Tales from a lost Universe

[Yuthirin]

Yuthirin swiped up the card and slipped it into the small bladder-pouch on his belt.

As the roars began, he dashed out of the room, heading past the various doors and down the hall toward the darkened chamber at its end.

The chamber lit up in faint silver light as he entered, the soft glow touching everything, yet having no discernable source. The true source of the light was in his mind, and he saw clearly what had once been a robotics laboratory. The various arms and components lay inert, the power too low to sustain them. A door to his left stood open a crack, the top hinge bent completely out of its place.

Compelled by the roaring, he dodged between the robotics equipment, pushing pieces out of his way, then pulling open the door and dashing into another hallway, pulling his 'guardian' along behind him.

[Anonymous]

Olguin decided to drop the documents in their mad dash away from that...thing. Moving out of Yuthirin's grip, he kept low as he followed behind, already drawing his staff in preparation for battle.

Just peachy, all they needed now was...

Feeling a prickling force rocket towards them, he couldn't tell what it was, but it was...

"Get down!"

Tackling his ward down, he saw as a bolt of red light streaked high above them, slamming into and through a wall.

His eyes narrowed as he saw more of those damnable things appear in the gloom behind them as he forced the two of them up and away from that monster.

[Yuthirin]

Yuthirin leapt up and spun about, cupping his hands above his head as power flowed through his body. He brought his hands down before him and shouted,
"IDIYEAH!" A long, thick, jagged spear of ice flew from his hands and back the way they had come, almost too fast to see.

He spun about again and lifted the boy to his feet and dashed off toward the end of the hall.

At the end of the hall there were two doors, one to the left and one to the right, one which looked as though someting large had tried to force its way through. He chose the right door, which was still intact, and ran through another poorly-lit and bloody laboratory.

As he forced a set of warped sliding doors open, he glanced up at a map set into the wall. From what he could tell, he was nearing the facility where the weapon was said to be held.

[Anonymous]

"Go! I'll try and take this jackass away from you!" Olguin yelled, pushing Yuthirin towards the exit on the other side of the room.

"Whatever this thing is, it'll be hunting us down for the rest of the mission, and may even wind up costing us our lives if we don't fight!"

The shattering of a wall and a bloodcurdling roar finished Olguin's end of the discussion.

[Yuthirin]

Yuthirin turned, ignoring the boys words, and held his right hand before him, chanting softly, but quickly. A small flame began flickering in the air above his hand as the creature began to tear its way into the room.

"Shubc!" The flame grew and twisted, beginning to whirl.

"SHUBC!" The flame spun faster, into a ball, growing in size to that of a basketball.

"SHUBC!" The ball of fire whirled and churned above his hand, seeming almost alive. As the creature avdanced upon them, he threw the fireball from his side, up to the ceiling, where it exploded, wreathing the entire area around the beast in flames.

The ceiling, already weakened, groaned and collapsed on top of the beast, tons of stone and metal cascading down upon it.

[Anonymous]

The humanoid monstrosity bellowed in pain as the roof crumpled on top of him.

But didn't let that stop him from returning the favor.

With a howl of agony, a storm of crimson shards of light appeared in front of its form.

Moments later they tore through the air in their haste to arrive at the duo.

***

Olguin grimaced at the power that thing had so casually used.

And the fact that this certain manifestation of power was heading their way.

Fast.

Oh well...

As he dashed in front of Yuthirin, he noted the irony. He had wanted to prove himself.

But it seemed it was time to pay the price.

Knight Yuthirin would get to the Weapon.

While he...

Best not to think about that.

Spinning his staff before him like a shield, he began to call the familiar dark power he had always channeled. The smell of ozone filled the air as the air in front of Olguin and Yuthirin solidfied into a wall of glowing light.

Moments later, the shards of crimson light slammed into the barrier, shoving Olguin back six inches as the storm of powerful psionic attacks connected with the willpower of a determined individual.

One who wouldn't ever let anything harm his ward.

He felt the staff underneath his hands heat up beyond all expectations before a blinding flare of light threw him away from Yuthirin.

Landing in a heap far away from the Knight.

In a quiet heap.

***

Damn the child!

Damn him to heeeeeeeelllllll!

The beast roared its indignation at the boy before turning its attention to Yuthirin.

Its eyes glowed a dull red as it prepared to finish the Powerful One off.

[Yuthirin]

The corners of Yuthirin's wide mouth curled upward in a cruel smile. He watched as a large chunk of stone fell from the ceiling above and before the creature, smashing down and then through the floor. The floor groaned loudly under the weight of the many tons of poorly-balanced rock in one place, then a large area of the floor collapsed into the sewers below, ending with a massive crash, a huge splash, and a loud roar of rage and pain. He hoisted the boy up and over his shoulder, forcing the doors open and striding through them.

He felt his respect for the boy growing a bit. That shield was quite impressive...I must learn how he managed that. He's so young, for a human.

He checked the boy over, and decided that he was just exhausted. He set the boy on his back and pulled a flask from his belt, uncorking it and pouring a small amount of the viscous, foul-smelling green fluid into the boys mouth, rubbing his throat so he would swallow.

[Anonymous]

Olguin slowly swallowed the fluid, coughing raggedly as he slowly returned to the world of the living. His eyes immediately began to dart over their surroundings before coming to rest on Yuthirin's face.

He immediately relaxed as he spotted no more signs of the monster, but that expression turned into one of disappointment when he saw the remains of his staff.

"where's the monster?" He weakly asked, hands weakly grasping at the ground in preparation of returning him back to his feet.

[Yuthirin]

"Not dead. Most likely incapacitated for the moment. Can you walk? Good." He hoisted Olguin to his feet and looked around. They were inside a hallway lined with steel doors with large glass windows in them. The double doors at the far end were completely covered in blood.

He smirked to himself. The path I travel is paved with  blood.

He walked down the hall and, upon reaching the doors, attempted to pry them open.

As he failed to do this, he moved to break the glass open when he noticed a light flashing on a panel to the right of the doors. Chuckling to himself, he pulled the card out of the bladder at his side and slid it into the slot on the panel. The panel bleeped three times, then spat the card back out, the doors opening with the hiss of hydraulics.

[Anonymous]

Olguin took a moment to look down at his focus staff, igniting the small bit of the oak staff that had survived the barrier with a small spark of chi.

Thank you for helping me, partner.

He turned back and followed after Yuthirin, the staff's remains quickly being incinerated in the fire's wake. As soon as he arrived, he quietly asked.

"We should hurry, that thing will probably recover soon enough, judging by the amount of power I felt coming off that thing during our 'battle'."

[Yuthirin]

Yuthirin strode through the doors, revealing a second room, small, with a desk before another glass door and two murder holes on each of the walls, mangled barrels of rifles pointing through them. He stepped over a corpse that lay right before the doorway and looked around.

"If it does, we will kill it."

He noticed another blinking panel next to the steel door and a scotrched body behind the desk, only partially splatteed across the chair and wall. He searched the corpse and came up with another steel card, then inserted it into the slot.

The slot made a gargling noise and the door opened halfway, revealing it to be more than a foot thick, solid steel.

Yuthirin frowned at the door and at the now-sparking panel and squeezed through the passage.

[Anonymous]

Olguin softly sighed as he easily slid past the door, and into the room beyond. Walking up besides Yuthirin, he softly continued.

"Do you think it was that thing that caused all of this death?"

[Yuthirin]

Yuthirin glanced at him. "Look at how it's been done. No, this wasn't done by that thing. It's simply not strong enough. Besides the fact, look at the doors we've come through. Do you really think it would be courteous enough to close them behind itself?"

He looked around and saw another room like the last, though everything seemed to be made of glass, and quite a bit less 'secure.' There was a card table, partially charred, and a few lumps of ash that had been wooden stools.

W set of doors made completely of glass, most of it covered in blood, stood at the end of the room. Another panel sat to its right, dark and silent. Through the clean parts, a large, long, white object could be seen. There was half of a metal security card on the table, the other half having melted and formed a pool around it.

"Oh...great."

[Anonymous]

"Well...the card is bust this time around. We may as well make our own path through this lab, eh?" Olguin viciously grinned as he dashed up to the twin sets of glass doors.

"Ha!" Lashing out with a boot encased foot, he smashed it in and through the left door, destroying it completely.

"Kiyah!" Pulling his foot out of the glass door, he spun around, and lashed out with a fist. Moments later, the right door was completely destroyed.

Dropping his fist, Olguin looked at Yuthirin.

"Where to now?" For a moment, Yuthirin could've sworn that he saw the boy's fist glow a dull amethyst.

[Yuthirin]

Yuthirin pointed quietly into the next room, where small robots could be seen crawling over the massive expanse of the Super Weapon's bulk, reattaching cables here, welding armor plates into place there, and other various repair work.

The little robots paid them no heed, working quickly and efficiently.