Xellous: The fifteen year old human character, played by Kurlak. Recently his amnesiac wife, Kora, found out that she had been married to him before she'd lost her memories. Given that by this point Xellous had been talking to her for a good three months she wanted to know why. After saving her from a few flamemous lads and finding out that King Varlur was dead, Xellous told her her entire story. She told him that she had no way of knowing how she would handled it either. Xellous has a pair of gauntlets from an Apocalypse Beast's skin, which give him phenomenal hand-to-hand ability, along with a ring that lets him know a good amount about khen-zai tech. He is Ikuinen Lampo's celestial knight, which allows him to see and manipulate auras.
Kora: Xellous' wife. She has a son by the name of Gerard, who was the product of being raped by her father Altous, who she had killed herself. Kora was kidnapped by the khen-zai and somehow had all her memories removed in the process.
Ikuinen Lampo: The world's soil is corrupt; those that die come back as zombies or worse. Stars fell to the earth and died there to sanctify the ground. Ikuinen Lampo is one of those stars. She has possessed the body of Xellous' dead sister, Genevieve, in order to help him in his fight. She's also deeply in love with Xellous, and he seems to have been the only one to not notice, up until last session. She gave him a stone of star metal, which came from her star body.
Flammeous Lads: perverse creatures created by mothers killing their children.
Khen-Zai: A race of evil humanoids that are trying to re-conquer the planet. They cannot bear the presence of the stars that have died upon it without much pain, and so are trying to subvert and remove the stars who have died there. They talk and do everything through aura manipulation.
Komas: the prime minister. He had previously helped Xellous get to see King Varlur, who had knighted him as a reward. Komas had married Kora after she had her memory wiped and helped her deliver her son, Gerard. He now knows that Xellous is her previous husband, and has not really seemed to be at peace with that yet.
Xellous made his way to the main hall, where King Varlur had been killed. Seven flammeous lads, still warm hours later, lay on the floor. Xellous saw that Komas was giving directions to personnel. Xellous found himself pitying Komas; the man had not meant to take Kora from him, nor had he asked to be in charge of a whole kingdom. And here Xellous was, about to not just leave, but take Kora with him as well. And Xellous felt a twinge of guilt about that.
But first: reagents from seven flammeous lad bodies!! Time to get to work!
The aura of the room changed as Xellous work, to an environment that was passively annoying, like a constant high pitch whine. Komas came up to Xellous. He was pissed off: where the hell had Xellous, a sworn knight if the realm, been for the last few hours??
Xellous told Komas had been calming down Kora, Komas's "wife".
Taken aback, Komas told Xellous that wasn't his place. He was the one who had found Kora, not Xellous. Far as Komas was concerned he was Kora's true husband and Xellous had overstepped. Kora had transformed Komas's life and he wanted the world to be a better place for her. At any rate, Komas needed Xellous to go to the eastern reaches of the kingdom (the opposite direction from Xellous's home) because the instant the new of King Varlur's death hit that hotbed of treachery there would be an uprising and Xellous needed to be there to head if off. Xellous agreed, but after that he needed to be on his way. Komas was confused, where did Xellous think he needed to go?? To that silly off-planet mission he'd been talking about with King Varlur? The king was dead! The kingdom was in trouble! He was needed, here, now.
Xellous told Komas he thought that short-sighted. The whole planet was at risk, and Xellous had sworn an oath to that cause, which trumped anything going on in any one kingdom on the planet. Komas told him he was fighting the khen-zai by staying and making sure they didn't get a foothold in this kingdom, which was the most powerful on the continent. Xellous told him that was clearly too big of a view: the farmers and cows were just as important as the kingdom! Confused, Komas told Xellous the cows were a part of the kingdom. Xellous told him that was exactly his point; without making sure the whole wasn't protected by getting Ikuinen Lampo practically unlimited power the problem of the khen-zai invasion, which was causing problems with their kingdom in the first place.
Komas's mouth opened. And then shut.
Xellous told Komas that his duty had to be to the whole planet, that he genuinely wanted everyone to be safe. Xellous wasn't running. He cared about everyone. Komas said he knew that.
And then he pulled out a pistol. A khen-zai pistol. With practiced ease.
Xellous dove under the shot and knocked over Komas in one clean swing. He wasn't out, but he was down.
All of a sudden the aura interference snapped. It became a crushing presence, so strong that every human in the room, Komas included, passed out. The pain and suddenness of that pain was so intense that nobody could be expected to remain conscious. But Xellous did not fall. His hands were white, holding the piece of star metal that Ikuinen Lampo had given him. he held it up, weathering the onslaught.
It ended.
Xellous still stood. He laughed: "Nice try", he taunted to the room through his aura.
All the flammeous lads in the room reformed, stood up, and charged Xellous.
Xellous laughed and grabbed Komas by the ankles and swung him in a wide arc, hitting three of the flammeous lads so hard that they burst open; Komas's skull cracked and he caught on fire. Fending the other lads off with Komas's flaming corpse, Xellous killed a few more with the remains and the rest ran off. Xellous set Komas's flaming body down.
Ooh, more bits of flammeous lad to recover!
There was a scream of anguish. Kora came running in, followed by Ikuinen Lampo. She somehow recognized Komas and hugged his broken frame to her chest, sobbing. She yelled at Xellous, demanding to know why Komas was dead.
Xellous told her that Komas had been working for the khen-zai. He produced the pistol Komas had used. Xellous copped to killing Komas for his treachery, that even if he had let Komas live the khen-zai would have killed him anyway.
Gently laying down his body, Kora stood up. Looking down, wistfully, at Komas's body Kora told Xellous there had always been a darkness inside of Komas, that he had always struggled with. He had called her his light. What had happened that he had turned? This wasn't the man she was. Xellous told her he wished he knew, because he would have told her if he could.
They stared at his body awhile, deep in thought.
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