Welcome to Gaia! ::

Chris returned withh Nero (he's an angel btw). "I'm bac...." she said suddenly feeling chilled by the deadly feling in teh house. "Well I guess they never got rid of spirit..." she said and turned back to Nero. SHe released energy to heal him. "This will help" she said and led him through the door up to the thrid floor.

(wait are y'all still on the third floor?)

"Thank you." Nero said as Chris healed him. As they walked, pieces of Nero's memory came back to him. He remembered being cast down, the pain he felt, but what was it for? He couldn't remember... Suddenly, a sole picture popped up in Nero's head, of Chris. But it wasn't him looking at her directly. It was him looking at her from a sort of bird's eye view. When he was in Heaven. And then it came to him; Chris was the one he had saved. It was she who had brought him to Earth, and she who had saved him from certain death, as he had done for her, without her knowing. He decided against telling her, for now, but would when the time was right. For now, he followed her into the upper floors of the building they were in.

"Welcome back, Chris," Rogi said as he slumped down into an armchair. "Who is your friend?"

***

Esteban suppressed a full body laugh and merely chuckled. "Now that you've shown yourself to me, I can track you," Esteban said, his eyes flashing briefly. He reached out with his hand, gripped the air, and dragged his arm back, bringing with it, the Phantom. "You seem to think that by killing an innocent Light User, that it would grant you enough power to best me, and I assume you refer to the greatest fount of Light energy in this dreary place." Esteban was seething now. "You know nothing about me then. You see, I am an ancient evil, almost as old as this mansion. A spirit of the great Immortal Spirit Army, who left millenia ago and went to work for D.I.N.E.R. back in its glory day, and has been growing in strength constantly." He paused and suffered a chuckle. "And, you obviosly do not know your history. You see, the previous caretaker was an 800 year old undead, known as the Lich King. Many have thought him to have left, but I discovered him, or at least what I believe to be him, hidden deep within the bowels of the Tenth Sea Library. Killing me, should you even be able to wound me, would not make you the undisputed ruler of the Dead, so now I ask you, what your goal is here and why I shouldn't destoy your spirit here and now?"

"I, am Rogi," he said, nodding his head politely. "I am the servant of the Master of the Necropolis."

"Like he said he was an angel..." she said sitting down next to Rogi.

Nero looked at the others and sat also, then made a ball of telekinetic energy and starting tossing it from hand to hand. "'Least I've still got some of my powers." Nero thought to himself.

Nero looked over at Chris and saw her with her eyes closed. He noticed that she looked troubled. He caught the ball in his hand and crushed it. The energy sank back into his hand. He leaned forward and asked "Chris, what's wrong? Are you okay?"