Well first attempt at a Death Note FanFic. Hope you like it. Don't be a stranger and don't be a hater! :D
Love Like Winter
Demonology: The Art of Magic
A scream strikes through the abandoned town house on the cheap side of London. Upstairs and to the room on the left a mage lies dead on the floor. His body slashed through and mutilated. The smoke slowly started to clear over the Summoning circle left chalked on the floor. The incented candles throughout the room had long been extinguished. A flash of light sparks as the Demon let his padded feet touch down on the floor. The dark black furred demon looked to the fallen Mage. He then cast his head back to the circle. The mistake of the mage hadn't been large. In fact, it was small enough the demon had almost overlooked it. Now he was glad he hadn't.
He looked back to the fallen Mage. He took a long stride to the human. He would make the perfect disguise, for now. He leaned down, placing a long clawed paw across the human's shallow chest. he spoke a single word. Hissing the magic in too the night he thrust the man's soul to the planes of Next World. With a second word he forced his own into the man's body.
L opened his eyes wide, gasping for air. His placid skin shivered as he sputtered for breath, his heart pounding wildly. He cast his now human eyes around him. His former body had fused with his soul leaving his magic intact, but now he had the perfect disguise.
He looked about him as he slowly stood. The spell bound books and Summoning manuals dotted the room, he walked to a particular hard bound, roughly used book. It was an Encyclopedia of Demons. It was turned open to face him. The rough, old parchment like paper, yellowed and thin with use, had name after name printed out on its pages. His name stared back up at him, a brief description underneath it. He hissed another word and fire shot from his hand and incinerated the book. Gritting his teeth he shot the next ball of flames at the walls. He would burn this place to the ground!
Light mildly looked at the paper in the hand of the man two tables across from him. A story of the Magistrate making a trip to the Americas was plastered over most of the cover. A Filmograph on the cover was of the Magistrate shaking hands with the American. With his other hand he waved out at the people. Camera lights flashed all around. The American waved the same but all around at what must be his own people. Light snorted. Peace treaty his ass. The only reason the damn yanks had ever entered into the treaty was because they were losing.
He looked around the edges of the paper. A column on Magic Crystal Power, a house burned down on Cheap Side, more blab on the Magistrates trip, sports scores, a piece on the Civil War in the South America's, Restaurant Ratings. He looked down at his coffee. There was as usual nothing to stimulating about the London Post.
"Light," He heard abruptly behind him in the gruff voice he knew all too well.
"Yes, Ryuk?" He said addressing his personal Demon.
"We have a visitor." He said with a bit of a cackle. Light looked up to see his lumbering, lanky Demon, holding by the things long ears an Imp. The Imp Demon was no more than a messenger Demon, but sealed on the Imps chest was the Seal of London's Great Crystal Town. The thing was shivering as it hung from Ryuk's hand. Clutched in the small Imp's hand was a wax sealed letter, from the Tower.
"Put him down." Light instructed, bored.
Ryuk did as told letting the little Imp fall on to the table. The thing quickly stood straight saluting Light.
"I, your greatness, am Far—"
"Yes, yes I don't care. Can I just have the letter?" Light said feeling a bit rushed. He had to be at headquarters within the hour.
The Imp stumbled a little but handed over the letter, sputtering. "Yes, Sire."
Light took the letter, whispering the password as he caste his hand over the seal. The red seal glowed an extra bright red before sizzling and parting. Light quickly pulled the letter out of the now unsealed envelope and started to read quickly.
"Is there a reply, my Lord?" the Imp squeaked out, still shaking hard as ever.
Light didn't answer for a moment as his eyes flew over the page a second time. "Yes, tell them I will be there straight away."
"Sir!" the Imps said, saluting again, before it unfurled the tiny wings on his back and alighting off the table. The Imp soared higher and higher before flapping furiously in the direction of the great gleaming tower.
Light folded the letter placing it in the sealed envelope and letting the red seal mold again before placing it in his inside coat pocket.
"You know those little runts really annoy me." Ryuk grumbled. "Always shaking like they got a cork stuck up their ass."
Light smiled at that as he stood straightening his military issued dark blue uniform. The black seal on his shoulder, and the rank printed out on his chest were tell tale signs he was more than a simple Battle Mage. Under his Uniform was a simple note book stating it all. A Death Note.
Death Note, was the elite of the British Military. Strictly Mages and Magicians, they possess the one power that the world around them craved. The power to kill a Demon. All the mage's had to do was write the Demons real name on to the pages of the their Death Note and the Demon would cease to exist. The Death Notes of Course were kept secret the only true tale of them being in the organizations name. The perfect hiding place. In such plain sight no one would guess that those in Death Note really carried just that. A notebook of death. A simple small Ancient Notebook.
Of Course they all weren't ancient anymore. Only the Kira Himself, Leader of Death Note had the true Ancient Death Note. Passed down from Kira to Kira the Note was the true power of Britain now. It was the reason any wars fought by Britain were always won. It was the reason that Britain had become the most powerful Empire to ever take control of the planet. The first and true Death Note was in fact given to the first Kira by a Demon. Of Course, Associating with a Demon on such friendly terms now was unheard of.
Since the time when Demons and Humans conversed alike there had been many, many changes. Binding circles to summon the creatures had been devised and perfected. Demons and their true names had been catalogues and captured. And now, almost every Demon either was in control of a Mage or would soon be. Most Demons of any worth had been captured long before Britain was even a nation. Back when the Egyptians and Greek were starting to scratch out a living. Demons had started out as the ones in control. Acting as Gods or as leaders, but Humans quickly turned the tables and life as it should be was set in to place. Summons and bindings and even punishments were developed quickly as Humans learned to steal the magic from Demons and use it themselves. They learned how to breed the Demons to make armies for War. They learned how to hold Demons over long periods of time. And now at the Peak of time, Humans had learns one terrible thing, how to Replicate a Death Note.
Light strode into the massive vaulting Chamber. Before him sat his superiors, Namely Kira Himself. The Magistrate may be the spokesman for Britain and deal with all the insignificant little details of the Empire, but Light knew much better than that. The real ruler of Britain was Kira. Whoever held that Ancient Death Note had the power to kill even the most powerful of Demons, and therefore was the only man in the world truly and ever in control of the worlds armies.
The great room was arranged in a circular fashion with seats all around but for a break in the circle for the door. But this was no Arthur's round table. The Seats arched to meet in the middle at the highest chair in the room. That of Kira's.
Light stopped a few feet from the seat of Kira bowing briskly and facing the man. The Current Kira was a short stout man. Balding and quite overweight, he looked nothing compared to the seasoned battle mages and strong faced scholars seated lower than him. Light wasn't sure how the man had come in to power, but he was certain that it hadn't been completely legitimate.
"Light Yagami?" The boastful mustached Kira spoke.
"Yes sir." Light said nodding.
" Well, you are quite young aren't you." The man gruffed. Then he leaned forward his large belly rolling like a beach ball. "What is your age?"
"Nineteen." Light answered.
"Ha Ha Ha!" Kira broke out into a conceited and boisterous mocking laugh. He then turned to the man next to him. A gray haired man of his mid-forties. "Tell me Chief Yagami? Ha! Hs! Did this nephew of yours get here simply on your recommendation?"
The man stiffened a little before addressing Kira. "Light, has top marks in all his schoolings and in the Institution."
Kira shot back. "This boy isn't even old enough to be out of the Institution."
"I graduated two years early Suma Cumulate." Light informed stoic, but confident.
Kira shot a glare back at Light. "It is no matter, your age doesn't change anything." The massive rolly polly man turned to face Light. "We are charging you with the task of bringing in the Demon classified as L."
"L?" Light said confused. "Is that his true name?"
"No." Chief Yagami spoke now.
"Than what is his true name?"Light asked a bit irritated.
"We don't know." An older man across the circle of seats answered.
Light was still quite confused. Were these men really that incompetent? "Have you looked it up?" he asked cautiously.
"We can't." the Chief said. "You see we believe L is a very old Demon. Our only record of him was from the Roman's when they handed over their catalogues to us. As far as we can tell he has been in use all the way since 1000 B.C.E."
"So how could you lose his name?" Light said.
"L was given a hundred year pardon just before the building of the Crystal Tower."
It suddenly made sense. "And the burning of the Tower of London." Light filled in. The Tower had been the central for all Demon Names.
"Yes and unfortunately since he was not in use his name was recorded simply in an encyclopedia and swiftly forgotten about."
"Where is the encyclopedia now then?" Light asked.
"Gone." Chief Yagami said. "Stolen about a month ago while it was on loan to Mage in Bristol. We didn't consider it a significant loss until we realize it was the only record left in Britain with L's real name in it."
"Of course," Kira interjected his voice booming. "His pardon was up this year. Tell me Yagami did you read this morning's paper?"
Light stifled the impulse to roll his eyes but answered truthfully. "No sir, I didn't get the chance."
"Well if you would have you would have found an article about an old abandoned house in Cheap Side, burning to the ground." Kira said rather haughty.
"And the relevance of the arsonist is?" Light asked.
Chief Yagami answered. "We believe it was L."
"That burned down the town house?" Light asked. "But why would he want to?"
"We believe he was summoned there, there have been reports of a Rogue Mage in Cheap Side lately, we think it was him that stole the book and tried to summon L."
"And failed, unleashing a very powerful demon in the process." Kira interrupted again.
Light looked down a moment his mind spinning. "Was the Rogue Mage found?" Light asked calmly. "was a body found?"
Chief looked especially grim at this. "No."
Lights Eyes went wide. "You mean—" Light let his voice die as it hit him.
"Yes, we believe, that the Demon L is now in the body of a Human Being."
L looked around the bustling street as he waited. He had lifted new cloths from some unsuspecting shoppers and now stood looking up at the distant gleaming Tower. When they had put that monstrosity in to the city he wasn't sure. He sighed, London never changed, just a different date with different faces. Same as always he was sure that by the hour the hunt for him would begin. What would it be, the hounds of hell? The Basilisk's? Would they try to corner him with cursed silver and blessed water? Would they try to save him?
He looked over. Cocking his head he read the front page of the paper sitting on the lap of an older man waiting for the bus. He stifled a snort, he'd made the front page, but barely.
Well there ya have it. I wanted to write something different from any DN Fan Fic I've read so if you like it tell me!