Tracking a suspect... New Realm, same enemies...

Zero had a pretty good idea what had happened at the Tavern.
"Xeno sat and gauged his preys power and began to mingle with them to lure one away.", he said speaking into a microphone headset that was hidden in his ear. He stopped about a block away from the tavern and then looked around before continueing his recording.

"After talking with the group for a moment, he must have been noticed by the pyschic Luna and began to formulate a way to backtrack and leave. EST (extreme sensory tuning) gave me the spot where he sat and the people he spoke to then split off into two directions.", Zero sighed a bit as he crossed the street and looked at the sky.
"At that point something is off. According to witness reports, Xeno ran off out the back and out the front at the same time. I assume that his power is still weak but he is managing and now has the ability to clone himself once more, which makes things harder for me of course."

Zero walked a few steps and leaned against a pole and then continued his one sided conversation.
"Why would he mingle and have the energy laced on others that he was actually enjoying their company. He is wanted by the RPT, and is the only connection between the disappearance of every person, man, woman, child, pet and livestock in three villages in three realms so far.", he thought for a moment and then continued to follow the shadowy traces of what was left of Xeno's energy.
If had led him way outside town and off several beaten paths. The energy was thin which suggested running and the steps were out of sync which meant he was injured in some way, perhaps a brawl that someone forgot to mention or of a previous wound he had taken between realms.

"Witness, Luna, said four men in cloaks came in and split, literally. Since he is a predator, then i assume to follow the agressive path which was through a cloud of darkness at the door where he split again, i think. Now if he was just trying to escape, splitting his energy was not the way to go andsurely not to bull...rush...", Zero stopped in midsentence as the steps stopped being one set and became several.

"Hmmm... interesting. The steps are scattered here and all over. This was the site of the fight.", Zero said looking at the cuts and burns in the trees and the scorches and the score marks in the ground.

"This battle was four on one. They chased him...", Zero stopped for a moment judging the path he had taken.
"... fifteen miles. Geez.", he looked about at his surroundings and took in the energies to gauge the strength of the battle.

From where he was sitting, the view of the town was clear. He looked down the mountain side and saw what looked to be black cloth that hung about fifty feet over the side of a steep enbankment.

Zero grinned as he jumped from the steep and crossed through a rift in space that landed him at the bottom of the steep side. At the bottom, was a man cut up, broken and misshapened from the fall.

"Body number one. Approximately 6'2", 280 lbs. Natural Flame energies scattered through his essense. COD: Death by the cut across his stomach or the fifty foot fall, i give it fifty-fifty either way."

"Where did you go?", Zero questioned as he stepped through the rift and landed at the top of the mountain side again to be greeted by three large men wearing cloaks.

"End recording.", Zero said looking at the men and smiling as he crushed their willpower and dug for answers in their memories about the fight and the body.

"Hello Warden.", one of the cloaked men said taking a step.

"Voidwalkers?", Zero said placing a hand in his pocket and holding up the other ready to snap his fingers.

"Your a long way from home. And you don't have backup Warden.", a second voice said with malice and evil intent in his voice.

"Who needs backup?", Zero said snapping his fingers.

The area around the second Voidwalker exploded, sending charred and burning body parts in every direction. The blast of the attack knocking the others down. The echo of the explosion resonated through the mountains and Zero laughed reaching out with one hand breaking the third Voidwalkers neck.

The first walker began to scurry but before he could get fully to his feet, he could feel himself being drug back towards Zero as he moved his hands in a "come here" motion.

Zero jumped on the mans back and slammed his head into the ground and poured psychic energy into the Voidwalkers skull. The energies mingled with the Voidwalkers memories and thoughts, exploiting weaknesses and destroying walls as it transfused memories from Voidwalker to Zero.

The memories of the fight came forth and soon after the fight he disappeared without a trace, leaving nothing but shadow dust and particles.

Zero rolled the guy over and looked him in the eyes.
"Where is he?", Zero asked calmly.

The Voidwalker just groaned from the effects of the overload of psychic energy.
Zero shook his head and stood up taking a few steps away before turning back around.
"Off you go little one.", Zero said lifting the man with a telekinetic hand, then slung him over the side of the mountain.

Zero began recording again as soon as he heard the thump of the man and spoke.
"He is not here. Voidwalkers are tracking him as well. This is now a race. I will return and follow the other path now. End Recording."

Zero looked down at the tavern, at all its lights and comings and goings. He smiled thinking of home and began to walk the same path that brought him up here. He had the ability to rift walk, but from time to time, he just wanted to walk. it made him feel more... normal.

Zero smiled a bit as the energies pulsed just a bit around him. Teleporting or something like it, he thought as he spun around and looked at her pointing a 9mm at her chest, the barrel glowing a faint hue of blue and crackling a bit with psychic static.

"I am not obliged to say unless i know friend or foe.", he stared at her and passed a telepathic thought to her. It pinged back and he lost his smile when he realized there were multiple blocks up of great power, it would take everything he had to break the two from the outside, but combined with her blocks, he couldn't stratch the surface of her nose.

"So... friend or foe? if friend, drop the walls and let me scan you. If foe, you'll be in for more than you think. I am just human, but with a lot of fun packed away."

He clicked the hammer back and looked her over. The power she exumed was overwhelming and he was forced to strengthen his invisible aura to block out the waves of energy the bombarded his veryful extreme sensory abilties. He pushed back at her with enough force to give him some head way but didn't push back anymore.

He glanced at her for an answer, "so?"

Zero stepped back just enough for the flames to bypass between him and the others.

Zero was so focused on the person in front of him, the presence of the other was negligable. So much more power than he had felt before besides his bosses.

"I am not looking for a fight. I asked friend or foe?"

Zero could feel the vampiric energies pulsing from this powerhouse of phoenix power and energy. He thought for a moment and and dropped his guards to the point of focusing all the power his aura could muster against forces like this and hardened the barriers that guarded his memories and thoughts.

"Vampire huh? Interesting. I have met one and fought one way more powerful than you. Now as for my reasons for Shiju, thats my concern but let me tell you, I am an old friend. We trained under the same master. If you think I am afraid of any of you, than you will find that if i put my mind to it, I can defend myself against you. I hope it doesn't come to that."

Zero reset the hammer of his gun and put it away nonchelantly.

"Lets start over shall we. I am Alexander Labeau, our old friend once knew of me as Zero. I am searching for a rogue force know as Xenomishi Kidaite. I work for an agency known as the Rogue Paranormals Taskforce out of the Silvokar Realm. You all have Shiju's power laced about your own. I haven't felt it in twenty-three years."

He studied his adversaries carefully, then focused on the vampiric force before him.

"What you gonna do? I have met, trainedand fought worse. I would rather not 'dance' though. More rather, meet an old friend, track my targets, make new friends and go home"

Zeros sights shifted from the vamp to the world around him. He smiled a bit as he stepped back from the intense standoff.

"Maybe we can another day gorgeous.", he said as he began to sift through the energies that flowed like the winds throughout this place. With so much power in the area, the miniscule remnants of shadow energy were hard to find. But with a little focus, within moments he had the trace and looked in the direction of the tavern.

"I have someone I have to find besides our friend, so unless you want to go to dinner, I must be going.", he spoke in a humorous sort of voice then spun and began to walk in the direction of the tavern.

His senses were drowned by the massive forces here. He was just barely grasping to keep the energy in his focus as he walked behind the tavern and walked down a path that was just barely beatin down my recent movement.

The energies began to fade as he walked, Zeros frustration began to show as he stopped between two trees that were similar in height and width.

Closing his eyes, he could feel the world around him and began to shift through them naming each one aloud.
"Flame. Ice. Earth. Psionic. Telepathic. Shadow. Dark Flame?", he stopped looking at the trees, placing a hand onto the outer layer of the tree to his left and smiled as the Dark Flames and shadow energy seemed to run in conjunction.

"You had a follower. Hell Flame energy. Daemon in form.", Zero spoke as though the tree would say yes.

Night began to fall in this realm of mysticism and the air became crisp. Not being from this realm, he had nothing but the clothes on his back and himself to rely in. He sat down against the tree and soon found himself asleep partially, his mind now completely aware of the world around him as his body shut down to rest.

He aloud the wisps of light and bulbs of energy become a field for him to see as he closed his eyes for a nights rest.

Irvine awoke as the energies of shadow and light flashed across his senses. He snapped awake and pulled his gun looking and pointing randomly before he noticed there was nothing there but a powerful string of energy that gripped the shadows then vanished.

"Son of a...", Zero exclaimed as he looked at the trees he had slept on and placed both hands on it.

"Where the heck did it go?", he questioned as he opened a rift and looked at the energy strings that flowed out of it.

Each string was a different person, place or thing that jumped from this exact location. He studied the strings lightly before realizing that the shadow energy had been severed and replaced by something much different, something he had never felt. it was spliced into two at the tips, signifying that the energy he had followed here was now in two placed. Whatever had happened, the power was great enough to effect the energies through time and space.

Zero put his gun away and with a single breath stepped through the rift and began a long twisted journey to another new realm that was sure to surprise him.

(continued in realm 70- Defense Protocol)