The sky here at the Human realm seemed ominous for some time already.

Since the morning I woke, it had been changing between hues of yellow, green and blue, but all of a sudden, it turned completely a purplish pink.

"It's not even five. This is no way a twilight... What is going on? ... Everyone is acting as if nothing is wrong... As if they CAN'T see it..."

Being uneasy, made studying unfruitful, so I grabbed my things from the study desk I was occupying for the past two hours and left the library in a hurry.

It wasn't like me to feel this nervous. Especially, without a reason.

Being serious now, the reason was obvious.

Despite my tries on convincing myself that the the sky's color and the now materialized dark shadows hovering over the people I passed by, were normal, they weren't and all I knew for now, is that I needed to get back to my studio before one of those "things" decided to hollow on me.

After taking a thirty minute "shadow infested" bus ride home, I quickly closed myself in and quickly checked my smartphone as soon as a notification bell rung, announcing a new message.

It was a message from Solomon.

Pamy? Are you ok?

I furrowed my brows in confusion and with no more time wasted I wrote back,

"Yes! I'm... Not completely though... Hey... Is a purplish pink sky and floating shadows over mortals a thing now? I can't seem to mingle much well with anyone here now. They are all covered with them."

He wrote,

"No, it is not normal and better not have one of those shadows over you either. Have they taken you back?"

I intently thought about what he meant but still doubted on who THEY were. Possibly, he meant the demon brothers whom I haven't seen for two long years now.

Yes, they did visit here and there but they were just as busy as me doing, well, what demons do. We all had our priorities and even if we wanted to see each other whenever we felt like it, it didn't work out that well.

Time became thin and with less area to cover, the less we can use towards our advantage to pass time together like we used to in the past.

"You mean Lucifer and the rest of the guys? No, they haven't taken me with them to anywhere exactly...

Were they supposed to come get me?"

There was a pause of nearly a minute before the cellphone announced Solomon's answer to my questions.

"That's great."

What did he mean by "great"? what if what was going on was something to be worried about?

He continued.

"I almost thought I was late."

The suspense was getting to my core so, I quickly dialed, and he picked up followed by my interrogation. 

"Late for what...?"

Solomon only answered with a chuckle,

"See you later... Pamy..."

The line went dead and soon after the wall from the entrance to my studio blasted open, revealing a giant centipede like monster.

My body went cold, and my heart skipped a beat.

What was going on? First the sky, then the shadows, then Solomon being all creepy and now this?!

The creature screeched as it's skull like head searched for something. As soon as it spotted me, it quickly crawled and twisted along the walls until it was inches away from me.

Its front clawed feet tried to either snatch or more like pierce me but thankfully, I snapped out of my trance and ducked, rolled and sprinted towards where the creature had let itself through.

The thing twisted and from its tail, a needle like object materialized. It attacked with monstrous speed, not granting me time to make a move to move forward any further out from the madness.

One slip and its needle graced my shoulder which started to burn. I tried moving my wounded arm, but it wouldn't react.

It must've been poisoned and my luck at maintaining myself alive was running out.

Its needle went for another attack; this one aiming obviously for a lethal wound.

I wanted to live but my body's physical state was on contrary to my thoughts.

I murmured,

"So... This is how I die...?"

I closed my eyes and waited for the impact but instead of extreme pain, the feeling of a hand on my back and a followed warm embrace made me open my eyes and look at complete darkness.

Although, better said, it was dark clothing which my eyes came upon to and as my sight shifted from the hand that held in its grip the creature's weapon and upwards to the person's handsome face, a deep well known voice came out from those milky white lips.

"This is not what I had in mind for...."

Dark red slightly concerned stern glowing eyes looked at me.

"You could have called us. Or at least... ME. For what do you have our contacts for?"

I blinked to clear up my vision and still shocked, I voiced out,

"Lucifer?"