Kiss of the Necromancer

[Tuesday June 11th, 4:35 PM
Nevada, The Adventuredome]
**Odie:** How is it that I can still ride the roller coaster without fear, but you're terrified of them? **He pokes Yuri slightly. He's wearing his sunglasses because it is an exceptionally bright day.**

**Lucas:** He's always been that way... **They're standing in line for one of the roller coasters.**

**Yuri:** **He's eating some cheese covered nachos from a little box.** You used to be afraid of them too...

**Lucas:** **He grabs one of the nachos and eats it.** Still scared, but they're fun too.

**Odie:** You're not afraid of a little old roller coaster are you big guy? **He pats Ricky on the shoulder as they slowly move up in line. They're almost to the front.**

**Ricky:** **He looks down at Odie.** The only thing I'm afraid of is the roller coaster stopping while we're upside down.

**Yuri:** What? **He looks back at Ricky.**

**Ricky:** Yeah, I've seen it happen before. The people on the ride couldn't hold on for that long either, they started falling out.

**Yuri:** **He feels weak suddenly.**

**Lucas:** That's geo... Physics-based... Science says that's impossible. He's just trying to scare you. **He looks at Ricky and shakes his head.**

**Odie:** **He lowers his sunglasses and looks at Lucas.** But science also says you can't breath fire.

**Yuri:** **He watches the roller coaster come to a stop, the last people getting out of their seats.** If I die... Tell grandma a demon killed me.

**Lucas:** **He rolls his eyes.** We'll be fine. **The guy motions for them to get in and he climbs into one of the seats. Odie climbs into the row ahead of him buckling in and pulling down the harness.** After everything we've been through I thought you'd grow out of roller coasters fear. **He buckles in and pulls down the harness.**

**Yuri:** **He watches everyone sit down before he gulps and walks up beside Odie, sitting down beside him and strapping himself in.** This is safe, right? **He looks at the man who works there but he doesn't seem to hear him as he walks away to start up the roller coaster.** Right? **He looks at Odie.**

**Ricky:** **He places his hand on Lucas's leg without saying anything and starts to slowly rub it.**

**Odie:** I haven't died yet. **He looks over at Yuri and smiles.**

**Lucas:** **He looks at Ricky with a mischievous smirk, but looks nervous at the same time, he's also blushing slightly. He mutters low enough for Ricky to hear.** You're really... Forward. You know that?

**Yuri:** **He closes his eyes tightly as the roller coaster starts to move forward at a slow pace.**

**Ricky:** It actually kind of points up when it's excited.

**Yuri:** **He whispers.** I'm gonna die... I'm gonna die... **He opens one eye and sees the roller coaster going up what looks like a cliff. He clings to his harness just before they reach it.**

**Lucas:** **He gulps and turns red, turning and looking forwards. He grabs onto the harness tightly.**

**Odie:** Hey look! It's the Bellagio! **He pats Yuri's chest.** Open your eyes man! Can see almost all of Vegas!

**Lucas:** I want you to know that you've just made this into a car crash of emotions for me.

**Yuri:** **He opens his eyes when Odie pats his chest and sees the Bellagio. For a second he actually thinks this is pretty cool until he looks down and sees the plummet the roller coaster is about to go into. I can't do this! He immediately takes off his harness and turns invisible as he jumps off.**

**Odie:** What the?! **He looks over the side.**

**Lucas:** **He doesn't notice Yuri leap off, staring straight forwards.** Oh fuck... **The coaster tips over the top of the slope and then drops, its speed increasing two dozen times what it was on the slow ascent. His eyes are wide open and glazing over.**

**Yuri:** **He lands down below on the ground and reappears, there's no one around because it's behind the roller coaster away from the line. He leans down, his hands on his knees, still breathing a little quicky from the adrenaline.** That was...too close.

**The coaster rumbles over him, up-side-down. As Yuri looks up he sees in the a split-second which seems to be slowed down to much longer, Odie pointing down at him and laughing and that Lucas has been frozen solid as he just grimaces and gazes forwards a kind of terrified grin on his face.**

**Yuri:** **He squints his eyes at Odie.** Yeah, fuck you too Odie... **He starts making his way around the ride, back to the front.**

**By the time he gets around to the front Odie, Lucas and Ricky are walking back out, the ride already over.**

**Odie:** **He's jumping and he pumps his fist.** That was awesome! Let's go again! AGAIN!

**Lucas:** **He's fixing his hair, jittering slightly from the adrenaline.** I'm starving, let's get some food first. Now that I'm not in danger of vomiting it up all over the place I want to eat.

**Odie:** Gaaaah.

**Yuri:** **He walks back up to the three of them, rubbing his arm.**

**Ricky:** **He places his arm around Lucas as they're walking.** Where do you guys wanna eat?

**Yuri:** I don't care as long as it's not on a roller coaster ride...

**Odie:** Oh man, could you imagine a whole restaurant on a roller coaster? **His look of enthusiasm fades as he looks at Ricky and Lucas, tilting his head slightly.**

**Lucas:** **He points at a kind of small snack bar.** That looks good. I want a nice juicy hot dog...

**Yuri:** **As they're walking towards the snack bar he looks towards the alley way where Lucia was the other day.**

**Odie:** Get me a soda and a burger alright? I gotta pee. **He shoves his hand into his pocket and pulls out some money, giving it to Yuri before bolting off.**

**Yuri:** **He grabs Odie's money and looks back at him.** Do you always have to pee when you come here?!

**Ricky:** I actually gotta take a piss too... **He lets go of Lucas and runs in the same direction as Odie.**

**Lucas:** **He yells at Ricky as he runs off.** Hey you didn't say what you wanted!

**Ricky:** **He turns the corner out of the sight before he can hear Lucas.**

**Yuri:** He must've really had to take a piss...

**Lucas:** Whatever I'll just get him a hot dog...

**About a minute later him and Yuri are sitting at their table with all their food. Lucas is eating a hotdog with way too many toppings, which are rolling off of it.**

**Lucas:** Did you really slow fall off of the rollercoaster?

**Yuri:** **He takes a bite out of his burger.** Yeah...

**Lucas:** So it was less scary to unbuckle your belt and jump off the roller coaster than it was to ride it down the same distance? **He shakes his head trying not to laugh.**

**Yuri:** I trust my powers... What I don't trust is being held down to a screaming metal death trap.

**Lucas:** **He rolls his eyes.** I guess... **He looks around.** Where the hell did those two go?

**Yuri:** **He shrugs and takes another bite of his burger.**

**Lucas:** **He starts to look around.** I'm gonna go look for them. I don't wanna be here all day, we have to check into the Wynn by five. **He wipes his hands and face with a napkin.**

**Yuri:** **He looks down at the table with all the food on it, whispering.** Everyone's gonna think I'm fat...

**Lucas:** Yeah, because you definitely look fat. **He rolls his eyes and walks off towards the bathrooms.**

**Yuri:** **He takes another bite of his burger.** How did he find out I weigh half a pound more than him...

**Lucas:** **He walks into the bathroom, looking around.** Hey Odie, Ricky, you guys in here?} **Some random middle-aged man walks out of the bathroom, moving passed him. The bathroom seems to be empty now.** You guys competing for longest piss ever or something?

**Lucas:** **He looks around the empty bathroom. After a moment he walks back out. He yells over at Yuri.** They're gone!

**Yuri:** **He looks at all the food on the table and shrugs, standing and quickly heading over to his brother.** What?

**Lucas:** **He takes a step forwards, feeling something break under his shoe. He looks down and its a white mask with skull make-up painted onto it.** ...Calavera? **He bends down and picks up a fragment of it. He notices pink-red flower pedals that lead back into the bathroom, he turns and runs back inside. They lead into one of the stalls. The wall in the back of the stall has been completely ripped out, along with the toilet, leading into a backalley that leads out of the park. The pedals lead down the alleyway.**

**Yuri:** **He peeks his head into the stall, his eyes widening a bit. He yells out.** Odie? **His voice echoes in the bathroom and into the alleyway.**

**Lucas:** Let's go. **He jumps through the hole in the wall and runs down the alleyway.**

**The two of them follow the trail down the alleyway, out into a back area where there's a bunch of electric transformers and power lines. The trail still keeps going though, and the two of them cross between alleyways and other back areas between hotels and restaurants until it goes down a long cement stairway on the side of the building, like it's leading to a basement. The door to it has been ripped off its hinges.**

**Lucas:** **He runs down the stairs and looks into the basement, it looks like a large boiler room for whatever this building is. It's dark, a lot of the lights have been broken and there's cobwebs everywhere. It's also incredibly cold compared to the summer heat of the desert outside.** ...You said she can see you while you're invisible? **He's looking around the darkness, he can't see very well.**

**Yuri:** Probably... guess we'll find out. **He turns invisible and walks up ahead to scout the basement. He's able to see clearly in this darkness but he doesn't actually know he can, he just thinks it's not that dark down there.**

**As Yuri sneaks forwards he finds a large circular cement hole, about fifty feet across. The bottom of the hole is a metal grate, running water, like a riven, flows under it. Odie is hanging from the ceiling in a cage, he looks like he's out cold. Ricky is bound in chains and kneeling on the floor. Standing in front of him is Calavera and a taller individual, someone dressed in an old-fashioned cowboy outfit, wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a robber's bandana over his face. Yuri can't make out any features. He has an old-fashioned revolver in one hand, glinting silver and gold in the dim light.**

**Calavera:** I think your friends be here soon. **She doesn't look very well, like she's getting over being incredibly sick. Yuri's curse seems to have done quiet a number on her. She tilts her head like she's heard something and then looks up, sensing him nearby.** Que estan aqui ya. **Her eyes shimmer blue-green.**

**Yuri:** **He looks down into the arena-like hole, wondering if he should hop down there. He backs away after a moment, getting too far away for Calavera to sense him as he makes his way back to his brother.**

**Lucas:** **He's waiting anxiously for Yuri's return. He whispers.** Find anything?

**Yuri:** Calavera's down there with someone else... They got Odie in a cage hanging from the ceiling and Ricky chained up on the floor. **He looks back down the dark path.** I think she noticed me when I got too close... I wasn't making any noise and she wasn't looking in my direction. I think can she can sense us...

**Lucas:** **He thinks for a moment.** We're gonna have to run in and hit them hard I think, before they know what's happened... I don't know what else to do.

**Yuri:** **He looks back at his brother.** We can't just run in like that. The other person with her has a gun... We're both gonna have to be invisible. There's nothing down there to hide behind...

**Lucas:** Can't you just... Ceremonial Robes the first two shots and then I'll burn them both while you defend me?

**Yuri:** **He turns his brother invisible.** Let's do it.

**Lucas:** **He starts to move quickly but quietly towards the pit. As they reach it Ricky can sense Lucas is near.**

**Calavera:** **She turns and looks around and nods to the cowboy, who spins his gun in his hand and points it up at the rim.** Your lives for the human's. Devils for innocents. **She continues to look around, turning around and looking in the opposite direction.**

**Yuri:** What's your problem, lady? You attacked us first. **He backs away from the edge of the cement hole.**

**Calavera:** **She looks to the source of his voice.** You are demons. You only know how to destroy! SO I DESTROY YOU! **The black mist ripples out from under her dress and wraps around Ricky like a dozen arms. You don't show yourself, I break the pretty one's other arm.**

**Yuri:** Okay, but... **He stands up and appears at the edge of the cement hole.** Let's talk this out, like civilized people.

**Calavera:** Demons not civilized, so I will not either. **She points at him and the man with the gun turns and fires.**

**Yuri:** **He wraps himself in his dark cloak to block the first bullet before immediately raising his hand at the man with the gun, banishing him. His next bullets simply fly through his body without doing him any harm. He hops down into the cement hole and looks at her.** I don't wanna hurt you, lady...

**Calavera:** **Ricky is pulled up in front of her.** You took everything from me. Now I take everything from you. **Ricky's arm is twisted back by arms from the black mist.**

**Ricky:** **He cries out, a sharp pain going down his whole arm as the dark arms try to break his.**

**Yuri:** Wait! He looks at her and raises his hands up. I give up! **He sighs.** You can have me... just don't hurt them.

**Calavera:** **She takes a step forwards and the mist rushes out from around Ricky and wraps around Yuri. It drags him to her and she pulls him close.** Time to die demon. **She opens her mouth as she pulls him closer, like she's going to kiss him. Yuri feels a sudden immense dread. A flickering outline of Yuri appears, like a spectral version of him is slowly being pulled from his skin.**

**Yuri:** **He looks away from her as she begins to drain his life. He uses what energy he has left to look at the man with the gun as the banish fades away. Yuri's eyes turn a dark red and so do the man's. He smiles and weakly speaks out to him.** How...how much is she paying you to help her kill us?

**The man turns to look at Yuri, and he can see a skull beneath his hat. A hoarse voice responds.** My grand daughter does not need to pay.

**Yuri:** Oh... **He begins to speak even weaker.** I didn't know she was your grand daughter. I bet you'd get really pissed off if sent her to hell before I died...

**The man looks from Yuri to her.**

**Calavera:** **She says something to her grandfather in Spanish. She grabs his throat with her hand and begins to forcibly pull Yuri's soul from his body.** Play with fire and you burn in hell... **She seems to be having trouble because she's still so weak from Yuri's curse yesterday. Yuri can see that she looks very sick now that he's so close to her.**

**Yuri:** **He smiles up at her, weakly saying with his throat grasped.** You... First... **Calavera vanishes in demonic red energies, her body dissapearing until she's gone. Her screams echo in her grandfather's ears as she vanishes.**

**The wrath curse on her grandfather pushes him to the edge and causes him to raise his gun up at Yuri to kill him to take revenge. He shoots at him until he empties his entire gun, but none of the bullets ever reach his target. Calavera falls over as the bullets knock her out of Yuri's invisibility enchant.**

**He seems confused, and then in his rage rushes towards Yuri and grabs him by the neck, quickly squeezing his throat with considerable strength, but before he's able to cause significant damage an infernal wyrm tears through his arms as they clasp around Yuri's throat, burning them off.**

**Lucas:** **He slams into the undead bandit knocking him away. He turns and grabs the hands, pulling them off of Yuri's neck. They're still moving like they're attached, he turns and breaths out a massive stream of flames that instantly incinerates the gunman into ash and black chunks of bone. He tosses the arms away, which are still twitching lightly. He looks at Yuri and shakes his head.**

**Yuri:** **He smiles weakly.** I think...I did pretty good. **He steps forward hugging his brother but only because he's about to pass out.**

**Lucas:** You did great... But I'm not carrying you all the way back to the car- **A black spike tears through the left side of his chest and goes about half an inch into Yuri's.**

**Calavera:** **She gets to her feet.** You two are new at this... **Her skin is rotting off her face, and her eyes are glowing bright blue-green.**

**Lucas:** **He looks at Yuri as the spine made of black mist is pulled from his back. He lets go of his brother and stumbles to the side before falling.**

**Yuri:** **He watches in terror as his brother falls over with a hole in his chest.**

**Ricky:** NO! **He struggles against his chains with all his strength, his demonic arm beginning to bend the metals until they break. He charges Calavera, his hand igniting in demon flames.**

**Calavera:** **She turns and looks at Ricky. The mist rushes up to block him from reaching her.**

**Lucas:** **He's slowly scooting away on his back, a hand on his chest. He coughs loudly, a bit of blood pouring out as he does and moves his other hand slightly. The Infernal Wyrm streaks down from above Calavera and slams into her back, lighting her on fire as it grinds down her spine. It turns inwards before it hits the ground and arcs back up into her waist, wrapping around her as it disburses into cinders and ash. He shakily gets to his feet, holding the hole in his chest where his heart should be. He coughs and more blood runs from his lips. He wipes his mouth and smoke begins to sizzle from the wound in his chest as Calavera pulls the black mist back to put herself out.**

**Ricky:** FUCK OFF! **He slams his burning fist through the black mist as it tries to go back to her, falling forward past it onto the ground. He looks up at her.** Burn in hell, bitch! **He raises his demon hand at Calavera and all the fire rushes away from her back and into her eye sockets, burning her skull with fire from the inside.**

**Calavera:** **She shrieks an unholy deathly scream that echoes through the underground basement, making it sound like there's a dozen of her being burned, as she's incinerated from the inside out. After a moment the fire clears, and there's not much left of her other than bones and tattered smoking cloth, the black mist vanishing into nothing.**

**Lucas:** **He coughs a small puff of fire and smoke.** Oh... Good... **He wipes his mouth and stumbles back, falling to the floor.**

**Ricky:** **He runs up to Lucas and holds him up, looking him over. He sees the big hole in his chest where his heart should be. There's a painful worried expression on his face.** Fuck... Fuck! **He isn't sure what to do and looks back at Yuri.** What the fuck do we do?

**Yuri:** **He shakes his brother's shoulder, trying not to panic himself.** You can heal through that, right? Lucas?

**Lucas:** **He looks at Yuri with an expression of confusion and annoyance. He raises his hand and puts it to Ricky's lips.** I'm sorry Ricky. **He leaves blood on Ricky's face with his hand.** But I'm... Probably... Gonna live... **He pulls his hand away and drops it to the other side of his chest.** Heart is on this side... **He smirks and rolls his eyes, but he looks like he's in a ton of pain despite how he's acting.** Mirror... Twins wins... Again.

**Ricky:** **He looks almost angry but it's completely enveloped by his relief and happiness.** Fuck, Vera... You scared the hell out of me. **He kisses his cheek several times and looks at him, smiling.** Go to sleep... I'll carry you back just... don't stay awake.

**Yuri:** **He sighs in relief too and falls back, sitting down before he lays down. Tired.**

**Lucas:** This... Actually... Really hurts... **He closes his eyes and drifts off to sleep. Yuri suddenly feels incapable of keeping his eyes open as well and he drifts off to sleep.**

**The two brothers are suddenly standing back to back in Tartarus. The room has a darkness familiar to Yuri, with small red sprites glowing in it.**

**Lucas:** **He pats his chest where the hole is, it hurts really badly.** Why the hell am I here? **He slowly turns to look at Yuri.** Why are you here? When did I fall asleep? My fucking chest still hurts. **He sits down.** I don't want to fight anything.

**Yuri:** **He walks up to his brother.** Your chest isn't healing? I thought you were invincible here...

**Lucas:** Maybe it's because it actually happened...

**Both halves of Belxephon suddenly walk from the darkness.**

**Belxephon:** **They speak in unison.** You have come a long way, but still a ways for you to go yet. More of my power you reign over and more power you will have. **They hold up a pair of black glass dice, which seem to shimmer with flicking red inside. Beliruy a smiles widely as he holds out his die, while Xephonsacul holds out his die reluctantly, and stares at the two brothers as if they were unworthy.**