Opening File: Arthur Eld
Arthur Eld was the ancient King of Gilead. He attempted to unite the entire world against the Fallen. The line of Deschain (the line of such gunslingers as Steven and Roland) is descended from one of his forty gillies. The Crimson King is also descended from Arthur Eld although it is unclear how this came to be.
He was believed to be the King Arthur of legend and the sword Excalibur was melted down to make the sandalwood guns that Roland inherited but recent evidence has long since disproved that theory.
Close File
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"Bloodlines are how family history is often traced. It is important to know your family history but family is not solely rooted in blood." TOM said as the file closed. "The one thing more important in a family than blood is the emotional bonds that connects a family together. Blood will only get you so far."
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"Mr. Mayor, I have Team REYN with us. Apologies for the delay of the report, but we had eh... situation over here." Major Glory explained to the mayor who was on private channel with him and along with some heroes and hunters present, including Capital G, White Tiger, Kazemon, Lowemon, Artemis, Superboy, Garnet who decided to see what they knew about the drones that attacked and Team REYN.
When Greg had returned from Valhallen's room and told her Amethyst was gone Garnet had quickly realized that Amethyst must have gone to Asgard with Johnny which worried the fusion deeply. The Asgardians was not likely to have forgotten the Gems and the wars they had waged against Earth and Asgard during the Rebellion.
Erika returned to her group, unable to grasp what happened earlier and still feel she was in a bad dream.
Yara noticed the look on her face and leaned towards her side to whisper. "Hey, something up?"
"Don't ask. Trying to clear my head and how my father or the entire tribe will take what I have to tell them." Erika muttered under her breath, mentally picturing them in both uproar and worry for the future in the hands of a buffoon.
"Well, I'll be sure to hear about it later. I would like to speak to them if you please." Phil responded.
Ross nodded and approached him, standing next to the hero. "We've been collecting data on several relics that were dug up and those the Global Justice Agents found from Satyra agents that kept them hidden in the base near South Asia or the underwater ruins from our previous mission." Ross sent him images through the laptop and the others present, giving each of them photos of ruins that showed carvings of serpentine creatures, but also various other creatures.
Another that had what looked like Giants stood beside the natives against another that had colorful feminine beings fighting them and the Grimm from one side, possibly some sort of battle that took place and... Cars and vehicles which caught some by surprise to notice.
Capital G looked at them close, curious about them but uncertain what it is they trying to show them. "So there were some ancient ruins they're interested in?"
Kazemon looked at them and somewhat curious and noticed something each of the images had. "Wait, I think I see it, that logo?" She pointed her finger on an image with the clearest logo. "That there, the one that looks like a dragon."
Major Glory typed in the order for the computer to zoom in on the logo Kazemon found, narrowing his eyes to look at it, something about it seems... familiar-no, he knows it looks familiar and recognized it anyway as his eyes shot wide open. "Liberty's cape! That look a lot like-"
"Satyra." Phil confirmed. "I knew something seemed off and that it was too much of a big coincidence for a terrorist group to have the same logo as some ancient civilization. You certain about this?"
"We are, Mayor Sebben." North stood up and took his turn to speak. "Before our team formed, both Ross and myself found something off about them smuggling ancient relics and Cryptids under orders by the leader."
"Would've found something big in A. Nigma but someone there didn't like me or anyone snooping around." Ross said.
The large primate Mobian nodded. "When I was in Russia to find my old friends saying they wanted to join it to voice for equality, without blood between species." His face turned to a frown, shutting his eyes and fists clenched when noticed by some but remained quiet. "They had good hearts, never harmed a soul or ill towards humans. But when I met them again after many years... they were not the same again, no longer the friends I remember, filled with rage, hatred and the desire to kill any human or any of their own kind helping them." He took a deep breath, not wanting to let his anger overcome his emotion and tried to calm his mind.
They gave him sympathy over experience of the pain.
Ross decided to step in, putting his hand on the larger teammate to take over. "I myself am a Faunus, but even I couldn't stand the so-called justice they spout out by murder and attacking innocent people on all sides when many countries are slowly building a better future for all. We met some shady looking characters, even Dark Kat one time."
This caught the Swat Kats' attention and surprised to hear this. "Wait a minute, you met Dark Kat?" T-Bone asked if they were sure to have run into one of their biggest enemies.
"Large demon looking cat in a medieval getup and an evil laugh? Oh yeah." Yara nodded her head.
North would never forget his encounter with one of the lieutenants. "I remember the day I faced Dark Kat, when I first met him it were as if... he was a demon."
"Sounds about right." Razor commented.
"Sounds like a Fallen." Capital G said.
"It is possible. Though the majority of the Fallen are humans who have been infused with the essence of the Grimm there are some who are Faunus such as Monkey Fist." Sebben observed.
Kazemon and Lowemon glanced at each other, remembering the Fallen that they had fought and lost against.
"It stands to reason that it is possible Mobian based Fallen can exist as well." Sebben continued.
"So if Dark Kat is a Fallen does that mean that Satyra is allied with the other Fallen?" Erika asked.
"Though possible I do not think so. However I do believe Satyra's origins are linked with the ancient ruins Team REYN has spoken of and possibly even Cryptids that are researched by the Saturday family." Sebben narrowed one eye. "The Saturdays also have reason to believe that V.V. Argost is connected with the Satyra somehow."
"I always liked that TV show…Before I knew the kind of person Argost really is." Erika admitted, sounding slightly ashamed. "If he is involved with the Satyra it means they have a lot of influence and resources."
"Especially considering what this symbol represents." Sebben stated, bringing up a separate file.
"The Legends of Kur?" Razor asked.
"A particularly powerful and ancient Cryptid, believed to be the creature who started the myth of dragons on this world. This symbol represented those who worshipped Kur during the time of the ancient world during the Connected Era. According to legend Kur was eventually defeated by the warrior-king Gilgamesh but over twelve years ago the Secret Scientists discovered a stone that can lead whoever finds it to Kur." Sebben explained. "I believe this might be Satyra's main objective. Kur is said to have the power to control all the cryptids in the world, gathering them into an army against all humanity, Humans, Faunus and Mobians."
"Such power in the hands of such people…The world would be bathed in blood." Ross said, summing up everyone's thoughts in one sentence. "And that doesn't even come close to listing all of our problems."
He brought up an image of the drones that attacked the Hall of Heroes. "Yara, what did you find on these drones?"
"They are not just advanced. They are terrifying advanced." Yara started. "Their bodies are more advanced than any kind of robot I have ever seen. Their 'humanoid' forms are different but somewhat match the robots on our planet by having arms, legs, a torso and a head but that's pretty much where the similarities end. Those jet drones have antigravity units built into them that allow them to fly indefinitely and motorcycle drones have wheels for legs but I saw the wheels can split apart to form legs but they are much less mobile in that mode."
She brought images of the drones she had examined.
"What really stand out are these little things." She zoomed in on a small sphere shaped device connected to a cluster of microchips. "These I think are tied to how the drones shift into vehicle mode and robot mode. I took one and hooked it up and I found out that these chips are basically the drone's brain and attached to the brain is what it called a transformation cog, or T-cog for short. I also should mention they smell funny, just getting that out there."
"How does it work?" Ross asked, getting his teammate back on track.
"Basically the T-cogs are some kind of bio-mechanism that allows these drones to scan, transform and integrate weapon systems in whatever form they have. Though these drones already had their vehicle and robot modes programmed into them when they were built." Yara continued. "Here's the real interesting part."
She zoomed in again on the brain chips and showed everyone a strange green logo. Sebben narrowed his eye when he saw it.
"That emblem. I've never seen it before."
"I have…" Up till now Garnet had been silent but when she saw the green emblem she suddenly was taken over by a deep anger that grew the more she stared at the logo. "…That's the symbol of the Racing Drones."
"The Racing Drones?" Major Glory looked at Garnet. "You seem to know these constructs, Miss Garnet."
"They…" Garnet took a deep breath. "They are an ancient enemy of both the Earth and Homeworld. If these machines were a new form of these drones…Then we are all in serious danger."
Before Glory could ask anything more the computer beeped, earning his attention. "Someone is at the door." He brought up an image from the outer security cameras outside to see who it was.
"Pearl!" Garnet exclaimed and saw who she was with. "And she's with Peridot."
"I am letting them in. We'll discuss these drones later." Major Glory decided that everything they had learned was enough for now.
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"…aw Golb." Rino groaned, remembering what was said on the tomb.
Whoever disturbs this sarcophagus shall face the undead wrath of Arthur Eld.
-So sayeth his firstborn son Los the Crimson King
The dried blood around the tomb suddenly came to life and crawled inside. A second later there was a pounding sound at first but with each sound the tomb cracked until the fifth sound when it shattered opened. From the tomb rose none other than Arthur Eld, King of Gilead. He was dressed in armor befitting a king, his skin was pale white, his hair and goatee were black and his eyes glowed red.
He looked down at the ground, spotting his crown and picked it up, placing it on his head. He then stared at Team SEKRR, narrowing his eyes in contempt.
"Okay, just before you try to kill us I want it on the record that none of us actually touched the crown." Keanu said and pointed at Rino. "It's all his fault."
Rino glared but said nothing as Arthur Eld picked up his sword. In the meantime Extor had rushed over to Raven and pulled out a small container.
"Here. This is a specialized healing ointment I developed on occasions like this." Extor said, holding out to Raven. "It heals wounds, especially burn wounds quickly."
Normally Raven would have refused as she is able to heal herself but required her to go into a healing trance and she had no time for that. So she took the cream and applied it to her burns. "Thank you."
Extor nodded and watched as Arthur Eld picked up his sword, his Aura shining so bright it lit up the chamber. "You might want to keep that cream close. Arthur Eld, or whatever is left of him seems pretty keen on carrying out his so-called son's warning."
Scotty and Keanu pulled out their swords as Arthur Eld let out a roar and charged straight at them. Scotty was first as he stepped in front of Keanu and blocked Eld's sword. Both the King and the Scotsman had their swords locked together as they struggled to overpower each other. As this happened something strange happened…
There was a sudden flash and Scotty could have sworn he was day dreaming.
"He is too focused on eating Crimson then to pay attention on what's around him. It's as if we don't exist." Spoke a bald man wearing a black cloak and he carried a staff in his right hand with a black bead the size of a grape fruit.
This man had black veins traveling down his skin, red eyes with black sclera showing this man was a Fallen. And next to him was a Fallen who perhaps the baddest of them all and worst evil on the planet since Aku. They were in a room, watching as a spider the size of a dog devoured the corpse of a woman on a bed.
"He's still a baby, he barely knows what to do old friend," Sammael said as he walked closer to the newborn to get a closer look at him and the woman's corpse.
Sammael walked around the bed to see the woman's face and found it. She had long black hair and red eyes but her sclera was still white. Her face showed no shock or fear at being eaten but it did show happiness.
"Maerlyn, was she happy?" Sammael asked as turned his gaze to the spider as it began to eat the woman's own face.
"I believe so Sammael," The Fallen named Maerlyn said as he poked Crimson's son with his staff who just hissed at the older Fallen and went back to eating. "I'm not sure if it was because of a mother's love for her child, the fact that she increased the maximum number of Fallen, or she was just bent."
Crimson's son stops eating and looks at Sammael. Both Fallen stared at each other's eyes.
"I name you Los son of Crimson," Sammael said. "You will be an instrument of chaos and destruction. You will grow and become powerful and when your training is complete you will destroy Gilead, the kingdom of your father Arthur Eld."
And Los replies with a simple hiss.
"Scotty!"
Scotty shook his head at the sound of Keanu's voice, leaving him open as Arthur Eld kicked him back, breaking the lock and went on the attack. He charged and attacked Scotty again but Scotty blocked and parried all of the undead king's strikes. The Scotsman then went on the attack, hitting the king in the stomach and face with the hilt of his claymore.
"Surprise punch!" Keanu jumped in, punching the king in the face.
As he did, the king's eyes flashed and Keanu experienced something really weird.
"This is the city of your forefathers. When the time comes you will be its destruction Los."
Keanu saw two cloaked figures walking through a busy market, ignoring the chatter and the merchants calling out for people to buy their products. The first cloaked figure was tall and appeared to be a kid in his late teens, having black hair and red eyes. The second was a younger kid around ten years old, having brown hair and red eyes.
Keanu could tell they were both Fallen.
"Just as the master told me before John." Los said.
The people gather before big staircase that leads to the castle's entrance.
"What's going on?" Los asked a woman that was passing by.
"King Arthur is presenting his newborn son," the woman said. "The kingdom now has an heir to the throne."
Los turned to John and whispered. "Is this why Sammael had you bring me here John Farson? To see my father, present my half-brother?"
"This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for you," The older Fallen whispered. "After all, once we go through the changes and look just like the other Fallen, you'll never have the opportunity to see them before you ultimately kill them."
The guards then take out horns and blow, getting the crowd to stay silent.
"Presenting King Arthur Eld and his wife Queen Rowena Eld," a knight called out.
The doors open, and two rows of knights step out and stand at attention. Then two people walk out in between the two rows. The first, was a woman in a dark blue dress she had soft brown hair and brown eyes, her face showed a look of contempt. The second was a man with black hair, a goatee, and brown eyes, dressed in armor and with a golden crown on top of his head.
In his arms was a baby wrapped in blankets.
"I, your king Arthur Eld present to you your prince and future ruler," Arthur says as he presents the baby to the crowd. The crowd cheers while Arthur's wife Queen Rowena just looks away with a look of contempt. She was not happy that the heir to the throne was not her own but one of her husband's gillies.
"Do you understand now why I was ordered to bring you here?" John asked. "This was not about letting you see your family for the first time."
"I understand now," Los replied. "Sammael wanted be brought here so I could see my future opponents.
"Good," said John Farson. "Sammael will be pleased."
"Watch your front, man!" Rino's voice called out.
Arthur Eld grabbed Keanu's wrist and flung him over his shoulder, sending him tumbling to the ground. Rino switched his suitcase into its gatling gun mode and fired at the undead king, forcing him back before he could kill Da Samurai.
"What is going on with you guys?!" Rino shouted.
Keanu quickly regrouped with Scotty, readying themselves as Arthur Eld summoned a shield made of light to block Rino's bullets. "Scotty, you see something when you fought this guy?"
"Aye." Scotty nodded. "There's a lot more to this guy then being an undead king."
Arthur surprised them all by firing beams of light at Rino who was forced to duck as the blast sailed over him and left a really big scorch mark on the wall.
"He is able to generate light and use it as a weapon." Extor analyzed, holding up his gauntlets. "This is his Semblance."
Arthur then fired at Extor who blocked the beam with his gauntlets who experienced something bizarre…
He was now in a small arena and a few feet away stood a now seventeen-year-old Los. He wore black clothing prominent red highlights and held a sword in his hand. His skin was now deathly white, and the sclera of his eyes are now black.
Growl!
He turns to see four growling Beowolves approach him. Behind them stood Maerlyn, the older Fallen was commanding the Grimm to follow his commands. One of the wolf Grimm lunged at Los but he disappeared from thin air. The Beowolf is confused until it feels something on its back and then a sword goes through its mouth and it falls over dead.
Los is standing on the Grimm's back and he pulls the sword out. The other three Beowolves lunged toward the Fallen. Los then tackled one of the Beowolves causing it ski across the room until it stopped at Maerlyn's feet. Los then cut a Beowolf in half and turned around swinging his sword to cut down the third.
He then stabbed his sword back without looking into the fourth Beowolf which had begun charging at him again.
"Not much of challenge Maerlyn," Los said as he turned to the wizard Fallen.
"Then perhaps you should watch your back young one," Maerlyn said.
Los then turned around and blocks a sword strike from John Farson. The older Fallen then began to unleash a fury of strikes against Los forcing him on the defensive. He then managed to knock away Los' sword forcing him to start dodging. He then jumped into the air and landed on the other side of the room but too far away to get his sword back.
"How will you counter this," John said pointing his sword toward Los.
The young Fallen gave a wicked smirk and used his semblance to transform into his spider form. He was now a black spider the size of a lion with a strange red eye symbol on his back. He shot a string of web at Farson's sword and pulled it toward himself. The sword flew out of John's hand and Los changes back and caught the blade.
Los then charged at John while the older Fallen turned his arms into scythe like beetle arms. The two engaged in combat and seemed almost evenly matched this time. Then spider legs emerged from Los' back and he started using them to jab at John. Farson was unable to block all the hits and was moved back toward a wall.
Once his Aura simmered Los grinned and impaled the shoulders of the older Fallen into the wall causing him to scream.
"That's enough," Maerlyn said.
Los then retracted the spider legs and they disappear into his back. Maerlyn walked up to the bleeding Farson who was grunting from the pain. The Wizard Fallen then points his staff toward the younger Fallen and the black orb starts to glow and released an energy that healed John of his injuries.
"You've learned to use your Semblance in more ways than originally thought," Maerlyn said. "But you've yet to learn any of your Fallen abilities. You haven't fully mastered the Grimm instinct to kill yet."
"I know," Los said while panting heavily. "But it will come to me."
Maerlyn looks at Los confused of the young Fallen was panting so heavily. "Perhaps it will come sooner than you think."
The doors then open and Sammael walked in with a female Fallen. She was an old looking woman who had black hair tied up in a bun.
Los bowed. "Sammael and Rhea Dubativo."
"I have an assignment for you Los," Sammael said. "Rhea has found a large group of individuals that you will recruit to help you destroy Gilead."
"They are called the Can-Toi they have the bodies of humans and the heads of rats," Rhea explained. "They were summoned from another realm during the days of the old world. A cult of magi specializing in traveling to different realms had called them into our world, but something came with them that killed the magi."
"Whatever came with them is powerful," Sammael said. "You will either recruit it or kill it in order to get control of the Can-Toi."
"I will do as you command Sammael," Los said as he left the room.
Extor grunted as the attack ended and ducked as Arthur Eld slashed his sword at him, trying to cut his head off. "Those weren't your memories. The blood…It came from the very blood that regenerated your body."
"How do you know that?" Keanu asked.
"It is how my Semblance works. I analyze every detail about every person I see right down to the last atom." Extor answered.
Eld ignored this as he continued attacking Extor who held up his gauntlets that sprouted energy blades and used them to block the king's sword and slice him across the chest. He followed up with a punch that sent Arthur Eld into the wall.
"His body is being forcefully manipulated by the blood of Los." Extor quickly said. "These images are a result of his Aura or perhaps magic showing us the memories of the very Fallen who destroyed Gilead."
Rino fired his machine gun at Arthur again but the king conjured a shield and charged at the thief. Rino grunted his suitcase changed into a shield and he used to block Arthur's sword. The king channeled his Semblance into his sword, causing it glow bright.
Bright enough it blinded Rino for a second…
He was in a pitch black cave, watching Los who was wearing black armor and a crimson cloak and heard whispers from the cave.
"Turn back. Only death ahead"
"Turn back. Only death ahead."
"Turn back. Only death ahead."
"Show yourself," Los said while he kept walking. "I do not speak with those who hide in the shadows."
One by one torches are lighted across the cavern revealing the Can-Toi to the young Fallen. Just as Rhea described them, they had the bodies of humans and the heads of rats.
"A great evil lives here," said the closest Can-Toi. "Your sorcerers of a world summoned my people through a thinny. It influenced us to enter it come to them where they would make us their thralls."
"What's a thinny?" Los asked.
"A weak point in reality that anyone cross through and enter a new universe," a second Can-Toi said.
"But it also lead into Todash Space exiled monsters live there," another Can-Toi said. "The evil came through and killed the sorcerers. We became it's thralls so it wouldn't kill us like the rest of it's victims."
"If I kill or subject this creature will you serve me?" Los said.
"If you slay it then my life for you," the first Can-Toi said and all the others agreed by saying. "My life for you."
The words echo throughout the cavern until a growl is heard from a nearby cave silencing the Can-Toi who then huddle into the corners of the cavern and the around stalagmites. The growl was enough to make Rino switch his suitcase to machine gun mode but there was no point since it was all a memory.
"The evil feeds on the flesh of the living and uses their fear as salt," said a Can-Toi. "It rose from the Prim and sees you humans as weak but tasty diner meals."
"I am no human and I have no fear," Los said as he made his way into the cave where the growl came from.
Rino grunted as his shield held off Eld's light sword. "That was funky."
Arthur swung his sword but Raven caught it with her magic and attempted to pick the undead king off the ground. Arthur looked at Raven and fired beams of light from his eyes. Raven hastily dodged, having been forced to release the king in the process.
"His powers are like Starfire's." Raven muttered. "But Extor is right. He's not the real enemy. It's the blood controlling him."
She watched as Scotty and Arthur's blades collided again, resulting in a shockwave that shook the entire chamber. The two then broke apart and started slashing, clashing and dodging each other's blades, the both of them getting a few strikes in before Arthur kicked Scotty away. The Scotsman raised his machine gun leg and shot a dozen rounds at Arthur whose Aura held up the bullets but seemed to weaken under the barrage.
"Keep him busy. I'll try to break the curse." Raven said, folding her legs as she hovered in the air and spoke her signature chant. "Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos."
Her soul self exited her body and flew straight at Arthur Eld as he continued fighting Scotty, entering his mind…
"Show yourself creature,"
Raven spotted the same young teen that all the others had seen, standing inside a deep cavern.
"You are not like the other inhabitants of this world," A growling voice whispered. "You are like me a creature of the Prim but you are born from mortal flesh."
"Our origins may come from the Pit of Hate but we are different," Los said. "Now I'll ask again thou show appear before me."
"I have taken many forms," the creature said. "For you I will use a form I used when I terrorized a town from the first universe I entered."
The grotesque sound of flesh changing is heard before Los and Raven saw the shadows change behind a rock formation and once it stops the creature steps into the light. It had white skin, red lips, orange hair, yellow-orange eyes, and wore a white jester outfit, a red painted nose, and in its hand was a string that connected to a floating red sphere. It resembled a man but Los and Raven felt that it wasn't one.
"What are you?" Asked Los.
"I am IT," the creature said and then gestured to the sphere connected to the string. "Would you like a balloon?"
"Get that thing out of my sight mongrel," Los said.
"Ooh, funny choice of words coming from an impure like you," IT said while letting go of the balloon allowing it to float in the center of the room. "To answer your first question I don't really remember what I am myself."
From the way IT acted Los could tell IT was lying to the Fallen.
"For 15 billion years I've had a little conflict with a turtle deity," IT said. "But during my last 27 year hibernation I felt that old f### die by choking on a galaxy what a dumb way to die. But I sense he made an impact on the people of the nearby kingdom."
"But now that he's dead I'm gonna party like there's no tomorrow," IT said as it somehow made more of those balloon things fall out of thin air and then pop alongside the red one releasing blood. Some got on Los' face but he just wiped it off. "I'm gonna rob the women...rape the men...and eat the children."
"While that sounds...interesting," Los said. "My brethren and I would like to offer you a deal. Work for us and we can assure you ultimate power and your belly will filled with the flesh of your victims."
"Ooh, tempting but I don't play well with others," IT said as its hands turned green and scaly with long sharp talons.
"Funny, I was hoping you'd refuse," Los said as he smirked and drew his sword.
Both monsters stare at each other and then IT charges at Los at inhuman speed. His teeth and turned sharp and jagged all the while he was snarling at the Fallen. Los showed emotion and then he thrust his sword piercing its head. The creature stopped moving it was dead and for some reason its blood was floating upward. He pulls out the sword and the corpse fell to the ground.
Los walks away and says, "All too easy."
A chuckling is heard and Los' eyes widen in surprise and he turns around to see that IT is standing back up while smiling.
"How are you alive!?" Los demanded.
"I can regenerate from wounds like that," IT said. "But if you really want to kill me you got rip my heart out of body and destroy it but I won't give you the satisfaction."
IT then conjures up another red balloon and says, "Sure you don't want a balloon?"
Los then screams and charges at the insane shape shifter who then turns its arms into swords and parries the strikes and lands a few hits on Los. Thanks to his Aura Los was able to withstand the hits but every time he strikes IT the creature just regenerates from the hits and none of them were serious enough to give Los the time to tear out its heart. IT then turns into a werewolf and moves around the room on both hands and feet until it charges at the Fallen and knocks his sort out of his hand. IT then lands a few punches on Los before it grabs him by the throat with one hand and lifts him up.
IT then turns back into its jester form and gives a wide grin showing its sharp inhuman teeth.
IT then sniffs Los and gives a disgusted look. "You still don't fear me but I still eat you after all you're not an adult yet and teenagers still taste as good as children."
Los is struggling to breath but he manages to make a single spider leg sprout from his back and stab IT in the head making it loose its grip on the Fallen. Los then rolls back and turn into spider the size of a bear and hisses at IT.
"Ooh, I didn't know you can turn into a spider," IT said as it changes its head to resemble the head of a spider. "In this and several hundred realities the closest thing to my true form is a giant spider."
Los shoots a string of web at IT but it avoids the web and disappears into the shadows and starts singing.
"The itsy bitsy spider climbed up the waters spout."
Los looks around the cavern for IT in order to figure out where the creature is singing from.
"Then came the rain and washed the spider out."
IT then comes out of the shadows now twelve feet tall and tackles Los across the room reverting him back into his true form. IT then crawls toward Los and stands up, its head is backwards but it uses both of its hands to turn it the right way. Los' Aura simmers red while he gets up only to be greeted by a grinning IT who then turns its arms to blades again and starts slashing the Fallen all while laughing like a maniac. Los' aura has already been depleted each slash sends out some of some his blood. IT then stops and turns its arms back to normal giving a wide smile to know that it was satisfied with its work.
Los was battered and bloody the cuts went deep and he was coughing up blood. The young Fallen noticed black spots beginning to appear on his arms and they were spreading.
"No," he grunted and started making the spots disappear. "I have to keep it together."
"Sorry but I don't think you'll stay together any longer," IT said as it picked up Los and turned its teeth sharp and extended its mouth before it bit right into Los' right arm and tears it off.
Los screams in pain and IT then tosses it aside. "I've had my fun but now it's time to float," IT said as its mouth opened wider than it did before and when Los looked into it he saw three lights.
"In the deadlights we all float," IT said. "You can't comprehend the lights you will go insane just from looking at them. You may be a demon like me but your mind is still human."
Los' eyes glow a white with his sanity breaking. Los' skin begins developing more black spots and his eyes glowed red and shot a laser into IT's mouth sending it back and making its face normal again. IT gives a confused look as it stared at Los who was panting while being covered in some black substance. When it reached the stump of his right arm it reached out and grabbed his severed arm and reconnected it.
All of Los' wounds have healed and his body is completely covered by the black substance. He grows taller and from the top of his head he grows he grows segmented horns that arc back over his head and curve upward to a point just over the back of his cranium. His build becomes muscular, from his back black feathered wings sprout out, talons emerge on his hands and feet, a row of bone-like spines runs down his body, he grows a reptilian tail, and his face becomes more demonic with blackened sharp fangs. If angels were evil then this is what they would look like.
After his transformation is complete Los gives out a loud demonic howl that shook the cavern. IT stares at Los with bewilderment .
"This got interesting," IT said.
Los stares IT with savage fury breathes purple fire at it. IT moves out of the way but Los charges at it and punches it into the air. Los then shoots his feathers at IT. The feathers cut IT leaving deep gnashes in its flesh and when it falls back down Los bites into IT. He shakes the creature around like a dog would with a chew toy before tossing it to the side.
The creature lands behind a stalagmite and then the sound of flesh changing is heard once more. IT comes out of the shadows in its gigantic spider form the closest thing to its true form in this universe.
"I will not die to the likes of you IMPURE!" IT shouted.
The creature charged at Los and then jumped onto some stalactites to show underside to Los. Then a white light appears once on the underside. IT is using its deadlights once more. Los just looks at IT and fires his laser eyes right through the deadlights making IT lose it's footing on the stalactites.
"Not...again," IT said as it fell to the ground.
Los then starts digging into IT and eats whatever he can tear and bite into. Intestines, kidneys, lungs, ribs, anything that he found edible in this feral state. Blood and gore is splattered everywhere and then he pulls something out of IT that seems to be hard to remove. It was IT's still beating heart, it's arteries were still connected to the body of IT making it difficult to tear out but that won't stop the Fallen.
SNAP!
The arteries connect the heart to the body IT are broken but the heart is still beating. Then...
SQUISH!
Los brings his teeth down and crushes the heart sending blood everywhere and most importantly stops it's beating killing IT forever. He then goes back to eating IT's body. The Can-Toi enter the tunnel to see what has happened. These rat men were confused but before they could do anything a portal opens up revealing Sammael, Maerlyn, and four humanoid Grimm. These Grimm were the Apathy skeletal looking Grimm with long arms that reach the ground and possessing the ability to drain their victim's will with a scream.
Maerlyn raises a hand and says, "Immobilize them, do not kill." The Apathy released a scream that makes the Can-Toi struggle to stand. Sammael then walks in front of Los and the feral Fallen stares at Sammael but returns to his meal.
"Just like when we first met," Sammael said. "A mindless beast covered in the blood of what they are currently eating."
Sammael's eyes glow red and he fires a laser from them at Los that sends him across the room. Los then charges at Sammael with his arms shaped like swords and starts swinging at the older Fallen. Sammael dodges the attacks and ends up picking up Los's sword and cuts off the arm blades and then hits Los with another eye blast that sends Los into the ceiling of the cave. He falls back onto the floor and splatters like a puddle. He begins to reform but he looks more humanoid this time but he still has the horns and feathered wings.
"You've been fighting this off for three years Los," Sammael said his eyes flashing red for a moment hinting at a sign of frustration. "I know you can control it!"
Sammael then fires another eye blast shooting off one of Los' wings. Los then begins tearing off the black substance that has covered him.
"That's it, gain control of it," Samamel said with his eyes glowing in excitement. "We've lost three of our kind because Arthur Eld. The two Fallen he killed, Andrew Quick and Kimba Rimer, and your mother Crimson who you ate on the day you born."
Los screams as he tears off the black substance, it was painful like tearing off dead skin that you could still feel when you tear it off. He even tore off his horns and his remaining wing. He tore and tore with the pain increasing until he broke free. His real body was finally free but now he had dark purple veins in his arms and on his face, and his black hair has now turned white as his deathly pale skin.
"Well done nephew," Sammael said as he put a hand on Los' shoulder. "You have ascended. You are now two steps closer to bringing the end of Gilead.
Sammael turns his head to Maerlyn and the Can-Toi who are now standing alongside him and the Apathy. Los sees this understanding what Sammael meant by two steps closer.
"Now then 'Los the Red'," Sammael said giving the younger Fallen his own title. "You will train your army to conquer Gilead."
When Raven finally emerged from the nightmarish recollection it felt like being dropped off of a cliff. She gasped and stumbled forwards, finding herself nowhere close to where she and Team SEKR had been fighting the reanimated King Arthur. Instead it was a platform floating out amidst a starry void, with nearby isles drifting within sight with dimensions that could not have been naturally occurring.
"A mindscape." Raven immediately deduced, familiar with the concept of plains of existence constructed within a subconscious mind after having traversed her own many times. "But it isn't mine, so…"
"It is mine."
She was no longer alone. Raven turned and found herself faced with a man not unlike the one she had been fighting before, only…he resembled the man she had seen celebrating the birth of his son. Arthur Eld, looking healthy and powerful as he had in life, stood before her with his arms crossed and his legendary blade hung across his back.
"King Arthur…" Raven whispered. "Or at least, one King Arthur."
"So there was another then?" The king raised one brow.
"Great Britain." Raven answered.
"Ah, and I suppose they went and claimed that was where the original version of my life took place then." Arthur Eld scoffed. "I would call that a work of fiction by some very invested fans."
"You mean…a fan-" Raven was cut off when the world around them began to distort, tremors passing through the ground beneath her. "What was that?"
"Your arrival is not unnoticed." Arthur informed her. "And if you do not depart soon, you might never depart at all. By now you know that my physical form is…serving as a vessel to something besides my own residual essence."
"It's a walking corpse that's fighting my friends." Raven nodded. "Then there must be a demon in here animating it."
"The blood of the Crimson King." Arthur nodded. "Even in death that little devil vexes my very existence."
"Why did he do this?" Raven asked.
"To make sure Gilead never rose from the ashes." Arthur answered. "My kingdom was perhaps the largest of its time, rivaled only by the Holy Roman Empire. Our enemies wanted us destroyed and they found a way by creating an offspring mixed with my blood and theirs."
The landscape changed, showing the Kingdom of Gilead the night it fell. The city was burning as the Grimm attacked.
"I had long since passed by that time, leaving my son as ruler the night when Los attacked. I know he was slain." Arthur closed his eyes in mourning but opened them again. "But not before he made a prophecy, predicting the downfall of the Crimson King."
The scenery changed again.
Smoke and napalm fill the air while the sounds of gunfire and explosions are heard throughout the battlefield. But one gunshot is the most important.
BANG!
In a ruined mansion two combatants stood facing each other and surrounding them were dead bodies of Nazi soldiers and three men in brown trench coats and next them were revolvers, like the ones that both combatants are holding.
One of the combatants is a tall thin 28-year-old man with a heavy handlebar mustache, a face that should little emotion, a brown trench coat, and a cowboy hat. He was covered in blood, heavily panting, and was injured, but not as much as the man in front of him.
His opponent was dressed in a black uniform with a prominent red cloak. His skin was a deathly white with black veins, his eyes had red irises and black sclera, and his hair and beard were white. But this man was clutching his throat with his right hand as blood was coming out of it. He was shot in the throat.
Then fired upon the crimson man with both his revolvers. The crimson is shot numerous times. He retaliates by managing to fire a bolt of black energy at the gunman. He is hit but he doesn't seem hurt and continuous firing a barrage of bullets at the crimson man.
The crimson man is already dead, but his killer continues to fire. He continuously reloads his guns to continue firing upon the freshly dead corpse Pieces of the crimson man's body is shot off. Blood, limbs, gore, and organs fly out. Then the man stopped he looked at the mangled corpse with a look of disgust and hate. He takes out a lighter, ignites it, and throws it at the corpse making it burn.
The man spits out blood and limbs away saying hatefully, "Long live the king."
"Deschain where are you!?"
The man known as Deschain pulls out a walkie-talkie and says, "I'm...walking out of the mansion with the red banners and allies are dead. But, *coughs* the target has been killed Captain Blazkowicz."
"The Grimm have gotten into a frenzy and command has ordered the retreat order. They'll be happy to know that both General Deathshead and this Crimson King are both dead. We may not have taken Paris back, but the Nazis have been dealt a great blow, you should be proud Steven. B.J. out."
The memory faded and Raven took a deep breath. While she able to control her emotions the sight of watching someone kill in cold blood, even against someone as vicious and demonic as her own father was not easy to watch.
"These memories are taken directly from the blood of Los when his blood reanimated my body." Arthur explained. "And you must hurry before you become trapped here as I am."
"I might be able to break the curse on you." Raven reasoned.
"Are you willing to wager your life on it?"
Raven lowered her hood. "I'm a Teen Titan…When there is trouble we answer the call."
Arthur looked ahead. "That call might have been made for you."
Raven turned around, watching as a man resembling the one she had just seen die appear before them with a sickening smile.
"Well, what do we have here?" Los, the Crimson King asked as he held out a sword.
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Name: Extor
Aura: Electronic Green
Semblance: Analyze
Description: Extor can analyze the strengths and weaknesses of anyone he sees, learning physical and mental status in a matter of seconds.
Weapon: Multi-Purpose Power Gauntlets
Description: Extor equips himself with gauntlets designed with a dozen weapons and functions. They can block physical and energy based attacks, create energy swords for close range combat and boost physical strength thirty times the strength of a normal human.
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Name: Arthur Eld
Semblance: Lightbourne
Description: Arthur Eld can generate light and use it as a weapon whether as beams or channeling it into himself or his weapons which earned him the nickname Lord of Light.