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Halloween World: World Wide Weird by Weaver
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Halloween World: Snapshots of the Hallow Earth
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Halloween World: Twelve Years Later by Weaver
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CHAPTER 24- HALLOWEEN WORLD WAR Part 7
- HOSPITAL DAYS - RETURN OF THE DAWN
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Operation: Closing the Book II
Miskatonic County April 8 2011
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 - March 15, 1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, known then simply as weird fiction.
Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Christian humanism. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.
Lovecraft Country is the New England setting coined by Keith Herber, combining real and fictitious locations, used by H. P. Lovecraft in many of his weird fiction stories, and later elaborated by other writers working in the Cthulhu Mythos. Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi refers to the area as the "Miskatonic region", after its fictional river and university, while Lovecraft biographer Lin Carter calls it Miskatonic County
A group of hunters now stand on the edges of the Miskatonic County in Massachusetts. They stand on the edges of Innsmouth, Dunwich, Arkham, and Kingport waiting for a signal to begin the operation. The people who have accepted the S-Class Horror missions are far beyond the normal hunters. They are warriors capable of fighting what should be impossible to fight.
On the edge of Innsmouth is a female humanoid with an athletic build, black skin covered in blue tribal symbols, long spiky blue-black hair, and glowing yellow eyes. She also has long pointed ears, fangs, claws, and organic armor wrapped around her arms and legs. She's dressed like a warrior of a lost African tribe with animal skins and beads, but carries a black sword edged with mystical runes.
Next to her is another primitive woman known to a few people before Halloween. A primitive black woman from a tribe of the ancient world. She is a mute warrior covered in bone-white tribal markings and carrying a scythe.
She is Sineya, the First Slayer, The Primeval One.
Sineya was from a tribe in Africa thousands of years ago. She was taken from her home by the tribal elders to combat the deadly force of the vampire population. She imbued with the powers of a demon thus the creation of the "first" Slayer. She soon let her power take control of her humanity and she was shunned. She wandered Africa, always on the hunt and prowl to stop demons and vampires. Eventually, she was killed.
She turns to her companion and seems to say something with her movements.
The demonic woman replies in a guttural language, saying something which translates as "You can kill the survivors."
Operation Closing the Book I was Maine focused around Castle Rock and Derry. The United North American Colonies (UNAC) crafted a plan to eliminate the worst monsters and problem areas generated by the works of Stephen Edwin King. These areas could have become serious problems in the war with the Dark Council
The Operation resulted in the State of Maine, all thirty three thousand four hundred fourteen square miles, being incinerated on April 8. 2008. Most of the monsters were eliminated, but Maine was reduced to a wasteland filled with chaotic magic
On April 8 2011, a large section of Massachusetts ceased to exist. There was no fire or explosion, just a void as if some great force had sliced the land from the earth and pulled it into oblivion.
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Battle of the Flames
April 27, 2011
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Cordelia "Azula" Chase is fighting Fire Lord and self-proclaimed Phoenix King Ozai.
In the world of the Avatar, Ozai was the tyrannical ruler of the Fire Nation and threat to the world. Ozai is the second born son of Fire Lord Azulon and Fire Lady Ilah, after his older brother Iroh. He was the husband of Ursa, and by her had two children: Zuko and Azula.
Ozai, like his father Azulon and his grandfather Sozin, continued the genocidal War with the other nations, striving for the Fire Nation to encompass the entire world in its grasp. Like every Fire Lord, Ozai is a Firebending Master, and prior to the end of the war was believed to have been the most powerful Firebender in the Avatar world.
The Day of Sozen's Comet granted Ozai immense power and he intended to reduce the entire Earth Kingdom to ashes. He would have succeeded and ruled the world as the Phoenix King, but he fought the Avatar Aang. For much of the battle, Ozai had the advantage due to the power of Sozin's Comet enhancing his already powerful Firebending. Aang was at a great disadvantage due to his unwillingness to harm or kill the Fire Lord. Eventually Ozai overwhelmed and cornered the Avatar, whom he proceeds to mock for having such a peaceful nature.
Determined to finish off the Avatar, Ozai accidentally unblocked Aang's seventh and final chakra, prompting him to enter the Avatar State. While in this state, Aang easily began to counter Ozai and take him down with all four elements at his disposal. Completely overpowered, Ozai tried to defend himself and escape, but was finally captured and detained by Aang and prepared himself for the killing blow. Instead, Aang used an ancient type of bending power, Energy-bending, to strip Ozai of his firebending forever, ending the fight peacefully.
Ozai's last memory of his world was lying powerless in a Fire Nation prison near the Royal Palace where Iroh was once held and his son Zuko standing over him as the new Fire Lord.
When Ozai awoke in the world of Halloween, his Firebending had returned to him and enhanced beyond the power he possessed during Sozen's Comet. He created a small empire for himself, until heroes started to appear to free his slaves. He joined the Dark Council and learned of what had happened in his original world recorded as works of fiction. He even gained Immortality using one of their rituals.
He killed a version of Zuko to sate his thirst for revenge. Years ago, thirteen year-old Zuko, his eldest and least favored, spoke out in Ozai's war room against a general's plan to sacrifice novice troops in pursuit of victory. Angered by his impudence, Ozai demanded Zuko duel in an Agni Kai, not with the general who Zuko disrespected, but with Ozai himself. Seeing the Fire Lord in the arena, Zuko fell to his knees, pleading for forgiveness and refusing to duel his own father. For this perceived cowardice and disrespect, Ozai badly burned Zuko's face, permanently scarring him. Years later, he thought the boy had redeemed himself and captured the Avatar, but instead the boy betrayed him and became the Avatar's Firebending teacher.
He killed another version of Azula for being weak. She was his favorite child, possessing intelligence, cunning, and the iron hand need to rule. He learned that she broke down when he left her as the new Fire Lord. She felt abandoned by her mother, who sacrificed herself to save Zuko. She felt abandoned by her friends, Mai and Ty Lee, who helped her enemies during their escape from Boiling Rock prison. She became so paranoid that she destroyed herself and was defeated by Zuko and the waterbender Katara.
Now, he faces Cordelia Azula Chase, the most powerful Firebender of Sunnydale and the woman who destroyed most of Ozai's Dark Council army.
Ozai lets out a roar and releases a monstrous burst of flame from his mouth and Azula counters with the same Breathe of Fire technique. The two streams of flame collide creating a brightly glowing ball. The superheated plasma reaches critical and violently explodes, forcing both of them back.
Ozai shoots through the thick smoke and flames, using jets of fire from his feet to propel himself like a rocket. He swings his fist and releases a ball of fire hot enough to vaporize steel, but Chase jumps over the blast using her own rocket jump. As she lands behind Ozai, she does a spinning back kick covered in blue flames that sends Ozai tumbling back. The arc of flame it releases also causes damage.
Ozai regains his balance and throws several high speed strikes. Quick, successive attacks that exert extreme power for just a moment and release quick, but powerful fire attacks. Chase blocks with a wall of flame that she then swings to a stream of fire to strike Ozai with.
Suddenly, Azula releases a burst of fire into the ground creating a massive cloud of smoke, dust, and ash. Ozai uses his fire absorption to extinguish the fire and blows the smoke away with a wave of heat, but Chase is gone.
Ozai learns where Chase went he hears the sound of a thousand birds. There are few flying birds in the world of Halloween with the exception of the phoenix, which have become more common than pigeons. No phoenix would come on to a battle field while the battle is still occurring, unless bonded to a young hero.
Ozai turns to see Chase standing on a pillar of ash-covered rock covered in lightning. This isn't a lightning technique of Firebending; this is ninjutsu she learned from her husband Itachi Uchiha. This isn't the Chidori (Thousand Birds) or the more powerful Raikiri (Lightning Cut) she learned years ago; this is Chidori Nagashi (Thousand Birds Current). Ozai watches as the lightning arcs around her body and causes her entire body to glow with a faint blue-white light.
In her hand is a Jian, a double-edged straight sword used during the last 2,500 years in China. In Chinese folklore, it is known as "The Gentleman of Weapons" and is considered one of the four major weapons, along with the Gun (staff), Qiang (spear), and the Dao (sabre). The seventy centimeter (twenty eight inch) blade glows white with arcs of electricity crawling across the metal and swirling plasma like glowing mist near the edges.
Suddenly, she vanishes and Ozai feels himself rise into the air. It takes a split second for him to realize that it isn't his body rising into the air, but his severed head and Azula is now several meters behind him. The crimson blood extending between the decapitated head and the body ignites into crimson flames. The head returns to the body and reconnects leaving no trace of the cut other than a ring of ash on the skin.
Chase spins the sword, then brings it down in a slash releasing a swirling blast of shining blue flames. The fire blast hits Ozai in the chest sending him back several meters, through several boulders and pillars of rock. The fire blast overloads the magical protection of the armor, and burns through his body. The Fire Lord's back explodes outward expelling the ash that was the majority of Ozai's internal organs.
Ozai laughs as he stands with a giant hole going completely through his body. He laughs as the wound begins to burn and slowly close itself and despite the fact his lungs haven't regenerated yet.
"Foolish daughter. I am the Phoenix King and I am Immortal!"
"No you're not."
"What!?"
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A few minutes ago, many kilometers away from the battle in Ozai's main camp, a figure walked towards Ozai's private tent. As the torch light hit him, he's revealed to be a man standing six foot six dressed in a dark body suit and armor with a one-eyed black and orange mask. Slade Wilson, also known as Deathstroke the Terminator, has betrayed the Dark Council. In one hand, he carried a machine gun with a smoking barrel and in the other hand he carried a promethium sword covered in blood.
The camp was filled with the bodies of evil men and women that had been shot, sliced, and blown to pieces. There were also malformed bones, piles of ash, and pools of dark liquids, the remains of rapidly decaying monsters.
He walked into Ozai's tent and went over to a safe near the bed. Slade pulled out a funny looking gun that he stole off the body of a little gray alien in New Mexico. The little weapon looked like a piece of green and yellow plastic, but the green-gold beam it fired sliced the safe clean in half. The safe was made of the strongest steel alloys and charmed to be indestructible to all tools of this world, but wasn't designed to handle the laser gun of a Roswell Grey.
Slade picked up Ozai's golden crown from inside the safe using a dagger and pulledoff a black gemstone using a pair of cold iron tweezers. The crown fell to the ground as green-black mist lashed out from it. The curses embedded in the crown tried to kill the person who touched the crown, but they soon ran out of energy.
Slade pulled out a scroll from one of his pouches and unrolled it on the ground. The one-and-a-half meter by one-and-a-half meter piece of soft fabric has a complex seal written on it. It resembled a meter radius circle with a pentagram inside and runes edged around the edge. He placed the black gemstone in the exact center and struck it with the tip of a silver dagger.
The black gem began to absorb light and radiate dark energy making it look like a miniature black hole. Suddenly, a black creatures shot out of the darkness at high speed and tried to break through the invisible barrier created by the circle. The barrier rippled the air as the creature struck it a dozen times, before slowing down enough to reveal itself to be a tiny black European dragon with red eyes and a flame on its tail tip.
Slade slashed with his dagger and cut the head off the dragon causing it to explode. The explosion was contained by the containment seal creating a pillar of fire and Slade watched as two demons composed of magma and a phoenix emerged from the remains of the dragon and grew to full size.
Slade threw a grenade like device and jumped back as the containment seal finally fails. The freeze grenade detonated and released chemicals that caused the two demons to turn into showers of ash and rock. It also froze the phoenix in a block of super cold ice before it could teleport.
"The agile dragon and teleporting phoenix would return to you in an instant and Trigon's fire demons and the explosion from the dragon would get rid of the thief." said Slade, pulling out a cold iron hammer. "Reminds me of Koschei the Deathless."
"His soul was hidden separate from his body inside a needle, which was in an egg, which was in a duck, which was in a hare, which was in an iron chest, which was buried under a green oak tree, which was on the island of Buyan, in the ocean."
Slade brought the hammer down and shattered the phoenix like a piece of glass. The phoenix, unable to be reborn from the flames due to the extreme cold of the ice and super-fluid (liquefied air), died.
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Phoenix King Ozai feels a surge of unimaginable pain as the flames regenerating his chest are extinguished. He can't even cry out as pressure builds in his throbbing chest, then a spurt of blood shoots out of the wound. He collapses to his knees as blood runs down his front and back, pooling beneath him.
"My associate has destroyed your soul jar." says Chase, as she walks over to Ozai. She impales him with her sword and grabs him by the throat with the other hand. Ozai's body shakes as the electrical current shocks him again and again, her iron hard grip bruising his neck and causing third degree burns from the radiant heat.
Chase lets go of the sword and raises her hand in a glowing blue fist.
"Daughter..."
"I'm not your daughter."
Chase's punch has more power than a sledgehammer, crushing Ozai's skull
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Birth of a New Council
May 01, 2011
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A New Council has formed to lead the Dark Army composed of the most cunning and intelligent of the dark forces. They sit around a circular table with their men hidden in their abnormally immense shadows.
The first is a tall bishonen (pretty boy) with a lean build. He has blue eyes and long wavy white hair going past his shoulders. He's dressed in the clothing of a medieval European noble
Griffith was the beautiful, charming young leader of a group of mercenaries known as the Band of Hawks. More than anything else, he wanted his own kingdom and with his keen ambition and drive and shrewd intelligence, he almost made his dream come true. When his closest friend Guts and his second, the heroine Casca, left him, he slept with the young Princess Charlotte of Midland, but the King learned of their relationship. The perverted King ordered Griffith to be imprisoned and tortured, because he desired his daughter for himself.
Griffith was rescued from the tower by the Hawks, but he had been mutilated, his tendons cut making achieving his dream near impossible. While escaping, Griffith's blood activated the Behelit. The Behelit, also known as Egg of the Emperor, is an egg covered to parts of a face and has the ability to summon the Godshand.
"How goes Project Ascension?"
The Godshand are demon gods from the another reality, the astral plane. The Ideal of God born of humanity's collective consciousness created the God's Hand to satisfy the human desire to have a reason for their suffering. It was humanity's desire that gave birth to the anthropomorphic incarnations of power. When they are summoned by the Behilits, the summoners can sacrifice what is most precious to them for their greatest desire. Sacrificing people they love and/or care for allows the Godshand to transform them into Apostles, shape-shifting human-eating demons.
Griffith's Red Behelit, known as the Egg of the Conquerer, allowed Griffith to ascend and become a member of the God's Hand himself. As he became Femto, the demons devoured the Hawk; he raped Casca, and maimed Guts.
"The raw materials we retrieved from the Cotswolds are reacting well to Naraku's birthing matrix."
In Griffith's shadow are humans in medieval armor and various Apostles resembling giant animals (like moths, snakes, slugs, octopi, etc...) with human faces and bodies melded into them.
The next bishonen stands six foot one with brown eyes and slicked back brown hair. He's dressed in an open white jacket, white pants, black socks, and sandals similar to the Arrancar uniform.
Sosuke Aizen is the former captain of the 5th Division in the Gotei 13; he later left Soul Society with his followers, Gin Ichimaru and Kaname Tosen. During his service he secretly conducted research together with his two accomplices on achieving new heights of power by combining the powers of Shinigami and Hollows. When Ichigo Kurosaki and his friends invaded Seireitei to rescue Rukia Kuchiki from execution, he managed to lay his hands on the Hogyoku (Breakdown Sphere) with an elaborate plan involving Rukia's execution and the attempts to rescue her, manipulating most of the other Captains of Soul Society according to his will. After obtaining the Hogyoku, he declared his intentions openly.
"My scientists in Hueco Mundo have discovered a method to increase my Arrancar army. They have developed a process that will eliminate the personalities of a Gillian. With a single surviving persona, the Gillian will evolve into an Adjuchas and possibility of reversion is reduced to less than one percent. These new Adjuchas are perfect for the creation of lesser Arrancar."
He resided in Hueco Mundo together with Ichimaru and Tosen, commanding an army of Arrancar and Hollows, his ultimate goal being to overthrow Soul Society along with the Soul King and take his place as god of the world. His last memories of his own world were a winter war with the Shinigami and the Ryoka (Ichigo's outsider group). He's currently the leader of Halloween World's Hollows and evil-aligned Arrancar
In Aizen's enhanced shadow are the new Espada (Ten Swords), the ten strongest Arrancar in Aizen's army. They are far different from his previous Espada which were named after Designers and Architects.
The Tenth Espada, Lucia de la Luna (Light of the Moon), is also known as "The Arrancar of the Dark Moon". She's a former magical girl transformed into a soul-devouring dark magical girl.
The Ninth Espada, Lady Rao is a Kryptonian like Superman, granted superhuman powers such as flight, strength, x-ray vision, super speed, invulnerability, heat vision and super-hearing. The Kryptonian abilities have combined with her Hollow powers allowing her to fire cero (doom blasts) from her eyes and use a reversed version of super-breathe to absorb souls.
The Eighth Espada is Ryu Hayabusa, the Shinobi. In life, he had the demeanor and wisdom of a man far older than himself, due to his prolific lineage and mantle of station as a respected ninja. He was a very skilled ninja and had achieved powers beyond that of every human in his world. When he was betrayed and killed he was reborn as Aizen's shinobi.
The Seventh Espada is Kratos Sparda, the Ghost. In life, Kratos was the youngest and most promising captain in Sparta's army, quickly gaining recognition due to his violent tactics. During an attack by a barbarian tribe, they were outnumbered. Before being killed by the barbarian king, Kratos summoned Ares, the Greek god of war, and offered his soul in exchange for a victory.
He continued to serve Ares until the god tricked him into killing his own family, after which he served several of the other Greek gods for a decade. After becoming tired of serving the gods to erase the memories of his family's murder, he contacted Athena, who offered him forgiveness if he was able to stop Ares' destruction of Athens. After defeating several monsters which were attacking citizens, Kratos saved the city's oracle who tells him to retrieve Pandora's Box in order to defeat Ares.
Kratos succeeded in this task, but was killed by Ares and sent to Hades. After escaping from the underworld he returned to Athens and confronted Ares, regaining control of Pandora's Box and using its power to kill the god.
Kratos awoke in Halloween World shortly after Ares' demise and was killed by a group of powerful demons. It wasn't the demons that killed him, but his extreme fatigue and poisons released by their corpses. Aizen found Kratos as a fiery bull-like Adjuchas and transformed him into his loyal warrior.
The Sixth Espada is Makoto Shishio, the Hitokiri. After the death of Yukishiro Tomoe, Himura Kenshin became a free wielding swordsman to protect members of the Ishin Shishi. Shishio Makoto became his successor as hitokiri (assassin) and was responsible for the assassination of I'izuka, the man who had betrayed the Choshu party. The future Meiji government was more secretive about Shishio than Kenshin.
Later, the new Meiji government believed it would be in their best interests to eliminate Shishio. While they had found Himura to be an idealistic servant of the Imperialist cause, Okubo and other Meiji officials correctly concluded that Shishio was an opportunistic sociopath who would undoubtedly use his vast knowledge of government secrets to plunge the country into turmoil for his own personal gain. Thus, during the Boshin War, Shishio was knocked out from a blow to the head, doused in oil and burned alive by the Ishin Shishi. He survived, sustaining severe damage to his entire body. Even after years had passed since his injuries, he continued to wear bandages day and night, giving him an appearance similar to a mummy.
Against the heroic Kenshin, Shishio remembers fighting until his body heat rose to the point where his blood and fat ignited, and he was incinerated. He also remembers wandering hell and trying to take over.
He didn't live very long in Halloween World, as the hospital he awoke in collapsed in a fiery explosion. He was killed by falling debris and the intense heat, but conquered a large portion of Hueco Mundo as a Hollow. His powerful spirit allowed him to bypass the Gillian-class Menos Grande stage of Hollow evolution and become an extremely ruthless and coldblooded Adjuchas. Aizen transformed him into an Arrancar to serve as an Assassin.
The Fifth Espada Brolly Saiya is a very dangerous Berserker known as the Sword of the Shattering Earth. In life, he was a saiyan - a type of extremely powerful alien from a high gravity world known as Vegita. His people were space warriors who served an alien tyrant known as Freeza, killing off the people of inhabited worlds and selling the entire world for profit. Brolly was born a mutant, born with immense power and constantly growing stronger as opposed to normal saiyans that grew more powerful when brought closer to death. Some believed he was the Legendary Super-Saiyan, but King Vegita ordered Brolly's death.
Planet Vegita was destroyed by Freeza with only a small group of survivors. Brolly not only survived the assassination, but the planet's destruction and managed to escape from Planet Vegita with his father. Years later, Brolly was becoming a destructive psychopath so his father Paragus was forced to use mind control devices to control him. Paragus wanted to use Brolly to lure the last of Saiyans, Prince Vegita and Kakkarot, a saiyan born at the same time as Brolly, known as Goku.
The plan was to use a comet to destroy the fake planet, so Paragus could conquer Earth without resistance. The plan went to hell because Brolly was mentally unsettled as an adult, partially due to the crying of the infant Goku in the incubator next to him. They fought and finally with the combined power of the other Z Senshi, Brolly was defeated. Years later, Brolly managed to reach Earth after barely surviving the final attack. He fought only to be killed by Goku and his sons Gohan and Goten.
The Halloween reborn Brolly was killed by a magical attack, which he had no defense against. In the form of a gorilla-like Hollow he caused more destruction in Hueco Mundo than most Gillians. The strength of his spirit allowed him to bypass Gillian and reach Adjuchas. He almost reached Vasco Lorde, when Aizen found him and converted him into an Arrancar. Aizen was also able to alter Brolly's mind, granting him the loyal mind of a Blood Knight and the intelligence to use his vast physical strength and monstrous cero attacks efficiently.
The Fourth Espada is known as the Prince. In life he was a young warrior prince and son of the Persian King Shahraman. He conquered the Maharajah of India for honor and glory. After looting the city, they continued to Azad. In Azad, the Vizier of the Maharajah tricked the Prince into releasing the Sands of Time using the Dagger of Time. The Sands infected everyone in the kingdom, turning them into monsters. He experienced many adventures, fighting the Vizier, the guardian monster of time Dahaka, an evil Dark Prince persona, and even time itself.
He was reborn in Halloween world as a young man after dying as a very old man. He survived for six years, until several evil mages tried to control him. The dark ritual awoke the Dark Prince and other evil elements caused by the Sands of Time, and his killing of the mages resulted in his own death. Aizen was able to create an Arrancar with a unique power, the ability to manipulate time.
The last three are mysterious like the previous Three of Aizen's Espada. Primer Rey, Marcus, and Robert Luzarches are mysteries beyond their Aizen chosen names and the fact they were not Adjuchas-class before Aizen converted them. Instead, the Three were Vasto Lorde, the strongest, most intelligent, and most powerful evolution of the Hollow. They are humanoid in size and appearance and possess battle strength comparable or superior to a Soul Reaper captain, even without Shinigami powers.
The third member of the Council stands five foot eleven with red eyes and long silky black hair. He's dressed in a mix of dark purple feudal robes and silvery organic armor with numerous spikes and a huge spider-like mark on his back.
"We have reports from human-youkai conversion research. The test subjects have been successfully converted and we will be able add them and their powers to new fusions without worrying about human blood diluting the youkai blood."
He is Naraku, a shape-shifting demon born from a conglomerate of lesser demons around an evil human heart. He was Nigh Invulnerable in his first life in various forms. He initially was just a Hive Mind of demon parts that could stay alive with only his head left. After getting his first new body, he could selectively destroy and replace the parts to get stronger, and was a Regenerator that survived being ripped into many pieces only healing slower each time, as well as having a barrier that could keep most people out. Then he made a sentient Soul Jar that moved him from Regenerator to being practically a ghost without ever being affected by the wounds in addition to an even stronger shield that hardly anything could get through. Then, after the point where the Anime ends, he reabsorbs his Soul Jar (who was trying to kill him) to lose the ghost quality (going back down to regenerator) in exchange for taking its henchman's traits of being Made of Diamond, actual diamond and the even harder scales of a giant tortoise youkai.
In the end, he was destroyed with the Shikon no Tama (Jewel of Four Souls) he was obsessed with.
When he was reborn in Halloween World, he absorbed far more diverse and powerful youkai, from evil monsters like himself to recently killed heroic youkai. He absorbed demons of other worlds, including a near immortal Old One that hadn't been placed in the Deeper Well. He even managed to absorb all the other evil-aligned versions of Naraku, becoming a single sentient entity with the combined powers boosted to god-like levels and the potential for even greater power.
In his shadow are his strongest incarnations, each more powerful than his previous incarnations combined. They are so powerful that Naraku calls them his God Generals. Youkai grown from his own flesh, they possess his vast regenerative abilities and diamond-hard armor. The five also possess powers based on the five Chinese Elements and are skilled in Elemental Country Taijutsu, Genjutsu, and Ninjutsu leaning towards their affinity.
The fourth member is as man with short black hair and one red eye behind an orange spiral mask. He's dressed in black leather with a spiked arm and a long black coat.
"Doujutsu research is slow. The eye has mutation potential, which allows the creation of multiple versions of Mangekyou. The addition of magical, spiritual, demonic, and alien life energies has resulted in a far greater number of variants. We are currently trying to isolate strains."
He is Madara Uchiha, Legendary Founder of the Uchiha Clan of Konohagakure no Sato.
When he was young, Madara and his younger brother competed against each other. Both possessed the Sharingan and attained Mangekyou through their rivalry. With their newfound power, they increased their clan's power and standing. Unfortunately, usage of Mangekyou leads one to blindness and Madara was the first to fall to this side effect. With his eyesight gone, Madara took his brother's eyes in desperation. These new eyes allowed him to see once again and granted him "Eternal" Mangekyou.
With these powerful eyes he met representatives of a nearby clan, their rivals the Senju, and helped found Konoha. This clan was lead by the man who would become Shodai Hokage, Hashirama Senju. At some point the men had a falling out, and the two did battle at the Valley of the End. It is said the destruction was so great it tore the earth asunder, creating the very valley. Two gigantic statues were later erected on the spot in their honor.
Madara plotted revenge on Konoha, summoning the Kyubi no Kitsune to attack Konoha and then manipulate events. He created a win-win scenario using a coup d'etat, if the Uchiha won, Konoha would be easy to control or weakened enough to be destroyed. If the Uchiha lost and were wiped out, he would have revenge on the clan that abandoned him. He also founded the Akatsuki Organization, a group of the worst S-Class Missing Ninja, for the purpose of capturing the Biju (Tailed Beasts), which would have granted him immense power.
His last memory of the Elemental Countries is dying fighting Naruto and the heroes of Konoha. He awoke in Halloween World with his "Eternal" Mangekyou evolved into a more powerful form and his dark chakra, which was more ominous than the Kyubi no Kitsune's, had become the chakra of a true demon.
In twelve years, he has trained an army of shinobi and enhanced them beyond human limits. These enhancements include merging them with yoma flesh, enchanted armor, spiritual training to unlock Hollow or Shinigami powers, and even sealing lesser demons into them to create synthetic Kekkei Genkai (Blood Inheritance Limit).
In his shadow are the Five Sages, the five most powerful ninjas under Madara's command and possessing the ability to absorb energy from the world around them to enhance their own power. They also possess special versions of the Sharingan, cloned from Madara's own eyes and modified with Naraku's demon recombination technique.
The Earth Sage stands over six foot seven with a muscular build, golden eyes, gold-brown skin, and a bald head. He's dressed in black armor with gold details. The Earth Sage is the strongest and most durable of the ninja, and is trained not only in Doton ninjutsu, but Earthbending. There is a powerful Dilong - Earth Dragon - sealed within him which has granted him a diamond hard body.
The Fire Sage stands nearly six foot with red hair and red eyes. He's dressed in red armor with bronze weapons. The Fire Sage is a master of Katon ninjutsu and Firebending, superior to Fire Lord Ozai. There is a powerful Ifrit sealed within him, which has granted him the ability to fly and radiate enough heat to stop bullets and other projectiles.
The Wind Sage is a five foot ten woman with pale silver blue eyes and snow white hair. She's dressed in a mix of black, white, and gray. The Wind Sage is a master of Futon ninjutsu and the sword, and is the fastest of the Sages. She also skilled in Airbending as a defense style. She is merged with an aensland-type succubus, which allows her to manipulate her body to create blades.
The Water Sage is a small five foot two girl with blue eyes and long black hair streaked with dark blue. She's dressed in black clothing with dark blue armor. The Water Sage is a master of Suiton ninjutsu and Genjutsu. She is the most agile of the sages and is skilled in water bending. She is also skilled in cryokinetics - ice manipulation due to the Yuki-Onna sealed within her.
The Lighting Sage is a strange white skinned woman standing five foot ten with long blue-green hair and blue-green eyes. She's dressed in black and blue-green clothing with iron grey armor. The Lightning Sage is a master of Raiton ninjutsu and Fuinjutsu (sealing techniques). She is a cunning warrior with mastery over electrical fields, and has a powerful storm dragon taiyokai sealed inside her.
The fifth member of the council is another bishonen with brown eyes and long brown hair. He's dressed in a loose, open white shirt and black pants.
He is Michael Roa Valdamjong. A vampire and ranked as a numberless Dead Apostle. He is nicknamed "The Serpent of Akasha" which refers to his reincarnation ability as Akasha is the source of all things in the Tsukihime universe and snakes are known for shedding their skin, symbolizing how he discards his host bodies. He is the current and "true" leader of the Dark Council's vampire soldiers after the total destruction of the Blood Dragon King Drac.
The vampires in the shadows are the Five Kings, the five strongest evil aligned vampire masters under Roa. Their loyalty is absolute because their soul/vampire spirits exist inside Roa, meaning if Roa dies they die and if he's reborn, they are reborn.
"The assault on Magia failed. Their defenses have proven too strong and have been increasing since the book retrieval mission. I would ask the Demon Sorcerers for their input, but they have gone missing in the Thousand Kingdoms. The next target is Hogwarts in the Albion Alliance."
The last is Mumm-Ra the Everliving, the founder of the Original Council and Leader of the New Council. He's not a bishonen like the others, instead he's an ape-faced blue skinned corpse in decaying white bandages and a red cloak. The demon-priest Mumm-Ra is the self-proclaimed "ever-living source of evil" on Third Earth, having powers of sorcery and an apparently unlimited lifespan.
He in fact was a bound servant to the Ancient Spirits of Evil (represented by four anthropomorphic statues within the burial chamber of his pyramid), who provided him with increased power and virtual immortality to further his pursuit of spreading their dark influence
Halloween recreated him as the anthropomorphic form of Halloween World's collective evil. He is and always will be the most influential member of the council, because they are all connected to him by the evil in their souls. It's theorized by the mad scientists that if he fully unlocked his powers, Mumm-Ra would have near infinite power by absorbing the powers of the evil forces. The problem is the evil forces would be destroyed by the absorption process.
The creatures in his shadow shouldn't be able to fit. One is a red skull with glowing eyes floating in the hood of the pleated cape. He sits on an immense undead dragon over a hundred meters in length. The other is a male mutant standing seven feet tall with blue eyes, a bald head, and grey skin. He appears metallic at times with extensive disheveled metallic blue lips, blue markings on his head, and is massive in natural form.
The Crimson Lich King. A Lich is a type of undead creature, usually formerly a powerful magician or king, who has used evil rituals to bind his intellect to his animated corpse and thereby achieve a perverse form of immortality. The Crimson Lich King has evolved into a far more powerful form, but its corpse has decayed to a skull. The alchemic body it floats above is for appearance.
He rides Dracolich, an undead dragon that possesses certain abilities of a lich. It was once an ancient evil red dragon until it was killed by the heroes. The magical process combined with the dragon's semi-demonic heritage transformed it into a monster that can match the god dragons.
The other is En Sabah Nur. A mutant born five thousand years ago in Egypt as a member of a tribe in Akkaba. Even as an infant, he inspired fear. Ugly and malformed, he was abandoned by the tribe to die in the harsh desert sun. However, a roving band of feared desert nomad raiders, the Sandstormers, slaughtered the population. Their ruthless leader, Baal, found the child crying in rage.
As En Sabah Nur grew, he surpassed the other tribesmen in intelligence and strength. Everyone in the tribe except for Baal hated and feared him for his inhuman looks and great abilities. Nur did not understand their fear, but hardened his heart against it. Moreover, he believed in the principle that Baal and the tribe lived by, that only the fittest, the toughest, most ruthless and pitiless, tested by hardship, would, and should, survive. On the day of his tribal rite of passage into manhood, the seventeen-year-old En Sabah Nur killed three armed warriors of the tribe using only his bare hands.
In time, with help from people who tried to kill him and a starship created by the alien Celestials, he was transformed and enhanced by Celestial technology, becoming one of the most powerful mutants who will ever live. He took a new name, which he used as the centuries passed. The name of Apocalypse.
The Crimson Lich King leads Mumm-Ra's army of evil Undead, while Apocalypse (En Sabah Nur) controls the beasts and mutants.
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Sunnydale Hospital
June 21
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Dr. Xander "Cho Hakkai" Harris is reviewing his patient reports. The reports are recorded in three forms to make sure they are accurate and can't be tampered with.
The first type is the computer files, which include video and medical scanner data. Since the computers are a combination of magical enchantment and nanotechnology, it's impossible to hack. The security also includes passwords and biometric scanners that scan retina and fingerprints in order to keep a patient's privacy.
The second type is the hard copies. Special papers that become blank if an unauthorized person tries to read the file and are nearly indestructible. Special folders that keep the contents organized and inside the folder unless authorized. Even the cabinets are high security made of thin sheets of adamantium instead of aluminum or steel alloy, with special locks that will only open for an authorized (Sunnydale) doctor.
The third type is pensives, special magical containers that can store memories. These upgraded versions resemble mirrors the size of playing cards, which is a vast improvement on the huge silver basins used by the wizarding world. The Doctors can copy their memories into their "memory cards" and review them later. They're also used to teach the new medical students without putting them at risk until they're ready.
Xander reaches up into his memory cards and picks out May to June.
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Patients - Sealing Evil
May 4
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Xander walks into the room holding the files of a group of patients nicknamed "Seiyu".
The first is a young man dressed in Chinese silk with silver hair done in a pigtail.
Ranma Saotome Yamaguchi is named after his Anime seiyu - Japanese voice actor-, Kappei Yamaguchi. He possesses many talents outside the superhuman martial arts common in most Ranma characters, more in common with other people the seiyu has played.
After Nerima, Ranma was able to get a job with a private detective agency because of his superhuman ki level. The detective was also an onmyoji, a practitioner of traditional Japanese esoteric cosmology, a mixture of natural science and occultism, known as Onmyodo, and he specialized in cases that dealt with the supernatural. He taught Ranma to unlock his detective and spiritual skills. Ranma was able to learn the spiritual arts because of his extensive martial arts training and the blood of a powerful miko flowing in his veins.
After the detective Subaru was killed by a youkai assassin, Ranma awoke his own youkai heritage and hunted the youkai down. In the process, he attracted the attention of the Reikai (spirit world) and became a Reikai Tantei (Spirit World Detective). After several adventures, he even learned youkai fighting techniques from a wind demon, Jin. and his ancestor, Inu-hanyou Inuyasha.
Ranma Saotome Yamaguchi has even shown skills as an inventor, a marksman, and even a card player. He's still horrible at gambling card games, but he proved himself as a duelist when he was sent to investigate Duel Monsters Academy under the disguise of Daitokuji-sensei's heir.
"Mr. Yamaguchi, you're in need of a youkai power limiter?"
"My current limiter interferes with my spiritual powers." says Ranma holding up his iron cleaving fang sword, "It's also hard to socialize carrying this sword around at all times."
"Like you don't make a mess anyway." laughs Ranko.
Ranko Saotome Hayashibara is named after herAnime seiyu Megumi Hayashibara. She possesses many talents beyond the superhuman martial arts common in most Ranma characters, more in common with other people the seiyu has played.
Early in Ranma's detective career, a youkai did a spell to separate Ranma's soul from his body to create a servant. Instead, it separated his female curse form from his male form. The blind female body was kept in stasis for many months by a powerful spell.
When a young scientist named Yui Ikari was murdered, her soul found its way into the body granting it life. Ranko, as she named herself, possessed Ranma's martial arts skills and skills as a con artist (something he unintentionally picked up) and the deceased woman's knowledge of science. She later developed skills as an Itako (traditional female shaman) and sorceress as she fought next to her brother.
When Ranma went through his awakening and unlocked his inu taiyokai blood, Ranko was able to open all three eyes becoming a sanjiyan unkara, a type of human possessing immortality, eternal youth, and vast magical power and often mistaken for members of the Hindu pantheon.
"Miss Hayashibara. You want a trainer power limiter?" asks Xander, "You want to decrease your magical power, so you can train your body."
"The average sanjiyan unkara possesses massive ki reserves that they convert into magical energy for spells. So despite my skill, I can pull off far higher ki manipulation."
"You, like most incarnations of Ranma, are a high level martial artist."
"There is always room for improvement."
Xander turns to the last patient in need of a power limiter and pales slightly. It's a version of Naruto Uzumaki, but he has the silver eyes and pale blond hair of a Claymore half-yoma. Claymore have high priority because if a Claymore exceeds eighty percent power, they ascend becoming a human-eating yoma-like monster known as an Awakened Being.
Xander walks over to the intercom system and presses a button.
"Nurse Tendo, I need a Claymore Sealing Unit in Room 1345."
Naruto Uzumaki-Takeuchi also known as Naruto of the Claymore, is one of the few Narutos that haven't settled in the big Colonies or joined the Naruto Militia.
In another world, a Claymore with extraordinary agility known as Stormwind Noel managed to escape certain death at the hands of the Awakened Priscilla. She fell into a cave where she found a portal that transported her to another world. In that world Noel lived a semi-normal life as a shinobi and eventually married a human in the Uzu no Kuni (Land of Whirlpool) and gave birth to her daughter Kushina Uzumaki. Noel was forced to kill herself to stop her awakening yoma blood, but not before she found a cure for her daughter.
When the Kyubi no Kitsune was sealed in Naruto, Naruto's yoma blood began to feed on the Kyubi's near infinite youki (demon/youkai/yoma energy). Every time Naruto summoned the Kyubi's power, more of his yoma blood would awaken. The mission to Nami no Kuni (Land of Waves), the Shi no Mori (Forest of Death), Jiraiya's summoning training, and his battle with Neji during the Chunin Selection Exam eroded his grandmother's sealing, but it was the battle with Sasuke Uchiha at the Valley of the End that finally transformed Naruto into a male Claymore and he barely avoid becoming a Awakened Being.
There were a lot of questions when Naruto brought back a half dead Uchiha. Especially since Naruto's transformation resembled a dragon instead of a kitsune.
Naruto left Konohagakure no Sato (The Village Hidden in the Leaves) for many years and even left the elemental countries for several years. In that time, he learned to use his yoma strength and became extremely skilled in swordsmanship. He even learned a form of wrestling style taijutsu from a Mika "Rainbow Mika" Nanakawa. He also became a youkai taijya (demon exterminator) in the foreign lands under the name Takuya Kanbara and was worshiped like a god of fire by some of the locals.
Years later, Naruto of the Claymore returned to Konoha with Jiraiya. Naruto became a legend, killing the S-Class nukenin members of the Akatsuki. This included Sasuke, who had left the village again for Orochimaru, betrayed Orochimaru, and replaced his brother Itachi after killing him. It also included the feared legendary Rinnegan user Pein and the near indestructible Madara Uchiha. Naruto also killed the treacherous Konoha Council who had elected Danzo Rokuidaime Hokage after imprisoning Godaime Hokage Tsunade Senju.
True Rokudaime Naruto Uzumaki-Takeuchi's last memories are using an S-Class suicide technique to defeat the invading Iwa/Kumo/Oto army after declaring his successor Konohamaru Sarutobi the new Nanadaime Hokage. He used the technique because he feared he would become an Awakened Being within the year despite the large amounts of youki suppressant he was taking. Before he left for battle, he gave Noel's Gift to his newborn daughter so she would never have to use the evil power.
The Nurse enters with a black bag a few minutes later, while Ranma and Ranko are looking at a catalog of various power limiters. Most of the limiters resemble pieces of jewelry ranging from bracelets, ear cuffs, and head bands to pieces of armor.
Xander pulls out a scanner with a rubber-covered handle and two extendable antenna. The Nurse pulls out an odd machine resembling a silver cylinder attached to a long machine with a handle and trigger. Xander presses the antenna against Naruto's shoulder and gets a detailed reading.
Claymore Class S
Current Youki Usage: 00.75%
Highest Youki Usage: 78.98%
Youki Power Level: Class 9
Xander is glad Naruto came in now and didn't delay. If he had gone past eighty percent, he would have become an S-Class Awakened Being. That is the same level as the current Abyssal Ones and would be extremely destructive. Only the single digits - the top ten Claymore Hunters - can handle A-Class Awakened Beings, while S-Class can only be killed by a Hunting Army.
The nurse slips Naruto's arm into the machine and pulls the trigger. There is hum like a scanner and Naruto winces for second, either from the noise or what the machine is doing. When the nurse removes the machine, there is a faint tattoo on his arm. A small card resembling a digital camera memory stick pops out of the machine and is quickly taken by the nurse.
"The Nurse will send the scan down to the lab and they will create the external power limiter." explains Xander, "A Seal Master will be in in a few minutes to create a permanent seal tattoo. Once both are in place, it will prevent you from going beyond the eighty percent mark."
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Patients 2 - Out of Body Problems
May 5
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Xander walks in and is almost knocked out by the spiritual pressure. He looks at the strongest source and sees a beautiful nineteen year old woman standing five foot six with brown eyes and long brown hair. Blue markings on her cheeks and forehead, plus her flowing clothing, explains the spiritual pressure. She's a megami, a Japanese goddess.
"Oh My! I didn't realize the doctor would be a youkai." says Kasumi, "I would have decreased the pressure had I known."
"It's OK, Miss Tendo"
In the world of Kasumi "Kikuko" Tendo, a few months after Ranma Saotome became a heroic version of Sailor Chaos, she became the new Sailor Siren. She loved to escape the house work she had been slaved to since her mother's death and loved the chance for adventure. She and the other chaos senshi helped Sailor Chaos create a new future free of cosmic evils. When she finally died in battle against an evil goddess, she ascended and became a Megami (goddess). She is now known as Kikuko, 2nd Class Unlimited Goddess of the Song and Peace
"So, what's the problem?" asks Xander
"It's not me, It's Aya-chan." says Kasumi indicating her friend, "We are not sure, but Captain Unohana suggested Sunnydale Hospital."
Aya was a former half-yoma Claymore like Teresa and Priscilla, but she was killed early in her hunting career. She only lasted three years when she was reborn in the world of Halloween, then she was killed by an Espada. Her soul survived and she was reborn as a Vizard/Visored, a powerful shinigami possessing the powers of a hollow.
"Suggested by the Mother of Spiritual Healing. I'm honored." says Xander with a smile, as he looks at the file, "You're only having problems with your gigai (faux-body)? Why haven't you talked to the science division?"
"That freak Mayuri scares the crap out of me. He always wants new guinea pigs "says Aya, holding up an arm. The skin is white and cracked like a piece of pottery "Can you help me, my Gigai keep decaying."
Aya's zanpakuto resembles her old claymore sword, rather than a nihonto (Japanese sword), and is known as Noble Scarlet It's affinity is water and with the command "strike" releases pulverizing bursts of water, but it's main power is its ability to produce a special red water. The red water cleanses, heals, and rejuvenates those it comes in contact with like the legendary elixir of life. It's the reason she is a member of the Fourth Division under Captain Retsu Unohana
"Youki." answers Xander after looking at her for a couple of seconds.
"What?"
"You were a Claymore Hunter in life, so you were part-yoma. Since you're still part-yoma in your shinigami form, you're still producing youki. Youki is corrosive to normal human flesh, that's one of reason it hurts so much when you're first converted and only when the flesh changes can it handle the energy."
Xander places his hand over the crack and a glowing mist streams from her arm. As Xander absorbs the youki from the limb, the skin softens and the crack becomes a cut that quickly heals.
"Your Gigais look like Claymore, but they're human-based with different pigmentation. I see why Captain Unohana recommended Sunnydale. She's experienced with spiritual healing, but not non-physically generated youki. You need a Gigai with youkai or yoma blood, which will be more resistant."
There are two types of youki (youkai/yoma/demon energy). One is generated by the flesh and the other is generated by the soul. Both are connected because while mortals have souls limited by the flesh, youkai have flesh only limited by the soul. This is why nearly all youkai are shape-shifters of some form.
"Next we have a Yusuke Shima and a Sho Kusao." says Xander, "Power removal?"
Yusuke is a tall young man with short spiky black hair and golden eyes. He's dressed in a black shirt, blue jeans, and sneakers covered by a cape and a Kaibacorp Dual Razor on his left arm.
Yusuke Shima was an ordinary teenager with a love of detective stories, who was forced to go to Duel Monsters Academy by his former champion father. He was an under achiever until he was exposed to the Dark Millennium Stone, a stone used by ancient sorcerers to create their own versions of the Millennium Items. The cult was destroyed when they lost control of their enhanced powers and were consumed. As a descendant of the cult's leader Apophis, the stone awoke his dark psychic powers but it also allowed the demonic spirit of Apophis to possess him.
"I was a member of the Dark Army, until I was defeated by a group of Summoners." explains Yusuke, "They managed to send Apophis, or should I say the Egyptian demon Apep, to hell, but without him I have been losing control of my powers."
Suddenly, a metal table next to him implodes into a small metal ball.
Xander pulls out a piece of Sunnydale Magitek medical technology. He uses the small tricorder-size device to scan the metal ball. He then pulls out and unfolds a second metal table.
"I want you to crush this table like you did the other."
Yusuke gives him an odd look, then concentrates on the table. The metal ripples and bends slowly, and within two minutes there are two balls of psycho kinetically crushed metal. Xander scans the ball with the same scanner, then he scans Yusuke's head.
"You and Apophis are different entities. When he possessed you, he had to change your powers in order for him to use them. The accidental crush was caused by the part he used to control reacting to your emotions now that Apophis is gone. It's larger, which is why it took you longer to crush the other table." explains Xander, "I'm going to schedule some psychic surgery with our medical telepaths. They can seal off Apophis' part of your powers until you can regain control. You need to rebuild the connections that the demon broke."
Sho is a young man standing five foot ten with blue eyes and short lavender hair. He's dressed in a suit of living armor with medieval style gold plates over fibrous dark purple material. He also carries a chipped broad sword.
Sho Kusao was a teenager from Nihon (Japan), who dressed as a fantasy swordsman for a costume party. He created the golden/bronze armor by recycling his old Guyver armor costume. The Anime-style purple wig and sword were from another costume he had planned to wear, until he learned it was a Fantasy theme party. He ended up talking to a friend about magic guns during the party.
Magic guns, also called spell-guns or casters (presumably short for "spell-caster"), are an element of science fantasy (fantasy/science fiction) that combines firearms and magic (or some other supernatural power) to create a weapon with properties of both. Xander has treated gun shots before, but those caused by casters were very strange. Not as strange as the time he had to treat the vegetarian who had been turned into a vampire and needed a plant-based blood replacement though.
They were debating if it belonged in a sword and sorcery fantasy party, when the chaos wave of 1997 hit them. Sho was transformed into half-Jujin (man-beast) royal knight, second son of Jujin-ou (man-beast king) Vegita and the witch Bulma. A man who's quest to find his lost siblings and defeat the Ice Demon King Freeza made him a legend.
He has the immense strength, agility, and healing abilities from his Monkey Jujin heritage with their ability to grow stronger every time they are brought close to death. The living armor he wears increases his strength and healing a hundred fold at full power and is charged by his own magic.
"I want to remove my armor." explains Sho, "I want to become a fighter/wizard under Lady Arshes Nei, but this parasitic armor drains what magic I possess to fuel itself. It's also been growing and changing into a new form since I appeared in Halloween World. I think it's because of all the ambient energy it has absorbed."
"Why haven't you tried to remove it?' asks Xander.
"I can't. It's bonded to my flesh and regenerates any damage done to it by absorbing my magic by force."
Xander waves his hand and pulls an object from behind his back. Subspace storage pockets are a technique used by the Anime characters. It allows them to hide various objects, such as mallets for example, in another dimension until it's needed. Xander uses it to carry certain objects he might need, but doesn't want to be in physical contact with for any length of time.
Xander opens his hand to reveal an iron-grey circular medallion on a thin chain. He places it around Sho's neck and Sho suddenly feels the organic fibers contract, trying to squeeze magic out of his body. Slowly, the crushing sensation fades as the fibers loosen. Sho watches as the fibers pale to a pale lavender and the armor plates fade from glowing gold to a pale silver color.
"Anti-Magic Charm." explains Xander, "It only works on low scale magic, so I wasn't sure it would work. The surgeons will be able to cut off the armor the old fashioned way and I'll get a seal master to seal the armor away after they're done.
"Hiroshi Hachimura?" asks Xander, looking at black-haired man in odd white and red armor.
Hiroshi Hachimura was a long truck driver before Halloween '97. The Japanese born man hated the strict codes and rules of his home land and moved to America when opportunity showed itself. He originally wanted to be a professional musician, but the band fell apart when one member got a girl pregnant and had to get a better paying job to support them. Hiroshi eventually ended up with his second dream after music, big machines on the open road.
He was transporting a shipment of robot toys to a store in another city when the chaos wave struck the highway. The raw magic transformed his truck into the lifeless body of a Transformer robot, a body built for the Spark (soul) to enter. The concentrated supernatural power also transformed Hiroshi, allowing him to generate protective robotic armor and merge with the transtector to become a Transformer warrior.
"You have been feeling weak for the past month despite energy drinks for your human form and Type 1 energon for your machine form."
"It's becoming a problem, especially since my girlfriend is a racer."
"Your girlfriend is a Fembot, a Cybertronian Autobot to be precise."
"She fell in love with my Transformer self at first, since it resembles her idol Optimus Prime." explains a blushing Hiroshi, "We are going to Machina next month. The plan is to transfer her spark into a bioroid with my powers and convert her original body into a machine like my own."
"A Transtector."
"What?"
"I was looking at the Files and I think your type comes from Super-God Masterforce." says Xander, "Have you used Chokon (Super Soul) power?"
"The glowy fist thing?"
"It manifests itself in three forms: Chichokon (Earth Super-Soul), Jinchokon (Human Super-Soul), and Tenchokon (Heaven Super-Soul)" says Xander pulling out a scanner, "Let's see the three energy readings."
18000: 15000:00150
"Bingo. The reason you're feeling so weak is because your Tenchokon is low. Your human soul provides you with human soul power, while our Halloween-changed World radiates Earth Soul Power, but the Red Sky blocks most forms of Heavenly power."
"Solution?"
"One, I could seal off your Chichokon, which would shut off the drain. The problem is it could make merger difficult in the future."
"And the other?"
"Soul-Spark merger. You go to Machina and have your soul merged with a blank spark (machine soul) from the Matrix. Then your Spark is placed in the same bioroid type body as your girlfriend or even your original body converted into a cyborg. The Sparks are connected to the Heavenly Matrix and can take Tenchokon's place."
"I need time to think about it."
The next two are a pair of athletic bishonens. The first is five foot ten with blue eyes and long blond hair. He's dressed in an open blue jacket, blue jeans, steel-toed boots, and a bandanna the colors of the British Flag. He also carries a long staff. The second is five foot seven with light blue eyes and long red-black hair. He's dressed in dark red shinobi clothing with a black cape.
What spoils their bad boy street fighter image is their severe coughing.
Tomohiro "Tommy" Cane is the son of the kind hearted Lilly Cane and a youkai blooded warrior named Toshiro. After his father's death defending his mother and his mother's death from illness, he was raised by his uncle, former King of Fighters champion Billy Cane.
Tommy is a skilled martial artist trained in Shotokan Karate and Okinawan kobudo and is also an expert in Japanese bojutsu - staff fighting. Tommy can channel small youki reserves into his strikes and weapons to boost their impact energy. His Youkai blood also grants him enhanced abilities and the ability to shift between three forms. These abilities include enhanced strength, durability, speed, reflexes, agility, and senses combined with a regenerative healing factor.
The two alternate forms are Fang mode - possessing far greater strength and durability, but less speed, agility, and healing than his normal (middle) form, and Claw mode - possessing greater speed, reflexes, agility, and faster healing, but decreased strength and durability compared to his normal mode.
"It started a couple of weeks ago. (cough) We destroyed another one (cough) of Naraku's disgusting incarnations. (cough) The monster was raiding an caravan with a bunch of (cough) youkai"
Kosuke Nakamura is an okami (wolf youkai) warrior with powers over wood and lightning. Pre-Halloween, he was originally a reporter sent into Nibutani, part of the town of Biratori in Hokkaido, Japan, a particularly large proportion of the population of which is of the indigenous Ainu ethnicity. He was disguised to investigate a possible criminal activity, but instead was transformed into a youkai by Halloween's magic.
Other than the normal healing abilities and superhuman physical abilities of most youkai, he can transform into a larger hybrid (werewolf) form or a giant wolf form. He's also developed the ability to bind the movement of his targets using plants and plant toxins generated by his body, and then deliver lethal lightning strikes from the sky or through the vines.
"(cough) The lesser youkai died quickly (cough) but Naraku's little bastard (cough) exploded into clouds of shoki. We weren't able to move for a couple of days (cough) and when we woke up (cough) in the survivor's care, we had trouble breathing. (cough)"
"Sounds like the miasma burnt your lungs and is preventing your normal regeneration. I'll give you a couple of pills to clean out Naraku's poisons, and inhalers should speed up the healing of your lungs. I'm also ordering blood tests to be sent to toxicology."
Another thing that ruins their fighter image is cringing at the thought of blood tests.
The next man is a very tired human standing six foot one with brown eyes and light brown hair. He not only looks very tired, but embarrassed.
Toru Ray was a young yakuza member known as Shiroi Akuma (White Devil) for killing fourteen rival gang members during a single battle and his resemblance to Amuro Ray, a character from the Anime series Mobile Suit Gundam and its sequels, Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam and Char's Counterattack. He was smuggling illegal goods using his truck Desert Bandit when the '97 chaos wave struck like a tsunami.
Toru Ray was transformed into a ki-manipulating martial artist skilled in the Kame-Sennin Ryu of the Dragonball Anime and Manga series. He was also given memories of a different life. A former Red Ribbon Army soldier, a former student of the ancient and wise martial arts master Master Roshi, and a man who gave up martial arts to support his seven wives.
"How many?" asks Xander
"How many what?" says Toru Ray acting stupid.
"How many children?"
"...Twenty four." says Toru Ray, "Four of my wives are pregnant."
"How many?" asks Xander
"How many what?" says Toru Ray
"Boost Pills."
Boost Pills are the name given to a set of special drugs that give normal humans superhuman abilities such as strength, speed, or stamina. They range from the common muscle booster and rare Super-Soldier Serum to the illegal power-booster Kick and the illegal super-steroid Venom.
"Four a day."
"What type?"
"Aphrodite Six."
"A6, huh? That explains it, once you build up an immunity to that booster, you crash and end up with the opposite result. It boosts stamina, so when you crash you suffer extreme fatigue."
"and why I'm...."
"Limp as a Ramen noodle."
"The cure?"
"Detox to remove the A6 and a couple of potions to repair the damage."
"What about...?"
"Your wives? A better schedule, body enhancement, or bioroid dolls."
The next two are brothers.
One is a six foot one athlete with large muscles, brown eyes, and short brown hair. He's dressed in a leather vest, dark pants, and steel-toed boots. He also wears a pair of leather arm bracers and a black head band.
The other is a six foot tower of muscle with blue eyes, long blonde hair, and green skin. He's dressed in a long black coat with metal shoulder guards, black pants, and black boots with a lot of straps. He also wears fingerless black gloves with metal knuckle caps.
Kenshiro Kamiya is a former fighter jet and private plane pilot. He was also a skilled martial artist, who made extra money in underground tournaments. He was the favorite son of his parents and was going to marry a corporate heiress, until he gave everything up to help his little brother.
Shin Kamiya is Kenshiro's little brother and a hikikomori, a Japanese term to refer to the phenomenon of reclusive individuals who have chosen to withdraw from social life, often seeking extreme degrees of isolation and confinement due to various personal and social factors in their lives. In Shin's case, the pressure of his parents and college exams caused him to crack. He spent months in his apartment obsessed with martial arts films and hentai (Anime/Manga porn).
Kenshiro forced Shin out of his isolation when Shin became seriously ill. Diagnosed with cancer, Kenshiro was the one who took care of his brother.
The magic of Halloween '97, transformed Kenshiro and Shin into superhuman martial arts warriors. Kenshiro became a combination of a ki-manipulating fighter like the Z-Senshi and a master of Hokuto Shin Ken (North Dipper Godfist), while Shin became a very perverted green-skinned master of Nanto Koshuu Ken (South Dipper Lone Eagle Fist).
Hokuto Shinken's ("Divine Fist of the North Dipper", aka the "Divine Fist of the North Star") power lies into channeling one's energy in a single blow and striking into the 708 Keiraku Hiko (Hidden Channeling Points) points in the human body (also known as acupressure points, power points, vital points, tsubo, etc.) to cause destruction from within.
Nanto Seiken ("Sacred Fist of the South Dipper", aka the "Sacred Fist of the South Star" or "Southern Cross") is the main rival style of Hokuto Shinken. The Nanto style is regard as the polar opposite of the Hokuto style; whereas Hokuto Shinken destroys its opponents from within through the use of tsubo, the masters of Nanto Seiken use slicing and stabbing techniques to destroy the enemy from the outside (Often, it appears to use air pressure to do so, rather than direct contact).
Unlike Kenshiro and Shin of the Anime/Manga Hakuto no Ken, they remained close brothers.
"The green skin was caused by the cancer meds originally." explains Kenshiro, "He was also bald, but we found a Virility potion in Magia that could grow hair on a bowling ball."
"Why did you need a Virility Potion?" asks Xander, looking up from his notes.
"We saved a caravan and some of the girls wanted to show their thanks." says Shin
"I get it." says Xander, waving his hand over Shin's chest, "You've been feeling pressure in your chest and food and water consumption has increased? Have you checked your Ki energy pattern?"
"I've been drinking a large amount of water." say Shin
"We can both detect energy building in Shin's chest." says Kenshiro, "but we don't know why."
Xander pulls out a small machine from his pocket. It resembles a black cellphone with a thin antenna. On the side in silver is "Xeno-Bio Tester 1100." and below in blue is "Made in New Mexico" He pulls out a lance and lancelet cartridge, often used to test diabetics. He uses the lance and the "antenna" on the machine to get a blood sample. The blood is darker than normal human blood with a purple tint.
"This machine has a record of one thousand alien species and one hundred human variants, both terrestrial and extraterrestrial. I think Shin may have alien DNA." explains Xander, "The reason you can't sense what's wrong is because it isn't a human problem.
Xeno-Bio Detected
32-36% of Organism
Non-Human Xeno DNA
Species: Namekian
Related File: DBZ - Namekian
"This is a new one on my weird-shit-o-meter." says Xander.
"What's the news?" asks Shin
"The Namekians are a race from the planet Namek. They are humanoid with slug-like characteristics, including green skin and antennae. Namekians are philosophical warriors." says Xander, reading the File, "The Good News is they have a lot of powers. They have a heightened sense of hearing, the ability to regenerate any part of their body as long as their head remains intact, and their body and limbs are also extremely flexible. Some Nameks can awaken latent power and create objects. Their warriors are also capable of telepathy, telekinesis, and ki manipulation."
"And the Bad News?" asks Kenshiro
"They do not have genders and reproduce asexually by spitting out an egg, though this process usually shortens their lifespan, but are generally identified as males." says Xander reading the file
Kenshiro turns his own greenish color, while Shin pales.
"You mean..."
"The sons are not usually genetic copies of the father, but I suspect it's hard to tell an egg's ki from its parent's, if you're not looking."
Xander watches as the two brothers stare in shock and hope they don't use him as a practice dummy.
"Fascinating."
Xander turns to see another doctor spying on his patients. A doctor that Xander has learned to dislike. Dr. Hans Axel von Fersen.
He's named after Count Hans Axel von Fersen (Stockholm September 4, 1755 - Stockholm June 20, 1810). The Count was a Swedish Army officer, diplomat and statesman. The Count is famous in history as the alleged lover of Queen Marie Antoinette of France. The Doctor was named after the man because of his French accent and living memories of being kicked and trampled to death by an angry mob.
In appearance, he resembles Vexen the Chilly Academic, scientist and number IV of Organization XIII, a group comprised of thirteen Nobodies, or beings without hearts. He has shoulder-length blond hair with two thick locks in front and dark eyes. He also dresses in a black robe outside of the Hospital and like Vexen, his attribute and elemental affinity is Ice. Unlike the Nobody he can manipulate the ice to create other weapons and tools, and can preserve or destroy living tissue by freezing it.
Dr. Fersen's personality is of a calculating and scientific nature. He also as skilled at biochemistry as Dr. Kuro Hazama, aka Blackjack, is at surgery. The biggest problem is he also has a complete lack of morals like the mad scientist Professor Hojo.
"Why are you spying, Dr. Fersen?"
"Super martial artists that can reproduce body and memories." says Dr. Fersen, "Shin and his egg would make an interesting subject."
Xander is about to yell at Dr. Fersen, when he notices the fearsome look on the faces of the brothers and the white around the knuckles. Xander leaves the room with an excuse and Dr. Fersen's screams can be heard throughout the floor.
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Patients 3 - Wolfram & Hart Victims
May 12
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In 1997, Xander had only heard of Wolfram & Hart as a successful law firm in LA. After over thirteen years, Xander has learned the truth.
Wolfram and Hart, Attorneys at Law was a powerful international and inter-dimensional law firm, and presumably the biggest and most powerful one in earth. Wolfram and Hart, and its many incarnations in other dimensions, is actually a front organization for the Wolf, Ram and Hart, an ancient cabal of demons known euphemistically as the "Senior Partners" who work through their powerful principal agents-the Circle of the Black Thorn.
Encounters with Wolfram & Hart allowed people to resist the supernatural transformation of Halloween and retain their original minds. Some of the most powerful transformations were clients and victims of the evil law firm.
As Xander walks in eating a Twinkie, he hears a person shout and almost roar.
"I DEMAND A NEW ROOM!"
Edward A. Hudson was a tall, muscular man standing six foot one with black eyes and short dark red hair. Pre-Halloween, he was a rich industrialist and entrepreneur coming from an old rich family. During Halloween, he dressed as a rich crime boss and because of several business deals with Wolfram & Hart he didn't loss himself to his costume. It was in the aftermath that he began to lose what he had.
Post-Halloween, his corporation collapsed along with most of civilization and the money he had amassed legally and illegally became as valuable as cheap tissue paper. He even learned that the Petroleum Industry he had invested in had collapsed and would never return due to a group of crude oil-based monsters that wiped out reserves from every place from United States to Iran. His mansion, his boat, and his home in the Hamptons were all destroyed by monsters and he was forced to travel with colonist buses.
"You can't leave med in the same room as these... People!"
He's now taller and more muscular with brown clay-like skin and long spiky red hair. He looks in a mirror and can also see fangs, tapered ears, bony eye ridges, spikes along the jaw, and a crown of horns. He also has huge bat-like wings, knee and elbow spurs, and a long muscular tail.
The last major change in his life was contracting Type 2 G. Gargate Virus in South Georgia. The virus, engineered by mad geneticist Dr. Anton B. Sevarius in another world, transformed him from a handsome human into a fearsome humanoid gargoyle. Despite the strength and healing of his new form, he's nearly been killed by the more militant "Humans First" Hunters.
"Sedate him." orders Xander to Nurse Quick.
She nods and moves using her Superhuman speed to get close to the Gargoyle and inject a sedative into his arm. The former millionaire - billionaire in reality, but hidden from the IRS - slowly collapses back into his bed and loses consciousness.
"So what was he brought in for, Nurse Quick?"
"TypetwoGargateVirus. Hedoesn'twanttobeagargoyleandwashopingforabodyreplacement. He'sbeenabadboyinthepastandhisnewlife He'ssupposetoprotectbecauseGargoylesprotect. Cannomorestopprotecting,."
Normally, Nurse Quick would slow down her words, but Xander is one of the few people that can understand her at full speed due to his experience with "Willow Babble."
Translated she said
"Type two Gargate Virus. He doesn't want to be a gargoyle and was hoping for a body replacement. He's been a bad boy in the past and his new life. He's supposed to protect because Gargoyles protect. Can no more stop protecting, than stop breathing the air. The higher ups want him gone and shipped back to Georgia."
"Give him a Gargate RH Booster and send him back to Georgia." says Xander, after looking at the rap sheet, "We replace bodies when the old have died or the patient's life is in danger. Not because he can't handle karma. With the War, we need all our rooms open for our patients."
The Gargate RH (Reluctant Hero) Booster is a meta-drug that stimulates a patient's inherent nature; in this case that of a Gargoyle. Most that become evil have lost their ability to protect, instead become obsessed with revenge, power, and/or material objects. The drug stimulates their gargoyle nature and forces them out of corruption.
Xander then turns to see the reason Edward A. Hudson was upset, a room filled with Wolfram & Hart victims also known as the Children of Hell
"Thanks for shutting that jerk up." says Mr. Rock, "I hate those Wolfram & Hart clients, thery're almost as bad as the lawyers."
Pre-Halloween, Christopher Rock was a man with a long dark history. He was originally an intelligent young boy forced to work to pay for his gambling obsessed parents. He worked at an antique bookstore and showed remarkable intelligence. When his parents were killed during a home invasion, the local crime boss took everything from them to pay off debts. This included selling him to Wolfram & Hart.
He now stands six feet tall with a thin build, pale blue eyes, shoulder-length white hair, and very pale skin. There are dark rings around his eyes and he looks extremely tired.
Halloween transformed him into an expert swordsman with the ability to manipulate blood. He can "crystallize" or solidify his blood into diamond-hard blades or generate a protective barrier composed of blood. He can also with a thought make his blood extremely corrosive and/or poisonous.
He traveled to the crime boss's home and used his Bloody blades to kill the man. He also killed everything else in the mansion including the body guards, the wife, the children, the servants, and the family dog. He left the corpses to be devoured by the monsters.
"Mr. Rock. Symptoms: Fatigue, general malaise, poor concentration, dyspnea (shortness of breath) on exertion. Occasional bouts of sweating. It sounds like Anemia."
"Anemia? I produce massive amounts of blood under high pressure!" says Chris, cutting his finger tip. A jet of blood shoots out a meter, before crystallizing into a needle-like spear, "My powers are based on blood manipulation!"
"I know. I mean it could be a RSP problem."
"RSP?"
"Required Secondary Powers. For every power a person has, there has to be a myriad of other passive powers in order to make it work the way it does. An example is when a person with superhuman strength lifts up a bus; he must also have the ability to tether himself to the ground and a way to increase the structural integrity of the bus. If he didn't he would tear the bus apart or drive himself into the Earth."
"And in my case?"
"Your body is not compensating for your powers correctly. It could be mutated blood cells like sickle cell anemia, production of defective mutants like leukemia, or not producing enough to compensate for the blood loss. Nurse Quick, order blood tests and make sure the vials have level four seals. Most RSP problems can be corrected with medical science or magic."
"What about me and Steven, Doc?" says Dante Long, holding up his bandage covered arms, "I didn't third degree burn my arms on purpose."
Dante is a five foot nine Chinese-American with red-brown eyes and short red-black hair. He's dressed in a white shirt, black pants, and steel-toed combat boots. He also wears a black leather jacket with a crimson five-clawed oriental dragon on the back and a pair of fingerless gloves.
Steven is a six foot two Caucasian with a thin build, red-brown eyes, pale skin, and long black hair. He's dressed in a black shirt with bands around the neck, waist, and shoulders, and black pants covered in straps. He wears steel toed boots covered in straps and he wears fingerless gloves that reach the middle of the upper arm and are covered in straps. He also wears a long coat and a headband to keep his hair out of his eyes.
Dante Long was a typical Chinese-American teenager until his grandfather sold him to demons. Old Man Long wanted enough mystical power to compete with Cyvus Vail, a powerful and elderly demon warlock whose influence extends throughout Los Angeles thanks to his vast economic power and his membership of the Circle of the Black Thorn.
Halloween not only freed him from the hell he had been sent to, but granted him the power of pyrokinesis, the ability to control the kinetic energy of atoms to generate, control or absorb fire. He used his dragon-like flame breath to burn his grandfather to ash and then melted the ashes into the stone floor to prevent regeneration or reincarnation.
"I didn't mean to be shocked by my own lightning either." says Steven.
Steven Spiegel was tricked into signing a Wolfram & Hart contract. The contract stated he would accept the crimes of his ex-girlfriend's new lover, including the execution and eternal damnation. The magic changed all the evidence from finger prints and DNA evidence to eye witness memories, and he was sentenced to death for the torture and murder of thirty people. He died by lethal injection and his soul was tortured by hungry demon spirits.
Halloween destroyed the contract and pulled him back into the mortal world with a new semi-human body. Many of devils that were torturing him were also pulled into the mortal realm, sealed inside his body. Those demons granted him a regenerative healing factor and the ability to manipulate fire and lightning to boost his sword and gun attacks.
He was also able to seal several other spirits into Mon eggs giving him two partners - BlackAgumon and BlackGuilmon which, with a thought, can evolve into Dragon Man Digimon BlackWarGreymon and Dark Knight Digimon ChaosDukemon, respectively. In those ultimate forms, these virus Digimon can do massive damage to Steven's enemies.
"It could be two more cases of RSP Failure." says Xander, "Standard blood and urine tests. I want the telepaths to scan Mr. Long and have the mystics do a full magical check up on both of them. We want to make sure it isn't a curse or attack from a demon or a member of the Dark Army."
The next man is athletic and stands five foot seven with blue eyes and long dark brown hair with a stripe of snow white down the center. He's dressed in black shirt and blue jeans with old hiking boots and a few pieces of dented armor secured by leather and wire. The armor includes front and back torso protection, shoulder guards, arm bracers, and shin guards on the boots.
Pre-Halloween, John Renard Wolf was a man with an interesting heritage. He said he was "part Norwegian, part Japanese, part French, and part American. The All American Mutt." He was in Japan exploring his maternal Grandmother's heritage, when the chaos magic transformed him into another mixed breed youkai. He became a half-inugami half-kitsune hybrid. He retained his memories of his pre-Halloween existence because a group of demons were sent by Wolfram & Hart to force his parents out of business so a client could knock the building down to build a shopping mall.
"Wolf, John Renard . Symptoms: Severe headaches. Blurred vision. Fatigue." says Xander looking at the chart, "You recently had a Jagan (Evil Eye) implanted."
The Jagan (Evil Eye) is a youkai weapon, a psychic third eye that grants various powers from hypnosis to telepathy to clairvoyance
The eye on his forehead opens up to show its red iris. Xander notices redness around the edges and the sclera (white of the eyes) is a red-pink around the edges. Xander pulls out an oculoscope and looks closer at the third eye. He even triggers a couple of light pulses to check responses.
"Is my body rejecting the implant?" asks Mr. Wolf, "I know the youkai doctor wasn't the best, but he has installed Jagan in many others."
"That's the problem. When you increase quantity, you decrease quality. The demon doctor didn't give you a true Jagan, but one of the mass-produced clones." says Xander, "Not only does it have far less power than the original, they are prone to flaws. You need to see an Optometrist and Ophthalmologist, but I think you need eye surgery. Your eye is forced to work harder because of the flaws, which causes it to drain more energy than normal causing the fatigue and the vision problems are causing the headaches.'
'I'll also order a few other tests to make sure the Doctor didn't do anything else."
Maria A. Hall was dressed as Shayera Hol/Hawkgirl. When Halloween's magic struck she was transformed from a five foot six blue eyed brunette into a five foot nine, hundred and twenty pound Thanagarian woman with green eyes, long red hair, and large bird-like feathery wings. She survived by flying higher than most monsters but lower than the forbidden territory of the Red Sky. She also has an Nth Metal mace that allows her to do serious physical and magical damage to the monsters and demons.
Maria currently has her arm in a cast.
"I was fighting monsters, when one giant one tried to crush me. I managed to escape using my mace, but the damn thing was made of Adamant Diamond. I ended up breaking my arm and the magical healer in our group wasn't able to fix it. My bone is healing, but I think I may have nerve damage. I feel bursts of pain and suffer the occasional numbness and my arm has been shaking a lot."
Xander pulls a scroll from a desk and unrolls it on the table. The sheet is made of a dark slate gray plastic divided into two sections. He helps Maria out of her sling and places the broken limb on one section of the scroll. Xander then runs his finger down the center between the two square sections causing glowing symbols to appear.
"What is..."
"Magitek scanner. It's like a portable X-Ray, but better. Tsunade said they're going to be added to the New Series 7 Med Kits." says Xander.
The other section lights up and shows a picture of Maria's arm under the cast. The image than changes to show the arm without skin, showing the muscles. Then changes to show a 3D red network of arteries, veins, and capillaries. Then finally, the image changes to show the bones in real time. Xander stares at the picture, then presses his finger on a spot, causing the image to zoom in.
Xander and Maria notice a tiny fragment of metal embedded in the bone.
"It's shrapnel. Do you remember how you got it?"
"I think so. The same battle with the diamond creature. It released a magic blast from its mouth and I blocked with my mace, but I was sent tumbling."
"Your mace is made of Nth Metal. The type that negates magic and gravity"
"It also protects the wielder from the elements and speeds the healing of wounds, increases their strength, and protects them from extremes in temperature."
"What was your Mace made of before Halloween? Did in contain any Lead?"
"Lead Paint. It was left over from a few years ago."
"My guess is that when Halloween converted your mace it stopped half way due to the Nth metal's magic negation. That's why the magic blast caused it to fragment."
"Lead poisoning?"
"I'll order tests to confirm it, but we'll have technology-based surgeons remove the fragments and if confirmed, begin the removal of the lead."
"Not bad, Doc." says a deep baritone behind him.
Xander slowly turns to a see a very scary man. A very muscular six foot man with a bald head and shining eyes hidden behind dark goggles. He's dressed in a black shirt, dark-colored cargo pants, a utility belt, and combat boots. Xander also knows he has knives or improvised shivs on his person. A murderer, former convict, anti-hero, and conqueror with superhuman strength and the ability to see in the dark.
"Richard B. Riddick"
"Dr. Alexander Cho Hakkai Harris."
Xander and Riddick encountered each other on a mission up North. Xander was retrieving medical supplies from Machina when he learned a colony was in trouble. After sending his men home with the supplies, he went to the colony and learned most of the people were sick with a strange illness.
Riddick on the other hand was escaped convict from a Pre-Halloween prison. Riddick had killed fifteen security officers and two civilians from the colony before Xander arrived and killed fifteen more while he was there.
Xander and Riddick almost killed each other, chasing each other through the colony and surrounding areas. Xander even developed his Xan Hadoken ki blast and Riddick developed his own Wrath of the Furyans blast, despite the lack of chi manipulation training.
In the end, Xander learned that the colony security was sacrificing the colonists to increase their own life spans and that the "sickness" was the demons slowly draining away the life force of the victims. In the end, Xander and Riddick slaughtered the corrupt security and politicians, and killed the demons. The colony broke up afterwards and its population merged with other colonies.
"Why are you in Sunnydale?" asks Xander, gathering unseen chi into his palm.
"Me and Freeman were hired to kill Dark Soldiers, demons and bandits." says Riddick, indicating another patient with a shiv.
Freeman is a tall, muscular man standing six foot two with shoulder-length black hair and red eyes. He's dressed in a black shirt, dark-colored cargo pants, a utility belt, and combat boots like Riddick, but he also wears a long black coat with shoulder armor and a black cowboy hat.
Freeman has been many things in his life. Pre-Halloween, he was the son of a witch, but lacked any form of magical talent. During Halloween, he was transformed into a weak okami (wolf youkai) with the ability to shift between human and his normal sized wolf form. After nearly being killed by monsters and demons, he had his brain transplanted into a highly reinforced prosthetic body turning himself into a combat cyborg. His cybernetic form was damaged early in the War and he injected high level vampire blood into his organic life support to keep his brain "alive". The latest additions are a set of Sharingan eyes taken from an enemy Uchiha and interfaces for piloting his large bio-mechanical mecha.
The end result is a very blood thirsty and cunning cyborg with heightened instincts. He also takes perverse pleasure in using knives and swords made of Vatican silver or in Sunnydale's HolyForge, which would be toxic to him if he wasn't mostly machine.
"The Eco-Brats got sick after Naraku's spiders attacked." explains Riddick, "I don't get paid if they die."
Danny Kyoshiro was an ecologist and environmental activist. He was known for his fierceness defending nature and with such intensity in his eyes people started calling him Onime or Demon Eyes. When he started protesting a major industrialist, the man had Wolfram & Hart send supernatural agents to dispose of him and his men. He would have been killed if the Halloween Event hadn't occurred.
The mystical energies of Halloween night transformed him into a demon-eyed warrior. He's now stands six foot four with long wild blood red hair and demonic red eyes. Demon Eyes Kyo, or Onime no Kyo was called the Thousand Slayer for killing over 1,000 samurai during the battle of Sekigahara (1600) in his world. He was able to slaughter the demons using the sword style, Mumyo Jinpu Ryu Satsujin Ken (The Sword of a Devilish Wind), and would have killed his friends if he hadn't retained a large amount of his original personality and memories.
"Shan has also been having problems with her magic ice."
Danny is sitting with two colony orphans he has adopted. The twin six-year-old boys are Yugi and Atem, named after a set of summoners that saved the mother's life a few months after Halloween '97. The boys have violet-black hair with dyed blond locks and violet eyes. They like their namesakes are summoners able to summon monsters, but because of their age they can only summon small cartoonish creatures that can only destroy low level threats.
Jennifer Shan was an ecologist and environmental activist, like Danny, but her Halloween '97 transformation was far more chaotic. The demons sent by Wolfram & Hart chased her into a comic book shop, which exploded when the wave of magic struck.
Jennifer absorbed various comic book powers including superhuman strength, speed, agility, stamina, and durability; a regenerative healing factor; wall-crawling, minor magical abilities, and high levels of psychokinesis and cryokinesis. She was able to kill the demons by freezing their bodies and the web-pattern of the ice growth combined with her ability to cling to walls earned her the codename "Ice Weaver"
"Cryokinesis, the ability to reduce the kinetic energy of atoms and thus reduce temperature, and can be used to control and generate ice. Magical powers from magical genes."
"I'll order anti-toxin pills to get rid of Naraku's poisons and a full bio scan to make sure your powers are undamaged. We don't want you freezing yourself or turning into a giant monster ice spider."
Xander looks at his last two patients, a pair of undead.
Derek D. Prince was a marine biologist and the third highest ranked member of Danny's Eco Group. Pre-Halloween, he was a geeky genius with brown eyes behind thick glasses and short black hair. He used to dress in black suits. Post-Halloween, his goggled eyes are silver and his longer hair is snow white. He now wears a white shirt, black pants, and black boots with white bandages wrapped around his arms, lower legs, and waist (sarashi). He also now wears a scarf of bandages around his neck that can function as a mask.
He was killed by a demon before the Halloween magic struck, but his soul had not yet passed. Halloween's magic reanimated the corpse and bonded the soul the body. He was transformed into a near indestructible zombie, possessing the ability to regenerate himself even from fine ash. It also granted him superhuman physical abilities, but doesn't rely on his zombie strength. Instead he's become a skilled archer.
Anne Lenore Poe was another member of Danny's Eco Group. Pre-Halloween, she was a small, thin woman standing five feet tall with blue eyes and long black hair. A small timid girl who dressed in black like a Goth. Post-Halloween, she's the same except for her snow white skin and pale pupil-less eyes.
She was killed with Derek, but Halloween's chaos magic changed her body in a different way, granting her three special abilities. She gained the ability to absorb energy - magical, spiritual, and biological - from the environment to regenerate herself, even bringing her back to life. She can absorb and reflect magical, spiritual, and bio energy attacks. She also has the ability to absorb another person's powers and skills for a short period by absorbing their energies.
The main problem is that Anne Poe has become an extremely depressed emo girl. She has tried to kill herself multiple times to escape her altered body, but each time her body absorbs ambient energy and regenerates even from death. She came to Sunnydale to have her soul removed from her body, and either be placed in a new body or allowed to enter the Soul Society.
Xander signals Nurse Quick to call in one of psychologists, one of the non-telepathic/empathic types since he wants the doctor to have the advantage.
Suddenly, there is a loud alarm and a patient is wheeled down the hall. On the table is an old man with dark eyes, gray skin, and a balding head of white hair. He also has thick white eyebrows, a long white chin beard, and a thin looking face. He's dressed in a Royal dark green uniform with a brown cape and large shoulder guards.
In his world, he was the old king of a desolate castle on the barren countryside. A king that cared for nothing and no one except the unicorns, whom he greedily hoarded for his personal delight. He had captured all of the unicorns in the world but one with the aid of the Red Bull, the cruel creature of magic and brute force who serves him. It was that one unicorn, know became known as Lady Amalthea, that fought the Red Bull and caused the others to rebel. His last memories of that world were his castle collapsing from the thunderous hooves of the unicorns and himself falling to his death in the ocean below.
King Haggard awoke in this world over a dozen years ago and believed himself to be in hell for his sins. He wandered the world, caring for nothing and no one. Then he came to Sunnydale and its magical preserve.
The preserve contained many magical creatures like a zoo. Griffins, Nue, Baku, Chimera, primitive Yeti, six legged salamanders, behemoths, manticores, young krakken, leviathan, lake serpent, a flock of roc, nundu, bunyip, cockatrice, winged horses, hippogriffs, and a thousand different types of dragons make up a very small portion of the interdimensional nature reserve.
It also contained a herd of Arabian Unicorns and King Haggard tried to steal them in return for selling secrets to the Dark Army. In the end, his dark allies were destroyed by the Sunnydale Hunters and he was impaled on the silver horn of a black war unicorn that looked like it had galloped out of hell.
The only reason they didn't let the old man die is because they want to learn what secrets he told.
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Patients 4 - Killer Bites
May 17
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Xander walks in to the sound of biting, screaming, and other odd sounds.
In the first bed is a Chunin (Journeyman Ninja) teacher from Konohagakure no Sato (The Village Hidden in the Leaves). He's in his thirties and stands five foot ten, one hundred fifty pounds with black eyes and dark brown hair tied in a ponytail. He's dressed in a standard military/ninja uniform with his konoha head band around his forehead.
Iruka-sensei was the apprenticeship instructor of the ninja "cadets" at the village Academy. He and Naruto share the same past, as both of them were neglected by people as they were growing up. Iruka lost his parents to the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox twelve years ago, and after that no one took care of him. Unlike most of the villagers though, Iruka acknowledged Naruto's existence and accepted him, even though within Naruto is the Demon Fox who killed his parents.
In this World, he has become important to the various Naruto incarnations including Sunnydale's Shinigami Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze and his wife Hinata, who named him the godfather of several of their children. He continues to work as a teacher, but was recently involved in a mission to rescue several students from Madara's ninja forces. He and the other Konoha ninja won, but Iruka is severely drained.
"Near fatal chakra exhaustion. A couple of seals and a few nutrient lines, but for the most part, he'll need rest. Nurse Quick, could you grab a few Silencing Charms. They work better than ear plugs."
Patient number two is a young woman standing around five foot five, ninety nine pounds with brown eyes and long black hair. She also wears a dark blue coat over a pink uniform.
Megumi Takani is one of the doctors at Sunnydale Hospital. In her world, Megumi Takani's family was prestigious in the medical field for generations. They treated all their patients the same, disregarding any class difference. During the Aizusensou, all of them except young Megumi went to the battlefield to fulfill their roles. As a result, Megumi's father was killed and Megumi was separated from her mother and her two brothers. She was left alone in the world to fend for herself.
The reason she is a patient is that she was bitten by a hospital patient carrying a rabies-like virus. This is why her right arm is covered in bandages with several seals painted on them. She is now suffering malaise, headache, and fever. The patient that bit her is suffering from acute pain, violent movements, uncontrolled excitement, depressions, and the inability to swallow water (hence the name hydrophobia). What separates the virus from true rabies are periods of extremely violent behavior.
"How's the patient?" she asks Xander.
"It's a Lyssavirus like Rabies, but it was mutated by exposure to demonic canine DNA. The patient was from Castle Rock, Maine, so we think he was exposed to Cujo." says Xander, pulling out a long hypodermic needle filled with clear liquid. He added blessed Colloidal silver to the mix to increase efficiency.
Colloidal silver is a liquid suspension of microscopic particles of silver. It can be blessed like normal silver weapons, but it's more effective than holy water as a weapon. It's often used to treat infectious demonic agents, destroying the infernal cells on a microscopic level. It can also be used as a lethal poison against lycanthropes since they can't dig it out like silver bullets.
Xander's pulls up Megumi's shirt to expose her waist and carefully injects the mixture. It's painful, but Megumi is strong and doesn't cry out. She also doesn't cry when her arm feels like it's on fire. She can see steam rising from the bandages as the virus self-destructs.
"You will be O.K." says Xander.
"(CENSORED to preserve the sanity of Readers)"
Xander turns at the perverse shout and follows it to patient number three.
She appears to be a young woman with gray-green eyes and short purplish brown hair. In her universe, Yuki Nagato was, in fact, an artificial data interface serving something called the Integrated Data Entity, and she had been on Earth for about three years - the same time that Haruhi had discovered she was no different from any other person on Earth and as a result unconsciously recreated the universe. Yuki was assigned to Earth to observe Haruhi Suzumiya, for the Integrated Data Entity believed that she was the key to human evolution.
She's currently strapped to a bed with bands around her neck, waist, shoulders, upper arms, wrists, upper legs, and ankles. She's also inside a sealed high tech capsule filled with oxygenated liquid. The liquid makes it hard for the woman to move.
Veins are showing through her skin and red/black lines like computer circuitry are spreading across her skin. One of her eyes has become metallic silver with the sclera (white) turning jet black. There are also cancerous lumps on her bare arms and legs, and most likely under the hospital gown.
The cyberpunk type sitting next to Yuki Nagato is a five foot six woman dressed in a black bodysuit resembling a bondage outfit with VR goggles and robotic gloves. She is typing on a holographic computer, while Yuki tries to shake off the numerous tubes and wires attached to her.
"Subject: Nagato, Yuki. Type: Data Entity. Origin: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya. Problem: Infected with an unknown agent that appears to be part machine, part virus, and part demon."
"How it going, Yukino?"
"Not Good." says the cyber punk Yukino, "The agent is some form of semi-organic nanomachine virus using youkai DNA as a base. I think it's designed to modify a machine-based humanoid so a demonic entity can possess it. The virus is converting her artificial body like a virus corrupting a Digimon and the only reason she isn't possessed yet is because of the hospital's wards."
Yukino's holographic screen show a blue translucent Yuki with lines of crimson and purple flowing and branching through her body.
"Some sort of bio-weapon to allows demons to possess our technological forces." says Xander, "It's completely isolated, I hope."
"It seems to be a test version. It isn't contagious. The capsule is to protect her from herself and allow me to access the agent's software." says Yukino, "The problem is if I try to destroy one part, the other two counter."
"Apocatastasis."
"What?"
"A Greek word meaning either reconstitution or restitution or restoration to the original or primordial condition. In Christianity, apocatastasis is the doctrine of the ultimate reconciliation of good and evil forces." says Xander, "Isolate and destroy the possession codes. Ignore the youkai codes."
Inside the depths of cyberspace, a white-haired woman in a white dress holding a silver staff faces a feral female creature composed of streams of dark red, dark purple, and black particles. The woman looks like a yuki-onna, a Japanese snow woman youkai, while the other is demonic with long limbs ending in long claws, long tentacle hair, and bat-like wings without membranes.
The demon fires red bursts, but the woman blocks with barriers of ice. The woman in white fires a white beam from her snow flake tipped staff and a spherical black core floating where her spleen would be is destroyed. The demon woman changes to light shades of red, purple, and blue, and her wings sprout feathers of white light.
"The code is destroyed and I sealed the wound. It can't replace the code and the new virus is replacing the old."
On the screen, lines of crimson and purple flowing and branching through the blue translucent Yuki have stopped. The red lines change to purple and the purple spreads through her entire body, before reverting to blue.
Inside the capsule, the lumps stop growing and collapse back into the body. The red lines of still spreading circuitry turn bright purple then seem to fade into the light blue lines of an intricate tattoo with spiraling designs. Finally, the black in the sclera of the changed eye fades away like ink in water and the iris changes to a green-silver ringed with a faint line of metallic silver.
"She's stabilizing. She's some form of semi-digital cyber-youkai mage, but it's her power and her soul controlling it."
"Keep an eye on her." says Xander moving on to the next patient.
Joseph Hunter is an average demon hunter standing five foot ten with brown eyes and short brown hair. Most of the time he either wears a black shirt with jeans and leather boots, or a full demon combat uniform covered by the standard protective black coat. He's also average for carrying standard weapons: a pair of automatic pistols and extra clips loaded with blessed silver, a Holy Forge constructed collapsible pole arm, an assault anti-demon shot gun with belts of "Gospel" shells, and a blessed sword.
His medical condition is not standard. He was bitten by three different types of werewolf and is displaying transformation of random body parts, extreme aggressiveness, and other erratic symptoms. He's currently strapped to an extra-large reinforced bed with adjustable straps around his neck, waist, shoulders, wrists, and ankles. The entire bed is also inside a large cage composed of wires covered in near-microscopic seals and paper seals on all five sides and the bottom of the bed itself
"A Man-Wolf maimed him before he had his arm bitten off by a Dire Wolf. A Wolf Man tried to save him. His wounds healed and his arm regrew, but he's been unstable"
"Nurse Aensland, what types of werewolves?" asks Xander to the attending nurse.
Nurse Aensland is a Royal Makai Succubus standing a curvy five foot seven and a hundred twenty seven pound with red eyes and short purple hair. She also has a pair of sharp bat-like wings extending from her head. She's dressed in a very tight white nurse's uniform and her little cape hangs between her red head wings.
It is generally said that the Succubus race absorbs the spirit of the opposite sex and uses it as their own energy source. But the Succubi from Darkstalkers that are a part of the Aensland family are slightly different; they create a special secretion liquid in their body when they are either physically or mentally stimulated. The chaos of Sunnydale Hospital is what keeps this Succubus going.
"The man-wolf was a primitive Underworld Style Corvinus strain lycan - a savage anthropomorphic wolf-beast. William's mutated Corvinus strain is recorded to be powerful enough to reanimate the dead, turning them into the first generation of Lycans.'
'The Dire Wolf was some sort of demonic wolf, larger than a normal wolf. Literally, chase down your car and eat the back bumper big. It also had three heads like a Cerberus and shot fire from its mouths.'
'The helpful Wolf-man was a magical lycanthrope from Fred Perry's Gold Digger. An Aura Archmage named Iceron created them from the ancient dire wolves as body guards to replace the weak Were-Hounds. After Iceron was betrayed by the wererats, the werewolves went independent. Most have their ability to create lesser werewolves sealed, but Jack was an odd ball.
"Science meta-genetics mixing with demonic curse mixing with aura magic."
Joseph Hunter lets out a roar of pain as his right arm swells and turns red-purple. The arm then contracts with the sound of cracking bone and is soon normal size and covered in dirty brown fur. His jaw expands until he resembles a horror of inbreeding (Habsburg lip), then reverts to normal covered in fur, which falls out except for the chin. One leg stretches and becomes digigrade, then reverts to normal. Joseph even cries blood as his eyes shift back and forth between brown, red, and gold
"Holy charms, but make sure they're compatible with his magical aura. No silver, it's lethal to Iceron's breed. Also get a few magical boosters, but no alchemic boosters. Iceron breeds aren't affected by non-magical diseases, so if we can boost it enough he'll purge himself of the other two strains."
"Yes, Doctor Harris."
Xander moves away from the cage and moves over to his final patient.
His patient is currently scratching his ears and running around in circles yells "IT ITCHS. OUCH!" in Japanese. He's only one foot five so there's a lot of room for the youkai to run around. He's a kitsune (fox) kit with turquoise eyes and reddish-auburn hair tied in a ponytail by a blue ribbon. He has tapered ears, tiny fangs, small human hands, fox-like legs, and large bushy fox tail. He's dressed in a little white tunic that functions as a hospital gown.
Shippo is a little fox demon that used to live in the hills, but came across InuYasha and company in their quest for the Shikon no Tama (Jewel of Four Souls). Even though Shippo looks like he's about six years old, he's actually closer to sixty years old. Demon's age differently than humans, and usually it's a lot slower.
Xander suddenly grabs Shippo and holds him still with one hand, while he looks through a tool held in his other hand. He looks inside one of Shippo's ears.
"A severe case of ear mite youkai. Most are harmless like flea youkai, but some nasty breeds have appeared since the war. Feeding on the dark forces and their corpses have mutated him."
"CAN YOU MAKE THE ITCHING STOP!?"
Xander puts down the viewing tool and looks through his medical bag. He pulls out a tiny bottle of translucent lime green liquid and unscrews and pulls off the top to reveal an eye dropper. He drips two drops into one of Shippo's ears, then turns him over and drips two more drops.
The green drops evaporate into mist as they hit the kitsune's ears, spreading through the entire ear. As it does Shippo feels a cool sensation and the Itch fades away.
"It stopped?"
"Youki Suppressant." says Xander with a smile, "It decreases the energy of youkai, part-yoma Claymores, and demons by a very small amount in testing but it can be used to sterilize wounds and kill very tiny youkai like mites, ticks, fleas, and spiders."
Mites are among the most diverse and successful of all the invertebrate groups. Mite youkai prove to be equally resistant. Unable to feed on Shippo's youki, they stream out of Shippo's ears to a point on the floor. On the magically sterilized floor, the millions of two microgram youkai fuse together into a single two gram Mite, which then grows to two hundred kilograms in less than five minutes.
Xander notices, but doesn't react to the fused mite youkai increasing its mass by a hundred thousand times. It's a massive round creature with a black exoskeleton, eight long coil-like legs, and a pointed head with a beak and two glowing red eyes.
He doesn't react because the second the creature tries to move, a seal on the ceiling activates and fires a column of white light down. The light instantly burns the mite youkai to lifeless ash and then causes every speck of ash to be sucked into a sealed medical dust bin.
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Patients 5 - Ill Girls
May 24
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Xander is visiting the Ill Girls.
The ill girl is almost inevitably a cute girl, and whatever vaguely alluded to disease she might have - everything from anemia to congenital disease or organ failure- it will never disfigure or impair her cuteness. It will, however, often prompt an "older brother" or "older sister" figure into shady business to help pay the medical bills, or prompt them to rush into some dangerous/brave deed while she cheers them on.
They are the girls that appeared in Halloween World, already sick and/or injured instead of possessing great power or despite possessing great power.
Hotaru Tomoe is weak and nearly crippled from her insane father's cyborg experiments. The doctors were only recently able to remove the parasitic malevolent Tau Seti entity Mistress Nine from her body and now they are planning a cybernetic replacement and magitek implant to regulate her Sailor Saturn power.
Shari Suzuhara was the sister of Evangelion pilot Toji Suzuhara. She was badly injured by falling debris from the first fight between biomechanical giant mecha Eva-01 and Third Angel, Angel of Water Sachiel. She had shattered legs and organ damage, but the Angel DNA infecting her body made healing difficult and she didn't want to switch bodies after learning Rei Ayanami's origin from the Files.
Hikari "Kari" Yagami. She is partnered to Tailmon and is the younger sister of Taichi "Tai" Yagami. Hikari, by nature, is kind and sweet-hearted, looking for the best in people and avoiding fights when possible. However, she can be serious, especially in dangerous or difficult situations, and has a dark side that is used by her enemies. A spell by a disease demon of the Dark Army reverted her to her younger body with severe pneumonia, nearly killing her. The doctors are hopeful that can revert her to adulthood without the curse-manipulated childhood sickness weakening her.
Shouko Kazama is the ultimate Ill Girl who suffers from an incapacitating disease that makes her a recluse of sorts. She was a pilot of a mecha known as Fafner against alien beings known as Festum. The last memory she has is of heroically sacrificing herself to save her home island Tatsumiya (lit. Dragon Palace). Normal medicine and even the most advanced technologies of Tatsumiya couldn't cure her, but they didn't have access to Magia healing magic, Machina nanomedicine, or Sunnydale creativity.
Otohime Mutsumi a very gentle, very frail, anemic, clumsy, and soft-spoken girl. Despite her poor physical health, she is very resilient and is able to quickly recover from any injury, much like immortal ronin Keitaro Urashima. She has a very sweet and generous personality, often sacrificing her own happiness for others. The Doctors are currently trying to correct her anemia.
Hisaishi Hisami, also called "Hisa," is close friends with paper sister Anita King and likens their relationship to that of Anne Shirley and Diana Barry's in Anne of Green Gables. She was a shy thirteen-year-old who became a novelist. She was recently exposed to shoki (miasma) from a dead Naraku demon and developed immune problems with her anemia. She'll recover with enough rest and medication.
Maria Robotnik is the granddaughter of Professor Gerald Robotnik, and is the cousin of Doctor Robotnik. Maria suffers from the illness known as "NIDS" (Neuro-Immune Deficiency Syndrome), which was incurable at the time. Gerald took on Project Shadow in order to save her. Soon after ultimate life form Shadow was created, the two bond deeply, though it was short-lived as a government agency known as G.U.N. raided the space station ARK, leaving Maria for dead.
Maria awoke near dead in a remote colony and was placed in a status pod by a silver skinned humanoid named Chrome-dome before the Colony was destroyed by demons and monsters. Nearly twelve years later, she was rescued from the buried pod by Shadow the Hedgehog and Chrome-dome and taken to Sunnydale. She's currently undergoing treatment to cure her NIDS.
The last are versions of the Gunslinger Girls, who were also sealed inside status pods. In their world, Social Welfare Agency Special Ops employs young girls fitted with cybernetic implants as agents. The implants, which consist of synthesized muscles and carbon fiber frames, result in heightened strength and reflexes as well as high resilience to damage and pain. They are Henrietta, Rico, Triela, Claes, Angelica, Elsa, Petrushka, and Beatrice
The girls are having mental and physical problems
Each girl is paired with a male trainer, or "handler," and together they are referred to as a fratello (Italian for "brother"). While the methods vary according to the handler, a common part of each girl's regimen is brainwashing called "conditioning," which produces a deadly assassin with unquestioning loyalty to her handler. The loss of their brothers has left them mentally broken.
Each girl also has limited life span due to the limits of the cybernetic implants. Xander and the other doctors are able to treat those problems by using Machina cybernetic upgrades.
"XANDER!"
THUMP-CRASH!
Dr. Xander Cho Hakkai Harris finds himself very popular with the kids and buried underneath them.
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Patients 6 - The Breakdown
June 1
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A tired looking Dr. Xander Cho Hakkai Harris walks into another room full of patients. Ever since the War began, the amount of patients and medical emergencies has increased to levels that drain even those with superhuman stamina.
The first patient is a human head without a body. Xander notes this is third time he had to reattach a head to its body in the past year.
The first was a heroic female version of Akatsuki ninja Kakuzu of the Waterfall, who only needed someone to sew the head back onto her near immortal body. She also had non-magnetic adamantium coils installed in her neck to prevent it from happening again and in her chest to prevent damage to her five hearts.
The other was type of immortal vampire known as a Kurozuka. The man Kuro and his wife Kuromitsu had been running from the Dark Soldiers, when a sword decapitated him. He had to regrow his body from the head after many blood transfusions.
His current patient is Jane Kono. She's a beautiful woman normally standing five foot six with green eyes and light brown hair. She was decapitated in battle by the Dark Army, but didn't die. She appears to have a Kekkei Genkai (Blood Inheritance Limit) that grants complete immortality but lacks a healing factor. She's currently hooked up to a machine that pumps in air, so she can talk since she lacks the supernatural 'speak without lungs' ability that Kakuzu did.
"What's the diagnosis, Doc?" says Jane, her voice odd because of the machine, "Do you have a reason for my mind-rending torture?"
"We got the test results on your Kekkei Genkai." says Xander, "It turns out your Immortality isn't a primary power, it's a Required Secondary Power. You primary power is Anatomical Separation, the ability to split the body up into several pieces and control the pieces individually. It's similar to those who have eaten the Chop-Chop Akuma no Mi (Devil's Fruit) meaning blades would have no effect beyond cutting."
"Nice to know, but my body is gone." says Jane, "When my team realized I was still alive, they had to destroy it to prevent the Dark Army from studying it. They couldn't carry it because it would have slowed them down and they couldn't seal it inside a scroll because all of our scrolls had been destroyed in battle with Madara's ninjas."
"Not to worry. The Bioroid Lab is creating a new body with the Kekkei Genkai fully activated. That means you will be able to move and use the various parts separate from the rest your body, including levitation." says Xander, writing on the chart, "It's believed that after a few years, you'll be able to put your body back together after being completely pulverized."
"Bioroid. It's not going to be a decapitated clone, is it?"
"No, we will use the cell weave method. First, a skeleton is created using a calcium mold and artificial marrow, then the tissue is woven onto the skeleton including the organs with near cell-by-cell construction. The skin and hair is the last layer to be applied. To create a headless body, we tell the machines to stop at the neck, so not even a skull is created."
"Sounds great, when will it be ready??" says the eager Sunnydale kunoichi.
"Six to eight hours." says Xander with a frown, "There were a lot of orders and each tub has to be decontaminated to prevent previous bioroid cells from infecting new bodies."
"I can handle it. If I can handle being without a body for three days, I handle a few hours."
Xander moves to his next patient, a Chiropteran Queen known as Flora. She looks like a sixteen years old Japanese girl standing five foot two, ninety pounds with brown eyes and long black hair. She's currently dressed in a hospital gown and sitting in her hospital bed. She coughs into a tissue and when she pulls away it's stained red.
"According to the file you fed off a human infected with an unidentified, possibly demonic blood parasite."
"I thought we was just another one of Madara's shinobi, but it turned out he had been enhanced by Naraku's fusion process. The miasma would have killed me or I would have killed the members of my team, if they hadn't shot me with a dozen blessed rounds."
"Silver alloyed rounds filled with blessed colloidal silver. Tests indicate they wiped out the demon, but not you since you're not a demonic type of vampire." explains Xander, "Your body is currently rejecting the miasma-tainted blood, so I'm going to order more blood tests and get you blood transfusions. That should help you purge the taint and regenerate the damage.
Xander turns to his next patients. Two people sitting on the same bed and according to the Files, they're partners from an Anime/Manga series called Soul Eater.
Soul Eater primarily revolves around students classified as Meisters at the Shinigami Weapon Meister Vocational School (Shinigami Buki Shokunin Senmon Gakko) or Shibusen for short, located in the fictional Death City, in Nevada, United States. The school is run by Shinigami, the God of Death himself, as a training facility for weapons and the human wielders of those weapons, the Meisters. Each Meister has at least one demon Weapon companion which has both a weapon and human form.
Shinigami created the school as an organization that enforces peace in order to prevent the rebirth of the "kishin", the evil demon god that nearly destroyed everything by plunging the world into chaos. Human souls that have become evil by straying from the path of humans have a high risk of becoming kishin, so evil humans are constantly being hunted down and killed by the students trained at Shibusen.
The first is a young woman who would've been about thirteen when Halloween occurred, with green eyes and long light brown hair done in two pony tails on the sides of her head. She's dressed in a white shirt with a green/white tie, a yellow sweater, and red plaid shorts. She also wears a long black coat fanning open at the waist, black/white sneakers, and white gloves.
The other appears to be a young man with red eyes and wild white hair. He's dressed in a black-and-yellow jacket, dark red pants, and yellow/black sneakers. He also wears an odd headband with the word Soul and a set of smiling lips.
Maka Albarn was the most normal and civilized of the group known as the Meisters (although that isn't really saying much). Her father is the Shinigami's current death scythe, she seems to hate her father for constantly flirting with other women but she still loves him. Her mother was also a scythe meister; she and Maka's father are divorced.
Soul Eater Evans "Soul" to his friends is Maka's Demon Scythe partner. Soul's personality mostly consists of what he considers "cool" and he likes to complain about how things aren't so "cool". Being a "cool" guy, he almost always uses the direct approach which most of the time fails, and even drives a motorcycle, which both he and Maka use for transportation.
"Maka Albarn, Human Meister, and Soul Eater Evans, sentient Weapon.'
'You're trying to find a way to get rid of the Black Blood. A contamination. After receiving the black blood from Soul when they made their soul resonance against Free, Maka started to hear Little Imp talking about great power along with Soul Eater. They accepted the deal for this power when they battled Chrona for second time. Maka went into a Berserk state, while Soul Eater was drowning into the darkness.'
'Its biggest problem is there's a risk Soul will devour Maka's soul and the second is it messed with Maka's mind placing her in a berserk state."
"Tell us something we don't know, doc." says Soul
"MAKA CHOP!"
Whack!
Then Maka uses a medical text book to hit Soul Eater over the head for being rude.
"The primary Shinigami of this world, known as Soul Reapers, have studied the Meisters and almost put them in the same category as Quincy. The weapon's eating of souls is similar to a Hollow's and most people prefer the cleansing of a Zanpakuto (soul cleaving sword)."
Maka looks a little depressed, while Soul Eater Evans looks angry at being compared to a Hollow.
"The Black Blood was created from the demon sword Ragnarok and was used to replace a Meister named Chrona's blood. That indicates the Black Blood contains youki (demonic energy), which causes the user to lose their humanity and the same way the taint of a Hollow works. When a soul loses its connection to humanity, its chain of fate, they explode and reform as Hallows."
Soul looks pale and so does Maka.
"You mean I could end up like one of those masked freaks!?"
"I think the solution can be found in the records of the Soul Society."
Suddenly, there's a crash and Xander turns around to see John Jacob Michael Smith Jr. The near human human/plant hybrid has fallen off his bed and broken his soup bowl.
"What happened to you, John?" asks Xander, moving to help the man up and noticing the seal-covered cast on his friend's lower leg.
"Broke my ankle."
"How?"
"Jumping out of my girlfriend's window."
"Why didn't you use the door?"
"Her very overprotective father arrived home early."
"Why didn't you heal it??"
"I've been suppressing my plant side recently."
Xander winces remembering the Dark Council plant manipulator had tried to possess the plant-themed characters in the colony. The fiend didn't count on being incinerated by Vash the Stampede. Unsurprisingly, John is very proud of his dad.
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Patients 7 - Strange Hunters
June 11
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Xander walks into the room eating a box of Energy-Booster Twinkies. Madara's ninja forces, Naraku's youkai forces, and Griffith's Apostles have been hammering Sunnydale's defenses and outposts for the past week and it's caused the number of patients to increase three hundred percent above average.
He walks over to his first patient who is floating in a cylindrical tank of translucent red liquid. The liquid makes it so a person can't tell the eye, skin, or hair color from the outside. The above average and well-trained man is floating with an oxygen mask, IV tubes going to his chest and wires connected to bands on his chest and head.
"Langdon, Jake. Human hunter with limited chakra manipulation ability. Relies on low grade weapon tattoos to store blades, guns, ammo, explosives, and supplies. They reacted with a load of magical backwash that he got in the way of with painful and rather gory results."
That's an understatement, since he lost both arms above the elbows and both legs below the knees. His torso is covered in deep wounds that have been sealed by a master surgeon. Also, his internal organs were also badly damaged when the sealing tattoos detonated. As the dimension containing the objects collapsed, the mass was expelled in an explosion and the collapse also created spatial implosions that tore at his body.
As he floats in the oxygenated amniotic-like fluid, bio-nanomachines repair his body since there is a danger magical or spiritual healing could set off "undetonated" seals. It's a complex process in which the bone is regrown first, then the tissue is woven around the bones. The blood vessels and nerves are connected, but the new nerve tissue isn't activated until after the skin, hair, and nails have formed.
The screen on the tank connected to a brain-machine interface helmet on Jake's head lights up.
Doctor Harris. How am I doing?
"It's slow work. Those sealing tattoos of yours need to be removed after the repairs are complete."
They've worked...
"You can get new sealing tattoos with Magian/Shinobi approved designs. I could even ask Toad Sennin Jiraiya, since Joyce is pregnant again and he'd love a break."
Doctor. I have a question.
"Yes."
I have got splattered in the line of duty a fair few times.
"Thirty two recorded."
...and I'm kinda worried about the effects.
"Every time a person's body is healed using above normal methods, it absorbs energy from its environment. A person who receives constant magical healing could develop magical powers or transform into a magical life form. A person who receives spiritual healing could develop spiritual or ki manipulating abilities as a reaction. A person who his healed by the powers of a metahuman-mutant could mutate and develop their own superhuman powers after prolonged exposure the energy field. Even people healed using the Force could develop a higher midi-chlorian count, even if the person lacked midi-chlorian as it's the base of dark side healing and Sith Alchemy."
What about the whole 'blood of 1000 demons' thing I heard about?
"Yes, if a mortal absorbs enough youki from youkai, yoma, and/or demons, they can go through a transformation if they can resist the corruption. Since the main difference between a mortal and a youkai is that a human's soul is limited by the body and the youkai's body is only limited by its soul, it's possible for humans to become youkai.'
'There are a large number of traditional youkai which were originally ordinary human beings, transformed into something horrific and grotesque usually by some sort of extreme emotional state. Women suffering from intense jealousy, for example, were thought to transform into the female oni represented by hannya masks. Others include rokubi-onna - humans able to elongate their necks during the night and doratobo - the risen corpse of a farmer, who haunts his abused land.'
'My costume persona Cho Hakkai was a human who became a youkai after killing the youkai that raped and murdered his sister. The youki of the thousand demons combined and focused with the hatred of his human heart allowed the transformation."
That is insane. Why do many of the evil youkai devour humans if they were once human themselves?
"One philosophy is that there are three main forms of spiritual energy. The youkai energy of the Earth (hence the Underworld), the spirit energy of the human spirit, and the divine energy of heaven. If you consider spiritual particles to be like photons of light, then you can picture the difference between the types of energy as wave length. Humans are visible light, with their emotions forming the colors. Youkai are ultraviolet, cruel devils are X-Rays, and true demons of hell are gamma rays.'
'Youkai devour humans for three purposes. One is to experience emotions beyond what created them. In the case of hannya they want to feel beyond jealousy and rage. The second reason is to absorb the matching emotion and life energy to focus their energy further and increase their power. An example is a possession; an Oni possesses an angry human so they can absorb the rage. The third reason is to absorb any trace of divine energy, like in priests, which means they would possess all three powers of creation. This would grant them near immortality."
Wow. You sound like a text book.
Xander sweat drops.
How do I prevent myself from becoming a youkai? Me and my hunting friends have each killed hundreds of Naraku's youkai in this month alone.
"There are a few options." explains Xander, "Some people use Youki suppressant like the ones used by the Claymore Hunters, but there's a small risk that if you would produce a youki surge during a withdrawal. Some people use Holy Items and go to temples to cleanse the youki from their bodies. Some upgrade to more powerful forms such as shinobi which can suppress youki with ambient nature chakra and Soul Reaper Shinigami which have a high spiritual density. The last option is psychological."
Psychological?
"Remember how I said emotions determine colors. The transformation occurs when the human feels negative emotions, pushing their color close to the Youkai ultraviolet. If the heart isn't filled with negative emotions like sadness or rage, it can't focus the heavy youki energy".
I'll have to think about it, Doctor Harris.
Xander leaves Jake and moves to a two in one patient. Jacob Carter and Selmak of the Tok'ra.
The Tok'ra are a fictional alien race on the science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. The Tok'ra are renegade Goa'uld who inhabit human hosts in a symbiotic relationship, and are opposed to the evil System Lords. Egeria, the Queen and mother of all Tok'ra rebelled against the other Goa'uld two thousand years ago.
Jacob Carter. A retired United States Air Force Major General and the widowed father of Samantha Carter and Mark. Jacob Carter was a USAF general dying of cancer and after becoming the willing host of a Tok'ra named Selmak who would cure his illness he became the Tok'ra liaison to Earth. As a member of the Tok'ra High Council, Jacob/Selmak engaged in Tok'ra covert operations and provided help to Stargate Command when problems arise. He often went on off-world missions with SG-1, and frequently provided valuable knowledge and expertise, including the ability to use a Goa'uld healing device.
Currently, the symbiote Selmak is dying of old age and is too weak to remove itself from its sleeping host Jacob Carter. Xander has called in Doctor Grey to assist him on the case.
Dr. Grey is a beautiful woman standing five foot six with green eyes and long curly red hair. She's dressed in a white and gold shirt, black skirt, and gold belt covered by a doctor's white lab coat. She's an omega-level mutant, meaning her powers are immense and will never stop growing. She has great control over her incredibly powerful telepathic and telekinetic abilities.
"Since the symbiote will dissolve upon death, there's an option of leaving it inside Jacob." says Dr. Grey, "All we would need is prevent any toxin release and keep him stable as the symbiote dies."
"Jacob has expressed a desire for removal. He's worried about Selmak's dignity." says Xander, "Jean, I want you to contact Selmak and ask her if she would be willing to be transferred to another body.
"She says she's dying and placing her symbiote in another body would be pointless and cruel."
"I mean from her symbiote body to a bioroid body. A transfer of her soul and memories to a new non-symbiote human body."
"She's asking how?"
"We could use DNA from a willing donor and construct a body, while your soul and memories are stored in a matrix until it can be transferred."
"She says she wants to be Jacob's age."
"Tell her, that would be dangerous." says Xander, "We'll de-age Jacob a few years, so we don't have to age her bioroid body too much. He'll still be older than his daughter but only by sixteen to twenty years and will age at the same slowed rate."
"She agrees."
A couple minutes later, Xander watches as the finned snake-like symbiote body of Selmak is removed via telekinesis by Jean Grey and placed inside a spherical chamber with a ring for a handle. It resembles the Autobot Matrix of Leadership, but it's actually an advanced spiritual containment unit developed in the Soul Society. As the symbiote dies, its soul is contained for transport.
Xander's next patient is Iroh, uncle to Prince Zuko and semi-uncle to Cordelia Azula Chase. Iroh, also known as The Dragon of the West in his world, is a Firebending master and a former Crown Prince of the Fire Nation, a race of people who can create and manipulate fire. He is a retired General of the Fire Nation, and older brother of Fire Lord Ozai.
Iroh accompanied his exiled nephew, Zuko, on his quest to capture Aang, the long-lost Avatar, in order to restore the young prince's honor and right to the throne. He was Zuko's guide and father figure and his last memories are of leading an assault along with other members of the Secret Society known as the 'Order of the White Lotus', liberating the Earth Kingdom City Ba Sing Se and Zuko being crowned the New Fire Lord.
Iroh spends his days taking care of Zuko and Cordelia's kids when their parents are away and acting as their firebending teacher. He was never prouder then when Seikahime nearly burnt his head off with his famous "Breath of Fire", which resembles a dragon breathing flames on its opponent.
Iroh has been comatose after he consumed a variety of tea meant only for youkai.
"What type of tea was it?" says Xander looking at Nurse Aensland
"It was Kuroreihana (black spirit flower). It's a type of flowering tea plant that only grows in the depths of a youkai forest fed by the ambient shoki (miasma). It's used to create an energy restoring tea for most types of warm blooded Henge (shape-shifters) like Tanuki (raccoon dog), Kitsune (foxes), Mujina (badgers), Bakeneko and nekomata (cats), Okami (wolves), and Inugami (wolves) " explains the Succubus Nurse, "I've drunk it myself, but its effect is weaker on Darkstalkers."
"Energy restoring. Youkai energy restoring." says Xander, coming to a conclusion, "It's a youki booster. Iroh must be suffering from youki poisoning. This isn't a coma; he's in a trance to protect his spirit and his connection to the spirit world."
"That would make sense." says Nurse Aensland, "How would you cure it?"
"Fleas."
"FLEAS!?"
"Youkai Fleas. The smallest of the youkai insects and used for spying and intelligence." says Xander, "The same way leeches can provide an effective means to reduce blood coagulation, relieve venous pressure from pooling blood, and stimulate circulation in reattachment operations for organs with critical blood flow, the Youkai fleas can drain the youki from Iroh's body and stimulate his ability to purge the youki"
Nurse Aensland looks at him like he just morphed into Michael Jackson in a tutu.
"Go to my office and look in my Rolodex under youkai-spies. There should be a listing for the Nomirei (Drinking Spirit) Clan."
Xander walks over to his next patient. She's a young woman with red eyes, bushy red hair, red-orange wings, two horns, and a red-orange tail. She's dressed in a skimpy blue bikini outfit with blue sleeves covering her arms and golden boots on her feet. The half-human half-red-dragon hybrid is Mink.
She normally acts like the stereotypical teenage girl, drooling over cute boys, short fused and easily swayed to forgiveness. Although she does happen to have superhuman strength and fire breath, she acts human most of the time and has a semi-normal life.
That was until she was brought in a week ago with an addiction to a mysterious substance known as "Flame Sugar". According to her friends, a group of dragon-blood and dragon yokai, she spends most of her time consuming the substance. It appears as a white sugary powder that becomes a clear liquid when set on fire, producing blue flames in the process. Mink drinks the burning liquid and the substance causes profound relaxation and intense euphoria. It also appears to be more addictive than heroin to a dragon-ling.
Xander recognizes the woman next to Mink's bed as Filia Ul Copt, a Golden Dragon from the Red World of Flare Dragon Ceiphied and Ruby Eye Shabranigdo. She's only a child in Dragon terms at five hundred years old and is a beautiful woman in human form standing five foot seven with blue eyes and long blonde hair. She's dressed in the regal clothing of a former priestess under Flarelord Valbazard.
"Oh, Healer Alexander!" says Filia, "Have you found a cure for her addiction? My White Magic is having little effect because of her red dragon blood."
"The Flame Sugar turns out to be a drug used by Hunters that specialize in dragons."
"Oh My!"
"Don't worry, it's not lethal. It's used as a tranq by the hunters." says Xander, "They either toss bags of powder into a dragon's mouth or cover a bait animal in this sweet substance. The internal heat of the dragon or its flames causes the substance to release a blue mist that acts like a sedative. It's not meant for half-human dragons or even dragons that can take human form, that's why Mink is addicted."
"Is there a way to help her?"
"The chemical cleaner we gave her will remove all traces of Flame Sugar in a week." says Xander, "Strangely enough the drug causes memory loss, so when the physical addiction is removed she won't even remember drinking her first glass."
"That's wonderful." says Felia, "Do you know how she got hold of it?"
"Some punk at a party gave it to her telling her it was just another flaming drink. The punk worked at the Reserve cleaning up dung and managed to swipe a hunter's bag."
"I hope he pays for this." says Felia, her tail showing itself in her anger.
"He is. He's being forced to shovel dung without protective gear for a year. I think I'll have to regenerate his skin once a week for the entire year. Which can be a painful process."
"Doctor!"
"Doctor!"
Nurse Aensland and Nurse Quick run up to Xander, nearly knocking him over. Xander waves at Nurse Aensland to tell her to go first.
"Mugetsu. The Kudakitsune, a pipe fox spirit, later named Mugetsu by Watanuki, was the payment given to Mistress Yuko by the Ame-warashi for Watanuki's help. It became attached to him right away and often accompanies him on trips of the more dangerous type, but will go with him anywhere if he lets it."
"I remembering meeting Yuko and her daughter during my trip to the Soul Society. The problem?"
"A battle with Dark Council forces has left him in nine-tailed form and unable to revert to his snake-like mini form. There's a full size Kyubi no Kitsune in Room 999."
"It takes a large amount of pure spiritual energy to change from Kyubi to Kudakitsune." says Xander, "Call Captain Unohana and see if she can spare a couple of Shinigami from the Fourth Division. Tell her we need a reiki (spirit energy) transfusion."
Xander then turns to Nurse Quick, whose report is slower than normal because of stress.
"You have to help me! There's an annoying vampire named Bella Swan. She's some form of sparkling Twilight cold vampire and suffers from severe Mary Sue Syndrome! It's further worsened by her constant sparkling due to aftereffects of the Halloween transformation"
Xander pales.
Mary Sue Syndrome.
In fanfiction, a Mary Sue is an original character/insertion of the author that dominates the story they are placed in even if they aren't the canon main characters. They are either loved or hated by everyone, possess too much power, and/or manipulates relationships in the story. The defining characteristic is that they are the focus of the story instead of the true main characters and the world revolves around them.
When a Mary Sue appears in the World of Halloween, they are crippled and left without purpose. The pure ones find out there are others just as pure. The gods find their powers gone or restricted without their author. The Tsunderes and Jerkasses are crushed by the bad-ass ones. The ones with relationships are now alone again and unable to seduce the ones they want again. The ones that want sympathy don't get any mercy. Anti Sues are seen for how genuinely useless they are and are abandoned. The Villains are destroyed when nothing goes their way anymore. The Fixers can't fix the mess that is Halloween World.
They are no longer the focus of the universe and without that focus a Mary Sue might as well not exist. Most people suffering from MSS can't handle the loss of attention and descend into delusion and insanity.
"Treatment opinion?" asks Xander.
"Complete psychic overhaul of personality and new skin transplant." answers Nurse Quick
"Ouch!" says Xander. "If I remember correctly, Twilight vampires sparkle because of their extremely low body temperature. Their body fluids are frozen and as a result their skin cells are like diamonds. The mirror effect must be caused by the crystals, but an immersion in salt water and ultrasonics should break down the crystals and correct the skin."
'As for her personality, have the telepaths confirm the MSS and send them chocolates if they do. If MSS is confirmed, book her for psychic surgery. Also make sure they check for the Author personality, it may be hidden under the Mary Sue and actually be useful."
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Patients 8 - Random Insanity
June 21
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Xander walks in drinking a bottle of "18 hour Youkai Energy Drink", when he hears a baby like sound. He turns to see Nurse Aensland holding an eight inch pink ball with big blue eyes, stubby fingerless arms, and big feet. The little creature doesn't look well with swollen purple-tinted cheeks and a high fever.
"Is that Kirby?" he asks putting his bottle down.
"Poyo?"
"Kirby the Star Warrior. Kirby, a Warpstar knight in training, was seemingly originally created by an evil void-like monster named N.M.E to conquer and destroy planets. Fortunately, Kirby betrayed him, so he threw Kirby into space and erased all of Kirby's knowledge and memory."
"I remember that from the Nintendo games." says Xander, "What's wrong with him?"
"He attempted to ingest a swarm of Saimyosho to prevent them from getting secret documents back to their master and is suffering from the effects of a high dose of their poison."
"Normal Saimyosho?"
"Normal Saimyosho."
The Saimyosho are Naraku's minion wasps from hell and resemble huge orange wasps with blood red human like eyes. They are good as spies, carrying small objects, and poisoning targets with their venom and bodies. They can also be sacrificed to defend stronger monsters.
Naraku with the help of Madara has recently created Saimyosho Shinobi. They are prototype ninja youkai that can manipulate their youki like chakra and separate into a swarm of Saimyosho. They can produce long poisonous stingers from their arms to use as weapons, fire smaller stingers like bo (spike) shuriken and generate shoki (miasma) in both smoke screen and corrosive spray form. They can also fly by generating giant versions of their wasp wings.
If Kirby had swallowed one of them, they would be looking for a hat box to bury him in.
"Give him a standard Naraku Pack." says Xander.
Naraku generates so many poisonous youkai, that they update the Naraku Pack Anti-Toxins every month. This would be Pack version eighty. Xander opens a fingerprint locked cabinet and pulls out a purple plastic case marked with XXC in gold. He hands it to Aensland and moves to his next patient.
"Doctor Harris!" calls the voice of Nurse Tendo
"What is it, Nurse Tendo?"
"Nozomu Itoshiki"
Xander remembers the very pessimistic high school teacher. He has spiky hair and dark eyes behind thin glasses, and constantly wears a kimono and hakama, an obsolete style of Japanese school uniform from the late 1800s. He's constantly 'in despair' and has attempted suicide multiple times. Psychological evaluation was long overdue.
"He's allergic to the anti-depressants."
"Have one of the telepaths install a block to prevent any suicides and tell the psychs to clear their schedules. Thinking the world is crazy doesn't mean that you are."
Nurse O'Hara walks in with another set of folders. She resembles Dr. Grey with shoulder length hair and a white nurse's uniform. Xander gulps down the last of his energy drink.
"What's the newest problem?"
"Two related cases. Case one is Light Yagami."
Xander remembers the five foot ten, one hundred nineteen pound man with reddish-brown eyes and light brown/dirty blonde hair. He also remembers the man's sparkling wings.
"The Human-Shinigami hybrid Buffy brought back from Sunnyside."
"Correct. He was mauled by rabid fan girls. Bruises and cuts to over fifty percent of his body, dislocated arms, spiral fractures of ulna and radius bones of both arms, torn ligaments, sprained ankles, broken right femur, loss of twenty percent of the scalp from hair pulling, and testicular trauma almost requiring a Inguinal orchiectomy."
Xander pales at the last one. Fan girls are vicious monsters and he's glad he has women to protect him from those lunatics.
"The other file."
"Various Light Yagami fan girls attacked by Misa Amane-Yagami. Twenty cases of lacerations from whipping. Five cases of burns ranging from fifty to eighty percent coverage and second to third degree severity. Fifteen cases of limbs severed and two decapitations... Oh! Also, one case of being force fed their own spleen."
Xander pales again. He's buying presents for all of his girls when he leaves work!
"Blackjack and Rey can look at them, I still have patients." says Xander.
His next patient is a man standing six foot two with blue eyes and dark blond hair. Who's currently punching himself over and over.
Dual personalities, Billy and Dr. Horrible, are fighting for control of the body.
According the profile he's a super-villain of the mad scientist variety with "a Ph.D in Horribleness". He desires to become a member of Bad Horse's Evil League of Evil and use his inventions to take over the world and enact social change for the betterment of humanity, whom he sees as ignorant to the problems of the world. As Billy, he struggles to make a romantic connection with Penny.
"Enough!"
Billy and Dr. Horrible stop fighting themselves and look at Dr. Harris who's surrounded by an aura of power and has glaring eyes.
"Yes, Dr. Harris?"
"The recommendation by the board is removal of one from your body into a new body."
"I want the original. It's my body. No, it's mine! I was born normal, freak! You're the freak talking to yourself! So do you! It's mine! No, it's mine!"
"Enough!"
Billy and Dr. Horrible stop fighting and holds himself tight in fear. The killing intent from a youkai like Alexander Cho Hakkai Harris is enough to make Godzilla lose bladder control.
"I've been hearing this for a month! I'll have two bodies created and transfer you idiots to them. Your old body will be sold for organs." says Xander, "After this, Dr. Horrible has two options: Machina or Soul Society."
"Huh?" says the doctor of Horribleness
"You can become a home arrest in Machina. With so much security, you should be able to stay out of trouble. Alternatively, you can work under 12th Division Captain Mayuri Karutsuchi, the second President of the Shinigami Research Institute. He's crazy enough to tolerate you."
"Wha... What about me?" says Billy.
"You don't go to Soul Society unless you die and you never go to Machina. I suggest you relocate to Magia."
Xander walks away and does a quick mental trick to release the anger and stress. He then calmly walks into a room with two men in full body casts. The casts are secured by chains attached to a railing and bed. They're also covered in seals in black ink and ofuda-like papers attached to different points.
Dr. Grey walks up to him and explains
"On the left is Lawrence "Stunt" Mondane and on the right is Ilario "Bumper" Ciarenni. Files say they're humans from the webcomic Dominic Deegan: Oracle For Hire."
"A pair of hapless thieves who constantly attempt to rob (and once, kill) Dominic Deegan. They've been tricked, coerced and bribed into helping him on more than one occasion though, and recently have come to view him as less of an enemy. Lawrence "Stunt" Mondane is a misogynist, and the more violent of the two, while Ilario "Bumper" Ciarenni tends to avoid needless killing and makes an effort to be courteous to all women."
"Stunt tried to rob a guy outside a bar, only it turned out that the 'victim' a) was a Hunter, and b) had half a dozen friends and fellow Badass Long coats inside the bar who came out to help. Needless to say he got the crap kicked out of him. Bumper did the same only he didn't get quite as pummeled as Stunt since he was unarmed. Stunt had a knife."
"Healing is slow because the Hunters were Demon Knights meaning their fists were charged with youki and other nasty effects. It means no magical healing and these two are somehow allergic to nanotechnology."
"They almost won the Darwin Award."
"The what?"
"Awards that have been given for people who 'do a service to Humanity by removing themselves from the Gene pool', i.e., lose the ability to reproduce either by death or sterilization in a stupid fashion."
"Actually, Stunt groped one of the female hunters and she cast an explosive castration hex. Bumper only caught a little, but he'll never have kids."
"O.K. Make a note to engrave 'Darwin Award Winner' on the casts."
Xander moves towards what will be one of his last patients. As he opens the screen, he's nearly knocked over by a wall of sound as the magical silence barrier is opened.
"RELEASE ME AT ONCE! I AM THE GREAT RISING SUN OF JAPAN THE FORMER BLUE THUNDER OF FURINKAN HIGH! I AM TATEWAKI KUNO AND I DEMAND YOU FREE ME AT ONCE!"
The man screaming is in his thirties and stands six foot with crazed brown eyes and bushy brown hair. He's dressed in the kimono and hakama of a samurai and holds the handle of a broken bokken (wooden practice sword) in his white knuckled right hand. Kuno is secured to the bed by bands around his neck, chest, waist, shoulders, upper arms, upper legs, wrists, and ankles. He also has bandages around his face and the hand holding the bokken piece.
"HOW DARE YOU SAY MY MIND IS UNFIT, FOUL GAIJIN WOMAN! I AM THE GREATEST SWORD IN THE WORLD OF KENDO! THE BEAUTIFUL PIG-TAILED GODDESS AND FIERCE TIGRESS WORSHIP ME AND MY SKILL, AND WILL SOON BEAR MY CHILDREN!"
The dark haired half-alien empath Councilor Troi is holding her head with one hand and holding a bottle of Machina Mecha-grade Migraine Medicine. She pops a couple of 4M pills into her mouth and swallows them with a glass of water.
FOUL DEMONS! THE SORCERER SAOTOME MUST HAVE SUMMONED YOU LIKE THE OTHER FOUL DEMONS, BUT I WILL NOT FALL FOR I AM A PROUD SAMURAI OF NOBLE BLOOD AND CAN NOT FAIL! I AM THE DIVINE RISING SUN OF JAPAN AND I SHALL HAVE VICTORY!"
Suddenly, a burst of green light spirals from Xander's palm and hits Kuno's forehead. It doesn't cause any physical damage beyond blowing Tatewaki's hair back. It does however have the effect of a powerful sedative on Kuno's chaotic mind.
"FOUL... Magician....what...have...you... dooonneee."
Thump!
Kuno passes out and Troi removes her ear plugs.
"Thank you, Alex."
"How did the idiot get hurt?"
"He was his usual self with the wrong girl and ended up with a broken hand and nose. He hasn't been this bad since he was eighteen, twelve years ago, but when that girl pounded him, his old persona woke up."
"Why couldn't he be like that other one in Nihon? Properly medicated and married to that cheerleader. I heard that guy has a twelve year old who likes to hit him over the head with a toy bokken."
"Unfortunately, Nihon made a law that only one analogue of Kuno could live in Nihon at any given time."
"You thinking what I'm thinking?"
"Psychic surgery to erase the samurai persona." says Troi, "You don't need to be a telepath to figure that out. You will need an elite one with a strong will and defenses to enter Kuno's head."
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Death of Prophecy - Dawn of Destruction
June 21
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Three versions of the same woman float in the sky facing a giant monster. The woman is Raven. The half-breed daughter of a human mother named Arella and the inter-dimensional demon Trigon. She grew up in an alternate dimension called Azarath, with pacifistic inhabitants whose spiritual leader was the mystic Azar. In her homeland, she was taught to "control her emotions" by Azar, in order to suppress her inherited demonic powers. Essentially, if Raven was allowed to feel any emotion, her father would recreate her in his vision.
One version is Dawn Summers of Sunnydale, who was transformed during Halloween of '97 and chanted the prophecy.
"The gem was born of evil's fire. The gem shall be his portal. He comes to claim. He comes to sire. The end of all things mortal."
The other is Dawn's twin, who doesn't remember a life before becoming Raven of the Teen Titans. The third is an older version dressed in a hooded cloak that makes her look like an immense bird.
The giant monster they face is their father, Trigon the Terrible. A sadistic, cruel and powerful demon of inter-dimensional origin, Trigon is result of the mating between a female member of a mystic sect and the god they worshiped. A side effect of this pairing is that their child was filled with the cast-off evil energies of the inhabitants of Azarath, transforming him into their personification. At birth, Trigon killed everyone around him (including his own mother). At the age of six, he destroyed an entire planet. And by the age of thirty, he held dominion over millions of worlds in his dimension.
He resembles an immense humanoid giant with red eyes, long white hair, red skin, and demonic features including two sets of eyes and antlers. He's dressed in a long white loincloth with a long white cape forming a fan behind his back and long white boots reaching above mid-thigh. He also wields a mystical staff that can project blasts of super-heated energy and manipulate patterns of force.
Trigon's three daughters form a circle and begin chanting. As they chant, they move clockwise in the air and begin to glow with pulsating white light. Trigon's upper eyes glow with flames as he prepares to destroy his no longer needed children.
"GRAN REY CERO!!" (Royal Hollow Flash/Grand King Zero!)
"GETSUGA TENSHO!!" (Moon Fang Heaven-Piercer!)
Zorro Nueve Colas (Zorro de las Nueve Colas "Fox of the Nine Tails") was once the Bijuu Kyubi no Kitsune sealed inside Naruto Uzumaki-Namikaze. Halloween caused the seal to go out of control, but a combination of elements by Sunnydale's finest separated the two. Naruto became a very powerful Shinigami who married Hinata Hyuuga and is now living in Sunnydale with their many children.
The Kyubi on the other hand was transformed into an extremely powerful Arrancar.
The other is a powerful entity who was created when Ichigo Kurosaki, a Shinigami, grew a Hollow in himself, a commonality of most Vizard. In Halloween, Hollow Ichigo, or Ogihici as he now calls himself, was separated from his Shinigami self and became the opposite of a Vizard -a shinigami with hollow powers - , an Arrancar - a hollow with shinigami powers.
Both have traveled the world together living as true Blood Knights, not caring about good or evil, only enjoying the fights and spilling of blood, both their opponent's and their own.
Their attacks, one is an immense blast of blue and purple, and the other is a blast of white in a wave shape with a red outline. Normal attacks would have no effect on Trigon the Terrible, but the spiritual pressure attacks by the two Arrancar are designed to affect souls. A Hollow is nothing more than a tainted soul and Trigon was created from pure taint.
Trigon screams in pain and falls back as his two upper eyes are blown to pieces leaving empty sockets. He also drops his power staff because of the immense pain.
The three Ravens are now glowing so brightly that their clothing and skin is pure white. As they spin faster and faster, a sphere of white light appears between them in the center of the circle. A sphere of power which grows until it consumes them in a sphere with a radius of over two meters (six foot seven).
A shock wave composed of mystical blue-white flame explodes from the sphere. It creates a magic circle that surrounds the sphere and Trigon, while knocking Zorro and Ogihci back.
"Woah!" says Ogihci, landing on the air and floating. "Trigon's in deep shit now!"
An immense bird shaped like a raven emerges from the sphere. It's an immense creature composed of brilliant white light, streams of blue-white flames, and a sea of boiling blue energy. The sphere rests in the chest of the immense bird which dwarfs Trigon and has nine eyes glowing with spectral white flames.
"Daughter?" says Trigon, staring at the bird of light with his two remaining eyes.
"You are not our father."
The immense bird of sacred flames cries out like a bird of prey, then flies through Trigon. The bird doesn't hit Trigon or cut a hole through him, instead the bird of flames passes through like a spirit. The effect is far more impressive with a white glow spreading across Trigon's body and beams of light shooting from points across his body.
Trigon screams in pain as the cast-off evil energies of the inhabitants of Azarath are cleansed, one soul at a time. As they are destroyed, so is their personification. The holy light burns away the demonic darkness, returning it to the cycle of existence. Trigon's power begins to disperse and his energy-based body begins to break up.
There are a thousand beams of light, like laser light show, coming out of Trigon's decaying flesh. The lasers are joined by clouds of glowing particles that stream from every part of the demon's body.
Finally, Trigon's entire body glows white and explodes into countless particles. A column of white fire and particles shoots into the red sky causing it to change from red to purple to blue-black. As the column of light fades, the sky returns to red and the three Ravens are revealed.
Three Ravens that are laughing and are now dressed in white.
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EXTRA - or maybe Crack!
For Blood Lusters and Scrappy/Wesley Haters
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Death of the Scraps and Weasels
June 21
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When armies of Vehicons conquered Cybertron, young Nightscream survived alone in the darkness below the surface of the planet. Nightscream survived fighting the insane Megatron's army as a techno-organic bat transformer.
THOOM!
He doesn't survive the blast of energy and high energy particles that is shot through his chest and extinguishes his spark. What remains of the green and brown bat shatters into a cloud of smoking ash and charred machine fragments.
The Blue Turbo Ranger; when Rocky injured himself at a martial arts match, Justin Stewart was chosen by Zordon to be the Blue Turbo Ranger. Justin, however, was twelve years old and inexperienced; to compensate for his youth, he was able to morph into an adult-sized form as the Blue Turbo Ranger.
THOOM!
A beam of purple-white strike his vehicle, Storm Blaster - a sentient car of extra-terrestrial origin. Resembling a rugged jeep that can operate on paved roads as well as rougher terrain, the machine has taken a lot of damage. It doesn't survive one blast of energy, exploding into a thousand lifeless pieces and sending the Blue Ranger flying through the air.
As he tumbles, he demorphs and reverts to child Justin. He's hit in midair by a giant metal fist and crushed. His body leaves a large red mark on the mobile suit of Yzak Joule, like a bug hitting a wind shield.
Yzak Joule graduated at the top of his class from the ZAFT (Zodiac Alliance of Freedom Treaty) military academy, granting him the right to wear the red uniform of an elite ZAFT pilot. Upon his graduation, Yzak was assigned to the prestigious ZAFT Le Creuset special operations team. Soon after his arrival, he was assigned to infiltrate the Orb space colony Heliopolis to capture the Earth Alliance's new prototype mobile weapons. Yzak managed to escape Heliopolis with the GAT-X102 Duel Gundam, and after the space colony began to break down, Yzak became the Duel's permanent pilot. Yzak, with the rest of the Rau Le Creuset team, continued to harass the Archangel and Kira Yamato, pilot of the GAT-X105 Strike.
Yzak's machine is GAT-X102 Duel, a prototype close combat mobile suit standing 17.5 meters tall and weighing over sixty nine metric tons at its lightest. Armored with Phase Shift armor and armed with two"Igelstellung" 75mm anti-air vulcan guns and two beam sabers, it's a very powerful machine. The additional armament of a 57mm high-energy beam rifle with 175mm grenade launcher adds to its destructive power
All of its destructive power doesn't make it fast enough to save the Bus it was protecting.
The Bus contains a variety of people. A group of disillusioned eco-terrorists known as The Planeteers armed with magic rings that could control elements of nature. They even combined their powers to create Captain Planet, a nature-based superhero with all their powers magnified. He didn't last a minute against energy blasts loaded with anti-protons and high levels of gamma radiation.
Jason Peter Todd, the second person to become Robin, sidekick to the superhero Batman, tried to fire explosive batarangs, but they had no effect on their enemy's Cybertronian alloy chest. Neither did the explosive arrows of vampire huntress Abigail Whistler.
A version of the bone-manipulating sewer mutant Evan "Spyke" Daniels and Bao, the psycho soldier from the King of Fighters game, tried to attack using their own physical powers. Blood, fragments of bone and a large orange cap on the bottom of their enemy's right foot is all that remains.
Star Fleet prodigy Wesley Crusher is trying to get the technology based bus defenses back online, but the systems burn in his hands. The field coils needed to create the force fields have melted, the ineffective weapons are broken, and the main computer is now a pile of smoking circuitry.
Photojournalist James Bartholomew "Jimmy" Olsen, JLA's mascot Lucas "Snapper" Carr, and JSA member Johnny Thunder are all praying for their superhero friends to save them. Superman, JLA, or JSA don't hear them and Snapper Carr and Johnny Thunder can't use their powers to escape
Yzak's GAT-X102 Duel is within meters of the bus when another blast from Decepticon Cannon hits the bus. The bus without shields or special alloys stands no chance and the beam go through it like a hot knife through soft butter. The heat generated by the particle beam vaporizes metal and super heats the air inside the bus into plasma. The windows explode outward a split second before the entire bus explodes
Yzak's shocked genetically enhanced mind notices that the only surviving part of the bus's occupants belongs to Dr Romano.
Dr. Robert "Rocket" Patrick Romano was a general surgeon in his world, at County General Hospital in Cook County, Chicago. Romano was a brash, insensitive man who often made racist or bigoted comments. He was the man you loved to hate.
Dr. Romano remembered dying when a helicopter was buffeted by strong winds and side-wined off the roof of the hospital. The chopper exploded as it fell down the side of the building, filling the higher floors with flames. It fell on Romano, who only had time to look up. He learned from the Files that the substantial amount of money he bequeathed to the hospital was used by Dr. Weaver, a lesbian who had been personally offended by Romano's homophobia, to fund a Gay and Lesbian medical program at the hospital.
There's irony in his second death. All that remains is his lower arm, which was sliced off by the tail rotor of another helicopter a year before his first death.
Yzak turns and stares at the monstrous, immense form of the Decepticon God-Emperor Megatron. He has grown in size and power since he absorbed the Matrix of Conquest. Instead of becoming a pistol, a plane, or a cannon, he now transforms into a super-dreadnought class starship able to destroy countries, but still unable to pierce the Red Sky. His robot form has grown to a height of over a hundred meters tall, making him nearly six times the size of the Dual mobile suit.
Yzak's mind flashes through his life and the deaths of other people. As the interior front of the cockpit turns red hot as the anti-protons tear the matter apart, Yzak has one thought.
His last thought is "They died better than the second bus." The second bus contained a magical moon princess named Chibi-Usa, a mecha-less and spineless pilot named Shinji Ikari, a vain human girl from his world named Flay Allster, an alien (Telaxian) named Neelix, two Pokemon trainers named Max and Ritchie, and an extremely annoying alien named Jar-Jar Binks.
They were all devoured by Barney the Purple Dinosaur. Barney, who was actually a disguised alien warlord named B'Harne, devoured their (limited) brains when Megatron and his Decepticons attacked him, hoping they would provide enough energy to escape. Apparently, B'Harne was playing both sides so he could go back to mind control and sucking brains.
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END of CHAPTER 24- HALLOWEEN WORLD WAR Part 7
- HOSPITAL DAYS - RETURN OF THE DAWN
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NEXT... CHAPTER 25- HALLOWEEN WORLD WAR Part 8
- LA WAR ZONE - GOT TO HAVE FAITH
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Author's Note:
Where did I get the idea for B'Harne?
The Fics by Arsenal the Lone Warrior
Good Anti-Barney Anti-Power Ranger Fanfiction.
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I need Encounter Characters
The people the scoobies and neo-scoobies encounter
Subject Name:
Type: What is he/she/it
Origin: What series
Encounter:
Example:
Subject Name: Mirai Trunks
Type: ½ Saiyan ½ Human
Origin: Dragonball Z
Encounter:
Willow's group finds him fighting Gero's new Dark Council androids. They help him win because the dumbass Dr. Gero didn't make them magic resistant. Kido Kamehameha!
I need Patients
What are your ideas for Xander's patients? OC and Crossovers.
Subject Name
Type: What is he/she/it
Origin: What series
Reason: What's the medical reason?
Example: 1
Subject Name: Motoko Aoyama
Type: Human- Martial Artist
Origin: Ken Akamatsu's Love Hina
Reason: Bitten by Rabid Plot Bunny and had been writing trashy romance tales 24/7. Insomnia and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Example: 2
Subject Name: Aayla Secura
Type: Twi-lek - Jedi
Origin: Star Wars
Reason: Multiple blaster wounds. Comatose. Recommended: Multiple Organ Replacement
NOTE
All Characters may be used If not used for Costumes of their assigned characters. Which ones are selected will determine the story, as the plot is driven by the characters not the other way around.
Halloween World: Twelve Years Later by Weaver
Summary: A lot can happen in twelve years
.org/Story-17407
Halloween World: Emerald Hope's Bulletin Board
Summary: Set in spaceman's "Halloween World" AU.
Tips on surviving Northwest Florida under the Red Sky.
.org/Story-17792
I'm writing my story in Wordpad and I don't and never will have Microsoft Office. There is literally no place for me to buy it. I will never download a word processor, because I have a weak dial up connection. For spelling I use Twisting the Hellmouth and I have nothing for Grammar. I'm not eager to do revisions. For those who complain, I'm doing the best I can.T_T
I NOW HAVE A BETA!
