Rekindle

Prologue: Me, My Demon, and I

So I was rereading my other fanfic "Flames of the Hell Spawn" and I really felt like it could have been better. I'm so happy so many of you liked the original despite all the errors! Sometimes it's hard for me to remember that my readers don't have access to my brain and don't know where I'm going with things. But anyway I hope you like this version just as much as the old one.

And for any new readers I hope you enjoy it too!!!
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"You cannot defeat darkness by running from it, nor can you conquer your inner demons by hiding them from the world. In order to defeat the darkness, you must bring it into the light."

-Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern

Assiah: forest outside True Cross City

 Year xx10

Yukio and Shura had taken the exwires on a training mission. All they had to do was exorcise some low level demons. It was simple really. That is until Rin and Bon started fighting. Yukio, in hindsight should have expected this. The two were no strangers when it came to fighting. If either one of them could find a way to get under the others skin, then they would do it.

"-and what's that supposed to mean?!" Rin shouted, interrupting Yukio from his thoughts.

"It means you're stupid if you can't even figure out that much!" Bon hastily yelled back.

"Well at least I don't look like a dumb ass rooster!"

"A rooster?!" Bon looked ready to throw a punch. The sparks between the two were almost visible and the others could feel the air crack. Shura was no help either. She had a can of beer in her hand and was laughing like the argument between the two was the funniest thing she had ever seen. Yukio sighed the day was already off to a bad start.

When they finally reached the forest, it was eerie quiet. Yukio fixed his glasses while examining his surroundings. The briefing he received said that this place was crawling with lower level demons. But that is not what he saw. He couldn't even hear the animals in the forest. Demon or not, where was all the life? He had a really bad feeling.

"I thought we were gonna go after some demons." Rin whined bored as they walked deeper into the forest.

"Stop complaining. It's not like you could handle low level demons anyway." Bon said obviously trying to anger Rin. It worked.

"Please I could defeat Satan if I wanted too!" Rin said smugly. This only spurred them on further.

"You can't even exorcise a coaltar, like hell you can defeat Satan!" The fighting only escalated from there. It wasn't long before Shura broke them up.

"Okay that's enough you two." She said sternly with a hand on each of their shoulders. She too had realized that something was very wrong with this forest. "let's focus on the mission."

"What mission? There's nothing here!" Rin said defiantly. Shura flicked his ear.

"Um." Shiemi started. "I don't want to be rude, but he's right there's nothing." She finished meekly. The rest nodded. They all noticed the oddity of the forest. The silence was heavy as they looked around the forests. That is until they heard a scream from behind them. They all whipped their heads around to see Shima flailing frantically.

"There's still bugs in this forest!" He shouted while he pulled out a can of bug spray and coated himself in it. A few of the others just rolled their eyes before continuing to search the forest.