10 more hours until midnight. "So this is the plan!" I was talking to myself to put everything on a row for one more time. "First I need a weapon, unfortunately a knife is the best weapon I can use." I wished I had a sword, but I took the knife anyway.
"Second thing I need to worry about are witnesses. It will be dark, but I have to guarantee nobody will suspect me. First of all, I could never wear the colthing I will wear again, so I gotta choose some clothing that are not my size, but still easy to move freely in." There was a black coat and some black pants in the closer, they where oversized but acceptable.
"If someone remembers my face I'm done for so I will need something to hide it. Luckily I already thought about it. I could use my earth magic to make a stone mask." I sat down on my bed and tried to create a stone mask. It was a very simple mask with vampire teeth. ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฏ'๐ต ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ธ๐ฉ๐บ, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ด๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ. Something caught my attention though. I could not pick up the mask even with all my strength, but I could lift it with a blanket around it. Actually I could tilt it with my hands, but only if I use mana. It was like it ignored my fiscal contact.
The timer told me 9 more hours to go. "So when I get there I have to make sure I win. First I have to know where he works." I searched in his room and looked at the silver spatula at the wall. It was a prize for cook of the year and Martin placed second. "Impressive." I searched in his closet and found some man clothing and cheff clothing. I checked one the cheff outfits and found Martin's name plus the name of the restaurant, "Major Tastes." "Gotcha! So now I know the restaurant, I have to find it's location."
I hid the knife and mask inside my coat and searched outside for Major Tastes. It was not to hard to find it though, because there was only one shopping street. It had a hospital, barber, optician, convenience store, motel, jewelry, library and Major Tastes. I looked around and found a time teller above the motel. "7 more hours huh? That's enough time to complete my plan."
"First I need a good spot..." I saw two soldiers walking around, both had red suites. "So I'm not safe here thats for sure. The house would be to far away. I won't make it in time if I wait there." I started to think. The only safe place would be in an alleyway. "How would i get him in a..." than I knew the answer. "One of Martin's weaknesses is that he is to nice and naive. If I just make something up like, 'Martin I found something follow me,' he would be confused, but he would follow me. Then I can stab him in the back. Yea that sounds kinda dark, but I'm a demon after all. That's just what I am right? A murderous demon."
I checked an alleyway. It was a alleyway with a corner and continued further left. The alleyway ended in a dead end. "I can bait him in this alleyway and fight him here."
And then there was one more thing left to do. "How should I fight him?" I stared to use all my imagination with the four magic types I could use. "I can blind him with light magic and just stab him. No to risky. The first stab is smart, but I have to be sure he won't dodge, block or counter me." I only had fire, water and earth to end with. "Light would be useless for anything else. Water not be very useful in this fight as well. Fire could burn him, but it is to slow and it will make it to hard for me to stab him, if I don't wanna burn myself. So my last option is earth magic. I could use earth magic to trap his feet in the ground and strike him. Oh right he can use fire magic. If he threw some of his fire to me, I was done for. Okay think, think. He can use fire, but his should not use it, if I want my victory. I could bend his fire, but I don't know how much power he has, that would be to risky. Wait...!" I hand palmed my face when I thought of this idea. "Water magic could extinguish fire magic right? If I block all his fire attacks with water, I will be good to go!" I was finally confident enough to make this plan real.
I went back to the shopping street and looked at the time teller. "5 and a half hours Martin, 5 and a half hours and you will be dead.
After I ate something back at Martin's place, I went back and took my position. "It's time." I saw Martin leaping to me and he noticed me as well. "Time to put a fake face on." I made a panicked looking face and ran to Martin. I also forced hyper ventilation, he had to know there was no time. "Ready-set..." ๐๐ฐ! I ran to Martin.
Martin looked shocked down when I grabbed his arm. "Hey Stan, whats wrong little fella?"
I pulled his arm and yelled, "we gotta hurry Martin!"
Martin was confused and said, "hey, hey. Calm down kid and tell me whats wrong."
"We don't have time! Follow me!" I ran to the alleyway and Martin started to follow me. ๐๐ต๐ฆ๐ฑ ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ถ๐ค๐ค๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ. ๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ด๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ.
"Hey wait up!" Martin yelled and hasted after me. He actually followed me all the way to the dead end. ๐๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ณ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ข๐ณ๐ต.
I used magic to make the mask stay on my face and turned to Martin. I pointed one hand to Martin.
"Wait wha...?!"
"Light!" I interrupted Martin's sentence, but nothing came out of my hand.
"...What?" Martin still finished his sentence, but he was confused of the anti climax.
"Huh?!" The light magic did not cast at all. ๐๐ฉ ๐ฏ๐ฐ ๐ฏ๐ฐ ๐ฏ๐ฐ!
"You know, you can only use light magic when you have good intentions, right?" Martin said looking at the ground. His look seemed dark and empty. It was a face with a lot of different emotions. It was sadness mixed with hatred mixed with betrayal mixed with loneliness. "This means you had no intention of doing something good, huh?"
"..." I did not know how to react, he seemed kinda scary that way and I needed to think of a back up plan.
A tear rolled on Martin's cheek. He used his whole hand to whipe the tear off and looked at me with that terrifying glance. "I thought we were friends Reuben." He called me Reuben instead of Stan. His hands started to change red. "But you are no good at all... You will never be called 'my son!" He pointed both hands to me and fire started to rush at me.
I pointed my hands out of panic to the fire and it started to move.
"I knew you were strong. I knew from the beginning that, you're very special Reuben." His terrifying look did not change at all. It was like he was not scared of me controlling his magic. Or maybe he was not scared to lose his life.
I fired the fire magic back at Martin, but it went straight trough him. ๐๐ข๐ช๐ญ๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐จ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ...?!
"Don't you know Reuben? Everyone is invulnerable for his own magic. My fire won't hurt me." He shot two more fireballs at me and I threw both of them to my sides.
๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ?! I looked around me, but Martin was nowhere to be found. I smelt smoke above me and saw another fireball coming right from above. I was lucky the stone mask blocked the fireball.
"It was you wasn't it?! You killed your father!" Martin said that while flying using fire, he had to scream to make me hear him. "This spell is called 'jetarms!' Impressive huh!" He kicked the air and two fireballs flew out of his feet.
I blocked both fire balls. "What about the part that fire magic does not effect you?!" ๐๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ง๐ญ๐บ ๐ณ๐ช๐จ๐ฉ๐ต? But that was when I saw the gloves.
"These gloves where my father's! He was a knight! I put them on when you where distracted! I use the pressure on the gloves to fly!" The gloves were made of chain mail, so that the fire could flow trough it.
๐๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐จ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐บ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต? ๐๐ต ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ญ๐ฅ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ด๐ต ๐ข ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ด๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ. ๐๐ต ๐ฅ๐ฐ๐ฆ๐ด ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ, ๐ ๐ค๐ข๐ฏ ๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ฑ ๐ฉ๐ช๐ฎ. I used water to break his jet. Martin fell on the floor. I used earth magic to bound him in stone. ๐ ๐ง๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ญ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ป๐ป๐บ. I dropped the mask before I would pass out and it sqaushed on the floor.
"Well played Reuben. I knew I could not defeat a demon," Martin said. His despaired look meant he gave up.
I eased it up and asked, "how did you figure?"
"I am tall Reuben. I have seen those scars on your head. One girl screamed that you are were a demon."
"Who did?!" Nobody can know about it.
"I'm not sure and even if I knew, I would never tell you." I had my guesses that it was Katelyn, but I had no time to kill her today anyway.
"Can I ask you how you lost your horns?" Martin asked still laying on the floor unable to move.
"My fake father cut it of!" I said out of anger.
"He did good. A demon with its horns is to strong for a human."
"How come?"
"Your mana should be running out by now huh?"
"Yes..." ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ช๐ด ๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด.
"That would've been no problem at all when you had your horns."
"Huh?" I did not knew what he ment by that.
"Hehe... just finish me already, before you change to the blue Reuben." Martin was prepared to die. I did not know why he did not beg for his life, but he probably had his reasons.
"Farwell Martin." I picked one of Martin's knifes and pushed it in his heart.
"Killed by my own knife. What a honor." He closed his eyes and I stood back up.
๐ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ฏ. I did not fell any emotions of killing him. ๐ ๐ธ๐ช๐ด๐ฉ ๐ ๐ฅ๐ช๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ง๐ฆ๐ญ๐ญ ๐ด๐ฐ ๐ฏ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฃ. I made a rock and slammed it to my head to feel something. "Oh right..." The rock ignored me and it fell on the floor. I felt like I was fading away. ๐'๐ฎ ๐ด๐ฐ๐ณ๐ณ๐บ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ต๐ต๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด ๐ต๐ฉ๐ช๐ด ๐ข๐จ๐ข๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐จ๐ฐ๐ณ.
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