Chapter 166: A Demon, Hunter

Walking out into a field of glowing mushrooms, I'm just amazed looking at them, "You really like them huh?" she commented while next to me, "Yeah, they're adorable~"

Grabbing my hand, "They are, on our way back let's pick some" she said, "Really? Why???" I said asking her back, "Glowing fungi from the underdark have solid effects in alchemy. Plus they're easy to grow, and glow in the dark. I think growing some at home sounds pretty neet to me"

"If you say so?" I said back, but thinking about it, won't they die in our environment, after all, the environment here in the underdark is completely different from the environment in the- Wait what's the name of our realm?

Walking around the feild an looking over at the glowing lake, we walked around it. As the outskirts of the lake was just full of these mushrooms, then there was the trees, and some mid sized boulders half my size too.

Looking next to me as Anita was glancing around, she glanced back to me with her hair covering her eyes, an as she looked silly as her hair was messy, I chuckled.

"What's so funny?" she asked.

"Nothing, just admiring" but I could help laugh.

Walking and talking with her for a few moments, getting her to talk a bunch to me, I couldn't stop smiling as she was funny, I don't know if it was intentional or not, but she had me laughing. An holdin her hand I felt warm.

I'm glad she came with me, and for many reasons, not just my for my goal of coming, but just because, stuff.

Walking next to her as my tail was swaying around like a fool, and I was smiling like one too, "Anita, I'm glad you came with me," I said, getting her to gush, and as she opened her mouth to speak– *The bushes russell.*

"Invoke my wrath and subdue them in hellish chains"

Hearing a cold voice an a sudden bang, Anita clenched my hand and kicking the ground pulled me to her, and jumping as our chests hit, I saw flaming metals...?

"Rin, watch out!" I finally heard Anita's startled voice.

Landing, we turned and she turned her back to me, an startled myself I stepped to the side to see what she was looking at and what had happened, an looking, I saw chains coming from the dirt where we were, and then a man in a vest with black dress clothes standing yards from where we were with cold, indifferent eyes.

They reminded me of the black magic magus's leader.

Chloe's. . .But several times worse, as it had me stuck.

I don't know why, but his gaze melted my feet to the dirt.

"What the hell, why'd you just attack us like that?!"

Anita yelled at the man, but looking at him I was frozen in place as he was staring me dead in the eyes, with the both of them darker than blood, and staring straight into my soul. An that tanned skin of his didn't make him any better as he reminded me of an old comrade in the boar beastkin race, because he looked serious about every move he took, but this time around, that look belongs to someone else, a human, dressed formally, and he had seemed like he was aiming to not kill, but ensnare me?

Anita yelled something again as she got defensive, but with his eyes on me the whole time, he glanced away, but when he did he looked at her and just grunted?

And raising his hand, he closed his hand making Anita stiffen up as she slightly levitated off the ground, he's doing this, he was using gravity magic, or the force?!

And forcing her hands to her side, an breakin our hands apart from eachother in a forceful yank, this broke me from my staring as I had just picked up on the current situation, that man was truly just assaulting us both.

And in realizing that now, I went on the offense, and as my flesh sizzled into darkness, I switched forms and growled as I dark dashed in front Anita, and him too.

And trying to threaten him, or at least intimidate him without having to shed any blood, he literally pulled his hand back, and grunted, "Hm..." an then I was suddenly hit! Anita came crashing into my back, making me fall!

But that shouldn't be possible, epically not in this form!

She should have just fazed right though me, right, I don't think I'm made of any actual solid matter so how is he..?Doing this to me. It just doesn't make any logical sense?

And feeling the dirt under me as my chest pressed up against the ground, Anita weighed heavy on my back, and I heard his footsteps crunching on mushrooms.

"So I was right, this settles my investigation. . ." his cold unsettled voice said as he was approaching, an hearing him, I felt startled as he overpowered me so easily too.

But not liking what he said, "Investigation, what the hell are you talking about, you attacked us!" Anita screamed at him, as she was forced against my back; and stuck.

And glancing up to see him still walking towards us, he said, "And..." his eyes looked even colder then before he spoke, an the white around his irises started blackening like blood passing through veins, turning nightmarish...

His irises glew red as the black transformed the white, and, talking more, he said, "Would you have preferred I had just killed you instead?" releasing a demonic aura.

But something about him was darker then a demon...?

There was no way, this man, was just another demon?...

"No, I wouldn't allow you such mercy anyways," saying it so coldly, he stopped in front of us, and crouched down, not even glancing at me, but instead talking to only her.

"Because I have a question before I kill the both of you"

Making her tremble on top of me from what he had just said, "No... I take it back, I don't have the time, I'll report back to the Powers about what I've found instead of it"

Clenching his hand and making her grunt, he turned and tossed her using his powers, slamming her into a large tree several yards away from us, wakin me the hell up.

And turning back to me, my eyes widened as he looked down at me in disgust, an with a swift slice of his hand, I arched back and lost my breathe, as he cut the air. An cleaved me in half from my lower belly down, instantly.

But breakin me in half had only forced me into a beserk state, and as I was breathless and in two, my head had slammed against the ground, but then my body shifted.

Slitting up into two masses and shooting into opposite directions, he didn't flinch, and manifesting into a large humanoid beast by the lake, and another by the woods.

Both growling, I turned into fox beast monsters, made from darkness, and as black haze angrily came off of me, we approached him from both sides, an he sighed?

Reaching to his side, be was carrying a rapier, an feeling the handle, his eye twitches and he glanced down to it, "I grabbed the wrong one..." he said to himself Indifferent.

An yet drawing it, and sighing again, he relaxed his face and body, and seeing an opening, the chains over where we were originally burst into fire, vanishing, and we just jumped at him, leaping and going to clash out claws.

But getting in a yard of him, he disappeared an clashing with myself, he sensed his demonic aura left of us, and seeing him a few yards over, he sliced up, creating . . .

Two thin tornados, that split to go around us, but when it did, and they started pullin us, we were stuck in-between both, and they tore our darkness into nothing but mass?

But turning the winds black, we stretched out devouring his magic making them, and dispelling them while even gaining more mass, we appeared as the same two big creatures, this time even bigger, and looking at us he...

He was gone again, an landing on the floor, we scanned for him, but when we saw him, he was over by a pink haired girl who was unconscious and under a tree.

Rasing his blade to cut her down, he dashed at him, merging behind him and forming with our claws to strike him, but he reacted quickly, turning the blade.

Striking behind him to his us, but the blade passed through us. And not batting an eye, "Hellblazer" he said and a mass of energy poured into the blade, shooting off a fire aura on the blade, blowing me up into mass.

Leaving me with a big hole in my chest, and destroying my dark mass, he then slowly turned as I jumped back, and looking at me indifferent, say, "So this is what the black mages have been up to, they make types like you?"

He said, and seeming bored, he put his blade back on his side, and putting his hand up, he taunted me, "Come on, I'm waiting," and running at him ferociously, "Grahh!"

I roared, jumping at him, but putting his foot back, and he jumped, and with the kick of his foot, spun in mid air and turning, came back around and hit me with his foot.

Spin kicking me, I flew back, slamming into a tree and passing right through it along with several more, he had literally kicked me away so easily, and still didn't look to be anywhere near satisfied wit fight me, an I came back.

Going at him, he continued to evade and counter me for minutes, taunting me and angering me more, making my darkness shift into different forms, until it was nothing but a mass of arms, eyes, fanged mouths, and not even a defined shape, as I turned into a mysterious mass...

But the only think kept me going was rage to kill him.

And using my darkness, magic, everything, he had just deflected it and defended against it, nothing was fazin him and he, didn't even attack me, he was testing me?

And he looked bored the entire time we were fighting.

Turning farrell, I jumped at him, but grabbing a random chunk of mass, he tossed me, I was getting exhausted by fighting him, and crashing into more trees, Anita who had work up, jumped on his back, stabbing him in the neck with a knife several times, and coming back to fight him more, I watched as he threw her off him.

And grabbing his neck, he seemed annoyed now.

Glancing at me as I dark dashed at him, he put his hand up, "Suppress, and bind" an my darkness shot back into me, forcing itself to turn back into flesh, making me fall and crash onto the ground as I came flying right at him.

Rolling, "Hell chains, binding" he said and bursting out of the ground, chains with sharp spearheads on their ends bursted out of the dirt and wrapped around me, holding me, and lifting me up as I was in my incubus form alive.

And regaining rationality from being beserk just then.

Seeing him, and his covering his neck, with Anita turning to get up, her halo became bigger above her, and her she looked pissed as she had a bloodied knife in her hand.

But hearing my grunt as the chains were tight, she looked over and seeing me, "Rin!" she called out, and jumping back, vanish, coming to my side instantly.

And as she had I watched as the man let go of his neck and I watched as the blood stopped coming and then the flesh started to scab and then started healing.

Healing right on the spot, and closing back up to new.

And looking over at us as Anita tried ripping the binds off of us, he released a killing intent, alarming us, but making Anita tremble as she broke out into sweats...

And we heard, "Do you know how hard it is to clean blood out of these shirts by hand..." his voice was so cold that I thought I felt ice forming on the lake surface.

"Bind..." More chains popped up, grabbing Anita too.

And binding her next to me, he was yards away, and he looked pissed, like he was going to tare out our throats now, and looking at us, be began saying to us two...

"I'm don't messing around, black magic is black magic no matter how I see it, wither or not your a new creation or some experiment, I'll kill you here and now, vile beast"

Hearing him, he then glanced at Anita, "As well as that traitorous Power, assisting you," literally making us dred as he gave off this dreadful aura, scaring us both a lot...

And stepping towards us, he drew his rapier again. But then, with something on our side, we all heard ringing...