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Demon Slayers
Episode 1: The Secrete
Original Concept and Writer: Michael McCardell(John Elstang)
Editor and Co-Writer: John Holmes(Melfice Elstang)


Chapter 1: Hunt in Downtown

A dark figure ran down an alleyway in downtown Columbus, Georgia; he looked in all directions.
“s**t! Where'd he go?!”
All of a sudden three shots rang out from the top of a building to the right. By the time the bullets were half-way to him the dark figure had vanished. A large man in his mid twenties with a bald head began looking up and down the alley; shaking all over. Then he whispered to him-self, “They won't take me alive.”
“That's okay, we don't intend to.” said the dark figure.
The large man spun around to find the dark figure sitting on the edge of a building. The dark figure had a sinister smile on his face.
“EAT THIS!”, yelled the large man as he shot five more bullets, but the dark figure had disappeared again.
“Where is he now?”, grunted the man. Suddenly he felt a great blow to his gut; he went through a wall and ended up in a construction zone. To his disappointment no one was there. He ran to hide in one of the containers, since he had lost his gun. Suddenly the dark figure appeared in front of him, “There are many advantages to moving faster than what the naked eye can see.”, said the dark figure.
“Please don't kill me!” said the large man falling to his knees.
“Get up filth, at least die fighting like a demon.” said the dark figure.
“If you were not stronger then me half-breed, I wouldn't have to beg like this!”, cried the large man. The dark figure stepped forward revealing a tall young man, nineteen years old with short blue hair and piercing red eyes. He was wearing white Nikes, standard cut Levis, a thin black T-shirt, and a sword and sheath on his back, with a silver fourteen inch long full automatic pistol on his belt.
“Yeah, I'm a half-demon, but I still have my pride. While you fell so low as to kill a five year old girl, and now I'm out here at damn 9:00 P.M.” He stared into the demon's eyes, “Now get up, I've wasted enough time talking.”
The large man's pupils and eye color vanished, he began to grow scales and got taller with claws coming out where his fingernails used to be. By the time he was done releasing his illusionary skin; he was twice the height of the blue haired teen, with claws, green scales, and red hair coming out of his back. Fire came out of his fanged mouth every time he took a breath.
“Well now, haven't you grown.”, said the blue haired teen sarcastically. He was surprised though, this was a dragon demon, and it was one of the most powerful breeds too. According to information he had acquired, they perished long ago. The dragon demon raised its arms and leaped forward. The blue haired teen was already in the air before the dragon demon stopped; it quickly turned its head all the way around and launched a steady beam if flame. Even in the air the blue haired teen easily dogged the attack. -Something is wrong, dragon demons can destroy entire towns with one breath. Why is he so weak?- thought the blue haired teen. He was so busy thinking that he didn't notice the dragon demon leaped into the air and grabbed the teen.
“Dammit!”, said the teen. The dragon demon roared as he threw the blue haired teen to the ground. The teen flipped in mid-air; landed on his feet and pulled out his pistol. -I'll think about him later, he's so weak one explosive round should do the job, he's not worthy of my sword- he thought. He flipped a gold switch near the trigger twice and pointed it toward the dragon demon that was heading right for him. -Just one shot in the mouth-, thought the teen as the demon approached; then he fired. The bullet went straight into the dragon demon's mouth and an explosion bellowed in the demon's throat. It started crying in pain as fire poured from its mouth. After several moments of its painful roar, it finally fell dead to the ground. The carcass burned up leaving nothing but a huge pile of ash. Then the blue haired teen pulled a cell phone out of his pocket and pressed 0, 1, and 7. The phone on the other end rang only once before a voice answered.
“Yes, Lieutenant John Elstang?”-the voice
“Mission accomplished, I just eliminated the criminal.”-the blue haired teen
“Good job, I will file the report of your mission.”-the voice
“While you're doing that, make a quote from me will you?”-John
“What?”-the voice
“It was a dragon type demon.”-John
“What? I thought they perished over twenty years ago.”- the voice
“Same here, but he was way too weak to be a dragon type, something is off here.”-John
“Maybe, but leave it to the investigation team. Besides, don't you have someone to meet?”-the voice
“Thanks, almost forgot.”-John. He then closed his cell and put it in his pocket. Then his hair turned brown and his eyes also turned brown. He also had a tan all of a sudden.
“One good thing about being a half-breed is the ability to switch between demon and human forms as much as I please.”, said John as he ran out off of the construction zone and into the ally leading to the main street.

Chapter 2: Remembrance

John hid his sword and pistol in the back of his car, he owned a BMW Z80, top of the line. “She's gonna kill me.”, said john as he slid into the driver's seat and started the car. While he was driving down the road he started thinking -have I made the right choices?- He remembered when he was ten years old he entered his demon form for the very first time. At first he did not know what was going on. The that same day a long blue haired demon grabbed him, he learned that the demon was his long lost bother Melfice. He was told that Melfice died in a car crash. Melfice explained how that was a cover up so that he could train his abilities as a demon. He also explained how the Demon Slayers or D.S. for short, were the protectors of humanity. The D.S. was a world wide secrete military organization ran by the United Nations Security Council; all other nations not in the council had no idea they existed. There was a D.S. base hidden in every city and they had outposts in each town. They had unwritten laws for demons, werewolves, vampires, and other supernatural beings; they strictly enforced these laws. They also trained these people so they could learn to master their abilities. Melfice explained how he was a pure demon because his human blood never awakened, and how John was a half-demon. When John was in the sixth grade he convinced Melfice that they should join the D.S. and they enlisted in the D.S. main forces. Melfice and John began training and John showed great skill. They were constantly commanded by special forces in the D.S. main forces. They are the trump cards of the D.S. and they are constantly going on missions across the globe. In one year both Melfice and John decided to take the yearly exam to see if they could become D.S. agents. They knew it would be hard, hundreds apply but the D.S takes only one or two agents a year. John and Melfice however, passed with flying colors. In another year they rose all the way to “1st Class Agents”, the best of the best. Their actual did not go as fast because of their age, but they were proving themselves everyday. John was a student at Columbus State University. John looked at his watch -If I hurry, I should be on time- he thought. John out of his car and ran to the fountain in the park area. There was a girl around nineteen years old with long brown curly hair and blue eyes. He ran up beside her and pretended to be tired.
“Are you sick, it not like you to be on time.” the girl said jokingly.
“Shut up, there was an accident in a construction zone. I barely made it here.”-John
She got up and gave John what he called the “stupid look”, he hated it and kind of feared it.
“Are you sure, or are you lying?”-girl
“Cut me some slack Kathey, I'm here ain't I?”-John
“Yeah, but it's rare that you're on time.”-Kathey
John had dated Kathey Ishbell ever since the ninth grade, they were making wedding plans and getting ready to announce their engagement. They just passed their freshman year of college and wanted to hit the town.
“So where do you want to celebrate at?”-John
“Why don't we go have dinner at Elvarcaro's.”-Kathey
“Anything sounds good right about now”-John
Even during dinner John could not stop thinking about the underworld activity that has been increasing drastically lately-and to top it off dragon demons are here. John continued to ponder, hardly eating anything.
“Is something wrong?-Kathey
“No, just a bad day at the office.”-John
“Oh yeah, your business job.”-Kathey
“Yeah, whoever thought working at an insurance company would be so rough.”-John
“You've been working there officially ever since ninth grade right?”-Kathey
“Yeah, and ran errands for them in middle school.”-John Their conversation was interrupted by John's cell, he knew what it meant. He slowly answered his phone, “Hello?”
“ Lieutenant John Elstang?”-voice
“Yeah.”-John
“We need you at the local D.S. base now.”-voice
“Can't say now, Major Ryoko Kusanagi and Lieutenant Melfice Elstang are here.”-voice
“I'll be right there.”-John
John closed his cell and pretended to be curious about something. “My parents want me home, something's happened.”-John
Kathey looked worried, “I hope nothing is wrong.”
John looked down, he didn't like lying, “Knowing my dad, he's out drunk again and my mom wants me to find him.”
Kathey sighed, “Well will you come to my dorm once you're done?”
“Sure!”-John. He got up from the table, payed the check, and headed for his car wondering what is going on this time.

Chapter 3: Disturbance in Europe

John drove to the South West Columbus Graveyard. He walked to an old stone storage building in the north east corner of the graveyard; took out a key and unlocked the door. Inside the building was a stone pillar, John put hi hand on the pillar and it glowed green for a moment.
“Hand print confirmed, welcome Lieutenant John Elstang” said a computer voice, then a crack formed in the pillar and a elevator door open where the crack formed. Then a door appeared in the pillar and an elevator door opened, it was clean and well maintained. John stepped into the elevator and it began to go down into the earth. After a few minutes the door opened to a huge lobby with many tables, chairs, and secretaries with phones. On the back wall there was a symbol almost like the United Nations symbol, except it had the letters D.S. for Demon Slayers. Also there were several metallic automated doors each one leading to a different part of the base.
John headed to the recreation room of the base to find Melfice and Ryoko. As he entered the recreation room he saw Melfice and Ryoko playing Jak X: Combat Racing on a Playstation 2 in th back. Ryoko was a female warlock, or witch, and a very powerful one at that. Unlike legends and myths, Ryoko had no wand, could use magic with her hands, and was quite beautiful. She had long brown hair with teal eyes, she was nineteen years old, ad she wore short, tight, black clothing. Also she did not have a cauldron and did not mix and make potions like myths and legends say. Ryoko fought with two close range combat daggers, medieval style, each about a foot long. Lastly she used twin silenced 9mm pistols, the silver saints.
Melfice was Ryoko's boyfriend. Melfice was a pure demon, unlike his brother John. For this solid fact alone, John preferred to keep a minimum safe distance from Melfice. Melfice was twenty years old, he was one of those hard rock bad-a** types. He had short, blue hair on the front, top and sides of his head he spiked up with ice gel, and he had a thin long ponytail that went halfway down his back. Melfice always wore black baggy clothing, and he had the same piercing red eyes John had when he was in demon form. Melfice fought with a ultra thin katana, it was so thin that when the sword was swung, no one could see the blade, one could only hear the blade sing. He also used a magnum revolver, because his pistol did not have multiple functions like John's pistol, Melfice carried a variety of ammunition. Lastly Melfice was a very serious and cold fighter unlike his brother. So Melfice and Ryoko were both waiting on John and playing Jak X:Combat Racing.
“You can't pass me!”-Melfice
“You're supposed to let the girl win Melfice...”-Ryoko
“Ha-ha, as if, your highness”-Melfice said jokingly, little did he know that Ryoko just passed him and was about to beat him.
“You passed me! How did you pass me?!”-yelled Melfice surprised. Melfice threw down the hammer on the turbo to regain the lead. As he got around Ryoko they were in the final stretch of the race. John had walked quietly towards Melfice, when he got right behind Melfice he yelled “HEY MELFICE!” Melfice was startled and swerved his car into a building, crashing his car and killing his driver. Ryoko won because of this and pranced around the room chanting “I beat you at Jak X, I beat you at Jak X!” John smiled at Ryoko's happiness and Melfice's shock.
“You...You stole victory from me, you have sinned against your god; if you have one, and you have betrayed your own brother, this is blasphemy!”-said Melfice to John, staring at his controller.
“Dude it's only a game, and you need to let her win every once in a while, she is a girl, and it'll make her feel good.”-John
“ Lieutenant John Elstang, Lieutenant Melfice Elstang, and Major Ryoko Kusanagi, please report to the briefing room in the Central Command Complex.”-computer voice
“Well let's go.”-John. All three of them walked back to the lobby to a door under the D.S. symbol. They walked into a white room and stood in the middle. Suddenly the room turned black and a DNA scanning laser began to scan from the ceiling to the floor.
“Please remain still, DNA scan is in progress”-computer voice. Melfice jumped and ran all around the room trying to mess up the scanning process, but it didn't worked. Only D.S. agents were allowed in the CCC, and only first class agents were allowed to see the commanding officers. The room went back to white, and the wall in front of them slid down into the floor. They walked into a short silver tunnel lined with camera controlled automated gun turrets, for extra security. After passing through another door they arrived at a formal office. Every side of the office had doors leading o different parts of the CCC. A secretary at the front desk said, “First door on the right, the General is waiting for you.” They walked into s silver, oval shaped briefing room. There were five rows of seats going all the way around the room. General Venca was waiting at the speaking podium at the center of the room. They walked down stairs from the door to meet the General. Venca was thirty-three years old, with brown hair, a thick mustache, and he had green eyes. He was dressed in formal military clothing, brown clothes with many medals and awards on his shirt. He was also one of the most powerful shamans in the world. Shamans were humans who could call forth spirits into their weapons and bodies, allowing them to perform techniques once thought impossible. Of course not all humans could become shamans. General Venca used a Chinese combat lance, but both John and Melfice called it “a sword on a stick.”
“Well I see you three are finally here.”-Venca
“What's this meeting about?”-asked Melfice impatiently, John and Ryoko could tell he was on edge.
“As you all know underworld activity on the planet has nearly doubled in the last two months. We have gotten reports all around the globe about new underworld beings appearing out of nowhere.”- explained Venca. John, Melfice, and Ryoko were all dead silent. Venca continued, “And to top things off, we have had very disturbing reports from Europe.”
“What's happening in Europe?”-asked Ryoko.
“Well,” began Venca, “Demonic occurrences are happening naturally.”
“What?!”- bursted John. Venca cleared his throat.
“The Northern Lights appearing over Germany, an explosion in a French forest left the classic 666 mark, a river dried up in Portugal. Plus the entire population of a remote Spanish island disappeared over night.”-Venca
“This has to be the work of a demon witch y'know.”-deducted Ryoko. Venca shook his head.
“Every time an underworld being uses magic, it leaves trace particles only our equipment can find, there were no particles at any of the sites.”-Venca. John, Ryoko, and Melfice looked at their commanding officer in disbelief. “Thankfully, the D.S. bases in Europe have managed to cover all this up.” concluded Venca.