Part 2
Inner workings of Venom
"Does he sssssuspect anything, Kelly?" A hissing and dark voice spoke from a crystal sphere, placed in the center of a table deep under the house of the venomian vixen, the young girl sighed softly and looked at the crystal, staring at her master, the great spirit serpent Oka.
"No Oka…The soul edge descendent hasn't a clue of our plan," Kelly replied to the spirit, she felt twisted inside for being a minion of the mighty serpent. "Sir…I don't feel right about this plan of yours…I mean…this is Kirin Mccloud we're speaking of, he slew both Syphon and Grey-fang! Do you really think you can fight him in this current state?"
"I don't plan to destroy him…I plan to bring him over to our side and have him harvest sssssouls for ussss, that way, both an army and soul edge will be at my control! It's the perfect combination of strength in numbers and a dark hero," Oka explained and chuckled loudly, almost rattling the walls of the basement, Kelly's eyes just widened at the newly received details of his twisted tactic. "All you have to do, my sweet daughter, is to feed his soul edge with those venomian soldiers souls to his blade, and do not stop until he has become permanent in the soul mode of soul edge, that way, he will harvest souls of those already undead. Now go!"
And with that said in a boom of a destructive voice, Oka vanished from the crystal on the table, and Kelly left the silent room with a heavy heart of burden and a mind so broken by the tasks given to her.
Kirin looked up at the ceiling and stretched his back, the soul edge laid upon his lap in its weakened form for lacking souls, just in its larvae form, long black steel with red craters, ivy curling around hilt, and no eye to spy upon Kirin's movements and actions, a great relief to its wielder. The ceiling's tiles passed by Kirin's eyes as he watched them vanish in back of him and greeted by new tiles, he let his head down and sighed as he dragged his feet beside his mother, who looked upon shelves of canned food and several boxes of cereal.
"Please mom! Let me stay in the car! I'm just dragging myself along! It's unfair to-" He was immediately hushed by her index and middle finger on his lips, a frown came across Krystal's muzzle as soldiers dragged a venomian prisoner outside towards the center of town, the venom crest sliced into his shoulder but a golden cross dangling from his neck on a silver chain, this prisoner was familiar to both Krystal, Kirin, the whole mccloud family.
Fox held his wound tightly as Krystal held Kirin close to her in fear, a couple thugs had broken into their home and caught them off guard, blasters pointed at Fox's head. Two thugs grinned down at Krystal and kicked Kirin away from her, the small child cried in pain and held his stomach in rough agony as the two caressed her neck.
"Don't worry, we'll just spend a small hour with this beautiful vixen." One of the thugs chuckled as he ran his dagger down her dress, ready to cut it open and reveal her chest, and as he did, the thug grinned at the sight of her chest and squeezed it roughly in his paws, listening to Krystal scream and moan with pain. Then another window broke, a large tiger landed on the ground and looked at them with a glare of justice, the venom crest in plain sight on his muscles on his shoulder.
"Who's this punk? Shoot 'em-" But it was too late for them to react and shoot, the group of thugs were slammed back by a large blunt object substituted as a club across their faces, smashing several jaws and teeth as well as neck bones, blood spewing over the walls and carpeting. The thug that had just began raping the blue vixen cowered in a corner of the room, his muscles tensed as the tiger stood over him, his paws patting the club impatiently and angrily.
"D-d-d-don't kill me! I swear I won't do it again!" The tiger just sighed and slammed his club down with one swift swing, splitting the thugs head clean open, blood exploded onto the wall behind the thug, Kirin sniffled from the pain in his stomach and looked up at the tiger, a cross dangling on a silver chain from his neck; this confused Fox greatly, weren't all venomians faithless scum? Then why was this one faithful towards god with the cross on his necklace?
Police sirens were heard outside, Krystal curled up beside Fox and held Kirin close to her, the door opened quickly and cornerian policemen filled the room, their guns readied in their paws and aimed at the tiger, the only thing that the venomian did was get on his knees and put his paws behind him, waiting to be cuffed. Fox was confused further, wondering why the tiger just got down and gave up instead of making an assasult attempt towards the police.
"Why…did you help us?" Fox asked before they took the tiger away, the answer that he told them stuck to the three forever, now looking at the tiger, not as an enemy, but as a friend and a great ally.
"Because god wanted me to, Fox, because god wanted me to save you, I will not turn away from his request, neither will I turn away from those in need of immediate help."
"Wait, what are you doing?" Krystal called out as she rushed forward to the soldiers and the silent tiger, their attention immediately turned to Krystal and came to a halt.
"This is a venomian prisoner, and if you must know Mrs. Mccloud, we are taking him to center of town, where everyone will witness his punishment all over Corneria." One soldier spoke like an announcement, his grip firm on a bangle on one of the tigers arms.
"…What punishment?" Kirin now spoke up, confused and a little angered. The tiger lifted his head and looked up at Kirin, smiling a bit to see him so grown up.
"Death. He will be torn limb from limb by magnets with special bangles attached to his wrists and ankles." The soldier replied and then looked down at the silent tiger. "Is your "god" going to save you now, Venomian?"
"…You…are a faithless fiend, and yet corneria calls you a soldier and you don't even know the meaning of justice." The tiger spoke softly and weakly. The soldier growled and slammed the bottom of his gun across his face and shoved his badge in his face.
"You see this? This is a badge for "Corneria's finest soldiers"! With this, my words are law to scumbags like you!" The soldier barked at him with anger, slamming the badge across his face and stuffed it in his vest pocket.
"Enough!" Kirin barked at him, ready to unsheathe Soul edge from his back, but slowly relaxed his arm and his tensed muscles softened. "You can't do this. This tiger saved our lives long ago, he doesn't deserve this!"
"Young Mccloud, listen closely, if you are thinking about helping this Venomian, then you will be considered a terrorist to this planet. Do you want General Pepper to know of this?" He asked Kirin questioningly, a growl came from Kirin's muzzle but he knew he was beat, he couldn't save their savior from the past.
"I'm sorry…they have me beaten…" Kirin sighed and lowered his head, but then his head rose as he felt the tiger's tail lift his chin.
"Child…don't shed a tear nor show me sorrow and guilt…God will forgive you as well as my punishment will take me from this world and into the white sanctuary of heaven." The tiger spoke and smiled, his tail moved away from Kirin's chin and his head lowered as the soldiers dragged him away.
"Don't you worry…I'll get help from only people I know who will help a friend of god!" Kirin spoke aloud, knowing that the only people who he could require such help, the ones who brought hope to all of corneria when it was in darkness of the past depressions.
The circle of purity, a group of faith known well from the church, the only ones who could now save the tiger from a horrible fate, the only question in the air remained to Kirin's greatest concerns: Would he make it in time or would he be too late?