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"Lord give me the strength to defeat the darkness.."

Relaxing from her stance she put the cat down and went to the ladies room alone. Things were in pretty close range. On her way out she saw the book section and started to browse. She found a book on the seven sins and skipped through it.She even saw the bible..Sighing she sat to read the book on the sins. It was too cartoonish to be accurate so she placed it back where she got it and went for a walk around the shelves. She found a hunting section and picked a blade up. A small one and slid it into her pocket. She was far from violent. But she needed a way to defend herself..Willow knew that she'd have to train herself with it.

On her way back she heard a scratching noise.One of the straggler souldiers was trying to claw its way in through the hole in the baracade. Its gold eyes fixed on Willow. She stared right back. In her mind she couldnt grasp how these things could do what they did now. Where was God? Why wasn't he preventing this? Or where was peoples faith?

She ran back to the camp area and slid her backpack and held the cat. "There trying to get in through the hole in the door Dante". She was still tired. But it was evident she was worried.

Minions of Tomha began to appear within Greeds Domain, undead abominations collecting the corpses prepared so that even more undead will be made. Tomha for the longest time has been experimenting with his Necromancy always trying to make new kinds of monsters to carry out his dark will.

His latest designs were deployed out into America. These creatures specialized in traveling underground with a series of claws helping them dig into the Earth. The purpose of such creatures was to create monsters that could attack an enemy from beneath their very feet and to travel around without being detected. With the Anti Sin acting now was the time to make use of their tunneling skills. While the ruler of this region was distracted, these undead tunnelers will dig their way into the museums and steal the fossils the country had in it's collection. Sure he could have tried asking and trying to buy them but to have the bones of a dinosaur would be extremely valuable to only Tomha and would probably never be able to simply buy them. Just because they were rulers of this world, it doesn't mean that their actually friends.

Zacharious had been traveling most of the night, and had finally found what he had been searching for. The soulstone rose, jutting from the earth, a hellish obelisk shrouded in pure dark energy. The souldiers around the stone protecting it wouldn't be a problem, nor would the single general. Zacharious lunged forward and drew Shatterheart, his six foot long solid steel companion, and sliced three souldiers in half with a single swing. letting the momentum of the swing do the work, he went into a spin and severed two more in an instant, finishing with a downward helmsplitter cutting a sixth souldier perfectly in half. The souldier General quickly reached for his gun, but was way too slow, having been caught off-guards. Zacharious quick drew his hidden custom colt, a gun that looked like a cross between a revolver and a desert eagle, but with a ten-shot revolving barrel and put four bullets in the General's head. The remaining souldiers fell quickly before Zacharious's blade and gun. Finally they were all cleared and Zacharious began the work he came here to do. The soulstone had to be studied. If they could be used to control the souldiers, maybe, just maybe, there might be a way to purify them and use them to revert Sins back to human.

Dante looked into Willow's eyes and sighed. "If you say so..." He took back the shotgun and pointed it at Cali. "There are a few unwanted visitors outside. Mind taking care of them for us?"

((Hmm...well my plan for the Stones was that they emit evil energy in place of the Sin. If a Sin leaves a place for a period of time, the souldiers there will slowly revert back to humanity. Souldiers bring in untainted humans and convert them to souldiers by making them stay near the Stone. If the Sin is within the city, then there's no use for a Stone but since New York is so big, I'm guessing Stones are placed in spots where the Sin's influence can't reach. Get the picture?))

Dante yawned and shook off the morning stiffness. Noon would be on them soon and they needed to move and find the stone as quickly as possible. Dante got up and gathered his things. "I'm gonna go out and do a little scouting. You guys can come with me or stay here, your choice." He made sure to pack his new shotgun rifle and a lot of ammo. He could fight bare-handed but shooting souldiers down would be the safest way.

(( Maybe the stones are recharged by the Sins Presence alone. Since a Sin being away for too long has consequences maybe regular visits is all that's needed to recharge the stones.

I was thinking for my undead minions that they cannot be stopped unless their body is completely destroyed or the Stones are destroyed. This immortality would make a Zombie not be effected by Head shots but he wont be getting up if he's reduced to ashes or sliced up into lots of pieces making it impossible for him to do anything. I was thinking that maybe the stones under the control of Tomha himself would also serve as a dark energy source to keep a zombie animated even after a head shot, and without the Stones energy or the master's presence the undead can as easily killed as probably a Souldier. (( So basically undead are only hard to kill when the creator is around or in their in Japan. (My Domain) ))