Chapter eight: Two wholesome souls

Alastor still sat down. Staring at the body in front of him. But this time not with a cannibalistic hunger. This time it was with fascination. Alastor mustered his body from the bottom to the top. As soon as he saw his face he noticed something…..strange. Ryuga smiled. Normally if you were to penetrate someone's heart with a godly spear they weren't smiling.

Alastor got up from his Chair and got closer to Ryuga. He tried lifting his head, but was cut off as the monster Ryuga left behind tried to bite Alastor's hand of. As Ryuga's soul left his body without dying he left something, a wild and brutal animal. Alastor looked at his wide smile, it literally stretched from ear to ear. Alastor started to speak calmly." Could it be? Could he be….no, that's impossible. Lets just hope he doesn't do his research." After that Alastor sat down again and read in a book while killing the time.

Meanwhile in the overworld: Ryuga was flying through the black of the night. He was feeling the wing against his face. He felt the fresh cold invading his body and cooling him down. He never felt so free in his lifetime. He was just away from everyone and everything. It felt like there was nothing on this or any other world that was able to hurt him. But he was wrong. There was something that could hurt him. He opened his eyes showing the hypnotic red again. He looked down below and saw the city, he saw the lights, the people and the buildings. He always hated to live down there being bound to live his entire existence in the dirt that others have created. To not have been able to do better than the people who ruled his home.

He always looked at them for the lower life forms that they are. No matter what crisis was knocking at the door the politicians only cared about themselves. It was his desire to change that. But he couldn't do that. He still had something else to do first. He wanted his revenge. As that thought crossed his mind he looked down and saw the studious his friend told him about. As soon as he found a lone spot where nobody would see him, he landed.

As his feet touched the ground he felt it, this feeling of weakness. He felt completely powerless. But what could cause something like that? What could make a now demon like him feel so uneasy. This just shouldn't be possible. He started talking to himself in a desperate attempt to calm himself down." Come on, Ryuga you can do it. Calm down, what's wrong with you dammit?" It didn't help him. If anything it just made him even more anxious. He started counting." Ok here we go. O-one, twoo, three, number four…..and five." He opened his eyes. His fear was now entirely gone. It was like it's taking a break. His look went to the well lit studious. And the hatred inside him boiled up like a volcano that's about to erupt. He couldn't wait much longer. He needed to kill her.

He walked over to the entry of the studio. A security guard saw him. Of course the poor guard thought he was a normal adult woman. After all that's what everyone would think. He was a well built black man, about 1,90m tall, he was still pretty young, maybe late 20's or early 30's. The security guard stopped him as he wanted to go through." Excuse me ma'am you can't go in there this is a restricted area. Only for personal" Ryuga knew what to do: he lied." Oh, I am sorry. I just really need to go to the bathroom. Like really fast. Please I don't know how long I can hold it." The security guard was careful, he heard something like that before and knew it's most likely a lie, so he talked him down." Listen ma'am I cannot let you in. No matter the situation." Ryuga was getting desperate he knew that if he would change his story now he wouldn't get let in." Please Mr, if you let me do my business. You can come in the stall with me after I am done."

That was an obvious sex-hint that both of them clearly understood. It was Ryuga's best and last chance to sneak in somehow. But the man didn't even flinch. He declared loud and clear:" Listen ma'am if you don't leave on your own, you WILL be escorted home by the authorities, do you understand?" Ryuga lost his cold with that. He wanted to get into these studious. And hell knew he was going to. He got angry and lost control. His eyes started to turn red again and his voiced doubled and got very dark and deep." You will let me in if you don't want your internal organs ripped out of your ass. Smashed like mashed potatoes and liquefied to be turned into a soup for Alastor!" The guard had no reaction whatsoever. He just stared at him, bored. He started speaking again in a robotic slow tone." Very well. Please follow me." He turned and walked away. Ryuga only thought one thing.' Dafuq?!' He followed the guy carefully. He didn't know what was going on, but he knew that it was not natural. The guy lead him to a backstage area where there was no one. And finally he got to a wardrobe.

The guard started speaking again in the same monotone as earlier." Here we are. Now what do you want me to do next?" Ryuga wasn't sure what he has done but it was clear that he had control over the man. He didn't need him anymore, so he started speaking." Go to your position. Stay there and forget everything about me. A-and life a happy life. You deserved it." And the guard did as he was told. He left Ryuga without saying a word. Ryuga was surprised at what just happened.' Did I control him? But how? That needs to wait.' He would wait to test that out until he was back in hell. He wanted to get inside of the wardrobe, but he couldn't. His hands wouldn't move, his blood became could and his legs felt like stone. Was that a side effect of the human body he possessed? Or was it coming entirely from him? After standing there for a few minutes, trying to convince himself to open the door and just simply murder his murderer, he gave up on it. He couldn't risk being spotted and removed any longer so he hid in the nearest empty room. It was a tech room. There were cameras, Microphones and a fuckton of wires. He sat in a corner where no one could find him. And he started to wispher to himself.

" Come on, you scared chicken. We can't stop now. Not after we came so far. Suck it up. Even if it's just for the next two days. You wont get a second chance."

He thought about his tactics. How would he do this while having such a big fear of seeing that face again. He almost vomited as he remembered her face, not because she was ugly, but because what she had done. He hated her for that. He will always hate her, no matter what!" Don't worry. You have time. You have nearly two days. He could watch her, so he could built up the courage to destroy her life even more than she did to him. He could track her without being recognised. He had a completely different body. His thoughts were clear.' Lets stretch this for a bit. I want to make it count.'

He walked out of the room and pretended to be a technician. He didn't knew what exactly you had to do as one, but seemingly neither did the technicians.' Uh. These idiots don't even know how to do their own jobs. They're such illiterate idiots.' He was almost ashamed of what he was pretending to be. Thankfully he didn't need to do so for long. He just needed to catch her of guard. It sounded weird in his mind but for this kind of sin stalking would be the best option. He waited for her part to end, pretending to be busy every time someone walked by. It's not like anyone cared, after thinking about it he was even more disgusted by the people around him. No one cared that there was a random girl in the middle of their TV-studios, who they never saw before. He was a planning a murder, which made it the worst case scenario, and he was disappointed that not a single soul even considered that fact. It was better for him at the moment, but it defiantly wasn't a plus for the human race.

The show ended, and after a minute or perhaps two, she walked out. She was a very tall black haired woman. Her makeup made her look younger than she actually did. At this point a stranger could mistake her for 35. But he was no stranger, he knew her and he hated her with every cell in his newfound body. He was scared to his bones. Even though he was a powerful demon that came straight from hell to take her soul, he was scared. He didn't have a clue why, but it was that way. It didn't make sense. Why should a demon fear a human? And why didn't he just kill her here and now? Why wait? His inner conflict was like a world war. He fought so hard to keep himself in line up to the point where he could barely breath. Ryuga stood still for what feels like an eternity. She spoke to a assistant and practically spit acid. She was the entitled, rude bitch he remembered her to be. It surely wouldn't be a loss for the world if he would kill her.

She had gone outside with the assistant and Ryuga followed them without waking their attention. He just stared at her with a ocean made of hatred and darkness. With every single moment passing Ryuga's will to take her back to hell grew stronger and stronger. As they got to a parking lot Ryuga hid behind a parked car and watched them. The assistant walked of, but the woman got into a car. It was a black Mercedes. He made sure to remember her licence plate. Maybe he had to find her car, who knows? As he watched her drive of his anger grew rapidly. His black claws grew out of his new human body. He noticed that fairly quickly, so he dug them into his own hands so no one would see them. His hands started to bleed. The feeling he got wasn't that adrenaline rush he had with Charlie, it was more like a calming and relaxing feeling. Strange, he didn't knew that such a feeling could change. But then again, just about everything at the moment was strange.

He walked of into the direction of where the car drove of. He didn't hope to find her, he hoped to come closer. As he walked through the still packed streets of berlin he came across a store. It was a pet store. At first Ryuga didn't give a fuck, but there was something, something he knew from somewhere. He stared through the windows looking in the different cages of the animals. He felt a pull coming from one of them. He walked inside, a voice called his name:" Ryuga….I am here…come to me….this way." The voice sounded loud but was still whispering. He walked past the dogs, past the cats and past the birds. He walked around the corner to the reptiles. There were snakes, leguans and other cold blooded dead eyed mini dinosaurs. He saw a little gecko. It was one of these who could walk on a glass celling. It's eyes were not dead like the other ones. They were diamond blue and beautiful. It was almost like it wasn't a normal animal. The gecko opened it's mouth and a male voice was to be heard once again, it was the voice that called him." Hello demon. I didn't see one for centuries. I missed the demons, they really knew how to party. Whatya doin here?"

Ryuga's stare said everything. He didn't think that a little cute reptile could talk to him. And did it say it knew demons for centuries? He clearly knew that the animal wasn't a common gecko. He started to look around to make sure no one saw him talking to a caged gecko." Okay who dafuq are you?" The reptile answerd." Who the fuck are you?" Ryuga was dumbfounded but answered right away. "I asked you first." The gecko did not hesitate to talk back." I ask you second. What's your point?" Ryuga was visibly annoyed. " I just want to know why you can talk. Why you say you know demons. Ya know, basically your life story." The animal wasn't secret about such things." As long as you tell me the same about you that's cool. My name is Glottis the speed demon. but you can call me Farkas if you want. What about you, friend?"

Ryuga proceeded to tell Farkas his story and why he was there. Farkas seemed to be pretty interested and was surprisingly nice. In fact Ryuga had never met such a nice and understanding person before. It was such a weird feeling but also so comfortable. After Ryuga explained everything to Farkas he seemed shocked and wanted to comfort Ryuga." Oh you poor, poor boy. I can't imagine how you must feel right now. That woman really sounds like a horrible person. What was her name again?" Ryuga had tears running down his eyes. He was near a breakdown, but he managed to respond." Karen, her name was Karen." Farkas saw how bad Ryuga felt and knew that he just had to help him.

He started speaking again." Let me tell you something Ryuga. I know people like you, I know that you wont stop no matter what I tell you. So let me help you, that way I can make sure you are all right." Ryuga was fairly surprised by Farkas action. He didn't expect to get assistance for plans. Especially not from such a peaceful soul. To say he was more than happy would be an underastimatement." Wait. You want to help me? That's great, thank you so much!" He was truly happy about what he just heard. He continued talking." Okay, lets get started. We just need to get you out of here." He took his claws out and made a clean cut through the glass. It was big enough for Farkas to slip though. He got outside and jumped into Ryuga's hand. Ryuga noticed that Farkas was a bit to big to just sneak him out of the store. And he didn't had any money to adopt him.

Ryuga told Farkas the problem and just got a smug answer." That won't be a problem." Farkas looked around and after a few seconds changed his appearance. He became a bright skinned tall human. He looked very normal. Ryuga started talking." Oh, nice disguise man. Now lets get out of here."

The two of them walked out of there and went to a local club in hope to find someone who would let them sleepover. As they came close to the so called "Matrix" they heard a woman scream." NO, STOP! IS THERE ANYONE , HELP?" Ryuga rushed to the screams without a second thought. As soon as he reached the original voice he saw a big, buff guy leaning over a woman. The man recognised Ryuga standing a few meters away. He just said one word in a deep and intimidating voice. "Leave". Ryuga didn't think about it. It was clear that if he wouldn't do anything that woman would experience the same thing he did. His anger boiled up and fuelled his powers. He grabed the man by the arm and threw him against the nearest wall. His demon appearance glitched out and made him way more terrifying.

He made eye contact with the woman and only said one word in the most terrifying double spoken voice imaginable." Ruuunnn." The woman did as she was told, it was more because of fear than anything else. Ryuga turned back at the rapist and looked at a terrified man. The same man spoke:" Wh- what the fuck are you?" Ryuga simply stared at him and answered the question while getting covert more and more in black mist. Only the red eyes remained visible. He got closer and closer to the man. It looked like a cloud the size of a huge bear was approaching him. A single loud scream was heard. After seconds it faded into the black of the night.