Reluctant allies are better than potential enemies

New Orleans was not a place Zoe would generally linger. Her nose was buried in the news paper at a nearby café, not particularly wanting to draw attention. But drawing attention to one’s self is rather hard as a wendigo walked past the café window, closely followed by another soul.

Curiosity getting the better of her, Zoe followed after paying for her meal. People saw lots of strange folk, considering that New Orleans did hold one of the main entrances to the Underworld. Zoe wove in and out of the crowd and rounding the corner just in time to see a man plunge a sleek blade into the creatures. Zoe felt her throat tighten as she rounded the corner getting away as fast as possible, a tracker. One that specializes in dark creatures, Zoe would imagine…. Not to mention… she was a demon.

Sure she was out of eyesight she began to run, dialing Sam’s cell phone. Maybe if she was talking to someone he wouldn’t attack thus giving her time to escape. It went straight to voicemail, dang it. She hung up and tucked it into her cell phone. As she hit the main road she slowed to a casual walk, pulling her hood up as the sky began to drool. The water drops pattered lightly against her skin and Zoe closed her eyes briefly, enjoying the sensation of rain. Down in the darkness, there was no weather, no hot or cold. Only chill and whatever heat that emanated from electric lights.

She stopped in the overhang of the book store; it was showing classical books with leather binding, gold lettering, and embossed pictures. Zoe loved books in general so she decided to go in, wondering if the tracker would follow her.

Zoe looked at the books, especially the ones that were supposed to be old. The paper crackled beneath her fingertips. The demon could feel the crackling pages under her finger as she turned the page. Stopping as she came to a picture of a young teen with long dark hair and blue eyes. This book was defiantly old. It was an old legend about a cursed unicorn, doomed to roam the earth until she found love. But how could a woman who specialized in stealing lives and hearts ever fall in love? Zoe carefully placed the cart up onto the shelf.
The woman working the front offered Zoe a small smile as she passed the desk. The place reeked of magic.

“You need anything dearie?” The older woman asked, smiling once more. She had a few wrinkles and streaks of grey in her dark brown hair.

“No, just browsing. “

“You like older books, I saw you looking at the old myths and legends books,” The woman observed. Zoe’s hair on the nape of her neck stood on end, this woman knew something. The demon did not notice the tracker entering the store, his eyes roving about.

“It’s an old hobby I have,” Zoe covered quickly.

The dragons stirred, raising their heads above ground, tasting the air with their long tongues.

Yumo was walking down the street with his head down, he was focusing on his phone as he read a long and dreadful text from his mother. As he walked multiple bumped into him as they ran from aome area in the middle of new Orleans but he was listening to T-200 by metrik so he heard nothing. His hazel eyes finally looked up as his hair fell in his face. However by the time he looked up everyone was gone so he didn't notice the panic.

"Finally made it."

He scanned the sign at the top of the building then whent in. Abruptly his mind became very clear and he had a heavier sensation around his body. He froze in place in shock for few minutes but then he shook his head took a deep breath and continued to walk in. His eyes scanned the stuff in the room even the people. There was a girl talking to an old lady at the counter and behind them was a guy who was subtly glancing at the chick. There was something about him that was really off but he couldn't think of it.

After a few minutes in the store he found what he was looking for then whent up to the register. The chick was still talking to the lady when he got there and began to wait. He was there for like another five minutes when he began to get irritated.

"We have an amatuer stalker and a freakin blabber mouth in one room." He thought rolling his eyes as he looked behind him to find the guy silently standing almost right next to him. He knew then that his temper was going to get the best of him if he stayed in here too long but instead of acting on his attitude he decided to suck it up and keep a calm face.

Zoe was attempting to break away from the conversation when the tracker approached, causing Zoe to stiffen. She tried to sneak away before stopping as the man turned to her.
“Why do I reek of death?” Zoe sounded faintly amused but her face was stone cold, her pulse racing underneath her collar bone. She needed to get out of here, get out of here now!

“Why do you reek of it?” She retorted it back to him, crossing her arms over her chest.

“We can’t change what we are,” She stated quietly. In truth Zoe had returned from an excursion down from the Underworld so she may have reeked of death and a few other things. She was keen not to make eye contact in case he figured out what she was. “Now, if you will excuse me. I have places to be and appointments to keep.”

Zoe fixed the zipper of her leather jacket and moved around him and to the door of the shop. Desperate to have her powers back so she could just fly away..

"Who you callin a vodoo demon you old leather faced troll." Yumo said angrily but the lady kept walking not paying any attention to him.

He began to go after her but that's when he heard a comment come from the stalker guy. He turned to acknowledge the guy in a very attitudish way. His arm screamed for contact but he avoided the urge for the moment. He scanned the guy one more time before opening his mouth.

"Well what's the deal with you being such a stalker?" He retorted getting into the guys face.

He sat their for a minute then smirked and whent to the door. "I have no time for this later stalker." He said then opened the door letting in all the energy he left before. The second he stepped back in all his senses returned to their normal state, But it was too late. The side of his face was bombarded by hot air and the smell of blood.

He turned slowly to see a set of large fangs tinted with blood in his face. Next to them were a set of red eyes full of blood lust and hunger. Before he could react the dragon roared and around four more appeared scaling buildings and hovering low to the ground. The dragon in front of him then swung it's claws at him causing him to crash into a building across the street then it spewed some kind of weird fire into the building causing it to explode. A plum of smoke whent into the air as the building dispersed into smoldering debre.

Zoe had no sooner left the shop when she ran into a dragon… stupid over grown lizards seemed to be popping up everywhere. This one was clearly older than the others, some of the scales had a ragged edge but its eyes were sharp and quick.

It growled at her, uncoiling from around the statue it had been resting, a barbed forked tongue flicking in and out of its mouth.

Demon.

Zoe snarled, her muscles tightening preparing for an attack. Out of some unseen place she pulled out her sword, the metal glinted in the dim light. How many dragons were there? Two? Three? Zoe didn’t know.


The tail whistled over her head causing Zoe to summersault to the side and avoid a barbed tail. Zoe muttered under her breath, her body shifting to better serve her in this fight. Within several minutes Zoe had only succeeded in drawing the dragon’s attention and it had lit the buildings on fire.

For a few minutes it was quiet by the building but then an inhuman scream whent off and streams of blood erupted from the smoke and grabbed a hovering dragon nearby.

"Damn fire breathing lizards!!!!" yumo yelled as he jumped high into the air.

He turned his body and began to twist in a pinwheel type of motion. At first it was slow and the outcome for the dragon was inevitable as he began to orbit violently around yumo. The dragon flailed to break free but it wasn't strong enough. A stream of black was all you could see from a far and a gust of wind came from the wheel like picture. Abruptly the blood let go and the dragon was smashed into the ground sounding off a loud crack and a bang sound.

Yumo swung his arm and blood shot from his wrists in the form of spears towards another dragon. This one was heading towards the stalker guy. The spears impaled the dragon's hands and feet allowing yumo the time he needed. He barred his now large fangs and thrusted his hands forward shooting two streams of blood towards the dragon. When it latched to the ground next to it on both sides he rushed himself towards the dragon at a break neck pace. He began to violently twist his body sending streams of blood from his ankle to the tip of his foot forming a drill.

"Blood lancer!" He yelled when the blow made contact. His voice boomed inhumanly as he remained twisting causing the dragon to roar in pain.

It used all of it's strength and flew into the air throwing Yumo off of him. The dragons hands were bleeding and there was a pinkish spot on it's back. Two dragons cam to aid the injured one sending yumo on the defensive. He weeved through buildings bird as he dodged the fire the dragons were spewing. He couldn't attack them because everytime he attacked one the other two attacked him. The dragons were smart and he was begininng to understand how smart as well but now wasn't the time so he pushed the thoughts back and turned to fight the dragons. He rushed towards one and as he was expecting the dragon ducked but instead of attacking the dragon he jumped off the spine and latched blood onto the other two twisting so that they became unstable and then they crashed into a building .

Zoe was on the dragon’s back as it roared, arching causing Zoe to slip and grab onto one of the scales. With her other hand, she sprouted claws, digging in so she didn’t fall. The blood burned her skin and Zoe suppressed a shudder of pain. Then she hauled herself over the side again, checking to make sure she still had her sword. She did, barely. Her hand was red but other than that not too much damage.

The dragon had become distracted by the stalker guy down at the bottom. Apparently it didn’t deem Zoe to dangerous with a shiny pointy stick.

Gripping her sword in her right hand she drove down, and up, through the base of the skull. The dragon roared and then shuddered, crashing to the ground with Zoe on top. To avoid impact, Zoe’s black feathered wings sprouted and she took off into the air, breathing heavily. She landed behind Stalker guy.

“How many more?” She asked, looking at him with her blue eyes. Hearing another roar her head whipped around, trying to locate the next dragon. Hades, she hated dragons.

Yumo was laughing as he whipped around the building. Not because he was having fun because he wasn't, he was laughing because for some reason three medium sized dragons and a big dragon decided he was a good meal. He jumped into the air and began his counter like he did for a while now. The big dragon flew up to him in a hungry manner. Yumo put his hands behind his head and swung them forward with all his might. A large spear shot from the wave of blood he made and it impaled the medium dragon in it's wing. Below he noticed some unread minions attacking one of his pursuers and he did not mind at all.

Although he'd hate to admit it he was getting tired and these dragons seemed to have energy for years. While he was falling he surveyed the remaining dragons. there were Two just below him and two some ways in the distance but something wasn't right.

"I could have sworn there was one more that kept looking at me." he said a little puzzled then he heard a grunt behind him.

when he turned he was shocked at the size of the dragon. it was easily the biggest since Yumo only just barely made it as the same size of his eye. The dragon roared making the earth and sky tremble at his arrival then he began to dive towards Yumo who was still falling. Yumo turned urgently and began rushing to the buildings. to the buildings to try and out maneuver it. But it didn't work that way, instead it spewed a giant ray of bright orange and yellow fire nd when it dissipated a huge area was nothing but ash and debre. Everything including the dragon and minions were gone except for Yumo who was breathing extremely heavy. The blood he used to make a small dome around was boiling and it took all he had to keep the blood stable so he wouldn't die.

The dragon flapped it's massively torn wings in rage and began to roar and charge at Yumo. Yumo jumped out of the way and swung off one of its legs to its back. The dragon began to buck and roll on the ground as Yumo punched on the large scales covering his spine. When Yumo was finally knocked off the dragon swung his tail at him and shim not hesitating in the lightest and Yumo was sent flying into a building or what used to be one. He fell out the back and hit the ground hard bouncing back up from the recoil. He sat there and slowly got up as the dragon dragon slipped a round the corner.