THE GHOST RIDER'S PROTÉGÉ 5
It was almost 10. Rider, Rowan, Slate and Nara slowly getting there kill after kill. So far the they killed 14 lives and Nara got a 20 year refill from the youngest.
The two Riders didn't talk but the girls couldn't stop but gossip. After a while Nara's wings got sore from flying so she hopped on Rowan's bike.
"so Row, can I call you that?"
"oh, yeah sure, what is it?"
"what does the devil look like?"
"tall, slim, dark, cynical-"
"would you say he's evil?"
"no, well at first, yes. But after he kept visiting my dad in his garage I learned more about him. He's not good nor bad. He's just what he is. He kill's people who committed sins. So to sum it all up: he kills which is bad but the people who die did do horrible things too. In the end it's just what it is."
"huh, never thought of it like that, I mean they teach the devil to us as a person with no heart, no consience, just pure evil. But he's more than that."
"no he's just what he is, not better, not worst, and not anything more than that"
"I get it."
"hey, Rider? isn't that the old church?"
Rider stopped dead in his tracks followed be the rest. He entered first, Slate second, than Rowan, followed by Nara."
The 3 kept their hands blazing to keep light as they made fire die down every where else.
"row", Nara whispered. "as a shinigami you don't need light to see in the dark, just your eyes"
"oh, really? Cool… wait guys what's that ahead?"
Beyond the corner the 4 watch the first person to enter right on time. He looked young. His face was rigid and sharp. His hair was long and tied up in the back. He looked almost Russian.
"k, I'll go first. Slate second, Rowan third, and Nara forth. Got it?"
They all nodded slowly.
Rider flamed-up and almost stomped up behind the man. He was about to punch him but the man swiftly dodged and did a 180 to face Rider.
"well, look who came." the man leaned a little to his right just to catch a glimpse as Rowan's head as she turned back to hiding. As he was squinting to look harder Rider got jabbed him good right under his ribcage. As a quick response he hunched over to make Rider think he's in pain. He lunged to Rider and grasped the skull but Rider was too fast, holding the mans wrist he whipped the arms and crack was loud enough to echo through the chapel. Rider threw the man on his back the broken arms.
"you'll never kill our leader, by 3 he'll be too strong"
Rider said nothing. He grabbed out his gun and pulled the trigger. The magnificent fire shot out of the barrel as soon as the flaming bullet hit the man he instantly shimmered to dust. As it drifted to the ground Rider cracked his neck both ways in satisfaction. Than his fire died down.
"you ok dad?"
"just thirsty, what's the time?"
"err… it's 10:13, so now what."
"why don't we split up and try to find out what that guy was talking about."
They all split up. Rider north, Rowan east, Slate west and Nara south.
Rowan changed to shingami to scour around without light. She entered what looked like the baptism room. The inside of the bathtub was murky shallow water. For a quick moment she thought that the water shifted. She looked closer. There was something inside, swimming. She looked closer. Staring at the water. She heart was pounding, it almost broke her ribcage. Slate entered moments before she looked in the tub.
"uh… Rowan, what are you doing?"
She shrieked and almost slipped into the dirty tub. Slate could help but snicker a little. Rowan whipped her head around to look at Slate.
"oh, uh, me?….I-I was, I was looking in the tub, I the-thought it moved, like so-something was inside," calming down she continued, "take a look."
Slate walked over, peering down into the tub.
"uh, what am I supposed to see?"
"look into the water-"
"what water? The tub is clean."
"what? How can that be?"
"maybe it's uh, shinigami thing."
"yeah, maybe"
"what's the time, we've been lookin' for a while"
"it's, uh, 11:00 exactly, where's the next person?"
Fire was thrown from across the hall, Slate and Rowan both spotted a shadow being cast of a hunched over creature. They both run to the scene. They find Rider lodged into the wall and Nara dodging an attack from the creature.
The creature was hunched, grimy, it's face was almost human, the body looked related to a bat with arms, the skin was gray and blotchy with cuts and scars. It was as tall as Rider even when hunched over. The spine was throbbing out his back. He grew a smile like no other, that smile only seem to target Rowan. It let out a cry, it was inhuman and like no other animal like it.
He the hop towards Rowan. To stunned to react to the beast's look, Slate stole Rowan's chain from her and flicked the wrist as it curled around the beasts throat. The chain was to tight for him to rip off so he decided to fly away. It was no use Slate was too strong and fast for him. Trying to get away the beast kept thrashing, each whip of the chain Slate started to loose his grip. Nara pounced at the beast taking it's soul and forcing it into her soul catcher.
The beast fell down hard. Rider put's the wall in fire so he can slip out. As soon as he got out, he went back to human.
"oh, god. What was that?"
"eh, I don't know, maybe a demon."
"ok. Slate, I'm sorry I didn't even try to get out my chain. It was weird, the face, it's smile. It's like it put me in a trance."
"it's ok, I wanted to kill something any way. But Nara did that before I did."
"sorry, it looked like you needed help."
"and I did, don't worry about it"
"oh, ok. Rowan you look shaken, are you ok?"
"uh… yeah but I need to ask you a something, I saw murky water when Slate didn't, is that normal?"
"where was it?"
"in a baptism tub"
"oh, when death occurs in something religious you see the crime scene, did you see a body?"
"no, just shallow dirty water"
"huh, than what happened to the body?"
"hmm, I don't know."
John got bored from the girls talking, so he broke the silence, the silence he had from not talking, "alright, 2 down, 4 to go."
It's so dry, although if you are reading this and you've also read the rest up and till now, CONGRADULATIONS! At least you read the FULL series , well not full but at least all of the current chapters unlike the other people who just read chapters 1 and 3. It's weird right? Who would miss a chapter when I write them (and you know they're awesome because you made it this far)? Eh, what ever, at least one of my stories are popular. Now, I'll sign off so you don't have to read anymore of my boring feelings, bye!
~darkntwisted13