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Discontent Spirit: Chapter 2

Merrill and the guards began entering the fortress. The inside was made of dark gray stones and covered with sutras, supposedly to keep it's inhabitants from escaping. They went down a long corridor into a cell block that was full of strange creatures and humans. When they reached the end of the block, Merrill had been released into a cold cell.

The warden then ordered the two guards to search "Mei Lin" for any magic items or weapons. The fools attempted to, but were foiled by a good, hard, b**ch-slap, courtesy of our heroine. The warden studied her behavior, and then ordered some passer-by guards to go and bring two female monks to the scene, so they could search her. Later the other guards came back with a pair of women in monk's robes. "I didn't know there were female monks in Buddhism." Merrill pondered.

After the search, they began questioning her.

"Who are you?" said the first monk, or was it nun?

"Mei Lin." Merrill lied, but it worked, since it technically was her name in Chinese.

"Where did you come from?"

"Very far west, further than the Monkey king went."

"What are your connections to the Demon Sorcerers?"

"I don't know them personally. I just heard that they were dangerous."

"What type of spirit are you?"

"I have no idea, but I'm not from here."

Merrill was getting questioned for what felt like days, but eventually the monks(or nuns) decided that she was innocent. They carefully brought her outside, making sure that she doesn't do anything "funny". When they reached outside the walls, the one monk-nun spoke "May you find rest in the afterlife." and bowed before re-entering the fortress.

Merrill was now free to roam China now, but with the white modern style dress, it may be a bit of a problem. She decided to get some more traditional clothes, and searched for ways to receive them. A village nearby had been fast asleep by the time she reached them, and she noticed a beautiful traditional green dress with a golden floral pattern embroidered in. It was merely hanging out to dry on a clothesline, and yet it radiated with beauty. Merrill couldn't control herself, she took both the dress and some under garments and ran into a shed close-by to change. Although she had no mirror to look into, she could feel that the dress fit her perfectly. She looked down at her new wardrobe and saw that the dress had turned white and the pattern was filled in by a sapphire blue, but it seemed even more beautiful now. She loved the new outfit and ditched her old dress on the clothesline.

She began wandering the countryside, not feeling tired or hungry for what felt like an eternity. She didn't even feel like she was walking anymore. Merrill was following a trail in a forest of bamboo, when a man wearing a hood approached her shouting "Give me all your gold or I'll kill you!" Merrill didn't feel much fear, and certainly showed it to the stupid thief. This infuriated the man, and he lunged at her, knife ready. Merrill then thrust her arm up in self defense, and the man was sent flying into a tree. Merrill was confused, thinking "Did I just do that?" The man stood back up and began begging "Please don't kill me! I have a son!" She then allowed him to run for his life, but not before giving him an angry look.

She looked down at her feet, and noticed that she was floating two or three inches off the ground. "They did call me a spirit, right? From what I'm seeing here, they weren't lying." Merrill wondered, "If I can send a guy flying into a tree and float, what else can I do?" She decided to try and find out her new powers, first by testing her strength. She walked, er, floated towards a large boulder at the end of the trail. She then managed to pick it up with a little bit of difficulty, but definitely better than a human could. She put it back and tried to see if she had anything else, finding out that she has a little bit of control of the nearby temperature. She made it colder than normal for comfort, and went her merry way.

Merrill was considering what to do, since she was now dead and bored. Traveling down the stone path, she walked into a large town with large buildings at the center. It reminded her of that one story, oh what was it? Ah, yes, Journey to the West. "That's it! I'll go on an adventure! But with whom? There's no-one here that looks like a Monkey king or Tripitaka around here." Figuring out what to do, she set off to find a subject to center her "adventure" on. She then thought about the tale of Kaguya-hime, where the princess asked for five impossible things from some princes. They were the stone begging bowl of the Buddha, a jeweled branch from the island of Horai, the cowry treasure born from the swallows, the robe of the Chinese fire-rat, and a colored jewel from a dragon's neck. "Heh, let's see how those moon-people like it when I rush in with the five impossible tasks completed. I bet it'll be even funnier when they see the person who has done all the stuff the previous suitors of their princess could never do was done by an undead woman!" she giggled with glee. Now, all she had to do was find some "partners in crime" for entertainment, and gain a title. Since the latter was much easier, she decided to do it first.

Much later on, she was beginning to feel drawn towards a location, a cemetery to be exact. She felt at home there, like she was with loved ones. She was still bored and looking for a title, so she thought about how a cemetery could help. "Maybe if I do something out of the ordinary in here, I'll get a title." She thought long and hard, until she finally had an idea. She thought back to her classes in high-school, more specifically, her singing classes. She was at the top of her class for her impressive soprano. She decided that "The Singing Spirit" was a decent title, and began singing a song she heard a while ago.

Something was happening in the underworld, something strange. Spirits of the blessed and the damned were disappearing left and right. They were saying that they were being called by their "Queen". The Immortals were getting worried, this could be bad. The Immortal actor was theorizing that it was a demon's fault, but the other's weren't so sure. This "Queen" seemed like no demon, as there was no such thing as a "Death Demon". They decided to half-heartedly investigate the mortal realm, as it was the only place the spirits could've gone. They began searching for Necromancers or Yaoling that could have done anything of the sort, but found nothing. The "Queen of the missing dead" is apparently more slippery than they thought.

AN: I edited this part to make it more tolerable, as well as fix some errors here or there.Now you may ask "Why is she taking this so well?" Well, Merrill is now a spirit, and therefor, has different feelings about herself than a human would. For example, if a human found out that they were dead and in another universe and time, they would probably panic or go insane. But if a spirit found out the same thing, they'd probably act a whole lot calmer than a human would. After all, you can't hurt something that's already dead, can you?