Birth of Inner Darkness and the Crusnik Blood
Ama left Big Mama's palace to catch up with the Sorcerer Hunters. The mission they had to accomplish was to find and investigate a Sorcerer named the Death Master. The Death Master is a powerful Necromancer that could control the dead. The Death Master was after the book of the Necronomicon.
On their way to find the Death Master they stopped by and ate some where near the Death Masters location. (Which they had to go to Lugdonarz) They also had couple of people tag along with them. One was their client named Maris, who was one of the victims of the Death Masters sorcery. She was already turned into one of the undead but, not under the Death Masters control. The other was a fruitful guy named Mille Feuille, who loved messing with Carrot, Tira, and Chocolate. Not only that, he was also one of the Haz-Knights, a faithful body guard to Big Mama. The Sorcerer Hunters didn't know that about him though, they thought of him as a normal Sorcerer Hunter.
On the way to find the Death Master, Mille told them about the book of the Necronomicon, while they stopped by and ate something. "Hey Ama how do you like the food here?" Tira asked. "It's okay Tira, I guess." Ama replied. "As soon as we're done here we should head out quickly." Gateau said as he looked out the window. "Alright dude no worries, and when we find this Death Master guy lets make sure we make everyone turn back to normal." Ama smiled as she continued to eat since she hadn't eaten in a couple of days.
So after they ate they gave the dishes to the waitress as they got up. A boy with blond hair bumped into Ama. "Hey kid, watch where you're going." Ama said as she was about to step out the door. The boy stayed silent and didn't even look back at Ama. "Hello I'm talking to you!" Ama replied again. But, Marron grabbed Ama's wrist before she could confront the blond haired boy. "Ama you shouldn't judge so lightly that child is with a priest." Marron said. Ama looked at the Priest with silver hair and glasses, and at the boy who was with him. "I guess you're right Marron." Ama said as she looked at Marron. "Hey where's you're brother Carrot anyway?" Ama asked while noticing Carrot wasn't around.
"Darling what are you doing!" Chocolate said out loud. But, Carrot didn't listen because he was busy being a pervert again. Carrot was messing around with Maris trying to flirt with her. Mille was also messing with him and trying to gross out Carrot. "Damn it Carrot have you no pride, you stupid perverted bastard, don't be a pedophile!" Ama yelled. "Wait, Ama!" Tira said. "It's okay Tira I can handle this for you girls." Ama stomped over to where Carrot was and grabbed his left ear and kicked his left leg. "You will never learn will you Carrot. There is no freakin' time to goof off. Do you understand me?" Carrot looked at Ama whose eyes were in flames looking at him eye to eye and emanating a dark aura around herself. "O-okay Ama just please don't hurt me." Ama let go of Carrots ear and gave a smile and wink to the rest of Sorcerer Hunters as they watched speechlessly.
They proceeded on finding the Death Master and eventually found his layer. But, before they did, they were in a dilemma with the living humans who were turned into zombies. The Death Masters layer was nearby, and he had lodes of items that he used for his sorcery. The Zombies started to attack Ama and the group as they headed closer to the Death Master. Damn it not again! Ama thought to herself as she pulled out her sword Guerrero. Last time I tried fighting off zombies I nearly got my ass kicked. "Swords won't work on these zombies! They put themselves together fast." Maris said. "Damn it how in the blue hell are we going to stall these zombies, damn it I wish I had a gun or at least Ashes Chainsaw." Ama said out loud. The battle was getting rougher for the group and they were also getting out numbered. "We have to retreat for now! Maris, is there some where we can hide?" Carrot yelled. "There is a Stella church nearby." Maris said. "That's it! Let's go!" Carrot yelled.
Marron, Chocolate, and Tira were curious though; they saw the pentagram mark on the zombies' foreheads. "Tira, did you notice…" Marron paused. "…the upside-down star on their foreheads?" "That's called the "dark star." It's a symbol of servitude to Death Master. In my case, that was accidentally erased. And I was able to escape his mind control." Maris explained as she ran. "Yeah, that is one thing about it. But, that is a pentagram of the devil, his mark of evil." Ama replied as she was running close behind. "Ama you know what that star is?" Gateau asked. "Yes I do, in my world that is the mark of the devil and is also used for satanic rituals to open a gateway to hell." "Then do you know about the book of the Necronomicon too?" Chocolate added. "I do, held that evil book of the Necronomicon in another universe. That book should've never entered the human world."
At the Stella Church
They made it into the church and closed the door tightly. "Whew …we're safe." Carrot said out loud. "Is something the matter?" a voice said. The Sorcerer Hunters, Ama, Maris, and Mille looked closer at the dark figure and saw that it was a priest. "Wait guys…" Ama said in a low voice "Some thing doesn't seem right here." But, as usual, Carrot never listened and trusted the priest. "Wait! Carrot!" Marron shouted as he used a paper talisman to shoot the priests hat off. Everyone was in shock as they saw a pentagram on the priests head. "Damn! We're so screwed." Ama replied.
"Well, Well. Maris." another voice said. "I thought you had managed to escape from me. But you came back on your own." "Death Master" Maris said. A huge man that covered his face except for one of his eyes, and close to fifteen feet tall approached them. "That's him?! He's huge." Carrot shouted. "Yea that's him alright!" Mille replied. Then Marron tried to use some of his talisman spells on the Death Master, but, had no affect. So Carrot and Gateau signaled them to leave the church. As they did they found themselves surrounded. The zombies gathered and prepared to attack the group. "Come on this way! Hurry!" Mille said as he directed them to a nearby labyrinth.
As they arrived Mille confessed that he was the one who sealed the book away in the basement of that church. Plus he knew the way to the basement through the Labyrinth. They decided to split up into two groups. Ama joined up with Chocolate, and Gateau as a group. While the other group that had, Carrot went along with Marron, Tira, Mille, and Maris as a group. They took separate paths to search for the book of the Necronomicon, which was located deep some where in the labyrinth and for Death Master.
Amas path
As Amas group went through the path they chose, there was a mirror that only Ama saw. The thing is, is that was no ordinary mirror. As they continued running Ama started feeling groggy and pain from her spine and face. Gateau and Chocolate were very concerned and tried to see what was wrong with Ama. "Ahh stay back! Don't come any closer to me!" Ama yelled as she tried to stand her ground. But, it was too late for a bright red light flashed and blinded Gateau and Chocolate. During that flash of light, Amas back grew and a shadow figure started to appear. Suddenly laughter could be heard every where. Chocolate and Gateau were trying to see Ama while covering partially their eyes.
They were surprised at what they saw. What they saw was another version of Ama. The real Ama was still struggling to get up from the ground. "Ha hah ha the power I can feel it surging through me!" The other Ama said. "What did you do to Ama and why do you look exactly like her?" Gateau asked. "Ha fool! I'm merely a shadow of Ama's I was born from her sorrow and pain. I'm her inner darkness. I'm Evil Ema." Evil Ema explained as she started attacking Chocolate and Gateau. "Chocolate, you take care of Ama. I'll take care of this." Gateau said.
Evil Ema is Amas inner Darkness that she held inside her heart since she was a little girl, Evil Emas whole body and clothing color was white and her eyes were just like Ichigos hollow side. Evil Emas spiritual pressure was also pure black. Ever since Ama looked into the mirror that they had pasted by, Ama's inner darkness was able to be freed. The mirror that Ama looked at was a mirror that shows and creates the exact opposite of that person. Gateau had trouble facing Evil Ema and he was getting his butt kicked badly. "Oh no… Gateau are, you alright?" Chocolate asked as she tended to Ama. "Yeah I'll be fine just hurry up and go!" Gateau said as he got up from the ground. "Not so fast this party is just getting started." Evil Ema said.
Gateau got angry and did his final punch. But, it was stopped immediately. Evil Ema had stopped Gateaus punch with just her middle finger and switched to her palm as she grabbed his fist and threw him. "Ha you think a weak attack like that would stop me." Evil Ema said as she charged at Gateau. Evil Ema pulverized him and Gateau was beaten. Ama and Chocolate couldn't believe their eyes that Gateau was defeated. So Chocolate, herself, brought out her wipe and started to attack. But, Evil Ema would grab the rope and wrap it around her hand and throw Chocolate to the wall. "Chocolate, Gateau! No!" Ama yelled as she got up and ran to Chocolate. Evil Ema laughed manically and said, "It's useless to try defeating me. Toughs two weren't even strong enough to defeat me at all." "You said you were my inner darkness right born from my heart?" Ama asked. "Yeah so, what about it you little bitch." Evil Ema replied "Then I got no choice then to kill you now and get rid of you for good." Ama said as she brought out Guerrero.
"Hemp… Then I guess I'll grab a weapon then." Evil Ema replied. Evil Ema touched the sandy ground with her hand and grabbed a kunai that looked like a three bladed scythe and that had chains. Ama and Evil Ema started clashing at each other.
While in another area in the labyrinth, Carrot and his group was already at the entrance of the basement. "Whew! Look at this cavern!" Carrot said as they entered the basement of the church. "Look!" Maris said as she pointed to the direction of the book. "Is that?!" Tira paused. "Yes. The Necronomicon." Mille said. "That belongs to me. A voice said. Carrot and the others were startled as they saw the Death Master appear before them. They too began to fight the Death Master and mod of zombies.
Ama was having trouble facing her evil-self, Evil Ema. Evil Ema dodged and countered every attack Ama threw at her. "Face it bitch, you can't kill me. I know every single move you make. After all I am you." Evil Ema replied tauntingly. "Shut up!" Ama yelled as she strikes with Guerrero and managed to unarm Evil Ema. But, Evil Ema did the same by blinding Ama with sand and unarming her. And just like Ama, Evil Ema was also good at fist fighting as well. "I'm bad Ema you're good Ama. You're a goody little to shoes ha-ha." Evil Ema kept repeatedly saying goody little to shoes while, doing Irish dancing and punching Ama.
Ama was getting annoyed and jumped back to grab her sword Guerrero. Evil Ema did as well with her kunai. They clashed and clashed, and Ama managed to cut Evil Ema's right arm off in the process. "Ah damn you little bitch for cutting my arm off." Evil Ema said. "Never doubt my abilities, you maybe a part of me, but I still have tricks up my sleeves." Ama replied. But, that didn't stop Evil Ema from attacking again. Evil Ema was a left handed swordsman. Eventually Ama did her final move, and stabbed Evil Ema in the stomach. Unfortunately for Ama it got wore, "Ha I got you now so disappear." Ama said. "Oh. Really?!" Evil Ema replied. Evil Ema grabbed Ama's blade from her stomach and broke it, leaving only the handle and a chip of the blade, the size of a human hand.
"What, no, this can't be happening my sword, Guerrero." Ama said in shock. Evil Ema had the other part of the broken blade in her stomach. From there Evil Ema took her right eye ball and placed her hand over the broken blade along with her kunai, and made her own handle. Evil Ema than yanked out the blade along with the new handle with a red eye and with purple tentacles attached to it. Ama in shock became frightened and couldn't believe that her sword was broken. "Aw is little Ama gonna cry now, face it you're done for. Besides I'm the sword's true owner. Who do you think in the Zombie hero universe stopped the zombie scientist from killing you." Evil Ema said as she used the demonic looking blade to strike. Fortunately for Ama, someone who was speck tatting the battle stopped Evil Ema from doing her final attack. That person was none other than the priest that Ama saw in the restaurant along with the blond haired boy.
"Who the hell are you?" Evil Ema said. "I Father Able Nightroad will not allow this violence to continue near the church." Father Abel said while holding his hand gun. "Ha that puny gun won't stop me." Evil Ema said. "Really you should choose your words more wisely before you judge." Father Able replied as he shot Evil Ema. But, Evil Ema dodged and knew that she wouldn't stand a chance against Father Able. "Ha, you missed and Ama, I won't forget what you did to my arm. I promise you, when we meet again you'll regret ever cutting it off." Suddenly evil Ema used her sword and escaped, "See ya losers." Evil Ema said again as she left.
Chocolate and Gateau got up from the ground and headed over to where Father Able and Ama were. "Miss, are you alright?" Father Able asked. "You, you're the Priest I saw from earlier, and you, you're that kid I bumped into." Ama said. "I'm not a kid I'm from a noble family, my name is Ion Fortuna." Ion said annoyed at Ama. "So what brings you two here?" Gateau asked curiously. "We were just passing through, until we saw zombies in this city. Than we heard a scream coming from this labyrinth and decided to check it out." Father Able explained. "Thanks for your help Father Abel." Chocolate said. Father Abel smiled and said that they should catch up with the group that they were with.
So Gateau signaled them to leave so that they could meet up with Carrot and the group and not run into zombies. Father Abel and Ion asked if they could tag along and they accepted their request. But, in Ama's mind she knew she couldn't help them even if she wanted to. Guerrero was destroyed and it was like Ama lost apart of her soul since facing her evil self. The thing is that, Guerrero was really never hers to begin with. Guerrero use to be Tenseiga and Tetseiga and was only merged when aligned with Amas spiritual pressure. Not only that, she was more worried about going back home and she figured that her cousin Chad and everyone else would be worried about her as well.
Battling with Death Master
They eventually managed to meet up with Carrot's group and were a bit too late to say the least. While they were on their way to the basement of the Stella Church, the battle raged and Maris grabbed the book of the Necronomicon. The problem was that since she was already one of the undead, it was easier for the Death Master to place a pentagram on her and use his sorcery. Maris now under Death Masters control gave the Death Master the book. From their hell broke loss. The Death Master used the books power and unraveled the scarf from his face. Everyone couldn't believe what they saw. They saw the Death Master as a zombie, turns out that he used the book and sacrificed his own body to transform himself into a zombie. "Darling, watch out!" Chocolate yelled as she stopped Death Master from attacking Carrot. "Chocolate, guys you made it!" Carrot said in relief. "Yeah we made it but, you guys let the book go didn't ya." Ama said.
The Death Master was getting restless and started to attack, and got Tira un-expectantly. Chocolate got upset and started to use her whip on the Death Master. But Death Master countered and threw her like a rag doll. "Tira, Chocolate, oh no this is bad." Carrot said as the Death Master approached. Marron used his paper talismans as a distraction, as Gateau tried to physically attack the Death Master. Unfortunately since Death Master had the book it was impossible to kill him. "Ha hah ha you think that will stop me! I have the power of the Necronomicon!" Death Master yelled as he used the book to attack Carrot. The Death Master didn't know about Carrots ability though. Carrot than transformed into a Plasma Dragon and was very mad.
Father Abel, Ama, and Ion were very surprised when seeing Carrot transform. The Death Master was also surprised but still felt like he could defeat Carrot with the power of the Necronomicon. Even so, Carrot in the end with his special power defeated the Death Master with just one attack. The basement started to collapse, and Mille grabbed the book, "We can save Maris and the others with this." Mille held the book up and proceeded to read some text from the book of the Necronomicon.
After a while the Sorcerer Hunters, Ion, and Ama went outside to check on Maris and the people of that town. "Hey ah guys, has anyone seen father Able and Mille?" Ama asked. Ion shrugged and shook his head. Marron and Tira as well didn't know. But, Marron in his mind felt like some thing was suspicious.
"Heh heh heh… Not yet! You underestimated my healing ability!" a voice said. It was none other then the Death Master rising from the ruble. "That will be your downfall! The Death Master will not be destroyed!" The Death Master yelled. "Just like I thought…" another voice said. "What?! You?!" The Death Master replied as he saw Mille and father Able. "It's a horror flick, the enemy just keeps coming back!" Father Able said. "And you followed it to the letter, didn't you?" Mille added. "What can you two do any way? Die!!" Death Master said as he started to attack.
Both Mille with his small sword, and father Abel dodged. Millie transformed into his Haz-knight form while astonishingly blood from the ground that Death Master had in him was being sucked by Father Able, Father Abel transformed into something very demonic looking. "Nanomachines Crusnik 02 power outputs at 40% activate." Father Able said as he transformed. With 40% of his Crusnik nanomachines activated, his eyes became red, his lips turn dark blue, his teeth become fangs, his nails turn into claws, grows black wings, and a gigantic black scythe composed of crystallized blood that materializes in his hands. Mille was a bit shocked but, continued to focus on Death Master. Mille attacked as did Father Abel. Mille jumped up and said Phoenix rising as Father Able attacked with his scythe.
They then killed Death Master and Big Mama appeared before them. "Thank you both for fulfilling your duties." Big Mama said. Both Millie and Father Able bowed themselves. "Millie you've done well. Please continue to guide the Sorcerer Hunters." Big Mama said. "Yes! It shall be as you will, Big Mama." Millie looked up at Big Mama as she closed her eyes and said again, "We will need those children someday. Especially Ama as well, she caries a strong spirit that should not be broken." "Don't worry Madam I'm sure through time they will succeed in their missions through life." Father Abel said as he arose from bowing.
Next chapter: The Timeless Genesis of the Crusnik Brothers and the Chamber of Time.