Author's Nonsense: I was listening to some of the many files of music I have filed on my laptop today when I found a song by VNV Nation that works exceptionally well for Lezard. I'm pondering if I should throw some sort of song-fic in sometime with it regarding him and Lenneth. Feel free to tell me if you like or don't like the idea. Not completely sure yet but figured at least I found a nifty song for him if they ever do an anime of the series I got an AMV song! Also a note: I am trying to involve characters from both the games so I'm seeing it as more like a combination of the two storylines. But moving along to the next chapter!

End of Chapter 1:

Rufus sighed a little…what was he suppose to do? At least if he helped and all of the Valkyrie managed to survive then they could take on the madman again. If he didn't then they would die…Alicia would die…and he would be left without much of anyone with which to combat the crazed stalker. He didn't like it and even as he said the words they seemed like poison on his lips…

"Yes you freak of nature…I'll help you…for Alicia."

Chapter 2: Soul Transfusion

The high clearing had recently been augmented from it's natural state, now several stones were placed around it's full length and formed the basics of the magic circle that Lezard would need for the large scale spell he had planned. Each of the four bodies that would house the souls within the single body of the current being that was called Valkyrie were set at each of the cardinal directions and presently camouflaged within stone. He waited unseen, half-within another sort of sub-dimension while he lingered near the window he'd made for his access to the physical realm, now it was a matter of that fool half-elf luring the body here. He already knew the archer would go through with the plan, if there was anything that the necromancer understood it was the loops that someone would jump through to be of aid to the one they loved.

The moonlight filtered through a cloudy sky, casting the already shadowy forest deeper into darkness that mixed with the gray iridescent light of the evening stars. The deep greens and silvers of the night a lovely natural cover to his trap. He merely frowned when he saw the black and gold of the approaching form where his beloved goddess was currently entrapped. His chest twisting at the thought of her being ensnared with the other trash in that disgraceful form.

Soon. He thought as he started to mentally prepare the spell. Soon my Lenneth I will set you free of that unflattering shell and take you with me where even the gods won't think to find you until it is to late for them. I will fence in them as they dared to so unjustly enclose you away.

The woman seemed a little uncertain, following the half-elf but pausing now and again to ask questions he couldn't make out in the distance that was still between them. Patience was one of his virtues when he wanted it to be and he watched until they finally stepped within his bounds he would need for the enchantment. The half-elf managing at last to be useful for something.

An electric pulse seemed to charge up around him, his clothing and hair starting to float and sway as he pulled in the power he would need to expend to cast the massive soul transfusion. His voice deep as he called to the shade that would invade him and began the ritual that would give him back his darling goddess…

"Those worthy, char this body of mine and fulfill this impossible longed desire." The syllables of the spell flowed easily from him, he'd practiced the black magic long enough that it poured without difficulty to his desire. "I command the forbidden mystique to dye these hands."

When the light started to appear around the wide circle the two figures didn't notice immediately. Then Rufus realized it was the sign that he needed to retreat from it's center before he was caught in the ritual himself and had his soul torn away without a body waiting for it if he didn't move. He reached the edge before he looked back to the betrayal shining in the Valkyrie's eyes as it dawned on her just what was about to happen.

"This defiled body of mine…"

She shifted as if to run after Rufus but she couldn't move with the speed that she would normally command, as if she were a mortal trapped underwater she could only struggled toward the edge.

"This defiled heard of mine…"

Then she tripped on one of the rocks that were making up the physical representation of the spell that was imprisoning her against her will, making her soul wrack with agony as it started to be forcibly ripped apart by the grand magic being performed.

"Recall this in the void of my heart. Superb Spirit I pledge to thee."

The power was shining brightly now on the hilltop where the ritual was burning itself into the ground as a permanent mark of what was occuring. The body holding the four souls lifted into the sky and despite the scream of protest it burst apart into four pinpoints of light even as the shield of stone covering the new bodies of the pained souls was blasted away. Disintegrated from the intensity of the might he wielded.

"Brand onto my spirit the sinister malevolence of my dark dealings and answer my commands! Soul transfusion."

The four points of light crashed into their waiting bodies, the fragile glass shattering and pouring each of the women onto the rock littered ground, unconscious from the energy draining experience of being shoved into a new body. Lezard laughed wildly as he picked up the unconscious form of Lenneth, the leer in his eyes not quite matching the gentle care he took in lifting her.

"Stop Lezard." Rufus called, settling the aim of his bow on the wizard. "I won't let you leave here with her."

"Foolish mortal." Lezard laughed on the edge of sanity again by his temporary victory. "Do you think I would let you take her away from me again? You'd better aid your own love and avoid her death if she doesn't get medical attention soon. I never promised to do more than put her back into her body after all."

He faded from the view of the half-elf and left him behind to scramble as to how he was going to 'save' the women around him. Any of those ignorant ruffians believed whatever was told to them at face value, the lie was the easiest way for him to get Lenneth back to his home before she woke. No one had come looking for him at his tower in ages and if they decided to he would let them come. They had no idea with whom they were toying with! After all, he was Lezard Valeth; Master of Space and Time, death wasn't a threat they could honestly make.

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Mystina slowly stirred from the sluggish sleep she'd managed to get the last few hours while Lezard was off on one of his pointless little excursions to try to spy on Lenneth's new form before he got her back into his grasp. The guy never did know when to realize that something was out of his reach, one of the many flaws he had. Now it seemed with the racket that was happening downstairs that he had returned and his latest plan must have failed as well; he always threw things when something went particularly sour.

She stretched out on the bed, pale green hair falling along her thin body and tickling her sides where they rested, waking her more than she would have liked but as the noise was still carrying on downstairs she figured she might as well get up and let the freak know she was borrowing a room for a couple of days. The fact that he'd killed her once forgiven by the following detail that he'd made her a lovely body about a week back, at least the jerk repaid his debts. She was certainly too young and beautiful to begrudge her strange ally his own quirks of personality. Unaware of the true purpose of the commotion far below her…

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"Now my Valkyrie, calm down or you are going to make yourself sick." Lezard admonished as he dodged another of the many things she'd tossed at him sense she woke and realized what he had done. "It will do you no good to fuss like this. You were meant to be here, with me, if the fates didn't decree it then I would have been foiled in my plans yet again to capture you."

"What did you do with the others?" Lenneth demanded, afraid for her sisters and the mortal spirit she had been sharing a physical form with.

"I gave them bodies of their own." Lezard moved forward once her assault had stopped - due to the fact that she had run short of ammunition to launch at his head. "None are as perfect as you my sweet goddess…forgive me…my sweet Lenneth. Goddess no more..."

"Get away from me." She insisted disgustedly as he moved up next to her and raised a hand as if to cup her cheek. He only received a kick in his hip -she missed her true aim- for his trouble. "Don't touch me…"

"Come now my pet." He chuckled at her protests, eyes gazing over her barely clothed form without hiding the desire he felt. "You can't deny my love for you forever."

"You don't love me Lezard." she snapped coldly. "You don't know what love is."

"That my sweet Lenneth is where you are wrong." he answered seriously. "I understand love's greatest joys and worst curses more than most of the mortals that wander this world ignorant of it's bittersweet joy. Your very existence gives me reason to hope even while each time you deny me you pry apart the heart I've left in your gentle hands. No my dear, I understand love more than you want to admit to yourself."

"Obsession and lust aren't love." the ex-goddess tossed back.

"How isn't obsession love?" he laughed again, reaching out to touch her hair, feel it's cottony softness between his fingers as he looked at it's silvery sheen. "What is love if not obsession? I am not speaking of the youthful crush you shared with that unworthy boy years ago. My meaning runs deeper, there is nothing I wouldn't do to protect and hold you Valkyrie. You know I'm willing to kill for you, but I've already died for you twice as well. How many women can boast that of their suitors? However deceptive you might have looked in that imposters form I know that you wished to strike me down and I let you…however temporary my death might have been you should appreciate the gift for what it's worth. How many times must I die for you to believe me my love? Give the word and it's yours, anything you desire."

"You disgust me… and don't even think about Lucian. He was millions more times the man you have ever been you vile creature!" Lenneth lost her temper as this monster insulted her dead love. Unmade years before by Loki's betrayal.

"I suppose I cannot expect you to understand completely yet my beautiful seductress." Lezard sighed sadly, dropping the hair he'd been fiddling with and letting his purple eyes meet her blue-green ones seriously. "But you will. I will leave you to explore your room and your new home. Don't try to pass through any doors that are locked, I would be remiss with grief if I found you dead at the hands of one my many creations. Surely you remember the difficulty you had upon your first visit to my abode. I will be in the dining room with my studies if you choose to dine, sooner or later you are bound to get hungry after all."

"I'll die from starvation first." she spat at him as he left the room, not getting a response from the infuriating man before she howled in irritation, tossing herself on her bed. Certainly the others would come to get her if they were still alive…she merely had to survive his repulsive company until then.

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"You aided that lunatic!" Hrist was being held in check only by Silmeria's more cool attitude toward the news. "You are a traitor to all of us. The whole reason we joined was so he couldn't get his dirty little hands on her!"

"Calm down Hrist." Silmeria interrupted finally. "He already stated that if he aided or not that Lezard would have just destroyed all of us but Lenneth as opposed to just taking Lenneth. Despite the fact that Rufus' own dark hopes aided his decision we have to believe that the wizard would have managed to do as he said; he is outside our normal chain of boundaries in the universe. The man is an enigma of an existence; the time is passed and now we have to decide how we are going to get Lenneth out of his clutches."

Alicia was holding Rufus hand a little bashfully, she was a little angry that he had betrayed them but she knew that he'd done it for her sake, that he wanted to be with her after all that they had gone through together. It was too heartwarming to really stay mad at him, as he had said she'd be dead right now if he hadn't aided her so. Angrim was standing near Hrist awkwardly, never having expected to see her in her own body again after the war they'd waged with that fruitcake. All grouped in heaven where they'd been given a small side room where they could speak about the plans they had once Freya had finished throwing a fit about the circumstances of what was happening with them and insisting that they had to get Lenneth back.

"We have to find him before anything else." Rufus suggested. "Unless we know where he is and where he's taken her then any other thought of a rescue is sort of a moot point."

"What of the broken water mirror?" Silmeria asked seriously. "We could return to his world and see if he has retreated there with her. It is as good a first step as anything else."

"While we search his world we can ask Freya to call the gods and do what she can to get them to search Earth with the Einherjar for anywhere he might have hidden." Hrist added. "It is a good a plan as any."

End Chapter

Okay, moving the plot along. I love focusing on the Lezard/Lenneth stuff but I know that I need other plot things if I plan to keep this fiction around a little longer than just the development of the two characters. Still having a blast working on this and it's making me want to go and find a copy of VP 1 but as I'm not rich I'll have to settle for borrowing Lenneth on my friends PSP. Til next time.

-Aura

To my reviewers:

SpectralDaggar - I concur! Whoo!

LotornoMiko - hugs back Anytime. I enjoyed the part of him thinking about when he first met Lenneth, it was a lot of fun to sit and write out. As far as Valkyrie still being in tact I considered it more of a fluke. They had combined with the intention of killing Lezard. While they thought they had accomplished that, he was still alive and so the combination never cancelled itself out. Leading to where the story began. Suppose I should have put a note of some kind in there about that huh?

Yeah I enjoyed blackmailing poor Rufus, but only cause I like Lezard more. I felt really bad for the guy second to feeling bad for Lezard at the end of 2.

Always good to have other fan girls out there who understand me J

Lezard Valeth - Great name first of all J. I explained the Valkyrie thing above though I might go back and edit this fiction out after I've finished some more of it to write in that part. I also have plans to try to explain the odd going on's of the two games and the time/storyline plots. I have my own little twisted view and I tend to put those unique views of mine into the stories I put out. Basically though I personally see it as more of a multiple different dimensions of possibly more than actual time. This allows me to still use characters from both the games after all.

Aragon asten - Yeah I thought Lezard was the sort to have back up plans even for what he did in the off chance he was defeated. As far as the format of the scene switch thing I am gonna try changing it to dashes if it bothers you so much. Yeah I know the chapter was a little short but it's hard for me to get into new fictions while making really long chapters. I'll try to work on it though.