Shadow Heart

Chapter 7:Desperation P1

———Kyujin———-

(Five thousand years ago)

When I was a baby I was left on the doorstep of a nursery with only a pink blanket and a teddy bear called Cuddles. Ever since then my childhood was terrible. I circulated between the doors of everyone in the neighbourhood and nobody wanted me. When I was eight I finally got brought into an orphanage. I thought things would get better from there. But unfortunately thing's actually got worse.

The orphanage turned out to be an assassin organisation which recruits orphan kids to do their dirty work. At the ages of nine and ten I was taught how to use a gun and how to track down and kill the target. I was given missions every week and if I didn't complete them I wouldn't get any food. If we did anything wrong our master would beat us. It was horrible there. I wanted to escape so bad.

One day I got given a weird yet important mission. Kill the woman with red hair, armour, red eyes and wearing a demon costume. Apparently this woman was the most important kill. So i prepared to do the deed. It was Halloween night and apparently this woman was by the orphanage. It was my job to snipe her from the roof. I had everything set up so the moment I saw her I could get the kill. After a couple of hours I finally saw her.

This was supposed to be easy. But the moment I saw her she disappeared off to an alleyway before I could do anything to her.

"Oh fucking come on."

I said to myself in a fit of rage. I knew I had to get her otherwise I would get beaten for hours on end and be starved for weeks. Sitting there infuriated something caught my eye. A smile. A big creepy smile. A big creepy smile that seemed to look like something out of a fairytale similar to the likes of the Cheshire Cat. It starred at me and gave me the shivers. Suddenly before I could do anything a woman with cat ears, horns, wings and a cat tail came tumbling out of the smile.

"Ahhhh."

I was terrified. This random thing came out of a weird smile. The mysterious person covered my mouth before I could scream anymore and talked to me in cheeky voice.

"Trying to kill Miss Athena-sama are you. Naughty naughty. You know you're not allowed to kill a demon goddess."

This left me extremely confused. What does a demon goddess have to do with any of this. I mean that was just a Halloween costume right.

"What are you talking about you weird thing."

This made her annoyed and offended. Being demon born it was hard for her to adapt to human society including the fact that humans don't really know anything about demons. To her not knowing about the three demon gods is like you not knowing water is wet or that to live you need to breathe. And she hated being called a thing.

"I am not a thing. I am a cat demon called Nxy. I am also the head of the best carnival in the entirety of the bottom plane Cheshire Carnival and the dedicated servant of Navia. Now I have no idea in hell why you don't know this but that woman you saw just there is the goddess Athena. She is one of THE MOST important people in existence and you dare hurt her."

After that some what of an explanation I ended up with more questions than before. But there was no point in asking her. She seemed like the type of person that you would never get answers out of. Anyways no matter what I needed to kill her. Otherwise the rest of the week would be hell.

"You know I don't give two shits right."

"Then go try to kill her then. I'm sure she'll flatten you in no time. Just don't come crying to me because I warned you."

Nxy disappeared back through the portal where the smile was leaving her smile behind. I never could have guessed that we would become friends in a couple years time. Ignoring her warning I descended from the roof and followed the path I had saw the target go. After running for a while I saw her and was hot on her trail. She was surprisingly fast and yet I could tell she was holding back. Maybe it was to hide her true power or maybe she knew she would win anyway. To this day I still don't know.

Eventually she ends up cornered in an alleyway. I point my gun at her face and yet of looking scared she instead she looked back with a smirk on her face. In a flash she pins me down and pulls out a gun from her pocket. Her eyes stare into mine as she shouts at me.

"Stupid mortal coming here to challenge me. You should stop trying at least then we can delay the inevitable. Now before you die I hope you've learnt your lesson. DON'T FUCK WITH ATHENA."

My life flashed before my eyes...