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Four month's Time skip Damian's 8th birthday, 2004
A lot has happened in the last few months. S.H.I.E.L.D. has Grown a bit more but they had a several slight issues. The first was with A level 7 Agent had gone rogue. He was one of the guys from The old mans seedy past He ran his mouths to a few buddies at a poker game. Luckily, one of the other men from the crew was at that game reported back to a level 8 agent under mike and we managed to stop the leak cold. The other men at the game didn't believe him and a psych facility was as good as any to convince them he was insane.
But because of The being exposed that led them into the Second Issue finding a new Hanger for the loric ship and the newer loric/Earth Ships but then when moving it we hit a third problem in moving the ships a video of the Loric ship before going into camouflage popped up on the internet. Believing someone had video taped us moving the ships we freaked out but we wuickly noted The good thing about the video that it was very poorly shot and couldn't tell any geographical information's from the video but they moved to double time to make sure there was no information that could traced back to S.H.E.I.L.D. or be used to find where the ships were.
After following up on the video it lead back to this seemingly random guy named Austin Devry no affiliation with any known characters from the book, No know affiliations with S.H.E.I.L.D. or the loric and Damien had no idea how to deal with him but before they sent any agent to approach him. Simon had Lexa take care of a thorough background check personally not wanting to go in blind. She found strange money drops in suspicious amounts in his accounts and an unexplained disappearance for two weeks before the posting of the video.
This made her look deeper into the video of the ship and what they found was startling it turns out that the ship in the video didn't have the damage that the ship had endured from it's travel to earth The loric ship had small dents peppered all over its hull from when it when it went through an astreoid field SH quickly put two and two together and Austin Devry was determined to be a mog Plant meant to lure in the Loric. The Loric Had other ships that were exactly like the one they had arrived in at their space center. They must of used a video of one of those to try to lure the loric in.
Outside of the S.H.E.I.L.D. issues the loric have been doing pretty well, Five loves living in New York. He has decided to embrace the name Five while he is around the Loric, He's come to see Ella as a little sister and Rachel Damien believe's is his first ever crush as every time he's around her he can barely speak.
He loves playing video games with Damien and he even loves training with him now that its not as intense as Rey was making it and Damien and Five even had a pretty healthy rivalry thing going on think Kakashi and Gai not Hashirama and Madara. Five doesn't have legacies but if Damien doesn't use his godly gifts or magic Five nearly gives him a run for his money in direct physical skills.
Well not at first after a month of steady getting his butt kicked during training five started to show tremendous growth. Damien started looking forward to the day They can fight alongside each other in real combat. Five even without legacies can take down 2 well trained level 7 agents in physical combat at 8 years old with only a basic mastery of Loric martial arts, To put that into perspective Crayton can beat 4 as a fully grown man and he's fully mastered loric martial arts.
The only human's that real stand a chance against Five are Uncle Simon, The Old man, Mike and Ike Damien guessed that the Garde with physical enhancement can unlock it early if they work hard enough. Honestly it makes some sense Number 2 is the same age as most of the Garde but she had mastered most of the Loric Martial arts before she got taken down in 2007.
Although his physical skills were impressive outside of it He was pretty rough his aim with any ranged weapon was as bad as a stormtroopers. He depended to much on his strength in a fight he fought like a brawler instinctively in the exercises for example there was training exercise they were pretty fond of with a super charged tennis ball shooter Have to get across the hall without getting hit.
When Damien did the exercise he would immediately take a defensive position and then think strategically about how to take it down, He would think about the speed of the machine, About how quickly it paneled around the room, where it was pointed and the speed he would need to run to get to it if he ran towards it if he would he have enough time before the machine swiveled in his direction or if he needed to find a closer defensive position to get in range.
But when Five did the exercise he almost always failed because he way to take it down to find a rhythm to make his way to the machine he would instead charge towards it depending on his speed and strength, Damien Believed it was an early instinct of his one day to awaken legacies. No need to worry about weapons if you can turn your body to steel and can fly at supersonic speeds.
In the past few months a few changes happen with the Garde. Number Nine and Sandor had Managed to produce quite a few of the Mog detectors Enough for all Level 8 Agents and the Loric who haven't joined S.H.E.I.L.D. (Number Six and Three). Though As soon as janus brought the Mog detector out to Number 3 tragedy struck. As soon as he turned it on The radar showed three scouter mogs closing in on them.
Number Three's cepan Roger tried to escape and didn't use the already set up safe roots as soon as he saw them believing that it was janus's fault for bringing the mogs down on him. Roger stole a cop Car to get to a next town with three. One level 5 agents died and Janus lost a hand from a lucky shot from the mog Blaster In the brief fire fight with the mogs. They killed the mogs easily since they already had a response team set up for three they quickly cleaned up their tracks leaving clues that would lead to cartel members and away from S.H.E.I.L.D.. Crayton was able to find to find Roger after 4 days.
It took him a month to reach a base level of trust again and even then it was less then they had before. Three was even more skeptical than his cepan.
Simon was worried that someone would be able to connect the agents with the fire fight but There weren't any serious follow ups the agents. Some of the law enforcement involved where in the cartels pocket so it got buried. The scouts probably never got to report that they had stumbled onto a loric though a random scout party being killed by a mysterious cartel the mogs would know there was something suspicious so S.H.E.I.L.D. cleaned up any trace of their existence in the area. They were proven Correct to do so as it didn't take more then a week to start to hear police reports of tall men dressed in all black Searching the area.
The only Garde left are Number 2, Number 8 and number 7. Number 7 and number 8 will be the last Damien had decided to let Number 8 go through his own journey taking his religion and journey away from him didn't feel right, Number 7 would be safe at the orphanage especially with hector watching over her, plus he didn't know if confronting Adrianna earlier would force her to go deeper in denial or bring her back to her senses so waiting was the best course of action.
Damien's plan to save Number 2 would go off within the year when he would go to England to try to get some information of the Wizarding World. Hopefully he would be able to get registered for Hogwarts, He also planned to use the chance to help to help Harry Potter, He was already making inquires into buying out his His uncle's company and Hopefully by the time he got to England he would be able to leverage that to treat him better. Plus I'll be able to gain access to Diagon alley even if I'm no mythical archmagi Money has power and forging a few bonds early with his wealth should put him ahead of the curve.
For now though Steve has done an excellent job monitoring Two and her Cepan.
The biggest accomplishment was Tracking down Remus Lupin he was as destitute as the books said he had a shabby studio apartment that he had missed rent on 5 times in the last year his landlady working on kicking him out permanently he worked at a book store that barely paid him since it had to be under the table and because his extremely odd habit of taking an entire week off once a month.
As soon as he heard he was found, he wanted to go to England and do it then and there but he knew there were more pressing issue occurring right now than focusing on magic A bit closer to home. Plus he hasn't fully reached the level of power he wants to be at before diving into the magical world.
He had been thinking about how He'd manage to be a part of the Garde's lives while he was at Hogwarts especially if He spent summers at Camp Half-Blood. He needed to be a part of each world to know if there are major changes in the knowledge He had of the world. He had been thinking how he'd do sure the ships were fast but he was a demigod, even with the blessing of Hecate traveling the ocean 4 times a year to get back to New York is very risky.
Each of the books have different versions of long-range teleportation. The magical have portkey's, They are hard to get and have to be approved by the ministry or Magic even if He is filthy rich it will be hard to get them because he was not a pure blood and right now the ministry is a tool for purebloods. There are the loralite stones, but they are ridiculously Inaccurate That would be a last resort for him to be honest because of its inaccuracy and unless he got one and transported to Swift tower he'd just end up at the bottom of the sea or in the desert like the loric in the books it is honestly a wild card but it'll take less time than flying with the ship.
The other way is the one Damien had the most hope for. He had already proven his talent for umbrakinesis and with umbrakinesis there is shadow travel. Shadow travel is ridiculously fast as Nico di Angelo is a perfect example of its capabilities but even with Shadow walking it has limits it took Nico Like 4 months to get to Europe in the second series of PJO but the reason Damien found it so promising.
In the book about the children of Hecate, it tells the tale of a demigod who was said to be the most powerful demigod only next to Hercules,His story lost to the annuls of time as he was a child of nyx he could combine void walking, shadow traveling, and umbra shifting to the point he could appear anywhere. He was killed by the gods because Zeus found him spying on a woman he liked. Though he evaded Zeus by himself for 40 years.
With the Minor successes in Shadow traveling and He knows that He is capable of Umbra shifting because of the fight with Khione. Though He hadn't had any success in void walking but he was still hopeful the Devil's gift made him the apex of his species so he knew he had a good chance of awakening it.
In preparation he Changed his occlumency practice to only an hour a day to focus more time on his shadow abilities it wasn't a big deal at this time his progress for some areas where starting to slow down, he had already gotten to near mastery with his sleep and ice powers and he had hit a roadblock he could probably break through with magic but that would be down the road a bit.
The only place he was seeing real progress was his shadow abilities, magic control, as well as physical abilities. The maximum he was capable in his shadow walking is where his eyes could see and the travel speed was pretty quick about 1.5 seconds long. As long as there were a lot of shadows he could move with Shadow travel about 4 times his natural running speed and at night time it was around 8. During the day he was basically a nerfed nightcrawler Damien Could Jump Around But Looking for shadows would significantly slow him down so he it would still be very useful for escape it wouldn't be useful foe long range travel but at night with all the shadows he was basically a nerfed speedster like Quicksilver MCU version when he dies to bullets.
He would need to improve but if he took all his time training into mastering it he bet He could do it in six months. But with training his occlumency, physical skills, and magic control he was hoping to have it mastered in a year. In other important news Damien's relationships with the roman demigods had greatly improved.
Damien had a regular conference meeting set up with the Roman's Though only once only once a month, he preferred to meet them individually. Though he kept a close eye on all of them. The ones he trusted had a lot more leniency The ones he Didn't trust were put into 3 teams of powerful but untrustworthy demigods with a trustworthy mole or two in each one. Each with the authority of a level 5 or Level 6 agent. The Trustworthy ones were strategically placed in other departments. There were 50 people that had applied through Markus Damien Had only taken on 30 roman demigods into S.H.E.I.L.D..
The 20 he Had Denied had either been too arrogant to take orders or too crazy to be controlled the ones he had taken on were around the power level of legionnaires Most of them around 200 level wise the highest at 250, Ages ranging from 10 the youngest to 28 the oldest. 15 of which were legacies with very basic abilities but only 6 of them truly trustworthy, 10 were children of minor gods semi powerful but only 4 of them was trustworthy, the other 5 were children of major gods 2 of which were untrustworthy they hid it well but he was Partially in charge of a intelligence agency he was quickly becoming adept in locating Weak links. Their names were Cadmus and Anthony Both Sons of mercury.
Their powers were based mostly on speed and theft but there was no reason to worry about their infiltrations skills because of another Demigod who was actually trustworthy 15 year old son of Laverna goddess of thieves in shadows and refugees named Tomas basically He had Shadow ninja powers he was the one Damien had come to trust the most of all the demigods. Damien even Consulted Tomas on Some of his own shadow powers. Damien Had Plans turn Tomas into a true Number two.
Though 17 demigods couldn't be trusted they would be useful tools. They followed orders and as long as they didn't outright betray S.H.E.I.L.D they would be welcome. Surprisingly the legacies were more powerful on average then the minor gods demigods because the legacies even though they had weaker powers and potential their scent was much more subtle, so they usually lived longer and had longer periods of time to train their abilities.
Though that wasn't a complete rule Tomas was definitely not weaker then any of the legacies and similarly There was a 13 year old girl named Anastasia that was a daughter of the Dea Dia The goddess of Growth She was powerful just barely less powerful then the kids of the major Gods Luckily she was under the banner of Those Damien Considered trust worthy. Though they were his most loyal they also had the least ties Anastasia's Dad was a Famous Olympic athlete but had another family and had pretty much all but abandoned her. Tomas Dad was a mob Boss who had been killed by a rival Family when he was 6.
The last 3 children of the major gods were incidentally the most powerful they had received both gifts and abilities from their parents though they had very rough back stories which was why markus recommended them he was trying to use the job to build a positive relationship and win them over to his side.
A brother and sister named Renne and Onya that were 14 and 16 years old who were the children of Vulcan their mother worked in a bodyshop in Jersey But at 8 and ten the monster attacks started happening they were forced to leave spent the last few years in the roman camp. They took the job Because it would provide money and safety and spend time with their mother. On top of that Damien had given them some Basic Loric Tech to play with and their loyalty was pretty much secured. They had proven their loyalty these past few months. Their opinion of Markus was low Markus had put pressure on them to build Equipment for specific people over others and Renne hadn't liked it to the point of almost rebelling but Onya stopped him as he was a preator.
The last was the daughter of Cerus named Kaitlyn She was Powerful she had the standard cerus abilities to control plants, She had awakened two rare abilities on was to talk to plants which she used them as surveillance cameras, The other rare ability was geokinesis her range and control of both abilities weren't great but she was also the youngest among the demigod recruits at ten years old so her power was still growing.
Her Dad had died researching a blight that had wiped out a small village in a third world country it was ironic because his position in researching blights to make them a thing of the past was what attracted cerus to him in the first place. She had spent the minimum amount of time in Camp Jupiter she had been bullied heavily mostly as a ploy from Markus to make himself to be the hero but his plans had already been exposes to her with her ability to turn plants into surveillance cameras she had already determined Markus was untrustworthy and was rebelling against the gods.
As she was spying on Damien she discovered he wasn't as on board with Markus's plans as it first appeared she came clean with Damien about her ability and her intent to help stop Markus To truly be apart of S.H.E.I.L.D., Though Damien was initially angry she had spied on him, She had already built a level of trust with Damien and slowly that trust was getting stronger He trusted her only second to Tomas in respect to the demigods.
Just like The Roman's meeting there was a council meeting once a week. A particularly important meeting happened On Damien's eighth birthday they all sat in to talk about what to do with Rey. When Rey had first joined he was given the authority of a level 7 agent Damien had been against it but Hilde and some Loric fought for it because he was a cepan.
Rey returned the favor by trying to convince the other loric to betray S.H.I.E.L.D. like half a dozen times, he also tried to Manipulate five quite a few times trying to make him spy on them, Or trying to convince five that they were evil, all of this happened in the first month but Damien kept knocking rey out which made rey have like a small nugget of fear for him but that still didn't stop rey from yelling loric obscenities at Damien on Daily basis.
When Five started taking his training seriously that's when Rey loosened his grip a bit he Started to believe that they had Five's best interest at heart. Though rey would never Admit that and he would continue to Undermine the swifts at every turn, Simon had Several renown doctors take a look at him. He was in the early stages of lung cancer Damien told him that, They'd help with his treatment and he looked upset by the offer but after a few weeks of mean mugs he accepted. He hated he would be indebted to us which is why he took so much time to decide if he'd accept their help while even living under the same roof he doesn't like Damien or S.H.I.E.L.D. but is his hate wasn't stronger than his survival instinct. Even Damien though he wasn't very good at using this particular power could practically taste how close to death he was he was walking the line or irrepably sick line like a tight rope.
The level Nines, Eights and some trusted department heads all in the know about the loric, had been discussing what to do with Rey for months since his failed uprising. After Rey insighted the loric to betray S.H.E.I.L.D. Damien proposed Rey be put on mandatory observation his hatred of humans, well documented though the loric would never do anything to their own they recognize the help S.H.E.I.L.D. provided them though Rey was technically still a Level 7 Agent it was just a title no agents under him no resources if he wanted to split he would be doing it with what he came with. Damien made the case That he Didn't trust him to raise five by himself because Five would be necessary to fight against the Mogs and if he hated Humans then the Loric would be at a great disadvantage.
They had already Stripped him of most of his power as a level 7 agent and that had been a unanimous decision in support Even Hilde approved that request because she didn't trust the old grump either his anger made him too irrational. Though her supporting Damien for any proposal was a small miracle. But because of the growth he had shown they were debating giving him back control of Five and Some of the power and resources he would be initialed to as a level 7 like creating his own support team. In the end Damien Successfully knocked down that horrible idea though it took more then he thought it would to kill it even though rey had already tried to take over S.H.E.I.L.D. once.
"The next order of the Agenda," Damien Said to the group.
"Three years from now, I will be moving to England where I will be Attending a boarding school every year I will be spending half of my time there half of my time in New York, In the next six months I will be going to this school to set certain plans up when I Go I will Get number two and help protect her from the mogodorians. As she is the last Garde that is any Danger Numbers 2 and 7 and 8 are the only loric not yet aware of S.H.E.I.L.D. but both 7 and 8 will be safe for several years especially because the loric charm is still in place. I know what you are thinking why would I need to go to a boarding school with my increased intelligence but this school has certain advantages that I am not at liberty to discuss but it is vital to the future." Damien told the Council. Damien thought about making a war room and give them all holograms and make it exactly like the avengers but that would be a huge waste of time money and resources so a bunch of faces on a screen is fine.
"There you go again saying cryptic messages about the future," Hilde says." I think we should bring in all three we have eyes on them Correct then why not do it now."
"I Trust my Nephews opinion without his gifts then We would have never found Janus and all the greeters would be gone all the chimera from the second ship would of been captured Number one would have been killed just like you would be if he says we should wait then we should wait," Simon came to his nephews defense. The others in the council initially agreeing with Hilde words were Brought into deep thought at Simon's words.
"I get what your saying Simon I do but its not hard to tell that you and the Kid are keeping secrets," The old man says.
"yes I am," Damien says. "Some of those secrets concern you guys and some do not but they are all dangerous secrets I've only told my uncle a fraction and it was still almost enough to cause him to have existential crisis, I'm telling you what's important When all the loric are together I will tell you guys more but even then I will keep certain secrets one for operational security if any one of you are taken by the mogs it could be a tragedy it could hurt our chances against the mogs but if I share the stuff in my head it could be cataclysmic our chance against the mogs would be infinitely worse."
"Maybe one day when the war is over and Lorien is awakened then things will be different but as of now secrets are our bread and butter honestly I don't know if the decisions I'm making are 100% correct but I'm taking in all the fact's and giving my best effort and I know that we are on a better path then what originally took place and that's all I can ask for." Damian ended.
They stopped arguing from there they asked some logistical issued mostly about Amon's forces in africa his team was growing quicker than expected. I made a note that I should head to Brooklyn soon try to See if I Could find the Magician's of the house of life. It should be easy to spot as The Duat was said to be the mist under another name in the Kane books. Damien Was too in his thoughts to notice the meeting ended.
After There was small Party Though he tried to keep it secret in attendance were Kaitlyn, Anastasia, Tomas, Renne, Onya, Five, Ella, Clayton, Ike As Mike was in England with Steve, Simon, None of the other loric could come since Five was there and they didn't want to break the Loric Charm Weirdly enough Amanda from Canada was there Damien thought Simon and Lexa had a thing Going on But Apparently there was something going on with him and Amanda but Damien tried to stay out of his business All in all it was a pretty great birthday.
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Name: Damien Swift Age=8
level: 252 (overall combat level)
str:223 agi:217 vit:226
Int:300 charm: 500
Powers and Abilities=
Increased Intelligence-Super Big brain Stark Who?
Increased learning/training speed-Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, Smarter?
Devilishly Handsome- women want you, men want to be you(beware some men will want to be with you as well)
Billionaire: Money is Power-Throw money at small problems it goes away
Great Hand-eye coordination- can catch and throw a ball
Advanced Earthly Martial Arts- Anybody under twelve should fear you
Advanced Lorien Martial Arts- Twelve-year-old Mogadorians Beware
Common sense- Don't walk into traffic
Advanced Lorien Technology- Put a Lorien cord into a tablet
Intermediate Earthly Technology- I can take apart the tv remote.
Advanced Piano- I run to the rock, Please hide me
Devil's secret gift- Bridge between Worlds The First Hybrid of Loric, Greek gods, and Wizard.
Son Of Nyx- Legacy of Hekate- Demigod Abilities
Intermediate- Circadian Control: Control one's circadian rhythm. Be able to fall asleep or wake from sleep at will, as well as control the depth of sleep. Provides resistance to other sleep-related abilities, as well as substances that would influence sleep or wakefulness.
Intermediate-Death Sense: Sense when death is near, find one's way to a dying individual, become aware of how close someone is to dying, and potentially predict when an event will certainly result in death. Also have an increased awareness of the lives of those one has a strong connection with.
Intermediate-Night Empowerment: Gain strength and energy at night, but lose strength and energy during the day.
Intermediate-Sacred Vocalist: Speak to and understand all nocturnal animals and Hellhounds.
Advanced-Umbravision: See perfectly in complete darkness and take no eye damage from being in complete darkness for extended periods of time.
Intermediate-Fear Empowerment: Gain additional strength, energy, and courage through the fear and intimidation of others, making it pair well with Intimidation Aura.
Intermediate-Intimidation Aura: Surround oneself with an intimidating aura in order to make others fearful or anxious.
Beginner-Mistiokinesis: Summon and manipulate the Mist, or the magical barrier separating the mortal and mythological realms, as well as be able to vanish into it. Also be able to temporarily craft seemingly very real, physical objects from it, known as Mistforms.
Advanced- Somnokinesis: Control and manipulate sleep and waking.
Intermediate- Umbrakinesis: Summon and manipulate shadows and darkness, and also be able to Shadow Travel, or move long distances by travelling through shadows.
Beginner- Cryokinesis: Summon and manipulate ice and frost.
Beginner- Umbrashifting: Turn all or part of one's body into shadows.
Unawakened- Voidwalking: Open a pocket dimension of shadows that can be manipulated at will and cause one's shadow to become animated without the use of Living Shade, but only be able to exit where one entered.
Unawakened- Haven: Turn one's home, temporary or otherwise, into a protected space where oneself and one's chosen family can't be harmed and guests must be invited in. Also can cause any harmful intent aimed at a protected individual to be turned back on the aggressor and force their expulsion from the home.
Awakened Magic
Intermediate Occlumency: Mind defense magic can stop Albus Dumbledore for one second before he looks into your mind
Wandless Wingardim leviosa: Intermediate
Gifts of Lorien
Ximic-Unawakened
Telekinesis-Unawakened
Gift of Hestia
Hearth eyes- Can see the warmth that is in a person and take it from them temporarily (kind of like getting hit with a genjutsu except just a feeling of hopelessness and being alone.)
Items:
Lamina Magia Noctibus- The blade of magic (turns into a watch)
The skin of the Amphibeana- Helps healing/Ward of disease/illness/poison(looks like a trench coat can change the style.)
Khione Suit Armor- looks like a Three piece Suit blessed by the goddess of snow Increased durability and 10% boost to ice and snow magic and abilities