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How to suck blood to discover there's no life
Down on Earth, Kotarou's body was still sprawled on the pavement. His third degree burns seared everywhere, revealing the damaged muscles. His torn and burnt clothes revealed the scorched and dead skin.
Strangely enough, the street was completely deserted. Not a single soul nor a single living thing. A sepulchral silence fell upon the place of Kotarou's agony. Suddenly, the street lights flickered and popped, one by one in an almost diabolical ensemble. A red light flickered far down the street. Then, two shadows appeared. One belonged to a tall guy with white hair, black cape. A bell in his neck jingled with every step. The other belonged to a pale girl with hair the color of raven, in a black gown.
"See, Shia?" Klaus bellowed "Now it wasn't so hard, now was it." Shia didn't answer. "Don't be so timid, Shia. I expected some kind of gratefulness from you, don't forget what I did to bring you back. I can show you again if you want to." Said Klaus. Shia flinched and looked to the floor. She knew all to well what had happened. Shia and Klaus stood behind the burned body. Klaus smiled, he had done his job all too well. "Quick, Shia. The more you suck out of him, the merrier." He muttered. Shia nodded. She kneeled and turned over the boy so that she could suck the blood straight from the jugular. She gasped when he saw the burnt and red face of his grand-grand son. Shia turned to Klaus, and croaked a hoarse "Why?" "Do you want your existence back? Or do you want to stay without your voice and your soul?" Shia looked again to Kotarou's body.
She couldn't help it, she had to do it. Shia opened her mouth and clenched into Kotarou's throat. The moment her teeth made contact, a blinding green light flashed and exploded. It sent the three of them away. Shia started screaming as another green light revolved around her and Klaus. But it wasn't a banshee scream. It was the scream of a human. A scream you make when you saw someone you loved die. The both of them fell to the ground and the green light disappeared. Shia coughed and said "What happened Klaus-san? Why did that happen?" Klaus looked paler than before. He said "Get up Shia, and quick. We must recover the boy's body." "Why Klaus-san?" Shia asked as they sprinted towards the direction where the body flew. "That only happens when the boy has no soul." Klaus panted. "We can't suck life from him because there is none of it! Without his soul he is not alive! He's just an empty shell!" Klaus pointed to somewhere in front of him and said something in demon language. With a flash of red, both demons disappeared.
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Ten Ayanokoji drove quietly through the empty streets. "It's very late." He thought. "Maybe I should really go straight ahead home." He slowdown to gaze to a sidewalk near a middle school. A very familiar sidewalk. That's where he met Kaoru, the girl who would always have a crush on him and idolized him. He used her a couple of times to get on Dai's nerves. Ten smiled faintly. "How nice would it be if I could see Kotarou-san again. I miss that old bloke." Ten passed by and continued driving. Not to long after he saw a shadow rising in the air that looked like a person. Ten didn't pay attention to it. A few seconds later, the shadow fell and crashed into windshield. Startled and horrified, Ten hit the brakes and spun around the corner. He lit the indoor light to see what had happened. Ten gasped, completely paralyzed of horror. The person had burn marks all over his body, purple hair, and wide-open purple and penetrating eyes. Ten staggered "Ko-kota-ta-taro-u-u-sssan?"