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Reborn
Naxos and Phantine were walking through the maze of hallways inside of the Ordeals Reactor Facility, as they had learned it was called. Luckily because of the soldier uniforms they had donned they were never once suspected for anything more then what they appeared to be. Occasionaly someone would look at Phantine strangely though, thinking of how odd it was to see a female soldier, but not so odd that they needed to stop whatever it was that they were doing. Phantine looked through the numerous windows in the numerous doors to see what was going on inside of the facility. Unfortunately, though she could never make out anything that they scientists were doing. After about half an hour of wandering the hallways of the facility, they finally found what they were looking for, the elevator to the main basement and reactor facility.
At this point Naxos knew that he could do nothing but hope and pray that Phantine knew what she was doing. He put his back to her to cover her meddling with the controls of the elevator. Many times workers and occasionally scientist walked by. Once one of the researchers approached them and asked. "Is that damned elevator down again?"
Naxos gave him a reluctant nod in return and also a look filled with disgust and confusion as to why the elevator was down again. After a couple of minutes though the doors opened and a Phantine turned around and said. "Tahh dahh." With that they both entered the elevator and began their ride down. After about another minute, the elevator slowed and came to a sudden stop the doors opened and they looked on at the site before them in absolute wonder.
The room they were looking at appeared to be nearly a quater of a mile long, and a couple hundred feet wide, not to mention at least a hundred feet tall. Though the entire center of the room was blocked off by what looked to be a clear glass container. There was a perimeter where only a few scientists and workers did their jobs to make sure that the reactor ran smoothly and safely; all of them looked very board. Inside of the container, about every fifty feet, two large columns sprang up from the ground and stuck through into the ceiling. The columns themselves appeared to be what was drawing, collecting and moving the energy to the upper part of the facility. In the very center of the room though something filled the entire container, it appeared to be a solid block of rock, or metal. However, their were small glass holes inside of the container so that a red glow could be seen from the center. About every three to five seconds a pulse of red energy would flow through the container, just like a wave along a beach. Naxos could tell from his arcane training that the energy being sent out was the pure essence of fire. Though with all of the energy flowing throughout the room it was so quite that anyone could hear a coin hit the floor.
They had both been standing just outside of the elevator for only a few seconds when a guard stepped before them, looked them over and said. "Who are you, what are you doing here."
"Sir, I am corporal Sands and this is corporal Delina, we are here to help in the assistance of the guarding of this part of the reactor facility. Sir!" Naxos shouted out in normal military fashion.
"All right, I didn't hear anything about either of you two, but to be honest; nobody ever tells me anythig, that and I could use a break myself. So here is what's gunna happen, I'm going up there to get a drink and then find out what the hell it is that your doing here; all right."
"Sir, yes sir." Said both Phantine and Naxos in perfect unison. With that the commander moved right in between the two of them as they moved out of the elevator. Just as the doors began to close though Naxos muttered. "Uoorsus, din blanva." and a small bolt of electricity flew from Naxos's halfway-outstreched right arm and hit the commander. The commander collapsed in a heap behind them. Then the doors closed and Naxos could hear the elevator moving up.
Phantine turned around quickly to stared at Naxos and then she said. "You didn't kill him, you know, or did you. Because if you did..."
"Don't worry, he's not dead." Naxos whispered to Phantine. "Although it will look like he suffered some kind of a heart attack or a stroke or something like that, when they find him."
"You don't actually think that they aren't going to suspect anything. Or that he won't wake up to tell them about what happened before..."
"By that time my dear, Dekan will have finished his duty and we will grab the crystal and run. And also look around, if you haven't noticed there are only eight more guards in this entire room and only two elevator entrances. Even if we get found out we should be fine. Don't worry."
"How can I not worry?" She asked Naxos hopelessly.
* * *
Dekan kept walking up and up through the stairway that would eventually take him to the peak of this forsaken mountain. All the while he was thinking and talking to himself. What kept popping up in his head though was thoughts of how he could escape. To be honest he really didn't know. He had seen pictures of the place where he was going though. It looked more like a control center then anything else.
From what he had seen of the room the entire perimeter was lined with computer terminals. The floor itself, for the most part, was open; with the exception of a large room jutting out in the center.
Suddenly two soldiers came running down through the stairs and stopped when they saw him. One of the soldiers looked at him in his ill-fitting uniform and said. "Couldn't find a good tailor so they sent you here huh." The taller one on the right of Dekan said, laughing.
"Something like that. Why they send you two over here, huh." Dekan said trying to create the neutrality of voice he had spoken with when he talked through the microphone about an hour before.
"Well, me and him we did something interesting to the captains quarters, I guess you could say." Said the shorter one on the left. "But I ain't telling you, though you will probably find out by tomorrow, gossip spreads fast in a boring place like this don't it."
"Yepp, I guess it does. Well then I best get going." And with that Dekan began to run up through the stairs. Though he heard a voice behind him say.
"Hehh, don't worry about you walking before, we won't tell anybody. Though what's your name." Dekan pretended that he hadn't heard the last part of that. After about a good three minutes of running, Dekan stopped and began to walk. It felt to him like he was delaying the inevitable.
Suddenly Dekan could see the end of his climb and began to run at the joy that seeing it brought. When he finally reached the door he saw right above it a security camera, one that he himself had looked through already, though he thought that a couple of other security rooms looked through this one as well. Dekan ducked behind the camera and removed a small wire from it effectively blacking out whoever else that was on the other side. With that done, now all he had to do was open the door. He looked at the handle itself, it looked like every other turn nob handle of every other door he had seen in his life. To his surprise when he turned it, the door opened. "If I didn't know any better I'd have said that was too easy." Fortunately though as he stepped through into the control room no bells and whistles began to shout out that he had arrived.
Dekan looked around the room, it was exactly what he had seen before. A few different people here and there, but none of them were terrible busy, or terrible bored. All seemed content, heck there was only eight guards in the entire room. At that point a melody began to pour through his head as he drew his quaterspear form behind his back. The melody was that of a song that Kain had taught him, the dance of the wind, he had called it. With melody calming his mind and quaterspear ready in his hand. He went to work.
Their were two guards about five feet apart each staring at him as he entered the door and both drew their guns as he took out his quaterspear, but that was fruitless effort for them. Like a gust of wind Dekan moved himself and his quaterspear from his hands and brought it down upon the neck of the guard to his right then leaping onto the falling guard and using him nearly as a springboard bolted himself back, through, and unto the second guard who unfortunately received a small slice and stab through his neck. Both were out and down, if they were not dead, then they soon would be.
This obviously drew attention, and within seconds each of the other guards who were spread about in the room drew their weapons and Dekan could feel each individual piece of metal flying throughout the room. Though that didn't stop him from running, leaping, rolling and flying at the next guard who tried to run away but was stabbed through one of his vertebrae. Suddenly there was a great pain in his left arm, but Dekan followed Kain's advice. [Ignore all pain, as soon as you feel the pain you have surrendered to it and that will be your downfall. Just pretend that it is not their as soon as it comes. Don't even look to see what has happened until the battle or the fight is over.]
Dekan could feel the wind around him as he spun through two more guards who had been standing side by side. They collapsed as he then rushed onto two more that now were reloading their rifles. They were unable to finish reloading as a spear point was thrust through ones temple, while another had his forehead bashed in by the opposite side of Dekan's quaterspear. With that Dekan could relax he had silenced all of the guards attacking him, though suddenly with the clanging of an alarm he knew that he could not relax, his eyes drew to another soldier right next to the entrance into the center room. Dekan decided to show the scientists in the room that he could take any of them out just as simply as any soldier by pulling out his own automatic pistol and firing one shot directly at the soldier who had his hand on the button. He fell over and Dekan looked around throughout the room at each scientist, at each worker, and said. "Now that that messy business is over with, could anyone tell me how to open up the fire reaction core facility or whatever the hell that thing down in the basement is called."
* * *
Phantine was frightened as she heard the alarm claxon banging. Suddenly everyone stopped working as a pair of solders went over to a computer terminal. After looking at it one said. "It's up in the command center, nothing we can do about that from here, is there." He said almost laughing. No one else in the gigantic room laughed though. Though that may have been because maybe only half could hear him.
Phantine and Naxos remained by the door though and watched and wondered as to what was going to happen. Suddenly Dekan began to walk towards the pair of soldiers in front of the terminal, and motioned for Phantine to follow. As they began walking towards the two guards at their terminal something began to rumble and the room started to shake. Suddenly a large opening appeared in the metal cube that radiated fire. As it opened the essence flowing from that part of the cube began to shoot out at an alarming rate. Every single scientist and worker in the room began to run for their life towards the two elevator doors at the two ends of the long room. Suddenly Phantine looked over at Dekan as she saw he beginning to mumble his arcane words or whatever they were again. Every time she heard them she nearly cringed in fear after seeing what happened to the three guards on the mountain. This time though instead of a beautiful woman of ice appear, a large demon of hell blinked in, right next to Naxos and spoke in a voice gruff enough for a living slab of rock. "Master I obey your summons, what do you wish of me."
"Kill all in this room besides myself and this girl here. Also open a place through to that giant metal cube over there."
"I understand and obey, master." The demon said silently. Though what happened next was nothing close to silent.
The demon began radiating fire across its body and soon it flew around the perimeter room engulfing every living thing that it passed in an inferno of flame and death. It took the demon maybe fifteen seconds to round the entire perimeter of the room. Then it stopped before Dekan again and said, "Now I will open the way to the crystal of fire for you." Fire began to jute out from the demon's hand. Within seconds the glass like substance melted away and then the demon opened a hole in the glass-like-substance large enough for it to fit through; and that was saying something because the demon itself must have been at least twelve feet tall and four or five feet across. As soon as it entered the inner room though it backed back into the outer perimeter and said. "It is too dangerous in there, even for me. I would suggest Rahum master. Though now my duty is complete." The demon bowed and vanished just as it had appeared.
Before Naxos could begin chanting again though Phantine asked. "What the hell was that?!?!"
"The hell, hmm a good term to use for Ifrit." He said answering her question then he went back to his arcane ramblings again and this time an old man blinked into existence next to both of them.
He looked around at the room then noticing Naxos and said. "Master I obey your summons, what do you wish of me."
"Can you make some kind of electrical field so that you and the two of us here," Naxos said pointing to Phantine. "can enter quickly and remove the crystal of fire form there."
"I can." Was all that the old man said as he entered through the opening in what used to look like a glass-like wall. Suddenly a large field formed around the man almost looking like a blue bubble, then he said. "Are you two coming, or not?" With that Naxos entered into the bubble and Phantine thought to herself, what the hell.
As the three crossed to the center of the room wave after wave hit the blue sphere and almost seemed to reflect off. Usually Phantine was pretty curious about these types of things, but at this point she decided it was better probably not to ask a man that, if Naxos's previous friends were any clue, could wipe away an entire city without breaking a sweat.
When they reached the block in the center Phantine looked inside. What she saw within the cube was a large red crystal the exact same size and shape of all the other crystals she had seen inside of the Tower of Babil. The only difference was that there were about seven wires or cords coming out of the crystal itself. Rahum extended another bubble around the crystal and the bubble around the crystal severed the cords and wires. With the severance the force stopped coming from the crystal and it began to glow more radiantly as Rahum realized the sphere around the three and brought the crystal over to Naxos and realized the crystal's sphere letting it fall into Naxos' waiting arms. Then Rahum looked at Naxos and said. "Now my duty is complete. I must leave you." Though before he blinked out he whispered to Phantine, "I used a static field." and then he was gone.
At that point Naxos looked over at Phantine and said. "I'm sending the single to Dawne now."
Phantine whispered to herself. "Dekan." And then watched as Naxos closed his eyes and send out some kind of telepathic single that would hopefully bring Dawne very soon.
* * *
The thirty soldiers had now forced Dekan into the room in the center of the command center. He looked around at its beauty, it was a hall of mirrors. Everywhere, he could see himself, on the floor on the walls, and even to the top of the ceiling, although at the top there were no mirrors, only glass. Dekan looked at all of the reflections of himself and then he felt himself let go. Now he could feel each of the three bullet wounds in him one on his leg, one on his arm, and one through his gut. Pain racked his body.
Suddenly two soldiers entered into the room and noticed Dekan, who had just collapsed onto the floor. "I'm going to enjoy kicking your bucket, boy." One said.
At that moment Dekan lost all hope, he lost all feeling, and all connection to the real world. He could no longer even see the world. All that he could see was his life ending before his eyes. Everything exited Dekan, he was gone. He was now left to the four winds to scatter about. He was no more. He was no one. Suddenly, the light of day shown down through the window at the top of the room. Dekan thought without thought. "Dien ty uinz, Dien hbain, Dien Yallgr, Task bva omnia mori temble do ya vall ya ua Medus." But now he did not hear the ruin words, now he heard "I am dead, I am reborn, I am always, and as I have lost life I shall protect the life that I can on this world."
Dekan stood up and looked at one of the soldiers who still pointed his rifle at Dekan and said. "You cannot kill me, for I am already dead. And now the four winds shall scatter me across the world." With that, the glass above Dekan's head shattered and fell upon all within the room. The soldiers flinched at the pain the shards brought, while not a one touched Dekan. Suddenly an icy wind could be heard above the room, and then the wind came down into the room, in a torrent and swept away all of the soldiers. And then it lifted Dekan up and then Dekan said to himself. "I am Dragoon."
"Those who send reviews shall be karmicly
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-Kain DeLuman