Awaken Book 2: Hell's Rejuvenation

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Madison makes a field of electric sparks to defend her from one of Thorne's daggers and she flips backwards to her feet. "You're interesting...Kiano sure had a group trained to the T." She says as Madison rushes her and punches her twice and delivers a roundhouse kick that puts her to the ground. "I'm not going down to you, punk." She says as her hands are nice and steady. "Hmph." She says as she summons two more daggers. Andrew lands behind her and she defends his punch with a dagger she summons without looking. "Shit." He says as she backflips and hooks his head between her legs and whips him forward to his back. He rolls up as Madison blasts a shot of lightning and the dagger deflects it to the sky and it immediately makes a cloud. "Thinking what I'm thinking?" Andrew says as he nods up towards the cloud and Madison smirks. "Let's GO." They both yells as Andrew creates a huge fireball and launches it towards her and she uses both daggers she's holding to deflect it to the sky where that(once small)cloud was over her head. Madison punches her in the face as she was distracted, Throne trips her as she sends a dagger in her stomach, "Now stay." She says as Andrew gives her a bearhug and she can't escape from it. A long, grey arm with a hand of two fingers take the dagger out and Madison sends a bolt to the cloud and a huge lightning strike comes back and channes through Madison and straight to Andrew and Throne. "AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" She screams as she is electrocuted with all the kinetic energy and creates a huge explosion. "That was easy." Andrew says as his phone rings, "Shit my girlfriend! You finish things up here, I gotta run!" He says as he flies up to the sky and soars at almost incredible speed.

"So you were with those assholes?!" Okada says as him and Hiro stand on the same rooftop with Paige. "They used me, how many times I gotta say it! That little sorcerer was behind most of this plan! Hell's Gate is just the diversion, once he's out of the picture, she won't stand a chance." She says as Hiro seems to not listen. "YOU. What in the actual fuck is wrong with you, straight attacking me when you saw I was occupied with umm, A FUCKING TITAN." Paige says crossing her arms as Hiro glares her way. "As long as you're not a red dragon, we straight." He says as she punches the wall next to her. "Me being a red dragon SAVED OUR ASSES AND THIS PLANET!!" She stares back at him as he raises an eyebrow. "You must not know the history between red and blue, we don't get along. Regardless." He says. "Speaking of that, why couldn't you just turn into me and you would've beat that Titan no problem." He continues and she makes a clueless face towards him. "What? Was it something I said?" He asked. "It was everything you said....turn into you? I get it, self righteous thinking you the shit when you hit the scene but you're not the strongest. That Titan should've beat that into you..." Paige says as Okada smirks from her smart remarks. "Hmph. You didn't need my help then." He utters, "MOST DEFINITELY." She quickly says back. "Now now you two. That's aside us now, we have to see where Hell' Gate went and what else he may be planning." Okada says as he makes a portal. "As everyone in the group is causing chaos here on Earth, going to Hell and confronting him there gotta be our next move." Paige says as she leaps through the portal and Okada looks at Hiro. "Are you coming?" He asks, "Nah. I have faith in Genesis and y'all to handle things. I got shit to do here. Carry on." He says as Okada nods and jumps through as it closes behind him.

Salo opens his eyes as he sees Sim and Thomas run through the small opening from the tree. "Come." He says as Sim and Thomas walk in. "Thomas. I've heard a lot about you..." He says as Thomas doesn't hear him. "Thomas. A god is speaking to you, show some respect." Sim nudges him in the stomach with his elbow and Thomas comes back to reality and nods to his words. "Where's my mother?" He says blankly as Sim looks back at him to correct him and Salo waves his hand to let him talk. "Your mother is in a dangerous place, you can't go to her." He says as Thomas glow blue in anger. "Why NOT?!" He says. "You aren't in control of your abilities, you want to die as pathetically weak you are..? I didn't think so, you will know yourself and understand what you are." Salo says as he gets up with his crane formed underneath his hand before he walks. "Titans are extraordinary beings with tremendous power and the fact you made your own arsenal is both dangerous and effective in battle. However, the one thing you can't do is the one very tool you need." Salo lectures as Sim floats to mediate and Thomas follows Salo. "What's that?" He says. "You'll find out." He says as a huge crack in the middle of heaven opens up behind Thomas and Salo pushes him back to fall into it. "Now. Trust your true self." He whispers as Thomas screams as he falls into the darkness. Thomas falls and falls as there is no end to this endless loop of fear void, he closes his eyes and immediately for a second he sees through his mother's eyes. She sees Hell's Gate wounded and healing by Christi and she can't move to escape. She gets picked up by Guttree as Christi smirks, "What do we need her? We already have the artifacts, we'd be carrying dead weight, emphasis on dead." She utters as Hell's Gate looks up. "She's here because she had something we need, the mlocation to-." He starts to say as everything went dark.