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Rise of The Demon Huntress Part 2

Teleporting is an interesting experience. Really, it is. Imagine being turned into air and blowing with the wind for a brief moment. That exhilarating feel of freedom and excitement makes teleporting awesome. Once me and Nero arrived in the Magician High Council, I had the feeling this was not going to end well. The few Grandmasters who were there, excluding my mom, (She's a Grandmaster if you've been off the grid forever) had this look like I had done something wrong to them. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Marlin cleared his throat noisily, hinting for me to get to the point. What a dick. "Yeah, yeah, I'm getting there..." I said and continued with the story. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Just as you could almost see the ice forming, Nero broke it by saying, "This is the student you wanted to see. Melina Angelo." They all looked at each other for a moment. It was like they were wondering if I was really me. Grandmaster Athur spoke up, " Is it true you were near the Obice's gate when it opened?" "Yes, I was there." I responded back They had a slight look of concern flash across their faces. "And what did it look like?" Now I've never been one to trust authorities or the government in general. They do the shady shit we citizens pay them to do. So a question like that kind of put me in defensive state of mind now that I think about it in hindsight. "It was at least 20 feet high and it had this huge pillar of black and red light coming from it." I said, using my hands to gesture everything I had said. I paused for a moment then asked, "Why do you need me to describe it? Shouldn't you have seen it? It's not something that's just common around here." Again they shared this look like they knew something I didn't and they weren't going to be sharing their secret. "It's just that, by all accounts, there wasn't a visible gate. Demons simply came from the Necromancy Hall and began to cause havoc." Grandmaster Athur stated. One of the other Grandmasters, Grandmaster Malphur, leaned over to Grandmaster Athur whispering, "Do you think she opened the gate? Only those who are in the summoning circle can see the gate." They must really think they can whisper. I'm standing about 30 feet away and I can hear them. Even if I couldn't, I could just simply read their lips. It's not like they're trying to hide it or anything. Finally my mom came over to those two numbskulls we call leaders to set them straight. She grabbed Malphur by the neck and it looked like she was squeezing tightly. Or just digging her nails deep in his neck and she asked him in that dangerous mother voice, "Are you suggesting that my daughter has started the apocalypse?" Malphur looked like he saw his life vanish in an instant (Which it would if he had kept provoking me) and shrugged off my mom's grip while saying, "I'm only saying it's a possibility! We only have legends to go off of here! Legends and old stories from centuries ago!!" I still wanted to know about the more pressing question, "So you mean to tell me not a damn soul heard that loud ass explosion or saw that bright death beacon shining into the sky?!?!" I had to laugh at this. I mean, come on! These are the same people who our lives depend on. Through my laughter one of the other Grandmasters did a stern cough. I think it was Grandmaster Yor. Not to sound rude (-er than I already am), but Yor looks like a Grade-A prick. Really he does. He looks like if a classic villain just hopped off of a page and started living in reality. I guess he wanted me to stop my laughter before he would continue, so I stopped and let him talk. "As Malphur said, we don't have much information to go off of. Most of the information that we do have is either a legend with no facts in reality or reports from soldiers long ago. There aren't enough of these reports to even understand this... demon horde and it seems as if the demons have evolved since their time in the Obice. These demons look nothing like the ones described in any reports." He said. He leaned closer as if he wanted to make a point a spoke again more serious than before "We're in the dark here. And according to some legends, they all agree that only those who were close to the gate could ever see the actual gate." Grandmaster Athur spoke up, "But the summoning circle is quite large. In fact it could almost cover a city block." I actually had to think about this. The Necromancy department is always empty around this time (Something about the light ruining the effectiveness of spells. Means less work for me) so there wouldn't be anybody there at all. And the Necromancy department is extremely large, making it one of the better places to try and do a large ritual of that scale. I thought it would have to be a problem for later. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Marlin suddenly moved forward, abruptly stopping me from continuing the story. "Wait, so you believe that someone else opened up the Obice and released the demon horde?" "Yeah." I responded "The other option of 'The spell weakened to the point that the demons could escape' is too improbable. A few demons made references to Obice being a different entity from our world, not something we made. But you'll never find out if you keep interrupting me!" "These are the important details, Melina! Details that could spell the difference between a death sentence or freedom." "So a slow death by magic poisoning or a fast beheadment? Sweet." I rolled my eyes at him, "You know, I could be telling you total bullshit, and there would be no one to tell you if it was true." "Just keep telling what happened..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "We will determine the truth of this later. For now, we need to discuss our larger issue: The demon horde." Grandmaster Yor stated. "Yeah, it's been two days and you're just now deciding what to do. Sounds about right." I responded. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if they said they didn't know what they were going to do and we were going to all die horrible deaths. "So, what's your plan of action? What are we going to do to kill them?" Grandmaster Athur laughed like I just said the funniest damn joke in history, "Kill them?! No, no, no." He laughed, "We're going to capture them!" I think I must have lost my mind and this was just a psychotic episode, because there's no way this nimrod thinks that's actually going to work. It's just... no one can be that stupid! "Are you sure that's the brightest thing to do?" Athur's laughter stopped and he looked at me like I ruined his fun. "What do you mean?" "Well it's just that these things are slaughtering the fuck out of us and we can barely kill them, and you want us to essentially pull our punches?" "Yes, that's the intent. Is there a problem?" "Yeah there's a goddamn problem! We should be killing these monsters, not holding them!! That's asking to get fucked over!" I shouted at him. "This is the reason people of your ilk doesn't lead. There are some people who can see the possibilities and grasp them! Then there are those like you who would rather see progress become stagnant." He started becoming passionate about his speech. I guess he was on a roll now. "Do you know what advances in weaponry and magic we could potentially have if we decide to capture these demons and experiment on them?" He scoffed at this "No there's no way you could see these possibilities. Now run along and capture these demons." Alright there's a limit of patience I set aside for any given person and I could care less if this asshat was a Grandmaster. If he kept talking to me like that, he was going to die. I had to take a deep breath and really think about the next few things I said. I tried and I think I failed. "With all due respect, Grandmaster Athur," I spat sarcastically, "that is the dumbest idea right after letting the demons outright murder us all!! So, you can take your idea and-" I was interrupted by my mom going in mother mode. "MELINA!" My mom, Nicole Angelo, shouted at me. "You need to calm down!!" There was no calming down at this point. I was in verbal warfare, I was going to win!! "Well, Mom, you know it's stupid, too! That's like holding a serial killer in your house and saying 'Now don't kill me, okay?'" I said, "Sounds stupid, doesn't it?!" My mom sighed. She knew once I got like this, it was pretty much an uphill battle. She probably figured if I got arrested, I could bail myself out. Somehow. Then I heard another Grandmaster speaking again. "We should put her under a viniculum (Latin for "bond"). Make her hunt down higher priority targets." "No need." I said "I'm going off to find out who did this and I'm going to put a stop to them!" Grandmaster Yor laughed. I was on the verge of slitting the throat of the next person who laughed. "She thinks this is some story where she's a hero! How childish!*" I gave him a deadly stare, "No, it's because I have skill. Something you apparently lack." I turned and left. Not even sure how to get out. As I walked past Nero, he had a pale look on his face. I guess he didn't know I was rather direct when talking to officials. "Are you crazy!?" He shouted at me in a hushed whisper "Well, yeah. It's part of my charm." I said with a wink "Do you even know where to start? There's nothing left of the Necromancy department to find any details even if you could get there without the thousands of demons slaughtering you." "I'll start with a high-ranking captain or a lieutenant. Catch him, torture him," I said with a dangerous gleam in my eyes, "and then murder and/or bring in the guy who did it. Boom, step 1 is done. Then, I just go and 'hunt' down a powerful demon lord or some such thing." I continued with air quotes on "hunt". We all know I was going to slaughter these guys. "Then once all the demon lords are gone, we strike the King!" I laughed "Trust me, Nero! It'll be great and my name will be everywhere!" Well, I wasn't wrong about that. Just for all the wrong reasons. Nero sighed and looked like he aged from stress about ten years. "Jeez... Good luck. Do you know how to get out?" I shook my head. "Nope. I was either gonna jump out of a window or keep walking till I saw 'EXIT'." "Come with me." Nero said with a sigh. "And trust me, you wouldn't want to jump out of a window here." While Nero was leading me out of the High Council Facility, my mom (Nicole Angelo for those who still haven't caught on) caught up to me with a concerned look on her face. "Melina, are you sure you can do this?" "Yeah, I'm pretty sure I can handle a mystery and a few dozen murders. It's what I train for." "It's still someone who is powerful enough in magic to forcefully open the Obice and lead the demons out. If they're a lone man, you could be in danger." She paused as she looked at my unwavering expression "Nope, I won't let you go, it's too dangerous." "Swearing! Mom, it will be fine!" I said. If you're wondering why I just yelled out the word "Swearing", it's because my mom doesn't like me to swear at her or about her. You DO NOT wanna see that lady when she's pissed! "At least bring someone with you." I looked at Nero, then immediately realized that would be a mistake. "I'll bring a friend from school or something if that makes you feel better." "And you better come back without a scratch on you or you'll be hearing from me!!" She said jokingly as she gave me a hug "You be careful out there." "I will, mom. Now to begin prepping for my epic mission!" I shouted "Speaking of that, when you get to your house, give me a call so I can give you something" my mom said. I had a feeling this was going to be awesome, whatever it was. Somebody must have called for Nero because he turned away and waved to someone in the distance before saying, "Just take the next ten flights of stairs down and take the ninth right whenever you get ready. See you, Melina." Nero said as he left. My mom looked at Nero funny for a minute and asked, "You two have been walking around this entire time?" "Yeah. You guys need to add elevators or something here!" "We have teleporters here for that. There's one every ten floors." "Da-" I stopped "Where is the nearest one?" "Go back up two floors and it will be in the room marked 'Travel Department'." "And here I am about to walk probably another freakin' mile..." I grumbled as I walked off. I decided to head straight home. Even though there was minimal demon activity in the town, it didn't mean that couldn't change in a matter of hours. After going through that lovely feeling of teleporting, I appeared in my house and went to my weapons room. Now I'm not gonna sit here and lie saying that I used my wealth sparingly and lived this super modest life. Bullshit is what that is. Every dime I got was put in getting me the most up-to-date gear I could get (Now if said gear was legal yet is another story) so I would always have some edge in combat. My scythe cost me about 1.2 million credits. It was my favorite weapon out of all of my collection and it had an interesting property: it could never break as it used the blood of humans to repair itself. Well this property is null and void on demons apparently, because my scythe looked badly corroded with pits, rust, and nicks all over it. It almost made me cry looking at my weapon like this! So I got to work and started cleaning it (Don't want tetanus, now do I?) and pricked my finger to basically feed it blood. Took quite a bit and I probably fell asleep a few times. Then Nero appeared in front of my doorstep with a confused look on his face "Umm.... Your mother wanted to see you immediately. She's just outside. She also wanted me to help you on your task." You examined my face. "Are you okay?" "Yeah. I have to use my blood to repair my scythe. Makes it way better than your average scythe, but it's a hell of a price to pay." I said showing him my bleeding fingers He tried to come over, but I forgot my empty doorway is covered with wards and runes to keep out intruders. Even if he forced himself in, he'd probably burn to ashes (Runes are really nasty, making all the magic in your body turn into a hellfire and literally incinerating you from the inside out). I turned off the runes with a deactivation spell. Now he walked over to heal my fingers and give my bone marrow a little boost on red blood cell production.(Bones start rapidly producing red blood cells and if it isn't stopped... Well you explode in a splash of blood and gore.) "You know I'm a bit too old to try and kill some madman with you." he said with a sigh, "And I'm no combat magician, I'm better suited for behind the lines, healing the wounded. If you could get me there, I'd appreciate it." "Sure." I said. It was on our way as I needed to get behind enemy lines. "Just try not to die. Or panic. Especially when my friend gets here. She tends to do that to people." I got up and began to head outside. I saw my mom and dad (Michael Angelo. Come on, catch up with the news people) standing outside. "Sup, Dad. Hey, Mom" My dad spoke first. "Well, I know you have a knack for weapons- you're my daughter after all- and I decided to get you a new weapon for you to use on this...." he fumbled for a good word to use, "...I guess quest? No, too gamey. Mission?" He shrugged "Nonetheless, you'll need this." And he presented me with the most glorious sword I had ever seen in my life. It was 3 feet of solid titane metal with an elegant designs on it. The serrated edge had to be at least be an inch thick and it was light as a feather. Perfectly balanced for me. It's hilt was in the fashion of a cutlass made of some alloy of titane. My eyes almost exploded looking at this masterpiece. "DAD!!! How did you get this!!??" I screamed in excitement He had a smug look on his face "I guess you like it. I got it from a guy who knew a guy, who owed me a favor. I'm glad you like it. It has several weapon forms." My eyes lit up even more at this, "Which ones?!" "Now that would spoil the fun! I'll tell you that there's a scythe in it. That's it." "Ohhhh....This is soooooo cool!!" I said, almost drooling over the new blade. "You always gotta take the spotlight." my mom said with a chuckle My dad looked innocently at my mom, "Whaaat? She likes the sword. You show her what you've got." My mom presented me with a cool-looking chestplate. It looked like the family armor, (Every family has something like an heirloom. We have weapons and armor, you have rings and necklaces)but modified. The front had a pair of angel wings on them that shimmered different shades of blue. I tried it on. At first it was a bit snug in the front, (I don't have the smallest chest, but they're not huge either) but the metal seemed to almost relax around and become a perfect fit. The chestplate was made out of a titane-magnesium alloy, making it even more durable than pure titane. It felt like wearing just a shirt and near weightless. I moved around to get a feel for it and it was perfect! "This is amazing, Mom! Thank you so much!!" I said filled with excitement "This isn't even the best part! Try saying this 'Clara'." my mom told me "Isn't that a name?" I asked. She didn't give a response, just waited to see if I would do it. "Clara." And the most epic thing happened. From the back, large wings unfurled with bright, white feathers. I was, for once in my life, speechless. There are no words to describe how I felt. This had to be the best gift ever! I simply hugged my mom and dad (minus the sword, no need to impale them) and thanked them over and over for the new gear. "But why give it to me now?" I asked. "Because what you're about to do is going to push you to the limit of your skill and we want you to be prepared for anything." my mom said "Plus you were going to get it anyway when you became a Grandmaster." my dad responded "Speaking of that, Mom, can you do me a favor?" "It depends, but I'll try." "When I come back I want to be a Grandmaster in Demon Hunting." She kinda gave me a funny look, then nodded her head. "I'll do all I can." Then, her and dad left, swift as the wind, teleporting away. "Alright, now to get on the road." I started to leave and Nero came out of the house carrying his medical supplies. "Wait! Wait!" he said, stumbling out of the house with stacks of bottles and ingredients. I was helping him out when a sudden chill ran up my spine and the air started to get darker. "What's that?" Nero said with a hint of fear in his voice "I think this is my classmate. She was always one for the dramatics." I stood up and started looking around. The shadows started to rise from the ground and dance in front of us. And I'm not talking about shifting around, I mean actually busting a move or two. I sighed "Alice! Stop fooling around!" Her voice was completely disembodied and seemed to freak Nero out more than me. "Awww... you're no fun!" Alice said from the shadows and suddenly appeared in front of me. "Sup, Melina." For those who might not know, Alice Day is a Master in Sorcery. Specifically sorcery involving shadows. She combines this with being an Acolyte in Space Manipulation making her combination of skills very useful for what I have planned. She was a little on the hyperactive side (You would think being 20 would tire a person out)and wouldn't sit still for more than a few seconds. Either that or she was messing with you by using Space Manipulation (When you're drunk it really fucks with you). "Nothing much, Alice. You ready to go?" "Always." She said with a smile. "Who's the old guy?" "Hey I'm only 57!!" Nero complained "Old." Alice said, sticking her tongue out at him I sighed. I kind of forgot how childish she could be. "That's Nero. We're getting him to the front lines. Preferably to a combat hospital so he can do his... magic." "Really? I hope he doesn't get in the way. These demons aren't something to mess around with." "If the Magician High Council is right, we might be dealing more with people here." "Well I guess it's time to murder some people." "And that's why people don't trust you with weapons. Let's get going." And we left to the front lines to find out who caused this shitstorm to happen. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Marlin nodded his head, "So you and your friend were going to help this man you never met before and possibly lead him to his death?" "Well when you put it like that, you make it seem like we intended to kill him." I shook my head, "Leave it to officials to twist a straight forward request." Marlin groaned in annoyance, "It's just that the casualty rate for combat medics is 70% when they're on the front lines." "Even still, think of the lives he saved. When you put it in terms of the big pictures, his one life is worth those of 100 or 200." Man... that's a pretty morbid concept. Marlin shrugged, defeated. "If that's what you believe. It's in the past. Continue your 'adventure'." he said mockingly "You can be a real prick sometimes, Marlin." "And you can be an obnoxious child sometimes." I just glared at him and continued my story. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [End Part 2]

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