Disclaimer: I don’t own darkstalkers, or any other capcom characters. I only own the two OC.

Note: Starting from this chapter onward, thoughts and flashbacks will be written in italic font; shouting will be in capital letters, and if you see a long dotted line, stretching from one side of the page to the other, it means it’s a scene change.

Chapter 3: Huitzil’s Rampage

Neo looked down at his reflection in the water.

“So this is what I am,” he thought.

He looked back at the two sleeping darkstalkers. It had been a few days after they had told him about darkstalkers and what it meant to be one.

He smiled slightly. Deep down he felt happy, to finally understand a few things. He was kind of glad that he had met them.

“Their wounds should heal soon,” he thought happily.

He tried to hide it, but deep down he was also a little bit disappointed.

“After that, I guess they’ll have to leave,” he thought sadly.

“But I don’t want them to leave, I want them to stay here,” he thought again, but something came up in the back of his mind, snapping him out of the selfish thought.

“I know I don’t want them to leave, but it’s their freedom to leave if they want to,” it said.

Neo sighed at the two clashing thoughts. He pondered them for a minute before deciding.

“I’ll enjoy the time while it last,” he thought. “Then when the time comes, I’ll let them decide,” he finished his thought.

Felicia woke up, and looked out to see Neo standing in front of a fire he had just built, holding a glowing skewer with some fish on it.

“Morning,” Neo called out happily from outside the tree, when he noticed her awake.

“Morning, Neo,” she called back. She went out of the tree, just when Talbain had also started to wake up.

The two darkstalkers got out, and walked over to Neo, who handed them two of the glowing skewers, which had some of the fish Neo had just roasted.

“Thanks,” Felicia said. She looked strangely at the skewers.

Even though they had already seen Neo use some of his powers, it was still a little bit strange to be using skewers made out of light. Even so, it didn’t change the fact that it was a pretty useful and practical ability to have. “Oh well. At least he seems much happier now,” she thought kindly.

The morning was pretty nice for the small town nearby. The people went about, doing their usual business.

That was probably the reason that everybody thought that it would have been a regular day. Even though there was the news of a few darkstalkers close by, nobody really was worried, on the count that none of them bothered them, not since they drove out the one that had wandered into town once a long time ago.

What they all didn’t know was that not far from the town, a small army was headed their way.

The army was made of many robots, all saying and thinking of one thing, “Eliminate everything.”

Neo walked into the hollow tree trunk in the forest. Talbain and Felicia had just finished removing their bandages, when they heard him come in.

Looking at them kindly, Neo noted that true enough, their wounds had healed perfectly. He smiled kindly when he saw that there was nothing left of the wounds.

Although they could see that the boy was happy, the slight feeling of disappointment he was giving off didn’t escape the two darkstalkers.

“What’s the matter Neo?” Felicia asked kindly. Both she and Talbain smiled kindly. Though they hadn’t known Neo for long, they had gotten quite attached to the boy, and they had a pretty good idea of what was going through his mind around now.

“Well....” Neo had begun, but he never got a chance to finish, as at that moment, they heard a loud explosion.

“What was that?” Felicia called out, surprised.

“It came from the town!” Talbain replied. That was when a sudden thought rushed to his mind. “I hope it’s not what I think it is,” he thought worriedly. “Come on! We’d better check it out,” he said, before adding, “They might need our help,” he finished.

“Right!” Neo responded quickly, as all three of them immediately ran towards the town.

Chaos. That was the only word that could explain the situation in the town. Moments ago, it had been peaceful as always, and now, an army of robots had suddenly opened fire on the town.

“Eliminate everything! Eliminate everything!” they all called out as they marched through the town.

Everywhere, terrified townsfolk ran for their lives, as the mechanical

Monsters kept on coming from all directions.

Although most of the townsfolk were too afraid to notice, some of them noticed three figures approaching. At first, they had hoped it would have been help coming to save them from these monsters, but once the figures got close enough to see clearly, they all started screaming in terror.

“Oh no! More of them!” They all screamed, when they saw that the approaching figures were none other than more darkstalkers. What they didn’t know was that these darkstalkers had come to help.

“Wow, there sure are a lot of them,” Neo remarked at the sight of the army of robots. “You sure we can take them all,” he added slightly uncertain.

“Don’t worry, we can take them,” Talbain said, reassuring the boy.

“Yeah, I know we can take them,” Felicia said, giving more assurance to the boy.

Neo looked at them for a moment before smiling, and saying, “Alright, let’s do it,” he said, before adding, “Big bro, big sis.” At that, he earned surprised looks from both darkstalkers.

The two darkstalkers stared, before smiling kindly; they found it oddly amusing to find out that Neo actually thought of them that way. “Alright then, let’s do this, little bro,” Felicia said in reply.

“Yeah!” Neo enthusiastically replied before the three of them went charging into the army.

The army of robots was busy at the task at hand, destroying everything. However, they were soon interupted when several robots had suddenly been shut down and exploded when they were suddenly pierced by several projectiles.

Reacting to the disturbance, the other robots went straight for the source of the projectiles, a small boy in a white raincoat, when they too were sliced apart by two darkstalkers suddenly jumping down on them.

“Huh, and I thought these guys were going to be tougher than that,” Felicia remarked, looking at the downed robots, only to notice some of them getting right back up, and more of them joining in.

“You were saying?” Talbain asked her, not at all amused by what he was seeing.

“Well, I guess it wouldn’t be much fun if they went down so easily,” Felicia answered back, trying to sound optimistic. Talbain just rolled his eyes at that.

The three of them kept trying to fend off the large number of robots, but the sheer number of them made it difficult. Unfortunately, it wasn’t long before the sheer numbers got the better of them and they found themselves very much surrounded.

“Any ideas?” Felicia asked uncertain.

“Just one,” Talbain stated. “Keep fighting,” he said grimly.

None of them liked the sound or looks of the situation they were in. It was starting to become obvious that they had bitten of more than they could chew, and worse, they were chocking on it. Luckily for them something was stirring, right now, in a certain child’s head.

Neo hadn’t liked the situation they had gotten themselves into, but he didn’t like it even more when he started experiencing a strange sensation in his head. At first he tried to shrug it off, but it kept getting stronger and stronger, until suddenly, he was looking inside his own mind.

“Where am I?” Neo thought surprised, what he saw was a strange room that looked like a it was half shrouded in darkness, and half bathed in light. Before he had a chance to think any longer about it, he suddenly saw something in the darkside of the room. When he looked closer, he saw a glowing red eye, and suddenly, he felt a throbbing pain in his left eye, and the view before him went black.

Talbain and Felicia were in a tight situation. The army of robots they had been fighting had finally decided that they were the bigger threat, and promptly started ganging up on them. To make things worse, they noticed Neo suddenly groaning in pain, while covering his left eye. They had quickly grabbed him, and tried to avoid the army of robots, but the machines were persistent to no end, promptly charging at them as they tried to jump away.

“Darn it! This is bad,” Talbain thought as they tried to avoid the army of robots, but with little success, on the count that the robots kept coming at them relentlessly.

“Not good!” Felicia thought, as the robots were just about ready to get them, it didn’t help that she and Talbain had already fought these things, and they had barely survived. It didn’t look like they were going to be so lucky this time, and then something unexpected happened.

Neo, still propped on Talbain’s shoulder, had been holding his left eye in pain, even while Talbain and Felicia had been busy dodging the oncoming robots. However, as suddenly as it came, the strange feeling vanished, but when he saw the oncoming robots, his mind promptly went blank. Acting more out of instinct rather than rational thought, Neo immediately pointed his right hand towards the oncoming robots, and something broke loose.

Talbain and Felicia were pretty much at the end of their rope, or at least that’s what they thought before they felt an immense darkforce building up. They were even more surprised to see Neo pointing his right palm at the oncoming robots.

Energy began collecting in Neo’s open palm. Normally it would have been dark energy, on the count that he was a darkstalker, but strangely, what collected was a mixture of light and dark energy that swirled together until it formed a perfect sphere in Neo’s palm.

“Chaos.... Liberation!!” Neo suddenly called out, the words suddenly popping into his head, as he fired the intense amount of energy at the robots. The energy hit the entire army, and in a matter of seconds, there was nothing left of the army of robots that had menaced the town only a few moments ago. With the threat gone, Neo seemed to relaxed a bit, before his vision slowly started to fade.

Talbain and Felicia didn’t know what to think, as they saw the spot where the robots had been a few moments ago. Now, there was nothing to show that they had been there at all. Looking towards Neo, they had wanted to ask him about that when they noticed the boy already slipping into sleep.

“He must be real tired after what he just did,” Felicia said simply, causing both her and Talbain to chuckle slightly at the boy, now fast asleep.

When Neo woke up, he found himself in the hollow tree trunk he had always called home. Looking out, he saw Talbain and Felicia already prepared to leave.

“Are you guys leaving?” Neo asked them, seeming disappointed. They only nodded in response.

“Okay. I guess this is goodbye then,” Neo said, beginning to sound depressed.

“Guess so,” Talbain replied, before winking slightly at Felicia. Neo looked down at the ground. What he didn’t know was that he was in for a big surprise. It came when Felicia added, “Or you could come with us.”

At that, Neo’s head suddenly shot up in surprise when he heard the offer. “So, what’ll it be, little bro?” Talbain added, although he and Felicia already had an idea of what the answer was going to be.

Neo had only one thing on his mind. Before he realized it, he was hugging the two darkstalkers, while continuously saying the same thing. Yes.

Neo was sitting in the train that he had been brought to. Looking out at the moving view infront of him, he felt happier than he had ever felt in his life. As he watched the town pass by, he looked towards the two darkstalkers in front. Smilling, he watched as they left the old place he used to call home, he was happy that he had met them. Afterall, now he had a big bro and big sis with him. Looking back out to the scenery, a small red glow began to shine in his left eye, hidden by his straight black hair....

Authors note:

Done. This isn’t the end of this fanfic. Heck! This fanfic is just getting started. Sorry for the long wait, been really busy with life and writers block. If there are any questions, please submit via review.