They went back to the beach in search of Sam, some said he may have slept there. But when they got to the beach they could not find Sam, it was almost sundown and they quickly went back to the others.
"We should go," one of the boys proposed. The island wasn't safe at night. demons and beast lurked the island once it's sundown. Nobody wanted to leave Sam behind, but they were short of options.
"Are you lost kids?" came a cold voice, they turned around to where the voice came from' only to find two pairs of glowing red eyes staring at them from the dark.
****
It was already sundown and the kids were not back, The vice captain got concerned and went in search of them. It took her twenty minutes to locate them. Looking down from the tree she sat, she could see bodies of dead beasts littered on the floor, the kids looked tired as they had been fighting.
Her eyes widened in surprise as she saw a demon walk out from the forest clapping.
"You guys are seasoned warriors" it said, still smiling"take a look at the mess you've done".
The captain couldn't believe her ear. the demon could talk, she said to herself bewildered, she needed to execute the demon as fast as she could, demons that could talk were mostly strong.
But before she could jump down from the tree she saw a spark of lightning radiating from Bane's body.
This would be interesting, she said watching bane.
"that quite colorful" the demon said pointing at Bane "but you can't scare me with colors boy"
All the captain saw was a small lightning bolt, and when she looked up, she saw bane above the demon, his hand clenched into a fist.
The demon looked up and smiled on seeing bane, he quickly raised his hand up grabbing Bane's hand, a surge of lightning transmitted through his body as he held bans hand.
"That tickles" he said, smiling, and with great force threw Bane aside, letting him smash into tree.
Seeing how distracted the demon was, Damian quickly teleported at his back, mustering all his strength to his fist as he aimed to kill the demon with one punch. His eyes widened in surprise as his fist smashed into space, the demon was gone.
"That is quite cute," the demon said.
Damian slightly moved his eye to see the demon face resting on his shoulder.
"I think I'll be killing you first boy" he said, opening his mouth aiming for his neck.
"You wish." Damian commented smiling, there was a sudden puff of black smoke and Damian was no longer there, but appeared behind the demon.
"You guys really have a lot of tricks," the demon said, frustrated, as he turned towards Damian.
Damian looked past the demon and saw Bane. He was holding two pairs of lightning spears in his hand. as both their eyes interlocked bane nodded, somehow Damian understood what he wanted, and nodded back.
The demon noticed that bane and Damian had cooked up a plan.
"So be it." the demon said, slightly bending his head.
His back slowly started to swell up as though something big wanted to pop out from his back.
'fuck, its going under transformation…this demon is strong.' the vice Captain said to herself.
Suddenly six spider-like legs popped out from his back. The legs were long and covered in blood, and had a sharp frightening end. The aura around the demon had suddenly changed. His skin looked paler and his eyes glowed red, filled with blood thirst.
Bane quickly took his stance ready to throw the lightning spare at the demon.
He felt a sudden airwave hit his face, and when he looked up he saw the demon standing in front of him, still wearing the annoying smile on his face. One of the spider legs went straight towards Bane's heart.
"Shadow craft." Malcon muttered under his breath.
Black shadow quickly covered his hand forming a spare, without even waiting for the spare to fully materialize he threw it at the demon.
Bane saw the incoming spare that was still forming in midair, but he was sure the spider leg would hit him before the spare came for his rescue. He wasn't even in a good stance to make anymove.
"is this death?" he asked himself, closing his eyes
Bane still had his eyes closed, but the spider leg never came neither did Malcon spare.
"Am I dead?" He asked himself, opening his eyes, and his eyes interlocked with the burning red eyes of the vice captain.
"stay here" she ordered, not being able to hide the rage at which she spoke.
For a second the demon stood there confused, bane had just vanished in front of his very eyes.
"Ahrrrr!" he shouted in pain as Malcon's spare pierced into his spider leg, pinning him to a tree.
He grabbed the spare with his hand and pulled it out, spilling blood on the ground. Despite the fact that he wanted to return the kind gesture to whoever threw the spare, now his problem was not the person that threw the spare or the whereabouts of Bane. He could feel an intriguing presence.
"How dear you harm the children assigned to me by his grace." came a cold voice.
They all turned to see the vice captain come out from the dark, her flaming red eyes fixed at the demon.
"I thalorin lisa, marks the end of your life and brings death upon you." she said pointing her sword to the demon.
"Enough of the gibberish, come at…" the demon couldn't complete his statement as a sword pierced his throat, spilling blood everywhere.
"I won't miss again." the captain said, running toward the demon.
That was when the demon understood that his life was under threat. He pulled the sword out of his throat letting the injury heal, as he took a few step back.
The six spider legs that popped out of his back elongated and moved toward the vice captain, but without stopping she evaded all of them. The demon couldn't believe his eyes, he had never seen anybody move with such speed still yet maintaining perfect balance.
She opened her hand as she ran on the tree, her sword that was on the floor instantly moved toward her.
"Ignite." she said, grabbing her sword.
The sword slowly got clothed in flame as she jumped at the demon.
"Fool, you're wide open now." the demon shouted, moving his six spider legs towards the vice captain who was still in mid air.
The only thing they saw was fire and blood, And the six spider legs dropped to the floor, and the captain stood at the back of the demon.
Looking at the demon, he looked petrified, as his eyes were wide open. Slowly his head fell off from his body, and for a second the lifeless body stood still as blood gushed out from his neck.
"stand in a queue…the captain is waiting for you all." she said, cleaning the demon blood of her sword.
Malcon could feel sweat run down his spine just by thinking of the captain. Throughout their journey no demon or beast attacked then
"Malcon!"
"Yes." he answered, turning to bane.
"What?" Bane asked on seeing Malcon turn at him.
"You called me."
"No I didn't."
Malcon sighed and turned his front, continuing his journey.
"Malcon!"
Malcon turned again at Bane, but he wasn't even looking at him.
"Malcon." the voice came again, and that was when he recognised the voice.
"Sam?" he said looking around.
"what did you say?" Bane asked
"Malcon!" the voice called again.
Malcon quickly ran out of his line, running into the forest.
"Come back here Eden." the vice captain shouted on seeing Malcon run inside the forest.
The vice captain opened her hand creating many fireballs that hovered in mid air.
"Keep going, it will protect you." she instructed running after Malcon.
Malcon knew he couldn't outrun the vice Captain.
"Shadow armor." he said, running.
Thick black shadow slowly covered his leg and moved up to his upper body, completely covering him in shadow, till he was as dark as the night.
For a second it looked like Malcon had suddenly disappeared in the vice captain's eyes, she tried sensing his mana but she couldn't. Giving up she ran back at the others.
For some reason Malcon was the only one that could hear the voice. He didn't know if he had gone mad as he was following a voice, a voice only he could hear.
After a while he stopped hearing the voice, Jumping down from the tree he stood, he searched for any evidence of Sam. All he found was Sam's fat shoe and blood stain on the ground.
"What did you find?"