Author's Note: Haven't written in weeks, our PC broke down. I wrote this entirely on the internet café……goodbye P60!
-Chapter 5-
April 4, 2157
"Get the candles!" Decipher said as he snapped his finger. The possessed woman was now on the floor.
He closed the blinds. The whole room was dark. Not a sliver of light could enter.
Magnus came back with the candles. He took out something like black chalk, and drew a formation where the possessed woman was lying down on. Decipher cut the candles so that only 1/16 of the candles were left. He melted the bottom so that it would stick to the ground.
"Let's get this over with." Decipher said as he walked towards the woman.
He touched her forehead and began chanting. The woman was now very steady, not a single movement. A gust of wind from outside blew the blinds just enough for a sliver of light to enter. It burnt the head of the woman, making Decipher let go for a split second. That was all the demon needed.
Using the woman's body, it tried to stand up, and tried to strangle Decipher. He could see behind him Magnus was about to cast.
"Not yet! The time is not right!" He yelled. Magnus stopped chanting.
Decipher put his hand on the woman's forehead once more. Now it was moving about everywhere, trying very hard to escape and kill the exorcist before her. She was moving so much that the shackles broke, and Decipher let go. Pieces of stone flew from various places and began revolving around her. The slabs were engraved with names of different demons, as Decipher deciphered.
"Damn!" Decipher shouted.
"Deccipher! We have to catch it!"
The two ran after it as it rampaged across Geffen, each building it passed was demolished.
Magnus started chanting, as well as Decipher. He threw one huge fireball, about the size of his own house at it. Magnus showered it with holy light.
The demon stopped moving. It turned to face them. One of the slabs' engraving lit up, and was destroyed.
They heard a cry from somewhere in town. Decipher and Magnus took one last look at the demon and began running towards that area. There they saw a little super novice had just been killed, and a humanoid demon with six wings was seen devouring her.
It turned its head towards the two and began charging at them, its wings flapping in individual directions.
Decipher dodged it in the nick of time. Magnus was a little bit less fortunate. He got hit smack in the chest, the demon still flying with Magnus in front of it. Decipher started chanting. He pointed at the demon, and he could see that it flinched. His skin was now burning, but he still kept on charging at Magnus. He then snapped his fingers and amulets emerged from thin air and attached itself unto the demon. Its body burnt in places the amulets were attached, and it finally gave up and fell down. Its body disintegrated into thin air. Magnus wasn't feeling very well.
"Magnus!" Decipher ran towards him.
"MAGNUS!"
"It's alright. I'm fine." He drew out a gem and lay it on the ground. A very good feeling went through them, Magnus' wounds being healed as well.
They looked up at Geffen tower. The possessed woman with slabs revolving around her was now standing at the tip of the tower. Another slab's engraving lit up, and was yet again destroyed.
The sky darkened. They saw lightning. Not just ordinary lightning, red bolts came down from the heavens. Then they saw a serpent-like creature in the clouds as if it were swimming in it. It then dove down towards them, and if Magnus hadn't pushed Decipher out of the way, he would be dead by now.
"Just repaying the favor." Magnus said.
The dragon circled them. Then its skin burnt. It didn't seem like it minded. Its skin was now a blazing inferno. Fire.
The two were sweating like anything. Decipher drew out a yellow gem and threw it at the dragon. Blue mist emerged from that same spot, and steam could be seen everywhere. The dragon's skin was being extinguished, which agitated it even more. It charged at them again. The two dodged it. Decipher throwing yet another gem and extinguishing part of his skin once more.
"I am no use against these blazing demons. All I can do is support you." Magnus said as they dodged it once more.
"Sure. No prob."
Decipher threw into the air two yellow gems and caught them in his hand. They glowed vigorously.
"Let's see what I can cook up!" At this point he started chanting. The dragon charged at him. He knew if he moved, he would move slower than usual, putting his efforts in vain. He decided to trust Magnus.
Just before the dragon slammed him, he was protected by many green crosses. He looked at Magnus. His hands were outstretched, pointing at him.
Decipher was finished casting. The red bolts stopped raining down on them. The sky darkened even more. Not even the previous streaks of red were visible. Then a huge lightning bolt, accompanied with really hot air, hit the dragon's head, crushing it. Then the air began to cool. Snow descended from the heavens, freezing the dead demon. All that was left of it was its skeleton and its crushed skull.
Everything went back to normal. Blue skies, green fields. Magnus heard two rocks hitting each other. He now knew what it was. The woman was about to summon once more. This time, all the remaining slabs were destroyed, obviously, the woman, or the demon, was filled with rage. It was now laughing, as they were now fated to die.
Five minutes have passed and still, nothing had happened. The demon, really mad at this point, looked at the ground. There were glowing lines of blue intersecting each other.
Magnus saw it as well and looked at Decipher. His right fist dropping a blue gem, while his left dropped a yellow one.
"It's all over now." Decipher pointed at it and began chanting. Magnus accompanied him after a few repetitions.
The demon was then engulfed in blue flames, its very essence being burnt. The woman's pupils were visible again. The demon was exorcised. Although there was still one problem. Without the demon, the woman could not stand on the tip of the tower and fell down from it. Decipher threw yet another gem on the ground, and blue mists emerged from it, and with a snap of a finger, it condensed and formed a cool pool. The woman fell down there. Hopefully it was deep enough to break her fall. She emerged from the pool, her hair covering her eyes. She wiped her face, and pulled her hair to the side to be able to see what had happened.
She saw Decipher's hand reaching out for her. She took it and he pulled her out of the pool. He dropped a gem, and picked it up, forgetting all about the woman.
"How could you do that?" Magnus shouted as HE helped her up.
"I-I'm sorry." A large sweat drop trickled down his face.
"That's okay. I better go home now."
"Who's your new girlfriend Decipher?" A voice from above said.
"Who's there?" Magnus shouted.
"SHUN!" Decipher shouted. He took out another cigarette and started to smoke once more. With a mere movement of his hands, a ball of fire revolved around him, revealing the so-called "Shun".
"Erm….?" Magnus said.
"Shun Akimoto. My worst enemy."
"That's right, Deciphress!" Shun said as he controlled lightning from one of the posts and put it all into one lightning ball and threw it at Decipher.
He just drew out his rod, and a blue sparkle emerged from it, absorbing the lightning.
"Who's the weakling, eh?"
"You're nothing but a mere shadow to me!" Shun started casting.
"Loooord of Vermi……" He was interrupted. Decipher snapped his fingers, and the energy that Shun felt disappeared. The casting was canceled.
"You professors think you're so great don't you?" He conjured several walls of ice from the ground, which trapped the two.
"Now what'll you do?" Shun said, as he started laughing an evil laugh.
"Look who's laughing!" Decipher shouted as he dropped his cigarette on the ground.
"What?"
Red mists began to engulf the sealed area. The mist either corroded the ice wall or melted it.
"You………Lord of Vermillion!" Shun shouted. The sky darkened.
"Decipher! He finished casting! Now what?" Magnus said. He was very worried.
A large bolt fell from the sky.
"Hmph! Watch this."
Just before the bolt hit them, Decipher put his hand in the air, so that the bolt would hit it. It did, but instead of damaging him, it just split into different directions downward, towards the ground.
Shun looked at the ground. Decipher protected themselves with a magical barrier, Magnetic Earth.
"I'm one step ahead of you! You should've known I would do that! I did it just a while ago to that demon!" Decipher said arrogantly.
Shun put on a surprised look.
"You've been fucked! You bastard!"
Decipher pointed at him. Fog engulfed the whole city. Then spider webs emerged out of nowhere, trapping Shun in it, with the fog obstructing everyone's view.
"I still have my final resort!" He snapped his fingers. Dark figures could be seen, but not in detail because of the fog.
One of them charged at the duo, they dodged it.
"Assassins?"
Decipher let his guard down long enough for the assassins to purge his defenses. The assassins pinned him down, thus making the fog disappear. The whole city was in clear view now.
Some of them released Shun from the web.
"So…..who gets the last laugh now?" Shun said as he kicked Decipher's face.
"I do!" A voice said. The moment it did. The assassins dropped to the ground one by one. Dead.
"Do I need introductions?" They saw a figure, it charged at Shun, he got wounded, but if he didn't dodge it at all he would've died. His cowardly instincts told him he should teleport away, which is exactly what he did.
Decipher stood up, as well as Magnus, both of them wiping the dirt from their clothes. Magnus healed both of them.
"Hope you're alright!" The person said. They could now see he had long, azure hair and vermillion eyes. He wore a simple outfit. Black pants, and a blue, sleeveless shirt. At his back was a double edged spear, on one end held the crucifix, and the other held a blade. The whole thing was colored with warm colors.
"Yes. By the way, what IS your name?" They asked.
"Shimizu Kaito. You can just call me Kai."
"Kai, you wanna join us?" Magnus offered.
"If it's okay with you. I have nowhere to stay anyway." Kai answered.
"Follow me to my humble abode." Decipher said.
He led them towards his house. He knocked on the door, and as usual…..
"Vermillion! Vermillion! Open this damn door!" Decipher shouted. No answer.
"VERMILLION!"
"I might seem ungrateful, but don't you have the keys?" Kai asked.
A large sweat drop trickled down Decipher's head.
"I left them at home. Vermillion was here, but obviously, he can't be trusted."
The door opened. Inside, they saw a panting Vermillion, sweating heavily.
"Welcome…to my humble abode. You'll be staying with Magnus in the erm….guest's room, although I guess it's now your room. Both of you."
Sweat drops trickled down the two's faces.
"Okay, so I guess we should have dinner now." Decipher suggested.
"I'll cook." He said.
Minutes have passed since he started cooking. It was now 7:30 pm.
"Where's the lasagna?" Vermillion said as he hopped towards the kitchen.
"THERE…IS…..NO…..LASAGNA" Decipher slowly said.
"Did I hear you right?" Vermillion replied.
"Yes. I said NO LASAGNA."
"How could you do this to your own pet? You're going to make me starve!"
"I don't care! As if I don't have enough jellopies in the bathroom!"
"You can't even repay me for cleaning up all your cigarettes after you just leave them on the ground!"
"Did I ASK you to do that?"
"Are they always this noisy?" Kai asked.
"I'm afraid so. But that's a good sign. It just means that they're really good friends." Magnus replied.
"But they always fight."
"That makes them feel sorry for each other the next day, usually they would spend the morning in the balcony, playing with each other."
Kai replied with a smile.
-Later that night-
I can see a body before me. A dead body. With its heart ripped out. Blood was everywhere. I felt something in my hands. Something…..beating. I looked at it. It was the heart. I dropped it immediately and ran away.
"Shimizu…Kaito….you cannot run away from your destiny." A voice said to me.
I ran and ran, though I didn't know where I was going. I reached a part of the town where there were many people. I didn't mind. I just kept running. And as I ran, the people I passed died instantly.
I reached a canyon, though I wasn't looking, so I fell down. Before I hit the ground, I grew wings. I flew upward, where a bright light from the heavens guided me. It grew brighter. I flew faster. I then saw a crucifix being formed by the light, then….
"Kaito!" The whispering voice said.
My wings burnt and were destroyed, and I fell down. I was about to die. There was nothing I could do. Now, a voice kept saying my name over and over again. I saw a man. A dark figure. He was reaching out for me.
"I can help you….if you help me." It grew wings, as I continued to fall down.
Then I saw Decipher. He just killed another man with wings. He looked at me and just smiled.
I could now here many voices, saying different things I could not understand. And just before I hit the ground….
"Kaito!"
Kai woke up. He looked around, and scratched his head. He looked at Magnus. He was asleep.
"It was just a dream……" He said as he went back to sleep.
A figure with glowing, vermillion eyes walked by Kai outside the window. It glared at him one last time, then literally flew off.
