The Aurian Chronicles - Chapter 8

 Chapter 8: Blood Moon on the Rise

Lyte sighed softly as she changed back into her regular white top and rainbow sequin white pants. It had been another great night at the club she was DJing for and she wanted to get home to watch a movie with her big brother. “God the energy was electric tonight! And the best part of the night has yet to begin!”

“I’ll say! Your big brother isn’t even here yet!” Said a man’s voice as he slowly walked in. Blood Angel smiled and straightened his blood red tie over his lighter red undershirt and straightened his white suit as he sized up the young and beautiful Lyte, who smiled politely back at him. “Oh! Hey there! You must be a friend of my big brother… if you want we can wait til he gets here.” She exclaimed with a cheerful grin, one Blood Angel just returned. “Oh….

I’m looking forward to it.” he replied as he advanced on her.

An hour later, Darkness sighed as he pulled up to the club in his Challenger, he walked in slowly to a dark empty club. “LYTE? I’M HERE!” He called out. He could already tell something was wrong, the party was over, but the club should still be getting cleaned. “Shit….” he said as he turned on the lights, there were piles of bodies in odd places, some of them on further inspection were formed into words. “Party…. On the dance floor.” Read Darkness as he stepped out into the moshpit. The lights slowly turned red as Blood Angel appeared on stage. “VOID WALKER! It’s truly great to see you… I’m… I’m such a big fan!” He said as he clapped his white gloved hands together, Darkness just pulled out one of his Colt .45s and glared up at him. “If you know who I am, and what I do, that must mean you work for another syndicate, I’m guessing Zach Farley hired you.” He said. Blood Angel merely heaved a guilty sigh. “Yes… That bastard had to be the sour note to our meeting… You see Darkness, I’ve always admired your work! I’ve flown oh so very high with all of the blood you’ve spilt! I’ve almost touched the very heavens itself! Alas… Unfortunately, Mr. Farley has summoned the very Blood Angel who loves you to be your downfall… what cruel, tragic IRONY!” He said as he slashed at Darkness with a knife. Darkness harumphed and went full Void and stepped through Blood Angel, but Blood Angel merely smirked and calmly kept the knife inside of Darkness, who panicked a bit and dove away, some of the knife still in his back as he rematerialized. Blood began flowing from his wound and into the shaved part of Blood Angel’s head, forming a bloody lock of hair. “That Void walking move you use is an awe-inspiring skill, but you can’t use it for too long because it tires you out… I know your tricks… and I am NOT just a thug” He said with a melodic laugh. Darkness just growled and fired at him, but Blood Angel used Darkness’ own blood as a shield to protect himself. “ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF, VOID WALKER! I am the BLOOD ANGEL! I can use blood to shield myself, I can make wings to fly if I so choose, or I can super coagulate it into hard blades… like so!” He said as he fired sharp blades of blood at Darkness, who took one to the leg as he ducked for cover. “Well, lotty fuckin dotty… You aren’t the only other Aura user I’ve fought, and you WON’T be the fuckin’ last… freaky little Asspuke!” Said Darkness as he pulled out a small staff, he pumped a bit of his energy into it and formed a large scythe with a purple blade. Blood Angel just chuckled. “Not even going to waste any more time playing cat and mouse, are we? Good!” he said as Darkness slashed through his wings, but Blood Angel was ready with real knives in both hands, with Darkness’ Scythe stuck in his wings, Blood Angel was free to stab at him. Darkness pulled out both of his handguns and fired at him, one gun fired real bullets, and the other fired Void bullets, which tried to lash out at Blood Angel, but he merely used Darkness’ scythe to shield them off. “AHAHAHA NOW THIS IS A REAL DANCE” He screamed out at Darkness before booting him in the face and throwing his scythe at him, missing him by a few inches. “Now then, how would you like your….everything pierced?” He asked as he threw knives into Darkness's stomach and fired more blades of blood at him until his wings were gone. Darkness just chuckled weakly as he coughed up blood. “Seems you have a limit to YOUR Powers too Angel fuck!” He exclaimed. Blood Angel just smiled. “Indeed, no blood? No powers! And sadly those corpses I used to stock up on are running low… luckily I have a battery reserved just in case!” He said as he pressed a button on the stage, causing a barely breathing Lyte to appear. Darkness’ eyes rose in horror as the usually bright and vibrant Lyte weakly crawled to him. Darkness fought threw the immense pain he was in to hold her. “Big Brother…. Help me…” She said as she coughed up blood. “Awwww isn’t that sweet?  What’s it like to have family care that much for you? I wouldn’t know, I KILLED all of mine!” Exclaimed Blood Angel with a laugh. Darkness lost focus and began to grit his teeth as hard as he could while narrowing his eyes at Blood Angel. Purple bolts of energy began to crackle as the rational part of his mind tried to remember what Mr Capryse told him when he first started, ‘Now remember Darkness, keep it PROFESSIONAL. Never let it get personal.’ But Darkness knew everything was well past that. All of his hatred began pouring into his aura, causing his body to turn fully black, except his veins which gleamed bright purple. Multiple black tendrils grew out of him, and his teeth turned into purple interlocking jaws. Blood Angel’s smile faltered a tad as the light was sucked out of the room. “My oh my Darkness, what’s happened to you?” He asked as he threw multiple knives at Darkness and Lyte, but Darkness’ Tendrils smacked them away. “YOUR NIGHTMARE!!” Responded Darkness as he latched his tendrils around Blood Angel and bashed him repeatedly against a wall. As the light faded from his eyes. Blood Angel looked at the blood flowing from his body. “Blood… Beautiful… Beautiful… Blood…” He said with a weak laugh before he passed out. Darkness grunted as the rational part of his brain returned and he slowly turned back to his normal self. His body was fully healed, but he was now far beyond exhausted. “Gotta… help… Lyte.” he said as he carried his sister to his car and drove her to the hospital. Unbeknownst to them. A pink skinned, red haired demonic woman in a red dress walked to the huddled body of Blood Angel and healed him just enough to preserve his life. “What… was that immense power… I thought YOU were my Hell knight… but that void user… that power… that seductively sinister power! Ohhhhh yesssss.” She moaned as she sucked her middle finger seductively. “Darkness…. I’ll do whatever it takes to have you for myself… no one resists the Shadow Queen!” She said as she rearranged some of the leftover corpses to spell one name. “KAYLA”