Hanna was sitting on a moving bullet train shuffling through papers with sharp quick movements. Trying to get her meeting notes together by the time she showed up to the office, for an unexpected meeting. "Open with serious application or humor?" She queried, muttering to herself brow furrowed in concentration.
This meeting had been set up last minute, and she was rushing to get her thoughts together. "Damnit Dan," She hissed. "You need to give me time before rushing a sale!" Her quiet words were punctuated by the bite in her voice. More papers flicked across her lap, and to the seat next to her scattered around near her, making an organized mess. Minutes passed as she finally got the notes, in what she thought, would be an acceptable presentation order.
The train came to a stop, as she scrambled to get the now organized notes into her briefcase. As Hanna looked up to check the location, than cross referencing with a quick scan of the trains map built into the walls. She examined the map confirming her location to her destination. As Hanna double checked her route, a man stepped onto the train. He looked like a used rag, one that had been set aside in an auto shop that needed a desperate wash. A black hoody with grey sweat pants, baggy and covering his features. His hands were in the front pockets of his hoody, and while his features were mostly hidden, his body language screamed anxiety.
Hanna shifted uncomfortably, and started looking for an escape route. This man made every nerve in her body raise an alarm. Reaching into her rather large but stylish brown leather purse, she with a quick but deft movement, pulled out a small makeup bag that she used to cover a small black rectangle with two metallic bulbs on one side built into the plastic device. Glad she had just replaced the rather large and powerful battery, Hanna placed the small plastic box under her makeup kit on her lap shouldering her purse.
Flicking open the makeup kit, looking in the small mirror built into the top of its lid, a pair of half lidded green eyes and pursed lips that formed a strait line on her face stared back. Her blond hair moved in her face as she shifted slightly trying to appear less tense, her green eyes piercingly focused on the corners of her lips as she tried to force a smile.
It didn't work.
Taking a deep breath to center herself, she pretended to touch up her makeup while flicking her eyes to the man that stood in the car fidgeting with something in his pocket. He was staring at her the entire time, she didn't see his eyes under the raised hood, but she could feel the intensity of his eyes on her. Hanna flicked through each of her makeup procedures quickly, and with shaky hands, all to soon she ran out of reasons to keep the kit out. Quietly and quickly she placed the kit back in her purse. Turning her back to the man keeping her little plastic black box in her hand, the weight felt comforting to her frayed nerved, she removed her hand from the bag keeping her body in the way so he couldn't see the object in her hand, and stood. 'I need to get away from him.' She thought, 'he screams trouble.' Hanna was completely sure of her assessment of the man. Reading rooms had been a specialty of hers since she was young, living on the streets.
Her climb up the business she currently worked for had been slow and laborious. Only starting when she had walked in to clean out a trash bin, while an off hours meeting was happening between a client and salesman. She had walked in on a particularly heated exchange, the client was confused and aggravated with the smooth talking sales man. The client had told the man, "If your cleaning lady can explain the damn product, I'll buy the fucking thing." His scowl said she had better get explaining, what neither of the men expected was her to do exactly that.
The product was an engineering tool, 4th dimensional in nature. Using all area and time lapsing tools to show programed solutions and projected building requirements. It was exorbitantly expensive, but could help with building costs and time prediction, gain a potential 150% return on investment per project. Purpose built for easy use by engineers.
She had paid attention while at work and simply explained the system function as she understood them. Hanna doubted she'd explained it well but had floored both men, and gotten the sale to go through. She just worked from there, building confidence with public speaking and working out simple explanations for a complicated system.
That's how Hanna had wound-up on a bullet train, in the dusk of day, heading past down town, and for her office.
She stood up feeling her body jerk to attention unnaturally. Her legs felt like lead weights and her heart was starting to hammer wildly, just like a cornered animal. She heard a rustling of fabric, and forced her legs to stiffly move forward willing herself away from the uncomfortable presence of the shady man.
There was a click behind her, it sounded off, too loud for a camera sound to quiet for any type of shooter drug with a spring release. Then with a sliding metal on plastic sound of something being forcefully draged into position and a soft mumbled curse, her body went cold, and a loud slap of gun being chambered, filled the train car.
Panic ceased brain function as she started sprinting wildly for the next car. Not only forgetting the taser that had been pulled from her purse but throwing it from her hand in her mad dash. As she reached the door a warmth came from her gut, 'I can make it!' Her mind seemed to caress. She just needed to open that door and hide
She didn't even hear the shot, that ended her life.
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The conjoined demon twins looked at the ten summoning circles on there work table. "The mortals are quite hungry for our power brother." Observed Evelyn gleefully. "Indeed sister," returned Adol playfully tweaking her chest from behind.
She lashed his back with their shared tail, gained a pleasurable hiss from her brother. "Later brother we have work." Adol gave a soft sensual hiss next to her cheek, as his body came to the forefront six arms starting to mold the dark souls for the summons on the table in front if them.
Evelyn and Adol were an ancient and powerful demon, who took the shape of a two headed snake, but were also conjoined twins from the egg. They had a glinting obsidian scale color that started at the tip of their tail, and lightened to a gem green as got closer to the human like appearance of the crowns that made up the snake heads six arms on each body, and pink flesh to draw in humanoid species. They were both nude with the exaggerated inhuman beauty on full display for anyone to enjoy their poisoned company.
"Should we place a fertilized egg with these souls my dear sister." Adol queried to his sister, lasciviousness laced in his tone a promise of violent pleasure. Evelyn considered it for a moment, but decided against it. They had already pushed the limit of what their captor was willing to put up with. "No brother I think not, we have pushed that hand too recently, and been rewarded a disastrous results in turn." She sighed disappointedly the fertilized egg that had been summoned with a powerful demon summoning had been thwarted before it could truly hatch. "Garuda and his accused ilk!" Adol spit the words like he tasted foul food. Evelyn touched three of his arms to draw his attention from their latest failure.
"Let us finish this quickly so we can..." She paused giving him a knowing look, they may not need to fertilize a soul demon egg but they could still enjoy each other. His twisted cruel smile was her reward and he controlled their tail to wrap around her, the movement of her own body being controlled by another was an unusual sensation, but one she had long since gotten used to. The smooth scales of their shared body glided across the skin of her bare torso leaving behind a hot desire, causing her to let out a low hiss, and indulging a bit into the sensation, a low grown followed. Her eyes met his, they were sharp, a predator ready to pounce, she could feel his desire, and in return, he hers.
"Soon love," she coo'd.
She then forced control of their shared appendage back into a neutral state and refocused on the summoning table. "I'll take the five on the right." She stated, forced calm from the previous roiling desire still lingering between them. Adol snorted, "You always take the right." His retort an old joke. So her response was just as old. "You remember what happened last time we crossed each other."
"Of corse," he claimed amiably with a neutral face, but she could feel his mirth. Then he gave a devious devil of a smile. "They never did get that planet back." She laughed despite herself, even knowing what he had been about to say.
"Our greatest child by far." Evelyn purred as she started working on her first soul twisting it to fit the summonings power. "Indeed!" Adol explained proudly starting his second summoning already. "He wasn't very smart but he was an eager learner and powerful." He said with the proud smile only a father could wear. "He conquered the entire planet so easily, it only took hin 20 years, a record for one of ours."
It had been a proud moment their captor seizing them, and severely punishing them for their involvement in the destruction of balance for that world. Evelyn once freed from their captors wrath had persuaded Adol to visit the way ward son and oh what a night that had been. It had ended with her own child snapping her like a twig, in her avatar body.
"Mabey we should visit again dear?" She gave Adol an eyebrow raised glance, before returning to work and her fourth summon. His face scrunched in contemplation, lips going back and forth while he considered the consequences. Their captor would not like them creating avatars, but because of their immortality, the Fallen One could do nothing but torment them.
"I think we should." He finally said finishing up his work. "Its been so long mabey it will inspire a new inspiration for another successful child."
Evelyn considered his words, before picking up her last soul. "Mabey..." She started before trailing off giving the soul in her hand another look. She studied it intently, holes pot marked every part of it inside and out like a cork. Adol seeing his sisters attention turn completely to the soul in her hand, scrutinized it as well.
Souls appeared like pearls with varing colors from pure white to the deepest black, but never had he seen one eaten like this. Something had goten ahold of this soul and further it had suffered greatly in life. Evelyn looked at him as an overpowering desire filled the emotional space and she place the soul on his lips. "Mabey one seeded egg." She claimed huskily intertwining her separated body with his and their shared body coiling between them.
"Yes," Adol breathed letting the soul slip between his lips. He then lowered the soul to her cloaca. "One egg."
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A slamming sound blasted through the chamber as a the fallen one entered. With a flick of his fingers the intertwined couple were separated forcibly tearing flesh as one of the two conjoined twins were ripped from each other dangling them both.
"Did you think I wouldn't notice." The Fallen One asked monotoned, the only hint of emotion coming from his literal red blazing eyes. The female smirked, "That one will be special," she stated. "Even you will have trouble controlling that demon."
No visible emotion crossed his face, while he considered his options for punishment. He would keep them separate as long as he could but the power of their immortal soul would see them whole again no matter what he tried. He looked over the woman of the two. Torturing her was point less the masochist would simply ask for more, but with her now removed from the main body blood flowing out of the stump where she had been joined at the shared body, he could find a new use for her.
"Birthing chamber," He ordered. "I will need more forces thank to these two." The chains wrapped her up and pulled her under. A gleeful sequel was the only reaction she gave to his announcement.
"Now for you," The Fallen One inundated blankly. The male looked back bemused. "Deprivation chamber."
Adol frowned briefly then shrugged. "Boring." Was all he got out before the chains whisked him away.
The Fallen One looked over the summon table, and checked the last used magic ritual. It came back dirty with the filth, of their love making soul egg. He frowned looking at the pathetic summoning circle.
Summon Interrupted
-Demon type, Imp. (Summon error) human soul detected. Magic deficiency innate; demon egg integrated.
Summon successful.