Cursed Convergence

3 Weeks Has Passed Since The Events Of Chapter 16 Where We Now Are In The Home Of Jason In The Middle Of The Night As He Is Sleeping And Seem's To Be Having A Nightmare.

We See Jason In His Bedroom In His Bed Sweating As Well As Tossing And Turning In His Sleep.

*Cut To Nightmare Scene In Jason's Mind*

We Then Go Into The Mind Of Jason While He Is Having This Nightmare And We See Jason In The Nightmare With A Demonic Appearance And We Then Get A Wide-shot Of The City Which Is Now In Ruins And Fires Everywhere With Bodies And Blood Everywhere Then We Get A Close Up Shot Of Jason Standing Over The Now Deceased Bodies Of Aria And Jay Who Have Big Holes Through Their Torsos.

Then We Get A Close Up Shot Of Jason Covered In Blood And His Hands Bloody That Shows In The Nightmare He Has Killed Jay And Aria… Seconds Later Jason Wakes Up Covered In Sweat And Shaking Uncontrollably.

Jason(Frightened): *Hack *Hack

Jason(Frightened): *Coughing.

Jason Them Rushes To The Bathroom Where He Then Goes To The Toilet And Starts Vomiting, Then Jason Grabs The Sink And Washes His Face As His Hands Start Trembling.

Jason: *Breathing Heavily*

Jason Then Looks At His Reflection In The Mirror As He Then Grabs A Towel To Dry The Water Off His Face And When He Removes The Towel From His Face He Looks At The Mirror To See Malum Looking Back At Him.

Jason(Scared): *Screams*

Jason Then Backs Up As The World Around Him Seem's To Slow Down As The Area Around Him Turns Pitch Black, He Then Steps Forward As A Puddle At His Feet Splashes.

Malum(Menacingly): Well Well Well Child.

Jason(Serious): What Do You Want?

Malum(Menacingly): It's Only A Matter Of Time Before Those Who You Think Are Your Friends Eventually Betray You.

Malum(Menacingly): Eventually You Will Lose Everything Precious To You, And There's Nothing You Can Do About It BOY!!!

Jason: What The Hell Are You Talking About!!!

Malum(Menacingly): Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!

Malum: In Due Time You Will See Just What I Am Talking About.

Malum: But Know This Child You Are Nothing More Than A Mere Vessel, Your Life Amounts To Nothing And When You Die You Will Die Alone And Forgotten.

Malum: And The Moment You Became My Vessel Your Fate Was Already Sealed And There Is No Changing Your Destiny.

Malum Then Fades Away As Jason Snaps Back Into Reality And Jason Then Looks In The Mirror As He Then Sees An Ominous Red Color Glowing On His Arm And On His Torso Through His Shirt, He Then Lifts His Shirt Up To See That The Cursed Seals Have Spread From His Right Arm To His Torso…

Meanwhile We Cut To See Aria Talking To Selene About Jason And His Predicament.

Aria(Soft Voice): Have You Heard About Jason's Soul Being Slowly Transformed Into A Demon?

Selene: Yeah.

Selene(Angry): Why Does It Have To Be Jason!

Selene(Upset): This Is All The Grand Elders Fault, Of Every Other Capable Sorcerer There Is He Choose To Seal This Demon Inside My Little Brother.

Selene(Upset): And He Didn't Even Get A Say In This.

Aria: What Do You Mean?

Selene: Before Jason Became A Sorcerer The Grand Elder Choose Jason To Be The Perfect Vessel For Malum And Me And Our Parents Were Forced Into Helping Seal Malum Inside Of Jason.

Aria(Shocked): Seriously?

Selene: Yeah.

Aria: Damn.

Selene: Anyway, I Keep Hoping There Is A Way To Make Things Go Back To The Way They Were Before Jason Became Malum's Vessel.

Selene Then Stops For A Moment To Think About Jason And Their Lives Growing Up Together And She Then Says Something To Aria In A Wired Way.

Selene: Aria.

Aria: Huh?

Selene(Ominous): Thank You For Being Jason's Friend And Being There For Jason.

Aria: Sure I Wanna Help Him In Any Way I Can And.

Aria: No Ones Ever Been As Nice To Me As Jason Has Besides My Mom.

Aria: So I Consider Jason My Closest Friend.

Selene Then Looks At Aria For A Second With A Clearly Upset Face And Then Forces Out A Smile.

Meanwhile As The Scene Ends We Then Cut To The City Of Sorcerers Where We See Jason Walking Down The Street As We Also See The Civilians Looking At Him With A Frightened Look As They All Run Into Their Homes And Seem To Be Scared At The Sight Of Jason.

Jason(Confused): Huh?

Jason(Confused): Why Is Everyone Running Inside Their Homes?

Jason Then Goes Up To A Civilians Home And Knocks On The Door To Find Out Why There Hiding.

Jason: Hello?

Civilian(Frightened): Go Away Please!

Jason(Curious): Why Is Everyone Hiding?

Civilian #2: Look Kid Just Please Leave Us Alone!!!

Jason Then Walks Off To Find Aria And Ask Her If She Knows Why Everyone Is Hiding, Meanwhile We Then Cut Into The Home Of One Of The Civilians Taking To Their Family Members.

Civilian #1: It's That Demon Child Everyone's Talking About.

Civilian #2: What Was The Grand Elder Thinking Trying To Keep This Under Wraps, If There Is A Vessel For Malum Then People Should Know About It.

Civilian #1: I Know He's Endangering Us Just From Having That Child Live In The Same City As Us, I Mean From The Stories Of Malum In The Past He Destroyed Planets Just Imagine What Would Happen If That Child Were To Lose Control.

Meanwhile As The Civilians Continue Their Conversation We Then Cut To The Sorcerer Council Chamber Where We See The Other Young And Seasoned Sorcerers Discussing This.

Young Sorcerers #1: So Jason Is Malum's Vessel?

Young Sorceress #1 : Yeah And Someone Has Spread This News All Around The City.

Seasoned Sorcerer #1: So That Kid Is The Vessel Of A Powerful Demon Such As Malum?

Seasoned Sorcerer #2(Angry): What Is The Grand Elder Thinking Sealing Malum Inside Of A Child!!!

Seasoned Sorceress #1: No Idea And The Kid's Gaining A Reputation Around Here, People Are Now Calling Him The Demon Child.

Seasoned Sorceress #2: It Still Was A Reckless Idea For The Grand Elder To Not Tell Anyone About This But Even Worse He Sealed Malum Inside Of A Child Who Can Barely Even Use Magic?

All Of The Sorcerers Then Continue Ranting About The News And Then The Grand Eder Enters The Room As The Sorcerers Then Start Bombarding Him With Questions.

Seasoned Sorcerer #1: Grand Elder, If I May Ask Why Did You Keep This A Secret And Only Tell Some Other High Ranking Sorcerers I Feel That Everyone Should Know This Information.

Grand Elder(Serious): I Had Hoped To Keep This Under Wraps Because Of The Outrage This Would Cause.

Grand Elder(Serious): I Kept This A Secret Because If More People Find Out About Jason Being Malum's Vessel This Would Make This City A Target And Demons Would Rip This City Apart Just To Get To Jason.

Grand Elder: And If They Got Their Hands On Malum And Fully Revived Him There Would Be Another War Just Like Back Then When Malum Was Defeated.

Grand Elder As Well Now That Jason Is Malum's Vessel They Would Most Likely Try And Have Jason Join Them And If Malum Fully Resurrects Through Jason's Body He Will Be Even More Powerful Than He Was Back In The Old Era.

Sorceress: And What Do You Plan To Do If And When That Happens Because We Also Know About Jason Slowly Transforming Into A Demon?

Grand Elder: I Already Have A Plan For That, If And When That Happens I Will Personally Kill Jason Myself.

Young Sorceress(Angry): WHAT! Your Going To Kill Jason For A Decision You Made? It Was You Who Forced Him Into Becoming Malum's Vessel He Didn't Have A Choice And You Roped Him Into This Life.

Young Sorcerer: Exactly And Your The Most Powerful Sorcerer Currently Why Not Just Seal Malum Inside Of Yourself?

Grand Elder(Stressed): Because If I Were To Seal Malum Inside Of Myself Then The Sorcerers From Other Realms Would Think I Am Trying To Take Malum's Power For Myself And Stack That Power On Top Of The Power I Have Now To Shift Through Balance Of Power Throughout All The Realms.

Grand Elder: And Jason Was Literally Born To Be The Perfect Vessel For Malum And His Power.

Meanwhile As The Meeting Of The Sorcerers Continue We Then Cut To A Shot Of The Sky To See A Portal Open Up And The Mysterious Figure Who Selene Was Talking To Comes Through The Portal He Then Activates The Soul Sight Ability In His Eyes As He Scans The Soul Energy From The Sorcerers To Try And Locate Jason.

Mysterious Figure(Menacingly): Where Are You Vessel?

We Then Cut To Jason Who Is Now Walking With Aria And Jay Talking About The Current Situation With The Civilians.

Aria: So Now Everyone In The City Knows About You Being Malum's Vessel?

Jason: Apparently.

Jay: Well Since Everyone Now Knows There's Only One Way This Information Could've Gotten Out…

Jay(Serious): There Must Be A Rat In The Among The Sorcerers Who's Gone Rouge.

Jason: But Could It Be? Not That Much People Know About Me Being Malum's Vessel.

As This Conversation Continues Aria All Of A Suddenly Senses Something, She Then Activates Her Visual Technique Soul Sight To Then Look Up And See An Ominous Soul Energy As The Mysterious Figure Then Looks Back At Her With An Intense Gaze.

Mysterious Figure(Menacingly): That Girl Down Their It Seem's She Sensed My Presence Almost Instantly And She Also Possesses The Soul Sight.

Mysterious Figure: She Must Be From The Arcana Clan.

As The Figure Locks Eyes With Aria, A Chilling Wind Sweeps Through The Surroundings, The Sorcerer Council Unaware Of The Arrival Of This Mysterious Foe Continue Their Heated Meeting.

Aria(Whispering): Guys, We've Got A Problem.

Jason(Grim): What Is It?

Aria(Alert): Look Up, Someone's Here.

Jason Then Looks Up And As Soon As He Looks Up The Figure Is Already In Front Of Him With His Eyes Gazing Into Jason's As He Is Looking Into Jason's Soul As We Then Cut To Inside Of Jason's Psyche And See The Mysterious Figure Standing Before Malum Himself With Malum Staring Back.

Mysterious Figure(Menacingly): Vessel Located.

We Then Cut Back Outside Of Jason's Psyche To See Jay Charge Up An Energy Blast And Tries To Attack The Figure As The Figure Swiftly Dodges And Appears Behind Jay And Grabs Him And Punches Him In The Stomach Which Causes Jay To Cough Up A lot Of Blood And Aria Tries To Follow Up By Activating Her Heavenly Seals As She Then Rushes Toward The Figure As The Figure Throws Jay At Aria.

The Figure Then Grabs Jason And Teleports Jason And Himself Outside Of The City And In A Forest.

Jason(Confused): What The Hell?

The Mysterious Figure Then Slowly Walks Up To Jason With A Menacing Look As Jason Now Prepared For A Fight Activate His Cursed Seals And Then Rushes At The Figure As The Fight Starts Out With Hand-To-Hand Combat.

Meanwhile At The Sorcerer Council Chamber Jay And Aria Arrive At The Meeting And Inform The Elder About What Just Happened.

Aria(Panicked): GRAND ELDER!!!

Grand Elder: Calm Down Aria What Is It?

Jay: Someone Infiltrated The City And Took Jason!

Grand Elder(Shocked): WHAT?

Sorcerer #1: But We Didn't Sense Anyone Slip Through The Veil How Did He Get In?

Jay: We Don't Know.

Grand Elder: Everyone Go Look For Jason Outside Of The City, This Foe Can't Have Gotten Far And I Want Some Of You Looking In The City.

Meanwhile As Everyone Starts Looking For Jason We Then Cut Back To Jason And The Figures Fight As Jason Is Now Bruised And Battered And The Figure Is Unharmed/Unfazed.

The Figure(Cocky): Is That All You've Got Vessel? I Expected More From You.

Jason(Thinking): Damn This Guy Is To Damn Strong I Can't Beat Him By Myself.

Jason Then Tries To Run Away From The Battle As We Then Hear Malum Talking To Jason In His Mind.

Malum(Menacingly): Hey Child Switch With Me.

Jason: Hell No Your Out Of Your Mind If You Think I'll Ever Let You Out Again.

Malum: Clearly You Can't Defeat This Foe And He Stared Into My Soul As well So If You Switch With Me I'll Aid You Just This Once And Kill Him.

Jason: Just Shut Up And Stay Quiet.

Then The Figure Catches Up To Jason And Delivers A Powerful Kick To Jason's Back Slamming Him Down Into The Ground.

The Figure Then Pounds Jason Repeatedly As The Grand Elder Jay And Aria Appear And Pushes Him Back.

Grand Elder(Serious): Who Are You? 

The Figure: I Am Nobody, However You Can't Hide This Vessel Any longer Eventually We Will Have Him.

Jay: How Did You Know About Jason And Get Into The City Without Being Detected?

The Figure(Ominously): You Have Your Sorceress To Thank For That.

A Portal Then Opens Next To The Figure And Selene Steps Out And It Is Then Revealed That She Was The Rat Among The Sorcerers And She Has Been Feeding Intel On Jason To The Demon Organization.

Jason(Surprised): Selene?

To Be Continued…