SCEPTRE: I

Eterna

SAVIO

"You want me to do what?" I asked the recording of Kad mi-el.  I know; talking to a recording and all, but I felt the need to talk to someone who understands my ordeal a bit, and I have to give Ander sometime to figure things out, even if he claims he's okay.

Ander has been coming over to help me out for the last three weeks, he also asked Elyon out in an extreme Y.O.L.O moment. He had studied up on Id'ean history. I try to keep my knowledge about the future of the Id'ean Empire at a minimal, consequences and all.

"Its not hard at all." Kad mi-el said "Just jump from the mansion and teleport back to the roof."

"I'm not that crazy."

"How hard can it be you already did travelled from the past."

"That was a life or death situation, you lunatic." (I only cuss because it's a recording. stay in school kids.)

"You can do it."

I had been training with Henry, who just happened to be a martial artist. I had made my choice of weapons. A trident and two elbow length knives. It had been a rigorous last three weeks, trying to find the second and third parts of the sceptre and researching anything that can help us in our quests.

"Dude." Ander said in my earpiece

"What is it Ander."

"You have got to see this."

"Be right there."

I'm at the door when Kad mi-el’s recording speaks up "Fear is a choice, Danger is real.  Look at me quoting Will Smith."

I walk down the stairs to the room that Ander more or less claimed as his in the mansion.

"What's up?" I ask him.

"I researched the Punic Wars, the great Carthaginian Military commander Hannibal was the bane of Rome for years and is regarded as one of the greatest military tacticians in history. He was undone by Roman general Scipio Africanus.  Scipio had five children and the least recognised was Publius Cornelius Scipio, who didn't run for office because of his ill health."

"How does this help me?"

"Scipio's family possessed a totem I thought you would be interested in."

He showed me his iPhone.

"Dude that's a picture of you and Elyon."

"Oh right. sorry." He swiped right and pointed the phone back at me. "Check it out."

I saw a picture of a totem with a very familiar head. It was the sceptre headpiece. "Dude that's awesome, so I travel back to his time and get it."

"You won't have to. Scipio's son is said to have no natural progeny, but in 2014, a back trace showed that he in fact did and can you guess who it is?"

"No."

He then showed me the picture of a man who was deep in conversation with another man in the United Nations secretariat in New York. It was no other person than Mr Onyx Corp himself, Atila Kraft.

"So what do you have in mind?"

"Isn't it obvious. We break into the home of the CEO of one of the most powerful companies in the world. We are going to need help of course."

BOREAS

I wouldn't say I'm awesome.

Okay, I lied. I am awesome.