Hey guys this is chapter 2 of Legacy of Kain: The Ever Turning wheel, once again {These mean Kain's VO} and *These mean Raziel's VO*
Legacy of Kain: The Ever Turning Wheel
Chapter 2
The Sarafan Stronghold
It was a bright, clear, day, though no one knew the horror that would come sooner than even Nosgoth's heroes would think. One this day the great Pillars of Nosgoth stood white and pristine, pure of all corruption. Then all of a sudden, a giant swarm or red-eyed, malicious looking bats approached the Pillars and then swooped past them and continued south to the great, venerated, Stronghold of the ancient Sarafan Order. They found the great tower, through the morning mist and settled on a ledge overlooking the land.
Kain took form as did the Reaver and Kain stepped forward into the great chamber Kain sensed that Moebius had just left, to pull a past Raziel from the time stream, from where he followed Kain.
Kain went down the spiral stairs and dropped into a chamber, empty but for two tall pillars with extinguished torches, still smoking. He pushed open the chamber doors with his powerful, cloven feet.
"No guards...I wonder why."
[Maybe they're all waiting for me...]
"I doubt Moebius thinks you are that much of a threat to the Sarafan, at least at this point"
[Even so, we should tread softly.]
"I intend to."
Kain walked to where the connecting bridge across the mountainous gap was supposed to be, but 500 years before, he had broken it. He leaped the gap onto the remaining part of the bridge he walked it until he came to another room, which led to the main section of the stronghold, however Kain noticed that there was one room where he former Prison and decided to enter it and found that this had been turned into Ariel's personal chamber. Where l found the Flame Balance Emblem to enhance the Reaver's power. He let Raziel out of his the flaming pedestals were, there were now smoking basins and the rotating center was gone, in its place, Ariel herself stood, still alive and fully human. She reacted as one would expect a circle guardian to react when two monstrous Vampires entered your personal chamber.
Ariel called the guards and sealed the door. Kain took Raziel inside the Reaver. Hunter guards came forth, bearing Sarafan armor.
[Strange, Vampire Hunters of this era look nothing like Sarafan]
Kain then abandoned his physical form and receded into the Spectral Plane.
{As I dissolved into the Spirit Realm, I swore I saw the face of Mortanius under a Sarafan helmet}
[Kain, we should stay in this realm as long as we can to avoid my past self finding us and creating a fatal paradox]
"Good thinking Raziel."
They trekked through the halls, only coming across a few Slough here and there. Finally, they came to the hallway right outside the Circle Chambers. Kain used the Reaver's power to shift back into the material realm. Kain broke through the doors to find Nupraptor, as if waiting there, apparently unsurprised about the two Vampires
"So you are Vampires sent by that beast Vorador to kill me? You'll not find me easy prey."
"No Mentalist we do not wish to harm you...we have been sent by the one you serve to bring you a message of doom; Ariel will die this day, not by our hand, but by dark forces infecting the circle."
"I do not believe you!" spat the Guardian, still unwavering
"Read my mind if you think my message is false"
Kain opened his mind to Nupraptor, and a look of horror stretched across the Mentalist's face.
"Noooooo!" he screamed and then teleported to his beloveds chambers
"Well that worked out perfectly didn't it?" Raziel mocked
"I've got one more trick up my sleeve Raziel. Do you think you could open this door?" Kain pointed to the door to the Time Streaming Device Moebius often used.
Without speaking Raziel pointed the Reaver at the crystal above the door and shot a bolt into it, illuminating it. The door swung open.
*Kain set the device to only minutes before we walked in. I made an attempt to watch what he was doing but as always I could never follow it*
*We emerged from the time stream to fin none in the room and the Nupraptor walked in and finally gave us the reaction we had expected*
Nupraptor walked into the well-room and saw two monstrous Vampires emerging from Moebius' Time Streaming Chamber. Kain shielded his mind and held the Mentalist with telekinesis
"Now Mentalist be silent! Today your love, Ariel will die and we need you to be of sound mind!"
"Lying Beast!"
"Kain this is useless, Vorador tricked us!"
"Then we shall seek out his lying corpse!" Kain threw Nupraptor aside while Raziel used the Light Reaver to open the Time Streaming Chamber's door. Kain re-set the device for 300 years into the future, during Kain's reign as the Vampire Lord of Nosgoth.
They came back through the opposite door of the chamber, and in the Sarafan's absence the great stronghold had fallen into decay, now slightly overrun by mutated humans and demons.
The dark winding passageways lead the two to a circular room, a tomb where all of the Sarafan Inquisitors lie for their supposed rest for eternity
"Amazing, isn't it, Raziel? How many times now have we come full circle?"
*Though the question was rhetorical I could not resist myself from opening my own tomb. I saw the last Sarafan Inquisitor that I killed in my feeble attempt to recover The Heart of Darkness. I lay in my tomb, encased in my armor, and through my armor there was a great crack where the Reaver pierced my body*
"Raziel, we must make haste to Vorador, he's most likely in council, I want to interrupt the liar."
Kain looked to the starry sky, in a hole in the roof outside the tomb and transformed into many vampire bats that swarmed around the room until Kain and Raziel disappeared out of view. and the bats flew into the night and to the north.
