A/N: Ok then, on with Chapter 7 featuring NinjaKiwi96's OC Cynder. Also I have stopped accepting OC's for this story, but don't worry, you can still submit yours for the Sequel. Also I will have a huge showdown in the next few chapters, between Theo and some of the other characters. Anyway enjoy!

Theo awoke slowly as the sun flowed through a crack in his curtains, he found that he was in his large bed at home, he felt a weight on his lap, he looked down and saw Blaze sleeping sitting on a chair that had been pulled up beside his bed with her head on the covers over his lap. He reached out and gently shook her awake,

"Hey" Theo whispered, as her amber eyes opened slowly, she smiled,

"Hi" she sat up and yawned, "What time is it?". Theo glanced at the alarm clock on the bedside table,

"10:15" he muttered as he sat up "How long was I out?"

"Not long" Blaze replied "About nine hours" she sighed, as she looked him over.

"What? What's wrong?" Theo asked

"Look for yourself" she said, Theo threw the covers off himself and swung his legs round, it was then he realised, his fur had darkened to light grey, black veins blossomed all over his body. And the symbol branded on his arm had appeared on his chest, scorching the fur around it, Blaze helped him up and Theo walked over to the mirror, and was astounded by what he saw, his robotic eye had gone and his eye had grown back, but the iris's were deep orange. His skin had darkened and was covered in black veins, like the rest of his body, he opened his mouth in astonishment, his teeth were sharp and grey, he reached up and traced the outline of the veins around his eye with his finger.

"What the fuck?" Theo muttered

"That's what the doctors have been saying" Blaze said as she helped him into a chair "It happened about seven hours ago, all of a sudden, you just started to change, then your eye just melted and that one grew back in its place".

"What's happening to me?" Theo asked, head in his hands, Blaze sat down on the arm of the leather chair and sighed,

"Well, you are dying so maybe-"

"Maybe what? Hmm? That I'm at the end of the road? That I'm going to drop dead at any minute?" Theo yelled as he got up out of his seat and turned to face her,

"That's not what I meant!" She yelled at him, flames appearing on her hands,

"THEN WHAT DID YOU MEAN?" Theo screamed at her, making orange electricity dart around his outstretched hands. He heard footsteps run up the stairs and the door flew open and a female black bat ran in, her hair was long and was spiked into quills, her eyes were a shining purple and the inside of her long wings was purple. The black, spiked armour that she wore was scratched and tarnished suggesting that she had been in many battles, on her back was a long multiplexed sword and a bladed staff.

"I heard yelling" she said, Theo turned to her, eyebrow raised,

"Who are you?" Blaze cut across any further accusation Theo had to make

"This is Cynder Kio, GUN have placed her here to err…keep a watch on you"

"Great!" Theo said, theatrically "GUN doesn't trust me now!".

Cynder cut across him,

"Hey, I didn't ask to be here".

Blaze sighed,

"GUN trusts you Theo, they're just a bit concerned about your powers, you almost killed Ghost and Luna in Neon City"

"And I've turned into a freak from that" Theo muttered, Blaze scowled and left the room, before she cleared his room however, she turned and spoke to him "Just remember, people care about you Theo, remember that always". The door closed and Theo heard Blazes footsteps descend the staircase, Cynder smiled

"So Theo, I presume that you know Chaos the Cat?" Theo was so taken a back by this that he was speechless,

"What?" he managed to utter "How do you know about her?" Cynder smiled and sat down, she took off the multi-bladed sword and began to sharpen it.

"I may be working for GUN but there's another reason I'm here" She pointed her sword at him "Your decision", Theo growled slightly,

"You're working with Chaos?", she nodded

"Well let me ask you one thing" Theo said, but was cut off by a wrap on the window, without thinking Theo wheeled around and shot a bolt of electricity at the window, melting a portion of the glass and passing through it, but then it gravitated to the side and disappeared, then the glass smashed as a white boot crashed through. Chaos then jumped into the room and landed on the ornate carpet.

"Boo" she said, sarcastically, she glanced at Theo and smiled,

"Theo, baby, loving the new look" she grinned and glanced at Cynder "So, when is he arriving here?" Cynder looked at the large clock on the wall,

"About five minutes" Theo rounded on Cynder.

"Who's coming?" Theo asked, nose to nose with her

"You certainly know how to make a women not like you" Cynder breathed and put her hand on his bare chest and pushed him away, getting out of her chair as she did so. Chaos caught him from behind one hand on his back on and one on his chest, she leaned in and whispered in his ear,

"Our client is coming" Both of the women turned and walked out into the corridor, intrigued, Theo follows. They descended a spiral staircase saying nothing, until Theo broke the silence,

"Who is your client?" Theo asked, charging his right hand, Chaos noticed this, she held out her hand out, Theo felt the electricity drain from his hand, making it go numb.

"I really wouldn't try that" Chaos muttered, they reached the entrance hall and they stopped, waiting for an unknown event. Then suddenly an unnatural wind whisked up out of nowhere, blowing a few pieces of paper into the air,

"He's here" Cynder said, Chaos then suddenly shocked him in the knees, making him buckle and fall to his knees, each one grabbed one of his arms to stop him falling forward, chaos drained his electricity from him temporarily, preventing him from shocking them. The wind sped up into a howling storm; small ornaments and furniture flew around the room, the chandelier creaked up ahead, then suddenly a slowly rotating black portal burst into life, Theo recognised the portal and his stomach dropped,

"No" He muttered "Oh god no", a person walked through the portal, his eerie green eyes shone in the darkness, his crystal body crunched like armour as he stepped forward and his arms was clasped behind his back, Mephiles. The wind and portal died, the furniture that had been picked up by the storm, crashed down, Mephiles walked forward towards them, his eyes glanced down towards Theo, the ancient fear of the demon that he had since he was young, rose back up inside Theo,

"Ah, long time no see Theodore" Mephiles said, he looked at the two women behind Theo, "Let go of him" he muttered, the two let go of his arms and Theo fell onto his chest on the bare floorboards, panting from Chaos draining him.

"I've managed to access the mainframe for Castle Acorn, if we're going to do the job it will have to be tonight, less guards will be around then" Cynder said, and Mephiles nodded, Theo looked up at the demon and grimaced,

"You're the client?"

"Yes" Mephiles said, beginning to pace around him "I only hired those two to make sure that you headed in the right direction."

"Direction?" Theo questioned

"Making sure that you wouldn't choose to ignore the darkness your heart or ignore both the light and darkness and die" Mephiles said , crouching down and looking Theo in the eyes "You've almost embraced the darkness, but there's still some light in you".

"Then what happens? Do I become your weapon that you use to become Rafael?", Mephiles stood up and laughed,

"if only you knew the half of it Theo" his voice suddenly became dark and serious "This is big, bigger than you can imagine, a great leader of the demons is about to be born and the demons can sense this, they're running rampant all over this corrupt world". Theo staggered up to his feet,

"You made me like this" Theo said, anger laced in his voice, he clicked his fingers subconsciously, a bight beam sword of orange electricity, at least 5ft long appeared in Theo right hand. Mephiles grin grew wider,

"No, it was all you, all that anger buried within you has caused you to lose you sanity" he rained his arms to shoulder height "So embrace the darkness within you".

"You caused that transmission from The Northern Wastes" Theo said, charging up the beam sword more, making electricity arc from it to the floor, Mephiles frowned

"I didn't"

"Don't lie to me" Theo said calmly,

"But I did not" Mephiles repeated.

"LIES!" Theo yelled rushing forward, beam sword raised, suddenly a black smoky figure whipped in front of Mephiles, it's long demonic wings spread protecting him, "What the?" Theo muttered, the demon started to solidify, features started to show up, the blackness of the smoke began to ebb away, eventually with its demonic veil taken aside, the figure turned out to be Cynder, wings spread, sword drawn, determination in her purple eyes.

"So Cynder has revealed her true colours" Mephiles chuckled, Cynder turned her head to face him,

"I never asked to be like this" she yelled at Mephiles, "It was the stupid government that made me like this, they turned me into a freak!". Mephiles laughed darkly and pointed at her,

"And that's the thing you three have in common"

"What?" Chaos said, stepping forward. Mephiles turned and walked back away from them, he looked over his shoulder at them,

"You all hate the government"

Theo dispersed the beam sword away and walked towards the demon.

"And that's why you want us to destroy Castle Acorn?" Theo asked, Mephiles nodded,

"You all despise the order that runs this pathetic land, Theo; you loathe the government because of their incompetence to save Neon City, and you also believe that they no longer trust you. Chaos; You think that they deliberately discriminated you and your family because of your powers, you've witnessed poverty that could have easily been prevented, and some of your best friends have died because of the governments greed and disinterest of the poor. And finally Cynder; you hate the government because of what they did to you, they made you into an artificial Demon, changed you, made you a freak of nature. And for that you want them to go through the same pain you did".

Theo gulped and looked at the bat and feline, Mephiles knew what he was thinking

"Yes, if you look deep enough in anyone, you will find the anger deep within" He walked back to them until he was only a foot away from Theo,

"I knew also that they would accept my offer, you on the other hand, I had my doubts, I knew you were friendly with some of the rich pigs and you wouldn't give that friendship up easily. So I tweaked the genes within you to make DV start early, and I added a cure to the bargain to try and sway your thinking. I've been watching you since the beginning, you haven't done anything that I haven't known about". Theo eyes went downcast

"The cure, what is it?" Mephiles chuckled manically

" Training, in DV the darkness doesn't kill you, it's the light and darkness fighting each other that kills you, we just need to eliminate the last bit of light inside you, If you do this job".

"Yeah, we know, destroy the castle" Cynder said, in a bored tone,

"Actually, I've had to change the plan a bit, if we destroy the castle, we kill Elias and everyone else, but if we kill Elias family-"

"We give him a fate worse than death" Theo finished "Letting know the pain we've all felt". Mephiles nodded,

"As Cynder said earlier, less guards are on duty tonight, so it will be the perfect time to strike" Mephiles said, he turned to Theo "You can take out the whore princess, make her suffer, Chaos will kill Elias' wife and child and Cynder will slaughter the former king and queen" Theo swallowed and nodded, it was going against all he held to be civilized, but the world was corrupt and it need to be taught a lesson, he nodded,

"Ok" Theo croaked, "When do we begin?"…

A/N: Hope you guys liked the chapter, next one will have the attack of Castle Acorn, but I'm going away on holiday for a week and a bit so, you're going to have to wait a while. A million apologies!

Remember to review and recommend to friends, I would like some of you great authors out there to read this and tell me what you think!