The Spirit World

Eckart gripped the girl's hand firmly.

"Good, then from now on we work as a team," Eckart said in a pleased tone. "Those Exorcists won't stand a chance." As he was speaking, Eckart sensed the other aura draw closer, the energy belonging to the black-cloaked spirit. Eckart released the girl's hand and waited patiently for his other guest to ascend the stairs. Finally, the three of them were in the same room.

"You called?"

"Indeed," Eckart nodded in response. "We are all Rogue Souls, so our goals should be similar. I have invited you here to ask if you would like to help us crush the Exorcists. I sensed a powerful aura join them as I was escaping; we're going to need all the help we can get if we plan to beat them. What do you say, why not join me and..." Eckart looked to the spirit girl. "I'm sorry, I still don't know your name," He looked back to the black cloaked spirit and continued. "Anyway, why not join the two of us? It will certainly be more fruitful than working alone. Oh and, my name is Eckart Ravner, in case you were curious." Eckart patiently awaited his response.

 

October fumbled with her pale, black painted fingernailed hands-which were clothed in black finger less gloves. "Erm, my name is Trixis." Trixis spoke calmy and a bit quiet, she had never been around more than one person at a time before, and it made her kind of uncomfortable, but she had to realize that she wasn' the only living person-well spirit-out there, and she had to get used to it.

Trixis looked at Eckart with solid grey eyes now. "What do they even want from us? Thats all I don't get." Trixis knew that most people didn't find spirits at all comforting, but unless she was threatened by any one, she wouldn't just kill for the heck of it. Although she has fantasized about the joy of it before, but she hasn't actually done it. Yet. Trixis thought. There is always that suspenceful 'yet' that gets in the way of everything. Trixis shook her head and tried to focus on present time.

 

Kiran gasped and apologised; he'd completely zoned out whilst marvelling the stairway to paradise. Heaven was the one place where no one was hurt; the place where everyone was one with Christ and The Lord. The place where he was sure he could finally meet his lost friend; a friend who he was sure made it into Heaven. His old best friend Aeron Sanguis. He climbed the stairway, smiling as the light enveloped him.

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"And I'm Aeron Sanguis. I'm most certainly in; how could I resist a chance to kill the only people who are in the way of us and Earth?" he said, the corner of his lips twisting into an unsettling grin beneath his hood. Then he turned to the girl, losing the grin almost instantly.
"Trixis, the Exorcists want to kill us...again. Apparantely, us being half dead already isn't good enough." he muttered under his breath.

 

"Precisely," Eckart added at the end of Aeron's explanation. "The Exorcists take it upon themselves to be God's righteous word; put another way, they are the voice of divinity on Earth. They will stop at nothing to cleanse us from the shadows, because our very existence is a sleight against God." Eckart chuckled a little. "Self-righteous bastards if you ask me. Now I have a question: Aeron, Trixis, tell me, are either of you any good in a fight?" Eckart summoned Bloodrend to his hand. "You're going to have to be powerful if you want to beat an Exorcist. I should know..." Eckart laughed loudly at the reference to his past.

Still laughing, Eckart tossed his scythe into the air, causing it to spin like a windmill. He then quickly clapped his hands together. Shadowy magic enveloped his grip as the scythe struck into the ground in front of him, and the room was filled with unintelligible whispers. The spirits of several murderers rose up out of the ground, lifelessly awaiting their master's command.

"Defeat these spirits. I have to know how you handle yourself in combat," Eckart instructed. The scythe sticking out of the ground dissipated and Eckart went back to sitting in his ring of skulls, eagerly awaiting the performance of his new companions.

OOC: There are about three spirits for each of you (you can raise this number if you choose but try not to lower it). You have complete narrative control over these spirits for the purposes of combat. When describing, note that 1) these spirits are blood-crazed murderers, and 2) their power level is maybe 1/6 of ours, so they're pretty weak.

 

Trixis-wide eyed-looked at the shadows. She never actually took part in battle between one of these things before. Not like she actually have seen them before. She tried her best to focus but one of the shadows quickly took off towards her. She shreiked and crossed her arms out in front of her. There was a white icy glow that erupted from the palms of her hands and she squinted her eyes open to see that the shadow had fallen back. The ice power! Trixis thought in her mind.

The shadow quickyl regained its balance and ran at her full speed. Trixis was taken off guard at the shadow quickly pounced on her, knocking her over in a spilt second. The shadow used it long nail like talons to scratch at her face. Trixis quickly pounded her fists on the floor once and all together a bright red and orange mixed light erupted from the cracks and enveloped Trixis and her opposing shadow.

The light faded and Trixis was now standing in a crouch like position, head down as if she were crying. She looked up and the corner of her mouth twitched up into a smile. As if she were finding her true self in fighting things. The thrill and adreniline of this was taunting and sent chills through her non existing veins. All she had to do was defeat a few more and hope that they would find her particularly useful in this battle.

OOC - I hope I did some what well in this. I don't know if this was your description of the shadows and I can channge anything or add somethings if you'd like. . . .

 

A look of shock crossed Aeron's face briefly, then disappeared. He pulled down his hood, so it wouldn't get in his way during the fight. His ghostly face revealed, he looked each of the five shadows over, waiting for them to strike. One shadow ran at him, followed by another. He narrowly evaded the first shadow's claw and blocked the second with an electricity barrier. The barrier detonated, forcing the second shadow back.

The other shadow pounced at him, knocking him to the floor, then raised a hand to claw his chest. Aeron caught the hand and jolted it with electricity, stunning it for a moment. He used this oppurtunity to look around, and saw two more shadows coming for him. He blasted the first one back, but the second one kept running. He put up two barriers in front of the running spirit, forcing it to stop moving, then leapt behind it and used a basic fire spell to knock it into the barriers. It faded away in a windmill of sparks.

There were four left, he could see. Three of them were weakened enough to be killed in one or two hits at the most each. For a moment, nothing happened. Then, two of them pounced. Aeron dodged swiftly, and the two shadows clawed the spot he'd been less than a second ago.

He felt a grin creep up on his face and realised just how much he'd been enjoying this fight. He embraced the urge to kill and loosed lightning into one of them. It faded.

Three left. He stared them down, then jumped backwards just as one sprinted forward and raked the air with its talons. He launched a block of ice from his palms, incarcerating the spirit. Two left. Then, he pushed the block of ice at one of the remaining spirits, and it shattered, shards of ice finding their way into it.

One left. However, the only one remaining seemed bulkier than the other four were. As it ran at him and attacked him, he realised that this spirit was faster and more intelligent than the other spirits as well as being stronger. It was still nothing Aeron couldn't kill, though. He ducked under the spirit's first claw, then breathed sharply through his teeth as its second dug into his left arm.

He placed his right hand onto the cut and released a weak charge of electricity, healing the wound. Still grinning, Aeron glanced at Trixis to see how she was handling the spirits. It seemed she was killing them just as easily as he was.

He prepared to fight the last remaining spirit. With three Rogue Spirits of such power forming a group, the Exorcists wouldn't know what hit them.

 

Eckart's hidden smile grew wider and wider as the two Rogue Souls destroyed the spirits. Finally, after Trixis had defeated one and Aeron had defeated four, Eckart snapped his fingers, causing the remaining spirits to disappear. Eckart applauded his new companions.

"Bravo," Eckart said. "That was all I needed to see. You both performed quite admirably. Aeron, it seems that you have a bit more experience than Trixis. While we are training, be sure to provide her with assistance if necessary. Trixis, your powers were surprising to me; you have such a powerful control over fire and ice. Very commendable. Your only fault is that you seemed hesitant at first, though that faded quickly." Eckart walked over to Trixis and put a hand on her shoulder. "It is our right as Rogue Souls to take the lives of the weak. We are the predators, and humans are our prey. Remember that in the future." Eckart went back to sit in the ring of skulls.

"This Temple is a place that you may call home from now on; you are welcome here. It seethes with dark energy, as I'm sure you can already feel. There are plenty of vacant rooms in the floors above. Choose one to your liking and get some rest. The dawn is about to come, but when night falls again, it will be time for us to act."

Eckart was filled with an evil happiness. He was glad that the Rogue Souls were willing to align with him. Those Exorcists will perish before our might, he thought, as he began to meditate.

OOC: Kairi, your post was fine also, I know that Spirits don't sleep, but bear with me, as we need something to do in the downtime while the Exorcists visit heaven. I figured resting was reasonable

 

Zac was in awe. This was heaven. Literally. This place he had dreamed of going to when his life would end, guess he caught a sneak peak. He started to looking around the place, like a newborn, curious about TE world around him. This was an all new experience, it felt like home. The skies were beautiful, he could see some angels flying. Could he fly as well? He shrugged and started to back up.

"One small step for man," Zac said preparing to run and jump,

 

Trixis walked up the stairs to the top of the temple and found an empty room. The only thing that was lighting it was that of a single flame from a candle. Trixis walked up to the flame and stared intently into the core of it. The candle illuminated her eyes to a yellow-ish gold. She walked over to the window and sat on the ledge. What did I get myself into? Trixis thought, looking out into the horizon. What if I get myself killed out there? Trixis instantly shook the image out of her head. It was pretty stupid to be even thinking something like that, especially since she was already dead. So, if she were to perished of again, where would she go this time? It's not like she could resurrect. Maybe, but she has never heard of anything like that to happen before. She wouldn't even be able to tell if anything like this even happens. Maybe it could, maybe it couldn't. Trixis sighed and rested her head on the stoney wall and began to think of ways she could get stronger and more quicker in killing her opponents.

 

"Hey Shuraito's mom and sister," The human boy said. He was surrounded my immortals. Kind of the white elephant in the room. "Im Zac, kind of just figured out in one the chosen exorcists like your son said. Wait...why did you hesitate when calling us that?" Zac asked the son of death.

Zac grabbed out his Bible and started to read it, looking for more about angels. He knew very little, Infact the world knew little, only that Angels have two-eight wings, they were messengers and guardians, and they looked human. They to we're made in God's image after all.

 

Zac blushed, not once has a girl, or angel told him that. He chuckled a bit, "Thanks," Zac said, "Your nickname is nice two," Zac said with a smile. He looked at the older brother and said, "Yea I would love to see that book, might as well read it,"

 

Zac blushed again, this was an even weirder feeling when a female angel complemented on your name. He felt a bit nervous, "Man this place sure is bigger than my house...are all houses like this in Heaven?" Zac asked Dawn, "Man God loves to keep us at home when we come to this place,"

 

"I'm not sayin you aren't," Zac said, "I'm with some sort of soda or water, I don't really know about food though..." Zac said, "Usually I'm really hungry, but I guess it's just heaven, they do say you never hunger again. Guess it reduced my hunger problems here," Zac said with a small laugh,