How to Make Peace with your Demons

Chapter 2: A Creature Lurks

"Hello?"

Gon's soul jumped out of his body.

"I-Is someone in my house?" He whispered, not really directed at anyone.

"Wrong..." the voice hissed.

Gon shuddered. The voice was cold and sharp, obviously not very happy.

Gon stuttered, "where a-are you? Show yourself!" His voice was shaky.

Some more scuttling occurred under his feet.

"Hello?" Called the voice again, this time quieter and softer.

Gon stepped off of the hardwood plank he had just been standing on. That's when he realized the small crack along the short side of it.

He looking into the crack from afar and saw one striking blue eye glaring at him.

"Uhm," Gon said. "Hi?"

"Out! Out me now!" The voice croaked, reverted back to the furious tone.

Gon froze, out me?

What does "out me" mean? Does it want me to take it out of the floorboard? He thought.

Maybe this thing didn't speak English very well.

Or maybe it wants Gon out.

But instead of leaving, Gon carefully walks over to the plank and lifts it up.

He threw it to the side and looked back to the small space where a body was laying inside the floor.

The creature was gorgeous.

It had a snowy white mane of hair that just about covered it's ocean blue eyes. It was pale as can be, like a little porcelain doll.

It had long, sleek wings that looked similar to bat wings.

It was tiny. Probably only 5'0'' and like, 60 pounds. It was very obviously underweight. You could see it's ribs poking out from under it skin and it's arms looked as if they were made of only bone.

Although it was small, it was obviously full grown. Gon had seen demons before, and the children had looked different than the adults.

1) young demons aren't allowed out of the underworld without an adult, and from what Gon could tell, this demon must be on its own, and 2) adult demons must get a tattoo on their neck stating that they had become of age.

This demon had a tattoo written in a foreign language with red ink.

The language seemed somewhat familiar, but Gon couldn't quite put his finger on it.

It was also butt ass naked. Or should I say, he was butt ass naked?

Gon's breath caught in his throat. He took a 180 and stared in the other direction.

"Where the FUCK are your clothes?!" He bellowed, hands now covering his face.

Gon could hear the creature sit up and he could feel his eyes on his back, "Clothes? vestimentum?" The demon added in another language.

Latin, Gon thought.

The national language of the underworld is Latin. So his suspicion that this was 100% a demon and not some other strange creature was correct.

But wait, demons had horns. Gon hadn't seen any horns on him.

He turned back and opened his fingers to peer at the demon once more.

He did have horns. Small black spikes that jutted out of his head.

Gon must have not been paying attention the first time because he was paying attention to... other things.