The 7th Demon

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Eun Joo

"Do you like the new apartment I chose for you?" he raises an eyebrow at me. Why is he talking to me like we know each other? Why is he looking like that at me with those eyes? Is that really the guy? I can't believe it.

"AHHH~!" I screamed my lungs out and took a pillow and threw it at him but he just cocked his head to the left, coolly avoiding my attack, "W-W-Who a-are y-you?! Where am I!?" I keep stuttering while pointing a finger at him.

I saw him smiled a little, but that smile seemed to be more of a smirk. "You forgot what happened last night? All of them?" He asked me something about last night.

"Last...night..." I furrowed my brows and pondered for awhile.

When I jumped from the building, that guy falling with me is the guy who asked me that they still need me, and my plan of suicide. "It's not a dream?" I gaped at him. So, last night it really happened. I thought it's another dream about the guy with black wings I always dream about. It's him I could recognize his face and his voice. It's really him.

He slowly shook his head.

"Wait, am I dead?" I found those words stuck in my throat.

"Not yet." He answered.

My mind is getting mixed up and I'm getting dizzy. "Wait, let me think first. What does that even mean?" Not yet? I'm getting so confused.

His eyes were scary and intimidating. It feels like he's burning me inside and can look through my soul, and worst than the fire. "Since you finally saw me, you are now under my care and protect you before the given time of your death. There will be a right time for your death." He explained to me.

Death...

The guy shoved my long black hair away from my shoulder my neck is slightly showed and he placed his fingertip behind my ear giving me chills and I felt like a zapped of electricity hit my body. His fingertip is really cold. "This tattoo behind your ear symbolizes that you're soul was already sold to a demon for a life to be reborn. It's like a seal and not a birthmark. You're the 7th demon: wrath that will complete us. Until you die, I will stay, protect and serve you. I still don't know if the others will come."

I slapped his hand away and touched the half sun-like tattoo behind my ear. How did he know that? My soul sold? For the life of whom? Is this really happening in real life? At first, many believed that it's just a birthmark, but I knew to myself that it's not just any birthmark.

"I can't believe this. I'm going insane..." my hands collapsed at my sides. I feel so weak all of a sudden. What this guy just told me is just too impossible to happen. Is he playing with me? Is this a scam? But his words seemed so real, his eyes were so sincere. When I looked into his eyes, it's like he can read me and know me for so long.

The guy glanced my way, looking at me with amusement. I can read it in his expression. "Should I scare you more and give my introduction?" I faced him and waited for him to continue. "I'm Byun Baekhyun. I died 1992 at the age of 18, I represent the envy. I'm a demon. Shim Eun Joo, I am your demon."

The atmosphere around became really cold. My hands started shaking. He's already... dead. He's a demon?!

Baekhyun blinked at me, "You, Shim Eun Joo, daughter of Joo Su and Eun Jae, you don't remember your childhood because you grew up alone and no one guiding you"

I gave him a firm look. "You don't know anything about me. No, this is not true, all of these. Ha! I'm dreaming!" I sarcastically laughed and started tapping my cheeks to wake myself up from this nightmare.

"I know about your parents and how they died." Baekhyun looked into my eyes and I froze in my spot. I know nothing about my own parents. No one can even tell me what their names even at the orphanage I came from. No relatives at all.

He walked close to me. "No, don't come near me! I'm going to punch you! Yah!" but he still insisted and cupped my cheeks and steadied me. My eyes just automatically went blank and everything became white.

Flashback flooded my head.

"Joo Su yah! Our child!" her mother cried, getting away from the guardians who wanted to kill their race - The race who can summon demons and bring them to earth. Joo Su, her father tried to escape with his family. They all know that the baby they're carrying will be the greatest summoner in their race that summon demons that will kill without mercy.

Her parents don't have any choice that time to save the life of their one and only baby. A demon appeared and saw the potential of the baby Eun Joo becoming the 7th demon. In exchange for her to live longer and be protected, they must sell her soul to them completely and she will become Wrath.

Eun Jae kissed the top of her child's forehead. They want their child to taste how beautiful the world is and live longer. "Please grow up really well." She half-heartedly placed the sleeping baby near the dumpster covering her body with the black cloth. Leaving her eyes, nose and mouth open.

Once a demon is in earth, half of their powers disappear and half of themselves are human.

Joo Su took her wife's shoulder and hugged her tight. "She's going to be fine."It's hard for him as a father to sell his own daughter's soul to a demon.*Are we selfish? Live happily in this earth my dear, Eun Joo.*

Right when they left the child and runaway, her parent was killed by the guardians making the little baby cry in midst of the cold night.

An eighteen year old Baekhyun was running his way from the police to save his own life. Eyes were wide open, blood on his shirt and hands.

A cry of a baby stopped him from running.

The baby was astonishing and there are red glowing dusts were around her. He needs to run, but he didn't. Inside his mind, he knows he needs to leave and save his own life, but instead, he stayed for the baby who is like calling him with her hands waving all around. The baby's hand is like reaching for Baekhyun's face he was moved and called by the baby Eun Joo.

Baekhyun slowly pulled the black cloth off and saw her incredibly fascinating face. Her skin is pale as sheet, and her lips were red as blood. She looks like a fragile glass that once you touch, it will be broken into thousand pieces.

"Hands up!" The police yelled, but Baekhyun can't take his eyes off the baby who has a sun like tattoo on her nape that was glowing in bright red. She's crying so hard. Baekhyun wanted to carry her in his arms. So, he moved.

*BANG!*

Baekhyun was killed when the police caught him.

But... he was turned into one of the seven demons and took care of Eun Joo until she reached 17 years old and the day finally came when he needed to show up because she's going to finish her life.

My eyes found Baekhyun's face again and my heart is racing from all what I just saw and remembered.

"For now, you must be really confused but as time passes by, you'll eventually understand." He mumbled, removing his hand from my face.

My shoulder slumped down, tears streaming down my cheeks as I collapsed at the floor. "What is this?"