Dark Being 4: “Welcome my test subjects... My name is Egrig, Impure Lieutenant of Intelligence... Come to revenge the Earth City? Don’t think that just because you are together means that will save you…”
Penelope: “You will pay for terrorizing our city!! Let's start where we left off!! I promise you, it will be your last battle!!”
Egrig: “I don’t see the point in continuing our fight… I have something else in store for you… Just know that the physical world is now a test subject to our whims...”
Theodore: “We already had to see what your corrupted order did to our city. I don’t know what other operations you are doing here but we will stop it. Tell us what are you planning?”
Egrig: “I don’t have to tell you anything... Hahaha.... Just be aware that you are now doomed. I have no intention for you to become prisoners here... I’ll destroy you one by one until the Dream Club Members are no more...”
Egrig started to laugh out crazily.
Penelope: “Doubt it! There is three of us and only one of you! You are the one who should be afraid!”
Penelope charged towards Egrig. As she could touch him, he vanished into thin air. She stopped moving to try to detect him but there was no sight of him. Anger welled up inside her while she placed a firm grip to her weapon.
Penelope: “Yeah! Run coward!!”
Theodore looked at a scared Shawn. He placed his hand on Shawn's back.
Theodore: “Hey pal. It’s okay. We're here.”
Shawn began to break down in tears to leave his friends concerned.
Shawn: “He... He... He’s gone...”
Theodore: “What do you mean?”
Shawn: “That guy destroyed Martin... He’s gone...”
The Dream Club Members looked with shock and seriousness.
Penelope: “What?!?! That freak is going to pay!!!”
She began yelling out of anger for a moment.
Theodore: “My friend... We should have come here sooner...”
Theodore placed his hand on his head. Out of anger, he forcefully dug his weapon into the ground.
Mally: “It shows that the Impure Order will go to the lowest depths... They are nothing but a despicable order... I just can’t believe he is gone...” She started to break a tear.
Penelope: “We have to revenge him by destroying that guy!”
Theodore: “Mess with one of us and he messes with all of us!”
Mally: “We have achieved what we are here in this city to do. We have to arrive back to the Earth City. We have to commit to completing what we need to do. Shawn, have you awakened your powers?”
Shawn: “Not yet...”
Mally: “Well, awaken them soon... Remember, we need you and Kathleen to commit to your tasks here. We are relying on you. Due to these unexpected circumstances, Theodore and Penelope will have to pursue after Egrig. I will go to sabotage their operations in the Impure Fortress if there is any. Shawn, you resume the task you were here to do. Let's hope Kathleen is doing well with her tasks. We will figure out how to revive Martin back to life.”
Shawn: “I can’t find where that building is. The Impure Order must have concealed it.”
Mally: “Theodore, can you help him?”
Theodore summoned out his Awakening Book then began searching the area to pin-point where they were.
Theodore: “It is at the Beach.”
Theodore showed him the buildings and location. Shawn expressed confusion not only by the address but shape of the buildings. Instead of them being three pyramids, they were three cubes.
Shawn: “That can’t be... I thought they were in this city somewhere. I thought they were supposed to be pyramids, not cubes. I'll show you what Theodore gave to us before from Martin.”
Shawn summoned his Awakening Book to summon a map of the Impure City. He skimmed to the place where he suspected the buildings to be. With shock, he saw the same park that was concealing the buildings from him.
Shawn: “That’s strange... My map showed that the buildings I was supposed to go to were there... I don't know why it is showing me this...”
Mally: “I thought I’ve sent my new plans into your book. Theodore looked more deeply in his visions. He had made a mistake on the building’s location and appearance. What you are being shown by Theodore is exactly where you need to go.”
Shawn: “Oh... That explains things...” He thought over it for some time.
Mally: “Let’s commit to our objectives.”
At the beach, Shawn was standing at the buildings. He paid attention to the cubic shape of them.
Shawn: “This place will show me what type of operation the Impure Order is doing here.”
Walking inside the building, he discovered it to be an empty room. He looked around to not find anything of importance.
Shawn: “Where are their operations? It’s just an empty room...”
He then heard the wall in front of him beginning to move. It did a 180 turn to reveal Kathleen surrounded by three people in dark cloaks. They were laughing evilly enjoying the fear and helplessness Kathleen was expressing. She wasn’t aware that Shawn was behind her from a distance.
Impure Member 55: “So, what are you going to do? A person with no powers and is seen as a helpless newborn…”
Kathleen: “Please think about this. You are all possessed by the Impure Order. They had made you corrupt by force… There is a way for you to return back to the people you were meant to be.”
Impure Member 55: “We should be thanking them… They helped us to realize that Humanity is meant to serve Impurity… We are what Humanity will one day become… You can share in our victory by joining us or perish…”
Kathleen: “I’m sorry but I can’t join you… I’m trying to help you to understand that you are really slaves to Impure Order…”
Impure Member 55: “If we are really slaves, we wouldn’t be given so much power!! How about we show you?!”
The Impure Members slowly approached Kathleen with the intention of harming her.
Shawn: “Kathleen!!!”
Kathleen quickly turned around to discover with relief Shawn.
Kathleen: “Shawn, you’re here! I’m so happy you’re okay!”
Shawn: “Let’s hurry!! We need to get out of here!!”
Shawn and Kathleen started to run to the entrance. The Impure Members stood back not chasing after them. All they were doing was grinning evilly.
Once Shawn and Kathleen opened the doors, they immediately stopped running to pause in fear. In front of them was Egrig. He was standing by with a crazy grin on his face. In a few seconds later, Shawn saw Egrig’s face changed again. It revealed he had three faces mixed together. His head was stretched out from the back of his head to the ground. He had on his shoulders the miniature heads of himself. Shawn jumped back screaming in fear from his appearance. Kathleen quickly turned to Shawn wondering what happened to him. To her, she hadn’t seen anything out of the ordinary with Egrig’s appearance.
Shawn hesitantly looked at Egrig again to discover that Egrig looked normal again. Egrig started laughing at Shawn’s reaction towards him.
Egrig: “What’s wrong? Don’t like seeing me?”
Shawn: “What… What are you…?”
Egrig: “What I am and who I am doesn’t matter… What matters is that your days are up…”
Egrig summoned from his powers a restraining vest before throwing it to them. The vest went to speeds that Kathleen and Shawn didn’t have enough time to react to it. Soon, the restraining vest went onto Kathleen’s body. Shawn with shock on his face saw Kathleen struggling to move.
Shawn: “Kathleen!!”
Shawn ran over to break her free from her restrains. No matter what he did, the vest Kathleen was wearing was too tough for him to tear apart.
Kathleen: “It’s no use Shawn… You need to use your powers…”
Shawn: “I can’t… I haven’t awakened them yet…”
Kathleen: “We need our friends here then… They can save us…”
Shawn: “I’ll call them to our position…”
As Shawn was about to summon out his Awakening Book, Egrig shot a beam to the ground. It caused a part of the street to split apart. Shawn jumped back to prevent himself from falling into the abyss. Kathleen who was unable to move was left suspended in the sky. She looked at the abyss below with great fear.
Egrig then emitted a dark purple flash of light. It caught the attention of both Kathleen and Shawn. Soon from the abyss, a grey liquid moved up into the air surrounding Kathleen from all sides. Soon, it consumed her.
Shawn: He looked on with panic. “Kathleen!!!” He turned to Egrig pleading. “Please!! Stop this!! We are helpless and mean no harm to you!! Please, I beg you!!”
Egrig looked on laughing as if enjoying what he was doing. Shawn looked away from Egrig and to Kathleen who was trapped in grey liquid. The grey liquid reformed into a rocket of some kind. It had many colorful lights on the sides of it. The top of the rocket had glowing red light that was constantly flashing.
Kathleen could soon be seen being restrained by the rocket. The restrains were three metal pipes that hugged her body on her legs, waist and head. She struggled to break free from the rocket. In a state of fear and sadness, she turned to Shawn.
Shawn looked out with worry for his friend.
Shawn: “Kathleen!! No!!”
Egrig: He gave off a craze laugh. “It’s too bad you don’t have powers Shawn or you could have saved your friend…”
Egrig took something out of his pockets. It was a switch to the rocket. He slowly pressed it to cause the rocket restraining Kathleen to activate. Kathleen looked at Shawn in a state of panic before the rocket sent her to the sky.
Shawn ran over to look upwards while holding his head out of panic. Egrig pressed the switch again to cause the rocket to explode. A rush of wind moved out from all directions from the source of the explosion. Shawn went down to his knees sobbing.
Shawn: “I should have saved her... I wish I had powers... I wish I was wiser than I am now...”
Egrig was laughing at his behavior.
Egrig: “As for you Shawn, I think my minions will handle you… I want to see how you will manage as a weakling…”
Egrig snapped his fingers. Soon, three Impure Members started to emerge out of the building Shawn and Kathleen ran out from. They were the same Impure Members that had terrorized Kathleen earlier.
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Egrig: “Impure Members, have fun with him all you like… I will deal with other matters…”
Impure Member 55: “We will deal with him master.”
Egrig started to disappear into darkness. Shawn was now facing the Impure Members who appeared eager to harm him.
Impure Member 55: “Now we have to deal with you... We promise to make this slow and painful…”
Shawn: “Please!! Don’t hurt me!! Please don’t hurt me!!”
Impure Member 55: “Too late for that… It’s time for you to share the same fate like your friends…”
The Impure Members drew out their weapons. From their actions, Shawn quickly reacted by backing away. He paid attention to the arrows that were in their hands. The evil smirks from the Impure Members were too much for Shawn to stand still. Shawn knowing that he couldn’t fight had to run away from them. They went right after him firing many arrow shots. The shots hit areas of buildings that were near to where he was. He quickly summoned out his Awakening Book.
Shawn: “Mally!! Mally!! Please if you could hear this, Kathleen’s gone!! He blew her up!! I need help!! Please!! Where are you?!?!”
His fear and panic increased even more when he got no response back. He went down an alley to search for a place to hide. Down the alley, there was litter everywhere. Through the mess, he came up to a partly ruined wooden door. As the footsteps got louder, he opened the door to reveal a small concealed area to hide into. By standing up straight, he could fit inside it. He slowly closed the door before the Impure Members arrived.
The Impure Members stopped when they lost his trail. They looked around the place in search for him. Shawn tried the best in his ability to not make a single sound. He had his eyes closed hoping that they won't discover him.
Soon, a sound of trash cans moving forced their attention down the alley. With a smirk on their faces, they decided to continue running down the alley. Shawn heard their footsteps getting softer until he could no longer hear them. Carefully, he opened the door to find himself alone. The threat he faced was over for now. Shawn sat down crying while covering his face.
Shawn: “Kathleen... I can’t believe she’s gone... Martin… Kathleen… I’m sorry I couldn’t help you…”
He then calmed down to realize,
Shawn: “We can’t win against the Impure Order... It was a mistake to arrive here. We should meet up and escape before it’s too late...”
He decided to speak into his book.
Shawn: “Awakening Book, where are my friends at?”
Awakening Book: “I can’t help you with that because it is dangerous to meet them... Awaken your powers is the best thing you could do right now.”
Shawn: “But I don’t know how!! Please help me!!! Do something!!! I scared!!!”
Awakening Book: “This situation you’re in will help you to awaken your powers... Trust me... Relax...”
Shawn placed his hands on his head worried. He was in a state of panic for a few minutes. Once he had regained back his facilities, he decided to get up and run the opposite way out of the alley. To a street, he peaked out of the alley to check for any threats. When there weren't any, he went down an unknown designation. Soon, he froze in movement.
What he saw were hundreds of Impure Members marching to him. They had their weapons out in unison. Shawn reacted by running away but he saw from the other side more Impure Members. The east and west soon too had Impure Members marching to him. At that moment, Shawn was trapped.
Shawn: “Where am I supposed to go?!?!”
He started to hear Penelope and Theodore fighting. They were working together to push back the Impure Members. The numbers' game forced them with no choice but to move back. Shawn raced to them out of desperation.
Penelope: “These troops are stubborn... We can’t destroy them since the Impure Order is controlling them... Curse the Impure Order!!”
Theodore: “Egrig has set us up! They have blocked our every escape. There has to be a way we could win somehow.”
They kept backing off from the Impure Members until they were near to where Shawn was. Penelope was the first to notice Shawn to a distance. She blasts three Impure Members back to reach him. Theodore saw Penelope running off then with happiness, he noticed Shawn. He decided to follow her to meet him.
Theodore: “Great timing Shawn! With your powers, we could even the odds!”
Shawn: “I’m sorry... I was unable to awaken my powers...”
Penelope: “Have you at least destroyed their operations?”
Shawn: “It was a trap!! I was forced to see them restrain Kathleen... They ended up destroying her...”
Theodore and Penelope were shocked.
Penelope: “Not Kathleen too!! She’s too pure to go out like that!! I had enough!!!”
Theodore: “This is going from bad to worse... I’m starting to regret coming here...”
Egrig unexpectedly appeared behind Theodore.
Penelope: “Look behind you!!!”
Theodore: “What?!?!”
Egrig dug his weapon through Theodore’s body. Penelope and Shawn were paralyzed in disbelief. Egrig released then used an energy sphere to blast Theodore away in green smoke. Shawn went unresponsive. Penelope had so much rage that she couldn't contain it anymore.
Penelope: “You... You Monster!!!”
Penelope rushed in angrily to Egrig beginning their fight. Eventually, Egrig used a red light to blind her. The Impure Members used that as an opportunity to grab her. With 20 Impure Members holding her, Penelope was effectively restrained. Egrig dug his weapon through her body then blasted her away in orange smoke.
Egrig: “Now... With Theodore and Penelope gone, it is just you... Shawn...”
Shawn began yelling in fear. Looking out, there was nowhere for him to escape to. The number of Impure Members surrounding him made escape impossible. They started to point their arrows directly to him. Shawn looked on with tears coming down his eyes.
Egrig: He started to laugh crazily. “All your attempts to escape are exhausted... Let’s reflect... Your plan to stop our operations failed... Most of your friends are destroyed... You are next to being destroyed... What are you going to do?”
Shawn went down on his knees and holding his head panicking. Soon, he saw something flying down from the sky. As it landed, he discovered it was an Air Glider. Once it disappeared, he expressed relief that it was Mally. Mally appeared to be injured a bit.
Shawn: “Mally!!”
Mally: “Shawn... I tried to arrive here as quickly as I could. I had to deal with troops that acted as an obstruction. I was informed by the bad news about Kathleen... Where are Penelope and Theodore...?”
Shawn: “They’re gone... He destroyed them too...”
Egrig started laughing.
Egrig: “What's sad about this is that they fell to their destruction easily... Makes me wonder how my peers allowed your friends to defeat them...”
Mally closed her eyes expressing sadness.
Mally: “Not them... Is this what the Impure Order orchestrated for us...? Just to eradicate us off...”
Shawn: “What are we going to do?”
Mally: She looked at Shawn. “We have to escape here... I’ll think of something... Anything...”
Egrig: “Good luck with that Mally. You two aren’t escaping here...”
Mally: “Explain to us... Why are you destroying us?”
Egrig: “It’s simple... You ruined our operations the last time you came here... You destroyed the Dream Machine in your last visit and had managed to destroy the Conversion Device today. Something we had worked for so long to build... It is only fair that if you break it, you pay it... And my form of payment is your life...”
Mally and Shawn expressed concern with their bodies shaking in fear.
Egrig: “Now my Impure Members... Destroy them... The Dream Club Members will be no more...”
The Impure Members came closer to them with their weapons drawn. Mally summoned her weapon then started to protect a defenseless Shawn.
Mally: “I’ll try the best I could to manage them but I’m not promising anything... I’m sorry Shawn... I didn’t think things would end like this... I’m so sorry...”
Shawn closed his eyes panicking.
Shawn: “This has to be a nightmare! It has to be!! I wish I could awaken my powers!! I wish there was some way to stop this!!”
When he opened his eyes; he no longer saw the Impure Members, Mally and Egrig. In fact, the entire Impure City was gone from his sights. Replacing them was a cave. Bits of daylight penetrated in the cave. There was nothing but silence. Confusion was on his face as he tried to figure out what happened.
Shawn: “I... I’m... In this place... I think I remember this place... It’s one of the images the Angel showed me... Is this where I will receive the wisdom to unlock my powers?”
Shawn saw a bright flash of light emerging to his sights. When it faded away, it revealed to be the Lady of the Light.
Shawn: He expressing relief. “Thank goodness that you are here… I’ve seen such horrible things… My friends were killed by the Impure Order… And things kept getting worse…”
He started crying. The Lady of the Light raised her light causing Shawn to feel at ease. Through that easiness, he stopped crying.
Lady of Light: “I understand that what you had experienced was a nightmare. Although you are vulnerable now, when you are aware enough, you will realize the truth. What will help you to come to that truth would be through the Caves of Elements. I’ll visit you again once you have awakened more of yourself.”
She faded away in light to leave Shawn alone at the caves.
Shawn: “The caves here will hopefully offer me what I need to stop what is happening to Mally and myself…”
Shawn began his travel in the cave observing his environment. All he saw were rock around him which was uneventful. He soon ended up into a cave chamber. There, he noticed that there was an underground river flowing about.
From deeper in the cave, he saw shadows appearing to his sights. The shadows were later revealed to be people exploring the cave. They wore brown cloaks and had humble smiles on their faces. When they were close to the river, they stepped into it then proceeded to walk to the other side.
Shawn looked on with curiosity when he saw the same people emerge out of the river on the other side. They now had white cloaks and had a white aura around their bodies. The sight amazed Shawn.
He saw another cave chamber to his left that he decided to go there. Inside that chamber, he noticed it was consumed in flames. The flames lightened up the cave. Despite being in the chamber, Shawn remained unharmed by the flames.
From the ceiling, he saw a light emerging from above. Out from the light were villagers. People in brown cloaks were falling into the flames. Once they were in the flames, their bodies glowed in orange light before disappearing. After a while, Shawn saw blue flames emerging. They soon reformed into the bodies of the villagers. Shawn looked on with amazement as he witnesses such a sight. He realized that the villagers had used the flames to alter the state of their bodies. They had changed the state of matter of their bodies into flames.
Shawn walked away from that chamber to end up in another chamber. There, he saw electricity moving around everywhere. He took a step back in fear of being electrocuted. From another part of the chamber, he saw villagers emerging from the darkness. They dressed similar to the ones in the brown cloaks he saw earlier.
The electricity moving about started to zap their bodies. Instead of electrocuting them, their bodies acted like batteries that absorb the electricity. Shawn noticed that their eyes became yellow. Sky blue light started to emerge out from within their bodies. In a few moments later, the villagers were gone. Shawn saw them in one place then another place then another. It was as if the villagers were moving in the speed of light.
He walked out of that chamber to see a dead end. There was just a tiny opening where someone’s arm could move through it. As he peaked into the hole, he saw the three chambers he had visited before. He could see the first chamber which contained a river, a second chamber in flames and a third chamber that contains electricity.
With a look of curiosity, he saw water from the river in the first chamber forming into a sphere. He saw the same thing happening to the flames and the electricity in their respective chambers.
In a few moments later, he saw three orbs of light. He saw a blue orb, red orb and yellow orb. They started to emit an energy wave which forced him to back away from the hole. He had the look of feeling overwhelmed. From that moment, he soon remembered.
Shawn: “I... I understand how my powers work...”
The Lady of the Light emerged to his sight with a warm smile.
Lady of Light: “Well done Shawn on remembering your powers. You now have the ability to fuse elements into complex forms of power. You can use such power to influence dream matter.”
Shawn: “I think I understand what I am really dealing with master. I know now what to do.”
Lady of Light: “Farewell Shawn. Until the next time.”
A flash of light emerged to consume his sights. Once it receded, Shawn found himself back in the Impure City. With a sense of confidence in him, he got to his feet to observe his situation. He was no longer a person expressing tears. Now, he was a person who knew what was going on. He quickly tapped his book pendant once. Once he done so, his eyes expressed fear.
Shawn: “What is this that I’m seeing...?”
Shawn observed moving darkness in the form of tornadoes moving around in random places. They moved through buildings as if they weren’t solid objects. From them; he could feel fear, hatred, anger, evilness and any other form of negative vibes. Seeing and feeling the vibe of the dark tornadoes confused him.
When Shawn looked at the dark tornadoes closely, he discovered that they were made of dark particles of energy. They appear to be spinning upwards into the sky. When he observed where the dark particles came from, he discovered that they were being formed from dark gas.
What added to his confusion was when he saw dark gas moving out from countless sources. Some of the sources were Mally, the Impure Members, Egrig and the environment that he was in. The dark gas condensed into dark particles that spin upwards into the air.
He then observed his own body to discover dark gas emerging out of it. Out of curiosity, he summoned his weapon to cause Mally and Egrig to look on surprised for a moment. Shawn summoned out blue mist that consumed the entire environment. All the Impure Members looked directly at Shawn then to their environment. They wondered what Shawn had done.
Soon, the environment started to glitch up followed by things getting darker. Eventually, Shawn was in a place of darkness with nothing around him. Instantly, he woke up to find himself in a completely different environment.
He discovered he was inside of a building of some kind. The buildings of the Impure City were really wall columns that support the building. Around him, there were 50 gates. Shawn felt that there were dark energies contained in them.
Confusion was on his face while he tried to understand what had happened. When he focused his attention to Mally, Egrig and the Impure Members; he felt disturbed.
The Impure Members he saw were really deranged people. The same people that were locked up in cells back in the Conversion Room. Egrig who was giving off a crazed grin appeared the same like he was before. When Shawn looked at Mally, he learned that she was really an Impure Troop.
Shawn: “This was all an illusion... That means my real friends must be okay... Maybe, there is a way for me to stop their operations here!”
The troop looked directly at Shawn. Shawn looked back at her.
Troop 49: “Shawn, it’s a good thing you have finally awakened your powers. With your powers, I could plan a way for us to escape. Have you stopped their operations at least?”
Shawn: “No need. I couldn’t stop their operations because their operations don’t exist. I may have awakened my powers but we still can’t escape.”
Troop 49: “Maybe you’re right... The number of Impure Members surrounding us would make that impossible... Not to mention dealing with an Impure Lieutenant watching over us...”
Shawn: “That’s not the reason... Escaping from them is an illusion. They’re not real... As of you... You are really an Impure Troop. I can see your designation number to be ‘49’ on your suit.”
The troop turned to Shawn with fear. Egrig looked surprised. Shawn looked at Egrig seriously.
Shawn: “All of this isn’t real... None of it is... My friends are okay and there is still hope for us. The people here are your slaves who have become victims of your cruelty...”
Egrig began laughing crazily.
Egrig: “Hahaha!!! You found some way to wake up from your nightmare... Since you have powers, you are acting all brave now... Ginny Pig, you are still no match for me and I won’t let you leave here...”
Egrig with a look of serious stared at the troop for her instantly express fear.
Egrig: “You have served your purpose...”
Troop 49: “What? Wait!!”
He shot the Impure Troop into dark smoke. Egrig turned his sights to the scared people who were vulnerable. He summoned a sphere from the floor that consumed them. With a swipe of his blade, the people disappeared into the floor.
Shawn: He looked on with concern. “My fear came from not being wise and aware enough. Something you have trouble with. Don’t you see that fear; hate and evilness will destroy you? You have been destroying your own troops just to keep me in a state of fear. You forced the people that you helped to kidnap to serve your dark ambitions… You act based on fear and ignorance.”
Egrig: “Such talk coming from a crybaby... I’ll show you that I have no fear! You will be good as research material for me in this place... The Buildings of Intelligence...”
Shawn and Egrig prepared themselves for a fight.