Professor Fang: His Life and Times: Part 2
Our next verifiable record of Fang following the war of the beasts, begins in the early 19th century, where in the year 1820. Fang constructed his second spaceship using both his mastery of science and magic.
This vessel, which appeared to function as a kind of steampunk craft, was built in the shape of a large gothic mansion. In actual fact the supposed steampunk aspects of the ship were its way of harnessing magics for power.
Fang's first companions on this journey through the cosmos were Jessie Jackson, a young actress who had grown tired of her life on stage, and Frazer, a Scotsman that Fang had rescued from being sacrificed by renegade goblins and who had helped him build the vessel.
It was also during this time that Fang first encountered another of his greatest adversaries, the ruthless race of robotic creatures known as the Kalsekin.
These creatures came from a far away planet whose society had embraced magic and used it to construct large and powerful robots. The magic however gradually caused the robots to not only develop sentience, but souls too. Some of these robots subsequently fled and established a colony on a far away planet. There they would slowly capture and recruit other robots from across the universe and bring them to life using the same magical process. The Kalsekin as all robots they recruited became known as, spread throughout the galaxy conquering hundreds of other worlds, though their empire unlike other species such as the Hylexans was not completely unified. Rather it was scattered in different places around the entire universe, though they all did still remain in contact and relayed different pieces of information, such as new gadgets and life forms to one another.
Fang battled the Kalsekin (with this word meaning life in their original language) many times from the 19th to the late 20th centuries, managing to destroy the base of their operations, on their home planet, leaving many of the outer planets cut off. He also foiled an invasion of earth by the monsters in the year 1967, and faced them dozens more times centuries later during his life as a time traveler.
Frazer and Jessie meanwhile eventually left Fang as the two fell in love and married, though Fang kept in touch with them and was even made the godfather of their child. Fang subsequently spent most of the 19th and 20th centuries away from the earth, though he did briefly return during the second world war.
Recognizing the danger the Nazis posed to the rest of the world, Fang did all he could to help repel their war machine. He was responsible for forming the Magic Gang, a group dedicated to battling the Nazi's attempts to utilize the supernatural to win the war. The Nazis had formed a particularly strong alliance with the vampires, who hoped to use them to build an empire throughout Europe like their rivals the demonic vandals had done before.
Fang recruited each and every member of the Magic Gang, which included Lorrimer Van Helsing, the original Frankenstein's monster, King Arthur who had risen from the dead in Britain's darkest hour just as the prophecy had foreseen, Helga, a leading expert on witchcraft, a Golem and its friend and creator, the demon hunter Rosa Meyer and finally Marya the daughter of Dracula.
After the war was over Fang went back to space, and didn't return in any long term capacity until the mid 1970s when he came to stay in Hong Kong. There he put together another team similar to the Magic Gang to try and protect both Hong Kong and mainland China which after the war had experienced an influx of vampires and demons trying to take advantage of the chaos.
The team Fang put together included Chat, a member of the famous Heroic Trio, who had formed many years prior to combat an ancient Demon known simply as the Emperor or the Evil Master who was performing horrific experiments with the souls of infants. An infant's soul is the most pure and uncorrupted on earth and the Emperor believed that if he could corrupt enough of them with dark magic, then he could use their tainted life force to power a spell that would permanently eliminate light magic from the East.
The Emperor had actually once ruled over a large and prosperous kingdom, but his fall came when he indulged in horrific experiments with black magic and demons which corrupted him into the unique monstrosity he was today. He hoped through infecting his entire homeland with similar dark powers he could once again rule it.
Chat first encountered the Emperor when her baby sister was snatched by one of his demons. When her sister returned several years later, she had become corrupted by the Emperor's experiment and slaughtered Chat's entire family, with Chat herself being forced to kill her.
She soon began to research all she could about demons, as well as honing her physical skills. During this period she met another young woman named Ching, with the two sharing the same trainer, Lee Cheung, a former member of the Zhengi Nanren (an organization devoted to protecting the east from the supernatural, that Fang is believed to have played a role in creating at least by some.)
Lee left the Zhengi due to clashing with their methods and he had hoped to start his own more extreme group of demon hunters.
Ching and Chet meanwhile were his best students alongside his own daughter, Tung and the three formed a very close relationship as her father pushed them all very hard. Lee was not a good father to Tung it must be said, but at the very least they all learned an incredible amount from him. After the Zhengi Nanren's first attack against Lee, (as they were furious he had shared their secrets with outsiders. Lee and Tung were forced to go on the run, leaving his other students behind who disbanded.
Chat however, unlike the others, didn't give up and forced the younger, more vulnerable Ching to help try and strike back against the Emperor. It was a rash and foolish decision on her part, one that Tung and the others would have never allowed. It resulted in Ching being taken hostage by the Emperor who subsequently broke her through torture and magics into being one of his servants, and even used her to capture babies for him. Chat meanwhile fled in shame, eventually using the skills she had learned to become a bounty hunter known as the Thief Catcher. Whilst it was a dark time for Chat she nevertheless learned many new skills and developed new and powerful weapons during her time as a bounty hunter.
Tung meanwhile similarly used what she had learned from her father, mixed in with what she had learned on the road after his death (at the hands of the Zhengi Nanren) to eventually become the costumed superheroine, The Masked Hunter and slew all those responsible for her fathers death.
As The Masked Hunter she continued to fight crime and the supernatural in her home city, which eventually led to a clash with the Thief Catcher and Ching, when the Emperor arrived in her hometown.
When Ching, aided by one of the Emperors demons, tried to capture a baby, both the Thief Catcher and The Masked Hunter intervened. Ironically for the first time the Thief Catcher was thinking of someone other than herself, trying to find a way to protect her former adopted sister. In the cross fire however the cowardly demon sacrificed the baby and threw it onto a nail in order to stop the women coming after it.
All three were haunted by the tragedy for the rest of their lives. Still both Tung and the Thief Catcher were able to free Ching from the Emperor's mind control and she became determined to make up for her past actions. Using an invisibility cloak that her lover had been developing (and the Emperor had hoped she would steal.) Ching became the Invisible Woman and together the three of them were able to unite and destroy the Emperor, freeing the children he had transformed into demons from his power. The saved children formed a group dedicated to not only stopping demons and monsters, but rehabilitating them if possible in the women's honor for decades to come.
The three women meanwhile remained together afterwards, becoming the superhero team, The Heroic Trio. For many years they battled all manner of criminals, demons, vampires, and supernatural monsters together. The Emperor however whose spirit returned remained their most dangerous enemy. Sadly in 1975 the Heroic Trio came to an end in a battle with a powerful Witch and Zombie Queen, who Ching was forced to sacrifice herself to stop. The Thief Catcher in particular was so devastated at having failed to protect her little adopted sister again, she returned to being a bounty hunter, though at the very least in both cases she only hunted supernatural creatures. It was at this point that Fang recruited her, a year or so after Ching's death. At first their relationship was strictly professional, but in time the ancient vampire took on a fatherly role to Chat.
Among the others Fang took on included former so called super cop Chan Kai Kau, whose career sadly ended when he refused to back down after confronting a group of influential vampires in the local area.
He also recruited another member of the Zhengi Nanren, the descendant of legendary vampire killer Master Kau. This sect was not as extreme in upholding the tradition as the those that Lee had belonged to, though there were still some tensions between Kau and Chat at first.
This team proved to be every bit as effective as Fang's previous Magic Gang (who ironically also reformed near the end of the 70s and worked with Fang's new team now and again.) Sadly however Fang's new family came to an end in the late 70s, when Chat fell in love with Daniel Winn, a former member of the time travelling Soldiers of the Nexus trapped in the 20th century.
Fang first met Daniel when a particularly powerful and ancient Chinese Demon fled to England. None of the rest of Rentros, the origanisation Daniel was working with were willing to work with Fang due to the fact that he was a vampire, except ironically for Daniel, with the two becoming friends as they hunted for the demon. It was through Daniel that Fang learned a lot about time travel. The vampire had always been fascinated by the subject, initially in the hopes of going back and changing his mistakes. Whilst he had heard of certain experiments and stories, including the vandals' failed attempt to build a time machine that had become lost. Daniel's magic confirmed to the vampire that it was possible, and after Daniel made contact with the Nexus soldiers again, he was even instructed to share some of those secrets with the vampire as they obviously knew the important role Fang was to play in the history of the universe.
Sadly however Fang's first experiments with time travel were a disaster and ended up sending Daniel and Chat through time and space to another world. The two were then forced to follow a trail of portals through time and space to get back to their own era with help from Fang.
Chat and Daniel's romance later came to an end after a confrontation with a hideous demonic creature known as Ristorakia that had hidden her essence inside an asteroid. She had done so to escape her own world after she condemned it to a hell dimension. Ristorakia was a powerful witch who had found a way to control a portal to the hellish realm that had existed on her own planet. The magic she placed around it allowed her to abduct demons from the other side and place them under her control. She used the demons to both conquer her own world and then send them to devastate other worlds around her and ravage them for their resources. Ironically her planet had always had a blockade placed around it because of its portal to hell.
Eventually however when Satan became aware of what Ristorkia was doing he sent his most powerful minions who would be immune to her magic to slay her. In order to escape, she used the portal to destroy her world, and Satan's minions when they arrived.
Ristorkia now planned to create a similar portal on earth, take control of hundreds of demons she'd abduct on our world and then destroy our planet before Satan realised what was going on, before going on to do the same on hundreds of other worlds building up an army of billions of demons. (Each planet would lead to a different point in the hellish realm making it harder for Satan to pinpoint her.)
The asteroid landed near Beijing and Fang, Daniel and Chat working together were able to barely stop Ristorkia, using her own power to finally consume her soul. Sadly however Daniel was mortally wounded in the process. Despite his best efforts Fang was unable to cure him and as Daniel waited for death, Chat unable to lose someone else went to great lengths (against Daniel's wishes) to steal the most powerful and forbidden healing magics from Fulu, the magical well that the Zhengi Nanren had used to create their spells and enchantments to restore her love to health. Sadly however as a result she was forced to go on the run from the powerful spiritual forces that had sworn to protect the Fulu, who tried to hunt her down for the rest of her life. Neither Daniel nor Fang ever saw Chat again. Both were utterly devastated, with Fang's team slowly disbanding after her loss. For the next 20 or so years the vampire became something of a recluse, as he dove head first into his research on time travel, though he was obviously wary of making any more mistakes.
In the late 90s however, Fang was brought out of his solitude when he was recruited by the shadow government. This organization was started sometime after world war 2. It was a somewhat futile attempt to keep the supernatural at bay. Unlike Scathach or Rentros, the Shadows did not set out to destroy the supernatural. On the contrary they made deals with local demon and vampire kings and even offered up sacrifices to certain demons and creatures. The Shadow Government believed that it was futile to attempt to destroy the supernatural, as it would always exist on the earth in some form or another and so the only way to keep most of humanity safe was to try and find a way to keep the paranormal in order. They still used all of their resources against creatures that threatened the world, or to expose the supernatural, but unlike Rentros or the Trajans, they believed that they would never get distracted by low level street demons.
Fang was somewhat reluctant to join at first, and eventually agreed only in the hopes that he could infiltrate and destroy some of the most prominent demons from within, as well as use their resources to further his time travel experiments. Needless to say, Fangs time with the Shadow Government did not go smoothly, though he was still with them for over ten years before finally being forced to go on the run after bringing down one of their biggest operations.
Fang was eventually captured and imprisoned by the Shadow Government sometime in the early 21st century. They kept him locked up in a state of suspended animation for over 100 years, not wanting to kill him due to his intellect which they hoped they could harness, but not wanting to let him go free either. In time as they had bigger fish to fry, Fang was simply forgotten about left to rot in their vaults.
The vampire only emerged again after the supernatural was finally exposed to the world which led to the collapse of civilisation in the late 22nd century. The Shadow Government was among the first institutions to fall, ironically after the supernatural was exposed. It literally tore itself apart with several of its members forgetting their alliance with humanity and other races once the truth was exposed. The headquarters of the Shadow Government located beneath the Bermuda Triangle was subsequently left to rot for decades, with Fang still being kept in suspended animation below, along with all of their other enemies. At some point in the 23rd century however, Fang was inadvertently freed by a mutated creature in its attempt to resurrect its master Dalsrex.
Dalsrex who was neither demon, nor monster nor beast was the original inhabitant of the Bermuda Triangle and responsible for the many strange disappearances that had happened there. He came from the dark place at the bottom of the ocean. Life forms from this area are very rarely sighted on the surface. Only three have ever been recorded in any great detail, with the famous Bloop from Point Nemo being another.
Dalsrex famously captured any people that passed by its lair using teleportation abilities that are still not completely understood in order to use them as hosts for its eggs. Ultimately however no surface creature was strong enough to host its larvae. A few of its vile children lived for short periods, but it was often as hideously deformed mutations, that either died after a few months or were killed by Dalsrex itself in disgust. Dalsrex did later however allow at least some of his failed attempts to create children into his minions, which he sent to capture people from all over the world to use as part of his experiments, as fewer people became willing to travel over the triangle.
The founders of the Shadow Government were able, pulling all of their resources together to trap Dalsrex in a magical bubble in the 1980s, which held the monster for over 200 years. They built their new headquarters over its nest as a sign of their triumph. Dalsrex and Fang's future savior meanwhile was the only survivor of Dalsrex's children. This poor unfortunate soul only survived due to a combination of the Shadow Government and its magics when they attempted to cure it after. When all attempts failed they used the creature as an agent until he realised they could never cure him and went on the run.
After civilization fell, the child of Dalsrex who as a man had gone by the name of Paul eventually returned to the Bermuda Triangle hoping it could use the power of the former Shadow Government prison to control Dalsrex and bring order to the world. It was a perilous journey for Paul, during which his entire crew were killed. The oceans had become just as difficult to cross as the land, as now the numerous marine supernatural creatures such as Dragurs and Sirens and Caradons no longer had to keep hidden and were free to roam the waters.
Sadly Paul's own inexperience and tampering with the Shadow Government's own magics released all of their prisoners. Dalsrex, after seeing that there were no more people in the area thanks to the collapse of society, fled across the world to find more humans he could use in his experiments.
Fang meanwhile aided by Paul was able to drive the other prisoners out of the area, using the Governments weapons and made his former captors old headquarters his new base of operations.
From his former prison Fang worked on a way to help cure Paul and continued to tinker away with his time travel experiments all the while also aiding the scattered groups of humans all over the world unite and fight back against the supernatural. In time he put together another team of heroes from all over the world to try and help restore the earth and with the aid of his new team and technology and magics from the old Shadow Government. Fang was finally able to contact the Venusians who he knew about from his previous journeys through space.
With the Venusians and the Soldiers of the Nexus' aid (with the soldiers establishing themselves at this point.) Fang and his team were able to re-establish civilization on earth in the 23rd century which led to mankind's golden age, which is still ongoing as of the writing of this article in the 25th century.
Sadly however it will come to an end many hundreds of years from now in the 28th century when mankind is visited by a terror from beyond the stars. A race of vicious, Octopoid creatures known as the Hylexans. It is said that the Hylexans have mastered magic to a greater extent than almost any other race in the universe and have conquered hundreds of planets. Their policy is to subjugate a species and break them until they are incapable or unwilling to fight back, but if said race continues to show resistance then the Hylexans will cut their losses and exterminate them completely.
Fang kept a low profile during the golden age of mankind. Indeed I'd wager most of you reading right now will have never heard of him. This was deliberate on his part as he wanted to continue to work on his time travel experiments and certainly didn't want their knowledge getting out. Quite why he was so obsessed with these experiments no one really knows. Some suspect that he may have received a vision from his future self or perhaps some other time traveller. It's certainly possible, but ultimately Fang will once again be forced to put them on hold during the Hylexan war where he will fight valiantly against the monsters. Sadly however in the end the Hylexans will not only triumph, they will completely destroy the surface of the planet. It will not be entirely with their own weapons however. Rather the Hylexans will discover the hand of Ares, the war gods ultimate weapon that was banished into space centuries ago, still floating in space and catapult it towards the earth using one of their missiles.
It will finally accomplish what Ares had intended it to do all those centuries ago and destroy all life on the planet earth, except for those on the small island of Point Nemo.
This island is the most remote place on earth. It is so far from any other landmass that the nearest humans to it in the 25th century are in space. Ironically it was created by Ares himself during the days of his war with the other gods. He gathered the most terrible demons, monsters and beasts here both to experiment on and test to see which creatures would be the best soldiers in his army.
Ultimately however Ares was forced to abandon his island when he suffered greater losses on the mainland than he had predicted. This ironically led to the war god creating the hand in the first place, whilst his island was simply abandoned even before he later fled the earth.
Point Nemo remained largely isolated and forgotten due to its remote location and a forcefield placed around it by Ares himself, whilst the creatures he had gathered continued to fight with each other for dominance, though there were other visitations to it in the 20th and 21st centuries, these however all remained secret.
At some point an elite group of wizards, witches and warlocks were told by an iteration of the Circus Family to not only hide out on Point Nemo, but to work on a spell that would protect the island, and restore the earth after the Hylexans stripped it of all life. It is believed that this elite coven first retreated to Point Nemo in the middle of the 21st century. Of course if they could the Circus Family would have given them the knowledge on how to prevent the Hylexan attack from ever happening, but as we have been over it is not possible to change established history to that extent.
The wizards and witches of Point Nemo will capture Fang in the last year of the Hylexan war, where his knowledge will be put to use in strengthening the forcefield from the hand of Ares. This experience will finally teach Fang the importance of not being able to change time.
Sadly however even with their centuries of working on the forcefield, and Fang's help it does not offer complete protection from the hand. The forcefield is not only damaged, but the wizards and witches city on the island, built up over centuries is devastated resulting in the monsters of Point Nemo being able to overrun it and much of the work being lost.
It will take another 100 years for Fang and the other surviving wizards and witches to overcome the horrors of Point Nemo again, rediscover the last work and finally complete it. Once that is accomplished, the spell will be cast that will restore all life to our planet. Huge beautiful forests will cover the lands once more, and oceans and rivers will return as golden waters. This reborn earth will be christened Tairos. Unfortunately however an unintended side effect of this restorative spell will revive hundreds of life forms from multiple periods throughout our history. Humans, demons, Dinosaurs will all once again stalk the land, and they will battle with the survivors of Point Nemo for resources.
Even worse than that however, not every creature who is brought back will be as they once were. Twisted, grotesque caricatures of human beings and Dinosaurs and even demons will stalk the lands, such as the horrifying Vasta. It's a disturbing thought that any of us or our loved ones could one day become one of those abominations. It actually did motivate me to move to a colony on Mars. Thankfully my wife didn't mind one bit as she had family there, but if I were being honest with her it wasn't just to help her get in touch with her Martian roots. I can only pray that my children remain proud Martians and never get an interest in their human roots.
Some of the revived humans and the descendants of the survivors of Point Nemo will gather together into scattered cities and communities all over the world, or Tairos, whilst Fang will come to settle in the city of Mosterik and continue his time travel experiments. He will finally after centuries master them and create his ultimate ship from a combination of both science and magic, called the Bat. Fang will then simply leave Mosterik and Tairos behind though Mosterik will continue with some of the time travel experiments left over by Fang, what will become of them is a story for another time.
The Bat meanwhile was named after its design and shape, (again one can't accuse Fang of not embracing the vampire motif, even if he fought his demonic nature.) The Bat which was comparable in size to a small town was capable of travelling through time and space, and could also sense the exact points in time that Fang could visit without interference and the periods he had to visit in order to ensure the timeline as he knew it came to pass. It also possessed teleportation capabilities and could conceal itself using magic from being detected.
The vampire spent hundreds of thousands of years exploring all of time and space in the Bat. We cannot even begin to comprehend the full extent of his impact on history, or indeed hope to come close to chronicling his complete adventures and life during this period.
Only a few, vital details are known.
At some point in his travels, when he was travelling alone, the Professor met the first incarnation of the Circus Master, Ron Baker who had crashed on an isolated planet after helping to steal the vandals' time machine. Ron himself was a vandal, albeit one who had reformed. Fang helped fix the time machine and refined it to be like his own, allowing Ron to travel through time and space in a similar fashion. Ron, under the identity of the Circus Master (to match his colourful ship) would recruit many other strange creatures and heroes to be part of his Circus Family, whilst the title of the Circus Master was also later passed down to six other heroes after Ron's death. Ironically it was a later iteration of the Circus Family who played an important role in Fang's own history through establishing the coven on Point Nemo.
It was also during this period that the Professor orchestrated the battle for all creation. Arguably the most significant war in the history of our universe, it started when the survivors of the universe before ours tried to re-engineer our reality to suit them.
Natural universes such as ours go through different stages of development, each of which last trillions of years. Different life forms emerge during each of these distinct periods, with most not being able to survive from one evolutionary stage of the universe to the next given the extreme changes in the fabric of reality itself. However there does come a point where the universe can no longer evolve and eventually collapses into dust after which a new reality takes its place, and on and on this process will repeat forever within our multiverse, the natural realm.
The life forms that invaded our reality meanwhile, who we would come to know as the Galechians, were the most advanced creatures in their universe. They are believed to have come from the final period of their reality's history, though some have speculated they may have come from an earlier point and simply found a way to survive their own universe's evolution. Given that they cheated the death of their universe itself it is certainly possible.
The Galechians hoped to simply create another universe to inhabit before theirs collapsed, but they found this was impossible. The natural realm must be in perfect balance. There can only be a certain number of universes in it at a time, with each set of universes dying in sync with one another. If there is one universe too many then the entire natural realm will begin to collapse under its own weight.
Instead the Galechians decided to inhabit the next universe after theirs which they would alter to be like their universe, or rather their stage of it to survive. Had they succeeded then life in the universe as we know it would never have evolved. Fang soon realised that the only reason his history existed was because he went back and stopped the Galechians. In order to do that however he was forced to gather soldiers from all over the history of the universe (and in some cases other realities) as an army. This proved to be such a burden that even Fang, with everything he had lived through and done, felt like giving up as more and more young men and women were sent to their deaths, but ultimately he knew he couldn't as it wasn't even just the fate of his universe. The Galechians if not stopped would go on to do the same to other realities after they had used up ours, with their constant tampering with the structure of other universes also causing anomalies and problems with the entire omniverse our multiverse exists within, hence why soldiers from other realities were only too eager to help Fang.
Among those Fang recruited included the first iteration of the Circus Family (before Carlene joined) and the enigmatic time traveler from another universe, Doctor Omega.
The war waged on for thousands of years, but it eventually ended in a victory for Fang's side. However not all of the Galechians perished in the war, with several using stolen technology of Fang's to flee into other universes (such as Doctor Omega's) or into later periods of our own where they would become major enemies of Fangs.
The Professor was broken by the war and even took time out of his travels for many centuries. Using technology left over from the war, Fang planted life on a small, unimportant planet in a remote area of space. It became his own personal garden planet, and he used his ship to populate it with animals from all over time and space. (Always being sure to pluck an animal that was dying and wounded and abandoned that would have had no further importance in the timeline.)
Dinosaurs, Pterosaurs and marine reptiles became the dominant life forms on this garden world of Fangs and he spent many years living there, before finally returning to his travels. As much as he may have wanted to rest, the timeline still needed him. Nevertheless every now and again Fang continued to return to his garden planet.
From this period on Fang took on many travelling companions, believing that after the war he worked better with help. His two most famous and long lasting companions were Lindsey Kate McIntosh and Kirsteen Williamson.
Lindsey had a long and successful career as a vampire hunter prior to working with Fang. She first learned about the paranormal during a stay in the Galloway region of Scotland where she was almost killed by the followers of a legendary vampire king named the Blue Devil.
Following this experience Lindsey came to work for Scathach, an organisation devoted to hunting the paranormal. She was stationed in its highlands department near Aviemore. There she worked with the other famous reformed vampire Carlene, Lam, her Zeta Reticulan friend and an elderly Daniel Winn battling all sorts of monsters, demons and paranormal creatures. Following Carlene's disappearance however in 2007, Lindsey struck out on her own, though it was another 10 or so years before she encountered Fang. During that time she went through many great losses.
She and Fang developed the closest relationship of any of his companions apart from possibly Chat. Much like Chat in many ways Lindsey was the daughter that Fang never had.
Kirsteen meanwhile was a famous rock star during the 1970s and the 1980s whose career had sadly collapsed in the early 80s, due to a combination of her personal problems and the unforgiving media. Whilst she had overcome both her depression and alcoholism by the end of the decade, most of her so-called friends and fans had abandoned her. After her mysterious disappearance in the late 80s, she was of course celebrated as all dead artists are. Whilst many assumed she had simply succumbed to her problems again, in truth she was abducted by a time travelling, living, magic ship that had abducted many life forms from all over time and space to be its crew, both for company and to fight evil throughout the universe. Sadly this ship crashed into Fang's and in the resulting crisis, he was only able to save Kirsteen who was forced to join him afterwards.
Unlike Lindsey, Kirsteen was not happy at joining Fang at first. Whilst she admittedly didn't have much to live for back home, she nevertheless was both horrified and terrified of the creatures she came across in her first few adventures. However it was her friendship with Lindsey that ultimately convinced her to stay and whilst she and Fang never quite enjoyed the same level of closeness as Fang and Lindsey, Kirsteen nevertheless became one of his longest serving companions.
Due to being outside of the time vortex, Lindsey and Kirsteen aged considerably slower than a normal person, with both staying with the vampire for centuries.
Whilst the vampire had many companions both before and after Lindsey and Kirsteen, including the legendary vampire killer Ching Kwan and the great explorer Vanessa Showina. It's safe to say that none of them were ever as associated with the vampire as Lindsey and Kirsteen.
Aside from battling his old enemies such as Huan, Maliach and his Vaskin, the Kalsekin, the Harra and Dalsrex that escaped our world in the 23rd century. He also made many new and powerful enemies during his life as a time traveller. Among these included Skovora, a demon who enjoyed transforming planets into the hideous hell world he had come from, out of resentment and jealousy. Fang imprisoned this demon within his own ship for many years, as there was seemingly no way to kill him. Unfortunately however, during the collision with the living ship where Fang and Lindsey first met Kirsteen, the demon escaped into space and would go on to infect and destroy more worlds, becoming one of Fang's most dangerous and evil enemies.
Aside from Skovora, Fang also faced a race of creatures known as the Marleska, who were originally a race of powerful sorcerers. They had mastered magic to the point where they became creatures of magic and buily an incredible civilization that was the wonder of its and many neighbouring galaxies.
Sadly however at some point the magics that fueled their civilization became poisoned, transforming them into hideous, nightmarish creatures. The Marleska could only survive in their own poisoned domain for extended periods, but as their world was being ripped apart by that same poison, the monsters soon began to conquer and poison other worlds, which they'd live on for decades before the magics ripped them apart. They were among Fang's most persistent and revolting enemies.
However perhaps his most dangerous foes were a race of demons known as the Yakesla. These demons were relatives of vampires and vandals, though they were certainly not their allies. The Yakelsa were the creations of Khastran's bride during his first reign over the demons, the demon Queen Geralshia. Whilst she may not have been a match for Khastran physically, she was a match for him in terms of ambition and in some cases cruelty as well. Like all of Khastran's concubines however she had no real power, but unlike the others she actively plotted against him, which led to the future father of the vampires casting her out.
Geralshia fled with Khastran's son, Demenkos. Khastran had many children, all of whom he disregarded. He certainly had no affection for Demenkos, but he did not like the idea of anyone else disposing of his children.
Geralshia meanwhile murdered their son and cut his body into pieces in an attempt to try and harness any residual energy from Khastran that may have been passed onto his child.
Before she could do so however Khastran tracked her down and vaporized Geralshia. Before her death however she hid the mangled remains of her own son deep beneath the planet Extarna, which at point only housed a primitive society. In the ensuing centuries after Geralshia and Khastran's own death, the people of Extarna would progress into a highly advanced species technologically but not socially. They'd wage war with one another that proved to be so brutal, it not only devastated the surface of their planet, but awoke and strengthened the dark demonic energy of Demenkos underneath which soon burst its way through the ground.
The energy took root into the body of a soldier dying from his wounds simply because it was the nearest body. The energy then formed its personality based on the soldier's hatred, bitterness and resentment at what his life had become (that was all the energy which still had traces of Demenkos mind could understand naturally.) From there the new demon that was born in the soldier not only took him over, but soon began to infect others, creating a new race of creatures called the Yekelsa made up of Demenkos energy, the magics of Geralshia's experiments and the horrors of the war itself. Yekelsa means war in the Extarna's language.
What made the Yekelsa so dangerous however was not simply their tremendous power, but the fact that they could transform anyone they killed through any means into a member of their kind, provided there was enough of the body left. Unlike vampires and vandals and the majority of other demon species who had to directly infect natural creatures through their fangs, claws, and pincers. Simply dying at these monster's hands was enough which allowed them to not only overrun Extarna but hundreds of other worlds throughout the cosmos.
They also, having been created from one demon, had the ability to merge together into a single entity, though only six could do this at a time. They also had the power to absorb other demons into their bodies too, which Fang very nearly discovered the hard way when one of them tried to devour him.
Among Fang's individual rivals meanwhile included Lanjica, a renegade witch from the Federation of Magic who enjoyed causing trouble on worlds throughout the galaxy with her magics and the Gorgon sister Elsteria, who had the power to rewrite the biology of any creature to be like hers and believed it was her duty to save the universe by uniting all life forms by making them identical.
Whilst Fang saved hundreds of worlds and galaxies from these monsters, he also endured many crushing defeats and losses at their hands which weighed on his already tormented mind.
Sadly we don't know if Fang ever was able to find peace. There have been many accounts of his supposed final death, but given his ability to resurrect no one can say for sure if any of them truly were the end.
Wherever he is now, one thing is for sure that Professor Fang is the most important individual figure in the history of our universe. Were it not for him, history as we know it would not exist. The fact that this burden alone didn't crush Fang is a testament to his strength and why only he could have lived the life he has. Still whilst we can admire Fang for his accomplishments it's safe to say that even with all of the incredible things he has seen, no one would ever wish to trade places with him. He walks a fine line, not only between demon and man, but between order and chaos. One little mistake on just one of his travels and it could all unravel in catastrophic ways. No matter how hard he tries to escape this crushing responsibility it seems time itself will not allow him to rest. Fang is in many ways a prisoner of his life, rather than the free spirit and explorer some of his admirers would have you believe. I can only hope that someday he finds peace, whatever that may be for him.