"Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person." ~Arus

Semichapter Thirty Six/ OBJECTION
I lost track how long we've been wandering this area. Always coming back to that wretched Hydraulic Pump.
"Ok, this is getting a little boring," Mystic groaned, and dragged his sword into an overhead position.
"Wait, what're you doing?" Lana questioned, as a dark glow shed from his morph into a trojan.
"What i've should've done hours ago," And with that, Mystic barraged right into the wall, crashing through leaving a Mystic-shaped hole in it's wake. I tilted my head in, and saw he went through around a dozen other walls, each one looking awfully similar.
"Oh, wow," Dusk grinned, dragging along his Nyx Acheron into the "Hallway,"
About everyone was ready to collapse on the floor and pass out, mostly beecaue Mote didnt even bother to open his eyes. Lucky Bloodless and Ether.. ghosts never sleep.
I heard a ruffling noise from the stretcher, and found the knight awake, staring at us like we had scars on our faces.
With me, that was actually the problem.
"Wait, what am I doing here?" He asked, and began to grasp his sword from his sash.
"I'll explain, but first off, NAME INTRODUCTION!!" Tony barked happily.
"Arus" T_T
"Tony" :L
"Durr" :]
"Dusk" >:L
"Mystic" O_O
"Kozma" :'
"Feron" I_I
"Fang" -_-
"Bloodless" '_'
"Mote" 0_0
"Burp" OO
"Ether" O,O
"Lana" :/
"Andrein" >:]
"Donovan" >:D
"Amber" c(:
"Chuck!" XD
The last name startled us all, what sounded like a devilite echoed through the hall.
You could tell, it sounded like a trumpet solo.
"Didnt we have this conversation before?" Ether whispered, readying a missile in his mouth.
"Shush, dont break forth wall again," Amber sighed, and grabbed the hilt of her Metatron blade.
A devilite flew from the darkness, and practically reverse-kicked Dusk right into Mystic, both of them falling on top of eachother.
"DEJA VU," Dusk groaned, picked himself up, and charged up his weapon.
The devilite seemed to have a weapon strapped onto his leg, and flew around us, blurrs of purple were all that registered. Letting loose an arc of energy from my blade, I noticed a clanking sound from the hallway. I pointed towards it, and Tony nodded, trotting off into the corner. What seemed as another foe alarmed us all, everyone detecting a knight nearby.
"Yeesh, you did a lousy job trying to kill us all off," Fang sighed, tryin to shoot at the enemy with his gun.
"Oh be quiet," Letting loose an arc of energy in the other direction.
A knight in an inverted colored Azure set ran through the mist, an Ascended Calibur made eyes widen.
"MOTE!" I yelled across the room.
He nodded and drew his sleep-gas bomb, charging it and throwing the explosive at the devilite. He dropped like a fly. Mote ran over and put him on the stretcher, a nametag made of Shadow Steel with the name "Chuck" was written in a red substance.
Not blood. I hope.

(Tony narration)
The sounds of the battle in Arus's area filled the hallway with the sounds of explosions and gunfire. My ears perked up as I sensed another frostifur nearby, then a dark silhoutte of a Frostifur caught my eye. I quickly sprinted towards it, only to be tackled to the side by the unseen enemy. I rolled around, trying to pin the enemy to he ground, and found myself pinned dead on. I growled before curling into a ball, and rlling out of the way, tackling the foe into the wall, the whimper that grew from her lips almost made me stop dead in my tracks.

>:L

Anyways...
I SHALL FINISH THE STORY BY CHAPTER 47!!!!!

I think the frostipups are going to be cute.

•CHAPTER THIRTY EIGHT / Citadel Clash (Corny titles XD)
(Alex narrative)
Gremlins are really adaptive, the ones we face here are firey myraid. You have to watch your face, and your foot from the pooling oil and lava spewing from ever direction, amd even your back 'cause before you know it, you would be fried to a barbecue. (Burp comes to mind)
Slag walkers flooded from every direction, heating up our armor to the brink of melting. Well, for those who wear metal. Tony and Dove did amazingly well, mostly because the heat didnt affect them. Mystic almost sunk into the melting floor, so he was stuck as a knight. Lana and Amber poured Freeze Vials over eachother, quickly snatching whichever the could find. Ether and Bloodless seemed uneffected by heat. The question if undead have nervous systems or not comes to mind. Andrein looks like he'd pass out, Donovan wasnt very different. Mote still had a blank face, even as we stood before the gate of Vanaduke's room. I shot my glance towards Arus, he silently pressed the button, but before walking through, looked back at us.
"Listen, I'll keep Vanaduke off, you guys run as fast as you can towards the exit, go down without me, and set up camp right before the terminal," And directed his finger from here to the elevator that we could see through the exit, before that knight in reverted color armor woke from his sleep, and he was right about to grab his sword and flail before Burp grabbed his hand with his.. erm.. pseupods i guess?
"Dont move, I have spikes that have barbs that have barbs, a poweful digestion, and im not afraid to use them," He fluffed his insides from pink to magenta.
"What the hell..." As he looked around at everyone around him.
"Lets introduce ourselves.." Durr walked from behind.
(NAME GAME AND EXPLANATION MONTAGE I WAS TOO LAZY TO DO IT SO WHATEVER)
"Uh, ok?" Genome got up from his stretcher, and took his weapons from Burp.
"Ugh, what about the other dude?" I asked, scratching the back of my head.
"Uh, we'll take care of that," Bloodless placed her hand on the passed out Devilite.
"Hey, anyone know what happend to that guy who attacked us back at Haven?" Dusk came into the conversation.
"He left when he killed Fang and Feron, " Mystic whispered.
Who? I still had no idea.

(Arus narration)
"On second thought, me and whoever wishes to fight Vanaduke will kill him, then the rest of us will carry on once we're finished," I pointed my blade to the door.
Mystic, Lana, and Alex raised their hands.
"Dusk, you coming?" Mystic looked back before proceeding.
"Nah," He answered before sitting on something. (YAY! SOMETHING)
The gate shut quickly behind us, peircing the air that was there seconds before.
"What the-" Alex gasped, before a familiar knight came in, sitting on top of Vanaduke.
"Necro," Mystic growled, before grabbing the hilt of his sword, anger visible in his expression, which resembled alot like, >:L.
Necro laughed before jumping off from Vanaduke, and took out his Khorovod and Jalovec, now was a Triglav and Sudaraska.
"Crap," Lana whispered, grabbing her Raphael Edge.
"Vanaduke, you go first.." Necro grinned and pointed to Lana.
Lana stared blankly as she finally figured what was about to happen, as Vanaduke brought his mace into an overhead position.

ARGHICANNOTBELIVEMYSELFIMADEAPLOTHOLEINTHEDARNSTORYLINE.
IDONTDESERVETOLIVEIMADEITLIKESOALEXDOESNTHAVEHISSWORDARGHARGHARGH!
IDONTDESERVETOLIVE!! I DESERVE TO DIE!!!!! ICANNOTBELIEVEMYSELF!!
*runs wildly in circles cursing at self, then runs dead smack into Vanaduke, who isnt pleased.*

IF SOMEONE COULD POST THIS PAGE ON THE WIKI IT WOULD BE SERIOUSLY AWESOME.
YOU HAVE MY PERMISSION!
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CHAPTER FOURTY / The Bridge (part one)
You wonder where the city of us, the gremlins is, right? Well, lets put it like this.
Long before, people thought of out home planet hollow, meaing that you could find another sphere inside of it. Well, with us gremlins and Cradle, thats true. Our city rests on the core, the core is actually musch bigger than you thought. It's big enough to call a moon if it was ripped out of the heart of the planet. Our city rests on a side that always faces the ground right below haven. But the question is, how do we get in and out of out home? The answer is also designed by Tinkenzar. Some gremlins, only a small handful, like him, the crimson order and other well-known gremlins have been given the power to create a bridge from the outside of the core to the inside, it also works vice versa. But of course, this technology hasnt been used in quite some time, as elevators have become the way to get around. Speaking of which, our elevator is bringing to a halt.
"Hey, where's everyone?" I stepped out the elevator, puzzled how empty the area was.
"The knights here are dead," Feron piped up from the front, the lab near the core was destroyed, computers smashed, knights slaughtered, and the elevator i used to get up and down was disabled.
"Drat, how are we going to get through?" Ether stared at the huge two-door seal on the core, the humming of energy emanating from it warmed our armor.
"Well, I think I may have mastered the use of Styx," Looking determined as i gripped and pulled out my sword, it resonated with the core, almost twicthing with energy.
"Styx? You cant be serious Arus, nobody used it in millenia, those who had either died from energy depletion, or failed," Andrein worriedly panted.
"Nobody, until now," As i flashed my sword into a charge, and smiled wickedly to everyone who was staring.
"STYX, OPEN!" I screamed, the charge escaped the end of my blade, and filled the ledge with shining, radiant, white light that soon turned into a form that someone would call looked like a plank for a bridge. Then, the doors on the core began to scream with rusty screeches as it slid open slowly, the light from the charge getting bigger and bigger until, the light seemed to hum before shooting into the core, the trail still standing looked like a thick bridge you would find in the clockworks. The white twisted and buckled until it remained a definite shape of a bridge. The light shed away to reveal a huge metal or some kind of hard alloy arcing in a platform we could step on.
"Great, we have to walk all the way there?" Dove sighed, and started to trot her way onto the bridge.
"NO! WAIT!" Tony yelled.
"The gremlins know about the bridge, they might be sending reinforcement right now. " Andrein sighed.
"Stick together," Kozma stated, as we began to walk down the winding trail leading to he core.

/An hour later/ :P

"SO.... SLEEPY.. " Mystic yelled, struggling from fainting from exhaustion.
"Here eat this," Dove held in her mouth a pouch that said, "KATNIP" on the front.
"Whatever wont kill me," As Mystic reached his hand into the pouch, and pulled out what looked like a leaf.
Mystic grunted before devouring the whole thing in one bite, his eyes then opened quickly like he saw a ghost.
Ether and Bloodless were somewhere else if you're thinking.
We all took a leaf from the pouch, devoured it, and almost got heart attack from the our heart rates.
"Well, if we walk, my head will explode," Dusk was twitching.
"SEE YOU SLOWPOKE," Mystic yelled as he rushed by, Dusk only noticed until the sound wave hit him.
"HAH! CHEATER!" Dusk screamed, and took off.
" Okay then, RUN!" Alex screamed, as everyone took off faster than lightning.
Around an hour or so of continious running, that Katnip is powerful btw, i could see the peaks of the central castle in gremlin city poking in the horizon.
"CRAP! GREMLINS!" Dusk screamed, as a gremlin broke his speed.
Mystic took advantage of his momentum, and plowed straight through the crowd, knocking unfortunate gremlins to the side. Durr and Ether were around the sides, firing at whatever they could. Mote and Genome were sending stabs into their enemies before the even knew the were dead. Lana, Kozma, Fang, Amber, and Feron, were busy gunning down whatever gremlin they could find, Mote, Andrein, Donovan, and I were excluded from this killable group. Burp choked another gremlin in jelly as Dove and Tony rammed into every gremlin not wising to fall off the bridge. I finally sent my sword through the last gremlin when a familiar bullet raced past my ears. Almost taking my head along with it. The sound of a second shot alerted my senses as i quickly reflected it away.
Evan was here, and he was brutally pissed.
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EVAN IS HERE!

a jerky self appointed member of the Crimson Order,has a Sentenza and an Argent Peacemaker.

MUAHHAHAAHAHHA YOU SHAL ALL DIE!
(Goes beserk and drools, flailing sword wildly)

•Chapter Fourty Two / Lost It

(Lana narration)
All i saw as i ran from behind was that Mystic charged right into Arus, knocking him around fifteen yards back. Dusk ran to Arus, and picked him up by his back, almost stabbing him until Arus freed himself, kicking Dusk back, when Mystic and Alex charged in, Arus grabbed his sword and flashed the charge into Mystic, blowing him back as he reverted back into a knight. Alex went and grabbed him by the neck, almost choking him when he was stabbed in the arm, reeling back as Arus skidded backwads. Andrein joined in, thrusting his sword into Dusk's shield, and handing him a health pill and lashing out an Ember Bolt into Alex. I think Feron and Fang joined in at some point, and then at some point Arus was on the floor, with a trigger against his back.
"What the hell Arus?" Feron gripped his neck tightly.
"Shut up, I know what you're up to," Arus retorted, his sword in Mystic's hands.
"Up to what?" I stepped in, leaning against my sword in confusion.
"Betrayal, I can see it in your eyes,"
"How did you- I meant, just kidding." Mystic threw his hands into the air.
Dusk elbowed him and continued with the conversation.
"I can see it, you're going to betray me like how I betrayed Tinkenzar, I see it right now," Arus sighed through whatever lacerations he had.
"We're not going to," I tried to help in.
"Quiet Lana, Arus ain't gonna calm down soon like this, we're better off killing him," Fang thrusted the gun into his back.
"No, DONT!" Andrein screamed, his arms behind his back. (Due to Feron)
"Too late," Donovan looked away, his arms bound by Genome.
"What?" Fang turned away as Arus quickly grabbed the barrel of his gun, ripping the barrel from his Sentenza.
"GET HIM!" Dusk bellowed, as he quickly grabbed his sword out of his sash, only to be knocked to the side as Arus ran to Mystic. Arus grabbed his sword and backjumped off from Mystic, he reeled back and reverted into a trojan.
"Hmph, I can do this on my own," Arus growled, sending a charge into the ground, a crack in the bridge started to grow.
"What the- " Genome wobbled from the shake.

(Arus narration)
I sent one last charge into the ground, severing the bridge completely.
"ARUS!" Kozma yelled out, their part drifting away from mine.
"Kzoma, cool it, he's gone," Fang placed a hand on her shoulder as the distance accumulating between us soon halted.
" DONT EVEN THINK OF COMING BACK IF YOU EVER EVEN SURVIVE! " Alex snarled, pointing his sword at me.
"Hmph," I sighed, before walking in the direction of the bridge, soon they disapeared from the horizon.
Heck i cared.
The bridge finally ended, with Evan on the side.
"Made your choice?" Evan grinned evily.
"..yes" I sighed, as eyes soon began to watch.
"Fine, the king wants to see you," Evan soon put his hand on my shoulder as we walked through the crowd.
"You owe me a Sentenza," He laughed.
"No i dont, Boltface,"
"Sheesh, harsh welcome back to the CO," He shrugged as we reached the doors of the Gremlin Castle.
Actually, it wasnt much of a castle, it was more of a coulpe houses stacked together with gold and regal runes painted over it. Evan shouted something to a gaurd above as the huge doors soon creaked open. Walking hall upon hall, eyes met and departed as i could feel every gremlin staring at me like i was bleeding, which was actually the case.
"Need a bandage?" Evan asked, the door of the infirmary was on the intersection.
"No," I grunted, clutching my arm as fresh blood kept on seeping out.
"Yeesh, work on your attitude, Tinkenzar wont be happy," He glared.
"Hell i care," As he slowly opened the doors to the throne room.
Tinkenzar was laying to the side on his throne, flipping a golden wrench back and forth.
"Ah then, you finally see the right in this," Tinkenzar sat upright and started to walk to me.
"He changed," Evan stated as he walked to the side, standing proudly as other members of the CO stood with their weapons armed.
"Ah, for now Arus, you are lucky i forgive you for betraying us, now, join your brothers in the line," Tinkenzar smiled.
I walked along the lines, to the back as i stood as everyone else, bringing my sword out made eyes open.
"What's that?" The gremlin next to me asked, about to touched the blade until i shoved his arm away.
"A weapon, if you dont know what they are, welcome to Cradle," I snarled.
"Our brother, Arus has rejoined us once again, once lost has now been found, Arus, this is a new slate for you, dont mess it up anymore now," Tinkenzar proudly acclaimed.
"That is all, you are dismissed," He motioned his hand for us to get out, as everyone slowly walked out, walking, running, and for all i know SKIPPING out the doors, I walked silently back to my quarters, finding my door, F-13 and opening it, all my stuff where it was where i remembered it, items, armor, weapons, and my bedsheets just as messy as before.
I closed the door and flopped onto my bed , pulling the sheets over me and closing my eyes as sleep swept over me.

(Genome narration)
The presence of a fire and everyone around it gave us a small sanctuary as we set up camp near the edge of the bridge, well, a few yards away from the edge. Lana sat on the edge, Dove and Tony seated behind her, staring at the other peice of the bridge.
"Man, Arus you idiot," Lana dug her head into her hands, sobbing a little as Tony and Dove curled into balls (DONT LAUGH >:U) and started to go to sleep.
"Nothing we could do, it was his fault," Dusk walked by, taking a seat next to her.
"We could go after him," She raised her head from her hands, her eyes teary.
"No way we could do it anyways," I took a seat next to Dusk, joining into the conversation.
" 'sides, the gremlins there would kill us, Arus wouldnt cooperate if we even got that far," I added.
"I dont care, it's worth a shot," Lana started sobbing all over again.
"Wait, isnt this "Styx" able to be used by gremlins?" Dusk piped up.
"Yeah, right," Andrein came out of nowhere.
"Like we could do anything," Donovan laid back aganst the floor, hands behind his head.
"Yes, you can," Mote pulled them to the edge.
"What? You seriously think so?" Donovan looked down.
"If Arus can do it, then the three of us should have a chance,"
"Fine," Andrein muttered as he took out his sword, Donovan and Mote did the same.
"STYX, OPEN!" In perfect unison as charged lashed out from their blades.
White light streamed from their swords and started to fill the gap in the bridge, as Lana, Dusk and I leapt out of the way.
"Wow," I whispered, as the light shed revealing a fixed bridge where there was a huge gap.
"We leave at next revolution," Mote panted, staggering to his sleeping bag.
"Agreed," Dusk fainted on the spot from exhaustion.
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