To open the door...

Looking around Corin let out a low whistle, " Man I can make a guess who did this, hope Trigger is ok.

Turning Corin aproched the door, " So who made this".
Placing his hand on the door Corin reach out with his void sence trying to get a feel for the door and how it worked.

" I wish she had given me some idea how to open this thing while she was at it."

Corin continue to study the door running his hands across it feeling for any oddities and studying each of the locking mechanisims.

Well what now any ideas...

Corin suddied the runes attempting to make sence of any of them he could.

You still havent really told me who made this, but you have made me wonder about something.

Reaching out Corin pulled void power into himself, allowing it to flow out into his hands, as it reached the tip of each finger he mentally molded it as he had back in the fight
with Psychorin, so that as he layed his hands on the door again the power flowing from each finger corisponded to a different element.

Then as he lay his hands back on the door he spoke " My name is Corin desendant of Bastion and I want to enter here......

( Thinking in his head ) Man I bet I look silly but who knows maybe this will get us something ....

Corin walked over and sat down at the table with Zero.

Well that takes care of that many locks a couple of them look like they requre some kind of physical keys though.
You have any ideas as to what those might be.

Seeing Zero look under the table Corin did the same, what is that plaque, I wonder if it can be removed and what does the number 13 on it mean.

Reaching under the table Corin felt around attempting to wiggle the plaque to see if it would come lose or if it hid anything within...

As Corin studdied the plaque in his hands it quickly became obvious there was nothing special about it, but on closer inspection there was something special about the table.

Taking the plaque and flipping it over so that the numbered side was up instead of down allowed it to sink into a slight recess that had not been apparent in the table bottem untill it was removed.

The plaque slid into place with a faint click and at the same time a perfectly hidden pannel on the tables top poped up.

inside were a number of small parts that fit together like a puzzle. It took about an hour or so to finally get it correctly assembeled but once they did it came together with a final snap
becoming a solid hole as if it had never been broken at all.

The symbol looked like three interlaced triangles overlayed with a yinyang symbol.

Walking back over to the door Corin used the key to remove the large padlock then slideing back what he now realised to be a secured panel a cutout in the shape of the symbol was revieled.

As the piece was inserted a distenctive whine could be heard then with a presurised pop like an airlock seal had been broken the door unlatched.

Turning to Zero Corin said " Well ... After you...."

Corin followed Zero into the room feeling the chill as he crossed the divide of the normal world to the etherial one.

As he continued to study the room he also studied Zero feeling his need and his pain.

" You ok over there he asked you seem to getting a little edgey, take a breath and try to relaxe can't have you loseing it again."

" There has to be something we are missing here."

Now that they were in the etherial realm maybe he could reach Angelia again he thought as he reached out with his mind feeling for a contact...

After about 3 minutes Zero stood from his post on the wall and smiled as a word on each card appeared.
"Open-your-eyes"

Zero thought for a moment and smiled again thinking about how Mickey used to make places appear in a way that was completely opposite of the way they were normally.

After another thought and a minute, a tall lithe thin figure appeared in a corner of the room. Her gypsy like hair and ivory skin was void of color, making her entrance completely unnoticed.

Angelia: "Well well well, if it's not the traitor with my nephew. Glad you made it."

Zero spun around and looked at her as though looking at a ghost. "My god. You don't look a day over three thousand and one.", he said in a musing manor.

Angelia just tilted her head and looked to the cards, "Find anything useful?"

Zero: "Where in the hell have you been? Do you know what's going on with everyone?"

Angelia: "Not in the slightest. I'm supposed to be deadish, but alas I am stuck once more in the realm of the ether. Corin my boy... Are we having fun yet?"

Angelia smirked and looked to Zero, "Whatcha think traitor? Got any clues?"

Zero looked at her with a ferocious eye. He was at his limits.
"I AM NO TRAITOR!", he screamed taking a step forward in aggression.

Angelia looked to Corin, "Well, Mickey was a fun old man with a wicked sense of humor and construction.", ignoring Zero completely.

Zero lunged forward and than stopped when Angelia raised her hand in his direction. He was seemingly held in place.

Angelia continues: "Those cards that 'he'...", pointing to Zero, "...has in his hands are something of a joke that Mickey wanted to play on the world who wanted what was in this room."

Zero struggled against the force holding him in place, Angelia smiled looking to him in dominance, "This is my world you piece of garbage. You don't have enough power here to break free, so just try and listen."

Zero struggled all the same but did manage to get out a question: "What did I do, to become a traitor? HUH?! Chose a life for myself over this piece of shit life you got going for you?"

Angelia looked to him in disgust then walked to him, "If you had come, none of them would have died. NONE! Maybe a few, but not EVERYONE! The draconic madman was waiting for us. He drew us in and then slaughtered everyone who opposed him."

Angelia looked back to Corin, "So Mickey, having the sense of humor he did, placed the contents of this room in a place you couldn't get to unless you knew him. Think, where are you standing? What realm?"

Looking back to Zero, "You're turned?", she said running a hand along neck looking for something. "I can smell the bloodlust, are you turned you Little Pathetic Son of a Bitch?"
Angelia looked back to Corin, "We enter the realm of the ether through doorways and openings between the realms. All Mickey did was change where you came in through. You came into the Ether, but you what you're looking for was in the..."

Looking back to Zero: "You're a Psycho-vamp. Interesting. By whom I wonder..."

Angelia smirked at him, "You're right. But I am still on my pedestal you little punk."

As Corin stormed out, Angelia looked back to Zero, "So, you're trying to repent? There's nothing that you can do to make up for the things you should have done."

In that moment, Zero broke loose and slammed a palm into Angelia who coughed in and flew into a wall.

The cards Corin had in hand were just paper, and the words faded away when he crossed the threshold.

Zero smiled and looked back to Corin, "Come back in. I know what we have to do. You're pretty close though"

Angelia got up as though nothing happened and looked to Zero, "My my. Strength of the mind coupled with strength of the mind. But you're still nothing."

Zero grinned and looked at the room, "The trick to these cards are in the room. The contents of this room are on the Corporeal side of this room. We wanted to get into this room thinking it was gonna be the real world, BUT, Mickey placed the items in this room then placed an Ether seal on the frame, making the items, unretreivable unless you are in the real world."

Angelia smiled and nodded in agreement, "That would be something he would do."
Zero walked to Angelia and stood eye to eye with her for a moment, "I chose a life for myself. I hold it against myself everyday because I MAY have made a difference. But then again, I may not have. So before you call me a traitor, why don't you think for at least a moment about what your life would have been like had you taken at least one day for something or someone other than the Wardens. Those damned humans have nothing for us. We just protected them from the unknowns of evil or things that go bump in the night. You were all good without me before I came, I just figured they would have been good without me for a few months or years. I WAS WRONG! So back the fuck off woman, before I sink my teeth into something that can give me all the power I will ever need."

Zero spun around with Angelia eyeballing him with disagreement. "...you bastard..."

Zero walked to Corin and the link between them became active. Zero's eye sight became hazy then foggy images appeared in the room. 3 tables, carrying 1 scroll each.

"Now we get into the real world.", Zero smiled walking back out of the room, waiting for Corin to join him before slamming the door as hard as he could closed, breaking the wall slightly at the hinges.

Zero looked at the door and shook his head.
"Bitch.", he mumbled as he stared at the door and began to study it's materials.
"I think we're gonna have to do this from a different angle, and we hope that the whole room is not made of the same materials.", Zero said looking at the hinge that had snapped.
"This is Aura infused Steel. The barrier on the top of the metal is as strong as the person who put it on here. Micky may have been on his death bed but I don't think it will be easy to break."

Zero grabbed the door with his mind, gripping it with invisible hands and pulling lightly to test its structural power. "Anti-mind.", he spoke as though checking it off a list.
Placing a hand on the door, frost and small charges of lightning crackled against the door. "Anti-magic."

After a moment, he walked behind the counter and grabbed a small piece of paper, writing a symbol on it and holding it between his palm and the door. The symbol glowed and a crackling sound began to emit from the paper before burning up and into cinder. "Anti-Rune."

Zero thought for a minute once more. He tilted his head and then walked outside and into the alleyway where the room should be. Looking around to make sure no one would see, he concentrated energy into his body and focused. Then with one step, he move forward and struck the wall creating a vibration in the wall which knocked the bricks off the wall to reveal the rooms outer wall. The vibration could be felt in the ground and car alarms could be heard down the street.
"Full protection."

Studying the place where he struck he noticed a dent in the metal. "Not protected."

Walking back inside, he walked behind the counter and knelt down. He moved his hands across boards in the floor and after searching for at least a minute, he pulled the boards out of the floor to reveal a duffle bag. He pulled the bag out and unzipped it, showing dozens of small diamond like objects, each with varying colors of hue and power humming from them.
He smiled and began to sift through the bag, eventually pulling a red glowing shard from the bottom of the bag. "Fire Shard. Nice."

Walking back outside, he noticed a man looking at the wall. Zero glared at him and walked to him, "What happened here? What did you do?"
The man looked at Zero in defense and shook his head, holding his hands up, "Whoa man, I just found it."
Zero laughed, "Don't worry, just messing with you. We've had some bug recently and they have done some serious damage to the..."
With a step and a quick thump, the man's head bounced off the wall. He collapsed to the floor, Zero just shrugged as though it were normal to randomly be violent to strangers, then concentrated on the gem in his closed hand. It began to burn and glow like a hot coal as the energy from Zero seeped into the shard.

Placing the tip against the wall, the metal began to liquify and sparks began to shoot out from the contact. It took Zero a couple of minutes, but eventually, a square was created and the wall fell inwards to reveal the same room that they both saw.

Zero looked to Corin and smiled, "Mickey loved a good joke.", walking into the room he waved his hands to get the smell of dust and dirt in the air away from his nose.
Walking to the tables, he inspected the items on them.

Each table had a scroll. Each scroll was wrapped in a black ribbon like string that had a golden thread running down the sides. In what looked to be Chinese, symbols were arranged on the scrolls ribbon of the first table.
On the second table the same look of scroll was there, but there would be a blue ribbon with English writing that said, "Kayin's Last Request".
The third table had a scroll with a ribbon colored red, with a bullet laying in front of it.

Zero stopped and looked at the door, then the opening of the room. "These are Memory Scrolls.", Zero said explaining the items.
"Each one comes from one of the Honored. Kayin, Piper, Ruby.", pointing to each one as he named them off.

"Grab the bag and place these scrolls in it. We have to get somewhere else to see what was so important, that Mickey would use every trick in the book to hide them."

Zero walked to the door and opened it from the inside, showing Angel's Lounge again. "You couldn't get to this room from the door in any way, through this door. Genius."

After saying those words, Zero stepped back out of the room through the door, and looked at the disaster around him. Focusing on the reserved table, his eyes caught something else. "Open your eyes...", he repeated under breath as he walked to what remained of the table.

"I have been sitting in here for ten years and never once had I noticed anything about this table. The fact that it seemed to open the very door that we were to go through means that this was planned a very long time ago.", picking up the 'Reserved' sign, flipping it inside out. On the inside, the spot where the "made in USA" line would be was replaced with GPS coordinates. "And here is where we are going."

Zero pulled out his phone and placed the GPS coordinates into an App, which showed the location of his old home at Spiral's Lounge.
"Are you serious?"

Things seemed to be moving awfully fast. Zero seemed to be giving short fast answers and wasn't really focusing on small talk. He wanted answers, and he needed them now.
His mood was steadily becoming more aggressive. At some point, he was going to have to feed. But he was refusing. What would happen if he didn't feed? He didn't know, he didn't care but he probably should because of his feral incremental rage.

"Didn't have the patience for the man.", he remarked to Corin's comment about the curious bystander.

"Kind hard to seal 1 foot of steel without more than shards. Angel's Lounge is old and needs to be rebuilt. And will, eventually."

Zero was leaning against a wall when his phone began to ring. Looking at the caller ID, his eye brow twitching at the 'blocked call'.
Answering it, he never said a word just listened, "Hey honey. Interesting that you never changed your phone number.", Patricia said on the other end. "Oh don't say anything on my accord. Just know, that they are coming, and you are outmatched. Just give up already."

Zero through the phone and broke it on the wall. "Damn, these guys are relentless. And faster than before."

Zero walked out of the bar and pulled a full diamond out of the bag, "Find a car, I got something to deal with."
With that he through the diamond into Angel's Lounge and watched the sparks, and frost and flames engulf the building in it's entirety.

"Thanks Mick. For the adventure."

With that Zero turned to go and find Corin.

Zero was waiting at the corner as Corin pulled up. "Wow, very good taste. Kayin would have been proud.", Zero said entering the car.
Looking at the keys, he laughed, "You know how many times I used to do that? Learned my lesson today. Head towards Spiral's, hopefully, there's some place to still go to. And we'll have company soon. So we might wanna take the back roads."

Zero pulled another cell phone from another pocket and tapped on it for a moment, it beeped and made some old style internet noise than a screen popped up.
Starring at the screen, he thought and showed Corin the front. On the phone were several red dots heading in the direction of Angel's Lounge.

"These are them. I have jacked into their comm systems and using a pinging program to find their transponder frequencies. We can see them, so we can avoid trouble... hopefully."