Chapter II- Akuma?

"So, you're telling me I can fight a god and that I hopefully win? You should know I'm only human. I've only maxed out on how strong I can become because I was forced to if I wanted to be able to fight against the supernatural creatures I track, I couldn't stand up against a god, you're joking right?" Akuma had asked with a smirk that went almost ear to ear, and he may be showing that he would love to fight whatever god that Sada talked of. Still, on the inside, he knew he couldn't defeat anyone as powerful as a god, not unless he was a supernatural creature or if he obtained some kind of power to rival that of a god, but the words out of Sada's mouth almost perplexed him.

" You think you're a human, that's humorous, whoever is telling you that is not truly know who you are, or maybe they are just hiding the secret of who you are from you, And if you're going to ask me to tell you what you are or how much I know about you, the answers to those questions you have for me and any other questions you have will have to be questions you answer for yourself instead of me answering them or anyone else, how much might you know about yourself?" Sada said holding back a bit of laughter at the beginning as if to say she thought it was funny that Akuma thought he was a human, but if Akuma wasn't a human, then what was he, what kind of supernatural was he if not just a standard human, and how would he find answers for the questions he had for Sada, would the boss of the agency he worked for know?

" You know, you piss me off for someone who is supposed to know about me, but I'll take a guess you probably know more about whatever past that I have than I do, considering the most I remember about is waking up about five years ago in the agency I work for, with tattoos and scars on my body that I don't know how they appeared, the agency told me I was part of an experiment that would allow people who underwent the experiment to be strong enough to fight most any supernatural creature, is that true?" Akuma asked while he began to turn his body away from Sada to make his leave to the agency to obtain answers from the boss, to see if the boss was lying to Akuma if Akuma tried to ask about how much the boss knew about Akuma.

" Nope, they're lying to you, Akuma. Hopefully, you can find the truth before we go, if not it'll most likely go bad when you find out, ill give you exactly twenty-four hours before I have to drag you with me" Sada spoke as she stood up from the ground that she had been lying on until now. When she was on her feet, Akuma had begun walking towards the open shoji door.

"Don't worry, I'll find out one way or another, besides who said I was going to join you on the adventure that is apparently 'My destiny'?" Akuma asked while bringing his hands upwards about his shoulder, all his fingers besides both his index and middle fingers were curled up in a fist, and used his two fingers that were still up and motioned them as quotes when he said 'My destiny.' as he walked out from the house and to the agency to find answers, but he did want to go with Sada because it sounded better than what he currently was doing, being a dog for the boss of the agency, and her name was Elizabeth Balliol.

Twenty-seven minutes passed, and Akuma was currently outside of the 68 storied building he worked for, the name of his agency to the people was known as a part of the FBI, but the real name was 'The paranormal silencers.' And Akuma and others that killed the supernatural creatures like him were called 'The helpers.' The helpers were more of mercenaries than just workers since their pay worked from the people they killed. The paranormal silencers' specific objective was to eliminate all things nonhuman, and anyone that would dare help the supernatural would be taken out as well, no matter if they were human or not. The agency didn't care if you were harmless or harmful, as long as you were not a human, then that equal to you being killed. The paranormal silencers worked for the government, but the paranormal silencers worked as a secret project, no one knew anything about them except for the highest ranking in the government, and the president, but what was more unknown was Akuma. No one knew anything about him besides the basics and a little more, but Akuma didn't know that yet.

"Wonder where Elizabeth would hide them, maybe her desk?" Akuma mumbled to himself, curious about where his file maybe, considering once in the past; during the first year he could remember he tried to find out more about himself but couldn't find a single file on him, the only place he didn't check was the boss's office. So he would have to see if maybe the boss had his file(s).

"No, that would be too obvious, maybe her house? I'll just have to check everywhere she would normally keep files, considering she's never said yes to letting me see my files, I wonder why, maybe there's something cool in there, or maybe something scary" Akuma kept mumbling to himself, cocking a small smile to the thought of what could be inside his file, could his whole past be in there, maybe the powers that Sada had talked about would be in there, the only way to find out was to get the files during the night at around eight o'clock since that was normally the time that Elizabeth left the office, so Akuma could either wait out or go confront her about it again, Akuma couldn't just go to her home since he didn't know where she lived, even if he did there would probably be something there that would tell Elizabeth that he was there, most likely security cameras. Akuma walked towards the front desk that was on the first floor while still mumbling quietly to himself, moving his right hand into his right back jean pocket to pull out a folded piece of paper, after unfolding the piece of paper with both hands the paper had a picture of Tsuneo Yamaguchi, the picture covered everything from the shoulders and above, under the image of Tsuneo there was his name, under his name there was 'ONLY DEAD' and right under there, the paper had '7400 sjiean' the price on Tsuneo head, this was the paycheck that Akuma would get once he turns in the paper, Akuma handed the unfolded paper to the lady that sat behind the desk, the lady wore the outfit that every female worker that wasn't a helper wore, which was a long navy blue skirt that went three inches below her knees, a white button up shirt with a red tie, a navy blue blazer, and a name tag that was on top of her left breast, the name tag was black with golden outlines and her first name that was written in a golden color as well her name being 'Sarah'

"Hello Akuma, I see you killed another victim this week, that makes six in total, and it's only Wednesday, you're eliminating two a day, you should take a break, you have enough money don't you?" Sarah asked, with a smile while her face had enough makeup on it to tell from a mile away, Akuma chuckled a little. While Sarah was grabbing the cash prize for killing Tsuneo, Akuma looked from his left to his right, seeing if maybe the boss was nearby, but he couldn't see her anywhere nearby.

"I don't have much else to do so might as well do what I'm getting paid for, besides I gotta find someone strong if I want to keep being able to fight," Akuma said as Sarah brought her hands up from under the desk with a wad of cash, that was Akuma prize, Akuma grabbed the money with his right hand and used his left hand to go inside his left pocket, fishing out a slim leather wallet as he put the money inside only about twenty-five percent of that seventy-four hundred dollars could fit, while the rest he decided to put in his back right pocket since he was holding the cash with his right hand.

" Do you happen to know where the boss is?" Akuma asked, and Sarah had given him an immediate answer as she turned her body away from him and to a computer, typing on the keyboard, Akuma saw from the corner of his eyes that Sarah was putting in that Tsuneo had been eliminated and that Akuma was the one who eliminated him.

" Miss Elizabeth is out to lunch a while ago, miss Elizabeth won't be back for another thirty minutes," Sarah said, turning to face Akuma to ask him if he had any more questions. But, Akuma had already left the front desk, Sarah looked right and left, seeing Akuma walking towards the elevators that could take him to the boss's office, and any other floor on this building.

"If she's out to lunch, then I could check her office, that was the only place I didn't check last time I tried looking for my files" Akuma mumbled to himself, thinking that if it were anywhere in the building, it would most likely be in Elizabeth's office. When the elevator opened Akuma walked inside, keeping his body faced towards the open elevator doors, Akuma pressed on the button that was at the top of the columns of buttons with the number '68' in the middle of the button. After pressing the button, the button glowed yellow as the door began to close, Akuma was the only one inside the elevator, once the doors closed, the elevator started to go upwards slowly. When the elevator had arrived at the sixty-eighth floor, the elevator made a high pitched ding, signaling that Akuma had reached his location, the doors slowly opened, Akuma made his first step out from the elevator into the hallway that would lead him directly to Elizabeth's office since the hallway only had one door that led to an office, the hall was twenty feet long at most, and the hallway was utterly silent until Akuma began walking towards Elizabeths after the elevators door opened fully to let him inside. The hallway's walls were colored in white, and the floors were black and white tiles, the floor looked like a chessboard. As Akuma walked, Akuma's heart began to beat a bit faster. His mind began to fill with thoughts at the back of his mind about what could be in the files that were so important that they would have to hide it away from him, for the first time in the five years, Akuma had been alive, he was nervous. He was worried that maybe there was nothing on the files, or perhaps everything about him would be on the records, every question he had about himself could be on these. Akuma reached the dark wooden door, with the boss's name directly on the middle of the door, her name was decorated in gold, Akuma moved his right hand from his side to the silver doorknob, slowly twisting the doorknob, when Akuma heard the small click from the doorknob, he pulled the door inwards to see Elizabeth's office was empty of humans. The floor was a glossy marble, and three of the walls were colored grey, with the wall directly in front of the door being entirely made of glass, on the right side of the room there was the desk that was made from oak wood and iron bars for the legs, on top of the desk there were two thirty-inch monitors that were flat, with the cords that were connected to the monitors going down and into the desk, in front of the monitors there was a black keyboard and a small pink mouse on the right side of the keyboard, and on the left side of the desk, was a stack of papers, underneath the desk were two file cabinets on both sides. A tower computer that was on the behind the file cabinet on the right side, the tower computer was sitting horizontally, with the front-facing towards the left and all the cords going to the right to the end of the tower computer. In front of the desk, there were two standard white chairs, with one black chair that was behind the desk, in front of the monitors was a rolling chair. On the wall, the door was on, there were heads of the monsters that she had slain, but there was only a few missing, three of them being an angel, demon, and the extinct dragon, no one knows what had happened to the dragons, but there are currently none in the world. The boss had seen her fair share of monsters. Both sides of the right and left sides of the office from the door, the walls were hidden by bookshelves, inside the bookshelf where all the books were every color in the rainbow, and items that didn't seem out of the ordinary, from just average decor to bottles of alcohol and bottles of certain kinds of dust that were used to make potions, but there was one weird item on her shelve that was on the right side of the room, it was a two-inch cylinder that had a pin on the top of the cylinder that kept it small, on the bottom of the cylinder there was a small button, the cylinder was encased in a glass box, for some reason the contraption had peeked Akuma interest, it was almost like it was calling to him for him to grab it, but Akuma didn't have enough time to examine it to see what it is or what it does, so Akuma left it be for now.

"Interesting," Akuma said to himself, closing the door behind him proceeding to walk over on the right side of the office, to the desk, it was his first time inside her office, considering that the boss never let anyone inside her office besides her guest. Still, even the guests that she would let inside her office would seem off. Just by their smell Akuma never trusted the ones the boss brought with her. Once Akuma had arrived at the back of her desk he placed his hands on the stack of papers that were on the left side of her desk and began to look through each one as fast as he could, most of them were just report documents or records from people who are trying to apply for a job here, but nothing about Akuma. He placed the papers back down to their original place, bending down, opening up the file cabinet on the right side, searching each file that was inside, everything was in alphabetical order, what he found was the files of every agent, and every incident that had ever happened with this agency, but nothing on Akuma, not even about when he had arrived, Akuma doubled checked the right file cabinet, even tripled but nothing, he slammed the file cabinet closed, and moved his hands to the left file cabinet, opening the file cabinet and began searching, just like the right-sided file cabinet, it was flawlessly alphabetized. Inside the cabinet was every report that the agents made for their mission over the years, and other papers that were connected to the agency, but there was still nothing on Akuma, Akuma tripled checked this file cabinet as well, but to no avail. Akuma slammed this file cabinet door as well as he stood up completely straight, wondering where the files could be on him if they were not here. Akuma placed his hands up towards his head, placing them firmly on his ears so everything would be silence even though there was no sound in the room as there was, but this was to help Akuma think of something, anything to think of where the files could be before he starts to try and break into the boss' house, because if they weren't located somewhere inside the agency building, then where?

"Come on, think dammit!" Akuma said to himself, almost yelling to himself, using his right hand to slap himself to calm down and think, the files he was looking for had to be at the boss' house, cause if they weren't at her home, then there couldn't be anywhere else to look. Akuma removed his hands from his ears and began to look on the bookshelves behind him, to see if maybe there was something hidden within the bookshelves, perhaps a hidden door, or a hidden file that no one would think of to look, but as Akuma was beginning to look, he was directly in front of the glass box holding the small cylinder contraption, he heard the doorknob of the door turning, he slowly looked behind him to see the door opening, and his whole body froze, as the door was opening Akuma was trying to think of where to hide. Still, there was nowhere to hide, besides just jumping out of the window. Yet, even then, it wouldn't be hard to find out who had been in here or who had escaped. Akuma had looked to the contraption, ready to take it, so he could figure out what it was. Pulling the glass box upwards with his right hand, allowing him to grab the strange contraption with his left hand immediately, and proceeding to place the cylinder contraption inside his left pocket where nothing was residing. Akuma quickly looked behind him as he saw his boss' footstep inside the room as he promptly walked, almost running to the white chair that was on the left side of the desk, sitting down with a straight posture, his back wasn't touching the chair whatsoever, only his ass. Akuma planned to just come up with an excuse for why Akuma was inside her office instead of just saying he was snooping around. Akuma kept his head faced towards the door as he saw his boss was entirely inside the room and looking towards him with a puzzled face, she stood at five foot four, with long emerald green hair that went all the way down to her waistline, but all the hair was placed behind her and tied up in a ponytail instead of free-flowing, yellow eyes that seemed like it held secrets from everyone around her, with a dark complexion. She was currently wearing a light pink lace dress that went down three inches after her knees and had short sleeves that stopped seven inches after the dress touched her shoulders. For footwear, she wore black tennis shoes that had checkered laces and thin white soles. The shoes were the most off-putting of her outfit. Akuma didn't plan anything since he worked for her. Akuma didn't need her to give him a lecture about fashion, considering he just wore all black, except for his blood-red shirt.

"Akuma, what are you doing in my office? You know you're not allowed to be here, so what made you think you could come in?" Elizabeth asked in an almost curious yet demanding tone with a bit of a British accent behind her words. Her voice was smooth to the ear, and a bit lower pitched than what would be expected for a woman to sound like.

"Oh, I was looking for you, but; I couldn't find you anywhere, I was looking for something but can't seem to find it anywhere I look, so I thought maybe, you, the boss of this agency, would know where I could find it," Akuma said keeping his eyes locked onto Elizabeths. At the same time, she walked towards and past Akuma, to her desk to sit down. At the same time, she glanced around the room, probably to check in case Akuma had done anything to her office, luckily for Akuma, she hadn't noticed that the cylinder contraption was missing yet, Akuma hoped that she wouldn't see or say a word about it until Akuma had already left.

"I was out to lunch, but I guess there's no point in kicking you out now if you have a question about something, so what's your question?" Elizabeth asked, waiting for Akuma to answer as she began to tap her right foot against the marble floor quickly, probably wanting to finish this conversation as soon as possible so she could get to work, or just because she doesn't like people who are uninvited to be in her office.

"I was wondering where the files about me may be located. I've wanted to see what information you guys have on me. I want to fill in the gap in my mind that I don't have from my eighteen years of being alive, instead of just having the five years I currently have" Akuma stated, hoping this would be convincing enough for Elizabeth to let Akuma see his files, he would say anything he could think of that may lead to the finish line of his first small goal in his whole big destiny that Sada had told him about. However, Akuma was on the fence if he believed her, but Akuma still wanted to find out about his past, regardless of what Sada told him.

"Your files, why should I let you see them? If you saw your background, what would you do next, leave to become one with your inner self or something like that?" Elizabeth asked curiously looking to her right to the wall made of glass, looking at the city before them waiting for Akumas answer while she had a smirk to her thinking of how much she enjoyed him working for them since he was the perfect worker, he never questioned who they had him kill, he always did what they asked, no matter how dangerous it may be.

"I don't intend on doing any kind of soul searching, I may leave to do something else though, this job is becoming a bit boring, but I was planning on maybe traveling the world with someone, to see if maybe I would rather be a random traveler than one of 'The helpers'" Akuma said using air quotes with his hands for the helpers.

"Oh, and who may this person be, did little Akuma find love? I didn't take you for the one to leave everything for someone else," Elizabeth said, chuckling a little. She was finding it funny the lone wolf of this agency may have found a girl. But that probably wasn't the answer, right? She had never even heard Akuma have any kind of friend or anyone he had talked to, besides even on the cameras that they used to watch Akuma, they never spotted him with someone else besides himself.

"No, something important wits no one like that, at least not that I know of, but she seemed to know me before the life I have for me now, but she said I needed to go with her, so I wanted to try and find out about myself before I leave for a while, but I may never come back, so if you could so kindly give me my files, then that would be great," Akuma said with a bit of a demanding tone, waiting for her to confirm for letting him get those files so he could figure out what it said inside.

"Oh, well, then what would you do for those files? Would you do anything?" Elizabeth asked with a curious tone, having a sinister smirk upon her face, she was planning something, and whatever it was, it couldn't mean anything good.

"I would do whatever you ask, and just like every other time, whatever you order from me I will do, with no hesitation," Akuma said, wondering just what she may be planning up to her sleeve, but it couldn't be anything out of her standard commands from him.

"Would you even kill the girl that wants you to leave with her for the files, or is that a little too far?"Elizabeth asked while leaning back into her chair as Akuma looked somewhat angry, furrowing his eyebrows and gritting his teeth.

"Sorry, but I can't do that for you since I need her alive if I'm going to go on whatever adventure she wants me to do," Akuma said with a bit of a stern tone while placing both of his hands on his kneecaps, squeezing onto his kneecaps tightly, hoping that she wouldn't pry on him to try and kill Sada.

"Aw, well that's the first that you have ever said no, she must be special, I'll come up with an order for you in time, but meet me at my house tonight at eight o'clock sharp, so you have about five hours left. And don't be late Akuma if you are late, I'll have your head," Elizabeth said now waiting for Akuma to take his leave, and that's what Akuma was ready to do, Akuma got up from his seat, currently standing, he turned his back to Elizabeth and began to walk for the exit.

"I don't have your address, do you plan on sending me the address or am I going to appear there by eight magically?" Akuma asked, waiting for the response as he was now facing the door, placing his left hand on the doorknob, twisting the doorknob, and pulling the door inward, now seeing the twenty feet long hallway from before.

"I'll text the address to you, so don't worry, and we'll talk more about the files once you arrive," Elizabeth stated while she kept her eyes on Akuma while she waited for him to leave so that she could begin on her work. But, Akuma wanted to tell her one last thing before he left.

"Just so you know, if you try to fake me out, or try to kill the girl that I'm leaving with, I will show you no mercy, you will understand what true hell is" Akuma started with a more serious tone than his standard lazy, no emotional tone he regularly talked with. His eyes glowed a bright red for a second before walking out the door and closing it from behind him, he made his way to the elevator and pressed the button to the right, which was a button with the downward arrow on the middle. He proceeded to wait for the elevator to arrive to take him all the way down to the first floor.

Four and a half hours passed, and Akuma was currently walking to Elizabeth's house since he didn't have any kind of transportation, Akuma had on the same attire since the beginning of the day, and he still had the cylinder contraption in his left pocket, he kept his left hand inside his pocket, holding onto the cylinder contraption, with his thumb on the top of the cylinder, wondering what it could be. When Akuma arrived at Elizabeth's house, it was exactly eight o'clock, right on time. Akuma was standing at the front door, bringing his right hand up to knock on the purple-colored door, with a golden doorknob, but after knocking the door had slowly opened by itself, making a creaking noise.

"Elizabeth, you in there?" Akuma asked, shouting as he waited for an answer, but there was nothing, was Elizabeth gone, or maybe she was asleep. From what Akuma could tell just by looking was there was no light on nearby, Akuma poked his head inside, bringing his right hand in with him to try and turn on the light switch, but nothing happened, so he started looking to the right to see a hallway that seemed to go on for miles, and to his left was a wall, and in front was what appeared to be two living rooms that were connected with a door directly in front of Akuma, but what was in between him and the door that seemed almost forty feet away was unknown, but from what Akuma could tell there was no staircase nearby. Akuma took his first step inside, something didn't feel right, but Akuma couldn't put his finger on it, Akuma closed the door behind him with his left foot and yelled out again for Elizabeth.

"Elizabeth, if you're hiding come on out" Akuma yelled out, but still no answer, Akuma brought out his left hand, it was in a tight fist with the cylinder contraption still inside, all that awaited with it was for Akuma to pull the pin. Akuma turned his body towards the right to the hallway that seemed to go on forever with the darkness. Still, with no hesitation, Akuma began his march down the dark hallway, there was no sound besides Akumas footsteps; Akuma kept his right hand onto the wall; that way, if he felt a door or if it turned, he would be able to tell. After about eight steps of walking down the hallway, his right hand found a door, there was no light coming under it, but Akuma had turned his body to the right, facing the door and placing his right hand onto the doorknob, the doorknob was cold to the touch and metallic, Akuma twisted his right hand to the left, hearing a small clicking noise and beginning to push inward watching as the door opened to reveal a room with no light except a fireplace going, from what Akuma could tell the room had a dark wooden floor, but from what was inside the room was almost unknown. In front of the fireplace, there was a chair almost looked as if a king should be in it, the backrest of the chair was tall, the chair was nearly seven feet tall. Akuma walked towards the chair and poked his head around the chair to see no one was in the chair, but suddenly the door had closed when Akuma had heard the door close. He turned his head around to see who was there, and he saw her.

"Elizabeth, where were you?" Akuma asked, somewhat surprised to see Elizabeth, Akuma had moved his body to face Elizabeth, his back now to the chair. Akuma couldn't see anything above Elizabeth's neck, but had noticed Something in Elizabeth's hands and looked downwards to her right hand to see her holding a sledgehammer that went upwards, the head of the sledgehammer resting on her right shoulder. Her grip was tight around the handle of the sledgehammer made from Gold. In contrast, the head was made from carbon fiber steel, and two times bigger than a standard sledgehammer head. The head of the sledgehammer was on her left side as she began to walk towards Akuma. Akuma had looked towards her left hand in case she had another weapon, but in her left hand, she had precisely what Akuma was looking for.

"I-is that my file?"Akuma asked, noticing the file was skinning, it looked as if there were only four papers in there at most, which seemed surprising.

"Akuma, I have the mission I want you to do so you can get your files," Elizabeth spoke, tossing the files to the floor, bringing the sledgehammer in front of her, letting the head of the sledgehammer touch the ground, gripping the other end of the handle with her left hand, gripping tight. When Elizabeth was three feet away from Akuma, she had thrust the head of the sledgehammer towards the right side of Akuma's head. Still, Akuma had turned his body towards the sledgehammer coming and brought his arms upwards, blocking with his arms being vertical. When the sledgehammer had hit Akumas forearms, Elizabeth had put more force into it, and Akuma was to the ground; the cylinder contraption had left his hand while he was rolling into a bookshelf, pieces of wood, and books were sent everywhere. The sound of cracking could be heard.

"Die for him," Elizabeth said as she began to walk towards Akuma, who was gritting his teeth, trying not to scream from the pain of his bones breaking after the impact of Elizabeth's sledgehammer, his forearms were bleeding, and pieces of bones were showing.

"I don't plan on dying yet, and who is he?" Akuma asked as Elizabeth was now in front of his body, and Elizabeth brought the head of the sledgehammer to Akuma's chest. Still, Akuma had rolled his body to the right, avoiding the impact of the sledgehammer and quickly getting up from the ground, Elizabeth had looked towards him, swinging the sledgehammer towards the left side of his stomach, but Akuma had immediately jumped backward to avoid the sledgehammer. Still, his back had hit the corner of the room, Akuma would be forced to fight her, Akuma had slid downwards, leading with his right leg, and swung his right left to the left, trying to knock Elizabeth to her feet but she had jumped in the air with her legs brought up, her knees were at her shoulder level, and arms. The sledgehammer Elizabeth held was directly up in the air with her arms. She brought it down faster this time, Akuma didn't have time to dodge, with Akuma unable to avoid, Akuma brought his arms up, catching the sledgehammer, but the sledgehammer was pushing him down. Akumas bones that were already showing began to come out a bit more, Akuma arms were shrinking a bit as well. Akuma couldn't hold the sledgehammer back anymore, the sledgehammer came down onto Akuma's head, sending him into the wooden floor, cracking it, and Akuma spat out blood, Akuma tried to get back up. Still, when Elizabeth saw him almost back up to his feet, Elizabeth had hit the right side of Akumas head, sending him back into the ground, his back on the ground, and Elizabeth had stood directly on top of Akuma, looking down to him, Akuma could see her eyes, they were yellow anymore, they were completely white.

"I'm talking about Yano, the god of this world, the one who allowed you to stay alive, Akuma," Elizabeth said, bringing down the sledgehammer again into the middle of Akumas chest, making him spit out more blood, it was getting harder to breathe, more cracking could be heard from Akumas ribs, some of the cracked ribs were on the verge of piecing his lungs. Akuma tried to use his legs to push his body away from Elizabeth. Still, she wouldn't allow it as she brought the sledgehammer down onto his kneecaps, breaking them both and making Akumas lower leg upwards to the sky.

"You thought you were strong, Akuma? You're weak compared to god; he only allowed you to stay alive because you weren't a problem. Still, now that he knows that the girl has come to get you so you can fight him, he told me to kill you, that way you can't stop him from making the perfect world" Elizabeth said with a terrifying smile as she was about to send the sledgehammer's head onto Akumas head, Akuma had closed his eyes, beginning to think of how much he wanted to live, how much that he wanted to survive and fight whatever god Sada and Elizabeth were talking about. And at that moment, everything began to slow down to Akuma, almost as if time had stopped, and everything began to go black, Akuma couldn't see what had happened, was this death? Akuma looked downwards to his feet and only saw his body and the black void, but Akuma had felt something grab hold of his left forearm, and someone or something had placed their claws into the edges of his back right shoulder blade, but they didn't have five fingers. Instead, they had six. Akuma had heard two disembodied voices begin to speak in unison, and both voices had a deep voice with a gravelly tone; it almost sounded as if a real monster was speaking.

"Akuma Zero, the son of a demon, and a dragon; it is time, time to gain your powers back starting from the basics," The voices said as the grip around Akuma's left forearm began to feel whatever had a hold of his left forearm was so cold that it was burning, and what formed in the icy hot feeling was two lines of an unknown language that went from his elbow down his wrist, wrapping around his forearm like two snakes. And his back right shoulder blade began to feel as if lightning had struck him multiple times, Akuma felt as whoever had their claws on his back shoulder blade pierced him through his body. His blood began to come out, but instead of the regular liquid, it was lightning, as the small, red bolts of lightning were virtually crawling downwards and forming what seemed like a dragon that had its head connected to its tail. Once the circle was complete, they all went towards the middle but stopped halfway to make a second circle, and what formed inside the ring was a Japanese kanji '竜'

"Now Akuma, return to the real world and find Yano," the voices said as Akuma saw a white light inside the void that seemed like it was miles away. Still, Akuma had used his right arm to reach towards it and made a fist as if he was trying to grab onto the white light. Yet, the next thing he knew, everything began to come back to normal, and the sledgehammer had resumed its course towards Akuma's skull, but Akuma's right hand stood in the way. It was engulfed in a black flame that was surrounded with red lightning, with Akumas eyes had changed for a second, the left eye had become completely black and his right eye was still red. Still, his pupil had transformed into a slit. When the sledgehammer was inches away from Akumas hand, the black flame shot upwards, the black flame and red lightning from Akuma's right hand had shot up in the form of a solid spike, with the red lightning being four bolts that formed a square around the black spike. It broke the head of the sledgehammer and went directly into Elizabeth's stomach, and the upper two lightning bolts had gone all the way through her eyes when coming out the back of her head a bit of brain had come out as well. The lower two bolts of lightning had gone into kneecaps, blood had splatter the ground behind her, and she fell to the ground beside Akuma. The spike and lightning had disappeared after she had hit the ground, Elizabeth had tried to get up, with her front facing the ground and when she used her hands to push her up, her organs and blood began to fall to the ground. Her head was faced towards Akuma, with blood running down her face like tears, and her eyebrows were furrowed down. Akuma's arm had fallen to the ground, and the flame and lightning had dissipated as his bones began to go back inside his body; his body was healing itself.

"I-I have to go to S-Sada," Akuma said as his legs were back to normal. Akuma had flipped his body around and got up to his legs slowly. The immense pain was still coursing throughout his body as he began to slowly limp. His body was rocking from right to left; he almost had fallen, Akuma looked around the room, seeing the cylinder contraption, and bent down, and fell to the ground on his right side. Akuma used his left hand to grab the cylinder contraption and placed it inside his pocket, the file that he had been searching for was right next to the cylinder contraption as well, he used his right hand to grab the file and his left hand to begin getting back up, once Akuma was back on his feet, he slowly made his way to the door, bringing his right hand up to the doorknob, opening and walking out. He walked out into the hallway and used the right side of the walls to support himself. Minutes passed, and Akuma had reached the purple door that would lead him out, once Akuma was outside, he began walking the streets, ready to find Sada so he could take his leave of this town. Still, he didn't make it even ten steps away from Elizabeth's house before he had fallen to his knees. His whole body came down as well, and Akuma was now unconscious in front of the alleyway that was between Elizabeth's house and her neighbors. Still, someone was in the dark alleyway, looking down at Akuma, and the mysterious figure had walked to Akuma's body, grabbing him by his arm, bringing him back to his feet. The shadowy figure took Akuma away to who knows where.

---------------Chapter two- complete----------------