The beast appeared again already striking at another person, but someone somehow intercepted it.
Timon sword clashed with the stinger of the Stain pushing it back into the sky, the Stain vanished again.
"Everyone to the cave, me and the hunters will hold it". Timon barked as he used his eyes of truth to follow the movement of the Stain. Timon's shout moved everyone out of their screaming spree, everyone ran in the direction of the cave.
"Watch out".
The Stain appeared above the son of Yuno, Yuno tried to engage the beast but he was too slow, his son was stabbed and dragged into the air before vanishing from everyone's sight, his headless body falling afterwards.
"Damn it my wife now my son, can't you see anyone else". Yuno screened as he rushed towards the headless body of his son.
"Everyone gather together in a circle". Timon barked out as he moved in erratically following the movement of the Stain only he could see.
Fear filled the air as the Stain played hide and seek with them, the only sound was the constant howling of Yuno as he mourned for his only son and the constant tapping of feets as Timon followed the movement of the Stain constantly relaying it's position to the people.
"W-w-why, we were supposed to escape, we were supposed to live together, why did you die, why not someone else, why you, WHY WHY WHY.
"Watch out Yuno it's heading—
The Stain appeared in front of Yuno, but didn't attack instantly, it stood there vibrating intensively, it was electric with joy as it smelled the despair taking root in the soul of Yuno. Yuno stood up and roared at it.
"You damn beast, I'll kill you".
Yuno gripped the hammer in his hand tighter, swang it at the Stain, the Stain moved back to dogde the blow, Yuno chest was left unguarded, the Stain didn't let the opportunity to dish out pain pass it bye, it closed in on Yuno and splashed it's appendage on his chest, the force lifted him up the ground causing him to move in the opposite direction, he hit the ground with a thud screaming, there was a vicious wound across his lower abdomen to his lower throat, it wasn't deep enough to sever him in two but he had his windpipe nearly severed.
After dealing the blow the Stain disappeared only for the sword of Timon to pass through it previous position.
"Damn it". Timon eyes followed the Stain as it moved in the direction of Yuno intending to finish him off, but under the eyes of Timon the Stain started to get blurry and he could see pass it.
'A fake'. The truth of the Stain was laid bare for him to see, he turned around and rushed back in a frenzy only for him to see the stain just above Jo. "Jo abov—
Before he could warn Jo the Stain appeared again, this time it didn't stop but slashed through the neck of Jo from behind him, his eyes still filled with confusion of Timon last half words, turning around it directly ignored Eclipse who was behind Jo and ripped up the head of the daughter of Jo the one who took part in the tarnishing Maria's name, then stabbed her mother's and cyris's chest.
"Noooo". Timon threw out his sword with force, the sword flew threw the air and severed on of the appendage, holding one of the hostage, the Stain let out a cry of pain and vanished with the other person in it's appendage, moment later the now headless body of cyris few down.
"Arrrrrrrrrrrrrag". A blood curling escaped Claire's mouth as she screamed in terror. Timon rushed towards his dead son who was being held by his wife and daughter who had somehow found her way towards them, only Marius was far away.
Timon turned his head towards the Stain which had appeared again standing at the cliff, Timon roared in anger as he rushed in the direction of the Stain, the Stain didn't move from it's position allowing Timon to collide with it. Timon body moved pass the body of the Stain, if Timon had properly observed he would have seen through the illusion but he was irrational as the death of his son struck him hard, with that he plummeted down to his doom.
The Stain materialized again already swinging his appendage, severing the heads of Claire and Maria who huddled together.
Then it edged closer to the girl who had slapped Eclipse earlier completely ignoring Eclipse, it reached out with the hand of the human held up her cheek, then forcefully raised up her head and did something unexpected. It kissed her, the girl felt the warm, convulsing flesh, her fear and disgust reached it's peak and she died, the Stain pulled back, and joyfully chomped on her head, the fear and disgust filling it up, it body began to vibrate intensively as if it was having an orgasm. All it's live it has never tasted flesh so sweet before, so succulent and rich in flavor of fear.
Eclipse watched as he saw the dead body of his new younger brother fall to the ground, watched how the wife of Jo died due to the appendage piercing her heart, watched how his new father fell to his death in agony and pain, watched how the head of his new mother and sister was severed, watch how the girl was tormented to her death with one burning question— why.
Not why he wasn't powerful enough to end the stain, not why did they go up the mountain, not even why they had to die at all, but
"Why can't I feel a thing, no emotion, just shock". He muttered out loud but the Stain was having a time of it's life and didn't even hear what he was saying.
"Why, Why, WHy, WHY, WHY". His voice becoming louder and louder.
Then he remembered a lesson back in his shelter.
"Don't fight the emotion, don't try to suppress it, feel it and then will it". That's exactly what he did, and the most prominent emotion here was fear. Then he began to feel it, he began to interact with fear, by remembering all the situation he could have felt fear and then he felt something shift inside of him.
In his nexus
If he was paying attention to his nexus he could have seen the Nexus shaking powerfully, the marks moving round on the body of the box started to fall off bit by bit then an entire chain of marks fell off.
Back to the outside world.
Eclipse suddenly felt something— fear. Fear so tight that he began to struggle to breathe but then it appeared, the Soul Dairy sent him a message, but he didn't bother to read it knowing he wouldn't understand it and more importantly he could feel his Aether stirring, he could see particles of yellow sipping into his skin, mixing with his steam of Aether, then his Aether gained two colors, the original ethereal milky white and a ethereal yellow, then it converged to his heart, suddenly he felt as if a star was being birthed in his heart, and every beat of his heart energy surged through his entire body, he Eclipse has awaken and had become an Aurora ranked exorcist.
He stood up , energy beaming in his body, he picked up the Timon sword, his eyes unfocused at the surge of energy he haven't felt before.
The Stain started to sniff the air then looked in the direction of Eclipse, if Eclipse could read sign language he could have seen the surprise the Stain expressed, it was as if in it's mind Eclipse suddenly appeared but the didn't stop it from wanting to devour the human, with that it vanished into the air, moving steadily in the direction of Eclipse.
'I can see it now, did I awaken the eyes of truth'. He could see the Stain clear as day, it was then he saw the truth, the Stain didn't just go invisible, it covered it's with mirages of his environment effectively covering itself up with the environment thus making it invisible. That wasn't the only thing he saw, he saw through the Stain straight at it's soul, he could see that the beast had two semi black hearts and one blackened soul shard which was responsible for the corruption.
He suddenly couldn't tear his eyes aways from the soul shard, then whispers started to emerge, whispers he instinctively started to try and comprehend, what he didn't know was that his Aether started to darkened.
He was pulled out of his trance when he felt a sharp tearing pain coming from his chest, he was soaring through the sky, he hit the ground with a thud coughed out blood, eyes rolled back, his consciousness blurred away in pain, but something was holding him back, holding him from losing consciousness, he forced open his closed eyes and took in the sight of the Stain looking down on him from above, from his lower abdomen to his chest was cut open and his insides spilling out due to flying in the sky because of the impact of the hit, pain flooded his senses, the Stain could feel the pain the pitiful human was in and wasn't in a hurry to attack.
Strength was drained from him, he couldn't move.
'This is how I die, not as if I expected anything better, then this.
He gave up on life ready to die, as he closed his eyes, his life flashed through his eyes as he recounted his life, then he realized something he didn't want to die and he haven't used his exousia. He opened his eyes and saw a surprising site, blood and his insides were floating in the sky moving into his body, the blood and dirt separating, the blood going back into his body.
'my Innate ability, but why isn't my Aether affected'. Normally if an Innate ability or exousia were to be used Aether was reduced but his situation appeared to be different. 'it doesn't matter am not going to survive this trial anyway might as well bring it down with me'.
To use your exousia you just need to will it, leave the rest for the dairy. That was what he did, he simply willed it then he suddenly felt the need to hold something, looking around he pick up the nearest thing to him, he pick up a black stone and a triskelion pattern engraved itself on the stone, then the urge to the stone filled him up, then he forced himself up, and threw the stone at the Stain, all his Aether was snapped off leaving him dry from Aether.
The stone barely moved out of his palm before exploding, the scarlet flame seems to have a life of it's own as it covered the entire body of the Stain in seconds, the Stain and Eclipse let out blood curling scream at the same time. The Stain because the flame which looked more like light on fire then actual flame, the flame was ethereal, the flame was so hot that the stain didn't even last long before dying, while Eclipse on the other hand screamed because one, the force of the explosion pushed back his his hand which has flayed due to the heat, his hand popped out of position as the explosion lifted him into the air, afterwards he soon felt heat from nowhere and everywhere, so hot that for a moment he couldn't think, but he strangely didn't loose consciousness, something was holding him back, he opened his eyes and directly in front of him was the Stain, still on fire moving erratically trying to quench the fire, his body began to become blurry and then he turned blind, then the cracking of the flame became duller and duller until he couldn't hear anymore. Then he couldn't feel the floor under him, then he suddenly regained his senses and sight, the pain was gone but he was somewhere else. He was back in that space, the space the Soul Dairy took him to before his trial.
The Soul Dairy Tapestry