The fourth chapter of my fanfic, and one that explores a bit into Crea's background... if only modestly. This one had quite a few modifications made to its original form. Enjoy!
CHAPTER 4: SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW
The sky above was shrouded by dark storm clouds and crackled with lighting, but there was no rain. The air was filled with a great energy, clearly unnatural.
Down below, a contingent of men armed with blasters ran in toward the center of a large crater. In the crater's center was a humongous monster. Unmistakably, it was the Megalith, and it was clearly angry. The soldiers around the Megalith opened fire, but their weapons seemed to only irritate the beast. The Megalith turned toward one group of men and breathed a stream of energy at them. They were vaporized instantly. It then swung one of its claws at another group, crushing one man and sending his comrades flying. All around the Megalith, men continued to clamor and shoot their weapons at it.
As the battle continued, a man in an elegant dark robe walked up to the side of the crater. He had a gaunt face, with a black stubble beard and the Altas Sigil on his forehead. In his hands was a cube, which had on it a Henge that was made of all eight Sigils. As the man walked up to the crater's edge, an officer ran up in front of him.
"Lord Nazmul," the officer said, "we have not yet contained the target. Please, stay back."
"Your weapons will not harm this creature, captain. I only need your men to distract the Megalith while I work the spell."
"My– My lord?"
"Continue to distract it, and I shall work quickly to gain control of it. Is that agreeable?"
"Uh, um…" the captain stuttered. After a moment, he then turned to the crater and shouted, "Keep firing! Keep the target suppressed!"
Nazmul grinned at this agreement. The men continued their attack on the Megalith, which showed no signs of slowing down or true injury. Nazmul walked up to the side of the crater and looked down at the Megalith.
"Magnificent… simply magnificent."
Nazmul then looked down at the cube in his hands, and then turned to look at the Megalith once again as it struggled. He then released the cube and it floated in front of him. Nazmul then began chanting. What he was saying was unclear, but it was in an ancient magical dialect. As he chanted, the cube began to glow an eerie green aura.
The Megalith struck one of its claws down on another trio of men, crushing all three of them. It then hesitated as it listened to the ancient dialect being chanted behind it. It realized the threat and turned toward Nazmul. The beast roared and breathed a large stream of energy at Nazmul. Nazmul's concentration did not break, however, as the energy stream raced toward him. As it did, a number of robed men beside him cast a series of shield stones. Vanguard Aegis! A powerful energy wall emerged in front of Nazmul, blocking the Megalith's attack, but just barely. The shield was greatly weakened by the attack.
"My lord, we cannot hold it back much longer!" one of the robed men said.
Nazmul did not respond, but kept on chanting. As he did, the Megalith roared and began to march toward him. The soldiers on the side continued to fire their blasters, but it had no effect. The Megalith's body began to grind against the sides of the crater, forcing men nearby it to flee or be crushed. The men around Nazmul began to flee as the Megalith neared him. As it reared over him, the Megalith roared as it gazed down on the Wizard with its great eyes. At this point, Nazmul had stopped chanting and looked up at the Megalith. He did not waver under the beast's intimidating presence.
"Sigils of Power, bind this ancient creature to me." Nazmul shouted. "Great Megalith, now be mine to command!"
As he finished, the cube shone with a brilliant light. As it did, the Megalith screeched, seemingly in pain. It began thrashing around, destroying everything around it. The soldiers fled to avoid being crushed by the beast's legs. Nazmul, however, did not move, but his gaze remained fixed on the Megalith.
As the Megalith thrashed around, its central eye began to glow. As it did, a Henge of Altas and Infinis began to form in its center eye. Soon, the Henge completely filled in, and the Megalith stopped its thrashing. It then looked down at Nazmul and growled. Its central eye was emblazoned with a Henge of Altas and Infinis. The Megalith was under Nazmul's control.
"Yes! YES! YES!!"
Nazmul began to laugh maniacally as the Megalith roared. The sound of its roar pierced the sky, and seemed to cause the land to tremble.
--
Atop a small forest cliff, Crea shrieked as she bolted upright. She breathed heavily, still in shock from the nightmare. She was not expecting such a dream, as her usual one was of the Megalith's sealing with in the White Stones. This time, she had seen its subjugation under Nazmul's control.
As Crea continued to gasp for air, she looked at her hand. Nothing was wrong with her physically, but she had almost expected there to be something wrong with her.
"What… what the hell was that?" she muttered to herself. "What was that dream?"
What had happened in the dream was clear to Crea, but she didn't know what it meant to her. She didn't know what her connection to the Megalith was yet, even though she had contacted it through the Dako Pure Stone, or as she called it, the White Stone of Chaos.
Maybe that dream had been connected to her contact with the Megalith. Maybe she was seeing things from its point of view. But why was she seeing such things? What did the Megalith's memories have to do with her own?
Crea pushed herself up and checked herself for injury. She had just unexpectedly lost a battle with the Di-Gata Defenders, and although she was infuriated by the loss, she owed part of the loss to her own overconfidence. As she mulled that fact over, Crea assured herself that she wouldn't make such a mistake again. That is, if she ever faced the Defenders again…
As she continued to inspect herself, she touched her forehead, and then realized something. "Something… something's different… inside of me," Crea said to herself.
She couldn't tell what it was, but undoubtedly, something had changed inside of her. Crea then remembered her contact with the Megalith and that she had interacted with it in some way. It must have altered something inside of her.
As Crea pondered this over, she suddenly sensed a very strange energy signature off in the distance. She turned southwest, but could not see the source of the energy. But even though she could not see the source, it felt familiar to her. It felt like the energy the Megalith radiated, only somewhat different. The energy seemed more fragmented and as though it had only been in that direction briefly.
"Hmm… I guess that will have to wait," Crea said, her mind still partly on what might have changed in her. Figuring that out would have to come later.
Crea began to walk forward and eventually tipped over the side of the cliff. As she fell, blue lights surrounded her and she vanished into thin air.
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Deep within a large crater, a large, strange machine stood in the middle. It certainly was of unique design, but its purpose was a mystery. It appeared quite damaged, though, as if something or someone had tried to break it. All around it, there was a lot of wreckage, as though a battle had taken place around it.
Crea warped into the area and looked around the area. She saw the machine in the middle of the canyon and instantly recognized it as the mechanism from her first dream.
"This is the machine used to seal the Megalith away. But… why did I sense the energies of the White Stones from this machine? They're not here, but still… I sensed them."
Crea walked up to the machine and looked at its control panel. She had no idea how the machine worked; let alone what to do with it. She touched the control panel and, as she did, the machine sparked as it short-circuited. The effect startled Crea, but not enough to scare her.
"Hmm… useless… but it's been used recently. Maybe…"
As she was pondering, Crea suddenly heard a loud roaring behind her. Alerted, she turned to see a number of strange monstrous creatures, each with four claw-like legs and looking as though they were born from rock itself. Clearly they were not natural creatures, and they were clearly hostile.
"Hmm, good. A little target practice."
Crea raised a hand to one of the creatures and they instantly began rushing at her. A blast flew from Crea's outstretched hand and obliterated one of the creatures, but the rest began to close in on her quickly. One of the creatures stabbed one of its claws at Crea, but she jumped away from it, landing away from the machine.
One of the creatures rushed at her immediately and thrust its two front claws at Crea, but she caught them in her hands.
As the beast struggled to crush her, Crea said, "This certainly is new… a big living rock that wants to kill me. But still, a rock is a rock."
Crea then shut her eyes and her hands began to glow golden. The creature screeched as it began to lose its color as Crea drained the energy from its body. Soon, the creature stopped moving and had lost its color. As Crea released the creature's claws, she jumped up and flipped backwards as she kicked it, shattering the rock monster. Crea landed neatly on the ground.
As she did, one of the creatures swung a claw that struck behind her unexpectedly. Crea staggered away from it for a moment and looked toward the monster. Almost instantly the creature was swinging at her again and she could not react to it in time. The strike landed in Crea's shoulder and she cried in pain from the blow. The creature continued to apply pressure to the wound, which only further increased the pain Crea was feeling.
"You're really starting to piss me off, you know that?!" she snarled.
Crea raised her free arm to the creature's claw and attempted to push it away from her shoulder. Suddenly, her arm began to glow with an unfamiliar pattern. Almost ignoring her pain, Crea removed her arm from the creature's claw and looked at it to see a blade made of pure energy begin to form around her arm. She had no idea what was happening; this wasn't an ability she knew she had. But then again, it wasn't unwelcome either.
Crea looked at the creature and smiled confidently. She thrust the blade into the monster's head, and it groaned as it slumped lifelessly backwards. Crea withdrew her blade as the monster fell to the ground. As the monster fell, its claw exited Crea's shoulder, to which she grunted in pain. Crea then looked to see more of the monsters rushing at her. She raised her new blade to them and rushed at the creatures. As each one attempted to strike her, she sliced through them, destroying each one with a single stroke of her blade. Soon, there were none left.
As Crea looked at the destruction she had caused, the blade around her arm receded. She then looked at her shoulder to see a sort of crystalline formation imbedded in her shoulder. Finding the crystal very painful, Crea reached her hand to it and began to pull on it. She grunted as she ripped the crystal from her shoulder, which left a wound in her arm that shed blue particles. She tossed the crystal aside, which shattered as it hit the ground, and held her wound. As she did, several green lights enclosed on the wound and began to patch it up. Crea breathed heavily until the wound closed.
"Hmm… Interesting new toy," Crea said, thinking back to the blade she had just used. "I wonder what else is new."
She then heard another roar and looked to see another group of the monsters streaming toward her. She glared at them, then raised a hand and pointed two fingers at a row of the monsters. Energy began to channel through her fingertips and then a thin, long bolt of energy shot forward at the creatures. It struck the first one and pierced right through it, and then continued on through the next one… and the next… and the one after that. The attack kept going through the monsters in a straight line, piercing through them with no effort. Each monster that was struck was destroyed by the attack.
"Cool."
She then extended her other hand and from her fingertips her glowing golden threads appeared. She then rushed forward at the crowd of monsters.
--
Atop the ridge of the crater where Crea was still fighting, a small reptilian bird flew onto a small ledge and looked down at the scene. Suddenly, the bird began to change its shape, into what looked like a green snake woman. It was Kali, Nazmul's shape-shifting Mortigarian spy. She looked down at Crea as she fought the stone monsters with a look of intrigue. Crea was winning, easily.
"Well, well, isn't this a surprise?" Kali muttered to herself.
The agent then pulled out a small device from her pack, which extended into a cylindrical device. Soon, a figure appeared in the middle of the cylinder screen. The figure looked as though it were mostly mechanical, but had a horrifying skull with green eyes as a head. It was Nazmul, the master of the Order of Infinis and the Megalith's master.
"Lord Nazmul," Kali said, "I've just arrived in the Spell Zone to investigate the strange energy source we detected."
"Have you confirmed its source?" the skeletal figure replied.
"Yes, my lord. See for yourself."
Kali turned the cylinder to face the battle below. The instant Nazmul saw Crea – who was in the middle of slicing a monster in half with an energy blade – his face turned to surprise.
"WHAT?! Impossible! She should be dead!"
"I believed so as well, my lord. But what I am seeing right now says otherwise."
"Hmm… It seems I may have underestimated her will to survive."
Nazmul paused for a moment. He knew Crea's capabilities better than anyone else.
"I wish to watch her present capabilities. Hold your position here, Kali."
"Yes, my lord."
--
Down below in the canyon, one of the few monsters remaining leaped at Crea from behind. She whipped around and thrust a hand at it. As her palm struck, a burst of energy blew the monster to pieces. Two more of the monsters ran at Crea side by side, but she swung her other arm at them, quickly forming an energy blade around her arm, and sliced them in two in a single stroke. The blade then receded.
She then heard a roar behind her and looked to see another rock monster behind her. It then shot an energy blast from its mouth at her. Crea raised a hand to the blast and a barrier appeared before it. The blast struck the barrier harmlessly, after which the barrier receded.
Crea then looked at the monster and taunted, "I'm sorry, did you want something?"
As she finished, she closed her hand in a fist and from the top of her wrist came a spiraling blue beam of energy, which remained connected to her wrist as it flew forward. It was like a chain made of energy, with a pulsating blue ball at its end. The beam struck the monster and broke through its carapace, but it did not destroy the monster. Rather, the beam anchored onto the rock monster.
"Well you got my attention!"
Crea quickly wrapped her hand around the chain and yanked the chain back hard. The monster flew off the ground, careening at her. Crea then raised her other arm and thrust it into the rock monster just before it hit her. A blast of energy left her hand and blew the monster to pieces.
Crea whistled as she watched the pieces fall to the ground then looked at the chain-like beam connected to her wrist. It was still at its full length, but coiled along the ground as though it were actually a chain. Crea then raised her hand and the chain withdrew into her wrist.
"This'll come in handy."
Crea looked around her; there were no more of the creatures. Or so she thought. She heard another roaring sound and looked up at the crater's ridge to see more of the monsters pouring over the side.
"Damn it… this is getting really old," Crea said disdainfully.
Crea then noticed that several of the monsters were not charging at her, but stayed at the crater's ridge, as though guarding it. She then heard a loud screeching sound coming from above the crater wall.
"They're like a colony. Then there's a queen."
Crea formed two blades around her arms and started running toward the crater's rim, cutting through the crowd of monsters rushing at her with ease. Soon she reached the top of the crater wall and looked down to see another horde of the rock creatures, numbering at least fifty.
Crea's attention then turned to a particularly large monster floating shortly above the horde. It had a grotesque, crustacean-like head and a beak with sharp mandibles that looked as though they could tear prey to shreds in an instant. Most of its body was a large conical shell, with its head protruding from it. Its eight arms were long tendrils, with pincer-like claws at their ends, and its entire body seemed to be made of gray stone. And in the middle of its forehead it had a large glowing orange eye. It looked a giant squid mixed with a lobster, only much more grotesque.
The monster did not at first see Crea, but thrust four of its massive claws into the ground. In the area where the claws struck, there was a green glow and the ground moved around them. As the monster raised its claws, four more of the monsters emerged from the holes. Crea watched with fascination, as well as to her chagrin.
"The queen, I'm guessing?" Crea said, as though addressing the crustacean-like monster. "Your rule is at an end today."
The horde queen looked over at Crea and gave off an earsplitting screech as it stretched its arms out. As it did, its minions began to charge at Crea. As they did, Crea withdrew her blades and raised her hands to the minions. Bursts of energy flew from her hands, destroying groups at a time. Soon, the only things that were left were Crea and the horde queen.
"Just you and me now," Crea smirked.
The queen let off another screech and started floating toward Crea. As it neared her, it thrust one of its arms at her with incredible speed. Crea jumped over the strike, narrowly avoiding it. As she flew through the air, Crea brought her hands together and fired a blast at the queen. The queen quickly positioned four of its arms and blocked the attack with its claws, with no visible damage caused. As Crea landed, the queen thrust the four claws at her, attempting to crush her. Crea jumped back and the blow missed. However, the force of the blow jerked Crea slightly, and she stumbled as she landed. Crea raised her hands to the queen and fired several energy bursts at it. As the blasts flew through the air, the queen withdrew its head and claws into its shell, with only the claws showing, covering the opening. The blasts struck the shell and claws, but fizzled out, causing no damage.
"Crap…" Crea growled.
Crea looked at the monster. She knew why the attack hadn't worked: the monster's shell seemed to be covered in protective Henges. It was obviously Sigil-hardened. Also, its claws were covered in Dako Sigils; clearly they were made of Dakocite, a unique ore that was difficult to break, even for her. Because of this, Crea would have a lot of trouble trying to harm the monster. However, Crea also noted that the rest of the queen's body was made of other ores. Clearly, it wouldn't be as resilient in those areas.
The queen moved its claws out of its shell and its head protruded from it. It then growled as it angled its head forward and its eye began to shimmer with energy. It then fired a massive beam at Crea, who dived to the side, avoiding the attack. The beam struck the ground with a massive explosion, one Crea was grateful to avoid. As Crea landed, she formed a blade around her arm and charged at the queen. She leaped into the air and readied her blade to slice into the queen. Just before Crea struck, the queen swung a pair of its claws to the side. The blow connected with Crea and she crashed to the ground. As the queen turned to where Crea had landed, she slowly got to her feet, her body releasing blue particles from her wounds. As Crea rose, green lights began sealing up the wounded parts of her body. As she stood up, her body had finished repairing itself.
"Oh, you've done it now, you bitch…"
Crea looked back at the queen, and to her surprise the monster was already thrusting a pair of its claws at her. Crea's arms glowed as she raised them and caught the claws in her hands. Though Crea stood strong, the queen slowly pushed her backwards toward the crater ridge wall. As Crea struggled to hold back the queen, the monster screeched as it raised its mouth. Crea looked just in time to see another energy beam fly at her. In a quick movement, Crea pushed the claws to the side and leapt over the blast. As she flew in the air, Crea formed a blade around her arm. As she dropped toward the ground, Crea swung the blade at the tendril portions of three of the queen's arms, severing them as she passed. The queen screeched in pain and reared back, its remaining arms flailing about. As Crea landed, she brought her hands together and fired a flurry of energy bolts at the queen. The bolts struck the queen's body and it screeched as several sections of its undefended carapace were blasted off.
Crea stopped firing after a moment. A cloud of dust surrounded the queen, but Crea could still see the monster's massive claws moving. She had clearly wounded the queen, at the very least. The cloud soon cleared. The queen had several parts of its carapace cracked and broken, and a two more arms had been severed. Several of its mandibles were gone as well, and it had damaged one of its yellow eyes. Lastly, its orange eye had a crack running through it. Crea glared at the monster as it screeched again at her.
"Still alive…?" Crea sighed. "You're starting to become real annoying. Huh?"
Crea noticed at that moment that in the middle of the queen's orange eye, there was a small green glow. The queen roared as its severed arms began to lengthen. Soon, the arms were at full length, and new claws formed at the ends. As the claws finished regenerating, Crea snarled.
"Now you're really pissing me off."
The queen screeched again and thrust a series of strikes at Crea. She dodged them all and then fired a blast back at the queen. It withdrew into its shell quickly and the attack caused no damage.
"That's just a real pain in the—"
The queen then thrust a pair of claws at Crea directly out of its shell. Crea jumped over the attack, but almost instantly four more claws flew at Crea and struck her simultaneously. Crea screamed as she flew back and crashed into the crater's ridge. Crea groaned as she tried to push herself up. Her body was crackling with unstable energy and her body had several wounds that were leaking blue particles. But this time, there were no green lights, and Crea's wounds were not healing.
"Grrgh, shit…!" Crea growled, "Why now?!"
Crea knew at that point she had a serious problem on her hands. She didn't have enough energy at this point to regenerate, and the queen was still a severe threat. That, and since she was low on energy, Crea couldn't teleport away. If she didn't do something soon, she would probably be killed.
As Crea attempted to push herself up, the queen began dragging itself toward Crea, looking to finish her off. Crea got to her feet and looked up at the giant monster. It looked at her with its central eye and the eye began to crackle with energy. It was about to fire again.
"It's… not… over… yet!"
Crea raised a hand to the monster and pointed two fingers at it. An energy field formed around her hand and then a slim energy bolt forth from her fingers. The queen raised its claws to block the shot from hitting its torso. The beam hit the claws and smashed right through them in an instant, breaking them apart. The beam then struck the queen's body and it screeched as the blast went through it and came out the other side of its shell. As the queen reeled back from the blow, it fired the beam into the air harmlessly. It continued to flail its broken arms around for a moment and fell to the ground with a crash. The queen's arms slumped as it painfully moaned.
As Crea looked on at the monster her attention turned to its orange eye. It was radiating a strange energy; Crea realized that it could be a potential weak point. Crea staggered forward, the pain of her wounds making her slow, but the queen could not move to stop her. As Crea reached the queen she stepped up on its body and looked into the cracked orange eye. Inside the eye, there was a glowing green crystal, as well as what looked like electronic circuitry and wiring.
"This… this thing is a machine. It's man-made…"
Crea reached into the eye and grabbed the crystal firmly with both hands. As she pulled on the crystal, the queen screeched loudly and it began flailing its arms and trying to swing its head around to throw Crea off. Crea, however, held on and continued to pull at the crystal.
"GRRRHH, JUST DIE ALREADY!!"
As Crea shouted, her arms began to glow in patterns as the rest of her body crackled with energy. The crystal then came loose and Crea flew back from the force of its release and fell to the ground. As she looked back up at the queen, she saw it flailing about in agony, its orange eye surging with energy. Soon, glowing cracks began forming all over the queen's body and shell. It let out one last earsplitting screech, and then its body exploded tremendously. Crea quickly raised a hand to the blast and a barrier appeared, protecting her from the explosion as well as several rock fragments. Soon the blast subsided, and Crea looked back at where the queen once was. All that was left of it were a few piles of smoldering rock.
Crea then looked at the crystal in her hand. It was fairly large, but what puzzled Crea was that it looked mostly man-made, like the queen. Several Sigils adorned it in a manner that clearly wasn't natural. Also, it didn't look as though the crystal were actually part of the machine. It looked like it was part of something else. But all that mattered to Crea was that she had destroyed the queen.
Crea sighed and said, "To think this thing caused so much trouble for me. I've half a mind to— AGH! AHH!"
At that moment, Crea felt an intense pain run through her as her body sparked violently with untamed energy. She clutched a hand to her side and rolled on her side in pain. Crea was particularly worried about this; she had used up far too much power killing the monster, and feared that it would be the end of her.
"D– Damn it…!"
Suddenly, the green crystal in Crea's hand began to glow. She looked at it with curiosity, and then suddenly a strange feeling swept through her. It was almost as though her body were resonating with the crystal. The crystal then shone with a brilliant golden light and reformed into a golden sphere. The sphere then split into many small lights and they began swirling around Crea. All of a sudden, Crea felt her pain disappear as her body glowed in a strange pattern and the lights began to enter her body. As they did, her body shone with a bright light. As the last of the lights entered, there was a brief flash of light, which quickly receded.
A few seconds passed before Crea slowly got to her feet. She took a moment to inspect her body; she had some of her energy restored, but not to maximum. Still, it was enough for the moment.
"What the hell was that all about?"
Crea continued to look at herself; the wounds on her body were gone. But that was not what Crea was thinking about. Something was different in her. She had just figured out the changes from her contact with the Megalith, but now she had some new power from defeating the rock monster queen. But something was certain to her: she felt stronger than before.
Just at that moment, Crea heard a roar behind her and turned to see another one of the rock monsters swinging a claw at her. Just before it struck her, it hit a dim light that surrounded Crea. The attack seemed to slow down, but the light did not stop the blow from striking her in the chest. Crea cursed as she staggered backwards, then quickly countered with an energy burst and destroyed the monster with one shot.
Crea growled and said, "Must've missed one."
She then looked down at her chest where the monster had hit her. To her surprise, there was no injury; she only felt slightly sore from the blow. The barrier around her seemed to have softened the blow, even though it did not stop it. But what puzzled Crea was that the barrier wasn't of her accord; the attack was too close for her to do anything in time. Maybe her body had activated automatically…
"Interesting."
--
At that moment, Kali and Nazmul watched Crea with keen interest.
"Very impressive," Nazmul's projection said.
"Quite the weapon, isn't she?" Kali replied. "Though I half-expected her to lose."
"And yet she continues to surprise me."
Nazmul's curiosity had been piqued by what he had just seen. He knew a great deal about Crea, but despite all he knew he continued to be surprised by her.
"She has improved immensely since I last saw her," Nazmul continued. "Quite curious, actually."
"What shall I do about her then, my lord?" Kali said.
"Leave that to me. For now, you are to continue your pursuit of the Defenders. They present a greater threat to my plans then she does."
"By your command, Lord Nazmul."
Kali shut off the communicator in her hand and it receded into its compact form. After she put it away, she then changed back into her bird form and flew away to continue hunting the Di-Gata Defenders.
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Several minutes later, Crea returned to the machine in the crater. She then walked around it, continuing to search for anything that might help her remember her past. There was nothing.
"This machine was in my first dream. The Defenders and those men used it to seal the Megalith away in the four White Stones. But… why was I drawn here? And was it worth it, nearly dying?"
Inside her head, Crea began to ponder the events that had happened to her recently. The seizure she had in the village near Altamor, her contact with the Megalith when she touched the White Stone of Chaos, the new dream about the Megalith, and her new powers. They all had something to do with her past.
It was then that something in Crea's head suddenly clicked.
"My… my power… I remember now."
Crea didn't know how the memory had come to her, but wasn't too concerned as to such a point. Her main focus was the memory itself; she remembered her main power, the power to assimilate abilities from other sources. She couldn't remember all the details, but the gist of it had come back to her.
"Hmm… as long as I have that in mind…"
Crea then turned away from the machine. As she did, a number of small lights began to form around her. Soon, the lights formed into a flowing red cloak, which neatly wrapped itself around Crea's body. Her last one had been destroyed during her battle with the Di-Gata Defenders, and although it was just decorative Crea liked how it made her seem distinctive.
Crea then looked up at the sun as it set on the horizon. It was a beautiful sight, but Crea had other things on her mind. She was then surrounded by blue lights and vanished into thin air.
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Back in Yin-Tos, Nazmul, who was seated next to a computer console, tapped a few buttons on it. After a moment, an image sprung up on a screen in front of him. It seemed like a set of documents, but had on its top right corner a picture of Crea.
"Crea…" Nazmul said to himself. "You certainly are a curiosity."
As Nazmul looked through the file on his screen, he did not notice a figure in his doorway. It was a man in a warlord's outfit with white balding hair. It was Brackus, Nazmul's treacherous advisor and head of the Yintos armies. He had seen the whole spectacle through the projection on Nazmul's screen, and Crea's power astonished him. Brackus thought to himself that if he were able to control the girl, Nazmul would quickly fall before him. It would be terribly risky to attempt such a feat, though.
Brackus grinned, then turned and quietly left the room.
END OF CHAPTER 4
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