Bad Boys (Tagging Quest: Propaganda)

Continuing to move across the darkened skies, the man caught sight of the female oni as she shouted out to him. If she hadn't, he probably would have kept going forward with the assumption that the sound had been a little farther up ahead. It was a little strange, though, the method of her calling out into the night, especially since it reminded him of a very hazy and drunken night, though one of his more pleasurable ones by far while in the human realm. The platforms ceased to form beneath his feet suddenly, the man dropping from the sky and towards the alley he had spotted her. Just before he came to touch down on the pavement, such impact usually inviting a great deal of pain, fire cushioned his landing to keep him from harm.
Shou had landed beside the woman, though he whirled away from her just as he did, his brow furrowing. "Infernal flames, burst and rise!" A wall of fire would suddenly erupt, seperating the two of them from the figure he had seen from the sky, a form that had been advancing towards Grunty. "Who are you?"

There had only been a moment before the man had shouted out his reply, an attack that Shou had expected from someone lurking out around at this time of the night. As the other cleared the firewall in a single leap, Shou cursed lightly, taking a step back as he braced himself for the rush of the other. It wouldn't have come down to that, though, as a lightning tendril had halted the other's advance and he knew Grunty to have been responsible. What he hadn't expected, though, was that this had been a friend of the woman's.
When she addressed him once more to introduce the man she had in custody, his eyes turned back to the upside-down human with the blade in his hand. "Brother Wolf? Is he a demon like us, then?" His mind figured that he must have been a wolf oni to receive such a nickname, while distrusting the man to the extent of not speaking directly to him just yet. He had, after all, drawn a blade against him when Shou, in his own way of thinking, was only being precautious.

The other's response was even less friendly than he had been, resorting to even calling him names when he didn't know a thing about the oni. With the sword still directed towards him, Shou saw the threat that the other posed still, even when he had learned that he was an associate of the woman's. "You really want to burn, don't you?" The demon questioned, tempted to chant a spell that would do just that, though Grunty silenced the man from making any more loud obstructions. He looked to the woman now as she answered his question, his eyes narrowing slightly as he learned of the man's origins. "A demon inside, huh..? That's interesting." Did such a thing mean that he would be able to inhabit a human body, himself?
He waved away those thoughts as soon as they came, not wishing those restraints, the confines of mortals. Much better to continue with what he had.
As she retrieved the pills, one of the demon's eyebrows rose questionably. "Is he a friend or not..?" If Grunty found the need to drug this Brother Woylf, Shou felt that this man was more dangerous than he had originally figured.

Shou looked to the man who hung upside down once more, studying the other for a moment. The oni was wondering why the three of them had gathered here, now, his thoughts moving passed the events that had taken place, the circumstances of their introductions. Now he was trying to figure out what the hell was in the other oni's mind to introduce him to this loose canon.
Grunty seemed to be busy trying to get a pill in the man's mouth, though, so he simply turned away and stepped down the lane a few paces, reaching into his pocket and pulling out one of his joints. With the night come, it was a good enough of an excuse to spark up, lighting the joint with his own magical abilities.
Shou took a glance over his shoulder while puffing on the thing to see what progress Grunty had made.

The demon could still hear the two of them from where he stood, listening as the Woylf made it clear that he wouldn't be so hostile. This was good news for Shou, he supposed. As much as he enjoyed fighting and growing stronger, there was a misunderstanding in there somewhere and Grunty had been the only obstacle to a battle in the alleyway.
Shou turned to face them once more, nodding in the human's direction now that he was on his feet and standing. While the lycan might have been doped up, it didn't serve to ease the demon's guard any for the moment, keeping his senses wary of that one even while his gaze averted towards Grunty.
"Propaganda? Never heard of that." The demon replied, lifting the joint back to his lips as he allowed himself a second hit. Before he would offer Grunty the hit that he always did, an idea came to him, instead turning his attention to 'Brother Woylf'. "You want any?" Shou would ask, lifting his hand as he held it out to the man. If this was someone he was gonna be forced to associate with, he might as well see if there was anything of a good side to the man.

That was right.. most humans he had seen didn't even know he existed, which gave him the freedom to smoke whatever he wanted in public most of the time. Shou learned then that the government was covering their presence on earth up, his eyebrows lightly lifted at just how ignorant the mass was. Ignorant even when he had seen a small boy within the maw of one of those said spirits, an oni, of course. Nothing could have explained why the child had been seperated at mid-point, as if something had taken a great vicious bite out of it. There were those who knew the truth of it, but for the most part they continued their blissful lives thinking they were safer than they were.
"Tag?" The demon questioned, stepping forward and allowing Brother Woylf to accept the joint were he to take it, or if not he'd simply give it to Grunty, as she never seemed to pass up that offer. The word 'tag' seemed to imply some kind of vandilization though, from what he could recall of it.. it could also be considered as something of an attack or threat to someone. "Who is it that we're targetting now?" The man had been refered to as Brother Woylf's 'asshole boss', so it seemed they would be dealing with someone of importance.

Shou shrugged, figuring it was something like a cigarette. The idea was the same, though tobacco one exhaled about a second after the hit, while the smoke the joint gave off was something to be enjoyed and held for the maximum amount of highness. The human definitely didn't smoke enough of it, though, noting the cough. That was all right, though, coughers always got the highest.
One of his eyebrows lifted at the notion of being able to let loose his fire magix in the city. On one hand, it might attract the sort of attention that could get a guy killed, or perhaps even lure the higher order fire demon he had met.. it was something he would have preferred not to have occured. On the other hand, though, his love to set things aflame would overpower any real rational thoughts. The corners of his lips broadened out, a wicked grin coming to set on his expression as chaos seemed to be a promise tonight. "That's good. Let's get started, then, yeah?" His eyes looked to the human now, as he knew more than they did apparently about the owner of the buildings that they would harass tonight.

While the man known as Brother Woylf had spoken to Grunty with his attention on her, Shou found himself observing the human from the corner of his eye. It may have been the drugs, but he could tell there was something off with the guy, especially since he seemed almost clingy to the demoness. She would have been the worst type to attach one's self to, the woman being rather open when it came down to sharing a bed and the pleasures of the flesh, but he didn't voice these sorts of thoughts outloud. They were observations, and once the Woylf had turned his gaze away from Grunty, Shou also averted his own.
As Grunty came to stand beside him, he also looked back to the human though this was for communicational purposes. He may not have known the person that they were speaking of, but trivial details like that didn't matter when it came down to dealing destruction. "Heh, only chaos matters." Shou voiced out loud, more to himself, before speaking out more loudly to the Woylf. "Yes, please do.. I'm aching to burn something."

"Heh.. wow." The oni had to comment on the remark that the Woylf had thrown out, glancing to Grunty from the corner of his eye, snickering. "And you just stand there taking it." Shou had to point out, chuckling, before moving forward along with them now that the other was leading them to their destination. The impulses within were definitely rising now, his anticipation of the night shown at the palm of his hands. Little balls of flames erupted on and off within his grasp, or bursted into fruition beneath a foot in a manner very similar to his method of flight, though he remained on the ground as it seemed they wouldn't be traveling via the sky.
"Say, Woylf." Shou looked to the back of the man they followed, before falling onto the blade that the other possessed. "That's a nice weapon.. you know where to get stuff like that?" One of the more memorable things of his human life was that he himself had been a swordsman, and he wouldn't have minded honing those skills back into good shape.

Shou could tell that talking to the man before him was going to be something of a difficult thing. Again, it may have been excusable on the drugs, though he had a feeling he wouldn't have had much better results even if the man was sober. After all, when he had been sober the blade had been in his hand and very much a threat to the oni.. Shou figured that had only been a misunderstanding, though, and it would have been unfair to the Woylf if he let that be a standing judgement of the man.
Shou looked to Grunty as she reached into her coat, looking to what she had pulled out. It was a weapon as well, though far smaller in size, much easier to carry obviously though it seemed less effective than the human's. Then again, both of them paled in comparison to the blade he had wielded when he was technically alive, the very same sword he had guarded during his first days as an oni.
The demon then considered the company that he was keeping now that he had achieved the human form and had moved from the forest to human civilizations. Both were, without any doubt, crazy. Though the thrilled-inspired smirk on his face, and the whirl of flame that suddenly whisped around him, fires eager to let loose, didn't help much in arguing for his own rational thoughts.

His excitement and thrill was suddenly interupted by the feel of the woman's hand on his rear. The whirl of fire that had been around him erupted into a full flame around the man's body, almost as an involuntary defense, the fantasies of fiery destructions being forced out into the real world by the touch of Grunty. The fire around him died only a moment later after it had been conjured, feeling somewhat embarrassed that he had allowed his powers to go out of wack like they had. His eyes glanced over to Grunty's direction, the smirk having long faded by now. While it was easy to think of the woman in contexts of sex, he himself didn't find any enjoyment in her intrusions of his mood. "Once more, and I'll roast it." The oni warned to Grunty, though there wasn't much he could do beyond that, before looking forward once more towards the Woylf.
"You eat them, huh? I don't think I've tried it. I could see myself doing something like that, though.." Of course, he'd rather be in his oni form, as the teeth of a human weren't too effective for the kind of tearing and chewing neccessary to actually eat a human.

It seemed that her usual response to such threats was just silence, and it worried Shou a little more than if she had simply attacked him then and there, as if she allowed a moment for the comments to sink in real deep. The oni simply shook his head at the thought, figuring he was just making himself overly paranoid and untrusting of the woman, while glancing over his shoulder when the street light behind them had blown out. His brow furrowed lightly, glancing Grunty's way once more. Naturally she had to be responsible, as he doubted those kinds of things just happened randomly.. her electricity had struck out without him even having known it.
The demon admired the human's will to survive, especially if it led to him devouring his own kind. Cannabilism, wasn't it? "Is that right..?" Shou asked quietly about the taste of humans that Grunty had opinionated, though the question was distant and was spoken in an uninterested tone, his thoughts still playing on the female oni's reactions and behaviors. Before he could come to any conclusions of said thoughts, though, they came before the building that the human had been leading them to, his eyes taking in the sight of the 'warehouse' before them, though apparently others inhabited the place; more lunatics like Brother Woylf, no doubt.
Then the fun could begin, finally. He decided Grunty could handle whatever it was she intended to do with the dead bird that she had pulled out, apparently having quite a stock of them in that coat.. the thing must have been filthy dirty for all the shit she carried in it.

"Get to it then." Shou replied, snickering lightly before deciding his time had come now. He suddenly moved forward, running towards the building before kicking off the ground, his feet coming to slam against the wall of the warehouse while fire erupted at the base of his shoe. Smirking, he ran upwards, treking straight up the wall of the building, though in reality he was in flight here. With each step, the building's surface would have been scorched in that spot and when his path involved a window the glass would shatter beneath the flame.
The oni kicked away from the building them, sending him back into the air where platforms of flames would catch him as they erupted into being beneath his feet. "Infernal flames!" Shou shouted, thrusting his arms outwards to his sides, while fire whirled around each of his arms, moving towards the area just before the palms of his hands where small red orbs had formed. As the fire concentrated into the orbs, they flared out, growing larger in size. "Gather and strike!" The demon finished the chant, thrusting each appendage outwards, as both of the fyreballs were let loose from his handling and moved towards the building. They each blasted into the warehouse's remaining windows, the glass shattering and raining down towards the ground just before Grunty and Brother Woylf.

Once he had started, Shou understood why it was so often to see a demon rampaging around only to be cut down by police forces shortly afterwards. Now that he was engaged within the destruction, his thirst for it suddenly overcame him and fueled the very fires that he conjured into the night. With his hand raised to let loose another fyreball onto the building, a large figure suddenly flew just in front of him, carrying Brother Woylf and dropping the human down onto the roof of the building. His hand was frozen in the air, having been startled from the sudden appearance of such a giant creature.. could it have been Grunty? Was this possibly what she had meant when she had told him of her 'second beast form'?
"Heh.. who would have thought.." Shou mumbled lightly to himself, usually not one to lose composure, though he had certainly been awe struck of the sight. Well, good for her. It was time to return to business. The demon moved from the spot in which he stood, beginning to run around the building, being sure not to neglect any areas by witholding his flames from gracing its structure. Continuing with his chants, as he ran and scaled the warehouse, he threw fyreballs down onto it, blasting into windows and scorching the surfaces of the wall that it struck. A laughter erupted from his lips, then, and he began to wonder if he should limit himself to just this one building. There were plenty around, after all..

The oni glanced over his shoulder, his eyes taking in the sight of the surrounding buildings around the warehouse. Grunty didn't want the building demolished, anyways, and he had put in his two cents anyways. Any more and he might have been tempted to burn the whole thing down to the ground, defeating the purpose of vandalizing the property to allow her little gang more recognition. When he saw the possibilities all around him, though, rational thoughts were no longer processed within the demon's mind as he gave fully into his true self then.
The grin that spread across the man's face was the result of this newfound pleasure, as he turned away from the warehouse and focused his attention to what looked like a small shop, the sign 'Closed' set in place on the glass door. The demon chuckled lightly, his body shuddering from the excitement that ran through him now. "Infernal flames.." Shou began, thrusting both hands forward, his palms outwards as he began to focus all of his magixal energies within him. A red glow would come to outline his body, before rings of the same color would branch out from the aura, splitting away from him and setting in places on the ground beneath the building, as well as the area around it. The rings continued to spread out, spanning some distance away from the shop too that would come into contact with some other buildings of the area.
His eyes darted from place to place, viewing how much had spanned out. The rings would have seemed perfectly harmless for the moment, before the demon suddenly shouted with a wild grin, "Burn it all!" Were the finishing words that completed the chant, his energies suddenly bursting forward from the rings that had been set in place. It was in the form of dark crimson flames that erupted from the ground and into the air, consuming the small shop instantly in its destructive flare. The bordering buildings that the rings had touched upon had their walls suddenly blasted away from the impact of the hellfire that rose high into the air.
The fires continued to burn, Shou stood just above them in the air atop a platform created by his own magic that allowed him this flight. He looked down onto the chaos that he himself had created, his joyous laughter of the sight drowned out by the roar of the flames.
Hell's Echoes: 1,000

The sight of seeing his flames bring about such destruction fascinated him, as the shop's glass door exploded, shattering into several shards that blasted away from the building. The building began to collapse within itself as the fire ate away at its supports and foundations, chuckling as he was quite pleased to see what the outcome had been of giving into those urges he had surpressed thus far.
When Grunty had appeared, the dark hellfire had disappeared by this point, and he looked to the woman, the grin still set in place despite her pointing out that he had wronged. After having seen the rubble of what had once been a structure, nothing could sour the mood at this point.
"Oy! Grunty!" The man greeted, chuckling. "We should have done this much sooner! Ah, but look!" His glance averted away from her and was thrown out deeper towards the city. "Much more things to destroy.. haha!" The oni didn't pay any attention to the words of the woman, far too interested in raising his hell on the human world, despite most of his energy feeling quite drained from his last usage of magix. He did seem to catch her final question, though, looking back to her. "Plans? Ha! What fucking plans? Lets just continue! Lets raise this to a level of destruction never before seen!" As his gaze was casted elsewhere once more, his own words had snapped him back into reason. True, this had been fun, but buildings had been destroyed now, definitely not a quiet sort of thing. He had set in motion things that would attract the very attention he had been avoiding since coming to Sai City. "Shit.."