Fan Fiction ❯ Prophecy ❯ The Beginning Storm ( Chapter 2 )
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By: Soulless Wanderer 
The Archangel encounters Death for the first time and the gates to Hell are soon to be opened.
Anime/Manga: Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Supernatural / Action | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 08.24.2005 | Pages: 3 | Words: 4.0K | Visits: 111 | Status: Completed
The Archangel encounters Death for the first time and the gates to Hell are soon to be opened.
Anime/Manga: Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Supernatural / Action | Type: Other | Uploaded On: 08.24.2005 | Pages: 3 | Words: 4.0K | Visits: 111 | Status: Completed
" So, I take it you’re the one everybody’s been talking about. I don’t see what they’re so afraid of. If you’re anything like those creeps that just attacked us this should be a breeze."Alex said.
"Hah you would be a fool to think that you could defeat me as easily as you had Osuka truly he was the weakest one of us but now you will die!" he exclaimed.
Death suddenly lunged towards Alex, who was barely able to dodge the quick attack. Death then swung around with an energized punch knocking Alex towards one of the steel girders. The force of the impact knocked the air out of Alex’s lungs, but before he could recover Death was upon him. They then ensued a ferocious fist fight. Each punch that threw was meant to kill, but neither one of them was making much progress. Alex either blocked or dodged most of the punches Death threw, and Death simply dodged all of Alex’s attacks. Finally, Alex found an opening an aimed for Death’s head with an energized punch. The attack stopped inches from Death’s head, halted by an energy shield. Death expanded the field quickly throwing Alex backwards. Death shot a huge blast of energy at Alex who was barely able to dodge it but the ground came up and struck him hard it slashed and tore at his body. Death stood on a truck as he prepared to attack but Alex was quicker he shot energy out and blew up the truck Death was standing on but he escaped as the flames rose he suddenly appeared and grazed Alex’s right eye with and energized attack. The blood started to run down his face as he wiped it. Alex was lucky if he hadn't rolled with the punch the attack could have damaged his eye the way it looked now he was only going to have a nasty looking scar. Death then shot up out of nowhere and shot out a massive force of energy at Alex who was in no condition at the time to dodge that attack at the time so he did his own energy attack to counter Death’s blast then hit a huge steel beam causing its foundation to weaken. Alex then came up and hit him directly with a blast of energy and slightly wounded him. Death then ran towards the steel girder and when Alex reached it, Death did a back flip off of it and in mid flip blasted it and it started to fall Alex barely had time to react it took most of his remaining energy to destroy the girder. By the time he got back up Death was gone, Alex was still bleeding pretty bad so he made his way to the hospital.
"I-is there a doctor in the house "Alex whispered to Sasuka
"Huh Alex what happened to you, We need a doctor over here!"Sasuka yelled.
A few minutes later they had Alex bandaged up and ready to go because of their powers their bodies heal faster than most people’s can, but because Alex used up most of his energy during his fight with Death, Shadow gave Alex some of his power.
“Hey thanks Shadow”Alex said
“Heh, sure no problem.”Shadow said as he turned to leave.
" Soo what happened to you Alex" Ashley asked after a few minutes.
" I had a fight with Death"he said as a matter of fact.
''Whaat you saw him? " Lyle yelled
"Yeah except for his face he had that part covered"Alex replied
" Jamie’s still unconscious if you want to know she took a pretty bad beating trying to protect you" Shadow said coldly when he returned.
"Hey when did you get here Shadow?" Sasuka asked
"I got here a few minutes ago. That’s when I came upon this poor fool. I had to give him some energy just so his wounds would heal”
"Maybe if you had been there Jamie wouldn’t have been hurt”Lyle said to Shadow in a low voice trying to defend Alex.
"Oh yeah, well maybe if Alex here, had stayed with us no one would have been hurt" Shadow replied.
"Whoa whoa whoa guys easy now were all on the same team here right, how about we change the topic okay"Ashley said
" Yeah sure. "Alex said kindly even though he couldn't get his mind off of what shadow said the nerve of him, even though deep down Alex knew what he said was true.
About 30 minutes later, an hour after the battle in the street, everyone was tired and restless. Ashley had been amusing herself with her weapons. The saw blades had retracted in to the metal ball they were connected to making her weapons resemble yo-yo’s even more. She been playing around with yo-yo tricks when her yo-yo suddenly flew off her finger. It was caught in mid air by Jamie.
"Hey, watch where you throw those things” Jamie said quietly.
"Jamie, your okay! Great I was sooo worried about you. Sorry about that, I wasn’t paying much attention” Ashley said as she gave Jamie a hug and retrieved her yo-yo.
"It’s okay. Alex how are you doing. Word is, is that you had a run in with the infamous Death."Jamie asked sounding concerned
"I'm fine, let’s just head back home. I don’t feel like talking about it here."he said
Later that night...
“So is this the kind of stuff you guys deal with regularly? I mean getting attacked by people every other day.” Alex asked.
“Yeah, you get used to it eventually. I must admit it does get chaotic around her sometimes though” Jamie said.
“I don’t know if I could deal with always having to look over my back like this.”
“Well that’s the good part about having friends they look out for you to. So it’s really not all that bad.”
“Yeah, I guess I’m just so used to being a loner that it’s hard to, I guess it’s hard to open up to other people.”
“Heh, I can understand. But your not doing so bad from what I can tell, I think Ashley might like you.”
“Eh, I don’t know I mean I’ve only known her two days. Besides, I’m not sure she’s the person I have feelings for”
" Huh what did you just say" Jamie asked
" Oh uh nothing, so um what’s Shadow’s story?"
"Oh he’s nice sort of cold and mysterious though. All I know is the your master found him and had him trained just like the rest of us. In all honesty with all that’s been going on we haven’t really had a chance to converse about our respective pasts. But why did you want to know about him?" Jamie replied
" Huh I don't know I just sort of have a bad feeling about him"
" Hmmm I think somebody’s just jealous of him" Jamie said coyly. There was a hint of a smile on her face as she realized she had hit the nail on the head. Alex was obviously very good at hiding his emotions. He was the kinda person who wore a mask to hide his true self, but Jamie saw right thru the mask.
" Whaa me jealous of him, why?"
“Because...he’s my boyfriend”
"Hey you guys want something to eat?"Lyle yelled.
" Yeah man we’re coming."Alex replied with a sulky tone. He didn’t know why, but suddenly hearing that Shadow was her boyfriend felt like she had dropped a bomb on his heart.
" Oh never mind lets go eat" Jamie said with a playful tug she got Alex to follow her. “Hey it’s not so bad having you on a short leash. At least you can’t run away anymore.”
“Heh, who say’s I’m going to run away again.” Alex said with a smirk as he twisted his arm quickly catching Jamie off guard. She was sent twirling into Alex’s arms as he embraced her to keep her from falling. “I think I might’ve found a reason to stay.”
With that Jamie quickly escaped his grasp. She immediately regretted it however and mentally kicked herself for being such a fool.
“Well I’m glad. It’s nice having you here really. Also I think Lyle and Sasuka enjoy having you here. Until now they’ve been with us girls, but now that you’re here they have someone to joke around with. Cause let’s face it, Shadow’s not exactly the kind of person to hang out and laugh a lot.”
“True, and I have to admit Sasuka and Lyle are pretty awesome. I wish I was half as good a fighter as them.” Alex said noting the fact that he still didn’t have perfect control over his powers.
“Hey don’t worry you’ll get there.” Jamie said with a playful hit as she and Alex entered the kitchen.
" So I guess this means your with us"Ashley said hopefully as she saw Alex and Jamie enter.
" Yeah I owe Death a favor."Alex said pointing to the scar on his eye.
" Good cause now we need to show you something" Jamie said.
"What is this"Alex inquired.
" This is the Archangels sword or the Sword of Heaven.”Jamie explained as she handed the sword to him.
"Wow.. this is so light," he said. “The metal it’s made from is like nothing I’ve ever seen before.”
“The sword is in tune with your energy. You can summon it from anywhere you want. All you have to do is think about it.” Lyle said.
“And you already know about channeling energy thru it to make it stronger and larger. But with this sword it enhances your ability tenfold.” Sasuka said.
“Awesome. I don’t know why , but for some reason it just feel’s right you know. Holding this sword.”
“Well, it was meant for you.” Shadow said calmly as he wrapped his arms around Jamie and gave her a kiss.
“True, wait...what was that?” Alex inquired.
'Yeeaaaaah get back you meanies aaaahhh help you guys get them away from me"Ashley yelled as dark figures were coming out from every where attacking her. Ashley , Lyle, and Sasuka jumped into action even Shadow helped he put his energy into his kama’s and started slashing at them. Ashley was twirling around and destroying them with her energized yo-yo’s, Lyle was slashing at them with his double sided spear and Sasuka was throwing energized cards and blasting them with his fist. Jamie and Alex also jumped in she was blasting them with her hands and shooting at them with her bow, Alex was using his new sword which worked really well and also shooting them with energy.
"This isn’t working they keep on coming"Shadow said.
"Whose controlling them what are they?" Alex asked
"Your friend Death and these are stalkers"Jamie replied
"Well someone has to be controlling them up close but where"Ashley asked
"Huh there the one with the red eyes that all the others are protecting that’s got to be it"Alex yelled as he jumped at it and energized his own weapon and slashed them all in half. They all then disappeared.
" That was fun. Kinda boring though I wish they were stronger." Ashley said keeping her upbeat attitude.
“Okay, now what in the world were those again?” Alex asked evidently shaken by what he had just bared witness to.
“Those are stalkers. Basically, they’re lesser demons. Very weak, but have high numbers and with numbers come power. They are able to come to our world through rifts between the Demon World and our world. But, only because they are so small, and their powers are so weak. The stronger and more powerful demons cannot come through, that is, if we can keep Death from opening up the portal.” Jamie said.
“Umm does this kinda thing happen often?” Alex asked.
“Yeah, trust me you’ll get used to it.” Lyle said casually.
"So far today has been one Hell of a day. It seems like everywhere I turn around there’s some energized creep trying to tear me limb from limb. If we find Death, these attacks will stop right?"Alex asked.
“Yeah, that’s if we beat him.” Jamie said seriously.
“Well then, I don’t know about you guys but I’m tired of being attacked every time I turn around.”
" Yeah I’m with Alex on this one" Sasuka said.
After dinner everyone crashed for the night. So much had already happened that morning that everyone was exhausted. Alex laid on the couch thinking about everything that happened. He was sleepy and he could feel his eyelids getting heavier, but still he couldn’t help but feel that he had missed something important today.
*All these guys, its seems like everywhere I turn someone is trying to kill me. At least here I feel safe. I still can’t sort out what exactly I feel for Jamie though. Surely, I can’t like. I barely know her, but then again what else could this feeling be? Today everyone fought to protect me, I’ve never felt that way before. Having people I barely knew fighting and risking their lives to help me. The only reason any of them got hurt was because of me. I’ve got to find Death, I have to put an end to this so that these people don’t get hurt again!* Alex silently declared as he dozed off into a fitful slumber.
One week later there was still no sign of Death. Alex and Jamie had been spending a lot of time together, but Alex noticed that Shadow was never to far away from them though. And Alex was beginning to think he might actually be falling in love with her. He knew he shouldn’t because after all she was Shadow’s girl, but he just couldn’t help it. He was also slowly beginning to cut loose and express himself around the others. He was truly enjoying being with everyone. He beginning to also make strong friendships with everyone, the only person who seemed to never be around was Shadow. But that suited Alex just find because he still felt uneasy around him. One night while Alex and Jamie were standing on the rooftop of the warehouse Alex felt like something was going to happen.
“It’s a blood moon out tonight.” Alex said noting the red appearance of the full moon.
“Yeah it’s sort of creepy looking.” Jamie commented.
“Do you get the feeling like tomorrow something’s going to happen. It sort of feels like the airs electricity and this is the calm before the storm.” Alex said.
“I’ve been feeling that to. I’m not sure what it means, but I know it can’t be any good.” Jamie said sounding exasperated.
“Heh, okay Jamo, let’s head inside before you pass out okay.” Alex said as he gave Jamie a quick hug around the shoulders and led her inside.
“Hey guys check this out. Something’s happening at the Ojakamayu square.” Ashley yelled from the adjacent room early the next morning after breakfast.
"What is it?” Jamie asked.
"Check it out it’s important come quick look"Ashley said pleadingly
"Okay okay were coming" Lyle said
" Huh what’s this?"
" We’re here live at Ojakamayu square. Something weird’s happening even as I speak. As you can see behind me, some kind of portal has opened up in the middle of the square. And the day is slowly giving way to an unnatural night.” the reporter said. “W-what’s this...it seems like some kind of creatures are coming from the portal, but what are they.”
On the tv black creatures resembling the stalkers that the group had previously encountered started coming forth from the portal. The creatures however, were larger and seemed faster than the one’s from earlier.
" Its him we've got to go there now" Alex yelled
" Let’s go"
When they arrived at the Ojakamayu square . Demons were everywhere chasing people, hurting people, killing people.
“We’ve got to hurry before any more people are hurt.” Sasuka said collectively as he drew forth his cards and immediately started launching them at the beasts that had now sensed the energy of the small group and changed their targets.
“Wait, if we fight out here, won’t innocent people get hurt in the cross fire” Alex asked.
“Yes, but it’s better that a few get hurt then all get massacred.” Lyle said bluntly as he double slashed a demon in front of him. He then flipped over another and stabbed it in the back, and at the same time swung his spear decapitating one behind him.
“I know it’s hard to accept. But the only way we could protect them would be with an energy barrier, but their’s no way we would have enough energy to erect one and still have energy to fight. So this is the way it has to be.” Jamie said sadly as she vaporized a demon trying to sneak up on her. She then cut one in half with her bow, and felled four more up ahead with her arrows.
“No, it doesn’t have to be this way. I can’t let people get hurt again.” Alex said resiliently. I have to do something.” Alex said. He tried to summon enough energy to create a shield around the entire area, but he could already tell that it would cost him a great deal of energy. A great deal that he didn’t have to spare.
“Alex, it’s no use. You still haven’t mastered the full extent of your powers. There’s no way you can pull this off.” Sasuka said as he destroyed a group of demons surrounding Alex.
“ I wouldn’t be so sure Sasuka. If he was mad enough he might, remember what he did to Osuka.” Ashley said quietly reminding herself and the others not to underestimate Alex just because he wasn’t use to fighting.
About that time Alex finally concluded that it was hopeless. It was then that he noticed an old lady trying to run from a group of demons, in her hands she held a small orange fluff ball, that Alex guessed was a baby kitten. Alex immediately charged forwards towards the lady. He vaporized one demon and sliced the remaining three in half with one swipe off his sword. The lady had fallen and Alex extended his hand to help her up.
“W-why thank you. My prayers were answered. There was no way I could’ve escaped with out your help. Thank you.” the woman said quickly as she stood.
“Heh, your welcome but you better hurry insi...”the rest of Alex’s sentence was brought to an abrupt halt as the old lady suddenly collapsed to the ground with an wound in her chest cause by an energy blast.
Alex immediately turned around to see where the blast came from, there standing in the portal was Death. Smoke still resinating from his hand due to the energy attack. The smirk on his face made Alex’s blood ignite with rage. His eyes began to glow with an intensity unparalleled by any mortal thing.
“DEATH!” Alex yelled his eyes a flame, energy resonating off of his body so that you could see it. Little whips of energy stuck at the ground and at the air. Suddenly, it was as if time had stopped. A huge energy field erupted from Alex the rain stopped, frozen in the air. The birds, the people, even the little kitten froze. The only ones moving was Death, and the Guardians. The demon’s were weak one’s and were unable to move in the barrier.
“ I don’t believe it he actually did it.” Lyle said amused and amazed at the same time. It only took a minute then for them to defeat the remaining demons. They knew that had precious time left before the portal would be open. And they needed every second they could get. They knew now they would have to venture into the portal to bring this fight to an end. They would be fighting on Death’s terms. He had home field advantage, but that couldn’t stop them now. Lyle was the first one through followed by everyone else. There waiting to greet them was Death.
" This is my world " Death yelled he still had on his cloak but Alex could tell it was him.
" And now the final battle begins and the stakes...the stakes are all of mankind hahahaha" Death yelled" Now you each will have to fight one of my demons before you have the privilege of fighting me that is if you survive. But you better hurry, won’t be long til the portal is open." He said evilly then disappeared somewhere farther into this strange world.
Then his minions popped out all of them, the one with the blades spoke first .
" I don’t think it is polite to kill someone before they know your name so let me introduce myself I am Kokana, the short one is Masaku, the boxer is Kiff, the young lady is Kitsuka, and the one with the rose is Neeko, now that the introductions are over let the battle begin! Oh yes and because he was defeated by the Archangel Osuka has been eliminated. We don’t like weak links in our group so we make sure that weak links are eliminated. So since we’re one member short..." He said looking at Alex" we’ve made accommodations for one of your teammates in the lower part of this dimension. So, goodbye Archangel happy landings!" As he said happily, the floor opened up and Alex fell through to another dark dimension. It looked like the floor was moving only then did he realize that it was moving because it was full of stalkers, Deaths minions.
" Great here we go again" he said as they popped out and started battling them.
"Hah you would be a fool to think that you could defeat me as easily as you had Osuka truly he was the weakest one of us but now you will die!" he exclaimed.
Death suddenly lunged towards Alex, who was barely able to dodge the quick attack. Death then swung around with an energized punch knocking Alex towards one of the steel girders. The force of the impact knocked the air out of Alex’s lungs, but before he could recover Death was upon him. They then ensued a ferocious fist fight. Each punch that threw was meant to kill, but neither one of them was making much progress. Alex either blocked or dodged most of the punches Death threw, and Death simply dodged all of Alex’s attacks. Finally, Alex found an opening an aimed for Death’s head with an energized punch. The attack stopped inches from Death’s head, halted by an energy shield. Death expanded the field quickly throwing Alex backwards. Death shot a huge blast of energy at Alex who was barely able to dodge it but the ground came up and struck him hard it slashed and tore at his body. Death stood on a truck as he prepared to attack but Alex was quicker he shot energy out and blew up the truck Death was standing on but he escaped as the flames rose he suddenly appeared and grazed Alex’s right eye with and energized attack. The blood started to run down his face as he wiped it. Alex was lucky if he hadn't rolled with the punch the attack could have damaged his eye the way it looked now he was only going to have a nasty looking scar. Death then shot up out of nowhere and shot out a massive force of energy at Alex who was in no condition at the time to dodge that attack at the time so he did his own energy attack to counter Death’s blast then hit a huge steel beam causing its foundation to weaken. Alex then came up and hit him directly with a blast of energy and slightly wounded him. Death then ran towards the steel girder and when Alex reached it, Death did a back flip off of it and in mid flip blasted it and it started to fall Alex barely had time to react it took most of his remaining energy to destroy the girder. By the time he got back up Death was gone, Alex was still bleeding pretty bad so he made his way to the hospital.
"I-is there a doctor in the house "Alex whispered to Sasuka
"Huh Alex what happened to you, We need a doctor over here!"Sasuka yelled.
A few minutes later they had Alex bandaged up and ready to go because of their powers their bodies heal faster than most people’s can, but because Alex used up most of his energy during his fight with Death, Shadow gave Alex some of his power.
“Hey thanks Shadow”Alex said
“Heh, sure no problem.”Shadow said as he turned to leave.
" Soo what happened to you Alex" Ashley asked after a few minutes.
" I had a fight with Death"he said as a matter of fact.
''Whaat you saw him? " Lyle yelled
"Yeah except for his face he had that part covered"Alex replied
" Jamie’s still unconscious if you want to know she took a pretty bad beating trying to protect you" Shadow said coldly when he returned.
"Hey when did you get here Shadow?" Sasuka asked
"I got here a few minutes ago. That’s when I came upon this poor fool. I had to give him some energy just so his wounds would heal”
"Maybe if you had been there Jamie wouldn’t have been hurt”Lyle said to Shadow in a low voice trying to defend Alex.
"Oh yeah, well maybe if Alex here, had stayed with us no one would have been hurt" Shadow replied.
"Whoa whoa whoa guys easy now were all on the same team here right, how about we change the topic okay"Ashley said
" Yeah sure. "Alex said kindly even though he couldn't get his mind off of what shadow said the nerve of him, even though deep down Alex knew what he said was true.
About 30 minutes later, an hour after the battle in the street, everyone was tired and restless. Ashley had been amusing herself with her weapons. The saw blades had retracted in to the metal ball they were connected to making her weapons resemble yo-yo’s even more. She been playing around with yo-yo tricks when her yo-yo suddenly flew off her finger. It was caught in mid air by Jamie.
"Hey, watch where you throw those things” Jamie said quietly.
"Jamie, your okay! Great I was sooo worried about you. Sorry about that, I wasn’t paying much attention” Ashley said as she gave Jamie a hug and retrieved her yo-yo.
"It’s okay. Alex how are you doing. Word is, is that you had a run in with the infamous Death."Jamie asked sounding concerned
"I'm fine, let’s just head back home. I don’t feel like talking about it here."he said
Later that night...
“So is this the kind of stuff you guys deal with regularly? I mean getting attacked by people every other day.” Alex asked.
“Yeah, you get used to it eventually. I must admit it does get chaotic around her sometimes though” Jamie said.
“I don’t know if I could deal with always having to look over my back like this.”
“Well that’s the good part about having friends they look out for you to. So it’s really not all that bad.”
“Yeah, I guess I’m just so used to being a loner that it’s hard to, I guess it’s hard to open up to other people.”
“Heh, I can understand. But your not doing so bad from what I can tell, I think Ashley might like you.”
“Eh, I don’t know I mean I’ve only known her two days. Besides, I’m not sure she’s the person I have feelings for”
" Huh what did you just say" Jamie asked
" Oh uh nothing, so um what’s Shadow’s story?"
"Oh he’s nice sort of cold and mysterious though. All I know is the your master found him and had him trained just like the rest of us. In all honesty with all that’s been going on we haven’t really had a chance to converse about our respective pasts. But why did you want to know about him?" Jamie replied
" Huh I don't know I just sort of have a bad feeling about him"
" Hmmm I think somebody’s just jealous of him" Jamie said coyly. There was a hint of a smile on her face as she realized she had hit the nail on the head. Alex was obviously very good at hiding his emotions. He was the kinda person who wore a mask to hide his true self, but Jamie saw right thru the mask.
" Whaa me jealous of him, why?"
“Because...he’s my boyfriend”
"Hey you guys want something to eat?"Lyle yelled.
" Yeah man we’re coming."Alex replied with a sulky tone. He didn’t know why, but suddenly hearing that Shadow was her boyfriend felt like she had dropped a bomb on his heart.
" Oh never mind lets go eat" Jamie said with a playful tug she got Alex to follow her. “Hey it’s not so bad having you on a short leash. At least you can’t run away anymore.”
“Heh, who say’s I’m going to run away again.” Alex said with a smirk as he twisted his arm quickly catching Jamie off guard. She was sent twirling into Alex’s arms as he embraced her to keep her from falling. “I think I might’ve found a reason to stay.”
With that Jamie quickly escaped his grasp. She immediately regretted it however and mentally kicked herself for being such a fool.
“Well I’m glad. It’s nice having you here really. Also I think Lyle and Sasuka enjoy having you here. Until now they’ve been with us girls, but now that you’re here they have someone to joke around with. Cause let’s face it, Shadow’s not exactly the kind of person to hang out and laugh a lot.”
“True, and I have to admit Sasuka and Lyle are pretty awesome. I wish I was half as good a fighter as them.” Alex said noting the fact that he still didn’t have perfect control over his powers.
“Hey don’t worry you’ll get there.” Jamie said with a playful hit as she and Alex entered the kitchen.
" So I guess this means your with us"Ashley said hopefully as she saw Alex and Jamie enter.
" Yeah I owe Death a favor."Alex said pointing to the scar on his eye.
" Good cause now we need to show you something" Jamie said.
"What is this"Alex inquired.
" This is the Archangels sword or the Sword of Heaven.”Jamie explained as she handed the sword to him.
"Wow.. this is so light," he said. “The metal it’s made from is like nothing I’ve ever seen before.”
“The sword is in tune with your energy. You can summon it from anywhere you want. All you have to do is think about it.” Lyle said.
“And you already know about channeling energy thru it to make it stronger and larger. But with this sword it enhances your ability tenfold.” Sasuka said.
“Awesome. I don’t know why , but for some reason it just feel’s right you know. Holding this sword.”
“Well, it was meant for you.” Shadow said calmly as he wrapped his arms around Jamie and gave her a kiss.
“True, wait...what was that?” Alex inquired.
'Yeeaaaaah get back you meanies aaaahhh help you guys get them away from me"Ashley yelled as dark figures were coming out from every where attacking her. Ashley , Lyle, and Sasuka jumped into action even Shadow helped he put his energy into his kama’s and started slashing at them. Ashley was twirling around and destroying them with her energized yo-yo’s, Lyle was slashing at them with his double sided spear and Sasuka was throwing energized cards and blasting them with his fist. Jamie and Alex also jumped in she was blasting them with her hands and shooting at them with her bow, Alex was using his new sword which worked really well and also shooting them with energy.
"This isn’t working they keep on coming"Shadow said.
"Whose controlling them what are they?" Alex asked
"Your friend Death and these are stalkers"Jamie replied
"Well someone has to be controlling them up close but where"Ashley asked
"Huh there the one with the red eyes that all the others are protecting that’s got to be it"Alex yelled as he jumped at it and energized his own weapon and slashed them all in half. They all then disappeared.
" That was fun. Kinda boring though I wish they were stronger." Ashley said keeping her upbeat attitude.
“Okay, now what in the world were those again?” Alex asked evidently shaken by what he had just bared witness to.
“Those are stalkers. Basically, they’re lesser demons. Very weak, but have high numbers and with numbers come power. They are able to come to our world through rifts between the Demon World and our world. But, only because they are so small, and their powers are so weak. The stronger and more powerful demons cannot come through, that is, if we can keep Death from opening up the portal.” Jamie said.
“Umm does this kinda thing happen often?” Alex asked.
“Yeah, trust me you’ll get used to it.” Lyle said casually.
"So far today has been one Hell of a day. It seems like everywhere I turn around there’s some energized creep trying to tear me limb from limb. If we find Death, these attacks will stop right?"Alex asked.
“Yeah, that’s if we beat him.” Jamie said seriously.
“Well then, I don’t know about you guys but I’m tired of being attacked every time I turn around.”
" Yeah I’m with Alex on this one" Sasuka said.
After dinner everyone crashed for the night. So much had already happened that morning that everyone was exhausted. Alex laid on the couch thinking about everything that happened. He was sleepy and he could feel his eyelids getting heavier, but still he couldn’t help but feel that he had missed something important today.
*All these guys, its seems like everywhere I turn someone is trying to kill me. At least here I feel safe. I still can’t sort out what exactly I feel for Jamie though. Surely, I can’t like. I barely know her, but then again what else could this feeling be? Today everyone fought to protect me, I’ve never felt that way before. Having people I barely knew fighting and risking their lives to help me. The only reason any of them got hurt was because of me. I’ve got to find Death, I have to put an end to this so that these people don’t get hurt again!* Alex silently declared as he dozed off into a fitful slumber.
One week later there was still no sign of Death. Alex and Jamie had been spending a lot of time together, but Alex noticed that Shadow was never to far away from them though. And Alex was beginning to think he might actually be falling in love with her. He knew he shouldn’t because after all she was Shadow’s girl, but he just couldn’t help it. He was also slowly beginning to cut loose and express himself around the others. He was truly enjoying being with everyone. He beginning to also make strong friendships with everyone, the only person who seemed to never be around was Shadow. But that suited Alex just find because he still felt uneasy around him. One night while Alex and Jamie were standing on the rooftop of the warehouse Alex felt like something was going to happen.
“It’s a blood moon out tonight.” Alex said noting the red appearance of the full moon.
“Yeah it’s sort of creepy looking.” Jamie commented.
“Do you get the feeling like tomorrow something’s going to happen. It sort of feels like the airs electricity and this is the calm before the storm.” Alex said.
“I’ve been feeling that to. I’m not sure what it means, but I know it can’t be any good.” Jamie said sounding exasperated.
“Heh, okay Jamo, let’s head inside before you pass out okay.” Alex said as he gave Jamie a quick hug around the shoulders and led her inside.
“Hey guys check this out. Something’s happening at the Ojakamayu square.” Ashley yelled from the adjacent room early the next morning after breakfast.
"What is it?” Jamie asked.
"Check it out it’s important come quick look"Ashley said pleadingly
"Okay okay were coming" Lyle said
" Huh what’s this?"
" We’re here live at Ojakamayu square. Something weird’s happening even as I speak. As you can see behind me, some kind of portal has opened up in the middle of the square. And the day is slowly giving way to an unnatural night.” the reporter said. “W-what’s this...it seems like some kind of creatures are coming from the portal, but what are they.”
On the tv black creatures resembling the stalkers that the group had previously encountered started coming forth from the portal. The creatures however, were larger and seemed faster than the one’s from earlier.
" Its him we've got to go there now" Alex yelled
" Let’s go"
When they arrived at the Ojakamayu square . Demons were everywhere chasing people, hurting people, killing people.
“We’ve got to hurry before any more people are hurt.” Sasuka said collectively as he drew forth his cards and immediately started launching them at the beasts that had now sensed the energy of the small group and changed their targets.
“Wait, if we fight out here, won’t innocent people get hurt in the cross fire” Alex asked.
“Yes, but it’s better that a few get hurt then all get massacred.” Lyle said bluntly as he double slashed a demon in front of him. He then flipped over another and stabbed it in the back, and at the same time swung his spear decapitating one behind him.
“I know it’s hard to accept. But the only way we could protect them would be with an energy barrier, but their’s no way we would have enough energy to erect one and still have energy to fight. So this is the way it has to be.” Jamie said sadly as she vaporized a demon trying to sneak up on her. She then cut one in half with her bow, and felled four more up ahead with her arrows.
“No, it doesn’t have to be this way. I can’t let people get hurt again.” Alex said resiliently. I have to do something.” Alex said. He tried to summon enough energy to create a shield around the entire area, but he could already tell that it would cost him a great deal of energy. A great deal that he didn’t have to spare.
“Alex, it’s no use. You still haven’t mastered the full extent of your powers. There’s no way you can pull this off.” Sasuka said as he destroyed a group of demons surrounding Alex.
“ I wouldn’t be so sure Sasuka. If he was mad enough he might, remember what he did to Osuka.” Ashley said quietly reminding herself and the others not to underestimate Alex just because he wasn’t use to fighting.
About that time Alex finally concluded that it was hopeless. It was then that he noticed an old lady trying to run from a group of demons, in her hands she held a small orange fluff ball, that Alex guessed was a baby kitten. Alex immediately charged forwards towards the lady. He vaporized one demon and sliced the remaining three in half with one swipe off his sword. The lady had fallen and Alex extended his hand to help her up.
“W-why thank you. My prayers were answered. There was no way I could’ve escaped with out your help. Thank you.” the woman said quickly as she stood.
“Heh, your welcome but you better hurry insi...”the rest of Alex’s sentence was brought to an abrupt halt as the old lady suddenly collapsed to the ground with an wound in her chest cause by an energy blast.
Alex immediately turned around to see where the blast came from, there standing in the portal was Death. Smoke still resinating from his hand due to the energy attack. The smirk on his face made Alex’s blood ignite with rage. His eyes began to glow with an intensity unparalleled by any mortal thing.
“DEATH!” Alex yelled his eyes a flame, energy resonating off of his body so that you could see it. Little whips of energy stuck at the ground and at the air. Suddenly, it was as if time had stopped. A huge energy field erupted from Alex the rain stopped, frozen in the air. The birds, the people, even the little kitten froze. The only ones moving was Death, and the Guardians. The demon’s were weak one’s and were unable to move in the barrier.
“ I don’t believe it he actually did it.” Lyle said amused and amazed at the same time. It only took a minute then for them to defeat the remaining demons. They knew that had precious time left before the portal would be open. And they needed every second they could get. They knew now they would have to venture into the portal to bring this fight to an end. They would be fighting on Death’s terms. He had home field advantage, but that couldn’t stop them now. Lyle was the first one through followed by everyone else. There waiting to greet them was Death.
" This is my world " Death yelled he still had on his cloak but Alex could tell it was him.
" And now the final battle begins and the stakes...the stakes are all of mankind hahahaha" Death yelled" Now you each will have to fight one of my demons before you have the privilege of fighting me that is if you survive. But you better hurry, won’t be long til the portal is open." He said evilly then disappeared somewhere farther into this strange world.
Then his minions popped out all of them, the one with the blades spoke first .
" I don’t think it is polite to kill someone before they know your name so let me introduce myself I am Kokana, the short one is Masaku, the boxer is Kiff, the young lady is Kitsuka, and the one with the rose is Neeko, now that the introductions are over let the battle begin! Oh yes and because he was defeated by the Archangel Osuka has been eliminated. We don’t like weak links in our group so we make sure that weak links are eliminated. So since we’re one member short..." He said looking at Alex" we’ve made accommodations for one of your teammates in the lower part of this dimension. So, goodbye Archangel happy landings!" As he said happily, the floor opened up and Alex fell through to another dark dimension. It looked like the floor was moving only then did he realize that it was moving because it was full of stalkers, Deaths minions.
" Great here we go again" he said as they popped out and started battling them.