Cedar Town

Avar was helpless, his magic still recharging after that last blitz, unable to move out of the way to avoid the attack, so all he could do is watch as the man came down on him.

As Matisuki was about to crash into Avar, the dome, and the nightmares, would disappear and a rush of wind could be heard, followed by a harsh shove to Avar's side, pushing him out of the way. Looking to his right, Avar saw Acedia give him a smile.

Then Matisuki hit,his fist breaking the demon's fragile bpdy apart, splattering blood every where.

Avar looked in horror as Acedia began to die, looking at Abar with a sad, yet peaceful look on his face. "I'm sorry that your big brother's so helpless Sam, I'm so, so, sorry." Snd with that, the demon known as Acedia passed.

Avar crawled over to his brother's corpse, tears streaming down his eyes as he shook his broken form. 

"Come on Jack," Sam, the human inside, whispered, "Come on, dammit, get up Jack! You can't leave me again, you can't do this again! I didn't have him revive you just so yiu can leave me again!!!" Sam's cries became hysterical, the tears flowing down face inrives as he pressed it against Jack's body. "Come on, Jack, get up. Mom told you to take care of me remember, don't you remember. YOU CAN'T DO THAT IF YOU'RE FUCKING DEAD!!!!!!"

As Sam mourned, bawling like a babe as he cradled his brother's corpse, he remember what brought them here.

They had been recently orphaned after their mother had died. Jack, who had always been sickly, grew very weak on the streets, so Sam took to pickpocketing and burglary to pay for medicine. After a year, however, he had become well-known throughout Crocus as the best thief in the city, and was reruited by a local gang to do their dirty work.

When Jack found out, however, he banned him from pick-pocketing, not wanting his brother to be involved. The gang didn't take to kindly to this, so they raided their shabby hut in the slums of Crocus, holding Sam down as they beat Jack to death. "Now that your brother dead, you work for us," The gang leader had said, "unless you want to join the usele-" Before he could finish, Sam had stabbed him in the neck with a knife he'd stolen from one of the gang members. The man fell, and Sam kept going at hmim, stabbing him again and again, long after he was dead, until he was pulled off by his thugs. they were about to give him a similar treatment when suddenly, they were all beheaded, their heads becoming red mush on the back wall. A strange hooded figure stood over Sam, hand outstreched for a deal. He'd bring Jack back from the grave, but they would both belong to him. 

Sam, maddened with grief, accepted, and the man wordlessly brought out two vials. The rest can be guessed.

Sam looked up from Jack's body, glaring at the one who had killed him. "You killed him. . . now I'm going to kill you."

As he spoke a black smoke rose from the remains and flowed into Avaritia, the boy known as Sam dieing as the demon took over. 

A pillar of shadows shot forth into the sky, blowing Matisuki off the building and Chrome's arrows off course into some of the surrounding buildings. But before he landed however, he wss viciously kicked into another building, causing it to tumble a bit. 

 Standing in front of them was the truly demonic  Avaritia, for he now bore horns upin his head, leather wings built for speed, clawed hands and taloned feet. His eyes had an increased iridescence to them, the pupils being slit and white.

The pain of his brother's death,,the absorbong of the soul fragments Acedia had,and the death of his humanity had allowed Avaritia to access his Etherious Form, and he was pissed. He immediately charged Matosuki again, finding him in the buliding and continuing the assault with murderous rage in his eyes.