Two Young Wizards and a Wraith

Written by: Cold Fang

(I do not own Raziel or the Young Wizards characters)

'Now this is interesting. Two young humans all alone. One male and one female. Here.' thought the demon. 'It had been centuries since he had seen anything as unusual as this. It was not the sight of them that he was concerned about, but the mystical energies he felt. It seemed to surround the pair of humans. He had better keep an eye on them.'  He thought, before silently slipping away into the shadows.

"Where are we?" Nita asked. 'It didn't feel like the Earth that she knew was home.'

"I don't know" Kit replied. 'I know the coordinates I used are right.'

"This doesn't feel right."

"What do you mean?"

"I can't sense any living thing out there. Can't you sense anything wrong?"

"I'll try…" 'Wait a minute... this makes no sense. It's almost impossible. There has to at least some life in these rocks.'

"I'm not sensing anything either."

"Really, this isn't good." 'Hold on,' she thought 'what is that tingling I feel? It's almost like there someone else here. But it can't be alive or I would sensed it before.' "Hey El Niňo, do you feel that?"

Kit was just about to get her back for that when he suddenly felt it too.

'The two humans had stopped.' he noticed. 'It was strange though. The female had yelled something out at the male, who immediately turned and moved as if to strike her, but then he stopped. Such an odd behavior for a human.' Just then, he had a feeling that someone or something was picking up on his presence there. 'It can't be Mobieus. Kain is long since slain. Could it be those two mortals down there,' He wondered quietly.

He would not have to wonder long.

"Is there someone there?"

"Curses!" He muttered. 'I HAD been detected. Maybe I can still keep hidden. They might have noticed my presence here, but they don't know my location.' Unfortunately, the moment after he had uttered that one solitary word both heads and pairs eye turned to stare directly at him. He was just about to shift to the spectral Realm, when the young girl called out to him again.

"We know someone's there. All we need is information, if you can understand us please respond."

'Oh well.' He thought. 'I might as well confront them sooner or later.' He then promptly launched himself off the cliff.

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"We know someone's there. All we need is information, if you can understand us please respond." Nita shouted. 'There has to be something up there since she knew she heard a barely audible voice.' She thought to herself. Then she whispered to Kit. "Do you hear any thing or see anything yet?"

"No" He responded. 'Wait a minute…did I see movement up there? Yeah…I did.'  "Look up there"

They both looked up just in time to see a bluish creature leap off the high cliff.

'There's no way that thing could survive that high of a fall whatever it is!' She thought. But before she could think of a spell to slow the fall, what had originally looked like a cloak suddenly spread out and caught the air. 'Wings! Or they looked at least like they were once.'

 The creature began to glide down to them giving the humans a better glimpse of him.

'The two humans were not as surprised as he had anticipated. No matter.' concluded the focus of their attention. As he neared the ground, he released his ruined wings and dropped the remaining 20 ft the ground. The demon then proceeded towards the strangely calm mortals.

" Who and what are you?" they asked as they looked him over." He looked as is he had once been human. He had a human frame, but no skin or internal organs, only bluish-colored muscle covered parts of his incomplete skeleton. He had clawed hands and feet. Behind him hung the 'wings' that they had seen him use earlier. There were no bones in the material; it was almost as if all the bone had been pulled right out of the membrane. The most unusual about him was his face. He had a cloth bearing strange symbols, which covered his jaw area and his neck. He had raven-black hair. However, his eyes were the strangest of all. They seemed to burn with a white ethereal flame. They could sense a strong presence of ancient magic within this creature. Of all the types of aliens and beings they had encountered before, none of them came close to being as bizarre as the one before them.

"Can you understand us?" Kit asked. He doesn't seem to be able to understand us. He said to Nita mind to mind. I agree. She replied to her partner mentally.

"Yes" he stated firmly, "I can."

To their surprise, he did understand.

"Can you tell us where we are?" She asked.

"Yes, however, you must answer my questions first." the demon answered. "However, they will have to wait until tomorrow, since this trip will take sometime to get to a safe location. No matter what sort of magic you possess, you mere humans wouldn't last a day alone."

"How do you know we possess any type of…" They began, but he cut them off sharply.

"I know."

"Who are you?"

"I am Raziel, Reaver of Souls."