Chapter 12: Aakesh

I wake up the next morning with pain in my side from the bullet wound. I screech quietly and sense Creeper isn't near me anymore. I stand up and look around, holding my side, "Creeper?" he answers back, sounding distant, "yea?"

"Where are you?"

"My factory…Patricia found where I am hiding out at. I'm destroying it."

"Are you hurt?"

"No, she shot me a couple times and I almost killed her but she got away."

"oh, ok good." I sigh and take flight, watching for humans and sense something bad again and look around…remembering what happened last time.

I land in the woods again and turn into my human form, my clothes look like I've been lost for weeks. I see a man about 3 yards away from me. The man has long black hair, stopping near his shoulders, wearing a long black coat. His eyes are yellow, like my demon form's eyes.

I growl at him and back up a little and he smirks at me…something isn't right about him…besides the eyes.

He steps closer to me and I feel the pain return from the gunshot wound and I hold my side and back up again, "Who are you?"

"Your worst nightmare." He smirks at me again and grabs a knife out of his coat and throws it at me.

I jump quickly into the air, dodging it and I burst into flames and I turn into my demon form and tackle him and pin him against the ground and screech at him loudly.

He looks at me and chuckles, "Your pretty skilled." He bursts into red flames and 4 large black bat-like-wings rip out of his skin on his back, two on his scapulas like me and creeper and two behind the wings on his ribs near his stomach. His eyes turn black and his teeth sharpen, his skin turns redish and he gets taller, around Creeper's height. The fire goes out.

I look at him wide eyed and he kicks me off him and I land on the ground and my wound starts hurting more. I stand up and hold my side and glare at him. He flaps his wings and flies off the ground and lands in front of me, I screech from the pain from the bullet wound and my hair slightly turns brown…I don't know what is happening to me…

I back away from him and he whacks me with his wings and I land on the ground and he chuckles and grabs me by the neck and lifts me in the air in front of him and chokes me, "you aren't that powerful now are you Alma." I put my hands on his wrists and dig my claws into his wrists and watch the blood pour out of his wrists and he chuckles and chokes me harder and I cough and my tail regenerates and appears behind me and I stab him through the stomach and out his back. He roars in pain and drops me and my tail rips out of his stomach.

He holds his stomach and it glows green and quickly heals him…I think he is a demon similar to my kind…I stand up and back away from him but he grabs me and flies up into the air very quickly, using all his wings to triple the speed and gets very high and throws me down, falling quickly down onto the Earth. I spread my wings and they spread out behind me, the air going to fast…I can't spread them all the way.

I slam onto the ground hard.

I quickly become conscious and use my arms to shakily get up onto my feet but I fall back down into the bloody puddle beneath me.

I hear something land beside me, and I close my eyes, hoping its Creeper and the person picks me up by the throat and forces me to look at him. The demon. He smirks at me, "My name is Aakesh" he smiles, "the ruler of the sky." He throws me back on the ground and takes a sword out from its holder and stabs it into my spine out my stomach and I screech weakly and whack him with my tail and he takes the sword out of me and grabs me by the neck again and flies into the air to finish me off.

I close my eyes and hear a familiar roar and another roar from Aakesh and next thing I know I'm falling out of the sky.

I flap my wings slowly and something catches me right before I crash onto the Earth again. Pain rushing all through out my body, mostly from the gun wound…I look up and see Creeper, his mandibles up defensively looking at something.

I look over at what he is looking at and sees Aakesh looking at us evily.

I cuddle closer to creeper's chest and whimpers quietly at the pain and hear Aakesh chuckle at me, "Pathetic mate you got there Creeper."

Creeper growls at Aakesh and speaks aloud, "go back to hell Aakesh!" I look at Creeper, surprised that he spoke aloud.

"No, I was summoned for a reason! And that reason is to destroy you both."

Creeper tilts his head slightly, "Summoned by who?"

Aakesh growls, "Enough talking!" He flies at us quickly. Creeper dodges him and grabs a shuriken he made and throws it at Aakesh.

Aakesh dodges the shuriken and the shuriken comes back to Creeper and Creeper catches it and throws it at Aakesh again and the shuriken stabs Aakesh in the face and Aakesh roars in pain and takes out the shuriken and melts it.

Creeper growls and looks at me and flies away from Aakesh.

We get tackled from above and Creeper screeches and we fall from the sky and Creeper throws me and I flap my wings, still weak and flies in place seeing Aakesh on Creeper's back flapping. I fly over to Creeper before he hits the ground and roars loudly and hits Aakesh hard in the face with my tail and he roars and flies off Creeper. Creeper spreads his wings right before he hits the ground and flies back up into the air and flies beside me and holds me again and flies high into the air.

Creeper dives down diagonally, flying faster and unfolds his wings and looks behind us and doesn't see Aakesh anywhere and sighs in relief and flies down into the woods and lands and puts me down and his mandibles go down. I look at Creeper and sits down and wraps my wings around myself and my body start glowing and the broken bones snap back into place and the skin on my cuts reconnect and the blood stops coming out of the leftover wounds and I stop glowing, tired and I lay down.

Creeper looks at me, "are you ok…"

"Yea, I'm fine."

"Okay." Creeper lays down beside me, looking at the night sky.

I look at him, "who was that demon? How did u know his name and how did he know your name?"

"He is an old enemy."

"What did he do?"

"He helped the other demons exterminate my breed of demon."

"Oh…"

"Demons have been searching for me for centuries…I've been well hidden."

"Why was your breed of demon exterminated?"

"Satin thought our breed was too weak, compared to other breeds of demon."

"Oh, I think your breed is pretty strong." I smile

Creeper smiles back at me and turns towards me and wraps his arms and wings around me, "now your breed of demon is pretty strong, you can heal yourself faster then I can."

"Well if you get hurt, I can heal you instead of you killing someone and all that." I chuckle

He chuckles too, "ok."

We both fall asleep…