Unlikely Hero: Fall of the Demon Slayer

Part 12

I shot across the sky with the speed of a jet. I was pushing my wings to the limit. I won't stop until I get there. Killing him was the only thing on my mind. That is my mission, and only one of us will make it out alive. He has taken to much from me to be left alive. Claire, her parents, Eric, all the people of Lumberton. I will avenge them all.

The air felt cold as I got closer to the town. Search lights flashed through the sky and buildings were burning down. I found my old house and landed outside the backdoor. I opened it and went down to my room. The place was trashed again. The Power Hunters must have gone through here to search through my things. I went over to my night stand and opened the bottom drawer. The false wall was still there thankfully. I reached under it and pulled out the journal. I set it down on the floor.

"Brutus. I need your help." I said

The journal flipped open and a dark mist flowed out of the pages. Brutus appeared in front of me.

"What is it you need help with Randall?" He asked.

"The Power Hunters. They have taken to much from me and this town. I need help taking them down." I told him.

"What is it you need me to help you with?"

"I need more power, Coleton is too powerful for me to defeat him with my current power. I need more."

"There is a power I could give you that may help you, but it will use up my last bit of energy. I will no longer be with you."

I pondered on the thought of him giving his life to help me. I've already lost to many people I was close to for me to lose another.

"You do not need to worry about me, I've lived a long enough life. Use my power to help save the rest of the people so no one else has to die."

"Are you sure this is what must be done?" I asked him.

"If you want to have enough power to defeat him then yes."

"If that's what must happen then it must be done."

Brutus nodded his head and stuck out his arm. I stuck out mine and grabbed his hand. Mist flowed out of his body and went into mine. I could feel his power entering me. He slowly started to fade away as his power drained into me. His power was making me stronger. I felt a surge of energy pass through my body, then I blacked out. When I came to, Brutus was gone and a large scorch mark was on the floor. I was ready.

I went back upstairs and walked through the backdoor. I went demon and spread my wings open. Brutus' power was flowing straight through me and was making me stronger. I shot up into the sky and made my way to their base of operations. If he was anywhere it had to be there. They had turned the old gas station into a fortress with barbed wire and guard towers surrounding it. Snipers were watching the area from the towers and guards kept watch at the front entrance.

There was no point in taking this stealthily. If I was attacking them, I wanted to make them know it was me. I dove down to the first tower and blew it up with the impact. Alarms started going off and Power Hunters were scattering around trying to asses the situation.

"Coleton, I'm here for you!" I shouted.

The shout made the ground shake. It echoed through the air and rocked the trees around us. He had to have heard it.

"It took you long enough to show up. I was beginning to think you went back on your promise."

Coleton was here.

"I'm going to make you pay! You took everything from me!"

"I did what I had to do to get to you! My job is to hunt down freaks like you and kill them."

"You're a freak too, I just have the nerve to face the fact that I can actually do good by my power."

"I'm doing good by purging the world of monsters."

"Then why don't you purge yourself. You are a monster underneath all that. We all have seen it with our own eyes."

"Don't call me a monster. I am nothing like you!"

"What are you going to do about it, monster?"

"You'll regret calling me that!"

Coleton reared back and transformed into his beast form. I went down to the ground and prepared for the fight ahead of me. A roar of anger echoed through the air as Coleton turned. I mustered together all the power I could. Power surged into me.

"UNLEASH HELLFIRE!" I shouted.

Hellfire burst through my hands as I gained more power. I was ready for the final battle.

We charged at each other. With all my strength I threw a punch right at his face. His arm came up from beneath me. We exchanged blows and shot back from each other. I jumped up and attacked him again. He jumped back and dodged my attack. He shot his leg up and kicked me back away from him. He opened his wings and shot up into the sky. I opened my wings and followed behind him. I charged behind him and wrapped my arms around his body. He jammed his elbow into my side and tried to get me off of him. My arms tightened their crushing grip around him. I pulled my arm back and shoved my claws into his back. He roared in pain and started to fight back harder. I grabbed his wing and began to pull it off. Coleton reached around him and grabbed my arm.

"Such a weak boy, you are fueled by nothing but rage and revenge." He told me.

His hand gripped around my throat. I slashed at his arm to get away but he wasn't budging. Then with a swift movement he grabbed my wings and pulled them. They ripped clean off my back. I wailed in pain. Then it struck me, this was part of his plan. He knew I'd follow him up into the air and he knew what I was going to do.

"You planned this!"

"Yes I did, and now you are going to die like everyone else you loved!"

He threw me down, flying down and beating me as I plummeted to the Earth. I wasn't going to die like this though, if I was going down then he was going down with me. On his last swing I grabbed his arm and pulled him in close. I pulled together all the rage I was feeling. Heat began to radiate off of me. A bright ball of flames formed around us as we fell. I was almost to the ground.

I wasn't strong enough to hold him. He kicked back and got free of my grip. I fell to the ground. Then with the force of a nuclear blast I hit the ground. The large explosion detonated the area around me. Coleton was wrapped up in his wings to protect himself from the blast. I was lying in the middle of a massive crater. The whole town was destroyed. Nobody was left alive except Coleton and I. I killed everyone in the town.

I climbed out of the crater and saw Coleton was gone. Nowhere in sight. I looked around at the destruction surrounding me. The trees were blown away and a massive dust cloud covered the air. I turned my back and ran. I had to get away from this. This was my ending. This was the fall of the Demon Slayer.