~Third Person~

"Otouto! How are you doing over there?!" A Mephisto wearing a small, shiny, crystal crown with emeralds embedded into it, a black t-shirt, cargo pants, no shoes, and wearing a few thin pieces of black-ish armor over his torso and shins yelled from one end to the other end of a battlefield, having just wiped out a couple hundred demons in a couple of swipes, at a person on the other end of the battlefield who appeared to be about the age of 18. He was nearly 6 feet tall, had his long, light and shiny navy hair adorning his pale face, thin lips, pointy ears, sharp canines, 2 small horns peaking from the hair right above his forehead, and shiny azure eyes with red slits, with a well-toned body shape, long, elongated fingers and sharp, black nails. As for apparel, he was wearing a loose-fitting grey-ish green t-shirt with a faded white spade near his shoulder, a red and black-striped 3/4 sleeve undershirt, finger-less gloves similar to what a BMX rider might wear, loose black jeans, and no shoes, just like Mephisto. Resting on his back were two giant majestic wings with black feathers. The male also possessed a shiny black, beautiful tail, just as majestic as the wings. It wasn't huge, but the tuft was a considerable size and was capable of mass destruction alone. A small silver crown with sapphires inside sat on his head, held in place by the horns. The male, overall, had an angelic beauty and grace.

Yes, you guessed it.

It's Rin.

"I'm fine, Mepphy!" Rin called back with a humorous tone, drawing the bow and arrow in his hands, and waiting for a total of 5 arrows made entirely of blue flames to form in the bow, then releasing, each one hitting a demon squarely in the chest, only to explode a few seconds later in a firework display of blue, wiping out at least 1000 demons per explosion, yet there were even more behind them. "Shit! These things just keep coming!" Rin cursed angrily, taking out wave after wave of endless demons with his fireworks display. "Of course they are, dumbshit!" A black-haired male that wasn't quite as old as Mephisto but wasn't as young as Amaimon, who was wearing a small, chunky crown made entirely of quartz, yelled, set with his own casual clothes, scaly wings, and a scaly tail screeched back at him, his own silver crown with onyx's inside of it, fighting alongside Amaimon. It was something like a combo-attack; Amaimon would open a gaping hole in the ground and cause the ground to swallow a couple hundred demons at once, and the black-haired male would cause scalding water to explode from it like a geyser. Although, scalding would be an understatement. It was hotter than magma, and melted the demons it came in contact with. Of course, his abilities prevented too much of it evaporating. "It was a rhetorical question, kusojijii(1)!" "I'm not that old, warugaki(2)!" "Shut up and fight!" Mephisto finally interjected, his voice dripping with annoyance, as right then a Phantom train came barreling through, wiping out several more demons, eating whatever demon it came in contact with. Both males, intimidated by Mephisto, did as they were told and continued their raid on Gehenna's 'Pluto' or 時計のホーム(3).

Really, it was Samael's dominion. If they successfully gained this land, they would gain a huge advantage in the war.

"Amaimon, Egyn, split! Their numbers are increasing!" Mephisto yelled commands from the far right side of the battlefield. "Rin, move into the middle and keep up that display! Eygn, take the far right! Amaimon, fall back and get rid of any who try to escape!" Without a hesitation, everybody moved to their designated areas, and they continued to progress with ease. Before long, they made it to the clock tower in the middle of the generally-purple city, and began the raid on the actual tower. Despite it being a tall, slim building, it didn't take long to realize there were more demons inside than outside.

"Warugaki, I need some fireworks over here!" Egyn screamed at the top of his lungs at Rin. Rin replied in a voice laced with false humor. "Ask nicely kusojijii!" "GET ME SOME FUCKING FIREWORKS!" "...Good enough!" Rin fired an arrow over in Egyn's direction. Being smart, Egyn caught the arrow without decreasing its speed, turned in a circle to allow it to continue moving, and let go once he was facing the opposing army once again. The arrow continued smoothly in its flight and landed squarely between a 宝石目(4)'s eyes, resulting in a giant explosion of guts, fluff, fur, and jewels. Finally, they reached the the top floor, which was uninhabited. The inside of the clock cast a yellow light over the purple room. Their were strange symbols where the numbers or Roman numerals would be, casting a black shadow that looked like a backwards version of what would be seen from the outside. The second hand, real and shadow, ticked continuously.

"We finally did it!" Rin exclaimed, high-fived Egyn, and fist-pumped the air. Mephisto was grinning his usual chesire grin. "Well, I should make sure the clock still obeys me." "Yeah. We'll just head back on over to the b.s." "Sounds like bullshit." "That's not what I meant!" Rin yelled at Egyn. "You know what I mean!" "Yes, I do. It's just always so fun to see a child's reaction." "I AM NOT A CHILD!" "In comparison to me, you are." "So, you're saying your old?" "That's not what I mean, you little shithead!" "Shithead? Is that the best you can do?" "No. I admit that wasn't my best one..." Egyn and Rin continuously bickered on their way out. Amaimon just sighed with a sideways glance at Mephisto. "I'll make sure they don't get killed on our way back." Mephisto gave a thumbs up as Amaimon left the room, trailing behind Egyn and Rin as they were already ahead.

The trip home didn't take very long. Not for the 3 brothers, anyway, as they were able to simply spread wings and take off. Their army ran in a bureaucracy type of way, so the demons who were second in command promised to keep an eye on things and make sure that the army made it back safely.

Back at the clock tower, Mephisto was playing around with the second hand of the clock, until he felt something go wrong.

"Oh shit." And he left his second in command in charge, knowing that Rin would care more about this than about losing the clock tower.

Back at the bomb shelter, which had survived 157,061 in Gehenna, Egyn was repeatedly sticking his hand inside one of the aquariums he kept down there, Amaimin was playing with Behemoth as though he were a dog, and Rin was cramming dry crackers and raisins in his mouth. Egyn, tired of Rin's occasional choking (knowing he would be fine) turned to look at Rin, and said with a serious face, "Rin, you are going to choke yourself to death on all those crackers you're stuffing in your face and when you do I'll be standing here laughing." Rin snorted and nearly spit out everything that was in his mouth. He quickly swallowed answered, "I think I'll be fine. Thank you for your concern." Egyn grinned from ear to ear. "No problem!"

Rin was about to continue stuffing his face, when he froze. Egyn and Amaimon seemed t I notice something wrong, too.

"It's impossible."

"It can't be."

"They died when Assiah entered Gehenna."

They all looked at each other with dead serious faces, and spoke simultaneously.

"Humans."

Egyn and Amaimon silenced, knowing Rin would probably blow up once that fact made its way deeper into his brain.

"The only humans live though, are..." Rin's expression suddenly became grim as he rushed to the room where his friends had been sealed in their frozen state for 157,061 years. The door was closed, but he could smell them and hear their hearts beat from here. People who are frozen in time don't smell or sound like anything, even to a demon.

Rin carefully breathed in, hearing voices on the other side of the door. Hushed, but heard. Eygn approached Rin carefully from behind and placed a hand on his shoulder, giving him an approving nod. When Rin turned his head to look at Egyn, he also saw Amaimon standing in the doorway behind him, giving him the same nod as Egyn. With a gulp and a nod, the 157,077 year old demon took a step closer to the door and pushed it open, unsealing the room.


I apologize for any typos or grammatical errors in this chapter, I did half of it on

my phone in the middle of the night and it was a pain in the butt. Doing to authors nite in my phone too so please excuse random thins such as me accidentally hitting the return button and having dealt with it

for half

an hour at least just did not want I go back and fix it

Goodnight and das vedania

oh and i

almoat forgot this.

(1) old fart/unpleasant old man

(2) brat, bad child

(3) home of the clock

(4) the monster I made up in the prologue that barreled over the food cart when they took shelter behind it. Means "jewel eyes".