Another fallen...
I thought as I felt another presence of the fallen nearby.
"Milord, what are you orders."
One of my attendants, who is currently on-duty of assisting me, noticed my behaviour of which is already familiar to him. He bowed down respectfully, currently on standby and waiting for my orders.
I glanced at him for a bit and stood up, and walked towards the door leading outside my quarters. Before I opened the door, I gave him an order.
"Asked half of the members of your household to move with me, however, you stay here with them, William."
"As you command, Milord."
William, then, while bowed down, replied with a sentence filled with loyalty.
On the streets of a bustling city, me and my gang has been walking towards the point of presence for several minutes now, which the feeling of distance between us seems endless. It felt like the target mounted on a vehicle.
Out of nowhere, the target suddenly moved sideways with great pace. I stopped on my tracks and observed the target more. The gang who are following me are also perplexed by its actions.
"It seems to be running away from something, Milord."
"Mm, I noticed."
Running away from something is the closest thing that we can conclude. We must make haste towards the target if it needs assistance. I started moving towards a nearby alley where is void of people. Facing towards the gang, I opened my mouth and began giving them commands.
"All of you, immediately assist the target. Let us go and make haste!"
One by one, our figures disappeared from the alley.
*Sound of footsteps and heavy breathing*
In the deeper side of the alley, far away from the previous mentioned alley, a girl in dirt-stained white shirt is running, though struggling, and is almost could not catch up her breath. Strange, there is one white-feathered wing on her left.
No...
She cannot remember what had happened and only to find out that she woke up in a strange place, trapped inside an iron-forged carriage.
She escaped, ran away from them. But her physical stamina could not keep up the current situation. And because she slowed down, one of her pursuers grabbed a gun-like object on his pocket, aimed at her then pulled the trigger.
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Her body was shocked with electricity, which should've rendered her immobile, but she was slowed down instead. All she can do now is crawl, crawl from danger. Her instincts kicked in, telling her to keep running, but her body cannot do so.
She lost her will to run, and can only wait her incoming doom.
A few minutes, pursuers finally caught up with her, with ragged breathing. While they were slowly approaching her, the escapee has her vision blurred from fatigue, both mental and physical.
"This brat has escaped quite a distance, sadly boss injected her with something. The effect must've been quite effective after a long time."
"Still, we almost lost her, brother."
The escapee sat almost lifelessly, leaning on the old and dirty graffiti wall. Her eyes shut closed while trying to breathe heavily, it's almost like she is having a hard time catching her breath. The pursuers' inner desire somehow lit up when they saw the defenseless girl. They are away from their supervisors, away from the eyes of the public too.
"Hey, why don't we test her first before returning to the checkpoint?" Asked one of the pursuer.
"Geez, I was about going to say that you should return first so I could try her out..." Replied the other one while giggling maliciously.
They tried to reach one of her arm and before they could grab it, their head started to feel heavy and cold. They also began to feel headaches while losing their sense of direction and balance. Several symptoms oddly filled their body and they have never experienced like this before.
Out of the blue, they felt danger tingling into their spine, and turned them more vigilant. They were trained soldier, even though they are handicapped, their instinct is still sharp.
Behind them, a dark voice filled with malice and disgust echoed...
"Oh... this is the first time they act against us."
The petrified pursuers slowly turned their heads to look behind them. A person who looked like an old man in his 40s with black hair with shade of white at the tip end. A black tailcoat suit paired with black pants and black shoes.
Seeing him, it made them more terrified. His dangerous fuchsia-coloured eyes flashes right through their soul. It gave them an inhuman feeling from the unknown figure.
"Who are you working with?" The old man asked them while sharply gazing them but it seems to be missing the deathly feel.
But, as he started asking, they snapped from the fear and picked up a pistol from their holster. They started shooting with warning, fired a few shots towards the old man. They felt relief from shooting but it only lasted for a while. They found that the old man looked unharmed, without pain.
"D-demon!"
Their bullets seemed to be just going inside his body, nothing went pass from his back, not a single bullet trails behind him. Seeing that, they lost their confidence and just kept on shooting - emptying their whole stock of magazine.
"So, less talk but more shoot eh?" The old man started talking once he noticed that they emptied their ammo.
The little girl was startled from the shooting and was shaking from fear. Tears started to appear on her eyes. She had no idea what to do and just cowered on the wall. She expectantly looked on the old man to help her, or to save her.
One of the pursuer grabbed a knife on his pocket and dashed towards the girl, but was frozen - suddenly halted his tracks, not that he wanted to stop but his body stopped moving.
He felt something on his feet and noticed a dark smoke that looked like a shadow extended from somewhere rooted his feet onto the ground, but it does not simply root his feet to the ground but root his whole body on the place he is currently in.
Even his eyes cannot move, he cannot breathe either. But somehow, he does not need to breathe.
His partner saw the shadow of the old man extended to his buddy, he immediately acted to bring out his knife as well and started attacking the old man. But, the same fate happened to him as with his buddy.
"I guess, I have no choice..."
The old man's voice started to change to somewhat deeper one but more powerful.
"...Since you have thoughts of violating her, it means you are violating us as well!"
The shadows around the two started to form into a giant mouth, extending upward, and later, jagged teeth began to show. In an instant, the mouth closed, leaving only splattered blood on the ground and the side.
Some blood was splashed onto the girl's face and clothes.
The little girl saw the ghastly scene of humans getting eaten by an unknown monster from the old man's shadow. Her feelings from the old man changed from savior to someone will kill her. She can feel the demonic aura from the old man.
The old man, however, started taking a stride in the direction of the little girl. Seeing him approaching her, she began crawling backwards, fearing that he may kill him.
"Little girl, brother is here to save you." The old man said.
At the time he said that, she replied, "I do not have any brother!". But as she blinked, the old man turned younger, seems to be in his 20s. His outfit changed as well, wearing a black leather jacket with grey scarf, but has the same black pants and black shoes.
"But... I don't have a brother!" She replied again.
But she did not expect him to hugged him suddenly, "Don't worry, mother often said, when you don't have someone to lean on anymore - another one will be there for you to lean on. And that is me, your brother, little sister."
True, the girl thought that she is currently somewhere far away from home. She has nowhere to go and this man is willing to be his brother to protect her. The girl burst into tears, while sinking her head to his brother's chest.
While the girl was crying, the man thought that the situation is very strange. Like, this month has been very strange as people from his world started to appear on Earth, with their wings broken.