Awaken Book 2: Hell's Rejuvenation

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Paige wakes up still bleeding but not at much as earlier. She can't move as a spell is applied, "Who are you?" Saba says as he crosses his arms, "You don't know me so saying my name to you won't make a difference..." She says as Saba rolls his eyes. "We don't need any conflict, just please...this one guy came in, knowing Saba and me...let's just say that we're as tense as it is." Jazzy says as she walks in the room. "Was one of them fast?" She says, a vein pops up on Saba's forehead. "So what?" He says, "Xester...why would he be here? Unless...." Paige sits up a little more upright as Saba and Jazzy both look surprised. "Christi's doing...she's only toying with y'all we have to go until an actual threat comes." Paige says as Saba gets her out of the spell. "Who's the strongest in this realm?" Paige asks as Saba smirks as he's about to answer. "Don't even say you." Paige stops Saba from answering, "Fuck you." He says abruptly, "Meh. Egotistical assholes. Not my type sorry not sorry". Paige says as she massages her wrists. Jazzy giggles in the background, "You're just gonna laugh at it?" He says as she keeps giggling, "I mean she isn't completely in the wrong, we haven't been here...in this realm for that long, actually only like a couple years, if that. We don't know what's here, BenKei was right. We should never be at an oblivious state of mind." Jazzy says as Paige looks out the peephole of the door. "This BenKei character sounds like a smart guy." Paige says as Saba takes a deep breath. "When I'm not saving his ass." He says laughing confidently. "Either way, you need as much as help as you can get." She says as she opens the door and Saba closes it before she moves. "You got a lot of nerve to come down here and say all this shit when YOU were the one bleeding to death, just so you can proudly disrespect me?!? At my house out of all places, who the fuck you think you are?!" Saba says as he gets face to face with her. She just overpowers him as she opens the door with his arm over it and she walks out, "What the hell....is she?" He says to himself as he sees his skin go back to white from red. She walks in the kitchen as Jazzy walks in behind her, "If you're gonna piggyback off what he said back there, I'd recommend to stop while you're ahead." Paige says as she drinks a glass of water, "U-um no actually. Just....he cares about me, a lot and he'd do anything in order to protect me. I care about him and he cares about me, we're all like a family you ever had someone you felt the same way?" Jazzy asks as Paige sheds a tear. "Tons. They all died because of me.." Paige says as they hear a knock on the door. "Jazzy! It's Vela. Please open up!" She yells at the door as Jazzy gets up, stretches her back as she walks to the doorknob from the kitchen. She opens it as Vela runs in and locks it, "What's wrong??" She says as Vela is absolutely a nervous wreck. Saba walks in after he hears all the screams, "I s-s-saw...him."Vela says as Hiro listens in. "Garder? That's not possible. He wouldn't be here, he's dead." Saba says as Paige puts down her glass. "He's most certainly not that..." Paige says as Saba puts his foot down. "You and your comments....I swear to god." He says as Paige just smiles as Jazzy and Vela walk to the living room. "You obviously know something we all don't, so talk." Saba says as Paige exhales. "Christi the Wicked & her muscle Guttree....Xester & Thorne, Arc, Garder, and Hell's Gate...Hell's Gate has some plan I wasn't aware of. I was almost killed because I wasn't needed anymore, they all turned on me...Christi kidnapped me out of my own home and she used me to do some spell that make these artifacts open up his prison and making him free..." Paige says as Saba opens his eyes wider when he hears artifacts. "What is she talking about baby?" Jazzy asks telepathically as Saba is caught off guard with Paige's explanation. "I....just Hell's Gate is real..." Saba telepathically replies back to her, Vela gets up. "Hello! You're new, what's your name?" She says Paige as she is caught off guard for a formal greeting from anyone. "O-oh! I'm Paige. Nice to meet you..." She trails off as Vela fills in the blank. "Vela ya. You can call me V or Vela!" She introduces herself as she shakes her hand. A huge shockwave shakes the building and cracks crawl up the bulletproof glass around the apartment, suddenly the glass around them breaks through and flies towards the Jazzy and Paige. "HAAAAH!" Jazzy yells out as she makes the flying glass stop with an earth wall, everyone pauses in shock as an intense pressure and an incredible scorning heat approaches them. "You stay here." He says as he bursts out the empty window and flies straight towards it. "Wait!!" Paige yells as he's too far to listen(as if he would listen to her anyways). "I'd thought he'd never leave...what a heroic man he is...it fills a never ending void in my cold heart." A voice stops Jazzy, V, and Paige from breathing for a second as they slowly turn around to see Christi clapping. "Can we play a game?" She says as her murderous smile shows and her eyes sparkle.

Allen is thrown to the ground as his left leg is grabbed and thrown through two buildings flying past the police cars underneath him. Hope on her knees, weak and in fear as Ash slowly walks towards her with him taller and muscular with flames blazing down his shoulders to his arms and bloodlust in his eyes. Allen shoots back into his body with a kick as Ash roars and slams him to the ground, his suit breaks in multiple pieces as Zion comes out of her suit. "I said it's our turn." Zion says as the purple energy covers her and Ash holds his head and yells as fire shoots out of his mouth. Zion puts his arms over her and blocks the flames; Ash blows a huge fireball and Zion pushes the fireball back to him. He bats it to the building with people in it as they both hear the screams as the lower half of the building goes up in flames. He smiles hearing it as before Zion moves, Saba lands in front of her as Ash turns his head to the left and smiles. "Step aside, I'll handle this." He says as Ash growls with a smile. "More.....prey." Ash growls as Saba smirks. "I was about to say the same thing.." Saba says as he gets in his fighting stance.