zero0stars

zero0stars(Mac diaz) first draft of Zero0stars by. mac diaz

Alice felt something sharp pierce her stomach. “Looks like the Queen couldn’t save the King in the end,” the corrupt voice of chaos echoed through the room that was shaped like a giant chess board. Calix fell to his knees seeing Alice being hung upside down and knowing that he had lost he cried. Chaos put his left hand on Alice’s face and absorbed all of her life turning her into a cloud of energy with gravity stronger than a black hole that glowed a brilliant blue.
The energy and gravity of the cloud was too strong for even him and blood trickled from his incredibly muscular body as his skin started to tear. He smiled and looked down at Cole and Calix then he said, “Game over you lose, but this was just game one maybe next time you might win.”
“Damn it calix after all we’ve been through this is the end,” Cole said to calix, “but through this whole journey one thing I don’t regret is being your best friend.”
Calix smiled and gasped out the words “I... I’ll see you in… in about 7…0 billion y…ears Cole.” Then they did their hand shake for the last time and hit their hands together as the cloud of gravity pulled their bodies apart. Then everything that ever existed collapsed into the black hole destroying everything that ever existed, like someone had pressed restart on a game.
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Once upon a time a long, long time ago the game began. Since the beginning of time people were drawn to the dark power of demons allowing them to access earth and wreak havoc. Though in 2016 the barrier that kept demons from earth was broken and demons attacked earth without having to make demon contracts sending the word into darkness and corrupting all. The demons overwhelmed the unorganized exorcist and world fell into darkness. No one was safe until the governments of the world organized and formed the world’s first organized demon hunter academy training kids to become exorcists it also became an outpost for exorcist’s known as Ravens claw. The government hired the few remaining unorganized exorcists as teachers and being an exorcist became a paid government job and the schools doors opened. The school offered many different types learning ability’s from magic to swords to hand to hand combat to classical exorcism. All students began as rangers and progressed until they became exorcists of their chosen class. Though before humanity rose from the ashes in a last ditch effort to survive in a lost world our story begins.
“Mommy,” a young girl only four years old tugged on her mother’s dress as they walked down the same street they always did on the way home from her pre-school.
“Yes sweet heart” she said with soft kind voice “what is it?”
“Whose eyes…” the girl said almost frightened yet a little confident as they stared to cut across the park. It was the late afternoon and the sun was starting to settle.
“Whose eyes, what?” her mother said with a slight grin.
“Whose eyes always watch me?” she said scared of the answer.
“Are you sure you want to know the,” mother said. The daughter nodded and her mom sighed “well they’re… they’re mine. I always watch you and I think you are old enough now so it’s time for me to leave this world.” She reached into her purse and her daughter watched helplessly as she pulled out a gun put it to her head. Her daughter froze in fear she hear no noise but saw her mother’s lips mouth out the words “I love you”. She pulled the trigger the young girl fell to her knees. The last thing she saw was her mother’s lifeless body bleeding and the blood formed the mark of the devil a Pentagram.
“Ahhhhhh” Alice screamed she was breathing heavily. It was the nightmare of her past she always had yet it always scared her. It had been 12 years since then she was sixteen now and was alone.
After her mother’s death she sat in the park and cried till a boy from her school was wandering through the park and saw her crying. He snuck up behind her taped her on shoulder and asked what was wrong. Then he saw the dead body and started to back away until he bumped into something and turned around and saw a demon towering over him. The large demon flicked the young boy yet t sent him sprawling to the floor and passing out. Alice sat there like a deer I head lights, the demon walked up to Alice and bowed then apologized as he grabbed Alice’s forehead and lifted her up as she shook violently till she stopped and blood dripped from her eyes and ears. Thirty minutes later she awoke and understood everything who she was, what was going on and something that confused her. The soul that was once in her eyes was gone as she walked over to the boy who had also been attacked but, she couldn’t control her body. Then she felt her teeth extend as she bit his hand. He shook crazily on the floor like he had become possessed one of his eyes was purple then his hand were she had bit him turned into a pentagram and glowed a dark purple. Then it hit her and hard she fell to the floor and her eyes rolled back then closed. She felt like she was waking up but she was in a dream, the man who had attacked her kneeled before her now.
“Do you know who you are princess,” he said
Princess Alice thought wait I am a princess I’m the daughter of a demon, “Yes.”
“Do you know where you are” he asked, “Do you understand what’s going on.”
“Yes I understand I’m the spawn of a demon and my mother couldn’t handle that so she killed herself. The boy where is he, where is my servant?” She asked.
“He is not ready yet but one day he will return to you and you can complete your contract.” He said starting to smile
“Where am I,” she asked.
“A castle your father asked me to build you where the old temple used to be watching over the town. Very few will be able to see it until the barrier is broken, and until your servant returns to you study become smart practice magik and become stronger. To continue living you will take energy every six months or so from your servant I think Calix is his name you will know your energy by your pentagram once it goes dull or out you will take calix’s energy.” He said. Alice opened her eyes and she was in a big empty room she looked at her hand and there was the purple pentagram. She stood and looked around for calix but he was gone.
Everything made sense for then but it was twelve years later and the castle had become her home. And as promised the barrier was corrupted and demons went public. People did not feel safe and since everyone knew demons existed so another group went public exorcists. They told the whole world how demons came to be and that the two fighting was an ancient battle to keep balance. Alice did just as the man had said she was brilliant, strong yet beautiful, also she had studied magik and knew most forbidden magik.
Fifteen groups sat in a circle in the main hall of raven’s claw. Each group was made up off travelers the students who would be graduating if they completed their mission, taking down a level S demon. A hat was passed around the room contain different missions with level S demons. Among the groups one boy, Calix sat with his partner Cole. They were finally going to become exorcists Calix thought as the hat was handed to him. He put his hand in and pulled out a folded piece of paper he unfolded it and read it the mission was a haunting in his home town and the paper had a picture of the mountain watching over the town with a castle on the top. Calix shook thinking of his home town now in ruins from the veil demons.
Calix was an only child he had never met his father and he and his mother lived alone. His mother never spoke about his father and she didn’t have any pictures of him either. After that night no one knew what happened even Calix forgot, but rumors spread. People spoke of him like a more like a demon than an outcast especially with the mark on his hand. Calix could never make friends so he gave up and became a freak. Until he was twelve when he learned his family secret they were exorcists, and he was going to be one too. Calix had chosen to become a sword master just like his father, before he left for R.C. for the first time his mom spoke of his father death in order to try to saw the world. Going to the school was a fresh start for him and he made a great friend Cole and they became partners. Calix had chosen to become a sword master just like his father.
Though a year after leaving for school he learned that his home town had been destroyed by a level X demon and there were no survivors. After a long search his mother’s body was not recovered, nor was his father’s sword. Calix forged his own new sword after the incident vowed to one day kill all the evil that ever existed with it. Now as he looked down at the paper his whole body shook. Then he closed his eyes and calmed himself and showed Cole there mission.
“Alrighty,” Cole said, “let’s go.” He snapped his fingers and used his teleporting ability to get to the mountain above Calix’s home town. They both looked down and could see for miles the destruction of the demons. Then Calix turned around and stepped back in astonishment at the great castle before them. Then his pentagram lit up a dark purple and he fell to his knees and looked up as the large black doors to the castle lit up dark purple in the shape of Calix’s pentagram and began too slowly open.
“Calix,” Cole said, “let’s kill this demon.