Chapter 85: Chapter 85: Selena’s Ritual
Unknown Location
February 14th, 1046
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The couple was again in an undisclosed location, but this time for Selena's ritual. And as Erik, Selena was naked in the middle of a cut-stone platform with kilometers of grass around her. She was already starting to mix her ink with her blood while Erik was at a safe distance keeping an eye on everything. He was really keeping an eye on everything; He had a multitude of monsters made with the purpose of surveillance scattered through the plains on top of the same wards used before. On his finger was a very special monster. After reaching his balance breaker and succeeding in creating his micro monsters, Erik started to experiment with adding special properties to his monsters and the one around one of his fingers was one of the results of his experiments: a little snake-like monster. This monster was created with a very specific purpose: to hide the nature of whatever she coils around. Right now if anyone would look at Erik and start doing their scans, they would find nothing. For the scans, Erik would not even be there and only visually he could be seen. Of course, the monster had some drawbacks. For once, it could not maintain this 'hiding in sight' state with only its energy, so it would have to be fed magic to keep its ability up. This new creation would be very useful for what he intended to do today.
As Erik was checking the perimeter with his monsters, Selena had already started to draw the same circles that Erik had drawn before while using the brush made of unicorns' hair. Seven concentric circles with a hexagon inside the outermost one. As Selena finished the drawings, she sent the bowl and brush away and sat in the center of the circles. Nervously, she looked at Erik just to see him smiling widely at her. It was like he was telling her that everything would be alright and like so, all of her doubt and nervousness went away. Selena then gave Erik her own wide smile and started with her ritual.
From outside the sut-stone platform, Erik was keeping an open eye on everything that was happening. And just as Selena had told him that that happened during his ritual, was happening during hers. The sky went dark with clouds, the wind picked up, circular patterns formed on the clouds and when the last part of the chant was said, the wind pierced the clouds, making a hole in them, and the 'presence' arrived'. It was like Selena had said in a way. Erik felt that he was so small right now but at the same time, he felt that he was accepted, welcomed even together with the presence. Then something hit his mental shield hard, but it didn't shatter or attack it. It was more like an embrace. And Erik felt in his very being something being said to him. Being asked to him. There were no words, just a feeling that he knew what its meaning was.
"Yes. She is my partner. My mate. My love."
Erik said in a low voice. And then, as quickly as it arrived, the presence was gone. The winds calmed down to normal levels and the clouds started to dissipate. Erik looked around and found nothing out of the normal, he then started to run to the platform where Selena was lying unconscious. He could feel her presence strongly, that's how he knew that Selena's ritual had been successful. He arrived by Selena's side and kneeled. Erik then turned Selena to him and admired her face a little while caressing it lovingly. She was looking younger. The few age lines that had appeared on her face after their forty years of marriage were now gone. It was then that the wards warned Erik of the incoming guests.
Quickly, Erik took a golden ring from his pocket and put it on Selena's ring finger. It was her wedding ring. She had never taken it away, and today was the first time in forty years that she was not using it. Erik then tapped the ring on her hand, got up, and walked away from where Selena was. The ring then activated and whisked Selena away, back to their room. Erik had warned some house-elves that Selena would be transported back to their room while unconscious and they had to tuck her in their bed.
It was then that Erik activated the erasing wards and walked out of the cut-stone platform. As he stepped out of it, the white-hot fire started to consume everything. Erik looked at it with no change in his facial expression and as the time for the 'guests' arrival came, he cast a disillusionment spell on himself and walked away from the charred cut-stone platform while the white-hot fire was snuffing itself out.
And as Erik's wards had told him, the guests arrived on time. Three yellow magic circles appeared in the air about ten meters high. Erik noticed that from the three, one of them was made of a darker yellow color that had some black spots in it. The magic circles finished forming and three forms materialized themselves into the air in the middle of motes of light. As the light faded, Erik immediately recognized the guests. They were Michael, Gabriel, and Azazel. Two Angels and one Fallen-Angel.
The trio looked around, recognizing the others again immediately.
"So you guys felt it again, huh?"
Azazel said to the two Angels, while he started looking around.
"Yes. But it seems that we are late again."
Michael replied while looking around too.
"True. Whoever did these two rituals knew exactly how to avoid our detection for enough time to clean the place and get out."
Azazel said again. Strangely enough, Gabriel stood in silence while watching the two males talk. While this was happening. Erik was just observing the trio, taking mental notes of their interactions and building an initial profile of them. He had an initial idea of how their personalities were from his past life knowledge, but it was something from almost a thousand years in the future and reality tended to be a little different from fantasy. But one thing was true in both reality and fantasy: Gabriel's boobs were huge. The Angel in question suddenly snapped looking in the general direction where Erik was. She stared at the place, looking for something but when she found nothing, she turned back to look at the work that Michael and Azazel were doing with the charred cut-stone platform.
'Man, that was surprising… A woman's intuition is really a frightening thing.'
Erik thought after Gabriel stopped looking at the area where he was 'hiding'.
"Well, the same thing as the last time. No signal whatsoever of who was here before. They cleaned the place thoroughly."
Azazel said in a loud voice, informing the two Angels there that he was done with his investigation. He then got up in the air again and started to charge his magic circle for transport. He then turned to Gabriel and smiled at the Angel.
"Good to see you again, Gabriel. You are as pretty as ever."
Azazel said to Gabriel, who just turned to him and smiled.
"Good to see you too, Azazel. I will pray that we can keep having peaceful meetings like this and the last one."
Gabriel replied to Azazel. The last meetings that Angels and Fallen Angels had were not peaceful ones, but then, they were at a battlefield. Azazel smiled at Gabriel's antics. He wanted that to happen, but he was just one Fallen-Angel. He could be their leader, but he was not their owner. Azazel looked to Michael, who was watching their interaction closely and nodded at the golden-winged Angel. He then activated his magic transportation circle and got back to wherever he had been before.
*sigh*
Michael let out a sigh after Azazel teleported out of there and turned to his sister.
"Gabriel, you should not have too much interaction with Azazel. He is a Fallen for a reason."
Michael said to Gabriel, who nodded her head.
"I know, Brother, but I was just being polite with him. Just as father had taught me to be with everyone."
Gabriel replied innocently to Michael, who smiled at her.
"Good. Let's get back to Heaven then."
Michael said and flew to where Gabriel was standing floating. He started to charge his magic transportation circle and Gabriel followed his example, charging hers. Seconds later, Michael disappeared in the middle of motes of bright yellow light, but Gabriel aborted her transportation. Erik, who was watching everything attentively, raised an eyebrow at that.
'It seems that Gabriel is not done here.'
Erik thought. Gabriel then turned to look to the area where she had felt something before and kept looking at it.
"You can come out now, you know."
She said in a way that could be heard clearly by everyone around. Erik smiled a little at that.
'She is really innocent. Always expecting the better of people.'
Erik thought but didn't move from the place that he was now. He had moved from the place that he was before just in case of Gabriel telling the other two about what she had felt and both males started scrutinizing the place. Gabriel made a sad face when no one replied to her.
"Please, I just want to talk… Please…"
She said again, almost tearing up at the end. Erik let out a low sigh at that. He was really a sucker for sad pleas. He then raised his right hand and snapped his fingers. Gabriel, who heard the snapping sound, immediately started to look around, searching for the source of it. Then, what happened following made her let out a little yelp of surprise. The air around the place that she was in started to shift and something akin to a thin film seemed to crystallize. Cracks started to appear in it until they covered all around her. And then, when the cracks had spread completely, Gabriel heard the sound of glass breaking, and the cracked crystallized film around her started to crumble in little pieces and disappear. When everything had disappeared completely, she heard a masculine voice coming from behind her.
"You know, Azazel and Michael think that they were sneaky when they were installing those monitoring wards, but they were not sneaky enough."
Erik said, commenting offhanded about the concealed monitoring wards. Both males had done a good job in hiding it, but it was not good enough for when one had hundreds of eyes in the place at the same time.
Gabriel had snapped at the direction the voice was coming with some hope in her eyes, but who she saw there was not the person that she was expecting to see at all. It was a young strong-looking man with red-blond hair that was styled like the warriors from the Nordic faction with stormy-gray eyes. Erik raised an eyebrow at her reaction.
"It seems that I'm not who you are looking for."
Erik said to Gabriel, who nodded her head.
"Yes."
Gabriel replied to Erik.
"I see. Who were you looking for then?"
Erik replied. He had an idea of who she was searching for but had to ask first.
"I'm looking for my Father. I- We felt some kind of energy very similar to his energy earlier here, but now it's gone. We had felt the same energy some months earlier, but we had not found anything at the time either."
Gabriel said. Innocent as always, she had told Erik everything, and he was now nodding his head. He stood in silence for some moments before replying to Gabriel.
"I see, sorry to disappoint you, Angel Gabriel, but the energy earlier was caused by a ritual that my wife started, and the one some months earlier was because of me."
Erik replied. Gabriel's face went again to one of sadness. But now at least she knew who had started the rituals. Her face then scrunched in a pensive look.
"But then, how can it have generated an energy signature so similar to Father's?"
Gabriel asked no one in particular. Erik was thinking within his head if he should or not show her the journal. After some time thinking, Erik had made his decision.
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