Chapter 3 - Cult of Malakar

It's been a month since I freed my Elf friend from her possession, I thought she would want to head straight back to her homeland but for whatever reason she's wanting to stay here. Elves are adaptable and are capable of not getting caught so because of that she's basically been living in our family house rent free without my other family members knowing.

One day as I was walking in my house, I overheard a conversation with my dad and my mother, they were at one end of the hallway, and I was walking the other end, but I enhanced my hearing to hear what they were saying.

"It seems another child has gone missing, and they were last spotted at the docks." Zane says to his wife.

"Have you contacted the knights and the military?" Zanes wife Elysia questions.

"Yes, I have it seems like until they get here to help with the investigation, we're on our own at the moment." Zane replies.

"I have contacts in other countries, and they have been saying their rumors of an evil organization at works that works in the background maybe we are dealing with that same organization." Zane now has his hand on his chin in a think position. 

"Theres also that issue in forest, an entire bandit camp got whipped out." My mother says.

We cut back to Soren who is listening to the conversation at hand and he's starting to think as well.

"No way does this world really have an evil illuminati organization trying to take over the world?"

"Speaking of elves, I wonder where she is?" And on cue Soren Elf friend appeared from the window in the hallway that was nearest to Soren she's trying to be a ninja.

 

"Master, it seems our rumors of a criminal syndicate are true they have kidnapped several children from the port district." Hibana is on one knee reporting to me.

"Good job Hibana. What about the Aceknights? Have they arrived yet?" I ask as the two of them walk away from Soren's parents and plan their next action.

"No not yet they have just barely put in the request now. Do you perhaps know what's going on?" Hibana ask?

"Maybe if what I'm thinking turns out to be right then some harbor master's must die soon for their actions." I say with a grin.

"Hibana this will be good training for you so you can use the magic you merged with mine to also have a slime outfit so that they won't see you when we move out, I first want to confirm somethings." I say.

"What are you going to do Master?"

"Oh, not much just some eavesdropping." And in a flicker of light, I disappear

The following day we see me in the city walking around one of the main streets where it's a open mall venue selling goods from all over the world. There are carts with swords, carts with flitnock pistols, carts with food from far east. I stopped at a particular cart to examine the food there. With my slime ability I dyed my hair black instead of my original blue because I don't really want to stand out as being the mayor's son.

"Oh, my word is this rice?"

"Oh? Are you interested in foods from the far east?" A woman says smiling. She stands about 5'4, has an apron on and has dark fur cat-ears making her a Lyrakyn.

"Yes, I am ma'am I say smiling what are those." Pointing at a rice ball.

"Those are called rice balls sir, and they are one silver coin each." The woman says smiling thinking shes about to sell something.

I dig into my pouch instead of going to my slime suit which would be to revealing and pulls out 3 siver coins and hand them over thanking her. But before I leave the lady wanted to warn her about some troubling matters.

"Sir, before you leave a little word of advice" The lady says.

"Oh, is this a special request? Sometimes in games they offer you special side quest." I'm thinking I got offered a side quest.

"What is it?"

"During the nighttime as I close shop, I hear men walking around the streets of the town near the harbor storage facility. They speak about working for an organization and one of them said that they were requested to do awful things here to kids or anyone they can kidnap and bring back to their organization." The woman is now very nervous about telling me this info thinking it will mean she's now involved in this now.

"Don't worry. I'll be safe and not go outside at night."

"I have to be off now." I waved. I'm near the harbor and due to my adaptable hearing, I hear a conversation going on as I walk towards it. It's a tavern.

"I know I'm too young in this body to go to a tavern but i can't pass up on a background character behavior like this." I grin then I walk near the port and turn left at the docks and go up to a tavern building called. The Silver fish.

I go inside the silver fish; I walk around the bar and near a table there a bar and I overhear conversation between 2 men at the bar having a drink.

"So geto, will the cargo ship out soon?" One thug asks.

"Yes, we got everything we need we've captured as many as 20 for the Cult of Malakar. With that I hope they'll finally let me be able to challenge one of the 10 main Sword of Malakar for a seat at the table. And finally move up from being a black council member." Geto is a hulky man standing about 6'3 250 pounds have spikey blonde hair green eyes a scar on his left eye and a eye patch on his right. It looks like he wears a noble outfit on, so it seems he's a part of high society. He also has a sword on his hip too.

"So, the organization that been popping up is called the Cult of the Malakar and Geto here isn't even a high-ranking member, but I must stop their operations I can't allow one of them to kidnap so many of my dad's citizens." As I'm by the bar I accidentally drop my drink I had order which Luckly alerted Geto.

"Who's there?" Geto points his sword at me and the rest of his entourage surrounds me.

"Huh where am i? I didn't mean to walk in here please, please help me."

Geto has an evil smirk." Guess we have another one boy and this time it looks like a noble, time him up he'll be worth a pretty penny we will ship him out tonight with the rest of them." Geto barks and the others follow.

After Soren gets 'Kidnapped' we cut to the royal capital of Aceburg under the Ace kingdom a 19th century architecture London style city with bustling life and people on carriages it has 2 rivers and on top of the rivers are tracks they even have trains. Off to the side of the tracks are roads where it's like a highway, and we see factories spuing up smoke making look like some sort of industrial revolution. While we see buildings everywhere we cut away to an academy called Royal AceKnight Academy, the academy where Soren sister Ruian is at, and we cut away to her right now. She's currently in one of the rooms that is meant for swords training. So, the room is larger than a normal schoolroom and it has dummies. She's sparing with a female classmate. We see them class swords right in front of each other and Ruian friend spins with her sword and swings it at Ruian. She dodges and paries the attack then she bring her sword down with one arm down and with her free hand she punches her classmate knocking her down. Then before Ruian comes to offer her hand she gets pissed for no reason.

"This feeling ugh." Ruian throws her sword at a test dummy, and it pierces it.

"I feel like killing someone right now and for whatever reason it feels like it's my brothers' fault." Ruian scowls.

"Woah easy, I know your protective of him, but he's back home how do you even know if he's in trouble?" Ruian friend ask.

"I just have this feeling damn its Soren be careful until you get here soon. Even though I'll be in 2nd grad school by then.

Later on, that day back in the harbor city of embers its nighttime and we see people at the docks loading onto a ship, they seem to be in a hurry.

"HURRY UP WE SHOULD ALREADY BE OUT IN THE OCEAN!" Geto shouts to his men who are moving around like chicken with their heads cuts off.

"Throw the last kid in one of the spare jails he'll be by himself." Get says to one of his men who walked on the ship carrying a 'knocked' out Soren. The man heads down the ship and opens the jail cell and tosses Soren In.

"I hope I'm not to late with the 10th member of the table." Geto thinks.

Back in the jail cell I'm grinning from ear to ear. "Infiltration successful. It seems none of the hostages noticed my face perfectly also dyed my hair so I shouldn't be recognized. I hope I don't have to do colloidal damage." I use my slime abilities, and my coat covers me so no one can see me. My coat is dark blue with a red outline. It looks like a superhero coat with a hoodie. Now its time to free myself I'm just about to just cut open the cell, but I hear walking and it sounds like its coming my way. So, I hid. And as the jailer notices that one of the jails is empty he opens it.

"Huh wasn't this jail for the nobles-."

His train of thought is cut off and Soren swings his extremely sharp slime sword and cuts the man's head off.

"Hahaha this will be interesting let's see how many NPCS I can kill." I say this and then start to run towards the exit. However, through the hallway of cells I stop, and I look around to see all the kidnapped kids.

"SHH." I put my hand up to tell them to be quiet. Then Augmenting my voice I say.

"ILL free you now but do not leave this ship until you hear the fighting stopped, ok?" The kids nod then with a swing of his sword cuts open the bars and they cheer but understand they can't leave just yet. As this happens Geto is about to go into his quarters when he gets this murky feeling. Back in the ship where you enter the hall of the ship the ladder Soren is right there about to go to the docks of the ship.

"My dear Cult members you will so regret this day." I cut the floorboard from the ladder below and shoot myself straight up in the air and starts laughing crazily.

"Rahahaha what a hall you cultist have here." I say and lands on one of the masts of the ship closest to Geto. Sword at hand which is all dark blue just like his cloak and his blade is cladded in flowers.

"Who are you?" Geto demands.

"ME? Hmm let's see. My name will be Wraith. Yes Wraith. And we are here to stop your operations."

"We?" Geto ask.

"Yes we." A new voice shouts from the darkness and whos hand pierce the chest of the man on the wheel of the boat next to Geto.

"Hibana! So glad to see you, how'd you find me?"

"Remember master your magic and mine are synched and when you started using your magic, I felt my own magic here so I knew it was you and you must have found out who kidnapped the kids." Hibana says digging her hand out of the chest of one of the members. As she does, I backflip from the mask and land safely next to Hibana also cladding in dark blue slime suits that look like coats.

"We are Wraithborne. And we declare war on the Cult of Malakar."

"You ready? I feel a like its going to rain here soon." I say as I swing my sword around and slice up Geto from his stomach up his chest. Geto manages to fall back on the top deck down below.

"Ugh it stinge. Everyone kills them don't let them get away they know about everything." Geto scream. The crew charges at Soren and Hibana with swords pistols and magic but all that doesn't matter for Soren who charges with his sword and stabs into the hear of one of the cult members killing him. Then after taking out his sword, he uses one of his free hands and with his slime suit uses attack finger spears and cuts down several bodies who drop down dead too.

"You guys never listen you could have easily surrendered." Hibana says with a hand on her hip as she watches her master carve up most of the people on the deck it's starting to rain blood.

"Phew this is starting to get tedious around here." Soren stabs another crew member making those 10 kills now. He finally gets to where he left originally to the bottom of the ship and the ladder that enters the prison cells.

"It seems like he wen't into the cells. I wonder why?" I jump down to the bottom of the ship back into the hallway of cells.

"Hey mister boss enemy if you don't show yourself now ill destroy the entire ship with everything in it." I mockingly say that and as I'm walking, I see a light.

"Woah." I dodge the lightning bolt.

"You dodged that somehow? None the less here is my ultimus magic lighting armor." Geto shouts out while being clad in a full body suit of lightning armor. Then he bulls charges at Soren and Soren side steps him to the left and with his elbow he jams it to the back of Geto's neck making Geto choke.

"Cough. What? How can anyone be this fast? This power shouldn't be possible hes not one of the 10 members I know that so how is he this fast?" Geto thinks to himself.

"I am Wraith I crush those who lurk in evil spaces I hunt those who wish to do harm." Soren without even looking at his turns his sword from a sword to a spear and throws it directly at Geto back killing him instantly.

"Well, that settles the kidnapping incident, but I wonder who his boss was they seem like they would be strong if they were able to boss this guy around. Now normally after all this there should be some kind of reward maybe I should check the captain quarters." Soren is now casually walking out of the prison hallway when he noticed the cell that he sliced open to free the kids the kids were still there.

"Good y'all actually listened to me."

"Are we free?" One of the kids asked.

"IF you don't want to be here forever then yes you all are free." I start to walk away but as I do I slice open to bars letting them all free. Sometime later I climb back out to the deck of the ship and it looks like carnage over here.

"Master I've looked everywhere for Geto and I can't find him anywhere he seems to have left should we chase him?" Hibana ask.

"No need I already killed Geto we won the organization that turned you into a possessed will surfer a great deal tonight. From now on Hibana I want you to refer to me as Wraith and our organization will be called Wriathborne.

"OK master Wraith," Hibana says.

"So was the cult responsible for possessing me and making me turn into a hideous creature?" Hibana demands an answer.

"Yes, and it seems they've been up to no good here in the kingdom again it looks like we will be up against some powerful political people."

"It doesn't matter how many people are connected to this cult I will kill them all, and Wraithborne shall rise from here on out." Hibana says. With passion in her eyes.

"Hmm seems shes interested in it now." Soren thinks. As they leave from the lower deck of the ship Soren still wants some compensation for this adventure like the one, he got in the bandit village raid.

"Say Hibana lets go to the captain quarters before we blow this sucker, I think there will be loot there." Soren says. Some time passes by as they walk from the deck to the captain's room, and you see Soren and Hibana overlooking the door to the captain's room.

"So, it seems we need to find a key to unlock the room." Hibana thinks. Then she hears a boom.

"We don't need no key." I smirk as I slice open the door to the room and inside the captain's room is huge, there is a king-size bed, and I absorb the bed because I want it for my room. There is a nice expensive desk that looks like the desk Geto would work at and behind the desk is a bookshelf with an out-of-place trophy.

"Hmm." Soren thinks while looking at the trophy. He grabs it and suddenly the floor falls apart opening a trap door.

"Ah a trap door that's pretty smart I don't detect any magic, so I don't think it's a trap." Soren says then he jumps into the trap and lands safely. What he sees is a giant chest one the same size as the one Hibana was in.

"Jackpot." Soren smiles at the loot he won from tonight.

"Is this what you were looking for Waith?" Hibana asks confused now.

"Yes, we can finally torch this ship." Soren while saying that he swamps the chest with his slime and absorbs it.

"I think we overstayed our welcome."

Sometime after taking things of value, we see Soren on the very top of the ship where they normally look out.

"During this time on the full moon night, fire burns bright, but greed always burns brighter, its those people's greed that gives birth to me. The moon always see's all and it shall burn all who are greedy at night." I say this then with my fire magic I burn the whole ship making it nearly impossible to sail again I don't sink it because I also want the AceKnights to investigate here but of course they won't have any connection to me.

"Mission accomplished Hibana lets get outta here." Isay this to my friendly elf and we vanish into the night.

Sometime later when the fire burns bright enough that people at the port can now see smoke, they see 2 rafts from the ship head to shore.

"Someone helps out the survivors of that fire now!" One worker says to the others who are scrambling to see who are hurt.

"Your all-just kids what happened to the people in charge of the ship?" One worker asks.

One kid steps up and says "We don't know one minute we were locked up in a cell and the next moment we see some man cladded in dark blue coat. However, when we got to the top of the ship see a bunch of dead crewmembers it seems like cladded coat wearing man did something to them." The kid who was tired from the events of tonight didn't put two and two together that the man free them and killed all who were involved.

"You never saw this murderers face?" One of the port workers asks.

"NO." the kid says then he passes out.

"Quick get them to the clinic. They need a check up now." The port worker says as we see more workers now in a scramble. While the port harbor and the workers are scrambling to help rescue who's been hurt and who needs medical attention, we cut to the mayor's house and the mayors son Soren jumping into his window after a successful raid on the boat killing all the cultist and getting a grand chest as a reward.

"My I can't wait to open whatever is in that chest I hope its full of loot the cultist members stole from the town." Soren sneaks back into his room and falls asleep waiting for tomorrow morning to arrive.

The following day Soren does all his normal routines and around noon he summons the chest he stores in his pocket space. With his slime ability he easily makes his own key and opens the chest.

"I wonder what it is. 12-year-old Soren digs into the chest and pulls out a disfigured body of some sort.

"This body it looks like its another possessed human who lost control of their magic. Why the hell do they keep on ending up in a loot chest. This is now the 2nd time this has happened damn it." Soren is now upset he didn't get a badass cult sword or money.

"Well anyways we can try to bring them back to normal, it worked with Hibana." Soren shoots magical energy into the disfigured human and the 2 magic energies start to merge back into 1.

2 months has passed since the cultist episode and Zane the mayor had to deal with the backlash of all the kidnapping and the massive amount of dead terrorist that were at his harbor safe to say he's been pretty pissed off that all this has been happening at his hometown. Zane is now having to deal with news reporters and people trying to cover the story of the kidnapping incident and those who died on the ship. We see Zane at the town hall in the city where there are a lot of reporters asking him questions.

"Was it true that one person freed all the kidnapped people." A news reporter was writing down information for the kingdom economic journals.

"We still have very little information on what happened on the ship itself all we have is that the kids report a man cutting the cell freeing them but outside of that we have no witness statements." Zane responds to one of the reporters.

"Is it true that the one who freed the kids was wearing a coat?" Another reporter asks.

"Yes, that's all we can confirmed from the victims of the event that the one who freed them was a masked assailant." Zane answers all the questions calmly and after this reporting session news quickly spreaded that a man wearing a mask saved a bunch of kids from an event that would of done harm and his reputation was also spreading to that he is a murderer that has killed an entire ships crew. His reputation was divided among the public.

We cut away to Aceburg where we see people reading about him in the royal capital with a front cover called. New mysterious man saved kidnapped people but also killed everyone involved in a new special edition. One certain royal woman who stands at 5'2 long blonde hair and green eyes and is wearing a bright blue dress who is reading the newspaper in the royal castle, the royal castle is a large citadel with 4 pillars sticking out of it that goes up for along time up and each pillar is connected by a walk way. In the middle is a building which houses the royal family of the Ace kingdom. We see Seraphina Ace. Who is the daughter of the current king who is around 14 years old about 2 years older than Soren.

"So there a new man who saved all those kids from a kidnapping incident I would call him a hero, but he also killed a whole crew of shipman. But those shipmen were kidnapping people so for the time being he is netural to me." Seraphina says to herself while sipping tea. Soren has become quite a popular figure in pop culture in the kingdom.

Another month has passed since the incident so 3 months now and finally after a month straight of pouring magic in a possessed body is in his room with chains attached to the body of the person who's possessed. "I feel like it will need one more magic injection to go back to normal I hope it's another elf but I won't be surprised if it's a human this time I've heard rumors that the cult is up to no go again" Soren thinks after injecting his magic into the possessed body. We see the body go from a fetal position to now full laying on its stomach." The person has been possessed for weeks so it will take more time for them to reawaken their memories. It looks like this person is also the same age as Soren so while they're asleep Soren goes out and gets them a new set of clothing to wear. Then after a day of rest we hear a groan.

"Ugh meat I want food… How can I speak how? I'm back to normal yahoo." The person cheers and gets up from Soren's room.

"Glad to see your awake finally." Soren says walking into his room while sitting ontop of his desk in the same manner he did with Hibana looking like A king.

"Ugh my head. Who are you?" The person gets into a fighting stance which looks like their hands in claw like motion ready to scratch anyone.

"Calm down I am not your enemy I returned you back to who you are now can't you sense it?" I ask.

"Now that you say it, I do feel more connected to you, how? Aren't our magics different I mean your not even one of my kin." The person says.

"Yes, while you were possessed, I poured my magic day in and day out into your Aura kicking out the negative magic that was infecting yours and put my positive magic into it." I say as I get off my desk and walk toward the individual.

"What will you do now? Do you remember anything about you? Your name your family your beliefes?"

"No, I don't it seems I don't remember anything its like my life before I became possessed is gone now and have a blank slate." The person tries to think but their head hurts.

"Do you have a name you want to go by?" Soren asks.

"No I still can't get this feeling from you out of my head." The person thinks to themselves.

"OK then someone like you should be called Tsume." Soren says as he pats the head of the person who turns out to be a Beastkin a first for him his doesn't go to the royal capital often so seeing a Beaskin is a new experience he's always wanted. The beastkin is a 5'0 black hair lady who around 10 years old and looks very strong for her age. She has poofy ears that sit on the top of her head and she's wearing all black right now, a black skirt and shirt with flowers for a pattern. He's seen other Lyrakyn but none like her.

"Tsume?" Tsume questions about her name.

"It means Claw Blossom fits you, doesn't it?" I grin.

"Tsume is Tsume, and master is master now. Master what is your name.?" Tsume ask.

"My name is Soren Kusanagi and I go by the alias Wraith I founded a organization called Wraithborne and my goal is to crush to a cult called the cult of Malakar who plans on resurrection the demon lord who lost a battle fighting a group of heros nearly 500 years ago." I just said that the last part cause that's what the cult was doing in the lore of the game hopefully it works out in my favore.

"Orginzaiton? Tsume Smirks I'll crush anyone in the orgization and become the alpha.

"No. There are no bad people in our organization we are all friends." Soren bonks Tsume on the head.

"Whats your final technique or ultimus magic mode?" I ask her.

"Oh, its claw technique all my natural abailties and magic increases by about 5 folds right now." Tsume has a foxy grin on right now and is shaking her tail.

"Well, it works for Hibana she can now control and manipulate slime to a certain degree it wont hurt to see if anyone who merges with my magic can use it." Soren thinks then he activates his Aura eyes and they turn black with spirals in the middle and he sees that Tsume's magical Aura is now a similar one to his.

"Alright Tsume does your magic see different?" Soren asks.

"Yes, it does. It feels mores connected to you." Tsume says.

"Since our Auras merged you could be able to use my last technique to a certain degree. My finale magic technique is called slime control. I can control manipulate and conjure slime. Soren says as he shows off his dark blue slime coat. 

"See this is my ability I want to see if you can use it now." Soren stops using slime control and looks are Tsume.

"Slime suit." Tsume thinks about coating her whole body in magic which conjugates' the slime suit to appear on her. "Wow I can use a new magic technique I thought I would only have my claw magic." Tsume is now checking out the dark blue suit that is covering her body.

"Perfect my theory is correct. You can use magic of others if you merge your magic with them." Soren thinks to himself of new ways to possibly use this new discovery.

"Now that you have my magic what will you do? Will you go on your own back to the beast homeland, or will you stay here and join wraithborne with me?" Soren sticks out his hand by inviting Tsume to join his orginzaion.

"I have no memories of my homeland and from what I feel about it… it wasn't a pleasant time living in my homeland I think I'll rather stay here with your master." Tsume says then Soren pats her on the head and her tails waggle like a puppy.