Wrath looked at the extra-dimensional array “I don’t like
this.” He said. “Come young one, your purpose is not in
this world but in the one this transport will take you.” The young
homunculi raised his eyebrows “What makes you think I’d
go without a reason?” he asked to the unseen speaker. No sooner
had he said that then a large demon appeared and shot a ball of necromancy
energy at him. Wrath gulped and stepped into the array, he knew what
necromancy did to homunculi and alcomey users, and he happened to be
both. Hw felt an unusual sensation and then he was just…gone
Ariel was on her way to Avernus to see the other eight members of the
circle when she stopped short, a young boy lay unconscious in the river,
Ariel hated the idea of being late but felt she had to do something.
She went over and grabbed the boy’s arms and pulled him out. Ariel
looked at the boy. She had to admit he was cute. Ariel remembered the
meeting but knew she couldn’t just leave the child here; the vampires
had gotten rather hostile since the formation of the Sarafan. But she
never thought as to why. ‘Nupraptor, I’ll be a bit late,
something’s happened.’ She thought ‘I understand,
but just in case I’ll send Malek and some of his men to you.’
He answered with his mental powers. A vampire that was so thin only
it’s skin held its bones together leapt out and screamed at Ariel
“FOOD AT LAST!!!!!!” and the crazed vampire lunged at her.
The boy awoke at just that moment and the vampire crashed into a stone
slab that jutted out of the ground in front of the balance guardian.
The boy then placed his right hand on the back of the slab he conjured
and an array for fire appeared on the back as parts of the stone melted
and the vampire was incased up to the neck before the stone hardened.
Malek and his warriors appeared and what a sight they saw: Ariel, a
strange boy, and a vampire immobilized up to the neck. Malek when up
to the balance guardian “Are you harmed lady Ariel?” “No,
come, we should already be at Avernus.” The boy stood there as
they began to leave “Your coming with us.” Ariel said and
he joined them. At long last the group entered the cathedral. Mortanius,
Moebius, Bane, Dejoule, Azimuth and Anacrothe looked at the party “Well
its abought time.” Bane scoffed then he noticed the boy and shuttered,
something abought him frightened the nature guardian “Would you
explain why you got here so late?” Anacrothe asked. Ariel proceeded
to tell the other guardians what had happened, the circle laughed when
they were told of the fate of the crazy vampire. The boy Ariel meet
kept looking at the door as if he wanted to run. Just what had him so
tense made itself clear. A golem made of roughly stitched together dead
bodies crashed through the doors of Avernus cathedral, the eyes of the
grotesque creature glowed like green fire. Malek rushed to fight the
creature but it grabbed him by the throat and tossed him aside as the
thing advanced on the circle. The kid walked up to the corps golem clapped
his hands, and, to his own ill-concealed disgust, touched the thing.
The golem let loose an unholy shriek “ALCOMEY!!!!!!!!!!!!”
and the corps-golem burnt up as its eyes faded from green to a dead
color. And it fell to the floor as it continued to burn until there
was nothing left of it. the boy turned to see the circle staring at
him with shocked looks “How did you use alcomey without an array?”
“I had a good teacher.” The boy answered with a shrug. “Whatever
controlled that thing, it was too evil to be allowed to exist.”
With that he showed them an image of the bloody rituals that took place
under the church. The circle was horrified “Your coming with us.”
And the circle partially dragged him back to the Sarafan stronghold.
“By the way boy, what’s your name?” Anacrothe asked
the boy shrugged “Most people call me Wrath.”
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