part 1. Tesla

"Where is he?" A tall, pale, human looking monster yelled shattering the glass windows and doors in the commons area of City View High School. Half of the high school was there eating lunch when this monster of man appeared.

"TESLA!" The beast shouted again. Facing the back doors of the school, the monster turned to its left. On its left was a lunch table with four people who had traces of the person that it was looking for on them. Myra Marcem, Lukas Kane, Kevin and Aaron Coltren.

All four of them shared looks of fear, but Myra, Aaron and Kevin were also shocked. They knew who the monster is referring to. The pale beast continued to sniff and then turned around to face the table behind it. At that table there were six people with the scent of the person the beast was looking for. Percy Dawson, Ashton Norset, Evalynn Moore, Marley Bernhill, Nelson Marcem , and Thane Daunter. Though all six stared in fear, three of them stared in shock. They also knew who the monster was referring to. The monster approached the table. Then the lights went out.

When the lights came on the monster was in the same place as before. It was now smiling as it turned its head to the front of the commons, where there was a row of blue tables. Sitting atop one of the tables, with one leg dangling off of it, was a man.

He was dressed in pure black. The man wore a full body suit that had overly long fingers and toes that ended in points, a black trench coat that, when standing, goes down to his shins, and a black helmet. His trench coat was only zipped from his neck down to his waist. The front of his helmet was pure black glass. It had slits in it that served as vents going from the bottom half way up the mask, where his nose should be. Half of the top of his head was covered in the helmets glass, the rest of the helmet was hard plastic.

The man was holding a large plastic cup that read, "Slurpee" up above his head. It appeared to be Coca-Cola flavor. He had it tilted, so that it would pour onto his mask. As the Slurpee poured, it separated into different six different Slurpee water falls. Each one went perfectly into the top six vents of his mask.

"There you are!" The monster said turning to face him. The man identified to be Tesla stopped drinking and looked at the monster.

"Why do you seek me?" Tesla asked in a dark, electric, monotone voice, obviously modified by his mask.

"We have heard all about you and your problems." The pale beast said. "My problems?" Tesla questioned.

"Do not hide it from us. We know that you are consumed by fear and despair. We wish to help you." It spoke.

"Fear? Despair? What are you talking about?" Tesla interrogated. Then he began to drink his Slurpee again.

"You fear being alone and realizing just how alone you are, among other things, has led you to despair. We wish to help. You are like us. We will make you feel the worth of companionship." The monster answered.

"What do you mean he is like you?" Aaron shouted. Afterwards more monsters showed up. All were different shapes, sizes, and colors. Each of them had a weapon either hanging from their waist or on their back. The pale monster had a giant axe formed of molten rocks on his back.

"Shut your mouth, human." The pale monster shouted, disappearing and reappearing in front of Aaron. It grabbed Aaron by his upper body in its right hand and began squeezing him. "He is a demon just like us, human. I shall kill you for speaking out of term, you rat." The monster answered him.

All who knew Tesla looked at him in shock. No one had suspected had suspected that their friend was part demon.

"Quinn help him." Kevin cried as Aaron began to cough blood. Tesla, or as Kevin called him 'Quinn,' made no sudden movements. He just kept drinking his Slurpee, but after Kevin shouted 'Quinn,' he received more looks. People recognized that name.

After Kevin's cry for help, Kevin jumped onto the lunch table and attempted to pounce on the pale demon. The attempt failed and Kevin was caught by the demon. Now Thane, fearing for his cousins' lives, rushed to their aid. He was followed by Evalynn, his best friend, who wanted to help Thane. Both were caught by a large, light brown demon, who had stone armor on his legs and arms.

Then Nelson jumped to the top of the table and charged the light brown demon, but he was caught by a green, winged demon. Next Marley, Percy, and Ashton tried. Percy jumped to the top of the table, Marley stayed on the demons right, and Ashton got on the left. They all charged and they failed. Percy was flipped over the demon and Marley and Ashton were smacked away by their friends, who were being used as the demons weapons. After their failed attempt of an attack, they were each picked up by a demon. The demons began to strangle them as well.

"Quinn!" Myra shouted with tears streaming down her face as she watched her brother Nelson and her friends get the life strangled out of them. It was then that Quinn finished his Slurpee.

"This world is so cold, so cruel." Quinn spoke aloud. Everyone stared at him, including the demons. It was then that Aaron died, then Kevin, Thane, and so on. Each body was dropped onto the ground and forgotten by the demons. Myra's sobs grew louder as she watched the bodies hit the ground. After hearing the sobs the pale demon looked at her.

"Your next," It said and it began to approach her. Myra was in too much shock to move, but Lukas wasn't. He grabbed Myra's hand and led her away from the demon. They ran left from the lunch room and down into the schools pit, right in front of the stage. Following right behind them, the pale demon drew his molten rock axe and began to swing it. On the down swing the axe was blocked by a katana that was being held by Quinn.

Myra and Lukas moved out of the axe's range, and then turned to see what was going on. What they saw was Quinn blocking the axe with a katana that a purple wrap on the handle. Quinn was holding the handle in his left and he was holding the blade up with his right, but he was struggling to do so.

In the next moment Quinn's blade snapped under the demon's pressure, but he dodged the axe which left a crater in the ground where it hit.

"Damn!" Quinn exclaimed examining his broken blade. "You broke my sword. What a shame," He commented; throwing the broken blade to the side.

"So you have chosen to stay amongst the human?" The pale demon questioned.

"Yes. No matter how cold this world becomes; I know that I will find someone to keep me warm." Quinn answered.

"I'm afraid not. I told you that if you don't join us you will die, so your days end here," The demon declared.

"So be it. If this is the day I die then I shall die a warrior's death," Quinn said.

"I see. Then allow us to introduce ourselves, as part of a warrior's honor. I am Ignis Daemonium." The pale demon said.

"I'm Vântului," the green winged demon said.

"Yāo Hâi," said a tall blue demon, who was wearing armor from his shoulders all the way down to his thighs.

"The name's Raiki," a yellow, human-sized, demon. Though it was shaped like a human, it looked to be part dragon. It had a long pointed tail with spikes going all the way up it and all the way up his back.

"I am called Led," said a fairly large white demon, which was dressed like a Russian caught in a blizzard.

"I am known as Gi," the light brown demon in the stone armor, which had killed Thane and Evalynn, said formally.

"Call me Cumbakatva kā Dāvana," chimed a two-headed, four-armed demon that was half red and half blue.

"I'm Pigsel-ui Agma," said a demon a demon with yellow scales and an extra set of eyes on the back of his head.

"You may call me Zvuku," said a red, almost pink, demon that had six arms, two tails, and his mouth vertical instead of horizontal. His tails were similar to monkey tail, but much thicker.

"Setan Baja is my name," said a silver demon that was shaped exactly like a human.

Quinn looked at every demon then took in a deep breath and said, "I am Tesla Quinn Lorence, though I’m sure you already knew that, but I guess you didn't know that I go by Quinn. Today I will either kill you all, or die trying."

"No holding back this time Tesla," said Ignis and then it charged Quinn with his axe ablaze. Quinn jumped above the axe's swing and reached into his pocket. Swiftly he reached a small orb and crushed in his hand. He then scattered the dust of the orb on the axe, while in the air still. As he was fixing to land on the axe, he took a deep breath then breathed on the axe. His breath froze the axe's flames. Quinn drew a blade exactly like the first and began to run at Ignis, while his axe was still in mid-swing.

Once Ignis finished his swing it noticed Quinn on his axe. Quickly it blew fire from his mouth right at Quinn. Quinn flipped off the axe and charged the Ignis before it could retaliate. He swung his katana at the demon, but the blade broke on contact with Ignis's skin.

"Damn," Quinn said. Ignis then tried to kick Quinn, but Quinn dodged it with ease. Behind Quinn was Cumbakatva. This demon had the sword in his right arm in mid-swing when Quinn realized who was behind him. Quinn Quickly drew double sided English sword and the two clashed blades. Cumbakatva's two heads smiled then the demon threw the sword from his left hand into the wall on the right side of the cafeteria. When the sword it the wall it dissolved then Quinn's sword flew into the wall right where Cumbakatva's hit

"Magnetism," Quinn mumbled under his breath. Then he felt another presence behind him. He quickly drew another English sword and, without hesitation, he turned and swung his sword. Behind him was Setan Baja, whose right arm changed into a blade. Baja cut Quinn's blade in two.

"Damn!" Quinn shouted.

Quinn was about to retreat when two large hands, formed from solid dirt, rose from the ground and grabbed him. This was Gi's doing. Now Baja was came closer to Quinn. The demon swung his fist and struck Quinn in the face with his pure steel hand. Quinn's mask shattered revealing his true face, his grey eyes, and his blonde hair. He was in fact Quinn. More tears streamed down Myra's face; she couldn't believe Quinn had let her brother and her friends die.

The punch not only shattered Quinn's mask, but it sent him flying. Quinn broke through the back doors of the school and was now lying outside. He rose up from the ground and slowly walked back inside. Breaking through the glass doors left cuts all over Quinn's body; there was blood everywhere.

"Come on Tesla, we said don't hold back," Ignis yelled.

"This will be it," Quinn said. "Once I do this there is no more hiding who I am."

Quinn let his blood drip onto one of long pointy fingers. He let it slowly move down until it was on the very tip of his finger and then he let it drop into his mouth. All of his cuts began to close. This was followed by his clothes re-stitching themselves. Myra watched in awe.

"Now let's dance," Quinn said.

First came Pigsel. This demon drew two pistols and began firing relentlessly. Quinn simply walked forward with his left arm extended and all of the bullets went around him. Taking a closer look at the bullets, Quinn realized that they were pixels. When they hit the back wall of the school, that part of the wall would fragmentize and disperse.

Pigsel grew irritated by Quinn. The demon drew a sword made of pixels and charged. Quinn flipped over the demon and he had unzipped and dropped his trench coat on the demon in mid-air. The coat had seemingly grown bigger, for the demon was under in and couldn't get out. Quinn then snapped his fingers and six black spikes formed in a circle around the demon. The spikes flew down and pinned the trench coat to the ground. The other nine demons watched in awe along with Myra as Quinn unleashed his power.

Quinn held his hand out with his palm facing the ground. Pink essence began to form on the ground under it. Once it was a large puddle of pink, Quinn turned to face the other demons. The pink essence slid under the coat then erupted into one large pink spike. It pierced the coat and when everyone saw it, it was covered in the blood of Pigsel.

"One down, nine to go," Quinn said.

Next Quinn was charged by Yāo Hâi and Led. Yāo Hâi quickly drew and swung his trident, but Quinn stopped by holding out his right hand in that direction. Led drew and slammed a mace into the ground. Ice began to form on the ground and move towards Quinn. When the ice reached Quinn, one spike of ice came up at an angle that pierced his stomach. The ice shattered in and revealed the large hole in Quinn's stomach.

More tears rushed down Myra's face as she saw this unpleasant sight. She could see Quinn's intestines, some punctured by the ice, a part of his spine could be seen hanging down through the hole. Myra couldn't look, but she couldn't look away. Quinn collapsed to his knees and looked at Myra. He held his right hand out to her, as if begging for help. She saw Quinn's lips move, but she couldn't hear what he said. Then Quinn fell forward into a pool of his own blood. He lied there; dead.

Both Lukas and Myra watched with worried looks. The demons then turned their heads to Myra and Lukas. They approached them laughing.

"Myra get behind me!" Lukas yelled to the bernette and she's did.

The demons howls of laughter grew louder. "There is no human alive that could hurt us. Besides, you are outnumbered. Not even Tesla stood a chance against us all," Ignis said.

"We will see about that," Lukas said. He bit down on something in his mouth and then a mask began to form. The mask was a pure black gas mask with eyes that lit up blue and it had two nozzles coming off the sides. Then a black overcoat formed from the hood down. It was exactly like Quinn's. Tight black pants and a tight black shirt formed under his jacket. Gloves and boots formed next, both of them black.

Myra and the demons recognized the outfit. It belonged to The Man in Black, a famous murderer. He was responsible for many deaths all over the country and he was Lukas, a teenage boy with black hair, that barely hung over his purple eyes, and a slightly muscular build. He took of his mask and put down his hood and stared at the demons.

He held out his left and to the left and a triple bladed scythe, made of black steel, formed. "Prepare to die," Lukas said and had swung his scythe for Baja, who was in front of the other demons.

There was a slight rustle from the back of the room. Only Cumbakatva heard it, he was in the back of the demon herd. He turned and saw movement under Quinn's coat. Slowly, Cumbakatva approached the coat. Before he got to it, he noticed something. Quinn's body wasn't laying in the pool of blood anymore, but Pigsel's was. There was some more movement under the coat; then whatever was under there began to rise. It was Quinn. Once he stood straight up, he slid his arms into his sleeves and faced the herd of demons. A thin, but long pink spike formed from essence in Quinn's left hand. Cumbakatva charged.

Quinn walked right past Cumbakatva. Instead of looking back, Cumbakatva collapsed to his knees and dropped his four swords. All the demons and Myra looked, except for Baja who was fighting Lukas. Quinn swung his spike out to the left, seemingly at nothing, but blood burst out of Cumbakatva.

"Now you show us your true power. Finally, no more holding back," Ignis said holding his axe in the air. Flames began to erupt from the ground and fire was spreading everywhere. The other demons evacuated from the fiery battle field. Quinn teleported in front of the crowd of people who had stayed to watch, most of them knew Quinn.

Quinn held his right hand out the people and said, "Bye bye." They all vanished.

"What did you do to them?" Lukas shouted while using his power of darkness to protect Myra and the bodies of her brother and friends.

"Don't worry, they are safe," Quinn said, coldly. He began to approach Ignis.

Lukas's darkness was protecting Myra and the bodies of her loved ones, but Lukas was afraid to leave her to help Quinn. "Myra, trust what I'm about to do. Okay?" Lukas said. She nodded her head. Lukas's scythe faded away and he pulled the glove off of his left hand to reveal a mouth on his palm. He held it out to Myra and she was turned to darkness then consumed by the hand. Then Lukas did the same to the bodies.

"Are you ready Ignis?" Quinn asked.

"As ready as I will ever be," he said.

"Okay," Quinn said. He took off his trench coat and unzipped and pulled off the top part of his full body suit, so it was hanging down from his back. Then three pairs of grey angelic wings formed, seemingly out of nothing, on his bare back, one right under the other. The only difference between the wings was that the top pair was angled upwards, the middle pair was angled perfectly, and the bottom pair was angled downwards.

Quinn began to look at his wings then Lukas appeared next to him, scythe in hand. "You know these wings weren't always grey," Quinn stated. Lukas looked at him with a weird expression. "They used to pink, but then depression hit and the color faded along with my happiness."

'Depression,' Lukas thought to himself. 'I didn't even know anything was wrong. Did anybody?"

"Oh! Is little Tesla depressed?" Ignis mocked as fire rose up behind him.

"Fuck you," Quinn said coldly; then, he disappeared and reappeared in front of Ignis. He had his spike ready to pierce Ignis's sternum, but when he lunged fire blocked him. Quinn jumped back and then Ignis brought his down on Quinn, but he parried and used the momentum to drive the axe into the ground. Once it was in the ground, he stomped on Ignis's hand and swung his spike at it. Before it could hit, a hand of fire grabbed Quinn's spike.

"I know what your weapon can do," Ignis said and he punched Quinn away. Quinn's spike dispersed in Ignis's fiery hand. Getting up off the flaming ground, Quinn clutched his stomach. Blood was dripping down from his mouth and he had a burn on his stomach where he was punched.

"Damn, you punch hard," Quinn groaned.

Ignis smirked. The demon swung his axe. As he swung it, fire engulfed it. Quinn just stood there, eyes closed. He made no attempt to dodge Ignis's axe, but before it hit Lukas appeared in front of him and

blocked it.

"What are you doing?" Lukas shouted. "Are you trying to die?" Quinn opened his eyes and wicked smile grew on his face. Lukas pushed Ignis's axe back; then, he turned to face Quinn. When he met with Quinn's eyes, he noticed something different. Quinn's eyes were now red and his wings were turning black.

"Quinn?" Lukas questioned.

"Nope," he said and in the next instance he was behind Lukas. "They call me, Tesla." Tesla's fingers were engrossed in pink essence and the essence when beyond his fingers and ended in points, like his gloves before.

Lukas watched as Tesla charged Ignis. Swiftly, Ignis swung his axe at Tesla and hit. Tesla was split in two, but there was no blood because his wound was incarcerated by the intense heat of Ignis's axe.

"No!" Lukas screamed as he ran to catch Tesla's body as it fell, but when the body landed in Lukas's arms it shattered like glass. Lukas looked at the shards of glass dumbfounded; then, a few drops of blood splattered on his face. The drops came from Ignis's direction. Lukas looked that way and saw one of Tesla's fingers had pierced Ignis from behind.