Unraveling Witch

Passing Judgment

I was alone in a vast world of darkness. I started walking forward thinking of my last trial.

FLASHBACK

"My blood! That's my blood!" A vampire cried out pointing a finger at me. I looked down at my hands and found them smeared in blood. What just happened? I was drawing a blank.

"You killed me!" A succubus exclaimed looking at me in rage. "I just wanted to show you a whole new world of pleasure. What do I get? Decapitation and my heart ripped out." She seethed. I looked down at myself and I was drowned in blood it seemed. I could feel it all over me, even in my hair! I felt dirty! It was suffocating me! I tried to whip it away but more would seep through my pours.

"I had a mate! She's out there all alone now." An eagle​ demon yelled with tears in his eyes. Soon I was surrounded by those who I've killed in my years. They screamed for justice. They blamed me for their deaths. I shut my eyes and covered my ears but it didn't stop. Soon I was being shoved from person to person.

"Look at all those you have killed! If you would've just died we would all be alive! Is your life worth more than all of ours combined!?" A witch yelled sweeping her arms out wide towards the crowd around me. I was horrified. All those souls, I killed them all. There was easily two hundred or more surrounding me.

I gripped the sides of my head and sank down onto the floor. What was I doing here? Why did I kill these people? Was I a monster? What right did I have killing them? I was so lost and confused. They all chanted my name accusing me of killing them. I ruined their lives, took them from those they loved. I was a demon! I was a witch, the devils whore!

"SHUT UP! LET ME THINK!" I screamed. Their words, shouts and cries were like bullets. They tore through me and I felt their pain. I felt the deaths I had given them. Some were okay, but others were brutal. Why would I kill someone in a way as I had?

"You don't deserve to think! You deserve to die and suffer an eternity of torture!" They screamed out.

"You threatened the balance!" A witch shouted out to the crowd. Balance? Why was that so familiar. Like there was a whole revelation waiting to be had behind that simple word? I frowned thinking hard trying to drown out their voices. I was pulled to my feet. Yet even as I was screamed at passed around from person to person I thought on that word. Then it all clicked. I blinked realizing fully who I was and what I was doing. This was another test!

"SSSIIIIIILLLEEENNNCCCEEEEEEE!" I bellowed.

END OF FLASHBACK

I passed the trial and found myself in this bleak cold abyss. I had to either make peace with those I killed or force them back. These test were conditioning me to handle those I would trap within the spear. Souls were no light matter to deal with. In the wrong hands they would read havoc on the mortal realm.

I walked on feeling shaken still by my past two trials. Still, I was making progress. I was succeeding and can't afford to fail now! I walked on and on staying straight. Finally in the distance I could see Talia waiting

"You passed, but you still have all that blood on your hands." She said. It was true, I was still covered in it.

"A pound of flesh for a pound of flesh. Slowly I will scrub the blood from my soul. That isn't the problem right now though. Your next trial has been put into motion. If my theory is correct this is the last of your trials." I said.

"Oh? What is your theory?" She asked looking highly amused by me.

"Three trials, body mind and soul. The bridge was my mind, my soul was those who I killed and now body. Are we to fight?" I asked.

"You are very quick on the uptake witch." She said drawing her spear from her back. A shadow of her spear appeared before me. I didn't hesitate to take it. "Come now, this battle isn't to the death. Though it still stands that your failure will bring death." She said then lunged at me.

I barely stepped away from her spear. I returned with a jab of my own but she caught it. She slammed it and me to the ground. I wanted to take a time out to groan and curse but I had no choice but to roll away from her attack. I hopped onto my feet and twirled around.

Her spear light up and she shot out a soul from it. It formed an orb and wailed as it went for me. I sliced through it with my own shadow spear. Rapidly more souls were fired at me. I slashed threw them and danced around those I wasn't quick enough to get. The second they touched the ground then rose up turning solid.

I turned to face them but was kicked in the back by Talia. I scrambled up decapitating the head of a zombie like spirit. This was kind of fun I had to admit. Talia pressed forwards slashing a zombie like spirit to get it out of her way. That's when I thought of a beautiful idea. I ran at her and power slid between her feet using the staff to knock her down. She didn't fall fully, stumbling forward a few steps.

It was what I needed either way. I quickly jumped onto her back and used the staff to start choking her. "I think I've got you!" I yelled. I spoke too soon as a one of her arms reached back. I was sent sailing through the air in a blink of an eye. I landed and slide against the ground. Okay, that was a bad plan. I got up and stumbled to my feet. Fucking feeling that in the morning I'm feeling that now!

For hours we went back and forth, quite frankly I was beyond exhausted. I staggered to my feet once more. How many time was I going to be tossed to the dirt? 'It's no far, she was bigger than me, stronger than me, had more arms than me, and a staff that works! Wait, oh shit are you kidding me?' I had the blood of many on me as does Talia. That's what she uses against me!

I pointed my staff at her and willed the souls I have killed at her. I did so in a way that made the staff recoil like a gun. It was rather satisfying. Talia did good fending off the hordes but was soon over powered. When an orb hit you the zombie like spirit formed grasping you. I know because I had the pleasure of finding out several times! She fell to the ground and the horde just kept coming for her.

"STOP!" She yelled and everything disappeared. She got up looking a little beaten up. Still looked a hell lot better than my ass. "You have passed. Take my spear and return to the mortal plane. Once there it will truly be yours." She said dropping her spear into my hands. It was taller than I was! No wonder she was beating my ass with it for so long! SHE EVEN HAD A BIGGER SPEAR! Suddenly we were back in the otherside.

"Thank you Talia, once I pass I will bring it back to you." I promised weakly before turning around. At the otherside of the bridge was Sesshomaru still standing there waiting. I really thought he had abandoned me! "I did it.....lets.....gg" I started to say but dropped like a sack of potatoes. Mind, body and spirit fully drained.

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