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Chapter 2

Summoning and awakening

"I will not ask again?" lord fear demanded the students how where scattered all around the cafeteria "where is he? Has he gone off hiding?"

"In case you've forgotten I stopped hiding a year ago fear" mark retorted, his doom glove at the reedy I'll need to buy everyone some time until ace and sparx show up

What is going on? Diana thought behind a piller how do mark and this man know each other? And what are they talking about? What's this amulet he mentioned? Then it acquired to her is it marks talisman?

"Do you really think she'll forgive you after what you've done if you bring her back?" mark asked, a year ago he wouldn't say something like that. But a year can change people

He then turned to chuck and Kat "when I fire at him, get everyone out" they could only nod in agreement

Fear then fired a blast at mark with staffhead, but he did the same thing as well, but the force sent both of them flying backwards. As a result marks piece of the amulet came off the string it was cared on flung off loss, and fears piece came out of his pocket as well. By then everyone else was escorted out of the cafeteria

The both landed on the floor where Diana could see them if that man gets his hands on mark's talisman I don't even want to think about what will happen next. Immediately she picked them up and found an alternative route and ran.

"If you surrender your piece your death shale be painless" staffhead bargained

"Yeay right" mark scoffed, not believing staffhead for a minute

As lord fear prepared another blast, but then ace blasted his forearm. Behind him was sparx, sword at the reedy

"I thought you would be more subdual fear " he said "after 2 months of hiding, now you have the balls to attack my friends and several hundred innocent by-standers"

"Still it worked out fine for me, seeing as how it lured you here lightning" fear retorted.

"Enough with the small talk ace, let's kick this boneheads butt so hard he'll wish he stayed wherever the hell it was he was staying!" sparx cried

Ace then blasted the door "chuck dude, Kat. You 2 get everyone out of here, we'll take care of fear" he ordered.

With that all of the hiding students went with them

Diana was fairly fast, but she still could get tired easily.

As soon as she got half way through the hallway she was out of breath. And still clinging to the 2 pieces of the amulet.

He can't do this alone. She thought but what can I do to help?

She then remembered what mark had said

"What it does is send people or things to help me protect others when the pieces are put back together"

If he's telling the truth then something like this could help. Diana concluded but how on earth can I put this back together? It looks like it's been shattered so bad that you need a jeweler with a blow torch to do something like that.

She then just placed them together and then electricity began to form.

She tried to hold it steady, because it seemed to be resisting the pull of the electromagnetic connection

It might take all of my strength to use this she thought but it doesn't matter. Whatever you are and whatever you do mysterious talisman I beg you to send help to my friends.

Finally the pieces connected as 1

Ace, mark and sparx where almost at the verge of losing this fight due to wasting there energies on misfires. Kat did her best without a weapon like marks, but chuck was having little luck with the flame upgrade which never happened before

That has to be a bad omen he thought

"If he had all his crew attack at once or kilobyte I'd understand it, but this?" sparx cried

"I agree this shouldn't be happening" ace said

Just then a shimmer of light began to fill the room, almost blinding everyone.

But when it died down it reviled a green skin woman in a velvet red outfit and spider hair and neon green webbed boots.

Ace was shocked at the mere sight of her

"What?-" she asked, surprised about her surroundings

"Lady Illusion?" ace managed to say

Lady illusion tuned around to see who called her

"Ace?" she stammered.

The next thing they knew she was immediately in his arms. If this is a dream please let me stay here he thought

Fortunately for him it wasn't. But the happiness ended when they saw an unwanted guest.

Kilobyte.

What is he doing back? The whole room though

"You picked a good place to die traitor. In your lover's arms so that you can perish together" he said smoothly. Ace held on to lady illusion as she shivered with nerves "but fortunately for you, fear need's to pay for his betrayal as well, I'd say whatever it is that needs to be said, and soon"

Kilobyte then took his attention to fear. His tentacles at the ready

The force of the amulet was so great that Diana fell to her knees

What on earth is this thing? She asked herself looking at the amulet I've never felt such power, or even expected a piece of jewelry to make it even.

Just then she saw something at her feet. It was a black bow with a crescent moon on the dip

What is this? Diana wonder is it for me? Did mark's talisman summon it for me?

As she picked up the odd item something happened

"Diana dean Munroe" a voice cried out. It seemed to be many voices at once, rather than just 1

"Wha-? Who's there?" she asked. But there was no one around

That is not a good sign

"You have the blessing of the 4 grate hunters. Diana, your name sake, the swift Orion, the mighty Apollo, the cunning and airtimes, the sharp shooter"

This voice. Diana wonders what does it mean. What is it talking about?

"The time of your awakening has come child" the voice said

"You must be ready for what is to happen"

"What are you talking abou-"just then a sharp pain hit her back

"AIEEEEEEEEEE!" she cried

My spin feels like it's going to snap under this pressure. What it going on?

When kilobyte was about to attack fear, but just then a sharp pain entered his skull

"ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGG!" he yelled

"Chuck what's going -?" mark asked

"I'm on it" chuck assured. They then noticed his center tattoo glowing

I've never seen that before, but I know it just can't be good mark said

"Someone help me!" kilobyte said. But in a weird way "so much pain…what's happening to me?"

As his last cry for help was made, he then vanished in black smock

"Did he just-?" mark asked

"Teleport? Yeay kid, I think he did" ace said

"Whatever it was that caused him pain probably made him do it" chuck concluded "but did you guy's notice how it wasn't really kilobyte that was saying those things. It was more like someone saying it threw him"

"Yeay that was wired, but not as wired as him showing up. How could he come back with lady illusion?" mark asked

"And as a follow up question, how did lady illusion come back from the 6th dimension?" Sparx asked

"I assumed it was you. Am I wrong?" lady illusion asked mark

"No it wasn't I-"he was about to show her his piece but then realized it was missing "don't even have my piece with me"

"My piece is also missing" fear mentioned

"But who took them?" Kat asked. Then they realized

Oh no mark thought

"Where's Diana?"

"I didn't see her in the crowd" chuck said

"Neither did I" Kat told them

"I've got a bad felling" he panicked "we need to find her, before kilobit dose"

Diana crawled down the hallway on her stomach. She couldn't lift herself any higher for fear of severely crippling herself. She clenched 2 objects in her hand.

1 was the amulet that she used to (hopefully) give aid to mark and the others.

The other was the dammed bow that caused her pain. A result of the amulets power, she thought it could be used to help stop that man that attacked the school, but she could barley save herself at this point.

What's happening to me? Diana thought in panic. Am I to die here the same way I started, alone? Is this punishment for my crimes?

Little did she know that there was a man around the corner. Kilobyte saw the young girl struggle to get to someplace safe. He wasn't sure how he got hear though, or why, he just remembered being in pain and then things went dark.

That girl… kilobyte thought was she the source of my pain? If she was, then how?

He then walked up to her. She then noticed a shadow overhead. And struggled to left herself up to see who it was

As she looked up the best her tiered up eyes could see was a tall and grim figure. He then noticed the marks on her neck

Those are my marks he thought how could she have them?

"Are you the god of death?" she asked him, kilobyte didn't know what to say about that. Just then the others found them.

"Then please…kill me now" she begged, everyone (especially kilobyte) was surprised at her wish

"For all of my young life I have been trying to suppress something in me. But it refuses to stay burred, not until it has me do something that I will regret all my life. I have bloody my knuckles so much you can just barely see my hands. Please I beg you!" she cried. The notices something budging out of her back "oh god, my skin feels like it's going to… to…"

Just then 4 tentacles ripped from her skin as she gave out an ear pricing cry, covered in blood and slime. For a moment they wriggled mercilessly, and then went limp.

"Ace who is that girl?" asked lady illusion

"If I'm right, that's the new girl mark told me about" ace explained. Just then a bright light shimmered on her and transformed her body.

Her hair was now shoulder length and her normal outfit was replaced with a black armor lined with gold that only covered her torso, her left leag having a golden garter and her right leg had a thigh pad that was connected by her belt that had a carving of the amulet on it and disconnected solder pads and armlets. Her ankh was smaller and now looked like a choker. The tattoo went from her chest to her arms now, to cover her tentacles there was a cap made of what looked like black silk and knee high boots

She used 2 or her tentacles to support her and dropped the bow. She looked like a sleep walker, unaware of her surroundings, but she did understand 1 thing.

She was hungry, but not for the normal things she'd eat.

She hungered for something else. And it was more for her body than her stomach

What was it?

Outside of the school

Rick Hubble found himself back in his fortress of solitude I'm back on earth? He thought but how?

The cage was unlocked and he ran out of it

But just then he saw a bulletin on his computer

Warning! Project nightshade has been activated

Rick was surprised and pleased

So she's still alive, he thought. Good.

Lord fear then walked right in front of her

"Are you to take his place child?" he asked

Diana was too weak to ask what he was talking about. Let alone give a proper answer, she may not have even heard him.

"I refuse to answer to another one of your kind ever again!" he cried and attempted to fire a blast of orange energy

But before he could Diana used her free tentacles on both fear and staffhead and began to drain there energy.

So that is what her body was craving

Energy. Pure raw energy

And while it was both terrifying and satisfying, she found that when she thought she had enough she didn't. Why?

The others could have answered for her. While they expected to see fears body flicker the way it was. They were surprised about Diana flickering as well

That's an energy drain kilobyte thought but she shouldn't be responding like this… unless…

He then used his tentacles and wacked hers, causing her and fear to fall.

Mark immediately rushed to her "Diana? Diana come on wake up"

Diana? Kilobyte thought. He heard that name whispered in the programmer's data base. Was this the same girl?

"Why did you save her?" mark asked

Kilobyte was mildly annoyed "Lesson carefully. Like any other form of attack an energy drain requires energy"

"Yeay, and?" mark was confused

"Mark, that's what makes it so dangerous" ace said

"The trick of and energy drain it to balance your energy, and the energy you steal from your victim" kilobyte mentioned "she was already weak when we found her and needed all she could get. But she was draining fear's energy to fast, a moment longer and she would be dead"

"And when did that matter to you?" mark retorted

Before kilobyte could give an answer Diana woke up

"Umph…mark?"'

"Diana, are you ok?"

"I think so but…oh mark I'm so sorry" Diana ground

"Sorry? For what?"

She then reviled what was in her left hand.

The amulet of zoar

"I took your talisman when it fell off your chain after you blasted that…thing, but he had a piece too that got loose so I took them and bolted. I thought it would help, I'm so sorry" Diana esplanade. Mark then noticed the bow on the ground

"Did it give you that?" he asked

She weakly nodded "when I picked it up I thought I heard someone, then my back started to hurt" she esplanade "everything s kind of fuzzy after…" she then began to rub her eyes but she then noticed the armlet and that her skin had changed

"w-what happened to me?" she asked. If it was just her clothes maybe she wouldn't be so worried, but her whole body was transformed.

She then bolted up right and saw other people around chuck and Kat, and the man who attacked the cafeteria Unconscious.

She then turned around and came face to face with kilobyte. The first thing she noticed was that he had the same tattoo on his forehead. And immediately when pale

"Mark who is that man?" Diana asked "why does he have the same birth mark as me?"

She really didn't know him did she?

"Diana that's…" before mark could finish she was then struck with one of kilobyte's tentacles, and slowly drained his energy, mark then fell asleep and collapsed

"I would prefer to intrudes myself mortal" he said, and remove his tentacle. Diana looked on with shock

Ace, sparx, and lady illusion where about to jump him but he use 3 of his 4 tentacles to drain there energy as well. And to tie up any loss ends he drained Kat's and chucks energy as well.

Reviving herself from her shock, Diana tried to wake up her friends

"Mark? Mark what happened? Come on wake up!" she tried shaking him awake but he wouldn't' bud

"Kat? Chuck?" she called, but no answer. Then kilobyte walked up to her and fear sunk in

"You and I have much to discus little girl" he said.

Diana then began to get herself up from the ground and then ran, kilobyte pursuing her.

As Diana ran she found herself much faster than she normally was

This is all a terrible dream she thought oh gods if I should wake up form this nightmare never let me have it again

She then saw the auditorium doors and began to pound on them in the hope's someone was there

"Let me in! Please help me! Someone let me-"

When Diana made her final pound her lintier body went through the door

Thank the god's for dream logic she though

Then spotted the light booth and ran up to it. But when she got up there she started to fell dizzy and her ears began to hum

Calm down Diana she told herself you probably ran too fast just…just catch your second wind and you'll be fine

In spite of that she had to use the switch board to maintain her balance

She then heard the stage doors open. Reviling a siloit of a man

"I know you're in hear little fox" kilobyte said

"w-who are you? What do you want form me?" Diana said with dry gasps of air

"I am kilobyte; your name is Diana correct?"

"Y-yes, it is" the humming turned into a ring now come on focus her mind heist don't let him know your slipping

"You're getting tiered aren't you?" kilobyte asked "though I hate him, there is a man who can help you. I can take you to him"

What was he saying? That he wanted to help her?

She was felling sick but after what he did to her friends and the others, what made him think she'd trust him?

Then something came into her mind, like some kind of message

He can't stand light, turn them all on.

"I- I'm sorry" Diana stammered. And turned on all of the stage lights.

But he wasn't on the stage at all

I have a feeling that I need to get out of here Diana thought I can barley stand, never mind fight

But when she turned around she came face to face with him. Even though she was already weak she tried to look like she was ready to fight, so what happened next kind of threw her off balance

As kilobyte took one step forward Diana took one back.

He knelt down to her height (she was shorter by a foot) and carefully place a hand on her cheek

For a mint things seemed to be calm, until she felt something cold around her neck.

Kilobyte was begging to drain her energy.

Diana would have screamed if he didn't interfere

"Shhhh" he said placing a finger on her lips "that was clever of you little fox, for that you deserve this rest"

His hand was surprisingly war, and his voice was like the ocean. And she was so tired

"And maybe when you wake up, thing will seem a little clearer to you "

This isn't a dream was the last thought Diana had before she fell asleep.

Hope you enjoyed chapter 2 stay tuned for chapter 3