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Raine watched as both Imi and Tadashi left the meeting. Raine just sighed quietly but was interuptted by the ringing of her cell phone. Pulling out the sleek touch screen Raine answered.
"Oh thank goodness Miss.Knight you answered I was afraid you wouldn't we have two problem's, there is a hydra demon sighting in Dallas, Texas and its causing some major damage, me and my crew are getting the people away but its to strong, that and I got word from one of my worker's in the Spirit World it seems there is a hexed demon sighting in the far mountain's right by the Dark Reflection Gate" the man, Tyler, sounded panicked. Raine had hired him to be her eyes and ear's when she was busy and him and his crew had been working with her for 100 years now. The fact that there was a demon spirit in Spiritus Terras slightly surprised Raine. Everyone knew that demon spirits were unable to get into the light realm without being summoned, and only demon's had the power to summon other demon's. Raine instantly knew who had summoned the hexed demon into Spiritus Terras. It was her brother, Jasper, with him being half demon and zodiac spirit he was the only possibility. Raine's eyes narrowed at the thought of her brother. No one else knew of Raine's true heritage nor did they know she had a brother and she planned on keeping that little fact to herself, she didn't want to trouble the other Zodiac. With a quick thanks Raine hung up and stood from her chair, an aura of authority and confidence now surrounded her.

"There are two siting of demon's at the moment, Jin, Kira, Ichiro, Grace and Eva I need you to go and deal with a hydra demon in Dallas, Texas, Grace you are head of that mission so take you team and lead at once, Leo, Kai, Chasity and Ryu you are coming with me, there's a hexed demon sighting in the White Mountain's in Spiritus Terras near the Dark Reflection Gate, we need to move now before it gets close to the mountain towns" Raine ordered.

"I will meet you all in the east field in 2 minutes" Raine said then left the cafe and headed towards the east field. Once she was there she dialed both Imi and Tadashi leaving them a voice message that said if they weren't dealing with anything at the moment for Tadashi to meet her in the moutain's and for Imi to go to Dallas. She then hung up and waited.

Within an hour she had managed to trade a few gold coins for multiple plates of Stuffed Grape Leaves, Spanakopita, and Baklava, as well as learn about all the odd happenings around the province. Most elders were turned off by her appearance but the youth in the area had no problem answering her list of questions - as long as she answered theirs as well, which ranged from "Who did you hair" to "What's that thing dangling for your hip?"



By the time she began to make her way towards a local church the sun had dropped out of the sky - leaving just a faint trace of itself via orange streaks.
"I know another portal opened as I reached town, I wonder who followed me....." she'd think to herself, before making her way inside the building and then up to the top of it's bell tower.

Sitting atop the towers circular roof wasn't possible, however she found it quite easy to swing her legs over the side of the window-like openings, and from her current vantage point she'd be able to see the entire town easily as well as the wooded area that led to the Temple and beyond.




"A pied piper.....I wonder what kind of tune such a spirit plays.....maybe it's slow an entrancing, or perhaps it's energetic and joyful!"

Imi's excited thoughts would begin to settle down as an hour, then two, passed. She had noticed a group of trees moving far off in the distance within the first hour and figured it was the other demon spirit in the area, but she was determined to wait for the one luring children.

"Perhaps the demon left this small town..." she muttered as she fiddled with her hair, however no sooner did she begin to complain did a light melody begin to play. It was so soft at first that she thought maybe she was just hearing music from someones house, however as the flute continued to play Imi would spot a young girl, no older than eight, skipping down the road - soon to be followed by a handful of others.

"Well look at that...." the Zodiac whispered, before jumping down to the roof of the chapel and then to the road.
Imi followed the trail of children, albeit at a distance, until they suddenly detoured off the road and headed into the woods.
"Oh great." she complained. Thankfully though there was enough moonlight that she could see where was going, the children however seemed to be using the music as direction instead of their eyes.




After several minutes of dodging through trees Imi would finally make her way out into a clearing a couple hundred yards from the Temple of Poseidon. The Children were dancing hand in hand in a circle, all but one, who was aimlessly walking towards the edge of the cliff.
"No!" Imi would call out, but she was too late - the young boy would walk off the edge.

Within seconds she'd be there herself, peering down expecting to see a small body laying on rocks. However instead she'd see a young lanky boy staring up at her.
"What the...." was all she'd be able to get out before the boy disappeared.


"Now you're not a kid, are you?" a child-like voice said behind her, causing Imi to turn around sharply, where she'd come face-to-face with the same boy who had just been staring up at her.
"You...."
It was obvious for more than one reason that this was the demon she was looking for, but the most obvious in the moment was the golden pan flute he was holding.
"Me? What about me....I'm just a boy."
The smile on the demons childish face was growing annoying, but instead of getting angry Imi would begin to smile herself.

"Oh but of course, so-" she'd pause and take a few steps closer to the boy as she unhooked her meteor hammer from her hip - keeping it at it's shrunken size for the time being. "-you'd have no problem with holding an enchanted object then - would you not?"
As she held out the weapon the grin on the boys face would quickly vanishing, and the smirk on her own would grow.


"What's the matter? Oh, could it be that you're afraid?"
"Pfft, afraid? Of that small thing, not in the least woman."
"Cute, but we both know you couldn't touch this without showing your true form......but if you wish to play dumb by all means, play dumb, it really doesn't matter."

Without another word Imi would flick the Meteor Hammer down towards the ground, causing it to steadily grow until it reached it's full size. The boy would jump back several yards but he was well within range of her weapon, an he'd be unable to escape it as Imi slung the Hammer towards him - wrapping the chain around his waist.



Much like expected the enchanted weapon caused a reaction that forced the demon to transform into it's true form.

As the boy grew into a warped humanoid figure with greyish green skin, standing nearly three stories tall, Imi would uncoil her weapon from around the demons waist as the children suddenly stopped dancing - their trance being broken as the pan flute - now enlarged in proportion with the spirit - hit the ground.


"Celestial wench!" the demon bellowed as he struck at the ground with a clenched fist.
Imi easily dodged the attack and created three clones of herself in a circle around the creature.

"Now what did you do with that boy, the one who went off the cliff side, is he-"
A deep chuckle would escape the malevolent spirits mouth, causing a scowl to form on Imi's face.
"The boy? Well I ate his heart of course, how do you think I kept my youthful appearance girl!?"

"Well then..."
Imi an each of her clones would in unison spin their Meteor Hammers up in the air, much like a cowboy would a lasso, for a brief moment before one by one wrapping the chain around the demons neck. Once secure they'd twist their chain so that the circular hammers would each release a blade - pinning the creates neck in place.

"Y-you....filthy we-"
"-not that word again for crying out loud!" she interrupted, before pulling the target towards the ground.

A loud scream, one mixed with frustration and pain, would escape the demons mouth as his back hit the the ground hard - causing the blades to rip at his neck.


"You eat the hearts of children, yes?" Imi's fifth replication would taunt after appearing on the chest of the pied piper. "Well...I fillet the hearts of beasts."
In a blink of an eye Imi's 5th replication would unsheathed both swords and plunge them into the heart of the demon. For good measure she'd twist the blades in a complete circle to cement the deed.



After the demon disintegrated into a black powder Imi's replications would disappear in a poof of white dust, leaving only her true self standing with a fully extended Meteor Hammer.

The sound of whimpering children would snap her back into reality and cause her to shrink the chained weapon.
"Einai entaxei...."* she'd say as she hooked the shrunken Meteor Hammer back to her hip, trying to reassure them everything would be okay in their native tongue, but as she approached them they simply cowered more. However when the ground began to shake the children would suddenly all run behind her.

"Don't worry, it's far enough away - we're fine. Let me walk you home."
She'd repeat her statement in Geek as she squatted down to their level, all in a bid to earn their trust.
The children were uneasy at first, but when the ground shook again they were more than willing to use Imi as their escort.

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"Kali nichta!"* she'd say to the children before they ran back towards their houses. The ground had vibrated a few more times during their walk an Imi could sense it was the other demon spirit.


"Why couldn't there just be one?" she'd complain with a sigh, before backtracking to the edge of the woods.
After taking a second to estimate what direction the spirit was Imi would slowly but sure begin to head towards it.





* Einai entaxei = "It's okay" in Greek.
Kali nichta = "Goodnight" in Greek.

Imi would stop in her tracks as another pan pipe melody began to play - this one seemingly higher in pitch.
"Dammit!" she'd mutter.
By the vibrations the demon she was tracking set off it was likely the one flattening trees and crop fields - a true menace, but having a soft spot for children she couldn't help but turn back and head towards where she heard the music coming from at top speed, hoping to reach demon before it attracted the children too far from their homes. However several seconds into her mad dash the music would suddenly stop, causing Imi to come to a stop as well.

"It stopped playing? But why would..."
The Zodiac's thought would be cut short at the sound of a voice yelling up ahead in the distance, which caused her to take off in the direction she was going before.


By the time she arrived on scene Imi would glimpse the true form of a demon that was nearly identical to the one she had just killed, and underneath it stood Tadashi - the Earth Warrior.
"So it was Taurus who followed me." Imi whispered to herself with a smirk, before leaning against a nearby tree to observe a battle she knew was over before it began.





After the demon turned to ash and the Earth in front of her was resettled Imi would push herself off the tree trunk and begin to walk out of the woods.

"Very nice, but a bit overkill don't ya think?" she'd joke.
"I was wondering who followed me but I'm surprised it's you, I know how much you just love get togethers with the others - you must be itching to get back."
Imi would come to a stop a few feet back from the other Zodiac and shove her hands in her shorts back pockets. She knew Tadashi was easily the least sociable of the Zodiacs, but she still couldn't resist a couple jokes.

Before she could think of something else witty to say the ground would shake once more. It wasn't nearly as violent as the last time though, suggesting that the larger demon is even further away than it was before - which caused her to sigh.

"There's a big one lingering outside of town, probably in the farmland by now. We wouldn't be very good at our jobs if we let it be, no?"

Pulling her shrunken Meteor Hammer off her hip Imi would begin to twirl the weapon at her side as she headed towards the deserted roadway.
"Come on, I don't bite!"

She was anxious to wrap things up as soon as possible and spend the rest of the night taking in the scenery, even if it was with someone who probably wanted to glue her mouth shut. Anything was better than sitting around a table at what felt like Spiritus Terras's most awkward family reunion.

"You know you're right, I love random get togethers!" she'd say as soon as Tadashi began to follow her. "However it wasn't very interesting after a while, so I got bored....Greece sounded much more fun."


She'd spend the majority of their walk acting like a tourist, ogling at the scenery and buildings like she was star-struck since it had been many millenniums since she was last in the country, until the scenery all began to disappear - turning into nothing by wide open spaces.


"I don't see anything" Imi muttered more to herself than Tadashi as she looked out at the acres of farmland lit by the full moon's light.
After several seconds she'd stop in her tracks as she noticed a group of trees a few hundred yards away,completely flattened.
"Okay, so this thing must be invisible, or my eyes are really-"
Imi's sarcasm would come to a halt as a giant mass began to drop down from a lone cumulus cloud high up in the sky.
"So much for invisible..."

Once the mass lowered itself substantially Imi could see it was an obese ogre, four or five stories high, with dark blue boiled skin and a ring of clouds around both ankles and wrists.
"Egh, you wreak of Spiritus Terras....." the demon bellowed, causing Imi to wrinkle her nose in disapproval as the demonic spirit kept talking.

"I guess he's not coming down."

The massive demon was still a hundred or so feet in and the air and showed no signs of coming down, so without any thought Imi unhooked her Meteor Hammer and let it grow to twice it's normal size.
"When you're done spouting whatever nonsense you're up there going on about do you plan on coming down?" she said, taunting the demon with the knowledge that she hadn't been paying him any mind - something that infuriate the spirit.
"You insolent-"
"-guess not."

Cutting the demon off she'd swing her meteor hammer up towards his head - where he'd block her weapon via his club, causing the chain to wrap around it instead of his neck.
An expression of shock would make it's way on her face at first and the ogre would laugh, however she'd quickly begin to smirk and giggle a bit under her breath.
"Got ya!"


Four other clones several yards away swung their identical meteor hammers up towards the back of the demons head in unison, let the chains wrap around it's neck, and then together pulled the best down to the ground - causing a loud boom that shook the ground violently for several seconds.

"Whew." Imi let out, momentarily feeling the strain that was just put on her clones.
"That was a little too easy, care to finish it off Taurus? The night awaits."

She could of easily done so herself but saw no harm in sharing the moment. Besides, she found Tadashi's overkill methods entertaining to observe.