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The Search for Xanar Interlude-A dream of Dalusere
There was music everywhere.A concert featuring every song never heard, it was a bazaar dedicated to the favourite child of the Van-Wildersteins, A celebration of his finest work, His Magnum opus..... Dalusere!The last brick had been laid more than a year ago, or was it 10? 100? 1000? 1000000? Time felt different for every denizen of Dalusere, The City that even the gods envied, A dream that never ends..... It's great walls filled with the hopes and ideas of many souls yet to be born.The little boy looked around, In awe of the festivities, He had never seen such wonder, An aurora of milky white light enveloped the city, It's glass walls reflected the holy light off it's surface.It burned no one and nothing, Instead it gave all who were bathed in it an euphoric sensation, Along the like of reuniting with an old friend.The air smelt different to everyone, Often a collection of their favourite scents from their past lives and lives yet to come, The people varied in Size, Race and Age
The Search for Xanar Ice Box
"Terry! Move it a little to the right.... no! My right, Godamnit! Angelo's Right! Yeah! Yeah! You're doing it now... drop it!" Cas ordered.Terry The Multi winged Mammoth dropped the box of supplies at the edge of Tower 4, before giving a snort of satisfaction."Thanks Big guy, But we're not done here, Tower 7 needs more bodies, Meghan, Mikey, You two go!" he hollered at the pair of Yetis, The two gingerly made their way towards Terry before all 3 set off.Cas sighed and turned his attention towards Monitor 6, The recreation room, It was in shambles, The initial crew had seemed it low priority due to numerous labs, Cafeteria and Restrooms that needed to be renovated or Added unto the facility.'Nearly four months of work ruined by that bastard!' Cas grimaced, the face of the Smiling Golden man popped into his head, He banished the Evil entity from his thoughts with a shake of his head. He then turned his attention towards Monitor 5 and 2, The ones showing the edge of the Complex.The
The Search for Xanar Ice Eater
Cece studied the piece of tissue through her microscope, The bond of the cells looked strong, stable.... promising, half of them at least, the others had fues long before, expected given it was a few hours old already, she took a deep breath, reaching over to the test tube on her left."..... no not you..." she frowned having accidentally grabbed her Thermostat, "Might as well take some," she yawned, sipping her black coffee with a squeeze of lime in it.'Disgusting.....' The spectral succubus muttered, 'The more I learn about you, the creepier you seem...' Ella swore under her breath.Cece ignored her.She searched for the test tube, the green coloured fluid, Growing strong, Dr Stabler had called it, She grabbed it from it, drew a small amount, and drop it unto the tissue sample.The regeneration process initiated, the dead cells were being outnumbered by the healthy ones.'It's not gonna work Cece....' Ella chuckled, 'You're wasting your time doll!'Cece bit her lip but ignored her.
The Search for Xanar Chatter
'Gone out, Needed to clear my head.... we'll talk.... really talk when I get back, Love, Cece.'Cas sighed as he finished reading the note, His Shift finally over from manning the comms.He jumped on his bed and closed his eyes, trying desperately to ease himself to sleep.... but whenever he closed his eyes, all he heard was laughter.The Golden man with rubies for eyes Toyed with Cas, Toyed with Cece, Toyed with everyone within this base.Yet what bothered him most of all.... was the look Cece gave Zebediah.... "Who am I kidding? I want revenge on the bastard too! but..." He stared at his stump, "But first things first.... we need to do something about this...."He thought of getting a bionical arm.... but immediately banished the thought, 'Metal arms.... too much on maintenance, I could learn over time but I just... don't.... want to!' He thought of grafting another arm? Perhaps before his brain forget how his left arm worked? '.... but I doubt Zebediah was kind enough to spare th
The Search for Xanar Cold Certainty
Cecelia Grimes ran for her life!It wasn't a graceful run nor were the steps calculated, It was a mad, desperate, relentless dash for safety! Her haste only quickened everytime the ground shook.She fell, Finally her missteps got the better of her, she landed face first into the mound of snow.She desperately got back up, nearly tripping in the process, She turned back momentarily and instantly regretted it."Sweet Jesus!" She screamed and darted off once again.'Oh doll!' Ella mused, 'Now this.... this is what I was hoping on seeing, That Fear, that desperation.... it was almost worth the wait!'"Go screw yourself, on second thought go die!" Cece snarled so hard, spittle trickled down her lips. She flew just close enough to whisper into Cece's ear, 'You wound me doll.... all I'm doing is offering some support, some morale....' She cackled.Cece would like to deck her, would like to strangle her.... but Her priority was getting to safety, besides Ella was nothing but a mere projectio
The Search for Xanar Tomb
The way forward was dark, depressing... the only semblance of light were the pale green lanterns that illuminated the path ahead.Every now and then, Cas and Melissa would come across a couple of staff moving things to and fro the basement but that happened only so often.It was quiet, Cold so.... cold, Not so much the temperature no.... this was the sort of coldness one experienced when being watched, Cas occasionally looked over his shoulder to reassure himself nothing was waiting to jump them in the dark.But nothing and no one did such, The staff members didn't bat Cas an eye and Melissa didn't seem as jittery as Cas was.'Infact she's been eerily quiet since we got here.... why?' He studied her face, She looked listless and bored, She craned her neck a bit and met his gaze.Her hollow yellow eyes, bored right into his soul, 'Okay that's exaggerating a bit but still, she's acting kinda creepy!'"Are we getting closer?" Cas finally spoke."......" Melissa continued to gaze right at
The Search for Xanar Lixian
There was a roar in the air, Like the sound of a Car engine, It echoed all round the Dusty, Snowy fields.A Golden light illuminated the world around them, The light caused the Beast and Cece to recoil back, Shielding their eyes from the heavenly like glow.Cece could smell Fire and Sulphur in the air, She looked around her and saw the mounds of snow melting away, From Ice to Water to steam, She felt the heat pulsating from her skin and sweat rolling off her back.The beast growled and hissed in indignation, it backed away slowly from the light, Cece saw it's form melting away, the slow back steps quickly became large leaps backwards.The light slowly dulled in colour, Just enough for Cece to witness the transformation occuring within the fire.She saw small creatures, the size of fairies, Coated in Fire and metal, There were 4 of them, all hammering away at a piece of metal, Everytime they struck the metal with their tools, It grew larger and the light surrounding them grew duller.E
The Search for Xanar Legacy begins!
Cas raced past the piles of bodies littered about the hallway, He smelt hot iron and Sulphur in the air, It was thick, like standing near a furnace, And it was everywhere, He found scorch marks on the walls, Melted ice and shattered glass mingled along the bodies Castor ran past.He held his blaster in his right hand and.... nothing in his left, he cursed, using the anger from losing his arm to charge onward, He ducked under a pillar that had fallen over and lunged over a gap in the ground, And made his way over to where the screaming was loudest.He met Burning men, Helpless souls wailing about blindly, Some tried reaching out to him, To grab him, "Help me! Oh God help me!" They screamed, Cas bit his lips, and moved past them, Turning a blind eye to their pleading."I'm sorry...." He muttered, as he continued onward, He caught a glimpse of a familiar face, "Vince!" He cried out, As he gained in on him.Vince, was firing his blaster at a couple of shadowy figures, Cas heard them hiss
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Interlude- The price of honour
Barker Griffin hated humans. Not out of a sense of entitlement, like many of his fellow Lycans. Nor out of some misguided religious or social belief their existence violated, which was also fairly popular as sources of anti-human sentiment went on in the Holton's Keep. No, his own hatred came from anger, and that anger came from the very natural fear of what humans ultimately were. All forms of government, all Clans and Packs were based on the monopoly of force; what would then happen to every government in the supernatural world when a race as selfish as humans got enough power to rival them? His ancestors had scoffed at the idea, 'Those hairless apes? Overthrow us!?' They might have laughed, But Barker.... their descendants.... are not laughing now.Of course, not all humans are as unstable as the scum that hunted his people, He had met a few 'good' ones over the years but at the end of the day, When cornered, when the going gets tough, They break, they lash out and they hurt.... t
Gamble.....
Cas just kept fighting!And bloody well he fought, for that Crusty old bastard Dylan brought wave upon wave of those horrors down upon them, At his rear he could hear that dirty woman laugh maniacally while every now and then, Making off hand jokes about what she did to her last lover.Banner on the other hand, he finally found his rhythm after so many tries, One of which cost him a few fingers, 'Must be used to others fighting for his sake and not the other way round...' Cas decided.He ducked to the left, A horror made of pulsating grey tentacles with 13 different wings of thirteen different colours blitz past him, somehow, Cas knew in his heart of hearts, Dylan was Sandbagging them, 'Cuz there's no way we'd be able to survive these things!' He thought as he slashed at one of it's wings.He didn't know for certain, he wasn't sure how the rules of enhanced and the like worked, but a small part of him, a tiny part of him was sure the only reason he's able to react to the onslaught of
Ties that bind
She saw a couple of the fleshy grey ones a few hundred metres to her left..... to Splitter's left that is, a massive pink was approximately 200 metres behind them, barrelling down with murderous intent, it was the size of a radio tower, It's hounded after them with such ferocity that-"Cece?" A mousey voice said, Cecelia jumped."DON'T DO THAT!" Cece snapped at her friend."S-Sorry!" Lucy quickly muttered, "I.... I just wanted to tell you Julie is starting to stir,""Oh.... could you continue to look after her? Sorry, Keeping track with Oculus is a bit more task inducing than I thought!" She said as she rubbed the sid effect the Oculus.Cece was certain the ship was capable of piloting itself, even as it was far away from it's master, her brother Cas, But.... here in the in-between, It's home domain, She could feel faintly, a beastial desire to pulverize their pursuers, worse, she could feel it gradually overtaking her, it took most of her willpower to fight those urges away, 'I need
I hate it here
The Tainted son cursed as his meal darted away, startled by the sound of Hell beasts fighting near a tar pool, He shifted his gaze squarely on his the foolish intruders, A Crimson tailed Scorpio Bat and a Laughing lizard, The draconian horror clamped it's black razor sharp teeth on one of the Bat's membrane wings.The titanic beasts, the bat the size of a horse and the Lizard the size of an elephant rumbled near the noir lake that stretched throughout the Forsaken King's Valley.The Bat gave out a deathly wail as the Scaly beast ripped apart more of it's wing, Blood as black as night spilled from the Bat, in a desperate attempt to escape it's aggressor, The bat used the Crimson stinger at the end of it's purple body to strike the Laughing Lizard.... who fkr it's part simply just laughed!Each time the Tainted son heard the beasts howl in their unnatural sounds of glee, He cringed, it was what he imagined Tasmanian devils would sound like if they *could* laugh, A hoarse, scratching so
Star Gazer
She swerved to the left just in time to crush a Hellspawn under her Van, "Cece! Watch it you-" Lucy was saying but Cece simply shook her head."I think it's impossible to be careful under this conditions Kiddo!" She said as she rammed another Hellspawn with the van, The creature clung to the windscreen trying desperately to stab into the vehicle, Cece shook him off with a well timed stop, The creature rolled and came to a stop, It was promptly finished off by Creeper with a gun."But your condition!" Lucy protested."We'll figure something out! I know I'm not right but C'mon! We don't much options here!" She started the engine again and continued on her path to her brother."I hope.... you know what you're doing...." Lucy muttered."That's the thing kiddo.... I totally don't!" Cece cackled as she ran over another Hellspawn, It gave a rather satisfying CRUNCH as it's head was reduced to a bloody pulp.From the corner of her eye, she saw Lucy's face turn pale, "look kiddo-""Get down!"
A Dream that must never come!
He knew something was wrong the moment he heard the music.....It was soft, it was on the Angelic side whilst having a twinge of darker themes, A mix between Soul and Gospel rock, Cas heard it, So did Sally and Banner from the looks of it.Their men seemed confused as well as many of them looked around fir the source of the music but nothing, It had no source nor direction, As though.... "It's all in our head...." Cas muttered."What?" Sally snapped, Glaring at Cas, "What are you on about?""He's saying the song is all in our head, I think that's mighty obvious Missy," Banner spoke.Sally gave him the most blood curdling glare Cas had ever seen in his life.... well not really, He'd seen far scarier things on his journey so far, but there was something shouting the mundane human giving such an unnatural glare that sent chills down his spine."I'm not anyone's missy! The next time you call me that-""What are they doing?" Cas interrupted pointing at the Saints.The small party seemed be
Intetlude- A Soulsinger is born
The ceremony had always been a big event in our town. While the youth turned 18 on different days and received their divine blessing, they first revealed it to others during the Ceremony of Revelation. It had been a custom for many families to actually never call forth the summon before the Ceremony, while others would only call it in private chambers away from curious eyes.And so one week before the big event the town began preparing. Craftsmen erected a stage in the middle of the town square with a pyramid on which the young adult would stand and reveal what the soul formed from the godly power it was bestowed with. It was most common to find people being able to summon tools of their craft if they already had set foot on that path. Be it a sword, a pen filled with unlimited ink or a farming tool, the townsfolk usually tried to teach their children in ways that they would manifest what would help them in the family business. Well, except some of the scholars, they usually tried the
Acolyte.
Cece thought hard about the events of the past hour as she set a course to her brother's location, Lucy, Julie and their new Friend Creeper sat beside her in the White van they had secured during their mission, they split up from Julie's crew, the rest of her people kept their new bases secure, as well as hunted for any more working vehicles in the area.Coco sat on Lucy's lap, The Little ball of fur played with The mousey girl's hand as she tried to give her belly rubs.In the back of the Van in a glassy container sat Creeper's prisoner, Belfast, The creepy little Abomination squirmed with displeasure as he eyed his surroundings menacingly, J.J eyed him back, Snarling at the Spectral Creature.Cece didn't quite know why she was so..... jittery, She stared the Car as best she could through the ruined city, trying her best not to go there.... go to the dark corners of her mind, The ones that showed her images of her brother in a tortured state or even worse.... 'No.... Cas isnt dead,
Hatchback
"BANNER!" Cas yelled, a little louder than he expected.... didn't matter, "We need to talk, NOW!" He added.The gathering went silent now, all eyes on him as he strode towards the bewildered giant, "Is there an issue my boy?" Banner asked, his tone slightly irritated despite the gentle look on his face.Cas muttered one word, "Thatch...." he had never seen such flurry of emotion take over a man, First confusion, then realization, next was fear, then..... hate, 'Right.... the Golden bastard screwed over his ancestors centuries ago,' Cas recalled the brief talk they had about Zebediah Thatch inside Dark Circus.Banner turned towards one of his subordinates, "Tend to the flames.... do not charr them!" He warned, The poor fella's face turned pale but he nodded vigorously as he took over the grill.Banner gestured and the two men made their way to a secluded area, From the corner of his eye, Cas noticed Sally get up and stride towards them, "Wait! What's this about!" She yelled, they didn'
