The Little Calamity

For as long as he could remember Rayne always survived by eating insects, staying out of view from anything. All around him was constant chaos, he had no idea why but blood constantly flowed in the street.

Every week there was food delivered in the middle of the city, it was free and anyone could take as much as they wanted. The only question was if you could make it out alive, the scene was so bloody that even the meat itself ended up covered in human blood but it was still better than eating worms.

The three years old boy constantly looked at this delicious food but he never dared trying to touch it. He hid in dark alleys and dreamed for 2 years to simply taste real food.

' People kill themselves over it every time, how good is it?'

Maybe it was then that the little calamity was born, or maybe he had always been this way. His body moved like that of an animal, an animal with the gift of intellect and wisdom. He was born with superhuman strength and this was the moment that he learned this fact.

He jumped on the back of the man all the way at the back and with inhuman strength he completely pulled his head off before jumping to a nearby woman.

His hand moved on it's own and passed through her ample b.r.e.a.s.t before piercing through her rib cage to tear her heart out while he covered her mouth, he jumped beside another man and grabbed his arm to throw him head first on the ground. With no rest Rayne slowly picked everyone that was at the back and caused a massacre so silent that nobody even had the time to run.

Before he knew it, he alone stood in front of the mountain of food. He took a bag just as big as him that was filled with mouth-watering meat and simply made his way back to his own hideout. On this day this brutal tale was spread through the city, everyone that dared to fight for this food was considered as a good fighter yet more than 100 died to his hand. Now that he was aware of his own strength he became bolder.

Even the crazy people of this city usually ignored kids, they weren't a menace and they rarely had anything good on them so it became the only unofficial rule, yet this time everyone was out to hunt him. Skilled fighters, hunters and even assassins tried to catch him but his instincts were sharper than even the most wary of savage beasts.

If he could fight he would kill without showing any emotion in his red eyes, if he sensed danger he would run and abandon anything that he held. The entire city that was filled with hardened criminal was brought down to it's knees by a simple 5 years old.

They tried to trap him, making it seems like nobody wanted the weekly food to encircle him yet he never came. They waited for a full day until they couldn't endure waiting, that's when he reappeared, once again reaping hundreds of lives before taking his bag of food.

This hunt continued for months without any success, poisoning the food didn't work, he had no place to call home so tracking him was impossible, ambushes would fail before they even started. In the end everyone returned to their daily lives, this was simply an additional murderer in a city filled with hundreds of thousands of them.

Sadly for them it was only the beginning, anyone that even tried to remotely harm him were tracked down and killed silently. That's when they realized that this kid was a natural born killing machine, he had no emotion and would kill anyone that was either a danger or was in his path.

They though he couldn't become more frightening and they were right, for a few years. When he discovered a book that one of it's victim was holding his instinct told him that he had to read it, he spied on people reading the different posters that were placed through the city and compared the words.

Although he could somehow read using this method it wasn't enough to understand the book so he started to torture his victims, asking them to teach him the meaning of each word he was missing, his methods were heartless and just seeing the body of a victim was enough to cause a few people to run from this cursed city.

Finally, on what he though was his 13th birthday he manage to decipher the book which talked of an ancient alchemist, or rather and ancient madman that used anything to study whatever interested him. The greatest creation of this alchemist was his pills that could grant the user immunity to any element.

The book didn't tell much apart from the fact that the alchemist used to live under the city of blood which was exactly where Rayne was. Now he had two objective, surviving and finding the alchemist's hideout. The nightmare that was usually hiding started moving through the city, looking for clues, just the sight of his demonic red eyes and his long black hair was enough to throw people into a frenzy.

In their mind he was out for blood and their only option was to fight against him, although he was only 13 years old he was already as tall as a normal a.d.u.l.t and his body was filled with condensed muscle, he seemed like the perfect balance between agility and strength.

Even though he was looking at the ground to see anything weird he still side-stepped an attack that came from behind, he caught the man's arm and shifted his attack toward another attacker. Both were stunned but before they could even react Rayne kicked the head of the first man, causing both of their skull to crack on one another. They fell lifelessly on the ground, while Rayne jumped in the air to evade the next attack.

Using the gravity he delivered a powerful guillotine kick that pierced through the man's shoulder and crushed his heart, just as he was about to land someone attacked him with a spear, thinking that he couldn't move in the air.

Rayne simply used the man in which his foot was stuck in and jumped again, throwing the body on the spear, as soon as he landed he ran toward the spear-man and grabbed him by the neck, breaking it with ease.

His face was emotionless, he simply looked at everyone around before scavenging the bodies, he took their rings and any food they had on them. He had no idea why people took rings but he did what he learned by watching people kill each others. He started to eat the raw food that was covered in human blood, watching everyone around with no change on his face.

*Growl*

He heard a sound of hunger coming from behind him. He looked at the man that seemed to be 6 or so years older than him, once he saw that he had no intention to harm him Rayne threw him the rest of his food before trying to smile.

" E..at. Hu.nger.. bad."

His voice was rough and sounded like that of a demon, making the poor man tremble. Feeling no killing intent directed towards him he went back to looking for clues in the city, everyone that saw this scene were left speechless, the little calamity had emotion?