What lies beneath [Coronel]

A dark aura had begun to gather over Las Angeles, one that had begun to dig at his very core. The pain alone had been enough to keep him from sleeping properly for the past week alone and made Idol personally curse his mortal form. This had led to him pacing his personal chambers restlessly all night, with hands intertwined behind his back as he brooded over what this presence could have been. Something about it was familiar, yet he could not tell what that was. perhaps some manner of dark demon was trying to break through dimensional bonds  or maybe someone was trying to mess with him personally. Eventually it took him from the personal temple of the one prevalent god Yamm to the streets of the city to find the source of the problems. Normally he would have donned his golden armor to perform the task, but idol felt like the task would have been better done if he did not stick out like a sore thumb.

The bracelet around his wrist would jostle as he slipped into a slightly loose fitting t-shirt and a pair of camo pants, something that he had picked up from one of Matt's friends who appeared to favor the pattern within their clothing. once that was done he was moving through the crowded sidewalks, taking note that people were even beginning to act uneasy as if they could sense this dark presence through their city. If magically uninitiated humans could sense something like that, it meant that something major was about to happen and he was in the center of it. his eyes had begun to glow a soft gold color as they glanced around, looking for the source of the magical interference that was causing this. While no one around him was dangerous, he did take notice of a dark blob beneath them.

Within his true sight it looked like a massive cloud that writhed and rolled about. Something was happening beneath them, and that was something that he would need to look over. This required him getting down there and the only thing that came to mind was one of those things that people used to get access to the lower levels of the city. his eyes would snap to a manhole covering, ripping it up and leaping down despite what sounded like protest from people around him. He expected to land water and that was what he did, those something was strange about this place. Shadows squirmed about the walls, tendrils of darkness seeming to writhe within the small light of the golden flames that danced along his body as they formed. "What is going on?"

After washing off the distant memories of battle with water he stepped out of the shower with the steam rising from his skin. His latest wounds were healing and would be done in the next 10 to 20 minutes. It seemed he was constantly getting into fights but luckily his power never gets exhausted from his body. It was a way of showing the ability he had was controlling him making sure he did not kick the bucket. And it seemed to work in his favor.

After a while he put on some black sketcher shorts, converse, and a dark color shirt. He had his white hair to also blend in to his attire of clothing. It was going great and he felt fine with no one to cause any... "Hold on a second". He felt a slimmer of a presence coming from over head. What was it he would question until seconds later it would make him feel as if he was going through the rain. What ever the power was it was strong. Maybe a collecting of top class people, or even a massive amount of low class wielders, and if it was worse case scenario it was one guy wielding suck crazy power.

He was uneasy and need to find his answer, but he could see nothing strange in or around the air and no one on ground level gave off anything. So down maybe? And he was right it looked like a mass of smog was lingering on the bottom depths of the city. And thanks to his sensing of ability; it acted like an x-ray and he could see the massive amount of energy bottled on the lower level.

Finding a man hole in a alley he proceeded to jump in and clearing the water away before hitting the ground. And as soon as he did he could hear someone else down there with him. He could not believe he stumbled upon the enemy so suddenly and he was strong too. He gave off another great size of power, but it seemed almost equal to his own. But could not tell if his or the guys was greater since one's ability was in constant movement.

He hugged a wall trying to hide and decided to peer around noticing a guy in a typical dress up. Like someone wanting to go for a walk. It was a thought and he decided to appear before him. Hopefully he was an ally among the worst. He walked out as cautious as possible. Are you with that force down stairs? Tell me why you are here? He did not know how to word the conversation.

Usually he attacked and cared not what the other said, but he intended to get the guys help if he did not belong to the power source that is.

The water was running around his ankles, quickly as the sound of something growling within the shadows reached his ears. Golden light splashed outwards from the flames that had formed upon his body, golden within color and releasing an immense amount of warmth. one of the tendrils would lash out towards him, though ti was forced back by a burst of flames that caused something within the outer darkness to screech. It appeared that a monster of darkness had taken residence within a human waste disposal system, or maybe there was more than just this thing. He would have unleashed a little divine lightning, but then a voice caught his attention enough to cause him to turn towards it. "No, I have nothing to do with this darkness." He noted with a frown as one of the dark tendrils lashed outwards once again, wrapping around one of his arms.

"I don't even know what's going on right now." He admitted as he let the lightning course through the tendril latched around him, causing an unknown creature to shriek within the darkness before withdrawing the limb. A few more would appear within the darkness with their aim set upon Coronel.

Ah shit...The tendrils reacted to him being there and lashed out trying to kill him. With a fast reacton it punctured through his chest and held there for a second before retracting. The tendril left a massive puncture wound and left his his clothes tethered and his chest exposed. He looked up as he used his ability to cloak the walls and the space around him. He did not need to film the new comer since it seemed like he would not be a problem. The tendrils attacked again seeing that he was still in working function.

As the struck through the air he simply made his telekinesis to hit the tendrils to knock them off their path away from Coronel and the guy. He fought back as he pushed the tendrils away and sent wave, after wave to beat the creature unsure of how to beat it.

Seeing as you're in here... I take it you feel an unease in what's underneath us right? I can sense the lowest concentration of energy emitted by people. And I can tell that what ever is below us has an incredibly high mass of energy. Why was this tendril not dying? Sure he was using small blast so he did not cave them in, but he figured they were too small. He upped the ability and sent large hits making the creature really scream out in pain. Just a few more hits and he sure it would be dead.

As he held the tendrils in place ,he traced it back to the creature. Now it was time to end the pressing battle. The weak creature squirmed to break free ,but it only helped Coronel rip its tendrils off. He then snapped his fingers and cut the beast in fours. Now that was done they could get back to finding what was going on. He looked around to see if there was anymore creatures. After he looked he felt nothing, but he guessed where to go. He felt an ominous force down the hallways and around a few corners. By his scan he could make out a stair system, but it cut off there since it started getting out of his range. Well I believe I know where to go so if you want we can team up for this small problem.

One of the creatures had managed to strike the unknown stranger, causing a small amount of concern to flash through Idol. As always he found himself worrying about those around him, even if they would otherwise be able to handle themselves. However they appeared to be unharmed by the damage done to them, which suggested they were not quite human. Looking at them, his true sight managed to further cement that fact when looking upon what he assumed to be their soul. In a bright flash a blade would appear within his hand, a massive longsword of blue metal that glowed faintly like the moonlight that he used to slice through a few tendrils as they leapt from the darkness. Dark blood spattered across his face, trying to get into his eyes but failing miserably as it trailed down his face, burning up when he let golden flames wash over him.

These creatures were numerous, which made up for the fact that they were rather weak things. Still, he did not find himself very intimidated by them if only because they would likely be unable to do him any real harm. With a swing of his massive sword, the tunnel was filled with a bright flash of moonlight that eviscerated everything before him which lead to a lot of screaming things. "I have a feeling we might need to deal with this thing or rather I plan to at any rate." He stated before venturing further into the darkness that not stretched ahead of him, with his own flames to light the way.

As they continued on through the dark tunnels it seemed the attacks were never ending, but it was all okay. The things they faced became so easy to fight it was a matter of how many seconds and how many they killed. It was endless the tendrils zipped past his face and around his torso, but in seconds the arms were severed and ripped to shreds and the were pulled into the light. He would cut through the main bodies and they would fall into the water and wash away.

It was pretty fun for him but he doubt the other guy took pleasure in killing things like he did. Soon something new popped up. Snakes? No it was another dark creature and also a dark dragon. The snakes attacked, but yet again it was still easy to cut them down. Thanks to their vast numbers it made it a little more difficult to catch them all. He placed a small telekinetic barrier around himself to keep them from biting at him. He was unsure of the properties their fangs may have contained or if it was just a snake looking dark creature with no poison.

The dragon had another mind to attack the other guy Coronel was with and could shoot a black flame. The flame was only visible thanks to the guys light. It gave everything it shape and made attacking easy when they would come into the light. He also didn't have to put effort into constant scanning.

Deeper they descended into the never ending darkness, creatures always rising from the murk in their attempts to destroy them. Something about all of this felt odd to him and there was not exactly anything they could do beyond dealing with it. The next thing that they came across appeared to be... a dragon of all things. It had felt like forever since he had last seen a dragon, and yet he knew that this would not be a friendly encounter by the dark aura that this thing radiated. Well it was both the dragon and numerous snakes, most of them turning their attention upon the white haired male that had joined his crusade against darkness.

However a black flame was unleashed towards him, something that looked dangerous really, but then again there was one problem with this. "I'll have to show you some real fire.' Holding a hand up, the flames suddenly parted around him as they took on a golden hue. This light splashed outwards from the golden flames as they rised higher and higher, taking up the entire  room around him. "Begone creature of darkness." Increasing the heat of the flames higher and higher, he let it rush forward with the intention of forcing it down the dragons throat, adding his lightning to the fire as well.

As he seen the dragon attack; the other man would raise his hands into making his own. He had to deal with these snakes. The multiplied in numbers and seemed to be endless. As he looked around the guy had blown apart the dragon unleashing a magnificent light that blistered around the tunnel. In the explosion it had a sizable damage and cleared out about 10 percent of his problem.

His turn came with the light at it's brightest. He scanned the area having a nice clean look at all the slimy bastards. Some jumped to attack, but stopped mid flight as the bodies were tore in half. Soon, with a sweep of his hand, they all became disassembled and scattered onto the ground. Their numbers were stopped and the enemies became scarce. He looked around as he only seen the bodies and nothing else. The light dimmed back to it original state illuminating so much of the area.

They continued to a raised concrete walk way that then went down using a common flight of stairs. As the journey took them on ward, the place also began to change. The tunnel changed into a moss filled, cracked state and the concrete and walls seemed to be made of entirely different material. It seemed older and was more haunting to the site. The tunnels grew bigger in size and had magnificent arches that soon started towering them in height.

As the walk soon ended, they came across a giant arch or door that opened into a giant room. It was enormous and fit in size for the many flights they would go down to reach it. It was enormous with ruble on the side from crumbled walls and a giant pool of water running through the middle.

Within a matter of seconds, the elements being forced into the dragon managed to fill it up and then with a grand explosion it was gone. Only replaced with chunks of flesh and scales showering upon the area around them. The chunks that came in his direction were eaten up by a wall of flames that prevented it from touching him. "For a dragon you're really pathetic." He muttered wiping away a few residual ashes that clung to his clothing and arms. A small creature that stood before them and yet something told Idol that they were not even the strongest that they would be facing within this darkness. His friend was the one that took care of the minor snakes, smaller serpents that were easily torn apart.

From there the two would walk along a raised concrete walkway, though one thing that he noticed was that the railing was painful to touch. Keeping his hands close to his sides, Idol would walk along with his mind on the darkness that squirmed beneath them. The journey they were taking lead them elsewhere, a place that looked dilapidated as if someone had not been here for a long while. This was an old place, one that had not seen maintenance for a while and the evil aura within the air was beginning to grow stronger. Soon enough the tunnels grew in size, grand arches rising above them as they continued to walk onward with no other plan than to find out what threat lay beneath them.

Eventually they came upon a large door, one that lead them into an even larger room dominated by a large pool of water beneath them. Surrounding the water, was some dry land as tentacles rose from the dark water. At the end of them were gnashing maws with teeth that appeared to be made to devour flesh. From their mouths was a rather dangerous looking spray of acid from the eight heads that rose from the water, as Idol created a wall of lightning to defend them from such a dangerous looking attack. "What is this thing?" He muttered as they turned their attention upon Coronel.

As they entered the room and both made their way in, his eyes grew wide to the over barring power that was under them. This thing he sensed was now moving and striving to get to surface, but not to his luck. As it rose it had the heads of serpents on the ends of tendrils. Probably to catch and feed off prey. The main body was hidden sort of; he was underneath bout Coronel could see the flow of energy linking to the beast that were ready to attack. As the sent out an attack, Coronel was fast to react shooting his hand up, but stopped when he seen a wall of lightning in front of him. Seems the kid was much faster.

He questioned Coronel on to what the creature was and to their luck he knew. On the many 100 or 1000 years I have been alive, I know of one beast in legends..... this is none other than The Kraken. Although a few more looks at it and it would seem to be altered with magic. He did not want to boast about his age so he would keep this brief. The Kraken is the typical 100 or so story tall Octopus of the Sea, but this one resembles it but is not truly it. It is altered through dark magic, and after we beat it and get by we will find who created it.

As the wall was lowered it was time to move and he was having second thoughts of coming down here. If he could not see the levels of energy a being had, he would attack with no regrets, but its energy was monstrous and usually people held their levels back.

The first few tendrils snapped to action swinging around the room leaving no opening on the ground. The mouths were wide open ready to bite at either one of them. The others had swollen mouths ready to spit more acid. Now it was his turn to act. As the acid shot towards the guy and the tendril at him, he would swing his hand directing the acid at himself which would intercept the tentacle. He braised for impact as a barrier would take the hit, but to his plan.... it had failed.

The acid would not melt the creatures own skin. It was out of the question to use the acid to their advantage. They would just have to barrage it with attacks until they could find an opening.

A beast altered through dark magic, now this sounded like something that could give them a difficult time. Well normally, it would except that the creature was within water and that made it rather open to electrocution when one thought about it. The lightning that had come to his aid arced around his arm, sparking off as his eyes focused upon the thing that they would have to fight to get further within this maze of darkness. Within a matter of seconds it' heads would swing around, aiming to bite into them or deliver a rather deadly looking store of acid. He had no idea if it would be able to resist the corrosive effects, so it was better to avoid taking damage than being killed because of a stupid mistake. One of the biting maws slammed towards him, giving the young god an idea.

Preparing himself, he held his arms outwards, catching into a few of the gnashing fangs as he was pushed backwards from the sheer force that the thing exerted. "You're strong, but not exactly that intelligent." With his hands holding the creature, he unleashed a large amount of divine lightning into the open mouth being held at bay. This seemed to do something as the creature let out a great roar, causing the other tendrils to thrash around wildly. Lifted by the sudden movement, he found himself being thrown into the water which was being swirled around by the creatures wrath. It was within the murk that he saw something moving, with a great beaked mouth. A sudden burst of pressure threw him from the water and into the wall, likely some kind of pressurized water beam.

Small abrasion were along his arm, rivulets of golden blood flowing from the wound. "Let's hope my ally knows what to do now." He muttered to himself.

As it would seem the acid had no effect and it started to feel like the entire room was unstable with all the thrashing. He was sure this beast could quickly kill any low life that came through here looking to explore. Now he had to deal with 2 some what metas and he was sure this fight could lead to a cave in.

As one of the heads attacked, the guys resilient strength was able to catch on to the fangs holding him at bay. With a jolt of electricity the creature let out a loudly screech showing pain from the attack. That seemed like a great idea and he could probably do the same. He pulled in water vapor and began to vibrate it at a speed, though unseen, to begin electrolyzing the gas. Sparks began to form mid air of the beast until it was ready. Thanks to it being covered in water this would make the effect more productive.

the electric current was directed down and struck the beast causing the entire body to give into a tense look followed by another loud screech. As 3 of the tendrils laid on the ground from what looked like exhaustion. He did not miss the opportunity and he swung with both hands at different tendrils. The wave cut through the floor and severed the heads off two of the tentacles. That was good, and now they could make process and move on as soon as they were done cutting it down.

Coronel was more than prepared to cut another head off after the guy shocked them again, but soon the heads started growing back. Four popped out taking the place of the two that were gone. The heads were smaller and started to seem quicker. Just his luck now he would need more effort to make fire in response to all of his attacks he was already throwing.

As the thing withdrew his tendril into the water, it appeared that his ally had a similar idea and made use of it. made exhausted by the second jolt of electricity, most of the tendrils appeared to be laying around as if tired. Severing the heads appeared like it would work, from the stump of the necks came two more heads. "Dammit, it's one of those creatures." He muttered with a frown considering that now they could not exactly cut the heads of like he would have wanted to. Rapidly the flesh on his arms began to close up, a feeling that began with an itch but soon enough that faded away leaving him with flesh that was whole once again. It would be easy enough to defeat these things, which involved a large amount of fire being thrown around.

Forming a blade within a flash of light, his mind was made up as one of the groggy heads not focused upon Coronel rose upwards with the intent to bite down into him. With a powerful swing, he unleashed a flash of moonlight energy that sliced through the things head, cleaving the upper half off. As it crashed into the wall, he cut the remaining portion off before washing the stump over with scorching fire. That appeared to do something to them anyway. Should Coronel slice off anymore heads, he would throw more fire at those neck stumps, well that was after flinging lightning into the water.

Well this was a bonus. The guy also knew what hydras were and luckily made the first move in cutting one of the heads off. If it was like hydras he knew and seen, then it would be a while before the burned flesh grew into another head giving them the opportunity to get the main body out of the water. He held one hand towards the beast and another one at his ally. He would place a barrier around the man and he would then mix water with Carbon and Hydrogen making Ethanol. After filling the area around the beast; he made another gas vibrate in the air until it hit a flash point causing it to spark with flames.

As the flame ignited it traveled little ways until hitting the Alcohol and bursting the creatures into flames. It was like a concussive wave and the heat could kill any human. The guy remained protected and Coronel was to far from the creature to be burned. The creature let out another roar as if it was in serious pain, but it would not stop Coronel from cutting another 2 heads off and manipulating the fire to hit those direct spots.

Now three heads laid on the floor and they only had to deal with 8 more including the main body. He could probably finish it off in just a few more moves, and speaking of which he had cut another head off while floating in the air. He would let the other guy cauterize that one and he would only hope to move on to where these creatures really came from.

Slaying this Hydra proved much easier than he thought, and yet there was a main body that also made this a lot harder than it should have been. This was something that he wanted done with, and the electricity did not seem to do much to the thing within the water. With a frown, he decided to try something else entirely, something that may end up hurting him rather badly. As one of the head would rush him, Idol sidestepped it, delivering a powerful elbow while pivoting his foot causing the thing to be thrown out of his way. With little time left to react, he jumped forward, diving into the water as electricity leapt off of him in arcs. In a sense he planned to become some manner of depth charge, rather than exploding he would unleash a large amount of electricity within the water.

Upon contact with the water, the bolts could be seen leaping along the surface as it was conducted through the water and he could see the vague shape of the kraken thing writhing amidst the darkness beneath. It was in pain, meaning that likely the heads would not be working like they should have and maybe giving his ally a chance to deal with them as well if that was what he wanted to do. A small pain rose up within him from the radiant energy around him, however it was nothing to worry about or make him stop holding his breath for.