Vile Song

The sound of the singing had already began to fade as Faolan and Juichi closed in on the village. Though it is night, it was clear to see that bulky clouds were heavily forming, with the wind increasing in strength.

Faolan and Juichi were nearing closer and closer to the danger that has enveloped the village. "There hasn't been any sign of destruction like before," Faolan observes the sky sharply, searching for any sign of fires that may have been started to destroy the village and its people.

"Juichi, when we reach the village we need to be extremely cautious because I don't know what's going on....but it's not the same as last time," Faolan held his hilt forcefully.

"Alright," Juichi replies and notices Faolan's frustration, Juichi frowns.

"I will slaughter the Demons." Faolan's thoughts remind him.

Faolan and Juichi reached the now refurbished-walled entrance of the village, the singing had totally faded now, but Faolan could still feel the intense malice coming from within the walls, yet there wasn't any panic from inside the village.

"No destruction, no sound, but it still feels wrong," Juichi stated.

"Juichi… you need to stay put now," Faolan's head turned away from Juichi.

"What you're going in alone?!" Juichi questioned.

"Yes, it's too dangerous for you," Faolan still had his head turned away.

"Bu-I…okay," Juichi settles down and frowns as Faolan continues to glare into the sinister feeling , he finds himself in thought as Faolan begins to open the village gates leaving him behind.

'Will I let it happen again?; Juichi's mind flashes to the time Faolan was taken away from his mother not being able to do anything for Faolan as he did for him. Juichi stares into the forest making a decision in mind, for the sake of himself.However, Faolan did not want to risk the life of Juichi, even in his state of anger, something within Faolan would not be able to bare thought of another person disappearing from his eyes.

Faolan continued on, leaving Juichi to himself. He slowly opened the entrance gate and instantly stopped near a tree inside because he sighted two hideous creatures that were—

"Demons."

"What are they doing with the people?" Faolan held his hilt closely within its sheath. He observes that the Demons are carefully carrying the bodies of humans to someplace. Faolan then gazes upon the Demons carrying the village people, their mangled and grotesque bodies further infuriated Faolan, filling him with hatred.

Faolan proceeded to follow the Demons to where they were taking the village people, they continued moving inward to somewhere in the center of the village. Faolan also noticed that none of the structures in the village were destroyed for some reason,

"It must be some kind of spell the people are in, which means they may be alive still." Faolan believed that was the case for little destruction and no panic within the village.

Faolan eases from the mental stress of how many people have been harmed, to now increasing in stress for how many people will be harmed if he doesn't act. Faolan continued following the Demons, passing the village river, into a large open central part of the village, Faolan's eyes widened once he witnessed the amount of Demons gathering and scattering the people on the dirt, with more women and children being brought to the center.

" Can this many Demons be gathered at once? These bastards!" Faolan thought's enraged.

" Where is Miss Yano-San? The Yano children!" Faolan searched throughout the center for her and the children, his eyes could not capture the environment as it did before, making him frustrated.

"They've brought so many people here," Faolan continued to scan for Miss Yano-San and the children, his eyes scanned rapidly for them.

The amount of evil began to turn Faolan's stomach, his fury perfumes. Continuing his search Faolan's eyes suddenly sickened to the view of a Demon that held the most vile nature of them all,

the Demon was a hideous monster, where it's 'head' was five times the size of a normal human head that appeared to be deformed brain tissue, with eyes scattered all throughout the head, it had tentacles flopped from the head covering it's slim female like body. The Demon turns its head revealing an untouched appearance of a beautiful woman, which surprises Faolan.

"It appears that we may have found him," The Vile Demon stares onwards at Faolan, meeting eye to eye.

"It found me?!" Faolan senses an overwhelming amount of fear race through his spine so he rapidly stands and runs from the sight of The Vile Demon who had alerted the Demons to attack him. Faolan quickly crosses around a building to find a Demon that had been waiting for him on the other side to push him back to the center.

"AAAaaAAH don't you look delicious," It let out a small laugh, while it's arms extending around Faolan in the air to entrap him.

"Why am I running from them?!" Faolan stops realizing that his fear was causing him to retreat, so he angrily raises his blade from the sheath, slashing the extending arms of the demon clean,

"You Demons ... will die," Faolan's eyes were darker than the sky, the Demon's arms had already begun to slowly grow back, the Demon retreated surprised at the courage driven by rage of the young boy, as numerous demons approached, it grows it's confidence in numbers.

"EhHEh, you are gonna die instead, you think that will kill me?" the Demon points to Faolan's katana with a snarl and the other demons ready themselves to pounce onto Faolan,

"With all that I trained…. I will kill them for what they've done, THESE BASTARDS WILL DIE!," Faolan lowers his blade, ready to charge into the crowd of Demons, he's never had any experience in combat, yet he didn't care.

"AAAAAAAAH," Faolan's anger bursts from within rushing to strike the Demons.

Faolan slashes the demon who retreated in it's twisted abdomen before it's arms could regrow completely, it's guts tightly spilled a little from the wound , but it affected little to nothing to the demon since it was such a weak slash, to compensate for the weak slash Faolan who is now behind the demon after his first strike, kicks the spine of the Demon with enough force so that the intestines burst from the opening, then Faolan slashes the nape incapacitating the demon for a short time. After slashing the nape, another Demon quickly lunges at Faolan, but he rolls out of the Demon's attack while slashing it's ankle in the process, the tendon holding the ligament together flings incapacitating the Demon from movement.

An incoming attack from another Demon with sharp claws surrounding its arms came. Faolan notices the shadow of the Demon as it darkens from behind him, he rapidly turns and parries one of the many claws that shatter from the skin of the Demon, one by one due to the force Faolan pushes with the blade. He quickly slashes the neck of the Demon once the arm has completely hit the ground to incapacitate it, the Demon fell with blood spraying from its throat. Faolan pants uncontrollably, he had held his breathing in order to perform so much action.

"There's about 4-6 more demons I will—"

A hidden Demon strikes Faolan from his calf, and in a reaction's notice Faolan slices a portion of the hidden Demon's face exposing the inner anatomy of its face, Faolan's blood flowed from the wound.

The Demons who were still approaching are captivated by the smell of Faolan's blood, energizing them much more aggressively.

"Thathatahat BLOOOOD," One of the demons tongues slips with drool.

"Ohohohyesssssh Shis sis swat sit swis!" Another Demon added.

"MADAM AIKA IS AGTER DIS ON, I NOSE WHY NOW," A jumbled Demon profusely grows sharp spikes within its stomach and mangled palms.

The Demons now launch an attack all at once so they could have a taste of Faolan's blood that perfumes their senses. Faolan's anger enlarged his veins, popping from his neck. He attempted to control his breathing at the same time.

The Demon with a massive tongue flings it's tongue towards Faolan's blade, filling it will drool. Faolan circles his blade to slice the tongue with an upward motion with the cost of the drool landing on his body. Another Demon speedily attacks, jumping over the Demon that Faolan had just sliced its tongue, to pounce him with it's dual claws, Faolan quickly twists his wrist to hold the hilt horizontally, but the Demon with dual claws already had already enveloped its claws into his shoulders with blood oozing from them and before Faolan's adrelanine could allow him to break through the demon's hold, it hopped out of Faolan's shoulders in a quick succession before Faolan could slash through. Faolan moved slowly to recover his ground due to the injuries, then the Demon with sharp spikes within its stomach pounces onto Faolan, he dropped his sword because the drool lubricated his grip, The Demon needed to puncture him with its stomach to finally stun Faolan while his arms were too slippery to push back against the strength of the Demon and too slow to do anything.

"The saliva it- it has slowed my movement, and my shoulders, they attacked in combination together, it was too seamless," Faolan laid with blood and saliva weakening the grip his palms, eventually giving way for the Demon to puncture his abdomen, Faolan screams in agony of the pain and the rage of slaughtering the Demons bled deeply. Several demons arrive, the ones who were injured had healed themselves, along with the Vile Demon singing a song.

" Dark of night comes,

Where death is the call,

Oh young boy,

How hard you will fall,

How hard will you fall?," The Vile Demon arrives with its sinister song.

"Raise yourself from the boy," The Vile Demon ordered the Demon off of Faolan.

"Yesshhhh mai laidy," The Demon with sharp blades within its stomach releases Faolan.

Faolan is utterly helpless on the ground, he was totally defeated. The Demons gazed down onto Faolan with giggles while the Vile Demon closes on Faolan.

"You've failed, that fury you hold dear, is nothing boy" The Vile Demon stuns Faolan.

"I've failed?" Faolan whispered.

"We will...put you to actual good use, it seems that you were the one," The Vile Demon inspects the young boy.

SHSSKSKSK

The slashing sound of flesh could be heard in an instant, the head of one of the Demons flew past The Vile Demon drawing its attention from Faolan. The other Demons react at the sound of the slash and quickly retreated from where the body of the decapitated Demon laid, turning into ash.

They glared onto a tall fit man, wearing a dark red gakuran jacket with a white belt holding his baggy pants similar to the color of his jacket that extended into tabi socks , the man is wearing a zori while black strapping covered his calves, and on top of that entire outfit was a black that patterned into flooded red haori printing downwards, with thick scarf covering half his face. His hair spiked upwards, he was also fair-headed to the point where it could mistaken to be white and his eyes were slightly red along the iris. He wielded a katana that seemed thinner than Faolan's, it was color combination of black and scarlet flowing from the tip to the guard, the hilt was designed with a red pattern.

"A Demon Slayer arrives, I'm afraid that you may be too late," The Vile Demon states with a grin. The Demons protecting it ready themselves before letting out a grin as well.

"Demons working together huh? That's some shit you don't see everyday, some shit you don't see every week, or month," The Demon Slayer examines the rest of the environment, "The buildings aren't damaged, the citizens are unharmed, but the boy…. he's the only one harmed ... which means."

Faolan who was extremely injured from his abdomen could barely move from his pain, he saw that there was someone else,

'A Demon Slayer here?' Faolan could barely make out who it was, the Demons stood in front of Faolan making it difficult for him to observe.

"Looks to be that you've figured something out, we can't have that now," The Vile Demon's tentacles intensifies itself sharply.

"What is Muzan Kibutsuji planning, this seems like a scheme for that boy?" The Demon Slayer points his blade.

"HAHAHAHAHA, insolence like you have no clue of what is truly transpiring within this world, you Demon Slayers fail to acknowledge other situations other than the same thing, I can see why your numbers dwindle year by year," The Vile Demon laughs hysterically.

"Well, then I suppose I'll have to gut it from you, you can speak all you want but in the end you and every demon out there are a threat to humanity,"

'What is her plan for the boy then? Well shit,' The Demon Slayer takes his blade to his palm.

"Go and kill him and then we will slaughter everyone in the village, that is your order from Madam Aika." The Demons charge in sync towards the Demon Slayer.

" Breathe Of Blood: First Style: Bloody Swing ,"

The Demon Slayer slices his palm, filling his blade full of blood, his blade sucks in the blood, growing longer and fiercer in an instant. The Demon Slayer gripped the hilt with both of his hands,close to his chest and widened his legs in preparation.

The Demons started to encircle the Demon Slayer to surround him to the point where his blade couldn't meet all of them. The Demon Slayer focuses on the Demons surrounding him and releases a slash from his blade slicing the necks of every single Demon in a spherical swing, their bodies crashed into the ground and some into the buildings disintegrating into ash .

"I see, so you're blade still grew, even when you already had poured yourself onto it," Aika readies herself.

"You were controlling the Demons," pointed out the Demon Slayer. " That seems to be the main reason they were working together, shit heads like them don't typically work together and obey so kindly to a coming death."

"All it takes is a little song," Aika's tentacles flurry and her disgusting head glows.

"I'm afraid that won't work on me, I've already taken precaution," The Demon Slayer had blood thickened within his ears to protect himself.

"You must've heard my song already then, the people of this village were not too lucky, no matter I will still slaughter you," Aika's head stops glowing and her tentacles intensifies greater than before.

The Demon Slayer has already heard the singing of Aika from afar like Faolan and Juichi.

The Demon Slayer rushes in with his blade close to his chest once again, Aika launches a barrage of tentacles to slice him. The Demon Slayer spins into the air with his blade in between the tentacles and slices them at once. Landing onto the ground The Demon Slayer is welcomed with strikes from more of the tentacles, those manage to cut through his clothes, as well as some of his skin, however he manages to dodge through the majority of them, and he blocked strikes that would cause vital injuries to him. The barrage stops and Aika had already furthered it's distance from the Demon Slayer. Faolan watched as the Demon Slayer fought,

"I can't do anything, I never could." he squints and clenches his teeth in frustration.

"You are a lot more capable than most Demon Slayers," Aika applauded.

"Well let's get serious now." Aika's tentacles regenerate from being sliced and they all point at the direction of the Demon Slayer's vital organs and muscles.

Aika launches the tentacles to attack, yet this time he stood his ground in defense. He slices a tentacle that aimed for his heart, but another tentacle punctures the flesh of his knee.

'The tentacles are being tactically placed to where I can't defend from them, so I'll have to make sacrifices, focus… shit,' The Demon Slayer continued to defend his vital organs by sacrificing his movement and strength for his life. The Demon Slayer would slash tentacles coming from above, but still get sliced from below, he squints from the pain but focuses at the danger before him. Two tentacles came for both of his arms, a third one headed for his abdomen, and a fourth flying straight towards whichever of his calves, the Demon Slayer quickly maneuvered his body in the order of what he assumed to be the best form of defense, as a result he blocked the tentacle headed for his abdomen while protecting his right arm , but losing the strength of he left arm because it was punctured and his the same leg where his knee was punctured endured a slice to the calf,

'I have to move in now, I've taken some of her tentacles now, this will be my chance!' the Demon Slayer takes in a breath.

"Breath Of Blood Fourth Style: Slice Splatter,"

the Demon Slayer enveloped the blade with the same palm with blood, the blade drenched itself not completely being sucked in,his the blood on the blade left a trail on the ground, the Demon Slayer rushed into the face of death with glower.

" Focus, focus, this is what I have to do!"

The Demon Slayer is able to conjure multiple projectile slashes of blood, to slice the tentacles that were incoming as he approached Aika, he sliced two tentacles with one swipe, then quickly euro-stepped into a position where he could slice another tentacle with a projectile, and in that same motion he slid down with his uninjured knee dodging the strike of another tentacle, to quickly slicing that tentacle as he stood back onto his feet,

"She doesn't have much tentacles left, focus focus!"

The Demon Slayer swiped a few more projectiles at Aika so she could protect herself with the rest of its tentacles. The Demon Slayer hopped with his uninjured leg to finish closing in on Aika and deliver a finishing blow.

"This is it," The Demon Slayer put his life on this final push or else it would be over for the entire village.

" BLOOD DEMON ART: VILE SONG,"

Aika lets out a subsonic scream that flings the Demon Slayer in the momentum of his final slash back away from her, he spun back onto the earth striking his back with concussive force.

"Aghh shit," The Demon Slayer's vision was hazy and his head pulsed with pain. His clothes were bloodied and his knee and calf oozed blood onto the ground.

"Such failures," Aika regrows her fallen tentacles.

"I'm not done," The Demon Slayer slowly returns to his feet, he took off his shredded haori revealing, the amount of true slices he had taken, blood drenched within his tattered wares.

"Whe-where is Yano-san don-t hu-rt h-er" Faolan called out in pain, he extended his rough palms towards Aika.

The Demon Slayer and Aika turn to the boy's voice,

"Oh boy…. I'll save her and her children in a safe space just for you," Aika grins and licks her lips.

"Piece of shit," The Demon Slayer states.

"Noo—nooo," Faolan's eyes finally melt into tears, snot raced down his nose, while blood and dirt still covered his body as he shook in agony.

A piece of rock is thrown at Aika in which she crushes with her tentacles,

"ENOOOUGH," Juichi shouted at Aika, standing in front of the unconscious villagers that laid behind him.

"Are we just going to keep getting surprises?" Aika laughs.

The Demon Slayer stumbles onto his uninjured knee.

"Faolan, GET UP, YOU HAVE TO GET UP!" Juichi shouts at the injured boy.

"Are you an idiot, do you understand that he is hurt?" Aika sends one of her tentacles to envelope Juichi with.

"UMPGHH," Juichi is held by the stomach.

"Ju-ichi, I ca-n't," Faolan's eyes continue to drown in tears.

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Faolan's world flashed and swirled, a loving voice is heard.

"Faolan…. Faolan ... listen to me. Listen to my voice," The Motherly Voice of Akari spoke.

"Mo—ther…" Faolan calls out.