Invasion of the Hunt

**Invasion of the Hunt** is the fourth and final novella of the first phase of the Fantiverse. The POV is Sana, with one scene each dedicated to Nazia and the Fashi Captain.

## Summary

With an invasion imminent, Sana and Moonbeam try to find a way to stop Hevu from killing everyone.

## Plot

With the weekend beginning, Sana prepares to have a lot of fun... only to get stuck with a lot of homework. While dealing with shenanigans like this as well as Nazia being slightly overbearing, they get struck with news that Moonbeam is leaving (from Moonbeam). Sana ends up incredibly distraught over this to the point that they decide to trick Moonbeam into staying by showing her how beautiful Salamvalley is. They (reluctantly) enlist the help of Zayn, Rolo, Fyrinem and Orris to do this. It ends up going extraordinarily well, and Sana realizes that their feelings for Moonbeam are completely reciprocated, and the two of them almost kiss before being interrupted by texts from Rolo, Orris and Fyrinem saying that something is wrong with Zayn. Sana goes to see what's happened, and finds that Zayn is acting strange. They end up returning home with him and Moonbeam. Once he goes to bed, however, is when Moonbeam says to Sana that she knows what they were trying to do, and says they still want to leave because they're afraid of getting hurt again. She goes to sleep before they can debate more, which only hurts Sana more. Before they go to sleep, they have a heated fight with Nazia about her pushiness and Sana's avoidance that they end up not resolving, making Sana feel so miserable that they don't notice strange occurrences with Zayn happening right next to them.

Later on that night was when Zayn enters Sana's room, and Sana finally realizes that he's been possessed. She tries fighting him, only to realize he's too strong now, and that he's been possessed by Hevu. Javier and Nazia intervene, both of them working together to knock Hevu out so that they can interrogate him. The next morning, he's strapped to a chair as Javier, Nazia, Sana, Moonbeam, Rolo, Fyrinem and Orris all work to figure out what's wrong. Hevu warns them that they're all about to die, but Rolo concludes that Hevu's real form must be somewhere on the moon, and so Sana and Moonbeam go to destroy him and get him out of Zayn's body. Once they reach the moon, however, tensions between them start to get harder to ignore. Back on Salamvalley, while dealing with her son being possessed, Nazia stresses about her relationship with Sana and how south it's going. After a rather uneventful and unhelpful conversation with Javier, Nazia absolves to tell Sana how she really got to Salam, and that she deserves to know. She finishes by revealing that she knows Javier has been possessed by Hevu, and escapes the house. On the moon, Moonbeam and Sana force the Fashi Captain about Hevu, so he tells them that he's a scull, which is essentially a type of magic user that possesses and kills people in order to grow his strength. They learn in this time that Hevu's real form is inside Zayn, and that they wasted a bunch of time. At this moment, Orris comes onto the moon, possessed by Hevu, as well as Rolo. As the Fashi Captain escapes, Sana and Moonbeam have a fierce battle with Orris and Rolo, which they end up just barely winning as they portal back to Salamvalley. However, Moonbeam is captured by Zayn Hevu. Moonbeam urges Sana to leave and make a plan to come back, which Sana reluctantly agrees with after realizing they can't defeat Hevu on their own, escaping as Moonbeam is possessed.

Sana spends a while hiding in a rock, has multiple epiphanies regarding their inability to communicate with Moonbeam and Nazia as well as decision to, after all this, really communicate with both of them ("lack of communication... is NOT key"). While at first unsure of what to do next, Sana eventually concludes that they can find a way with Rolo's notes, knowing that she must have something on sculls with all the notes she takes on science. Sana ends up running into trouble with Rolo's possessed parents as well as a possessed Javier before Fyrinem and Nazia, both of whom are so far safe, end up rescuing them. Fyrinem leads both of them back to his house, where they plan what to do, coming up with an idea involving luring Hevu into a portal and defeating him there. During this conversation, Nazia reveals that she is also an illegal magic user, and that she was afraid for Sana because of what she went through involving being forced to flee Fashia due to the Fashi Empire. Sana and Nazia are able to reconcile, both of them embracing, while Fyrinem says that Hevu's come with his possessed army. Nazia volunteers to stay behind, urging Fyrinem and Sana to both go, which Sana, once again, reluctantly does. Fyrinem and Sana race for the portal, where they start their plan, until suddenly Hevu catches up with them, and throws Fyrinem right back into the portal. There is a long fight between Sana and a possessed Moonbeam and Zayn, in which Sana, knowing the weaknesses of both of them, is able to overpower them for a certain period of time, until the rest of the possessed group - Javier, Nazia, Rolo, Orris, all their families - show up and Hevu gets ready to possess Sana and use their magic to kill everyone, until Fyrinem shows up just in the nick of time, using his regained magic to make it daytime, which ends up melting Hevu in the sun, while freeing everyone from his possession. While he tries to swear that everyone will pay, Sana simply mocks him and watches as he completely sizzles up, burning in the sunlight. Sana reunites with everyone, happy to see everyone come back, while Nazia readies to have a proper conversation with Zayn. With all this done, Sana goes with Moonbeam so the two of them can talk their stuff out. Sana talks about how they don't want to lose Moonbeam, whereas Moonbeam expresses her fear of losing Sana or being betrayed. The two of them are able to resolve their issues enough that they agree to this romantic relationship, and share a kiss. They are caught by Zayn, Orris, Rolo and Fyrinem, who make fun of them, so Sana and Moonbeam decide to temporarily quit their kissing to make fun of them for it, Sana saying internally that life in Salamvalley is wonderful. In sharp contrast, back on the moon, the Fashi Empire is extremely bored until the Fashi General shows up, with the announcement that the sculls will be working much more closely with the Fashi Empire, introducing Morder. She ends up terrifying the Fashi Captain enough that he stops questioning her, although he asks the Fashi General if the Fashi Lord knew what he was getting into, to which the Fashi General guesses no. They conclude the next few years will be strange for the Fantiverse.

## Characters

Sana

Moonbeam

Hevu

Nazia

Zayn

Fyrinem

Rolo

Fashi Captain

Orris

Javier

Morder

Fashi General

Hari (mentioned)

Natasha (mentioned)

## Music

**Wildkin Glade by Vindsvept**

**Bleak Falls by Vindsvept**

**Amazing Plan by Kevin MacLeod**

**Call of the Forest by Vindsvept**

**Quest's End by Vindsvept**

**Invocation by Vindsvept**

**Legally Blond [instrumental] by Heather Hach**

**The Dread by Kevin MacLeod**

**The Phantom's Dance by Vindsvept**

**Whispers in the Winter Wind by Vindsvept**

**Night Breaks by Kevin MacLeod**

**Collision by Vindsvept**

**Hero Down by Kevin MacLeod**

**Zombie Chase by Kevin MacLeod**

**Never to Return by Vindsvept**

**Unseen Horrors by Kevin MacLeod**

**A World Divided by Vindsvept**

**Daylight's End by Vindsvept**