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    Inferno

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    Posted · Edited by L-RiC

    Chapter 5

    At the clinic, Hiro tries to rest. Unfortunately for him, he is frequently being pestered by the staff who are wondering why he's still checked in for a few simple fractures. Other patients are waiting to be treated for more serious injuries and ailments. "Shouldn't you be home by now?" the nurse attending Hiro asks.

    "I'm gone as soon as you guys get me some crutches," he replies. Pointing at the casts on both of his legs, he continues, "I can't exactly walk out of here on my own."

    "We're trying to find a pair available, Sir. In the meantime, what else would you like?"

    Hiro tugs on the blanket covering him and comments, "Well, it's a little cold in here isn't it?"

    "Do you want another sheet?"

    "No, I want you to climb in with me, doll face," he chuckles. The nurse only glared at him before laughing sarcastically.

    "That's so funny, kid. Sure, I'll do that. As long as you agree to let me make you a quadriplegic."

    "I'm not sure what that is, but I'm guessing it's not good?"

    "You got it.”

    At that moment, Ian walked into the room and noticed Hiro's behavior with the nurse. “Hey, nurse. I'd smother him with one of those pillows if I was you. He knows what that is.”

    “Well, Look who it is. I'm glad we didn't gamble on who'd win in a fight between you and Kai. I would've lost that bet.!” Hiro exuberantly exclaims. “Glad to see you aren't here as a patient.”

    “When are you gonna check out of here?”

    “This place wants me gone now, but I think I'll stay for a few more hours. Just to piss them off.” Hiro reaches for his prosthetic arm which he had put on the other side of the bed the night before. He finds it cumbersome to sleep with it attached.

    Staring at the fake arm, Ian sighs and says, “Remember how you got that thing?”

    “You know I do,” Hiro replied as he reattached the prosthetic arm. “When we were six, you dared me to go out into the woods.”

    “And we were attacked by an enisru.”

    “Is that what that thing is called?”

    “Yeah, and we were lucky we weren't killed. Most people who meet one become its meal. It's incredible we survived.”

    “You're lucky. You were only knocked out. My arm ended up as a demon's midnight snack.”

    “Well, you'll be glad to know that thing is dead now,” Ian remarks. He grabs a nearby chair and sits down. “You don't know what it's like to look her in the eyes and then give her some well-deserved payback.”

    “How did you know it was the same one or even its gender?”

    “She had the same double-X scar on her left front leg. And to answer your second question, male enisru have armor plating while female enisru don't.”

    “Right, just like the one from before.” After a few minutes, the nurse comes back into the room with a pair of crutches and an over-excited look on her face. As she was pointing towards the door, Hiro says, “I guess I have to leave now or they'll throw me out.”

    “Good, because there's a few things I need to talk to you about and this place is way too public for me to do that.” Within half an hour (Hiro was intentionally moving as slow as he could before a doctor literally kicked him out), the two had finally left the clinic. Neither of them know that Kai is now tailing them.

    “Maybe I can find out why I had to pay the price for Hiro's attack,” wondered Kai as he followed them. As Ian and Hiro walk down an empty alley, Kai hid behind a corner, so as not to be seen. When they finally came to a stop in the middle of the alley, Kai looked around the corner to eavesdrop.

    “Y'know, I never fully understood why we bullied the Ryujin twins,” says Ian. “Can you tell me why?”

    “Because they're half-demons.”

    “Yeah, that's what you always said.”

    “Something wrong with that?”

    “It's just that we never had a problem with Kai or Kasumi around the time they told us they were half-demons. We only started to screw with them after you recovered from the enisru attack.”

    Hiro puts his fist to his forehead and lets out a deep sigh. He finally replies, “Okay, the enisru attack had a lot to with why I started to bully those two. Blame me, I was angry and scared of them.”

    “Scared of them? As I recall, Kasumi was peace-loving and Kai was insanely shy. Those two would've never started a fight.”

    “From what I've experienced and been taught, you can't tell with anything with demonic blood. As a demon slayer, you know where I'm coming from.”

    “As a demon slayer, I also know that being a demon and being a pacifist aren't mutually exclusive from each other. I'm only trained to kill demons who are a threat. I'm not gonna go around and slay anything demonic just because you were almost killed by one.”

    “Why'd you even become a demon slayer?”

    “Because I always thought one of the twins would come back and try to kill one of us. I wanted to protect myself.”

    “With some big sword because you're too weak to do anything else.” Hiro's comment angered Ian enough for him to slam Hiro against the building and grasp him by the collar.

    “Yeah, I was too weak. I was too weak to say exactly what was on my mind. How I didn't feel right terrorizing two innocent kids. How you always guilt-tripped me into doing it. 'If you hadn't dared me to go into the forest, I wouldn't have a fake arm, boo-hoo-hoo.' Not to mention you treating me like your little slave!”

    “Please, if it wasn't for me....”

    “I'd be happier with myself!” Ian interrupts. “You're no friend to me and you never were. And what I'm gonna show you next will make sure we never speak again.” Ian lets go of Hiro and forms a thin wall of ice between them. As a shocked Hiro stares through the translucent barrier, Ian only whispers, “I'm part-demon, too. See ya, Hiro.” He walks away in the direction he entered the alley from.

    “It took a lot to reveal that,” Kai declares.

    “Kai, when did you...”

    “I've been following you since you two left the clinic. Wanted to find out why my life had to be hell. I swear, I would've done worse to the guy.”

    “I'm just glad it's over. By killing that enisru, I liberated myself. I'm not indebted to that asswipe anymore.”

    "Well, good luck with the rest of your life. Me and Kasumi are leaving town today after we get done with a few things. See you when I'll see you.” Kai nods and they both walk away in opposite directions. Ian arrives at his house and finds that his mother had gone to work and Kasumi had left with Eni. He goes to his room and relaxes for a few hours. However, a disturbing thought enters Ian's head.

    “Oh, crap. If Hiro blabs to everybody I'm part-demon, I'll be facing the same stigma the twins had to deal with back then. I already have no friends and if my secret gets out, I'll never be able to show my face again.” Ian yanks on his hair and screams, “Dammit! I'm screwed! Not to mention I have no idea how to develop my powers. Argh, and I don't even know what to do with my life!”

    Ian grabs a pen and a piece of paper and quickly scribbles down a note. “Mom, if I'm not home by the time you read this, you're probably not gonna hear from me for awhile. Don't worry, I promise I won't get myself killed. But then again, nothing's guaranteed. Love you, bye.” He throws the letter onto the counter, grabs his sword, and dashes out of the door in search of the twins.

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    Is Ian your name? Pweez release the next chapter! This is getting exciting.

    No, it's not. I just chose that name because I needed to name him right before I had to post this story. You'd probably think I'd have my shit straight by thinking up of a main character's name well in advance and maybe make it a reference to their personality/power/etc. Not with Ian. Well, at least his last name (Aicnu) sounds like "ice". I guess that counts.

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    Time to bump this bitch.

    My vocational school bus got searched for drugs about half an hour ago. The bus driver had smelled some weird smoke and the asshole principle decided to call in a drug dog. All they found were blueberry-flavored cigars on four people. Hello, assigned seats. Godfuckingdammit.

    Inferno

    in Graphics & Writer's Pad

    Posted · Edited by L-RiC

    Chapter 4

    As the day breaks over the long night, Kai finally awakens from his slumber. He walks outside the cave and looks at the sunrise, shielding his eyes. The sunrise is a rare sight for him nowadays, as he usually wakes up much later. Kasumi gets up and wraps something in a blanket she brought with her, putting it into her bag. She joins Kai outside and they start to walk back to town.

    Elsewhere, Ian didn't get any sleep. He had spent the night sitting on his bed wondering who he really is. Why does he have these powers? He wasn't aware he had them before last night. After looking at his hand for a few minutes, he stood up and walked outside his room. He walked into the kitchen and took a seat at the table. Ian turns his head and gazes at the woman cooking breakfast behind him. “Mom?”

    His mother ignores him and continues cooking. Ian growls and slams his fist on the table. “You're gonna start talking to me sooner or later,” he yells. “For God's sake, you've been silent ever since I returned from training.”

    After a long silence, his mother finally speaks. “Do you know why I've been ignoring you for the past few weeks?” She turns around and sits in the chair across from Ian. “It's because you're a coward. You didn't become a demon slayer to help people or to earn a living. You did it because you were afraid that the Ryujin twins were still alive and would come back for revenge, am I right?”

    Ian only crosses his arms and sighs. A few tense moments later, “I thought a couple of half-demons would easily survive on their own... and be unforgiving. I was right.”

    Meanwhile, Kai and Kasumi are hiding outside the house, eavesdropping on the conversation. “Well, we don't make it a habit of befriending someone who made our lives miserable, pal,” whispers Kai.

    “Calm down, we were all kids back then,” replies Kasumi.

    “Exactly. We were kids. We didn't deserve that, did we?”

    “No, but..”

    “BUT NOTHING!” Kai snaps. He slides down the wall to sit down and rests his chin on his fist. After looking at Kasumi stare at her bag for awhile, he asks, “So what'd you pack in that bag that's so interesting?”

    Surprised, Kasumi shifts her eyes from side to side and responds hastily, “Nothing!” An awkward silence follows until it is broken by the sounds of a familiar cry. “Crap...”

    Back inside the kitchen, Ian and his mother have paused their discussion in the wake of the crying. Ian asks, “Do you hear crying?”

    “Must be the neighbors, they had a baby a few days ago.” After a few seconds, the crying stops and the two continue with their conversation.

    “Last night, they returned and attacked Hiro! What was I supposed to do? Do nothing and let them get away with almost killing a friend?”

    “Yes, because Hiro more than likely started it.”

    “Come on, he wouldn't do tha... actually he might've.”

    “And he has dozens of times before. Look, it's a tragedy what happened to him ten years ago, but that doesn't give him the right to terrorize two innocent children. And being friends with him doesn't give you the right to do the same!”

    Back outside, Kasumi is holding the infant enisru in front of an annoyed Kai, who says, “I thought we were going to leave that thing alone, sis.”

    “No, we agreed we weren't gonna kill it.”

    “That sorta implies the same!”

    “Maybe to you, but not to me. Besides, if it wasn't for us, Eni wouldn't be an orphan.”

    “'Eni'? It's not enough you plan on taking care of that thing, you named it too! A very unimaginative name, I might add. You only used the first half of 'Enisru'.” Eni, who must have understood what Kai had been saying, scratches him across the face and falls asleep. Kai blinks out of shock while Kasumi lets out a chuckle. An enraged Kai tries to punish the infant enisru, but Kasumi puts Eni back into the bag for its protection. During the struggle, the two don't notice that Ian's mother has gone outside to investigate the commotion and is now looking at them.

    “Ahem,” she whispers, finally catching their attention. “How long have you two been standing here?”

    “Long enough to learn nothing new, Ms. Aicnu,” Kai replies.

    “May we come in?” asks Kasumi.

    Almost immediately, Kai grabs her aside and questions, “Why would we want to do that?”

    “To see if we're right about Ian.” She then pulls her arm away and turns toward Ms. Aicnu. “Please?” Ms. Aicnu thinks about it for a few seconds and invites them in, much to Ian's surprise.

    “Mom, what are they doing here?!”

    “To tell our side of the story,” replies Kai. “Hiro did start the fight. I only finished it. The only thing Kasumi did was knock him unconscious so I wouldn't kill him.”

    “Kill him?!” yells Ian.

    “That's right,” Kai scoffs as he leans against the wall. “Hiro ought to be thanking her, but he'd rather die than do that, wouldn't he?”

    “You're a bastard, you know that?”

    “So are you. Do you have any idea who your father is? Or even what he is? Normal humans don't shoot icicles from their hands.”

    “Ian, what is he talking about?” asked Ms. Aicnu.

    “Nothing, Mom!” Ian blurts as he frantically waves his hands. Unfortunately, he accidentally makes an ice shard that goes flying through a nearby window.

    “That, pretty much,” remarks Kasumi.

    “I should be a detective or something. That was awesome!” Kai gleefully shouts.

    Ian rests his head on the table in frustration. He is visibly upset at the situation he believes Kai has put him in. A few minutes pass before he talks again, but only to curse the twins. After a tiny profanity-peppered rant, he buries his head into his arms.

    “I was wondering when this would happen,” Ms. Aicnu murmurs.

    “Are you saying you knew about this all along?” inquires Ian, lifting his head up. “Am I a half-demon?”

    “Kai, Kasumi. Will you two go into a different room?” asks Ms. Aicnu.

    “I'm sorry, but we're going to find out anyway,” Kasumi retorts. “If you're worried about us spreading your secrets, don't worry. I swear we won't.”

    “We'd like some privacy, though. Please just wait in the next room.” Kai and Kasumi comply and sit down on the couch in the living room. Ms. Aicnu tells Ian to look at her while she shows him what he is. Ian is amazed at the sight of his mother sprouting catlike features such as ears, claws, and a tail. “Your grandfather was a snow leopard demon who saved a human woman from a mob of angry villagers. He didn't know anything about what she had done to earn the ire of so many people and he didn't care. All he saw was a defenseless woman in harm's way and fought off the crazed crowd. My mother was so grateful, she fell in love with him and they eventually had one daughter: Me.”

    “So you're a half-demon?”

    “Yes, Ian. The persecution I faced as a child forced me to hide my parentage. That's why I was so disappointed in you when you were younger. The way you harassed Kai and Kasumi for being half-demons reminded me so much of my troubled childhood.

    “What about my father?”

    “I hope the bastard's dead. He abandoned us after finding out my past. He said he'd never take care of an abomination with a half-breed winch,” she replied as she clenched her fist. “I don't know how he figured it out, but I'm lucky he didn't tell everybody in town. He only left and never looked back.”

    Ian leans back into his chair, overwhelmed by his family's history. “Whoa, that's uh...that's a lot to take in so quickly. Why didn't you tell me this earlier?”

    “I didn't want you to relive my life. But I guess I should have told you as soon as you started bullying the Ryujin twins.”

    “Yeah, you should've!” shouts Kai from the other room, who is promptly slashed again by Eni. “Why did you bring that thing in here?!”

    “That can't be good,” mutters Ian. “Um, I guess I owe you and them an apology?”

    “You don't owe me anything, but you're right about them.”

    Ian rises from his chair and enters the living room to apologize to Kai and Kasumi, but is taken back when he sees them fighting over Eni. “Is that a friggin' enisru?”

    “The one we all helped make it an orphan. The one from last night was this one's mother,” replies Kasumi.

    “Whatever, do what you want with it. Look, I know it was unfair to make your lives miserable for nothing. There's no excuse for what I did. I'm sincerely sorry for all the pain I've caused the both of you back when we were kids.” Ian holds his hand out in front of them and continues, “I hope you can forgive me and we can start over on a clean slate.”

    The twins look at Ian for a moment before Kasumi finally shakes his hand and says, “Why not?” Ian sighs in relief and then turns toward Kai, who has turned his head away but is still glaring at him from the corner of his eye. After a few seconds, he shakes his hand and gets up from the couch to stretch.

    Ian nods his head and turns toward the door. As he opens it, he's stopped by Kai, who asks, “So, where're you going all of the sudden?”

    “Gotta do something important,” Ian replies as he shuts the door behind him. After he's gone, Kai follows suit and tries to leave before he's stopped by Kasumi.

    “So, where're you going all...”

    “Stop copying me!” Kai screams as he slams the door on the way out.

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    That long enough for you, Nate? :P

    And in case anybody wants to know the reasons behind some of the names I used, here's why.

    Enisru: This is "ursine" spelled backwards, which is a word relating to bears.

    Aicnu: This is "uncia" spelled backwards, which is the genus snow leopards belong in.

    Kai: This is a Japanese name that can mean "sea".

    Kasumi: This is a Japanese name that means "mist"

    Ryujin: This is a Japanese dragon that symbolizes the power of the ocean. I find it kinda funny the twins' given names and surname are allusions to water when they have pyrokinetic powers.

    Ian: Because I fucking felt like naming him this. :lol:

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