After she had wandered through the entire area and still had not managed to find even one way out, Hikaru sighed and leaned against the nearest wall. Now what? Wait until they returned and fool that man, playing along until she had the chance to steal her soul back? In this case, manipulation may work, but what if they never return? After all, he had her soul and access to all of the magic she knew... why would he even need her? For all Hikaru knew, they could have just left her there to never be found.
Immediately fear got the best of her as Hikaru realized just what that meant. If it was true and they never came back, there was no way she would be found... Without magic signature to trace, no one knew she was there. Hell, besides immediate family and that brat Jay, no even knew she had returned. She had been gone for eight years or so she had been informed, and dragged to Hell the moment she had came back.
Slowly, Hikaru dropped to her knees from where she was standing as she continued to realize just what predicament she was in. Besides her brother, that Incarnation Keith, that Jay brat, and her parents who were now dead, no one else knew she was back. Anyone who could have possibly gone looking for her would have given up years ago when she failed to return for eight years. She would be stranded here... stranded for who even knew how long!
"Oh please, is this really what I have amounted to? A paranoid loser of no magic?"
"Wha.." Hikaru quickly stood back up and glanced about the room she was in. "Who said that..." The voiced sounded like her own, but she couldn't be sure, magic could be used to trick her after all.
"In your mind, moron..."
"Stop with the insults!" Hikaru snapped aloud before the 'voice' could continue.
"Whatever, only you can hear me... Anyways! Until you actually go and accept we are the same, this is the result of remerging. Our spirits are one, but our minds are still split. Call it... "
"A form of split personality." Hikaru finished, as she shook her head a little, "Great, I have now gone insane. Could things get any worse?"
"It is your own fault. Your part of our spirit and my part of our spirit fought for control when merging, it ended up splitting us further than just memory and spirit. Our knowledge was as well, which explains why you are not so sharp on picking up the obvious at the moment. Like now! Fear of being alone? Really? They will obviously return. He may have our soul, but he does not have the knowledge of how to use its magic."
"Right... He could simply learn through experience..."
"Thousands of years worth? Whatever he is using it for, he will eventually hit a block to what he can learn through experience and will need us to teach its capabilities. The incantations, the spells, the rituals, all of our magical knowledge is the one thing he DOES NOT have. It is little more than useless to him."
"Whatever.. Is there a reason you decide to reveal all this now? I knew that, but he should know I will not reveal any of it, so it still leaves us without a way out of here. And though I may be conceited, I still do not desire to talk to only myself forever. It would grow rather dull.."
"There you go, being slow again. Really now? Use the spiritual connection we have to our soul to find him! Because it is spiritual we will not waste as much energy teleporting to the location."
"But I blocked the connection! If I unblock it I will be under his power again. And I do not know if the effect from before was a continuous spell or not. If it was, I would be back in the same predicament as before I blocked it."
"And if that happened, we would only need to reblock it. Besides, I highly doubt it was aimed to be continuous. If it was, there would have been more of a fight to blocking it than there was. The Elite Energy however, blocked it rather easily. We just need to unblock it long enough to trace the connection and teleport. Even if was continuous and we fall under the same effect, we will have at least left this place and gotten closer to where our soul is. Then it would just be a matter of reblocking the connection..."
"..." After arguing with herself for what felt like hours but was a mere few minutes, Hikaru had a plan, but at the same time she was still unsure. "If the same effect happened, we would be completely powerless between it happening and reblocking it. We do not know where it is or who it is with. Whether it is that man, the demons, or someone else... Wherever we would appear, in that time frame, we would be open to attack..."
"Would you rather stay here and wait for years for them to return with only yourself to talk to? Who knows.. maybe after the first few years, you would accept we are the same and then you would not even have yourself left."
"Fine..." Hikaru sighed as she walked to the center of the room. "You- I am right. Whatever happens, happens. It still gets us- me closer to getting my soul back." With that, Hikaru closer her eyes and focused, willing the Elite Energy to temporarily drop the block it had formed on the connection, while at the same time she was forming a teleportation spell out of spirit energy, that way the moment the block dropped, and the trace she received from the connection to her soul was revealed, she would be teleported to the location of her soul, wherever it was held...
