ON THE MARX

Entry 45

5 Brahma

Janus Joetche was a mystery.

He was furtive and enigmatic.

He was obscure and created a lot of ambiguity.

Just who was he exactly?

The biggest thing and most glaring thing about Janus, was that he was Carrion.

 The Carrions and the Fakirs were originally from the same world. They had come from Antares, specifically a planet that they called Htraeth, apparently pronounced Her-ee-f. Though we knew that the Fakirs had come from Saffar, the original planet of origin was Htraeth revolving around Antares in the constellation of the Scorpion.

As was common knowledge the Carrions and Fakirs were not exactly the best of friends. It was also common knowledge the Carrions were lead away from Antares by Caledfwich On Heim, about a million years ago. It was common knowledge that Prince Xavier Yanez Zuniga had chased after the Carrions some decades later with the help of the dictator known as Conrad Structhem.

So on.

And so forth.

Blah blah.

The problem?

Well Janus was a Carrion.

Fakirs did not like Carrions.

In fact, they wanted to purge the Carrions.

In fact, the Fakirs wanted to purge any sort of Carrion DNA out of any Fakir descendants that they knew about. Even the small little bit of DNA that was Carrion had to be purged. Even if it was like .00000000000000000000001% Carrion DNA. DNA so miniscule it was meaningless, that DNA had to be purged.

Yet here was a Carrion male.

And it wasn’t like with Samantha, by which I mean Heather, Janus was 100% Carrion. He was the son of one named Toniuth Joetche, and Axolotl Joetche he had a sister named Huicoatl Joetche. All of them.

Carrions.

Then Janus himself was a very curious character.

Janus was a mater of a type of martial arts that I had never heard of before. Xenotandavism, it loosely meant playing with the sword. At least that was the closest thing it would translate to.

“It’s not exactly like fighting with a sword,” Olga explained.

She had heard of it, seeing how she was familiar with a sword, she had at least knew about it.

“Its more like…dancing.” Olga said.

Olga explained that this sword of style was based on something called Tandav.

“Tandav?” I asked.

“I have never heard of it either.” Olga said. “It’s a type of dancing apparently.”

Olga knew at least of 6 different sword attacks with this sword play.

“Jikiiden Eishin-ryu,” Olga said as she stood in front of me and simultaneously drew the sword and cut the air in front of her and put it back in her sheath. If my eyes weren’t used to fast movements of knife fighting I was sure I wouldn’t have seen it.

“Hyoho Niten Ichi Ryu,” Olga grabbed another sword and somehow attacked and defended simultaneously with both swords.

Well I saw how she did it.

It was flowing one maneuver into the other.

It was an attack and a block, both at the same time.

“Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto Ryu,” Olga said she attacked with the sword and with fighting. This looked intense.

“Niten-Ichi-Ryu Kenjutsu,” She said. This looked like a different variation of attacking and defending at the same time. This one also had a way of stance that is off on the side as opposed to straight on.

“Leiden No Odomo,” this was quick striking by quick successive forward strikes where it looked like it was attacking chest areas and face and vital points of the body.

“And this is Mugari-Ryu.” She grabbed a smaller sword and started to attack variations of the other ones that she had shown earlier. “But that is all the ones I know about. There is likely more.”

“And Janus is a master of it?” I asked and she nodded.

I remember back to when I had defeated the Tiger.

How Janus, the Falcon had headed towards me as if knowing he could defeat me.

“Was Janus the one that they based this idea about the black knights being able to defeat 500 people or whatever the f**k?” I asked suddenly realizing it.

“If any of the Black Knights did have that ability, it would be him.” Olga said.

“So why was the tiger the leader?” I asked.

“How do you Epsilonians say it…luck of the draw.” Olga said.

I thought about that for a moment again.

The Falcon was no slouch.

There was no way that he would have let himself get overtaken by someone like the Tiger. Seeing just the limited fighting poses that Olga knew proved that the Falcon was on a whole other level. Especially considering he could be the one that they had based this idea that one member of the black knights could defeat 500 people, or whatever that rumor was. Rumors after all have a tendency of having some kernel of truth to it no matter how miniscule.

I could see that the Falcon could have planned it out that way. That the Tiger was seen as the leader when in fact he could have been the strongest one. I could have seen how someone once might have seen the Falcon dispatch 500 soldiers and thus it became common place that every member of the Black Knights could.

Could I dispatch 500 men?

I could.

It would be hard.

But I could.

I knew that I could dispatch the other Black Knights if necessary.

Well almost all of them.

Janus was an unknown factor.

I was not certain.

“Is, there any videos of him fighting?” I asked.

“If there is, I don’t know about it.” Olga asked.

“Fine,” I said. “Which brings me back to this idea about that hidden planet, is there any new information?”

“None as of yet,” Olga said.

“Why would anyone hide a planet?” I asked mostly to myself.

“Better yet how.” Olga said.

I had my idea of how. The technology of the Star Builders was how they could hide a planet. After all those belts that they had could change them invisible. I do not recall mentioning before, but the camouflage of the Star Builders stems from this belt that they have. I have seen Hanuman and my old man wear it. It somehow altered the way that you perceived them, it worked on the premise on showing only what the person viewing them wanted to see.

The fact that Hanuman appeared as a monkey, was a troublesome thing. Why a monkey?

I felt that that fact alone put Hanuman into a unique category. He could show himself as whatever or however he so pleased, yet he decidedly wanted to show himself as a monkey. That alone made Hanuman quite the different being than I thought possible. But when I started to extrapolate possibilities, I realized that the Star Builders would have had to create larger scale camouflaging technology. After all I still had not seen the fleet that they apparently still had nor did I see the other star builders that Hanuman talked to at times.

I still did not have a faintest idea of how that sort of technology worked. However, it did not sound like it was something that would have been used freely to simply hide a planet. Unless there was something of extreme importance.

“You are thinking of something,” Olga said.

“Just wondering why, they would hide a planet.” I said.

“If Colonel,” Olga said.

“If they are hiding it then why?” I asked.

Olga shrugged.

“Maybe we will find out soon enough.” Olga said.

I decided to use my contacts to find the old man and ask him directly.

“You want to know about the belt of Orion,” the old man said when I paged for him.

“Its good to see you too pops.” I said.

“Have you looked at Betelgeuse,” the old man said.

“Betelgeuse?” I asked I pulled out a star map of the hunter and saw the star of Betelgeuse. Massively glistening in the imaginative armpit of the hunter. But where it was in comparison to the belt was practically down the street.

However, that was not the peculiarity. The peculiarity was that Betelgeuse, Procyon and Sirius, made another set of Zima Stars. Similar to how our star of Deneb, Alair and Vega made another set of Zima Stars.

“Another set of Zima stars?” I said.

This was one of the things that I had discovered before I took over the Black Knights. The Fakirs were infatuated with the Zima stars. The Zima stars were 4 star sets that made a triangle set which was called the Zima. The Zima were some sort of symbolic mumbo jumbo that had something to do with something called the Trishula. It was Lord Shiva’s weapon of choice, though it was not his most powerful.

“You know something about that?” I asked.

“We only know parts,” The old man said.

“Like what part?” I asked.

“For one Caledfwich went to the belt of Orion,” the old man said.

“What do you mean?” I asked.

“I mean just that,” he shrugged.

“You don’t know why?” I asked.

“You know about the Trishula?” the old man asked.

“Vaguely,” I said.

“It’s a weapon of Shiva.” The old man said.

“I know and it was apparently split into three.” I said. “Supposedly Alberto de Escorpion had found part of it ages ago on Porcyon.”

“And another part Caledfwich had,” the old man said.

“Caledfwich?” I said.

“It was passed on in his family,” The old man said.

“And his brother wanted it,” I sighed.

“Nay, his brother had it,” the old man said, and I shot a glance.

“He had it?” I asked.

“Aye,” the old man said.

“And what happened to it?” I asked.

“Caledfwich was lost escaping in the vicinity of Alnilam,” the old man said.

“The center of the belt of the hunter?” I asked.

“Aye,” the old man said.

“Where supposedly the Fakirs are looking for a planet?” I asked.

“Aye,” he said.

“Pops is there a planet there?” I asked.

“The one who may know is Lord Hanuman,” the old man said.

“Why do you say that?” I asked.

“Maybe you should ask him that,” the old man said.

His face was gone, as he hung up and I was left thinking.

Caledfwich possibly blocking that planet?

No that didn’t make sense.

Camouflaging a planet entirely, from any probing.

That was something, that didn’t seem probable.

At least not by Caledfwich on Heim.

No, a Star Builder probably did it.

The question was why would someone do that?

If Caledfwich did in fact have Trishula or at least a part of it. Then someone knew that.

The question was who knew?

A Star Builder, like probably Hanuman did.

But then I started to wonder about something. What would be so dangerous that someone had to block the existence of an entire planet? Why would Hanuman block the existence of an entire planet? What would scare even Hanuman?