"Hey, Raphael, have you ever heard about a man named John Winchester? " asks the Air demon with a smirk on his devilishly handsome face.
Raphael notices how the air around him acts differently as if the element itself is under his command.
While this is happening, the circle around Raphael, made of at least twenty Vampires, starts to close up each second Raphael remains silent.
The air holds some tension, some bloodthirsty tension, making Raphael's veins packed with adrenalin.
Approaching him with wide smiles, extreme bloodlust, and sharp teeth, the Vampires' eyes begin to glow brightly in crimson-red color, the color of death.
"No, I haven't, not that I care either..." Raphael replies as his hands start to be covered in the black-and-white, corrupted darkness.
The shadows around start to move, corruption begins to hit the walls of this old building, as the smell of the upcoming judgment day starts to linger above the warehouse, above those Vampires.
"I heard that the blood of a demon is much more tasty than the blood of a human cattle..." Suddenly whispers one of the Vampires which caught Raphael's attention, making him sigh.
But quite happily actually...
*Sigh, "Guys, I hate when someone tries to pressure me~..."
With a glint in his eyes while wearing a wide smile, showing his bright white teeth, Raphael crouches and hits the ground, releasing a wave of his power across the entire warehouse, sending the Vamps flying in all directions as if made of paper.
But shifting his gaze at the four demons when the wave is about to hit them, Raphael smiles more when he sees that somehow, it just passes through them like it's nothing.
Like their bodies are made from astral energy, the same material as the souls are.
Raphael awaited this outcome, it would be too easy if he managed to hurt them with something weak like this, but he also gained something in return.
The complete structure of those four demons' bodies.
And with this structure also came a way of how to kill them...
Awaiting a counterattack, Raphael's muscles tighten, but...
"Well, you should have, after all, you caught his attention. " The words of the water Demoness suddenly echo around as Raphael shifts his gaze at her.
'That's kinda weird, why they don't attack? ' Raphael thinks as he stands up.
'Not thinking of me as a possible threat? ' He adds in his mind as it seems that the demons decided to rather ignore that and talk instead of trying to attack back.
"By the way," The woman suddenly touches her left hand with a smirk and dangerous glint in her eyes, fixed on Raphael.
"My hand still hurts..." She adds with a slightly angry tone as she remembers the fork Raphael pierced her hand with.
Raphael shows a devilish smile as he replies to her statement: "Does my face remind you of someone who cares? It's your problem woman, not mine~"
"Bastard..." The woman whispers in response, the water in her hair and around her hands starts to move but then, the Air demon coughs to catch everyone's attention as the woman calms herself.
*COUGH!
"I'm sorry for the behavior of our allies, as well as for my friend... What she wants to say, is that sooner or later, John or his two sons will probably pay your house a visit. You should be prepared, 'cause they will not be as gentle as us..." The Air demon says, reminding Raphael that he clearly saw his "failed attempt" of an attack.
Therefore, with a slight movement of his hand, all of the Vampires suddenly start to get up from the ground like dolls.
Ignoring the "showcase" of powers, Raphael asks.
"Who are they, anyway? " While trying to gain some intel on the possible future enemies.
"Pfff, Winchesters? They are Hunters... The worst pack of Hunters I've ever seen! Hunters who hunt individuals like us, dark individuals with, for them, "troublesome personalities"... if you know what I mean..." The Fire demon standing next to the Air demon suddenly explains with a smile, feeling some familiarity with Raphael.
A smile shared by Raphael as well.
"I see..." Raphael nods while checking the Vampires' positions with his senses, his eyes fixed on those four in front of him as the tension in the air begins to build up again.
Seeing that his idiotic brother is making eye contact with Raphael, dangerous eye contact while he starts to be covered in flames, and seeing then Raphael who begins to release his corrupted darkness, the Air demon takes a deep breath and slaps his brother across his excited face.
"Idiot, stop staring at him! " He shouts and adjusts his posture while the fire demon flies across the room.
Seeing him land in a further corner of the warehouse with a loud thud sound, the Air demons speak up.
"Anyway, you are here now, that's all that really matters... With us, you don't need to care about any of those hunter punks..." The Air demon speaks as the Earth demon who was all this time silent adds as he walks out from his brother's shadow.
"Yeah, you totally didn't know what were we preparing for you. You just blindly followed our sister here without actually knowing what was going on behind the curtains."
The Air demon looks at the Earth one with narrowed eyes as if he is the biggest idiot in the world, right after the Fire demon, as he asks.
"What? "
"Nothing... I just now realized that I was raised with the idiots..." Replies the Air demon while Raphael's next words slightly surprise the demons.
"Lowkey, I knew you were behind this..."
"You did? " The Water demoness suddenly asks with visible surprise in her eyes as Raphael nods while he starts to walk back and forth.
While the Fire demon starts to stand up and flies back to his crew, Raphael remains making a small circle with his feet as if he is drawing something unconsciously.
You know the times when you think about something so deeply or talk about something and you have some kind of habit to do?
The same is happening in the warehouse with Raphael now.
"Yes... I... did... You made it too obvious..." He says softly and slowly with a happy smile as he starts to explain.
"You see, the appearance of a beautiful lady in a shop, and later that night she suddenly needs help 'cause she's assaulted by individuals, I tend to hunt 'cause they hurt my new family? "
"I think that's too many accidents for one night, don't you think? " Raphael asks as the Water demoness unconsciously nods, a thing shared by the Fire and Earth demons as well.
Unfortunately, the Air Demon remains silent, clearly seeing a pattern Raphael uses to catch them in his rhythm.
"That's a good presentation and all, but I didn't call you here to chat, but to make a deal." The Air demon suddenly speaks.
"What kind of deal? " Raphael kindly asks, feeling the irritation from the Demon as he's trying to manipulate his fellow demons.
"First, will you consider my offer... Before WE become enemies? " The Air Demon asks first.
"Which is? " Raphael asks again.
"Hah, join us, it's as simple as that..." The Fire demon speaks as sparks can be seen in his eyes.
It would be a lie if he said he didn't like Raphael's personality or his style.
While this is happening, the Air Demon adds:
"We know you are not from this world. From the night when we killed Michael and the black-and-white glow appeared in the sky, things changed in Nenktese, and seeing you proves to us, that you are just using that pest Michael's body."
"He was also the reason why Eve managed to escape..." The Water demoness adds as well and the Fire demon continues.
"For that, he is dead... hehe, you know, that was my work hehe... *ahm* which means you are just animating his body's functions... Using it as your own..."
"The way of a typical demon..." The Air demon speaks with a smile as the Water demoness adds.
"So, how will you decide? Will you join us? That way, you can help us get Eve and we can bring this world to its knees... together if you prefer ~..."
"You see, she trusted Michael which means you can deceive her... or stay alone in this, for you, unknown world and die in the hands of Winchesters..." The Earth demon says.
Leaving space for him to continue, Raphael opens his mouth to speak, but when he is about to say something, his senses suddenly register a well-known person lurking around the warehouse.
Therefore, he changes his response.
"Well, I must say, for a few seconds, you had me, all of you. The way you four talk, saying that without you four, I'm basically fucked..."
"Glad you understood..." The Air Demon replies to this with a smile, feeling that he finally managed to make Raphael join him.
"But to make things right, I must correct you, I'm not alone, not anymore..." Raphael says as all of a sudden, his left hand starts to be covered in shadows as a silver ring covered with, for the demons, unknown sigils appears from them.
"A familiar? How can a demon have a familiar?! " Turning his face at the Air demon with some doubts, the Fire demon suddenly asks as his gaze then shifts and remains fixed on Raphael's hands.
'Familiar? What the fuck is that...' Raphael thinks while in the meantime, the Air Demons speak.
"I see, so you decided to pair up with the Witches, huh, meaning we are not going to have a meaningful conversation anymore, are we? "
"I guess so~" Raphael replies while thinking: 'Familiar and now Witches? What kind of bullshit do these guys think about? '
'But, they look scared tho, might use it in my advance to get the fuck out of here~' Raphael thinks when all of a sudden.
'Of course, they look scared, you idjit! For them, it now looks as if you joined the second-strongest nation on Earth! ' Vega replies.
'Vega? Glad you are back~' Raphael smiles internally at the A.I. voice in his head.
'Same, even if it wasn't you who helped me to come back! I needed a factory reset 'cause of these idiots, and what did you do? You just cut off your arm and left me to do it alone! ' Vega shouts in anger.
'I could have helped you? Ohh, my bad, Vega~' Raphael smiles widely as he replies in rather ironic tone.
'Damn you demon, and your pitty... What did I miss? ' Vega asks.
'Nothing much... Elementals, Winchesters, Vamps, Eva, Witches, Familiars... The casual bullshit...' Raphael replies as the four demons in front of him start to levitate.
'Hah, I leave you only for a few minutes, and you are already neck-deep in problems...' Vega replies as Raphael adds.
'You know, I don't want peace! I want problems, always! '
'Some kind of speech? ' Vega asks.
'Nah, just a meme from Earth...' Raphael explains.
'I remember that...' Vega says as all of a sudden...
"So no deal, huh... If that's so, then I have no other choice... Vampires, kill him! " The Air demon orders as the Water demoness asks in a low voice while the demonic crew starts to go up, slightly approaching the ceiling of the warehouse, leaving Raphael to stand down there:
"Will it be enough? " She asks, looking at her brother.
"You kidding right? Even a hundred would not be enough for a soul demon like him. We need to gain some advantage first, then, he will have no choice but to join us..." The Air demon replies.
"Then why are you trying to kill him? " The Water Demoness asks.
"Kill him? I'm trying to save us by buying time... Or do you wanna remain here and let yourself be interviewed by him and his familiar? " The Air Demon asks with narrow eyes as he adds:
"Remember that he is a soul demon, a bastard who is able to see your past, future, and present just by touching your soul."
"As I said in the Academy, if we want to find that knife, we need him on our side. And for that, we need an advantage against him... Something, he will do anything for..." The Air demon speaks with a wide smile as he and the other elementals disappear while the group of around twenty Vampires slowly approaches Raphael.
"Hah, come on guys, let's get this over with, shall we? " Raphael asks and when the Vampires are just a few steps away from him, they suddenly jump at him.
But instead of bracing himself, Raphael only wears a happy smile.
Landing on him, The Vampires pin him down to the ground with robust strength and extreme bloodthirst as the surrounding shadows suddenly start to act strangely.
...
Meanwhile: Amy's POV, outside the warehouse
Lurking around the warehouse, Amy's taking pictures of the place with her phone.
Suddenly, her phone starts to ring as she quickly picks it up.
"UGH Jess! I can't talk right now! "
"Amy? Where are you? I heard a car crash happened on the bridge, are you okay? " Jessica asks hurriedly through the phone as Amy replies, trying to rather end the call.
"Yes, I am, thanks for asking. Now, I have some work to do, call you later."
"NO! I'm at the train station waiting for you. The last train will leave soon! " Jessica says in anger.
'Fuck I completely forgot! ' Amy thinks as she replies.
"I-I'll be right there, I promise..."
"Hah, you better be... If you miss it, you will not get to Nebelver in time and Professor Jankins will be mad again, so hurry up! " Jessica reminds Amy as she replies.
"Yeah, yeah, I will, bye," Amy says as she ends the call.
'Hah, what am I even doing here? He's not here...' She suddenly thinks.
'But then, where are you... Where are you, Raphael? Or rather, Who are you? ' Amy adds to her train of thoughts but when she is about to leave, a blast of black-and-white energy suddenly explodes from the warehouse, slightly opening the main door.
'Huh? But... What if he is here? ' Amy thinks with a slightly excited glint in her eyes as she slowly walks to the door.
Opening them wide, the sun rays start to enter the dim-lit place as Amy walks in.
"Hello? Is anyone here? " She asks, fear creeping upon her together with a heavy iron stench that hangs in the air.
Taking a few steps, Amy suddenly stands on something crunchy.
Shifting her gaze down, she sees a chopped-off piece of someone's hand covered in blood under her foot.
"AAAAAHHHH! " Scared, Amy is about to turn and run when a raven suddenly appears out of nowhere, coming from the depths of the warehouse, and crashes into her face, making Amy fall to the ground.
Landing on her back, Amy hits her head slightly but from the fear of what she saw, as well as the adrenalin in her veins, she's still able to get up.
Driven by the same fear, she turns and is about to leave when the same raven appears near the door and transforms into a random person.
Standing between her and the door, he's preventing her from escaping.
Due to the shining sun, she is not able to see the individual's features, only his silhouette which releases some weird sips of shadows.
"P-Please, leave me alone. I don't say anything... Please! " Amy starts to beg when the pain begins to hit her head as the person walks to her.
Due to her head injury, her vision starts to blur out meaning that she can't recognize them, even when the person stands in front of her.
Crouching down, manly hands suddenly pick up Amy's trembling body and hug her.
Confused, Amy doesn't know what to do so she embraces the person as well, thinking she's okay as tears begin to roll out from her eyes, vetting the person's shoulder.
But pulling herself closer turns out to be a bad idea as the person suddenly opens their big mouth full of sharp, needle-like teeth and bites the place between Amy's shoulder and neck.
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!! " The Air around starts to act strangely, blasting the equipment of the warehouse around, as Amy starts to scream from the pain.
Her sensual, feminine voice filled with helplessness echoes around, fueling the person's desire to bite more, bite deeper into her tasty, sweet flesh while she feels as if something is leaving her body.
It's not blood, but something else, something far more precious than blood.
She feels as if her own soul is being sucked out of her body.
The tasty, delicious feast for a monster...
But for what reason? For what purpose would someone try to steal her soul?
She doesn't know, she can't think straight... Not anymore, the pain is just unbearable...
Her limbs are turning numb, her head is falling on the shoulder of the person, the monster that's feeding on her precious, pure, and delicious soul.
Slurping sounds are echoing around the dim-lit warehouse as May thinks.
'Jess... I'm sorry... I will not make it to the Academy today... I'm dead...' As her consciousness starts to fall deep into the hands of the dark black abyss surrounding her, preying on her smooth, tasty body.
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