Warning: violence, some strong language, and the giant enemy spider
Prologue
James and Searcher had been looking for Eli after discovering he had murdered James’ father and it had been years since the discovery. They were at an abandoned mall and heard a voice. It was Eli, after confronting him a battle ensued. At first, Our heroes were winning due to it being a two-on-one. Then Eli had gained the advantage after knocking Searcher down and pinning James to a pillar, but Searcher threw a grenade at another pillar making the area crumble in on itself. After getting out of the rubble they left the mall knowing that they had stopped a murderer, or did they?
Phoenix down
A James Cthulhu story
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Chapter 1
It had been a few weeks since James had fought Eli at the abandoned mall, and he had been stuck at home since with multiple cuts on his arms and legs. Sometimes he would wonder “Was killing Eli the right decision to do, what if they could have helped him be good?” But he told himself there was no saving Eli now. Searcher rushed in saying “ He’s alive, they found evidence that he’s alive.” James then replies” Well fuck, if Eli is still alive he’ll be preparing to do something bad and we need to prepare. Then the television went to the breaking news, “An explosion has taken out half of the city hall, caused over 10,000 civilian casualties, and destroyed most of the town records.” said the reporter on tv.James quickly shouts while putting his shoes on “We have to get over there right now!”
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Chapter 2
When they arrived at the scene there was total anarchy. Daniel and Searcher put firemen’s clothes and gear on and went in to try to rescue as many people as they could. James had decided to go a different direction to check for survivors and out of the corner of his eye, he saw the same shadow he saw at the mall.
“Well if it isn’t my old pal James, how have you been,” said Eli.
“How the hell did you survive the explosion, I saw you buried under tons of rubble!” stated James.
“You naive little fool, my body is filled with the souls of my victims, so I barely made it out, causing me to have to replace a lot more of my original body,” said Eli. James then proceeded to punch Eli only to be stopped by a mechanical tentacle protruding from Eli’s shoulder, James then grabbed a knife from his waist and chopped it off of his arm. Then Eli bellowed a loud mechanical screech as if a rodent had gotten in between two rusty gears grinding against each other. Eli then proceeded to shove the sharp ends of other tentacles into a couple of James’ ribs. James then grabbed the tentacles and flipped Eli to the ground.
“Your life is about to end, you’ve been on this planet for too long and for you, my friend the darkest pits of the underworld will be your eternal home,” stated James. James then was stabbing the knife through Eli’s head, but as he was about to kill him everything went blank.
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Chapter 3
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“Hey buddy you're finally up, how are you doing?” said Searcher. “What the heck happened to me?” said James. “You were fighting someone but you passed out and they escaped, you were bleeding pretty badly when we found you and you were lucky to be alive,” answered Searcher. “Did my face get burned?” questioned James. “No but your chest and right arm were severely burnt and the rest were minor burns,” stated Searcher.
“It-it-it was Eli, I was fighting Eli, I was about to kill him then everything went blank.” shakingly stated James. “The doc said you may have passed out from the heavy amount of smoke around you,” said Searcher. “No I didn’t, when I and Eli were fighting the fire was a good 10 minutes away and I didn't pass out, instead It just went blank in less than a millisecond,” stated James. “Hmm I wonder what happened to you then James,” said Searcher. “Well anything happened while I was out?” asks James.
“There was a break-in at the headquarters of Conner incorporated,” replies Searcher. “Isn’t that the place where they created that omnipotent entity a while back.” thinks James to himself. “Yeah, and they say that some of the cloning and genetics technology was stolen.” calmly says, Searcher.
5 months later……….
“We’re almost there, only 40 feet till we reach the location,” says Searcher.
Chapter 4
“Good I want to get out of these damned sewers anyways,” replies James. They continued till they got out and reached their destination, which was a huge warehouse and an office combined-type building hidden deep in the woods. “So this is where he has been hiding all along, let’s go in and go out so no killing alright,” commands Searcher. So then they sneak up to the building and notice some entities that look like things with flesh but they have mechanical bits and bobs sticking out of them. So James and Searcher went to the left side of the building, took out the guards on the side, and hid their unconscious bodies.
“Ok we need a better plan than just knocking them out,” says James. “Meh'' mumbles Searcher. They proceeded to head to a meeting room and then busted down a wall that led to a secret elevator. “Is this it?” asks Searcher. “If it isn’t then we just damned ourselves to the underworld buddy.” grimly states James. Once they get to their floor they look around to notice a catwalk above them looming over vats of liquid metal and machines constructing new robots to fuel an army.
“Soon I will have enough soldiers to take over, and Bradley is the device ready,” says ???. “Y-yes sir and we have reported that individuals have broken into the lab, we have a team that should arrive through the elevator in a minute,” replied Bradley. “Good, I want those invaders to suffer, and I might know who they are too.” responded ???. The duo then proceeded to head to some metallic storage devices when the person on the catwalk came up and announced” I know you're over here, where are you?”
Our heroes proceeded to try to hide better in the face of peril. Then the figure stated,” Oh there’s my coffee!” James flipped up to the catwalk completely undetected followed by Searcher climbing up there. They continued till they reached an office. They looked in the filing cabinets and found something that made James freeze.
Chapter 5
It was proof that Eli had been tracking them and he knew their every move. "Searcher, man you have to see this,'' James says in a shaky voice. Searcher comes over and replies"Oh god, you know what this means right?" "Yes I do, my old acquaintances," Eli said as he walked in. Eli monologs about how he was going to use his knowledge to take over everything and as he finished James kicked Eli in the face.
Eli reeled back in pain but managed to pull a pistol out and manage to land a shot on Searcher.
Searcher threw a filing cabinet at Eli due to the amount of adrenaline running through him. Eli fell through the door and onto the catwalk. “ You and I have such a strong attraction to each other, it’s almost as if we are the same.” coughed out Eli. “Not this time you jerk!” James screeched out as he lunged at Eli with a knife. The knife pierced Eli through the eye and as he was almost dead, James blacked out just like the last time he almost killed Eli.
Chapter 6
He woke up in a helicopter flying away from a building where two forces were fighting. “W-w-where am I?” he shakily asked. A voice replied,” Your buddy took you to the rendezvous and called in the military to try to take out those machines.” James looked around and saw Searcher talking to a man dressed in a uniform. “You're up, After you just randomly blacked out I ran you out of there and…. That was the last thing James heard before a projectile hit the helicopter.
He was falling fast and if he didn't get a parachute or a soft landing, he was going to Die. After a quick look around he noticed a patch of hay and an unconscious soldier with a parachute attached to him, he had to choose. It was tough but he chose the hay because he most likely didn't have the time or strength to activate the parachute. After falling for a while he hit the pile of hay with an extremely loud thud. He dusted himself off and saw Searcher nearby landing on top of a tractor.
The duo paired up and looked for other survivors of the crash. “You okay man, that was a pretty loud thud,” asked Searcher. “Yeah still a bit bruised up from the fight with Eli, you okay though 'cause if my memory serves right then you got shot” James responded. Searcher lifted his shirt to reveal his side was bandaged and at a spot, there was a deepredstain. “Ouch, that’s gotta hurt,” said James.
Chapter 7
A while later they got to a military outpost that was set up since Eli’s army was advancing out of the factory quickly. “Hey medic, we got two wounded over here!” shouted the soldier that let the duo in. They walked into the medical tent to see a good pal of theirs, Dr. Rennoc Victis. “James, Searcher, how have you been?”Dr. Rennoc excitedly asked. “Good other than that we have been constantly fighting him.” angrily replied Searcher. “Well, I have good news.” sighed Dr. Rennoc. “What’s up doc?” asked James in a joking manner. Then Dr. Rennoc explained that Conner Inc. had teamed up with the military and was preparing a final strike on Eli in a month. Then the duo got situated at the outpost because they knew that they would be there for a while. James and Searcher had gotten to their tent. They would share it with Rennoc. “You know James, I feel like this is it,” said Searcher. “What do you mean?” asked James. “This will be the end of all this mystery and fighting we’ve gone through,” replied Searcher.
1 week till the attack…..
James had been helping plan small advances against Eli's army and both of them fought when they could. Searcher had found an outpost containing the blueprints Eli used to build his soldiers, so he was asked to join a special task force being put together. James was asked to join because of his immense knowledge of Eli and his strategic abilities. Dr. Rennoc joined because they needed a medic and he had known Eli. Over the week they had been preparing for the main strike and the secret strike the night before. The group had assembled a team of soldiers so they could sneak up on Eli’s main factory and disable it to give their side an advantage
Chapter 8
"Alright men this is it, if you want to turn back now I WILL SHOOT YOU." sternly called out Searcher. "Remember half of us cause a huge distraction and half of us destroy the factories producing the soldiers," said James to the group. Searcher and Dr. Rennoc were leading the group causing the distraction and James was leading the group destroying the factories. James and 6 other people snuck into the place where the factories were held. They waited for a while till they heard a loud boom and gunfire, so they knew to start their mission.
The others started to take down the normal ones but James started to utterly decimate the larger one. After James had finished him, he helped others till they were all done. Afterward, they hurried out of there as if all of hell was chasing them. Searcher and Rennoc on the other hand had shot a ballistic missile at a tower and started raining hellfire upon the unsuspecting soldiers. They then created a position where they held an advantage over the now-advancing soldiers.
The group may have not had many supplies but they had Searcher. He was a genius in combat and knew a million ways to kill anything, but he knew they didn’t have the ammo to take all of the enemies out. When they ran out of ammo, Rennoc led the escape but Searcher stayed behind to confirm that both groups made it out. Rennoc and James' groups met up at the rendezvous point and got in jeeps to start the journey home. "Hey, old time, where the hell is Searcher?" asked James in a very serious and worried tone.
"He….stayed behind so we could all get out alive, I don't know if he is dead or alive but I do know if he didn't stay behind some of us wouldn't be alive," replied Rennoc in a deep and grim tone. After that, it was a silent, gloomy ride till they reached the base.
Chapter 9
James couldn't sleep that night so he took the post in the watchtower facing toward the place they had just attacked. He couldn't grasp the reality that his best friend was most likely dead and the last thing he said to him was to follow their orders. They had always been good friends but their bond had been strengthened by the discovery of Eli’s crime. James also pondered his friendship with Rennoc. He and the doctor were childhood pals and they hung out with Searcher at a local bar on Saturdays.
Rennoc may not be morally good but he does know when to do good and when to follow orders. James still can’t believe Searcher stayed behind to protect him. Then suddenly James felt a rumble and he saw a giant explosion, similar as if an I.C.B.M had blown up, where they had just attacked. “He’s alive, I knew it!” exclaimed James. He had known that it was Searcher because that was his calling card.
Our protagonist was happy and very tired. James looked around, he was in a green hill zone and he felt a rumble below his feet. There was An angelic being made of pure radiance, an axolotl humanoid in robes, and a scientist with what seemed to be stitches completely around his neck and a huge slash across his chest.
“We are the guardians of the realms, sadly I and my friends were trapped in the dreamscape by a dark entity.” bellowed out the angelic being. “Its name is the Victis, and it has hold of your old pal Eli.” snarkily remarked the axolotl. “ I will imbue you with the powers to remove the beast from him and banish him from your realm, that is if you accept.” calmly said the scientist. James accepted the offer but requested he stay here till he woke. The guardians agreed but asked if he could do something for them.
James accepted the task but it was not easy, for he had to retake the portal room from the. James rushed there and saw a demonic Kraken made of black goo and covered in green eyes. The beast took note of James and slithered up to him. He could feel its breath crawl over his body like a hairy spider. The beast poked at him a few times and then stared at him in confusion.
James then heard a voice tell him that is the thing he needed to kill, but deep down James knew he could cure this beast and take care of it.
Chapter 10
James thought of stunning it to find a way of curing it then all of a sudden a grey aura surrounded it and it was stuck in one spot. He thought hard and decided to conjure a serum that repelled outside forces from controlling it. He injected it into the Kraken and it puked up a spiky orb that immediately shattered. James named it a snow puff and returned it to the guardians. “So is the portal good now then?” asked James. “You cured the beast…?” replied the axolotl.
“I did give him grey power, so that is probably why.” said the scientist. “Well now we can access the portal room but we can only use a portal once that world’s Victis has been destroyed.” the angel uttered. They went back to the portal room after planning something. “Well bud, you're about to wake up soon so say your goodbyes then.” declared the Scientist. “It was nice meeting you.” replied the angel.
“You're a cool little dude, we gotta hang out some other time.” remarked the axolotl. James said his goodbyes to the trio and then played with his new pet till he awoke back at home. James had awoken to Rennoc getting his gear on. “Rise and shine, we head there in half an hour,” informed Rennoc. So they got prepared and headed to their group. “Alright men this will be tough and most likely we will not make it out in our current status but I believe we can do this, because I know that we can take out that son of a bitch!” shouted Rennoc.
They got in their vehicles and headed out to the battle. Soldiers were riding in jeeps and tanks also what seemed to be a convoy carrying a weapon from Conner inc all together riding towards a looming fortress. As the army got close they split into three forces, force Alpha would cause a distraction while force Beta swooped in on the base, and force Gamma would set up the weapon that Conner inc brought. Rennoc was one of the leaders of force Beta, while James led force Gamma in their plans. “Rennoc, I need to tell you something,” said James. “What, my friend?” replied Rennoc.
“Last night I saw a huge explosion from the factory, and you know who's calling card is,” stated James. “How in the hell did he live?” remarked Rennoc in surprise. “I-I don’t know,” replied James.
Chapter 11
James led his group to their positions and they started setting up the ordinance devices. There were three of them that they had to man and each took 5 people due to it having 5 stations. The first was a power box that powered the device. The second was a radar that showed the status of the other devices. The third was a computer that ran the radar and the data sender.
The fourth was a device that sent the data from the control to the satellite so that it was clear to fire. The fifth one was the control that had to send the signal to fire from all three stations. Lastly was the A.E.S.P.C which was a giant satellite that shot a giant laser and would only be shot if things turned bad or if Eli had something requiring that level of firepower. “Power online in 3…2….1 go!” shouted the person manning the power. “Computer systems online in 3…2….1 go!” exclaimed the computer guy.
“Radar online in 3….2….1 go!” yelled the radar person. “Data sender online in 3….2…1 go!” said the Satellite sender man. Lastly, James loudly replied,” Control is online in 5….4…3..2.1, all systems are online!”. They had done it, they had perfectly started their device and the others came online soon after. James had praised his troop for the excellent job they had done.
Meanwhile, Rennoc had a position held about halfway to where Eli was and at this point, the battle was tied. “You what’s the casualty report at the moment?” asked Victis. “ It is about seventy-six thousand on our side but on theirs, they lost a good million sirs.” replied the soldier. Rennoc then proceeded to pull the pin on a grenade and chuck it as far as he could. The grenade sucked up a group of Eli’s troops and swallowed them into a portal that proceeded to spit out their remains.
Rennoc led a charge that gained them an advantage point. They were successful till he saw it. “I am the R34P3R V.1987 and you shall fear me!” bellowed out the mechanical terror. Rennoc hid behind a chunk of a wall while an entire squad was massacred by the mechanical foe. After making a plan Rennoc threw a grenade at it while proceeding to grab an Ion rifle off of a bullet-riddled corpse.
“Ha-ha-ha you think your grenade will stop me, well it won’t and now it’s time for annihilation!” shouted the towering terror. Rennoc then proceeded to chuck all of his grenades at his foe while shooting what looked like Its eye. After the last explosion, the robot seemed to be blinded and to have taken damage, which Rennoc was happy about. Rennoc grabbed his machete while running up to his enemy and jumped upon him to try to pry the head off. He struggled for a while till he fell off, but he had done considerable damage to his foe.
“Yo-ou w-w-ill per-er-Irish sm-a-ll oooo-one.” said the machine.
Chapter 12
Rennoc’s adversary put all his power into completely and utterly destroying him. “What do I do, oh what do I do” Rennoc thought to himself. Our hero then proceeded to shoot the monster but all it did was stun him. “Oh, I know what to do!”Rennoc said to himself. He threw a rock at a tree distracting the robot which gave him his chance.
Rennoc picked up his machete climbed up the technological terror and used all his might to pry the Gatling gun off of it. “Y-you little sh-_-, I'm gonna rip you to PIECES!” shouted the Damaged robot. Rennoc started bolting as the deranged demon chased speedily after him. Rennoc knew he was gonna run out of breath but he was determined. The machine was catching up on him and he was running out of options till he saw them.
It was a patrol of Eli’s soldiers, if Rennoc could lead his foe toward them he could catch his breath and formulate a plan. When he reached the group they fired on him till the robot caught up and the soldiers started firing on the machine due to it going haywire on them. Rennoc ran behind a boulder and heavily sighed. After gaining his breath back he noticed a walkie-talkie beside him. He picked it up and noticed it had a picture of Timothy Turning’s cat form on it. Rennoc thought to himself “James you freaking jokester.”
He turned it on and the device crackled to life. “Listen to me, you need to stall time so I can get there,” said the voice over the walkie-talkie. “Ok that’s good to know and when do you expect to arrive?” asked Rennoc. “ In about five or so minutes,” replied the voice. After thinking he came up with a plan, and it was a decent one. Rennoc scanned the area and noticed there were no soldiers left and the robot was still looking for him.
Our hero picked up a shock sword from one of the corpses and ran full force at his mechanical menace. “Ha ha ha ha, you rEaLlY think that that will stop mee,” laughed the robot. The two then proceeded to start duking it out in melee combat. The machine threw a barrage of punches and Rennoc barely dodged them. Rennod then slashed at his foe, temporarily stunning him. He then ran back to cover and sat.
He pulled out a picture from his wallet. It was a picture of his wife and son. “I couldn’t protect you then, but I’ll avenge you now,” Rennoc said to himself. He got up and got right up to the robot. Rennoc used all his remaining might to stab the beast through the chest. “I should thank you for fixing my voice and barely denting me but sadly I have to end our little game,” said the robot smirkingly.
Rennoc rebutted with “You’ll die before I will.” “ You can't beat me at this point,” smugly replied the mechanical menace. “ I know but my friend over there can,” muttered Rennoc. Then from the trees, James jumped out with a battle ax and struck the mechanical beast down with a blow to the back. “Eh, what’s up doc,” James asked.
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It took ya long enough,” said Rennoc with a smirk. “Sorry man, uber eats gave me the wrong directions,” jokingly replied James. “Ok the joke was funny but please stop smiling, I don’t like thinking about an eyeball with a mouth,” asked Rennoc. “Touche, that is disturbing to people who don’t have a giant eyeball for a head,” responded James. The two then proceeded to sit down to rest
“How did you survive that by the way?” asked James. “To be honest, I do not know and it was like I had literal plot armor,” responded Rennoc. “Huh that’s neat,” James thought to himself. “So where did you get the ax?” Rennoc questioned. “I’ll tell ya after we group up with the main strike force,” responded James.
They then set off to get back with the group. After a while, they realized they would need a vehicle to catch up. “So how do you plan on getting us some wheels?” inquired James. “I don’t know, but it’s our only option if we wanna catch up,” replied Rennoc. Then James felt something buzzing in his pocket. “Hold on a second, somebody is calling me,” James remarked. “Hello, who is this?”James questioned.
“That’s not important, there is a jeep ten feet to your right and the main force is to your left,” stated the mysterious person on the phone. “Alright but my question still stands, who are you?” James questioned. “That’s not important right now, what it is the fact that you got a large group advancing on you,” replied the mysterious person. James hung up and led Rennoc to the location the vehicle was said to be. Rennoc checked the fuel tank and announced they had just enough to get to Eli.
They then proceeded to get in the jeep and start it up. “Do you know where the keys are?” inquired Rennoc. “They are in the ignition, you blind child,” answered James. “Oh, my bad friend,” replied Rennoc while chuckling.
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Chapter 14
They started the jeep and started the journey to fight in the final battle against the scourge known as Eli. “So are you gonna tell the story now or what?” asked Rennoc. “Sure, that will pass the time,” responded James.
About an hour ago…..
“Dude this is so boring, I wanna go down there and fight,” I complained. “Same here pal but we have to man these stations,” stated the radar guy. “I don’t know dude, couldn’t we just program one of these to run itself while I go down there,” I suggested. “That idea may just work with my radar,” responded the radar guy. So we sat there for a few minutes and tinkered with the radar. Eventually, it worked by itself and I was free to go fight again. I looked out to the horizon and saw you in a fight and saw a giant machine as well. “I might as well start there,” I thought to myself. So I started my journey toward you and the fight. I crossed over a lake and through rocks till I hit a forest. “Damn, this is going to be hard to navigate,” I muttered. Then out of the blue, a shadow figure ran to his left and started motioning Me that way. So I naturally followed the spirit man through brambles of thorns and twisted trees till we reached a campsite and he vanished. “Oh my god, what the hell happened here!” I yelled in horror. The campsite was covered with black gunk and there was blood everywhere. Then I sat on a stump to get his bearings and to recover after what he had just seen. Then out of the corner of my eye, I saw a handle stuck in an obsidian monolith. I walked over to the monolith to check it out. There was writing on the object and it said “Only those blessed by a guardian may pull the Redeemer’s ax from its prison.” After analyzing the handle and thinking, I started pulling. After a few seconds, The monolith shattered and the shards turned to light blue and crimson red. “Huh, this is a pretty neat ax,” I said to myself. I then grabbed a walkie-talkie and continued my journey. Then you got on the radio and called out and of course, I responded.
Chapter 15
“That’s nice and all James but we got company,” noted Rennoc. Behind them was a platoon of Eli’s soldiers that started firing on the two. “I’ll man the turret and you will drive us out of here, capiche” stated Rennoc. So James got in the driver’s seat and started accelerating out of there. A truck drove up to the jeep so Rennoc killed the driver and James ran it off the road. Then two ATVs drove up to them and started to push them off the road by any means necessary. Rennoc managed to take out one of the ATVs but he got knocked off of the turret and was hanging off the jeep. James proceeded to do a full spin causing the ATV to crash and Rennoc to get back on the jeep. Then swiftly after that, they managed to take out the remaining soldiers with ease. “Well that was an exciting fight!” exclaimed James. “For you, I had to do all the shooting,” replied Rennoc. The two then continued their journey to fight Eli. While the rest of the journey was not too tough our heroes witnessed madness unfolding around them as they got closer to their destination. Eli’s men were salvaging their dead comrades to give themselves the upper hand while the military was shredding through Eli’s defences. After going through that mess James and Rennoc finally reached Eli.
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Chapter 16
“Why hello there friends, care to join me here in this lovely little grotto,” sarcastically snarked Eli. “You're a no-life loser Eli!” yelled James. “Dude, that's a low blow coming from you,” replied Rennoc in a surprised tone. “I agree with Rennoc on this one, James,” added Eli. “Man, don’t you guys miss when we use to do stuff like this before we found out somebody murdered my dad,” rebutted James. “Okay, okay I'm sorry I suck at hiding things but let’s get down to business,” said Eli. “We all know that one of us is going to die today but I'm gonna say one thing, why did you do it Eli?” asked James. Eli then walked up to James and whispered something in his ear and then walked back. James then proceeded to charge Eli with his ax starting the final fight. Eli unsheathed his blade and started fending off both Rennoc and James at once. Rennoc distracted Eli with a reflective surface allowing James to get a hit in but it barely scratched Eli’s armor. Eli then proceeded to swing his mace at James but James managed to duck out of the way. Rennoc started opening fire on Eli with his rifle but the bullets just bounced off of him. Eli proceeded to start slashing and dashing at Rennoc with all his might allowing James to attack. James proceeded to grab Eli’s throat and throw him to the ground. “This is the end of your time on the mortal plane of existence Eli, so say your prayers.” hissed James. James then swung his ax at Eli's neck but Eli stabbed James in the side causing him to reel back in pain. Rennoc then rushed up and sucker punched Eli in the jaw which resulted in Eli kicking Rennoc in the face. “You know, I’m a lot more flexible than I used to be,” stated Eli. “Yeah but not flexible enough to dodge this!” yelled James. James then proceeded to rip off Eli’s mace arm and hit him with it. “You are going to pay for that you arrogant child” stated an enraged Eli.
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Chapter 17
Eli started rapidly slashing at James and Rennoc with all his might. While trying to fend off his foe, James was slashed in his arm causing a deep red gash to open up and James responded by breaking off some of his attacker’s armor. Rennoc then stabbed the newly exposed weak spot, sending Eli back in pain. A green and black light flashed through Eli’s eyes as he proceeded to get up as if he hadn’t been wounded at all. Eli then proceeded tostart slashing and hacking at our heroes with deadly accuracy.
James and Rennoc started running around trying to dodge Eli as he started spinning in circles while swinging his mace. The more they dodge the faster Eli got as they did a deadly tango. James tried to stop him but no matter what they did he wouldn’t quit. Rennoc attempted to fire at the foe but he just dodged and continued his rampage. James assessed his situation and got an idea.
He lured Eli towards a wall and waited till he swung his mace. Then when the villain swung at him he ducked down and got the villain’s weapon stuck in it. “Dammit, stupid mace get unstuck now!” yelled Eli. Then James commands” Rennoc hold him down while I get my axe.” Rennoc responded with “Ok but hurry it the hell up, he’s not wanting to sit tight.”
So James hurried and grab his axe in the nick of time because when he swung it Eli got free but it was too late.
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Chapter 18
As James swung his axe it went straight through Eli’s shoulder and almost to his hip. “ I-I-I did it, I finally avenged him!” ecstatically screamed James. “The battle may be over but we still need to finish the war.” rebutted Rennoc. The two sat down for a moment of peace before finishing the fight. They had a long journey after all and it was finally ending.
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“I still wonder why he killed your dad,” asked Rennoc. “I’ll tell you after the fight,” replied James. “ Is your arm good dude?” said Rennoc in a surprised tone. “Oh yeah it’s fine, just let me patch it up real quick,” responded James.
So James patched his gaping wound up while the duo was resting.
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“So what do we do after this?” pondered James out loud. “I don’t know but let’s get out of here, I'm starting to get the chills,” stated Rennoc. The two got up and got ready to go face the final battle. So they left but it wasn’t but five seconds before James stopped in his tracks. “It’s nice to see young folks enjoying themselves but I'm afraid I’ll have to stop you there.” ominously whispered ???.
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Chapter 19
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The two looked behind them and saw the corpse of Eli reanimate itself covering it with large black blotches of goo and beedy green eyes over it. “W-what the hell are you!” yelled Rennoc. “Y-y-yah what he said and what did you do to Eli?” scaredily added James. “ That doesn’t matter right now, what matters is your lives ending here.” hissed the entity.Then the amalgamation pounced at Rennoc like a cougar on steroids.
Rennoc rolled out of the way with hurried ease. “James just make mince meat of him already!” shouted Rennoc. Once more the anomaly pounced but this time at James, But this time it was not as lucky. “Holy Imagineria, it just died….?” confusingly screamed James. “You should not have done that you foolish, naive, ignorant child.” slowly muttered out loud from the entity.
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Chapter 20
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After the entity finished Its sentence it started to glow and the skies darkened as loud screeches and scratches could be heard all around the surrounding area. James looked behind him and noticed a large, writhing biomass of flesh and metal slithering toward the entity at extraordinary speeds. James then alerted Rennoc and they climbed a nearby boulder to get to safety. More and more of the mass came up and started fusing with the entity to form a titanic version of Eli. “If we don’t stop it from forming we won’t have a fighting chance,” shouted Rennoc among the screeching and scratching.
As the Eli amalgamation reached a few miles tall it seemed like there was no hope until a dark figure flew up and slammed a ballistic missile strategically into the beast’s neck. The figure dropped down to the ground where the mass seemed to die off and they revealed themself to be Searcher. “Did you guys miss me or what?” jokingly asked Searcher. “I told you he was still alive.” snarkily said James to Rennoc. “Whatever, let’s just kill this damned abomination already.” retorted Rennoc in an enthusiastic tone.
The trio of heroes needed a really good plan and they needed it very fast. A nearby radio stuck in the mass fluttered to life and it yelled “Target E-7-1 has mutated, I repeat it has mutated, fire up all systems in half an hour then the ray will be fully charged, and then we fire on it.” “Ok so all we have to do is distract it for half an hour and our boys out there will deliver the final strike,” stated James. “The issue still stands of how to do it,” responded Rennoc. “Simple, we hit it with all the firepower we got!” excitingly yelled Searcher.
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Chapter 21
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James grabbed the radio and ordered an all-out attack on the Eli amalgamation for the next half an hour. “So what is OUR attack plan?” asked Rennoc. “I don’t know, just hit the damn thing,” responded James in a confused tone. “Well whatever we do, let’s make it huge,” added Searcher. So the three started slicing at the giant abomination.
They sliced at it for three minutes before one of them realized that it was pretty invincible. “So that didn’t work, does anybody have a plan B,” asked James. “I don’t have a clue to how we hurt it either,” retorted Rennoc. “Well, we could try to find out how to hurt it instead of sitting here fighting,” responded Searcher. That is what they proceeded to do till they found a tunnel through the fleshy mass that seemed to lead to the heart.
“Ok I’ll go in and check it out while you two go distract Eli,” commanded James. “Alrighty, captain!” jokingly responded Searcher. “We’ll try not to get ourselves killed,” added Rennoc. “Ok then, one…two….three split!” they all yelled at once.
So James started to advance through the tunnel of flesh. As James was walking through he started noticing bodies from an army not present on the battlefield. After a while of seeing them, he looked at the armor of one of the soldiers and it read “The royal Imaginaerian army of the king -_-_-_—---_.” “Well that's very strange, these must be some old relics,” said James to himself. As he continued it started morphing into what looked like a distorted hallway. As he went further down it started to feel too familiar and he started to get goosebumps all over him.
Chapter 22
Then he heard a voice beckon him, and it said “ Hello my good friend, any new discoveries that may help us in our glorious efforts?”
He then saw what looked like the grey scientist walk into a room that the voice came from. James snuck up to the door and started listening in. The grey scientist replied, “Yes sir, in my continuing research of the null zones I found an active signal from an outpost and they sent a call for help.” “This is surprising news to me, my friend, You and some researchers will be escorted to the outpost to help recapture it and learn the weakness of the beasts.” As the grey scientist was about to respond everything came crashing down and James blacked out.
James then woke up on a grassy hill in front of what looked like a viking war. He looked out onto the field to see what looked like a younger chaddius fighting a large, plate-armored viking. Chaddius had kocked him to the ground and was about to kill him. But then Chaddius declared, “You may have betrayed you sacred oath but you are still my brother, I shall give you this one chance to redeem yourself,” he said as he turned his back to his brother. “That trust in me is your downfall brother,” hissed Chaddius’ brother as he stabbed his blade through Chaddius’ heart.
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Chapter 23
James got up and tried to run to help but he blacked out again before he reached the battle-field. He woke up on the mountain side looking down at Chaddius again but this time he was in the middle of a viking camp surround by corpses. He looked up and saw an orb of heavenly light descended upon Chaddius. The light revealed itself to be the angel and it uttered out with a booming voice, “Chaddius Theodore Laddius, you have caused the heavens and hells to be ripe with a need of vengeance against you.” “Before you say anymore, I'm sorry I killed people other than vikings and they looked like them because I'm partially blind,” responded Chaddius.
“That does not matter, you were aware of what you did so now you shall receive the angel’s wrath,” boomed out the angel. “Okay then mr. big shot, let’s fight!” yelled Chaddius. Then as the two beings clashed a bright light consumed the land. James woke up falling through a black void as memories of a bright ball of light imploding, a black glob of green eyes, a man in a green uniform, and meany more flew by him. He thought to himself “ What in the hell is going on here?” Then he hit a hard thud and woke up.
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Chapter 24
James looked around him and he was in a helicopter with Searcher and Rennoc circling the Eli amalgam. “Look who’s finally up,” said Searcher. “Last I remember, we had found a tunnel in Eli and I went in to explore and then I saw memories of what seemed to be another world,” confusingly responded James. “What tunnel, we were trying to strategize as tentacles expanded out from the waist and grabbed you in,” rebutted Rennoc. “Yah, and then we dug into that spot with our bombs and got you into the helicopter to get to safety,” added Searcher.
“Well whatever, how long till the ray fires?” asked James. “We currently have 3 minutes left till it is ready,” answered Rennoc. So the trio flew around shooting at things while they waited. Eventually the radio flickered to life and blurted out “The ray is charged up, we're ready to fire on Doctor Victis’ command.” “ Alright then, fire on the target in 5…4….3….2…… fire now!” responded Rennoc.
As Rennoc said his words a large luminescent beam came from the heavens and struck Eli right where he stood. At first Eli resisted disintegration but he was not strong enough to hold on. “Hell yeah, now that’s an epic finale!” yelled Searcher. “This is freakin’ awesome!” added James. “Hold on, It might not be over yet,” responded Rennoc.
The trio watched as Eli was dying. The first part to go was the head due to the gaping hole in the neck. Then after the head rolled away the mechanical right arm tried to swing at the helicopter but just dusted away. After that the goo holding to the ground melted off revealing two malformed mechanical legs. The dying amalgamation tried to walk towards our trio but he was getting shorter by the second. As a last ditch effort it stuck its remaining hand into its heart and crushed it, causing a shockwave with a 10 mile radius.
“Did-di-di-did it just kill itself?” asked Searcher. “It might have done it just to try to kill us,” responded James. “He isn’t done yet, I know him and he always has one last trick up his sleeve,” said James in the most stern tone he’s ever used. The trio looked as the giant pile of goo and ash was consumed by a cloud of black mist. It then turned into a large climbing tower of black goo that was going miles and miles higher by the second.
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Chapter 25
The tower formed into what seemed to be an eldritch god of unimaginable proportions that was hell bent on destruction. “You mortal fools are always trying to prevent the unpreventable, when can you just learn to bow down and accept defeat,” bellowed out the god. It proceeded to knock the heroes out of the sky in one fell swoop. “Ha your heroes have fallen in one strike and now how will you defend yourselves, you puny mortals. The eldritch god then started to kill the remaining soldiers.
While it was on its rampage a portal opened and a large humanoid came out and hit it so hard it almost fell. “I got you now, you damn pesky virus!” yelled the humanoid. Then an angel and a scientist exited the portal and started setting up magical shields around the remaining forces. After the defenses were set up the humanoid regrouped up with his buddies. Meanwhile our heroes started to regain consciousness.
“Ugh, where the hell am I?” said a dazed Rennoc. He got up and realized where he was. He and his friends had been knocked out of the sky and he was a few yards away from the wreckage. So Rennoc decided to look around and noticed a trail of blood south-east from the helicopter wreckage. So our secondary protagonist decided to follow it.
Meanwhile James had woken up near Rennoc’s unconscious body and decided to head southeast. He had made it a couple hundred yards before passing out at the campsite he had found earlier. He woke up a few minutes later and saw Rennoc following his trail of blood. “Hey Rennoc, I’m over here and I might be bleeding out,” screamed James. “I could guess that by the trail of blood,” screamed back Rennoc.
Rennoc helped James’ bleeding and they decided to rest up before heading forwards. “Hey James, I gotta ask you something?” asked Rennoc “Yah Rennoc, what is it?” responded James. “What did Eli tell you before the fight?” questioned Rennoc. As James was about to answer a blinding light descended from the sky towards them.
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Chapter 26
3 hours later…..
Searcher woke up by the riverside with a splitting headache. He looked down and saw he lost a lot of ink to the river bed. So he got up, dusted himself off and tried to speak. Searcher then realized his vocal cords had been chopped open by a helicopter blade. “You gotta be kidding, the last time this happened I went mute for weeks,” said Searcher internally.
Searcher decided the best course of action was to look for the thing that was Eli so he could find his friends. He looked up and saw the thing and determined it was around 5000 meters northeast of where he was. He started to walk through the treelines but soon realized his sense of direction was screwed up from the damage. He sat down to try to clear his head but it was no use. After what felt like forever he looked up and saw what seemed to be a man made of shadows.
The entity walked up to him and helped him up. It then motioned him to follow it. They started walking through the woods when it proceeded to say “I know you cannot speak but can you understand me?” Searcher nodded back with a yes before realizing it didn’t open its mouth. “I understand your confusion but let me explain, I have telepathy and am going to share some of my power to you so you can explain yourself.” said the being.
Chapter 27
“That’s a load of bulls-, holy crap you aren’t making this up!” said Searcher with bewilderment. “Yes I know, but I need you to explain to me what’s going on because there isn’t much time,” politely demanded the shadowy figure. “I am Searcher and that big ass thing over there is what used to be our friend Eli, he mutated into a monster about sixty times smaller than it but he was struck by our attack satellite and it started to get larger till it just stopped,” explained Searcher. “Ah, I see but who were those three people who picked you up in your helicopter?” asked the shadow man. “Oh the guardians, yah they are Chaddius T. Laddius, Angel’s light, and the Gray Scientist,” responded Searcher.
“So he did live after all, and now he’s trying to erase his evidence,” muttered the shady figure. “What was that?” asked Searcher. “It was nothing, but I should explain myself,” said the shadowy guy, “ I am Greene, an entity who has existed since the birth of your universe.” “So can you explain what that giant behemoth is made of ?” responded Searcher.
“He seems to be afflicted by a Victis, and your laser seems to have evolved it beyond its physical limits,” answered Greene. “Also, were you the thing that led my pal, James, to the axe?” questioned Searcher. “Yes I am, I had a guess something was going to happen based on the activities in the woods and decided to help.” responded Greene. “Ok that makes sense, also we're about 2500 metres northwest of the battlefield,” said Searcher.
“Okay then, it seems your sense of direction is better now so I shall leave you from here my friend,” spoke Greene. “See you then and it was nice to meet you!” responded Searcher. “It was nice to meet you as well, and I have a feeling I’ll see you again in the near future,” rebutted Greene as he dissipated in a flash. Searcher continued his journey through the woods until he spotted something. It was a fire with five people surrounding it.
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Chapter 28
Searcher decided to investigate the fire. He started heading towards it till he stepped on a stick. Luckily none of the people noticed but Searcher decided to be quieter. So he continued up to the fire. He got up to a nearby bush and decided to listen in to the conversation
“It’s a damn shame we haven’t found your buddy Searcher yet,” said Chaddius T. Laddius. “I'm very sure our inky friend can find his way here,” responded Angel’s light. “He seems pretty tough to me, he’s good,” rebutted the Grey Scientist. “I just hope he’s okay, he literally made us all believe he died two days ago,” acknowledged James. “Yah but he survived that didn’t he,” replied Rennoc, but then Searcher walked up to the fire.
“Hey, what did I tell you James?” said Rennoc “Yeah whatever, are you ok Searcher?” rebutted a concerned James. “I’d like to point out that his throat is attached to his body by thin threads of ink,” retorted the Grey Scientist. “By god, how the hell did that happen?” screamed a shocked Angel’s Light. Chaddius simply responded with “Helicopter blade through the neck?”
Searcher nodded back with a yes. “Yah let’s just say I had it happen to me many times before,” replied Chaddius. “Oh you poor innocent ink being,” said a sympathetic Angel’s Light. “I can tell this isn’t the first time this has happened to him,” retorted the Grey Scientist. “Ok then, let’s finish this fight!” exclaimed James.
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Chapter 29
So our quintet of heroes started their mission against the Victis monstrosity up again. They had started to walk through the woods until they came upon one of team Gamma’s outposts. As they approached James realized which one it was. It was the one he had helped operate at the start of the battle. But as he got closer he realized that something terrible had happened.
The outpost was in shambles and stained black and red. The two trios decided to split ways to search for survivors. James, Rennoc, and Searcher decided to check the five stations and the mess hall. They found the station covered in a chunky red mess. There were two bodies but neither w=of them were Radar Guy.
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Meanwhile the guardians went to look through the barracks and storage shed. They found nothing in the barracks for a good reason. It was completely crushed and caved in. So they followed a black and red trail to the storage shed. Inside they found the corpse of a man, named Josephi, who was brutally injured and had victified plants growing out of his orifices.
So James and his crew went to their final location. They came into the mess hall and found a giant pile of decaying Victis. They managed to get to the kitchen before they realized somebody else was in there. James pulled his battle ax out before realizing it was human. The kitchen door opened revealing a battle torn Radar Guy.
Chapter 30
“Hey James, I see you found your friends out there,” said a straight-faced Radar Guy. “Also it’s Radar Man now,” added Radar Man. “Damn, how in the hell did you survive?” asked Rennoc. “I simply just expected an attack the minute we fired the laser,” answered Radar Man. “I knew you’d make it my good friend,” retorted James.
So our trio and now quartet met up and soon arrived at the site of the final fight. They started fighting the being. It seemed like they were winning till they realized it did nothing but delay its attacks. So they decided to make a new plan. Radar Man soon realized it had a giant heart exposed at its core.
“I know what I must do,” said Rennoc aloud. “If your thinking what I’m thinking, it may work but it would be suicide,” rebutted Radar Man. “You’ll need my ax then Rennoc,” added James. So Rennoc took the ax and prepped himself. For he would be the man to end this 18 year long war.
Rennoc started his ascent up to the heart. He got up to about 100 meters till he was there when he heard faint voices. He soon realized Eli was arguing with the Victis. Eli seemed to be losing the argument. Rennoc shook his head and continued climbing.
He reached the heart and stabbed but felt a chilling pain hit his entire nervous system. He looked and realized a large and crystallized black tentacle had pierced his heart and was jammed in his stabbing arm. He faded from consciousness as the heart started glowing white and the beast started shaking. “Oh god no this cannot be my end, I was meant for so much more than this!” shouted the increasingly more worried Victis. After his final words the beast and Rennoc seemed to be completely turned to dust down to the quantum level of atoms. With that final strike Eli was dead and the battle finally was over.
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Epilogue
It had been two weeks since Eli’s defeat while fighting James. Conner Inc. had started excavating the 1000 meter radius to see why Eli chose that spot. So far they found a large residue of a strange energy encompassing the large crystal that had previously been the head of the Victis. Other than that they had come up empty. They had yet to find a trace of Eli or Rennoc corpses.
On that particular day sightings of a shadowing humanoid had been spotted around the site. But that night the being was only spotted by one person. Rennoc woke up in a small divot in the ground and felt like shit. He looked up to see a shadowy man. It looked down and hushed him. It only said one thing to him “I can explain how you're alive later but you are needed to save the entirety of existence itself.”
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The Fucking End
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