Act XXI
Sven jumps out of a sleep to find himself in a dark jail cell. He puts his hands to his head and sighs. "So we really were arrested, huh?" He looks around the cell, looking for Hyun and Kaylee. Hyun is laying on a cot, sleeping, Kaylee is nowhere to be found. Sven stands, realizing that he had been laying on the concrete floor. "Damnit, now what?" He looks down to find his sword missing and sighs again. Hyun moves around a little but Sven doesn't want to wake him up, it's been a while since they had been able to take a rest. Suddenly, Sven hears slow footsteps from the hall, he walks up to the bars to investigate. He stumbles backwards in fear the moment he sees what's causing the noise. A pure black figure, so dark that it's shape could be made out in the darkness of the hall with ease. It was James. James stops in front of the cell and turns his head to look at Sven. Sven notices that the darkness has begun to recede on James' right arm, but it's clearly different. The arm is slender and tanned, clearly feminine. "You're not James." James smirks. "Not for much longer." "What do you want?" James walks through the still barred door, into the cell. Sven slowly backs away a couple more steps. "Why do you think that I'm here, Sven? You are going to join me." "What makes you think that I'd do that? I'd rather die!" James chuckles and raises his hand, a blue orb appears above it. "You'll join me because I own your soul." Sven raises his eyebrow. "What?" "You heard me, boy. As long as I have your soul, I have complete control over you." James closes his hand tightly around the orb. Sven immediately begins to feel dizzy and his vision begins to fade. "This will be fun, Sven." James smiles as Sven falls face first into the floor.
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Kaylee sits in her own cell, alone. The police had taken her to a separate prison, for females, there's very little light. She wanders around the small cell aimlessly for a minute before stopping at the barred window and staring at the outside. She has heard the screaming of the people in the distance being attacked by Diablo for hours now, and wishes that she had been able to prevent it. She turns around and slumps to the floor with her back to the wall. She noticed a glint of metal on the floor, a piece of a sword that had snapped and flown through the window earlier. Kaylee sighs and picks it up, placing it to her wrist. "I can't deal with this anymore!" She squeezes her hand a little and blood begins to flow down the blade. "Kaylee, what are you doing?" Kaylee feels herself starting to cry. "Lile, this whole thing is just too much for me! I'm just a kid and you expect me to kill demons and save the entire world? Well, it's not happening Lile, I just can't take it anymore!" She starts to put pressure on the blade and blood slowly begins to leak out of her wrist. "Just...find someone else." "Kaylee, there is noone else. If you die, all is lost." Kaylee begins to shake with a mix of rage and sadness. "I don't care! I can't win on my own, can I?" Kaylee tries to finish slitting her wrist, but finds herself unable to move. "Lile! Just let me die!" Unable to control the movement of her arms, she lifts the blade and throws it from the cell, into the hall. Kaylee lets herself fall forward onto the ground and cries.
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Sven wakes up once more and quickly jumps to his feet. He looks around the cell, nothing seems any different, Hyun is still sleeping on the cot. Sven sighs and calms down a little, he walks over to the wall and leans against it. The wall seems to disintegrate with his touch and he falls through it, to the outside. "What just happened?" He stands back up and runs over to the cot, Hyun is gone and in his place is a long, sharp sword, Sven takes it. "How could he have gone right by me without me noticing?" Sven double checks the cell for Hyun before walking back outside. After a moment, he realize that the sun is up. "I could've sworn it was night just a minute ago..." He scratches his head and starts to walk towards the street.
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The door to Kaylee's cell flies off of its hinges and falls to the ground with a loud clang. Kaylee raises her head from the floor to see what happened, her face still wet with tears. A hooded figure stands at the entrance, it's dressed in a long, black robe. "Who are you?" "Lile, come with me." His voice is clearly masculine. "My name isn't Lile, I'm Kaylee, who're you?" The man sighs and grabs Kaylee by the arm. "We don't have time to just stand here Lile, let's go." He pulls Kaylee from the ground and walks from the jail, still holding her firmly by her arm. "Where are we going?" "To kill Diablo."
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Sven looks around the town, nothing seems out of the ordinary. "Diablo still hasn't made a move?" People walk around, enjoying themselves and talking to each other. Sven runs towards the town, screaming and waving his arms. "There's a demon coming, you need to run and hide or you'll all be killed!" Most don't take any notice of him, however, those who do, seem to dissolve into the ground. "What the hell?" Sven walks up to a man nearby and taps him on the shoulder. "Hey, what's–" The man shatters into hundreds of pieces which fall into a pile on the ground, each piece then morphs into an insect before scurrying away. "Am I dreaming? This doesn't make any sense!"
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"How do you know about Diablo?" The man is still pulling Kaylee by her arm. "Lile, have you really forgotten who I am?" "I'm not Lile!" Kaylee tries to puller her arm away, but the man's grasp is too strong, he stops and turns towards Kaylee. His eyes quickly go to her wrist and the blood dripping from it onto his robe. Kaylee tries to pull away again as the man lets go and she falls to the ground. "I'm sorry Lile, did I reopen an old wound?" Kaylee watches as the slit in her wrist slowly closes back up. "Would you please stop calling me that? My name is Kaylee!" The man tries to wipe some of the blood from his robe as he speaks. "I'm not talking to you, girl. I'm talking to Lile. You are her descendant, correct?" Kaylee looks strangely at the man. "I might be, but who are you?" "I rescued you from the prison, girl, the least you can do is answer my questions." Kaylee sighs. "Yes, I am." "Good, then I'm in the right place...follow me or be killed." The man turns away from Kaylee and begins walking away. Kaylee pauses a moment before getting to her feet and following him, staying close so that she won't lose him in the darkness.
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Sven gave up on the town, if he's going to save them, he'd need to go straight for Diablo. He sighs while walking down the road, covering his eyes from the sun. "This isn't so easy without Kaylee telling me where to go." He notices a building on the side of the road and his mind turns to his stomach. "Jeez, when was the last time I had anything to eat? I guess that I'll need to stop for now..." He walks up to the front door and opens it. "Hey, is anyone here?" An old man appears from the shadows and walks up to Sven. "Don't you knock before you enter people's houses, boy?" "Oh, I'm sorry, I thought that this was an inn or something." The old man grunts. "So then, I guess you expect food?" "Well, I don't have any money." "Just shut up and take the food, boy." "What food?" Sven looks around and suddenly finds himself sitting in a chair in a well-lit room. "How did I get here?" The old man sighs. "Eat!" Sven picks up his fork and looks at the food on the plate. It looks more like a wobbly gray blob than food. He picks some food up and lifts it to his mouth so that he won't look rude, but suddenly there's a rumbling in the house, everything is shaking. Sven drops the fork with the food still on it and jumps yo his feet. "Is he here?" "Sit down and eat, boy!" Sven turns to look at the old man and picks up his sword. "I'm sorry, but there's something that I need to do." The old man's skin seems to melt away with these words, leaving behind a demonic looking figure. "No! You must eat, boy!" The demon jumps at Sven and he slices it in half horizontally. The halves thud to the ground and remain motionless. "Diablo, I'm coming for you."
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