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L Dragon Jul 6 2014, 09:11 PM
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 Next chapter hee we go! Sorry guys, this one is kind of an information-dump-chapter. Lot of dialog, Hope you enjoy.

Chapter 12: Three Letters

Captain Hex sat in his chair as his eye scanned the room. Everyone seemed to fit within this large office space-like room. Combo and Ezekial were the closest to his desk. Combo sat on the desk with one foot hanging off the side and arms crossed in front of his chest. The wolf decided to stand, but he too had his arms crossed. Next to the wolf was Rabid, Konos, TC, Ludi and Pianta. They set themselves a few feet away from Ezekial. Joining them was Faith and Cross, standing closer to the center of the room. Closest to the door and next to Cross and Faith were the Four Shadows. Enemy was directly in the center with Data to his left. Threat was standing next to Enemy while Dark Lord stood on Data's left side. Virus was standing next to Yami, who lead the trail of people back down towards the desk on the other side, starting with Blaire and Ajkunai, and ending with Fenroar. Each side glared upon each other, as if the room was split up this way to avoid any sudden urges to attack each other. A long pause of silence thickened the air, until the captain sighed with annoyance and shook his head.

"I recall telling ye swashed up dogs to leave me vessel and ner' return." He addressed them, his pirate-speech returning as if he still had something to hide from the rest of them. Ludi and Rabid, along with Combo and Ezekial, are the only ones to hear Hex speak without his pirate slang.

"You seem oddly comfortable here on your ship. Are you really going to sit back and do nothing?" Blaire replied. He fixed his eye on her as he slowly blinked once before speaking.

"Young lass... Or rather, old lass, 'pending who ye talk'n to... Don't go think'n I be some fish out of water here. Tried I did, fer many years and beyond yer own birth I fought. Fer many years I watched this kingdom consume all. Fer many years I lost it all and gained it back, just to have'em pulled out from under me boots over and over. Wives I had, plenty to last many life times. An army I raised and sharpened with knowledge and a strong arm. Partners, mates, dogs, cats, neighbors, friends, crew, soldiers, warriors, heroes, and everything under this blasted damned sun you can think of," His tone and voice started to change. He was losing his pirate feel and drawing out something more menacing, something more mysterious.

"I've had lovers, haters, enemies, thieves, kings, queens, nobles, servants, horsemen, riders, spirits, ghosts, monsters, and much more than your mortal mind can fathom. I've had many things, young woman, and it all was ripped out of my hands in a blink of eye." His voice completely changed and settled on his true nature, being the shinigami called Mist. Everyone was slightly shocked at the captain's change of pace. Some of them knew the man for so many years, and to hear him not be a pirate was bothersome.

"You know nothing of pain, torment, anguish, or heartache like I do. This kingdom has risen countless of times. Many, and I do not use the word many loosely, have tried to stop its rise or tried to stop its reign... Most of them didn't even come close to slowing it down." Blaire wasn't satisfied with his reply, so she pressed him more.

"There must be a way to end this-"

"There is..." TC finally spoke up. He stepped forward a bit to address the group.

"We need the right tactic in order to conquer this-"

"You're talking to a death god, boy." Hex interjected as he slowly stood up from behind his desk. Most of them were a bit shocked to find this out, not knowing that Hex was a shinigami all this time.

"Me and my brother were assigned this task. Stop the kingdom from rising and allow the world of the living to return back to its normal state. This kingdom is causing a great imbalance between both my world and this one." He paused for a moment as he lowered his head the more he thought.

"At first our goal was to survive the kingdom to figure out how to stop it. Then it became about protecting the other kingdoms being devoured. We soon decided that surviving and protecting wasn't going to rid of the kingdom. So we went on the offense and started to focus on building our own kingdoms to fight and destroy the Fated Ones. We struggled greatly with this approach, seeing as we only had a limited amount of time to do so before the next cycle reared its head. We only saw one final option to end this kingdom from rising... Kill everyone else." For a moment everyone's heart skipped a beat as his last words ripped right through them.

"Yeah, I call bull-crap. Other wise you would of done it already-"

"I, along with Combo, persuaded Mist-I mean... Persuaded Hex, and his brother to hold off until the next cycle." Ezekial informed them, to which Fenroar tilted his head a bit and questioned the wolf.

"Why wait until the next cycle?"

"Cause wolf boy over here has some kind faith in you guys. He thinks Rabid's letters are a key to turning this thing around." Combo answered. Everyone looked at Rabid as Combo mentioned his name. He patted the pocket containing the letters to ensure they were there. Once he was satisfied he decided to ask his own questions, seeing as Combo just shoved the spotlight on him.

"These letters were meant for you, Hex. What would they have to do with me?"

"They weren't 'meant' for me necessarily. They were written to me in hopes I'd do the right thing with them, which was to give them to you. Your father knew he was going to die. He knew he wasn't going to be alive to tell you himself. So he wrote me three letters to give to you. Actually, the third one was written by your mother, which is why you can't read it. You need shinigami eyes in order to read it." Rabid's eyes widen upon hearing his last words. His mind put two and two together which paralyzed him for a moment as he realized something. He couldn't speak, nor could he think of anything else but to ask the question he knew the answer to.

"Yes, Rabid, your mother was a shinigami."

"You said 'was,' as if she isn't around anymore." Ludi interjected for the moment, seeing as Rabid was speechless.

"She isn't. She gave her Life Essence to his son, Fenroar." Now it was Fenroar's turn to be paralyzed by shock. He didn't know Rabid was his father, nor could he understand how he never knew all this time.

"The hell? Listen, pirate. We don't got all day here so cough it up and spit a luggy on this crap. You're confusing everyone here by short stepping this story." Konos finally blurted out. He was becoming annoyed and wanted to reach the end of this, hoping that they could actually formulate a plan to stop this fast approaching crisis.

"Fine, I'll give you the information you seek. Listen closely cause I"m not going to repeat this again..." Once Hex addressed this he sighed once more before starting off again.

"My brother, along with Ezekial, believed we can actually stop the kingdom this time around. So he worked with Ezekial closely as they formulated a plan that would take several years to build in order to reach their final outcome. They placed their trust in complete strangers, TC being the first one. Rabid was then selected, and then Ludi entered the picture by default... I'll return to Ludi later on, for the sake of confusion." He comments, darting his eye at Konos seeing as he said the captain was confusing them all.

"Rabid ended up having a child, a secret child he didn't want anyone to know about. After all, who would believe a man if he told them he had a temporary relation with a half-breed shinigami-human. What he didn't know, was that this female half-breed was my daughter... One of many, to be exact. His mother was another shinigami sent to aid our quest when we realized there was no way to stop the kingdom. She too realized this, and gave up just like I have. She decided that this last cycle she'll settle down and stop this pointless fighting. That was until she met Rabid's father. He was strong for a human. She thought that through him they can give birth to a strong half-breed that would be able to stop this cycle from repeating. Either him or his offspring would. She was right, according to Ezekial and my brother that is. Rabid was born, and through Rabid came Fenroar..." He paused for a moment and slowly lifted his eyes to stare upon Blaire, then at Ludi. He finally set them on Rabid who was even more shocked to find out he was a half-breed.

"The Diamond Town Purge changed everything. Fenroar's birth wasn't natural. He was spiritual born instead of physically. This is why he ages differently, as well as Rabid. Rabid's mother knew my daughter, and she knew she had given up on trying to stop this kingdom as well. Only she decided to abandon everything and everyone so the pain wouldn't be as harsh when the kingdom rises and consumes everything again. This left Rabid's son alone and unguarded during the purge. His mother staid behind to protect Fenroar. She poured her Life Essence into him, which quickened his spiritual birth and strengthen him from any and all attacks. Once he was fully formed he was already a teenage. Doing this created another being within Fenroar however. His shinigami side outweighed his human side. Rabid named him Fenroar, but my daughter named him Sigma, which is the shinigami side of him." He paused to allow them to take in this information. Both Rabid and Fenroar could't stop staring at each other. They were on opposite sides of the room, yet they felt closer to each other than ever before. Rabid had watery eyes, fueled with sorrow and hate, while Fenroar was simply stunned and slightly afraid of all this suddenly information about himself and his bloodline.

"Where is the part where you tell us how we beat this damn thing." Konos interrupted once more. Hex glared at him for a moment, then fixed his eyes on Fenroar.

"Sigma has shinigami eyes. In order to understand all three letters, even more so to read the last one, you need shinigami eyes-"

"So why the hell couldn't you read it-"

"Because the letters were written for Rabid and Fenroar only, not for anyone else, including other shinigamis." Hex quickly cut Konos off as his voice slightly raised. Konos remained silent as he crossed his arms and simply looked away. Silence fell once more as everyone focused on Hex, then switched their attention to Rabid to await the revealing of these letters. The sniper slowly pulled them out and began reading them once more.

"We don't have all day, Rabid." Pianta comments as her foot began to tap. He only glanced at her for a second before returning his eyes back to the letters. He then paused once he shuffled to the third letter. He heard footsteps and looked up, only to meet his eyes with Fenroar as he stopped a few feet in front of him.

"Mind if I take a look?" He asked the sniper, to which he looked at Fenroar for a moment before handing them to him.

"The other night I had a dream. There was a world full of kings and queens but it was cold, dark as the night." He recited the first part of the letter as Fenroar began reading it.

"Its a riddle." His son adds, to which Rabid simply nods his head as he crossed his arms and leaned against the wall.

"I've been trying to figure it out the moment I got them. The first part is talking about the fallen kings and queens over the past several years. A monument was built to display their visions, lessons, and wisdom they shared over the years. Its called 'Dreams of the Fallen.' Our entire world and how we operate it is held within that place."

"It is a difficult place to reach, let alone actually entering it." Blaire adds as she step forward a bit.

"We were the fire on the moonlit skies. We weren't divided, we were the same, and we were free but we all wore chains." He continues reciting the letter, pausing to add his thoughts about the riddle aspect of this part.

"Moon-Fire, only located in one area of this entire globe." Ludi interjects as he tried to recall the location.

"Wait-whoa, time out... Moon-what?" Konos asked, to which Ludi rolled his eyes as he shook his head.

"Moon-Fire, a very powerful stone that mages use to craft, cast spells, and other things involving magic. Its a combination of spiritual matter and cosmic energy."

"Wall of Chains." Konos blurts out suddenly. He completely ignored the mage to figure out the next part of the riddle, to which he was right and continued to explain.

"Fort Lancer, also known as Shadow Fort, was known for having a wall of chains that was unbreakable. They finally broke it and divided the kingdom in half to prevent the Hauntmares from consuming the entire place. The two sides became Fort Shadow and Fort Nightmare. Lancer himself was killed on the other side, so they replaced him but declared the fort as Fort Shadow, symbolizing that the fort will only be a shadow of what it once was." After his speech everyone fixed their eyes back on Rabid, seeing as he was the one telling him these riddles.

"The rest of the letter doesn't make sense to me. The second one is worse, seeing as nothing it talks about matches up with what I know of this world." Rabid concludes as he looked at his son to see if he could actually read the third letter.

"Your forgetting that these letters were written in a time where things were different. These letters date back further than Blaire's reign as queen. You were young, Rabid, too young to even read."

"Also," Combo interrupts Hex as he paused and smirked. He took a longer pause as he adjusted himself on the desk before speaking again.

"You guys don't even know how the kingdom rises, do you?" An overwhelming rush of fear swept the room as his words lightly echoed. For years they heard about this kingdom, many hidden tales of it, how horrid and evil it is, but no one has ever spoken about how it actually presents itself.

"One step at a time, Combo." Hex spoke, calming everyone for a moment as he continued to speak.

"When Virus was created she held the memories and history of all the kingdoms the Fated Ones conquered. However, Yami's love for this A.I. corrupted the information Fate and Ludi inputted into her. This is why Pianta hates Yami at the moment. Within Virus's mind was the key to cure Pianta-"

"Cure her? From what?" Ajkunai asked as he placed himself next to Blaire. Hex remained silent as he fixed his eye upon Pianta, as if allowing her to explain. She kept her eyes set on the floor as her fists tighten with anger while tears of rage started to well up.

"I'm one of the sources..." She softly spoke, closing her eyes and sighing as she prepared herself for her next words.

"I'm one of two triggers that will ignite the rise of the Fated Kingdom." She adds a bit louder. A tear flowed down her cheek as she sniffed lightly and glared at everyone. She couldn't bring herself to continue and simply turned her head towards Ludi to finish for her.

"Pianta is like a ticking time bomb waiting to go off. Only this bomb ends her life while giving birth to the Fated Kingdom. Once her time is up..." TC informed them seeing as Ludi was taking too long to continue for Pianta. Yami's heart nearly stopped beating as his chest felt tight. Because of his love for Vira he not only strengthened the Kingdom's Resolve to rise, but also taken a life that could of been saved.

"Having revealed all this, that information can be brought back to Virus. Its simple, actually. Yami just needs to undo whatever he did." Ezekial explains as he fixed his attention on Yami. Everyone soon focused on him as he looked around and thought of a reply.

"Teh... If your thinking that Virus will return to being completely Virus, then yeah, you're right. She'll loose all memory of you, what you taught her, your twisted and weird love connection, and everything that makes Virus act like Vira will be gone." Enemy comments. He then spreads his evil smile as he spoke once more.

"Oh, and this isn't a request. We're giving you the chance to do it yourself, other wise we'll take your life, right before we make you watch her change into the very thing you hate... Evil." His wicked smile turned Yami's stomach and forced him to panic out of anger and hate. He wanted leap towards the white being and remind him how he tossed him around the last time they met.

"Although I don't agree fully with everything he just said, but in a nut shell, he is right. This is why we brought forth the Four Shadows, to enforce the path we're taking, like it or not." Combo adds as he finally stood up from sitting on the desk. Yami could feel the pressure and weight of the entire world rest on his shoulders. He started to sweat as he tried to make up his mind. Oddly enough Virus was silent the entire time. She was looking at the ground, hiding her face as if knowing she was going to loose everything again, regardless of Yami's decision.

"Hurry up and decided, Yami! Or I'll make that choice for you!" Pianta shouts as she stomped her foot. He looked at her with sorrowful eyes, knowing she was frightened herself, feeling like she could erupt at any moment and her life will be over. He finally decided with a sigh. He shook his head and slowly began to take off his ring. He looked at it for a few seconds before shaking his head again.

"I'm not turning her into a monster." He tells them, then suddenly tossed the ring to TC. The fox caught it and took a quick glance at it before flicking it Ludi.

"So these riddles are locations, we got that. Now what the hell are we suppose to do when we get to each of them?" Konos asked as Ludi walked over to Virus. He was a bit intimidated by the Four Shadows near her. Once he reached her he paused to see if anyone would answer the cowboy's question.

"Ever heard of the Shattered Blade?" Combo asked, to which Konos raised his eyebrow in confusion.

"Didn't think so... Its a powerful blade, end of story." He adds, to which Konos narrowed his eyes in annoyance upon hearing this.

"All this damn trouble for a stupid damn blade?" He comments in a deep and angered tone. Hex shook his head as a reply.

"The blade is a key to awaken the Fifth Shadow, or as some call it, the Fifth Angel of Death. The blade unites the Four Shadows and creates a being of great power."

"And this was done before, right?" Konos interrupts Hex once again as he crossed his arms, doubting this plan the more he heard it.

"It has never been preformed before. Those before you never got the chance to fully awaken it before the Fated Dragon arose."

"Fated Dragon?" Ajkunai asked, as if he never heard of this before.

"Fated Dragon; also known as the Dragon Knight of the Fated Kingdom. The Dragon Knight will rise when one of the two sources are in danger or have reached their expiration date and ignite the rise of the Kingdom. This should cause some alarm to you all, since only one of the sources is currently present." Data spoke up. His voice pulled everyone's attention within seconds, and captivated them all the more he spoke. It was robotic yet oddly human. Everyone began to look around once he finished speaking, trying to figure out who was missing from the group. None of them could figure it out, which only lead them to look at each other confused.

"Otogi." He informs them, causing a mass panic as their eyes light up from the realization of this truth.

"Where is she? Where did she go?" Blaire began asking as she scanned the room again and tried to recall the last place she saw the girl.

"Fate took her." He answered. This caused an overwhelming drive of confusion in everyone's mind.

"You mean, Lord Fate?" Blaire asked, to which the Dark Lord stepped forward and spoke.

"I was once he, this Lord Fate you seek. But now I am another, unchained and freed by darkness's key."

"So that means shes with the other Fate, the real one." Konos adds, making sure everyone got the idea.

"How did he escape? And why is she with him?"

"I freed him." Enemy comments, which brought a rising tension within the room. His evil grin didn't help ease they either.

"We're giving wolf boy and Hex's brother one shot at this. If they miss, then we continue with our plan," Combo started to explain, to which he paused as he smirked the moment he saw TC step forward to address everyone.

"We'll watch the world burn. We'll destroy it and the Fated Kingdom. We'll leave nothing behind, only ashes and echoes." He informs them, causing a great amount of tension within the group. Silence took its place for a moment. Konos cleared his throat and broke the silence with a comment.

"What the hell we waiting for then? Lets figure out these damn riddles and split up already. Damn sword isn't going to piece itself back together." With that said, Ludi nods and looked at Virus. She paused for a moment, realizing this was it. All her memories were going to be taken away from her, and she'll become that monstrous thing she was intended to be. She finally nods her head and closed her eyes. As Ludi held the ring to her forehead her arms tensed up, and soon her eyelids fluttered, as if she was having a very horrid nightmare. A tear escaped her right eye as she tightened her fists more. Within minuets her body became still, which caused Ludi to take a step back and toss the ring back to Yami. Her eyes flung open suddenly as they glowed red before settling to her normal eye color.

"That didn't taste too good." She comments, then scanned the room as her who mannerism changed.

"Riddle me this, boys... What's bored, annoyed, and has claws... Why yes, its me! Now give me those damn letters, gun-man. We got a kingdom to kill..."
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