Life Shards: The Recollections

[Fenox Helkiin]

Before Lennox could turn around the wraith had disappeared into thin air leaving a trail of black muck on the pavement. The trail lead straight to one of the rooms some people were staying in.

[Tina]

"No..." A sence of dread spread throughout Lennox. He had seen how it had killed Dave, and he wouldn't let that happen again. "Agility!" He began to run in place going faster and faster."Agility! Agility! Agility!" As Lennox spammed his ability, his movements became faster then the eye could see. "Finally, quick attack!" In the blink of an eye, he was gone. The shadow was hovering over a mother cat and her child, ready to kill, when loud crash sounded from the window. Something had slammed into its side and he felt a stabbing pain as he was propelled through the wall into well lit hallway. The light burned the shadow and it was forced into a more physical form. It tried to escape, but more pain was starting to be felt almost all over its body. Then it caught a glimpse of what was hurting it. Lennox was running circles around the shadow, punching, kicking and stabbing with all his might.
The mother had woken up and seeing the horrible monster and the blur of red, she scooped up her child and ran for the exit. The shadow tried to get them as they ran past but got stabbed in the face by Lennox. It was in deep trouble it couldn't catch the attacker, it couldn't escape and it was in the light. It felt its body begin to fall apart as Lennox continued his offensive.

[Fenox Helkiin]

It eventually realised that Lennox was simply running around it in circles and stuck a paw out as it changed the digits on said paw to long serrated blades and cut into his abdomen as he ran past.

[Tina]

Lennox saw this and tried to dodge but it managed to scrape his side. Blood began to coat his left side but Lennox couldn't stop now, he could feel he was reaching his limit. He stopped right in front of the beast and jumped on its head. The shadow tried to shake him off, but Lennox held on tight. Then as quickly as he could he stabbed his knife into its head and stabbed over and over and over again as fast as he could while his speed was still increased.

[Jacob Hail]

"Vital, if youre there, please! Tell me where to look! For all I know these people could be halfway across the world!" Jacob stared down at his arm again, gritting his teeth anxiously.

[Babydoll Animis]

Vital jumped a bit from Jacob he then lowered his ears and floated up to meet his face, he placed a paw on Jacob's cheek and let images of the other protecters enter his mind, showing him where they were. "Thats as far as i can push the rules... im sorry"

[Fenox Helkiin]

As Lennox kept stabbing at the wraiths head more and more black muck fell to the floor and sprayed on the walls like someone was spraying the walls with flicks of a tar covered stick and leaving a trail of mess behind them. The shadow wraith slumped into a wall and collapsed as it turned to a puddle of the liquid it had been spilling like blood.

[Tina]

As the shadow died Lennox felt triumphant, but then he felt the tole of his magic as it began to disapate. His wound was bad and now he was covered in black blood. The blood began to get mixed into his wound making the pain worse. He tried to stand up but fell back to ground and knocked himself out.

[Fenox Helkiin]

As he slept the grim managed to infiltrate his dreams and turn it into a nightmare.

[Saphira/Sephir Wolfdragon]

Sephir flew in through the window and found Lennox unconscious but alive and the wraith nowhere to be found. He walked to Lennox and picked him up. He placed him on a bed in the room from which he had flown in through the window. *saphira are you there?* he reached out to his sister, it was her who knew how to treat stuff like this and he was sure she would like to know he was still alive as well. The mind he reached however were sleepy and fuzzy. *SIS WHAT HAPPENED? ARE YOU OKAY?* he thought towards her as loud and clear as possible.

Saphira opened her eyes again as she started to feel less tired. She sat up and hugged Vital "thank you little one, I feel better now" she said and smiled. She noticed her brother poking at her mind followed by what could best be described as being yelled at from a very close distance. She frowned and quickly answered him *I'm okay brother. Just... Tired..* He then send her a picture of the fainted eevee and she walked him trough how to tend to both of their wounds.

[Tina]

In his nightmare, Lennox remebered a day that he had been trying to forget for a long time. It was when he was only 7 years old, he was asleep in his room when he heard a rustling in his closet. He got out of bed to go check, but before he could open it, it opened on its own. From the closet, stepped a man, he looked like a Wolger. "Hello little brat. I've been told you will be a problem for me in the future, so it is best i deal with you now." The Wolger then grabbed Lennox by the throat and proceeded to choke him. Lennox struggled and kicked trying to get this man off him, but he was too weak. As the man continued to choke the life out of him began to struggle less and less. "Lennox what are you doing up still...?" He faintly heard his mom's voice, who was an Umbreon, from outside as she opened the door to come in. "*gasp* Let go of my baby!" His mom cried as she punched the Wolger right in the face with a blue energied fist. He dropped Lennox and was forced back into the wall. Lennox coughed as he tried to regain his breath while his mother picked him up in her arms and ran out the room. The Wolger tried to chase after them but was punched again by Lennox's father, who was a Flareon. Lennox looked over his mom's shoulder and saw his dad glowing with red energy as he punched the Wolger two good times. Then the Wolger punched him once then grabbed his head and twisted his neck. "DAD!" Lennox cried as he watched his dad slump to the floor and the Wolger smile like a mad man as he came after him and his mom. "Lennox don't look back!" His mom said in between the tears. "But we have to help dad!" Lennox said as he saw a fire begin behind the the man that was persuing them. "I said don't look back!" They ran out into the rain and into the forest that surround their house. Lennox saw the house become engulfed in flame, with the rain doing nothing to stop it. The man stepped out of the front door and continued the chase. Lennox's mom set Lennox down on the ground and took off her soothe bell collar. "Lennox i want you to take this and run! The road isn't to far frorm here and remeber to use your agility and magic." She put the soothe bell around his neck and pointed in the direction of the road. "But what about you?" Lennox said tears streaming down his cheeks. His mom put her hand on his shoulder and kissed his forhead. "I'll be there soon, i just have to teach a bad man a lesson. Now go and when you look at that collar...rember us... and don't look back." she stood up and turned to face the Wolger, who was only a few feet away by now, and let her magic flow throughout her body. Lennox glowed with red energy. "Agility!" He ran straight for the road, but couldn't help but take one last look at mom. She punched at the man again and again but he kept dodging. He grabbed her arm as she punched one more time and used the momentum to force her to the ground. As they began to fade in the distance from the rain, Lennox still saw him stomp on his mother's neck repeatedly. "MOMMY!!!"

"M-mom..." Lennox murmered in the waking world, tears beginning to run down his cheeks.

[Fenox Helkiin]

Aakor woke up startled from a nightmare he thought he'd long forgotten and yelled at the top of his lungs making it heard for miles and miles making birds flock and flee to the air "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!" His voice trembling from fear and anger. The nightmare was of when he first lost control to the death shard... It was when he brutally murdered a father and mother in a forest. All he could do was scream and shout as he watched in horror.

[Tina]

Lennox woke with a start. He thought he heard someone screaming but all was quiet. His face felt slightly wet from tears, he had apparently cried in his sleep. He looked around and noticed he was in one of the hotel rooms. There was a hole in the wall where the door should be and a large black puddle on the floor. His knife was on the nightstand, covered in the same black stuff. It all came back to him, Dave, the fight, and the shadow...the shadow. Its face looked so familiar...like the Wolger that...killed his parents. He held his collar tight as he cried a little bit more. He did this for a few minutes till he rembered the new tenets who had helped him in the fight against the shadow. He dried his eyes, cleaned his knife in the bathroom sink and after looking for his hoody and shirt for little while to no evail, he went to find these tenets. He needed to thank them for patching him up after the fight.

[Fenox Helkiin]

Aakor was in his warehouse looking for something. Mumbling and occasionally swearing rather loudly.
"Where the b***dy hell is it!" He yelled as he fell to the floor in pain from a headache. "I... Will... Not... Give... In!" Aakor shouted as images of the fight between Lennox and the shadow wraith flashed before his eyes with the grim saying the same thing over and over. "Remember him. It's Lennox. The boy of the father and mother you killed years ago." Then a demonic laughter as Aakor got to his feet and yelled at what he thought was the grim "NOOOO THAT WAS YOU NOT ME!" His voice echoing throughout the warehouse. "...I could never do such a thing." He lashed out with his claws and cut one of the frames of the shelves making it collapse and reveal what he was looking for to be hiding underneath it. "......well. That happened." He said as his mood snapped in an instant from angry to happy.

A few hours later he was in the apartment he'd made inside the warehouse and fiddling with a box of some sort. "Time for the moment of truth. Please don't go boom..." Aakor pleaded as he placed the life shard into the box and winced as he turned it on. "...it. It... WORKS!!! Haha!" Aakor then leapt out of his chair and placed it into a backpack and put it on. "Right... Time to put this thing in better paws then mine." He thought to himself as he got onto his bike and road out towards the motel he saw in the images of the fight. "This Lennox kid needs something to amplify his abilities. Even if that puts me at risk of losing control." He sighed as tears started to run then continued. "Vital if you can hear me... I'm sorry but he'll need my shard more then anything if I do lose the will to fight reaper. Please have faith in him as you have me. He'll need the support..."

Soon after he arrived at the motel with his bike helmet on to hide his face. Aakor took the bag off once he climbed up to the roof and waited for Lennox to come into his line of sight.

[Tina]

Lennox was having trouble finding the tenets. He remebered that that two of them could fly and could have very well have left already. If he went to the roof he could catch a glimpse of them before they left. He went up the stairs and used his key that he had as an employ to open the door to get to the roof. On the roof, he didn't see any sign of the Wolgons or that kid in the toga that slept through the whole fight. What he did see was a someone wearing a red biker helmet and black t-shirt with tribal print, who appeared to be looking right at him. Lennox noticed he was armed, judging by the pistol holster at his side, and he slowly reached for his knife. "Who are you? Your not supposed to be up here." Lennox observed his surrounding to make sure there was no else here and noticed the backpack on the ground. Something inside it radiated with similar magic to the one he had felt from the new tenets. Somehow it felt different though, he couldn't quite explain it. "What's in the bag?" He tried to see through the visor but something was blocking his sight.