[ CHAPTER 1 ]

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Black smoke raged into the night sky not even a lick of moonlight was seen, the mass had looked as if it were alive moving in unearthly patterns, stretching and shrinking until it eventually eroded, splitting off in different directions.

A man sitting on a motorcycle watched the ordeal in fear, he didn't know what the mass was or where it came from but the pain he felt in his chest was overbearing, the curse had gotten stronger before he had even seen the mass, he felt the evil within it. Staring at the ground taking slow and deep breaths, hands shaking he reached towards his hair and started to pick and twirl the strands, the anxiety peaking but with one last breath he lowered his hands towards the handles of the motorcycle and drove off.

Halfway through the drive he felt it again.

"Please not now."

The tug was stronger now, the burn in his chest slowly igniting the further he rode, he could feel it creeping up his throat. He needed to get off the road. Now.

Pulling into a nearby alley he turned his motorcycle off and sat in silence, waiting for the scorching fire in his chest to go away, but it never did, it was out of his control, he could feel the beast inside him reaching out, but the man couldn't contain it any longer, he let himself lose control, he allowed the shift.

His skin melted away, it was agonizing, he gasped for air, he couldn't catch his breath, he clawed at his face as his eyes started to sink in, his hair falling off, bone appearing with each piece of flesh burnt off and there was nothing left but bone, fire licked at every part of white bone showing.

The creature growled studying the new surroundings before spinning around to the bike, marching towards the bike it sticks its right hand out, its hand gripped the handle, the bike transformed into a motorcycle from hell the engine now sounded like a deep, guttural snort. The creature hopped on the bike before tearing down the alley and into the now bear streets, fire trailing behind him, he followed the tug of the darkness, his soul mission was to return it to hell.

-Time Skip-
Stopping the bike outside of a cargo dock, waiting, listening.

"Mmmhhh," turning his head from side to side he continued to wait for any type of disturbance

"No please stop-" a feminine voice screamed- "let me go!"

Looking in the direction of the scream the creature saw a hooded figure with baggy jeans standing in front of a woman attempting to take her shirt off.

getting off the bike the creature trudged towards the two

"Shut the fuck up you bitch or i'l-" the creature grabbed the figure by their shoulder and whirled them around, a pair of blue eyes met two eye pitch black sockets, the female against the wall gasped out in horror, the tears now cascading down her face in heaps, the creature tilted his head at her to get out of there so she didn't witness anything.

Looking between the two before eventually staring back at the leather clad skeleton. "Thank you," her voice quiverd showing how much terror she felt before eventually jogging away from the scene, moving his head back towards the woman in his grasp he stared at her. Her eyes wide in terror, body barely able to stand from shaking so violently, her hands were gripping the leather clad arm that was clutching onto her shoulder.

"You, guilty."

The voice that came out was deep and demonic, "look into my eyes." He stared into the woman's horrified stare.

The woman tried turning her head but a fiery hand reached towards her face forcefully turning it back towards him, "Please let me go-" the woman pleaded tears rolling down her face as she stared at the monster, "i'm sorry."

"You're soul is stained by the blood of the innocent, feel their pain."

The woman screamed before eventually going quiet, her arms falling to her sides, the woman was still and unmoving and her once blue eyes were now black with cracks of orange glowing through like coal burning in a fire.

Letting her fall from his grasp the flaming skeleton looked down at her before stalking off back to his motorcycle and riding away from the scene, the monster rode until the sun poked through the trees, forcing the creature back inside.

Falling to the ground in a heap the creature groaned, the fire slowly dying down and skin reappearing over the white bones, brown orbs began to appear back in their sockets, the body laid on the ground, arms spread across dirt, leaves and tree branches, eyes tightly closed because of the sun beaming on him and taking in deep breaths.

"That never gets any easier," running his hands through his hair and down his face he slowly sat up before standing up with a loud grunt, lifting his hand to shield his eyes from the flaring sun trying to see where he was only to look around and see graves and a mausoleum, looking around confused he began to search for the entrance of the graveyard he was in, still disoriented from the night he had the blonde tumbled and tripped over rocks and roots, not noticing the figure in the distance the blonde sat down under a tree and closed his eyes.

"You made quite a mess last night Beau." He recognized that voice anywhere, snapping his eyes open, Beau stood up, his ember eyes omitting a fiery glow.

"Mephistopheles," his voice growled out, his hands formed into fists next to his sides, knuckles turning white, "What the fuck are you doing here!?" His voice came out harsh when questioning one of the princes of hell.

"Oh Beau why so angry?" Mephistopheles smirked at the anger spreading across the young man's face, appearing behind him when Beau attempted to attack him, "Oh now don't attack me you haven't even heard what I've had to say yet."

Mephistopheles taunted the young man enjoying the anger radiating off of him.

"I don't give a damn about what you have to say because-" Beau glanced behind him his eyes burning with rage -"i'm going to kill you."

Humming in response Mephistopheles held his gaze with Beau's, "you can't get out of the contract if i'm dead."

Beau dejectedly stared at the dirt knowing Mephistopheles was right, returning his gaze back towards the demon he sighed, "then what do you want?"

"I need you to capture the demons that escaped from the gate last night."

Beau stared at him questioningly, Mephistopheles explained to him that the mausoleum he was just by was the devil's gate and that some "witless" hunters opened them and released hundreds of demons out into the world.

"I don't even know where I am so how am I supposed to hunt these demons?" Beau questioned

"You're at Calvary Cemetery in Jasper, Wyoming now get to work, and if you're going to keep running from me you're gonna have to try a little harder," Mephistopheles said before disappearing.

Beau sighed, staring at the spot where Mephistopheles used to be before sauntering of to find the entrance where his bike was sitting, lifting his leg and sitting on the seat Beau sighed rubbing his face.

"I can't wait to kill him."

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