The Elder God :" You will never defeat me, Kain !"

The Elder God :" Feed the wheel. "

The Elder God :" Your broken body shall be berried here for all eternity !" 

The Elder God :" No this can not be !!!"

Kain cut the last tentacle and strikes the final blow in his big blue eye. The soul reaver bursts with power, freeing countless captive souls and diminishing their captor at long last. Kain places the reaver on his back, and planer-shifts to the top of the crumbling chamber. He turns his back and walks away, while his foes tentacles angrily fizzle across the collapsing room.

The Elder God :" You can’t destroy me Kain ! I am the engine of life it self ! The wheel will turn ! The plague of your kind shall be purged from this world, and on that inevitable day, your wretched stagnant soul will finally be mine !"

Kain :" In the mean time, you’d best burrow deep. "

He walks away

Kain ( VO ) :" At last it was done. Raziels sacrifice and my anger shattered the wheal. Each soul was now released of its shackles, and free to make its own destiny. Exept…"; he looks at the reaver that sparkles infused with Raziels soul :" With his sacrifice, Raziel made the ultimate reaver; The Reaver of binding. My poor Raziel… how I’d wish that there had bean another way. "

Kain enters the outer chamber where the ancient vampires had their " oracle "

The Elder God :" You’ve caused more damage than you can possibly imagine. Mark my words Kain; soon now you shall taste the bitterness of your foolish sacrilege actions. " 

Kain :" If I do, I won’t crawl back to you. "

The Elder God :" Mark my words Kain. Your doom is at hand. "

Kain simply snorts and leaves the room. 

Kain ( VO ) :" I emerged, and tasted true freedom for the first time. I was no longer predestined to do anything. My choices were my one. But then it occurred to me that I was stranded here. Now, without destiny, the future was unwritten. All of time streaming devices and chambers were useless. And there was still The Unspoken to deal with. He must have possessed Yanoss after I vanquished him and Mortanius at the pillars. And as usual, he’ll seek vengeance upon the last vampire in Nosgoth so he could free the rest of his kin. I had a good idea where I might find him. "

Young Kain ( VO ) :" Once I embraced my powers, I realized that Vorador was correct; we are gods ! Dark gods ! And as such, our duty is to thin the heard. "

Young Kain is walking the cemetery where his mausoleum is :

Young Kain ( VO ) :" After a long and troublesome day, I finally get to rest and recover my strength. There was much work ahead of me. Nosgoth was polluted and consumed with treachery, and it will be my task, as balance guardian, to cleanse it. "

As he approaches the entrance of his mausoleum, he hears an echoing laughter from above. He pools out the blood reaver, and waits.

Hash’ak’gik :" Bravo Kain ! I hadn’t taught you’ll last this long. "

He descends from above like a bird of pray.

Young Kain :" I have no time to waist. What do you want, winged creature ? "

Hash’ak’gik :" Your death, cursed one !"

Young Kain :" Come than, and I’ll make another kill tonight. "

Hash’ak’gik sways, and his eyes stop glowing with green flame 

Yanoss :" (Ack) Run Kain ! This foe is beyond you !"

Young Kain :" I ran before nothing ! Who are you, to say whose beyond me ?!"

Yanoss :" I am (argh )…"

Hash’ak’gik :" …your maker, and unmaker ! How do you like my new vessel, little pawn ? "

Young Kain :" I’ve beaten you tonight already demon ! Before I do it again, tell me how long are you going to hound my steps ?"

Hash’ak’gik :" Not long ! Just until the end of your life !"

They fight, but young Kain loses. He is thrown on the ground, and the reaver slips away beside him.

Hash’ak’gik :" Before you die Kain, know that with your death, my long banished race will be free to reclaim their rightful place, and rule this world for all eternity. "

Young Kain :" Never ! I shall not allow you to take what is mine !"

Hash’ak’gik :" Ha-ha-ha ! You sad arrogant child ! It’s a pity that you’ve had such narrow vision all along. Now die; Die forever !"

Just as he prepares to vanquish him, the unspoken is grabbed in a field of telekinetic energy, and is dragged upwards. 

Hash’ak’gik :" What ? Who dares to interrupt…"

He sees the figure above, holding the reaver, which shines with blue and yellow energy.

Hash’ak’gik :" You !? You’re dead !"

Kain :" I’m sorry to disappoint you. "

Kain lunches him trough the air, but he lands safely. Kain jumps down beside his former self, and kicks his blood reaver to him.

Kain :" Go. This isn’t your fight. "

Young Kain :" If you are who I think you are, than it is my fight !"

Yanoss :" Kain; You must kill me with the soul reaver ! It is the only thing that shall end his evil spirit ! ( Gasp )"

Hash’ak’gik :" I should have never relied on Raziel to kill you. "; he notices that there’s no paradox :" Two of you, and the two blades… you’ve just done my kind a favor Kain ! Now, let’s rectify Raziels mistake. "

Kain :" Raziels only mistake was exempting your life. You’ll find I’m much less sympathetic. "

They fight, and during the battle, Kain has to protect his younger self. Ultimately Hash’ak’gik looses. With his last strength, he knocks Kain away with a flaming wind, and falls exhausted. Kain stands up

Kain :" You are defeated again demon. "

Young Kain :" And I shall claim his life !"

Kain :" No ! Don’t…"

Young Kain stabs his reaver in him, and a bright flash occurs. As it subsides, Yanoss lies dead on the ground, and young Kain is now the Unspokens new vessel.

Hash’ak’gik :" Do you see now, how your brash arrogance proved to be your doom ?"

Young Kain :" No…( Hack ) Get out of my soul you filthy …( ARG ). "

Hash’ak’gik :" This opens a whole new specter of possibilities. "

Kain :" Only If you manage to leave these grounds alive !"

Hash’ak’gik :" Ha, ha, ha ! Go ahead and kill me Kain ! You couldn’t kill your self before, and you wont do it now ! "

Young Kain :" Kill him already, if it will shut him up ! ( hack ) "

Hash’ak’gik :" Yeas, kill us all, and relies the hylden at last ! ( Ugh ) Your strength is admirable vampire. I shall put it to a good use. "

He shifts into bat, fleeing with the blood reaver, leaving Kain to fight his minions.

Kain ( VO ) :" I was alone now, trapped in the worst of nightmares. But there was still hope, for I still stood unchanged. It was not my future to end like that, nor his to beet me with this fraud. At least, not yet. "

Kain ( VO ) :" Yanoss lied on the ground, as an unfortunate victim of this demonic war. It was so sad that he, whose heart gave me life, had now fallen by my hand. Perhaps I could revive him, like I’ve revived Vorador after Moebius decapitated him. "

He cuts his wrist, and pores his blood in the wound on Yanoses chest. Nothing happens. Kain stands up

Kain :" Rest in peace, father of vampires. "

Kain ( VO ) :" Suddenly, I felt a twitch in my arm. The reaver moved towards Yanoss, as if Raziel tried to tell me something… I allowed it to guide my hand. From the tip of the blade that touched his wound, descended the souls of guardians, and healed him. "

Yanoss :" Ahhh …! What ? Kain ? "

Kain gets him up.

Yanoss :" You’ve restored me… You have done me a great favor Scion. I am thankful. "

Kain :" I am returning my debt. It was your heart that rose me. And besides, I need allies now. "

Yanoss :" Do not justify kindness Kain. Mercy is a part of your duty as balance guardian. "

Kain :" I don’t feel very merciful right now, Yanoss, so drop it. "

Yanoss notices the reaver

Yanoss :"… The Reaver of binding… It is done. Raziel is ready to perform the act… Why is he not with you ?"

Kain :" He’s dead. "

Yanoss :" Dead ?! No ! How ?!"

Kain :" He gave his soul for the blade, and his life so I could shatter the wheal. "

Yanoss :" You did what ?! No ! Without the wheal the binding will be faulted !"

Kain :" Face it Yanoss; The wheal you’ve made in the pillars was faulted all along. It was more of a prison, than anything else. If I truly am the scion of balance, perhaps you should start trusting my actions. And Raziels. "

Yanoss :" I’m sorry Kain, but you don’t know what you’ve done. The wheal wasn’t always the same, nor was our god. With Raziel still alive, we’d might have some hope, but… Wait. When he died, was the reaver purified ?"

Kain " You say that he may yet be alive ?"

Yanoss :" We have little time. You must go back…Wait… Vorador ? I sense he too still lives. Raziel told me he was dead. "

Kain :" It seems that Moebius was called away before he had time to execute him. "

Yanoss :" We must save him Kain !"

Kain :" We must save Raziel first. Vorador was meant to die tonight. "

Yanoss :" But not anymore. There’s no more destiny, if you have shattered the wheal. And you’ve sad so your self; we need allies. "

Kain :" Fine ! Go and help him, but first tell me how to bring Raziel back ?"

Yanoss :" If the reaver was cleansed the moment before, than the reaver of binding may have spared him, and his soul is tossed on the ethereal winds. You must seek out a landmark that we used, to have our souls find their way back. A serpent bent in a ring, with a tail in its mouth. You must take it to a place where this act occurred, and hope that he’ll find his way. "

Kain :" There’s got to be a way to make it easier for him ?"

Yanoss :" Just hold your fate in him Kain. It will be enough to give him strength. And perhaps, the reaver could help him too. We must waist no more time. Meat me and Vorador here, and hopefully, we’ll find some way to set things right. Fear veal, for now. "

Yanoss flied to the sarafan stronghold, and Kain shifted in his bat form, and went to the vampire citadel.
 
 

The pillars 
 

Kain ( VO ) :" I felt strange as I came to these pillars, now a ruin of my actions. In my rule, I’ve sat before them countless times, but now as I approached, I felt a twitch in my new heart, that seemed like grief. Perhaps Raziel gave me something else as well, or perhaps, it was simply the absence of Ariels ghost. "

Fire demon :" Kain ! Your journey ends here !"

Kain :" Your blood doesn’t suit me. Be gone. Crawl back to your masters. "

Fire demon :" I shall go back to them with your head !"

Kain ( VO ) :" This overweening demon was determined to block my path. It’s a shame for him that now armed with the reaver of binding, I was practically invincible. "

After battling some more demons, Kain came across an abandoned human camp. 

Kain ( VO ) :" And here at last, was the landmark I was searching for. It seamed relatively functional. But it was beyond these holy wards, no doubt placed by Moebiuses mercenaries. The reaver, holy as it was, couldn’t damage something so pyre. There had to be some way to get around. "

Kain brakes the stone, and picks up the omnibus ring.

Kain ( VO ) :" As I touched it, I sensed it’s sorcery slightly pooling my spirit. If Raziel was still in one peace, this hoop will drawn him back. "

Kain ( VO ) :" Now I had the means to right the wrongs, and restore the foundations of hope. Prepare your self Raziel, for the burden of life once more !"
 
 
 

The vampire citadel
 
 

The Elder God :" You’ve crawled back after all. I warned you Kain, but you didn’t listen. And now your past is infested with a parasitic spirit that will now destroy you. "

Kain :" You seam sure of that, yet I’m still before you with the weapon of your doom. It is not very wise to underestimate me. "

The Elder God :" Your traits are in vain, vampire. And so is your task. Raziels soul was returned to the weal, before you’ve destroyed it. You’re wasting your valuable time here. "

Kain :" Than you won’t mind if I take a look. "

The Elder God :" Not at all. Come back to me Kain, so we can dance a little more. "

Kain ( VO ) :" I came once again to the spirit forge, the birth place of my sword, and the tomb of my former son. But now it was collapsed and showered with rubble. I couldn’t get further than this. Hopefully, I was close enough. "

Kain places the omnibus ring on the wall, and its energy comes to life. Suddenly it summons a green transparent creature.

Kain :" What manner of spirit are you ?"

The Elder God :" It is the soul devourer, slaught ! The hunter of the spirit world. "

Kain :" He should have staid there, if you ask me. "

The Elder God :" Yeas he should. But it was you who destroyed the rules. You’ve allowed beings of the Underworld to cross over. "

Kain :" Your pets don’t scare me. "

The Elder God :" They are no pets Kain. They are my army. You shall get the entire Underworld, before you get Raziel. "

Kain fights slaughts and wraiths, until finally he is victorious. He stabs the reaver in the rock below the ring.

Kain :" Come on Raziel ! Get trough ! Are you so weak ? Are you so defeated ? Where is that unbeatable lieutenant, that conquered all of Nosgoth with me ? You aren’t worthy of it. You aren’t worthy of my mercy. You are…a weakling !!!"

A scream of rage echoes in the chamber. Raziel jumps out of the hoop, and wrestles with Kain, but falls down exhausted

The Elder God :" No ! Your soul is mine ! "

His tentacle breaches trough the rubble, grabs Raziel, and razes him high up. Kain fights the tentacles and pests of the Underworld, and in the end, he slices of the tentacle that held Raziel. He grabs one fleeing slaught in kinetic shackles.

Kain :" Feed !"

After Raziel devourers the slaught, Kain planer-shifts them out, before the Elder and his minions have time to regroup. Kain places him on the ground. His jaw is exposed. He places the rag back on Raziels face. 

Kain ( VO ) :" Strange… I’ve looked at his poor soul many times, but now, deep down I was horrified. I couldn’t even remember the last time I’ve felt like this, and it made me feel most uncomfortable. "

Raziel ( VO ) :" As I opened my heavy eyes, I found pain and ache all over me, brought with the light that exploded all around. As it passed, I found myself before an even worse vision. "

Kain :" Welcome back Raziel. "

Raziel :" …are…we…dead…"

Kain :" No. That’s the second time I saved you from the blade. This time you owe me. "

Raziel :" I owe you nothing but pain you’ve caused me…( UGH )"; Kain gets him up :" Why have you brought me back to this sour chase ? Why can’t you let me rest in peace ?"

Kain :" Because your task isn’t done yet. "

Raziel :" I’ve done my part. I’ve given all that I could for the blade. "

Kain :" But according to Yanoss, you are needed still. Chose now Raziel ; come with me, and gain some answers at last, or go back to that octopus that calls himself a god. "

Raziel :" Yanoss ? Is he released ?"

Kain :" …yeas…but I won’t tell you more until you’ve made your choice. "

Raziel :" I’ll come with you, for now, but bear in mind that you and I are far from over. I still have a lot of old debts to repay you. ( ugh ) And the debt of pain my return caused…"

Raziel ( VO ) :" As I got up, I felt a strange and pleasant sensation, that breached trough the splitting headaches. As if chains that were holding me, were now unlocked. And than I saw the reaver. The wraith blade that was once bound to me, was infusing the sword on Kains back. And while I tasted the first bites of freedom from its grim fate, I felt a twitch of grief, for parting with it. "

They came to the oracle room

The Elder God :" Look at your self Raziel. You walk side by side with your worse enemy. Now your fate shall be no different than his. "

Raziel :" You’ve lost your power over me, you old monster. As for Kain, he is far from being my ally, but if it takes for me to stand wit him to destroy you, I shall do so gladly. "

The Elder God :" You’ve grown degenerated and seduced. Be warned; you are pacing your last steps even now. "

Raziel :" Now you listen to me, demon; If it is the last thing I do, I’ll purge the world of your taint ! And when your filth is finally cleansed, only than shall I deal with Kain. It is you who is living his last hovers ! I swear it !"

Kain :" I see that your strength has returned. Come. We should be on our way. "
 
 
 
 

The sarafan stronghold
 
 

Yanoss ( VO ) :" Time has a strange sense of irony rather than justice. This fortress was once dedicated by humans in honor to us, and now it was used to house those who would purge us. But I couldn’t stop to gaze upon cruel ironies. The crowd outside was beginning to muster. Voradors time has grown dangerously short. "

Yanoss finds his way to a room where some mercenaries are discussing.

First guard :" The people are getting restless. Everything is prepared, and the executions still don’t start. "

Second guard :" We can’t wait for lord Moebius anymore. "

Captain :" He said that he’ll be back. He was never wrong about the future before. "

Second guard :" We have waited long enough. He’d want us not to tarry. The undead scourge must end tonight. "

Captain :" Very veal. We shall perform it without him. "

Yanoss ( VO ) :" It seems that I’ve come just in time. "

He glides down, and is noticed by one of the soldiers

Soldier :" What ?! It can’t be ! You are dead, monster !"

Yanoss :" I don’t want to harm you human. Don’t try to stop me, I beg you. "

Soldier :" Sound the alarm ! Vampire ! Vampire !"

Yanoss :" I’m sorry. "

He knocks the soldier out, and flees the room. Yanoss makes his way to the roof that overlooks the town square below. 

Yanoss :"They all came to see this foul unjust act. It was tragic that they have become so bloodthirsty. The curse was meat for us, not for them. "

Yanoss ( VO ) :" I had to wait for them to bring Vorador forth. If I’d moved now, there would be chance that they lead him away before I could reach him. I prayed that it be soon, for these horrible murders were only worthy of the hylden. "

As Yanoss waits horrified, people are cheering with each vampire they kill, and in the end, they bring Vorador.

Yanoss ( VO ) :" At last I saw him being led chained to the guillotine. I had to time this just right…"

Captain :" Here is the last monster ! They shall plague us no more ! Nosgoth is free tonight ! "

The crowd :" Kill him ! "

The crowd :" Long live Moebius !"

The crowd :" Free us all !"

They unchain Vorador, and place him on the machine

Captain :" Tonight your soul is released vampire to the more blessed realms. Let it be done !"

Vorador suddenly smiles happily. He starts laughing so loud, the crowd and the mercenary troops still them selves shocked. Suddenly, Yanoss descends from the night, tearing the guillotine apart. 

Yanoss :" No ! You shall not claim his life in this crime !"

The crowd :" It’s the fiend Yanoss coming back to haunt us !"

The crowd :" He’ll kill us all !"

The crowd :" Aahh ! Run for your lives !"

The crowd :" save the children !"

Vorador :" My sire, you live !"

Yanoss :" Not now Vorador. We must flee. "

Captain :" No ! You are going nowhere ! I’ll kill you my self if I have to ! Guards ! Guards ! "

Yanoss grabs Vorador and fly away with him, while the men below are trying to shoot them down with arrows and magic.
 
 
 
 

The cemetery
 
 

Yanoss and Vorador land. 

Vorador :" My sire, forgive me. They killed you, and I was not there to aid you. "

Yanoss :" Don’t blame your self, Vorador. Had you’ve bean there, your fate would be even worse than mine, for you wouldn’t be alive today. "

Vorador :" Sire… I sense two others approaching… Raziel and another…An ancient vampire…"

Soon after, Raziel and Kain appear before them

Yanoss :" Welcome both of you, especially you Raziel. It is good to see you safe. "

Vorador :" Kain ? Is that you ? But how ?"

Raziel :" No ! I’ve bean dragged out of the oblivion yet again, and I ask my questions first; Yanoss, what am I ? A vampire or the hylden champion ?"

Yanoss :" I… don’t know. "

Raziel :" What ?!"

Yanoss :" I can only start at the beginning…

Eons ago, long before my creation, our winged race descended from the sky, and settled in Nosgoth. We took the role of its guardians and protectors, and we aided the other races, especially humans who we were most fond of. We instructed them in many arts and skills. We even taught them how to master some magical energies. We were not immortal, but in this laid our divinity; when we would grow too very, we would abandon our flesh and passed in to a realm where all souls go after death. There we could restore our self on the ethereal winds, and there we could breed with our mates bringing new members of our kind to life, creating them using other mortal souls there. That is why we took care of other life. Their souls were the building blocs of our children. "

Raziel :" The spirit realm ! Than I must be the vampire champion !"

Yanoss :" Not quite, Raziel; you see, not even in the spirit realm did we fed on other souls. We used them to make new vampires of them, but we didn’t devour them. "

Kain :" Let me guess; it was than, that the hylden came. "

Yanoss :" From the depths of the earth did they crawl, our great enemy. Their power was great, and it was them that fed on the souls of others, increasing their power and prolonging their lives to immortality. 

And so we set on a war against them, a terrible war that lasted for nearly a thousand years, but for all that time nether side was able to get a clear victory. In our anger and lust for triumph, we’ve all caused much destruction, and the humans begun to fear us as well as the hylden. It was in that time, that I was born. "

Vorador :" And it was than that he found me, after I lost my family in one such battle. Yanoss felt responsible for me, and has taken me in. Over time I forgave him for destruction he and his kind caused, and started to see him as my foster father. He taught me many arts, but I was most skilled with a hammer and a forge…"

Yanoss :" Your craftsmanship was even better than our own, and your weapons were highly regarded even amongst the enemy side. But it was still not enough to win. 

And so it was that the nine greatest of us, and my self, gathered in the vampire citadel, and devised a weapon that shall bring us our long desired triumph. "

Vorador :" Yanoss came to me, and gave me instructions of how to forge this item. I worked restlessly for tree days and nights, and finally I presented the twisted blade of the reaver. "

Yanoss :" This work was far beyond all your crafts, and the nine placed a powerful magic on the sword. The hylden were soul devourers, but they were flesh, and they stored this energy in their precious life blood. We infused the blade with vampiric energy making it hunger for the blood of our foes, and at the same time, rendering its wilder invincible. "

Raziel :" That is why the blade is trying to destroy me ! And that is why everyone confuse me with the hylden ! Because I feed on souls too !"

Yanoss :" Mine was the honor to take the reaver into battle. With such weapon on our side, the tide of victory turned to our favor, but than we learned that they were constructing their own weapon. A huge device beneath the earth, that was suppose to purge all other life from the land, and supply them with an infinite amount of souls to feed. "

Kain :" Of course ; the device ! "

Raziel :" You know of it ?"

Kain :" I’ve destroyed it once before. It was hardly finished though. "

Yanoss :" We couldn’t allow it to be. We gathered again and it was then that we made the deal of the binding;

The nine made a pact with the elements that sustained the fragile balance of Nosgoth. They gave their eternal service, and in return we asked that all souls be placed under protection from hyldens hunger. In response, Nosgoth itself raised the pillars, and it was up to me, to perform the honor, to receive the blessing of the balance guardian, take the reaver to the lock of the worlds, and with it place a seal to this deal. "

Raziel :" And so you’ve banished them and they cursed you, turning you into immortal beasts, denying you the spirit realm. "

Yanoss :" Yeas. We didn’t saw such blow coming. We were in the middle of a celebration, when we started to change. In agony, we turned to the force we summoned in pillars, but our prayers were in vain. Even the guardians were now just beasts, and unfit to serve their purpose. Our god became silent. All we could do was to take our own lives, and the lives of the human born vampires that came after the nine, to take their place. The wheal had to turn. "

Kain :" And than Moebius and Mortanius led the rebellion, overthrowing you, and claiming the pillars for the human race. "

Yanoss :" Due to our transformation, and the humans fear and fouls beliefs, the force we summoned in the pillars became strange and alien to us, bent on our destruction. The future became predestined, destiny became unavoidable. And the souls that were supposed to be protected, were now shackled to the never ending agony of birth death and rebirth. "

Raziel :" Thus the Elder God was made. How cunning of the hylden to use your own god against you. "

Yanoss :" If we could re perform the binding in that point it would save us all, but it had to be performed by a pyre and un cursed vampire, with the original guardians by his side, and with the blessing of the of the balance guardian. There was one spark of hope in our agony. Templas Redien, the guardian of time forsaw your coming, Raziel. And we build the forges to help you infuse the reaver with the souls of the nine. "

Raziel :" So, I’m to perform the binding again, and I can’t even hold the blade. "

Yanoss :" Yes, for you are tainted by your soul lust. The only thing I could think of, is that your creation was left somehow incomplete, and than infused in the body of a cursed vampire that you were. We must find some way to make you whole. "

Raziel :" On the way here, Kain told me how the Unspoken possessed the body of his young self and fled with his reaver. Could he be planning to use this device you’ve mentioned ? "

Kain :" If you’ve listened before, you’d knew that it’s incomplete. "

Vorador :" And what if they’ve completed it in the realm of their exile, and now simply transport everything they need here ? This device is still a powerful hand to be played against us. "

Kain :" It won’t meter anyway, for I shall go and destroy it right now. "

Raziel :" You shouldn’t go alone. One of us should come with you. "

Kain :" My blood is a poison for the very life of this device. And you need to find a way to make Raziel fit for binding. I hold the reaver now. Nothing, not even the Unspoken, can stop me. "

Raziel :" But the reaver isn’t yours, Kain. "

Kain :" O, if you think that it’s yours now, take it. But I won’t save you again. "

He offers the hilt to Raziel with a smile

Kain :" I didn’t think so. "

Raziel :" You are afraid, that if the unspoken is there in your younger self, we could kill it and undo your existence !"

Yanoss :" The hylden lord shall be waiting you. If you can’t trust us, who can you trust ?"

Kain :" My self ! I shall return when the device is destroyed. "

He shifts in bat form

Yanoss :" Has he always bean this… difficult ?"

Raziel :" You have no idea. "
 
 
 
 

The pillars 
 
 

Yanoss :" Dear god !"

The pillars laid toppled in ruin that young Kain had left them in

Raziel :" We’ll find a way to rebuild them Yanoss. "

Yanoss :" Many sad sights have I seen trough the ages, but this…"

Vorador :" Raziel is right; we mustn’t loose hope now. "

Yanoss :" I’m… sorry. I’ll be fine. We must find some way to complete Raziels transformation. "

Vorador :" I might know someone who could possibly help. A witch that dates back to the days of war. "

Yanoss :" No Vorador ! I know who you speak of, and I forbid it ! That creature was not meant to be. She is twisted, and not to be trusted. "

Vorador :" But sire, I saved her life from the sarafan. She owes me a favor. "

Raziel :" If she could ended help what choice do we have. We shouldn’t dismiss the smallest chance. "

Yanoss :" So be it than. I can’t go against you boat. You and Vorador should go to her than. But be ware; she is not our ally yet. I shall stay here, and wait for your return. "

Vorador :" We shall be back as soon as possible. "
 
 
 
 
 
 

The canyons
 
 

Raziel ( VO ) :" This part of Nosgoth belonged to the clan of my former brother Turel. Strange that he never mentioned the witches home or her. Perhaps he didn’t know about it, or perhaps he took these parts of the land too late. "

Vorador :" Raziel ? Are you alright ?"

Raziel :" I’m hungry… I need souls to feed. "

Vorador :" Don’t be ashamed of what you are. Go to the spirit realm and feed. "

Raziel :" No ! I won’t go back to him… And I’m not sure that I would return from there. "

Vorador :" You will. I believe you’ll find a way… Raziel; I have never thanked you for restoring Yanoss back to life. "

Raziel :" I didn’t do it for you Vorador. "

Vorador :" But you did do it. And I thank you. Now go. "

Raziel ( VO ) :" Once again I found my self in the spectral realm. I’ve almost begun to think of it as my dungeon, now that the wraith blade was removed from me. But this time it was different. The slaughts, I’ve noticed, weren’t so unorganized. It seemed like they were preparing for something… "

Raziel watches a group of wraiths, passing trough an omnibus ring to a material realm.

Raziel ( VO ) :" So, it seemed that my former master was growing nervous, when he would send spirits to do his work for him. He was colonizing his troops. "

The Elder God :" Welcome back Raziel ! You’ve returned home ! "

Raziel :" Where are you ? Show your self !"

The Elder God :" Here, there, everywhere… I am the still master of this realm, even though your actions lead to its destruction. "

Raziel :" It seams to me that it still stands, only more free of your influence. What are you trying to accomplish by sending local beings into the material world ?"

The Elder God :" It matters not Raziel, since I’m going to insure that you stay here forever. "

Raziel :" You want to avail us, don’t you ? And when we’re all dead, you think that you’ll be able to rebuild your wheal. "

The Elder God :" The wheal MUST turn, Raziel. "

Raziel :" Because the binding demands it. How could you ever grow so strange and ruthless towards the ancient vampires ? Was it just because you couldn’t stand the fact that it was them who originally summoned you ?"

The Elder God :" What once was, is no more, and shall never be again. All vampires are beasts, and they must be purged from this world to save its fragile balance they’ve disrupted. You were supposed to do this task, but you’ve gone astray. You are a failed creation. "

Raziel :" Than it is your failure; You couldn’t make just an un cursed vampire, nor just a hylden, because you were made by both of their strongest powers ; the vampire binding, and the hylden curse. So you’ve made me something in between. "

The Elder God :" It was not a failure ! It was cunning as wheal as efficient, until you disobeyed me. Now you’ll perish by my will as you were made ! My minions shall return your soul and than the souls of your new allies, to what little is left of the wheal. "

Raziel ( VO ) :" As I neared that arcane landmark that once drawn my soul back, I begun to wonder if it could provide me with a passage back to the material realm. "

Raziel fights with slaught, and before he devours him, he grabs it in his stasis field.

Raziel ( VO ) :" The slaught could indeed use the landmark to enter the material realm. Perhaps I could use him. "

Raziel possesses the slaught, and easily reenters the material realm. The slaught disperses leaving Raziel whole and restored. There Vorador is fighting the other wraiths. Raziel jumps to his aid.

Raziel :" It seems that the Underworld has bean unleashed up on us. Our enemies have multiplied. "

Vorador :" What manner of a god would allow fallen spirits to walk the world of flesh again ? The witches home is this way. "

Raziel ( VO ) :" Now I understood how Turel missed this place. The house was made like an abandoned human home. It seemed so unimportant, that even I would do the same by bypassing it. "

Vorador :" Listen closely now what I have to tell ; This creature emerged during the time of the last battle, but in that time, she was most neutral, and stood on nether side at all. Above all else she values her peace, and she won’t be pleased by our intrusion. "

Raziel :" What powers did she developed over the ages ? "

Vorador :" None but her can tell you that, but you needn’t worry about it. Unlike us, she rarely uses them. "

They enter the cottage. 

Vorador :" I sense you are here. Show your self Karella !"

A voice descends from the boards above

Karella :" The great Vorador comes at last. And with you you’ve broth that creature Raziel, to see me ?"

Raziel :" At least I’ve come before you openly, and didn’t hide from your face as you do from mine ! "

Karella :" All ready you insult me, and you expect my aid. That is why you’ve sought me out ? Yeas, I taught so…" 

She comes down the stairs and her sight amazed Raziel

Karella :" You are a head taller than I expected you would be, Vorador. "

Vorador :" It seems that the time for the unexpected things is up on us. "

Karella :" That’s the problem, isn’t it; now I can only see the sparks of future. And I imagine that you have something to do with it. "

Vorador :" Don’t blame us for your problems. You still owe me your life, and that is hard to put aside next to anything else any of us did to you. "

Karella :" Come now Vorador. You know I pay my debts… You ! Raziel; come closer, to take a better look at you…"

As Raziel approaches she starts pacing around him.

Karella :" No…no that won’t do at all…If this is your stack in this game Vorador, you’re going to loose. "

Vorador :" But maybe you can enhance my odds…?"

Karella :" If I would give you what you need, it would be my undoing. And it is too late now anyway. "

Raziel :" So you do have what I need !"

Karella :" What you need is a miracle. I may not see the future clearly, but present is known to me still. And if I’d have to pick a side, I wouldn’t choose yours. "

Raziel :" Why is that. "

Karella :" Because you are about to loose the scion of balance. "

Raziel :" Kain !? Damn it ! Where is the device which ?!"

Karella :" Seek it far in the east, in the hearth of the city called Meridian. I could gladly transport you there Raziel, for a price; that you never come to me again !"

Raziel :" Not as long as you hold the answers I seek. "

Raziel shifts into the spirit realm

Karella :" Wheal now… It seems that this discussion is reduced to just you and me Vorador. "

Vorador :" Do you honestly think that your mothers cousins shall treat you with respect after all that transgressed ? "

Karella :" Sorry Vorador. I’ll return your debt when you are truly in need. "
 
 
 
 

The device
 
 

Kain ( VO ) :" Once more I found myself in this huge machine. The hylden stashed a gigantic creature with enormous telepathic powers, but an animal mind, with in it; the mass. They meant to attune its mind to kill any living thing in Nosgoth except for them. But they needed a web of conductors, placed like a network, to channel its power into the land it self. This ruin won’t be operational for the next four hundred years. When I first entered, I found Yanoss right here in this chamber devolved into a monster. But now it was empty. Like the rest of this place. "

Revnant :" Welcome Kain, deliverer of doom, betrayer of death, and a cursed soul. "

Kain :" What’s this ? A walking corpse blocking my way ? who’s the real cursed soul of us two ?"

Revnant :" I was much more once vampire. Now I’m reduced to this ! But I do not regret, for I get a chance to face you. Watch me and tremble !"

Upon defeating the revnant

Kain ( VO ) :" It seamed that it was not deserted like I first taught. This corpse was no doubt infused with the soul of a hylden. My enemy was close. "

Upon facing a group of hylden working on some devices

Kain ( VO ) :" This must have bean the control room, but now it fell in ruin. Perhaps I could use it to clear my path. "

He pushes some buttons and reveals a chamber holding a revnant that is being drained.

Kain :" And here is how they want to get this machine working. "

The Builder :" Wh…What ? Who approaches me ?"

Kain :" You don’t know me yet hylden, but I do know you. "

The Builder :" The… The vampire. Here… You killed my cousins… He-he-HA ! You are here to undo… my creation ? He-he. In wane is your quest. Even though I would fall, dozens… shall rise to take my place. "

Kain :" So the Unspoken has released you from the Eternal Prison, and made you in a revnant to drain your blood for the device. "

The Builder :" Yeasss ! Soon my torments shall be, at last, over… and all that’s left of your race shall be undone. You are …powerless to stop the power of my creation… vampire. It is eternal and indestructible. "

Kain :" You have suffered for untold centuries because you created this weapon, and still your only hope is to see it work. "

The Builder :" I suffer no longer vampire… my lord has redeemed me…I am The Builder… again… and I shall give my life for your death. "

Kain :" I hold your life now. "

He brakes the chamber with the reaver. But he doesn’t strike the Builder down. Kain cuts his wrist and spills some of his blood on the floor.

The Builder :" NO ! It’s impossible ! "

Kain :" After all your torment you still haven’t learned. I condemn you now, to live ! You are going to continue to suffer in the depths of the Eternal Prison, knowing that the cause of your pain is dead. "

The Builder :" No ! I am free…I was free ! I was …."

Kain planer shifts him away

Kain finds his way to a system that is supplying the lower chambers with big green canisters

Kain ( VO ) :" The hylden had to train the mass to spare them of their powers. To feed the mass below, they used cursed blood of the elder races transferred trough this system. But what if I’d add some of my one I could foul the whole dish. "

After he pores a few drops of his blood into one barrel that is ready to enter the locked chamber, the machines stop and the locked dour open. Kain enters the cavern

Kain ( VO ) :" It’s even uglier than I remember. Surrounded by its tentacles and the device connections laid the monstrous creature, powerful enough to wipe out the entire world, if motivated properly. And while I despised it, I had to pause for a moment to admire its potential and power. "

Kain finds his younger self above the giant mass.

Hash’ak’gik :" Welcome Kain. It took you a while. "

Kain :" I suppose that you were expecting me all along ?"

Hash’ak’gik :" I did. It was inevitable… For my amusement, I’ve prepared a few surprises for you…( Ugh ) "

Young Kain :" …Listen to me ! He wants the reaver ! You mustn’t… ( Rarg )!"

Hash’ak’gik :" Enough ! In your madness you are strong. But not stronger than me !"

Kain :" Let’s put it to the test. "

He pulls the reaver out

Hash’ak’gik :" Ha, Ha, Ha ! You can’t win this battle Kain ! "

Kain :" But you can loose !"

They fight, and after Kain knocks him down, he grabs him in a telekinetic grip and holds him over the fence.

Young Kain :" No ! Listen to me; If you do this he wins anyway !"

Hash’ak’gik :" You’re not going to kill me, are you Kain ? I’ve just grown comfortable within your heart !"

Kain :" Killing is to simple fate for one such as you. I’m going to beat you out, right after I kill the mass one final time !"

Hash’ak’gik :" You fool. Still you don’t understand. I knew all along you’ll find your way here. I even brought the Builder to wheedle you down here to me…"

Kain :" …So that you could take the reaver of binding ?! Don’t make me laugh demon. I have you in the palm of my hand. And now, witness how I undo your corruption once and for all ! "

He turns around and walks to the feeding hole of the mass.

Hash’ak’gik :" This must bring back memories, doesn’t it Kain ? And in that honor, I’ve brought another old acquaintance of yours. "

Suddenly, Kain is struck from behind by a blow of yellow lightning, and he falls on the floor, dropping the reaver. As he turns around, he is kicked over the fence by a leg in a golden armor, and he falls to the bottom of the pit. The hylden lord tosses the blood reaver down with him, and takes up the reaver of binding.

Hash’ak’gik :" Sorry Kain, but you’ve lost after all. "

Kain grabs the reaver, and spots an elevator coming down to him. A figure in a golden armor and a purple cloak steps before him. His head is shrouded by green flames.

Kain :" You ?!"

The Sarafan Lord :" You meet with me again vampire, as I am told. You’ve defeated me before, they say. But now you are at my mercy. "

Kain :" If you think that you’re going to best me, you are deadly wrong. The odds were much more on your side back then, and now you don’t even have the soul reaver. "

The Sarafan lord :" But do I have something else. "

He takes up his sword and it starts to burn with blood-read flame

Kain :" The flaming sword ! So you were the hylden champion all along !"

The Sarafan lord :" Gaze upon the Doomsayer Kain; the sword of the hylden race ! In it we forged our hate for you, and our lust for revenge ! Let’s try these odds, dark one !"

They fight on the upper levels, but with the Doomsayer, the Sarafan Lord is invincible, and Kain looses near the feeding shaft of the mass.

The Sarafan Lord :" You were a challenge Kain. Your death shall be celebrated as my great victory !"

Suddenly, Kain throws the reaver pass the Sarafan Lord, and Raziel catches it behind him.

Raziel :" Now you try your sword on me !"

The Sarafan Lord :" You shouldn’t have meddled in this meter boy. Wait your turn. "

But Kain pores his blood into the feeding shaft, and planer shifts behind Raziel

Kain :" Do me a favor Raziel, and try not to kill him just yet. He and I will need to finish this between us. "

He leaves them to fight, and Raziel throws the Sarafan Lord into the feeding shaft

The mass starts to tremble and bursts. Raziel flees, and in that moment trough the skin of the giant creature, the blade of the Doomsayer emerges and cuts trough it.

Outside, Raziel catches up with Kain. When Kain sees him with the reaver, Raziel puts the blade under his troth.

Raziel :" I’ve waited over five centuries for this moment ! "

Kain :" Savor it than. You might not get a second chance…"

After a while, Raziel puts the reaver down. Kain is vividly relived 

Raziel :" I assume that you’ve lost the other reaver ?"

Kain :" Yeas. I won’t hide my failure. All that you’ve worked and died for is now in the hands of our enemy. "

Raziel :" Come. We have to regroup. "
 
 
 
 

The pillars
 
 

Raziel ( VO ) :" This time, I held the reaver that was forged for me indeed. The blade made my energy full the whole time, and healed all my wounds instantly. I wasn’t bonded to this blade and I could release it when I wanted, but none but me could part us. And I felt I could also shift into the spirit realm with it. This sword was to my liking. "

Kain :" Yanoss we have a problem. "

Vorador :" And you are that problem Kain. "

Kain :" What ?"

Yanoss :" The pillars buzz with tales of your future deeds, the waistland world you came from, even your crimes towards Raziel. You aren’t worthy to perform the role of the balance guardian ! "

Kain :" Like it or not, I am the scion of balance, and you have none other for that role !"

Vorador :" And now because of your arrogance, we’ve lost the reaver of binding ! Who knows what monstrosity the unspoken has in stored for us now ?"

Kain :" I won’t defend or explain my actions to anyone here ! No one shall lecture me about conscience ! The gravity of choice I’ve endured than when choice was a privilege, was to much for anyone to shoulder alone ! Where were you than, Yanoss ? Where was your philosophy than, Vorador ?"

Yanoss :" Nothing could justify your crimes Kain. But above all else, your crimes to Raziel. How could you destroy him like you did ? You are twisted and insane !"

Raziel :" Enough ! We have enough foes right now, without fighting amongst ourselves. Kain deserves all this, but now is not the time. "

Vorador :" How can you even think of standing by his side ? "

Yanoss :" I didn’t expected such attitude from you, after all that he put you trough. "

Kain :" It came as a surprise to me as well. "

Raziel :" There is one thing alone that can give him slight excuse; Did the pillars told you of Nupraptors madness ?"

Vorador :" Nupraptor went insane, and died like the rest of the circle. End of the story !"

Raziel :" No ! He was the source of this taint, and from him it polluted the minds of others, and corrupted the pillars. When Kain refused the sacrifice, preserving the vampire race and the binding, he simultaneously accepted Nupraptors taint as well ! That is the only thing that can justify his madness, because he was forced into it !"

Yanoss :" I…should have known…that you would be a reflection of the toppled pillar…"

Kain :" Nice speech Raziel. But I won’t stand here, accused for something that I didn’t yet do. Since no one here thinks I’m worthy of your company, I’ll go fix this matter myself if I have to !"

He shifts in a bat form and flies away

Raziel :" Kain ! Wait ! Damn it !"

Yanoss :" I’m sorry Raziel. It seems that I expected too much of both of you. "

Raziel :" It wasn’t a mistake. I bet I know who told you about the meter. And now we’ve lost the scion of balance and the reaver of binding both. "

Karella :" But you haven’t lost all yet. "

Yanoss :" Be gone creature ! I will have noting to do with you. "

Karella :" I didn’t come here to deal with you personally vampire. I offer aid when you need it the most. "

Vorador :" I will listen to you Karella. Especially if you offer a way to make Raziel fit for his task. "

Yanoss :" No, don’t listen to her, please. Her existence is blight upon the nature itself. It is an embarrassment and shame of our race to …"

Karella :" Go ahead and say it. "

Raziel :" Say what ? What is it about her that gives you such shame Yanoss ?"

Karella :" It is too bitter for him to roll it over his tong. The fact that my parents were members of two different races. "

Vorador :" Her mother was the hylden, and her father was Templas Redien, the original guardian of time. That is why she had the sight trough the mists of time. "

Raziel :" Is such a thing even possible ?"

Yanoss :" It was the ultimate shame on both races. But it was known only after the guardians took their lives. Templas hid his shame, and escaped with it to death. Had it bean known earlier, he would have bean replaced. "

Karella :" And when the curse stroke you, it afflicted my vampire half as well. "

Raziel :" So the banishment eluded you, but not the curse. And you have more reason to hate the hylden than vampires. " 

Karella :" As far as I’m concern, I’m even with all of you. "

Vorador :" You’re not even with me yet. "

Karella :" That is why I’ve come now, to return the favor to you Vorador. I have an advice of how to defeat the hylden lord, though it’s a long shot. "

Raziel :" Let’s hear it. "

Karella :" The flesh of your enemy can’t enter this world, but their souls can abandon it, and find their way here trough the spectral realm. "

Vorador :" We already know this. That was how the unspoken possessed young Kain. "

Karella :" But what nether of you knows yet, is that the binding is weakened enough for the body of their lord to pass as well. That could relies the younger Kain of his grasp, and if you could kill him than, you would gain in time to do more. "

Raziel :" So you want me to go to the spectral realm, and from there find my way into the exile dimension. ? "

Karella :" You’ll need only to return his hart. That should be enough to drawn him together when it is placed near the vessel with his soul. If you have time to get back, that is…"

Raziel :" What do you mean ?"

Karella :" You haven’t realized yet, why the hylden lord wants the reaver ? That’s the best part of his plan ! He’ll do to you what you did to him. "

Yanoss :" What ! No that can’t be. To banish us, and relies his kind into the land ? But it isn’t possible…"

Karella :" He has the scion of balance, his champion, and the sword. And now he has the souls of the original guardians to bless the act. His vengeance in full measure and for all time !"

Raziel :" If what you say is true, than we must waist no more time. Yanoss, how do I find my way there ?"

Yanoss :" You don’t have to do this Raziel. There must be another way. "

Raziel :" He holds all of the cards now. We must gain a new hand. Tell me how to breach the barrier, please. "

Yanoss :" So be it. When the pillars fell down, they’ve released a powerful rift through the worlds, a rift that can transcend the barriers of time and dimension. If such a portal was formed, it could be found in the spectral realm. But I urge you Raziel, that the place of banishment is a demon dimension, the so cold third realm, where the most hideous beasts make their home. But above all else the hylden. Who knows in what way did such exile affect them. "

Raziel shifts in the spectral realm.

Vorador :" You have done my cause a great favor, Karella… What’s the meter ? It seems like you are holding something back…"

Karella :" I fear… I sense that you are going to die, and that no one will be able to save you. "

Vorador :" I can heed your warning, but I can’t stray from my path. "

Karella :" Than there is nothing more I shall give you. My debt is paid Vorador. Trouble me no more from now on. "

Yanoss :" I believe your words creature, and I … "

Karella :" Yessss…? "

Yanoss :" I… thank you for your help. "

Karella :" You are a little wiser than I imagined vampire. Good luck. You’re going need it. "
 
 
 
 

The spirit world
 
 

Raziel ( VO ) :" Strange, to have the blade of the reaver here in the spectral realm. I didn’t think that it was possible to weald objects in this world, and yet I held a sword that could still give me to my doom. Despite the absence of the wraith blade, I still felt the reavers hostility towards me. I hoped to remain on its good side…"

The Elder Good :" You come to annoy me with your presence again Raziel ?"

Raziel :" You already know why I’m here. "

The Elder Good :" Aaaa, but things aren’t going so swimmingly now, are they. Kain went into his own arrogant mission, and you are going into the world from which you won’t return. "

Raziel :" It was you who told Yanoss and Vorador about Kains derelict empire. "

The Elder Good :" As a god, Raziel, I am compelled to tell the truth. "

Raziel :" If you were a god, you wouldn’t have to resolve to such trickery, parasite. "

The Elder Good :" Your insults are in vain Raziel. The fact remains that you are on the loosing side…"

Raziel ( VO ) :" It seems that my parasite host wanted to prevent me from doing anything other than feeding. But I had other plans… "

Raziel ( VO ) :" The soul of the hylden hovered before me, obviously displeased by my presence. I was close to the rift. "

Upon finding the rift

Raziel ( VO ) :" This must have bean the passage to the third realm. It seamed like a crack in the horizon itself. But it showed no sign of what lies on the other side. I had to find some way to reach there. "

Upon reaching the rift

The Elder Good :" Be wary Raziel. The world on the other side is forbidden to you. What you may find there may affect you in ways you can not imagine. "

Raziel :" Once more you greet me as I flee from your voice. This time it will be the last. "

He jumps trough the rift
 
 
 
 

The third realm
 
 

Raziel ( VO ):" I emerged, and found my self in a plane that was clearly parallel to ours. It resembled the spectral realm, except that it was demonically deformed. Steaming lava was poring trough the cracks in every object, and instead of the sky, swirled an ominous looking mist. It was clearly a home of the most hellish creatures. "

Raziel ( VO ):" As I stepped to the clearing, I took a good look of this place. I barely recognized the stronghold of the Sarafan order, twisted and molded together with a lake of mud. This place was parallel to Nosgoth just like the spirit realm, except that it was toned in flame and smoke rather than blue spirits. But still no sign of anyone or anything that would point me in the right direction…"

Upon arriving at the pillars

Raziel ( VO ):" Like in the spectral realm, these pillars were unaltered by the nature that shaped this world. But despite their similarity they gave away a different aura. As if they were trying to force me away. "

Raziel :" Show yourself creature. You’ve hound my steps long enough !"

Demon :" You are trespassing on a forbidden grounds. ( Snif ) I smell them on you…Did the masters send you to take my place ?" 

Raziel :" None is my master. "

Demon :" Than you are an interloper… and all interlopers must die…"

Raziel fights the demons, and is victorious 

Raziel ( VO ):" This demon was a guard. Now I knew that I was going the right way. But what was it that he smelled on me. Could it be my likeness to the hylden ? Maybe it was something more. "

As Raziel climbs the cliff he gazes at the city below

Raziel ( VO ):" This was the first thing that couldn’t be found in any other realm. Built out of the hardened lava, berried deep in the rocks and soil, were buildings and homes for the long banished foe of the vampires. The mighty hylden were now in the scraps of existence, pushed away in the last corner of the world. I could understand now their lust for revenge. "

Hylden guard :" Whatsss thisss ?! You have the sword ?! A vampire walks amongst usss ! "

Raziel :" You can’t stand against me hylden. Do you so wish to die ?"

Hylden guard :" Death is welcome in this place… You shall soon learn it. "

Raziel fights the incoming hylden, and prevails 

Raziel ( VO ) :" I sensed the reaver hum with satisfaction as the hylden fell before me. And suddenly I realized that I’ve gained back the powers of the dark reaver. In time, I would gain all of the elements back, but they would not be infusing the reaver, they would be mine dark gifts. But the hylden that I’ve killed, acted as if I reliesed them. Was this plane rely such a torment for them, or did they hated the vampires so, to throw themselves in to oblivion for that ?"

Raziel ( VO ) :" At last the gate was opened to me, and with great caution I entered the hylden city. I hoped to find the body of their lord soon. "
 
 
 
 

Avernus cathedral
 
 

The Sarafan Lord :" This is where it’s going to land. In moments the portal will open. "

Hash’ak’gik :" If it is as powerful as you say. "

The Sarafan Lord :" Don’t worry my lord. Whit this last item, nothing will be able to stop us. And the cursed sword shall be mine. "

Young Kain :" Not if I can help it !"

He swings the reaver to the Sarafan Lord, but he blocks, and Hash’ak’gik returns again

Hash’ak’gik :" Bravo, my host ! A most worthy effort… only it won’t meter soon. You will take our place, and we shall be the ones to restore balance. The task you weren’t fit for from the start. "

The Sarafan Lord :" There ! The portal opens !"

They stand before the opened portal, and trough it a precious dark green stone in gold medallion comes trough. It hovers towards the Sarafan lord’s hand, but suddenly a horde of black bats flies between him and the portal. The stone is gone, and Kain forms out of bats on the upper level of the cathedral. In his claw is the stone. He places it around his neck.

Kain :" It IS gratifying to obtain so much in a single stroke. "

Hash’ak’gik :" You ! How did you know… ( UGH ) !"

Young Kain :" I told him… Or better yet, he remembered ! Your plans aren’t going so flawless after all ! I’ll…( ACK ) !"

Hash’ak’gik :" I have had enough of your meddling, vampire !"

He fires a bolt of energy from the reaver, but it hits an invisible barrier just before Kain and dissolves.

Kain :" I guess that now you know that the nexus stone does work. How fitting that your own craft is in my hands now, after your theft. "

Hash’ak’gik :" Kill him ! That stone is the only thing that can enable you to hold the reaver ! He mustn’t escape with it !"

The Sarafan Lord :" You aren’t safe yet dark one ! Doomsayer still hungers for your flesh ! "

The Sarafan Lord shoots lightning out of the doomsayer, and Kain must dodge them. 

The Sarafan Lord :" Your time has come dark one ! "

The Sarafan Lord :" You can’t escape me !"

The Sarafan Lord :" I shall fest on your soul !"

Finally, the Sarafan Lord planershifts up, and Kain collapses the roof, damaged from the lightnings, on top of him with his telekinetic powers. The upper level crumbles down with him, berrying him below the rocks. Kain jumps down.

Hash’ak’gik :" The fool ! You haven’t won yet Kain ! This sword still makes me immune to your harm. My own power is enough to defeat you. I’ll give you thousands of tiny wounds until you beg for mercy !" 

Kain :" As much as I’d love to see you try, I must go. I have some things to take care of. But don’t worry; well meet again soon !"

He planershifts away. The rocks on the floor start to shake and crumble. The Sarafan Lord brakes out 

The Sarafan Lord :" RAAAHH !!! Where is he !!!"

Hash’ak’gik :" He’s gone, you fool ! Get after him !"

The Sarafan Lord :" I’ll tear him apart ! Do you hear me Kain ?! I’ll tear you apart !"

Kain ( VO ) :" I felt low for fleeing the battle, and resolving to steeling. Such things were completely below me. But I swallowed my pride, and as a result I once more held the nexus stone. The hylden enchanted this item with power to open portals and doorways to the most distant locations, and above all else, they made this stone as the complete protection from the reaver. In Raziels hands, this item could prove quite useful. "

The revenant :" Kain ! You’ve reached the end of the road ! Hand over the nexus stone !"

Kain :" I do not like the blood of moldy corpses, but I’ll make an exception in your case. "

Kain ( VO ) :" It seems that the whole hylden force on earth was after me. I liked those odds !"

Kain reaches the pillars, and the Sarafan lord blocks his path

The Sarafan Lord :" Come to me Kain ! You have nowhere to run anymore !"

Kain :" It’s not healthy to keep getting in my way ! you should have lerned this by now !"

The Sarafan Lord :" You dare, puny creature, to toss insults in my face ?"

Kain :" Puny creature ?! That’s it ! You have crossed the line, demon ! I’ll make you regret you’ve ever set foot in this world !"

The Sarafan Lord :" Ha, ha, ha ! You fool ! Do you not realize that I am beyond your powers ?"

Kain :" You overblown demon spawn ! You are unworthy to pick my teeth on you ! I have crushed you before, and I shall do so again !"

The Sarafan Lord :" …I’ll teach you some respect !"

They fight. Kain is forced to dodge and block, but he uses his emaolate ability, and hurts the Sarafan Lord considerably. Of course, he heals instantly, but the pain knocks him down on the ground.

Kain :" You’re a degenerate remain of a demon race, nothing more than lying, deceitful, thieving, monstrosity ! Those are the right tools for you; the tools of week and incompetent ! I’ll make sure that you and all your kin be exiled as you deserve ! "

The Sarafan Lord :" I won’t take your arrogance anymore ! RAAAHH !"

He charges at Kain with the doomsayer, but Kain uses the nexus stone to open a portal. The Sarafan Lord brashly runs in, and is transported away

Kain ( VO ) :" This was not a victory, just a mockery, but I could not help but laugh. Arrogance was indeed a powerful enemy, if not welded by someone stronger. A pity that I didn’t have the means to kill him yet. I’ll be sure to get some soon. But what’s important was that the nexus stone was now in my hands, and their plans to perform their own binding were lost… for now. "

Kain reaches the time streaming chamber in the swamp

Kain ( VO ) :" Moebiusses chronoplast chamber. This was useless like the others. But now with the stone, perhaps I could use it to get to Raziel, if he was where I taught he was…"

As he approaches the door, the voice of the Elder God bubbles trough the pound in one hidden pool behind him.

The Elder God :" Clever, Kain ! You hope to master the powers of this ruin, to find your way into the demon dimension… But with this risk you are swaying the odds to the other side. If you should die there, it would be a bad thing…"

Kain :" At least I’ll be rid of your irritating voice. Is there nothing that will silence you for good ?"

The Elder God :" When you end up trapped on the other side, you’ll never hear my voice again. "

Kain :" You should know by now that I don’t fall for your tricks. But you’ve told me exactly what I wanted to know. Raziel is there, or you wouldn’t even bother to speak to me right now. "

Kain takes a pebble and drops it in the pound in an insulting manner, and than brakes the door open and enters the chamber

The Elder God :" Ohh ! By all means, go there Kain ! What ever gave you the idea that I am trying to prevent you ? But remember; where ever you die, I’ll be there to claim your wretched soul. "

Kain finds the control room

Kain ( VO ) :" This was truly a ruin. All the power was extinguished, and the magic that infused this place, gone. I hope that I can still find some use of it. "

Kain has to reassemble the broken chamber 

Kain ( VO ) :" At last it was finished. The power surged from the nexus stone, and opened a rift in the time portal. This should provide for my needs. "

Hash’ak’gik :" Thank you Kain, for doing my work for me ! Now my forces can com trough. An army such as this soft world has newer seen, and you’ve unleashed it. "

Kain :" This time you’ve caught me by surprise. It seams that you’ve learned how to block me from remembering your next move. "

Hash’ak’gik :" You were quite a pest in your youth. Now you both get a front road seats, for my destruction of your future !"

Just as he starts to close in on Kain, Yanoss descends from above and knocks him away. 

Yanoss :" No hylden ! I shall not allow you to claim more lives ! "

Vorador :" It seems that you are surrounded. Return my craft you stole, and we’ll kill you swiftly !"

Hash’ak’gik :" You should have stayed dead, all of you ! Take a look around you ! We won ! We hold your reaver ! We hold your scion of balance ! We hold the souls of the nine ! Take a look and see what was left of your entire cursed race !"

Yanoss :" I look and I see injustice and corruption ! You belong amongst demons and finds, hylden ! Submit to your fate and depart !"

Hash’ak’gik :" Newer ! I am a god ! I curse you all to be banished, as you’ve dared to banish ussss !"

Vorador :" Not before I banish you ! "

Vorador charges against him, but Hash’ak’gik stabs him with the reaver.

Yanoss :" NOOO !!! "

The reaver devours Voradors soul, and his body bursts away in a flash

Hash’ak’gik :" He took the easy way out ! You won’t be so lucky !"

As Yanoss and Hash’ak’gik fight, Kain grabs the nexus stone, and jumps trough the portal. Yanoss attempts to fly away, but the Sarafan Lord appears and shoots him down unconscious.

Hash’ak’gik :" You’ll live vampire… as an eternal prisoner of your own hell. "

The Sarafan Lord :" Now we can summon our forces. Even without the stone, I can use my powers to sustain this gate. "

Hash’ak’gik :" Let the armies of revenge march across this soft world. Our imprisonment is over !"
 
 
 
 

The third realm
 
 

Raziel ( VO ) :" I had no idea where to seek the hart of the hylden lord, but I didn’t loose hope. Such relic must have bean guarded in the most secured structure, and this large building appeared as such. "

Raziel ( VO ) :" The hylden, it would seam, weren’t expecting a creature that can fly, like my self, for the upper floors of the structure weren’t so strongly guarded, and were reachable to me. I had to climb higher to see if I can glide there. "

Upon entering the complex

Raziel ( VO ) :" These murals showed the history of the hylden captivity. After they’ve cursed the vampires, they enslaved the demons to use them as labor. And then when the binding was weakened enough, they started to send them trough, and have them fight their fight for revenge. But this also made the barriers of the realms fragile, and their own souls could be send trough the spectral realm to inhabit other vessels. But what was surprising, was the fact that they actually prayed to the vampires god for their freedom. I wondered what effect did such tribute cause in our world…"

Raziel finds a hole in the floor overlooking the room below. There he sees a hylden strapped to a table, and another hylden stabs him in the chest in a ritual way.

The hylden priest :" Your spirit is free to find its way to the battle field… My mistress, you shouldn’t be here yet. It isn’t your time. "

The woman :" I am not here for the relies, master Vangudh. We have an intruder infiltrated in our city. I came to join powers with you to help me find it. "

The hylden priest :" I sense that all the beasts are present… no… the sentries to the south side are missing. "

The woman :" You were to occupied in your rituals to notice. This creature is something we’ve never seen before. It moves over the walls and escapes our senses. We must join them together in order to find his soul. "

Just as they do, Raziel shifts in the spectral realm. There he finds the soul of a dead hylden drifting up

The specter hylden :" You have the sword ! You are our ancient foe !"

Raziel :" It’s a pity that you can’t tell that to the others spirit, now that you are dead. "

The specter hylden :" Take a good look at me vampire. See what you have done to usss ! See what you’ve made us do !"

Raziel :" Take a good look at me specter, and see what your curse did to me !"

Raziel tries to devour his soul, but the spectral hylden starts to change and turns into a slaught. Raziel kills him and feeds upon him.

Raziel ( VO ) :" Now I knew what these ghosts were; hylden who lost their way in the spirit realm. But as I took his soul, I sensed a powerful sense of greave and pain he bore inside. This place was the most unwelcome for their kind, and their life here was great torment to them. I almost felt sorry for their fate. "

Raziel ( VO ) :" now I understood the true nature of the hylden captivity, for not even in the spirit realm of this world were there souls to feed. Just like Yanoss said; all mortal souls were denied to them. Fortunately for me, the reaver regenerated me, but as for them, they were doomed to starvation. "

Raziel stumbles around trough the spectral realm of the demon dimension and finds himself in a pretty decorated room. He uses the ethereal gases to reenter the physical realm and finds him self in a room with the hylden woman he saw earlier. 

Raziel ( VO ) :" It seams that time in this spectral realm wasn’t frozen. "

She suddenly notices him and the reaver in his hand. She pools out her sword, the doomsayer, and bows before him.

Amara :" It is an honor to finally meat you face to face. "

Raziel :" You know who I am ?"

Amara :" You are the one destined to fight my father and destroy him, or be destroyed. "

Raziel :" So you are the daughter of the hylden that calls him self the Sarafan Lord. How com that you wield the same blade ? I had taught that there is only one such sword. "

Amara :" Questions, questions… Isn’t your sword also in other hands now. But you should be more concerned about me, for I will be your undoing. Defend yourself vampire !"

They fight, and Raziel is victorious. He throws her on the floor, and the doomsayer beside her. Suddenly, a group of hylden enters the room.

Hylden :" He is the one ! Kill him for our freedom !"

Raziel kills them all, and than devours their souls to Amaras great surprise.

Amara :" You… are not a vampire. "

Raziel :" If you want to save your soul, I suggest that you tell me where is the flesh of Hash’ak’gik. "

Amara :" I will tell you nothing creature. Kill me and take my soul. I have lost against you. I have wrought shame upon myself. "

Raziel :" There is no shame in this defeat hylden. Your life is worth just as much as it did before our fight. "

Amara :" And what is my life to you ? You have the cursed reaver. How much is a life of a hylden worth to you ? "

Raziel pause for a moment and inspects her

Raziel ( VO ) :" She was set in her beliefs that I must be destroyed and would rather end before me than indulge my questions. I had to admire their devotion. Still, she was somehow… prettier…more preserved than the rest of her kin. "

Raziel :" What is your name hylden ?"

She looks at him with her green burning eyes

Amara :" Amara’den’huor. "

Raziel :" Now your life worth a little more. "

He turns invisible and walks away.

Raziel ( VO ) :" Perhaps I’ve made a mistake by allowing her to live. She shall surely inform every hylden in this place of my presence. But a little mercy on my part made me feel uncommonly pleasant. It was something I haven’t recently experienced. "

Raziel ( VO ) :" The hylden here were somehow confused. They were running around, collecting their weapons, as if they were preparing for a sudden attack. All their race against just tree vampires in Nosgoth. Where would they stop after that ?"

Raziel finds him self in a room where some high rank hylden are discussing. He sneaks, and listens.

The first hylden :" The notice came in the worst time. We are trying to mobilize our forces, but many are unready. "

The second hylden :" Take as long as it needs. The way to freedom is now clear. "

The first hylden :" That isn’t the only thing that bothers us. One of the vampires has intruded our city. "

Raziel ( VO ) :" She’s betrayed me all ready. I have expected that much. "

The second hylden :" It is the same vampire that stole the nexus stone and opened the gate. He already killed many of our strong cousins and eluded our search. "

The third hylden :" The scion of balance is a great foe indeed. But he arrived too late to make any difference. We are ready to depart this prison. There won’t be anything for him to find, if our forces don’t get to him in the mean time. "

Raziel ( VO ) :" So Kain is here as well. And the hylden were now using the gate that he opened to march their armies of revenge all over Nosgoth. What is he thinking !?"

Raziel finds a secret passage that leads underground. 

Raziel ( VO ) :" This was surely a temple of a sorts. If the body of the Hylden lord could be found anywhere, it would be here. "

Raziel ( VO ) :" On the walls of this chapel I saw murals that depicted the life of the Hylden lord. It seems that it was he who led the other hylden from the underground to the surface of Nosgoth. And after they were banished, he and the Sarafan lord together devised the curse of bloodlust to throw on vampires. These images depicted a great ritual with the entire hylden race to participate in it. The Unspoken was also the first hylden who left his flesh and crossed over to Nosgoth. There he possessed Turel, in him traveled back in time to the last days of Ariels life, and used Mortanious as the instrument of her death. But trough these images, the Hylden lord was depicted different than the rest of his kind. "

Raziel reaches the chapel with the body of the hylden lord.

Raziel ( VO ) :" Here he was. The great Hash’ak’gik. The cause of all this painful history. Strange, that this room was not better guarded. I resolved to tread carefully…"

As he approaches the body, Amara jumps before him. Raziel razes the reaver

Raziel :" I should have known you’ll be here. And where are the others you’ve brought with you ?"

Amara :" I brought no one. I’ve come alone before you Raziel. "

Raziel :" You want to be released in death ?"

Amara :" I know who you are. And what you are. And I’ve guessed that you’ll be coming here. I want to ask you not to do this. "

Raziel :" Your please mean nothing to me. "

Amara :" You’ve seen how we live here, how much we suffer. No crime could deserve this punishment. "

Raziel :" I’ve seen the crimes of both races and yours are worse. "

Amara :" Even if they are, we have paid for them even more than they worth. We deserve to be free. Stand with us Raziel. Together, we shall feast on the souls of the ones that harmed us both. Isn’t that what you want ? Revenge for crimes against you ?"

Raziel :" Yeas… That is what I want... Perhaps you’ve paid for your past crimes, but you haven’t given up on their cause. What about the army of demons that you are mobilizing ? Is it there only as moral support ?"

Amara :" They are… the tool of our revenge. Revenge for eons of our captivity. After that, we’ll bring a new glorious age of Nosgoth. "

Raziel :" That army is going to kill the last few vampires, and it wont stop after that. It shall destroy the realm of Nosgoth ! You are going to destroy the one thing that you’ve wanted all this time... You aren’t deserving of your freedom Amara. "

She puts her head down, pondering his words.

Raziel :"Now, stay out of my path. "

She steps aside. Raziel comes before the body of the Hylden lord, and finds that it’s missing its hart.

Raziel :" What is this ?! Where is the hart ? You are the only one that could have taken it !"

Amara :" I have hidden it away for the sake of my kind. "

Raziel :" Where is it ? I won’t ask you again !"

Amara :" I can’t tell you. I won’t ! Not even for my soul, which you’ll devour. Finish me creature ! I have disgraced myself by our battle. I don’t deserve my name any more ! "

Vangudh :" Yeas my mistress Amara. You have disgraced yourself by your dealings with the vampire. For this treachery, I sentence you to be ripped from your flesh, and devoured by my cousins. Grab her !"

Amara :" No ! He defeated me ! He must take my soul !"

Vangudh :" As for you cursed one, surrender your sword ! You are surrounded. You can’t escape !"

Raziel :" Do you not realize hylden, that with this sword I am invincible ? Your forces are nothing against me !"

Vangudh :" We shall see vampire ! Attack !"

They fight, and Raziel is victorious. Vangudh escapes with captured Amara.

Raziel ( VO ) :" I have prevailed. And the reaver joyfully hummed amongst the bodies of dead hylden. But I have lost the one person that knew where the heart could be found. I had to get to that priest fast, before Amaras secret escapes with her to her grave. "

Raziel finds his way out

Raziel ( VO ) :" The city was empty. It seams that I was too late to stop the invasion. "

Raziel comes to the temple. 

Raziel ( VO ) :" Inside this shrine I could hear angry mob of hylden cheering for blood. It seems that Amara was displayed as the greatest traitor of their race. I knew well what she was going trough, for Kain had given me the same experience. "

Raziel ( VO ) :" As I ran trough the corridors, these murals caught my attention. They’ve shown the forging of the doomsayers. They forged them out of other Voradors blades they’ve gained in battles against the ancient vampires. Two such swords were made; one for their champion and the other, less enchanted, for his daughter, who was a great warrior to. "

Raziel climbs on the roof and sees the executioner standing beside Amara. On the other side is Vangudh.

Vangudh :" Here she is my cousins ! The betrayer of our cause ! The one who dared to falter before our ancient foe ! Tell me what shall be done with her !?"

The hylden mob :" Rip her apart !"

The hylden mob :" Let us fest on her soul !"

Amara :" You are mad Vangudh ! What do you think my father will do to you after he finds out ?"

Vangudh :" He will thank me, of course, for eliminating the traitor. Prepare your soul for nothingness, mistress Amara !"

Amara :" No ! Is there none left loyal to my father ?! Save me ! "

Raziel jumps down, running the reaver trough the executioners chest. 

Vangudh :" You again ! Is there nothing that will stop you, monster ?!"

The hylden mob :" The champion of the vampires !"

The hylden mob :" He bears the cursed sword !"

The hylden mob :" We must destroy him ! Destroy him !"

Raziel ( VO ) :" I had no time to fight the entire mob. I grabbed Amara, and escaped the room of the fanatical hylden. "

When he reached safety 

Amara :" Damn you, you beast ! Is there no end to my shame with you ?!"

Raziel :" Don’t thank me. It was a shame to me as well ! You owe me your life and your soul now. But I’ll not hold you for this debt, if you tell me where can I find the hart !"

Amara :" I owe you nothing ! It would have bean an honor to die and feed my cousins !"

Raziel :" That is not the tone you’ve used before I came along ! Don’t try to trick your way out of it hylden. I saved you. You are indebted to me. "

Amara :" You would ask me to show gratitude for a gift I did not asked to be bestowed ?"

Raziel :" Perhaps you didn’t asked it from me, but you did asked for it. Where is that honor of yours now ? That honor you are so proud of ?"

Amara :" RAAAH !!!.... It seems… I have no choice… I shall take you there… I shall lead you to the hart…"

Raziel ( VO ) :" Chill embraced me as I realized that I have begun to sound like that gigantic parasite. Strange, how we can spend our whole strength defying one influence, and still end up resolving to the same evil methods. "

She leads him to the secret passage in her quarters.

Amara :" Down there is what you seek. I’ve instructed my minions to guard it with their lives, so don’t expect that they will just hand it over to you. I only hope that you’ll find your death down there, creature. "

Raziel :" I now consider your debt paid. "

Amara :" Wait. I have one more thing to ask of you before we can be even. Kill me and take my soul. With this act I have lost my right to a name. "

Raziel :" No Amara. Of all your kind, you alone have a name, and perhaps yours is the only one that does not deserve this cruel fate. I don’t know what will be up to me before this ends, but if I can change your fate, I will. Don’t throw your life away just yet. "

Raziel ( VO ) :" As I walked down the passage, I felt a twitch in the reaver as an expression of its dissatisfaction. It seems that it expected Amara dead by now. What enchantment did the vampires set on this weapon, to make it so hungry for the hylden blood. "

As he reaches the chapel

Raziel ( VO ) :" Now I saw the truth about my remaking. The hylden didn’t prayed for relies, but for their champion. And they prayed to the Elder Good just like the vampires. That is why I was nether one of them. They both called for my making !"

Raziel reaches to the chapel where the hart is. He instantly grabs it

Raziel ( VO ) :" I’ve finally held the burning hart of Hash’ak’gik. This trophy was now the key to his demise. It seems that, even without destiny, I was still destined to deal with ripped harts. "

The door seals behind him.

Vangudh :" Welcome vampire, to your new dungeon ! Your path ended now !"

Raziel :" I grow very tired of hearing that tone. "

Vangudh :" It is truth that we can’t stand against you, but you’ve stumbled to an eternal trap. These chambers shall become your prison, both yours and our traitorous cousin Amara. "

Raziel :" What kind of a coward are you to hide your life behind her ? Face me if you dare !"

Vangudh :" You shall be faced vampire. But by the one who must find her honor in nothingness ! Redeem your self Amara, and kill him !"

Amara :" I didn’t betray you, creature. I gave my self to my cousins, and they threw me into this pit with you. Now I must throw my self against you, for that is my only escape. "

Raziel :" I won’t allow you to end like this. "

Amara :" You have no choice ! It is your destiny ! "

She draws out the flaming blade of her doomsayer.

Amara :" My fathers sword is mine as well. I am still your bane. "

They fight and Raziel is victorious. He brakes her doomsayer, and throws her to the ground.

Amara :" Finish me Raziel ! Grant me honor in nothingness !"

Raziel swings the reaver, and holds.

Raziel :" I won’t ! I will not let this madness continue !"

Vangudh :" What is this !? Finish her ! "

Raziel lowers the blade

Raziel ( VO ) :" Again the reaver hummed with anger. I could barely contain its lust for my flesh. "

Suddenly the roof brakes, and Kain jumps down to them.

Kain :" There you are ! I’ve bean looking everywhere for you. "

The stone around Kains neck makes Raziel suddenly feels most uncomfortable

Amara :" You… You have the nexus stone ! You stole it from us !"

She leaps at Kain, but he grabs her by her troth, paralyzing her.

Kain :" You of all should know that all is fear at war time … Princess… Yes… I can smell him all over you. Your curse stole our true nature and given us the gift of blood thirst. Be honored, for your blood shall indulge this dark gift…"

He points his fangs out, but Raziel stabs him with the reaver from behind. Kain screams, relies her, and bursts into a horde of bats.

Amara :" You killed him !?"

Raziel :" I’m not that fortunate. He’ll be back soon. I have to get you out of here…"

Suddenly the reaver in Raziels hand starts to jump violently.

Raziel ( VO ) :" At last it happened, my greatest fear made reality. With my actions, I’ve turned the reaver against me. I tried to let go of the sword as hard as I could, but it was too late. "

The reaver stabs it self trough his chest

Raziel ( VO ) :" Once more it was draining my soul, and the walls of my prison started to close in on me again… "

But trough the closing darkness, Amaras hand reaches out, and rips the reaver out of him. Together they manage to throw it away, and she grabs him as he falls down.

Raziel :" …Amara… you saved me…?!"

Amara :" Don’t thank me… it was a shame to me as well…"

Vangudh :" NOOO !!! You are not a hylden anymore ! I, Vangudh, high priest of hylden shall face you now ! Perish with this vampire, traitor Amara !"

He jumps down, and takes up the reaver

Amara :" Don’t Vangudh ! You can’t wield it… "

Vangudh :" Silence you beast ! Now you die by your own sword !... What !? What’s happening ?! No ! NO ! NOOO !"

The blade turns against him, and destroys him. Raziel and Amara are now alone in the pit with the reaver clattered on the stone flour.

Raziel :" I swear to you Amara, I shall set you free…"

Amara :" We must get out of here… if we are to save the world, you care for more than us. "

A horde of bats flies in, and Kain forms before them again.

Kain :" What in nine hells do you think you’re doing ?!"

Amara :" We have no time for this, cursed one ! If you want to get out of here in time to stop my lord from performing his binding, you’ll have to work with me. "

Kain :" I’d rather have your blood… I wonder what your father would do to know I’ve taken it ?"

Raziel :" He would do nothing ! By now, he has surely disowned her. Now shut up, and take the reaver ! It shall settle in your hand. You must carry it out of here. "

Kain :" No I don’t, cause I have something for you. "

He presents the nexus stone, and at its sight, Raziel jumps back

Raziel :" Take it away from me ! That stone is burning and spitting fire at me !"

Kain :" What ?! You, hylden ; What craft did you placed upon this ?"

Amara :" I don’t know. It was my father that made it. To protect from the soul reaver…"

Kain :" From the soul reaver ?! Not the sword, but Raziels soul ! It was made to repel you Raziel ! You can never use it ! It won’t help you perform your task !"

Raziel :" If this theft prevented the hylden from performing the binding, it has helped all ready. We must find another way. "

Amara :" It… didn’t prevent it. "

Raziel :" What ?"

Amara :" I don’t know how, but our lord has found the way to somehow make my fathers doomsayer into a key for the pillars lock. He didn’t yet do it, but when he does my father can use it to seal the deal. "

Raziel :" Than we must waist no more time. How do we get out of here ? "

Kain :" The nexus stone can transport us. But bear in mind that all the hylden from this world have now crossed into ours. Their armies are marching all over Nosgoth looking for us. "

Raziel :" Are you afraid Kain ?!"

Kain :" No ! I’m just making clear that the hylden blood is on my menu tonight…"
 
 
 
 

Nosgothic ruin
 
 

As they pass trough the portal

Kain ( VO ) :" Things have changed much, and in such a short time. Nosgoth now resembled the havoc I ultimately created in my own rule. I have failed once more in restoring the world. But that was not what was bothering me the most… The hylden woman has become too friendly with Raziel. I shall have to keep a close eye on them both now…"

Raziel :" Where are Yanoss, and Vorador ? Are they waiting for us ? "

Kain :" Vorador is dead, stroke down by the Unspoken, and Yanoss is captured, waiting for his fate, and holding his hope in us. "

Raziel :" Than let’s not keep him waiting. Come Amara. "

Amara :" Raziel… I can’t come with you… "

Kain :" And why is that ?"

Raziel :" What are you saying ?"

Amara :" I have disowned my cousins and my kin perhaps, but I can’t stand with you against my own father… I can’t stand against him. "

Kain :" You’ll not leave my sight hylden ! The only reason you are still alive is that I won’t go against Raziel by attacking you. "

Amara :" I don’t trust you ether cursed one. I would gladly betray you this instant, but not if it would mean betraying Raziel as well. Your task is not meant for a hylden. "

Raziel :" If you think you’ll be safe here, you should stay. "

Kain :" Are you mad ?! She’ll run back to them and spill out all our plans !"

Raziel :" No she won’t. Despite all, she saved my life. I trust her. "

Kain :" Be reasonable Raziel. She is a hylden !"

Raziel :" And so is a part of me ! If you trust me, you’ll have to indulge her desire ! Ether that, or I wont move an inch ! "

Kain :" Very well ! But I worn you now hylden ; Try to fool me, and you’ll be the first to die !"

Raziel turns to Amara

Raziel :" I’ll be back for you. "

Amara :" Do what you think is right… I’ll be waiting. "

Their cloven hands come together in that moment, and they stand there like that until Kain rudely interrupts them.

Kain :" Let’s go Raziel… ! Now !" 

They depart leaving her behind.

Amara :" Who’s there ?!"

The Sarafan Lord :" Come my daughter… Your honor shall be restored…"

Raziel and Kain are walking towards the pillars

Kain :" You and the princess have developed something…"

Raziel :" I advise you to stay out of it. "

Kain :" Why is it Raziel, that she gained your favor by saving your life, and I did not, no meter how many times I’d do it ?"

Raziel :" It isn’t about saving my life, but about betraying it. "

Kain :" Is that so ?"

Raziel :" Don’t get into the meter now. Let’s fight some common foes. "

Kain :" Just like good old days…"

Kain and Raziel have to make their way trough the force made of almost every nonhuman creature they’ve faced before. As they fight, they shift the reaver between them. They reach Yanoss and Karella chained and tortured. A mob of hylden is waiting in line to torture them.

Hylden tormentor :" More of you come to test my machines ? When I’m done with you, you’ll scream to be banished from this plane !"

Kain :" Let’s show this hylden where his place is. "

Raziel :" My pleasure. " 

Upon freeing them

Raziel :" Yanoss, are you all right. "

Yanoss :" I’ll be fine Raziel… check her… "

Karella :" You must waist no more time on ether of us… You must reach the pillars and stop what was set in motion…The Unspoken joined the doomsayer with the balance emblem…making it as the key for the lock… "

Kain :" That is how he made it possible !"

Raziel :" Are you sure you’ll manage on your own ?"

Yanoss :" We’ll be fine. But you must give me the nexus stone. I can use it to seal the gate, and buy us some time by eliminating the hylden force that is sustained by it. "

Kain :" Here ! Now go !"

Yanoss :" And Kain ; I must apologize for my and Vorador’s accusations against you…"

Raziel :" Save it for a better time Yanoss. We have hylden to kill !"

They split ways. Kain and Raziel make their way to the pillars, and they fight trough the hylden hordes. At the pillars, they find Hash’ak’gik in young Kains body, alone with the soul reaver.

Hash’ak’gik :" You two ?! What will it take to finally end your meddling ? Bah ! No metter ! I am glad that you still live…You are just in time for your final appearance in this play…"

At the ether platform high above them is the Sarafan Lord with the doomsayer, holding Amara by her hand. They are climbing up, and she is struggling to brake free.

The Sarafan Lord :" I hope you’ve enjoyed while staying in our harsh home vampires, for you’re about to become its permanent residents !"

Amara :" NO ! Let me go ! I won’t do it !"

Raziel :" Unhand her find ! Fight me if you dare !"

But they are gone.

Hash’ak’gik :" There is no more hope for you ! You are outmaneuvered ! We are victorious !"

Kain :" Not just yet ! Stop hiding behind my face, and face us !"

Hash’ak’gik :" Ah, but I am not hiding… I am keeping you unharmed for the fate that awaits you ! And I am safe in this vessel from all your powers ! It is he ultimate shield; a perfect hostage that never leaves my side !"

Raziel :" Let’s see if I can throw something on top of that !"

He takes out the burning hart, and tosses it before him on the floor.

Hash’ak’gik :" No… My hart !...UGH ! I wont be....ACK ! I wont be driven out of this vessel !"

Kain :" Fight him Kain ! Free your self !"

Young Kain :" I…can’t…he won’t…let go…ARGH !"

Raziel :" You are pathetic Kain ! You grovel on the floor where you belong !"

Kain :" You…"

Young Kain :" …DARE !"

Raziel :" You were newer worthy to stand with me, always getting in the way ! I had to conquer all of Nosgoth by my self, because of your incompetence !"

Hash’ak’gik :" Stop…TALKING !"

Raziel :" You were, are, and will always be… A VEAKLING !"

Young Kain :" RARRRGH !"

Hash’ak’gik :" NOOooo !"

Hash’ak’gik’s soul is catapulted out of young Kain, and merges with the hart. Kain grabs his exhausted younger self, and the soul reaver. Suddenly a shock wave passes trough the land, and all the demons and hylden fade away ( Yanoss has sealed the gate ). Raziel holds the blood reaver, and together with Kain, stands before the unspoken. It is a black hylden, with four arms, tree faces, and red flames around his head and in his eyes. 

Hash’ak’gik :" So, you’ve banished my minions, reclaimed your cursed sword, even snatched the scion of balance from my grasp ! But you have yet to face ME ; HASH’AK’GIK ! The unspoken lord of the hylden !"

They fight, and Hash’ak’gik is struck down.

Hash’ak’gik :" It meters no more… you have still lost the war. You can’t stop Amaras redemption now…"

Raziel stabs him with the reaver and reveals his black soul.

Kain :" Do it Raziel. Finish him. "

Raziel :" No ! I deny him his oblivion. His body is destroyed and he has no vessel left. Now he is just a black spirit. "

The ghost of the Unspoken tries to possess someone, but is denied and passes away to death. Kain helps his younger self up.

Young Kain :" Is he gone ?"

Yanoss :" Kain ! Raziel ! It’s Karella !"

They ran to them. Karella is badly wounded.

Kain :" Have some of my blood…"

Karella :" No…put your veins away…Raziel…"

Raziel :" I am here Karella. How can we save you ? "

Karella :" You can’t…but you…can save your selves…"

Raziel :" What are you saying ?"

Karella :" …My soul…it is part hylden…and part vampire…it is what…makes you hole…take my soul Raziel…and you’ll be what you should…have bean…what you choose…to be…aaahhh…. "

She turns into ashes and Raziel devours her soul.

Raziel ( VO ) :" Suddenly I felt pressed by a force of transformation. Like when I was a vampire entering a cocoon. But I had no time for long hibernation. I fought the closing darkness, but still it consumed me…I suddenly opened my eyes, and stood up reborn. Yanoss, and both Kains were staring at me. And than I noticed; the bones that Kain once ripped from me…My wings were restored. And my jaw was back. And most importantly, I now felt the parasitic hunger for souls sub sited. At last I was the vampire champion !"

Kain offers him the soul reaver 

Kain :" Take it Raziel ! You have my blessing !"

As Raziel takes the sword, it flashes in gold and black lines.

Kain :" Go now ! Fly like I’ve never allowed you before !"

Raziel spreads his bat like wings, and is of to his foe.
 
 
 
 

The ether platforms
 
 

The Sarafan Lord is climbing the ether platforms that are like a spiral stairs. They are vanishing behind him as he goes forward. He holds Amara by the hand, and she is struggling to brake free.

The Sarafan Lord :" I sense that the gate is destroyed ! But no meter. My powers can still hold us here. You shall be redeemed. "

Amara :" No ! Let me go father! I don’t believe in your cause anymore ! I’ve betrayed you ! I’m not worthy !"

The Sarafan Lord :" You shall perform the binding and be worthy again ! Submit ! I am your father !"

Raziel flies from the clouds and lands on a higher platform, blocking their way. The soul reaver sparkles in his hand.

Raziel :" Relies her hylden ! Your fight is with me !"

The Sarafan Lord :" You dare to stand before me abomination ?! Die as you must !"

Suddenly Amara stands between them facing the Sarafan Lord

Amara :" No father ! I won’t let you hurt him ! I won’t let ether of you get hurt !"

The Sarafan Lord :" Amara ?! What are you doing ?! Look at him ! He is our enemy !"

Amara :" Maybe he is your enemy father, but he is not mine and I am not his. He is honest brave and true. I won’t let it be your destiny to simply kill each other. "

The Sarafan Lord :" What are you saying ?"

Amara :" I’m saying…I …love him, father. "

The Sarafan Lord :" No ! Please Amara, say that is not so ! "

Amara :" It is thru father… I have disgraced us all with my actions. But now it is too late for me. This whole thing, this war, has gone too far ! Look what we are doing ! Look what destruction have we brought to this world ! Is this the golden age that you spoke of ? Father ; we weren’t in the right !"

The Sarafan Lord :" If… that’s how you feel…Amara… "

He slowly comes to her, and suddenly runs the doomsayer trough her.

Amara :" ( Gasp ) !"

The Sarafan Lord :" …than you are no longer my daughter !"

Raziel :" NOOO !!!"

The Sarafan Lord :" Go with your shame, my Amara !"

He pools the sword out of her, and she falls down in the clouds below.

Raziel :" MURDERER !!!"

The Sarafan Lord :" No ! YOU murdered her with your LIES abomination ! You turned my daughter against me ! Now I shall decide the fate of this world, right after I seal yours. "

Raziel :" Enough talk !"

The Sarafan Lord :" YEAS ! Let this last destiny unfolds NOW !"

The clouds below form an arena. The Sarafan Lord jumps down, and so does Raziel. They fight.

The Sarafan Lord :" I shall have my revenge for her !"

The Sarafan Lord :" Test your blade against mine !"

The Sarafan Lord :" I have waited countless eons for this Raziel !"

The Sarafan Lord :" I curse you and all your kind !"

The Sarafan Lord :" Die, winged beast !"

In his final blow, Raziel brakes the doomsayer, and struck down the Sarafan Lord cutting trough his flesh. The Sarafan Lord jumps back, and falls down trough the clouds into the abyss. Raziel takes the hilt of the doomsayer, and rips of the balance emblem which he joins with the reaver.

Raziel ( VO ) :" It was done ! The sword was now whole, and it happily hummed in my hand. At last my destiny was restored !"
 
 
 
 

The base of the pillars
 
 

Yanoss :" It is done ! Raziel has passed beyond my senses !"

The two kains are barely paying attention.

Young Kain :" You have changed much since tonight. "

Kain :" It was not an easy journey. Many have foolishly tried to avail me and gave me much nuisance. "

Young Kain :" Once I gazed upon Vorador, and was repelled by his sight. Now as I gaze upon the thru vision of my future… You are all that I should be !"

Kain :" You have no future yet. You must make it your self… and perhaps do it better than I did. "

Young Kain :" We shall see. "

Kain :" Yanoss, do you have to keep staring at the clouds ? You can’t help him that way. "

Yanoss :" We have to place our last sparks of fete in him. "

Kain :" And so I do, but we are still on a dangerous ground. It’s better to focus on… Wait…"

Suddenly, the Sarafan Lord, bleeding, jumps out of the bushes, pushes Kain away, and knocks Yanoss down.

The Sarafan Lord :" No ! I will never go back !"

Suddenly young Kain strikes him down with the blood reaver, and throws him on the floor before the pillars.

Young Kain :" Than stay here, and die !"

He stabs him with the reaver, and drains his blood away. He dies with an angry scream.

Young Kain :" That felt good… very good. "

Kain :" Bravo Kain ! We are indeed one and the same !"
 
 
 
 

The top of the pillars
 
 

Raziel flies to the top of the pillars and finds the lock of the world.

Raziel ( VO ) :" Here it was, the lock for my key ! Though the pillars were collapsed, their tops still hovered, suspended at the roof of this world. And here was the key hole, at the top of the pillar of balance ! The reaver was almost polling me towards it !"

As Raziel lands to the pillars top, he suddenly hears a familiar voice.

The Elder God :" No Raziel ! Do not throw your life away !"

A great blue eye appears in beneath him, and giant green tentacles slither their way up the pillars.

Raziel :" Silence demon. This is where it all shall end. "

The Elder God :" Do you know what happens to you, if you do this ? Do you know why was it decided to have Amara perform this act ?"

Raziel :" You’ll say anything to save your grotesque hide. "

The Elder God :" Because the binding shall claim your life ! This act would restore her lost honor, and than kill her. Do you believe for a moment that they would allow her to live ? Do you think that they would forgive her acts ?" 

Raziel :" You lie ! "

The Elder God :" Raziel… you were my child, my creation… but you have evolved into so much more… What do you owe to Kain, and Yanoss ? You and I are gods now. Together we could rebuild the weal, and place both hylden and vampire, there where they belong ! Imagine; to put that snake, Kain there where he deserves. Together, Raziel… Think of the possibilities …"

Raziel pause for a moment.

Raziel :" Do you remember what I told you, after Kain snatched me from your claws; that if it is the last thing I do, I’ll purge the world of your taint, and that it is you who is living his last hovers as we speak ? "

The Elder God :" NO !"

Raziel :" Your final hover is up !"

He plunges the reaver of binding into the lock 

The Elder God :" RAAAAHHH !!!"

The tentacles of the Elder God become straight, white, and reform the broken pillars. In that moment, they release a flash of light that spreads across the land. The blood reaver vanishes from young Kains hands, two Kains join into one, and start to change. Kains demonic features decrease, the veins pool back, his skin turns blue, and black feathery wings grow slowly out of his shoulders. He becomes an image of his human self, only an ancient vampire. The pillars are restored, and the original vampire guardians step fort reformed and alive. One more stands amongst them. He looks at him self and the others, and smiles with joie.

Vorador :" Wings ! I have wings, and no thirst ! Sire, it worked ! We are restored !"

Yanoss :" Welcome back my son ! I taught that I’ve lost you forever. Blessed be the mercy of Raziels soul, for keeping you safe !"

Kain :" My god ! What have I done ?! All the things I’ve done !"

Yanoss :" No Kain. You have no crimes now. You have bean redeemed at last. "

Kain :" I am not redeemed yet ! Not to Raziel ! I must go to him !"

Vorador :" Go to him Kain… berry this hate once and for all. "
 
 
 
 

The top of the pillars
 
 

Kain flies to the top of the pillars

Kain :" Raziel ! Raziel, where are you ?!"

Raziel :" Here… Kain…"

Kain comes to the lock, and finds demonic figure of Raziel lying on it with the reaver gripped in his claws. As Kain sees him there he shivers, and slowly approaches.

Kain :" R…Raziel… What’s… What is wrong ? You have won. Why aren’t you restored ?"

Raziel :" I’m dying Kain… I must die, to seal the act…"

Kain kneels and takes him in his arms.

Kain :" No… No ! You can’t die. You are… a hero. You shouldn’t die… I should die ! Not you !"

Raziel :" He- (hac)-he ! Now I’ve herd everything… I taught I’d never hear such words from you…nor see tears in your eyes… "

Kain :" Don’t die… my son. "

Raziel :" It is the role of the messiah… To die as a martyr …Do one last thing for me… Take care of the reaver… one day it will be needed… again…"

Kain :" …Raziel ! Don’t go !"

Raziel dies, and vanishes in a cloud of mist, his blue body dissolved into.

Kain :" …rrrrRRAAHHH !!!"

He flies down with the reaver.

Kain :" Why, Yanoss ?! Why didn’t you tell him ?!"

Yanoss " Tell him what ?"

Kain :" That the binding shall claim his life !"

Yanoss :" Well, it was irrelevant…"

Kain :" Irrelevant ?! He is dead now ! He gave his life for us ! For all of us, and you say it was irrelevant ?!"

Yanoss :" No Kain ! You don’t understand. We are vampires, now ! True vampires ! When we die we simply abandon our weakened flesh, and…"

Raziel appears behind them 

Raziel :"…are reborn, restored !"

He is not demonic angel of death now, but a noble vampire, an image of his sarafan self, but with blue skin, and big black feathery wings. Kain falls to his knees

Kain :" Raziel… how can you ever…"

He looks up to him.

Kain :" The coin has landed at last… Judge me, and I shall accept. "

Raziel walks to him with a serious and profoundly taughtfull face. He is watching Kain, his blue skin, his black wings and long white hair that is poring over his back.

Raziel :" I have existed to end your life once… now that I exist again, it is not to end your life. "

Kain looks at him. 

Kain :" What I did to you was not a dream. It happened. "

Raziel shakes his head

Raziel :" I don’t want to kill you any more, Kain. How can I ? You are the scion of balance. "

Kain :" Will you ever forgive me ?"

Raziel :" Don’t ask too much ! You’ve destroyed me once ! Pain is a weak word to describe what you wrought upon me !... I shall go now, and rebuild my clan... my family. And I don’t want to hear from you again. "

Kain takes the balance emblem, and gives the reaver back to him in the most honored manner.

Raziel :" Perhaps one day, Kain… we will be on the same side of the board again …"

Vorador :" You have concluded this saga Raziel, and you have earned your reward. "

Raziel :" Some peace at last…"

Yanoss :" If you will permit me Raziel, I would ask you to accompany me to the spectral realm. "

Raziel is a little confused, but he follows. They shift.

Yanoss :" Ah… It has bean too long since I’ve bathed in the winds of ether…But we are here this one time for you and someone else…"

Raziel :" Who ?"

Yanoss presents his hands, and summons a soul of a dead hylden. It takes a familiar shape.

Raziel :" Amara…?"

Yanoss :" Go on Raziel. Take her hand. "

She reaches to him, and he to her. The souls that are drifting around start to fly into her spirit, and she starts to take another shape, shrouded in the light of creation. In the end, there are three vampires that reentered the physical realm, at the top of the mountain, before the setting sun.

Raziel :" How…?"

Yanoss :" Treasure your reward, Raziel. "

He shifts back into the spirit realm

Amara :" Raziel…I feel strange…I’m not my self any more…am I ?"

He takes her by the hand.

Raziel :" Nether am I. "

He draws her blue face to his and they kiss there, at the top of the mountain, before the setting sun.

Kain ( VO ) :" So it ended. Those of us that committed suicide once long ago, will now be found and restored, and I at last can guard my pillar as I always should. Hopefully, one day, I shall shake your hand again my son Raziel, and be a friend to you and your family…" 

Vorador :" Come on Kain. The pillars are waiting. Time won’t stand still for your writings. "

Kain :" I’m going timestreamer. Your new duty to the pillar of time has made you to jumpy. "

Vorador :" Not jumpy but air borne ! Let us fly now…my scion of balance !"
 

The end
 

Lazaruss : I hope that you’ve enjoyed. Kain might seem like a wimp at the end but I vas guided by the words of Angel ( Buffy the vampire slayer ) :"… you have no idea what’s it like to do the things I’ve done, and to care…". And the end might seem too happy, but I figured they’ve earned it. Soon I shall publish my last fanfics, so until than…