Chapter 10

Demon Heart

The scene opens up showing Noah standing on the roof of the building, beaten and battered, clothes torn and blood slowly drying under his lip and on a few spots on his face. A few moments later as the sun was slowly going down a figure that looked like a cat seemed to come towards him. It was Drail.

"Noah!" Drail yelled out with tears in big cat eyes.

"Drail..?" Noah said in confusion.

The exceed hug tackled Noah's face with a lot of force, making him fall down and slide into the ground.

"Hey now! What's wrong? Where is everybody?" Noah yelled out in confusion.

The exceed backed away and wiped his tears away.

"They got beat up!" Drail yelled out before crying again.

"What?! What happened, Drail?! Tell me!" Noah insisted.

"I can't!" Drail continued to cry.

"Take me to them then!" Noah then yelled.

Drail nodded and flew up and grabbed Noah by his shoulders and then began flying towards the destination where their friends are.

"Are they alive?" Noah asked.

"Mhm.." Drail nodded trying to old the tears back.

They eventually arrived at the spot where their friends lay. Even more beaten than Noah was. Drail dropped Noah and he landed by Tai.

"What the hell..." Noah said to himself and he looked around at his friends.

One by one him and Drail helped take all of them to a roof so they can be safe from bandits.

"Okay." Noah said as he shook Tai to wake him up.

Tai's eyes batted as he opened his eyes and groaned. He was in serious pain but sat up once he saw his brother.

"Noah!" Tai yelled.

"What's up, bro..?" Noah said softly.

"Looks like you got your ass whooped!" Tai said with a small chuckle.

"Heh. I can say the same for you!" Noah said.

"Shit. I did!" Tai said laughing.

"Tell me what happened." Noah said.

Noah then turned to face the sun. It began to fully go down as the moon came out, he turned back to his brother.

"This blonde dude.. He came outta no where and just.. Ugh it was terrible. Me and Marcus tried!" Tai yelled out.

"I know you did." Noah said.

"He said something about his master telling him not to engage but he did anyway. So I don't know I'm just confused." Tai added.

"Just rest up. You need it." Noah then said.

Tai nodded and laid back down on the cold roof. He didn't seem to care since he was so tired. He just simply dozed off. A few hours later everyone was asleep except for Noah, he was keeping watch over everybody so nobody could get snuck up on and hurt. Then all of a sudden a huge explosion erupted in a building not to far from them. Everyone jumped up.

"What happened?!" Marcus yelled out.

"Who turned on the lights?!" Tai yelled as he jumped up.

Mariah and Erin simply sat up.

In the explosion stood the blonde man. The one who beat everyone in the group up. Tai glared and pointed.

"Him... It's him!" Tai yelled.

Noah nodded.

"We'll attack tom-" in a quick motion Noah fell straight to the ground clutching his heart.

"Bro!" Tai yelled.

Everyone ran over to Noah to see what's wrong but he just kept screaming and clinching his heart. But then the blonde male appeared next to them.

"So you're the one I'm sensing." Lumi said.

"Get away!" Tai said as he jumped up to block Noah.

Lumi reached back pulling out a very demonic looking sword from his back.

"How about no.." Lumi said.

The sword then began to glow.

"Yep. It's him." Lumi said.

Lumi shoved Tai out of the way then shoved the sword straight through Noah's chest. In a flash the scene went dark.