Snow Stained with Blood (Mephisto Pheles fanfiction)

Chapter 5

Hi everyone. Its a little late but here's the chapter for October. Hopefully I will be able to post the chapter for this month (November) sooner.
Thanks for your patience and I hope you enjoy this chapter!
(The GIF is from the anime Owari no Seraph/Seraph of the End)

The next day I heard from my fellow cram school classmates that a demon attacked Kamiki and Paku yesterday in the girl's bathroom but fortunately Rin was there to save them along with Yukio. Unfortunately, I was in that meeting with Mephisto while this all happened so I couldn't help in anyway, which made me feel kind of guilty.

The first class of the day was specifically on lethal passaged known as Fatal Verses which are recited by Arias. The teacher said phrases or words in Fatal Verses that will cause the death of demons and an Aria's job is to identify and recite the correct Fatal verse to kill the demon they are battling against. "Now which brave soul shall I call upon to recite the passage I assigned from homework?" the teacher asked.
Thankfully she picked Kamiki to recite the verse. I struggled to remember such long verses and didn't really care about them much to begin with as it wasn't my goal to become an Aria. Kamiki failed to recite the verse and honestly, I couldn't blame her after what I heard happened with the demon yesterday. The teacher however was shocked by how Kamiki couldn't remember the verse saying it wasn't like her at all. Suguro was the one next chosen to recite the verse and he did it perfectly, without any mistakes at all, I knew then his own goal was obviously to become an Aria.

The teacher then left as it was time for our break and Shiemi and Rin complimented Suguro on how he read the Fatal verse but Kamiki being herself decided to insult him saying that Arias are completely defenceless in battle and saying he was out to get everyone's attention. I personally chose to ignore the fight and chose to continue reading my notes from the class. But I couldn't help but look up when Suguro grabbed Kamiki's shirt and she went to slap him but missed and hit Rin instead.
I mentally sighed at the actions I had just witnessed and was debating on whether to leave the room for some fresh air but then Yukio suddenly walked in, looking like he was going to explode.

Next thing I knew we were all in the old block of apartments where Rin and Yukio were staying. We were all sat in an empty room with a low-level demon known as a Bariyon resting on our laps as a sort of punishment for not getting along as a class. Even as a low-level demon the pain I felt was becoming increasingly strong as the longer a Bariyon sit on you, the heavier it gets, which I also heard konekomaru explaining to Rin.
You'd think Rin would pay attention in class seen as he wasn't brought up knowing about demons like the rest of the class but he chooses to sleep through them instead and therefore can't identify any of the demon's we come across.

Yukio told us that this was a kind of boot camp and it was to help us with our team building skills and then gave us a lecture about how teamwork as exorcists was crucial. I knew this was an important factor already; even the most powerful exorcists always had a team with them. Yukio then suddenly left on a mission and so we were all stuck on our own, with Kamiki and Suguro continuing to debate about why they were here.

The duo continued to argue until the lights suddenly turned off, much to our surprise, and I decided to remove the heavy Bariyon from my lap. "I have a bad feeling" I said standing up, it felt as though we were being watched and my instincts told me to grip the key around my neck, ready to summon Fura if I needed to.
My actions made the others tense up a little, especially since it was only this building whose power had been switched off. It was all a little bit suspicious.
Shima however just laughed at us stating he loved stuff like this and it was like a real life test of courage as he opened the door at the bottom of the room to almost immediately close it in a comical-like way. "aha my eyes must be playing tricks on me, either that of we have a demo-" Shima didn't even finish his sentence before a large, demonic arm broke the door down and a quite a large demon walked through.

"it's the demon from yesterday!" Rin yelled informing me before the 'stitching' on one of the demon's heads burst, causing its fluid to spray all over us, much to our disgust.
The demon had the scent of sulphur so I guessed it was kin to the king of rot and therefore weak against fire. I gripped my key even tighter, Fura was a flame-type demon so it would be super affective against this gross demon but I didn't want to summon my scythe in such a small place in fear of hurting my classmates in the battle and of course Rin couldn't use his sword so what were we supposed to do?!

Shiemi asked her baby greenman to grow a certain type of root, using one of the names she assigned to each type of plant. The roots spread through the room, piercing the demon and creating a barrier between us. A few of us began to celebrate, praising Shiemi for her quick thinking but I knew that was way too easy, I still felt as though we were being watched.
The demon split itself in two, one half falling to the floor and growing its own set of limbs on the now empty half of its body and began trying to break through the plant barrier.
It was then we began to feel the effects of the demon's fluids, it was similar to that of a temptaint and I began to cough, feeling dizzy. Rin himself was not affected seen as he was half demon an before the others could question him as to why he was unaffected he climbed through the roots, towards the door, distracting the demon and leading him away from us.

"Rin wait!!" I yelled climbing through the roots myself to chase after him. I knew I had to help, he couldn't face off against such a thing alone and I was worried about his flames and whether this whole thing was a trap. I held a tight grip onto my key as a ran after them, which was quite difficult in the dark "I can't see a damn thing. I'm relying on my hearing to know where they are right now" I stopped and listened, hearing the pounding footsteps of the demon and Rin taunting it. 'Its now or never' I thought. I pulled to key away from my neck and it turned into a magnificent scythe (look at GIF at top of page)