1 Street Fight

Two boys lay on the creaky floorboards of their run-down two-story apartment. The mid-morning sunlight shone through the windows, giving a slight warmth while birds chirped outside. By chance, one of the boys' feet brushed against the other's face, waking him up.

"Sigh."

He nudged his foot away, which gave the whining floors a reason to complain. As he got up to close the blinds, his eyes were met by the beaming sunlight, and to his surprise, his stomach growled. His eyes were red and his hair was white with the tips of his hair being black. The other boy's hair was black but the center of his head was blue. 

 The loud snoring from the boy on the floor annoyed him, but he ignored it and went to the kitchen to look for food he knew wasn't there. On his search, one of the old cabinet doors broke into his hand. 

"You can't make this shit up!" he thought.

He looked over at the other boy peacefully sleeping on the floor, then put on his slippers at the door. He left the apartment in the same clothes he slept in, a long pair of pants and a white T-shirt.

The boy walking down the street name is Satou Suzuko he's sixteen years old and living in the run-down apartments with his older brother by one year who was sleeping peacefully on the floor, Izumo Suzuko. He walked into the convenience store to see the teenage store clerk sitting in an office chair behind the counter, leaning back with his feet on the counter while reading a magazine.

"Yo Satou, What's good?" The store clerk welcomely greeted him as he walked in.

"Yo Dave'' Satou said, he grabbed a pack of cup noodles, turning it around to look at the price. He then took some change out of his pockets and looked at the price tag.

He sighed and then paid for it before he left the store clerk gave him a free soda as he was a regular customer.

Satou looked up to the sky while walking down the street. A sudden wind blew and shook a tree with a ripe fruit which caught his attention. He put down the cup of noodles and soda onto the wall of the house with the tree, he then jumped onto the wall and then to the tree. He jumped soundlessly onto the tree, not ruffling a single leaf.

He then quickly picked some of the fruit from the tree and stuffed them into his pockets. He started to become nervous as he realized he was trespassing onto someone's property and stealing.

Once his pockets were full, he calmly leaned back, falling out of the tree into the tree's shadow like a pool. He hopped out of the shadow from the wall which led back into the street, scrolling down the road with cup noodles, a soda, and his pockets full of fruit.

Long ago estimated to be three thousand three hundred and sixty-two years ago the earth was ruled and ravaged by ruthless demons, savages that would turn all to carnage and use the world as a toy to fuel their twisted sadism. This was a consequence of the seal that kept Demaliam the realm of the demons and Earth separate being broken. That fateful day shall always be remembered as the Demon Uprising

"Release the seals of Dimension 2 to Dimension 5 !!!. " the child-like voice shouted.

The demons took joy in abusing the mortals and making them build thrones, torturing and killing them for mere enjoyment, no man, woman, or child was safe from their cruel rampage.

Several years pass, the torture, the carnage nothing changed. One day in the clear blue sky, a figure appeared in the sky with beautiful white wings. The feathers from the figure's wings started to detach and landed on all the human chests in need of a savior. Little did they know they would be their savior. Suddenly a light shines within themselves creating an unnatural phenomenon to occur in their bodies.

"With this you have a chance to change your fate, kill or be killed, stay under the demon's wrath or kill them where they stand" the figure in the sky spoke, the voice was disoriented making it unclear if the figure was a male or female but the words were clear.

The sudden roar and rage from the humans shocked the demons who were in control for so long.

"Burn!!!" the man screamed, suddenly flames blast out of his hand blazing the demon in front of him to death. 

He looked down to see his hands on fire and waved his hands around curiously. His eyes sparkled and he had the brightest smile when he realized the flames on his hands didn't harm him at all, everyone turned and stared in complete shock.

"What!!! No way!!!" The demons realized what the figure had done, the other humans realized what they had been blessed with, and one by one they saw their power.

"AHHHHHHHHH" they rejoiced, finally being able to fight back and rebel against the demons fully, that's how the war between Demons and Humans began.

The war was an absolute bloodbath for the humans and the demons although the humans came out victorious. The element of surprise was the key to the humans' victory.

 The world started to change that day, islands diverted the ocean as they rose out of nowhere and entirely new life was found: demi-humans, familiar spirits, elves, and even new species of animals, plants, and materials. 

 The sudden appearance of a figure with white wings blessed the humans with abilities to kill demons, new islands to explore, and new material to help build technology grow. Years have passed and the development of these abilities was studied. Supernatural abilities make their appearance in a person at the age of twelve, but it starts to develop from birth.

 This ability is determined by how a person lived their life until the age of twelve, a person's surroundings can have a significant effect; if a person lives in a windy area for most of his life that person may be able to conjure wind, a tragic experience in a person's life. Almost drowning can make their chances of being able to conjure water may be high. Abilities can be passed down for generations by genes, chances of that are fifty-fifty. The studies continued and the scientists decided to call the unnatural phenomenon occurring in a being's body their innate art.

 Additionally, two people can't have the same innate -art, if two people have the same innate arts, they must be relatives or you have blessed/cursed art. This means that a person was blessed with a specific skill from birth but you're cursed with a moral enemy, a demon with the same art as you that will hunt him down just because you have the same art.

Demons still lurk around the earth. Some demons have different appearances but not human-like appearances and have low IQs, these types of demons are considered class D and lower to Class F. Class S, A, B, and C have human appearances and average or high IQs. The most dangerous class is called Tricky Threat, these types of demons have the skills/ innate art to take out or take over countries posing a big threat to society. 

 Some of them still attack humans for reasons such as revenge or their enjoyment, others give up and side with society, they are called betrayers and hunted by their kind. 

The executioners were created for this, it is a job for brave individuals who would protect and serve, keeping threats away from the people and ensuring their safety. Years passed and executioners started to become famous jobs worldwide, so schools were created to help bring up the best executioners to walk the face of the earth.

Satou took a bite out of the fresh fruit he just picked. Suddenly a man flew past him crashing into a wall.

"Huh!!" startled, Satou looked back to see the sixteen feet demon towering over him.

"A minotaur, wait I didn't even hear it, how long was it behind me," Satou thought to himself, he quickly leaped back creating space between himself and the huge demon.

He landed in front of the man at the wall while keeping eye contact with the demon.

"You ok sir?" Satou asked. 

Silence filled the air as Satou realized why the man wasn't answering him. He looked back hoping he was ok.

"He… he's dead" 

"ROARRRRR!!!" the demon, Satou quickly snapped back to reality. 

"I guess this is my fight now" he reached into his shadow pulling out the katana with a black and red handle.

The demon got impatient and ran towards him. Satou jumped over it and sent it flying into the wall where the lifeless man lay. The demon stood and made its way back onto the street with the man on its head. It threw him off like a rag doll, the demon lost sight of Satou, and he simply just vanished. The demon kept its guard up as it looked around for him. Suddenly the slash to the demon's chest got it by surprise. Though the cut was shallow, it rubbed its chest trying to see if the cut was just its imagination. While it was still distracted, Satou leaped out of its shadow behind it.

"!!!" 

Satou completely caught the demon by surprise once again before the demon could turn around. Satou started to swing and slice its back as its black blood started to seep out, however, the cuts were still too shallow due to its tough skin and strong muscles.

"Damn" 

The demon raised its hand and then dropped it full force at Satou, he quickly evaded and then tried to cut its hand off using its force however the force was too strong making Satou retreat into the demon's shadow.

Satou sprang back out of the demon's shadow, grabbing his sword tighter and rushing in, however, the demon started to go berserk, throwing wild punches, however, Satou effortlessly dodged and picked up the pace. With multiple swings of his sword while still evading the demon's wild attacks, cutting and slicing the demon everywhere on its body,

"I'm not getting anywhere with this demon. Its durability is crazy, I don't think they are usually this tough. I wish Izumo was here. He could deal with this thing better." frustrated, he still holds his sword with a tight grip trying to think of a way to bring it down.

He started to sprint towards the demon once again with a more determined look on his face. He jumped into the wall's shadow and leaped out closer to the demon

"Formation thr-"

While Satou was jumping past the demon, it caught his leg. He stared with absolute disbelief.

"It caught me as I was jumping by, you can't make this shit up can you- Woah!!" The demon lifted him upside down in front of its face and stared right into Satou's red eyes while Satou's necklace dangled from his neck. Satou stared back but the longer the demon stared at him the more he started to sweat from anticipation wondering what would happen. The demon continued to stare at him as he dangled from its hand, it breathed directly into Satou's face.

"Come on, is this thing trying to kill me with its breath… it smells like ahh it just smells"

He covered his mouth and nose then out of desperation he wildly swung his sword at the demon until he jabbed his sword into the cut on its chest.

"ROARR!!!" 

"That hurt him?!, did I somehow get through his skin?" Satou questioned himself without realizing he had stabbed the demon through the slash he gave it.

"Woahhh!!!" The demon put him behind its back, ready to slam him into the ground.

"Hey!!" A voice echoed down from the rooftop, coming from a boy above with bright blue eyes.

"Put him down," he shouted seriously.

The demon looked up and growled. 

"Izumo!!!" Satou shouted.

"Help m-" as Satou tried to ask for help, the demon slammed him down with full force, luckily he dropped into its shadow.

The demon looked at its hand wondering where Satou went and Izumo jumped off the rooftop landing on the street. 

"Bring it on!!!"He shouted

The demon stared at Izumo who was standing down the street, the demon started to blow out steam and was getting ready to charge like an angry bull.

"What are you waiting for, an invitation ?" he asked, encouraging it to charge at him.

It charged at him yet Izumo didn't move a muscle. Its horns were inches away from piercing his chest, but he managed to grab them and transitioned to a ground-shattering body slam. Unfazed, it grabbed onto Izumo's feet and threw him onto a car on the street.

"Ughhh" Izumo tried to catch his breath, suddenly the demon tackled him crashing into the car. The demon got up, and put its hands together over its head, ready to drop them on Izumo to finish him off. 

"Izumo!!! get up!!" Satou shouted, he peeked his head out of the wall's shadow, unfortunately, he was too far away from Izumo to help him.

"!!!"

Izumo quickly got back on his feet avoiding the demon's attack. He wiped the blood from his nose and mouth and took a deep breath to help him recover.

"Alright," He said. 

He hopped up and down while shaking his legs and arms to help his blood circulate. The demon grabbed the damaged car and threw it at Izumo, suddenly it dropped to its knees. Izumo evaded the car and then sprinted to the demon appearing behind the demon kicking the crease of its knees making it fall to its knees. Izumo took the opportunity to kick the demon in its chest then a heavier kick to the chin, stunning it.

"Gauntlet" 

Black chains surrounded Izumo's hands, covering his forearms like boxers' wraps. With the demon still on its knee, Izumo gave devastating punches aiming for its chest and stomach, and the continuous punches started to show damage. Bruises started to appear all over and showed Izumo that his attacks were working, but his hands bled as he continued to punch.

"AHHHH!!!" Izumo continued with the blows to the demon. Suddenly the demon caught his hands frustrated, and the demon's grip started to get tighter trying to break Izumo's hand.

"Satou now!!!" 

Satou busted out of Izumo's shadow, the demon quickly released Izumo's hand to defend itself from Satou, and Izumo grabbed back onto its hands, restraining it. Satou pulled out his sword and pierced through the demon's heart. Izumo let go of its hands and got up as the demon fell Satou and Izumo fist-bumped to celebrate their victory.

"You softened its skin by punching it, so I could kill it, smart move Izumo" Satou admired Izumo's strategy as he patted his head.

"You alright Satou? You didn't get hurt right?" Izumo asked.

"I'm fine, but I should be asking you that your hands are bleeding" Satou smiled as his brother worried about him before himself.

"I'm good, I just need to wash my hands" the chains surrounding Izumo's hands started to break and turn into dust. Izumo shook and wiped his hand on his pants. They walked over to the broken wall to see if anyone was home.

" Are you boys alright?" the old lady clinging to the door asked.

"Oh we're fine ma'am, but can you call the special guards, please? " Satou asked while rubbing his head with a greeting smile. 

" I already called the moment that huge thing crashed through my wall,".

"I'm sorry about that miss" Izumo apologized.

"Oh honey, no need to apologize you didn't do this that thing did, I'm glad you're alive" she genuinely smiled.

"I think it's time for us to take our leave," Satou said, smiling back while Izumo shamelessly picked up and stuffed his face with fruit from the old woman's tree.

"IZUMO!!!What the hell are you doing?! Get down! " Satou shouted, he tried to pull Izumo out of the tree, but Izumo clung onto it, still picking and eating.

"IZUMO STOP I ALREADY GOT SOME FRUIT FROM THE HOUSE A FEW BLOCKS DOWN!!!"

"You got guava, and this is jackfruit, I like jackfruit more," He said with his mouth covered with the jackfruit juice continuing to pick and eat.

"ARE YOU EATING THE SKIN ?!" 

The old woman just stood by the door giggling watching the two brothers.

"It's ok sweetheart, he can have as much as he wants," she said, waving indicating it was ok. Satou sighed and released his brother's shirt. 

"That was good" Izumo jumped down from the tree covered in the jackfruit's juice.

"How just tell me how did you manage to turn a white shirt red just …ughhhhhhhhh" Satou sighed after seeing how sloppy Izumo ate and the effort it had on his shirt. Suddenly Izumo was alert, looking up at the closed window of the old lady's house to see the curtains move slightly. Izumo's face showed his concern which caught Satou's attention. 

Satou waved the old woman goodbye, they jumped onto her roof and leaped onto the neighboring houses jumping from house to house until they arrived at the apartment. Izumo without hesitation leaped over the apartment's roof.

"Izumo wait!!!" Satou shouted realizing Izumo would fall through the roof, he then jumped and grabbed onto Izumo's strained shirt pulling him back.

"Huh?" Izumo was clueless, he looked back at Satou still holding onto his shirt. Satou looked down to see that they were stationary in the air.

" Why me? " They fell on the ground causing a small cloud of dust in front of the entrance of the rundown apartments.

"Ouch, Izumo, why did you think it was smart to jump onto this apartment's roof knowing how unstable it is?" Satou and Izumo lay on their backs next to each other then Izumo started to laugh.

"Nice save, " Izumo said jokingly.

"Whatever…, I currently have crushed guava in my pants, well that was supposed to be breakfast. Wait, where's the cup noodles and soda I had" Satou sprung up patting his pants and shirt and looking around.

"Why can't I wake up and find you two still in your apartment?!" the girl angrily said with her purple hair swaying as the wind blew, sitting on the wall holding Satou's cup noodles and soda.