The Demon's Kiss

Chapter 1: The 'Goth' of the City and an Abandoned Mansion of Devils

The City near the towns of Concada, Trinidia, and Fronda was busy as always. Towering steel buildings rose from the ground as the people below walked about on the streets. As with normal people, they would hang around with friends and deal with pressures of growing up. Down one of these streets was a 'gothic'-based woman at the age of twenty. Dressed in black leather pants and a low cut tank-top sleeveless shirt with a black jacket of the same material. Platform-based shoes were strapped to her feet. She had black hair with streaks of dark red through it like it was colored in.

Her black lipstick was as black as darkness itself, even her fingernail polish, and her purple eye shadow was dark in a normal shade of purple. With ember colored eyes, they shined into the sunlight as she walked down the sidewalk, alone. Her belt buckle was a steel-made skull and crossbones on the dark black strap. She wore a steel made claw-designed ring that covered up and down her middle finger of her left hand with designs of a winged skull. Her right hand had the same thing, but on her index finger and a skull ring on her third finger.

Chains in two sets of three were attached to her belt. A chain, a skull-based necklace, and a black strap choker were around her neck. Her name was Lilith. She was a pure loner in the ways of the Gothic community and a runaway. She has no home, no one to trust, but does get by, doing odd jobs that were available. She doesn't pay attention to what other people think of her, just listening to her dark and tempting mind. It seems she's angry with the world, but never does show it.

'Stupid people...Idiots..." she thought with venom. She heads to her apartment in the southwest area of town, returning back with a few pieces of pizza and a bottle of Coke Cola. She uses her key and enters the darken room. With a saddened sigh, she slumps to the sofa, taking a bite of a piece of pizza. Lilith's life wasn't no fairy tale; ever since her mother died in a fatal shooting at a Quik Trip at the age of sixteen. She blamed the world and shunned her existence, but still she remained. Her reason for staying in this world? Its to find some man like her to feel complete. Lilith hardly doubts there is.

Her lunch was over and she then heads out to the harsh world outside. She walks down a flight of stairs til she hears a homeless man talking to a few people about something. "I saw one of the twin sons of the legendary demon, Sparda near a abandoned mansion...I did!" the homeless man said. Some of the people thought the man was crazy, some thought he was imagining it.

"Idiots! If you go there, you'll see him," the homeless man said. "Yeah sure...Go get some help, old timer," someone yelled in the distance. 'A demon? they exist?' wondered Lilith. This claim peeked her interest. She approaches the homeless man and asked, "What about a demon?"

"If I told you about one of the sons of Sparda, you'd be like everyone else thinking I'm crazy," the homeless man said to Lilith. "Sparda? Who's that?" asked Lilith.

"You don't know the story of Sparda? How unfortunate...They said a long time ago, we were attacked by demons from the demon world, lead by their emperor. One of his finest demon warriors, Sparda himself, had a change of heart and attacked his own kind to save our lives. A noble task indeed, but it costed him his demon powers, thus making him human. Sparda met and married a human woman and they had twins...I saw one of the sons of Sparda, but didn't know which one. He appeared to be wearing blue..." said the homeless man.

Lilith was truely interested. After listening to the man's story, she heads towards the location of the abandoned manor herself and begin the investigation of the man's claims. It was boarded up from the windows and near the door. She looks around from the evening sky, til she caught sight of a creature flying towards the door. Immediately, Lilith hid behind a wall, watching the winged creature land in front of the door. Its body was in pure blue with white stripes on the wrist areas and the left side of its body to its neck; including its torso in some areas.

Its head had a type of silver crown-like hair that rose up and a black with gray striped face with ice blue eyes. It had a wing-like structure on its right arm, holding a sword in it like its own portable sheath attached to its arm. Last; its lower torso was dark gray in the color of the stripes and blue and had clawed feet, even clawed black hands. The creature looks around; then opened the door and went inside.

'Was that...A demon? Cool...' thought Lilith. She waited a few seconds for the coast to be clear; then went to the door and went inside after it. As she entered, Lilith got an inside veiw of the creature's dwelling. Many demonic designs were drawn on the walls with a type of dark red paint, but on closer inspection; it was actually blood...Human blood. She was alittle creeped out. Many demonic relics were situated on a type of altar and amulets and medallions of demonic origin hung from the ceiling on a set of beaded strings.

'Gesh...Some interior decoration...Must be a satanic cult, or something..' thought Lilith. She investigates further into the abandoned masion. She enters a room that actted like a bedroom, decorated more with more blood markings and demonic artifacts. As she faced towards the make shift bead, she noticed a bead-made curtain blocking view of something. She moves towards it and moves it aside carefully, revealing a stand that can fold something long like an antique, display, or to hide an item, like in this case by its length apart: A kantana, a type of Japanese made short ranged sword.

"Wait a minute...There was something here...Like a sword. Where is it?" wondered Lilith. Unknown to the girl, the demon creature was slowly making its way to her quietly. It must've knew she somehow got inside by following it. With stealth, it made its way behind Lilith as she pondered what was on the stand.

"Whatever it was...It must've gotten stolen, or something," Lilith assumed as she shrugged. The creature leaned towards her neck and began to breathe heavily on her shoulder, giving a purr-like growl loud enough for her to hear. Lilith tensed up instantly and begins to panic. The creature then moves behind her, still breathing heavily on the back of her neck covered by her long hair and giving purr-like growls. She then slowly begins to turn around and as soon as she looked behind her, she came face to face with the demon that resided in the abandoned manor.

"What is your purpose here? Why can't you humans leave me in peace?" it questioned, speaking full English like a human. It was angry that Lilith was trespassing in its domain. She immediately screams and flees to the left, trying to escape the demon, but it was quicker than that as it followed her out of the room. Lilith runs as fast as she could in her platform shoes and tried to outrun the demon as best as she could. In another marking and relic decorated room; she realized that the demon must've lost track of her and got lost. Taking no chances, she had to hide.

'Gezz...That thing can talk? I have to get out of here...I think I know too much about here now and became its target.' thought Lilith. She peeks out to check the scenery situation and the demon was no where in sight, or is it? 'Where'd it go? Is it here?...Hmmm..' she thought. Waiting a few more minutes, she took her chance and made her way to the door. She quickly gets halfway, til the demon rushes in and pushes her to the ground. Lilith turns around and crawls away from the creature. It growled as she tried to flee from it.

"What do you filthy humans want? Why can't you just leave me alone?...Why?" it questioned her. Lilith backs away into a pillar with a statue on it, rocking it off the top and nailing the top of her head, knocking her out instantly. The statue was made out of metal, so it didn't shatter. The creature stared; then did something against its own personality. It goes to her to check to see if she's alive. Lilith is still alive from the statue falling on her head. Feeling some remorse, but not really; it picked her up and took her back into its room where it first spotted her. Did it had a reason, or did it want to kill her later? Only time will tell.