Hello!
Sorry about all the spelling errors in the previous chapter I'll fix them up as soon as I can.
I have prepared a nice long chapter for y'all and I hope you enjoy it!
Italic flashback
It was useless, completely useless. He was never going to find out what Eclipse and Erutis where up to! All his ideas seemed to lead to dead ends: That Eclipse and Erutis were part of the Mafia, that they were carriers of illegal drugs and/or weapons, that they were actually aliens spying on him, that it was all some government conspiracy… Yep, all lead to dead ends.
So now Chris had given up hope, what ever they were doing they were hiding it so well that he, the Super-Genius, was never going to find out.
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"You're it!" shouted Raenef as he ran through the castle, slapping Chris on the back.
Why in Rased's name had he agreed to play tag with Raenef anyway? Shouldn't Eclipse be doing this anyway, he was the boy's servant after all.
Sighing, he started running in the direction Raenef had fled. After searching for a second he noticed the child standing rigidly in front of the kitchen door. He was inside standing with a look of open-mouthed horror on his child-like face. Worried, Chris ran over to observe the problem…
"OH DEAR RASED!" screeched Chris, looking at the scene of horror before him.
Backed up against the pantry was Eclipse, but he was not alone. A figure with red hair was pressed up against him, their lips interlocked. It was Erutis.
Erutis.
Eclipse.
None of this made sense. It wasn't possible, he was a demon. And yet…
The absences. The pair locked in a cupboard, The noises (shudder), The shoe.
…A muffled thump came from behind the bathroom door…
It did make sense… too much sense….
The pair whipped around to stare blankly at the doorway. Erutis finally managed to find her voice.
"It's… it's no what it looks like!"
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That night there was a very awkward silence at the dinner table.
Erutis sat at the far end trying to think of a way to make conversation. She dared not mention the weather; bad memories were associated with that particular comment…
Eclipse felt terrible, he had betrayed his master, he had betrayed Raenef. The look on the boys face had been enough to shatter his heart into a million tiny pieces. Raenef had not uttered a single word since the incident.
Raenef was ecstatic. Far from Eclipse' paranoid thoughts, the young Demon Lord was too happy to speak. If his friends were happy, then so was he.
Chris had a burning sensation in the pit of his stomach. He did not know why, but the image of Eclipse and Erutis that was imprinted in his mind made him want to pound that good for nothing demon into a bloody pulp!
"So…" started Erutis, "Nice weather we're having," it was all that she could think of to say.
Eclipse' eye twitched.
"Yes, the weather's great!" proclaimed Raenef cheerfully. All eyes looked towards the Demon Lord, surprised that he had spoken.
"You can speak again!" squealed Erutis, running over to give him a hug. "I was getting so worried about you!" Raenef smiled sheepishly.
Having already finished her meal, Erutis started to walk happily from the room. The fact that Raenef didn't mind what had happened, meant that she didn't have to be worried about having scarred him for the rest of his life.
CRACK!
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Eclipse watched silently as Chris seemingly attacked his food. The maniacal look in his eye as he tore the knife in and out of his meat was very disconcerting. What was the boy's problem? Pathetic. Averting his eyes from the cleric's insane behavior he turned to watch Erutis, who was in the process of hugging (more like strangling) Raenef. He didn't notice a smile creep to his lips as he watched her bounce out the door. How could she be so cheerful after… uh… everything.
Poor Eclipse had begun to try to suppress the things he had done with Erutis over the past few weeks. While everything they did together was wrong – by his heritage, by hers and even by his own morals – it just felt so… right. What was he thinking! This wasn't just some fairytale that was going to end with a 'happily ever after'. This was real, it was dangerous. Their affair would eventually be found out, and there would be grave consequences…
CRACK!
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All eyes turned towards the source of the noise. Chris giggled nervously as he too turned to look at the plate in front of him. A plate that now had a large crack running down the centre.
Raenef took one look at the broken plate and burst into tears.
"He broke one of my shiny plates!" The boy wailed.
Eclipse threw a death glare at Chris before trying to calm his sobbing master. Erutis walked briskly over to Chris and whacked him over the head (nothing new there).
"You are such a moron!"
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What a day she had had! It had been such a long day and her entire body was begging her to go to sleep. But her mind refused to let her sleep; it reeled with the memories of previous hours and kept her awake into the ungodly hours of the night. Through the thick walls of the castle she could hear a dull clanging noise. Listening to the heavy, even thuds, she finally managed to fall into a fitful sleep.
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In the basement, Chris was violently slashing at he ground, carving a large symbol at his feet. It seemed that jealousy really could drive you insane.
To the untrained eye it looked like the symbol that had first drawn Raenef into the Cleric's presence - the Demon Lord summons. But this one was slightly modified… it was not made to summon a Demon Lord, no, instead it would call upon the head of the demon court.
With a final angry stab, the final line was in place. He stood for only a second to admire his work, before kneeling on the ground and chanting under his breath.
The symbol began to glow softly…
Then brighter…
And brighter…
Until Chris uttered the final words…
The room exploded with harsh white light, drowning everything. It pressed against Chris from all angles, suffocating him.
The light slowly faded to a dull glow from the symbol as Chris waited for the dots to clear from his eyes. In front of him stood a tall demon… and he did not look particularly happy.
"Do you have a death wish, human?" he spat, throwing a ball of dark energy at Chris…
The Cleric smiled maliciously at the demon.
"Do you really think that I, Chris, The Magic Wielding Swordsman, would summon you here to blow me to smithereens?"
"…"
Taking his silence as a compliment Chris continued.
"So while you're stuck there behind my force field. I have some very interesting information. For a price…"
Dun dun dun…
What does Chris want from the demon? What will happen to Eclipse and Erutis? What about the vision? Feel free to post answers in your reviews. "hint hint"
Stay tuned for the final chapter of The Edge of Insanity!