in all honestly, he thought things would be going to right about now. sam rubbed the fist he used to punch the war god who was currently being talked down by daniel. he always gets whiplash when the teen pulls on his business face, but he was convincing the god, who came to the island because of sam, to leave. apparently he was going the 'you can't convince sam to do what you want' path, and he was right he was not preaching to that god he didn't like slaughter no matter how easy it was for him.

"but it is his natural talent, he should embrace it and I can teach him how to do that!" the god argued.

"true you can teach him but how would you feel if he turned that power on you." the god actually paused at that like it hadn't occurred to him. sam long ago proved that if nothing held him back he could match a god, several at the risk of his life, he still wanted to acquire him but not in a way that would make him declare revenge. huffing the god dispersed in a blood-red flash leaving behind the smell of war grounds. sam watched as daniel flopped to the ground, probably because a large amount of tension leaving his body so quickly, sam grabbed him under his armpit and dragged daniel under a dree so he could rest.

"SAM!"  turning around sam saw the person he didn't want to meet the war god coming his way. waving at him the raven thanked the angry boy's timing, any sooner and he would have seen Ares. when he was close enough Garry asked what sam was doing her, he paused and shifted into a fighting stance. Sam let him be for a couple of moments before smirking and telling him that he was hanging out with Daniel and he was more than welcome to join them.

"you don't mind do you?" sam asked his resting friend.

"not at all, I've been wanting to meet the famous Garry."

"and I have been meaning to meet the famous daniel."

seeing there matching smiles sam had one thought," I should have let Garry meet Ares and not daniel!" the friends of sam immediately started trading stories about the raven. spilling what Sam had told them about each other, while the raven was considering knocking them out and keeping the heat away from his face. when they started trading full-on stories sam had walked away not wanting to be right there listening to them and their voices filled with fondness, it was embarrassing.

out of the average hearing range, sam looked at the sky, 'how much more time do I have like this? my past is catching up on Ares was most definitely watching the warfare league how many people who want something were watching...*sigh* well let them they could take me in the past now they have even less of a chance." numerous faces flashed through sam's mind some were clear than others.

 a breeze blew by him causing him to shiver, it seems that the darker his skin got the more sensitive it became he couldn't negate with his sense manipulating technic. it was worse than it felt good, sam had years of experience with pain not so much with pleasure. 'still can't tell what I'm turning into but I can feel like I know it. thanks to the markings that are appearing on my body." they were faint and he could say anything certain but they looked familiar, pushing it out of his mind he focus on something else like school the break would be over soon probably sam had lost track and he may not go back this year.

minutes passed and sam was starting to get a crick in the neck "well..bad luck today huh!" sam said after feeling another presence, "at least this one will be easy." heading back to his friend's sam tried to get the crick out of his neck,, 'she's getting closer is her lap dog near!' back in hearing range he could hear daniel telling about the struggles of a feral kid learning to use technology. he was going to get smacked for talking about that, after the delt with that she bitch,"hey we got trouble!"

daniel stopped mid-word and asked what kind of trouble," veronica winter from school is here!"

"FUCK!," Daniel got to his feet he could stand that chick she acted like she was a god-given gift to the world, and despite how she acted most of the time she was incredibly smart plus a little crazy. "really I already dealt with a war god and is that going to keep me up tonight, but now I have to deal with her fuck this shit I am out!" he climbed to his feet and head in a direction until sam called out and said she was that way he did a 180 sam and Garry by his side.

"so who are we running from?"

"remember that chick I told you bout the one that people call Samantha the queen," Garry made a face sam had painted a rather detailed picture of the girl and it was far from a pretty one.  sam frowned as he left the presence head for them, had she seen them and decided to follow that would have made no sense he had hit her with a roundhouse to face the last time she bothered him too much. 

'my I have to inform you but the person you currently avoiding with good reason is under the beast influence and as it's lord you must deal with it.' several thoughts went through sam's mind some of them curses others bloody,' no killing that will have horrid seal the beast control on her body, you have to break the connection with your authority overpowering the beast.'

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sure let's overpower the creature older than his planet, sam was confident, not cocky." how the fuck am I going to do this I guess should take a look at her", she let lust flow into his eye changing it. now with a satanic incubus symbol pupil and one eye closed sam look at this grey world only colored could be found on thinking living beings. looking the two who were retreating with him, 'Garry's blood lust is off the chart and daniel looks like the average teenage boy definitely going to tease him about that'. turning around to run back words he quickly found ''the queen'' who saw following in heels." sweet honey iced tea,"  she was keeping pace with them in heels not small on either, oh and her lust was a mess that was looking back at him.

looking close he could see a stream of lust heading somewhere off in the distance,' how long is that?" sam wondered.

'proxy twenty miles' the helper answered sam thanked them and wondered how he was going to disappear to find the source.

"hey, I need to take care of something." he straight out told them before changing his course. he was surprised that daniel and Garry followed after he tried to convince them to not follow him but the company sam kept was stubborn. "fine you can come but I'm not paying you medical bills!" they didn't even flinch at the words so with a sigh he speeds up. when they covered the twenty miles daniel was regretting as his lungs burned while his legs ached after raising his hands above his head he looked around the alley they were in, no clue why.

"so what here, that were obviously not seeing?" Garry asked looking at the wall sam was glaring at with his mistatched eyes. instead of answering the raven walking forwards hand in front of him, *ZAP* they all tense as sam's hand touched a patch of air. bracing himself sam forced his hand forward filling the alley with purple cracking energy before there eye a portal opened and the raven didn't hesitate to enter.

not wanting to be left behind the other teens followed wonder what they were headed for. inside the portal was like a rollercoaster up down left right back and forward before they landed, where they landed was a mystery and looked like a video game level or a psychedelic video. "what I'm looking for is somewhere in here, of all the day not to bring my climbing gear!"

"you don't own climbing gear," Daniel said without pause looking around them.  sam rolled his eye his friend wasn't wrong but not completely right, he had things he used when he need to climb massive heights. walking forward the raven pulled out the only weapon he had with him today a meat cleaver the lust energy was coming form a certain direction. the other two followed him wonder why he thought he would need the cleaver for and where he kept that, a few minutes later when vines sprung from the ground under daniel.

sam stood back watch trying to figure out their intentions, but when he figured it out the vines were slashed that second he caught daniel the next. leaping back he put the other boy down before charging forward to finish the plants with a now burning cleaver. when the plants were ash they continued onward, "watch for more surprise unless you feel like getting your cherry popped."

they definitely had the other two on edge and good thing as they were attacked by more vines more than once sam dealt with mostly but left a few for his friends he needed to conserve his stamina if he wanted to deal with what even they were headed for. *slash!* "There are so many of these!" daniel complained after sam sliced the lastest vine batch "there has to be a better way to deal with these?"

"unless you have a weapon or fire of some kind this is how we got to do it," Sam said trying to keep his breath even. he got worried as Garry started breather rapidly but calmed down as he felt heat come from the team. the air warped around him before dark red fire bloomed across his skin, "will this work?"

"definitely," Sam told him before moving forward with Garry by his side. they picked up the pace making a better time than before, "we're getting closer be careful it probably knows where here at this point! AH!" it only took sam to moment to figure out what had hurt and immensely started cursing. that hadn't been an attack it was simply a form of energy so much that it was harming anything unprepared, coating his body in his own mana, and instructing the other two to do the same. they came into a wide area laying in the center of it was one person that made every hair on sam's body stand on end.

"if it isn't the new lord ho-" they did get a chance to continue as sam threw his cleaver at them charging after it. they grabbed punch after avoiding the cleaver, the two entered a battle of strength trying to force the other back. sam noted there appearance and that there was nothing they were faceless, with grey skin this was a little unnerving he couldn't read them like this. planting his foot in there cheat he pushed the faceless being away into for Garry to join the fight, the landed a series of blows on the featureless face.

"you didn't do any damage!" sam informed him as they stood next to each other daniel behind him, "mostly like some incredible regeneration or its just that strong." the second he finished talking sam charged forward again manna flowing through his muscles but this time he did attack. spinning around the faceless he slid across the ground picking up his cleaver then back to his feet he attacked," so it regeneration and power." the nicks he was making were healing under a moment.

"so this won't be too hard! fuck!" he remembered that he could only use his lust and mana core safety right now. ducking under a swing he slashed the ankles before backing away he didn't know how to use his lust core in battle and wasn't ready to. using it in battle would stress it out and that would affect the speed of the mutations, now while most people would think it was a good thing it, in fact, was the exact opposite the faster one mutated the bigger chance of something going wrong.

"I'm gonna need a lot of burn cream later," sam said before the air around him shimmered with energy, "now! die! faceless!" with each word he lashed out send the faceless flying knockin up a bunch of dust as he did.

"holly sh-" *BANG* the faceless his one of the floating platform a moment before another attack from sam divided into four pieces. 'this is what sam can do when he got serious!' both daniel and Garry thought.

"thank god" daniel happy

"How dare her" Garry enraged

"never get serious with me!" Garry's anger turned to fire that coated his form before he took off toward the faceless currently weaving through sam relentless assault. when he reached it he grabbed it by the head slamming it into the sone beneath them leaping away so sam's knees could drive the face into the stone. " you held back against me!" Garry screamed as he concentrated his fire around his hands, "of course I did- mana gathered into his knife holding arm- we would level cities if we went all out!"

simulate they released their attacks setting of a good-sized explosion Garry closed his eye but sam didn't and was able to see the faceless charge at daniel. "fool!" was all he said because he was going to wonder the would at some point his parent had made sure that their son could defend himself which meant doing the paperwork for a battle rune a hundred time over.

the faceless was stopped in their tracks by a ball of water followed by a bolt of lighting Daniel didn't stop there more than six different attacks hit them before Garry sent the faceless towards sam with a burning fist. as it passed by him the raven removed the head,' not there,' chasing after it he sent his weapon through the chest.