Aie had never seen a single spirit that could even attempt to communicate before they were bonded with soone. However, this spirit was not just able to talk but was also highly wise from what she could see.
Hell, the spirit had even nad itself despite no one being around to influence its thought. Was it that advanced? If that was the case would it also be stronger?
Aie felt like she finally saw a silver lining behind this cloud of darkness that had been covering this land for the last 2 years.
"Saphandra, please help us. We are dying. The demons are killing us," Aie spoke. "Please, bond with so I can go save the humans."
Saphandra flew around, quietly contemplating the offer.
"What do I get from it, little blue-haired lady?" Saphandra asked.
"Wh-what do you want? I can give you anything I have," Aie said. She didn't have ti to argue about what the spirit could ask for or take from her. Her friends and family were dying, and she needed to quickly go save them.
"…anything?" Saphandra asked.
"Anything," Aie said. "You want all the energy I collect. You can have it. I will give it to you for as long as you bond with ."
"Hmm… that's not a bad condition, but you said I could have anything I want, right? I want sothing else," Saphandra said.
"Wh-what is it?" Aie asked. Even though she was ready to give away anything, she was still a little hesitant.
"Give your body," Saphandra said.
"My… body? What do you want my body for?" Aie asked.
"I will take over your body, in exchange for whatever it is that you need to do," Saphandra said.
"You really want my body?" Aie asked. "Forever?"
"No, not forever," Saphandra said. "How about I return it to you after I defeat the demons?"
Aie's eyes went wide when she heard that. "You are sure you can defeat them?" she asked.
"I have been here since before humans were but monkeys, fighting each other to get the sweetest fruit on the tree. Trust , I am capable of defeating the demons," Saphandra said.
Aie tried to think for a mont, but she didn't have ti to do that at all.
"Ok," she said. "But what happens to ?"
"You? Hmm… why don't you take over my body in the anwhile?" Saphandra asked.
"O-okay, I agree to everything," Aie said without hesitation.
"I agree as well, little girl," Saphandra said. A summoning circle appeared between both of them, and suddenly their bodies were swapped.
The blue hair that was on Aie turned to violet, and Saphandra opened her eyes.
"I… am a spirit?" Aie spoke from her now spirit body. She admired it for a second before realizing that she had wasted quite a lot of ti already. "Please, hurry."
"Okay," Saphandra said. "So, I… hmm? I don't have any spiritual energy?"
Saphandra was confused. She couldn't feel anything. She tried absorbing it from the air, but nothing remained in her body.
"What's going on?" she looked confused for a second before realizing that all the spiritual energy she was gathering was going into her spirit body which Aie had taken over.
"What's going…"
"Please, hurry. Save my people," Aie shouted.
"Ah, yes. Let's go," Saphandra jumped from the mountain and flew through the sky at such a speed that she broke the barrier of sound multiple tis.
Her human body could barely survive that sort of speed, but Saphandra pushed away any things that would cause resistance against her body.
She slowed down and gently floated down onto the battlefield… only to realize that she was too late.
Everyone on the battlefield was dead.
"Ugh! My head," Aie shook her spirit head as it got a little wobbly. She looked through it, but her head was getting groggy.
She was barely able to register the massacre that was around them.
"No…" she spoke. "My sister. My sister is… my sister is in… where's my sister?"
"In the city," Saphandra said. For so reason, she could see the mories left behind by Aie. "Co, Little blue. Let's check out the city."
She once again sent herself flying through the air to arrive at the city, only to find another massacre once again. Everyone in the city was dead.
Saphandra went around searching, and near the staircase of a house, found the body of a young girl with wide eyes and half her body missing.
"Blue, don't look," Saphandra turned to stop Aie from not looking at the image, however, she only then realized that there was sothing wrong with her.
"Little blue?" she called, and the spirit turned and gave a quizzing look.
A horrified expression fell on Saphandra's face when she realized what was happening. Because she was using Aie's spiritual energy instead of her own, the spirit was slowly regressing ntally as more and more spiritual energy was drained away.
Soon, she would stop being able to think. Fortunately, they had made a pact where the spirit would gain the energy that the human absorbed.
'I can keep her alive,' Saphandra thought. 'But barely.'
If she wanted to help her improve her consciousness, Saphandra would have to collect a lot of spiritual energy at once.
From Aie's mories, pearls seed to be a good way, but more than that, just jumping into the ocean should have been enough to gain back so consciousness.
Saphandra stopped thinking about that for the mont and went on to search for survivors, or even just the demons so that she could kill.
However, there was no one alive in the entire world anymore. The humans were dead, and the demons had left.
She had failed at her words to defeat all the demons and save the humans.
Then, a curious look appeared on her face. 'Does that an I don't have to give back the body just yet?' she thought.
Greed took over her, as well as the fascination she had for human life. As such, she decided to 'keep her words.'
"I'm sorry, Little blue. But I wish to remain human just a bit longer."
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