Dark Universe IV

Prodigium is a multi-national organization dedicated to tracking, studying, and, if necessary, destroying monsters in the Dark Universe. Thanks to Reika and Yinkong, we now know where they are.

We also have a house, thanks to Tengyi and Lingyue. And for the past two days, we have been planning to break into Prodigium and steal everything they have. But first, allow me to tell you the second half of the plot.

In 2983 B.C., after Princess Ahmanet's father, King Menehptre had a son with his second wife, leaving Ahmanet ineligible to claim her father's throne, Ahmanet summoned the Egyptian god of death, storms, and chaos, Set. Set gave Ahmanet the Dagger of Set to implant him into the body of a mortal man.

Ahmanet assassinated her father, her stepmother, and her half-brother by slitting their throats with the Dagger. Later, Ahmanet intended to use her lover as a human sacrifice to Set, but the temple priests discovered Ahmanet's actions, killed her lover, and forcibly mummified Ahmanet alive.

Sometime in the future, The Dagger of Set was taken to England when crusader knights invaded Egypt during the Second Crusade. In the year 1127, the ruby that was used to power the Dagger of Set was buried with the body of a crusader knight who had recently died. That tomb was found weeks before the start of the movie. Meanwhile, the Dagger itself ended up in a reliquary inside a church in Oxford.

Now that Ahmanet is alive, she wants to plunge that dagger into me, her newly chosen sacrifice. And I am going to let her after I break her out of prison for the second time.

Two days ago, Ahmanet was captured by Prodigium. She was retrieving the dagger of Set, while Bai Wutong, Ouyang Di, and myself were stealing the Ruby from the crusader tomb where it had been buried for centuries.

Now that Ahmanet and the Dagger of Set are both in Prodigium. It's time for the real mission to start.

My Team and I were dressed in all-black combat uniforms. No name and no patches. We are currently traveling along London's underground train line. Prodigium's headquarters were built along these lines and under the Natural History Museum of London.

As we were getting close, the team went through their individual assignments again.

"I find and kill Henry Jekyll," said Wutong.

"Yinkong and I take care of the guards," said Lingyue.

"Tengyi and I will take care of security and make sure no alarms are sounded around the world," Reika added.

"And I'll go find our Princess," I said lastly.

As we arrived at the entrance of Prodigium. Two daggers were sent flying until they killed two Prodigium guards standing watch.

Yinkong then cut off a guard's hands, and Reika took a pair of hands from the other guard. Reika looked up at the large steel door, then down at the keypad that asked for a hand to be pressed against the pad for entry.

Most of the world was right-handed, so Reika used the guard's left hand. After a few moments of scanning, the door opened. Reika chuckled to herself as the door swung open.

As we all entered, the team divided to carry out their own assignments. Though we had guns, we kept things quiet. Every person I saw was cut down before they knew what hit them.

When the lights in the facility went out, and everything started powering down, I knew Reika had succeeded. I pushed on faster until I found a large room filled with scientists studying Ahmanet's Sarcophagus and the Dagger of Set.

In the center of the room, Ahmanets was chained and weakened as liquid mercury was being pumped into her.

I casually released my Reiatsu and used Hado number one to destroy the lab and set Ahmanet free. When I was standing an inch away from her, I used my TK to pull the mercury from her body. I then reached for the Dagger of Set and flew to my hands. I presented it to Ahmanet.

"And the stone?" she asked.

"I will hold on to it until we're finished." I tell her, " Come. The team is probably waiting on us."

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3rd POV.

Sometime later, Ahmanet and Tie Ta walked into Dr. Jekyll's office and found the man incapacitated and Wutong brooding.

Tie Ta's brow furrowed, and Ouyang Di said, "He had just taken his medicine to keep the beast at bay. So Wutong could only fight Jekyll and not the beast inside, Hyde."

"Ahh." Tie Ta nodded, then looked to Reika, who was trying to break into Jekyll's private Library. But he figured that Dr. Jeykell had put it into some sort of lockdown.

Tie Ta's Kagune then appeared and stabbed six holes into the insanely tempered glass. He then sent a telekinetic blast that finished the job. When the window wall came down, Tie Ta stepped in and pulled whole shelves of books into his storage pendant until the library was empty.

"Alright! Now, who wants an upgrade," said Tie Ta as he walked over to Dr.Jekyll's computer.

A few moments later, Tie Ta started handing out slips of paper. Lingyue and Wutong speed away. When they returned, each of them held cases with a big grin across their face.

Yinkong looked at her teammates' excitement the frowned. She then walked to Tie Ta's side and whispered into his ear. He pursed his lips then stared at the ceiling before getting a brilliant idea. He searched the system, and he wrote down a slot number for Yinkong.

The young girl sped off and returned with the largest case. She then put it down and sat on top of it with a triumphant smile.

"Tengyi. Do you want anything?" asked Tie Ta.

"I-I.."

"Come on, Tengyi, just spit it out already," said Lingyue.

Tengyi only froze up some more. Ahmanet rolled her eyes, walked over to Tengyi, then palmed his forehead.

"What is a Qilin?" she asked in Chinese.

The team chuckled, and Lingyue put an arm around Tengyi. She then squeezed the cowardly man. "A Qilin is pretty cool." she encouraged him. "But I think that's something you'll have to get in...heaven."

Tengyi gushed as he looked at the prettiest friend he ever had. "Thanks, Lingyue."

Tie Ta could feel Reika smiling at him from the side. He turned and gave her a wink. Ouyang Di and Bai Wutong saw the atmosphere and started laughing.

"Oooh, Lingyue!" Wutong cried out in a feminine voice to Di.

Di sniffled and cried, "Tengyi!"

The two men faked cried and held each other as they mocked their teammates. "You make me want to be strong!" Wutong cried.

Tengyi and Lingyue awkwardly separated as they blushed.

"It looks like we'll have to create ourselves a woman, now." Di laughed.

"Little Yue Yue found herself a man," Wutong sung.

Yinkong suddenly appeared on Wutong's back. " So have I," said Yinkong.

She then smiled at Ouyang Di and said, "Not the best man, but he's all mine."

Ouyang Di and Bai Wutong were speechless. Wutong then began to gush, and Tie Ta audibly cleared his throat. Yinkong pouted and then reappeared on her case.

"Haha, come on, Boss. She was just joking," Wutong spoke up as he scratched his head.

"Of course she was. " Tie Ta chuckled. He then threw the Ruby that powered the Dagger of Set to Ahmanet.

The room went silent when she caught it. Ahmanet quickly put the stone and dagger together. Tie Ta stepped around the large oak desk and pulled all of the cases that his team had collected into his storage ring.

Ahmanet then tackled him to the ground in a flash. She ripped open his shirt and began to mutter in ancient Egyptian. She raised the dagger of Set above her head then stabbed downward with all of her force.

With a single thought, Tie Ta's Asauchi appeared in his hand.

Bang!

A blood-red energy shield erected and repelled her sacrificial stroke. Ahmanet was blown away, and the dagger flew from her hand.

Ahmanet looked at Tie Ta with surprised eyes. He then followed her gaze to the pendant of Shezmu.

"Shezmu..." Ahmanet gasped. "You should not have that."

"Why not?" he asked.

"Only Generals who belong to the cult of Shezmu can make their own after slaying 1000 men," Ahmanet explained.

'This is more than an oddity in a movie world.' thought Tie Ta.

He looked to Tengyi and asked, "What do you know about the cult of Shezmu?"

"Not much." said Tengyi, "He's a lower good of slaughter, blood, chaos, and wine. Osiris' executioner and servent of Set."

'Well, GOD did say that a player created the pendant. I might need to find out exactly what world this player originated from.'

Tie Ta reached for the Dagger of Set, and it flew to his hand. He then tried to stab himself but was also repelled by the pendant. Tie Ta scuffed, then took off the pendant and tossed it to Reika.

With one deft stroke, Tie Ta plunged the dagger into his chest. Everyone was startled by Tie Ta's move. Though, they all expected it.

Tie Ta's body suddenly collapsed and contorted as the red ruby turned black like ink being poured into a bowl of water. Tie Ta's body then went limp.

"Oh shit... Is he dead?" Wutong asked.

"No. He and Set are here." Ahmanet answered. "Set has essential possessed Tie Ta. Everything that Set is, is now Tie Ta. He will be stronger than me with powers that I would never hope of grasping."

"So why isn't he waking up?" Reika asked.

"Because the ritual was intended for mortals. It wasn't until after I cursed him that I figured out you people were different." Ahmanet explained, then sat against the wall as she looked on with worry.

Team China all shared looks. Reika walked over to Ahmanet and sat next to her. "It's okay to be scared. I assume the dagger is one-time use."

Ahmanet hummed in response.

"What happens if Tie Ta manages to kick Set out?" Reika asked.

"Then I'm done for. During the travel from Egypt, before I was placed in that prison, Set came to me. As long as the Dagger is able, I can try many times to fulfill my pact. But if I fail at this point, after the dagger has been used, I'll be taken straight to the underworld."

Reika sighed as she looked at Tie Ta lying as still as the dead. 'He will succeed. Tie Ta likes your cruelty and decisiveness. He will save you and then take this team to the next level. It's all been planned.'

Ahmanet's eyes went wide with shock. 'Telepathy? That's the power of a High priestess of Thoth. Who are you people, really?'

Reika didn't know if the spoiler rule applied to her, so she told Ahmanet a story of a man named Tie Ming (Tie Ta) and his adventures in the Otherworld (GODs Dimension). Ahmanet seemed to understand what was happening.

Reika then tossed the Pendant of Shezmu to Ouyang Di and sent him to clean out the rest of Prodigium, or at least as much as he could fit in the storage pendant. When Team China left, Ahmanet and Reika patiently waited for Tie Ta to awaken.

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"I think it was a stupid move," said Lingyue as the team walked the greater archives of Prodigium.

"You have to give the Boss credit, though. Fail or succeed, we can stay here indefinitely," said Ouyang Di as he looked at the archives catalog.

"What nonsense are you talking about?" asked Tengyi.

Yinkong sighed, "You haven't figured it out yet, idiot. The Boss is trying to give us the most benefits without spending a single point. Suppose he subdues Set as the main character did in the movie. He could make Ahmanet admit defeat at any time. Di could study magic, Lingyue could gain vampiric abilities and train them. Wutong will take on some kind of werewolf traits. This was going to be a free vacation. But if he fails, and Ahmanet is taken to the underworld, then we will never be able to reach her and defeat her."

"Mission cant be completed, then we would be stuck here..." Tengyi mumbled.

"That's probably why Boss used such a sweet perk on this particularly movie world and this plot. If we win, we win big, and if he fails, well, we all still win big. Another shot at life in a world where the supernatural exists." said Wutong.

"Do you think he will make it?" Lingyue asked in a distant voice. She wanted to have faith. But Tie Ta just didn't have the plot armor that the main characters have. If he was going to succeed, he would have to use everything he had.

"That's not for us to decided." said Wutong, "Di, find the magical tomes you need and whatever else you sorcerers play with. Tengyi, look for information on Qilins. If they exist here, Boss will find one for you. Lingyue, vampire heritage. Yinkong, focus on the history of assassins in this world. I'm sure there are some supernatural clans out there."

"So you're in charge now?" Di asked

"It seems that way. Now let's get to it."