Magi and Djinn World Tour – Student of the Dark Arts-
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Chapter 42: I'm Sorry
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Red, black. Watery nothingness.
Tears and sobbing, only a few steps ahead.
This…place….
~ You'll be shackled here until I see that you've learned to dismiss that back - talk. Lady Lilu only sees what she wishes. What? Did you think you could have a mother once more?~
John sneered as he swam through the inky red and black; it then truly dawned on him as to where they were.
In the vat of that bloody cauldron.
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Curled into a ball in fettle position, Raku deflected the darkness in his heart as tendrils ripped at skin, climbing over him and keeping him from leaving this terrible dream. He'd left it long before when Aiden had come to rescue him. Would that always be his fate?
Always the rescued, never the rescuer?
~ You moan as a maiden. Maybe you need a new name, my pet…no, no. She isn't going to come to your rescue. None ever should. I'm not through carving my image into that pure heart, tainted soul…~
That demon…why did he allow himself to care? To hate? He was a toy to the man. A pet cat…he had no great desire to stay here!
Then, why….was he not moving?
~ Raku!!~
That...
Raku's light tear stained face poked itself to the side with a gasp.
John?
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Michael hated this as he was able to find a couple if persons coming in the distance that he recognized, though different...the teacher and Jenny??
"Yo, we're altogether, right?"
"Very. I'll call the High Magic association." Zee made contact while Jen had in her adult form, Michael to stay and tell her what had happened. "R – raku….so much mess…father is…."
"He's frightened to say it. Should we go?"
She turned to Zee, yet not before a large black dog with gold lined ears bounded over to back in their faces. " Ah…doggie? Nice, bo-
"Ani…this, this is Sara's. The jackal." Michael forced out. "Why didn't you stay and fight??"
"You required protection. My mistress and aunt was very clear." Ani returned to his mortal form as Jen blushed by how built the man was. Very hot. …
"Ehem! Where is Johnny?"
"The school has swallowed them. The summoners from before dragged that sacred target into another realm, thus trapping my aunt, Constantine and the boy."
" Raku." Zee opened her eyes. "The council and their officers of the direct defense are on their way. I had enough information to place the headmaster in custody for conspiring with an A class demon. He's-
" Father, he didn't know who Lothos was." Swallowed Michael. "He brought me bsck in exchange for a soul,and Lothos may have been the contracted demon to allow it. He said Atticus is…is…-
"He is within the real of the present and was the one to start the casting with students being controlled. These children are dying as we speak by a sacrifice to bring back the red lord."
"We cannot wait on him! Zee??"
Zee bit her lip. "Ani? Can you wait close by? We'll contact you via telepathic link to come in if things get uncomfortable. Michael? You are not to step foot in there at any costs. Lothos had you as a target and I don't know if it was some ploy or to trigger another 'coming."
"Explain. Why was this "Marcus" so important?" Michael asked.
" Your old soul, body…was recovered as Marcus Borges, a half fae from another time that was of high status there and bullied my lordship to no end that he nearly turned. Instead, Marcus was devoured by Lady Lilu before she had gotten old of his servitude. He was forced to return to the dune capital, later realizing that he'd be alone even as king due to this witch attacking every sight if happiness he may carry. You were a tool to her and Marcus's real soul, is not yours yet his body surely was. The soul wasn't traded, the flesh was." Ani explained.
"My soul ….his body??"
"Your father saved you, not AS Marcus. You simply reclaimed your hatred due to a plan that if the soul ever looked close to ready…Raku might use that newfound anger to destroy the last remains of an old foe. The one that showed him his loneliness…if you knew the past, it might make this clearer a picture."
"He was a bloody bully, a right twat." Sniffed the child. "That, I do understand. I must be like he was, just as such to spur an old memory….no wonder I was treated …"
"Like he had to escape but couldn't let you go?" Jen snorted. "You gave him nightmares! I wouldn't wanna see the last person that died because I failed to save them haunting me. Would you?"
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Sara's blade as Astarte clashed long, yet the children were coming back. " Ah….you think yourself clever? This is an error."
" An error has no true loopholes, goddess."
Lothos raised his wings as that shoved her back, his tail slithering to raise her rough her throat. It squeezed teasingly as she was thrown yet clung to, her body bruised as a warrior she'd been told to withdraw from being partly for this fight.
" Not going to defy me, Lady Astarte?" Grinned the red eyed monster. " You believe yourself precious to my new pet – once reclaimed, he won't even remember those upturned brows of yours…"
" He…is…not us….neither."
" He is, better!" Lothos laughed. "His blood is not golden, yet you hold sand in your veins still, princess. You'll never have faith in he, for he us not yours to know. Azag attempted to give him sonething he was never meant to have. A teacher, however? That could do for both cases. And I won't abanfon him, not ever. Not as his healing wounds scar over. Not as we raze this world like the demon's we'll come to be. If he ages finally, his powers and my own will be infinite!!"
She was thrown again before that serpent went at her ankle. She'd never felt to human, so weak…this was why they had not bonded. Why a soldier was what she always was.
Only with the face of Anna telling her how robotic everything they did had become.
Or how Nina stuck by only to pity their fates as killer solders.
How Deathstroke had the nerve to say this life would strip her of her reality in some way. She was no longer a goddess. This plane…it was stripping her….she feared if she did not return to her world soon…
" YOU'RE TOO WEAK RIGHT NOW, GODDESS….JUST A BITCH I COULD BREED AND DUMP IN A GUTTER…YET YOU STIMULATE NOTHING. ONLY HE MAKES MY BLOOD BOIL OVER...AND I WANT ALL OF IT IN MY SOUL!!~
DAMN RED….DEVIL.
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Raku didn't know that the past controlled nothing. He was this blood. This old blood of mortals, fae and half spirited beings….it was the same in the isles academy where she had destroyed them. His only friends….
~ RAKU!!~
The scream grew louder as the damned blood tendrils squeezed him even harder, making the child in his scream out.
~ Fuck this….you're gotten yourself in quite the pickle. Hold still –
~ No….if…you attack….I may –
~ You need to trust me –
~ I have to face my past –
~ You have to not get eaten, first.~ Sniffed John as he raised a hand to cast. The coursing magic had the essence of some memory in it as sand formed, Raku looking up to see an older face than time itself.
~ I summon Lord Azag! Djinn head God of time, destruction and rebirth!!~
Raku saw as the sand serpent tore at the blood binds as he was caught by John, cradled as a kid. ~ Can you…float?~
~ I hope…what of Ignito?~
~ He's here, the entire time.~ John pointed to Azag's stray form as it reverted to that of Ignito in a golden light.
~ THE PICKLE WAS NOT HE, MY LORD.~
Raku gasped.
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No….he woke to it….an illusion. He sighed as the vines bit into his skin. However, John was still fighting. He was tearing at the things that seemed alive enough to cage Raku to his cursed "fate."
~ I WON'T LET YOU GIVE UP!! FIGHT BACK. THIS IS….YOUR TIME, LAD….PLEASE!~
John….
Raku saw at the man's eye, a small sign of his sincerity.
A tear dropped, as Raku's body began to glow, golden. With magic.
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So you wish it…
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The demon was about to gut Sarah like a trout, the cauldron silent,yet only just as the calamitous aura never died. Children had stopped falling into the vat as Zee shoved down the door. Two officials and hunters were at her side with Jen shocking a few stray miasma beasts. "Looks like happy hour in here." She chirped. " Are we late for the finale, Joh-
"GAH!" Jen pointed at the stage as more hunters went in. Some were there to save the kids. Some high aarlocks and witches in the other side in the catacombs if the school, they were there to cuff Atticus who had already turned to a pile of human ash.
~ Professor Gray has been recovered and is in custody.~
The comm on the hunter by Zee's ear sounded. " The doorway will only open for as long as we have. DON'T close the vortex until we have everyone here safely salvaged."
~ Take out the head, first. Over.~
~ Right. ~
" Standing by. Going into the scuffle."
Zee watched as the hunters knew high ranking spells. The children were pulled into sleep as they were collected and removed from the room without a fight. Now, came the tough part.
Lothks was a red shroud as the cauldron bubbled without anyone ti tend to it. "Once my lord is done with his blood bath, I will be the one that he allows to live! You will become meals for my hoards and none shall ever stand in our way –
"Look!"
A warlock pointed at the cauldron as an adult arm and a tarmttered sleeve came to grip the outer rip. A groaning wave had Lothos growl and yell out as Sarah stabbed his tail to watch it bleed a hideous tar black. Already turned, she rolled away in time to avoid his next attack on the rescue parties
~ You dare….take away….my bride to be??? How dare you involve yourself, CONSTANTINE!!~
" I'd….shut that beak…cough! I I was you, mate….~
The man had golden around his frame as he gripped only Raku his eyes as still as winding clocks.
" You wanted a bite of im? Well? What about if Azag had some remaining words he'd forgotten to add? That you can never be a god, Lothos." He shoved Raku out as the teams shoved over the cauldron to watch the acid mix spill all over the stage. Coughing, Raku stood in a sandy dust cloak with his hands aching of golden.
"Get his arse, kid…" Smiled John as his strength had been in Raku's wish…no, his. To save him through the kid finding his own strength.
~ Lord Lothos of the Vampire and Incubi to the lands beyond. You are hereby condemned to a time whence ye could never commit to such crimes, for they shall be immortalized within thine Manifesto. As all if the heart, so mote it become!!~
The boy floated as the book like wkthnLilith's banishing into it, did the same for Lothos. He was nut a children's nightmare, aa painting of anguish and the past. Raku didn't not see remorse as he smiled softly, seeing Lpthos look to him.as he might have as a half mortal once before.
~ You're not at all what she'd expected, nor I. We shall recreate the most powerful of lords just to tick off your queen? What fun, right? Why can you not be glad! You and I…we could rule all if time itself…~
~ Love, obsession, greed. Your crimes as an overlord of the past are condemned forever within the heart of a god to be. If ever you may desire to spake against this judgement-
" You…are a djinn lord? Why bow to the mortals?? Why lose your divine rights!! I could have helped you…you never would have lost your light, my king….it….it's not –
~ I chose to be close not to the gods, yet to those that under stand a humanity most forgiven. Yet te too,as I were once the same. Half mortal borne, half alone in this world. You saw what was of you in myself and detected it clearly. Lilu was simply a crutch to allow you to inflict pain unto her once – subject. J am freed from her, yet you?~
" S…sire…please! I can –
~ You feasted on pain, on pleasure to the extent that blood might not be it spilled, I was powerless to regain control. Roku existed in your image…~
The face if Raku aged, it looked….so different. He spoke in riddles almost as well as Ignito ..Long straying to his knees dark hair, soft yet stern eyes and no facial hair this time. His skin was not as tan as his own as a child, in fact it was much paler making him look ethereal. His eyes were amber as a prehistoric life, all secrets, remaining buried.
His cloak was of the color of sand as it soon swapped to something with black and sigils about it to resemble….
Azag.
The hood was no mistake as John fritter it be true….Azag was Raku, incarnated perhaps?
Time's one recording agent of the future and past.
~ Forgive me. Yet you, must forget that ye, he hath ever existed. That ye cannot be redeemed until your sentence is over –
Lothos, as he stood there as an unwavering sculpture, soon burst out into a bout of unrestrained, laughter.
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Next chapter is a deal breaker find out!!!
