. Chapter one - the father I haven’t seen in 8 years

I am Ken, Ken Tatsura. As a child, I was abused by my father, Lin Tatsura, both physically and mentally. The physical abuse was worse than the mental abuse, but I never truly felt pain until my 10th birthday, when my father decided to gauge my left eye out. “You, your mother, and your sister before she left are all useless!” Those were the last words I heard from my father before he left. Although he was right, I was useless. In this world, every kid that is born has an 80 percent chance of gaining powers, known as an ability, I was of the 20 percent that didn’t gain powers. Some people use their ability for good, and are known as “hero’s,” and some people use their ability for evil, and are known as “monsters.” When my father left, I thought my pain was over, since I still had my mother, at least, until I became 12, 2 years later, I had awoke at 7 AM on a Sunday, and my mother wasn’t in the house, and I walked outside to see her running, I don’t know what it was, but she was stressed. The last words I heard her say were, “Ken! Run! He’ll get you next!” After she said those words, a huge, and I mean huge, hand tore through her stomach. When I saw that, I ran away, for my life, until I reached an alleyway, where the strange man didn’t see me. I was all alone now, with no family, my sister had suddenly disappeared when I was 9, and I never saw her again. The next morning I ran straight to an orphanage, and lived there for the next 6 years. Now I am 18, and work at a grocery store to keep up with rent at an apartment.

I was trying my best not to fall asleep when I hear my name at the other side of the counter, “Hey, Ken. It’s been, what, 8 years?” I look up and see someone I had never before seen. “Who the hell are you?” I ask. “Lin Tatsura, your father,” the man says. My eyes widen, he looks completely different from 8 years ago, “Father, what do you want?” He then says, “I don’t know what I want, perhaps I want…” he paused, then says, “to have a second chance as your father.”

I look at him, surprised, before I laugh, bitterly, “A second chance? Yeah right! I’m not falling for your manipulation again! Now, if you aren’t buying anything, get out!” My father went from a little happy to hurt, he turns around, and leaves, the next customer walks up to me, wearing a hood, he doesn’t say anything, he just places a gun and bullets on the table, wanting to buy it, I become fearful, but scan his items and he leaves, a few hours later, I get paid and leave to my apartment, but when I get to my apartment room, 249, I see an eviction notice. I look down into my wallet and see that I don’t have enough money to stay at any other apartment complex, so I go around, knocking on people’s door, hoping they let me stay for a few days, but everyone says no, until I run into that same hooded man, and he says, “Yea, go ahead, make yourself at home.” I thank him and run inside, I first go to his guest room, for me, and place my stuff down, then I go explore, I explore the entire house until I get to his basement, and I go down just to see broken glass, blood, and that gun he bought.

I am shook at the glass and blood, when the guy suddenly comes down, and he removes his hood, revealing a man in his 50s, maybe even 60s, and he says, “Did I say you could go down here?” He then suddenly kicks me down against the wall and grabs the gun, shooting at me. My eyes are closed, so I don’t see anything, the only thing I hear is the bullet, and someone jumping in front of me, I feel blood on my face, I open my eyes and see… My father. My eyes widen in shock and my father then says to the old man, “Still the same person as ever, I see, father.” He then falls to the ground, dead. I am shook, the man who just killed my father, and is trying to kill me, too, is my grandfather? I rush to my father’s side, trying to wake him, when another bullet fires, straight into my head.

Every person in the world who’s ever gotten shot in the head dies immediately, I don’t know why I’m different, because it took five minutes to die. When I finally lost consciousness, I awoke, in an abyss, the only thing I see is a man, who looks like he’s around 90, he says, “I am your great grandfather, Yusho Tatsura, here’s a little secret, not super secret, but you’re the second person in this entire family line to not have a power, every man in this family has had a power passed down onto them, it’s more so known as ‘The Ring’, as this family likes to call it. You and your father are the only people who don’t have it, the way it works, you won’t be able to control it yet, but it gets its name, ‘the ring’, because a ring surrounds your body and you turn into a… a demon, none of them have names, so I’d like you to name them yourself, but every man has a different ‘demon’ they turn into, I will be passing down my power onto you, you’ll be the first person known to this family to have the same ‘demon’ as someone else in the family.” I try to say something but I can’t speak.

Slowly, I open my eyes, and see my grandfather walking out of the basement. I see a bright glow around my body, and I’m being surrounded by rings. My grandfather looks back at the light, to see me, slowly getting up. The rings completely cover my body and I see nothing but blue. A slight pain goes through my body, and I slowly grow to more arms, and a third eye in the middle of my chest, and my shirt suddenly rips up. The rings disappear and I am face-to-face with my grandfather.

“I see you’ve finally gotten an ability,” He says, “I recognize your demon, it’s my fathers. He must be vastly disappointed in me. But he’s not the point.” My grandfather raises a hand up, and fire starts emerging from his finger. “Ability: Gun of Fire.” The fire from his finger shoots at me, and I dodge the bullet. “This is insane!” I yell, “You’re my grandfather?! And you’re trying to kill me?! Why?!” He says nothing, just keeps shooting fire at me. Eventually, I  do end up getting hit, and I get thrown down to the floor. Then he finally speaks again, “Yes, I’m your grandfather. And yes, I’m trying to kill you. But why? You don’t need to know why.” He points at me again, fire emitting from his finger. He’s about to shoot me when a regular bullet goes through his forehead.

“Take that, father.” My grandfather's dead body falls into my lap, and I see my father, but now he looks like when I saw him 8 years ago again. “F-father!” I yell, “But, How?” My father looks at me with boredom, “It's my ability, inherited from your grandfather. I come back to life. Everyone who inherits this ability has a different change. For me, I change personality and appearance. Your grandfather, he gets stronger.” I look a bit shocked, “So, he’ll come back? And stronger?” He sighs, “Yes, but we don’t need to worry about that right now, get up, and get his head off your lap before he bleeds so much they think you're on your period.” He gets up, and I do too. We both walk out of the basement.

Chapter two - I meet my sister again as a murderer

Its been two days since I had last seen my grandfather, and now me and my father are building a stable relationship. My father gave me his couch since he doesn’t have room for me in his bed. I’m laying down on the couch when my father walks in. “Hey, idiot. Wanna go get ice cream? I don’t have any here and there's a shop right over there.” My face lights up, “Really? Hell yeah!” On the walk, I decide to finally ask him some questions.

“So like, why did you, uhm, abuse me?” I ask, “Cause clearly, it was in your… forever angry form.”

“Thats a good question. I don’t really know.”

“And… Why did you help me?”

“Hmm. I guess I still wanted a second chance as your father.”

“Oh. Well, anyway, the shops right there.” I say. My father orders up a Cookies and Cream with rainbow sprinkles and oreo crumbs, I just order a basic Vanilla with M&Ms. “This is really tasty,” He and I say, then suddenly, a building just a block away explodes.

“GAHH!” I scream, “WE SHOULD HELP!” My father takes on a very serious look, “You’re right, I know my grandfather, the first ‘demon’ you’ve inherited should have super speed.” Rings suddenly cover my body and I transform. “I’m still not used to the arms.” I say, then I run very quickly to the building. I get there in about 15 seconds, and I do manage to rescue some people, but thousands still died. “So many deaths..” I am shook at the sight of someone's head sticking out of the fallen building. Suddenly, I hear a familiar laughter, “Oh, you’re too sensitive. Way too sensitive as my grandchild.” My face goes from horror to anger, “Grandfather, I should’ve known.” I turn to him, and lunge right toward him, but he shoots me with his fire emitting fingers, and that's when I realize he becomes a lot stronger, A LOT. “AHHH!” I yell, “IT BURNS!!” I lunge toward him again, and land a good blow on him this time, though he looks unfazed, I can tell he's hurting. “Hows that feel?” I ask, but then a long, black hand thrusts right past me. “Aw, man, I really wanted it to hit him!” The voice feels familiar, and I see my sister, Brynn Tatsura. “S-sister? Is that you?!” I yell, excited, “Its been so l-” I can’t finish my sentence because she throws her arm at me once more, grabbing me in the head. “S-Sister! What’re you doing?!”

She smirks, “Killing you!” she laughs. She starts to crush my head and blood flows from my forehead, but suddenly, my father runs up with a samurai sword, and slices her wrist off. “Father!’ I yell, “You’re here!” My father looks at Brynn, “I forgot I took a samurai class back in College. I took a small trip to a store and got this.” Brynn suddenly regrows her wrist, her arm becoming human, “Hello, Lin Tatsura- Er, father. You remember me, don’t you?” My father puts up a defense pose, “I’m your father, OF COURSE I REMEMBER YOU!!!”

 She smiles, “Good. You’d want to remember me for your death.” He glares at her, “I come back, bitch.” She doesn’t do anything, “I know, but you can still die with age, I’ll just keep killing you till you have a heart attack because of your age.” She then throws her hand out again and detaches my fathers head from his body.  My eyes widen, and I run to his head, “FATHER!” I look shook, before going back to serious, “Sister… Why? He’s our father.” She sighs, “He abused us, but… You’re next!” She lunges at me, grabbing my bottom left arm. “Sister! Stop!” I grab my arm and try to pull her hand away, but she rips it off, “AHHH! SISTER!” She smiles, “I’ll just admit it..” She jumps high and gets behind me, then whispers in my ear, “You’re weak, asshole.” My eyes widen, she’s never before talked bad about me at all. All of a sudden, my top right arm grabs her by the neck, and so does my top right, “Sister… Brynn, I should say…” I tear up, grabbing her neck harder, “You aren’t my sister!”

 I keep choking her, about to kill her, when fire hits my back, I must’ve forgotten about my Grandfather. I release my chokehold on her, and she punches me hard, and I go flying straight into a wall. “Brynn! Please, just stop..” Tears stream down my face, and I try to hit my grandfather, but suddenly his arm becomes like hers, and I realize, he has the same abilities as all of my family members. “GAH!” I feel immense pain in my body, then my grandfather grabs me and throws me into the broken building, and a huge stone digs in my back. “You’re weak,” He says, and punches me again. My grandfather grabs me by the neck and picks me up, “Granddaughter, kill him.” Brynn quickly switches her arm to one of a demon, and hits me in the stomach, and a hole is put through it, she has punched straight through my body. “Brynn… Brynn..” Tears stream down my face as I close my eyes and my heartbeat stops.

Chapter Three - Been Through Hell.. Literally.

My eyes slowly open, and I see nothing but red, I see some buildings, but mostly red. I get up, and see millions of people, each with sharp horns. I walk around, and ask a civilian, “Where am I?” Little did I know, he’d give me the most shocking answer yet. “Hell, you didn’t know?”

My eyes widen, Hell? How am I HERE after death? I decide to keep walking around and see the most shocking sight of my life, especially in Hell. A beautiful lady, she has bright red hair, red eyes, she’s wearing a white Kimono, and her horns curve slightly. I decide to talk to her.

I walk up to her and say, “U-uhm, I- uh, well, I… Hi? I’m uhh, I’m Ken, K-Ken Tatsu-Tatsura.. How a-about you?” The girl giggles and sweetly says, “Haha, It's nice to meet you, Mr. Tatsura! I’m Jennifer! Jennifer Satan!” My eyes widen a little, “Jennifer Satan?” She nods eagerly, “Yes! Yes! I’m Jennifer Satan! My last name is my fathers last name since he doesn’t have a last name!”

My eyes widen even more, the girl I just met, the beautiful girl I just met, is the son of Satan. “Y-you.. Aren’t gonna… Hurt me? Right?” I say. She giggles, “Everyone thinks that, but I’m not a violent person. My father is, though. But I won’t hurt you, Mr. Tatsura!” I stumble at her beauty and kindness, “Y-you don’t need to call me ‘Mr. Tatsura,’ Ken is just fine.” She smiles at me, “Is there anything I can help you with?” Suddenly, I remember what I’m trying to do, “Oh, yes, I need to leave.” Her smile falters, “I… I’m not sure if I can, I’d need my fathers permission.” My eyes widen, “I- L-look, I- I just, I have to leave. I don’t care if I have to fight, I need to get out.”

“I, I guess we can,” She says, and starts walking West, “His Dome is this way.” I pace behind her as she runs, and after about 15 minutes, we finally get there, to an empty throne. “W-where is he?” Jennifer asks, before a blade slices my head off.

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Changing POV to:

  Jennifer Satan

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I am Jennifer Satan, daughter of Satan himself. Today, I saw Ken Tatsura, a boy who really needed to leave hell, get killed. After his head is slain, I look behind him to see my father. “F-father? W-what are you-” He interrupts me, “Stopping my daughter from falling in love with a human, that's what.”

“But, did you have to k-”

“Yes, I could already see you falling in love. I had to eliminate him quickly.”

“I.. I..” I don’t know what to say, but then I slowly put up my hand, and emit a ball of fire from it, “I’ll just kill you too.” I throw the fire ball at him, but he picks it up instead of getting hurt, “You think you can hurt me? In terms of strength, YOU’RE NOTHING TO ME!” He suddenly teleports behind me and forces the fire ball I threw at him into my shoulder.

“GAHH!” I scream, but am unable to move. “Can’t move, can you? Good,” My father says to me. He forces the entire ball in my shoulder, “Now, lets see if you SURVIVE this,” He then puts his hand out and before a huge ball of fire emits from his hand, he gets punched in the gut, and suddenly, I can move again, but then a force picks me up, and I see a head above me, carrying me, and below me, is a second set of arms.

The strange man carries me to an alleyway, his speed is immense, no one is in sight. He places me down and is surrounded in blue rings, then becomes Ken Tatsura. “K-Ken! It’s y-” He stops me, “Quiet, they’ll find us. Now, how fast is y-” Before Ken can even finish his question, it is answered, with the blood of people spilling everywhere, and the sound of my father screaming, “WHERE IS KEN TATSURA?! WHERE IS HE!” Ken looks out and looks back at me, “We have to go, now.” He gets up and runs to a shut down convenience store. We hide behind the shelves for about 30 minutes before he gets up, “We can leave now.” He gets up and starts leaving, but suddenly, I have a vision in my head. I see a bus coming and running him over, and against my own will, I run and push him out of the way, and I get split in half by the bus.

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Changing POV to:

    Ken Tatsura

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She pushes me, and a bus hits her, splitting her body in half, “Oh my god! Are you alright?!” She looks at me weakly, “Uhh, yeah, I’m my fathers daughter, I kinda just, regenerate. Just like, leave me, I’ll be back in 30.” I get up, “See you in 30,” I then run off, to find her father, It doesn’t take long, for he was searching far and wide. He gets spills of other peoples’ blood on my face before finding me, “KEN TATSURA! IT’S YOU! YOU’VE COME FOR YOUR DEMISE!” I say, “Oh? That isn’t true, I’ll be killing you-” Suddenly, blue rings go around me again, but instead of growing a new pair of arms, My eyes merge together, and I grow quite taller, and stronger. I have become a cyclops. “I see, a cyclops,” Satan says, “Even better.”

I lunge toward Satan and punch him in the face, and do some damage. “Hmm, you’re superior to my daughter, way stronger.” His eyes glow and large tentacles surround me. He doesn’t say anything, just walks toward me. I struggle against the tentacles, and manage to take out a single arm, and I punch him twice- No, more times than I can count, when I’m done, his mouth is now to his ears, and his eyes are mashed up. “I said I’d kill y-” suddenly, he teleports behind me and jabs my back. “GAHHH!!!” I scream, but then, Someone kicks Satan in the back brutally, it’s Jennifer, but now, she looks deadly, her teeth are sharper, her thorns are pointier, everything is different. “Father, he needs to leave,’ She says. He sighs, and gets up, “You’re strong, I’ll admit that. You know, I trust you, to take care of my daughter, goodbye.” A portal opens, and he leaves.