Chapter 1

The air this early morning was noticeably thicker than usual, with the scant light that made it to the 13th floor being suppressed by a thick fog from the factories turning away all times of the day. It was common for the streets of the Graveyard district to be quite till mid day as it was a district of both the hard working who clock in 16 hour night shifts throughout Nazzericks various factories, and the Losers who cant restrain themselves from falling into the clutches of the 7 gods choosing to live in the pleasure of ritual and sacrifice before making it to hell. That made it all the stranger for the local priest when he heard a wailing as if they were performing a rites ritual outside his church. Putting down his morning coffee and readying his traditional wardrobe of swimming shorts and a unbuttoned dress shirt he walked out expecting to have to kick people out of the cemetery and halt whatever fun they were having, but instead he found himself greeted to a wholly unexpected suprise. There was a basket perched there throttling as screams bellowed from it. cautiously prying open the crate with one hand positioned as if it was a bomb he saw it. A hornless demon crying its eyes out. Nicolas was taken aback and cautiously poked at the thing not sure what to do as he'd never seen a baby cry before. Inspecting the basket further he noticed the other demon stoically lying not demanding his attention silently staring at him with the expected plank stare. Panicking on what to do in this situation Nicolas took another look around the basket and soon saw the note under the bottom of the lid. opening it up with a face growing ever darker he brought the basket inside stepped out looking for something before heading inside still scanning as he slowly closed the door behind him.

A boy with no horns

13 years Later.

Staring through the majorly cracked window Nicolas finds himself looking at the click of brothers running around in the cemetery of the church.

Growing bored, the hornless boy Lucius lead into the back door of the small church with his other 2 brothers Pallas and Paimon. All 3 looking up with puppy dog eyes asking in a rehearsed unison “Father can we go down to the theater. We promise to be safe and make no detours.” slightly looking back at the boys as he washed the dishes still observing outside, speaking absentmindedly “how many times do I have to tell you guys you can't leave the graveyard by yourselves.” “but why?” Lucius and Paimon will spout out already knowing the answer “because the cities a dangerous place for adults much less kids who haven't even awakened there powers yet, and who knows what you will get up to if I set you all loose on the city. I mean it seems like I can't even trust you in our own backyard with you guys getting in fights basically everyday around the little area I can see you.” hearing the complaints and taking them to heart Lucius will ask “than could you take us.” sighing as he put another clean dish to the side of the sink “no I have Important church stuff to attend to.” “You could just drop us off, come back and at the end of the movie come back and pick us up. Also the church shut down 3 years ago.” Paimon stated, pushing himself to the front. Father, stopping what he was doing, turned around saying “fine get ready.” everyone now gleaming with excitement asks “really” and with no hesitation father says “no” as he flicks Paimon in the head with his curving horns that look like a ram and bleached blonde hair; before he starts cackling at his poor joke “first of all just cause the church shut down 3 years ago doesn't mean I still don't have official business to attend to. Like what about the guys who help me run this area, and me paying them thats like a form a charity right.” Lucius retorting“after they did put in work for the the family. I dont count that as charity if anything your underpaying them.” Sighing as he knew Lucius couldnt understand how a good job with a cool boss was like charity, and knowing how persistent the three could be. Today though was a bad day as he had a meeting with the guys planned so pushing the problem on to someone else he said”if you really want to go that bad go get one of your siblings to take you though I don't know if they'd want to.”Taking that in strides Lucius and Paimon shout out a big “Alright thank you” as they now saw there way to seeing “road to heaven 4 retribution” The newest in there favorite horror movie franchise.

Sprinting through the church the boys with no concern for privacy or care for the shawdy lock there sister had in place on her door, Lucius and paimon slammed down the door to there older sister Lizzie's. Looking up from doing makeup with her friend looking through a crystal ball as they called each other. Lucius and Paimon still Confidently strolled through the now broken door into her room grinning from ear to ear with there eyes getting crunched up from how hard they were grinning, standing jux to pose with Pallas who nervously peaked in behind the empty door frame rightfully terrified of his sisters emanating rage. Lucius and Paimon seemingly didnt sense it as they asked in a demanding tone “take us to the movies father said so.” before they could even finish there sentence a blur of blonde hair swept through there view as there 6 foot tall slim Muscle bond sister fist and foot respectively were connecting to the 2 brothers faces as they began a short lopsided brawl which ultimately ended with Paimon and Lucius gaining bloodied and bruised faces and Pallas losing all of his money for the movies as he wisely choose to satiate the demon with the 10 bucks in his pocket than with the blood from his broken nose. Throwing the brothers out of her room saying with as more rage than the patriarch god Lucefarion of Wrath while her face naturally contorted into what looked likee a oni mask saying in a far deeper voice than usual “If you ever pull any of this shit again Ill fucking kill all of you you little bastards, and if you break down my door again ill torture you before sending you to hell.”Leaving with devious smiles on there faces Lucius and Paimon seemingly telepathically linked as Pallas looked on in fear before he began running as the brothers syncranised once again yelled out “okay fuck you bitch.”before fleeing as fast as they could from the mortal danger of their sister. Chasing them outside and across the street she finally gave up once the boys delved into the slums surrounding their house.

Walking down through the back alley of the shawdy construction and pitched tents lined with a wide variety of demons looking purposely away from the boys as if forced not to look at the them. Making there way through the slums they suddenly get called out from what sounds like the second story of a house. turning around they see a man lengthy in all aspects standing conservatively at around 8 feet tall smaller than his natural height due to the large hunch in his back that developed from him constantly bending down “Hey hornless you ain't gonna say hi huh.” saying as he squats down in between his legs. “What did you just say.” Lucius spouts out wihle turning around in a furious motion walking the distance to him. As hes walking up to him the crowded slum scrambled like rats before the boys could move, having an empty street. “How many times do I have to tell you to not call me hornless Valefar you bastard.” not fazed by the rage boiling from Lucius he responded “People cant help but notice, it's your most noticeable feature. Your a good looking kid, but if you cant handle someone saying your insecurity your either gonna end up the top guy in prison or Isolating yourself from ridicule.” easing up from the anger he asked “what are you talking old man Im not even that insecure I just dont like Lengthy Freaks calling me names?” baffled Valefar said “Im only 23 i'm not old at all.” Smirking “well until I make it there you're an old man to me.” shrugging it off “when I was a kid I didn't have someone like father to protect me, and I grew up on the 10th floor where people are far less accepting of people like you and me.” Pausing as if recounting something tragic and almost with a croak in his voice “Well to keep a long story short I had a rough childhood up there, and not coming to terms with what I was life was far harder so I know you wont understand but if someone hates or makes fun of you for who you are you just need to say fuck em. Though that takes time and your young.” breaking out into a heavy laugh Lucius just goes “ embracing the role of a wise sage already huh.” inbetween breaths of air, as Valefar face obstructed by his long blonde hair turns a bright shade of red as he stands up saying “whatever you'll understand once father stops protecting you and you go out into the real world. On that note Father at the church.” cooling down Lucius goes yeah and Valefar starts walking away, but then as if remembering turns around not 5 steps down the road and goes “Dont put yourself in a situation where one of us are gonna have to catch a murder charge. Be safe!”which Lucius responded by throwing a thumbs up over his head before catching back up to Pallas and Paimon. Emerging through the dense slums and crossing through the heavy traffic always prevalent on the main road the boys made it to the edge of the 13th floor, and the place where they know there older brother would be. Heavens door, The pinnacle of Hell on earth to the boys, a paradise filled with arcade machines spanning back 40 years to the 620’s. Being the go to older siblings hanging spot with it jumping from Ahlecks and nix to Lizzy, and now Jorids Leon. Though Lizzy comes by from time to but she usually hangs out in the city with her friends. Walking in Paimon whispered starry eyed “this will be our place in a few months after you and Pallas awaken your powers, Leon and Jordis won't be able to force us out anymore and we can do whatever we want.” the thought of the imposing battle for the rights of this slice of hell left Pallas shaking, and Lucius chuckling saying “yeah and then Ill finally have enough time to practice and beat Jordis score on Human Invaders, and pac demon.” Pallas stops mopping and pipes up saying “ yeah you might be able to beat Jordis in those old single player games but mono e mono, demon gear your getting smoked any day of the week.” looking over at Pallas with a cocky grin Lucius goes “oh yeah well im gonna train and become the king of the arcade i'll hold every record and beat you in demon gear and you're gonna have to bow to my feet.” “uh huh how about a rematch to bring my record to 60 nil.” retorting “no its 60 to 1 remember after the day of sol when I smoked you.” and from there as they walked over to the back left hand corner with about a ten man group some eating others playing the close arcade machines, they debated if that win counted and if it was close.

Walking up the attention of the small crowd was placed largely on the 3 boys as they walked by led boldly by Lucius with Paimon on his tail and Pallas at the back now cowering away from the attention. Reaching the booth that both leon and Jordis were at coupled with 3 girls on the opposite side of the booth. Lucius pointed at the brothers Leon smoking a rolled up joint as one of the girls was prepping Ink on his hands to add another poorly done tattoo, and Jordiss with his usual oversized grin scarfing down seemingly 3 meals at once as he talked between the guys playing on the machines and the girls at the table. Without hesitation Lucius yelled out interrupting the group to boldly proclaim“Jordis, Leon Father told us that one of yall had to come take us to the movie in the inner city.” Leon didn't bother to look at him, continuing to talk to the pink haired bedazzled girl Putting on an ink drawing to add another small poorly done tattoo to his hand. Jordis though took notice looking at him in a way only possible of an older brother with a look of both annoyance and love. Though that didn't stop him from saying “go ask Lizzy we're busy.” right away. Lucius looking back at the other two ghosts of themselves thinking of the possibility of dealing with her again, gestured for Lucius to convince him at all cost with pallas Gesturing a smoking motion. Lucius absorbing the information from the playmakers planned to pull out a negotiation tactic taught in business 101, blackmail. But knowing that he couldn't jump straight there or he would get beat up again. turned around full of confidence with a business pitch of a lifetime, but before he could start the girl sitting closest to him turned around and with a look of disgust yelled out loud enough for her to gain the attention of everyone in close proximity “eww what's this hornless freak doing here hes grossing me out he looks like the cattle in the meat market.'' Within a second after saying that Lucius confidence was dashed. People rarely called him out for his look with the interaction earlier today being more theatrics between friends that easily rolled off him, but this was real and it wasn't just some nobody it was a cute girl and his brothers popular friend. Making it connect on a deeper level as most people would never say anything to his face. though that didnt stop him from feel the disgust lying behind most people's eyes even if they tried to hide it with eerie smiles or avoidant looks. The worst part about this though is that it was undeniable, he had walked past the meat market and seen the half rotted human corpses chipped away and chopped up as they trickled their way down to the 13th floor coming all the way from the eastern island or farms from some far off land. He knew he reassembled the hideous enemy and favorite meal of all demon kind and he couldn't do anything about it. Sinking into the crowd choking back tears. Though he wanted to run and cry he stood strong, eyes watering slightly but not to an extremely noticeable degree Though Lucius tried to play it off like it was cool the normally chill Jordis and the uninterested leon both looked at her with an anger he had never seen worn on them with both of them screaming at her to get out and go home instantly after she spouted off her comment. Lucius now piping up with a choke in his throat “no it's okay, its true, it's not that big of a deal.” though the brothers choose not to notice the meek protest of Lucius, kicking her out. walking out clearly upset spouting out “fine sorry for saying what we were all thinking.”grabing her purse and standing up “Whatever I dont even want to be seen near this fucking disgusting thing anyways” as she walks off. Like daggers into Lucius heart he could feel his chest sink, and despite how much he tried it only seemed to make it worse. Excusing himself to the bathroom he ran into a stall, tears slightly streaming down his face trying harder than anything to regain composure and control his emotions, but that only seemed to make it more difficult as he than hunkered down preparing to wait a few minutes for him to calm himself down.

A few seconds after Lucius ran into the bathroom Pallas stepped up to the negotiating table, with the brothers looking back at the bathroom seeing if Lucius took it hard. Sensing the perfect moment from the distracted group Pallas walked up and following negotiation tactics 101 he exploited leverage saying “you have to take us now just look at how upset your friends made Lucius.” still looking at the bathroom barely noticing the conversation they were actively partaking in Jordis would say “Leons in the middle of getting his hand tattooed so he's busy and i've got to sell some stuff to people in like 2 hours plus im not a big fan of the cops in the city.” Paimon Jumping into the conversation “wait why don't you like the cops in the city.” finally turning to face them he goes “well it seems like my powers have a mind of their own and always end up with stores stuff in their mouths.” Pallas pushing the over eager Paimon out of the way brings it back on topic with a quick “we will be fine besides you can have Leon sell the stuff.” shrugging he goes “I just don't know todays a bad day really it's a new moon on the surface so my wolfs are a lot weaker today.” Running out of options and pulling out his last resort he goes “ you know it would be a real shame if Father where to find all that devils grass in the wall.” unfazed Jordis goes “its bad product so I don't care, and don't act like father doesn't do far worse on a daily basis with that second family of his.” “yeah that might be true i've heard whispers of the little mob he runs out here, but you know what else I know that's hidden.” Jordis usual confident smile fading into a face of horror as he makes the realization “no you dont know about that.” a small smirk grows “yeah that little box you have in the crawl space between your room yeah I know what's in that.” a face of total defeatwith for a brief moment what appeared to be his spirit hoisting up the white flag he surrenders going “fine i'll take you to the movies, but you gotta pay for me, I spent all my money on 5 hamburgers I bought today.” wide jawed the brothers go “ 5 your gonna get huge in like 3 years.” and regaining that cool older brother smile he goes “yeah maybe but i'll still have more bitches than you.” as he dives putting pallas in a head lock. Looking like a dead man he accepts his fate puttign up no struggle, and For around 15 seconds Pallas longish hair was twisted and his head felt like it was about to spark as Jordis gave him the most powerful noogie he could muster as he goes “by the way how did you find out about the box huh you been snooping around.” as Pallas begged out for someone in the middle of interrogation while laughing “I don't know anything I swear I'm innocent you got the wrong guy.” and with a devilish grin Jordis turned his eyes to Paimon who was nonchalantly whistling angling his body at Jordis to not get noticed before he too fell victim to Jordis’s noogies.

Not long after Lucius walked out puffy eyes and with newly refreshed hair ready to go. though lacking his usual bravado the boys were used to. Feeling bad Jordis Picked up Lucius almost in an instant making him start kicking and screaming. Undeterred Jordis does some type of advanced movement before placing him on top of his shoulders yelling out while looking straight up making eye contact saying “I’ll take you to the Theatre under 2 conditions.” Lucius nodding awaiting the demands “one you all scrounge up enough money for me to get a ticket cause theres no way im missing out on road to heaven, and 2 now this ones really important so I need you to listen carefully so are you ready.” Lucius red in the face from being hoisted up in front of all these older people will let out a weak “yea-'' Jordis moving one of his arms to his ears and almost causing Lucius to fall off will go “what was that I didn't hear yuh'' responding back in a quick somewhat angry manner “yes tell me what is it.” growing a devious smile Jordis will say “okay the second rule is you need to ignore everything that skanky bitch said cuss she doesnt know what shes talking about, we're all from Nazzerick so were all a little messed up like her dad literally looks like a lizard.” making goggles and sticking out his tongue to make a face to show what he looks like “so you shouldn't focus on something as small as having no little bumps on your head okay. Besides, you especially shouldn't care about her opinion for reasons I can't get into right now. So you promise not to take it to heart.” regaining some of his confidence Lucius goes “yeah who cares what she thinks.” “okay let's go. Going out fast with a huge smirk with a pep in his step that made it look like he was skipping completely forgetting about the passenger he had on his back causing Lucius to smack his head on the door frame. Everyone laughed as they helped Lucius back up from the ground with even Lucius dying of both pain and laughter, the boys were ready. With Jordis last thought before heading out being that he needed to move the money he was storing in the ceiling cause he'd worked too hard for father to take it. He needed that money to buy himself a better life somewhere else in the world.

Walking down the main street heading to the tram station Pallas, Paimon, and Jordis get heavily enticed by the smell of the meat market as they walk past it on the other side of the road. In an almost unified fashion the boys lead by their noses head into the meat market though Lucius follows along not being very enthusiastic about it. Walking the stalls of the market they were seemingly dragged from place to place by their noses until they ultimately landed upon a rare sight. A human or atleast the remains of one. everyone was watering at the mouth simply from the scent say for Lucius who felt nauseous just looking at the horrid carcass, but trying to hide his disgust he said in unusually quiet tone “man that looks good.” with a devious grin Jordis told them to “go ahead you guys cover your faces and get ready to run.” all nodding and following along with his instructions the boys walked about 300 feet away making it just far enough so they could make out what was happening when not being obstructed by the huge constantly flowing crowd. Watching intently they saw as Jordis pulled shirt over his face covering it, and saw him summon 2 wolves from his shadow that stayed close to his side. Walking past the stand he made a over exaggerate tripping motion distracting the store clerk long enough for his pitch black wolf to jump out from behind him and grab one of the hands lying precariously on the table than almost as soon as the hand was in the wolf's mouth both Jordis and the Wolf were booking it with the angry fat man who ran the stall chasing them. With Jordis catching up in almost an instant, he yelled out “run its obvious were together you are staring to hard.”. Seeing the anger present on the man's face the boys ran hollering at each other to keep up and follow Jordis who ultimately led them To the Garbage dump and the adjoining slums. Following Jordis as he chooses a seemingly random tent to make their temporary hideout. Walking in, the boys were surprised to be met with a long bearded drunk homeless man. On edge from the whole experience the boys stayed back not making themselves comfortable like Jordis who was sitting on a heavily stained bean bag next to the man, before reaching over and grabbing a beer from the 6 pack he had sitting on the floor. The old man burped out “ What are you kids doing here Father send you?” reaching into his summoned wolf's shadow, grabbing the hand from its mouth he goes “No but if you let us hide out here for a few minutes and don't tell anyone about this we can give you some of this.” drool running down everyone's face including the homeless man who readily agrees saying “since I left prison I haven't been able to enjoy such a delicacy. So i'll look past wherever you got this.” Pulling the hand apart like taking the legs off a turkey they wound up with it split into relatively even 5ths though Jordis obviously gave himself the biggest piece, but no one would protest. Raising his part in the air, Jordis proclaimed “let's make a toast everybody to my power always forever ” as he rubbed down his wolves “ and to a brighter future where we will be able to have this everyday.” raising and touching their parts all together everyone chanted out “To always Forever and a brighter future.” before digging in. well everyone except Lucius who felt weasy just holding his large middle finger piece. He had hoped to get the smallest pinky piece, but Jordis still feeling bad about earlier gave him the second biggest piece. The only way Lucius could describe the food he was about to eat was rancid. Gribbing the piece of food felt like gribbing a rubber eraser, It felt Clammy and thick with the slightly decomposed skin clinging to the bone underneath. Jordis taking a break from his already half eaten finger says “ Take a bite don't worry that guy wont find out.” Thinking the reason Lucius was hesitant wasn't because it looked putrid making him feel sick glancing at it much less touching, but instead worried about what the guy at the stall had to think which he couldn't even put as an issue when faced with this thing. Though rationalizing that it must be one of those foods that looked nasty till you tried it he slowly bit down and ripped out a small piece in the middle of the finger. It tasted like raw chicken with the texture of a rag. It was so thick, chewy, and rotten that every bite was a struggle to keep it down. After about 4 bites on the small piece he decided to swallow it down whole which was a huge mistake. Seconds after swallowing it down and giving a strained smile and a thumbs up to Jordis who smiled back and kept eating. Lucius ran to the exit of the tent and hurled chunks of the food he'd eaten over the past 3 days it seemed like. Everyone watched on, barely bothered, unable to bring themselves away from the delicious meal that they felt they were blessed with. As Lucius was hurling chunks onto the ground for a brief second inbetween hurls he saw it in the pile of throw up,Hands far more than the little nibble he had. what looked like an endless stream of hands clamoring to reach him. Staring in confusion with his nerves not allowing him to look away the thing approached him.until he blinked and just as sudden as it appeared it was gone. blinking a few more times to see if it would come back he chalked it up to him seeing things from being sick and came back inside the tent zipping it back up. The homeless man finished with his portion yelled “eww did you throw up right outside of my tent what if i step in it in the middle of the night.” to which the only answer Lucius could respond with was a “sorry my bad.” while trying to hold back his throw up, than turning to Jordis saying “I don't feel so good so I don't think I can finish my part so you guys can have it.” Greedily taking him up on the offer Jordis grabbed the finger and once again divided it up. this time into four sections sharing it around he said to Lucius “man what a bad time to be sick. you're missing out on this delicacy and where poor so it might be a minute till you get to have it again.” with the same uneasy grin Lucius said “I know it sucks, It tasted so good but what can you do when you're sick.”

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Finishing up their meal, doing a poor job at cleaning up the throw up they left the trash dump crossed over the rail line and caught the tram just in time to make it into the city.

Passing the deteriorating 15 feet tall thick stone gates into the city. greeted them with the rare view of the sprawling inner city. Though to the boys it was a land of Luxury to the outside world, looking in the inner city of Nazzerick was just a bigger larger slum built to accept the slightly better off losers slipping down into the depths of extreme poverty. with it being a common fact that the only thing keeping the whole region from starving is the various ruthless crime syndicates that base themselves in the city. the boys got off at the first station to head off into the capones business district. With thick clouds forming above from the humidity of the millions of people trapped above causing a light rain which lasted all of 30 seconds, but to the boys it was a miracle with them running around and flicking the thick black water at each other. It never rained in the graveyard with most the evaporated water heading up into district 12. With the inner city being no different though occasionally having flash rains once in a blue moon due to the sheer density of people making it to where on especially hot days all the moisture can cause a once in a blue moon rain. the boys savoring the moment, even opening their mouths and swallowing the thick black rain water with a wide grin. Pallas asked hands cupping the thick black sludge “have you ever been in rain before Jordis.” chuckling and talking with a mouth full of rain making it hard to understand him “mo vhis must ve a goo- omen.” seeing the rain was letting up Pallas had everyone get together, pulling up a photo orb he quickly snapped a picture with everyone posing in a way to flaunt the rain to later show off to everyone back at home. The rain finally dying down Jordis goes “Guys we got to tell Leon all about this he is going to be so jealous.” taking a serious pose and face “and we got to have a intervention and convince him to stop getting shitty tattoos from hot girls its not healthy.” to which everyone nodded in unison.

The business District known colloquially as Capones district could best be described as an urban jungle. You couldn't take a step without bumping into someone as every business fought for people's attention Like gangs fighting for territory mostly because a lot of gangs operated here. There were maid cafes, magic item shops, restaurants of all food varieties from vamperic to unicorn, There were yakuza headquarters proudly boasting of their location with seasoned thugs shamelessly begging for people to come try there restaurant using intimidation and blackmail as taught in business 101 to drive traffic. From what Lucius had heard Nazzerick was a rather unique city being the only city in the world where spatial condescension was impossible due to the extreme mana cost required to add more space to the 13th level of an already huge condensed space. This made every corner of Nazzerick from the boonies on the outer perimeter of the city to especially the inner city the epitome of haphazard developments to edge out just a little more space in a cramped area. Walking down the road to the theater Lucius saw his favorite shop a tourist trap called the magic briefcase that sells fake spatially condensed objects, so when people from the upper floors come down here they think it's a great deal and not knowing that the laws of the upper cities don't apply down here they'll readily fork over a mortgage for a worthless suitcase. In Fact the short goblin looking man who ran the shop as they passed by was haggling a obviously wealthy man probably from the top city of Lumos, selling him on the idea that inside the briefcase was enough room to call it a mansion for the small price of how the goblin looking man says “200k Alchemical Dollars.'' That interaction gave all the boys a laugh mocking the stuck up attitude of the man, and how he could let such an obviously bad liar as the old man get away with essentially robbing him blind. In Fact it wasn't just the boys who noticed the interaction the whole crowd noticed and was watching the interaction passively as they walked through there day all with eyes keenly shaped by the violent fraud ridden streets of Nazzerick.

Making it to the large theater shaped like a giant tombstone they all walk up to the counter before realizing something. They should have all had enough extra to pay for themselves but Pallas got robbed by Lizzy and Jordis was a add on who didnt have any money. Leaving only enough for 3 of them to go to the movie. not having enough time to catch a train and head home they decided after a long discussion that the best thing they could do is just postpone the movies to tomorrow and just have fun in the city.

Walking around the city the boys eventually found a small magic item shop that was packed full of people with only one manager sitting behind the counter. Lucius badly wanting to see the movie with everyone, and wanting to be the hero who got the extra money and make up for embarrassing himself earlier. He saw a small magic orb that would be easy to resell at one of the dozens of pawn shops in the immediate area. Slipping it in his jacket with no witnesses he let his guard down and Pallas calling out to him to hurry up as they were moving to the next store. Briskly walking at the door trying to keep a straight face and hold the nerves down long enough making it through the door. Thinking he pulled off the easiest heist of the century he grew a small grin, but as he stepped one foot out the door. (Grab) The large ogre looking store manager stood above him grabbing his arm catching Lucius in the middle of stride putting him off balance when he tried to yank away from him. The fat man weighing easily over 400 pounds and his hands were overly sweaty for the effort he had put in. angrily saying “tough luck buddy my ability lets me monitor any given area and passively understand what’s happening. ” Lucius desperately tried to break free but the man had the grip strength of a bear leaving him flailing trying to get away from him. The man wrinkling his brow Anger flowing through him“ look there’s the cops I called them as soon as you looked at that orb I could just tell you would be trouble you primitive fuck.” Now terrified of the notoriously violent inner city cops Lucius starts screaming out for help.everyone in the vicinity turned back. While the rest of the boys were stuck in place not knowing what to do Jordis without a second thought bolted over. The ogre-like man yelling at one of his customers at the counter to wait a moment while he deals with this.When Suddenly in the split second he turns his head Jordis (BANG) clocked perfectly in the temple of his head causing the 400 pound man to let go of Lucius and get sent flying, tumbling into the rows of merchandise at the front of the story. Seeing the commotion the two cops who were walking started sprinting to chase down the boys. Lucius in a trance confused about what just happened is quickly picked up by Jordis in one arm as he sees the cops and starts sprinting away the whole while yelling at the other brothers and waving his arms for them to run too. After about 20 steps Jordis throws Lucius down as the 4 are running nearly side by side. Jordis taking command says “we need to split up, Paimon Pallas you both go left and no matter what stick together, and me and Lucius will go right. Okay” both through battered breaths “okay” as they both split at the end of a road Jordis yells out “meet back up at home and tell father we’re getting food if you make it home before us.”

Running through the crowded narrow streets of the capone district Jordis Leading the way looking back every few seconds making sure Lucius is following keeping a bright grin as the nerves turn to excitement. With the two cops following closely behind them not losing or gaining ground as they perfectly seemed to match the boys pace following them on turns from the looks of the passerbyers who couldn't help but look at the chase in progress. Finally though in the frantic race to escape the maze-like structure of the district the brothers found themselves in a dead end with the cops blocking off the exit. By this point another cop who was close by tagged along bringing the total number of cops to 3, but undeterred and with the same ever big grin Jordis calmly says to Lucius “we're gonna have to fight out of this okay. So just try to get away.” Lucius shaking his head sure that they would prevail. Jordis Making a hand sign and having his 2 shadow wolves come out of his shadow and get in position Lucius readied himself when Jordis said “go” the next few moments were a blur as adrenaline overtook Lucius body making him feel like lighting as he tried to run past the cops, but it wasn't that simple. With A cop kicking Lucius so hard in the chest that he kicked all the air out of him. so as he layed gasping for air he watched the one sided fight between Jordis and the cops. Splitting his dogs one per person and taking the one in the middle himself, he got a few good punches in on the cop while the others were fighting off the wolves. Easily speed blitzing the cops the wolves bit down on them. One biting down on the cops shoulder and collarbone, while the other was mangling the other's hand. Grabbing his gun from his holster the cop getting his hand mangled frantically whipped his gun at the dog firing vaguely in the direction of the dog shooting his friend in the back of the ankle who was fighting Jordis. Realigning the second shot he lined it up between the wolves eyes letting out another loud pop as a thud followed. For a moment the man briefly stared at his hand, now missing several fingers with ripped flesh connecting his thumb to his hand. Hearing his friend yell out he snapped out of his examination. Taking aim he shot the dog on his friend's shoulder. The severely angered cops freed from distractions were now in a 1 vs 3 scenario and although Jordis was winning initially he still took some huge damage having a broken front tooth and a severely bloody nose. Lucius, still unable to fully catch his breath, tries to lunge onto the closest cop, the one that had been attacked on the shoulder, but he easily Decks him square in the nose shattering it with his nose denting .Making him start grasping at his face lying in pain. Watching the continuing fight through his swelling face he watched as Jordis pulled out his knife and looked as if he was going in for the kill after seeing what they had done to Lucius. But the cop with the mangled hand let out a ring that was far louder than the rest. It was perfect aim, it shot through 2 of his fingers, through the knife, his palm and burrowed its way through the bone on his arm shooting clean through the back of his bent arm's elbow. Blood instantly started squirting everywhere as it ripped through his major artery. Holding his hand up in surprise he fell to the ground yelling “I give up I won't fight back.” Though that wasn't enough for the now infuriated cops who jumped on the opportunity.with the one with the revolver smacking him with the base of the gun as hard as he could, and it continued from there as he fell to the ground they began kicking and stepping on him as cracking sounds rang out from his body. Lucius watching in horror starts screaming though barely intelligible from the crying and the broken nose “sttop ssstop it ure goooing to Killl himm.” the cops didn't stop however with Jordis heaving blood clotting into his eyes as one of them starts bursting out from being kicked straight into his eye socket.being Kicked towards Lucius allowing him to see the sight. Balling his eyes out Lucius continued to scream “ stttttop iit yuuuu bastards Illll fucing -ill.” Jordis kicked again and now facing the other way let out one last weak “help.” (crackkk) The one who had been brawling Jordis a big man with bigger horns full force kicked the back of Jordis head Like a soccer ball letting out a nauseating sound as his skull cracked. Unable to even feel the pain he was in, Lucius let out a blood curdling scream as his arms began to bend without his will into a weird twisting motion as he grasped his hands through the middle of each hand. The next instant all he could see, think, or taste was blood. Unable to move his hands he used the conjoined hands to wipe whatever it was from his eyes quickly. Opening his eyes he saw it, a pair of legs barely connected by the remnants of a torso flopped down in front of him thick chunks of blood spewing from the corpse. Looking up he saw it. Two hands clasped together in the same manner he was. A dripping a curtain of blood spilled out as it made it through the small crack in the hands. The other two sat there just as stunned struggling to comprehend what was happening. Lucius getting his first good look at the guards could see the one with the gun was young probally a new hire fresh on the force . A petrified face washed over Lucius as he could sense something from the man. Pointing his gun at Lucius he pulled the trigger (pop) rang through Lucius ears as he felt a sharp pain before looking down to see a huge spill of blood start pouring out of his stomach. Terrified of another shot ringing out he looked up to see it. A Horrifying monster that looked straight from the depths of the abyss pressing down on the man's head with its two left hands as the man's tear ducts began letting out tears of blood before his head shortly after is caved in on both sides, with him dropping limply to the floor with his face masked of horror similar to what Lucius had seen on the cattle in the meat district. The last man started a mad dash running with only the left side of his body with the right dragging behind as it had been torn up by the wolves, yet he two fell victim to the horror as his legs were violently grabbed by hundreds of hands grasping and prodding trying to overtake one another like crabs in a bucket dragging the man down. until seemingly out of nowhere a large skeleton appeared from behind Lucius before Viciously mauling the man. Ripping him apart before stomping his upper body leaving nothing but mush in its wake.

Immediately shifting his attention to Jordis he ran over covered in blood from several different sources Bawling his eyes out as he desperately tries to wake him up before finally throwing him over his shoulder even though he weighed 80 pounds more than him. He knew where he was as he'd been in this area before and he knew of a crack several valleys over.dragging Jordis body was like pure torture as the whole time he was suffocating from his shattered nose, with a lower body that felt like it was on fire from the bullet lodged in his stomach, but he eventually Made it to the wall.squeezing through the small crack dragging Jordis behind him eventually making it through. Struggling through the grueling walk, his target, the best person he knew to take him to Father. Lucius could barely see, he couldn't breath, and he couldn't even properly tell his legs what to do from the loss of blood. But there was one thing he could do think, no matter how hard he tried to not think his body and mind were telling him to stop with the only thing that was telling him to go on being his soul.

After 3 hours he made it back to the street of the church. The other boys made it home 2 hours ago,and recently came clean to Father as they still hadn't shown up. Right as the family was readying to go into the city and look for them, Lucius came into view at the end of the long street. Father seeing them first ran faster than he'd ever ran in his life. Seeing something was clearly wrong with the rest of the family quickly following suit along with some of Fathers men who had been ready to go out into the city and look for them. Lucius with his eyes all but swollen shut from the broken nose kept pushing on, so wrapped up in his own head he didn't notice that the whole family was there until he was lightly shaken by Father which caused him to fall straight into fathers arms who started caressing him in his arms as Lucius could vaguely hear Father ordering someone around. Suddenly Lucius eyes began to open up and the extreme pain he was in subsided a little bit as he was being healed by father and Lizzy. With him gaining his strength back he screamed out with all that he had in him though barely understandable “forget me Heal Jordis.” His eyes opening more as he got almost fully healed he saw Jordis. The back of his head had caved in from that last kick Father tears running down his face saying “what happened.” remembering all that had happened as his mind lost the haze that it had been pushing away. Trying to be with Jordis but stopping about 3 feet away from him, Lucius then curled into a ball before being covered by the same creepy hands that had killed the cops. Writhing around as the day replayed itself over and over again he began laughing as blood shot out of his eyes yelling with everyone watching mortified by the sight taking place in front of them “k-kill kkkkkkkkkkilllllllllllllll I killed them all, all of them hahahahahahaha. They're dead in a back alley all 33333 of them 3, 3 3,33k3,3kill.” as the arms started clawing at him till Lengthy Valefar, and the two oldest brothers began trying to pry the hands off of him. Eventually succeeding leaving him shaking and in a shell like state until he passed out a few moments later.