Demons surrounding
Chaos abounding
Hear the demon's howl
Hell's creatures on the prowl
Twisted hearts and evil souls
Come with us and take control
Tonight, blood shall spill
All around us, the graves shall fill
Hear the demon's howl
Hell's creatures on the prowl
Twisted hearts and evil souls
Come with us and take control
The moon is high
Bloody stars fill the sky
Hell's gates will fall apart
Tonight we fight and we shall say
"DHA, tonight we slay!"
Hear the demon's howl
Hell's creatures on the prowl
Twisted hearts and evil souls
Come with us and take control
The familiar taste of blood lies heavily on his tongue and he reeks of the dark liquid, he frowns glaring at the corpse before him in distaste.
"Another one? You're getting too good at this Alvin," the rodent shifts his golden eyes to the side glaring with pure hatred at the dark black rodent grinning like a cat just a few feet away.
"Leave me alone Feeder," he whispers voice hoarse, "That's no fun now is it? Keep this up and you'll be a full blooded demon in no time, no more feelings, epically for that girl," the raven turned rodent cackles in glee smirking at the sight of the vein twitching in the other munk's jaw.
"I don't have any feelings for her," he seethes between his teeth squeezing his eyes shut in annoyance, "Of course you don't," Feeder sneers with sarcasm catching a glimpse of a red wing on Alvin's chest, "I see you got you 'mark' an official member huh?" Feeder questions curiously.
"Why do you care? Shouldn't you be in your cage?" Alvin snaps flashing his canines in warning, "Shouldn't you be in bed? If your brothers knew of your condition they'll drag you back to your tiny little town where you'll be thrown back into the Demon Trade again, there's no way you three can stay out of trouble, it follows you like a curse,"
"It isn't that serious, I still have my head," Alvin states tail twitching lightly in aggravation his gaze traveling to the tall towering building of the school looming over his head like an ever persistent shadow of a secret.
"Not for long, keep devouring souls like you are and you'll become mad, mad with power and hunger, your emotions will be the most finest then, I'm just lingering around for the feast," Feeder explains yawning and glancing up at the toenail shape moon hovering near the horizon, "Nearly dawn," a puff of smoke engulfs the demon and he's gone by the time it clears, Alvin glares at the ground where he had just been standing eyes blazing in the soft darkness.
He can feel the hunger for power, for mortal souls and emotions the strong waves of energy flowing beneath his paws urges him to gain more for the powerful enemy lingering below him, a massive creature draining energy from the citizens of the city and the school itself slowly killing everything with a soul or wavelength.
Alvin crouches down placing his paw flat against the cool pavement feeling the waves of energy pulse against his paws confirming Simon's theory; one of the Five has planted itself below the city feeding off its magic users.
There are Five demon 'overlords' below the Grim Reaper acting like his court, there's Chaos, the second only to the Reaper, then there's Damnation, Greed who seems to have gotten stronger since the humans invented money and technology, Sin the father of all Hell Hounds, and Lust.
Alvin vaguely remembers tales of the Five but those have vanished so fast that no one seems to remember them; his memory is a bit fuzzy on the topic.
His ear twitches on its own accord jerking him out of his thoughts as a shadow figure steps out onto the street, the Chipette's sharp red eyes meet his and he realizes it's the vampire Chipette Skylar, he frowns confused at her sudden appearance.
"I smelled blood and came to investigate but I see you must've chased off the culprit," Alvin narrows his eyes, she obviously knows, "Why are you covering up for me?" he demands.
"The Master watches us all the time, and even though I'm sure he's seen your kill if I say it was someone else he will gladly turn a blind eye, we're friends aren't we?" Skylar asks smiling warmly exposing her fangs to him.
"Yeah, thanks," Alvin mumbles eyes darting around trying to spot the way that the Master could possibly see his every move, "Does he know?" Skylar frowns at this tucking a stray piece of fiery red fur back into place, "Know what?"
Alvin glances down at the ground, "The demon lurking beneath the city draining it dry," he explains, Skylar blinks peering down also in alarm, "N-no," she whispers in shock feeling a sudden rush of energy her eyes whip up locking onto the chipmunk standing a few feet from her, "How could you sense it and I couldn't until you pointed it out?" she questions.
Alvin looks up eyes sharp and guarded, "Must be my Dad's blood, we should head back, it's almost morning," Skylar nods biting her bottom lip to stop herself from demanding him tell her who his father is, without a word the two odd rodents make their way back to the school just as the sun peeks over the horizon.
"You look terrible," Simon spoons some cereal into his mouth after informing his older sibling of the dark circles under his eyes.
"I didn't sleep well," Alvin answers burying his face into his arms, why does the sun have to be so irritatingly bright today, he questions himself while working his fingers into his aching temples.
"Can demons get hangovers from sugar rushes?" Alexis questions plopping down near the end of the table, the spots beside her being taken up by Alice and Cynder, Simon chuckles and shakes his head to her question.
"Alvin just didn't sleep," Theodore explains trying to get said chipmunk to eat something but he stubbornly refused claiming he'd throw up, just as he said that Brittany settled at his side and shoved a muffin into his mouth taking a small bite out of her own.
Alvin pulls a face, nose crinkling and eyes squinting shut about to spit the blasted food right out, "If you don't eat that I'll force it down your throat too," Brittany threatens calmly making quick work of her breakfast, her sisters roll their eyes at her behavior, she had a bad night too it seems.
"Why is everyone in a bad mood?" Xander slides onto the bench as Rose settles on the opposite side of the table followed by Max, Skylar, Eve, and T.J who sits down beside Xander.
Simon blinks at the black Phoenix tattoo above Xander's left eye still caught off guard by the sight, a lot of the others have theirs hidden under their clothes.
Simon's is on the inside of his right wrist, a simple Phoenix in flight in his signature dark blue color, Theodore has his on his forearm, the bird spreading its wings out as if to take off, it's in a dark green color, Alvin's is the biggest of the three brothers, it's wings stretch out across his collar bones the bird has its head bent down looking as if its rising from the dead, its wings are on fire and fade off at his shoulders.
Alvin likes to have his tattoos a bit more complex which would explain the large design on his back, Simon has a smaller version on his right shoulder, Theodore's is near the back of his neck, the tattoo is a seal that hides their demon selves, if they are too be damaged with fire it'll break and they'd be in big trouble, of course Alvin is kind of fire proof so he's pretty safe from that danger although it's beginning to take on a soft glow warning the brothers that the seal isn't as powerful as it was when they were born, it was engraved into their skin just days after their birth.
"I don't think any of us got much sleep," Max says poking at the school breakfast seeming bored and getting back onto topic, Alvin had gloomily ate the muffin force upon him all the while keeping his head near the table top not looking his partner in the eye.
"Oh!" everyone visibly jumps as Alice's outburst as said Chipette smacks a deep purple flyer into the center of the table, "I found this awesome assignment that we can all go on like some sort of power team! What'd say?" she questions eagerly looking around, Skylar leans forward and picks it up quickly and quietly before anyone could blink.
The vampire begins to read aloud with Eve and Max leaning over her shoulders, "Attention all students, I'm looking for the most powerful, deadly group to come take care of my demon problem, you see my daughter seems to have awoken a long hidden curse in our lands, I know it is rare to have an outsider of the city asking for help but the demons have already killed most of my townspeople, ruined the crops and destroyed some of the homes, please help us! The reward is 10 thousand a person, thank you, Mayor Kash," Alvin lurches upward, Simon chokes on his cereal, and Theodore gasps in horror.
In a blur Alvin had snatched up the paper making Skylar fume in annoyance, "Kash is in trouble? That idiot I bet he let Kat wander off to the freaking ruins, we have to go," Simon and Theodore stand nodding a set determination in their eyes and postures.
Brittany jumps up her sisters following after a little more slowly, "We're coming too, we're your partners and I'm not missing the chance to get to see the outside world," the electric blue eyed Chipette grins eyes flashing stubbornly as they meet Alvin's informing him that she won't give up without and fight and that even if she is left behind she'll find a way to sneak out after them which can very much kill her.
"Max, Eve and I already have some assignments we need to finish, why don't you guys go with them?" Skylar turns her attention to the others, "Yeah!" Rose and Alexis high five, Alice squeals, Xander exchanges a smirk with T.J, and Cynder pumps her fist into the air.
"Can I go with them?" Eve questions hopefully looking to the powerful duo, "I think we can miss you for a few assignments," Max grins warmly at the skeletonmunk, Eve bursts out in a wide smile.
"Everyone should start packing, and pack anything, you have no idea what's out there," Simon warns as the brothers break away from the group heading for their dorms leaving the rest to scramble around happily and frantically.
The thirteen rodents all stare up at the bristling wall of dark purple energy blocking their way to the Outside, "How do we get through?" Alice questions in alarm as Alvin saunters up and walks right through it as if it weren't even there, Simon rolls his eyes, "It's just for show," he explains motioning for them to start off.
Theodore bounds on through giggling happily, Brittany steps forward and sticks a paw out into the purple wall of magic, nothing happens.
In one form they all race through ending up in a huge pile on the other side, Alvin and Theodore burst out laughing leaning over struggling to breath at the sight of their friends buried underneath one another along with their luggage.
"I wish I had a camera!" Alvin cries flopping onto his back finally catching his breath, "I'm glad you guys came, it'll be fun to have our friends along," Theodore chirps beginning to help everyone to their paws with Simon's help.
Xander is the first to notice the brothers' clothes; Alvin stands the bright red fabric rippling across his body, his hoody is gone replaced with an open sleek looking red leather jacket with a small yellow capital A up near his right shoulder, underneath his chest is bare showing the world his new tattoo along with dozens of scars from battles, baggy black pants cover his legs and he's not wearing any shoes, in his left ear below the cut is a weird shiny metallic device that flickers red every other second.
Simon has a zipped up dark blue jumper along with similar black pants except with a white stripe going down the sides, his hind paws are protected by dark blue sneakers, he also has a weird device in his ear, except it's in his right, Theodore is dressed like Simon just change everything to green.
"Whoa, awesome getup," T.J whistles in admiration, Alvin smirks, "Thanks, come on, keep close some of these guys can be kind of rude," with that he turns and leads the way, Theodore falling off to his left kicking at weird colorful rocks, Simon falls behind the small group keeping an eye on their backs, Jeanette and Alexis drop back to question him about everything.
All around them tall structures hum with energy pulsing beautiful yellow lights every now and then, Simon explains that they keep demons away, some buildings however have begun to crumble many of them burned down, Simon informs them of a massive war that had raged on for thirty years before they were even born, that's how their city became isolated.
Everything seemed so high tech and not many humans were in the streets, not even cars seemed to be out and about, Simon and Theodore both explain that it's because of the demons; they don't have powers or magic like everyone else does in the city.
Alvin has been oddly quiet staring ahead with blank eyes as if in a trance, "Alvin?" Brittany questions taking a step towards him to try and get him to talk, Theodore stops her, "He's not aware of what's going on, that device in his ear is controlling him at the moment, sorting through his thoughts and memories sending them to the Capital to be put on record, we'll be Shut Down in a minute too, but Alvin will come back around, Simon's next, then me," he explains with a bright smile as if it were normal.
"But that's an invasion of privacy, it's not right," Brittany says firmly, Alvin blinks and turns at her voice, "It's how we were raised," he states simply glancing back to where Simon is walking, his bespectacled brother is now staring ahead blankly following them like a zombie.
Soon enough all three brothers had 'Shut Down' and were now merely explaining everything to them as if it were a tour to some museum, "Hey look!" Theodore chirps pointing ahead, a huge dark forest sits at the edge of the dying city veins inching out to latch onto a few buildings and lamp posts, amongst the green lights glow strongly informing the group of a hidden town.
"Awesome we made it!" Alvin exclaims bolting forward disappearing into the green, Simon starts forward with Theodore close at his side, "Come on!" he urges grinning widely.
Soon enough everyone was racing through the dense forest, the city rodents having trouble keeping up with the brothers, there aren't much forests in the city, Alvin is a streak of red amongst the branches, when he had taken to the trees no one knows, he's simply bounding from branch to branch claws unsheathed to latch into the bark and propel him forward.
"I thought we made it?" Rose grumbles ears plastered against her head to keep them from being snagged by branches, as soon as the complaint had left her mouth the trees thin quickly and a huge wooden gate looms in front of them, it's not a human village, but a chipmunk one.
"Hey where you guys been?" a munk questions leaning down over the top an iron helmet perched on his head armor covering his chest and arms, "That's not important right now, can you let us in man?" Alvin calls smiling at the munk.
"Fine, fine, always one to get to the point, stay longer this time will ya?" the chipmunk laughs as the gates swing open.
Within seconds of them stepping into the village a female voice rings out through the air, "ALVIN!" suddenly a patchy furred Chipette flings herself into Alvin's arms, he laughs and hugs her tightly as she buries her face into his shoulder.
"I thought you'd be gone for good," she says pulling out of his embrace to stare up at him with wide caramel eyes, "Nah Kat, I'd never leave you behind," Alvin grins earning a peck on the lips from the Chipette.
Brittany's stomach suddenly twists painfully and she feels the prick of hot tears in the back of her eyes, he has a girlfriend? She thinks in shock as Alvin returns the peck along with a brush of his nose.
"SIMON! THEODORE!" Simon is tackled next Kat squeezing him firmly before nuzzling her nose against his, she gives the same treatment to Theodore.
She catches sight of the confused group, "Wow! You brought everyone! This is amazing, hello I'm Kat Leaf welcome to Tree Village! Come on my Papa wants to see you all," with that Kat whirls around grabbing hold of Alvin's paw and towing him on ahead.
They follow them into a huge stone building guarded by two chipmunks in armor who happily greet the brothers and their friends, "Papa! The brothers are back and they brought their friends!" Kat calls happily, a dark furred munk peers over the edge of the banister he has the same eyes as Kat.
"You're back! What a surprise I thought you'd left for good," he rushes down the stairs and begins to hug everyone firmly, even the others despite them not knowing him and him them.
"I heard Kat released a curse?" Alvin questions getting straight to the point, "Ah yes, she did you see at night a pack of demons terrorizes the village, they've killed quite a few,"
"I was curious, you, Simon, and Theo always went in there, I wanted to see what was so interesting," Kat admits shamefully, "You shouldn't have gone in Kat, you could've died," Simon informs her making her bottom lip tremble.
"So this curse, it releases demons each night?" Xander questions stepping forward curiously, "Yes it's been going on for a week now, they kill off three then destroy three fields," Kash explains.
"That's terrible, what kind of demons are they?" Eleanor asks in horror, "They're Phantoms," Kash answers ears falling back in distress.
"Don't worry Mr. Leaf, we should finish them off by tomorrow," T.J chirps grinning boldly, Kash smiles at this, "What an amazing bunch you are, I'm glad you decided to trek all the way out here, Kat why don't you take the girls to their rooms, boys I'm sure you can find rooms for yourselves along with the others," Kash says nodding at them.
"Yay!" Kat grabs Brittany's arm, "Come on I'll get you the good rooms," she chirps tugging the auburn furred Chipette after her, Jeanette, Eleanor, Eve, Alexis, Alice, Rose, and Cynder follow after them leaving Xander and T.J to follow the brothers.
Kat leads the Chipettes down various halls humming a merry tune under her breath, "So I didn't know Alvin had a girlfriend," Alexis speaks up knowing that her friend has a thing for the russet furred rodent, "Girlfriend? What's that?" Kat asks clearly confused.
"Dating? You know the thing before marriage?" Alexis points out, "Oh! Courting, well not really, I guess where you come from it's a little different, you see Alvin and I are close friends, we touch noses and such all the time, it's a sign of affection of course but it's also a sign of close friendship, it's a custom here but we're not together, I just got excited that's why I kissed his lips, Alvin doesn't like me like that, trust me I can tell, I read emotions," Brittany twitches at this as Kat's eyes shift to her a sly look on her face.
Brittany blushes furiously and nervously bites her lip, "So I guess you don't know my name huh? I'm Brittany, that's my sister Jeanette, and Eleanor," they wave at Kat.
"I'm Alexis,"
"Alice!"
"Eve,"
"Rose,"
"Cynder,"
"Nice to meet you all, I'm sure you'll be able to help," Kat smiles nodding towards two huge red doors, "There should be enough room for you all in there, just ring the bell by the door if you need anything,"
Not the perfect way to end a chapter but my writer's block showed up again so I'm at a stump at the moment, Kat and Kash are my two new OCs and should be my only ones.
Preview time!
Brittany staggers to her hind paws wincing at the sharp sting in her side, crap she must've broken something, great.
"Woof! Woof!" the Chipette turns in shock at the familiar barking, a mangy puppy races towards her with the same warm brown eyes as Ember.
"Ember? How did you get here?"
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