Haha very funny Envy. And yes, Bryan will be that sin :P
Oh and yes, Kai is plotting something about Earth… However, I will not tell you what yet. Muahaha.
Of course there is going to be BryTal! Are you people crazy! If you have not noticed, they are in all pf my stories as a pairing. (Or will be)
Fine. I will not ask for a certain number of reviews. However, please, review out of the kindness of you heart. This is an experimental story for me, so I need as much feedback as I can get.
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Anyways, here is the next chapter…
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"Earth…" Kai breathed. Sweeping his eyes over the dark black sky with the glittering stars. Nevertheless, even they flickered franticly, almost in fear of the entity below them. "Bryan you may go. I suppose this is a single pleasure of sorts," Kai smiled slowly, as if recalling a fond memory, "toying with the mortals I mean."
"Of course Master Kai." Bryan bowed low to the ground with a smirk, oh how his master enjoyed the screams…
Kai strode out of the alley quickly, practically itching to snap the neck of the closest mortal. He stepped out into a bustling street packed with chattering people. They pushed and shoved each other about. Curse words in abundance! Kai felt as if his dead heart would start pounding with excitement, if it could beat at all that was…
He stepped out father, into the glow of a streetlight when he felt a sharp tug on his pant leg. His head snapped down to find the hand who dared to touch him belonged to a withered old hag. Kai glared and kicked away the hand cruelly.
"Why do you come?" The hag asked quietly; when she opened her mouth her few remaining teeth showed prominently. "Why do you haunt us so?"
Kai realized that this woman recognized him for who he truly was – the Devil. He gave an almost bored look to her, "Mortal, I do as I please." He began crouching down to her level. "I desire this world. And a few changes are necessary before it comes to my requirements." A pale hand snapped its fingers quickly, and a small boy fell into the middle of the street, stone dead. "Now I can kill you that way…" His hand shot forward and snapped the hag's neck, "But I like this one better."
Everyone's attention was firmly on the now dead boy and did not even notice the hag, who sagged over against the nearest building and appeared to be sleeping.
Kai stood back up smirking and pushed his hands into his pockets. Now that his 'neck snapping' urge had faded. He debated what to do next. Even after years of planning, it was hard to decide.
"I better get started before I get too distracted." Kai sighed shaking his head a bit. He ran a pale hand through his silver stormy locks. "Here we go."
Kai smirked as he felt his black shirt tear in the back. Two large wings, with feathers the color of a burning fire, sprouted out of his back. Stay feathers circled around him as a sudden gale of wind arose.
His wings bumped into surrounding people as they grew. Screams went up as the flame wings met their skin. The fire almost jumped from the devil's feathers until the few unfortunate people who were too close were burning into a smoldering pile of ash.
Kai smiled and closed his eyes. He tilted his head back to the sky still smiling. "Ahh…" He sighed in relief, as in he was reunited with a long lost pleasure.
Rei snapped his head in the direction he just came from, hearing the pained and alarmed screams. An orange red glow was rising up into the air slowly, and in seconds, the tips of two flaming wings were visible over the panicking crowd that was jumping around and trying to flee in a massive stampede.
Dropping his newly bought bag of groceries, he took a few steps closer trying to get a better look. Sure, he was going against his better judgment, but it would probably be worth it in the end.
Kai rose higher above the ground until he was a foot over the crowds head. Sweeping his eyes over the panicking people, he said a few loud words in a strange, bestial language. His eyes went several shades darker, and his wings gave a slight flap.
Suddenly, the ground began to shake violently. Large cracks streaked across the pavement, sucking people down. Men and women, young and old, fell down into the widening crocks in the road.
Rei's eyes widened as he watched a rather large crack split right in front of him, and instead of going in-between his legs, like what he always saw happening in the movies, the curved around him, dangerously close. Other cracks made their way towards him.
Rei, although terrified, took a deep breath and flipped to the side as the now island of pavement he was standing on crumbled into the now gaping hole in the road. Tongues of fire licked their way out of the hole.
Rei, still in mid leap, wrapped his legs awkwardly around the nearest light post and held fast with his arms. Scooting up higher on the pole until he could almost touch the flickering bulb, he watched as the last remaining people on the road managed to pull themselves out of the cracks, battered and bloody.
One man was pulling himself out of a large crack, when suddenly; he was roughly yanked back in. The man screamed and held on to the side of the crack in the road as he was slowly pulled down by something holding his leg. "No! No no no God! NO!"
The few survivors watched in horror as the man vanished. Several more people where brutally pulled under. Suddenly, a large dark head arose out of the crack.
Rei thought it was a wolf at first. A huge, black, deformed wolf. Although that would have been utterly absurd now.
The animal pulled itself out of the crag and sniffed the air quickly. It let out a low growl and turned around pouncing on an elderly man that was behind it.
More of the wolfish creatures crawled out of the fire-breathing cracks. Each on sniffed out a new victim that had survived the shaking earth.
People fled. They ran down the streets and into stores. Screams rising up around Rei let him know that the cracks had spread farther than this one street, the screams increased in volume. The entire city was experiencing the flaming cracks with the wolves pulling themselves out.
Rei gulped and took a shaky breath, instantly regretting it when a hound's head snapped around in his direction, hearing him. It trotted over to him snarling. In seconds, it was directly beneath him. It growled and snapped, but did not look up.
It did not know where he was.
Indeed it didn't. It trotted in circles, head snapping at the slightest movement, all the while sniffing up a storm.
The other hounds, hearing their brother walked over sniffing as well, leaving the carcasses of the dead people lying on the street, which was quickly developing small gullies of thick red blood.
Taking a closer look at the hounds with newfound curiosity to why he was not dead, Rei looked at their heads. Something seemed to be dripping down from it into small puddles that were forming at their feet.
Rei stifled a scream as he found hid answer as to why he was not found yet.
There where no eyes. They had been gouged out roughly, and deep cuts covered their muzzles, the sockets, and the gashes dribbling with dark black blood.
Kai's feet tapped back onto the broken street and his mighty wings stayed lazily spread wide out. All of his feathers ruffled and puffed out slightly like a pleased bird of prey.
A single shuffle caught his attention.
To his left was a flickering light post. It was bent at a strange angle across the street, like a tree bending over a river to catch sunlight. Several of his hounds were gathered beneath it. Scuttling about mindlessly, sniffing, and growling at nothing.
Frowning and walking over, he gave a quick kick to the nearest hound. "What the fuck do you think you're doing?" He growled slightly, crossing his arms. "You're supposed to kill, not lick the ground!"
The hounds flinched slightly at their master's tone. The kicked hound jumped back up.
And… bumped into the light post.
Rei toppled down and landed in a heap on top of the hounds. The blood from their slashed up bodies seeped into his shirt, but he paid no attention. "Shit." He sprang up off the growling pile and looked around frantically for any possible way to get away.
"Ah." Kai smiled. "I see my hounds have found a particularly beautiful catch." Red eyes swept over Rei's shaking figure. Taking in the strong legs and firm thighs. The taught stomach and finely featured face with thin arched eyebrows.
A hound snapped at Rei's heels making him jump up in fright with a yelp. Rei, without thinking, turned and ran. He plowed over the nearest hound, knocking it clear over.
The hounds growled and started after him. Their thin legs carried them swiftly over the cracked streets easily.
"What a waste." Kai mumbled shaking his head slightly. "I have the feeling he would have been quite entertaining." He started walking after his hounds and the young boy. Kai's boots crunched as he stepped on the broken glass, or the occasional body part. By putting the slightest pressure on them, he could easily shatter the bones.
Kai supposed he would watch the boy be killed an eaten. He looked like a screamer and that always made things a smidge more interesting. Besides, it would be a shame for a pretty face like that go to waste by no one watching its final moments.
Flapping his mighty wings, he rose up into the air and moved forward at amazing speed. Kai caught up with his hounds quickly. The boy was not far ahead, no more than several wingspans away.
As Rei ran, he knocked over everything in his path, trying to block the things behind him. Seeing another bent light post, he ran straight towards it. Rei took a deep breath and jumped up, gripping the post with his two hands. Using the momentum from his run, he flipped around it once and then let go as he went up a second time.
He shot up and was just barely able to grab the ledge of a now crumbling building with one hand. As quickly as he could the pulled himself up, kicking his legs against the side of the building for momentum.
Before he ran further away, he picked up the nearest piece of rubble. Rei threw the hard stone at the winged man.
Kai's eyes widened as the stone flew towards his face. He put his hand out quickly and caught it in his hand; it crumpled between his fingers and fell as a thin dust onto the pavement.
"Damn." Rei cursed under his breath, knowing that he probably pissed the other off. Quickly, he turned and ran across the roof, jumping over the gap of street to the next building. "Heh, I feel like Spiderman." He would have laughed if it were not for the ominous figure behind him.
Turning around to see if he was being followed, he ran into something hard. "Oof!" He fell back onto his rear roughly.
"Ah!" A yelp was heard as a second thud reached Rei's ears.
Across from Rei was another boy, presumably his age, if not several years older. Wild red hair contrasted with the boy's black shirt and pale skin. He had a scrap across one of his cheeks and it was bleeding a bit.
"Watch it!" The red haired barked standing up. He glowered at Rei for a moment, and then stretched out his hand to help him up.
"Trust me; you do not want to go that way." Rei muttered taking another glance behind him. "Some freaky guy with wings and killer dogs is back there."
"Ah, so you're running away?" The red haired man asked, cocking his head to the side slightly. "Me too."
"From what?" Rei asked his eyes widening at the thought that there were more.
"A really powerful guy. He's tearing up the buildings back there." He jutted his bleeding thumb behind him in the direction he had just come from. He noticed the blood that Rei had been staring at for the last few moments and wiped it on his black shirt, leaving a shiny streak across it. "I got clipped by one of those dog things."
"Ah." Rei said nodding a bit in understanding. "Wait how did you get away from it."
The red haired man smirked and pulled a long switchblade out of his jean pocket. "I slit the neck."
A howl caught their attention. They turned in the direction that the red head had come from. A lilac haired man was jumping from building to building after them, with a slew of hounds following him. In addition, from Rei's former direction, the winged man and his hounds neared.
"Shit." Rei cursed under his breath. "This way!" He grabbed the red heads hand and ran down the fire escape on the side of the building. He jumped down three steps at a time, a 'bad' habit in Mrs. Tate's mind.
"By the way…" the red head said, keeping pace with the raven-haired boy, "I'm Tala."
"The name is Rei." Rei gave a quick smile. "We need to hide. Wait why is the one chasing you?"
"I cut his arm with my knife." Tala said. "It seems to have gotten him angry."
"No shit Sherlock." Rei sighed. They ran down the street quickly the hounds behind them gaining. "There!" He pointed to a shop that was still strangely intact, not even the glass was broken.
Tala gave a curt nod and sped up his pace, dragging Rei behind him. He opened the door as fast as he could and pulled himself and the smaller boy in. The door slammed shut behind them and Tala fumbled with the old-fashioned lock.
Kai and Bryan caught up with them quickly. Kai was enjoying his newfound game, he had been correct, this boy was rather entertaining. "Bryan, check for other ways out of the building."
"Yes master." Bryan said quickly, he turned and signaled for the hounds to follow him. Bryan's arm tinged annoyingly again. Blood had already soaked through the fabric of his shirt, and was seeping down towards his hand. Shrugging off the sting, he walk around the back of the building, he found a door. It was old and weathered, hardly enough to stand up to him.
Bryan smirked and put his hand on the door. All he had to do now was channel his energy…
BLAM!
He was roughly pushed back, but Bryan regained his footing quickly. A burn covered his hand, making it ache terribly. Cursing under his breath, he walked back over to the door. "A spell."
On the other side, Kai smirked and reached out to open the door. As he touched the door, blue sparks shot out at him, causing him to recoil quickly. He glared at the frame of the door and cradled his burnt hand. His eyes narrowed and he shot a stream of orange fire at the door.
It did not even blacken the windows.
Rei looked around confused. On the shelves were herbal teas, talismans, incense, and other religious items. Above the door was black writing in a language Rei could not recognize. He supposed it was in the strange language the winged man had used earlier.
"I think we're safe." Rei sighed as he slid down the wall he was leaning against into a sitting position.
Tala remained standing with his eyes fixed on the frustrated devil. "Why do you say that?"
"That writing above the door," Rei said pointing at it, "I think it's some sort of spell or something." He pulled his now wild hair out of his face and put it over his shoulder.
"Are you serious?" Tala almost laughed, "You don't believe in magic do you?"
"And after today you don't?" Rei shot back with a slight glare. "I'd classify evil hell dogs and two killers with some kind of super powers 'magic'."
"Well not exactly." Tala fumbled with his own words in his response.
"Anyway I don't think he can get through." Rei said.
"You honestly think this will hold, don't you?" Kai yelled through the glass so he could be heard. "This meager spell won't last more than a few moments." Kai smirked, "And I hope you know that the back door is being guarded as well!"
Rei turned to the back door and heard the faint growls of the hounds behind it. "Oh god." He whimpered.
"I really don't think he can help us today." Tala said quickly. He walked over to the windows and pulled down the blinds to hide themselves. That and to cover up the smirking devil's face.
"I can still hear you!" Kai called through the glass.
"Shut up will you!" Rei yelled back at him. He stood up and went over to the shelves covered in books. He pulled out the thickest one and paged through it quickly. Scanning his eyes briefly over each page.
"What are you looking for?" Tala asked shakily.
"Some thing. Anything." Rei said quickly. He pointed his finger to the top of a tattered page, "Here. A so called 'silencing spell'."
"Try it." Tala said, running a hand through his hair, "It's not like it can hurt us."
Rei took a deep breath and read aloud the spell, sounding out the strange words as best he could. The words lit up as he spoke, following his voice. The room trembled a bit. Rei continued reading and when he finished the room took on a thick presence. The air seemed heavy.
"Nothing happened." Tala said bleakly. He picked up a rock from a shelf and hurtled it at the wall. The sound echoed about the room even after the rock fell still on the ground. "The sound stayed in the room…" Tala gaped. "It worked!"
Rei looked around the small shop. There was an air-vent that was behind the main counter. "We could probably squeeze through there. The buildings here are connected so it leads over to the one next to us."
"Take some of those books with us and grab some random shit." Tala said, referring to the charms. He walked over to the vent and began twisting out the screws.
Rei walked over to some shelves and saw a box filled with bracelets and necklaces. He shoved his hand into it, randomly grabbing some. Slipping two jade beaded bracelets onto his left arm, he walked over to Tala and slipped a necklace over his neck as he pulled out the final screw.
"Once we're through he'll catch up quickly. The spell on the door is almost gone." Tala said.
Rei pulled out a pen from his back pocket, Max had given it to him earlier that day just in case he needed it. "Thanks Maxie." Rei whispered as he scratched the spell over the vent.
The door shook and tongues of fire came out from beneath the door.
"We have to go now!" Tala grabbed Rei by his collar and pushed him into the vent, closely following him as they crawled along. "I always saw this in the movies." Tala smiled wistfully, "I never thought that I'd do it."
"Same." Rei gave a halfhearted chuckle.
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And that's where I'll leave it today! I made it a bit longer than it should have been but meh.
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