"Why don't you just go and get her?"
"I can't. She is a saint...too innocent and I don't see a tainted heart. And she protected herself well. She will be difficult."
"Just seduce her or give her what her want. She'll be in your arms in a sec."
"Like I said, She is too pure. I doubt anything worldly will tempt her. She is too good to be human."
"Are you sure she isn't an angel?"
"No."
"So I'm sure she has a little desire in her heart. She is human after all."
"Maybe. But you know? It'll be harder soon."
"Why?"
"The messenger is coming."
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Messenger
Chapter 2. Seven deadly sins
Pride, Envy, Gluttony, Lust, Greed, Wrath, and Slot.
We all know about the name of the seven deadly sins. Sins that people commit in their life. Things that makes human fall into hell and makes them tainted. People can't escape from things called sins, because no human is perfect.
Every human have that little portion of sins in their soul, but that's what makes them human. But then again, it's not rare to see that that some people develop the feeling more that necessary. They are consumed by needs and things to satisfy their own happiness. Sometimes it's happen more than another people can tolerate. And when they are consumed by their own sin, without them realize it, they already fall into the darkness. All the sins above make one things towards the other people lives.
Despair.
And despair is what will you see will happens to the soul that fall into hell, for eternity.
There isn't always the human soul that tainted since they are born, but sometimes the devil is the cause of a tainted heart.
In the Hell, there are the seven devils that have specialty in making human consumed by their own sins. The entire devil can manipulate human's mind, but seven of them have more power than ordinary devil, so they become rule at the hell itself. Their named after the sins they mastered.
But there's one more rule beside the seven deadly sins. It's the one called Despair appear.
Pride is excessive belief in one's own abilities, makes the pride one feels they are on top of the world. Envy is the desire for others' traits, status, abilities, or situation. Gluttony is an inordinate desire to consume more than that which one requires. Lust is an inordinate craving for the pleasures of the body. Wrath is manifested in the individual who spurns love and opts instead for fury. Greed is the desire for material wealth or gain, ignoring the realm of the spiritual. Sloth is the avoidance of physical or spiritual work.
But above all, despair is the cause sorrow in people heart that makes them commit the sins to make themselves relief. Because of despair they feel like it's fair if they commit a sin, even if it's makes the other people feel miserable. Because of despair they have the darkness in their heart. The darkness that powerful enough to cover the kindness in their heart.
So there are eight demon that can makes the world consumed in tainted heart, and more of their underlings.
And without knowing it, the messenger that sent into the living world must faced one of them. Because one of the rule is the one who wanted the woman she protected to come to hell and to be his.
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The girl in a yellow sundress with apron opens the door of her house for the brunette. The messenger slowly come into the house and takes a look of the comfy little home.
The room is decorated with fresh plants and flower, it shows how careful the owner to take care of them. A coffee table that surrounded by two small couch and TV is placed a few steps from the door while beside the door there's a rack where you put your shoe and a coat hanger.
There's a dining room with simple kitchen that separated by a wall with a door frame without the door itself. And there's a stair for going upstairs, and there's a fireplace that warmed the room because the cold of winter beside the stairs. The wooden wall and decorate is enough to make the atmosphere feels like nature. It's a nice place to stay.
While the messenger take a look. The yellow haired girl closes the front door slowly and takes a few steps towards the other girl.
"You like the place?"
"Oh, yes, nice place you have here." the messenger turn around to face the girl that have a small smile in her face. Despite look around in awe for the comfy room, the brunette didn't forget about her reason to come here and curious about how much the girl know about what's going on. So she go to the point and question her, "so, how did you know I will come? Do you have any idea what I am?"
"Not really. I just got a feeling that someone will come to make me safe. I feel like myself being targeted by a dark creature though I'm not sure what it is. I know I'll get involved of something that actually not belongs in this world. You don't have a bad aura so I guess you are the one who will protect me." she said softly.
"As for how I'm so sure about that, I have this dream. A dream that come every night and it's become clearer and clearer each night. You are in it. It's feels like a blur vision. I also heard the legend about darkness and all, I'm not sure, but I believe something isn't right coming near here, that's why I often staying home besides to go to work. Besides, sometimes I can see a shadow in the corner of buildings. It's like haunting the city." she explains again.
The messenger sighed softly. It's good that the girl seems aware about something bad will happen and try to protect herself even though she doesn't know what's coming for her. The blue eyed woman hesitated to tell the truth because it may cause the other girl to panic and scared, but leave her in the dark isn't helping either.
"Okay...listen to me, alright? What you feel all this time is true. Something that isn't belongs here is here, and if I'm right, they hunting you." The messenger began to tell her slowly and pausing to see the human girl reaction. The girl didn't seem so surprise, so she continue, "I don't know what the cause, but they want you, and if they have their way, you'll fall into hell. But your place isn't there. You aren't fated to die soon anyway and I don't see any record in your life that makes you to fall into hell. You are safe as long as you stay inside your house and not allow them to come in, but then again, they may disguise themselves. You can't hide forever so I will be your protection if this problem really the cause of the devil. I'm a messenger, a guide of soul of the dead to the afterlife, but sometimes I take a job to protect people like you, who'll face a devil."
The brunette wait for her response, but the other girl seems like she is thinking deeply. Her face is so serious when finally she raise her head, "that's mean I must be in your protection until I die?"
The messenger thinks about it too. It's not really possible to protect this young woman 24/7 until the day her life ended. She has another job to do, and even if she is willing to protect her for years, one day the devil will get a chance. Besides she doubt that the human will be comfortable when she knows she is under someone vision for every second until she is going to afterlife. But after thinking a while, she knows the answer, "there's one way to protect yourself from the devil."
The girl face lit up at this, "what is it?"
"You to become a hunter."
"And what is that?" she never heard of it. Of course she never heard about the messenger too. All the legend said is about devil and angel. And she thought the girl in front of her is an angel before she claims to be a messenger.
"Hunter is the one who slay the demon or devil. They learn how to deal with the darkness so they don't easily manipulated by devils and can fight them off. Hunter existences actually help us, the messenger, job, because they slay every devil that make ruckus in this world. They are a living human though they practice to gain spiritual and physical power, though they can't use magic and all. They are still human after all. The practice they do makes the devil can't easily control them, and actually devil can get hurt by physical attack from human."
"I heard about them. It's on legend too. But I thought they can use a magic? Barrier and all?" the human girl asking, curiosity played in her eyes.
"Well, you can make a barrier in your mind. Believe it or not, if you focused on your surrounding and thinking to protect something, anything, even to protect yourself, you can make a wall between the darkness and yourself. It is if your mind is really strong. That's what the spiritual practice the hunter do."
"So…..do you know where the hunter that can teach me is? Or will you teach me yourself?"
"Oh, no," the messenger give a friendly laugh, "I'm not teaching you that. I know this one hunter, and I guess she have another friend that become a hunter too. So I guess I can try to contact them to ask if they willing to teach you. And, well, to protect you if I'm not around. Do you want to be a hunter then?"
"I'd like that," the girl smiled,
"Wonderful! Now let me make a call to my little friend." The messenger said while walks toward the front door and open it, "don't invite anybody in before I come back." Then she shut the door.
But after a few second, the door open again and the brunette messenger head appear, "by the way, my name is Blue. Pleased to meet you."
"My pleasure, Blue, my name is Yellow," Said the girl.
Blue just closed the door again with a little smile after said, "I know."
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Ring…
"Sapph?" a voice called from a kitchen inside a house with grim lighting. It's not that the house lack of lamp, but since it's almost midnight, the only lamp that turned on is the one where the resident is in.
Ring…Ring…
"Sapphire! Pick up the phone, please!?" a woman shouted for the second time since the phone ringing.
In the living room, there's stacks of dozen books that's scattered around the table, floor, and couch. A girl with a hazel hair that ended just below her shoulder grumbled while awake from the couch and make the book from her chest falling into the floor. She rubbed her half-opened eyes and makes a small growl while she picks up the phone in the dark.
"whad'ya want? Don't cha know it's a middle of night?" the girl asked, lowering her voice a bit so the woman on the kitchen didn't know what she says for greeting."
"I guess you just awake, right, Sapphire?" Sapphire can see the smile on the face of the person who called.
"Well, Blue, unlike someone who already spent her two hundreds life to do a job at midnight, I need ma sleep!" She yelled a bit, when she knows it's not a cal for her housemates.
"ohhhh, you remember my voice. Even though it's been a year we never contact each other." The voice sounds like a sniffle, as if the caller feel touched, but Sapphire knows better.
"Cut the act. Whenever ya call, there must be something that happens with the hell's creature. What is it?" she wasn't mad, it's just annoying that she's awaken in the middle of the night when finally she can peacefully sleep after reading a dozen books that her need for her study of darkness creature.
"Well, fine. You are so impatient. Actually I want to ask for you and Crystal's help."
"Me and Chris? Why?"
"There's another human that targeted by the devil. I want you to teach her how to become a hunter."
"What? No! Too much work! Besides, can't ya just protect'er until the devil not interested anymore? Usually it works. And I ain't gonna teach somebody who will just wasting my time."
"I'm sure she can learn, sapph, besides she is a pure soul, the devil will never tired to get this kind of soul. Oh and she have a good instinct too, she also aware of our and devils kind. So you won't be wasting your time to explain or make her believe you are sane."
"A pure soul, huh? It's hard to believe there's one in this corrupted world." The fanged girl give a mock smile, even though the other girl can't see, Sapphire sure that the messenger can sense it from her voice.
"Like you aren't one." She snorted, "come on. If you teach her and protect her, you may get a chance to meet him again."
Blue know this will push the girl to help her, after all, Sapphire can't reject anything that can give her a chance to meet him again, for revenge or any other things.
"Fine. Mail me the address and I'll be on my way." With that she hung up the phone and called her friends on the kitchen, "Crystal! We are leaving in a minute!"
The girl with blue pigtails hair coming from the kitchen with a surprised look. She takes a look at the clock that hanged on the wall, "It's midnight. Where are we going?"
"Blue ask for our help." After the word escape her lips, Crystal understand that there's an important matter. Blue never really contact them if there's nothing serious, and not at midnight. So she put her apron on the couch and get her car key. Putting on her jacket, then start to make her move to the certain address with her housemates. She can see a spark in Sapphire's eyes, but she isn't sure, if it's an anger, sadness, or longed for something. She can guess, but won't get the real answer from the other girl soon.
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