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Humphrey POV
"Welcome to the underworld Humphrey." Riche says.
I look around and all I see at first is blackness. An all consuming blackness. I look down at my feet and see that I am standing on a path of bones leading into this darkness. Riche starts to walk along the path, I quickly follow behind him. After walking for I have no idea how long, we come to a huge gate. Next to the gate stands someone very familiar looking. Then I realize who it is. Its Sarah, one of my Guardian trainers. I look at Riche for an explanation, He starts to explain it, but then Sarah inturupts him and says,
"You are botching it again, Riche."
"Sorry, ma'am"
"Tom has requested your presence. I can take care of Humphrey from here."
"Yes ma'am." Riche says and turns to me and says "Well, this is where I leave you for a little while. She is an excellent mentor." He then turns and walks back down that path.
I look at Sarah a little nervously, and she notices,
"You don't have to be scared. I won't kill you."
"If what happened in training is anything to go by, you may try to by making me haul heavy loads." I say
"Thats just a front to keep Troy off my back. When I am down here, I'm very different, caring is how some of the souls describe me."
"Wait, you actually interact with souls?"
"Yeah, come, lets go through and I will show you what I mean" She says and walks through the gate. I follow her. On the other side, There is a pit on one side and a large green field and a mountain on the oposite side of the field from the pit.
"The pit is the Depths of Evil. Its where all the evil souls go. The fields are the Fields of the Condemned. Thats where all the souls who didn't really make an impact on life go. And thats the Mount of Terraces. There are 7 terraces up that mountain and The Peak is the 8th level, thats for people who choose to be reincarnated 8 times and recived the Mount all 8 times. Each level means something. the souls know it better than me. I'm just the Keyholder. Understand?"
"For the most part." I say
"Ok, now, let me explain our connection to this place and our earthly connections. You and your family are the gate keepers. If you die..."
"... Then all the souls get released." I say
"Not exactly. The souls will be free to torment the Keyholder and keep affecting their life and luck until they die and then they are free, and vice versa. thats why I pushed you so hard. You need to be strong to do this job. Now, onto the earthly world. Bad things happen on earth because of unruly souls down here. Any place down here is linked to a place on the surface. Tecnicaly, you could use this as an underground highway, but your father, The ruler of the dead, we just call him the Roth, would get kinda pissed at you. We have to live our life on the surface, but we can pull ourselves down here. I haven't taught you this yet. I had to almost kill you to separate your spirit from your body so I can train you to do your job because we have no Gatekeeper right now and the souls are killing me right now." says Sarah
"So you almost killed me?!"
"It was the only way. Don't you see? There was no other way, or I would have gladly taken it!" She yell "Look, I will make it up to you in the future, but right now you need to help me. The souls are literally killing me."
"Ok. I will help you, but only on one condition." I say
"Ok, whatever it is, I accept it." she says
"You must not drag me back down here."
She physically flinches slightly, but that might have been the light. Then I think about it and come to the fact that she may like me. I give her a sideways glance.
Sarah POV
I flinched. Damn it. He gives me a look. He obviously knows i'm madly in love with him. I have been since I first saw him.
"I will mortally wound this whelp now that I know you like him, just to make you suffer i will make his death nice and slow, and I will make you watch. Then I will kill you. It will be easier to escape then." A soul says in my mind.
Now I know what I have to do. I have to protect Humphrey with my life. he is the only thing holding these souls back. I am so uderly frayed out nd exhausted that if anything happened, I would be gone.
Humphrey POV
"Well lets go to the temple and make everything happen so you can become a guardian" She says.
"Ok." I say. we start walking towards this big black room.
XXX 3 Hours Later XXX
"OK, Humphrey, Stare directly into m eye and don't look away no mater what you see, or we both may die right here." She says.
I do as she says and i get waves of pain and suffering wash over me. And a moment later, Sarah collapses on the floor. I panic and lean down listening for a heart beat, and I hear one, and she is breathing, but quite deeply. She must have passed out. I pick her up and carry her to a small room on the side of the temple that has some beds in it. I lay her on one and lay down across from her and look at her.
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Riche "Ghost" Butler out~