SHIFT 2 - Purgatory

Shadow and light

"Well, you know." Aridia looked down at the boy.

"I know I'm not as strong as I need to be. I need to..." He was cut off.

"You need to allow others to fight at your side. Numbers give each person more strength." Reginald stated looking at his son.

"Maybe that's my problem." Nagisa tilted his head.

"What?" Marcus couldn't keep the tiny smirk from appearing on his lips.

"You always taught me to fight alone. Never once did you train me to rely on someone else. Sometimes Collin would join our trainings, but it wasn't like you were teaching us to use each other's dtrengths in a fight." Nagisa pointed out.

"You fought with me." Mori stood just off of Marcus shoulder.

"Yeah, we have some moves. We should work on that." Nagisa agreed.

"Its good to have a partner, or someone you could use their strength to heighten your own, but there will be times your on your own." Marcus looked a little worried.

"I know how to fight alone." Nagisa stated.

"Yet, he isn't that great at playing well with others." Xavier chuckled.

"Collin, Coldar, you guys up for some trianing?" Marcus asked.

"Yeah sure." Coldar cried out leaping to his feet.

Collin tried to pull him back down, but the werewolf was out of his reach. "Ugh! Noooo!" Collin whinned.

"How many time to I have to tell you, never take Marcus or Mori up on anything to do with training!" He cried at Coldar. The werewolf laughed.

"Would you prefer, if I led it?" Beltane asked. Collin eyed the pretty archivist.

Aside form being near Marcus, occasionally they would see her talking to him, she had kept her distance from the family. Collin pointed to her now.

"Archivist don't fight." He said. "They have their books and their spells used for protection or healing." He was walking toward her.

"Collin, you grew up in the same house I did, you can't tell when a person knows how to defend themselves?" Nagisa smiled at his "twin".

"You're telling me, Mr. Follow the rules or die, gasp! Broke the fucking rules!" Collin chuckled as he yelled.

"Honey, he has been breaking rules, since the day daddy put a weapon in his hand. No one expected him to be complacent." Faraday held her mace over one shoulder.

"We don't need a family session." Nagisa growled.

"No, we do. Not to fight each other, but to learn to fight together." Marcus looked thoughtful.

"Awe man who put a bug in his assssss! Why do I have to fight?" Xavier was being dragged up between Lucifer, who looked repulsed by the whiney attitude of his brother, and Ozzie who was patting Xavier's shoulder. The twins came out with Leon and Race on either side of them.

Faraday moved toward Hari, but the siren went to her brother instead. Mori spread his wings slightly, getting ready. Nagisa watched as Lucifer pulled the shadows about himself. He was slightly hovering off of the ground.

"Wait!" The teen cried.

Everyone turned to look at him. Nagisa dashed inside. He raced through the halls to reach the library. Bursting inside, he saw the man sitting at his usual easy chair, legs crossed and a book in his lap. He had just put the cup back on the saucer, when he was startled by the teen.

"LUCIFER!" Nagisa cried.

"Um, I don't know..." Siris began.

"NO! Nagisa shook his head.