She had looked everywhere... But it is no in sight. At the least not in plain sight. The lost arcane has to be somewhere here... according to those mad monks at least. Kitty search the water front and even the soft sandy beds on the beach... submerging into the warm water. As the warm wave rushes across dragging her body, she feel this may very well had been a wild goose chase in the end. If anything was lost, it was Kitty's hope of recovering the key to the summoning. So many magic is required she could not figured out an easier way.
The clock tower had sounded strange, Kitty knew something has to be wrong and so a trip to the abandoned church is at hand. The majestic bell on the top of the church is nothing less than beautiful, but extremely old and heavy. Kitty is surprised it even rings at all. She examine the bell, from side to side, looking for any abnormalities that may be present and could find none, on the outside at least. Kitty shivered at the thought that she will have to look inside, because it is not only eerie and dark, and the risk of getting trap in it shall it fall is just unimaginable. But with the lack of a choice, she reach under the bell, crawl herself into it and search touch it with her hands, feeling the old brass inch by inch across.
Her hand feel something, but it quickly moved making her scream out in fright... "What the!" Before she could exclaim further, something moved quickly across the inner rim of the old bell, hitting onto the other side. Kitty pulls out her wand... having deep thought about lighting it. On on hand the fear of what is to be revealed and on the other, the fear of the unknown. Kitty closes her eye and cast the Glowing Light spell and before she was ready, she screamed at the top of her voices. "BATS!!!!"
Out came Kitty, falling to the floor hard, totally caught off guard by the layers and layers of bats inside the bell she just found. She swing and swipe her hands all over, worried one of them had caught on to her clothes. She wasn't afraid of snakes or spiders... but bats is something else. Almost like her Achilles heel or like snake is to Indiana Jones. Kitty pick herself up and realized she had totally ruined her student uniform. It may not be much, but until she could find her way out, this is the only clothes she have, She picked herself up, pull off the broke sleeves from the floor and look up at the bell again. Are the bats the only reason the bell sounded wrong? Or is there something else... kitty step aside, from directly under the bell, the fear of the bell falling onto her is not about death, but darkness once again.
Unable cast another Levitation spell in such a short period, Kitty climb up the tower the usual way normal people would had done so and this time she stop right in front of it again. She whispers softly, with faith and drawing out the holiness from the Arcane Detection spell she had just learned but a week ago from another clerical student. This better work, I had given her my lunch for it. Kitty cursed, then realized it was disrupting her chanting, stopped quickly and got back into the state of tranquility. The spell reveals magical properties inside the bell. I should had done this early. Kitty sighed to herself before pulling out her cute headphones. This had to do. It says noise canceling on the side of the headphone, but Kitty had always been worried how she would be ripped off by buying from online sites. She hold her breath, pulls out her death scythe, her signature weapon of choice and hit the bell as she feel the vibration send her flying backwards away from the tower towards the tower. "Oh shit...." is all she could hear from her very own lips as she is send backwards against her will.
Kitty lands, barely standing this time, but at least not fall clumsily like before. Over her head, she saw the swarm of bats rushes out of the bell as it was rang. Kitty pulls out her headphone and realized at least it worked, hearing the bell goes "Dong Dong" in a much old fashion, but yet rather eerie tone as it breaks the peace of the silent in the old town. Someone might come for her if she stays too long. Kitty quickly pick herself up and leap up, swing the scythe under her legs, sitting on it like a witch on a broom, flew toward the bell, goes under it. This time, she would find what she was looking for. She smile as the Glowing Light spell brighten the interior of the bell. The bell, now cleared of bats, reveals its secret to the curious Neko in the warm shimmering lights...
A small little bat clings on to the side of the bell is what Kitty sees and she immediately forgotten what she was looking for in the first place. "Ooohh you poor little thing..." Kitty grab the little fellow, totally forgotten her fear for bats and she hold it in her arms. The little creature must had been wounded or it would had fled with its family when the majesty bell rang. Kitty holds if close to her chest and saw what lies beneath the little spot the creature had covered. There was the Elder Sign. Kitty quickly puts the bat right between her chest as she lift both her hands, preparing the enchantment to extract the Cursed and Sacred sign from the old brass. "What is and Elder Sign doing inside the bell?" Kitty thought briefly, before the sign start lifting and forging into her soul.
Outside the church, Kitty hides from the angry mob of villages in pitchforks and torches and she places the little bat onto a hole in the ceiling in the nearby building. That was close. A bit too close as Kitty leap across from building to building, further away from the church. It is not that she was worried about getting caught. She was just worried what these barbaric villages might do to a non human in these area. The Elder Sign fills her with a warm tinkering in her chest. At the same time, it revealed to her the message locked in the enchantment of the sign. Something is at the Asylum. And it is something evil. Kitty smile because evil is exactly what she is looking for. This may be it. she race across the forest in her scythe, laughing softly to herself as she had never been so close to this Arcane yet on this land and it was almost the taste of victory in her mouth that had blinded her from the feeling that someone or something else was close by. And watching.
Kitty lands right in front of the huge metal gates to the Asylum because there was something that obviously prevented her from going any further into the area on air. She swings her scythe onto her back and it folds nicely back onto her straps as she push open the gate slow with her soft gentle hand. The old rusty gate makes a loud screeching sound as it unfolds itself to the brave visitor, almost unwillingly as if it was guarding something really evil from the rest of the world. Kitty steps through the door, and notice how dusty the small pavement of steps are, covered in fallen leaves. It must had been ages since anyone had set foot her, Kitty smile. Then there is a good chance my Arcane is still intact. She quickly rush towards the main door and instead of pushing it gently open, sends a flying kick on it as the door swings open wide as Kitty dash right into it. From a distance, a pair of eyes watched. And as if it is a trick of the mind, if someone could see these eyes, it was thought to have smiled as Kitty entered the Asylum. "It has begun..." A soft whisper in the air, carried by the cold breezes haunts the cursed compound as Kitty disappears into the building.
