The Aurian Chronicles chapter 12: There's a blood moon on the rise

 Lyte let out a soft sigh of exhaustion as she got into her regular white Tank top and white pants when the last car left the parking lot of her concert. She was a bit regretful that she told Silver and Darkness it was best if they just picked her up after the concert ended, but the processing of the past few days had been a bit too much for her.

As she left her room to wait for Darkness, A tall skinny man in a white Tuxedo with a red dress shirt bowed at her. "Ahhhh you must be the beautiful DJ... Lyte...Stryke... BEAUTIFUL show tonight! Derek would be proud of you!" He said with a grin, showing every single one of his shining white teeth.

Lyte felt goosebumps as he lifted her hand and kissed it like a gentleman. "Oh, thanks! Are you a friend of my brother Derek's?" She asked politely, though he was giving her an icky feeling, One that started to increase tenfold when he let out an echoing shrill laugh. "A Friend? Why young lady, I am a HUGE fan of the Void Walker Darkness!"  He said while he formed a lock of hair from a blood vial where the shaved part of his head was "What say we entertain ourselves while we wait for him?

Lyte narrowed her eyes as she formed a shining rainbow ball "I don't know who you are but you better step off right now man!" She said as he advanced on her, causing her to throw it at him, but he sidestepped and pulled her in tight, locking his fingers with hers... "Shall we dance my dear?" he asked while forming a blade of blood at the ends of his tongue while licking down her neck, leaving a deep scratch down the side of it, causing her to scream.

An hour later, Darkness Pulled his Car into the closest parking spot he could, walking in through the main entrance. "LISA?! I'M HERE!" He yelled out as he looked around. Darkness didn't like how most of the lights were already off, he usually helped her lock up the place if she was coming home.

"Lisa?" He asked as he stepped up the center stage. A spotlight shined down on him as a soft violin played. "Ahhhh Darkness! We FINALLY meet at long last!" Called out the man in the white tuxedo as he stepped into the light. Darkness narrowed his eyes as he saw the lock of blood he used for his hair. "I know that power... You must be the Blood Angel." He Said spitefully with gritted teeth.

Blood Angel covered his mouth and smiled gleefully. "YOU'VE HEARD OF ME! I'm so delighted! I Had always wished to talk about the joys of our job over a glass of wine... Unfortunately, Mr. Farley has tasked me to the vengeance of his little pig spawn! A tragedy of the highest calibre! Fortunately, your lovely little sister provided me with such... BEAUTIFUL entertainment!" He said with near orgasmic bliss.

Darkness' eyes narrowed as he quickly pulled out his Dual Colt 1911s and fired them at Blood Angel, who formed wings of blood and shielded himself while walking to Darkness. "Allow me to introduce myself properly! My name is Vincent Verikoff! I am a master of blood manipulation, I can even coagulate it to a form harder than metal! And today Derek Sonata, I Wish for a taste of yours!" He said as he charged Darkness with a knife.

Darkness quickly turned full void and stepped through the attack, but Vincent simply kept the knife in his body until he reformed, causing it to pierce through the skin of his shoulder. Darkness let out a scream of pain as Vincent called some of the blood to him. "Mmmm, so the rumors are true! You have the about to form Black forms of void on yourself, you can even become void to pass through solid objects... but you can only do so for so long, and if the matter you pass through is harder than yourself? Well.. Accidents happen!" He said with amusement.

Darkness grunted and used the hot barrel of his handguns to Cauterize his wound before fading into the surrounding Darkness. Vincent let out a loud laugh as he closed his eyes! "YES! THIS is the ultimate game! Hide and seek! FOR KEEPS!" He said while slowly looking around.

Darkness held his breath and moved in the shadows as he slowly lurked the halls. 'First things first, gotta find Lisa, then get her the hell out of here." He said while scanning the room. As he looked down, he saw a trail of red along the ground. he followed it carefully to Lisa's room where he saw Lyte with small cuts along her body. "Lisa!" He said as he lifted her. "Big brother... Help me..." She whimpered before she slowly passed out in his arms.

Darkness began to grit his teeth as void began to radiate off him. "Calm down you idiot! He's going to sense you!" Said a voice. Darkness looked around, who said that?!" He demanded. "Up here!" The voice yelled back. Darkness looked up and saw a young man in a brown suit and black tie, his face seemed hidden in a combination of shadows and his messy long black hair.

Darkness looked at him. "Who are you?!" He hissed softly. The man just shook his head. "I believe your mother referred to me as... The composer... We don't have time for that now, You're going to have to fight this man with aura... your popping toys aren't going to cut it here!" He warned. Darkness just fake laughed. "Non-violence my ass! If you were the Composer, you wouldn't be telling me to fight, Aura's my-"

"AURA IS YOUR ONLY WAY OUT OF HERE ALIVE! What was that you told Lisa earlier? It was your shield? Don't be a hypocrite or smartass with ME, boy! I'm not thrilled about this either, but if it's the only way to keep my most worthy heir alive, so be it!" Said the Composer as he lowered to the floor glaring at Darkness like a stern parent.

Darkness' eyebrows raised. "Lisa's your most worthy heir?! I'm so proud of her!" He said gleefully, causing the Composer to facepalm. "No genius, if it were her, SHE'D be the one talking to me... and god how I wish it was her! She is actually open with her musical talents! YOU gave them up and hid behind the bottle for god knows how long now! Now stand up! We'll talk about all this later!" He said with frustration in his voice.

The Composer reached into Darkness's coat pocket and pulled out a box containing a conductor's baton. "My most precious artifact... of all the things you've been through in life, you've kept this safe... Thank you, Derek." He said as he handed it to Darkness. Darkness admired it and stood up. "Why do I need this now?" he asked.

The Composer smirked and put a hand on his shoulder. "Focus your Aura, And unleash its power!" He instructed confidentially. Darkness nodded and focused his void through the Baton, causing it to grow in size. The baton turned into a black staff with a Dark purple scythe blade coming through the top. "Woah..." He said as his void tendrils erupted from it.

"A Scythe... Your professionalism, combined with your Dark demeanour... formed the Baton into a weapon most fitting for you... Nice... Unfortunately, combat is not my forte... And Time is running out, so you're going to have to go with the flow on this one... good luck my young heir." Said the composer softly, slowly disappearing in blue flames.

"Good luck? What are you going to-" He said as he looked up to see the Composer was no longer there. "Wherever you are... WHATEVER you are... Thank you... let's go get that freaky asshole." He said as he tucked Lyte into her bed and closed the door, ready to take the fight to the Blood Angel.