From The Author: Finally, my muse was dying out on me. Well I hope you like this next chapter, oh and Darksnidder666, thanks for the review, and I will have Demon and Rouge get together. This chapter is shorter. Well, here you go.

Chapter 7

'Where was God when I needed a friend'
'Where was God when I came to an end'
'Where was God when I lost my mind'
'Where was God when I couldn't find'
'Don't want to be up or down'
'Where was love when I felt like hate'
'Where was hate when I felt like love'
'Where were you when you said you'd be there'
'Where was the fear when I said I was scared'
'Tell me what you believe'
'I'll tell you what you should see'
''Cause I don't know who to trust'
'My heart is filled with disgust'
'I can't take this'
'Ladies and Gentlemen'
'May I have your attention'
'Are you ready for the joke'
'Are you ready for the great deception'
-Drowning Pool-Sermon-

"No!" Rogue yelled as Leo came closer. She ran to Leo and took off her glove, placing her hand on his scaled hide.

Leo roared in pain, and Rouge screamed. Horrible images flooded into her mind. Images of pain and torture, the images of killing people.

"Rouge!" Asher yelled. He got up and ran to her, pulling her away from Leo. "Rouge, Rouge, are you okay?"

She opened her eyes, staring into his turquoise blue eyes. "Asher?" She said weakly.

"Thank god your all right."

Kurt knocked on Kathy's door.

"Kathy?" he turned he door knob. It was unlocked.

"Hi blue boy." She said solemnly.

He entered her room. "Are you all right?"

"Yeah, like KoRn says, life's just peachy." she was on her laptop, putting her article on her website.

"Kathy you scare me. You are in za vrost situation, but somehow you bounce back. I don't get it."

"Simple. I don't want to think about what just happened to me over and over in my head. I just let it pass through my thoughts."

"Your strong."

"No matter how strong something is, it will always break."

"Kathy-"

"No! Your so lucky. You have had so much more than I ever did. Your lucky to be so fortunate."

"Fortunate? It didn't zink I vas so fortunate when people called me a demon and tried to burn me!"

"For Christmas did your father try to drown you by dumping you in the Chicago river? Did your mother beat you for not looking normal? Were you called a burden, a creature that should've never been born? Did you have to kill people to survive? Did you ever have a dragon controlling your mind? Did you ever had a feeling as though your skull was splitting? No, I did, I do. You could never know what I been through. You have had so much more than I have ever had, and ever will have. The one thing that I envy about you is that you had love, and you still do, me, I never had that, and I never will.

"All I got was false love. People would play with my feelings. You do just the same."

"Kathy, I have never played vith your feelings."

"Yeah okay, um let's think. You sleep with me, and then act as though nothing happens the next day, you just waltz on over to Amanda, nothing happened."

Kurt stopped cold. She was right. "Kathy, I-I'm sorry."

"Yeah, I've heard that a lot in my life, and most of the time, they don't mean it. Sometimes I don't know what to believe. Not even from my best friend."

"Kathy, you know zat I mean it."

"Do I? That's what Trex said to me a lot. Look and see, he was lying." She turned her laptop off and got up. She passed him and walked out the door.

In the woods near the mansion, Asher meditated, collecting souls. His eyes glowed with the energy that flooded into his body.

A twig cracked in two. His wings snapped open.

"It's okay, it's just me." Rouge came by.

Asher turned around. "Hi."

"I wanted to thank ya."

"Oh you don't have to, I've done a lot in my life and people don't thank me."

"Well then I should be the first." Rouge smiled. "What re ya doin out here?"

"Meditating, the only way to collect souls."

"Collect souls?"

"Yeah it's my energy source. That's how I teleport, create that beam of light that scared the shit out of Leo, and do just about everything else."

"You kill people, like Leo?"

"No, no, no. I collect the souls of already dead people, most are the victims of Leo. But I can kill people, only out of self defense, and I have to be no more than twenty feet away from my victim to do anything to them."

"Aw see. So you like it out here more than you like it inside at the mansion?"

"I just feel more comfortable I guess."

"I would too if I had wings like doze."

Asher spread out his wings to a full ten feet across. "Yeah their okay, it gets me around." he flapped his wings and flew up. Rouge looked around.

"Where'd ya go?" Rouge turned around. She heard a thump behind her. She spun around. "Asher! Don't do that, ya scared me."

"Sorry." He smiled. Rouge smiled back.

"Okay. What's up?" Logan asked. He noticed Kathy and Kurt on opposite sides of the room.

"Nothing." Kathy said plainly.

"No, somethin's up. You and Elf are like Mutt and Jeff, always together, somethin's wrong."

"Fight." Kurt said. He was working on his French homework.

"You two had a fight? That's unheard of."

"Look Logan. I have a short temper, and the fuse is running fast, so you better leave me alone, or you'll be acquainted with my fist." Kathy said

"Scaly, you know better than to talk to me like that."

"Maybe yes, maybe no."

Kurt snickered. "Kathy. I've said zis a lot to you, your crazy. No body has gone against Herr Logan and lived to talk about it."

"Yeah, listen to Elf."

"Ha! I listen to no one."

Logan snarled. He stared at the TV, a Clint Eastwood movie was on, and caught his attention. "Leave this channel on."

"Yes Sahib." Kathy obeyed. She got off the couch and handed the controls to Logan.

She made her way to the kitchen. "The leftovers are having a revolution."

"Hmph." Logan snarled

"They are riding on little tomatoes, and are slicing the meatloaf people in two with swords. Now they are storming the Tupper ware castle. Oh no, they just made off with the squash maiden. Uh, oh, they have spotted me." Kathy slammed the fridge door shut.

Kurt and Logan stared at her.

"Ve have to clean out zat fridge." Kurt teleported off.

BAMF

He reappeared by the fridge.

"You don't want to look inside. Trust me."

"I have everything under control. All you need is some cleaner, and tough sponge, and goggles."

"And flame thrower, and gas mask, and heat resistant suit." Kathy smiled

"Ja right." He opened the fridge and slammed it shut fast. "Okay. Time to get a new fridge."

"Told you."

"You don't lie."

"No I don't." She walked away from him. 'But how am I sure that you don't?'

"Kathy." Kurt called out to her. She stopped. "I'm sorry. I really am."

She kept her head low and started to amble again.

BAMF

He teleported in front of her. "Kathy, you are my best friend, I don't lie to you. When I say I'm sorry I mean it."

She looked into his eyes. They were truthful. She collapsed into his arms. He held her close. "He will kill the ones you love."

It was late, and Kurt tossed and turned in bed. Nightmares plagued him all night. But the disturbing thing was that they were his memories of pain and torture. Horrible memories that were tinted with Leo's touch.

Kurt opened his eyes. He felt a warm beam of sunlight on his face. He looked around and saw he was in Winzeldorf, his home town, but it was quite. No one was there. No sound came from the village. Not the sound of dogs barking or babies crying.

"What do you think?" Kurt snapped to attention and turned around. Leo stared at him.

"Vat is zis? Some kind of sick joke?"

"As much as I like sick jokes, this is no joke. It is what will happen. Everything you see before you is the outcome of my power. I will kill everything in this town! Every person you knew, every person from that little circus you knew so well. Everything! And it is all your fault." Leo turned into the dragon. His long tail wrapped around Kurt's fragile body. 'You will suffer for taking her away. You and everything you see here will suffer too.' Leo opened his long jaws. Saliva drooled down form his huge fangs. Kurt's eyes widened in terror as Leo's mouth came closer. He could see the new teeth coming out, the ever bleeding of his gums, the meat stuck between his fangs. His jaws came closer and closed down on him.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Kurt screamed into the night. He looked around saw that he was in his bed. He broke into a cold sweat. He stared out his window and saw a dragon like shape fly away. He breathed hard.

"Kurt? What's wrong?" Scott rushed into his room. The others followed.

He looked up at Scott. "TV, Tobius turn on your TV."

"Why?"

"Because I said so!"

BAMF

Kurt stared at the television. To his fear, the same thing was on every channel. He stared at the set. Everyone was dead, everything was dead. All the people in his home town, gone. In a blink of an eye. The bodies spread on the ground, in the place they fell. Kurt started to shake.

"Nein, no." His voice shook. "All dead, zey're all dead."

Everyone stared at the set.

"This is ridiculous!" Logan roared.

"Logan, I underst-"

"Chuck, for once in your life shut-up. This Leo guy can kill anything, and anyone he wants to. We can't hide from him."

Kathy looked up at him. She could smell his fear. She then looked over to Kurt. He shook horribly.

"Well what are we like, going to do? If Leo can kill anyone, then like, maybe he could kill all of us next, what if that happens? Like Mr. Logan said, we can't hide. He'll just pick us out and kill us." Kitty said. Tears started to roll down her face.

"There's nothing we can do." Asher said.

"Asher, there has to be somethin that you could do." Rouge said

"There isn't. Leo wants Kathy, and he will kill until he gets her."

"So, basically he wants my sister so he could mess around with her? Hell I'm not going to let that happen. God damn it, I don't care if he kills me, the last thing I want to see is her in his hands." Tobius shouted.

"Well we gotta do somethin." Rouge protested.

"Well, this Leo dude, don't know that we're helping you guys." Toad said.

"It doesn't matter, he knows. Leo knows exactly what we're doing." Asher said.

"FUCK!" Everyone turned around and stared at Kathy. "Now that I have your attention." She smiled evilly. "We aren't going to let some dumb-ass dragon kill us, now are we? No. It would help if we just got our lazy arses and thought of something instead of just moping around here and complaining." She stood on the table. "Hell I'm with Toby, I'm not going to let this fucker get me." She stared down at Kurt. "This guy just killed an entire town of people" she said in a much softer voice. "and you know what? We are doing zip. Nothing. I'm not going stand for this. Now I say live and let die. Time to slay the dragon."

Leo slept in the brewery. He felt hollow. The amount of people he killed was greater than he had ever done in one time. And now they were getting back at him. His soul was being more drained each day. His eyes became blacker, and the four white spots where his iris should have been was now all but gone. He was now fully dead, but not dead. Nothing could kill him, except Asher. And he was going to kill him first.

Kurt put his spoon in and out of his cereal.

"Hey blue boy." Kathy said almost silently.

Kurt turned around and smiled. "Hallo."

"How are you?"

"Better. At least mein parents veren't zere."

"I'm sorry about yesterday, I was just a little angry about what happened to me."

"Ja I vas acting like a fool."

"Your sweet, your wrong, but your sweet."

Kurt smiled. "It is just so veird. Everyzing I knew just gone. Everyzing. I can't believe it. My vorld just crumbled avay."

"At least you had a world to care about."

"Vat vould you do Leo killed everybody in Chicago?"

"I wouldn't like that."

"Vell? Zat is your vorld, Chicago is your home, and Leo just destroyed mine."

"Kurt listen, I don't want to fight again alright." She turned and walked away.

"Kathy. I'm just mad okay. I never zought zat someone vould do zis, it's hard."

"Yeah. Life can be unforgiving sometimes." Kathy stopped. "But you have to learn to live with it."