Heaven Burns

Chapter 3

Dante

After reaching the forest, I slumped myself against an old oak tree, pulling out a knife, I etched Demi's name into one arm and Selina's into the other

"That looks painful Dante" the voice said as I kept going, a reminder of the two people who actually cared about me being carved into my arms, despite all the blood, I was in shock after everything that happened at home and pain felt like nothing was even being done to my arms

"Dante, seriously, you'll bleed out before we find the Angel with wings of Red and White" the voice said somewhat calmly before I launched the knife into a nearby tree "I DON'T CARE, I JUST LOST THE TWO PEOPLE I LOVED AND THAT LOVED ME THE MOST!" I screamed, hoping no one could hear me, tears of blood began running down my face, I didn't care, I pulled the knife out of the tree and calmly placed it back in my pocket, I began to slow my breathing, eventually calming down, my arms numb

"Okay fine, lets go searching for the Angel" I said, to which the voice replied "excellent, the demon shall catch the Angel when heaven burns" A look of confusion covered my face as did my hood, I began walking through the forest, hearing....voices, screams, gunshots, for all I knew the town outside the forest could be going to shit, but I didn't care, I was grieving and listening to the voice in my head which guided me through the forest.

"So what exactly did you mean by that? 'The demon shall catch the Angel when heaven burns'" I ask the voice, puzzled by the sentence. "Well Dante, little do you know but you're a demon, your sister and mother were demons too, Jason, well he was just an asshole" I laugh a little as the thought of being a demon both intrigued and frightened me, what would happen if someone came near me? Would they get hurt?, i soon found myself asking those questions a lot.

11:10pm

After what I estimated to be about an hour of walking, it began to rain heavily, the water soaking my clothes and causing my arms to sting slightly, I continued walking through the forest when suddenly, the tree to my left in front of me fell down, as if to block my path, I jut climbed over it and kept going, I heard a gunshot, the bullet slamming into the tree on my right, I began to see lights, house lights, the owner was home, I could tell because I heard multiple gunshots fly past my head and slam into trees behind and in front of me, then I heard the engine of a dirt bike, sounded like a two stroke, barrelling towards me like an angry bull charges at a matador.

"DEMON!" The rider yelled out as he fired more shots at me, the guy seemed to have a death wish, riding and firing towards me as I dodged both bullets and this crazy psycho, I figured 'eventually he's gotta run outta bullets' which was eventually the case as he sat opposite me on his dirt bike, revving the engine to try and freak me out.

"Listen buddy, I don't know what you're talking about, I'm not a demon!" My words flying over his head as he rode towards me, as he got closer, I dodged, the front wheel of the bike going up the trunk of the tree, the rider fell off as the chain broke, the bike fell back and landed on him with a loud thud, his leg was trapped under the bike, I readied The Red Queen, ready to strike him if he got up, which he did, grabbing the broken chain in his hand and trying to slash me with it, he was successful the first couple of times, third time he wasn't so lucky, with a quick slice as he went to strike me, I separated his arm at the elbow, my eyes going blue as opposed to the brown colour they normally were, he held his arm as he backed up

"P-please don't kill me, y-you can t-take anything you want, just please don't kill me!!" He pleaded, I smirked and with a couple of movements, I'd taken his other arm and driven my sword through his chest. "Killing You is certainly quicker and quieter than hearing you beg" I pulled the sword out of his chest and slung it back across my back, sighing lightly, I had no regret for the events that just unfolded so, I headed to his house and made myself at home, needing some sleep, I wrapped my arms in bandages and laid on a bed, making a plan to go out and look for the Angel in the morning, soon falling asleep.

The next morning after breakfast, I wandered around eventually finding a mansion, I seemed to recognise it as Slenderman's mansion, figuring he had killed more people than I have, I decided not to pay him a visit but instead start a small fire that would gradually get bigger as time passed so, I  continued walking after starting the small fire with what I could find, walking away towards a clearing with an old oak tree, eventually arriving at the tree and sitting underneath it with my wings out to watch the fire from a distance.