"Seems we've been forgotten." Adrian said, looking around the control room.
"I still don't like the way that thing's looking at me." Gelid said.
Adrian glanced over at the creature Markior had called Dev. The auran chuckled. "Your three times the size of it. The worst it could do is bite your ankle."
"So where did that Markior guy go? And what did he say about being a vulth'n?"
"Oh he was, I should've sensed it right away, but I didn't feel any danger." Adrian replied. She stood up. The powers that she had felt both in Markior and Lich were fading away.
"Come on, we're going."
"Good." Gelid moved towards the door, keeping an eye on Dev the whole time. Adrian followed him out the door. It wasn't to hard to find their way out of the ship and back onto the sand.
She spied a strange forest that had somehow popped out of the blistering sand on the horizon. As much as she trusted her feelings that Markior and Lich were both on the side trying to protect Zolott, part of her still couldn't completely trust a vulth'n, especially after he had nearly destroyed her home in a fit of madness.
"So where're we heading?" Gelid asked.
"I'm not exactly sure anymore." Adrian said. "The earthquakes were stopped, so now it's either look for that Agent, or wader around until we run into someone else involved in this war that seems to be brewing."
Adrian paused, trying to decide whether it would be worse running into Optional again if she went looking for the Agent, or Kyanosa, who was wandering around somewhere on Zolott. **Ten to one he was lost five minutes after he started.** She thought to herself with a shake of her head.
She still hadn't decided the better of the two outcomes, and so she just picked a direction, and headed forward. The ship, and forest behind it faded into the distance as night began to fall on the part of the planet they were traveling on.
They walked for a few hours before Adrian decided they should rest. Gelid fell asleep almost immediately after they'd stopped. The night air grew chilly, but not cold enough for Adrian to need the warmth of a fire. Three moons hung in the sky, probably the moons of whatever planet this section of Zolott had come from. It lit up the ground enough for Adrian to see. She didn't sense anything on the plain around them either.
The threat had not passed. Whatever it was, was still somewhere on Zolott. Adrian drew Demonslayer from the sheath on her back and made a few passes, loosening up her muscles. She sparred with the night air around her. Necronimus and that other robot who had been with him had to work for someone. A picture of the tall robot with the skull for a head pushed it's way into her thoughts. **So whoever his master is, is the enemy I have to fight.** Adrian sliced through the air in a controlled fashion, Demonslayer stopping just above the sand.
She glanced up as something past one of the moons. It didn't take Adrian long to realize she couldn't feel the figure. That meant it could be one of those robots again. She resheathed Demonslayer in one swift motion and after checking that Gelid was still asleep, moved off to where the figure had disappeared to. Over the next sand dune the desert suddenly turned into plain of jagged ice. Adrian slipped into the new piece of world, feeling the sudden bite of the icy wind. She moved slowly though the pillars of ice, glancing around each one until she spotted the robot bent over a piece of ice. The skull on his head helped Adrian immediately label him as Necronimus. **But what's he doing here?**
The robot seemed to be studying the ground, before taking off into the sky again. Adrian noted the way he was heading before moving over to the place he had been studying. She felt something weird under the surface of the ice. It was to much of a jumble of signals for her to figure out what it was. She tapped her boot on the ice, but it was solid under her feet.
Still not sure if Necronimus was gone she headed back over the ice and woke Gelid.
"Morning already?" He asked sleepily as he rose to his feet.
"No. Necronimus was looking at something under some ice and I was wondering if you could die it out for me."
"Necronimus? He's here?" Gelid asked nervously. "Wait, ice? We're in a desert."
Adrian motioned him over the sand dune. Gelid's face lit up like a child's on Christmas as he spied the ice. "Bout time." He said jumping right out onto it. As soon as he set foot on it a light snow began to fall. "I like this a lot better. Now what was it you wanted me to uncover?"
Adrian led him back to where she'd seen Necronimus. With a tap of his foot, the ice fell away from the area. A few feet down was some sort of weird machine. Adrian could tell there was some sort of energy coming from it, but she wasn't sure how. It wasn't living. **But it's what Necronimus was looking for.** She thought.
"Cover it back up, just in case."
"Can do." Gelid covered the machine back up quickly. "So was that what Necronimus was looking for?"
"I guess so." Adrian replied. "Though I'm not sure why. I saw which way he was headed though, so that's as good a way as any to go."
Gelid agreed. "But not until I get some more sleep."
Adrian nodded with a smile. Gelid curled up on the ice to go to sleep, but Adrian moved back onto the warmer sand before laying down and slowly drifting off to sleep.

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The next morning Adrian and Gelid headed out across the ice, leaving behind the hot sands, to follow the direction Necronimus had taken. The ice sheet eventually turned into a snow covered ground, which was much easier for Adrian to travel over. Gelid was happy either way, playing with the snow and ice around them. Adrian spied a village in the distance.
"I wouldn't go any closer if I were you."
Adrian groaned loudly as a familiar transparent figure appeared in front of her.
"What are you doing here Optional?" Gelid asked.
"I believe I was supposed to go looking for the Agent." Optional replied. He turned into a rock, which must've not been interesting enough because he quickly returned to his normal form.
"You mean he's here?" Adrian asked.
"Well, what reason do you have to be here if you didn't know that?" Optional asked.
"Necronimus was heading this way." Adrian said.
"That would be because Havering is here as well." The ghost said, amusing himself by turning into a pinwheel which spun in the breeze.
Suddenly there was an explosion of power so great that Adrian was amazed she hadn't felt the source of the power. It seemed to be coming from a ridge above the village.
"Is that Havering?"
"And The Agent." Optional said with glee.
"He has that much power?" Adrian asked in astonishment.
"It is a surprise isn't it?" Optional giggled. "You'd never guess a round person like him would have so much power. Here's another shocker for you. They're both demons."
"They're what?" Adrian nearly exploded. She could handle if the being trying to destroy her planet was a vulth'n, but the person trying to save it was one as well. **It's not possible.** She thought looking up to the cliff where the energy was coming from. Without a word Adrian shifted into her griffin form, much to the delight of Optional, who seemed to be amazed that anyone besides himself could change shape.
Adrian pumped her wings, swirling up snow all around her. She soon caught a breeze, and it sent her soaring up until she could see the melee on the rocky crag. She stayed far enough away to stay away from any backlashes of the energy. She saw Multex right away, plummling away on the tall figure in front of him, who responded with strong blows of his own.
"Yep. That's Havering. He's actually quite dull most of the time."
Adrian did her best to ignore Optional, who was floating around, watching the battle with great interest. Havering raised his hands and said something that was carried up on the wind. It was a language the auran didn't understand. Then Adrian saw the Agent fall. She rushed forward, but Havering took the Agent and disappeared before she could even get close. **Oh great. Now what?**