Tanex seemed to turn his head a bit as a portal opened below us. I followed his gaze and found Kyxsha, Marlex, Anamx, and RaXi all coming through the portal. The sudden question as to how Kyxsha had appeared with RaXi seemed to fill the room. The air seemed to tighten with nothing, and all that could be heard was quite breathing and the rapping of Tanex’s fingers against each other.
“I didn’t anticipate you taking this long RaXi,” Tanex said continuing to rap the tips of his fingers together. For a moment he stopped and seemed to wait for an answer.
“She’s hurt!” Kyxsha yelled up.
Tanex didn’t answer quickly, but I found he was bringing up his gaze to me.
“Why don’t you show us your interesting new power Triskix,” Tanex smirked. “You certainly didn’t have it back when we were children.”
I stared for a moment and then silently portaled down to the floor. I kept my face straight and stepped forwards. With each step a blue fire began to start running along the floor. I didn’t feel any drain on power from using it as I had before. It seemed that I had finally become seasoned in using this power.
As the fire started up RaXi, she seemed to tense a bit and then relax. I breathed out a bit and then let the fire do its work. After a few minutes, I portaled back up to my chair and leaned my elbow on the arm of the chair and then my head on my hand.
“So what is going on?” Kyxsha asked.
Tanex seemed to roll his eyes a bit.
“Aidex dear would you mind explaining this situation to Kyxsha?” he asked then looked at Kyxsha. “Yes I know your name.”
Aidex walked over hesitantly and started explaining things. After Aidex was finished, quickly ran back over to Xyta.
“Well this seems to have cleaned up nicely,” Tanex said somewhat dryly. “The last of your Elite has come Triskix, and it seems not a moment too soon. Xraktos seems to be making quite a mess of things…Oh one moment….it seems we don’t have enough chairs at the moment. I will void a few for the time being.”
In the blink of an eye, several chairs appeared in a ring within the first ring. The chairs were just shorter enough so that everyone could still see each other.
“Back to business, if you haven’t sensed it yet, Xraktos is causing quiet a mess of things with his stress on time and his rush to bring back Martel, but no matter. As it seems, there is no better time but the present.”
“But…Tanex….Nii-san…..” Nyx started again.
“Nyx,” Tanex said calmly.
“But….” Nyx continued. “Who are we to chose who lives and who dies…?”
There was a moment of silence before I took a breath in.
“Nyx,” Tanex started. “I could say that ‘the strong live the weak die’ but that is not my sentiment at this time. It is just a matter that must be done, and at the moment we must deal with Xraktos before he does something drastic. Also, Xerebus seems to be planning something of his own.
“There is a lot that is going on at once, so this is what must be done.
1. To keep Xraktos from triggering the machine until we are ready, a team will be set up to rescue those imprisoned at Oblivion.
2. A group must be sent back to Citadel to address the matter of what exactly is going on. This job is limited between Marlex, Xeros, and myself at this time unless a few of the Elite wish to pretend to be prisoners while entering the castle.
3. We must begin collecting other nobodies for power.”
A silence filled the air and seemed to twist like a snake in the space.
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**claps hands*** let's get this show on the road people!
Triskix: *Head/desk*
