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"......THE VESSEL WAS ENDANGERED..." the voice responded.

"PROTECT THE VESSEL..." it said further, before Levi started to shamble towards her.

"WE SENSE YOU ARE HERE... TO TAKE THE VESSEL AWAY..." they went on.

"...please..." she then heard Levi's voice say.

"Please... run away..." he begged.

"THE VESSEL IS... OBSTINATE..." the previous voice then commented, as the 'veins' under Levi's skin started to pulse again.

"..............." Levi was silent, before he slowly turned around, each appendage seeming to act separately from each other. But he managed to turn around.

He looked at her, before he opened his mouth.

Strange words and noises came out... but eventually, words formed.

"....YOU... ARE NOT OF THEM..." he said in a dark tone.

"YOU ARE... LIKE THEM..." he went on.

"YOU HAVE LIFE... EVERLASTING..."

"That way." Ash told Ty.

"I can sense it." he told him. "It's what we're looking for." he said further.

"That where Aedan's heading?" Ty asked.

"Probably." Ash responded, as Ty got the vehicle moving again.

Meanwhile, Levi was standing over the bodies of those that he had been chasing... those that had tried to mug him.

They were a mess. An absolute mess. He'd cornered them in a dead-end alley, and they fought back like trapped rats. But he had won, and the scene was sickening.

Ty and Ash were silent, before the former stopped the vehicle. His bike was in the shop, so he had a rental car to drive, which ended up working out, considering there were three people now.

"Why?" Ash asked.

"Is something wrong?" he asked her.

"....you sense something, don't you?" Ty then asked her.

"Get going." he told her.

As they ran, they glanced back on occasion, to see if he was still there.

He was. He didn't seem to be moving at all... but whenever they glanced forward to check their route, and then looked back, he was always closer than they would expect.

It was as though he was 'blinking' closer and closer towards them.

"The hell!?" one exclaimed.

"This is freaking me out!" they told their partner.

Levi continued to pin the person to the wall, as the 'veins' pulsed more and more. However, when the actual skin started to pulse up and down, like something was trying to break free, that's when it got really unnerving.

A few tears started to stream down Levi's cheeks, before he clamped his hands around his victim's neck, and started to squeeze as hard as his body would allow him.

"....stop...." they heard through his mouth noises.

"...run... save..." they heard further, before they started to lose consciousness, only for his grip to loosen slightly when the first person hit Levi's head from behind.

"The fuck's WRONG with this guy!?" they exclaimed, anger and fear in their tone.

Levi cocked his head to the side... almost to the point where it looked like his neck would snap.

And it looked like whatever they had clocked him with did NO damage. Or he wasn't registering it, anyway.

He was silent for a moment, as his skin seemed to pulse with dark veins of mana.

He opened his mouth and let out a low murmur of more unnerving and unearthly noises, before he lunged for them, slamming them against a nearby wall.

Again, he let out more chilling noises, seeming to be a gibberish language... but the person distinctly heard two english words hidden among them.

"...help me..."

Ash nodded.

"Yep." he replied.

"Let's go, then." he said. "We have a lot of ground to cover, and not a lot of time to cover it in." he told them.

Meanwhile, 'Levi', seeing no more victims around in the house, had left the dwelling, and was making his way down the street... though his movements were... unnatural and rather stiff... yet somehow impossibly fluid at times.

He was stopped by a couple of people that demanded money off of him... which resulted in one of them being pinned to the ground again, being choked, as 'Levi' let out an unearthly sound.

"Uhhhh..." Ty stammered, unsure of what to say.

"Wait, you look familiar." he then said.

"Name's Ash Fyrane." the man replied.

"Yes, I'm related to Kiah." he quickly added.

"Yet I am here on behalf of... an organization... that deals with this sort of thing." he told them both.

"I was sent here to help you. And... if necessary, do the sordid dead."

"Neither do I." Tyson sighed.

"But we need to do whatever we can, and hope the two of us will be enough." he told her.

"THREE." a new voice corrected him.

"Huh?" Tyson muttered, looking to where it came from.

Standing before them was a man dressed in faded jeans, a plain tee-shirt, and he had red and black striped hair.

Tyson sighed.

"This is something that... is... well... frightening." he told her.

"We're meddling in things far beyond our comprehension." he sighed.

"Who knows what will happen?" he asked rhetorically.

"...I just feel sorry for the poor boy acting as the vessel." he then added.

".........normally I would say 'no'." Sharp commented.

"But we don't need to have YOU lose yourself." he admitted.

"So... make it quick." he told her.

"I'll be by the front door." Ty commented.

"Aedan, I'll meet you there when you are ready to head out." he then said to the female that was with him.

@Millet I'm sure that's just a mistype on Hazer's part, but that should be has as opposed to hasn't.

If the topic is, indeed, off the front page, you can bring it back to the front page with no issues.

"......." Sharp was silent for a moment.

"Once." he said.

"Eh?" Ty muttered.

"One survived." he told them.

"However... they were forever changed after that. The Ancient Ones left... something... carved into them. And they took a piece of that person away when they were driven out." he went on.

"So this kid is guaranteed screwed, either way." Tyson commented.

"Mana and medicine have come a VERY VERY long way since then." Sharp countered.

"We don't know until we know."