The Second Realm.

"The Fracture"

"The Law is sacred...even you, the Emperor of the Nine, must abide by its sacred pact. You will not travel to the Second Realm to aide the Humans, Xremisis." A black humanoid dragon-like creature clad in imperial regalia armour with four spiny wings told to his Emperor. The Emperor, who was a platinum and obsidian scaled humanoid dragon with two large black wings clad in Roman-like armour. He stood a well over a foot against the naysayer.

"If the Law is clear that one of the Nonoarchy cannot aide the Second Realm. Then, this will be my abdication from the Celestial Throne of Nuria and all of her holdings. The Second Realm falls to corruption and demonic presences. Hell is already making their moves and deployed Trigon to conquer it. Heaven is too cowardly to fight the injustice and corruption that the Wyraa brings. And it seems that my own people have fallen to cowardice."

Xremisis turned to face the ever nightly realm before him, with the Moon shining brilliantly across his scales and armour. He lowered his head to see his vast city, Nuria, the home of the Nurian Empire, and the Nurian people and the Akeuria Doctrine, the Faith of the Nurian which single handedly made them survive the onslaught of Angelic and Demonic invasions over eternity.

"My Emperor, you would abandon your sacred duty to lead the Nurians to aide the Second Realm. What are you proposing is madness. The Red Legion will destroy the Empire without the Full Nonoarchy to stem them."

"Luxzaria will lead you, she is capable for rule as am I. My mission is critical for the survival of Nuria, if the Second Realm falls our people will fall. If the Empire falls, then so be it. But we cannot allow the Wyraa to consume the Second Realm and inevitably, destroy the Akeuria Doctrine again like our predecessors. Action, not inaction will secure victory, Kreaium, Archnuria of Souls."

The Black Nurian bowed before the Emperor, completely humbled by his honour and pride. He knew it must be done, but the Law in which that guided him for tens of millennia, he could not help to think that the Emperor was only acting as if he were a pupling. Xremisis signaled for him to rise.

"Open the door, you have served these halls before Vahamut himself restored them. I only ask of this command, treat me as your Emperor, not as your grandson."

"You will be weak in the Second Realm, the Non-physical realm. You will not be able to defeat the Wryaa alone. There are great Akrisas in the Second Realm, find them, and you may be able to survive."

"I have studied the scripture on the Second Realm, yet I feel that you are not telling me something."

"Indeed, this is my final persuasion. The Second Realm is a one way gate, once you pass through, you will never return. Unless you set you wish to set off the Endwar, however."

"We all must make sacrifices, Kreaium, All of the Emperors before me have made that sacrifice, awaken the Door."

Kreaium simply nodded and backed off of the Emperor. He raised his left claw and with his middle talon effortlessly ripped a black passage in the middle of the observatory-like structure they were in. The Emperor approached the portal that would lead to the Second Realm. He stood before the great passage and before he entered; he summoned a great spear that was nearly 4 foot taller than him. His black eyes with blue irises crossed Kreaium's green eyes before he entered the warp field.

"Goodbye, old friend."

He walked through and was suddenly stricken with blindness. Impossible, he thought, he was the Archnurian of the Night and Moon, darkness was as much as sight to him as light. The blindness lifted, Xremisis saw a white glow coming from the top right of his blurry vision. He began to here the crashing of waves, soon enough he began to feel that he was being carried by water. But suddenly he felt a feeling that he could not breath as if something was blocking his energy from reaching him. He felt a wave crash onto him; sending to a rocky beach in which introduce him to the concept of pain, but at least he could breathe as the water retreated from him. It was completely dark. He tried to get up but something would not let him. He could manoeuvre around a bit, but he could not turn over or lift himself up.

"I had not imagine that the Non-Physical makes me this weak." The Nurian said to himself. deduced that his armour was the reason he could not get up. He commanded that his armour detach from him. But it did not happen, frustrated, he ripped it off his body. Now he was confused, he apparently had enough strength to rip off his armour, but not wear it.

"It seems that my constitution was weaken not my strength. Or the laws of Intermediate are different here."

But in actuality, Xremisis realized that his armour was huge compared to himself on the orders of four to one as he emerged from the destroyed armour. Surprised, he founded that he shrunk to about six feet. He realized that would nearly reduce his constitution by a factor of 16, but he reasoned that all of his power could have been affected this way. He stood up to get his bearings, he stretched his wings and tail, which confirmed that he was not humanized. At least he got that right. He looked up into the sky, while most residences would just see stars, Xremisis saw the First Realm, his home and everything physical or energetic. Xremisis also felt young, as if the centuries he had been alive was no more compared to crawling pupling compared to this realm, in fact, it felt older than the First Realm. Perhaps, maybe this Second Realm was older than the First?

He turned his gaze towards the horizon, apparently he was on a beach, which concluded that he must have travelled the Sea of Realms to get here, or Kreaium was careless where to put his abdicated liege since he was not coming back. He kept gazing certain to find signs of life as he felt plenty while arriving here. His eyes found the bright glow of a city powered by tamed light or as the natives referred to it, "electricity."

"They are more advanced then we thought." He noted as saw the tall structures that the humans have built. He reasoned that he was only about 20 kilometres from the city. But before he headed to civilization he needed assess how powerful he was. Since the place had night-time and a Moon he was sure that his powers would transferable. He tried his most essential power, flight. He stretched his wings, they disappeared into the night, and with the only the moon outlining them. He jumped into the air and soon behold he was floating in the clouds. He mentally checked off flight which was an essential power he needed, the wings were the main source of his power. He tried his next power, he formed a bright silvery white sphere around him and reappeared back where he was before he took flight instantaneously.

"Excellent, flight and blinking work." Blinking was the term of instant transportation across a relatively small space.

Two auras of energy now surrounded forearms, one was warping the space around into a dark gas, and the other was burning a silver flame. He clenched his claw and punched a nearby rock. The next thing he noticed was water was filling in the crater. He blinked to higher ground a few hundred feet away. The crater he left was about 10 meters deep and a diameter of 15 meters.

"What holds this place together, some type of cotton?"

He threw some punches with his right arm into the air, it did not leave craters but left flames that dissipated into the night around him. He disbanded his physical powers and took a deep breath. He focused a lonely tree in the distance about 500 meters away. He stamped into the ground, took a huge breath and a highly energetic white beam projected from his maw. The cone of white energy sawed the tree in half and everything within a half meter of it was on white fire or turned into rarefied plasma.

"It seems my physical and my Nurian powers are fine. No other problems other than this huge size reduction, but I can carry that burden. Now, my hope is that city is infested with Wyraa, or at least not overrun by it. No Divine powers until I find a Wyraa Lieutenant of such. Even then, I should not be to visible."

The Nurian took to flight as he sensed the night would not last forever unlike his home. He would not know what would happen if he was caught out in sunlight.

"Friend, ROBIN! Will you like try my bakely fresh pizza pie! I offer this to the entire team as well!" The redhead alien said to her leader who gave out a tired smile. The pizza actually looked pretty tasty to him, if he were a Tamaranean.

"Sure, Garfield. your on taste tasting." Robin ordered Beast Boy to act as a vanguard.

"Alright, I can handle it, nothing like a just..." Beast Boy casually chewed on the pizza, in which was more like a seafood platter than anything else, especially squid. The changeling could hardly bear it especially considering his animalistc nature, but an sad Starfire was unbearable and dangerous. Robin expected him to spit it out any time. He of course harboured some feelings for her, but consuming what she made might cut a few years of his life.

"...see, this ain't nothing bad, this is the spot! In fact! Hit me up again! A WHOLE pizza, Star!" Beast Boy misleadingly said.

Starfire's face lit up with glee, finally something that her fellow friends would eat, well at least one.

"Time to kiss up, Robin. At least Kory can cook better than your 'barbecue' charcoal." A familiar voice told Robin as he walked into the lounge and causally ate a piece of the pizza.

"Okay!" Robin exclaimed and wolfishly ate on piece of Starfire's pizza. For him, it was personally torture, but the sensation of tentacles going down made him run to the bathroom. Starfire was shocked, Robin's face was nearly green when he ran past her.

"Friend Robin, did I put to much of the ancohives? Or was it the octopuses or octopi? Robin? Cyborg? Did friend Raven want any?"

"Ehh, she said she was on diet, too many of Beast Boy's Tofu sloppy joes." Cyborg retorted, drinking a suspicious amount of soda.

"Tofu sloppy joes, is that some type of mating call?" Starfire curiously asked. Beast Boy began to laugh uncontrollably, shifting into a bunch of animals, but mostly a lemur.

"No, Kory, it's a sandwich, a very lazy one at that!"

"Hey, not everyone has time for Spanish or Italian food Vic."

"Boy...if you are suggesting..."

"Please, Chrome Dome, I can outcook you any day. any time."

"Friends! Please, I enjoyed all food, even Robin's...L'sorkia. But, I must attend with Robin, I fear he might have the Glork-glorks." Star rushed to Robin's aide after they heard a huge groan coming from the bathroom and vomiting. After the door closed, Cyborg and Beast Boy turned the gazes back towards each other with intense rivalry...

"Let games begin, Tofu Toy." Cyborg cracked knuckles as he rushed to the kitchen.

"What are you two boneheads doing?" The blue cloaked girl emerged from a portal. Just as Beast turned into a falcon to get to the kitchen.

"Raven, this is between me and Garfield. You can be our judge." Cyborg said while trying bat away Beast Boy raiding the pantry closets. He turned back to his regular form. Raven was not amused, but she did see the pizza on the counter and decided to have some, it was right there and she thought why the Hell not.

"Hmmm, just needs little pepper...Beast would you please do so?" Her recommendation of the spice was answered by a flying can of pepper that nearly struck her if she had not been paying attention. She causally stopped in mid flight and applied the pepper to her pizza before launching it back to the kitchen, striking an unsuspecting Cyborg which she meant for Beast Boy.

"I want the stove!" Beast Boy said.

"You can't handle the STOVE!" Cyborg said recovering from the can of pepper striking him. The fighting duo tried cook their own meals while Raven turned on the TV to check the local news in case of any late night attacks. She thought she might as well amuse herself with boys' struggle back there, it was a long day of meditating and nothing happened in the city.

"Don't take too long." Raven warned them as she waited. Ten minutes later a large bright explosion caught her right eye. It seemed to come from the bridge. Expectedly, the sirens went off, and Robin burst out of the bathroom. Cyborg and Beast Boy halted their fighting. Starfire was with Robin. He took a few seconds to say anything.

"JCPD are saying there's a fight broken out, one is seemingly a Gondorion, but unlike anything we've seen. The other is demonic entity. We need to get down there and figure what is going on. Titans GO!" Robin said sickly and about puke again.

"It is definitely the Glork-glorks..."

The Nurian was approaching the City. He began to scan the area for any Wyraa. To his surprised mind, there were not much Wyraa, to be found. He stopped in midair to get a good look at the city and turned his body to do a full scan. But to his expectation, the heart of the city was filled with Wyraa ready to to strike. Their leader only needed to give their command.

"It seems that these Demons want to corrupt the native human population to serve them rather than launch a full invasion. Despicable, they cannot fight against the Empire so they resort to this, sacrilege." He disapproved of the underhanded ways of the Wyraa. Though he knew that actual purpose of the Humans were just to give the Angels another food source. He scanned to find the commander of the Wyraa. If managed to find it then victims of them wouldn't be harmed.

"Where are you..." He said and his eyes locked on to a high level floor in a large skyscrapers. Actually, there were several lieutenants across the skyscrapers. He decided he could take them one at a time.

"So much for their achievements." The Nurian realized that Wyraa have been forcefully advancing Humanity so they could reap it's benefits and satisfy their power fantasies. Xremisis raised his left, a bright explosion came from the Moon behind him, and launched a bolt at the skyscraper. He blinked to the impact zone, he rematerialzed and retrieved his spear with that left hand. He wasted no time with introductions and powered his wings backwards which sent him flying towards his target with breakneck speed. Only to slapped aside like fly in the midsts. He landed his feet and looked at his enemy. At first it seemed human just waking up, but it slowly started to deform. Spins were growing every from it's body, teeth growing wickedly, it's skin began to shed off revealing a blood soaked leathery coat. One wing exploded out it's right side. It looked amusing toward the Nurian with a hungry bloodthirsty red eyes.

"Do you Nurians have any respect of curiosity? Or least subtly. You are nothing but a mere pawn here..." It said

Xremisis did not care for words in battle, especially after that embarrassing strike that the Wyraa managed on him. He blinked behind the demon and struck his spear through the heart of monster before kicking into the wall. He blinked to him and picked up the now full transformed demon. He pointed his spear at his secondary heart.

"Eh, a Nurian, this is a clear...violation...of your law. No...less the Emperor himself..." The Wyraa had a sudden change in attitude after being counterattacked. It began coughing blood and it was clear that Xremisis managed a decisive blow on him.

"Your Lord, why has he wasted all of this Wyraa here. Tell me, and I might let you embrace the Akeuria Doctrine." Xremisis said coarsely, the Demon began to laugh, spitting his blood into Xremisis's face and black hair.

"Humans, they are so corruptible, just pay them a little bit of paper or numbers and they worship you. They are bound to you. These creatures were made to be my master's and my servants. But for you...your strength isn't what it seems." Demon laughed again. He unleashed a deluge of reddish fire that distracted Xremisis. The Wyraa sent the Nurian flying out the building after a single leg kick. He followed in pursuit after the Nurian. Xremisis regained his balanced in flight.

"Why are the Wyraa so strong here?" Xremisis remarked as he took a deep breath and breathed a cone of Lunar energy at the rapidly advancing Wyraa. It stopped it in its tracks and fell down into streets. Xremisis blinked to be about 5 meters from him and with a flap of his wings he jumped into the air, lowered his spear, aimed his spear at the leg, and blinked. A roar was heard in the crater were the Demon landed. Xremisis pulled the blade out, flipped and attempted to strike the secondary heart before he felt an unbearable heat cross his shoulders, which made him roar in pain as well.

"Impossible..." He though as he saw his wound, white blood was pouring out from as he grasped it with his right hand. It quickly began to heal before the Wyraa once again smacked him into corner shop like a ragdoll. Xremisis focused on his spear and lifted the body of the demon out the crater. He then tried to pin the Wyraa to the side of a building. But it slipped out, the spear blinked to Xremisis hand again. He saw humans in blue outfits trying to shoot the demon, others when some type armor coming after him. He scanned them and found them to be harmless...until one shot their guns at him. In which he grieved in pain again, he blinked to safety to heal for second. In which he saw the Wyraa arm himself with black blade that grew from the ground. With one spin, everyone on the street in a 40 meter radius was decapitated. Red ran through the streets, the response the Nurian had was to charge his spear and bolt towards the Wyraa. Their weapons clashed, which blew everything apart and sent a white beam of energy to the sky. The Wyraa smiled.

"Aww, did I hurt someone's feelings." It replied in a mocking patronizing way. However, his sword shattered, and Xremisis kept the same velocity as when the clashed. Impaling the Wyraa, but missing the second heart. He retreated the spear, hovered over the Wyraa's second heart. And began to charge it with Lunar energy.

"kit sa fiuira Mea!" Xremisis insulted the Wyraa before he struck. However, the the coup de grace was stopped as the demon simply grabbed the spear mid strike and simply blasted him away across the city, striking several buildings. He landed on a bridge on his back. He saw the Wyraa appear instantly in the sky with his sword falling towards him. He blocked the strike with his spear, causing a burst of energy to send the Demon upwards and landed on a car, causing it to explode. The explosion rocked the bridge side to side, which made the Wyraa struggle to maintain is asymmetrical form but Xremisis maintained his balanced as got back up.

"Why haven't you called your friends." He thought to himself as the Demon recollected himself after his torn to pieces from the attack. Xremisis, blinked, twirled, blinked to dodge an swing, ducked, swung his spear to remove the Wyraa's leg, came around and removed the Wyraa's sword arm. He used his right armed pulsing with nightly energy to rip into the demon's chest and rip out his second heart. The Wyraa roared and clamped his maw onto Xremisis's neck before he could crush the heart. The Nurian pushed the Wyraa off his neck by blasting him with his spear, The Wyraa licked his lips. Nurian blood was a delicacy for him as if he was satisfied with defeat anyway.

"Kill me, I am only a mere lieutenant, this realm belongs to the Lord Trigon and King Lucifer. Next is yours, my Majesty." The Wyraa's final remark warned Xremisis.

"Not unless I end you all." The Nurian crushed his right hand, destroying the heart and killing the demon outright. The Nurian then began to breath a white fire that burned away the demon's body so it would not be consumed by other Wyraa. The body decayed under the hot flames that Xremisis produced. However, it beamed a red light, in which Xremisis scanned the bridge.

"His death has seemed to call his loyal soldiers to him...that, is not supposed to happen to him. Very well, if they want an audience, I will give them one." He said as the nearby humans started shift into lesser Wyraa, which were mostly fauna that roamed Hell. Xremisis armed himself again, and proceeded to slay the new beasts by simply blink slashing them. They were dumb creatures unlike Wyraa. Xremisis had dealt with plenty of them. A simple thrust to the chest ended them, and there were not that many of them, so he induced that killing a lieutenant would only spawn lesser Wyraa nearby. He finally ended the last one. He took a deep breath to calm himself, but he only heard the screams of terrified humans running away from the bridge.

"This is certainly not a good arrival. That Wyraa should have been executed perfectly..."

Overwhelmed with failure and sudden pain, he felt the Akeuria Doctrine giving him a beating for being so reckless for such a unworthy foe. He expended much energy and gained little. He collapsed onto a care using his spear as stand.

"Miurius aer Erakoin? Rrerusiua, se moraetie aeif knaufnot? Skriuarinm!" Xremisis heard as the Doctrine berated his performance. He endured the punishment given. It seemed that even that was not the Emperor anymore, that he would still be set to the same standards of fight as if he were.

"Mrkutria, Saoa...RETORAIUR." He heard followed a wave a pain which caused him roar and project a beam a lunar light to towards the sky. He felt the pain recede as he began to breath regularly again. Then his eyes turned towards the horizon. He saw dawn rising...his vision of the First Realm, shattered before him as the great light arched over the horizon seemingly accelerated.

"Impossible, there's still ten hours remaining of the night..."

He felt the Sun's warmth on his scales in which he began to depower immensely, becoming neutralized, and humiliated even more. He could feel his spear wither away to dust, then his wings, then his scales, then his powers, then his spirit. Throughout the process was sheer despair he felt. He began to burn black and white which caused him immense pain as well. He felt as if were dying...the Sun was the sole reason that demons haven't taken over, the power of it was simply overwhelming for a Nurian, and would outright kill any Wyraa it came in contact with. It felt as is he was stripped naked in front of the two Creators in which everything came from. He raised his hand...

"What? These aren't my hands, can't it be?"

The Nurian inspected himself, his Nurian form was burned away by the Sun. His counterpart Aspect. It had strip him of his already weakened form. His hands were now human not the clawed talons he was used to seeing.

"It must be when I calling my power is that I am shortening the day..." He realized, he gathered himself together and stood up. He scanned his body, it was human but he was wearing just a normal black T-shirt, dark jeans, his skin was golden-brown as if the fire roasted his skin as well. He looked for a mirror before he saw one on a car next to him. His eyes were not changed as the scarlea were still black while his irises were Arctic blue. He found that he still had his black hair, his lean tail was gone as well, and his horns were too. Physically devastated, he needed to find safety above all else now, he was vulnerable. He turned around to see a human standing right in front of him with a white mask that covered his eyes. He wore a weird uniform of red, yellow, and green with badge on his left side with R. He jumped backwards, unknowingly, as if his Nurian instincts were replaced with Human ones. However, he assumed a defensive stance as he remember the last humans shot him with some force. He narrowed his eyes at the figure that stood in front of him.

"Who are you...and what do you want?" Xremisis asked his voice was very average for a human of his type. The spiky haired masked man simply stared at him. As if he seen things just as terrible as Xremisis.

"More to the question, What are you, a Gordanian, have you mastered shape-shifting, albeit a very spectacular way."

"A what? Answer my question first, human, then we can get on an equal footing."

"Robin, that's all you need to know."

"Friend Robin! This isn't Gordanian! This is a...uh."

Xremisis noticed a humanoid girl floating off the side of the bridge, this baffled the Nurian. When did Humans mastered flight? However a scan realized she wasn't Human, neither Wyraa, or Angelic, or Nurian, something completely different.

"Ehy, eyes over here, she could easy knock you out if you give her a funny look. Pay no attention to the alien girl. Now who are you, before we send you off."

"Send me off to where? Stop giving me questions to ask."

"Disregard it...just tell me who you are."

"Well, I am Xremisis..."

"That name doesn't ring a bell to me." Said a green wolf emerging from the side of wreckage of car.

"It's not from here..." Xremisis aggressively responded, he did not know better that wolves did not talk or were green.

"Easy there, at least you can understand our language. Now tell me, what were you fighting."

"You saw me fight? Impossible."

"Dude, nearly everyone the city saw it." The wolf interjected.

"Beast Boy, shut it." Robin

"Enough of this, it's clear that don't have a purpose for this." The Nurian said and turned around only to meet a women in blue robes standing in front of him now. He did not even need to have scan to prove something was way off with this women. She was practically a walking Lady of the Wyraa, but yet seemed disjointed, not unified, and the most baffling question it did not attack him, or was eviscerated by the Sun.

"If I were you, I would be patient." She bluntly said, he could absolutely tell that she was an empath, he felt an invasive presence seemingly watching his emotion.

"And in what world, does a Wyraa, command a Nurian."

"This one, Xremisis."

The Nurian felt a peace suddenly, he obviously knew the empath was doing something, but he had this involuntary reaction to turn back to face Robin.

"Now, are you human? Altered, Slade's henchmen? Or just a random bloke."

"I am a Nurian..." Xremisis obviously didn't want to reveal the hidden secret so easily but this Human body had an absolutely terrible defence against any, and that Wyraa was extremely powerful. However, he found an exploit in her power, she was extremely unstable, especially prone to anger, if he could trigger it.

"Raven, do you have any idea what a 'Nurian' is."

"Very, very little...stop it..." The blue cloaked women said, foiling the Nurian's plan.

"Say, Raven, can you control him for bit longer, I want to bring to the tower."

"I can barely contain him now. Who knows when dusk comes back." Raven said concentrating extremely hard to not let Xremisis set off her anger. She realized that too many people would get hurt if she let him win. Maybe she could reason with the Nurian.

"Just come with us, we aren't here to harm you, we can help you, if it means anything, I felt your pain too." Raven said mentally to the human Nurian. He backed off of Raven's emotions and cooled down.

"Fine...I suppose I can attend to a council." He said with puffy attitude.

"Does this mean he's coming with us?" Beast Boy said.

"I am wary, he could be very dangerous." Starfire mentioned. Robin waved his hand.

"Vic, bring the T-ship around, we are extracting him...Yes...Rae got him under control for now...yes I will pay the gas bill. NO WE ARE NOT HAVING PIZZA TONIGHT AGAIN!" Robin used his communicator to buzz Cyborg.

"Welcome to Jump City, werido!" Beast Boy commeted.

"Thanks for the greeting, Bush Boy." Xremisis 'accidentally' said his name wrong.