Angel's Arrow

Another one?

Amy was sitting on her sister's red lounge watching Mythbusters when someone knocked on the door. She wanted to call out for them to come in so she wouldn't have to move her ankle, but she knew better than that. Some species of demon could only come in when invited. Putting the mostly melted ice aside, she got up and limped to the door. She was actually feeling a lot better than she had before. The person outside knocked again. “Amy are you in there?” Her brother's familiar voice called through the door.

“Come in Sylvester!” She replied. Her brother opened the door and stepped inside. Six foot four with broad shoulders, he barely fit through the door fame. No wonder she and Sadie had been born so small, Sly had taken up all the space in their mother's womb.

“I wish you wouldn't use my name like that.” He said frowning at her.

“But it's your name Sly.”

“I know, but do you have to say it so loud? Someone might hear you.” She laughed at him. Sly cracked a smile and forgave her for her earlier transgression. “Lexi called and said you'd been attacked.” His voice had gone a lot more serious and her laughter stopped.

“It was no big deal. I saw a human with two souls and when I went to ask the woman about it I was grabbed from behind.” Sly looked pissed. “I got out of it just like Raze taught us.”

“He should have taught you more.” Amy slid onto a stool at the breakfast bar.

“I don't want to talk about this right now. I've had a big day.” He sighed. It was a conversation everyone had already had. They had all gone into the family business one way or another. Everyone except Amy. She wasn't ready yet. Sly noticed a black rectangle on the floor near the kitchen counter. He picked it up and turned the phone over in his hands.

“Who's phone it this?” He asked. Amy shrugged her shoulders. It wasn't hers and it defiantly wasn't Lexi's, she had bedazzled the crap out of hers.

“Maybe it's Kynan's?” Amy realised, grabbing for it. Sly snatched it out of reach.

“Please tell me you didn't bring a stranger here for s*x?” Amy blushed furiously.

“No!” She protested. Images of Kynan flashing through her mind. She imagined him naked and she practically drooled. Sly saw her face and pulled a funny one of his own.

“I so don't want to hear this.”

“I didn't have s*x with him Sly. In fact he couldn't get out of here fast enough. Who would want to be with me anyway?” Sylvester came around the bench to wrap his arms around his sister.

“You are perfect little one. Any man who runs from you is clearly insane.” She snuggled into her brother's warm arms and instantly felt a little better. That was the best part about having such a close family, they were always there to make each other feel better. Sly also happened to be her favorite brother, not like she'd ever say that out loud. He always seemed to be able to calm her emotions the best. He also brought her the best sweets.

Kynan's home phone rang, breaking his concentration. Annoyed and a little confused as to why anyone was ringing the home phone, Kynan paused his Batman game. He lifted the receiver to his ear. “Hello?”

“Where the hell have you been?” The pissed off tone of his friend and former academy buddy screamed down the line. “I've been trying to call you for hours.”

“My phone hasn't rung once.”

“Bullshit. It's rung through to voice mail eight times. Do you know how long it took me to find your home number?” Kynan wasn't listening, he was fishing through his bloody jeans looking for his phone. He tried his jacket too but it wasn't there either.

“I must have dropped my phone in the park last night.” He told Ryan.

“Why would you do that?”

“It wasn't on purpose man. I was fighting a demon and it must have fallen out of my pocket.” He heard Ryan's frustrated sigh over the phone. This was probably the seventeenth time this had happened to Kynan since mobile telephones had been invented. “Did you call me for any other reason Ryan? Or did you just want to yell at me?”

“There's been another victim since last night.” Ryan's voice had calmed down to its normal deep scary tone. Well, it scared other people. The guy always sounded like he was threatening you.

“Another one since that business woman?”

“What businesses woman? This one was a man found early this morning by the water front.” Kynan frowned.

“I found the demon inside a business woman at a park last night. He'd taken every last piece of her soul before it left her. Why would it need another one so soon?”

“Maybe you injured it?”

“Unlikely. There was a human there. I couldn't use any of my powers or weapons during the fight.”

“Hmm.” Kynan could hear Ryan thinking through the line. “There might be another one here. Can you come down and check that this kill is from your Soul Eater?”

“I'll be right there.” Kynan hung up the phone and instantly flashed to Ryan's location.

When Kynan got to the scene he knew instantly that this was not the work of a Soul Eater. Ryan, dressed in his paramedic uniform waved him over for his verdict. “Not my guy.” He told him.

“Are you sure?”

“Yeah, the vibe is all wrong and I've never seen a kill like this before. Look at how he's smiling.” The dead guy sitting on the waterfront bench looked so happy he could have died with his d**k wet. “My Soul Eater leaves them screaming. And with only one exception, he leaves them in their beds. With their hearts.” Whatever had done this, had carved it out.

“Damn it.” Ryan cursed. “Looks like we have another one in town.”

“So much for you taking those days off.” Kynan teased. Ryan had been taking it easy the last few days while things were slow but now they had a demon killing humans. Killers meant they had to actively track the demons, not just hunt randomly killing whatever they found. It was a shame too, because Ryan could really use more sun. He was starting to look pale, which for a guy as dark as him, that was a real accomplishment. Ryan laid out a body bag on the ground near the body's feet and Kynan helped him get the dead guy into it. Unlike most of the damned angelic offspring, Ryan actually had a legitimate job in the human world. That job was to hide supernatural deaths. He mostly did that by stealing the bodies. Although there was a sizable human crowd starring at them, no one batted an eye as they loaded the body into Ryan's ambulance. Kynan climbed into the front seat while Ryan hopped in behind the wheel and they drove off without a single human saying anything to stop them.

“I met the weirdest human yesterday.” Kynan said as they drove around looking for an empty street to flash the rig out of. That was the cool part about the ambulance. It was spelled to appear as the correct ambulance or equivalent vehicle for any place they flashed too in the entire world. The fact that it could be flashed was cool too but that mostly had to do with Ryan's power levels. Kynan wasn't strong enough to flash more than one other person let alone a whole ambulance.

“Oh yeah? Weird how?”

“Well for one thing she had the shortest attention span I've ever seen. One minute she's going on about cheese and the next she's flashing me photos of a statue on the street. She's crazy beautiful but it's like she can't see it and get this, I told her to run last night and instead she kicks this Soul Eater in the ribs and threatens him with a knife.”

“She sounds like a simpleton. Do people still use that term? Simpleton?”

“Nah man, it's not like that. I can't really explain it but... she's just... well I think she's interesting.”

“Whatever man. f**k her and move on.”

“Is that your answer for everything?” Kynan asked rolling his eyes.

“Yep.”