Skeletons

"Why do you shut out everyone? All we want to do is help you. All I want to do is help you."
Ghost shrugged. He picked up a skull from his pile and looked at it for a few moments before setting it back down and reaching for another. 
"Please Ghost, this isn't like you. We're worried about you. You shouldn't be spending so much time down here." Ghost looked away from his pile of bones and glared at Pisces. The SeaWing swallowed nervously. 
"Who are you to say what is or isn't like me?" Ghost asked. Pisces frowned. 
"What do you mean? Don't you remember me?" Ghost blinked and returned to examining his bones. "Ghost... It's me, Pisces. Your boyfriend?" 
"Why do you disturb me? Can you not see that I have work to do!" Ghost shouted, slamming his fist onto one of the skulls, shattering it. 
"I-I'm sorry! I don't know what's happening to you. Your grandfather was right, these catacombs are cursed."
"I am under no spell. I act under my own free will. I have been enlightened. I have a mission. Now I ask that you leave... Or else."
Ghost had always been interested in alchemy. He had been since his grandfather had given him a book about the subject for his 10th hatching day. Since his parents' deaths, Ghost had been raised by his grandfather and respected him immensely. He read the book cover to cover and discovered the philosophical and scientific wonders that it contained. Ghost felt that his eyes had been opened to a new perspective on the natural world. He pressed his grandfather for more information on the topic and his grandfather obliged him. He told Ghost about the ancient NightWing scholars who invented and practiced alchemy. He even showed Ghost how to transmute coal into iron and lead to gold. Ghost spent many years under his grandfather's tutelage. He learned many ancient alchemical secrets and traveled the continent to learn from other scholars from other tribes. It was during his 10 years of travel that he met Pisces, a SeaWing and a student of naturalism. (The belief that only natural laws and forces can govern the universe, not magic or supernatural ones.) Ghost and Pisces shared many views and so the two decided to travel together. Eventually they became romantically involved. When Ghost returned (with Pisces) to his home in the Night Kingdom he felt as if he had learned all that he could about alchemy. Most importantly he had learned of the Philosopher's Stone: alchemical substance capable of transforming any form of matter into another. An elixir of life. Ghost had also learned that the stone had been created, but its creator had been unable to do much with it before he died and was buried with it in the catacombs beneath the NightWing capital city: Night City. Ghost was determined to find the Philosopher's Stone, but when he told his grandfather about it the old NightWing told Ghost to forget about it. He told Ghost that the catacombs were cursed and that everyone who had ever ventured down there had gone insane and died. Ghost scoffed at this and had entered the catacombs. That was why he was searching through corpses. He was searching for the stone, and he didn't take kindly to distractions...
"I am under no spell. I act under my own free will. I have been enlightened. I have a mission. Now I ask that you leave... Or else." Ghost said. Pisces shook his head. 
"I can't! I won't let you lose your mind down here." Ghost closed his eyes. He could not tolerate a distraction like this. Every moment he wasted speaking to Pisces was a moment that he was further away from possessing the Philosopher's Stone, and the riches it would bring him. Pisces was standing in his way. Ghost would have to do something about him in order to continue his mission. Ghost opened his eyes and turned around to face Pisces. 
"Maybe you're right..." Ghost said, taking a few steps closer to the SeaWing. "I probably shouldn't stay down here too long." 
"G-Great! Just come back to the surface with me." Pisces said, a hopeful look in his eye. Ghost nodded. 
"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally." Ghost said. He was standing next to Pisces now. The NightWing looked down at the SeaWing who wore a slightly confused expression. 
"Ghost?" Ghost said nothing and in the blink of an eye he grabbed Pisces by the horns and smashed his face into the carved stone walls of the catacombs. He beat the SeaWing's head against the wall again and again until his face was a mess of bloody flesh and shattered bones. Ghost then let go of Pisces and watched as the blue SeaWing slumped to the ground. He then turned round and returned to crouch over his pile of bones. There would be no distractions now.
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