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part II Efreet the lonesome one.

Jared looks down "Efreet is a powerful demon, I have heard about him in tales..." He looks for retribution for his love, Shiva...."

Relm looks back at Jared, "Where did you hear that story?" Relm asks with curiousity,

Jared laughs, "Eh ...No where you would know..." he than retreats upstairs.

Alexandra stops ruffling Doran's hair and slowly returns upstairs as well, Yumiko looks at Doran. "So a demon is next....Shiva the angel maybe to be the key to defeating him...." Yumiko says with certainty Yumiko looks at Doran still thinking, "Doran may I see the Ice Moon Conch?" Doran looks toward her and pulls it from his pocket and hands it to her silently, "thanks Doran..This will help my research...." Afterword Yumiko runs up the stairs excitedly

Relm sits beside Doran now, They both begin to inspect the beautiful craftsmanship of the alter, "Hey Relm...?" Doran says shyly, "I..." Relm than yawns as he looks toward Doran.

Relm opens his heavy eyes "We have much to do tomarrow Doran..." Relm than smiles gently as he slowly retreats upstairs all most businesses like, Doran looks back to the staircase than to the alter again than slowly raises from his siting position and begins too to retreat upstairs.

The next day everyone meets in the lobby.. Jared and Yumiko and Alexandra bring the packages for a long trip Relm looks around, "Are we all ready...? " He says happily,

Courtnie rolls her eyes, "Yes little brother...we're all ready." she says almost Laughs She than walks out to a large vehicle of transportation. Courtnie looks back with her hair blowing in the wind, "This is a Raybrant Airship, you're all, except my brother of course, lucky enough to get this once in a lifetime experience, Especially for you Doran, " she says being Snarky and nice at the same time, "Think of this as payback for defeating Shiva " she says winking Courtnie begins laughing than starts giggling slightly and retreats onto the airship,

Relm enters the airship last after everyone else, Saying goodbye to his beloved home he had just gotten back to, after he retreats within the airship, it folds up and begins to lift vertically, , Relm paces in the meeting room of the airship, "So...we are going to the Vatican cathedral?" Courtnie whispers, Relm stops,

"Truth is ...I have only been to the Vatican cathedral once..."Relm says sincerely."You could always feel a great evil below...." Relm looks out the window, "But you must have an appointment to gain entrance," Relm says looking down.

Courtnie looks around and spots Yumiko, "Wait....! Yumiko is a princess... and she can offer an audiance from her region, They have refused me over and over...But they have a debt to your region," Courtnie smiles sheepishly,

Yumiko looks down, "well okay..." she than crosses her arms, "But that means" She than bequeaths the ice moon conch to Alexandra "I won't be able to help you..."She looks out the window, "I'll be meeting with the Vatican, ...I'll get you all in, but than I have to leave They have been looking to have an audience with me...for some time now.." Yumiko says with disdain. the airship flies to the vatican, and lands upon the roof and they begin to enter through the stairway having already notified the Vatican cathedral while aboard the ship,

The gaurds stop Relm and the others, and Yumiko raises her hand and they cross like the red sea. "Princess Yumiko of East Ireland...." the gaurds seem stunned and pleased,

The pope comes from the crowd, "My Yumiko it is nice that we can have these discussions, " He says with great joy,

Yumiko nods, "There is one condition, If we have this conference my friends may look around down below..Otherwise...I'm leaving.." The pope waves his hand and the head gaurd takes Relm and the others down below, He leads them to a door,

The head gaurd turns around "From here you're on your on your own...It is dangorous though..." he warns, Relm and the others begin to make their way below to the basement below the Vatican cathedral.

Courtnie looks around coming into the basement below, "There are...5 hallways?" she says with fear,

Relm looks down sadly, "We are going to have to split up into 5 groups of 1 then." Relm begins down the hallways all the way to the right, Courtnie takes the next over, than Alexandra takes the hallway all the way to the left. but before she does feeling as though, she must, she hands Jared the ice moon conch, Doran takes the Next one from Alexandra and Finally Jared takes the middle hallway. Alexandra begins running she sees a flame ahead, on a torch she now realizes, it's all she can really see. She takes it from it's holding place, and a path opens up, "Hmmm." She wonders as she walks down the hallway path,

Courtnie finds a flame and realizes its a torch as well, she lifts it to show her way ahead and a path opens for her as well, "I hope this isn't a trap" she mutters to herself,

Relm looks to see a torch, he takes it being able to see with his ball of light, but when he lifts it no path appears the torch remains unlit, He can barely see anything but a large flame ahead. Doran falls into the same predicament grabbing the torch instinctually but only being able to see a large flame ahead. Relm lights his torch on the large flame, and smiles as he walks down the stairs, Doran does the same, now being able to see,almost in sync Courtnie, Alexandra, Relm, and Doran, see a holster for their torches in front of them. they put their torches into the holsters and each time they do there is a click after they let gravity take it into the holster. As they look they see each other through the glass now lit brightly by the flames light, and a pathway still needed to be made to get to a large door below, Jared makes his way through the hallway he walks down the steps he sees a fire, spurt up beside the stairs menacingly, Jared finds a large wall in his way, then he hears a click and part of the wall falls away, another two clicks and finally one more The large wall is no more. He rushes through a large door and notices a large creature Gorging itself on the flames, it than notices Jared. and begins to charge him, Jared dodges effortlessly, and tosses a dagger into the bests eye, the fire from the beasts body turns the dagger to dust immediately. It begins to roar spurting fire from its mouth. Jared thinks quick, this may be his end, He puts his hands together and chants " Reverse the Demons power to me and let it be mortal " he says as a fireball smashes into him, but his eyes burn with red, he watches the fire eat at the demon as if it were mortal, it screams like a boar, but to no avail it's soon melted, all that's left is a torch from within , He picks the torch up and his knives begin to burn with fire as the hit air, now it seems as though anything he throws combusts. He than brings the torch to the giant flame holder in the center, and his touch lights the torch as he puts it into the holster, the entire place opens up and lights up in that moment.

Yumiko hears the place moving around as the ground quakes below her, she closes her eyes and grins, "Good luck guys..." she mutters as she continues to listen to the popes suggestions,

Jered walks forward to the next hallway which is gigantic noticing everyone is waiting for him up ahead by giant doors. " Hey it's Jared!" Courtnie yells, with delight.

Alexandra looks back at him, " Whatever you did....opened up our glass archways, " she than looks down silently,

Doran looks toward Jared and smiles, "Good job Jared!!"

Relm looks ahead feeling intense heat from behind the doors before him, "Let us go than..." Relm says allowed,

Alan pulls from his pocket "I ran out of daggers..." He than looks down "I guess they'd be no use anyway against Efreet" He says with dismay,

Courtnie looks to the side of the structure, " So Efreet must be a fire demon I'm assuming, So Jared you stay as support with me and brother...we'll let Alexandra and Doran take the lead because they will be most effective against this enemy. " They begin to walk ahead Alexandra and Doran ahead, and Courtnie, Relm, and Jared behind, Alexandra pushes the giant door open with all of her strength, she than waits before walking any farther into the darkness, Doran walks forward nervously, A throne comes into view as the room lights up with flames, A shadow sits upon this throne,

"Who Dares To Come before the strongest of All Demons.....?" The voice growls, Doran shatters silently,

Alexandra steps forward, :Who dares? " She says with humor "We do The Chosen few!" She than begins in a grin "Sent by an angel....!" Efreet rises from his throne,

he wares red skin and his eyes blaze under his black hair, "Than whoever sent you here...sent you to your death!!" he rushes toward Alexandra on lava, Alexandra holds her sword steady and parrys his charge and jumps over him slashing at him as she flips over him, he howls in anger and pain, he quickly heals right after with a grin, Doran immediately surprises efreet with an attack with his minerva blade Efreet is cut, he howls again with anger,

He than flips back and puts his hand to his wound, "That blade is Shiva's holy blade...this wound will not heal..." He than appears behind Doran and back hands him and Doran full force hits the wall knocking him unconscious and the blade falls to the ground.

Relm charges forward with his staff forward "Holy!" he says as his staff shoots holy blasts with the essence of minerva, Efreet screeches.

Courtnie's eyes intensify, Courtnie plants the staff firmly on the ground and closes her eyes, "Purify" an insignia appears below efreet unable to move due to Relm's assult, and nothing seems to happen until minerva's essance gets within him with the spell, He screeches once again realizing its the staff of manerva.

"Jared now!!" Alexandra screams.

Jared begins chanting what comes to his mind as he holds the ice moon conch, " From icy past be reborn, Shiva the ice angel...." He holds the conch up higher as he opens his eyes determined to victory An icy essence pours from the conch Shiva's form is revealed but her eyes stay closed within Efreets presence,

"do not call out my name..." she mutters beneath her breath. "Do not call out my name..."

Efreet's eyes meet shiva's form, He spurts fire from his nose, as he mutters, "Shiva...?"

Her eyes open and intensify, she charges toward him with fury and icicles running up the side of the hallways, She begins viciously kicking and back handing him than smacking him with her long frozen hair, Than she flips way back and opens her hand, And encases him within ice putting out his harsh flames, "Efreet! How dare you betray me! and leave me all alone for all those years And Dare to call out my name! " She slowly brings her hands together and the ice breaks, "Absolute Zero!" She screams, "Let that be a lesson to you Efreet....The one man I truly Loved and have truly hated, never betray a woman you say you want to live with!"

he arises and kneels before her, "I am so sorry my fair princess shiva..." He begins to cry "Please forgive this pitiful lump of flesh before you... I wasn't able to protect you and I ran away...like a coward. " He looks up with his eyes turning blue from her cold presence washing away the flames, "Oh dear Shiva...I was so young and scared...please forgive me..." his tears freeze on his face "I would never do that knowing what I know now. I now have the power to protect you..."

Shiva kicks him across the face with her icy foot, "How dare you efreet!" She shakes her head "No power is worth what happened I can protect myself now and don't need this pitiful power which you go on about, I shan't forgive you...I will hate you for all of eternity, I cannot rest because of your face looking back leaving me behind for those bandits to rape and kill me..." she slaps Efreet " I Will not forget my all consuming hatred!" his face freezes with her hand,

He collapses. "My love....I will do nothing but crumble before you for my betrayal and any punishment you wish to dole out I will accept but please one day...please save me from this guilt that eats me like the flames around me, "

Shiva stops with an icy glare. "Give your powers to these children and help them along with me...from there we will see if I will consider what you ask. " She looks down with sad eyes like the ocean,

He smiles "Thank you..."

She looks up with icy anger "I did not say I would forgive you! I said, I would maybe consider forgiving you!! Do not forget my all consuming hatred which chills my soul! I will not forget what you did!" she than turns and her chilled essence returns to the conch,

Efreet stands, "As my love suggested I will give you my power, it will help you in many ways, " he holds out a lantern and gives it to Alexandra "This is the black fire lantern and it will call for my powers if you need me, " his essence than burns into the lantern "thank you" he says as he fades away into the lantern

Jared looks up as he begins to walk through the doors back to the Vatican cathedral, "Shiva the hindu goddess? and Efreet the lord of damned...? were once lovers?"

Courtnie collapses, "That was horrid ..." she quivers.

Relm looks up. "Well it's finally over..." he says happily, He looks now to jared, "I wonder what is next on the list..." he says with curiosity

Alan looks to the drawn up list, " I think the closest Gaurdian would be Maureen the siren, appearantely she likes to woo men with her voice and she is particularly, close..." Jered says with intregue.

Relm's eyes fade to glance at the ground, "while we are in the Vatican, cathedral I was thinking I could get something finished..." Relm walks forward with resolve. Courtnie and Jared look at each other. Relm returns to the base floor with everyone following inquisitively. Relm Enters into the meeting room where Yumiko is having a conference with the leaders of the cathedral, and the country.

Yumiko glances up from the ground, "Unfortunately I'm going to have to decline...I feel that my people wouldn't accept and it would be irresponsible as their leader not to represent their decisions. " Yumiko says with resolve as she looks Relm's way and begins to walk toward him,

Relm cringes "I apologies for interupting but..." Relm says with unease.

Yumiko interupts "We were just finished talking anyway," she says with affirmation.

Relm looks down as Yumiko begins to walk out of the room, "I must...ask you all something very important..." Relm says with conviction, "What was it that happened to me at the monastery I was stationed at?" Relm says with doubt. "And what was the name of that monastery?" he says in disillusion.

The members look back at him with tremulous understanding. A woman in beautiful red robes, rises out of the group, "...You have....Efreet and Shiva correct?" Her eyes burn with wisdom and knowledge. "I will tell you what you want to know AFTER you obtain all of the 9 gaurdians of heaven." She looks to the ground, "Do you know why there are 9 Gaurdians?" Relm wonders with curiosity, as the other Vatican cathedral members leave the room. "the reason is because..." she whispers, "Because it was made to the perfect number of ten, and the tenth is a Human who will be seen as a divinity in the Starscapes." She smiles faintly, "Relm you are special....The Vatican chose you for a reason....that is....all I can say for now" she says cryptically. Than begins to take her leave. Relm Realizes only him and Yumiko are left in the room.

Yumiko puts her hand on Relm's shoulder. "Let's go Relm...I think we've spent way too long here already." she says humorously.
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A visit to the Vatican cathedral...