Halliwell Manor-Basement-Templars

JP with Lumina and Corinth

Corinth didn't like the cleaners attitude, but it was getting late. Had Lumina not been there, he might have shown the man just how disrespectful he was being. But she was and they had work to do.

While she scanned everything with her detect magic spell, Corinth moved to the kitchen and began looking around. He opened cabinet after empty cabinet, only to find a small bottle of tequila resting in the far corner back against the wall in one. He looked it over and slipped it into his pocket.

Opening a door he thought would lead him to the pantry, was actually the door to the basement. There was a stench that flowed up the stairs and into his lungs. It wasn't pleasant by any means.

"Hey," he shouted, "I found the basement." Pulling his gun from its resting place, Corinth descended the stairs, Powell leading the way.

The lights were still on, allowing him to see everything when he reached the last step. On the ground, to his side, lay a black shadowy creature. Keeping his gun on it, he nudged it over with his foot. It was a Shade and it was slowly beginning to dissipate. This meant, that whoever killed it, hadn't been gone too long. It also might explain the broken jar upstairs.

Looking around, he noticed all the disturbed dust on the floor. Made sense, there was a fight here. But how many people were involved? Kneeling down, he studied the scene as best he could and concluded there were at least three people in the basement battling the Shade. One of them had a gun and was either really scared or couldn't shoot worth a damn. There where bullet holes scattered about the room. If the person was shooting into the fight, it was a miracle they didn't hit anyone.

Continuing to look around, he noticed that a lot of the boxes and tubs had already been rummaged through. If anything important was found, it was probably long gone by now. At least, that's what he thought before he noticed a small black book off to the side. Picking it up, he read the title, "The End Rite." The buzzing in his head picked up as he held it in his hand. His fingers felt like there was a small amount of electricity running through them.

"And what makes you so special?" He opened the book and received flashes of pictures, but they moved too fast to fully comprehend. It was like someone was flipping a stack of polaroid's in front of him and only seeing glimpses.

"Well...shit." He rubbed his eyes and blinked a few times. "You're definitely coming with me." He looked to see if Lumina had made her way down yet and the tossed her the book. "What do you make of that?"