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The Search for Xanar Interlude- Crypt
He paced back and forth within the studio apartment, every so often, The man in the gray suit would put his fingers in a rectangular like pattern and view his environment through that fictional lense.He continued over, Taking note of how spotless the apartment was, 'Did they do a clean up afterwards? No! If staying discrete was the plan, Billy's body wouldn't be left here...'The man finally crouched over and inspected the body in front of him, Young male, naked as the day he was born, he was in he his early 30s, Maybe 34 at most, He had long blonde hair tied into a ponytail, A pair of ghastly green eyes and his skin was as pale as milk.The man frowned, "Imp!" He cried, pinching his nose, he signaled for a pair of googles, The short, stout blue skinned man walked over and threw the gloves at the man's face."You...." The man sighed, "What's your problem?""Why did you take this case?" the imp growled, he put his gnarled hands into his thick black coat and spat on the tiled floor, B
The Search for Xanar Interlude- broken little thing
Within the darkest parts of E-666 lay a gothic castle shaped like laughing skull, A smoldering bastard of Magic and Science, A wonder of the darkest minds and home to the nastiest Criminals in all the multiverse.It houses 6897 guests, In a cold grey hall, in a section of the facility, a bored Gargoyle guard hung from his favourite ledge, Leisurely surveying his Assigned prisoners.Pit pat.Pit Pat.Pit Pat.Gregor's ears perked up at the rhythmic sound coming from the cell at the end of the hall.The Gargoyle lurched over, watching intently from it's position, he thought whether to alert his brethren, or his master or investigate by himself.'If something is going on.... I need to act now!' The stone creature thought, with a deep gutteral growl, he stretched his wings, his body slowly transformed from it's hard stoney composition to something lighter, slicker.His limbs were still Oversized, Overstocked weapons, His back hunched over and his Claws, Horns and squashed demonic face pre
The Search for Xanar A taste for what's to come
She gently kissed her brother's head as he laid still on top their bed.She surrounded him with mint herb and made a mixture of Cinnamon and Honey, To aid with his condition, One of the few good things that woman had thought her growing up.She fidgeted and sighed, she alternated between checking his temperature, squeezing his hand and adjusting his blanket, anything to keep Her baby brother comfortable.She hated seeing him like this, So helpless and weak, It reminded her of how vulnerable he was truly, 'what were you thinking Cas!?' She wanted to scream at him, to punch him, to slap him, She wanted to cry, to break down, to crumble under it all....She hadn't slept a wink in almost 2 days, Half after seeing her brother in such a deplorable state and Half because of Renga's gift, She absently stroked the little red book, what would she see in her dreams if she did? Would she see that woman again?"He'll be fine, stop torturing yourself Cecelia," A voice said, Cece cringed, She had to
The Search for Xanar Guests
"I wonder what she's dreaming about?" Josie said.Cas stroked his sister's head, beads of sweat rolled off her forehead, "How long has she been out? How.... long have I been out?""Barely 4 hours for her, Almost 3 days for you...."'3 days? Cece gonna be pissed!' He thought, he wasn't ready to face whatever backlash was waiting for him when she inevitably wakes up.Cece groaned, her face contorted into a mixture of fear, anger, excitement and disgust, Cas stroked her head again to calm her."Did she.... have this when you met her?" He ran his finger through her eye patch."She did...."Cas sighed, "What happened after I passed out.... please, I need to know,"Josie squeezed his hand, "Well.... firstly, Landing your ship was the order of the day, I didn't have the same bond with it as you so piloting the vessel was outta the question, Thankfully I didn't need to, It took us back to the Bog people's village, They helped me in healing you.... honestly you gave me quite the scare!" She p
The Search for Xanar Real Deal
No sooner had they entered the study had the hostility been laid bare.Gastard sat in his black skull shaped chair, His eyes were as cold as the chair he sat on, His jaw clenched and a vein visibly popping from his temple, His butler, The lizard man Arthur was standing behind him, The reptile seemed disinterested and stared off into space.Josephine was sitting next to him, She had a glass of wine in hand, She gave a sad smile when her eyes met the twins, Cas nodded in response while Cece gave her a tight smile in return.'Bitch!' Cece thought, as though reading her mind, The smile died away instantly from Josephine's face.Cece took notice of the other parties present, Father Corbin, Cassandra and some soldiers who fought during siege, Some Lavishly dressed folks were there as well, Cece figured they were Nobles or Something along those lines.Their expressions varied from Awe to Wariness to Disgust, Cece figured either because of their identity as Necromancers or how 'Bland' Their a
The Search for Xanar A portion
Cas flipped through the book Josie gifted him, It was ancient, A worm out silver cover with the pages so brown it amazed him he could see the words at all, It smelt like sawdust and it was as heavy as a bowling ball.He rested it on his legs and muttered, "An Encyclopedia in Arch Draconia" According to Josie, it was a gift from her late Father, She mentioned Cas reminding him of her, 'Not that I care all that much,' He sighed and set it on the table.".... she's just bribing you, You know that right? Not that I'm one to talk," Cece tempered the silvery rod in her possession, The staff of Asclepius, Josie had insisted on gifting it to Cece, much to Gastard's dismay, "Maybe...." She muttered, biting her lips."When are gonna stop giving her flack? Seriously it's just irritating now,"Cece scoffed, "When she- look it doesn't matter okay? Let's just go,""It does matter! She might not be the only version of Mom we ever meet Cece.... And she's Nice at that, Are you gonna everyone of them
The Search for Xanar Kindred spirit
'Run Cece Run!' She screamed in her mind, She tried grabbing her brother's shoulder and taking him with her, Perhaps if they started now they'll-Her arm was still at her side, Her legs still stationary and worst of all, There were wrinkles creeping up her face.'I'm..... smiling why?' She couldn't comprehend it, Every fibre of her being was telling her this person, This Thatch was dangerous, his smile, His presence, even his eyes felt wrong, They were wrong!'So get your brother and Run!' She did nothing."A pleasure to meet you Sir!" Cas bowed, Cece followed suit and curtsied, The action shook her deeply, She'd never curtsied to anyone in her entire life, much less someone she feared on an instinctual level.She swallowed, "Mr Thatch, are you the supervisor of this facility?" Cece tried gauging his reaction, Perhaps her fears are simply unfounded, Misplaced, Perhaps-"Oh no! I'm no such thing.... merely a Visitor, I heard how lovely this establishment was, Famous for it's Cafeteria,
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
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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'
