Chapter 5: Ifrit

Riku POV:

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"It's so amazing!"

Me and Kotori are sitting at the grassy field surrounded by trees. I didn't know we ended up inside the forest park of the city. With no street lights around the area, the stars are all visible it's like both of us are seeing the galaxy with our own eyes.

But was more awesome is that it is now 12 o clock and the booming fireworks are blooming on the sky like flowers during summer.

After a 15 minutes, the firework show is over and both of us decided to go home. For protection I gave her my extra white t-shirt and shorts to cover her intimate parts.

Once we got out from the forest, we walk through the quiet street. Surprisingly the only people in this hour are us.

"So, quiet. This is the first time I see this city with no people at midnight." I commented.

For Kotori, I noticed her eyeing our surrounding like she is sensing danger.

"Are you okay?" I worried.

"Riku! Run!" She quickly screamed and pushed me when some thing pounced on her.

My eyes went wide and I felt a shiver run down my spine when this black large dog like creature with long serrated teeth attacked us. Kotori yelped and growled at the creature as she struggled underneath it. She already has deep scratch wounds on her arms for defending herself.

I quickly stood up and tackled the creature which it quickly overpowered me throwing me aside. I saw the creature gonna attack Kotori again so I quickly run towards it, but when I got closer I felt three sharp object like knife stabbed my abdomen.

"Huh?" I glanced at my abdomen and I saw the claw of the creatures had pierced me and I felt nauseous. Instead of vomit that came out of my mouth, I throw up blood.

Kotori POV:

I groaned as the purple flame slowly healed all my wounds. When I recovered, I stood up to face the familiar creature and when I face it I saw there standing in front of me the creature and Riku.

"N-No..."

The creature forcefully let its claws out of Riku's stomach and backhanded the helpless human, throwing him ten meters away from us.

"NO!!!" That's when something inside me snapped.

I got consumed by my own fire and my clothes quickly turned back into the kimono dress and my white ribbons turned black. When the creature saw me transformed into my spirit form, it roared and begin to sprint towards me.

"Camael!" A large halber emerged from the ground

I quickly dragged it out from the fire and bashed the creature with it's blunt flat side of the blade sending the creature a few feet away from me.

I hurriedly run towards Riku and when I saw the condition my whole body shook.

"You're alive I know it."

When I was about to pick him up, the creature pounced on me again bites me on the shoulder which I screamed out of agony. I quickly flew up to the sky and spin myself on the air with tremendous speed making the creature to lose its grip and once again got hurled on the hard asphalt street.

I stop spinning and I held my halberd to the air.

"Camael! Megiddo!"

The once large majestic halberd then transformed into something more destructive. It transformed into a large cannon the covered my whole right arm. All of my flaming auras went inside the barrel. As I aim it to the creature I noticed the it struggling to get up from the crater, I also noticed its bone from one of its legs are broken.

I smiled sadistically and said. "Turn to ashes you scum!"

I fired the cannon releasing a scorching beam towards the creature. Once the beam had reached the target it exploded and destroyed the street, sending all of the street lamp hurling in different areas because of the shockwave. The windows around the building and car shattered.

As I killed the creatures I laughed maniacally as my angel started to possess me. The cannon shattered and the piece of metals clanked as it landed on the street floor. I held my head with my left hand while hyperventilating and smiling like crazy. I'm calming myself little by little so my angel won't take over my body.

"I-I need to get him safety." I mumbled repeatedly.

"Come on self snap out of it!" A voice at the back of my head yelled.

As I finally calmed down, I saw a massive crater in the middle of the street leaving no evidence of the creature. My heart suddenly raced when I heard police sirens coming this way. I quickly flew towards Riku's body and picked him up. I flew to the sky, high enough so if there's helicopters they won't see me.

We ended up by the hospital, and there are tons of people there but I have no choice. I landed by the ER and people screamed and panic once they saw me.

"Please, anyone help me!" I cried out. One brave doctor approached my with a hospital bed and I lay Riku there.

Other nurses and doctors rushed and came to help and they hurriedly took Riku inside the hospital while I followed behind

One of the nurses stopped me and said while trying to keep her professional composure.

"Ma'am I'm sorry, you cannot go with us inside the emergency room. I need you to stay here."

"U-Understood." I replied.

I sat on the hospital seat while wiping all my tears away and not caring about the people inside staring at me.

"This can't be happening, and why is it not working?!" I cried out, making other people yelp in fear.

He sealed my power from the kiss, I know it.

Minutes feels like hours and finally someone from the emergency room walk out with an expression that I didn't want to see.

"No it can't be..."

"Ma'am, can I have your name please?" The doctor asked.

"Kotori... Itsuka Kotori." I answered.

The doctor hesitated and sighed.

"I-I'm sorry Ms. Itsuka, however your friend didn't make it."

My mind went blank and the voice of the doctor muffled. I pushed the doctor away and run towards the room and there in the middle of the room, Riku's lifeless body is covered by white sheet.

I burned the sheet with my power which made the people inside screamed and sprinted out. I covered myself and Riku with fire and both of us got teleported inside his house.

"Please Riku don't give up! I know my powers are sealed inside of you!" I kissed him again and my kimono disappeared sealing my powers inside him again, however nothing is happening.

Desperate, I tried to stand up but my knee buckled. I cried out as it keeps repeating again like back home in my world after that terrible angel invaded and summoned all those creatures like the one that I killed earlier.

I laid my head on Riku's chest as my vision starts to fade slowly and slowly.

"How did it come to this?"