Chronicles of Myth Volume One: Twisted Daydreams

Scene Fourteen

“You’re different… where did that scared girl go, I wanted to apologize to her… and please tell me who I am talking to right now. The piece of you that wants to kill me or the piece of you that wants your friends back”? “Anyways I’m not in the mood to fight, so if you’ll step out of the way”.  Nolan looked at the body bags with the same hunger as the first time we fought, I blocked his path, but he pushed me aside. “Technically I killed them so like any hunter I’m entitled to my kills, yes”? I stood in front of him, “No… you won’t touch them”! I formed nine long blades of water out of my upper back, “Leave now… don’t make me into a killer”. “Don’t try to be what you’re not… that disgusts me more than anything”. Nolan grabbed me by the neck and tossed me into in a streetlight, he looked at the house; “It should have taken you at least another month to rebuild the place… how the hell did you do it alone”? He walked over and primed his blade to my forehead, “Nolan that’s enough”! We heard the command from a distance; at the far right of the parking lot, I saw Ragnarok standing with someone; Nolan put away his sword and looked me, “like my suit”? He extended his hand helped me to my feet, I looked at what he was wearing… it was a seamless blend of black and white silk, it reflected his twisted personality quite well, but underneath all the madness… I could see there was still some sympathy and compassion left, maybe even the ability to love. “It looks nice”. “Good, I’d be clear about before, I get a little zealous when I meet new people… so yeah, normally I don’t hold back as much as I did”. I saw him salivate as he spoke out the words. “So firstly… sorry for trying to eat you, and everything. Secondly… that was wonderful meal and I want to thank you for providing it on your behalf”. He said wiping his mouth with a handkerchief. “It’s definitely not every day you befriend a cannibal”. Nolan smiled at me, this time as a person, not a chunk of meat. Ragnarok walked over to us with a stranger dressed in tiger lily orange combat gear and mask, in a sense he was a walking fireball; his armor glowed white hot in the evening sunlight, the sunset behind him and his armor faded into a darker shade of orange; “We’ve got a party to crash, you ready to rock”. I heard Nolan say to Ragnarok, then Ragnarok spoke to me, “Astoria are you feeling alright”? I looked at him: “I’m not too sure how I’m feeling right now”. “Louis… hold down the fort and watch over her… please”. Ragnarok spoke to the man besides him, “There are few bounty hunters who stick to their original employer, but you’re lucky I’m not that kind of person”. “We can agree on that much, let’s try not to kill each other at least for the next few days”. “Deal”. “We might die you know that right, Ragnarok”? “Nolan… we have lives to save, the bodies should be sown together; we just have to place the souls back in them”. “Aw… you’re no fun… you’d better take me to the morgue after all of this”. “Fine… I’ll get you all the bodies you can eat”. Ragnarok said holding his forehead at the image. “Om nom nom”. Nolan said into his ear, “Stop that… you know I hate that”. “I’m just kidding”. They left and walked into the distance. Leaving me and Louis in the parking lot, “So what do you want do to pass the time”. Louis said taking off his mask, he was middle aged man, his face was worn and rugged… but in the scars I could see he still had the same fatherly love for his men and family. He brushed his hand through his salt and pepper hair setting down flat, he looked at me with his stormy grey eyes… “You’ve been through a lot this past week, haven’t you”? I embraced him out instinct, I cried into his armor… feeling lost and confused more than ever before. “I don’t know who I am anymore”. “You’ve got a long way to go to find that answer, I’m sorry I can’t tell who you are… you’re going to find that out on your own”. I was lifted into his arms and taken inside the rebuilt home; seeing my home standing strong once more, brought a smile to my lips, “For now just rest and think back to happier days”. He said to me as we stepped out of the elevator, Louis injected a sedative into my neck as he stepped into the penthouse suite. I was set down on my bed and my world went black.
I signed myself onto the Alpha team roster with Nolan, I registered Thane and Draco as well… the team was complete and if the mission goes well; there will be ten members here tonight. I prayed for the first time in ten years when I sat down on the couch: God keep them safe and bring them back home. I looked outside and saw the body bags lying there in the parking lot, I hurried out and brought them back inside in the suite.
I changed into a suit and tie as we walked through the streets, we blended in with the crowds; making our way through the streets and after traipsing the slums of the city, we stood in front of a sealed door blocking off a train station from the rest of the district. “The devils have arrived”, Nolan and I kicked down the barricade; we started our descent into hell. We were greeted by a horde of dregs, they were pitiful thing; once living things now corrupted living in a state of limbo; Nolan and I mowed them down with our assault rifles… we made our way to the boarding platform and saw Thane himself; “Time for the main course”. He was wore tan suit and tie, with a green button down shirt; he straightened the belt holding up his tan slacks, and tapped the heels of his loafers on the ground. “Oh… didn’t expect you for at least another hour… anyways”. He looked at us, and shook his head in disappointment. “You’re not taking them from me… they are my toys now”. Nolan and I moved forward with our swords ready, Thane drew a double sided axe marked with a Celtic trifecta, “Gentlemen meet providence”. He rushed us as bolt of black lightning and slammed down his axe between us sending us flying into the bloodied walls of the decrepit station, Nolan shot out of the rubble of the wall and slammed his fist into Thane’s head, he sent his body flying through a column and into the tracks. I stood up and shook off the dust, just as I was about jump back to the main platform a burning train screeched by me. I took a step back and waited for the train to pass, with my heart in my throat. Thane climbed back on the main platform and ran toward me, as I stepped back into the ring; I blocked his swing and kneed him in the gut, I heard the train in the tunnel to my left, I grabbed him by the collar and turned him around, smacking his head into the train; I watched as his blood smear on the burning metal of the train in front of me , I threw him back on the track as the second train screeched by and tossing him into its path and it smashed into him, we looked at each other ran toward the rear of the train and staked our swords into the metal as a foothold, Nolan climbed up to the top and helped me to stand on the roof of the train as it went down the high ceiling tunnels. We saw Thane on the other side and shot ourselves forward, standing face to face; he pulled out his recoilless rifle and blew out the bolt connecting our car to his, Thane shot the handle on the dirt floors and redirected our track into the path of concrete roadblock; Nolan and I sliced down the wall as we leapt off the front of the train, we landed on the other side as the cloud of rubble and dust clear, it came to us that we stood in front of the incoming train, by instinct we punched forward and watched as the train crumple into a ball of burning twisting metal; I heard insane laughter in the tunnel to our right, then the track in front of sparked and Thane was rushing toward us on his burning steed. He jumped off the train and strain from his legs smashed it into the ground, he smiled as he was about to crash between us, I hammer threw Nolan and he flew into the air, he dropkicked Thane out of the station into the empty streets above us, Nolan pursued flying out above as drill of light and shadow; I condensed the burning mass behind me into a psychowheel of metal, I supercharged it and followed after Nolan with it continually shrinking in my hand, from the air I saw Nolan fly into the skyscraper beneath me and it broke apart on top of him, I saw the building fall in its footprint as Nolan shot out of the rubble as a drill, he bounced on the street and ricocheted into Thane like a missile; Thane was slammed into a crater and he looked up with his arms and legs spread out, Nolan looked at me and teleported into the air besides me, I held the psychowheel in my hands aimed into the crater where Thane was lying, Nolan charged two spheres of grey energy in his hands; “Let’s end this”. “Isn’t this a little overkill”. “I don’t believe in overkill”. “1…2…3”. “Dazzling midnight/ Twilight Abyss”! From our hands came out beams of our wrath, the ground lit up in a flash of lights as we annihilated the old city along with Thane; our ears rang as we settled back down to the ground. Our battle ground was torched to glass and Thane stood in the middle of it all; “That’s all you got… I’m disappointed”. Thane manifested a feathered dragon of black lightning and metal out his punch, Nolan and I jumped to the side and rushed forward to avoid a storm of razor sharp obsidian shards from the sky, we formed Anguish and Pazuzu out of our swords, as they fended off the dragon above us; we hammered away at Thane with blow after blow from our swords, Nolan appeared behind me and we faded forward with our blades still our sheathes; we pulled out our swords from their sheathes as we stood up from a crouched position to shake off Thane’s inky blood. My sheathe glowed a deep red and hissed at the foul taste of his blood; Nolan sheathe glowed black as it absorbed the blood inside it, we breathed and two large slashed burst open on Thane’s chest and back. He fell on his knees as his head rolled off his shoulders. “A dual coup de grace… elegant and efficient”. I heard Nolan say to me… I looked up and saw Thane’s guardian beast: Quetzalcoatl fade back into its host. Our guardians were absorbed into us, “Now that we got introductions out of the way… let’s talk”.