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Sorry everyone for the super long wait, but I had like this serious writer's block! This chapter alone ranks about 10 pages, so I hope that kinda makes up for it… I hope it also makes up for the fact that I'm going offline this Wednesday, the 30th November. And I might be offline for at least a month, so, don't expect any chapter updates soon!

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Chapter 7

© by raVen

Editor: Kenjaje

The Grand Council Woman walked into her quarters and then to the centre of her room, where she paused for a moment. She was taking drastic steps now. Steps that would change many things. There was a knock on the door, and Vangelis turned around.

"Enter."

The door slid open to reveal a small, green experiment. She was approximately the size of Stitch, with long, floppy, rabbit-like ears, and long, rabbit-like feet. She was slightly taller, but much skinnier than Stitch. Green in color, with a light green/yellow underbelly and around the eyes, a purple crescent on her forehead, and three purple rhombuses on the outside of each arm, and one on each knee.

"You… wished to see me, your Excellency?"

Vangelis made a 'tsk' noise and lowered her head, still looking at the experiment.

"No need for formalities, Phaze. Do come in, lest you be seen and I end up having to epxplain how you... 'broke in' and 'attempted to assault me'." She was Phaze. Experiment 600 - Primary function: Teleportation. She looked uncomfortable as she walked in, rubbing her arm, and looking down.

"What's the matter?" Vangelis asked, looking her way with a frown.

"I'm honored… I've never been in your personal quarters before."

"Oh, stop being ridiculous. Come in…" Phaze walked a little closer to the centre of the room and looked around. She was expecting a palatial estate room of some sorts… not the small, compact condo-flat she was standing in now. Sure, most of the stuff there was the most expensive and most lavish, but it just seemed so small.

"I don't spend a lot of my time here, if that's what you are thinking…" Vangelis answered her confused gaping.

"Do you know of the Eldar's Enclave?" Phaze tilted her head, and shook 'no' after a few seconds.

"It has been hidden for centuries. Right here, on Turo. Do you know what race I am, Phaze?"

"I believe so… uhm, dweanor, correct?"

"Ah. You read the archives, then?"

"I was curious… forgive my-"

"Nonsense… you had every right. But no, Phaze. I am not dweanor. I am Eldar. A race long forgotten. Come here." She motioned with her hand, and reached out, as Phaze moved closer, confused.

"Close your eyes." Phaze stopped as Vangelis placed her hand on her head. She was confused, but asked no questions. She did as she was told. Vangelis also closed her eyes and focused. Phaze gasped… hundreds of images and vision flashed through her mind, and her eyes darted around; similar to REM during sleep. Vangelis lifted her hand from Phaze's head, and smiled as she stared up at her with shock. Vangelis turned around and walked to her bedside, where she opened the drawer and took out a small metallic symbol of sorts… like a letter of some strange language. She walked back to Phaze.

"Those images- how'd you do that? What are those-" But the Grand Council Woman interrupted her and placed a hand on her short sholder, bending over a bit.

"Take me there," she said with determination, holding the rune tightly.

"But I… wait… I do know where it is…" she said, incredibly amazed.

"All right… We will be there-," the room blurred, and vision faded. Vangelis felt her body become rigid, strained, as if every muscle in her body was clenched; yet she couldn't move, as if she had become very heavy. She felt a pulling sensation in her stomach, and the odd sensation of spinning through water. They suddenly 'hit' the ground, and Vangelis had to hold onto Phaze for a moment or she would've fallen over.

"-soon…" Phaze finished her sentence. They were in what seemed to be the inside of an Egyptian pyramid… The walls were made of large bricks, but white, with green and red runes all over. The Grand Council Woman's mouth hung open as she stared straight ahead. Phaze's attention was more on a large red ruby poking out of the wall nearby.

"This is it… Thank you for bringing me here…" Vangelis said. They were standing in a corridor leading to a large hall with, what seemed to be an altar. The light was emanating from white hemispherical shapes in the roof, about seven meters above their heads. The corridor behind them had been caved-in. Phaze tore her gaze from the ruby and followed Vangelis into the main chamber.

"It's been centuries since I was here…" she said once more.

"Tell me, Phaze… does the actions of this 4-2-6 surprise you?"

"Yes! He wasn't like this in the lab-,"

"You see, Phaze. The twisted hand of fate has brought you to me… I believe so that you may bring me here… There is something important, something dire that is about to happen here. Yes… a critical moment approaches." She turned away from Phaze and hurried across the room towards the altar. She dropped the glyph in her hand, but instead of it falling to the floor, it started gently pulsating in a white color, and was now following her in an erratic orbit. She paid this no heed, and focused on the white stone altar. As she walked, another glyph tore itself from the wall nearby and followed her as well. This kept on happening till she was at the end of the walkway, in front of the altar. Several runes were floating around her. Vangelis had a very stern look on her face as she stared at it… Phaze did not dare to speak. The hundreds of runes orbiting Vangelis then became still, and floated to right above the altar, where they formed into letters and words that only the Eldar understood. She frowned and stared at the glyphs.

"Twisting their coiling tongues,

Anger fills their rabid lungs,

The young ones rise to claim the throne,

The wise ones watch, their skills to hone," Phaze frowned as she heard this.

"The runes have not changed… in over three-thousand years… but that is impossible."

"What does that mean?" Phaze asked. Vangelis pondered if she could speak about such a sensitive subject… it would mean heresy within the Council if such a thing was done… but the Seer Council was long dead. Its proud representatives now but a thought of the past.

"The first line represents the vile Akani. The second line represents the veracious and battle-hungry Dumar. The third line represents the humans and the last line, the favored children of Fate… the Eldar…" As she said this, the runes changed, and she stared at them, shocked. She quickly read them.

"Enemies all will fall,

Darkness will claim all,

The seers watch with minds all-seeing,

The arrogant harbor fools, minds-fleeting,

They run to war to war to war,

Power from this place will end,

Sharp teeth come to rend." She frowned. "Wait… I've heard this before. There should be a third part…" And once more, the glyphs changed, and rearranged themselves. Vangelis read.

"Wheel of Fate turns no more,

The circle broken,

Agent beast comes forth, the core,

All life a token." She nodded solemnly, and paused for a long time. Phaze stared at the floating glyphs… this was way too weird for her, and she felt kind-of spazzed out of her mind.

"The last eight lines is what caused us, the dissidents, to break from the council's wisdom, and run to war, to stop this so called 'agent beast' from appearing. In a way, I caused the destruction of my race. I was the child of the Farseer, destined to lead the council one day. When my mother kept quiet when I spoke my thoughts, none hesitated to follow me. The humans used their technology, amplified by the lies and untruthful words of the Akani, to our world… here, on Turo… and where there was a war, Dumar was not far behind. So, it ended up that all four races were here, on our home world. There was a gruesome battle. The largest battle, and all four races poured everything they had into it. The Eldar that had refused to follow the dissidents, were called to fight. And my mother… She used the key of Khyla to destroy all life on the planet. There was very little left. The Akani were never heard from again, the Dumar are a peaceful race today, and the humans are making quite the comeback. As for the Eldar… the seven of us left have been holding onto our fleeting positions of power, monitoring the events of time for the coming of the so call 'agent beast'…"

"And you think that…" Phase said, her mouth slightly ajar… she couldn't believe what she was hearing. She blinked a few times and forced herself to wake up, but… no. This was real. Vangelis narrowed her eyes.

"I believe the experiment, 4-2-6, is Fate's so called 'agent beast'."

She sighed. "I was hoping to find some clue as to what we should do here. But the runes cannot be fully cast without either all fifteen Seer Members, or with the Farseer…"

"But, you said you're the child of the, uhm, 'Farseer'…"

"But I never saw my position as such… I was never trained on how to cast the runes, only how to read them, and how to correctly interpret them." There was a quick jolt, as the entire room seemed to shake once, quickly. There was the sound of a piece of metal shooting open, and both Phase and Vangelis looked around in confusion. Phase spotted it first… a pointed tip was rising from the side of the altar. She pointed at it, and Vangelis looked. Her jaw dropped and she walked over to it, in utter shock. Just as she reached out to touch the rising object, the glyphs furiously scatter and change once more. Once they rearranged, Vangelis. Started reading over them… but she got a confused look.

"What's wrong? What do they say?" Phase asked with concern. Vangelis looked at her as if she was wondering if such a tiny creature could comprehend something like this. She turned to it and read, as the object continued to rise from the altar, forming a sharp, bladed, triangular white tip.

"Death stops the wheel of Fate

Heroes rise; it's not too late

Fate misjudged at length

the beast's untamed strength

Come again the fallen wise

From the ashes you shall rise

blood of the seer falls

beast brother answer calls…"

She shook her head, and Phase lowered hers.

"What does it mean?" Phase asked, looking up at Vangelis, who was staring at the rising blade… it soon ended, and its grip emerged… Vangelis stared at it, not with awe this time, but with understanding. Phase was horribly confused. Soon, the object stopped moving, and Vangelis gripped it. She pulled out the rest of the item… it was a spear. A long, white spear, tipped with a serrated head. The long white stick, had a green area near the head, and the headpiece had a large red emerald imbedded in it.

"I understand now. Fate sent its agent, to kill the corruption of the Akani who were rumored to be on Strajor… And all this time we thought the agent will come to kill everything… that's what we understood by 'all life a token'… But what was meant by this was that the Akani sought to destroy all life, not the agent. All that confuses me is that fate has made a mistake… and now it is required of me, to fall, possibly to die, so that the 'beast brother' may be woven into this stream that fate has set for it…"

"What? No! That can't be right!" Phase said and stared at the glyphs, hoping they'd change again and say that it wouldn't have to be so.

"And what further confuses me, is that it's fated that the elder would rise again. But this is impossible. Without our bonesong-players, we cannot reproduce… Unless there is one with the knowledge of our instruments out there. Then the Eldar could rise once more…"

Trying not to digest all this information at once, Phase pointed at the spear.

"Now just exactly what is that?" she asked. Her ears were halfway up and back, in a distressed state.

"This? This is the emblem, the channeling focus of the Farseer. It has been entrusted to me by fate itself. My mother must have stored it here, knowing that I would be fated to find it."

"Wait-wait-wait… Let me just get this… Are you able to predict the future?" Phase asked, finally catching on.

"In days long past, yes…"

"How is that possible? I thought we all had free will? It won't be much of a free will if we just end up following a pre-set path anyway!"

Vangelis stared long and hard at Phase, as she thought about this… They never questioned the runes… they never wondered how they worked or how they function, or why, and who discovered them… they merely knew that there runes were a precious resource that allowed them to prepare for the future in a way that was most beneficial to them.

"I… truly do not know… but the runes have never led us astray…" she said and stared at them, almost lovingly. Phase laughed and the Grand Council Woman frowned down on her.

"What is so humorous about my comment?"

"You say they never led you astray, huh? But look at your race now! You're barely still here!" Vangelis frowned once more.

"Even in that aspect, it did not lead us astray. It said that the Wise would fall… and we have fallen."

"And what are you supposed to do with the spear, now that you have it?" Vangelis laughed at this, and gripped the spear with both hands. She pointed it into a random direction and it was riddled with white electrical arcs. Phase 'ooooohed'. The next moment, Vangelis did a swirling motion and struck the floor with the tip, and a white wave of electrical energy erupted in all directions, sending Phase flying to land on the floor nearby. She skid to a stop and jerked and jolted as the electricity caused her muscles to spasm. As it subsided, she became aware of a tinkering sound… metal scraping and various other sounds of movement… she sat up and groaned, rubbing her head. What just happened? The next moment a strange creature came walking up to her, bearing the spear. There stood a magnificent creature, fully dressed in white and green armor made of some foreign material… the pointed helmet, covering the whole head, had some kind of re-breathing device built into it… and had two red rubies placed on it's forehead, and then further up near the tip. A similar ruby, slightly larger, was located on in the middle of the chest. From her back hung a long cape with various glyphs and symbols woven into it. Five glyphs orbited her body as she stared down at Phase… and the voice that spoke sounded remotely like the Grand Council Woman's… but as if she was speaking to a device that distorted it.

"It is time for me to play my part in things to come. I just pray that I am the better actor." She reached out to her right, and from the distance, a strange device came flying right into her outstretched hand, and she gripped it with confidence. It looked remotely like a pistol… but the barrel looked like and inverted funnel… she held it raised next to her head and looked down.

"Take me…"

The large metallic city of Mournall was the only sign of civilization on the entire blue planet. It was bustling with life, and several small freight cruisers sped this way and that, and various other civilian crafts sped about. The walkways were filled with random people, mostly offworlders, but the lesser majority was the planet's native species, the Odana… Due to the planet's politics and rules, only they were allowed to provide services to the population of offworlders. The entire city was built for the sole purpose of tourism and trade, as all the Odanian cities were submerged under the ocean.

Near the edge of the city, a tall, oval building that had a section cut out of the tip, stood to welcome incoming ships…

"Incoming craft X-13445 O9… please upload security certificates for authorization before entering Mournall atmosphere…" the Odanian spoke through the comlink at the fast approaching vessel. After several moments, it had not responded… in fact, it was picking up speed.

"Incoming craft X-13445 O9…" he said, more slowly and clearly. "Please cease your engines and respond." Once more, nothing… the ship then entered the atmosphere. The Odanian frowned.

"You have illegally entered Mournall atmosphere! Cease your engines and prepare to be taken into custody!" But there was no response. The Odanian glanced out the window he was sitting at, at the approaching fireball.

"Cease and desist! You are endangering the lives of our pilots!" The fireball seemed to respond then… it pulled up slightly… and was now heading for the very bulding he was sitting it. His eyes went wide.

"Pull up! Pull up!" he shouted through the comlink and the Odanian sitting at the table next to him frowned and glanced at him.

"What's going-" but his eye caught the light and he glanced out the window with a frightened look. Both of them immediately got out of their chairs, the former with a '…shit…'… and ran for it. Screams erupted all around as the people saw the oncoming fireball and-

The explosion ripped through the building, causing it's foundations to collapse and crumble, and the building to tilt and fall. It collapsed onto the other buildings in the area, and suddenly, the entire city was filled with screams and yells as the people scattered. Several more, minor explosions erupted as generators and power-points overloaded and short-circuited. Little to say, the town was in a complete state of panic. Several blocks away, people were staring panicky in the direction the huge smoke-cloud was coming from… and they started running for the hangers… but without the flight-control centre, the ships flew into each other and exploded mid-air, some ships simply dropped out of the sky, not having been refueled, and in some hangars, the protective energy shields were still enabled… this ships never left the hanger. The people that were running away seemed to move slower and slower, thought. Their screams lowered in pitch, and the smoke slowed… A nearby news ticker's letters stopped and a drop of water falling from a pipe halted mid-air… In the middle of the road's intersection, the air seemed to ripple and compress. A few moments later, with a loud FWOP, there stood the Grand Council Woman and Phase by her side. Everything was back to normal speed, and the frightened aliens all around them were too busy running away to notice that two beings had just appeared out of thin air. The Grand Council Woman let go of Phase's shoulder and stood up. She turned and stared into the distance, where the smoke was coming from.

"Phase… I want you to return to Turo at once. Return to your room, and wait my arrival. This will not take long. The runes tell me so."

"And what if you die? You're the Grand Council Woman! Just think the chaos-"

"I do not intend on going that way. You'd be the first to know if I need evacuation. Now fly!" And with that, Vangelis turned and ran in the opposite direction that everyone else was going.

From the rubble, a massive piece of concrete lifted and was hurled into the distance. The mutated experiment growled and roared as he stumbled through the fire. He broke through what was left of the base of the control tower and snarled at the world around him. He laughed menacingly at the screams that filled the air. But something was out of place… in the large clearing that surrounded the base of the control area, there was a single being, standing tall and proud… unafraid. This just wouldn't do! He growled loudly and let off a spine-chilling howl, expecting the weakling to turn on its heels and run… but… it stood. He growled. This must be the captain of the guard, showing his men how brave he was… but, there was finesse in the way he stood… it had to be a female. The next moment something ricocheted off his shoulder and his attention was pulled back to the present. He flinched several more times as projectiles slammed into him and bounced off… he growled and looked up at the female who was pointing a strange device at him, the annoying projectiles coming from it. He focused, focusing his rage, and he could clearly see the shuriken-shaped projectiles as they flew at him. Moving forward, and sidestepping the next shuriken, he ran straight at the woman, who quickly holstered her weapon and readied a long spear… He grunted… nothing could hurt him. As he came close, he launched himself into the air and readied his arms to tear this pathetic creature in half… but just as he was coming down, the female waved her hand, and he found himself moving in the opposite direction, his body spasming as electricity shot through it… and for the first time, he felt pain.

"Come. Let us end this…" Vangelis said, and ran after the rogue experiment as he still flew through the air. With a back flip, he landed on his feet, his claws digging grooves into the metal as he skidded to a stop. She ran at him, her spear raised to her left by her right hand. She lobbed a packet of static energy at him, which caused him to twitch and spasm where he stood, and she brought the head of the weapon down in a diagonal slash… and back with a horizontal slice, and then a flurry of six or seven moves, finishing with a kick that sent the experiment flying a few feet back. But he stood, uninjured. Vangelis drew her weapon, and fired at him, trotting backwards from the burning rubble… Once more, he came running at her, and she anticipated his attack, turning and delivering a mighty slash that sent a wave of electrical energy surging at him. He saw it coming, though, and braced himself, running right through it… his footing became erratic due to his spasming muscles, and he floored, sliding at Vangelis. She jumped and used his sliding body as a pedestal to jump over him, and once more ran after him. He hurtled himself to his feet, and turned, shouldering Vangelis, causing her to lift into the air. She made a back flip and sensed the oncoming attack, holding the spear horizontally in front of her as the experiment slashed at her, and moved it to the side to block the next slash… the sheer force of these attacks caused her to stay in the air, and be slightly raised back with each attack that landed. After several such attack attempts, she sensed and oncoming opening, and turned, delivering a kick to the side of the experiment's head when he recoiled from her previous block. He merely stumbled backwards a few steps and came at her again. With another flip, she landed on her feet and raised her left hand over her right shoulder. As the experiment leapt at her once more, she delivered the equivalent of a back-hand slap, accompanied by a large electrical explosion that sent electrical arcs of energy striking the floor, as the experiment flew and hit the floor, spasming once more with various grunts and groans. Vangelis stood a moment, breathing hard. After all she had done so far, he had shown absolutely no visible signs of wounds or injuries. He stood up and growled at her once more.

"What are you…?" she questioned as she brought two fingers to the crystal on her forehead… her hand began glowing with white energy. Seeing this as a bad sign, 426 rushed at her again. She moved her hand to her side, and pumped some more energy into her hand… just as he reached her, she released the built-up energy in a wave. A massive sphere of energy erupted from her hand in a massive electrical explosion. Little to say that 426 was sent flying… He crashed into the burning fires of the destroyed flight-control tower.

Vangelis took this moment to re-centre herself.

"The future is clouded… and uncertain…" she said as she glanced at the runes still orbiting her body. She attempted to touch one of them, but it flashed an odd red color, and passed through her hand.

"You sent me to destroy that which you cannot control…" she clenched the outstretched hand.

"Why, then, hide the outcome?" She gripped the spear and ran towards the rubble, using her telekinetic powers to blow large chunks of rubble out of the way, and to calm the fires. She flinched, and held up her spear as 426 came leaping at her through the fires, the very next moment. She forced the pole into his stretched jaws and he gripped the pole as well, with his four arms. He used Vangelis' body as support, and stepped on her stomach as she stumbled with him on her… with her full concentration now on him, the fires she had been suppressing roared to life and they were momentarily lost through the flames. A moment later, Vangelis' spear came flying out of the wreckage into the clearing, soon followed by Vangelis herself. She flew through the air and just as she reached the tip of her ascent, she gracefully flipped upright and landed right next to the spear, holding her side. She picked it up in time to see a massive piece of concrete flying her way. Holding out her hand, she caught it mid-air with her powers, and sent it back at the experiment, who had picked up another piece of burning concrete. With a look of surprise, the larger piece of concrete landed on him, and he disappeared under it, only to burst out, pieces of concrete flying everywhere, a moment later. The next moment, the runes orbiting Vangelis drastically swirled around. She flinched wildly and turned around, covering herself from any attack… but nothing came. She stared, bewildered, at the runes, who were still nearly screaming their warning… then she noticed it… 426 was standing with his head back, in the fires… something was coming from his mouth… or maybe it was simply the fires playing with her eyes… but no… a moment later, she had to shield her eyes as a bright purple/pink flash erupted from his mouth. When she looked again, a strange pink/purple demonic fire was erupting from his mouth… he stepped from the fires and wreckage and lowered his head to look at her… but his eyes were hideously distorted… particles were gathering into his mouth, where the odd fire was coming from, and the runes around her started vibrating in urgency… but she stood, dumbfounded at what was happening. The next moment, a beam, about four inches wide shot from his mouth. Vangelis had hardly tilted her upper body the smallest of fractions, before it shot over her left shoulder, where her head had been mere moments before. Once again, everything slowed down as her powers dilated her perception. She could feel her armor dissolving away as the beam raced past her, and milliseconds later, it raced through the buildings behind her. As time resumed it's normal speed, Vangelis fell on her right side, completely lost in what had just happened. 426 was stumbling around, holding his head and groaning to himself. Vangelis stood up and turned to look, with horror, at the massive grove that was torn in the buildings behind her… it stretched as far as she could see, to the end of the floating city. This was really serious… she had known, all along, that this creature did not care for who it harmed… but seeing it first-hand, was far more horrible than she could've thought. She turned to her spear, and was horrified to see that the whole head was missing… it was in her left hand, and she must've brought it right into the beam as she sidestepped. She felt a sense of lost horror overtake her… this really was suicide… She stared at 426, who was slowly regaining his senses after the exertion on his body.

"This has to end. By any means possible," she said to herself, and was surprised to hear her normal voice… she brought her hand to her face, and noticed that the entire right side of her helmet had disintegrated… anxiously, she felt if the red crystal on her forehead was still present, and it was. She looked to her side, and noticed the armor on her left shoulder and upper arm was also gone… she could see, and feel, her skin. Frowning, she turned once more to the experiment. She reached out and pointed to fingers at him, and closed her eyes. She readied her energies, ready to destroy the creature's mind, but stopped… something was terribly wrong… there was someone, someone else trapped inside this creature… she broke the link at once. He was not doing this out of his own free will… something was controlling him. The runes around her flashed a green shade, and changed somewhat… but Vangelis did not understand what that meant. Maybe if she could rend him unconscious and take him back to Jookiba, he could fix his own creation… She brought her hand to the crystal on her forehead once more, and then pointed her palm at 426, who had just focused on her again. Another explosion erupted from him, sending an orb of psychic energy outwards… but this time, it contained no force, it was completely focused to render him unconscious. It seemed to have worked, as 426 fell over.

"Halt! In the name of The Galactic Federation!" came a yell from behind. Vangelis' eyes stretched and she turned around with a gasp. There stood nearly an entire army of the planet's fishlike inhabitants, dressed in strange pink, green and red coral armor, and clutching what looked like tridents in their hands. They were dripping wet, clearly only just have emerged from the nearby ocean. At their helm was a larger one, and he had several spikes on his helmet. The captain? General?

"Fools. I am the Galactic Federation!" The general glared at her for a moment, and then noticed her exposed cheek, and he immediately bowed his head.

"Your Excellency! That creature is under arrest for massive structural damage and loss of life!" he said loudly.

"That's why I am here, myself… you must all flee. You are in grave danger here…" she said and pointed to 426… who was getting up again? She gasped and looked at him.

"Run!" she screamed at them.

"Your Excellency! I think my men are more than able to handle this threat!" he said, and pointed his finger. The front two rows of his units charged at 426 and surrounded him. A growl later, and four came flying over the heads of their companions. Several shouts and yells erupted and, with a sickening splotch, only the upper half of another soldier landed nearby, spraying murky grey blood as it went. The general stared at this, horrified.

"Charge!" he yelled.

"No! Idiots!" the Grand Council Woman interjected, but it was too late… her voice was drowned out by the yells of the general's men, as well as himself, as they rushed at 426.

"You will all be slaughtered!" she yelled. "I ORDER you to retreat!" she added. But to no avail… yells and scream of pain and horror filled the air, as well as sickening sounds of limbs being torn from their sockets. Vangelis stood back as more soldiers rushed past, looking shocked.

"Fine… you have damned yourself and your men… as well as this whole planet…" she said as she pressed her left hand against the red crystal on her forehead.

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few…" she added, and pressed her right hand to the crystal on her chest. Immediately, an arc of electricity formed between them, and constant flashes started erupting from them.

"By the power vested in me, I condemn this planet, and all those living in breathable air on it, including myself." And with that, she pressed her hands together, and thrust them into the sky. A massive lightning bolt shot from it, traveling into the atmosphere. The nearby fighting soldiers stopped to stare at it, and backed away. The sky turned a darker shade of blue, and a wave spread out from where the bolt had hit the protective ozone layer covering the planet, far above, and you could see it spread, quickly, turning blue, as it spread wider and wider, quickly covering the entire visible area, and soon, the planet. The lightning then stopped, and Vangelis lowered her hands.

"If you wish to live…" a unnaturally white and large lightning bolt struck the distant waters.

"…run for the waters at once…" another lightning bolt struck the city somewhere in, causing an explosion. There were still screaming and yells, as 426 slaughtered the mass amounts of men, but at least those within earshot of Vangelis dropped their weapons and ran for the waters as fast as they could. The general was one of them. The surrounding area was now riddle with lighting strikes.

"What have you done?" he asked, his face frightened.

"An Eldritch Storm. I have ionized the air surrounding your planet… the oxygen will soon bind, forming hazardous chemicals, and the surface will be riddled with severe lightning storms for at least another-" they flinched as a lightning bolt hit very close, and more of the soldiers turned and ran. "-another five standard years." Not even waiting to argue, as another bolt struck nearby, the general turned.

"RETREAT!" he yelled and ran for the oceans as fast as his aquatic legs could carry him. Over the noise of the lightning, only a few of the soldiers heard him and ran.

"Now. Let us truly end this," Vangelis said, and pressed her hands to the red crystals, this time firing only a minor lightning bolt, with one hand, into the sky… this caused several lightning bolts to strike in the very clearing the were standing one… electric arcs also jumped between objects and seemed to focus on the group of soldiers surrounding 426. Yelling a war cry, Vangelis drew her firearm and charged at 426 as several lightning bolts struck him at once, and a massive electrical shockwave shot from this concussion. The wave send the soldiers flying in separate directions, and caught Vangelis herself in mid-run, ripping her armor off her body, her weapon off her hand, and tearing at her mind and body. As she flew back, and felt consciousness leave her, she could've sworn she saw something green appear and grab her.

raVen speaks:

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Yes he may. Just e-mail me and we can discuss the appearance.

Ecliptic:
Yush! And fer drawing 628, you get a super-special cameo! Catch ya on AIM and we can discuss the details.

Kila:
xD Motivation IS dangerous! And I'm not comfortable on talking on boards… so… And thanks for the compliments. I wanted to show how an new, fully conscious being gets used to living in a body… Glad to know I'm doing a good job.

Ri2:
Thankee XP
And yeah, that's what I'm aiming for. Mail me for your cameo… it's the least I could do.

Reviews welcomed, and rewarded. Love you guys and see you in a whole long bit! Buhbye!