Chapter Two - Helping out Death
Brent sat on the brown couch in his room, a light brown blanket draped over his legs. His arm was on the arm of the couch, and his head gently rested upon it. His eyes were open, and he was glancing at the time, on a digital clock that set beside his bed.. It was time.
"If I can orb, then let's see me do it," whispered Brent to himself. He closed his eyes, sealing away the grassy orbs, and began to concentrate. In his mind was complete white; a completely clear mind. He concentrated harder, but relaxed as he did so. It only took a few seconds later until the boy had broken up into medium-sized white spheres, and disappeared.
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Meanwhile, down in the kitchen, Artemis was gulping down a glass of chocolate milk. He put his glass down after finishing drinking the cool, chocolate liquid, and began to walk towards the sink, to turn on the water. As he neared the sink though, those white spheres materialized in front of Artemis, and Brent appeared, sitting on the smooth, wooden table top, beside the sink. He almost fell back, but managed to catch himself.
"Woah! You do NOT know how weird that feels.. Suppose I'll get use to it, though. About to wash the dishes? Thought you didn't do that until after supper? It's only two right now. Jared and Will still at the car dealership, getting Jared his vehicle?" Brent looked at Artemis questioningly, and Artemis looked shocked. Once the shocked look had dispersed from his face, he began to answer Brent's questions.
"Slow it down, bro, I can only answer a few at a time. You know that.. Well, let's see.. No, I was just about to turn the sink on the rinse out my glass. I don't do it until after supper, before desert. Yes, I know it's 2:00 P.M. now, and it's Saturday, how about that? They are still at the dealership.. When they get his vehicle, I go and get mine. Hah, you'll still be vehicle-less." Artemis stuck out his tongue at his older brother, and scrunched up his nose.
"I'd watch your mouth, young one. For you think I'm going to listen to a youth that's younger than me, that has a milk mustache just under his nose?" Brent smirked as he wiped away the liquid mustache with his thumb, and he tapped Artemis' nose soon after. "But, I must admit, this orbing power will come in handy; No having to climb the stairs all the way to the second floor. Tee hee."
Artemis just stuck out his tongue once more, and grabbed his glass from behind him. He turned on the sink, and began to wash out the insides of the glass, making it all shiny. He set the glass aside of a knife, which had peanut butter and jelly still on it, from an earlier use that day. Artemis picked it up, and his eyes went misty for a second..
A man with black hair stood in a night time, dark alleyway, about to walk through it. He swiped a hand through his hair, and slowly but steadily, started to walk through the shadowy passageway. Smoke began to rise near a dumpster and a red headed demon appeared. One horn was lodged into the side of it's head, and green lips were small, but wide. Smoke fell from the demon's nostrils, and in his hand was.. Nothing. Nothing but a large claw. The demon waited until the man had neared him, before he jumped out, grabbing him. Claw scratched deep into the human's skull, and other claw ripped into his stomach.
The demon released his grip on the man, and twisted the dead, limp body around, to gradually bite into the back of his neck. After this, the demon let out a fierce roar, before disappearing in a whiff of smoke once more, letting the dead body sit there and bleed..
Artemis' eyes returned to normal, and he looked at Brent, horrendously mortified. He grabbed Brent's hand, and gently pulled him down from the counter top. "Brent, will you please do me a favor? I.. Just experienced my second power.. It didn't hurt or anything, but I believe we have a human who will be killed tonight.. Supernaturally." Artemis picked up a mechanical pencil, and found a blank sheet of paper that was lying around. He began to scribble and jot down the looks of the demon, and once he was through, he handed the piece of parchment to his older brother. "This is what he looks like. I'll find a potion if there is one, after you find out who he is. Thanks."
Brent looked confused, but hey, it gave him another chance to test out his power. He nodded his head, and simply.. Just orbed away in those spheres, re-appearing in the basement below them. Artemis, however, began to wash away the peanut butter and jelly from the butter knife. His face wasn't shocked, or scared anymore, but he had a regular look on, as he thought in his head 'I wish those two would hurry up..'
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Jared and Will were still at the car dealership; yet they were sitting in the managers office. Jared had a look of pure pleasure plastered upon that silky smooth face, as the manager slid the keys to his new Acura Sports Utility vehicle. Will, however, look horrified.
"Here.. Are the keys to your new vehicle. Have a nice day, the two of you." And with a small smile, he stood up from his desk, and closed a few folders. He quickly exited the room, seeing other customers waiting outside.
"Woo! I finally got my vehicle.. And look at it! It's looking all nice and sport's like out in that parking lot. Yay for Jared's new vehicle!" Jared smiled widely as he snatched up the keys that had been lain down on the table. He took out his house key, bedroom key, and other assortment of keys, and quickly slid them onto the same key chain as the vehicle key. "Ready to go, bro?"
"Well, yeah. But, I'm sure Artemis is ready to get his too. What was he getting? That black Denali?" Will stood up, and began to walk out of the room. "Still don't know if I should trust you two on the road. He's as slow as a snail.. You drive as fast as you can.. Blah. Glad I'm not riding with you." Grin formed along the slim lines of his lips as they both exited the small room, and headed outside. Once outside, both boys walked over to their vehicles.
"Did you see the last guy we past, on the right? Hot and sexy. Caught between the middle." Jared winked at his brother, who winked back. All four brothers of the household were gay, or near it. Jared and Brent were both gay, while Artemis and Will were bisexual. Will smiled back at his youngest brother, as he unlocked his vehicle, and sat in it.
"Yeah. But the babe on the right of him was looking good too." Will waved good-bye, and said, "see you later, at the house," before he started up the car, backed up, and drove off. Jared said 'bye', as he unlocked his new 'wheels', and sat in the seat, shutting the door. He stuck the key into the ignition, and started that white vehicle. Once it was ready to go, he took his shades out of the middle console, which he had placed inside when he was test-driving earlier. He placed the light blue lense shades in front of his eyes, and turned the radio to a country station, that had the singing sensation 'Faith Hill' playing. As he backed up, he began to sing along with the girl, and he drove off, following the route out that his brother had taken.
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Jared pulled his car in beside Will's, where, normally, Brent's silver dodge would have been parked. As he stepped outside of his Acura, he locked the doors, just in time to see Artemis and Will coming out of the garage door, that lead into the back of the house.
"Hey you two. Already off to get your automobile?" Jared smiled, but he only got a frown from Artemis, who was still thinking about the demon that he had saw in his premonition. "What's wrong with you?" Will unlocked his red corvette's doors, and both of them sat inside. As he started up the vehicle, Artemis decided to answer his twin's question.
"Ask Brent; He'll tell you. He should still be in the basement. Sorry I can't answer you, but I'm ready to go get my 'wheels'!" Artemis forced a smile, but Jared frowned this time, knowing something was bothering his brother. Will was frowning himself as he pulled out of the drive, Artemis having been told him already about his premonition. Jared shrugged, and walked inside the house, locking the door behind him.
"Hey Brent! Where are ya' at?" Jared walked into the kitchen, and placed his keys on the key hanger, beside one of the large windows in the kitchen. As he turned around, though, Brent appeared in front of him, and Jared smiled. "Master your new power?"
"Yeah, I did," Brent smiled, but his grin soon faded. "I need you to look up a spell for Death. The Angel of Death. We need to summon him/her.. Artemis had two premonitions while you guys were out." Jared nodded, and Brent placed his hand on Jared's shoulder. He orbed the two of them to the basement, in front of the podiums. "Okay, the first premonition was about a demon, named Zeltrax, killing an 'innocent'. An 'innocent' is what we will call any human in danger, that we must save. Don't ask where it came from, but it sounded like a voice whispered it in my ear. Weird yes, not expected? No. Anyway, Artemis had a second one as I found the demon, and called him to the basement. While he was walking down the stairs, he had the same premonition, though a shadowy figure was following him this time. Right before the innocent was slain, the shadowy figure killed the demon, and the innocent, at the same time."
"Wow. Pretty gruesome.. Eh, I'll look up that spell. Did you find out who the innocent is?" Jared walked towards the Book of Spells, and began to flip through the pages. He noticed a small folder under the book, and pulled it out from under it.
"That's the information I could get on him. His name's Jonathan Wiltrix. Professor Jonathan Wiltrix. He works at the collage that Will goes too.. So it should be easy convincing him to come here for safe keeping." Brent began to walk over towards the Book of Demons. "I'm going to find out more about Zeltrax, though.. It says here that he's an upper-class demon. So he'll need a potion to vanquish him. Artemis will be working on that when he gets back. Oh, maybe before nightfall today, do you want to go with me to pick up my truck? The people called and said get it around three.. Which is in about thirty minutes. Look at us though.. Only vanquished one demon, just got used to both of our powers, some of us any way, and we're acting like experts."
"Okay, I'll look up the spell first. And sure, I'll go with you." Jared smiled and nodded, but suddenly stopped on a certain page. "Hmm.. Here's the spell to summon Death. And I'm sure I can say one to make him go away.. Be ready just in case he's evil though." Jared looked down at the page, and began to chant:
"Spirits of air, sand, and sea,
Converge to set the Angel free;
In the wind I send this rhyme,
Bring death before me, before
my time."
Air began to swirl about and about, and sand and water mixed together out of nowhere in the middle of the room. Soon, a man with white hair stood there. He was wearing a white robe, and looked about twenty-two.
"Hey buster, are you trying to kill an innocent tonight?" Jared looked at Death, afraid, but holding it back.
"No, it is not my intentions to slay thy mortal that you speak of. Only 'tis the demon that will try to murder thy mortal that you speak of. Is this the only reason thy witch called thee?" Death glared at Jared. "Don't worry; 'Tis not thou's time.. Nor anyone's anytime soon.."
"My brother had a premonition, where you killed the demon, and accidentally slain the innocent. If you're being honest, which I believe you are, then we'll help kill the demon, and watch over the innocent." Brent was reading about the demon as he was speaking. Death looked at the boy, obviously just now noticing he was in the room.
"Well then, I usually do not help witches or anything. Nor am I evil, though. But I shall help thy witch, as slaying someone thou isn't supposed to would lose thee his job. Call me Jack. My real name's Jack O'bryan.. Thought that I would say thy name, because I'll be helping you guys whenever you need me.. I am just a call away.." And with that, Death, or Jack, disappeared just as he had appeared the first time. Jared looked at Brent confused.
"I believe him.. But why in the WORLD did he just tell us his name? Heck, I thought his name was Death."
"Mustn't have very many friends, being called Death and all, I suppose.. But at least he said he'd help. It would have been hard, somehow.. I have a hunch." Brent went over to Jared and put his arm around the boy, just as they began to walk up those stairs. "Let's go get my vehicle."
"I'm driving!" Jared smiled as he rushed into the kitchen, and snatched up his key's from the hook they were hanging on. He darted outside the garage door, and let Brent close it and lock it. Jared unlocked the automobile, and both boys jumped in.
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It was about 5:00 P.M. when everyone had set down to dinner. An hour had passed since everyone had gotten back home, and everything was explained to the other members of the Hollow family. Brent was already fixing his plate, and Jared, Artemis, and Will had just sat down. Brent finished fixing his plate, and began to eat, trying to hurry up and finish, so they could grab the vials of potion, and go to that dark alley, waiting for the demon to arrive.
After all four boys had finished eating, though, Brent was the first to the basement. He grabbed the potion vials, and handed them to each brother, keeping one for his self. Will smiled at this. He rubbed the top of his brothers head, and grinned wildly.
"In a hurry to get somewhere? Slow it down, I think you had too much caffeine at dinner." Brent stuck out his tongue childishly, and began to bounce up and down.
"Sorry, but I just want to get this over with. You know? Are you guys ready? Good! Hold on to me." The three other brothers laughed at him as they placed a hand on him, and gripped that place. Soon after, he orbed, orbing to a different dumpster than the one the demon appeared behind. This one was right behind the demon's dumpster though. Small pitter-patting of the feet could be heard, coming near the entrance of the alley. "See guys? We made it just in time.."
As the pitter-pats became louder, an outline of a figure could be see. And Death was floating right beside the figure, yet un-able to be seen by the mortal. As the man began to step closer, smoke began to rise from behind the dumpster in front of them. "Now!" Will whispered, and an energy ball formed in his hand, to be thrown at the dumpster, where the smoke was arising. The energy ball made contact with the dumpster, and trash flew upwards, landing back down on it. As the demon fully materialized, the professor had ran off, spooked by the dumpster. Death was still there, though. Death's shadow formed into a human like body, and stood there, the demon facing him, and him facing the demon.
"Zeltrax. It's your time to die.." Death's voice echoed through the night, as he began to run towards the demon. The demon didn't move though, only spoke.
"Shirox! Distract him so I can get the man!" As Zeltrax disappeared, another demon appeared, same style, only to be tackled to the ground by Death. Death frowned, and growled, before disappearing, an echoing 'It's not your time' ringing through the night as he did so. The demon Shirox stood up, and brushed himself off. Right as he was about to teleport out, though, Artemis stepped on a can. The four brothers had been creeping up to the demon, ready to vanquish him, and Artemis had stepped on a can, which seemed to echo out in the night as well. The demon looked behind him, and the brothers could finally get a clear shot of what he looked like. He looked human; like a bald human with six small spikes coming from his head. Other than that, he looked totally human.
"Darnit, Artemis! We'll still get him!" Brent sent out his hand, which was clenched. As soon as he un-clenched it, the potency beam shot from his hand. He rushed towards the demon; To orb right before getting kicked by the demon, who had ducked under the blast. Brent re-appeared behind the demon, and kicked him in the back, knocking him down. Shirox growled, and swept his right leg out, to trip the boy. Soon, the demon was up, and his foot was on Brent's stomach. He pushed down hard, and the air was knocked out of Brent, rendering him unconscious.
"Brent!" Will screamed as he threw an energy ball at the demon, who was hit by it, but hardly phased. He looked behind him and snarled, growling as he shot out his hand, lightning erupting from his fingertips, and barely missing Will. However though, the lightning was about to hit Jared. Artemis pushed his brother of the way, and was knocked down instead. "Artemis! You'll pay for that!" Invisible was what came next. Will blended in with the air around him, and disappeared from sight. An invisible energy ball was pressed into Shirox's head, which caused the demon to scream out in agony. Yet, he right hand powerfully smashed into the boy's stomach, knocking him unconscious as well, and visible.
He turned, hands ready to send electric bolts from those fingertips. Jared stood up from his place at Artemis' side, and began to walk towards the demon.
"I dare you.. Take one more step closer to them.." Jared had a somewhat calm look upon his face as he walked towards the demon. Shirox grinned menacingly and his fingertips began to glow a greenish-yellow. "Don't say I didn't warn you.." Jared sent out his right hand, not how he would wave it using Telekinesis, though. Once his clenched fist opened up, once his arm had stopped three/fourths of the way straight, the demon burst into many pieces, and disappeared. He ran over to Artemis, who was slightly awake.
"Good job, Jared.." Artemis smiled, and stood up, though it took some time. Jared helped him limp from his place, over to Brent and Will.
"Wake up Brent and Will.. I'll be back." With this, Jared walked away from them, and shouted into the night. "DEATH! COME HERE, FAST!" Jared quickly got the four potion vials from his brothers' pockets, as Death appeared, a gloomy look on his face. "Take me to where the innocent is, quick, before the demon can kill him." Without a word, Death swooped Jared into his arms and disappeared.
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When they re-appeared, they were in an old, abandoned park. The demon Zeltrax was standing above a wounded innocent, ready to make his kill. Jared ran up to the demon, and tried to blow him up, with his new power. It only seared his skin badly, but it didn't really seem to phase the demon. He turned his head, snarling.
"What do you want," Zeltrax growled, an angry look in his eyes.
"Leave," Jared used his second power once again. "Him," and again. "Alone!" And once more, though the last time, all four potions landed on him, and Jared blew them up with his power. "Quickly, Death.. Kill him." Death nodded, and entered the demon's inner body. Without warning, the demon burst into flames, and Death stood there, smiling. "I'll take him to a hospital."
"I'll see you soon.. Though not as a death thing.." Death smiled, and faded into nothing, as Jared ran over to the innocent, and placed his hands on his chest. He began to shake lightly, until the innocent woke up, spurting a small amount of blood up.
"Sh, just nod your head yes or no.." Jared put a finger to his lips, as he continued. "Do you remember what happened?" The innocent shook his head gently no, and Jared pulled out his cell, calling 911.
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Later that night, when everything had been cleared up at the hospital, all four brothers were back at home, bandages around some. Brent and Will were up resting in their rooms, yet Jared and Artemis were taking care of one each, since they were, in a way, okay.
"Good job.. On vanquishing Shirox.." Brent smiled and congratulated his brother on his victory. "And on helping Jack out."
"Thanks; I couldn't have done it without you guys being hurt, though.. Sorry.. That's what helped me control my new power though.. And not blow up everything in sight. You rest though, okay?" Jared pressed a kiss to Brent's forehead, and walked out of the room. He turned off the lights, and cracked the door open, before walking off to his own bedroom to sleep..
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End!
Brent sat on the brown couch in his room, a light brown blanket draped over his legs. His arm was on the arm of the couch, and his head gently rested upon it. His eyes were open, and he was glancing at the time, on a digital clock that set beside his bed.. It was time.
"If I can orb, then let's see me do it," whispered Brent to himself. He closed his eyes, sealing away the grassy orbs, and began to concentrate. In his mind was complete white; a completely clear mind. He concentrated harder, but relaxed as he did so. It only took a few seconds later until the boy had broken up into medium-sized white spheres, and disappeared.
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Meanwhile, down in the kitchen, Artemis was gulping down a glass of chocolate milk. He put his glass down after finishing drinking the cool, chocolate liquid, and began to walk towards the sink, to turn on the water. As he neared the sink though, those white spheres materialized in front of Artemis, and Brent appeared, sitting on the smooth, wooden table top, beside the sink. He almost fell back, but managed to catch himself.
"Woah! You do NOT know how weird that feels.. Suppose I'll get use to it, though. About to wash the dishes? Thought you didn't do that until after supper? It's only two right now. Jared and Will still at the car dealership, getting Jared his vehicle?" Brent looked at Artemis questioningly, and Artemis looked shocked. Once the shocked look had dispersed from his face, he began to answer Brent's questions.
"Slow it down, bro, I can only answer a few at a time. You know that.. Well, let's see.. No, I was just about to turn the sink on the rinse out my glass. I don't do it until after supper, before desert. Yes, I know it's 2:00 P.M. now, and it's Saturday, how about that? They are still at the dealership.. When they get his vehicle, I go and get mine. Hah, you'll still be vehicle-less." Artemis stuck out his tongue at his older brother, and scrunched up his nose.
"I'd watch your mouth, young one. For you think I'm going to listen to a youth that's younger than me, that has a milk mustache just under his nose?" Brent smirked as he wiped away the liquid mustache with his thumb, and he tapped Artemis' nose soon after. "But, I must admit, this orbing power will come in handy; No having to climb the stairs all the way to the second floor. Tee hee."
Artemis just stuck out his tongue once more, and grabbed his glass from behind him. He turned on the sink, and began to wash out the insides of the glass, making it all shiny. He set the glass aside of a knife, which had peanut butter and jelly still on it, from an earlier use that day. Artemis picked it up, and his eyes went misty for a second..
A man with black hair stood in a night time, dark alleyway, about to walk through it. He swiped a hand through his hair, and slowly but steadily, started to walk through the shadowy passageway. Smoke began to rise near a dumpster and a red headed demon appeared. One horn was lodged into the side of it's head, and green lips were small, but wide. Smoke fell from the demon's nostrils, and in his hand was.. Nothing. Nothing but a large claw. The demon waited until the man had neared him, before he jumped out, grabbing him. Claw scratched deep into the human's skull, and other claw ripped into his stomach.
The demon released his grip on the man, and twisted the dead, limp body around, to gradually bite into the back of his neck. After this, the demon let out a fierce roar, before disappearing in a whiff of smoke once more, letting the dead body sit there and bleed..
Artemis' eyes returned to normal, and he looked at Brent, horrendously mortified. He grabbed Brent's hand, and gently pulled him down from the counter top. "Brent, will you please do me a favor? I.. Just experienced my second power.. It didn't hurt or anything, but I believe we have a human who will be killed tonight.. Supernaturally." Artemis picked up a mechanical pencil, and found a blank sheet of paper that was lying around. He began to scribble and jot down the looks of the demon, and once he was through, he handed the piece of parchment to his older brother. "This is what he looks like. I'll find a potion if there is one, after you find out who he is. Thanks."
Brent looked confused, but hey, it gave him another chance to test out his power. He nodded his head, and simply.. Just orbed away in those spheres, re-appearing in the basement below them. Artemis, however, began to wash away the peanut butter and jelly from the butter knife. His face wasn't shocked, or scared anymore, but he had a regular look on, as he thought in his head 'I wish those two would hurry up..'
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Jared and Will were still at the car dealership; yet they were sitting in the managers office. Jared had a look of pure pleasure plastered upon that silky smooth face, as the manager slid the keys to his new Acura Sports Utility vehicle. Will, however, look horrified.
"Here.. Are the keys to your new vehicle. Have a nice day, the two of you." And with a small smile, he stood up from his desk, and closed a few folders. He quickly exited the room, seeing other customers waiting outside.
"Woo! I finally got my vehicle.. And look at it! It's looking all nice and sport's like out in that parking lot. Yay for Jared's new vehicle!" Jared smiled widely as he snatched up the keys that had been lain down on the table. He took out his house key, bedroom key, and other assortment of keys, and quickly slid them onto the same key chain as the vehicle key. "Ready to go, bro?"
"Well, yeah. But, I'm sure Artemis is ready to get his too. What was he getting? That black Denali?" Will stood up, and began to walk out of the room. "Still don't know if I should trust you two on the road. He's as slow as a snail.. You drive as fast as you can.. Blah. Glad I'm not riding with you." Grin formed along the slim lines of his lips as they both exited the small room, and headed outside. Once outside, both boys walked over to their vehicles.
"Did you see the last guy we past, on the right? Hot and sexy. Caught between the middle." Jared winked at his brother, who winked back. All four brothers of the household were gay, or near it. Jared and Brent were both gay, while Artemis and Will were bisexual. Will smiled back at his youngest brother, as he unlocked his vehicle, and sat in it.
"Yeah. But the babe on the right of him was looking good too." Will waved good-bye, and said, "see you later, at the house," before he started up the car, backed up, and drove off. Jared said 'bye', as he unlocked his new 'wheels', and sat in the seat, shutting the door. He stuck the key into the ignition, and started that white vehicle. Once it was ready to go, he took his shades out of the middle console, which he had placed inside when he was test-driving earlier. He placed the light blue lense shades in front of his eyes, and turned the radio to a country station, that had the singing sensation 'Faith Hill' playing. As he backed up, he began to sing along with the girl, and he drove off, following the route out that his brother had taken.
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Jared pulled his car in beside Will's, where, normally, Brent's silver dodge would have been parked. As he stepped outside of his Acura, he locked the doors, just in time to see Artemis and Will coming out of the garage door, that lead into the back of the house.
"Hey you two. Already off to get your automobile?" Jared smiled, but he only got a frown from Artemis, who was still thinking about the demon that he had saw in his premonition. "What's wrong with you?" Will unlocked his red corvette's doors, and both of them sat inside. As he started up the vehicle, Artemis decided to answer his twin's question.
"Ask Brent; He'll tell you. He should still be in the basement. Sorry I can't answer you, but I'm ready to go get my 'wheels'!" Artemis forced a smile, but Jared frowned this time, knowing something was bothering his brother. Will was frowning himself as he pulled out of the drive, Artemis having been told him already about his premonition. Jared shrugged, and walked inside the house, locking the door behind him.
"Hey Brent! Where are ya' at?" Jared walked into the kitchen, and placed his keys on the key hanger, beside one of the large windows in the kitchen. As he turned around, though, Brent appeared in front of him, and Jared smiled. "Master your new power?"
"Yeah, I did," Brent smiled, but his grin soon faded. "I need you to look up a spell for Death. The Angel of Death. We need to summon him/her.. Artemis had two premonitions while you guys were out." Jared nodded, and Brent placed his hand on Jared's shoulder. He orbed the two of them to the basement, in front of the podiums. "Okay, the first premonition was about a demon, named Zeltrax, killing an 'innocent'. An 'innocent' is what we will call any human in danger, that we must save. Don't ask where it came from, but it sounded like a voice whispered it in my ear. Weird yes, not expected? No. Anyway, Artemis had a second one as I found the demon, and called him to the basement. While he was walking down the stairs, he had the same premonition, though a shadowy figure was following him this time. Right before the innocent was slain, the shadowy figure killed the demon, and the innocent, at the same time."
"Wow. Pretty gruesome.. Eh, I'll look up that spell. Did you find out who the innocent is?" Jared walked towards the Book of Spells, and began to flip through the pages. He noticed a small folder under the book, and pulled it out from under it.
"That's the information I could get on him. His name's Jonathan Wiltrix. Professor Jonathan Wiltrix. He works at the collage that Will goes too.. So it should be easy convincing him to come here for safe keeping." Brent began to walk over towards the Book of Demons. "I'm going to find out more about Zeltrax, though.. It says here that he's an upper-class demon. So he'll need a potion to vanquish him. Artemis will be working on that when he gets back. Oh, maybe before nightfall today, do you want to go with me to pick up my truck? The people called and said get it around three.. Which is in about thirty minutes. Look at us though.. Only vanquished one demon, just got used to both of our powers, some of us any way, and we're acting like experts."
"Okay, I'll look up the spell first. And sure, I'll go with you." Jared smiled and nodded, but suddenly stopped on a certain page. "Hmm.. Here's the spell to summon Death. And I'm sure I can say one to make him go away.. Be ready just in case he's evil though." Jared looked down at the page, and began to chant:
"Spirits of air, sand, and sea,
Converge to set the Angel free;
In the wind I send this rhyme,
Bring death before me, before
my time."
Air began to swirl about and about, and sand and water mixed together out of nowhere in the middle of the room. Soon, a man with white hair stood there. He was wearing a white robe, and looked about twenty-two.
"Hey buster, are you trying to kill an innocent tonight?" Jared looked at Death, afraid, but holding it back.
"No, it is not my intentions to slay thy mortal that you speak of. Only 'tis the demon that will try to murder thy mortal that you speak of. Is this the only reason thy witch called thee?" Death glared at Jared. "Don't worry; 'Tis not thou's time.. Nor anyone's anytime soon.."
"My brother had a premonition, where you killed the demon, and accidentally slain the innocent. If you're being honest, which I believe you are, then we'll help kill the demon, and watch over the innocent." Brent was reading about the demon as he was speaking. Death looked at the boy, obviously just now noticing he was in the room.
"Well then, I usually do not help witches or anything. Nor am I evil, though. But I shall help thy witch, as slaying someone thou isn't supposed to would lose thee his job. Call me Jack. My real name's Jack O'bryan.. Thought that I would say thy name, because I'll be helping you guys whenever you need me.. I am just a call away.." And with that, Death, or Jack, disappeared just as he had appeared the first time. Jared looked at Brent confused.
"I believe him.. But why in the WORLD did he just tell us his name? Heck, I thought his name was Death."
"Mustn't have very many friends, being called Death and all, I suppose.. But at least he said he'd help. It would have been hard, somehow.. I have a hunch." Brent went over to Jared and put his arm around the boy, just as they began to walk up those stairs. "Let's go get my vehicle."
"I'm driving!" Jared smiled as he rushed into the kitchen, and snatched up his key's from the hook they were hanging on. He darted outside the garage door, and let Brent close it and lock it. Jared unlocked the automobile, and both boys jumped in.
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It was about 5:00 P.M. when everyone had set down to dinner. An hour had passed since everyone had gotten back home, and everything was explained to the other members of the Hollow family. Brent was already fixing his plate, and Jared, Artemis, and Will had just sat down. Brent finished fixing his plate, and began to eat, trying to hurry up and finish, so they could grab the vials of potion, and go to that dark alley, waiting for the demon to arrive.
After all four boys had finished eating, though, Brent was the first to the basement. He grabbed the potion vials, and handed them to each brother, keeping one for his self. Will smiled at this. He rubbed the top of his brothers head, and grinned wildly.
"In a hurry to get somewhere? Slow it down, I think you had too much caffeine at dinner." Brent stuck out his tongue childishly, and began to bounce up and down.
"Sorry, but I just want to get this over with. You know? Are you guys ready? Good! Hold on to me." The three other brothers laughed at him as they placed a hand on him, and gripped that place. Soon after, he orbed, orbing to a different dumpster than the one the demon appeared behind. This one was right behind the demon's dumpster though. Small pitter-patting of the feet could be heard, coming near the entrance of the alley. "See guys? We made it just in time.."
As the pitter-pats became louder, an outline of a figure could be see. And Death was floating right beside the figure, yet un-able to be seen by the mortal. As the man began to step closer, smoke began to rise from behind the dumpster in front of them. "Now!" Will whispered, and an energy ball formed in his hand, to be thrown at the dumpster, where the smoke was arising. The energy ball made contact with the dumpster, and trash flew upwards, landing back down on it. As the demon fully materialized, the professor had ran off, spooked by the dumpster. Death was still there, though. Death's shadow formed into a human like body, and stood there, the demon facing him, and him facing the demon.
"Zeltrax. It's your time to die.." Death's voice echoed through the night, as he began to run towards the demon. The demon didn't move though, only spoke.
"Shirox! Distract him so I can get the man!" As Zeltrax disappeared, another demon appeared, same style, only to be tackled to the ground by Death. Death frowned, and growled, before disappearing, an echoing 'It's not your time' ringing through the night as he did so. The demon Shirox stood up, and brushed himself off. Right as he was about to teleport out, though, Artemis stepped on a can. The four brothers had been creeping up to the demon, ready to vanquish him, and Artemis had stepped on a can, which seemed to echo out in the night as well. The demon looked behind him, and the brothers could finally get a clear shot of what he looked like. He looked human; like a bald human with six small spikes coming from his head. Other than that, he looked totally human.
"Darnit, Artemis! We'll still get him!" Brent sent out his hand, which was clenched. As soon as he un-clenched it, the potency beam shot from his hand. He rushed towards the demon; To orb right before getting kicked by the demon, who had ducked under the blast. Brent re-appeared behind the demon, and kicked him in the back, knocking him down. Shirox growled, and swept his right leg out, to trip the boy. Soon, the demon was up, and his foot was on Brent's stomach. He pushed down hard, and the air was knocked out of Brent, rendering him unconscious.
"Brent!" Will screamed as he threw an energy ball at the demon, who was hit by it, but hardly phased. He looked behind him and snarled, growling as he shot out his hand, lightning erupting from his fingertips, and barely missing Will. However though, the lightning was about to hit Jared. Artemis pushed his brother of the way, and was knocked down instead. "Artemis! You'll pay for that!" Invisible was what came next. Will blended in with the air around him, and disappeared from sight. An invisible energy ball was pressed into Shirox's head, which caused the demon to scream out in agony. Yet, he right hand powerfully smashed into the boy's stomach, knocking him unconscious as well, and visible.
He turned, hands ready to send electric bolts from those fingertips. Jared stood up from his place at Artemis' side, and began to walk towards the demon.
"I dare you.. Take one more step closer to them.." Jared had a somewhat calm look upon his face as he walked towards the demon. Shirox grinned menacingly and his fingertips began to glow a greenish-yellow. "Don't say I didn't warn you.." Jared sent out his right hand, not how he would wave it using Telekinesis, though. Once his clenched fist opened up, once his arm had stopped three/fourths of the way straight, the demon burst into many pieces, and disappeared. He ran over to Artemis, who was slightly awake.
"Good job, Jared.." Artemis smiled, and stood up, though it took some time. Jared helped him limp from his place, over to Brent and Will.
"Wake up Brent and Will.. I'll be back." With this, Jared walked away from them, and shouted into the night. "DEATH! COME HERE, FAST!" Jared quickly got the four potion vials from his brothers' pockets, as Death appeared, a gloomy look on his face. "Take me to where the innocent is, quick, before the demon can kill him." Without a word, Death swooped Jared into his arms and disappeared.
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When they re-appeared, they were in an old, abandoned park. The demon Zeltrax was standing above a wounded innocent, ready to make his kill. Jared ran up to the demon, and tried to blow him up, with his new power. It only seared his skin badly, but it didn't really seem to phase the demon. He turned his head, snarling.
"What do you want," Zeltrax growled, an angry look in his eyes.
"Leave," Jared used his second power once again. "Him," and again. "Alone!" And once more, though the last time, all four potions landed on him, and Jared blew them up with his power. "Quickly, Death.. Kill him." Death nodded, and entered the demon's inner body. Without warning, the demon burst into flames, and Death stood there, smiling. "I'll take him to a hospital."
"I'll see you soon.. Though not as a death thing.." Death smiled, and faded into nothing, as Jared ran over to the innocent, and placed his hands on his chest. He began to shake lightly, until the innocent woke up, spurting a small amount of blood up.
"Sh, just nod your head yes or no.." Jared put a finger to his lips, as he continued. "Do you remember what happened?" The innocent shook his head gently no, and Jared pulled out his cell, calling 911.
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Later that night, when everything had been cleared up at the hospital, all four brothers were back at home, bandages around some. Brent and Will were up resting in their rooms, yet Jared and Artemis were taking care of one each, since they were, in a way, okay.
"Good job.. On vanquishing Shirox.." Brent smiled and congratulated his brother on his victory. "And on helping Jack out."
"Thanks; I couldn't have done it without you guys being hurt, though.. Sorry.. That's what helped me control my new power though.. And not blow up everything in sight. You rest though, okay?" Jared pressed a kiss to Brent's forehead, and walked out of the room. He turned off the lights, and cracked the door open, before walking off to his own bedroom to sleep..
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End!
