Expanse: The City Reboot (Dark Fantasy Epic) Main Thread (Open, Started)

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Vergil knelt down on one knee as he heard the man's question plight.

"Well, there were some schematics in a chest we recovered from the Champions base, and the stuff we found at the Sun Stone Care Home, pointed at a possible cure. Why, have you done something to it?" He asked with a cause for concern. Vergil had began to notice the cracks expanding.
 

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"Your right, we haven't seen anyone with the gas, and its only recently become publicly known. Wait, that means it doesn't exist, the Vessel is creating the cure for nothing, well, almost nothing." Vergil remarked, contemplating the man's words for a moment, before deciding on a solution. He got up, and decided to end the man there and then, he had been a pain to them all, despite his intentions.

"Emile, come with me, lets take you to your mother." He said with a smile, holding out a hand to the young girl whilst he grabbed his weapons.
 

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Lucian's golden stare cycled back and forth as the hunter passed a new and even more elaborate home every few metres, his curiosity kept at bay by the fragile sheet of tinted glass that locked the silver maned slayer and his compatriot inside that tiny wooden shell.

"I should get me a house up here, they're all so damn big!" Lucian chimed more to himself than to Vincent.

"Bet these folk ain't never had a day of hard living." Continued Lucian, his fellow hunter remaining mostly silent, with the exception of a odd grunt of agitation or pain as the carriage tumbled over some stray slab of cobblestone or jolted out of the way of rascal children.

"Vincent I'm bored... and curious... Who's the most interesting person you've killed?" Lucian announced, his sombre tone of drudgery shifting in an instant to the tune of intrigue and excitement
 

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Vincent - District of Rosenvalle - Rosenvalle Streets

"Should we focus our minds on the task that lay ahead Lucian?" Vincent said in an almost monotone voice, his eyes a dull red. Vincent's eyes had been glued on the scenes flashing by their carriage since the moment they had boarded it. Vincent sighed when he saw Lucian beaming at him, and decided to tell him.

"Fine, if it will allow you to focus on finding our thief. He was a man by the name of Jack Wellsbourgh. Although, a monster is more what he was I would have to admit, little was left of the man he had once been when I was tasked with hunting him down. I remember it clearly, it was one of the first missions I had been tasked with, and I was assigned this mission with three other strikers, all of which had been trained in different arts. It was a hot summer's evening when we finally arrived in the Ruins of Ensa district, a run down shabby district with little to no people still living there." Vincent paused for a minute as he gazed out the window again to see a child playing with his friends in an alley.

Vincent shook his head and turned back to Lucian, "We were told that this man was dangerous, although the Council knew nothing of his abilities or the magic he was capable of. We were the first Hunters to witness it, and it was dreadful. We found Jack's home hidden away in the ruins of an old guild tower, littered with books and quills of all sorts. We managed to find one of his journals, depicting in great detail his many different rituals and spells. Jack was capable of a very dark magic, one that is and always has been forbidden by the Magi Order. Before we could get out of the guild to set up our trap, Jack came up from the bowels of the tower, bringing with him three rotting corpses that still had life in their bones. They walked and acted as if still alive, but they were for all intents and purposes, dead. Jack was furious, and before we could even act, struck down one of our own with a vile black spear conjured from thin air. We quickly retreated to safe firing distance, but none of our arrows even seemed to affect the ghouls that came after us on Jack's command. Swords parted flesh, and severed limbs, but they didn't stop. It was only after all the others were dead that I managed to fire a bolt that landed square between Jack's eyes. Once that bolt landed, his hellish minions dropped as well, their bones breaking into dust as they fell. I immediately sent for a few more Hunter's, wishing to bring our own home and burn this demonic place to the ground." Vincent seemed to shiver, although only for a moment before he stared out the window again, lost in thought.

"I elected for the tower to be burnt to the ground, but the Council had other plans. They ordered the knowledge held their seized and returned to Ferela at once, which the other hunter's and I followed without question. I've never known what happened to those books, but I pray the Council burned them." Vincent finished his tale, his gaze back out the window as he watched the buildings pass by in a blur.

"Not the most interesting man I've ever met, but close. What of you Lucian, as I know you are simply dying to tell me your tale?"
 

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Vergil watched as the Vessel leapt off from the tower floating amidst a field of red energy.

"Oh god, of course, the cure has created harmful energy, and on the scale of its dispersal, thats a lot of energy she has to burn up. Why didn't I tell her? Must of still been under the effects of that guys power. Still got to get myself and Emile off of this roof first." Vergil told himself quietly as he tossed his weapons down to the ground, still wrapped up in his coat. They landed with a soft thud.

"Emile, climb on my back, and I'll get you down from here. You'll get to see your mother real soon." Vergil said in a calm and patient tone, offering a hand to the young girl.
 

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They had arrived at the Home but they were gone and something bad looked too had happened. Lorel felt out of the loop, something was going on between everyone and they had been oblivious to it all and entangled in their own matters. And then something happened, from the tower nearby they began to hear screams from the street?s below it. Rushing together to see what was going on they saw nothing but injured people, many bleeding out, and some others coughing like they were about to die from a deadly sickness.

People were being killed in the streets and they didn?t know who was doing it until they saw it. A big red ball of magic, no doubt it was what was causing this. They saw others trying to get into this ball with fury but nothing was working. If this was the cause, Lorel would need to get inside. While he didn?t know what was in the ball he felt a strange sense of familiarity.

He ran over to the red ball of magic, and yelled for the others to get away. Placing his hands on the ball awhile it moved forward and he had to keep moving. Lorel attempted to do what he did to break the barrier in the Plains of the Dead that lead into the Gods Realm. He brought back his arm and slammed it into the ball, but unlike the barrier in the Gods Realm it didn?t shatter all the way it simply made a hole that was rapidly closing and so Lorel jumped inside just as it closed.

That?s where he saw her, Vessel she was walking forward with the ball in the center in a trance. He didn?t understand what sort of magic this was or a better question why it was happening but he knew he needed to stop her. Moving with the ball Lorel conjured ice magic and it surrounded her legs, but then it didn?t stop, still in her trance she broke out of the ice despite the snapping of bones hearing but then it stopped and the bones seemed to regenerate back.

She didn?t even flinch at it, she just kept going and he was starting to run out of ideas so he tried to talk to her. ?Vessel! What is going on? Why are you doing this??
 

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"Not a problem Julie. Despite me barely knowing her, you've got a good kid there." Vergil replied to Julie, taking heavy breaths to try and regain some of his strength lost from fighting the interloper of despair. He then cast a gaze over the district, and watched in horror as people slowly became injured, or suffering from sickness. A few even tried to enter the sphere of dark red energy, with none surviving.
 

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?I am Lorel, you know me. Ion family mage?? Lorel said still confused about the situation at hand.
 

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Gods? Was there a group of gods inside of the Vessel? If there was they weren?t the same ones that he saw in the Gods Realm? Splinter groups like Osaia? ?Well? Technically I have the blood of a god and Dark God inside of me, so it sort of makes me half-God, Dark God thing.?
 

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Vergil looked at the overall awkwardness of the situation that was posed in front of him. He then looked back at the district below, and noticed that the dark red sphere that encompassed the Vessel, had stopped briefly; and she appeared to be talking to someone, for there were three shapes below.

"Now is my chance to act. Whoever you are, your mighty brave, or mighty stupid." He thought to himself, as he turned to face the women.

"Julie, Emile, Katelyn, stay within the tower for now, you'll be safe here for the moment. I have to go out and catch her before she harms anyone else." Vergil remarked with a hint of sadness, knowing what he may have to do.

"I think I'm the only one who can stop her." He added, before heading back down the tower steps, reapplying his weapons to their proper places, picking up the now empty pistol as he went on his way. Vergil soon disappeared from their view.
 

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Vergil went out of the tower door, onto the streets surrounding it, and just stood there in utter shock and dread, as he saw the Vessel, or whoever she became now started draining, creating bloody cuts along the Lorel's arm.

"Of course, when she meets a new god, she takes them into her. But with Lorel, she'd be gaining Gemsi. All that power, it could corrupt her indefinitely, and I'd lose the woman I loved. I'm not letting you do this, not to yourself, and not to a friend." Vergil quietly said to himself, as he charged ahead, adrenaline allowing him to not feel the pain. When he was within reach, he grabbed the Vessel's arms forcing them behind her back in an attempt to restrain her.

"Vessel please, I can sense your in there, amongst all this negative energy, your screaming, wanting release from this torment. Its me, Vergil, the man who loves you more than anything in the world, someone who sacrificed his own life to protect you. Can't you see who you are hurting, its Lorel Ion, our friend and ally. With every drop you take, your killing him. Please, don't make me hurt you." Vergil called out, trying his best to reach the Vessel's core.
 

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The pain was overwhelming but he wasn?t going to let them consume him, he was going to use his blood magic to get away but then she broke off herself and after what she said he knew she saw the Gods Realm. ?Lying? You deluded yourself, you saw them through my memories. Those are the gods and goddess! They aren?t balls of gas, or of light, they had bodies! Their own free wills and looks, not one hive mind!?