Ezio<br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">With your eagle like sight, the first thing that grabs your attention is the magnificent marble white castle that lies right behind you, dwarfing you with it's tremendous size. Its regal towers boast a craftsmanship most mundane builders could not even hope to master in their lifetime. The roof is a splendid lavender color, a bit odd for a castle, but that is all you can discern from the ground. The building does look like something out of a fairy tale... Within the gardens, there are flowers of hues and sizes you have never seen before, along with those that are spread through your hometown. You also notice a faint shaking in the bushes, the source of it being a few peacocks who have seemed to take cover from the stranger now trespassing in their home. There is also a flash off on the beach, something even a fool would have noticed! You see a man armored in deep blue armor investigate the area, but he seems unaware of your presence. </div></div><br/><br/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">X</span>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/><br/>"X, this mission of utmost importance. Enemies we have never seen before are pouring from these rips of energy showing up in all the major cities. We are having a hard time keeping them back, even now as more are coming through. It all depends on you, X! This is a very dangerous mission, and we can't help you once you go through...Please be careful..."Alia warned through the comm link that was now soon to be severed as X stood before one of the very portals that caused his world so much trouble.<br/><br/>It had sprung up in the very center of the crash site of the Eurasia colony, a very ominous place for such a dangerous phenomenon indeed. The very earth was scorched underneath the reploid's feet, a brittle and dry crust that now supported his weight. Nothing had grown here since that fateful day, the skeletal remains of the colony still clear as day to all who now traveled this wasteland. The portal's light cast an eerie blue glow upon everything within  twenty feet of it,  as if spirits would dash from the energy gate's maw as if to escape their nasty fate.<br/><br/>X took a deep breath to calm his nerves, knowing very well he had to be at his best in order to complete his new mission and return home to all of his friends safely. The mission to find the source of these portals and stop them from springing up in this world ever again."I understand, Alia. I was briefed very clearly about what my mission is. I will be careful, I can't afford to let anyone else be hurt by the enemies from the portal...It's my duty as a maverick hunter, and I won't fail that. See you soon."X said quietly before taking a leap of faith into the glowing gate. His comm link crackled with white noise, painfully breaking the connection with HQ that he had...and the connection with his friends and allies.<br/><br/>After a journey through blinding blue light that seemed to stretch on forever, X felt the airy ground of the tunnel seemed to be replaced with...."Sand?" He muttered quietly, raising his arm to shield his emerald eyes from the strong sunlight. He bent down to shift the earthy granules through his fingers to make sure that it was real sand that he stood on and not a trick of the portal."I ended up....somewhere pretty."The gentle reploid stated as he stared in awe of the giant castle, having not seen something like this with his own eyes. Many depictions of these types of buildings were stored in data consoles and books....But to see such a fey like castle in real color. It was nice.... Especially since so much life grew around it!"It's nice to see such life hear....but why did that portal lead me here?"X muttered as he looked at the castle again, deep in thought.<br/><br/><br/>