The Story

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'''NOTE THAT THIS STORYLINE IS THE BASIC PATH OF ACTION. SMALL EVENTS DEPICTED IN THE SERIES SUCH AS FILLER DETAIL AND SUCH ARE NOT INCLUDED HERE.'''

Act 1 - The Gathering
The Exorcists' story begins with the start of the Frostsword Kingdom, ruled by the first Queen Camilla von Frostsword. She, along with a small number of citizens and a tiny army establish the empire. For nearly three months, the kingdom prospers, that is, until a second kingdom raises its flag. Under the rule of King Decimus Tesla, the Kingdom of Sparksun is established. Both kingdoms prosper for two months.

After these two months, Tesla suddenly declares war on Frostsword. Both Frostsword and Sparksun are shocked. Sparksun's exorcist, Adamant Greysword, immediately assumes that a demon is behind Tesla's strange and sudden hatred for Frostsword. Against his daughter's will to stay away from Tesla, Adamant invades the castle to investigate. When he returns to his daughter, Tam, he is overrun with insanity. He won't speak to her, and doesn't move in the slightest. With her training on exorcisms and demon banishing, provided by her father, Tam takes her spellbook and sets out for revenge against the demon that did this to her father.

Tam enters the Netherworld by opening a portal she had done so many times before. For two weeks, she travels the Netherworld and interrogates demons. In the Overworld at this time, Sparksun attacks Frostsword, and loses. Indigo, not phased by the woman, calmly admits to his crimes upon the Overworld. He admits to hypontizing Tesla into starting a war with Frostsword, as well as ruining her father's sanity by using him as a "Soul Jar."

Outraged, Tam attempts to defeat Indigo then and there. However, Indigo overpowers her and has the opportunity to kill her. Instead, he decides that a troublemaker like her should be tortured instead. He summons up four demonic weapons from his Gauntlet: the Clippers, the Sparkguns, the Dead Arrow, and the Silver Mirror. Before Indigo can start her punishment, Tam throws the souls of three demons which she had sealed away at Indigo. These instead pilot themselves toward the weapons.

One soul enters the Silver Mirror, another the Clippers, and the third the Sparkguns. Indigo, still in control of the Dead Arrow, angrily fires at Tam to kill her. However, the soul in charge of the Mirror protects Tam and pilots the reflector at the arrow. The arrow makes impact with the Mirror, thus cracking the lens in half. The two halves of the Mirror reflect off of Indigo and Tam, which subtracts a piece of each of their souls. Indigo's soul mixes with Tam's and goes into the arrow, which would later create Eve. The arrow, as reflected by the Mirror, flings itself into the Sparkguns, breaking them. The four weapons then flee the Netherworld and enter Celestia.

Indigo finally loses his patience and puts Tam into a temporary coma. He takes away her ability to age, thus cursing her with the blessing of eternal age, but not immortality.

At around the same time, Camilla von Frostsword I sends out her top assassin, Aaron Black, to kill King Tesla to avoid any further struggles with Sparksun. He departs on this quest at the same time Tam is put to sleep, but is captured and locked away for years. He is presumed dead by Frostsword.

Camilla I dies and is successed by her daughter of the same name. The new Queen viciously launches an attack on Sparksun to end the Kingdom once and for all.

During the battle, Tam awakes and realizes she has been asleep for years. She leaves the Netherworld as soon as she can, which isn't immediately.

Near the battle's end, the Clippers and the Dead Arrow send themselves down from Celestia to choose Disciples, who were immortal beings to who could wield such powerful weapons. The Sparkguns and Silver Mirror did not follow them, for they were still repairing themselves from the Indigo struggle. It would be many years until these weapons chose their Disciples.

The Dead Arrow falls to the ground with a being created purely from a mixture of Indigo's and Tam's souls. This being is Eve, who is called a "Soul Doll." She alights on the ground on the outskirts of Sparksun. Though she has just been created, she knows how to be a Disiciple, and she knows who she is waiting for.

The Clippers appear to Aaron Black, who uses them to escape his prison and leave Sparksun before it is destroyed. On the outskirts of the Kingdom he meets Eve. Eve greets him and takes him to Celestia, where, for years, she instructs him on how to use the powers of a Disciple, as well as the sacred Disciple Form. She does not tell him that she is purely a Soul Doll.

The battle ends in Frostsword's favor, but King Tesla manages to escape with his life. He leaves the Kingdom and isn't seen or heard from again.

Tam arrives in Sparksun in time to see the castle burn and fall to the earth. She explores the ruins and finds Indigo standing over the dying Adamant. She loses all reason and tries her hardest to seal him away. Unfortunately, Indigo is still too powerful for the young demon slayer, and she only manages to seal him away in the Netherworld, unable to return to the Overworld, but still free.

She tends to her father, but he knows his time has come. With the little sanity he has, he quickly explains to her about the Soul Land: the place any sealed spirit secretly inhabits. He wishes for her to seal his spirit away so that he too may live in the Soul Land. She agrees, and takes his soul.

For years on end, Tam trains herself in the Netherworld, learning new spells and slaying more powerful demons. She crosses paths with fellow demon hunter Cameron Cornelius Wolf III several times, but never stops to talk with him.

Soon after the war, Camilla II gives birth to Camilla von Frostsword III.

Years later, in a city far away from Frostsword, Vincent Faust is born. His parents knew that he would have a brave heart and a fiery passion.

More years pass uneventfully until Camilla von Frostsword II dies. Her daughter, at the age of eleven, takes the throne and hires an advisor named Noir Graves. His skull would later be used by Bellatrix to raise the dead.

The advisor suggests the Kingdom begins tampering with medicine and science. In a heartbeat, Project Blasphemy is born. As a young girl, Camilla III anticipated necromancy was possible. She wished for her scientists to create a gem with could bring people back to life. With it, any lost soldiers could be ressurected.

Meanwhile, one of Frostsword's nurses gives birth to Wanda Clemett, a sweet, innocent girl. Wanda's mother discovers new medical techniques that save more lives. Noir recruits more blacksmiths to work on new weapons, and Camilla III sends out the army to recruit new warriors. The kingdom therefore prospers for years.

Soon, word of Frostsword's prosperous rule and good fortune reach the ears of Shadow, the Ultimate Lifeform. Before too long, Shadow joins the Kingdom, and with his knowledge of Chaos Control abilites, attempts to assist in Project Blasphemy.

Rumor of the Kingdom also reaches the ears of Vincent Faust, who, at this time, is just over twenty years of age. He makes the brave decision to join the Kingdom's army, and leaves his hometown to live in Frostsword.

Several uneventful years pass by, until Tam makes a reappearance. She leaves the Netherworld and goes to Frostsword, where she finds Shadow. At this time, Tam has convinced herself that she is now strong enough to seal Indigo away, but requires some assistance to weaken him, first. She attempts to convnince Shadow into helping her, but he refuses. She leaves. A few days later, he attempts to find her, as he decides to help her. Shadow vanishes, and the scientists working on Project Blasphemy continue without him, even though they are skeptical about the gem.

Wanda Clemett joins her mother as a nurse in the Kingdom, where she later meets Vincent Faust, who had been wounded by accident in training. They fall in love instantly, and a few months later, are married. They leave Frostsword for Vincent's hometown.

At around the same time of their marriage, Noir's parents, relatively young, give birth to a girl they name Bella. Noir resigns as advisor so that he may raise his sister for his busy parents. At this Camilla von Frostsword III is plenty old enough to rule alone.

Several years later, Camilla von Frostsword IV is born as the next heir to the throne.

Trajedy strikes. Shortly after Camilla's birth, Project Blasphemy backfires. The gem emits a ghastly smog that kills scientists, soldiers, nurses, and civilians. Noir Graves and Bella Graves are among the dead. The Queen falls ill, but does not die. The radioactive gem is locked away.

Soon after this catastrophe, Camilla von Frostsword III calls for Project Redaction. The idea of this Project was to clone somebody who had passed. This idea was thought much safer than simply reanimating the deceased. A cermeony is held for those lost in the Blasphemy disaster, and young Bella is chosen as the first to be Redacted.

Project Redaction appears to have succeded. Bella's clone, named Bellatrix, comes to life after her age is accelerated to eighteen. However, the experiment appears to have ruined her value of morals, and given her an unsatisfyable lust for killing. She breaks free from her bonds and attempts to steal Project Blasphemy from it's holding cell. She is caught and jailed, and the Project is confirmed a failure.

Meanwhile, far from Frostsword, Shadow finally manages to track down Tam and says that he will assist her. His motives for this are forever unknown. She teaches him how to open a portal to the Netherworld. He complies, and opens it for her. The two aren't seen again for months.

Years later, the Kingdom begins many nameless, much safer projects that all succeed. These contribute to the civilization's wealth, medical expertise, and smithery.

At the same time, back in Vincent's hometown, Wanda Faust gives birth to her first and only child. He is named Mephisto. A few weeks after his birth, he begins to show strange habits of babbling gibberish and doing odd actions. However, his parents think nothing of this, as he is, after all, a baby. These strange habits are caused by voices in his head belonging to the souls of other beings being placed inside him. Faust serves as a "Soul Jar," which will be explained in depth later.

Later, in another far away land, Ephemeral Tesla is brought into the world without a father. His grandfather, Decimus Tesla had died many years ago, and his father had been taken from them quite recently. In order to protect his future, she renames him Steam, and feeds him false information about his father and the Sparksun Kingdom. She raises him alone.

Meanwhile, back in Frostsword, the dying queen wishes a secret project be created as a secret weapon in case they are ever threatened by new, rising kingdoms. Scientists comply, and they begin work on Project Divinity.

Bellatrix, unable to age, is released from prison. However, instead of going freely, she lashes out and attacks the kingdom alone.She manages to make off with Project Blasphemy, and is posted around Frostsword as a wanted person. However, she isn't seen again for a long time.

One night, she sneaks into Frostsword and into the graveyard where Noir is buried. With emotions belonging to Bella, she wishes to honor her brother, and takes his skull from him to use. She embeds Project Blasphemy into his skull and carries it with her. At this point, she doesn't know the gem raises the dead.

After several years of fighting, Camilla von Frostsword III finally passes, and her daughter takes the throne.

Months later, after rigorous training as a Disciple, Aaron Black returns to the Overworld, and resumes his role as a fighter for Frostsword, pledging loyalty to the new queen. He does not mention his new abilities.

Mephisto Faust, age ten at this point, is finally classified as mentally unstable, and is sent away to Ashlock Asylum, where he meets Rex and Starling, who would prove to be his best friends.

Rex is placed in the asylum for his unyeilding cannibalism, and Starling for her seer-abilities. She would later find out that the man constantly appearing in her dreams was Indigo.

Steam leaves his home and joins the Kingdom of Frostsword as an inventor. To prove his worth, he creates Medussa, an umbrella capable of blocking her from most anything, and gives it to Camilla IV. She puts him in charge of Project Divinity.

Weeks later, Shadow and Tam finally find Indigo and fight him in the Netherworld. During the battle, when Indigo is at his weakest, Shadow uses his Chaos Control, and Tam tries to seal the demon away. Something reacts with these two abilites, and a hole to the Overworld is ripped open. Indigo escapes captivity from the Netherworld, and the two follow him.

They both try to follow him to Frostsword, but are unsuccessful. Tam goes elsewhere while Shadow returns to the Kingdom. Shadow walks in on Steam's work on Project Divinity, and notices something fairly odd about it. He demands the boy tell him his intentions, and Steam complies. Steam has modified the "Pinwheel," as he called it, so that it responds to Souls.

Tam encounters Bellatrix, who demands that Tam help her bring her brother back to life. Bellatrix has learned that those she brings to life have no soul and therefore follow her every command. She doesn't wish for Noir to act this way. Tam agrees to help, but cannot put a Soul into the head of Noir, as Bellatrix uses it to summon zombies. Instead, Tam puts a soul into a pumpkin, and Bellatrix reanimates his body. The two combine, and successfully reanimate parts of Noir's memory and such.

Indigo is spotted snooping around Frostsword, waiting for the perfect moment to wreck havoc and attack. However, Camilla IV sends troops to dispel the demon. Weak from the fight against Tam and Shadow, he is temporarily driven away.

Steam finishes the Pinwheel. It is given to Shadow to take care of it until it is needed.

Weeks later, rumor of Mephisto Faust circulates through the Kingdom as the son of Vincent and Wanda. Rumor says that he was looked away in an Asylum. With his knowledge of Souls and demons, Shadow concludes that Faust is a Soul Jar. Recalling Steam's intentions about the Pinwheel, he goes to place the weapon upon Faust via Chaos Control.

Months later, Indigo attacks Frostsword with a full army of demons, as well as his full power. The battle is in stalemate until the demons pull a fast maneveuer and defeat the Kingdom. Aaron Black escapes with the Queen, while Steam is captured by the demons. Shadow, Tam, and Bellatrix were gone by this time.

Indigo reclaims the Kingdom as the Nitebane Kingdom, and becomes ruler. He puts Steam to work as a laborer in the armory. He witnesses many gruesome acts of execution and death, and is later put in charge of disposing of body parts.

Fed up with the fear of being killed, Steam begins secret Project Thrash. He starts forging a robot that would help him escape the confines of Nitebane, but realizes time is running out. As much as it sickens him, he is forced to recycle body parts to use with the robot. He uses the Soul technology from Project Divinty with Project Thrash, as well.

Tam, still vengeful at Indigo, returns to the Nitebane Kingdom in order to try to kill the demon. Instead, she finds the robot. She secretly places a soul within Project Thrash, so that it comes to life as a Soul Jar. She does not know she had given the soul of her father to Thrash. With that, she leaves, to return later. At this point, she is not traveling with either Bellatrix or Shadow.

Steam escapes with Thrash, who had taken on a bizarre likening to killing and death. Steam had meant for the bot to be strong and powerful, but not so vile. This was because Tam's father, Adamant Graves, had been insane, and thus, his soul was also insane, causing Thrash to be a coldhearted killer with no sanity.

Meanwhile, Aaron "Shrapnel" Black leaves Camilla to investigate this new foe and perhaps gain the help of Eve. Camilla goes alone to find Cameron Cornelius Wolf III, a famous demon slayer, to assist in the recapture of Frostsword. She manages to locate the demon slayer, who agrees to help with Indigo.

Several days later, Faust and his friends, Rex and Starling, attempt to escape Ashlock Asylum. In the progress of escaping, Rex and Starling are struck down, and are thought by Faust to be dead. However, the Sparkguns and Silver Mirror finally finish repairing themselves and hurl themselves at Rex and Starling, thus saving their lives by granting them immediate immortality.

Faust escapes alone, and meets Shadow outside, who had been anticipating his escape. The Ultimate Lifeform beams the two from the Asylum just as Rex and Starling escape, perfectly alive. Eve meets them outside, and, as she had done for Shrapnel, takes them to Celestia to teach them to be Disciples.

At this point, the groups consist of (1) Faust and Shadow, (2) Camilla and Cameron, (3) Rex, Starling, and Eve, (4) Shrapnel, (5) Steam and Thrash, (6) Bellatrix and Noir), and (7) Tam.

Through several undepicted events and such, the groups slowly come together as one. Some of the more important events include: (1) Faust demands that he and Shadow go to his parents and punish them for their negligence. Upon arrival, Faust finds that his parents have already been killed by somebody else. (2) Camilla asks Cameron who they could ask to join them, and he relunctantly suggests Tam. They find her, and they have a rather bittersweet reunion. They mention a third demon slayer (who'll be mentioned in Act 2). (3) Steam and Tam work together explain to Faust how he can use the Pinwheel using the voices in his head. It is here that Faust learns about the multiple modes of the Pinwheel, or, in other words, his Forms. He also learns about Divine Forms/Modes-- those belonging to any Divine being. (4) Thrash embraces Tam at first glance, and she learns that she has bestowed her father's soul into the robot.

After several weeks of gathering, training, planning, et cetera, the team heads to Nitebane to confront Indigo once and for all.

The first battle consists of the thirteen heroes fighting off the hordes of demons Indigo sends at them. This proves to be a difficult challenge for all the team members, but Cameron, Tam, and Shadow have an upper hard with their demon knowledge.

The second battle starts when all the demons have been sealed away, save Indigo. He steps down to face the team on their own. The battle is thirteen to one, but Indigo proves to be a tougher enemy than all the demons combined. During this battle, Faust is injured and Eve steps out of the battle to tend to his wounds.

The third battle begins with Indigo becoming weaker, but not by much. He decides to "even his odds" and multiplies himself by eleven. The eleven Indigos take on the eleven capable heroes. Eventually, whether they win or lose against their clones, all the heroes end up trapped in a dark rope, unable to assist.

The fourth battle only belongs to Faust and Indigo. After healing his wounds, Eve gives him her Divine Soul, sacrificing herself to give Faust a Divine Form. Faust gets the wings of a Disciple, and two scythes. The battle ends in Faust's favor by freeing his friends, but Indigo is far from finished.

The final battle begins when Indigo uses all his remaining power. Tam concludes that the only way to weaken Indigo enough so that she may seal him away is to have thousands of souls enter his body at once. As a "storage unit," Thrash volunteers to sacrifice himself by having thousands of souls placed inside them, then self destructing near Indigo, throwing the souls at the demon. Steam, obviously, is against this idea completely and begs Thrash not to go. To this Thrash says nothing. Faust holds Steam back as Tam unseals several hundred Souls into Thrash. His core goes haywire and starts overreacting, so he runs to attack Indigo. Grabbing him by the neck, Thrash takes Indigo into the sky, where energy starts to leak from the unstable robot. Tam tells the others that they need to leave, for the explosion will be a devastating one.

They all flee the scene are quickly as they can, except for Steam, who escapes Faust's grasp and runs back towards Thrash. Faust follows after him in an attempt to rescue the boy.

Steam runs under the floating Thrash just as his core reaches maximum unstableness and explodes, sending the Souls from his body. The Soul of Adamant Graves travels through Steam, and quickly reveals to him his true identity as the Prince of Sparksun, Ephemeral. Faust is also caught in the explosion.

After the smoke and dust clears, Indigo is still standing, but barely. The others hurry back to the scene and see Faust getting up to face Indigo again. However, Indigo does not fight. Instead, her threatens to allow his Soul to split into pieces and travel to other demons, where he will forever live on inside them. This triggers something inside Faust, and the green psycho grabs onto Indigo. He then demands Tam to seal them away.

Immediately, Tam realizes what Faust is doing. A demon cannot be sealed away unless all his or her Soul is present. Eve gave her Soul to Faust, which was made up of Indigo's and Tam's Souls. Now that all Indigo's Soul was there, he could be sealed away, as he was also too weak to resist.

Rex and Starling protest and Faust responds by saying that they sacrified themselves for him, and that it was his turn for them. Relunctantly, and against the wills of all others, Tam seals Faust and Indigo together.

Act 1 End.

Act 2 - The Rebirth
Faust awakes as nothing but a Soul in the Soul Land, a wide field of practically nothing but Souls.

Each Soul is placed in the Soul Land exclusively. This means that all the Souls inside of Faust were also sealed into the Soul Land by themselves. Every Soul is therefore whole and their own. The portion of Tam's Soul returned to her, and Indigo's Soul is once again complete.

He meets some of the Souls that inhabited his body. He identifies each of them with one of the Modes he has already learned, and finds the other hundreds that he hadn't yet used with his Pinwheel. He then realizes as a Soul, he has no Pinwheel.

It is then revealed to all the newcomers to stay inside the walls at all times. It is explained that every night once the sun goes down, monstrous demons that inhabit the Soul Land come out, and feed on all those caught outside. These are called Soul Eaters.

For several weeks, Faust lives in the Soul Land, contemplating escape with his fellow Souls.

Meanwhile, the others mourn the loss of Faust, Thrash, and Eve. Steam gets rid of the Dead Arrow that once belonged to Eve and Indigo both. Camilla, Shrapnel, Rex, and Starling start rebuilding Frostsword, and Tam begins trying to figure out a way to rescue Faust from the Soul Land. She dubs it impossible, but is still determined to reach a solution. Never before had she sealed two or more Souls into one seal. It was impossible to release just Faust. No, she'd have to also release Indigo and all the other Souls once trapped inside Faust.

Steam does not tell the others that he is really Ephemeral, the lost Prince of Sparksun, as he insists that he remain known to them as Steam. He models Indigo's Gauntlet weapon to create one of his own. He tries to recreate Thrash.

Once the Kingdom is restored, several things happen. Camilla resumes rule over nothing, but is Queen, nevertheless. Shrapnel stays with her here. Cameron leaves to the Netherworld to investigate for solutions to the Soul Land problem. Steam stays at Frostsword to assist Tam in the same problem. Bellatrix and Noir go elsewhere to try and find a solution. Rex and Starling return to Celestia to research. Shadow leaves.

It is not long before Faust discovers the way out of the Soul Land. He overhears another Soul speak that under the sun is a stone portal that can send Souls from the Soul Land and back to the Overworld. Faust gathers the others and it is set that they will attempt to find this portal.

They know they only have so much time to reach the portal before the sun vanishes and they are doomed to be devoured by the Soul Eaters. With that happy thought in mind, they leave the walls and head for the sun, "they" being Faust and all the Souls who wish to share his mind with him. They at first wish not to intrude Faust again, for this time they have a choice. However, Faust insists that they return with him, so that he may not change when they all return to the Overworld.

Meanwhile, in the Netherworld, Cameron encounters Cisko McFarren, the third exorcist Tam and Cameron had once before mentioned to the gang. He is commanded by Cisko to take him to Tam, whom he has a growing crush on.

Cisko arrives with Cameron in the Frostsword Kingdom, where he flirts with Tam. She informs him of the recent events and loss of her friends, which sparks a confession from him.

Cisko explains that he was once Frostsword's exorcist, and one of the greatest of the knights, alongside Faust's father, Vincent. One day, Cisko caught ear of a powerful young man named Shastor, who himself wasn't a demon, but was a Soul Jar who had lost all will to fight against the souls. He was a puppet to the voices in his head. Cisko left with Vincent to dispel the demons from Shastor.

The two of them managed to subdue the powerful foe, but Cisko did not have the ability to seal him away like Tam did. So, he did the next best thing, and binded him to a powerful energy chain. This did the trick, for a while.

The souls in Shastor's head became stronger, and in doing so, so did he. He managed to break free and swore revenge upon Vincent and Cisko. He found Vincent at his home and turned his son, Mephisto Faust, into a Soul Jar, by obvious means of action. He swore to Vincent that Faust would turn out as evil and corrupted as Shastor. Shastor then left to seek his vengence on Cisko.

To Cisko, fame and glory and admiration were everything. Shastor made it so that nobody could remember him, at least in that time period, which is why his name wasn't mentioned before now. This made Cisko leave the Kingdom of Frostsword forever, and he left to the Netherworld for quite some time.

Years later, after Faust had been placed in Ashlock, Shastor decided he had been too easy on them. He went back to Vincent and Wanda and attempted to kill them. Fortunately, Cisko saved the day by sealing their Souls so that they could live in peace in the Soul Land. Outraged, Shastor attacked Cisko, who managed to outwit the demon and escaped him for some time. Shastor allowed him to leave, but not before swearing revenge on the demon hunter.

Cisko, 27 years of age, then returned to the Netherworld until Cameron found him.

Cisko also notifies the gang about the Elder, a powerful Divine Being who supposedly knows everything. Before Cameron found him, he was about to venture to the Elder's home to seek knowledge about Shastor. With this information, the group accepts him into their party, regroups with the others, (except for Shadow) and heads for the Elder's home: The Cloud Spire.

Meanwhile, in the Soul Land, Faust and the other Souls reach the first checkpoint to the portal: a small cottage built by long ago killed Souls to assist in the escape of future Souls. It is here that Faust noticies a young Soul following them, one whom he does not recognize as a voice in his head.

He interrogates her, but she does not reply at all. He growls and tries to scare her away, but she stays with the group and rests in the cottage with the others until dawn.

After awhile, the group manages to locate the reach the top of the Cloud Spire. When they enter, instead of finding a person or a God, they instead find a library with infinite knowledge. They get over the initial shock of the Elder being books, and start searching for information.

There are only a few books they find that spark their interest. Tam picks one up and reads from it.

Thousands of years ago, there were fifteen Divine Beings: the Elder, the Council, and the Saviors. They weren't exactly Gods, but they were powerful enough that they could practically do whatever they wanted. The Elder was a neutral being, while the Council was evil and the Saviors were good. For a long time, they kept a balance in the world.

Then, a war broke out. The seven demons of the Council attacked Celestia and the Saviors. To settle the unwinnable war, the Elder used his infinite power to seal away six of the Council, six Saviors, and himself. He left one of each power to settle the bickering in a mannerly way.

The Council member left was Indigo, and the Savior left was a woman named Purity. Purity unsealed all the Council members and Saviors and placed them inside Soul Balls, protective spheres that would keep them quiet without allowing them to be sealed away. She placed all the Saviors in Celestia and cleverly hid the Council members from Indigo.

She then asked for a truce between the two powers, but Indigo refused. Instead, he attacked and sealed Purity away. However, Indigo was not able to take over the world as the Council had wanted, as he was only one demon.

He went to unseal the other members of the Council, but Purtiy had already done this, and as previously stated, ha hidden the Soul Balls around the Overworld.

For years, Indigo searched for his companions, only finding two. He destroyed the Soul Balls, freeing the Council members Wax and Wisty. Along the way, he also found four of the Saviors, which he sealed away in his magic book, Archon, so that he had them, but they weren't free. Wax and Wisty entered Shastor, and began to corrupt him.

Weeks before Sparksun's downfall, Adamant Graves stole Archon from Indigo, and gave it to his daughter, Tam. Knowing that he had the Saviors sealed within the book, he destroyed the Kingdom searching for it, and obviously, never uncovered it.

When Tam later saved herself by shooting Souls at Indigo's weapons, she shot the four sealed Saviors out into the weapons. One of these Souls became mixed with Tam's Soul and Indigo's Soul, creating Eve. This meant that Shrapnel, Rex, Starling, and, because Eve gave her Soul to him, Faust, each contained a Savior.. Purity was still sealed away, and the other two Saviors were being held in Celestia. Four Council members remained hidden.

All this information meant that if Indigo were to escape the Soul Land, he would resume in gathering the Council. It was also clear that because Wax and Wisty were inside Shastor, he too would be looking for them.

The gang also finds a book about the Soul Land, and how to escape it. It instructs the group to place Faust's body on the portal on the floor of the Spire. This portal is parallel to that of the Soul Land's portal. If Faust can reach the portal, he will return to his body.

It was declared that since Cisko was looking for Shastor once more, he was searching for the Council. The gang splits up. Because Tam does not know how to open a portal to Celestia, only the Disciples can go there to protect the other Saviors' souls, that is, until Tam can open a portal. Bellatrix, Noir, and Steam are sent back to Frostsword to retrieve Faust's body and bring it back to the Spire. Tam and Cisko leave to the Netherworld to find Shastor before he can cause any more trouble. Camilla stays at the Spire with Cameron as her guard.

Meanwhile, we rejoin Shadow, who at this point is far from Frostsword. He goes into a shrine and stands guard there, alone. The Soul Ball behind him contains a Council member.

Faust and the other Souls reach the second checkpoint almost just before the sun goes down. They are then approximately halfway to the portal. The young girl continues to follow him, refusing to respond to his protests at all. While there are new Souls in the group, he can't help but feel this girl is bad news. He also suspects there is another stray Soul amongst his group, but he can't be sure.

Tragedy strikes in Celestia. Shastor shows up and tries to destroy the two Saviors sealed there. Shrapnel, Rex, and Starling fight against him, but they don't do much damage before Wax and Wisty realize they possess Savior Souls. One by one, Shastor grips their weapons and simply destroys the Soul locked within each. The three Disciples lose their immortality then and there, and are banished from Celestia by an unknown force. Shastor, then free of foes, destroys the two Soul Balls containing Saviors Souls. Just like that, five Saviors are destroyed. The only two that remained was that which lived inside Faust, who was traveling with Faust to the portal, and Purity, sealed somewhere in the Soul Land.

Shrapnel, Rex, and Starling land in an unfamilar place, and, without their immortality, are in rather great danger. They create a temporary living space until the next day when they can gather themselves and figure out where they are.

Meanwhile, Camilla comes across a book that makes her gasp. Cameron asks what's the matter, and Camilla dismisses the thought. Cameron proceeds to ask for information, and Camilla, surprisingly, says very forcefully for Cameron to mind his own business. Eventually Camilla doesn't act as herself, and goes so far as to even challenge Cameron to a fight. As she is a queen, Cameron cannot accept this challenge, but does continue to ask about the book.

Camilla loses her proper attitude and actually lashes out at Cameron. The demon slayer can only defend himself. Eventually, she manages to calm down long enough for Cameron to steal the book from her. She tries to retireve it, but he floats up into the air, out of her reach.

Cameron then reads over Camilla's pleading and shouting.

According to the book, years before Camilla was born, Camilla von Frostsword III gave birth to a boy named Trigger von Frostsword. As a child, he was promised that he would one day rule the Kingdom of Frostsword, thus ending the line of female leaders. He grew up with big dreams of how to improve the Kingdom and how to change things for the better.

However, his dreams were crushed when Camilla was born. In order to continue the Frostsword tradition of all female rulers, she was destined to become queen. Trigger, overcome with rage, planned to kill his mother.

The night Project Blasphemy backfired, Trigger snuck into the lab and pressed every button he could. The gem exploded, releasing the gas that killed hundreds. He meant for the gas to only kill his mother, but underestimated the power of the gem. Caught in the blast, Trigger also lost his eyesight in one eye, as well as the ability to smell.

He escaped before he was caught, and the explosion was dubbed an accident. In order to keep his motives under wraps, he joined the army disguised as somebody who actually cared.

Several weeks later, Trigger snuck into his mother's sleeping chamber, with a silenced pistol. While Project Redaction was being completed, he would kill her in all the comotion. However, he wasn't counting on Bellatrix to be hostile. All the guards reported to Camilla III's room to protect her from the clone, and found Trigger instead. He managed to escape without being captured, and never stepped foot upon Frostsword's grounds again.

After hearing the news of her attempted assassination, she made each and every individual vow that Trigger shall not be mentioned.

Trigger, an outcast, traveled the world. He eventually concluded all that was wrong with his plan, and later applied it  to his future job as a Bounty Hunter. He slipped inbetween towns and cities taking jobs for others, eliminating targets one-by-one. He eventually became quite famous, and even joined a small group of treasure hunters.

He still does so, completely unaware of the events circulating within the group.

Cameron throws the book aside, completely stunned that Camilla has an older brother. As both a Bounty Hunter and treasure hunter, surely he would be able to help find the remaining hidden Council members. Camilla completely denies this idea, saying that Trigger cannot be trusted.

Faust and his group of Souls reach the third checkpoint, and the portal comes into distance, directly under the falling sun. The tag-along Soul is still following along, and finally, Faust loses his patience. He threatens to kill her (completely clueless as to if Souls can kill Souls). She speaks up, saying that her name is Mint. She was sealed away a long time ago and wishes to leave with a nice man like Faust. She genuinely apoligizes for following, and says that she will leave. Faust denies this and says that she can come along, now knowing her purpose.

Bellatrix, Noir, and Steam return to the Cloud Spire with Faust's body, and places it on the portal, thus creating the link needed for Faust (and the other Souls) to leave the Soul Land. Cameron tells them all that Camilla has a brother, against her will. Even with this information, they wait for the others to return, or for a signal.

Tam and Cisko leave the Netherworld and finally enter Celestia, as Tam has mastered the technique of opening a portal to said place. They find that Shastor has already been here, and beam themselves back to the Cloud Spire, where, again, Cameron tells them of Trigger.

Meanwhile, a shadowy figure that is Trigger encounters Shadow, guarding his target. He greets Shadow slyly and says that he need the Soul Ball that he is guarding for a generous patron. Shadow attacks him, but neither one seems to be outmatching the other. Shastor appears and assists Trigger, besting Shadow long enough for Shastor to release the Council member sealed inside.

The Council member released entered Shastor's body until he received a body of his own. With that, Trigger and Shastor vanished, now with only three Council members left to uncover.

Faust nears the portal when he is attacked by Indigo. With the sun slowly going down, there isn't much time to reach the portal and escape. Indigo says that if he is going down, so is Faust. Faust manages to escape Indigo's grasp thanks to Mint, and the group runs for the portal, the sun just going over the hill.

Soul Eaters appear instantly and attack the group. Several Souls are killed, but they don't stop running for anything. Then, suddenly, there are two Souls waiting for Faust in front of the portal. Faust's parents.

Just before they can all return together, Wanda Faust is attacked by a Soul Eater. Vincent goes to help her, telling  Faust to go. The boy instructs Mint to hide in the checkpoint by the portal until he can set her free, into her own body. He asks where she is buried, and she quickly tells him Celestia. With that, he leaps into the portal.

Souls pour after him, allowing him to take over his body and for them to simply enter it. During the struggle, nearly half the Souls that were initially following were devoured. Vincent cannot save Wanda, and he begs her to go with Faust to guide him. He reluctantly obeys, leaping after his son's Soul. Wanda dies.

Just before the portal closes, Indigo leaps after the other Souls, narrowly escaping death by a Soul Eater. Mint closes the door in the checkpoint and waits.

Faust's body sits up on it's own, and, with a mixture of new and old Souls, has gained new attire. His Pinwheel returns and he leaps off the portal. Indigo's Soul leaves the portal, but doesn't enter Faust's body, as he has stepped off, breaking the link. Indigo flies into Shastor's body, now with four Souls possessing the boy. Indigo resumes rule as "leader" of the Council.

Vincent reveals himself in Faust's head, telling him that his mother perished. Faust swears at Vincent for abandoning him for years, and even refuses to speak with him. Then Faust gains a new form based on his father's profession as a knight. He and the others at the Cloud Spire try out the new form, shortly after a welcome back.

Shortly after, Faust commands Tam to open a portal to Celestia so that he can go and retrieve Mint's body. Cameron and Cisko go along with him.

The Cloud Spire is later attacked by Shastor and Trigger. They demand that the gang hand over the book with the locations of all the Soul Balls, but they insist no book exists. They decide that they will simpy destroy the tower and kill them all in the process. Camilla stands up to fight against her brother, where usually she stays back. The heroes are bested and the tower comes crashing down.

Steam is caught in the rubble and takes severe damage, but doesn't die. Camilla, also, receives a fair beating. Tam opens a portal to the Netherworld and everybody retreats.

That is, everybody except for Camilla and Bellatrix. Her brother, Trigger, has taken them hostage. Bellatrix will be forced to raise corpses for Wax, Wisty, and the newly released Council member, Salamander, to inhabit. Obviously Indigo will keep Shastor's body as he is the leader. Camilla will be tortured slowly, as Trigger wishes to cause her as much pain as he can. They set up a "base" amongst the ruins of the Cloud Spire.

Shadow recovers from his loss and realizes that as Council members are released, the balance of the world will continue to shift out of control. He quickly leaves to protect any Soul Ball. His motives are yet unknown.

Faust, Cameron, and Cisko arrive in Celestia and collect information about Mint and her body. It turns out that, in Celestia, Mint doesn't exist. Nobody has heard of her, nor ever seen her before. With no clue to her corpses' whereabouts, the three men search aimlessly around Celestia for tombs and graveyards.

Shrapnel, Rex, and Starling begin to examine their surroundings carefully. Without their invincibility, they feel as though everything in this environment is potentionally killer. Eventually they stumble upon a rather old shrine and find a man standing there.

They engage him as a threat, but he assures them that he is nothing to fear. He tells them that he has been watching them and their friends for a long time. Shrapnel concludes that he is the Elder, who, instead of sealing himself away with the Council and the Saviors, hid himself away here.

The Elder explains to them that they are in another world, similar to that of the Overworld, known as Avalonia. It is one of the Fifteen Fallen Words.

The Elder says that each of the Divine Beings (15), "owned" a Fallen World. He tells them that when he sealed all the Council and Saviors away, that is, all except for Indigo and Purity, their respective worlds became inaccessible. This was because each world has a Beacon, which allows portals and such to be opened between them.

The Overworld belonged to The Elder, Celestia was the Fallen World owned by Purity, and the Netherworld was owned by Indigo. As these three were never sealed away, their worlds remained open. Purity, of course, does get sealed away, but the Elder keeps Celestia's Beacon open. The other twelve (12) worlds' Beacons went offline when the Council and Saviors were sealed away.

The Beacons would only be restored when the respective Being was again unsealed. So, when Tam embued Shrapnel, Rex, and Starling with the Souls of three Saviors, three of the Fallen Worlds reopened. The fourth Soul, which helped to create Eve, was the owner of Avalonia. This, of course, is the Soul that Faust possesses.

The worlds belonging to Wax, Wisty, and now, Salamander, each are now opened. There are then only three Fallen Worlds still sealed away.

Shrapnel totals this up to only thirteen Worlds (13). (1) Overworld, (2) Celestia, (3) Netherworld, (4) Avalonia, (5, 6, 7) Savior Souls placed inside them, (8, 9, 10) Wax, Wisty, and Salamander's Worlds, (11, 12, 13) Three Council still sealed.

The Elder then says that since two of the Saviors were never unsealed, and were simply destroyed from their Soul Balls by Shastor, their worlds would forever be offline. There were therefore only Thirteen Fallen Worlds.

The Elder then explains to the three that he is sending Shadow the locations of each sealed Council member to buy them some time. Rex asks why he doesn't make Shadow break the Soul Balls, and the Elder says that time is more precious. If Shadow destroys the three other Soul Balls, Indigo will have nothing more to wait for, and the battle for the Worlds will ommence. Sure, there will be less members of the Council to fight, but the Worlds work in mysterious ways. It it better to open more of them than to close them forever.

After a little more explaining and clarification, The Elder opens a portal for the three to return to the destroyed Cloud Spire. Bellatrix has already raised the corpses required is about to be executed. Shrapnel, Rex, and Starling jump in and rescue Bellatrix and Camilla, then flee away from the rubble.

Indigo (still in Shastor's body) deposits the Souls of Wax, Wisty, and Salamander into their new bodies. He commands Salamander to go after the escapees, and for Wax and Wisty to find the next Council member. Of course, Shadow is already there, standing guard.

The escapees flee into the forest, which Salamander begins to burn down. They manage to subdue the foe, and send him away, but they barely escape the forest fire. They head back to Frostsword to recooperate.

Meanwhile, in the Netherworld, Tam, Noir, and Steam uncover the Netherworld's Beacon. Tam quickly figures out what it is, and portals to Celestia. The group finds Faust's group, and Tam says she knows where Purity's body is. They all go toward Celestia's Becaon.

Wax and Wisty find Shadow guarding the Soul Ball, defeat him, and free another Council member. They flee back to the Cloud Spire to give him a body. At the same time, Indigo and Trigger uncover a Soul Ball, and release their comrade before Shadow can arrive. Shadow hurries to the final Council member.

Two more worlds open, and Council members Alicianna and Kardel arrise. Each of the Council members begin preparing for the final battle, while Trigger goes to find the final Council member.

Faust and the others finally find the tomb near Celestia's Beacon, which houses Mint's body. They then conclude that Mint is Purity. They take her body and return to Frostsword, knowing that the Cloud Spire (and most likely the Portal to the Soul Land) has been destroyed.

The group is finally all together again (except for Shadow), and they make plans for the coming nights. Sharpnel tells everybody about the Fallen Worlds and The Elder, and Tam quickly learns how to open a portal to Avalonia. With any luck, The Elder could open a portal for Mint so that she could return and assist them in defeating Indigo and the Council.

Fortunately, this can be done. The Elder creates a Portal similar to that found in the Cloud Spire, and Mint's Soul reclaims Purity's body. Faust greets her and asks why she kept her true identity a secret. Mint has no reason other than to hide from Indigo, whom Faust came into the Soul Land with.

With a new ally, the group leaves Frostsword for the final battle.