I still rage about the new game, I will rage forever...
Anyways... My do you bring joy to my heart with your kind words ;A;
And I do agree that the characterization is off, hopefully though, I will get the hang of it with time /is pathetically hopeful
Till Hell Do Us Part
x Calling Shots x
"... And then one of the Hells started spinning with crazy speed, it was hilarious!"
Lady twitched, when is he going to shut up?
They have been walking in a straight path for a while now, a while that the demon who was walking besides her talked nonstop in.
If it was any other situation, she would've shot him and ran for it from the first second. But sadly, it wasn't.
She agreed to go with him in hopes that she would find a place she could get out of here from (like hell she would guide his sorry ass to the human world); since the small, dim lightened room she woke up in was had one way out, it would've been rather foolish of her to bolt towards that way then.
So Lady waited, enduring the demon's babbling while glancing around sharply, hoping that a turn from any side would appear on this closed, cold, rocky, irritatingly one way-ed tunnel.
Apparently, demons cannot comprehend the fact that you can make a path with more than way.
And then from the corner of her eyes, she saw it.
Or maybe they do.
Even if it looked tight and hard to go through, it was another path.
It's all or nothing now. Taking a breath, she slipped a small smoke bomb between her fingers, sprinting with all she had the moment it hit the ground.
Meanwhile, the demon knowingly smirked, not bothering to look back as he walked forward, talking about random things.
As Lady continued running away, she suddenly felt that there was something off before she ran into something.
"That Hell Pride was flailing around, looking like he was begging me stop him from spinning. You know what I did?"
Her eyes widened in utter shock, it can't be...
But it was true, the demon was right in front of her, walking in that same path.
"I sat right in front of him and enjoyed the show," the demon said with a laugh, finally deciding to turn towards her. "How was your trip?"
If Lady wasn't so shell shocked that her attempt to escape didn't work out, she would've been very irritated by the fact that the demon looked as though he was having the time of his life. "Let me guess, you found yourself here again with my charming self and you're angry about it."
"How?" Lady only asked, dread filling her very core.
"Remember our little contract?" He waited for her to nod. "Well, one of the few perks of the kind I made to you is "Teleporting Subjects". In short, the person who got the contract brand on will be immediately teleported to the location of the caster -which is me in this case- the moment he or she gets away the distance of twenty swords. Meaning that no matter which way you took, you'll be transported to where I am."
"You can try again if you want," he said, gesturing for her to go. "I'll tell you another great story about the time I faced a clown whenever you decide to give up."
"It began like this," the demon started, kneeling in front of the warned out Lady, "the clown was really annoying, talking nonstop like he owned the pl-"
She couldn't believe it, couldn't believe that the demon was right all along.
Every single time she chose a path, she would find herself in the one she started from, the red demon standing there, boredly looking at her and not even trying to follow.
The bastard knew that I'll end up here eventually so why bother?
She really had no way out.
"Can you shut up?" Lady hissed sharply a while after they resumed walking again, bitter and angry and really not in the mood.
Surprisingly, the demon complied.
Lady wanted to rejoic-
For ten seconds. "What's that?" he inquired curiously, pointing towards her guns.
Lady let out a growl at that. "A gun."
"How does it work?" he asked again, looking even more curious.
A second later, he found out. "Ugh... why my head?"
Bullets might be useless against him, but it'll shut him up.
That's all she cared for at the moment.
"So, do you shoot anyone that ask you about that thing?"
"Just the ones I hate." She was feeling better now, she really should shoot him again, maybe on the throat?
"I feel special." The demon grinned.
It was odd really; hours before, she would've gotten cold shivers from merely seeing that unnerving grin of his.
But now, she kind of got... used to it.
"Hey, human girl," she heard him calling, pulling her from her musings along with that.
What in the world?
They were finally out of that pathway, but where they got in now made her speechless.
Vast land filled with nothing but gray and the sound of lost souls, hot red lightning strikes flashing in a pitch black sky, and a tower.
A tower that reached unimaginable heights, centered in the midst of that all.
"The nearest way towards the human world is by going through this tower," the demon stated, bringing out his sword. "Though we have this annoying task to get rid of them."
Them meant an army of Hells, standing between them and the tower's gate apparently. "Couldn't you choose another way? A bit easier, maybe?"
"Well, where's the fun in that?" the demon asked her in return, amused.
He didn't know where he was, it's been a while ever since that day.
All he knew that every time he decided to get out of this empty room and go through a long pathway, he would see a tower.
It's kind of strange that he knew the name of it on the first glance.
Temen Ni Gru.
Just like the story his father told him once upon a time.
TBC
What do you think?