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The Portal

Natake woke up, flinging himself out of bed quickly. His feet hit the ground of his room loudly, the skunk quickly going to his desk and getting his right handed blade before heading to the door. His dream last night disturbed him too much, his Water Portal being blood instead of water, dark tendrils crawling through as well, but the worst, those two piercing eyes coming from within, staring at him. His sword had markings along it and glowed brightly in the dark of the manor, the runes across his Hunter's sword seemed to shift and move along the blade. Without a hesitation the mephit charges down the hall, making a straight line to the staircase and jumping onto the railing, sliding down it, his long black hair flowing behind him, once the bottom comes into view he hopes off, rolling and continuing forward. His sprint takes him to the basement door, kicking it open and descending rapidly. When he got down beneath the house, he slows down, looking toward the door with the portal behind it. The mephit approached slowly, armed with his sword, and underpants. When he got to the door his left hand started twitching, lighting arching between his fingers, he raised a foot up and kicked it open.

Inside the room, the portal was nothing good. His dream was showing reality, the water wasn't water anymore, only a scarlet red. Coming from within were two long black tendrils, snaking inside and out of the portal. Two dark red eyes watching the mephit as he moves. One of the tendrils shoots out at the mephit, going for his face, the skunk raising his sword to deflect it away from his person, backing away slightly. He couldn't destroy the portal, the effects would be too great, and a large amount of water would be everywhere, along with the magical explosion. For now, the mephit kept his guard up as he approached more, swinging his blade and cutting off the next tendril that comes at him without hesitation. He could hear a faint, deep laughter, coming from the portal, two more tendrils come at him from the depths of the portal, this time Natake raised his magic hand up to send a shock of lightning forward at the liquid, a loud but deep scream was heard as the electricity flowed through the liquid. Very quickly the liquid changed back to water and the tendrils retracted, the eyes faded away as well.

The skunk paused and looked at the portal, watching it carefully "The hell just happened" he said aloud backing away and closing the door to the portal room. Hurrying his way up stairs and grabbing his gear and some clothes, throwing them on and then padding out the front door, he knew someone who might know what was going on here, the Mermaid Queen Mesi. He starts off at a run as he sets off for his destination, the port town of Shoril. The town was many miles to the west of the Mephit's manor, but it was home to many an Anthro Shark, the Mer people weren't much of a secret unlike many other things, but Shark's usually helped them a lot, protected their waters.

Natake slowed down his run to a speedy walk, he had to move post haste, of course he did hope that nothing was happening at other portals throughout the world he had set up for the Hunters' quick travel. The woods weren't the most peaceful place when it was night, the howling of wolfs and other nocturnal creatures sounded throughout as his legs carried him forwards.

He was concerned though, if something was messing with his portals, has anyone gone missing using one he wasn't aware of? Has anyone else experienced the strange creature inside the depths of his portal? He could only hope that they have not.

Eventually the mephit got to a road, following it for he knew it lead to the city of his destination; he did do a lot of traveling after all. Up ahead though, there was a blockade, two kingdoms with a conflict which would impede upon the Hunter's progress toward the port town. As Natake approaches the group of armed soldiers, ten in all, the skunk slows down in his jog, tilting his head slightly "Shit. This'll complicate things" he said to himself quietly, as it was, Hunter's didn't get involved in normal mortal affairs, if they wanted to kill each other that's on them, Hunter's will just take care of the Demons that pop up for both factions of people.

The soldiers stood at attention, their bodies blocking the path, of course he could go around but he expected there to be patrols all over the place 'Sneaking wouldn't be too much of a problem, but that'd take too much time, I need to move now' he thought to himself. When he got in front of the wall of soldiers, one stood forward, their uniform made it obvious that they were the leader of this team of people, their armor was slightly decorated, colored purple and green, feathers here and their poking from their gear to add some decor to it, each soldier though had a sword and shield, some with axes and others with spears, otherwise they all looked very similar, except for the officer before him.

The officer took off their helmet showing off their species, a pig, ugly face, short snout, and a large scar going across their face, from one corner to the other, a large oink sounding when they take the helmet off "Sir, you must turn back." The male said in a gravelly voice. The skunk on the other hand folded his arms, his soft voice speaking out "I apologize, but I must head that way, it is urgent" he said standing his ground, the officer replying swiftly "No, there is to be no travel through here to the town of Shoril" the mephit made a frown and stared the soldier down, the other returning the death gaze, the two stood there for a few moments before the pig faltered and said "If you do not remove yourself, we will have to use deadly force" the soldier said, signaling to a few of the soldiers nearby, them readying their weapons. Natake glanced from left to right "Great" he thought "Couldn't just do this easily" he said reaching back and grabbing hold of his right handed sword, his gloved left hand starting to twitch with magical power, feeling the potential of his energy ready to attack with.

The officer replaced his helmet, standing ready to fight with a sword and shield "Sir, you are under arrest for attempting to breach the blockade of the city of Shoril. You can stand down and come peacefully, or we can put you down" the Mephit stared at the pig for a few moments "Bring it" he let out, taking on a stance with his left hand pointed down, sparks traveling between his fingers and zapping across them, his right arm held the sword in position, pointed forward at the soldiers. The officer sprang forward with a slash of his metal, easily deflected by the skunk as more soldiers came forward. The skunk took steps back as his enemies came forward, one soldier with an axe sprang forward, slashing down to cut him down a size, but the mephit acted quickly, flicking his gloved hand up and shooting a bolt of lightning out, hitting the soldier square in the chest and sending him flying away from Natake, another coming up on the other side with a spear, charging forward, going for a stab into the Hunter, the mephit taking a different approach for this person, running back at him and sliding under, using the spearman's momentum against him, kicking him in the stomach and hopping back onto his feet, swinging his blade, causing a fatal wound, the soldier falling down.

Two swordsmen came now, swinging from opposite sides of the skunk. Natake blocked one and ducked under the other, slash after slash, stab and cut were attempted at the mephit, and he deflected each with skill and precision. He chose the right moment for a counter attack, parrying one, turning and zapping the other, as he turned to attack the first he had already recovered, managing to slash out and get a cut along the skunk's left arm, with a grunt and a wince the mephit changed his magic, the sparks quickly fading and replaced by a cold mist, almost like if the air was in winter and someone had breathed but it had stayed there. Raising his magic arm, shards of ice flew forward, pelting his attacker with them till he fell back, unmoving.

An arrow lands next to the mephit as he glances at his handy work for a quick moment, the skunk turning to see a lizard and a hawk with bows drawn a bit away, blocked by two soldiers in front of them, a large bull with an even larger axe, next to him was a built wolf, great sword in hand, as another arrow is sent flying toward the mephit he traces a circle in the air with his gloved hand "Icicle protection!" he says in an aggressive tone, the circle he had traced created a shield made of pure ice which he catches and runs forward with, blocking the arrows as they come.

The bull and wolf charge forward to meet the mephit head on, the bull swinging downward while the wolf swung sideways, trying to catch the hunter between them, but the skunk was quite smart, he went down onto one knee and raised the ice shield up, feeling the brunt force of the axe against his small barrier, grimacing and giving a small grunt, the wolf's swing was too late to stop now, knocking into the bull's and knocking it from his hands, sending it flying away and into a tree. The big bovine running off to retrieve it leaving the wolf alone with the skunk. Another set of arrows soar at the mephit, himself rolling away as they come. The wolf came forward now, swinging from down to up, which the mephit side steps, and gives a jab to the wolf's snout with his sword hand, the canine reeling back with a growl, momentarily taken care of as the hunter throws his shield of ice at the archers, smacking one of them upside the head with it with enough force to knock him unconscious.

The skunk runs forward as the wolf recovers, and swings the large blade at the oncoming mephit. The skunk jumps up at the blade reaches him, pushing his feet down, touching the sword and giving it a hard shove, the wolf falling forward as his blade was driven into the dirt, afterwards the mephit manages to flip backwards, using the sword as a springboard, when he lands he runs forward again, placing one foot on the lodges blade and jumping off of it at the wolf, the canine raising his head in time for the mephit to land on his large shoulders and wrap his legs around his neck. Arrow coming forward, the skunk leaning back to avoid it, pulling himself up as the wolf reaches up to try to pull him off, all he manages though is to get a glowing sword through the noggin.

The skunk rolls back and uses the wolf as a sort of shield against the next arrow, the archer still awake mutters a curse then decides that running from this situation was a better idea than to fight the skilled and well trained skunk. At this time though, the bull has gotten his axe dislodged from the tree and was already charging at the skunk. The mephit though had left his blade in the head of the wolf. He waited for the right moment to dodge away from the rampaging bull, throwing his magic hand out, but nothing happened? The skunk cursed loudly, realizing he hadn't had any food before he left and his energy levels in his body were depleting from the powerful magic he had been using, if he used something too powerful he would have collapsed at some point during the fight.

With a loud angry noise from the bull he charged forward at the skunk, the mephit turning and running the opposite direction. Sidestepping when the axe comes down, ducking when it is swung above him, and keeping a move. He ran quickly toward the corpse that held his blade, dropping down and sliding forward, gripping the leather handle and pulling it out, getting it up in time to block the large axe, the bull kept pushing though, trying to brute force through it, the skunk raised his gloved hand up and continued to push against the axe. He abandoned the idea soon though as the bull pulls back and swings down again, the skunk rolling away and springing back onto his feet, he reached back behind him and gripped his left hand sword, pulling it out, this sword was different, it was black, pure black, curved as well, it was a sword he had taken from an Archdemon, one of the big boys of his enemies. He leaped forward at the bull, slash, stab to another, soon, the bull fell, and it didn't take long. The mephit twirling his blades and sheathing them, sighing slightly "I hate using that sword" he mumbled before looking around, the captain seems to have run for his life, along with the two archers. Natake shrugs and continues down the path, on his way to Shoril.

As he walks he looks down at his hands, sighing slightly "I hate having to kill mortals" he said looking around a bit, hopefully he can find a stream or something soon to wash the blood off of his person. The skunk walks and walks, his legs carrying him towards his destination. After a another hour of walking the city came into view, it was decently sized, going up a hill, a large building, a castle in the middle of it on the very top of the hill. On one side was the famous port of the town, a few ships already docked there. He knew he'd have to sneak around the city a bit till he could get his clothes and hands cleaned of the blood of the soldiers he had to deal with. He dropped to a crouch when he got to the walls of the city, walking along the wall till he found a sewer entrance, slipping inside. He followed it for a while, the smell was horrible and the light was none, thankfully he had decent vision in dark areas due to his Hunter's sight, it was what let a Hunter see Demons for what they are, Hunter's had some other nice perks, naturally enhanced strength, agility, and senses.

He soon came to the opposite side of the sewers, depositing into the ocean. The mephit hops down into the deep water, diving down to get the blood out of his clothes and fur. Once done with that, he swims to the shore and climbs out "Now to find the mermaid's representative" he thought aloud, getting a move on, now drenched in water. He comes across the tavern he knew the one he was looking for frequented. Going inside he saw all sorts of people, women, men, of many races, mainly aquatic species, sharks, dolphins, etc. Going to the bar counter he leans against it, when the bartender, a turtle, comes around he asks him "Have you seen Bellatrix?" the mephit asked the turtle with a tilt of his head. The turtle slowly inclining his head to a corner booth, directing the mephit. The skunk gave a nod and thanks before hurrying off.

The shark was wearing little, a small shirt and short shorts, her figure was a bit curvy, some muscle here and there, her hair was cut short and matched the color of her body, being a light blue. Natake approached her table quickly leaning on it, looking at her. The Shark looked up at him, grinning slightly "Oh look! It's the Hunter's ambassador! What do you need from little old me?" she inquired, her green eyes staring at him blue ones. Natake sat down opposite her, leaning forward on the table "I need to see Mesi. It's an urgent matter". Bellatrix didn't say anything for a few moments before leaning forward herself, not much though, just to sit up "What business does your organization have with the queen?" she asked, her tone changing from sounding a bit cocky to one of seriousness. The Hunter giving a small shake of his head "More of a personal thing, something is wrong with my portals. I must inquire of her the status of the world's waters" the shark gave a small chuckle leaning back once again "No shit? The great Natake made a fuck up eh? This is great! Sure, I'll bring you there." the mephit gave an appreciative nod "Let me get some food in me first. I haven't eaten since I woke up in the middle of the night, magic isn't all that high" the shark replying to him with a nod "Just meet me at the docks." she said before getting up and leaving the skunk to himself.

Half an hour later the mephit jogs his way down to the dock from the bar. Bellatrix sat on the edge of the dock, feet hanging over the water below "You ready?" the woman asked him when he got over to her "Just about" he said "Gotta cast the spell is all" he said before raising both of his hands, drawing in the air what was something like waves with his left hand, his right hand swirling around in the air, the mephit saying "Water Breath" when his magic was channeled. The shark looking up at him before chuckling "Sucks not all of us can do that magical stuff" the mephit nodded as the effects started, soon he wasn't able to breathe the air around him, he took two steps forward, taped Bellatrix with his tail then jumped into the water.

Once under the water he took a breath, finally able to breathe, the spell was a complicated one to pull off correctly, it changed how you breathed. Making your body able to take the oxygen from water instead of the air, water in then out. Soon the shark joined him in the water, a large grin going across her muzzle "Ah yes, the water, great place" she said before starting off, darting forward. The mephit chuckled and swam after her, despite not being an aquatic species; the mephit was still a good swimmer, though he did have to work hard to keep up with his escort. They swam rapidly, sometimes she'd stop and detour around, feral sharks and such still lurked despite the anthro line of race, as it is the mermaids were a product of humans and aquatic species mating and creating offspring.

After a little bit of swimming the pair starts to see a large underwater city. Figures swim back and forth, going about their daily duties, as the mephit and shark approach a few pause to stare a moment before swimming away. When they got to the entrance of the city two mermen with armor on approach them "Hello Bellatrix and Natake. What business do you have here Hunter?" the mephit slows to a stop giving a reply "I must see the queen right away" the Shark nodding. The guard's give a nod "Follow" they say in unison, the Skunk follows, landing onto the ground of the ocean and walking behind them. Guards give a bow to the hunter as he passes by and some merpeople start to gather, watching with curiosity as the Hunter treads forward, making his way towards the castle.

Inside the castle was grand, large and decorated with many bright colors as well as special pearls that light up the area around them. In the throne room was two thrones, one for the queen and the other for the king, although, the mermaid queen still did not have a king. The queen sat in her throne, she was full of confidence in herself, as well as her people, although she gives a raised eyebrow seeing the Hunter's ambassador "What brings the Hunter to my waters? You know I dislike my sleep to be interrupted" she inquires of him. The mephit gives a gentleman's bow to the queen "I have arrived of a personal business. Something went wrong with the portals I had created. Has there been anything wrong in the waters?" the queen looked at him for a moment before saying "Off near the cliff leading into the pitch black abyss, some mers saw two eyes staring up at them from below, they were scared and ran." The mephit gave a small nod "I do hope you will allow me to investigate" the queen returned his nod with one of her own "I will arrange transport for you there, you must be tired. If you want you can go rest up in a room and we can get you some nourishment" the skunk shaking his head slightly "The sooner I leave the better, the food is most welcome though. The spell to breath down here is taking a lot out of me".

The queen nods and motions to two servants, the two disappearing and returning with a plate of fish "A chariot will be outside the castle to take you there so you can rest your legs" she said motioning to another servant who hurries off to take care of their task "Many thanks to you Queen Mesi" the mermaid queen rising from her seat and approaching the skunk "Be careful Natake, I do not wish to lose another friend to this world" she said when she got in front of him, the mephit putting a fist over his chest, a thing for Hunter's it meant to them that the Hunt lives on "Let Neaco guide you through the waters" the queen said before the Hunter departed, munching on the food he was giving, salmon and some other things as he boards the chariot. The shark holding the reigns for two feral sharks "Trix your driver speaking!" she said as the mephit sat down "Keep all limbs inside the vehicle at all times during our journey, if you fall out, I'm not picking you up!" she said with a chuckle, giving the command for the sharks to move.

They rode out through the waters, the mephit happy for the rest, watching the area around the two as they went on. The spell for water breathing was still going strong, though he knew for the chasm he would need to have a spell for a light source, thankfully he had some food to fuel up before he would descend. Their journey didn't take very long, only about a half an hour before they were slowing down and coming to a stop "Here we are!" exclaimed the shark, stretching "I'll wait here for you to return" the mephit gave a nod and got up looking around the area, it was pretty bland, the city of the mermaids was still visible in the distance though faintly, the only real landmark was the cliff, another side seen a decent distance away. The skunk approaches the black abyss and looks down it, darkness and nothing more. He looked over his shoulder at the shark that was making sure the two feral sharks weren't going anywhere before he looked back. He raised his left hand and made as if to hold a ball, after a moment an orb of light appears, hovering in the middle of his hand.

The skunk moved his foot as if he was taking a step forward, though he goes over the darkness and drops slowly, reaching behind him and drawing his Hunter's sword as he descends, watching below, the light from his magic shining and allowing him to see what is around him. The inside of the cliff was nothing special, just dirt, though he couldn't see the other side anymore, his light wasn't strong enough. After a few minutes of descent the Hunter hears a noise, almost like a voice, he stabs his sword into the wall to stop himself. Two eyes, the color of red open from below, staring up from the dark abyss "You have arrived young Hunter" came a voice that was deep, dark, and ominous "I was expecting you at a later time" it went on, the skunk not saying anything, just tossing up the orb and letting it slowly fall, reaching behind him and wrapping his gloved hand around his Demon sword.

"Your creation is an abomination." it went on, Natake looked up for a moment to see that everything above him was black, as if there was nothing above, the thing gave a deep chuckle "You are in my domain now. I will allow you to leave, if you shut down your portals" the mephit looked down to see a large thing below him, the orb of light reached the creature, it had an eerily large mouth, a grin spread across, the red eyes of course, its body was different, it was large, definitely bigger than Natake whom himself stood six foot, this thing was easily three times larger than him, its body had a scaly texture to it and many tendrils coming from it, squirming around.

The skunk shook his head from above "How about you go fuck yourself" the mephit said pulling his sword out from the cliff side and drawing his Demonic sword from its sheath, the darkness empowered his Demon sword, darkness seeming to seep from the blade, the mephit turning, putting a foot against the cliff and pushing himself off and down at the creature "Stupid mortal" it said, two of its tendrils extending forward at the Hunter. Natake lifted his blades up and sliced the tendrils right down the middle, continuing forward and slashing across the scales, but nothing happened, the cut not even denting the body. The creature turns and lashes out with more of the tendrils, the skunk raised his demonic sword "Stop them" he commanded it, the darkness of the sword lashing out into a large wall of black, to stop the incoming tendrils that were out to harm the skunk. The mephit had a bit of an idea on how to deal with this creature, but it'll be difficult to execute. The creature smashed against the barrier shattering it, the pieces dissipating after a few moments, the things large mouth biting at the mephit, with quick thinking the mephit throws his Hunter's sword into the mouth of the creature before moving out of the way. The thing gulps down his sword with a chuckle "The rest of you is ne..." it couldn't finish it's sentence, the skunk held his sword hand out forward "Return to me Asvoria!" he exclaimed, the monster let out a loud bloodcurdling scream as the blade ripped apart it's insides, the mephit floated in the water, waiting for his blade to return to him. After a few moments the blade bursted from the creature's body, the thing's dark blood seeping into the water, it's eyes rolled back as it started to fall going deep deep down into the abyss.

The skunk catches his sword and sheaths it along with his demon sword, kicking his legs and going up, it didn't take long for him to reach the top of the cliff, getting out of it to see the shark sitting on the edge with a hunk of meat. The mephit shaking his head chuckling as he climbs out "What?" she inquired "It was cool" she said before getting up "I assume you're ready to head back?" the mephit nods "Yeah" he replied "The problem with my portals should be taken care of, the thing messing with them has been slain". The shark tossed the remains of the meat into the abyss before walking over and getting on the chariot, Natake following soon after. The ride back wasn't very interesting and it took only a few minutes. The shark said that she'll report back to the queen so that the mephit can just go home. The shark dropped him off at the shoreline before riding away back towards the mermaid city.

The skunk raised a hand up and cupped it over his mouth, his gloved hand tracing a sign on the back of the hand covering his muzzle that was like the sign on his glove, a vortex, but this was only slightly different, a zigzagging pattern instead of curved lines. He breathed forward into his hand while slowly taking it off, the spell he casted was one for dispelling his water breathing spell. He climbed onto the shore taking a breath of the air as the spell leaves him shaking off some of the water and stretching, a soft sigh escaping his muzzle as he looks around at the city before him, turning around to see the sun rising over the shoreline, reaching up to rub the back of his head "What a night" he mumbles to himself before turning around once again and starting to walk "I think I'm going to go get that sleep now" he went on with a chuckle, heading towards his home.