BECOMING THE DEMON KING

BURNAMAN SAVED THE DAY

As soon as the police officers standing in front of the mall saw him, they all readied their guns and pointed it at the mysterious robotic man.

“Who are you?! Put your hands where we could see them!” One of the police officers screamed from the crowd.

“Don’t shoot, I am not your enemy!” The robotic man yelled as he turned and faced the policemen. His voice sounded like a robotic voice.

The female reporter started reporting the description of the robotic man to the viewers.

A couple of people standing close to me started pointing at the robotic man on the billboard.

“Isn’t that Burnaman?” One of the men standing in the crowd next to me asked.

“Yeah, the television show last season,” another guy responded. It seems the guy is popular.

I shifted my gaze and focused back on the billboard. To my greatest surprise, I saw demon wings coming right out of the back of the robotic man.

“Wait a minute, are those demon wings?” I turned around and looked at Mordecai with my eyes wide open, I was in total shock.

“Hmm Mhmm, He is a devil king candidate,” he answered with a calm look on his face.

I turned around and continued looking at the billboard, things just got a lot more interesting. The robotic man started making hand gestures at the police officers standing in front of him. It was like he was trying to convince them of something. He flapped his demon wings and flew up into the air in front of the policemen.

“Look! He is flying!” The female reporter screamed.

All the police officers were in shock and disbelief, they couldn’t fathom that a man was flying in front of their eyes.

Before I knew what was happening, the robotic man brought out red arrows and started shooting all the police officers with them. What is he trying to do by shooting them?

“You have to believe me when I say, that I Burnaman shall fight evil!” The robotic man yelled after he was done shooting all the police officers with red arrows.

“Why did he shoot them with red arrows?” I asked hoping that Mordecai would answer my question.

“Well though, listen to him, it all sounds silly, but at least he is using the red arrows for justice,” Mordecai responded.

I was still focused on the billboard to see how everything plays out. We all watched as the Burnaman went into the mall and stopped all the robbers with red arrows and made them surrender themselves to the police officers. The whole thing was intense, it was like we were all watching a movie where the superhero saved countless innocent lives from armed robbers. The Burnaman knew what he was doing with his wings and arrows, he had a lot of speed and accuracy. All the robbers surrendered themselves to the police officers, while all the hostages came out of the mall and ran away from that area.

After a couple of minutes, the Burnaman flew over to the live feed camera and started explaining how he saved all the hostages.

Suddenly Burnaman flew up into the sky and the live feed camera was still on him.

“I have come to defeat 20 enemies. I have already defeated one, I will not run and I will not hide from the remaining 18 devil candidates out there, come and take me on if you dare!” Burnaman yelled.

“What the hell?!” I blurted out as I stepped backward.

“This guy must be crazy, why is he talking about the devil candidate selection on the news?” I questioned as I turned and looked at Mordecai with shock, my lips were trembling as my heart started beating fast. Why would he be talking about the devil stuff in public like this?

“I don’t know and what does he mean, he has defeated one? Is he talking about Mr. Rodriguez?” Mordecai was also stunned as his gaze was fixed on the billboard.

A realization then hit me, Mordecai is busy hovering around me, what if a devil candidate sees him next to me? Oh my gosh, which means I am also going to be killed.

“Mordecai get away from me now!” I yelled as I turned around and looked at him with my eyebrows tightly pressed together.

“Oh, Okay,” Mordecai flew away from where I was standing.

I let out a sigh of relief. I am practical advertising that I am a devil king candidate if my demon hangs around me. I don’t know where these other candidates are or what they are like, but I know this much, I can’t be happy if I am dead. I turned around and continued walking down the street.

 

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Later in the evening at my apartment,

I was laying down on my bed reminiscing about the event I witnessed earlier in the day. Mordecai was floating in the air next to my bed.

I was lost in my thoughts as I gazed at the ceiling.

“Are you going to stay quiet and stare at the ceiling all day?” Mordecai asked in a deep tone.

“No, but I can’t forget about what Burnaman said earlier. 18 enemies, he plans on killing all the other devil candidates to become the devil king,” I turned to the other side of my bed and looked at Mordecai.

“Mordecai, I want you to revoke my status as a devil king candidate,” I said in a low tone.

“What?!” he yelled with his mouth wide open.

“Yes, I don’t want to be a devil candidate anymore, I don’t want to die, I just want to be happy,” I stated. After witnessing what Burnaman is capable of and his determination. I don’t want to continue being a devil candidate anymore. I don’t want to die, now that I have experienced a little happiness, I know now that I could attain happiness.

“I hope you know if you want me to revoke your status, I will have to take away your wings and arrows?”