Confirming Theory

The door slammed open making me jump slightly. Terry walked in with a huge smile on his face as he pulled a chair over to in front of my desk. He looked way to happy for my liking. I frowned as he sat down. I swear he drug the chair with the intentions of leaving scrape marks on the floor.

"Kaz! I'm so glad your back." His general happiness pissed me off.

"Really I thought you would have liked to work under the 'Resident' more since I am a 'crazy' person."

Terry froze, "Now Kaz why would you think that?" He made a confused face.

"Oh no reason really. Its just that Juliana had heard that some 'crazy dude' was running a town full of supernatural creatures, but I guess that it was about someone else." Terry had a bit of a stained smile.

"Must be...."

".... Anyway when I was out I went to see your Master to give me some advice about the Zombie problem you caused. I heard some interesting things like how the Court of Life is looking into this," Terry visibly paled but still held onto his smile. [ Ah, this is making me feel so much better. ] "Not only that but it seems that she didn't know anything in Necromancy that could cause immortality. So I had to go see my old pal Nicolas Flamel on the subject of Alchemy, and guess what I found out." I smiled at Terry.

"What did you find out?" Terry was shifting uneasily in his seat.

"There is this thing called the Elixir of Life. One of the many recipes gives off this wonderful sulfur smell. The same smell that was found at the graves." I watched Terry squirm and fidget under my gaze. "Well that is what I think made the Zombies immortal. It also turns out that it is highly toxic to the body. Which would show why you would like to test it on the undead first. But of course you wouldn't know anything about that."

"O-Of course not."

"Well if it was used it seems to have mutated and caused it to become something like a virus. Really this is such an annoying problem. Terry go capture a Zombie and take it to the Undertaker to be examined. I'm sure we will find out something interesting. Be happy I am letting go through with you original research." Terry got up and was about to leave. "Oh and it seems the Zombies can be frozen. This should make it easier to capture. Good luck."

"Yes Master Kaz." Terry bowed and left. [ Ah, I feel so much better now. ] I finished off the last piece of paper while smiling. [ Well then... ] I got up and walked down to Lisa.

"Lisa, I'll be out visiting the Hidden City if you need me."

"Does this have anything to do with the meeting tomorrow?"

"... No please keep that the same. I will be visiting someone else today."

"Understood. I already have people filling in the hole outside. It should be done before midnight."

"Is that so? Good." With that I walked outside to see the progress. The hole was being filled in by about fifteen Gargoyles. [ Hmmm, nice choice. ] I walked to the edge of the hole as the Gargoyles stopped to see what I was doing. "Keep up the good work." I said with a smile as I jumped down.

The hole wasn't to deep if you used the buildings just right to brake the fall. I landed on path that looked like a mountain road only underground. It was dark only light by a couple of lights here and there. I looked off the side of the path further down into the black abyss. Seeing if there was anything new since I have been here, but it was still the same. I shook my head and continued down the path. It didn't take long to reach what I was looking fore.

It was a small house carved into the wall. The only thing that really indicated that it was a house and not just a part of the rock wall was the door with the name Einar carved at the top. I smiled and knocked.

"Coming...." The stone door slowly slid open to revel a dusky skinned Elf, golden eyes, and purple black hair. "Kaz?"

"Why hello there Corey. How are things?"

Corey blinked then moved out of the way. "Please come in. Everything is fine here. Nothing has changed." We walked into the living room that was sparsely decorated with only a couple of chairs and a table.

"Is that so? Well that's good to hear. It has been a while since I came down here so I thought I would visit. I also have a task that I would like completed."

"Of course. If it is something you wish done then I will complete it." Corey's face was an expressionless mask.

I smiled. "I would like you to go to this new Human Sanctuary and find out what you can about it. If there is anything interesting or that catches your eye please look further into it. You are aloud to have interaction with the Humans but please do so in disguise. Go see Akuji for a charm that you can use. There is no set time period for this mission. It is completely up to your own judgement."

"Understood."

"One more thing are there any problems with the Hidden City?"

Corey was quite for a moment. "There is a hole to the outside world." I smiled at that response.

"That should be taken care of by tonight." He nodded. "Well that is all. If you hit any problems or do stumble across anything interesting then tell me. Other than that tell me what you think of the Sanctuary after 24 hours there." With that I stood up.

"Understood. I will follow your orders without fail."

"Thank you Corey. I look forward to your report." I walked out and back to towards the hole. It was about halfway patched up now. Jumping back through I landed on the street only to see the sun going down. Lisa was standing at the hole waiting.

"Kaz, the 'Resident' is in your office. It wishes to talk to you."

"I would imagine so. Thank you Lisa."

"I will be calling it a day."

"Very well." With that Lisa left to go home. [ Sigh, one more thing to be done. ]

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Character List

Spoiler : Kaz - Mayor of Shadow Wood

Self proclaimed 'Green Spirit'

'Embodiment of forest'

Past names: Mor, Amke

Terrry - Necromancer

Cause of the Zombies

Kaz's Assistant

Babysitter

A Bosh

'Resident' - Lives in a crypt

Friend of Kaz

Farries the Dead to the Underworld

Replacement Mayor

Door to the Underworld

Lisa - Cat Sidhe

Kaz's secretary

Has a crow familier named Eitilt

Ali Baba - Witch

Twin Sister to Baba Yoga

'Alba'

Baba Yoga - Witch

Twin Sister to Ali Baba

'Bayo'

Jasmine - Leader of the Water Fae

Van - In control of the Power Plant

....'Human'

Alchemist

Dirk - Employees of Power Plant

Golems (created by Van)

David Baker - Mayor of Redroad

Human

Missing

Inta - Ali Baba's daughter

Usor - Ali Baba's Son

Clara - Little girl from National Park

Living with Kaz

Wood Elf

Akuji - Wizard

Head of Magic clan

Kraken Family - 3 in total

Live in the pond

From Chaos dimension

Baby Loves Ice Cream

Badru - Head of the Library

Sphinx (Cheetah variety)

Translating Kaz's Book

Seth - Alpha of Werewolf Pack

Tasked with investigating Zombies

Loves animals (especially fluffy cats)

Constantine Dracul - Lives in a Castle

In the Court of Life

Husband to Juliana

Vampire

Juliana Ann Dracul - Necromancer

Terry's Master

Wife to Constantine

Dragon

Jared Dracul - Son of Constantine and Juliana

Chasing Viola

Half Dragon Half Vampire

Viola Heart - Daughter of the King of the Court of Life

Being Chased by Jared

Nicolas Flamel - Alchemist

1 of the Order of 9

Immortal?

Kaz's Stocker

Experiment maniac

Human?

Mori - Little girl dressed in white

Terry's friend

The Undertaker

Corey Einar - Elf

Lives in the Hidden City