Supernatural War: Ezaka Rising

## Ezaka Rising

Ezaka Rising is a story told from three perspectives. The first is in third person and details the journey of Chase Brown. The second is told in first person and details the journey of Vermillion Black. The third and final perspective is told in second person and tells the story of Grüul's journey as detailed by Xelifer. These three perspectives travel alongside one another until uniting to defeat the Proxim God, Ezaka.

## Summary

Vermillion is gets word from his Magi that the pillars were volatile and irradiating a strange energy. While travelling into the cave the ground begins rumbling and the mountain shatters. The chamber had caved in and after week of excavation, they only found five pillars. Vermillion has one of his top Mystics check the area and found traces of transportation hexes.

Xelifer Polterstomp is a Ocha researcher who notices a weird energy signature coming from Kanacona and goes to investigate. When he finally reaches the location he finds a lone Dekor travelling towards Vespigo. He follows the creature and watches it kill a mountain hermit living in a secluded cabin. The Dekor nests itself into the corpse and uses it to continue its journey to Vespigo. The creature, that he named Grüul, arrives in Gersui looking wildly for something Xelifer cannot figure out.

In Gersui Chase, now forgotten instead of hated member of his community, lives in an apartment with Ashley Reid while she takes exams to join the National Investigations Office (NIO) and his girlfriend Margret Mallory. He gets to see his daughter Abby every weekend, but is not on the best terms with Echo due to his drug use.

One day he finds a piece of the Hellfire Tablet after leaving the house to head to work. He works the night shift at the metal shop, but has to take frequent smoke breaks to handle the shaking he developed after killing Cameron Offerman. While outside smoking Chase saw a hunched figure down the alleyway. Curious, Chase approaches the figure to find a grotesque man with a beard and skin that looked like his was stretched to its absolute limit over bone, muscle, and sinew. The creature faces Chase and begins chasing him. Chase runs and enters into the building, he locks the door behind him, but the creature breaks through it. Inside, the creature begins slaughtering dozens of workers. Chase tries to warn them, but is met with ridicule. He chooses to just escape and runs out of the building. The next morning he turns on the news and sees the entire incident called a mass murder and security footage shows Chase, with his hood up, leaving the scene. Chase tells Margret about what happened and the two resolve to leave the city together. He has Ashley drop Abby off at Echo's house, he also tells her that she she tell Echo what happened and to stay with her.

The duo left Gersui and headed south towards Maxophar. On the way, they stop in Manhattica to find Quincy, but instead witness the arrival of Ezaka. In the panic as the city is destroyed by Ezaka's force of Dekor. They meet and save young girl with a second piece of the Hellfire Tablet. The trio flee the city, but run into the creature that had attacked Chase in Gersui. They hit it at 90 miles an hour and crash. Since Chase and Kesha were wearing seatbelts they were beaten, but alive. Unfortunately, Margret was not and Chase woke up to see her lifeless body laying down at the foot of a giant redwood. Her neck and spine were broken on contact. He cried over her body until Kesha woke up and got out of the vehicle. She drags Chase off her and pulls him down the highway to a roadside casino. Inside Kesha wins a man's car keys in a game of poker and the duo leave with the disgruntled man chasing them.

They continue forward until getting to an motel room were they stay for the night. Chase wakes up having a nightmare about the creature who had Cameron's, standing over Margret's corpse. He is met by Vermillion who had settled into the armchair in the corner of the room. Vermillion greets him and tells him to hand over the piece of the Hellfire Tablet. The older man in the chair tells Kesha to stop hiding in the bathroom. She exits the bathroom with a knife in her hand, and Vermillion tells her to hand over her piece as well. The tension hung in the air until a woman busted in through the door in song. This woman, known as Beth, was very energetic and excited. She introduced herself to the younglings. Vermillion is obviously irritated and notices Chase's eyes. Realizing that Chase might be the one to finally defeat Ezaka he forces them to allow Beth and Vermillion to join them.

The four continue the journey while Dekor ravage the country. while passing through the mountains they stop at a stoplight. At the stoplight a group of thugs attempt to carjack Chase & friends. When they are easily handled by Vermillion and Beth, Vermillion identifies them as the Daft Jokers and hires them to help them get to Ezaka. The Jokers, led by Tyson, act as a moving force for when they arrive. Quincy Xolt and Zo have set a command center while the Watchdog Unit work to hold back Matthias and the Dekor. Realizing what was truly at stake, Tyson calls for the entirety of the Daft Jokers and their affiliates to arrive like a calvary. With the combined forces of the Watchdog Unit, ZO, the Vespigian Military, the Daft Jokers, the Magi, and Grüul. Matthias is killed, Grüul takes Ezaka's piece of the Hellfire Tablet, and Ezaka is left with his back against the wall. In the heat of battle Ezaka kills Tyson, Grüul, Isaiah, and Nova Clarke. He also permanently cripples Elly Durand and Emilio Karlos. With the power of the pieces of the Hellfire Tablet, Chase and Kesha are able to channel that power into Quincy, Beth, and Vermillion who use it to finally kill Ezaka together.

## Trivia

* Supernatural War: Ezaka Rising was conceived after Life Sux, Nature's Freaks & Beauties, and Zo: Army of the Zodiac; and acts as a culmination of all three stories.
* It was originally conceived before any of the other Supernatural War stories and therefore does not account for the absence of the other Saints.