Once, there were 4 Children of Sin.... Spade, Damien & Serin of Death... but the last child was neither blood or friend- his name was Eddie Bernie. Eddie did, however, have something in common with the rest of the children... for he too was a 'special' child. Eddie was endowed with amazing abilities that frightened his parents- indeed, even murdered his father.

Eddie could not understand why he was different- why everyone around him grew old but he didn't. Then one unfaithful night Eddie's gravely old mother released custody of him to Death's Wind- the mother patriarch of the Death Family... one of the ancient Creature tribes. Keep in mind though, as miraculous as Eddie was for the past decade or five, Eddie's mother never explained to her son what he was. And neither did the Death family to their beloved sons....

It was an amazing kept secret- the Death family was able to suppress the powers of the children and keep them oblivious to the truth but for how much longer would that work? And, why? Why was it so important to keep the secret that one is a Creature of the Night?

As the years pressed on- the children did grow, slowly when compared to humans. Then, one night Eddie decided to go a step further in his misbehaving and enter the forbidden forest. Damien was the first to protest and confront Eddie- but amidst the arguing, the youngest child, Serin, wanders off into the forest!!

After regrouping, the remaining children planned to distract the grownups and Spade, along with Eddie, were elected to go out and find poor lost Serin.... all alone.... or was he? Heh.



Serin kept running for his life... deeper and deeper did he go within the forbidden forest... and as he progressed his entire body felt hot-- it got to a point that he had to stop behind a tall shrub overlooking a dark stream in order to catch his breath.... feeling the heat inside of him intensify- Serin drops to his knees and placed his two hands as a cup and a scooped up a puddle of water in his hands to drink, and to cool down. The cool water helped but his body was still burning like fire inside.....

**The Figure watches on as so did Sincentius in wonderment**
"What is wrong with him... does he have the fever?"

**Sincentius smiled and took another puff from his cigarette**
"Well, I guess you can say that- heh. Now, watch this part- things are about to get very interesting indeed... hehehee...."

And then, in the not too far off distance Serin could hear trees crack and crumble-- he stands up and looks into the darkness and there, right there, were two deep blood red eyes staring back at him. Serin was petrified with fear and couldn't move a muscle.... the evil figure methodically walked forward in which Serin could only vaguely capture some of the features of his predator.... A demonic face with a crooked smile-- and then, in a shocking change, Serin screamed and from his body emitted fire in all directions!!! The demon instantly backed off into the forest while everything around Serin burned......

That was when Eddie and Spade saw the fire in the distance.....

"FUCK!!! The place is on fire.... did that truly come from Serin??"

But before Sincentius could respond, once again, The Figure got a head attack and fell to the ground holding his head in agony.... yet, another odd vision unfolded.....

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With the two swords of destiny in his hands, Spade Deathen- the Guardian of Balance- finally had Hra'Spyder where he wanted him.... but without the monster beef, Hra'Spyder's power was vastly diminishing to the point that Spade, Cadmus and even the downed Lilith could see that Hra'gad was wrestling control with Red Spyder.

Cadmus slowly walked up to Spade and looked up at him with his innocent eyes....

"Please forgive him... just open your eyes wide and see that it is all over now... there is no need for further punishment....."

"Go away kid... you're bothering me...."

Meanwhile, Red Spyder was losing control... he finally bent backwards and from his mouth gushed out some black water along with the fetal remains of Hra'gad... Red's unborn son....

Spade turned his head back to just see Hra'gad's gross deformed remains- it was still wiggling and squirming like a cut off lizard's tail... But even with that, Spade resumed to place the blades by Red's neck--- that was when Red, when he lowered his head, looked back at Spade inquiringly.

"urgh... that was nastiest thing I EVER had in my mouth... and let me tell ya, that's saying A LOT!"

"SHUDDAP YOU FUCKING MURDERER.... YOU KILLED SERIN AND I WILL TAKE YOUR LIFE FOR HIS!

"who the FUCK is Serin? urgh... *cough*

It was odd indeed, because Spade never once before this event connected Red Spyder to his younger brother- could it be that when Spade was spliced into halves that he also lost his memory and the balance restored it? And so, the next page unfolds as The Figure is helped up by The Dark Sincentius.....