Chapter 1
Vale was driving along the old familiar path to his cabin in the wooded mountains in his old red Chevy pickup. He thought to himself “finally I get a few days off” being a park Ranger had its benefits but it also had a few downsides. He got free reign to roam the park any time he wanted, but as of late his park had been short staffed and he had ended up working long hours. For the last few months his daily was 6:00 AM to 8:00 PM starting with the sunrise and getting off at sunset his co-rangers doing the same but that didn't bother him. Vale had always had a love for the outdoors and nature so with this job he always felt like he was free, but this week was different he had put in a nine day stretch where he had worked all day every day only stopping to eat, he stayed at the Ranger Station during the night and ate on the go. One of his best friends had needed the time off due to a family member falling ill so he volunteered to take the hours for them. But now he had the next three days to himself so when he punched out at 8 that night instead of waiting for morning to do the 3 hour drive back to his cabin he started that night. He'd been driving for hours when he finally passed the L.E.E.R. building. They had started construction on this building nearly six years ago.
When Leer came into town they had tried to buy of all of the land in the mountains for themselves and they almost had succeeded but there was a community outcry and all of the land owners and township fought against them. The township had hired private investigators and had them do research into the company, Logix Environmental Energy Research, It was a unique company in where the research they did was supposed to help provide clean Eco-friendly energy and technology, but the research that private investigators found showed that Leer had a history of disasters and accidents that followed them whenever they set up a facility. Mysterious disappearances and deaths in the work place. The investigators had found a hidden away fact that the company had formerly been known as Logix Exotic Energy Research and they had changed their name in an act of public relations to try and save face with the public. With that and after multiple years of court trials they had finally been shut down and the building was left here abandoned and unfinished. They were no longer operating and had been closed as far as the public and government knew. As Vale drove by he looked over to the building and saw a faint light coming from the basement area, it was nothing strange it could just be some local college kids that broke in for a thrill or to have a party so he continued along the road not giving it a second thought.
Inside of the facility basement there was two researchers that stood in a circular room a shielded glass cylinder in the middle containing a bright purple glow. The researchers stood in wonder as they stared at what they had done, they had finally opened one a gate where they could draw out energy. The scale of power they were getting was massive it was enough that it was able to power the entire underground facility and probably half the state. The mid 40s man in a yellow lab coat turned and sat at a console staring up at the screen on his left it was labeled as the field array terminal and the screen displayed containment at 100% excitedly shouting the man said “The field is stable let's light it up!” The 27 year old female research assistant said “we are at 5%” and started moving a slider slowly as the yellow coated man watched the power levels slowly climbing on a screen next to the field array terminal. The assistant yelled over, “I’m at 13% how are the containment levels James?” The man in the yellow lab coat turned to her and responded, “They are holding at 100% so far, Kelly I think we have got it. We are going to get a Nobel Prize for this one!” He stared at the screen in disbelief and watched the field array level stay stable at 100% on the screen, as he turned to check the power readings the array screen flashed red briefly and the level dropped to 7% and then back to 100%. It was then at that moment that a tremor shook the building, the circular chamber shaking like a paint mixer. Kelly fell forward and accidentally pushed the slider all the way to the top position, The lights in the room danced red and klaxons blared as a voice came over the speakers “The array field has failed emergency protocol activated.” As the field started to fail James yelled out “its breached Shut it down close the gate!” But it was too late as a feedback loop started making the gate larger and larger with a bright flash it suddenly disappeared.
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As Vale was driving along he felt the ground shake and buckle then saw a bright flash of purple and then nothing at all. He felt immense pain burning in his body it felt like his body was being torn apart almost like being put through a meat grinder He heard a voice in a worried tone “Oh no I need to save him how did this happen that was the void it's supposed to be empty I need to hurry.”
Vale's body was gone he looked at the ruined mass that used to be his body lying on the ground, a strange woman standing above it frantically trying to help him but it was too late. He just floated there in silence trying to figure out what had happened. Thinking out loud he said “I think I'm dead I...” he trailed off as the woman said “You're not dead yet little soul stick around and watch what I can do!” “Wait are you talking to me” he said, She responded “Yes little soul and i'm going to fix your body but it might take some time, also what can I call you little soul” Hesitantly he spoke “I um… I think my name was vale? But I can't remember.”, “Vale I'm so sorry I have no idea how this happened I was working on making a new core from the void energy but it was in a different dimension and I ended up pulling you through the hole instead. I… oh no it's it's too much I can't fix you” she said defeated “So does that mean I'm going to die?” he asked “Wait I have an idea” she screamed in excitement “
I will make sure you live and maybe make you even better than you were before!” It then hit him like a bag of bricks he was dead panic started setting in “Wait I'm dead, how can you hear me? Where am I? How can I see everything if I'm dead? How can I still be here?” the amount of fear and panic made his soul mass flicker and he passed out and fell to the floor a dim glowing light now radiating a dark purple around the mass. After a few days he his dormant mass woke up and he heard murmuring. “What is he? I don't see any of the normal magical paths? His body is like one big magic conduit and he seems to look like a Farion But he has a different physiology, This may take a while.