Armani Phantomblade

8. Jekyll and Hyde.

Armani was walking through the special demon ward at the hospital in the underworld with a fresh bunch of deadly nightshade flowers for his old friend, Kumosaki. He had succumbed to Jekyll and Hyde syndrome. This meant he had two personalities, a sane one, and an insane one. Armani rushed him to the special demon ward under special circumstances as this was a rare disease among demons and humans alike. Kumosaki gained this from birth but it developed when he turned two hundred. Armani knew there was a cure, a rare cure, but it was only found in mountain areas. The flower could only be found if there was a monster nearby, a dragon, a behemoth, anything. Demons could only see the monster and flower, humans only see the juice of it when they drink it. Armani found the deadly night shade flower after killing and burying James. He'd brought the flowers for Kumosaki for him to eat as he can't drink seeing as though his stomach glands would swell. Armani found his friend in his bed, wrapped in his covers and with one half of his face, burnt and the other one, human. He looked a little like Harvey Dent or Two face from the batman franchise and he would be constantly changing in his mood swings.

"Did you...find it?" Kumosaki asked.

"I did, I always do as I promise Kumosaki! I never break a promise!" Armani said.

Kumosaki opened his mouth, waited for the flower, when it was placed in his mouth, he ate it and swallowed. He'd fall asleep from the flower which helped cure his Jekyll and Hyde syndrome. It took half an hour before he awoke and as predicted he'd recovered. It took three hundred years, but he'd recovered. Armani walked out of the room just as Kumosaki slept. He knew that no matter what, Kumosaki must recover. Armani asked the receptionist for Kumosaki's weapon, his weapon was a shotgun, that was in the shape of a knife. The gun itself used infinite ammo and the knife part was on the bottom of the gun. When he took Kumosaki's weapon, he went back up to his room, waited by his side until he awoke, and decided to give him the weapon to see what he would do. Armani handed over the weapon and, like before, Kumosaki put the weapon in his sheath, got out of bed and began going with his old friend to see the dark lord to bring news of his recovery. Finally, Kumosaki could go back into the field of action in hunting victims down for what they did. The weirdest thing was, Kumosaki was the first person ever to have become free of Jekyll and Hyde syndrome in the past two hundred years. This was a breakthrough for all of demon and humankind as they could finally cure this disease which was previously thought to be incurable. Then, the dark lord came smashing through the building, a look of fury on his face.

"Armani! There has been an explosion in one of our demon outposts in the human world! Humans who don't agree with the way we do things have gone into the base and activated the core into self destruct. Now all of the people in there dead." The dark lord began.

"For god s... well in other words, we've cured Kumosaki's case of Jekyll and Hyde disease!" Armani declared.

"What? How? Only humans know how to..." The dark lord declared.

"No, they don't, use deadly nightshade flowers, they work like a charm!" Armani declared proudly.

"Well, that does kinda make me feel better." The dark lord said before leaving.

As he walked out, Kumosaki decided to go with Armani to see the damage at this base and as they did, they saw something quite...disturbing. It wasn't an act of hate against the demons from humans, it was demons on demons. Another rogue group was out there, walking in the steps of where the other one failed. They were more tactical though, targeting places where humans and demons worked together to keep the peace between both worlds. Kumosaki noticed that there was a small dagger which had human and Demon blood mixed on the blade. There were scorched remains of demons and humans but not the demons who attacked. After all, there had to be the attackers remains somewhere right? Right? Wrong, the only remains that weren't registered as being personal in the base was a demon known as Kaan. This was a demon who was "supposedly" missing in action. He was at the first war against humans, the destruction of the old rogue demon group and the rise of the new demon empire. Then, nothing, he goes silent. Not a single sign of him for generations. They bent down on one knee to examine him when he got up and pushed Armani to the ground. Hands around his neck he was trying to suffocate a skeleton demon. Kumosaki ran his weapon's knife straight into Kaan's back causing him to release Armani and drop to the ground. As Kaan lied there holding his back in pain he began muttering something in the old tongue.

"Hena coma tila tuko yuka." Kaan muttered.

"What does that mean Armani?" Kumosaki asked.

"It means, death is only the beginning." Armani translated.

As Kaan heard the translation, he rolled his head to see Armani and Kumosaki before nodding and dying. Armani tried figuring out what he meant, Demons don't reincarnate, once their dead, they stay dead, all demons are immortal but none are invincible. Demons can die if stabbed in the right place however, so this makes them not invincible. As for Armani, there is no known way as of yet on how to kill a skeleton demon. There was a weakness, the back of the skull, but it wouldn't work for Armani. Not this time. Armani used his fireballs to scan for any remaining life, human or demon, and to bring them to him. The fireballs went searching the whole facility and only found one survivor, a human called Mark. Mark was a human who joined the army after the Antarctica battle to keep peace across the globe. There wasn't another war between humans since 1939, World War 2. Demons took part in the war and, to their surprise, outnumbered the humans who wanted to destroy their own kind and killed them all. The year was now 2316 and humans lived in peace with Demons and will continue to do so until death do them part. The demons lived in an alternate dimension to humans but could visit whenever they wanted. Their dimension is known as 'Underworld', the human world was the only dimension they could find with actual life on.