Angel vs Demon.. at least it isn't too cliche (Shadow vs Yofie.)

Marcus was on a chair, chained to it with no chance of getting out. Marcus would have been afraid before but this dream was common now, not different to the last several times he had it thanks to Dark's demonic influence in his mind but then something different did happen. Marcus was on fire and it ate at his skin until Marcus awoke in a sweaty mess. Marcus was confused about the dream but then again he hadn't been feeling all that well and he always felt feverish all over. You could say his blood was boiling but Marcus didn't know, no medication would cool down the burning so he just lived with it. After Marcus got dressed he looked out the window of the abandoned building he was in and did some stretching before jumping out the window only to be caught by a chair of darkness that lowered him to the ground. Once seated on the ground Marcus stood and the chair turned into a puff of smoke that soon started to follow Marcus, joining up with a larger mist like cloud that followed Marcus until he turned into a street where it soon dissipated into nothing as Marcus made it do so. He didn't like it when people thought he had a power. He just wanted them to know he was an ordinary human until he had his mask on.Go human and find something to do, I get bored of this simpleness. No blood shed and no fun. The demon's voice rang inside Marcus's head and he couldn't help but rub his temple as if it helped to lower the noise.

"I wish I had a volume thingy in my head so I could turn it wayyyy down." Marcus said to the demon as he made his way down the street to a crowded one that had his favourite shop in it. A place he would go each day if he had the money which he was quite sure he had. A memory popping up about the telekinetic that attacked him here for that 'super cancer' popped up but was quickly shaken away. "Sorry Dark but I'm hoping for a peaceful day mate."

For a graceful being, Yofie carried her metal boots with more sound than a raid siren. At first the mere sight of her put the populace of the market in a state of confusion but her noble attitude eventually brought everyone to take amusement in her. The glorious armor, the shimmering sword, and the brilliant wings all caught the eyes of every bystander. Bemusement and wonder came from a few of the onlookers, making their way to enjoy the beautiful being. A man pulled out his cell phone and handed it to a friend of his. "Do you do pictures?"

"Yes, would you like me to describe righteousness or purity to you?"

"Ha, that's funny. Let me just get next to you, and do you mind if I touch you armor?"

Her sword blazed with a glory only fit for the presence of demons. Flames sparked from her skirt and breastplate scalding the arm of the man currently taking a picture with her. "Away citizen. Find wherever you retreat from the abyss to."

Not knowing whether or not the woman put forth a brilliant display of pyrotechnics or truly a warrior of sorts, the man stepped back under hesitation before turning into a full run. Pulling her blade from the sheath, Yofie sent the market into disarray. "Stand fast citizens, there is an evil among you. I will draw it out." Fire burst forth from her wings, engulfing her sword. A darkness stirred inside her. A feeling she despised and felt at odds with, but knew it could assist her in finding the identity of her assailant. Or soon to be assailant. "You!" Yofie held her sword in full line towards Marcus. "There is an evil within you I wish to cleanse. Do you wish to resist, or will you allow me to burn you until you are pure in peace?"

Marcus had happily gotten into the chinese take out store and ordered his usual dish. It was cheaper ever since he saved the store from the cryo meta that was probably dead by now, with absolute no control over his power he would be frozen to death. Once a plastic bowl with the rice was given to him, he paid and walked outside to turn to a commotion. A woman that everyone was fascinated by and even Marcus himself couldn't take his eyes off her. Human, look away from that thing. It's one them. Marcus didn't understand what he meant quite fully. She had beauty and wings so maybe the old demon thought of her as an angel.

"Come on Dark, you use to never worry about these things." Marcus said to the demon as he brought some rice to his mouth but then something happened. Flames produced from her armour and her sword drawn and pointing at him. Her words were smooth yet vengeful as she called him out or at least called Dark out. People ran and others watched as Marcus allowed his demonic mask to appear, his voice demonic with it. "Now listen here. Yes I have a demon in me but I kinda need him alive, so please let me enjoy my food and nothing has to happen." He placed the fried rice on the ground incase she didn't care and just attacked him, his hands were up to his chest, their palms facing her to show he didn't want to fight. "Just leave please."

"You desire to continue living with this evil inside you?" Yofie seemed more perplexed by this than she should. "You must be within saving, but I do not know all of the rules of possession. Perhaps fire will draw the creature out." Yofie drew the sword above her head and threw a burst of fire from her blade towards Marcus. Pedestrians fled in the wake of the pillaring flame burning from the angel. "Do not worry citizens, I will save you from any harm." More fire came from Yofie's sword, this time in a crescent arc to attempt to blast Marcus, regardless of the damage it did to nearby cars.

More confusion came from the citizens as they ran from the dangerous angel, trying to save them from a more dangerous adversary. "Oh my god, that guy must be truly evil if she is this devoted to stopping him." A man pulled the woman into the safety of a store to keep the collateral damage to a minimum.

"Yeah, an angel would only do this if the man she needed to save us from was far worse." More voices joined the chorus of confusion, cheering on Yofie as she charged Marcus with her furious assault of angelic persecution. "Will you yield yet monster? I demand you leave demon!"

"Your funny." Marcus said this as she started to throw her fire at him, he activated his shadow meld as the fire went threw him but raised a wall of darkness behind him to stop the fire going any further and harming citizens. He heard comments of him being truly evil because an angel was trying to smite him but shrugged slightly to it.

He tried to help this city but now when someone like her is around they chose light over darkness. He formed several blunt tendrils that aimed for the angel before a flick of his hand then sent them flying at her with powerful force. "Sorry m'lady but this demon can't leave now. Not while I control him."

Even though the wall of shadow greatly shielded the citizenry from the rampant assault of Yofie, the sheer look of darkness further turned the citizenry against Marcus. Once the tendrils formed up and took root of the angel's legs, the image of Marcus further descended. More of the tendrils took grasp of Yofie's waist while Yofie hacked at their base. Shadow continued to grasp at Yofie's wrist, pulling her arm towards the ground as a car shot through the air. Her illustrious wings spread into full glory and her armor burst into flame, breaking her from the bonds grasping her. "You will not take me as you took this pathetic man before me, demon."

With the car coming towards her with a great force, Yofie flew towards the car, penetrating the blade through the car, severing it in half. The wanton disregard for safety sent both pieces of the car into the sides of buildings, causing glass to shatter and slice many of the people looking on to the battle. "I'm glad this angel is here to safe us." Throwing away the compliments from the onlookers, Yofie dove forward with her flaming sword to brave the tendrils and strike at the heart of the man who hosted a demon within.

He needed the angel to calm down mostly, he just wanted to get something to eat. He watched as she fought back against the bonds that never stopped. But then she burst into flames to get away, she was one who didn't give in easily and stayed to her cause. He liked that, maybe one day she would smite true evil but until then he was going to have to focus on staying alive and trying to keep others alive. He was about to complain about her disregard for the safety of humans when she charged from the skies, her sword blazing towards him. He could try and move but she was faster than she looked, until something happened. Darkness exploded from his chest and consumed Marcus until he was gone and reappeared where the angel was before he started his attack. What did you do. Dark was confused by the new ability but Marcus liked it as of now.

"Look lady I'm in control. The demon is locked inside here." He said as he pointed to his head. "Now stop so i don't have to kill you." He threatened right after, the mist from before rose from Marcus and he formed some spiked tendrils aimed for the angel. "I really just want to eat something."

Yofie broke from her charge, impacting her shoulder into the concrete. "You can do it angel!" The cheers grew more in jubilation to further the delusions fought violently to preserve. "We believe in you!" Fire burst forth from her sword in another wave to try and divide the tendrils separating her from Marcus. "Save that man from the demons!"

"I will deliver justice. You shall not have control over this man anymore. I know you are trying to deceive me with your vile lies of control." A more experienced warrior would take the notion of her last assault as a learning experience and fight from a distance. Yofie dove through the tendrils, hoping her fervor would protect her. It did not. Several tendrils pinned her to the ground. Steel fought off the point of the spikes, keeping Yofie's flesh from being pierced by the sharp tendrils. Flames shot from her armor and wings, but the sheer force kept her pinned to the ground. Pointing her sword towards Marcus, Yofie let loose one more blast of flame before turning her attention to try and sever the spikes holding her down.

Marcus watched as she charged forward once again, her speech about saving him from demon that had no control. Marcus began to think of her as delusional, crazed even. He watched as the tendrils did their work until she pointed her blade it him once again. Knowing an attack was imminent Marcus went to rise a wall of darkness but was surprised when he instead rose pillars of fire that stood still in his control, he could feel the heat coursing though his veins. Impossible, I don't have control over hellfire. What are you human.

Marcus looked at his hands as the fire attack that the angel sent at him came though the pillar of hellfire and stuck Marcus in the upper shoulder, the force sending him to the ground as darkness already began to cover the now wounded shoulder, the pillars of hellfire disappeared but the tendrils still continued their assault. "I don't know what I am Dark."

Stroke after stroke broke tendrils from Yofie. When one fell another moved forward until one finally grasped her wrist and pulled the blade from her hands. Her lunge launched forward, but the tendrils pulled her back with more force than before. As she fell to the ground, she looked back to see Marcus fall to the ground, his tendrils still fighting but not from the origin the tendrils draped around her came from. More shadows enveloped her, wrapping her arms to her side before pulling around her neck. Asphalt began to collapse into the sewer as a shadowy form rose from the depths. "Now I've found you." Formless, but stretching twenty feet in the air, the being pulled Yofie towards him.

"I will burn you with everything within my soul." The size of the shadow fluctuated as Yofie fought against her grappler, but it won her no freedom. "You will win no..."

The arms around her neck tightened to cut Yofie off from continuing her threats. Two arms anchored the creature on the ground as he looked over the destroyed landscape. "You did good dark one. I have been hunting this one for some time. My master will thank you when he conquers this world and covers it in darkness." Laughter shook his vile voice. A large tendril formed and built power as it slammed into a nearby building. "Watch little one..." His grapple moved Yofie to force her to watch his destruction. "Watch as I destroy this world you thought you could hide in."

As Marcus rose he saw that he wasn't controlling the shadows anymore and almost fell again when the street began to collapse but his tendrils kept him afloat. He watch as the demon or shadowy figure began to surround the angel, seemed this thing had been searching for her and thank him for fighting the angel. Marcus was being used, he hated being used and his honor had to do some part in this. She may have been trying to smite him before but now she needed help. "Hey asswipe. Didn't your boss teach you not to hurt the ladies." He called out to the shadowed form as he rose more hellfires and threw the flames at the creature to hopefully free the angel.

Human What ARE you doing. Marcus didn't listen to Dark, he just sent pillars of fire at the shadow.

While Yofie fought in vain to attempt to save herself, the fire from the man she deemed an adversary fought to pull the attention of the being. "You used my boon to attack me? You throw away greatness? I can destroy you before delivering her to my master."

A sudden burst of flame shot against the head of the creature. "You will deliver me to no one fiend." Yofie spun backwards and dive bombed the location of her sword. Gripping her trusted blade, Yofie flew back up, placing her left hand on the hilt to add more slicing power to her stroke as she severed one of the creature's appendages. "I will deliver to you the gift of mercy, foul creature."

No houl came from the beast. Nor did any chagrin. Only shadowed tendrils shot out to attempt to grapple the angel. The flame from Marcus met the flaming might of Yofie, pushing the creature back. "This foul spawn must not be permitted to live. If he should take my whereabouts with him, his master will attack this realm and try to cover it in darkness."

"I will break you." White eyes turned darker. "I will take you back with every bone in your body broken, and you..." A large branch shot out of the creature, trying to slam Marcus into the ground with all the force it could muster. "You chose pain. You chose to suffer."

After Marcus shot the hellfire he waited as the demon and the angel yelled at each other and the demon sending vague threats, the angel then warned him of what would happen if the creature survived. He began to focus on more hellfire until he saw a branch like thing appear from the creature, Marcus focused and teleported closer to the angel to avoid the attack before sending more hellfire at the thing.

"I am my own man and I like humanity's sun, no need for any more darkness to cover it." Marcus said to the beast and to the angel to show where he stood. Sending more torrents of fire.

"You are in fact a demon. I thank you for your assistance, but let us not jest to the notion you are anything more than a being of pure malice." Yofie dropped into a free fall giving her momentum to sever one of the arms holding the best up. "I am glad you are either fighting this creature out of confusion or because you demons are just sinister enough to turn on one another, but I assure you..." The flames from Marcus broke against the creature, breaking his resolve of staying and fighting. Bouts of shadow broke out from the creature to snag Yofie as it further descended.

Knowing she could not fight the strength of this creature, Yofie merely let the tendril pull her closer. She held her blade tight to her body and propelled herself deep within the body of the creature, leading her vortex with a flaming cone of fire. Once her flames tore a hole in the creature, the light would quickly snuff out behind her. The darkness of the creature's eyes turned back to a lighter shade of white before a sensation turned them into a more vigorous light. Flames tore through the bulging eyes in his head. His shadows burst out as Yofie emerged in flight from the creature. Her blade held high above her head cast light to cast the shadows into pure non existence. No trace would find its way back to its master, giving Earth more time before the abyssal forces found it.

Landing in front of the demon infested man, Yofie held her sword in hand. "You chose to fight beside me. I could try to find a more pleasant way of keeping the evil in you at bay. Perhaps a way in which you do not die."

Marcus watch as the demon reeled back before trying to escape while pulling the angel in. Marcus would have kept sending more fire at it but stopped when he realised the angel was allowing it. He waited as she drove inside the thing and blew it up from the inside out, flying out of the now dead shadow creature like a angel. If she hadn't tried to kill him, Marcus would have asked her out to see her reaction to it, a half demon asking an angel out. It almost made him laugh but he kept quiet as she spoke of ways to keep the evil at bay with killing him.

"Thanks but no thanks. I chose to deal with this demon when we bonded together in death, I'll continue to do so until one of us dies." He held a hand out for a handshake, a gesture that they could go on with their lives he hoped she would understand. "But hey, if you hear reports of a demon killing the masses of civilians in chicago then you're more then welcome to kill me then." He said as a half joke and half truth, hopefully that day would never come for him.