The Slayer Chronicles-Book 1|Demon Soul

Lightning Does Strike Twice

As I Headed over to city hall, I removed the Haggard Conversion Key from it's safety box and replaced it with a fake, just in case they tried to pull something, at least then they would only get away with a fake, giving me more time to plan. I arrived on the scene and as I walked in closer, I saw Hammer just sitting there, waiting for me. I walked up to him causiously, wondering where Sickle was. I had just gotten 5 feet in front of Hammer when Sickle leaped off of a nearby platform on the 3rd floor of the City Hall building and he started to slash at me again, this time with full concentration and rage of being duped back there in London.

"I WILL END YOU SLAYER!!! EVEN IF I HAVE TO KILL 1,000 INNOCENTS!!!! YOU WILL FALL!!!" He screamed at me, all whilst slashing at me furiously.

All Hammer had to do was whistle to him and nod behind himself and Sickle reluctantly ceased his attacks. I guess even with super powers, Donovan was still the boss of his younger sibling. 

"Ok Slayer, hand over the device and we'll leave and not bother you or those helpless folks over there in the bus." Hammer spoke with such hatred. He wanted to kill me off just as much as his brother, but I guess his boss had other plans, whoever he may be.

"Only if you let them go first, I want insurance that you won't just go and kill them after I hand it over!" I demand of him.

"Very well Slayer. Sickle! Slice open the doors and let them go." He orders his brother.

Sickle, again reluctantly, sprints over to the toppled bus and lets the hostages loose. He then sprints back over to his brother's side and just glares at me with pure hatred.

"Oh and Demon Slayer! Would you be so kind as to also hand over the Sonic devices you were planning to use on us?" He says to me.

I'm suddenly shocked and afraid at those words. Those devices were our only way of stopping them and he somehow KNEW!!!! HOW!?

"W-WHAT!!!? How did you know about them!?" I yell in an utterly shocked voice.

"Well, lets just say, my employer knows your tricks and had us prepare for just such an instance if it were to occur." He replies in yet another calm yet hateful tone.

I was utterly lost until I noticed that after Hammer said "My Employer", Sickle shot his head over at his brother with just as much hate as he was directing towards me just seconds ago. Then I thought to myself, these two may be family but every family has it's rivalries. I decided to use this to my advantage after handing over the Sonic pulses.

"WOW! I never figured Sickle here to be so obeidiant, just like a Dog!" I exclaim whilst walking back over to my original position.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY!?" Sickle yelled.

"Oh nothing, just that you seem to be taking a lot of orders from your brother. But as I recall, you two were partners back before this happened to you both. Are you really just going to sit there and let him boss you around?" I ask in a mildly sarcastic, and trickful tone.

"SHUT UP YOU!!!! WHY DON'T YOU GO BACK AND DO THE WHOLE HERO THING!? It seems to be the only thing you're good at these days." Hammer yells at me, obviously knowing what I'm trying to pull.

"What!? Such hostility! I was just pointing out something that didn't seem right at the time. Sickle would know, he's bearing the front of it and is still blind to the fact that he's being ordered around by his brother. To be honest Sickle, out of both your powers, I think yours are far more deadly, so that raises the question. Why are you taking orders from him and not the other way around?" I ask again in that tone.

This line of questions only ceases to enrage him further, but this time, not at me, but his older sibling.

"Ya know what Donovan, Slayer's right for once! I have the deadlier powers out of the two of us, so WHY AM I TAKING ORDERS FROM YOU!!!?" He yells at his brother.

Before Hammer can answer, Sickle turns on his brother and starts attacking him. With one perfectly placed slash, he rips open Hammer's front pocket and the Haggard Conversion Key, as well as the Sonic pulses fall to the ground. I rush over to pick them up and as I do, Hammer notices and screams at his sibling to cease. However it's too late and just as Sickle changes his direction over to me, I punch him and his brother right in the gut and then slap on the devices.

"LEGENDARY, NOW!!!!" I scream into my mic piece, and with that, Hammer and Sickle are surrounded by electricity. I figured that since the new powers they were granted involved them having metallic limbs, the electric surge from the sonic devices over-loading their helmets, would travel right into them like an electric rod in a thunder storm. It worked and both of them were knocked unconcious.

Afterwards, I alerted the  police and had them both taken away, I had to use the pulses several times on them just to keep them from escaping. Once we got to the station, I told the officers to place them in the special cells I had built there. Those cells were made specifically for super-powered foes, I had no idea if others like me would rise up and turn evil, so I took the precaution months in advance just in case. Hammer & Sickle were now behind bars once again, and as I returned to Slayer HQ I was greeted with smiles and excitement.

"Great job out there today Demon! While you were gone, we were thinking of what to name the base and we think we found just the name for it!" Kylee exclaims with utter excitement.

"Thanks guys, and what did you name it?" I ask in curiosity.

"Demon Central!" They all say at once.

"Eh, not really what I was going for." I tell them with less than glee in my voice.

"OH WAIT A SECOND!!! WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF IT EARLIER!!!?" I shout.

"What!? What is it!?" Volfan asks me.

"Slayer Central! Just like the name of my channel! Besides, you guys are now Slayers, and this is our central base of operations, so why not!?" I Exclaim.

"Slayer Central it is!" Kylee yells.

And with that Demon Slayer and the Slayerz, working in Slayer Central were off, ready to save the day again if it ever needed to be. This was one of the proudest moments of my life. However not everyone was pleased.

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"So, Hammer &  Sickle failed, is that what I am to understand?" A Disembodied robotic voice bellowed out in the darkness.

"Um, y-y-yes sir. A-a-apparently, D-demon Slayer was able to outs-smart them." A lowly scientist replied in fear.

"Well then, I guess it's time to send out our plan B isn't it Dr. Rosswell?" The robotic voice bellowed again. "Release Skar!" He Shouted.