Ryuji's eyes opened as he layed opon the ground, he had gone unconscious when he fryed his arc-circuts.
"God... Is... With... Me-"
He heard the voice of someone just a few meters away from him.
The young man raised his head, to see a boy with brown spiky hair in a black polo, he looked like he had been ruffed up a bit.
He was holding a broken blade in his hand, he limped his way over to ...
'the goblin lord!'
Ryuki looked and saw, he was coming straight towards him.
He remembered, he never killed it.
It had regeneration magic and he didn't have enough arc-energy to find his weak spot, and this boy. Who looked a little familiar was coming straight towards him recklessly.
It had accord to him that this boy had already been fighting this thing, and by himself sense
There seamed to be no one around, and from the look of things he was hanging on by a thread, his clothes were all but falling apart, and he was bleeding from the temple.
Yet, he kept coming.
'is this guy crazy?!'
Ryuji thought.
'who is he? Anyway... Wait-'
He got a peak at his face. It was ..
Jack turner!
Lisa's date!
She sed he was a novice, he knew that a hunter in training at his level wouldn't last long facing a goblin lord.
"!"
He tried to pull himself up, he needed to get this reckless kid out if here, but...
His body wouldn't let him.
Infact. He was paralyzed from the neck down, he could only move his head.
'damn!'
He must have nearly caused a critical overload in his arc-system, if he had over charged his circuits any more then he had did, he possibly would have had a seizure, or worse... A heart attack.
There was no time to think about that.
"God... Is... With... Me..."
He was right in front of the massive hulk of a beast, it let out a growl and grabbed the boy.
"No!"
"!"
The boy was squeezed in it's massive palm, constricted so much he saw the boy almost flatten in his torso, but the boy stabbed the beast in it's index finger and it let out a screech, it released the boy and he dropped to the ground.
The boy as soon as he landed on his butt sucked in, almost non-voluntary and his chest and stomach seamed to...
Reform.
And not only that but his eyes were glowing, something was happening.
The boys hand manifested Hebrew letters in bright gold opon the back of it as he got to his feet.
'what the-'
Ryuji thought to himself.
'Could it be?'
Before he could finish that thought, the boy stabbed him once again into the torso and plunged his left hand within it, then a bright white flame exploded into the monsters torso, it let out a screech of terror as it devoured him.
Then it exploded into...
Shards?
Snow?
Something like that.
The boy stood there silently for a second, his bangs covering his eyes, he raised his hand towards his face. Studying it before letting out a weak laugh and muttering to himself...
Then he collapsed.
There was a silence as ryuji figured out something about jack turner, not only was he courageous...
But he was a seal weilder.
infact he was THE seal weilder.
* * *
"Darling~ open wide... Say ahh~"
Lisa smiled as she held the form to jacks flustered face as he sat in the bed at undertowns infirmary.
"Uhh... I can feed myself."
Lisa frowned a bit as she drew her forkful of cheesecake back a bit, she was awfully close to jack and was being vary, vary, VARY affectionate. Which was both something that jack liked, and made him incredibly embarrassed. "But I want too..."
She gave him puppy eyes, which only made him feel even more flustered, but also. She was so cute, he couldn't help but give in.
"F- fine."
He relectently opened his mouth.
"Ahh-"
She smiled and fed him.
"Ehehe~ good boy."
At that, jack decided to quit protesting about her calling him that, the truth was he loved it when she called him that.
"So." He chewed.
"Yes my love?" She tilted her head to the side. "Um... I know this is a stupid question but, are we... A thing now? Officially I mean."
She became a bit annoyed when he asked that. "Yes. Why would I be calling you all these pet names if you weren't mine?"
Jack felt a bit silly after saying that.
"Right... Sorry."
She smiled once more as she sat close to him on his hospital bed. "Your lucky your cute."
"Geez..."
She fed him another piece of cheesecake and gave him a headpat, before leaning her head on his shoulder.
Jack sat there and felt his heart race as he breathed in her sweet perfume, it was finally sinking in. 'lisa Elwood, my dream girl... Is in love with me. And... She's my girlfriend now.'
He couldn't help but grin.
She looked up at him and smiled.
"You should smile more, you barely do."
He gave a nod and let a satisfied sigh.
After a few moments of silence and really enjoying the whole thing, he turned to her. "By the way, how long have I been out?"
She raised her head.
"About... Three hours? give or take yeah. I've been awake five. When they got to us they healed us all up and bright us over hear to the infirmary. Though they didn't really need to do anything on you, you were already all healed by yourself... Thanks to that seal I suppose."
She looked at jacks left hand.
"By the way, remember ryuji?"
"Yeah?"
"He sed he saw the whole thing, he was just paralyzed from overuse of his circuits, I think he wants to talk to you about-"
Knock- knock-
Click! Creeeeek-
"Speak of the devil." She grinned as the tall handsome young man walked in, his black leather jacket draped over his shoulder.
"Sorry for the intrusion."
She shook her head.
"There's no need to apologize, right jack?"
Jack nodded. "Yeah. It's all good."
Ryuji bowed his head and sat down in the seat next to jacks bed. "So, jack... How are you feeling?"
"Oh. I'm fine. Thanks for asking." Jack smiled
Awkwardly.
"I see... Well good. Anyway, jack... Do you mind if I ask you a few... Questions?"
"Not at all."
Ryujis expression turned serious as he leaned forward. "Alright, well... I'll get right to the point. Jack, do you have a divine seal?"
Jack sat there in silence for a moment before answering. "Yeah."
"Do you know what authority it grants you?"
"Authority?"
"He means what power does it give you."
Lisa explained.
"Oh." He turned back to ryuji.
"Well. I can destroy magic with my left hand, and I can do the same with arc-craft."
"I see. So tell me this, how long have you had it?"
"Um... Two weeks? Something like that yeah."
"Hmm... One more thing, do you know what the writting on your hand means?"
"Yeah, it's Hebrew... I believe it's the word... Mashah? Yeah, Mashah."
Ryuji paused for a moment, it was confirmed to him in that moment. "The seal of anointing."
"The what?"
He stood up and stood against the wall with his arms crossed, leaving his jacket on the bed. "The seal of anointing, that's the official name of your seal... The church keeps tabs on certain seals and who weilds them, for example... There's a guy named James Liam who has the seal of ink. Which gives him the ability to summon a divine object known as the pen of authors."
"I see... Wait, will I be able to summon a weapon too?"
"Well... That's not important. What you need to know is that your seal in particular is vary... Important... The last time someone had your seal was about... 80 years ago."
"I see... Who was it?"
"Ever heard of anestesia crosswell?"
He shook his head. "What about you Lisa, have you ever heard of her?"
"Mhmh." She too shook her head.
"Well, she's not talked about much because of what happened to her. But basically...
She was the greatest hunter of her time, they say she fought Loki, Thor and Oden all at the same time, and won the fight in two minutes-"
"Really?" Jacks eyes widened with interest.
"Yup."
He explained.
"and she could do more then just destroy magic and arc craft, there are story's about her closing black holes with it, doing miracles, it Even gave her super speed and strength and a bunch of other abilities. The one draw back is, you can't use arc-craft... And it's unstable and unpredictable."
"Wow... " I looked at my hand.
"So um just scratching the surface of what this thing can do?"
"Exactly."
Jack looked back up at ryuji.
"But tell me, what happened to her?"
She shrugged his shoulders.
"She just... Disappeared."
"What?"
He walked a little closer to jacks bed
As he calmly went on. "From what the text say about her, she went out to face a certain enemy and she never came back. She was just twenty one then."
Jack looked up at him and pondered.
"What could have happened?"
"Who knows... But one thing is for sure, that seal is more then just a seal... It's a destiny."
"... What?"
"I'm not at liberty to say right now, but I'm certain that that thing means your gonna have something big happen to you, something in the future... I called my higher ups and it looks like your teacher billy already reported this. The church plans on looking in on you soon. So be prepared."
He grabbed his jacket and threw it over his shoulder, he grabbed a toothpick out if his pocket and put it in his mouth, while also pulling out a card and handing it to me.
"Here, call me if you need anything jack... I'm also a private detective when I'm not hunting monsters." He smiled.
"Thanks."
"And don't worry, no matter what happens your in good hands, you've got billy and Lisa to look after you... And trust me. They wouldn't let anything bad happen to you."
He grinned. "And you got me too if you need help. Ok?"
I gave and nod, he patted me on the back and left the room.
I looked down at my hand.
What could this mean? Why was my seal specifically special? And what would that mean for my family?
"Jack." Lisa called to me.
I looked up at her.
"Don't worry baby. Everything will be fine."
I smiled.
"I hope so..."
* * *
Deep within the bowels of old town, within an abandend part of the sewers, a man was setting up an alter. Before him was an idol of a gold calf. He began drawing a circle in front of the alter, cainenite symbols were sketched in front of it.
"Master..." A dark voice called behind him.
"Reginald... Have you collected the 17th sacrifice?"
"Indeed I have... I have there blood here."
He turned to his subordinate dressed in black and grabbed the vile from him. "Good, good... Now we just need one more in order to complete the deal we made with ba'al."
"I see..."
"This one, bring here to this high place, and make sure it's a girl, a child... One below the age of twelve."
"Yes lord Nikolai... And what of the Elwood girl?"
He walked forward and sprinkled the blood on the alter. "You left the cloth didn't you?"
"Yes."
"Good. Once again you please me my apprentice... Once she finds us, I can kill her myself."
"Yes master... But what of the boy?"
He turned back to his apprentice.
"We'll kill him too, better to snuff out the threat to our mission before he's grown strong enough to oppose our cause now then when he's become powerful."
He grinned.
"Once he's gone, our lord will be most pleased."