The soul only half corrupt. (solo)

The Dark sky of the hollow desert was cruel to those that were hunted, but especially cruel to the demons known as the hollows, trapped to hunt and hunt souls. Many hollows stalked the deset, walking aimlessly, their hunger killing them, and no matter how much they killed, no matter how much they consumed their hunger, their suffering could not ease. A small fight seemed to be going on, to very low ranked hollows, and weak ones at that. They were of humanoid size, they were both blue skinned, and had dog like hollow masks with blue stripes down the middle. They seemed to be fighting over the carcuass of a dead hollow, the same kind. They were so imminate on punching and kicking eachother they failed to notice the predator stalking upon them. In almost a second a fleshlike scythe had come down and sliced one of the two in half. The other one fell over and looked in fear at a hollow easily three to four times it's own size. It kicked back the sand in fear and began to run away, it tripped only once or twice and began to pick up speed, but to no avail this prey would be consumed. The larger hollow squated down on it's large legs and jumped from where it was and immediatley landed on the small prey and broke it's neck from the impact. The predator gave a small roar to back off any other hollows and dragged the dead hollow back to the rest of the bodies. The large hollow looked to the left and to the right, the coast seemed to be clear. It began to eat the dead hollows, starting with the one with the broken neck. It soon finsihed the first and moved onto the second, seemingly more tasty since it had been chopped up. The hollow decided against eating the food they had found, wether it would give power or not, it was probably beyond rotten. As the moon hung over the sky of the desert, the hollow stood up and began walking down in the norther direction, continueing it's long journey, and as it walked it though to itself. "Don't lose yourself by eating weak prey, keep going, your name..no my name is Seis Kira, and i will survive in this desert."

As the day went by Seis continued to walk upon the white desert, looking for food since his hunger had returned quickly as always. As he continued to walk he watched the white sand seem to shift and turn, but he knew it was dead, everything here that wasn't a predator was dead, well the pray was alive, but never for long. Seis continued to move down the white sand, stalking on it like a tiger, or really any one of the big cats. After a while of crawling on the sand his hands seemed to get slightly dirty, so he quickly rubbed them off and continued to move forward. He soon came upon a black tree, and was slightly suprised. Normally you could see a black tree in the desert, for about every few miles, so it was a rare occurence yes, but normally the trees were only small and shrivled, but this tree was idfferent. It's branches were twistes like any other tree in the desert, but instead of just a couple of branches their were easily over a hundred, and some even had leaves on them, dead leaves but leaves altoghether, and the tree's trunk was thick enough to contain a hollow of even Seis's size, and it towered above him, seemingly higher then the moon. Seis strolled towards it showing curiosity, and looked it up and down. the tree had carvings, he couldn't tell what it said, but he could tell they were words of some kind, and perhaps they were of the language he read and wrote before he became a hollow. When the carvings had reminded Seis of his previous life...He began to become enraged. He roared and bashed his shoulder into the tree over and over, for a whole ten minues untill finalkly stopping to take a breath. He looked at the trunk fo the tree where he had bashed and bashed into it, and saw that he had barely scratched the base of the tree, yet the bashing had cause a small gash on his shoulder starting to blied. This further enraged him, and uses his uninjured arm and turned it into scythe form and rose it above his head ready to swing down on the tree, but soon heard, whimpering, the sounds of sadnees and pain. He slowly, and carelessly retracted his scythe hand and listened for the gentle cry.

Seis continued to listen for the squeals and hear them coming from farther up the tree, and heard a high voice, he couldn't make out what it was aying, but he clearly could tell it was not a hollow like himsel. As the possibilities of a small snack formed into his head, he decided wether it would be an ally, enemy, or lunch he knew he should not try to jump up, for that would easily reveal him. He decided to sneak up the tree by climbing, and then he stuck out both of his arms and made them into scythe form. He extended his left arm by about ten feet and stabbed the tree with the blade, and hen he took his right scythe and stabbed a couple feet above his left, and he continued this process, cilmbing the tree about five to six feet a minute. As he sooned reached the source of the crying, and found a small girl wearing torn rubs, her hair was dirty and brown so it was impossible to tell what the natural color was, a glimpse of her eyes seemed to reveal blue eyes, and her skin was a light brown and her nails were an atroucious site, perhaps 3 inches long, yellow and unclipped. Seis looked the girl over, and noticed she was thin, and not just thin as in a girl trying to look cute, but thin as in she had been straved for so long. She continued to cry, but could tell she was being watched. She opened her eyes and looked at Seis and immediatley shut them back even tigher and cried even more calling out. "Mommy, pl-please..he-help..so hungry..so scared.." As Seis continued to watch his mind ran blank, something about this scene seemed...familliar, but he could not put his finger, or in this case his scythe on to whatever it was. The little girl noticed Seis was still there and began to scream, scared yet trying to be threatining. "Ge-get away!! Get away from me monster!-" She then grabbed the nearest and smallest branch and broke it off, she quickly threw it at Seis hitting the hollow right in the face.

Seis merely let the twig hit him, and all it did was bounce off and fall to the ground. The girl saw that to no avail her measley attack did nothing and cowered once again. Seis felt sympathy, and knew the girl wouldn't listen to him, so he decided it would be best to leave her alone. He jumped down from the tree and in a couple seconds landed causing white sand to fly about four feet and fall back to a random smart, resulting in the desert still looking exactley the same. Seis looked back up to the girl one last time, shrugged and began to walk away. The little girl looked down, and saw the hollow walk away. She began to calm down and sighed. She sat there for a couple minutes thinking about what happened and thought out loud, thinking no one was there. "I geuss not all of those big monsters are so big and bad..." SHe then looked over to her side to see if Seis was still there, and saw that he had long gone, and not even left tracks behind. She then smiled and thought outloud once more. "You know...maybe none of those monsters are bad..." . Altough, a sinister voice, one that chilled her to the bone has responded from right behind the tree she was laying against. "Oh trust me little snack, alot of them are bad, WAHAHAHAHA!!!: The little girl looked behind her, and came face to face with a moderate sized hollow, with yellow skin, four arms with knife like claws, and dragon like winds with the hole in it's stomach, and a mask resmbeling a dragon. In a second two of it's arms had grabbed her and she screamed. The hollow flew up, taking the girl with her and laughed. "Oh yes, keep screaming, I love it when my food doesn't want to be eaten!"

The winged hollow carried her down to the ground and threw her across the sand and she rolled for about a couple feet. The hollow chuckled and spoke in a vile tone. "Go ahead run, make this fun for me!" The girl easily complied, and kicked the sand and began to run, not going to let him consume her. SHe ran and ran, and the hollow merely smirked and spoke to himself. "Ugh, I was hoping for a game of cat and mouse, but now it's just a bird and the worm." He flapped his wings and ascened, and casually glided after the girl, getting closer by the second. The little girl continued to run, and run panting and crying, cold and confused, but soon all of that was taken away the second she tripped. She fell on her stomach and flipped over, she looked up in fear and saw the hollow hovering just twenty feet above her. He laughed and raised one claw. "Time to eat! Ehehehe" He then descened as quickly as he could to the girl and put his claw forward. In sconds blood was dripping from the hollow's claws and fell upon the girl. She opened her eyes and looked down at herself, and found her boy unscathed. She then wondered where the blood had come from, and looked up in suprise. Seis stood above the girl, his injured arm impaled by the other hollows claw and Seis turned his head back to the girl, and spoke. "Sorry about earlier.." HE then looked up to the other hollow and spoke with nothing but disdain. "You've got alot of nerve, picking on something so young..." He put his right arm to the side and silently changed it to scythe form out of the winged holoow's view. The flying hollow snorted and answered. " Nerve? Bah you call yourself a hollow? Prey is prey no matter what." He then ripped his hand out of Seis's arm and flew up a few feet. "Catch me if yo-" Not wanting to deal with this annoying demon one second longer, he extened his good scythe arm full length and swung leaving the blade a couple feet behind the flying adversaires neck and then retracted cutting his head off. Seis then began to consume the dead hollow and licked his wound. He was about to leave, but felt something cling to his leg. The little girl was crying, and looked up to Seis's mask. "Thank you...so much.." ...Seis decided one decision he knew he would regret, but decided why the hell not. He lowered one of his arms and picked the little girl up and placed her on his back. Teh little girl seemed confused, and soon had a slight look of realization and said with a smile. "You mean..?" At first, Seis's response was that he began to walk foreward carrying the girl like a horse would it's rider, but then chuckled out his response. "Yup kid, I'm stuck with you now".