It's been a couple of weeks since I've nearly died, in the time since my life has continued as normal, I woke up, went to school, came home and repeat. Nothing from my daily life has changed in the slightest, it was just as dull.
Both Indra and Azel hadn't spoke since I told them that I needed time to think, although I occasionally said one of their names to know if they were still there, only for Azel to respond with "Heya kiddo" and Indra with "Yes, Leo" I usually always responded with "Nothing" After, they never said anything but I began to believe they knew why I was doing it and accepted it. This process repeated at least 5 times a day in intervals between the two. I had long accepted that they were indeed real, and I wasn't insane. But to believe that I, someone who had never had anything ever suddenly have something as special as finding out I'm barely considered human. That was the reality I had difficulty coming to terms with.
"Hey Kiddo" Azel had not once ever said anything to me when I had not said his name prior so he must have a good reason
"Uh, yes Azel?" For some reason I was curious as to what he wanted. "Try to remain calm but there is a revenant nearby" as I heard these words my heart had immediately started speeding up its rate, as much as I tried to remain still I could barely keep it together.
"Look kiddo, I know you probably haven't come to terms with everything but we really need to banish the revenant before it hurts anyone, and we can help you do it" although my heart and mind felt like they were falling apart, azels words had made me remember that I not only wanted to protect my family, but protect the people who deserved life. "Alright, what do I have to do?" I was still terrified of coming face to face with it and freaking out, yet, I wanted to make sure no one was hurt even if I was.
"Ok Leo, first, as a Nepheli with both Devil and Angel abilities you can utilize some basic skills of both even as you are now, for example, you are able to utilize my Enhance ability, this would allow you to boost your capabilities to 400 possibly 500% and with Azel, you can utilize his Seduction ability, this would enable you to invade a targets mind and make them do something" both abilities that Indra had told me about were useful in there own ways, for instance, if I had to get somewhere faster, I could enhance my speed and if I wanted to get my sister to do my chores I could use seduction.
"To use the abilities you have to visualize the ability in a way that makes sense to you, once you have used it enough times all you would need to do to use it is just as simple as thinking the name, of course, this is limited because if you have a subpar memory or an over abundance of abilities they would not be able to activate" my memory was decent but I could not count on it if I needed to remember 15 maybe 20 different abilities, that would later become a problem if I chose to listen to them.
"Ok I think I get how it works, I think I could use them to banish the revenant, I could enhance my mental capabilities to 4 or 5 times past it's limit and use seduction to make the revenant not harm anyone" although this strategy was completely a gamble, it had some sense to it, the only factor it relied on was whether the revenant had any intelligence to talk to, and of course, I had thought of backups just in case the original didn't work out
"You know kid, that might actually work, little ine-ine just gave you examples and you already developed a plan with them, bravo kid bravo" it may have been that no one had actually praised me on anything I had done or simply because he's a seducer but Azel praising me actually felt kinda refreshing.
"Well now that you have developed a plan, it's time for me to teach you how to locate the revenants. To begin, revenants emit a distinct signature that you can track through the use of a ability called Energy sense, this is a ability common to all races, it just must be awakened, to activate it, imagine you are in a infinite flat field and in each direction there is a single stone that you must find, visualize the stone in one path and you can find the others, to find the revenant, search for the signature that isn't human, once you find the signature, you'll always be able to find the signature of that race." I understand what he means, due to me being a nepheli, with Angel, Devil and human signatures. I can automatically locate anyone with the same. So to find the Revenant I have to find the signature that is none of the three.
I focused on what made me human. my emotions, my thoughts, my scent, sound and look. The moment I had fully focused on what I was it almost felt like I could feel my body expanding. Shrouding my house, covering it like a warm blanket. I could see my mom in the kitchen, my sister in her room, dad outside on the lawn.
I focused more, this time it expanded more. Spanning over my entire neighborhood and eventually. To the entire town, I could see everyone, even people I had never seen before. Although there was one thing that stood out, one of the signatures, a little over a couple miles away, emitted a light green hue. It was the revenant, I had no doubt it wasn't.
"I found it"
I immediately got up from my desk and sprinted out the door, ignoring whatever my mind was trying to tell me, I couldn't waste time knowing that it could take anyone's life at any moment. I remembered that Indra had taught me enhance, it would be a good time to try it out, I focused on my legs, focusing on them, trying to force the them to exert more strength in the hopes they'd increase my speed or at least help me run for longer. In my moment of testing my legs suddenly felt strained, like the veins and muscles were bulging and suddenly my speed increased, I went from passing each house in 8 or 9 seconds to passing them in 2. Before I knew it I had made it to the exact place I had seen the signature minutes prior. And what I saw was not anything that looked dangerous but a woman barely in her 20s with the horns of a goat?