Author's Note

Hey y'all I updated this chapter to retcon in a new character that will be showing up in the next new chapter I release.

Prologue: the way to Denequus (updated)

in the Void

BETSUNI APPEAR BEFORE ME I REQUIRE A HERO TO AID MY TAURS" bellows a sixteen foot tall faceless Minotaur.

The Being known as Betsuni appeared into existence. At first glance he is an amalgamation of many things; the left bottom half of his body, the leg and left lower torso, from bottom to top fire, earth, water, and wind are all represented. The right bottom half looks like space, time, realities, and dimensions all had a baby. The top left half of his body is blood red representing blood-lust. The top right half is void black representing the void/darkness. His face is a mask in the drama mask style white but eyeless now on the smile are different colors on both halves of the mask on the left side of the mask its blood red on the right side it’s void black. His clothes look like something from a magician's act.

“I see alright I have someone that might be interested you’re lucky that your world is interesting.” Betsuni replies

"Ah King Betsuni it is good to see you." says the Faceless Horned god

“I heard your request and the mlp verse is one of my favored verses so I checked and liked it so I’m off to see your hero later.” Betsuni replies.

POV Evangel Lucretian: rainy day in Los Angeles, California, USA

Detective Eva Lucretian was in a warehouse laying in the arms of her boyfriend with a gunshot wound in her chest, and a body lay not far from her with a bullet in his head.

‘Oh man how did I get into this mess.’ Eva laments as she coughed up blood.

‘It probably all started when I was ten years old and we found out our mom had the big PC, Pancreatic Cancer.

‘I remember it like it was yesterday. It was a wonderful day at the park and we were going to have a picnic but when we got to a good spot and began to set everything up before my mother collapsed and we rushed her to the hospital. We were playing in the corner of the doctor's office when he delivered the news.’ “I'm sorry to say M, Mrs. Lucretian,t s stage three Pancreatic cancer. You have six months to a year to live.” ‘Six months later she passed away. I Tried to be strong at the funeral like my big Sister but I couldn't do it, I cried all the time and didn't stop until they buried her. Not even a year and a half later my big sister Alexandra committed suicide by overdosing on her meds thanks in part to our mother's death. For six months after my sister died my dad smothered me with love and gifts.’

‘My dad was a LAPD officer for ten years before he first took his detectives exams and failed. The day my mom died he was scheduled to take them again but worrying about her passing away caused him to not be able to concentrate he failed. The third time he took them three years later he passed and he joined the Juvenile division for the next five years until an opening in the Robbery-Homicide division showed up three weeks after my twenty-second birthday. Three weeks into my dad's second month there he gets called to go to the scene of a high-end robbery. My dad was told to find clues of an old artifact that was stolen that day and return it to the owner. The only clues they found were a single shoe print outside the window and tool marks from a high-end lockpick set ’

‘I was in the middle of the shooting range one day a few weeks later when I heard something in the background but I ignored it and keep practicing and after a few minutes someone tapped me on the shoulder and I looked behind me, it was Julian who worked in Communications and he was not looking happy.’ “Hey, Eva, sorry to tell you this but I just got a call that your dad was in a wreck and he has severe third-degree burns over twenty-five percent of his body.”

‘Once I heard this we rushed to the hospital and ran up to the nurse's station asking for my father’s room. The nurse does the usual song and dance of are you family and all that bull***t before she tells us where his room is, when we get there he is just barely conscious and he is in a bad way.’

“Hey kiddos, guess I'm in a pretty bad way for both of you to be here in the middle of the day like this,” he says when he sees us in the doorway.

“Hey don’t talk like that you will be up and back on the job in no time!” I say hiding my horror at how bad his burns look.

“Yeah, Mr. Eric,” Julian agreed. “You’re the toughest guy I know. If anyone will pull through this, it’s you.”

“Excuse me Evangel, Julian can I get through to talk to your father?” states an unknown yet familiar voice from behind me.

‘I turned around and see my Godfather Chadsworth Edward's who is a very good friend of my fathers from the police force.’ “Chad I'm so glad to see you,” I said.

“Its detective, Evangel, I'm still on duty. Could you both step out so I can talk to your father.” Detective Edwards says.

“Sure thing Detective Chadsworth I’ll give you the room.” Julian said as he herded me out, closing the door behind me before putting our ears to it.

POV father

“Ok Eric tell me what happened” My closest friend and fellow detective Chad asked.

“Ok Chad here is what happened” I said.

Last night

I was driving home last night after a few weeks of investigating the crime scene and I was in deep thought on how it all connected if we knew what artifact was stolen we might find a lead but the owner wouldn’t tell us so we were stuck until we could learn more and I noticed something behind me it looked like it was following me but I ignored it but after a few minutes it was still following me and I was nearing my house but I passed by to make sure he followed me away and it closed the distance slowly catching up and I drove out of town by the time it was close and it gained speed quickly and bumped the side of my car almost making me lose control but it bumped me again. The car flipped as it skidded across the road and came to a stop and the car stopped a fair distance from me as I crawled out and pulled out my pistol and stayed behind the car for cover since there wasn’t anything else.

I heard the car door open and close and I heard weapons being loaded as they fired and I gave off a few blind shots towards them and heard a pained yell and a body hitting the ground. I look under the car to see who I hit I saw three men all with Brotherhood of the Eternal Word tattoos around their left eye denoting them as grunts and one was on the ground with his hand on his left shoulder and started firing again and my hand felt wet as I looked down and saw the fuel line was damaged and was spreading fuel along the ground around the car and they started to fire at the car as it set fire and exploded and my last thought were of my daughter and how I would never see her again as I gave off two last shots and killed two of them and the guy I shot in the shoulder got away as I was blown away by the explosion and landed on the ground as I felt myself slipping away I heard sirens in the distance as everything faded away.

Present

“And that’s everything.” I said finishing telling him what happened.

Wow that's a lot to take in Eric. It seems that BotEW has resurfaced.”

POV Evangel

‘I was leaning on the door listening to everything my father said to his friend and I thought ‘who and what is the Brotherhood of the Eternal Word and why would they be after my dad because a simple B&E.’ After Detective Chadsworth left we went back in and told my dad we had to get back to work so we said our goodbyes and we went back to work. For the rest of the week I couldn’t get that conversation I heard out of my mind so at the end of the week I went into his study and went to his computer logged in using his username and password that I have known for years and after getting in I searched for the Brotherhood in his files. What I found was mind blowing, fifty-six files on the Brotherhood of the Eternal Word, they were and I guess still are a criminal organization that had a hand in everything from small time crimes like petty theft and prostitution to felonies like grand theft auto, murder, and human trafficking and always the heads of the organization evaded capture and prosecution and they were also a major player in the South Los Angeles area. Then one day about five years ago they just up and vanished. No one knew why according to the files they just went silent and weren’t heard from until my dad's accident.’

‘The next morning I got a call from the hospital while I was with Julian that my dad was in surgery for some pieces of shrapnel that were near his spine. Since it was Saturday we went down to the hospital and waited for some answers to his condition. A few hours later a doctor came out and told us my dad had a piece of shrapnel lodged in his spine and he will never be able to walk again. To say I was heartbroken was an understatement, I was devastated.’

‘After my dad came home from the hospital in a wheelchair and we got him home it was obvious he was having trouble with things and he had sudden surges of pain through his back that left him unable to move for hours at a time so I had to do the chores around the house for him with Julian's help of course. Since he couldn’t stand I also had to do the cooking and reach the higher shelves for him and since he was crippled he couldn't work at the station and I was the only one working now so money was low most of the time and the bills were getting harder to pay on time and my father was trying to look for work but he was turned down at every interview he went to because of his condition that left him unable to move sometimes but that didn’t stop him from trying to help.

It has been a month since my dad left the hospital and times were getting tough and I was aiming for a promotion so I could get a better pay so I could support the both of us and it was the day of the test for me to become a detective like my father. They were planning something a little different this year for the test they would put us in a room one at a time and they would be clues around the room and they had to find out how they got in and what they took and their actions during it and I was the last to take the test and it was different for everyone and after I walked in the room I saw there was tinted glass on the left side of the room probably so they could watch to see what I did to come up with my conclusion. I looked around the room to look for clues and see if anything was out of place and I looked on the dresser and saw dust on it but there was several spots were that wasn’t dust so something was moved from the dresser and I continued to look around and I felt a slight breeze and I looked to the window and saw it was open very slightly to were you had to really look at it to notice and I opened it and saw a few spots where the wood looked like it was forced down maybe from a crowbar opening the window forcefully but I still wanted to look around to see if anything else is missing and I was looking though draws of a nearby desk and found severely thing like school books a phone a few pencils and pens and other things you would normally find in a desk and the bottom of one of the draws shifted slightly and I saw it was a false bottom and I used one of the pens to help open it and I saw a few bundles of money they were fake obviously but they were put their so they would supposed to be real money. After a few more minutes of looking around the room and see subtle hints of intrusion like large footprints in the carpet that were outlined with a little dirt and several items that looked like they were moved recently and I came up with my conclusion and I knock on the tinted glass and the door opened and I walked out of the room to explain my conclusion and I was led to a room with several high ranking officers and they were holding papers and they told me to sit down.

“So what was your conclusion.” One of them asked and I started my explanation.

“Well first thing I found was that several items were recently moved from the dresser and that is when I felt a slight breeze in the room and I looked at the window and saw it was forced open by a crowbar so that is how they got in and I decided to look some more and I looked in the desk and found the false bottom and found several bundles of money hidden away and there were footprints on the carpet that were outlined with dirt they suggested a young adult broke in and the money was what they were after but when they couldn’t find it they took what was on the dresser so they wouldn’t leave empty handed.” ‘I explained and they nodded and looked at their papers.’

“We will need time to discuss this so can you wait till tomorrow to hear our decision.” ‘A female officer said and I nodded and left the room.’

‘The next morning I received a call from the station and it was about my promotion. It was approved and I would start next month on my new job and I told my dad, he was so proud of me and we decided to go out to eat tonight.’

Three months later

‘It had been two months since I made detective and I finally picked up a lead on the Brotherhood of the Eternal Word and I found a similar relic to the one that they stole that my dad was investigating in a museum in town and I drove up to a parking lot nearby to see if they would try to steal it and it was around two in the morning that I saw something a figure wearing dark clothing in the alley near the museum and he ran for it and he hid by a garbage bin outside the museum and he pulled a crowbar out of his coat and forced a window open and I called it in and and they said they would send officers immediately and I ran for the open window and jumped inside so I could catch the thief and I looked around the corner and saw him and he had his hood down and I saw the snake tattoo around around his left eye and he was about to smash the glass that had the artifact and it looked like it was half of an amulet and after he busted the glass I ran around the corner and pulled out my gun.’

“Put your hands over your head and drop the crowbar.” ‘I yelled and he flinched and looked at me and he dropped the crowbar but instead of listening he grabbed the amulet and ran I shot three time but they missed since he used the museums columns and displays as cover and I ran after him and he jumped through a closed window make the glass shatter and the alarm went off. I jumped through the window after him and we ran through the streets and alleys of the city and I was constantly yelling my location through my radio so they could follow and we ran until we reached the docks and he ran into a abandoned warehouse that looked like it was about to fall any day now and I walked inside and closed the door behind me with a loud creaking sound and I stayed in the shadows and tried to find the thief.’

“Come out, come out wherever you are you pig” said the thief in a muscular voice and his voice echoed throughout the warehouse so it was hard to tell where he was.

I stayed hidden and I saw a light turn on in other side of the warehouse and I made my way over and I saw a crate and it had the amulet along with another on that seemed to be the other half and I knew what he wanted me to do so I stayed out of sight and waited for him to grow impatient and I didn’t wait long and I saw him step into the light and he looked agitated and angry and he looked around trying to find me.

“Come out little brat” He yelled throughout the warehouse and he pulled out his gun

“I'm not little or a brat I'm a detective with the LAPD.” I said and he shot in the direction of my voice and chipped off a corner of a crate next to me and i fired back and he hid behind a large stack of boxes and he shot from behind the boxes blindly and a bullet grazed my shoulder slightly and a fired a few more shoots before I ran for a different hiding place and reloaded my gun and I could hear him doing the same and he ran from cover and shoot the boxes near me and one of them went through the crate I was using as cover and went through my chest and I fell down from the pile ob boxes and crates I was on and hit the floor and I could hear laughter and I saw the man that shoot me holding the two halves of the amulet and he held his gun in his other hand and he looked at me and smiled sadistically as he kicked away my gun then kneeled down and got a better look at me.

“You know you look like a detective I was sent to kill once” the thief said and I coughed up blood “even though he didn’t die he was crippled” my eyes widened when he said that and I stared at him furiously before I heard a gunshot then his head shot back and he threw the halves of the amulet through the air and they fell in my hand and they magnetically connected to each other and became one again as the thief fell to the ground dead and I felt myself passing away as well, I coughed up blood again and I heard sirens in the distance before I felt myself get lifted gently into someone's lap and now we are back to where we started. As I feel my life slipping away and my eyes close and I feel a sudden burst of strength and open my eyes and see a very strange sight I am sitting in an interview room like what you would find in a police station except it feels different somehow almost other-worldly. As I look around I see another chair that is empty until I blink then the other one has a very unusual person in it. At first glance he is an amalgamation of many things; the left bottom half of his body, the leg and left lower torso, from bottom to top fire, earth, water, and wind are all represented. The right bottom half looks like space, time, realities, and dimensions all had a baby. The top left half of his body is blood red representing blood-lust. The top right half is void black representing the void/darkness. His face is a mask in the drama mask style white but eyeless now on the smile are different colors on both halves of the mask on the left side of the mask it’s blood red on the right side it’s void black. His clothes look like something from a magician's act.

After some very colorful language I calmed down.

"Amusing" he said. To my confusion it sounded wrong I know he didn't open his mouth and it didn't sound like telepathy it was almost like it was a contradiction of sound.

"How did you do that without speaking?" I said trying to not panic.

In the same wordless 'voice', "It’s the evolution of telepathy instead of hearing my thoughts I directly feed info into your mind to know what I say.”

Not really understanding what he means but deciding to go along with it I chose to get right to the point "Ok? So what do you want with me?"

He replies “I am here to offer you a contract and if you wish to know what’s on the contract just think -contract appear-.“

Not seeing anything to lose I thought "-contract appear-." All of a sudden a large scroll appeared in front of me when I opened it it read ‘I Evangel Lucretian give my past to Betsuni for a better future in a new world. I will become one of the Seraphim with Uriel and Aegis in hand. I will be given knowledge of a language that the locals will understand. Should I be in need of more I agree that I shall call upon Betsuni for a quest. Betsuni is to only be summoned for big requests or events, unless needed normal requests will be settled by an agent of Betsuni known as Pinkamena Diane Pie better known as one Pinkie Pie.’

I think it over for a while weighing the pros and cons of taking the contract. For one I would lose my past but I would also gain new abilities and two I would get two cool weapons. After considering it for a while I decided to agree with the contract, immediately after I decided that the scroll begins to glow and the signature line fills out with my name and I black out.