Disclaimer: In all honesty, I don't own anything or anyone in this chapter, so don't bother asking.

Kildiazar walks into the room. Kain is being dog piled by Val and Widdle Waziel.

Kain: Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!! GET 'EM OFF ME! GET 'EM OF ME!

Kildiazar: Whatever! You're not needed.

Raziel prepares for the scene.

Kildiazar: Are you sure you wanna go through with this?

Raziel: I've faced demons worse than Widdle Waziel before, but why do I have a feeling I'm going to deeply regret this?

Kildiazar: Uh… we'll see. Anyway, on with the next chapter.

Chapter 5: The Traitor Amidst

Raziel felt the familiar sensation of being sent to the spectral realm as the world warped and twisted sickeningly around him. It seemed like forever in an instant before the light finally began to fade away. Slowly, the world began to reshape itself and he realized he was still in the material realm. He dizzily got up and surveyed his surroundings. He looked up from the ground and saw three hooded figures staring down at him. His burning white eyes came into contact with three other pairs of glowing red eyes except for one, whose left eye was golden yellow.

The one with an eye of golden yellow dropped to her knees in front of Raziel and proceeded to bow down as a devout worshipper. "Have mercy, My Lord. Spare me" Jack pleaded.

"What in all hell are you talking about, Jack? Are you familiar with this creature?" Kim, the Great Leader Maddie, asked out of confusion rather than curiosity.

"It looks like that guy from Val's dream if I'm not mistaken," said Yrouna.

"No! Don't you see? He is the One, The Champion! He is the one destined to slay all Vampires," shouted Jack. There was an unmistakable tinge of fear in her voice. As minute as it was, it was still there.

"Then why do you seem afraid? You said it yourself. You're not a Vampire." Kim stated this fact with air of an interrogator.

'No. But you are. Both of you are.' Jack thought to herself. She turned back to face Raziel. "My Lord, please forgive them their impertinence. They did not mean to offend your Sublimity."

"What the hell is going on here, Jack? We all want answers. Tell us what you know." Yrouna snapped at the shape-shifter.

"You are not my superior and I am not answerable to you! And as for you, Peacekeeper" Jack vehemently pointed at the Great Leader Maddie. "You among all of us should know very well what is happening here. Do you disregard the prophecies so? This entity before us is the Champion of my race."

"Then forgive me for being so blithely ignorant of shared history. But if I am not mistaken, you are the only one of your kind. You are an accident, remember?" Kim retorted with equal fervor.

Raziel shook his head as he watched the juvenile creatures squabble amongst themselves. Did all fledglings bicker so much? Raziel could sense that the creatures were merely several centuries old. He had had it up to his nonexistent neck, or at least what remained of it, with these… children.

"ENOUGH!!" Raziel shouted with the most forceful voice he could muster. "Do I not have a say in any of this?"

The Wraith appeared more fearsome than ever before. His eyes shone through the darkness with a penetrating white luminescence. Raziel looked like even more of a devil than Gamin. Yrouna and the Great Leader Maddie stood down but readies themselves, should the Wraith attack.

Jack, on the other hand, went directly in front of Raziel and knelt down before him. "What is it you desire, My Lord? Speak it and it shall be done. Make use of your good servant."

"First of all, you are not my servant. Second of all, you are all wasting my time. Third, if you continue to claim that you are my servant, then make yourself useful and tell me where we are. I dare to think that I am no longer in Nosgoth as we are located in a forest."

'Nosgoth, I haven't heard that word spoken in ages.' Jack mused in silence. My Lord, you are correct to assume that you are no longer in that realm. You are here now in the forest of Kalach by the outskirts of the city of San Guine."

"Do you know of any means that I may return to Nosgoth?"

"No, my Lord. Without the Conduit, you are stranded here."

"What is this Nosgoth? You know something that you're not telling us." Kim insisted adamantly.

"It doesn't really matter. Nosgoth is but a hellish dystopia of unnamed atrocities scrounging in a barren wasteland. I know it well but I strive to forget."

All of a sudden, Kim's bright red eyes began to glow even brighter as she used her telekinesis to levitate Raziel and keep him in place. Dark tendrils rose from the ground and began to bind the wraith. Raziel struggled but some powerful form of magic kept him from moving.

"What sorcery is this, woman?" Raziel snapped at the were-snake.

"Kim, what are you doing?" Jack almost screeched in alarm.

"You said it yourself. He's stranded here. And I think I speak for the better good of all San Guine when I say creatures not of this world should not be allowed to roam free.

"I demand you release me this instant, you vile woman!" Raziel bellowed.

In spite of all this commotion, Yrouna cautiously walked over to Raziel, put her right hand to his cowl and pulled it off in one swift movement. Raziel struggled to stop her but found that he could barely move his body. He just stayed there, frozen, floating above the ground, completely immobile, staring at his cowl clutched in the hands of a complete stranger.

"Oh Crap," gasped Yrouna. "He's jawless! I…I think, I'm gonna be sick."

True to her words, Yrouna suddenly felt sick to her stomach. She placed her empty hand upon her abdomen. She knew what was coming next. The contents of her stomach were forcing their way up her esophagus. She tried to stop it but it was no use. She hurled right in front of Raziel. Instinctively, she put her right hand to her mouth and unfortunately, she still held Raziel's cowl. Kim merely laughed and made a mockery of her pitiable friend.

"Whatever is the matter with you girl? Is my grotesque appearance too much for your stomach to handle?" Raziel goaded.

"And so curiosity killed the cat," Kim stated flatly.

Yrouna clutched the soiled cowl as she doubled over and fell to the ground. Raziel, Kim and Jack looked down upon the unconscious were-cat before averting their attention to more important matters.

The Great Leader Maddie used her telekinetic powers to twirl Raziel around to face her. She floated up a few inches so that they were of the same height.

"Kim! You have no right to restrain him like that!" Jack pleaded with the Great Leader.

"You can say what you want but what I see here is devourer of souls. I, among all of you, would know how potentially dangerous such a creature can be. Therefore, I am left with no other option save to detain him."

And so it was, the Great Leader Maddie kept the Wraith in unseen fetters. While Jack, the self-proclaimed all-knowing Witch and renegade to her race was forced to watch as her liberator remained under captive grip of the Telekinetic Dayang or Guru.

Kildiazar: Yehey! I love this chapter! You ok Raziel?

Raziel: (twitch twitch) My… cowl?

Kain is laughing his head off despite being buried underneath a shadow wolf and a kid wraith.

Kildiazar: Don't be too happy Kain. You're up next and I've arranged with Val to give you a special treatment.

Kain: (gulp) As long as it doesn't involve this kid. (points at Widdle Waziel)