Silhouette In The Eclipse

Chapter 4|Betrayal

He observed her as she fell into a dreamless slumber. Such a pathetic creature she chose to hide in. He waved his hand and the flames disappeared, the tendrils had let go of her. She would have fallen onto the ground if he hadn't caught her. He didn't want to catch her and yet he did...

He cradled her in his arms. It would have been so easy to just kill her now. He wanted to have the pleasure of making her suffer. To see the pain in her eyes. The blood seeps from her skin. But there was that look in her eyes. The look of loneliness and despair. And the words she said of them having the same darkness. He knew that look all too well. It reminded him of her...

"Hand the girl over" He had his back turned away from the stranger, no... three strangers. He turned around to face them. It certainly wasn't strangers. A girl and two boys. This was a sight to see. All plain in their human skin.

"Or what?" He responded with a smirk. He knew them all too well, they were also hiding in their pathetic human skin, but they still had some power inside of them.

Devan scowled, if looks could kill, Dante would have been dead a long time ago. But he knew not to interfere. But he was blinded with rage.

"I will kill you!"

"Devan stop!" Claire's voice rang out as she tried to stop her brother from doing something he might regret.

With his weapon in his hand, he slashed the air, hurling an invisible force toward the mysterious boy. Though he did not waver, a shield of darkness appeared, shielding himself and the unconscious Serah. Controlling the shield of darkness, he redirected the attack toward Devan. The sudden attack sent Devan back, colliding with Claire.

"That's enough, please stop!" She held Devan back.

"We can't do anything. We've protected her enough." She pleaded to her brother.

"This is not how it ends!" He was ready to strike, but Ryan stood in front of the two.

"She said enough Devan, listen to your sister," Ryan yelled at him and walked up to the mysterious boy.

"As I said, hand her over. You've already made her suffer enough."

He laughed, a maniacal laugh. The sight before him. These three nuisance thought that they had the upper hand. He could have killed them in a heartbeat. His laugh, made their skin crawl. He gave the three of them one last look before throwing Serah, like a rag doll towards Ryan. He caught her before she could hit the ground. The mysterious boy could then feel their rage swirl in the air.

"Don't you worry your little heads off now? She'll be dead in a few minutes and maybe by then, you could say that you have achieved your mission."

Leaving those words hanging in the air. With the blink of an eye, he was gone like the wind, vanishing with the darkness.

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A few minutes had passed and Serah still laid unconscious, her body slowly dying. With the help of Claire, they were able to prolong the shell that she was in. But only for a couple more minutes. The rage that swirled in the air had now been replaced with sadness. They had brought her back to her home.

When they had thought this was the end of her, they were wrong. In her bed, she quietly stirred. Slowly she began to wake up, her body felt as if there were a thousand stabs. She was panting and in pain, her breaths were coming out short.

"Take it easy," Claire says as she helped her to sit upon the bed. She then handed her a glass of water, she was so thirsty, she gulped it down in seconds.