South Italy wakes up from the morning sun rays through the glass window. She sat up and yawned. She glanced to her left to see her boyfriend, Germany, still asleep and has his one arm wrapped around her waist. She slowly shrugs it off of her and looked at the time. It was five fifty five A.M. She crawled out of bed and sluggishly changed into a purple tank top missing a strap on the right and wore a dark purple shirt with black flutters on the end of the Goth fabric. At last, she took her pendant off of the small black dresser and wore it around her neck. She walked down the dull hallway and into the living room. There, she saw Cleveland already awake and ready to go for something it seemed.
"Why are you up this early?" She asked.
Cleveland stretched and yawned, "Whenever you wake up, I wake up. I guess that you can say that we're linked in a way I suppose."
"Well, I'm eating. Want anything to eat?"
"Eat?" He laughed. "Idiot. We pharaohs do not eat that wrenched fancy human food. We only eat Spyrix Pills and Black Souls. If we eat human food it'll make us sick, and I don't think that you would want to be sick either now would you?"
He took out two containers of pills. One was a yellow container labeled 'Spyrix Pills' and the other as a white container, but the markings were covered from his thumb. He took two pills from the Sprix container and one Emphysema pill from the other.
"Bottoms up." He said and swallowed all three at once.
"What was that other container?"
"My Spyrix Pills?"
"No that white one." South Italy pointed at the white container in his hand and he put them both back in his black and blood stained stitched pouch that was chained around his waist. "That's for my knowledge only and for no one to find out, especially you."
"Show me the pills."
"No!" He snapped. "Get it through your damn thick skull. No one will know. Is that clear?"
"Awake already?" Germany said leaning against the wall with his one leg crossed the other.
South Italy ignores him, ""Tell me or I'll get Germany to put an AK-47 to your head."
Cleveland growled, "How about you stop shoving your head up someone else's ass? It's their privacy."
She formed both hands into fists and glares at him, "Do you really want to piss me off?"
"No the real question is, is that do you want to piss me off? I'm ten times stronger than you; I can rip you into shreds and have your intestines for breakfast." He clenched his teeth and showed her his wolf teeth; all yellow with specs of dried up blood.
Germany gets in between the two and pushes them away from each other; each hand on their foreheads. "You guys can't fight each other you'll hurt each other twice as much. You two can feel the same pain, remember?"
Cleveland added, "That's only if we're versing a person other than ourselves. If we fight, it's fair game. Also, get your f****ing hand off my face!"
Prussia shoots the ceiling with his hand gun, thus silencing the dispute. "Both of you shut up!"
Cleveland, "Fine. Come on South Italy, you're patrolling with me."
"Patrolling? I refuse to do so." She crossed her arms.
"Oh, really?" Cleveland pushed Germany with full force, causing Germany to fall on his side on the couch. He picked her up and put her over his right shoulder. He dragged his left foot on the wooden floor to form two bright red triangles, one right side up and one upside down on top of one another. He stomped his other foot into the center and transported downtown.
He smirked, "Told you that you're patrolling with me. Now I can also tell you the other rules of the pharaoh."
"Oh, joy to the world." She sighed.
"And to make sure that you don't try to run away or escapeā¦"
He clipped a black leather collar around her neck, which laid right on top of her necklace and it glowed red mist. He set her down and allowed her to claw at the collar. "Get it off of me!"
"No. Now you can leave within fifty feet or else you get a tiny shock."
"Ich hasse dich."
"I hate you too." Cleveland translated. "Now come. We have demons to eat."
He took a deep breath and sniffed the air. His golden eyes turned blood red and all he saw was nothing but black figure, which were the citizens, and a white outline of the town and other objects. He scanned the people and only found the very common innocent white soul.
"Damn it. I was hoping to have a tasty treat this morning. Maybe if someone would have cooperated we would have had one by now!"
"Hey, don't blame it on me; you're the arrogant ass around here."
Not far from them were dark purple eyes stalking them in the darkness of the alleyway. Its long tongue flickered at a fast pace and back into its mouth.
Cleveland said, "Come on, we'll have a better chance if we go to the forest. It'll be a lot easier to find one there."
They walked out of town and into United Park. They went across the stone bridge and took a left at the intersection of paths.
"Keep your eyes wide open. Some demons can camouflage into the scenery." Cleveland warned.
"What kind of creature would attack us out of the blue? Besides, I know this whole entire forest since I was eight. I'd be in here every day."
Cleveland added, "Until you were thirteen. I influenced your mind and made you think of that bear when you were little."
She raised a brow. "T-that bear was an illusion? That grizzly bear almost slaughtered me! I was scared to death!"
"I know, but I had to. You see, after you left, two years passed by and a war occurred between the Satin Pharaohs and the Leriks. Their leader, Nero, was an evil king. He was the soul of the sin. He was the birth of the Demonic Age. His wife, Pristine, wouldn't allow him to walk into the human realm so she went to an old church. She prayed to the Lords and begged for justice to be served to her husband. The Gods have answered her plea and a mysterious gem fell from the sky and gently lay in her feeble hands. The Gods said that she only had one wish, but in turn for the wish she would give up her soul to them. She wished for a new species that would prevent him from walking onto the Earth. Alas, her wish was granted then immediately died. The Goddess of Tranquility and Nature, Sephis, took possession of her body and left the city and created a new, improved, and better city. After five years of hard work, she finally created the perfect city to create and nurse us Satin Pharaohs. When the population stabilized, she blessed few infants in the Human Realm and it slowly increased afterwards. The humans seemed to like us due to us protecting their children. Once the trusting zone was satisfying between the humans and Satin Pharaohs, Sephis told us why were created and born at a city hall meeting that she held. Sadly, after the meeting, the Leriks were trying to break in through the city stone walls. Nero busted the wall down and raised his golden sword with strange black engraved Greek letters meaning Death. His minions ran in front of him and were fighting us right then and there. Blood pools here, dead people over there. It was a massacre; a terrible bloodbath. The city reeked of blood and dead bodies; buildings collapsed and caught on fire. When our people realized that we were outnumbered, we escaped through Sephis's portal that she summoned. As she was closing the realm, Nero grabbed her from the throat and crushed her neck. A few of his demons, including himself, got though the portal in time and now walk, live, and breathe in this world.
They entered into the world to continue Nero's rule, enslavement, and to create new species to vanquish us all. As the years passed by, we found out that if he gave birth to the Demonic Age, he grew stronger because of all the black souls. His main source are the creatures so the more creatures we destroy and eat the black souls concealed in their hearts, the weaker Lord Nero becomes. Do you realize know that we must consume every soul?"
Suddenly, the pebbles on the ground began to quiver and shake. The whole ground began to make a loud rumble and crack. Cleveland took action by clutching her arm and jumping onto a thick branch of an Oak tree.
A long twenty foot spiked snake slithered out of the ground and paused to look for his meal, them.
"I hate snakes." She whined.
Cleveland covered her mouth with his hand forcefully, "Shut it. We're not going to be snacks for it unless you don't shut up."
The snake slowly wrapped upward onto a Red Wood tree and balanced itself on the smaller Oak trees. When it slithered onto the tree they were hiding in, it flickered its tongue at them. South Italy started to shake. "Don't move." Cleveland said calmly. The snake stared at them blindly with its purple eyes and she froze in terror. Then, the snake lets it's tongue touch them both. Her heart was pounding and racing while Cleveland was glaring at it. When the snake's mouth came closer to them, Cleveland knew that it spotted them. He pushed South Italy out of the tree and round housed kicked the snake into the eye. Then, as she fell she felt a big pierce in her stomach. She saw her pharaoh have a long fang through his stomach.
"Cleveland!"
