Vantier a Whateley Tale

Ancient and Powerful Vantier awakens in a foreign world, struggling to find her place in it.

In this chapter the pace quickens! the Dark Ones attack the mine via one crawling its way out of storage, and Kyley has to join the fight before all is lost!

He is saved from the death of his race and planet....to start all over again....but can she survive?
A human high school and being a teenager? Will she remember what was? And grow in power?

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Two weeks have gone by since that last test, I was asked to do. As usual I greet the morning out on the grassy area in front of my small house doing my exercises. Only three days ago was I told that, Mr. Twain's men had removed the final scrying device from my house. The reason why? I was told it took so long? Is that, he maybe in-charge here. But he still has to get some approvals for things like this.

I get done with my last set of forms and start to walk back in my house. This time I note, no guards around me .... watching me....finally. Now I feel like a guest not a prisoner.

After I finish my shower up and right on time, Becky steps in the front door."Kyley! good news!" she sings out.

With that from her....my head pops out the bedroom door to look at her "What?" I ask.

"Your MID card is here! So your official!" She puts down a package on my table, then she runs in my room and shows me the card "See!....your picture is great on it...Mine looks like crap!" I take it from her extended hand and look at it.

"Humm its okay I guess?"

"But look at this!" she points at the card "Twain and The Department of Paranormal Affairs, left off your Axe as a power? and then your bird Nightwing? I have to wonder why he did that? But he listed you as a Fae class mage? But any how, you can travel now when you leave here!"

"Humm Okay" I say, as I clip the card on my ID chain.

I look at it some more has it hangs on my dresser "Becky why is the color of mine different than yours?"

She takes up my ID chain and looks at it "Humm, its orange? That means student? I wonder why Twain did that?"

"Who knows? But should we ask him?"

"Maybe...but any how" She hands me a large box "Your Cigars are here! That Doc came through. He made a special run to get them for you as promised."

I open the large box and find four sealed boxes of Cuban cigars, A large humidor for them all, Three carrying cases...real nicely made! too, and lastly a lighter of some sort with a note on it.

Becky reads me the note "This lighter is a newer style, it does not give the cigar a chemical taste at all, or just use the matches. Then the doc added the address to get more good stuff from for you!"

I pull al the smaller boxes form the large one. Then arrange them all on top of my dresser top. I crack open the seal on one cigar box and pull one out. Then I open its own storage tube and smell it. "Hummmmmm! good stuff there! I will save that for later!"

"Well this sounds like a day for some fun!" I say as I get dressed.

"Humm what? If I may ask? Nothing crazy now!" Becky now tosses me a all knowing leer.

"What me?...do something crazy?...never?" I wink to her.

As I finish getting dressed. Becky goes out to my living room and sits on the couch and starts pulling out, our lesson books.

"Ohhh Kyley I have another surprise for you too! When you get out here." she sings out.

I finally finish up and walk out to her, while I brush out my hair. "So today is full of good stuff? So what is it?" I ask.

"This!" she says while she pulls out a large computer pad from a storage bag it was in "This is that computer that can teach you English, I had people working on for so long!" I glance at it while I sit "This here" she goes on "Will translate for you and teach you. You put in the words you want to learn here. "she points at the screen "then it talks back to you in my voice, in English! Then you say them and it can tell if your right or not! Also it can listen to English and change them to your language. If needed you can teach it even more, as you use it and so will I"

I near snatch it up from the table..."Finally! with this. I can go all day and night non-stop. I can learn at my speed. Be it...slow or fast!"

"Yep! so now you should? learn at a much faster rate!" she bubbles at me!

"Ohh we are going to have fun today...lets go eat, then get on this later" I say as I place the pad back in its case.

Becky jumps up from the couch to start to walk out my back door. I start to follow her out, after I get the case zipped up and laid back on the table.

I run up behind her, already walking on the path going toward the main buildings. I scoop her up in my arms and take off.

"Today we are going to have fun!...Your going to go up REAL high today! None of that thousand foot stuff today for you!" I speed up faster near the ground and pull up hard. Becky is squealing, but having fun! I can tell! I get us up to over ten thousand feet.

"Do you want to try something new?" She nods to me "I am going to drop you and you freefall for a bit. Its as close as your going to get to flying, without wings. Are you good with that?" she nods...so I drop her!

Off she falls, spinning like mad. I drop after her and try to coach her on how to fall, flat and level. She is,...just starting to get it. When I have to grab her to stop her fall, as we are getting too close to the ground and I want a little safety margin.

"Again! do it again!" she bellows at me.

I pull her up to an even higher height and hover. She gets it automatically, what I intend on...she nods...so I drop her again. On this fall she does way better! Almost as good as my own kids did, when I did this to them the first time! Me and her repeat the fun....until, I see that she is tried out from all the fun. I swoop down with her to the cafeteria, so we can eat finally.

We both walked into the cafeteria laughing like mad. As we both got in line and waited our turn to order our food Mr. Twain walked up to us. I nod to him as Becky and I are talking.

"Looks like you two where having some fun?" He asked us both.

"It was!" Becky beamed out to him.

After I got the translation. I asked him "Want try it?"

"Ahh no...I am afraid of heights! So that is not going to happen" was my answer back, as he walked away.

I laugh at what he said "Hey maybe Becky. I should just fly him up to say twenty thousand feet, next time I need something and drop him!? Then I might get what I want faster?"

Becky's head tilts in thought slightly "Humm might work? Heck considering what a A-hole he seems to be. You might get paid by his staff to do that and even more to miss catching him before he hits the ground?"

"That sounds like an idea! I wonder how much I could get paid!" I giggle out as I go back to waiting in line.

When I get to the order station the cook there gives me. My now regular sample plate of food. This seems now to be the same thing each time I come back in to eat here, they do this for me. As weeks back, I seem to have established a routine with them on this very thing. But as the days have gone by, they have gotten real creative in what they put on my plate each day, trying to impress me with new tastes. I seem to be getting items that are not on the menu, for me to try out or they are experimenting on me? After I paid for my food, I sat with Becky and we ate and joked around for hours.

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Saturday June 2 2007
Homestake Paranormal Activities Research Center

On this morning I go through my now regular routine, I just got done with my morning exercises and am in the process of jumping in the shower. As I get in it, my mind is running through all the English that Becky has taught me on one level of thought getting ready for the days lessons, while another is listening to the music from the MP3 player she got me last week that is playing in the bedroom. After I got done in the beautifully warm water of the shower, I stepped out to dry off and brush out my hair. As I stood there doing this, I noticed that Becky had not come in yet? She was late today? This was not like her at all. So I got more than nervous and quickened my pace of getting all set for the day.

I near ran from my house to her's and knocked on the door. I got no answer and it was locked? She never locked it, Why would you, we are guarded better than anyone! My mind raced and my feet followed, as I ran to the back door. I found it LOCKED too! SO I ran back to my house and grabbed up my teaching pad, as it can translate for me in a pinch.

In mere seconds, I was flying out my back door literally! I landed at a near run going into the library door to the guard station. Elders Gods! I was lucky! Tim that guard, I had scared on that first day of me flying was there! I had made up with him and healed his busted nose from that crash to the pavement when he fainted.

As I ran in, he could see, I was not with Becky and that happening in the morning was unheard of. He near jumped out of his seat "What's wrong Kyley? I can see your in a bad way?"

I am so excited and worried I barely get out to him "Tim...Becky not here? Find please?" I say as I wave my ID card in his face. I am doing this, as I know it can tell them where she is!

Tim understands me fine "Let me look!" he says, as he gets his computer working on the issue.

I pace the floor in front of his desk. I am truly worried. I really need her to get my learning finished in this language, even now with this new 'pad' she just got me. I still need her and more! My mind is spinning in thought 'Maybe I should have tried to 'bond' with her somehow? So that I would know, what is wrong now or where she is!...BUT she is one of Sara's 'minions' and since I can not trust a Dark one yet? I don't know what to do?'

"Kyley?..." I don't look at him, as I am still deep in thought "KYLEY!" Tim yells at me.

I jump from my name being called "What?...find her?"

"Yes...she is in her house? or this is?" and when he says that last part, he waves a ID card in my face.

"Her door locked...never do that!" I say my thoughts as best as I can.

Tim near jumps over the desk and leads me out the door by my hand "Lets find her then!"

We both run to Becky's house. He gets to the front door and checks it. Its still locked. He tells me to wait there and runs around back, I guess to check that door. He comes back shaking his head from that trip.

"The doors are locked Kyley. I am not allowed to open them unless, I know there is a problem?" He says to me. I get most of it and have him repeat it to the pad to make sure!

I start walking around the house and open my feelings out fully A VERY BAD IDEA! I can feel something like 'questioning and not knowing' feelings coming off Tim. I push out farther, as I walk around the house and at the bedroom wall, all I feel is sadness and pain of a sort.

"Becky inside! I feel it! she sad?" is all I say to him.

"I can't open the door. She locked it for a reason and I have to honor it?" is all he says to me.

"I open then!" Is all I say back to him, as I kick the front door across the living room with my right foot to the door! It smashes, far into the kitchen beyond with a crash.

Tim shrugs "Well that works too? I bet Twain is going to be real mad on that one?"

I walk in, what's left of the doorframe into the house. Right behind me...Tim follows me at a distance, as he realizes unlike some here. That when I get mad.... its best to be far away as possible. As I turn into Becky's bedroom. I find her there all curled up in the bedding, sobbing badly. I drop onto the bed to sit by her.

My arms wrap around her, as I ask "What's wrong?"

"GET OUT!" is all she yells at me.

I say softly "No you need someone here. You have stood by me. So here I stay till this is over?" all I get in reply is sobs back.

I turn back to Tim, who is standing in the door watching me "Tim? go please...fix door..I help her.....food maybe need?"

Tim nods his understanding back to me and softly walks out the door. I lay on the bed with her and simply wrap her in a hug. While she cries what ever this is weighing on her out. As the day goes on, she does not move near one bit. Then an hour later. Tim comes back with food and someone to fix the door that I destroyed badly. He leaves the large bag of food and drinks in the room for us. After I hear him leave our room, I can hear him and Twain talk at the front door for some time. What I get from the talk is, what I did to the door and what Becky is doing. Wisely Twain does not come in now to question this, then he just leaves. As the day goes on, the men working on that door get noisy and they close the bedroom door for me.

The rest of day is all nears sobs from Becky. The men who fixed the door have come and gone, their job all finished. Tim stopped by and dropped off newer, fresh food for us...long past his regular time to go home. All I can get Becky to do is sip water from time to time, while she stops sobbing or sleeping. Only once during the day does she get up to go to the bathroom. I am getting genuinely worried in her state! I have tried more than once while when she was awake or asleep to 'feel' out to her. But what she is going through just reads to me as sadness to me. I try and 'push' out as much 'happy' and 'joy' feelings from my core as I can to her, but it is having no real effect on her.

After a long night of me...just plain being there for her. I finally coax her to take a shower, and change her clothes. I get her out to the living room and settled on the couch, all wrapped in a blanket. As she is all set, I hear a near tap at the door. I go to open it, to find Tim standing there with large bags of breakfast for us. When he comes in, he leans into the living room and he can see that Becky is still in a bad state. He drops the bag of food on the kitchen table for me. Then pulls me into the kitchen to talk.

"Has she said anything?" he asks.

I shake my head to him.

"Well I looked it up to see, if anyone she knows is dead or something and there is nothing there. So she is not grieving a loss, we know of? I wonder what's wrong with her?"

I put my hand on him and say "Stay?" then walk out to the living room and fetch my teaching pad. I give it to him and ask him "Say again?" as some words he said where new to me.

He knows what I mean, as I have had him do this many a time over the days. He types in what he said and the pad translates it to me.

I type back on the pad to him....as I really don't know all the translations yet "Becky is feeling some sort of grief. From what I don't know? I will try to coax it out of her today. But thanks for showing up!"

I hand it to him, after he reads it. Tim simply nods and hands it back to me "I have to go to work, but I will check in on you both later?" I nod to him and with that said, Tim walks out the back door of Becky's house.

When I sit back down on the couch with Becky, I grab the bag of hot food and open it up. What I find is one of Becky's favorites...pancakes with berries on them. So I cut it all up and add the toppings.

"Well its time to eat!" I ask softly to her.

All I get back is a head shake and the softest "No" I have ever heard from her.

"Becky...you have to eat? Or please tell me what's wrong? Maybe I can fix it?" I ask her.

All I get is a head shake form her again?

"Tim looked it up. No one you know or any family of yours has died? So why all the sadness and grief? Please tell me...so I can understand?"

When I finish the last of my question. I start to feel a growing rage in her.

"Sara is gone! She disappeared the first week of May! And! from what I am told they stopped looking for her at that DAMN! school of her's"

I ponder that for a moment "She is missing? Any word on how it happened? A description of it?"

"What was told to me" she sobs out "is she was with one of 'her's' and she went rigid, then just POOF! disappeared from sight...right there!" Becky is now looking at me...for an answer.

"Humm From what I know. Someone had her true name and used some sort of summoning to get her. As with a Dark One of her type, you would need both to keep her this long. As four weeks and she is not free, tells me that."

She near wines out "So she is gone forever?!"

"No....Most of these only last a certain time and are linked to the maker or the person who used it. So at sometime they or the link will fade and she will get free. But woe to anyone nearby, as when she gets out. She will be mad and might be near crazy with hunger!"

Her eyes light up with hope...'a false hope in my opinion'..."So she will get out soon!"

"Maybe? but this might take years? or decades to happen. To her, as long as her life is. It will seem to be days, at best to her."

"DECADES! but then......" Becky's voice fades off into wailing again.

"What is the mater? I don't understand this with you? Your fine and the 'church' will go on without her there. IS!...this? that life ambition of yours to be 'part' of something that goes on forever? I thought 'we' or 'I' had got you over that months ago? When I told you, that you have succeeded, as I will never forget you! or what you have taught me."

As I stand there waiting for some kind of answer from her, all I get back is sobs and her curling up into a even smaller ball on the couch.

I am slightly mad at her for not trying to talk this out "Becky this is going to sound cruel to you. BUT! If you wanted to become 'one' with Sara? Does she even know you really exist or want it? Then does she care if you want it? If she does it?...is it out of 'love' for you and what you 'want' OR you having a 'spawn' of her's? As a bargain?....You have to remember she is a Demon. That will not pull you as part of her followers, into her for maybe years. So that she can grow more in power!"

I still get no answer? But I now 'feel' less sadness from her now, as she is thinking about what I said.

I finally sit next to her and hand her a plate of pancakes "Here eat up and think about what I said? Take your time on this and don't jump to conclusions on this. As you have years to live and find your 'center' in life!"

Becky finally caves into the logic from me and starts eating. I grab up the second plate of food and eat slowly while watching her. As the day goes on my mind is wandering hard from feeling all her sadness over the last day. It has eaten into me and unbalanced my mind badly in parts. After we are done eating, I turn on the TV for the distraction it gives us both. I sit and listen to it, but my mind is drifting hard to what comes next for me?

At near midnight Becky finally talks to me with near no sadness in her "Kyley how about you go home now? As I feel better now and you gave me something to really think about this morning."

When she asks me this. I reach out deep into her. To see, if she is hiding any plans for doing something silly and I happily find none there.

"Okay if you are truly fine? I will go" I ask her. Then she nods her answer to me.

I leave her place to get back to mine. As I enter my door, I realize with all that happened today. I have been putting off a sad thing of my own.

I call my Axe out of its hiding place and grab it, as it floats near me. I stride to the center of my house and tap the gem on the bottom to get a spell in it set to go. When I feel out to the house, to find as near its center as I can. The kitchen doorway is it. I slam the Axe handle down and burn the gems symbol into the floor, thus warding the house to all outside scrying of any type from now on. I stand and make sure of the work. After I am sure of it, I take the large gem off the pommel of the Axe and send the Axe back off. In my standing there thinking of what is next, I decide to add a few more wards on the house to be sure! With that now done, I walk over to the couch to sit. I then place the large gem on the table top, calm and center myself and then reach into the gem with my spirit. Once in it I call out to my two most valuable things. The last two of my children I placed in it, to save them from the death that was surly to come. I call them both from the purgatory of the gem to here! in the house.

I watch as both of them flow from the gem into the room and become near solid. They both stand there very confused to where they are now.

Velmeran my boy, asks me "Daddy where are we?"

"In a safe place for now."

His sister Sassnick asks me, after she looks about the room for several seconds "Daddy where is mom?"

"She is not here honey" God I hate lying to them!

I start to cry at that thought of her not being here.

"Daddy why are you crying?" she asks me.

"Nothing honey" is all I get out for some time.

"How about you two, play together for a little while and I will sit here to watch over you both?" I finally say to them.

They both do as I asked, I sit and watch them just...'play'. Velmeran pulls out of the nothing. A simple game, that he and his sister just love. Its a Elvin stones game with lots of colors, that the Queen gave them years ago. As I watch this simple thing from them both, it just tears me apart. I can not touch them! or hug them. I hope pulling them from that gem does not back fire on me! I easily sit for hours watching them have so much fun, that I forget where I am at. Suddenly the door opens and Becky walks in the room. Both of the kids jump up from their play, to run over to me and almost through me.

Sassnick asks in a more then frightened voice "Who is that!? Why is a human in our room!"

Velmeran being the older one and darn near fearless. Stands between his sister and Becky "Go away!" he yells out at her. His wings tilt in a way, that just says to me he is going to hurt her soon, if Becky does not back off.

I urged to them both "Calm down you two. This is Becky, she is a friend and she will be leaving us...RIGHT NOW!" I near growl at her at the end.

Becky sees that bad mood of mine...but asks anyway "Ahh Kyley what is this?"

"Becky....just go" is all I say to her.

"Daddy I will make her go!" Velmeran adds in a tone, that even I find cold.

Becky tilts her head in confusion at me "Daddy? what the heck?"

"Becky GO! now....its best. I will tell you later!"

She just stands there.....not moving.

"Please?" my voice and eyes plead to her.

She sees how uncomfortable this is for us all, then leaves us and closes the door softly as she does.

With Becky now gone. Both of them forget in mere seconds, she ever entered the room and they both go back to their game. After several more hours of play and me watching over them. I feel its time to stop the fun...and my pain for the day.

"All right you two, time for bed!" They both fade off back into the gem, thinking its bedtime. Thus back to purgatory they go.

I get up from the couch more than spent from this. God I hate not knowing if! or when! Those EVIL DARK ONES or the GOO bastards they call them here, will find and kill me! My own mind thinks that 'when they find' is the option that WILL happen. AS there is no IF with them! My feet take me into my bathroom and I wash my face from that agony of tears, I just had.

Its time to get back to the lessons, so I take a slow walk over to Becky's house and knock on the very new door I find there. Becky comes to the door finally and lets me in.

"Kyley what was that?" She asks me as I am let in.

"Before we get into that. Have you decided if your going to wait for Sara to show back up? Or move on with your life?"

"Ahh I really don't know? What to do honestly?"

I go and sit in one of her chairs, as I say to her "Well until you decide that, lets not talk about what you saw yesterday then."

"Why? I don't understand it?" she asks me.

"I told you already this once. As long as your in Sara's camp. I can not tell you everything. But I will always thank you, for what you have done so far with me" I say flatly, hoping she will drop it.

"Kyley I am seriously thinking of leaving that church. As you were right. That path most likely will never lead me to where I want to go in life and beyond. Perhaps that path is with you? who knows? But yours so far, looks to be far better?" the look on her face is definitely saying to me, she has turned a corner in life today...determination!

"Fine with me. If I where you? I would tender my resignation from them. If and when you do that? We can talk more then? As for what Sara offers some of her closest? I am still changing and growing...so? Who knows if I can offer that....same thing soon? to you?"

"I was told that her chosen, do a pledge to her and gain that? Will that work with you?" she asks....and I see that 'hope' again.

"I truly don't know? All I can offer is what I did before? Unless?" I wink at her "You want to have my kids? Like I offered that other girl?"

I duck the swipe!

"I will take that as a maybe then?"

SWIPE!

"A maybe then it is!" I say playfully.

"But anyway? I have to ask since, I most likely 'shoved' you in this direction? What do you do for money? Do you have your own? or does that 'church' pay all of your costs?"

"I have my own! Not lots, but enough. I think I might ask Twain, since I am here and I intend to leave the church. If he will take me on as your paid teacher and guide?"

"Humm fine idea! He may go for that. But make sure, you tell him your intentions up front..." I tell her.

Her head tilts at that "What intentions?"

"I would hope that you would tell him...this...You may work for him..BUT..you will not spy for him? I trust you and you will not tell him anything?" I questioned her.

"Never! I will not even tell Sara what has happened here. Its no one else's business!" she states to me.

"Glad to hear it" I change to the older language to tell her "Those that you saw where my kids. Okay? does that help you......and please don't ask for more...it hurts too much" I get back a small nod of acknowledgment from her.

"So lets get on today's lessons!" Becky beams at me.

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Friday June 15 2007 1:05 pm
Homestake Paranormal Activities Research Center

Me and Becky are sitting in my living room, having a kind of celebration. As Twain has agreed to take on Becky as staff and her position will be to teach and guide me.

"Humm good stuff!" I say as I tear into a yet another buffalo wing.

Becky leers at me from her plate of food, then goes to sass me "Cannibal!"

"Hey I like taste!" I mumble out from a mouth full of chicken wing.

"No its 'I like the taste of this' or 'I like the taste of them'?" she corrects me.

"Whatever?" I jest back.

"SAY IT!" she insists.

"Okay! 'I like the taste of them!'....Well?"

"Better!" she razzes me back.

My hand then snatches up a few more onto my plate from the box. After I drop that last bone into a bag on the table.

"Where do you put it sometimes?! You don't eat near a thing for days on end! Then you wolf stuff down like mad!" she questions me.

"It all goes to this!" I lift my right hand and produce a ball of light for her.

"Humm you do remember what these are don't you?" she asks.

I grin evilly, as I hold up a wing "Yep! chicken should run flown faster!" is all I say to her.

"ITS 'THIS chicken should HAVE run OR flown faster!" Becky leers at me while saying it all in her 'instructing' voice.

I stop and swallow......Then belch "This chicken should have run or flown faster...much faster!" I laugh. I say as I wave the now meatless bone in the air.

"Well at least your English has improved a lot this month!" she shakes her head "But your manners...they suck!"

As I devour yet one more wing, a very loud horn starts blaring out off in the distance. I look at Becky in wonderment about this, all I get from her is a shrug in reply. The horn keeps going on and on after her shrug. Then two more horns start to sound also now....in a different tone than the first one. When I hear those two new additions, I jump out of the couch and run out the door with Becky in tow.

As I get outside, I see many guards and other personal running through our area. All of them seem to be going to the main building complex that lays behind my house down the path. I grab one of the guards as he runs by and stop him.

"Becky, ask him what is going on!"

I watch as Becky and the man talk for several minutes. As they do I watch Becky's face change from being annoyed, to down right sacred.

As I stand there I try to speed this up. By asking her from time to time "WHAT!?" ..."WHAT?!" all I get back is her waving me off, while she talks with him.

She finally! gets done talking to him and he runs off toward the main complex. As he does, the look from Becky is near all fear and some panic.

"Kyley What is going on is, that something got lose deep down in the dangerous section is hurting and killing people. They are trying to get as many guards together to go down there. To keep what ever it is in, so it does not get lose and hurt even more! There are already dozens hurt and over a dozen dead from this thing!" she looks at me for what to do.

I ponder for a mere second what to do, then scoop her up and fly off in the direction of the medical center. As I fly there. I look down to see all sorts of men and large trucks going to the large main entrance that goes into the deeper sections off the complex's edge. Then as I get over the edge of the medical center roofline. I look down to see the main door of the medical center, is just a mass chaos of people running all over.

As I land at the front doors area "NOW! you stay right next to me! Do not even think of wondering off! AND if I say RUN, do not hesitate on it...RUN! You got that?" I insisted to Becky.

She meekly nods her head to me in response.

As I go in with her following right behind me. Becky practically is hugging me most of the time, in fear. As we look around for someone to ask, what I can do. I finally see that doc, I got my cigars from and speed over to him.

"Hey doc need help?" I ask him.

"Ohh you ohh HECK ya your a healer! So get to healing! darn it!....I'll pay you in cigars!" he laughs out.

I understand most of what he said and Becky so close behind me...almost in my back pocket, added the rest! "Done! I am cheap!" I say back.

I start going to work on some of the wounded there. I find the first one in a bed at the door, that was shoved to one side for the more dire cases. His leg is badly broken, from being smashed by something. But he will not die soon from that, so he waits.

I walk up to him "I fix this?" is what I say to him, as a I take hold of his leg.

He does not even get a chance to say anything, as I lay both hands on the leg and start into pushing my energy into the leg's bone to heal it up. In a few seconds the leg is healed and the torn flesh from the bone tearing through his skin is gone. I nod to him and move on.

The next one I see, is just being laid on the floor at that rooms edge by a medic. I can see his side is torn open to the ribs and is bleeding. I get up to him and move the medic aside. I rip open his shirt, then lay both hands on him and start healing the wound. The medic is just watching me, mouth agape as I do it. After I am done I stand up to find a wave is dizziness hits me. I spent too much, too fast! Becky sees me waver and helps me to sit. While I start sucking in the life force, flowing around the room to replenish me.

I watch from my seat, as they bring in a young kid in his twenty's on a gurney and he is just howling in pain! I jump up from my rest and near knock Becky over. As I feel something?...something VERY bad! I dash up the gurney and I look down. I see what is eating him up, eating him alive? Its just changing him, his flesh. The flesh is bubbling and just corrupting right before my eyes.

The doc finally runs up to help next to me, then goes to touch him. I stop him from touching the man and shove him back! I say to the doc in my language, as I am so caught up in what is happing. That the English I learned, is gone for now in the excitement.

"What is this madness! You have Mythos corrupting people here? What is going on here!" Becky translates for me, after she noted my slipping back into old habits so fast.

I push the doctor once again, as he try's to get to the man "Don't touch him! it'll kill you" I bark at him.

I tell Becky, to stay back as far as she can and still hear me. Don't touch any of the people that have any of this on them. As it will kill her!

I lay my hands on the poor man and start feeling for parts of the corruption I can get out of him.....He's done. I can just tell....sadly. There's nothing I can do for him. I could stop it, for several minutes, but it's not going to stop completely. It's going to overtake him sooner or later...he's going to die. I wave Becky over closer to me.

I ask her softly "Becky translate this exactly and its going to hurt for you to do this girl. Ask him his name? for me?" her glance at me is not comfortable at all. She sees what is happing and gets his name for me....John.

"John....your going to die and there is nothing I can do to stop it."

Just as Becky said that to the man laying there. The doc pulled me aside and jumped in my face. "You can't say that! We can fix this! We have a vaccine for this!"

"So! get it!" I bark at him.

"Its coming, it will be ready in three hours. We have to make it, since we do not keep stock on hand." he informed me.

"SO! John here has to wait? WELL! he can't wait Doc! He has got about twenty minutes of life left. Then this Mythos taint, takes him over and the creature he will become starts its slaughter in here! Then more get changed and die from there!"

"Can't you hold it back?" he asked me, almost begging for the man. As he now knows I was right.

"No I can't, he is too far gone. Even I am surprised he is still sane and talking! AND this cure of yours, are you SURE? It will work or is it a maybe?"

The doc looks at me, oh so sad now "It might? it has never been used on a case this far along."

"So get out of my way! Let me help him the best way I can" I then angrily shove the doc out of my way.

I turn from the doc who stands there near helpless, to walk back over to John's gurney. The man laying there is begging everyone to help him, but they all stand back from him, as they know I was right.

"John...I am sorry but its true...It's going to happen. Your going to die soon. You have two choices. You can go peacefully or Think you're going to try and fight this? Its going to corrupt you, if you fail in that fight and then you will turn on your friends in this room. Then you will try to kill them. When that happens I am going to have to take you down in a most painful manner, you're not going to like it and you will feel every second of that pain when I do so. So it's up to you? If you think you can push this out of you" I shake my head to him "you're very strong but...your NOT that strong" I wait for Becky to catch up to me, she's practically in tears doing it.

"Becky?" I ask as I look her over..."You're translating every word exactly?" she's nodding back to me and says..."Yessss" in tears.

Then John and Becky talk for a few minutes I get most of it, that he is telling her. He is very afraid of dieing is what he says mostly. That he really does not believe in the ultimate reward after life. After she stops talking to him to tell me or make sure I understand. He starts begging the rest of the room 'he does not want to die.'

I lean as close as I can to him, near touching noses. I stare deeply into his eyes. Then I pull him into 'me', so he can see the 'real' me, deep beneath the shell I now wear. I push my thoughts directly into him, so he can hear me "Look into my eyes child. LOOK and see how old I am" he believes it. He sees it! "I have died more than once in my time. So much so, that I can't die anymore. I'm telling you there's an ultimate reward. You fashion your own, your friends and family come to visit you from theirs. As they are all intertwined in a fashion. Your place...be it the hallways of Valhalla of the Norse legends of your people, that I've read about recently. Or a house on a hill, nestled in beautiful Green acres. But in any form, it's YOURS. Like I said to you. You can fight this and think your going to win? But you're not gonna win. Or I can take you peacefully, quietly and you go on to what's next" I let my influence on him slip away. Now he must make up his mind and soon!

I stay by John's side, He's crying like mad, but finally caves into what is best, to say weakly to me "Do it!"

I tap a nerve junction under his chin and he goes unconscious. I call upon my Axe as I stand over the now peaceful body.

The Doc sees what is about to come and yells at me "What are you doing?" I just push him away before he can do anything.

"Becky keep him away?" I ask her. Becky grabs onto the doc and struggles hard. But holds him back while I work.

I take my Axe and tap the pommel stone on its base and hold it till it glows to me that its ready. Then I tap John on the forehead and with a room filling blinding light. It sends his spirit on its way and in one second destroyed his body utterly. All that is left of him is ash. I put the Axe away and walk away from the now empty gurney.

'One down...how many must die today?' is all my mind can fathom right now.

I see my new target of rage! A officer of the guards is standing across the room from me. I march over to him in my rage, grab up his armored jacket and lift him off the floor.

I scream in his face "Where is this fight and tell me how to get in it. So I can save some of your lives!" Becky translates for me

"Your a guest? You can't go down there...its dangerous!" he pleaded back to me.

"You either show me! OR I am going to beat the living crap out of you, for denying me this. This is what I do! Me being a healer here, is secondary to what I'm supposed to be doing. I'm a warrior...not a healer! Show me where this fight is, tell me how to get into it and save others! OR so help me...I might kill you right here now!" Becky translates for me again. Then she stares harshly at the Guard for some time, to finally say to him coldly..."She means it!"

"Twain! now!" I bark at him in English.

The Guard I have off the floor, finally sees that I mean him harm and grabs at his radio attached on his shoulder to call someone. When I see that he is done, I drop him to the floor none to gently.

As I wait, I move from one hurt man to another. I flow from task to task as fast as I can, to boost the guards numbers for a fight to come to us all. I finally sit after helping more than fifteen guards back to full health. Becky is watching over me as I sit and drink some water and pull the free flowing life force from the area to recharge myself. As I sit deep in thought at pulling into me all I can, the room's energy changes. I open my eyes to see, why this has happened. When I do, I see Twain and a dozen guards enter the room.

Twain Sees me sitting, with Becky attending to me and walks over to us both. I can see from his walk he is none too excited to be here. Standing next to him is that older black guard with the bald head, I saw near months ago when I first got here. This is a man who I respect, he knows his job!

"So you want to see me about this fight and getting to it? Well NO! you can not, its not your fight. Your a guest at best and a p....."

I never let him finish that word...I near leap into his face "IF! your going to say prisoner to me...then I will stay out of this and let you all die!"

Mr. Twain stands there glaring at me. The older man next to him whispers out "But sir, if she can help?"

"So I see you do need me? Well... I want in this fight, as I know this enemy and I am its BANE in the universe" Becky repeats my words to them.

Twain is about to say something to me and I stop him "I want fight now!" I howled at him in english "This is what...I do!"

All I get back from him is a head shake, but the man next to him is whispering again to Twain.

I finally see what is going on! Twain is a politician. That man next to him is the head guard?

I shove Twain aside To get to the man I need to see "You're in charge of this fight obviously? I need your invite to get in this fight! As your losing...and badly. I can not help you here as a healer, that is only fixing the damage. I have to get to IT...to stop IT! That way I can save lives?" He looks at me not knowing what to do.

I turn to Becky and in the best English I can muster "Becky get ready to leave here. This place will be....grave soon! So go....save yourself. I have....stay...least till Twain here dies" as I say that, I slap his back to prove my point "Then I will meet up.....you later. When he dead, I am not bound by anything I swore him....Now go!"

Becky sees the game, that I am now playing and gets on track with it. "Okay I am going. There is a town about one hundred and fifty miles that way." she points off "I will be waiting there for you."

I nod "Fine Becky..I will come in...a few hours...less?" As I say that, she is getting her bag, so she can walk out.

Once I see that Becky is ready. I turn to walk her out "Now go. No need other bags. I will come in few hours. After all dead here." I say out in choppy english to her.

The old man in charge of the guard, yells out to me "Screw this crap! Kyley? Do you really know what's down there?"

"What is down there is a Mythos of some sort. I felt it when, I woke up. But I thought you all knew, what it was doing so? I said nothing. As this is your place, not mine? So what gave it the power to get free?" I ask him via Becky.

The old guard walks right past Twain. "Hi I am Johnson or the Gunny will do for now.....What we have down there, that might have got this started? Is thirty-five mythos tainted Were's we captured in California last year. We got them during some sort of breakout? They all where in cryo-supension, but must have got out somehow?" Becky translates for him and then explains to me what cryo-supension is?

"So that is where this is coming from. Get your men back a little and hold a line. But if they can not cure a wounded man that is tainted...then kill him. As he will turn on his buddies." I say coldly...as the old warrior in me takes over. Becky is in a little shock at my statement, but translates it none the same.

Gunny glares at me stunned, from my cold statement "I can't do that? But lets get you down there to help! As you seem to know this better than us?"

"I do know this....far better than I should. Show me.. way?"

As he starts to walk me away. I grab a radio from a man laying there getting medical treatment and give it to Becky "Talk to me....this" she nods back.

I then grab the armored vest of one of the men escorting Twain and take his radio off it. As I do I move him next to Becky "YOU! protect Becky! she die...you dead!"

I pull Becky to me, so I can whisper to her in the old language "Stay here, its a little safer. Stay away from the wounded at all times. If I say run! do it and do so fast. If your told, I am dead or hurt bad...run! As this has got out of hand." I let her go.

She cries to me "I am coming with y...." I stop her words with one deep kiss.

"For luck...or just in case I don't see you" I let go of her and walk out the doors with the man in charge.

He leads me off outside to a van, that has a few guards already in it. After I get in and all set. The van does not move? its waiting for what? I slam my fist on the divers seat back and scream at him "Drive to fight.....now!"

Finally the van speeds off, down the short road to the main tunnels entrance. As we go farther down the tunnels to the elevator. Gunny tells me what is going on down below via what little english I know and some help from Becky via the radio.

When the elevator door finally slides up, at the floor we need. I find that the fight is going badly in my opinion. As the sounds of the fight are right there! The van moves out of the open doors, to stop just a few hundred yards down the immense hallway from the elevator doors. I listen to the nearby elevator doors close behind us all and I hear then seal and lock. Just this short distance from the elevator is where the worst fighting is at! I jump out of the van, then I start to grow to my full size, as my armor forms over my body. My growth finally stops at my full size of seven foot, six. I also pull out my Axe at the same time, during my short walk toward the fight. Next to me Gunny keeps pace with me. Because if he did not, my sudden appearance might draw the men around me to shoot at me and waste time we all don't have.

As I get to the edge of the fighting, I tell Becky on the radio "Becky....this does not look good...so be ready...please?"

"I am...so don't worry...I will leave...for you" is all she says.

I start walking into the fight. At its edge, I find a medic laying out the dead. I check them fast with my senses to life and find none there...BUT I find, a growing Mythos taint. That taint, will soon turn the bodies into creatures. The creature they become will attack our rear. I see what must be done. Its not a nice action...but a must. I grab the medic and yank him back from the fallen men. Then I blast the bodies into oblivion and he looks at me like I'm crazy.

I shake my head to him, as I say "I hope you understand. What I'm doing, is cleaning the battlefield of this taint or more people are gonna die from the corruption that is already in the bodies."

After I have done that, I grab Gunny once again and tell him why I did that. I also tell him that if, I can not clean out that 'taint' from others. They too might be dealt with in the same manner. As I do not want to have that 'taint', in this groups rear area and attack us later on. He agrees with me. Now he sees, that he was making a big mistake and that simple mistake would have cost him the whole complex soon!

I wade up to the front line. I find there two dozen of their guys are piled up behind a couple of vehicles that near fully block the whole hallway. As I walk slowly to gather in a view of the fight, they just fire wildly down the hallway with everything that they've got. I find that they are firing in fear and not taking time to aim or coordinate the weapons on targets. I stand there amongst them and look around some more. Now I see why they are so scared. From the looks of it, a corrupted Were or more had jumped the small barricade and tore some of them apart...hence the dead behind me.

I walk past the main line, as they all fire off weapons of all types right next to me. One yells out 'stop' or something. I'm not even listening to them. I walk out about ten feet off the line into the open and I let loose a large bolt of energy down there. The bolt explodes and takes out a couple of the corrupted Were's. The smile on my face grows, as they howl in pain and then die!

I turn to Gunny...who is still ducking down behind the truck "Nice sound they make when I kill them!" I hiss out.

I see the men start to move with a purpose now, they are more bold. As I just showed them...this can be killed! I start to walk forward slowly, very slowly. I want to be very through in my cleaning of this, I can not let any of it get past us.

I get a few dozen yards farther down the hallway and see some targets far off. I toss off the three blades of my Axe to zip down there at them. After I let them fly, I get rewarded by the sounds of meat being hit and Were's being hurt badly. Then the blades fly back to me, banging off the walls of the hallway all the way back to me. I do this 'ricocheting' the scare my 'prey' more!

I start to walk again, but this time I find the guards are too close. I stop and tell them to stay back and give me room to kill.

The Gunny says "If we fire, we will hit you?"

"Then fire anyway, as your guns will have to hit me many times to kill me. I want you to fire at me, if you need to. You must protect your own lives. None of this must get past us!" after I say this, I can hear the head guards radio repeat the same to him in Becky's soothing voice, I am surprised she sounds so calm?

I let my Axe blades fly off three more times at far off targets as, I walk forward. In all but one toss....I get no hits. As the Were's are fast. As I keep walking slowly the hallway is littered with wreckage from the first barricade that fell. I start to push some of it aside. Then! I hear more just a head of me! I let lose all my blades once again. As I do that last throw. A Were jumps me from my left from behind a large flat cart, that he was hiding behind. He was laying in wait for me to do just what I did....darn things are smart? or they are being lead?

The beast hits my left side hard and slams me to the far wall with a swipe. His action gets him several shots from the men behind me, as a reward for the deed. As he is getting shot, my head slams into the far wall...hard! from his blow. I then slide down the wall for a bare second, then leap at him. I swing the Axe handle at him to bash in his skull with a nice thud, that is followed by black gore flowing everywhere from his caved-in skull. This move, kills him instantly and he falls. When his body hits the ground, my blades return to me and reassemble to the Axe. I then chop off its head, to make me happy. Then blast it to ash, to clean its filth from the battlefield.

As I get back on track. I notice that the blows from that fight, do hurt some what badly? I wonder to myself 'my armor is near as hard as I remember it....but it seems, that blows get through it and hurt now? I have to be more careful from now on. I can't die from this, but be incapacitated...yes'

My Axe cleaves yet one more corrupted Were, that just finished trying to tear me apart as I walked down the massive hallway. The rest of the guards seem to be keeping pace with me so far and are cleaning up any leftover body parts with flamethrowers. At the next small junction, two more Weres. A wolf type and a bear one. Both hit me at the same time and shove me into the storage room across the hallway with sheer force. The bear is trying to keep me pinned and down. While his partner the wolf, is pounding on my armor hard as he can. His more than heavy blows are starting to beat their way through my armor's hardness and I am feeling the blows now. I can feel each blow flex the chest part of my armor and my bones, if you can call them that? Are taking the damage from the blows...but my flesh is bruising and it hurts like mad. I try to get my Axe into the fight but, the bear has that arm pinned! Just as I tell my Axe to act on its own and end this. THEN! I feel....FIRE all over me. The guards are roasting me with the flamethrower? The intense heat makes my helmet snap shut to protect me. After a few minutes of the heat, both have died and fallen off me.

I finally shove off the dead bear off me and get up "HEY I had them!...you mess up my chance....bear rug for my house!" I laugh out, in my broken english.

The group of guards, lets me pass out of the room and I start once again leading the way down the hallway. As I get a few yards down the way, I hear from behind me. That flamethrower at work on the room once more, to be sure is my guess. As no one is yelling at me to look back there.

As I walk forward, I push out my feelings and my mind. As there must be something leading this rabble. After we clear a few more Weres and get in the deeper sections. I start feeling a presence. One that is not that same one from weeks back? But a new one? One that has just a touch of that first one, I felt thou? Humm maybe its a puppet or a creature, the leader made into a lieutenant of sorts?

I sense something big nearby and I stop to hold up my hand in my military's symbol for 'stop and hold here' I see the guards react near instantly. As my guess is that simple hand gestures like that, are universal in most militarily's. The men behind me form up a good strong line and hold...as I keep walking forward. I walk around a corner into to a small room and find five Weres are guarding a very large 'cat'? It looks to me like a puma or a cougar, that Becky showed me in a book this month. I think it must be a sprite of some kind that has been badly corrupted. I tries to hide in the far corner from me and sends all five Weres to jump at me in its defense.

I slash through the first one, that leaps at me easily and as I hack it in-half. Its black corrupted gore and guts fly allover me to coat my armor in a most sickening mess. Two more pounce on me and shove me near out the door to this room. When I pop out into the hallway. The men start firing all over me and them! The bullets pang off my armor and splash into the flesh of the two beasts on me. I shove the monsters back into the room with a big blow from the 'flat' of my Axe blade. As I step onward into the room again I see guards start to move up. I shout back at them "STAY HERE...too dangerous!"

I walk into the room once more...but this time it hurts, as all those bullets did some damage to me. With the force of their combined blows. I can feel some of my ribs?... Are broken, but healing very fast. As I enter the room yet again. All four Weres come tearing at me, as the leader jumps into the next room behind a large armored door. As the four come at me, I form up a very large energy ball and toss it at their feet. The ball lets lose at the same time it hits the floor and its immense light fills the room. The blast from it shreds the first one to bits and ash. The next two have large chunks of corrupted flesh burned off them and they fall over dead. The last one ducks most of the blast and is singed. If these had been regular Weres. They would have been hurt, but not dead. As my 'light' only seems to kill mythos. Humans on the other hand, would die from it...and tougher mutants? I have no Idea? But my guess is that they would live just fine...hurt...but fine?

The last Were seems to be stalling me, by jumping around allot in the room. He is not trying to dodge? But keep me away from the door. It suddenly dawns on me what he is doing and I back up out of the room. I yell down the hallway "Does this room go anywhere?"

I see Gunny holding out this radio for my voice to get to Becky. In a few seconds I see him shake his head to me.

"FALL BACK! Its an ambush coming!" I scream out! Then wave them all back.

I hear the radio crackle the info from Becky's voice on it, the men turn in an orderly manner and fall back to a better spot. That spot, lays about Twenty five feet back. Just as the last bunch of men get into a better spot, seven Weres burst out of one of the doors farther on down the hallway. They all run past me toward the men. I let them go, knowing they have it secured back there. What I am waiting for is the BIG ONE!

I am rewarded in my patience, by the last corrupted Wolf Were from the room jumps at me. My fighting instincts take over instantly and I cleave it in half with my Axe. What's left of it, hits my armor and its gooey body parts slide off my armor to plop on the floor. I then shake the chunks of the beast off my blade and walk forward toward the bigger beast...the leader! That lays in-wait behind the thick armored door.

I am thinking 'I wonder what got this one started? Were they were studying it down here?'

As I tear at the door locks. I hear a near constant chatter of guns behind me and whumps of explosions. I work on the door to open it and the sounds of fighting from the hallway lessen a lot. A group of men stalk into the room, as I work the locked door. I finally hear and see them "Get back out of here. If you look at this one, it will drive you all mad from just seeing it! Don't listen to it...or it may take you over and control you. GET OUT NOW!" I bark at them. The radio in one mans hand sounds back to them my translated words and they all run out.

I finally get the door open! I see the cat beast backing into a corner behind some equipment trying hard to get away from me! As it backs up I have to wonder 'was this down here all the time? or did it sneak into here? or maybe it was just one more thing humans got curious about and tried hard to understand. Then it got out of hand?

I scream out in the old language to it, as it backs into the room farther "You're about to die!"

It howled and hissed back to me "Warrior of light? How did you get here? You're all...you've all been destroyed! Eons ago!"

I listen to the weird voices coming out of it.....Its in the Dark Ones language. I know this thing should not be talking this? Something else is talking through it? I feel out a bit to the wards around here. I can feel them and they're weakened and torn apart! So something has crept in here and got to this thing. Then did all this damage...maybe it's trying to free something else? I hope not?...it might be deeper in the complex and this cat beast didn't quite get to where it needs to go to free its master!

I have it cornered! So I pull up, then ready a vast amount of my energy and launch it. The beast is blasted apart from the blow and fries. I watch it as starting to die from the blast, as the 'light' of mine is eating it up and turning into ash slowly. I smile to it!

I run up to it before its fully dead and ready my Axe. Then hit the beast in the forehead, with the pommel stone of my Axe. So I can kill it, then take its essence and memories into me via the stone. I do this so, that I can now know all that it has ever done and maybe find out more about what is going on here today?

The beasts 'spirit' or what's left of it flows into my Axe's gem at its death. Then it is finally blasted by the gems power to ash. Instead of sending the spirit on its way into the after life. I pull the beast into me....Then all the memories of it start to flow into my mind at my command. I start to see what this 'thing' was up to and where it was going.

THEN! the shock of the flow, hits me from the beast. The Dark One that's on the other end, that was commanding that beast. IT! links into my mind fully, as a opened the door for it...via this 'spirit link' of mine. It starts blasting into my mind and spirit, to either kill me or take me over. I start to stagger blindly about the room from the blows to my mind and my spirit are taking. I stagger wildly back into the hallway for a brief second and the guards see me wallow about for a few monuments to finally stumble back into the room. Where I am finally knocked flat down to the floor. Then go unconscious for several minutes to process, what my mind just took in. I lay there desperately trying to break the connection, before it hurts my mind too much. As I lay there mentally fighting this, the Dark One on the other end knows I am down and sends Five Weres to my room to finish me off!

The guards outside see the five Weres come at them! They fire at the mass of targets. But since the Weres are not looking to attack them, they easily dodge most of the fire and run into the room I am in. As the group of Weres jumps all over me, to claw and bite at my armor. My armor reacts in defense of my unconscious body and shoots out spikes from it to pierce the beasts all over. My Axe would normally jump to my defense in this. But it is busy helping me out inside my mind, that is now under attack!.

One of the guards after seeing the five Weres going into the room I am in. Along with what appeared to most there as me being incapacitated badly by something. Jumps up from the barricade to scream out "She needs help in there! I am going in!"

Another shouts out "But she said...to stay here, its too dangerous in there for us?"

"Heck with that! If we lose her! We might lose this whole thing! As she was the only thing evening up the odds on us winning!" after he is done with his retort. He stalks down the hallway toward that room, gun at the ready.

Ten more of the guards, fall fast behind him and cover the advance to the room. When they all get there, the 'new' leader peeks around the corner via a video link mounted on his gun and sees the trouble I am in! The Weres are all over me and my armor spikes are hurting them all...but not killing them!

The leader shows the groups what is going on via the link and they all take turns spraying the room with gun fire to kill the beasts! But it has no great effect on them.

One hisses out "Lets see if this works!" as he pulls out a phosphorus grenade. Then chucks it into the room.

The large canister goes off and fills the room with burning chunks of white hot phosphorus. That start burning the beasts on me...up! This finally does the trick, after they toss in two more for good measure!

After the fires die and the beasts also seem dead. They all go in, with each one taking a section of the room to cover. When they all nod that the room is clean. The lead man looks at me laying there, very! still "Is she dead?" he asks the group.

One of the group whispers out "I don't know maybe I should check?" He then starts to walk forward to me.

His buddy stops him with a hand on his shoulder "NO! don't, did you see what that armor was doing! I bet it will not know you, from one of those animals and spike you to death!"

The lead mans gun camera scans over my prone body several times.

Up above us hundreds of feet---------------

Becky is watching the video feed 'live' and is in tears from watching it all for the last twenty minutes.

"Is she dead!? I have to go down there and see!" she wept out.

The guard I put in-charge of her care, holds her "I can't let you go down there. Not until its all clear and we are sure. I promised her and so did you?"

"Yes I did promise her!" she sniffs out. Becky then watches the feed once again to see my body stir down there. Then she sees me, get up once again. But not before some choice words! Come out of my mouth!

"Haaa she is fine! She is cussing a blue streak!" Becky laughs in relief.

Back Down in the hole!---------------------------

I finally stand up, while going on a verbal tirade! and get out of that room. I bark out to the men there "COOK it all!" AND they call up a flamethrower, to do just that. As they do, I toss three very large energy balls in both rooms, to be sure. Then toss a few down the other hallway we have yet to clear. To keep the Weres heads down while, we get more men and equipment up to this new position.

After I see to all that, I walk back down to the main forward barricade and up to Gunny "Are we secure enough for me to take a break here? As that last one hurt me bad and I need some rest." I ask, him in a little bit shaky voice.

After it gets all translated. He goes on to tell me "We can make a stand here. Their numbers are less than half now, of what they once where. We also got our hands on more men and better equipment. Then add that vaccine that fights this corruption is ready for use! We will be bringing down armored robot carts that have machine guns and flamethrowers on them. So go take that break you need, we can hold here for some time!"

"I advise you not to use remote controlled units. Use ones with direct wiring, as I think this mythos can get into computers via that thing you call a 'net'? I saw into its mind as I linked to it for a short while back there and that is what I saw it did to get out?" I state to Gunny.

"Hummm I will do that and cut off all computer feeds from this section from now on! Now go...rest!" I nod back to him and trudge down the hallway.

I walk back to the large barricade, as I do I pull off my helmet to breath better. As I get past the barricades, I see that man from the medical center, that had the three kids and hit me. I laugh internally at the thoughts of it.

As I walk past him, I ask out "How are kids? Mary, Matt, Sally? are good?"

He looks up at me, in my black armor and recognizes the face he finds there "You?...are you Kyley? That angel kid? My three never shut up about? How?...Why are you so big?"

"Yes I Kyley....the Angel. Things always change. This...what I should look like! Kids good? I ask as best I can.

"Ahh ya they are fine." he mumbles out.

"Bye....I rest now." I say, then walk off from the group that he was part of.

"Mark?... Was that the girl, I heard you hit in the medical center? As if it was...your lucky to be alive!" one of the men next to him stated.

"Humm your right? But she does seem to be nice thou...even if she is scary as heck!"

I walk slowly back to where the waiting van back to the surface is parked. As I see it and know this area is near as safe as it can get today. So I shrink down, so I can get in it. After I climb in the van, I fall near boneless into the seat there. Exhausted from using far to much of my internal energy to fight and kill the corrupted. Then add my mental fight with that Dark One on top of it all has drained me badly. I need to get up to the surface to recharge from the free flow of life-force outside, as down here in these tunnels. There is none for me to tap upon at all.

As the van drives up into the elevator. Gods I feel so sleepy and tired. I start to look at the driver and his beating bright life-force like a snack that is ready for the taking? I almost start to reach for him, but I stop myself 'no! I am not one of THEM! The DARK ONES! I do not kill to live! EVER! I rather die first, then fall that far!'

As the elevator door closes up, I climb over the seat, to go father back into the van's rear. So that I can lay myself across the bench seat far enough from the driver, that I don't 'feel' his life and have to fight to keep from draining him of it. After a few minutes of us rising up and me fighting the 'urge' to feed. We get up top and roll out the massive doors to the main check point here. I sit up on the bench seat as we roll along to see that in the few hours, that I was down in the that hole. They have set-up dozens of tents and now there are several hundred armed men all around us.

I tumble wearily out of the van to my feet and walk for a just a few seconds. When Becky comes running up to me as fast as she can go.

She takes a fast swipe at me, that I am too exhausted to even try to duck "Don't do that again! I thought you where dead!" She screamed at me. Then she pulled me into a deep hug.

"Hey I was not tiring to get hurt. But I need to lay down some. I spent allot of myself down there and need some time to recharge" I say to her in a voice that is heavy laden with my fatigue in it.

Becky nods to me "I know a good place to go to!" then she takes my hand and starts to near drag me off.

As she leads me off toward a tent. I watch a giant ship near hover over us and start to land at a flat concrete pad some feet away. It looks like what Becky called a 'dropship' to me. Just before its legs hit the pad, the rear ramp lowers and I see well over a hundred troops at the ready in the door. As it hits the ground, the legs flex and the men all run out at speed.

As I gaze at that, Becky gets me into the tent and lays me onto a bed there. Then, I start pulling in the ambient life-force of the area and with hundreds of people there. I am filling up and feeling better even faster. As my head hits the pillow, I fall right off to sleep.

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Shadowsblade here.

This is my newest story in a joint venture with a group of fan fic authors, so far this group is made up of Nuuan, then Branek and finally myself. We all got together and after a jumpy start decided to make a group of stories that all take place within the Whateley fanfic universe. This one here is my second one and hopefully its a good one.

But remember all. I am not leaving Shadowsblade behind! I will start writing her soon!

To have an idea about the main protagonist this story's will develop
around here is a short introduction.

Angels Peril a Whateley Tale: Written by Branek
Tormented by the past, Angel is struggling between light and dark.

Melvin a Whateley Tale: Written by Branek
They say old soldiers never die, Melvin is about to learn that the hard
way.

The Way of the Dragon a Whateley Tale: Written by Branek
Born for eternity but vulnerable like a child, dragons shouldn't leave
their nest.

Every Rose has it Thorns a Whateley Tale: Written by Nuaan
Watch what you say around rose, could give you more trouble than you ever
asked for.

Kelly a Whateley Tale: Written by Nuaan
Struggling with fate, Kelly has to deal with love and loss.

Shadowsblade a Whateley Tale: Written by Shadowsblade
Created for war and forged in pain, dealing with deamons within and the
out.

Vantier a Whateley Tale :Written by Shadowsblade
Ancient and Powerful Vantier awakens in a foreign world, struggling to
find her place in it.

You might ask yourself what is the Whateley Universe? To make it short,
here is a abstract straight out off the wiki.

Whateley is a Prep School for different teens. VERY different ones. Where else could a kid go to a school that has a resident demon living in the furnace? Or meet magic users, mutants of every imaginable kind, get trained in how to handle some rather odd abilities, and worry about
flunking Freshman English? Come visit Whateley Academy, nestled in the
lovely hills of New Hampshire. Just down the road from a town named
Dunwich... (Mythos jokes purely intentional).
This is the Whateley Academy Universe, a shared universe with over a dozen authors and more than a hundred stories (and counting). The stories range in size from vignettes to novels. It's a Mutant High scenario with both a strong transgender theme and a slightly watered down Cthulhu Mythos theme.

It's also very much a work in progress.'
If you want further information you will find them on.

http://crystalhall.wikia.com/wiki/Whateley_Academy_Wiki

or

http://whateleyacademy.net/

But I have to thank, Both Branek and Nuuan for their vast input and the ability they both have to 'bounce' off ideas and improve them!

To all my readers who have e-mailed me and given support--THANKS!

Please feel free, to add a review to this story and others. As those kind words are 'cookies' that keeps that muse well fed on the 'sometimes' long breaks between stories!

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