"Well you look like shit." Sera commented and I opened my eyes to look at her. She was wearing a white t-shirt, green sweat pants and white sneakers and I could smell the strong aroma of a floral shampoo in her hair. I had spent the last hour or so recovering from my injuries, the reason it took so long was because of the the shoulder injury where that spider bit me, it turned out that she had injected me with a large amount of poison which is why my blood was black and why it eminated a foul scent.
"Is everyone ready to leave?" I asked, ignoring her previous comment.
"Yes everyone is packed and ready to go." She replied and I nodded my head. I exited the building and flew towards the [Holy Territory], there I saw two buses filled with people.
'This brings back memories.' I thought, remembering when I brought Claire and the others to City B inside a bus but this time it was going to be many times more dangerous.
"Everyone is all packed and ready to go. We'll be in your care I guess." Sera said and grabbed a duffle bag and her sword off the ground.
"Ok everyone, we will all be travelling to City B due to this area being too dangerous. During this journey, we will be under the care of Mr. Demon here." She said and pointed at me. I could here mumbling from within the crowd and I could feel gazes of fear and disgust being directed at me which pissed me off.
"If anyone has a problem with that then they can stay and those who don't have any issues, promptly get into the bus." Sera said and they instantly started to get into the bus but I could see a few of them hesitating, one of which was the saint from before.
"Oh right how could I forget, do you mind giving me a few minutes?" She asked and looked at me.
"Sure." I said and then she flew towards the mansion. The group that didn't enter the bus glared at me but I simply glared back with my furiously glowing eyes and they quickly averted their gazes.
'Cowards. I should probably send Synthia a message before I forget.' I thought and quickly connected my mind to Synthia's.
[Synthia are you there?] I asked through [Telepathy].
[Yes I am, is everything alright?] She asked
[Yes, I found your friend and we are ready to leave City J.] I said
[That's good, stay safe and please keep Sera safe as well.] Synthia said
[I will.] I said and disconnected my mind from hers. From the looks of it nothing has happened in the city yet but I still wanted to reach back as quickly as possible just incase. Just as I wondered what was taking the Angel so long, I sensed the holy energy from the [Holy Territory] shrinking and condensing into s single point, then the energy seemed to disappear all together. A few minutes later, the angel could be seen flying out of the mansion towards the buses with a box in her hand. The box was white in colour with golden runic symbols carved all over it.
"Let's go." She said and the others who were standing outside the bus quickly went inside, not wanting to be left behind. Not wanting to be in the same place as those people, I flew unto the top of the second bus ,the one at the back, and reverted back to my human form. The angel looked at me for a second before heading into the first bus, and soon both of them started to move.
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We had been driving for a few minutes now and the sun had finally emerged from the horizon signaling the start of a new day. I had been sitting on the top of the bus, reviewing my fight with the Arachnid and thinking about what she told me. That Arachnid, Amara, had revealed a lot of important information but the one I couldn't get out of my mind was when she said I didn't know how to use my powers properly. Although I didn't want to admit it, I think she was right, the amount of power she displayed whether it was the strength of her webs or that ball of pure demonic energy she used before escaping, all of it was proof that she knew something I didn't. I created a small flame in my hand, then I slowly condensed it and became an even darker shade of red than before.
"This is close to the amount of power that was in the ball of demonic energy she attacked me with but, it takes me too long to create, way longer than it took her." I mumbled to myself as I looked at the dark red flames in my hand.