[IC] The Supernatural Life (Always Accepting!!!)

[MikkishtheLeprechaun]

Zack jumps back when he sees Vinashy's eyes flash red.

"How did you do that?"

[Letmehaveone2]

Virgil helped himself to the fridge and grabbed a coke before returning to the two of them.

[Shadow Dragon]

"How did I do what?" He looks confused, his eyes back to their normal gold.

[MikkishtheLeprechaun]

Just then Zack calmed down.

"Oh. It was some kind of costume trick." Then Zack thought nothing more of Vinashy's eyes flashing red.

"Anyways, are you saying this is the last book of its kind?"

[Shadow Dragon]

"As far as I'm aware." He lifts the ancient tome, eyes unnaturally cold.

[MikkishtheLeprechaun]

Zack couldn't help but comment on Vinashy's attitude towards the book.

"Alright, if something happened to you in relation to this book..." He imagined they might be in the same boat "Well feel free to say refuse, but I would like to hear what happened." Vinashy seemed like the typical eccentric rich man. Zack also wondered about his servants and why they didn't talk. Did they not speak English? Or were they forbidden to?

[Shadow Dragon]

"I've had unpleasant interactions with the cult surrounding it." He snaps, and one of the servants walks in with a gold goblet, filled to the brim with a thick red liquid. He drains it, handing the goblet back. It turns to Zack, its masked face studying him. "How much do you want to know?"

[MikkishtheLeprechaun]

Zack paused as he stared back at the servant.

"Habla Espanol?" He asked, sloppily. He knew very limited amounts of Spanish, but he wanted to try and figure out what the deal was with the servants.

"Deutscher?" He asked, in the only amount of German he knew. He actually thought they might be East European if not Spanish, but he didn't know any Russian or Polish.

Zack turned back to Vinashy "There was a cult involved with this book?"

[Shadow Dragon]

"The servants don't speak. And as for the cult, yes, there was. I thought they had been eradicated, but you apparently had an encounter with them. That worries me."

[MikkishtheLeprechaun]

"No, I just found this in the woods. I told you." Zack said, hoping Vinashy didn't think he was part of this supposed cult. Vinashy didn't seem to like them too much.

[Shadow Dragon]

"Interesting. In the same place where your friends vanished?"

[MikkishtheLeprechaun]

Zack let out a deep sigh.

"Alright. I will tell you what happened. A cult didn't steal my friends. I did. With help of an ancient ritual from that book."

Zack then waited for Vinashy to either burst out laughing or crack some joke at his expense.

[Shadow Dragon]

He presses his fingers together and says nothing.

[MikkishtheLeprechaun]

"..."

Zack couldn't believe he just said that. He had just met someone nice enough to let them stay in his mansion and was telling weird stories.

"Yeah...so what is this cult?"

[Shadow Dragon]

"A group trying to open a portal to the underworld. What spell did you cast? What page?" He holds out the book.

[MikkishtheLeprechaun]

"It...wasn't me who read out the ritual." Zack wanted it reversed, but a part of him wanted to keep his new abilities as he didn't know if he would have to fight for his life against this cult, or Vinashy, or both.

[Shadow Dragon]

"What can you do? Do you have any arcane prowess?"

[MikkishtheLeprechaun]

"Arcane prowess?" Zack wasn't sure what Vinashy meant "You mean magic powers or something? I'm not even much of an occult person. I didn't think anything would happen, we were just messing around with this book for fun."

[Shadow Dragon]

"You don't need occult to have magic." His eyes flash crimson.

[MikkishtheLeprechaun]

Zack looks at Vinashy, his skepticism shrinking.

"Are you a devil or something?"