Spirited Uprisings! by Axiom | World Anvil

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Sun 14th Jan 2024 11:58

Spirited Uprisings!

by Axiom Hadrian Avner Foster

Begin writing your story here...SPIRITED UPRISINGS!
Reports come in of several ghostly things transpiring in downtown. With my luck its just people wearing bedsheets and scaring the locals cause its Friday the 13th!! Ooooo Spooky!.

So I go, nothing else really to do tonight anyway, so might as well see what trouble I can get into. I'm almost at the scene when who shows up but Motorcycle chick!! So now I know something is up, she flits past me to the end of the street and almost drives over one of the floating sheets.

At this time, I figure I'd best go underground, so I do!!

Following as quickly as I can I keep an eye on what's going on upstairs! There are like 25-30 of these floating sheets with glowing eyes coming out of some portal at the end of the street. The awful part is when they get close to some people they slide into them, then consume the flesh and muscle off the people, leaving behind only bones. Not sure what this effect is for but its grisly!!

Then seemingly from out of nowhere comes the Blue costumed man! Ya know, we don't know what faction he's a part of but he seems determined to get to the source, I'd best tunnel ahead of him, at least I won't be slowed down by the sheets!

As fate would have it, Blue Guy, red rider & I all get to the Nexus at the same time!! coming out is some guy in fancy oriental (?) clothing? Happy that he's found a way back to our world, I wonder if the floating sheets collected energy from their victims to grant the passing of the boundary between realms? Oh that is heavy thinking for a beleaguered mechanic! Will have to pass ideas along to the brains of the organisation.

Blue guy and Red Velvet start attacking this guy, he's calling himself Maru?? What kinda name is that??? Wait, there's more... Maru the spirit conqueror?? I think this guy has delusions of grandeur!! I start blasting at him from underground. He can take a hit it seems.

It looks like the others are trying to push him back through that portal, oh no they've succeeded, I dive through it at the last second, turning I watch it close. "Uhmm, was that a mistake??"

Maru stands up and turns towards where the portal was. I melt into the ground and follow him to see what he gets up to next!