-Twilights Prologue-
The preparations were underway. Bella Swan watched warily as Alice Cullen seemed to fly around the house decorating for the big Halloween party the Cullen's had decided to throw for the whole Forks high student body.
Bella was trying as hard as she could to make herself as invisible as possible in hopes that the short vampire would not notice her, Bella had no desire to be taken on yet another shopping trip to find the "perfect" outfit thank you very much.
Amused chuckling had Bella scowling at her boyfriend Edward, even without being able to read her mind he could tell exactly what she was trying to do. No doubt having been dragged on numerous shopping trips in his long undead life. She was about to tell him to be quiet when Alice immediately stiffened causing Jasper to seemingly appear out of nowhere and stand behind his wife in support.
-Alice's Vision-
A boy, about 5'9 with short black hair and violet eyes, a slim figure to his build was looking down at a letter, a smile tugging his lips as he read. The smile disappeared however when a sluggish voice spoke.
"Who's that from boy? You stealing my mail again? Huh!" the boy shook his head seemingly use to this treatment before neatly folding the letter back up and tucking it in his drawer.
"No, it's from Bella, my cousin? Your niece?." Not bothering to see if the information stuck the boy moved to his bed and grabbed the clothing that littered the bed and started to fold it and placed it in the duffle bag that was laying open on his pillow. A few shirts were put into the bag before he continued.
"Not that it matters much to you, seeing as I'm emancipated now, but I'm going to go visit her now that I have the money and freedom to do so." Fury flashed through the overly large man before he lunged himself at the boy who seemed to expect this kind of result and simply moved to the side, he was shocked however when the man swung with the hand his beer bottle was in smashing the bottle down the boys right side of his face. Blood ran free from the gash that now ran from the boy's right temple to his mid cheek, even through blinding pain though the boy landed a devastating hit to the grown man's temple dropping him to the floor instantly knocking him unconscious.
The boy seeing how the man was not getting up made his way to the bathroom; there he did his best through the pain to clean up his wound. He noticed that he had a few minor cuts other than the major gash outlining it slightly but that was expected he supposed. The boy satisfied that the bleeding had slowed down wrapped the wound with gauze hoping it would be enough till he got to forks and saw an actual doctor, he didn't want to go to one around his home town. Everyone knew his "Dad" and knew that the wound would have come from him, no it was far easier to just leave as fast as possible and never have to worry about this damn place again.
-Vision changed-
The boy was driving on his motor cycle having almost made it to forks, the boy quickly tuned his head to the left as if seeing something coming at him his face held shock before everything went dark
-Vision ends-
Alice sagged against her husband who gently brought his arms around her sending calming waves to sooth his distressed wife. Alice appreciated what Jasper was doing but she had to tell them what she saw.
"Bella, do you have a cousin? A boy cousin? Kind of small build, black hair, violet eyes?"
She knew the answer but she didn't see the name on the letter Bella had written him so she couldn't say who the boy was. Bella's eyes widen in shock and then turned to panic.
"Kyler? Is something wrong with him?" Edward came forward having seen Alice's vision he took over for Alice,
"He was attacked. by the looks of it, by his father, he was badly hurt. Instead of going to a doctor he headed straight here hoping to get checked at the hospital here no doubt"
Bella tuned to her boyfriend.
"You're saying this like its past tense; he was "headed here"? What does that mean?" Edward winced before Alice answered very quietly.
"He….fizzled out, like what happens when someone….dies I'm so sorry Bella" she was cut off as Bella opened her phone and speed dialed Charlie.
"Hello?"
"Dad!" taken aback but his daughter's desperate voice Charlie quickly asks what was wrong.
"Kyler, I'm not sure what happened dad, he called me panicking then the line went dead, I can't call him back! Dad please you have to call the police down there and have someone check in on him! Please!" The Cullen's were a little in awe at Bella's apparent ability to lie like that on the spot but said nothing. Checking on Kyler would be beneficial the problem was that Alice didn't know how far that vision was in the future, they might be too late.
Bella saged aginst Edward trying to get her emotions in check.
"Uncle Ryan, my mom's little brother. He lost his wife when Kyler was three ever since he changed; he's blamed Kyler for her death and started drinking all the time. Mom wanted to take Kyler in but Uncle Ryan is connected to some powerful shifty people, she could never get the case to go to court. I cant belive.."
Edward wrapped his arms fully around Bella as she cried soothing her with supporting words.
It was later that day when Charlie had told Bella that her uncle was found unconscious in the house, and that there was a lot of blood everywhere. He also said that Kyler and his bike were nowhere to be found. With a heavy heart he told Bella that from what the examiner said, all the blood was from Kyler if he had tried to ride his motorcycle in that state…it was possible that he had crashed somewhere, he told Bella that they were looking but not to get her hopes up.
Bella had spent the rest of that night feeling numb, her baby cousin was dead. When Edward came through her window as usually he said nothing, just calmly layed in bed with her and held her as she cried.
-Razeils prologe-
Raziel had been in purgatory wondering aimlessly. No longer did the spectral realm house the Elder god as Raziel had seen to his demise and with it his reign over souls that were originally not his to rule over in the first place.
Raziel had learned that the elder god was acting of his own accord. The death god the true harbinger of souls had not been pleased when he had finally broken through the spectral realms defenses. Apparently he had been trying to widdle down the realms defense for a very long time. However as he was the death god, there was not enough time or power really to achieve it sooner.
The death god was surprised when he finally broke through, even more surprised when he fond Raziel and only Raziel. The only reason the god did not simply destroy him was because he could tell that Raziel did not have the power to achieve what the elder god had done, he had also sensed the similarities between Raziel and himself.
Raziel explained that the elder god had made him its personal "soul reaver" as a way to kill the vampires and take their souls. The god had followed the tale, after all he was very aware of what transposed between the vampires and the "soul reaver" he had simply not known what the soul reaver was. That and he was simply too busy with his duty's and trying to gain entry to the spectral realm that he really did not care to investigate nor did he care if the vampires killed themselves.
When the death god had asked the where about of the elder god, Raziel had told him that he had saw to its demise. He explained that the elder god became cocky, sending Raziel back and forth through time, separating Raziel's soul as much as he did. all that had taken a great deal of power that even a god would feel the strain.
So when Raziel had once again arrived in the spectral plane after his thousands of years in the reaver, he was full of power from such long build up, he had taken full advantage of the weakened state of the elder god and unleashed all of that power into one attack destroying the elder god once and for all.
Hearing all of this the death god was highly impressed, not that he showed it. He decided to reward Raziel as he had helped the death god however unintentional it was. He told Raziel of a way to escape from the spectral plane without destroying himself ( Raziel had explained that sense the one who gave him his powers destroyed he did not think his form would last in the martial realm) Which the death god knew to be true. So he explained that there was a way to merge his soul with that of a living human making him in a sense live again, he would be a part of the human but would not take the human over. When Raziel asked why, death explained that he had been in the spectral realm for too long, his soul was fragile as it was. even if he could take full control of the body he and the human would almost instantly die due to the amount of spectral energy his form had. Merging was the only safe way for him to live alongside the living once more and escape this existence.
Raziel voiced his concerns of his powers being useless and if vampires and werewolves still existed after so long. Death explained that he would still possess his powers, the wraith blade, his telekinesis, his skill in general would still be available for him or rather his "host" and would be up to the host to protect them both with those skills from vampires, werewolves or anything else that chose to cause them harm.
Raziel nodded understanding before thanking the death god for his mercy for sparing him and the information. The death god simply took him in with his eyes before nodding; before he departed he gave Raziel a last bit of advice and information.
"Whoever you choose to bond with would become a hybrid of sorts; your host would be part vampire, soul reaver, and human. though they would only smell human to other vampires and werewolves, your host will have the strength and agility you possess, weither or not that is better than the average vampire now a days I cannot say. your host will not need souls to sustain themselves nor will they need blood, however if your host were to eat a soul they would gain a major boost in power and strength as well as your healing regeneration would instantly heal, say a large cut on your body. Blood will have the same effect should your host choose to drink it but it would be less than the boost you would get from eating a soul as well and last less. You're host will also be immortal, I'm sure I don't have to tell you that all it means is your host wont age past the day you merge souls with them, they can still die just not from old age." With that last bit of information death had disappeared leaving Raziel to his thoughts and his wandering.
He wasn't sure how long he had spent just walking; eventually he had decided that he would do as the death god said. It was time for him to return to the material realm. A part of him was guilty of the things he had done in his blind revenge there were many innocent vampires who had done him no wrong that he had slaughtered, maybe this time he could make up for his mistakes.
he didn't know what had become of Kain either, maybe he would find that out as well. Yes there was much to do, much to learn and it all started right now, Raziel looked down at the spectral portal that led to the material realm that the Death god had graciously left open for him. He could have opened one himself but that would have left him with even less time to find a host to merge with.
"Well, here goes everything." Raziel stepped through the portal overwhelming light engulfed him as it always did when he returned to the material realm. As so as it came it went however, Raziel looked around blindly he could only feel one soul in his immediate area and it was closing in fast, far faster than a horse would take a human. He shook his head of his thoughts now was not the time to ponder such things, he had a very limited window to do this or else he would perish.
Raziel spotted the human soul, he wasn't sure what exactly the human was riding on but that didn't matter at the moment with quick movements making himself a blur he lunged at the human preparing the merging, he was shocked when the humans head snapped to his location just as Raziel was a foot away, he took in the shock in his lone violet eye the other, Raziel noticed was bandaged. He was just as shocked but for a completely different reason.
'He's just a child!' but it was too late there was no way to stop the merge. The last thing Raziel thought before the backlash of merging caused him to black out was a simple.
'I'm sorry' then all became quiet.
Images seemed to continuously flash through his mind. Raziel had spent the last three hours watching his host's…Kyler he reminded himself, he had been going through KYLER'S memories. From his childhood, to his leaving.
Raziel felt a rage burn in him at the man Kyler called "Father". the beatings Kyler received from such a small age to the most recent damage to his face, it made Raziel want nothing more than to eat the man's soul after ripping the man limp from limp. He shook his head clear of such thoughts though, seeing Kyler's mind he understood that Kyler was not one for revenge, no the boy much to Raziel's surprise had such a light and humorous side to him, he was amazingly sarcastic he noticed but there was so much pain in him as well. Raziel wouldn't say that the boy was exactly "sane" but after viewing the memories he hardly expected anything else. His personality was hard to place but Kyler seemed to be a boy who just wanted to move towards tomorrow rather than wallow in the past.
Raziel had also gotten a chance to explore their new bond while Kyler's body adjusted to the new soul in it. Raziel had found that he could in a way "ghost" out of Kyler's body and see the area around them he could also; in theory have a face to face conversation with Kyler instead of just being a voice in his head as he had thought would be the case. He was quiet pleased with the turn of events, it would seem like he could actually live just as death had said, maybe not fully but he had his freedoms. Much more than the spectral realm offered that's for sure. When he felt that Kyler's body and mind had calmed down he turned his attention to the boy. He had suspected that he was also viewing Raziel memories and gaining information that Raziel had known just as he himself had been doing. He waited until Kyler's eyes opened before releasing his "ghost" form as he was calling it. After all he didn't want to scare the boy, the gods knew he had enough fright in his short life. Regardless of those dark thoughts Raziel was anxiously waiting to meet his new bond mate officially. He had not been this…. happy? Yes happy was a good word for it, he had not been this happy in a long time.