The Vrok is a large humanoid vulture shaped demon. Other than being a seven-foot-tall predator there are only two abilities to be particularly wary of aside from the general demonic resistances. A group of Vrok can perform a Dance of Ruin to release a shockwave of abyssal power harming all save themselves. The other is that they will call other Vrok and often enough one of the abyssal succubi to do the thinking for them. – Common Monsters

Anthony Ravnos

Adrian has changed in these last weeks; no longer does he treat our magic as a toy. I do not understand how but he can do things he shouldn’t.

He can shape shift, but there is no way he has that much power already nor the knowledge for it. Even for his ability to manipulate Life to heal as he does makes no sense for him to have but at least that has the ripples in reality that mark it as something done by one of our family.

I don’t know how he managed to find himself three women, but I think Geldath wanted to try something like that anyways. He is the only one of us not affected by going through our reincarnations and it’s nothing new to us anyways, all of us have lived a life when such things were accepted.

Adrian and Kathrine have gathered the four of us together, though our guests ended up here as well.

“We should all talk about a long-term plan to deal with the changes in the world.

Before coming here Bryan, Abagail, Talia, Lysan, Kythia, and me all decided on moving towards grandpa’s cabins in the mountains of Colorado. They would be easy to defend and they are self-sufficient.”

That would be one of the best places to go, there will be our other kin there and we can defend it together. I don’t think many will like that he chose exiles rather than Ravnos as his future wives but there is our curse so it is probably better as is. The power of the Ravnos is from our souls, not the genes of the body, so there shouldn’t be a problem in crossbreeding.

Fabricio seems to have the same thoughts as me as he responds to Adrian’s proposal with a vigorous nod. Kathrine however does not immediately accept.

“Shouldn’t we stay and wait for dad to get home, or the government to act and protect us?”

“That would be nice, but we don’t know how long it would take for dad to get here, if he is even able. The army could defend us but we are not high on the list of places that are considered important to the country. There are also things I don’t think the military would have the ability to protect us from.” Adrian responds to Kathrine.

“That’s silly of course the army can protect us. You got here using sticks and guns so they can just use better guns to protect us.”

Adrian shakes his head.

“The guns, spears and swords are not what killed everything. We only survived because we also used magic as well. The demons were unharmed by the firearms of the squatters that were here, it is magic that hurt them.

The military does not use magic so they would have trouble with demons. Maybe big bombs could work but bullets do not.”

“No, I don’t think that could be right. We need to stay here and wait.”

I look at Fabricio, he nods. Kathrine's ideas really are bad. The only reason why we followed her earlier one was to wait for Adrian to return. This location isn’t viable, we only have a few weeks of food for this many people and other than the house itself there is little to use to defend against attacks.

“I want to go to Grandpa’s”

“I want to go to Grandpa’s”

Fabricio repeats my interjection into the argument between Adrian and Kathrine.

Our guests are quiet, but it is clear who they follow. Only Kathrine wants us all to stay. She sighs as she can tell that we all want something different from herself.

“We don’t even have transportation to get there, my car cannot hold nine people.”

She has caved and moved to why we can't go. She already lost.

“Then we take one of the vehicles the bad men brought” says Fabricio as he pulls out two sets of car keys.

I did not notice him pulling those out as we piled up the corpses outside. Still, it is something that we need at the moment. Kathrine just sits there for a bit before Adrian speaks up.

“We still will need to stay here for a bit to pack up everything and recover from the recent fights.”

“Two weeks” Kathrine says.

“We don’t need that much time, I’ll be fine within a week and I’m the one with the worst injuries here.” Bryan interrupts.

He is right, he only needs to gain back the energy Adrian spent. The sooner we leave the sooner we will ultimately be safe. Others are likely to come around as they search for resources and there is no way Adrian could have gotten rid of everything that is a threat in town.

“Lets stay here for a week as we prepare to travel. Majority vote rules, all in favor?”

Everyone save Kathrine raises their hands in agreement.

“Any against?”

No one raises their hand. Kathrine is abstaining from the decision. She just wants to stay here with her sons.

Adrian

Six days have passed since the discussion over leaving, and aside from when my mom was looking sadly at all of the 'memories' she would have to leave behind at least until I told her I can carry what I am starting to think is an unlimited number of items with Void Cache.

There has to be some drawback other than the cost of mana to move an object in or out. I don’t feel any boundaries in wherever it is that I connect to, so maybe that is a drawback. Nothing to keep others out of that emptiness should they be able to cross that sideways step in space.

I look up having just finished another textbook, this one on physics, to see the trio all sitting there with an unpleasant look on their faces. They have not been as happy the last few days even though I get them whatever they want around the house. I have not spent much time with them though, I have so much I need to do to get stronger.

“Do you not like us anymore?” asks Lysan with tears forming in her eyes.

I stand up and pull the three of them to me, giving Lysan specifically a tight hug.

“Of course, I still like all three of you. What could possibly give you the idea that I stopped?”

“We haven’t been doing anything with us. You just read, eat and train” answers Talia.

“There are reasons for that, I am still weak. I need to learn, and I can only do that through books and practice.”

“So why don’t you spend the night with us at the end of the day anymore?” asks K.

“Let me finish before you get upset, but you know how my mom does not approve of me being with all three of you?”

They nod and I continue.

“because of that she had me promise not to have sex again until one of two things happened. That we are married or not under her roof anymore.”

K growls and glances towards the side of the house my mom is at. I pull her closer to me, and speak softly into all three of their ears.

“The night after we leave here I’ll make sure we are all together and catch up on what we missed.”

K stops growling into the distance, and smiles. I think she gets more animalistic in how she acts the closer to the full moon we are.

“How about we leave today?”

“No, we will leave tomorrow like it was originally planned, besides we still have to get some stuff ready. We were going to wash clothes and pack up all the usable food today remember?”

She frowns but nods.

I need to make use to set time aside to play with my girlfriends, I didn’t think a few days would worry them enough to confront me over it. That has never been a problem with anyone else before.

I sigh, regretting all of the times I’ve been turning down the trio to cuddle and play around the last few days. But I’ve finished all of Damû's books and most of the textbooks on anatomy, biology and chemistry. I also read a bit on machines and electronics. It is more important right now that I get stronger than to enjoy myself.

Never have I spent so much time reading to learn. I only slept a few hours every other day, and I kept myself slightly accelerated in time. I barely stopped to eat and have sparring matches with K.

I love reading, but I don’t want to do this again. Textbooks are nigh always dry and poorly written.

I pick up the book I just finished and toss it onto the pile of books I will not be reading again. I will still keep them in Void Cache because . . . well I am not sure, hoarding?

I give each of the trio a quick kiss before pulling them outside to the buckets we are going to use to wash clothes. The washer is broken as Bryan tried to wash blood-stained boots, alone.

I sit down with everyone else after heating the water with Fire, remembering how the elven twins were giggling about washing my clothes when this was brought up four days ago.

They also undid the lip at the end of my jeans to try to cover up some of the gap between my pant leg and shoe due to my increased height. I didn’t know how long it took to sew by hand but I really do need to thank them for doing that while I rough housed with K to learn some fighting techniques.

I open my eyes to the Grey Dream, having spent the rest of the day getting ready to leave with the trio.

Gain: Hand-to-Hand 2 (+3 SP), Chemistry 4 (+4 SP), Anatomy 5 (+9 SP), Electronics 1 (+1 SP), Biology 4 (+10 SP), Battle Sense 3 (+3 SP), Mechanics 2 (+3 SP), Light 3 (+15 SP), Lightning 3 (+15SP), Gravity 1 (+5 SP), Althaen (Written) (+2SP), Necrol (Written) (+5 SP), Orc (Written) (+2 SP),

Name: Adrian Ravnos

Gender: Male

Age: 17

Skills

Attributes

Class

SP: 122

Traits

Magic

Languages

EP: 370

I smile as I see a numerical representation of my recent efforts. Though only six days had past, the time I spent was over a week. I still don’t have enough to increase one of the Spheres I want to four. I could get an energy to four but they are easy to learn on their own.

I did not expect to have enough for anything I wanted anyways, and since I do not yet think it would be a good idea for Dragon-me to become stronger there is nothing for me here.

It is morning and we have two cars where we have both keys and it is in working condition. Of the four cars: one has the hood smashed in, presumably my me and that demon even though I remember no such thing, there are two cars with manual transmission, and one that was mom's car.

Since mom is the only one who knows how to drive a manual she has to drive one of them, I’m taking mom's car with the trio as it is the only one I know how to drive.

Mom still does not seem to like my choice in having multiple women, but she seems to at least get alone fairly well with the twins, even if she tends to avoid and ignore K. I hope they start to get along soon.

I turn to the trio and ask, “Do you remember what these cars are?”

“They are like a carriage but move by fire inside the front instead of being drawn by an animal” answers Lysan.

I smile as I open the doors for them, close enough.

I got my brothers to sit in the car mom would drive, though that was unnecessary. She ended up not trying to have any specific seating.

I’m not sure how fast we will be able to drive, or if the highways will even be open as I pull out of our driveway leading the way outlined by the atlas I looked at a few days ago.