Time

[Twilightpersona]

Chapter 1- Nightmare

Time: 9:30 A.M.
Date: September 23, 2035

The scene within the city that day was a tranquil one. The sky was fair; the sun shining brightly.  It appeared as a normal day in a city of sin. Pedestrians went about their day ignorant to the fact that their lives could ever be in danger… that their lives were in danger. In reality, most people that day would have less than 24 hours left to live...

Nobody was prepared for what happened next, not even me. A loud explosion shook a nearby building, shaking the ground like a thousand trains. When some of the people went to investigate the source of the explosion they were amazed by what they found.

There had been a meteor that crash landed into that building. One whole side of the building had been destroyed; the structure of the building was beginning to come down right on top of them. Several people died right there, a few escaped just barely by avoiding the falling debris.

[Twilightpersona]

A young man with light blue eyes and dark brown hair in an apartment building looks up from his computer after hearing a noise outside. He lives on the top floor of a two story apartment building he is renting. His name is William. He thinks for a moment and then walks over to the window.
He looks down at the intersection below his room. There are hundreds of people running around screaming. William senses that something is amiss and grabs his pistol before heading out to see what’s going on. Upon exiting his apartment building into the street two men in strange black armor wearing what looked like gasmasks calmly approach him as everyone else is running past them panicking.

William- Who are you guys?
Igor- My name is Igor and this is Albel
Albel- …….
William- Ok… so what’s going on?
Igor- That’s what we need your help to find out.
William- What do you mean? How can I help you?
Igor- There’s no time to explain right now. You need to come with us.
William- Fine. Just let me get a few things first.
Igor- Please hurry this is urgent.
William- Alright.

William runs back into the apartment building and up the stairs to his room and begins gathering his belongings.

Albel- Igor….
Igor- Yes Albel?
Albel- Are you sure he’s the one you were talking about?
Igor- He must be…didn’t you see the look in his eyes?
Albel- What on earth are you talking about?
Igor- When he saw us his eye color shifted from light blue to red for a moment.
Albel- And this is significant to our investigation how?
Igor- You don’t have to believe me but who else living around here walked outside ready to shoot someone?
Albel- Fine I’ll give him a chance…but the moment he screws up I’m killing him.
Igor- I would expect no less from you Albel.

William exits the building two large suit cases.

William- Alright I’m ready to go.
Igor- What are you bringing?
William- Food and guns. What else is there?
Albel- I like the way he thinks.
William- Thanks, you said you needed my help so this should be a good start.
Igor- You got any ammo for a Colt 1911?

William looks at Igor smiling and opens one of the suitcases revealing a huge stash of ammo for almost any gun imaginable.

William- There you go. That’s a Personal favorite of mine by the way. How about you Albel? You need any ammo?
Albel- No.
William- He doesn’t say much does he?
Igor- Only when it’s important. Let’s go we must hurry.

The three men head off onto their journey not just for answers but for the source of their questions.

[Twilightpersona]

Chapter 2- Thoughtless

Time: 9:30 A.M.
Date: September 22, 2035


The High school teacher sets the paper down on his desk and looks up at William.

“So this is what you’re giving me for last week’s assignment?" asked the teacher as he removed his dark green prescription eyeglasses.

“Yes Mr. Logan” Responded William as he awaited his teachers’ opinion.

“Very well...the assignment was to write notes about your dreams but instead it seems you have written a story about the near future, tomorrow to be exact, including poor character development.” stated Mr. Logan who was now standing in front of the class.

“It sort of just came to me like that sir” responded William as he slowly sank in his chair from fear of being criticized any further.

Suddenly the bell goes off dismissing the entire school for the weekend.

 “Yes! Saved by the bell!” exclaims William jumping out of his seat.  

The other students rush past him as he tries to sneak past the teacher. Just a few more steps and he would be home free. One step away from the door the teacher catches him.

“William could I speak with you for a moment?” William slowly turns around before speaking

“Yes, Mr. Logan? What is it?” he asks as he walks towards the teacher’s desk.

“I was wondering…the characters in your story… Igor and Albel I believe…are they friends of yours?”  asked Mr. Logan as he adjusted his black bowtie.

“No sir, I’ve actually never met them before in my life, why do you ask?”

At this point Mr. Logan was now brushing his Light blonde hair.

“No reason I was just wondering if you were writing about some friends of yours” William breathes a sigh of relief as he thought he was going to be in trouble.

“Is there anything else you would like to ask?” asks William as he gets his nerves back.

“No, that will be all…have a nice weekend.” Says Mr. Logan as he smiles and waves good bye.

William returns the gesture and walks out of the classroom and down the hall to the tall blue double doors leading outside. He peers outside before walking out and sees the average afternoon sky of the town he has lived in since he was a child before the days his parents died.

Up until recently before moving into his apartment he was living with his uncle, which was his fathers’ brother. William takes a deep breath and heads home with an uneasy feeling in his gut about the day to come.

   After Mr. Logan was sure William was gone he pulled out his thin sleek black cell phone and dialed a number.

He speaks quietly into the phone “It’s VoraX” which is met with a surprised response from the person on the other end.

“VoraX? It’s been a long time since we all heard from you Archlord….are you okay?” inquired the man on the other end.

“Yes Igor, I am fine but there is no time for pleasantries, I have something you might want to see. Come to the High school across from West Side Apartments. Bring Albel with you as well; I believe he may be especially interested.” Was the answer he supplied to Igor.

“Yes sir, on our way now.” Replied Igor making sure his salute was in his voice.

[Twilightpersona]

Chapter 3- Appointment

Time: 11:30 A.M.
Date: September 22, 2035

Albel and Igor arrive at the school. They are in the front entrance when it hits them. They have no idea what room VoraX is in.

Albel looks at Igor with an annoyed expression on his face. “I thought you knew where he was.”

Igor looks back at Albel with a smile on his face. “Don’t worry…. I have an idea.”

Igor walks towards a thin brunette woman sitting behind a desk who appears to be a secretary.

Albel slowly follows behind Igor thinking to himself. “I seriously hope he knows what he’s doing….”

Igor approaches the secretary. “Excuse me; do you know a blonde teacher that works here?”

The secretary looks up and smiles as she answers. “You must be referring to Mr. Logan. He’s the only blonde teacher here.”

Igor returns her friendly smile as he responds. “Yes ma’am, we are scheduled for a conference with him but we forgot where he said for us to meet him.”

The secretary picks up a pen and writes something down and hands it to Igor. “He’s the history teacher. You’ll find him on the second floor in room 51. Have a nice day.” The secretary smiles at Igor as he leaves.

Igor walks down the hall a few steps and then Albel stops him. “Igor, what did she write there?”

Igor glances down at the note the secretary had given him. A grin comes across his face as he reads Albel what it says. “It says 412-465-5762”

Albel chuckles lightly as he replies. “Were on an important mission to speak with our Archlord and you still find a way to pick up women.”

The two laugh together as they ascend the stairs. They stop abruptly as they approach a door with the number 51 engraved into a metal plate hanging above it.
   
Igor reaches for the door knob as the door opens. “Ah Igor, Albel…I was wondering when you would get here.”
   
Albel steps forward and extends his hand for a handshake. “Nice to meet you Mr. Logan.”
   
VoraX ignores the joke but shakes his hand. “You know there are people after me. I can’t walk around using the name you all know and love because of those people.”
   
“So why did you choose to work here as a teacher?” asks Albel.
   
“This school is a great place for recruiting new members to our clan, which brings me to the reason I have invited you here.”
VoraX pulls out several papers all labeled with the same name: William.

Igor speaks up. “What are these papers and who is William?”

“These papers are stories that William has written. They are not like normal stories. They all seem to be predictions of the future.” replies VoraX.

“What do you mean? Do they come true?” asks Igor with his eyes widened with anticipation.

“Indeed, they do come true. Remember the recent incident here where the girl was run over by that tank patrolling the area?” VoraX hands Igor and Albel one of the stories and they read it.

“This was written the day before it happened.” States Albel.

“I was hoping you would notice that Albel, you’ve always been the observant one. I believe William has done it again.”

Igor wears an intrigued expression on his face. “Is it another story Archlord?”

“Yes Igor. It is.” replies VoraX as he hands Igor and Albel the story William just wrote.

“This is about tomorrow. Do you think it will come true as well?” asks Igor as he hands the paper back to VoraX.

“Yes, Igor, I do. I want you guys to go recruit him and take him with you tomorrow.”  replies VoraX with a look on his face that expresses his concern for the situation at hand.

“At the time specified here right?” asks Igor.

“Yes. Right now we cannot risk changing the events depicted in his story.”

“All those people will die though.” Replies Igor.

“I understand but the story was not finished yet. Perhaps there will be a better time for altering the future later on. Right now we cannot risk a butterfly effect that could have catastrophic consequences.” Responds VoraX.

Igor speaks up once more. “Where do we find William?”

“He lives in the apartments across the street from here. You will know him when you see him.” Replies VoraX as he packs a suitcase with his belongings.

“Yes sir VoraX. We will do as you instruct. What’s next for you?” replies Igor as he salutes VoraX.

“Don’t know yet. I just go where people need me.” Answers VoraX.

“Well then good-bye for now Archlord.” says Igor as he and Albel turn to leave.

“May our paths cross again.” Says VoraX as they go their separate ways.

[Twilightpersona]

Chapter 4- Deja Vu

Time: 9:30 A.M.
Date: September 23, 2035

There were three sharp, strong raps on William's door as he walked towards it, heading to look outside and see what was going on. Swinging it open, he was met by two men in black armor, one with a crimson cloak about his shoulders, and the other with a similar, but black vestiment.

He ran his eyes over them a few times before speaking,"Who are you guys?"

The man with the short, brown hair and the crimson cloak gave a mild bow, gesturing to himself first,"My name is Igor Korzun... And this," he began, gesturing towards the black haired man this time, who inclined his head lightly with the gesture,"Is Albel Norax."

Will paused, slightly surprised at the odd names, and the paler one's silent demeanor. He couldn't even tell if the man was breathing or not. "So... What's going on?" As he spoke, he found he was mildly nervous, and fidgeting with the hem of his shirt, which he quickly put a stop to, standing straight and sticking his hands in his pockets to avoid fidgeting more.

Igor gave a small, slight smirk, tinged with madness and insanity just before he opened his mouth. "That's what we need your help to find out."

The distance between the mans eyebrows closed somewhat in confusion, almost immediately. "What the Hell are you talking about? How can I help you?"

"There's no time to explain right now. You need to come with us."

"Fine. Just let be get a few things first."

"Please hurry. This is urgent," Igor pleaded.

"Alright," Will muttered as he turned to jog back inside, packing a few of his things.

After the young man was out of both line of sight, and earshot, Albel finally spoke, in a soft, but strong, and icy voice. "Igor... Are you sure he is the one you spoke of?"

The Russian man gave a strong nod, continuing the affirmation in speech. "He must be. Did you notice the flash of crimson in his eyes when he saw us?"

"Aye, I did. Still... That's not very special. I can do that at will. So tell me, how is this significant to our investigation?"

"You don't have to believe me, but who else living around here walked outside ready to empty a clip into someone?"

"I see your point. Still, he becomes a liability, I'll cut him down without a thought." As he was finishing the sentence, he moved his cloak back slightly on his left side, resting that hand on the hilt of a black katana, and revealing another hidden beneath the cloth as emphasis for his statement.

"I would expect nothing less from you, Brother."

Just as they finished the conversation, and the colder of the two let his cloak fall back down over his weapons, their quarry exited the building with a dufflebag full of what seemed to be canned goods and weapons.

"Alright, I'm ready to go."

Albel chuckled lightly. "He's not completely hopeless. Food and weapons."

William raised an eyebrow at the man. "Thanks. You said you needed my help, so this should be a good start."

"Do you have any .45 ACP rounds?" Igor raised his blackened, engraved handgun, intending to show he was out.

The younger one thought for a moment, before giving a hesitant nod, and set the bag down to rumage through it for a moment before pulling out a box of fifty rounds for the crimson-cloaked soldier.

"How about you, Albel? Need any ammunition?"

His arm blurred slightly, and he drew one of his handguns, a Cz75, black, with 'Ruin' etched in scrawling, silver script down the barrel, ejecting the clip, catching it with the other hand, and showing that he still had a full clip, before popping it back in and holstering the powerful weapon.

He looked up at Igor, who seemed to be reloading his clips, with a quickness that came only with years of practice. "He doesn't speak much, does he?"

"Only when it's important. Now, let us go. We must hurry."


Red text= non-story information
(Special thanks to BlackRain for this portion)

[Twilightpersona]

Chapter 5- Carnage

The trio heads down the street while more pedestrians run past them in the opposite direction while screaming. They continue down this road until they come to a building that looks recently abandoned. They look around the area outside and see that it is clear of both enemies and pedestrians alike. After looking up at the sky the trio decides to save time by cutting through the building to the other side.

Only a few moments after entering Albel immediately uses his infrared vision to scan the area for enemies. “We are not alone….”

Igor looks around and sees only shadows moving around menacingly. “I sense their heartbeats.”

"Aye, these are not like the usual enemies we have faced. Be ready to fight.” Says Albel as he readies his dual straight black katanas.

William brushes the hair away from his face as he opens one of his suit cases and pulls out his own dual swords that were hidden under a secret compartment.

Igor also readies his weapon as well which is a large rapier. Just as he does a creature come out of the shadows and catches him off guard and knocks him down. Albel quickly reacts and quickly charges at the spiked black creature.

“Cleanse. Purge. KILL!” Albel takes one of his blades and quickly impales the creature pinning it up against the wall then takes the other blade and cuts its head off. After he removes the blade pinning the creature to the wall he takes pleasure in watching its lifeless body slump down to the floor as a smile of insanity comes across his face.

As Igor is getting up another creature with blades for hands swings at Igor he sees it out of the corner of his eye and ducks just in time. As he gets up he pulls a silver dagger out his right shoe.

“I don’t know when you grew a pair of balls, but I’m definitely going to castrate you now.” he turns around quickly and cuts the creatures eyes out. As the creature shrieks in pain he grabs its head and twists it until it pops off its neck, then proceeds to cut the rest of its limbs off. He stares down at his foes mangled corpse smiling.

As both men turn around to celebrate their victory they see another creature dive from a floor above down towards William. Neither of them is close enough to help and just look up towards the free falling creature with shocked expressions on their faces, but the man just stood there calmly and says. “I know…. It’s his funeral.”

Just moments before the creature’s blades can scratch the top of his head he quickly raises one of his swords up towards the ceiling and the creature lands right on top of it impaling itself. William takes the sword the creature is pinned on while it is struggling and proceeds to pin it against a nearby wall in a similar fashion to what Albel did, takes his other blade, and thrusts it into the creatures heart. When he twists the blade and pulls it out the heart comes with it. The creature watches it’s still beating heart for a moment until it stops beating and it dies.

William throws down the heart and turns to face Igor and Albel. “Shall we take a break now?”

The two gentlemen approach the bloody young man while clapping their hands.

"Nice kill kid." says the blonde haired one.

"Aye, I didn't think he had it in him." Says the dark haired one.

William takes a bow. "I'll take that as a "yes"."



The creatures look like this.

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Chapter 6- Revelation


The two men awake in the middle of the night to find that William is missing. Wondering where he has gone they begin searching for him hoping he had not gone too far or suffered some terrible fate alone.

They search for hours and have nearly given up on looking for him when Albel sees a large circular shadow on the ground. Knowing it is not his or Igor’s he immediately realizes that it means one of two things…or possibly both. All he knew for sure was that something was right above them moving back and forth slowly.

He pulls out his black Cz75, his arm blurring slightly, and aims directly above. Igor becomes aware of the situation when he barely catches a glimpse of a silver glare out of the corner of his eye, most likely the word ‘Ruin’ which was etched in silver letters down the barrel of Albel’s gun.

Igor pulls out his .45 ACP and both men are now pointing they’re guns straight upward towards a chandelier above them realizing that it was the object creating the shadow.

Upon observing the rusted object for a moment Albel notices that there is a dark figure sitting on it. After examining the figure more closely he realizes it is William.

Albel gets Igor’s attention and points upward. “Igor, Williams up there!”

Igor takes a closer look. “It looks like him…are you sure?

“Aye, of course I’m sure, that little plebe has been up there all along! He says as the two men lower their guns.

“Albel, what the hell is he doing up there?”

“It looks like he’s meditating…”

Igor smiles. “Looks like he may be special after all…should we join him?”
Albel flashes a more sinister smile bact at Igor. “Nah…I got a better idea.”

Igor shakes his head and shrugs. “I can only imagine brother…”

Just as Igor finishes his sentence Albel shouts up in William’s direction. “Hey kid! Get down here! Time to wake up!”

William’s eyes open and flash crimson for a moment then turn green as he dives downward. As he approaches the ground floor he extends both arms and uses the power of the impact to propel himself into a frontward flip, landing on his feet face to face with Albel.

Igor readies his pistol and points it at William thinking that he was performing an act of aggression towards Albel. “Need any help brother?”

Albel studies William’s eyes noticing that they are green instead of his normal blue eyes. “No, It’s fine…something’s off. If the situation gets out of control I’ll handle him myself. Albel puts his pale hand on the hilt of one his dual black katanas to reassure Igor of his intentions.

Albel studies the dark green eyes as he speaks to the man that he thought he had read so well. “Who are you?”

The man takes one step backward and extends his hand for a handshake. “Glad you noticed.”

Albel shakes his hand while remaining weary of any sign that the situation could get out of control. “Aye, you haven’t been… “yourself” for the past few minutes…Now are we going to get an introduction or what?”

The man shrugs his shoulders. “Who do you think I am?”

Albel pauses to think for a moment then answers sarcastically. “I have no idea…Ms. Fairy princess?

The mans facial expression turns more serious. “Can Ms. Fairy princess do this?” A copy of the man appears behind Albel with a knife to his throat.

Albel is caught somewhat by surprise but remains calm so Igor knows not to go blowing the man’s head off quite yet. “Aye, she probably could, however that is rather impressive…but you left an opening! Albel Shoots the man in front of him with his Cz75 in his free hand but nothing happens.

The man behind him speaks. “No I didn’t, I was hoping you would do that…”

The man in front fades like he was never there leaving only the man behind Albel.

The man lowers his knife. “…So I could show you what I can do.”

Albel turns around to face the man. “So you have special abilities like ours?”

The man smiles. “Now your catching on.”

“What About William?” Asks Albel as the man folds his arms across his chest.

“He has not woken up yet.” Says the man.

“So who are you?” Asks Albel anticipating an answer this time.

“Nathan.” Just as the name is revealed His eyes flash crimson again and Albel catches the body as it collapses and notices the eyes become blue once again before closing

Igor is intrigued. “Nathan? He has more than one personality?”

Albel looks up at Igor. “Apparently so mate, the kids like a walking Twilight Zone…”

The two men become quiet as they patiently wait for William to “Wake Up”.