Magus of the Ghag'Saron
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"Talking"
'Thoughts'
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(-:-) Flash back
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She glances around the number of people, she sighs as she notices how many couples there are. She hadn't been able to ask Takato to come, though oddly enough, either Ken or Kari had been able to find him since he finished restocking the ink supplies. She wonders if he headed off to create more ritual items for spell casting, for the stock hasn't been restocked in the longest time and therefore it's only natural that Takato would want to restock spell casting ritual offerings and/or objects of symbolism.
She was currently dressed up as a shaman. She is wearing an old wolf skin that she borrowed from Ryo; she has the head covering her hair and a bit of her forehead though she has her face painted. Red lines run down from the corners of her eyes down to her jaw line. A blue thick line is on her chin, from the lower lip to the end of the chin. Light brown leather tunic covers her upper body; strands of orange and green beads were on the sleeves of the tunic. A painted image of a wolf's head in grey, white, and black is on the front. A vest with bead designs of triangles made out of white, yellow, red, and black beads. The wolf skin's forepaws were tied in the front, over the vest and tunic.
The leather pant has two red lines with yellow lines painted between the two red lines on the front of the pants as well as tassels of black horse hair running up and down the back of the legs. She also has moccasins on that lack fur lining, which was fine by her for they were more like shoes then slippers. The whole out fit, other then the wolf skin, belongs to her adopted father and guardian. She had requested it at the beginning of the month and had asked Ken to cast a spell to make it fit her form for the night, for it was originally meant for a full grown man then a teen age girl.
She soon spots Yolei, who's dressed up as a fighter pilot. She's pleased as Yolei's eyes widen as the other girl realise who she was. Soon Yolei is making her way towards her and soon says, "I almost didn't recognize you, Rika! Wow, what a great costume! Is that a real wolf's pelt your wearing?" Soon she's talking about where she got most of the out fit with Yolei listening in fascination and a hint of jealousy.
Soon Henry finds them and they include him into the conversation as well. Henry is dressed up as a cyborg, with his left arm covered up with a plastic gun. The coloring was two shades of green and white. Most of the plastic armour is green with the clothing being white. A helmet rests on Henry's head with a piece of orange plastic with a clear red target image in the middle covers his left eye.
She glances around for Ken, who's coming as a Roman Emperor. She sighs and wonders what Takato would have some dressed as while she listens with half an ear to what's going on around her. She asks Henry the time and finds that it's about two hours before the spell of illusion activates. She wonders if Ken was out feeding before coming here, she doubts that Ken would be able to help himself from feeding off a fellow high schooler if he's hungry.
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He glances at the time; it's about two hours before this dead guy can start casting that spell. He might not know what kind of spell, but he bets that it's nothing good considering how snappy and impatient Kouji is acting. Not that Takuya was any better, his ghost of a cousin wasn't staying in one place, his cousin was moving around pretty quickly around the area. He was having a hard time keeping track of where Takuya is as he sits in the cell.
He had allowed himself to be captured by the hired goons, though he had used a bit of raw magic to grab a few of them before they left him alone within this cell. He didn't want this guy to know just what's in the cell, he didn't want to be studied or added to the spell casting. He had also finished enchanting most of the bones of his pervious dinners, he might not know a lot about dead magic, but he did know that bones of the freshly killed can be used to cause chaos in spell castings, not that it's a practice that's in use anymore for it also causes havoc with their own spells. 'Just another reason to learn how to deal with raw magic.' He thinks to himself as he studies the arrangement of the bones, he can see the runes he enchanted with ease as well as feel the magic they were radiating.
He did wonder if he should mention why he did what he did, but decided that that might not be a good idea, for he guesses that Kouji would want him to actually break out of this cell and confront the dead magic user on his own, without any idea if he could hurt the guy, so he just keeps his mouth shut and makes a few corrections to the placements of the bones. He spares a glance at the other bones that didn't fit in with what he's doing. He already summoned his sword as well as his old leather armour. He cast a spell to restore the armour as well as to make it fit his teen age frame.
He sighs as he studies the larger bones, he would have used them, but decided he needed a more controlled burst so he used the smaller bones, including the bones that made up the spinal column. As he sees it, the less powerful but more numerous blasts should dislodge the spell so much so that it should cause it to be to unstable to actually be used in any harm full way. In his way of thinking, small rapid bursts should also have less damning effects then using larger bursts, he's hoping that it would also mean that the after effects would fade quicker as well so that he would be able to use his magic without it going haywire in such a big way.
So he finally stops moving the bones about and just sit, staring off into space, keeping track of the time by glances at the watch he pinned to the wall that belonged to one of the henchmen that he had for dinner. He might not have been exposed to sunlight in here, but he needed to be a full strength to confront what's about to happen within an hour's time. He just hopes that it does interrupt the spell that's been planned to turn Kouichi into this guy's slave, he really don't want to be haunted by the pair of ghosts that are with him for the remainder of his unnaturally long life.
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He can feel the presence of his twin, Kouji the Angel of Light and from how powerful the light is, he bets that Takuya's with his little brother for the Light was getting power boosts from begin around the aura of Fire that Takuya radiates. He wonders ideally which mortal they choice for their champion.
He sighs as he watches as the men that Jij'or De Quil, or to use his original name that his parents had named him Uther. The men were to be sacrificed and the energies used upon their deaths will be fuelled to power the spell that would enslave him to Jij'or. He watches as the human mortals took up spots around his prison, which was a black gem the size of a man's fist.
As soon as the thirty men were in place, Jij'or appears. He can easily see through the heavy clothing to the rotten corpse that is Jij'or's avatar on the mortal plane. He really wonders how is it that these mad men are able to keep slipping pass all their security that they have and make it to some old mottled corpse and then take them over as their avatars. He watches Jij'or move about in a pattern to light the candles made out of bee's wax, ash, and blood. The men had already taken to the positions that made them objects of offerings among the ink drawn drawings; the ink had been mixed with owl's blood before Jij'or drew the diagram.
Once the dead magic user finished lighting the candles, the corpse stands before his prison and begins to chant. He looks around, hoping for any signs of this champion or his brother, but as the chanting continues, he stops and begins to despair. As the last phrase of the spell comes out of the avatar's mouth, the thirty men don't have time to scream as their bodies and clothing disappear.
He expects something to happen, but nothing does and it takes Jij'or some time before he realises that the spell either didn't take or wasn't casted properly. He blinks as Takuya's head pops in from the other side of the door and then as Kouji enters into the room, he notices that his little brother is in disbelief about something. The door opens and he stiffens as he realises who they had chosen as their champion.
Jij'or hasn't even noticed that someone has entered the room, which is kind of weird since Jij'or casted spells of detection on the room, which should work even on a vampire… "A rotten corpse? You didn't mention that, Takuya." The vampire says once the vampire is standing to his left, Jij'or stiffens and turns around in surprise, he sighs wondering how it was that the avatar couldn't have noticed the vampire walking towards his prison. He blinks as he notices the reddish brown eyes and glances over at Takuya, he could only guess that this would be Takato, Takuya's vampire cousin.
"How did you get in here?" Jij'or roars as the corpse points a bony finger at the vampire. "I walked through the door." Takato says in a mocking tone. "But I locked the door with a spell!" The avatar rasps. "Yea, about that, I set off a series of enchanted bones from fresh corpses. You know what that does, right? You being versed in the usage of dead bodies." Takato states, he blinks and glances questionably at the other two angels, they shrug, revealing that they too didn't know what fresh bones can be used from. "You're too young to know about that!" The corpse that houses Jij'or's soul shouts.
"I'm a vampire, not just any old vampire, I'm Takato Ghag'Saron." Takato says grinning at the reaction that the simple statement gets out of Jij'or. "Why would angels ask a vampire for help? They're forbidden from checking on vampires!" Jij'or says in shock as the corpse begins to back away from Takato. "I hadn't known that Takuya was an angel. Guess I should congratulate my cousin then on his promotion, late as it is." Takato says thoughtfully. He chuckles at Jij'or's stunned look, the avatar's mouth was moving but nothing's coming out. "Your related to the angel of Fire?! But that would make you…" Jij'or say dumbly.
"About five centuries old? Give or take a few months." Takato shrugs as he unslings his sword from his back. "So, how do you want this done? I could just cut your head off or would you want me to just slice through the body through the gut?" Takato asks, he can't help it, but chuckles out loud as the avatar tries to make a run for it. "Gut it is." Takato says before he seemly disappears and reappears before the rotten corpse, the sword goes through the gut, the body goes up in flames as his prison breaks up.
He flexes and rotates his shoulders and smirks as he orders the shadows to bind the soul of Jij'or. "But that shouldn't have been enough to cancel out the spell work! It should have stilled worked…" Jij'or shouts out and they all freeze as some kind of black tentacle descends through the roof of the building and consumes Jij'or's soul. It then goes out the way it came, leaving them all stunned and uneasy.
"What was that?" Takato asks, looking directly at his cousin. "Kouji?" Takuya asks, his little brother shakes his head and he sighs. "What did you do to interrupt that spell?" He asks. "I just used fresh bones and enchanted them with the rune chaos. I only used the small bone to cause small bursts to force the spell work to become unstable." Takato answers. "But you used like over thirty bones!" Takuya shouted. "I hoped that the after effects wouldn't be as pronoun." Takato says. "What after effects?" Kouji asks. "It's a double edge effect; it means that any spells for a certain amount of time will also have kinks in them." Takato explained, they all just blink and he has to admit, that was something that kind of sounded like a last ditch plan but then he's not arguing about the effects, for he's certainly not anyone's slave.
"Then what happened to the chaotic spell?" Takuya asks. "I think that black thing was it." Kouji states blankly, then Takato pipes in thoughtfully, "What are the chances that Ken's illusion spell became active the same time Jij'or did his spell?" "Does it matter? It seems that it just happened." He says, not sure who Ken was or why he would cast an illusion spell. "So very true." Kouji and Takuya say at the same time, causing Takato and him to share a grin as the pair glare at each other. "It's going to be one of those nights…" Takato mutters as the angels of Light and Fire turn their back to each other, he couldn't help but agree.
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The whole building jerks, then the lights flicker as the music fuzzes over. She glances over to where Ken is and finds a very pale Ken facing her, fear and uncertainly etched in the vampire's eyes. Her eyes flicker to the decorations as the building begins to jerk and moan. She gasps as the decorations begin to glow and before her eyes, they began to alter magically into something that she couldn't identify.
Screams and shouts of surprise erupt from the crowd as the humans begin to notice what's happening before their eyes disbelieving eyes. The altered decorations then come free of their bindings. They swarm above their head, everything electronic fails leaving the only source of light the massive swirling decorations that began to fuse together, the building also begins to glow a sick greyish blue colour.
The walls of the buildings jerk once more and fly off the ground, among the edges of the bottom of the building's walls is where concrete can be found, which reveals that the foundations of the building wasn't able to withstand the shear might of the magic that was happening above them. She swallows as the every walls of the warehouse begin to change as they merge with the black mesh that once was the Halloween decorations.
They fuse together into a black sphere before an explosion of white light that's soon followed by a wave of sound. Where the sphere once was, there is now a towering beasts with thousands of black tentacles lining the broad tail of the beast. The body of the beast is a glowing black and purple liquid mass with the tentacles looking to be the only solid part of the beast. The beast's head doesn't have any eyes, nose, or mouth.
Before her eyes, the tentacles then shot through the air, going through buildings, cars, and into… nothingness? 'I don't get it, where are those tentacles going? And what are they aiming at?' She thinks as she stands, people were panicking as they attempt to leave the scene of the party to get away from the gigantic beast that is standing on three legs and has it's tail high in the air with the tentacles stretching out in every direction, they just kept growing though most did seem to vanish at a certain point.
"We have to leave!" Yolei says, trying to pull her away. She shakes Yolei's arm off and replies, "The safest place is here, under it. The tentacles aren't coming in this direction. No, this is where we need to be if we want to make it through this, right Ken?" The vampire in question nods in agreement, causing their two very human friends to stand still and glance at each other. "Then shouldn't we be telling that to them?" Henry asks as he spreads his arms towards the panicking crowd. "They wouldn't listen; they're too busy trying to get away from it to think clearly." She says. "They run like deer before the puma." Ken says with a snort, she nods having to agree as before her eyes a teen trips on their own feet and falls with people not stopping or making room for the fallen teen to get up off the ground.
"Can you blame them? This isn't something you seen everyday." Henry says with a bit of venom in his tone. "Sure, this is the first time seeing something this big gets created, but it's nothing new." She says without thinking about it. "You're kidding, right? I mean, next you'll be saying magic exists." Yolei ask in a dead pan way. She blinks and it took a while before it sinks in about what she had just said. "…" Was all she could come up with and the pair just stared at her in total disbelief. She shifts uncomfortably under their gaze.
"Magic exists, those how practice hide below the surface. Takato's a master magus and I used to be part of a wizard order before a neomancer killed the others of my order off." Ken says calmly. "There are many different paths to follow that lead those with the gift of magic to be able to use it. Those that are the most untrained and undisciplined take the path of Blood Magus, you can guess in which way they get their power." Ken adds with a snort, Yolei and Henry shift uncomfortably under Ken's gaze.
"Then you'll be able to get rid of it?" Yolei asks. "I don't know. I never felt energy like that before." Ken admits. "Then how do you know that it's safe to be here?" Henry asks. "We've been standing here for like over five minutes and we've yet to see those tentacles descend our way." She says and as they glance around, some of panicky humans have also paused and were beginning to figure it out as well.
"I wish Takato was here." She says softly, Ken nods in agreement with his statement. She wonders just where the elder vampire is as she glances off into the distance, they can already see the camera crews and police beginning to show up. She just shakes her head, finding it funny that they're even arriving when they can't do anything about the great beast.
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He is currently racing towards the great beast that had been either summoned or created by Jij'or's spell. He wonders what effects those tentacles were having on the living, but he pushes that aside, guessing that he'll learn about it soon enough as he moves through the shadows, the three angels weren't in sight, so he figures that he'll be meeting them at the site. He does flinch as he runs into the wall covered in shadows, he just passes through the other side of the building for he's using a speciality spell allows him to use shadows as teleportation portals, this is allowing him to go straight to the source of the disturbance without detouring around objects.
He glances up at the distant shape, wondering just how he's going fix this for he did help create that thing that's towering above the buildings. He hopes that Rika's safe, he really hopes she is for he might not know what his feelings are towards the Halfling, but he just knows that if she's gone then he's going to regret that he hadn't spent that much time with her or that he hadn't explored the possibilities of a relationship between himself and Rika.
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Over a village in India, most of the villagers pause and glance up into the sky. Flocks of birds and beasts attempt to flee the village as the sky shimmers and a gigantic black thing descends downward. The villagers try to flee as babies cry out in distress. Only a small handful of villagers survive were those that had been out in the distant fields. They could only watch as the black tentacle ascends back to where it came from, then they race to check on their loved ones. They wouldn't find anyone alive; their bodies look as if they were just sleeping, for there wasn't a mark on their bodies.
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In another realm, souls of the dead pause and glance upward as they feel a rush of dead magic as well as a hit of some other kind of magic. Three black tentacles appear from the hundreds of meters in the air. The distance between them were eight thousand feet, on came in at a right angle facing west, the second at a left angle facing south, and the final one came straight down descending straight down below itself.
Where ever the tentacle touch, it disappeared, the lower forces were like lambs to the slaughter as they were consumed just by hitting it with their weapons. Waves and waves of souls were consumed as tentacles appeared as the others disappeared. Speciality forces began to teleport into the business realm and while they found they could harm the tentacles, they were but an annoyance to this uncaring enemy. They just couldn't do much and soon turned to helping to evacuate as many citizens as they could.
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The human population numbered seven billion, give or take a few ten thousand, when the Devourer finally departed it had taken a grand total of four billion lives, give or take a few thousand. Vast amounts of cancer patients, comatose, those suffering from some form of incurable disease, and well as those over the age of fifty were among the first humans to be devoured. Then it targeted the more densely populated countries, like India, parts of Asia, and Africa. Those that survived were either magic users, vampire or far enough away from the first wave of tentacles that appeared, they also were healthy adults below the age of fifty, children, and teens.
In the realms of the dead, the total number consumed was beyond that of those living in the mortal realm, or the realm of the living. Since the beginning of the age of enlightenment, every human soul has found their way to the realm of the dead. As well as magic using humans, who have been attempting to learn the ways of magic long before the age of enlightenment, when man first came up with the written language. Over time the first realm began to over flow and some of those magic users began to attempt to create other realms to stem the growing number of souls.
By the time the Devourer was unleashed, there was a grand total of seven hundred and ninety-four realms, each full of souls, but the end of that night, they had enough souls to fill three realms, most of those that survived were the specialty forces recruited to keep the peace among the realms of the dead and other souls that had once been magic users in the realm of the living. Except for those who practice had practice Blood magic and Necromancy while they had been alive. Those that were the elites just tried to comfort those below and around them, even though they themselves had to wonder just what happened and whether what happen will happen ever again.
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They waited around where Ken, Rika, and two humans were standing around. They had lost track of where Takato was and had decided to just come to the place where the humans had thrown their Halloween party. He shivered slightly as he feels the energy that hangs in the air. He can taste the death magic rolling off the beast towering above him.
Kouji squeezes his shoulder in hopes of comforting him. He smiles slightly at his little brother before he turns and watches as humans attempt to destroy the Devourer with their weapons. The tanks, bullets, or anything explosive had any effects on the beast, though it did add the items into itself without any problems.
The magic just continues to grow and the black tentacles were now all disappearing, most likely being teleported around the world to get more beings to feed off of. He did have to wonder why it hadn't descended to consume either Ken, who's a vampire, or him, Fire, or his brother, Light.
"Takato!" Takuya shouts, causing him to glance at the angel of Fire. He blinks as turns to where Takuya's looking. He blinks at how heroic Takato seems as the elder vampire comes walking towards Ken and that group. Takato glances towards them before turning to look at Rika; he notes the flash of relief that appears in Takato's eyes on seeing Rika, which means that Takato had been worried about Rika, who it seems was a half vampire.
"Takato!" Rika shouts, before racing towards the elder vampire. Rika embraces Takato as the others walk towards the pair. Knowing looks and smiles appeared on the other three faces, Ken also looks relieved to have his teacher here as well.
Once Rika and Takato were done hugging each other, mostly Yolei, though Henry did ask a few questions also about magic and how come Takato never told them about it. Takato was very startled about this line of questioning, but after noticing the guilty looks on Ken and Rika's faces, the red eyed vampire that is also Takuya's cousin answered some of their questions and was able to get them to wait until they've dealt with the gigantic beast that was currently devouring souls.
The pair relented, though Yolei still seemed to be a bit pissed about having to wait. Takato asked Ken about the illusion spell that they had casted on the building as well as on the main decorations. Ken told Takato in great detail about what kind of ink Rika and him had used, which imagery diagrams as well as how they were connected to the warehouse itself that he had done as the spell matrix. Takato nods every now and then, as he learnt more about just how meticulous vampires were when they cast their spells.
'I wonder how long Takato had to train to become a master magus. Must have been longer then a few decades and that means that Ken's still learning as well. Ghag'Saron is the clan that Takato belongs to, I wonder what that means.' He thinks as he floats between Takuya and Kouji, studying Takato with renewed interest.
"How long do you think Takato studied for?" He asks. "Fifty years, but it's usually a hundred years for most. Takato admitted that he's the strongest magus since the time of these other two clans walked the earth." Takuya says. He blinks, he's can't help but be impressed by that. He glances and notices that Kouji is just as impressed as he is.
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He had to admit that Ken did a great job on the illusion spell. He also understood how the bits of raw magic attracted the chaotic elements that he had added to Jij'or's spell casting. 'Ken might not need to be studying the usual hundred years, though I doubt he'll be up to beating my record time. I took that break before taking my mastery; I met Kari and Tai before Ryo… I guess I can understand why Ryo is kind of sulky about why I didn't trust him with what happened with Kari. I'll make it up to him later.' He thinks as Ken finishes his detailed description on what touches he had done to his spell.
He also heard Kouichi ask about how long he studied for his mastery. He hasn't told Ken or Rika about how long it took for him to earn his mastery. He wasn't one to brag and during those years he was busy every hour of the day, it also helped that it came easy to him either. Sighs as he looks upward at the Soul Devourer, he goes through his memories, hoping that something he learnt in during his time as a student would help him.
He blinks as he hears his name being called. "Takato!" Rika says near his right ear. He blinks and gets a ringing in his eyes. "Rika." He says dryly. He smiles slightly as Rika's checks redden slightly. "I said your name five times. So, do you have an idea on how to deal with it?" Rika asks. He sighs and replies, "I was trying to come up with an idea. You see, I kind of messed up this guy's spell around the time your illusions became active. The spell was attracted by the bits of raw magic Ken used to mark the non important decorations. I've never encountered magic like that before so I just used fresh enchanted bones to disrupt workings, which damaged the spell which allowed chaos magic to enter into the picture. It really didn't help that both spells were activated within minutes of each other. The only thing I can suggest is to let it run its course and from the feel of the magic in the air, it'll only be a few minutes before it vanishes with out us doing anything."
Everyone, even the angels, were looking at him in disbelief and after three minutes have passed, the ground shook and rumble drops around them. The magic that had hung in the air vanishes as the beast disassembles into junk. "I think we should retire to mine apartment." He says and the others just sighs, out of the corner of his eye he can see his cousin and the twins whispering among themselves. The other nod in agreement and he just casts a teleportation spell, he didn't want to deal with the police or media.