"My macabre adventure began as usual, with me scouring a filthy tavern looking for a new bodyguard, its always a challenge to find proper mercenaries to help in my tasks, I have to be careful to not end up hiring cowards, morons or just perverts with second intentions, in this particular place it seemed to be filled with all of them! regardless I went to the bar counter and talked to the barman, I gave him a rough description of the job and the kind of person I wanted, he laughed and said "the only merc here stupid and desperate enough to take your job is Danadriel"he pointed to a masive figure sitting alone in the corner of the tavern, I immediately went there to meet them, upon reaching her I felt a shiver down my spine, she was massive, a mountain of muscles almost twice my height, it was clear to me what she was, she was a Calderian Bulwark, one of the many dreadful super soldiers created by the Calderiam Empire during its height...now obsolete relics of the fallen empire.
I sat on her table and started the conversation with the usual decorum expected, she stood quietly for a moment sniffing the air like a predator, her voice was deep and rough, she was equally polite yet using fewer words, I decided to not try my luck so I went straight to the point, I was planning to investigate a nearby monastery that went dark few years ago and I needed someone to watch my back during the process, simple as that...she was reluctant at first for such small job, but once she made the maths and realized how much she was owing to the tavern onwer she accepted my deal, and so it was decided we would depart next morning.I made it sound like a small job, but it was way more dangerous than it looks...I'm a member of the Lummineri Order, we are a group of magic users dedicated to investigate and warn the world about supernatural threats, technically speaking we are supernatural detectives, most of the time we only gather evidence to help people that can actually fight these threats...and in my line of work, small jobs like this that may seem trivial usualy end being the most dangerous of them all...and this one would be no exception.
In the next morning before the sun was even up Danadriel was already waiting near my truck, she was armed and ready to fight, sadly she didnt had the mechanized armour suit characteristc of the bulwarks...it was not nescessary but I just thing she would look cooler in her panoply. Once the preparations were done we departed looking for the monastery, the road was rough and the massive added weight of Danadriel was making my truck struggle to overcome the terrain, during the slow and careful travel I got bored and decided to talk with her, I asked her how she survived the fall of the empire, she told me she had deserted years before the empire fell, she hid in a forest for some years and when she came out the empire was no more, I asked if she had some loyalty or nostagia for the Calderian royal family, the question caused her immense disdain, she answered with: "Fascistical pigs all of them, I hope they are all rotting in some fetid pit of hell" the question clearly made her angry, so I stoped poking...but for my surprise she asked me about my order! I gladly told her everything I could, it caught my surprise because Bulwarks were conditioned from birth to have no curiosity, they were crafted to be ultra loyal and focused only in combat...meanwhile this one was disloyal and curious!
Our chit chat ceased as we reached the monastery...the energies of that place were hard to stomach, something horrible happened there and both of us could feel it, the locals mentioned that years ago the monks brought some sort of large mechanical relic to study, one night there was strange ligths and screams all over the monastery...silence since then, and none had courage to enter to see what happened, we would be the first, I was not expecting heavy resistance so I just drew my revolver and kept my grimoire aside, Danadriel had her massive hand canon in hand ready to shred anything.We slowly explored the monastery, on the first levels we noticed every single metallic object was bent and twisted in unnatural ways, there was blood and scorch marks in the walls...strange I never seen such thing before, as we descent in the lower levels we began to find dilacerated bones and many more blood marks, something killed the monks and it was clear, in my careful steps I didnt noticed am ambush waiting for us, suddenly five fleshy creatures fell from the ceiling around us and darted to attack us, I froze, I'm used to action but that caught me entirely by surprise, in a split second Danadriel drew her knife and cut apart all the five creatures, that was so fast it dazzled me! I heard stories about the physical feats of the Bulwarks, but to see that in action was amazing!
I stopped to analyze the mangled creatures, they all seemed to be men with their skins ripped out, but their claws and teeth were mutated to monstrous size, I assumed these creatures were once the monks that ihabited this monastery...something mutated them beyond recognition, as a precaution I casted multiple spells to protect both of us from whatever force or entity was working in this place, as I was finishing the last spell Danadriel interrupted me to say she was hearing multiple creatures aproaching, I stored my revolver and drew my grimoire, as I desperately did the rites to wake up my grimoire I saw a large group of the flayed creatures comming from the end of the corridor, so many they seemed like a wave of flesh, Danadriel opened fire with her handcanon obliterating multiple of them, but even such overpowered weapon was barely denting the horde...this was my time to shine, with the aid of my grimoire I materialized multiple giant blades of energy and trhew them violently at the horde, the blades tore the entire horde swftly converting them in a pile of gore, Danadriel got impressed and comended my skills, if a super soldier praises your hability to kill you must be doing something right!
Usually the bodyguards I hire freak out at first sight of the supernatural, but luckily for me Danadriel was willing to go with me to the end of this mystery. We kept exploring carefully, there was multiple ambushes along the way, all the ones who dared to come in melee range got gored by Danadriel's blade while I took care of distant groups, as we descended to the lowest levels of the monastery I could feel the tingling of a malignant energy , following this unpleasant trail we reached the epicenter of the event, a foul machine of brass, iron and pulsating flesh a Infernal Engine! these mechanical creatures are forged by demons for a miriad of heinous purposes, this one was a mutator, around it was clear signs that the monks tried to study it, poor fools had no idea what they were messing with.
The hateful machine felt our presence and sprung to life releasing a wave of flames in our direction, I was able to shield both of us, but this made the machine realize my power and it grew desperate, it sounded a horrific horn calling its flayed minions, the entire monastery was awake now, the rumble and screams of hundreds of creatures could be heard comming to our direction, at this point my only option was to face the infernal engine and destroy it, Danadriel stood at the door ready to fight the incomming horde as I used everything I had against the machine, The creature was powerful but with the aid of my grimoire I was able to suffocate its powers and began a ritual to send it back to the pits of hell, it was a complicated process and the situation was getting dire, Danadriel was facing the horde, ferocilously cuting multiple of them at each swing of her massive knife, but she could not hold the door forever I was running out of time!
I kept the ritual going strong as I could, but the machine was refusing to give up, I could see on the corner of my eye that Danadriel was getting surrounded and soon the creatures would overwhelm her, realizing we were both dead anyway I decided to release all the fail safes in my mind and the let the magic flow free trough my body at a suicidal rate, it was painful but it worked...the engine screamed in pain as it was crushed by a vortex sucking it to the hellish plains, for a moment I was concentrating so much power my body was levitating, the feeling was amazing, I felt like a god! but inevitably as the portal closed I lost concentration and strength, I only remember the impact of my body hitting the ground them everything fade to black.
For my surprise I woke up hours later in my bedroom in my father's airship, for a moment I thought this was all a dream, but as I came out in the main deck I saw my father and the rest of his team examining Danadriel looking for signs of corruption, when my father saw me awake he scolded me harshly for facing such danger alone, but as always his sermon ended with him hugging me and crying, he was glad I was alive, My father was already en route for this region following me but when he felt the surge in magical power he knew I was in trouble and knew exactly where to find me, yes I was stupid for doing what I did without other mages, me and Danadriel could have died horribly there...but on the other hand I discovered new limits to my power and I cant deny I'm happy with it...
As I went to thank and pay Danadriel for the help I was worried she could be angry since I lied about the job, quite the contrary, she was excited and energized, she said she didnt had a good fight for quite a while and it was really good to fight monsters instead of people, I was glad to work with her, and sad it would be our only job togheter...so I had one idea, I asked my father about hiring Danadriel permanently for our Order, he was a bit reluctant to have such killing machine in his airship, but even he recognized the need for a heavy hitter to assist us in our investigations, after discussing with Danadriel the logistical and monetary details of her hiring she promptly accepted to work with us, now with our new chunky assistant we continue our dutiful task of protecting this world from the unknow and the supernatural." (Dominica)
Omg new storyline? owO
just another prototype to see if the the concept is fun :U
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