Aftermath and a new start.

I opened my eyes and got back on my feet. The whole Library was in ruins. The Unnamed child's body had exploded and knocked me out. Once I got back on my feet and regained my balance I noticed Kyra was also knocked out.
I walked over to her to see if she was alright. Apparently she was. That just shows how tough nests are. Freaking overpowered bastards. Anyway, she woke up when I called her name.

Me:" You okay?"
Kyra:" Yeah, I'll be alright."


I helped her get up and she thanked me. She fucking thanked me. o.O Normally I'd get a "Don't touch me." or something.

Me:"..Since when do you thank people?"
Kyra:" Huh?..oh..I just.. I don't know.."
Me:"You sure you're Okay?"
Kyra:" The birds.. they're not controlling me."
Me:"What?"
Kyra:" I don't know, I can still feel their presence but.. I'm back in control over myself. I'm..free."
Me:"How is that even.."

Suddenly Echo crawls out from under a fallen book rack. We helped her get out safely.

Me:" You okay Echo?"
Echo:"...."
Me:"Echo?"
Echo:"..I think so.. its just, the Voices."
Me:"What are they saying?"
Echo:"Nothing.. The whispers are gone..THE WHISPERS ARE GONE!"

I've never seen her so happy. o.O
Same counts for Kyra, she fucking smiled. Kyra never smiles, ever. But she was smiling this time.
Didn't last long though. Echo quickly got back to being scared. Mainly because she's afraid that the Voices will come back. And Kyra started crying. And I was standing there with no clue on what to do.

I had almost forgotten about the Martyrs and the Library girls. As soon as I remembered I went to look for them. The Martyrs were all dead and so was Trish. The other girl was still alive though.
I called Kyra and Echo over to her and we carried her over to the couch.
A little while later she opened her eyes and jumped up.

Her:" WHAAAAAAA.. STAY AWAY FROM ME!"
Me:"Its okay, the Instant is gone, he's sealed."
Her;"The what now?! Who are you people?! Oh god why are there dead people on the floor?!"
Me:".. We were here to protect the Catacombs remember?"
Her:"The what?"
Me:" The domain of the Blind man?..Wait.."

She started crying. I then realized her eye color had changed. Her dark brown eyes were now grey. I suddenly remembered the Blind man touching her and I had read somewhere that Gifted had grey eyes.
She probably had been gifted with a new set of memories. But for some reason she didn't remember her old memories.

Me:"What's the last thing you remember?"
Her:"I..a play, there was a play and then .. screaming. That faceless thing  I ran to the bathroom and and.. Oh god.. I died."
Me:"You what?"
Her:" They killed me.. it must have been a dream.. but how did I end up here?.."
Me:"Maybe. Its Okay now though you're safe with us."

She then wiped her tears and froze.

Me:"Whats wrong."
Her:"My hands.."
Me:" Your hands look fine to me." I started thinking the Choir had infected her through Echo and she was seeing things or something.
Her:"They're black.. "
Me:"Well, so is the rest of you.. "
Her:"What are you talking about I'm Japanese... What the hell happened?!"
Me:"You're..Japanese?.. What?"

I'll save you the rest of this conversation because it was long and confusing as shit. But I managed to conclude that:

1. Her name is Veronica.(The one she remembers at least.)
2. She doesn't know ANYTHING about the Archive or even other Fears.
3. She has none of her original memories.
4. She has all of someone else their memories. (Half Belgian/Japanese girl named Veronica.)
5. She remembers dying by the hands of two monsters.
6. One of the "monsters" sounds a lot like Slendy.
7. The other one reminds me of the Wooden girl.

Now I offered to keep her safe for a while, at least until she gets used to her Identity crisis. Kyra and Echo also want to stay around me. Apparently they have no clue what to do now their Fears are not controlling them. Echo seems more stable now, still paranoid but that's probably normal in her situation. Kyra however is constantly crying and apologizing for all the horrible things she did after becoming a nest. And Veronica is sleeping to recover from all this shit.


Wait.. If the Convocation and Choir are gone.. then Oh my god SHINE! Shine are you there?

Hmm?.. Oh sorry, yes I'm here. ^.^

Phew.. I thought you were gone too.

Nope. Still here. The Instant is gone now though. And I promised I'd leave your body alone as soon as we got him.

...True.. But I changed my mind. I'm going to need your help.

With? o.O

My next target. What do you think partner? Shall we kill another Fear?

Lets. :D
OOH ooh, are Kyra, Echo and the new girl gonna be helping?

Dunno. I'd have to talk to them.

If they say yes we should make a new group blog. For all of us! :3

That's not a bad idea..
A new mission, a new group and a new start. <x3

The Storm, part II

After shooting the Instant I realized that was my last bullet. ._.
So I just threw away the gun and sighed. It didn't matter, guns wouldn't have worked anyway.


The Instant: "Giving up already? That's fast." His grin widened.
Me: "I don't need a gun to stop you."
The Instant: "Its useless, you humans really overestimate yourselves. You can't fight the Gods."
Me:"You're right we do overestimate ourselves. And we can't fight gods. But then again, you're not a god. You're just a shard of a broken and dead god."


That seemed to piss him off. He charged towards me and tried to punch me. I grabbed his fist (or her fist, its confusing..) and blocked it. It was a strong punch but not nearly as strong as I was expecting from a Fear. The Instant seemed surprised too. His expression changed quickly, confused about why I was able to stop him probably.

Shine: "You've absorbed too much of the Unnamed Child's power. You've weakened your host and lost your advantage."
The Instant: " Bullshit!"


I punched him in the face and he stumbled back, kicked him in the stomach. He almost fell down.
His annoying grin disappeared from her face*. Again he charged at me, I dodged, grabbed his/her arm, put my feet in front of his/hers and threw him/her on the floor. He jumped back up and started throwing more punches at me.
He had more power than me but he didn't have any combat training. His movements were predictable. So I managed to block or dodge most of them.


But then I slipped up and he managed to land a blow. I stumbled back against a book rack. He charged at me again. In his rage he seemed to have forgotten about the door to the Catacombs.
He was focused on me now.


I dodged his punches and landed a few myself. But My focus was to get him away from the door and towards the Book. (Even though I still didn't know how to seal him in it. x.x) While I was dancing my way towards where the Library girls were hiding, Kyra and Echo were dealing with the last few Nameless.


The Instant: "STAND STILL DAMMIT!"
Me:" No."

Punched him in the face again. It was then that the Library girls came running out.

Trish: "We've figured out a way to stop him!"
The Instant: "What?!"
Me:" Don't shout the plan while the Instant is listening, damn it!"

Again I punched the Instant while he was distracted.

Me: "Tell Kyra what to do! "

I kept hitting him to keep him busy.
The Girls run towards Kyra but are attacked by two nameless. Trish manages to shoot one of them with a shotgun. But the other jumps at her from the side and stabs her. The other girl screams and drops the Book.


Me: "Shit!"

Distracted by that I failed to notice the Instant's fist. He landed a heavy punch and I hit the wall behind me. He then seemed to suddenly remember about the Catacombs and walked over to the door.
I jumped up and attacked him. He threw me off himself and against a book rack. Echo suddenly attacked him from behind but he punched her in the face and escaped her.
He then dashed towards the door. I got up and ran to the door to stop him, but he was too fast.


Suddenly he stopped moving. His grin reappeared as he looked towards the Book.
I turned around and saw an old man standing over the book. He was wearing a black coat, sunglasses and a fedora.

The Instant:" The Blind Man."

I froze. All our efforts to keep the Instant away from the Blind man and here he just shows up in the middle of the battle. WTF!
The Instant started walking towards the Blind man. The Blind man calmly picked up the Book and opened it. He turned to the Librarian girl (not Trish, the other one.) and put his hand on her head. She closed her eyes and fell on her knees before collapsing on the floor.
The Instant dashed towards the Blind man to jump into him.

The Blind man: "..In any city, in any country..."

The Blind man didn't move as the Instant lay his hand on the Blind man. The Unnamed child's body collapsed. A bright flash followed.
Screams.
The Book closed and a title appeared on it. "The Holder of the Instant."
The Blind man nodded towards me and disappeared.

Me:"What the hell just happened?.."
Shine: "He jumped while the Blind man was reading."
Me: "So he's.."
Shine:"Gone, it's over. The Instant has been sealed."

Before we had a chance to celebrate the Unnamed child's lifeless body started cracking. Out from the cracks a green light was glowing. The light flashed followed by a Bang.



*(Goddamn it this thing's gender is more confusing than EAT's. Do I stick to the Instant's assumed male gender or do I refer to it as female, because its the Unnamed Child's body?)

The Storm, part I

Kyra's birds saw them first. A massive army of nameless. Too many of them to count, marching towards the Library. If you could call it "marching", looked more like shambling. (Seems like the Instant forgot to feed his army.)
I was almost expecting them to groan: "Chaaange??".
A cookie for anyone that catches the reference.


We all grabbed our weapons and got behind some cover we set up earlier. Except the Librarian girls, they were hiding with the Book. I was behind a desk that we put on its side. Waiting for the signal.
The nameless were getting closer, the streets were filled with them. This was it, the final battle.

They rushed towards the Library and started pounding on the windows to get through the barricades. Some of them noticed the front door wasn't barricaded and tried to get through there. It was locked so they had issues getting through.

After a few minutes they managed to shatter the glass of the door and burst through. And Boom, explosive trap. Killed a few of them instantly. The others just trampled over the dead bodies and stormed inside.

The Explosion was the signal, we started gunning them down. While Kyra's raptors and birds attacked the Nameless that were still outside. They were dropping like flies, yet they just kept coming.
By the time I had to reload the entrance was so full of bodies that they formed a barricade against the living ones.


It looked like this would be a cakewalk. But then they got through the window barricades. Soon they were coming from all directions and we were inches away from being overpowered.
It was then that Echo stepped up and screamed her lungs out. The nameless dropped to the ground and became easy targets. (We had earplugs.)
It was all going too well. And we all know what happens when these things go too well.
Shit hits the fan.



The Shit took the form of The Instant who just teleported into the Library from nowhere. "Fuck." Everyone on our side said at the same time.
The Unnamed Child's body had changed. It had grown Older, around my age. But for the rest it looked completely like Kyra described, including the Instant's annoying grin on its face.
He appeared in front of Martyr Mu and waved his hand. Suddenly the Big Martyr guy stopped shooting and turns around.


Martyr Epsilon(leader): "What the hell are you doing Mu! Keep shooting these bastards!"


Then to every one's horror the big guy aimed his heavy machine gun and shot his leader. She fell dead and everyone ducked behind some cover. Theta tried calming him down but the big guy just tossed a grenade, Killing both his team mates. I pulled Echo behind some cover just before he shot at her. Luckily, he missed.

Kyra sneaks behind him and cuts his throat open. Meanwhile the Instant is walking towards the door to the Catacombs. I jump up and stand in between him and the door. Aiming my gun at him.

The Instant: "Out of my way Shining one."
Shine: "We won't let you through you bastard."
The Instant: "Do you really think you and your human pet can stop me now?"
Shine: "She's not a pet, she's my friend."
Me: "Well, only one way to find out."

I then shot the bastard in the head.
It didn't do much, he just healed himself and chuckled.

Quiet before the Storm

We've been spending time barricading the windows and stuff. (Except the front door because it opens outward.  .-. ) Getting our weapons ready and coming up with a strategy. Luckily we've got the advantage when it comes to firepower. And Kyra is able to increase our numbers. So its not the nameless I'm worried about.


Its the fact that we still don't know how to trap the Instant in that book. The Librarians and Martyrs have no clue either. We can't just force him to read it. He's inside the damn Unnamed Child.
We also need to stop him from entering the Catacombs. It's impossible to plan this properly, we'll just have to improvise.


Things never go right when I have to improvise.. Goddamn it.


As for Social interactions, they're not happening. Me, Kyra and Echo (and Shine) Stick to one corner. The Martyrs stick to their corner and the Librarian girls are acting like we're not even here.
I tried talking to the black girl (still don't know her name) but her boss keeps telling her to do stuff so she's always busy.
Kyra and Echo are as talkative as ever. So its just me, Shine and these books.


Honestly I just want this to be over with. Come on Instant, we're waiting.

The Martyrs

The Squad has arrived. There's only 4 of them.. I expected more. At least they've got enough firepower. Apparently the Other Squads are either busy or guarding other Libraries in case the Instant decides to switch locations. That's 9 people (two of which are just librarians) against a Fear possessing a Fear and an army of servants. Sounds like its gonna be a blast. ._.


Its like the Rake thing All over again. But without the Black dog and Newborn helping us.
How do I keep getting mixed up in these situations? I don't even.

One second...




Sorry about that. One of the Martyrs decided it would be a good Idea to hit on Kyra. She told him to fuck off. His Team mate told him to leave her alone because she's a nest. A dangerous one.
(It's true, look what she did to The instant's hide out a few days ago.)
So the guy gives up and moves over to Echo.

Martyr(jerk): "So sweet cheeks, why so lonely?"
She glared at him.
Martyr: "Not the talkative type huh? That's cool, I'll just do talking then. Did anyone ever tell you how smoking hot you are?"

Then the dumb shit touches her arm. Of course, Echo being Echo,  pushes the guy down and attacks him. Before she starts screeching the other Martyrs aim their guns at her. Me and Kyra respond by aiming our guns at them. My first Mexican standoff, how wonderful..

Martyr (2): "Whoa, people there's no need for this. We're all on the same side."
Martyr (jerk): "Tell that to her Theta."
Me: "Your buddy on the floor here started it. Echo has Choir Problems, she's not entirely stable, mentally I mean."
Martyr Theta:" Well neither is Nu over there."
Martyr Nu: "Hey! I'm not crazy."
Martyr Theta: "Lets all just put our weapons down and not kill each other. We're supposed to be guarding the Catacombs here. "
Me: " Agreed. Can't do that when we're dead."

So then everyone put their weapons down and we made sure to keep Echo away from that jerk ass. She's hiding in a corner right now.

As for who these guys are:

Martyr Nu: A jerk, seems to hit on every female he sees. Apparently the sharpshooter of the squad. Has a Creepy moustache.

Martyr Theta: Medic of the group and seemingly only normal guy on the squad.

Martyr Mu: Big bald guy. Heavy armor and Gun. Apparently doesn't ever say a word.

Martyr Epsilon: Female. Leader of the Squad. Short white hair. Seems to be 40-ish years old. Not sure. Has as much happiness inside of her as Kyra does, None. Apparently she didn't try calming down her squad because she hates outsiders. (Insiders too it seems.)

The Library

We arrived at the Library. It was more modern than I expected. I was expecting an old dusty and dark library with a creepy Librarian. Instead I got a Library that's likely younger than me and a cute Librarian girl. She was black (Can't say African American, because this ain't America. African European? African Belgian? I have no clue really.) and around my age. Her jet-black hair was braided into a pony tail-thingy.

Her: "Welcome, you must be the Cloudgirls.
Me: "Cloudgirls?"
Her: "We've seen your blog."
Me: "Ah.. Are we that recognizable?.."
Her: "Mostly her." She pointed at Echo.

Its true, Echo's weird hair color stands out anywhere. That's not a good thing..
It also could have been her constant panicked expression. Any little sound would be enough for her to panic. That's what the Choir does to people I guess. Luckily Shine makes me Immune for it.


Library girl: "Wait here, I'll go get my boss."
Me: "Okay."


A few minutes later she comes back with her boss. A woman somewhere in her thirties I think. Wearing a dark red trench coat, glasses and her blond hair with a normal ponytail.

Boss-lady-person: "Welcome to my Library, my name is Trish Deckers. The Archive appreciates your offer to help. Feel free to use our Library as a temporary hide out. Just be sure to put everything back where it belongs if you should use it.
Unfortunately we only have two beds here so.."
Me: "It's okay, we have Sleeping bags."
Trish: "Excellent. I'll let you settle in while we wait for the Martyr squad to arrive."
Me:" The soldier guys aren't here yet?"
Trish: "They should arrive any moment now."

(They still haven't arrived.)

We just now set up our things, grabbed a few weapons. Just in case the Instant attacks earlier. Luckily there aren't too many Places around here with access to the Catacombs or we'd have no Idea where The Instant will attack. But for now its peaceful, so I might go read a book while we wait for the Martyr squad.

Moving

I contacted the Archive. Apparently they already knew. (Nine chances out of ten its because they keep track of my blog.) They did accept my offer to help defend the Catacombs though. So me, Kyra and Echo And me! .. And Shine, are moving to a nearby entrance to the catacombs. A group of archivists will be waiting for us there apparently.

I can feel the tension in the air. That or its just my nerves or Shine shenanigans.

Nu! D:

I know, I know, twas a joke.
Grabbing the last supplies and then we head out. Hopefully the Archive knows a way to trap the Instant in that Book. Otherwise we'll just have to gamble and improvise. Not really the best strategy to stop the end of the world but I don't have anything better at this point.
So.. Wish us luck. We'll need every bit of it.

Contacting the Archive

I had no idea how to contact these guys. And when I don't know something, I ask EAT. I went back to one of her hideouts and went up to the sleeping camper.


Me: EAT, I need information.
Camper:...
Me: Hello EAT are you there?
Camper:...
Me: WOOHOO EAT ARE YOU THERE?! HELLOOO
Camper:...
Me:Goddamn it, EAT wake the fuck up I need to contact the Archive. Its urgent!
Camper:.. Alicia, I told you last time. I'm otherwise occupied.
Me: I know but this is urgent. I need to contact the archive. The Instant is going after the Blind man. I need their help, now.
Camper: .. I see..


The camper then gave me the contact info of a nearby Archive base. And then it just went back to its sleep. Seriously what could be more important than saving her own ass. Ugh Fears.

Hey we're not all that bad.

You're the exception Shine. You know aside from the boob thing.

^.^

Unless you did something more to my body that I should be aware of? You didn't right?

Umm..

Goddamnit Shine!

I'm sorry D:

What did you do? -_-

Well, you remember how hard a time you were having back when you felt guilty for killing proxies?

Yes?..

I thought I could help by slightly adjusting your brain. To help you not feel so guilty. Because it might cause you to hesitate and get killed by a proxy. And it was making you sad too.

.... wait.. so to make me feel better and to help me with my worries about possibly becoming a psycho.. You turned me into one?! WHAT THE FUCK SHINE.

Not really, just because you don't feel sad for killing people doesn't make you a psycho. o.o

It kinda does actually.. Goddamn it Shine.

I'm sorry. D: I was trying to help. D:

You really don't understand human boundaries do you? Sigh.

... I also fixed your eyes. Your glasses kept falling off so..

... Well that explains a lot..

Sorry. :c

Goddamn it Shine, I can't even stay mad at you. ..Wait did you do that too?

No I swear! D: Just the killing thing, the boobs and the eyes. Nothing more. I'm Sorry v.v

Sigh.. I think I need to go shoot something.

The Instant's notebook

So I went through the Instant's notebook. His plans are worse than we expected. I was thinking he'd start terrorizing human towns. Or that he wanted to compete with the other Fears.
But no, all he wants is power. He wants all of it. Right now he's absorbing as much of the Unnamed Child's power as possible. Once he's satisfied he'll move on to the next target, the Blind man.

He first went after the Unnamed Child. I thought it was because she was a weak Fear. I was wrong, he's smarter than that. He's absorbing her power, as in he's absorbing the ability to make people loyal to him. Even if he jumps now he'll still have her abilities.
The Blind man is next for one reason: Information. If The Instant gets all that knowledge, just think what he could do..

He might be smart but he's not really original. His goal is simply to hunt down all the fears one by one. (This is why he needs the Archive. They probably have enough info to track all of them.) Possessing and draining them of their power. Which would be a good thing. No more Fears, yay. Unfortunately the Instant won't stop there. No, once he's done with the Fears he plans to take the next step. He's going to absorb the Universe. THE WHOLE GODDAMN UNIVERSE... Just fuck.

And after that, the Multiverse. :c

We need to stop him now. Before its too late. But how? Goddamn it I can't do this. Why can't the Fears do something useful for once and save their own asses. (And ours as collateral helpfulness. Whatever the fuck that means.)
I need help damn it.

Ask the Archive.

What?

They're next right? I'm sure they won't want to just lay down without a fight and serve an omnicidal shard.

True. Thanks Shine. Dunno where I'd be without you right now.

Probably dead. ^.^

Hahaha, Shuddup.

You'd also still have an A-cup probably.

What?

You were thinking about how your breasts were so small, you wanted them to be bigger. You were sad at the time so .. I made them grow a bit.

You what?..

I helped you. ^^

... You're not supposed to

Why are you getting angry. O.o

BECAUSE YOU DID THINGS TO MY BREASTS WITHOUT ASKING ME!

But you wanted them to grow, so..

At the time yes, but I could have changed my mind. You don't do that kind of stuff without people's permission. For fucks sake.

Did you?

Did I what?

Change your mind? I could shrink them back again.

... THAT'S NOT THE POINT. You don't do stuff like that to people without asking. I mean what the hell were you thinking.

I wanted to help. :c

I know but I just.. feel violated.

I'm sorry. :(

.. It's okay, I know you were only trying to help. And I did want bigger breasts. I just thought they had a rapid growth spurt. You can stop growing them now though.

Okay. ^.^



Well now I forgot what I was talking about.
Oh right, the Archive. I need to contact them.. somehow. 

Operation ICS: Final step

Step 4: Diversion

Fifty Nameless and going. The Instant is building an army. We needed to find out for what.
In part 2 of this "Operation" we found out they had few to no guns. So to give us a small advantage, I gave some of my guns to Kyra and Echo. (Also gave them some tips on how to use them, not sure if Echo knew what I was talking about but oh well.)
EAT gave me a bunch of them so yeah.

At 2:15 PM the three of us attacked the warehouse. Well actually there were more of us.
Three girls (us), 10 raptors, A flock of convocation birds and a few pterosaur thingies.
Their only advantage was numbers, not anymore.

We just straight up charged at the warehouse. The raptors and birds in front, me and echo in the middle and Kyra behind us while she recovered from her wounds. A few of the Nameless charged at us but were taken care of by the raptors. The birds dived into the building chasing some of the Nameless out of the building. There pterosaurs waited to attack them.

The looks on their faces were priceless. :D

Indeed.
Once a few of the Nameless managed to break through the raptors, it was Echo's turn. Me and Kyra backed up and covered her from a safe distance, safe for our ears specifically..
She screamed and all the Nameless hit the floor. No they didn't start dancing. They fell on their faces.
Was funny to watch. Me and Kyra shot the ones trying to get up. After that we just left.



Wait what?! You left? What the hell was the point of this?! <- most people's reaction right now.

The point was that we simply don't know a way to get the Instant into this book. So why would we even attack him when we don't know how to win?
We don't, this attack was never meant to target him. Some of you might have already figured it out before this post. It was a Diversion. (Like the title of this part says. o:)

Explaining the plan:

Part one: Getting to know the target. Also making them nervous or at least a bit more tense.

Part two: Pretend to attack, watch the confusion and find out what weapons they have.
Two b: Shatter the windows for easy access by birds later.

Part three:  Actually this part was just for the lulz. Wish I had a camera because damn that was awesome.

Part Four: Create a diversion. While the Nameless are busy fighting us three and the convocation Shine, who had possessed a non-convocation bird a bit earlier, flew in through the shattered windows. From there she possessed a random Nameless and looked around the building for clues. She found a file, possessed the dead bird again and flew back to our hide out with a document.

Actually its just a notepad with the Instant's plans in it. But yes, Mission success. We also got rid of 18 nameless. So yay. <x3

P.S. I'll look through the notebook first before posting about its contents. I've only skipped through it a bit.

Operation ICS: Step 3

Step 3: The storm

Once again at 3:30 AM, we went up on the roof. Looked at the Warehouse. "Kyra, wouldn't it be funny if for some reason the weather gods would say: "Fuck this building in particular." What do you think?"

Kyra:"Sounds like a great idea." She grinned.


Five minutes later a flock of convocation birds circled above the warehouse. Clouds soon formed a wind swept by and Boom. Lightning strike directly aimed at the warehouse. And then another. That one set a trashcan on fire. A third one. A fourth. OUCH, that's gotta hurt. One of the Nameless tried to run, not a smart move. He's toast now.

After that the birds flew away. Its still storming but its calming down. No more lightning.
Hey Instant, this is what you get when you try sending Kelevra after me. (If you didn't do that, oh well, you're still an asshole. So fuck you.)


Memo to self: Do not mess with the Convocation. Ever.

Operation ICS: Step two.

Step 2: Inverted Trojan Horse

At 3:32 AM this morning, a van smashed into the front door of the Instant's warehouse. Several nameless came out and surrounded the van. They were armed with large knives, scrap metal, crowbars. No guns as far as I could tell.

They counted.
1,2,3
They swung the doors open and then.. nothing. The van was empty.

I think the van smashing through the door at least hurt one of them though. Not sure how much he was hurt, oh well.



Step 2.b:
 Echo just went up on the roof and screamed as hard as she could. Most windows of the warehouse shattered and some of other nearby buildings too. Oops.

We were over in the other building behind her. With as much sound proof stuff to keep our ears intact. And I still have a headache from it anyway. She really is like a Banshee. o.o

Operation I.C.S.: Step one.

Strategy, I have one.
Not gonna tell you about it because I'm sure the Instant sneaks a peak at my blog at times. So Instead I'll be posting each step after said step has been done.

Step One: Say hello.
We observed the building itself from a nearby roof. Not too long, just a few hours we stopped before the sun started setting. Can't see much in the dark after all. (No we don't have night vision goggles or other expensive stuff. Unfortunatly.)
Either last count was incorrect or the nameless are growing in numbers slowly. There were thirty of them this time. Scattered around the building. Looks like an old warehouse, two stories high. Haven't seen the Instant himself but Kyra says the birds saw him.

Before we left we walked to the edge of the roof and waved at them. Letting them know we are watching and that we'll strike soon. <x3



(They were expecting us anyway.)

Operation: Instant Coffee stain.

Things I call "Operations" Always go badly so, yeah not much hope for this one.
Frankly I have no idea how to make the Instant read from this book. Isn't there another way to trap him inside?
Also, because the Book calls to Shards, including Shine, I'm trying to stay away from it. I don't want to read from it but.. its tempting me. So I decided to let Kyra have the Book. Its safer that way.

Thought out several plans of attack. None of them seem safe enough to use.This is why I never plan too much, I suck at planning. And I realize it, so I start to worry about all that could go wrong and I end up not doing it. So Instead I jump right into it.
 At least we know where the bastard is, thanks to the Convocation. The problem is him being surrounded by nameless. I mean they aren't heavily armed but there are a lot of them. Last count says 25.

Probably a cakewalk for guys like Incognito or Kelevra. Or Arkady, he'd just walk in and somehow come out alive anyway. But no, I'm just a little girl. I don't have experience doing this shit. I'm usually the one getting attacked and all I try to do is escaping.

The few times I was the one doing the attacking I only had a few enemies. Or I got my ass saved at the last minute. Even with the rake thing I got my ass saved and only took down three meanads.
Sure I got two team mates now, with powers too. But I really have no Idea how I'm gonna do this.
I can't rely on EAT's help either this time. I asked her, it said it was too busy with something important. I wonder if its still the same thing from last time. Whatever that was.

Even my kill count is exaggerated. Last time I said I passed 100. I lied. Its probably closer to Fifty. Which still sounds like a lot but like Twenty of them were an accident. It involved a bus full of proxies and a river. Don't ask.

I just counted the ones that fell into EAT's traps too. Why? Because I wanted proxies to be scared of me. And it worked, for the most part. So yeah, I'm fucked now.


Wait why am I so focused on fighting him. I've tried that in the past, I need a new approach.  I need.. stealth.<x3

Owly M.D.

Now that I'm back I finally got me some rest. Can't fight the Eldritch when I'm passing out half the time. So while I'm recovering from my field trip into the Empty City (Worst trip ever, I wouldn't recommend this to ANYONE, Negative five star rating.) I'll take the time to get to know our new member, Echo.

I'm gonna pull a Kelevra here (as in mimicking his posts, I'm not actually gonna pull Kelevra, I'm not suicidal. No really I'm not.) and post this as if it was a medical file. Hence the title of this post.


Name: Echo

Real name: ??? (Seriously, who the hell would name their kid "Echo"?)

Age: 17-19?


Interview:

Me: So, Echo.. mind telling me a bit about yourself?
Echo: ..I don't want .. to..
Me: ... I'll just ask you a few basic questions then, you don't have to answer if you don't want.
Echo: ...
Me: So .. Those screams of yours, how do you do those?
Echo: ..Do what?
Me: You know fry peoples brains with just your voice?
Echo: .. I don't know..
Me: Well then.. Have you always been able to do that or?
Echo:.. No.. it first happened when the voices told me to..
Me: Told you to what?

She looked away, obviously didn't want to answer that one.

Me: You hear voices then?
Echo: Yes.
Me: What do they say?
Echo:.. Who?
Me: The voices.
Echo: .. They tell me not to trust you.
Me: Why?
Echo:  I don't know.. They say you are friends with the bird lady.. Kyra..She's dangerous.

 (Can't argue with that.. She is dangerous.)
Now I had some ideas about Echo and the voices thing made me believe that one of them was correct.  But I wasn't sure so:

Me: Hmm, do you happen to have any mold or fungus on your skin?
Echo: Fungus?.. Blood
Me: What?
Echo: Doctors said.. They found fungus in my blood.
Me: In your blood? Holy crap.
Echo: They lied, they wanted to cover up.. and kill me..DON'T LET THEM KILL ME!!
Me: Its okay, nobody here wants to kill you. I'll leave your room now. Dinner is at seven okay?
Echo: ... Okay..


Confirmed my suspicions. I was right. Also, she creeps me out.. a lot.


Symptoms:

• Severe Paranoia
• Sonic screaming
• Hearing voices
• Fungus in her bloodstream

Diagnosis:

Chronic Choir Infection.
 Carriers (she's technically not a greyskin, even though its the same thing) don't have a high life expectancy. There is no cure unfortunately (that I know of). She won't be surviving for very long. Poor girl.



Wish I could help her but I can't. Goddammit, this is why I hate the Fears.

Face off with the Slender man.

Sorry about the last post.
I really didn't expect the Slender man to show up in yggdrasill. I got up and ran as soon as I posted. I accidentally left the laptop back there. Luckily I didn't forget the Book.
He followed me all the way back to the upper layer. He just wouldn't give up, not even when he accidentally broke the tunnel wall. He almost fell through the hole too. o.o 

That slowed him down enough to let me escape. Once I was back in the tower I woke up Alicia and told her we got the Book but the Slender man was chasing us. She panicked and jumped out of a window. D:

You make it sound like I wanted to kill myself..
Yes, I jumped out of a window. But that was because there was a roof of another building directly below us. And yes, I knew it was there. <.<
I've learned that the key to surviving encounters with the tall bastard requires improvising. Being unpredictable helps a lot. And whats more unpredictable than jumping out a window?

Jumping out of two windows?

...Actually that's more predictable. Anyway..
Once I was on the roof I looked back and saw him standing there in the window. With his head tilted to the side, watching me. I stared back at him.
Part of me was screaming in my head, telling me to run.

Wasn't me.

But this whole trip had left me completely exhausted. Plus I was on a frigging roof, where was I gonna run to? So I just stood there, tilting my head too. Mimicking him a bit.
Tentacles sprouted from his back and stared lashing around in the air. He himself was completely standing still though.

So yeah, I was completely fucked. And scared as shit. Seriously I was gonna fucking die!
But then suddenly..
The building(the one I was on) dropped. Like an elevator or something.
The whole frigging building dropped like fifteen stories. Leaving Slendy way up there. Of course he could just have "slenderwalked" over to me. But luckily a Door appeared next to me before he could do that.

So Yeah, I'm back. Mission accomplished bitches. <x3


Side note: Holy shit I got lucky. Was the Empty city helping me or something?... If so, WHY?..

Woopoo!!

Got the Object! :D
It was right where I left it. Not really surprising since who would go through all this effort for a broken Object? Especially since nobody else knew where it was.
You're probably wondering what Object it is, well its a book.  :O

The same Book I was trapped in thousands of years ago. A small but thick black book with silver markings. Its calling to me, it wants me to read it. If I read from it I'll be trapped inside. So nope not gonna happen. Gonna have to figure out how to get the Instant to read from it.  :I

So tempting..
To read from it.
I wonder what ..

What the hell. D:
What is he doing here?
Oops, sorry I have to go.

The Slender man just showed up in here. OHNOEZ!

Cat nipple!

I'm getting closer to the Object. Luckily Alicia is still "sleeping", she'd have gone mad by this point. 
I know some of you think she's a psycho already. Because she's killed so many proxies. But if she was awake now her mind would get so damaged she'd either kill everything around her or she'd think she's a Cat nipple.

:3

Or a cannibal, in which case she'd probably eat her own arm before even getting out of here. I remember this place was even hard for me to be in, back when I was a weaker shard.
Don't get me wrong, the actual place LOOKS boring. But when you realize this place is made of parallel lines that intersect.. Yeah, Non euclidean Geometry, yay! :D

But yeah, otherwise its just like walking through endless tunnels in a cave. (The cave would be the size of several universes.) Except outside these tunnels, is nothing. Aside from the Core but that's a whole different topic. So its best not to bring anything that can explode into these tunnels. If the wall cracks and you fall through... D:

At least its not the Quiet. Although its close enough. Anyway, enough rambling time to get my Object back!

I'm freaking out.

Fucking hell.
We've reached the 279th floor finally. Even though the City made it fucking hard to get here. Every time we thought we were making progress, a wall appeared. So we had to go into the inner tower. Which looked like just a regular office building. Grey,white and boring but Green and weird as fuck too. I mean.. It was white,grey and green at the same time. I can't even explain it without it sounding like nonsense.

I don't know, I think I'm losing my mind in this place.

I told you this place has that effect on people. That's why I have to take over before we go into Yggdrasill, it just gets worse down there.

Yeah, I could use a rest right now. I haven't slept since we got here.
Anyway, all the while we were being followed by whatever it was. If there was anything at all that is. I mean I heard sounds behind me from time to time. And you know that feeling of being watched right? I had that all the time. I fucking hate that feeling. I could almost feel from what direction they were watching me but .. I just..

And then outside was even weirder. There were windows all around even where the stairs were supposed to be. Even though there were no windows whenever I was walking up the stairs. Only when I was inside..
And everything outside seemed to change every time I looked away. Buildings were shorter or taller than a second earlier, buildings moved or switched places Sometimes I could see the ground below other times I only saw the roofs of the buildings below us.

Just thinking about it is making me dizzy. I can't do this anymore, Shine take over for a while, I need to sleep..

Okay, I'll take it from here. 
AAAAnd she's sleeping. Poor girl's been awake for two days now. Well two Empty city "days" Its probably been longer back in our universe.

The gate to Yggdrasill looks the same as ever. Probably the only part of the surface that doesn't shift. Just a round, dark opening in the wall. Inside is a black tunnel with white shadows, that leads all the way down to the core. 

Well I better not waste any time, off I go! WEEEE!! :3

Dreams like this weren't made to last.

Kyra reporting in.

I decided to retry the Scare&Chase tactic from my last post again. If I don't mention I want to find the Unnamed child, they might run to her for protection or whatever. This time Echo was there to help me so our chances of success were slightly higher.

Took us a few days to find the nameless again. Once again he was in a park. We moved quickly because the sun was starting to set. And I didn't want to chase this guy in the dark.
We walked up to him and Echo screamed at him before he noticed us. I rushed forward, grabbed his throat while he was disoriented and pushed him against the tree.

Him:" Shit, you again!"
Me:" Yes, me, again."
Him:"Let me go!"

I grinned as sadistically as possible to scare him. "No."

Him:"I won't tell you anything! You can't make me talk!"

"I don't want you to talk though, I want you to scream." I said while brushing the tip of my knife over his face.

It worked, he immediately panicked and stabbed me with a knife he had hidden. I pretended to not enjoy the pain and let him go. He saw a chance and ran. Echo wanted to grab him, I stopped her.

Me:" We don't want him dead, just follow him."

She nodded and we ran after him. Pretended to hunt him down, threw several knives at him. A bird had crawled out of my wound earlier and helped us keep track of him. Everything was going as planned.


But after three minutes of chasing him, everything went wrong.
Out of nowhere a man jumps up and tackles the nameless. Both of them stopped moving, me and Echo stopped running before realizing what happened.

Echo:" It..Its him! The shape shifter!"
Me: "Son of a bitch!"

The nameless opened his eyes and grinned. I'd recognize that fucking creepy, smug grin anywhere. The Instant, he had successfully taken over the nameless. Which meant he now knew the location of the Unnamed Child. Which means we were fucked.

I didn't give him a chance to get up and stabbed him through the chest before he could get on his feet. This didn't do much of course but it gave Echo time to come close and scream right in his face. I jumped out right before she did But it still hurt my ears.. (I should have brought ear plugs.)

He dropped to his knees but managed to roll away from her and started running. I tried to block his escape and slashed at him with my knife. It slashed through his shoulder but he just kept running and got past me.

Me:" Fuck!"


Me and Echo ran after him again. We chased him all the way until we reached an old playground. It was crawling with nameless, ten of them I think. And in the center of it all, a child, the Unnamed Child. She looked about four or five years old. Had a head slightly too big for a human child. Eyes were way larger than they should be, Black sclera ,green Irises. Her skin looked slightly reptilian, or just very dirty. And she wore a filthy rag that was supposed to be a dress.
Her sad expression would have made me feel sorry for her, If the birds hadn't taken my emotions away.

The Instant Walked straight towards her. We tried to catch him but the nameless blocked our way. They protected him, thinking he was one of them. Morons.
He looked back us and grinned. That fucking grin pisses me off every time.

Me: "Echo, Scream!"

Echo followed my order and screamed as loud as she could. This stunned the nameless and gave me time to cut myself open. A raptor jumped out of me and went straight after the Instant. 
Echo jumped on one of the nameless and fried his brain with her screams.

The Instant struggled with the raptor. It bit off his hand before he stabbed it with his other hand. He cut open the raptor only to be attacked by a flock of birds that burst out of the raptor. He fell on the ground as they pecked on him.


Meanwhile the Unnamed Child, who had just been standing there, turned around and skipped away into the bushes. By this time my wound had closed up enough for me to intercept an attack of one of the nameless. I stabbed him in the gut and kicked him down. Turned around to slash another one's throat.
A third one jumped at me but I repelled him with an electric shock from my hand.

Echo was being assaulted by the five remaining nameless. I turned my attention to the Instant, who had just escaped from the birds. So I chased after him and let Echo deal with the nameless.


 At that point I was getting exhausted. The Instant however doesn't have to deal with that stuff so he quickly caught up with the Unnamed Child.
I ran towards them, but before I could reach them the Instant reached out to her.

She turned around and flung his body into the trees as if it weighed nothing. But it was too late, he had managed to touch her. I realized that when She started crying. Her cries were louder and more painful than Echo's screams. 
I could feel her sadness and pain. 

And then suddenly, she stopped, looked up to me and .. that fucking grin appeared. I couldn't believe it, A shard just possessed a fucking Fear, that's not supposed to be possible! 

Before I could get my thoughts back together, a bunch of nameless popped up. No idea where they came from. The Instant pointed a finger at me.
They looked towards me and charged at me, I ran.

Echo had dealt with the five nameless but was badly beaten up. I was surprised she could still run. Then again she didn't have much choice. Luckily we escaped.
But we failed.

And now we're all fucked beyond our worst nightmares. 


...Fuck

Kyra out.

I think something is following me

Ever since I went into this tower I've had this feeling that I'm no longer alone. But not in a good way. Maybe its just another way the City is toying with me or I'm being stalked. That or I'm just getting paranoid, I don't know.
Maybe its just this tower's eldritch geometry messing with my mind. Its certainly giving me a headache. Fucking hell.

That's normal, its only gonna get worse the higher we get.

What floor are we on now? I lost count.

The 96th.

...Damnit.


Also the time on my laptop looks kind of like this:



 

1̡̃̔̄̓͋ͪ̇ͤͬ̅̃̎̈́̓ͩ͑̚͝9̸̵̶͆̋̇̏̇̅̊ͬ͂̐ͤ͌̾̓̀ͮ̑̀̚:̸͊́̆͐̏ͤ̎͝4̧̓͑̔ͦ͂̓̆̒̍̀͑̈̐̔̂̚͟7̵̴̵̌̍͆͌̅͒ͫͤ͢͜
̛͌ͫͥ̏̈́͊̽͠3̵̇̉̅̓̎̋̂̐̅ͪ̉́ͯͦ͊͆ͬ̀͜4̷̶̷̨ͬ̅͊ͧ̎͆̊̍̎ͩ̐̓͑̐̄̚/̧̨̡̇͗̒̊̅̏̊̇̇́̒͑̑0̢̧̏ͫͩ͌̈́ͫ͝͝͏8̈́ͤ͌̉̅̄͒ͮͨͭ̅ͣ̉̑͏̴̨͠͝/̍̏͂̒͛̊̓̽̓͛͊̊̎͛҉̕2̸̢̢ͬͩ͑ͩ͜͝0̵̶̶̡̐̃̐͛̐̋̆ͫͯ̆̿̏̑̿ͮ͐͐̎̚͢1̡̡̢͊̂ͭͯ̌ͮ͑̇̈́ͯ͐͆̎̀̚͜3ͥͮ̈̑͑͗ͬ̌͛̌́̎ͤ̂̽ͮ̓͢҉̶́

Yes I know thats the Zalgo font but its the closest I could find. Lets just say it looks fucked up.
Another obstacle apparently is a wall, in the middle of the fucking stairs. I can't go up this way apparently. I'm hating this city more and more. Guess we'll have to find another way up. Lets see whats behind that door we passed a while ago.

We don't really have another choice. 

This is gonna suck.. I just know it..

Yup. :3

Found the Tower

Holy shit this thing is huge. Probably higher than any building on earth. But I could be wrong, I have no knowledge about buildings. Still, this thing is gigantic. And I doubt the elevators are working so.. fuck.

Actually they do work. But Elevators in the Empty city..

Are traps. Of course, should have known that.

Mhmm.

I fucking hate this place. So what Floor was it again?

279th.

Okay then. But first a break, I'm fucking exhausted.
Not too long though, this place freaks me out. Still silent as fuck, the closer I got to the tower the weirder the buildings got. They also look more like ruins than actual buildings. Honestly I can't even describe some of these buildings. Just looking at them makes my brain hurt.

For example: A triangle shaped wall, with three right angles. I don't even know how..

Anyway Time for a snack and then inside the tower we go. Why do I have a bad feeling about this?..

Nightmares were not made to last

Kyra reporting in again.

I found the nameless in a park. My plan was to rough him up a bit before letting him go. Then have a bird follow him, in the hope he would return to his "mistress". But just as I had grabbed the bastard I felt a knife being jabbed into my backside.

I turned around and saw the Banshee bitch jumping at me from behind. She screamed right in my face and pinned me down while I was disoriented. Birds tried to crawl out of the wound on my backside. But her screams made them unable to move. The nameless managed to escape while I was trying to push this bitch off of me.

I was sure I was about to die right there but the Birds decided differently. Suddenly a shock of electricity ran through my hands and pushed her off of me. I got back on my feet and grabbed the knife that she stabbed me with.

The electricity had partially paralyzed her for a moment. So when she tried to get back up, she couldn't. She growled up at me, trying harder. 
Alicia had asked me to try "befriending" the Banshee. I doubted it would work but I gave it a try anyway.

Me: So Banshee lady, why the hell are you attacking me all the damn time?
Her: You are... a threat... must kill bird lady..  before she kills me..
Me: Bird lady?..Seriously? 
Her: You and the .. shape shifter, both.. must.. die
Me: I'm gonna guess you mean the Instant. See lady, I'm trying to kill that bastard too and I -
Her: I won't let you kill me!
Me: I'm not trying to kill you dammit, you're the one attacking me! The Instant however IS trying to kill all of us. So I'll offer a deal with you, you help me kill the Instant and I'll leave you alone forever. I won't harm you unless you try to attack me. 
Her: Lies! lies!

At this point she was starting to crawl back on her feet and I was starting to get annoyed.

Me: Dammit woman, I don't even know you, why would I want you dead?
Her:..
Me: I don't even know your name for fucks sake. If you don't want to help that's fine but just don't get in my way. Although we both want this guy dead and working together would make that easier to do. (God, I almost sound like Alicia) 
Her: ..I-I'll help.
Me: Huh.. Okay, good. I'm Kyra and you are?
Her:..Vi-..Echo, my name is Echo.


Well who was expecting that to work? Certainly not me. I still have no idea what she is though. I asked her about the Fears but she seemed to have no idea what I was talking about. So I'll just call her a Banshee. She seems mostly human, except her long cyan colored hair and two different colored eyes. Which could still be "normal" for humans. If the hair is dyed..
Those screams however aren't human. Maybe Alicia will find out more, she knows more about the Fears. Until then she'll just be a mystery I guess. One that hopefully won't murder me in my sleep.

Kyra out.

And the Eldritchness starts to show.

The last message on the walls was: "Damn it woman get the hell out of h ".
After that one the Door disappeared and the messages stopped. Either the City realized it wasn't gonna work on me or I'm really screwed now.

I also see a huge tower in the distance. Shine says that's where we're supposed to go. Except we can't go there in a straight line because then we'd just get stuck in a "loop". Not a Slender man Loop but similar. The City would just keep repeating itself and the tower would never get closer.
Instead we're walking to the left, then right, then left, then right, then right, then right, then right then right, then left,etc.

And it SEEMS to be working. But in this place you can never be sure. Even if the tower seems to be getting closer. The buildings are also getting a bit.. distorted. Doors in windows, walls in shapes that shouldn't be physically possible, the Eiffel tower which appears to be melting.

Really weird stuff. But still no signs of life other than the City itself. Its creeping me out, silence is scary. Been walking for about a day now I think. Not sure though, the time on my laptop is stuck on 9:27 AM, and has been for a while.

I just hope Shine knows what she's doing.

I do.

Good. Lets keep moving then. <x3

Soldiers are not made to last

Kyra reporting in.

Now that Alicia is once again gone I have to do this myself again.
Maybe its better this way. With all those dumb ass proxies after her I barely had time to find a nameless. But I found one and right now I'm chasing him. So I don't have much time to post.

I'll report again when I caught him.

Kyra out.

I already hate this place

The City is taunting me.
That Door I came through to get here, is following me. A frigging hovering Door, is following me. WTF

Its like 10 meters behind me every time I turn around. No some might think this is a good thing. Now I can just run back to it whenever I want to get out of here. But I know enough about this place to know better. As soon as I try to run to it, it'll disappear. Or it will move away from me, or something.

Aside from that damned Door nothing seems to be here. If I didn't have Shine this place would be .. well empty. If I didn't know any better I'd expect the Cold brat to show up. But luckily there haven't been any nursery rhymes or temperature drops yet. Then again I've only been here for a few hours.

You think you know how Empty this place is. But trust me you don't. I didn't either.
Imagine walking through a city at night. No people around you, no cars, no sounds. The lights flicker, the sky is completely dark grey, almost black. No stars in the sky, no moon or clouds either, just grey.
I'm not just in an empty city, I'm in an empty frigging Universe.
The only signs of life I've seen are those messages written on the old grey walls.


"Turn back!"
"ES cape"
"Danger ahead"
"What you seek is not here"
"Our princess is in another castle."

What? I didn't see that one yet..

Look, there.

...I don't even...

Opening the door

Not going to give you guys a goodbye message. Because I did that last time, anything I say now wouldn't be anything new. So if you want a goodbye message go read that one.
Or we'll just have to assume I'll make it out alive. I like that option better.


The Door is in front of me. Floating in the air, no wall behind it, just a Door. I'm hesitant to open it. But I have to do this. If I don't the Instant will succeed in doing whatever it is its trying to do. And we all know he's not trying to fill the world with fluffy kittens. Unfortunatly it will be something bad, very bad. And I can't let that happen.

So here we go.

You sure about this?

No.

Alrighty, lets go then! :D


Holy hell thats..

The Empty City.

A very empty city..

Well what did you expect?

I don't know, something eldritch, weird, horrible. But its just a city, an empty one.

Oh trust me, its eldritch and horrible alright. Now just go inside, I'll tell you where to go.

Ok then, lets do this. <x3

Weee!

The plan:

I will guide Alicia in and hopefully out of the Empty City. Once inside I will try to get her safely to the entrance of the inner parts of the City. The entrance is on the 297th floor of the tallest building. And then its straight down from there.

Once there I'll have to take over for Alicia. Human minds normally aren't really able to withstand being in yggdrasill (The passage from the Empty cities surface to its Core.) let alone its deeper parts. Luckily we won't have to go inside the Core, I wouldn't be able to protect her in there. We just have to go halfway down to reach the location of the Object.
Once I find it I'll rush back up to the surface, hopefully before Alicia's mind suffers any permanent damage.

And then its just a matter of getting back to this universe. I almost make it sound easy. o.o'


You make it sound TOO easy.

^.^'

Anyway while I'll be down there risking a fate worse than death, Kyra will stay here and keep the Instant from taking over the world until I get back. Which gives me an excuse to force her to blog again. Good news for all her fans huh? (If she has any.)

 Wish us luck. We'll need it.  <x3

Did some research.

This post is where I would put the results of my research.

Five days of research and no results. Fucking hell.
Then again if a weakness of shards was that easy to find everyone would know by now.


Also this might be easier if I didn't get distracted by all these new pokémon popping up. Once this Instant thing is over, I'm gonna play pokémon for a few days. Not even gonna leave my room.
Just me and my pokémon. Catching pokémon is so much easier and more fun than this shit.


Wait...
If the Instant is too powerful for shine to absorb, then what if we just weaken him enough first?
Like a pokemon needs to be weakened before catching it. Then Shine can swoop in and absorb him.
I remember Moony saying he sealed away the Instant temporarily at the cost of some of his own power. So that means they CAN be weakened. Just have to figure out how..


Ooh! I think I know a way!

What? Tell me!

Well not being able to move isn't the only reason we don't like possessing objects. They drain our power too.

So if we can trick the Instant into an object..

He would get weaker! But.. that would take ages. Its a slow process.

Oh, damn.

Buuuuut..

Huh?

There are certain objects that are stronger. Strong enough to trap us even.

Wait why are you telling me this? If people found out about this they would start using these items to hunt you all down.

XD

What?

Yeah no, that's not gonna happen.

Why?

The Objects are almost impossible to get. For humans at least.
The other Fears have hid them and put them in a hands of a guardian. Each of the Objects has its own guardian or "holder".

Wait why do the other Fears hide them? Can they trap the Fears too then?

No, just shards. The Fears hide them because the Objects hold a shard each. And if the human who found the Object dies, the Shard is released. As long as the shards are trapped in the Objects and the Objects are separated nothing happens. But eventually all the Shards will be free and then they will seek each other and become whole again.

Oh.. and the Fears don't want the Dying man to become one again huh?

Yup. That's why they hide the Objects.

But if the objects already have shards then how would they help against the Instant?

If we can find an empty one we can trap him inside. The empty ones, or "broken" Objects as some call them, have some of our power left inside. Enough power to trap us once again. And then they'll drain us of our power, faster than normal objects do.

Then we wouldn't even need you to absorb him? Since he'd be trapped.

Indeed.

Awesome.

The hard part however is finding said objects.

Do you have any idea where you can find one?

The Empty city.

...Crap.

Indeed.

Back in business.

After that little side quest where a god died. Its time to return to my real quest. The one where I have to prevent a new god being born. Or whatever the Instant's goal is.

I met back up with Kyra, which explains her lack of posting. Since she was only doing it to communicate with me. She's still as stubborn and hostile as ever. Talking about Kyra, why does she have to walk around half naked all the time. <.<
I know that its easier to cut herself and let out the birds/raptors that way but dammit its too distracting.

I wish I could give you guys an update on our progress but we have none. Ever since I got back we've been bombarded by proxies.
Where are they even getting all these proxies? And as much as I'd like to take credit for taking out hordes of proxies, I can't. Kyra is the one doing most of the killing around here now. And if its not her, its that banshee chick that shows up out of nowhere and attacks anyone that comes too close.
 I really should ask EAT some questions. If anyone knows why these proxies are so desperate to get me, its her. 


On another note, we need a plan. Its obvious we can't kill the Instant in any normal way. Last time we tried that Yaro got killed. So its time to do some research. <x3

The Rake

So the plan was to attack a colony of maenads and hope the Rake showed up. We drove there by bus and were split into teams. I was paired up with Kenny (the guy who writes that blog I linked to a few posts ago.) and another guy named Fang.

Shine had been singing annoying songs while we were on the bus. The whole damn time. -.-
Luckily only I had to suffer through them as she didn't sing them out loud. Its like having a song stuck in your head, but worse.


Awe, My singing is not that bad!

No but your taste in music is.

Lies!

Next time I'm bringing a radio.

That's fun too. ^^


Anyway once we arrived I put on my gloves and loaded my gun. Kenny shuffled towards us. I suggested he get his weapon ready. He looked at his staff, I expected him to have something else for a weapon but I guess a Staff works well too.
I don't read his blog so shuddup.

I didn't say anything.

I wasn't talking to you Shine.

Oh.


 Fang pointed out a grocery store where we might find some Maenads. They then barged in there and started attacking people. (And then proxiehunter said I have a death wish. <.< If I do then these guys probably have one too. Just saying.)
I ran inside after them and started shooting. The more chaos the higher our chances of Rakey showing up I figured.

Suddenly a woman jumped on me out of nowhere. She pinned me down on the ground and my gun flew out of my hands. I tried to kick her off of me but she was stronger. Right when she was about to try and bite my face off, Kenny hit her on the head with his staff and she collapsed.

Guess that staff was a better weapon than I thought. I should thank him for saving me there.
Anyway, I threw her off of me and rolled behind some cover. Because someone was shooting from somewhere, with my gun apparently.

Kenny said he was gonna help Fang, who was also being pinned down apparently. I agreed and said I'd go get my gun back, the fun way.
So I crouched and went to the other end of the aisle before sprinting out trying to get to the back of the store. A guy came up at me and I punched him in the face. Knocked him out instantly. (And that's why I love my gloves. ^^ )

I then crawled around and got behind the guy with my gun and attacked him. I quickly had him pinned down and started punching him till he passed out. Grabbed my gun again and reloaded it.
The fucker wasted most of my bullets.

But it sure was fun!

I then walked back to the entrance. Fang and Kenny soon followed. We figured that would have been good enough and went back to the others.





The others were waiting for us at the gas station. Now we just had to wait for the third group but not for long. The three of them came sprinting towards us, one of them shooting behind them.
Our plan obviously worked, the rake was right behind them.

Now I had seen pictures of this thing before but goddamn it was ugly. Like Gollum but far worse. It had beady red eyes and fangs and giant blade-like claws. And it was coming straight at us.
If it had been just me and my guns I would be FUBAR right now. Maybe even mistaken for ground beef.

It was then that the "Inspector" stepped forward. I had no idea what he was gonna do, I hadn't payed attention to anyone in our group really. So I was surprised when suddenly the Rake looked like it had forgotten what it was even doing. It just walked around in circles, as if it was confused for some reason. All the while the Inspector was just standing there in front of it.

Next part of the plan: "Have Fang (runner from the black dog, I assume.) think about his darkest secrets and hope the mutt shows up."
Not the best plan but it worked. Just on time too, the Rake seemed to be regaining its senses.

Suddenly this huge black canine leapt up at the Rake and pinned it down. All I could see was two blurs fighting. One black with yellow glowing eyes the other White-ish with red eyes. Blood and Fur all over the place. An Impressive sight really.



Not too long into the fight and suddenly this small robot-spider-face thing comes scurrying at the fighting Beasts and jumps in. Not really how I pictured the newborn to look like..
It had come to help apparently, only to have the Black dog grab it between its jaws and throw it away.
I laughed a bit. Seriously, it was funny.

The Black dog and the Rake just kept at it. Every injury they caused each other healed itself up again. But after a while it became Obvious that the Rake was healing and dealing damage faster. If this kept up it would win and then come after us.

It was then that the Newborn showed up again. It had changed, improved even. On its legs were now long metal claws and it also had steel fangs. I was partly impressed and partly worried at its learning capabilities. It will only become stronger if it keeps doing this, not a good thing. Not good at all..

It jumped on the Rake and slashed and bit at it. But the Rake was strong and was about to break free.
When suddenly a gunshot rang out. It hat hit the Rake and the monster collapsed. The other two Fears jumped on it and tore It apart in a matter of seconds.

We thought the Shot came from on of ours. But our sniper said it wasn't him. We looked around to see where the shot came from and then we saw him, the Archangel.
He stood on a rooftop nearby with a sniper rifle. He put away his gun and turned to us. Then he tipped his bowler hat and disappeared.


It took three other Fears but we did it, we killed the Rake. We killed a fucking Fear. So all you runners out there, there is hope. We can kill these bastards. We can win. We just need to band together and form a plan. It will take a long time, but we can do this. The Fears will fall.