the key to my soul (eva)

@"DerLampman"

Evangeline was walking calmly through the city that day, taking a quick break from her work. She loved helping others, yes, but it could be a bit tiring from time to time, and to be honest Manta Carlos was proving to be quite a troublesome place, with a lot of people losing their souls or that were really damn close to do so.

And the demons…dear lord, now she knew why her superiors sent her there almost in an urgent mission, she never had seen so many demons together in such a single place before. She knew that there were other places on Earth where things were worse than here, but she wasn’t allowed to go there for obvious reasons, only angel warriors were allowed there.

She was happy to find out that many of those demons weren’t powerful ones, they were just a bunch of demons, probably unexperienced, that went to Manta Carlos in attempts to get powerful souls for their hell, and so go up in rank quickly. She had managed to recover a couple of souls by now through those demons, it wasn’t easy, but at least it wouldn’t be as hard or deadly as it would be if she attempted to do the same with a moderately powerful demon or one with more experience.

However, she was aware of dangerous demons roaming this islands, her superiors had been especially careful to warn her about this demon called Mikhainon, she had to stay away from him as much as possible, since his power was feared even between the warriors and none wanted to mess up with him unless it was really necessary.

She looked at the sky, night was falling upon the islands and consequently it would be a nice idea to walk back to her apartment where her beloved pets were waiting for her. She couldn’t help but feel a bit guilty, since with this much work she hadn’t been able to be around them as much as she used to, she just hoped that they could understand.

She almost jumped when a voice whispered in her ear, looking around immediately. It took her a couple of seconds to notice the key. She looked at it, surprised, she wasn’t used to sentient objects and this was obviously quite a surprise “Hum…hello?” She grabbed the key carefully, still a bit unsure “So…Freddy, how I can help you?”.

[[OOC: Are you ok with the color of Evangeline's speech (White) or want me to change it???]]

@"DerLampman"

Evangeline wasn’t exactly fond of cursing, but she had discovered that such kind of language had become rather common around this place so she just decided to let that slip. She just hoped that this…err…Key wasn’t of the cursing-at-least-once-per-sentence kind of creature.

She just smiled a bit when he pointed out her rather relaxed reaction towards him. If he knew half the stuff she had seen before he would easily understand why a talking key wasn’t that big deal or her to be fully honest.

She looked at the key as it floated in front of her, wondering what kind of help it would need. She was a bit surprised whit the key’s next words though, she wasn’t expecting the key to be worried about a soul, but hey, who she was to judge? Even her superiors had trouble to keep track of the amount of souls on Earth and who owned them, why wouldn’t a sentient key have one as well?

She listened to the key’s explanation carefully, rituals could be extremely troublesome even when they were performed correctly “Your body, it is still alive or at least showing signs of life or you died during the process?” If the second option was the right one, recovering the soul could prove to be impossible. She didn’t want to drop this info on him just yet, not wanting to make him lose hope, but she needed to know what she was going to be dealing with.

She could put the soul back together even if the body was dead, but she wouldn’t be able to restore it, and even less put it back inside the body for obvious resons.

@"DerLampman"

Evangeline just nodded, this was definitely going to make things a lot more complicated, but hopefully he would recover his memories if the soul was put back together. She wasn’t worried for that part, but for the one in between.

She had to face a demon…and to make things worse, on his Hell.

Dear Lord, help me.

“Well, at least that would give us a starting point. Would you mind leading me to that place?” Something was always better than nothing at all, and maybe, just maybe, that place would give them more clues to find the missing half of Freddy’s soul, or his body. Any of those would be nice.

“Also…hum, sorry for not introducing me properly before, my name’s Evangeline” She was sincerely ashamed for her lack of manners. She was a bit too eager to help him and she forgot completely to tell him her own name.

@"DerLampman"

Evangeline followed the key patiently, not really minding the several turns and wrong directions that he took. If he really couldn’t remember what happened, then she wasn’t surprised that he had problems to find his way through the city.

However…she really wasn’t expecting to be lead to an abandoned building that looked like if it was about to fall under its own weight. She couldn’t help but wonder in the ritual had caused this, or if the house had been abandoned and the time itself did this to what once could be a beautiful structure.

She looked as Freddy opened the door with whatever ability he had, making a quick note of it. Was this key able to open any lock, or just this one? She would need to ask later, but for now there were more important things to worry about than those.

She entered in the house, watching every step that she gave. The poor state of the whole place made it surprising for her that the place hadn’t fall apart already…or tat the floor supported her weight. However, she didn’t want to tempt her luck, so she tested the floor before giving a step. She wasn’t even sure of where she should be going…until she heard Freddy calling for her from the basement.

She walked inside the basement, the awful smell of a rotting body soon welcoming her. Placing a hand over her nose and mouth in an attempt to block the smell as much as possible, she walked towards the table with the red glowing rune. She used her free hand to check the body on it. She couldn’t really tell if it was dead or if it was in some state of deep hibernation…she wasn’t sure of how to call it. However, the body was perfectly preserved, what allowed the flame of hope to grow inside her chest.

If the body was still alive and only stuck in time thanks to the ritual, maybe she could return the soul to it, reanimating it.

The state of the obviously decaying body at its side worried her a bit…especially because of the tentacles. She never had seen anything like that before, so she didn’t know how to react to that. She carefully grabbed her golden halo on her right hand. She didn’t turned it into a sword just yet, but she needed to be ready…just in case.

“If this is your body, that means that there must be a way to…find the demon that has the other half of your soul, using this as a starting point” She started to search around the area, careful to avoid the rotting corpse and the odd tentacles on it, trying to find out how to go to the hell where the demon lived…

@"DerLampman"

Evangeline turned towards Freddy when she heard the scream and the sound of metal hitting the ground. She immediately ran towards him, still careful to avoid the bones and the tentacles, sincerely worried about him.

She didn’t knew how to react towards what was going on, come on, she wasn’t even sure of what was happening on the very first place. It was obvious that she felt relieved when Freddy returned to normal…or as normal as a sentient key can be.

She listened to what he had to say. This was definitely the weirdest thing that she had to deal with on her whole life…or at least it was between her top five for sure.

She walked towards the body once more, carefully looking at it as she thought about what was going on. She made quick recap to try to piece together this rather creepy puzzle. So…a weird ritual happened here, that was obvious, and something went awfully wrong, otherwise the mage would still be alive instead of being a pile of decaying bones pierced by tentacles.

The spell hit Freddy, not only forcing his soul out of his body, but also dividing it. Half of it went inside the key that was talking to her, but the other half was snatched by the demon that probably was also responsible of the mage’s death. However the demon wasn’t in this world at all, it probably was on its own dimension, still with said part of the soul.

The body was still here, and luckily it was oddly preserved and maybe alive. This took them to the next step of the whole thing, they needed to get the other half of the soul…and for that they needed to find a way to go into the demon’s hell and search for him in there, idea that Evangeline didn’t liked, not even a tiny bit.

“We need to find a way to go to the demon’s dimension. A ritual was performed here, and since those odd tentacles are still here I can tell that…hum…we can say that a door to said dimension was opened but never closed, since the ritual never properly ended thanks to the mage’s death. We need to find that door” She tried to be as clear as possible to Freddy, starting to look around for any leftover traces of magic energy or any kid of clue that would lead them to the entrance to that hell.