A/N: Helloooo XD. Thank you for reading ^_^

Thanks lots and lots and lots and lots to crazy-doesn't-cover-it, I hope you like this chapter! …And I really hope I didn't screw it up (but I'm pretty sure I did). This chapter was really really forced, so I'm sorry . The fight scene here is just…. WEIRD. I didn't really edit this… actually not at all…I just kind of babbled out my ideas. I just really wanna get this published, and if I get a torrent of flames I'll repost a rewrite, haha XD. I tried my best to make sure nobody was out of character…I probably failed, haha.

If you're confused, please ask me and I'll explain XD.

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"Yay!" Mika screamed, sprinting past me and up to the bar. She ordered (more like demanded) a huge cup of coffee, and proceeded to bounce in her seat as she drank it. Tanith and Conleth took seats at the barstools, each ordering immediately. Dante was already wolfing down a strawberry sundae.

I took a seat next to Dante and ordered a glass of water. I don't like to drink much… mainly because all alcohol makes my throat burn for days. I sipped my water and tapped my foot against the metal of the barstool.

Tanith excused herself to go to the bathroom and after half an hour, she didn't return. Trish and Mika were playing poker (and winning) with two guys, Dante was working on his sixth sundae and completely oblivious to everything else, and Conleth—Wait. Where'd he go?

I spun the barstool away from the bar and swept my gaze around the room. Mika screamed happily as she and Trish won another round of poker, other drinkers chatted quietly, and the cliché man with the hood over his face sat moodily in a corner. Nope, no creepy Conleth.

A streak of dark amethyst hair and a face I would recognize anywhere flashed by the window. I practically jumped off my stool in my hurry, feeling my demon blood propel me out the door and into the rain. The purple-haired man—Ryuu strolled around the corner of the bar.

"Ryuu?" I called out, shaking my wet bangs from my eyes. There was no way he was here. He couldn't be. I pulled out my gun, digging my fingers into the metal. My legs trembled as I ran after him and I had to focus on not crushing the gun. This could definitely be a trap, but if it wasn't, if he had somehow managed to escape…

"Ryuu!" I yelled, as I entered the alley. There was no sign of him, just a mushy cardboard box and a metal garbage can. My legs immediately stopped trembling and my grip on my gun relaxed. I blinked back tears as my back tingled. I rested my gun on my shoulder and fired behind me.

A loud hiss filled the air. I pulled my sword from its scabbard as I pushed myself up from the ground. A deformed reptilian head snapped its jaws at the place I had been, and I flipped myself around and stabbed my sword into its skull. Putrid blood gushed from the wound as a louder hiss emitted from the demon. I quickly pushed my sword deeper until it pushed through the ground. I hopped off its head and watched as the demon writhed, trying to pull free. The creature shrieked and jerked its head away from my sword, which caused it to slice through its jaws. I fired a torrent of bullets at the rest of its body, creating gaping wounds everywhere.

The demon's body twitched before dissolving into a puddle of black slime. The slime slowly began to soak into the mud, revealing the corpse of…

"Conleth?" I said. A wound the size of a football covered his whole right side, both of his legs were gone, and his arms were bent at a weird angle. Well, this definitely explained the weird feeling I got from him. Conleth's corpse soon melted into the same black slime as before. After the rain had washed my sword of Conleth's blood, I returned to the bar. I wasn't sure how I was going to explain to Tanith that I had murdered her friend.

"Selene! Where were you!?" Mika screeched as soon as I reentered the bar.

"I was—"

"Tanith was attacked while you were gone!"

"What?" I said, noticing that the bar was vacant, "Is she alright?"

"She's resting right now, she barely got away. Come on." Mika clutched my arm and pulled me into the back room. Tanith was laying on the couch, with bandages around her midriff and shoulder. She was sleeping, her head propped up by a pillow.

"She said she was attacked by a lesser demon, but it had some weird fire powers." Said Mika as I kneeled next to Tanith.

"Where's everyone else?"

"They're talking to the owner." Mika sat next to me. "Where were you?" I sighed and began explaining.

"…That slimy black stuff sounds disgusting." She said. I hit her shoulder.

"That's not the problem here!" I said.

Three Weeks Later

"Selene! Open up!" Tanith yelled, pounding on my front door.

"Ssseeellleeennneee! Hurry up! This piñata is painful!" Mika's screaming joined Tanith's. I scrambled off the couch and yanked the door open.

"How can a piñata be painful? And—why did you bring one?" Trish, Tanith, Mika, and Lady were all squeezed on my doorstep. Mika cradled a Spongebob piñata, Tanith held a huge bag of chips, Trish and Lady both had what seemed like a thousand packages of cookie dough. Tanith had taken Conleth's death well, considering he had been the one to lure her to where the demon had attacked her. Her wounds had healed completely, and in celebration they all decided to sleepover at my house.

"This is painful because the edges are digging into my chin. I like piñatas." I stood back as everyone paraded into my home. Mika closed the door behind everyone and bounded into my kitchen. My snake, Alecto, hissed as Tanith passed her cage; I guess she still hadn't warmed up to her.

"Hey! This isn't a party without me!" Dante said as my door banged open.

"Dante, this is a girl's night." Lady said. Dante pouted and stormed inside, kicking off his boots. Mika sprinted out of the kitchen and began arguing with Dante. Tanith, Trish, and Lady soon joined in and my over-sensitive ears were beginning to hurt from the noise.

It was going to be a very long night.