Name: Rise Of The Prince's Darkness
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Chapter 1 Fatal Trouble : Act 1

'There is no hate, only joy. For you are

beloved by the goddess. Hero of the dawn, Healer of worlds.'

The chains had been broken.

Pale, shimmering eyes snapped open, their striking emerald depths

pulsing with Michael-infused light. Elliptical pupils contracted and expanded

with each haunting surge of power, yet were unable to penetrate the utter

blackness which spread out before them. He could not see, but he didn't need to see to know

the truth. He could feel the stirring, the awakening somewhere deep within the

bowels of Tegral, and his heart rejoiced in that which would herald his own

resurrection.

Raphael.

Long repressed emotions rushed to the fore, staggering in their

intensity, purifying in their power. Pride, honor, horror, loneliness,

passion-and strangest of all-hope, swept through him, nearly eclipsed by a love

so strong that it had all but destroyed The Planet. The force of his feelings

was maddening, overwhelming, much like the man who had inspired them, yet they

remained true, untouched by his mother's madness.

She screeched a protest, that magnificently malevolent being he

called 'Mother', but her voice was had been dimmed by time and defeat. There

was virtually nothing left of The Bozorgh, of the beast named Irene, and he

found himself glad for it. Never again would she darken his thoughts and twist

his emotions, or compel him to destroy what little he held dear. Much like his

newly awakening lover, he found himself liberated from the bonds of godhood,

and the downward spiral that inevitably accompanied such greatness.

He had been called many things in his too-short life: General,

friend, monster, hero, demon, weapon, villain, lover, nightmare. . .Now there

was only him.

A warrior born and bred, educated in the art of war, a swordsman unmatched who

fumbled like a child when confronted with simple human emotion.

A man with

amazing preternatural abilities, one whose name evoked both terror and

veneration, but a man nonetheless.

Xander closed his eyes as he searched for the source of Tegral's

power, using his Michael-enhanced senses to reach into the MAMA itself, to find

the other half of his tattered soul. He smiled unconsciously as he touched the

passion, the fire-that

was Raphael Redwood. It flowed unabated through his mercurial lover, singeing

everything around him with its white-hot heat, including the silver-haired man

who had once matched him betrayal for betrayal.

Never again. Xander sent the mental message to his lover,

wondering if it would-could-reach

him as he was reborn. It was a vow, a promise not to repeat the mistakes of the

past, an oath meant to reassure his heart that he would not be betrayed a

second time, and that he would never again be forsaken.

Xander frowned as the aura of power suddenly disappeared, his

cat-like eyes opening in narrowed slits. As though a wall had slammed down

between them, the power was gone, leaving nothing but silence, and an uneasy

fear, in its wake. Had Tegral disrupted the bond between them? he asked himself

apprehensively. Surely, Raphael wouldn't

do such a thing?

Of course not, he assured himself quickly. No matter what had

passed between them, Raphael knew-had always known-that he was loved. Xander

had shown it in small but significant ways, although he had always regretted

that he lacked the ability to vocalize his feelings. Nevertheless, he refused

to believe that the other man-friend, lover, and rival that he had been-would

turn his back on the passion that even now bound them together so tightly.

Xander fought the urge to curse The Planet for her actions. After

all he had done to her in the name of revenge, he understood why she would try

to deny him now. Finally, after eight long years, she had chosen a new

champion, a new Weapon. Raphael would have been purged of the madness that had

accompanied his degradation, his mind and body made whole once more. It made

perfect sense that Tegral would attempt to separate her champion from the

source of his past downfall.

Not that he would allow it. He had spent eight years-a lifetime,

it seemed-trapped in this nothingness, in the void created to keep him

segregated from the whole of the MAMA, forced to watch in maddened agony as Irene

used his form again and again. For a time, he had managed to overpower her will

with his own, intent on using his godlike power over his clones to search for

the one who meant so much to him. Irene had proven herself surprisingly

resilient, her alien will forceful enough to overpower him whenever he came too

close finding that which he so desperately sought.

In the end, his own frustration with his inability to bend the

world to his will had portended his own defeat. His fall from grace, which had

begun that fateful afternoon in the Galdheim reactor, had been made stunningly

complete. In one endless moment of infuriated agony, he had-to put it

simply-given up. His lapse of willpower, while only momentary, had given Irene

all the time she needed to erode what little had been left of his shattered

mind. She had forced him to manipulate the boy she saw as his puppet, the

young, damaged Calvin Steel, into giving him-them-the

Black Rock. Meteor had been cast, his own destruction assured from within, as

The Planet's had been from without.

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Chapter 1 Fatal Trouble : Act 1

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