45 Chapter 5 Falling Into Dust

(A/N. .....I can't believe I just did that. Your going to be so mad at me at the end of this chapter, sorry. :p)

"It is time" a very disturbing and robotic sounding voice echoed out from behind a black and red hood.

On the edge of a dark forest stood a large cloaked figure that was looking at the endless sea that spread out in the distance. After a moment they then changed their gaze to the old abandoned town that was several hundred metres away.

"Should this one start the preparations?" A similar robotic voice asked from behind them.

"Yes, the confirmation on the status of the unknown enemy that was supposed to have been given some time ago has not been given to us" the figure said with out looking back at who exactly they were talking too.

"This one shall inform the others about the confirmation status of the unknown enemy that has not been given on the clarified time that was given to the one ordered to capture the unknown enemy. This one will then inform the others that they must prepare to eliminate the unknown enemy that has infiltrated and attacked the barrier"

"Good, now go and do this as we can not wait any longer for the confirmation to come as the unknown enemy could escape from us. If we do not hurry we may risk angering the sixth and that would not be very ideal for us" as soon as the figure finish speaking they heard the person behind them quickly yet calmly leave the area.

==============Suu Pov============

"Okay let me get this straight, you are the soul of some dead girl that was violently murdered by these cultist. They then mind controlled you and almost everyone else on the island with the rest becoming slaves who are made to work for them"

'Yes'

"Also these cultist decided to send you here to try and possesse me so that you could take over my body, however thanks to one of my skills probably my mental attack resistance skill your free from their control now"

'Yes'

"And finally they are probably going to come try and kill me so they can do the same thing to me that was done to you"

'Yes'

"Sigh, why the fuck do I always get myself into this kind of shit?" I asked no one in particular while I looked up at the ceiling with a tired expression.

I was currently sitting on a wooden chair that was missing most of it's back. I was trying to process the information I had been given and honestly I couldn't help but find this scenario a little funny. Like seriously, first the Orc Lord, then Charybdis and now I had to deal with an army of bloody cultists. It was like some twisted fucking bastard found amusement in putting me in harder and harder situations.

(A/N. Hehehe)

'I know your having some kind of life crisis right now but can you please have it after we get out of here'

"why should I believe you?" I asked.

"No offense but I have absolutely no reason to believe what your saying" I was still quite sceptical about this whole situation.

"For all I know you are the one who is trying to get me to fall into a trap or something like that" I pointed out.

(It would be so easy for me to know if she was lying or not if I could just see her. I'd be able to then use my Eyes of the abyss skill on her to make sure that she is telling the truth, it would make this so much easier) I thought.

'Sigh, I know you h-have no reason to believe me or an-anything I saybut please we ne-need to..... we need to get out of here before it's to late and we no l-longer have the option to leave'

"....."

'P-please, please just... I.... I do-don't want to go back.... back to that nig-nightmare' she said with a voice filled with desperation and fear.

I couldn't help but freeze just a little as I heard that fear in her voice, something about it just clicked mentally with me. It wasn't hard for me to know why, it was because I've felt the same kind of fear before. The fear of finally escaping before then being trapped once again and forced to go back to a living nightmare that never seems to end. I remembered all the times I tried to run away from my old hell but I would always end up right back were I started.

"....Okay" I said after a second of silence.

'R-really?!'

"Yeah, let's get out of here"

I slowly got to my feet while quickly taking out my mask from an Abyss gate and putting it on. I then walked towards the door that looked as if it was about to fall off the hinges, however just before I was about to open it I abruptly stopped.

"However once we get somewhere safe you are going to answer my questions, understood?" I said becoming very serious for a second while releasing a little bit of my aura.

'I'm absolutely fine with that, the only thing I care about right now is getting out of here so that I don't have to go back to being a prisoner in my own body. So if that means I have to answer a crap ton of questions later then so be it'

"Also do you mind telling me what your name is?" I decided to ask because it was getting annoying not knowing what to call her.

'Oh, it's Mika'

"Well it's nice to meet you Mika, my name is Suu, Suu Tempest" I introduced myself with a small smile as I opened the broken door.

'It's nice to meet you too' Mika said as I stepped out side.

"Alright, I think it's about time that we finally get out of here"

I took out my wings as I looked towards the clear skys with a calm expression. After a second or two I quickly flapped my wings and took off into the air heading right back towards the ocean. I decided that it would be for the best to head in that direction as I could use my Water breathing skill to escape under the water if I had too. I continued to fly while constantly checking my surroundings for any enemies that could be waiting to try and ambush me. After several seconds of flying I finally flew past the docks and reached the ocean.

'We're actually going to get away' Mika said happily, however just at that moment a flash of red light shot past my face barely missing me by an inch.

"Oh great, thanks for jinxing us right as we were about to get away" I yelled sarcastically as I dodged out of the way.

'Sorry'

"No, it is fine. I knew from the start that it couldn't have been so easy that we could just walk out of here..... it's never that easy"

I turned around to check and see who was attacking me only to have to dodge out of the way as several dozen long ranged magic attacks flew past me. The reason I couldn't just use my Flame body skill was because some of the attacks were water based. However once I dodge the last of the attacks I finally got a good look at my attackers.

"Is that them?"

'Yes' Mika said with a slight hint of fear.

In front of me was a large group of about fifty or so people wearing black and red cloaks. I was unable to see there faces as they were covered by what looked like smoke or some kind of moving darkness. I also took note of the fact that some of them were holding magical staffs. These staffs looked to be made out of some kind of black petrified wood, as well as that the staffs had some kind of golden glowing metal that ran around them in a spiral from the bottom to the top.

However these strange and creepy looking people were not what had caught my eye. The thing that had gotten my full attention was the figures that stood silently several metres behind them. From what I could see there was three of them, three figures that were quietly and ominously staring out of the darkness at me. It wasn't that hard for me to figure out that they were the puppets that Mika had told me about.

They stood at about two metres tall and had a slender yet skinny body that was made of the same black petrified wood as the staffs, also some parts of there body were made out of some kind of shining silver metal. The puppets also had two sets of arms attached to their backs along with the normal set, this meant in total they had three sets of arms to use. They had claws instead of toes or fingers that were made out of the unknown shining silver metal and seemed to have compact eyes like that of an insect with no nose, mouth or ears. Two of them were holding daggers with jagged edges and the last one was holding a very over sized sword.

(So... these are the puppets that Mika was talking abou-)

'Watch out!' Mika suddenly yelled in my head cutting off my thoughts.

"Huh!" This was all I got to say before several more magic attacks flew out from my left and right.

(Just how many of them are there?) I thought in annoyance as I noticed two more groups of cultist standing on both the left and right of the cliffs.

(Well I'll guess it's time for me to test that out then)

'What are you doing? Hurry and get out of the way!' Mika yelled as she noticed I wasn't going to dodge out of the way this time

"It'll be fine, just watch and enjoy the show" I said while smiling evilly under my mask.

I watched as the magic attacks all closed in on me before then abruptly stopping in mid air. They had all come into contact with my Magic deflection barrier skill. Every single magic attack that had been fired at me just hovered there until I finally made a hand gesture, as soon as I did all of them shot back at the cultists that were standing on the cliffs as well as the once on the outskirts of the town.

As soon as the magic attacks hit there targets there were several large explosions which destroyed massive parts of the cliffs as well as several buildings in the town. The area around the three groups of cultist were covered in smoke and debris so I couldn't see what had happened to them.

'Wow!.... your stronger then I thought you were'

"Oh, you've seen nothing ye-Shit!" I was forced to stop talking as I suddenly felt danger coming from behind me.

I quickly used Flame body to let the attacks pass right through me with no harm. I then whipped my body around and kicked one of my attackers in the side before then abruptly punching the second one in the chest sending it flying into the nearby cliff side. After this I flapped my wings getting some distance so that I could see who exactly had the balls to attack me.

(Damn these things are just down right creepy) I thought as I looked at the puppet that was just floating in the air.

The one that I had kicked in the side looked as if it was almost completely fine, however the one I had punched was laying in a crater with it's chest completely caved in. Honestly these things just sent a shiver down my spine with how hollow there pale white eyes looked.

"Hey is it okay for me to destroy them? What will happen to the souls that are inside of them?" I asked while keeping my eye on the puppet in front of me.

'They will just return to the nearest cultist base an possess a new body if they are not given orders to do otherwise' Mika answered quickly.

'Wait, now that I think about it..... wasn't there three of them before?'

As she said that I felt something appear behind me, however I wasn't fast enough to react this time and ended up feeling a sharp pain run across my back. I was able to ignore the pain while I pulled out Blue ash which I then used to turn around and cut the sword wielding puppet diagonally in two.

"Fuck, so those two were just the distraction then..... I am curious about how that thing managed to sneak up on me though" I said while watching the puppet's body fall into the sea.

"Okay I think that it's time for me to finally put an end to this" I said looking back at the last puppet.

'Errrm, Suu we have a problem'

"What is it no-oh" I finally noticed that the smoke had cleared and that all the cultist were fine.

I couldn't help but growl a little when I saw that all three groups were completely fine as they each had a barrier surrounding them, like seriously not a single one of them was even scratched. I was also a little pissed that not a single one had fallen off the cliffs after all the explosions.

"These guys really like their bloody barriers don't they. Sigh, looks like I will have to deal with them before this gets out of hand" however it was at that very moment that I realized something.

"Huh?! Wait a minute..... am I falling?"

I looked to my side only to see something that made my eyes open wide in shock. Both my left arm and wing were missing and crimson red blood was gushing out of what was left of them. It took me a long second to get over my surprise and realized that what was left of my arm and wing were covered in dark red markings that looked almost like tattoos.

(Why the hell isn't it regenerating?) I thought when I noticed my Ultimate regeneration skill wasn't working at all.

'Oh my god Suu, are you okay?' Mika asked sounding horrified

(Damn it, who the hell did that? Was it that fucking puppet?) I ignored Mika while quickly looking around for the one that had cut my arm and wing off.

After a second of me looking around while falling towards the sea I finally found the culprit. Hovering several metres above me was a tall cultist with the same black and red cloak as the rest, however I noticed two things that stood out. First, instead of a staff they had a black and gold rapier with the blade being a bright ruby red. Second, was the symbol that was on the back of their cloak and of course I had instantly recognised it.

"That symbol, it's the same one from my dream" I said momentarily distracted.

The cultist seem to take advantage of my momentary lapse in focus as they shot towards me at incredible speeds. Seeing this I panic slightly and immediately activated my Flame body skill, unfortunately it seemed that they knew what I was planning as they immediately shot a stream of hot water at me forcing me to stop using the skill all together.

"Damn it!" I yelled as I attempted to block with Blue ash but it was sadly too late.

'SUU!' Mika cried out in horror.

As soon as the cultist flew past me I suddenly couldn't feel my body any longer as if it had just up and vanished. It didn't take me long to notice that my body was now falling several feet above me with blood pouring from my neck, I also noticed the same dark red tattoo like markings that were on my wing and arm covering the area around my neck. I couldn't help but watch in some form of twisted fascination as my headless body slowly started to turn to dust before my very eyes.

'NO!'

"W-well.... shit" was the last thing I said before I lost consciousness.

(A/N. So yeah... that just happened. Well.... errrrm... enjoy the cliffhanger I guess.....)