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Lilith
The Devil Obsessed Society
I was trying to get my gameboy to work as I heard repeated knocking on the door. As it's almost the dead of winter and no one around here ever travels for the cold (even the mailman) as it can get to about 6 degrees Fahrenheit on a normal day. I don't dare open my window to see who it is because today it's around -9 degrees fahrenheit. Instead I unlock the door to my room and walk into my kitchen to look through the hole in the front door. As I walk in my cat jumps onto the kitchen counter and nuzzles against my shoulder.
“I'm sorry Ktaze. I don't think that today's mission is safe enough for you to come. I think that we are gonna get that control devil today.” Ktaze purred in question. Sometimes I wonder if he can understand me. He seems to more than people.
“Hey Tashio, me and Yasuo are waiting for you! Makima needs to work quickly. The Doll Devil is going fast !” Riku stated impatiently. “There's the doll devil right on 3rd street so we hafta’ get going, and quickly!” Riku is my extremely annoying boss and Yasuo is a new recruit who has never been on a single mission. Thankfully, Riku isn't the top boss. Makima is the actual boss of our branch. We work as devil hunters. It's a necessary job that someone has to do. I mean if no one did kill these things, we would all be barbarians fending for ourselves.
“A doll devil doesn't seem like it would be too strong” I mean who would be afraid of dolls? I guess some of the old ones are a bit creepy. Still though.
“Yea, you won't be saying that when you see the smashed cars. Now hurry up and get your stuff. It's freezing out here! Literally, my drink is like an ice cube!”
“Yeah, yeah, I'm coming” I stumbled around trying to find where my old jacket was. I pushed through all of the clothes that were lining my closet. Then I finally see a dark, almost dried blood, red jacket. I smile to myself for having not lost it. I wave my hands around a bit more in the melted clothes pile to find my boots.
“Hurry up please!” Yasuo whined through the door. I jumped into my boots and threw on my jacket while walking towards the entrance. I grab my Go bag and fumble with the locks. At times I seem to really regret putting so many locks on my door. I had installed them at first because Riku was always picking the locks and waking me up in the middle of the night. And so, I put so many locks on my door that Riku got bored of picking them every night. There were 6 locks in total. It also helped whenever there were people fighting outside because I knew that they couldn't kick their way through 4 deadbolts. The other two locks were just normal ones.
“I'm going to dock your pay if you take too much longer Tashio!” Riku half-yelled.
“And then I'll file a complaint about you. We can all be massive jerks if we want. Especially me!” For that last sentence I burst the door open and walk out. I grab my keys out of my pocket and start to relock my deadbolts. Thankfully, Riku doesn't say anything this time and we walk peacefully down the steps. Well as peaceful as you can when Yasuo is rambling about what she thinks the devil will look like. Yasuo is a new recruit who Makima had assigned to our group. Apparently she's never seen a devil and practically knows nothing about how they form.
“Sooo, how do devils get to be er… devils?” Yasuo questioned me.
“Well to put it simply every devil has a name that is something people fear. They have some abilities that relate to their name. The more people fear their name or what they represent the stronger they are.” We heard a huge crash as we saw a car in flames burst through the air. I jumped down the stairs as Riku jumped right after me. Yasuo stared at us. I stared right back at her.“You do want to get paid right?”
“W-well yeah but I…I didn't think we would actually fight it! I thought we would just record data n’ stuff” Yasuo nervously stumbled.
“Well unfortunately as y'know…devil hunters we have to actually, well, hunt them. Did you not read the job descri-” I was cut off by a person being thrown across the air and landing 20 feet away from us. The person was laying on the ground for a bit while we all just stared at each other. While me and Riku were just frozen by shock and the almost comedic interruption, Yasuo was frozen by pure, untouched fear. I could see her starting to get woozy. I ignored her and stared at the person laying in the snow in front of us. Then I spotted their joints except, they weren't joints, it was more of… machinery, almost like a hinge. I spotted the person in an almost skirt-like dress. Who in their right mind would ever wear anything like that in this type of weather? I looked back at Yasuo and I threw her my apartment keys. “The keys go to the same coloured locks. Get in there and make sure to not touch anything or go anywhere besides the living room couch and bathroom. Hear me?”
“Loud and clear Tashio” she stumbled over to the door and fumbled with the keys nervously.
“Tashio, I recognize that type of person” Riku looked over at me and threw a rod at me. As I caught it, it expanded into a long pole with short blades at either end. The person in the snow slowly got up, their limbs twisting and crackling as they did.“It's one of the doll devil’s transformed! As a Devil, the Doll Devil possesses all of the standard devil abilities, such as the ability to make contracts with humans for a price. The only known contract that someone has done with the doll devil is the one with Hiroka for an
“Unknown price,”. Hiroka could create dolls out of people to obey his will. The effect is caused by touch and spreads contagiously as each doll touches another person
. The dolls can also transform one of their arms into blades. However Hiroka had to remain in the nearby area in order to maintain control of the dolls, and the conversion process had no effect on fiends or other devils. The dolls can't be turned back to normal humans either!” Riku really needed to learn how to shut it sometimes. Hiroka had been one of the test subjects on how friendly the doll devil was. Unfortunately Hiroka had angered it slightly and believe me, that thing wasn't friendly to begin with.
“How are we supposed to fight these things if we can't touch them!” I yelled. Riku started spraying himself with something in a can and then threw it to me.
“Spray this on your skin so that the doll devil can't turn you into a zombie doll! It kills off the top few layers of your skin cells! It's the only known way to not get dollified” I looked at the can and then yelled something back to Riku. The doll started screeching loudly so much that I couldn't hear myself think. Riku put something in his ears then threw something else at me. Earplugs. I stuffed them in my ears and started running towards the doll human. It had started to sprout out arms that were almost tentacle-like. I gritted my teeth in disgust as I immediately stabbed it in the gut twisting the pole as Riku threw daggers at it, almost hitting me several times. It shot me away with one of its arms and I went flying into a bush. Riku slid under its swinging arms, stabbing it in the back where the arms were coming out of. I threw myself out of the bush and towards the doll holding the pole ahead of me. The doll tried to slam me against my room door but I sliced off its arm with the end of my oversized stick. A few minutes later we had finished cutting up that stupid doll. I looked back and saw that Yasuo had gotten into my apartment. “Let's get going onto 3rd street” Riku and I started running down the street to get to this thing before it caused any more damage. After an eternity of running we finally saw it. Riku grabbed his tape recorder and started to list off what was happening. This was required so that we could get more information about the devil.
“This is Riku Mishota recording on June 5th at 18:03 along with Tashio Yaoyorozu during the Doll Devil attack. The MMAD(Murder, Mayhem and Angry devils control group) has still not been contacted. Currently running towards the doll devil. It appears to be about 15 feet tall and can run fairly fast. It has about 150 or so human-dolls under control. Casualties seem to be around 200, not including the controlled humans. Tashiro has a long pole with blades on either side while I have daggers and cell killing spray. The Doll Devil is 50 or so feet away from us.” The Doll Devil then spots us and I see human dolls dashing towards us. I look towards Riku and smile weakly.
“After this wanna come over?” I look at Riku for a reply. He starts throwing daggers at the dolls.
“Yea sure. If we get out of here by today that is” Riku looks at me with a grin. I smile back at him as a doll puts its hands around me and starts to scratch at my face. He jumps above me and the doll and throws himself downwards to slice off the things face. I broke my pole in half so that I now have two. I start jogging down to the doll devil.
“Hey!” Riku yells behind me. I stare back at him eagerly. “Remember to not slice off those big ugly things without me. Ok?” Riku yells as he tries to not get thrown by any dolls.
“ ‘Course! Didn't even cross my mind” Riku turned up towards me, stabbed any dolls that got in his way.
“Cause’ I need this paycheck!” As he's finishing saying this he,once again, jumps high up and gets on top of a doll and swings around on top of it stabbing any dolls that he can. I grip both of my pole halves and grit my teeth as I start to slice off doll arms.
“Yeah you're right! You do need it! To pay for my dinner after this that is!” The doll devil tilts its massive, gross body towards us as it starts to pick up a motorcycle. It throws it towards me as I feel someone shove me to the ground. A loud crack thunders in the air as I look up and see Yasuo’s body almost getting thrown by the motorcycle. As she lands on the ground the motorcycle sits on top of her like a table covering. Riku starts to run faster yelling some four letter words towards the doll devil. I quickly get up before I realize that my face is wet. I'm bleeding out of my head. This is bad. My hand reaches towards my cheek and as I pull it back down I realize it's not blood. It's tears. I didn't even know Yasuo for that long so I don't know why I'm even crying. Instead of trying to make any form of sense of it I just throw myself up and towards that stupid devil. It then starts to swing its legs across the road that it's in, leaving marks in the pavement. After what seems to either be eternity or a flash-second, one of its legs reaches towards me and kicks me and I smash into a car with a huge crack. Everything is blurry. My arm is throbbing. I try to squirm away from the attack hot spot to see if I even have any chance of making it out of here alive. Maybe if I act like a coward enough I'll be able to get out of here and just go to the civilian side of this job, and not something that actually takes any skill. I start to hear roaring chainsaws right next to me. I can barely get a glimpse as everything turns into a blur while someone grabs me.