Chapter 1: The Curse Part 2

Previously...

Just then the man from earlier arrived bursting through the door at the same time Con's mind links the three people. "Phase two: rescue the captives is complete."

"BAD NEWS BOSS!!" yelled the man as Anderson stared at him with wide scared eyes. Caly smirked at his expression getting excited for what is to come next.

"Your five minutes are up Mr. Anderson," Papa bear announced as he stood up from his seat, "Please come with us back to Hell Society peacefully" ordered Papa bear as he emphasized the word peacefully.

Anderson began to growl and change the form, "I am never going back there! You have to drag my bloody carcass back instead! Tear them apart!" He yelled as the rest of his crew began to change form as well.

Three of the men beside the door grabbed hold of Papa bear and they began to wrestle. The guy from earlier was choking him while two of the muscle men were holding Papa bear's arms on both sides. They thought they called overpower him in numbers, but it was useless. Papa bear grabbed hold of one muscle man and smashed his head with his knee making the muscle man lose the grip of his arm and then Papa bear elbowed him in the nose. Next, he grabbed hold of the shirt of the person choking him from behind and tossing over him landing on the table, and Papa bear gave him a sucker punch to the jaw.

Lastly, the last muscle man holding tried to punch him but Papa bear swerved away. He grabbed hold of the man's shirt and body-slammed him against the wall, denting it in the process. He then proceeded to punch his solar plexus and kneed the muscle man's head. A crack sound was heard after that. The muscle man from before charged at Papa bear from behind and started to choke him again and so, he took out the knife from his thigh holster and stabbed the man's side. He took it out and getting another knife he used it to slice through the guy's neck. The guy grabbed hold of his bleeding neck as he fell with a thud.

Ellie started to throw her daggers at the approaching rat demons from her side. From behind, one of the muscle men charged at her. Sensing this she spin around and jumped on top of the table. Now, in front of the muscle, she pushed him towards the window her daggers digging into the guy's chest and neck. She ducked away and rolled over the table getting away from the clawed hand of her next opponent. Two rat demons got on top of the table in front of her and another two came from behind her. They all charged at her at once but before they could reach her; she activated her skill freezing her opponents in place. One by one, she sliced and stabbed the four rat demons before deactivating the skill.

Caly, on the other hand, sprinted towards Anderson. He saw this and escaped towards the back room. Now, her path is blocked by the other rat demons. She grabbed a chair and used it to swing at her first opponent. The rat demon smashed against the wall, and using her powers she crushed its heart. Her next opponent charged at her. Caly grabbed hold of his head and lifted him to the ground. She then slowly started to crush the rat demon's head with her strength as the demon clawed at her hand to escape. A smoke dagger began to condense beside her. Caly grabbed the dagger whilst letting go of the demon's head now completely crushed and her sharp nails now covered with blood. Two rat demons then pounced at her. She condensed another dagger and with quick movements, she sliced through the two demons. The chopped-up remnants dropping to the floor.

"Go Caly! Don't let Anderson escape!" yelled Papa bear as he was punching anyone that goes through the door. Caly nodded and dashed to the locked door.

Kicking it down, she entered as more rat demons pounced at her at once. Her eyes started to glow and the demons stopped midway. They are now floating above the ground whilst growling and screeching, and trying to claw at Caly but she moved them away from her path as she stared at the trembling Rat Demon Lord. At the corner of her eye, she noticed a pile of human corpses devoid of their liver in one corner of the room. This made Caly's rage spike and the rat demons that were floating began to experience immeasurable pain. One by one, their body was crushed and blood sprayed everywhere.

Witnessing this Anderson felt his knees turn jelly making him hold on to the desk behind him. His whole body now trembling in fear and from the pressure of Caly's aura.

"You're next," growled Caly as she slowly steps towards Anderson. Multiple dagger swords began to take form around her aimed at Anderson. With the last of his strength, He ran towards the window that led to the VIP area. Caly jumped next after him but what she didn't expect is the gunshot that came after she jumped out the window.

With the bullet hitting her side she lost her bearing making Caly fall on a table. Breaking the things on the table and disrupting the people in the booth. Hearing the gunshot and the anonymous person falling from the room above grabbed the attention of everyone in the VIP lounge.

Caly holding onto her bleeding side; got up into a sitting position as she searched for Anderson. She saw him running towards the stairs leading down to the ground floor. She got off the table whilst subtly igniting her hand to heal her bleeding wound. Before, she could take a step further someone stopped her in her tracks while holding her arm rather roughly.

"Hey! You have to pay for that!" A guy with warm toffee hair declared as he pointed at the table he and his friends were using earlier.

Sadly, he caught Caly at a bad moment. She just got shot at which never happens and then there's her target who is successfully escaping, and now this boy is trying to stop her from capturing said escapee. Thus, making her pissed beyond compare.

Overcome with her anger, she grabbed the guy from his neck and hoisted him up the ground. She stared at him; not noticing that her eyes are glowing. She snarled, "Get lost."

She then proceeded to punch him square on the nose which made the guy fly across the room from the force the Caly used. "You're in my way." She mumbled to herself, but the remark was for the guy.

The guy's friends hurriedly went to the now unconscious boy his nose bleeding profusely probably broken as well. Caly then walked towards the window overlooking the dancefloor she saw Anderson being surrounded by his cronies as they went to a door on the other side of the club.

She then pulled out her own gun and proceeded to shoot at the window. Caly then grabbed a chair and thrown it towards the window she shot at earlier. The window broke she proceeded to jump down from there. Landing beside the chair she used to successfully break the window. She was met by bewildered stares from the crowd on the dancefloor. Sprinting towards the other side and the crowd parting like the red sea for her she arrived in record time but was met by the four bouncers from earlier at the entrance.

Using her gun, which is actually a tranquilizer, she shoots at the four bouncers before they could land any punches on her. They land unconscious behind her wake. Some screamed when they saw these and the crowd began to disperse. Caly busted through the double doors and saw Anderson at the end of the hall. She shoots the reaming ammo in her tranquilizer-like gun as she dashes towards them, but it wasn't enough.

Caly threw away her gun and began to condense as many dagger swords as she can. Each dagger hitting its target right in the middle of its forehead. Reaching the end of the hallway, she saw Anderson closing the door and the van quickly drove off. Quickly, she formed a ball of fire in her hands and shot at the ceiling of the exit before the van could get away even further.

She once again formed fireballs in her hands and targeted the remaining rat demons that got out of the van in an attempt to stop her. All that's left is Anderson himself as cower inside the van. Caly ripped out the sliding car door and saw Anderson's frightened expression as he stared back at her. Anderson couldn't stop shaking as he watched Caly ready another fireball in her hands.

Before she could deal the final blow, she hears Papa bear's voice in the mind link. "We need him alive. Calypso" Following her orders, the fireball in her hand became smaller and changed color. She placed it in front of her mouth and blew the smoke like fire to Anderson. This made him slowly fall unconscious.

Caly breathed out as she stepped away from the van. She lifted her shirt where she has shot earlier aside from the hole on her shirt and dried up blood her wound has now completely healed with no indication of a wound even being there in the first place.

She stood not far away from the wreckage when she suddenly felt a searing pain come from her chest area. Caly clenched her chest hard as she doubled over from the unbearable pain and fallen to the ground. She began to sweat and claw at her chest to get rid of the pain. She bit down her lip so hard blood started to drip out. Caly then felt hands on her as she opened her eyes to look at the person touching her not even noticing she had closed her eyes in the first place.

Her vision started to blur but she saw that the person calling for her, although n sound was coming out her mouth, was Ellie. A second later she a silhouette of a big man enter her line of sight guessing that it could have been Papa bear. The pain pulsed throughout her entire body. It felt like she was slowly dying from the immense pain she is experiencing.

"Papa bear, what is happening to her?" asked Ellie as she helplessly watched her convulsing friend, not a clue as to why or what is causing her pain.

"I don't know," Papa bear answered plainly as he was too busy telling Noah, another member of their team, to hurry in getting to the club.

Just then, Caly's body was lifted high from the ground and then a blinding light surrounded her making Ellie and Papa bear to look away. After that, some kind of force exploded, from where Caly was, which made Papa bear and Ellie fly off.

After the light died down, the two frantically scrambled up to catch Caly's falling body. Papa Bear was the one who was able to catch her. Ellie arrived beside Papa bear as he checked the now unconscious Caly in his arms. Ellie noticed something on Caly's chest area.

"Papa Bear," Ellie called as she reached for Caly's shirt and ripped it up. And what they say made their eyes go wide as big as saucers.

The mark had an inverted star in the center, ancient writing written inside on each of the star's tip, encircling the star was a crown of thorns, in between the crown and the star was a circle with more writing that neither Papa bear nor Ellie could understand, and at the center of the inverted star is a figure of a dragon eating its tail, an ouroboros, with surrounding six rays it.

Taking a step back Ellie shockingly asked, "Papa bear that isn't what I think it is, is it?" as she stared down at the mark branded on her friend's chest.

"I'm afraid it is," answered Papa bear begrudgingly as his trembling hand hovered over the mark. Ellie gasped hearing her commander's answer.

Papa bear watched as the mark light-up red when his hand came too close to it. He withdrew his hand and clench it into a fist. He, along with every other demon, knows what the mark on Caly entails. It is a mark of a curse. A curse called The Curse of Sul'mon.

Fun Fact: The Curse of Sul'mon is inspired by the definition of the Pentagram of Solomon which is said had been used to enslave demons and make them follow their "master" every command.

Ouroboros a circular symbol depicting a dragon, swallowing its tail, as an emblem of wholeness or infinity. It is also interpreted as a cycle of life, death, and rebirth.

See you all in the next chapter.