A Building of Great Stature,Dark Blue in Color and with Certain white Segments,A Symbol of a Deer Like Creature With Massive Antlers Being Pierced by The Talons of A Divine Bird Was Etched For All To See.
Around The Building,A Circular White Lake Occasionally Produced Soft Ripples.
The Hot Water Released Vapor Into The Air of The Building's Inside, Bringing Much needed heat to the people inside.
The Walls within were mostly White, Paintings Could be seen Depicting Scenes From The Past, Triumphant Scenes, Sorrowful Scenes as well,
Clocks carved themselves as well,Their white form each showing a different time period.
The Vibrant walls themselves served as a source of light, Allowing Sight even in The Night.
Inside of a room Filled with Flowers,A Strikingly beautiful woman Peacefully walked around, Spilling water to nurture her Flowers.
Contrasting Against her pale skin,Large onix Eyes Moved about, Until they landed on a Large Painting of a Elder Gentleman,His Eyes Held a comforting gaze,His Gray hair as long as the woman's Blonde One.
She Stopped her nurturing actions,and Stared Mournfully at the man.
The Charming voice of the woman would sadden the Heart of Most who heard it,This Voice echoed, Conveying The Following:
" Today, just like back Then,A new Chronic has appeared,The Fall of his Fate not any less chaotic than the last one,I wonder what Fate has in store for him,Will He Prevail,Or fall into despair?"
After Her Words had faded into nothing,A light ring echoed throughout the room,The Blonde woman Said a Particular word,and right afterwards,The Door Opened, Revealing The Figures of 6 people.
A Tall masked man with a Maroon colored mask and shoulder length brown hair.
A Woman with Red Hair and sharp tired looking eyes,A youth with shoulder length blonde hair ,sharp droopy Eyes and a narrow jaw,A Girl With Long Gray Hair and a oval face,A Very tall and slim Dark Skinned Man with large green eyes and a Masked man of average Height and a muscular physique.
The Two masked men were Dressed in Black while the other 4 Had Dark blue colors,Each Of Them Had The Same symbol as that of The Building Etched around The Left Chest.
" Saintess,we have an update."
" What is it miss Sorr?"
" The Chronic... Something Strange has happened with his Mark..."
" Mind explaining?"
" I think it's best if you see for yourself."
" Is that so...Well let's Hurry Then."
...
Cloaked in Darkness,The Figure of a youth Coldly analyzed The Surroundings,It has been around 3 hours since He Decided To wait And see what actions the Ghouls would take,And Unfortunately,The Creatures hadn't Left The Streets,They Crowded The Left side and The Right, Wandering About Aimlessly.
It was currently Past Midnight,The Dark City has become even darker,The only Light Coming from Certain Moving Torches That Could be Found in every house.
The Heavy Rain Had Now Stopped,And The Fog once more hid The Sun Beyond.
Between The Zones of Fiery Light,Pure Darkness Resonated within The World.
And That Darkness Hid The Coming of Death,Vaal Waited For a Ghoul to Come near his location,the Creature seemed to sense something wrong, perhaps due to it's sense of smell,but it was too late.
Vaal Moved and Swiftly covered it's mouth with a black Kitchen Towel He Had Found inside the house, Dragged the green skin towards the darkness and switched his grip on the towel to a one handed one,Following said action,The Sharp DeathBringer Penetrated a mushy scalp and what hid beneath.
Subhuman was the Form He would have to take,To Walk amongst The Feral Ones.
He Carefully skinned The Creature's facial skin,And Wore it on top of the makeshift black mask That was made inside The Lonely house.
His hands dug into the upper belly area of the Ghoul,He Spread blood around his body, Followed by guts.
Once Finished,The young man looked somewhat like a Ghoul,He Certainly wouldn't be able To Trick a human,But perhaps, The Creatures would not detect him.
One Step,two steps, Three steps to leave the Darkness,With arms that were bent Backwards,The Figure walked in a somewhat erratic and strange manner,It Met Another Similar in behavior, Their paths Crossed only briefly, Opposite of The Creature was his way.
Scenes Similar To This one repeated many more times,Until Halfway through The Destination he arrived.
Yet Fortune didn't seem to be on his side,As The Fog Grew Restless, It's Cries Echoed Once again,Tears of Blood directed downwards.
' Rain...How Unfortunate...'
A blinding Light Slaughtered The Darkness in The Sky, Bringing sunlight to the Gray City.
'how?,It should not be morning yet...'
' The Rain might wash away the smell...
Should I Try And Get Back inside?
...No I Must leave as fast as possible...
The Rooftops...'
Vaal Looked at The House Next To Him,And Then The house above it, Without Delay,His Figure Jumped at the Golden Elevator, Grasping The Uneven Segments and Climbing Quickly.
Once he had passed 5 different houses,Vaal Turned His Head down To Notice That Some of The Ghouls Were Climbing The Golden Construct As Well,Hastily,He Placed His Hands on The Roof of the 5th house and performed a muscle up like movement to get on top of it.
In sequence,The youth ran for a few moments before Performing a Precision Leap to Land on The Next Roof,He Kept Repeating This Set of movements up to the point in which his vision caught the sight of Certain Near Green Creatures down ahead Trying To Climb The Elevators like Their Compatriots were previously doing,Most Failed But a couple seemed to be steadily climbing,If he kept on going,it would be possible to eventually Find himself sharing a roof with the Ghouls.
' I must get further up...'
And So with That in mind,Vaal Proceeded to Climb upwards and then Leap Forwards, Again and Again.
Yet at some point, When he was nearing the Divergent Point,It Became Clear That He wouldn't be able To Avoid Meeting At Least Some of The Abominations.
Right in front,Was A Somewhat Overweight and very tall Ghoul,It's Figure Blocked The Way ahead,To make a way,Vaal Leaped Like usual,and as The Ghoul Attempted To Grab him, In Between Vaal's Teeth a knife was found,His Left Foot Extended forward to land just above it's right knee.
He used all The Force Stored in his thin arms to avoid having his neck grabbed by the thing,Just Barely managing to control the creature,The Youth Moved his head downwards and Placed the knife right into the Ghoul's skull,The Handle Hit his teeth, making him feel like they were about to shatter.
Vaal Landed on the rooftop, and Then quickly climbed upwards, after passing 2 Houses,He Again Found a Ghoul Blocking His Path,This one shorter and thinner than he was.
Beyond it,4 More Ghouls Blocked his Path, Three on The Same house and one on the next,And On The House after the 5th,Lay The Divergent Point.
Vaal Placed himself on The Golden Elevator, Brought his Left hand backwards And Held on just with the right,his next action was a Jumping Motion, Causing The Ghoul To Sort of move forwards with it's Hands Extended Downwards, But Vaal Then Grabbed The Elevator with his left hand and pushed himself back with his right leg that was on the Golden Construct.
His Plan was to then Stab The Thing that would have its Head exposed,but He didn't need to, since The Mad Thing Ended up slipping on The Wet Roof and Fell Down.
' Fortune...'
Once he was standing before The Group of Three, Vaal knew it would be too risky to face them all, yet he couldn't climb up, Because in an Event of sheer bad luck,The Elevator had been Taken down somehow... below, even more ghouls were waiting,So he took The Chance and Jumped upwards, Touching The Wall and Jumping Upwards even more, Barely managing to grab the roof.
Vaal Quickly Ran through the rooftop and Then jumped down,His Hands almost slipped but he managed to hold onto the roof,He kicked The Window and Quickly Entered The House, Avoiding The 5th Ghoul By A Second.
It seemed as if he would soon be able to Return,Yet Fate had other plans.
Soon after he landed,Space Itself Seemed To Twitch,Break,The Scenery of Echo's home Changed Completely,Turning into an Ancient Castle.