Chapter 130: Zion

A/N: 130 chapters!!! I can safely say I am proud of myself at this moment, and I must say, thank you for everyone that stuck around this far. I promise, when this story has drawn to a close, no one would (or at least should) be dissappointed. So here we go with Chapter 130: Zion!

Adrian and Thatan were now soaring through space, something that Adrian thought would never come to pass for himself.

"Not going to lie Thatan, I never thought I would be travelling space in my lifetime," Adrian said with an excited exhale. Thatan breifly glanced back at Adrian before refocusing on the path in front of the Phantom,

"In this universe, space travel is the norm here." Adrian could only shake his head in awe, seeing the stars and colorful dust clouds soar by as Thatan continued to fly the Phantom. Soon they came to a large planet, covered in pink crystals and green oceans, with Thatan guiding the ship through the atmosphere, aiming to land. Thatan eventually does so onto a smoothed out landmass, made entirely of pink crystal. Once the Phantom had landed, Thatan stood up out of the pilots seat, stepping to the hatch doors and flipping on a holographic monitor,

"Now it has been a millenium since anyone has set foot here," said Thatan, "but according to the scans, the air should be breathable."

"'Should be?'"

"Well I don't know. It's safe for an Elite, but I don't know for a human-Devil-AUGH!" Thatan gripped his head in frustration.

"Something wrong?" Asked Adrian.

"Still copeing with the loss of my people..." said Thatan, "...it isn't easy." Adrian placed a hand on Thatans' shoulder in sympathy,

"I'm sorry Thatan, I am. We will make the Brutes pay for this," he vowed. The Elite scoffed,

"I wish that were true, but the best we could do is find some weapons and go on a suicide mission." Adrian withdrew his hand, and sighed,

"So what planet are we on again?" Thatan hit a large button on the side of the hatch doors,

"Yvanola, a mineral planet." The hatch doors opened, and in rushed the air of the planet, filling Adrians' nostrils and making him cough and sputter.

"Oh that is strong!" Said Adrian, trying to breath the air in small quantities and failing.

"The air here has most of the same elements as Earth," said Thatan, "but there is an added element that I can't pronounce. Probably isn't too important if I'm still breathing fine." He lifted his arm, and out the side of the armor plating on his forearm appeared a hologram of the planet, "The abandoned human base is over three thousand years old, in fact the place is mostly legend, but if the rumors are correct, the base should be three to five hundred kilometers east north east from here. It's camoflaged, so I can't land the Phantom safely without knowing where it is. We could fly over there, but I'm not sure if we have any jetpacks to spare for myself. Do you think you will survive walking there?" Thatan waited for a response, and recieved none. "Adrian?"

WHUMP!

Thatan turned, and saw Adrian had fallen flat on his face.

"Adrian!" The Elite rushed to the Devil, rolling him so he could see the boys' face, and saw his pupils were dialated to a concerning level, "Adrian, are you alright?"

"Thatan...I think there is something in the air that is messing with me..." said Adrian, holding a hand in front of himself, seeing everything was rapidly changing color and shapes distorting, and as soon as he saw Thatan, his eyes grew wide, "Thatan, has anyone ever told you that you look like a cross between a dinosaur and a spider? OH SHIT! Was that offensive? I don't-I can't...my head is spinning, and my mouth keeps running and can't stop..." Adrian looked up at the sky in thought, "...I wonder if this is what it feels like to be Damon ninety percent of the time?"

"I don't know who this 'Damon' is," said Thatan, gripping Adrians' shirt and hoisting him over his shoulder, "but he sounds like a fun person."

The next few minutes were then spent with Thatan carrying the woozy Adrian across the pink crystal landscape, occasionally having to wade through the planets bright green water,

"Are we going swimming Thatan?" Adrian asked groggily, "Because if we are, I need my swimsuit."

"We're not swimming Adrian," said Thatan, growing annoyed, "I'm just walking through it."

"I don't know why, but this reminds me of my time with Llarya a little bit."

"Oh really? Tell me all about it," Thatan said sarcastically.

"Well, me and my friend, Katrina, we were going to try and hunt for Zeus ourselves," began Adrian, "but as soon as we passed through our first portal, Katrina vanished, and I found out the hard way that our idiot friend Damon had stowed away to try and help us."

"Go on," said Thatan, stepping out of the water and onto the pink crystal ground, "tell me what happens next."

"Then we found ourselves in a world of elves...beings that look like humans, but with pointed ears, and I'm pretty sure there's other differences too..." Adrian hiccuped, his head still spinning, "...Then we rescued two elves, a light elf princess, Nyna, and a sole dark elf, Llarya...Damon actually married Nyna, and I made love to Llarya...but the next morning a portal opened to another world...and we had to leave before it closed..."

"And you didn't even say goodbye," finished Thatan dissaprovingly.

"No...but I wanted to...hell, I actually felt like bringing her home with me when this nonesense with Zeus was dealt with," Adrian confessed, the unknown chemical in the air causing him to do so.

"Back to your own dimension?" Thatan inquired curiously.

"Yeah...but I didn't want to pull her away from the only world she has ever known. How could I?" Adrian scoffed, "I guess I really am giving into my selfish desires." Thatan stopped, then readjusted Adrian so he was now holding the young Devil in front of himself, staring hard right into his eyes,

"You are not selfish. If you were, you wouldn't be helping me with my insane mission to destroy the Resurgence." He then slung Adrian back onto his shoulder and continued to trek the pink crystal landscape. Before long, the two then came across a large rectangular mass on the horizon, and Thatan realized it was a large metal and concrete structure, easily five times the size of the Titanic, covered in solid pink crystal, no doubt it was the camoflaged base belonging to the human race from three thousand years ago. "We made it!" Thatan said with releif. He quickened his pace, carrying Adrian over to the large doors, and as he set Adrian on the crystal ground, Thatan placed his fingers into the seam of the doors, and with his sheer strength alone he slowly but surely pried the doors open, keeping them open with his back pressed against one door and his left foot holding the other open, leaving his arms free to grab Adrian, slide him inside, and finally release the doors with a loud metallic CRASH! The Elite then ran to a control panal on the wall, dusting off the screen and pressing a series of buttons, the room was filled with oxygen while expelling the air from outside back where it belongs. As soon as this happened Adrian took a deep breath, the wild array of colors before his eyes quickly going away and his vision returning to normal. He sluggishly dragged himself to his feet, looking to Thatan in confusion,

"Did you carry me all the way here to this place?"

"I have, and you spoke quite a bit about this Llarya person." Adrian blushed,

"Uh, nothing too detailed, right?"

"Correct," said Thatan, Adrian looked around,

"Does this place have a name?"

"Zion," answered Thatan, "now I believe the armory should be this way."

After shuffling around the dimly lit base for a few minutes, trying to find what room was where, they eventually found the armory; a large dimly lit room with the walls lined with a complete arsenal of futuristic weapons. Adrian gladly took up arms, arming himself with a large assault rifle weapon, two smaller black guns which he assumed were sub machine guns, a large handgun and two large grenades.

"I think this should be plenty to get Pennie back, what do you think Thatan?" Adrian recieved no answer. Instead he smelled something foul and decayed, "Thatan, what's that smell?"

"Adrian! There's something you need to see!" Called the Elite, causing Adrian to trek back to the entrance, and find Thatan aiming a light into a dark hallway, where a human skeleton in a military uniform and a helmet made its' final resting place, a combat knife in its' hand and a message scratched into the wall above it.

"What the hell?"

"It's some sort of language I've never seen before," said Thatan, "but I felt it was important." As Adrian inspected the writing, his eyes widened,

"It's French! I know how to read this! 'What is greater than God, more evil than the devil, poor people have it, rich people need it, and if you eat it, you'll die?' It's a riddle," said Adrian, tapping his chin.

"What is greater than God and more evil than the devil?" Asked Thatan.

"Well, if you had asked me that before I became a devil, my answer would have been 'Nothing.'"

BEEP!

The skeleton then fell backwards as a door opened behind it, leading to a set of concrete stairs.

"Well, that was easy," said Adrian with a raised eyebrow. Both he and Thatan cautiously traveled down the stairs, with a pair of lights on Thatans' helmet lighting the way. Soon they reached the bottom, and the two quickly scanned the room, finding it pitch black. Adrian found a large lever on the wall, and quickly flipped it on, activating a long continuous light lining the walls as well as several canisters leaned against the wall with whitish blue light, the contents made Adrian gasp and Thatan step forward,

"Are those...?" Adrian stepped forward as well,

"Humans...!"

A/N: I had an original idea for something in this story, but the more I thought about it, the more I thought it should be done another time, so I did go back and edit chapter 99 (while I still got a chance), nothing major to worry about, but I felt it should be altered nonetheless. Until next time!