Souls of Black

Schnyder sat out by the sea while the sun set gracefully in an orange and purple horizon engulfing the signs of land and sea behind them. In his lap sat the scriptures he had been studying; closed and locked from the rest of the world for now hiding it's secrets to all but those whom have dared to touch it's wicked pages. Schnyder wasn't sitting to watch the horizon however like he normally enjoyed doing; for him the lake was the absolute best place for that... No he sat with his scriptures meditating on a feeling; something that rattled him to the core and it was coming and Schnyder was prepared for this is a creature he felt did not only endager the lives of his fellow students but threatened his secret somehow.

Schnyder nudged a stick around; drawing lines in the sand awaiting whatever it may be while his eyes remained closed; focused. The lines formed simple grams that became more and more complicated as he drew on slowly becoming more and more frightening looking before he would wave the stick around; cover the star up and begin drawing again... The sea crashed against the rocks and made his mind wax and wane wondering; he wondered mostly about what this thing coming but it disturbed him for some reason... So he waited...

Before the creature could even leave the beach to reach the close-by town Schnyder appeared behind him and greeted him... "So why have you come to this place? Why do you smell of copper and what is your purpose here?..." not a very formal or sweet greeting but Schnyder had no intention of being sweet to something that arrived clad in black on a ship heading for a harbor town known for murder and crime... Schnyder's eyes were ofcoarse half open and his posture lazy as usual but his mind was at work already trying to analyze this creature; seemed harmless enough since it was just a kid but... Schnyder had no intentions of making any assumptions either; the scriptures which were no within a large pocket of his coat has told of many horrible creatures that would use the image of children to make their foes afraid to fight... But still something felt a bit off about this one; something abnormal; about as abnormal as Schnyder... Schnyders hands were left loose at his sides ready to make a defensive move if need be but for the time being he found no interest in being offensive either; since this creature seemed very young it could very well have the mentality of a child... Schnyder's mind raced like a train waiting for a response from the being.

Schnyder followed the boy wondering if he was even being notices; just incase however he created a pair of octograms on each of his wrists underneath the sleeves just incase this boy decided to get offensive with him; Schnyder prefered the octogram as his offensive star over the pentagram as the octogram is the star with the highest count of points that is not a pair of stars crossed wiith one another becuase 8 is only divisable by 4; 2; 1 and itself and the lowest number for a pure star is 5. The alternative version of the octogram is a crossed diamond and square shape but was a compounded geometric shape rather than a real star. Schnyder tened to use hexagrams for defensive techniques or abilities that involved helping someone. Pentagrams; inverted pentagrams and decagrams however were more for techniques more specialized in devouring his foe as 5 and 10 points were feared by some humans and reveared by others; the hexagram was familiar to them as a sign of faith and inner strength known as the "star of david" and the octogram was known to few as it had no specific meaning. Schnyder liked the number 8 however; and the octogram was special to him because the person who taught him how to strengthen and control his skill exclusively used the octogram; it was the his signature and so Schnyder decided he would use the octogram as a symbol if discipline and self defense.

(*on a side note I would prefer that nobody touches that bit of his story about the man who taught him how to use stars as that's a part of a seperate story where stars is one of my big themes xD)