Nico di Angelo...( An Asa Butterfield's horror secrets)

The brave me...

I couldn't even go to bed last night after hearing all that Nico had to say. His story left me thinking of past memories I wished I had forgotten a long time ago but that wasn't the worst part. When I woke up in the morning, it was icy cold and the fire was out but the sunlight streamed through the windows which gave me the warmth I need for just that moment. It seemed that everyone else was awake and for the first time...Sonia greeted me at the kitchen.

Jacqueline gave me a weak smile while Danny and his wife helped her with breakfast. Empty cans were everywhere and the radio was going on...with the worst signals....
"Blizzard....worsening....people are now confining in their homes and not daring to leave...seemed a strange sort of tornado appeared on the northern west, didn't it Harry?"
"Yes....quite a shock...." Hailee came in with some logs from the basement while Sonia adjusts the radio station. The box wined for a moment before the male reporter's voice could be heard again much clearly.
"It was really big, took up a lot of houses and crops. The folks around there had to be evacuated immediately to safer shelter grounds and the government is taking all measures to ensure-"

I looked around. "Where's Ni...Asa?"
"Upstairs", Hailee answered. She clutched at her sleeves. "I tried calling my parents but guess what?" She showed me her phone. "No signal. Even the tv isn't working. It's getting worse every day!"
Sonia stirred her cup of black liquid very silently. I suppose she still couldn't believe that she'd been just possessed and turned into a half zombie and even trying to snap my head off. She caught me staring and immediately turned away...in a yet delicate way like how she used too. Though there was something falling apart in her grace.
"Where's Morgan?"

Loxie came running in then with Morgan right behind. He seemed to look the worst out of all of us;the bags in his eyes and how unruly his hair looked.
"There he is", Hailee replied. She sounded lost and insecure...but all this happening is still insecure to me! I mean, the real Asa is dead! His soul is in another place and his spirit friend who I used to think was imaginary is now possessing his body, claiming to protect us! God....
"I'm going to go and uh...check on Ace", I said living the kitchen company. We looked like a mismatched family....oh wait....WE ARE!
"How about breakfast, dear?" Jacqueline asked.
"Just leave me...whatever", I said, turning to go. "Not hungry anyway". Okay....so that was a lie!

Walking into Asa's room, I saw him in the middle of a drawn pentagram of some sort in the middle of the room. His orange eyes snapped at me when I stood next him but then it snapped back towards the pentagram. Snapping...was something Nico shouldn't be doing if he wants to bond in with the current society in this house! His face had a troubling look and somehow it made me feel very anxious.
"What is that?" I asked, jerking at the pentagram.
Nico sighed very very deeply. He gritted his teeth.
"Nico?"
"Yabai...."
"What? NICO!"
Nico turned his gaze on me and his orange eyes seemed to burn through my soul. They were so bright in the dimness that it was hard mistaking him for a demon or something!
"This is bad. She's bound to attack pretty soon!"
I blinked a multiple of times. "WH- NOW?!"
Nico shook his head. "There is a possibility that-"

Something cracked softly above our heads and as my fingers felt my hair, there was dust and debris on it. I looked up and saw the monster inches above my face but the scream that was suppose to be coming out of my throat came from the doorway instead. The creature's attention snapped at Hailee, petrified against the door and it glided towards her so fast, there was barely enough time to yell out before the black thing coiled it's black body around her and dragged her upwards. Hailee screamed, kicking the air but something fast moved above them both.

Nico's sharp blade sliced it's head off and the grip on Hailee loosened as she collapsed to the floor. From outside, I heard the bundling of footsteps on the stairs and inwardly wished that no one else would come in here as I grabbed Hailee of her feet and pushed her out of the door when the creature's long black tentacle coiled around my ankle and pulled me swiftly of my feet.

"FERRY!!"
"SERAPH!" And I saw a blinding flash of orange as Nico stabbed through the black creature again and again, his face bared the wild and ruthless expression of someone enjoying a cannabalism. It frightened me and awed me at the same time.....Realizing what I can do, I kicked the creature's regenerating face once. Just one hard blow and it released me. Nico caught me just in the nick of time before I hit the ground and I hung on to him as he avoided the creature's attacks.
Orange eyes...
"Daijobu?"
Beautiful....
"Are you hurt?"
Prince of...Greek...
"Ferry! Watch out!"
I snapped back into reality! A tentacle rose to my face but was sliced of so fast, I gasped while my eyes widen at the sudden impact it had to my senses. I realized that everything felt off and saw that Hailee was....UPSIDE DOWN! Then I realized that we were crouching beside the fan and I knew that Nico and I was upside down. I was shivering even though fear wasn't the first thing I felt and felt soft fingers caressing my face slowly, checking for wounds.
I turned to find Nico, holding on to me so tightly...somehow his blazing gaze made me feel weird and warm at the cheeks.
Asa! Remember Asa!! I shook my head.
"Daijobu?" Nico asked again, his fingers tracing chin, it felt ticklish. Wha...what!!
"What...does that mean?"
He smiled lovingly and it reminded me of the boy I loved and lost...I couldn't even....the emotions were....
"Are you okay", he said. "It means are you okay...it's Japanese! We use to wrestle talk all the time".
"We?"
His smile slowly faded. Just a little. As a reply, he stroked my hair and again the emotions jumped and mixed in my stomach that I wanted to explode. This is NOT Asa...but...
Without warning, he grabbed me by the waist and flung down, right side up again before placing me gently on the bed. Hailee was nowhere to be seen but I can still hear their voices pretty close. Why weren't they rushing in?

"I've placed a barrier so that your family can't get through", Nico explained my thoughts and I scowled, wondering whether he had read my thoughts.
WAIT! Can he...do that?
The creature was sliced and cut thorough to strips and pieces of black goo and the room was covered in black blood or possibly just...slime from the demon when smoke began to appear from the pile of meat. Nico's face hardened as his eyes wondered around, blade in hand.

"What's happening?"
"Regenerating process", Nico said. "It's what I hate about these pricks!"
"Is it because of what they're made of?"
"Not really", the boy answered. The meats were all piling up and attaching to each other again as I braced myself steadily. Honestly, I had no idea where this new braveness was coming from but I'm tired with demon made blizzards and having to be cooped up in a house for so long and this BIPASHA chick trying to exterminate me and losing the love of my life right after he confessed and had my first kiss!!!
"So?" I grabbed a baseball bat and seeing this new me, Nico couldn't help sniggering in amusement.
"Basically one cannot dies if one doesn't have a soul", Nico said, waving his blade around his fingers. "Black Smogs are some f the demons that don't have one! They regenerate no matter how many times you cut it".

I sighed. "So?"
The boy turned around and gracefully grabbed the bat off my hands, throwing it at a corner. Before I could protest, the creature was back up again and when it saw us, it's red eyes gleaming, it screeched!
"Protect this body", Nico said and I gave him a puzzled look. "I'll be right back!"

And with that, his soul tore through Asa's body like a bright lightning and soon the boy in front of me was no longer breathing or alive. I caught him before his cold solid body hit the ground, witnessing a sudden struggle by an unseen force with the smog. And then with a sudden awful wail, the smog's body began to caught fire and at the same time being sucked up into the ceiling. I heard Nico's laugh....