Well, here I thought sewer duty was the lowest of the low – assignment wise. Nope, there is a worst – undercover in High School!! Ok so at least it was an interesting though disturbing case, something had aged two high school students to old age. But I had no sword, no explosives and no back-up! Arrghhh. And oh yes, I forgot – HOMEWORK!!!
So here I am at Murias Public Highschool #6, in a homeroom with a few people that I actually knew, I was hoping they would not recognize me out of uniform. But there .. was Scribbles and Buck. One with a very interesting ability and the other has the terrible unlucky ability of getting into the most unbelievable trouble and for the most part surviving it.
One of the students in my ‘homeroom’, a pretty girl by the name of Terra and a young man named Tristan were interesting. Though I don’t get the impression they were friends with the two dead students, they did know them. As both of the students that had died so far died, where from this school and particularly this homeroom. So far the name of the 2nd student hasn’t been released to the public.
I listened around for the next two days, struggled through homework – gag I forgotten how much I had hated this stuff. Not that it was hard just ..it was a total waste of my time. Really now what can possibly be the purpose of writing an 1000 word essay on the different types of flowers in the city for my culture class! Now a paper on the different type of demons that I can understand. And I wont even go into my math homework – if anyone can give me a real life reason that a non-engineer type would use it for – I only hope to the Goddess that my captain doesn’t find out about the grade on that test. I will never hear the end of it!
Terra invited me to a party she was holding at her place on Saturday, I accepted. It would be a good time to see if we have some kind of demon snacking on the students and a party would be a good place for a demon to pick up someone.
A stop at General Li’s for a party size House Chow Mein and Egg Rolls was my contribution to the food for the party. Considering what happened later – I think I will take General Li’s off my list of places to get food – really now ‘Dancing Chow Mein and Not-So Mystery Meat’ -- that’s enough to put me off of Chinese food altogether. Maybe I should learn how to cook – can’t be worse then having to go back to high school again.
Back to the party, it started out ok, though Ross with his purple mist clearly a magical drug of some kind, had to be dealt with fortunately for all involved, most of them had passed out so we could get the mist burner outside where it could not do any harm. Also at the party was Autumn and Grace -- both friends of whom I had met at Redux night club. Even as we were returning to the party, we had unexpected and un-welcomed guests. Three bikers, and not the normal kind but as we later found out some kind of ‘Wild Hunt’ .. Demon things. I am going to have to look them up.
But it was a good fight, though surprising since one of the party guest turned out to be of all things an Angel --- handy ability that. And Terra turned out to be a budding Druid / Plant Mage. We got the students out of there and too safety. I called the God Squad to deal with the biker’s helmets that appear to possess people too. Unfortunately even as I waited for the God Squad, imps by the ..many .. descended and tried to take the helmets. Another fight here ensued, alas we were not as successful – one of the imps managed to make off with a helmet. Though I have to say I had a lot of fun, spearing imps on telephone pole. Unfortunately, one of the priests of the God Squad that arrived was possessed by a helmet, and we could not get it off. So the God Squad hauled him off with the other locked up helmet.
Amazingly, the only real damage was a broken window, maybe my luck with property damage is finally changing.
The rest of the weekend was quiet for me, but I would later find out that another student was drained. There is now a pattern – every 3 days. Which means the next attack would be around Tuesday night/ Wednesday morning. Unfortunately, I was able to find out who was doing the attacks by the 4th attack – which took Buck. At this point, we had literally nothing to go on. So I suggested for Terra if she could do some kind of locating spell and here we had some success, not only did we find out that the soul was ..taken .. and lost in the Ether – and that a pair of demons an incubus and a succubus.
We ended up purchasing 4 soul-gems and going to a church. There using the Angel’s ability to reach into the Ether, using the body as an anchor (having requested all the bodies to be delivered to the church that were in the morgue via Scribbles incredible drawings) and the one bodies we found). Unfortunately, as things would have it, a certain demon of some note, didn’t approve of us re-uniting the souls with their specific bodies – and attacked the church.
Meanwhile as Terra and the Angel united souls and bodies, another battle ensued, this one involved not only a horde of demons, a demon-fighting biker gang, some of the God Squad and a few others including Freeman. What a fight – I am so glad I was able via Scribbles to get my box of emergency explosive supplies from the station – with my TK I was able to strategically place my explosives to take out as many demons as possible. Until of course they scattered too much then it was hand to hand. There is nothing like the sounds of demons being blow to bits and pieces. Unfortunately, my hopes for property damage were dashed, some of the demons were a bit too closed to a few empty cars.
I know sometime during the battle Scribbles was able to find the last body, and the other traveled there unfortunately – the demon was prepared and another battle was fought there. Here the angel I heard, really revealed just how powerful they can be. Truly impressive! I will have to see if I can buy that empty building/shop, its now considered blessed. I would like to live there – knowing it will be safe from demons. I will have to move quickly before that feature becomes know. Fortunately, I have nearly 20 years of saving to tap for that purchase!!!
All and in, an excellent day, got to blow some demons up and saved 4 people.
Alas my luck didn’t hold, when I submitted my report, my captain in fact had received some kind of note from the school about my math grades and I have to take ..remedial math ARRRGGHHH