chapter Four. Hope you like this one, as I'm trying to make up for taking so long to write other such things. I'm going to try and increase the word count of this fic, just to let you all know, so if any of you are scared of 3-6k+ chapters, depending on what's in them, you might as well leave now. Thanks for the continuous love, support, Reviews(Or lack thereof) and patience, JIRO UCHIHA
Magnus recoiled when the wings peeled back, whatever was underneath shrouded in shadow, only red orbs and slight gleams of shinning, glimmering fangs were visible through the ominous shadows that cloaked the being's face. When the shadow's faded, the man had the head of a bat, not too asimilar from the head of a wolf, and unleashed a grumbling screech, stretching his arms and legs for the first time in millenium. The being began to growl, looking at Set with a forlorn, vague look that Magnus couldn't decipher. Set chuckled, looking at the Vampire, who stood at nine feet tall in his current form. "It's nice to see a Real vampire." he said, watching the beast slowly rescind his transformation, returning to his most humanoid form. The fur on his head slowly disappeared, making way for a head of black hair, the arms losing their fur and rescinding to muscled, pale arms that nearly shone in the gem lit cave. Shrinking down to slightly over six feet in height, the Vampire's blood red eyes seemed to lock on to Magnus, a sickened glow in them. His eyes turned to Set, taking on a different light as he closed his eyes and knelt before the much older, primal being. "Master, it's so surprising to see you." he said, his head bowed. Set smiled, folding his arms behind his back and chuckling. "Rise, Child of My child. There's no reason to be surprised to see me of all people. Who else would know where your tomb was?" he said, chuckling as the servant rose, looking to Magnus before breaking out into a toothy smile.
"What is she for? A snack?" he said, chuckling. Set frowned, stepping in front of Magnus. "Her name is Helen Magnus, and she is your master now. And that, my child, is a direct order. Disobey her and face my wrath." he said, and the vampire frowned, but nodded with a bow. "Yes My Lord." he said, and Set turned to Magnus. "This is Eyademor, my daughter's servant. When it comes to gathering information, i'd recommend him over the others." Set stated, and said vampire grunted, folding his arms. "Gathering information. I'm useful for more than just that. And I'm not a servant, more of a friend." he said, chuckling and causing Set to sigh. "I said you were the best at gathering information, not that you were good for nothing else. And you ARE a servant, to both me, and Magnus. Not a friend. Do you understand?" he asked, the vampire nodding. Magnus smiled, extending her hand out to the vampire. "It's nice to meet you Eyademor. Do you have any other names, or just that?" she asked. The vampire grunted, begrudgingly grabbing Magnus' hand, and using an unnecessary amount of force, shook it. "My name is Eyademor. Nothing else." he said, and Magnus chuckled, then smiled. "Eyademor is a bit hard to say for some of my staff, do you have another name you're comfortable being called?" she asked, and he shrugged, turning to Set. "what's the modern version of my name?" he asked, and Set hummed. "Eyademor became Eyadamir, then Eladamir, then Valadamir, then finally Vladimir. So, you can call him Vlad." he said, and the vampire sighed. "I guess that'll work." he said, and Magnus smiled.
"That's good. Now, while we head back to the plane, how about you and I talk about you?" she said, and the vampire said yes, feeling a death glare coming from the primal being next to him. They began to walk from the cave, Vlad at Magnus' side. "So, are there any species that you particually like or dislike?" she asked, and he chuckled. "I like vampires, and I dislike everyone else, especially humans." he said, and Magnus nodded, realizing just how much of an issue that was. "Well, I'll see what I can do about you avoiding humans." she said, and he frowned. "I never said I wanted to avoid them. I just hate them, and everything about them. They are good for nothing but food. If you show a human mercy, it'll come back and kill you, every single time, and I know this to be true." he said, and Magnus chuckled nervously at the vampire's negative opinion of humans. "Well, I'll try to avoid letting you around such humans then." she smiled, as they left the cave, out into the crisp Romanian mountains. Making the long, dreary trek back to the plane, which was uncomfortable for Magnus, as the journey was done in silence, with a constant vigilance on their surroundings, wary of assassins and mercenaries, and other such fiends that would do them harm, or other things. Upon making it back to the plane, the vampire snarled at the mechanical contraption.
"See what I mean? If not for humans, we could all just teleport or fly where we want, instead of using these things, which are a huge hazard to the economy and nature, and all of the magickal energies they possess. If not for human deforestation and industrialization and all of their other bullshit, the amount of magickal energies in this world would be enough to make one person strong enough to destroy half the solar system, if not more." he said, and Set rolled his eyes. "Vlad here is also in possession of two green thumbs. It can be a pain being a tree hugging hippie like person, and also a blood sucking, soul stealing therianthropic bat, so give him a bit of slack." he said, as they stepped into the mechanical contraption the vampire loathed so much. Magnus chuckled, and then sat down, the vampire across from her to her left, and Set in front of her, she looked at the primal being, as the vampire grumbled to himself about pitiful humans, and terrible things they've done. "So, which of these servants will we be going for next?" Magnus asked, and Set chuckled. "Your plane, you choose." he said, and Magnus blinked. The vampire scoffed, casting a glance at the primal being. "You're letting HER choose which one of us to wake up? Knowing the human, she'll likely conjour a number of humans, armed with weaponry designed to kill therians, and only my larger brothers have a slight chance to survive, and a slim one at that." he said, and Set chuckled. "I'm not leaving this woman's side, so you have no reason to question her, whether I'm present or not." he said, and Eyademor grunted, grumbling under his breath. Set chuckled, and Magnus sighed. "I have no intention of betraying any of you, unless given reason to, and approval by Set to do anything, because I need you all to help me." she said, and Vlad scoffed.
Set frowned. "You will do as you are told, do you understand? If you don't I'll set the entire Amazon Rainforest on fire." he said, and Vlad gasped in horror, causing Magnus to laugh. "Tell your pilot to set a course for the Mongolian Mountains, the closest servant is there." he said, and Magnus nodded, relaying the co-ordinates to her pilot, who complied and began to take off. "This next one, is the Tiger, correct?" she said, and Set nodded, casting a silencing glance to Vlad to prevent him from speaking about the therian before his awakening. As the plane took off, the grumbling vampire began to groan, disliking the mechanical object. Magnus seemed a bit confused as to the vampire's actions. "If you get like this when it comes to human technology, how did you survive with the much more advanced Atlantean technology?" she asked, and Vlad rolled his eyes. "Simple. Atlanteans had long lifespans, and impressive physical strength, and a much better immune system and healing abilities than a human, so I don't see them as entirely human, so their technology, which is very eco friendly, and not damaging to the natural energies us magick users so greatly covet, is fine with me, unlike you humans, with your big machines and clunky objects that make loud noises and expel enough gasses to vaporize me." he said, glaring at Magnus through narrowed eyes. Magnus seemed to hold back a chuckle. Set chuckled as well.
"If we do take out these enemies of yours, I will do something about this world. There is far too much modern civilization for me. People need to go back to living in self built houses in the woods, and treehouses across forests. Not buildings larger than any tree a hundred times over with sharp glass all about it." Set stated, chuckling. He smirked, a dark look that made Magnus wonder what he was thinking. "A sonic boom near a group of these skyscrapers, which do not scrape the sky, would cause a severe issue with all that broken glass, would It not?" Set asked, brow raised. Magnus nodded, unsure if she should have just nodded. She saw a faint smile cross Set's face, and instantly regretted her decision, which had a small possibility to cost people their lives.
Set laughed at Magnus' frightened look. "Worry not. I will not needlessly kill people." he said, and Magnus breathed a sigh of relief, Set putting his hand up. "However, I never mentioned anything about caring If people where caught in the way o my destruction of human civilization." he said, and Magnus frowned. "And just what do you plan to do after this is all over?" she asked, and he chuckled. Vlad scoffed. "I plan on getting approval to turn or kill as many humans as possible." he said, and Set laughed. "I'm sure my daughter would love to approve that. Unfortunately, I will be in charge, so you'd have to bide by my rules." he said, and Vlad grumbled turning away from Set, who held a dark, sinister smile on his face. "I've never listened to you before, so why should now be any different?" he said, and Set lifted two of his fingers, his index and thumb, and made a pinching movement. Vlad began to choke and sputter, causing Set to smile as he looked at the vampire. "Because my daughter is not here to save you this time." he said, and the vampire hissed, Set letting him go and dismissing him.
The primal being sighed, turning back to Magnus. "Now, where were we?" he asked, and Magnus blinked before chucking. "Right. We were on our way to Mongolia to awaken this Tiger servant that your son had." she stated, and Set sighed. "Ah yes, the Plaything, as he was called." he said, and Magnus seemed perplexed. "Plaything?" she inquired, and Set nodded. "He was the very young therian that my son used to help care for his soldier's children when his female soldiers gave birth In battle, which was rarely. Being so young, he connected with the babies and adolescents much easier than any other servant, which is why my son turned him and chose him over any of his older, stronger, much more battle ready soldiers and servants." he said, and Magnus nodded, looking to Vlad. "And why did your daughter pick him of all people?" she asked, and Vlad glared at her. "What is that supposed to mean?" he asked, fangs bared. Set chuckled. "That's beyond even me. She had many more powerful, strong vampires, but she chose the hippie with an anti-human complex." he said, rolling his eyes at his child's decision. Vlad folded his arms. "I AM in the room you know." he said, and Set look to him, a bored, dry look on his ancient features. "We know. We just don't give a fuck." he said, shrugging, watching the vampire's jaw go slightly slack. Set glanced out the window, seeing small hilly ranges outside the window, the planes of Mongolia slowly coming into view.
"We should be there within the hour. Good thing too, I was beginning to get bored." he said, and Vlad folded his arms. "At least no one was mocking you for hating humans." he said, and Magnus chuckled. "I just found it amusing. Most vampires us humans depict look down on humans, but never flat out hate us." she said, and Vlad scoffed. "Deep down inside, every vampire hates humans for different reasons. We all do, not just me." he said, and Set sighed. "My daughter cared for humans. Mostly as food, but she still cared." he stated, and Vlad groaned. "She always did like to prove me wrong, even when she's somewhere else." he said, and Set turned to Magnus. "And please try not to react like you did when we woke Eyademor up please. This next one is as harmless as a house cat.. for now." he said, and Magnus became nervous as to what that meant. Seeing a peculiar mountain range in Mongolia, Set told Magnus that they had reached their destination. Sighing when they landed, Magnus watched the vampire groan when they did. "And these human contraptions cant even make a feather light landing, always slamming into the ground and shaking the passengers!" he shouted, grumbling as he stood, waiting for Set to depart the jet first, before standing and leaving the jet. Looking out to the mountains of Mongolia, Magnus narrowed her eyes, seeing the setting sun, and turned to Set. "Is it really safe to go at night?" she asked, and Set laughed.
"The only thing we need to worry about are a few spirits and maybe a demon or two. Nothing major. We'll be fine." he said, and Magnus nodded, waiting for Set to tell her to head north. "Isn't this the mountain range where Ghengis Khan's body is rumored to reside?" she asked, and Set nodded. "Yes. When this servant was put to sleep, they must've had something pertaining to Khan on their minds. He was a good soldier." Set said, and Magnus blinked. "Good soldier? The man nearly conquered all of Europe and Asia singlehandedly before his death." She said, and Set rolled his eyes. "Do you believe everything you hear? Honestly, Vlad is right, you humans are terrible. Ghengis Khan was a soldier in my son's branch of the army, and a commander of a large group of mixed troops, some human, some not. He conquered in the name of my son, hence the name Khan, which as you know, means Tiger." she said, and Magnus blinked. "Ghengis Khan was under your son's control?" she questioned, and Set nodded. "Why else would we he choose to put his servant to rest in Mongolia, or choose it as his base of operations, other than the fact it's where his grandfather ruled from." he said, and Vlad grumbled under his breath, about humans ruining something else, causing Magnus to roll her eyes. She turned to the vampire, walking backwards close to Set.
"So tell me, what's your relationship with the other servants?" she asked, and Set cast a glance back, causing the vampire to chuckle. "You'll figure that out when they wake up, human." he spat venomously. Set gave him a silent nod of approval, Magnus turning back to the much taller, primal being as she narrowed her eyes. "Did you tell him not to say anything?" she asked, and Set chuckled as they came up on a much larger mountain. "Wouldn't want to spoil anything. You'd ruin the surprise." he said, and Magnus frowned. "I prefer to know about what I'm going after before I go after it. If anything can stop this... therian, as you put it, from tearing me limb from limb, other than you, it'd be my ability to stay on his good side, which, due to your hindering of my attempts to gather information on each of these servants, would not be possible." she said, and Set laughed, placing his hand on a huge boulder that peeled back for a tunnel inside the large mountain. "This implies that you can even find the tombs without me." he mocked, allowing Magnus to enter the dark tunnel cave first. Set entered next, followed by Vlad. Set snapped his fingers, and light illuminated the chamber, from torches lining the walls at two pace intervals, their eerie red and yellow glows causing Magnus to become dizzy, their unusual placement and the dimensions of the narrow, tall cave confusing her. "How far in is this tomb?" she asked, and Set shrugged. "The tomb is likely in the center of the mountain, so at least another hundred and fifty paces." he said, and Magnus groaned, causing Vlad to chuckle. "And that's another thing. You humans tire so easily, and complain about everything." he said, and Magnus scoffed. "And you don't?" She quipped, and the vampire stammered, a raised hand from Set silencing any possible retorts he had as they trudged silently through the long, narrow tunnel like cave, trying to reach the tomb in it's center.
Magnus soon found the end of the tunnel, and the entrance to a very asiatic tomb, which included a small hut, samurai esk in make, and much bigger than Magnus thought would be possible to hide in a hole inside a mountain. Walking closer, the circle of torches flickered, making Magnus nervous as Set sniffed the air, looking about the tomb. "No one is here, yet I'm picking up on a faint scent of human, and energy." he said, his nostrils flaring one more time before turning to the corner of the room, where a skeleton laid mangled and in pieces. Set scoffed at the skeleton, chuckling at it. "Serves him right. Though, how did he get in?" he asked, deciding not to elaborate at the moment. Magnus walked into the hut, Eyademor close behind. The tomb was mostly empty, except for a small table that held a sword on a stand. Set walked over to the sword, examining it before smiling. "My son's sword. Of all the places for him to leave it." he said, pulling the blade from the stand and drawing it, seeing the thick, broad bladed samurai blade, a unique blend of magick and cleaning turning the sword a reddish brown color, likely from using the dried blood as a psuedo cleaning agent with magick, causing Set to chuckle. He looked at the intricate sarcophagus laying in the center of the room.
"He was always one for being the best, and giving his servant the most intricate tomb is just his way of saying that he's better." Set stated, chuckling as he shoved the lid off, looking down at the servant inside. Magnus stood back, not wanting to disturb the primal being inside the hut, instead choosing on watching from outside of the hut in the doorway. "Awaken Child of My Child, rise when you hear the call of the Father call to you." he said, and the servant's gray eyes erupted open, and he unleashed a roar, not a deafening, earth shaking one, but a loud roar that caused Magnus real pain from it's intensity. She saw one humanoid hand come up and grapple the side of the sarcophagus, watching the second one grab the other side as he pulled himself up. Magnus blinked, realizing just how young he was. He appeared to be a teenage boy, with navy blue hair and gray eyes, with narrow, slit like pupils, belying the fact that he wasn't human. He leaped over the side, landing on his feet, standing at five and a half feet tall, built with lean muscles and an athletic, feline figure. Magnus noted that he had one odd feature. A tail, black in color, was wrapped about his waist, holding the loose asiatic pants he wore on. He stretched, turning to Set.
"Grandpa Set! I haven't seen you in so long!" He said, smiling as Set ruffled his hair. "It's nice to see you too child." he stated, watching the servant turn to the vampire standing off in the corner. "Eeyore, is that you?" he asked, and the vampire began to growl, his figure shaking from anger. "I have been telling you for Millenia that my name is Eyademor, You damn Housecat!" he said through gritted teeth. Set looked to Magnus as the Tiger picked on the vampire's name. Magnus blinked. "Eeyore?" she asked, and Set nodded. "The Tiger boy, Kimo, could never quite get Eyademor in his vocabulary, being from a human slave market from what you now call Germany, which had a drastically more primal sounding vocabulary and language back then, so he decided on Eeyore, as the Y is in his name, his name Starts with E and ends with Ore. And it urks him to no end, which is why my children let him use it as a name." Set explained, and Magnus chuckled. "And I take it he'd try and tear me limb from limb if I used it on him?" she asked, and Set nodded. Another thought crossed her mind. "Didn't you say Vlad was the weakest? What about the Tiger?" she asked, and Set chuckled. Kimo turned to Set, glancing at Magnus as his Pupils thinned out to the point where they were near invisible. "What's with the human Gramps? Need me to kill her, or eat her or something?" he asked, and Magnus seemed taken aback by the Tiger's blunt vulgarity. Set shook his head.
"Of course not. Kimo, this is Helen Magnus, Helen, this is Kimo. She woke me up, and as such, I have agreed to help her with a few things, and as such, you will aid her, and obey her as if she was me." he stated, and the Tiger boy pouted, but brightened up. "Sure! As long as she's not too boring." he said, baring a pair of fangs that seemed much larger than they should have been. Magnus was wondering if she should stop now, and as she moved about the globe, the inhuman servants of Set's children kept getting more peculiar and powerful. Before long, she's awaken something that could destroy the planet with little to no effort. And, casting a glance at Set, she wondered if she already had.
DONE! Hope y'all like it, as it didnt take me too long to write. Also, its longer than normal, clocking in at nearly 4k words. Anywho, you guys should check out my tumblr, where ill mostly write short stories pertaining to various fanfiction of mine. Atm, im working on a short side story for the Will of Darjkness, but if you guys leave a fews reviews, I can work on a short story for this next! Thanks for the love, support, reviews (Or lack thereof) and patience, JIRO MUTHAFUCKIN UCHIHA.
