Completed [Bronze Woods/Kabrin Road] Ghostbuster (Castor)

[Fubuki Kouri]

"Ha.... ha.... huff.... uuh..." Kouri's exhausted gasps indicated that she didn't get much left in her, her Soulmist was thinning by the chimes and her body was getting more and more transparent. Driven by exhaustion, Kouri's berserk state started to fade as her common sense made its way to her mind again; but she was still confused and disoriented. As she tried her last few swings, her opponent grabbed her tendrils and pulled her out of the ground !? Kouri didn't struggle, she can't even if she wanted too, and let herself be hold by the spiritist. Kouri gazed into his eyes, her expression was like that of a very sleepy girl. "GA-HACK" She shouted in pain as the man punched her stomach. "Ahak! Aaah!!" Her eyes widen and her teeth gritted in pain. "............." Kouri's eyes returned to normal as she focused on nothing and her lips slightly ajar, she was almost unconscious. The man's threats didn't even reach her ears. Then the man suddenly stabbed her stomach with a dagger. "Hi-... hi... GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!" The unbearable pain caused her body to tremble and Kouri let out an ethereal howl filled with suffering. The wolves' sensitive ears couldn't take it and they all scramble in panic. "..........." Kouri went limp as she was carried by the Spiritist, her eyes has lost its light and she started to stop caring whatever happens to her. "Mas... ter..." was her final words as she closed her eyes. She wasn't unconscious yet, just very very exhausted. The alpha wolf, obviously more stronger and tougher than the rest of the pack, recovered first from the shrill banshee scream, his predatory face frowned in anger; his would-be-meal had escaped. It sniffed the ground and tracked Castor using his wound's smell. It howled in anger as it commanded his pack to charge the prey. Now, a pack of five wolves was hunting the ghost hunter.

[Castor]

Castor Castor made it way from the wolves and found a place where he could rest his injuries. He found a rock that had an indent, forming a kind of shelter. Castor carried the ghost’s body like hunted game, when he reached the shelter he laid the ghost on the ground gently – he maybe some violent hunter, but he still had respect to the fallen. Through the silence of the forest, he could hear Accalia talking. “Castor, I know that to caught the ghost, and you want to vanquish her, but hear me out!” Accalia cried. Castor remained silent. “Castor, Listen to me. She’s a girl! That for is the real deal, that isn’t just an image that she chose!” Castor looked at the ghost’s ravaged body. Her soulmist projected the damage she had taken. His eyes gazed over the body once again. The girl clothing were tattered, her skin were almost invisible in some areas, and he watched as her soul mist slowly decayed into the air. “Castor, Don’t let her go like this!” Accalia screamed. Castor weighted his options. If he saved the ghost, he suffers a risk that the ghost will kill him. If he didn’t the ghost could comeback as a wraith, always filled with hatred and vengeance. Castor grabbed a container from his bag and looked at the girl, kneeling beside her. He inclined his head to what he was going to do – Save, or Die? Castor darted his eyes between the container and the girl, is he doesn’t make up his mind soon the girl will fade away. He had to choose between potentially be killed now, or in the future. Castor heaved a deep sigh and popped the container open, revealing the glowing transparent substance. He reached in the container and scooped a handful of cool soulmist. He then said in a monotone voice “Ghost who lies before me, I give you permission to absorb the soulmist created by me.” He didn’t know her name, so he just referred to her as ghost. Castor then placed the gel-like substance all over her transparent body. The soulmist was being applied like an ointment over a wound. The Soulmist then slowly seeped into the ghost and was absorbed. Castor stood up and watched the soulmist repair the damage he had done to her. Her soulmist regenerated her clothing and her body slowly faded in colour, removing her transparent look. Castor began to leave as the ghost slowly regained its strength. He didn’t want her to misunderstand his gesture so he reared his head as said “Next time you see her, why don’t you thank her. If it weren’t for her, I would have let you faded away” despite his words, deep down inside, he knew that he would have saved her as well. Castor left the ghost at the rock and began venturing back home. However when Castor was half way home, the sound of growling could be heard and suddenly Castor felt weight being pushed on his back, followed but the forest floor on his face. When the weight was removed castor turned around, there he met the face of the wolf, snarling as trying the bite his face. Castor pulls out a dagger and tries to slash and stab the wolf in front that was on top of him. “Shyke! He yells as the wolf grabs hold of the dagger. Castor’s wounds caught up to him and caused his body to give away.. The wolf overpowered Castor with ease, removing his dagger and pinned him down to the ground with its paw, preventing Castor from escape or pulling out another weapon. “heh, Dira… here I come” Castor said, closing his eyes

[Fubuki Kouri]

==================================================== "Kouri, honey" A Vantha woman with very long flowing black hair, reaching to her knees, and sapphire blue eyes was gently carrying a little Vantha girl. The woman's features suggested she was aged at her late twenties. "Yes, Mama~?" answered the girl, the girl being carried was very similar to the woman carrying her, it looked like she was the child version of the older woman. She looked like she was aged about five years old. The child's blue eyes shifted to a yellow color, indicating she was excited. "Do you know what's the most important principle in life?" The woman inquired to her daughter. "Uhm...... uhm.... worshipping Queen Morwen?" The girl sheepishly smiled as she was unsure of her answer. "Hmmm, almost, but not quite, honey. The most important principle in life is to be a good person, honey. That means doing what's right, no matter how dire the situation may seemed or how enticing the reward for taking the wrong choice is... you must never waver from your beliefs. Know that evil always loses in the end." The woman said, giving a lengthy explanation that was seemingly too much for the little girl's young mind. "H-huh? I... don't really understand..." The little girl looked at her mother in confusion. "It's okay if you don't understand yet, honey... when you grow up, you soon will" The mother smiled warmly at her beloved only daughter. "U-uhm... okay~! When I grow up! You will ask me again, right? And I will give you the correct answer! Ehehehe~" The girl grinned at her mother, yellow eyes gazing in excitement. "Of course, Dear~ I and your father will always be with you..." "always be with you..." "be with you..." After saying that, the woman's body slowly started to fade away it's if she was an illusion. The little girl quickly panicked at this bizarre phenomenon. "M-mama! W-where are you going?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-" The little girl's scream was cut short as.... ==================================================== "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! YOU LIED!!! YOU LIED TO ME!! YOU LIE LIE LIE LIE LIEEEEEEE- HA?!!!" Kouri's ethereal crimson eyes shot up and she quickly sat up. Huh? W-what happened? A... a dream? She looked around in utter confusion. W-where... am I? Ah... this is the Bronze Woods... Kouri found herself sitting in a shelter of some sort. Uuuuh... Kouri grabbed her head, she felt dizzy and disoriented. W-what happened? She tried to recall the events that has transpired just now. I... I... I ran away from that scary hooded man... t-then, he followed me to my tree... and then... I threatened him to leave... and then... then... She grasped her head with both of her hands as waves of headache assaulted her I... I can't remember what's next! What happened to me?! I have to return to my tree... Deciding to ponder about her short-term memory loss later, Kouri slowly stood up and floated out of the rock-shelter. "Ugh..." She groaned in pain and looked at her own body. This feeling, it's if I was in a fight or something... Even with Castor's soulmist, Kouri was not fully recovered yet and she felt a tinge of pain occasionally coursing through her. I better rest.. Kouri decided that her top priority right now was getting home, she would figure all of these out later. She looked around and recognizing the direction to her favorite tree, Kouri started floating to it. It was easy to find her way in the woods as a ghost as she could just phase through every tree and vegetation. "H-hey... that looks like...?" Kouri spotted a familiar metallic glint at her left and she quickly floated to it, blinking twice to arrive faster. At the glint's location, Kouri found a steel dagger, she picked it up with her tendrils and examined it. "H-hey... this looked like my dagger or... is it mine?" She looked around and spotted more glints near her. All in all, she could spot three more glints. When she examined them all, she found out that they were all daggers, three daggers looked identical while one was different. "W-what? What is this? T-they are all..." Kouri stuttered in confusion as she examined what looked like three steel daggers and one cold iron dagger as far as she could identify. "...they're all my daggers... w-why are my daggers here??? ...............I... I better get home..." Kouri picked up her daggers in one tendril grab and started to float away. After five chimes of floating, Kouri stopped as she heard a... "Howling? Snarls? Wolves..." She concluded but... "Shykes!" She heard a curse, obviously not coming from a wolf as well. H-ha?! S-someone is being hunted?! The memories of Kise's fight against the wolves resurfaced in her mind. I-I have to help!! Kouri quickly darted to the direction of the howls, snarls, and curses. "........Oh no..." Once there, she saw a man was being held down by a large wolf, with four more wolves behind it. The large one was most likely the alpha. "G-GET AWAY FROM HIM!!!" Kouri screamed at the beasts. The alpha was startled at the sound and quickly shot a look at Kouri, he snarled dangerously at the intruder. It didn't last long though as *STAB*! the gory sound of cold iron piercing through tissue can be heard. The alpha wolf dropped dead, a cold iron dagger in place of where its right eye should have been. With their leader dead, the rest of the wolves scrambled away in fear. "Huff... huff..." Kouri sighed in relief, had she not been there; the person would most likely be devoured. "A-are you alright?" Kouri said as she floated closer to check up on him as... "A-AH?!!!" Kouri landed on her butt as she fell down backwards. That hood... that silver hair, that... chain! It was the hooded man! "I... I..." Kouri was at a loss for words. She had just saved the man who, in her mind, tried to catch her.

[Castor]

Castor Castor smiled as his eyes closed, ready to accept death. Although he was young, he left like he’s lived well. Castor opened his mismatched eyes to gaze upon his last moments. The wolf was staring him in the eyes, growling as it beared its teeth. However, something was off. Castor could feel the presence of a spirit. He could feel it growing stronger and stronger. Suddenly, a girl’s voice screamed at the wolves to back away. The wolf and its pack faced the person who screamed, Castor wasn’t sure who this person, he didn’t know that it was the ghost from before – he has never heard the ghost voice when she wasn’t enraged. As the wolf above Castor reared its head, it snared at the person. However, the sound of a blade sliding through flesh and bone silenced the wolf. Castor was surprised. The wolf when limp and he could hear other wolves retreating. The Castor could feel the wolf’s dying heartbeat, slowly fading away by the chime. Castor gave a moments respect for the wolf, as Castor believed that ever soul deserved to leave without its body being disturbed. When the heart beat stopped, Castor heard the person gasped and fell to the ground. Castor moved the wolf off himself and his hood fell down as he stood up, dusting himself off. A light breeze blew bushing Castor’s long silvery hair. His hair danced and he looked at the person who saved him. His mismatched eyes meet the person’s eyes. He was surprised to find out the it was the ghost from before, and that she wasn’t frenzied. Castor just stared at the ghost as she was trying to grasp her word. Castor slowly walked towards the ghost, keeping eye contact, and towered over her. He tilted his head down, and reached for her head… then his hand touched her… Castor ruffled the ghostly girl’s hair, bearing a faint smile. The then stopped, but left his hand where it was as he squatted down to her height, looking somewhat please at the ghost. Castor was still bearing his faint smile as he said “It looks like someone has taught you a value principle in life, it be a good person, thank for showing me that.” Castor stood back up and began to head home, pulling up his hood. However, the fatigue from the battle he just had plus the wolves made him exhausted, he would be surprised if he collapsed from exhaustion. Castor looked back, to see if the ghost followed, but it seems that she had moved on. He continued walking, holing his shoulder and limping slightly. “Gee, I’m getting out of shape. I need to work harder.” He said to himself. Castor decided that it would be best to rest for a while in the forest. All he needed what five chimes. Castor wander over to a very tall he had spotted and en rested on its trunk, wrapping his tattered cloak around himself. “Just five chimes, that’s all..” He sat resting his body, and eventually fell asleep.

[Fubuki Kouri]

Fubuki Kouri OOCI think this post will end the thread. PM me for confirmation. Of course, if you have anything to add, feel free to do so, Castor. "H-hi.. n-no!!" Kouri shut her eyes in fear as the man towered over her and tried to grab her head. !?...h-huh? But the man merely ruffled her hair in affection and said his gratitude to her. Kouri was shocked, perhaps he did merely wanted to talk to her after all, she felt very stupid. She saw her cold iron dagger on the dead wolf's eye socket and pulled it, gathering it with her other daggers. "U-u-uhm... y-y-y-you're w-w-welcome..." Kouri stuttered, her pale white face goes red from embarrassment. She fidgeted with her hair ribbons to hide it, but it didn't work obviously. "U-uh..." Kouri was about to ask his well-being after the man walked away. "uun..." She couldn't say anything, not after threatening him just because he wanted to talk to her. It seemed that he was heading home and it would be best for her not to disturb him further. "Farewell... I hope we meet again..." Kouri's haunting whisper echoed in the air as she floated away from the location, carrying her four daggers with her. 2 bells later, at Kouri's favorite tree "Oh yeah... what was his name again?" Kouri pondered as she lied down on her tree branch. ".......then again, he never told me... ahaha... that was awkward..."

[Emblem]

Congratulations! You Get Glorious Experience! Kouri Skill Points Earned Soulmist Projection 5 XP Weapon: Dagger 4 XP Intimidation 4 XP Lore Earned Moments of Madness Flashbacks Lessons From Mother The Spiritist Playing Pranks An Attempt at Robbery Other Shenanigans:Add the ornamental dagger to your inventory. Castor Skill Points Earned Spiritism 5 XP Weapon: Spiritus 4 XP Negotiation 3 XP Intimidation 2 XP Weapon: Dagger 1 XP Lore Earned The Ghost Girl Accalia's Kindness Wanted Dead Saved by the Ghost Ghost Hunting Other Shenanigans: Comments : Sorry for the wait. Great thread guys! It was an enjoyable read and I enjoyed the interaction between your characters. Good work. If you have questions shoot me a PM!

[Accolade]

Fubuki

Experience

Skill	XP Earned
Soulmist Projection	+ 4XP

Lores

•	Lore Earned
•	Moments of Madness
•	Flashbacks
•	Lessons From Mother
•	An Attempt at Robbery
•	Playing Pranks
•	The Spiritist

The Sylir has spoken

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