Chapter 6 – Are you not the Chronicler?

Juan and Jasmine readies themselves from the next move that the devil would do. Jasmine attentively watches the surroundings for any movements. Juan is reading his body for any attack that may come. And the tentacle of black mass starts to slither back from the devil's shadow.

The moon is blocked by the endless sea of clouds but a moonlight cracks the darken sky and shines upon the woods. The shadow of the trees starts to lengthen, the creatures of the night starts to growl in union and the silence of the wind is a song to the devil's due.

The devil's red eye starts to glow; he puts up an innocent smile and retracts his tentacles back to his shadow. This gave Juan the chills. He gets it; any sudden movements can lead to an early end.

"Please, let's be civil here? Aren't we all sentient creatures? I just wanted to talk to my . . . business partner, our dear Chronicler." The devils raspy voice was replaced by a sweet charming one. He sounds like a DJ that Jasmine listens to the radio.

The devil claps his hands; on cue, a round table with lit candle on top of it and three chairs appeared in front of them. White table cloth and chair of unique design; like a fine dining setup. The devil's aura changed from threatening to a welcoming one. He sits down to the chair nearest to him and asked the two to sit down as well.

"Well Juan, I am here not for your soul. The contract of the guardians is clear: we devils are not to harm the guardians in any possible way to get your soul early. I am here for a business meeting with our esteemed Chronicler."

Jasmine did what the devil asked; to sit at the table.

"Are you out of your mind? This is a devil! You might get dragged to his realm if you sit there.

"I am tired from our travels. We are tired. Can we just take a sit?"

"With the devil! Come on. If you want us to sit, I'll give us a sit"

Juan then imitates the clapping of the devil and two wooden chairs manifested underneath the earth. It is made from wood just like the chair of the devil, but this one looks rugged. Jasmine feels relaxed with the cushion of wool and foam on the chair she is sitting.

"Nah, this chair is comfy. That looks hard to sit on."

The devil laughs and the trickster pouts. Juan still won't trust the devil and sits on the chair he made. Juan got every right not to trust the devil but he feels the devil won't leave until it is heard. Juan is agitated from the devil's tricks while Jasmine is enjoying the show the devil is putting up.

"Now, we are all settled. I would like to conduct this business official started!" A fanfare of trumpets can be heard around them. Confetti and colorful materials are showered above their heads.

"Now, firstly we will discuss with the recent death of your guardians. There are three guardians who we collected their soul from the last cycle. They met an untimely death from the hands of the some vile creatures"

"Bastard! I know that you devils are behind this ruse! You killed them like how you are trying to kill me and the Chronicler."

Juan's temper is rising from the news. He becomes impulsive and less like the guardian Jasmine knew a while ago. Jasmine grabs Juan shoulder and asked him to not to anger the devil. Juan retorts and reminded her to keep her wits when speaking or dealing with the devil.

"Loki, please. The contract is clear about this. Any guardian's death accompanied by my action will lead to my death by the hands of those creatures from paradise. I mean why I would risk myself for their souls? I can wait until they die!"

The devil then snaps his fingers and a red glow of magic appears beside him. The red magic then forms a violin and then plays a sad tune.

"Such souls are meant to be kept not to be taken in a hurry. Just like you, Loki" the devil says it with such confidence towards Juan.

Jasmine then sees another figure is watching them from the shadow of the woods. A pair of eyes but not of a human, it's smaller. She feels like these eyes tired and are telling scout them.

"So let me proceed. I have claimed their souls as part of the ritual we made."

The devil then grabbed three contracts from suit. The devil then gave the contracts to Jasmine and Juan sees the name of the dead guardians: Aero of the Wind, Ura the apprentice of Asura, and Kaen the Fire Lord.

Juan looks at the contracts and saw the reason deaths. Aero was killed in his voyage by lighting from a king. Ura was killed in action while fighting with Asura and Kaen was consumed by Orochimaru.

Jasmine on the other hand sees a paper attached to the contract. Confused as ever, she decides to take one and read it. "The Ritual of Power"

She keeps hearing from the other guardians about this ritual. How they took part of this just to stop the Aswang Swarm, how painful it was to talk the consequences of being a guardian and how powerful they can be. She might be in the presence of evil but she wasn't bother by it. Her curiosity leads her on reading the contents:

The Ritual of Power

To who wishes power, we shall give you what you seek

A chance to grow, your magic will be at the peak

But beware! This comes at a price

If you are ready, don't think twice

Your Soul is to be taken by the darkness

Your Actions be guided by the harmless

Your Heart is to be led by the one

This ritual is made by the Chronicler. If you are desperate to escape your fate, join me and I shall set you free. You will be reborn and made anew. A Nephilim, a creation of two worlds. My Guardian.

Instructions:

To have this power, you are required to bathe in the ashes of beings from paradise and underworld. As you breathe in the ashes, do not fight the visions you see. Let the darkness take you to your deepest fear for you must be brave to weather the storm alone. Let the light show you the way to salvation for they will guide you to glory.

Once the visions are over, hold a lotus flower and pledge your loyalty to the White Chronicle.

If done successfully, two representatives will approach you.

The immaculate one will bless you with protection and shall provide a new body for your mind to take.

The fouled one will need you sign a contract; it will guarantee your soul to theirs but doing so will give you power that you desire.

Once done, you are now a guardian! Your loyalty to the Chronicler is absolute.

Rules:

Any guardian's death accompanied by the action of the foul creature will lead to their destruction.

Any guardian's soul that is promised to the foul one will remain with them.

No immaculate one will get the souls from the foul one.

No immaculate one will bargain for the souls from the foul one, even if that soul is worthy to enter paradise. Doing so will lead to their destruction.

Jasmine widens her eyes. She hurries to put the paper with the contract. She is surprised to know this new information: to be a guardian, the soul of the participant is taken by the devil. Giving them power in return and the angels will protect them from the devil's trickery.

The angels will give them a new body? So these are their real body? Jasmine thinks to herself.

Still in shock she looks at Juan. "Juan, that's not your real body? Are you even Juan?" Jasmine asks as she pokes the arm of Juan.

"Ah yes, I forgot that you are the new to this. To answer that, this is not my real body. My real body is still being taken cared by my wife at my father's place."

Juan is a bit shaken about talking about his family again. He rubs his shoulder and hold on to his chest.

"I might be called Loki from where I came from, but you may call me Juan. That's what you call me right?" as Juan says it, Jasmine holds his hand tight. "I trust you Juan" she replies.

The devil retakes the papers back. His grin is back. Juan feels that the devil heard something that he wanted to hear.

"Well, the second discussion and real issue why I am here is because I heard a gossip. That the Chronicler is new." The devil's voice resumes its raspy growl. His grin is showing. He is excited as he speaks.

He shakes as trying not to smile even bigger than before. The aura becomes grim and dark again. The welcoming emotion is gone. The devil then begins to giggle uncontrollably.

Jasmine feels unease again. Juan feels this presence and then pulls Jasmine off the chair to his side. "See I told you the devil aint to be trusted!"

The devil then burst into a loud laughter and began to slam his fists to the table. Each slam of his fist made the candle to scatter its hot wax all over the white cloth on the table.

The sad tune that the magic violin is making now turns fast. Its pace increases as the devil's laughing. The violin goes faster and faster. It began to make this horrible fiddle like in a horror movie.

Jasmine then sees the eyes she saw earlier to multiple. More eyes began to emerge from the bush and behind tall grass. More and more eyes began to appear. Yellow eyes that now speak a certain language that Jasmine understands – it hungers.

Jasmine then quickly points out to Juan the eyes sounding them. Juan nods and asked Jasmine to hold him tight as possible.

The devil then stopped laughing but the violin still plays a horrible sound. His grind grows larger as it reaches his ears; it stretches far as an ordinary mouth can do. This is the grin is the embodiment of unsettling and death as Jasmine and Juan feels cold to their feet.

"I am sorry about that outburst. OH BOY! With that look on your face says it all! You are new!" the devil shouts as the tentacles from his shadow emerged again.

The devil then pulls out another contact. The devil points out this are one of his most important contracts ever. They see the contract and it looks like a normal but at a second look, they see the magic swirling around it.

The devil then unfolds it and held it up in the air. "This is a contract made by The Chronicler to me. In exchange for her soul, I will tell her how to make a Nephilim. The contracts states: The devil cannot take the soul of the Chronicler until the Chronicler is not the owner of the White Chronicle anymore."

Jasmine felt those words as sharp as a knife to her heart. Was this all planned by the previous Chronicler? Was she dragged to this realm as an escape goat from the previous Chronicler?

"So the previous owner is gone. I cannot sense her soul anymore in this world ….and technically you are just a girl with The White Chronicler as its owner. The moniker was given to you as you can use the book; you are not THE CHRONICLER who signed this paper!"

"Ah ah ah!" Juan then raises his finger to the devil. "I can read it from here. If you didn't follow the rules, it will cost you your life. She is the Chronicler. She can use the book as the last one."

Jasmine stands her ground. She nods and she replies "I can read the book. And I can use it as the owner."

The devil laughs again. The tentacles grew in numbers as the violin then violently play its horrible tune. "Then where are the angels? Where are the ones to protect you this contract? They know my intention here is to kill you, Chronicler. They cannot stop me. The contract dictates is clearly: until Chronicler is not the owner of the White Chronicle anymore"

The devil then snaps his finger and the chair and table as disappeared. His voice turns sharp "Poor choice of words, nasty job that previous Chronicler did. And as per the contract, the soul of the Chronicler is mine to collect for this child is not the owner of The White Chronicler."

The shadow casted by the trees lengthens as more moonlight shines down upon the woods. Jasmine now sees the eyes are sounding them grew tenfold. And the eyes that Jasmine sees, she finally see the figures casting it, a large pack of wolves.

Juan and Jasmine slowly backs up as the devil and the wolves are betting closer and closer.

"But I am! I am the owner of it. Only I can understand its writing. I am Chronicler!" Jasmine shouts as she tries to reason with the devil. But the tentacles slow rattles towards them.

"Then why did you keep on repeating you were not the Chronicler! From the time you fell from The Balete Tree, from the time you talked to your friend Leshin and up to the time you were at the underworld. You were dubbed as the Chronicler because you can read a damn book with its strange language? It doesn't make you the Chronicler."

Jasmine hurts from those words. She thought she can escape this world masquerading as the Chronicler. Using its name sake to get out quickly and solve the problem of this world with the power of the book. She didn't know it will bring such danger to her.

Jasmine lost her footing and collapse on her own weight. Jasmine stumbles and unable to walk.

"Chronicler, stand up! Come on, we can escape this!" Juan then taps his shoulder again. Signaling to Jasmine that Juan will use the hourglass to stop time and escape from the devil.

Her mind went black. Pure terror now fills her body. She is pale as a ghost and the devil is red with glee in his cheeks. The devil knows his words hit Jasmine deep. The devil knows what Jasmine was planning and used that against her.

"Argh! Damn it kid wake up!" Juan then uses his magic and taps the hourglass within his clothes. As the devil lunge forward, time stops at the right moment. The tentacle almost hits Jasmine and Juan manages to stop it from piercing her eyes.

Juan then gets his frog from Jasmine's shoulder. He used his magic on it and transform into a large frog that can carry Jasmine on its back. "Hold on girl! Don't lose hope! We will make it!"

The frog and Juan passed by the devil. The drool of the wolves and their wagging were also stop in motion. Juan is confident this plan will work. He knows it will work. It is all just a matter of timing.

From the corner of his eyes, a black sharp edge tentacle flies pass all of the trees and wolves and mange to hit Juan's hour glass. Juan was caught by surprise but managed to dodge it at the last minute; the black tentacle missed his heart and only cutting him deep enough to make him yell in pain.

As the hourglass shatters, time resumes normally. Jasmine's fear was shaken off by the cries of pain by Juan.

"Juan?! No! Please. . . don't . . " she looks over Juan as he is crawling on his belly. Blood pours out from his chest. This is the first Jasmine sees blood in front of her. She panics as she tries to stop the blood.

"Juan! Please stop your games. Get up. . . we need to escape" then as Jasmine is tending to Juan the frog then leaps in between them and the devil and his wolves.

"You know, Djinn magic items are kinda similar with devil's magic. We are mischievous spirits, so I know how to use time manipulation magic."

The devil then approaches as he sits in his throne made from his tentacles. The devil snaps his fingers and three wolves charge toward Jasmine and Juan. The large frog then opens its mouth and uses its tongue to grab the nearest wolf and uses it as a battering ram against the other charging wolves.

The wolves were slammed and push away as the frog is trying its best to defend Juan and Jasmine. Then the other wolves circle the frog and attack him simultaneously.

The wolves that were slammed gets back up. Rage fills their head and hunger fuel their motivation; they attack the frog with such ferocity that Jasmine can hear loud panting of the wolves as they attack. The frog fight like there is no tomorrow but fighting is a large pack of wolves will initially tire out the frog. And as expected the frog grew tired and the wolves overwhelmed it. As the wolves group together and start to bite and gnaw on the large frog. Later a large green smoke emerged from the frog. The large frog is defeated and returned to its original size.

The devil claps in amusement. "Is this the best Loki can do? You may calm down girl. I didn't kill him but he is in a world of pain." The devil leans in and his hands kept stretching his face to grow and grow. It is comical in nature but Jasmine is sure he is just doing it to torture her further.

"So no contract was violated. A mere flesh wound or broken bones will not kill him. I just merely disable him. And now . . . to the main event of the night!"

The tentacles wiggles and prepares as it sharpen its end. More of the tentacles emerge from the devil's shadow. "Don't worry. The tentacles will just get your soul; the wolves will eat your body. That's what they are here for."

Jasmine closes her eyes as she tries to defend the body of Juan. "Please Juan wake up! I need you! Hel will be angry if you die now and you won't see your other children. Wake up!"

No matter how loud she pleads no response from the bleeding guardian. The devil laughs as he cherish the last moments of his victims before they die.

Then as she hugs the body of Juan she heard a voice from Juan, mumbling something. She leans a bit and she hears "Escape was plan B. This is Plan A."

The tentacles then lunges toward Jasmine then a spear manage to hit all of them. The wolves then attacks Jasmine but a large sonic wave blasts them out of the way. Jasmine opens her eyes and she looks around her on what just happened.

"WHAT?! How did you know we were here?" The devil then turns bright red with anger. The tentacles wiggle as it prepares another set of attack.

A familiar face, Leshin ran toward Jasmine and Juan's side. He reached out with his hand then the earth spit the spear back to his hands.

"Foul creature! The heavens will know your treachery. They will have your head!"

The devil then points his finger upwards. "No angels will save you right now. She violates the contract we had." The devil then delivers a series of tentacles attack toward Leshin. But a volley of fireball hits the tentacles and burned them away.

Tala flies beside Leshin and within a blink of an eye Kislap and Kulog is right in front of Jasmine.

"Thank Juan. He told us he smelled you from a mile away, that's why took and hid the Chronicler" Tala said with her sassy voice.

"He cannot kill us but we can kill him! He knows it, killing us can violate the contract" Kislap shouts as he withdraws his stick from his satchel and turned into a metallic rod.

Kulog then grab a stick from her satchel and turned into a similar looking metallic rod like his brother. "Abuse that rule attack the devil until we kill him"

"True, I cannot a guardian but I can hurt you really bad." The devil then leaps from the throne made from his tentacles and points at the four guardians standing in his way. "Move aside. I need my due."

The throne then deforms itself into hundreds of black tentacles. Each end then form into a weapon: sword, sickle, spear, axe and other weapons that can kill a man.

It then charges toward the four guardians but none them seems bothered by the huge blob of tentacles. None of them seem to flinch or move. Nearly reaching them two figure leaps from behind Jasmine and landed in front of the four guardians.

Gil and Atlas punch the massive blob. The blow was so strong that all of the tentacles evaporated into dust. The punch was powerful enough to sever all the tentacles from the devil's shadow into nothingness.

"We will finish this first Atlas, then we will talk how you manage to punch that strong" the proud Gil cannot accept a land dweller matches his physique.

"Not to brag but I am the definition of power" Atlas then flexed his muscles. Atlas then looked at the devil and he points at him. "As a spawn of Olympus and Tartarus, we can kill you. Our holy and demonic bond can effectively delete you from existence. Are you sure you don't want retreat?"

The threat pissed the devil to his boiling point. He then stretches his hands then magic pours out from it. All of the wolves that was defeated started to transform into hideous creatures.

"Power? This is power!" the devil shouts as he channels his magic. The other guardian encircles Jasmine and Juan.

The wolves grew large and their body pulsating with red magic. Larger than a man and fiercer than a hungry wolf, these wolves are being imbued with huge boost of physical prowess.

"Your bodies will be torn to shred. Then we will tore your limbs and leave you as a guardian that cannot protect their precious Chronicler." The devil shouts as he finishes casting his magic.

The wolves got fangs that can bite a human arm clean. Their bodies are large as a car and their limbs are muscular.

"Kill the girl and tear the arms of the guardians!" the devils shouts as the wolves began to sprint toward them.

Leshin then cast a magic that created a large wall of mud slowing the wolves charge towards them. Tala supports Leshin as she uses her magic wand and cast large explosions of light that bombards the wolves that were trying to run around the wall of mud.

Kislap run towards the wolves and starts to beat them with his rod. Each wolf he passed he hits them in their limbs to prevent them running and to their teeth to shatter them. Kulog slams her rod and another large sonic wave blasts the incoming wolves to her direction. She then notices one wolf nearing to bite her brother's leg.

She shouts and a sonic boom emits from her mouth and caused wolf to be blown away before biting on her brother. "You're welcome!" she shouts to his brother busy fighting his way towards the group of wolves.

"Gil! We need you to wash the wolves away. Use your water like you did to stop me back at the inn!" Atlas shouts as he punches the wolves infront of them.

"I can't. There is no water around us! I need a water source to manipulate." Gils reply as he wrestles one wolf to the ground.

Atlas started punches his fist to the ground and started to dig. "Protect me for a while Gil! I will give you water"

Gil then takes on 5 wolves. Punching one wolf on his left then he subdues the other with a kick. The other three manage to bite his right arm and left leg. He tries to fight them off but another wolf manages to bite on his left arm. As he struggles to free from himself, the harder the wolves bite on his flesh and tries to tear his flesh off.

Then Atlast grab the head of the wolf from his right arm and squash it. "Gil, the water underneath the earth is ready for you to use."

Gil was amaze that Atlas manages to dig a deep hole and find water for him to use in such a short span of time. "So a well? How did you know there is groundwater here?" Gil asked as he punches the uses his right arm to summon the water from hole to his side.

"I am the earth. I know where the waters are!" Atlas responds as he grabs the wolf from Gil's left arm and squeezes it. Gil then summoned the water and manage to trap the wolf from his leg to the side. He then uses more of his magic to get more ground water and summon a torrent of waves to the wolves.

As the wolves as wash away, Atlas then knees to the ground with his fist on the earth. After muttering some magic, he then stands up and his body began to glow in a yellow hue. His body emanates a glow and hot wind.

"Come at me!" Atlas yells as he rampages toward the wolves. Ripping and tearing them with his bare hands. The wolves manage to bite his knees or arm but Atlas does give a care to it. No wound or scratches are made from any attacks he received. His magic gave made his skin hard as stone.

The devil sees this opportunity to strike while every guardian is distracted. He retreats to the shadow and transform himself into a small snake. He dodges the paws of the wolves and the magic of the guardians. As he nears the body of Juan and Jasmine, he sees the girl is distracted to by the actions she is seeing.

The devils readies to strike. He crawls up the body of Juan and nears the hand of the girl. The devil then unleashed his fangs and strikes the girl!

His fangs are an inch away from reaching the skin but he was yanked out of there and was flung towards a tree. As the devil recovers from the attack, he looks at Jasmine to see what throw him off. He sees Juan giving him the finger.

"I ain't dead yet you son of a bitch!" Juan gets up and he covers his wound with his arm. Jasmine hugs Juan and helps him to get up on his feet.

The devil then transform back to his form and this time sees the wolves are losing. Then he realized that they were right; Nephilims are a pain to deal with. Even if he uses his magic, now amount of tentacles can kill them or summoning of large wolves can slow them. He realized that the only way he can win is to unleash his power to the max, subdue the guardians and kill the girl.

The devil then starts to transform. An ominous feeling overcame everyone in the area. The wolves then ran away with tail between their feet. The guardians realized that the true fight is about to happened.

The devil summons a dark cloud above him and strikes him with lighting of red. The devil grew wings on his back, his figure starts to grow, his tail to grow longer and his eyes sharpen like a cat���s eye. His of grin was turned to a face of anger. He is large now as the Great Balate Tree.

The guardian realized that the devil is forming into to a hideous form. Leshin summon huge vines to stop the devil's shadow envelops him and shelters him from attacks.

The plant dies immediate as it touches the shadow. Tala cast a concentrated blast but it didn't make a dent. Atlas still full of rage then runs towards the devil to punch him but he bounce off the shadow like a ball.

Gil then summons another wave of water to wash the devil away but the water was not enough to remove the shadow. Kislap then ran back to the team and said "I tried slamming my rod but it didn't work. No matter how many times I hit him, the shadow won't budge! We need more power!".

Kulog takes a deep breath and shouts at the top of her lungs. The sonic wave was so loud that the other teammates were covering their ears. Kislap then taps others on their shoulder and points out that the the shadow was being blown away by his sister's act.

Kulog this keeps up from shouting to blast away the shadow. Leshin and Atlas then paired up to make collection sharp rocks. Kislap then took the sharp rocks and threw into the shadow but again not a dent. Atlas then claps his two hands and the rocks exploded and the shadow starts to retreat.

"Sulfur with some heat makes them go explode Kislap. Me and Atlas will produce more. Keep throwing!" Leshin instructs Kislap.

Gil then prepares for another water attack when Tala uses her magic to insert some star shape items inside the water. Tala winks at Gil to signal him to attack.

As wave of water attacks the shadow, there were explosions from the star shape items from Tala. Gil is confused and looked at Tala for answers; his water never did that before.

"Stole it from Leshin and Atlas'. I don't know how but their attacks seems to work" Tala replies.

Jasmine observes the fight. She realized that the shadow is moving not because the attacks it's because it is sound based attacks. Jasmine yells and instructs everyone that shadow protecting the devil is affected by loud noises.

"Not a problem!" they hear a voice from above. As they look up Amihan is there on the air sailing her ship. The ship is full her crew, wind elf like her. She turns the wheel and the ship then turns sideways and exposing their cannons.

"Fire the cannons!" she yells. As the cannonballs hurl in the sky Tala flies up and the add sulfur to them. As the cannonballs reached the shadow, Tala ignites them with her fire spell and it explodes to pieces.

The noises are immense and the shadow can't protect the devil any longer. As the shadow retreats, they saw now the devil big and monstrous. Cat eyes flaming hot, large wings of black, hooves for his feet and twisted horn on his head. The true definition of a devil.

"Arhg! Curse you guardians! I am not at my fullest transformation yet!" the devil yells as he prepares to attack. The devil then materialized a large sword on his hand and started to swing on the forest underneath him.

The guardians manage to evade it but it destroyed the tree to the underworld. Kislap manage to save Juan and Jasmine.

"Jasmine, I know you are new to the Chronicler thing but we need your help. This is the first time we will face a devil and not only that he grew large. We need to defeat him or your soul is his. Please help us" Juan pleads to Jasmine as he tries to get up.

Jasmine is under pressure. She doesn't know what to do or how to kill this devil. She grabs the White Chronicle and searches for any clue how to defeat a devil. As she skim and read the devil section, none of it gave any clue to kill or defeat one.

As she was preoccupied, she didn't know the devil slam the sword on her area and was moved again by Kislap. Juan then sees Jasmine in a panic. He then puts his hand on her and he said

"Calm down kid. This is why The White Chronicle won't accept you as its owner. You're using it as a book; as a tool to record and find the answers you seek. "

Jasmine ignores Juan as she tries to find an answer fast. She reads the page about the devil powers but it is incomplete. She searches for a physical weakness but none. She is starting to sweat profusely as she hurries to find the answer.

"Are you not the Chronicler?" Juan asked Jasmine. "Do you want to get home? Or do you want to die here?" Juan looks as Jasmine as he tries to calm her.

"You are the Chronicler. You are to safe guard this world. The book called you for a reason . . . use it to help us and we will do our best to get you home." Juan grabs something and put it on her hand – the frog that protect them a while back.

"He died protecting us. I will die to protect you, Jasmine." He closes Jasmine hand to let her fell the frog's body.

"My responsibility is my family. I want to see them too. But my duty is to see your mission to the end. Give me the Chronicler and not as a kid who just have the book for a reason." Juan stands up and grabs his knife.

"So, Chronicler, point us the direct on how we will save the world and kill this bastard."

Yes, he is right. Juan is right. I will be the Chronicler. I will be the one to save this world. I will get home and save this world. I need to grow up. I will be better!

"Thanks Juan. I need that. Give me a second to find a way to kill him" Jasmine smiles to Juan. Juan smiles back and Kislap on the other hand got a face of confusion.

"She is a new Chronicler? WHAT?!" Kislap was taken by this sudden revelation.

The guardians and the devil are still fighting out in the background but Jasmine steadies her mind on the book. The book got her full attention now. Jasmine filled with determination, reads the segment about the devil.

As she reads, her eyes widen. She found one thing that she can do to defeat the devil.

"HEY! Devil! I hear you. You want my soul right? I will gladly surrender it!" Jasmine yells.

All of the guardians and the devil stopped. All was taken back from what she said.

"Woah! I told you to find a way to kill him, not a way to die!" Juan yells.

The devil stops and laughs while other guardians then gather around her and asked what madness she is doing. Jasmine asked the other guardians to trust her on this and don't ask any question and they must follow her instructions at all times.

The guardians agree and Jasmine walks toward the devil.

The devil laughed so hard that he reverted back to his smaller form with a suit on. The moment he stopped laughing he got tears down his cheek.

"You mean to tell me, you want to die right now? You made me attack you with wolves and wait out a lot of time before you accepted your fate."

"Yeah I know. As the deal said, you can take my soul but I would like to make another proposition. An offer you cannot refuse"

Jasmine says with great confidence. The other guardian gather around her expecting her next instructions.

The devil's brow raised on his left eye. "OH? Do tell me . . . this business deal."

"I will wager my soul in a game. If I lose, you take my soul and these eight guardians with me here. If I win, I keep my soul and negate the contract about getting my made soul."

The guardians were shocked and were demanding for an answer from this outrageous demand.

"You don't deal with the devil! But you did and he cheats his way up here" Juan yells!

"We've bleed for you but you want us to die thru a game? I was expecting to die on a battle field" Atlas replies

"The devil cheats all the time! He will get your soul and ours! Please don't!" Amihan says as she rappels down from her ship.

Jasmine then asked everybody to stop bickering and asked them to trust her.

The devil laughs and grin is back on his face. He reaches out for a handshake. "I accept the terms. Do we have a deal?"

Jasmine shakes the devil's hand in return. Then a contract physically manifested from thin air and wrote the agreement on paper.

"So, what kind of game would you like to play? Riddles, card game? That's where I'm good at" Jasmine asked the devil.

"Well then, let the games begin! To the arena!" the devil yells as his shadow take over the area. Then swallow everyone in a sea of darkness and leaving only the moonlight on a lonely forest full of dead wolves.