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Demonic Persuasion
"Why lord, my family was token from me once again. I've been completely faithful to you and in return my life is treated like dirt. Well that kind of crap ends tonight," Kuroki said as he sat in his very dark room. He then lit up some candles that were on every point on a five-point star he drew with sand in the middle of his room. Then he sat in the center of the star in a praying position. "Lucifer, God of all Sins, here my call. I hand you my soul on this night in return to have my life valued to your army of hell. I ask to be spared from death and to become your tool of destruction" the air became still. "Please answer my call"! The room started to shake and a very dark and deep voice began to speak to Kuroki, "I accept your offer Kuroki Cherimoya. The Apocalypse is coming very soon, and Hell on Earth has begun. I will hand you all knowledge of a demon from the great Legion, you will fight, and kill all those on Earth who walk with a Halo over their heads. And you will obey all calls and commands of the Hell Horseman who goes by the name of Suriname. All this in exchange for your soul." The room suddenly began to shine a bright red light and Kuroki's eyes began to bleed an endless river of crimson. Then he started to scream, "Ahhh! What's happening to me"! The dark voice spoke to him again, "you are undergoing stigmata, a reenactment of the crucifixion". Kuroki screamed and kicked and squirmed as holes harshly appeared in his feet and his wrists, then blood rushed out of them rapidly. Then finally, a hole harshly and painfully made its way through Kuroki's chest and he screamed as loud as he could and triple six insignia appeared in the palm of his right hand. His room quickly turned back to normal. Kuroki breathed heavily gasping for air started to smirk, "you can't have me now God, never. I'll make you pay what you've done to my life. I promise".
The next day, Kuroki went to his high school after not being there for three months since his other foster parents died. He walked through the hallways will stares and friendly welcome backs from fellow students. Kuroki finally made it into his first period classroom, English, but he was late. As he walked in everyone stared at him in amazement. His teacher, Mr. Yuragachi, sat at a desk near the classroom door and greeted Kuroki. "Kuroki it is so nice to see you back in my class, late as usual".
"Thank you Mr. Yuragachi", Kuroki said and looked over at a desk that was by the windows. "It looks like you saved my desk for me as well. Thank you". Kuroki sat in the seat and then pulled out his thick history book. "All right everyone would you all turn to page 684 of your textbooks". Kuroki gleefully listened to the instructions of the teacher and started to read. Then his mind started to drift, "I feel like a new person, as if I'm immortal", he turned the page of his book. "This feels great, but I have to test myself out with a some victims and I think I know what I have to do". The day went along in the same routine for 5 periods then it was finally time for Kuroki's two-hour lunch break. He decided to leave campus and go into a sushi restaurant. Kuroki entered the restaurant and noticed that many people had halos over their heads. "This is a perfect place to kill" Kuroki thought to himself. Then Kuroki saw Sasune, his girlfriend, sitting at a table waving at him and also saw the halo over her head and made his way to her. Kuroki quickly sat in front of her.
"Hey Kuroki. I heard you finally went to school. It's about time" Sasune moved in for a kiss but Kuroki quickly moved his hand in front of her face.
"Sasune we need to talk, but first tell me about your day" Kuroki said and Sasune started to speak. Kuroki ignored her and looked over her shoulder and noticed a police officer arguing with his wife. "If I have the abilities of a demon, then maybe I can control the thoughts of this man since his angry, the weakest time of a human's soul is when they're angry" Kuroki thought to himself. He finally made eye contact with the policeman and their eyes stayed locked to each other then Kuroki transferred his thoughts to the policeman. "You don't have to take that from her or anybody for that matter. You are better and no one in here deserves to live including you. I want you to pull out your gun as soon as I leave this place and kill everyone here including yourself, understand me"?
The police officer transmitted back, "I understand". Kuroki quickly broke his attention back to Sasune and the police officer continued to argue with his wife.
Kuroki suddenly covered Sasune's mouth with his hand, "enough Sasune, I'm just tired of your constant talking. I'm basically tired of you period'.
"What do you mean Kuro," Sasune asked Kuroki with a sorrowfully. "I mean it's over between me and you and I mean it this time", Kuroki walked away and left out of the restaurant silently.
Sasune started to break into tears, "no Kura please don't leave!" she yelled. "I love you". Sasune put her head down on the table and cried even more.
Then the police officer suddenly snapped and pulled out his gun, "I'm sick of you why don't you just drop dead!" the officer yelled then shot his wife 6 times. Everyone in the restaurant screamed at the sight of her blood splattered everywhere and tried to run towards the exit door but the officer quickly shot every single person that moved. In a matter of seconds everyone in the restaurant was dead except Sasune. The officer looked at Sasune as she sobbed at her table then pointed his gun at her, "No one will be sparred, not even myself" the officer said then shot Sasune in the neck. Sasune fell almost lifelessly to the ground as blood gushed from her neck. The officer then pointed the gun to his head, "it's over for me now" he said but he suddenly noticed that Sasune's wound had healed. He slowly walked over to her body and Sasune started to laugh. Then her body quickly levitated up. The officer was amazed at the sight, "how the hell are you still alive?" he asked Sasune. Sasune started to float about 2 inches off the ground and swiftly made her way over to the crazed officer.
"You were right you won't be sparred" Sasune said to him. Then she grabbed him by his neck and started to choke him, "I'll make sure hell feasts on your soul." She said then quickly snapped his neck by bending it sideways. Sasune dropped the officer's lifeless body on the ground. "Kuro, I didn't want to, but I'm going to kill you next" she said with a smirk and then laughed evilly as the lights in the restaurant shut off.
Later that night, Kuroki made it to his house and was greeted cheerfully by his foster parents. "Hi Kura, it's so nice to see that you finally went to school," his mom, Inori, said to him with a smile.
"Yeah Kuroki, I thought you were never going to snap out of that little depression of yours," his father, Chikaru, lectured.
"I realized that I couldn't stay sad all the time. I thought is was time to start a new," Kuroki snapped back.
"Well, you walked in just in time for dinner," Inori took off Kuroki's jacket and book bag for him then pulled him into the kitchen.
"Inori I'm not really hungry" Kuroki said trying to break his mothers' grip, "I have to take my finals tomorrow".
"Well all the better for you to have a nice dinner," Inori insisted.
Kuroki suddenly snatched his arm away and started making his way up the staircase by the front door, "Just save it for me, I'll be down for it later".
Inori and Chikaru watched him go up the stairs then when Kuroki was out of their sight they went into the kitchen, sat at the dinner table and ate their curry dinners silently.
In Kuroki's room, he laid on his bed in darkness. "This is great" Kuroki said to himself, "I can't feel anything except power, and complete satisfaction. I wonder what else is in store for me, now that my life has completely been changed. I wonder if that little thing I caused at the shop is on the news." Kuroki then sat up and grabbed a remote to a TV that was on a dresser in front of his bed and turned it on, then flicked the remote until the TV landed on a news channel. On the screen a reporter was in front of the restaurant that him and Sasune were at earlier: "Today a small mass murder occurred in this restaurant. A crazed police officer snapped at his wife and killed almost everyone."
"Almost everyone/" Kuroki said with a puzzling look.
"One girl amazingly made it out alive covered in blood. Sasune Yurigishi, a teen, reported that she pushed the man out of her way when I was only her and him left and he stumbled over a dead body and his neck landed on the corner of a table and broke in half".
Kuroki quickly turned off the TV and put his right hand over his eyes and laid back down. "She was supposed to die, what the hell happened, I didn't get to complete my design. Damn it!" Kuroki took a deep breath, "What am I getting worked up about, I'm suppose to be an emotionless machine." He was silent and finally fell asleep. Hours late, Kuroki woke up in the dark to a knock on his rooms' door. 'Who is it?" he asked as he sat up and got out off his bed, "You can come in the door is open." The knocks at the door continued. Kuroki walked to the door and opened it and it revealed Chikaru who punched him in the jaw. Kuroki fell on the floor and rolled until he was beside his bed. Then he pulled on the edge of the bed to get him back up and rubbed some blood off the side of his face. Chikaru walked slowly into the room and flicked the light switch next to the door and the room lights came on. Kuroki suddenly noticed a ghostly glowing pair of red horns on top of his head. "What the hell is going on? What is that on top of your head?" he asked, but Chikaru didn't answer, he just slowly crept toward him, then he lifted Kuroki by his shirt and Kuroki noticed that Chikaru's eyes were rolled to the back of his head. "I get it now, you're possessed. I guess that means I have no choice but to kill you!" Kuroki quickly flipped over Chikaru and broke his grasp. "Let's see what else I can do. How about some fire out of my mouth." Chikaru charged toward Kuroki, but he opened his mouth and it instantly spewed out flames at Chikaru that completely engulfed him. "Ahhhh!" Chikaru yelled in pain.. Then Kuroki ran up to Chikaru and grabbed his charred face. "I wonder if I can bend the force behind my punched and make them more powerful than a bullet," he said then muffed Chikaru back and cocked his fist back and swung with all of his might. The punch hit Chikaru directly in his forehead on the back of his head exploded with pieces of his brain and blood splattered all over the walls behind him and the ceiling. Then Chikaru's lifeless body fell to the floor. Kuroki lowered his arm and saw that Inori was in his doorway with blood on her, then she fainted and dropped o the hallway floor. "Inori, I am so sorry, but I have to kill you as well." Kuroki slowly started to walk toward Inori until he started to see a womanly figure step out of the shadows near her then stood over Inori. She then looked over at Kuroki and saw that it was Sasune, and then she looked back down at Inori and pulled out a knife. "Your father was suppose to kill her but his will was too strong. I guess I have to do it myself," Sasune said to Kuroki then threw the knife down at Inori's throat. Her neck started to gush out with blood as the knife went through, then her body started to shake until she was finally dead.
"Sasune, I'm surprised. I guess you've sold your soul as well, but at what expense?" Kuroki asked her.
Sasune levitated an inch off the ground and did a swift turn to face Kuroki and started to giggle, "That's all you have to say tome? I don't get an I'm sorry trying to kill you or something?.. You really are worthless, which is why I'm here to kill you, not just because you broke up with me. I bet you don't even know who the Horseman of Hell is of the proper term for your gift."
"You think I don't know anything about what's going on. I know our leader is Suramake, I know that our powers are called demonic presences, and I know that our presences have a limit of going up to six. One more thing, you going to die," Kuroki shot back with anger.
"I know you don't know that you killed a lot of future demonic presences in that restaurant. This is why we kill one by one. We stalk until we see a halo over someone's head and then kill them to deplete the Heavenly presences."
Kuroki suddenly snapped and ran toward Sasune in rage, and then he grabbed her shirt and slung her through a window behind him across the room. Sasune rolled down the roof outside of he window and crashed hard on the concrete ground. Kuroki jumped out of the broken window and as soon as his feet were about to hit the ground he stopped then levitated down softly on the ground.
"You bitch, you think I care about making mistake because I don't!" he said then charged at Sasune and kicked her in the stomach as she was trying to get up on her knees. She rolled even further away from Kuroki's house into the street. "You can't even defend yourself against me, I guess you're the worthless one" Kuroki said as he walked over to Sasune. She quickly levitated back up to a vertical position and her feet to the ground.
"You barely even hurt me, what type of soldier could you ever be?!" Sasune said then rushed toward Kuroki and when she was directly in front of him she jumped over Kuroki and landed behind him, grabbed the back of his head and smashed it into the ground repeatedly then lifted him by his long black hair. Finally, she lifted her left leg and kicked Kuroki in the left side of his head with all of her might. Kuroki flew into the garage of his house that was behind them causing a big dent, then he fell to his knees holding his head and spitting out blood.
"I loved you Kuroki, but the instant I found out you were trying to kill me, I realized you were meant to be mine and that you had to be killed for being so sloppy and careless," Sasune stared in silence then Kuroki got up with a smirk and started to laugh at Sasune's words.
"You are absolutely meaningless to me Sasune, I can't take anything you say to me to heart, not even when you said you loved me. But you know something, I have to be of some meaning to you, because the why I see it, if Suramake's is our king then I am your prince, and you will bow down to me before I kill you where you stand!" Kuroki started to run toward Sasune as fast as he could, cocked back his hand with it fully opened, then struck Sasune in the stomach with his palm and the force behind him hit her stomach afterwards and blew a hole through her. Kuroki took his hand away as blood covered it and Sasune held the bloody hole where he stomach once was then dropped to her knees. "I told you, who is the prince, and who is worthless know?" Sasune's lifeless body fell in front of him then and chilling silence filled the air, suddenly a crimson lightning bolt hit Sasune's body and burned it to dust. Kuroki looked up at a rooftop across the street and saw a tall man with, long red hair, completely black eyes, and full body tight suit that showed his body definition with red and black armor over it and a black cape attached, sitting down.
'You must be Kuroki Chiramo. I am Suramake and you have no reason to respond to anything I say. I heard your speech and I saw your little created ability. You are impressive and maybe even worthy of being the second prince of Hell. Keep up the good work and kill whomever you please, just be ready to take them on," Kuroki kneeled to Suramake, then Suramake sunk into the shadows under him, "I'll be watching you Kuroki and to make sure you live up to my expectations, I send a trainer to help your powers grow faster."
Suramake was then gone and Kuroki stood back up and breathed heavily then turned around and went into his house. Then he went up the stairs in front of the front door and then into his room at top. He looked to his left in the hallway before he went into hi room and saw Inori's lifeless body. "I've read about how to bring somebody back to life in Demonology books. I have to steal someone else's soul and put it in her body," he said to himself, "I guess I'm going to have to kill the two lovebirds next door to bring Chikaru and Inori back to life." Kuroki left the house and went over to the house next door. He kicked in the door and went up the stairs that was to the right of him. He creep slowly then when he made it the top he turned left and saw a door at the end of the hallway and went to it. Then he opened the door slowly and silently and saw a woman and a man sleeping in a bed across from the door. He then went into the room and stood in front of the bed and opened his mouth wide, and flamed burst from his mouth unto the couple. The jumped up and screamed in agony as they were completely covered in flames and soon enough they stopped yelling and moving and eventually were dead. Kuroki grabbed picked them both up and carried one under each arm to his house. He went into his room and sat them in the middle of his floor. Then he picked up Inori and sat he beside the woman and then grabbed Chikaru and sat him next to the man. Kuroki then went over to his dresser and lit a black candle then stood over the bodies and bowed his head in a praying position. "Lucifer, hear my call, allow me to bring back my lifeless loved ones. In return, I bring to you sacrifices my liege." The room turned red and Inori and Chikaru's bodies began to heal and the dead couples bodies began to fade away. Soon the bodies wee gone and Inori and Chikaru were healed completely. The room went back to normal and Kuroki went back over to his dresser and blew out the candle then went and stood over Inori's body, "I guess it wasn't your time yet, but it will be, trust me mother." He picked up Inori and held her in his arms and carried her into his parents' bedroom down the hallway and placed her on the bed once he got in there. Then he went back into his room and dragged Chikaru by his arm into his parents' bedroom and slung him lightly on top of the bed. He finally went back into his room, he laid down on his bed when he entered and turned his head to his left and remembered the window was broken. He waved his left hand at the window and within a second t he window was fixed looking brand new. He tried to go to sleep quickly but noticed he wasn't sleep, "I almost forgot that I'm basically possessed now, so that means I probably have insomnia now. What a crock."