Chapter 37: You Need Me
’W-What is this? Why can’t I move... No this crazy bitch, she also stopped as well, what is happening here!?’ Nellie question the strange series of events happening right before her eye, but just then a voice echoed in her head, it was the voice of a man who began to spoke so suddenly, saying. "You look like you can use some help kid... Here what, do you want to live!? If so I can indeed help with that, but firstly I must know, do you want to play a game with me!?"
The voice asked, taking the injured Nellie by suprise, making her mentally question. ’Who are you!?’ Her question was a weary one, but Dante answered. "Your kind calls me a Negative Spirit."
’A spirit!?’ She asked confused, as to what was going on here, but she close her eyes saying. ’I am not interested, thanks but I know how your kind operates, I am not irking to get scam.’
Nellie said, causing Dante to reply as such. "I don’t think you have much of a choice here do you, it’s clear this woman is going to turn you into her play thing, would you rather that, or taking a chance with me!?" Dante argued, and Nellie commented looking at her options.
’If I do, can you promise me first that you can take me out of this situation!?’
She asked, after all, why would she accept his offer, if that is the case. And to her suprise, Dante responded back to her confidently saying. "Oh that’s easy, although, I would first need your permission, and your agreement."He informed her. ’What kind of game are we even playing!?’ She asked clearly weary, and Dante then said to her. "Like I said, you know what to do, I only need your body for a minute, all you need to do is consent, I will then take possession of your body, beat this woman for you, or get away if your vessel can’t handle my power, so what do you say, do you want to take a chance."
Nellie was backed up into a corner here, either she agree get away, but face the unknown after, or accept her fate die with here, and be spare from this woman’s game, the choice was an obvious one for her, and with all honesty, she is starting regret her life making choices, but she chose the obvious. ’I-I accept.’ This was all Dante, need to hear, and in that moment Nellie suddenly felt drowsy, as her mind started to collapse, and soon she lost consciousness, falling into a deep sleep.
Virgil then texted Dante, her looked at the message above the soon incoming one.
[Another suitable player for the Administrator has been found, Nellie Gule, please follow the guiding light up ahead to track and locate the target, if you don’t hurry, it will be too late interact and make a contract]
Seeing this, Dante smiled, as that was when he then looked at the glowing purple light that trailed forward leaving behind a notice and long tail of light he can trail behind. As such he followed the light, till eventually that’s when he saw the kneeling girl, and reached out, but now they where here, as Virgil next message made it clear.
[You have entered a temporary contract with a potential Avatar Candidate Nellie Gule. You have temporarily posses the subject body, due to the body not being under the effects of the Administrator ability, you only have absolute control over it for one minute]
Nellies eyes then began reopen, this time however they where glowing a bright violet the same color as Dante’s eyes, as he looks around at the unnamed exorcist, who reach out to touch his vessel, her movement slow.
"Hmm, so this is what it feels like to take control of a vessel." He spoke, his voice in the background, alongside Nellie voice at the forefront, imma combine fashion. "How alien, how utterly alien, I know what it is like to be in a human body, a body of pure flesh and blood... And yet, even then, the foreign sensation of taking on a new gender makes it vastly more weird, hmm, no, it’s not just that, it as if something else feels different. I feel like just how strong I am from perspective of this girl, I feel like a pool of almost infinite power, yet this vessel can handle only so much of my true forms power from my domain."
Dante said as he got up, taking the exorcist by suprise. "Oh, you still have some fight left in you egh!!... But then, the Exorcist Negative Spirit suddenly began to tremble as it grabbed her with it’s powerful grips, and toss her at the back more away from the standing Nellie.
"GRRRAAHHHHh!!.. Zalora screamed, the nameless exorcist then looked at her contracted spirit, and said. "What the hell? Ah, what’s the problem girl!?" Then, whispers in her head surge fourth, a unique way of communication between the two, as the woman looked at Nellie, her hand on the wet street road. Then she asked. "Spirit Possession, isn’t that a high grade general spirit technique, still I didn’t sense any Negativity on her before, I swear she was just a normal girl up to the point when I found out she was a mutant."
A surge of darkness started to radiate from Nellie, as power so vast, dark, and volatile fill her being so much, it flooded out into the world, in tangible and seeable state. As her black hair, suddenly start to chain color, going from black to full white shortly after, and she or rather he raised her head toward the exorcist and said. "What strange clothes you wear human, tell me are you what everyone calls and exorcist!?"
"Human you say, I see, so that cute little thing was actually hiding a trump card like this!?" She said getting up, and looking Nellie and continue speaking. "So you are her contract spirit I presume?"
"Just answer me question human are you exorcist or not?" The woman she chuckled and replied. "Don’t worry you will find out soon, I must say though I have never enslave a posses human before, fufufu, that would be a fun catch."
"Sigh, you are hopeless one human, then so be it." In that moment, Dante place his hands up, Mundus energy, formed at the palms as he said. "I believe Beako called this Mundus Blast, let see how it fair against the people of this world."
Purple energy, formed and condensed into a ball of power, and like a explosion it blasted outwards into a powerful spear of purple light with shockwave, Zalora stretch her giant hand infront of the exorcist, shielding her from the laser, it screamed as it tried to hold on, but then shockwaves send the exorcist flying backwards. "Awww." She screamed as she lost her balance and got carried away by the force. Still she was alive.
"UGHA!! You bastard." She said getting up, as the shadow beneath her began to arise from the ground, condensing to point of becoming hard, as a large battle axe was in her hand, the blade sharp, despite being a construct of shadow.
The woman grab the axe, and said. "My, my, it was a wise choice to chase after you instead of that other useless dog, but I am sure Loid probably caught her by now... I thought this was going to be boring, but thank the Great Five they aren’t."
She said, as she rush inwards, her great giant battle axe clench tightly as she prepare to swing with superhuman strength, her first move was to attack with heavy right slash to the head. But then to her suprise, Dante put his hand up, opening it, and catching the blade mid swing. "WHAT!?" The exorcist eyes open up in terror, as Dante looked at her said. "I don’t have time for you right now, just disseapear already."
Without saying anything he, squeeze down tightly, breaking the blade of the shadow axe, then grab the pole with his free hand and yank the weapon out of her grip tossing the black construct behind him.
"Shitttt!" The exorcist said as she tried to take a step back in worry, but then, Nellie change her stance, as a weird black fog rotate around her, taking the shape of horrific look hammer that was combination of machine and flesh. With the full power of the vessel upper limits boosting Nellie body strength to physical peak, as her muscle bulge. Her feet anchored into ground, as Mundus energy pour into weapon to reinforce it further, and with merciless motion, Nellie swang, at the same the exorcist used her arm to block the attack as pain shoot through her.
But her bones break with the force, and then Mundus energy exploded outwards alongside it, creating powerful Sonic boom, as the exorcist was sent flying into side her body flew through two buildings and sky scraper into the distance. "aaahHHHHWWW!!" Her scream tore through the sky, as she was sent far away, even with her full speed she won’t be reaching back this side anytime soon especially with her now injured arm.
"That take’s care of that!?" Dante commented, as his attention then shift back to Nellie. "Hmm, this child, is injured as well, thankfully Beatrice regenerative traits should suffice with these minor injuries." With that, using the power of his first Avatar, he began to heal Nellie, as her wounds passively started to close. Bones in reposition themselves, heal and connect, and flesh started to knock back together as well, in a matter of seconds, the injured Nellie recover back to a heal state, however the fatigue remain.