"KYAHHHHH! " a loud shriek pierced through the deafening silence of the night. On his knees, Taru looked at his chest. A gaping hole was at the place where his heart was guess to be all the way until his back and gushing blood like a fountain.
Around him his three friends were in chaos. Akira was looking at him, more precisely at his chest in horror, collapsed powerlessly on the ground like a puppet with its threads cut all while yelling to the devil. Taru even wondered where she got the air to scream like this without breathing.
Chihiro was desperately trying to stop the flowing blood from his wound while crying and begging him not to die, she was at the edge of mental breakdown.
And ahead of them, Daisuke was bitterly gritting his teeth while taking a combat stance against the being at the origine of this situation.
Looking at all of that, taru could only think one thing: "what a pain."
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The first word that would come to the mind of anyone looking at this thing was 'disgusting'. A repulsion that originated from the very soul. A fear that freeze the heart and break the mind. The simple fact the Daisuke was still standing while looking at it would surprise anyone that knows of this thing.
A body that looked like a big dog about 2 meters with insects limbs breaking randomly from all sides. The head looked like a crushed deer with black maggots crawling in every of its orifices. The worst were the horrifying scream that it produced, like it contained the tortured souls of hundreds of peoples. This creature, this nighmare was the ennemis of mankind, the opponent of in war of more than a millions years. And most importantly, a being that was guess to never be able to come to this place. As for how this situation come to be, one had to go back to about thirty minutes to understand.
The day was ending similarly to so many others. The students of high school subarashi were had already deserted the school leaving behind the fours members of the sudents council, late to depart due to the growing pile of paper work from the oncoming sport festival.
"Aaahh." In the silence of the noon a sigh resounded in the almost empty streets alongside the sound of steps.
Walking slowly, almost dragging the feet among the fours students walking was a eyes catching young man.
Standing at roughly 180cm with an the thick grey school jacket to prevent the autumn cold, white shirt with a red tie and white pants. He would already stand apart but what would undoubtedly attract the eyes would be the snow white messy hairs atop his head next would be the ice blue eyes seemingly able to freeze the blood of these that look into them.
Finally one would realize that these eyes were at there place on the decisively handsome face without any blemishes of the boy.
Though at this moment this face was making a tired frown and these eyes half closed in a expression of weariness.
"Why does it have to be us to organize the sport festival again?" He asked with a smooth baritone voice with a touch of annoyance.
"Because we are the student council and that the teachers are already understaffed with the disappearance of professor nakamura."
Came the quick answer from the girl at his right in a well practiced tone, as if they has already had this conversation a thousand times.
She was almost a head shorter as him at 172cm which was tall for a woman with a good figure hidden by the same school uniform and a white skirt, with a lovely round face, pleasant brown eyes and a charming little smile.
Her black hair coming to her shoulders in a ponytail tied by a formed a sharp contrast with the boy own snow white hairs making them look like a fairytale couple.
A couple of steps behind them a boy and a girl followed with amused smile on their faces.
The boy was pleasing face with the standard asian black hairs and eyes standar, his toned muscles were visible through his uniform. coupled with his more than 190 cm he cut a intimidating figure.
Contrasting him the girl give the feeling of a small animal making other want to protect her. At 165cm she was easily the smallest of the group, however the bulge on her chest was a definite proof of her age. A nest of brown hairs and lively blue eyes accompanied her little round face, looking at the couple before her with a warm smile.
"Give it up taru. You lost the moment you accepted to come to the student council with us." Come said the boy with a grin.
"Who agree to this?! You guy annoyed me for a week nonstop and threatened my naps until I agreed! " snapped back taru while glaring at the boy behind him.
"Mah isn't it a given that you'd help your girlfriend and best friends if they decide to be the council?
Chihiro was really looking forward to working with you this year." Replied the boy totally unconcerned by the glare. "And if we hadn't done that you'd have spend your first year as a high school boy between the school and your home. We stopped you from wasting your youth." He finished by adding a thumb up andoing flashing a smile.
"Daisuke... do you want a beating?" Murmured taru with a deep voice. Daisuke paled a little and begged with the hands up and a trembling smile: "please forgive me."
"Don't be like that taru. It's true that we finished late, but at least we are having fun together, right?" Just then the petite girl beside Daisuke talked, ending her words with a blinding smile.
"... I really don't see what you like in this fool, hikaru."
Faced with the saintly smile of hikaru, taru lost all his anger replaced by exhaustion and replied without strength. Chihiro looked at this exchange while chuckling and said: "probably the same thing I saw from you, after all you are brothers right."
"Please, there's as much kinship between us as there is between a Shonen manga and a marvel bd." Replied taru with a snort.
"Isn't it the same thing?" Asked Daisuke while tilting his head.
Taru pointed at him and said to Chihiro with a disgusted voice:"see what I mean?" He continued while shaking his head "I have stopped considering him like a cousin the day they took me from the orphanage and presented him to me and I leaned that he liked ninja turtle over naruto."
In response to this Chihiro settled for laughing, soon followed by hikaru and Daisuke. Taru looked at them with a annoyed look though the little smile on his lips betrayed his own amusement.
Like that the walked toward their home while fooling around. It was like any other day, a ordinary afternoon. But strangely the darkness that fell on them after the sun totally want over the horizon was abnormally thick, such that the light from the moon and the floor lamps was just as for them to barely see their surroundings. After a quick look around the brow of taru slowly furrowed and an incredibly bothered look flashed on his face. Meanwhile the other three become as well aware of the abnormal situation.
"We are walking since a while now shouldn't we already be at our neighborhood?" Questioned Daisuke while observing his surroundings. "True, also this obscurity is somewhat strange don't you think ?" Murmured Chihiro while looking at the darkness with furrowed brows.
Hikaru who was also staring in the dark shivered and whispered "something is not right."
Meanwhile taru was looking at it all with the mother of all the bothered face.
Just then a sinister growl made the presence of another being know to the four as what could only be called an abomination walked out of the shadows. The beast looked at them with eyes filled with madness and malice prompting the three to spontaneously step back.
"What the fuck is this !?" Yelled Daisuke staring at the monster trying to hide hikaru behind his back while shaking. Her voice quivering Chihiro said urgently "fo-for now let's run!"
"Taru!" Yelled hikaru white as a sheet as taru slowly approached the thing. Mysteriously instead of attacking like anyone would think, it was slowly stepping back from him while weakly growling , as if he was something dangerous. Without having noted this due to being full of anxiety, Chihiro took a peeble on the road and thrower it on the beast with a yell, hoping to scare it away from her boyfriend. Surprised by the hit the thing looked towards Chihiro as if only now noting her presence and it madness immediately overpowered it's fear of the strange man before it.
It instantly threw one of its disfigured limbs toward her at a speed imperceptible to normal people. Being a common high school girl, She had zero chance of detecting the strike , let alone dodging. The limb split the air with a sound attesting of its power, if it hit her she would undoubtedly explode in a shower of blood and grim. That is, if it hit her.
Quicker then naturally possible taru appeared before Chihiro, embraced her while simultaneously jumping away from the strike. Still he was hit in the back, the force piecing all the way through his torso.only because he positioned her away from hit did Chihiro escape from it.
They both landed there meters away from the thing before the panicked Daisuke and hikaru. All this took place in a single seconde, by the time she got ahold of herself Chihiro found herself in the arms of her boyfriend who was coughing blood and bleeding from a hole the size of a fist in the torso. She did what was normal in this situation and started to scream like a banshee.
Hikaru at the view of the blood pooling beneath taru started to scream on her own. Daisuke awakened from his Shock by the screams gritted his tooth and positioned himself before his brother and the two girls in a battle stance.
Here is the beginning of the end of the eternal war
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