Wrath of the Circle

By Homunculi wanna-be
 
 

 
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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