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Gunshots echoed from all around Jeston as Icias had finally arrived! He had taken two of the illusionist rings by force on his way to the backyard as he saw funeral guests all around the casket. The party turned their attention to the noise as Icias tossed Jeston a ring, he seemed to be on the ground with a man in a purple suit above him. Although the House of Shadows had it's tricks it was still just a residence, "get out of here people!" Icias called as he made heist towards the casket. No one was really surrounding Jeston, but the elf in the purple suit did slip off into the house as soon as Icias arrived. Sesco's mother was in the casket as Icias approached, the three sisters tried to stop him but it wasn't much use. "Get out of my way!" As Icias stood over the casket the eyes of the undead mothers shot open and a hissing sound came from her lips! Icias slammed the casket of Kazos's wife and held it shut, "nothing to see here!"

Jeston stopped shivering, he saw one of purple rings next to him, he picked it up ad put it on his finger. He stopped feeling sick and got up. He saw Icias sitting on top of the casket, he was about to question him until he saw the casket shaking a bit and moaning noises inside. Jeston knew that it was wise not for people to know that the zombie threat still exists so he pulled out his flintlock pistol and shot twice into the air, 'OKAY, EVERYBODY SCRAM! FUNERAL'S OVER!' he yelled to the guests, they obeyed and left within a minute. Jeston felt odd but not the same kind of odd from earlier, he felt like he had power, like he could control anything...and anyone. He looked at his ring s it started to glow, 'Oh am I gonna have fun with you...my precious..' he said, patting the ring a bit as his eyes and veins turned a bit more violet. Jeston had read about purple necromacy rings, they were designed by the first ever necromancer who used it to consume the souls of the innocent. It was rumours that those who weren't necromancers and still wore the rings will start to become corrupted and will start to feel evil, symptoms included uncontrollable anger, purple eyes and veins and desire to kill. Jeston ignored it and decided to keep the ring, he went over to Icias sitting on the casket, 'Well you arrived just in the nick of time, also I'm assuming that's Sesco's 'dead' mother in there?'

Visions kept swelling around Jeston, "that's no Necro-Ring dummy, it's an Illusion breaker.... Let's you see past the illusions around us." Necromancers rings were used as a power amplifier but when people realized that Wizard runes and drawing animation circles not only worked better, but also made the spell twice as strong, they tossed the trinket rings away. This however was something else entirely, we need to get this casket out of the populated area!"

Suddenly a hand came out of the casket, pushing Icias off the lid and onto the ground.The zombie came out of her casket and came running towards Jeston, he pulled out his flintlock pistol and reloading but remembered that he didn't know where the animation circle was so he dodged her and tripped her up, he shot out another stream of spider silk at the zombie to tape her for a few seconds, 'That isn't gonna hold her long, we're gonna need to split up again, you take care of the zombie and I'll find Sesco in the mansion. Deal?' Jeston said, he then realised he forgot something, 'Oh and i forgot to give you these, I stole it at the black market.' He pulled out a grey suitcase, 'Since actual bears have claws, I hope you would like these.'
He opened it to reveal nine claw weapons, each looking powerful and menacing, 'Pick a weapon, any weapon.' Jeston laughed.

Icias looks at them and shook his head, "a nice offer but don't forget what race I am," opening his paw sharply, his own claws appeared, no where near to razors sharp but a good slash wouldn't feel too good. "I appreciate the offer though my friend," Icias tossed Axel out of his bag. Loading his hand cannon he knew it was time for a battle!

'If you say so' Jeston replied and put the case away. He then saw a carriage nearby and a Drow-sized man with a purple cloak, he couldn't see the face though, 'We need to stop that carriage!' Jeston said and they ran towards it, the passenger then yelled to the driver, 'Go! Go! Go!' ' Where?' Sesco saw Jeston, Icias and Axel advanced towards him, 'Uh...to the train station!' Sesco yelled and the driver nodded and raced off, 'Damn it!' Jeston said, panting, 'We lost him but at least we know where he is going, to the train station!' he said

After 30 minutes of tiring running, the duo made it to the underground train station, on the way there, they stopped at a telephone box and informed Kevin of what had happened so far to which he replied that he had a bunch of necromacy scientists working on it. The train station was huge but luckily it was not very populated as people as trains were not used very often, 'How are we gonna find Shadorian in this place?' Jeston asked

Icias used his claw to slash Sesco's mother, "get the Drow!" Kicking her backwards into the hole dug for the coffin, he pulled a bomb out of his bag and dropped it into the hole as a ticking sound began its count down. He then pushed the coffin in on top of the zombie woman, and after a second the bomb burst her body into bits and the dirt around her caved in burying the hag! "Jeston wait up!" He yelled following the oddly quick old man. Later at the station Icias looked around, "we lost him... But now we know who were looking for." Trains went in and out of the station all day as Icias and Jeston sat in a local coffee shop. "We need a plan, any Ideas?"

A few hours later on a train heading to the north side of the city. 'You were sloppy Sesco,' Tusk's elephant gas mask shook back and forth in disapproval. 'We are going to need to accelerate our plan, my grave diggers are carving animation projections into each one of the cities dead, and my men are personally setting up cast machines that will amplify your powers making your zombies basiclly immortal.'

Sesco smiled as Tusk continued, 'your attack the city from the bell town above the Nobyl District, across from the Cathedral.' Sesco's grin got bigger and bigger, the more Tusk spoke, the more insanely historical Sesco became. 'And while you do that, I'm going to break one of the O'Shire Anchors, flipping the city upside down!!!' Laughs erupted from their train car as Icias and Jeston sat in the train station.

Jeston heard laughs erupting from the train car, 'What the hell? Who laughs like th-' he then realised who it was and threw his cup in the bin. They ran towards the train doors until an Automaton security officer stopped them, 'I'm sorry sir, but it costs 25 Shill for a train ticket.' Jeston sighed and kept searching his pockets to find nothing. The train conductor yelled 'ALL ABOARD FOR THE NOBYL DISTRICT!' as the train started to depart, Jeston kept searching some more only to keep finding nothing, 'Oh forget this!' he said and pushed the security officer out of the way, the Automaton started calling for backup and Icias and Jeston ran to the train as it began to speed up. More Automaton officers started chasing them but luckily Jeston got up to the platform and pulled Icias up. The opened the train doors and went in.

'Okay.' Jeston said, panting, 'You search the lower half of the train and I'll search the upper half and we'll find Shadorian and maybe that elephant mask guy.'

Icias being a giant Bear wasn't pulled on the next train. "That's illegal..." Icias said after he resisted the pulling from Jeston he made his way over to the guards and helped them up, "I am Icias an A Class Bounty Hunter..." He explained to the guards about a Drow running in here and escaping on the train a few hours ago, and apologized for his associates behavior. After some records were checked Icias bordered the next train to the Nobyl District. Icias was somewhere behind Jeston's train, and Jeston's train was somewhere behind Sesco's train which was pulling into the Nobyl Station all ready. The two criminals escaped into the city, lost from Jeston who was at that moment was being arrested for the second time that week... For jumping on a train and carrying a fire arm onto public transportation.

(Lol you put 'behind Jeston's train and Jeston's train')
Jeston was being held inside the small jail cell at the Nobyl train station, He was sitting at the corner of the cell with a humanoid animal that looked similair to Bigfoot, it had blood all over it's fur 'Sooooooooo is your species new in Steam Harbor.' Jeston asked, trying to make small talk, the hairy ape-like creature turned to him and growled, 'I wouldn't provoke him if I were you, shorty.' said the human officer at the desk, 'I heard that his people like to rip the arms out of their prey...' Jeston looked at the creature and backed away a bit, 'What species is that, exactly?' The office shrugged his shoulders without looking at Jeston and kept on writing out a report, 'I think his species is called Sasquatch, they are alot of them in the Nobyl district, strong and powerful creatures, apparently in winter their skins go white to adapt and they are called Yetis, don't speak English but they understand it, I think they communicate by growling or roaring.' he said, taking a bite out of a donut, 'Now be quiet, I'm not allowed to talk to prisoners and I have a report to fill out.'

Jeston was amazed about the Sasquatch species and wanted to learn more but first he had to break out of the cell. He had an idea but he needed help, 'Psst, hey you..' he whispered to the Sasquatch who looked back and growled, 'You wanna break out?' Jeston said and the Sasquatch made a confused growling noise and slowly walked over to Jeston who whispered in his ear. The Sasquatch nodded and fell to the floor and groaned as if he was in pain, Jeston ran over to tend to him, 'Oh my gosh this guy is dying, it must some sort of infection to the cell!' 'Come on, you really think I'm gonna fall for that?' said the officer, 'No seriously, my friend had this once and he died within a minute!' The officer sighed, 'Fine.' and he came over and unlocked the door, the Sasquatch then got up and put the man in a headlock who struggled and tried to reach his gun but it was too late as the creature snapped his neck, killing him instantly.

Jeston and the Sasquatch (Now known to be called Lummox) escaped form the cell and went back into the train station. Jeston thanked Lummox for his help which resulted in Lummox giving Jeston a hug, he(Jeston) told him that if he ever needed help he would call him which Lummox agreed to and he ran off. Jeston now needed to find Icias again and find Sesco and Master Tusk.

Icias's eyes grew wide, "what do you mean I can't pay off the release of Jeston the Dwarf!?!?!" An inspector walked back out of the bloody jailing area, he proceeded to explain how a five thousand Shill bounty was on the dwarf's head for helping the Sasquatch, who was on the run from the Nobyl Zoo, escape the Jail cell as well. "Damn you dwarf..." Icias didn't have even half that in Shill, "see were on a case given to us by Kevin O'Shire to stop..." The inspector didn't care, to him, the guard was his personal friend. The man handed Icias the Wanted poster with Jeston's name on it, "well this is gonna be awkward."

Icias felt like Jeston and him had really grown together as partners, but assisted murder and escaping jail for the second time, along with assaulting officers at the Southport District Train station wasn't what good people did. And Icias only just met the man like a week ago, "I'll bring him in," the Bearon sighed to the inspector.

At this time Sesco was in position and Tusk was no where too be found, the clock under the bell tower clicked to 11:55, 'soon the dead all over this city will take over the living.' Sound amplifiers were placed all around the bell tower to cast the spell all throughout the city, 'soon Steam Harbour will be flipped on it's head, litterally!!!'

Jeston headed to the Cathedral where across the street he saw sound amplifiers around the bell towers, he didn't know what they were for, just below the tower, he saw the back of a purple cloak and yelled, 'SHADORIAN!', the man in the cloak turned around and swore in Elvish, Jeston still couldn't see his face and chased after, him, Shadorian kept on running whilst looking back until he bumped into a man and fell down, 'Watch it you Drow!' said the man. Jeston tackled Sesco and had a little wrestle with him until Jeston was on top, 'Time to see who is really under that cloak of yours.' he said 'NO!' yelled Shadorian as he struggled but it was too late. Jeston pulled off Shadorian's cloak and gasped, 'Wha...what happened to you?' he said with a shocked face. Sesco pushed Jesto off him and threw his cloak on the ground...
'So now you see me...'

(What Shadorian looked like)

Sesco was in a special armor to protect him from the skin shredding sound that the bell tower was about to... GOOOOOONNNNNGGGGGGGG!!! GOOOOOOONNNNNGGGGGGG!!!! GOOOOOOOONNNNNNNGGGGGG!!!!! as the amplified noise echoed through the city the dead began to rise and a large animation circle appeared on the massive bell! Jeston's asking began to vibrate at a frequency that was causing it to loosen from his muscles and bones causing him extreme pain, 'trust me dwarf,' the armored Drow said standing up. 'This is mercy,' kicking the dwarf out of the bell tower. Jestson fell downward as his skin ached, crashing through the roof of a brewery he splashed safely into a vat of dark beer, the alchohal stung for a moment but it numbed the pain moments later and was just what the doctor ordered.

As Icias stepped out of the train station he heard the sound of the bell echoing across the city. "I don't remember the bell being that loud..." Moaning insued and the living dead flooded the streets. Icias aimed his hand cannon at one of their heads, the animation circles were not hidden on any of these! They were all carved straight onto their head, not hidden at all. But shooting at the zombies head proved useless, the circle did not break... "Their must be a central animation circle... If it is destroyed, or the caster is killed, the undead will lose thier mana pool!" Unfortunately these immortal unbeatable zombies were swarming so Icias ran...

Jeston ran out of the brewery, wet with dark beer. He saw that streets were starting to be filled with zombies, Automaton guards tried holding them off, both by James and Kevin. One came running towards Jeston so he pulled out his flintlock pistol and shot it in the head where it's animation circle was but it didn't break, 'Crap!' he said as the zombie still came running to him with a bullet-sized hole in his forehead. Jeston started backing away a bit as more started to surround him, 'Whose idea was it to bury zombies under the streets anyway?!' he said to himself. Shadorian came out of the bell tower and pointed to Jeston, 'Yes, my minions, kill the dwarf!' he ordered but instead the zombies turned to Sesco and started slowly going towards him, 'Wait...what are you doing....attack I say, attack!' but they didn't listen, Sesco backed away a bit, 'No....you can't I am your ruler...Obey me!' but it was too late, the zombies tackled Sesco to the ground and started eating his flesh, screams of pain erupted from Sesco, 'AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH' he screamed out as Jeston could see his hand being severed off. The screams started to die down and the zombies got up and turned to Jeston who ran away.
Shadorian was dead.

Slowly Sesco's corpse raise and the armored dark elf zombie ran at Jeston and went to bite the Dwarf, Jeston was surrounded in front of the bell tower. Around the city, people who were killed by the undead turned into zombies almost instantly. People bitten however, began having severe head aches as they continued to fight off the dead, what could this mean! Kevin turned to his guards, 'protect James, focus on protecting him!' But the zombies tackled James and tore him apart before the guards could jump to the eldest son's aid. But as the supposed elder son was ripped to shreds metal and cogs flung into the air, it wasn't James... It was a well crafted automaton with a sculpted face to look like James O'Shire the second!

Icias was on the other side of the city running from a swarm himself, darting into an ally and making a quick hop down some stairs he found himself where the sidewalk ends. The cities edge and the place where one of the cities three Anchors connected to the Sky Stone. Impossible to run anymore Icias looked at the drop, it was a long way down. But hearing some odd noises a couple hundred feet bellow caused him to hold for a second. A Zeppelin airship was down bellow and it seemed to be that some men were working on the Anchor's chain. "Wait their cutting it, this whole thing has just been one big destruction!" The zombies turned the corner and made their way down the steps, "Jeston, your a wanted man... But I sure hope to the machine God that you can save the city from being eaten alive while I try to save us from being flipped over like a bucket-o-water!!" Dropping his radio the Bearon Jumped!

(Sorry about my absence)

Jeston saw Icias jump down to the zeppelin, thinking he is crazy until he saw him land safely to which Jeston gave a sigh of relief until he saw a pack of zombie including the Shadorian running towards him, it pounced at Jeston who covered his face with his arm to avoid the attack until a body got in the way yelling 'No!' and the Shadorian zombie started biting at it with blood going everywhere, Jeston kicked the zombie away ad sprayed him with spider silk to hold him off a bit, he looked down to the body, which was still breathing but slowly dying and recognised the bloody face.
It was Kevin O'Shire, Jeston kneeled down to the body, 'Why?' he asked Kevin who tilted his head to Jeston and wheezed, 'Save my city.....' he then took his last breath before Jeston slowly put the body down as it rolled off the edge of Steam Harbour, missing the zeppelin and falling down to the mist below.

Jeston was in the town square holding off zombies with Kevin and his Automaton guards around the bell tower. They didn't know how long they were going to be able to hold them off. Jeston looked up to see the amplifiers, 'We have to get rid of those amplifiers!' he said to Kevin as he shot the Shadorian zombie in the face. Kevin nodded and ordered some guards up the tower, Jeston following them.

Jeston and two Automatons made it to the top of the tower where they saw wires to the two amplifiers however they were guarded by about 30 zombies who slowly came marching towards them, even Jeston knew that the three of them couldn't take them all on and backed away a bit. Suddenly brown furry 6ft tall men came ziplining through the windows kicking the zombies and ripping them limb from limb. One particular furry man who bit the head of a zombie and threw it out the window caught Jeston's eye. 'Lummox!' said Jeston as the Automatons lowered their guns. Lummox gave a growl of joy and ran up to Jeston adn gave him a big bear hug, 'Glad you could join the party!' Jeston joked as Lummox put him down, 'Okay, tell your friends that we need to cut these wires to stop the zombies.' Lummox nodded and roared to his fellow Sasquatches who started cutting at the wires, luckily Sasquatches were good climbers so some climbed out of building at started biting and jumping on the amplifiers. After 5 minutes, the two amplifiers were down, with one falling off the bell tower and crushing a whole bunch of zombies below and narrowly missing O'Shire and his men.

Icias was a polar Bearon, meaning he had the power of the roar. It was very powerful but was a once in a while kind of power. When the Grave Mercinaries stopped hacking away at the great anchor and turned to Icias with their guns pointed at the Bearon, he let out a great roar! This Roar froze the first two men solid and threw the others off the Zeppelin, causing them to fall downward to their deaths. This attack left Icias out of breathe as he turned around to see the man in the Elephant gas mask... As the man removed it slowly Icias growled, "James O'Shire the second..."

The gas mask fell to the deck as James smiled, 'the name is Tusk to you Bearon, you couldn't just let it go.'

"Your brother hired me and the dwarf to find out who was raising the dead and it was all you in the end" Icias drew his hand cannon and pointed it at the eldest O'Shire. "Your under arrest for the attempted murder of over a hundred thousand citizens of Steam Harbor!" Icias paused, "but before I take you in... Tell me why?"

Jeston and the Sasquatches ran down to the bottom of the tower to hold off more zombies. The Sasquatches were very fierce,brave creatures, one of them actually ripped the heart out of a zombie and stomped on it multiple times. Jeston saw a familiar zombie running towards him, it was his friend Teregud from the black market, Jeston didn't want to kill a friend so he moved out of the way and tripped the zombie up, spraying some more silk on him.

'My father built this damn city and forgot all about me,' James said, 'he never really wanted it here, he just wanted an escape from everyone and instead everyone followed him here!' He pulled out a weapon of his own, a sword made out of a tesla. As he flicked the switch a blade made of lightning appeared, 'this is my revenge on everyone who used my father and forced him into solitude!!!' James, aka master Tusk swung the Lightning Tesla Blade at the chain but someone jumped in the way!

"Axel!!!" Icias called as his little robot got cut in two! Bang!! Bang!!!

Tusk dropped to the ground, as his blade fell to the deck as well. Icias picked up the Tesla Blade, and put it in his satchel. And picked up Axel, "sorry little buddy but I don't have time to morn you." Steering the airship away from anchor Icias flew it up and over the city, "no one will ever know that I saved them..." Aiming the guns at the bell tower Icias pulled the trigger, "a gut feeling or not it's probably the heart of the animation circle...