Zadkiel rode on… From the corner of his eye, he saw smoke rising above the buildings… That, smell from earlier, it was the smell of a crack between Hell and Earth… He parked his bike… He needed to get there fast, and a bike wouldn't do. He took off, tearing down the sidewalk, and in a dark blur, he emerged from a crowd, in full demon form. He took to the air, above all of the buildings…
"Definitely demons." He darted to the scene , an arc of darkness in the azure sky…
Alex looked to the sky and saw smoke coming from somewhere in the city. Her body began to change again, she recognized the form. Oh no no nononono. Her body transformed into a demon and she flew towards the smoke.
Zadkiel noticed another demon reaching the scene, that had emerged from somewhere else… He slammed into it from nowhere, and they crashed into a building, rolling on the roof until he pinned it, with his razored teeth on it's throat.
"Where did you bastards come from!?!" He said
"Uh," Alex panicked, "From where I came from?"
They hoped that would satisfy the demon pinning them down.
Gavin saw a large crowd around a burning building. He grinned, hopping on his bike and riding to the scene. "Woah…" He took a few pictures of the fire, before spotting two flying demon-ish figures. Gavin snapped a picture of them.
"And where are you from!!!?" Zadkiel said. He didn't want to be to hard on this one, demons usually didn't carry such a tone of voice, even if afraid. He softened the grip he had on it's throat and invaded it's mind… No images of Hell… He loosed his grip, and offered a hand to this one.
"You're not a real demon then, eh? Sorry about that…"
"Oh, thank god," Alex grabbed the other demons hand, "No, I'm not. I'm a shifter. Except I can't really control my abilities."
Gavin sighed, lowering his camera as the demon-ish figures disappeared on top of the roof. "Shoot."
"Interesting…" Zadkiel said, taking flight again. He witnessed a demon, with six, spiderlike legs, and a face that parodied a human's, chase a woman… Swooping down, he rolled, avoiding having his wings twisted, and charged it, implying it with his large wing, before it could reach him, it tried to spit acid at him, but it just gurgled and collapsed in a heap, dead…
Gavin took out his camera again, taking pictures of the winged demon person that was fighting a strange demon. This is so cool….
Alex saw what the other demon was doing, and went after a different one that had just appeared. Just because she couldn't control her shifting abilities didn't mean she couldn't control her different forms.
Within seconds, Zadkiel stood in a mess of demon fluids, he impaled another one with his tail, and pulled it out in such a way that it did damage coming out too… He reverted back to human form…
"I see how you idiots got through… You were just small, and just insignificant enough to crawl between the dimensions." He paused . "So you're not worth the effort!" One more demon charged him, he twisted around it's blows, and went for a karate chop, splitting it in half…
'You fodder punks dare show up in the presence of a Hellprince, yeah? "
Gavin switched to video instead. This should get more…
Alex didn't believe what she just heard, Hellprince? No way. She continued fighting off whatever she could determined to protect the city.
(STAAAAAAAAAAAY ALIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!!!)
(?)
(STAAAAAAAAAY…..hey…..HEEEEEEEEEYYYYYY)
(I have no idea what's going on.)
(The heck?)
(Okay, let's do this…)
Zadkiel could smell the stench of death, and nothing else…
"This place reeks worse than most of Hell. I'm out of here…" He said, flying off, but he secretly landed on the roof, watching the one with the camera… More people than you'd think actually knew about demons, but this still wasn't good.
Gavin tried to contain his excitement. This is so cool! This is the best thing I've gotten on camera in years!
Alex fought off the last demon that they could see. The demon from earlier shot off into the sky, Alex figured it might be smart to follow them. They wanted answers, this had never happened before that they could remember. The demon landed on a roof and looked like they were watching someone.
"Who you watching?" Alex asked.
"That one there with the camera." Zadkiel said, shaking the blood from one large, feathered wing. It stuck to the scales on his wing, and dripped down from the thumbclaw of his wing, some of the spiked too, we're caked with it. Next, he shook of his tail, blood poured down the fin of his tail, here to, it stuck into the spikes. He took his wings and tail back into himself, so he actually looked more human.
Alex felt the adrenaline leave her body, and she shifted once more back into her human form, "Okay, but mind if I ask what the Hell just happened?"
"It appears that some of the more insignificant demons… Managed to slip through the cracks, that connect Hell and Earth." Zadkiel explained, surveying the area. "They sure managed to wreak havoc, but, I can't figure out their motives…"
"Well maybe I could help with that," Alex held out her hand, "I'm Alex."
"Ozzy." He said , taking it. He extended a spike from his wrist, and shot it at the camera, nearly stabbing the cameraman in the hand, but he destroyed the right area, it was all but useless… He threw down a hundred-fifty bucks to replace it. And walked off, to the ladder to get off the roof.
Alex followed him off, "So what first?"
"First, I don't think you'll like what comes first…" Zadkiel said, somberly. "We have to find the crack here, and seal it, from the inside, after which, we have to make our way out of Hell…"
Gavin jumped, sidestepping the spike that destroyed half his camera. What the….good. It didn't hit the memory card. Money came down from the sky, and he assumed that whoever had broken his camera was repaying him for the damage.