Chapter Four:.Powers Restored and a Meeting With Death
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Summary: So far Jai found about her "powers" and her forgotten memory while the god of Death thought it was amusing. Hakel knows what she is and totally understands. What will happen next.
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As morning came dark clouds rolled in. It seemed that the sky mimicked the mood of everyone in the house. The teens were
downcast because of the sudden attack on one of their friends and the arrival of the god of death. Jai had woken up with a major
headache that was cured by a quick cup of Joe and a breath of fresh air. The sleeping girl was still asleep. It was decided that they not
wake her until after lunch. Lucifer and Hakel decided that. No one knew about Hakel's affiliation with the god nor did they know about
Jai's past. Everyone was on edge, there was no reason to speak of but everyone seemed too alert. Ken and Kosuke kept their swords
next to them at all times not wanting to be caught off guard. Jai stayed close to the house but was either in the company of Hakel or no
one else. Most of the time she was alone because of the nature of the day, and the strangled emotions that kept rising to the surface.
Half of her day was spent either out on the practice field with her weapons, in her room playing DDR, or sitting alone of the roof gazing
into the hazy distance. The wind would pick up her hair as it danced across her face in lazy patterns, and her tank top and cargo shorts
fluttered in the wind. Being lonely was part of her life and she was used to it. It was the feeling that the man dug up that made her edgy.
The man who called himself a god said that she was an experiment and a creation of great evil. But what didn't make sense was why
she didn't remember any of it. She absent-mindedly rubbed her arm where the bandage was that covered a scar and a tattoo.
It was mid afternoon when everyone decided to wake up the sleeping girl from the coma. The easy part was waking her up the
hard part was keeping her calm. Lucifer did just that. When she awoke she was a mess. She was ready to kill or attack anything until he
stopped her and explained that we were friends. Sure enough the girl did calm down enough to tell her name. In that same whispery
voice she said.
"My name is Akuma."
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With that everyone was introduced and her story was told. Everyone sat in silence as Akuma told her story pausing every few
minutes to brush back a strand of black hair from her purple eyes. The story lasted until dark and then everyone went about their
business. Hakel reminded Lucifer of the deal and with that he departed to find the girl he loved. He was surmised to find her in on the
roof gazing at the stars with her flute in hand playing a song. But what he didn't expect was to hear a song.
Walking alone in the dark
Staring up at the stars
Storing hope for another day
When I am by myself
I can't feel any pain
Why am I here?
I want to find my self
Hidden in the dark of my heart
I want to find my heart
To find the demon inside
It getting hard to breathe
With people around me
I can't seem to find myself
I don't feel any pain
Do I have a heart?
I want to find my self
Hidden in the dark of my heart
I want to find my heart
To find the demon inside
Will any one save me?
Will anyone help?
Save me from the dark in my heart
When I am inside myself
Will you help me?
I want to find my self
Hidden in the dark of my heart
I want to find my heart
To find the demon inside
You were always there
You always were the ere to help me
You helped me find myself
You helped me store hope
I understand the pain and yours as well
I know who you are and my self as well
I have found myself
I went to find myself
Hidden in the dark of my heart
You saved me from my self
And we found the demon within
With the remnants of the song drifting into the quiet breeze and the flute echoing in the distance, it's eerie melody hanging in the air
as though kept there by an unseen force. Hakel couldn't believe that it was Jai that was singing the song. The song had found a spot in
Hakel's heart and almost brought him to tears. The song was so true for his past but also for her mysterious one. He felt horrible
knowing that he knew about some of her past while she knew none of it. All he wished for he was happiness and he guessed that he did
just that. So he quietly with excellent precision clambered up the side of the house to get to the roof
"Is it okay if I join you for a while?" he asked as he pulled himself halfway up onto the roof. "I heard a flute and thought it was you.
I guess I was right."
"Huh? Well I guess you're already up here so just come on up." She retorted sarcastically. "Wait…you heard a flute? Did you
hear anything else?" she gasped as she literally jumped down his throat.
"Ummmmm…. I heard this beautiful song about loneliness and a hope that was restored by a friend. It touched my heart in ways
that most can't comprehend. And well I didn't just come here to talk. I wanted to ask you a favor that involved me and Lucifer the god
of Death. I well really can't tell you everything although my heart is telling me to..." Hakel replied as he leaned back against the roof with
a confused/concerned/longing look on his face. "You see about my life isn't what everyone thinks it is. I mean no one really knows s the
hell that I have gone through and I want that to all go away. But right now the only thing that I need is you to come and be with me. It's
hard to tell you so I will just leave it as it is now." He left out the part about knowing about Jai's past. "I was promised that I would
never be alone and right now I really need to be with someone who I can truly trust and who I know is as much of a loner as me….you
see tonight is supposed to be the night my powers will be unveiled and I wanted you to be there for me." He looked straight into her
blue grey eyes. "Will you be there for me?"
Looking deep into the brown eyes of her dearest friend and seeing the shear desperation and care in them she accepted. Maybe it
was because there was something more about her that she knew was connected to him. Possibly I was the fact that she felt that he was
more than just a friend, maybe their relationship could be more then just a friendship. So she followed the friend who was more than he
seemed off the roof and into the darkness to find the god of Death who would open the way for a new life for both teens and powers
beyond comprehension for the other.
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The two teenagers, with the cover of dark, moved silently between the trees that covered the mountain near the house. The
meeting place where Lucifer would help Hakel regain his powers was in a cave high in the mountains away from peering eyes. Along the
way both teens were relatively quiet along the entire trip. There were tidbits of conversation between the two but mostly their thoughts
were in their minds, which were exactly the same: how should I take this and how can I tell the other the way that I feel about them. At
one point Jai pulled her flute out and began to play a haunting tune that echoed throughout the mountains and brought tears to both
teens. Both were very tense, excited, and on edge at the same moment. Not knowing what they were getting into or what would happen
with the wakening of sealed powers. Finally after about an hour give or take of climbing, the two teens got to the cave and saw the god
of Death awaiting them.
"Welcome. I was beginning to wonder what was taking you guys so long." The god spoke with childish humor in his voice.
"C'mon further inside beyond peering eyes." He turned and his wings made a soft whisper as the stirred up dust on the cave floor as he
became one with the shadows of the cave.
The two teenagers looked at each other with confusion loud enough to be read on both of their faces. It was scary enough being
told that you were a demon, but being told to follow the god of Death into a dark black cave was probably worse. But the two followed
the dark haired man nonetheless both becoming the shadows that they found such solace in. Jai and Hakel followed the winged god by
sound of his wings on the floor through the cave until they entered a cavern that was filled with firelight. The god slipped out of the
shadows and into the light, his black cloak billowing in the soft wind and the hood casting a malevolent shadow across his face. His eyes
glittered in the fire light under the hood as it bored into the souls of the two teenagers before him. In the center of the cavern was a stone
table that was decorated with runes, and shapes that meant nothing but seemed so familiar to the two who lives were about to change.
"Don't be afraid. I promise you that everything will be all right. It might feel a little strange and there might be a little pain but it will
be alright." The god promised as he drew back his hood to show is gaunt face.
"How can you be so sure that this s gonna work? That he isn't gonna die?" Jai questions her voice was laced with fear. "How can
you promise that it is same? Will you promise on your powers that he will be safe?"
"I promise on my powers. But in order to be able to reverse the spell well…umm…come here Hakel." The god beckoned to the
young boy as he whispered something into his ear. Hakel nodded as he agreed to whatever the god told him to do.
Hakel pulled off his black shirt to reveal his sculpted upper body the same way her did for Akuma. He walked over to Jai and held
his hand close to her face. She held his hand there as he drew her closer. She wanted to stay there in that moment for ever closer to the
guy she crushed on feeling his heart beat beneath her head, and feeling the warmth of his skin near hers. He pulled away and placed his
dragon ring on her finger and his half moon necklace around her neck.
"Keep these for me. I promise that everything will be okay." Hakel chocked back his tears.
"But I love you." It came out in one big burst of emotion out of Jai's mouth as she hugged him tighter. "I love you." She sobbed.
"I love you to." He replied feeling no regret in what he said. "I will be back. I promise." He brushed a tear away from Jai's face as
he turned and went to lie on table in the middle of the cavern. All Jai could do for the moment was sit and watch until the god needed
her help, which was an agonizing wait for one, like her.
Lucifer walked over to join the young man as he lay on the stone table. He put a comforting hand on the boys shoulder and looked
into his eyes to assure that he was going to try as hard as he could to keep him alive. The boy just nodded gravely and he looked
toward his friend across the room. He smiled to assure her that he was going to be fine. Then the process began.
Lucifer placed magical bonds to keep Hakel on the table. He nodded to Jai and then he started the painstaking process of bring
back powers that were dormant for 16 years. He clasped his hands in front of his chest and began to make the symbols of runes in the
air while speaking in an ancient language. The language had a melodic rhythm and soothing effect that put Hakel to sleep and made Jai
forget all of her fears for the moment. The fires dimmed as winds began to blow around the god whipping his cloak off his back and
unfurling his black wings. The chant got louder as a glowing blue orb formed in his hands. He stood over the prone boy in front of him
and put his hands on his chest. Slowly the god's hands sank into the boy reaching for the darkness of the bonds that held his power. Jai
could see that the god would need her help and she felt Hakel's pain by some weird connection, so she pulled off her own cloak to
reveal the black tank/tube top as she ran to the center of the room. The god looked at her and understood why she had come. She
helped keep Hakel's body from convulsing too much by covering his body with hers. Lightning flew around the room and electricity
flicked across the boys skin. Thus it in turn hurt the god trying to help him and the girl who was holding him. After about twenty minutes
of struggling, the bonds of the binding spell were broken. Hakel woke up and he immediately knew something was different. He
snapped his right fingers and a strand of electricity stretched between his fingers, when he snapped is left fire erupted in a ball of blue
flame. He turned to Lucifer who was trying to stand and helped him up. But what he thought was weird was that Jai was right beside
him with burn marks, and in her black tank/tube top. When the god was standing upright his own, Hakel ran over to Jai and held her
close.
"I promised nothing would happen. Now it's my turn to help you find your self." The boy said as he held the girl's lithe body close
to his. "Lucifer told he that he would help you gain the powers you once had if you so desire." He pulled away to place his hand on her
cheek and brush away a strand of hair.
"I want to know what I am. But I don't want to be alone. Please? Will you stay?" the girl asked her blue-grey eyes flickering with
anticipation. "I want to do it."
With that she turned and took her place on the same table that had held Hakel's body before. Though she was frightened to the
inner core of her being she still took the chance t put her life in the hands of another person. If what Lucifer said was true then she would
gain the powers and the memories that she had never known of before. But it wouldn't be without a painful price. Memories might be
what she wanted, and power was desired, but with memories can come pain and with power can come responsibility.
In seconds Jai was bound to the table and was looking straight at the god that stood over her. Though she was frightened to her
core she at the moment didn't care. Maybe by some chance she would soon be able to know why she was who she was and why
nothing was normal. Her arms shook under the magical bonds as she closer her eyes. Suddenly a cool hand touched her arm. She
opened her eyes to see that Hakel stood beside her.
"I'll be right beside you. I promise I'll never leave." The young man said as a sudden luminosity flickered in the back of his eyes.
"Keep the ring and the necklace on so that part of me will be with you. I promise I will stay."
Jai nodded and smiled as a sudden drowsiness came over her. Lucifer put Jai to sleep to help with the spell. It was going to be
more painful for the girl, him and Hakel to break the spell of her encasement. So Lucifer and Hakel took their places, Hakel of her left
his blue flame casting light and shadows around cavern, and Lucifer on her right, and began to attempt to break the spell. Lucifer began
to chant in a low menacing tone word of the ancient language as he swayed back and forth beside the stone table. Hakel couldn't
believe that he could actually understand the words when before he couldn't.
"Release the powers bestowed by evil to bring power to their side. Painful memories return to the mind forgotten. Powers
beyond all belief return to your host, through spell and blood. Hakel I need your help." Lucifer called out of his trance. "Get a
dagger and cut your palm and mine. The spell needs the blood of an immortal and a demon to break it. Quickly!"
Hakel pulled a dagger from his boot and drew it across his palm wincing as a trail of blood coursed down his hand, and he did the
same for Lucifer before he put the blade away. Lucifer roughly grasped Hakel's hand as he squeezed out two drops of blood, and then
did the same to his own that sizzled as they made contact with Jai's skin. Blue electricity crackled over her skin and a grimace of pain
grew on her face. Hakel couldn't believe what was happening. He could literally feel the dangerous power that was straining to be free.
When Lucifer started to chant again he got closer and placed his hands on her forehead and her arm that was bound in bandages.
Slowly the bandages burned away to expose a black dragon that seemed to writhe on Jai's arm and a scar that burned with white light.
As Jai screamed in agony and her body arched against the restraints, Hakel knew that they wouldn't hold for much longer. He rushed
over forgetting about his throbbing hand, and held Jai's body down with his own. Even though the electricity did hurt him a little he just
absorbed it into him self to help him hold Jai down. The bright light from the scar kept getting bigger and Hakel could literally hear the
dragon on Jai's arm roar as the dormant powers began to flow back into its host's body. With one drawn out scream Lucifer finished
the chant and collapsed on the floor. Jai's body was still convulsing and screaming in pain on the table so Hakel stayed and kept her
there just like he promised. Once the screaming and the thrashing ended everything was silent. Jai lay unconscious on the stone table;
Lucifer was down and out for the count. Hakel looked at Jai and brushed a hair from her face before he let the dark oblivion take him.
And with that all three, the god, a demon, and an Omega, all lay unconscious in a cavern where Fate would soon take its toll.
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Jai was the first to wake up out of the whole bunch. Her head was splitting in pain as she tried to sit up on the stone table. She
decided that it was better to not sit up so she just laid there until the pain subsided to some degree. When it did subside she slowly
raised her self up into a sitting position on the cold stone. She blinked a couple of time and shivered. She looked around the room and
saw Lucifer lying haphazardly face down with his black hair obscuring his face while Hakel lay on his back right beside the table. He
shifted in his sleep and so she left him and Lucifer. She felt so strange as if something that had been lost was now found. As she looked
at her hands she noticed that they were paler then normal but that didn't bother her. She heard voices of people that weren't even near
her. It was so strange especially since she felt like Death was so close to her. She felt other powers that she never felt before that
lingered just below the surface waiting to be used. She slowly walked to the entrance of the cave and watched the sun rise as it warmed
her skin. She closed her eyes and tried to get used to the fact that she heard all these strange voices that surrounded her. She heard the
soft footsteps as someone approached from inside the cave. Hakel placed his hand on Jai's shoulder as she fell into his embrace.
"It feels weird, doesn't it?" he asked as he wrapped his arms around her awww
"Yeah. I feel the same but I know that I am different, and you? What about you? What 'powers' I guess, did you get?" Jai asked
as she looked into Hakels eyes.
"Well… let me show you." With his arms still around her, Hakel formed a blue flame in his left hand as electricity crawled across
his right. "I guess I can control fire and electricity. Could be fun." He smirked.
Jai laughed, her laugh sounding like bells as Hakel looked into her golden eyes. "I guess it could be fun. It all depends."
"So what powers do you have? And why are you eyes gold?" Hakel quizzed.
"Her eyes are gold because when she first got her powers long ago she was a necromancer, or at least part of one. The golden
eyes signify that she is in her normal state. A necromancer. And as far as her powers go, don't delve too deep into trying to figure out
what they are. Her powers are so numerous that if she doesn't control them with something she could literally die from over power. So
here." Lucifer stated as he walked out of the cave mouth into the light. In his palm were two sets of silver cuffs. The smaller ones were
for on her ears while the other two were for her wrists. "Theses will help keep the powers in your body at a minimum so that you don't
over load but will always have access to be able and use them."
Jai broke from Hakel's embrace to walk over to the god. She accepted the offer from him and began to put the cuffs on. The two
for her ear's fit perfectly and the ones on her wrists acted like gauntlet, which immediately conformed to fit her wrists. She felt the
change in the amount of power she felt almost instantly. She could still here the voices and feel Death nearby but everything else felt
normal. She looked into the eyes of the god before her and the look in her eyes was all the thanks that he needed.
"Well now that you are ready to live a somewhat normal life how about we all just hang out here until you both get used to your
powers. I don't want to have to bind you in place so that you don't hurt yourselves or anyone else." Lucifer laughed as he put his arm
around both teenagers as they rolled their eyes as the all walked back into the darkness of the cave. BIG SIGH
After that they all rested up while Jai and Hakel messed around with their powers. Jai quickly learned to harness the power of the
dead, fire, lightning, magic, and numerous others. Hakel was having a harder time due to the fact that he hadn't ever used his since he
was a baby when they were sealed. Jai didn't mind when she was attempting to help him gain control of the powers. By the end of the
night both were exhausted both physically and mentally, Hakel more than Jai. But so was Lucifer due to the fact that he was the one
trying to help they understand the powers they had. Hakel used his power to create a fire to make dinner. They all ate and eventually
went to sleep, the two teenagers clasped in 'loves' embrace. The next morning they all woke up, gathered their stuff up and began the
trip down the mountain. But would await them at the house, where their friends lived, they would find that Fate had a different path for
them to take and it would start with taking one that is dear to them. With great power come the responsibility for the people around you
and the task of dealing with the death Fate deals.
As the trio of immortal got closer to their friend home Jai got an ominous feeling that something was wrong. She tensed as a dark
presence quickly hit her as she quickly ran toward the house. As she drew closer to the home the feeling got worse and she stopped and hid behind a tree near the home.
"Do you feel that?" she asked in a whisper to her friend beside her.
"Yeah…. it can't be good. Something happened to the others and I don't think it is good." Hakel whispered back as he too
stopped by the edge of the forest.
"Your right my friends. I believe that we should approach this problem with open and cool minds so that we don't mess up."
Lucifer stated as he felt the dark presence "Eh maybe not. Trouble sounds like so much more fun. Be ready for anything." As he
procured a scythe.
Jai and Hakel both looked at the god in disbelief that he actually wanted them to fight what ever was creating the dark presence.
They shook their heads as they too procured their weapons, Jai created a halberd as Hakel created a katana, as they slowly
approached the house. As they crept toward the porch and toward the door they did it with ninja stealth. But as they approached the
door and reached out to open it, the door slid open by its self as dark wisps of magic flowed out. Muffled voices moaned in the
background as a velvety voice called to them.
"Come in. We've been waiting for you."
HAH! Evil Cliffie for all of you readers out there. I know that theyre arent many but if there are please review. Next chappie will be blood spill so bring a tissue really. It is going to be really harsh.