Eden's body arched backwards, Endless' blade flying over the front of his pearly complexion. His vampiric eyes watched in horror as the fine hairs of his nose fell victim to Endless' blade. It was that close. That...fucking...close.

Eden's arms flew back towards him, his palms now pointed at his own face. All of the ice serpents launched back and Hiro's body, moving with an agility far beyond normal summoned creatures.

*still leaning against the base of the statue Valron's head starts to dip down and he starts to drift off to sleep. Slowly nodding his head he slips off to a quiet dream....*

(the dream) *walking down an endless road, explosions all around. Death, destruction, evil. Boots clicking against the road soundlessly. To his right is Endless, in a mad rampage of Godzilla destroying Tokyo quality. To the left on the path is Set, in his throne of skulls and with Lenina his slave. Behind the sounds of Sorcha, Anavil (sorry if is misstyped name im tired), and Janos fighting some beast......Eden. But ahead, the only glow of hope, a burned out castle looking slightly like Castle Recticful (once again, tired). In the castle is what appears to be Merely, and Marius. The man walking the path yells out for joy and starts running towards them. An explosion happens and all goes black.*

(real world again) *jumping up with a start from the ground Valron looks around nervously. A cold sweat all across his body. Wiping his brow he sighs.*

"I sense a disturbance in the pants..... I mean....well so much for being able to get a good rest while I waited. But it seems that I'm needed in the town anyways."

*tracing his finger along the rock a faint white glow appears and then opens up to show the doors of the Castle along with Set standing outside of them.*

"Well this looks so weak. I'm suprised I even could do it this time. I guess I'm going to have to rest awhile before I can pull off another one." he says.

*stepping threw the portal it snaps shut behind him, leaving only a faint memory that he was ever there.*

Hearing Endless's thoughts Vorach projects his answer...
"I am impressed, for one so young you display considerable power. But then again I was always impressed, the passion of the young always sparks my interest, yours especially. I am confused though. I sense that you are holding back...play on young one, show me what you are truly capable of".

Instantly Vorach vanishes, appearing again seated upon the steps at the front of the building.

Endless' other talon was perfectly placed for such a movement. As Eden reared back from the first blade, Endless' other shot up in an inverted arch, moving as to plant directly into the underthroat of Eden, and instant deathblow.

However, a cold, stabbing pain first exploded into his back.

His claw began to slow and then stop, the blade slightly dug into Eden's flesh. His entire arm was covered in a thick ice. His back slowly froze over, the tide of ice traveling over his entire body. It was mere moments later that his body was covered in the blue ice, his body planted to the ground. His face was frozen in a grimace of rage and pain as black blood leaked out into the ice.

Seeing the serpentine ice take form about the body of Endless Vorach shot forward in his seat, he knew the sting of magic, one of his remaining weaknesses. Sensing Endless' agony he thought to himself, 'Not like this'.
Vorach lept to his feet and like a streaking shadow dashed beyond sight to the prone form of Endless. Drawing back his fist, Vorach struck the frozen casing with all his immortal strength. The ice cracked and shattered under the blow, and Endless' dropped to his knees in the night. Glaring at the lupine form of Eden, Vorach vanished reappearing on a nearby rooftop. Looking at the kneeling form of Endless' Vorach projected his thoughts, 'I have freed you from the ice now get up and finish this. You have the power, use it'.

Eden leaped back in dismay. Who the hell was that? With a quick reach into the thoughts of the room he learned it was Vorach, and his power was insurmountable. How lovely, another hunter like Hiro. Fuck a duck. If he hadn't interferred, Endless would have been finished....and now he was beyond mortified at what Endless would do now. He wouldn't be happy.

Endless lay on his kness, somewhat thankful to Vorach for his aid, but also angered beyond reconciliation for his interference into his battle. Either way, he was sick of fighting this peon. Enough was enough.

Cradled onto the ground, his arms hung limply at his sides. His shoulders and back heaved in what looked like sobs, and yet no tears come. His teether were clenched together tightly enough to casue the muscles in his jaws to bulge from his flesh. His lips drew back into a vicious snarl as he slowly raised his head up to Eden. The whites of Endless' red eyes were swirling with what looked like black leeches. He threw his head back, a pluming red cloud of his own energy tearing up the cemetn floor in chunks, sending the pieces up and into the ceiling where they hit and fell back, only to stop suspended in mid-air around Endless. When Endless burning eyes fell onto Eden, his face was the perfect envision of rage. "Enough." He hissed. His voice was deep and booming, hissing like millions of snakes were there in the room. As his power began to climb, spectral voices began to echo in the room. The screams of agonized women, the cries and tears of young children, the sounds of steel blades slicing through human flesh. The battle cries of bloodthirsty soldiers. Endless' world.

Still on his knees, his wings shot out and enfoled around the sides of his body, as a look of psychotic serenity crossed over his features. As he closed his eyes, black elecritcity began to climb over his body, seeming to emanate from his very flesh. The air in the warehouse soared, the crates creaking as their boards expanded under the rising heat. The ice on the ground quickly melted, dripping down and then evaporating as they got closer to Endless' body.

He could feel it. He could feel his power surmising, encroaching just at the door. Was this what Vorach was speaking of? He knew not. All coherent thought had vanished as all he saw was Eden....crying....bleeding....begging to die to be rid of the pain he woudl cause him. He would make him bleed. He would make him suffer...

Endless' eyes snapped open as something in his mind clicked. The surroundings crates burst into a raging flame, bringing them to ashes in less than three minutes. The paint on the sheeting walls peeled and blistered, rising up and turning black. Endless' arms flew up, tensed, the veins pulsing to life in a grotesque display of an adrenaline rush. His rage was a black cloud in his mind, slowly drifting over all else, forcing out his thoughts of Lenina, his thoughts of the other's safety. All he had was this thick, black cloud in his mind, a cloud formed from all of the hatred he had ever housed. And now it demanded release.

"You'll all die!"

His arms flung forward, a howl of utter lunacy busting through his lips, which were now bleeding fluently. In his mental war he had bit three holes straight throuth it. The air from Endless to Eden was warped and twisted, hazy, disfigured as if some humongous heat had been emanating through the ground. The next instant Eden was thrown back in a huge force of power.

His form shot through the air, Endless' psychic blast hitting him like a bus. Endless grabbed his ankle and pulled him into him, driving his other fist straight into his face, forchign his body back as blood splattered from Eden's mouth to the ground. "Where's you magic now?" He snarled. His talon raked through Eden's chest, slicing deeply into his midsection. His other fist plowed into his stomach, bending his body once agian into the right form. Endless gripped his shirt in both hands and send Eden up into the ceiling riding on a pulsing beam of red vitae. The impact triggered a massive explosion of two blue rings, inverted. The rings plowed through the walls and through crates, slicing cleanly before disappearing in a flash of blue flame. The ceiling fell onto the floor, burying Eden with it. Endless' might leg smashed into the ground, the cement cracked towards Eden and then under his body. Placing his hand to the crack, a massive flood of light poured from his palm and channeled through the crack, erupting over Eden like a massive catastrophic meteor crash. The cement around Eden's body imploded as if a tunnel had been dug under them, cracking and falling downwards. Endless lept into the air, facing one palm towards Eden. With a growl a pillar of blue light, over a hundred feed around, barreled towards him and erupted, the entire warehouse ignited in a massive thermo-nuclear eruption. Endless hovered above the carnage he had caused, grinning, licking his lips. His wings beat rythmically. Come on. He thought. Please be alive so I can make you suffer He raised hishead back into the dark Heavens, laughing maniacly. "Where are you now! Do you watch your children suffer? Is this what you wanted?"

*Standing outside Marius's fortress in The Town of Reficul Set's head pops up and he looks at the sky.

*Mean while in The Real World the dark Heavens above begin to move. The black could moving very quickly form what appears to be Set's newest face. The storm looks down at Endless and smiles...

"You have no idea what I want.........."

*With the dark words spoken, the storm fades and the sky grows calm and clear. As the unholy storm fades, the sky is a beautiful black sheet with a full moon glowing in loving light.*

Endless looks up and laughs. "Not you, you dumb fucker." He laughs.

Looking down at the spiraling plume of his own massive inferno, he laughs. The firetrucks are already there trying to rid themselves of the flame, but half the block would burn before they could control it.

With another laugh of lunacy Endless' grew smaller, his wings retracting. In an instant he was Hiro.

Sighing, he looks down with a ping of regret. "I've had enough battle. Don't worry Eden, if youre still alive, I will kill you. Congratulatoins, you're now my prey."

Endless scream penetrated Vorach’s ears.
‘Good, yes that’s it, more, deeper look deeper, its there, yes you have it’ Vorach thought to himself as Endless rage and power grew. Knowing the devastation that would be caused by the new release in Endless vitae, Vorach willed himself into the air, rising to float a mile over the battle field which was clearly visible to his vampire eyes. Suddenly Endless rose into the air and a tremendous blast of energy was released annihilating the warehouse and the surroundings. As the destruction subsided he could clearly see Endless outlined against the blazing ground below, and hear his maniacal words. Willing himself downward he floated past Hiro to the devastated ground “Come” he said on the way past, with a burst of will he extinguished the flaming debris in an area large enough for him to stand. Landing easily he looked to Hiro and said, “It is time’.

Nodding, Hiro slowly floated down in front of Vorach. His face was solemn and emotionless, a look of crevasse. "Time." He repeated.

Fire engine sirens wailed as the New York fire brigade battled to contain the blaze left in the wake of Endless' rage. Amongst the destruction Vorach stood like a pillar of calm in a sea of chaos, opposite the exhausted Hiro. Looking him up and down Vorach paused a moment in contemplation then spoke, "What do you know of me, and I mean really know?" his voice echoiing with its otherworldly power.

Hiro couldn't help but grin. "I know more about you than you may think. I have been waiting for your arrival for millenia. And now you are finally here. I was beginning to wonder if you recognized me."

Eying Hiro curiously Vorach spoke, his otherworldly voice echoiing over the sound of the nearby sirens.
"You have awaited me? I fear you are confused. Who am I that you have awaited so long?"

Laughing, Hiro turns his back. "Even I have my secrets. I'm not only a war machine." With that he began walking away, silhouetted against the blaze he had created. He could almost taste the destruction. Sighing, he hadn't felt this good in a long time.

Vorach smiled to himself at the sight of Hiro retreating into the distance. 'Yes your secrets, but are they yours, your part in this world has just begun, but the game has and always will be mine' he thought to himself. Standing easily he rose into the air, peering downward he watched as the firefighters battled the blaze. With a quick burst of will he flattened the fires, and watched silently from above, smiling in amusement at the humans confusion, before flying off to the east and his beloved desert.

SMiling to himself, Hiro walked on towards a new place. A place he could sense the presence of Orquid.

Arcing upwards Vorach soared into the clouds. Sending out his senses he found Hiro with his mind's eye. Turning in the air he changed his course, and began to follow Hiro, many miles above beyond notice. 'Perhaps I can gain entrance into Hiro's world yet', he thought to himself.