Chapter 1: Realization
Lenalee stepped out of the room and looked around. The hallways are empty…for now.
"Good, take a deep breath and step out." Eliade instructed. Lenalee then walks out of the room and walks down the dark narrow hallways with red stain curtains hanging on the windows.
"Where do you think you're going?" Lenalee gasped and her breathing grew heavy with fear. She turned around and widens her eyes. A figure-no, demon was behind her.
The demon stood on four long, bony legs that ended in paws, and had hairless black skin that was stretched across the bones of the demon. Its eyes glowed an eerie red, and it's long, canine-like jaws were filled with needle-sharp teeth. It had no ears or nose, but had mandible-like protrusions coming from its cheeks. Its tail was long and powerful, with a dagger-like barb near the end. It was at once strong, sleek, terrifying, and most of all, evil.
Lenalee screamed in horror as she fell to the ground and slides herself back.
"Your blood…it smells delicious…" The demon hissed. Lenalee backs away from the demon until she felt the wall behind her.
The demon walks slowly to her while Lenalee curls himself into a ball as she whimpers.
"Stay away from me!" Lenalee shrieked.
"You heard her!" A man yelled and he took out his pistol and shot the demon three times. The demon quickly turns its head and deflects all three bullets with it's tail. The demon then leaps away while the man puts away his pistol and runs over to Lenalee.
"Are you alright?" The man asked the girl. Lenalee looks up and sees the man. He has brown hair and wears a black tuxedo.
"Thanks." Lenalee said as the man grabs her arm and helps her get up.
"My name is Johnny. Eliade sent me. I'm here to guide you out." The man, now known as Johnny, said.
"What's going on Johnny? You must tell me."
"This mansion is infested with demons. And these demons belong to a demonic race known as Noah."
"Noah?"
"Yes. They wanted to take over the human race, so they use this mansion as their hideout to reproduce themselves and one day, destroy humanity." Johnny explained.
"This mansion used to peaceful, owned by a rich human family, until these damn Noah bastards broke in, killing all the humans who lived and worked here and take over the mansion. Johnny and I are some of the remaining human survivors and went to hiding until we could find a way out of here." Eliade added from Lenalee's radio.
"So…I'm…in a mansion…filled with demons?" Lenalee asked.
"Yes."
Lenalee stood stunned and speechless. First, her plane crashed, and now she's in a mansion filled with demons? Was her life now nothing more than a living nightmare?
"And now, we're gonna help you get out of here. But first, let me take you to the kitchen." Johnny grabs Lenalee's arm and drags her along.
But suddenly, a figure jumps down from the ceiling and lands in front of Johnny and lenalee, making them stop. Lenalee gasped while Johnny draws out his pistol.
"Stay back!" Johnny yelled. The figure looks up and glares at Johnny. Lenalee widens her eyes as she recognizes the figure.
"Allen?" Lenalee whispered. She looks at Allen as his eyes are now red and now wears black and white uniform, black pants, white gloves and black boots.
Allen, in fast speed, grabs Johnny's wrist, making him gasp. "You made a big mistake." Allen sneered. He tightens his grip, breaking Johnny's wrist.
Johnny screamed in agony and fell to his knees. "Please! No!" Johnny begged. Allen then thrusts his other hand into Johnny's chest and pulls out his heart.
Lenalee screamed in horror as she watches this. Allen lets go of Johnny's wrist and Johnny slumped onto the ground dead as Allen has nothing to do with his body anymore. He then looks at the heart in his hand and crashes it and blood burst everywhere.
Allen then looked at Lenalee, her eyes widened and her skin became sickly white.
"You're…you're a demon?" Lenalee managed to say.
Allen sighed. "I'm sorry, Lenalee." He turns around and disappears from Lenalee's sight.
"What are you doing? Get Johnny's pistol and defend yourself!" Eliade said. Lenalee looked at Johnny's bloody body and takes the pistol that was next to it. She stood up and holds up her pistol. "Now, you heard what Johnny said before, get to the kitchen."
Lenalee obeyed and slowly walks her way to the kitchen, her eyes still widened and still shocked from watching Johnny's death.
Later, Lenalee arrives at the kitchen doors. But when she neared the tent, she heard crying. Frowning, she walked up and opens the doors, revealing a maid wearing an apron kneeling on the floor crying.
"Are you alright? Let me help you." Lenalee asked the crying woman.
"It…was horrible. The maids… The waiters! They were all killed! The demons…they tore out their oragns! And there's blood…everywhere!"
The woman sobbed for about half a minute before speaking again.
"An…and then they got up. Started to talk. OH THEIR VOICES! THEIR VOICES! MAKE THEM STOP!!" The maid pointed to several of the dead servants. Lenalee walked over to the corpses and knelt down and inspected them. All of the corpses have holes on their forehead.
"They are all killed by single pistol shots." Lenalee said.
"I did them a favor. Yeah, I helped them!" The woman continued to sob. "Maybe I need to die to? End it."
Lenalee puts her hand on the woman's shoulder. "Don't ever talk like that. You hear me? Don't ever talk like that."
The woman nods her head, stood up and slowly walks out of the kitchen. Lenalee watches her leave with a sad expression on her face. "You arrived at the kitchen. Now, would you kindly take the syringe that is next to the kitchen sink?" Eliade said.
Lenalee obeyed, walks over to the sink and found a syringe. Inside was blue glowing liquid in it.
"What's in it?" Lenalee asked.
"You would find out later. Would you kindly inject the syringe into your leg?" Eliade asked.
Lenalee looks at the syringe for a moment, then pierces the syringe into her left leg. Lenalee then shrieked in pain as she drops the syringe and backs away from the sink.
"Steady now! Your genetic code is being rewritten. Just hold on and everything will be fine!" Eliade assured. However, the pain was too much. Lenalee's eyes rolled up as she slumps onto the ground and fell unconscious.
Half an hour later, Lenalee sat bolt upright from the floor, breathing heavily. What happened? She remembers that she injects herself with the syringe and…something big occurred to her.
She puts a hand on her forehead. It was covered with sweat. Nightmares again. But she froze and lowers her head to her legs. She widens her eyes. Her legs are now charged with electricity.
"What happened?" Lenalee said.
"How does it feel? Nothing like a bit of Innocence huh?" Eliade asked.
"Innocence?"
"The power that your legs have right now? Yes. We, the survivors spent years trying to create something that can help us in our battle against the demons. And you are the very first to use this new power. So, use this to defend yourself whenever a demon attacks you. I'll continue guiding you."
Lenalee stood up from the ground and suddenly, she heard a growl. It came from the kitchen doors. Lenalee turned to the doors and holds up her gun tightly. Her breathing became heavy.
She slowly walks her way to the doors. She quickly ducked when the doors exploded and they both flew over her and smashed into the kitchen table behind her. Lenalee looked up and gasped.
In front of her, was the same hairless black-skinned demon that tried to kill her earlier. And in it's mouth was the same maid that Lenalee spoke to before! The demon's mouth is now stained with her blood and the maid had awful holes on her body. The demon tosses the maid away and hissed at Lenalee. "Now, let's get back to you."
Lenalee yells as she shot the demon several times, but the demon deflects all the bullets with its tail.
"Nothing can stop me." The demon smirked. Lenalee tosses her pistol away when it ran out of bullets and backs away as the demon walks closer to her.
"Back off!" Lenalee cried as she kicks the demon's head. But to her surprise, the demon shrieks in pain as blood flows through the cut which Lenalee made on him. "Amazing."
"Yes. Now finish him! Quick!" Eliade yelled. Lenalee nods her head and swings her leg at one of the demon's leg. The leg gets decapitated and the demon screams in pain as it fell to the ground.
Lenalee yells as she grabs the demon's head and thrusts one of her legs into the head. The demon screamed as Lenalee then removes the leg from its head and backs away.
The demon stared at her dumbly for a few seconds, as if it was unsure of what to do next. It suddenly began to wobble about drunkenly, lumbering about wildly until his eyes finally closed as it toppled over like a sack of bricks in an unconscious heap.
Lenalee walks over to the demon and kicks it's head several times, making sure it's truly dead. She then backs off and fell to the ground on her knees and sobbed.
"You did it, Lenalee. You killed your first demon." Eliade said. But Lenalee kept sobbing and tears rolled down her cheeks. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing. It's just that…I feel like right now, I'm the most unluckiest girl in the world. First, I'm the only survivor of a plane crash. Now, I'm trapped in a haunted mansion. And I realized that Allen Walker, the butler I'm silly enough to like him, turns out to be a demon. What can possibly go wrong next?" Lenalee sobbed uncontrollably.
"Hey, it's okay. At least you still got me. But right now, you're the only hope I'll ever see my husband and son again."
"What?" Lenalee stops crying.
"I've got a family. I need to get them out of here. But the demons of Noah have cut me off from them. We managed to find a way out but we can only get out of this mansion together. So please…go to the basement. Find my family…please." Eliade sniffed a bit.
Lenalee sighed. "Alright, I'll find your family."
END OF CHAPTER