Short Stories

Limelight Chapter 1: Greed

Klinyon pov

I glanced up at the beast in front of the class, I knew exactly who he was and why he was here. He sneered at the kids and sniffed the air, fire leaving his nose as he breathed out.

" The sin of Greed, we know that thee are here.", His voice was raspy and sounded distraught. wait....was distraught even the right word?

I just leaned back behind my desk, masking my face to match the faces of my fellow classmates, which was full of fear and horror. Oh, how amusing, I inwardly smirked.

"Fine, if you won't show yourself, then we will force you to come.", he whistled and instantly weird monsters filled my English classroom and pointed everyone with their artillery weapons. My blood boiled as images of these people's blood and dead bodies filling up this cold room. 

No, I had to remain calm, besides, what would I get out of it?

"Men, let us show an example of what we will be doing to these mortals if Greed does not come out.", he pulled Demidras' arm and wrapped his slimy arms against her neck, her back facing his front, and a gun pointed at her head. My breathing hitched, these bastards are actually going to do it.

He had a wicked smile on his face, but I knew that my smile was wider than his. As if on slow motion, Demidras' eyes widened in fear, and the beast was slowly pulling on the trigger. My eyes shot open, and my foot connected with his face kicking him outside. Demidra just looked up at me with tears of joy.

"Thank you, Klinyon.", she smiled and sniffed.

I scoffed and looked down on her, "I'm doing this for me, not for you."

"Fire men!!"

As upon instinct, I teleported everyone into my bag and smirked at the confused monsters. These weak creatures actually believe that they have a chance. The beast appeared through the hole that I just created by kicking him through.

"So you finally showed up Greed, now come with us or else.", he snapped his fingers and all of their weapons were pointed at me. There were about 20 of them, not that bad for a warm up.

I just sat back down and yawned, "Or else what? You'll kill me?"

I glanced up and saw his face turning red and his teeth were clenched, "You insolent brat, that reward is mine!!"

I smirked, my trigger word was spoken. 

Mine. 

It holds so many meaning, but my favorite is to claim that it's yours. Whether it be a person, creature, thing. Once you claim it, it belongs to you. I loved it because you get to control what happens to them once it's yours.

I teleported behind the beast, stole his blade, and smirked as I held the sharp end of the knife to his throat. The soldiers looked lost, hesitating what to do. It was to either shoot me and risk killing their boss or do nothing. These idiots, if these were Wraths' soldiers, they would've taken the shot.

"What are you waiting for, kill me.", the beast snarled. So we have a fighter?

"I wanna ask a couple of questions first."

"Fine.", I removed the knife and he signaled his men to stand down by doing some wierd jesters thing with his hands. Something still seems off.

"What's your name?"

"My name is Flibneer."

I chuckled, but quickly covered it with a cough, "Okay, any family?"

" A beautiful wife and a little girl, along with a month old so-"

"I hate boring stories, they are so dull and uninterested."

I cut him off, "The demon doc has already seen you, so you're practically useless to all of us". My blade sliced through his head and the head fell off of his body with a loud "splotch". The soldiers growled and my smile grew wider.

"Lets Tango."

I than danced the time away by dodging bullets and taking lives. When all was said and done, I sat on a table and hummed a sweet tune.

" I take what is mine, and No one, takes what belongs to me."

I snapped my fingers, and my teacher, Sabrina, looked around horrified along with the students. I just giggled, but than stopped, seeing as no one else found humor in this situation.

"Klinyon, what happened here?", my green haired best friend Julirs asked. I could see the fear in his eyes, and also hear it in his voice. He was scared of my answer.

I dangled my feet at the edge of the desk and smirked at my fellow classmates. Well, I guess that it's time for introductions.

"Hello! And Welcome!! Boys and girls," I glanced at Sabrina, "and teachers, my name is Klinyon and I am the sin of Greed. It seems as if someone has put a bounty upon my head which is rather interesting."

"How is this interesting!? My classroom is destroyed and where did you take us!!!"

I sort of forgot about the blood stained walls and the bodies either dangling from the ceiling fan or shredded into pieces on the desks and floor. I snapped my fingers and they instantly disappeared.

"No problemo, see?"

Demidra stepped forth, "Liny, this is murder. We have to take you in, you committed a crime!"

I scoffed, "Is it a true crime if there is nothing to report?"

She looked confused," What are you talking about?"

"I erased the evidence, and besides, you all are mine. Every.single.one of you.", I seethed. Their horrified eyes soon turned to hatred and fear. They were scared of what I am. I can't blame them, everyone is.

"Monster, how could you!?"

"Demon, we don't belong to you!?"

"We don't want you here!!"

Objects were thrown my way, and I took the hits. I sighed and snapped my fingers, my bag opening up.

"No one steals from me."

I then walked into my bag, which was a bright white room. I extended my hand, and summoned my chambers to be open. Instantly, a giant,brown wooden door appears and I opened the doors. I could hear the sound of children's laughter and glanced at the wall to my left. It's monitors watched over everything that I owned and I smirked at my creation.

No one steals from me, and once they're mine. There is no escaping me.