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Chapter 10- Shadows of the Past

**Kamiki's POV**

I was surrounded by mirrors. I looked up to see a hooded, white spirit floating in front of me.

"What the hell?Where am I again?"

The white sprite did and said nothing. All it did was cock it's head. The mirrors around me started to show my terrible mother. I screamed in terror. My mother. I was so sure that she was dead. But I always felt as if she was alive.

"How?How are you still alive?"

The spirit's face began to change. Looked to see the spirit's face had changed into my mother's dark and evil grinning face. Fire appeared around me. It just like that night. I started to scream as tears began to roll down my face. The bodies were right in front of me. My 2 little sisters my dad and my grandmother. The spirit was suddenly covered in the red flames of my past. She had fully changed into my treacherous mother. And she stood there grinning her evil grin.

I tried to stand up but tripped over something. My eyes widened in horror. I was frozen in petrification. My older brother laid there dead. His blood was spattered everywhere. His eyes were wide open. I looked at my hand and saw his blood on it. My mother/spirit grabbed me and picked me up by my hair.

"You are weak and pathetic. Your father,then your sibling, then my horrible annoying she did was patronize me. Your siblings didn't know how to listen. And your father was going to tell people about what I did. I couldn't have I massacred them because I am superior. You always tried to show me up. And tried to be better than me. So now it's time for you to die too."
She pulled out a sharp knife from behind her. She put it too my neck.

"Noooo! I won't die! Not until you reach the grave before I do."

I started to try and free myself by struggling against her.

"Oh please. Just stop. You can't beat me."

"Yes. I. CAN!"
I pulled out my summoning papers and bit a piece of skin off of my thumb.

"I humbly call the services of the Goddess Inari. Follow my wishes, and leave none unfulfilled!"

My white foxes appeared before me at my request.

"Wind Torpedo! Now!"

My white foxes spun around and plowed right into my mother's stomach.

"Let's GO!Cleansing Tornado!"
My foxes ran around my mother and she started to be lifted off the ground. Then they started to run faster and what I knew wasn't my mother began to be torn to shreds. My foxes stopped running and returned to my side. My mother laid there unmoving and hopefully unconscious.

"Ha! Looks like you weren't a match for me afterall."

She started to stir. My eyes widened as she stood up.

"H-h-how?"

"Calm down child. You have passed my faced your fears and did what you wanted to do before. Now that you are stronger. You can pass through my door."

The bodies,fire,and blood disappeared. The mirrors around me shattered. And the white spirit shattered into little specks of glass which lead to a hallway.

"Pass passed my test, so you may pass through my door."

I listened to the voice of the spirit that lingered around me. My foxes disappeared as I began to run towards what looked like the way out.

**Shima's POV**

I had no idea where I was but all I could was my mother. She had a disappointed look on her face.

"Mom? How did you get here?"

"Renzo, you're a disappointment to the Shima family name. You'll never be as good of an exorcist as your brothers."
"Mom? What are you saying?"

"You're a stupid piece of nothing that I wish wasn't my son. You're pathetic."

"Mom."

I could feel hot tears rolling down my face. I honestly wasn't sure what was going on.

"There you go again. Just like when you were younger, you were always such a weak crybaby."

I didn't know why my mom was saying these things. Then my brothers appeared.

"Juzo,Yaozo,Kinzo? Where did you guys come from?"

"Shut up Renzo. Mom is right, you're pathetic."

"Yeah, you'll never be as cool and strong as us."

"Kinzo. Juzo. How can you guys say that?Yaozo, make them stop saying these know it's not true."

Yaozo just stood there and didn't say anything.

"But they are Renzo. And we both know it. We all do."

I stared back at them in disbelief. Even though none of them hit me, their betrayal felt worse than any gun. They were all that I had. And they betrayed me.

"WELL YOU KNOW WHAT? mAYBE I DON'T WANT TO BE IN YOUR STUPID SHADOWS. I'M GOING TO BE AN AMAZING EXORCIST. BETTER THAN ANY OF YOU IDIOTS. AND JUST SO YOU KNOW MOM, I'M NOT YOUR LITTLE TROPHY TO BE SHOWN OFF!"

The whole place shattered. Everything around me shattered,including my brothers and my mother. Then a hooded white spirit appeared in front of me. She floated in front of me. She removed her hood to show how beautiful she was. Her white face and white eyes gleamed before me.

"Who are you?"

"I am one of the many guardians of the Gehennan gate. And now, you may pass through it, for you have passed my test.

I stood up and wiped the tears from my eyes.

"Thank you, ummm."

"What is it?"

"Can I have your phone number please?"

The spirit smiled at me.

"I'm very sorry but I am only but a spirit. I am almost an illusion. Good bye."

The spirit continued to smile and wave as she faded away.

"Good bye."

**Bon and Konekomaru POV**

We were surrounded by the blue flames that brought back bad memories of the Blue Night. The mirrors around us showed us our past.I couldn't hear what was going on where Konekomaru was. But I could feel his pain. I saw his dad lying there dead. Then I heard the whispers and voices again.

"Look it's the boy from the cursed temple."

"Don't speak to him or else you'll be cursed too."

"Don't go near him."

I covered my ears. I didn't want to hear it.

"No!Go away. You're all just an illusion! You're not real!"

Then I heard him laughing.

"Hahahahahaha!You?How are you going to beat Satan?! You're weak!"
"Stop it!Stop it!I will defeat Satan!I might not be as strong as the Paladin or even Star. But I am strong enough to stand for what I believe in!"

Everything mirrors,my father, the voices. A white spirit appeared before me.I looked behind me and I saw the same spirit in front of Konekomaru.

"Congratulations, you have passed my test. So you may now pass through my and your friend over there actually passed my test faster than your other 's quite impressive for a mortal human."

The spirit removed her hood to reveal her snow white hair and eyes.

"I suggest you two get a move on before my door closes."

Konekomaru was standing beside me as the spirit faded away.

"You alright dude?"
"Yeah i'm fine."

"Alright then, let's go."

**Yukio's POV**

I burst into Mephisto's office only to see him sitting at his desk eating some ramen.

"Oh,hello other Okumura spawn."

"Mephisto,we need to evacuate the city."

Mephisto gave me a concerned look.

"Why would I need to do that?"
"Rin was taken by a man named Yamato. Star went after him and took my students. Before she left,she told me to evacuate the city."

Mephisto placed his ramen down onto the table and sighed.

"I had a feeling something like this would happen."

"Then why didn't you warn us?"
"Because we only had suspicions,Mephisto and I wanted to be sure that what was going to happen would actually happen."

Mephisto smirked as a golden light appeared in the room. The light slowly transformed into a woman who covered head to toe with gold linens. She pulled her hood away and I saw a small faced girl with blue eyes and brown hair.

"I am the golden guardian of the Rogue you are after."

"Wait,do you mean Star?"

"Yes, she is my sister,my name is Juri, and I am a piece of Star that guards her sins so she won't go Rogue."

"What does it mean for her to go Rogue?"

"It means that sin will take over her body and she becomes so powerful that she will become 8 times as strong as she already is and she will destroy Gehenna and Ocia."

**Shiemi's POV**

I landed hard in a mysterious place.

"Ouch!"

I looked up and saw a hooded white spirit.

" you help me.I think I'm lost and I got separated from my group."

The hooded figure didn't answer. Then she just disappeared in a puff of smoke. I was suddenly surrounded by the familiar sights and smells of my garden.

"My garden! How did I get here?"

I suddenly heard my grandmother's voice crying out. I turned the corner to see my grandmother stuck under the vineyard.

"Grandma! Nei,I need some !"

Nei saluted me as he started to sprout up some Aloe Vera. Then he suddenly just burst.

"Nei?NEI!Grandma! Don't worry,I'll get you out."

"This is all your fault girl,if you hadn't left me to cover the plants to find your imaginary little garden,then I wouldn't be in this mess."

My grandmother looked up at me and scowled.

"What?Grandma what are you saying?"

"You stupid insolent girl!Get away from me!You little 's all your fault I died."

Everything around me turned pitch black and my grandmother's voice surrounded me.

"You insolent witch."

"How could you let me die?"

"You don't love me!"
"It's your fault I died."

Tears rolled down my cheeks.I couldn't believe my grandmother said those things.

"Please stop!"
Everything stopped,then it all shattered before my eyes. The voices were gone but the white hooded spirit removed her hood and pointed at me.

"You have failed my test,so you may not pass my door."

The spirit began to turned clothes,her hair, even her eyes. Her finger began to glow,then all the glass returned and surrounded me.I couldn't see and I felt as if the floor had been moved from below me. Then….I was falling.

**Star's POV**

"I knew acting like I was those pathetic Exorcist Esquires would work."

You shouldn't be doing this. I never wanted to go on a power-surge trip. I just wanted to be strong enough to avenge my sister's .

"Oh shut up Star.I imprisoned you in my/your own head for a chose to let me take over because you weren't strong enough to handle the task. If you could have handled it then I wouldn't have to do it."

Wrath got really quiet after that. I approached the hall of mirrors. I was surrounded by mirrors again. I saw a white shadow swirl in front of me.A hooded white spirit appeared in front of me.

"Hello Nitiri"

"Wrath?Is that you?"

The spirit removed her hood.

"Sure is. I took over that weak bitches mind and body."

"Oh,um...that's….interesting."

I could tell that she was still very hesitant towards me,but I brushed it off as I made my way to the chamber of thrones. It was time for a little meeting with the elders.