Enter The Sandman

Enter Oscuro Terrore

I feel something pressuring against my head, like that time on the roof. I hope it isn't what I think it is, so I slowly look behind me.

Cyrus is standing behind me, with his lightning covered blade out near the back of my neck.

"No one moves, or this kid dies" Cyrus yells out to everyone around me.

They all turn towards me with shocked expressions.

"Where did this guy come from!?" Adam shouts out.

"I managed to slip out as this boy was fighting the Mercury Crown. I took my time to seal all the exits and grab all the weapons I thought i'd need. However, that's when this strange girl blew off about half of the building. That's when I noticed... Havoc was killed."

I get a big smile on my face and say "Havoc was beat!? Ha, I knew Mikkai could do it!"

"No you blabber mouth... it was that girl that killed him. Everyone else would have died if it wasn't for her..."

"Everyone else?" I question lowly.

"Aye. Seems like you lowly bastards received back-up. Quite frankly, you are lucky we didn't get back-up. You all would have been slaughtered here and now..."

Adam tightly grips his scythe and yells out to Cyrus, "You mean there's more you!?"

"Of course... we wouldn't walk in to a fight unprepared. No matter... i'll just take this boy in to custody. Seems like the boss has some interest in him..." Cyrus says while he is dragging me along with him, walking towards the giant hole in the wall Mikkai created earlier.

Everyone watches restlessly as I am dragged away, unable to react in any way whatsoever. Adam slowly attempts to reach his hand up towards the communication link, but Cyrus catches his movement.

"One more inch and he dies, regardless of my bosses orders."

Adam slowly drops his arm back down to his side.

Cyrus continues to move backwards, but then I can feel him bump in to something.

"Not so fast, Cyrus" a voice from really close says.

Cyrus quickly looks back, and I glance back as well. I notice that Cyrus was stopped by some type of dark field, that looks like thick black smoke.

"This power is..." Cyrus says while examining the black power. He then gets a surprised expression on his face.

"Oscuro!" Cyrus suddenly shouts out. He looks over towards the right of the black wall, and notices a man standing there, leaning against it with his arms against the wall.

The man, or Oscuro, is wearing some demonic looking robe that looks torn in a symmetrical way. The robe ascends to his feet, and is spiky in the back. He has baggy dark black pants, and strange grey skin. His eyes glow with a fierce purple color, and his hair is long, with a black color and purple stripes going through his hair. He also has two black lines coming from the top of his forehead, going over his eyes, all the way down to the top of his neck.

"I do believe that the boss had ordered us to keep our hands off of the boy for now. Same goes for the girl up on the rooftop. They aren't ready for what we plan do use them for" Oscuro's strange, slightly echoing and heavy voice says.

The sound of his voice drains my beta, and I grow weaker after each and every word he speaks.

"What... is this... he is weakening me by just talking?" I think.

"In the meantime, Cyrus, you should escape from here... you'll just die by these guys hands if you continue to rest aimlessly around" Oscuro says.

"Yeah I know, I was trying to slip out with our main objective, but that seems null now... but sir, couldn't you just wipe all these guys out easily? Someone with your power-"