Judgement Night Chapter I

The Prologue: Death and rebirth

As the moon was shining bright over the Dark and lonely city of Hadys, 8-Year-old Akira was sitting inside of his room, looking at the moon from the window, remembering the sound of the Piano over and over again. Its midnight, and not a soul lurks around the streets. It slowly begins to rain and he starts to feel very cold in his room. “Why did it get so cold all of a sudden?”

Someone opens the door to his room, very loudly. This scares Akira and as he’s shaking from the shock, he looks at the door and sees his mother. His mother looks extremely stressed and as she’s breathing heavily. she says : “Get over here Runt, we don’t have much time hurry.”

As Akira opens his mouth to Ask why, she interrupts him and aggressively Grabs his right hand and yanks him to the wall, shouting at him: “DON’T SAY ANYTHING JUST SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH”. She takes him downstairs. He sees his dad and wonders what on earth is going on? His dad is also very stressed and desperate. Akira is so Afraid he cannot open his mouth to say a single word. When his dad sees them coming downstairs, he immediately opens the door and steps outside and tells Akira’s mother to follow him.

The rain is getting much worse. They start to get soaked moments after getting out. Akira says : “Momma can I at least get my coat or something?”

She doesn’t respond.

Akira Asks her: “Momma can you just tell me what is going on?”

She finally opens her mouth and says: “Shut your mouth. JUST SHUT YOUR MOUTH.”

Tears start to run down her eyes as she’s facing downwards, following Akira’s Father in the dark alley. Akira starts to tear up when he sees his parents in such a state. He faces forward and thinks to himself. “Why are they so desperate? What is happening right now?”

It is so dark they can barely see where they’re stepping. The only source of light is the moon in the dark sky, shining a gentle light upon them and guiding them on their way. Akira starts to feel Very cold and starts to shake, he doesn’t want to stay in that Dark alleyway anymore. So, He looks at the Majestic and beautiful Moon and wishes for this fearful night to be over soon. After minutes of Walking his father says: “Here, maybe we can hide away from them in this dusty old house.”

They’ve found an old abandoned House. with its doors open, they could get inside and take shelter. Akira is confused by their words. “Who is chasing us? What are we even running for?” he has too many questions in his mind but gets inside the house anyway. The rain has gotten inside the house from a huge hole in its ceiling. Akira finds a good place and sits on the ground. His parents sit together on the other side of the room in absolute despair. They both start to cry even more and sob on each other’s shoulders. Nothing but sorrow lurks in the abandoned house. Akira tries one more time to ask them what is going on. His father wipes away his tears and answers:

“Don’t worry, this is all for your own safety, just endure a little more. We’ll go back home as soon as possible”

Akira says: What safety? what do you mean ? what are we running from ?

His mother says as she’s weeping: Please, Krueger … just kill him. I don’t wanna hear anything from him anymore.

Krueger responds: For fuck’s sake Woman can’t you see what situation we’re in? Stop it right now! It’s not like the kid did this to us. It was bound to happen one day.

Akira says in his mind: “I’m really nothing to them. But how am I only realizing it now? T-they won’t even call me by my name anymore. What have I done!?” Hours pass and it’s still very dark outside. As Akira is sitting on the ground facing the floor Totally Hopeless, he feels the weird cold follow him from his room.

“It shouldn’t be this cold in the middle of Autumn.” Then out of nowhere a tear runs down his eye. suddenly he hears a very deep voice in his head whisper to him: “Devils never cry”.

After that he hears footsteps getting closer to the house. Its not just one, its way more. Krueger grabs his wife’s hand and tells Akira to get close to him.

Krueger : “Fuck fuck fuck fuck… its them. Koriyama, stay close to me.” He says with a shaking voice. “There’s a backdoor, come on lets get the fuck out of here but quietly.”

As they’re slowly reaching for the backdoor of the house the group that was following them breaks in the house from both sides leaving no room for them to escape. They all scream in fear and walk back to the corner of the room. Dozens of men in black coats slowly walk in the house, surrounding the family.

Akira goes behind his parents and peeks to see what they were doing. When he is behind them he feels thin objects moving inside of him. he suddenly has an extremely painful headache and as he raises his hands to grab his head he sees Black veins covering his hands. He doesn’t know what they are, he’s never seen such a thing in his life. he’s scared but he looks at the veins more and realizes, they aren’t just veins. They’re more like vessels, not for blood but for something far more special. The more he’s scared and stressed, the more they show themselves.

He suddenly hears a loud footstep coming from the front. A man in black comes out and approaches the family. Every step he takes shakes the ground and Akira’s parents Start to cry even more in fear of him. The man in black says : “You Two Arseholes Made a Promise, And You Fucked up, You May Run From God But Whatever You Do… You Can’t Run From Me.”

Kura Steps forward and screams : “I BEG OF YOU FORGIVE US, JUST GIVE US ONE MORE CHAN---”

The man Cuts her throat with a single slash of his knife, throwing her away to the other side of the house. Akira Screams “MOTHER”. He wants to get closer to her so maybe he can help her out but the man won’t allow it.

“You see lad? This is what happens when your parents are fuckin scum. They’re such bastards they drag their own children down with them too. But no need to worry laddie, it’ll all be over soon.”

The man gets ready to stab His Father but right as he’s about to stab him, Akira throws himself in front of his father, sacrificing himself, just to not witness his father die.

The knife goes all the way through his Heart. As the knife is going deeper and deeper he starts to realize how much he used to hate his parents for Abusing him. he remembers how poor they were because of his parents gambling all of the time.

So poor he didn’t have food for days. He realizes how much they’ve hurt him in the few short years of his life. he remembers every wound, every single drop of blood, and every single tear he shed because of his parents. The hate consumes him, rage takes over his body, as he’s facing downwards he looks at the black veins, they now have a slight red hue on them. But that matters little now, he’s going to die. He puts all of his power in his head and neck just so he could raise his head to look at his father.

As he’s coughing blood and tearing up, as last words to his father, his says : Burn In Hell.

The man pulls out the knife and kicks him to the other side. As he’s laying on the ground his eyes are still open, and he sees his father, getting killed. His head gets cut and drops on the ground.

the house has turned into a blood fest.

His Blonde hair gets soaked in the blood that surrounds him. as he’s dropped on the ground and is breathing his last breaths, he sees a hole in the ceiling of the old and broken house, And in the hole he sees the moon. He feels great pain but doesn’t care anymore, he only wishes to spend his last seconds with the one who never wronged him in his life. He starts crying and sobbing as he says : “ Thank you, for always being there for me, I thank you from the bottom of my heart, My beautiful Moon.”

After saying his last words, he only wished to rest. And so he tries to close his eyes. but they won’t close just yet.

"There is much to be done, Cinder" {He Hears}

All he remembers after those words is a house in flames, screams, cries, and lifeless corpses as far as his eyes could see.

The End of The Prologue

Chapter I : The Devil’s Cries

“The sound of the piano refuses to leave my head. It keeps begging me to hear its request, again and again…and again. My only wish is to live a calm and happy life, And when I die…I want to leave a name for myself, I want to be remembered as someone, I don’t want to be one of the thousands of graves in a graveyard, I want to be remembered. Is that really too much to ask for?”

Akira’s eyes open to a Dark void. Nothing can be seen but the endless Darkness, And nothing can be heard but his own voice speaking in his mind. Suddenly he feels chains Wrapping around his arms. His arms get pulled up by the chains as he’s on his knees facing downwards. he pulls his head up and sees a figure standing in the dark. Is it God? Or the Devil? Is it righteous? Or Sinful?

As Akira tries to open his mouth the figure gets closer to him. the figure in the dark, Stabs Akira in the chest with a Mysterious Blade. The blade pierces through Akira’s back but he feels no pain. The figure turns around and leaves into the darkness. As soon as it leaves Akira starts to hear muffled noises. He hears a horse’s steps. The sound gradually becomes clearer and Akira realizes.

“Yeah…I was in the middle of a trip.”

Suddenly light breaks through the Void and his eyes open to the very Grandeur of the Sun. he was riding a horse back to his city. As he looks around the forest he is in, he feels arms wrapped around his hips and a head leaning and resting on his back. He looks back and sees Luna.

Luna: Goodness me Akira were you having a nightmare while riding a damn horse? Your face is covered by the veins.

Akira: Y-yeah I guess so. (He whispers to himself) What the hell kind of nightmare was that?

“The Morning feels…Different than the other ones. Is it déjà vu? No…but have I felt this before?”

Luna touches his face with her warm hands and the veins start to fade away.

Akira: Thank you, Its much better now (He smiles).

A Cold breeze hits Akira in his face, he hears the birds Chirping, Deer Running Around in the woods and the sound of the waterfall right next to him. Luna starts to sing a lullaby as they’re heading for their destination. Akira joins her and sings the lullaby with her. They talk and laugh and enjoy their time all the way to the city.

Half an hour later they reach their city. with almost 37 million people inside the walls, everywhere in the city is highly populated.

Akira gets off of the horse, Luna calls his name.

Luna: Hey I’m gonna need some help here!

Akira smiles and helps her get off of the horse. Luna is a tall white girl with bright white hair, black highlights and Bright Purple Eyes. As they leave the livery Yard where they got their horse, they are greeted by the beautiful view of the Temple of Hadys. A Bright Light comes out of the top of the temple serving as a guide for the souls of the dead. the entire temple is made of White Marble with Golden Engravings, Honoring the Sun and Heliopolis.

General Helyos, the King of Heliopolis, and his four Golden Knights have been on a relentless quest for as Long as the people remember. Their Goal is to hunt down every person afflicted by the Dark Sickness. They call them “The Accursed”. And they will stop at nothing to find them. The year of the world is unknown. Time has been shattered for centuries now and names are altered in a strange and misplaced way. Structure of the cities and buildings are from times long ahead. Objects and ideas of other times have all combined into one time without anyone realizing their misplaced nature. True Identities have been lost to time with no way of bringing them back.

Akira, now 22 years old has been adopted by a couple, Akari and Hikari.

Him and Luna have been together for the past 5 Years.

They live in the city of Hadys, Surrounded by walls Far from Soleil but the Golden soldiers still loom around the streets looking for the accursed.

Akira starts to cough repeatedly.

Akira: Damn, I think I’m falling ill.

Luna: Seriously When are you not ill? (Laughs) how about we go to a café huh? A hot Drink might be good for you and I’m also thirsty.

Akira: Yeah sure, lead the way.

The sun shines in the city. Birds sing their beautiful songs and fill the atmosphere with joy. The sunlight dances on the rooftops and windows, creating a golden glow. The people walk around doing their everyday work in peace.

As they’re walking to the café, Akira sees a large group of people praying to the sun saying: “Oh mighty Sun, rid this world of darkness, Bless us with your holy light, Bless us with your- -Guidance”

Akira: I can’t believe it, it’s like every day the people are getting more insane so they won’t get their heads chopped off.

Luna: you should feel bad for them, if the soldiers see them acting like heretics they… you know?

Akira: Yeah, “just behead anyone who isn’t batshit insane like you” that’s their way.

As they’re walking, a bit further away they see hundreds of people watching something.

Akira: And there it is.

The people are watching and cheering as Hermys, Messenger of soleil and head of the Golden soldiers executes heretics. people who disagree with their ridiculous beliefs are brutally killed in the public.

They burn Heretics alive, rip their skins off of their bodies until their muscles are completely unprotected and split them in two slowly by placing them on a rack and slowly stretch them until their bones get crushed and they split in half.

The heretic’s Remains will be delivered to their loved ones. Their loved ones will all receive a mark from the golden soldiers. The mark will be burned into their skin so everyone can see what they truly are.

Akira: (Gasps) At this point I just can’t tell if people are just pretending to be believers or they’re actually that insane to follow their beliefs.

Luna: Oh trust me, these people aren’t pretending to be believers, they’re dumber than rocks. They absolutely believe their nonsense. But even if they weren’t believers what can they do? The poor people can’t even fight a single golden soldier.

As they get beheaded their souls leave their bodies and get sent to Lord Hadys’s Temple. Where good souls peacefully find their way in the unknown and Foul souls are left unprotected without guidance. The weak souls of the people can’t be seen with the naked eye so all they’ve left is to have faith in lord Hadys.

Akira says in his mind: “animals! Bunch of fucking animals who’ve found power. They abuse it more and more day after day. No one knows their true goal, no one dares to question it. they’ve done it for God knows how many years. I guess they’ll keep doing it until there is no one left. Kill anyone who stands in your way, that’s their way…in heliopolis. I wonder if I can live long enough to see where this bloodied path takes them.

They finally reach the café and take a seat. The café is a fancy place with walls made of glass so the sun can shine inside. They start to order.

Luna: 2 cups of coffee Please.

Akira: (Laughs) For the billionth time, I hate coffee.

Luna: (Laughs) Sorry I forgot.

Akira: I’ll have some Tea thank you very much.

When their orders arrive, they start to drink and have a little chat.

Luna: So, what was that nightmare of yours?

Akira: I have no idea. I barely remember anything about it.

Luna: The veins were covering your face, be happy we weren’t near other people or they would have absolutely reported you to the knights.

Akira: I’ve never told you this but, my nightmares… they aren’t normal from what I know. Every time I see the same one, and each time it feels even more real than the last. And I guess that’s how the veins start to cover my face.

(He puts his hand on Luna’s hand.)

Luna: Akira, you’re eyes are bloodshot…Y-your crying. Are you sure you’re alright?

Akira: What do you mean? (Short pause) Oh shit, I’m sorry. (He wipes the tears away)

Suddenly a group of men behind them start talking about something.

“Have you heard what they’ve said? General Helyos has declared war on religions. He said he’d destroy his own cities if it meant the other religions would be wiped out.”

“-yeah, the man is out for blood yet again. I wonder when he will stop fighting so much. We’ve had too many wars in the last few decades…”

Akira: Yet another war on our hands. That’s just amazing to hear isn’t it Luna?

Luna: Yeah…Absolutely Great.

Akira: How many times do we have to fight? How many times to we have to lose innocent people because of their war? (Sighs) at least lord Hadys wasn’t like them. The man literally killed himself so only his soul would remain; so he could fully dedicate himself to his only job… guiding the souls.

Luna: He was the sanest one out of all of them.

They finish their drinks and put their cups on the table when suddenly they hear a loud music from outside.

“What could that be”

A Golden soldier comes in the café and shouts at the people inside: “Everyone to the festival now. We’re celebrating the day of Our lord’s Victory.”

Akira: Oh Come on… alright well (whispers) Guess we don’t have a choice

Luna: yeah, lets go.

And so they head for the festival. On their way Akira goes in a deep thought. He can’t hear anything but his own voice in his head.

“There’s more bloodshed incoming. Another War. I wish one day we could take down this corrupt kingdom, but there is absolutely no way for the people to fight. They’ll destroy us with one snap of their finger. I wonder why they even let us live in the first place. they kill thousands everyday for normal and common mistakes. They kill tens of thousands everyday because the people are sick of their beliefs and experiments. I wonder if one day…we can make it out of this cursed land.”

His thoughts were interrupted as he sees his step mother, Hikari. She is an old woman in her 50’s. She wears a pretty white Dress and an incredibly beautiful necklace made of Gold that’s been passed down through generations.

Hikari: Oh hello son, I wasn’t expecting you to be here (smiles)

A distinct feeling hits Akira in his heart as he looks deeper and deeper in his mother’s eyes. Is it regret? or despair? then out of nowhere a voice starts whispering in his head words he cannot understand. (he says in his mind)

“Leave me be…for one fucking day! Just one goddamned FUCKING DAY!”

His mouth is locked shut; he cannot say a word.

Luna: Akira? Are you alright dear?

Akira responds to his mother: Y-yeah, They Kinda forced us to go, you know just regular Golden stuff.

She smiles and says hi to Luna. They all eventually head towards where the festival is. On the way Akira says to himself : “What is wrong with me? Have I gone mad? This whole thing would happen once a day but its happened 3 times now. What the fuck is going on?”

they finally reach their destination and see Akira’s step father, Akari. He was already there waiting for them.

Akari wares the same necklace as Hikari. he’s a tall and strong old man but his eyes are nearly blind.

Akira walks towards him and says: Hi Father.

Akari: Hey son, how are you?

Akira: I’m Good Thanks!

Akari: Where’ve you been? I was working on a new piece with the piano but it broke for the first time. I was looking for you so we could try and fix it but I couldn’t find you.

Akira, extremely worried says: Wait…did you say the piano is broken!?

Akari: (Chuckles) Don’t worry now it is fixable. You can play that old dusty piano for another millennium if you want to (Laughs)

Akira: (Breaths out) I’m Glad to hear that.

Suddenly everyone in the festival raise their voice and shout to the skies, starting the festival and catching Akira and Akari’s Attention. People start cheering and drinking booze, raising their cups and chanting for their king. The sun shines ever brighter on them giving the festival Area an immaculate look. One of the people gets on a table and shouts: “Everyone, Today is the day of our lord’s victory. Today is the day General Helyos, King of Heliopolis faced the Devil himself and Beat him in a legendary battle. Let’s Cheer for our lord so he may see us and bless us with his holiness.

Everyone raised their cups of booze and shouted even louder for their lord.

Akira, Luna, Hikari and Akari are all watching as the people celebrate and dance on the dance floor.

Luna gets close to Akira and says: its nice whenever they do these, outside of these celebrations its always so sad when you look at them but here, (smiles) its so happy and hopeful.

Akira: Yeah, the sight always brings so much hope, its beautiful isn’t it?

Luna: It really is, hey (Grabs Akira’s Arm) can we dance?

Akira: Dance? Really? In the middle of these goobers? (Smiles)

Luna: Oh Come on its fun. I swear you won’t regret it. Now, shall we dance?

Akira says in a fake accent: As you command your majesty.

Akira grabs her hand and brings her to the dance floor. Before starting the dance Luna gets close to Akira, she looks in his eyes and says: Its always nightmare this, nightmare that. They’ll haunt for the rest of your life if you keep thinking about them this much. Learn to control it and I swear we’ll live the happiest life, the life that we always wanted.

Akira kisses luna on her head. He smiles snd says: As I said, I’m fine. But I promise I will do whatever it takes to control it.

Akira looks at her in the eyes for a few seconds. they nod their heads and starts the dance with a dramatic start. The music starts to get louder and As they’re dancing the crowd starts to cheer for them and all looks are only on the two. People watch each step they take carefully. More people start to join in and dance, everyone raises their hands shouting “Glory to the sun”. A cold wind hits them in the face as birds take off to fly around the Dance floor. A truly bright day it is as the sun shines ever brighter on the people and a wave of joy dances around them.

After minutes of dancing and cheering their dance finally comes to an end with everyone clapping and applauding.

They both look at each other while breathing heavily from the exhaustion of the dance.

Akira: (smiles) Gotta admit, that was Great.

Luna: Yeah (laughs) Wow, I’m tired. (Pauses for a bit) Akira? You good?

The black veins are covering Akira’s face again in front of the crowd. Luna quickly puts her hands on his face, getting rid of the black veins before anyone notices them.

Luna: Akira what on earth is happening to you today? Say something my dear are you really ok?

Akira stares at the ground in shock. Fear covers his sight as he’s unable to move from the shock.

He slowly opens his mouth and says: it was the same warning. “Devils never cry”

Akira turns his head and sees arrows piercing through his parents’ Bodies including every single person that was watching the dance.

In a flash of a second the entire crowd is turned into nothing but cut off and crushed limbs on the ground.

Akira: “LOOK OUT!”

He hugs Luna and covers her from the arrows. 3 of the arrow’s pierces through his body and he starts bleeding heavily. The skies turn crimson, the clouds are blackened and the ground starts shaking.

Akira keeps bleeding and struggles to get up so Luna helps him.

Luna: (Screams) By the gods are you alright my dear!?

Akira: (Breathing heavily) Y-yeah, I’m fine.

Akira manages to get up. When he’s finally standing, he looks back at the city walls and sees Thousands of soldiers, slaughtering everyone in the city. And on top of the walls he sees General Helyos, and his 4 Knights of gold, watching as every single person in the city is torn apart.

The King was invading his own city without warning, killing Civilians without leaving one alive.

12 golden soldiers are rushing towards Akira from the distance.

Akira: Luna, stay behind me.

As the soldiers are running towards him he holds his fists firmly and the black veins start to cover his Arms. As one of the soldiers is wildly rushing towards him, he evades his attack, disarms him, takes his sword and cuts him in two with his own sword. As the other 11 are getting closer the veins start cover his eyes and he starts to suffer from a great headache. As his eyes are closed he hears a whisper in his head.

“Judgement”

He feels blood on his hands. He feels blood on his whole body. His eyes finally open and he sees All 11 soldiers were brutally slaughtered. Their corpses were steaming and smoke was coming out of Akira’s mouth.

Luna gets in front of him and puts her hands on his shoulders. “THAT’S ENOUGH.”

(Breathing heavily) Please, That’s enough. We have to get out of here we have no other choice”

One of Helyos’ Golden knights wielding a Colossal Hammer strikes the temple of Hadys in the distance, destroying it and turning it into dust with only one Strike of his hammer. Akira grabs Luna’s hand and starts to run from the enemy. Dread and horror gnaw at their bones as they’re running through the alleys. Soldiers mercilessly slaughter all men, women and children.

They set all the houses on fire so no one can hide inside of them. Blood splashes from every step Luna and Akira take. As they’re turning right to a less populated alley they’re faced with one of the Golden knights. The golden knight stands at 3 Meters wielding a Greatspear.

Akira tries to fight the knight but he is too weak to even leave a scratch on him. the golden knight Charges Akira and stabs him in the chest with his spear. His spear pierces through Akira’s body and comes out from his back. The spear goes through the ground behind Akira sticking him to the ground. The Golden knight summons another spear in his hands.

Akira screams in pain and agony.

Akira: PLEASE… PLEASE LEAVE HER ALONE!!!.

He starts to throw up all the blood in his body as he’s calling Luna’s name, begging for the golden knight’s mercy. He hears Luna’s screams begging the gods to do something. His body cannot contain this much pain, so after a few moments his eyes close to this world.

Light starts to slowly fade away from his sight. Whatever he does he can’t escape whatever is pulling him away from life. his life flashes before his eyes, he gets reminded of every single memory he’s had. All the sufferings, all the rage, all of the pain is inflicted upon him again. After what seems like Hours of suffering and torture by his memories, he enters a dark place. a cold, and merciless Abyss. He feels chains around his arms. He’s speechless. Could this be just a mere dream ? or a message ?

Then he feels heat. A lot of heat. Slowly beneath him a fire starts. When he looks down, he sees a pit. A pit full of corpses on fire. A pit that is filled with billions and billions of screaming and sobbing corpses and it goes as far as the eye can see.

“Hell, The rightful place for an accursed”

He looks into the pit with despair, knowing he will be one of the billions of corpses down there in a few moments. But the veins come back. Light of the real world slowly reaches in again. His eyes open again to a dark crimson sky. Blood is raining from the Dark Clouds and the ground has turned into a pool of blood. The spear is still inside his chest, stuck to the ground so he’ll never be able to move. it appears every single person has been killed. He can’t hear the screams of the people anymore. He tries to say something but his chest hurts every time he moves a muscle.

Akira: H-how? How is everyone… D-dead?

As he’s struggling to move with the spear inside his chest he realizes what happened before he fell unconscious.

Akira: WAIT!…LUNAAA! (Screams)

He lifted his head and saw General Helyos in the distance, holding Luna in his hand. The veins on his body turned the same red hue they had Years ago. He felt no pain anymore, so he gripped the spear, Screamed in Agony and yanked it out. His entire body was engulfed by the veins and they fueled him with power.

He starts to sprint towards Helyos. Corpses are piled up on each other in the streets. Limbs are tossed around everywhere. The Sun has been eaten by the clouds and there is not even a shred of light coming through them. His visions gets covered by the veins.

He coughs blood several times and shouts: “YOU GET YOUR HANDS OFF OF HER YOU SON OF A BITCH! I SWEAR, I WILL BURN YOU ALL TO ASH!”

With each and every step of his he shakes and crushes the ground. As he’s getting close a knight of gold ambushes him and swings at Akira with his straightsword, cutting his left arm off. Akira keeps running without pausing one moment. As he’s breathing and bleeding heavily, he looks at Luna to see if she’s alive or not. She’s not moving at all, not even a little bit. He starts to run even faster. Helyos stands at 10 meters tall so Akira had to find his way to his head. He starts to climb every obstacle and building and with every step he takes he loses a large amount of blood. He groans and grunts with each step as his voice starts to sound inhuman. It sounds as if there are multiple voices grunting at the same time inside of him.

He runs and jumps towards General Helyos. He puts all of his strength into his fist and covers it with the black veins. He screams and punches with all of his power and Cracks Helyos’s helmet. As he’s still in mid air he looks inside Helyos’s helmet. His ominous golden eyes are staring into Akira’s eyes with Absolute Hatred. Helyos grabs Akira in mid-air, he strengthens his fist and punches Akira in the abdomen, Throwing him away.

Both of his legs explode from the sheer power of Helyos’s Strike. His body flips and hits the ground multiple times until it finally stops. His face touches the ground, and no emotion can be seen on his face. He feels as if he’s in a limbo between life and death. He bleeds from every part of his body, he is now but a breathing corpse, cursed to suffer the torture until the end.

“I… F-failed… Again. A-again?”

As he lies on the ground…hopeless, he hears Helyos getting closer and closer. One of the 7 Knights of gold gets behind him and pulls him up from his hair and stabs him in the back with his scythe, going all the way through his chest until the tip of the blade is almost touching his chin.

The veins hit him in the brain again, torturing him with the nightmares of his past. He feels he can’t take the suffering any longer. Both his physical and mental health are in a nightmarish state. So he screams in his head as he can’t open his mouth: “WHY!? WHY CAN’T I JUST DIE!?”

General Helyos approaches Akira.

General Helyos: The Blessing belongs to soleil, it Belongs to ME!. You filthy creatures will not have it, NEVER!.

He raises his hand to the skies: I AS THE CHOSEN OF THE SUN, WILL PROTECT THE LIGHT AND THE BLESSING, FOR ALL ETERNITY AS I HAVE FOR ALL OF MY LIFE. And I will make sure of your kind’s Extinction. Any last words You Darkened vile Creature?

The dark clouds in the sky tremble as he raises his hands and the sky falls into chaos for moments.

Akira finally manages to raise his head. he looks at Luna in Helyos’s Hand and tries to say something but his mouth is full of blood. After struggling to talk for such a long time he forces the blood out of his mouth by vomiting all of it out. He feels as if the pain is making his soul fade away. As he looks up again to Luna he realizes his eyes can barely see anymore.

He looks down again and cries and instead of tears, blood starts to come out of his eyes. he calls her name. “Luna” and after a long pause he says “I’m S-sorry… I couldn’t P-protect you… your parents…our friends, the people… T-they’re all gone.”

He hopes she can hear what he said but It doesn’t look like she can hear it in his eyes. He feels The cold mist…Again. “I G-guess every time I’m going to Die you have to appear out of nowhere R-right?”

The cold encourages him to Speak with Helyos. Akira Raises his Head and looks at Helyos in his Bright Golden eyes behind his Mask. And as bloody tears are running down his eyes the black veins connect to his pupils and he says to Helyos.

Akira:” I-I will show you…Hell. I will show you…what a vile creature is! I will bring an eclipse to Soleil and pledge your world in Darkness. I will decrease all of you motherfuckers into NOTHING BUT BLOOD MARK MY WORDS Y--“

The Scythe wielding golden knight interrupts him and pulls his scythe straight out of Akira’s body, splitting him in two.

Golden knight: “I Apologize Father, I could not let him disrespect you any longer”

General Helyos: An Eclipse? Hmph, we shall see about that.

He raises his leg and stomps his corpse, turning him into nothing but blood on the ground.

The other 6 Knights of gold are behind him, He turns around and faces them.

General Helyos: Lucius, open a portal, we’re leaving.

Lucius: As you command father.

He opens up a bright Portal shining in a Golden color, the others step inside the portal except for Helyos and Lucius.

General Helyos: Send a few soldiers to look for any potential survivors.

Lucius: Yes Father.

They both step inside the portal and leave while leaving a few soldiers behind.

Everything is destroyed. The walls have collapsed, The buildings have turned into dust. The ground has turned into a pool of blood from the blood rain.

All Akira is, is limbs and blood, on the floor. The veins are still intact and are shaking on the ground. His soul leaves the earth to an unknown destination. His soul opens it’s eyes. the eyes open to an abyss. an empty…Dark void.

After minutes of silence, he feels chains being rolled around his soul, like someone is trying to put a leash on him like a dog.

He hears footsteps from the front. (Mysterious figure says with a deep haunting voice)

“Poor human. I feel bad for you. Your entire goddamn life has been nothing but misery. Even the good times are ruined by the nightmares. That is how the world you’ve created works. You humans Created a world full of hate and violence. Nothing but bloodshed satisfies you bastards. But don’t you worry dear, as I’ve told you thousands of times in the past, every single fucking time you started crying because of the miseries that haunt you. Devils never cry.”

Akira suddenly remembers thousands of memories.

“I’ve known you for years now and I have a suggestion I know you won’t pass”

Akira stays silent.

“Good. I, Satan, Ruler of Hell, The Fallen Angel, will give you power far deadlier than anything they have.”

From the darkness a red apple gets summoned and the apple moves close to Akira’s mouth.

“With this power, you will bring their kingdom down and YOU WILL BRING ME HELYOS’s HEA-“

Akira cuts his speech off and agrees without one moment of hesitation with a Mad smile on his face. He bites the apple in front of him and his eyes open again as they’re thrown away on the ground from Helyos’s stomp. And so it begins.

A Hole opens in the sky, The sky Crumbles as the clouds get set on a Bright Flame. And from the hole the very essence of Hell bursts out and hits the earth like lightning. The Earth starts to crumble from the sheer power of the hellfire. The entire city catches on fire but the soldiers that were left behind survived the explosion because of their blessings.

The hole in the sky closes and results in a huge explosion in the skies. The flames in the city slowly fade away and from the flames a Knight in Dark Armor comes out standing on a mountain of ruins with the moon behind him. His helmet is open in the front of his eyes and The very essence of hell is bursting out of it like a kiln.

He feels a blade stuck in his chest. He grabs the blade by its hilt and violently pulls it out.

He stands on his legs and sees the soldiers in the distance, scared to their bones, screaming and running for their lives.

He roars to the skies; the ground starts to shake and fire starts to rain down. The sword in his hands can mold into anything he wants using hellfire.

He makes spears and runs towards the fleeing soldiers and kills them in the most horrifying ways possible. He impales the soldiers from their bottom to outside their heads, sticking them to the ground like monuments and setting them on hellfire. As he’s standing there in the middle of the corpses he looks to the sky and sees in a vision, An old woman in royal clothing.

A voice in his head spells his name to him.

Cinder, Hound of Satan.

The End of Chapter I