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Oblivion is owned by Urolutze
Roxas is owned by The 2 tailed fox
SWC Headquarters Briefing Room
"So this outpost raid will take place two weeks from now, in a snow plains biome off to the north west. There should be 10 archers outside and 30 melee weapon users, also, I've been hearing of a specific DH member killing many in other empires by sneaking in and killing them in their sleep, so I ask you all lock your doors, and Oblivion, get word out to the SWC and KOTFM empire's to lock all the doors and keep them under high security." Artemis ordered.
"Alright will do." Oblivion said, getting up and leaving to do what Artemis asked.
Artemis sighed and sat down, "This is ridiculous, we'll never get out in a while at this rate." He said.
"At least we're all still alive, which is what matters most." Kirito said.
Artemis got up and said, "Hey Leafa, let's take the kids out for a walk, I'm getting bored with all this-" Artemis was interrupted by Oblivion who just walked back and put his head through the door.
"You got the window fixed, right? I don't want some fucking asshole climbing in through my window and catching me and L-" Oblivion said, being interrupted by Artemis.
"Too far! And yes the windows fixed." Artemis said, Oblivion give him a thumbs up and left.
"Alright guy's, go home for the rest of the day, well, I mean, if you want to anyways." Artemis said.
"Actually, I had an, announcement, to make. Get Oblivion back here." Lisbeth said.
"Um, alright then." Artemis said. He messaged Oblivion and he came in a minute.
"Well, a couple days ago, I found out about a newly discovered feature in FHO, most of you guys wouldn't know about yet, but then I figured it out, and turns out… I'm…" Lisbeth stuttered for a moment.
"You're what?" Oblivion asked.
"Um, there's a reproduction feature. Yes, I have a baby, I figured it out yesterday…" Lisbeth said.
"Hat!?" Oblivion said.
"Hat? Oh my fucking god dude, you forgot the fucking W or what?" Artemis said, laughing.
"Well I mean fuck, If I knew, would've made sure it wouldn't happen unexpectedly but, well shit." Oblivion said, smiling.
"Are you serious? There's a feature like that in FHO?" Kirito asked.
"Yes it happened to someone unexpectedly, now it happened to me and Oblivion. Crap, what are we gonna call it? I wanna know if its a girl or a boy." Lisbeth said.
"We'll figure that out, but, I think I should take you home, I'll take care of the shop for a while, we don't know what could happen." Oblivion said. Lisbeth got out and left with Oblivion. Artemis took his two kids and Leafa for a walk around the empire.
"So, how are those swords you two got from uncle Oblivion?" Artemis asked his kids.
"Good." They both said at the same time.
"Leo, that sword doesn't hurt you if you use the Ice power for your frostburn sword right?" Artemis asked.
"I don't know how to switch it." Leo said.
"I guess that's fine, as long as it's set for fire." Artemis said.
Leo let out a Hmm, and they continued walking, "Uncle Oblivion's got a kid of his own now?" Yuno asked.
"Maybe, he says it could be a false alarm but, I think Lisbeth was telling the truth for sure, and Lisbeth has seemed a little whoozy recently." Artemis said. It was then, Artemis looked to the left and saw Nero talking with one of the guards, cutting some slack into him. Artemis walked over to talk with Nero after he finished.
"So, how's Nero been up to? Still single and all, like I mean, how!?" Artemis asked.
"Hmm, I don't know, nor should I care." Nero said.
"Well, I'm sure you know already weapon production is gonna be slowed down due to Lisbeth having a baby in game." Artemis said.
"Figured, anyways, Oblivion actually told me if I saw you, you should go to the headquarters, Roxas found something cool and Oblivion and him are waiting back there." Nero said.
"Oh, okay, will do." Artemis said, before leaving with Leafa and his two kids to headquarters, spotting Oblivion and Roxas outside the entrance. Artemis walked to them and said, "Roxas, what did you want to show me?"
"Something I believe you would need to keep this place defended." Roxas said. He gestured him to follow him and Artemis followed Oblivion and Roxas up to a staircase to get up on the wall. Roxas stopped and said, "I'm gonna have to put a workbench here for a moment."
Roxas placed a workbench and created a stone base and placed it down. Roxas created parts for an automated crossbow and created the crossbow and had it attached to the stone base. "All right then, get ourselves a target to test it on." Artemis then had a guard take out a prisoner and held him out in the field and automatically, the crossbow turned and pointed to the prisoner and shot him in the head, killing him. They had put the body elsewhere.
"Well shit, it worked." Artemis said. He turned to see Roxas had just finished building a mounted sniper rifle. "Ooh, let Sinon test that one out." Artemis said, pulling up his menu and messaging Sinon to go to his location, and she teleported there.
"What's this Roxas here got done making?" Sinon asked.
"Test it out yourself." Roxas said, Sinon took hold of the rifle and aimed it at a target one of the guards placed in the field, and Sinon aimed the rifle towards the target and shot a metal arrow flying towards the target, and hitting the bullseye.
"Hmm, it's all right, If you know what you're doing." Sinon said.
Artemis sat down as Sinon started to test the rifle a bit more, though, Artemis heard faint footsteps behind and below him. Artemis turned to see a man jumped at him wielding a dagger, he stepped out of the man's way, and drew the only weapon he had on him, as he was trying out a new style, it was a regular longsword, but in the other hand he wielded a jeweled dagger, it had the life drain enchantment on it. The man drew his own longsword, and charged at Artemis, but quickly slid to a stop as he saw Sinon aiming her arrow rifle at him. Sinon fired the bow gun at this man, and he quickly moved to deflect it, but he realized he was outmatched, and fled the scene.
Artemis had messaged Nero to have the horn blare for everyone to get to the briefing room, and so, he heard it and headed there with Sinon, Roxas, and Oblivion to the briefing room. They entered and saw everyone inside that Artemis needed to be in the room.
"Okay, each of you will lead a search party to find a DH member who came in and escaped. He went off to the south east of the entrance, find him, and end him." Artemis ordered, everyone nodded and went and got their teams ready…
20 Minutes Later, Oblivion's search party
"Just keep your eyes open and look for this guy." Oblivion ordered, after one of them asked how long it should take to find the DH member.
They walked for a while, they were on high alert, listening to every noise, watching every movement, even watching their own comrades, they were very nervous, one could see it in the way the men moved, the way they jumped at almost every noise, they were very nervous.
There was a rustle in the bushes and Oblivion was flung away by a body flying out to shoulder check him, but the man that flew out of the bushes swung his longsword at an incoming SWC member, blocking his strike, and in the same movement, he drew his dagger, and stabbed the poor man. He took a second to decapitate the dying SWC member, a move that told the other member's in the party to flee, before swinging his dagger around to deflect Oblivion's claw strike, and he held his dagger there, pushing against Oblivion's claw, but this gave Oblivion enough time to recognise his opponent, and it was someone he'd thought he'd never see again.
"Kurt, you fucking dipshit, never should have come here." Oblivion said, and Kurt smirked and hopped away from Oblivion.
"And why is that? What could you do to stop me?" Kurt said laughing.
"I'll do whatever it takes to stop you, I didn't think even you, an annoying fuckboy, would turn out like this, I didn't think you would have the guts to kill anyone." Oblivion said, but this aggravated Kurt, and he charged Oblivion, swinging at him, but today, Oblivion was the unlucky one, and as he went to block Kurt's longsword, Kurt reversed the swing and used his dagger to slice off Oblivion's hand, however that didn't stop Kurt, who proceeded to kick Oblivion, who'd just fallen to his knees, in the head. As Kurt prepared to deal the killing blow, a familiar figure flew from the bushes and Kurt recognised the threat, and jumped away before Artemis could land a blow on his old enemy.
"C-Caleb!? Is that you!?" Kurt yelled.
"You bet your ass it is, and now I shall end you, you thought me dead, but you couldn't be more correct, but have you ever heard of reincarnation?" Artemis asked.
"So you're telling me that you were reincarnated? No matter, you were a wimp before, so might as well kill you, because there is no place for the weak." Kurt said.
"So you seem to be forgetting that I kicked your ass in grade 11, and that I sent you to the hospital, and now, I'll do much worse." Artemis said, before charging Kurt with both swords drawn. He swung at the man, and Kurt tried his best to avoid the attacks, but he failed to dodge most of them, and he decided that a good offence was a good defence, and went on the attack, but Artemis, a seasoned veteran, blocked and dodged every attack, but then he realized that he wasn't able to land a single hit while under such an assault, and this pissed him off,causing Hellfire to glow brightly, and he dodged to the side, this time intent on landing a blow, but Artemis was forced to back away, as he was intercepted by Kurt's blade.
"I must admit, you've improved." Artemis said.
"How the hell did you get so strong?" Kurt said angrily.
"It's called training, lot's and lot's of it." Artemis said, before hopping back into the fray.
Artemis chose to take the offensive from the start, and steal Kurt's chance to take him by surprise again, but this time Kurt knew what to expect, and was able to block most of the attacks, but then he tried to take the offensive, but that ended up with Artemis ducking under one of the strikes, but at this point he'd had enough, he knew he wasn't ready to unleash his full magical strength, but at this point he didn't care.
"I'm done playing around, it's time for you to die!" Artemis screamed before unleashing a fire storm. It covered a large area, anyone in the the blasts radius was incinerated instantly, and Oblivion was lucky enough to have been just outside the radius, and the blast only knocked him out, but while Artemis was losing control, he was fully aware of his surroundings, and as he struggled to control his god energy, he saw a man with a dark hood and a black tattoo covering the right side of his face, making him easily recognisable as PoH, the former Leader of Laughing Coffin, and current leader of Death's Hand.
Artemis knew he was facing death here, and attempted to control his magic but it was no use, but the PoH did the unexpected, he covered himself in water magic the game provided him with, and charged right through the flame and smashed Artemis in the temple with his meat cleaver weapon. Artemis was knocked to the floor and he felt his magic energy dissipate, and he lay on the ground awaiting his death, but as he lay there his vision went black, and as the light faded from his eyes, he watched as PoH walked away.
30 Minutes Later
Artemis awoke, lying on couch with all of his friends surrounding him, and Artemis got up and asked, "What happened?"
"You were knocked out after you sent fire uncontrollably at our target and couldn't stop." Leafa said.
Artemis shook his head and looked around, noticed Oblivion and Lisbeth weren't in the room. "Where did Oblivion go?" Artemis asked. "I didn't kill him, did I?"
"No, only knocked him out, he's at his house, and Lisbeth has him taken care of, he should be fine." Leafa said.
The other's then realized how distracted Artemis and Kirito asked what was wrong.
"Oh, nothing, just got something on my mind." Artemis replied cryptically.
"Mind telling us what?" Leafa asked.
"I can't, it's something that happened before I was knocked out." Artemis said.
"I need to know, I don't want to let you suffer this alone." Leafa replied.
"Not right now, I need to train my magic, just so I don't lose control again." Artemis said, and he got up, and strapped his weapons on, and he walked out the door, leaving everyone in the room worried.
