Red the hunter: saddened days part 4

Story by commisiar on SoFurry

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5-28-13 I looked over this again and it turns out I made a mistake with the title for this final part of the story series when I made it oops. So I edited it and fixed some of the missing tags, as far as I can tell its not as extreme as the second part of this story series. Sure theirs violence and a bit of gore however their is not much description of the whole thing.

Its my bad for not seeing the issue originally and for not checking over my work as often as I liked and hopefully I will not make the same mistake.


Red sighed even as he snuggled closer into Evans neck causing him to chuckle before a sudden twinge was felt causing him to cough out saliva and a little trickle of blood. He placed a finger on his lips and pulled it away making him frown in confusion.

Elh raised an eyebrow seeing him carry the younger caninu with one hand and asked "is there something wrong, dont tell me your blood is turning black quickly!"

He shook his head and answered "no, in fact it's back to it's standard purple color, however it's unusually red to."

He showed them his finger causing Chocolat to look closer she was used to blood because Red would always get scuffled around during his usual jobs. She cocked her head even as it seemed to pulse red before looking at his eyes and blanched.

He looked unsettle and replied "what's the matter?"

Chocolat licked her lips and answered "your eyes look weird, they changed somehow."

He stiffened before slowly materializing a pocket mirror from his inventory stored away in his right gauntlet. As he slowly looked at it he froze in numb shock gazing upon red outlines on his eyes and he swallowed hard seeing them swirl and spin slowly as he muttered "you have got to be joking..." before his eyes widened in shock as they sent out a pulse.

The pocket mirror slipped from his grasp as he stared in raw horror gazing upon the black shadows that swirled around him as the feeling of being watched grew and grew. He shuddered as the streaks of insanity grew as his heart literally started to pound in his eyes.

His breath caught in his throat as he whispered "I have his eyes how the hell do I have his eyes!?"

He slowly looked behind him at the open portal gazing upon the area and noticing the stabilized crack in the universe even though he knew it was supposed to be artificial. He shook slowly causing Elh to ask "hey are you okay?"

The eyes pulsed before lying dormant once again making him speak slowly "have I ever told you a rather nasty gift Azathoth has, not only is a he a patron for black magic of sorts but his eyes according to the Necronomicon see the absolute truth..."

Elh raised an eyebrow and responded "that doesn't seem so bad."

He gave her a look and they blanched seeing deep red streaks in his eyes as he replied "it is bad, when I say truth I mean truth that isn't safe for mortals type truth if your always so curious. If you gazed upon the doorway what do you see?"

Elh cocked her head and looked at the doorway and replied "I just a door and a small but hardly noticeable white line why?"

Chocolat nodded and replied "same here Evan."

He closed his eyes and replied "I see a crack in the universe and oddly enough twisted laughter. It appears Azathoth has given me his eyes and their passive, they only activate if you want to know the truth no matter how horrible it may be. I didn't want this but it was either this or let my blood kill me by turning black."

Elh winced as he gave them a pained look and replied "I've lost my humanity, my arms, my legs, my spine and eyes. I've even died multiple times and being brought back rapidly, hell I even lost my spine. However this I don't think I can handle and might ask to remove them. I've brought unbearable pain to my wife, my friends, and family and yet none so for myself. It's time like this that I am disgusted with myself for trying to take advantage of a few things."

He gently stroked Reds back slowly feeling him nuzzle him as he replied "it wasn't your decision or choice, I think they want to use you."

Evan frowned before replying "not really the outergods only use mild compulsions or with magic because it amuses them. I think their lending their protection but from what?"

As he gently released him causing him to remove his arms and lowered himself onto his feet. Red cocked his head and asked "is their something wrong?"

Evan looked disturbed as he replied "well maybe, I don't understand why they would watch over me? It's something I feel uncomfortable with because of what they are capable of."

His eyes pulsed causing him to flinch even as he looked around and noticed a few things that made his skin crawl. He could see weird strings he has never seen before covering them nearly invisible but his eyes widened seeing a broken yellow string centered around Red.

Red looked concerned as he watched his eyes change and asked "did you see something sinister?"

Evan bit his bottom lip and replied "it appears I can see strings of fate, yours is broken I guess it must have been your old fate. Look the thing is sometimes those strings can be manipulated by gods, goddesses, or men who do things for the greater good ugh that makes me sick."

They looked deeply appalled as Elh replied "but, but that's manipulation! Nobody has a right to try and guide us from ways we don't want to!"

Evan nodded in agreement before replying "i know but something's...Off..."

He looked above himself and he felt a cold chill before slowly looking at his hands. Red noticed this as he heard him whisper making him feel very cold "I don't have any strings..."

Chocolat felt off as she asked him "you don't any of these weird strings? As though it's gone meaning you're like a wild card."

Evan merely nodded before adding "I never noticed until now, as strange as it sounds I find it an oddity. Still, yet another day for work yet again!"

Red chuckled as he replied "maybe but the weather isn't looking to good. Chocolat are we docked at Airedale?"

His sister nodded as she replied "yes well we better batter down the hatches because what I have heard on the radio when I turned it on apparently a storm is coming through the Shepherd Republic a big one that is. I am sure it would easily rip the Asmodues open like a can of tuna if we go out in this weather."

Evan raised his head hearing the wind howl and made sure to close the door that led onto the deck.

Outside a dark shape began to stir and slowly form even as a soundless screech escaped it's lips as it lurched forwards towards the door with a hand raised. It had its objective and that was to take vengeance on Red Savarin for its master Fate who was not to happy with him slipping his leash.

Inside Evan was either playing catch or messing with a few rings he watched as Elh snuggled closer into Reds chest as he gently hugged her.

Evan smiled softly and replied "you don't like storms do you?"

Elh gave a soft whimper as she replied "not really, Red likes to sleep with me to comfort me during these storms. I do have to ask is Jayce the same as me?"

He winced before folding his ears as he replied "he's actually worse. He can't stand storms it makes him shiver in fear and it's all because his parents couldn't stand him being gay to kick him out of the house as a teen."

She winced before smiling softly as Red wrapped his arms around her chest slowly even as the wind caused the airship to groan under the strain. Red bit his bottom lip and answered "the Asmodues has been beaten up before but the titanium platting bellow sure is helping a lot."

Evan merely smirked as he answered "titanium maybe heavier then steel but it's ten times stronger then it. However it does have its breaking point like all metals, except for Adamantium unless it's under an absurd amount of pressure."

Red raised an eyebrow and asked "isn't that the nearly indestructible metal only fit for ship hulls?"

Evan huffed before replying "well yes but it's also because once it sets it sets. The metal is a combination of an unknown alloy and titanium melted down and combined together. It's so strong that only an adamantium rounds can pierce it, however that's the problem because it's a rare metal as it's unnatural."

Red cocked his head before they began chatting on the topic of metallurgy before they heard a pound on the door.

Evan stiffened and spoke slowly "Chocolat, Red are you guys expecting someone?"

They slowly shook their heads and he grabbed the assault rifle on his back that was the size of two arms. He switched the safety off and materialized his swat armor. Behind his helmet he activated his thermal visor and he frowned seeing nothing and replied "whatever it is has no heat signature, I would arm yourself if it gets hostile though. The ladies need to get to their cabins now and don't ask any questions."

Red released elh as he watched her scurry to her cabin as did his little sister and locked the door. He heard the adamantium plating slam downwards and asked "I have to thank you for adding adamantium plating for our cabin doors in case we need to hide during an emergency trace on."

He traced Kanshou and Bakuya the two white and black falchions and crossed them his normal carefree blue eyes turned cold.

Evan continued to aim his gauss rifle as the door began to groan making him curse as he replied "if whatever is behind that door breaks it I will buy you a new one. This thing is strong I mean I had bought some adamantium hinges for the door a while ago."

Red huffed as he replied "do you think it could be something to do with the old ones?"

Evan shivered and replied "I hope not especially Cthulhu, that one can't be killed and no matter how much weaponry and how much force you have it's hopeless. The only way to stop it is by making it sleep once m- shit duck!"

They ducked as the door was blasted forwards and tore right through the wall behind them. Red gave a highly annoyed look and replied "oh come on! Not the fucking wall again!"

Evan continued to look down his scope as lightning flashed causing him to grimace as something dark and shaped like a dog with black tentacles and with red eyes. It opened it's circular maw and hissed out " I can smell you dog where are you?"

Evan felt his body turn to ice as he broke out into a cold sweat and whispered "ah fuck... This is an eldritch beast they come in good aspects or the darker half. This is the darker half, of what I don't know and I think I know why it's come. These eyes literally open the door of the other side and keep it open however it's coming for you..."

Red eyed the thing in disgust even as it snarled and stalked forwards "what kind of aspect is it?"

Evan eyed it slowly still keeping his rifle locked on it and replied "if I would to have guessed I would say fate, it appears for whatever reason you have pissed it off."

He snorted causing it to swerve his head in his direction and replied "I pissed off fate? Well what did you expect I would not surrender and live out my life as something artificial any more you hear that fate I refuse to be what you wanted me to be!"

The Eldritch monster snarled as it replied " you foolish insect! Nothing shall defy my master!"

Red scoffed as it pounced at him followed by a steady barrage of cracks causing it to howl as the gauss rounds tore through its head. Its shape rippled and reformed into a dark red caninu with black eyes.

Evan grimaced as he muttered "fucking A, that's just wrong!"

The monster merely cocked his head and replied " Master is very angry with you for not following your fate! She sent me to make sure you followed it by taking your life!"

He snarled as he moved forwards before jerking as gauss after gauss round was fired into his chest.

The rifle jerked every time Evan pulled the trigger making him grit his teeth the stock of the rifle resting against his shoulder. He growled as still the abomination didn't fall and replied "god dam it fall why won't you fall!?"

Red in the mean time threw Kanshou which cut the abomination in half causing it to howl in agony and he extended his free hand as the blade came back like a boomerang.

Evan smirked as he replied "whenever you have thrown Bakuya or Kanshou as long as you hold one the other shall come back. Their like boomerangs as long as you have one of them."

Red smirked before they blanched as tendrils burst out of its back. Red looked disgusted as he replied "aw bloody hell!"

The screech that escaped it's lips even as they snapped forwards trying to impale them. It's shape began to bulge outwards and increase in size as they slowly began to back up as Evan continued to fire.

He gritted his teeth hearing the heat generator in the rifle screaming at him. He eyed it with a cold sweat as the thing got closer, next to the ammo generator was the built in heat vent. While they did last longer then a rail gun one of the key issues with gauss weaponry was the amount of heat they gave off. It showed itself as a green sphere the more you fired the weapon the more heat it gave it off the redder the sphere gets. If it completely turns red the gun overheats and won't be able to be used for nearly a minute.

He watched as Red traced many swords and fired them rapidly impaling the monster which grew closer and closer as it snarled and roared at them.

He gritted his teeth and hissed out "Red I can't fire any more or else my rifle will overheat. God dam it this thing is a fucking regenerator or something but I won't have enough time to draw my other weapons. If I do I am going to die again and maybe this time for good."

Red barred his teeth as he scrunched up his face before feeling a headache come over him. His magic circuits pulsed before hissing out "my soul is made of swords."

This caused the abomination to widen it's eyes as Evan slowly backed up hearing him continue.

"my heart is my shield my blood is my furnace"

A circular flare of prana surrounded him as the cranking of gears in his head grew louder and louder.

"As my blade protects those I cherish"

Here he knelt on one knee holding his sword while continuing the pressure forcing the creature on it's knees.

"I shall never harm an innocent soul"

The pressure made his bones and spine groan as he barred his teeth glaring coldly into the beasts eyes.

"With every breath I take I protect them"

The floor began to groan as the amount of prana began to escalate higher and higher as he felt his circuits hum loudly.

"I shall cherish my ambitions to be with the ones I love."

Red slowly stood up and spread out his arms as he barked out "AWAKEN UNLIMITED BLADE WORKS!" a wave of fire spread outwards as the abomination roared as it covered the room.

Evan shielded his eyes before long he widened them in shock gazing upon a large room field with giant Dahaks upon an everlasting plain. The giant gears and cogs echoed above as he eyed Red in wonder.

The abomination looked around even as Red snarled out as he released his copies "outside was your play ground but not here as this is the materialization of my soul. I command over a million blades while you have none."

He raised a single finger as over a thousand blades raised themselves into the air as it stared in horror before he brought his digit down. Evan flinched and covered his eyes as they all rushed to impale the abomination of which wailed in agony as blade after blade fell onto it. His eyes widened however as a giant sized great sword also fell and with a thunderous smash collided with the creature causing the area to explode.

Red snarled as he stared coldly as his reality marble disappeared from going dormant once more as he heard the wails of agony from the creature who only had it's head left.

It spoke in a gurgle " What are you?!"

Red stalked forwards slowly causing the floorboards to groan as purple lightning danced off his fur. His blue eyes glowed purple as unbearable rage filled his body as he raised his gunblade. He snarled out "what am I? I am one who walks with death, I am one who is not a tool, I am free and someday I will be the one who kills lady Fate!"

With a downwards slice he sliced it's skull in half as screamed one last time and dissolved away.

Evan eyed him in shock as he swallowed and thought "Well his realities version of Fate is screwed. I can't believe how mad he got, I knew he had a short temper but this is just nuts. I won't stop him if he wants to go after the Edlritch versions of Fate or Fate herself. Even with my weapons and my strength there is no doubt about it Red Kun is actually much more dangerous and more then capable of killing me."

Red snarled in anger before panting as he shed a bitter tear and whispered "I've never believed in gods but Fate, whoever she is if she is an Eldritch aspect and we meet I swear to god I will kill her for what she has done!"

He placed his gun blade on his back as he gave him a cold look making him wince as it was that of Archers, a killer. They heard the adamantium sheeting on the cabin doors slowly grind upwards as he smiled softly making Evan smiled sadly.

He slowly walked over and wrapped his arms around his chest as Red leaned backwards into his chest. Evan gently moved his right paw to rub against his cheek and replied "sh easy, it's over for now Red Kun. You must really hate being a puppet in someones game."

Red shed a tear and replied "I hate it, being unknowingly manipulated until it is too late. But most of all why would anything or anybody wanted to stay a hybrid?"

They heard the cabin doors open and Chocolat looked aggravated spotting various swords in the floor. Elh looked around and replied "what the hell happened?"

Evan grimaced and replied "something followed me here, an eldritch servant to the darker half of Fate. She was pretty upset with Red Kun for slipping his old leash..."

Chocolat turned red as she replied "are you fucking serious!? She wanted him dead because he refused to be a hybrid anymore and die! On the other hand what caused this damage?"

Red grunted and answered as he nuzzled his boyfriend "I materialized my reality marble by chanting the aria."

Chocolat widened her eyes as Evan continued "Unlimited Blade Works if used properly can kill a god if the weapon is a divine class weapon. Your brother is very scary when he gets angry in fact he is actually very easily capable of killing me."

Elh felt unnerved at his mere acceptance and replied "I forgot you simply can't a twinge for speaking your mind."

Evan shook his head as he released the younger caninu but not before he was licked. He chuckled and answered "not really, the more he uses unlimited blade works the easier it gets to wield it until eventually he stops at one verse of the aria. It's a difficult thing however to master as each aria is unique to them. For instance Shirous began with "I am the bone of my sword" see the difference?"

Red raised an eyebrow as he turned around while Elh cocked her head saying "why is that relevant?"

Evan sighed and replied "his aria is a personification of himself being his ideals. Archers Unlimited Blade Works is more broken as you can literally see the giant gears and cogs instead of being in the sky. It's a sign of how he searched and searched but could not find any means to complete it in the end his ideals betrayed him."

Red grimaced and muttered "no wonder it seems like Archer can't trust anyone and will always plan to remove any possible threats."

Evan grimaced and added "that's the problem with Archer in some cases as he can't trust anyone unless he wants to."

Chocolat shivered and replied "why would an Eldritch aspect even be mad at my brother?"

Evan sighed before groaning out "look Edlritch beings can't be trusted unless you make a deal with them given the circumstances. Fate is one them, there is the nice fate the light half who merely watches over those she likes or the darker half who is called Lady Fate. That fate watches and will make sure that certain people she loathes for some reason don't slip their leashes."

Red flinched before snarling "she's targeting me! What did I ever do to her?"

Evan shook his head and answered "I don't know Red I just don't know. Are you still going to kill her?"

Elh gasped as Red scowled and answered "I will, I won't let her hurt others again, I hate seeing the innocent suffer in meddling of others iron clutches."

Evan merely cocked his head and answered "you do realize the more you stay around me the more I rub off against you a bit."

Red huffed as he replied "I know, I just want the darker half of the Eldritch creature gone."

Evan smiled sadly as he scratched behind his ears and Elh replied "well find her and make her stop, someday somehow we will. It's probably because of her that my people suffered to near extinction."

Evan raised his head and replied "she wants fate to stay the same even if that means not doing anything against the Lunos. Things could have changed for the better if wasn't for Bruno, and now sooner or later Lares is going to rise again. You had the chance of permanently destroying that Lunos instead the cycle will repeat itself because of Dark lady fate..."

They shed a tear even as Red snarled in anger and swore "I want her miserable hide, she has caused so much grief for just allowing the original path to follow of which in this case is the one filled with pain and suffering. There could have been a better path if only she didn't stick to this one."

Evan closed his eyes before kneeling down on one knee to open his arms as all three swarmed him into his hug. He held them tightly in a firm squeeze as he whispered "your fate is your own, your choices are your own and no one else's. People make their own path and not Lady Fate."

In the shadows the hooded figure of the grim reaper scowled. He shook his head and muttered "well dark lady fate you have done it again, that soul is much too early for me to guide to heaven. If you continue your path you're going to get smited by the almighty."

As he turned to walk away in the shadows hearing the two sisters screaming at each other from within the cosmos.


While this ends this series, not much yiff just character developement and adding a nasty plot twist. I love h.p Lovecraft so I had to add some elements to it.

I got the idea for the eyes from reading two cthulhu mythos crossovers, one for harry potter being Deathly hollowed on Spacebattles.com. For whatever reason I for the likes of me I can't find it on ff.net as odd as it sounds.

Fate, I had to go their because of the theme I had to plant. It's the theme of struggling to be in control of your own life and not be guided or manipulated by people. However in this case it's the theme of an Eldritch being.

In the cthulhu mythos an Eldritch being has two sides, in this case their is the normal Fate and then their is Lady _ Fate _. There is a difference between these two, fate is the light half who only looks at mortals without causing differences or manipulating them by pulling on their strings. Lady fate on the other hand wants there lifes to go on without a single change when it can change for the better and will manipulate the strings or get rid of the interferences.

I had to spin it to show that she is a cold blooded heartless bitch, case in point the harry potter books in some aspects.

_ Reds Temper: _

Red does have a short fuse as seen throughout the game or on online profiles of the beloved caninu. However in this case he is enraged with Lady fate and wants to kill her for what she has done. Things could have gone differently, they really could for the better if it wasn't for certain people in her web. That servant she sent was the last straw, lady fate is not kind, she's a cold blooded bitch who does not like it when people slip their old leashes in her web.

_ Eyes of Azathoth: _

I didn't think of this idea I was reading a naruto cthulhu mythos crossover called "look to the stars" on ff.net. I actually liked it alot so I added a spin.

I felt a bit guilty for taking a part of the idea which is it allows a person to see truth. What truth the truth about everything he has ever wondered about. I made it to be passive and only activating if he wants to see it, it's not a gary stu material it has a price. The more he uses it for a few minutes the worse his mind gets so he's terrified about using it for so long.

_ The strings: _

This a rather interesting and a bit disturbing concept of what if you were a puppet? A puppet for what nobody knows and your none aware of what could possibly guide you? I created this idea from Buffy the Vampire Slayers powers that be who I believe are manipulative pricks.

The scary thing however is when you don't have any strings it makes you an unknown, and rather interesting for the grim reaper, the old ones and The outer gods to watch over you.

A yellow string in my personal opinion is a string signalfying a past fate that couldn't be broken.

_ Reactions _

I've never considered Red to be so angry, oh yes he does have a temper and you don't want him to get pissed off. Considering it's like he would find you and lift a house with his Dahak as a hammer against your ass if done so. However as I read through this I would say that yes he hates his old path in life alot.

In this case however his reaction is more personal, he doesn't want to go back to his original fate as a Hybrid he really hates it. However to know Lady fate does this on purpose to keep certain people to follow their original fates which could be done better has pushed him to the breaking point. He will kill her if he even meets the sorry bitch.

_ Issue: _

I have two versions of this one part the one in my big computer of which I am using right now and tying, and the other in my laptop of which I now got back. The more I read this version the more it sounds like the proper conclusion of this particular story series. The other one has a more cynical, political, and more of the United States problems and world issues. I think I will save that version for later as it really does not fit the bill I wanted to give or scrap it and start a new. I have scrapped longer works before but it's rare for me to do so.