The Name of the Nameless

Chapter 2 – Nekkar

CT woke up mere moments after AJr. He was blind temporarily, and panicked. Then, when he could see, he sat up. A portal was open, blazing as red as him in RAGE. He put a hand in, feeling warm, as if being slowly sun cooked, and pulled out a dark gray feather. And then he understood.

Jumping out of his bed, he dashed to his front room. He picked up his sneak suit jacket (A/N awesome , see my new skin), set it to armored mode, and ran back through the portal. He found himself on a bridge, surrounded by badlands. And then he saw the place for real.

Before he and TAB had had a civil war, this place, known as Nekkar, was as amazing as Zydonia. Now, it was burned, ruins of its former glory. There were tons of normal looking people, wandering the desert. They were old, or tired, and they were not doing so well. CT saw a man collapse, most likely from heatstroke. Then, a blur flew out of the sky. It swooped down on the body, and began devouring it.

CT fell to his knees and vomited. He knew what these were. He had defeated 2 of them to earn their services. In the ZEpicVerse, they were invisible. For these were what he called "twinkind," a brutal and destructive life force that ripped you limb from limb. From limb. Their real name was "shraika," or "soulstealer." But these "pets" of the twisted, demonic CT were known by him as the "Blessed," and the normal humans the "cursed."

When CT got up, he began moving forward towards the castle of Dark Eden. This was where he was born. As he looked at the castle, he tried to ignore the fact that it was now "dyed" the crimson color of blood.

As soon as he got off of the bridge, he drew his swords and connected them. He didn't want to be attacked by the Blessed. When the first human saw his weapons, he told his friends, and they immediately swarmed CT. He tried forcing them away, but they were overpowering with sheer numbers. He finally ended up knocking out a few, and managed to slip away in the chaos that followed. He didn't want to just leave the humans to die, but he had his priorities, and his wife came first with no contest.

Though it took him a week, CT finally made it to Dark Eden without getting killed. In the meantime, people in the other universe were fine. They had no clue of the danger TG973 was in, nor that both main leaders weren't even in their universe. Because, though weeks had passed, ZEpicVerse had stayed mostly the same. One minute had passed. Many more would before anyone realized anything was wrong. And by then, even if CT and AJr had survived, their age lock would have run out, and they would have died.

For even if the other universe waited an hour, Nekkar had waited a year.