Chapter 3: The taste of blood
"You mother fucker"… I ran… a rapier had stricken me across my cruel features… "Why won't you die, BITCH!" Wings of a demon and sites of a bat…I was it's prey.
Lighting tore through the ruins, my ally was slashed from chest to arm, blood was lost, but the chase had only just begun! Another violent charge from the winged rapier, but to dodge was a difficult task. Knuckles had problems of his own…crimson liquid dripped from his open wound but his determination was built on solid stone.
I stopped…
My bloodstained partner stopped…
The wind howled with disagreement, the thunder never ceased. Energy combined and soon this creature would lay dead… and lifeless…
"SPIRITS BURN!"
Using my element of speed I charged like a flaming comet, embers darted. My blood red partner ascended at shooting rage.
I tackled the rapier and grinned at its pathetic struggle as it burned…I waited… a silver flame sped across me and hit the target with such speed and accuracy it mimicked my own running abilities. It screamed in pain and horror much to my satisfaction…death was on its way. Thunder engulfed the winged demon…my partner was satisfied with the lifeless corpse. He descended…
Indeed the fog has lifted…but fowl weather is still among us…a scent amongst the wind was caught…something was abnormal…
Silence…
Thunder illuminated our surroundings… something stirred…
"hahahahahahaha" a feminine shrill echoed within the atmosphere. The winds picked up. The scent of this creature was unlike that of a parasite but indeed the scent of a demon…
Movements… for something as deserted as the ruins it contained death, even the shadows concealed the living dead.
A female figure walked out of hiding. The demons specie was echidna. My partner took interest. My guard was put up.
" Death shall befall you echidna, your blood shall be me reward."
" My blood shall not be taken, SHADOW if you interfere I swear I'll kill you myself"
The female sent fury of arrows, my swift partner dodged each one as if he was combined with the wind. I however took retreat within the shadows of the forest. Knuckles threw his complex iron star, it's speed made it take the shape of a silver blur. It made its target.
" BASTARD!"
My cerise ally's eyes showed the shame of attacking his own specie. He ran. She gave chase. Knuckles drew his samari sword, his foe drew her cross-bow, She let lose a rage of burning arrows, my partner however used his skills to destroy the oncoming attack… a stray arrow slashed him across his eye fortunately he didn't become blind, blood oozed from the open wound, the odour made his blood boil with rage. My partner's muscles tensed…he concentrated his energy…
"BURNING STIGMATA"
His enemy's wrists were slashed open by the unseen forces of knuckles' power… he could smell the victim's panic. Her head dripped with demonic blood. The female echidna was weakening.
"AHHHHH!"
Her back was ripped open in cuts and wounds; the smell of fresh blood was rich within the atmosphere. Her speed was decreasing. My partner's expression was cruel but his eyes held guilt and pain. She fell. Her feet were now slashed into a blood filled heap, she aimed an arrow at the predator but he caught it in his plasma-matted hand. The female got up and fired…
"FLAMING ARROW!"
My ally was caught off guard and a series of burning arrows had stricken him, he slowed, I was ready to help the fallen ally but he gave me a stare of pure hatred, I knew better… I backed off.
"NOOOOOOOO"
My collaborator gave a smirk of satisfaction and licked his sword. He sighted his prey…
The female parasite gave a pathetic struggle to escape, my partner approached. His expressions were that anger and inner pain. His body began to blaze with black fire…
" Now… you will die, your ashes will disgust the ancestors."
My ally's flames grew intense and wild. His expression became cold and cruel. The powerful flames ran towards its victim like a raging stream.
"NO!"
The female echidna let a shriek in pain. The scene was indeed pleasurable, the scent of death reeked within the air. In minutes my equal let the inferno die… all that was left of the victim was a small piece of silver.
"Humph she's not even worthy"
My crimson ally didn't even look at the ashes in which it left, but his eyes showed pain and shame.
I however walked beside him not as a friend but as my equal.