Better Than All

As he turned the knob to step out of the place filled with low-class creatures trying to turn him into some kind of a murderer.

No. 206

He froze in his spot as soon as he heard the same breathy voice he has been hearing for decades swirling in his head. This can't be good.

As if a hand covered his eyes, his vision turned black and his body slumped on the ground.

"Shit!" Several curses were heard from different people.

Annika was the first one to reach the unconscious body on the floor, but even before she could touch it, Azura beat her to it.

"Wait," He spoke, glancing down at the body with a sigh, "I'll carry him to the couch."

She was unsure, but let Azura take the lead as he effortlessly picked the Grim Reaper up and plopped him down on the couch.

"Should we call a doctor or something..?" Annika asked, looking at the guy's face, whose wounds seemed to deepen on their own and bleed profusely.

"Why.. why are they— why are they bleeding more?!"

Azura sucked in a deep breath at the sight of delicious, glistening red blood that flowed from the Grim Reaper's wounds. He has never been allured by the blood of someone other than humans.. what's up with him now?

It looked appetizing to him. Nothing more aromatic has ever invaded his nose before this. How could he be effected like this by someone who's not even actually alive.

Elikko glanced over to him and kept a firm hand on Azura's shoulder, effectively bringing the Vampire back from the hypnotic trance.

"What happened?" Elikko whispered, while the girls tried to clean the Grim Reaper's injuries once more.

Azura didn't answered, he took one last glance at the red semi-liquid that was inviting him to feast on it, but with all of the self-control left in his body, he turned around and left the area, slamming his bedroom door shut.

The girls momentarily stopped to glance over to the slammed door before  looking over to Elikko for answeres.

"What? You know about Azura and blood."

"Oh right, he has Hemophobia.." Annika stated, she did not know the truth after all.

"Annika, are you sure he only had injuries on his face..?" Annika stopped her actions and looked over at Kiyora for further explanation.

"Yeah, I didn't really see any injuries any where else.."

Kiyora didn't speak, she rather bought her right hand in the view, which was kept on the man's covered torse.

The other two gasped as Blair hurriedly unbuttoned the black suit coat and the same coloured shirt to reveal a long gash on his toned torso.

"I really think we should bring him to hospital." Annika stated.

Elikko's eyes widen. This can't happen. He knows for sure that this man wasn't a human, his scent was different, and him being admitted to a human hospital can't be good, those science filled humans would easily be able to tell that this unconscious man is different from them.

"No!" His loud voice halted the chaotic air.

"What do you mean no? He can die, don't you see the amount of blood he's losing?" Kiyora looked at her friend as if he had gone mad, but one exchange of look was all it took her to understand it was something more.

"I meant— that, we don't know who he is, if he turned out to be something— someone dangerous, we all could be tangled in a large mess.." Elikko did his best for explanation but Annika still didn't seem satisfied with it.

"Oh, he's right Annika, I'm pretty sure we can fix him for now, and ask him if he wants to go to the hospital when he wakes up, yeah?" Annika glanced back and forth from Elikko to Kiyora unsurely, but in the end she sighed in defeat.

"Well, if you say so.."

And they went to cleaning up his wounds and trying to patch him before the matters get worse.

Blair heaved out a breath of relief once they were done patching the still unconscious guy on the couch.

"Dude, I feel like i've performed some kind of surgery," Kiyora spoke up before removing the hair that covered her face.

"I still think we should get him checked by a professional." Elikko let out a groan as he got up from the floor and bought back a glass of water from the kitchen for Annika.

"Drink this and calm the duck down. He's fine." She did accept the glass, still staring at the unconscious guy who was now topless with a white bandage covering his lower torso.

"He has a cool tattoo though," Kiyora shrugged, referring to the skull on the man's left collar bone.

"I'm sorry!" Everyone's head turned over to the man who had just woken up from his deep sleep, panting like a dog in a chase with sweat covering him from head to toe.

"Hey, mister, you okay?" Blair spoke cautiously while forwarding her hand, unsure of what to do.

He let out a groan as he buried his face in his hands, when his eyes travelled down to his revealed body. He immediately forgot about the recent events and covered himself with his hands, wide eyes looking at the creatures in front.

"Who gave any of you the permission to take my clothes off?!" Annika gulped but slowly came forward, not ready to face the angry man.

"I.. you had a cut on your torso.." Only then did the Grim Reaper noticed the white cloth that covered him.

"Who screamed?" Azura walked out of his room, looking calmer than before as he walked in front of the man. "Was it you?"

"Why does it matter to you?" He looked done with everything, just wanting to get out of his misery.

"Anyway, I'm fine, and uh, thanks for whatever you have done—" As he tried to get out of the couch, he was stopped by a rough hand yanking him back.

"What do you think you're doing?" He asked the Siren who had a hold of his shoulder.

"We can't let you wander off in this condition." He glared at the female before shrugging her hand away.

"You are no one to tell me what I can and cannot do." He tried to get off again, but the Siren's grip tighten.

"We really can't let you wander off, Mister, you should understand that," The voice fell music to his ears, it was first time in a long he had heard something so beautiful other than the usual dreadful voice of Death.

He wasn't enchanted by it. But he stayed, just because his ears felt at peace due to the voice.

"Everything is settled then, Annika, you should go and sleep now, you have early morning classes tomorrow, don't you?" Blair spoke, turning to the girl in mid-yawn. 

"Huh, oh yeah, but, how could I be sure they won't throw him out." She pointed to the two male who stood beside each other, ready to pounce on the man on the couch.

"We won't.." Azura sighed out, as Annika nodded in reply and walked towards her room, but a small bulb went off over her head and she turned back.

"How could I be so foolish?!"

"What?"

"Name! What's your name, mister?" He was caught off the guard with the sudden question thrown towards him out of the blue.

Grim Reapers don't have names, they have numbers. But he can't say that to a human.

"I.. uh.."

"Wait, don't tell me you lost your memory!"

"No!" He let out quickly before the girl could get any more bad ideas while looking around the whole room in an attempt to come up with a name.

"I'm.." His eyes caught Azura's and he blurted out without thinking twice, "..Silver!"

Azura stared at him wide eyed as his suspicion turned into confirmation. This was no ordinary human. How could he just look at him and come up with 'Silver' and nothing else.

"Silver, interesting name you have there. Anyway, I'm going to sleep, just scream out loud if any of them try to do anything to you, okay?" Silver gave a stiff nod as Annika went away.

As soon as they heard the lock of the door click, Azura and Elikko were on his throat, both squeezing it just enough to give him a hard time breathing.

"Who are you?" Azura growled, his eyes turning red, fangs enlarging and nails enlonging.

"You're not a human, are you?" Elikko snapped at him, his features turning into that of a wolf.

"I had my suspicions from that tattoo over there.." Kiyora spoke up, folding her arms over her chest.

"So? Who are you." Blair spoke up.

Silver let out a shaky breath as he kept his hands on those who were ready to murder him right at the moment. Even though it's pretty impossible.

"You think you are above me?" His voice started off as smooth and soft as if consoling a 5-year old.

"I, The Head Grim Reaper 206 is well above any of you lowlife creatures lurking in this world to feed upon the innocent." As Silver completed the sentence, his grip tighten around Elikko and Azura's wrist, his hands glowing in blazing purple colour.

"What.." Azura breathed out, it seemed like his throat was contracting.

"I.." Elikko let out, his hands falling off of Silver's neck.

"Can't.." Kiyora held her throat, falling on the floor.

"..Breath." Blair completed.

Immediately, the four of them were raised above the ground in the air, the same purple glow that was seen in Silver's eyes and hands, covered the whole room.

"Let us go.." Azura wheezed, suspended in air and clawing at his throat.

A sudden click caught Silver's attention as he quickly redeemed his powers, landing the four creatures back on their feet.

From a door, emerged a sleepy Annika, holding a blanket and a pillow.

"I forgot to give these to you.." She mumbled and handed the items to a frozen Silver and walked back, not paying her friends a single ounce of attention.

For a few moments, everyone kind of awkwardly stood around the living room, unsure of what they're supposed to do now.

"So. You're a grim reaper, huh?" Kiyora broke the ice, why? She doesn't know.

"No shit sherlock. He almost killed us just a few seconds ago." Elikko rolled his eyes, still rubbing his neck.

Silver scoffed, putting the items on the couch. "It was just to show you people who dared to talk ill about me."

Azura groaned out loud, "You Grim Reapers have too much pride gosh! That's annoying!"

"I have pride because I do something that's worth it."

"Killing people." Elikko spoke up, "What's so prideful about that?" Silver rolled his eyes and let out a humorless laugh.

"That's why you are categorized as lowlifes. I do not kill, I take them to the ubderworld where they can live off peacefully, or proceed to their next life."

"Snatching up loved ones. That's what it's called." Azura spoke up, him and Elikko high-fiving at the co-ordination.

"I am not gonna waste my time talking nonsense to you both." Silver placed the pillow on the couch's hand rest and unfolded the blanket, laying down on the couch.

"Good night." Silver snapped his fingers as all the lights in the living room switchen themselves off, providing the atmosphere he needed for falling asleep.

But before he could get some kind of shut eye, he was pulled up by his throat, in the blurry dakrness, the only thing visible was the blazing Red eyes of the Vampire who stood before him.

"We might let you go at this moment. But you dare to lay a hand on Annika. I'll drag you to hell, with me." Azura hissed, his long fangs a few inches away from Silver's face who was unfazed by this.

"Eh," He shrugged Azura off as his lips formed a pout. "I drag people there everyday, with me." Silver winked and turned his back towards the creatures, hiding himself under the covers 'til head.

Angered by the Grim Reaper's remarks, Azura stormed off with Elikko on his toe.

"What now?" Blair to the only creature who wasn't asleep.

"Sleep?" Kiyora asked.

"Sleep." Blair confirmed.

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