Why hello there, hows it goin? Here is another chapter of Demons Burden. I didn't expect to get this one out as fast as I did .-. I just had an idea and took off with it after deciding that I liked it. Make sure to tell me if it feels too fast or too slow, its hard for me to determine how the pacing of the story is going, so please let me know! I don't have too much else to say besides any review big or small helps me get motivated to write more :D. Also I did do some minor edits the day after this chapter was posted to touch it up some.

And as always, hope you enjoy!

Adam finished wrapping his arm in the stained cloth. He had taken a seat on his bed and laid back, scouring his mind. 'Any trace of how to interact with people? No, hmmmm.' He hung his mouth open. A small bit of drool trickling down the side of his cheek. The fact that the male one was shirtless was not helping.

The two Vatstayans awkwardly stared at him from the corner closest to the door. The male was the first to speak up.

"What are you doing?" Adam found his voice seemed to be inherently obnoxious. Adam shook his head and wiped the trail of saliva from his cheek.

"Uhhh hi." The crickets kept chirping. "So what were you guys doing in the forest?" The amount of cringe felt like it was growing exponentially and radiating from the walls.

"You know what, let's start over." Adam reached a hand out. "Hi I am Adam, I live here in the middle of nowhere." The blonde one reached to greet them in a tight handshake. "Rakan, and this is Xayah." Adam tried to let go but Rakan gave it one last shake before letting go. Then he slid one arm around Adam's shoulders in a friendly gesture.

"See we can trust this guy." Rakan smiled and removed a mirror from his pocket, checking his teeth.

"For now." Xayah glared at Adam.

"Someone isn't very happy." Adam lifted an eyebrow. Xayah didn't seem to have an attitude past cold and condescending.

"I know it's amazing," Rakan said.

'These two are insane.' Adam thought. He looked between the two people,

"Isn't it great? This is going to be fun" The demon sounded tired, but was still happy.

"Would you mind telling me what your reason for being in the forest?" Adam tilted his head to the side. He didn't want to straight up ask, "Why are you attacking me?" It probably would have been rude.

"You first." Xayah kept her still gaze on Adam, arms crossed. She had taken her hood off when inside but that didn't make her look any less threatening.

"Well I normally just go out to relax, the lights in the trees shine every night. I have this uh, let's call it a condition where I can be under a large amount of stress from time to time." Adam looked at her. "That is also a reason why I live out here, away from everyone else. People don't exactly react in the best way when they get near me." Adam smiled and laid his head back. Remembering all the times he had been run from. When they had seen the Demon.

"So back to the explanation why you decided it was a good idea to throw feathers at me." Sure he looked scary but not enough to have these two decide to attack him Rakan perked up to respond, "Well, Xayah thought that you were one of the rather creepy followers of this guy with a black thing and mask." He twirled his finger trying to think of a word.

"Zed." She said the name with contempt.

"Yea that guy, he is doing some weird stuff to the forest. He is trying to control the natural magic,"

"So you thought I was a part of this organization?"

"Mhm." Rakan stood up. "And now that we know where not to settle we will be on our merry way."

Adam sat in silence for a second. "Fine, I think that would be for the best." He didn't need any more information, the sooner he got back to the boring nothing the better.

"Xayah." Rakan had opened the door for Xayah and was motioning for her to go through. Xayah gave one more death glare to Adam before leaving.

He could hear their footsteps leaving, the conversation had been short-lived but honestly, Adam could not care less. The cut would not take long to heal and the rest was all minor really. The faster he cut interaction the less he would have to worry about them later.

"Hey uh hey Adam." Adam rolled his eyes.

"What." The demon sounded almost drunk.

"I am going to need you to feed again sometime soon. Man those two are really something else." Adam sighed, there goes his chance to relax for a while.

"Why do you need to do it now? It hasn't even been a few days!"

"Do you know, how many times I had to teleport in that fight, and also teleport other people. That can drain your energy real fast."

Adam dragged his hand down his face,

"Uuuuugh. Let's sleep on it, I will decide tomorrow." He yawned.

"Bodies are so weird." The demon was getting quieter.

"Shutup." It was not long before Adam fell asleep.

'Hmmm, what to do what to do.' The demon, on the other hand, didn't need to sleep. 'Oh I know, will he kill me? Probably, but hey what's going to stop me. Besides he won't care much after he figures out who I've killed.' Adam's eyes glowed red as he sat up.

It didn't take long for him to put on the black cloak and warm clothing from under Adam's bed. "Time to get to work." He shuffled out of the cabin and into the night.

The clothing helped him stay in the corners of shadows, where nothing could find him. It had not taken long for the demon to find out where the two Vastayans were camping. It was not far, near the top of a slope in the forest, in a concealed part of shrubbery. They didn't even use tents, just simple bedrolls.

He stayed behind a tree and listened to their conversation.

"That guy was weird," Rakan said.

"He was strong, and he is a threat. The more humans we get involved in this the more complicated it gets." Why did Xayah seem to hate his guts so much? The demon didn't look past the tree.

"Something was off about him though, as if the person we fought was different from the person we just talked too." There was silence.

"He didn't seem human," Xayah stated.

"He might not be, many of our people look human too." Rakan replied, there was a soft scraping sound. One of them was raking they talons on a tree.

"Ignore him for now, continue with what we came here to do. I am sure he will not get in our way and if he does we can deal with him then." Xayah had sat down on the ground next to Rakan. They covered one another with their wings. "Tomorrow morning we head for the small encampment that Zed has set up near the northern border. I am surprised they haven't run into that cabin, it's only a few miles North."

"Cool, so we just go, get the bad guys, then leave." Rakan was too excited again.

"It might be a little harder than that."

"With us two working at it? Pshhh not at all, how many can there be?"

"Zed has a good amount of followers, this is one of many. The one tomorrow will have at least ten. You already know your job and I will take care of the rest."

The rest of the conversation consisted of the sound of feathers and how interesting little bird skulls looked. The Demon plotted, keeping completely still, 'this would be a good opportunity to get my strength back, oh all the souls, they would feel very, very good.' He got up as quietly as possible. 'Time to go.' He left the two Vastayans alone to themselves. He headed North, towards the direction they had described. 'Tonight is going to be a good night, and I will relish it.'

The six tents were placed a few feet from each other. Three ninjas stood on the site,

"Can't we just sleep, why do we need three people on guard if we are in the middle of nowhere, and why can't we have a fire." They were all wearing completely black and were armed. One with a staff at their side, and the others having swords. Spears laid down next to a few of the tents.

"The fire could be seen from miles and miles away, and if one of us gets jumped there would be no one else to call out." The first figure grumbled in response.

"No outpost has seen anyone, there is no one here. No humans no Vastayans, nothing. This is pointless." The arguing one raised his voice to the trees, trying to prove his point.

"Master's orders, now shut up and do your job. If we can complete the objective then the order will gain an unbelievable amount of power." They stopped talking and went back to scanning the empty forest. The crickets chirped loudly in the night, the light of the moon barely illuminating the ground.

"Wait did you hear something?" One of the figures asked, he leaned forwards and tried to peer into the darkness.

"I swear I could hear something." There was a light tap on his shoulder. He jumped and turned a foot flew out of the dark, knocking him over. The other two guards spun around, one drew a sword and another flipped a staff around in the ready position.

The demon had pinned the guard to the ground and red wisps flew into him from ninja as he drained his soul. The man on the ground didn't have time to struggle, his body fell still. The demon stood and faced the other two, the man had drawn a staff while the female guard had drawn a sword. The shuffling in the tents was the others waking up.

"Oh-ho-ho, a fun, fun night indeed." The demon smiled and tilted his head. He disappeared, they looked around in confusion. "Boo." The man swung the staff around him in an arc at an incredible speed. It flew through the empty air. "Up here silly." He looked up to find the demon falling on top of him, a boot crushed into his face, toppling him. The hand clamped around his neck and he let go of his staff to try to pry the vice-like grip off of his neck. It was no use, more red wisps traveled from the body and to the demon. The guard under him fell limp, hands cold and clammy.

The female guard brought down the sword towards the demon's exposed neck. He disappeared again, she swung the sword anticipation behind her and hit a solid object. A hand was clasped around her sword and she tried to wrench it free, it didn't move at all. The demon had grabbed the blade, but it did not draw any blood from his skin. She looked into his glowing eyes, a malicious smile twisted his face.

Her corpse fell to the dirt ground a second later. The demon turned as more swords were drawn, sliding from their sheaths and pointing towards him. A few of the slower ones still rambling in their tents. His eyes were glowing even brighter now, he had gotten a hold of three souls, more than enough power to take the rest.

He raised his arms at his sides and palms towards the sky as if he was bathing in the moonlight. He let out another cackle, he was in his element. He caught a knife that had sailed at him from the dark. It was slid neatly between his fingers. He promptly threw it back at the owner with triple the force. It buried into a body that fell limply to the ground.

"Tsk, tsk, no one ever taught you how to properly throw a knife?" The nine others had enough time to assemble in front of the lone figure.

"Shall we dance." They all flew at him simultaneously. The demon's red eyes cut the dark night.

"Dance we shall."

The birds started to chirp right as dawn split the horizon into a sunrise. Light clouds tracing the sky. Adam didn't want to get up, he twitched his nose and tried to fall back into a rest. His muscles must still be sore from yesterday, his joints felt tired. That's when he noticed he had not been sleeping lying down, he was sitting up. 'Hmmph, weird.' He thought to himself. He let the morning sun start to warm his face and he smiled, 'wait, arent I inside?' He peeled one eye open and blinked a few times. He stopped blinking once he saw the sight in front of him.

There was a corpse impaled by a spear standing upright in the dirt. The body had been moved to its side and stuck there, run completely through with the spear.

"WHAT THE FUCK." He shot up, but his arm was being held down, he looked to his right. His arm was being held down by the corpse of another ninja

"AAAAAAAAAAAAA." A nearby vulture cawed in anger.

Around him was a massacre, torn down tents and multiple bodies littering the ground. Blood stained his clothing and scattered weapon around him. "Holy shit holy shit holy shit." He surveyed the mayhem, counting thirteen bodies.

"DEMON."

'Hmmmm yes?' the voice immediately responded. Adam tried to calm his beating heart, he looked down at his bloodstained hands.

"Explain, now!" He demanded. His mind was running and his heart was beating furiously.

"Welllll, there was this encampment of ninjas that was sitting here not too far away, so I decided that it would be a good idea to get rid of them." That had been a lame excuse.

"Why?" Adam clenched and unclenched his fists, walking through the messy corpses and destruction of it all. Spinning around to survy the destruction of the camp.

"Well since you care about the forest so much, and I needed to get a few souls to keep me satisfied I was like 'well why not kill two soldiers with one spear,' so I came here, got my souls, and the people that were hurting the forest are dead." He sounded content with himself. Adam grimaced at the two bodies on the ground placed neatly in front of him, both implanted with the same spear.

"What the hell? Why didn't you even tell me anything?" Just when he thought the situation could not get any worse he had to jinx it. It very suddenly was able to get a whole lot worse.

"Adam?" He spun around and watched two figures approach him.

"Oh of course now of course fucking now." He cursed quietly and tried to calm down significantly. Xayah and Rakan started to walk towards him. His hair was a mess and he was completely covered in blood that was not his own. He had no idea why they were there but now that they were he would have to come up with some high quality bullshit.

"Hi guys," He gave an awkward wave. "I just uh, stumbled upon this camp right here."

As Rakan got closer he raised an eyebrow in question. "You don't look like you uh... have taken a good look at yourself recently?" Rakan looked Adam up and down, Xayah just stood in mild shock at the strewn bodies. They had planned to attack this encampment, it would have been the first of many to get to Zed.

"What the hell did you do?" Xayah asked, crouching down to get a better look at one of the corpses.

"I uh, took care of them." His voice wavered and he gave a half smile.

'E,X,P,L,A,I,N' Adam thought, he was still taking it all in.

"Like I said I was just killing the people killing your beloved forest so you wouldn't have to do it yourself." The demon said. Adam wanted to go over to one of the trees and start beating his head against it. Maybe he would wake up to normality instead of a bloodbath.

"Well at least now we won't have to do anything," Rakan said. He poked the corpse propped up by the spear, "These guys are definitely dead."

"Why did you decide to just come here and kill them?" Xayah was on the verge of trying to stab Adam again, he was too dangerous. Adam sighed and sat down on the ground the orange of the sun streaked across the sky.

"It wasn't me." He stated bluntly.

"What do you mean it wasn't you? You are covered in blood and in the middle of an entire massacre and if you had been painted with the words 'I DID IT' it would not make a difference." Xayah had one hand behind her back, preparing to strike at any moment.

"You want me to tell you who did it?" He would have to show them the Demon for them to beleive anything.

"That would be pretty impressive," Rakan said.

Adam closed his eyes, when they opened again they glowed lightly with a deep crimson.

"Hey, guys, what a fine morning don't you agree." Rakan had taken a step back, the change of demeanor from the strange man had thrown him off.

"And no I am not Adam." The demon stood up and stretched his back. The fight yesterday night had been a fun one. After taking the souls of a few more he decided what was the best way to impale someone without killing them immediately. The double spear had been an interesting one to pull off, having them line up before attacking.

"Who are you?" Feather daggers were already in between Xayah's fingers.

"That is a good question, I am whoever you think I am." The demon smiled and bent back towards the sky, basking in the sun.

"Well I should probably getting back now, you're welcome for doing your job for you." He turned South and started trotting into the forest. Again, the two Vastayan stood in stunned silence. In the day they had found this being he had made a very interesting first impression.

"How did you know it was our job?"

"I stalked you yesterday night." The Demon called back. He continued forwards, his jolly walk through the forest making the situation seem so out of place.

"We need to follow him," Xayah said.

"Why? Can't we just go on and find the rest?"

"He is too big of a threat, the other's are going to be coming into the area soon, and if they encounter him they could get hurt." She started to follow the Demon. Rakan obediently followed.

"Whatever you say babe, but so far this guy looks like a pretty cool dude. He took out all of these baddies overnight. He's kind of badass, just like someone else I know very well." Xayah just rolled her eyes at his cheesy antics and moved into the forest. They were going to need more information about this being before they got anywhere, he posed too big of a threat. If he could take on eleven trained ninjas alone and get out covered in their blood, he could wipe out a squad of Vastayans. Sure they were trained but she still didn't know the extent of his power. For now they would change their plan.

"Let's go."

Too fast? Too slow? I need to know D: the pacing is important and if I need to add more details I will try. Any and all reviews are very much welcome. So far I like where this is going and don't worry, I do have the general direction planned for where I want this to go. Thanks for reading :D and hope to see you soon.

Here are the reviews for this one:

mr. jack joke: "lol, demon leaves him with the work." Yea he seems to do that a lot doesn't he.

Guest: "So far I liking it the detail is there and it leaves u wanting more aka ( good writing ). Now as for if your updating it to fast nah I say 1 chapter every 7 days or so is pretty good gives u time to rewrite and check spelling. Also UPDATES :3 YES." Thanks for the compliment :D, I will try to add those key details that bring the story together. And for the updating, I probably won't be able to crank out one chapter every week .-. That is a very fast schedule that I do NOT expect to be able to keep up with. Sometimes I might get bursts of speed when I write but sorry to disappoint you :P I can't write in one week, expect more 2-3 weeks. Thanks again :D.

That's all for now folks, hope to see you soon!