I was outside, breathing heavily, looking around to see I was suddenly surrounded by a large group of demons. They all appeared around me in frequent bursts of demonic energy. They all seemed to be about C-class. Each one had spiked, pitch black armor covering their entire bodies. The only differences that could be distinguished between them was their size and the mass of their bodies. I glared hard at them in distaste, the demons not realizing they had just become immediate targets for me to vent my anger on.
I was gripping my katana so hard that it seemed like my hands would bleed from the pressure. As soon as one of them moved even a bit- with a flick of my wrist, I had instantly unsheathed my sword, rushing at the demon and decapitated it faster than the rest of the group could see. By the time its body fell to the ground, I was already behind it, blood spilling from the opening on its neck.
My sudden action prompted the rest of the demons to engage me, all of them running at me. One of them came from the front, appearing as a blur, probably hoping to use its speed to get a lucky shot. I slashed right through them mercilessly as soon as it got close, the two halves of its body spinning in the air before slamming into the ground. Two demons in a pair came at me next, both not wasting time to unsheathe their onyx black broadswords and slash at me hard and fast. I merely blocked their attacks; I was already used to this pattern, so it didn't take long for me to create a katana of green flames in my free hand and slash at both of their chests with blinding speed, blood sprayed out of them both as they fell to the ground.
A large group appeared over me in the air, hoping to overwhelm me. However, I leaped right toward them, piercing through different segments of their bodies at high speed, narrowly missing their slashes. It ended up with me slashing through one more of them as I touched down back to the ground. Their bodies all gushed out blood ferociously, the blood sprinkling down to the ground like raindrops. Even as their bodies slammed back into the ground, many more came at me at all sides. I glowered at each one that came, slashing at multiple parts of their bodies with each one that came, killing them with ease.
I threw forth my flame sword at them next, the blade flying straight, cutting through the air before I willed it to spin at high speed, eviscerating the many demons it sliced past. I held out my hand catching the flame sword as it flew back toward me, and the sword converted into a sphere of green flames, slowly growing in my hand. An inferno of it shot out from my hand fiercely toward the remaining demons. I could barely hear them screaming in agonizing pain, the flames created a very large spherical explosion as soon as they hit their mark. I sheathed my sword and let out a deep breath, calming down to a point; however, I was uneasy about what may happen when I traveled back to the village.
I heard footsteps walking toward me, I gripped onto the hilt of my sword as I looked into the direction of where the footsteps came and immediately found myself glaring at the individual approaching me. It was one of the demon slayers from earlier; the one that wore the pitch black clothing and had long hair. "All that power, and yet you still refuse to accept that you belong with us? It's quite annoying when idiots like you are this difficult," he said in an angered tone, glaring at me with disdain.
I unsheathed my sword once more, glaring at him. "Yeah, well, I told your little organization before and I'll say it again: I'm not joining your damn demon slayer group. Now, if that's all you had to say, then I suggest you just beat it," I said as I began to walk, pushing past him. I felt myself get grabbed by the shoulder tightly before suddenly, I was thrown over the man's shoulder very hard. Shocked, my eyes widened as I was sent hurling through the air. For such a scrawny appearance, his strength was insane to be able to throw me like that, and so easily.
I quickly regained balance while in the air and I stabbed my sword into the ground, the blade dragging through it as I steadily slowed down. He suddenly appeared over me, hovering in the air with what looked to be… bat wings coming from out of his back… 'Just what the heck is this guy really?' I thought as I found myself staring for a second.
Putting the thought aside for later, I quickly raised my sword while he slashed at me with his claw-like hands, pushing me further back from the force of just his physical strength. "To be honest, I think I've had enough of my organization wasting their time with someone as selfish and idiotic as you. So, I'll do my comrades a favor and kill you now!!" he screamed putting even more pressure onto my blade, pushing me back even more.
I gathered green flames around my arm until it was entirely engulfed in them, cocking my fist back, ramming it in their face with extreme force. The strength of my strike sending him flying and smashing hard into the wall. He soon came rushing back at me with an enraged roar. I dashed toward him as well and slashed at him. He raised his arm, and I expected his arm to be severed by my slash; however, it wasn't and under the now torn sleeve, a strange black gauntlet with a glowing purple spherical jewel was shown under it. He smirked, smashing his gauntleted fist into my chest.
My eyes widened as I coughed up blood from the force and was sent flying. I covered my whole body in green flames, stopping and propelling myself in the air with them. Then, I rushed toward him, slashing hard, creating a violent combustion of green flames blasting everywhere. The man was sent flying again, though he quickly flipped while in the air, his feet landing lightly against the stone wall, destroying it when he pushed off, bouncing back toward me.
His arms were now covered in a shadowy purple energy and he swung at me again, energy surging off his arms with each swipe that clashed against my blade. Not only that, but his strikes held much more force now, forcing me to cover my sword in green flames as an extra defense to block his strikes. I teleported out of the way when he swung his arm downwards fiercely, the strength held in it creating a sizable crater under his hand. Suddenly, a wide grin appeared on his face.
The man held his hand out, a small ball of dark purple energy forming in it, slowly growing. Realization hit me and I knew that he was about to fire off an energy blast. I held out my sword, green flames quickly gathering in the front of the tip, creating a blast of my own to meet his; however, before he could fire it off, his eyes suddenly widened and his ears started twitching. He sniffed into the air and his eyes narrowed. "Soot…" he said in a quiet whisper, and he glared back down at me. "I'll be back for you later…" he threatened me before black energy rose from the ground under him, enveloping him in its cocoon-like shape, disappearing soon afterwards.
I wasn't sure if I heard him right, but I'm pretty sure I just heard him whisper "soot". Only one thing came to mind at that single word, and it created a shocked look on my face. The village… 'He couldn't possibly mean the village is burning… could he…?' I thought gravely, with my mind running frantic on the thought of such a disaster. I bolted back onto the path leading to my village, desperately hoping everyone was safe.
A few hours later, I had finally made it back to the village. My eyes showed horror. I was witnessing strange, black flames as dark as the night sky scorched across the entire village. Houses were completely disintegrated by the flames. A countless number of charred corpses lay flat on the ground, eternally unmoving. Large pools of blood were splattered across the ground. My ears rang at the sound of tortured screams of children and even their families, their expressions being the embodiment of pure agony.
My body shook with fear, sorrow, rage, and many other emotions rampaged through my mind. Just by looking at the black flames again, I was reminded of my previous fight with him, and the black, dark energy in his hand. I clenched the hilt of my sword with an iron grip, rage overtaking my body as I imagined the viciously grotesque ways to kill him when I found that bastard. But suddenly, before I could even move, three strange figures dressed in black cloaks came assailing towards me with great speed.
With nothing but my own rage powering my instincts, I rushed toward them with extreme speed, slashing hard at them all. They unsheathed broadswords from their belts made out of a peculiar sleek black material and one of them blocked my sword strike. A whirring sound came from the black blade when it clashed against my sword. I gritted my teeth in anger and snarled, pushing against his weapon, struggling for dominance. Green flames rose around my entire body before bursting violently, sending the figure sailing through the air while covered in my flames. He crashed harshly into the ground, the other two rushing towards me.
I was still engulfed by the flames around my body, which only just seemed to get wilder and hotter the more I used them. I blocked their attacks with little difficulty, having no trouble despite the fact that I was being double teamed. In spite of that, the more our swords clashed, the more my flames began to steadily calm, and got shorter. I became frantic at this sudden development and jumped back. Despite my recede, the two cloaked figures still ran at me, no plans on stopping their assault.
I screamed loudly while I raised my sword very high into the air, my flames quickly transforming into a burning emerald green inferno around my body, and I slashed down. A gigantic wave of green flames consumed everything in its path, rushing toward them. The figures both pointed their swords forward, a strange black and white-ish energy emitting from their blades. It fired off in the form of a huge black blast with phantasmal streams of white around them, clashing with my flames in a struggle for dominance, trying to overpower my flames.
In the end, it proved useless. My flames toppled over the blasts. The figures opened their mouths to scream, but even that couldn't be heard as they were consumed by the inferno. The monstrous explosion of green energy destroyed everyone and everything who dared to stand in the way. More figures, which seemed to be double the amount of the group I just dealt with, began to surround me. I gritted my teeth in frustration. Stronger or not, these strange people seemed to be able to hold their own against me fairly well, and I knew it would be a bad idea to face this many all at once.
Before I had the chance to attack, suddenly, large royal purple crystals had begun to uproot from the ground, stabbing through the bodies of the assailants, holding them high into the air. Confused, my eyes darted around the entire area before they landed onto a familiar figure. It was the same man dressed in black clothing. He started to walk towards me, his jacket flowing in the wind like a cloak. He looked at me with an icy stare while I threw one back at him. Not realizing it, the pupil of my eye turned to a slit as rage filled my body just by looking at him.
He grit his teeth, there was something off about him though, he seemed a bit… unstable… "I should've known it was a mistake to try and recruit you into Hellzone corps… but it was an even bigger mistake now that we know what you really are, Cambion!!" he yelled at me with an untold amount of hatred in his voice. Although, I didn't understand why the hell he called me a Cambion. My mother was no demon. Even if she was pretty damn strong back when I was young, and had a tendency to reach unheard of levels of anger, she was never demonic. Most of the time she was just like any other mother would be. My father, however, was a different story entirely since she never told me anything about him.
I barely even knew my father. Hell, I didn't even know his name. The first time I had mentioned him, my mother told me he was one of the strongest people she had ever met. She never gave any clues to whether he was a demon, or even seemed demonic at all. Nevertheless, I went back to my main focus. My eyes surged furiously with green energy to the point that it fired off as a fairly large, fast beam of energy racing straight for the man.
I would normally be in for a shock when with a sweep of his hand, he knocked the blast of energy away and impacted into a nearby house, however, I couldn't seem to care. My thoughts were completely directed towards slaughtering this man. "Trusting me? How about trusting you!? This would've never happened if you demon slayers never came to our village, but now… everything's gone… IT'S ALL YOUR FUCKING FAULT!!!" I screamed at the top of my lungs, my green flames now becoming unstable as they rose around me in a giant pillar.
I ran at the man with unimaginable speed, appearing only as a brief blur as I rushed toward him. Purple energy formed in his hands, swirling around them before creating two longswords with long, blood red blades and purple hilts. Black energy slithered out of his body, going in upward streams all around him and swirling around his blades. The moment I got close, there was a dark, twisted grin on his face that would've made anyone who witnessed it shiver with fear.