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The Search for Xanar Taint
The world was in stasis....A frozen, static void.... Cece stepped outta the Med bay and found herself in darkness, complete and absolute darkness, "Jeez...." she muttered under her breath, taking deep breaths and a swallow, she moved onward.She could feel something beneath her, not the ordinary floors of the facility no.... this was wet, mush.... like a fleshy blob, worse it was moving, almost breathing, Cece cursed under her breath, "I should've brought my bow with me maybe I'd be able to see better.... on second thought, do I really wanna see where I'm going?" She sighed.Cece itched at her eye, "Ella? You still here?" She cried.'Right beside you doll...' the Demoness cooed, Cece turned left to meet her gaze but could barely see her Blood red eyes in this darkness, They were narrowed, but not from anger or irritation, Mirth? Joy? Exhalation? "What..... is this place?" Cece asked.'This my Doll..... is your Centre!'Cece raised a brow, "My Centre?"The glowing eyes closed for a m
The Search for Xanar Forgotten.
"What do you got there?" Castor asked, he peeked over Lucy's shoulder, "I think anything of value is probably long gone..."The mousey girl shook her head, "I k-k-know! but it won't hurt to still check! it's the Legacy.... they have to have some toys with them!" she licked her lips.'You know you look creepy when you do that?' he groaned but held his tongue.The mousey girl dug through the remains of the Stormbreaker's thralls, the vile things were littered all over the place, She searched their wrists for communicators or jewelry, their necks for translator collars , their feet for quick boots.... She came up with jack squat! "There's nothing here Lucy.... let's figure out a way outta this place, we fell pretty far down after all, wait how didn't break something on your way down here!? not that I'm disappointed but Jesus! that's almost a 20 foot drop!" he snapped.Lucy giggled, "Our friend over there took most of the impact," she pointed at the abhorrent abomination that had become
The Search for Xanar Jailbreak
He swatted the Succubus away with ease as he barreled over to Cecelia, she for her part shoved one of Gastard's guards in her path, the two collided giving Cece enough time to scramble away.Cece glanced over and saw Ella trapped beneath a bunch of Book shelves, she cursed under her breath.Her past self, as well as the other images present looked on in astonishment, "Can I borrow this for a moment sweetie?~" Cece snatched her bow from her past self as she blew her a kiss, "Wha-" her past self was saying until the world around them began to shake.'Cecelia! give it back to her!' Ella screamed."I need a weapon!" She retorted as started firing arrows at the Fallen rising to it's feet.'Fool! don't alter the memories too much! You do that, you cut parts of yourself away!' Ella hissed as she pushed some shelves off her.Cece ignored the succubus and continued firing her arrows at the approaching Fallen, the creature braved through the onslaught of arrows, swinging it's mace about in unho
The Search for Xanar Cat and Mouse
"Most of this stuff..." Cas trailed off, he flipped some switches while speaking over the radio, ".....is dead as a door nail, The lights don't work, the fan don't work, I mean it's expected given how old this stuff is but I'm still a bit disappointed." Cas finished."....Understood, Send your coordinates to Me ASAP, I'll come to you with a small team, perhaps we could relay this to Lady Eureka, Congrats Rookie, You might get promoted!" The booming voice of Vince the orc said over the radio."We.... we might get promoted!" Lucy piped up, Cas rolled his eyes, "Sure, we might get promoted," He sighed."Ye-Yeah! maybe we'll even get you access to those Fairies too!" She pointed at his stump.Cas frowned, "Yeah....." Lucy fidgeted, "S-Sorry, I forget sometimes...." She hung her head.Cas sighed and continued on with his inspection, He looked over the room and his eyes fell on the Massive Coffin like object again, "What do you think is inside?" he turned to Lucy."Ah.... a body?" She shrug
The Search for Xanar Reflections
Ella cackled!The Demoness laughed so hard her face turned red, then she stopped and continued laughing again, then stopped then laughed again, She did this for over a minute until Cece snapped at her, "Shut up!" 'What Dooooolllll? We're finished no matter what you say, I for one would like to spend my time here as Cheerful as possible!'"If you're not gonna help then shut the hell up! Your laugh is flipping pissing me off!" Cece hissed, The Demoness continued laughing though.'The Smiling Man, The Haunted Prince and The Lord of the Broken Sea made their way to Dalusere, One died on the way over, Another was claimed by his former victims.... the last made it over but was greeted only by ashes.... He cried and cursed and fell into a despair, He remained that way for days.... for weeks.... for years.... Why didn't he go home I wonder? what kept him in the ruins of Dalusere? A city he only knew through the tales of travelers?' The Guardian had asked Cece.She bit her lips and looked dow
The Search for Xanar Karl's Folk
"We're supposed to pick up our guy at the Chariot, Kelvin said he's from good stock, knows his shit! Passed all the tests with flying colours...." Cas explained."But.....?" Cece croaked, drinking some tea to clear her throat."..... Well," Lucy squeaked, she open her mouth and closed it, looking away from the twins."Spill it.... I mean talk to me," Cece sighed, noticing the the Mousey girl's tension."Well.... after, after the whole invasion, Lady Eureka and some of the Patrons of other clans were talking about invading Ex-123, We're talking within a year tops from the sound of things.... so.... so we need a lot of Bronze hearts if we want to qualify for a spot in the invasion,""How many?" Cece asked."15..." Cas responded, "We managed to get 4 from our deal with Gastard, Lucy and I scored another 5 from finding the Wysemen's Fantasy old base, Everyone.... Every left alive got 2 from defending against the Legacy, so we got 11!" "That's good, great!""It would be but.... well," Ca
The Search for Xanar Interlude- Off Duty Cop
"I swear I saw it over there!" One of the men cried, "Creepiest shit I'd ever seen in my life! Hovering over the night sky, I think it was a UFO men!" Charles laughed, "Oh did you now? The other day you said you say.... what was it? a Centaur Dog-Man-Thing running around the city? What next? Vampires? Werewolves?"The man cursed, "I swear I saw it! That mutt slaughtered half my people! I wasn't the only one there, We saw it, *We* all saw it!""Terry... You guys were drinking contaminated water for days, who knows what happened?" Drake muttered."It happened! I was there! we were all there! And it was real! as real as that UFO I saw tonight," Terry said fervently."Oh yeah? what did it look like?" Charles snorted."Well.... it had Faces....""Faces?" Drake raised a brow, "Like faces painted over it?" Terry shook his head, "No, Actual faces carved into it, They moved like they were alive too! The object was red, I could see that much over the moonlight, It was also shaped like a.... a
The Search for Xanar Closure...
The tension was so thick Cece felt she could cut it with her dagger, She studied the pair with mild amusement, The Latino Male Cop in his early 30s, he had short cropped hair, dark brown eyes, a faint scar over his forehead and a tiny wisp of a beard and a butt chin.The blonde man was around her age, He had shaggy long hair, Crooked teeth, Electric blue eyes and Tan skin, He wore a faded white shirt, a dusty old jean jacket, Black leather shoes and grey pants, he adjusted his crooked glasses in the moonlight and adjusted his grip on his knife nervously."Gentlemen relax...." Cece spoke, "I'm not here to make any trouble, infact depending on how talk with your boss goes, we might even be allies... friends!""Where is everyone?" The blonde man, Drake snarled. Cece scratched the back of J.J's ear and smiled deeply, The action made Charles the cop flinch slightly, "I'm Taking you to them!""Which is were?" Charles narrowed his eyes."A safe place....""This was a safe place!" Drake
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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'
