The Nomad Chronicles

I am meditating in front of the mirror in the Mediation Room in BanYanLand. I open my eyes, and see many versions of me... a demon, an angel, a superhero, a Templar, a peon, a slave...

Time to reinforce my castle.

I teleport to the mirror by the koi pond in the Biodome. There is another one in the Temple that is its twin. I study it. I form an image of it in my mind. I look at my reflection. Yeah. Still a big nasty archdemon, still Deathgawn. I open a portal to my Devil Castle on Mars. Holy shit, it's being attacked by bats- no.... those are my bats, duh... I dub thee CASTLE ANTHRAX.

Sabertooth falls out of a portal, and rolls around on the ground laughing.

DUde! Castle Anthrax? Like in The Holy Grail? "Now it's time for the oral sex." HAHAHAH!

Yes. Castle Anthrax sounds badass, and it's funny, so fuck you.

BWAHAHAHA!

I roar, and a sign come out of the soil. It's wrought iron Gothic: CASTLE ANUX!

DOH!

BWAHAHAH!

Shut up. CASTLE ANUS!

DOH!

BWAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!

Dammit... CASTLE ANTHRAX! a little wooden sign appears beneath hanging from chains: BEEYOTCH.

I snap my fingers, and badass dubstep drops. Sabertooth grins at me, and summons two turntables, and spins. I summon my mech armor, and it melds with my witchblade armor.

I break a tip off of Sabertooth's fangs. HEY! It grows back. Oh...

I pick up some Martian rock, chew it up, and spit it into my hand. I form the bone and stone into a big nasty sword, serrated on one side, with curving teeth. I float it in the air. My witchblade forms a sword. I slam it into the Bonestone sword, and float it in the air. I summon the Moonblade. A beautiful white sword, engraved with sacred runes...silver handle made of twisted dragons... I grab the handles of the two swords, and form a double bladed quarterstaff. I spin it around. One blade is bright white, and the other is silvery red. I stick it in the ground. I roar, and a giant translucent blue sword emanates from my chest, and floats in the air above me. I break the first weapon in half, then slam all the weapons together. Then I separate two swords out from them. Both swords are imbued with the powers of all four blades. I spin them around, and slice the ground. I slice a boulder in half. I become huge, and make them into one giant sword. I practice some lunges, rushes, feints, and parries. I sheath my sword.

Wait.... I take it out, and slice my tongue with it. It greedily absorbs the blood, and glows with a devilish red light.Then, I see The Beast, my sentient didjeridoo war-club hopping around nearby. She turns into a crazy devil dog, and jumps into the sword. It hums with power. I DUB THEE, THE DEVILBEAST.

I sheath my sword. I slam my centipede disk on my chest. Thousands of silver centipedes crawl out and cover my body. I slam it again, and a black hole portal opens up in my chest. I practice with my energy boots. I slam them into the ground, and create an earthquake. I practice with my energy gloves and belt. Grab attack. Check. Punch attack. Check. Energy Shield. Check. Ocular True Sight implant. Check. Babelfish. Check. Selenite... MoSh you there? I am just chillin' in my Inner World dude. Peace out. Just doing a Selenite check. Check. Fly pods activate. Swarms of flies pour out of two pods on my shoulders, and return. The sunstone from Selene hangs from my chest, as does the crazy gold royal necklace from Lonewolf.

Allies!

Skyfire, and Rainstorm, by blue and silver dragons appear in fire lizard form, and alight on my shoulders. They turn to a dark iridescent color.

Sarnox comes tumbling out of a portal, and tosses some weird imps into it. He is a big black hellhound. I notice he's a little wounded. I take some dirt and spit in it, then smash it into his wounds. He snaps at me, but then is fine. WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN, ASSHOLE?

Good to see you too, Sarnox. Look, I have something for you.

A portal opens to Q10, my workshop on the asteroid. A droid comes through with a mech armor for a giant dog, then the droid leaves it, and goes back.

NICE.

Sarnox steps into the armor. He looks badass. He is covered with all sorts of guns and other weapons. Two tusks and a horn are on the head of the armor. I climb on to his back. He grows to match my size. He is now the size of a Clydesdale. I ride toward the gate. Sabertooth changes the music to some dark dirty d'n'b. The gates open.

The courtyard is full of all manner of strange fruit trees with black bark. There are hundreds of darklings that have gathered. Who brought these people? Koomo is standing on a central balcony overlooking the courtyard. He grins at me.

The dark creatures cheer, roar, and hiss at me. I roar at them back. I run Sarnox through them, and he snaps at them ferociously. Sarnox sprouts raven wings, and flies up to the balcony. I dismount, and he changes to his creepy Death Druid form. Sabertooth teleports up there and joins us. He becomes a black tiger with orange-red stripes. Koomo and I greet each other.

The darklings begin chanting. It sounds ominous, powerful, and terrifying. I grin in pleasure. A portal opens up from the sky. A white gorilla descends from it. He has two imps in his hand. He rips them in half, and tosses two of the halves in the portal. The other halves get eaten up by the darklings. It's Evna. He leaps on to the balcony with us.

Then I see the Shadow Selves of my dream friends, each standing on a different tower.

MoSh is Lobo. Raven is Queen of Night. Angel is in Angelwitch form. Tigress is a weretiger in black armor. I see Silverwolf, a tall witch with spiraling horns, and violet eyes. Loaf is tall red vampire. Red is there, too, also a red vampire.

Samael appears out of a portal. He looks like a devil in a black suit. Am I late? What did I miss?

Just stand next to me, devil-brother. I chuckle softly. You will see.

I sense the presence of many other allies.

"Demons, darklings, allies, shadows... We have gathered here, to Castle Anthrax, on Planet Mars, the planet of the War God, to consecrate this unholy blasphemous castle in the name of Father Gawn! Too long have we tolerated or ignored the oppression, the theft, the lies, the suffering inflicted upon us by those who claim to be illuminated. They hold no higher truth! Their desire is only for power over others. I dedicate this fortress to all those cast aside, all the rejects, all the shadows, all the ones fallen from grace. I hereby declare war on the Templars of URTH, in the name of GAWN!"

(cont'd)