Project, MalfunctionChapter Thirteen,The Demon, The Immortal, And The Kits

Sin lifted his head a little as he tried to watch the scene before him unfold, his snarling and growling moved to a low hum in the back of his throat. Abhorrence had moved to stand over him, her body shivering and trembling ever still in her terror. She knew she couldn't protect him for long, if both the creatures attacked…but she'd hold them off as well as she could.

"Its okay, Abhorrence…let me protect you." Sin muttered with a low growl, looking up at her as she hissed and bared her fangs at the newcomer and the darker creature at his side, but a few feet away. "I'm strong enough to hold them."

She shook her head and didn't move, tail twitching slowly. Sin smiled warmly at her display of affection for him, but quickly averted his gaze to Tenain, who seemed to be against the enemy he was fighting earlier. Fighting to stand up, Sin slid out form under Abhorrence and limped a bit closer, ears pinned back.

"Enemy of my enemy…are you a friend? Or another enemy?" He whispered darkly, eyes meeting Tenain's for the briefest moment.

Leviathan, who would have no such alliance, lunged then, his human head lowered so that his horns collided roughly with Tenain's chest. The male gasped as the air was knocked out of him and tumbled back, barely able to grab hold of the same horns used to attack. Sin snarled and lunged, but Leviathan hadn't taken his eyes off the wolf, and just that, he reared his head and grabbed Sin's snout; the wolf, who's mouth had been forced shut, had bitten onto his tongue and squealed, blood filling his taste buds.

Tenain pulled Levi's head down more, but it was all in vein as Leviathan pulled sin roughly and slammed the wolf's body into that of his demon brothers. Such a movement knocked both his opponents down, and he hovered over them, having not been injured aside from his face.

Abhorrence lunged however at that faithful moment and knocked the man not his stomach, claws sinking into his back. "Forgot about me, ya, ya?!" He hissed, fitting her entire jaw around his head as she bit down.

For a few moments, all was quiet as she crunched onto his skull, claws ever curling deeper into the flesh on his back. It didn't take them long to figure out it took more then that, to kill something like Leviathan. He snarled with a face covered in dirt and mud, then pushed up, throwing her body off his own. His horns had protected most of his head, but some parts where bleeding and trying to repair themselves.

"I'm tired of playing," Leviathan muttered bitterly, rolling his shoulders back as he whipped his face off. Suddenly, his jaw tightened up then opened, fire spewing out and licking at Sin's fur. The wolf left off Tenain and the demon rolled out of the way just in time, but they both kept moving as Leviathan took aim and flew smoke and ash as well as burning fire.

He grabbed abhorrence's face in his hands and let fire loose on her as well, hearing her yelp and screech in pain, tiring to break free and get out of the heat. He only laughed threw the flames, the fire not effecting his own skin in the least.

"Abby!" Sin skid to a stop and watched in horror as she screeched, her high pitched sound echoing all around his mind. By the time Levi had released her, she was scorched, blackened and fir-less; her limp body fell, and she didn't move again. Tenain watched in absolute horror as his brother took amusement in such torture, anger building up more and more as time passed. Sin's hurt bark and whine where enough to send him over the edge of madness, and it was all he could do to stop himself form killing Leviathan at that very moment.

He was shocked at how easy it was to loose control. Why was it so hard to maintain control, but so easy to loose it? All he knew, was that his anger was fueling his movements, making him numb and yet feel so very alive…

Next thing he saw was complete and utter blackness, and after that, gray eyes peering into his own. What had happened to Levi? To Tailz? To the cat and the dog from before? Where they even real? Was it a dream? Oh God, please let it be just a dream…but alas, he knew it was all to real.

"You passed out." He heard a bleak voice say to him, the voice sounding very tired, very weary…and, the voice matched the eyes of his watched, though he did not know it yet.

All he could think about was Tailz, and if he got her soul back. "Is she…okay…?" He muttered dryly, his voice cracking with pain.

The wolf at his side shook his head, looking grimly over at his burnt friend, his burnt accomplice. The smell was awful, really. It didn't accrue to him that Tenain was speaking of someone else…the only she around seemed to be Abhorrence, so sin had assumed. "No, that creature killed her. I assume she'd never get back up…I couldn't bare to get any closer. My heart was throbbing in my chest…I though it might explode."

Now that Tenain was to his right state of mind to understand things, he sat up slowly and followed the wolf's gaze to the leopard, though the old dog was sightless. He felt bad for the creature, but he was concerned for his own girl, his own demon. She was, really, all he had left.

"There was another with me. A girl. Is she alright, as well?" He asked softly, not wanting to offend the wolf by asking. Sins seemed a little confused, then sighed heavily, knowing what Tenain was speaking of now.

"You and the creature fought well, and after a while, he threw up something onto the ground; I heard it very clearly. After that, he could not breath fire, and his wounds stayed fresh longer from the smell of things…he escaped into the waters…but the blood he'd thrown up sizzles and was no more. I followed the smell back to a dying cat…a mother, with two kittens." Sin paused in his recall of events, looking down to Tenain's smell. "One of them must be ill, however…because it will not move much. The mother called the lively one Himmel, but the sickly one Holle."

Tenain seemed very confused at first, then muttered a swear under his breath and stood up with heist, soon falling flat on his face again. Sin shook his head and trotted over to where he'd fallen, seeming less then amused.

"You where badly hurt…you shouldn't move much. Surly you don't know the cat? She is already dead; only her kittens live. Odd enough, they don't smell like any cat I've ever sniffed-"

Tenain snapped, snarling. "She is not a cat. She's a demon, now take me to her!" He whined and held tightly to his side, vision starting to burr from blood loss.

Sin shook his head, sitting near the demon, who was clawing his way to where he believed Tailz was. "Demons die, and their bodies leave the earth with nothing but a pile of ash and bone. She is not there." He said softly, glancing over in the general direction of Abhorrence. "It is the same with us immortals…our bodies will disappear, and become of the earth. She will not be here for long…if she's still there at all."

Tenain gagged and choked on the air as he whined, trying to fight back tears. "No! She cant be dead! Why…why? I got it back in time, didn't I?!" He started sobbing, all his muscles growing weak as he convulsed in a pathetic heap.

Sin let him finish his screaming and crying before he spoke again, ears flat, but eyes holding no sympathy. "They are your kits." he muttered softly, hoping that he'd not have to repeat himself. Sin knew they where Tenain's…his smell was extraordinary, after all. They had the same blood in them, and it was a wonder that the mother cat had no signs of being impregnated. "She did not say your name…but, of that I am sure they are yours, demon."

Tenain seemed to distraught to even care, and whined and curled up, in all kinds of pain and misery. Why couldn't something come along to take him out of his misery? No! The wolf said that Leviathan had lived…

"What is your name, demon?" Sin asked, feeling no hostility towards this pathetically distraught demon at his paws. He'd seen pain in his long, long life…but this was almost to much. This as a broken man, no, a broken boy who'd lost everything that was ever good in his life. While sin felt no pity, and no remorse…he felt a kinship with this poor beast. Pain was pain, no matter what breed you where. It was what made everyone the same in God's eyes; of that, Sin was certain.

When Tenain did not speak his name, the wolf took it upon himself to move closer, belly to the ground now. "I am called Sin…and I am an immortal."

Tenain sneered painfully, angry and hurting all at once. "How are the kits mine?" This was a question that came up, thought, he didn't really wish to know about. The kits where his own blood, Sin was sure enough of that, and Tenain knew how the might have been his. "We never…I didn't…"

Sin smirked. "You are a demon. You know better then anyone, that demons only need affection to reproduce. While other methods are also useful…to take the feelings and manifest them inside one's own body, for a demon, is to produce an offspring. Much like possession, I always assumed. Didn't you ever learn?" Tenain nodded weakly, letting his anger go for the time being, seeing as how Sin was less then likely to loose his temper, even after such a loss as his own.

"Yes…I know it very well. Supposedly, when the pup is produced…" Tenain sighed. It was the same as his father. While Tenain was formed inside his mother, his father paid the price of allowing him to enter the world. "…She was dead before Leviathan got his teeth into her…"

Sin nodded some, then shook out his fur, picking up Himmel, the darker of the two blue and blond kittens, to place in Tenain's lap. Holle just breathed, his breath deep, yet weak, and wheezing. Sin took note of this, and lowered his ears a little to nudge the smaller kitten. "I hate to say it…but even if she was dead, I believe that creature did get to this one. Or, maybe the mother didn't have enough life to give to both of them…"

Tenain stroked Himmel's fur softly, eyes clouded as he tried to think strait. "Doesn't matter."

Sin frowned, looking in the general direction of the demon lad before him. "You would deny your own offspring?" He questioned, seeming to think that was a simply atrocious idea, no matter what the circumstances

The red head shook his mind clear of the thoughts, slowly standing up as he held Himmel close to his chest protectively. "The weak one will eventually consume the stronger in the hopes of becoming hole…its better, if we leave it. Though it's a shame, I cant see it surviving more then a day." Sin sighed, and nodded. This was true enough…even if Holle could be saved, it would make no difference.

So, they left the kitten there, wheezing and panting and whining because, it simply didn't matter.