~A New Found Compassion~

Xavier glanced back over his shoulder as the came to the large wooden doors. <span style='color:red'>I can't actually remember, I know that me and my brother always used to sing it when we were younger, and whatever bad thing that was happening somehow went right.</span> He yanked the doors open. <span style='color:red'>Getting tired? want a piggyback?</span> He asked as he held the door open for her.

 

Xavier's eyes gleamed in the darkness, the only hint that he even existed in the gloom. He flipped down his night vison goggles which always rested on his forehead, and took Femp's hand. <span style='color:red'>Come on, you have to show me where we're going.</span> He commented casually, as if he didn't care much that it was dark and scary and anyone could leap out at them at any time...

 

<span style='color:red'>Gotcha.</span> Xavier said, but just then there was a flash of light, and he dropped to the floor, wincing, his night vision goggles now blinding him in the light. The lights were on, and there were footsteps coming from down the corridor. Xavier rubbed his eyes one last time, blurred images dancing in his vision, and picked up Femp. <span style='color:red'>We gotta get out of here!</span> He whispered excitedly, and bolted down a door a ways down the corridor. He continued down the spiral staircase for what seemed like an eternity until there were only torches lighting the narrow pathway. Xavier stayed silent, and put Femp down. He wandered forwards, into the large catacomb, containing shelves, with rows upon rows of rotting wooden coffins on them... Xavier doubled over and clutched at his head, feeling the spirit inside him react, but he forced it down, and stayed kneeling on the floor amongst the bodies of faculty long since past...

 

He whipped around, his face contorted in agony, his numerous scars cut open by something... From the inside. He stared at her for a moment, and then in a rush a cloud of purple mist flowed from his open wounds. <span style='color:red'>Femp... RUN!</span> He screamed, and then ran as fast as he could through the rows of coffins, and out the passage at the other side. The bodies twitched as he passed. The rotting flesh reacting to the dark energy that now poisoned the air close to the ground. There was a scream from the next chamber, and then it turned into a beastal roar. There was a crash, and then silence, and then every single skeletal Zombie in the underground came to life...

 

The roar came again, but this time, it signalled the entrance of a humongous beast with triple rows of fangs and large lower jaw tusks, it had decayed dried blood under it's hooked claws ahnds, and it's shaggy black fure was coated in all manner of rotting parts. It stormed in like a whirlwind, sweeping skeletons aside with single strokes of it's massive arms, slicing the decayed zombies into mincemeat. It made it's way over to Femp, riping up bookcase like coffin shelves and crushing skeletons to a point where they wouldn't get up again. Then made a massive leap and landed directly over Femp, guarding her for some strange reason, when usually it would have devoured her. It stood over her protectively, slicing any stray zombies into pieces as they staggered forward, bent on eating the non tainted flesh of the girl. yet despite the hordes, The Beast stood above her, fighting them all, and strangely enough, it's eyes were pure white, and if one looked into them, they would see that the eyes were that of a sane being...

 

The Beast nodded as she called him by the one in charge. Then as the skeleton got through his protective circle, he grabbed the rotting thing by the head and crushed it completely, scattering flesh covered bone fragments everywhere. The Beast then picked up Femp and backed away to the spiral staircase. <span style='color:red'>GO!</span> The beast cried at her, visibly crying, it's distorted voice struggling to speak even the one word. the skeletons seemed to realise that their meal was getting away, and attacked The Beast even more ferociously, who in turn, began using even his tusks to crush and demolish the bony freaks. He continued fighting until there were no more to fight, and even then the shuffling of skeletal feet could be heard from the next room...

 

A roar came from below, and then subsided to silence. A horribly mutilated, bloody, dark energy seeping Xavier staggered up the steps, and came to half stabd, half pass out, by Femp. <span style='color:red'>I forgot to mention me and my brother are possessed by dark spirits... Sorry...</span> Xavier explained, and then passed out, his head crashing against the stone floor with a sickening thud...

 

A soft taping was heard, until the end of a pole and a robe came into view beside Femp. <span style='color:orange'>Don't tell me, you two skipped class all day and then somehow ended up downstairs, where Xavier transformed and his dark energy reanimated the corpses...</span> Talon yawned, always assuming right when it came to his brothers' mischief. He set his partisan against the wall for a second, before lifting Xavier onto his shoulder with a grunt. <span style='color:orange'>You know, if I were you I'd keep away from this troublemaker, my brother has some issues...</span> He grabbed his partisan and was soon walking off down the hallway with his brother on his shoulder, the soft tapping of his partisan echoing slightly off the walls and his blond hair dimly glimmering in the light...

 

Talon knew well enough what his brother had done, and he planned to keep him away from love at all costs. It was ust too risky, Xavier might transform and eat her by accident, and then Talon would have to face the consequences... But...

He stalled and faced Femp. <span style='color:orange'>Listen, Miss, you really can't, theres too much risk involved, if Xavier were to transform at an inconvenient time... No, I'm sorry, but as his brother I cannot allow it, there is far too much danger to you, me, and my brother involved. Please, you'll have to keep away from him from now on...</span> He paused, and let out a sigh. He looked at her for a moment, trying to sympathize, and then with a twirl of black robes and shoulder length blonde hair he was walking down the corridor again, heading towards the dorms...

 

Talon sighed, and turned slowly around. <span style='color:orange'>Please stop following me, or I shall have to incinerate you, because you've already seen him transform, if you happen to see anything else, I WILL have to kill you, as much as my brother might dislike me for it...</span> He waved his partisan, etching a symbol on the stone floor, and then began walking again. As soon as he was past a certain distance, it exploded, sending spikes of ice into the floor, walls and roof that made access impossible without being impaled...