The Nexus

A loud whooosh would echo around the courtyard of the large estate in Riverfront. Hex would be holding tightly onto Cass as they popped in. Hex was pretty good at teleportation, but since this was Cass's first time there was a good chance the porting would make him sick and dizzy for a short moment. Hex looked him over though "You ok?" to make sure, before he was dropping his bags down and checking him over. Cass might have gotten lucky though, and be one of the rare people it didn't make sick.

His blue eyes would flick around the grounds for a moment...the house was so large it felt almost like it was more a dream than anything anyone actually lived in.

Cassiel felt like he might throw up, and he sunk to the ground. "Ughh..." His head was spinning and he felt pretty queasy. "Next time, let's take a car..." He needed to sit and gather himself a minute, and he put his head between his legs.

"House is pretty big...I'll give you a tour in a minute..." He didn't look so great, but then he never did well when he was at his house.

Hex stroked Cassiel's back while he recouped, his eyes scanned around he area for another minute and he squatted down beside him. "The car, yeah sure." Teleporting was a million times quicker but, it took a long time to get used to it.

He kinda smiled lopsided at the tour of the house. "Well before we go in, you're gonna have to strip." He let that hang in the air for moment before he followed up with. "I gotta put a protection spell on you, cause when we clean the ghost/demon whatever it is, it can get ugly and I don't want you just not having anything on you, but I gotta draw the symbols on your skin... all over you." It was the pervest choice sure, but also very strong protection spell. "You can give me a tour in ya underwear."

Cassiel could deal with getting there slower if it meant his stomach wasn't trying to come out his ears when they got to their destination. The stripping comment made him look up at Hex, "Are you...serious?" He seemed suspicious, "Or are you just trying to get me naked?" He nudged Hex, at least he was grinning again--proof that he was feeling better.

Hex smiled wickedly "Uh duh..." he laughed, throwing his bag over his shoulder. He leaned back to look the house. He ran his fingers through his hair, letting his eyes flick back to his man. "It's actually the best spell, I'm not gonna put some shitty protection on you. But the being naked is a plus." He winked, glad that Cass was feeling himself again. "Ok let's uh.. get behind the bushes and I'll get the charms on you, then we can go work on the castle." from now on he was calling Cass's place the castle, he had decided.

"Now you want me naked? Make up your mind." He didn't need to go behind bushes, he just started stripping down to his underthings. "Is this going to...hurt? Are you going to draw it on in blood or something?" He had no idea how magic worked! The most he had seen was Hex doing 'magic tricks' for him as entertainment.

"The castle? It's really not that big..." He looked over his house and then back to Hex, "It really looks like a castle to you?"

Hex looked at him and shook his head "No it won't hurt, and no I'm using a special ink to draw them on you." He opened his bag and pulled out a bottle of ink... he waved for his book and it levitated out of his bag, flipping pages by itself. Hex stepped up close once his was stripped and ready, dabbing his finger into the ink bottle and glancing at the book while he drew symbols over him. "I mean some spells use blood but this is, white magic. I think witches just like making people get naked if I am honest. cause there are loads of spells that want you to draw symbols on the body."

"It's not that big huh." Hex laughed "Nah I'm just joking, It's a huge house though rather you think it is or not." He was going a little slower than he probably needed to with the symbols, but Hex wasn't passing up a chance to have his hands all over Cass.

"What's in the ink?" He was at least taking an interest in what was happening, and he watched as Hex made the book levitate and the pages flip. "Are you a white witch then? Are you even a witch?" Cass had never really thought about it before. "Or is there some kind of boy name?"

Cass was getting goosebumps from Hex touching him all over like that, and he was trying to think about anything he could to distract himself from it--he didn't want to go fight a demon with a tent in his pants. "Well...if we can get rid of whatever is in there...you can have your pick of whatever rooms you want."

"I dunno, stuff..." He smiled "Things." He was just teasing though "Uh like, it's some sorta flower, they enchant it before it goes through it's process." He raised his brows up when he came to Cass's face and drew tiny symbols on his forehead and cheekbones. "No I'm not a white witch, I'm alright with protection spells but healng and shit and I have to try pretty hard at it... I'm more of a renaissance man. I dabble in most things. But like a lot of us are born with a natural ability, mine is destruction magic, fire and heat and explosions and shit." He shook his head "Nah we're all called witches, now anyway. Dudes liked being called wizards back in da day." He was giving him a history of magic lesson right here. "But now eh everybody just goes with witch."

Hex didn't want to toy with him too much either, there were things they had to do, once the house was cleared he might take his chances. "Whatever rooms I want, awesome." He wasn't going to turn it down, he needed a library for all his books, just because it looked cool, at the moment they were all stored in an enchanted chest. He worked more on the symbols, they wouldn't feel like anything special right now.

"A flower...huh." Cass tilted his head, "Uh...don't blow my house up." He looked legitimately worried! He listened to the explanation of the witches and wizards thing, "I'm not calling you a wizard...that sounds ridiculous."

He wrinkled his nose up when Hex painted his face with the ink, "Are you going to paint all this stuff on yourself?"

"I won't blow ya house up, scouts honor" He put his hand over his heart, leaving black finger tips on his tank. "Yeah it's pretty silly sounding, I think that's why we dropped wizard as a title."

"No" He answered. "I'm going bareback for this one baby." He stepped back to look Cass over. "It's to keep you safe, I'm doing the cleansing so I can only have very basic protections or else cleaning out ya place might not work." He grabbed his book and spoke out his words for the protection spell, Cass's symbols drawn all over him would glow brightly before fading into his skin. glowling dimly beneath the surface.

Cass grinned and pulled Hex closer by the hips, "Maybe you and me could go bareback later." He gave Hex a quick kiss, and let him go so he could finish the protection spell. Cassiel held up his arms afterwards and looked at the symbols glowing under his skin. "This is so trippy..." He looked back at Hex, "So...now we go in?" He was starting to feel a little nervous, he didn't want anything bad to happen to his boyfriend.

Hex laughed and settling his hands on Cass's hips as well, closing whatever distance there were between them. "You can count on it." he said with a wink, catching the kiss, and inwardly frowning when it didn't last as long as he would have wanted it to.

Hex nodded "yeah it's pretty trippy, I should show more bigger magic sometime." It got even trippier than glowing symbols in the skin. Hex nodded "Yep now we go in." He threw on a little charm around his neck and gathered up his bag of tricks slinging it over his shoulder, leading the way into the mansion. His blue eyes still glowing in the after effects of spell casting. "So when did you notice something wasn't right here?" he felt into his bag and pulled out an ugly green candle, lighting the wick of it with his thumb. He held out the candle chills rushing over him a little when he passed the barrier into the house, he could feel something already, something dark, no wonder Cass couldn't sleep when he was here.

"I'm holding you to that." He swallowed hard and followed Hex into the mansion. He could feel the sickness forming in the pit of his stomach just from being inside, and it was much darker than it should have been in there--given that it was still broad daylight out. "Almost as soon as I moved in. But it just kept getting worse and worse." He stuck close to his boyfriend, not sure what to expect. "It's going to be angry..." The entity was angry enough as it was, Cass could only imagine how much worse it was going to get now that he was trying to get it expelled from his home.

Hex gave a sly smile running his thumb over Cass's lip "You better."

His own stomach was twisting up in sick knots as well, but he was ignoring it, it was just his body warning him that something bad was here, and it wouldn't be the first time he ignored his instincts. "Well babe, there ain't nothing to worry about." He glanced back and held a hand out for his man to hold onto if he wanted, if just for a moment. "I'm gonna take care of it for you." Hex figured it was going to be angry but he was sure he could handle it.

His dug a candle out of his bag, and let it go so it could float in the air, blowing the air towards it so he could light the wick. It floated around them in odd patterns while he dug around in the bag for more things, a book flew out and opened up for him in mid air as well, and Hex took out a little vial of a glowing blue substance. "Where is it the worst at? Like any part of the house colder than normal? A place the bad shit happens at more often than others?" he could feel a fear building up in him that was misplaced, and it worried him a little, but he didn't let it show on his face, keeping himself strong for his boyfriend.

Cass wasn't sure how to take what Hex was saying, he wanted his boyfriend to be careful--but he didn't know if Hex realized just how angry this spirit could get. He watched as Hex set things up, and when he asked the question Cass nodded. "Yeah. My bedroom." He gestured, "It's this way." He wondered what all the stuff Hex was pulling out was, but he figured he'd better not distract the man from his work. He could always ask later, after the dust had settled.

Hex nodded as Cass gestured and led them off to the bedroom. His chills hit him harder and goosebumps raised all over his flesh. The floating items followed him without missing a beat, while he shook up the vial. A rush of nausea hit him, and he felt like something was trying to claw into his mind. He eyed the bed and opened his mouth to make a remark about using it later, but he barely had time before he was covering his mouth with his hand, it felt like he was choking on the air here.

He coughed, and let out a rough raspy sound "Fuck baby you got a real bastard here." It was if the walls knew exactly what Hex was going to do. They began thumping lightly at first, but the sound grew angry, almost like tribal beats while he popped open the vial and spread a little on his hands. He went to work spreading the blue volatile looking liquid on the walls "It'll wash out, don't worry." he assured, fingers writing out words in long dead languages. Hex took a step back once he had finished, nodding to Cass. He handed him a bag "If something bad happens there is this baggy in there, it's red leather, it got a potion in it." He handed Cass another little charm "This will pop you back to the apartment. You probably won't have to use it" he was putting on a brave face. He had grown more worried as they entered in, but now he knew this was going to be tough. He grabbed Cass by the hips and pulled him to press against his body, while he gave him a deep kiss, letting it linger a moment while he enjoyed the taste of his boyfriend. He broke it soon and stared back at his man. "For luck." he smiled, but in reality it was goodbye if things went badly here.

Cassiel felt how bad the room was, but not as intensely as Hex did. He didn't even care about the blue on the walls, "I'll just replace everything if I have to." He tried to keep his voice from shaking, but whatever was in his house terrified him beyond all reason. The walls beating had him shrinking closer to Hex, following him while he worked.

Cassiel numbly took the bag, but the words made him frown. "I'm not leaving you here. No matter what." He felt sick saying it, as if something terrible were going to happen. He didn't even mind being jerked around, and he held Hex close to him while he kissed hard. "For luck." He repeated, "I'm not leaving you." He didn't care what Hex said, leaving his boyfriend behind to the monster in his mansion was not an option.

His finger's held onto Cassiel tightly, he didn't want to let him go. But he had his job to do. It was odd to think that he was banishing a ghost/demon from a place he might call home, if he could make it out of this alive anyway.

He finally let his fingers slide free of Cass and turned his eyes back to the room, the thumping of the walls beating into his head. "Alright, ya cocksuckah" he said to the entity. "Valmaria, goddess of purity and luck. I give myself to you completely. I am a son of the Hecks clan, and my power is your power, Nulith karjic mala'chrxil..Jhioom'qwi var-" he went on in a long dead language, eyes lifting up to the walls, cracks spreading much like spiderwebs along the entirety of the bedroom, tendrils snaked through the cracks. Hex's voice stammered, and he picked back up where he left off.

The cracks deepened in the walls, inky blackness oozing to the floor, a deep raspy sound echoed and vibrated it's way through. The blackness bled through gushing down the walls as a leathery limb tried to force its way through in a frantic anger that Hex could feel vibrating, with it's ungodly voice through his body. He tried to keep his focus, as it's voice scraped inside of his mind like metal on metal.

Cassiel latched onto Hex, and yelped in fright. This was more than he had seen the thing so far, and it was terrifying. He had no idea how it had gotten into his house or why it was intent on hurting him, but he squeezed his eyes shut and hoped that Hex could rid the mansion of the demon...or ghost...or whatever the vile thing was. Other than his scream, he did his best to stay quiet so that Hex could concentrate on the task at hand.