Across the threshold: and into the fire 01

 Across the threshold: and into the fire 01

Dropping to his knees Tarrot breathed heavily as Twin Drake and Bulker ran to his aid. Looking to Voidmond, Omnidec called to him, "Voidmond!" Approaching the fake garuda, he asked, "Did you see them, the guy in the sky?" "Yeah," Voidmond answered, "He vanished when the dust cloud came." "Who was that guy?" Omnidec pondered,  "He looked like he had some kind of hood on him." "It could be one of the Jewels!" Voidmond surmised "We faced two during the age eater fiasco." "Huh!? like Nu Rho?" "Yes, but this new guy, if he's who I think he is-" "What the heck is that!?" Chromdraco exclaimed, causing the two along with the group turn to the massive creature emerging from the vessel's ruins. "Kuriunos," Eithine asked getting the cervinae woman's attention, "what was the cargo of your ship?" "Tank droids and blockers," Kuriunos answered, "Along with the new prototype your superiors had gifted us." "Prototype?"Verdtrus asked, "What are you talking about?" "I don't know," Eithine answered, "It could have something to do with the shipment sent to South Atlatnia earlier this year." "Shipment?" Verdtrus mumured, before turning to the creature, "That monster, is that the prototype you mentioned?" Looking to the creature, Kuriunos answered, "Yes, we were going to drop it on the town after we reclaim our sister." Hearing this, Verdtrus eyes opened as he asked, "For what purpose?" "It was supposed to destroy the town so that it wouldn't be a problem later." Kuriuno answered. "This is not what we agreed to!" Raidos called out, "You said that the town's people would not be harmed!" "Sorry but we must send a message to these mongrels." Kuriunos snapped back, "Now if you'll excuse me I-" Suddenly, Flaron punched her in the face, causing her to fall on her rear. 

"WHAT THE HECK IS WRONG WITH YOU ?" she exclaimed, "You were going to drop something within a town of innocent people!?" "Flaron," Tameron called out grabbing her arm, "please!" Suddenly, Kaitres approached exclaiming excitedly, "Oh! You want to fight big girl?" as she drew her massive sword. Immediately Kaiser drew his D-gun to the deer woman's head, saying, "This is not your fight." causing the two humonculi and the deer women to turn to the ceasarian in surprise. "ALRIGHT ENOUGH!" Verdtrus exclaimed, coming forward, "Flaron stand down! We have enough enemies and we don't need any more!" "But-!" Flaron started but a look from Tameron caused her to stop and back away from Kuriuno who was flabbergasted, glared at the homunculus, angrily. "Kaiser, holster your weapon." Eithine ordered, "They are still our comrades." With a grunt Kaiser complied, saying, "Yes ma'am." 

"Uh, anyone knows what heck that thing is?" Matt exclaimed as the agents watched the creature crawl back into the wreckage. Turning to Blueacon, Chipp asked, "Anything you dealt with before?" "(No,)" Blueacon answered, "(never seen that thing before. Must have been their pet project.)" Cocking his cannon Chipp stated, "Okay, it crawled back into the vessel, but we should at least corral it before it reaches the town." "What about the knights?" Katie asked, "Should we continue as before?" Turning to Scott, Chipp asked, "Scott, how are doing?" "Nothing but Gumdrops and Ice cream here! It's not like I have been doing this all day!" Scott answered sarcastically, as he panted, "Let me just magic you across the country!" Turning to Katie, he winced to the catira's chagrin, "We may need to regroup." 

Looking outside, Hoot found personnel running down the hallway. "What's going on?" Hoot asked, as one of the personal, a sirian nurse, ran up to him. "I don't know," The nurse answered, "there was a loud noise and-" Suddenly there was commotion outside causing Hoot to look out and see the massive form of Rox walking in their direction.. "Holy (censored)!" Hoot exclaimed before going in front of the duck like entity, "Hold on! What the heck are you doing here?" "We're here for our friend Beowulf, one of us Jewels." Rox answered plainly, "Please bring us to him." Monetarily turning to a surprised Jerry and Primo who were returning from the bathroom, Hoot looked back and spotted Lugh and Richat behind the duck like humaniod. Looking back to Rox, he asked "Why do you want him?" "We want to have a word with him along with your superiors." Lugh answered stepping forward, "If they are available." "What the heck is going on? Primo and I were waiting in the back and you let these cultists in!?" Jerry called out. Hearing this, Roxx chuckled as Lugh sighed, saying, "As far as I remembered, where" "What part of throwing a garuda out of the window counts as  being justified!?" Hoot asked, "Look, we're in the middle of an operation so if you want to meet with the captain, then you'll have t- what?" Turning around Hoot found, Beo in the doorway. "Beowulf," Lugh said, "we want a word with you."

"It looks like they're retreating." Verdtrus stated watching the agents through a pair of binoculars, "We should be safe for now." Lowering the goggles, he looked to Raidos as she walked away from Kuriuno, who was fostering her bruised face, asking, "You alright?" "Yes," Raidos answered looking to Flaron who was watching the ruins with Tameron, in his civilian form, standing behind her, "I'm fine." Seeing what she was looking at, Verdtrus "I'm sorry for Flarons outburst, she's just had a rough few days  but-" "It's alright, Kuri besides needed it." Raidos answered, "Ever since she has been chosen by Elysium, she has been on more and more fanatic believe it or not. Always saying that Elysium must sastified and that we must give her the blood of the impure and all." "Wait," Verdtrus asked, "Elysium?" "It's the core our city." Raidos explained, "It's what you call a compter. "  Hearing this, Verdtrus face contorted into that of concern, but before he could press further,  Eithine called out, "Verdtrus, a word?" Walking to the numian, Verdtrus found Eithine and Chromdraco watching the ruins of the battleship as Omnidec and Voidmond stood by loozing at the sky. "What is it?" Verdtrus asked. "We need to do something about that creature." Eithine stated, "If we let it remain as it is, it could cause trouble for the locals." "I see. Voidmond, can you-?" Verdtrus started turning to Voidmond, but he found nothing. "Voidmond?" he called out looking around, seeing that Omnidec has vanished as well. "Voidmond!? Omnidec!?"

Flashing into existence on the cliffside, Omnidec staggered to his knees as Voidmond scanned the skyline. "Man, next time warn me when you're going to do that!" Omnidec complained, "How do you do that anyway?" "I convinced Mordecai to lend me some of those blue crystals from the artifacts, specifically the necklace of Noas." "Wait! Doesn't that thing have a three use limit?" "Normally, " Voidmond answered, "if it weren't for the overabundance of Chemical X." Eyes widening, Omnidec exclaimed, "Wha- what are you talking about!?" "I used five percent of the supply to over charge the crystals?" Voidmond explained, "It's basically raw Requeim energy." Dumbfounded, Omnidec merely stated, "Dude! We use that for fuel!" "Move!" Voidmond exclaimed suddenly as he pushed the homunculi out of the way before a burst of energy could strike him down. Getting up, Voidmond exclaimed, "Shoot! Omni, are you alright?" "Yeah." Omnidec answered, "Where is he?" "Over here!" A young voice called out causing the two to turn to a hooded figure wearing a white hooded cloak starring them down. 

 As the agents walked towards the entrance, Blueacon frequently looked back to the Ship. "Well what do we do now?" Chase asked, as Matt and Chipp carried Scott by the arms, "Half our team is (censored) and the knights know we're here!" "We know what the belts can do now," Chipp answered, "so maybe we can try again tonight. Let's just get the others to the hospital first so-" Suddenly a loud groan was heard in the distance causing the group to turn to the distant ruins of the South Atlantian ship. "Uhhh guys?" Matt asked, "What's that?" Blueacon, hearing the noise unleashed his blades exclaiming, "(It's that thing from the ship!)" "(Censored)!" Chipp cursed, "Q can you take Scott?" "I have one arm you know!" Q answered, grabbing Scott's arm. "Chase, Katie, Matt!" Chipp started "I need you three with me on this one! Wisey, get Q and Scott to the entrance!" "I- yes sir." Wisey complied, "good luck!" Turning to Blueacon, Chipp asked, "You up for this?" However, finding nothing Chipp and the others looked around only to find the transformed garuda running towards the crashed vessel. "HEY! WHERE ARE YOU GOING!?" Chipp called out before Katie began to chase after him.  "Come on!" Chase called back as he and Matt followed after the catira. Grunting, Chipp ran after the three as Wisey and Q carried Scott towards the entrance of the quarry.

"(Censored)!" Chromdraco cursed, looking through the binoculars, "they're coming back!" "What!?" Verdtrus exclaimed, "Let me see!" After looking through the binoculars, Verdtrus said, "No, they're moving towards the ship, not here." Lowering the binoculars, Verdtrus turned back to Eithine, asking, "Eithine, are the deers watching." Looking at the the battle maidens, she answered, "No, why?" "Send someone over to help the agents." "What?" Eithine protested, "They just tried to attack us!" "I rather have the agents hounding us than let some warmongers have a weapon of mass destruction!" Verdtrus answered turning to Kaiser who was pulling Rick from the side of the Grendel, "Also Voidmond and Omnidec had apparently vanished into thin air, so we may need to check to see if they're okay." "Hey!" Kaitres called out, pointing to the agent's direction, "What are those punks doing now!?" As Kuriuno got up, Eithine turned to Verdtrus asking, "I suggest we should send in Kaiser, he should-" "HEY WAIT!" Raidos called out as both Kuriuno and Kaitres leaped off of the side of the Grendel with Raidos following after. Cursing, Verdtus was about to say something when Flaron leaped off of the side as well. "HEY! WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING!?" Verdtrus exclaimed as he reached the railing. "Don't Worry! I'll cover her!" Tameron called out, readying to transform, "EVO!" Suddenly the humonculus was covered in light when suddenly it quickly disapated, leaving a confused Tameron standing there. "Huh." He commented awkwardly scratching the back of his head, "Must have burnt myself out. Alright, Metamorpher it is then." after using his Metamorpher to transform into his knight-like form, he leaped over the side as Verdtrus turned to the crew, exclaiming, I want all hands on deck to help NOW!"

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