5 Journey

I very been learning to make better structures both above and below ground.

the walls around our Estate are now 15ft tall ond 10ft thick.

we're living in the foothills of Dad's mountains.

Even though dad has for centuries been accepted as the landlord of the mountains he calls home he has also gained recognition from the Federal Government as owning all rights to them.

Dad

A week after mom and dad left they called to say they were doing well at the Bay City rift.

Then yesterday After 3 weeks the big Rifts opened.

Then small rifts started appearing in major cities around the world.

Suddenly a wave of energy crashed against The walls of the Estate.

I kept creating more walls and raising more earth just to deflect the energy Storm. I kept drawing energy and rock from the earth and creating wind to deflect. suddenly the wave stopped and Melissa caught me as I fell exhausted.

Momma Shawna I'm told Summoned wind and earth spirits to infuse power into me.

I literally drained myself dry protecting my home.

When I awoke I found half of the Estate gone and most of the walls simply disappeared.

We're actually now living in a shelter underground that I had built for practice exercises, Deep in a hillside.

The Reports of devastation is extreme.

The Demons actually created smaller rifts around the world for an all out assault.

They got stopped but not before 80% of the worlds population was killed.

Both humans and Arcana fought back, even the Demons thinking our word would be disorganized by the sudden rifts opening unexpectedly found themselves facing armed civilian populations some prepared for war others for protection from us Arcana.

everyone or nearly so rose together to combat the invaders.

Horrific tales of cities being wiped out to heroism from combined races flooded human and Arcana internets.

It will take months to get a final deat toll.

Mom called to make sure we made it.

and also inform us that they are ok.

with only a few exceptions. Alejandro is alive but Melissa is now the families oldest living child.

My brother in law woke an ancient Caldera to wipe out A major rift and Demons somewhere in the southern hemisphere I think and sacrificed his life doing so.

My sister and her newborn are doing as we'll as can be expected.

Shawna is now Queen Presumptive of the Fairy Court her Grandfather is taking guardianship till she returns.

Shawna says I'm now by her command as Godmother A Crown Prince of the realm.

and Melissa is now Princess Melissa of the Fae Court.

We lost 2 guards in the attack while manning the walls.

48 Veteran Elder guards suddenly dropped to their knees and immediately swore loyalty unto death to the 3 if us.

We decided the day after tomorrow we also will take the fight to them first is a run to Melissa's mom.

We will rest up and head out at first light day aftertomorrow.

Yeah rest 51 people moving is going to take lots of food and various supplies.

we actually spent most of the day and night packing.

Mom's vault actually had a collection of weapons and armor

We took what we thought we might need very sparingly then I sunk mom's vault a few hundred feet deeper.

and left towards the Thorn residence.

Our initial thought is to parallel the main highway after we leave Melissa's home

Well best laid plans of mice and Arcana and all that.

After leaving a note of our route we headed off.

First we head to see Melinda and the kids.

Dad has several tunnels under the Mountains for mom to use as an underground path to rich mineral deposits.

We arrived at the Thorn homestead to find it completely flattened.

Melissa takes us to the shelter.

there's an emergency escape tunnel to a deep bunker.

Recently occupied and empty.

We did find a note when decoded saying they were heading to my place.

Outside we find 3 web spots indicated that Melinda, Aimee and Geoff are alive.

so we head beck home to find they've been and gone. They must have arrived just after we left.

Now they are following our route.

Since now it's afternoon we decided to leave tomorrow and play catchup.

We post Daily reports about our battles on the Arcnet live as well as video of all battles.

We of course meet up with the stray Demon patrols, undead, bugs,etc.

Apparently the spiders also ran into a few patrols they couldn't avoid and their handiwork is apparent.

We do speed up as much is safe just to make time.

After a few days it looks like we've made up a few hours.

1 adult and 2 kids have to hide more than we do.

They have to wait for more patrols to pass by than we do.

We would normally not try to attract too much attention but we figure if we can attract some it will take some focus off of them.

Hopefully they will realize we're not in front of them and slow down.

Or at least not stop dropping web marks periodically.

Melissa adds her own incase they circle back.

They never responded to any of our calls so we assumed that they're communications must either be out of theirmaintaining communicationblackout.

We do keep our Arc phones on and charged with magic in case we run into other Arcana.

after a week we reach the edges of what was a majorCity.

We follow the web markers as they shift south to skirt around to pick up the Interstate highway south.

we're hours behind now. and patrols from the city Rift are getting stronger and recent battles can be seen.

We keep watch and always look for any troops.

We have come across a few small command posts and traded information. As well as downloaded copies of our battles to any Arcana in their command structure.

Arcnet isn't fully compatible with human internet or computers except high end and major military complex computers.

One group actually tried to force us to stay. I actually rendered their guns useless.

I bent every firing pin.

I told them when they raised weapons to us.

"Save your aggression for E.T. guys.

They're the enemy not us".

Bye now I of course don't hope they get themselves killed, I do hope they do kill Demons attacking people.

Tomorrow or the next day we should catch up to Melinda and the kids.

Today we run into a Club.

Well first it was the Hellhounds.

Shawna noticed that even though they were full size they were only a few days old.

That means they have a breeding pit somewhere and it needs to be brought down.

We plotted where the last marker was and went on to the next expected spot and found it.

Major Relief there although Melissa was suddenly pissed off big time. Geoff and Aimee both left a spot of blood on their web pips.

Someone got injured in battle and Melissa wanted to make them pay.

It had to be the hounds.

they eat all leftover dead and take the females to breed with.

Male Hellhounds sperm is 100% addictive and an extreme aphrodisiac.

it only takes 3 days of incubation to produce 2 to 4 pups and and instantly induce fertility again.

by the end of the 3rd pregnancy that's all the females want to do is make more babies.

Human, Arcana or other animals doesn't matter, they mate with nearly anything.

it's sickening and infuriating.

Melissa follows the scent trails back to a night club.

We collapse it and burry it.

I leave no space to slide a leaf through.

Sorry girls can't be helped after the 2rd or 3rd pregnancy they will actually die within days if they are deprived of the drugs from Hellhounds.

Then back to finding Melinda.

We backtracked to the web pips and see that nothing disturbed it.

Whew, nothing following within the last hour.

Now in more open country south of the City we encounter centipedes. 10ft long and 2 ft wide.

I can feel them now they've attacked us.

we definitely need to rush and find Melinda.

Melinda has been strengthening her venom for decades and she's very deadly.

Shawna says she's quicker than any of us by a long shot.

Melissa says the centipedes DNA might me useful for her mom and siblings but mine is better for her.

I'm not going to say anything except give good kisses.

Centipedes are very poisonous and very well armored and after her first bite she's good until we find a more advanced species.

We saved a few higher toxic poison sacs and rushed to keep catching up.

after our 3rd pack Melissa says she needs that one. A massive 25 ft long monster with huge fangs and massive legs broke through rushing us along with 25 to 30 smaller centipedes came at us.

the advanced mother centipede. I spike the smaller ones but my spikes can only slow momma bug down. I do partially burry her while the fairies shoot the others full of holes.

Mommy bug has very hard armor so Melissa and I do had to hand with it.

I make a concrete and steel avatar and smash down on it.

Melissa slices it like a living food processor.

Mommy bug doesn't go down easily she smashed back and dug through the ground only slightly slower than on land.

Suddenly a very fast shadow rushed through our formation as the mommy broke back out of the ground and with a resounding crash suddenly there is a Black hunter type spider 15 ft in diameter carapace and 20 ft long body biting it's head clean off almost instantly.

That Arachnid was moving so fast it was difficult to follow.

Scientists say normal Mammalian nerve impulses travel at around 92 ft per second.

Black hunters are faster.

This super scary black Arachnid is my mother in law.

She can literally strike faster than I can think.

MOMMY!!! as Melissa crashes into the much bigger spider.

Suddenly 2 very beautiful women are standing before us one with one with long black hair and my love with long cinnamon colored hair.

both equally endowed above and both with big butts.

Ok I'm a pervert but oh well.

what I find amazing is that unlike me and we're Arcana they're clothes appear back on in human form.

Werewolves for example either rip their clothes off or get undressed. Arachne don't.