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time: 5:36
Subject: Daxinium, A.K.A. Dax
System: rebooting mainframe...Done

"Oow, what hit me?"

Getting up I could see nothing except trees, trees, weird dog, more trees...Wait, dog? Looking over I could see an animal that could only be described in three words, Awesome and freaky. It had a scorpion tail, a pair of bat wings, a snake-like head with fangs and obvious poison glands, a lizards neck frill, What seemed to be a huge bug carapace on it's...chest, and some freaky long claws. Oh, did I mention it was three feet tall? No? Well, it was three feet tall, and-Wait, haven't I've seen him somewhere before?

The journal! It had a picture of i-wait, it's coming to me! Me and sis went to our first convention, Mom let us loose on the place, Angel ran ahead, we bought some trinkets, and then...DEAR GOD! Where's my sister?!? I-I promised mom... I'm a god damned failure! I can't even protect my own sister! I-I got to fix this! A-and-Hold up kid!

"Gah! Who's there!?!"

Oh, nobody except for your local dream demon fragment!

"Local dream demon?"

YEP! call me Cipher! Bill Cipher!

"Cipher? THE Bill Cipher!?!"

Yep, again! Hey, can I suggest something?

"you already did."

Fair point, but there is a local structure that was made by whatever flesh-bags are dominant here, and it would make a perfect base until we can get a better grip of this place.

"Okay, first off, why should I trust you? you're Bill Cipher for Pete's sake!"

Good point! But there's a pair of wooden golems coming our way and I don't think It's a welcome committee!

I was stuck with two options, either go to Bill Ciphers "Base", or stay around for the local greeting committee. The choice was kind of obvious, "Alright Bill, where to?"

See the tree I highlighted for you?

I looked around till I could see a simple tree glowing with an unnatural gold color."Yes."

Good, thats the direction of our safe house. And if I were you I would, RUN!

Me being the genius I am, ran as if Hell was on my heels. Sneaking a look back at the two deranged golems, it looked like that Bill's statement was a tad bit more truthful than I realized. A pair of what looked like wooden golems shaped as wolves were hot on my tail as I ran through the forest as fast as I could.

After running for for a few minutes I could see a pair of trees glowing gold, "Which way Bill!?!"

LEFT!

Racing down the trail I leaned backwards and twisted my torso, holding out a hand to stabilize my self. As I continued to run alongside the edge of a rather wide river, it came to me, "Bill!"

WHAT!? DON'T YOU REALIZE YOU DON'T HAVE TO WASTE BREATHE!? THINK BOY, THINK!

Fine! How on earth was I able to do that?

What do you mean!?

How was I able to turn like that!?

That would be me!

GAH! WHAT THE HELL IS A SECOND VOICE DOING IN MY HEAD!?!

Oops, he he? Call me S.P.A.R.C.! I'm your Specialized Personal A.I. from Recreational Cedars. And you somehow got attached to me! Aren't you lucky!

Where are you?

Look at your hand!

Looking at my hand while running was difficult, but manageable. Wait, that weird prosthetic!? WHERE THE HELL IS MY LEFT HAND!?!

TAKE A RIGHT KID!

We will be speaking about this later!

Yes sir!

To my right was a bridge crossing the raging river. It looked a little rickety, but I was willing to take my chances! As soon as I was halfway across the wolves finally caught up to us, I mean, me... I think?

HURRY! I DON'T WANT TO SPEND AN ETERNITY IN A RIVER, OR WORSE!

As soon as we were almost all the way across the bridge collapsed with both of the weird wolves on it, thus sending them on an unexpected cruise down the river. Luckily enough, the bridge didn't collapse all the way, though it could've...

"Phew.... Alright Bill, which way?... Bill?"

Kid...did you use magic?

"Um, no. Why? Actually, should I be worried?"

Something pulled that bridge into the river...we better hurry before it thinks we're snacks too...

Looking back at the river I could almost see something down there"Yikes..."

"This it?"

Yep, looks a bit rundown, but it's gonna be home!

The castle was destroyed. Not the rundown destroyed, more like battle destroyed. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if a massive battle of epic proportions happened here decades ago. The main way onto the castle grounds was the old decaying bridge from one side to another across a gigantic chasm surrounding the castle.

Let's go explore it!

"not so fast!"

What's the hold up kid? We're here!

"Somethings seriously off..."

fine, let's explore stealthily!

Groaning and walking across the rope bridge across with my staff ready to swing like a baseball bat, we entered the castle.

As we entered we could see a main hall reaching all the way to a massive wall made of rubble that had fallen from the years of decay. "Looks like we will have to find way through..."

So...We get to explore?

I sighed,"Yes...We get to explore..."

This is really boring, you positive there is someone or thing, here?

Groaning for the hundredth time I said, "I'm positive! There are tracks all around the place!"

I had found a pair of tracks while wandering the halls of this gigantic castle an-You mean the tracks from the Ge.Mo.Ho.? And I'm positive we've walked this way fifteen times already...

Stopping and grabbing the pendant on my chest I screamed, "You mean you knew that something was trailing us!?! And that we've been down this way FIFTEEN times!?!"

Er, yes? Besides it practically is your pet!

"Pet!?! What do you mean pet!?!"

I think he means your Familiar

"Familiar? What do you mean by Familiar?"

Familiars are a spell-casters pet bound to them by magic, so no hassle of collars or leashes!

"That doesn't exactly spell animal friendly..."

It's actually better nowadays so both get something out of it!

"Alright second question, what on earth is Ge.Mo.Ho?"

The Ge.Mo.Ho. stands for Genetically Modified Horror, there are tons of them spread out across the universes, specifically the dimensions we now reside in!

"Alright, now what? Just ask it to come out?"

Basically

Groaning I pinched my nose, "Come out Ge.Mo.Ho.!"

Imagine my surprise when it dropped from the ceiling of all places. As I recovered from my shock I walked around it as it sat on the floor and sat there panting. It was the same coyote monster hybrid thing from the forest when I had first woken up. "Hey Bill?"

What's up kid?

"Why does it have a collar?"

A collar?

"Yeah, a collar...Think it's someone's that isn't us?"

If it belonged to somebody else it probably would've ripped your face off by now

"That's definitely not a terrifying thought..."

As I got closer to get a better look it didn't react at all except when I grabbed the collar and brushed against it's carapace protecting it's front it started...Purring? Alrighty then...Lets see...Xavier? Not a bad name. Sounds like something I would name...Him? I really hope I don't have to check that...

The name was actually most likely pulled from your mind, whoever put me and Spark here would most likely do it again.

Shuddering at having my mind invaded without a care really put me on edge. Looking at Xavier I tried speaking in what I assumed was a gentle voice, "You can stick by me as long as you don't harm someone without my consent, alright?"

To my amazement it...er, HE, nodded in confirmation. So our long walk down the hallways began, again this time with Bill guiding me through it.

We had reached the other side of the collapsed entry way to find ourselves in a decayed throne room. There was two thrones, one made of a dark blue stone, while the other one was a lavish golden throne. I preferred the blue one over the other, but they also had an obsidian throne right above the two on an arch over the thrones that had once most likely lead to the rulers/lords rooms, but a huge cave in was right behind it and showed a perfect view of the setting sun relinquishing the sky to the rising moon.

There was quite a few statues depicting pegacorns, or winged unicorns. There was a total of four I've seen so far. Two were guarding the entrance while the other two were here were watching over the throne room. There was two different designs. One was a larger pegacorn made of white marble, while the other one was dark blue. They practically mimicked the thrones in design.

There was also a bunch of banners all over the place covered with either a sun, moon, two pegacorns floating over the planet, or other various banners depicting the lords of their kingdom. I saw one with two swords crossed with a silver drop right where the swords crossed, or one with a cane with a top hat laying on it...hmm, maybe they were tailors?

Ooh! Now this is one I can appreciate! The one I had just spotted was one with a gunmetal gray background with an Axe and what appeared to be an early model of the rifle. On the center was a picture of...Xavier? Maybe something similar to how he looked, was with a guns sight right over it. They were the olden version of monster hunters for sure!

After pulling the banner down for a keepsake I found an odd indentation in the marble that made up the wall. A safe perhaps? After poking and pushing did nothing a certain demon spoke up, Maybe it opens with magic?

"Magic?"

Well, you do have large reserves due to me, spark, and your reserves combined!

"Um, Bill...I don't have magic."

What do you mean? After you started wandering I decided to go through our reserves and see how much we have, and we have a ton! Not to mention that I went and figured who's who's and all that junk. Turns out you have quite a lot kid!

After sputtering for a minute I managed to choke out, "WHAT!?!"

I've never had magic! Sigh, doesn't change the fact you still have magic! just focus it into your preferred hand and shove it out in a steady stream, got it?

I reluctantly nodded and put my left hand on the indent and started digging for the string or tide of magic in me and tried to coax it out.

Turns out that was the easy part. The hard part was trying not to get caught up in it. As I tugging it I could feel my eyes starting to itch and a glow from the interior of my goggles confirmed my suspicions that my eyes started had started glowing and for some odd reason my right eye was a swirl of deep blue and gold.

After what felt like a few hours I got what I wished for, just too much of it. Yeah, when it did come out it shot out and obliterated the wall except for a metal box with odd indentations on it. Not to mention getting thrown back several feet, hitting my head, and breaking a pedestal with a rusted sword on it. Looking up I saw that the safe was sitting with its entrance wide open.

As I sat up I could feel something akin to aftershocks from the blast. Looking at my arm I could see jolts of blue energy racing up my arm and down again, though when I tried my magic again I could feel A 'pathway' of some sorts had opened up to my left hand and when activated my prosthetic would glow dark and light blue as they swirled surrounding it, akin to a small fire.

Getting up was difficult, but not impossible. After my small feat of undying devotion to standing I went to take a look at what the safe contained. It was difficult to see what was in it but from what I saw there was a few things. The first was a gun, a .38 special revolver with all chambers filled. The second was a thick book about a few thousand pages long with notes sticking out at odd angles. The last was a pair of daggers that had runes carved into it.

Picking up the random miscellaneous goodies from the safe I stored them where they belong on ones person. the daggers getting set on my belt, while the revolver went into the opposite of my other revolver, and last but not least, the book that was as heavy as a fucking boulder...not really, but a dozen pounds at least! That went into my satchel, amazed it fit really.

Hey kid!

Groaning in frustration I answered, "What the hell do you want Bill?"

Well I thought you would be happy to have a chance to learn magic! With me and that journal on magics I thought you would like to learn how to control it! So, what do you say pal?

I looked around at everything before answering, "Looks like I'll be having magic lessons, now won't I?"

I finally decided to fuck my back and sleep on the thrones. I groggily stood up and made my way up to the blue throne and collapsed and started to nod off with Bill muttering to himself about lessons and plans for...his...student...*snore*....

Author's Note

Okay, same run of the mill stuff! If you see something that doesn't belong there or needs to be changed it would be much appreciated if you would point it out for me! Enjoy! {Fixed up by yours truly}