Marcus Triun - Part 51, The Mirgun

"Do you see anything suspicious Mabel?" Samuel asked.
"Nothing since five seconds ago, stop asking you coward." Mabel said.
 Mabel, an elite Witch Hunter, took her colleague Samuel with her on a patrol.
Mabel, a woman with a strong believe for justice and striving for her honour and pride.
Her long blonde hair , green eyes and cute face didn't show anything of her true image.
A dangerous enemy, but powerful ally.
On the other hand, her colleague that went with the name of Samuel, was cut out of different wood.
He was more a shady background person.
He didn't like to be in the center of attention, neither did he care about honour or pride. Although he did care about the Witch Hunter's pride.
Normally Samuel would be focussing on paperwork, but because of the short amount of people around the Arishalore Witch Hunter headquarters, Samuel had to help Mabel on her daily routine.
Samuel had an average body.
Not too muscular or too fat. Just so - so.
He wasn't used to fighting, and you most definitly could see that because of his arms.
His long dark red hair covered his upperface and his lowerface was covered by his shirt, that whirled up as somekind of wrap.
He held his flintlock tightly in his hands, as if any moment a monster could jump out of the bushes, not that that would happen though. "You're such a wuss Samuel." Mabel snickered.
Samuel shrugged. " Atleast I'm not as careless as you are ! Remember when that Ayakashi sneaked up on you because you weren't paying attention !?" Samuel said.
"You know that wasn't an Ayakashi, but a fox, and I can hardly forget it since it happened some minutes ago." Mabel said, frowning one of her eyebrows.
 "I know ! But what IF it was an Ayakashi? You would've been taken by surprise , and you wouldn't be here anymore !" Samuel shouted.
"You're overexaggerating, calm your panties and just move on. I like to have this done before midnight if you please. Wuss." Mabel snickered and turned her head towards Samuel to show him one of her rare smiles.
Samuel whistled quickly, on a high pitch . It meant he had found something.
Mabel frowned her eyebrow and quickly ran towards Samuel.
"Look at these markings, I've never seen them before." Samuel said, pointing at several trees near each other.
The markings looked like somekind of clock perhaps? No, a circle with two stripes? Unsure what it meant.
Mabel walked closer to it , grabbed her flintlock from her belt and held it close to her.
"Whatever it is or was, it left it's track on the ground. Footprints I presume, they're not human, but at the same time I can't think of an animal or creature that has these kind of footprints." Samuel said, crouched on the ground inspecting the prints.
"Strange, I've been walking this daily routine for a very long time now and even I have never seen this. How long ago do you think "it" has walked past here?" Mabel asked.
"Hum, very frequently I recon. The prints are still fresh. "It" is probably more then ten minutes ahead of us?" Samuel said.
"Let's make haste then and find out if this thing a friend or an enemy is." Mabel said.
They both ran as fast as they could, and at the same time as silently as they could, following the tracks of the creature that had been snooping around here.
Left, right , left and left again.
The creature was obviously making a run for it, it was zigzagging through the whole wood.
Samuel and Mabel ended up in an open space, where no trees were standing.
 The bright light from the sun was shining on Mabel's face. Probably one o' clock now.
"Mabel, it is a dead end. The track seems to stop here."
"Darn it, just as I thought --" Mabel stopped talking in the middle of her sentence.
Samuel was positioning himself to say something but Mabel held her hand up. She slowly walked to a near bush, slowly and carefully .
She aimed with her flintlock and shot off three bullets, one after another. Her reloading abilities were amazing, but what else would you expect from an elite Witch Hunter?
She sighed, obviously relieved nothing was in there.
"Did you find anything?" Someone asked.
"Not really Samuel, what about --" That wasn't Samuel's voice , Mabel just noticed. In just a matter of seconds she quickly turned around aiming directly in front of her.
When she turned around, she was looking towards a face. A human, no , not a human face.
She couldn't comprehend what kind of race or species it was.
Mabel blinked and directly started shooting in front of her. The creature was gone, did she hallucinate it? Probably a lack of sleep, she thought.
"Samuel , where are y--" Samuel was lying on the ground.
Mabel's heart suddenly started to pound very quickly, and fear became master of her mind. She quickly ran over to Samuel and held her ear on his heart. Still beating, she let out a sigh of relieve.
So she isn't alone here, her sixth sense took over and she focused on her surroundings.
"Who or whatever you are, come out now and surrender ! " She yelled with confidence.
She ran to where she first encountered the creature.
"Turn around, no sudden moves and drop your device." A voice said.
Mabel slowly turned around and saw the creature was holding Samuel, and she directly dropped her flintlock. She held her hands up in the air and asked "Now tell me who and what you are." The body from the creature was covered by Samuel, as the creature held him as a human shield. She noticed the creature was holding a small knife against Samuel's neck. "My name is Logibein, I'm Mirgun." Mirgun, where did she hear that before? She remembered.
The Mirgun were a proud race, once walking the land of Arishalore. However, they were banished in the second great war to the underground. Mirgun were like humans, but a little bit shorter, faster and stronger. They had pointy ears and they could travel in time. Just for a second though, but it was just enough for them to warp from one place to another, that's why they were often mistaken for travelers. "Easy there, drop the knife, we mean you no harm ! " Mabel said.
"No harm you say, your badge says otherwise. You filthy Witch Hunters are hunting on us, killing our people. I'd wonder what you would do if I did the same to one of your people." Logibein said. "No ! Don't, please ! We're not the badguys! " Mabel screamed. "That's what they all say, leave now and don't come back. You'll regret it, take this human with you, have a nice day." And he vanished, and then she could hear him walking in the very far distance. Samuel fell with noise on the ground. She quickly ran towards Samuel, which was still unconcious. She would set up camp here, she couldn't let him alone here and she wasn't strong enough to either carry him.
Logibein huh? I'm going to remember that Mirgun, she thought.

Marcus Triun - Part 50

"I'm done." Cucurion said. The blind seer, Ankhet turned to the direction where the young man was speaking. He pulled up one of his eyebrows. "Done with what?" He asked. "Just with all of this, this crew thing is nothing for me. I want my revenge right now, not waiting another two years for Akastria's sake. We went all the way over here to find some other fool just because a seer tells us to do so!" Cucurion blasted out. "You had something better planned then?" Volfram said while he walked out of the door, towards Cucurion. "Do you really think we can stop Marcus, no wait, the whole Ayakashi army with some physical strength?! Are you that blind? Grow a pair of balls kid and use your damned mind. You don't have one for not using it. " Volfram said. Cucurion grumbled something and sat down on the sand. "How is he doing?" Ankhet asked to break the silence. Volfram grabbed a small satchel from his belt, opened it and put it to his mouth to let the cold water flow in his mouth. Volfram swallowed and said :" Honestly, I don't know how he's doing. I think his mental condition is getting worse of what has happened with him. Those Gubh - Liunk ... I thought they were extinct?" "So that's how those creatures were called ... Interesting." Cucurion said. The blind seer didn't reply, he was staring towards the sun. Weird, like he knew where he was looking at eventhough he was blind. Up at the horizon, where the sun was shining, a figure appeared. A small figure. A person? It was a girl, a young one. Maybe sixteen or seventeen. Cucurion directly focused all his attention on the girl , Volfram noticed and directly glanced towards Cucurion. Fits. After the girl, others followed. And within moments of seconds the whole town was surrounded around the house, they must've heard the ruckus and went for a sneak - peek to find out what was going on. The girl that walked up front confronted the blind seer. "What happened !?" Ingia asked. Ankhet didn't reply, he whistled and his crow came back to lean on his shoulder. He turned around and walked inside the house. Ingia glared towards the seer. Strange one that is. She ran towards Volfram to ask the same thing, but just before she could he held his indexfinger towards his lips as a : Ssht. I know what you want to ask, I'll explain later. She understood and sat down next to Cucurion. Volfram took another large sip from the satchel and attached it back to his belt. Here goes nothing. The crowd was there and Volfram took out his Witch Hunter badge. "It's all right people , calm down ! I've started an investigation around the house and we had some argueing but we've all sorted it out now!" A random man, proposably because of his heavy voice, said :" That good for nothing Mortem 'aye ! What did you Witch Hunter's take so long?". Volfram directioned his eyesight to the man. He could see the direct terror in his eyes, afraid for the mysterious Witch Hunter's. Their headquarters were after all stationed in Niarlore, and this part of Safilore was just on a grid next to Niarlore. Very close to their headquarters. "I could ask you the same thing. Why didn't you people inform us earlier about incidents that happened earlier? Otherwise you wouldn't have been so negative about the boy, am I correct?" Volfram asked. The man nodded thoughtfully and stepped back into the crowd. "Any more questions?" All hands went up into the air, people were screaming all their questions up and down. "No questions? Good." Volfram said and blindly ignored the big crowd asking all sorts of questions and nodded to the two to enter the house. They went inside and Volfram closed the door behind them. After several minutes the crowd left. That day the boy woke up now and then, asking for something to drink or to eat. He was getting ill. He had a terrible fever, and this would slow the group down. Cucurion and Volfram cleaned up the bodies from the Gubh - Liunk earlier that day and had cleaned up the house. Ingia was sitting next to her ill friend all day, everytime he woke up and asked for something she would fetch it for him. So caresome. Volfram sighed. He opened the door and walked outside, it was night and the full moon was shining bright. Darn it, today I could've been werewolf hunting he thought. He sighed even deeper. He pulled out a pipe from his belt and searched for the small box filled with tobacco. He filled the pipe with some tobacco and lightened it up with the campfire Cucurion had made. He then inhaled the pipe and puffed it out again. Volfram sat down before the campfire and looked over to his left. He could see a shade going up and down. It was Cucurion doing his night workout. Push ups, sit ups, sword fighting, archery . You name it. Later that evening Cucurion passed by to apologize for his behaviour earlier that day, he went inside to catch up some sleep. They had some rough nights after trying to track Mortem down. Sometime later the tobacco in the pipe was all smoked up and Volfram returned his pipe onto his belt. He slowly started to lie down on his back, watching the stars. And after sometime, he fell asleep.

Marcus Triun - Part 49 ( Marcus/Xylus)

Daemon started to charge towards me, I stood still and held up my sheathed sword to block off the claw attack. The attack was so powerful , Daemon's claws had carved their way into the sheath which made him get stuck. I pulled out my sword from the sheath and kicked Daemon backwards. Daemon's reflexes were fast enough to jump back before my leg would hit him, so he did and I missed. I had to regain my balance and stood steady again with my sword. I threw my helmet off, and slowly walked towards his direction. Daemon held his arms behind his back and returned them with two daggers. Each in one hand. Daemon then quickly started to charge again and he threw both the daggers towards me. I sidestepped to evade one and parried the other one with my sword, still walking towards his direction. Then I stopped at a certain distance, probably fifteen metres away from him and held my sword tight with both my hands. Daemon was slowly walking circles around me. Then he charged, so fast almost like a flash for normal people. I , on the other hand, saw it coming and I jumped to the right, held my left elbow high up the sky and smashed him with my full weight on his back with my elbow. With the power of the blow I pushed myself up , by pushing him down. I was standing steady again, swinged my sword three times in the air and held it steady again. Daemon on the other hand, fell with his body onto the ground and with the double impact from me he even fell harder. He had some trouble getting up, but he still managed to do so. He was angry , you could obviously see that. He then started to laugh, and slowly he was transforming into his real form. A Devil. His body turned all black and his eyes reddier then pure blood. His long white hair was now grown back to a spiky mop of white hair. His body muscles had grown so big, his body armour was crackling of the amount of mass power that was covered underneath it. The chestpiece broke, and Daemon's claws started to grow. He glided up the air and went towards me, he struck me too fast with one of his claws. I had to walk one step backwards. Our faces were covering the opposite directions, side by side. I could see him smile, and then he started to pull in his other claw, other one out, other one in and so on. He kept on charging my body with his claws leaving holes in front and in the back of my body and held me up the sky and threw me towards one of the castle walls. Some blood was slowly pouring down my Demic armour. I had dropped my sword near him, and I slowly started to stand up again. I grinned. I barely felt the pain. Daemon held his claws up in the air, like a X, held them down again to show he was ready to attack again. I slowly removed my shoulderpads and held each in one hand. I'm not going to show my full power to them yet. I must be able to defeat him without my full power. In the back of the shoulderpads there were leather straps , I pulled them over my fists, to create somekind of big two handed shield. Daemon started to run as he noticed something was happening, I stepped with one feet back and one feet forward and with all my power I started to run very fast. Daemon directly tried to stop running again, but he was too late and I had hit him with my "shield" . The blow of the shield directly stopped his running and his muscles to move, probably even breaking some of his bones, and I also had ran him over, making it hard for me to suddenly stop so I had to throw both the shoulderpads away to decrease speed. When I finally stopped I could feel the wounds in my body. Mostly my lowerbody. A mortal would've died. I turned around and saw Daemon slowly standing up, his claws inserted back into his hands and he slowly raised his fists and he turned to me to jab me. I evaded his jab, and punched him in his spine. Then giving him a low - kick which resulted in him falling onto the ground again. Then I kicked him a few times on his face , everytime when he tried to stand up I would kick him on his face. "Enough." I said. And I walked towards my sword to pick it up. "You're strong but ..." I stopped talking, I felt something burning in my left arm. When I tried to look where the source of the pain was coming from it looked like some dark solar powered stream that was coming from Daemon's mouth, it was just a matter of seconds before the stream resulted in an explosion and blew me away. I quickly stood up with my sword in both hands and turned around. Daemon's body was totally deformed. And the dark matter that surrounded him was the only thing letting him keep that body. He was obviously gliding and shooting dark beams from his mouth onto my kingdom. My minions started to notice this wasn't a battle between us anymore and they started to help take him down. Goblin archers started shooting arrows and the Hobgoblins were throwing arrows, and any moment he would come down the Ogres, Orcs and Trolls would take care of him with their clubs , swords and shields. Daemon's body was dissolving into a dark black cloud and a dark spirit reappeared. The spirit had no feet, was atleast seven metres tall and had huge hands and a terrifying face. It was screeching and dark matter was spreading all over the ground. In the heat of the moment my minions were grabbed by skeletal hands that were coming out of the grounds. They pulled them tightly onto the ground so they were stuck. Only the Hobgoblins and Goblins were save on the castle walls. The spirit was trying to absorb the souls from my minions. Enough of this. "Bor Shunk Ka." My demic armoud melted into my body and my eyes turned pure dark green. My hair turned black, very long , atleast until my back and I started to grow monsterly feet and claws. My body muscles were bigger then ever imagined , and the angelic wings I had hidden for a long time reappeared , but as Demonic, fiery wings. I flew up into the air and was charging towards the spirit. This is my Incubus form. I held both hands backwards holding my sword in my left hand, my sword was absorbing power from the moon, thanks to my absorbtion studies. Blue aura was following my sword and body as I was closing in onto the spirit, and then stabbed my sword deep into the dark matter from the spirit. The spirit screeched very loudly, and it slowly started to dissolve. More ! More ! MORE ! I drained power from other sources then only the moon, from the land my minions and from myself. The aura turned white and the spirit totally dissolved , and slowly the dark aura from the spirit recreated a body. Daemon's body. It fell lifeless onto the ground. The skeletal hands that were holding some of my minions slowly let loose of 'em and reached back for the ground. I was still flapping my wings in the air, and looking at Daemon's body. It hadn't move for sometime now and I slowly started to reach for the ground again. I grabbed his body, shredded it into two pieces . I could see his dark, rotting heart still beating. I dropped the lower part and held up the upper body part and ripped out his hart. I could see Daemon opening his eyes, and close them again. I threw the heart on the ground, held my sword high up the air and smashed it down onto the heart with all my power. As soon as I did a dark aura left the heart and flew away. To the south - east. I left the sword there, and slowly walked away towards the command center for the big fight that was coming up. "What're 'ye lazy bastards looking at? Go on, go back to your duties." And so they did.

Marcus Triun - Part 48 (Mortem Triun )

Chief Begrah took a chair from the kitchen and pulled it towards the table and went sitting on it. 'So, guards let him loose so I can freely speak to him. Guard the back and front exits.' They let loose of me, saluted the Chief and left. 'So tell me boy, why, why did you do it?' I stared at him, still fairly confused of what happened just a moment ago. 'Normally I would've brought you to the block, but you're still underaged so that option is left out.' I stood up and said 'You owe me no explanations. That women was a monstrosity ! She isn't even my real mother ! Where are my mother and father? ' The Chief stood up and said ' I beg your pardon? Are you saying to give me an explanation whilst you killed an innocent woman?' He bursted out in laughter. 'I wasn't saying anything, I was obeying you to answer me. Now. The Gubh-Liunks really exist, and that woman I just killed was one of them ! You have to believe me !' The Chief wasn't happy for me stating this. 'YOU, are obeying ME!? Are you mad !? Gubh - Liunks !? I should've never let you into this city ! ' The Chief unsheathed his scimitar, ready to cut it into me , just before the impact we heard a loud smack. Another one. A scream, and another scream. Silence. The Chief turned to the front door with his face and you could see shadows coming from underneath the door. The Chief sissed to me ' Stay right where you are.' The Chief slowly reached to the front entrance, while he was focused on the door I quickly searched for a place to hide. The Chief was almost near the front door, and then suddenly when he was before the door... Claws suddenly breached through the door and went through the Chief's body , reaching out of his back. The Chief stood there, slowly the sword fell out of his hand and he silently said ' ...F-F-l...ee..' His body was hanging onto the strange claw now. He was dead. I heard an unhumanly scream, and the door broke both on the front and in the back of the house and monstrosities started to run inside . Gubh - Liunks. They screeched and were searching for me. I had hid myself behind a rolled up rug that was against the wall and held my breath. I could see in the corner of my eye it were atleast five of them. 'Os saarh I vanIll ... Krosh Akh Iol vak ...' One of them screeched. I turned my face back to the front and suddenly there was the face of a Gubh looking at me. We were looking in each other faces for atleast 5 seconds and the monster stopped looking at me and started looking around for me again ... It... It didn't see me ? How is that ... I looked at my hands and I couldn't see them, I was invisible? No. I wasn't, I was wearing a black veil with a black robe. How did that got worn on me? I unhooded myself, and suddenly screeches came all out of the house. They had noticed me and were running towards me. Dang it ! Suddenly I could hear a loud bang and one of the monsters fell to it's death. The others directly stopped , turned around and another one got killed too with a loud bang. It's face was hit by some kind of object and totally bashed in. The monsters screeched louder and louder and I had to cover my ears to not get deaf. Three were running my way and the other two were approaching the thing that was killing them. Two Gubh's picked me up, each holding me in the air holding one of my arms, and the other one stood right before me speaking their foul tongue and trying to leech my soul out of me. No, NO! Dark energy was gathering around me, and before I knew it a Shadow Bolt gathered around my right and left hand and shot the Gubh's that were holding me away, the Dark energy absorbed their souls and entered my body. I suddenly felt immensely stronger. My powers were more enhanced, and the Gubh before me was terrified and tried to kill me with it's claws, but before it could do anything it's head exploded right before my eyes. I was all covered up in their blood. 'We finally found you ! We just came in time.' It was a Witch - Hunter, accompanied by a Seer.

Marcus / Xylus Triun - Part 47

'... Lord Xylus, the rumors are true.' my orc servant said. I was sitting on my throne in my Demic armour. My army created a big encampment deep in the forest and my castle was finally done. I held my sword close to me in my hand and I looked up to the orc servant. 'Kill this pest, and find out where he is hiding.' I said. The orc servant was frightfully looking around himself as two troll commanders barged into the throne room , picked the little fellow up and teared him into half. The louds screams from the orc did me joy, and I felt dreadfully evil again. So enjoyable. I slowly glided up in the air until I stood on my two legs. I sheathed my sword and walked towards the two troll commanders. I glided up to the left one's face and roared in his face. The troll ran away in fear and crushed through the door, fell and kept on running again. Then I turned my head to the other troll commander and I said in Grunk-Pah 'And you, tell my minions to march out to the Erekhi Mountains in Arishalore. There will the floating city off the Angels pass by and we can get on there by floating towards it from the mountains. The Blood Elves gave us alot of windflyers so this may come handy.' Grunk-Pah was the language all of the forces under my command spoke, including me. I could control my forces with the might of my brain, so if anything would go wrong there I could take control and help them. And if they manage to capture the city I'll be there to take the throne and rule fromout the sky. Plus, there is the portal to the Gods and Goddesses. The troll nodded and he ventured to the watchtower, he blew a horn and minions marched up to the main square of the encampment. It were atleast five thousand soldiers. The rest were farmers , smiths and so on. They were in no position to fight, and I had to keep a small part of my army, a thousand or so. Four thousand soldiers have to make it to the mountains in two months from now on and then we will exactly pinpoint the Angel City. I've studied the exact course of the city for a long time now, this can't possibly go wrong. '... Today, today is the day Arishalore, Niarlore and Safilore will be under our command ! In our march towards the Erekhi Mountains we we slay ANY opposing town, city or camp. We will enslave, kill them or eat them. No survivors allowed except for the slaves. Kill, or be killed... ' The troll commander said , a loud roar from all my minions could be heard. ' ... Show no mercy, no fear , show your strength. Fight in the name of our Lord Xylus, who granted us courage and strength. Lord Xylus, if I may grant you the honour ?' The troll commander said. While he was holding his speech I sneaked upon the watchtower. I slowly walked forwards, you could hear the metal of my armour rinkling and the rest was silent. I slowly walked forwards, the long white manes of my hair were shining in the moonlight. My red eyes reflected the moonlight , and my armour, so dark as the night, was almost invisible in the dark. I heard loud roaring when I came on stage , all of my minions were shouting my name. "Lord Xylus , Lord Xylus!" is what they yelled. I held my hand up in the air and yelled 'Silence !' Everything went silent and while it was ofcourse raining thunder suddenly appeared because of my shout. 'You all have to fight for yourselves. You all know how it feels to be kicked out of society, families and friends killed without a proper reason. Orcs getting killed whilst they try to communicate with Elves. Goblins trying to help humans, sword penetrated their bodies. Trolls, trying to support the Angels, getting burned to death with fire, I can give you a thousand more of examples how simple people think about us. All I ask of you, all of you, show that you all are done with it, fight for your family or friends that died in somekind of similiar way. Create your power from the angry feeling that you have inside, together we can reign this world. This dimension. After the Angels, the Humans, Elves , Gubh-Liunk , Time - Experiencers , Creatures, Witch - Hunters and so on will all fall ! All of them !' I said. Everyone roared of joy, they all agreed to my speech. 'Now GO! March to the Mountains of Arishalore , plunder everything on your way. The Kiadh animals stand ready to transport any kind of treasure, equipment or food. There is enough food of you all, now go. And don't return before the Angel City has been taken. ' They all roared again. They quickly ran to the quarters for the weapons, stables to get their Kiadh's and they made theirselves ready for the long walk to there. I felt a chill creeping up my back, what was that? I turned around very slowly and I was looking in a face that had the same hair and eyes as me. Only a different facial structure. I jabbed as an instinct to his face, it was a direct hit and the stranger flew away, from the watchtower with a dull sound on the ground. Directly more then a hundred minions ran to the stranger and picked him up and held him tight for me. I jumped from the watchtower and just before I would hit the ground I started to glide so I fell softly on the ground. I stood on my two legs again and two troll Lieutenants brought the stranger to me. I grabbed his face and held it very tight and held him up the air so I could see his face in the moonlight. '... You got one second to explain yourself.' I said. The stranger tried to smile , I could feel the muscles try to move in his face but I just held it so tight he couldn't do anything. ' ... Ssssskriuh ...' He said in a demonic dialect. Because I held his face so tight he couldn't pronounce the S very well. I started to speak in his dialect so my minions wouldn't understand it. ' What is it you seek here, brother? ' I asked. I released his face with my hand and he fell, but he had such fast reflexes that he directly glided and slowly fell to the ground. ' You . Can we speak somewhere more private? ' He asked. I slowly nodded . 'Follow me.' We went over to the barracks, my long cape was covered with dirt of all the fights and my Demic armour didn't have a single scratch on it. In Grunk - Pah I said to the guards they had to leave us two alone. They all left the building, guarding the entrances and if not, gathering everything together to move out. 'So you found out.' The stranger said. 'Found out what ?' I replied . The stranger grinned and he grabbed a chair to sit on. 'That you're Ayakashi. Your true nature revealed itself, you're not the foolish Marcus they called you. You're Xylus, heir of the throne of The Ayakashi. Currently your mother Lavto is the current queen . A succubus, to be exact. I'm her Champion, Daemon. I'm here to return you to our empire.' I slowly walked to him. The scars on my face revealed my true nature. 'You know, if you're lying to me ... You have a great problem.' I smiled at him in a sadistic way. 'And I think we can get along just fine. You see, as a champion I'm not a ordinary Ayakashi anymore. I'm a Devil.' He said. I laughed pitifully. 'You're a Devil you say ? I'm an Incubus and got the powers of a God. ' I walked to him, grabbed him at his face and squeezed his face. I could hear the bones break in his face, everything was breaking and crumbling. His skull, I was destroying it. He didn't shout , yell or scream. In fact, he seemed to rather enjoy it. I let go of him and he dropped to the ground . His whole face was bleeding and his skull had one big crack in it, his skin was just ripped open so you could see his bones and ... What the ... His face slowly started to recreate itself and his face and skull was totally rejuvenated again. He stood up and kneeled before me . 'Lavto is with me, she will defend me and heal me in any way needed. Please prince Xylus of the Ayakashi, we want you back after such a long time.' I picked him up again , dropped him before the front door and said ' Say to her I sent my regards.' I kicked him through the door outside. 'Show him outside.' But that wasn't needed, he stood up and said ' If you won't go with me, I'll have to make you ... I'm sorry, prince Xylus.' And claws came out of his knuckles ...

Marcus Triun - Part 46 ( Mortem Triun )

' ... Mortem, don't forget to get water from the waterwell today ! ' Mom said. I didn't reply, I took the bucket and went outside. My name, as you already heard, is Mortem. I live here with my mother in Safilore, I grew up with her alone.
My mother always told me I was really special since I aged alot faster then most children of my age, I'm actually just two years old but I look like a fifteen year old kid. My mother said it was in our genes, I still don't know why or how I age so quickly but that will stay a secret for sure. My body type was rather normal , just the average for a boy of fifteen. I had black hair with some with hairs in it and my left eye was red and the right one blue. My facial structure was abnormal, especially since my mother doesn't have any of these things in common with me. Anyhow, as I was walking in the sand with my bare feet I slowly but surely reached the waterwell. I suddenly dropped the bucket and I froze to the ground, my red eye suddenly started to hurt like something I've had never experienced before. The pain was unbearable, I had these kind of things before but not this bad. My chest started to glow and I pulled out my shirt to quickly see what was glowing. Some weird signs were covering up on my whole body, turning red and blue then red again and blue. It went on and on, I fell on my knees and grabbed to my stomach since that started to hurt too. I yelled for help, but ofcourse there was no one near enough since the well was deep in the desert. Then the glow changed to a white and then black light and went back into my body. The signs disappeared and so did the pain in my red eye and body. I suddenly felt something in my neck, something warm and soft, something hairy. I quickly snatched towards my neck and head with my hand, it was my hair. It had grown until my neck, I quickly ran towards the well. Darn it ! Not again ! ... I aged, I totally changed again, and again I looked older. My body structure became larger too. I just now turned sixteen, I wonder when this will finally stop. I quickly grabbed the bucket to fill it with clean fresh water. I dropped the bucket on the ground and started to wash my face with the water from the well and drank something from it. From who did I have these facial traits? Is my mother really my mother? What is my purpose on this world for crying out loud? I picked the bucket up again and quickly went home. I bashed inside and threw the bucket on the table. 'I want some answers, and I want them right now and don't lie to me , please. ' I begged. "Mom" was cleaning some vases when she suddenly dropped the cleaner. We stood there for a long time and then she finally turned around. 'I'm not really your mother, and your father still exists. But the truth is really dangerous, and I do encourage you to not beg me for the truth.' She said. I looked to the small cactus pot on the table. I looked up again and said 'If you won't tell me, I will find the truth.' Her eyes turned yellow and she changed into a monstrosity. A Gubh-Liunk. They were from old tales and used for little children to make them afraid so they would listen, but in reality they were fearful old feminine undead warriors of Safilore, who are said to be extinct. I closely looked as she changed form and two pale swords grew out of her arms. 'Time to play.' the Gubh-Liunk hissed out from her mouth. She ran at crazed speed towards me, I turned around and ran away as fast as I could. I ran on the sand and I ran and I ran until I reached The Temple of Safi. I knocked on the door as I heard the Gubh-Liunk approaching, suddenly a sense said I had to duck, and so I did. The Gubh-Liunk sliced with her two swordarms into the wooden door and she tried to get loose as she got stuck. I ran away, as fast as I could. What in Aggrash's name is going on ? I reached my house again and searched for a weapon. Weirdly enough no one was outside. It looked like a ghost village. I found a small kitchen knife in the meantime. It was nicely polished so it could cut easily through things, for example flesh. I could hear her walking and I quickly hid in the shadows. Why do they want me, who are my parents? Who am I !? . I held my breath as the Gubh-Liunk approached slowly, her face was blue and her lips , eyes and nose oversized. From her legs to feet were pretty small, to tiptoe very silently around. Her upper body was small too, but her arms ... Were massive with big blades inserted in them. Her eyes lit up in the darkness. She came closer and whispered ' Darling, I won't hurt you mentally. Show yourself, please? Do it for your mother ! ' Now was my chance ! She exposed her back to me , I quickly ran towards her and I grabbed her neck with one arm and I inserted the kitchen knife in the back of her body and ripped it totally upwards until the neck . There I pulled it out, turned the woman around and stabbed both her eyes. She fell to the ground crying and screaming in a language I couldn't understand, she sputtered for a while and then her body became lifeless and I could see a blue thing leaving her spirit. . I went over to her body to inspect it , as I did I breathed it in and I felt totally rejuvenated again, no pain and I felt stronger as ever ... How the ... I turned back again and thinking of what I did I felt tears coming up in my eyes, what happened ... I kept walking from the back of the house , to the front of the house. Now what !? What should I do now? I heard screams at the door of my house, a group of people came in running and yelling ' Murderer ! Killing his elder ! ' Elder? What were they ... I looked at the monster again, it looked like my "mother" again, but with a ripped up back and empty holes where her eyes used to be. I had the knife in my hand with blood dripping from it. This ... Is ... Impossible ... The girl who I had a crush on , Ingia , looked at me with pain . The people already knew I was a weird case especially because of my fast aging. My "mom" always told them that was because I was somekind of sorcerer and they believed that. Ingia kept looking at me , she ran away screaming for help. Two village herders, Garga and Herrud, grabbed me and threw me on the ground. Garga kicked on my wrist so I would let loose of the knife. I screamed from pain and they picked me up. 'How could you do this to your own mother, why Mortem, why!?' Garga said. I looked towards the monstrosity that was once my "mom" she looked pretty human except for the tremendous wounds I created in her body. 'I... I simply don't know anymore ... I'm so confused ... ' I replied. 'You're going to answer alot of questions from us and if you wont, you will be treated as you treated your mother. ' The Chief said from the town, he was accompanied by four royal guards with large javelins and a small shield with chainmail armour. 'We'll take it over from here Garga, leave or we are to enforce you to leave.' Chief Begrah said. Garga stepped away with his foot from my wrist and he left together with Herrud. Two guards picked me up and held my body against a table. 'You two, take the woman away. Make sure she has a beautiful spot in our graveyard, she was a great woman.' The Chief said towards the rest of the guards. The nodded and went off with "mom". I was still held by the other two guards and the Chief came near me. He grabbed a chair and started to sit on it. 'So, now you're going to listen to me ... And you will answer , if you like it or not ... '

Marcus Triun - Part 45 (Volfram)

There I was. Sitting in a corner from the Witch Hunter's hospital. After our interference with Daemon, I , Cucurion and the rest of the Witch - Hunters went to our headquarters in Niarlore. I covered my face with both my handpalms, I failed protecting the child. I'm a darned disgrace, someone had put a hand on my shoulder and I looked up. It was High Inquisitor Frugh. 'It wasn't your fault, Daemon was too strong. Too strong for all of us, he is now Lavto's champion. All we can do is to hope for the heroes to arise.' The Heroes, they didn't show up for hundreds of years and it seems the most of our generation forgot it anyhow. Frugh talked to me again ' Come, sitting here won't do you any good, will it? Let's have a little stroll.' I sighed and stood up, my whole Witch - Hunter's uniform was destroyed , my flintlock exploded in my face so my face was exposed to alot of dirt. I lost my beloved rapier in the fight, I honestly can't remember what happened to it. I lifted one arm and I tried to clean some dirt from my face with my fist. 'Volfram, do not worry. You are a strong man, stronger then the most of us. You've experienced alot of dangers and still survived after every fight, I think it's ... ' High Inquisitor Frugh got interrupted by a strange person in short clothing. I couldn't see him well since he was standing near a tree, in the rain, in the dark. I could see some kind of animal sitting on his shoulder ... Is that a crow ?! '... Time for what? This man, is greater then you can imagine. Step aside puny man, this great man is coming with me. ' The stranger said. He walked to me, a crow was sitting on his shoulder. He pointed to me ' Come with me, one of the chosen. We need you and the child.' Cucurion! How did he know about us? What did he mean with "Chosen ones" anyhow? ... Are we heroes? No ! This man must speak nonsense! 'How do you dare to interrupt me !' Said Frugh. 'I am ...' The stranger interrupted again ' ... High Inquisitor Frugh, I know. We know. And if you don't hand him over to me together with the child I have to use violence. This is for a case from life and death. Niar , Safi and Arisha shout out to your help Volfram and for the help from Cucurion!' The stranger said, was he speaking the truth? On the other hand how could he know us by our names? It was so confusing ! 'So, basically, what you are saying, that we are chosen to be the Goddess' heroes?' I said. The stranger replied ' No. You both aren't chosen. It is in your blood, the bloodline goes on with all of you. We all have to stop Lavto.' He said. 'And what if I say no? ' I said. The man came closer, he was now directly in front of me. He was blind, I could see that. 'I can help Cucurion to overcome his disabillity . Blindness. As you can see, I'm also blind. ' He said. Ouch, he got me there ... I simply couldn't help Cucurion overcome that fear. I needed his help. The stranger held out his hand 'So you're willing to aid me?' He said. 'Before I'm going to do anything I'd like to know who this strangers with whom I'm speaking.' I said. I could see that the man let a smile. ' Ofcourse how could I forget? My name is Ankhet Harram a disciple from Safi. Pleased to meet you, Volfram.' I looked at him, and grabbed his hand and shaked his hand. A disciple from Safi, that couldn't be a lie. Making jokes about the three Goddess' ain't the best thing you could do so I figured he was speaking the truth. ' I'm in, and so is Cucurion probably.' I said. 'How's Cucurion's current state?' He asked , and with that I replied 'Critical. Apart from the blindness he has lost too much blood. I'm actually not sure if he will make it for sure ... ' 'He will.' Ankhet replied. The High Inquisitor was looking at me and held his hand out ready to shake my hand and I shaked his hand. 'Before you go, Volfram, I want to show you something. Actually give something to you, follow me.' I looked at Ankhet and he nodded to me. I followed High Inquisitor Frugh, we entered the main gate again. I suddenly thought of how he got in ... Magic. That must be it. Our fort is too well defended to get barred through. I followed High Inquisitor Frugh into a chamber. 'Please, take off your armour and empty rapier sheath.' It broke my heart to be reminded that I lost my rapier, but as I did, I took off my armor and I was now in my leather clothing. Frugh looked at me and he pushed a stone in the wall. Suddenly the wall turned around and there it was ... The Legendary armour of the Witch - Hunters. The Dra'Lekuh, and the magical sword made for the Hero of the Goddess'. The Serpentu. 'Put it on. It's yours now, you're worthy, you are more then any of us Witch - Hunters could ever become.' Frugh said. 'It's not a rapier, is it?' I asked, Frugh replied with 'No, it's something far faster and stronger then any sword, on top of that it's so well made that it can only be held by a Goddess' chosen one.' I walked towards The Serpentu , it was with his top pushed into a small altar on the ground. I held my hands on the handle, and I pulled the sword with all my power. Light appeared everywhere, I got blinded and there I was. Holding the sword in my hand, armour melted with my body. I was one with the magic in the equipment. I turned around to Frugh and said 'We have to get Cucurion on his feet and I need three horses. We're leaving the headquarters today, we have to stop Marcus , we have to stop Lavto and Daemon ... We have to save the world. Time is slipping, let's move.' And with that I sheathed the magical Serpentu in my empty rapier sheath. Weirdly enough it fitted perfectly in the sheath ... Pure luck, or magic ... ?

Marcus Triun - Part 44 (Elkos)

'Squad, on me.' Elkos Helliaer said. We were on our way infiltrating into one of the Ayakashi Headquarters, with the prince Illios inside. We figured that Volfram was K.I.A 'd as he went after Marcus, we knew he was very strong but even an enemy as Marcus would exceed very far from his own physical power. We reached the big gate from the Niarlore Headquarters, we did receive the intel that the Succubus Lavto was revived in another hidden Ayakashi Headquarters , as she was still weak in her current form she still had unbelievable powers. My squadron containing of three elite super soldiers, me including four, were ready to attack. Helod, Arrham, Efraim and me Elkos. The castle was surrounded with a big forest, which's trees would exceed far into the air, higher then the castle itself. I sent Helod, our sharpshooter, the forests in to cover us fromout the trees, he had a large flintlock which us Witch Hunters a "Rifle" called. He could see very far with it , thanks to the "scope" adjustment of the Gnomes. Best engineers you can find . As Helod went off to the forests, I said to Arrham and Efraim to follow me and cover each others backs. We all three melted into the castle gate wall and walked along the side until we were directly next to the gate and we heard a familiar accent. We directly lay down on the ground and we all held our hands on our rapiers. Two ...Humans? Humans!? What in the name were humans doing here? Obviously it were patrols guarding the place. From what I guess , they were just here for the illusion that this castle wasn't invaded by Ayakashi. I nodded to Efraim that he had to cover mine and Arrham's back eventhough Helod was in the forests covering us. But our cover can't be blown now, especially since the rifle makes an awful lot of noise. Arrham followed my lead and we unsheathed our rapiers and crouched towards our opponents , they were both backed to our position . 'I take left, you right.' I said and I pulled out my arm to tighten it around the man's face , grabbed him to the back to penetrate his back with my rapier . He tried to scream because of the pain, but my hand dissolved his sound into nothing. I let my rapier hand go and also reached for my other hand to his head and broke his neck with my raw power and I silently pulled him backwards into the shadows, Arrham did precisely what I did and now we had two dead bodies. We both unmasked ourselves and put on the human uniforms. They, happily, also had some kind of masks. Actually, it were bandana's that were wrapped around your face and the body armour contained of heavy metal combined with leather straps near the elbows, neck, knees and the hands were closed with bandages. When we were set up Efraim came from the shadows and he took both of the men into the shadows. I nodded towards him, I tightened my armour and me and Arrham walked through the gate into the light on a rainy night. The guardposts were looking at us and started to nod to us, I nodded back. Around the castle were some settlements and a huge wall with a gate , which we just went through, and we directly went up to the cobblestone path towards the castle . The people seemed unhappy, and they apparently hated human soldiers as they were looking very angry to us, maybe we should make a little stop to a settlement. 'Arrham follow me, we're not directly going to the castle.' I said, Arrham was a new grunt in the Witch Hunters squadron department and I had to teach him the ropes. 'But Elkos, we're ordered to ...' I didn't let him finish his sentence. 'I didn't ask you anything, you're to follow my orders.' I said and he nodded. We went to a small settlement and I knocked very loudly on the door. The door opened, and as soon as the ... Girl, from an age of 17, our faces saw she directly tried to close the door and I directly inserted my foot between the door and the wall. She started to scream very loudly and ran, I could understand their language as she was screaming for her mother. Arrham walked on front, I walked behind him and closed the door behind us. The girl was hiding behind an older woman and man, the man was cowardly holding a shovel in his hand trying to look intimidating. I started to speak in their gutterspeak, Arrham couldn't understand it as he spoke other languages 'We won't cause harm to anyone, I we promise. ' As I said that I showed them our insignia of the Lone Dragons. A Witch Hunter squadron. The man happily let his breath go, and dropped the shovel on the ground and searched for the closest chair to sit on and relax. The girl ran upstairs and the woman went into the kitchen. The man said ' Please, sit down. My name is Mial and we are indeed in eager need of your help.' I raised my hand. 'We're not here to drink a cup of coffee, we are here to execute Prince Illios, son of the succubus Lavto. ' The man sighed ' I knew it was a too happy thought for your squadron to save us. ' I heard the owlflute signal from Helod who was hiding in the trees outside with his rifle. If he was whistling his owlflute something really bad was about to happen. We suddenly heard a loud knocking on the door and someone yelled ' Oi, who is in there? To whom are you speaking? Answer us! Oi , open up!' The man quickly stood up as if he saw a ghost , I walked slowly to the door and then opened it. It were three human guards, one lieutenant and two soldiers. The lieutenant looked at the insignia of the uniform I had stolen and he directly saluted me. 'Sir! I didn't know I interrupted you, sir!' I was abit overwhelmed and then I started to speak ' You filthy piece of trash, how do you dare interrupting me in the middle of a torture session !' I slightly nodded to Arrham and he directly grabbed the man and grabbed his head and held it towards the table, ready to bash his head in. The lieutenant replied with ' Sir yes sir! I'm very sorry for my rude interruptance !' As I responded ' You'd better be ! Dismissed! ' The lieutenant and his soldiers saluted and quickly walked away. Hum...Interesting, I now know this uniform is high ranked. Maybe high enough to get close to the prince, and I closed the door.

Marcus Triun - Part 43 (Volfram)

It
was Daemon, in other words, a demon so evil you can't possibly imagine what kind of destructive powers he would possess. But his aura seemed weirdly enough...Different then our last meeting , fifteen years ago. When I still was a boy and I lived happily with my parents and my other brother...Ayakashi overrun the village. Murdering Ayakashi everywhere. I was so scared, and I fled by leaving all of my family behind in cower. I still feel so bad about it, that I joined up with the Witch - Hunters and got accepted by them. To make a long story short, his aura seemed different. In other words, he became alot stronger and I had a hard feeling he was still a Demon. He became ALOT more muscular and his appearance changed more to a kind of monster. Ayakashi have three forms, Shadowling; an Ayakashi which has been killed in his body and is in search for another body. If you kill the body from the one the Ayakashi posesses while the body still has it's own spirit the body and his/her spirit will be destroyed together with the Ayakashi. But when the Ayakashi already made the body is host, and killed the spirit he can rise up again as a Shadowling if killed. If not, it will become his body. Then you have the Demons, just ordinary Ayakashi as you know them, and then the Devils. Champions from the almighty, horrific Succubus. Lavto. Daemon became something far, far more dangerous. Daemon held the kid with the name Cucurion in the air, slowly starting to choke him. Daemon's eyes peered deep into my eyes, he had no pupils anymore. His eyes were totally dark red, his foul voice started speaking : " Something precious to you?" Volfram:" Leave him alone !" Daemon:"That's just enough of an answer to me." Just at the moment when Daemon tries to slash into him, Cucurion starts to scream, and yells :" STOP ! I'm Marcus' apprentice ! I won't let anyone or anything hurt me ! " Daemon's half burned off eyebrow went up with a frown on his face. Daemon:" Marcus' apprentice eh? So you're an Ayakashi too?" Cucurion's eyebrow went up too. He looked at me in despair, so I directly nodded to Cucurion he had to improvise very quickly. Cucurion:"OH, yeah...Ofcourse...Yeah...I'm an...Ayakashi..." Daemon:"I understand, well if you're one show me your powers." Cucurion still held up in the air started to speak very slowly so he could think over his answer:"To be honest I wa--..." ???:"Stop. Put him down. No questions." Daemon threw the kid on the ground, and turned around really slowly. It was Marcus. Daemon directly kneeled before him and he spoke :" Marcus, our prince. We have missed you for too long, please come back home to our city!" Marcus held his hand up, as a sign he wanted silence and tried to speak. "I have no intentions of returning home, I'm going to attack Arishalore with my army. These people need me, and they've been murdered and slaughtered for no good reasons. And what goes for the gods, they lied to me so they will pay for what they've done. They will be killed, and Arishalore, Niarlore and Safilore will burn. And from the ashes we will rebuild everything again, so I can be the king and ruler of everything." Marcus walked towards Daemon, he kicked him on his face. Marcus:"How did you even dare, touching my apprentice. " I came running up to the kid, and kneeled before him, slowly getting him on his feet. Marcus:"You too, get away from my apprentice you son of a --..." Cucurion:"NO, you'd better shut up! It's all your fault! Because of you I'm becoming blind !" Marcus stepped backwards, just when he tried to get closer to Cucurion , Cucurion yelled :" NO! BACK OFF!" Marcus:"Tshk...I don't need you." He walked off and he snapped with his fingers. Five ogre sentinels appeared and fifteen Goblins. Marcus:"Have a lot of fun. Kill ' em." Darn. I still had my flintlock and rapier in my hand. Daemon stood up and said:"No worries." He simply nodded to them, and they all exploded in flashes of blood, nothing was over from them. Daemon:" I'm going after Marcus, oh yeah. That's right." He walked towards me, picked me up with one hand ... Amazing his pure raw strength. He threw me away from Cucurion, he tried to stand up as quickly as he could and had a twig in his hand. Cucurion:"Get away from me !" Daemon:"Now , now. That ain't very polite. Maybe I should punish you for it ..." He said with a large grin. I quickly grabbed my flintlock and I marked for Daemon's head. Daemon saw it, reached his hand to me and the gun exploded in my hands. Then he went on towards Cucurion, Cucurion reached out to jab Daemon on his chin. It was a direct hit, but Daemon's face only turned, and turned back to Cucurion's face. Daemon:"Now it's my turn." He jabbed Cucurion so hard on his face he flew a meter backwards on his back. Volfram:"CUCURION !" I ran to Daemon and tried to jump on his back , it did help since Daemon lost his balance and fell. I saw shadows moving, more Witch - Hunters. They all at once appeared and held their flintlocks on his face. Daemon stood up, threw me away and he glided his way up to the sky. He flew to Cucurion, took out a small knife from his pocket, stabbed him several times and in his eyes. He licked the blood from the knife, and dissolved into the Shadows. Darn it, DARN IT. I'm so weak compared to that guy! Darn, Cucurion ! I ran to him, he screamed and yelled :" MY EYES! AAH, EVERYTHING HURTS!" I tried to calm him down :"Hush, everything is going to be okay. Calm down, we're going to help you." Cucurion:"Volfram...I can't see anything, please, please help me!" Volfram:"Sshhh...It's alright, it's going to be okay." I saw tears coming from his stabbed eyes...Why Daemon... Just why...

Marcus Triun - Part 42 (Ankhet)

I'm a Nomad called Ankhet Haram. I'm a worshipper of my goddess Safi, from my country Safilore. As you know , the known countries in our region are : Arishalore (Known as Arisha, the Goddess of light.), Niarlore (Known as Niar, the Goddess of Darkness. Not particularly evil intended.) And my lovely Safilore(Known as my beautiful Goddess Safi, Goddess of Neutrality). I was meditating in the Desert, Safilore is known for her sandbanks and the always shining sun. I was a blind nomad, my other senses were further developed then most people because of this . I had a crow, which was my everything. I could see through his eyes, and he felt my pain. Without him I would've probably already died in the deserts. But Safi saved and protected me. She gave me a blessing, she gave me Laohara the crow. In my language Laohara means Blind Eyes. I found it pretty fitting. I was meditating, when I felt an eruption in the sand. This can't be happening. All the years I followed Safi, I discovered alot. Especially of the meaning why we are all here on this world. Our mission. They created us and the world. And we slowly tear it apart with our useless wars and fights. I live in peace, and that's why Safi accepted me as her first and only personal Nomad. She has visited me more then once. What she also told me, is that a grand disaster will happen in my lifetime. Demons, also known as Ayakashi by the people who don't know anything about them, will strike our world. And will create massive disasters and will destroy our whole community. If the Ayakashi won't be stopped , we will all serve as their blood - slaves and centuries of pain and torture will occur. So, the three Goddess planned something thousands of years ago to stop the Ayakashi from destroying the world(The Goddess' are also known as the Creators of the World) . Safi let me in on this intelligence, and told me of an old lore told from generation, until generation . Although this generation forgot the whole lore, the Goddess' ofcourse still remembered it. The lore went like this :

"When Corruption, Evil and Ego corrupt the world,

The Goddess' Chosen ones, will rise up and fight,

All with their own specialities and flaws,

Five of 'em that are supposed to save this era,

All possesing a part of a power,

All together, able to create peace or massive destruction,

Only those with a pure heart can unlock it and have to overcome the trials that the Goddess' have set up,

Now listen heroes, and stop the corruption from this Era,

Dala'ruh."

That's how it went, and the Goddess Safi gave me the honour for being one. But, I have still not overcome the trial set before me, which I do not know of about. I again felt the sand erupt, so it's happening now as I think of it. The Ayakashi have summoned their leader , the Succubus Lavto. How ? I have no idea, I thought the seal was strong enough to keep her in for thousands of years. But the Goddess' already had fortold this, so I didn't actually expect that the seal would hold long. It kept her in for hundreds of years, not thousands. But my duty as a nomad is to protect my Goddess from any harm, which means I'll have to unlock my Divine Light. And so do the other four, but I first need to find them and we all have to overcome our trials. If not, we're all doomed to our fate. I stood up, whistled and my Crow Laohara came. He flew on my hand, and sat there looking at me. I was looking at myself, since I could only see through his eyes. Ankhet:"Laohara, we're leaving for Arishalore. We have to find the others." Laohara was looking at me like he understood what I meant, and he climbed to my shoulder. I picked up all my items and put them in a woolen sack and ventured on. In hope of restoring the peace forever on this world.

Marcus Triun - Part 41

The earth started to shake. It has been done, it is time. I fell on the ground, and so did the kid. The earthquake was so heavy, it made splits in the earth which the kid almost fell in, I turned my head to the kid and I ran towards him as fast as I could. He was holding onto one split and I quickly grabbed his arms to pull him up on the vast ground. ???:"HOLY...Thank you thank you thank you soooo--..." Volfram:"Hush." I looked to him in a way that he was wasting my time. Volfram:"Probably if you wouldn't have been here, I just could go on without worrying about you falling in five kilometre deep holes." ???:"I'm sorry for all the inconvenience I have caused in this short amount of time... But I just want to come with you and avenge my old teacher for what he has done to this village... I just don't remember him this way. And I want to get the monster back that took my father.. " I felt sorry for the kid, and I really did want to help him. But it's simply not my thing. This is probably the worst choice I have made in my life, I grinned from the inside. Volfram:" Alright kid, you can go with me. As long as you don't hold me up, since I'm a lone wolf. I don't like company that much." ???:"I really appreciate this...Sir... Cucurion is the na--..." Volfram:"Please, we already have lost too much time. It's time to go, do you have a horse?" Cucurion :"...N-...No..." Volfram facepalmed himself. Great. Just great. Volfram:"Do you have any family members which you want to say goodbye to?" Cucurion:" I have sister, and I don't know where my father is. Probably the Ayakashi took him with them...Or worse...I brought my sister to the inn of Dalushville, she can work there and in return for the work and effort she can sleep and eat there." Volfram:"Great, well you can sit on the backside." Cucurion:"...Where did that darn earthquake come from anyhow?" Volfram:"Seals have been broken, they won't be ever healed now. We have to terminate the cause of the thing that created this, before the whole world will suffer from this." Cucurion:"...Has this to do with Marcus?" Volfram:"Probably, yes. But I'm not sure yet, to be honest I'm not sure if Marcus did this." I walked to my stallion and hopped on again, there was nothing to find here anymore. Probably the kid would be the closest thing to find Marcus, or the other Ayakashi. Volfram:"Well, grab your stuff together so we can leave this place." Cucurion:"If I would have any, I still wouldn't have took it. We're losing time we have to leave now." NOW he was making sense. He jumped onto the back of my mighty stallion. Happily she was strong enough to hold the both of us. I galloped away, I heard the kid talking to me on the backseat. Cucurion:"But Sir, what is your name?" Volfram:"If I will tell you, I'll probably have to kill you." I said on a gruesome tone. Cucurion:"I've stared into the death anyways. So I wouldn't mind you killing me." I started to like the kid. Volfram:"Volfram is the name. The rest does not matter.." Cucurion:"...Damnit, I can't see so well anymore." Volfram:"Probably since you caught some wooden splinters in your eye." Cucurion:"How did you --..." Volfram:"We witch-hunters, locate very small details. It's probably better to keep it inside your eye since surgery will probably make you blind anyways." I could hear the kid agreeing. Volfram:" Any idea where Marcus would venture to?" Cucurion:"Well actually I ha--..." He stopped. Volfram:"You actually ha? I beg you pardon?" Cucurion:"Stop with galloping, v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y..." I stopped my stallion, and jumped off. Cucurion looked totally white in his face and he was stiff, sitting on the stallion. What was he doing? I turned my face to the direction where he was looking at. Oh...My...Lord... Ogres, Orcs, Trolls, Goblins all working together. Creating monstrous catapults, weapons and houses. Camps and Patrol-Sentinels, which were gigantic ogres, everywhere. I saw in the corner of my eye, that a towerguard (a troll) was readying an arrow and was marking for the kid's head. I ran towards him and jumped...I threw him off the horse, and ducked together with him behind the horse. I could hear the horse whinny, and I saw arrows flying through it's body. It was just a matter of a second that I realized the horse would fall on us if it died, so I quickly stood up with all my weapons and grabbed the kid so he stood on his feet. He was still paralyzed, eventhough you wouldn't suspect such a thing from a kid with such a body and courage. I ran with him, I heard a horn was blown, and I could feel the earth shake because of the monsters that were running over the ground. They're too fast. I saw a hollow tree, and I dumped the kid in there and said:"Keep yourself silent. I will attract them so they will follow me, and leave you alone. Just keep your mouth shut." I walked away from the hollow tree, took out my flintlock and I saw the monsters looking for us. I loaded my flintlock, aimed for one of the Goblins heads, and I shot one through the head. They noticed me, and chased after me. I had to be quick about this one. I ran far into the woods, I could hear them still chasing me. Darn. I ran to a tree and dissolved into the shadow of the tree. Two Orcs, both pretty muscular, walked past me trying to find me. They were talking in Orcish, happily I could understand it. Since as a Witch - Hunter you need to speak atleast seven languages, happily Orcish was one of 'em. Orc Sentinel:"Darn that human, our master probably would've tortured him and we could've eaten his remains." The other Sentinel snorted and laughed:"Probably, yes. Our Demon lord Marcus won't be too happy about this though." Darn, Marcus already gathered quite an army in such a small time. Orc Sentinel:" Now we finally have the chance to show the humans, elves , angels and so on that we can think for ourselves too. That we have power too, and then WE can ban THEM from this world." So that's how he manipulates them. I still had my flintlock in my hand, and I unsheathed my rapier with the other hand. I shot the first sentinel through his head, and decapitated the other sentinel as quick as he turned his head around. I heard someone screaming. Darn, the kid ! I sheathed my rapier, and ran towards the hollow tree with the flintlock in my hand...It weren't the monsters nor Marcus that captured the kid. It was someone far more dangerous. A horrific sight to see. It was him. It was Daemon.

Marcus Triun - Part 40 ( Daemon's Side)

Finally, our ceremony is ready to summon our beloved Succubus , Lavto, back to life. After the seal that has been put on her to keep her away from harm to the people of Arishalore. But finally, after all the sacrifices I had to make, I will finally be seen as her true champion and guardian. And even luckier, we found her long lost son at that tradepost arena. Foul Marcus. I smiled at myself when I arrived at our hideout. I glided towards the ground and stood on my feet. I transformed back to my original form, since my ultimate form wasn't needed anymore. I grabbed the vial full of blood from my belt and held it abit upwards into the sky so I could see the sun shine through the vial of blood. Shame it's needed to resurrect our beloved succubus, otherwise I would've used it for other things. In time, Marcus will take over the world in the name of Ayakashi, and I will serve with him and my beloved succubus. I stepped into the building, Ayakashi brothers saluting me everywhere since I was the semi - highest rank that you could possible get , Champion of the Succubus was the most honourable title you could achieve. I entered the summoning room, and Ayakashi were making sure everything was ready for the ceremony. It was a really big room. Atleast nine metres in height and in length and depth both twenty metres. There was a large pentagram drawn onto the ground, so our succubus could revive onto there. There were one hundred small pentagrams drawn on the ground twenty-five each to the North , East , South and West. On each pentagram stood one Ayakashi, kneeling, praying to our succubus and spitting out foul words of our language.
"Lavto,

our beloved Succubus,

may your wounds swell up with blood,

so we can heal them, protect you,

and once again revive you,

in need of your dire power,

we ask you,

Lo'Danushi,

Come back to us. "

They all sung with joy and love. They all stood up and were dancing our traditional revival dance. Only WE can possess this kind of power. No one else. Only us. I walked to the pentagram, in front of the Succubus' Pentagram. Did I say one hundred pentagrams? I meant one hundred and two. Including mine, and the Succubus'. I still had the vial in my hand, and I took out the knives the Blood Elf used and cut myself in my hand. I poured my blood in it, and then I also dropped the tears of an Angel in it. Marcus' little girlfriend. Fiona. I grinned on how I killed that pitifull girl, how hard she screamed , how joyful. Ofcourse that Shunin warrior didn't kill her, she was still alive then, but I did kill her. I mixed all the ingredients with each other, and poured it on the pentagram in a certain form. A triangle, and an eye on top. Our sign. I went kneeling on my pentagram, and all other Ayakashi were done with their dance and also kneeled on their pentagram and then we prayed. After half an hour we all yelled : " Lavto, Revive!" Black goo came all over the pentagram, and the pentagram shined and lit up in a mix with Black , Red and White. Then fromout the nowhere, a shadow appeared. Covered in black, only the eyes lit up in red. Then slowly started to create a form, a form of a human. The body of Fiona. With that Body she could walk on the earth with her might, with the blood of a Blood Elf she has the strength to use her powers, and with the blood of a High Ayakashi she has the power of a Succubus. When she was done, she glided up into the air, and she drained power from all the Ayakashi around her, except for me, to strengthen herself up after centuries of sleep. When she had enough, all Ayakashi fell on the ground without moving. She spoke:"I want to speak with my only Champion. Take these bodies away." Two hundred Ayakashi stormed inside, gathered all the bodies and left again, leaving me with Lavto. She came close, and with that I mean she came really close. Lavto:"So you're my Champion and reviver? I do owe you alot for going all through this for me." Even with her voice , sweet as strawberries , it didn't affect me. As I had no soul or heart. Daemon:"The pleasure is all mine. " Lavto reached out to my chin with the tip of her finger:"I will do anything, ANY-THING for you, to repay you." I held my head down, and prayed to her. Daemon: " My dear Succubus, I demand nothing more then be your Champion, for always. I want to serve you, protect you forever and for our kind. No one will ever hurt you, on my watch." I could feel she was smiling at me. Lavto:" You are my most faithful Champion I've ever had. So I will give you a part of my powers. You are my chosen one. You are one of a kind. And YOU are destined to bring all races under my order, and bring our whole world begging before my feet. And if you are in need of anything, my offer still stands." She laughed. She held her hands up, creating a lightball in her hands. She then held it in one hand, and lifted the hand onto my shoulder. I could feel the power imbueing me. I became invincible. I became a Devil. Razor - Sharp black claws, teeth and Dark red, almost black eyes. Snowwhite hair, long. Muscles bigger then anyone could imagine. So fast as a Lion, so strong as a Mammoth and so fierce as a Devil. I'm a masterpiece, and no one will stop me, for the cause of our Succubus. My Succubus, Lavto. Lavto:" Now go, and venture on. I've watched you on your trials, fetch Xylus to our side. I've missed my son for a long time." I stood up, turned around , and walked the opposite direction from Lavto. My body was made of Steel, something you wouldn't penetrate. On my way outside, a lowlife Ayakashi came running up and gave me Lavto's Sword. Deminish. I pulled Deminish out of his sheath, armor and power covered my whole body. I decapitated the Ayakashi.
I
Am
Invincible.

Marcus Triun - Part 39 (Volfram)

Original Character is from : www.zervatheus.blogspot.com . Zervatheus is a good friend of mine, and he gave me his character in the hope I could write on with him since he has no time to write on anymore.



My name is Volfram Valtheus. Let's skip the chit-chat about my life, only thing I want to tell is that I'm part of the legion of The Black Bow. My high inquisitors were looking at me across the table. I was sitting on a chair on the back of the table, and the inquisitors on the other end. High Inquisitor:"You know what to do, you know your objective , and you know what is at stake. Do what you is teached, and don't come back until the job is done, if you do come back we will kill you. Good luck." I stood up, and walked away without even looking back, I went to my dorm , put on my pants, shirt, vest over it and my black shoes and gloves. I took the helmet from my closet, and put it up on my head. I grabbed my flintlock, and put it in my holster and I also grabbed my rapier and went off. I walked through our great halls, and went out into our big garden. Witch Hunters EVERYWHERE, training with bows, flintlocks, rifles and rapiers. Our standard equipment was a flintlock and rapier after all. This was just a small base of Niarlore, our great base was stationed elsewhere, which I'm not going to mention yet. We have bases stationed everywhere, eventhough we are in ghost modus at the moment. I walked near the gates that would open the way for me, and I could hear the gatekeepers shout:" OPEN THE GATE! It's the "Salvator"! " Salvator of what , I asked myself. Interesting. I saw my mighty stallion, getting settled up by a small farmer kid. I nodded at him, gave him some money for it in exchange hopped on, and galloped away. My way to the pass was rather silent, so now and then a raider would hop in front of me. Not a good match for my Flintlock. I grinned as I reached the pass. I could smell it. A Demon. I hopped off my horse, and saw footprints from an extraordinary big foot, atleast, not the size of feet a normal human should have. This guy is a big one. I again, hopped on my mighty stallion and went through the pass. My mask on my head kept it dark, eventhough I was close to Arishalore I still couldn't feel or see the light from the sun. I ventured on, almost being at the city, I could see the smoke in the near distance and the smell of cooked meat, which has been rotting for a week or two now. Ahh...So this is what they meant about the "Bloodriver" in the intel. Lovely. The whole river was covered with piles of humans and blood, sentinels were clearing up the place though and went they noticed me getting in they glared at me like I was a hellish spawn. Can't blame them, I'm already used to it. I hopped off from my stallion, and approached the nearest Civilian that was still pretty much unharmed or hurt. He looked like a pretty strong, young 'fella. 100% that kid could handle himself in these kind of situations, I looked at his face and noticed his eye was irritated in a way of that something has hit his eye very badly. I started a conversation:" I got something to ask, and it's very important." He glared at me and said ???:"Why the fuck should I help or trust you people? You fucking numbnuts took my family into a pit of darkness and doom! My father is gone and my sist--..." I shut his mouth before he could go on. Volfram:"Listen kid, I don't fucking care about your lifestory. I just want answers, to get the crazy fucker killed who did this." The kid was amazed by my rude interruption and replied ???:"That crazy fucker saved me, and my sister before from your sort...He was my teacher." My eyebrow went up, and down again. Amazing.

Marcus Triun - Part 38

Niarlore was a dark, dark place. The weirdest thing was that the sun never showed its face here , and I've been here for some time now . 6 months? Maybe a year? I don't know anymore. I lost track of time and of everything. I kept on walking through the pass, and now THIS was something beautiful...Directly in the middle of the pass you could see somekind of magical barrier between Niarlore and Arishalore. Aside from that, what the fuck happened to me ? I turned all dark and I started to look like Daemon, I held my Solerd hand in the air and turned it into a fist. I felt something glowing on the back of my hand, it was a pentagram. All corners turned white, then red and then turned black and stayed that way. Amazing, this isn't something ordinary and to be honest I don't really believe I was ever a god. With these kind of crazy powers, I don't feel like a god. A god has to bring happiness and respect, not death and decay...I walked through the pass and I was in Arishalore again. Never , ever , ever ever, never, I'm going back to that place. I turned my head around, and the place gave me shivers. I kept on walking and I found the origin city where Fiona lived, I walked into town and people were staring at me like I was the devil myself. Well, they weren't 'rong or either right, point is that I looked miserable. I felt my whole body burning again, and I fell on my knees. The Pentagrams started drawing theirselves onto my whole body. White, red and then black. I screamed and people screamed too , running to their houses and ringing the clocktower in their town. Guards appeared everywhere . Black , demon-ish powers were gathering around me, fromout the earth. Suddenly I got claws and started drawing a pentagram around my own body. Light filled the pentagram + me. I turned into an Ayakashi. My hair became long, and white again, red eyes and the pentagrams that were drawn on my body turned all red. My whole body turned black, fiendish and my Solerd hand again solved into my skin. It looked like my skin was made of Solerd only, indestructable and a Demon tint. I glided into the air, my power was immense and I started gliding through the city , guards that tried to attack my skin got killed by my mind. One guard jumped onto me, I simply grabbed him by the neck, flew high up the air and dived downwards with his head downwards pushing him totally into the ground. I stood up, and held my both hands onto each other , exploding all the citizens and guards that were outside in flashes of blood. I held my hand out and burned some houses to ashes, women, men and children screaming while I was burning them alive. Laughing at them how they got crippled by the fire, and the fresh smell of human meat. I approached a house, and kicked the door open. A man held an iron sword in his hand, and his child hiding underneath the table. The man ran to me , trying to kill me with his sword. I held out one hand, stopping the blow and bending the sword to his own face with just raw power. Then I grabbed his head and penetrated him with his own bend over sword, snatched out his heart and started to drink the blood of his heart. Mmm...So good. Suddenly I felt something burning in the back of my body. It was an arrow. Marcus:"Who dares, opposing the mighty Ayakashi Marcus !?" I turned around, it was a shadowy guy. ???:"An angry warrior, necrophile." Marcus:"HOW DID YOU CALL ME!?" I charged into him, but he stepped aside, grabbed out his knife and jumped onto my neck stabbing me, and didn't stop. The knife broke, I grabbed him at his neck and...it was Cucurion. Cucurion:"...M-M....Ma--..Marcus.....?" I threw him in the air, and made a spin and gave him a high kick to the back of the room. He flew THROUGH the wall onto the ground beneath it. No sounds anymore, I glided outside of the house. From now on, I'm not Marcus. From th-...NO!!..I DON'T WANT THIS!!...AACK...You got nothing to want. This is me. From now on, I'm not called pitiful Marcus Triun, but Xylus , Xylus Dangerius. I glided towards a house, opened the door...Fiona's house...Memories filled my head, but the Dark Powers sucked them in and I glided high up the air. I'm at turn now, Beshmendir and his whole kind will die. THEY WILL ALL DIE.

Marcus Triun - Part 37

What...The....FUCK!? ..I was broken, since they had let me down I fell with a huge smack onto the ground and my body started to burn everywhere...My bones were all broken (Metaphorically). Another Ayakashi entered the tent and I could see his face while I was lying on my back. He held out his hand, and showed his claw. He started to lick the tips of his fingers from that claw, they were covered in Blood. ???:"Where are my manners? Daemon is the name." He said the words with a gigantic evil grin. Marcus:"Get away from me...I don't want to hurt you." I winked. Daemon started to laugh in a absurd Demonic laugh. Daemon:"Hurting? Me? I think you owe me an apology. We Demons don't feel any pain." He changed form, from totally white, to a black, red eyed monster. He grabbed me, and lifted me into the air. My body was completely weak. Daemon said with a hellish voice:"You're coming with us !" Exactly at that moment an arrow got shot through the tent, directly in Daemon's arm. Daemon smiled while he saw blood sipping at his arm, and threw me onto a table with such power that the table broke in two. He grabbed the arrow and removed it with power and started licking up the blood. Then 15 arrows followed per second 1. Atleast 13 hit target, in Daemon's monstrous reincarnation. I picked up a piece from the table to lean on so I could easily walk away. Easier said then done, I first fell in my first attempt to even PICK UP the darn thing. Then finally, I stood and tried to waggle away while Daemon was still getting out the arrows with a gigantic smile on his face. Then suddenly more then 200 started to shoot everywhere and all through the whole tent. I jumped on the ground and tried to stay low. Lots of Ayakashi got hit, especially Daemon. Ofcourse Ayakashi won't feel the pain from the arrows. The other Ayakashi were gathering the blood from that Blood Elf, I tried to sneak out. And suddenly 7 witch hunters appeared, sneaking and running like assasins killing Ayakashi with fluent moves. 5 had to pick me up, and took me with them into the shadows. Daemon tried to slam onto us, but the 1000 arrows that penetrated his montrous arm, stopped him from sweeping us away with that arm. His arm started hanging and Daemon screamed, and quickly the witch hunters left the tent with me. I could see 50 with hunter archers shooting one arrow after another towards the tent. Sometimes even 5 at once. We stepped out from the shadow, and I could see the world again, and smell the world with all grace. At this moment it smelled like burned cloth and wood. Fire. Fire everywhere. Death. Death everywhere. The whole river was stocked with bodies, and the water wasn't water anymore. It was blood. I saw some Ayakashi, including Daemon, gliding away. Daemon held one arm up the air, grinned with his red eyes, and shot a a gigantic shadow bolt towards us. Enough. I jumped away from the witch hunters, stood on the ground, left leg forwards right one backwards. Both hands held forward and tried casting the gigantic shadow bolt back...But instead the shadow bolt infused into my Solerd hand and I absorbed the power and fell on my knees. Electricity grew all over my body, and I started to scream. Pain, and might. I stood up, eyes turning red, and glide into the air. I held out my Solerd arm to the Ayakashi and shot out an even greater Shadow bolt then ever before. The Ayakashi literally evaporated into the bolt, except for Daemon. I could see his red eyes glowing in the blow.The wind from the blow blew the witch hunters and me away. I fell , again , with a hard smack to the ground. I stood up, invisible gliding power around my back. My hair turned white, long. Normally black. And my eyes turned red, and my Solerd hand imbued with my black coloured body. I transformed, I'm a masterpiece. Now I will terrorize this world, and DESTROY this whole camp , everything ! Hunt down all the gods and goddesses , killing them all. Yes...Yes...YES! ???:" Hey ! Get down here! We only came to save the encampment, you're still our prisoner." I turned around ripped the unlucky one his heart out with only my mind. The heart flew to my hand, and I crushed it in my hand. The unlucky guys eyes rolled away and he fell with a lifeless smack to the ground, the others just turned into shadows and dissapeared. What...Why...Do I have all this blood on me? Gross...No I don't want to do this...NO! My Dark Powers slowly fainted, and I was sitting in the rain, in a dead camp, with dead people, blood everywhere. I sat on my knees and bended over with my knuckles in the mud...Fuck..I stood up and ran with topspeed to one of the walls, blew a hole in it and ran away. Fuck I recover fast. I could see a pass in the near distance, it said it was leading to Arishalore. But where was this place then? I saw a sign.


Niarlore.


I heard a voice talking in my head . ???:" Should you wish to learn your true destiny, and true Dark Powers. Then follow the piece of Solerd to the right destination, my son..." The voice was gone, and so was my sanity.

Marcus Triun - Part 36

Weeks, and eventually months passed while I was there. The kid, Cucurion, was getting stronger and better and faster with the day. And I, also became a year older. 20 to be precise , anyhow the kid became better at everything. From swordmanship to archery, so now and then the Witch Hunters appeared to check on everyone, and I felt they were also looking at us. ALOT. Sometimes they just stood there, hours looking at me and Cucurion training/practicing. However, today was bow training, and as always rain and no sunshine anywhere. The kid now shot from 500 metres distance into the tree. Exactly in the cross that I had scratched onto it. And he ran as fast as he could back to pick it up again, and shoot again from the distance. He became faster and faster, since that running made his legs very strong. Archery was for the arm muscles and sword mastery was mostly for his upper body muscles. His main body ( his eight pack ) was trained by doing those sit - ups and push - ups. When he came running back the 7th time, and pulled out the arrow of the tree I nodded. Marcus :" Enough, your training is done for today. Since you ran so fast, so you can head out an rest some bit." Cucurion :" Thanks Marcus." but then suddenly Helen came running up, ofcourse we both waved, but when she came closer to us we could see and hear she was crying and screaming. Cucurion ran so hard he almost tripped over some rocks. I ran after him ofcourse, in curiosity. She almost fell on the ground if Cucurion didn't directly catched her, and held her up. Helen:" The--...The...They....Got dad." She even started to cry louder and louder. Fuck . Cucurion:" Who is they Helen? Helen answer me !" Helen:" I don't know ! They came from nowhere, and they started to kill the jailors of this encampment for nothing!" I nodded. Marcus:" How did they look like? What were they? " It seemed Helen was abit calmed, and she started to speak again:" I don't really recall...They all had white hair an--..." I interrupted her:" and red eyes?" She nodded. FUCK, Ayakashi ! Marcus:"Cucurion, stay with your sister and run as far as you can, take this with you." I gave him a pouch full of gunpowder, and some firestones. Marcus:"I stole them while the jailors weren't watching. Now go, go to the southern side of this stadium, and blow up the wall so you can both leave." Cucurion:" But.." Marcus:"NOW!" Cucurion accepted the pouch with firestones and attached it to his pants, then he lifted Helen and went off with a very quick sprint. Damnit. I however, ran to the settlement as fast as I could on my naked feet. I saw smoke rising up, nononono FUCKING HOBO'S !...I ran faster and faster...I could see the river, bodies were stacked into it, the whole river had turned red. No no no no...I ran at my utmost speed, and I suddenly stopped. There I was. Suddenly eye to eye with a dead Heldin hanging with his legs...I mean leg.. tied to a lamppost, eyes cut out of his body and left arm and right leg missing. I turned around and fell on my knees starting gagging...I could see an Ayakashi fighting a witch hunter in the distance, the witch hunter tried to melt with his environment but he was too slow. The Ayakashi literally ripped off both his arms, and started to eat from his body...Disgusting...I suddenly felt I got lifted up, from an instinct I turned around , gave the guy/girl/thing a smack onto the face , and a fist to his stomach so he felt on the ground. I sat on him punching his face in with one hand, and with the other hand I grabbed a rock smacking it on his face. I was covered in blood. It was a witch hunter. GAH...I directly stood up and threw the rock onto the ground. I gotta look for survivors, I ran in all kinds of tents, all empty. Then I went into Heldin's tent, and there were 5 Ayakashi sniffing in Heldin's stuff. Marcus:"STOP YOU ASS-FUCKING DOGS !" I saw a kitchen knife lying onto the ground, covered in blood, picked it up and ran towards an Ayakashi and knived his neck open, then an Ayakashi appeared in my back, I stabbed him into the knee (sounds familiar) , crouched so the Ayakashi in front of me hitted the Ayakashi behind me. Then I ... ???:"STOP!" Another Ayakashi entered the te--...This was no Ayakashi. But a Blood - Elf. I turned my face so I could see him better...This...Blood elf...Seemed damn familiar... ???:" Remember me? You bloody fuckers took my son." He kicked me backwards so I fell on my back. He held one foot onto my stomach, and started to kick onto it. I simply grabbed his foot and broke it, and pushed his leg away so also he, fell on the ground. ???:" GRAB HIM!!...ACK...My foot ! GET ME UP !" I got lifted by the rest of the Ayakashi and got held up by a painful way. The blood elf approached and started hitting me on every body part you could imagine. Also on my face, I could hear bones break everywhere. I was totally broken...Forreal.. Marcus:"..*panth*...Wh-....Who...Are you...?" ???:"I'm Elfandos. Elfandos Dante, and these sons o' bitches will grant me one wish before they'll take a little bit of my blood to ressurect their almighty Succubus. And my wish was to take you to our hideout and kill you there. With my bare hands. " He went outside, and came back again shortly with two rocks. One in each hand. And he started throwing them at my face, FUCK THAT HURT...And he kept throwing, and throwing...Marcus:"ENOUGH !!!" The blood elf's body directly splattered up into a flash of blood and the rock he held in his hand also splattered. The whole room was covered in blood, and so were all the Ayakashi. They put me down, and started to bow before me. What...The...FUCK!?

Marcus Triun - Part 35

Heldin:" Well, we call it Afterworld." Marcus:" Came up with that name yourself?" I said while I was removing the mask tied on my face. Heldin:"Basically, yes. It's based on AFTERlife and World." Marcus:"I see. So what exactly, will we be doing here? And what time is it?" Heldin:"We're gladiators. And we all don't know since the sun doesn't shine here, it only rains, and rains, and rains...So much for my pension." Heldin sat down, and was looking to the ground in deep thoughts. Marcus:" So, Cucurion is your real son?" Heldin woke up from his trance:" ...HM!?..Wha--...Yes he is." I looked from Cucurion, which was walking around the settlement with all kinds of pots and pans which he all dropped on the ground, to Heldin the wise (still pretty muscular for his age) old man. Marcus:"I'm not trying to offend either of you, but he doesn't look very like you, or Helen." Helen was washing some dishes at a river, that flowed through the settlement. Heldin:"Honestly, I don't know what to do. He's a total idiot, and can barely stand on his own damn feet and try to not flip over...But he is my son, and I do love him...But...I don't know really." Marcus:"Well I could train him for you, my body is already at it's utmost so it won't be a problem training him, whilst I'm here. I still have to get back to Arishalore though." Heldin:" Arisha-who?" Marcus:"Don't mind it, I will head over to Cucurion." I walked away, and I saw Cucurion picking up all the pans and pots he dropped for the second time. Marcus:" Cucurion, leave those pots and pans, walk with me for a moment we gotta talk." Cucurion nodded, and followed me. People were staring in my back, I could just feel their eyes poking in my back. We went to a little place where 3 dummies were placed, 3 wooden swords and a bow. There were also 5 lampposts around it to keep it lighted and there were also some iron chains. Marcus:"I want you to do some push - ups." Cucurion was looking at me like I was crazy. I said with a very serious tone :" Do...It..." He directly started dealing with his push - ups. He didn't even get to 14. Ho boy. Marcus:" Come on ! Put some power in it, sooner or later you'll have to fight as a gladiator and then you won't survive, you miserable piece of shit !" That obviously worked, since he started to do his push-ups more serious and alot more faster. All with all he did 93. It was a start. Marcus:" Get up kid, and grab a wooden sword." Cucurion stood up, and grabbed the wooden sword. Marcus:" Hold it in this position..And then...Ah good you got it! Now hit that dummy 75 times without taking breaks." It took him 3 hours in total to do it without breaks. Marcus:" Now some sit-ups." Apparently this was easy peasy lemon squeezy for him since he did 250. Fair enough. Marcus:"Pick up that bow and arrow, and I'll mark a spot on the tree that you'll have to hit. First from 20 metres, then 60 , then 150, and then totally from the campside. And if you fail, you'll have to repeat until you can finally do it." First shot was a direct hit. Second shot also a direct hit, third shot took him 12 tries. And believe it or not, but the last shot he did in 100 times, exactly. And we only had one arrow, so he had to keep running from the campplace to the trainingsite, back to the campplace and keep on doing that routine until he finally hit straight. He was totally worn out, and apparently his sister had been watching us for awhile since she had warm water for his feet, cold water to drink and food ready for him. Marcus:" Now you just do that 5 times a week, and everything will be alright. And when you're up to it, you increase the difficulty everytime a little bit. So it stays a challenge. Cucurion:" Sir yes sir." We both smiled at each other. Now I'll have to find out who the fuck wants me here. I know I can just break out of here, tear a building apart but that would just destroy the fun. I'll just let those stadium - keepers THINK they are in control...But believe me...They aren't...I grinned deeply from the inside.