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Chapter 6 - Chapter 6: Underworld

Blood drips down a tree as voices of terror echo through a valley, the remains of a battle scattered throughout, an armoured knight curled over an ornamental lance that pierced him through his chest while holding a crimson handled sword with blood around the blade edge. He smiles with vengeful glee as his blood runs cold and drips down the Lance onto the battle ruin hill, a trail of blood leads away from the end of the lance and away from the battlefield and into the nearby woods. A fresh bloody handprint implanted upon a tree, while against another a man laid with a deep stab wound in his stomach, he wears chain-mail armour with red dyed padding underneath and a gold crown upon his head. Just below his hand is his sword also with a crimson handle and a black and gold crossguard, upon sliding his hand along the crossguard a figure engulfed in flames appears before his eyes "I could have saved you if you let me, still could, if you just …" "Shut, shut up" He interrupts the figure then removes his hand from the crossguard and grabs the handle "You brought everything to ruin, made me turn my allies against me" He added while coughing blood and then sliding the sword away "I didn't make you do anything, I simply made you honestly, and your actions are the only, right thing to do" The figure told him before disappearing into the void "I have truly made a pact with a demon" He uttered before closing his eyes

"We Hunters have existed for the centuries with a simple mission, protect humanity and Gaia, mother Earth, we fight creatures we call Possessed or Spirits, beings said to come from another world or maybe even another Earth, they mainly target human's with weak wills or those who have strong desires like wanting to gain power, protect something or someone, those Possessed can become corrupted by the power given by the Possess or Spirit allowing it to gain more and more control of the Possessed, sometimes even a strong-willed person can get Possessed, now those are the most danger and we class them as the D or sometimes a C type Possessed, their strength is the equivalent to that of Earthquakes causing them to be referred to as Disaster's"

The Doctor explained as a woman carrying a tray enters the room and starts passing out Lemonade to everyone "Umm, Thank you" Adrian thanked her with a shocked expression on his face while taking a glass of Lemonade before drinking it down it's tangy sourness flavour waking him from his shock "He took it better than the last, and that's just the basics dad" Samuel says before looking to The Doctor his father "True son, I haven't informed him of Possessed Clamity's, and Doomsday's or, The First wave" He answered while taking a Lemonade from his wife "Are you ready to hear more Adrian, it's alot to take in I know lad" He adds before thanking his wife with a kiss on the cheek "I know how you feel right now" The Wife told Adrian before taking his hand and gave it a soft comforting squeeze "The first time she found all this, I was on her parents Kitchen table with a huge hole in my lower stomach" The Doctor told him before pulling up his shirt revealing a huge deep scar then looks a exploding star on lower stomach "I had 4 blood transfusions and was basically bedridden for about year, even with healing magic" He then turns and shows the even larger scar on his back "No way a normal person would survived that" Adrian uttered with amazment with a sense of fear like he can sense The Doctor feelings when he received the wound "It was horrifically painly, wasn't it Ian" Adrian uttered without thinking about it along an image of the young man being shoot by a black figure with a red beam of magical energy "I never told you my name" The Doctor uttered with confusion before realising "Adrian, that's quite impressive" Samuel sits next to Adrian and grips his chin guiding Adrian to look at him "Look at me and tell me what you see in my soul" Adrian look at him and focus on his eyes seeing a strange glint of a memory "I see something?" "hold on to it and peer inside me" Samuel told him grabbing his top keeping Adrian from moving "Say what you see" Adrian peers into the glint as fragments of memories begin mentally tinkling out from Samuels eye's "How, is he doing this on his first attempt" Emily asked with amazement "Put simply, Yu, he has potential, and not like the others" Ian told her while still looking at Adrian and Samuel "You agree with us Mr Harfred, about Adrian usefulness" Mindy uttered with hope in her voice all the while Samuel grabs her hand feeling her fear that she covers with her smile "Yeah, he does" Adrian utters as he breaks his eye contact with Ian impressing him and causing Mindy to jump with joy "Also, I saw you two having sex" He added looking at Samuel and Mindy making them both go red and him to immediately feel their embarrassment "Shit, probably wasn't meant to see that" Adrian apologises seeing and feeling that Samuel is in disbelief and Mindy can't control her embarrassment "Those are our private memories Adrian" Mindy utters wrapping her arms around Samuel and begins shaking him childishly "Mindy, that's enough" Samuel told her sounding bored but everyone in the room can feel his true feelings of embarrassment having her hold him in such a away "He saw our bare bodies" Mindy uttered dramatically continuing to shake Samuel her face full of embarrassment comically almost "Don't worry" Emily told Adrian who looked over at her "I caught them going at it on a team building exercise last year" She uttered stareing up at the ceiling of the room "There like animals" She adds with a smirk "I watch for awhile" She admitted causing Mindy and Samuel to go white "I didn't see much and I didn't touch myself" Emily confessed "I was just curious" She joked but turned her head away as a hidden smile appeared on her face "I guess you were right, about how big he is" She then let out a chuckle while Adrian quickly understand and lets out a chuckle of his own as Samuel looks with shock at Mindy "Forgive me, it was all, umm, girl talk after class" Mindy confessed as she looked back at him with a smile of guilt all the while Adrian and Emily continue to laugh almost causing them to cough, Samuel and Mindy smirk to the positive energy the Adrian and Emily seem to emit like a wave of happiness filling but then suddenly ends as The Boss enters the room. "Adrian healed" The Boss asked Samuel and Ian who's standing against a wall still chuckling along even if everyone else has stopped "Ian, stop with that and just tell me?" A force of negativity is blast at Ian taking away his smile and replacing it with an annoyed expression causing him to look to The Boss "Uhh, yes he's recovered and can go home, ass" Ian tells him before walking over to Adrian and begins removing his bandages "It's a little early honestly, but as a doctor you have clearly recovered" Upon removing the first bandage discovering a faint outline of his injury causing Ian to remove the rest as fast as he could "Umm Adrian, are you in any pain" Adrian adjusts his body moving his hips and takes a deep breath something that hurt before but now nothing "Wow, I was in agony not 10 minutes ago" He told Ian with amazement "This magic stuff is amazing" He utters as Ian looks up at The Boss with a begging look but he looks away uninterested "Come on, your alive and in good enough condition, now get dressed" He then walks back upstairs as Mindy grabs Adrian's shirt and hoodie, Adrian stands with a look of defeat something that everyone in the room clearly have but are doing well to cover. "Ignore The Boss" Ian tells him as he finishes removing the bandages and moves aside so Mindy can pass "He's a veteran Hunter, you do this for long enough, you end up like him" He admits as Mindy helps Adrian into his shirt and hoodie "Spirits are real bastards" Ian uttered before looking at his son with worry "There ultimate weapon against us, is there ability to wait us out seeing as we're mortal, unlike them who are in a way, immortal" He then stands and place a hand on Adrian shoulder raising his Spirits and warming his soul which she immediately feels like he's warming her as well "But we have one thing they don't have, hope" His words makes him smile out of nowhere like his spirit has been cleansed, Mindy then smiles and hugs Adrian tight on his face causing the others to smile as well. "And they can't smile, at least not as bright as us" She told him as Ian looks at her and gives her a nod that she knows immediately what to do, she lets go of Adrian and looks over at Samuel fearfully before running into his arms. Adrian quickly becomes unnerved as a cold worried filled aura of emotion surrounds Mindy and Samuel "What's going on, I thought you were going to let me live" He asked looking at Mindy who walk over to Samuel and hugs him for comfort clearly distressed "You won't be killed, but your walking into hell mate" He tells Adrian while holding Mindy tighter with an aura of fear that effects everyone in the room, Mindy begins to cry causing Samuel to hold her tighter making everyone feel worse and Adrian to sit on the bed as fear creeps in. "Sam, calm yourself" Ian yells at his son before walking up to him and smacks him across the face, this destroys the fearful aura emanating from Samuel and helps him regain his sense of self. "I'm sorry, I got caught in the…" "Don't worry son, no real harm done" Ian interrupted assuring his son before looking back at Adrian seeing him back sitting on the bed "Son, sitting in one place is the worst thing you can do" He tells Adrian see exactly what Adrian is seeing as images of Kera's bloody body in front of Adrian "Why, why her, why not anyone else" Adrian utters in tears as he holds his hands together while shaking "Why, not, me" He says while crying hard before fall onto the floor with Kera's cold lifeless face inches from his, Mindy attempts to go and comfort him but Samuel holds her back seeing that Adrian needs this. Ian takes a seat on the bed and watches Adrian beg and cry as if he has seen this hundreds of times before "Fucking cruel" He thought as every face of every person he seen do the exact same thing, Mindy drops to her knees while Samuel sits behind her still hold her around the chest as she cry's harder almost to the point of waking Ieuan. After 10 minutes Adrian finally begins to slowly cry as the image of Kera's corpse begins to fade from his sight "Kera, no'' Seeing this himself Ian grabs Adrian's shoulder and gives him a mournful yet understanding nod "You can't mourn for her forever son" He tells Adrian knowing this from experience "But I can't just …" "I'm not telling you to forget, but you should not let it hold you in place, it's not good for you and she won't want you too" Ian tells him causing Adrian to finally stop seeing her image before him, a last tear to drop from his eyes on the floor where her head was as Adrian wipes away his dry and wet tears away. Ian feels eyes on him and looks to see The Boss standing against the doorframe with his arms crossed, he looks at Adrian with an understanding look and begins heading back upstairs causing Ian to grip Adrian shoulder hard. "Adrian you need to go, it's almost morning" He tells Adrian as he looks to see Samuel is holding a now sleeping Mindy who is curled up in his arm "You need some sleep, we all do" Ian adds as Samuel picks up Mindy and begins to carries her up the stairs after The Boss, Adrian begins to follow but Ian stops him with a question "A question lad, when does revenge become obsession?" His question caused Adrian to pause and think for a moment "I don't know," He finally responds "But I think I need to know, for her sake" He told Ian who smirks before grabbing Adrian shoulder and begin guiding him upstairs, as they do unknown to them Emily watches Adrian with a nervous look as if something scares her.

Upon getting upstairs, before him is a wall of pictures showing groups of people dressed in the same black cloaks he saw them wearing. "They are family" Ian tells him before pointing to one that has four people in a devastated city, three being men and one female nun. "That is my grandfather and grandmother after they killed Hitler," he adds, pointing to a man standing next to the Nun, who wears a British army jacket with a torn black cloak, and the Nun is dressed in a damaged black habit with a sash about to fall apart. "They killed Hitler?" Adrian uttered as the idea of the leader of the Third Reich was Possessed "He was Possessed?" "Yeah, and my grandfather told me and my brother that most of the destruction you see of Berlin, was from the fight between the task force and Hitler" Adrian eyes wide upon being told this as he looks and noticed one man without an arm and another with a bloody face "Wow, are there other famous figures who were Possessed" Ian smirks and grabs his shoulders "Lots but you should get some sleep, like we all do" He then starts to pull Adrian towards the front door as he sees another photo, this photo had four men on it two looking like Ian and the other like a young The Boss meanwhile the other two one on a motorbike carrying a sniper rifle and the other man resembling Ian. He continues to follow Ian outside where The Boss is in the car they came in looking annoyed and impatient "Hey Boss" Ian yelled out with a smile at The Boss him looking back with annoyance "Promise you won't break his neck on the way" He told The Boss with a chuckle as he opens the front door to the car and offer it to Adrian, Adrian looks at The Boss who's aura of intimidation shots at him almost knocking him down. "Hey uncalled for" Ian yells at the Boss seeing the intimidation The Boss radiating before looking away still annoyed "Get in" Adrian climbs into the car as The Boss starts the car "Be safe lad" Ian told him while giving The Boss a half smile that tells him simply to behave "You have my word" The Boss responded as Adrian strapped into his seat "Dammit, you've hell to deal with boy" He adds as Ian closes to car door causing Adrian to look to The Boss who begins driving away from the house.

As they drive through the dark streets that were illuminated by their headlights and the lights coming from the houses, Adrian sat uncomfortably, mind full of worry as The Boss drove while emitting a negative aura filling the car. Adrian looks at The Boss as if something is drawing his thoughts to that day that Kera died, a fog filled his mind causing him to hold his head in pain as a black hooded figure appeared in the road. The world goes grey turning into a bleached landscape, causing Adrian to fall on his back as his seat disappears beneath him "Is that him, lad?" The Boss asks, standing over Adrian and pointing at the figure, Adrian looks up to see the figure and memories of them hunched over Kera mouth dripping with blood. "Yeah, yes that's him" He utters with a sense of fear as he tries to avert his eyes as The Boss grabs the back of his neck "Anything about him stands out to you about it?" The Boss asked while gripping Adrian neck even tighter and brings his eyesight upon on the memory "Yes, you cruel bastard" Adrian spat as he attempts to avert his eyes "Don't you want that monster to pay, don't you want it dead" The Boss utters tightening his grip as a grin of rage fills his face "I, can't think ahhhh" Adrian cries as the pressure of The Boss's rage and grip cause him to struggle to breath "Fucking idiot" The pressure on Adrian disappears and he then finds himself back in the car and find they are in front of his house "What the …?" "Get out, you're useless" The Boss tells him his rage turning into a cold simmer brings a cold chill through the car, not taking a chance of angering him more Adrian quickly opens the Car door and leaves as The Boss glares at him still. "I wish I could help" Adrian tries to say but the moment he closes the door The Boss immediately drives away, Adrian looks on helplessly and almost feels like he could collapse as the events of the night land on him at once. "What the fuck is going on?" He says to himself his words carried away by the wind "This didn't happen, did I really?" The memory of him beating the man to death floods his mind almost making him vomit, Adrian rushes to the short wall in front of his house and arcs over it preparing to vomit, but only dry fleam fills his mouth. "It was a Possessed, not a person, but?" Adrian utters as he feels powerful eyes upon him from above, upon looking up he sees nothing but a strange dark silhouette on his roof which quickly dissipates, leaving him full of dread. "What have I done?" As he begins to walk towards the house two men sit on the roof of a nearby house "He with the Hunters" The first man utters "He killed Dillon, bastard" The second man utters as they glare at Adrian as he starts to enters his house, as they prepare to attack a pair of hands grab their shoulders and pull them back. "Not now" A third man told them with a quiet rage as he pins them to the ground and three others join him "Alpha" The second declares as he shakes from the third man's intense aura "He killed one of us" the first told the third but he just pushed the man harder breaking the lining of the roof "We've lost five all together tonight, two Hunters murdered four others without even trying" A woman told them gritting her teeth remembering finding their bodies left in a bonfire "We'll use him to lure out the Hunters and make them the Hunted" The Alpha told them as he lets go of the men letting them stand, he walks in front of his pack and grins with sadistic thoughts "We'll make them scream, bleed and suffer for all of those their order have killed in their so-called crusade"

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