Original Stories Fan Fiction ❯ Crawling In The Dark ❯ Chapter 3 ( Chapter 3 )

Crawling In The Dark

Chapter 3

 

 

Calix looks up and nearly breaks the wall when he punches it; he pulls his hand back quickly and whimpers. Miyu squeaks mouse again, “Temper, temper.”

 

“I can't help it, its just bugging me, alright...?”

 

“Why not go and try to convince him again?”

 

“I said I wouldn't...besides, if I annoy him enough chances are he'll impale me with that pipe...”

 

“...maybe...”

 

“Or shoot me.”

 

“...chances are slim.”

 

“How would you know?”

 

“...I don't, but I just don't think he would..”

 

Arsen starts to go up a fire escape a few miles up the street. Miyu tires to convince Calix to go again, “Gonna go? Before you miss your chance.”

 

Calix falls to the side and groans, “If I went, we all know what would happen..”

 

Miyu squeaks the mouse again.

 

“Don't make me destroy that thing.”

 

Miyu hisses and shoves it behind her. “Just go.” She nudges him with her head and he growls lowly. “If you start to lose your temper even more then get out of there.”

 

“Is that even possible?”

 

“...well, I'm not sure.”

 

Calix stands up and Miyu smiles faintly then drops her head when Calix lies down on the bed. After climbing up the fire escape Arsen stands on the roof of the building looking around. Miyu jumps in the window and watches him, “Are you sure..?” Her ears flatten when she looks over at Calix, who is blasting his music through magical headphones.

 

More people start showing up on the roof, they also have weapons, such as chains, other lead pipes, knives, brass knuckles ect.... Miyu's fur stands up and her eyes widen, “Well that seems hardly fair..!!” She jumps off of the window sill and runs over, jumps on the bed and nudges Calix, who ignores her completely. “OOHH!! TURN OFF THE DAMN MUSIC!!”

 

A few shots are heard from the roof and Miyu's ears twitch and she keeps trying to get Calix's attention, “CAALLIIIXXX!” She scratches his arm and he looks at her and takes one of the headphones off.

 

“God, I'm not gonna go over there.”

 

“No, it's getting really bad...”

 

“...well he should have thought about that before he left.”

 

“...HEARTLESS!”

 

“HEY! I tried to convince him, but he wanted to go!”

 

“SO! “

 

“So, what!?”

 

“He's going to get killed!!”

 

More shots are heard along with some yelling, Calix whines and looks over at the window, “I really don't want to...”

 

“But you're going to.”

 

“...”

 

“Just go, if your quick enough maybe-“

 

Calix stands up, and runs out of the room, Miyu sighs in relief, “Good boy.” She takes his head phones and tries to listen to what he was, though it's really loud, Calix runs out of the building and makes his wings grow, he pushes off from the ground and the wings spread, he takes to the air.

 

Arsen still has the pipe in one hand and he has his gun in the other and everyone just seems to be shooting at each other and the guy with the chain comes up behind Arsen wrapping the chain around his neck and starts to choke him as the guy with the brass knuckles continuously punches him in the gut.

 

Calix folds his wings and drops from the sky, when he lands on the roof he spreads his wings and the bones and spikes on them impale some of the guys, he looks left and then right and groans and makes his wings minimize so the guys just drop to the ground, his eyes fade black and he growls lowly when he sees what's happening to Arsen, he grows claws and long fangs, the spikes on his tail grow and his horns do to, he charges the guy with the brass knuckles and when the guy is just about to punch Arsen, Calix comes in between them and grabs his fist, and twists his wrist snapping it, he starts to grin wickedly and he keeps twisting, ripping the skin, the bone snaps even more and he pulls back and his whole hand gets torn off, blood splatters on him and he laughs and licks some from the side of his mouth.

 

Arsen pulls on the chains and starts to gag as the guy pulls them tighter. Calix turns around quickly, and appears behind the guy with the chains, he kicks him in the back of the knees, making him buckle so he'd fall to his knees, when he does he grabs the chain and his fists glow and the chain melts away, breaking it, the heat from the chains burn the guy and Calix stabs the guy with his tail, the spikes on it go through his skull and Calix just laughs even more, seeing this as a game now, he glances around for more prey and lunges at a couple of guys tearing them to pieces, literally.

 

Arsen falls to his knees, coughing and Calix just starts to kill everyone he sees on the roof, ripping them up, impaling them, and making them die slowly from blood loss, burning them to death, anything really.

 

Arsen looks at Calix and his eyes widen. Calix slashes a guys throat open, grabs another guys arm and twists it back tearing it from its socket, slices a guy in half then crushes his skull open and the list goes on.

 

Arsen runs over, “Calix, what are you doing here.”

 

Calix's ears twitch and he looks over his shoulder at him, he has part of an arm in his mouth along with weird markings around his eyes, he's dripping in other peoples blood and his eyes are still black, he growls lowly not recognizing him, blinded with rage.

 

“Calix?”

 

He smirks and pulls the arm from his mouth, ripping some of the flesh off, “Hm?...” He purrs the word.

 

“Calix what's going on, what's wrong with you?”

 

“Nothing.” He starts to laugh, one of the guys twitches and Calix raises on of his hands in the air, the guy bursts into a black flame, “I am who I am.” He laughs again.

 

“Calix you have to stop.”

 

“To tell me to stop, is like denying me my life, my freedom.”

His wings grow and he starts to walk to the edge of the building once everyone but Arsen is dead.

 

“Calix..”

 

He stops walking and looks at him, eyes slightly narrowed. And Arsen searches for something to say. Calix cracks his knuckles and then wipes some of the blood off of his face with the back of his hand and licks it off, almost in a teasing way. Arsen starts to walk towards him his eyes changing from reddish to green again.

 

Calix cackles, “And you thought you could end the fights.” He bites his lip trying not to laugh. “It's almost funny at how outnumbered you were.” He purrs the words.

 

Arsen thinks to himself, What is going on...

 

Calix stretches his wings out and stands on the very edge of the building, looking over the edge and then up at the sky and still has an amused expression plastered on his face, he licks more blood from the side of his mouth,

 

“Tasty...” He looks at Arsen, “Well, it's been fun, but I believe this is the part where I take my leave, can't make it look like I played hero.”

 

He puts his hands behind his head and stands on one foot, other foot hanging over the edge.

 

“Calix...” Arsen's mind races for something to say.

 

Calix stares at him, “...quit stalling and spit it out.”

 

“Why did you come here?”

 

“That cat forced me to, and it was a good chance for me to show my true colors.” He snickers and has a cheshire grin.

 

“So you let the cat order you around?”

 

“No, I wanted to come. She just informed me is all, I was trying to ignore it all.” He crosses his arms.

 

“You should have kept ignoring it.”

 

“And you would have wound up dead.” He frowns, “Or was that what you wanted, if you want, I can fill that void for you.” He twitches his fingers, trying to hold back on stabbing something.

 

Arsen's eyes widen a moment and then he looks away.

 

Calix laughs, “Heh, coward...you fear it so much, yet you do nothing, you give up way to easily..”

 

“I've wanted to die...” Arsen's hands tighten into fists, “I've tried so many times to end it ever since.....” He hesitates to finish.

 

“Filthy coward, you talk tough but you've nothing to back it up.”

 

“I've tried to end my own life ever since I killed my parents!” He starts to leave through the fire escape.

 

Calix stands there, not going after him, “That's life for you.” He has an unsympathetic tone. “Never know what it's gonna hand ya.” He shoves his hands into his pockets and sits on the roofs edge instead of jumping off and flying off. “Its just a box of chocolates!” He cackles. “Point is, forget the past and move on with the future, you fuck that up and you're bound to have it worse then you could have imagined.” His tail twitches and he's slightly talking to himself, as if reminding himself.

 

Instead of going back to the building, Arsen runs into an alley and just stands there staring at the ground, “But it's not really my fault they're dead...”

 

Calix keeps talking to himself and he pulls out a little orb, it dangles from his fingers attached to a thin chain, We all mess up once or twice, even if it wasn't our fault, we cant help what happens, it just does, as fate intended it to...” He cackles and the orb has a small flame inside of it. “Fate..”

 

“He never goes away....and makes me do things I don't want to...but I just want him to leave me alone...”

 

Calix holds his head suddenly and clenches his eyes shut, he opens them and there back to normal, not the faded black. He blinks a few times and looks down, only to see that he's sitting at the edge of a rather tall building, he jumps back and is breathing hard,

 

“What am I doing up here...?”

 

He looks at the orb in his hand and winces and shoves it in his pocket. “I wish I would have gotten rid of that.” He notices the blood on his hand and then looks down at himself, “...w-what...

 

He looks around him, all of the gorey torn up bodies, his eyes widen and he screams, holding his head and having trouble standing, a dull ringing of nausea coming over him, he screams louder and drops to his knees, still holding his head, the spikes, horns, fangs and nails shrink back to their normal size and tear start to pour from his eyes.

 

“I DID IT AGAIN!! WHY DID IT HAPPEN AGAIN!? GODDAMMIT ANSWER ME THAT WHY DONT YOU!?!? “

 

Arsen leaves the alley and starts to walk down the street. “Why do I ever even bother leaving my room everyday...”

 

Calix curls up into a ball and tries to stifle his cries but is failing, he opens his eyes to see a dead body next to him, he jumps back and screams again,

 

“I'LL NEVER FORGIVE THEM EVER!!! EVER, EVER, EVER!!!”

 

He paces back and trips over another body and his pupils shrink as he lets out another scream of terror, disgust, and pain.

 

Arsen turns when he hears the screams.

 

Calix panics, “I-I-I gotta get outta...here...” He backs up into another body and is about to have a break down.

 

“God...their everywhere...I killed them all...and p-probably enjoyed it.” He starts to shiver and then he tries to wipe all of the blood off of him in a paranoid rush.

 

Arsen runs back to the building and goes back up the fire escape.

 

Calix is kicking a body away form him and falls back and curls up in the corner of the roof, crying loudly, blood more smeared on himself now, since trying to wipe it off didn't do any good, he's shaking violently and his tail is twitching.

 

Arsen runs over to him, “Calix?”

 

Calix jumps from the voice and curls up further, “God...now I'm hearing voices.” He tries to stop crying but can't seem to. “Why...why did it happen again...shit...I killed them all...I killed them all -he chants it quietly.”

 

Arsen puts a hand on Calix's shoulder, “Calix, it's me..”

 

He jumps again and lifts his head, his eyes are red and tears are still pouring from them, the markings around his eyes are still visible, but faded a little,

 

“...A-Arsen...I-I didn't kill you...?...or is this...some sick joke...”

 

“No, you didn't kill me.”

 

“I thought I did...” Calix drops his head and his ears lower and he starts breaking down again,

 

“I killed them all..”

 

“Calix its okay, just calm down”

 

Calix whines loudly and tries to stop crying, “I don't know how much more I can take, soon I wont be able to...” He looks at his hand, his veins are black instead of a blue/purple, “It will be released...and I will be locked up..behind bars to watch it destroy...”

 

He mutters some other words, but he's hard to understand since he's still crying and his breath is choppy. Arsen sighs and starts to hug Calix. Calix's eyes widen a little at the contact and shivers once but then leans into Arsen and calms down slowly, resting his cheek on his shoulder with his eyes clenched shut, a pain ripping him from the inside out, he winces as a pounding headache engulfs him, he falls motionless with tiny breaths that are uneven.

 

“Calix?”

 

He doesn't move or say anything, just the uneven breathing. Arsen sighs and picks up Calix and carries him back to the building.