Richen

Chapter four: The next step

 When the battles had seized and all of the rogue hunters had been apprehended, the remaining council-members had an emergency meeting trying to decide what to do next. General Sylea informed them that Bargon and the rest had teleported to another dimension. The assassination-general told them that her dagger would give any other general a long-lasting and hard to heal wound, but considering that Bargon was an elite general and had a very strong body he would probably heal after just some days.

 The loss of the deceased members caused a very difficult situation; four squads were missing either council-member’s or a general. Eventually a decision was made, and that was to give other council-members control of these squads.

 The next step would now be, after debating, to track down Bargon and bring him back. Sylea the scouting general would be sent after Bargon, escorted by Ferenghir, to track him down and to monitor the situation. After two days the two generals returned, only with the message that they could not find Bargon, only that they could tell in what galaxy he was, which was a galaxy similar to their own, in the vicinity of the planet Earth. Sylea was to be sent back to scout further but at a safe distance.

 Sometime later when the agency had rebuilt and order was once again, Sylea returned with strange news. Apparently the planet earth in the other dimension had humans with limited powers and they had not yet developed to the stage of the regular Shawdorians. This was not strange at all, but the strange thing was that Sylea could sense a few power signatures similar to her own for some weeks now; with other words she could feel Shadowrium.

 This was of course a catastrophe, because that planet earth should not have Shadowrium and those humans would not be ready yet for that kind of power! The council knew that Bargon had to be the cause of this, but they could not find the reason behind these events. Just only to travel to the other planet earth and extract the anomalies would not do any good, not as long as Bargon was still out there.

 They could not place a lot of shadow hunters there either, because it seemed only generals could stay there for a longer time. Any lower ranked could only stay there for a shorter time or with the presence of a general, without starting to lose their powers, and the council had to have the generals at their base for defense.

 So the council made a decision, that they really didn’t have any authority to make, and that was to interfere with another dimension. They would send general Ferenghir to the planet Earth and locate one male and one female with new powers to act as protectors of the planet against the anomalies. These two would be brought back to Shadowria and their Shadowrium would be stabilized to increase their power and also would they be given training to be able to protect their planet. With equipment able to detect these humans created by Gerina the research general, Ferenghir was sent to planet Earth.