Later that same night, outside the Grimmbusters firehouse, Nora stepped out as a massive Atlas military airship lowered and a soldier got out.
"Are you dropping off or picking up?" Nora asks
"Dropping off." The soldier responds
"Just a moment." Nora stated
She went inside and eventually came back with Ren.
"Are you a Grimmbuster?" The soldier asked
"yes." Ren responds. "May I help you?"
"We picked up this guy and don't know what to do with him. We're too afraid to put him in the lockup and we know you guys are into this weird kind of stuff so we figured we'd check with you." The soldier comments
Two other soldiers walked over with a restrained Oscar Pine.
"Are you the gatekeeper?" Oscar asked, his hair scuffed a little
Ren pulled out a PKE meter and it spiked up instantly. Something was not quite right with Oscar.
"You better bring him inside." Ren said to the soldiers, who all nodded
As they headed back in, Nora looked at Ren.
"You are so kind to take care of that man." Nora states. "You know, you are a real humanitarian."
"I don't think he's human." Ren responds as the soldiers brought the possessed Oscar in
When getting Oscar upstairs, as the Atlas soldiers left, Ren hooked Oscar up to a machine and on a screen, it showed a dog-like creature showing he was in fact possessed/
"What did you say your name was?" Ren asks
"Vinz Clortho, Keymaster of Salem." Vinz responds, still in Oscar's voice
Nora looke dat a note the soldiers left.
"Well, according to this, his name's Oscar Pine." Nora stated. "he lives on Central Park West."
Ren looked over the note before setting it down and sitting in front of Vinz.
"Vinz, before you said you you were waiting for a sign." Ren says, getting a nod from Vinz. "What sign are you waiting for exactly?"
"Salem the Traveler." Vinz responds. "he will come in one of the pre-chosen forms. During the rectification of the Vuldronaii, the Traveler as large and moving Torb!"
Ren and Nora glanced at each other before Ren looked back at Vinz.
"Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the Meketrex supplicants, they chose a new form for him." Vinz said. "That of a giant sloar! Many Shubs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of a sloar that day, I can tell you."
"Ren?" Nora says
"Excuse me for a minute." Ren says to Vinz as he got up and walked over to Nora
"There's something very strange about that man." Nora said to Ren in a whisper. "Listen, i'm usually very psychic, and I have a terrible feeling that something awful's gonna happen to you...i'm afraid you're gonna die..."
Ren gently hugged Nora, patting her back.
A phone began ringing and Vinz's head stuck up.
"I'll get it." Ren says as he walked over and answered the phone by the couch. "Hello?"
"Hey, Ren, it's Jaune. I have some news from the world of Salem." Jaune stated
"What is it, Jaune?" Ren asks
"I'm here with Pyrrha Nikos." Jaune responded. "It seems the Sals has been putting some moves on my would-be gorlfriend."
"How is she?" Ren asks
"I think we can get her a guest shot on Wild Kingdom. I just whacked her up with enough cc's of Thorazine to knock her out but not put her health in danger." Jaune explained. "She's gonna take a little nap now, but she says that she's the gatekeeper. Does that make any sense to you?"
"Some." Ren responds. "I just met the keymaster, he's here with me now."
"Oh wonderful." Jaune comments. "We have got to get these two together."
After some silence, Ren says, "I think that would be extraordinarily dangerous."
"Okay, then hold onto the keymaster and i'll be there as soon as I can. Okay?" Jaune says
"Okay." Ren responded as bhoth him and Jaune hung up on their respective ends and Ren looked at Nora. "We need to find Neptune. I need him here immediately."
Meanwhile, Neptune and Flynt were on their way back from a job, Neptune smoking a cigarette while looking over some blueprints.
"Hey, Neptune, do you believe in the god of light and god of darkness?" Flynt asks
"Never met them." Neptune responds, still looking at the blueprints
"Well, I do." Flynt comments, being the one driving. "And I love the God of Light's style, ya know?"
Neptune kept looking at the blueprints of the apartment building Pyrrha was living in.
"This roof cap is made of a magnesium tungsten alloy." Neptune comments
"What are you so involved with, there?" Flynt asks as Neptune tossed his dead cigarette out the window and grabbed the can of beer he had nearby
"These are the blueprints for the structural ironwork in Pyrrha Nikos's apartment building, and they're very VERY strange." Neptune stated
After some silence, Flynt sighed.
"Neptune, do you remember something in the Bible about the last days, when the dead would rise from the grave?" Flynt asks
After taking another sip of his beer, Neptune says, "I remember Revelations 6:12."
Flynt rose a curious eyebrow.
"'And I looked as he opened the sixth seal. And behold, there was a great earthquake'." Neptune recited. "'And the sun became as black as sackcloth and the moon reformed and was as red as blood'."
"'And the seas boiled and the skies fell'." Flynt adds
"Judgment day." The two both comments
Neptune set his can of beer in the Ecto-1's cup holder.
"Every ancient religion has it's own myth about the end of the world." Neptune stated
"Myth?" Flynt scoffed. "Neptune, has it ever possibly occurred to you that maybe the reason we've been so busy with ghosts and Geists lately is because the dead HAVE been rising from the grave?"
After some silence, Neptune realized Flynt might have had a point and asks, "how about a little music?"
Flynt nodded, taking another puff from his cigarette.
