Nero Sighed impatiently, Victoria along with the day crew had started the assault on the city. Laying waste to the city's defenses and creating a clear shot into the heart of the city for what Cole calls the Night crew. It was a special force handpicked by Cole, it was mostly the more powerful conduits that had the privilege. The crew consisted of Cole, Kuo, Nero, Fetch, Eugene and a small boy no older than fifteen with messy blonde hair, his name was Aaron. This Conduit could create massive storms, which worked in Nero's favor. Since his powers worked best in the night, the storm would make his powers even more deadly.
Then he saw victoria and the day crew, she had soot all over her but she was unharmed. He smiled at her and she came over to lean her head on his chest. "You okay baby?"
She nodded "I'm exhausted but I'm good." She turned to Cole "You have a straight shot to the heart of the city. Most of the tanks are destroyed and Chunt's are dead. There's just the capital building that's been reinforced and has most of the military there guarding it."
He nodded; Nero noted the bags under his eyes. "Let's go"
Aaron smiled and summoned a violent storm and made the city darker than it was.
Nero kissed Victoria and set off into the city. The storm that Aaron conjured was violent and windy. Flashes of lightning were ever consistent along with the rumble of thunder. They encountered little resistance on the way, just the occasional army grunt. Soon enough they found themselves a block away from the capital building.
"Fetch, go make a distraction behind the building, Eugene summon your demons and have them attack the sides, Aaron stay behind and under cover so you can keep the storm going and Nero. You and I will attack the front." He steeled himself, and nodded. Not even waiting, he transformed into what he called a shadow demon. Clothes made of shadows, scythe in hand, hood up, half of his face contorted into a demon and wings of darkness extended back. He grinned a bloodthirsty grin and teleported behind the defenses.
Before they could turn around and fire, he absorbed the energies surrounding the sandbags, barbed wire, and scrap metal. With it gathered up, he liberated it. Causing a devastating blast that leveled the land in front of the capital building. To Cole it looked like Nero had just killed himself with a suicide blast, but Nero was coming back from the shadows near him. Though he was back to his regular form and he looked paler than usual. His breathing ragged, he laughed, "I really shouldn't have done that".
Cole looked at him "Can you continue?"
He nodded, "Just need to catch my breath"
"Alright, I'll pick off where you left"
Nero watched as Cole casually walked to the Capitol. When he got to within ten feet of the reinforced doors, he shot a thick bolt of lightning at it and watched it splinter. Nero whistled and Kuo looked at him "Do you still think you can kill him?" his blood froze in his veins.
He looked over to her and replied, "I don't know what you're talking about" she snorted at his stubborn response. She dashed/flew into the opening that Cole had made and started freezing all who stood in her way.
Nero teleported into the building and shot spikes at the lights, so he could be in the dark. He sensed more soldiers, and he threw a darkness bomb in their direction, smiling as it blew up and they flew like ragdolls. Then more soldiers came spilling from the stairway. He summoned shadows and made it take the shape of an orb, he then crushed it and sent the smaller balls of darkness to the group and watched as the balls expanded into spikes. With the four that survived, he blasted one in the head, then teleported and swung his scythe decapitating one. He lunged and grabbed the one to his right and absorbed his energy.
He turned to the last solider, who was blubbering like a baby. "Oh God please, don't kill me. Oh God."
He had a choice, to let the soldier go or to kill him himself. He knelt down to the weeping soldier, put a hand on his shoulder and whispered, "You don't have to wonder where your God is."
The soldier looked at him confused and afraid, and with no hesitation formed a punch dagger and plunged it into his heart, "Cause your God is right here. And he's fresh out of mercy". He savored the look of horror as the situation dawned on the soldier.
He stood up as Cole approached, the demon looked exhausted. "We have the capitol, now we can get to the quarantine and raise new conduits". Nero nodded.
They neared the zone, and Cole walked straight to the middle and gave his speech on curing who he could. He then witnessed Cole raise the conduits, a red flash and the screams of a thousand people. Then there were only roughly one hundred and fifty left.
Cole looked like he was about to drop, he looked at his night crew "Sort through them okay?" he leaned on Kuo and then left. Nero and the rest of them started to the group to calm them. Aaron stopped the storm, and it turned into a peaceful night.
Nero met many new Conduits that night, some scared about their powers and others that were excited. None of them really interested Nero, until he caught sight of a small girl who looked to be about fourteen. Strawberry blonde hair pulled into a ponytail, and a sweatshirt three sizes too big for her. She seemed familiar so he started toward her. As she turned around, the grief he had been fighting for the past two weeks turned into relief. He sprinted toward her, and she saw him. Tears streamed down her face. When they collided he knew it was true. He held tight and let his tears flow. "Jess?"
