The Astral soul system-Chapter 118: Don’t touch my brother

Sable dropped the lifeless dead body in her hand and shook her head to get rid of the lightheadedness and dizziness she was currently dealing with.

"I did it? I did it! I can’t believe i did it!!!"

"What just happened? How did I ... what did I..?"

Sable cleared her mind and looked back at the moon that was back to it’s pale white.

"Thank you " Sable said although she wasn’t exactly sure why.

She felt strangely refreshed after everything that happened and even felt stronger. However the sweet taste of victory didn’t last as she remembered how Isla had been pressing into her and touching her inappropriately.

An unamused expression appeared on her face as she cringed

"Why do things like this only happen to me? First Jade, and now this psycho. At least Jade was nice"

Thinking back to the fight,Sable suddenly remembered Black and internally cursed herself for forgetting the helpful bird that had gotten hurt trying to help her.

She dashed in , walking over Isla’s dead body before heading to the general location Black was.

"Little guy? Where are you? Come on out, it’s me.

Recognizing her voice,a small caw came from a corner and a small raven slowly hopped out of its hiding place, leaving Sable utterly heartbroken at the sight of it.

It had almost been completely torn apart and was being held together by the black tentacles.

"Oh no. Poor guy."

Sable immediately ran to it and gently picked it up.

"What do you need?"

A tentacles slithered out and pointed towards the hole in the building Sable made while fighting and she immediately understood .

She immediately took it to Isla’s dead body and the tentacles immediately got to work trying to consume her body.

Sable had no choice but to watch and wait in the moonlight.

While looking around,she suddenly noticed something flashing in the moonlight next to her, and picking it up she found out it was the whip Isla used.

This was the first time she’d gotten to examine it and looking closely, Sable felt like it looked like a metal vine on a hilt. It even had a few metal razors that looked like leaves.

’Weren’t there spikes?’

Sable looked closer and realized that there indeed were, and the so called spikes were just needles,but they had been woven into the whip so that when released they would portrude in every direction like thorns on a vine.

She noticed that the hilt could be turned like a dial, she turned it and the spikes all unraveled, turning the dull weapon into one of the most painful looking contraptions ever made.

"Huh. Actually pretty cool . Shame it belonged to a psycho"

After a few minutes, the corpse was completely gone including the watch on her wrist he had consumed and assimilated, same as all the others. Once he was done,a black goop covered the injured area on the raven’s body and it stopped moving like it was asleep or something.

Picking it up, Sable carried the raven and took one last look at Isla who was quite literally an empty husk of skin...well... mostly skin.

Shrugging she ignored it and walked inside. If anything, after the blood moon incident she felt even more indifferent and detached.

She looked around and quickly found her katana which was still in good shape. She quickly sheathed the sword and rolled up the whip, tying it to her side while making sure the handle was undisturbed.

She was about to go back to see Zaine when the door suddenly opened and Zaine himself walked through it, looking more or less fine if you ignored his clothes being messed up.

"You’re okay!"

"Ye-"

She suddenly wrapped her arms around him in a hug, looking like she was dreadfully worried for him.

Zaine honestly didn’t know how to react. This was the second time someone had hugged him like this in three years. He was honestly a bit overwhelmed.

"Looks like everything went well on your end"

"Yep, and you can go see how well too" Sable said pointing to where Isla’s body was,or what was left of it anyway.

"How about you?"

"Bruno’s literally six feet underground"

"That’s good"

"So...i saw what you did on my way here. Impressive,i didn’t know you could do that in such a short time"

Sable smiled in response to his compliment but didn’t know if she should feel weird about getting complimented on her killing efficiency,the fact that she was happy about it,or both.

"Oh, you’re shocked. I thought you were the professional killer"

"Yeah I thought so too but I have no idea how you got them all dry and shriveled up like that"

"Ha! Guess I..... wait,what?"

"The corpses. You know, what you did"

Sable looked at him like she didn’t know what he was talking about and immediately he realized something was wrong. They both ran back to the hallway and when Sable saw it for the first time, even with her newfound indifference was stunned.

All the bodies, besides being decapitated and gutted like fish were all completely dry. Like every single ounce of moisture in their bodies was gone, drained just like that.

"I didn’t do this" Sable quickly corrected.

"You didn’t? Then..."

"The moon" Zaine suddenly said out loud.

"You saw it right?"

"Yeah I was outside when it happened"

Sable looked up at where the moon was supposed to be but couldn’t see it since they were inside.

"You don’t think..."

"What? That all the blood from our slaughter, and my careless use of astral forces accidentally invoked some kind of evil ritual that had the effect of dyeing the moon red"

"Huh?"

"Nevermind "

Sable looked at Zaine in confusion for a few seconds before saying somewhat worriedly. 𝕗𝐫𝐞𝕖𝕨𝐞𝗯𝚗𝕠𝘃𝐞𝚕.𝐜𝗼𝚖

"I think...i did this "

"You?"

Sable nodded and briefly explained what happened in the last seconds of her fight with Isla.

"I see. The moon turned red the same second you got up and bit her?"

Sable nodded.

"Zaine. Am i? Am I a vampire. I thought only vampires drank blood. What if people start hunting me down? What if I can’t go out in sunlight and end up burning?"

She was beginning to panic. Previously she hadn’t thought of all the implications of being a vampire but now that she realized she’d probably have to live the rest of her life on the run,it was a bit scary.

"Calm down moron. First of all there’s no guarantee you’re a vampire, you’ve never met a vampire and so theres no way you were turned. Plus you probably just achieved an unseen level in your vampirism ability, one that makes you more like a vampire "

"S-so i have to drink blood from now on?"

"No moron. Vampires require lifeforce from external sources while abilities gain power from within the human body. Stop being stupid "

Sable was about to calm down when she suddenly realized something. Her watch. Her watch had gone dark, meaning it didn’t read any ability. But in that case....

’No, that doesn’t necessarily mean I lost my ability. It simply means the watch is unable to detect my upper level, just like with him, but wait. How do i explain this? I can’t just say i lost my ability’

"We can hack it" Zaine said like he was reading her mind(he actually wasn’t, she was just so nervous that it was obvious)

"Until then you just need to keep it hidden"

Sable nodded.

"As for the blood moon and the sudden disappearance of all the blood,they seemed related but how?"

He would make sure to ask Lilith later. As for whether Sable really was a vampire or in the process of turning, he was no expert.

Temporarily forgetting about this, Zaine went back to the room Sable said Isla fought and excitedly picked a crate.

"What are you doing? We took down their base. We get the spoils"

"I overheard them talking. Their boss isn’t here. We’re not done"

Zaine nodded.

"I knew he wouldn’t be here, that was the whole idea. Come when he isn’t around , destroy his base, and find his super secret weapon before he comes back and then shove it up his arse! Nice whip by the way"

"Oh yeah. It belonged to their slaver"

"It’s name is bloody rose. I want one"

Sable wasn’t sure how Zaine knew the weapons name but he seemed so confident she just went with it.

Opening the crate he selected, Zaine’s originally excited expression turned disappointed and unamused

"This is not what I meant "

Sable didn’t know what he was talking about but she understood when he pulled out a pink furry whip.

Her face went red as she realized what it was while Zaine just looked disappointed.

"What’s the use of this?"

Was all he said before throwing it away,disappointed.

He checked another box but there was either nothing of interest to him or nothing better than his sword.

"Where is everything?! Where’s the fucking gear? Where’d they move it all. It’s supposed to be here"

Sable helped him look but there really was nothing.

"Well this was disappointing. Come on let’s go"

Zaine was about to leave when Sable stopped him.

"Actually there’s one more thing we need to do"

She pointed to a final door on the fourth wall that led to a warehouse connected to the building from the outside.

"What’s this about?"

"Can we just do it. Please"

Zaine shrugged and walked in.

"Don’t you need your mask?" Sable asked while putting on her own

"Destroyed"

Zaine didn’t look that bothered though. If there was anyone who he didn’t want to see his face he’d just kill them.

"Hey,since when were your eyes red?"

Zaine asked finally bringing up what had been bugging him since he saw her. Both her eyes were a crimson red.

"What? My eyes are red? What do you mean? I don’t use contacts, and I like them blue"

The moment she said that last sentence,her two crimson eyes suddenly changed back to their original sky blue.

"..."

"What is it?"

"... Nothing. And don’t worry i was only kidding, your eyes are fine "

Sable playfully punched him in the arm.

"Don’t play with me like that. I told you I was worried about the whole vampire thing "

".... yeah "

Walking towards the door, Zaine opened it and his nostrils were immediately assaulted by the smell of sweat and tears and other familiar sensations.

"A slave house"

They both walked in for a few feet and the first thing they saw were rows and rows of giant cages, filled with people, not just people but women of all ages,some of them were even their age. They were all stripped naked and looked like they were waiting for death. There had to have been at least a hundred

Looking at the two, they all seemed to despair even more, believing they were gangsters.

After a while they came across a few doors. Zaine opened one of them and looked inside.

Sable could hear obscene noises coming from inside , specifically a man’s and got angry . She immediately went to look and was horrified.

On the bed was a gangster who had been too indulged in his fun to notice the outside world. There was also a woman who was chained hands and feet and being raped by the man who was treating her like a doll. The worse thing was...the worse thing was that she couldn’t hear a heartbeat coming from the woman.

"This bastard"

Barely in control of her emotions, Sable ran in and with a slash took off the man’s head.

"Too fast"

"What?"

"You killed him too fast. You should have let his final moments be the most painful of his life, otherwise his death is pointless. Look at his face"

Sable looked at the head and noticed the man still had that lecherous grin like he was having the time of his life

"Aaahhh!!!!!"

Sable screamed realizing what she did. She stomped on the man’s head, reducing it to paste. She was unintentionally mirroring other people’s emotions again and she kept thinking what if it had been her, captured,chained, degraded,used like a toy, broken and then raped to death.

"FUCKING HELL!!!!"

Sable looked at the corpse of the woman that was still chained and calmed down, realizing there was nothing more she could do.

"I WON’T make that mistake again" she said, looking at Zaine with conviction in her eyes.

"I hope not"

Zaine said, walking out of the room and to the next. He opened it but it was empty. They tried again and again but out of the six doors, only two were occupied.

Zaine and Sable could already hear the ruckus on the inside even without opening it.

"Fuck, this is gonna be be so good. Joining a gang is the best idea I’ve ever had. I can do whatever i want and fuck whoever i please"

"Mmmnnpphhh"

"Shut up, bitch. You’re probably old enough to my own mom. Well that’s not a problem to me, you’d probably prefer a younger cock anyway"

The muffled voice seemed to be getting even more panicked and sounds of struggle could be heard.

"Stop struggling bitch! Who knows how long you’ve been here, you’ve probably been taking dick for months now,stop acting like it’s your first time. And to the rest of you ladies, just wait, I’ll get to you soon"

There was more muffled screaming but no words except the guys laughter.

Sable gritted her teeth. If ther was ever a moment she regretted having enhanced senses,it was now.

Pulling on the door Zaine realized it was locked.

"Let’s just bust it open"

"Shhh"

Zaine’s body suddenly turned ethereal and he walked through the door with ease. Less than a second it opened for her and she walked in.

"No way" She said recognizing their schools uniform

"Darryl" Zaine called out flatly.

Darryl temporarily stopped trying to force himself on the women on the bed trying to wriggle free of his grasp.

Sable and Zen looked at the side of the room and saw a dozen more older women who were stripped, chained and gagged.

Feeling all their fear, Sable was about to attack Daryll when Zaine stopped her.

"Remember. Most painful"

"Zen? Its this motherfucker. How did you get in here? No one would allow your sorry ass to join"

"Oh,you joined the gang,so you’re a gang member?"

"Yeah. And it’s actually good you know because now you know all the ways i can ruin your life if you don’t do what I say"

"Ruin my life? How ?"

"Isn’t it fucking obvious. I have an army. I have money. I have as many bitches to fuck as i want"

Daryll arrogantly walked to Zen not even bothering to put on clothes and pointed at him.

"I might just kill you right now "

Sable looked at the cocky dead man walking around. Every step he took closer to Zen or Zaine or whoever he wanted to call himself,just enraged her the more. Her blue eyes which she had unintentionally disguised had come back and were glowing under the mask.

With another arrogant step Darryll was face to face with Zaine. He poked him with his finger.

"Now you-".

"Don’t touch him"

Daryll looked at Sable who was next to "Zen " and smiled lecherously.

"A girl huh? You’re seriously hanging out with this loser?"

"Better than some limp dicked prick "

Daryll smiled like he had everything under control.

"You don’t fool me,i see your power level. You’re only staying with him because you think he’s strong. Come with me and I’ll show you strong"

"..."

"How about showing me your face first?"

If only he knew the last person who asked that was dead

"Fine. If you insist"

Looking at his face and hands that were already reaching for her, Sable could only feel disgust.

She dropped the mask and locked eyes with him.

"Stop"

Daryl’s eyes suddenly glowed slightly and he froze in place

"What’s going on? Why did i-"

"Kneel "

He fell to his knees uncontrollably and Zaine although not sure what was happening could only laugh..

"So this is how strong you are. Well it’s time you got what was coming for you. Watch closely" he said the last part to Sable

"I can’t kill you because of the tracker in your watch is connected to the academy, and if i let you leave you’ll screw me,so this is my only option"

He said ominously as he put one hand over Darryl’s eyes, and another on his throat.

[Equip soul: Freya]

"Aaaaaaaaaghhh!!!!!!mmmmnffffff!!!"

Screams of anguish followed by the sound of lightning erupted from that room over and over again.