A Hard Day at Work By Jess Howe From the darkness he watched, tracking her every move as she went about her daily work in the diner. The wolf smirked watching his new target trip and nearly spill the plate of food all over her customer. Pulling out and opening a large folder he stared at a picture of his target, "Sunee D. Paws, what a wonderful name for such an unfortunate woman," He chuckles to himself as he looked back up at her. Ghostwolf shook his head closing the folder and putting it away, "this one is going to be easy as cake," he said to himself. He yawned stretching his back as two large white wings unfolded behind him stretching out to their full length. Ghostwolf was a tall six foot seven inches with black fur, it blurred as if made of smoke, but seemed to drip down his body as if it was made of blood. As a demon his job was simple, kill innocent victims and take their souls to hell for his boss. He had gotten a new assignment a few days ago. The corgi Sunee D. Paws was the new target to be killed, her soul was full of energy that was needed to help keep hell running. Ghostwolf yawned once more and hid his wings while he cracked his knuckles, "well I’m not going to learn more about her from here better go inside," he thought to himself as he walked towards the brightly lit diner. ... "MMM, cake," Sunee said, staring at the cake on the plate and drooled a little. She was average for a female of her species, four foot eight, a little pudgy around the waist but overall a normal, happy, bouncing corgi, who was about to help herself to a slice of cake from the diner she worked at when a hand appeared in front of her and snapped her back to reality, "Sunee you know that’s not for you now go give it to the customer." Sunee turned her head towards the voice and saw her boss a tall lanky hyena glaring at her, "Oh right...for the customer... sorry boss," she chuckled trying to blow it off and picked up the plate smiling wide as she took it to the table it was destined for. Sunee smiled as she handed the pup his cake watching his eyes widen in happiness, "another happy customer," Sunee thought to herself as she turned to head back to the kitchen. Bubbling with glee Sunee didn't see where she was going and walked right into a chair. She stumbled and fell grabbing for the nearest thing to support her, unfortunately the nearest thing was Ghostwolf who had just walked into the diner to get a closer look at his target. The wolf eyes went wide as he tumbled onto a table sending food and drink flying onto the dolphin couple sitting there. Sunee apologized over and over again, the wolf was about to say it was okay but wasn’t able to finish his sentence as the table legs broke under his weight bringing both Ghostwolf and table crashing to the floor. Sunee watched as her boss apologized to both the couple and the wolf, "I’m so sorry this will never happen again," he said glaring over at Sunee who squeaked and lowered her head. The couple huffed and left the diner while the wolf stayed and sat in the furthest booth watching Sunee get scolded by her boss. She sniffed looking up at her boss, tears in her eyes, "I...I'm sorry." Her boss sighed and laid a paw on her shoulder, "look Sunee I can't keep looking over these accidents, if you keep this up I’m going to have to fire you," he said causing the corgi to raise her head her eyes wide. The hyena shook his head, "just get back to work, we can talk about this later." ... Ghostwolf smiled wide and breathed in the fear that his target emitted, "mmm the smell of fear is sweet on her, might play with her for a while," he said to himself smirking down at the table as he heard someone cough. Looking up he blinked seeing the corgi smiling at him, "hello again sir," she said blushing and rubbing the back of her head, "s...sorry about the nose,” she pointed at Ghostwolf’s bloody nose as he just waved a paw, "it’s okay." His target nodded as she lifted up a pad and paper, "well what will be your order for this fine morning," she smiled wide at him as he hummed for a second, "I think I’ll have a steak, raw, and some coffee, " he said smiling, waiting for the corgi to tell him they don’t serve steak in the morning, "hopefully this might get her fired, hmmm might kill herself from depression alone," he thought laughing internally until she smiled and nodded, "right away sir," she says turning around and walking away. Ghost stared with wide eyes as she walked away, “they actually serve steak this early in the morning?” he thought to himself and shook his head growling, “I’ve got to find some way to get her to die” he said to himself as he sat to think up a plan. While thinking to himself in that dark corner of the diner he was interrupted by a slim paw pushing into his field of view. The wolf looked up to see a rat couple smiling down at him the female pulling back her paw, “hi there sir, we saw what happened a few minutes ago and we thought you could use some company,” the female said smiling at the male next to her who merely nodded in agreement. Ghostwolf stared at the two, “no,” he said, his voice flat and intimidating. Both of the couple flinched a bit as the female smiled, “oh come on I really think you need to company,” the foolish rat slowly laid a paw on Ghost’s shoulder. Ghostwolf stared at the paw then back at the couple as his eyes squinted. Suddenly the couple’s eyes with wide in shock as the female pulled her paw back. They screamed in terror as Ghost showed his true form of the smoky demon he was and ran out of the diner. Sunee approached with his order her eyes wide in worry. Quickly she walked up to him, “are you okay sir? Do you know why that couple ran from you?” she asked. Ghost shrugged and looked at the entrance, “I don’t know, maybe they saw something,” he said smirking as she nodded and set his food and coffee down, “okay well tell me if there is anything you need,” she said. She turned around to leave but wobbled slightly, causing her tail to hit Ghost’s coffee forcing it off the table and spilling the hot liquid onto his lap. “Will do, thank y…..AAHHHHH!!!” Ghost screamed in pain as the hot liquid scorched his crotch. He howled in pain as the corgi turned again with wide eyes, “OH GOD IM SO SORRY,” she yelled quickly grabbing napkins from the dispenser and started to pat Ghost’s crotch down. Ghostwolf sat there in shock, both from the burning pain in his crotch and the fact that the sudden movement of the corgi caused her breasts to smack his head back and straight into the window behind him knocking him out. … Sunee quickly patted down the man’s crotch not noticing the fact that she knocked him out as people started to surround and whisper. “GET OUT OF THE WAY,” her boss screamed pushing his way through, “what happened now Sunee?” the hyena sighed looking at the spilled coffee and back to Sunee, “and quit patting his crotch you’re making people stare.” Sunee suddenly stopped realizing what she was doing and squeaked turning around quickly, “I…I’m sorry sir I didn’t mean to, my tail just…got in the way,” she looked down and whimpered as her boss sighed, “It’s fine I’m sure you didn’t mean to and I’m sure the costumer can forgive you, right sir….sir?” the hyena turned his attention to the knocked out wolf and sighed, “damn it Sunee you did it again, you got to bind those things or something when you come to work,” he said pointing at Sunee’s large breasts as she blinks and stared at the knocked out wolf realizing what happened, “oh god…. I’m so sorry,” she said as the black wolf sitting down groaned and woke up, “ohhh god my head,” he said opening his eyes to a group of people staring at him. Slowly he realized that his crotch was still burning and got up and ran to the bathroom as the crowded people went back to their seats. In the back room Sunee was putting her work stuff away in her locker, “I’m such a klutz,” she said to herself sighing. Picking up her purse she closed the locker and turned around to see her boss staring at her, “oh sir…I….I was just going to leave…I’m sure I’m fired right?’ she said sadly and slowly walked pass him. She heard a sigh as his paw touched her shoulder stopping her. “One more chance…got that?” he said. Sunee turned around with wide eyes and squealed nodding as she hugged the hyena and walked out of the back room. The hyena sighed and shook his head, “she is going to be the death of me.” Sunee skipped through the diner smiling as she said goodbye to the customers not taking notice of the men staring at her with dazed eyes. She breathed deeply as she got to the entrance and turned around, “SEE YA ALL TOMORROW!” she yelled smiling as she walked out the door. As she left the men’s bathroom door opened to the black wolf wiping a paper towel on his pants to dry them off lifting his head in time to see the corgi leave, “hmmmm here’s my chance,” the wolf said to himself and followed the corgi out the door. … Ghostwolf slowly followed the corgi in the shadows as he smiled with a wide toothy grin. “Hmmm I wonder if I can make her heart stop from fear,” he thought smiling an even wider grin as he disappeared into the shadows and moved up a block away taking control of a homeless man sitting against a wall. The scraggly rabbit’s eyes went wide as slowly they turned black and he slumped forward. Slowly the possessed rabbit lifted his head and smiled, “here we go now to just get her attention, she is a goody goody so she should want to help,” the bunny said smiling as he went back to slumping against the wall holding out a cup. He watched slowly as the corgi walked towards him and shook the cup the contents jingling, “spare some change lady?” the bunny asked in a scraggly voice. Sunee stopped and looked down with wide eyes, “oh of course,” she said reaching into her purse and pulled out a few dollars and leaned down to put them into the cup. With quick and fluid movements the bunny grabbed the corgi’s arm and pulled her face directly near his as it starts to melt away showing a grotesque pile of rotting flesh, an eyeball was seen hanging from its socket while the other one seemed to just be melting down his face. He laughed manically as he waited for the corgi to move back in fear. “Oh you poor thing,” Sunee said reaching into her back and pulled out a few hundred dollars and put them in the cup and smiled, “there you go now you can have surgery to fix that problem,” Sunee stood up smiling and walked away leaving the possessed bunny with his jaw near the floor….literally causing people to scream and run away. Shaking his head he turned the bunny back to normal and left his brain leaving the confused bunny to look at his cup and see the money left in it his eyes wide. Ghostwolf growled and traversed through the shadows following the corgi. She suddenly turned around forcing him to quickly hide wondering what she was looking at. He saw her smile and he turned to see what she was smiling at to see the bunny he had possessed jumping up and down in joy hollering at her a thank you. Ghostwolf stared at the bunny then back to the corgi with disgust, “great not only did I not scare her to death I caused joy to happen,” he gagged and shook his head, “okay that’s it ill just take control of her and have her walk into a bus,” he said quickly shooting out of the shadows heading straight for Sunee. As soon as he touched her shadow though a bright light shot out, the light seared his flesh causing him to scream. The corgi turned her head as a shadow ran past the corner of her eye into an alley way and shrugged, “well that was a bright shine, guess some silver car must have went buy,” she said and continued walking while Ghostwolf hid in the shadows glaring at her, “her soul is too pure for me to touch it, fuck what am I going to do,” he thought to himself looking around the alleyway. He smiled wide as he saw a sickly looking crow sitting next to a dumpster staring at him, “yo, man, got any meth on ya?,” the crow said struggling for a second to get up his body shaking, “I…I’ll do anything, hell…ill suck you dick,” the druggy said causing the wolf her smile, “oh….you don’t need to do that, I just need to borrow something,” he said. Before the crow could ask what the wolf turned to liquid and crashed into the crow causing the man to try and scream only to have black sludge push down his throat. The crow fell down gagging as his eyes slowly turned pitch black. The gagging turned into laughing as the crow looked up and saw the corgi head towards the bus station, “I may not be able to possess you but I can possess others to kill you,” the wolfs voice echoed out of the crows mouth as he looked around and saw a shard of glass. Picking it up the crow ran out into the daylight holding the shard up. Ghostwolf was blinded by hate for the corgi and only wanted to end his job fast as he ran across the street to the screams of people. A smiled crossed the crows lips as he got closer and closer to the wide eyed corgi, “yes fear me, soon my job will be over and I’ll….,” Ghostwolf’s thoughts were soon stopped as a bus slammed into the crow sending him flying across the street and landing on a car. … Sunee had never been more terrified then when she saw that mad crow heading straight for her with a large piece of glass in his hand. She was shaking as he was hit by the bus, blood flinging all over her as she watched him fly into a bright yellow care. Glass shattered and metal creaked as it bent from the man’s weight and Sunee was just staring in shock. The events that happened passed by Sunee in a blur, the medics checked up on her to make sure she was okay before taking the crow’s dead body away in their van. People were crowding over her asking all sorts of questions. One elderly sheep lady laid a hand on her shoulder and looked up at her smiling, “it’s okay dear, at least you’re safe,” she said. Sunee merely nodded her head and walked away from the crowed. The police asked her a few questions, do you know who the man is? Do you know why he was trying to hurt you? Yada yada yada…. She honestly didn’t care, she just wanted to get home. The police were nice enough to drive her to her apartment and walked her to her door. The large Doberman looked towards his partner, a female hyena, about the same height as Sunee, and nodded at her as he walked down the stairs towards the cop car. The female police officer sighed and looked at Sunee, “we are having officers watch your place to make sure there aren’t any more attempts on your life,” she said. Sunee nodded and said a quick thank you before closing her door and locking it. Sunee turned around and slumped down onto the floor crying heavily from the events. She couldn’t see the shadow of a wolf smiling as she shook. “I finally got her,” the wolf thought to himself as he looked over at the kitchen and saw the knife block. Slowly the block started tipping over and feel clattering tot eh floor and releasing all the blades. Sunee jumped at the large noise and looked towards the kitchen seeing the knives and crawled over grabbing one. The wolf smiled wide as she looked at her wrists. Sunee’s crying stopped as she heard a meow and looked up putting the knife down as her fluffy orange cat moved towards her and crawled onto her lap. Sunee smiled lightly as she hugged her pet cat lovingly, “Oh Morenza what would I do without you,” she said petting the cat. Sunee sighed and closed her eyes not noticing her cat staring at the shadow wolf smirking at him as he growled and disappeared in a puff of smoke, “check mate” the orange cat quietly said, her voice sounded just like the old sheep woman’s voice that comforted Sunee at the accident site; The angel smiled as she snuggled into Sunee’s petting purring gently. … "THATS IT I QUIT," The muffled words came from behind the large red wooden doors as Lucifer lifted up his head in surprise. The two large doors burst inwards showing a very angry wolf. His large white wings unfurled wide as he walked into his bosses office. “She’s unkillable, unfuckingkillable," he yammered pulling at his hair and sat down in a chair just opposite of Lucifer’s desk. "I've tried everything, scaring her to death, I tried killing her myself but only got burned from her soul’s pureness, and I fucking tried killing her by possessing someone AND GOT HIS BY A FUCKING BUS! But she just…won’t….die! What the hell is she I mean….” Lucifer stayed silent letting the wolf rant as he signed some papers and sighed. He waited until the wolf was finished with his rant and spoke in a flat deep voice, "It's good to see you too Ghostwolf, " he smirked as the wolf glared at him only to sigh and fold his white wings in getting more comfortable in the chair as he shook his head, "I'm sorry, it’s just....I tried everything," Ghostwolf said as his boss nodded his head and pulled out a folder out, opening it and pushing it toward the wolf, "I told you she was a tough kill," Lucifer pulled some papers out of the file as he spoke reading the information, "Sunee D. Paws, ah yes she has a good knack at keeping herself alive even when she doesn’t realize it, must have one good guardian angel on her back," he smiled and looked up seeing the wolf glare at him and laughs. “I’m guessing you met her huh?” The wolf nodded as he scoffed, “she was an arch angel,” he said as Lucifer’s eyes widened, “oh really now? Well she must be very important to her,” he said pointing up and smirked, “guess you are going to have to go back and try to get her to come down to hell,” the king of all demons smiled as the wolfs eyes went wide and shook his head, “No…no please no…..come one I’ll do anything else…anything!” the wolf said standing up. The devil smiled wide, “anything you say,” he said watching the wolf eyes went wide, “oh no,” the wolf said before the devil snapped his fingers and he disappeared in a puff of smoke, “have fun taking care of the newborn demons Ghostwolf,” he laughed as a scream echoed throughout hell. The end?