Kentur didn't believe the Lotus, not this mission, she was convinced, SO convinced that what Rell was facing was some delusion, a illness from being exposure to the Void for far too long, but he didn't...
He breathed as the first thing that the Lotus said was that Palladino would be able to give peace to Rell and so this such thing would never happen again. The coordinates given of where to go was deep in the Void as he breathed, rubbing his temples in exhaust before he transferred back to his Warframe and straighten up as Nor had the Warframe sit prior to trans back to hear what the Lotus had to say. "I need... to head into the Void."
"The Void...? Among the Towers, you mean?" The Volt's head nodded as Nor hummed before he continued. "Then I can do very little, it seems, my forces can resist the power of a Orokin Tower, but I dare not know what the Red Veil had chosen to be the resting place of this shadowed figure." He leaned forward and spoke again. "I apologize on the behalf of the Felguard, but we can not aid in this fight now, it is both not our right nor our fight to interfere with."
"I know..." The Volt answered, still didn't know how it worked as he continued. "I'll contact after this is done." With that, the Warframe headed out and took his Orbiter away to enter the Void, the site not like the golden halls, but rather the diseased-laden halls of the Derelicts if any detail of the location was to be expected. While focusing on Rell was the main concern for him, he also reflected on the matter around him, the Grineer themselves.
While they have been hostile and spiteful, clones grown and trained to resist the forces that didn't join them and were nothing like them, Both Steel Meridian and the Felguard have been nothing short of honest with him and they have been devoted to your own causes. The reason why he was thinking of it as he soared was because they had become the friends that he needed in the end, the pillar that he could stabilize himself on. He peered forward as the time of such thoughts would be in the future, now was the time to put a halt on the hatred and spite that filled Rell now...
He dropped into the derelict space, no feedback of Infested nearby as Palladino spoke as he took to walked through the halls and corridors. "Our temple. Our home. His tomb. Come. Meet our guiding light." Indeed, Rell had become the reason the Veil existed, he was the reason why they devoted themselves to such a zealot nature as she continued. "This is why you're here, Tenno. It is time for holy Rell to rest. But I cannot bring myself to do it... to let him go. He's kept us, all of us, safe for so long and it's time for you to carry on. Release him, Tenno. Destroy the chains that bind the Harrowing vessel. He's earned his rest." He continued on through the empty paths before he came to a halt before a burning tree.
"The sign of the Red Veil." Kentur peered down and dropped into the hole before him as he walked across the charred bark and blazing braziers before he came to a closed path as Palladino spoke once more.
"You may enter here, but only as your true, sacred form." He transferred out and the door open, he dropping down with ease as he continued on and found the resting place of his friend, the one bound to the undying vessel, his eyes taking in the dark feel of it, the feeling of a holy man who praised a darker force, the name slipping his mouth as he whispered with walking toward the bound figure in chains.
"...Harrow..." The path closed off as Palladino spoke.
"Holy Rell. You have sacrificed enough. Pass on your burden and rest. Tenno. Destroy the chains... only your sacred power will damage them." Without a thought, he focused his power and blasted a beam at the first of the chains, it shattering like the chain it was meant to be, but suddenly a shift in the air filled him and he near-exclaimed, but found his voice... lost as Palladino tried, having felt the same energy shift. "Tenno- something's wrong. That's not Rell, that's-" Anymore was lost as the channel closed and Kentur gripped his head as the voice echoed, a voice that hadn't haunted him since the freedom from the Queens.
"Let's have a little quiet. It's my turn to ask the questions." What was bound in the frame now was not Rell anymore, but the man in the wall as Kentur faced the vision and was... embarrassed over a animal biting him or rather Rell as the voice continued, not referring to itself, but as Rell, a mockery of his former friend. "I won't let you take me... from me."
"What have you done to Rell!?" Rell shifted out in the red-eyed shadow and barraged Kentur as he got some distance, only to have the Red Veil Zealots somehow arrive and start pursuit on him, their minds taken by the demon as he blasted them and avoided the bursts of Transference energy hurled at him as Palladino exclaimed, the connection free for the moment. "Tenno! You need to save him from this... Destroy the chains-"
"Acknowledged..." He focused on the chains, but only got through two before he was forced into another card scene... he was proud, why was he proud of kids laughing at him and his mother exclaiming that he was right there? He told himself that these were Rell's, not his as he broke through to the being commenting.
"Rap. Tap. Tap. You'll let me in, little piggy."
"I will not..." Kentur was threw right back into the fray as more Red Veil attacked with the Being's continuous barrage before clearing the Veil out and striking the chains again, making it six before he faced another scene through his mind... Fear gripped him as Rell's mother wasn't... doing too good, like something had changed and she warned him to stay with the other kids, that was indeed fear that coursed through him as he made it through as the Being spoke.
"But the in-kids don't care about the invisible outs. If you were alone in that drift... you'd a friend... even like me."
"That doesn't excuse your wanton malice!" Kentur shouted as he blasted through more of them, they giving him some trouble, but they were nothing as the chains were exposed once mroe and he blasted to pieces, a ringing silence echoing as the frame dissolved to dust before it could hit the ground as Palladino praised.
"By sacred shadow and righteous blood - Blessed Rell! Your aged Vessel is dust and your chains are broken. Be free!" Appearing on the altar, Rell stood as a ghastly blue as he hummed before asking.
"But the man in the wall. Who will...?" Fear laced his tone, but Kentur answered.
"We will, Rell, all of us." He looked to the spirit as he continued. "We own you much and I want to make amends to you, my friend." Rell hummed again as he spoke.
"Yea. I feel..." One final scene as Kentur felt the echo of Rell's mother fill the chamber as he replied once more. "This one, Momma. I feel... tired."
"Good, Rell! You're learning! Well? Why don't you have a little rest then?"
"Okay... Okay, Momma." With that, he vanished and Kentur lingered before he breathed it in and out.
He was gone... gone for good, making him one less friend as he headed back to his Orbiter and a moment of peace from the terror and horror that filled his lungs...
He returned to the ship and a message from Palladino thanked him for saving them and they would repay it through sheltering the outcasts, train them for the system. Indeed, he was grateful, but he was at a loss, what now could he do...?
"Hey kiddo." He sprung up to see... him, but not him, sitting on the market console as he stood ready to the being's growing smirk. "The last time we talked, you dumped a nice source of power down the mountain." Kentur transferred out of his Volt and glared at the Being.
"I am not your puppet and I will not let you have your way."
"Much how your former friend TRIED to ensure that I would never terrify the wailing children of their mewing false Mother?"
"Rell kept you at bay and now, I take up that burden." The Being just laughed, laughed like it was not a threat, but a belief.
"Burden? Oh no, you seem to forget... I am not the creature who coveted blood, I am not the vessel that calls mad, I am not the one bound to a idol to prevent safety... I am a voice among the Stars, I am a power that courses through young veins, I am a man beyond just the wall and fills the air itself." The Being just smiled as he tapped his jaw to Kentur's guard. "Rap. Tap. Tap. You are 'burdened' by my mere presence for you see... no one else has experienced my insight, whether tasting the blood of Orokin or swelling with their own strength. You can call me many things, but I am something much more than what you believe, what technology will never fathom, and I am a seer of many things, both in your system and beyond. Remember that..." He chuckled as he faded away, Kentur easing up as he had a single thought.
'Great... I have a para-dimensional stalker now, as if the one with the blade wasn't bad enough...'
