My Calling

Author: Cornell Valentine Gainsborough

"Speech"

'Thoughts'

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Chapter 12: New recruit

"So, he hasn't yet figured it out?"

"No, it appears not. We sent him both items, and he still doesn't understand."

"We haven't much time left in this world, even if we are in here."

"The rest must be left up to the four who are with him, though he doesn't know it."

"Even now, he fights with them, and doesn't realize their importance."

"He desires to become stronger, but has taken an inefficient path. I will go to them and have them invite him in."

"Don't strain yourself too much. Remember, if we exert ourselves too much..."

"I'm well aware of the consequences. This is all for his sake... both of them."

MAKAI!

Blasts of photonic Star energy tore through the room, utterly destroying the targets. Nelius closed his wings back up.

'That was the attack that helped me escape those three back in Midnight..' He still remembered that incident. 'Heck knows what those three might've tried.' Stretching out his wings to let them cool down, he closed his eyes and was immersed in another strange vision. He found himself standing in what appeared to be an arena, with four different colored auras radiating from seperate corners of the room. Even when he opened his eyes, this was all he saw.

"We await you, Nelius." One voice called to him, from the red aura.

"Who are you?"

"We have answers to what you seek." Another voice told him, this one from the green aura.

"Seek us out..." A female's voice began the sentence from the blue aura...

"... and we shall reveal everything to you." The yellow aura, also with a feminine tone, finished.

"Where are you?" Nelius looked around, seeing nobody anywhere.

"We are so close, but, at the same time, worlds apart." The red flared into a pillar of flame.

"Look around you to find the entrance." The green became a fierce tornado.

"Once you are here, come and find us." The blue solidified into a glacier.

"Defeat us, and you shall learn everything." The yellow struck with the ferocity of a thunderbolt.

Then his eyesight restored itself, and he found himself back in the training room.

"That clinches it, I'm never letting another Felynn sink her teeth into me again." He felt the area where he'd been bitten, running his finger over the bite mark. "Bites cause hallucinations."

"Attention all personnel of the ship, we have arrived at destination PN001." Brad's voice came over a ship-wide loudspeaker. "Personal members of my team, report to the bridge immediately. All other crew will perform their duties as regularly scheduled. And, as for you, Nelius," The aformentioned demon froze, "Come on down to the bridge as well. I happen to have something planned for you." The speaker clicked off.

"Oh, boy. I can only wonder what it is Captain Fuzzpants has up his sleeves." Taking the lift back down, Nelius headed for the bridge of the ship, where he saw other Felynn, who he guessed were part of Brad's team. Though some of them were giving him looks, he ignored it and patiently waited for Brad to show up.

When the aformentioned Overlord/Guardian did show up, he was wearing something vastly different from when Nelius saw him normally. With this wear, he looked pretty close to human.

"All right, team members, you know what to do, so get out there and begin." He opened one of the doors, allowing the Felynn to filter out. "As for you, Nelius." He focused his attention on the only non-Feline demon. "As it is, the Overlord of this netherworld has allowed us to sign one of her vassals as a new crewperson, and I'm sending you to go get that new person."

"Why send me? Why can't you send someone else?"

"One, because I can, and two, everyone else's time cards are full. Now, get going." Pressing a button, a hatch in the ceiling opened up, and a springboard beneath Brad's feet activated, sending the jaguar flying out of his own ship. Nelius just watched on as Brad did something most Felynn are incapable of doing.

"Weirdo." He face-palmed.

"You should see him on his birthday. He almost dropped a steamroller on me, screaming 'WRYYYYYYYYYY!' the whole way." Guess who this was?

"If that's him sober..." He'd rather not finish that sentence.

"He only really celebrates it every few years."

"Man, I'd really..." He then turned his attention to his companion. "Just how long have you been standing there?"

"Long enough to see him catapult himself to the Overlord's Castle. What about you?"

"Never mind that." He left the ship.

MAKAI!

"Shit." He's lost. "Damn Brad, not even telling me who it was I'm supposed to find. Oh, when I get back to the ship.." Madly plotting his revenge against Brad, he failed to notice that he had a visitor following behind. "Oh yeah, I'll pound him into a bloody, pulpy piece of demon and then I'll... what the hell?" He noticed that his thoughts had taken a turn from violence to... well, I'll just allow you to imagine that next part on your own, since trying to describe it here would definitely push the T boundaries of this fic. "Whoa, that bite must've had some weird side-effects." He just continued on, attempting to plot against the jaguar Overlord, but his thoughts kept changing back to what would break the T bounds of this fic wide open. "Damn it all. I can't keep my thoughts nice and bloody."

'He's more resistant than I'd thought, though messing with him is so much fun.' The stalker in question was in fact, a Succubus.

Beleive it or not, there are actually two known subspecies of Succubus in the Netherworlds. The common succubus, species HRD, has curved horns and transforms its tail into a snake head to attack its opponents. This particular succubus was a lesser known species, RYJ, which has spiral horns like Priere's and a noticable lack of a tail, instead using its wings to attack.

'It makes me wonder what he's... oh!' She had to crouch behind a tree in order to evade being seen. 'He's definitely not like the other demons around here.'

"Agh! To hell with this!" He turned around and began heading back to the ship. "I'm going to find that walking furball and.." Sensing that those strange visions were beginning to seep back into his mind, he shook them off, then got an idea. As he headed back, he stooped down and picked up a small stone. When the visions began to creep back, he spun around and flung the stone, nailing someone square between the eyes.

"Aah!" Stumbling in pain, the succubus was flushed out of her hiding spot.

"Figured as much. No other demon has the ability to influence others' thoughts." Nelius noted. "If I'd been thinking of other things, you might've gotten to me."

"Still, did you have to throw that stone?"

"It was either that, or blast you to kingdom come via Star energy. Take a pick." He turned back in the direction of the ship. "Either way, I've got work to do. Bye." Spreading his wings out, he quickly began flying back toward the ship.

"Grr. So, that's how he wants to play, huh?" Allowing her own wings to spread, she took flight, ready to give chase. "After all, I was one of her best; no way he's going to get off so easily."

MAKAI!

"So, that's what became of him." Priere was in the middle of a discussion with Brad. "Never thought he'd be among one of your own."

"He proved to be of use, so I hired him on." Brad explained. "Though, I wonder how he's doing in finding that new recruit of ours."

A section of the castle blasted away, giving Brad the answer to his question. Nelius had been blasted in the back with a Thunderbolt attack, causing him to go flying face first through the wall into Priere's Audience Hall.

MAKAI!

I was planning on adding more to this chapter, but I decided to add that in to the next one, since I'll have more leeway on what happens next.

Until Next chapter,

Cornell Valentine Gainsborough