STEP STEP STEP STEP
Ali watched the priest walk closer and closer until he stood a metre from Ali. The priest looked up at Ali without opening his eyes.
"Priest", Ali said.
"Young man, what have you done to the child?", the priest said, his hand tightening on the book he held. Ali could hear the strain on the paper.
"I found her like this, Priest.", Ali said.
"In any case, I should take her with me right away to the church where we will heal her.", the priest replied and stepped to the side, trying to pass by Ali, but Ali moved and blocked him.
"You're making a mistake, young man", the priest said, smiling and looking up at Ali. The torch hanging above his chest shook a little.
"Is that so?", Ali said casually.
'This human…He reeks of those lizards…', the priest thought as his smile twitched for half a second, but he controlled himself not to let go.
"Then how about you come with me to the church? You can accompany her…", the priest said.
Ali stayed silent. The kid behind him peeked from the side and looked up at the priest. Her eyes flickered to the priest's hand, where the traumatic memories resurfaced.
"You know she has a talent for drawing.", Ali said, and the priest titled his head.
"Drawing? I don't think that is most important right now. She is bleeding out in a filthy alley where the wounds could get contaminated. Please focus on her health..", the priest said.
"So you didn't pick up on all that? Are you blind?", Ali nodded at the wall where the priest followed his signal and looked at the drawings, his closed eyes opening just a little.
"I see", the priest said after a minute of silence.
TEAR
The priest's hand ripped through the books, and torn papers fell to the ground as now both his hands tensed up into fists. A vein popped on his forehead, and worm-like movements could be seen under the skin on his face.
"You humans really are so very…", the veins on his neck popped up as he spoke very slowly, "DELICIOUS", he said out of nowhere and he opened his mouth where a long, horrifying, black, slithery tongue licked his lips and he opened his eyes to reveal two eyes that each had double irises connected together and whispered of violet passed through them, glowing in the blackness of his eyes.
Ali didn't move at all, he simply looked down at the demon with his same old cold face and his eyes didn't falter for a moment.
'What is wrong with this one… WHAT is he?', the demon thought looking at Ali whose aura suddenly changed and his frame felt like it got larger, this human was different than the others, very different.
"They're such incredible, fragile little things…", his demonic eyes went down to the blue head of hair hiding behind Ali, "Their flesh so soft but they all have one problem…", the demon tapped his cheek.
"They scream and beg so loudly when I have my fun, you see I like to enjoy my meal in quiet and they, they don't appreciate my preferences… So what better to do than cut off their tongues… You understand, don't you?", The demon said with a fanatic smile, he enjoyed seeing the fear in his victims before killing them, he wanted to see the fear in Ali, that look of horror before he rips him to pieces.
"You want to do this here?", Ali finally spoke as he rolled up his sleeves and his eyes suddenly transformed into a pair of violet dragon eyes that glowed menacingly in the darkness, his eyes looked more demonic than even those of a true demon.
"What Darkness…", the demon said stepping back as he looked into Ali's eyes and felt the true essence of darkness oozing from those eyes.
'He has a shit ton of demonic mana, fighting him here would level half the city for sure… Unless I kidnap him out of the city with my portals, but even then the fight would reach here…', Ali thought looking at the purple stream that flowed from the torch into the demon's body.
"You know I have been itching for a fight the moment I left the demon world. Now with enough demonic energy, I can finally have some fun." The priest said as his hands opened up gruesomely, and two bloody tentacles tore out of his hands. They were covered in his dark demon energy.
"So you have enough to take on the whole city? Demon, you don't have enough for me…", Ali said as his face was instantly covered in black veins, and red electricity suddenly covered his whole body with his Force slamming down on the demon, making him step hard on the stone ground, smashing it to pieces from the pressure.
Then, to add the finishing touches, Ali let out just a little of his killing intent, sending chills down a demon's spine, a feeling the demon only experienced from seeing the demon king from a distance, and now he felt the same feeling from this human.
"What are you? Who are you? You…You're not human." The demon said as he stepped back. 'I can't fight him, I can't…He will kill me, and I will fail my mission.' The demon thought.
"Are we still going to do this, or are you going to rethink this?" Ali said, keeping up the Force electricity and telekinesis.
The demon's tentacles slithered back into his hands, that returned to normal, and his eyes went back to their human form. He now looked like the friendly priest again.
"What do you want, human?", the demon asked.
"Well, first off…How many kids are still alive, and is her brother one of them?", Ali asked.
"My food is none of your business", the demon spat back.
"Another answer that I don't like, and I'm wiping out this city with you in it. Do not try me", Ali warned.
"Ate all of them…", The priest said with a wicked smile, looking at the kid who didn't quite understand and didn't show the reaction he wanted to see. "Except her twin, he's still hanging, waiting for his sister to hang next to him." The demon said, and a little drool subconsciously left his mouth.
"How close are you to opening a gate?", Ali asked, and the demon's eyes narrowed hearing this.
'This human, how does he know, are there books from the old times?', the demon thought as he took his time before answering Ali.
"I am not opening a gate. I am simply harvesting…hehehehe", the demon answered and laughed menacingly at the end.
'Simply harvesting, well that's not good…That means that any demon I catch is sending their energy somewhere else, maybe a higher demon? And that demon collects all the energy to open a gate? That could be it…', Ali contemplated. He also knew not to ask a question that would force the demon to choose mutual destruction, he was now playing on the demon's love for human flesh.
"You will let the boy go, and strong enough to survive after he leaves of course. Heal him if you must…", Ali said and the demon gave Ali a look that said, 'Are you serious?'.
"Where he will take his sister and leave the city. Meanwhile you will keep hiding in that church for a couple of days. And you'll be a good boy too. No more eating humans for a couple of days, no taking risks or meeting with the lords you used to harvest Demon energy", Ali said and the demon's eyes widened.
'How does he know?', the demon thought.
"Which clan do you serve? Who is your master?", the demon asked coldly. He now was sure that Ali was related to the Demon World somehow.
"That is none of your business, weakling", Ali said and the wall suddenly transformed into a huge violet dragon eye staring at the demon who stared back in disbelief, then Shadow slowly rose from the darkness and showed just a glimpse of the true horror of his form opening his maw then entering Ali's shadow again.
"Now get…", Ali said as he waved his hand sending the demon flying into a black portal behind him.
"AHH HA HHHE", the girl behind Ali pulled at Ali's pants, it was obvious what she wanted.
PACK
Ali lightly tapped the back of her neck and sent her to sleep as he picked her up and disappeared.
After an hour, Ali looked down from the top of a roof as a small carriage passed through the city gates, leaving the city. In the tent of the carriage, a pair of sky-blue eyes looked up at him. Gunther's right eye was missing, but his left, Witcher-like eye stared up at Ali and didn't leave him until he was out.
'That solves that. The demon is easy to control for now since I can pass off as a demon. I mean, if Shadow isn't a demon spawn, then I don't know what is…It's literally a dragon head flying and using portals to hunt for anything that moves.', Ali thought, shaking his head.
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