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"Arvine, your task is to capture a ghost using our state of art equipment and your spell casting. We've tried sending in our own agents to capture this ghost and these are the results." The man says while placing a bright yellow file on the table. He opened up the file revealing three pictures, all of them showing a people in black suit with a badge on them, but each with something that killed them. The first picture showed a white bald man who had at least five lead pipes in his chest and his neck completely cracked, the next one showed a woman with blond hair but her scalp has a saw blade stuck in it however it is not deep enough to cause the scalp come off, the last one was an old man still wearing the same suit but it appears he has two large hand shaped burn marks are on the temples of his head going around to his ears, apparently his hands were also fried but it appears the hands look more like an exit wound.
"As you can see the agents met a horrible fate, we have noticed three things about this ghost. The people who have seen it and lived to tell the tale call it Cyber virus, the ghost has two forms that it uses to kill with and they are both known as electrical and ghost form. The first two fates without the burn marks were caused by his ghost form but the last one was electrical. And the final thing we have learned about Cyber virus is that it is not alone out there, whenever it is confronted by a human somewhere in the corner of the room it is in a very cold entity shows up in which we believe is the Grim Reaper," The man placed down another file this one being red.
After he placed the red file down Arvine's vision was no longer blurry and he began struggling to escape the chair "Don't even attempt to escape using that teleportation spell, we will shoot to kill." He said as he opened up the file and inside revealed six pictures taped on the side, each showing a regular color picture and thermal scans of said picture.
The first one showed an abandoned rusted up metal factory with its name brand broken off the building, the only letter that remains intact is the letter E. The factory is right next to a couple working buildings that most likely either make or sell products. The thermal scans show the factory is abandoned and has been sitting in the sun for a long time however a small blue dot signifying Cyber virus's current spot is within the factory "This is where Cyber virus lives, normally we would just blow up the factory so he dies down like all ghosts but its right in the middle of stick page city, we could end up harming civilians and if not worse frightening them. And added Cyber virus can just move to a different building. So it's best we keep the ghost in that building rather go through the trouble of finding it in another," Arvine stopped struggling to escape the chair and listened on "We attempted cutting the power to drain him of his electrical ability but that didn't work so we sent in three agents to secure it and contain it," the man said while pointing to the picture of the factory "But like you saw earlier that didn't work as well," Arvine decided to speak "But how can you be sure there's a ghost in there and not just some homeless person or a nomad?", "BECAUSE! The homeless people don't have hands that generate electricity now keep quiet and listen to your mission, now listen you will be knocked out and air dropped nearby this factory with your staff, you will also be dropped in with four of our finest. We want this thing contained or vaporized to oblivion, we don't ask questions on how you do the job just as long as this ghost can no longer harm anybody." The man now pointed to a picture of a room, but nothing except a couple machinery in a very dark room is in the picture.
"This is Cyber virus's ghost form. Cyber virus cannot be seen or heard, only our ghost hunting technology can do damage to it while in this form," The man said while pointing to the thermal scans of said picture, the room seems to be a bit green showing that it is quite temperate in the room, however right center is a big amount of blue showing a cold entity is there. "This ghost is HIGHLY dangerous in this form and caution must be taken in order to either capture it or destroy it, now on to its electrical form."
The the man pointed to the next picture, it showed the exact same room however Arvine couldn't believe his eyes... Before thinking he has seen worse, the picture showed a white skeleton. Not much to see except for the fact that it looks like lightning is dancing all around it to form some sort of skin. "This monstrosity needs to be taken down, we have noticed the skeleton acts like a support. The electricity helps the skeleton stand up and the skeleton helps the electricity keep its form. It's at its most deadly in this form, but its also at its most weakest. The ghost loves to see its victims suffer so it electrocutes them, this is its biggest weakness. When you wake up you will be with three men and a child armed to the teeth NOW GO GET THAT GHOST!" Upon saying so the man took out a syringe and forced it directly into Arvine's eye ball, the boy went silent and saw nothing but darkness.
START UP MISSION!
Arvines eyes slowly opened, his eyes are a bit hazy and the light is blinding outside but Arvine soon found he is laying on top of a metal building, the roof of the building to be exact. It appears there are many rust spots that Arvine can easily see and a doorway that leads downstairs that go directly into the building, instantly after Arvine saw the doorway he was grabbed by the back of his cloak and pulled up by a strong arm. The boy looks around to see two soldiers complete with a full flak jacket made of.... stone?, one bald man with an eye patch who doesn't seem to be wearing a stone flak jacket and instead a long black trench coat, and yet another eleven year old child who is wearing a miniature version of the stone flak jacket the soldiers are wearing. The eleven year old child speaks up "I've been working here ever since I was born," His voice is very loud and annoying "I am the much respected leader of this group and you will treat me with utmost respect. You and this group of our finest soldiers mission today is to take down a ghost named Cyber virus," The boy then pointed towards a bald man with an eye patch "This man is second in charge, his name is Johnathan. Don't call him John for short," The boy then points towards the other two "These men are will be taking down this ghost too, they are twins. Their names are Tod and Tom. Here's your equipment by the way." The child threw over a bag, it contained multiple tools and gadgets... It also contains Arvine's Meric staff with a flashlight right next to it. The other men and the child opened up their equipment bags and they all took an M4 assault rifle with red dot sights and flashlight attachments "Yeah kid we don't exactly trust you with a gun, think of it as an honor we actually trust with even a flashlight. Also if feel around inside your right ear you will feel that we have placed a small ball in there, that will allow you to speak to us from afar and allow you to hear us even if we are far away each other." Arvine replied back "Do you really think we can stop a GHOST with guns?" Arvine felt like he shouldn't said that "Listen we have received detail that Cyber virus has bones behind his electrical skin, if we can penetrate the electricity then we can break his bones and we can capture him in ghost form with this." The boy then took out a metal box from the bag, the box has glowing green lines going all around the outside, giving it this sort of grey and green striped look. "This box right once activated destroys lower entities and captures larger ones, now is that it for questions?" Before Arvine could answer the boy interrupted him "ALRIGHT good, move out team!"
The men and the flak jacket child moved towards the doorway leading into the factory, Arvine followed. With a loud crash the Johnathan smashed down the door, it obviously didn't take much since the door was wooden and has been sitting there for many years. The stairs were instantly illuminated by the blinding sunlight, large amounts of dust particles can be seen within the light however the light is quickly replaced by the shadow of a young boy. The boy took the first steps down into the darkness. The little boy shouted out to the people as he was halfway down the stairs "WELL, come on ladies, we got a ghost to contain!" Jonathan, Tod, Tom, and Arvine followed the leader. The soldiers turn on the flashlight attachments at the end of their weaponry. Everything was real quiet and there is absolutely no power on in the building.
The soldiers moved down the stairs to find the boy surveying the area with a flashlight, "Alright, Tod and Tom you search the main work area. Arvine you head to the bosses office. Jonathan your heading towards the regular offices I'm going to go search the kitchen and the incinerator room. MOVE OUT TEAM!" Everybody split up to search for Cyber virus and Arvine was left in the dark, the boy turned on the flashlight and began walking around trying to find the bosses office.
Arvine stands on an overseer's catwalk meant to allow the manager to keep watch of those working, this is where they are supposed to meet up when the whole building has been searched. Arvine finds a sign stating in big bold letters with an arrow pointing to a certain direction "BOSSES OFFICE THIS WAY!" Arvine begins walking through a large hallway where supposedly the sign said the bosses office will be. Arvine got a quick chill down his spine due to this hallway being abnormally long but no problem he got to the end and opened the door, when he opened the door a large amount of green smoke shot out of the door which made Arvine cough a single time but it wasn't dangerous or poisonous. Arvine slowly walked inside with his flashlight, after a while of shining the light in multiple areas Arvine has figured out three things in this room intrigue him. There appears to be a small red skull on a desk within the room, the skulls main features include ominous glowing green eyes that emit this sort of green fog and the fact that its red, the room must of been closed down for a while now because the smoke emitted from the skull appears to never end. The next thing that intrigued him was simply the bunch of paper doodles of poorly drawn stick figures all over the ceiling and the walls. The final thing is there appears to be what looks like a large bed on the west side of the bosses office. It looks like its been sitting for years and never been even bothered to be cleaned. The top and sides are covered in this black and green mold looking stuff, Arvine speaks to himself while looking at the bed "I'm afraid to touch that. Don't wanna get catch any diseases, heh." the boy then wanders out of the bosses office and heads back to the overseers cat walk and awaits his fellow "friends" to come back to the catwalk.
Arvine remembers everything word from the man. The death threat and the prison threat, and Arvine knows what parts in his life that the man was talking about and if he doesn't do this then there's guaranteed chances he's not going to win in court and if he escaped court he would be on the run for his entire life. Of course now he's on the run constantly moving from place to place but he isn't running FROM anything, but forever running from something? That's no way to live, besides how hard could this creature be that it needs an eleven year old in flak jacket armor to lead the squad in order to defeat it? Just as Arvine was going to answer that question he thought up of gun fires roared in through the main office's. The boy quickly ran over to where he heard the noise but alas to it was to late, Arvine wandered around to get a good look at his surroundings. five rows of cubicles was the only things in the room, at the last cubicle in the last row Arvine found what had happened.
The dead body of Johnathan was found. He made one final stand with the assault rifle which explains the bullet holes in the wall opposite of the cubicles entrance, but he has two hand shaped burn marks on the side of his head and a large burn mark on his right hand. Entry burn wound and exit wound is found and this most likely caused by Cyber virus, but where is that bastard is the question? Just then a loud psychotic laugh started that echoed throughout the factory, it stopped suddenly allowing the silence of the building to come back.
Arvine walked out of the office without saying a word to Johnathan. Arvine while walking through hallway looked at a single painting on the wall, it showed a little black cat. But something was wrong... The cat is moving. It jumped out of the painting and attacked Arvine, Arvine let out a small yelp due to it startling him but it wasn't frightening, the cat left a large amount of cuts that bled onto the boys face. The cat left the area as soon as the child got his staff. he has yet to find out where the rest of the group is...
A HAUNTING
Arvine picked up his flashlight and continued on down the catwalk to the main work area, the factory has gotten much colder and strange things has been happening all over the place. Such as glass bottles floating up and shooting towards him and some painting coming to life, the floor is concrete and covered in debris but this didn't stop him from moving, Arvine continued walking around the place jumping over obstacles until he finally came across this hallway, the walls look completely like flesh with multiple parts of a face on it such as eyeballs and mouths, the mouths are screaming and the eyeballs looking around rapidly. And there stood the electrical mass... Cyber virus, the electric ghost sprinted towards Arvine. Cyber virus's feet crackled every time he made a single step, his entire body made small lightning connections to the wall and floor like a tesla coil. "Well, your the ghostly entity that has been causing trouble. Time to die." Arvine said while taking out his staff, the boy's hair and eyes became red and he began creating this massive fire wall that stopped the virus in its tracks. Arvine shot three arrows through the fire and directly hit Cyber virus. The fire extinguished just a bit to show Cyber virus isn't even there anymore, he just vanished.
Arvine looked around and for a while everything was quiet, until at least three pieces of concrete floated up and shot towards Arvine. He skillfully dodged the first two but the last one managed to hit him in the stomach, it pushed him back against the wall and that electrical formed back this time on the overseers catwalk. The virus jumped down and sprinted towards Arvine, it wasn't until the boy was surrounded in water that the ghost stopped. All of Arvines wounds were healed but that doesn't stop the fact that Arvine is pinned against the wall by this piece of concrete. Arvine whispered a couple words to himself "water prison." Seconds afterwards a massive dome formed around the virus in which he tried to escape and managed to but half his entire body is gone, he has no legs anymore. Arvine figured out his weakness, Cyber virus shot multiple lightning bolts towards Arvine in which the boy countered by raising pillars of fire to act as a shield, and it worked. The lightning bolts completely decimated upon impact of the fire pillars, "Now its my turn." The boys eyes became yellow and he shot three lightning arrows at the piece of co