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playedbetter · 2 years

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The Twilight

The fates of my characters in the event (though I’m good with continuing stuff!)

Also this is all only canon to my characters unless you want to incorporate it into what goes down with yours.

Ending 1 (Main ending)

Zachary’s body was one that was used to unnatural highs of endorphins and dopamine, even before all of this Zach had sought that out more often than he would like to admit. It had built a bit of a tolerance over the years, and the ability to recognize when he needed to sober up quickly.

Given the cause of this specific high, that was practically impossible though, so the next best thing would be to just bring himself down a bit, not completely impossible given what this body had access too.

With just a bit clearer a head, a plan came to form. Baron Winter’s mansion, the base of Nightforce, it would not be hard to brute force his way in, and it would not be ad to keep dark.

So he went there, it sat empty. Winters and his pet were no where to be found, perhaps taken by the darkness as well, perhaps hiding in the light. He couldn’t care less.

Each light went out one by one, snuffed by his magic. The fire place was last, and meant nobody was easily getting in after him. Oh well.

But the body was still deteriorating, he was coughing up his own blood. That wasn’t good, was it?

This body was quite a failure all in all, it would have been better off snagging Zatanna or somebody like that. But there was still one trick left up it’s sleeve.

Slowly the mansion, and the space around it began to freeze over, and slowly so did Zachary’s body, and the Fetch inside. Eventually it was all frozen over, nothing dared move. Zachary’s body laid next to where the fireplace stood.

Some day, eventually, someone will come. Perhaps looking for Baron Winters or the members of Nightforce. Perhaps just seeking a near empty pocket dimension. Perhaps just by accident.

And when that day comes, that stranger will be stumbling into a way to unlesh this darkness that now lived in Zachary’s body, once again.

Ending 2 (Ft, Zatanna & John)

Even with a tolerance and efforts to bring himself to a level where he could think rationally, the best he came up with hiding in the cellar of his parent's home. It was dark at least.

Meanwhile, Zatanna and John Constantine were not actually infected, they had just been in hiding. Knowing just how dangerous they would have been if the Fetches had gotten them. Things were dying down now, the Fetches were dying off quickly as the sun dawned over the horizon.

First on their agenda was uncovering where Zach was, they hadn’t been able to get to him before he had been infected, something they had both been beating themselves over. Their kid had gotten hurt, hell might be dead already. For that they just had to cross their fingers. John was a lot more sure of his survival than Zatanna.

They found his apartment in Gotham empty, it looked like the sight of either a lonely party or a break down of some kind. They found Bunny’s dead body in the next door apartment, she couldn’t withstand the Fetch for as long as the supers that had been infected. They didn’t have time to spare cleaning the scene, though Zatanna made a silent promise to return.

His dressing room was also empty, nobody had touched it in so long dust was starting to gather. There was a slight relief to Zatanna that the animal ages were open and empty, maybe they had gotten away.

The manor of the Beatrice and George Zatara was next, it had been a coin flip between checking here and Shadowcrest. They quickly found Beatrice and George hand in hand in the sitting room, both dead. There was a sense of dread looming over both the magic users, over who would have infected all these people, including the completely mundane Bunny and George.

John went into the basement alone, Zatanna was shadowing him from above using magic. All the lights were off, quickly he fixed that with a bit of magic, and as he did so heard a groan. From above Zatanna could se Zach’s form.

It was not a hard task for them to knock him, and the Fetch inside him, out. But then the question of what to do with him came up. He was infected, and it wasn’t like there was a known cure. Worse yet, he already looked on the verge of death, he had looked better for wear right out of a car wreck.

They made a hard choice, they would keep him alive and hidden using their magic, make sure he couldn’t infect anyone though. They would look for a cure. They were going to get their son back no matter the cost.

So Zach, and the Fetch inside him sat and waited, practically chained in the shade. Eventually they would slip up, get too close when it was a little too dark;

And then, the cost for their son would be the whole world.

Ending 1 (Main ending)

The Fetch inside of Jean-Paul, inside of Azrael, it found two separate sources of mental energy, both tangled togther. One of which was within it’s comprehension, where Jean-Paul’s memories lived, along with Azrael’s, and even the couple others within their mind, though those other ones tended to have less memories than Jean-Paul or Azrael.

But then, there was The System, the coding which was placed into Azrael. The black box of The Order of St. Dumas. The Fetch couldn't make sense of it. Worse yet, it was fighting back, fighting to stripe away all the pleasure which the body was experiencing. Fighting for control.

Briefly Jean-Paul got to taste what he thought freedom was like, even coughing up blood this was better than so much of his life. Even with voices in his head, not his own or Azrael’s, screaming at him to stop. This was the best he had ever felt.

It didn’t last. Each voice started to go silent. First Ascalon and other fragments formed in childhood. Then Azbats. Then Jean-Paul himself. Azrael tried to hang on but even he faded away. It was just The Fetch and The System left in the brain. The Fetch fighting desperately for control against this alien thing, something even more alien than itself.

Meanwhile The System just kept ticking on, acting out it’s self descrtuion protocol. The agent Azrael had been compromised, so had their body. It could not allow Azrael to possibly be used against the order, this body was too dangerous to live.

The Fetch lost it’s battle long enough for The System to carry out the finale order of The Order of St. Dumas, to never let Azrael turn against it’s masters, and for it to make the body embrace the flames of God.

Ending 1 (Main ending)

The sun shined over Gotham, and Damian was completely, and utterly alone. His father, and his siblings all had fallen to the invader. No matter what he did, they would die, drained of all their mental energy.

From the roof tops the city was quiet, so many people were dead, and so few of those that remained dared to venture outside, even with the light of the sun.

Every shadow made his skin crawl, and he couldn’t bring himself to enter them.

As a child he never understood the fear of the dark.

He did now.

Ending 1 (Main ending)

Jason was on the verge of being infected by Duela Dent, but he couldn't accept it, and killed them both in one quick explosion.

This time at least, it was on his terms.

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