Ringing was the first thing to hit my ears when I woke up. It was so loud that it hurt my ears. Of course I was the only one who could hear it as it was one of the few protection spells I had around the house to warn me when someone was watching us. Neat spell, but annoying all the same. Walking down stairs, I ignored Raven as she was meditating, with me walking straight to the door.

As soon as I opened the door, I noticed a car was parked right in front and that the person behind the wheel was looking at a sketchpad. Walking over to them, I knocked on the passenger side window, with her looking at me and rolling down the window. "What do you want kid, I'm busy?" She asked, not caring who I was.

"What I want is for you to beat it, you're parked in front of my home." I said, jerking my thumb at the house, gaining her attention.

"This is your place?" She asked, pointing at the house, with me nodding. "Then you can help me." She said, flipping through the sketch pad. "I'm looking for this...Record, Its so famous that people kill them selves after listening to it." She said, showing me an image. "You wouldn't happen to know where I could find-"

"The Record of Willie Cole, last I heard of it, Constantine sent it to Hell." I said, seeing her eyes open wide. "Judging by your reaction, you know of Constantine, no, you've met him." I said, getting a nod from her. "Come on in, the Dammed is always welcomed here." I said, turning around and making my way back into the house.

Once inside, we stopped in the middle of the room, seeing Raven floating. "Is she doing a ritual?" The women asked, looking at me.

"Raven is meditating, she needs to in order to control her emotions, which is what controls her magic." I said, picking up an apple from the fruit basket that was to the side and tossed it at Raven, who caught it and opened her eyes. "Raven, we have company." I said, with her coming down from her position and landing on her feet.

"If you two know Constantine then you might of heard of me?" She asked, with us looking at the other.

"Whos Constantine, some famous person?" Raven asked, with me nodding.

"A master of the dark arts, every demon from here to the deepest pits of Hell is after his soul as he was dammed to it, much like myself." I said, picking up another apple and eating it.

"Why, what did you do?" The women asked, with me looking at her.

"I accidently sent every soul in this orphanage to Hell by trying to send a demon back after it attacked." I said, taking a bite. "Now, you have yet to tell us who you are." I said with my mouth full.

"I'm Zed, I was Constantine's apprentice?" She said, with me shrugging. "Really, nothing?" She said, with me nodding. "Alright, I was the one who helped Constantine seal the Gate to Hell, and someone here recently opened one of them."

"I don't know who, and they haven't made there move and we've been busy dealing with the demons that have been rising from the ground." I said, with her nodding.

"While you've been dealing with them, the magical Items have made there way here as well. How do you deal with them?" She asked as she got a curious look on her face.

"We use our magic to fight back against them. So far we've only taken a couple of cases, like a lightning demon, and then there was the mines." Raven said, taking a bite of her apple. "We also don't have any money, so that's a thing." She added, with me looking at her.

"Sure, why not tell her your secret while we're at it." I said, with her looking at me.

"Is this Constantine a good guy or someone we should watch out for?" Raven asked as she didn't know much on the man.

"Both." Zed and I said at the same time, with her nodding. "Constantine has bigger fish to deal with, so he sent me to check the problem out." Zed said, with me looking at her.

"Really, he sent Zero to check out something that we've been taking care of, sorry, but he has no authority here." I said, looking from Zed to Raven. "As for you, I need you to find an item in the city, it will have a lot of Demonic energy as it was Cursed by the Devil his self." I said, with her nodding and making her way into the living room. "As for us, if someone listened to this song, they most likely will be paying a visit to the morgue." I said, with her opening the door, leading the way out as I grabbed my bag off the floor, that I had next to the door.

Later

"You and Constantine are a lot a like." She said, with me looking at her as she went through my bag. "Holy water, police scanner, duck tape, some nails that I'm guessing follow one another, some ring?"

"The nails are the same ones that were stabbed into the hands of Christ." I said, shocking her. "While its true that they follow one another, but they do so much more." I said, showing them to her. "The black nail, if injected into a man, turns there blood to ash, while the white nail heals all wounds." I said, impressing her. "As for the ring, we'll be using it here soon." I said, taking it from her as she picked it up. "I take it you have a way in?" I asked, with her flashing a card.

"Took it off the person who walked past us a few seconds ago." She said, with me leading the way to the door. Once inside, we made our way to where the bodies were, with me looking at each report, looking at the cause of death. "Got one." She said, with me looking at her. "Ted Craze, death by stabbing his self in the heart." She said, with me walking over to the body and removing the covers. "What are you doing?"

"The ring of Hestia, while she is the goddess of love, she also was one to bring the dead back so that they can be with there true love for an extra day if she felt they deserved it." I said, slipping the ring on his finger, with him shooting up, screaming. "EASY, EASY!?" I yelled, trying to calm him down. "What were you listing to before you killed yourself, was it a record?" I questioned, seeing him grabbing his ears like they were hurting him.

"Was...Evil...Kill me, KILL M-"

He didn't get to finish as I removed the ring as his skin started turning black, with him balling back down. "What was that?" She asked, pointing at the ring.

"Hestia's love didn't recognize him as worthy, so it started taking his essence into the ring." I said, shocking her. "Nasty, but worth it." I said, walking away, not wanting to be here for any longer.

"But we didn't learn anything!" She yelled as she followed me.

"Of course we did, we found its last known location." I said, holding up the cart. "Sais here he died at the local recording studios, Power Records, and if that's the case, its most likely still there, unless someone is after it as well." I informed, with her nodding as that could be the case.

Later

Walking into the recording studio, I made my way to the back with all the electronics. Looking around, I couldn't see one record, not even a gold record. "Looks like this guy just opened up or something." I said, looking at Zed. "Anything?" I asked, with her shacking her head.

"No, best we check the cameras." She said, pointing at the camera in the far corner. As we walked over to the Cameras section, she rewind it to where he committed suicide, with me shacking my head as it wasn't a good way to go, hell, he didn't even use a knife but broke some piece of metal off of the counter to do the job.

"We need to find this Record fast, before anyone else hears it." I said, crossing my arms and narrowing my eyes at the camera as we watched a cloaked man walk in and take the record. 'Who ever that is, is on my shit list.' I thought as I shook my head as we didn't get anything from them. "We're best going back to the house, Raven might of found it by now." I said, with me pulling out a gym.

"What's that?" She asked, with me tossing the gym down, with us appearing at the house a few seconds later, with her looking around. "That was awesome!" She said, a smile on her face.

"Raven, anything?" I asked as I saw her at the table with a pendent.

"Someone rich, someone powerful has it, the mayor." She said, with me groaning. "You know him?" She asked as she looked up at me.

"Dame guy gets into a lot of trouble with magic, and there's nothing special about him, I've checked." I said, looking at them. "Ok, so with this guy, he's being black mailed for something, happened before, most likely some Voodoo or Gypsy type of person if they want this recorded." I said, with Zed face palming. "What, don't believe me?" I asked, narrowing my eyes at her.

"Papa Midnight, a Voodoo priest." She said, gaining my attention. "He was after it when if first made its appearance." She informed, with me nodding.

"And if he's after it again, he's most likely made some kind of deal with the mayor, most likely to remove whatever it is that's dragging him into the world of magic." I said, looking at Raven. "Stay here, there's only one place that kind of man would be lurking about." I said, looking at Zed while I walked out the door.

"I'm not going to get left behind again!" Zed said, following me.

"I wasn't talking to you." I said as we walked out of the house.

Later that night

"Welcome to the bar of magic." I said, opening the doors, showing pixies, fairies, even monsters having a fun time with each other. "A bar so secret, that if any normal person were to walk in, they would instantly leave drunk." I said, with her following me to the bar, where a short troll like being was staring me down. "Gabe, long time no see." I said, placing a small bag of coins down, with him picking it up. "I'm looking for Papa Midnight, have you seen him?" I asked, with him looking at the back room, with me smiling. "Thanks, now why don't you treat this girl to the special." I said, confusing her.

"No, I'm going with-"

She didn't get to finish as Gabe started ringing a bell, with everyone cheering. while she was distracting everyone, I made my way to the back room, with me simply walking in and seeing Papa Midnight watching some old sitcoms. "You can learn a lot from the past." He said, with me nodding.

"That's true, but you can learn more from your own past." I said, with him nodding. "I'm looking for the Record of Willie Cole, and you are the last person I know would want it." Said, rubbing my hands together, then tossing them aside, getting ready for a fight. "We can do this the easy way, or the hard way." I said, with him looking at me.

"The easy way is more prefer." He said, but his voice was coming from behind me. Turning around, he blew some dust into my face, where everything went blank.

Later, unknown location

"God dame it!" I yelled once I felt my back get stabbed, waking me up. Looking around, I saw that I was in a meat locker. "Son of a bitch." I said, looking at the men that were walking away. "You both are going to pay for this one, believe me, you wont like it when I get free." I said, with them walking off. "Fucking hell." I said, grabbing the chain and pulling my self up, only to let go as the pain was too much. "Dame it, this dose not feel good." I said, leaning my head back.

"You're an idiot." I heard Raven, with her appearing in front of me with Zed, making me smile.

"Everything's gong to plan." I said, confusing them as Zed picked me up off the hook, with me falling onto her shoulder. "Now, we know where Papa Midnight is." I said once she set me down on the ground, with me showing them one of the nails pointing in a random direction.

"You slipped him one of the nails of Christ, that's something that even Constantine couldn't do." She said, with me shrugging while Raven healed my shoulder. "You two are a lot alike, but he has more skill." She said, making me smile.

"Please, I'm better." I bragged as I felt my shoulder heal up completely, where Raven then pulled out some orange juice. "The hell is this?" I asked, grabbing it as she held it out to me.

"You need to get your blood sugar back up somehow." She said, with me rolling my eyes as I opened it and started drinking it. "So, where to now?" She asked, with me looking at her.

"We cant do anymore, because right now, Papa Midnight is on his way home, meaning that he's got the Record." I said, looking at Zed. "This is where you come in, see, while I would love to go on a trip out of town, I cant, because once I do, some very powerful witch will track me down and kill me." I said, shocking them. "Constantine has nothing against this women, you are going to need Constantine to get that record and send it back to Hell." I said, with her nodding.

"Great, this should be fun." She said, taking the nail. "I'll mail these back when I'm done." She said a she stood up. "Anything else I should know?" She asked, with me shacking my head. "Great, see you kids around." She said as she started walking away, leaving us.

"She seems nice." Raven said, with me shrugging.

"Sure, whatever floats your boat." I said, with her helping me up. "Lets get out of here, I don't feel like dealing with this crap anymore."