Authors note: Well I don't exactly remember how long it's been since I Last updated but it was during this month and I know I left it somewhere pretty bad... It's also Christmas time and that's cool! so for all those who celebrate "MERRY CHRISTMAS" and for all the ones who don't I wish you "HAPPY HOLIDAYS"

I'm not gonna lie school has been hard on me until this week...i think winter break is getting shorter.

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Chapter 7

A new perspective

I could feel my body being slowly ripped apart by spears as my body was burned with fire. The pain was unbearable, there was no human being alive who could live through this pain. I couldn't talk or move so I just began thinking to myself what the point of all this suffering was.

Why am I even here to begin with? This isn't my world nor should I care what happens from here on…but something is telling me to keep going no matter what. My will is telling to me to keep on keeping on but my body is decaying slowly, within a small amount of time these thoughts I'm having will cease and my whole existence with it. I'm dyeing and that's what's happening plain and simple.

"No, stop this!" is what I heard from a blur of the sounds around me.

"With the power vested in this lifeless body by the lord of all monsters," I heard the same voice again in succession through this blur of sound…all the chaos ensuing around my lifeless corpse.

"I forge a pact with the new summon spirit, so that he shall live!" even though this voice is heard through it all…the words mean nothing to me.

"Silly, haven't you noticed the burst of power?" the voice in my head had spoken.

Stop coming inside my head! I'm tired of hearing about your power or what I'm supposed to be doing with mine!

"You idiot! Have you not even noticed that you've been summoned forth as new spirit in this world?"

Huh? Now that you mention it…

My eyes began to open as I got a good look of the area around me to see that all the soldiers had been killed. The townsfolk were locked securely away in the buildings looking through the peepholes in their windows. Pascal was severely injured and on the ground barely breathing, but what really caught my interest was Sheena.

"Dante, have you woken up yet?" she spoke to me as if I wasn't right there in front of her.

I looked down to see my body lying there dead, and I have to be honest here… It was awesome! Sort of…not the whole being dead thing.

"I can't see you, but you're probably floating around now looking at your own body. Sorry I couldn't make it in time to save you from this horrible fate…but I managed to salvage you at the least," she spoke with such confidence.

How exactly did she salvage me though? The way I see it I'm just a floating spirit…wait, spirit?

"You probably just realized you're a spirit now, I'm just gonna tell you this now to get it over with. You are now a summon spirit in this world, the summon spirit of nothing to be honest. I was able to use the mana that was left to you by the Lord of Monsters…Ratatosk." She explained to me in a very apologetic way.

So I'm a summon spirit now? Cool I guess, but what am I gonna do now? I can't just continue with my original plans like this.

"I know a way for you to come back to life as a human, but you'll have to listen to me."

Okay I'm listening.

"Now that you are a spirit in the spirit realm I need you to seek out the Lord of Spirits, Maxwell…that spirit should be able to re-fuse this lifeless body with your spirit."

Got it, so I just have to go find Milla and I should be good to go right? Wait… no, there was another Maxwell and he was the one who made Milla so which one should I go see?

"Also, because you aren't an actual spirit, you can't be seen…even by a summoner like me," she said being blunt about it.

So because I just hopped a ride on Ratatosks power to become a spirit I can't be seen? Wait doesn't that mean I'm a lesser spirit?

"Why yes of course Dante," Tenebrae came out of nowhere to say.

So you can see and hear me? Even though I'm talking in my mind/ to myself?

"Yes, and only because of the powers you possess thanks to Lord Ratatosk and myself" Tenebrae told me.

So should I just go on my happy way to find Milla? Leaving my body behind?

"Don't worry about that I'll deal with it," he said as he disappeared and reappeared in front of Sheena.

"I am Tenebrae, Centurion of Darkness… please take this body to the one known as Milla Maxwell if you would?" Tenebrae asked.

Don't forget Pascal!

"As well as the young female right there?" Tenebrae added in.

"Don't worry, I have this covered? I've been ordered to infiltrate her group by my boss anyways. On another note, you remind me a lot of what summon spirit would be." Sheena stated.

"I get that a lot, but anyways I'll be off," and like that Tenebrae disappeared.

Well I guess I should just follow Sheena and make my way to Milla…but I have to wonder, just who is her boss? And why Millas group? I don't get anything that's going on and it doesn't make a lick of sense but I think I just lost the game or something…maybe I should bring that up to everyone when I get back to my normal body.

"Congrats, you are now a lesser spirit!" The voice in my head even now said boldly.

You just have perfect timing you know? But I don't even care about you anymore I just want to get back my body.

"Well that's boring, why don't you play a few pranks while you're like this…just because they can't see you doesn't mean that you can't mess with their plane of existence." The voice had told me almost tempting me to do so.

Oh no! I will not be tempted!

"Whatever you say." He said to me.

Anyways I guess I should try to get some kind of rest while we travel to Milla. I know I'm a spirit right now but I don't want to be tired when I do get my body back, so I'll just close my eyes and…drift…

"Huh? What is this feeling?" I asked as my eyes slowly widened to reveal that I was in a crossroads between worlds…or at least what I'd imagine one to be like.

"I feel like I'm alive and powerful again."

"Do you have no idea what has happened to you?" A man with long strawberry blonde hair asked me.

"I…think…Who are you? And where am I?" I asked the man.

"I am the Lord of all Monsters, Ratatosk…I currently possess this body as I slowly remove the mana from my original body's world…however that world was destroyed and I have moved its people to a surviving one that thrives…however their memories of the previous world have disappeared. Their world and many others have suffered this fate of destruction due to an anomaly I have called 'The Apocalypse' which is a Supernatural Phenomenon in which many worlds have self-destructed themselves and joined this thriving one."

"Whoa this is all a bit too much to take in at once don't you think?" I told him outright.

"No, for if you wish to know why you came to this world and why I chose to lend my power to you, or even why this is the second time you've died and are going to survive then you need to listen to me!" He said with such fierceness in his voice that I couldn't argue.

"Alright then, continue."

"The spirits of this world are all working together in order to find a calm solution that will solve 'The Apocalypse' but nothing had shown up until you appeared as if from nowhere. You are the chosen one or at least are the replacement for the real one. You are the key to solving this since you came from a different world entirely that wasn't even connected to any of the others."

"Look, I just died and was told my friend chose me to live a second life instead of her…after that…I was dropped from the sky and now I can't even remember that girls name or face!" I shouted to Ratatosk in anger.

"Look, I know you're confused and upset but listen to me. I don't know the circumstances of which you came to this world other than the fact that you died to get here, and to be honest I don't care but at some point in time you will play a major role in this worlds history. I gave you part of my power so that you may one day accomplish whatever it is you will."

"Well can you at least put me back in my body so I can continue the journey?"

"I can do that for you…and if you wish, I will also take you memories of this meeting and place from you so that you may face the danger unknowingly with your friends when the time comes."

"Like hell I would take that option, I'm gonna face this challenge head on like I plan to take this world on!" I stood my ground firmly.

"Very well then, but if I may be so bold? How about we spar in order to see if you're ready?"

"I know I'm not ready now, even with the little power you gave me but what the hell?" I told Ratatosk as he and I took our positions.

Now that I think about it…his kind of looks like Richter.

"Three…Two…One…GO!" he shouted.

He came slicing at me first, but I stepped back just in the nick of time and pulled out my sword. I lunged at him but he was too swift and appeared behind me in the blink of an eye and kicked me to the ground.

I hit the ground face first and it hurt like hell, but it was worth it to fight Ratatosk one on one. I got up but as I had just got on my feet he appeared right there to knock me off them again.

"You're too slow, you need to speed it up!" he shouted.

I rolled onto my feet this time and began to wait for him and when he appeared I slashed but it was only an after image for I had gotten a swift kick to my back as I was sent flying. This fight seemed impossible to win, but I knew that if I was gonna do anything at all in this world, then losing to him meant I was weak.

I kept trying to keep up but it was to no avail, I was just too slow.

"It's not your fault, you're a weakling compared to me Dante." He told me as he looked down upon me.

"Don't look down on me…I don't like that!" I shouted at the top of my lungs.

I began to feel power enveloping me like before…the bloodlust was strong again and I felt like it was right to just mercilessly slaughter again. My eyes began seeing a new light…it's a purple haze.

"Looks like you even have power that I did now bestow upon you…" Ratatosk noted.

The darkness from before slowly started to surround me. I couldn't control myself any longer.

"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

"What the hell!?"

"I'm going to chop you up bit by bit and make sure you suffer in hell!"

"This power is too extreme! It's like demons from Nifelheim are all colliding within him at once," Ratatosk said questioning what was wrong with me.

"Kill, Kill, Kill, Kill, Kill, Kill, Kill, and Kill!"

Without thinking I began slashing away at Ratatosk without control or restraint whatsoever. I couldn't believe I was keeping up with him yet at the same time I have no control and this bloodlust I feel is making me say things I don't want to.

"I have to seal this power away somehow!" Ratatosk said while dodging my relentless attacks.

He tried going behind me but the darkness just kept on protecting me.

"I shall use the nine seals…"

Ratatosk began counting down from nine while hitting me accordingly and creating marks and connecting lines around my body and on it. I don't know what's going on but he said Nine Seals?

"I'm sorry Dante, I don't know where this other power came from but I will seal it here and now!"

Ratatosk finished counting and the marks and lines started binding the darkness around me as I too was constricted from movement. I began to lose my previous bloodlust as well and the sanity that had slipped came back.

"You possess a Dark Power Dante that must never be awoken under any circumstances… I feel that if this were to awaken under the wrong circumstances your personality would change drastically and you might even turn on your friends…" Ratatosk said as the seal combined into one single mark on my back.

"I don't know where I got it, accept that I got the voice in my head told me that it had bestowed the darkness upon me…" I told Ratatosk the truth.

I don't know what could happen from this point on in the journey but I'll stick with Ratatosks judgment and try not to break the seal and use it.

"I have judged you to be of adequate skill for a beginner…I think that through time and training you will grow stronger."

"Alright then Ratatosk, I think it's about time then." I told him.

"Very true, I shall return you to your body." He told me as he began chanting some spell.

I began to feel a weird tingly sensation as I felt my presence being pulled from this crossroads. I felt my body calling me forth and I started to hear a voice.

"Dante moved? But we haven't even found Milla yet," the voice said.

As I began to regain consciousness and my eyes slowly opened I looked up to see Tenebrae, Pascal, and Sheena there.

"Hey…um, where do I apply for a medical plan?" I asked jokingly.

Both Pascal and Sheena hugged me in joy at the same time. The wounds were closed but I still had a few broken ribs here and there.

"Lord Dante, It looks like you were brought back through a spell." Tenebrae noted.

"Yeah, I met with Lord Ratatosk and he was a very kind fellow…I guess." I told him.

"Well, I'll be…first you leave me here with these people who insist on calling me 'Tenebie' and now you insult the Lords kindness…how rude?" Tenebrae made specific.

"Now that I'm back can someone inform me where we are?"

"Milla, Elize, and Driselle were taken to Fort Gandala…Rowen, Jude, and Alvin all went to go save them so we're kind of just chilling here at the inn waiting for them to get back."

Wait isn't that where Milla gets her legs injured?

"Oh shit! Sheena, Pascal, We need to go there and fast!" I said thinking about Millas injury.

"Why, what's the matter?" Sheena asked puzzled.

"If we don't hurry, the Milla will get both of her legs Injured and she won't be able to walk!"

And with those words…we grabbed our things and headed out to Fort Gandala…

A/N: Ok so i know i through a big bone there I'm positive and I swear I didn't plan this stuff...it kind of just happened but I did give an explanation for why the characters are all in one place...but i'm not even sure what i'll do with it except set it on the back burner for now i guess...Review and tell me what you think or just pm me and let me know your personal thoughts.

I'll update with chapter 8 as soon as possible. also I said I would do a Valkryia Chronicles one shot and that is on the way... I want it to be somewhere between 5,000 and 10,000 words...so that way it's not just a short chapter and all...don't worry this one is comedy based and I think some people up here would like it if you've played the game.

Anyways see you next time...BYE!