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Chapter 12 - Chapter 12: Into the dark

[Spirit world]

In a dark, green skied dark and cold atmosphere of the Spirit realm, Raziel and David have traveled for what seemed to 9 days looking for both the Shard of the nexus and Nathaniel Darhk. During the nine days David and Raziel's friendship began growing each day. On the 10th day They silently walked through the cold lands nearly reaching the hotter atmosphere.

Raziel: (He hears a hiss and for the first time in his life in the spirit realm he sees a shadow on the ground that goes over them making him stop.)

David: hmm? What is it?

Raziel: I... Saw a shadow.

David: ... A shadow in a realm where there is No shadows?

Raziel: ... Yeah...

David: hm... (He continues walking.) could be the shard effecting the place.

Raziel: Yeah... or... (he hears a load sound behind him.)

Both David and Raziel turn around at the same time. David turns around from out of feeling in his gut with his left hand coated in red crystallized energy shaped into a blade, he swings his bladed hand upwards launching a thin arcing aura from the blade. Raziel by the same time David turned around had Traced a straight imaginary horizontal line in the air infront of himself, cresting a streak of purple curse energy light that breaks Into sharp glass like shards he fires by swinging the same hand back.

Their attacks catch and slice a vampire down into pieces, before the pieces of its body turn to stone that bursts into dust.

David: That's... new.

Raziel: Yeah... (He moves one of his feet forward and feels something odd about the ground below) hmm? ("Sand?" He says in thought.)

Sand like tentacles jolt upwards from the sand below them, grabbing hold of Raziel and David.

David: tch! The hell!? (He starts to wiggle trying to break himself out.)

The tentacles begins to pull them both into the ground.

David: Tch!

Using his cursed energy Raziel creates an armor composed of reality around his body. With the armor now around his body, He breaks out of the sand with little to no effort. David chants the word "Burst" encasing his body in a aura of flames that melts the sand into a liquid state that quickly cools into glass by the atmosphere they in.

David: (He struggled at first but manages to get both arms out the ground to lift himself out the glass.) The hell... (he grunts before fully getting out of the ground) is going on here!?

Before Raziel could even answer David, Three long and large sand made snake heads emerge from the ground and move towards them with their mouths open to bite down on them whole. Raziel quickly Coats his body in a fiery aura of cursed energy removing the armor he had, he moves up infront of David with his hands extended generates a circular flow of curse energy that immediately surrounds the snake heads causing them to stop moving in an inanimate state giving David a chance to launch a large gust of flames that also get coated by the aura.

David: okay... that should be enough.

Raziel: (He deactivates the aura letting the gust of flames make contact with the snake heads turning them into glass.)

Immediately after defeating the snakes, a whole army of people suddenly emerge from the sand they hide from and surrounded the two in a wide 15 meter circle.

David: Aaah shit...

Raziel: (He sensed cursed energy from all of them he then looks at their appearances and sees that they had no weapon in sight, he then looks down at the ground the people stood on and saw no shadows. He then chuckles.)

David: What's so funny Raz?

Raziel: They all wraiths.

David: Oh... Kay... So?

Raziel: None of them could have done any of this.

David: OH REALLY? then why they standing in a circle around us?

Raziel: You a revenant... and in here Revenants and weaiths don't go... well together.

David: Oh fuck... then... they after me?

Raziel: maybe...

David: Alright then... shall we get started then?

Raziel: No.

David: Huh?!

Raziel: (He speaks to the people.) We wish you all no harm. Most of you know who I am... and KNOW what I can do. So I'll ask you all this... and answer carefully... why are you all here?

Male wraith: There are rifts in the spirit realm. Rifts that are bringing in different kinds of lands, species and destructions.

David: hmm... the shards effecting the realm.

Raziel: Where did it all start brother?

Male wraith: Everywhere. We all tried to find the point of origin it all started... it all happened at once.

David: Raziel the spirit realm is VAST. Finding the shard here can't be done. Heck even finding Nathan.

Raziel: ... you right... the realm is vast but it has its own origin point.

David: Oh really? (He says sarcastically) And where's that?

Raziel: It doesn't have a name... but it's where hel, heaven and the spirit realm all meet.

David: Hmmm.... Then let's get going there then.

Boy wraith: No!

David: hmm? (He looks at the boy who looks sad and is held by his mother in a protective manner.) No?

Boy wraith: You have to protect us!

David: Kid Raziel will protect you all when we get back.

Raziel: (He looks at the glass construct of what was once the snake heads of sand that attacked him and David.) ... Those serpents... what made them?

Male wraith: A man with eyes that glow. He wishes only destruction to our world.

David: Color of the eyes?

Male wraith: What?

David: Describe the man's eyes to me.

Male wraith: purple. His eyes were entirely purple.

David: Shit.

Raziel: What?

David: There were people in the battleworld that got affected by this entity called Darkness. When ever it affects people it changes their eyes to a more purple color.

Raziel: Think it could be Nathan?

David: No Nathan would killed all these wraiths... and wasn't affected by the darkness. It must be someone else.

Raziel: hmm... (he looks at the people) Where did the man go?

Male wraith: We don't know. He just... vanished.

Raziel: okay. (He looks at David and whispers.) Darkness must be here for the shard.

David: Yeah... and judging from the sand attacks he most definitely knows we here.

Raziel: (He speaks out to all the people around them.) Rest assured Brothers and Sisters. I Raziel Yakane, son of Nazira, Wielder of the Rakshasa claw! (He lifts the sheathed Rakshasa claw to the air) Will protect you all and deal with this conflict. You have my word.

After hearing his words the wraiths all feel safer.

Raziel: (He opens a dimensional portal infront of him that leads right inside the edge of the Spirit realms plane instead of being outside where the realms all meet.) Let's go David. (He says before stepping into the portal.)

David: (He stretches and sighs before heading into the portal.) Into the dark we go then.

The wraiths all vanish except for two individuals. One being 213cm tall and the other being 193cm, they both wear hooded robes that cover their whole face except for their eyes that emit a purple glow.