Author: Cody

Chapter 2 Soul Stealer
	“You ready for this? Because once we go for it we aren’t coming back.” A man said holding an elegant blade. The blade was half white half black, the hilt was of a decorative design, the hilt having two ends, the end of the black side was that of an eagle’s head while the end of the white side had a shark’s head. 
	“Yeah, we are ready.” Michael and Robert say in unison. They both hold their swords in their hands.
	“You ready bro?” the man asks a man in a clean grey robe. His hair was long and black and well kept. His right eye was covered in an eye patch and he held a sword in his right hand. The man looks up and smiles. “Yeah.” He stood up and looked at the darkness ahead. It was like a living breathing creature that was swallowing up everything, animals, trees, the sky; it was being swallowed down and joining the Unknown Force. Ahead of the darkness soldiers holding swords of darkness, and wearing dark armor marched. 
	Robert and Michael both rush in at the darkness, slashing and cutting up dark soldiers, they evaporate into darkness with every swipe.
	The man with the sword ran into the darkness as well, Bright flashes of energy coming from his blade and destroying the darkness, screams and whines could be heard coming from the darkness.
	The man in the robe held his sword tightly as he ran at the darkness as well, using blasts of energy to fight off the darkness. The four warriors stand there slicing, slashing, blasting, attacking, doing all they can to fend off this force.
	Several hours pass, and the darkness had been fought back several miles. They are only a few thousand feet away of where this think originated.
	“We are doing great!” Michael says laughing. Robert laughs in agreement. “Man this thing is so easy; I wonder why the others were afraid.”
	The man in the clean robe smiled. “You two are doing well for humans, but there’s no way you can beat my brother, he is a god, and a leader of the Gods temple.” he says laughing.
	The brother of the man in the clean robe held out his sword, as it broke off into two blades, he began to slash at the darkness, each slash leaving a large mark of light which absorbed all the darkness around it.
	The man in the clean robe not paying attention as he slashed accidently tripped over a boulder, when he had fallen; darkness quickly warped around him and disarmed him as he heard a female’s voice. “Why are you attacking me? All I am doing is trying to keep you all safe.” Her voice says to him in a calm sweet voice. The darkness around his body was containing a warm feeling. He could feel it all around his body, as if he was trying to be cared for. “If all of you are inside of my body, then you will never be hurt, there will be no more suffering, everyone will be happy.” She says to him. “Just let me make you all a part of me.” The robed man’s brother came and sliced the darkness off. “Are you alright Richter?”
	Richter looked up at his brother as he saw a large snake of darkness behind him. He tried to say something, anything, but for some reason he was unable to warn his brother, the voice of the woman was echoing through his head. “I am trying to keep you safe.” The snake came down and grabbed his brother. “No!” Richter screamed.
	**Robert and Michael looked over and saw the snake as they ran to attack it but where surrounded by dark soldiers. The snake lifted Richter’s brother into the air, it’s mouth open as it’s tongue playfully through the man into the air before catching it again, in its mouth, turning its head forwards Richter, as the snake swallowed his brother whole, the snake’s mouth wide open so Richter could see his brother disappear into the slimy darkness that was before him. Richter’s brother’s yells and struggles could still be **heard and seen as he made a noticeable bulge in the snake’s throat.
	Richter tried to use his powers and separate his brother from the darkness. “I’m not going to lose you!” he cries. Tears fell from beneath his eye patch and his other eye. He focused and channeled all of his energy on the snake, trying to remove everything and anything that was within its body.
	The snake of darkness yelled and hissed. The snake’s eyes meeting with Richter’s as they stared at each other. Richter’s brothers sword flew from the darkness and landed on the ground, the sword cutting a large enough hole in the snake to show the inside of the snake. The inside of the snake could be seen, as Richter saw his brother dissolve and disappear into it. Richter’s brother holding out his hand to him with a single tear coming from his eye as he mouthed the words “I love you.” To his brother before completely disappearing..  
	He looked down at the blade of his brother but notices it hadn’t disappeared yet. , he asks crying. “Is he still alive?!” Richter’s brothers sword erupted in darkness as it now had a red aura around it. 
	The darkness laughed as it stopped attacking the three fighters. “It seems, your power to separate things has failed you, Richter. You have given me a valuable power. You separated the part of the soul of your brother that was infused with his “birth item”, while his soul still remains in this world inside of me body.” The female voice says before pausing.
	“Your brother’s weapon has now become attached to me instead of him since it thinks I am your brother. The darkness says laughing. “And that weapon is giving me a small amount of strength. Alone this strength isn’t anywhere enough, but if I do it to all of the other items of the Gods, Goddesses, and Demigods that reside within me, by absorbing their remaining souls from their items I will now grow!” The Unknown Force’s voice says as items from the darkness begin to rise. All of the items explode into darkness as they gain red auras and shoot across the sky in all directions. 
	The Unknown Force rumbles and laughs as a woman from the darkness emerges as she walks towards the three fighters. A trail of darkness leads to the woman’s feet, as it connects with her body, the darkness being worn like a second skin, showing off the woman’s entire body. The darkness all around her shakes as it spreads like a tidal wave over the land and begins to rush back to its original spot. The woman giving a farewell kiss as they were swallowed by the darkness. Robert, Michael, and Richter are covered and swallowed by the darkness as they are pushed away from the woman. “I want to thank you for letting me use this new ability Richter, thanks to you, I will be able to absorb everyone and everything else into me with much more ease. So as a little present, I won’t swallow up you and your remaining friends right now, and I will even give you a warm comfortable spot inside of me when I do absorb you. But as punishment for hurting me, I am going to infuse your two friends souls with your brother’s now Demonic Weapon. Which means unless they use your brothers sword now, they are going to die.” She says with a laugh.
	From within the darkness Robert and Michael’s bodies were pulled toward the blade. The sword broke off into two swords, the white half going to Michael, and the black half to Robert. Their souls began infusing with the blade from their mouths a light blue glow could be seen as it wraps around their respective blades. Eventually the light blue glow tearing and breaking as it goes back inside the human’s body.
	Richter opened his eyes as he lay on the ground. It was night time now as he sat up weakened. Next to him were Robert and Michael’s bodies. His brother’s swords were lying by the two warriors. He looked in the other direction, and realized what had happened; the darkness had come and swallowed up part of this continent, before returning back. 
	“Brother, Michael, Robert, I am so…so sorry for letting this happen. Are homes are gone, you two are now dead, and my brother is also dead.” Richter says sadly as he looks at the sky. He yells angrily and fires a blast of energy into the sky. “This wasn’t supposed to happen!” he screams as he feels a burst of energy come through his body, a new found strength of energy within him. He looks back at the bodies of his friends as he walks towards Michal and Robert and places his hands on their chests. Light coming from Richter’s hands as Robert and Michael open their eyes. Their new swords now glowing with the red aura as the swords are pulled to their human. “Were alive?” Robert asks.
	“What happened? I remember being swallowed up by the darkness and it all went blank. Hey where is your brother Richter?” Michael asks before his heart skipped a beat he looked down at his hand and saw himself grasping the sword of Richter’s brother. His soul now reconnected with the blade. Small memories come back as he remembers his friend being eaten by the snake. 
	“Let us go back.” Richter says with no expression as he walks back towards the ruins of the now fallen continent. 
	Robert and Michael both followed behind their new swords sheathed as they walked. “Hey doesn’t this mean Richter is now a god? I mean he was next in line for ruler so-“
	“Not now Robert.” Michael says cutting off Robert’s sentence. “We have lost a valuable ally and an even greater friend, and now the Unknown Force is stronger then it will ever be.” 
	The Old Man sat on his throne staring at the outside as the sun rose. He looked down from his throne and saw Mike and Bob using their weapons abilities, rifts opening when they slash as creatures are pulled into them as the rifts quickly close.
	“Unless they use those Demonic Weapons they will die.” The Old man says looking at Bob and Mike. “Every time someone uses those Demonic Weapons they lose more of their lives, and everything slain with those Demonic Weapons become a part of that “Unknown Force”.” The Old man mutters as he squeezes the armrest of his stone throne as it cracks and breaks. “I am sorry for ever existing. If I wasn’t here then none of this would have happened.” He says sadly to himself.
	
	Tobi felt the sun come in through the window and onto his face. He yawned as he opened his eyes and sat up. He tried to get out of bed and onto the floor but something was holding his waist. He looked down and saw a large scaly tail holding him as he was slowly pulled back onto the bed. He almost screamed until he remembered what had happened the night before. Still slightly scared he turned his head around and saw the naga he had befriended last night sitting on the coils of her tail. 
	Christina smiled as she pulled Tobi back onto the bed and close to her body. Her stomach, and womb were now empty of last night’s meals, her breasts a cup bigger in size. “I am glad you came to rescue me.” She says hugging Tobi. “Thank you.”
	Tobi blushed a bit as he was hugged by Christina; he hugged her back after a moment. “You are welcome.” He says to her. He lets go of Christina and gets off of the bed. He throws on his armor and robe as he sighs. “So, how am I supposed to get you past the front door? There are guards filling the hallway.” Tobi says.
	Christina smiles she jumps at Tobi with full force, Tobi takes a step back, thinking she was going to crush him. Christina morphed from a naga into a small mouse which landed on Tobi’s shoulder, and crawled down his robe and onto his hand. 
	“This should work.” Christina says with a small squeak. Tobi walks down the hallway. He goes left and down the stairs and walks to the large wooden doors, he is about to make it when his mother appears.
	“Hello Tobi.” Beauty says smiling as she hugs Tobi tightly. “How are you doing?” she asks.
	“I am doing fine mom.” Tobi says.
	“Alright I just wanted to…what is that?!” Beauty asks with a look of fear on her face.
	“Oh crap we are in trouble!” Tobi thinks as he thinks of himself and Christina.
	“That…that’s a bruise!” Beauty says looking at the bruise on Tobi’s cheek. She hugs Tobi again but this time even tighter as she lifts him off the ground and holds him. “Is my little boy alright? Does it hurt? Who did this to you?! I will make them pay!” Beauty says holding Tobi. 
	“He got it last night, when we were practicing. I took him out to train and he sort of got hurt, I take full responsibility for his injuries.” Max says standing on the staircase. “I am sorry for not telling you sooner, but it happened in the middle of the night, and I didn’t wish to disturb you mother.”
	“Max, you should have told me as soon as he got hurt, if you or him ever get hurt I want to know about it.” Beauty says. “Are you alright Tobi? Do you want me to make it better?” Beauty asks.
	“No, I am alright. Really I am.” Tobi says lying. In fact his cheek was far from better, it was still quite sore and the bruise was hurting.
	Beauty kissed Tobi on his forehead and lets him go. “Alright, just be safe okay?” she says as she leaves.
	“That was a close one.” Tobi thinks. He opens the doors and steps outside, from behind Max grabs and turns him. 
	“Tobi, how did you really get that bruise?” he asks impatiently. “I know you were out last night, and I saw you by yourself where two of my soldier’s clothes were found. Their bodies weren’t found. Why were you there?” Max asks. “And you can’t lie to me.”
	Max was right; if Tobi tried to lie Max could easily reverse what he was saying so he told the truth. “I was getting ice cream, I had never tried it before and well, I didn’t like it, it made my head ice cold and it hurt.” Tobi says. “And then I decided I was done with the ice cream and left, so I decided to go through some alley ways, and then later I was by myself with those two uniforms laying on the ground. “I don’t know what exactly happened to the people within those uniforms, but I do know they weren’t in them when I was done there.”
	“So you got there by accident?” Max asks as he thinks for a moment, his hand still on Tobi’s neck. “Alright then, I guess you are telling the truth.” Max says releasing Tobi as he walks away. “Don’t ever let me catch you in the city at night unsupervised again.” He says walking away, and towards the direction of the military base.
	Tobi took a deep breath and sighed. “Well what do you want do Christina? We can go to the garden, we can go into the forest, we can go to the lake.” He says to her.
	“The lake sounds nice.” Christina says as she shape shifts into a girl a little bit older then Tobi. “Let’s go.” She says smiling.
	Tobi smiled as they walk towards the palace’s lake. It was full of fish of different varieties, that all swam around in it. The sun was glistening off of the water, making the entire lake look like it was sparkling. “I like coming to the lake, it is usually peaceful here.” He says as he looks up and sighs. “Until people who hate your parents show up and blame you.” He says turning and trying to walk away.
	“Where do you think you’re going? Just because you are the child of the rulers here you think you can just try and ignore us?” A harpy says to Tobi. She had yellow feathers, and large talons, she had long blonde hair.
	“We are the rightful rulers of this kingdom not your parents!” A slime boy says. The boy was made up of entirely green slime, his lower half formed into a puddle which just slid on the ground.  
	“The only reason your dad got to rule before us was because, he married a whore.” A female dragon girl says. She was wearing dark brown pants and had her arms crossed, she had dark green scales and a white horn on the tip of her nose. 
	“Who are they? And why are you letting them talk to you like that?!” Christina asks.
	“Those three are other Demigods that were next in line to rule this land. They were the next in line to rule here, because their parents were the former rulers. Since my dad is married, and also was in line as a candidate he was chosen instead of them. So they all hate my dad. And they take it out on me because he is married.” Tobi says.
	“You still shouldn’t let them talk to you like that!” Christina says.
	“But they will just kick my ass, or throw me Over The Outer Wall and into The Unknown Force.” Tobi says.
	“The Unknown Force, what is that?” Christina asks.
	Tobi put his face into his palm, “Damn it. It is something we are not supposed to tell outside of royalty, the Unknown Force is the thing that we are keeping outside of The Outer Wall that surrounds us. Everything you know geography wise is wrong, this is only half of the planet, heck for all we know all this land may just be 1/4 of the planet.” 
	“So this wall isn’t meant to connect the lands together, it is to keep something out?” Christina asks.
	“Yeah, pretty much, but you can’t tell anybody.” Tobi says as he gets hit in the chest by a fireball as his cloak bursts into flames, Tobi jumped into the water to put himself out.
	The three children laughed. “It seems he is busy talking to his friend to notice us.” The slime boy says.
	The dragon Anthro laughs. “No chances are that girl is just a slut, trying to marry  Tobi so when Tobi’s dad dies, Tobi and her will become the new rulers.
	Tobi climbed out of the water with difficulty, his armour weighing him down, after he finally gets out og the water he was completely soaked as the female Anthro dragon threw another fireball at Tobi from behind. 
	Christina shape shifted back into a naga as her tail blocked the fireball. “I am going to make you three pay for hurting my friend.” She says.
	“No Christina don’t there’s nothing you can do! If you beat them up they will just come back with more friends to pick on me!” Tobi says.
	“Come and try it!” The Female Anthro dragon says laughing as she looks at Christina. 
Christina quickly turned into a bird and flew towards the Anthro dragon, she spat out fire at Christina trying to hit her, but Christina avoided it. Christina tricked the dragon into burning the harpy by flying behind her. The harpy’s feathers burst into flame as she jumps into the lake to try and put herself out.
	Christina turns into a large fish with a wide open mouth that falls into the water. She falls right above the harpyl as they both disappear beneath the surface. A few moments later, the harpy comes out of the water and laughs. “Stupid girl thought she could hurt me, she was no match for my talons!” 
	Tobi overheard the comment as he sat on the ground and watched. He felt a sudden pain in his chest as he heard this. He saw the three people walk closer towards him. He just remained motionless, the fear of being beaten up by the three before him was great, but the feeling of that he just lost one of his only friends, was greater.
	He grasped the ground grabbing a clump of dirt in his hand as anger built up in him. Tobi stood up and ran directly at the anthro dragon in anger, clenching both his fists as he jumps at her, the slime boy wrapped around Tobi’s body and slammed him into the ground.
	***“You’re no match for us!” he says with a laugh as he wraps around Tobi and opens his mouth. “I think I am going to let you digest for a while and burn you, and I will let you out one moment before you die of digestion!” he says laughing. He opens his mouth and stuffs Tobi’s head inside, his arms wrapping around Tobi so he couldn’t move. 
	Tobi tried all he could to concentrate, but the saliva was too distracting. The slime boy’s head moves lower down Tobi’s body towards his back, Tobi continued to struggle and try to escape, yelling and screaming as he tried to struggle, the slimy body slowing down his movements. The slime boy takes the final swallows as Tobi falls into the slime boy’s stomach. 
	“You may be a weak coward, bout you tasted great!” he says laughing as he pats his large slimy gut. All of Tobi’s movements were restrained within the slime; even if he made himself heavier the slime boy would still be able to carry him within his mass. 
	***Tobi yells and screams as he tries to escape but to no prevail. The Dragon Girl behind the Slime Boy also laughing, as she sees Tobi suffering within the gelatinous stomach.