Legacy of Travas

Chapter 2: Crude Memories and Revenge

*In Greytail's recruiting office*

With Travas and Janos journeying towards the Alopex Academy Hangar, the Starfox family enters inside Richard Greytail's office for a meeting concerning there 'deceased' son, Travas. As they enter, they see some achievements and awards that their son had accomplished without them even knowing. Shortly after, Richard appears before them as he sees the still grieving family in his office.

"It's nice to see you again Mr. and Mrs. Starfox, and of course your children as well. I would like to offer my condolences and sympathies about the loss of your son a week ago in the hangar", Richard Greytail said to the grieving family and hugs the parents. "Here are some of his achievements Travas never had the chance to pick up from the hangar before his untimely passing", he continued as he hands them to the Starfox Family.

"*Sobs* I never knew that Travas had been awarded so many achievements… why did he not tell us about them", Victoria said while choking back a sob as Mr. Starfox was comforting their children and his wife.

"*Sobs uncontrollably* I miss Travas… If those wretched felin pests had never showed up at the hangar, he would still be here", Scarlet spoke with saddened anger as she choked back a sob and clenches her fist. "I'll never forget their laughs… I'll never forgive them for what they did and if I ever see them again… I'LL KILL THEM WITH MY BARE HAND-PAWS", She screamed loudly in pure hatred as it woke up Erica Starfox from her slumber, causing her to cry heavily. Thus, she noticed this and calms down almost instantly.

"SCARLET! ENOUGH", Victoria screamed to her daughter while she tries to comfort Erica. "It's alright, Erica everything's going to be okay", she said softly as she hummed a lullaby to help calm her down and allow her to sleep once more.

*Just outside the hangar parking lot*

Just outside and within a vast, yet quiet parking lot, both Travas and Janos arrives to the hangar upon which his murder took place. But within the instant they enter, Travas begins to have more flashbacks of his past, covering his face as he feels a sudden, sharp pain in his head.

*Flashback*

"We're here, SAS", Travas said while taking the blindfold off of her, showing her the hangar where the jets were being place. "Allow me to give you the grand tour of the hangar", he continued as Scarlet's eyes shot open with happiness.

"Yay, I get to see the Jets! Thank you so much, big brother", Scarlet spoke happily while jumping with excitement.

"Anytime, Scarlet, and happy birthday", Travas replied while he carries Scarlet on his shoulders and shows her around the place. Though about five minutes of showing her the offices, gym, and lunchroom, they finally arrive to the jets as Scarlet looked upon them with eyes shot wide open in amazement. But within a few moments later, three felin thugs came out of the shadows and confronted them.

"Well now, what do we have here", the first felin thug said while smirking upon the two vulpins.

"It seems that we have two vulpins entering upon the hangar while we were trying to work or even without any prior notice", the second felin thug said evilly as Travas held onto Scarlet and backed away from them slowly.

"And look over here, boys, it seems that we have a Vulpin Astro Officer upon the scene. What are you gonna do, arrest us on the spot", the third felin thug said sadistically as they approached the two vulpins with eager eyes, ready for the fight to begin.

"Travas, I'm scared", Scarlet said as she held onto her brother's leg fearfully, unknown to her that she would be able to hold onto Travas for the last time.

Travas and Janos enter the same hangar in which he and his sister were confronted by the felins the week before. And just like at home, Travas once again follows the same exact movements he did in the event while he grabbed a combat knife for future use.

"Scarlet, RUN", Travas yells to her as she did what she told while he tried to fight them long enough so that his younger sister could have enough time to hide. Though she found a spot, she still watched in horror as the events were taking place between Travas and the three felin thugs.

On Travas' side, he was doing well until he noticed the third felin thugs' eyes began to glow a green aura around them briefly. It was then that the same thug performs a kick on Travas' ankle that knocks him onto his back on the floor.

"End it… NOW!" the second felin yelled as the third felin thug, with the green aura eyes, unsheathed his claws that were as thin as a blade. It was then that he had finally and fatally stabbed Travas in the chest as he screamed in agonizing pain, though the attack itself had not ended his life immediately.

His sister could only watch in horror on what had taken place as the thugs robbed Travas of his paper credits and laughed while running away from the scene. Scarlet then runs towards her brother as he lied there dying on the spot. He then looks slightly narrow, yet saddened upon Scarlet's green eyes as he coughed up a small amount of blood.

"Scarlet... *coughs* Please…don't have a…hatred…for", Travas had tried to finish what he was saying before choking on his blood, upon which he has now become nothing more than a lifeless body lying on the floor as Scarlet looked upon her brother's now dead body in tears.

*Flashback End*.

In that instant, Travas stabbed himself in the heart while he was on the ground in the same way that happened to him before he died. Then he got back up to his knees and pulled the knife out of his chest and the wound regenerates as if nothing happened while looking upon his own reflection from one of the ships.

"Holy shit", Travas said in slight shock as he grinned and began to chuckle upon his sudden discovery. Within a moment, he began to laugh ghastly upon his rejuvenation abilities loudly with vengeance as he suddenly slammed his fists onto the ground, creating a small crater on the spot. Shortly after, he got back up on his feet and caught the scent of two of his killers located nearby his and Janos' current position.

*In Greytail's office*

"I wish to apologize for Scarlet's sudden outburst that has occurred just now. I'll make sure that this doesn't happen again", Travas Starfox Sr. said to Richard Greytail as he shortly looked towards Scarlet with angered eyes, scaring the young vixen as she swallowed heavily from her mother's angered expression.

"Although I admit that it was uncalled for, I honestly can't blame her since she has witnessed her own brother get-"; he tried to finish as he was interrupted by a strange, yet vengeful laugh heard not too far from his office. Coincidently, it had been the same exact, dementedly vengeful laughter Travas had created, upon which had echoed within the halls as everyone inside Greytail's Office turned towards the direction from which it came from.

"What the kenal was that, and where did that noise come from", Victoria Starfox asked in a shocking, frightened tone. Yet, something about that ghastly laugh caused her to feel a chill down her spine… and a sense of familiarity as well.

"And why did it sound so… familiar", Scarlet asked softly as she looked upon her parents in a questioning manner. But at the same time, the ghastly laugh began to trouble her almost immediately, causing her to grip upon her mother's sleeveless yellow dress tightly. In a similar manner, she began to cover her face within her mother's dress by means of hiding from the ghastly noise.

"I don't know Scarlet… but me and Greytail are going to check it out", Travas Sr. spoke with seriousness as he looked upon his mate. "Victoria, Stay with the kits, ok", He said to his wife as she nodded in response.

"Alright, Travas… be careful…" Victoria replied as Travas Sr. nodded and approached Richard calmly.

In that instant, he had left with Richard Greytail to begin investigating the source of the ghastly laughter. Though they didn't find anything wrong with the ships or equipment, they did catch a glimpse of what seemed to be a winged being and his vulpin assistant heading into the underground tunnel within a far distance from their position.

*In the underground route*

Within the underground route, Travas shuts the tunnel door tightly and jams the lock so nobody else could get to them… or at least buy them some time.

"C'mon, we gotta get moving before the officers stationed here start breaking the tunnel hatch down", Travas told Janos as he sped up the tempo of his running speed while following the scents of two of his three murderers. Soon enough, they had finally stumbled upon their hideout, thus explaining how they were able to get into the hangar in the first place.

"Ha! Ha! Ha! We did it! We managed to get an unbelievable amount of the supplies from the hangar's ships. It was a good thing that we were able to disguise themselves as employees of the Alopex supply shipment", the First Felin Thug shouted to the second, who had been sitting right across from him.

"I agree with you there, buddy. If we had never stolen the supplies within the ships, we wouldn't be so fucking rich as of now", the Second Felin Thug replied as he laughs hysterically and throws some of the money up in the air.

"Damn straight there, pal…" the First Felin spoke as his expression turned from the once excited one to a more serious, angered one. "However, we would've gotten more if that vulpin dickhead and his baby sister didn't show up. Fuck, I can't wait to get my claws on her and slit her fucking throat out for seeing us kill that sorry bastard", he yelled in rage as the second one was about to say something until he himself heard a disturbing noise.

"Hey, did you hear something", the Second Felin thug asked the First one as the noise kept getting louder, knowing that it's headed their direction. Soon enough, a Hooded Vulpin figure wearing a hockey mask appears before them, thus looking at the two Felin Thugs dead in the eye as they stood onto their feet and prepared to fight the mysterious vulpin.

"Hey who the fuck do you think you are trying to make some disturbing ass noises… are you intentionally trying to freak us the kenal out…huh…?!" the First Felin thug said to the Hooded Vulpin figure.

"You may have caught our attention, but you haven't managed to spook us even at the slightest, you hockey player hot shot", the second thug replied as the vulpin figure cracks his knuckles and neck as his claws slightly grow sharper than usual.

"And who the fuck do you think you are when you murdered an Academy piloting student right in front of his own sister's eyes", the vulpin figure growled at them as his green eyes glowed, eager to have them slaughtered by his hand-paw.

"Dude, let's have this fucker learn his place", the Second Thug yelled while he began to throw punches at the hooded vulpin. However, the Hooded Vulpin had simply, effortlessly and calmly dodges his attacks.

"What the fuck, dude, is this the best you've got", the Hooded Vulpin mockingly asked the Second Thug as he simply caught the attacker's punches after he stopped dodging them. The First one was able to punch the hooded vulpin by surprise… yet all it had done was that knock the hockey mask he wore right off of his face. Because of this, the Hooded Vulpin takes his hood off in response to losing his mask and revealing to the Felin Thugs that it was the same vulpin that they had murdered the week before.

"You?!" the First Felin Thug said in shock upon seeing him. "This can't be possible", he continued as he slightly backed away from.

"No way", the Second one replied as well as his eyes buck in shock. "There's no fucking way", he repeated loudly while cursing to himself and looking upon their opponent.

"We've killed your sorry ass! There ain't no coming back from the grave, and I mean no coming back", the First Thug yelled angrily and shocked as he clenched his fists in rage.

Through his own actions, Travas just simply chuckles at them both as he grins with satisfaction, obviously bloodthirsty and ready for the kill. Just like his opponents, he begins cracking his knuckles and begins walking towards the First Felin Thug with a satisfactory vengeance coursing within his mind.

"Sorry to disappoint you both, but it looks like I have made my return from the depths of my own grave, and I'm gonna tell you that I am a lot stronger than then I was before. I will also tell you that this isn't going to be pleasant for either of you whatsoever", Travas replied as he now attacks the first one with his punch, sending him flying to the wall twenty-five meters away from him and crash landing on the wall.

Upon impact, the first thug now screamed in agonizing pain as Travas appears before him within a small fraction of a second due to his heightened speed. He also grabs the Thug by the neck and pulls him up as if he were nothing more than a mere feather.

"I am going to tell you that I am limited on my patience with you, you filthy thug… and you better answer what I am about to ask you", Travas said aggressively as he tightened the grip around the first felin thug's throat. "Why did your group in the Hangar attack and murder me while I was trying to give my sister a tour of the Academy… and right in front of her own eyes", he continued as the first felin didn't reply to his question, thus causing him to tighten the grip on the Thug's throat. "*Growls in anger* ANSWER ME", he continued as he tightened the grip around the first thug's throat even harder than before.

"*coughs* we… we didn't have a choice. We had to kill you so nobody would find out *choke* about our plans to rob the place of its wealth", the First Thug answered while Travas kept a strong grip around the Felin's neck.

"*Growls in anger* everyone has a choice… and you chose to MURDER ME, STEAL MY WELL-EARNED MONEY AS I WAS DYING, AND MENTALLY SCARRING MY SISTER FOR THE REST OF HER LIFE BECAUSE OF YOUR GREEDY DECISION! HOW DARE YOU", Travas screamed at him with pure hatred while throwing him another thirty meters to another wall where there have gas cans been located, badly damaging the Thug's body badly.

"Fuck, I gotta do something about this before that crazy vulpin rips his head right off of his body", the Second Felin Thug said as he tried to run to his partner in crime in an attempt to save him. However he had been stopped by what appears to be a winged creature he's never seen before.

"By what right did you foolish beings have, damned one, when you're companions struck the blade upon Travas' beating heart, killing him right in from of his innocent sister and robbed him of his common wealth", Janos asks coldly as he pins him on the wall. "Answer me at once, you vile bastard, before I rip out your throat from your wretched body", he continued, losing his patience while gripping his sharp claws and digging into the Second Thug's furred flesh.

"AAAARRRGGGGHHH, it was for the money, all about the money", the Second Thug painfully screamed at the winged being. "And who or what the fuck are you", he asked him angrily while choking upon the winged being's grip upon his neck.

"My name is Janos Audron, and I am one of the most ancient vampires in Nosgoth's history, and, in this specific occasion, your assassin", Janos answered as he prepared his arm and claws for the kill. After he had said those words to the Second Felin Thug, he uses his arm to impale the thug through his chest, killing him instantly as he dropped the heart onto the steel floor. Janos then drinks the blood of the thug he just killed.

"NOOOOOOOOO, YOU BASTARDS, I'M GONNA FUCKING KILL YOU ALL", the First Thug screams at them in anger as Travas' grip tightens on his throat, causing him to gasp for air instantly.

"I don't think you have any authority over either of us. Now, tell me where the final thug can be found… the one that stabbed me in the heart, sliced the side of my neck, and assassinated me in front of my horrified sister's eyes", Travas asked calmly, but firmly.

"Why should I tell you blood sucking mother fuckers anyhow? You won't be able to find him with the information I have anyways", the First Thug painfully claimed as he continued to gasp for air from Travas' tightening grip upon his throat.

"WHERE IS HE, YOU MURDEROUS MOTHER FUCKER", Travas asked angrily and at the point to killing him there and now. However, he does light a match for he saw some gas cans nearby, causing the Felin Thug to tense up in fear.

"*chokes* you won't find him here. He's made his way back towards Alden and might already at his hideout. However, *coughs* he never told me where exactly he or his hideout was on Alden since he didn't trust me with that information. I swear I'm not lying to you guys about this", the First Thug told both Travas and Janos while tensing up in fear. Then knowing that this was the truth, Travas blows out the match and grabs him by his shirt.

"CONGRADULATIONS, fellow Felin Thug, you've just bought yourself a fighting chance", Travas yelled as he pulls out a deck of playing cards he had in his hoodie pocket and quickly shuffles the deck. Finally spreads them out evenly facedown while holding them. "Pick a card, Felin, c'mon", he eagerly said while waiting for the thug to pick his card. Soon enough after some time of hesitation, he picks his card and pulls back a bit as Travas shuffles the deck of cards to get his.

Once he was finished, the felin thug hesitates as he slowly reveals his card: The Jack of Spades. It was then that Travas revealed his own card: The King of Spades, winning the match as he smirks.

"The Jack of Spades, such a shame…" Travas said while he scatters the cards upon the thug's face. The Thug slowly, yet immediately kneels before him and begins to beg for mercy, but the only result is his own death that is about to come shortly.

"Please, Travas… I'm sorry, I'm so sorry about what happened to you", the first thug pleaded, hoping to be spared. But in the end, Travas had picked him up by the throat once more and had unsheathed his claws, getting ready for the kill at last as the Felin Thug struggles to get free.

"I know you are… however", Travas tells him as he impales him through his chest with his arm and sinks his fangs into the Thug's neck, draining the blood from his body. Once he finishes, he drops the Felin's lifeless body onto the ground. "It will never undo the damage you've done towards me and my family", he continued as he wipes the blood from his face and muzzle with his hoodie sleeve. With a calm sigh, Travas and Janos place both bodies into large-sized trash bags located near the gas cans and carried them to a nearby outer space disposal some sixty meters from the hideout.

Upon arriving, they set the bags down into the vent and wire them with explosives found in the thugs' hideout. Once they finish, they begin to head for the disposal controls located next to the vents themselves.

"Alright, it's about time we dispose of the bodies and set the hideout on fire, leaving no evidence behind. Is that understood", Travas explained to Janos as he presses the button that sent the bodies into space.

"I can agree with you, but why set the hideout into flames", Janos asked as Travas grabbed the detonator from his hoodie pocket.

"The reason why is that I don't want any evidence of your existence here, my presence on Alopex, or that these assassinations had occurred", Travas explained as he pressed the detonation switch after the bodies had gotten to a safe distance from the Alopex Station, exploding them like fireworks shot on New Years' Day. "Now that I mention it, we should also head back to my family Crypt and fix the coffin up to show no evidence of my resurrection ever happening. Otherwise if they find anything unusual in the Crypt, it could spark a series of mysteries and possible panic among my family, friends, and the Residents on Alopex", he explained further into it as he grabbed some gas cans and opened them up with his claws before splattering them all over the hideout.

Once they have finished their work, they light up another match and throw it to the ground, setting the once thug occupied hideout ablaze. As the hideout burns, they head up to the underground route exit leading back to the parking lot where Travas and Janos get on the hover bike and head to their next destination.

*At the Hangar entrance to the underground route*

For what had taken both Travas Sr. and Richard Greytail minutes had seemed like hours, to get the Underground Route door open. By the time they arrived to the Underground Route, however, they had discovered that some areas of the place had been set ablaze. But by whom or what their motives were of doing this, they did not know.

"What in the kenal happened to this place", Richard asked with great shock from the sight. "And do you think it may have been the mysterious winged creature being responsible for this", he continued to ask.

"I don't know, Greytail, but one thing for sure is that we need to get the kenal out of here and get help before the entire Academy becomes nothing more than ashes to the ground", Travas Sr. replied with his eyes bucked in shock, wondering upon who or what could do such a thing. They now head back to Greytail's office and pick his family up before the fire got worse.

Upon arriving, they grab the rest of Travas Sr.'s family and some other necessary items and documents as they headed towards the nearest emergency exit for safety.

*Outside in the parking lot*

While Travas Sr. and Richard Greytail were escaping from the fire, Travas unlocks the latch opening from the Underground Route Exit. Soon, he and Janos begin to head towards the hover bike just within a mere ten meters from them. By the time they got to the bike however, the alarm goes off and a few of the local authorities arrive onto the scene.

"Fuck, it's the Solarfox Strikeforce. If they see my face or yours for that matter, there won't be just questions spiraling out of control, but also a lot of unwanted media, panic, and persecution as well. We definitely gotta get the fuck outta here or at least lay low for some time", Travas said with an urging tone in his voice.

"I would use my magic to teleport us back onto the land of Nosgoth", Janos replied. "However, I used most of my magic upon bringing you back into this world. It's going to at least take about two to three weeks before I can be able to cast even the simplest of spells for us to make our escape", he continued as Travas face-pawed in response.

"Great", Travas cursed to himself as he puts his hood on and starts the engine. "The least we can do now is head back to my family Crypt and try to fix up the place so they'll be no evidence of your presence or my grave being tampered with", he continued as he presses on the gas and begins driving.

While Janos puts his hood over his head, he begins to stare at the city and sky with amazement upon the kind of technology they have.

"I understand well, and do you know of another path that we can take without these 'local Authorities' pursuing us there", Janos asked calmly while holding onto Travas as he drove the hover bike.

"Luckily, yes", Travas replied back. "Me and a few buddies of mine used to go to the graveyard and help the grave keeper clean up the place so we could relieve him of some of his burdens from the mess people sometimes make", he continued on as he quickly, but carefully turns on the road and heads into the artificial forest to lose whatever authorities they had following them.

About a few minutes later and no sign of any authorities, they begin to enter the graveyard through the back trail and head into the Starfox family Crypt. They then park the hover bike behind the Crypt and enter inside to begin the repairs on Travas' coffin in order to show no signs of his resurrection or Janos' appearance whatsoever.

"We gotta get this done fast and carefully so nobody could find us or show that there's no evidence of your presence ever being here", Travas urgently said as he continued to work on the coffin in the Crypt. Janos simply nodded in agreement and began to use the leftover magic to fix the Crypt. About ten minutes of working, they finish and Travas places the coffin back on its spot, looking untouched and not tampered with anything else.

"Alright, do you know a place where we can remain in the shadows", Janos curiously asks.

"Yes", Travas replied. "There is another underground route that takes us to the abandoned Hospital basement nearby. But first, we have to stop by my former home, drop off the hover bike and clean the blood off of it while removing the scent. Plus I have to grab some of my stuff and have it ready for when we do teleport to Nosgoth", he continued.

They then go outside and start the hover bike engine as they hear sirens coming closer to the graveyard. Upon hearing this, Travas presses on the gas and speed off out of the grave before they arrived, making his former home his destination as he now has to pack up whatever he can and needs for the trip to Nosgoth sometime in the future. Less than half-an-hour later, they arrive and enter the Garage as his relatives are still out of the house, but he knows that he had to be quick since they may be on their way home. They now head to his room, but before he packs his things, he grabs a fuel tank from under his bed and begins to head back to the garage

"Janos, head to my room and stay there, I have to fill up the bike with fuel so that nobody notices that it was used recently" Travas says to Janos as he replied by simply nodding at him. With the fuel tank in his hands, Travas heads into the garage to refuel the tank, showing no signs that it was used recently. After the deed was done, he heads back into his room to begin packing a lot of his things. He had packed many items such as multiple pairs of clothes, photo books he had, the drawing Scarlet did for him, and his Metal CDs.

Shortly after he finished packing up, Travas grabbed some protective waterproof gloves to wear since he knew of the water's acidic touch to vampires. He then grabbed a bucket of water and the towel as he started to clean the blood stains off of the bike quickly, but thoroughly. Once he finishes, he applies a small, but strong coat of some sort of anti-scent liquid onto the cleaned up hover bike to get rid of the scent of blood on it. Before finishing up, he grabs an infrared flashlight and uses it to spot any other possible blood stains on the bike. But with luck on his side, no blood is seen on there, thus Travas turns it off, cleans the handle, and places it back to where he got it. Afterwards, he heads back into his former bedroom and meets up with Janos waiting inside.

"Alright, let's get to the abandoned Hospital basement so we can lay low for a while, just long enough for you to regain your teleportation abilities", Travas said as he headed towards the underground route. Janos follows him shortly as the front door to Travas' house begins to unlock, with his family entering as Janos quickly, but quietly closed the latch without anyone noticing. Once everything was set, Janos and Travas begin to head into their next destination, though temporary: The abandoned Hospital basement, where they shall plan their next moves from there on out.

A/N:

Travas, Scarlet, Victoria, Erica, Travas Sr., Richard Greytail, and the Three Felin Thugs © Shawntae Howard
Janos, © Edios/Crystal Dynamics/Silicon Knights/Square Enix Europe
Story © me