On the same day Derrick became a hunter, just after he left Finch's office, Finch called Joshua back.
"I need to tell you something." He said as he called Joshua back.
"Wassup?" Joshua responded.
"It's about your friend."
"Who? Derrick?" Joshua asked and Finch merely nodded in response.
"What about him?" He asked.
"I want you to keep an eye on him." Finch said sharply.
"Sure but why?" He asked.
"Because I've never seen anything like him before." Finch said pensively.
"Just because he doesn't have a defined pact?" Joshua asked, seeking clarity.
"No." Finch said in a dull but solid tone. "Let me tell you something. Inside of Derrick Angels…is a demon."
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The demon stepped back, the look of surprise on its face was unmistakable. Joshua didn't have time to take in the look as he was shocked to his core also.
"What is this? none of you are bowing." A voice came from Derrick's body as he stepped forward.
Unlike Derrick's voice, the voice sounded ancient and twisted. The very definition of malevolent.
Derrick's body took one more step into their range of view. From the back of his right palm, a set of thin black streaks stretched up his arm, twisting around it and stretching out to reach his face.
The streaks covered his face and finally ended at the bridge of his nose only covering half of his face leaving the other half as it was. His right eye retained its blue color however, his left eye had turned crimson red with a vertical black slit in the middle.
A single horn stretched out of the left side of his head as his right canine enlarged to resemble fangs.
"How insolent." His malevolent voice came out of Derrick's body once more.
The aura in the room became so heavy that he felt like any attempt to walk would cause him to lose energy and faint.
The other demon finally regained its composure and dashed towards him holding one of Rosalind's conjured spears in its hand. It attacked Derrick's body, twirling the spear while trying to hit his head.
Whatever was controlling his body was clearly more agile than Derrick himself as it dodged all the attacks with ease. Even more annoyingly, he had a smile on his face while doing so.
He stepped back twisted as the demon tried to attack. His own movements created an opening for him to attack the demon. After dodging one strike, he crouched a little and punched the demon in the chest.
The sheer force of the hit was enough to send the demon up a couple of feet in the air. In the blink of an eye, Derrick's body jumped into the air, reaching up to the demon and knocking it forcefully down to the ground.
The demon's body hit the ground with a large thud, its body breathing the concrete flooring. Derrick landed gracefully a few feet from it and started walking slowly towards it.
"Joshua.." Rosalind groaned, barely holding on to her consciousness at this point. "What's going on?"
"I'll explain to you later." He said with his eyes focused on the intense battle going on before him.
The demon, seeing Derrick walking towards him, jumped onto its feet swiftly and made an extremely long jump backwards. It placed one palm over the other with some space in between them.
A mass of energy formed something like a yellow ball of energy which the demon blasted at Derrick. Derrick's hand smacked away the blast as though it was nothing more than a rubber ball.
The demon dashed again, this time, it grabbed Derrick's body then ran through a pillar and into a wall. A screen of dust came up, obscuring Joshua's view of the fight that continued but he could feel the insane amount of energy as well as hear the punches being exchanged.
The demon flew out of the corner and into Joshua's range of vision. After it, Derrick's body came out walking majestically towards the demon.
"Even a demon would need its arm right?" He said with a smirk as he held the demon's detached arm loftily in his hand then tossed it away. It was just then that both the demon and Joshua realized that its arm had been cut off during their exchange of blows.
"Too bad." He added sarcastically.
The demon, while regrowing its arm, dashed once more towards Derrick's body. Just as its food left the ground to dash, Derrick's body had reached it first and kicked it so hard that it flew into a pillar.
The demon in his body ran to the pillar and kicked it. Fortunately, it saw him coming and moved away just in time. It tried to run away, but Derrick's body dragged it by the horn, turned to punch it multiple times then threw it into the wall.
It chased after the demon's body. The next thing Joshua saw was the demon Derrick's body pulled out its arms then started punching it repeatedly, bashing its head into the wall and laughing.
He cackled with mirth and malevolence as the blood of the demon escaped its face. Not long after, the demon gave up on the battle and on life as its body stopped moving.
"What is this, dead already?" The voice asked from Derrick's body in a tone that showed it was disappointed.
Finally leaving the dead demon, Derrick's body did exactly what Joshua feared it would and walked towards them.
Its gaze and appearance made it clear, he wanted to kill them too. As it walked towards them, Joshua got a clear look at his eyes.
In his mind, he thought that they were truly the eyes of a demon.
"Who exactly are you?" He asked, stepping forward.
The demon in Derrick smiled then said his name slowly,
"Thanatos."