Ch.20 Hidden in the soul

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It was only midday when Free left the police department.He whistled a tune as he was walking back to his penthouse knowing that maybe he should just begin tomorrow,he even speculated that maybe that mephisto fella had something to do with the cult.

"Guess I'll go home for the day"
He said as he walked back home.
It seemed peaceful for a while with the wind blowing and the sun shining,birds were singing and everyone was just enjoying their time.

He reached his apartment,and as he entered he of course had his lovely financee their to greet him.
After entering he just had a change of clothes went into the living room and dropped dead on the sofa drifting asleep.

Free was transported to a bright and foggy place.

"Where am I"
He questioned as he stood up and tried to navigate his way through the fog.
He saw a figure through the fog.
A dark humanoid shaped figure.
He approached it,but the further he went to farther the figure was.
It finally stopped.

He appeared the figure as the fog got thicker and thicker.
The black figure stood there as the fog thickened up.Just when free could barely see anything through the thick and suffocating fog it disappeared.

The figure stood still as free stood against it.He had nothing in his hands to attack the figure with and so did the black figure.
The black figure then started glowing from its core and disintegrated but reassembled into a giant silhouette of light outlined with a dark blue aura with a Prussian blue core in the centre of its chest with Piercing blue eyes.
The giant silhouette had Shoulder pylons and stood tall as it bent down to look at Free.
It stood with a burning aura and a fiery look in its eyes

"What even are you"
"Where am I"
Free questioned the giant.

The giant let out a roar as it manifested many gigantic pairs of wings made of pure light.
It roared the words 'Be not afraid' in a powerful yet distorted voice
The giant was barely visible in the bright place with only the giants aura outlining it's massive size.
The giant then curled up into a ball as it reduced into another type of being.

A being of angelic origin.
He looked exactly like Free but with white hair and two horns on his head pointing upwards (which is pretty weird considering he's an angel)
The angel opened its eyes as he revealed a pair of Glowing,golden,pearlescent eyes that locked gazes with Free.
He unfurled his wings that appeared more like a wyvern than that of an angel.
"Woah, All right this is new"
"Where the hell am I"
The angel said as it looked at Free

"Ok I don't know what you are or what I'm doing here"
"I just fell asleep and this happened"

"Oh"
"I see"
"Well first impressions are important as always"
"Hello"
"Free? Is it?"
"I'm Phanes"

Free looked at
"All right then"
"Phanes?"
"So what are you exactly"

Phanes looked at him as he finally remembered something.
"Ooooh"
"You're my vessel"
"No wonder you look like me"
(He was of course sidetracked)

"Phanes?"
Free looked at him
'what do you mean vessel?"

Phanes looked at free and realized that as always he was distracted
"Oh yeah"
"I'm an Archangel"
"I and a few others were chosen to be sent down into a special vessel made for us"
"You're mine it seems"
"Now I feel like this is a pretty important for me to tell you but..."
A few minutes later
"I see"
Free nodded in understanding

"Now I have a question Free"
"But"
"What do you fight for"
Asked Phanes

"What do you mean?"
"Though I've been dormant inside of you throughout your life"
"I still want to know"
"What makes you Keep on fighting"

Free smiled at him as he answered
"I don't know"
"But if I were to say"
"I'd probably fight for Freedom and to bring light to others in times of darkness"
"And probably to banish evil too"

Phanes smirked as he raised out a hand
"I'll be waiting for my return"
"Free"

Free reached for his hand about to shake it until everything went upside down.The place began to shift colours from a bright white to a dark red.
The did reappeared but this time it was a dark grey rather than a bright white.
Embers where flying through the air the smell of smoke and fire filled the atmosphere.

Phanes smacked Free's hand away as he held his face.

"Ph-.. Phanes"
Free said with a concerned face

Phanes looked at him with bloodshot eyes and blood streaming out of his mouth. He looked back as he said in a dark and distorted voice.
"Love and freedom"
"What other lies are you hiding within that mouth of yours"
"Is that really your reason?"
"Or do you fight to fuel that fire,that lust,the bloodthirsty need to spill blood upon mother Gaia's very soil"

Free looked at him as he was frozen in fear.
All the smoke had accumulated into phanes's body as he let out a bloodcurdling roar.

Transforming him into a giant demon, Towering over Free.It stood on its two legs as it looked at Free.His form was an amalgamation of shadow and decay, with obsidian skin that appeared to seethed with a sinister energy. His eyes burned with an eerie crimson light, and his chiseled features are etched with an aura of ancient malevolence. Jagged, ebony horns protrude from his skull, adding to his ominous visage.

His body was clad in tattered and decaying dark robes that billow around him like a shroud of death. His gaunt, elongated fingers hold an air of both decay and power, ready to unleash dark magic upon any who dare to challenge his dominance.

"Everybody has their own darkness to them"
It said
"I am conveniently yours"
"Nevermind that Phanes,even I don't know where he came from"
"I am that rage and lust for vengeance that you ever so crave personified"
"I was all those times you went rampaging killing innocents in less than. A few moments"

"You thought that it was your feelings of justice, freedom and vengeance but no."
"It was me that was harnessing the sin of wrath and pride channeling it inside of your blood, releasing your rage"

The demon laughed as everything had stopped and played in reverse.
The demon turned back into phanes,the sky went back into its original colour, Phanes turned back into the white giant as the giant turned back into the black figure.

The black figure transformed into a giant stairway leading into an abyss.
Free just stood still frozen.
Many hands exited the abyss extending as they reached free and dragged him into the dark place.

He suddenly woke up in his penthouse in the sofa in a cold sweat.

Cellinia looked at him with concern
"We're you ok?"
"Did you have a nightmare"
"You were talking a lot in your sleep"

"Cellinia"
"How long was i out for"
Free asked as he looked at the wall clock

"About an hour and a half"
She replied

Free looked at his hands and then looked at his surroundings.
He then looked at his lover and said
"Remember I told you that I could help you harness your abilities or something along the lines"

"Yeah,I remember"
"Why so?"
Cellinia asked approaching the man

"Get ready"
"We're going out to go training in half an hour"

Authors note: honestly bro this and the training chapter aftrythis is basically jus filler because my brain is kinda blank atm

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