Ellie's Story

"Almost show time~!" Whisper purred out, opening a rather small coffin that laid on a rotten wood table, a satin white sheet covering it just to keep the coffin 'safe'. He had periodically dug this coffin up throughout the years, almost as if he could never part with it. Whisper's smirk was ear to ear at this point as he stroked a large orb, it's insides nothing put pure black. A void of pure nothingness. His mission, his plan, was finally coming together perfectly. After thousands, millions of years, finally he had found the perfect subjects to bring to "Ｉｎｆｉｎｉｔｙ". Ones that, no matter what they did, would eventually aid him in hi venture to gather all one-hundred and fifty pages. No matter if three were the only ones needed, his master desired all of them.

Whisper, since the moment the original four friends had even stepped foot in the realm, had always been watching. Always observing them for the slightest of flaws, cracks, as one would say. He needed ways to hit home, to make them stay. He found those ways, and within only about maybe a million or so years, maybe even less, all seven sins had finally gathered. Now the real show would begin.

As for the virtues, well, he had no apparent control over them. He simply was making an educated guess that they would just so happen to show up within three hours from now. Then, his beloved "puppets" would do his dirty work for him, with a little persuasion that those tiny, pathetic virtues would be their ultimate downfall without all the pages.

Oh how devious! Yes, absolutely devious! Once that was done, all he would have to do would b-

Crap, where had he put those papers? He needed to send those papers off to each one of the sins!... And Kouji. He couldn't forget Kouji. "Goddamn it..." Whisper hissed, gathering the papers he had put together about each Virtue, mainly just describing where each virtue would be located once the gateway would open. What they chose to do within the next hours or so would be up to them. Knowing Kouji, he'd mostly be on top of things, try and locate the largest group of his fellow 'comrades'... But wouldn't that ruin the fun of this all? Scribbling one more thing down on Kouji's paper he'd be receiving, it would direct him to the Ocean District. Now he was having fun. He grinned as he began rolling each separate piece of paper into a neat looking scroll, tied with a ribbon.

Chuckling, Whisper tightly gripped each copy, he climbed the wooden ladder, pushing the tombstone that hide the entrance to his lair aside, climbing out as he pushed it back into place, sealing that entrance. Without even a word, there were eight crows in front of him, each one in a matter of minutes having the ribbon tied around their necks and taking off to their designed targets.

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Letter to the Sins

Hey! I thought you should know, but the Gateway is going to be opening soon. The rest of the virtues are coming. Perhaps, you would like their locations listed below? Good luck finding them before the others! Oh, and I'll send the virtue that has been right under your nose the entire time to one of you as well.

Temperance - Forest
Patients - Business/Residential
Humility - Red-light district
Chastity - Black Market
Kindness - Never Ending Winter
Charity - Never Ending Summer
Kouji - Diligence

~Yours truly,
Whisper

Letter to Kouji

Hey, the rest of the virtues will be showing up within an hour or two from now. I'll send them to the Ocean district, so wait there, okay? If their haven't arrived an hour from when you get this letter, then there might of been a slight complication, so you may need to go after them... Good luck Kouji, you'll need it for this. Here is the locations incase someone doesn't show up...

Temperance - Forest
Patients - Business/Residential
Humility - Red-light district
Chastity - Black Market
Kindness - Never Ending Winter
Charity - Never Ending Summer

~Your friend,
Whisper

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Location: Wrath's tower, The forest Sector.
Time of day: 6 A.M.

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Samael awoke to the sound of tapping at his window, judging by the reverberations and repetition of said tapping, it was likely some kind of bird. Well, this and the fact that his bedroom was on the 16th floor of his tower. With an angry mutter, Samael threw back his sheets and made his way to the window, navigating the rooms with complete familiarity. After reaching the window, Samael unlatched it, opened it wide and caught the infernal creature. It squawked madly, but needed only a few gently strokes on its head to calm it. Samael frowned, feeling something odd about the creature's neck. A ribbon and a small piece of paper. Curiously, Samael pulled the paper out from the ribbon and unrolled it. Much to his displeasure, he smelled ink on the paper, meaning that the note was written with a pen rather than in brail. It was going to take a while to figure out what it said. With a growl, Samael pulled up a chair and plunked himself into it, slowly running his fingers across the page, the bird simply watching from its perch in the window.

After nearly thirty minutes of agonizing "reading", he finally had a rough idea of what the note said. The Gateway would open today, and soon. Not only that, but the Virtue of Temperance would be here, in his forest. "Well that just wasn't fucking acceptable!" screamed Wrath, throwing his chair across the room and listening to it shatter into a thousand splinters against the far wall. He had to act quickly, but certainly not on an empty stomach. He quickly groomed himself to the best of his abilities and got dressed before cooking up a quick meal of fried eggs and sausage, devouring it with greater haste.

He stood up from his meal and barged towards the door, the bird flying out his window in fear. Samael descended his tower via a rather new invention, the elevator, and was out in his woods by 8 A.M., patrolling the trees for the smell of this Virtue.

Ellie woke up with a start pushing her sweat matted hair from her brow. Gingerly she looked over at the clock "Before the sun?" She groaned to herself before laying her head against her pillow staring at the ceiling her thoughts racing faster then she could keep up with, with a heavy sigh she got herself up out of bed.

She made her way to the bathroom turning on the water for the shower, ahe took another deep breath looking at herself in the mirror, "If I stay I know I will lose myself...but going...that could very well do the same thing can't it." She got in and took her shower getting herself dressed opting for jeans, long sleeve tee shirt, and a pair of boots. She tossed her hair into a messy pony tail as she made her way to her kitchen. "I'd rather try to do something the wait for myself to snap, losing myself would be worse then anything this new world can do..I hope." She made herself a simple breakfast glancing up at the clock as it rolled over to eight.

She stood at the gateway looking over her shoulder at the world she was leaving, "I can do this." She thought to herself as she took a deep breath, slinging her messenger bag over her shoulder and walking through the gateway.



Ellie shielded her eyes as she stepped through not sure what lay on the other side for her. Her hand quickly went to her mouth as the forest came into focus for her. She smiled looking up at the giant trees running her hands gently down the trunk feeling the kitten soft moss growing along it. She had always loved the outdoors and camping being around nature calmed her more then anywhere else. She found her way to the path the forest creatures used to move deeper into the woods. After a little while of walking Ellie found a fallen tree that made a perfect seat to stop and enjoy the view around her. She pulled out her sketch book wanting to remember the way the place looked to her in that moment knowing it might not be remembered the forest same way after time passed.

Location: The forest Sector.
Time of day: 8:40 A.M.

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Samael wandered through the forest, his nose to the air as the wind suddenly shifted, bringing with it... A woman's scent! Samael dialed in on the scent like a blood hound and took off at a dead run, his anger slowly manifesting around him in steam like wisps. How dare they just waltz into his forest! He kept himself out here for a damned reason, to stay away from those who would piss him off, but for some reason people just HAD to walk on in! And that mad him very, very angry. When he found this damned woman he was going to... to... He slowly came to a stop and took a deep breath. "Have to calm down. I don't know what they're here for... but I have a feeling it'd be a bad idea for me to kill them." The steamy wisps vanished with his anger, and he calmly walked towards the scent.

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9:00 A.M.

The walk through the forest had helped calm him, and by the time he came into the girl's view he was in a... Relatively decent mood. She was drawing, he could hear the sound of graphite grinding against the rough surface of the paper and ripping, tearing, peeling off in microscopic pieces and falling into the tiny crevices of the fibrous material. He smiled a little to himself, he knew all of this, but he'd never be able to see the drawing itself. He slowly walked into the small clearing, hands in his pockets.
"What are you doing here? This place is dangerous to go wandering around by your lonesome."

He slowly walked into the small clearing, hands in his pockets.
"What are you doing here? This place is dangerous to go wandering around by your lonesome.
Ellie jumped dropping her pencil looking up a little shocked before she composed herself. "You came out of no where, As far as danger goes I didn't wander to far in." A small smile played at the edge of her lips letting her tone shift into a more conversational tone. "Are you here to tell me you are the big bad and I should be heading for the hills with a blood curdling yell for help?" She let a small laugh creep out before she cleared her throat looking back down at her art, "In all seriousness Sir if I am trespassing I can go. I didn't see any signs or anything and this forest is just so pretty." She tucked her book back into her bag throwing it on to her shoulder.

She studied him for a moment a sly smile spread on her face "So how do you know I am not someting to be scared of? For all you know I could very well be something completely deadly dangerous." She bit back a laugh that was creeping up her throat like anyone would find her scary. She pushed her bangs from her eyes taking in a light breath "Most people call me Ellie, what do people call you?"

Location: The forest Sector.
Time of day: 9 A.M.

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Samael simply tilted his head and listened to the girl. "Well that's good, the corruption isn't to bad near the edge of the wood, and no, you're not trespassing. Though if I were "Big and bad" and made little girls run to the hills with blood curdling screams, you probably would be." Samael walked up to the fallen tree and took a seat, running his hand across the dead bark. "It is rather nice out here, epically in the spring." He smiled as he thought of the wonderful sounds that spring brought with it. "The melody of bird song, the scent of a blooming pine tree, the soft moss growing on fallen trees... It's a wondrous place." He had to laugh a little at her next comment, the one about possibly being some deadly and dangerous creature, and that her name was Ellie.

"Well Ellie, if you WERE something deadly and dangerous, I would've killed you the second I smelled you." He grinned at the girl, the mad grin of a stone cold killer, as an axe appeared in his other hand. He plunged the blade of said axe into the tree with such force that the entire section of tree to his left cracked, split, fell apart and turned to splinters as it hit the ground. "People call me lots of things." he continued in a more serious tone, his grin gone. "They call me "The Barbarian", "The Blind One", and "The Youngest Sin". Most people simply call me Wrath, and my friends call me Samael. But this is all besides the point!" Samael pushed himself off of the dead tree and slung his axe over his shoulder, facing Ellie once more. "Call me whatever you wish, but for now, you'll be coming with me."

Ellie smiled lightly as he spoke fondly of the forest. "Well Ellie, if you WERE something deadly and dangerous, I would've killed you the second I smelled you." He grinned at the girl, the mad grin of a stone cold killer, as an axe appeared in his other hand. She took a step back as his axe cracked into a tree, "People call me lots of things." he continued in a more serious tone, his grin gone. "They call me "The Barbarian", "The Blind One", and "The Youngest Sin". Most people simply call me Wrath, and my friends call me Samael. But this is all besides the point!" Samael pushed himself off of the dead tree and slung his axe over his shoulder, facing Ellie once more. "Call me whatever you wish, but for now, you'll be coming with me."

She straightened her back as every bit of her started to panic, but she manged to keep herself composed and hervoice even. "Yeah...I don't think that is something I really care to do Wrath, you see well you are rather scary and wel the thing is I want to show you what it is you do fully to people when you come at them like this. It really isn't nice." She took a deep breath at let herself give into the fear her body started to shake almost uncontrollable. In one fluid movement she grabbed his wrist giving him the flood of fear that had started to crash through her, his rage made her feel like she just jumped into a pit of fire. She quickly pushed it down as she let him go not having any clue how he would react or if it would have a long enough effect that she could get away.

She ran pushing herself as hard as she could her lungs threatened to burst as she put distance between them her mind raced. "Now what am I suppose to do?" She saw a tear that she quickly climbed up climbing as high as she could until she was high in the brance barely strong enough to hold her weight and tried to catch her breath.

Location: The forest Sector.
Time of day: 9:05 A.M.

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"Yeah...I don't think that is something I really care to do Wrath, you see well you are rather scary and wel the thing is I want to show you what it is you do fully to people when you come at them like this. It really isn't nice." Samael frowned at that and got a sinking feeling when she grabbed his wrist. Suddenly, a wave of fear smacked into his very being like a brick wall, pushing away all other emotions as the girl ran off. His knee hit the ground, his entire body shaking. "W-What... the hell is t-this?" He was so frightened he could vomit, and it REALLY pissed him off. Fear became anger, and anger became rage, and rage... turns to Wrath.

He stood, his body still shaking but no longer in fear. Now his body shook with the barely contained rage he could feel boiling inside of him, spilling out from his hand and forming his axe, which he gripped in both hands. With a savage growl, Wrath plunged into the woods after the girl, following her scent. Apparently, she was a pretty good sprinter, because it took him a while to find the tree she had climbed. Wrath simply grinned and hefted his axe. "You have two choices Ellie! Come down quietly, or I'll Chop Chop Chop this tree down!" With every "Chop", he plunged his axe into the tree, taking out a sizable chunk.

Ellie held on to the branch as tight as she could trying to ease her mind as Samael chopped the trunk of the tree. She shook her head "No way am I coming down to you peacefully!" She said with as much of an even temper as she could muster. She glanced around the trees seeing how close they are to eachother. Her head spun, sure she picked a thick trunked tree but how long would it last with the way he was chopping.

She took a deep breath looking down at him, "If I climb down how can I trust you wont take that axe to me?" She looked down at him "Besides why not leave me to fend for myself wouldn't the wilds do me in." As she spoke calmly she move to the other side of the tree, gingerly trying to shimmy over to the tree next to the one that was moments from crashing. "You should just let me go."

She manged to slink into the tree next to her as the one she had taken shelter in crashed to the ground, "No wait!" She yelped right as the tree started to swap backwards pulling a ribbon out of her hair and tossing it t fall with the tree as well. She pressed her back against the the tree bark taking shallow quiet breaths as she watched him move to the fallen tree.

Location: The forest Sector.
Time of day: 9:15 A.M.

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"Is that so? Well I'm sorry to hear that, it would have gone so much easier for you!" he growled at the girl, continuing to swing his axe in smooth, fluid arcs into the tree. He could hear the tree fibers slowly groan with strain as more and more weight was placed upon them. The tree had very nearly had it.

His axe stopped a mere inch from the exposed wood as she finally spoke up. "You're not the brightest of people are you? If I were going to kill you, I wouldn't have bothered talking to you, or asking you to come with me!" He resumed his chopping of the tree, his ears picking up the rustling of in the leaves above him. She was moving, but he couldn't tell how.

Feeling satisfied that the tree was now weak enough, he gave the trunk a solid kick and listened as it slowly crashed to the ground. Feeling rather calm now, his axe vanished and he walked up to where she had been hiding in the tree. While her scent was present in the tree, there was no sound. He crouched and felt around, finding a silky piece of cloth that smelled of the girl. He inhaled her scent, fixing it more firmly in his senses, and smelled her in the tree just next to the fallen one. "If you think that you can hide simply because I am blind, you're dead wrong!" he yelled as his axe appeared again, then doubled, and tippled in size. He roared and swung, the blade slicing cleanly through the trunks of every tree in a good 25 foot radius.

She wrapped her arms around the tree waiting until she could safely jump to the ground. She jumped quickly landing on her feet just inches from being flatted by a another tree crashing next to her. She took in ragged breaths " Oh I am not bright because I thought the crazy guy who pulled out in axe as soon as he met me was going to murder me, gee I should have seen that and thought I bet he wants to cuddle me." She stood facing him looking for something anything she could use as a weapon to defend herself. The closest she could find was a stick. She held her make shift club up bracing for a fight "If you thought I would just fall at your feet and beg for mercy well you already saw I am not that type of girl." She was able to calm herself as she looked for her club her voice had taken on her normal in control tone.

"You got me on level ground with you now, has anyone ever told you that you should get that temper of yours in check that is a really nasty habit you got."

Location: The forest Sector.
Time of day: 9:15 A.M.

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Samael panted lightly as his axe vanished like smoke in the wind, seeming to simply cease being solid. He winced a little as he heard the crashing of a great many trees, splintering and breaking against the hard ground. "It would seem I've lost my temper... again." He straightened himself and dusted off his coat while catching his breath and trying to keep his temper in check, and realized he was still holding the ribbon that had been in the tree. He stuffed it into his pocket and turned to the girl's voice. "I'll admit that... you have a bit of a point there. Quite a lot of a point really." He groaned as he heard her shuffle about and pick up a thick branch, feeling the rage stir within him. "No! I've already done enough damage! I cannot kill this girl!"

He took a deep breath and strode towards the girl calmly, his hands in his pockets. "No, you clearly aren't, and I can respect that. That's the kind of attitude that'll keep you alive here." He stopped a good five feet in front of Ellie, standing as unmenacingly as he could force himself to be, which was about the equivalent of a yawning lion on the savannah. He smiled and chuckled a little at her last comment, finding it genuinely funny. "Believe me, you certainly aren't the first person to tell me that, nor do I think you'll be the last. I realize I can be... unreasonable at times, so here's my offer." He sighed a little, disliking this even though it was his idea. "Hit me as much as you wish, until I'm bleeding, battered and broken. If I fall unconcious before that stick of yours breaks, you're free to go. If not, you'll come with me, and I promise not to harm you. Sound fair?"

Ellie watched him carefully as he walked calmly over to her. Her brow rose slowly as he actually started to laugh about her comments about his temper. She blinked a few times hearing his offer, She looked at the stick in her hands flexing her grip slightly.

She made her way over to him, she raised the stick taking a swing at him letting the air from it whip past his face. She dropped her stick at his feet letting the stick hit his feet. "I have a counter offer for you." She said in a gentle voice like she was trying to talk to a stray dog that had just tried to bite her face off. Give me your word you want let harm come to me by your hand or the hands of your..." She thought for the right word "friends..and I will go with you, instead of beating the crap out of you and you having to come and refind me.." She held her hand out "Do we have a deal, Samael?" She cleared her feelings as she held her hand out not wanting to imprint her feelings into him if he agreed.