Claimed by Death

Ch 1 First Life

It was a day just like the rest for the last fifteen years since I had been picked up by my elder brothers, they had named me Sariel when they picked me up and had taught me what they new. I trained hard in each of the combat styles that my brothers used, though each style had the sole purpose of being used to kill my brothers did not let me actually work as an assassin with them, but I was sure once I was a little older and stronger I would be allowed to contribute.

While I was practicing with the simulations in the training room the door closed and the automatic lock activated. I finish the attack braking the simulation apart and go to the computer accessing the internal monitor intending to tell one of my brothers to open the door. What met my sight was an overwhelming number of people swarming my brothers who where all injured to various degrees. Their specialities was subtle and specific killing not fighting large numbers.

I raced my fingers over the keyboard simultaneously attacking the rooom lock while also recording the faces and searching for information on all the attackers. The list compiled quickly but the progress on the lock was slow. As the final code activates and the lock opened the attackers have already left. I race to my brothers checking their pulse one by one but their is nothing. Silent tears fell down my checks as I sat beside them, a whistle sounded and a rocket entered the house from the kitchen window. It exploded and ignited the alcohol and fuel tossed over the floor. With a deep breath I moved into a crouch and after finding that the pendants that represented my brothers had all been taken I move back to the training room and collect all the weapons I could use and carry before I headed out through the escape tunnel.

Five years later

The ballroom bustled as I leaned on the balistrade waiting for the main event. Before to long five men entered from the back entrance, four of them walking with nerves guns pointed but shaking at the fifth man in between them. He was dressed in black pants and a grey vest with long silver hair and exquisite features. His hands were handcuffed behind him and manacles where hooked around his feet with another chain going from his neck to his hands. Despite all that he walked as if it was a casual stroll he could have been at the shops or the beach for all the indifference he showed.

"It seems that the final pieces has been gathered." An average looking man dressed in ostentatious white suit says as he walked to the edge of the stage where the silver haired man had been brought. A small covered table was beside him and as the silver haired man did no more than raise a brow in response he pulls the cover away and picks up one of the four pendents on the table. Holding it up he proclaims "the Fallen have fell, Loki of Misfortune has passed." 

A cheer resounds and I flick a switch on my bracket and begin to move down the stairs to the ballroom floor. As the pendent is tossed in to the air I flick my hand and catch it, with a click it attaches to my bracelet and begins to slowly turn.

"Seth of Chaos is no more." A second pendent is held up and tossed I shift further into the crowd and snatch it and flick the second switch on the bracket before clicking it into place.

"Rahu of Darkness." Snatch, flick, click.

"Asura of Death." Snatch, flick, click.

"And finally captured before you, Hades of Death."

"I'm actually called Azrael." The silver haired man cut in and white suit sneered. He opened his mouth to continue but a man in the crowd called out,

"What about Lucifer of Lies? The killer that has been cutting his way through all the underworld with methods reminiscent of the fallen?" I smiled as I slid through the crowd closer to the stage. 

"That is merely a group of useless copycats that have been dealt with." White suit waved his hand as he spoke. 

Hmm, strange I don't remember that. As I settled into position at the edge of the crowd I glanced at the big screen behind the stage.

"So your saying they have done no significant damage to the major families?" The man in the crowed called out again. White suit looked at him sharpely but as he started to reply the screen came to life showing four seperate views of the central compounds of the major families. The party was in the compound of the fifth family. As I looked at the man that ordered the death of my family growing pale as enimes of the families raged inside the other compounds steadily eliminating the groups one by one my smile deepened.

"Hmmm, it would seem that things are not as rosey as you have been implying," I said as I stepped out of the crowd. His face went red and he jerked his head telling his men to attack. Loki's symbol finished its rotation and the compound's security system activated sealing the room shut while the other guns seemingly malfunction killing some of the gurus in the hall. 

As the two men reach me I slid forward under the first punch and the knife that appeared in my hand stabs deep into his stomach before I spun  behind the second man caressed the blade across his throat. My black dress settled as I turned back towards white suit. The silent crowd begun to panic and I flicked four knives from my hands, he four guards that had surrounded Azrael dropped to the ground with the knives in their throats. Seth and Rahu's symbols stop revolving and an explosion sounded before the lights went out.

"Why, I'll pay you, lots of money. You'll die here if you continue." White suit cried while he desperately moved behind his remaining guards.

"Tsk, tsk. Do you really think I came him intending to leave? I came to kill, I like to finish what I start." Two foot long blades slid into my hands and I flicked my hand and tossed the keys to Azrael before I started the slaughter. As the last body dropped the lights flickered back on and around the ballroom only myself  and Azrael remained standing white suit had died the worst but it was not without cost, both Azrael and I were riddled with wounds that as the adrenaline faded had me collapsing onto the floor. 

Big brothers I got them, the power they kIlled for is gone and now I have taken their lives, please don't abandon me......