C26: Isaac's nuts, Garet's dead, Morca's evil, Ivan's, alive, somehow, but where the hell is Mia? I froze her in chapter 4, why have I left her in no where land since chapter 6?

Chapter 11: resurrection

"Ivan! Come on! I haven't failed at revival yet!" Ivan blearily forced his eyes open, groaning in pain. Was that real or just a dream? He thought to himself, and then got about taking in his surroundings.

Rhy, the leader of the Tolbi army was standing over him, looked perpetually worried as hell. Instantly questions revolved around Ivan's brain. Where was he? How did he survive? Why was he wherever he was, how come Rhy was reviving him, how could Rhy revive him if he wasn't an adept?

"How are you feeling?" Rhy asked him.

"Like a pile of mutilated shit, was there any doubt to that?" Ivan was confused and when confused he was in a bad mood.

"What the hell happened?" Ivan then asked. Rhy gave him a grim stare and waited in silence before replying.

"It's been fifteen years since Sol lighthouse was lit" he said dryly.

"What?" Ivan was surprised there, but Rhy did seem a lot older than before, his hair was long and scraggly, he hadn't shaved for weeks and his armour was in a twisted mess with various slices. Still, how could Ivan have passed out for fifteen years?

Rhy then passed him a mirror, Ivan almost fainted at the sight of himself. His hair had completely fallen out, but the skin on his head was barely left, in traces of flesh around his skull, his eyes and nose were still in one piece, and his ears were still attached by flesh, but apart from that, with the bits of flesh here and there, he looked like a corpse. He quickly removed his tunic and checked his chest, his chest had been stitched together with bits of remaining flesh, but it was tightly done, his stab wound from Isaac was gone, but apart from that, his chest seemed intact, but it was a pale white, as though Ivan was dead. Putting his tunic back on, he stared up at Rhy, who was looking glum.

"I stitched you back together as well as I could, my level of healing can't meld skin together"

"You're an adept aren't you?"

"state the obvious, Venus, that's how I revived you" Rhy replied "I had to strip the remaining flesh from your feet, hands and head, I could only find one kidney so you'll have to do without" ignoring the fact that he'd been stitched together, Ivan went on by asking "How..." but Rhy answered what he Ivan was going to say with "I overheard Isaac describing how he killed you, one stab, then tore your body to pieces, the finally chucked you off the lighthouse" at this Ivan stared around and spotted the lighthouse behind him.

"Thanks" he said "But how come you're a Venus adept, you weren't when we last saw you?" Rhy laughed a short harsh laugh.

"When Weyard was replaced, everyone was given powers of an adept, the only element restricted was Mars for some reason" Ivan knew why, and told him.

"Morca is a Mars adept, she doesn't like the opposition"

"Oh"

Rhy and Ivan continued talking on their way to Rhy's base at Saturn tower along with a few more adepts. It was small but they were trying to resurrect a frozen mercury adept from a block of ice where she was still holding out after fifteen years.

Ivan bet he knew who it was…

C26: Those who don't like explanatory chapters, tough noogies!