Armani Phantomblade

4. Out there.

Armani and Daru would lock blades and be fighting vigorously to fight for victory against the training drones and each other. Daru ran his hooked blade around Armani's Katana and off went flamer into the air as Daru flew up, caught it and delivered it back.

"I knew I could trust you, Armani," The Dark Lord bellowed applauding his son's victory.

Armani put his Katana into his sheath and pushed Daru up to the dark lord. He nodded at him to approach his father so he could gain some notice that his father actually loved him. The dark lord gave his son a rare smile that no one ever saw before. He asked his son to wait outside the door while he spoke to Armani about his next trial that all demons must do. Armani taught Daru everything that he knew so he would last in a fight.

"You have to take him to the overworld again. To a small Russian town of Skerio, it was made by rogue demons and humans took over. There is a man there who must be killed for raping and slaughtering men and women of all ages." The dark lord said.

"No, no we can't do that. He's not able to kill a rapist and killer yet. He can kill a murderer yeah but not rapist. I have someone in mind already Satan. He would do well to kill him as the murderer is a serial killer. Still in Skerio, but in the shanty areas. He has to kill this man or he'll never reach his potential." Armani protested.

The dark lord nodded in agreement as he revealed the man's name was Vladimir Krakov. The dark lord shuddered at the sound of his name as he knew that no demon had survived the encounter with Vladimir. Armani assured him that Daru would survive as he would go with him and with this, Armani took Daru by the hand and off to Skerio. He found Vladimir and allowed Daru to claim his first kill. Armani made all people leave the area so this would work and as he did so, Vladimir raised Roson's glowing green Kukri which stole souls of those it killed, even demons. Armani flew into Vladimir in such a fury it looked like a black mass which shot from one end to another with red eyes filling Armani's empty eye socket's in his skull.

"Where did you get this?! It was my mentors!" Armani shrieked at Vladimir.

"Ne tvoye delo," Vladimir choked.

"What does that mean?" Armani said impatiently.

"It means non of your business." Vladimir answered.

Armani raised Vladimir by his neck, his red eyes descending back into his sockets, grabbed his mentor's kukri, threw it over to Daru who ran the blade into Vladimir's stomach. He made a death grunt as his body dropped to the floor and his soul was drained into the kukri. Armani opened a portal nearby, erased Vladimir from existence, and with Daru and Vladimir's body, they jumped into the portal to see the Dark Lord and reveal what happened. The dark lord was both shocked and pleased to hear this, but as predicted, he soon asked how he managed to do it and Armani revealed that Vladimir had Karu's Kukri and it became his own downfall. When he asked how he came to have acquired this, Armani told him exactly what Vladimir said, but, when he killed him and Vladimir's memories came to the dark lord and he proved that he stole the Kukri after using it to kill Karu while the humans were recovering and Vladimir used Karu's blood transfused into his body to keep him alive, so he would keep killing demons and use their blood as the secret for immortality. Of course he knew one day he'd die and he was fine with that but he wasn't to use the Kukri on that day. He didn't know what to do and what day it was. He wanted to kill all demons to sustain more life. He wanted to go to kill but it didn't work, and now, he was dead. Daru was now part of the low council. If he killed the targets set by the medium council or High council, he would get promotions and eventually reach the same rank as Armani, The Dark Lord's hand soldier. They were soldiers who served directly under The Dark lord himself, Satan which was established after the war. Daru bid farewell to Armani and Satan before going up to the lower council chamber for a welcoming party. Armani felt proud with himself and the young trainee who only took five months (Five years human time) to train the boy.