THE GHOST RIDERS PROTÉGÉ 7
The next night Rowan and Rider head off to find some souls.
The first one they come across is a man holding a gun, crying. Rowan knew this wasn't what she had in mind for Nara's new body. Without breaking a sweat Rowan took his soul and labeled the number 4, than swallows it. With in 10 seconds the man shot himself in the chest.
Rider switched back to human, looking disappointed, "what's the fun in that? You just take the soul, write down a number than swallow it. And he does the work for you basically."
"so? I'm happy for that, I don't think I can kill a person. Good thing they do the work for me, eh?"
"you just get it easy, I have to actually kill them. I have to do the work."
"c'mon lets try to girl now"
It took them about an hour to find an 18 year old in her dorm trying to get rid of the evidence, she was washing the blood off of a knife.
John whispered to Rowan, "let me" switching to Rider, "take this one"
"fine… but I get the next one"
Rider hopped through the dorms' window and repeated words making the girl slump to the ground.
The girl looked somewhat Asian. She had shoulder-length black hair with deep red high-lights. She had a tattoo of shadows running up her spine. Rowan thought this was a good replacement.
She practically forced Nara's soul into the body. Once it seeped down the throat she started twitching at her toes and fingers. The body stood up and spoke, "wha-what happened?" she asked, trembling to walk.
"Nara, is that you?" Rowan asked softly.
"uh… um. Yeah, it's me. What happened? The last thing I remembered was that the devil tossed a black soul at me. Where are we?"
"ok, long story short… you're body turned to that beast from earlier. Satin said that your soul needed a new body to live in, so here you are."
"this body isn't mine?"
"nope but it's the best we can do"
"oh, ok. But I need to engrave those symbol on me. We need a scalpel."
"where can we get one?"
"lets go back to the restaurant tomorrow, my family works there. They know I'm a shinigami, they'll help." after she finished she rotated her neck and snapped her fingers trying to switch. After trial and error she finally switched to her former shinigami self.
"you look like yourself now, but you're in a different body."
"I don't know actually, this is my 4th body I've lived in actually. When I got my body taken, my soul always stayed and it never died. It actually found a new body to take over. After I revert back from being shinigami my new body always looked like my original, it's really weird why it does that." she switched back to human and looked like her old self again.
"wow, that's amazing, so your soul can't die?"
"not that I know of"
John got bored so he interrupted them, "eh, hem… can we please go now?"
They left to find another scalpel the next morning.
They got to the Japanese restaurant where Nara worked. Manager walked towards them.
"what are you doing here? Where were you Nara?"
"I was helping the Ghost Rider and Rowan at the old church yesterday but the devil took my body so Rowan found a soul a new one… I need the scalpel"
The manager lead them the back and handed Nara a fancy box. "be careful, Nara. don't loose this one"
"I wont papa" he went back to his office to finish some work.
Rowan, Nara and John walked to a small meditation room. Nara opened the box to find the scalpel and cheat notes of certain symbols. On' her right index finger she wrote '魂メス' (soul scalpel) and around her wrist she wrote '赤い目がすべてを参照してください' (red eyes see all)
"it's good to have you back, Nara"
"it's good to be back, Rowan"