Spiral Knights - Special investigators: the missing Lengsk

Special investigators: the missing Lengsk

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Thu, 05/01/2014 - 04:38

Midnight-Dj

Hello fellow denizens of the treasure vault, Midnight-Dj the Valkyrie troll is back with more of his horriblely written story! This time the story evolves around Serris Lengsk (if you didn't know the meaning of pun on the title, now you do), he is an OC created by Thinslayer (all credit goes to him) and this is the tale of his amazing adventure. Accompnied by his loyal assassin and a tonnes of conspiracy, can this playboy millioniar survive the danger hidden in the clockwork, or is he out of cash and out of luck? Let's find out!

Side note: This is the story I made for Mawa's collaborative facn-fic, she removed my story line from the final version of the story but that is no reason for Serris's deed to go unheard of! Epicness ensue! (it is okay to hate me, but there is no reason to hate my characters, they did you no wrong)

Usual rules apply when it comes to my stories:
-it is written like a movie script, so you will see a few movie tropes here and there
-this story can be gruesome and very philosophical at time (like me), so don't read this if you already had enough of my ranting on GD
-there will be places where I take inspiration from my childhood games, characters and movies, so don't hate on me for no been totally original

----The following story is canon to Affraiel's back story(told in Serris's PoV) in Skylark fall (RP), rated 13+ ----

Chapter zero: hell on Nowensgrad

Location:

Planet Isora, city of Nowensgrad, 8 years before the fall of Skylark on cradle

[The gates outside Lengsk mansion is slowly been pushed down by a mob of angry rebels. Each one of them wanting to have a piece of Serris's father, Valerius lengsk, to the rebels, the Lengsk family has long been the centre of a bad topic. Valerius and his father converted the city of Nowensgrad into a gothic industrial city, serving as the heart of the Lengsk family's weapon manufacture enterprise, the people that have suffered under the new city's martial law finally had enough after years of oppression and unleashed a full out civil war to overthrow Valerius and his entourage. Valerius, seeing that his mansion security been slaughtered by a rebel berserker on the CCTV, turned to his ten year old son and his only child, Serris Lengsk, for a final word from father to son.]

Valerius: *shakes Serris's shoulder with a tightened face* "Serris, my son, you know where the secret escape passage is... now go, you are all that I have left."

Young Serris: *cries* "Father, you can come too!"

Valerius: "It is I that the rebels want, not you..." *tunes up his voice into a authorative voice of a father* "NOW GO! You are the last of the Lengsks, make me proud one day..." *nods his head* "I know you will..." *picks up a antique rifle from the cabinet and looks into young Serris's eyes* "GO!"

[Obeying the final wish of his father, Serris makes a run for the underground passage that leads all the way to the outter area of the Nowensgrad city. Didn't have time to bring any spare clothes, Serris lifts up the hatch to the passage and suddenly hears the sound of the mansion main door been broken down followed immediately by a violent shout of his fahter's name, without any heisitation, Serris jumps into the passage and runned as far as he can.]

Rebel berserker: *shouts* "VAAAALEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERIUUUSSS!!!!"

Valerius: *faces the berserker head on* "So, it is you Affraiel, I should have killed you long ago and none of this could have happened!"

Rebel berserker -> Affraiel: *smirks* "Sorry to break this up to you, Valerius, but your time of luxury is over! It is time for people to take over! Your mansion and your ideal die today!" *draws his twin leviathan blades*

Valerius: "Do you have any idea what you are doing? Bringing anarchy to this city isn't going to solve anything, with the inpending Morai threat, do you have any idea what you have done? Without the weapons produced from my factories, Isora will fall!"

Affraiel: "Hah, I don't care if the Morais invade Isora or not, one way or another, I will either destroy the Spiral order or see this planet burn to the ashes! You won't stand in the way of FREEDOM! "

[Valerius, been a master huntsman who is skilled with firearms, aimed his antique rifle at Affraiel head. Affraiel blocks the straying bullets with the frame of his leviathan blade and proceeds to charge Valerius down. Valerius makes a last stitch effort to shove Affraiel but the mad beast was proven to be too much. Affraiel breaks Valerius's rifle and bashes him to the ground, with a vicious grin on his face, Affraiel is ready to put one of his blade into Valerius's throat.]

Valerius: *knocked down but still conscious* "I wish there is a special place in hell waiting just for you, Affraiel..."

Affraiel: *chuckles* "I am already a demon Valerius, I came from hell to claim your worhtless soul! "

[Valerius closed his eyes as the blade raced towards his throat, but at the last second, a plasma katana intercepted Affraiel's attack and prevented the blade from entering Valerius's throat. The plasma katana is held by a female masked assassin, one of Valerius's most trusted bodyguard. The assassin soon comes to realize that her attempt at saving her master was futile when Affraiel's blade actually cut through Valerius's throat, the wound is big enough to cause mass bleeding and Valerius is chocked by his own blood. Enraged by her own failure, the female assassin clashes her katana against Affraiel's blades, but she didn't stand a chance against the vengeful berserker either. Her fraile body is sturck down, and Affraiel intentionally made her fall down right next to her dying master just to make the scene little bit more melo-dramatic.]

Affraiel: *smirks at Valerius* "Wow, wow, wow, if it isn't your little assassin girlfriend that came to your rescue, too bad a little bit too late, the both of you will now die together! But before I send the two of you sweet lovers to the next world, I would just like to see her face." *removes the female assassin's mask* "What the..."

[The female Assassin is none other than Serris's mother, Nezula Lengsk, who appears to be a peaceful woman in the family protrait is in fact Valerius's secret body guard. Nezula's eyes showed a sense of sorrow when she stared into Valerius's eyes, packed with a sense of failure and shame. Affraiel, been the wrathful beast that he is, laughed sarcastically at Valerius's choice of wife.]

Affraiel: *laughs at Valerius, whose life is hanging on a thread* "Hah, hah, hah, hah, This is just hilarious! Too hilarious! You married to the woman who sworn to protect you! How unthoughtful of you Valerius, turning a proud assassin like her down to a mere woman!"

Nezula: *dying* "...Don't you dare, talk about master Valerius... like that..."

Affraiel: *sympathises with Nezula* "Save your breath woman. I won't kick anymore dirt on your master while he is down, hey, say what, I will burn down this mansion and the both of you will die in it! Husband and wife! Pretty fitting eh? And hey, where is your son Serris?"

Valerius: *who is almost dead* "Take anything you want from my house, please, let my son go... he is too young and too weak to ever be a harm to you! Listen, DOG , LET HIM GO..." *dies*

Nezula: *whimpers* "Sorry... Master Valerius, I wasn't strong enough..." *dies soon after*

[Affraiel honoured his sworn enemy's final will and didn't sent out any men to track down Serris, Affraiel didn't take any valubles from Valerius's mansion, to him, the money isn't worth a thing in a world without rich men. Only freedom and anarchy mattered now, Affraiel burned down the mansion with gasoline, Valerius and Nezula died inside the firey inferno as husband and wife, not as master and assassin. But little did Affraiel know, the boy who he so overlooked, will one day be responsible for his imprisonment.]

Nezula? Do you remember the first day we met?"
Yeah... we were so young back then... we were so shy we couldn't even greet each other...
You were so fierce and shadowy back then, I could never have thought that you would be my wife...
I pretend to be strong, to try to fufill my duty... in protecting you...
I remembered how you rejected my proposal, you were so afraid that you will be reduced down to a mere woman...
But being with you... I knew I will never have to keep my feelings inside ever again... you were the nicest man I know...
And I will never regret choosing you over all those other women, you will always be the one...
And same to you... Mister Valerius...

Thu, 05/01/2014 - 04:43

Midnight-Dj

Serris + X = Sherlock + Watson

Chapter 01: the new beginning

8 years have passed, Serris is now a full grown man after the fall of skylark.

[Serris, sitting inside his luxury office, suddenly picks up mail from Mawashimono. Without time to reset the hair gels on his head, he clicks a remote and a hologram interface appeared in the middle of his office table, the table is made from an ancient red tree, the last of its kind is used to make this table and soon gone extinct.]

Serris: *views the message* “Hmm… Mawashimono…” *picks up a list of high ranking guild masters* “Hmm, looks good, is she a contractor? Let’s see…. The guild master of Lion heart. And she needs my help with a murder.” *grins, and calls in the secretary* “Hey, sweetheart, would you kindly cancel my appointment at seven? Yes, I have something else I need to attend to…”

[Suddenly, the room has gone dark and the lamp is no longer working. And when the light went back on, a female assassin appeared standing in the middle of the room. Wearing a set of tight rubber stealth suit, it was ‘X’, Serris’s most loyal assassin. With a wolf tattoo on her left shoulder, she kneeled as soon as Serris realizes her presence. Beneath her short black hair, a pair of cat-like eyes can be seen.]

X: *heads down* “Lord Serris, X reporting in… your office perimeter is secured…”

Serris: *sweats* “Damn it X, stop scaring me like that, you are the whole reason why I have to replace my secretary every few months or so, ‘This office is haunted,’ they said before they packed up and resigned…” *tilts his lips*

X: *nods her head in shame* “I AM TERRIBLELY SORRY LORD SERRIS!”

Serris: *sighs* “look, just walk normally into my office next time, there is no need to sneak around in a place like this, and please don’t tell me you are intentionally trying to get rid of my secretaries because you are jealous…”

X: *blushes* “NO LORD SERRIS, I am only trying to sharpen and maintain the results of my training every day so I won’t go dull during the real fight.”

Serris: *chuckles* “That is good X… sometimes I am still wondering why you haven’t left a playboy like me…”

X: “My mother and grandmother have all served your family throughout the ages, it is an honour for me to serve you at this dire time.”

Serris: *smiles* “I am sorry that I flirted with all those girls in the past… you are not mad at me right?”

X: “NO LORD SERRIS… Your love life has nothing to do with the lowly me… please, flirt with others till your heart content… the lowly I only have one request, make one of those girls a happy woman and I will be content with myself…”

Serris: *chuckles* “Okay, I will see what I can do, but for now,” *stands up from his table* “I am going out on a little adventure, inform my right hand man, Mister Affair about my absence at tonight’s meeting and come with me if you want to do some detective work. Office work is getting quite dull for me.” *picks up his pink fur coat, pocket Polaris and his staff from his wardrobe*

X: *stands up and follows* “No matter the task, I shall always follow you… as you walked this earth, no matter night or day, I will be your shadow, and until you fall, I will always be by your side.” *disappears into the shadow, Serris can still feel as if her eyes are watching in the distance*

[X is one of those girls Serris couldn’t help but to worry about her future. An introvert who never hang out with anyone other than himself, or at least when she is out of her concealment. X is the master of disguise, she can often hide inside all sorts of containers to avoid detection, blending into the environment with her expert camouflage. She even once disguised herself as Nezula Lengsk, Serris’s own mother to fool him out of a date. And just as Serris is strolling across the bazaar looking at the groceries, he can see X hiding inside a supply crate, slowly tailing him like a shadow. Serris sighs when he realizes that he might never be able to escape this girl’s grasp, maybe deep inside, Serris is flirting with all the girls in an attempt to deter X from stalking him. He finally gets his attention off from the stalker when he arrived at Greave’s armour shop.]

Serris: *walks in the store, picks up one of the fencing jackets* “Hi there stranger, Lord Serris here… hmm,” *looks at the poorly made fencing jacket, pokes the lose joints in another plate mail’s joint with his staff* “Is this what you are selling? For 35000 crowns? You guys can’t be serious! These armour won’t even make it to my factory’s production line, they are going straight to the scrap yard.” *looks at Greave, who isn’t looking at him* “Hey, are you listening? You have a royalty in your shop. A guild leader told me about a murder amongst your colleagues, do you know anything about that? ”

Thu, 05/01/2014 - 04:45

Midnight-Dj

And you thought metal gear solid's plot is mind buffling...

[Greave, a masked towering giant turns slowly towards Serris, feeling intimidated, Serris inserts left hand into his coat’s pocket, ready to pull out his pocket Polaris if the conversation turns ugly. X, who was tailing Serris, moves to a vantage point to eavesdrop Serris and Greave.]

Greave: *annoyed* “What do you want… if you think the armours here are too expensive, go to the auction house, I am sure you will find what you need… now get out, before I call the security…”

Serris: *smirks* “Fine, before I leave I just want to ask one simple question… what happened to Rudkin? You know, the guy who sells body enhancement modules.”

Greave: “He got what is coming for him…”

Serris: *squints* “And what is that may I ask?”

Greave: “He died for the obvious reason, selling cheaply made combat performance enhancing module at that kind of price… too cheap for the Spiral Order… they killed our brother and made one hell of a job covering it up.”

Serris: “Why kill someone who is helping them out? Making our knights stronger is a good thing isn’t it?”

Greave: “The rookies… the Spiral Order fears that they will get too strong and no longer listen to their will, removing Rudkin would mean that the low ranking knights cannot rebel against the higher ranking vanguards.”

Serris: “So, stopping a revolution at its infancy huh? Kind of Cruel… yet effective…”

Greave: “Exactly… you knights champion your unity, but at the end, you all are nothing more than individual pieces on the inside, selfish and unforgiving, we should never have accepted your kind into our peaceful Haven… it was a mistake…”

Serris: “So? The Spiral Order has already granted this town protection from the Gremlins, is that not good enough?”

Greave: *chuckles* “… Ha Ha… foolish knights… We don’t support you, the war between the spiral order and the other denizens of the clockwork is the reason why we are here, the war economy… making a profit from the conflict is all we ever cared about. If the spiral Order falls, we will just sell our weapons to someone else…”

Serris: “Is that so? Ha, we are cut from the same cloth! Making money off war, we should talk sometimes! My weapons and your association with the people in clockwork can make big dollars!”

Greave: *sneers* “Don’t make me laugh, Serris, you have being holding a pocket pistol inside your coat for the past five minutes, I don’t do business with my enemy.” *pulls a blitz needle out of his robe* “Now, DROP it…”

X: *moves out of her cover and puts the blade of her beam katana onto Greave’s throat* “Not if you drop your weapon first, stranger. You will not harm LORD SERRIS.”

Greave: *feels the heat of the plasma blade on his neck and lowers his blitz needle* “You won this time, spiral knights… now get out of my store before I report this to Ozlo…”

Serris: “Okay, X, come on, let’s get out of here, Mister Greave doesn’t want to do business with me, then I won’t waste his time any further.” *leaves the store* “Have a nice day, Mister Greave!” *deep breaths* “Phew! Damn… that was intense!”

X: *sheathes her katana* “Lord Serris, are you okay?”

Serris: “I am fine… I wished that I could have gotten more information out of that guy.” *shakes his head* “Well, let’s move on to the next merchant…”

X: “Lord Serris, I have retrieved some photographs from the back of the Greave’s storage.” *shows the photos* “I have taken them with my mini camera. Thank you again for this well-crafted machine, Lord Serris.”

Serris: “Haha, it was your birth day present, you deserved it.” *sees the photograph* “What the, are these Dark Fang elite flak jackets? What are they doing at the storage of Greave’s shop?”

X: “They must have salvaged them off the corpses of dead Gremlins after the siege of the Grand Arsenal. They are dismantling the flak jackets and used the scrap to make Spiral Order weapons.”

Serris: “Well, that explained why those fencing jackets are so poorly made… those bastards, I wonder if they do the same thing to our fallen soldiers’ armour? Converting them back into Gremlin gears and sell it back to Tinkinzar…”

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 05:15

Midnight-Dj

It is not a Dj story without Herex in it

Chapter 02: the new threat

[Before Serris and X can head for Ricasso’s gun shop, a group of robed nomads passed along, one of them manages to rudely pushes Serris aside before fleeing the scene. All of the nomads squeezed into Ricasso’s gun shop before anyone else on the bazar even noticed them, all except for X and Serris.]

Serris: *tabs the dust off his pink fur coat* “EK! Who were those peasants? Their rags needs a good clean.”

X: “Or perhaps it is used as a disguise… we should go in to the gun shop and find out what is going on.”

Serris: “Woah, Woah, Woah, I really think a man like me should get into something like this… those nomads had furry legs, no doubt Gremlins… This is bigger than the two of us, we better tell Mawashimono about our findings before we go in…”

X: “I don’t think telling Miss Mawashimono will make a difference, if these strangers are really what we think they are, I don’t think even the entirety of the spiral order could save us… it is best if we don’t tip them off first…”

Serris: *readies his pocket Polaris* “Fine, let’s just see how deep this rabbit hole really is…” *walks into the shop* “HEY! Ricasso! It is Lord Serris! I am just here looking for some new guns for sale… what the…”

[The gun shop is eerily empty, most of the guns are stripped off from the shelf with the exception of a few cheaply made blasters, and Serris could swear that those cheap blasters will explode after just three shots.]

Serris: *sighs* “Ugh… I really wished that these strangers valued ‘quality’ as much as I did…”

X: “… do you have a high ‘quality’ expectation for women too?”

Serris: *blushes* “Well, I am pretty rich guy after all, I can’t just find a woman that only goes after my money… if you know what I mean…”

X: *nods her head* “…”*blushes*

[X and Serris flips the shop inside and out in search of the Gun merchant and the Gremlin nomads, they searched every inch of the shop and found nothing. The people outside the shop started to gather when they saw a pink haired young man and a latex wearing woman fondling the gun store.]

Knight A: *scratches his head* “Hey, isn’t that Serris and his Assassin girl friend?”

Knight B: “Yeah… and what are they doing shop lifting Ricasso? Should we report this Ozlo?”

Serris: *yells* “Her name is ‘X’ by the way, and she is my bodyguard, not girlfriend!”

X: “…”

Female knight A: *chants* “Serris and X are sitting on the tree! K-I-S-S-I-N-G!”

X: *blushes takes a smoke bomb out of her pocket* “Lord Serris! Take a deep breath!” *throws down the smoke bomb, the gun shop is covered in smoke screen*

Serris: *coughs* *coughs* “X! Why did you do that?!” *coughs* *coughs*

X: “Your reputation is at risk! We must get out of the shop from another way!” *sees a secret passage, covered by an old rug on the gun shop’s floor* “Lord Serris! This way!” *opens the vault of the passage*

Serris: *sneaks into the passage while coughing, X follows* “Damn! X, you really need to stop doing this! All these smoke screens are killing me!” *coughs* “Ugh! My throat!” *coughs*

X: “Don’t worry Lord Serris, the smoke is non-toxic…”

Serris: *angers* “That is not the point! I am sick of it when you do things like this, stop trying to protect me! I can handle myself now! I am 18 now, I am not that frail little boy anymore.”

[Before Serris can get a response out of his shadowy companion, the echo of his voice travelled inside the narrow passage and reached the other end, where two robed nomads became alerted to the duo’s presence.]

Nomad A: “…The spiral knights are onto us… call Herex…”

Nomad B: *pulls out a radio* “Whispering venom, this lone wolf one… we have intruders in the passage, what is our order?”

Herex: *responds* “Flush them out, the knights will never know…”

Fri, 05/02/2014 - 00:18

Midnight-Dj

TRIPLE CROSS OF MASTERY

[The two Gremlin nomads revealed themselves from their dusty robes, the dark tights beneath shows that they are both senior ghost mane stalkers, one of them has five skull badges and the other has four of the same badge on his chest, each skull represents a life they have ended, either the life of a fellow Gremlin or an unlucky knight. They chucks out three saw blades each and the blades ricochet along the wall and headed for Serris and X.]

X: *instinctively shields Serris and parries five of the six saw blades* “CONTACT!”

Serris: *sees a lone saw blade buried itself deep in X’s shoulder* “Hey! You are injured! Get down!”

X: *refuses and pulls out the saw blade with her bare hand* “Lord Serris! Stay back! I will neutralize the threat…” *runs off into the passage*

Serris: “HEY! WAIT!”

[X draws her beam katana and flips into the air to dodge another three blade. Her acrobatic is astounding, the two stalkers walked side by side as they approached the assassin with the intention of ganging up on her.]

X: *frowns* “Herex’s stalkers? What are you doing here?”

Stalker A: *grins* “Within a few more days, Haven will fall! And we shall crush the spiral order where they stand!” *activates the round electric saws on his hands* “None shall stand in the way of the Crimson Order!” *charges for X*

[X evades the first stalker’s razor sharp saw and kicks him in the knee, the first stalker falls and the other seizes the opportunity and mercilessly punched X in the stomach and forced her to drop her sword. X is temporarily stunned and the two stalkers recovered and moved in on X for the kill, at the last second, Serris intervened by shocking one of the stalkers in the back with his pocket polaris.]

Serris: *pulls the flourish hidden inside his staff* “Hey, how about you two pick someone of your own size?”

Stalker B: *punches X again* “Hah! If it isn’t Serris Lengsk! The playboy Isoran millionaire! Well, you won’t be rich for long, because soon enough, not any amount of money can save you!”

Stalker A: *recovers from the shock* “You little punk!” *rends the saw at Serris*

[Serris almost shattered his one fragile spine when he tried to evade the saw blade, but his ballet dancer like agility, he successfully avoids the stalkers’ frontal assault and counters with a poke from his flourish, one of the stalker is stabbed in the chest and falls and X regains her composure and chopped down the other stalker before he can do Serris any harm.]

Serris: *cleans the blood with a white handkerchief* “Ugh, Gremlin blood, so sticky… do they have just blue berry jams for food or something?”

Stalker B: *wounded by Serrris* “… Ha ha… you knights have no idea what you getting into… we will soon burn Haven to the ground…”

Serris: *points the flourish at the wounded stalker* “And what plan do you and your order have in mind this time around? More stupid machines like the roamulus twins?”

Stalker B: *chuckles* “Bluff all you want, you are as good as dead, long live the crimson order…” *breaks the cyanide capsule concealed within his teeth, dies instantly*

Serris: *sheaths his flourish and sighs* “Hmm… that is a pity, I never wanted to interrogate him, I just wanted to bribe some information out of him with a crown or two. Geez, why do these stalkers have do get all serious like this?”

X: “Maybe they held informations that the Crimson order doesn’t want us to know. Ever since what happened back in the siege of the Grand Arsenal, the Gremlin’s war efforts are severely pushed back. It is only logical for them to seek help from a third party…”

Serris: “Third party?” *hears commotions behind a large iron door at the end of the passage* “…wait, X, did you hear that?”

X:*whispers* “… Sounds like Gremlins and Strangers…”

Serris: “They are teaming up? This is some seriously bad news!”

X: *picks the lock of the small iron door* “…” *unlocks the door* “Lord Serris, I think I have broken through… I will go in first and scout ahead…” *sees blood dripping out of her wound left by the saw blade* “… I will be fine…” *pushes open the iron door*

[A large empty hanger is what lies behind the iron door, steel cranes and large cargo crates littered the place. In the middle of the hanger stood eight figures, Greave, Kragen, Quillion and Ricasso stood on one side of the hanger representing the strangers, while Herex, two stalkers and a strange, mermaid like Gremlin female stood on the other side representing the Crimson Order. Their conversation is eavesdropped by Serris and X. Serris finds the female Gremlin particularly abnormal, unlike her furry compatriots, she is covered in mostly fish scales and has a fish like tale, wielding a trident as her weapon, the glare of her eyes screams vanity and self-indulgence, a polar opposite to the personality of X.]

Greave: *grumbles* “The prototype… it is gone, it was in the hanger yesterday…”

Herex: *crosses his arms* “I am afraid that answer is not good enough, where is the weapon?”

Greave: “… Someone must have stolen it… the spiral knights don’t know this place’s existence, something here is amiss…”

Gremlin female: *yawns shamelessly* “Ugh, you strangers are SO sloppy, can’t you see that only fiends can stole the weapon within this short amount of time?”

Kragen: *sneers at the female Gremlin* “… Herex, what is this… girl of yours?”

Ricasso and Quillion: *whisper to each other* “… Gremlin filth… maybe we are better off keeping the knights in Haven.”

Herex: *chuckles* “She is my top assassin, the true fruit of my bio organic research! A biologically enhanced super being, the blade of the crimson order! She is Type-158, our next generation ‘super assassin’!”

Gremlin female->type-158: “You strangers are so primitive! Can't even keep a 50 tone machine in the hanger for a day without having it stolen! Just give us the schematic for the weapon! We will make it in the great colony, far away from the fiendish vermin!”

Kragen: *nods his head* “Fine… so be it… even if the prototype is stolen, you will still pay us the money for the schematics, Quince! Hand the schematics to our Gremlin clients! Quince?”

[Unknown to the four strangers, Quince have claimed the schematic for himself and headed to the gloaming wild wood in an attempt to destroy any chance of the weapon be recreated. But he was caught in the line of sight of one of the stalker at the last second.]

Stalker C: *yells* “Hey! What are you doing stranger?!”

Quince: “Oh no!” *speeds up*

Greave: *yells at Quince* “QUINCE?! WHAT ARE YOU RUNNING FROM?! HAND OVER THE SCHEMATIC!”

Quince: *takes the schematic out his robe, threatens to destroy it* “Greave! Fellow brethren! What have we become? I thought we were meant to achieve justice and aid the weak! This is not what I intended to become!”

Kragen: “Hand over the schematic, Quince… you have nowhere to run…”

Quince: “NO!”

Greave: “We have become exactly what we intended to be… We were once nothing more than simple merchants who helps the passing travellers. Now it is our chance to rule a piece of cradle all for ourselves!”

Quince: “And what makes you think the Gremlins won’t betray us? And burn down our home?”

Greave: “Doesn’t matter… beneath the ruins of Haven… A new kingdom will rise, our kingdom. You can either be a part of this or you can die just like Rudkin… it is your choice…”

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 05:16

Midnight-Dj

Anyone reading this?

Chapter03: A new problem

[Quince conceals the schematic and makes a run for the secret tunnel leading to the gloaming wild wood. Herex orders the last two remaining stalkers to chase down the helpless merchant while he himself seals the entrance to the secret tunnel in case any else wanted the schematic for themselves.]

Herex: *looks seductively at his bio weapon type-158* “Alright darling, you know where the spiral knights are… they have been peeping our conversation ever since it started. Kill them for me.” *smiles and seals the entrance to the tunnel with some of his bio super glue*

Type-158: *blows a kiss at Herex* “Ooooh, Herex… you always knew…” *draws her trident and yells at Serris and X’s general direction* “Come on out spiral knight scums!!! Let me have a play!”

Greave: *orders Ricasso, Quillion and Kragen to evacuate* “…Leave the sector, I don’t want Ozlo to think that the three of you are involved…”

Kragen: “What about you Greave?”

Greave: *pulls out his blitz needle* “I have a score to settle with Mister Serris… isn’t that right?”

Serris: *emerges from his cover* “Alright Greave, it seems like you are more than just a War-profiteer. So you actually wanted to build a Haven just for your own kind? Don’t you think it is a bit selfish that you have to kill two of your own friends to achieve that?”

Greave: “Haven have always been our home… until your kinds fell from the stars. The war waged between the knights and the Gremlins has driven others to extinction. It is time we wipe you off from the face of this planet for good… if it means I have to kill my own friends, then so be it…”

Type-158: *chuckles at Greave* “And the enemy of your enemy is your friend! Isn’t that right Greave?”

Greave: *sneers at Type-158* “…Don’t push your luck, Gremlin filth, once we are done with the spiral knights, your kinds are next…”

Type-158: *laughs maniacally* “Ooooh, I am SOOOoooo scared!!!” *waves at Serris* “YooooHooo, if it isn’t Saucy Serry?! Can you come down here to take my autograph?”

Serris: *winces* “Ekk…”

X: *also emerges from the cover* “Lord Serris! I will deal with the Gremlin woman while you take care of Greave.” *draws her beam katana*

Serris: “I won’t have it any other way!” *takes out his pocket pistol*

[The 2 vs. 2 battle begins. Serris dashes behind a cache of metal containers and fires at Greave from a distance, the expanded Polaris bullets staggers Greave, but Greave almost recovers instantly before firing off a volley of blitz needle into Serris’s cover. Type-158 engages X at close quarter with their weapons clashing into each other, X’s beam katana did little to Type-158’s trident’s unique alloy and Type-158 manages to get the upper hand.]

Type-158: *knocks X down to the ground and prepares to kill her with a trident to the heart* “Weakling! Why do you even bother staying with Serris anyway? He is twice the man you deserved!”

X: *recovers and fan kicks Type-158 in the face* “This is why I hate it when lord Serris flirts with other girls… they are not worthy to be with
Lord Serris!”

Type-158: *wipes the blood out of her teeth* “What is wrong, you jealous? Or are you just too ugly to have the courage to confess?”

X: *shakes her head* “I hate it when Lord Serris is stuck with women like you! Woman who have no honour or integrity! All you wanted is his money, his wealth!” *tail kicks Type-158* “

Type-158: “Ugh!” *finds one of her teeth on the ground* “YOU LITTLE BRAT!!!”*lashes the trident at X* “Scr*w the money! I just want you DEAD!”

[X bends down and she can feel the trident flies across her head. She waits for the correct moment, when Type- 158 is just about to finish her swipe with the trident, she strikes, with her beam katana, she cuts off one of Type-158’s arms and forced Herex’s bio weapon to retreat.]

Type-158: *covers her wound* “Argh!!! Spiral knight scum! You will pay for this!” *flees*

[X, whose head is slightly tempered by her thirst for justice, tries to chase down Herex’s bio-weapon and finish her off once and for all. But X then sees Serris panicking in the corner of her vision when Greave barraged his cover with another volley of blitz needle. X seizes her priority and throws her beam katana at Greave, the blade cuts deep into Greave’s chest and dealt the killing blow. All seems to be over, the renegade merchant is down on the ground and Herex’s bio weapon escaped via a ventilation shaft.]

Serris: *emerges from his cover* “Thank you, I thought I was a goner back there. This pocket Polaris is compact and all… but damn, this thing lacks the fire power, perhaps I can make some improvements.”

X: “I am glad that you are ok, lord Serris…” *frowns at Greave, who is still alive* “This is the end of you, Greave…”

Greave: *coughs some green fluid out his mechanical mouth, most likely his blood* “This will not be the end… this is only the beginning… once Herex secured the schematic, your Haven will be nothing more than a fleeting dream…”

Serris: “So, what were you guys making down here in the hanger? According to what I heard from your conversation with Herex earlier, you are making some sort of mechanical walker, 50 tonnes was it?”

Greave: “It matters not… it was only a prototype… it is stolen by the filthy fiends with the help of their dimensional warp holes… the real deal will be much stronger. The schematic will soon be in Herex’s hand, it is only a matter of time before they chase down Quince, then, you will all die… hahaha…” *pulls down his robe and reveals a bandolier of nitronomes beneath his chest* “So long, spiral knights…” *pushes the detonator*

[And just like that, Greave is converted into a million pieces by the explosion, destroying any chance of Serris and X getting more informations out of him. X and Serris managed to escape from blast radius just in time to avoid certain death. When the dust settled, Serris, who heard the conversation between X and type-158 earlier, is rather uncomfortable with what X said.]

Serris: “…So, you do care about what kind of women I hang out with.” *chuckles* “So, if a woman isn’t going after my money, then what is she going for? My good look?”

X: “…”

Serris: “Not going to say anything? Fine, we will just pretend that never happened…” *looks at the blood stain and guts on the ground* “…Greave… So you were more than just an arms dealer huh… well, you are now in a happier place… a Haven beyond.”

X: *shook her head* “His attempt at making an independent settlement for his people is rather misguided… he had forgotten the difference between friends and foes, he was blinded by his own greed.”

Serris: “Hmmm, I am just wondering, is there really a clear line between good and bad? Right or wrong? So far, the line seems to be very blur.”

X: “Morality is subjective to all individuals, it is up to each one of us to decide what is worth fighting for…”

Sun, 05/04/2014 - 01:39

Midnight-Dj

NEVER SAY DIE

[Serris and X left the secret hanger with many unanswered questions. When they are finally back to the Bazar, everything is back to normal. The place that once Greave stood is miraculously replaced by another stranger, who resembles Greave greatly.]

Serris: *whispers to X* “Crap, these strangers sure did one heck of a job covering up their trails…”

X: “We don’t have any hard evidence to put them in the court, their complex may have already reached all the way into the heart of the Spiral Order. We can’t report this to anyone but Miss Mawashimono…”

Serris: “Hmm, ok, I will write her message…” *com link rings* “Huh?”

[A message is revealed on the hologram of Serris’s golden plated com link device. It was sent from Mawashimono.

Dear Special Investigators,
A worldwide civil war is coming, one in which new alliances will be formed and old ones altered. Our friends may not be our friends, and our enemies may not be our enemies.
I believe the Stranger Rudkin was murdered by a Stranger to prevent us from getting a hold of the trinkets of power, which we succeeded in doing. Be wary of Strangers and do not assume monsters to be enemies, especially amongst the gremlins and beasts.
Watch your backs and continue to report whatever information you discover.

Serris’s suspicion is confirmed, the strangers and the Gremlins are indeed up to no good. And now what is worse, the fiends are now blended into the mix. They are most likely trying to get the most out of this conflict without dragging themselves too deep into the war.]

Serris: “…I got some bad news… a war is coming.” *shakes his head* “No, not this again…” *tears started to flow out of his eyes*

X: “…” *strokes Serris’s shoulder* “… Are those memories coming back to you again?”

Serris: *wipes the tear away* “Yes, I can’t let this happen again! War has ravaged my home once, I cannot allow history repeats itself! But first, we need to find the weapon that the stranger was making in the secret hanger…”

X: “If the Gremlin woman was correct. The fiends must have teleported the weapon to one of their major city. There are two known fiendish city. Sol-fork and Amu-sol…”

Serris: “Amu-Sol is out of the question. As long as the weapon is mechanical, I don’t think it will do any good in a frozen wasteland. So that leaves Sol-fork…” *takes out his com link device*

[Message to Mawashimono.

Dear Mawashimono,

I know we have never met in person but I have to agree with your suspicion. Just moments ago, I saw the unthinkable, the Gremlin and the strangers are joining up together to destroy Haven, but the alliance is pretty shaky at this point. I don’t think it will take too long before the alliance breaks up. But the important thing is, the fiends had stolen the prototype weapon that the strangers was making. It seems the Gremlins are planning on using it to destroy Haven, whatever it is, it is bad news for us. I and my assassin are going down to Sol-Fork to investigate the whereabouts of this prototype weapon. And hopefully, I can take a good look at the weapon and maybe prototype something that can destroy it. Please, whatever you do, don’t inform Feron or Ozlo about this, it will encourage the terrorists amongst us to use this opportunity to wreck Chaos.

Ps. while I was eavesdropping on the strangers, Quince, one of the strangers decided to betray his fellow brethren by stealing the schematic for the weapon. He is headed for the gloaming wildwood, I wouldn’t try to rescue him if I was you, Herex and the stalkers are on the hunt for Quince, he is already a lost cause.

Pps. If you want to rescue Quince and procure the schematic, just be very careful. Herex has been tempering with some mad science lately. My Assassin just fought one of his latest work, a bio weapon called ‘Type-158’, she is one flirty dame, but not really my cup of tea. If you want to rescue Quince, be ready for a tough fight. I have no idea how many experiments he made after the fall of compound 42.

Good luck out there,

Serris Lengsk ]

Mon, 05/05/2014 - 04:53

Midnight-Dj

Gotta love em character development

Chapter 04 (interlude): 50 shades of Serris

[Serris returns to his office before heading to Sol-Fork to see if he can get any glimpse of the illusive Gremlin war machine. He takes a quick shower and wrapped into some bath towel, inside the bath room, Serris wipes away the water mist on the mirror and sees himself up close. His face is showing quite the resemblance to his deceased father, Valerius Lengsk, who died during the Isoran civil war when Serris is only ten. Before a sense of nostalgia can flood into his psyche, Serris senses a disturbance in the bathroom, a weird and familiar shadow is creeping inside the ceiling.]

Serris: *sighs and looks at the bathroom ceiling* “X… how many times did I told you not to peep while I am having shower? I could really do with some privacy!”

X: *leaves the cover and kneels towards Serris* “… I am sorry LORD SERRIS… I am just here to ensure that no maniac or rival assassin can come in and threaten your life…”

Serris: *tilts his lips* “So far the only maniac assassin that managed to breach my proximity is you…” *sighs* “I guess you did a great job protecting me though… Greave almost had me back there if wasn’t because of you. I got to thank you for that, and for all those times you managed to save me and my dignity.” *chuckles*

X: *blushes* “LORD SERRIS…”

Serris: “Hmm? Hey, there is no need to thank me-”

X: *looks the other way* “Your… bath towel, has fallen off…” *quickly leaves the bathroom*

Serris: *realizes that he was naked all along* “My towel is off the whole time and you didn’t tell me?! Damn it X!”

[Serris wasn’t all that upset, as this isn’t the first time X saw Serris naked. She has been tailing him ever since they first meet. X probably has a great understanding of his body anatomy by now, a glimpse of his naked body shouldn’t be anything new. While Serris is changing into his new suit for the upcoming adventure, he recalls the first day he met X. When he was only eight, standing outside the mansion with his father. And that is when X and two other assassins from her clan showed up from nowhere.]

Young Serris: *excited* “Father! Who are these shadowy men?”

Valerius: “Son, I want you to meet someone… your new friend.” *points at young X*

Young Serris: *gasps* “Wow, they look like those Ninjas from my favourite anime!”

[Between the two adult assassins stands a young girl dressed in dark blue outfits, whose age is similar to Serris, only slightly older. Serris can still remember how she looked, short oily black hair, with a strange pair of eyes stared right into him, her appearance hardly changed ever since then.]

Adult Assassin A: *tabs X’s shoulder* “Alright, X, I think it is time you show that you are worthy of your clan’s name! Go to Young Lord Serris, you know what to do.”

Young X: *nods her head* “I understand father…” *walks towards young Serris*

Adult Assassin B: “Make us proud…”

Valerius: “X will be our new guest now. Son, go say ‘hi’ to your new friend.”

Young X: *bows toward Serris* “Greetings, Lord Serris, it is a pleasure to meet you in person. I am assigned to protect your safety… the name is X…”

Young Serris: “Safety??? Me?”

Valerius: *sighs at Serris’s innocence* “I am sorry son, but there are a lot of people out there who are envy of our wealth and their jealousy threatens to destroy our livelihood, X and her clan are tasked to protect us. Me, my father and his father have risen to where we are today with hard labour, and there is nothing wrong with that.”

Young Serris: *confused* “But there are people out there starving in the street…”

Valerius: *sighs* “Makers make, takers take, we make up our wealth, and it is in no one’s right to take what is ours for their own leisure. We are free men, if those people out there can’t bring themselves up with their own two hands. Then starvation is what they deserved. Now son, back to your study…”

Young X: “I can also help you with Math if Lord Serris require any assistance…”

[Serris’s nostalgic memory fades as he now refocuses on the task ahead. He trades his pocket Polaris with something more practical. A modified blitz needle with a larger magazine and a longer barrel, designed to have greater accuracy and mobility at the sacrifice of fire rate. Serris carried a few hundred piercing rounds within his backpack, perfect for shredding fiend vermin into million pieces. X, who just recovered from her injuries with some bandages, returns to meet him.]

X: “Lord Serris, are you prepared for the journey to Sol-Fork?”

Serris: *sigh* “Yeah, sometimes I wondered if I could ever be as good as my father, or better…”

X: “You already have, by being his son, you have already proved your worth…”

[With the encouraging words from X, Serris descends into the clockwork via a secret elevator, he used his own money and a crack team of ember light builders to make this, he would never use the elevators in the arcade, if he did, the fan girls and his entourages will no doubt cram into the elevator asking for gift money and autographs. The elevator eventually stopped at the out skirt of the fiendish city of Sol-Fork. With a high tech binocular, Serris located a convoy of fiends, transporting what seems to the weapon with Greave and Herex was talking about. The cargo is covered in magic cloths, Serris roughly estimated the size of the cargo, 15 meters tall and almost 125 meters in length. The weapon is carried in an open carriage with no steel cage surrounding it, the ‘weapon’ is most likely not organic, but a piece of machinery.]

X: “Can you use your binocular to see through the cloths and see what is inside?”

Serris: *shakes his head* “The cloth are imbued in fiendish concealment magic, but I can tell that the weapon isn’t organic, it is not moving or making any sound, and the infra-red vision shows no signs of heat anywhere from the carriage…”

X: “So the weapon is mechanical…”

Serris: “Hmm, in that case, all I need is to take a good look at it up close and I should be able to find a weakness of some sort. Alright, it is time for some infiltration. You scout ahead, I will follow you shortly.”

X: “Understood…”

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