Chapter Two: Fight or Flight

The sky erupted into a shadowy black and it seemed light was non-existent stars hidden behind a wall of darkness. The corrupted being slowly rose before the three its head tilted down, its mouth slowly parting to let out a heavy breath and a dim white cloud pushing itself out. It's opened mouth revealed large jagged teeth and a black snake-like tongue and it rolled out and layout twitching slightly "Aaaah my transformation is complete, now away with you mortal, my business is with your two delinquents." The beast took large lumbering steps towards them, "Excuse me I –" the being shot a hand in his direction motioning with two fingers and his thumb to be quiet " Now child hand over the crystals before I rip it from your still-living body" he growled with a snake-like diction. The children quickly ran behind their father shaking terrified by the amalgamate abomination before them "I don't think so Caligo" "No?" Caligo replied mocking him. "Know these names Beast, Bullet and Lightning the names of the innocent children you were going to slaughter for power and Arco Dens the father who will defeat you."

Arco reached behind him and took a long black and red sword out of a scabbard strapped to his back, he lowered slightly and put his free hand in front of him and his other arm back so the end of the sword was near but slightly in front of his face readying himself "Ahahahaha oooh really let's see how far your mortal idiocy gets you" a large grin widens on his face as his eyes narrow and turns and twists his neck with cracking and shattering sounds emanating off his neck then stopping with a full turn, licking his lips with a lust for blood. "NO!" Arco's face hardened, his eyes wild with the intensity of a blazing furnace "Give me back LUCY!!!!!" the two children cower behind him at a distance "daddy?" they say in unison scared for their father "DIE!!!!!" he screamed at the monster and started to race at it. "Alright you imbecilic anime character, quite apathetic first attack" Arco kept running at him, suddenly as he was a meter away from Caligo he disappeared before his black hole eyes "What! Where'd he go?" suddenly a long mark of the blade grazed the length of Caligo's face "you... pest" a black almost living liquid started to leak from the long slit moving and rippling like its own sentient being.

Arco then stopped then disappeared again; the only indication of his presence was the trails made in the wind around Caligo made by Arco's light speed "you annoying oversized rat" Caligo's eyes started to move fast in all directions dashing side to side, round, up, down at unimaginable speeds, so fast his eyes seemed to become a black blur of movement "Fool! You think the same thing will work on me twice. You naive rodent." Suddenly Caligo thrust his hand forward, he grabbed Arco's face seemingly out of thin air. He lifted Arco effortlessly off the ground and he clawed at Caligo's powerful hand to no avail kicking his legs and making incomprehensible sounds under the large clawed hand and Caligo's eyes widened and a large psychopathic smile extended across the length of his face. Caligo clamped his hand on Arco's face, the sound of a large crack shot off his face like a bullet piercing the air and a muffled scream came from behind the beast's hand. Blood started to trickle down from Arco's face from the areas where Caligo buried his claws into, without warning his hands fell away from his bleeding face and his arms flopped down.

Caligo threw Arco up quickly and then caught him again by his chest fur and looked down at him "Trash..." he threw Arco to the other side of the street his face not changing at all. Arco crashed into a building window and a billow of dust and glass shot up around him "Daddy!" the two cried in unison as they both stared at him there lying limp on the floor of the building in a pool of his own blood, dirt and glass; his face was patterned with claw marks steadily streaming with blood, his mouth also leaking it his arm twisted and backwards, bone slightly visible and his face was stained with pain and fear. Caligo suddenly looked up "Children... let me leave you with one final sentiment before I tear the crystals out of your fragile bodies. I revel in your pain and torture so once you die I will enslave this pointless world and spread, syphoning power from all throughout eternity and it will give me the power of a GOD! I will be immortal at the expense of this universe." He slowly brought his blood-soaked hand to his face, he trailed his serpentine tongue along his claws and the rest of his hand "You will die for my pleasure and POWER!".

To be continued...