Dimensional Descent

Leonel felt as though a blade was twisting through his organs. He had never experienced pain on this level in his entire life. It was to the point that no amount of will could keep his mind clear. Whatever semblance of control he had had over the process of his body had completely collapsed, resulting in a rampaging Force surging throughout his body.

Anyone else in this sort of situation would have long since died. In fact, they moment they swallowed that amount of dew, they would have exploded on the spot.

That said, Leonel current situation had little to nothing to do with the amount of Force he had swallowed. In fact, it had nothing to do with him trying to form a Tenth Node either. It was entirely related to the twisting pain at his hip.

To this point, Leonel still had no idea why his father ever mentioned the scar above his hip. Leonel had never been aware of where it came from. Considering he played football, he had never thought much about it to begin with. Injuries always seemed to pop up randomly for anyone who played the sport. He had even broken his ribs during the last game he played, why would he think so much about a barely visible scar?

However, Leonel could have never imagined that such a small matter would blow up to this level.

Leonel's mind was completely blank. His eyes had rolled back, making his vision completely black. It felt as though the only thing he could feel was pain, the only think he could hear were his screams, the only thing he could smell was the metallic stench of his own blood.

Then, it all began to turn faint. As though his life was being pulled along by a string completely out of his control, he stalked closer toward death. And, maybe the worst part was that Leonel wasn't even aware.

Maybe it was because his will wasn't tempered enough, maybe it was because this pain was truly beyond the limits of his body, but there was nothing he could do to change his own fate.

**

straddling the line of life and death, Scithe had finally gotten the report he had been waiting several days for. After reading

of their organization, digging up information on a mere Third Dimensional existence was too easy. However, Leonel's information

one, his grandfather was

It was an extraordinary feat and it was impossible for any simple existence to accomplish this, especially when it

Fourth Dimensional world? He might find it troublesome

eyebrow wasn't the information, but rather, the lack

was to the point they hadn't even managed to find her name. No birth records, no name,

hadn't been heard of in decades. In fact, the time she had disappeared for

nowhere. There were records that were very clearly forged of his birth and early life, but

Metamorphosis began. There wasn't

there was

boy as a troublemaker was an

near destruction of a Fort, the murder of several hidden family members, the falling out with the

What did he care what a teen did against such weak organizations? The real issue was how all of this

was given, Scithe already had Earth on his radar. This was simply one of those things the public was in the dark about while those with some real weight to them were

Scithe wanted to know was whether or not Leonel and his mysterious family was part of those eyeing Earth as a pie

then Scithe might very well become a scapegoat in a power struggle simply