Soulless
Chapter 1, Black Blood (threw Ryuu’s eyes)


My large black, scaled wings beat hard against the strong breeze as I fly high in the clouds, looking down at the pathetic humans below me. Humans, the lowest class of life forms that I have ever seen in my long 100 year life. I move only a bit closer to the land to see a large group of humans surrounding a small family. It makes my blood boil on how murderous these beings are, if I was the death god and not only his servant I would have ever single one of these creatures destroyed, there is no place for them here. I hadn’t even noticed that I had been hovering in the sky, behind the clouds, watching the humans fight “I bet my master is watching this right now, laughing his head off”. I said and growled, then I saw a guy join the fight, protecting the family, he was tall, muscular, black straight hair that hung in his face, and carried a sword with him, I watched him fight hard and skillful, soon he had the men running away “I wonder if that’s the new pet my master made, the one he calls Black Blood, the one I’m suppose to be watching…maybe he finally made someone good for this world…for once”. My wings kept me up in the air, watching the guy as he then ran away, before the family said a thing.
My wings took me threw the air quickly, as I glided down, hearing the family scream because of my presence I landed in front of the guy. He didn’t scream, nor run, or even stop. He walked around me and kept walking. I growled “Act tough boy and you’ll be hurt”. I said as my tail slammed into him, his back hit the wall; he looked at me with hatred, but also death in his black soulless eyes. A shiver went threw me, I hated those eyes; empty at all times except for anger always filled them. He drew his blade and pointed it at me “Ryuu am I correct?” He said and seemed to look me over quickly. I had large black scaled dragon wings, an body of an large human, horns above each of my eyes, an devils tail swiping around like an cat’s tail. Black long hair down to the middle of my back and I was covered with scars most made from my very own master. My nails on both hands and feet were long, sharp, and blood stained, I had one tooth long enough that it hung out the right side of my mouth. My clothing was blood stained, and had many tears in them.
I gave a nod “Yes I’m Ryuu King of the Dragon Demons, Servant to the Death God, and you must be Black Blood?” I asked, and raised a black thin eye brow. He nodded “Yes but I go by Alastor Black Blood here in the human world “Are you here to take me back to your master so I can cut out his black heart for making me?” I grinned at the thought of that “as much as I would love to do that, I’m afraid my master just sent me here to watch from the side lines as you live in this world by yourself, he said if you seem not to be stabled that I can kill you, your only a puppet for him to have fun with, pulling your strings from his throne and making you dance.” I said this with a grin when I saw Black Blood’s eyes turn slightly red, I could feel the anger seeping from his body, and it didn’t take much to make my master’s work mad. I saw his large gagged fangs, white not yet red from blood like mine. “I’m no one’s puppet if he tells me to do anything I’ll do the opposite I’m not a lap dog like you, I’ll brake my chain and run free as I please, I’m guessing your to afraid to end up dead if you disobey a thing he says.” I growled loudly and hit him hard in the face with my fist “I’m no lap dog, and I’ve tried many times to escape my master, where do you think all these scars came from, I might get a little away from him then he’ll send many to hunt me down and drag me back to him.” I growled loudly, and watched him as he looked back up at me, a grin on his lips “Then you have only tried running, how about try fighting for your freedom, don’t run, stay and fight to the death.” He said and got up, wiping the blood from his nose. I blinked, I had thought about many times about fighting my master but how could I, he controls the world even if the humans don’t know it he also controls them. There is nothing he can’t do, and going against him does mean death. “I’m not going to fight when I know there is no way to survive after fighting him…I’ve casted that thought away years ago.” I said and turned from him. “So you are afraid of death, you don’t care if he controls this world like a board game you won’t fight for what you believe in, that’s not right, I thought demons are suppose to be unafraid of everything, yet at the word death you run with your tail between your legs like a frightened dog. Well I’m not going to lie on my back and call that guy leader yet alone a master I rather die then work as a puppet for his enjoyment!”, he was yelling this. I sighed and looked at the sky “I wish I was like you strong, and hard headed letting nothing get in my way…your still young and have a long time to learn the things I have”. I said sadly I turned and felt for the first time and fist hit my face, I stayed standing, looking at him. “I’m tired of hearing you talk like that, you are supposed to be strong but here you are hiding like a little kid from his parent,” he said
After a long time of arguing and throwing more punches and kicks, we sat in the ally, our backs to the wall, my tail wrapped around my own waist. I had a killer headache from being kicked in the head. I looked at Black Blood who had been quiet now for about an hour, I saw that his eyes were closed, and his body was relaxed. He must have fallen asleep awhile ago. I let out a soft sigh and stood up, I stood in front of him “I hope you follow your beliefs and stay with them,” I said softly then spreaded my wings and took off into the night sky. An ear phone in my ear hissed static a bit then came clear “Ryuu, have you found Black Blood, if so what do you think of him? He is different from you and the others…you’ll see later.” My master’s voice seemed to be filled with joy. “Yah I found him, talked a bit and other things, I think he’s your best work yet, you seem happy, was there a war or something today”? I asked. His voice boomed into a sickening, evil laugh “No I’m creating a new problem for the humans to deal with, a couple killer wolves, that should bring a lot of blood shed this is going to be fun”. He said and laughed some more. “I hope you have fun with that master, does Black Blood have a place to stay if not I have room at my place, he’s asleep in the ally right now though,” I said and blinked not believing that I offered shelter for Black Blood. My master hesitated then laughed a bit, “Taking a liking into my work, huh? Do as you wish with him, just be careful,” he said then the ear piece hissed then turned off. I sighed, “Me and my big mouth,” I did a flip and started to fly back towards the boy.
I landed in front of him, he didn’t move at all, I watched him then picked him up in my arms, he was very light. I felt him move only slightly, his hand lightly gripped my arm, I blinked and watched him, he didn’t wake up, and I sighed softly. I took off back into the moonlit night sky. I kept flying I didn’t even notice that the boy in my arms had woke up and was now looking up at me.
After awhile of flying I landed in front of the mouth of the cave. I looked down at Black Blood to see two black eyes staring back at me “oh I thought you were asleep? Sorry if I woke you Black Blood”. I said then put him down on his feet, he scowled me “Don’t call me Black Blood, call me Alastor, Black Blood is too much of a demon name for me”. He said, he looked around, I guess examining and trying to figure out we were. “Were in the Serpent Caves, this is where I stay and a couple of demons as well, you’ll be staying with me.” I said and walked into the pitch dark cave, my eyes glowed green a bit, I had special eyes for seeing well in the dark. First I heard nothing then I heard foot steps other then my own echo threw the cave, and soon saw Bl- Alastor walking beside me. “Can you see in the dark as well?” I asked he shook his head “no I’m just following the sounds of your foot steps.” He said and just kept looking straight ahead even though he couldn’t see a thing. ‘Master said for me to be careful…is this kid stable enough to be around or not? I bet he’s only trying to freak me out again, that good for nothing demon trash.’ “I can here what your thinking Ryuu, and what do you mean about if I’m stable or not?” Alastor said, looking in my direction. “You can hear my thoughts? This is going to be annoying…and some of my Master’s experiments don’t end up being stable in there DNA and turn into some type of monster, which then it’s my job to destroy it, or you if you aren’t stable, but so far it seems fine.” I said, and because he couldn’t see me I gave a small grin. Alastor stayed quiet for a long time even when we entered a dead end tunnel lit by a couple torches. I watched him silently “You ok Alastor?” I finally had to say something it was annoying when it got to quiet. He only nodded then looked around my place.
The floor was covered in animal hides which had took me forever to do. The walls had pictures drawn in blood, one picture that was the Death Gods head chopped off. There were a couple beds I made out of the trees outside that also took me forever. The only thing there I hadn’t made was the blankets which I stole from a house for when winter came. The cave was hot most of the time though cause of an under ground hot spring. There was also a small well where I had dug threw the cave floor to the water, a bucket was beside the well. “You’ll sleep over there,” I said and pointed to the wall opposite of mine where another hand made bed was. Alastor only nodded and walked over to the bed, he laid there with his arms under his head. “Ryuu…are you certain that I’m stable?” he asked after awhile. I sat up in my bed, my wings folded neatly against my back, I gave a nod. “Yes you don’t seem to be dangerous or anything, you seem quite stabled and not much a threat also. I don’t think you’ll turn into a monster. Just stop worrying about it.” I said then lied back down, and rolled onto my side.
Just as I was falling asleep, “how can I not worry about it…Ryuu if I do turn into a monster will you please not kill me, if you do I’ll become a demon like you and I don’t want the Death God as my master.” He said, I sighed and sat up looking at him again. “I can’t promise anything like that, orders are orders and I must follow them…if you turn into a monster I’ll hide you, lock you up or something so my Master doesn’t find out…dose that sound ok?” “It is better then becoming that slime balls Servant”. He said and seemed to calm down. I’m certain that we both knew that wouldn’t work, I sighed and laid back down “Now go to sleep”. I said and rolled onto my side again, my wings wrapped around me like a cocoon. I laid there listening to Alastor’s breathing as soon as it went soft and normal, I knew he was asleep. I yawned a bit then dozed off myself.
I slept peacefully, except my dreams were weird, of course they were always weird. I was flying threw the air as quick as possible, heading towards my master. I was panicking as I quickly dived down threw the large well and landed in my Master’s chambers, there was blood everywhere, on the walls on the floor, the stench was to great that it made me gag a bit I covered my mouth and nose with my wing. I looked around then followed the trail of blood out of my Master’s chambers. I walked slowly, staying alert, I can out of the tunnel into the light covering my eyes for a couple seconds cause of the light then opening them. In front of my hung my Master, dead, his body slightly swaying by the rope, I look at the body frozen then my eyes follow the rope to find that someone was holding it, grinning with a mouth full of fangs, Alastor. He released the rope and let the body fall with a large thump. I backed away slowly, keeping my eyes on him, I felt my leg slip then I fell off the side of the cliff which we were on, I closed my eyes, and then opened them to see Alastor hanging onto my hand ‘except me as your new master’. He mouthed. I woke up my wings spreading my head hit the ceiling of the cave “Ouch!” I rubbed my head “dang I wonder what that dream meant”. I said I looked around the room to find Alastor no where “huh, Alastor”? I landed on the ground. I then heard the roars of my demon dragon’s angry roars. ‘Oh no Alastor…’ I thought and hurried down the hall and outside seeing 5 demon dragons circled around Alastor and an demon dragon and on the side was three knocked out, I blinked as I saw Alastor start to fight with quick movements, and dodging all the blows easily. Some demon dragon at the side who were standing were cheering them both on. I stood back and only watched as Alastor took out each of the challenges.
After it was done, Alastor was slightly bent over, panting slightly. I approached him “You ok”? I asked. He straightened up quickly, and nodded. “Sorry they were out here sparing and I guess I got myself evolved.” He said, I nodded and looked at the dragon demons that were getting to there feet, a couple still out cold. “You are stronger then I thought Alastor, but my demon dragons are no where close to my Master’s strength just by defeating them you can’t take on my Master.” I said, he blinked and looked at my then sighed. “I’ll just practice with them then.” He said, and looked down slightly “what would happen if I do kill the Death God?” He asked then looked at me, it was almost like he was looking threw me. I thought a bit “you would become the new Death God…” I started thinking about my dream, spacing out a bit. Alastor watched me, he might be able to read my thoughts but I hope he couldn’t see the images I’m seeing. “You don’t want me as a new Death God do you Ryuu?” he asked, I shook my head. “No you wouldn’t be able to make it as the Death God it’s to dangerous and it’s not right for you.” I said and then sighed, he gave a slight smirk “you care about me don’t you?” he asked and grinned some. I stayed quiet about that and made my mind stay blank.
I got up and started to walk off, I heard him follow me quickly. “You care about me, just say if you do or don’t, come on Ryuu.” He said, I sighed and opened my wings and took off into the air, leaving him behind. I landed at the top branch of a tree, and about 5 minutes later saw Alastor sit beside the tree trunk, looking up at me he stayed quiet. ‘Maybe I do care a little’. I thought, knowing he would here me. I flew back down and sat beside him. He watched me “If I do be come the next Death God will you accept me as your master?” He asked and held my eyes with his stare. “I don’t know…I can’t think that far ahead.” I said and he nodded and sighed. “Will you try to kill me if I kill the Death God, to become the new Death God?” He was looking at his feet now. I watched him “I…maybe…I most likely would try to kill you.”
Everything went silent, and it seemed that time stopped. Alastor had looked away after I said that. It seemed that everything froze for hours though it was only a couple minutes. “But…if you did become the new Death God…and was a good one unlike the Death God now, I see no reason for me to kill you.” He looked at me for awhile then gave a nod. “If I do become like that I would want you to kill me”. He said then leaned back against the tree. “Do you trust me?” he asked. I hesitate and thought over the question “I can’t trust someone that I barely know”. I said, he looked towards the sky “Well I do trust you, and you will in time, come to trust me also”. He said but didn’t look at me. “It takes more then words to get my trust.” “How strong are you compared to the Death God?” He asked, I sighed and thought a bit. “Maybe about half as strong as him, why do you ask?” I asked and looked at him. He looked back at me. “Spar with me, one on one fight…I must get stronger to defeat the Death god.” He said and grinned. I blinked and watched him. “Are you sure, I might hurt you or something.” I said, and he laughed a bit and then stood up. “Come on, I’ll be fine, and don’t hold back at all.” He said and watched me. I sighed and stood up. “Fine, but keep your guard up.” I said and gave a small smirk. “Or you might end up flat on your face.” He laughed “well then come on dragon boy, show me what you got.” He said then attacked me; throwing a punch I caught his fish in my hand and gripped it tightly. He tried to kick me in my head, I grabbed his foot with my other hand, and he was unable to move I flipped him over, released and watched as he fell on his back. I rolled my eyes and shook my head “Unlike my dragon’s I have skills in fighting, don’t make it so noticeable on what attack your going to use, or it’s easy to block, or dodge it.” I said then looked down at him, I ended up with two feet going up hitting me in my jaw, you could hear a loud pop, and I slightly stumbled back, and growled, looking at him. He got up and took a stance. “Quit talking and fight, I know how to fight I don’t need lessons I just need to get stronger.” He said “If it’s a full out fight you want, then it’s what you’ll get.” I said then charged at him, he moved his right foot, about to dodge to the right; I spun around and whipped my tail straight across his back throwing him into a tree. I watched as he stumbled slightly as he got to his feet, a long thin scratch across his back like a whip. I hadn’t meant to use that much power to that attack but it didn’t work how I wanted it to. I took a step towards him “I’m fine.” he said before I said anything. He was panting slightly, beads of sweat formed on his face and neck. I gave a nod “Let’s take a brake before I really do hurt you.” “No, the Death God wouldn’t rest he would fight to the death.” He said, I watched him “Ok but I am holding back some.” I said but spread my wings. “My master will also attack from the air; you have to be ready for that also.” I said then took off into the air. I watched as he picked up a sharp stick, now I would have to be careful because I could easily become impaled on that stick. I watched as he spun it around like some people I’ve seen who are skilled in sword fighting. ‘So he’s good with swords that might be enough to defeat the Death God.’ I thought and grinned.
We fought hard against each other. We soon were resting by a river, cleaning our wounds with the fresh, cold water. I had a hole in my shoulder where I ended up impaling my shoulder with that stick. I also had a bloody nose where Alastor swung the stick perfect timing using me for a human sport…baseball. He had also broken one of my fangs which I had been complaining about for an hour now. He had about 5 tail whip marks on him, four over his back, one over his stomach because he turned around quickly. He had a gash on his head where he was slammed into a tree face first, and also a bite on his arm where I got angry and bit him hard, the reason he’s not sorry about knocking my fang out. I looked into the water at my reflection which showed me as a human, skinny, muscular, tall, no wounds, no scars, my eyes an light gold, and my hair long and silver. I grinned slightly wishing I could be the human I use to be. I looked at Alastor then at the water in front of him, seeing no reflection at all, I blinked. “I’m without a soul, I have no reflection, no life, and no true feelings remember.” He said and I nodded. “Right, that’s a shame.” I said and looked up at the setting sun, the sky turning all different colors “come on let’s head back and get some rest.” I said and stood up, he nodded and followed me.






















Chapter 2, Madam Deep (threw Alastor’s eyes)


I laid in bed staring at the ceiling of the cave. I looked over at the bed by the other wall where Ryuu slept without a sound. I thought over then events that had happened. It was only a week ago since I met Ryuu, we had been sparing among each other everyday, sometimes even evolving the younger demon dragons, but they never lasted long and soon gave up, going back to there caves. I had today ended up hurting Ryuu badly; the stick I used as a sword had shredded his wing, cutting many arteries. Ryuu had pasted out from blood lost and ever since I had been awake watching over him. I got some help from the younger dragons who seem good with wounds they patched up his wing and bandaged it. So far everything seems fine, but I am worried about him…it would be very bad if he died because of me. I sighed ‘don’t worry, Alastor I’ll be fine…I just need rest.’ I heard Ryuu thoughts and looked at him. He had one eye open, looking at me. “I’m sorry Ryuu, I never meant to do that much damage, and I would never do anything that would kill you.” I said and looked down. ‘I know that…it was an accident nothing more. You need to rest Alastor, I’ll be fine’. I listened to his thoughts then laid down though I didn’t want to.
I woke up and sat up, looking at Ryuu, there was no movement, not even movement of his chest. My eyes widened and I leaped out of bed, tripping over my feet and falling, I quickly got back up and went to him. “Ryuu, Ryuu.” I shook his slightly then grabbed his wrist feeling no pulse “…Ry...uu.” My legs gave out under me, making me fall onto my knees. As much as I wanted to, and wish I could, I couldn’t cry. “Alastor?” One of the younger dragons in human form her name was Emily, she had long black hair to the center of her back. Her eyes were bright silver and she had a long scar over her fore head where her father had taken his claws at her. She was only 25 years old, the youngest of the dragon demons. “Hi Emily…” I said and watched her. She walked over to Ryuu’s body, and moved a couple strands of his black hair out of his face. “You can bring him back, there’s and place called the Dark Waters, there’s a witch there and if you give her something, or run a task, or quest for her, she’ll help you.” She said and watched Ryuu “I’ll stay here and watch over the others while your gone, she only accepts one favor per person and I got mine along time ago.” She said and gave a small smile. I watched her “Thank you Emily. How do I get there?” She pulled out a map. “To get there you must go past these mountains and caves. Go threw the Shadow forest, and take a boat threw the Mystic swamp, and soon you’ll reach water so dark that you can’t see an inch under it, that’s the Dark Waters. From there just keep rowing, till you come to an old boat house surrounded by crocodiles, that’s where the witch lives.”
Her directions kept repeating in my head. One dragon demon asked to come with me, sense he knew the land well. His name was Sakuru he had short silver hair, and large silver wings, not a scar on him anywhere, he told me the reason for not having a scar on him was because he had never fought before, but he did train with Ryuu a lot, non stop most of the time. He was fast with flying, but he decided against flying and wrapped his wings around himself, they glowed then disappeared, his red eyes became silver, and his fangs shrank to where they weren’t sticking out. His tail with silver fur on it, vanished. His hair grew a bit longer but stayed the color it was. He looked completely human, except for the small horns on his forehead. “Come on let’s get going”. He said and started to walk towards the mountains. I watched him “how did you do that? How can you look human?” I asked, he gave a grin “we all can look human even Ryuu can when he wants to. It’s to keep slayers off our tails.” He said and kept walking “it fells weird though because our wings are inside of us when we do this.” He said and looked at the mountains that we were now coming close to. “I’ll fly once at the mountains so I can help you climb.” He said. I gave a nod and watched him turn into his demon form once again. His wings stretched and then lifted him off the ground. ‘Lucky he gets to fly, I get to climb’. I grabbed onto the rock wall in front of me and started to climb, with no shoes so my feet were killing me as I used my toes to grip to the sharp rocks. I took many brakes, just hanging there, catching my breath. I slipped up once, the rocks under my feet giving out and making me loose my grip and fall. Sakuru was quick to catch me, flying me up a bit back to the rock wall. “Hey wait a minute why don’t you fly me over this thing?” I asked. He gave a grin. “Cause its fun to watch you struggle with climbing.” He said, I took a swing at him but yet again lost my grip and fell, this time he flew me to the top. I stood on the top of the mountain, feeling slightly dizzy; I looked down at the thick forest below me. “I’ll fly you down, but we both walk after that”. He said, and did just as he said.
It took five minutes into the forest before the world turned pitch black, I couldn’t even see my hand in front of my face. I followed Sakuru’s foot steps, listening to sticks snap under the reptile’s feet. Every time I tried to ask a question he kept shushing me, he said it’s too dangerous in this forest for talking. I almost told him his feet are louder then my talking, but I just stayed quiet instead. I looked at the tree tops that is if I could see any. There wasn’t even a tiny bit of light, not even a speck. “Duck.” Sakuru said. “Ouch”. My head hit into a low branch “That was a…” I started but he shushed me again. I growled starting to get mad at this guy. “Stop shushing me!” I yelled. I heard a roar, and the silence of Sakuru’s feet. “Nice going idiot.” He growled. “What was that?” I asked, and felt myself run into him. I could see his eyes glow red “Their toxic demons, now run you idiot.” He said I felt a tight grip on my arm as he started to run, I had no choice but to follow him as quickly as I could. I kept tripping over vines and he kept pulling me after him. I felt him pull me up, I guest he made a jump, I kicked off just enough to clear something that was moving and huge… ‘Was that a tail?’ I thought but kept running. Soon I heard loud roars and large feet hitting the ground behind us. Just by the sounds I imaged a 20 to 30 feet tall demon with a large head, blood stained teeth, and piercing red eyes, plus a huge long tail. After about 10 minutes I guest, my feet went into something wet, and slimy, I felt air hit my face hard, as Sakuru lifted me out what ever it was and the sound of his wings flapping hard against the air. “Were at the swamp, it’s not much farther from here.” He said, I heard a huge splash and something wrapped around my leg, there was a jerk as the something pulled back hard. Sakuru looked at me then at my leg. “Dang beasts don’t know when to give up.” He growled a large light below his eyes, along with sharp long fangs. Fire came blowing out of his mouth and at my leg. There was a loud ear piercing scream of pain, my leg hurt and was slightly on fire but the creatures now I could tell it was his tail that was wrapped around my leg. It released and Sakuru flew us both away from there quickly. “How’s your leg? Is it burnt bad, it was the only way to get it to release.” He said and sat me on a branch. “It’s fine, it’ll heal.” I said and rubbed half of my leg and foot. It was hot to touch. Sakuru lit a branch with his fire and held it so I could see the damage. I removed my shirt and ripped it to strips, then wrapped my leg up with strips. “It’ll be fine…lets get going.” I said he gave a nod and tossed the flaming stick into the swamp. He leaped off the branch with me and started to fly again.
I watched in front of us, seeing light after a while, it was an old boat house, and the swamp around it lit everything up. Sakuru landed on the deck, and pulled his wings in. “Were finally here, lets go inside.” He said and walked to the door. I followed him, looking around at my surroundings. The trees were glowing light blue, the swamp here was glowing green, and sparkling also, from here you could see the night sky, full of stars. I looked at the banks where red eyes many red eyes shinned back, crocodiles covered the banks, there had to be around 100 maybe 200 of them. I sighed and followed Sakuru inside. The floor boards squeaked with every step we took. The place was filled with old knickknacks, and statues, guns and swords, knifes, and also birds. I read a sign on the wall. ‘You break it and you’ll buy it with your soul’. ‘Well I’m safe there’. I thought and chuckled softly. A bird squawked and jumped from foot to foot, watching us. “Madam Deep is out, Madam Deep is out, SQUAWK! Please come back tomorrow, please come back tomorrow SQUAWK!” It said. I blinked. Sakuru sighed, and pulled out a cracker. “retty bird, want a cracker, if you do then tell us where Madam Deep is please and thank you.” He said. “SQUAWK! I’m a pretty bird I’m a pretty bird, but me no tell, me no tell. “Its head nodded with each word, then grabbed the cracker quickly and ate it. Sakuru sighed “Lets rest here, and wait till she gats back.” He said then walked over to the wall and sat down, back to the wall. He closed his eyes and stayed still like a statue.
I started to walk around the boat house a bit. Looking at all the cool things the witch had here. I soon stood in front of a mirror. There was some writing on it and I read it ‘Close your eyes and rest your thoughts and open them and see what you want the most in the world.’ I sighed, I knew what I wanted, I wanted to be the new death god…I knew it yet I tried it out anyway. I closed my eyes and rested my thoughts as much as I could. But when I opened them Ryuu was standing at my side, and the death god was dead at our feet, In the reflection anyway. I looked around me then sighed and then looked at the mirror to see even my reflection was gone now. “eople without souls normally have no reflection dear.” An lady’s voice said I looked at the door to see an old woman, long white hair so long it trailed on the floor behind her. She had bright emerald eyes. And was dressed in an red old dress. I watched her and saw as the birds quieted except the one that stole Sakuru’s cracker. “SQAWK! Welcome home madam deep”. It said. Madam Deep took it out of the cage carefully and it flew up onto her shoulder. I gave a small bow “I’m sorry Madam Deep that we came in here uninvited…it’s just our friend is dead…it’s completely my fault, I want to bring him back.” I said. She gave a kind smile “I can help there…but is that really what you want…or do you want to become the Death God…I can only grant one wish and that’s chosen from your heart, as you saw In the mirror you want to things that are equal in value to you, your head wants to become Death God…but what dose your heart want the most. I can help you, I can put you to sleep and let you search your thoughts, your memories, your dreams, until you figure out what you truly desire.” She said and watched me. I looked at Sakuru then back at her “I’ll do that…I want to know what I want.” I said, she gave a smile then said words to fast for me to understand, my mind went blank, the world went black, all I felt was the landing on my back on the wooden floor.
I sighed, rubbing my head I sat up. I looked around and quickly noticed I was in one of my dreams, this dream was normally calm but easily turns into a nightmare at the end. I could think like normal this time. I looked at saw a huge river not far away. Behind me dark clouds circled a black castle, where the Death God is, and also Ryuu. I took off running towards it; I leaped over the moat where souls were crying for blood. I stopped running once inside, I looked around and started towards the spiral stair case. I peeked around a corner once to the top and saw the Death God ugly as ever, sitting on his throne watching a smaller size of the world, he was watching a pack of wolves two times larger then normal wolves. Run around a city killing everyone in sight. I looked around more and saw Ryuu in a cage, hands, and legs chained together ‘this is new’. I thought
I watched Ryuu staring at the Death God, his eyes were like mine. Except they had some color. They weren’t soulless like mine, they had life in them, but it seemed that they had no happiness only sadness.