***Melody's POV***

'I messed up! I messed up big time! Damn it!' My mind screams at me as I run.

The demons that have been chasing me for over a couple months are much closer now. For the last 2 months I have been on the run from these assholes. They chased me from the spot I was arrived at.

I have had to do what I can to survive and keep away from these assholes. They are fucking relentless. I barely have time to eat or sleep before they are on my tail again.

Today though I was so exhausted from everything I slept longer than I meant to. Now these demons are closing in on me. I'm trying so hard to get away.

My body is getting very exhausted though. I don't know how much longer I take this. I am very exhausted, thirsty, and hungry.

I barely had time to get my bearings when these demons that have been on my tail for the last 2 months showed up. I was smart enough to know that would most likely not end well for me if I got caught. So, I ran. I have been running and trying to avoid these assholes since.

Hoping to lose them I begin running through this bunch of demon that are running in the opposite direction of me. I am praying that whatever is scaring all these demons away with be enough to scare the demons chasing me away.

Maybe if I am smart enough, I can also manage to escape whatever has so many demons terrified. I may be thrusting myself into danger, but I don't have many options left. I just want these demons to finally leave me alone.

Suddenly one of the demons chasing me somehow got in front of me. I stop and before he can grab me, I begin to run in a different direction. But there is a demon there too. I look around me and these guys are surrounding me.

I was kinda hoping to spot the demon that had so many demons scared, when they use a long whip to wrap around my arms and keep them close to my body. Before I could struggle, he uses his powers to send an electrical current through the whip and immobilize me. It hurt so bad I couldn't help but scream in pain.

I fall to the ground unable to stand anymore. All my physical exhaustion and the shock has me unable to get up on my own. I have been caught. The owner of the whip walks over to me. Lighting a cigarette as he does. He looks down at me.

"Well now. Look what we have here. A rather resilient little doe that has managed to escape us for a couple months has finally been caught. You know you are the most clever and annoying prey I have ever had to hunt down." He says before taking a long puff of cigarette.

He gives me a sickening smile.

"Now let's get you back home. I hope you ever you're sold to fucks you in every way possible." I can faintly hear him say.

At this point my body can't fight to stay conscious much longer. More words are spoken after that, but they are muffled. I can't tell what is being said at this point.

I feel my body relaxes as the exhaustion finally takes over and everything goes dark.

***Alastor's POV***

I look down the street of my rampage and realize maybe I overdid it a bit. Blood and gore of other demons line the street. Some were killed, but most were torn apart.

But I couldn't be helped. A demon failed to keep his end of our deal and had the audacity to blame me for his failure. I admit I may have let the fool's entitlement get better of me and I may have overreacted. But ultimately it was his fault for testing my patience that way. It didn't help that he got his friends and random demons on the street involved. While that did annoy me, it was sort of funny how a bunch of lower level demons could try to overpower me.

Just as I am about to leave a scream of pain could be heard. That sounds close.

I teleport to the area of the cry and see a demon woman wrapped up in a whip with several other demons surrounding her. I recognize the demons surrounding the woman. They are hunters for two specific overlords.

"Now let's get you back home. I hope you ever your sold to fucks you in every way possible." I hear the leader say as he turns to leave.

Oh no, you don't. I really hate these fucking hunters being in my territory. They are truly rotten people. They use disgusting methods to hunt down other demons. They have no morals. I am putting an end to this.

"I'm afraid you're not taking her anywhere." I say drawing their attention.

The rest of them look scared. They must know who I am and my reputation. The leader, however, doesn't look impressed. He must not know of me or must not be scared of me. He most definitely will be getting no mercy.

"She's our property and we will do what we want with her. Fuck off!" He shouts at me.

Before any of them can run I use my shadow tentacle to hold them down. I use another to break the arm that is holding the whip attached to the blue-haired demoness. I use tentacles wrapped around his limbs to hold him up. I use them to pull on his limbs to the point where they are almost pulling his limbs off. Finally, I use one more wrapped around the top of his head to give his neck the same amount of strain as the rest.

"I really hate when you filthy rats hunt in MY territory. You all will suffer for this. Hopefully your suffering will be a message to your other hunter friends to stay away from my territory." I say I summon my shadows to torture the others.

I extend my claws as I pull the tentacles holding his limbs as one by one, they tear off his body. The screams of all of them fill the air as they die again. Once all his limbs have been torn off, I end him quickly by slicing my claws through his neck decapitating him.

I would have tortured him longer, but I do need to take care of the woman. She must be in rough shape and needs attention. I am a little sad this ended quickly, but it must be done.

Once he is dead, I turn and walk over to the woman. I rip the whip that kept her bond apart. Poor girl.

I look at her and she is out. I tune into my senses and she's still alive. Poor girl must be so exhausted. One of their disgusting methods. Chasing other demons to the point of exhaustion and near death. Truly cowardly. Just looking at her I can tell she needs help right away.

Her clothes are pretty baggy on her. She has dark circles under her eyes, most likely from fatigue and malnutrition. There are burns from where she got shocked by the whip. She has been through a lot.

Feel my main shadow come back to and is probably wondering what I am going to do with her. That is a good question. Killing her wouldn't be a good idea and would be no fun. Killing after she got captured by others would be rather low. I do have some type of standards.

I could leave her here. The problem with that is how bad of shape she is in. There is a good chance that if I just left her here alone, she could get even worse and die. If that happens him helping her with have been worthless.

The last option would be to help her. When I think about it, that would be the most beneficial option. It may cost me some time and effort by that would be a small sacrifice in the long run. By helping her I could potentially gain her trust and get to know her.

If I could get to know her, I might be able to find out why the hunters were after her. I can find that out I can find out which overlord those hunters were for. Once I know that I can confront that particular overlord about their hunters being in my territory.

There are more benefits to helping her than not. After thinking about it for a couple moments I gently picked her up to take her home. I notice the look on my shadow's face. He's confused. I tell him not to worry before he returns to my shadow, and I teleport home.

Once at home I take her to one of the spare rooms. Shadow pulls back the covers of the bed before I set her down. First thing I noticed was how ratty her clothes were. They must have been chasing her for a while for her clothes to be in this rough shape.

With a snap her outer clothes as well as her socks and shoes appeared in my hands. I left her underwear on because I don't want to touch those without her consent. I burn the clothes in my hands to nothing. I will give her clothes for the time being.

I place my hand on her abdomen and use my powers to see if there are any other issues going on. Luckily for her she seemed to be in good shape despite the malnutrition, exhaustion, and burns from the whip. Healing the burns should be easy to fix. Malnutrition and exhaustion are things that will take time to fix.

After healing the burns, I snapped my fingersagain. She is dressed in a pair of pajama shirt and pajama pants. With that Icover her up and leave the room. I have Shadow watch her for when she wakes up.I should make something light for her to eat when she wakes up. I walk towardsthe kitchen. Funny how today went.