Bolt Through The Heart (Quanxi X F.OC)

-Bullet-

Sei never thought it would happen again.

She was once again losing people.

Because of her sister.

She never hated Makima for trying to kill her, she never hated her for treating her like she did, she never hated her for hating her.

But right here, in this deserted apartment, sitting on the balcony, Sei despised her.

She despised her for existing and being the cause of pain for not only her but so many different people.

She caused so much pain for her obsession with saving humanity from devils, for her damned chainsaw that eats devils and makes them vanish from the world.

How many died useless deaths?

How many died because of her contracts?

How many more will?

Looking back inside, the two fiends were sleeping, exhausted from such a day.

She was irked with them and yet couldn't stay mad, so much could have been avoided if she had just been asked to come. She knew she was worried to come back, even hesitant, but she'd have always said yes, knowing the danger her sister was.

She could have saved them.

She has a loose idea what they saw in hell, even her sister could have barely held off that devil alone, she knows that at that moment even the control devil would have made a truce to make it easier.

And then she felt something.

A familiar feeling.

Way to familiar.

She stood up, a shiver down her spine.

"Up!" She demanded of the fiends.

"Wha--" Long blinked.

"Up! We need to move!" Sei said in worry.

Powerful devils exert a pressure, usually other devils can pick up on and avoid them. The four horsemen, even they, were not strong enough for that, at least not in the state they currently are. Only primal devil or ones extremely feared are the ones currently having this.

And this one was feared a lot.

She threw the fiends over her shoulder, sprinting out of the apartment.

"Makima you fuck." She never insulted her out loud but this was worth it.

Her crows watching her in a black dress with many people tied to her and seeing a devil made out of bullets, metal and corpses, a gun for a head.

Who the fuck summoned one of the gun devil pieces? This one looks like the... 20% maybe? The US? Her only idea for a country to have such a big piece.

But currently it was slightly not her preoccupation as the time was ticking.

"What's going on?!" Long asked, voice still hoarse from sleep and her own crying.

"I'll explain later!" Sei said, jumping down a flight of stairs.

She could tell there was a basement for this apartment building and she needed to get in there.

These bullets would target all and if she remembers correctly, they are nicely in the range of it.

And the basement is underground, it might stop the bullets with all the concrete and steel foundation. 

She saw it raise its arms when she rounded a corner.

"Sorry." She said and, haphazardly, threw the fiends down the last set of stairs before the hail of bullets started.

Bang.

Her blood splattered.

Sei gasped, coughing as she sat up and touched her head in panic.

"Halloween!!!" She was hugged by a once again sobbing Cosmo while Long had only a few tears on her face.

"Oh my god, I thought you were dead." Long whispered, Sei seeing the gash she made on her arm and tasting blood in her mouth.

"I should have been." She said, touching her aching head. "A bullet through the head kills." But being a devil, she had more chance of being brought back with blood if it is not too much time had passed. "You hurt yourself." She grabbed her arm.

They were sitting at the bottom of the staircase but the top of it was covered with rubble, Sei could see through her birds' eyes the destruction that had taken over the city.

"I'm sorry I scared you, I just..." She sighed. "I needed to make sure you were fine."

She stood, if she had a yen for every time she was almost put on a shirt because of the gun devil she'd have two yen, which isn't a lot but it is weird that it happened twice.

She let Long hold the other fiend and aimed up a finger gun at the rubble.

"Bang." Blowing a hole into it. "Come on girls, we need to move.

She climbed out first, seeing the destruction left for herself, the town was flattened out.

She helped the fiends out who looked around in mounting horror.

Her phone rang.

She wanted to reassure the fiends but she answered the call first.

"You better have a good reason for calling me." She said. "I am occupied."

"Good, you are alive." Kishibe's voice boredly said. "I thought so."

"I was shot through the head once again but had the fiends with me so I was lucky."

"You devils and refusing to die... Are you in?" He asked without needing to ask the question.

"If that means I can save her from her and keep them safe."

"I cannot promise either but we'll try."

"Then of course."

"Good, you know where to meet, get there without being seen."

She looked to the left, seeing a rat clean its muzzle.

She glared, the little being coughed blood with an animal shriek as it died in pain.

She watched a random crow land and poke it, when it didn't move, it picked it up, flying away with it.

"I'll make sure of that."

(I wrote this in marketing class :,D)