Chapter 2

Mystery boys POV

I woke up with a splitting headache and an all-around everything ache. I tried to sit up but felt a hand gently push me back down on the couch I was laying on.

"Easy now, just take it easy. You've got quite a few bad bruises and a few cuts as well."

I opened my eyes to see a tall corpse of a man staring at me with his one large eye.

"Wha-what happened? Where am I?"

"You are currently in the Underworld Capital. We found you unconscious on the front steps, now tell me, what is your name?"

"M-my, name? My name is…. My name….is. I don't know what my name is."

"What? Well then what kind of creature are you?"

"Creature?"

"Yes you know demon, angel, werewolf, that sort of thing."

"I-I don't know, I seem to have a tail…does that help?"

"Hmm, I suppose it might. Can you stand and walk?"

"Yes, I think so."

I proceeded to try standing up by my own power and, although a little shaky and sore, managed to stand and walk towards the rotting man.

"Very good, very good, now please follow me."

I started walking and began to brush off all the dirt and dust I had on me, but as I did blue flames erupted out of my hands, but as quickly as it came it was gone.

"D-d-did you just see that!? What was that?"

"Hmm? Oh yes that's a plague ogre, there quite terrifying at first glance but if you take the time to get to know them you'll find there really quite gentle giants."

I looked over to what he was pointing at and saw a gigantic, terrifying monster with horns and boils all over. He was smiling and giving me a smile while waving kindly. Utterly dumbfounded by how I could have missed that, I just wave back.

"Come, come we don't have all day now."

We both walked up a few flights of stairs and down a couple of corridors until I decided to break the silence.

"Soooooo, where exactly are you taking me?"

"To see Kibosh, he's the most powerful ghost in the Underworld and also the one in charge of running everything, he should be able to help you."

"Oh ok, by the way, I never got your name."

"And I never got yours."

"Oh… well ok, I guess…"

"Ahahaha, oh I'm just messing with you boy, my name is Scab, Scab Crackle."

"Scab huh? That's an interesting name, one more question, what are you?"

"Me? Why I am a zombie, and a very unique one too I might add. You see, I am the only zombie who has an uncut seeing stone imbedded in his head."

"A seeing stone?"

"Yes, you see a seeing stone, when it's cut and polished into a perfect sphere, is used by mystics and a few gypsies to see a glimpse of the future or see something happening at that exact moment in another part of the world. Well because I have one imbedded into my skull and it's in its raw, uncut form, I can see the future of a specific individual for as far as I want. But it's very painful to do so and looking too far could cause my soul to be sucked into the crystal. But it can do other, less dangerous things, like I can project a person's consciousness in front of me with the Soul Sand that swirls inside, like a hologram. It also makes me able to teleport anywhere instantaneously, which is both very cool and very fun to do."

As he was telling me all this, I just sat there with a dumbfounded look.

"Oh that's right, amnesia. Let me guess, about ninety percent of what I said just went right over your head, didn't it?"

"Ehh, I'd say about eighty, I mean ive heard the words before but have no idea what they mean."

"Sigh. Oh well, were here now anyway"

I then looked up to see a very large and creepy set of ornate, gothic double doors. This must be Kibosh's office.

"Ok, I'll head on in first to talk with him and inform him of your presence here. You just stay out here and wait for me to signal you in, when the doors open again just follow the gargoyles inside."

"Ok, just one problem though. What's a gargoyle?"

"Sigh….just walk inside when the doors open."

Scab then went inside and I was left alone out here so I decided to see if I could remember anything about myself. I sat down Indian style and began to concentrate on remembering myself, my past, anything! I was trying so hard that I started sweating and it felt like my whole body was starting to overheat. I was starting to get tired so I sat up and opened my eyes but was surprised to find that everything on my side of the hallway was either melted, burning, or charred pitch black.

"Wha-what happened in here? Everything's all…! Wait a minute, charred…charred…char…Char! My name….my name is….!

"YOU! Come with us! Kibosh will see you now."

I was just interrupted from my thoughts by a dragon, man, statue thing. Wait what was thinking about a second ago? Of well, it probably wasn't that important anyway.

As I entered I was a bit nervous, if this creature was the one who controlled a whole world of creatures and monsters, what would he be like? Is he going to be some huge intimidating monster with a spiders head and a lion's body? Could he breathe fire? Was he a sadistic killer!?

". . ."

Well I can easily say he was absolutely NOT what I expected. He was a large, fat green blob thing, floating around the room with a frowny face, it was ridiculous! This thing was the 'terrifying' ruler of the Underworld? But then, as I looked closer, I began too see that he had this black and red glow emanating off of him, and his stare was giving me this weird feeling of dread.

"Scab, what is this fleshie doing in my office!? Haven't I made it perfectly clear…"

He suddenly stopped yelling at Scab as he seemed to take notice of my tail, then he looked straight at me, but it felt more like he was trying to look into me.

"You, come here, let me have a look at you. Hmmm your aura is quite unique."

"My what now?"

"I'm focusing on your aura, now stand still and be silent!"

Not wanting to make him angry I did as he said and started to focus on the glowing stuff around him.

It looked and felt dark and almost, sinister, yet deeper I found some bright green light. It was buried under the black and red stuff but I could feel that it felt…warm, like a summer sun making me almost want to smile.

"Hmmmm. Boy, leave us, Scab come with me."

Before I had a chance to react I was grabbed by two of the rock things which I'm guessing are the gargoyles Scab mentioned. They led me out into the hall and sat me on one of the few undamaged benches in the hall.

It wasn't long before Scab came out and started walking to meet me but stopped to look at the damage that I'm starting to thing I did.

"Wha-wha! What happened in here!? Who did this?!"

The gargoyles on the top corners of the hall (how I missed those I'll never know) turned and pointed at me.

"You did this? But how? This entire half of the hall is burnt to a crisp! It's little more than charcoal!"

Charcoal, charcoal….charcoal…charred…char…wait a minute!

"THAT'S IT!"

My shout caused everyone to back up and flinch a little, guess I got a little carried away.

"Oops, he he sorry. What I mean is that I've remembered something about myself!"

"Really? Well what is it? Please tell us."

"It's me name, I've remembered my name! It's Char, Charcoal Inferno!"

"Charcoal Inferno huh? Hmm a strange name, I like it! Well then Char, Guess what, Kibosh has decided that you will be enrolled into one of our Scare Schools to help you relearn everything you need to know."

"Really? Um I'm not sure, I'm feeling a bit nervous."

"You'll be fine, honest! We're pairing you up with a couple of students that have proven to be very helpful in these kinds of situations. The main three we are pairing you with are two vampires, Fatch and Thatch, and a ghost boy named Casper. Those three and there group are going to do their best to help you in any way they can, and plus I'll be coming back to check up on you all every month."

I was a little sad about this because I'd only see Scab every month, but at least I'll have a couple of people there I sort of know.

"Ok I guess, so when do we leave?"

He then grabbed my shoulder while the black Soul Sand began to pour out of his eye socket and quickly swirl around us.

"Right now"

He said with a chuckle, and just like that, we vanished.

AN: Hello! This is Lankore, the writer of this little fic here to tell you all that I will update this when I can and hopefully at the very least a chapter a week, but the updates are going to be a bit random as far as time and date wise. Just to let you all know! Love you all, have a good day, night, etc.

Arriva Derchi!