Chapter 2 Saviour and Torches
A Fuzetsu engulfed the area and it The shadow unveiled its form as a creature that looked like a giant but with snake hands. Amikai didn't know what the hell is happening, everybody is frozen except him. People turned from flashes of light and vanished inside the monster's mouth. The creature noticed Amikai and grabbed him. "Huh, a Mistes?" Amikai shouted back, "Put me down and what the hell is a Mistes!"
The dark being had no intention to talk and the distance between Amikai and the creature's jaws is getting smaller. Amikai closed his eyes, hoping that this was just a dream. But the monster's bad breath proved his thoughts to be wrong. "This is the end, I guess." He clenched his eyes tighter and suddenly 2 gunshots rang out. 1 bullet shot off one of the fangs from the snake arm and one had found it's way into the palm of the other hand that is holding the teen.
The creature roared in agony from both the pain and the loss of a delicious meal. Amikai dropped bottom first. He quickly saw his rescuer in front of him, but unfortunately for Amikai, he couldn't see his saviour clearly because the mysterious person was wearing a black cape that concealed the body and with a hood that concealed the face, only small strands of glowing blue hair was revealed along with glowing sapphire eyes.
Amikai just stood dumbfounded as this conflict took place, he has no idea what is going on, first this firewall thing (Fuzetsu), a creature, people turning to light and now this person? His saviour turned to look at him and it gently pulled down the hood, it revealed a girl that is probably slightly younger than him and her hair and eyes are both glowing blue. She is also wearing a weird necklace. Amikai thought immediately, what's with this girl? The mysterious girl asked, "What do you think of him Eterna?" A deep female voice replied from the necklace. "It's a Mistes but he's not really an ally."
The creature recovered and attacked but the girl placed her gun in an invisible holster, took out a long thin blade and sliced the left snake arm off. The detached arm fell to the floor and vanished in a wisp of blue flame. The creature screamed at the girl. "WHY YOU LITTLE ….." The girl lifted up the blade and cut off the other arm. But the snake arm flew into Amikai's direction and the fang plunged straight into his right shoulder Amikai yelled out in horror as the fang disappeared from his right shoulder only to reveal a large wound. He applied pressure to the wound later.
The girl followed along with a slash at the head which decapitated the head and the rest of the body disappeared. The mysterious girl turned back to the high school student because he was screaming for help. "Please help, call an ambulance quick!" Amikai called to the girl but the girl was discussing about the Mistes with her necklace. Amikai called louder and the girl faced him again with annoyance shown in her face. "Shut up! Shut up! You have been wounded this long, so don't whine about it!" Amikai was once again dumbfounded at her behaviour, he replied, "You can't be serious." The necklace spoke to Amikai directly, "If you are just a regular human, you will be die instantly with such a fatal wound." Amikai yelled back, "If I was a human, then my blood will, it will, it's not coming out!" There was no liquid/blood coming out, the girl sighed and went extremely close to Amikai. She blew some air at the wound and Amikai caught on fire. He yelped and tried to brush the flame off and it disappeared along with the wound. The girl raised her index finger into the air and people started to reappear but they are still frozen. The Fuzetsu disappeared in front of Amikai's eyes, in the corner of his eye he saw the girl walking away in another direction. He quickly caught up and began to ask the girl about what just happened but she was ignoring him so Amikai was going to tap her shoulder for her attention, but the girl caught Amikai's hand with her left hand and spoke quietly. "Will you just shut up? You're going to attract more attention. Eterna, should we take care of him as well?" The necklace replied to be careful and not harm the Mistes. Adding to the annoyance of the girl, the necklace told her to explain everything to the boy.
"This may sound shocking to you, but you are not a regular human, you are an object, a very special object. The light that you see in everybody is their true form. If a being from the Crimson World eats a human soul, it is replaced by something else. Something called the torch."
Amikai asked immediately for his mind was filled with questions. "A replacement but how?" The girl continued speaking, "If an existence disappeared immediately then the world balance would destroyed wouldn't it? Therefore a replacement is needed but it is only temporary." Amikai looked at himself and he saw a flame burning inside of him.
Amikai thought to himself, "what am I?"