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Chapter 2 - Chapter 2: "Shadows Unveiled"

The aftermath of the devastating explosion left Sig standing amidst the ruins of his apartment, his heart heavy with grief and vengeance. As the smoke began to dissipate, a mysterious figure emerged from the shadows. A woman with an enigmatic aura, she might hold secrets that could help Sig unravel the tangled web of his enemies.

"Who are you? Are you one of them?!" Sig asked with an angry expression.

She approached Sig cautiously, her eyes filled with empathy. "My name is Hyna, I sensed a disturbance, and I came as soon as I could, I'm sorry for your lost I was too late" she spoke softly, her voice laced with empathy. "I know what it's like to lose someone you love. I also lost my brother from them, I can help you find answers and bring justice to those responsible."

Sig regarded Hyna warily, his mind clouded by a mix of suspicion and desperation. But he could sense an air of sincerity surrounding her. Perhaps, in their shared pain, they could find a common purpose.

"I am the Avatar of Hypnos. God of sleep. I can dream into cyberspace and alter anything inside it to my bidding literally with my eye's closed. I don't know which God is supporting you but I can feel a familiar feeling from your aura" Hyna pointed out to Sig. "What are you talking about?" Sig replied. "Don't you feel the surging power inside you?" Hyna pointed at his chest. "I don't know. But I heard many voices inside my head. Sig answered reluctantly. "We are avatars chosen by a god to wield their powers and do their bidding, what do you mean voices? It should only be one God that can lend you their strength or your mortal body will not be able to take it and explode." Hyna asked curiously. "You might have not been in your right mind when you awakened due to the explosion and your body's metamorphosis." Hyna added.

With a nod of reluctant agreement, Sig and Hyna formed an unlikely alliance. "Lets check the bodies and see if we can find anything."

Using the business cards that they got from the corpses, they delved into the underbelly of the city as Hyna followed her suspicions, seeking information on the men who had taken Athea's life. Their investigation led them to a dark revelation—these were disciples of a powerful mafia mob who operated from the shadows, his name whispered with both fear and reverence. The same man who killed Hyna's brother.

The leader, known as Salazar, was an avatar himself, the two that Sig killed were just disciples wielding the avatar's formidable powers. His syndicate had exploited the supernatural abilities of avatars to further their criminal enterprises, causing pain and suffering throughout the city. Sig's thirst for revenge intensified as he realized the extent of Salazar's influence.

"They are the people from a big corporation that has a good grip on surrounding businesses here in the city." Hyna enlightened Sig of their covers and facilities.

With Hyna's guidance, they discreetly infiltrated Salazar's inner circle, navigating the intricate network of lies and deceit. Hyna's connection and with her hacking abilities to the criminal underworld proved invaluable, providing them with crucial information and access to hidden truths.

"Found it" said Hyna as she looked sharply in her laptop."This is the main source of Salazar's growth and power through out the city." Sig looked at the picture in Hyna's laptop.

A mysterious artifact known as the Aetherstone. It was said to grant access to the other planes, but its origins and purpose remained shrouded in myth and legend. Sig and Hyna became determined to seize the Aetherstone, believing that by unraveling its secrets, they could unravel the God behind Salazar and avenge Athea's death.

Hyna's hypnotic and cybernetic skills proved useful in manipulating underlings and machinery letting them bypass enemy territory like the wind with out any traces. Coupled with Sig's poison and his new skill combustion from the second perpetrator who killed his lover, underlings with no powers are easy as pie for the two of them. His combustion skill lets him explode anything that he touched coupled by his poison, and the explosions have poisonous fragments and smoke applied to it. But as an organization, Salazar's base had more disciples wielding avatar like powers than they anticipated.

Their journey led them through treacherous encounters and dangerous confrontations. They fought side by side, their powers intertwining with a devastating synchronicity. Sig's mastery over death and combustion complemented Hyna's own cybersleep abilities, creating a deadly alliance that struck fear into the hearts of Salazar's minions.

With each encounter, their understanding of their powers deepened. Sig's evolution continued, his ability to control and manipulate death growing more refined. Hyna, too, unlocked hidden potential within herself with her powers of illusion and manipulation proving invaluable in their quest for justice.

As they approached what seemed to be a laboratory, Sig and Hyna were horrified of what they witnessed.Rows of cylindrical large tubes with floating bodies of kids and teenagers inside filled with a light greenish but transparent fluid were aligned and was being fiddled by a tall but crooked looking doctor.

"Who are you and what are you doing to these kids!?" Sig shouted at the doctor as he saw him holding a large injection with a hose connected to the cylindrical tube.

"Oh my It seems that I have guests?" The doctor replied. "Pardon my hospitality but as you can see im a very busy person and Im pretty sure you kids should not be in here." said the Doctor smiling.

Hyna jumped back out of instinct shouting to Sig "Get back!" however Sig was a second too late as he was looking to Hyna jumped back, he felt his left arm being punctured by multiple injections with green liquid inside. "Sig!" Hyna shouted with worry. As the fluid dispenses Sig's left arm, he felt an excruciating pain flow though his blood vessels like his blood was burning all around his body.

"My what a terrible target practice!" The doctor laughed loudly as he was sneering at Sig lying in the floor in agony. Hyna immediately closed her eyes and started casting her spells. Wire's and hoses started attacking the doctor wrapping him thoroughly as she plans to rescue Sig.

"Muehehehe" the doctor snickered. "Did you not notice that there were no guards to this highly secret and big facility? It's because I DONT NEED ANY! Mwueahahahahaha!". Smothering in green smoke and light inside the tightly wrapped doctor. Something exploded from his restraints like a dragon that emerged from an enormous egg of wires and hoses. With a scaly body covered with mucus like substance, two pairs of dreadful wings that looked like those of a rotting dragon. A face with a striking resemblance that of a mix between a wolf and a frog. Gnarling with his Jaws full of knives like teeth.

"I am the embodiment of battle and medicine the Avatar of the god of surgery, Asclepius! Did you really think you two can survive and get our of this place? I'll experiment on you all I want! I cant wait to dissect and taste your insides! Specially you little girl!" SWISSSHH!!!

A web like sticky substance flinged out of the dragonlike doctor's claws trapping Hyna to a wall. Hanging and unable to escape, the weblike substance started to tear her clothes like acid.

"Eumph" a sudden but soft moan slipped Hyna's mouth. "What the hell is this thing?!" Hyna frighteningly asked.

"Oh? are you already feeling its effects? I personally concocted it so that my mucus web will act as an aphrodisiac once it came in contact with a human skin, it forces its way into your pores and into your bloodstream tickling your insides and all your orifices and making little women like you wet themselves like a hungry whore in front of me!"

The doctor snickering and looking down the now almost undressed Hyna on the wall. "Now let me check your vital stats and see if your a healthy little girl shall we?"

The dragon like doctor smiling with its long tongue out and manic eyes.

"Ooohh, they're much bigger now that they're loose from your tight shirt, why are you hiding these babies? He said while his long tongue began circling her breast left and right.

"Eauhmmppphhh...!" Hyna revoltingly screamed.

"Now let see what your slit taste like mwuehehe" Slithering like a snake downwards, the doctor's tongue slipped down the trapped body of Hyna down to her private part.

"MMNNoooemmpphhhh!!!" Hyna now with a flushed face and breathing more heavily forced a seemingly weak objection. With her hands trapped, legs crossed, and is now dripping with fluids the dragon like doctor made his way inside of her womanhood with his snake like tongue. "N. nno, please s.sstop this" begged Hyna.

"Oh? but why is your breast and hips saying "more" instead? Your dancing so erotically while wrapped by my tongue and being penetrated! Would you like it deeper? Can you handle the full length of it? As expected, little busty loli girls like you are the best ♥, said the doctor with euphoric eyes.

While Hyna is being tormented by the dragonlike doctor, Sig was trapped in a dream like condition. Seeing his lover Athea die over and over again, Sig is slowly loosing it. Until he heard a woman's familiar voice. "SIG!" He then soon realized that he's in some sort of illusion.

Screaming angrily and letting all his emotions out, a sudden gush of purple and reddish orange gleamed in his eyes. Sig escaped his comatose state and started to get up from the floor. He looked at the source of the voice and saw his lover Athea trapped in a web by the dragon like doctor and being molested.

Anger, remorse, hatred filled his heart again and all his feelings combined turned into lunacy. Again he heard the voices inside his head. "Do you want power? (power power pow. . . (echoes)" "SAY OUR NAMES!!!! AMES!!! MES!! ES!(echoes)

Sig was in a trance. His head getting clearer and clearer, the his muscles screaming as if he was already familliar with the power coursing through him. Words came out of his mouth while charging in super sonic speeds. "Gerra! Mefitis! Lend me your power!"

"Yyyeeeeess! Thats it! let him have a taste of my poison!" A woman's voice was heard from inside his mind. "This is way better than the weakling assassins that Salazar sent!" A mans voice was also heard inside his mind.

His eyes went pitch black, purple and reddish orange ethereal like horns and wing sprouted from his body, It even looked like he had claws and fangs as he rushed into the dragon like doctor. As the dragon like doctor was about to turn his way, BAM!!! He was struck in the face by a fist of scorching reddish purple poison. The dragon like doctor couldn't react and was slammed right into the opposite wall from where Hyna is being kept captive. The dragon like doctor was dumbfounded and at the same time holding his now dislocated and mangled jaw with shock in his eyes. His neck and forehead started to turn purple as the veins on them were bulging like they're gonna blow.

"Wharrtt in darrmnation aarre you?!" He shouted. As Sig looked at him with carnage in his eyes, he followed suite by pouncing on the doctor like a hungry tiger hunting its prey. With his still steaming claws, he hacked away onto the now terrified dragon like doctor slashing away its life upon every swipe.

"Nooooooeerrr!! Wree can still talrk about thrris!" Shouted the mangled doctor with his transformation slowly disappearing.

"I berg of you, Irr was just fooling around" said the doctor who can hardly speak anymore. However, Sig was no more inside that devil like existence. Licking away the doctors blood in its hands, he was fully consumed with by his rage and wrath and with a final thrust was aimed at the doctors heart. "Spleurtch!!" blood game gushing out as he pulled the still beating human heart of the doctor, then ate it. Like chewing steak in a fancy restaurant. The thing savored it by chewing it slowly while walking towards Hyna who was almost free from her restraints still fidgeting from the drug filled mucus.

As Sig was about to reach her still with carnage in his eyes. He stopped when he saw the face of his lover Athea in Hyna. And as Hyna was completely free, she hugged Sig and both of them toppled to the ground.

Hyna still having the effect of the aphrodisiac on top of Sig, crawled to reach Sig's lips. And Sig's form reverted back to normal and still groggy from the transformation reciprocated Hyna's lips still thinking it was Athea that he's holding in his hands.

The two of them surrendered to their primal instincts.

As the two gave in to their bodies natural desires. They soon came into and as they realize what they have done, shock and akwardness filled the room.

"SPLACKK!" Hyna's hand swiftly smacked Sig's face. "I was drugged and was not myself… but I kinda liked it..." confessed Hyna with blushing cheeks. "It would be better if we keep it to ourselves." Sig's gawky answer while scratching his head. As Hyna elegantly stood up, Sig's face was beet red as he was trying to avoid to look at the magnificent figure of the naked little maiden right in front of his face. While still floundering in the floor, Sig noticed Hyna pull something out of thin air.

"What, how?" "Its my personal space box, an artifact I got from my patron. You don't have yours?" explained Hyna while throwing Sig a pair of pants, shirt and shoes. "Artifact...?" Sig curiously asked.

"Sigh, you still need a lot to learn. I'll teach you once we finish this job. We need to make them pay for what they have done to these kids" As Hyna finished dressing up. She flicked her fingers to the machines holding the children on the cylindrical tubes and the green fluid started to turn clear dissipating slowly.

"Lets go." said Hyna with a noticeable sharp glow in her eyes.

Their determination fueled their relentless pursuit of Salazar. Sig and Hyna learned of his motivations, his insatiable thirst for power and control. They discovered the lengths he would go to maintain his criminal empire, sacrificing innocent lives in his insidious games from all the files and details that they saw in the laboratory.

As they traversed further deep in the basement floors, Sig and Hyna found themselves at the heart of Salazar's lair. A huge cave-like room almost 20 feet high with a glimmering huge stone at the center. The Aetherstone, pulsating with ancient energy, awaited them, its dark allure tempting them with promises of unimaginable power.

But Sig and Hyna knew that succumbing to its influence would come at a great cost. They had seen the consequences of wielding such power without restraint. United in their purpose, they vowed to not only defeat Salazar but also protect the city from the malevolence that threatened to consume it.

With bated breath and hearts filled with determination, Sig and Hyna stepped forward, ready to face their greatest challenge yet. The path ahead was treacherous and filled with uncertainty, but together, they stood as a beacon of hope in the shadows, ready to confront their past, uncover the truth, and carve their own destiny in a world teetering on the edge of darkness.