Darkness

Day Fifteen, Part Two

         After everyone had left, I went over to where my staff was standing upright in the ground. I took off my cloak and began to chant. The chant was an old one, one that I had learnt from the Goddess of Death, Celeste. It would summon the Spirit that Guarded this forest. There should be one. There was such an abundance of life here that I would be surprised if there was no spirit here. Wait, let me make that, flabbergasted.
         "Daughter of Death, what are thoust doing here?" a rough, archaic voice said.
         "Forgive my intrusion, Great One. My comapnions and I were attacked here not too long ago. We would ask of thee to grant a boon," I said politelym bowing down.
         "These bodies pollute my very ground. I will dispose of them in a manner befitting them. The school I will not harm for I love the people, but if there are any more of these foul creatures after tonight my wrath will be vistied upon them," the Spirit said.
         "Great One, among our company are those whom are of like kind, although not in mind. Would thoust deign to let them pass freely in thy forest?" I asked him, mindful of the risks that Kurama, Hiei, Peter and my sister and I were.
         "Thy sister and thou are those foreordained in the Prophecy. The others I will allow if they do not harm my wards," he said.
         "Gracious thanks Great One," I said. A whisper of a breeze presaged his passing.