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Micah stood dumbstruck unable to move for a moment. First, he finds out that the devastation that happened to the world was an opened portal to the underworld, but before too many demons got through, powerful mages (of which I also just learned existed) sealed the surrounding mountain. Then he, for the first time in his entire life, found out his father is the most powerful of these mages. And now, this part is his favorite, someone is using him to weaken his father and reopen the sealed mountain! He was so confused he had no idea what he was going t-. A firm hand brought him back to reality.

Micah looked up to see Jay's face. "We need to go Micah. Time is crucial!" Micah nodded and followed numbly. They sprinted thought the housing section of camp heading for the back wall. When they got there Jay stopped momentarily and lifted his paw. It glowed a yellowish hue before an orb shot from his paw at the wall opening a portal. They quickly stepped through to find themselves back at Shourdan.

They ran rooftops because of the trouble Jay got in when he was here last. Micah noticed the airy lightness to Jay's movements that just seemed unnatural. He would have to ask about it later. In the distance was a very large building only to be assumed that it was Micah's house. They had to sneak in on an upper lever because there were guards all over the courtyard. Jay just grabbed Micah's arm and teleported to an upper floored balcony. He unlocked the door with his telekinesis and they slipped inside.

Once they had made it into the building, Jay looked at Micah. "Alright, I've never been in here. Which way to your father's study?" Micah figured it'd be best to just go there instead of explaining, then took the lead and started running through the house's long corridors. They had run through four separate hallways until stoping at the entryway to a large dining room. There were four priceless glass chandeliers hanging from the ceiling with lavishing silk drapes hanging from it as well as the wall. The table was twenty feet long with multiple chairs along it.

The odd thing was that it was almost time for supper but none of the cooks were working. They were usually preparing an hour or two before. They walked through the dining room carefully trying to stay silent. They crept up the stairs along the back wall towards Felix's study. At the top, they listened through the door to try and hear something. When they didn't hear anything, they knocked softly. Again no answer. Micah opened to door and went in first, Jay following closely.

Everything seemed right. Nothing seemed out of place. Except the fact that Felix wasn't there. The split up to search for anything unusual. Jay was inspecting the desk when he noticed Micah standing with his paw pressed against the red striped wall.

"Hey, what's up Micah" Jay asked softly while approaching him. "I can feel a magic barrier in this wall." "What's that supposed to mean? Isn't it a solid wall? That's the outer wall, so there shouldn't be anything on the other side." Micah didn't respond. His eyes were closed and his paw hadn't moved. Then, his paw started glowing with an eerie white light and the room started to decrease in temperature. Jay backed up a couple of steps in shock when wind started to pick up when the windows were closed. Streaks of static electricity started to rip through the air around them causing Jay's long silver fur to fluff out.

Jay was about to grab Micah and try to get him out of the office when a thin black line appeared in the wall right beneath Micah's paw. Before jay could react, a large dark hole ripped open in the wall. Wind flew through the room scattering papers, toppling stands and tables, and pushing the desk across the room. The temperature had plummeted as well. But this lasted only a moment. After a few seconds, the wind died completely and they were left in the room with a black hole in the wall that shouldn't be there that seemed to ooze cold.

Micah staggered back from the wall panting heavily and shaking slightly. Jay walked forward and placed his paw on Micah's back to steady him, but Micah recovered surprisingly quick and stood on his own, staring at the hole. "Did I do that?" Micah asked shakily. "Well, I think you just removed the seal from it. But yeah you definitely did that." Jay shook his head in shock. 'This kid is definitely Felix's son'.

Micah started walking forward, but Jay cut him off. "We don't know where this goes, so ill go first." Jay got within five feet of the rift when the cold took ahold of him. He heard whispers speaking to him, reminding him of anything bad he had ever done. He was paralyzed as the cold grabbed his limbs and held him in place while torturing his mind with relentless whispers of his past. Fear appeared to Jay as he hyperventilated. He wanted to scream but was held fast. He struggled helplessly as the world melted away from him and he was left in darkness. He finally found his voice and screamed his fear out for anyone around him to hear. "AAAAHHH-" "JAY!"

"W-wai-what?" Jay was laying on the floor in the office panting and shivering. He looked up to see Micah standing over him, his face filled with concern. "You just collapsed and started freaking out. Are you okay?" Jay started getting up with a grimace on his face. He was still panting. "Micah, that's not a portal. It's a rift... To the underworld." Micah stood up straight again with a motion showing determination. "It doesn't matter. I can tell my father is in there, and I'm not about to abandon him. Even if he has lied to me my whole life. Are you coming? I don't want that" he said pointing at the rift "getting to you again." Jay smirked. "Sorry, can't let kids wander around by themselves." Micah just rolled his eyes and walked towards the rift. His confidence shifted slightly. "Well, here goes nothing." And he stepped in without hesitating with Jay close on his hinds.

This time Jay didn't get caught by the cold. He rushed through concentrating on nothing but the back of Micah's head. Micah disappeared for a moment, then reappeared but he had stopped moving. They had made it to wherever it was they were headed to. Micah opened his mouth to speak, but Jay held a finger to his muzzle to indicate silence. They were in a hallway with some grotesque masses of...something covering the walls. Whatever it was, it was red and it moved. Thankfully it was not on the floor.

They started down the hallway, as it was the only way they could go, listening to the wails and shrieks of the demons beyond the walls. Lucky for them they were in some kind of building, protecting them at least somewhat from the hordes of demons residing in this plane of existence. As they approached a right turn in the hallway, they heard a voice. Or...two.

"So, the mighty Felix" whoever was speaking spat the name "has become this pitiful waste of existence huh?" There was a pause before the second voice sounded. "I haven't any reason to care anymore."

Micah's face lit up. Partly in anger and partly in happiness. He looked at Jay and mouthed the words 'that's my father' and turned his concentration back towards the conversation as Felix continued. "I tried to keep you...BASTARDS at bay so we could still have a semi-normal life. I even kept my son sheltered from the outside world to protect him. Guess that didn't work." Another pause. "I don't think normal life is possible anymore. My son is dead now and you have invaded my world despite the barriers. There's nothing I can do anymore, and frankly I don't care."

There was some gruff laughing that sounded slightly like a gurgling cough. "Exactly. You are worthless, and you can't do anything to stop us. You should have realized this years ago and just gave up then. And just like his father, your pathetic son lived a boring useless life and then just died. Your race is pathetic and it is time for us to run the over world." Micah was shaking in anger and his fists were clenched. "You can rot in this cell. You worthless Mage. Hope your son got ripped apart by demons." He laughed again.

Then Micah heard something. A soft sniffling. His dad was...crying. His hardened dad that usually never showed emotion, was crying. That fucking demon made his father cry.

There was a flash of light, and Micah was gone. But so was the demon. In fact the demon was inlayed in the cracked wall across the room. Micah was standing where the demon was five seconds ago in full armor. His usual soft white aura was a blazing red of fury. His arm was extended, after the punch that sent the demon flying. The demon fell out of the wall alive, but winded. He looked around in confusion searching for the truck that had just knocked him around. Felix also stared at Micah mouth agape not actually realizing it was his son under the armor.

The demon locked his gaze on Micah and started laughing. "You took me by surprise. Honestly I'm impressed by how someone of your size knocked me back so hard." And it was impressive. The demon resembled a crocodile, but it was at least seven and a half feet tall. And he was built. He only had a thin layer of armor on and he was slightly bigger than Micah in his combat armor.

Jay stayed hidden for now, so he could be ready for a surprise attack if things didn't go well. The demon started walking back toward Micah, who had put up a defensive position. Felix jumped off the floor and grabbed hold of the jagged cell bars that appeared to be made of obsidian. "Stop! He is the cell warden, he is far too powerful for someone of your size!" Micah didn't move, his aura still furious and blazing. With his eyes locked on the demon's he snarled. "I will not allow ANYONE to speak to Felix that way!" The demon smirked. "Really now? So what's someone like you gonna do to stop me hmm?" The demon leaned his head and upper torso forward as he finished speaking.

In a movement too fast to catch with even trained eyes, Micah's arm shot out in a blazing punch aimed at the demon's face and smug expression. The demon had no time to react as the fist connected with his toothy grin. His body shot back and a few teeth flew loose as he slid. Felix and Jay could both feel the shockwave of his attack.

The demon recovered from the hit without falling and grabbed his face, all traces of smugness gone. "All right brat. Guess I didn't give you enough credit. Looks like I'm going to have to kill you now." The demon reached up and pulled the long double edged broadsword off his back and took up an offensive stance. Micah just stood there in his defensive stance.

'Shit'. Jay thought to himself. 'He is lost in bloodlust, he's just gonna stand there and take it! He can't handle that, I've got to help him.' But right before he could move, the demon charged Micah. He was moving way too fast for Jay to react. "NO!" Cried Felix. The croc was bringing the sword down for his strike and Micah still hadn't moved. Felix and Jay looked away not wanting to see the young warrior slaughtered.

Then, the clang of metal against metal and a surprised grunt. At the last milli-second, he summoned one of his two rapiers and effortlessly blocked the demon's attack. The huge shockwave from the collision pulled back the attention of Jay and Felix. The demon's confusion and shock clearly showed on his face. He tried to put more weight in the sword to break Micah's block, but Micah was somehow not giving an inch. Not only was Micah blocking a huge two handed sword from a strong opponent, he was also only using one hand. The demon roared in anger and started to pull up for another attack, but he didn't pull back more than a foot before Micah summoned his second sword and ran it straight through the demon with little to no resistance. The red light of Micah's aura shot out of his back and blew a large hole through the croc. It was dead before Micah dispersed his blades and let the body hit the floor.

Jay was stunned. He couldn't believe the ease Micah had used to dispatch the high level demon. It shouldn't have been possible, but it happened. Micah's aura faded back to the usual soft white before fading out of sight, he kept his armor up though for some reason. He turned to look at Felix, but Felix slouched to the floor again. "Wow. Didn't think you could pull that off. So are you from the council come to rescue me?" He asked flatly.

Micah spoke in a lower voice than usual, again for some reason or another. "I'm not from the council, but I am here to get you out." Felix huffed. "Well you've wasted your effort. It's too late." Micah slammed his hands on the cell bars making Felix jump slightly. "You're supposed to be the greatest shield Mage in existence, so why can't you hold the barrier like you already have been for so long now?" A dark look passed across Felix's face. "Because I don't care anymore. My son is dead now. Even when I stopped him from being involved. He somehow got pulled in and was dead within the hour. I'm a pitiful father, and a failure as a shield Mage because they still got through. In my own office even! There is no point In trying." Felix hung his head defeated.

Micah's face changed very little under his armor. "You kept the land safe for many years. Your not a failure in that aspect. You just let things distract you and lost your focus." Felix was about to interrupt angrily about what the 'distraction' was, but Micah continued. "As for the father thing, I agree that you were a pitiful father." Felix's anger turned to sorrow and he opened his mouth to speak but was interrupted again. "How could you be a father when instead of doing your job and raising your son to be ready for the world, you hid him from it. All his life he never knew what was going on. He was kept in the dark. Then when the world caught him, he wasn't ready for it." Felix looked shocked. "How...h-how do you know so much about my son?"

Micah reached up to remove his helmet. Then BOOM! The whole jail shook and creaked, and the weird walls shuddered. Felix grabbed his head and fell, writhing on the floor screaming in pain. Jay came fully around the corner for the first time to stand by Micah to try and help. He looked at the dead demon. "Micah, help me find the keys!" Micah just shook his head. "No time!" He replied as he summoned a blade that glowed bright blue. He lashed out three times with unreal speed, and a triangle appeared in the bars.

Micah jumped through the bars and knelt by his father trying to soothe him. Felix let out one last scream and fell back silent. A huge amount of cheering was heard through the wall. Micah had silently started shaking his dad trying to wake him up. "Dad! Dad answer me! Don't be an even worse father and leave me alone!" Tears had started to well in his eyes and broke loose, slowly rolling down his face wetting his fur. He felt a hand on his shoulder and looked back at Jay.

"Calm down Micah, he is okay. But we won't be for long." Micah looked back at his unconscious father as Jay continued. "I can hear him breathing, he will live. I'm guessing we are too late and the barrier has been destroyed. And since he was tied in so closely to it, he must have lost quite a bit of energy as the shield broke. " His gaze fell. "Unless we want to quit, we will need to go now." Jay knelt down and placed a hand on Felix. It started glowing bright yellow and emitted a high pitched frequency.

Felix twitched. Then was still. Twitched again, then sat up quickly panting heavily. "W-what?" *huff* *huff*. The first person he saw was Jay. "Where did you come from?" Jay swung his head towards Micah. "I came with him. Now we need to go. Or do you want to rot here?" Felix lowered his head. "I might as well stay. There is no reason for me to go back now." Micah grabbed grabbed Jay's shoulder and pulled him out of the way and stared into Felix's eyes.

"What about me?!" Felix looked bewildered. "Wha-" Micah ripped his helmet off, fresh tears glistening in his eyes. "What about your son?" Felix's eyes widened and he lunged forward and wrapped his arms around him. "Micah! Your okay! I'm so so sorry for keeping you in the dark all those years." Jay just stood up and let them have their father son moment Micah obviously needed.

After thirty seconds, Micah broke the hug and started getting up. Felix did the same. Jay had already left the cell and when the other two followed, he told them his plan. "Alright. Micah, I'm sure you noticed that the rift closed behind us, so we need another way out. And sorry to say there is only one other rift." Felix looked horrified. "You want us to go through the rift on Mount Diablo? We will never make it past all of the demons."

"Well just in case you haven't noticed, we don't have all that many options. Go ahead choose our plan B." Felix bit his lip. "Well can we at least have some kind of plan as to go silently?" "We need to survey the area first to locate any strong points. Lets go see what there is to see. First we have to find our way out of this jail house.

"Before Felix could say more, Jay spun on his heel and walked to the nearest hallway; Micah and Felix following close to each other. They had headed in the direction of the cheering they heard earlier figuring it must be where the rift was. After a few yards, the corridor turned the wrong way, and they stopped. Micah was sniffing the air while Felix and Jay looked at him thinking he was nuts. "What you smell boy?" Jay mockingly asked. Micah just turned a skeptical look toward Jay. "If you must know, I smell magic." Jay facepawed thinking he was joking, but Felix's mouth was agape. "You inherited the Frost family magic ability?" Micah slightly glared at his father.

"I don't know. I didn't know my family had a magic ability." Felix's face fell in shame. "Sorry. It was an ability to sense magic, whether it was concealed or not. When the skill was mastered, the user could sense people who could use magic when they weren't using any. I didn't even inherit that ability. The last in the family who had the ability was my grandmother. I thought the ability was lost."

Jay coughed. "Sorry, but how does any of this help us?" Micah smirked, then turned towards the wall opposite the turn in the hallway. "It helps because this wall is not a wall," He placed his paw on the odd wall (ew) and then shot a burst of magic into the wall. It shuddered and shifted, then opened fully into a smaller hallway. "It's a door." Micah said smiling quite pleased with himself as he entered the small doorway. Jay and Felix followed quite impressed.

Micah had gotten further ahead than Jay and Felix and had exited the hallway out into a large area outside of the building and stopped. When the other two caught up, they stood beside Micah and stared at what was in front of them.

They stood at the edge of a cliff that towered over hundreds of miles of dark and depressing land. The sky was covered in a dark haze that unnaturally shined a low light. And unlike the sun showing light from one point, the light shined from the whole sky. Everywhere there was sand and dirt. Grey, cold sand and dirt. A few shrubs that appeared dead, and no small creatures you would find at a safe haven. A few miles ahead, another black rift was standing in the middle of the grey desert. It was much larger than the one they came from. And in front of it, was miles of rows of demon soldiers waiting to pass through the rift to the over world.

The breath caught in Felix's throat. "Dear gods. They are launching a full scale war on the over world." He slumped to his knees. "That's it. We have no chance anymore." Felix said as he bowed his head in defeat. Jay didn't say anything, feeling that they indeed had no chance. But Micah put his hand on Felix's shoulder with his head held high. "I'm not giving up now, and I'm not letting you. I know this might be crushing considering you worked your whole life to prevent this, but I believe this was inevitable. You can still do your duty and help overcome this darkness." Jay was unmoved, but Felix looked up at his son and hope started to fill his eyes.

"There is nothing we can do right now by ourselves. We will sadly have to wait till they pass through, follow, then mount an attack plan by grouping together other warriors." Jay looked impressed. "So when did you become a tactician?" Jay said as he smirked. Micah didn't even acknowledge him. "Let's get down on their level so we can wait closer."

And with that, Micah jumped off the cliff. Jay followed, but Felix just stared in horror wondering how either of them were going to make it. While Micah was falling, he did a variation of a barrier shield and formed a barrier in the shape of a board. He collided with the steep falling ground, and surfed the craggy slope down to the gray sanded desert below. Jay just used his odd lightweight air ability and just fell, landing softly in the sand barely making an impact. After Felix saw that they landed safely, he sighed in relief and teleported to the base of the cliff.

When he emerged, he slapped Micah in the back of the head. "What the hell were you thinking, you could have killed yourself!?" Micah and Jay quickly shushed him. "Sorry" Felix whispered still looking angry. Micah glared at his father. "Dad, in case you didn't notice, I'm not the defenseless child you tried to protect all those years." Micah's face softened as he saw his father cringe. "I've made it this far, I'm fairly capable." There was a moment of silence. "I know. I'm just gonna have to get used to it. You're... Never mind, let's go." He trudged toward the army with Micah and jay staring after him. 'We may not be very close now, but I will make amends with him. We will be a true family for the first time ever.' Thought Micah as he slowly followed his dad.

They waited for what seemed like forever, but was more an hour. The troops slowly marched their way through the rift, much to the dismay of the warriors, and eventually they were to the last battalion. The warriors were waiting behind an outcrop of scorched looking rocks a few tens of yards away when the last demon slipped through. Then a couple of really tall, really tall demons stood in front of the rift.

"Damn it." Jay grimaced. Micah mimicked him. "Well now what? Any ideas dad?" When Micah and Jay turned to look at Felix, they could see him fighting with himself. "Dad?" Micah asked as he waved a paw in front of Felix. He glanced up with sadness in his eyes. "Yeah I've got a plan. But before we do it, I can't keep this hidden from you anymore." Micah looked confused. "Wha-" he was cut off as Felix continued. "I'm not person you think I am. I was not supposed to be the head shield Mage, my brother was."

Micah and Jay both gasped but remained silent. "When the council was testing mages to elect the head shield Mage, I cheated. I used forbidden magic to make my magic level appear stronger than it was... Quite a bit stronger. Yet it just barely passed my brothers level. He should have been the head shield Mage not me." Micah's eyes widened and he asked sadly. "Why?" Felix dropped his head in shame. "Because. I was absolutely sick of my brother being better than me at everything! He wasn't just the 'better' big brother, he was a stuck up jerk about it. Cocky son of a bitch." He looked up and continued. "He would not have been a good heah shield Mage. He wouldn't have given a shit about any of the other shield mages and their combined powers; the shield would have fallen apart." He stopped and swallowed, then looked down again slightly. "But that doesn't make what I did alright. I probably wasn't strong enough to hold the shield, so it was a dumb thing to do."

Micah looked dumbstruck, but Jay looked angry. Jay was about to rip him a good one but before he could, Felix sprung up from the outcrop and started running towards the rift. He turned and looked back, tears running down his face. "Jay! Get my son out of here, he is stronger than either me or my brother were at his age. He could be the one!" 'The one to end all this madness' he thought as he turned back to his running and started waving his arms and shouting. The demons noticed and went to inspect the threat. Micah tried to lunge after his father but Jay grabbed him by the waist and kept him hidden. "DAD!"

Felix waved them back and kept running in the opposite direction with the massive demons following. One they were far enough away, Felix spun around and erected a massive purple glowing shield with crests and seals all over it. The demons both charged it at the same time, and when they collided, huge arcs of electricity shot out and Felix impacted the ground casting out a huge shock wave.

Jay took that as the signal to run. He hoisted a struggling Micah over his shoulder and sprinted for the rift. Micah kept telling Jay to put him down and struggled in vain, and continued to do so until they had gotten within a few yards of the rift. Micah reached his arm towards his father. "DAD!" Micah cried out. Just as Jay ran through the rift, the last thing Micah saw before the darkness of the rift enveloped them was one of the demons raise its club made of a gnarled black tree, and start to swing it down on to Felix's barrier. Then, darkness.