Opening the doors to David's dorm room, Raphael is startled as David enters first while Raphael is stuck at the door with his eyes wide open and an expression of shock.
"Are you a Stalker, or some kind of a need-to-know-everything Megamind, or somethin' else? Or all at once?! " Raphael asks with his now narrow eyes while he enters the room as well, but quite hesitantly.
"Nah, why do you think that? " David asks with curiosity as Raphael begins to look around the room.
"Because your room is covered with notes, photos, and places connected by the red string? And photos of Amy, Jess, and Rose are hangin' on your bulletin board surrounded with hearts! Hmm, and what's this? Samples of hair? Gums? Oh, and underwear? Red with the laced details looks kinda sexy if you ask me... "
"Wait, is this an Altar dedicated to your lovers? " Asks Raphael as he watches the burning red candles which are surrounding the things that probably belong to the girls.
"HEY, those are my personal things! " David shouts from the door as he closes them quickly and approaches Raphael like a pissed-off skyrocket.
Pulling the things, hairs in translucent bags, and gums in small wooden boxes, out of Raphael's hands, with a firm grip, he grabs him by his hoodie and throws him across the room while using his light powers that leave traces of white color in the air.
"Idjit, you burned my hoodie! " Raphael says from under the pillows as he crawls out of the bed where he landed, with his upper body covered in shadows.
When those shadows get sucked back into his body, they reveal a black, leather jacket with silver zippers with a black shirt under it.
Also, he no longer wears the same shoes. The black-and-white basketball kicks are swapped for a pair of biker shoes of the same black color as his new jeans.
Adding a silver earring with an inverted cross that also has a pink gemstone in the middle, Raphael's new look is done...
"You shouldn't touch my private things..." David comments, and when he arranges the things, he turns while his eyes land on the outfit that Raphael now wears.
"Good style~" David nods at the choice as Raphael comments back.
"Sigh, you should find yourself a style as well... From your previous words, I see you wanna hunt, but for that, you should look like a hunter, not like a pussy-boy in the Academy clothes..."
"What are these anyway... They look like those from the middle school... You look terrible in them..."
"I'll consider that... But I didn't call you here to talk about my style, but about Eva, the girl who is one of the strongest mages in this Academy..." David replies as Raphael walks to the window, opens it, and looks at David.
"Go on... I'll follow..." He says with a hand gesture while pulling out his pack of cigarettes as David begins to explain.
"So, first are her origins... You probably already know that Elementals are interested in her because of her powers... Powers that came from a falling star, centuries back..."
"At that time, her family was one of the main families forming this nation, Nenktese as we know it today. But there was something different about them..." David stops when Raphael suddenly interrupts him.
"Lemme guess... A family without any Magical talent? " Raphael says and David nods.
"Correct, although, they were gifted with minds much more developed than any magician's."
"By the way, how do you know about the Elementals? " Raphael asks while inhaling the smoke as he sensually looks at David, awaiting the answer while a strain of his hair covers his left eye, changing his kindly-looking face into that of a dangerous demon.
"Everybody here knows about them... The Demons from the Prophecy which came the night of an Eclipse, lurking around to hunt the one which has the power of the stars... Spooky, bla, bla, bla... Teachers already told us to be aware of the dangers of hanging out past the sunset."
"They said that even if they are after Eva, doesn't mean they can't go after us or our powers as well... Thank God they hate the sun, just like Vamps~"
"I see, anyway..." Raphael says as he inhales the smoke from his cig and looks out from the window as a slight breeze caresses his face gently.
"Were they smart? " Raphael casually asks, adding: "I mean, the family..." and David nods again, continuing to explain.
"Very smart, brother... Eva's family, although not by magic, managed to make projects for the builders, or write words of the Magicians, even when they used their "Magic" language, unknown to normal, non-gifted humans, with different accents..."
"They were the best to call for complicated work, which later earned them a place in the town council..."
"But one night... they were called to an unusual finding..."
"The star? " Raphael asks as he throws the rest of the cigarette out of the window, but then, he sees Amy wandering around the male wing of the Academy, probably looking for someone.
At that moment, an idea pops into his head, but he can't execute it yet, he has work to do here with David.
Therefore, he says nothing and shifts his attention back to David.
"Yes, some villagers in the woods found the crater made by the star which contained a small, purple-glowing piece of rock with an extreme destructive potential."
"The first crew who tried to pull it out died in a wave of powerful energy that turned them into burned fossils, leaving only naked skeletons... Can you imagine that a rock in the size of hand can do somethin' like that? " David asks as he looks at his own fist and then at Raphael who nods.
"Yeah, sounds interesting... What happened with the stone? " He asks as David continues.
"Well, the family managed to take it into the village, and in one of their experiments, the woman who performed them consumed the power of the stone by accident..."
"At first, nothing happened and the mages just thought the power was gone, but after scanning the woman's body, they found that the power was actually inside her, burning her soul..."
"Her soul? " Raphael asks with his eyes narrowed as David nods a few times.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, it works like a parasite, looking for a suitable host, and when it finds it, it leaves the previous one..."
"Hmm... What was then? " Raphael asks as he notes this in his mind for future exploration.
"Nothing, they didn't find a method of how to make it return back to the stone... But later on... they found out that... she will have a daughter..." David says as he sits on the bed and sighs.
"But the interesting thing is that the woman was still a virgin... It was as if the parasite itself impregnated her from the inside... And when the daughter was born..."
"...The power shifted into her... Am I right? " Raphael joins David's train of explanation who again, nods.
"Yeah... For decades, each woman from the family that had this parasite inside eventually had a daughter on which this parasite was passed..."
"And since, they can't find a way of how to make it leave..." David says as Raphael joins him on the bed and asks.
"But you said she has powers..." At which David nods like before.
"That's also interesting, 'cause at first, the parasite was just passing from body to body, eating pieces of souls of one host to another, probably to gain strength... But each time the shift happened, the upcoming daughter was born smarter, stronger, and later even with magical gifts, than her mother..."
"And after a few shifts, the daughters were able to stand toe to toe with strongest mages... Fighting equally..."
"Where is the catch? " Raphael asks as he already sees the pattern. You see, nothing like this, a free power, is free in this or any other world. For everything you need to pay, and the payment is not always in cash.
"That is the catch... You see, the power-up from the shifting didn't stop, meaning that each new generation that was born, was also stronger, until their powers started literally leaking from their bodies..."
"Which is also the problem that Eva has..." David explains at which Raphael reacts:
"Uhuh... So to understand it correctly, the Elementals are after Eva to use her as a weapon because she can't control her powers? " with a question.
In his encounter, the elementals really seemed interested in Eva, as well as ruling over the universe or something... Raphael can't quite remember useless info...
But David decides to counterattack.
"I don't think so. Well, they are after Eva, but I feel, you might call it a sixth sense of mine, I feel they know a way of how to extract the power from her... So to correct you, I think they are after the power, and not after Eva..."
"After all, they might be, look and act demon-like, able to fool even an experienced hunter like John Winchester, but not me and my sixth sense... I'm always right, and they definitely came from the stars... Like you..."
"Me? " Raphael points his finger at his chest with a narrow look and a cute, confused expression.
"Yeah, you came and took the appearance of Michael, a boy who was the closest friend of Eva... Send by our God to help her, help us in the war against the Elementals, their leader, and the Darkness who wants to consume this Universe..." David explains.
"Leader? What you are talkin' about? " Raphael asks.
"You don't know? Hmm... You probably hit your head when falling from the Paradise of our God... Anyway, I'm talking about the fifth Elemental, The Soul user..."
David starts talking as Raphael thinks: 'Hit my head? If he doesn't stop talking bullshit, he will be the one who has his head hit...'
Deciding to listen anyway, Raphael pays his attention back to David's speech.
"I don't know much about him, but the prophecy says he is as strong as our God, able to reach and pull the deepest fears out from your soul... I'll tell you, brother, that dude is quite scary..."
"Yeah..." Raphael smiles slightly as a beeping sound echoes in his head.
A new objective becomes unconsciously active but Raphael decides to look at it later, after this conversation is done.
"So, this is all I know about her... While here, she's protected by the Town's and Academy's councils, but when she leaves, she's locked in her home 24/7... Because of the accident surrounding Michael's... Well, your death..." David laughs lightly at the end but then he stands up and walks to his wardrobe, looking quite sad.
"Hah, well... And from where did you say you have this info? " Raphael asks as David unbuttons his white shirt, takes it down, and throws it onto the bed.
"From the journal of one of her family members brought to me by... Michael... Damn it, we worked on this together, until he got killed."
"God, I swear when I find that fucker, I..." David starts cursing when he suddenly gets interrupted by Raphael who stands up from the bed, and like a cloud of shadows, he flows through the room.
Forming back, he approaches David from behind and tells him.
"You don't... He's too strong... I know who did it, but to stand against him, you would need to gain some strength, which you lack now... You know what? Lemme be your personal trainer. What do you think? " He asks and David's face lights up.
"Personally trained by a fallen Angel? Well, it will be a pleasure for me... But, can we discuss the details tomorrow? I'm beaten man, the weirdness surrounding my body and everything around is really tiring..." David replies as Raphael looks at his wrist, more precisely at his silver watches with a blue background, which all of a sudden form from his shadow powers.
"Gotcha, we can talk about it later... See you tomorrow..." Raphael says when he sees the time, he looks back at David and winks.
"Oh, and Raphael? " David asks when Raphael is about to open the door.
"Yeah? " Raphael turns and asks.
"Thank you for actually listening to me and not calling me crazy right away..." David replies as Raphael smiles.
"That's for what the bros are, David..." He says as David smiles back and nods.
"Heh, yeah, bros... thanks again... See you..." David waves slightly as Raphael replies "See ya..." and walks out of the dorm room, closing the doors right after.
'Hah, what a day... It feels so good to find new friends like Raphael... I wonder if he will like and join our crew... I'll ask him tomorrow...' David thinks as he lies in his bed while listening to Raphael's disappearing footsteps.
...
While walking through the hallway with a bad-ass smile, Raphael forms a pair of black, pilot-type sunglasses and puts them on.
Then, he pulls the pack of his cigarettes again and picks one out, lighting it up in the middle of the hallway, when suddenly.
"HEY! How dare you! On the entire dorm section, there is a strict no-smoking policy! " A boy in his twenties, dressed like a nerd in his uniform shouts as Raphael lovers his glasses, looks at the boy, inhales the smoke, and blows it into the air, saying.
"Do I look like I care, pussy-boy? Leave if you don't want your loser friends scraping the remains of your smart brain off that wall all week..."
"Huh? You think you are tough when you wear that jacket? D Those glasses? Or because you are smoking? Do you think I'm scared of you? " The boy suddenly says as confidence is radiating from him.
"Well, don't say I didn't warn you..." Raphael smiles as he, at the speed of light, suddenly appears in front of the boy and grabs him by his neck, wielding him into the air while traces of darkness remain in the space each time Raphael makes a move.
Pulling him closer, Raphael's mouth starts to open wide, his cheeks start to tear in half as blood flows from the torn flesh and slides down Raphael's chin and neck.
As the cheks tears, making room for the mouth to open more, the boy gulps at the sight of the sharp needle-like teeth but still remains silent.
The sight resembles a scene from a movie from Earth with a clown who in reality is an alien monster. He too, similarly opens his mouth...
"Not screaming... No irregular heartbeat... This is not fun..." Raphael comments in annoyance as he closes his mouth, drops the boy on the floor, but breaks his neck.
"Well, at least I have a soul now..." Raphael says while watching the corpse for a minute, but then he casually shrugs his shoulders, saying "I warned him..." and walks away, deciding to leave the boy there.
What are the cleaners even paid for, if not for cleaning the garbage from the floors...
...
Wandering around the empty-looking Academy, finding and then entering the Principal's office quietly, Raphael says.
"Heh, you are the Principal of this gorgeously-lookin' Academy? Nice to meet you then..."
"Huh? And who might be you sir? " An older-looking man dressed in a suit with the Academy badge hanging on the right side of his jacket asks looking quite startled.
"Of course, I'm your new student~," Raphael says as the Principal shakes his head.
"No, we are full, now, leave my office, boy..."
Hearing this, Raphael nods in disappointment, turns, and locks the door behind him with his shadow powers because the key is missing, so he forms it from the darkness.
"Look again, please? I'm sure you will find a place to give me~" Raphael says as the image flows suddenly out from the room, through the door, through which the Principal's screams start to echo out.
The screams echo across the entire, empty hallway for a few seconds, until the window with the principal's name on it, set in the door is covered by shadows and the sound of his screams miraculously stops escaping from the room...
Who knows what's happening there...
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