The Demon's Curse: Rise Of The Evil

"Yes. Our boss is there." Anju smiled but the thug couldn"t see it because Anju was wearing the fox mask.

"Good. Thank you but I don"t need you anymore."

"Wh...?" Anju cut his throat with one quick slash. *It"s actually good that Tia is not here.* he thought again as the lifeless body fell on the ground in front of him. *I can"t let these pests run away.* He continued to walk towards the camp. Two guards, who were holding spears, noticed him quickly. One of them ran to the camp to inform others, however the second one pointed his spear on Anju.

"Who are you?!" he shouted. Anju didn"t stop walking which made the guard angry. "Stop! Don"t move you b.a.s.t.a.r.d!" he attacked him with his spear, trying to pierce Anju"s body but he dodged the attack and killed him. Before he could continue walking, two men walked out the camp and were coming towards him. One of them was huge. He had to be above two meters tall and he was so muscular he looked like a giant. On the other hand, the second guy was the total opposite. He was short and very slim. They stopped in front of Anju.

"h.e.l.lo stranger!" said the short one.

"We are Gobbo brothers. I"m Big Gobbo." introduced himself the bigger one.

"I"m Fast Gobbo." said the second one.

"Well I guess I should introduce myself too. My name is Anju." he said but he still kept his mask on. The fast Gobbo smiled.

"We noticed you are causing trouble to our kind men."

"We won"t tolerate that." finished Big Gobbo. Suddenly he bolted towards Anju and hit him in his face. Big Gobbo"s strength threw Anju away. He landed on his feet several meters away.

"You are strong." Anju acknowledged his enemy. Then something appeared behind him and punched him too. It was Fast Gobbo. He was so fast Anju didn"t even notice him running. But he wasn"t as strong as his brother, so his punch wasn"t so dangerous. "And you are indeed fast. But weak!" Anju turned around and tried to punch him, but he easily dodged the attack. The ground begun to shake because the bigger of the brothers started running towards Anju.

"I will destroy you!" he shouted while running. Anju drew his sword.

"I"m sorry but I will have to end this now." he got into defensive posture as he waited on Big Gobbo to get to him.

"If you are gonna use weapons, then I will be forced to use this!" the big guy shouted as he stopped. He crunched the joints on his hands and shouted "~Earthquake!~". Then he punched the ground under him. The spell which he casted made the ground crack and expand towards Anju. He could see the bottomless deep in the crack that was quickly getting to him. *If I fall into that I will die.* he thought. He immediately looked around him, trying to find any safe place he could go to but something grabbed him from behind.

"I hope you are not thinking about escaping that beautiful spell which my brother casted!" Fast Gobbo said.

"So you will fall there with me?" Anju asked him.

"Don"t worry, my brother"s spells don"t work for me so I will be fine." he started to laugh.

"Well I don"t wanna ruin your fun but.." with left hand he grabbed a small knife he had attached to his body and stabbed the guy in his hip. Fast Gobbo cried out in pain as he released Anju from his grab. Immediately after that Anju jumped on the tree branch above him. The crack got to the place where he was standing a minute ago and devoured Fast Gobbo, who disappeared in the darkness. Anju jumped back on the ground when the spell was over and the crack disappeared.

"Not many people could survive this. You must be strong." said Big Gobbo as he slowly walked towars him. "I rather not underestimate you. ~Iron body!~ ~Iron fists!~" Those spells seem to boost his physical strength and defense. Anju blocked the incoming punches with his sword, but the blade didn"t hurt Gobbo"s hands. Big Gobbo"s next punch was different. He put all his strength into it and punched Anju from below. That knockbacked him a little. He was so tired of this already.

"I think it"s time to end this. Daybreaker!" The sword"s red glow got much brighter as he shouted its name. Then he took off his mask. His red eyes were glowing as much as the sword did. He bolted towards Big Gobbo with his weapon ready to attack. His enemy was laughing.

"Some weak weapon won"t do anything to my body!" he decided to block Anju"s attack with his left hand. He expected the sword to bounce off his hand and then finish his enemy with one powerful punch to his revealed face. But Anju cut off his hand. Unbearable pain flowed through his body which made him fall on his knees. Anju stood in front of him.

"Do you have any final words?" he asked him.

"Too late!" someone shouted behind Anju. The sword"s blade pierced Anju"s stomach. It was Fast Gobbo who stabbed him from behind. "Some pathetic human won"t defeat Gobbo brothers!" Blood appeared from Anju"s nose and mouth, his stomach was also bleeding. Fast Gobbo pulled out his sword from Anju"s body and went round him to look at his face. "Wait. Those eyes! You are.. not human?!" he was shocked. Anju caught him around his neck. His body was changing. Long claws started to appear on his hand which slowly buried into Fast Gobbo"s neck. He was tossing from pain, but the claws slowly killed him. Big Gobbo was watching the whole scene happening in front of him. He was terrified.

"Brother! Brother!" he shouted. Anju dropped the lifeless body onto the ground. Then he looked on the second enemy.

"~Demon"s wrath~" he calmly casted a spell as he slowly tore apart Big Gobbo"s body with his claws.

*

Tia was sitting at the table in village leader"s house. His daughter was there with them. They already explained her what happened to their village and how hard the life there was, but now they finally got to the subject she wanted to know. "Artrog was here maybe two weeks ago." The leader said. "He said he would go to Melisse because some kind of disease appeared there."

"Melisse is town?" Tia asked them.

"Yes, it is very magnificent town. You can find everything there, if you know where to look."

"I see." Tia was excited to see how Zaryan"s town looked like. "And how far is it from here?" Leader looked at his daughter and she nodded.

"It would take you days on feet but... please come with me." she said. Tia was surprised but she did what she said. They left the house and went to village" stables. There were only two horses.

"We lost almost every horse we had because of the bandits. But this one..." the leader said as he pat the black horse " this one has been always the best of them. It used to be mine but now its yours." Tia was happy. She hugged the animal in front of her.

"Is it really okay? I mean you don"t have much left and..." but the leader raised his hand to stop her.

"Don"t worry. We will be fine when the bandits are gone." Tia couldn"t believe it. They had horses in her village too but she had always wanted to have her own one. And now her wish came true.

"I will call you Flash." she announced.

*

The bandits in the camp were worried. "Aren"t the Brothers away for too long? Shouldn"t we check if they are okay?" said the one sitting at the campfire.

"They are probably playing with their enemy. You know how crazy they are." another bandit answered.

"Ricko is right, dont worry about them. Rather than worrying you should get something to eat from the stuff we have stolen!" he started to laugh, others joined him.

"Those poor b.a.s.t.a.r.ds are starving and we are living like a royal family!"

"Someone is coming!" shouted one of them.

"Someone? It"s not them?" They got cautious as they saw the stranger in the distance.

"What the h.e.l.l its wrong with him?" The stranger suddenly begun to run much faster than a human could. He jumped and landed on Ricko, quickly killing him with his claws.

"It"s monster! It"s demon!" screaming could be heard. Terrified bandits were running away from the camp but it was pointless. They couldn"t run away from it. They couldn"t run away from Anju.