Chapter 15 – “Whispers of the War Market”

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Chapter 15 – “Whispers of the War Market”
Arc II: The Dinoverse
> “Some wars are fought in shadows. But the deepest scars are carved in silence.”
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🏰 Setting: Secret Underground Archive – Beneath the Emperor’s Castle
After the brutal battle against Zerion’s elite shapeshifters, the newly allied trio—Blackstorm, Darkeran, and the Dino Emperor, along with Red, descend into a hidden archive buried beneath the throne room. This vault was once meant for emperors alone.
But now... it reveals the rot.
Walls of obsidian etched with blood-coded glyphs. Holograms of history flicker—wars, genocides, alliances long broken. And in the center: a sealed war cube, pulsing faintly.
> Red: “Last time I saw one of these, it fried a dimension’s firewall.”


He links it to his multi-tool. Data floods in:

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💻 Data Reveal – The War Market
Inside the cube:
Transaction logs: Human girls, hybrid children, auctioned off as “combat breeders” and “test subjects.”
Coordinates: Dozens of still-living human villages, secretly kept alive for "inventory."
Buyers list: Not just from Dinoverse—multiversal clients.
Auction name: The next sale is happening at a fortress known only as The Maw.

> Red: “This isn’t just slavery. It’s an economy. A whole empire of pain.”


> Blackstorm: “It’s not just business. It’s legacy. War passed down like inheritance.”


> Darkeran (clenched fists): “Then it dies with us.”



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🔥 The Maw – Next Auction Location
A projection unfolds. A massive fortress riding on the back of a fossilized beast the size of a city. Legs of steel, walls of bone, breathing vents glowing with heat.
The Maw moves across the dunes of the outer continent. A traveling hive of sin.
Inside: Warlords. Scientists. Slavers. Zerion.
The final confirmation?
> Dino Emperor: “This... was never authorized. Zerion betrayed me.”


> Red: “He outplayed you. And he's still playing.”



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💀 Meanwhile – Elsewhere
Zerion stands in a mirror-filled chamber. Each reflection shows a different face—man, woman, dinosaur, child, ghost.
A shadow speaks from the darkness behind the mirror.
> “You gave them too much.”


> Zerion: “I gave them hope. The most dangerous illusion of all.”


> “Then break them. But keep the Blackstorm alive. He wants him.”


Zerion smiles, skin rippling into a new form.
> “Let’s see how far their ‘hope’ gets them in The Maw.”



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🧭 Back in the Archive – Preparing to Move
Red closes the cube.Darkeran grabs his twin bone-cleavers.Dino Emperor’s face remains unreadable.
> Blackstorm: “This place reeks of a trap. And we’re walking into it.”


> Red: “Classic hero move.”


> Blackstorm: “Then we don’t walk. We divide.”


He turns toward the others.
> “Two teams. Team One goes to The Maw. Team Two checks on Darkeran’s village. If this is bait… the attack might already be happening there.”


The Emperor growls.
> “I’ll go to the village.”


> Blackstorm (narrow-eyed): “If you try anything funny… I’ll kill you myself.”


> Red steps forward, tossing something metallic to Blackstorm — a bracelet device.


> “Failsafe. Injects neural paralyzers tuned for cold-blooded nerve systems. Just in case the Emperor forgets who he’s walking with.”


> Blackstorm: “He won’t. Because if he does… I won’t use it. I’ll break him myself.”


> Dino Emperor (smirking): “I look forward to it, Prime.”


> Darkeran: “Enough dick-measuring. Time’s leaking.”



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🚨 Final Lines
Blackstorm and the Dino Emperor vanish into the teleport sigil — destination: Darkeran’s village.
Red and Darkeran stay behind, gearing up for The Maw.
The cube pulses one last time... and goes dark.
> Next stop: betrayal, blood, and revelation.



---TO BE CONTINUED –