Dakudisento (The Dark Descent)

Chapter 5: Tea's Bond

Tea falls out the portal landing on her feet and stumbles and falls on her knees. She looks around the area she was in. She was outside on a cliff with a great view of the frozen canyon below. The place was covored in snow. She stands up and dusts off the snow off her legs. In front of her was a gravestone with an engraved rose on it. She just stares at it when a girl walks right beside her. Normaly that would have surprised Tea but she didn't even flinch. The girl was about 18. She had a short skirt, with a black and red long sleeve hoodie, black stockings, and black and red boots. The girl also had a cross necklace on. The hood was over the girl's head. There was only silence as theey stood and stared a the gravestone, until Tea broke that silence with a question.

"Who's grave is this?" Tea asks.

"My mother's." The girl had a soft voice.

"I'm sorry."

"Don't be. She sacrificed herself to keep me alive."

"Wow. Wish there is someone who would do that for me."

"Don't say that. I'm sure there is. Everyone has that person. Wither the person is already there or soon will be."

"Maybe."

"Pfft. Mortals."

"What do you mean 'mortals'? Aren't you?"

"Nope. Or at least not all the time. I was aliive but not anymore."

"Didn't you say your mother kept you alive?"

"Oh she did. But in the process I lost my humanity. Had to give it up to survive."

"How so?"

The girl took off her hood. She had short black hair with red highlights. Her skin was pale white and smooth. Her eyes were white. She wasn't blind. But the color of the iris is a whitish gray. Tea thought they were beautiful. The girl adjusts her hoodie and pulls it down at the colar to show a big scar on her neck. She then pulled it back up keeping the hoodie off.

"I had to become a werewolf in order to stay alive." The girrl said.

"Wow. A werewolf?"

"Yes. Foul demons. I've tried to get the demon outside of me but it has become...difficult."

"How so?"

"The animal spirit inside has gotten so strong that it has multiplied. In order to kill the beast, I need to get the spirit out of my body then kill it. Getting it out is the easy part but fighting it. Now that's another story."

"Wait if you fought this thing before, and lost?"

"Uh, huh."

"How are you not dead?"

"Well since thes things are only spirits, they can't truely kill me. They can cut me, bite me, hell, they could ripe my head off. But when my body says that I'm dead. I just turn up rigt back here. In front of this gravestone. I'm trapped here until I can kill the beast and pass on. I'm tired of being alive and I'm ready to die. I just need help."

"Well. I don't know how much help I'll be, but I'll give it my best shot."

"Great, but first your gonna need a weapon. In my time here I have watched you. When you wer with that boy. Kai was it? You fought strongly alongside him. You killed many monsters."

"Yeah but that's because Kai was there. To help me. To keep me safe."

Tea looks at the girl who is already looking at her with a smile. Tea knew what it meant. The girl then dug into her pocket and took out a small baton like the ones you'd use in a track race. She hands it to Tea.