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Imerius lurks around the ruins waiting for the shapeshifter to return. Trips over Art. "Oh sorry..." Looks around. "I have a message from my mother. She can write an obituary in the paper for you. With that cabin blown up and all. She can write it now and get your name on a head stone.

"It will be enough me thinks. Once someone has a funeral, anyone who sees them again will cry ghost. At worst they will call in hunters. Guess who the head hunter is in this region. Just think about it. It is not safe for one like you to wander." Gets up and walks away.

*looks around and sees Imerius*...

Azure was startled by Blade's voice. Recovering from the shock he managed to shout out, "Blade?! Where are you?"

Azure turned to face the holographic command deck where the schematics for Navr'Etheron had been glowing. Now, instead, there was the image of Blessed blade's face, overlayed onto a blueprint schematic in a small room of the floating city. "Where are you?"

Azure did as commanded. His Etherean Crystal lit as he faced the screen, and a series of magical locks displayed on the screen began closing, and dissappating. He began using his hands to drag elemental symbols from place to place, rearranging the mechanical systems equipment on the schematic of Evanescence Mountain that lay before him.

He moved the last parts into place, and the power defense shielding that would protect the mountain from attack, were disabled.

Rhapsody's body stops glowing after she sends her message. "I must leave." She grabs her blue hooded cloak and begins to head for the mountain. She doen't notice the senary around her as she runs. Crystal tears slide down her cheeks.

In an ancient stone building in a cavern beneath the ruined city an ancient, black stone arch with red gems adorning each side began to glow, on the gems glyphs began to appear, glowing in a black light.

As the glow intensified the glyphs glow increased, unti the room seemed as a black hole, a sound, similar to the wails of tortured spirits echoed around the chamber.

"And the world knew peace for the first time, and the rivers were as blood no more, the sky as night forgotten, for the portal of Azra had been sealed, but the king had, before his banishment, decreed that his son should return, Azra, the god of death and decay would have his revenge."

The wails of the stones halted, the arch was filled as if by blood, and from the arch a tall, red, winged daemon stepped, his eyes as the fires of Hell.

"Finally, i have escaped that infernal dungeon, never again shall my father imprison me, I AM FREE, Azra shall not hold me ever more!"

The demon looked down upon its form

"But perhaps this form doth not suit its master now, for i do not owe my kind allegience now." The demons form seemed to melt, its features running as if hot wax. mere seconds later, in the smoking chamber a human emerged, with scarlet hair, pale white skin, and eyes that were as blood.

"This form suits me more. Now for the clothing, so that i might fit into the crowd". The humans flesh stretched, changing colour and shape until he stood there, wearing a long black coat, black shirt, black jeans and jet black boots.

"Now my desguise is complete, my father will never recognise me in this form, i am free from his law, now and ever more." The demon, known in the ancient texts mearly as 'Tzeen', walked out of the chamber, and up an ancient stairway, to magically sealed doors, "Azra'tzeen'phar'seth" he spoke, and the doors did disolve, leaving his path clear.