Nino walked down the hallway alone once more, and yet even as he walked, he tensed more and more as the blood within him pumped to all parts and back to the core. That demon….Nino’s eyes narrowed even farther down to the point that they were mere slits in his visage. The muscles in Nino’s neck twitched for a second as he turned down one hall causing his head to move sharply to find the next view point. However, his eyes had already caught on to what the dark haired shaman had been looking for. Standing in the middle of this hallway with his arms crossed was Nino’s smiling reflection.
“Hello,” the smiling reflection smiled somewhat lightly at Nino.
“What are you doing in that form,” Nino glared straight into the eyes of Loki, and within that instant the face was no longer his own, and Loki stared back at him continuing the smile that had already stained his lips.
“I didn’t expect to get chased you know,” Loki said suddenly reaching upwards and pulling the sides of his face downwards into the visage of a stressed frown. Nino just stared blankly back as his dark eyes glared needles into the head of the demon before him. “So what do you want then?”
“What are you doing here?” Nino answered back ignoring Loki’s first notion.
“What am I doing here? What are you doing here?” Loki laughed back as he put his hands together.
In a sharp movement, Nino raised his gun and aimed it directly at the forehead of the demon, yet in that instant, Loki’s form shifted and he took on the appearance of Matsu. Nino made no movement to either move down his gun or pull the trigger, yet in that moment, the dark haired man held solid conviction upon shooting the demon no matter what face he wore. Seeming to understand this, Loki let out yet another sigh and took his normal featured format.
“You’re no fun to play with,” Loki began as he took a step backwards and suddenly back bent into a hand stand. “I don’t want to play with gloomy people like you.” Suddenly the sound of the safety being let off the gun clicked into the air. Looking upwards from his still hand stand position, Loki smiled up at Nino. “Oh you want to play that game then… but still… you’re a cheater at it… so nope… I’m still not playing!” A giggle was suddenly released into the air from the confines of Loki’s throat, and with it, Nino felt the muscles in his arm tighten.
“I’m not playing a game, Loki,” Nino answered back darkly. “What are you demons doing in this school?”
“And why should I tell you?” Loki retorted back, and suddenly the demon was standing on two fingers with one hand behind his back and his head still keeping eye contact with Nino.
The next thing the demon knew, the force of twenty sudden bullets entering his stomach pierced through him. Black blood exploded like fireworks in the air, and the body of Loki fell backwards sharply hitting the floor and squeaking with the sudden noise of two objects rubbing up against black liquid. There was a solid minute of silence that formulated itself and confined itself within the moment. However, this was broken with the sudden footsteps of Nino as he walked towards the body of Loki. The demon that lay in a pool of his own black essence made no motion to rise, and yet he was not dead. Both he and the dark haired man that would become his executioner if the time desired it knew this.
“I’ll ask again,” Nino’s cold voice seemed to crash into the displaced air like a knife upon stained glass. “What are you doing here?”
“Souls….” Loki coughed suddenly as his body was beginning to force oxygen back into the demon’s system. “Master……….wants…….”
With the three words said out into the open, Nino felt his understanding of it come crashing down upon his own psyche. Bringing up his leg, the dark haired man kicked his boots directly into the side of the demon who appeared to make no response whatsoever on the gesture. However, the dark haired man made no appearance of caring and only continued to kick the demon before him.
“Souls?” Nino repeated as his right leg continued to beat itself into the side of Loki’s ribcage. “You want those ghosts? I won’t let you have these children,” Nino’s voice was firm, and yet the slight hit of emotion that was streamlined with it caused the demon who heard it to burst into a fit of laugher despite the fact that was being kicked.
“Hahahahhahah,” Loki laughed to himself even as his body curled up in response to the kicking as if to make a perpetual shield for himself. Seeing this, Nino turned his sharp abuse to the demon’s head and brought his foot straight into the jaw of the demon. However, the demon appeared oblivious to this notion and only continued to keep kicking. “You’re like a completely different person when emotional hahahahah,” Loki continued to laugh even as Nino continued to embrace the anger and continued to kick him. Upon hearing this statement appealed outwards from the demon, Nino felt himself freeze for a moment. Returning his balance to full form, the dark haired man stepped a few feet away from the demon who appeared to be perfectly content to lay in his own pool of black death. “Oh what?” Loki’s voice as hoarse with pain, and yet the demon continued to force his head up and smile back at Nino. “Did I hit a string?”
“No,” Nino answered back darkly. Just as the demon’s eye moved up to view the dark haired man’s eyes, Loki felt his breath catch. Staring back at Loki, Nino’s face had broken into a full and twisted smile. “You see…. I am a different person……” Nino smirked even more. “Because when I’m angry… people die…” The smirk upon Nino’s face grew even wider to encompass his entire visage. “But ya know… you deserve to die.” In that second, the smile that had reached across Nino’s face had died, and all that was left was a dark blank look.
Loki felt himself twitch. What is…. He… In his own mind, the demon servant lying on the floor questioned. With a sudden motion that caught the demon off guard, Nino formed a sword in his hand and slashed directly downwards upon the demon. Rolling in effect to try and avoid the sudden and drastic motion, the demon managed to dodge. In a fit to try and regain the ground before there could be any dire consequences for such tardiness, Loki stood fully once more before Nino who only reflected a sharp caustic smile back at him as if patient enough to wait for Loki to rise.
“Time for you to die,” Nino said with a blank visage.
Suddenly, Loki felt a sword go through his head. Backing up sharply, the demon moved acrobatically away from the dark haired man, and yet it was not enough for his pursuer was already moving forwards and had already made yet another sharp pointed attack. Nino continued forwards slashing every half second to try and land a perfect blow to the shoulders. Loki moved swiftly to the right, then the left, and once more to the right as the blade came down almost in waves up him.
“Hah… so you’re speedy. So what?” Loki laughed as he formed a set of boxing gloves on par with his hands and began to block the sword as if the gloves were made of brick. “I’ll knock you right out of this ring,” Loki laughed.
However, even as the demon laughed these words, the dark haired man appeared to take on no form of function of responding to them. Instead, Nino continued to attack caustically and viciously as he moved and continued to close the distance between the two of them. As the demon managed to grab distance, Nino’s sword instantly took the form of a gun, and once more the dark haired man began shooting the demon. Moving fast enough to barely dodge the bullets that were now flying from every direction due to the rebounded effect, Loki reached behind his back and from his original boxing gloves, he formed a jack in the box.
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Writer's Notes:
I decided to just do Nino for now since I learned that I may not be able to get onto the computer tomorrow. I will try and post Matsu's part tomorrow or Friday at the latest. Anyone can 'jump in' on the fight but just know that Nino will beat anyone who gets in his way between him and Loki. If you need any help, just PM me.
