Cryptic Asunder [Ver. 3 outdated]

12: It Lights up the Night sky

AN: This chapter has gore, you have been warned!

Chapter twelve: It lights up the night sky

"My dear-sweet-Reina, haven't you ever heard of a lie?"

She just stands there in shock as the sun finally decides to hide beneath the horizon completely. I can barely hear the words slip past her mostly shut lips, "A-lie?..."

I place my hand on her shoulder with worry. "Reina?"

Another disturbing chortle comes from Vensen and recaptures my attention as he smiles at her with his callous grin. "Now she gets it." He then turns back to the crowd and unleashes a breath of orange flames onto the first row of people.

The others scream and run away from the scene. Some hide away into their homes as a barricade while others scurry hurriedly over to the village walls for an escape. I see mothers grabbing their children and carrying them off into the dark of night as a way to protect them from this grey mad-man. The old and weary are guided away from the flames as well while some are even carried by strong young men. The ones who are engulfed in the fire cry out in agony as the orange inferno eats away at their flesh with sizzlings and snaps of cackles.

Ruus is quick to stand up with a dagger in hand. "You vile fiend!" He steps onto the stump with speed and thrusts the dagger towards Vensen's jugular.

Vensen easily stops the blade by grabbing Ruus's wrist. The tip pierces his skin at the gullet just enough to allow a small creek of red blood trickle down. His black smile stays plastered on his bony face as he responds in his sickening way, "What's the matter, don't you like the color of hell? I think it's a lovely shade."

I then hear the sound of bones being crushed from where they're standing as Ruus bellows in agony and loses his grip on the weapon.

Vensen shoves his elbow into Ruus's chest and forces him off the base once again, letting him crash to the ground.

Ruus cringes in pain as he clings to his arm.

Reina and I quickly tend to him as Vensen uses his distraction to step down from the stub and walk towards the fleeting mass.

As I stand over Ruus, the burning light behind me illuminates the night sky. This is all happening too fast. When I kneel down close to him he pulls me in closer with his good hand. "Please, do whatever you can to stop him. I'll find Mueimma and get something from the shrine."

"You have a shrine here?" I ask him

"Go!"

I stand back up to my feet and address my response to Reina, "You go and help him, it wouldn't be good for him to be alone."

"Then what about you, Vila?" She replies.

"No, the both of you need to stall him, I can manage," Ruus says as he sits up while looking to the village. "Now go."

Reina helps him to his feet before the two of us head into the village and go after Vensen.

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The warm breeze produced by the wind mixing in with the flames catches the hems of his dark robe and long hair as his bare feet take their time walking through the village. A black and devilish grin is snug on his grey skin as his dark hair drapes down his back and fades in with the night while riding upon the fiery gust. Vensen projects his sweet phrase with a disturbingly smooth sway to his voice, "Why do you shy from me little sheep? I only wish for us to be friends!" His lips pucker up to blow out another burst of flames onto one of the houses and sends the village into a deeper inferno.