SuperNatural Paradox

Volume 5 Chapter 1: Creatures That Lurk in Town

"That's right." Mephisto watched as Sophia's eyes began to tear up. "Cry! That's the best part before killing someone. They have to be in total despair. Hey Toshio! Kill her now and eat here!"

"Eat me?" Sophia looked at Mephisto and began to get even more scared.

"What?" Toshio looked at Mephisto surprised. "You want me to eat my own sister?"

"Sheshesheshe!" he started to laugh. "Of course! That's what will make everything a better tragic story. Tell me that a dead brother comes back to life to eat his own sister isn't a tragic story."

"No!" Surina said angrily. "It's sickening."

"What did you say girly?" Mephisto smiled and twirled again. "It's what I do with all my victims. That's why it's so fun to kill people." He stood still and licked his chops. "Now Toshio, do it now!"

Toshio stood there scared to do what he said. "I thought you only wanted me to lure her here." He said. "That's all you told me to do and I could barely do that much to my own sister."

"What are you trying to say Toshio? Will you not listen to your orders?" Mephisto's voice deepened and his facial expression turned blank.

"Don't do it Toshio!" Shin yelled out. "She's your sister! You don't have to listen to this asshole!"

"Shin?" Toshio mumbled as he looked at him. "He's able to speak?"

"Shut up you little twerp!" Mephisto turned around to Shin. "This'll teach you to talk when no one asked you to." Mephisto kicked Shin in the gut again. This time Shin spat up blood.

"Shin!" Surina yelled.

"Oh Shin!" Megumi began to feel sorry for him. "He's hurting Shin a lot. Don't you think he's going a little over board with everything?"

"I agree. He is going a little overboard." Tomoya said. "But we don't have much of a choice; he's the strongest out of all of us so if we don't listen to him we'll get killed."

"Geez," Megumi stuck out her lips. "All I wanted to do was eat. It's a lot easier just to kill them than toy around with them."

"Megumi, you're going to get fat with your appetite." Tekai said. "You're always wanting something to eat."

"Shut up!" Megumi punched Tekai in the gut. "I don't want to hear your crummy insults from you."

"So," Mephisto turned back to Toshio. "Are you going to do it or not?"

"No!" Toshio said. "I'll kill anyone else but these people. I won't do it. They're my friends from when I was alive."

"You mean they were your friends." He said rudely "Fine!" Mephisto pushed Toshio to the ground. "You're really pissing me off Toshio. If you won't do it, then back away." Mephisto grabbed Sophia by the neck and lifted her into the air. "Now, it's time for you to die girly!" He opened up his mouth wide.

"Sophia!" Toshio yelled.

"I need to get over to her and fast." Surina mumbled. "If I don't, she's gone." Surina began to run to them.

"I don't think so!" Megumi said as she stepped in front of her. "We aren't going to let you go that easily."

"Shit!" she mumbled. "Shin! Do something!" she yelled.

"Right!" Shin forcibly stood up and endured the pain. "I won't, let you kill any of my friends." His necklace began to glow a little.

"What? You're still able to stand?" Mephisto acted surprised. "It doesn't matter; you're too weak to be able to do anything. Tomoya, stop him right now."

"Certainly sir." Tomoya walked over to Shin. "Sorry Shin, this isn't personal. I don't have much of a choice."

"I don't have time to play around with you!" Shin raced past him.

"Wait, hey! I'm not done yet!" Tomoya followed behind.

"LET GO OF HER!" Shin's fist flew out to give him a punch. Mephisto smirked, thinking that a punch wouldn't hurt him. The shine from Shin's necklace grew brighter and crawled down his arm to his fist. When Shin finally made contact with his punch it had caused Mephisto to let go of Sophia and he flew into the air and land against a gravestone.

"What power?" Tomoya stood there amazed.

"It's that annoying light again." Tekai mumbled. "Where is it coming from?"

"That's my hero!" Megumi's shirt was in her mouth and she blushed like crazy. "He's defiantly my knight in shining armor."

"It's about time." Surina shrugged her shoulders. "I was getting worried there for a minute that the light wouldn't shine."

"Now!" Shin yelled at Mephisto. "You're going to pay for what you tried to do to us here tonight."

Mephisto stood up surprised. "How, how did you do that?" he wondered. "There's no way a human like you should be able to punch me like that, and more importantly, where is the shining light coming from on him?"

"Shin," Sophia mumbled. She sat on her knees and her eyes watered with tears. Shin's necklace began to shine even brighter, and eventually forming into a figure which looked to them as an angel. "What's going on? It looks so pretty." Sophia watched in amazement.

"What's happening!?" Mephisto yelled. "Is that an angel?! Impossible!"

"I'm not an angel." Naomi said as the light dimmed down enough so you could see her. "My name is Naomi, and I'm here to make you pay for all the wicked crimes that you've ever done." Mephisto wouldn't move from fear or even speak a word.

"Naomi!" Megumi, Tekai and Tomoya all said at once. "But she's supposed to be dead. What's going on here?" Megumi asked.

"Mephisto! It's time for you to be purified by the light!" she held up the palms of her hands to face him and beams of light shot out. Mephisto began sweating as the light got closer to him and he took small steps backwards.

"You'll never get me!" he said as he began to take off running. The beams of light caught up to him faster than he could run. It lifted him into the air and went through his mouth, then began to shine brightly through every opening he had on his face.

Mephisto screamed. The beautiful white light turned into a dark red color and his body slowly started to turn black.

"What's happening to him?" Megumi screamed in fear.

"Come on!" Tekai said. "We should get out of here while we have the chance to." Tekai and Tomoya began to make a run for it.

"Come one!" Megumi grabbed ahold of Shin's arm and began to tug. "I know how much you want to stay to talk to Sophia, but if we don't leave right now we might end up just like Mephisto." She quickly looked at him again to see he was still in the air screaming. Toshio got up and began to run along with her.

"MAKE IT STOP!" Mephisto screamed.

"What's happening to him?" Sophia's hands covered her mouth to prevent her from throwing up. "He's turning black."

"He's being purified from being a ghoul." Naomi began to say. "But because of his wicked deeds he did while he was human, he's going to hell for it and this is what it looks like in the process of a soul being damned."

Mephisto's body began to morph into a small black and red ball of light and black hole formed on the ground and the ball slowly got sucked into it. When he was gone the hole vanished.

"He went to hell?" Shin mumbled.

"What's happening?" Koto asked himself. "How is this happening? Naomi came back to life and sent Mephisto to hell? How? So many questions to ask."

"Don't worry Shin." Naomi smiled. "You don't have to worry about going there, I promise. It's only for those who have done serious sins here on earth and was never sorry to begin with. You saw how messed up he was." She said as she vanished back into his necklace.

"Shin! You're ok!" Surina raced over to him and knocked to the ground with her mighty hug. "Thank goodness we made it out of this. I was all worried." Her eyes watered up.

"Yea, I'm fine." Shin said. "But can you please get off me. You're hurting me." Surina jumped off him as soon as possible.

"Sophia, I know that you're in shock right now and need time to adjust to everything that just happened tonight, but can you help me get everyone home?" Surina asked.

"In shock?" Sophia looked up at her. "Don't worry about me." She smiled. "I'm starting to get um… use to this. Besides, I'm um… happy I got to see my brother again. I know that he's alive someplace and I'm sure we'll see each other soon." She stood up. "I'm fine really, we should really um… get everyone home right now so they can um… get some rest."

"Get your hands off me!" Toshio forced Megumi's hand off him. He stopped running and so did Megumi, Tekai and Tomoya.

"How about a thank you!" Megumi demanded. "If I hadn't got you out of there I'm sure you would have been killed next by Naomi."

"I don't care. If I was able to talk to her and say what I wanted to say that would have been fine."

"Leave him." Tekai said. "If he wants to die so bad then let him do what he wants." Tomoya and Tekai began leaving.

"Fine!" Megumi stuck out her lips. "Have it your way." She turned her back to him. "Just remember, if you don't eat you'll go starving and when that happens," she turned her head to look at him. "You'll lose control of your body," her voice deepened. "And you'll kill and eat whoever is close to you without any hesitation. Just remember that's the curse of being a ghoul." She then walked off.

"Damn!" Toshio punched the ground. "Then that means I will have to stay away from my friends and family so that I don't accidently eat them."

"Ok kids, I'm sorry but it's getting late. I know I told Sophia that I would watch you guys until she got back but its closing time. I have to ask you to go home now. I'll tell her that you went home if I see her." Renge said.

"I'm worried about Sophia." Thomas said.

"Don't worry." Madam smiled. "I'm sure she'll be alright. Besides, I have a feeling she'll be home waiting for you time as you get there."

"No… Shin…" Mrs. Rento stared at what was left of her house after being burnt down. "Please, no one be in there." She stood there silent, hoping no one was in there. She then saw a shadow walking down the street towards her.

"What the hell just happened?" Narushi stood there behind a bush all surprised. "So, they're really called ghouls. Impossible!" he shook his head. "There's no such thing, but from what I just saw, I wouldn't be surprised that those kids I just saw had something to do with the strange disease in this town." He sat back and took a deep breath. "I better go tell Doctor Ross what I just witnessed right now." He got up to start walking away.

"I don't think so Mister." Midna stepped out. "You need to learn not to talk what you're thinking out loud Mister." She giggled.

"No! Not you again!" Horror struck into Narushi's eyes again when he looked into Midna's red eyes.

"You just made a huge mistake Mister!" she slowly walked closer to him.

"No! Stay away from me!" he yelled.

"You shouldn't have been sticking your nose into other people's business, and to make it worse, tell others about this town's deep dark secret." Narushi's body couldn't move from fear and Midna opened her mouth to bite him on the neck. "Now you must pay the price."

"Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!" Megumi walked in anger. "If that idiot Toshio realzed that even if we ghoul's don't' kill Shin, then some of the other creatures lurking around in this town will. Oh!" Megumi put her shirt in her mouth and began to blush. "I don't like the idea of another monster killing my love."

Midna giggled as she lifted her mouth away from Narushi's neck. "Now Narushi," she began saying. "You'll listen and obey anything that I say."

Narushi's skin turned pale. "Yes." He answered like he was in a daze. "What's happening?" he began thinking. "I can't move my body on its own. It's only responding to what this little girl is saying."

Far off in a different part of town, a little girl fell into a deep dark hole. "I'm scared." She cried.

"Then, do you want me to help you?" A half demon half looking human asked. He was short, wrinkly skin and his eyes were yellow. He had long thin gray hair on the top of his head and on his chin. He also had great big feet and hands.

"Who are you?" the little girl asked. She curled up even more from fear.

"Just follow me." He held out his hand. "I'll show you the way out." The little girl grabbed ahold of it and began to follow him.

"Are we almost there?" she asked when they've been walking for a couple of minutes. The cave kept getting darker and darker the further they went.

"Almost." He pulled her a little more. They reached a spot where a huge cliff was inside the cave. "We're are here!" he screamed as he jumped on her and began to eat her alive.

"In a different area of town, a family had a company over for dinner. "I see, when is dinner?" the man had asked.

"Kanami! When is it ready?" Mr. Ichijo asked.

"Oh!" she walked out with the man's wife. "I believe it's ready." She answered.

"Good. I'm starving." The man said.

"Really? I didn't see you cooke anything." The man's wife asked. Mr. and Mrs. Ichijo burst up in a blue flame. "What the hall is going on?" she felt shocked. "You're on fire!"

"You're the dnner!" yelled Mrs. Kuani. They began sucking out and eating the man's and woman's soul.

"Hoooowl!" the wolf stared at the moon in a different area of town.

"Is that, a wolf? A man pointed up at it." The wolf looked down at him intensely. "It is!" He took off running as fast as he could while screaming. The wolf chased after him and jumped on him as soon as it caught up.

"It's dinner time!" the wolf said as he bent over to start eating the man.