"I'M JUST A CORRUPTED SOUL MEANT FOR EXECUTION, I FIGHT EVERYDAY WITH THIS BURDEN OF HATE AND BLOODLUST... BUT I DON'T SUCCEED MIA!! I WAS MEANT TO BURN IN HELL!"
"zero... Even though I was asked to do it in if it means that you would be safe... then I won't have second thoughts... I will still rush out to protect you even though I won't make it...
.....
End of flashback
I shed my very last tear from my right eye and then left her hand and glare out the window, towards the forest with a killing intent to it.
"don't worry sister... I will make that demon pay for what he did to you... And I will find him, even if i have to tear down the whole forest." I started to make my way towards the door and eventually had closed the door, leaving the room and now heading towards the forest, with one goal in my mind... And that is to kill that... Demon.
Third person's p.o.v
4 hours later
Mia woke up to see that nobody was in the room with her, and noticed that one of the orphans was staring at her through the slightly opened door.
"miko... Why are you staring from behind the door... Is something wrong." Mia asked Miko in a weak voice, as Miko had a worried look on his face.
"...Miko...."
"... it's zero, sister mia... He went out of the orphanage with a very angry look on his face... but this time, his... Horn was... Bigger and looked more scarier..."
"....z-zero... oh no, I have... To go help... Him, oh lord give me strength...." Mia whispered out, soon coming off her bed and had started to weakly follow zero... Out of her room and into the forest.
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Dante's p.o.v
I had finished packing all of my equipment and was now ready to head out, but before that I need to mediate to relax my aurora flow... after all there are more than one way to increase you physical performance.
Flashback
At limbo
"aarrrghhh!" roared out a demon that was skeletal in structure but was very tall, as in 8 foot in height. It begin to throw rapid attacks at me with no fatigue and at this case though it might not have the needed strength to do much damage... But It's speed was absolutely something else, and was putting me in a very tight spot as there was absolutely no openings at this demon.
"damn it... You're even worst than that massive other." I grunted out in pain, as some of it's attacks had started to get through to me. I continued to maintain my stance to defend the incoming blows but for now I could only defend no offence without getting harmed in the process. Then I started to hear death start to laugh hysterically, while folding his hands as I glared at him with annoyance.
"Hahahahahaha well isn't this a good show, hahahahahaha cat being cornered by a mouse hahahahha you really are very useless kid."
"FOR THE 13TH THOUSAND TIME I'M 43 YEARS OLD! And can you blame me, this monster is moving in speeds that makes it hard to attack... Basically his simultaneously on offence and defence, so how do you expect me not to get cornered huh." I argued with his while still trying to evade some of the demon's attacks but it keeps on closing the distance between us. It then launched a double axe drop and I had to put up my arms to defend from the attack resulting to a massive crater created underneath me. " beside just was demon is this, it's reflex... It's speed.. it's impeccable."
"AHHH YES... IT IS CALLED A REAPER, FOR THESE BEAST ARE ONES THAT ROAM IN THE DEEPEST PARTS OF HELL. IN FACT, IT WAS SAID THAT THEY ARE QUITE WEAK WHEN IT COMES TO EFFECTIVE DAMAGE OFFENCE... BUT REMEMBER THAT EVEN THE SMALLEST CUT CAN CAUSE AN INFECTION... SO BASICALLY WHERE IT LACKS IN STRENGTH, IT THEREFORE MAKE THROUGH WITH SPEED." Death had explained about it, and just how dangerous it was. "YOUR FINDING THIS BATTLE TOO HARD KID... REMEMBER THAT EVEN WITH ALL THE POWER IN THE WORLD, IF YOU DON'T MUCH ABOUT THE UNKNOWN... YOU CAN NEVER WIN."
'hmmmmm I see' I then realised what I was missing, but I needed to know. "So if I'm correct, it's attack can only be delivered with speed not force... But basically with the force if it lands 7 straight hits on me then I'm done for... Right?"
"AND WHAT IF IT'S THAT." Death comment with an intriguing tone in his voice. As I just smiled and pulled back my offence a little, then I began to mediate in the middle of battle and was now strengthening my stance with a now calmed grin on my face. The demon took this opportunity and launched the first attack on me, directly to the chest. 'one' and then connecting another one to the stomach. 'two', with a swift claw to my shoulder. 'three' I started to have difficulties maintaining my stance but I held through, as I was immediately launched at with two simultaneous attacks, one to the head and the other to the ribs. 'four... Five...'. I started to feel a slight change in my mana presence as I felt myself being encased in a purple liquid like aura and felt my body becoming more tougher and lighter. The demon landed another hit towards my gut and then was about to land a final blow to my head, with killer intent... but then, when I had opened my eyes... I could see it, as I finally saw the needle in the hay stack... The perfect opening to strike...
I reeled back my first with the aura concentrating at that one point.
"WITH FORCE!" I shouted out in rage, as I launched my first at it, and before I knew it... There was nothing left of it... It worked.
"HAHAHAHAHA I SEE THAT YOU DID IT, YOU FINALLY RELISED ... THAT FOR YOU TO BEAT YOUR OPPONENT WHO POSSESSES GREAT STRENGTH... YOU MUST FIRST TURN THAT STRENGTH INTO A WEAKNESS AND USE IT AGAINST THEM.... WELL DONE KID, ALWAYS REMEMBER THIS AS A VIRTUE, A LESSON AND EVEN A SAVING GRACE... NO KNOWLEDGE IS EVER." Death said with a light glare, while
End of flashback
"a waste... Yeah yeah, I understand. I think that should be more than enough meditating, my mana is somewhat descent in facing off with that beast... Though I have my doubts." I started to become worried on the whole situation, so much that I thought that I could actually lose t- I mean Mia. "
My breath became cold and my heart had started to clench up... Just like what had happened at the field... "Mia!!"
I rushed out to her room with a very anxious look on my face, as I had opened the door to see that nobody was there... They were both gone, I then glared out towards the window and out to the forest, and unnoticed my middle ring started to crack even more and before I knew it, I rushed out the window while landing on my feet, which had startled the children. I then immediately raced out towards the gate and went in through it, but I didn't even stop on bit, fuelled with rage and fear, a random hamji had jump out towards me to attack.
"GET OUT OF MY WAY!!" I roar out in anger, while stabbing my right arm through its chest and immediately absorbed it in an instant and continued to race through the forest, as it didn't take me much time to have reached the site where I sensed there mana presence... But it seems that I was maybe too late... '...no I won't let this happen.'
"ZERO!!!!!!!!!!!"
Zero's p.o.v
I made my way through the forest in hope of finding that demon, I manage to take on some hamjis along the way but though I could not kill them, I still managed to put them down. I was filled with anger, pain and remorse, as I continued my journey towards the demons trail.
Sudden flashback
"the demon is feeding of her like a parasite... If I can kill it from the source then the whole body will fall, and then she will be okay." Kami suggested as I was now filled with both rage and hope, as I would make sure that the demon is killed by my hands.
End of flashback
I halted to a stop as I notice a skeletal creature feeding on a dead corpse of a hamji, I felt the mana presence of the skeletal demon increase with every chomp it took on the dead hamjis corpse... It most have died because of from being drained by the demon... This must be the demon that harmed Mia, I will not spare it.
"why you demon, I will make you pay for what you did to sis Mia!" I roared out at it with bloodlust coming off me, which had caused the demon to shriek out in fear as it was about to run off and I was about to dash off towards it. "you can't run away from me NOW DEM-..!"
I became dumbstruck with shock, fear and worry, as I was met with a huge roar from behind the small demon and in a flash... I was towered over by the... Demon that hurt Mia, the once average size demon was now... Almost compared to that of a miniature yoma, with bloodlust and so much mana flowing out of it. It's horns from it's head was now as long as that of a large tree branch and still retained some of its skeletal features, but now had black mana spilling from it's eyes and nose holes and from the back of it's head that seemed opened.
"o-oh my God... I'm so glad I have found the real threat hehehehehe now I will make you pa-ack!" I was delivered a very powerful kick to my abdomen and had coughed out lots of blood in the process, as I felt myself about to burst in the process... But even though, the rage that was in me was still overwhelming that I got on my feet and started to make my way towards the beast with some broken ribs and fractures. "i-i will k-kill yo-ackk!"
I was delivered a claw to my head, but then I had held its hand on impact and I felt my very bone shatter under the pressure, but I still remain conscious.
"D-DAMN YOU!!" I roar out in pain at it, as it started to laugh in pity.
"z-zero!" I heard sis Mia voice shout out through the forest and to my shock and worry, the monster had now shifted it's attention towards sis Mia; who was now seen to have crawled most of the way here and was in tears to see the situation that I was in. "z-zero... ZERO! PLEASE STOP THIS!"
"sister Mia leave..
"n-NOOOO! LEAVE HER ALONE!!!." I felt a striking pain at my head and was suddenly implanted to the ground by the demon's strike. I immediately felt my conscious starting to leave my body, and my vision was starting to get blurry, as the demon was now heading towards her to finish her up... I'm useless, I can't do anything right, I'm just a hamji waiting for execution...
Sudden flashback
"you're just a hamji awaiting for execution..."
"to be used as the ultimate sacrifice... "
End of flashback
"Aaaahhhhhhhh!" I roared out in anger, as I was met with the vision of the demon about to finish off big sis Mia. I immediately made my way in front of her with the motive of taking the fatal blow for her, as I closed my eyes to accept my fate. 'thank you... sister Mia.'
The hit was about to land... Until suddenly I heard a shout out of my name.
"ZEROOOOO!" and it was not sister Mia... It was kami, who was now in front of me... And had collected the blow, through the heart. I started to cry as I also heard sister Mia scream in agony, he stared at me with a very Stoic expression on his face and was bleeding from everywhere, as he held to the demons arm through him and kept it from moving. "z...z...zero r...r...run!"
I took sister Mia's hand; who was too broke to see what had just happened. The demon lifted Kami up and had placed it hands on his back and started to forcefully push him to slid out of its arm, but even with all of Kami's struggle... He couldn't hold it off for so long, as it then picked up his body after sliding it out and threw it to the side of the forest, where those hamjis had now infested the place due to the large amount of mana present around the area. They started to feed on Kami's body as we didn't hear a scream of agony... Meaning that he must be dead. I was about to run off with mai as fast as I could, but was then stopped by the demon; who was now obstructing the trail back to the orphanage and was about to finish us all off, as I place sister Mia behind me in a protective stance.
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But then suddenly, the demon was engulfed in... White furious flames that instantly burnt the demon to ash... But that wasn't my concern... It was the white flames, it can't be.
"Oh my, what do we have here?" I heard a very sinister voice echo the forest and a figure had emerged from the dark forest, to reveal the person that caused all my pains and suffering... "project leviathan and project.... Zero hahahahahaha."
"VICTORRRRR!!!" my demonic voice took over and I immediately launched at him with killer intent, but then in an instant I felt an unbearable pain that made me scream in agony and in an instant I was met with darkness... The demon that took everything away from me... Was back.