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Chapter 4:
In the Chamber of Shadows
An 18 year old girl named Sae was pacing back and forth in the audience chamber of the Realm of Darkness. She was awoken the moment that Sarah was born and had been slowly gaining her powers back due to a part of her soul being combined with Sarah's soul. When she was awoken a demon gargoyle like creature named Shade who also serves the dark god and was a counselor for Sae; took care of her while she regained her powers.
She is the only member of the House of Shadows to survive the old days; all her other old members were killed and were replaced by newbies. Sae looks exactly like Sarah and is also a half Fae like Sarah, the only differences between the two girls was that Sae has yellow eyes and her skin is paler than Sarah. Although being surrounded by new members weren't all that bad, but she has to repeat her plans to the new members every time and it was getting annoying. Her new members included a pair of Fae twins, one of the twins is a short sixteen year old Fae girl named Luna, who has blue eyes, short white hair in pigtails with bangs covering her forehead, and she is wearing the same outfit as Sae. Luna's brother is the opposite of her in height; he is tall and has short white hair with short bangs that dangled in front of his forehead, he has blue eyes and is fairly pale for a Fae. He is also wearing the same outfit as Sae. His name is Drake.
Another member is a tall muscular man with piercing red eyes and black hair that reaches just above his cheeks; he also is wearing a black outfit just like his other members. His name is Jasper and he is a human. The last member of the House of shadows was a human girl of the age of eighteen; she has long hair that is a light pink, blues eyes and was fair looking. Her name Cora and she was reborn into the Shadows because she was killed a long time ago and her dark soul was forced to wait in darkness so that she could gather enough strength to find a new host to take over. Sae looked at her new companions. Well they're not much to look at now, but I think I can work to make them powerful enough to achieve my goals. Sae thought to herself. She wasn't a newbie meaning her sinister powers are far stronger than her associates. Since Sae is the strongest out of all of them they made her their leader.
To Sae's dismay she was named Sarah's so called "dark half" by the Dark Lord that she serves and loves; because she and Sarah shared the same qualities but Sae has a somewhat different personality than Sarah. Sarah may not know Sae yet, but she will if she has anything to with her light half as Sae puts it. In Sae's point of view, since she was named Sarah's dark half, Sae calls Sarah her "light half". Don't get any of the members of the House of Shadows wrong, if they need to kill to get what they want, they will kill and they have this desire to end the lives of those they see as unworthy to live or to pure of the light to live.
That's where Sarah's past life and Sarah herself came in. Sarah's duty is to not only protect the Jewel of Light but also to prevent the House of Shadows from achieving their dark goals. All of the members of the House of Shadows lives were lengthened and they couldn't age, but they could be killed only by magic beings or priestesses with spiritual powers. Each one of them had their own respective dark element power.
For example, since Sae was the leader, she has the power to summon dark creatures and can summon black ice magic at will and could merge with the shadows. Cora can summon dark flames at will and can create weapons from any shadow she chooses. Jasper could only create lightening and electrical waves. Drake can transform into a dark dragon and can merge himself with darkness as well as Sae. Luna even though she is the youngest member of their faction, she can sing a sad dark song that can make anyone who listens to it fall into complete and totally despair and that they will refuse to do anything and their souls will be consumed by the darkness.
Anyways back to the main subject of dealing with the new priestess and finding a way to revive our dark master. Sae thought to herself. Everyone else was waiting patiently for Sae to talk. Sae continued, "Anyways, we all know that our main goal is to revive our master by collecting souls and creating more shadow monsters, but I have come up with a secondary goal; why don't we try and utilize the power of darkness to pursue the priestess, Sarah to join us?" The others nodded in agreement. Luna clapped her hands loudly and was jumping up and down excited.
But then Drake questioned Sae," No offense Sae, but how are we going to convince her to join us? Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't she have a very strong will and a sense of justice that will not allow her to join us?" Luna giggles and says lovingly to her birth twin brother, "Silly Drakey, we can use our dark powers to pursued Sarah and if not we could always kill her." Drake responded happily and darkly, "I like that idea!" Sae nods in agreement but spoke with warning in her voice, "Well in a normal case we could just kill Sarah, but sadly this time we cannot kill her without the risk of her being reincarnated in a different time period. For you see, if she dies before she completes her duty to protect the Jewel of Light, then there will be a new reincarnation in the distant future which we would be forced to waste time by finding her again." The other members all made a face that showed realization.
Cora gets up and starts to walk out of the Chamber of Shadows; Luna turns to look at her and said with curiosity, "Cora, where are you going?" Cora responds, "Oh, I'm just going up to the Goblin Kingdom to spy on King Jareth his friends; do not fret I will return." Luna smiles and then disappears into her room. The others decided to do random things in the meantime to past the time until supper was ready. Sae was the best cook out of all of them.