Chapter 44: Fighting For My Life Here

'How!?'

Amon jumps into the air doing a flip as the shuriken slices his left pant leg he looks to go on the offense according to where Ena just was.

'Where'd she go?'

He felt a tug at his right leg as Ena grabbed it from above. She threw him back out into the street.

'What the hell! She's no joke!'

*Thwift*

Amon felt a rope be wrapped around him as he was pulled back suddenly as Ena missed her attempted attack because of him being pulled back.

"Be careful, newbie!"

Amon looked over at Archer swinging in the air by his bow fighting the other 3 demons.

'He's handling them all by himself!'

*Explosions*

Amon watched as Archer was simply fighting to survive.

'He'll get overwhelmed if I don't find a way to help him.'

Amon felt a heavy pain in his stomach as he hunched over being punched in the gut. He went into the air a little as Ena grabbed him by the throat before he went into the air farther.

"Feel like giving up yet? Maybe I'll still spare you."

*Slice*

Ena's arm was cut as she let go looking at her blood. Amon jumped back as he stared at Ena with empty but tired eyes.

"Can you stop talking already."

Amon's words annoyed Ena.

'That sword is the only real threat here; it's definitely imbued with some sort of blood technique from a demon. How he got his hands on it though is a great question.'

Ena smiles cunningly.

"IS THAT THE BEST YOU GOT!"

Ena burst out laughing as she made fun of Amon.

"One cut isn't gonna kill me, you know that right!"

*beep*

Amon heard the beep in his ear.

***

Ani sat at her desk eating some Ramen.

"Amon…you're the only one that can hear this so listen carefully."

She was watching a screen in front of her. It had two red dots on it with one being stationary and the other moving towards the other dot.

"I sent a surprise to you guys for your rather rough fight."

"Yeah and what would that be?"

Amon asked as Ani watched the screen.

***

Amon looked over at Ena as he prepared for another defensive move.

"Let's just say it's also pretty quiet."

Amon realized what she meant as a recent memory hit his head.

"Just stay alive for another minute Amon."

"No promises."

Amon fastened his feet to the ground as Ena looked at him with killing eyes.

'A minute…That's not that long right?'

"Who ya talking to?"

*Swift*

*Clash*

The sound of his blade scraping against Ena's shuriken in her hand was loud.

"Is it someone I should be worried about?"

Ena backed up as she threw shuriken at lightning-like speeds.

'You got this!'

Amon positioned himself.

*Tink*

*Tink*

*Tink*

*Tink*

He caught all four shuriken on his blade. He swung his blade towards the ground, flinging the shuriken on the ground. He fixed his hair, getting it out of his face.

'Seems I'm breaking a sweat. Her speed is her best quality, if only I could keep up somehow.'

Ena looked in somewhat disbelief.

'Who's he think he is?'

*Tink*

She grabbed the end of his blade suddenly.

"You're pretty good…but still not even close to being able to beat me. You live right now because I will it to be so. If I felt like I had to go all out on you. I would have done so already!"

Amon stood still as he heard a noise in the distance. He smiled cockily.

The air between the two of them started to get denser as Amon gave her a crazed look.

"You don't threaten me in the slightest demon."

'I sense a killing instinct within him…am I feeling threatened? What's going on…I'll kill him in one strike!'

*CRASH*

Amon let go of his sword and ran back

'No it wasn't him…I felt nothing from him it was…'

Ena turned towards the object that had crashed behind her. It was a small container.

'It was that container…'

*Pshh*

Smoked hollowed out as the container opened.

***

'I don't know how I was able to survive that long. I need to get back and help Archie!'

Amon turned his head back as he ran.

'Hopefully she can handle the demon.'

***

Ena stared at the crater in the ground as the container was empty.

'Was it a distraction?'

Ena felt a warm liquid on her cheek. She touched it.

"What the? I'm bleeding?"

Ena noticed a small girl on her shoulders licking her nails. She had a hat on her head and long nails that look like they cut through steel. Her hair was long and covered most of her face. Her clothes looked like they were bought out of a designer store. What was most striking to Ena in the short second she analyzed the girl was her cat-like tail.

"Sound demon blood…mmmmm so warm!"

The girl said showing her cat-like teeth.

'A MONSTER!'

Demons have been around for as long as humans could remember but so were their mortal enemies and who were called monsters. The two creatures always butted heads seeing themselves both as predators, it was always the predator vs predator relationship between the two. The natural instinct between them is a fight to the death. Shojia however was not a full blooded monster, she had a human heart with a monster's bran and blood. To her demon's just look like snacks.

"GUARDS!"

Ena jumped away from Shojia as the other 3 demons from earlier accompanied her side. Shojia sat on the ground like a cat licking her nails where very little of Ena's blood had remained.

'Her monster aspect is raging, it seems like it's engulfing the entire area the more blood she consumes…but she's only half a real monster.'

Ena smirked feeling somewhat pitiful for the humans.

"So that's what you human's is think is gonna save your life? A half monster against a Pure Demon…hahaha pathetic!"

Amon turned back as he saw the other demons suddenly there.

'Did they kill Archie already?'

"Shojia!"

Amon looked up hearing Archie yell on top of a building. Shojia looked up at him in a cat-like manor.

"They hurt Gas-Tank!"

Amon thought back to the first night he saw them all in action.

'Shojia took out a grade 2 or more level monster in one strike. What is she able to do against a grade 2 sound demon?'

Shojia heard Archer's words as she looked at the ground for a moment. Her aura heightened as everyone around could feel themselves being overshadowed. It was dark and vicious. Nothing any of them had ever seen before. It was-

***

"Unsettling…Shojia's Monster Aspect is unsettling, dangerous, and only ever to be used for emergencies Ani."

Zefu said standing in a private meeting with Ani. The date read 7/13/2030.

"Yes Zefu."

Ani said holding a tablet. She wore her glasses as she chewed some bubble gum. Her apparel was very fitting with her all black outfit. Her hair was long and curly.

"Zefu?"

"Yes?"

"Shojia what is she?"

Zefu looked at Ani with a serious expression.

"She is my little sister nothing more nothing less. She is not a monster to us, she is family. She will treat you all like family as well."

'Shojia is obviously a product of the illegal projects run by the D.E.O. Still, the most recent project that's ever been heard about such projects was in 2008...is it possible there were more projects after it all got shut down? Shojia is only 14 right...could that mean there was a project as recent as 2016? With how technology has been advancing too...could she be that last project? That would explain how strong she could be especially if she is meant to be only used as a last resort?'

Ani noticed Zefu gave her an odd look. 

'Is he...?'

"Whenever someone under my division is about to die would be appropriate in my eyes. Shojia doesn't take well to Demons but what she hates most of all is her friends and family getting hurt."

Zefu opened the door and sure enough The Quiet Girl was waiting in front of it sitting on the floor like a cat. Her and Ani locked eyes. She had a hat on that hid her somewhat bald head. Zefu closed the door as Shojia was smiling at Ani.

'I have to be careful with my thoughts around him...but the girl or monster girl...Shojia, she seems powerful.'

***

Ani sat at her desk in the present time with a cigarette in her mouth. She looked at one of the camera screens looking at Shojia and the demons.

'In my 4 years of being here I've called on Shojia two other times…'

She blew a cloud of smoke.

'She still terrifies me to this day.'