Intro: The banishment

Raziel's POV:

I found myself in a derelict cave; it looked similar to the chrono-plasm when I first found Kain in that time chamber.

However. Unlike the chamber I encountered previously before, this one looked like it served a different purpose.

As I finish exploring every corner of this peculiar chamber, I heard a familiar voice come up from behind me; Kain's.

"Well, well, well. It seems to be quite a consequence that we both stumbled across this chamber. Doesn't it, huh Raziel?"

I turned my attention towards the treacherous bastard and I replied, "Yes, it does seem that way Kain. However it was of not of my intentions to find you here at this very moment. Are you here to continue with your list of speculations of annoyance? Were you planning on seeing me here?"

"Although it may seem like that Raziel… I am just as surprised as you are."

"Spare me your lies. We both know you have a reputation for masking deceit with the innocence of ignorance."

Kain only crossed his arms and chuckled, as if I was humoring him.

"Oh Raziel, that so like you; Always thinking I know every step you take."

"Are you now becoming so paranoid? It seems to be a fact I would not usually accept about you."

"You never were the one for being… overprotective."

Then I responded with, "With all things considered, what brings you to this ancient place?"

Kain was silent for a few moments, and then a few words escaped his lips, "An attempt at a fresh start."

"As you may have noticed Raziel: Nosgoth is dead, our Empire is dead; the entire world is dead."

"Because you made it so." I pointed at Kain.

"I can't deny the fact that Nosgoth's fall was of my doing, but with this device…" Kain pointed out the gateway behind him.

"… I can be able to find a new world ripe for the taking." Kain's fist clenched as he finished his sentence.

"Just so you could ruin it; sucking it dry like a parasite, like how you condemned the pillars to an eternity of ruin just to spare your life."

"No Raziel, I may not have to ruin it, just like when I refused to sacrifice myself for the sake of the pillars."

"How is that so?" said I, with a brow raised.

"If a world would need a sacrifice, at least I might be spared of that troubling responsibility."

"Because fate would not hold responsible for the life of that world."

"To even better the odds: there may not be a choice of that very matter to begin with."

Kain decided to activate the mechanism that controlled the portal device.

It works very similar to the portal in the chrono-plasm.

"You see Raziel; this is not a time machine… for there is already a few in existence. This is a trans-dimensional portal."

"This will be the key to escaping this world's horrible fate, and allows one to seek a new home, somewhere out there, in the cosmos."

Even what Kain is saying intrigues me, but I was still skeptical of what this device really could do.

Then another voice chimed in response to what Kain said, "Yes… it could be used to find a new home… or… a suitable prison."

The voice belonged to no one less than Moebieus, the time streamer. Members of his Mercenary army accompanied him as well.

What a manipulative old sod he was. Always working through the actions of others to benefit his own gain.

Why he came here was beyond me.

"I knew both of you would be here sooner or later, it was all a matter of time."

"It seems fate has led both of you to this abandoned chamber that used to be operated by the guardians long before the circle's demise."

Kain bore a distasteful face at Moebieus's presence and questioned, "Why are you here Moebieus?"

"I am here just… to see you both off." Then Moebieus used his staff to silence my reaver and to pin down Kain.

I pounced and lunged myself towards Moebius, but he shot a concussive blast against me just when I had him in my grasp.

"Remember that I told you not to underestimate me, Raziel?"

I struggled to regain my footing, but then Kain and I were suddenly lifted up into the air; helpless as infants.

"Death may come for us all… but it's possible to postpone one's departure from this world."

"You snake! I'll kill you… for this!" Yelled an angered Kain.

"You just might, Kain. Fortunately for my sake, that won't happen for a long time."

"You have been a bad omen to this world ever since you let the pillars fall. Well… it's about time I took care of you, like the arrogant parasite you are!" finished Moebieus with a sour face.

"As for you Raziel; it pains me to be treating you like this, but like I said before: 'All great movements, require a few martyrs.'"

I was not surprised by Moebieus when he used that same sentiment, when I 'first' met him. I could tell Kain was burning with rage and a want for Moebieus' head.

Whether or not the fact about Moebieus and I were once friends when I still was a Sarafan Priest was true, I could not care any less now.

Then I noticed I was being pulled by the portal's strong supernatural pull, and then Moebieus said, "This will keep you two busy for a while."

Then the magical grip on Kain and I, vanished. We were 'freed' only to be drawn into the portal's unnatural grip.

Kain was pulled in before me, but I managed to stab my talons into the portal's platform; attempting to escape the pull.

"Trying to defy fate, Raziel? You are quite the stubborn stain, I see. Farewell, vampire." then Moebieus kicked me in to the vortex and all I saw last of him: was his sinister, loathsome grimace.

"AAHHHH!"

I felt hopeless as I entered the screaming vortex. It was a sense of displacement I felt as I was crossing the portal, for all I know, that could span several universes.

Now all I could do was to hold witness as I came across several images of people, events and worlds that escape my understanding.

Now, either a new world or oblivion awaits me.