DAY F4|_$3
“NO IDEA WHERE THE HELL WE ARE….”
“I SWEAR TO GOD WHEN WE SEE NEKO-SAMA AGAIN SHE WILL PAY FOR WHAT SHE DID”
“NO POINT IN CRYING ABOUT IT YOU SHOULD BE THANKFUL IF YOU DO EVER GET TO SEE HER AGAIN”
“I GUESS… I WONDER WHAT WE WILL DO… HEY YOXIC WHAT DO YOU THINK?”
“I CAN’T STAND THIS” –INSERT LOUD EXPLOSIONS HERE-
Stix sat in a position, curled into a ball deprived of food and water; he had used a rocking motion to release energy from his body when he felt it should not move. Yoxic was not far from him he had a disturbed look on his face and his facial hair had been growing faster than average his eyes closed shut and his stomach growling from hunger. Stix hair had grown untamed again, and his skin was paler then before. What was actually hours to them felt like years and their bodies were even aging faster then before. A gust of wind blew past their heads, making the hair waft in the wind, but they did nothing but sit there as if they were already dead. A small girl was bringing them there meal on a giant tray similar to what they had done before. “Hi Yoxic and Stix I’m here with the meal of the weak” She was carrying a large plate again. She was wearing a Kimono Robe, brown hair short in the front long in the back.
Yoxic’s eyes shot open his head slowly turned around as he saw her coming toward him. “It’s… Here, Finally I can gorge my belly!” He ran up to her and snatched the plate with vigorous energy appearing from nowhere. Hunger had turned him into a savage beast but his mind kept his spirit at ease. He grabbed the main course on the tray it was a turkey about the size of his abdomen. He began to run away with it as soon as he could, he wanted to treasure it. Stix smelled the food, and as Yoxic was wafting the scent all around the area his hunger got to him. He jumped up and tackled Yoxic his teeth digging into Yoxic’s skull if he had bitten any harder he would have drawn blood. “FOOD!!!” Yox screamed and began to punch Stix in the forehead and in the process dropped the turkey in his hand it slid across the ground and they both stopped and looked at it. They slowly and eerily turned to each other with narrowed eyes. “ITS MINE” They tackled the turkey and then glared at each other both their hand grasped onto it determined not to let go.
“There is only one way to settle this Stix” He nodded and Grimmer and Kubo appeared at their sides. They glared at each other, with such intensity that the area began to flare up with Wora. “This battle will be to the death… the looser will have to suffer the consequences” Yoxic growled and dug his claws into the turkey. “Show them all you got Kubo!!!” Kubo began to surge with energy. “Grimmer were not gonna get beat by some prissy punks!!” Grimmer glared with a cool and calm affect Stix emotions had fed him exactly what he needed to perform at top performance. He put up his claws to signal kubo to bring it on. “Ready… Set… GO!!!” Kubo charged toward Grimmer and Grimmer charged toward Kubo. It was a large fusion of Wora that caused an explosion.
Stix jumped up with the turkey in his hand “ROCK BEATS SCISSORS FOOL” He happily took the turkey and began to nom away at it. Yoxic looked at him slightly tearful, “You fat ass runt…” He walked over to the small girl and sat down to eat the other food that was left despite all of the arguing they had done there was still plenty more to go around. “Oh umm Miku did you bring the secret dish I requested…” She nodded, and pulled it from her robe. It was a brownie. Yoxic smiled. “Thanks for the assist my lovely” She blushed and then ran off to where ever it was she went. For the past few days that Yoxic and Stix had been trapped here Miku had been bringing them food once a week. They had tried to follow her but to no avail she would always vanish and they would end up right back where they started.
After eating they felt energized and there stairs locked onto each. “Now… we can continue where we left off” Yoxic chuckled. Stix gave him a stare. “You do understand I will find a way to get out before you do” Yoxic smirked, “Kid without the fourth gate its hopeless…” Grimmer and Kubo appeared and they surged with energy. “Time to work” They separated and Stix began to wander away from Yoxic. Yoxic began to walk away from him. They then began to run, separating themselves as far as they could eventually they smacked into each other Yoxic landed on his back, and Stix landed on his butt. “Heh that did not work… as predicted plan number 38 is a failure” Yoxic smirked, “On the bright side did you notice it…” Stix looked down with a puzzled look and sighed “No I did not… notice anything new”
Yoxic sighed “Idiot we were able to move farther than usual on top of that unlike last time… we did not end up right back where we started…I think that we are in a special maze…” Stix smacked him in the forehead “If this was a maze I would have cut through all the walls and left already” Yoxic gave him a dumbfounded stare. “If you were not so weak then this would not be an issue… how many lox have you unlocked…”
Stix sighed, “I can only unlock 1 and 3” Yox stared at him “You skipped 2… interesting… this means any further advancement is impossible unless you unlock 2” Yox grabbed Stix by the collar and began to charge at him forcing him into the ground. “We will just have to make you strong enough understand this Stix… if you are too weak… I cannot baby you forever… and since 4 and 5 are unobtainable we will just have to skip them and give you the Scar Lox… better known as the Sixth” Stix growled… “That explains… what she was trying to do to me…”
The area then began to fluctuate…time was going backwards as his body would grow backwards and all his old wounds appeared on his body. Stix fell to the ground from the pain. Grimmer appeared but had no idea who or what was causing all the pain on his body.
Yoxic looked around slightly confused, “Pain is your goal then allow me” A male with snow white hair and dazzling red eyes feet gently touched the ground. His palm held forward moved toward Stix “My name is Chronos the master of Time flames” He looked at Stix, you two have amused for the past month that has gone by… but in reality it has only been 31 minutes… a day for every minute has given me time to contemplate your existence…and now that I have studied you there Is no need for you two to exist anymore”
Yoxic growled, “I never intended for this to happen damn Stix…” He ran over to the mutilated boy, he did not recognize him so much pain he had gone through. His heart was beating slowly. “Let's get you out of here” He slowly scoped him up only to see Stix panic and scream the salty fingers of Yoxic being further torture. His hair hunger over his blood filled face, his throat slit all over and burns that were on an extreme third degree. Punctures and more cuts almost all of his main layers of skin were gone.
Chronos smiled, “Now let us see how much pain you have endured” He reversed time on Yoxic’s body as well, the pink marks on his body faded and became bloody. He then fell to his knees and coughed up blood. “So you were the one who brought us here…” Chronos sighed “Yes it is obvious no… anyway… as the master of time and fire I will eliminate you… and prevent you from making any new events in time for all things in time must end” Miku then appeared and a three digits appeared on her shoulder. “Chronos stop they are friends” Chronos then kicked Yoxic with his heel. “Girl stop cutting off my flow they are in our world and invading our space.
Miku began to cry, “You always do this Chronos every time I feel close to anyone you always take them away from me… why do you try so hard to keep me away” Chronos sighed “Understand Miku the outside world is a bad place and as your partner it is my job to protect you from corruption so that you can be perfect in all aspects never aging never dying, these two and Gaia have corrupted your perfection”
He then pointed his hand in their direction. “I will burn and delete any and all imperfections in my perfect world!” He then shot a flame ball from his hand Miku’s arm then shined brightly as the number 000 appeared on her shoulder. She ran in front of the flames and out came a woman in all blue with smooth dark skin. The flames were doused with water. “Gaia the master of Hydro Space at your service loves”
Miku pointed at her other partner “Gaia you need to calm down Chronos before he kills my friends again!!!” Gaia nodded and four gourds appeared onto the ground. “Now…Chronos! BEHAVE!” The gourds shot out water each one a different color. They grabbed Chronos, “Now return! To Miku’s mind and don’t dare coming out until we allow you too!” A seal then appeared on Chronos chest and the same seal was in the eyes of Gaia. Chronos then vanished…
Gaia then walked over to Stix, she pressed her fingers against his bloody remains and he slowly began to become his old self. Miku rushed to Yoxic’s side and began to do the same for him. Her powers were not as fast as Gaia but they were more powerful on certain amounts of pain and disfigurement. She eliminated the extreme issues first. Using the medical technique Gaia had taught her.
Yoxic got up first, but he was in slight pains. He looked at Miku, and he slightly felt anger towards her for a moment. After looking at her face he could see himself beating up a little girl. He sighed “So when do you plan on letting us out” He was severely pissed but he chose to retain it and not lash out at such a young person. Miku wanted to curl up into a ball and die.
She sighed, “If I knew how to get out I would have a long time ago, it is something that only my subconscious brain can do…Chronos wants me to stay here forever” Stix stood, up “Look I can understand you Chronos is a intimidating person but…you can beat me him if you die he dies so you have power over him…” She shook her head no, “We will never die… Chronos controls time… there for we will stay young…I’m actually 17… and my 18th birthday is soon coming…”
Stix growled, “Listen you can beat him you have that Gaia chick… can’t she control time to?” Miku shook her head again and sighed. “Gaia and Chronos are polar opposites… my subconscious and my conscious brain… Fire and Water… Time and Space… there is nothing she can do to get us out… she can only is my friend while I’m here” Stix sighed again; “Ok then we just need to get strong enough to beat him....” He turned to Yoxic, “Teach me… I need to know how to open the sixth Lox… even if I have to skip the ones before it”
Yox sighed, “Kid is doing the impossible... I wonder” he thought. He stared of at the two kids, “Fine I will teach you both, how to open your sixth lox the only thing is, while I’m teaching you… you guys have to give me a place to stay once we get out of here” Stix and Miku both nodded. “Good meet me in one hour I need to go in a different direction and prep”
Miku stood up, “I will show you how to distance yourself from us follow me” She took his hand and he took hers as they began to walk away. This left Stix feeling slightly melancholy. He sighed “Missing Kailene you hopeless romantic… you really have fallen for that girl… idiot” Stix looked over at the rift that Grimmer was emerging from. “It's not that simple… I had originally nearly given up hope… thinking the more time I spent here the more time Kailene would be in trouble…”
Miku and Yox had been walking, as she stared up the male so much taller than her a slight faint blush on her cheeks, as they walked side by side. Never before had Chronos brought men to her world, so in all reality she was ignorant to her feelings. “So Miku, how long did you know Chronos was keeping us here” She looked up her bangs dangling in her face, slightly scared to answer. “I had known for a while… and I figured I would help you adjust and try to make you want to stay here since I don’t know how to get out… normally when ever people figure out that I am the reason there here they try to kill me and Chronos and Gaia come in to stop them…”
Yoxic pondered this, “That’s right… if you die…they will too… I guess that’s understandable… this is far enough, I will need you to leave me alone now ok…” Miku nodded “Oh yes of course” She felt sad afterwards feeling she had angered him too much. “Yox smirked “Oh ya Miku don worry bout it we gonna get out with no prob just need to focus and increase our level”
Miku smiled and then ran back in Stix general direction. Yox sighed, “Now for Miku the goal is to open all of her gates… painful process but… she will have to bear it with Stix I will have to get him to perform the ritual… and make him Rouge like me… Kubo you ready… let’s set up and plan it out”
Miku ran back to see a depressed Stix sitting in the Fidel position. A dark aura surrounded him. “He either has abandonment issues or claustrophobia… or both…” She sighed “I wanna help him” she ran up to him and pet his head “Come now little brother you need to cheer up we are gonna get out of here soon k?” Stix remained emotionless. He tilted his head upwards to reveal his entire body had been engulfed y darkness. He coughed and it sounded as if Stix and Styx had both been coughing at the same time.
“Do me a favor Miku… Die for me” Miku stared into the eyes of her friend and saw Stix sitting there, in the same white world she had been trapped in. Miku looked at him in horror, only to look and began to run away. She looked back and looked at Stix only to see he was his normal self. “What happened wait…” she stopped. Stix looked at her, “are you gonna get some pie for me?” She shook her head “Sure, I will be right back” She was not sure what she had just saw; the image of the beast was glued into her mind.
She opened a portal to her room, secretly to the point Stix could not see and jumped in, this is where she could force food to appear using the powers of Gaia and there a plate of pie appeared. “Stix…” She then opened a portal behind him and sat it there, watching him from a secret location. He turned around and noticed the pie laying there. “Oh… she must be busy doing something else...” He took the pie and ate it delightfully.
She sighed with relief, “I don’t know what to think any more” Chronos began talking to her “He is a beast I am telling you... he should not be trusted, you should reopen the lox trust me” She shook her head, “sorry no…” She then opened a view on Yox, she gazed at him long and hard, he was busy transforming Kubo over and over again. His pink glow was higher than usual as if the aura was surrounding his entire body. She laid down for a nap, getting lost in the two males around her.
Stix got up, “Grimmer… how long do you think I have until I will have to release it again…” The creature shook its head and sighed “I just hope you can hold your parents back long enough for us to figure out a way to stop them” Grimmer and Stix nodded and looked around. “I say the best way to learn how to control something is to use it over and over correct at the moment no one is here so why not open it when it’s not needed…” Stix nodded “That makes sense let’s do this” He sat down and began to meditate. Grimmer sat there and watched him ready to knock him out as soon as he got the signal.
Stix could be seen now in the void of his mind running up to the now quarter open door. “You two… I want to know already… who are you” The male with blue hair smirked, “We have been waiting for you to finally acknowledge us, “I am sure you have many questions as to how or why we exist and further more you would like to know who you are and why we play a part” The girl chuckled, “But there is a catch to all of this information… and on top of that you must understand… we can’t tell you to much the consequences could be fatal”
Stix sighed, “Then tell me what you can” They both chuckled “Kommen auf diesse Weise Stix” For the first time, Stix would enter the door without being utterly destroyed. He walked toward the door, and then shut it behind him. He opened his eyes it was a room full of darkness, “In order for us to let you know you must light this room… the only way to do that is to open the door, but if you open the door, and you will let in light… by letting in the light… you will see what it is you want to understand” Stix sighed and sent a signal to Grimmer “Let me go insane for a while as best as you can for all I know… I might not come back… and I bet if I do what I am about to do you wouldn’t be able to stop me anyway”
He then walked behind him feeling for the door, “You want light huh…let's see what it is that keeps me so scarred” He kicked open the door, which once blocked out the light and it blinded him. He fell to the ground by the surge of energy in his own mind. Grimmer who was outside looked at him “NO IDIOT YOU OPENED THE DOOR COMPLETELY” Stix body began to change, he grew taller, and markings appeared all over his body. “The Sixth Lox is now open for me; Stix has a ways to go before he catches up to me…” He walked up to the petrified Grimmer, “Wake the fuck up, my servants can’t take you over at the moment so you might as well just get the fuck up” He kicked grimmer in the stomach and looked around, “Leave it to my better half to get me trapped in fucking place like this…”
Stix saw a little boy, similar to him in a corner. He was dressed in a long black shroud of darkness, on his shoulder a crow stood his hair long and flowing. He was naked, and his eyes pitch black with a white ring around the pupil. The moved frantically, as the male ran up to Stix. “Please keep the lights on… I don’t like the dark…” He ran up to Stix and hugged him tightly. “Please let me go outside, I like it better there” He then looked up at Stix, he stared at him and Stix stared back.
The small boy then leaned up and kissed Stix on the lips. The crow made a loud noise and flew up toward the two others guarding the door. “You said I would get answers…” Stix thought. The boys kiss was awful and dry his tongue tasted like sand and stale blood. His lips were jagged and chapped torn. The darkness began to poor down Stix throat holding him and entangling him. It groped him held him pressed against the small boy.
The boy waited a few moments his eyes closed as he enjoyed every minute of this time as it stood still. He then broke away, his kiss but the darkness still held onto him. “Hello Stix My name is Styx…”
Stix looked at the boy with confusion; he coughed as the kissed left his mouth with an after taste of brimstone. “In one way you could say you and I are one in the same… on the other hand you could say you and I are to completely different people… in short…it is easier for me to say that I am your second Lox… but I’m more then that… I will let the darkness in your heart explain it to you and I will show you a tad bit… of your past…”
The darkness then filled ever crevice in his body and ripped him up from the inside out. There he could be seen in his mother’s hand the mark on his neck. He had short hair and a baseball cap on. His father and he were sitting happily at the park. He sat in the middle, of those two… this made his father upset. An image flashed and after seeing this happy family, he then saw his father raping his mother as she screamed and pleaded no. Her stomach was fat as if she were pregnant again. Stix closed his eyes to the horrid scene; where he was pulled out of the darkness by the two people from before. He then realized it, “You…you resemble them… my parents… so was it you…” They both nodded, “We are the parents of the boy not you…” They then flung him back into reality the door was now closed no light got in.
Stix opened his eyes, “Grimmer you ok” He reverted back into his sword form and then vanished. He hugged his eyes in slight pain and then gave a heft sigh. “Left alone… I wonder if I accomplished my goal at all” An image of Styx flashed in his head and he was reminded. “That’s right I can never be alone” He lay down and stared at the bleak space above him. He had at a moment wished he could control it… to fill it with color. As a full hour passed, Yox could be seen running towards Stix, only for the time space error to force him back to his starting point.
Miku woke up to this and chuckled “Oh yea, I have to go help him” She appeared from her room and gently grabbed his hand. “Come this way Yox-kun” She smiled as they stopped in front of Stix and she nodded, “Now let’s learn how to open the lox” Yox sighed “Good news and bad news... bad news is Miku your training will have to wait until after we get out… good news is Stix your training won’t take long… right now I need you to simply gain the sixth Lox and then follow up with what I do. I realized we could easily get out of here with two Open 6th Lox, all we need to do is disrupt the Wora enough to cause this world to collapse, and the best way to do that is to pull in as much Wora as you can”
Yox chuckled, “Sadly I am the only who knows how to do this… but after a long talk with Kubo there is another way to absorb Wora, although it is a bit disturbing for younger people like Miku” Stix come over here” Stix nodded, and walked towards Yox, “Watch carefully” He then took a kunai and began cutting into Stix wrist. “Don’t freak out just bear with the pain for a bit” He cut several symbols into his wrist. “This is a Wora ritual that is used often in the dark cults never let authorities see it or you could get in trouble”
The blood dripped onto the floor, as it poured from his arms. Yox had cut the wounds slightly deeper than they should have been cut. “Now to finish up…” He took a kunai that was on fire and burned the symbols closed “Now, here is the key aspect here, and this is where we have to be careful, I will begin absorbing Wora from Miku, you have to do the same for the atmosphere around us, don’t think about it just feel it… and do it.. you can see Wora so right now your only option is to just trust that you’re doing something… on another note… if this fails we will all die…but living a eternity like this… it pretty much is already being dead anyway so no regrets… let’s do this shit”
He walked over to Miku and pressed his hand against her forehead, and he began draining Wora from her. Stix sighed, “Let us hope for a win” He put his now burned hand into the air. “Think pulling in Wora into my body…” Yox yelled at him “Don’t Think! Just do!” Stix gulped. “Don’t think” He was then pulled into his mental world, “I will give you the eye sight you need, just open the door a little bit...so I can see too” Stix opened his eyes and they were all black with a single white ring around his pupil. “I can see it…Wora…” He then began to pull a lot of it in. Yox looked at him “WAIT the seal is not meant for people who can see it!”
Stix then began to drain large amounts of Wora from the area as the world around them began to crumble and Miku went into an epileptic state. “Stix you have to stop, you pulling in too much” Yox then began to feel weak himself Stix draining in his Wora as well. Kubo appeared, “Kubo use and Explosion to stop him quickly” Kubo then ran over to Stix and several gold coins hit the ground. They actually rained down on the male. Kubo had to act fast before his Wora was gone. He ran back over to Yox and transformed into a small yellow box with a button on it. “This should do it” He then pressed the button and a condensed blast of Wora covered the entire area. Ending with Yox screaming

Name:
Icarus Fausiair

Age:
Depends

Race:
Angel, Demon, Vampire, Dove

Story:
“I remember it like it was yesterday, waking up in my cage hanging from the highest point. The sickly old men would come and see me each day… That lectures old man, oh how he would abuse me in all the wrong ways. Enough of that though… I suppose I shouldn’t talk about him… I was born in a place called Sarro, locked up in some baron attic for a majority of my life. I read books, but that is when the lecture was off to work or out to party. Of course since I live forever and he does not…he died and I was set free … finally. Anyway selling everything he owns, then leaving I go and wander living off what I can get. The graceful beast that I am decides to settle in this town here, I rent out a small room and fly throughout the name doing odd jobs, whatever I can to survive in this cruel place , I call home…”