Chapter Four: Run

The beast started to move and the black liquid started to morph and pulse almost dripping upwards and the two halves rose slowly and the black liquid started to move between the halves and slowly the liquid bound the two halves together' the bottom up sewing the deformed being together like the devil's seamstress. The head fused together last and black steam poured from the track of the cut "Did you really think it was that easy … fool" suddenly a flying stream of black liquid shot bullet from his spot and sent him flying upwards, as he reached the crest of the 300-foot building behind them the beast seemingly from air appeared before him and gave him a psychotic smile and raised his right foreleg and like lightning carved through Bullets left eye, blood streamed like a waterfall from his eye as he fell he opened his mouth to scream … but nothing came. He crashed to the ground in a heap in front of his brother shattering the road below his blood still flowing from his eye and newly earned gashes and cuts.

The demonic being landed on his legs before them both cackling while the vile black mass sputtered from his mouth "YOUR MINE… and your dead" he said with a poison-tipped tongue him as he stalked towards them. Caligo's eyes were bound to their position as would a predator, staring at helplessly broken prey but then all of a sudden Bullet shakily sat up; he slowly rose to his feet and stood unsteadily in place as the beast slowed his approach to a stop "Oh not dead yet huh, well I'll take care of that-" " No…" Bullet suddenly said and spit blood to the ground "I Will defeat you" he shakily rose the sword covered with his own blood and the black liquid in his hands. He stood ready. "So brave and yet so stupid" the beast hissed and restarted his approach. Lightning sat up trying to shake off the immense pain and tiredness off him and sat in stunned silence as he watched the beast finally stop in front of his brother "Bu-" "Die." a stream of black liquid shot from nowhere straight towards Bullet with unwavering accuracy to the heart then without warning a flash of a deep blue then… red red red.

Bullet reopened his eyes and had to shield his eyes from the strong blue and red that appeared across his vision when his eyes focused he was greeted with an indescribable sight with filled him with all cognitively possible anguish; Lightning's eyes wavered and shuddered in despair at the sight his eyes mixed blood with tears and a cold shivering shuddering scream left his lungs reverberating the very ground beneath them. Bullets eyes met a figure standing in front of the beast, arms out almost in an embrace and the black stream piercing through his torso drenched in blood dripping to and engulfing the floor " D-… dad..dy" he reached behind him and yanked something off the creature still merged to him and also something out of the stream that impaled him, he held Bullet's hand and put them in there softly and closed the other over it; it was a red scarf and two rings. He slowly and looked up into the boy's eyes his own filled with tears. He smiled. " R- run."

The corners of his mouth dripped with a red stream, he retched blood and collapsed to the floor revealing the face of an aghast beast retracting his black stream and staring at it dripping with blood. Before Bullet could think his legs started moving and he grabbed his unconscious brother and started running and the beast twitched behind him and unspeaking started to move towards Bullet except he didn't the blood on his stream of black liquid started to light up and suddenly blue smoke started streaming from it "No." it started to engulf the tentacle-like thing and soar up his body "No!" it swirled up him steaming against the ground lost encasing him in a cylinder of blue smoke "NOOO!" suddenly his whole body was engulfed and he was frozen time.

The dark blue statue was on top of a blue spinning, morphing living disk and the statue frozen in anger descended into the writhing mass of blue and in a flash of blue. The sapphire vortex slowly evaporated from existence but Bullet didn't dare look back he just kept running faster and faster, a familiar path flying before his one good eye bloody with despair and tears and the other completely shredded almost ripped from its socket but still he ran. He ran through his physical pain, his brother still clutched to his chest his face still stained with horror, tears and blood and still, he ran, everything became a blur flying past without realizing the only thing that filled Bullet's world was the fluttering sound of his feet soaring across the ground and still he ran. He ran and ran until he didn't know if he was still running in reality or not, he just held his brother to him closed his eyes and let his tears fall. Without warning, something caught his leg and sent him flying forward "Lightning!" Bullet used his body to throw himself in front of him to shield his brother and they crashed to the ground "Bullet!?" Bullet got to his knees and looked behind him "Grampa.." he breathed an exhausted breath out, his vision wavered, his knees buckled and he dropped face forward to the ground "BULLET!!”

To be continued…