Broken Bonds

As Aurel was helped up and moved away by some female professors, she could still feel North's emotions within her mind. 'I must be going insane,' She thought to herself mid-sob.

The professor which had put the luminous shackles on North was leading him in the front, and the rest of the professors were tailing behind. The one who identified him as a demon was pushing him from behind.

The demon prisoner was shoved a few times as he was led toward a council meeting room. Leaving the hallway he had turned into total disarray. North was now able to see more of the terror he caused.

Some students and professors were unconscious and strewn about the fiery rubble. There were others helping collect the harmed. However, the hall began to rebuild itself slowly.

Several pieces of large rubble simply rumbling and shaking until being pulled back into place in walls and roofs like a magnet.

North's demonic body was no special form, simply a manner of being, a state of rest much like his human one. He stood two feet taller than his human form, his entire skin replaced with a deep blue leathery skin.

At some portions of his body, there would be patches of his pale human skin, distinguishing him as a half-breed. After walking some time with his new body, he realized that he wasn't deep blue, but black which slowly pulsed with a small layer of blue flame that acted as a layer of skin.

His head retained his white hair, but there was now a horn sprouting from his left temple in an upwards curve which was not replicated onto his right temple. Instead, the blue flames covering his right temple hummed softly with a flickering flame, as if it needed something to form another horn.

North, despite not being in his Incarnation Form, left behind charring footprints. His torso was muscular, but lean. His demonic side stood at 6' (182cm) in height, his human height had been at 4'7" (143cm) since he'd been a mere child.

The tail was not an alien feature to North, figuring how to control a version of it in his Incarnation Form. However, this one seemed to be more obedient somehow. Instead of attracting attention to it, North let it wrap around one of his legs so that he could use it to his advantage should the circumstance call for action.

His nails were now razor-sharp, extending an inch from each finger. Other than those features however, he seemed no different from a typical human.

The Void Mantle was a gorget set made of a black metal. The artifact seemed to be extremely intricate in detail, yet whatever light had fallen upon it would be absorbed, so it looked like pure black.

The pauldrons from the mantle had giant holes in them that contained red flames typical of his black armor. They looked like giant clawed hands holding a orb of fire on each of North's shoulders.

'Listen to me closely, child. The humans kill demon children younger than you in the thousands. If they capture you, you are dead.' The Void spoke within North's mind.

'Did you know?' Were North's only words.

'We don't have time for this you imbecile. You will die if the headmaster and your mother see you, Warlocks may be heroes for humans, but they're known as the Great Butcherers in the demonic tongue.' The Void retorted.

North inwardly sighed, he had a right to be angry, but he didn't let it get to him. 'What do I have to do?' North ended up asking.

'You've yet to tap into even a grain of my true power, you must turn back to your human form and then enter your Incarnation Form.' The Void commanded.

The professors were beginning to near familiar halls to North meaning time was running out.

'Human? Incarnation Form? Why can't I just do it now?' North asked impatiently.

'Stop asking so many damn questions and do as I tell you! But your demon body and human body house different Incarnation Forms simply because of their different constitution. Your memories and will have a large part to play in that whole thing as well, but you won't master all the possible forms in the few seconds we have.'

North nodded as he began attempting to return into his human body. Only a few tiles flips across his body. Even so, it'd been too few for any to really notice.

'Make sure that when you transform into your Incarnation Form you keep your mind together, I won't be protecting you any longer from that form because we need its strength. I'll let you borrow my strength to use it though.' The Void said.

The Void's words didn't make any sense to North, but he acknowledged them. After a few attempts, North's entire body flipped like tiles. Leaving only the wrists which were restrained by luminous shackles in his previous body's skin.

There was a clamor that arose in the professors behind North, the one pushing him from behind said aloud, "That is disgusting, if you do that again, I'll beat you within an inch of your life. Do you understand me?"

Before he could get his response, the human child that was in shackles turned into a cloud of black smoke.

North's mind felt like it was being ripped apart, but he did as the Void told him. Attempting to keep himself together using his mind and thinking solely of himself. In the moment of chaos, the black cloud turned into a humanoid form.

The Void Mantle then cackled aloud, for the very first time it was no longer a voice in North's head. The sound it created as it cackled was similar to slate grinding against slate, it had been mistaken for North's own laughter, running a shiver through everybody there.

Even North.

'Now use Voidstep, young one. Travel through the shadows!' The Void excitedly said within North's mind. North had made a slight note that the Void's voice no longer hurt to listen to.

North wasn't sure what exactly the Void had meant by saying to use Voidstep, yet the small description that followed the name had given North a hint of knowledge that his genius was capable of piecing together.

The humanoid black cloud was then swallowed by the shadows of the hallway, slipping away from all the professors.