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Rise of the Demon Huntress (In First Person) Pt 4

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      Early the next morning we began the torture of the demon. Once everyone decided to take forever to wake up, I had a crack at him first.  

      "Let's start small: Who are you?"

      "None of your concern, human. Your race will be wiped out in a deluge of blood!" He (I'm assuming it was a he) hissed

      Time for breaking him down just a wee bit. I cast a strength exponentia and flicked him in the face hard enough to slide him across the concrete. "We'll try that again." I walked over to his squirming form, "Now who are you?"

      He must have really wanted to die, because he rolled over and spat a glob of saliva at me. I dodged it, but it was the act that irritated me. I jabbed him in the gut with two fingers. The demon's eyes bulged out in pain and he hurried began telling me his name, "Bargoth!! Bargoth!!"

      "Well nice to meet you, Bargoth. Do you mind telling me why your race is even here?"

      He gasped for air almost in a panic, "We- we came here to kill humans for stopping our last invasion attempt! It's our revenge! When we killed you all we move to Nihil!"

      "What's Nihil?"

      "I-I don't know actually. I've only heard rumors that it's where magic comes from." he stuttered

      This was an interesting concept. No one really had an idea where magic came from. We kind of assumed it was from within us or something. This was a question for another day. For now, we needed enemy layouts.

      I turned to Alice "You said you could get him to tell the exact position of everyone?"

      She had the most crazed grin on her face when I said that. "Oh yes...." she stood up "That I can get."

      Needless to say, that the session, if you want to call it that, went well. For the next hour or so, the demons screamed in agony as Alice ripped the details out of him. The thing was, she never laid a hand on him. I'm not too good at sorcery (even though I'm a Master in it.), so I can't quite explain what she did, but Bargoth did have shadows leaking from his eyes and it didn't look fun.

      Alice walked over to all of us with a look of triumph. "Got the enemy layout! They're all going to be centered around the control room. Their main goal is to protect someone named 'Kane'. The closer we get to the control center, the more deadly the demons are. Guarding the door to the control center are two guards only know as 'Sentinels'. They're apparently some experimental type of demon."

      I wanted to get the answers I wanted first really bad, but I really would rather not have to deal with a dead Nero. "Hey, Natasha, do you mind scouting the area out with Alice while I go and escort Nero to the front lines? It shouldn't take long and... be careful."

      I made my way to downtown Divitiae where all the real intense fighting took place. I was actually expecting something like an ambush to happen, but nothing. We made it to the front lines without fault and Nero thanked me for getting him there in one piece. Anticlimactic in my opinion, but easier.

      I should have figured something that easy would be followed by something much worse. I was walking down one of the desolate highway when I heard the crunch of glass. It wasn't me. Then I heard the faint Shling! of a blade being drawn and internally groaned. I really didn't feel like dealing with bandits or demons. I held my hands up in a sign of surrender while mentally prepping to summon up my Tempus Gladio.

      It was five bandits. "If you want money, I'm broke. If you're want sex, you don't want it. I bite."

      They all glanced at each other. "Hand over your supplies!" one said nervously. I assumed it was because he truly wanted to get this done without killing me. "C-come on now! I'm not joking!"

      I decided to end this quickly. I rushed forward in two steps and dis armed the one bandit talking and knocked him unconscious instantly. I don't think I killed him. The others backed up and drew their assorted blades, one even drew a pistol. How cute. I summoned my Tempus Gladio in my left hand, letting the cool feel of Time rush through my fingers. Then, I drew my new sword with my right hand.

      "Kill her!" one of them shouted

      I kind of had a morality moment and didn't kill them when I could have done so easily. I used the flat of my blade to stun them and the hilt to knock them out. That one asshole with a pistol actually shot me! Right in the chest. Luckily I was wearing good armor and he was using shit bullets, but still! What a bitch!! I almost stabbed him in the face just for that. But I didn't because "Concepts of Morality".

      As I was beating the soul out of the last guy, a slip of paper fell out of his pocket. Once I was sure he wasn't dead, I grabbed it and read it. The note was written is shaky handwriting like it was done on the move and it read "Find them! All three! The one with white hair, the one who commands shadows, and that one prick who keeps attacking our base! -Kane" Under that in much neater writing read, "What vague shit is this!?" which had the response of "JUST FIND THEM!" under it. I assumed it was magic paper (Writer's
Note: Think texting with a piece of paper.) otherwise, this was a really strange meeting. "Let's only talk on this sheet of paper!"

      The rest of the way back was pretty uneventful. I encountered a demon torso still alive, until it met me. Once I was back, it was getting pretty dark and I was wondering where the others were. After about 20 minutes or so Natasha stumbled from the shadows. She looked badly hurt. I rushed to help her and cast a healing spell. "What happened?!" I asked

      "Me and Alice were scouting out," she gulped for air, "and demons came. A lot. Too many. They-they got Alice." she said

      "Goddamnit! Get some rest, Natasha." I got up and carried Natasha over to an abandoned building with fairly decent protection. "I'm going to get Alice."

      She jolted at that. "NO! Don't do it. Their leader... is too strong." She coughed once, "You won't survive."

      "His ass is mine to cut into a thousand pieces!" And with that I left to head towards the weapons facility, scythe fully drawn, seething full of hate. I'm really fond of my friends and I'd go to the ends of Favent for them. No one was gonna lay a hand on them and live!

      I stood at the doors of Divitiae's Finest and kicked the doors open. As I walked the halls, I could hear the distant howls of demons and screams of something human and in pain. This made my blood boil! According  to the signs, I was approaching the storage room and behind that room would be the production area. I opened the door and unconsciously cast a spell of invisibility. At the front of the room, there was a man in a white suite with a throne made of what looked like demon scales. On the cranes, cages filled with humans passed overhead.

      The man stood up and looked in my general direction. "Ahhh! It seems we have a new guest!" Several demons began to look around when he said that.

      I silently snuck up and climbed up behind this man when he snapped his fingers and I began to come into view. I swung my scythe at him, but he ducked and punched me in the stomach so hard I fell over the rail, off the catwalk and into a pile of weapons. I could barely keep living from that one hit. I couldn't see, hear, think, taste, feel anything but pain. I finally recovered as demons were picking apart the cases of weapons I crashed in. I couldn't find my weapon, so I picked up the first thing my hands grabbed, an assault rifle. It'll do. I got up, cast a strength exponential and jumped straight into the air raining hot titane death from above (Writer's Note: Yes all weapon's in Favent come pre-loaded with bullets).

      When I landed, I gun-butted the nearest demon and got him in choke hold. I looked for my weapon while backing up and when I saw it, I snapped the demon's neck and rushed towards it, rolling while picking it up and got to cutting. With every spin, more limbs went flying, spraying black demon blood everywhere. Violence towards people I find wring, but against demons... It makes me feel ALIVE! I slung my scythe into the temple of another demon and pulled backwards, splitting his face in two. Larger demons were starting to surround me so I had to find out a way to get out of there.

      My next priority was finding Alice. I jumped over the heads of several demons and slipped on a stack of knives and three got stuck in my arm. I didn't feel the blades pierce my skin, but I did feel the warm feeling of blood trickle down my arm. I yanked them out and cast a spell of healing for the gashes. I activated my chestplate to get to higher ground and I saw that man in the white suit. He seemed a little shocked that I was there and said, "So our prey has wings and claws to fight back? This should be fun!" He turned towards the door where production would take place and called out, "OH, LEMNOTH! THERE'S FOOD FOR YOU!!"

      Then production room's door exploded as this hulking giant of a demon bust through. Look, I'm a confident person, but that thing? No, I ran away from that thing. It came through the door, taking some of the surrounding wall with it and started looking for me, I guess. Me, being intelligent, decided to bolt right past it and hope to get away. It was between that or dealing with the surrounding demons. I fly up into the air and I fly straight towards that Lemnoth guy. Yeah... it didn't go as planned. He grabs me out the air by my legs and slams me to the ground. I skipped across the ground like a rock and I heard the tell-tell snap of ribs breaking. Fucking great. It felt like a knife made of the sun was cutting my chest open and I could feel the broken bones trying to break my skin. It was really only my chestplate keeping them in. I coughed a little and could taste the flavor of iron in my mouth. I had some internal bleeding. Everything hurt... I was losing vision. I had a hard time trying to think of the correct spell of healing. I needed something to repair organs... "Relevium" I said casting a Master-level healing spell. It was effective, but not quick enough. That hulking beast was still approaching me, and this spell takes time to fully work. I swallowed my pride and ran away. I had to at least get out of there alive. I could hear the demons getting closer to me, I as almost to the door when I felt a hand grab me from behind and sling me backwards. It was this asshole in the white suit.

      "And where do you think you're going?" he said calling off the demons

      I slowly got up and changed my scythe into a sword. "I believe the exit is right in front of me and I'm trying to leave. You've been a wonderful host, but my curfew is almost here."

      Then he lunged forward in the blink of an eye and grabbed me by the throat. "Unfortunately, you can't leave until dinner's served and can you guess who the main course is?"

      I had a feeling it was either me or my captured friend, Alice. "Who.. are you" I said through a clenched throat

      "I am Kane. The one who will lead these demons to take over this land! A Demon Commander!"

      "Well... you'll still die... like the others, you-" I kinda got cut off as he slammed me into the floor and began to press harder on my throat. My lungs stung from the reduced air I was getting. I couldn't even talk, just gasp like a fish. I clawed at his arms at tore flesh from his arms, but it was no point. I gathered all my strength, curled my hand around the hilt of my sword and plunged the blade into this Kane's chest.

      He fell off of me and clutched his bleeding chest. "KILL HER!!" he howled in pain

       I got up and looked around. I relaxed and felt the healing spell run its course and sped up time for me. I was getting Alice out of this hellhole. The first demon died before he even knew it and so did the next seven. Mid-swing on the 8th, I summoned up my Tempus Gladio and began cutting through the demons. I cut down each demon that came to me and spilled their blood before they could touch me. I still had a large group of demons left by the time I got to Lemnoth. I cast a speed exponentia and leaped into the air, right over Lemnoth and landed, rolling and running. While the demons still followed closely behind me, I was looking for any cage that might be holding Alice. I found where all the cages were being stored and looked to see if Alice was there.

      "We will repay tenfold the injury dealt to Kane to this human!" a demon screeched

      "She will make for an excellent meal!" another laughed

      "She'll be so tasty! My mouth is watering at the thought of her flesh!" another said, along with... other things.

      I finally found the cage with Alice in it. She wasn't moving. I cut open the cage door and grabbed Alice. Now there was the issue of the demons now surrounding me. I was actually out of ideas. I was really burning out of magic from having to use two healing spells, speeding up time, and using this Tempus Gladio. I decided to lay Alice down and make a stand here. I only had a 10x10 foot space to work with and two 3 foot-long swords and an unconscious body to not cut to pieces. Tactical genius...

      Then Alice got up and gripped my shoulders, "Let me handle this." she whispered

      That's when the shit hit the fan for the demons. I saw shadows radiate off of Alice, somehow growing darker than black with every step she took. She summoned a dagger made of pitch black shades and began to weave a trail of death through the demons. The strange thing was that the blade didn't cut through the demons, it just cut through them, leaving no wounds at all. All the fallen demons had shadows leaking from their faces. There was a reason Alice got the nickname "Empress of Shadows". Even though she is a Master, she has Grandmaster power in shadow sorcery. It's actually kind of unnerving. I waded through the bodies of the slain demons and saw Kane looking at the carnage with a look of white-hot fury.

      "What... happened here?!" Kane shouted

      Alice looked at Kane with a maniacal smile, "You're the one who's responsible for this?!"

      Kane did a wicked snarl and seemed to tear open the air and grabbed a sword made of flesh and bone. "I'll deal with you myself." he said as he charged at Alice. We both ducked under his blade and I'm glad we did because it cut through the entire cage. The cage fell apart and we leapt from the cage wreckage. Kane kept coming for us, slicing everything in his path. We finally got to a wide catwalk and began to make our stand there. First he came at me with a very simple 3 swing attack that I blocked really easily. Then he did a sweeping at Alice and everything got rapid paced after that. It was a flurry of attacks I could barely keep up with. I'm not sure how Alice was doing, but since she was still alive, she couldn't be doing too bad.

       I'm not sure how long we fought. It felt like we were going at it for almost an hour when we finally got our backs literally against a wall. We were having a hard time getting through this guy's offensive, much less get a good hit on him. The wall behind us was getting shredded to a million pieces as we ducked and weaved through his attacks.

       I suddenly had a bright idea hoping it wouldn't backfire, I grabbed Alice by the waist and flew into the air to get to a larger area, then Kane threw his sword at us like a javelin, hitting Alice in the shoulder.

       "YOU SON OF A BITCH!!" Alice yelled. Then she yanked the sword out and threw it back in a spinning motion. The blade missed Kane completely, but it did hit the support beams holding the bridge segment Kane was standing on. He had a look of realization and fell into the mangled cages below. Now that one threat was dealt with at least temporarily, we had to deal with the next threat that was trying to grab us, Lemnoth. He had a fist-full of wreckage and his hands and he was aiming it at us. The fist chunk was ultra inaccurate and nearly missed us completely. The second hand full? Not so much. A large wooden plank hit me square in the face and several others hit me in general and I sort of fell out of the sky... again... by this dickwad. I think that was enough to get my blood pumping. When we were falling, I did a rolling land and set Alice on her feet then drew both of my swords.

      "Lemnoth crush human!" that hulking beast of flesh and scale said

      "I'd like to see you try that." Alice and I said

      Then Lemnoth ripped a section of catwalk from the ceiling and held it like a club. Then he charged at us ready for the kill.

      "I go left, you go right?" I asked Alice

      "Let's do it!"

      We split and attacked Lemnoth from both sides. I flew up and started trying to attack Lemnoth's throat. For as large as he was, he could use that catwalk-sword to deadly effectiveness. I think Alice was trying to sever Lemnoth's ankles to get him to fall, but that wasn't happening.

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     "Again you had the chance to get out and maybe regroup. You didn't take it for what reason?" Marlin asked

     "Well... it's pretty hard to get out of a building when a 14 foot demon is blocking the door." I responded

      He reached into a folder and pulled out a piece of paper; blueprints to the weapon's facility. "There were several doors in the area you're describing."

      "It's not like I'm actively looking for a door while getting my ass handed to me by a super demon."

      "TouchΓ©. Keep going."

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      We fought Lemnoth for a good minute, the entire time I was wondering when Kane would reappear to finish us off, but it strangely didn't happen during the fight. Lemnoth swung his makeshift sword with immense force. There was no blocking it, if that thing hit me I was going to be really dead. Alice and I ducked and weaved in and out of his attacks with the grace of dancers and struck with the ferocity of snakes.

      This Lemnoth demon could heal faster than a common demon, but not as fast as a Commander. Part of my family motto is "If it bleeds, we can kill it." So this guy was gonna die by a blade. Over time, we had eventually dealt more cuts to him than he could possibly heal back. Lemnoth's breathing began to get labored, his swings getting slower and less powerful. We grouped up for the killing blow when Kane reared his ugly mug around the battle again.

      His white suit was covered in holes, probably from falling onto several broken cage poles. Kane had a look that probably would've killed everyone and he had a white-knuckle grip on his sword. "You..." he said, "You... are going to die right here, right now." His eyes glowed red when he looked at Lemnoth. "And you... you were a FAILURE!!!" he screamed as he lunged at least 40 feet in a single step and tore Lemnoth apart.

      "Please, master!! Noooooooo.....!!!" Lemnoth cried as Kane ripped into him

      "Can't let an experiment[1] do a job a demon should do." Kane said as he spat on Lemnoth's corpse.

      I crossed my swords in a defensive stance, ready for hopefully anything.

      Kane gave a wide, wicked grin and pointed his sword, "Come at me..."




                                             [End Part 4]
1) Lemnoth is a "Blood Experiment". Basically demons used blood magic and naming magic to make new life. It was still a prototype by the time the demons invaded our world.

Whew! Part 4 is done!!! Everyone who won that contest has been mentioned (but they're not done yet!) and we can start getting to the conclusion of this small arc.
If any errors are present in this story, then please let me know. Enjoy!
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