Date 518 AV
"Speech"
"Speech"
The ghost stood on the edge of the moat above grassy knoll. His unmaterialized body rocked back and forth as he struggled to bring his terrified mists back together. The ghosts wildly erratic mists wound and contracted around his etherial body, refusing to be tamed by the ghosts scattered mind. The stone in his hand flashed brighter as the ghost knit his brows together in concentration. Slowly the ghost gathered himself and focused his mind, forcing the soulmist back under his control. The etherial smoke began twisting and fusing with each other as they built up Jomi's materialized body.
The Shinya are here! Jomi come see!"
Infinity wove its thoughts into Jomi's consciousness with a surprising amount of pep considering the circumstance. Relief rolled off the psychic connection in waves as the manor's concentration narrowed in on its saviours.
Jomi hesitated as he felt the manors attention fade off him. He should have blinked away to Madeira's side immediately but he couldn't will his soulmist to move. He no longer needed breath but the ghost would have sworn he was suffocating. The wash of terror he had repressed when faced with the Priest came roaring back and the already shaky materialization vibrated sharply as the emotion worked its way through him.
And then he heard the screams.
Male and female. Shinya and Madeira. A orchestra of voices and a monstrous screech raised over the trees to be carried by the winds back to the ghost. Infinity's wordless terror manifested and overwhelmed their physic connection as the ghost threw the latent power in his soul forward and spread it out to the ends of his soulmist. Jomi's etherial shroud dissipated and scattered as it activated. Thick ribbons of the mist shot downward and ensnared the crossbow and dagger before blinking away to the front of the manor in a blind panic.
The screaming and stopped by the time the ghost rematerialized behind Madeira's slumped body. Her glassy eyes stared vacantly at the horrid nightmare that showered Infinity's grounds with blood and visceral.
"Spiritist.... Spiritist..."
The Priest tested its weight on the pile of bodies before releasing its hold on the edge of the moat. Its eyes shone hungrily as its malformed lips pulled back across rows of shining white teeth. Its haunting mantra increased in speed and intensity as it began to rake its talons into the soft soil on the their side of the moat. Directly beneath the soulbeads hidden in the grass.
"Madeira get up." Jomi hissed low and pleading in her ear as the lip of the moat crumbled away and the Priest pawed excitedly at the ends of the barrier. "We need to get inside, please Madeira. GET UP!"
Jomi dropped his weapons as he rushed forward and tackled Madeira's vulnerable soul. The ghost tore through her body aggressively, saturating her bones and soft tissues with his essence and plucking at the threads of her astral body. The ghost filled her vision and forced himself into the space her soul occupied, overwhelming the traumatized soul as he took control.
Jomi pulled at Madeira's astral body, forcing the heavily pregnant woman to her feet just in time to watch a thick chunk of earth give into the Priest's assault and crumble into the moat. A bright flash of green blinked in the thick grass and Jomi watched in horror as a polished ball of jade rolled out of its hiding place and into the dark abyss, breaking the seal.
The ghost twisted the spiritists body towards the door of the manor as the Desolate priest cried out in victory as it clawed its way over the edge of the moat. But Jomi knew the heavy, pregnant fragile woman wouldn't make it in time, not without help.
Jomi stilled his mind and focused, much in the same way he'd activate his soulmist in order to interact with physical objects. he reached in his core in order to draw on the spiritists dijed, directing it and letting it pool in her legs. The tension and stored energy within the muscle fibres peaked. Releasing with punishing force as her legs thundered over the pristine swaths of blue flowers and leapt up the balcony towards Infinity's door before colliding with the second barrier.
The ghost nails embedded in the floor stopped Jomi at the entrance. Jomi's mists ripped out of his host and scattered across the invisible wall as Madeira's dijed enhanced momentum carried her through into the safe zone.
Boxcode by Allassanachassanya