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 Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 11:49 pm
Five years have passed since the Planet Zelfor incident; quite a tragic loss. Only a small handful made it off alive. Two of them being Jodan and…. yours truly. A storm of hellfire struck the planet after only several days while on top of that, a pack of ravenous, wild looking tigers with gray skin; no fur, and black stripes like that of a Bengal tiger. We came to know that as "Limestone tigers" their skin wasn't…. that impossible to penetrate, but they were quick and ruthless.
But enough about that…
What matters now is, I'm on the run again, while Jodan is hiding safely somewhere in the galaxy. My tale brings me to a planet called Zarcoblia: a planet with lush jungle like that of Zelfor, but barren of wild life both human and animal. I've gotten away from tougher situations than this; don't worry. What I "AM" worried about is… what happens later on in my story.
Adventures in another world 2
It was getting close to nighttime when Wulf leapt from tree to tree while his pursuers are down below attempting to pick up his trail through the muddy puddles beneath their feet.
One of the branches Wulf landed on broke & Wulf found himself plummeting downward. Wulf grabbed the rope in my backbag, attached a grappling hook & hooked the tree stem (or tree trunk) & looped around it as he slowly descended. He made it to the ground, looked behind & the people tracking him were nowhere in sight. As soon he made it to a clearing, he heard footsteps marching closer with mud sloshing under their boots.
They move in closer and closer until they reach the clearing where all they saw was a patch of green grass with stones half covered in moss and the light of the sun shining down on it.
"He was just here." One of them explained.
"Don't get your boxers in a knot, Lance. He's smart, he could smell us coming from a mile away," said the leader, who was wearing a black shirt with a white circle in the middle and gray doggy style steamer headgear with gloves, and boots along with mythrill armor covering his shoulders, waist, and shins, plus a spiny bowser shell on his back. He pulls a radio from his pocket and turns it on. A voice responds, "Yeh, boss?"
"Drop the truck from orbit. This b*****d's playing hard ball."
Meanwhile up in space, a large cargo ship about a yard long and two yards wide positions itself over the coordinates specified by the leader. The hatch door opens at the bottom; dropping the truck down to the surface like a meteor. It lands 2 feet from bounty hunters with the force of a 2.1 on a Richter scale. They shield their eyes from the dust it created upon impact, after it settled, they open their eyes to see the truck still intact from a drop that high.
"Gather the gear and climb aboard. We got some hunting to do."
The leader gets in the passenger seat while one of his men gets behind the wheel; puts the keys in, turns it, and shifts the gears and with a jolt, they take off at full speed, unaware they passed Wulf by.
After traveling through the forest for miles and miles, they reach a canyon as it gets darker and darker. They look around cautiously with the headlights on and their rifles in hand with flashlights attached underneath the barrels.
"This place gives me the creeps."
"Get ahold of yourself, Lance. This place may scare the hell outta ya, but we ain't leaving 'til we get our bounty."
The driver continues down the rocky canyon path.
As they pass a hole in the canyon's side, Wulf leaps out; grabbing one of the hunters while he is looking in the other direction and dragged him inside. Taking his rifle, he aims for the gunman on the opposite side; shooting him in between the eyes, he fell out of the back and onto the ground with a silent thud.
His friends, unaware of the situation, continued on for another mile before noticing two guys were missing.
"Whoa. Johnny stop the truck."
"What's going on, boss"
"What's wrong is we've gone from four men to two. I told you to watch the bumps in the road."
"I 'have' been watching the road bumps, Jim."
"Then where'd they go, huh?!
Wulf jumped down from the top of the canyon onto the hood of the truck while their backs were turned, points the gun at the driver and fires off a shot, which hits in the right eye and jumped down off the hood
"Robby, Beam me up. N…" his voice trailed off as Wulf held the rifle to Jim's head.
Just then, a lime green tractor beam shoots down at the truck, beaming it up like the starship enterprise from star trek with Wulf unknowingly latched onto the side.
Onboard the ship, the pilot approaches Jim, who was shaking in his boots. "What's going on?"
"He got all of my men, and nearly got me."
"Never known you to run away from a fight, boss. Must be one crazy ******** to make you run scared."
"Craziest of the crazy. You know he and someone he claims as he twin… both killed 500 people."
"Actually, that was all Jodan."
Jim and the pilot pulled out their side arms aimed for the truck where Wulf was.
"I tried to stop him."
"Big mistake coming up here."
"Even bigger mistake was sending only four men after me, including yourself. You claim to believe it was me and Jodan working together killing those 500 people, and yet you only send four. Shameful.
"Was all I could afford. What with how much the bounty was."
"Ah yes, the bounty. 50k for my head, 100k if you brought me in alive. So it's true that I'm worth twice if all of me is captured while I'm still breathing. Though I have one question. What prison would pay 100k for my safe return? When last time, it was 200k."
"Was anonymous. No name. just an address."
"Where?"
"Zelos prime. That's all."
"Let me borrow a ship and I'll consider letting you walk away alive."
"We're the ones with guns pointed at you. And you're giving orders."
"If you think those primitive toys can hurt me, by all means… fire away."
Wulf stares into their eyes, as they stare back into his like two cowboys in the old west preparing to go at it in a showdown. Wulf places his right hand over the left holster of his sword of Aegis.
Jim and the pilot open fire at Wulf, who pulls the sword out; rapidly swinging it in the air in front of him as the bullets collide with the blade in small sparks before hitting the floor like dead flies until they both were on empty.
"I told you those guns can't hurt me…" he answered as he reaches his left hand down to the gun on the left side of his hip and pulls it up to shoulder level as he aims it for the two. "The ship. Now."
He rushed to the docking back for the ships, jumped inside and closed the hatch door; switching on the thrusters, the engine & the radio, along with everything else vital to making the ship run.
He then takes off, heading for Zelos.
Meanwhile, onboard a ship in deep space heading to a destination unknown was a horde of former planet Gaia moderators dressed in mythrill armor; The most ruthless bunch since they were forced into retirement, so Gaia could recruit new Mods to take their place. For years they've been scouring across galaxies at a time searching for the ultimate promised planet, planet kal, the most elite of all promised lands. their leader was the lord marshal of the zurg empire, who was savagely killed by, the new leader of the evil mods, a blank avi named admin, who was unwillingly replaced by a girl admin, this former admin has sworn revenge on the original founder of planet Gaia & the person who helps him run it, they are "Lanzer & Gambino."
few months after, the G.I.W (Gaians in white) picked up on this & moved them to a secret location. (The Zelos solar system.)
"ETA to Planet Zelos prime?" a shadowy figure sitting on high in a throne made of silver to the navigations pilot.
"An hour 30, sir."
"Good. Making record time. Maintain this speed."
"Of course, sir," he says as he gives him a salute.
"At this speed, they'll think we're just a passing comet. Won't know what hit them until it's too late."
Onboard the ship, Wulf awaited his 30 minute journey in cryo-sleep while the auto-pilot controls were engaged.
Inside his dreams, he was back inside the cryo-tube naked surrounded by green liquid as multiple scientists ran around from place to place; unaware that Wulf was awake. Suddenly, one of the machines explodes, releasing Wulf from his chamber, his dreams skips to him making his way down a narrow corridor, up a flight of stairs out the front door as the whole mansion was aflame. Then a mild earthquake occurred, which Awoke him from his slumber 26 minutes later. As he woke up, he noticed the monitors were displaying the name Zelos prime.
On planet Zelos
Wulf stopped by to visit an old friend. He had just came home from his daily walk, came in and was about to go up the stairs when he noticed hair on his floor, wolf hair.
"You always should lock your doors, Wise man." Wulf said in an mystifying voice from within the shadows.
He stops halfway, and then descends back to the first floor to see a familiar face emerge from the dark corner.
"Long time it's been, traitor."
"i do not know what you are t...."
Wulf interrupted by holding him at knife point. "You sold me out to a bunch of dogma mercs. After all i did to keep you alive & you sell me over."
"I'm sorry. We needed the money..."
"I knew I shoulda left you all to die there. I'd still be living free. How'd you do it? How'd you put a price on my head?"
"Told'em I know you. Not where you were going, seeing as you obviously never told me that. But it was Wife, who orchestrated all this. She feels that you and Jodan should pay for the death of my sons."
"But you know I didn't kill them."
"Try convincing her."
"Convincing me of what?" Said a black woman in a mid 30's in a purple silk bathrobe and pink slippers at the top of the staircase as she looked down at Wulf ninja in all his glory. "What the hell's he doing here?"
"I uh…." The Wise man stuttered.
"Killing three of our sons wasn't enough, so you came back for us?"
"I didn't kill them. besides if I did, and was thinking of coming back for you, I would've done the minute I broke in. your sons were killed in a cave-in as we were escaping with our very lives. Took seven people off that rock; Jodan and I included, a white woman who claimed to be captain, Jira, Ninja guardian, X grim reaper X, Angel petal, along with this traitor here and my evil twin, Jodan. After saving his a**, You dare to insult me with such a treachery as ratting me out for gold?! You want someone to pay for their death, here's a tip: try life insurance next time."
"And here's a tip for you: instead of arguing with me, go see this man," She explained as she threw a white card down at Wulf and her husband. Wulf picks it up and reads it, "I know somehow he'd be in on this."
"He is the one you should see. He made the wanted posters and sent throughout the galaxy. Both you and Jodan's."
"Then, it's probably time for a house call."
About five blocks down from the local market, Wulf searched high and low for his target, which was nowhere in sight. Wulf, who was in a disguise consisting of a dark trench coat that covered his original clothing, was cautiously checking face; avoiding anyone who he might think would recognize him. After searching a long time, he noticed a shady character look at him from a crowd of people and slowly turns around, walking the other way.
"Hey you!!" Wulf exclaimed as he took off running through a thick crowd down the street; graciously gaining on his mystery character, who turns down a dark, narrow alley. Wulf followed after.
The character sheds his disguise, jumps onto of a dumpster lined up with the right wall, kicks off towards the opposite wall and continues wall-jumping until he back flips over Wulf; landing behind, holding him at gunpoint.
"Thought ninja never used guns…"
"I'll make an exception. Now what the hell are you doing tracking me down?"
"Judging by your tone, you're not happy to see me behind bars."
"Wasn't my choice, I knew that it would catch up to me. That I knew where you were and let you go."
"So you put a price on my head in hopes I get captured? Doesn't mean I won't pay you back sooner or later."
"I don't wanna shoot you, but keep yourself and your bad luck with ya."
"If you wanna threaten someone. Then take off the safety," Wulf twists around rapidly and grabs the gun from his hand before he could pull the trigger.
Ninja guardian nervously laughed, "How'd you know the safety was on?"
"I didn't. I was just fishing."
"You should know by now… sending mercenaries after me or putting a bounty out for my head won't work anymore."
"What about a huge comet on a collision course with this planet?"
"A comet? Like that'll ever happen?"
Ninja guardian grabs Wulf's head and slowly turns it in the direction of a white ball of light making its way toward them like a marble flung out of a slingshot at a balloon.
"Well, there's something you hardly see." Wulf's eyes widened big as two soccer balls.
The alarms began to sound as the comet moved closer. The planetary defense buildings fired their turrets in hope to stave off the oncoming object, but it was of no use, as it kept coming.
"It's breaking off smaller pieces…" Wulf pointed out as he saw small lights branching out in starship fighter formations, swooping in.
"C'mon, we stay here, we're more than likely to get barbequed by the bombardment." Wulf explains, grabbing onto Ninja guardian and running to where he thinks it'll be safe.
After getting a few feet, the smaller lights came close enough that they were revealed to be ships. They fired their lasers into the buildings; fragments began falling like a meteor shower, which the thousands of people below running for their lives to escape the flames and the laser gun fire.
Wulf and Ninja continue down a alleyway until reaching a main road where Wulf stopped and hid in the shadows out of sight.
"Wulf, what are you…"
"Quiet!" Wulf interrupted. He heard footsteps marching towards them, shaking the ground as they moved.
An army of a dozen and half soldiers wearing brass and gray colored clothing on carry two sets of Sword Aegis per person. The one in the front with gray hair, wearing gray sweatpants, a red Chyaku Norisu scarf, and gold/silver colored armor across his chest, waist belt, shoulders and shins, carrying a golden scepter in his right hand along with an Ancient Katana in the other.
From the other way was an army of two-dozen men marching their way. Both sides stop in the center of the road; one side staring the other down before the army in gray open fired on the Mythrill knights, using up every round they had. After that, they knights were still standing. The leader, who stepped forward, planted his scepter into the ground, which sent a shockwave through the ground that knocked their enemies in all different directions.
Ninja guardian whispered, "Man, aren't you gon do something? Isn't this what you trained for?"
"Not my fight," Wulf whispered back.
"When will it be your fight? When you run out of planets to hide out on?"
"I'm just one man."
"Then I'll help you."
"Then it'll be the two of us again a whole regiment. With hardware like that scepter, we'll be killed. I say we regroup."
Wulf and Ninja turn around to find a Mythrill soldier staring them in the face. He grabs Ninja by the neck and launches him clear into a concrete wall. His back hits and he falls to the ground coughing.
Wulf unsheathes his sword as the soldier ran at him. Wulf headbutts him, lifting his right leg up and over his head and colliding with the knight's face.
He takes a few steps back to regain control of the fight, then rushes forward only to have Wulf cut through his left leg, making him fall to his knees, does a back flip kick to the knight's chin. He rushes up to him while he's on his back and his kicked in the chin by surprise and backs up.
The knight springs to his feet, sword pointed straight out as he sprinted forward like a raging bull. Wulf spun around the blade, sword held sideways at chest level; cutting into the knight's back. The knight turns back around and charges up as Wulf holds his sword up and blocks his opponent's attack and shoots his enemy's sword upward, steps back as the knight prepares to do a spinning kick. He spins around clockwise, Wulf grabs his foot and flips him backwards; lifting his left foot and kicks him in the stomach after the first 360.
"As fun as this is, it needs to end."
As Wulf and the knight continued fighting, another knight entered the alleyway to see one of his fellow knights needed assistance.
Wulf and the knight attempted to wrestle each other to the ground as the other knight drew his gun, aiming for our hero's head.
Time slows down, showing the bullet as it went on a path towards Wulf and the knight as they wrestled. Wulf, who noticed it, then rotated around so his opponent was in its path as it grew closer inch by inch until… it collided with his skull and shot out the other side.
Time returns to normal speed as the knight fired off more rounds at Wulf, who ran and ran and ran to outrun them. as he took cover behind a large crate, he looked over at Ninja guardian, who was lying on the ground, lifeless. "You will be avenged." He mumbled to himself as he emerge from the crate, sword in hand, as the knight open fires.
He takes his sword and deflects each bullet as fast as they came while at the same time, he moves towards the fallen knight, planting his foot under his stomach and kicks off; kicking him in the direction of the guy firing at him, bullets hitting the flying corpse as it moved closer and closer until colliding with him.
Assuming he was unconscious, Wulf walks up. Examining the two, he lets out a curious sounding, "Hmm." As he bent down to snatch the gun from the guy's hand. "Guess you won't need this." He sticks it into the back of his sweatpants, nestled over top of his shirt.
Somewhere in the city, the Wise Indian and his remaining family fled from their home, trying to find a safe haven from the madness.
"Wouldn't go that way!" Wulf exclaimed as he jumped down from the 2nd floor of a five-story building and on the ground in front of them.
"And why not?" the Wise man asked as he showed a stare disapproval.
"All you'll find there is a bunch of dead soldiers, and the body of my friend."
"We're all going to die, aren't we?" the Indian's wife asked.
In another part of the city, a bunch of Mythrill knights searched for any sign of resistance. With two different sets of search drones, one with a pair of infrared goggles and another with night-vision, they search every corner, every floor of every building, basically all over where bodies were.
Back onboard the ship orbiting 30,000 feet above the planet, the dark figure in the throne checked in on the soldiers on Zelos prime. "Ground team. Give us eyes down there. What's the status report?"
"Over a million dead, sir."
"Gather all the survivors and rendezvous in the center of the city. It's time we struck FEAR!!! Into the hearts of this planet. Let Lanzer know that we won't take this injustice sitting down.
A few hours later, all the strong survivors were packed in the conference room like cans of chicken of the sea tuna. A Caucasian male covered from head to toe in Mythrill armor and a dark blue cape running down his back named Captain Blaket` steps forward. "CITIZEN OF ZELOS. BEHOLD!!!! We have easily kill lives, & beaten your pathetic defenses. We are doing this to prove a point. That we will do anything, Even kill, to keep our Moderator positions. Even kill to help our lord keep his Admin position."
A dark-gray figure stepped forward from behind the crowd of soldiers, "For too long… I've sat idly by as the new Admin takes my place on Planet Gaia. All my fame, my fortune, well not anymore. It is now time for me to act on this injustice. But seeing as your army exterminated most of my forces, I'm giving you, the citizens of Zelos prime, a choice. You can suffer the fate of all those before you… or you can join my army and together, we will rule the universe. MAKING UP OUR OWN WILL AS WE SO PLEASE! OBLITERATING ALL FREEDOM! ALL FREE WILL!"
"You sir, have LOST IT COMPLETELY, if you think we will be converted so willingly," said an average citizen as he stepped forward.
"Yeh, we'd all rather be dead than follow your will."
"I can arrange that quite rapidly," the gray guy answered as he changed shape into an anaconda, slithers towards the man; binding him and squeezing the life outta him. "You have no idea the extent of my power…" He opens his mouth wide slowly devours him. His body slowly sliding into him like he were sucked into a vacuum.
"Nice trick," a familiar voice stated as the gray guy turns back into human form. The mysterious voice steps out from the far corner of the room, revealing himself to be Jodan Wulf warrior (Wulf ninja's evil twin), into the center towards the guy. "Might be good enough to get you a job at Gold Mountain on Gaia."
"And just who the hell might you be, my brave but foolish friend?"
"The one and only bringer of doom. The one who did the loading dock massacre. 500 dead," Jodan replied.
"The dock yard murderer. On our own planet."
"Quite the legendary kill, if I were still an Admin, I'd arrest you for that. Swear your allegiance to me and I won't have to kill you."
"I swear loyalty to no one."
"Your loss." He signals one of the biggest, toughest soldiers in his army to come forth. He was Caucasian, and no doubt was huge like a gorilla from the zoo, maybe even bigger. He carried a white scythe made of bone like a spinal cord of sorts with a purple blade.
"Haha. This has to be a joke."
The leader snaps his fingers, and the big brute begins swinging the mighty blade.
Jodan ducks and dodges every attack, jumps up, spinning 180 degrees and kicking the big guy in the stomach; landing on his feet gracefully.
He backs up, holding one hand over his stomach before lunging forward again.
Jodan slides low to the ground, kicking the man's left foot from under him and as he's kneeling down, Jodan does a back flip; kicking him in the chin.
The man falls on his back.
"I waste my time here." He walks towards the crowd and pauses as the leader called out his name.
"In our faith, you keep the valuables from the one you kill. It is our way. Take his scythe." He slides to feet, "Maybe you'll live long enough to use it."
"So you give me a weapon of one of your fallen… and let me go free?"
"Take it, and go," he said before he pauses. "Before I change my mind."
In the back of the crowd of soldiers stood a African American woman in her late 30's with glistening black hair in a daisy yellow dress with a greenish-yellow strap across the midsection. She removed her yellow sunglasses and says to a blue-haired knight in Mythrill armor from the neck down, wearing black gloves which covered most of his hands, "Now he's got the heart of a true warrior."
"Yeh. Just wish we didn't have to kill him? Everyone, who poses a threat to our order will be eliminated. You know that."
"Yes, I know…" she paused. "It's just that…"
"Just what?"
"Nothing."
Meanwhile, back with Wulf and the Wise man.
"Just what do ya want me to do?! It's not my fight."
"I'm asking that you give it a try. It is not just about you and Jodan. IT'S THE WHOLE UNIVERSE! WE DO NOT DO SOMETHING, none of us will be left. All there'll be is just them."
"All they want is to be restored to their former glory. Why not just give'em that?"
"It is not up to us, Lanzer is the one in charge. He was the one who founded Planet Gaia. He makes the rules. WHO GOES, WHO STAYS! And if he won't budge on this situation, all of us will dead."
"It's not my fight. That's it."
"You'll leave us to our fate like you did Grim and Angel?"
"X grim reaper X and Angel petal? Angel's on Gaia, or at least she should be, but heaven knows where Reaper is."
"After you went away, she immediately decided on following after you. She got into it with the wrong crowd and…. she was imprisoned."
"Where?"
"The name is unfamiliar to me, but it's some place that used to be a war zone during the times of Man and Beast. Loads of Landmines still planted under the surface.
"The prison itself? Is it underground?"
"Yes."
"Glacius. An ice planet, the creatures on the surface were mostly those with thick fur coats. Like Werewolves or polar bears, but something entirely different. There's a prison deep beneath the planet. Like a sweatshop… because the holding areas are near the core where there's heat."
"Yeh, I believe that's the one."
"I'll deal with that later, someone's coming."
The Wise man took his wife and child and went into hiding.
Wulf steps off on his right foot, and hears the sound of someone pumping their shotgun.
"Don't move, Wulf." A voice bellowed out softly.
"Jim…" Wulf said calmly. "From the sound of the footsteps behind you, I take it you got another crew. 6 this time. Still won't make a difference."
"From where I'm standin'. It'll make a BIG… difference."
"So 100k for bringing me alive, huh?"
"Yeh." Said one of the men in Jim's crew as he fired a huge net at Wulf, which consumed him like a ton of fish caught in the ocean.
"Almost too easy. But anyways, Bag and tag, let's go collect our reward."
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Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 11:52 pm
Jodan, who concealed himself in the shadows of some building, looked up as the ship with Wulf onboard took off and exited the atmosphere, "What are you up to, Wulf?" he whispered to himself, sounding baffled. He leaves the comfort of the shadows and takes off heading west towards his ship.
"So. Wulf. Finally run out of tricks?"
"I got a few more up my sleeves."
"What sleeves?" guy #3 asked.
"Johnny." Jim replied in a stern voice.
"Now the one question… where to take me?"
"To whichever Holding will deliver on their guarantee of 100k for your a**."
"How bout Glacius? Wasn't it a war planet before it became a prison? To cold for anyone to survive on its surface. RIDDLED…. With landmines."
"You talking bout the one with the prison near the core where it's hot?" Jim said.
"I dunno, boss. Plenty of other places might pay more than 100k."
"Yeh, but those places have no guarantees. They'd short change us."
"Plus," Wulf answered. "The price is settled at 100k, who would dare go higher?"
"He's right. We take it or leave. And I know how pissed you all'd get if we leave it."
Meanwhile, back on Zelos prime, the Mythrill knights picked up on two separate energy trails taking off into space.
"I'm picking up two signals, sir. Seems like the anti-air assault crew isn't doing their job."
"We cannot let our lord get wind of this, else he'll vaporize us all."
"Well, what do you suppose should be done?"
"I dunno. We can't just cover it up. Pretending like it never happened and he'll soon find out."
"Maybe we should send the best generals out to follow the trail."
"What's this fuss over one ship escaping the atmosphere?" the woman in the yellow dress asked as she stepped into the room.
"Not just one ship, Lady Faire. Two. We think it could be search parties going to explore other planets for reinforcements."
"Well, we must insure that that never happens now, shall we?"
"Well, who do we get to…"
"Send me," Beldes, the blue-haired Mythrill knight answered.
"Let me go with you, Beldes."
"No."
"You dare to deny me this privilege? I'm going and that's an order."
"If you wanted to go in the first place, all you had to do was order me. Prep a ship. On second though, make that two ships."
Meanwhile, in the war room.
"With the fall of Zelos prime close at hand, Lanzer should be about ready to succumb to our demands of returning to former glory."
"Without us, Gaia will just continue to be overrun with Noobs, and bots. I cannot believe Lanzer is such A FOOL! He doesn't know the first thing about running a whole planet."
"Maybe if we wipe out this whole star system, it'll get his attention," the gray guy said as he sat the head table. "Make them think twice about retiring us without consent."
Meanwhile, out in space about to enter the atmosphere of Planet Glacius.
The sun was rising from behind the planet itself as they descended facing the sun. they had hit a bit of turbulence as the tip of their spacecraft glowed bright orange from the atmosphere.
"We're coming in hot, ease up a bit," Jim ordered.
The pilot turns off some of the thrusters as they make it pass the atmosphere and were just a lil over 30,000 feet from the ground and descending as the sun slowly rose over the mountainous regions. The bottom of their ship just barely skips across the dirt and rock as they fly towards a cave entrance.
"Deploy anchors," Jim shouted over the roaring sound of metal scraping against rock.
As the stern opens and drops two heavy gray cube-like bricks, which latched onto a couple of hooks outside the cave. The ship gets a few feet before they're jerked backwards by the hooked anchors.
"You two. Unhitch the anchors and park it inside while we call the warden down."
15 minutes later, Jim and two other mercenaries untied us, & walked Wulf like a dogs on leashes to the warden's office to turn him in & receive their reward.
we got onto this mine cart & made our way there.
While Wulf were tied down to the floor of the cart, he's all like "when this ride's over, you're glasses belong to me." he said putting some of his saliva on the tips of his index & middle finger, using them to wipe some of the fog from glasses. Wulf lifted him into the air with our feet & he hit a stalactite. he fell off the cart & got left behind.
Captain looked at Wulf, he gave the 'I don't know' gesture with his shoulders.
"FIVE WAY SPLIT!! HAHA!" the captain exclaimed.
We finally arrive at the warden's underground bunker.
Few minutes later in the warden's office, Jim slams his fist on his desk. "70k?! the deal was 100k for bringing him in alive?"
As they all argued, the guards lowered Wulf into the holding cell below, which was a dim red color with dark brown rock and steam seeping through cracks in the ground.
the warden asks for the bounty hunters to stay one more day, & he re-calculates the numbers again.
Wulf struggles to get himself free, and after a few tries, he falls to the ground; landing on his feet. He is then greeted by an unfriendly face, rushing up at him from behind with a crowbar, he gets close enough and takes a swing at Wulf, who ducks and delivers a backhand punch to his chin, pivots around and grasps his hand on his throat like an eagle; lifting him in the air and slamming him to the ground. A second guy runs up, left arm drawn back. Wulf blocks his punch his free hand, flips his arm down and delivers a hard punch to his private area. As he's kneeled over in pain, Wulf kicks him in the face; knocking him on his back.
A third guy rushes up, Wulf draws his sword, holds the blade sideways and sweeps his opponent's feet from under him, sending him flipping forward and landing on his face right near Wulf's feet.
Another person steps up as Wulf spirals in mid-air, extending his right foot and landing a kick to his Adam's apple.
A woman began approaching him with a huge knife, Wulf turns; preparing to attack, but was interrupted by an arrow flying past him and hitting the woman in the stomach.
He turns around to see, off in a distance, this girl in an OMFG hat, dark halo, were tail, black musketeer pants, demonic anklets, were feet, nitemare claws, sharp fish teeth, SKA wristband, & a shadow spirit.
They made eye contact for a short while before she disappeared into the shadows.
"It's awfully hot in here, how do you manage to maintain normal body temperature with all that attire on, eh."
"I was born with no sweat glands," Wulf said, making zero eye contact with the person to the side of him as he passed on by.
"Haha. Amusing joke. Guess I'll… catch ya later, huh?"
He walks on through the steam riddled corridor as the man and all the others look on in confusion. He wanders without knowing where he's going, and then… from out of nowhere, the woman he saw pops out of a crevice with a knife to Wulf's back and says, "And here, I thought you were supposed to have a good sense of when danger lurks."
"Well… what if wanted to let you catch me?"
"Is that so?"
"Yeh. Watch your feet," he said.
The woman looked down, Wulf plants one foot on the wall, then the other and walks the wall; jumping out of the way of her knife, then back around at her with the tip of his blade her neck. "Next time, try guns. Knives are more for close encounters in which your opponent has no way out. Unfortunately for me, there's no situation I can't get out of…"
"If that's true, why are you here?"
"I heard you ended up in this hell, getting his here was part of my plan to get you out, Reaper."
"Name's Siara. Never liked my old name. paid 10k for a change. It's impossible you. I tried escaping. So if you're here for me, you may as well just join all of us."
Meanwhile, out in space. One of the Mythrill army ships follows the energy trail of the two ships.
"Why'd you come along, Faire? What service do you provide?"
"There is… much you do not know about it, my dear." She answered, sounding mysterious. "Things you… never took the chance to ask me about."
"Like what?" a bald-headed knight with a mythrill helmet on answered.
"Like… Did you know I was trained in the art of a bo staff, twin swords. Practically as lethal as the Genetic experiment, Jodan."
"You will 'prove' yourself before slinging exaggerations around. You've seen Jodan in action. The way he mercilessly slaughtered one of our own. And I'm willing to bet his twin is just as good."
"Hmm, I'll know when I see'em."
Back on Glacia
"Mr. Jim, was it?"
"Yeh."
"Why do I have the feeling that you're hiding something from us?"
"Why would we have anything to hide."
"I dunno, Sensors picked up two ships that passed through the shipping lanes on the way here. One smaller one; about your ship's size. The first one wasn't what worried me. What worried me was… this one," He turns the screen so Jim could see it as it revealed a large ship resembling the Mythrill flagships. "Look familiar?"
Jim looks up at the warden with a blank stare as the warden stared back. "I know what this is…" Jim said as he slowly pulls his gun from out the back of his pants. "it's a reason to not pay us for our work, is that it?!" he exclaimed as he aims the at the warden, whose men aimed guns at both Jim and his crew.
"No. this is a ploy to get our asses roasted by a bunch of Mythrills. Yes, I know who these are."
"Listen here, WE DIDN'T BRING THEM HERE, if that's what your insinuating. We made sure we weren't followed."
"We dusted our tracks, got the hell out off the planet. There's no way they could've followed us here."
"Well, you lead them here. On purpose or accident it doesn't matter. We're all dead anyways. But I'll kill you first before they even touch the surface."
"Not if we kill you first.
Down below, Wulf, Siara and a bunch of others all see some explosion, hear gunshots, & stuff like that coming from the bunker above us.
Wulf, Shana, & a couple of prisoners, make it up to bunker after the battle.
What the hell happened up here?" one of the convicts asked.
"As far as i can tell, the blood-bath started because the warden & his men r spooked by the arrival of the Mythrills'. Which means they're coming for us."
what r you, Sherlock Holmes? How the hell do you know that & you weren't up here." Jim asks.
"Animal instincts." i reply.
"So wat do we do now?" asked Siara.
"We get the heck outta here. that's wat."
"But how? We follow them through the underground route, they'll kill us, surely."
"There's another way, Siara." I say pointing to the hatch where the vent is.
"With all the land mines up there, no way? I WANNA KEEP MYSELF IN ONE PIECE!" Siara exclaimed.
"I agree with her."
"Our best bet, and you're too chicken to take a risk."
"With how big the war was long ago, some of those mine will probably already detonated…"
"What if they're not?"
"If you're scared, you're scared. Just stay here and die. Cuz once the Mythrills break down the doors, they're gonna be a body count. No survivors."
quarter of an hour later, Wulf and the others gathered up our weapons & move out onto the snowy terrain. The others lost sight of me.
"wulf? WULF?! WHERE R YOU?" shouted Shana.
i signal to them from the top of the end of the trench. i pulled them up to my level one at a time, then they continue running. after an hour of running Wulf, Siara, and the other convicts reach a slope on the mountain they trekked.
"no time to waste, mount your boards & let's shred."
they lay down the boards jump on, & kick start our way downward.
(take it all - by trust company fades into play as they shred the slope)
it had turned into a race to see who will reach the bottom first, they swerve left & right dodging trees, boulders, & jumping piles of snow like on a ski jump. One of them ran across a landmine on their board; the explosion crumbled sheet of snow blanketing the mountain and then Wulf and the others came face to face with an avalanche.
they speed up as fast as they can go.
they boarded across a snowboard jump & half of us pulled a 360, one pulled a 180 flip, & the others performed a reverse 180 flip twice.
halfway to the bottom, four of them made it across; Wulf and Siara and two other convicts; a black guy and a white guy.
The avalanche rolled swiftly down the hill and into the trench and kept emptying into it.
As we all continued further, a roaring of a ship's engine could be heard, not of one leaving the atmosphere, but of one entering it...
Wulf signals everyone to hide behind the rocks as he and Siara looked out to see the Mythrill army descend. The hatch doors opened and they poured out like lava from a volcano.
"That's the army, you're talking bout?" Siara whispered to Wulf.
"Yeh. They got forces destroying Zelos prime. I fear they'll attack the rest of the Zelos star system. All for trying to get Lanzer's full attention."
Meanwhile, down below.
As the warden and his guards prepped the ship for takeoff, they open the door to the hangar to be unexpectedly greeted by the Mythrill army. They look them in the eyes with a surprised expression as the army held their guns pointed at them. without hesitation, they open fire as the warden and the others slowly react to the attack.
Jodan sits atop a wall, watching on high as the Mythrills fan out to find their target.
We need that ship. We're gonna have to fight our way to that hangar."
"You're just full of crazy ideas today, aren't you?" Siara whispered.
"I've trained for this. And you… you'd have to be hardcore if you end up in a place like this."
"Yeh."
Wulf place one hand in front of him and leaps over the edge, sliding down right behind the Mythrill soldiers being cautious not to alert them of his presence. He safely positions himself behind one of them as he signals the others to come down.
Siara leapt into the air high above one knight; knife in hand, landing on his back and stabs the blade into his shoulder.
Wulf rushes up, putting his sword to the knight's neck and slits his throat. The others immediately turn around. The black convict, guy #1 shoots one of the knights in the back with his shotgun as he pulls out his side arm and aims for another one's head.
Guy #2 kicks one in the lower leg, making him kneel down, and kicks in the chin. Another one snuck up from behind and stabs him in the back just above abdominal area, slowly pulling the blade out to watch him fall to his knees and on his stomach.
Guy #1 looks over at his fallen friend, taking his eyes off his opponents, who blindsided him with gunfire from his left and right.
Only Wulf and Siara remained.
Onboard the ship
When this is done, Beldes. Bring me the girl," she ordered as she watched the monitor, watching Wulf and Siara fight.
"Yes, Mistress."
Back outside
One of the knights lunges forward at Wulf, who grabs him by the arm, kicks his right knee forward, hitting him in the stomach. Squeezes his arm, making him drop the blade, which catches before it hits the ground, slits the guy's arm, and sticks the blade in his stomach. As a second guy appears behind him, he plants his right foot in the guy's chest, climbing two inches up him, spinning around 180 degrees and kicks with his right foot to the face. Pulling out his sword, he holds at position 7 o'clock and slashes upward diagonally across the knight's abdomen and chest, pivots around, holding the sword at 9 o'clock and slashes from his left across the other guy.
Siara blocks the oncoming knight's punch as she knees him in the stomach and kicks him in the side under the arm, and in the side of his jaw; unaware of the guy behind her.
Jodan hops across the heads of the soldiers, leaps in the air and latches onto the knight; slitting his throat, pulls the gun off of him and aims behind him at the other oncoming opponents.
Wulf passes by Jodan, moving towards the soldiers, who he tossed in the air as he passed between them. One bears down on him with a swing of his mighty axe, Wulf blocks with his sword, pushes upward, spinning around with his sword stuck out like a fan blade as he cuts through the armor of the soldiers around them. one more jumps in as Wulf back flips; kicking him in the chin, and sent him tumbling backward onto a landmine. He then turns in the other direction as the soldiers are taken out by the blast.
Beldes leapt towards Jodan, who turns in his direction. He slings at Jodan with his mighty staff, Jodan ducks. Beldes attacks again, Jodan ducks. He attacks a third time, Jodan leans to the right; grabbing the staff; swinging from it, and kicks Beldes's feet from under him. As Jodan drops his foot down on him like an axe, he rolls over out of the way.
Wulf then begins to jump in and help, but is stopped by an elite Mythrill knight, who slings his blade at him. Wulf leans back and as his opponent strikes again, he leans to the left, unsheathing his sword and placing in the path of his enemy's blade.
Beldes rises to his feet. Jodan stands there waiting for him to make the first move. Beldes draws his laser gun; firing at Jodan, who drew his sword and moves it rapidly to block the laser fire. Beldes rushes forward, throwing down the gun, he throws the first punch, which Jodan dodged by tilting his head left, then countered by slinging at him. Beldes ducked, removing his sword from the holster and slices upward; diagonally right.
Jodan blocks, slashes horizontal from the left, Beldes blocked.
Over to Wulf, who leaps in the air doing a helicopter kick; landing a blow to the jaw of his opponent, who spiraled clockwise before hitting the ground. He rises to his feet only to get knocked down again by Wulf fan-kick.
Jodan plants his left foot on Beldes' chest, climbing up to his head, as he's over top of him, he took his left foot off his chest as he plants his right foot on top of his head and kicks him forward onto his face with his left foot.
"At least you're a challenge for me. Don't want your death to be easy," Beldes says as he pushes up out of the dirt, rising to his feet.
Wulf jumps over Jodan's head, doing a front flip; sword in hand as he moves closer towards Beldes, who stands there waiting.
As Siara fights another elite, she is then captured. She calls out to Jodan and Wulf, who turn in her direction; letting their guard down as Beldes strikes the ground where a landmine was. Both Wulf, Jodan, and himself went flying in separate directions.
"Was hoping to have it end another way." The elite said to Siara as he dragged her off to the ship.
"Wulf! Jodan!" She exclaimed.
"You idiots grab Beldes."
Wulf vaguely overheard the conversation before he blacked out. During when he and Jodan dream, they are awakened by water splashed in his face.
"I have a message for you, beldes to me to deliver it, because it's straight from the admin himself."
Wulf unsheathes his sword.
"Put those away. I'm not here to harm you," Captain Balque said. "You would've been death long after the fight, if we were supposed to kill you."
"Bullshit. Why let us live? Kill us now."
"Because Beldes has explained to us that you two are exceptional fighters. We have a proposition. If you want to see your friend, Siara, alive. You'll stay away from Zelos.
"Where are they going to take her?" Jodan asked as he approached him and held him up by his collar."
"They'll… take her to the junk planet, Xen5; a planet with no sun. only lights it has are street lights. Until they know it's safe to bring her to the Admin himself. If you value her life, you won't follow them. but seeing as how you risked your neck to save her, that you don't follow this message to the letter."
"It is now time we step up our game, our first step: rescue the girl, 2nd, go back to Zelos and kick the Admin's metamorphic a**. He thinks I'm just gonna run? Not a ******** chance. I know Wulf might run. That's in his nature. Seeing as he went in hiding all those years after the Zelfor incident. For a crime… that he got blamed for on account of my actions. It's in his nature to kill as it is in mine, but deep down… he's a softy."
Meanwhile, on Xen5, which was covered inch-by-inch with miscellaneous junk from other planets: (mostly old furniture, garbage, recycled material of various proportions.
Inside a cage near a pile of random garbage bags and discarded toys was Siara, who was guarded by Lady faire.
"What's a girl gotta do to get food here?"
"There isn't any. Besides, you'll be lucky if you get to eat again."
"Wulf and Jodan will come for me. And when they do, You'll be the one, who's lucky if you get to eat again."
"Don't waste your breath. They're probably already dead."
Meanwhile, far from where Siara was being held, millions of soldier stood all around in various locations, keeping watch for anyone not authorized to be there. While Wulf and Jodan snuck around behind them; being cautious not to give themselves away. Wulf gives the signal to Jodan to stay put as a guard walked by them without noticing.
They move quietly behind him, heading in the direction that he came from. Jodan steps on a beer can, the guard turns around and sees nothing but piles of garbage and his fellow soldiers marching around. He turns back and continues patrolling the area as Wulf and Jodan continued onward.
Wulf and Jodan separate when they hear soldiers coming back towards them from behind.
The soldiers march closer and closer with their feet pounding the ground and making it shake.
Wulf looks at Jodan, nodding his head. Jodan nods back at him.
Wulf peeks out from a pile of garbage only to see two soldiers moving towards them.
Both of them get closer, turn to their right to see Wulf crouched down, looking back at them, laughing nervously.
Jodan slowly creeps up, grabbing one by the neck as he sticks the knife into the back of his head and out of his forehead between his eyes. The second soldier looked behind him, Wulf jumps up and sticks the blade of his knife on top of his head, rapidly jamming it into his brain.
30 minutes later, Wulf and Jodan killed 20 more soldiers on their way towards Lady Faire and Siara.
"Bobby, what's your status?" Lady Faire asked as she talked into the radio.
No answer from bobby.
"John? Simmons?"
No answer from them either
"My money's on that they're already here. Cuz none of my men are responding."
She hears the sound of someone cocking a handgun behind her head then the sound of a voice saying, "You're right about that."
"Wulf…" She said mysteriously, "SO finally, we meet."
"Let the girl go."
"My. My. So quick with the demands. Huh, Wulf?"
Wulf looks down at the remote in her hands.
"Oh, you're wondering about this? Well, drop the gun, before I give you a full demonstration."
Wulf doesn't answer, he keeps the gun pointed at the back of her head. She pushes the button, and a crane hovers over Siara's cage; lifting it in the air, rotates until it's over one of those giant-sized trash compactors for crushing cars and other scrap metal together.
"You'll have sort through the block of metal and other fabricated parts to find what's left of her when I press this button again and the green one. Now, DROP! THE GUN!"
Wulf drops the gun, "Now what is it you want? Why take the girl?"
"She's a bargaining chip in case you lived through your little fight. So that you don't interfere with the Admin's affairs."
"Why would he want his position as Admin back?" Jodan asked. "I know it's get its perks, but you're having to answer over a million letters from different Gaians Worldwide."
"He is willing to look past that… as long as he's making executive decisions. We've gotten twice more spammers, trolls, bots, and scammers once the new girl was put in charge."
"But still, this is not the way to go about. Blowing up planets to get Lanzer's attention. Is the same as leaving him dozens of messages and comments. Won't work."
"How would you know?"
"I just know."
"Well, I know one thing. You and your twin won't be around to see whether it works or not." She looks over his shoulder, and sees Jodan is nowhere to be found. "Where'd your twin go?"
From a distance, Jodan throws his sword at the rope holding crane's magnet thing up, which sends the cage downward towards the crusher thing.
Lady Faire turns to see what was going on as Wulf did a back flip kick and knocks the remote out of her hand.
She turns back, "Gimme that!" she exclaimed as she desperately tried to snatch it from him. Wulf moves his hand up out of her reach. She strikes with a right cross and misses, a left swing and misses. She reaches behind her back, pulls out a short stick, which extended out into a spear with an arrowhead on the tip. She jabs at Wulf, who tilts to the right. She jabs at him again, he tilts backwards, "Jodan, catch!" he shouted as he through the remote towards him. He pulls out his sword, blocking her attacks as she continued to strike. She spins around with her staff drawn out, and slices into his shirt and his chest.
Wulf steps back as he feels his chest. He rushes forward as Faire lunges her spear towards his stomach. Wulf arches forward, holding the tip of his sword closely to her neck.
She tilts her head to the right to avoid the blade, jumps back, spinning herself counter-clockwise with her spear extended. Wulf hits It with a fan kick, knocks it out of her hands, rushes up and stabs her in the stomach, pulls out his other sword and slashes across her neck.
Three minutes after, Jodan lowers the crane next to the compactor, throws the remote aside, drawing his sword as he tossed it, and cuts the lock on the cage and opens the door. "I have no idea what His reason is for rescuing you like that. Maybe he has a thing for you."
"Do not!" Wulf replied.
Siara giggled, "He's already got a girl. That skinny girl, who's always in pink, Angel petal." She makes kissing sounds at Wulf.
"C'mon, guys. We haven't made it official yet."
"Sure…" Jodan said, sarcastically as he began to chuckle.
"Shouldn't we be going back to Zelos prime? The Admin's still gonna destroy the planet."
"Let's not forget the Zelos star system as well."
As they walk off towards the ship, Wulf answers, "You know, I was just about to say that."
"Uh-huh," Jodan agreed sarcastically."
"You always do that to me."
"Do what?"
"Oh, you know what!"
Meanwhile, back on Zelos prime.
The ships on the ground level begin their ascent as they plant nuclear bomb in the center of the city.
"Magnificent, isn't it? Seemingly just an ordinary Nuclear explosive on the outside, but contains enough power to decimate a planet. There's plenty of more where that came from. Those will ensure the destruction of the rest of this star system. And with the two Puppy brothers, Wulf and Jodan taken care of, there's no one standing in our way. Prep the remote detonation sequence."
"What of the people on the ground? One of them might know how to disarm the device."
"Not to worry. The only way to detonate and disarm is by the console. And as an extra safety measure, I got a remote in my hands. For in case the console fails to work."
The Admin steps out and heads towards the War room. Within 10 minutes, he's there. "What's the status on the ascension protocol?"
"We've still got a few ground ships on the surface."
"Get them off the ground. We're ready to go through with the detonation!"
Meanwhile, onboard one of the ships heading for the master battleship a whole bunch of soldiers and Mythrill knights stood in rows of ten, awaiting their arrival. Two of them in particular with puffy-looking gray sleeves and bulge in the back of their pants that looks like a tail, and a scrunched up Wolf snout inside of the helmets. They stood side-by-side, looking at each other and nodding once.
5 minutes later, they're onboard the main battleship, hiding amongst the many other Mythrill knights and soldiers as they wander around, looking for the Leader.
Meanwhile, in the war room.
"Execute the detonation on my order," he commanded, holding his right hand up towards the guy at the console behind him, who puts his hand over the button awaiting his orders.
The Admin holds up two fingers close together and shakes them up and down one time. The soldier takes that as the order to start the countdown and pushes the button.
Down on the planet below, the time on the warhead starts at 2 hours and counts down.
The soldier at the console hears a noise in the hallway, and looks back at the commander.
"Don't look at me. Go check it out!"
He rushed out into the dark hallway. The sound of someone's neck cracking could be heard as he stepped into the shadows. The commander walks out side to check it out and is kicked all down the hall with the force of someone's foot until he lands in the center of the first floor. Only thing he notices is Wulf jumping over the railing towards him, sword in hand.
The Admin rolls out of the way as Wulf lands with his sword planted in the floor. The Admin kicks it from under him, turns into a gray, shadowy anaconda as he snaked around Wulf, attempting to squeeze the life out of him. As he prepares to bite down on Wulf, a shot was fire, which made his head explode and made his body release its captive.
The gray mass, which was assumed to be the Admin's head, turns into a puddle of gray goo, slithers towards the rest of the gray mass and rejoins as it turned into a dragon. Breathing in a lung full of air, it aims for Wulf, exhaling flames from its mouth. Jodan leaps in, shoving Wulf out of the way along with himself.
The dragon continued following them around the room exhaling fire from its mighty mouth. Wulf turns around in front of Jodan, who ducks as he jumps over him. With the swing of Wulf's mighty sword, he cuts through the foul beast's chest, which made him turn back into his original form.
"How can this be?"
Wulf stares at him.
"I'm master of shape-shift and illusion and I'm being beaten by two Laboratory rejects." Just then, he was stabbed in the back with a huge metallic spear-like object. He limps forward as the metal point digs into his nerves, he pulls the blade out, turning to see his attack, Siara. He struck her with a back kick, sending her flying into a large metal spear that a statue was holding. Jodan lunges forward, rolling sideways in a clockwise motion, landing a devastating blow to the head.
Wulf, who was standing to his right, hits him with a side kick to the back, knocking him forward. He attacks with a jab from his left hand, which Jodan pushed into the air; pulling out his sword and jams it into his heart. A light shines through where the blade was. He lets out a long, bellowing "NO!!!!" as his human form slowly turn into stone. Jodan lands a spinning back kick and knocks him to the floor where he crumbled into tiny pieces before his soldiers.
"Really something, eh Jodan. Took all we got, but we kicked his a**!!!"
Jodan stays silent, walks towards the rubble that used to be the Admin and says, "In this army, Wulf. You keep all your fallen opponent owned."
"What, Jodan?"
"I appreciate your help, though this won't change a thing between us. We'll still be enemies. I am giving you a chance to get out of my sight while you still can. We will meet again another time, and trust me… I wont be merciful."
"Jodan, you don't have to do this."
"Oh, but I do. Knights. Escorts Wulf out. And deactivate the explosive. I'll spare this planet."
"What about Siara?"
"Ah yes, the one you saved from that prison planet. Take her with you. Give her a proper burial. She deserves one."
Down on the planet's surface, the bomb continued ticking down to destruction, but after 40 minutes, it came to a stop, and disintegrated.
Outside of the ship in orbit around Zelos prime, a ship exits one of the launch bay tubes, heading for the surface.
Yes, it's been five years since the Zelfor incident. Lots happened in that time, including Jodan's and my tale told here. I still have no idea as why he spared my life on the ship, and what he meant by meeting another time, but wherever you go, I'll find you eventually. And I will be stronger than our last encounter…
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