The Devil's Innocent Soul: 1
Where does one's journey begin?
"…I don't think I deserve it… selflessness… find your way into my heart... All stars could be brighter... All hearts could be warmer…"I listened to the soft melody play through the air and sighed feeling the cold breeze against my back. My cheek felt warm despite the cold day as I leaned against xxxxx's shoulder. My face dug into his neck and his long shaggy hair tickled my nose.
"What would it take for things to be quiet...? Quiet, like the snow… That we meant to be empty-handed… I know I could I could be better…" Xxxxx sang to the sky his chest moving with the words and I felt the soothing movement of rocking with his breathing. I took a deep breath and smelt the scent of wheat and hard work on his shirt. The fall day was comforting and the falling leaves of golden and brown dancing across the sky happily ending their lives. The wind picked up biting my arms and legs and I curled up closer to Xxxxx's chest. He glanced down at me reaching the last notes of his song, folding his arm around my waist.
"…What would it take for things to be quiet?" he finished and pressed his lips against the top of my head. "Do you want to go back and get your coat?"
"No, this is fine." I smiled into him my face blushing pink, "Don't you still have work though?"
"I always have work." Xxxxx scowled, "I swear, as soon as I have enough money, I'm taking you and Xxxxx and getting out of here. Well go to London."
I laughed lightly at the notion, "You've said that. You know Xxxxx would never go though. He loves this town to much. That old man could never part with that book store."
"But you would come right?" he asked playing with my hair.
"I have nothing holding me to this town." I said.
"That didn't answer my question."
"Of course." I said into his shirt and I felt his arms wrap around me tighter.
My chest twisted painfully suddenly and my stomach turned nauseously. My whole body shook and screamed at my mind to run. I knew my face must have reflected the irrational feeling I was having and Xxxxx picked up on my strange expression.
"What's wrong?" He asked leaning his face down toward me, sitting up.
"I don't know. I-I feel sick." I stammered feeling my body swaying. He caught me and held me steady.
"Are you ok?" he asked flustered.
"Something is wrong." Sweet poured down my face and I turned over so I faced the ground shaking violently on my knees. Xxxxx shouted in worry, knelt and started asking me questions I didn't hear. I panted clutching the cold grass with shaky hands. I never experienced such a horrible attack so suddenly. Sometimes when I would walk around town I would have a pain in my gut but never something this extreme. I felt something dark looming in my mind, a thought I didn't know the meaning of.
The Akuma are here.
Screams echoed throughout the town that lay to the right of Xxxxx and me. I felt his hand against my back tight with urgency and I heard panic in his words. The sky darkened and the scream grew louder, large explosions sounding off and a wave of noise booming from the town.
I turned my head toward the town, still on the ground and looked at the destruction in horror. In just a few minutes the town had been reduced to fire and flying debris. Large dark menacing balls floated above the town, flashes of purple lighting up mechanical body parts and limbs. I sat paralyzed watching these strange creatures, my stomach churning.
Akuma.
I registered vaguely Xxxxx pulling at my arm, forcing me to my feet and running with me stumbling behind still watching the scene. The dark orbs shifted in the sky and hesitated, and then as if by command, they shot forward tearing through the sky toward us. As the masses grow larger I saw their bodies more detailed. They were chucky machines with black vines that looked like large tree roots twisting around them. Several canons protruded out from it aimed in all directions but they curled and wavered like fingers the beast controlled. But I really wasn't looking at these, because my eyes were frozen looking at its face.
It stared at me with wide hollow eyes like endless spiraling holes. It's leathery face was wrinkled in extreme pain and it's mouth hung open like it's jaw was dislodged, forever staying frozen mid-scream. It was twisted so ugly, so grotesque, I felt my stomach reaching into my throat. And even though I trembled as I stumbled away from these monsters, I felt tears washing across my face, tears of pity. What are these creatures?
Akuma.
"Akuma…" I echoed the voice in my head and I watched as all the canons turned slowly toward us. I heard Xxxxx scream and purple light illuminated the air around us. A deafening silence rang out as smoke and sparks flew into my face choking me and singeing my hair and skin. I choked falling to the ground my arm slipping from Xxxxx's hand and I felt needles impaling my entire body, passing through my flesh and sending blood flashing in all direction. A fire ripped through my body and I choked out a moan as blood spilled across my mouth staining my lips bright red. Smoke rose and I was blind to all but the flashing purple colors and Xxxxx's hand lying by my head.
My heart beat furiously in panic realizing that Xxxxx must be dying. How could I have been so stupid? I knew we were in danger, yet all I did was stare at the monsters as they came to kill us. Oh God, don't die. Don't die. Don't die. Tears mixed with my blood as they ran down my cheeks. How could this be happening?
I felt something vicious stinging across all the bullet holes eating at my flesh. I felt the pain searing across my whole being, clouding my mind. My breath grew short and the poison that burned like acid swam through my veins infecting my entire body. My vision dimmed and the cold dampness of the grass tickled my skin.
It was dark. I was alone in that unforgiving darkness frozen in time. I didn't call out as to not disturb the silence that incased the room. I was there, but not quite all there. I saw the darkness and heard the silence but I was not there. My body was missing yet my presence, my essence was there. I sighed a wave of sadness as I realized I must have passed on. This would be my world until the end of time. If I had eyes I would have cried. If I had arms I would have hugged myself. If I had a mouth I would have called out to Xxxxx. If I had a heart I would have killed myself.
Then as time passed, I felt a pulling in my stomach. Slowly I was reeled back by some invisible force feeling myself move through the thin air. Then all at once, like being sucked into a vacuum, I took a breath and shot up in my body panting staring into the smoky air. I looked down and watched as little black stars disappeared across my skin. Dull light danced across my skin twisting around the light blossoms of blood that covered chest. I watch little fiber of skin stitch together across the wounds blocking of the bleeding. I barely registered the strangeness of this in my groggy state and I looked up getting my barring on things.
The metal creatures were gone, the Akuma. The town was gray with smoke and the sky had turned dark with the night that had pulled in. I sat in a pool of blood that had completely soaked into my clothes and shoes seeping in between my toes and I shivered. I took a breath and turned toward the spot Xxxxx was supposed to be.
There was no body. In place of the boy I loved to deeply I would kill for was only a pile of dust and black stars. I felt a lump in my throat and placed a hand on the pile, letting my fingers touch the course ashes. Then I cried. I cried like a small child, screaming into the air letting the tears run down my face and dry there, my chest heaving. I let my tears flow away with everything else.
I held the golden leaf in my hand, spinning it between my fingers. The dense forest was painted bright red and gold shining bright in the evening light. The air was calm and still and I sat reclined against a tree.
"I can save you if you wish." I said twirling the leaf.
"Do you really mean that?" The voice asked desperately. The cute girl kneeling in front of me had large sad eyes and jet black hair the bounced around her head. Dirt smudged across her cheek and her arms clutched at her sleeves.
"Why would I lie?" I said to her flipping the leaf over.
"I don't want to kill anymore." The girl whimpered hugging herself. Her bright yellow dress clung to her body and small crystal tears bubbled up in her eyes.
"You won't have to anymore." I assured her waving the leaf through the air. Well, it was true.
"Really?" she asked.
"Really." I answered.
"But how? How could you possibly help me now?" she asked looking intensely into my eyes. What did she want me to tell her? I was practically as clueless as she was.
"You just have to trust me." I held the leaf out to her. She took it and stared that it thoughtfully. "Do you trust me?" I asked raising an eyebrow. There was a silence and she cupped the leaf into her small hands.
"I will trust you."
"Thank you." I said and took off my glove calmly, "I hope you find happiness."
I reached out toward her with my bare hand and touched her cheek softly, a large crack appearing across her face splintering out around her neck. She gasped and her eyes grew cloudy.
"That feels nice." She said through cracked lips. I moved my hand down and caressed her hand and it broke apart too sending cracks up her arms and chest. Slowly her body broke into pieces leaving scars racing across her skin. She smiled a peaceful smile and giggled, "I feel so good. Thank you. Thank you so much."
I watched as her body crumbled and a large gust of wind sweep by carrying the girl away in a thousand little specks of light and a little golden leaf. I stood and picked up the yellow sundress and folded it over a tree branch. I pulled the hood of my cloak up across my head letting the tattered old thing drape across me as I pulled the black leather journal from my bag.
I pulled out a pen and flipped the journal open, turning the pages until I found a blank spot under my last entry. I pressed the pen into the book and began:
October 14th, evening
Mary Gracia Arthur RIP- "I don't want to kill anymore." Why did she need to kill before? No resistance. Seemed happy. I'm not as tired as usual, but I'm still starving. Where do these Akuma come from? Why do the kill? Where do they go when they dissolve? Should reach London soon.
I finished and put my things back into my bag.
"Ty!" I called into the trees and after a moment I felt a breeze and a small raven was perched on my shoulder. I grinned at the small bird and shuffled across the ground making my way back towards the town I was staying at, humming a song that reminded me of wheat and hard work.
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AN:/ Thank you for reading. This is the first time i've ever uploaded so im still figuring out how to work with Fanfiction. For one thing i can't figure out how to make indentions or change the sizes of the writing. I'm hopeing that this turned out nice and that you like it. I'm planning to put up another chapter soon. :) In the later chapters you'll start to see characters from DGM. Oh and the song that Xxxxx sings is called "Louder Than Thunder" by The Devil Wears Prada. BTW: the XXXXXs aren't a mistake... you'll figure it out later in the story :3 /:AN
