Demise - A Story About Reincarnation

Prologue (Part 2)

Daniel sat on the ground, shakily breathing and tears staining his face as he continued to stare down at Riot's body before pulling out his phone and dialing his adopted daughter's number with shaky hands.

* In England*
A silver haired female was in her hotel room, sleeping peacefully before hearing her phone ring, the sound of vibrating caused her to mumble softly and soon sit up. "Hm..?" Crawling to the other side of the bed, she realized it was Daniel. "Hello?" She answered into the phone.

* Back in the Demon Realm *
Daniel sniffled softly as he wiped away the tears that continued to travel down his face. " I..have bad news.."

The silver haired female's elvish ears began to droop as she heard her adopted father sniffle. " Uh..Daniel is something wrong? Do I have to kick someone's ass?"

Daniel shook and his head as he responded with a slight voice crack in his throat, " No..you don't understand, Qrow.. Riot's..dead."

The female, Qrow, felt her world stop as she heard those words. Her body began to tremble, black tears rushed down her face as she quickly shook her head. " No..that can't be possible..Riot can't be dead..! He promised me that he wouldn't ever leave me!"

Daniel sighed softly as he pressed his forehead against his dead lover's body, whimpering quietly before continuing to cry again as he thought ' Riot's dead..but..I can't go on without him..I just can't..maybe I should.. Wait, there's one more solution..I have to..' He then slowly stood up taking a sharp breath and speaking with Qrow again. "..I can't live without Riot..he might have left me but...I'm going after him..'

Qrow, at that moment, knew exactly what he was talking about, causing her to burst out of bed and began to pack up her things. " Daniel! Don't do what I think you're going to do!"

"You can't stop me. I have to go after him..he's my whole world and to be without him...I feel so empty..I have no purpose if he's not with me.." Daniel's eyes were clouded with fear as flashbacks of him cutting himself flashed in his mind, causing his heart to pound. ' No..I don't wanna go through that again..I don't want to..'

" DANIEL!" A voice ripped through Daniel's thoughts, causing him to whip around at the sight of a silver haired female, her hair in a messy bun, a backpack in her right hand, and her breathing was loud and heavy. " Qrow.." he murmured, looking at her up and down before letting out a sigh as she peeked behind him. Qrow's black tears traveled down her face once again as she looked down as her father's body, his face still dried with blood. ' He's really dead..my dad is dead..' Qrow's legs began to tremble as he soon collapsed onto his body, hugging him tightly as she sobbed loudly.

Daniel looked down at her, pity striking his heart as he slowly walked inside. " I'm going after him," he said as he walked inside, " feel free to follow me.".

Qrow looked up at him, her eyes wet with tears, " Wait..don't go.." only seeing the door close. She looked back down at her father's body, pressing her forehead against his chest before hearing footsteps behind her. She was just about to look up before feeling a sharp object go through her chest, causing her to let out a piercing scream.

Daniel, not being able to her the scream, since he was already downstairs in the basement was gathering some rope to use. His breathing was shallow and heavy, his movement were slow and steady, his face was extremely pale. The vampire climbed on a chair and began to tie the rope against the roof of the basement, his heartbeat was slow and calm, as if it were to stop so suddenly. He sighed  as he took a deep breath and whisper, " I'm coming, Riot.."

The object was a silver dagger and it went straight through Qrow's chest, tears were welling up in her eyes the dagger was pulled out, causing her to fall on her stomach, groaning in pain as she attempted to military crawl away but had no luck as her vision began to blur, her breathing becoming more hallowed by the second. She fell limp as she murmured her last word, " N-no..."

Daniel then pushed his head through the rope and felt himself gag, kicking violently as the chair was knocked over and he was left hanging on the ceiling, his breathing continued to rasp as his breathing got shallower and shallower, his vision got dimmer and dimmer as he whispered for the final time, " I'm coming..my love.."

He stopped breathing.