“I still don’t trust you Phanes, you’re unpredictable and irresponsible. You’re childish too”.

  Neila sat down upon a tall glass building as he stared down at the large crowd beneath, thousands of people filled every corner of the streets.

  Perseus bent over and looked at the crowd beneath him.

  “Look how modern society has become, a shame I can’t explore more of this place, I really wish I have more time on this Earth”.

  Neila raised an eyebrow as his legs began to wave against the edge of the building.

  “Your time here is limited”?

  “Hades lent me a body for a limited time, 3 months is all I have before I go back to being a constellation, that was the deal he had with Athena. Hades is someone who hated intervening in fights, persuading him was tough even for Athena, well three months is all I get, I can’t do anything about it”.

  Perseus smiled as he stared at the sun in the sky.

  Neila gritted his teeth as his fist clenched, his brows scrunched.

  “Are you kidding me? Don’t you feel frustrated?! That they’re holding onto your very life like a plaything”.

  Perseus spoke in a broken voice, his voice was slightly muddled by the phlegm in his throat.

  “What can I do? I was already supposed to be dead, this is another chance at life, I should just be grateful”.

  Neila bit his lips as it drew blood, he sighed as he moved his sights towards the crowd.

  “Why didn’t Athena even ask the people to evacuate”? He crossed his legs as he twiddled his thumbs together.

  Phanes walked beside him, he wore a completely dark and long coat, staring down at the crowd like they were ants.

  “This was supposed to be a mission unaware to the other humans, a secret mission if you will. In addition, we aren’t supposed to even have a flashy fight in the first place, she asked of us to make the collateral damage as low as possible”.

  Bang

  Neila caught a bullet with his bare hands, blood dripped from his fingers as he looked straight ahead.

  “This is a sniper bullet, it’s way too big to be a normal pistol”.

  “I’ll go, I can see him”.

  Perseus’s eyes glowed yellow as he honed in on the sniper like a hawk, he stepped backwards and jumped off the roof, leaping over buildings with one jump.

  Black electricity crackled from Neila’s entire body, Khaos’s energy surged through his blood, as a black void began to swallow his body.

  “Ahh, I can feel it, the surge and the thrill”.

  Phane stared at Neila with a blank expression.

  “You humans sure will do anything to be high, I could never understand it”.

  “Of course you don’t, you were born with power while I am simply borrowing the power that others have”.

  Electricity crackled from his hand as he pulled out a monocle and stared into the sky.

  “I am simply a poser wearing the fur that others have handed me”.

  Phanes pulled out a cup of tea and a plate out of thin air, he leaned against the wall and began to drink.

  “You sure do like being poetic, yet your way of speaking can sometimes be so~ how shall I phrase this? It’s so discourteous”. Phanes had a small smirk on his face.

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  “Is that Khaos you’re trying to control? You’re simply just a human, even for us Gods, Erebus had been the only one to do such a thing”.

  “Whatever”.

  Neila’s hands were incased in black, as the darkness began to crawl up towards his face, he repeatedly began to slap his own face.

  “Come on Neila, you can control yourself, you can control these urges, fight back”.

  The darkness began to gain a tint of violet, as the black electricity changed into an indigo, he stared at himself admiring the darkness that swallowed him.

  “This is about 50% of the sealed energy being released, thank Goodness that Yuki is still nearby”.

  A hand pulled him from the concrete under, a human hand merged with the concrete, it was as if the solid concrete was a liquid, the hand gripped onto his leg tightly and began to pull him into the sinking concrete.

  “Shit”.

  Neila began to rapidly drop through the floor, concrete slamming against his face, going down from the 24th floor to the first.

  Blood dripped from his nose as his entire face became crooked, his arms were mangled and his legs completely broken, his consciousness began to fade in and out as he stared up at the hole above him.

  “Time turn back for me”.

  Black electricity crackled as the injuries on his body began to turn back, his entire body began to rapidly heal as even his broken bones were straightened and transformed back into place.

  “That hurts like hell”.

  Neila held his shoulders and snapped it back into place.

  “Ow”.

  Neila adjusted his long trench coat, as he stared down into the compartments within the coat and put on his gloves.

  The gloves were crafted by Athena, specifically meant for Neila’s flame generation, the gloves had a combustible material on its surface while maintaining its durability while on fire.

  “At least the dagger is okay”.

  Neila looked around, rubble was beneath his feet ,large chunks of concrete surrounded him like a forest.

  “Time turn back”.

  Neila place his hand on the floor as the rubble began to rise into the air and go back into place, where the ceiling once was.

  He was in an office, wooden tables with random assortment of items surrounded him, people surrounded him staring at him with scared and confused expressions.

  A woman in a business outfit stared at him and pointed with a shaky hand.

  “Demon”!

  The crowd began to run out of the building screaming for help.

  Neila wiped the sweat off his forehead.

  “Well that’s new, first time someone has called me a demon”.

  His eyes glowed red.

  A hair of hands began to grab Neila’s waist, nails piercing into his stomach as blood immediately began to drip.

  “Where the hell are you coming from”!?

  Neila grabbed the pair of arms, gripping them tightly but his fingers went through his arms, the hands were completely intangible.

  Neila felt a punch straight towards his face, his entire neck began to twist, his skull became slightly caved in as his entire body began to fling backwards.

  Dust filled the room, as debris flew everywhere.

  “T-time t-turn back for me”.

  He walked out of the smoke, slightly hunched over and he began to breathe heavily.

  “You are so goddamn annoying”.

  Neila stuck his fingers into the tile floor, he breathed in as the entire ground began to shake rapidly like an earthquake was coming.

  He gritted his teeth as sweat rapidly poured down his cheek as flames rapidly generated from his hands.

  “Burn”.

  The entire first floor was engulfed in flames, wiping out any sort of obstacle, burning anything up into crisp, as the flames immediately disappeared right after, to make sure Neila didn’t burn down the whole building.

  Neila’s body temperature began to rapidly rise from the heat as sweat poured down like a waterfall.

  Neila swallowed as he looked around, everything around him was clean and smooth.

  “There’s no where you can hide now”.

  Neila felt a familiar feeling, an intense tingle like a severe electric shock almost feeling like he was getting struck by lightning, an unpleasant feeling within his chest, a burning sensation that felt like he was on fire. Suddenly he stopped feeling anything, adrenaline rapidly rushed through his body as the heat slowly became a cold and freezing pain.

  A hand bursted through his chest, he watched as the hand grabbed his own beating heart pumping blood outside his body, blood squirted like a bottle of ketchup as blood dripped down his mouth.

  Neila began to shake as he spoke in a quiet voice.

  “Gotcha. Queen stop time”.

  He grasped his own empty chest as he waddled forwards, his breathing became heavy and his empty chest began to regenerate.

  “Regenerate quicker damn it, I only have 30 seconds before my entire body dies”.

  Neila waddled forwards and created distance between him and the opponent.

  His finger shook as he pointed towards the person standing in front of him.

  “Nakamura, you bastard, how dare you take her face”.

  She had long black hair and ruby red eyes, a perfect beauty with perfect facial features.

  Neila started shaking as he stared at the tall woman before him while gritting his teeth.

  “You piece of shit, you dare take Anastasia’s face”!?

  A ball of ember lit up on his finger tip as the air around the ball compressed, the flame swallowed all of the oxygen within the air as the flame began to change to a shade of blue.

  “I’m gonna kill you”.

  Nakamura didn’t have the ability to become intangible, his main power was to shapeshift, it only had seemed that he became intangible due to him transforming his own body into concrete and air.

  The only way to completely eliminate air was to burn it.

  “Time for retribution”.

  Neila snapped his fingers as a blue flame shot out towards Nakamura.

  Black electricity crackled as the flame turned pitch black and into a ghostly flame.

  The flame bursted through Nakamura’s chest, leaving a black flame permanently burning on his body.

  Time had returned back to normal

  Nakamura collapsed to the ground, as the black fire crackled on him, he laid limp on the ground, motionless.

  Neila stepped forwards as the injury in his chest healed, he stared down at Nakamura’s body with a bloodied expression, Neila’s eyes flickering on and off.

  “I didn’t even need to use the dagger”.

  Nakamura’s body immediately rose up, grabbing Neila by the neck, the burnt flesh slowly sliding off his body like a liquid.

  “What knife”?

  His body began to become a long noodle like shape as he began to crawl into Neila’s nose and towards his brain.

  Neila’s eyes widened as he grabbed the long line of flesh, it was slippery and he couldn’t get a good grip, he began to shake rapidly.