"Out of sight, out of mind.
The better I know you, your soul may not know...
I'll find you even if I have to unearth hell and cause upheaval in the heavens.
I'll found you...Surely I will!"
-By AiRen (Author)
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"Search for her! We need her real quick and can't delay any longer. Make haste, we are running out of time!", a group of men with weird-looking faces conversed amongst their members in an unfamiliar language. They appeared concerned and worried. The reason behind their solemn faces could not be known but the seriousness of their agenda could somewhat be discernable.
The most notable feature about their appearance could baffle anyone who encountered them. However, fortunately, a normal person won't be able to see them or notice their presence and that made it easy for these weird-looking creatures to venture about with their quest unrestricted.
Each of these non-human-looking beings had different facial features. That is every individual among the group looked different as if belonging from varying species, especially with the bizarre mannerisms and languages of their own.
Some looked funny with antennas growing out on the surface of their chins and head, or with big eyes, outreaching and slithering tentacles and boneless body of the cephalopod sticking out like that of an octopus while some few had the face of beasts from ancient times. All in all the group was a gathering of every strange species that ever existed under the heavens.
How they understood each other was truly a wonder for the spectators!
The only prominent characteristic about them could be their cooperation and mutual interest, emphasizing their association to the same faction.
However, the most shocking thing about them wasn't how they looked and behaved but that they were merely see-through transparent souls floating around without a full-fledged body!
"How long do you think we'll need to find someone whom we haven't even seen yet? It's just a lost case!", a member who had a pointed nose just like that of an anteater grumbled unwillingly displaying its dissatisfaction.
According to this weirdo, it was a wastage of time and effort to search for some who knows what nobody! Why search for some nobody whose identity and existence appeared fake? It didn't believe in some nonsensical crap of a prophecy, foretold in the legends!
This non-human being had died early and still had its arrogance rooted to the core of its soul. It had a snobbish personality when alive which apparently he brought with it after death as well. It didn't know when to stop making a fuss or speak rubbish without knowing the crucialness of the content.
Ignorance could be regarded as bliss but unfortunately for this fellow possessing a brazen ignorance would certainly advance it faster than the others towards its awaiting doom!
The individual appeared to be a new member of the faction and thus was neither aware of the seriousness of the matter nor about the supposed consequences to be faced if ever the result about the matter they were handling, came out unsatisfactory.
The proposal to search for a mysterious somebody had been envisaged by their Lordship who had had in his proposal dictated―
'Zero compromises to be undertaken when dealing with issues regarding the subject matter. No complaints, no demands to be entertained but complete fealty to be expected when addressing to the matter and if any fuss is to be made, any conflict or feelings of malcontent is to arise, the individual or the group is no sooner shall be sentenced to complete obliteration!'
Only the top officials or the important leaders of the factions were aware of the seriousness of the issue and so were trying their best to find the person mysterious to everyone.
They knew how important the person was but as ordered by their higher-ups which were to specifically protect the identity and make sure to safeguard that person from any harm, the secrecy had been maintained.
They had been searching for that mysterious entity for a while then, a while here was close to a millennium! The believers and followers of her still clutched onto the hope to have her back against all odds.
According to the legendary prophecy, only that sole person could bring them salvation, free them of the millennium-old curse, the divine punishment that befell them no sooner than with the inhumane demise of that mysterious entity.
The millennium-old populace from that time knew they were wrong only after her cessation. They failed to decipher the scheme which had them too blind to see the path of light. They thought they were right until reality shattered the blindfold clasped over their eyes, mercilessly.
Guilt-driven, they accepted their doom because they knew that they indeed deserved the consequences.
But even so, it was said that the person had known everything from the very beginning for, she knowingly had sacrificed the majority portion of her memory and even every ounce of her powers just to lessen the fatality of the curse. The general masses who were aware of that believed in the prophecy that predicted the entity's rebirth.
Several faithful followers of hers from the ancient times had taken it upon themselves to search for her by hook or by crook and now when even at their death beds had preserved their bodies using the heaven-defying miraculous potion of immortality prepared and gifted to them by their ladyship when alive. They again used the soul manipulation and soul slave techniques created by their then living ladyship to harvest their own souls and others by extracting out of their living bodies inorder to explore the heavens and unearth underworld, turning it upside down in search of her.
They were her loyal subordinates from the past but still choose to keep living on with a loyal heart and soul just to serve her and make up for the wrongs they committed.
And so many souls, old and new, devouted and fickle, upright and nefarious, assembled together for the cause.
As prophecied beforehand, the figure was likely to return soon as according to the estimation predicted by their holy friar.
Thus, those subordinates had to make haste in finding her and to prepare for her return. They needed to find her anon inorder to prevent those vile beings from harming her!