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located in Sanctum City, a part of Gatewatchers, one of the many universes on RPG.

Sanctum City

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Character Portrait: Selena Stone Character Portrait: Cedric Valentine
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Selena's lips curled in disgust as the reports came in. Voices of people she preferred to keep at a healthy distance, shouting and swearing over the comms like children. Some of them actually were children, a fact which caused a shudder even in a heart as cold as hers. Normally, HQ was perfectly content to let Selena work alone, away from the others. Her chosen fields of magical expertise were esoteric, to say the least, and many of the newer and younger Gatewatchers viewed her gruesome magic as unpalatable and disturbing. Even the highest ranking of Gatewatchers often found her presence unnerving, and though she didn't often see eye to eye with the Council, none could argue her results, and thus she often found herself in dark, forgotten places of the world, where civilization was threadbare and even other Gatewatchers rarely ventured.

Today however, was different. An explosion laced with mana had taken placed at the Eastern Sanctum City HQ, and that meant that every Gatewatcher in the city was required to report in to help. Especially veterans like Selena. It was a pointless summons, at least in her case. There were dozens of Gatewatchers available who could adequately handle the situation, so calling her in was overkill.

Selena's driver pulled the car up to the curb several blocks down from the Atlus Electronics building. He quickly exited the car, prepared an umbrella, and opened the back door for Selena. As she stepped out, he passed her the umbrella.

"Thank you, Dorian." Her voice was monotone, without hint of emotion, and her expression blank of even the slightest smile. Dorian, however, was quite used to it. He smiled his pleasant smile, nodded, and returned to the vehicle.

Selena strode forward, shielded from the rain by her umbrella, with a confident yet casual pace, unlike the worried, panicked movements from the Gatewatchers she passed as she made her way towards the building.

Nearing her destination, Selena stopped as she felt a gateway preparing to form behind her. She turned to face the gateway forming just outside of a parking garage. Another Gatewatcher stood near it, apparently unaware. A recent recruit, judging by his anxious stance, and no older than 15. He was likely left there after the evacuation while the more experienced Gatewatchers went to do perimeter patrols. She could have warned the boy, but instead began preparing her spell for whatever the Gateway decided to spit out.

When it formed, the sudden shock startled the recruit, causing him to stumble and fall to the ground. Half a second later, several long, needle-like projectiles erupted from the Gateway. Caught off guard, the recruit shrieked as two punctured his leg and a third punctured his wrist, shattering the bone and anchoring him to the ground. Meanwhile Selena had taken the time to prepare her defenses, and the needles sent flying towards her crumbled into dust as they came into her field of decay. She started towards the gateway at a casual pace, whispering the preparations for her next spell as she approached, the boy still screaming in the background.

The Gateway lurched, and from it protruded two long, misshapen arms complete with bony, razor-clawed, eight fingered hands. The claws sunk into the concrete like butter, and with an unearthly screech, the creature they belonged to ripped it's way through the gateway and into view.

The creature itself was nothing short of a nightmare. Long, scrawny legs, each with two separate joints connected to a vaguely humanoid torso. The arms also had two joints each, and were even longer than Selena had previously thought. Atop the lanky torso were a pair of jagged, protruding, asymmetrical shoulder blades, and between them, a long thin neck. The creature's head was nearly featureless, save for two nostril like slits, and a gaping mouth that occupied the entire bottom half of the "face". Inside were rows and rows of the long needles, serving as teeth. The whole beast stood roughly nine feet tall, and it's entire body was covered in random patches of crusty fur and seemingly randomly placed bug-like eyeballs, everywhere except the head. Anywhere not covered with fur or eyeballs had the texture of infected skin, similar to a wound after removing a bandage.

It craned it's neck and it's whole body shivered as it peered with it's eyeless face at Selena, and let out another rotten screech. Along with the horrid noise, a torrent of needles shot from it's mouth at Selena, who merely waved her hand in dismissal. Her mana reached out for the alien energy of the Gateway and took hold, warping the air that the needles traveled through, sending them veering off course. Several were deflected into the ground, while the others arced back towards their progenitor, each one spearing the creature in one of it's many eyes. In snarled and cawed in pain, it's "voice" a hollow cacophony, and it staggered back. Selena sneered at the sight of the creature's sickly black blood, and uttered a single word. "Suffer."

At her command, her mana lept from her and into the creature's veins. It erupted into more raspy shrieks, but soon fell silent as blood filled its lungs. It coughed and spat blood, only to sear it's throat as the blood boiled inside it. It's body began to twist in unnatural ways, even for a creature as alien as this. The unmistakable sound of bones snapping drowned out the beast's weak cries as Selena forced it's blood to tear it apart from the inside. At last, the horror crumpled into a heap at the base of the Gateway, which Selena approached and sealed with a quick gesture. The recruit, having witnessed the entire scenario, had stopped screaming, and was staring at Selena with a mixture of awe and fear. He tried to speak, but no words would come out.

"This will hurt. A lot." The boy's eyes grew wide with terror as Selena approached. "Hold still."

With a gesture, the needles protruding from the boy crumbled into dust. Then, Selena set to work with his injuries. She whispered her spell beneath her breath, and the boy began screaming once more. Selena's mana infused with his blood and began the painful process of stitching together his bone and flesh. After a moment, it was done, and the blood seared until completely cauterized, to stop the bleeding. The boy lay on the ground panting, his voice hoarse from screaming.

"You'll live." With that, Selena continued into the parking garage, folding her umbrella up as she left the rain. Within the structure was an entrance to the HQ, and by going this way, she could put off meeting the other Gatewatchers for a bit longer. Unfortunately, as she neared the entrance, she happened upon another Gatewatcher. Cedric Valentine. Of all the Gatewatchers in Sanctum City, Cedric was her favorite. Which wasn't saying much, as although she didn't consider him a friend, she did tolerate him more than most.

She smirked, which was about as close to a smile as she could manage. "Cedric."