Do Me A Wrong

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She wound her arm with Ichigo's to dissuade any encouragement of human courting. She was pleased when Ichigo seemed to understand the situation quick enough as he did not raise any questions. Instead, Ichigo fixed the man with a dark glare that sent him scurrying. Grayfia smiled to herself. Perhaps Ichigo didn't need too much work after all. He was a thousand times better than the rest of Sirzechs's peerage based on that small display alone.

Those idiots would have allowed, if not openly encouraged, a man to approach her if only for the entertainment value it would have provided them. Of course, she would have proceeded to thrash all of them including the fool who dared to make a move on her.

"Hey, Nee-san?"

"Yes, Ichigo-kun?" She turned to look up at him, his face still fixed in a shadowed scowl, scaring away both human males and females. She idly wondered if he knew what kind of effect he had on young women.

"Shouldn't we, I don't know, talk to Duke Sallos before we go walking around in his territory?" He asked.

"I am glad to see you thinking along those lines," Grayfia dipped her head in approval. "It is considered incredibly rude to simply flaunt into another's territory without asking permission. However, as it is, it was the Duke himself who requested aid in dealing with the necromancer and I have already spoken with him prior to our arrival."

"Oh."

As they continued to walk at a casual pace towards the necromancer's last known location, Grayfia noticed that Ichigo had suddenly become on edge. "Is everything alright, Ichigo-kun?"

"There's…a feeling in the air." His face twisted in concentration. "Like there's a sense of decay waving around."

Grayfia looked at him in surprise. "I'm impressed, Ichigo-kun. It seems your ability to sense auras has come along quite nicely."

"You mean you feel it too?" He asked in befuddlement.

"As you must have noticed, the sun is set." She pointed out.

"Yeah, so?"

"Paris," she switched into lecturing mode. "Is host to the largest population of Vampires outside of Romania. In the hours of dusk, they awaken. It is them, which you are sensing."

"Vampires?" Ichigo muttered in awe.

"Indeed," Grayfia said. "The catacombs that run beneath the city are filled with the Undead and their ilk. Paris, unfortunately, has always suffered from an infestation of necromancers for this very reason."

"So you're telling me I'm going to be making frequent trips here?" Ichigo asked.

"Not necessarily no," She shook her head. "Few necromancers possess the skill and power needed to reach into the bowels of Hell. Most of today's necromancers can reanimate a corpse at best. To actually bring the soul back requires an in depth knowledge of esoteric magic that takes centuries to accumulate."

Ichigo blinked. "Centuries? As in hundreds of years? I thought you said this guy was human. How did he manage to bring back Sinners if it requires that much time to get to that level?"

Grayfia sighed. "Ultimately, the goal of necromancy, for most anyways, is immortality. Sadly, many human necromancers turn themselves into the Undead as to keep themselves from dying."

A look of revulsion crossed Ichigo's face and upon catching it, Grayfia nodded her head in agreement. "Yes, it's a very disgusting practice. Turn left here."

Grayfia led Ichigo by the arm to the side of an old cobblestone building. Letting go of his arm, Grayfia placed her palm on the stone wall and sent a pulse of magic. The spot beneath her hand glowed a light blue before the stones seemed to fold in on themselves, revealing a long staircase that descended into the underground quarries of Paris.

The staircase was wide enough for the two devils to step downwards simultaneously. After the first few steps, the entrance closed behind them, leaving them in a perpetual abyss. Even their enhanced supernatural vision failing in the complete absence of light. "Hang on," Grayfia heard Ichigo's voice echo from beside her.

Suddenly, the staircase was illuminated in a dark orange glow as Ichigo held up a single fingertip encased in hellfire. Grayfia noted that, even though it was barely the size of a candle flame, Ichigo's conjured fire brought the temperature up by several degrees. Almost to the point of uncomfortableness. She gained a whole new appreciation for the horrors of hellfire as she swept a thin layer of ice-magic over her skin to keep herself cool.

It took them quite some time to descend all the way to the bottom of the staircase. She estimated that they were at least a hundred meters underground. As soon as they reached the bottom though, the chamber that the staircase led to, was engulfed in a fiery light as torches burst into flame. "Guess my finger isn't needed anymore," Ichigo commented indolently from aside her.

The brief bout of hellfire was put out and both Grayfia and Ichigo took in the sight of large cavernous walls lined with bones and human skulls. "There," Grayfia pointed out a passage underneath an arch of bones.

As Ichigo moved forward, Grayfia put a delicate touch on his shoulder. "A moment, Ichigo-kun."

He frowned at her and asked. "What is it?"

She looked ahead of him and said, "I want you to reach out with your magic to just a few feet to the front of us."

His frowned deepened but she knew he acquiesced when she felt the thrum of his demonic magic wash over her. "Carefully," she chided. "Do not push your magic so forcibly; ease it to where you desire it."

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