Chapter 3: A Reason to leave

"Lafarga?" Said Dezel.

"This is bad." Lafarga muttered. Rose turned back. "Everyone, something has entered the domain!" He announced. "Find it, but be careful it may be a hellion!" The village scattered about the area around Elysia to look for the thing. "Rose, Dezel, you go look too."

"Kay." Said Dezel.

"Roger that." Said Rose and the pair ran out of the village trying to look for whatever Lafarga sensed. "Hey Dezel do you feel anything?"

"No … nothing, just the villagers close to-" Said Dezel then he got a random shiver. "Over near Mabinogio."

"Let's go then!" The two ran towards the wooded area where they met up with two other seraphs, they ran further in when they heard a scream.

"Wait, isn't that …" Dezel began.

"Mason!" Rose shouted. The two ran towards where they heard the scream. When they got there they were greeted with the sight of a fox like man eating Mason's corpse, and had already worked his way through a good portion of his neck and upper chest. Rose gasped, Dezel shivered from the sheer presence, and the fox man perked up.

"How odd." He said. "I didn't expect anything but the main course, now I get a few extra side dished to satisfy me."

"This must be the hellion." Rose muttered to Dezel.

"You think?" Dezel muttered back. He then turned his attention. "Hey, you're not welcome here, leave or we'll have to kill you through the most graphic way possible for retribution to what you've done to our friend." The fox man laughed.

"You're all talk and no bite." He mocked. "Tell me, how will you follow up on that when can't see anything in front of y-?" He was cut off by Dezel swinging one of his pendulums at his cheek causing him to bleed a little. He then gave the two a twisted smile. "Oh now this should be a real treat. After all the meat has an interesting flavor when it at least struggles you know." Dezel then swung both pendulums at him and Rose ran forward and slashed at him.

"You're talking to the wrong type of guy about this stuff." Said Rose.

"She's right, I don't even eat meat much less like it!" Said Dezel swinging his pendulums and tying up his wrists. The fox man laughed setting the chords on fire causing Dezel to yank them off of him. When the fox man wasn't looking Rose attempted to stab him in the back but he caught on and simply moved out of the way then pushed her aside causing her to fall flat on her face. "Rose!" Dezel shouted, "Geostigma!" A blast of air pushed him up for a brief moment but he seemed to brush it off.

"Oh that tickled." Said the fox man.

"Shit." Dezel muttered under his breath. Rose rolled over to the fox man when he was approaching Dezel and stabbed him in the leg. He looked down.

"You're going to be trouble." He said then kicking her off. He went back to Mason's corpse and started eating even more of it.

"MASON!" Rose screamed as more and more of the Seraph's flesh was removed from the bone.

"That's enough!" They heard Lafarga say. "You've caused enough trouble here hellion. Leave now or you will have to face the village!" The fox man looked around as dozens of seraphs stood behind Lafarga.

"I really shouldn't be wasting my time on appetizers, not when the main course is getting away." He said before vanishing from sight.

"Main course?" Rose muttered to herself. She then gasped at the realization on what, or rather who, it may be. 'Oh no, Sergei.'

"Don't beat yourselves up over this you two. You did well trying to fend off a rather strong hellion." Said Lafarga.

"Lafarga, are Hellions normally able to speak?" Dezel asked.

"The ones that do are ones that used to be human." Lafarga replied. "Rose, Dezel, why don't you two head back. We'll take care of the body."

"Fine …" Said Rose not wanting to argue. She and Dezel headed back to the village while the rest stayed behind. Back at Rose's house, Rose slammed her fist against one of the walls.

"Fuck!" She shouted.

"About what? Mason's death or the fact that Fox guy is after Sergei?" Dezel questioned.

"Both!" Rose admitted. "If we had gotten there earlier Mason would still be alive and we would have one more villager that would have helped us push Foxy off the edge of a cliff. Plus Sergei would get to the city without any trouble."

"Or we could have died." Dezel pointed out. "As it is now we were unable to do anything and if we faced him again I doubt that we would be as lucky to survive."

"Speak for yourself!" Said Rose, "All your spells and attacks seemed to amuse him more than hurt him."

"Shut up!" Dezel hissed.

"Ugh I don't want to deal with all of this right now. Can you just leave me alone?" Said Rose

"Fine." Dezel said leaving the house. Rose collapsed on her bed her mind swarming with revenge for Mason and self-loathing for not being able to save him. She then contemplated on what to do about Sergei and how to get to him. She got up and stuffed some things in a bag and put on the shepherd's glove. She scribbled down a note and left it on her bed and waited for the cover of darkness. Long after when she was sure everyone had fallen asleep she snuck out of her house. At the front gate she looked back at the village.

"Sorry everyone, see ya." She said. She turned around passing by Dezel and she stopped. Rose jolted her head back towards Dezel. "De-!" She began to shout but Dezel quickly covered her mouth.

"SH!" He hissed. After a few moments he withdrew his hand in the midst of Rose licking it and wiped it on his clothing. "Oh real mature Rose."

"Hey, it works." Said Rose. "Anyway what are you doing here?"

"I'm coming with you." Said Dezel.

"Really?" Said Rose.

"Yes, but we don't have much time with the Sergei stuff." Said Dezel.

"Thanks man." Said Rose giving him a light punch.

"Don't mention it." Said Dezel, "I can't let you run off on your own with how crass you are. If I let you go I can guarantee that you'll get arrested on your first day."

"Oh come on, have a little faith in me." Said Rose.

"Also, we're gonna need some money." Said Dezel pulling out some sort of ornate comb. "We could sell this thing that I took from Lafarga's place."

"Oh and you worry about me going to jail." Said Rose.

"Shut it, let's go." He said as he started walking.

"Okay, okay." Said Rose following behind.

Yeah this is a short one this time but the next few ones will be much longer and some other party members may show up.