The Devil's Deal!

Chapter 5: Demon Slayers?!

Sora's P.O.V.

I slowly opened my eyes to see a blue ceiling above me. "Ugh my head..." I slowly sat up, winching in pain as I grabbed my neck. I looked down to see I was in a bed, and covered up. "How did I end up in bed... the last thing I remember was... I... I can't remember..." I slowly got out of bed as pain shot through my neck, as I quickly grabbed it. "Gah! D-damn that hurt!" I heard footsteps running towards my door, with me quickly facing it to see Mia run into the room. "S-Sora are you ok?!" I nodded as I saw her look at my neck. "Y-Yeah i'm fine just some neck pain." I smiled softly when she suddenly said. "Show me your neck." I was slightly confused when she said that. "W-What?" She then yelled. "I SAID SHOW ME YOUR NECK SORA!" I jumped slightly as I moved my hand showing my neck, it showed the Pentagram slowly start to line up, like by line with a deep crimson red light. "... I'll be back later Sora... i'm going to the store, i'll get you your favorite things ok?" I slowly nodded as the image of her yelling flashed in my mind, with her leaving the room. "I have never seen her like that... w-was that really Mia..."

Cherry's P.O.V.

I was walking home from school, but I didn't go straight home. I wandered around, to stores, parks, anywhere I could go to. I noticed a bench, as I sat down in it. "It's been almost a week since I last saw him, I mean I see Mia around, but never Sora." I looked down to the ground. "And last time I asked Mia where he is, she just looks sad, but says he's not feeling well." I sighed looking down, worried about Sora. I felt my phone buzz in my pocket, pulling it out, I noticed I had a few missed calls from my mom, and a text from her. "Hey, are you on your way home yet?" I looked at the message before replying. "No, i'm just walking around right now, I should be back in around ten minutes." I sighed looking around me, seeing people walking, a few couples, I felt my phone buzz again in my hand. I looked down at my phone. "Ok, just be careful. See you soon, love you." I smiled softly replying to her. "Ok mom I will, I love you too." I put my phone in my pocket, looking up at the sky. "I hope he's ok..." I looked down as people on bikes and couples passed by. I sighed getting up, to feel something hit my shoulder. I looked up to feel a few drops of water hit my face, then it started to rain. I looked down to see everyone around running to get out of the rain, as I just stood there letting the rain fall on me. I stood in the rain for a few minutes, till eventually moving to find some shelter from the rain. I noticed a gas station, running inside, to see it was nearly empty. I looked around slightly as I pulled my phone out checking the time. "2:40 huh? I don't have an umbrella on me, so should I wait till it stops raining?" I thought, looking out the window seeing it pouring. "It might take awhile, my best bet would be to run home." I thought as I sighed softly looking for something to snack on and to drink. I went down looking down the rows of shelves, grabbing a bag of chips, and some-type of soda. I went to the register to pay for my chips and soda, as the total came up to $7.30 dollars. I went looking through my wallet pulling out a ten dollar bill, handing it to the cashier. "Here's your change." He said, smiling as I took my change, chips, and soda, as I threw up my hood for my jacket walking outside in the rain. I started to run back towards my house as quickly as I could so my mom didn't have to worry. I was running for about two minutes, running past buildings, some trees, and ending up turning in the direction of a dead end alley. I looked at the wall that was ahead of me, it was a standard brick wall, it had some cracks in it while some paint on it, most likely graffiti, but the one thing that was different about this graffiti was that I could see it, but the image was blurry. I got closer to it by taking about three to four steps while the rain was still pouring on me, but I didn't care or seem to notice the rain. I looked at the graffiti, at first I couldn't see what it was very well, but the closer I got, the clearer I was able to see it. It seemed like it was moving, like waves from the ocean, I felt like it was calling to me with me taking a few more steps towards it. The image was now clear enough for me to see it, it was an X with a circle around it. "Find the one who also bears this mark." I heard a voice in my head say that as I quickly turned around to see if anyone was there. I saw no one there, But it looked like something. I saw someone with a pitch black jacket, with the very symbol on his back, it seemed like fire was surrounding him, pitch black flames. I felt my body shake slightly as I saw him turn to face me, for some reason I couldn't see his face, all I could see was deep crimson red eyes and a somewhat demonic smirk. He took a step towards me as the wind blew, blowing his hair back, revealing a mark on his neck, the same mark that was on his jacket and the wall.