Chapter one:

It was a day unlike any other. A special meeting had been called and all were to report at once. Near the pier, a set of cars rolled up. All windows were blacken. They quickly exited their vehicles and made their way into the warehouse that was in front of them. It was a hot day. Hotter than usual. Since the city itself was destroyed the rubble and the debris still laid all scattered around. The men met inside the warehouse. Clothed in shadow they moved through the darkness. Inside the warehouse a set of chairs were placed. All twelve of the seats soon became occupied. From behind one man entered. "Gentlemen. I'm glad you could make it in such conditions and under short notice." The man moved forward and stood in front of all of them. They watched in silence. "Due to the unfortunate circumstances of Dr. Bronsworth demise, we have seem to be in a situation. As you know the Blood Moon of Anglemal is rapidly approaching and we are lost without Dr. Bronsworth. However, informants have revealed to us that the main component in Dr. Bronsworth research is no longer in our possession. It was stolen from us."

Whispers broke out between the men who were sitting in the chairs. "Gentlemen please. We have not entirely lost this main component. We believe it to be in the possession of a group of ragtag hoodlums. These were the assailants who killed Dr. Bronsworth. We must not let these people escape. We must not let the Soldiers of Light obtain this main component." The man held up a remote and with a single push of a button a screen dropped from above. "These are our targets." The man said and with another button a photo appeared. It was a picture of a young blonde girl. In the picture she is shown wielding a small handgun. "Samantha. Time Traveler. Engineer. Original possessor of the main component. Extremely dangerous." He pushed the button. This picture showed a woman with short red hair, reading a book. "Jane K. Scientist and recent employ working under Dr. Bronsworth. No threat." The next click of the button was followed with shrieks of horror. One man in the back bent over and puked. More murmuring broke out as the men in the chairs grew restless. "Gentlemen please. Do calm down! I know this is unsettling. But this is what we are up against." The man standing was obviously getting impatient. Though the picture itself did turn his stomach upside down as well. It was a picture of another young girl. Hair as red as fire. She was sitting at a conference table, pouring what looks like cups of coffee. She sat at the one of the table. In the rest of the chairs were headless bodies. Their fingers were smashed and some even had their hands nailed to the table. Blood was splattered all across the table. Several of the heads were placed on top of the table. Their jaws were ripped apart and inside were little coffee mugs. Teeth were scattered across the table and in the corner there seemed like a necklace made out of teeth in progress. The woman sat at the end with her bare feet up on the table. She wore a bus cap. And on her face, was a grin that sent shivers down everyone's spine inside the warehouse. "We do not know who this woman is or where she comes from. There appears to be no record of her at all. But all we know is that this one is extremely dangerous." The men nodded in agreement.

The next picture that came up was a picture of another young woman. She had short blue hair and was descending from the air vents. "This one is an interesting case. There appears to be a file on her. A large one. Ellipsis Tannin. Ex-spy, specializes in espionage, counter espionage, and assassination. She was recruited during the several world wars and has proven to be quiet a nuisance. We are not entirely sure of what she is capable of but from observations we know that she is of supernatural origin. This one should be taken out immediately if we are going to obtain the main component."

"And last but not least." The man said as he switched to the next photo. This one showed a large woman. She was tan and had short dyed pink hair. The photo showed her punching a guard in the face. "This one is interesting. We know she is of a pacific island origin. She was a pit fighter in an underground fighting ring. Her name is Io, though her last name is not known. No known family. Threat level would be moderate. Gentlemen. You have now seen the enemy. Copies of the briefing will be handed out. We must get the main component before the ritual can began. IF we fail we may never unlock the gateway to the Umbral Sphere and our queen may never rise again." With that said, the men all got up and left the warehouse. They piled back into their cars and drove off. The day was still young and there was much work to be done.

Meanwhile. On the other side of the ruined city, a bus stopped at a local diner on the edge of town. Inside, a group of friends were planning a trip. "I say we go see the championship fight of 87." Io said as she slammed her hands on the table. "I don't think seeing a fist fighting match that occurred a few decades ago would be a wise use of time traveling." Jane said as she folded her arms staring at Io. "We should use this new piece of technology for something useful. To discover what was lost in history and bring light to it." "Blah! Boring!" Nyssia said as she ducked under the table. "How about a nice trip in the past, like say a few hundred years. It would be nice to see what this city was like a few hundred years ago. Even before my time." Samantha said. "Uh. That's probably not such a good idea." Ellipsis said as she stared at the table with her head down. "Why not?" Samantha asked. "Well. Let's just say it involved the deputy's wife. Her sister. And a small badger. I'm not sure if we would last five minutes in the city." "Jeeze Blu." Io said as she leaned back in her seat. Nyssia popped back up from the table. "Oh! I know! Let's go back into the past and meet up with ourselves and have a tea party!"

"That sounds like a terrible idea. We don't know if meeting our past selves would cause a paradox and unscramble the space time continuum." Jane said. "Actually I think that's a whole load of bullshit." Ellipsis said. "And besides if I met myself from the past I think that would be totally rad, would defiantly tell myself not to go to that party in 1790." Nyssia started to get agitated as she picked up the silverware and started to bang it against the glasses. The waitress came over with some paper and some crayons. "Here sweetie, why don't you draw something nice?" She laid down a piece of paper with a nice picture of some kids playing in a park. Then she handed Nyssia a box of crayons, a red one, a blue one, a yellow one and a green one. Nyssia quickly grabbed the crayons and the paper and started to doodle. In a matter of moments she quickly drew an army of stick figures marching through the park accompanied by tanks and bombers. She smiled intensely as she continued to draw. The group continued to discuss where they should go. Utmost to them another group entered the diner and took the both across from them. There were four of them and they sat down quietly. They were dressed in long trench coats. Some of them wore gloves. They didn't say a word. One of them pulled out a piece of cloth with a red stain on it. The other pulled out what looked like a small compass and handed to the man who had the piece of cloth. They placed the compass on top of the piece of cloth and the needle started to spin like crazy. All watched with anticipation. The needle stopped suddenly and pointed towards Ellipsis who at this time was quietly pouring vodka in her drink from a flask.

"For the last time Nyssia! We are not going into the past to steal the King of England's underpants." Samantha said in frustrations as she sunk into her seat and rubbed her forehead with her hand. It was at this point that one of the men got up and walked over to the table where the group was. He stood in front of them without saying anything. They suddenly stopped their chatter and took notice of the stranger who was standing in front of them. It was his silence that put everyone on edge. "Um can I help you?" Asked Ellipsis who stared at him while reaching into her bag and pulling out a cigarette. "You can die you unholy spawn." He said as he whipped out a wooden stake and rammed it into Ellipsis's chest. Ellipsis let out a scream as the stake went into her chest and punctured her heart. Everyone at the table jumped in shock at the sight. Ellipsis moaned a bit. The stake went through her chest, punctured her heart, went through the heart and pinned her to the seat. She twitched a bit as she looked down at the stake. "Ow! Asshole! I dropped my cigarette." She said as she grabbed the stake. With a good twist and a long scream, she yanked the stake from her. The man backed up in fright. "What the hell!?" Io cried out. Everyone else was in a state of shock and awe at the scene. Io took after the man as she climbed over the table, knocking the drinks everywhere. She tackled the man and started to punch him in his face. The man's friends quickly got up to assist him as he started to spit blood. As they approached Io one of them took out a taser and shocked Io. She quickly fell over and started to twitch a bit. Ellipsis jumped out of her seat and wrapped her arm around the throat of one of the men and pulled him away from Io. The next one to scramble to their feet was Nyssia. Clutching the crayons she had been using to draw she lunged at the man on the ground, landing on top of him. She raised a fistful of crayons and jammed them into the man's eye. The man let out a horrific scream as the crayons were stabbed into his left eye. He tried to roll over but Nyssia was on top of him. More blood started to drip onto the floor.

The other guy got up and went over to Nyssia and kicked her in the face. Nyssia rolled off the guy and fell to the ground. The guy then got up and ran back. Ellipsis, who was holding the guy, suddenly tossed him on top of a table and proceeded to slam his head on the table until he was knocked out. One of the men ran over to Ellipsis and held up a large crucifix in front of her and proceeded to mumble some words. Samantha quickly got up and ran over to the man who was holding the large cross. Grabbing a glass she smashed him in the face with it. Glass scattered everywhere on the ground. Samantha paused for a moment and look at the gross then looked up at Ellipsis who seemed just as confused as she was. The guy fell over to the ground and was unconscious. The last guy remained suddenly backed up and ran out of the diner. At this point the diner was cleared out. The few people who were inside all got up and ran out at the sight of the wooden stake going into Ellipsis. It was at this moment that the group looked at each other and decided to run out of the diner. First one out with Nyssia who ran straight to the bus. Next was Ellipsis, followed by Io. Samantha was next and last was Jane who before she ran out of the diner, placed money on the table including a tip and then ran inside the bus.

The bus took off but it wasn't long before Samantha spotted a group of black cars gaining on them. Among the cars a person leaned out of the passenger side and held out a submachine gun and proceeded to fire. "Oh crap not this again!" Samantha said as she got up from her seat and moved her way to the front of the bus. Ellipsis sat in the middle along with Io and Jane who examined the spot where the stake went through. To their surprised the wound itself was completely healed. Where the wound should have been on her chest was the start of her tattoos that spiraled all across her body. "How?" Jane said in astonishment. "It's really hard to kill me. What you think if an enormous amount of time energy accompanied with a huge amount of radiation didn't kill me a piece of wood through the heart would?"

"Well….um…vampires die when they get stabbed in heart, don't they?" Jane said in confusion. "You need to lay off the fiction. Most things will die if you stab it in the heart Doc. Even I know that." Io said boastfully. "Um. Okay but why didn't she die if she's a vampire?" Jane said as she look at Io. "Like I said Jane. It's a bit hard to kill me." Ellipsis said as she got up. "Who were those guys?" Jane asked. Ellipsis shrugged. The bus jumped a bit. Dust sprayed the windows. Samantha was up in the front of the bus along with Nyssia was decided to take the 'fun route' and go off-roading with the bus. The cars still followed them. "Everyone! I'm turning the time circuits on!" Samantha called out as she placed an oxygen mask on her face. Io and Jane scrambled to the front to get their masks on while Ellipsis just remained in her seat. Nyssia just inhaled a huge gulp of air and held her breath. Samantha took a red metal rod with a hop on one end and placed it inside a glass cylinder that had a metal top and bottom. Inside the container was a blue crystal that was hooked up with wires. On top of the crystal and beneath it were metal triangles with inscriptions on the edges. The cylinder then light up with lights all around the rim. With a twist of the wrist the two metal triangles started to spin. Their speed began to get faster and faster. The crystal glow with a bright hue. The light grew brighter and brighter. Objects all around inside of the bus started to float in midair. All around outside of the bus a blue light started to cover the outside of the bus. "Here we go again." Ellipsis said to herself as the bus vanished followed by a large explosion of blue energy.

The cars following the bus slowed down to a halt. In front of them was a crater where the bus had vanished. One man stepped out of the car. Looked around and pulled out a cellphone. "Yeah. This is Agent Hass. Get me Captain Aul…..Yes sir…They just left. Put out a search for them. They should come around again sooner or later." And with that the man hung up his cellphone, got back in his car and drove off.