P&SWG: Limbo's Comet
Note: This is my first attempt at a story that deviates from franchises I'm used to, so this isn't going to be the most perfect. Feedback is appreciated though.
Prologue: The Scattered Shards
It was over, all over. The mayor's plan to take over everything was a failure. The area where the entire scuffle took place was nothing more than a crater with pieces of shrapnel scattered everywhere…
…and a figure off in the distance witnessed the entire thing. His entire body was covered in shadow, making it impossible to see any sort of feature on the being except for his two crimson red eyes, with black lines covering up small portions of them except for the pupils, and two long fangs sticking out of the being's mouth.
The figure smiled eerily, showing off his two rows of pointed teeth, after watching the fight and seeing the outcome.
"Heheheheh, and with that, his entire plan goes up in smoke." The figure said to himself. His voice was very deep and had a slight reverb to it. A shadow then appeared and formed into a blob with two red swirls for eyes and red streaks around its body.
"The altar is in shambles! Your master was wiped from existence!" the blob said. The figure's crimson eyes looked over to the blob.
"I applaud you for providing a backup watch Mimic." The figure said. "That moron was nothing more than a trigger, and thanks to his failure, the true show will finally begin!"
"Of course master." The blob replied.
"Alert me when one of the shards activate, so I can send the appropriate Admin after it." The figure said. The blob formed an arm out of some of its ectoplasm and saluted to the figure.
"Yes master!" the blob replied. With that said, the figure turned his back to the city and walked off, and the blob melted itself into the ground, vanishing while saying the phrase:
"HAIL LORD UNDRA!"
"Alright bitch, get your sorry ass in here or I'll flipping shoot!"
"I'm going up as fast as I fucking can with this shit around me!"
"Then go faster, bub!"
The door opened to the rundown apartment, revealing three figures in the doorway. One was a boy with brown shaggy hair and brown eyes, blue sweatpants and a grey shirt. The red sneakers he was wearing were a bit worn out, and he was holding what appeared to be a bottle of beer in his right hand. Another was a woman about the same size as the boy, having jade eyes and long black hair. She wore a navy blue dress, crimson high heels, and a sky blue hat, making her almost look like a formal police officer. She was holding a weird type of remote in her left hand and what looked like a mace in her right, much to the dismay of the third figure. The third figure was what looked like a black blob with red lines over it, with two red swirls for eyes. It had some sort of white ring bound around its body, which the blob didn't seem to enjoy that much.
The woman kicked the blob inside the apartment, with the boy following the woman inside, taking a swig from the bottle as he did.
"Alright ghost, explain the 'Comet Shard' and 'Undra' shit you said back there!" the woman exclaimed. The blob put on a sly smile at that sentence.
"Did I really say that? You must have been hearing things, for I never said a damn thing back there!"
The woman pulled out the remote and pushed one of the buttons on it, and then the white ring around the blob crackled electricity. The blob then got intensely shocked, feeling like a lightning bolt just surged throughout its body. It only lasted for a few seconds, and when it was done, the blob collapsed on the floor.
"I know what I heard jackass! I'm no idiot!" the woman exclaimed.
"Errrr, you think you should torture him like that? You might accidentally explode the thing if you go too harsh on him." The boy asked.
"Can it bitch!" the woman exclaimed back. "You're the entire reason I'm stuck in this shithole of a city instead of watching over, oh I don't know, AN ACTUAL CRIMINAL!"
"Hey, it's not my fault that heaven can't take the joke that I did!"
The woman looked at the boy with a nasty look in her eyes.
"You smuggled beer into the place, which is forbidden to have up there!"
The boy rolled his eyes while taking another drink from his beer bottle.
"They just can't accept the fact that I've been drinking for way longer, errrrrrr, than I can even *hic* remember!"
The boy swayed back and forth in a drunken way and hiccupped slightly, clearly from drinking too much. The woman facepalmed at the sight.
"I better get a fucking promotion when I'm done with this assignment."
While that was said, the blob got up from the ground after recovering from the white ring's shock. The blob sighed deeply after doing so.
"Ugh, fine, but you better let me go after I tell you everything I know!"
The woman and boy then focused back to the blob, while the boy was being slightly drunk.
"That's what I wanted to hear." The woman replied. "Now start talking!"
"Fine Mrs. Tortureaghost!" the blob said. "Now where should I begin? Oh yeah, the beginning of it all. Well, I'm sure the two of you know about the dimensions of heaven and hell, two separate places that one can go to after death? That's the most common belief among everyone, and yet, they never know about the separator, the line that splits the black and white sides of the circle, the dimension that's nothing more than an empty void!"
"What are you saying?" the woman asked.
"Purgatory, you stupid wench, the dimension that keeps heaven and hell from merging into one! Yes, it exists!"
"Oh great, there's *hic* another dimension? Well that's just *hic* dandy." The boy said, his right eye halfway open and his body slowly swaying back and forth in a drunken state.
"It gets better. Like heaven and hell, there is an entity that rules the dimension, a being by the name of Undra. Since rejected angels that aren't fit for heaven or hell get placed on this planet to earn heaven coins to prove themselves worthy of going there, purgatory is completely deserted, and only serves as the wall separating the two main dimensions. With that, the need for domination over the two dimensions overwhelmed Undra, since he felt that an entity with powers of light and dark shouldn't be limited to an empty void of a dimension."
"What the fuck does the backstory to this entity have to do with the 'Comet Shard' shit you were mumbling about?" the woman asked, forcing her white mace up to the blob's face, forcing an uneasy face on the blob to form.
"Errrr, uhhhhh…" the blob stuttered a bit from the intimidation tactic the woman was doing. "Undra didn't give us many details, only saying that a previous incident that occurred here was a so called 'trigger', and to obtain all of these so called 'Comet Shards" which very few ghosts can actually-"
Suddenly, the blob started jiggling uncontrollably and then immediately shot upwards, taking the woman and man by surprise. The woman took aim with her mace while the blob formed an arm out of his ectoplasm and started scratching his back wildly.
"Easy with the mace there!" the blob exclaimed, forming another ectoplasmic hand in a "Stop" gesture. "This is natural for a ghost like me! It just means that a Comet Shard just revealed itself!"
The woman smirked a little after the blob said that.
"So you can detect where these shards are located?" the woman asked, a tone of venom in her voice.
"Well, one of them that can at least." the blob said. "The only other one that I know about is, well, someone I wish to not speak of."
The woman pushed the remote's button again, and the blob ended up getting shocked again.
"Hey! I'm only saying that because ghosts have a history too you know, and they can make enemies in those times as well!" the blob explained, slightly burnt up from the second shocking.
"Hmph, suit yourself." The woman said. "Besides, you're leading us to the shard."
The blob's red swirls for eyes nearly popped out as the woman said that.
"That was not part of the deal! You were going to let me go after I told you everything I knew!"
"I never said that." The woman explained. "All I did was force you to spill out everything you said about Undra and the Comet Shards back when we were fighting you. I never said I would let you go."
Angered by this, the blob changed his body into a big monstrosity, ready to rip the woman to shreds, but before he could do so, the woman pressed the remote's button, getting the blob shocked for a third time, forcing him back to his blobby form.
"Face it ghost, as long as that Light Halo is around you, you're working for us. Now if you would show us where that shard is, you might avoid another shocking from me."
The blob frowned and snorted in anger, but he knew the woman was right. The Light Halo was a device used to trap ghosts by elite angels, and any ghost that was trapped in it would be unable to get out without the angel allowing it. He was at their mercy and there was nothing he could do about it.
"Alright I'll do it, not like I have a choice now." The blob said. As he was going to lead the woman and boy out the door, he accidentally tripped over the boy, passed out on the floor. The woman smacked the boy with her mace to wake him up.
"Get the fuck up Gin; we're going after these so called 'Comet Shards'." The woman exclaimed.
The boy, named Gin, slowly got to his feet, still a little bit woozy from drinking.
"Do we really have to Brandy? I'm pretty sure the Anarchy Sisters can take care of it." Gin said, shaking himself off from being on the floor.
"And yet you dared me the moment we got to this city to take out a ghost before they did." The woman, named Brandy, replied. "Now look, not only did we manage to do it, but now we finally have something to do that's NOT related to you torching cities while drunk!"
Gin giggled weakly after Brandy reminded him of those incidents. In the past, Gin used to get so drunk that he managed to burn down some small villages, all while barely remembering how he managed to do so. In fact, Brandy was sent down from heaven JUST to make sure he doesn't do shit like that while completely sober, and over the time the Brandy has spent with him, he thankfully didn't do anything like that, although she did have to intervene a few times after he tried to have drunken sex with chickens, which she thought was impossible.
Brandy didn't give Gin any second thoughts before grabbing his right arm and dragging him outside, heading out after the blobby ghost.