Bounty (2)

They all appeared in Star's house, It was structured the same as a minka. They were all in his living room. Outside of the house were loads of wisteria trees, Not as many as he would've wanted though.

"Why the hell would you take us here?"

Isle was confused as to why Star decided to take them to his house instead of his moms. Sadly he was the only one that didn't get why.

"So you wanted me to take us to your moms house? What if that demon you talked about followed us back then what?"

Star spoke in his normal monotone manner.

'Oh... That would be pretty bad...' Isle thought.

"Yeah you're right"

Isle scratched his head and stretched a little, He was a little uncomfortable from being in Neiva's arms for so long.

"Can you put me down now?"

He asked Neiva pleadingly with his arms dangling in the air while she held him, He smiled childishly to try and convince her. She looked at him curiously then squeezed him tighter.

"No"

She answered and held him even tighter then before, He was getting a bit more uncomfortable.

'Is this because I teased her earlier?' He thought

"Please... I promise i'll never tease you about Star ever again"

He was lying through his teeth and it was easy to tell. You'd think an orphan from the streets of pandora would be good at lying.

"You're horrible at lying"

Mori chimed in, She was visibly annoyed at all of them still. It was only fair that she was, After all I'm sure she was happy before they showed up.

"Tch. Whatever, Assuming that demon does track us what are we going to do? I don't think there's really a way to escape. After all Mom's probably asleep now, She's been awake for awhile"

If his mom was awake she could deal with the random demon without breaking a sweat. it's a bit cowardly but he never claimed to be chivalrous in the first place.

It wouldn't really matter as the demon kicked the door down, The door was sliced a few times instantly by Star before it could do any damage to his house.

The demon looked at all of them and shook his head regretfully.

"…"

Star didn't spare any words for the demon before unsheathing his sword and sheathing it again, The demon looked at Star with a confused look before his chest opened up in a slanted vertical cut.

The demon was surprised but none the less he raised his hand to use his quantum but before he could, Isle slipped out of Neiva's grip while she wasn't focused. Isle immediately dashed towards the demon and hit him with a crimson bat. Unlike before it was much harder, Even hard enough to hurt the demon he couldn't harm before.

The demon tried to jump back but before he could, A root from the ground stopped him. While Kalpana didn't join she did watch, She held a bag of popcorn as she watched and took a handful.

Neiva was getting bored so she decided she'd go next. She breathed in deeply then thrusted towards the demon with her fist, The demon quickly brought his arms up to block the blast from her punch.

After that his arms were bloody and bruised. He ripped his foot out of the roots, He looked exhausted. He knocked all of them to the ground with a snap of his fingers. They all got back up fairly quickly.

That was enough time for him to recollect his thoughts, The others were already dashing to attack him again. His arms started to heal, The wound on his chest also did before wisteria bloomed out of it.

"I see this won't be an easy fight huh? Fine then"

Immediately as he said that he darted towards Isle and punched him in the chest, Isle was about to dodge but it was much to late and he was knocked through a bunch of wisteria trees.

He ended up hitting one tree and it didn't break, He slightly slumped on the tree and coughed some blood. Before he could even get up, The demon was already there and choked him, Holding him up against the tree. Some leaves from one of the trees shook.

"Give me the book human. Give it to me now or I'm going to kill you right now"

He squeezed tighter on his throat, Isles eyes widened as he scrambled and scratched at the demons hands desperately trying to escape his grasp.

The leaves from the trees shook again and a lady with long hair pounced from a tree and slashed at the demons neck. He jumped back but not before her claws had already ripped open his neck.

He held his neck and breathed heavily. Isle collapsed on the floor and gasped for air while holding his neck.

"You alright little brother?"

It was none other then his big sister Lucille, She must've been concerned about her little brother so she came to find him.

"How did you even find me?"

His voice was raspy as he still was still gasping for air.

"I could smell you, Unfortunately…"

He slowly got up and frowned at her. She walked up to him.

"Can't I catch a break?"

He asked her while holding his stomach, The punch from the demon had severely damaged his chest. Her cat ears twitched as she heard the demon mutter something from behind her.

"What was that?"

Her tail swayed slightly as she waited for him to answer.

"I need that book…"

The gash on his neck healed enough that he didn't need to hold it. His hands were covered in blood.

"Oh so you'll die for it? Cuz you're not laying one more finger on my pathetic little brother"

'Did she have to add the pathetic part…' Isle thought.

She licked her hand clean of his blood. She pounced at the demon faster then before, This time he was ready for it though so he held his hand out and pushed her back with his quantum.

She had a surprised look but she quickly climbed into the trees and disappeared in their leaves. He looked around hoping to see her before she could get him, He couldn't find her before she dashed from a tree and bit a chunk out of his neck.

He knocked her away and she landed gracefully on her feet, She spat out the chunk of his neck onto the floor. He used his quantum to force all the blood back into his neck.

"Hm? Is that a gravity based quantum you have?"

She licked the back of her hand and groomed her ears. She barely acknowledged the demon.

"I'll get that book human…"

He disappeared instantly. Isle breathed out in relief. He was still holding his chest in pain.

"Thanks big si-"

She jumped on his back before he could finish and he nearly fell down but he held her legs and stood up again.

"Jeez do I hav-"

She immediately retorted.

"Who's the one that saved you? Yeah I thought so… Plus I'm your big sister"

He didn't say anything back as he knew that it wouldn't really matter. She wrapped her arms around his neck and got comfy. He started walking back towards Stars house again, He ran into the rest of the group halfway there. They all looked relieved apart from Star, Mori and Kalpana.

Star because he just didn't care, Mori obviously because she didn't like any of them, And Kalpana because she was to busy eating her popcorn from before.

"Huh? Big sis? When did you get here?"

He had a surprised expression. She climbed off of Isles back and gave Val a hug, He hugged her back.

"I came to save this dumbass, He was about to be killed by that demon"

She dabbed up Neiva then looked at Mori and smiled, She held her hand out for a handshake. Mori shook her hand.

"I'm Lucille, If these idiots have done anything to you I apologize for them"

She was genuinely sorry for anything they might've done to her.

"Yeah well they ruined my whole day… I'm Mori"

She was still angry but she didn't seem as mad as before.

"Star can you take us to Lucillia's house? I don't think it's smart for any of us to split up, Atleast for now, Who knows when that demon will come back and what if he comes back with friends"

Kalpana said while finishing her bag of popcorn.

"Well if she's home right now then it should work out even if the demon comes back with friends, Maybe we could've in the beginning if Isle didn't exaggerate how strong he was…"

Star was slightly angry, His lips curved down in a slight frown. He gave everyone wisteria petals as usual and warped them back to Lucillia's house, They all appeared in her living room. She came from the kitchen.

She had dark red hair and no horns, Her eyes were a dark and consuming reddish black. Despite her ominous eyes she was calm.

"Hm Isle is that you? Oh it's all of you… what's wrong? You guys came back pretty quickly"

She was curious as to why they where back so soon, And sat on a chair in the kitchen as she waited for their explanation.