The Knights of Grimm - Act 4 - Whispers of Arkhonex

Chapter 10 - A Gifted Man Brings Gifts Galore

Kassius

He'd be lying if he claimed he was not scared, seeing Vir Nominis Umbra emerging from the darkness like that. Hands held together and that cunning smirk on his face, brown eyes staring directly into his amber ones.

Kassius glares straight back at the mysterious entity that is Vir Nominis Umbra, voice trembling slightly but combined with so much hatred for what he has done to the man he saw as a father figure. And for the deaths of Oobleck, Roy and Nolan as well. "You...what the hell are you doing here?" Kassius sternfully questions, causing Cardin to roll over with a confused and tired expression.

"Huh? Who're you talking to?" Cardin grumbles, tracking Kassius' line of vision to also see the Soothsayer standing there, in the darkness behind the stairs to the courtyard above. Cardin narrows his eyes, sitting upwards slowly to speak to him. "Who the hell are you?" Cardin questions as he presses one hand to his knee, able to see the trepidation on Kassius' face right now.

Vir Nominis Umbra chuckles, tapping his fingers together, as he stares to the two Huntsmen in the cell. "Vir Nominis Umbra – also known as the Soothsayer – at your service." He greets, bowing before the two of them with a smirk, and Kassius stands up quickly, faster than Cardin does. Winchester suddenly realises that the name that Kassius had mentioned was no lie, the entity really does exist – but he looks nothing like what he imagined. For something he has described with so much fear, he never expected him to look so friendly and human.

Vir Nominis Umbra walks forward, yet his hands stay held together, fingertips touching each other as he moves. "We meet again – and yet this time you can actually speak to me, Kassius. From what I can see – looks like you are in quite the pickle aren't you?" Vir Nominis Umbra asks him as he approaches their cell, looking at the Isomacium Bars, a metal he could most likely snap as easily as they could snap a twig. But he does not – he clearly does not tend to broadcast his powers to his enemies, leaving them at a severe disadvantage.

"Yet suddenly I feel so much safer behind these bars now." Kassius sarcastically scoffs as he stares at the Soothsayer, making the entity chuckle softly.

"Perhaps – but after my little performance back at Beacon Academy – I think maybe you know that these bars cannot protect you from me if I wanted to kill either of you." Vir Nominis Umbra reminds with that conniving grin on his face. Kassius stares straight into the eyes of the devil himself and within those irises he sees absolutely nothing, no soul – nothing.

Just his own reflection in the gloss.

"How the hell did you get in here?" Cardin naively asks him, completely unaware that Vir Nominis Umbra can literally appear anywhere at any time, even be in more than one location at the exact same time. Time and physical forms are of no boundaries to him, just tools for his own sick pleasure. But as Vir Nominis Umbra always does – with his cruelly sarcastic sense of humour – he gives a pretty vague answer for the uneducated Huntsman.

"Long story, it'd bore you. Although I would prefer to focus on a more pressing matter – such as getting the two of you out of this pig sty." Vir Nominis Umbra explains with the shrug of his shoulders, leaning against the pillar in the centre of the room, crossing his arms. He looks over to the two of them with a smile. "Because you both wish to leave this place – do you not?" He inquires.

"Sure, but how the hell can you do anything to help us?" Cardin asks, only for Kassius to sharply give him a glare.

"What the hell are you doing?" Kassius sternly whispers, grabbing onto Cardin's arm and pulling him away from the Soothsayer. Vir Nominis Umbra remains still whilst the two have a small little argument over letting him assist them.