Authors forward: as promised both betrayer and border are posted together, though border shall likely not update nearly as fast.

Now I just want to make this clear right now, betrayer was stated to be similar to emissary, but it is similar in only the aspect of Louise committing suicide. All alterations I had made in emissary to characters, canon plotlines, character backgrounds, and the world do NOT cross over to this story. Also I know full well that Louise's parents are not assholes, but in this they will be portrayed as such. Now I hope you all enjoy the first chapter of betrayer of the void!

Louise woke up to find herself face down on the cold dirt, her body bruised but unbroken. Only after she had jumped from her window did she realize that a second story window's height would not have been enough to kill her. But it still hurt like heck.

She pulled herself up to get a grasp of her surroundings, and quickly found she was not where she expected herself to be.

The ground beneath her was a dark brown and had no grass or plant of any kind and everywhere she looked the land looked the same, bleak, barren and lifeless. The sky looked as dead as the land, with bleak grey clouds swirling above her. She had never heard of such an environment before, where exactly was she?

Her senses were suddenly grabbed by a loud series of noises she did not recognize. She slid over to a large nearby rock and found herself on the edge of a tall cliff. She also found where the odd noises where coming. Down below her, at the bottom of the near perfectly vertical cliff face were two large groups of people who appeared to be fighting each other. One side wore deep green and yellow armor, the likes of which she had never seen. They seemed to be fighting alongside monstrously large yellow objects that seemed to be made of metal, and unleashed deafening howls that caused the opposing group to explode. That group wore armor that was deep black with red trim and looked equally odd. They seemed to be fighting alongside similarly strange metal objects that also unleashes howls of explosions, though they were smaller and sleeker in both size and shape.

She continued to watch the two groups kill each other and quickly came to realize that the weapons the people were using seemed like overly large flintlocks that fired faster than she could fathom. Just who were these people? And what where they fighting about?

As she thought this she saw a third group of strange creatures join the fray. Following large silver clouds, almost a dozen large purple creatures trudged into the fray, propelled by their three large spiked legs. The creatures had three large tendrils atop them that let loose beams of glowing energy that burned through anything they touched. As soon as this third group joined the fray, the battle turned into a slaughter.

"Carbon based organic, you do not belong of this world. How are you here and for what purpose?"

Louise tensed up as she heard the strange high pitched but low toned screeching voice all around her, like in the back of her mind. She swallowed as she slowly turned around, and almost had a heart attack as she saw what stood before her. Standing as tall as her father was a creator colored the same as the ones below the cliff. It stood atop four thin legs and had a large almost blob like body with a glowing eye in the lower center of its body. Its skin seemed to change color and texture slightly as it stood before her, and it had two odd shaped spikes coming out of the back section of its body. The sight of it cuased her to fall backwards in panic.

" I er, organ? Um I don't, but where? What?"

The creature's body bobbed as if sighing to itself.

"You need not worry for your life organic. I speak to you for reasons beyond destruction. Please calm yourself that you may answer this one's question intelligently."

Louise took many deep breaths and finally stilled her panicking heart. "Um, sorry. What are you? And what did you mean by Cobra based organic?"

"I said carbon based organic, not Cobra. This one is Saw'veleesh, Prodigy of Traveler-59's thirteenth foreman. May I ask your designation, creature?"

Louise shook her head. She was surprised at the creatures eloquent and calm speech, it made her feel safer, despite its nonhuman appearance. "M- My name is Louise de la Vallière, third child of the Vallière family of Tristania. Um-"

"A good designation, though to this one it is meaningless, likely the same for you as well. May I request why you are here on a world not your own?"

"I, well, I kind of jumped out of a window, and the next thing I knew I was here." Louise admitted with embarrassment over her lack of understanding of her own situation.

"I see. Information obtained coincides with small scale vibration scan data in the area, I was sent to investigate. Coincidence is unlikely. Allow me a moment." Saw'veleesh said as he turned around and looked away from Louise.

Louise looked on as the two spikes coming off the creatures back began to glow a vibrant blue. Despite the creature's monstrous appearance, it seemed to be highly intelligent and respectful of her, despite her reactions to it. It made her feel kind of guilty about it.

Saw'veleesh turned around and walked over to the edge of the cliff, as if looking down at the battle below. "Do you see them down there? The organics native to this world."

Louise came over and looked down the cliff with a nod.

"The organics of this world are needlessly violent, destroying their own world long before their planet was designated to receive Ichor. All species are violent to an extent, but their split of ideals and beliefs would, and will, destroy them in time. Despite this they frantically fight, believing that each is in the right. I assume you have seen similar things in your own world?"

Louise nodded. "Yeah, a war between two neighbouring countries ended only a few years ago, and fights between houses are normal. Why?"

"Our lord requests to speak to you personally on matters relating to your species. Will you accompany this one to speak to the Overlord?"

Louise was greatly surprised at this turn of events. "Your leader wants to speak to me?"

"Yes. He requests to speak to you personally, which requires your presence. Would you allow this one to bring you to meet our lord?"

"Um, where is he then?"

"The overlord resides at the Ichor hub, it is not on this world and will require us to travel there. Your safety is guaranteed under all situation and circumstance."

Louise looked at the creature for many seconds before deciding. "Alright, it wouldn't be right to refuse a king's summons I guess."

"I thank you for your assistance this matter, Organic Lu'eez."

Louise grimaced at the mispronunciation of her name. "Um, it's Louise, actually."

Saw'veleesh stood there before bobbing slightly. "I see, forgive this one. Stay still a moment."

"Wh-" Louise was interrupted by a small flash all around her. When she opened her eyes she was standing a strange purple surface, purple globs of light bobbing and dancing all around illuminating their surroundings. Surrounding her at a great distance were what looked to be three object that spiraled up and connected directly above her. As she looked around another small flash happened and the creature Saw'veleesh appeared before her. "What just happened?"

"I blinked us to the nearest threshold that we may go to meet the lord."

"Blinked? And what's a threshold?"

"Be still!" Saw'veleesh suddenly said as the bobbing balls of purple light began surrounding them and spinning quickly.

"What? Why?"

"Threshold is not complete, and as such the transportation will not work if either of us move, be still while the transport is done."

Obeying, Louise stayed perfectly still as the globes of light began circling them rapidly, creating a ring of light that had no breaks in it. The ring began enlarging and then, as Louise could no longer see past it, lit up like a ball of fire blinding her completely.

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Louise opened her eyes to find herself in a circular room made entirely of a strange purple element. Whatever it was made of it had small pulses of energy running across it in pattern, and the more she looked around the more confused she became, where was she?

"We have arrived."

Louise turned to see the creature Saw'veleesh standing beside her. When did he get there? Louis watched as it walked over to a section of wall and tapped it with its foot. The wall opened up revealing a large balcony.

"The Overlord will be here in a few moments. Would you care for a look of our world?"

Louise answered by walking onto the balcony, and was shocked by the scene before her. Everywhere she looked great silver and purple buildings and spires could be seen, and vibrant green crystal grew all around, on the ground and on the buildings. The sky was deep black and thousands of stars and constellations she did not recognize could be seen and on every horizon she looked there were massive triple legged spires in the distance. "Amazing, where are we?"

"We are at the home of all of our kind, where our leaders give out orders. Welcome to the Ichor hub!"

"Ichor hub? What are all those towers in the distance, they look huge!"

"Those are Thresholds, like the one we blinked under and used to arrive here."

"Arrive. Then we're on another world?"

"In a sense, yes. The overlord will arrive to speak to you momentarily, please wait here." Saw'veleesh said as he walked off and then disappeared in a flash of light.

Louise turned back to the balcony and looked out. Below her she could barely make out the ground and the horizon seemed so much farther away. She was on a different world. She knew it had been discussed by some nobles before, the idea of different worlds, but the large majority of peoples of Halkeginia just dismissed it at heresy, as did the church. She had now been to two separate and different worlds in less than a day, and no one would believe her. Not that she cared at this point, after all she had only a few hours before attempted to commit suicide. Everyone around her had made her life a miserable one, laughing at her inadequacy or berating her for it. Only her sister, Cattleya, ever spoke nicely to her, and those times were few and far between due to her sister's weak body and sickness.

Louise sighed and turned around, leaning her body against the balcony's thick railing. She had never even heard of a world like this, and she had never even seen a creature like Saw'veleesh before. Just what did their leader look like?

As if answering her question a glowing object appeared in the center of the room, quickly forming a strange shape she would only be able to describe as a brain with tendrils coming off of its bottom. Louise stepped into the room and stood before the odd glowing see-through shape. Only when she heard the door to the balcony close did the brain glow even brighter, and pulsed as a voice was heard all around her.

"Greetings, carbon organic of sectors 21's third planet. I am pleased that you decided to join me in this meeting of minds." The voice said in a low deep tone.

Louise looked at the glowing brain with an obviously stunned look on her face. " You're the leader that wished to speak to me?"

"Correct. I am Lord of the Scrin, the Overlord. May I ask what you are called?"

"My name is Louise de la Vallière, third child of the Vallière family of Tristania." Louise replied, as she attempted to hold up an at least semi noble tone of speech. "May I ask why you requested to speak to me?"

"Indeed. However, I would like to know how you came to be on the third planet of the Sol system in Sector 13 first."

Louise looked to her side as if avoiding the Overlords non-existent gaze. "I jumped out of the window of my home in a weak attempt to kill myself. There was a flash and then I found myself there."

"Excellent! My suspicions about your people and you prove to be true. May I ask why you attempted to end your already short organic lifespan?"

". . . . . . I suppose it was that I didn't fit in. No matter how hard I tried I could not do any kind of magic, despite my family being a high ranked family known for our strong magic. With the mockery I received from my classmates and the berating I received from my family and teachers, it just became too much to take."

"Did you not think your family would miss your presence?" The overlord asked with a hint of sadness in his voice.

"They don't care about me; they only care about keeping the family name in good standing!" Louise yelled as a small tear slid down her cheek.

The overlord was quite for many seconds before again speaking. "I highly doubt that the one that bore you would hold no feelings for you. If it would turn out to indeed be true however you have my . . . . sympathy. Especially since it would not bode well for your species continued existence."

Louise wiped her eyes and looked up. "What do you mean our existence?"

"It has been decided that within the next cycle your planet is to be seeded."

"What does that mean?"

"The planet you just came from had been seeded almost six demacycles ago. Within that time, its inhabitants fell to infighting as well as the Ichors influence. It is expected their species will be extinct within a cycle. They likely realize this, but continue to fight amongst themselves regardless."

". . . So their planet was . . . seeded, by this ichor stuff and it's going to kill them all and you know this?"

"Yes."

"Why! Why would you destroy an entire species?"

"To continue on ourselves."

"What?"

"We, the Scrin cannot live without ichor, it is our blood and are body, our metal and our weapon. We seed far off planets, letting the ichor grow and consume the planet, and then we harvest the ichor, and terraform the planet to allow our people to continue to prosper. Sometimes we find a species that has become one with the ichor, similar to ourselves, and they are welcomed into our society with open arms."

"But you're killing species!"

"If we do not do this, we ourselves would die. Would you ask me to willingly destroy our own species!" the Overlord roared causing the entire building to shake. "Many species join us and we welcome them. The other we leave to decide what they will do. We only kill when necessary, which sadly happens often as organic being cannot help but succumb to violence, even a little!"

"I -, your telling me you're going to do the same to my planet?"

"Yes, it is to be seeded within the next cycle. However…"

Louise's attention perked up. "However, what?"

"The reason why I asked you here is to speak of the future of your planet. When ichor is seeded to a planet and left to its own, the effects are always different and impossible to guess. But if they were overseen then the negative effects would be mitigated and pushed out, and the positive ones brought out."

"What does that have to do with-."

"In our species, there is a hierarchy among our force that harvest and conquer. Foremen simply harvest and finish off resistance while supervisors watch over them and engage in direct extermination. However, there is more than just one group of our people. We have a few different sects that have varying specializations. The lords of these sects are often originally from another species, and often take their own home planet as a base of operation so they may watch over their people who have embraced the Ichors gifts."

"But that doesn't-"

"I have been watching your species with great interest and I believe your own species could be assimilated into the Scrin with little difficulty if they were watched over."

Louise's mouth hung open as the realization of hat the overlord was saying sunk in. "You want me...to-?

"Yes. I give you three choices. You may join us and attempt to become a Sectlord. If you did, you would gain immeasurable power and would be in command of your planet's fate. The second option is you refuse and I return you to your world with the knowledge I have given you."

"And the third?"

"I return you to your world after altering your memory, erasing all trace of our conversations. Everything will seem to you just a bad nightmare."

Louise held her hand to her chin as she thought to herself. "So I can either return with no memory, and go back to my life of despair. Return with this knowledge and be branded insane. Or I can join you and attempt to become some kind of general and gain control over my entire planet and its people?"

"Yes, you could save who you wish to, kill those you wish to. And choose if you're species or any others on your planet, are worthy to join us."

" . . . . Why my species? Why me?"

"The species of your planet have the strange but useful capability of controlling particle matter in the air and the environment around you, allowing the control of base elements."

"Our magic!"

"So that's what you call it? Odd. Yes. Controlling the elements is normal for almost every sentient species on your planet, but a few of you are different. A few rare ones on your world can control atomic and even subatomic particle matter, allowing creation of portals, enhanced speed and even small scale particle collapses, resulting in localized explosions.

Louise gasped in realization. "Void magic! I- I use void magic!"

"Indeed. The choices I present to you remain the same. Forget. Return. Or join. If you join us you could save those you care about immediately as well I will add."

"The only one I care about is my sister, she's the only one that ever cared for me!" Louise said causing new fresh tears to flow out of her eyes.

"Do you wish to have some time to decide or-"

"No, no I've decided. If I return with no knowledge, nothing changes. If I return and tell anyone I have void magic, I'll never be believed and nothing will change, or I'll end up being used as a tool. I hate everyone but my sister, but that doesn't mean I would want those I don't know to die, and If I can save my sister I will. I'll join you, and I'll choose how my planet is changed."

"Very well then. We shall see if you are capable of becoming a Sectlord. If you fail however, the outcome will not change. Are you prepared for that?"

"Yes, I just won't fail!"

"Very well, I suggest you prepare yourself, this often stings." the overlord said as a glowing ball of light appeared in front of him and shot toward Louise, striking her chest and going into her body, knocking her out instantly. "Welcome to the Scrin, potential Sect Lord Lu'eez."