wish to know who is within the vessel and your intention on the world?" 

The captain knew that the crew was most likely confused but he had to make sure they won't try anything hostile to them or the Kabalans.

The three of the transports would begin move as their bow pointed down to the planet. From the three Dreadnaughts close to the transport more trio of headhunters would fly off their hangers to escort the ships as they went down to the planet.

The first trio of Headhunters sent out would have already reach Kabal's atmosphere and would begin their search for the thing that was left stranded on the planet by the rift.
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Postby The Japanese Americans » Mon Feb 17, 2020 2:51 pm

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Miria


Miria's gut flipped as weight became weightless, as the sensation of feet stomping on solid ground turned to that of sliding and falling. The ship shook, the vibrations working their way through her small body, and then dissipating into the air as her boots lifted off. Miria whined and desperately grasped for anything solid that she could grab, but to no avail. Her world began to spin. The floor became the ceiling, and the ceiling the walls, and the walls the floor. Spells whizzed by her, and shouting assaulted her from every conceivable angle as the airship began its swift, violent descent. Miria felt her fingertips touch a piece of railing, to which the girl grabbed on to tightly, but the next flip sent her careening across the room, and her small anchor was ripped from her hand. The creaking of metal and explosion of the engine told her all that she needed to know - that she had better pray that she wasn't on whatever the ceiling was when the ship hit the ground, unless she wanted to be a splat on the pavement. In the tossing and confusion, her glasses were knocked off, and went tumbling out of her reach. Before Miria could even register the loss of her glasses (and her sight with them), the ship hit the ground, and Miria hit something hard and metal. The ship crunched and burst open underneath her, and the force of the impact hit her. She lost consciousness.

Miria would have landed closer to Lee...not that she realized it. When she came to, it was dark and fuzzy for her. She twitched, her movement making a jumble of pipes and panelling from the airships tumble over to the boy's right side. Miria's glasses had landed somewhere in the area as well, although she would need a little help locating them. The girl began to whimper, climbing up on shaky legs, only to stumble again. She felt a sharp pain in her chest, on her right side, and instinctively clutched her side. She didn't feel anything broken, but she was definitely probably bruised good. She was definitely terrified, and despite normally being more concerned with her glasses than anything else, the reptile part of her brain had seemed to have kicked in enough now for her to come skittering out, only to register movement - Lee - and crawl back behind cover with her teeth bared and eyes narrowed. First thing first, she definitely needed some calming down, and then she needed her glasses back. Otherwise, she was lost and confused, and likely to attack more than just stray Aurors or AEGIS troops.


Lee heard the pipes and paneling move and instinctively jumped away from it. He then located Miria easily enough, but she was obviously terrified. He could get close to her and heal her in two ways. One, move quickly in and back out, or, two, calm her slowly so he can heal her more easily. He made the rational choice of calming her first. He crouched down to make himself seem less frightening and moved slowly towards her so as to not scare her. "Hey, it's okay. It's fine. The crash is mostly over, and you're obviously hurt. If you want me to heal you, you're going to have to let me come close." He spoke in soothing, calm tones. He was glad he had remembered what his animal-loving friend had told him when confronted with a scared animal. And most people were animals, with deeply rooted instincts that came into play during traumatic events. Except AIs, since they were inorganic and artificial. "It's okay, it's okay." He extended his hand out, palm up to show that he meant no harm.

---

The boy's words seemingly reached the smaller girl's ears, but she was still quite frightened and wound up. Her head snapped in his direction, and then her entire body. She was still stumbling away, but walking backwards now, keeping her front facing towards him. She hissed, and arched her back slightly, but seemed to wince a little, clutching her ribs harder. Her eyes remained wide open, but her pupils narrowed, even more than usual, into narrow slits.

As she backed up, something caught her leg and caused her to stumble - her backpack - the girl falling and quickly hopping onto all fours, scurrying back again and digging her heels in. She wasn't outright attacking, at least, but she was still very defensive, and though the words that Lee spoke were registering in her head, her nerves were still wound up, and her apparent blindness without her glasses left her rather distressed as she attempted to make out the shapes in front of her. Finally, after backing up a few feet, Miria stopped, and allowed Lee to come a bit closer, although she was still very tense.

---

He continued towards her, his palm still outstretched towards her. He spotted her glasses, and levitated it into his outstretched hand. "Hey, here's your glasses. You probably need them to see, right? Well, here they are."

---

Silence. Red eyes stares back at the vague shape of the boy, catching a mild shimmer somewhere in the blur of colours before her, as a lens caught the light. One hand reached out slowly, fingers outstretched. Her index finger brushed the rim of her spectacles. Her thumb prodded one of the lenses. Her gaze shot back to the Man-Blur, and then back to her hand. She was quick to snatch the glasses out of the air, slipping them on. Her eyes twitched again, and Miria began to blink rapidly, readjusting to her normal sight. Blurs became shapes, as the world returned to her. Once more, she looked at Lee, body still tense, but eyes relaxing now, as her pupils returned to their normal size. She looked nervous, biting her lip, a few of her fangs sticking out, but no longer seeming threatening. Finally realizing who it was in front of her, Miria felt a little...awkward. Her heart was still pounding, but she wasn't as on-edge as before. Really, losing her glasses was what had set her off so badly. Without her glasses, she was screwed.

---

Lee smiled warmly. The tactics were working. "Okay, now since you've calmed down a little, would you let me heal you? The magic will require physical contact, but only as much as me putting my hand on your forearm, for example." He was careful to phrase it so it was in no way sexual. His mind was almost always in the gutter, so he was careful to phrase his words carefully because of that.

---

Miria rubbed her chest a little and shivered. The pain wasn't sharp - very dull, but very strong. It felt like half her body was one big bruise. Deciding it better to not deal with that sort of pain, and to spare herself having to figure out just how bad the bruising was, the held out her free arm again, hand balled into a fist. She tugged her sleeve up a bit, although her forearm was still covered in the tight wraps that she always seemed to wear.

---

Taking this as an invitation to heal her, he tentatively put his hand on her forearm. Then he spoke one word that was infused with power and magic. "Heal." Soft golden light emanated from him like before, and the magic entered Miria's body. The bruising from the crash vanished as well as any small scars she may have had. The magic also stabilized her emotions, reducing her fear significantly, which would allow her to think more clearly. "I should also mention that this spell helps with emotions in great abundance that are generally regarded as negative. It probably made your fear decrease."

---

Miria didn't feel as bad any more. Now, however, she felt paranoid...well, more like suspicious. Her eyes were narrowed - not just her pupils, the girl staring at Lee for a moment. She felt weird about being healed, buuuut...well, he'd helped her. She just wasn't used to being the one having magic used on her. Natural Magic Users were an oddity to her, and she lived with one back home! At any rate, she wasn't hurt any more, and that was good. "Thanks.", She replied, slowly moving to get up again, and reaching for her hefty rucksack. "I guess that comes in handy, huh?"
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