Last Hope

DC was awoken from a dream involving a woman in Orange o the sound of the Warning System.

He jumps out of the bed and bolts to the bridge of the ship still half naked.

Grougly he says " What the hell was..." He sees the armada of Bhastian " F#$# me sideways. Umm im going to go get dressed."

Darkchild returns next to Gambler and looks out the display screen and looks the ships over and then looks War over.

" We can take him"

We are so f$%ked.

Kain awoke after healing his body. He left the chamber, took a shower, put on some new clothes and cleaned his blade. The dark prince went back upstairs to the control room and looked out the window to see the Bahstein armada. His eyes widened as he was struck with awe. Ships surrounded the planet slowly revolving around. Lights were going off, wires and tubes were floating and energy was being gathered. Kain looked at this with astonishment.

"Aw nuts..."

I hate my life.

Jean stood in disbelief, in all his travels, in all his battles, he had never seen anything like it. War’s cloaking device would keep them undetected for a short while, but in order to get past the blockade, they would have to punch a hole right in the middle of the formation, and once that happened there position would be compromised.

As Darkchild appeared next to Jean, still half asleep and half naked, Jean looked him up and down before facing forward cracking his trademark grin.

“I didn’t realize it was that cold.” He laughed. Picking up War’s com-link, he began to bark orders. Suddenly, he dropped the com and made his way threw War’s corridors to the back. Finally arriving at War’s holding cell, he unlocked the cage door. Cartras was still weak and near death, from the beating he had suffered at the hands of Kain. Grabbing the pirate, Jean yanked him to his feet and led him away. A transportation tube had been connected between Gambler’s restored Bhastein scout ship and War. Leading Cartras off War and onto the scout vessel. Strapping him down in the control chair he headed to the reactor room.

W….what…..what are you doing? moaned Cartras threw the fresh blood and broken bones.

“Tis a secret. King of secrets I is.”

looking down and doing a superman pose

"Nah its just unhappy right now so dont worry."

Before anyone could laugh Gambler bolted to the holding cells.

DC followed Gambler to the cells and to where he led Cartras, and the only question that went through his mind when he asked was

"Can I torture him first?"
Post Edited:2007-10-02 20:00:55

Kain walked to Jean, his hair still wet from the shower. Kain looked at Bahstein ships and started talking to Gambler telepathically.

"Jean, we're going to have to fight those things, but I don't want any problems with us. You do understand what happened earlier was something that needed to happen, I don't want you to think that I'm plotting against you. I love you like a brother Jean."

Kain put his hand up against the glass knowing he was to die in this war.
Post Edited:2007-10-02 20:12:12

Awakening with a start, Sariaf'ca quickly ran out of her quarters and rushed to the control room. Jean's voice had roused her from sleep. Words disconnected in her dreams, and joined together to form a mess of jibberish. She had to force herself awake to realize what was happening and what the words meant. And in that moment, she hurried to see what exactly they would be facing. Her mind reeled as she came towards the windows of the ship.

"By Shere'gan...." She muttered.

Dozens, hundreds, thousands of Bhastein ships surrounding Draebjok. They had moved fast. And she wondered if whatever had taken Anto'rou had been one of those scum. They may have been following him and then used the opportunity to take him and push their attack forward. So many possibilities but she had to concentrate on what was going on now.

She rushed inside and headed straight for the control panel, punching buttons and codes. "Prepare to go into Stealth-One. Not that it would do much." She looked around and wondered where Jean and DC had gone. Already she didn't like this. But she had to trust they were fine and knew what they were doing.

"War, going to Hyper-drive. We might be compromised but we can still try to break through their barrier and get pass them at fast speeds." Sariaf'ca could already feel War readying herself to go into super speeds. This was going to be interesting. Very interesting. This would either work or get them into a situation they could never truly out-run. She took in a breath and looked down at the control panels. In a few seconds they would see if the gamble worked. She hoped for their lives and the survival of others that it did.

Cssidy ordered his men to take positions on turrets in case they were caught. He knew it wouldn't make much difference. They were in one medium sized ship compared to hundreds of Bhastein ships. Things were not looking too good.

Cassidy said to his squad."Men this is what we have fought so hard for, to get to this planet and defend it. I want everyone on a heavy turret. If we go down, we're going down with a fight and we're taking them with us. We're here to defend this planet, not from tyranny or oppression...but from extermination. The Bhastein war machine will be stopped. If we succeed, we will go down in history as a small group of men that succeeded past insurrmountable odds. Everyone will know all of our names, even in death. We are HELLFIRE!"

Cassidy's men cheered at his speech. "HELLFIRE HELLFIRE HELLFIRE!"

This was where the real battle would begin...the war to end all wars.

Nathan was back in his room, meditating when War informed him that they had almost reached Draebjok. Sighing, Xenon interrupted his meditation and got up. He quickly rummaged through his bag and his various magical possessions, his hands shaking slightly. He picked up one of his spellbooks and quickly reviewed some of the spells. He memorized those which were most likely to be helpful in an all-out war. When he was done, he did the same thing with his other two spellbooks, focusing only on the strongest of spells.

When he had been through the three books, he put them back inside his bag and grabbed a few of his magical talismans, which, by their sheer mystical powers, were sure to be helpful. Finally, he focused his Chaos Magics on War and the soldiers inside. He tried to ignore the overwhelming Chaos going on outside and tried his best to shift the possibilities in their favor, which, as it turned out, was a great deal harder than he had thought it would be. Unsure if he had successfully altered the various probability sets related to their victory, Nathan left his room, ready to join the others.
Post Edited:2007-10-02 21:22:29

A small smirk came over Jean’s face as he turned to see Darkchild had followed him.

“Jesus chirst, cant a guy and his hostage go on a suicide mission without you tagging along.” He said jokingly. In fact he knew Dc would follow him, he always did.

“Tis dat time o’l friend. We need to clear an opening for Mael and the others to get threw.” He pointed at the screen. “There, that’s were we’re gonna punch a hole in there ranks.”

Pulling a large military bag from under one of the seats, Jean slung it over his shoulder. Putting on a respirator he opened the back hatch of the scout ship, and floated around to the front using the contents of the military bag for something. Making his way back inside he took time to confront DC.

“We’ve been threw it all my friend, good and bad. Your more then a friend, your family. See you on the other side.”

Standing behind the Captain’s chair he had strapped Cartras in, he began to inch the ship up along the port side of War. Looking out the side window he could see Maelstrom at the controls, ever the warrior, ever the soldier. Placing on hand on the window he whispered,

“I love you.”

And with that he pushed the throttle forward. The scout ship took off in a blinding flash, spinning into a barrel roll, like a drill.

Translated from Bhastein

Captain, we have incoming vessel on our screens. All indications report it is one of ours. Thee Kamery Tuu.

“What? That’s impossible. We lost that ship on…………”

The Bhastein Captain ran to the screen in a panic, just in time to see the lost vessel speeding towards them.

“Emergency maneuvers. NOW!

Are those…….heads?

In fact they were heads, Bhastein heads. Gambler and Dc had decapitated several of the beasts back on Earth. Now, each stuffed with a Thermal Detonator, and impaled on the front of the ship, it was time to repay the favor.

And as the two life long friends, sometimes enemy’s, always family, crashed into the Armada, one thought raced threw Gambler’s mind

Sariaf’ca

Post Edited:2007-10-02 21:25:11

DC knew what Gambler was doing and let it happen, through out his life he had only one person who became what he called a family

See you on the other side Gambler said before launching the ship into the fleet.

DC saw the ship getting closer and closer and all he could think was

Wait a minute i never got to get laid this whole damn time Wait.

He knew this would be the end. And he was damn glad it was at least his only love who found someone else would still go on living

Kain saw Gambler fly off in the ship. Kain was wondering why his friend was doing this.

"You idiot, what the hell are you doing?"

The ship torpedoed into the Bahstein armada and within seconds, the ship was destroyed in a cataclysmic explosion.

"GAAAAAAAAAAAAAMBLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!"

Kain screamed at the window as his face turned read and veins popped out of his neck. Kain couldn't believe he just saw his best friends die right before him. He closed his hand as much as he could, making his hand muscles as tight as ever. He closed his eyes and layed his head on the glass.

"Gambler..."

Cassidy saw a huge explosion on the Bhastein ship.

"Gambler and DC" he whispered "Alright men let 'em rip." War's plasma gattling guns rotated a few times, and then suddenly spurt out hundreds of plasma rounds per second. They aimed for the ship's shield generators. Taking those down first meant that they could take the rest of the ship out later. "Come on don't let them die in vain"
Post Edited:2007-10-02 21:31:34

The screens came online. The thrusters were ready. Sariaf'ca's hand shook as she neared the button that would begin this sordid destiny. She felt her heart wrench. Tugging and pulling, as if about to break. Something was wrong. So wrong and she knew it. War was linking into her mind telepathically. Both sharing in the same emotions for the first time in years. Her breath caught in her mouth, she could barely breath.

She slumped against the controls sweat running down her orange features. She could feel the uneasiness of the men. Of Cassidy, but most of all of Kain. Their memories and emotions linked to an extent. They knew something she did not. "What's...." She barely spoke, and looked up. On the screens she could see the readings of another ship. So close. She turned to look at it. And felt her body weaken in an instance. Tears rolled down her cheeks even before she understood what was happening.

Sariaf'ca She heard it, felt it on the very surface of he soul.

"Jean...." The words barely escaped her lips when she saw the sudden movement of the ship. And in an instant, it was gone. Crashed into an enemy ship. A ball of fire all that was left of the love of her life. Her body shook uncontrollably as she stood completely still. Shock, coursing through every inch of her body. Her mouth ajar. She was struggling now. She could barely breath. Her body asking, begging for a breath. For reprieve, from the torrent of emotions that would not let her get pass that image.

Her head suddenly jolted upward. Both hands balled into fists and a ear deafening scream escaping her purple lips. "JEEEAAAAANNNNN!" She yelled in mourning. The ship shaking as she released her energies. A mixture of red, blue, black, all coursing and surrounding the alien warrior. Her body becoming a conduit of energy. The electronics around her crashing and exploding. Finally feeling came back into her numb body. Her numbed soul. She raced for the controls and terrifying determination in her jade colored eyed. "Go War. Go." War moved in response to her words.

Sariaf'ca quickly ran out of the control room. An emissary of speed and stealth. She passed by Kain, by all the rest of the men. In mere seconds she was outside in the front lines of the enemy fire. Already weapons and guns firing against her. She moved like lightning. Barely there, she rushed through the middle of ships. Her strength intensified by her pain by her mourning. She flew through the middle of ships, ripping them in half, and grasping the Bhastein scum that dared try to stop her. Her hands moving as quickly as that of an assassin. Necks snapped. Bodies broken in half. Blood and guns, guts, hearts, all splayed around her. Her eyes had lost their brightness. They had lost their light. She was but an empty vessel. She moved onto the next ship. And carried out her ghastly vengeance on the Bhastein. Ship after ship, until she had annihilated and murdered hundreds of Bhasteins and dozens of ships.

Sariaf'ca stopped in the middle of her tirade. She had seen War had passed through the line. "Good." She muttered to herself. Her head turned emotionless towards the nearest star. Her body glowing brightly with the light of it, channeling and calling forth it's destructive power and beauty. Her mind filling with the images of her people. Her death. Jean. And his noble sacrifice.

She blinked, and when her eyes opened they were filled crimson and darkness, mixing in a beautiful but dangerous combination. The star's light swirled around the lone warrior, changing colors as it did so. No longer was it the white pure light of innocence it had exuded. It changed into darkness. Darkness that Sariaf'ca's own body was emitting. Through her eyes played all her pains. Her deepest pains and fears come to light. And the happiness she felt. Images of Jean kissing her softly, muttering his love for her. Images of when their bodies met in the most primordial and passionate dance any two beings could share. Her whispers of his name as they made love. As they gave each other all the love they could share. Images of the dance that had created this life in her. And thoughts of knowing that he was gone. That she and her child were left alone.One last single tear rolled down her cheek. Her body giving off a Maelstrom of winds. Her flaming red hair blowing all over the place. Sariaf'ca had lost her soul in that moment.

"Jean..." She muttered. The last words Sariaf'ca could manage. Her body jerked upward, darkness flowing from her eyes, from her mouth, ears, her entire body. It engulfed her like a blaze. It melded onto her. Her skin changing from the orange that was so loved by her beloved to pure darkness. A cocoon of darkness enveloped her form. Talons growing in her hands. Eyes turning from black and red to terrifying white before closing. Her hair now as white as snow, as well. Large black wings growing from her shoulder blades, causing a deafening scream. They opened with a dark beauty, coming around her form and covering her. Fangs piercing their way through her mouth, blood flowing down in rivets from it.

A shockwave tore through the area. Bhastein ships, exploding in unison. The cocoon had opened. Revealing, not the once lovely orange warrior. But a haunting dark beauty. Wings as large and regal as that of an angel, but made for a devil. Fangs, which lay against her lips, as she smiled a sickening smile. Long red talons, which now replaced her fingernails. She flapped her wings and came towards the rest of the ships. The dark warrior smiling in anticipation. With one warriors cry, she released all of her energy. Torrents of darkness blasting from her body, causing the simultaneous destruction of hundreds of ships. The cries of fear and mercy, causing a sadistic laughter.

"I am the avatar." She spoke.

Kain saw his best friends die and now after the sorrow and sadness, came the aftermath. Anger. The black fire engulfed his body. He ran to Sariaf’ca and informed her that he would be leaving to go slaughter those Bahsteins. The vengeful prince left War, his massive blade in his hand. Kain scouted the Bahsteins ships as they were preparing to attack.

“This is where you go crazy Kain. Show ‘em what a survivor of Variis can do.”

The Vampire drew his blade, flying at an incredible speed. He charged the Dark Blade with negative energy making it much larger, to a size rivaling that of the mighty Galactus. With one fell swoop, the immense blade of Kain surgically sliced through one of the Bahstein ships like a hot knife through melting butter. A wave of emotion ran through Kain. Images of his home world’s destruction ran through his mind. He saw his parents being slaughtered before him, and his sister’s blood spray all over his face. The warrior felt his invader’s blade cut through his chest and face again. The pain he felt from that day remained burned in his soul as he cut through the ship. The ship exploded on contact and the shockwave knocked another ship into the rest of the fleet. A vengeful prince couldn’t cry any longer. Hate was driving him to kill. He replayed the death of Gambler and Darkchild over and over in his head. He saw them die hundreds of thousands of times. Every time making him more enraged by this. As his rage grew, his blade became more powerful. Kain was firing beams of energy from his eyes, and destroying everything. He remembered the good times with his best friend, before he died. Kain sliced a hole in reality, opening a door to the darkness the true darkness.

“Come to me. Turn me into him. Make me, Nightmare.”

The darkness attacked Kain engulfing him in its rage, its hate. His fangs grew even larger, and sharper. Razor sharp claws grew where his fingers once were. His hair grew and became pitch black and whiter than snow at the same time. Both of his eyes were black as two massive tails with blades at the end emerged. Spikes appeared from his elbows and poisonous spines appeared along his back. A black demonic living darkness appeared on Kain, his potential was soon to be realized. Four sets of wings appeared from Kain’s back, 2 demonic, 2 angelic. The Celestial Eye appeared on Kain’s forehead. The Light Blade flew at the transformed vampire. He had both weapons now. He finally had the Dark and Light Blades. His power was complete.

“I am... The greatest, Nightmare!”

The living darkness transformed into a new outfit that created weapons on point. The mass took the form of Kain's skeleton. The bones were in white as they were surrounded in an abyss of black. White tribal markings were on the warrior's body. The black substance took over only part of his face. The fire around Kain's body was black and white, the two fighting each other for dominance. A glazed look of anger and insanity was on Kain's face as he laughed maniacally. He stopped immediately after 6 seconds.

"Time to die."
Post Edited:2007-10-03 19:08:52

Switch swung into one of wars weapon bays shouting for his squad to follow him. With a effort he managed to get the torpedo onto the launch rack. One of the troopers handed him a bulky object hanging from a strap which he tried to tie onto the warhead. Another prised open the drive unit and shouted for him. Changing tactics he stuffed it inside and then bolted the hatch back on.

"War! Fire tube number two!" he bellowed and slipped on the missile controllers headset.

Instantly he was the weapon. War obeyed and he slid out of the speeding ship, picking up speed. Around him Bhastien popped into existence, their teleportation being interrupted by the nullifier that Switch had jury rigged the missile with. Blooming flowers of crimson filled his vision as the warriors bodies unraveled in space, their silent screams echoing into the void. With a flicker of concentration Switch sent the weapon on a low intercept orbit, arching it towards the belly of a massive troop ship.

War took a glancing hit as an enemy missile smashed into torpedo bay two. It failed to detonate but caused horrific damage nevertheless. Bodies were torn apart by flying shrapnel. A pipe blew open, sending a high pressure stream of silver liquid scything through a group of men. They fell screaming as it sliced them apart. Almost instantly War sealed off the area, putting a containment field over the hole in the hull to retain the air in the room. Air that was rapidly being used up by the fires that were raging out of control.

In the wreckage Switch managed to get to his feet. He was the only living thing left in the compartment, but that was soon to be rectified. Acting quickly he pulled another missile onto the rack and slipped on his helmet, feeling the seals lock into place.

"War, One more time for tube two!"

The ship obeyed and Switch was dragged out of the ship, accelerating out of the ship towards thee remainder to the enemy armada. Inside his suit, hurtling towards almost certain death at hundreds of meters per second Graham grinned. There was no better way to go, than for a good cause.

"Ah!"

The sheer Chaos outside was reaching out to Nathan, surging through him as raw power. He felt his magicks becoming stronger and stronger, on the edge of overwhelming him. Frantically, he muttered several incantations one after the other. The first one allowed him to survive in outer space, the second made him levitate, the third surrounded him with a magical aura that would repel incoming attacks and, with the fourth spell, Nathan teleported outside, right into the action.

¤"Malfunction!"¤

As the spell flew towards an enemy ship and hit its target, Xenon was surprised at how little energy it had cost him. A few seconds later, the ship blew up. Pleased with himself, Nathan tapped once again into the almost infinite Chaos around him, ready for more.

"Please don't..." The male begged. His orange colored hair billowing in the winds created by her energy. Eyes full of fear that only their victims had shown. Now he begged in the same fashion as countless others. Her long talon softly grazed across the Bhastein's cheek, indenting into the flesh and causing reddish/blueish blood to spill. Her lips curled into a frightening half-smile, her once soft features darkened by her pain and her anger.

"You wish for mercy don't you, dear?" She questioned. Her voice soft and almost innocent. Her white-cast eyes staring intently at her "friend". She could see the quick nods of his head and she pushed him closer to her. Her hands grasped around the neck with a softer hold.

"I will give you mercy..." She whispered. "...When you've earned it, you disgusting dog." Her eyes shone, rivets of energy slipping in waves as she looked at the creature with amusement. Her hand opened and she let the Bhastein male slip from her grasp. He fell towards Draebjok, only to be stopped in mid-air by an invisible object. Only to scream in pain and beg for quick death and mercy. A small force-field to the heart and brain. It stopped the flow neurons but caused great pain. From her distance she could see the eyes turn red, and secrete blood.

"There's your mercy." She bellowed and turned. Sariaf'ca raised her hand and flicked it to its side, an invisible chain forming around her wrist, as well as around the hulls of the remaining ships near her. She pulled her had back, and watched the ships hear towards her at quick speed, before stopping, the indents of large spikes overrunning the spacecrafts. Red and blue blood spilling from it's sides, and bodies lain out like poor derelicts. Arms barely hung attached to bodies. Eyes, held together by a string to it's bodies.

She flew towards the other side of the atmosphere, sending devastating energy blasts to each ship that dared think it could stop her. Her body moving like a dancer. Like a Moonlight Sonata, she was graceful and powerful. Like a cheetah, she was quick, arms sending powerful blows from her hands, and her legs. Taking any Bhasteins who dared come close to her and sling them off to their doom. She could sense Kain not so far off. She could sense his own transformation and it caused a smirk, but it soon faded.

In the distance, she could feel the last remnants of her soul fade into oblivion. She could feel War's death as the ship crashed towards the ground. A brief moment, she wondered if any had survived the deadly fal. But it soon subsided, her lifelong friend gone. And for a few seconds she was her true self again, allowing a single tearto escape her eye. The last tear she would ever shed for any, she swore to herself. It was a new beginning for her.

"I am dark emotions given form. I am power, hatred, anger, madness, fury, and apathy. I am Vengeance incarnate!"

Kain's tail was moving around as he watched Sariaf'ca slaughter the Bahstein. He loved it he fed off her rage and hatred. Her rage and pain went to him, he felt everything and knew, whether she wanted to admit it or not, she was just like him now, and she loved killing countless masses. He spoke to her telepathically.

You say I have anger issues. Welcome to my side of the playing field. Welcome, to the darkness

A Bahstein soldier was drifting aimlessly in space and tried attacking Kain with some form of courage. The vampire grabbed his meal with his tail, running the blade along the Bahstein's face.

"My my my, so many ways to kill you. What to do, what to do".

The sadistic warrior was squeezing the life out of the Bahstein until he bit his neck, then tore his head off with an incredible rage, only to incinerate him with but a thought. Ships were heading towards Kain he looked at them. He took his blades and sliced a hole in reality.

"Xaronas! FEEL MY PAIN!"

A monstrosity emerged from the hole. The creature's arms had massive chains tied to them. Its skin was white with black symbols on it. The beast had no eyes, however it had massive teeth and an incredibly long tongue that had a small mandible attached to the bottom. Its claws were covered in pure darkness and would dissolve anything on contact. It roared as blood sprayed from its mouth.

"Go have fun, make sure you stay next to Sariaf'ca I'm sure she won't mind you around."

The beast left as Kain absorbed energy into his Celestial eye. The Bahsteins were firing madly at Kain however the attacks merely bounced off him. The Celestial eye glowed a beautiful violet as electricity crackled around it. The dark prince looked at armada attacking him. He was going to wipe them out. Not all of them though, just most so Sari and Xaronas can have fun. In an instant Kain fired the Celestial eye, incinerating everything it hit. Ships that were as large as countries were turned into nothingness. Even blood was gone. There was no trace of anything still around. The warrior stood continueing his attack. The beam from the attack was a mesmerizing violet with black lightening surrounding it. The attack was incredible, its power was inconceivable. After 5 seconds of firing the beam, virtually nothing stood in his way. He made sure he left some ships to play with.

"I'm gonna tear these things up, peace by peace."

The Nightmare soldier unsheathed his blades and began tearing through the ships, cutting them in pieces. His blades caused massive explosions as they cut through the ships like butter. The number of bodies was incalculable.

Vengeance's dark body twisted and twirled like a ballet dancer in motion. Her wrist flicking and sending blasts of energy from her darkened body. Explosions permeated the area, causing a chain reaction. Like a set of dominoes they all fell in place. She moved her body, to the unheard beat of her deadly ballet. Her body did a 360 spin sending maelstrom of winds towards the event horizon of the ships gathering.

Not far off she had noticed a creature. One she'd never seen before and eyed it with curiosity. The beast was beautiful in her eyes and she squealed with delight. "So beautiful, my dear creature." She flew towards the created creature and petted its eyeless head with a surprising care. "Destroy them. Eat them, disembowel them, have them beg for mercy and rip their hearts out." And the creature had gone off. It was destroying ships and a satisfied smile appeared on her face.In that instance she could hear Kain's voice in her mind, speaking to her using his telepathy.

"Anger issues? You insult me, dearest Kain. Anger is nothing to the fury the universe will feel! This? This is not anger. This is beautiful Vengeance!"

Bhasteins had begun to abandon the ships and used special equipment to help them fly just outside of the Draebjok's atmosphere. Guns blazing they shot at her from all angles. Vengeance stood steady and calm, the shots ripping through her body, causing tears of flesh. Crimson liquid spilt from her wounds, a broadening smile slowly etching across her features. She brought her arm up and licked at her own blood. Interesting. The taste was bitter and sweet, no wonder Kain liked the stuff. But it wasn't something for her.

She pushed one of her arms before her, her wrist open to the growing army surrounding her and commanded her darkness to her. Ebony tendrils inched towards her hands in a swirl of darkness and now blinding light. She may have been darkness but she knew of the destructive force that light and darkness held when used together. Using her Force-fields as the spine of the image, she erected it, almost invisible to their eyes. And her vision took form. A massive snake made of pure darkness and light pulled itself together, it's tongue hissing out at them as it stared hungrily at it's victims.

"You will all die for you insolence!"

She bellowed, expanding her fields energies, around the manifested snake. It's body grew in mass, and she could hear the unmistakable cries of fear. She laughed. "Writhe in the pains you cause others!" And she brought her wrist back sending the massive energy snake towards the crowd. It encircled them in a force of blinding light, while the darkness creeped above it's body. It mingled and a strong wind picked up around them all. She howled with amusement and then with a blinding force of light and darkness, the snake exploded. A beautiful medley of black and white flashing through her white eyes. Bodies dismembered. And even the ragged breaths of those begging for sweet death. She moved forth with her speed and grasped onto the neck of one of the few Bhasteins unfortunate enough to survive that blast.

"You want death?" She hissed at it and lunged her arm into the Bhastein's chest cavity. Out it came just as quickly and she held out it's heart, still attached to a major artery. "You still live. Isn't that ashame, my love..." She whispered hauntingly softly against the Bhastein's ears. Her taloned hands squeezed at the organ hearing the cries of pain from her victim. She looked at the luscious pulsating organ and stuck her finger into it. So many integral arteries. She flicked her talon against one of the main ones and then threw the body from her side before turning. The Bhastein had been consumed, and those whose body still remained plummeted to the icy death depths of the Draebjokian atmosphere.

The scene slowly gained it's control and as she looked to her side, she saw nothing. The ships had been completely annihilated. And she stood as a lone figure in the beautiful movements of colors. Red, blue, orange, green, mixing in the void that was forming before her. She sighed with a sickening joy at the slaughter she just caused and watched as the dark creature came bounding towards her. "Oh Sweets, I love you already." She smiled at it.

"Kain, why don't you stop toying with those Bhastein' dogs and come join me. We have a bigger destiny than just protecting this planet..." Her eyes flashed red. "...Let us take our show on the road, my dear."

Kain was slicing through the Bahstein's like nothing. Blood was spraying and floating around in streams. Using his power we absorbing the blood, forcing it to come to his mouth. It touched his lips and slid down his throat. The sweet pure taste of it. The dark prince loved it. He saw Sariaf'ca in the distance along with Xaronas. He saw what she did what the snake and grinned.

"I gotta find me a girl like that."

He continued slaughtering the Bahsteins, charging the dark and light blades. He flew through a ship, forced the blades to go back to a massive size as Darkness and Light engulfed the weapons. Kain was spinning at an incredible rate, almost light speed. He looked as though he was standing still yet he was spinning. Kain shot his tail at a Bahstein warrior who was trying to escape. The tail went strait through the Bahstein, so Kain reeled in his prey.

"It's dinner time."

The Vampire sank his fangs into the Bahstein, tasting the blood on contact. It wasn't as good as other blood he's had but he wasn't complaining. After draining his food of the necessary juices, Kain charged up bombs of pure darkness and bombs of pure light and planted them in the Bahstein. Bahsteins fired everything they had at Kain, the remaining few vessles' weapons hit the dark prince. He was unphased. He merely turned around with holes in his chest and blood pouring from his body.

"Bad. Move."

Kain launched the Bahstein scum into one of ships, blowing it up instantly. Nightmare was easily not even trying to use even half of his power, he just wanted to kill them. This dark being knew what he could do, he knew how much damage he could really do. The mighty warrior created black tendrils from his hand that went to the ships to destroy them. Each tendril wrapped around the ships, then split up into millions of tendrils that grabbed each Bahstein by the throat. Kain sent a charge of incredible power through his tendrils. The discharged power incinerated everything. The ships were gone, so were the Bahstein. Just to be sure he got rid of everything, Kain fired the Celestial eye one last time at the area. Nothing was there. The demonic fighter laid down in space so he can just float around. He saw Sariaf'ca come to him and tell him to come with her.

"I'll go I just wanted some fun. I think I should spead the show anyway. Lookin good. I like you this way. This is how I know you've been hangin around me too long. You're into revenge just like me Sari."

A sly smirk slithered on Kain's face.

"Welcome to my side."

Vengeance watched Kain with delight. He was masterful at causing destruction and pain. She admired his quickness and his terrible rage against those disgusting creatures. Her ears perked up to the surroundings. Not a sound anywhere within ear shot of her. There was one or two ships on the far side but she could sense Xenon was making quick work of them himself. She looked at Xaronas and petted her lovely new pets head. Eventhough she suspected he was borrowed she would be living it up with him.

She quickly flew towards Kain position and looked around watching the boundless carnage surrounding them. As ghastly a sight as what she too had left behind. It was such a beautiful scene to the twisted minded Vengeance. Her white eyes gleaming in the twilight of the madness. "I do love Chaos." She spoke with a smirk feeling Xaronas join by hers and Kain's side. She moved forward and twirled in the soft light of the nearby star. Life has been broadened for her. She was free. Free to do as she pleased. Free from the idiotic concepts of good and evil. There was no good evil, only Vengeance.

She stopped for her self-made revelry and turned to look at Kain a devilish look in her eyes. "Let us destroy the rest of the Bhastein forces. I want nothing more than to hear them beg for mercy. And then....then, we head to Earth. Destroy all those idiots who think they're little squabbles and wealth matter in the larger schematics of the universe. Teach them true fear through true power! To fear Nightmare and Vengeance made reality! What do you say, my friend?"

Vengeance eyes shifted down below. She could hear the cries of the Draebjokians begging for mercy while they were being plowed down by the Bhastein might. And even further still she could hear the distinct sounds of bodies hitting the lands down below. The victims who so wished for reprieve from their agony and pain had finally gotten it. She sniffed the air, her pupil less eyes with a fire of sweet love and revenge.

"We will teach them respect."

Kain was listening to Sariaf'ca, aka Vengeance talk and loved everything said. He was hanging on to every word. Finally, somebody who viewed everything as he did. Nightmare wiped the blood off his face as he looked into his best friend's eyes. He saw the fire in her eyes. He loved it even more.

"What do I say to teaching them to fear us? What do I say!? I say let's do it! Let's bring them to their knees. May we spill their blood, burn their homes, and eradicate their hope! May their blood run cold as we show them no mercy!"

Kain's fangs shined as he spoke. Black and white electricity went from one hand to another. Xaronas was becoming excited as well, for even it grinned. Kain could tell that Sariaf'ca loved the chaos he was responsible for. Kain opened the dark realm for Xaronas to go back to. The dark prince smelled the innocent blood being spilt, those who begged for death were finally getting it.

"We'll do more than teach them respect."

Cassidy saw what was happening...what Sari had become. He wasn't going to let this happen. This wasn't a war against the Bhastein anymore, this was a war against life itself. Cassidy floated out into the reaches of space hoping that he would get to Maelstrom before it was too late.

There were bodies everywhere, human and Bhastein alike. He saw Maelstrom in the distance disemboweling a Bhastein. She was a beautiful sight to behold, yet so full of hate. Cassidy ignited his boosters and manuvered through balls of plasma as Bhastein ships fired at him. He reached her just as she killed the alien.

"Saraif'ca! What are you doing? This isn't you, you wouldn't do this, I won't let you do this. Those people down there need us to save them, not some murderer who kills for pleasure. Please don't do this, is this what Jean would want?" A tear ran down Cassidy's face, and he raised his rifle at Saraif'ca. "Please, just stop it, we can defeat them, but not like this." He cocked his rifle and prepared for the worst.
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"Or we'll take it from them!" She opened the palm of her hand and then closed it with so much strength that she caused blood to spurt from her hand. She watched as Xaranos was ushered back to his home dimension and she pouted. "My lovely pet, we'll reunited again." She turned to Kain and watched the energy of madness coarse through them. She laughed and flew forward inches from gravity pulling her into Draebjok's surface. She admired the greenish planet from her distance and smiled.

"Let's make sure nothing leaves." She narrowed her eyes and concentrated. Vengeance outstretched her arms and imagined a giant planet wide force-field surrounding it. The reddish tint that her force-field had always had were no more. Now they mingled between light and darkness giving it such a beautiful shade of those colors. It enveloped he planet slowly, as she concentrated to get every single chasm of it into her protective, or destructive dome, whichever you preferred to call it. The force-field expanded a few feet away from them, anything that was within the outer rims of the planet floating with them were now also stuck in this planet for as long as she so chose it.

She turned and took a breath of air, sensing a lone Bhastein inching for her. She made pretend she noticed nothing until he was close enough to her and then she struck. Her talons indented into it's skulls before she ripped it's brain out and threw it down. She watched it's eyes of shock that were slowly losing it's light and moved his face forward. Ripping the helmet she caught his lips within hers. "Die knowing you were one of the lucky ones." And hurdled his body down.

Not far off she felt another presence. Not Bhastein but human. So some of them had survived, how fascinating. She turned to meet him as he spoke to her and she laughed at his feeble words. "Don't speak as if you know me or what my plans are, Earthling. You know nothing!" She watched his actions. So subtle, he was a good soldier from what she'd seen but like most soldier he held a bleeding heart. She turned her head to look at the gun at his side and grinned. But it soon faded as he spoke about Jean and a calm fury filled her eyes.

"Jean is dead, dear Earthling. No more. Swallowed into the oblivion of life. What he would have wanted?" She asked and started laughing maniacally. "What he would have wanted?! He abandoned Sariaf'ca! Spoke lies and then went on a suicide mission without thinking of the consequences! Of what would become of his child?!. THIS.IS.JEANS.DOING!" And she flew towards him, her right arm out and splayed open with her talons ready to dig themselves into Cassidy's body upon. "Do your worse, Cassidy!" Vengeance's mouth opened wide her fangs baring themselves to the world.

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Cassidy knew that she wasn't Saraif'ca anymore, she wasn't the person he knew. She swung her talons directly at his body. He didn't try to fight it, he knew it was futile...he knew it was the end. Her talons struck him in the torso, shredding every organ in his body. All his memories came back to him in one moment, his wife, her murder, their love for each other, but the fact that made him happiest of all was that he would get to see her again. He grinned, knowing that that was the last thing Saraif'ca would expect from him. He had lived a good life, he had been a loyal soldier and husband. Blood poured out from his stomach and floated in blobs out into space. Blood leaked from his mouth and nose. With his last words he said. "Learn from this Sari...Learn from this." He winced once, closed his eyes, and drifted to sleep.

Kain saw Cassidy's death. Kain knew the joy in his soldier's eyes. A joy Kain once felt on the brink of death. The dark prince absorbed his soldier's blood to replenish himself. Kain grabbed Sariaf'ca's shoulder, his claws touched her soft red skin.

"He's dead. You did good Sari. You're the last one in my life."

Kain felt her boiling blood, he felt her darkness rise, her hatred for the world become more powerful. He knew the joy that would be brought to him by her anger. He loved her like no one before. He was no longer alone in the world of darkness she was his company. Kain lusted for blood. He wanted to kill and make others feel his pain. He saw Cassidy drift into space alone. The last person who believe in hope. Kain enjoyed his new found friend. Nightmare and Vengeance. Two forces that would never be stopped.
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Vengeance removed the crimson covered arm from Cassidy's stomach. She looked at it with her brows narrowed and in thought. She shook the blood from her arm and grasped onto Cassidy's body before it floated downwards to the planet. Briefly Sariaf'ca's emerald eyes made themselves known in silent mourning for what she'd done. She touched the Earthlings face and muttered something very softly in Frasih'leinese. An ancient prayer of her people.

Before the darkness could overtake her again, she concentrated her energy blasts onto the hand that held the Earthlings body. The energy burned within the palm of her hand and soon coursed through the deceased body before a small fire lit. It soon became a raging inferno as it consumed his body. It was her last act of mercy. Cassidy would get a true warriors death, his body burnt and joining that of the gods. She released the body and watched as it fell down to Draebjok, it would be dust before it hit the planet. She blinked and once again her eyes re-took the white aura of before.

Vengeance turned to Kain and grasped his arms into hers. "Let us go and fulfill our destinies, my friend."

Kain looked at Sariaf'ca and nodded.

"Off we go. You lead the way."

The prince covered his face with his dark cloak once more.

Vengeance's eyes gleamed in the darkness of her soul. Sweet darkness that had awakened her to a new state of life. A state where she would not answer for anything. She would teach the universe of the idiocies they'd lived by. Good? Evil? Darkness? Light? They were all such feeble concepts made up by creatures who could never truly understand the complexities of this wonderful and vast universe. But they would learn. They would learn that there is another stage of life that lives free from such caging thoughts.

She turned to look at Kain and smirked at her brother, grasping his arm tightly. She had nothing but Kain and the child that grew within her. Which in itself was an interesting development. She moved her free hand to place it on her womb and closed her eyes. A child of Vengeance. A vengeance created from the darkest recesses of her former self. Sariaf'ca had lived and loved. Created life with her beloved, Jean, and it was this same love that created the monstrosity she had become. No longer Sariaf'ca. No longer Maelstrom. She was Vengeance. A being that existed beyond the limitations of life itself.

Vengeance removed her hand from her womb and pulled from Kain's grasp. She flew forward, stopping for mere moments to look at her old friends. She smiled kindly at her brother before rushing into Draebjok's atmosphere. A bloody battle awaited them. A battle that would not only see countless deaths. But also the realization of their original intent of being here. No longer was this a battle to free a planet, but they would be the winners in this struggle, assuming they knew their place. She was willing to take out Draebjokian and Bhastein alike. But even amidst the darkness that filled her mind a very faint light was battling to retain what little light it had left. And that light wished for the freedom of the planet, the death of Bhastein and then a quick get out.

In Vengeance's eyes now gleamed the fate of an entire world. The cries of mercy that awaited her caused a flip in her stomach. Life is not life without death. And death is a natural progression that all creatures shared in common. They would be at one with her, with the universe with their last ragged breaths. The destiny that awaited her and Nightmare from this planet was still uncertain.

What she did know, is life was about the journey and she knew that their journey to whatever place life would take them too, would be a bloody one riddled with corpses and the names of Vengeance and Nightmare etched to their torn flesh. The universe would know them. They would know of the chaos and death. They would ascend to a higher level of existence with each vengeful action and with each life that slipped into the cold oblivion of death.

And this....this was their destiny. The destiny of Vengeance and her brother, Nightmare.

Kain saw Sariaf'ca leave and head downwards to the planet. The dark prince followed her, by her side he stood, prepared to slaughter and all those who stood in their way...

We originally came here, to save a planet, to bring peace to this planet and guarentee the safety of those around us. Within the last few weeks, chaos and death flowed through our adventure. We lost all those who ment anything at all to us. We are now the reapers of souls, the truth bringers. There was no such thing as kindness, and hope in reality. Only vengeance and a nightmare. The one person we had in common killed himself, in some foolish, failing effort which did more damage than it did good. Kain and Sariaf'ca were no longer in existence, their lives were lost in the war. The only survivors were the gods of vengeance and never ending nightmares. We will travel for eternity opening the eyes of those around us. We know not what will transpire upon this innocent planet, nor what fate has in store for us. What we do know however, is that death and destruction will be in our wake. This is the begining of our lives; lives in which we will discover the machinations of fate, and see where we end. Together, we live forever and our names will now forever be etched in fear of our enemies. Nightmare, and Vengeance....

The universe plunged into darkness as these two evil beings explored the furthest reaches of space and commited acts of evil that could not be fathomed. Darkness, ruled all, and existance was now, a vengeful nightmare....

The Torpedo impacted with the Bhastien ship, blowing a chunk out of its mid section. Bodies and bits of bodies floated outwards, thrown around by the force of impact. Switch’s momentum kept him moving forwards. With a bump that felt like it had broken ribs he hit the stricken cruiser and grasped onto a ridge of buckled hull. With almost super human effort he spun himself round and slipped into the ship.

All was quiet as he padded through corridors. Through twists and turns he managed to retain his sense of direction and found his way to the bridge. There was uproar. Officers screamed for reports and orderlies scuttled around, trying to avoid the rain of blows that would fall on them whenever they were noticed. Switch slipped into the shadows and listened for the Captain.

“Find the trajectory of the enemy ship. Track it back to its homeworld. We will bombard it until its surface is but glass and nothing can scratch a living from the blighted earth!”

That sounded like him. With a flick of his wrist Switch sent three shurikens spinning into the bests back. It roared with pain and the bridge fell silent as Switch stepped forth, weapon raised.

“Didn’t ya hear bub? Earth’s with me!”

The Captain snarled, a look of pure hatred crossing his bestial features.

“Grind him unto dust!”

The shurikens detonated, sending a spray of blood and bone tearing through the control room. Switch’s rifle barked and a warrior fell, his neck blown away. A powerful concussive blast flicked out of the confusion, targeting the source of the gunfire and Graham was sent spinning into a bank of computers. His bare hand brushed one and he yelped as huge amounts of data were instantly downloaded into his body.

A Bhastien grabbed him and Switch punched him in the face, feeling the aliens nose break under his fist. With a heave he tossed the warrior backwards and seized his weapon. Another raised a pistol and Switch unloaded the rifle into him, feeling the satisfying kick of the weapon in his shoulder. After a moments hesitation he lobbed a cluster of grenades into the confusion and ran out the door. Something hit him hard in the back and he fell forwards. Blood spraying from his mouth.