1 A bad day to wake up

"Dam that hurt? Who the hell attacked us? Shadow, Pain are you ok? Brother, sister you guys alive?" I couldn't seem to open my eyes, but finally Shadow started to lick my face, and Pain small tongue came into play as well. Her gentle licks healing while Shadows huge tongue wiped away what looked like a strange combination of blood and dirt.

Where in the hell were we, it was dark so appearently it was night time and there were tall brick building on both sides of us. In addition garbage bins and urine filled the air most unpleasantly. There were lights ahead and the sound of cars passing by found its way to my ears.

Dam I hated cities, I wanted to go home to my den but where was home. Even asking Shadow telepathically which way to go home got no reply, and he could slip through into the shadowlands. He sent me just blurred images of fog and darkness, which was no help at all. It would be ok, after all we had been in worst positions and survived, a memory of being whipped flashed through my mind then was gone.

This had to be that dam demon Lord's fault just because my mom had given away half my soul to him, he thought he owned me. But he throw me away to my father the hellhounds king to be raised cause he didn't want to deal with raising a kid. Best thing he could have done it was great, running wild, learning to hunt, finding my hellhounds magic all of it was the best time in my life.

Till that bastard and his so called scientists showed back up and managed to capture me, Shadow and Pain. They tortured us to train and teach us to respect and follow orders. We had to became civilized and acceptable enough to meet their great demon lord Baal. That first time I meet him, he knocked me to the ground and throw a knife at my feet and said to kill him.

No matter how hard I tryed it was impossible, with his massive size, muscles, and great magic I was nothing. Then he had all three of us try our best and still we could not get a single nick on his skin. He told us to carry out missions to get stronger or he would kill our pack, we were force to sign a agreement with him in blood to serve until given our freedom.

Then we were returned to the pack, from which we were periodically summoned to kill various targets, if we were successful back to the pack we would go. If we failed into the fighting pits we would go and be left for a day or a month often we lost track. We didn't like it there so we got stronger, meaner, and deadlier.

Our successes increased as our emotions faded, our hellhounds innate abilities became sharper, stronger and sadly made us become outcast within our own pack. Even our father started to fear us and so we turned more to each other. It was ok as long as we could stay together nothing could beat us. We gained a title which became our names which in turn gave us greatly increased powers.

Shadow a massive mutation of a hellhounds beefed up by the demon Lord's steroids could vanish into any shadow and reappear into any other shadow within a 1/2 mile radius. His massive size didn't slow him one bit and to tell the truth he was the fastest of us three especially flipping from one dark spot to another as quickly as taking a single step.

Pain who was diminutive in size, so weak looking one would think a single kick would kill her. Aw, but her bite was by far the most venomous of any animal that walked the three dimensions planes. In addition she could spray a acid secretion from her throat quite simular to how a spitting cobra does.However that same saliva could be used to heal if she wanted it to.

Lastly was me who the called Blade and no one who has met me will doubt why I'm called that when they see them in action. My magic also allowed me too shapeshift into a 1/2 hellhound with a massive height increase, arm reach, and let me sport four inch incisors and six inch obsidian like talons on each fingertip.

I suddenly had a strange thought hit me, with the strange building styles, cleanliness, and lack of tiny minions that usually kept things food free we might not be in he'll anymore. Did he send us to the mortal realm and if so for what purpous? Hellhounds were a native species born in the netherealms.

The demons had invaded the hellhounds and other species lands and killed many off in their endless wars and power struggles. Only species that proved useful or were in hard to obtain or undesirable lands remained. Hellhounds basically fit into both these categories being useful and also living in desert and magma streaming areas.

I was probably one of the strangest species created the demon lord breed my mother with the dna of various species and then finally implanted me within my mother hellhounds body. It's blood and dna, further changed me within during my growing cycle.

Born with small weak wings, a very thin body the demon lord was so disgusted that he tore the wings from my body and then tried to bash my brains in. My hellhounds mother tries her best to stop him and ending up losing her life in my place. Appearently our hellhounds father came and carried us back to the pack or all three of us would have died soon after.

Giving my head a shake to get my thoughts back in the present I focused once more on our surroundings. This must be the mortal realm and that meant we were in a whole lot of trouble. We did not knew anything about this place or how to get back home.

A noise down the alley and at the opening into the street alerted us to company. Three human looking forms had just entered our alley and were headed our way. As they got closer we could hear them talking in the mortal language. One stoped to urinate against a dumpsters while the others continued towards our location.

All three of us slid deeper into the shadows and gave them a warning grawl warning them to back down. They quickly grabbed hold of something inside their clothing and soon banished a couple knifes in their hands. I reached for my own to suddenly realize mine were gone probably where ever my clothes were. As it figured a bad day could always be worst.

Pain and Shadow raised their grawling to a higher level as the three men continued forward. I could see one now sported,a,gun in his right hand and the others still held blades but now they were telling us to get cause this was their hang out. I told them to back off and we would leave.

Appearently this was the wrong thing to do because the moon chose that moment to shine on my small and very naked frame. Shadow instinctively slipped into the shadows leaving them to look at a skinbag of a small dog guarding what they saw as prey.

If they had used their brains and thought hay this can't be this simply and backed off things might have ended better for,them.

Sadly their brains went south and they started to encroach on our location swiftly, the one with the gun was laughing and making some obscene gestures. Way too busy to be a challenge for trained killers and beasts to worry about. Shadow silently appeared behind the gun man and bite through his spinal cord and neck with little to no noise at the same time me and pain slipped into action.

Pain's needle sharp teeth clamped down hard on the nearest knifemans hand causing him to drop his knife and start to scream in pain. My human talons pieced his neck cutting his cry short, at the same time my leg kicked the other man's knife from his hand. Shadow swallowed the man's whole head and snapped it off clean in one bite. All three lay dead at our feet within thirty seconds of our encounter.

I quickly gathered knifes, gun and stripped the smallest out of his shirt and pants. I took their cash and credit cards then we slipped into the darkness once again. Shadow acting as scout with me and Ain following his telepathic messages we managed to avoid any more humans.

Shadow found a unlocked sewer entrance just as the light of day strung forth and it's new rays didn't even get a chance to light our newly found haven before we slipped into the darkness.