"D-dad?" The priest looks at Jackson with malicious intent, he throws a punch at him, knowing he won't fight back. He then throws Jackson a good twenty meters, all while The Devil tier with no eyes falls back. "So, are you coming back?" A devil man asked. He wore a mask that had no eyes or nose, only a disturbed looking clown smile. "In a second" The Devil Man says. The Father throws Jackson up and down with his powers, at one point breaking his back. Jackson cries in pain at the sheer force being exerted on him. "Please, don't."
"WHY DON'T YOU MAKE ME THEN?!" The Father throws him against a building. Jackson's back recovers. He still doesn't get up though. "D-dad, why, why are you hurting me?" The Father doesn't know how to respond. "I-is a s-son not allowed to love h-his f-father?" Jackson asked as his face streams tears. He can't hide his feelings for his father, he loved him. No matter how evil he was, he raised him to be the man he was. Jackson kisses the cross that he wears, expecting to die. But he feels a hand on his shoulder. "Son, of course you're allowed to love, but you shouldn't love me." Jackson looks his father in the eyes. "S-son, I can't stand this, I don't know why, but you were nothing but a burden to me."
Jackson cries, yet he looks his dad in the eyes. "And yet the lord thy God said, honor your mother and father. Did you not teach me that?" He stands with a sword in hand ready to fight his old man. "That's why, I won't kill you dad, no matter how much you hate me, I won't stop loving you!" The Father immediately changes character as his eyes glow a bright red. "Haha, your funeral, too bad your fake God won't save you."
Jackson's face turns red. "You lied?!" The Father feels a sudden rush of pain, he looks down to see his lower half penetrated by a huge tentacle. "Coward, killing a man who can't kill back, you're a disgrace." A giant elder man stomps behind The Devil Man.
"Boy, you better be careful now, they might be invading, you must fall back." An Elder King says to The Devil Man. "One second" Max sighs as he looks on to see Rex. "So boy, you have chosen..."
Death.
The Elder King's mask revels a glowing eye, however it looked different from the others. This one was red with a more subtle black background. He had three slits on the other side where is left eye would be, and there were five cracks all around his right red eye. Inside the eye a red fire flared as the entity glows a strong violent red. He grows two giant lances right next to his arms, acting as sharp blades and blunt weapons. Armor made of flesh and blood grew all around him. Rex pulls out his sword and poses a fighter stance. While Jackson struggles to stand against the Devil Man. "Listen up man, I'll let you go if you..." Jackson laughs as he cuts The Devil Man off. "I can't just walk away, I swore I'd protect humanity from you." The Devil Man stances up. "Then, I'll give you a warrior's death." Rex interjects. "No, Jackson, run away, no one will fault you, please!" As Max, The Elder King, sends Rex flying, The Devil Man raises his tentacles, he gets ready to charge at Jackson. Jackson sends the first blow.
Present day.
As the sun rises over the city, John reaches it and finds soldiers evacuating the surviving agents off the battlefield. Among them is Rex. The only survivor from his squad. Hanna is seen crying over Jackson's body, ripped apart and covered in blood. Even more horrified when Jeff's body is rolled out, all burnt from Greg's bomb. The Golden God looks around to see all the destruction left behind, saddened by the fact that for the first time in history,
He failed.
There was nothing he could do.
Meanwhile back in Wellston High, Remi and Blyke are setting up stuff for The Safe House. They walk in the room to find Isen hiding behind the table. "Oh, hi guys" Isen chimes. "Dude, why are you hiding behind a table, we can clearly see you?" Blyke asks. "Guys, why does Arlo always wanna fight John?" Isen asks. "What happened?" Remi asks concerned. "Well, I uhh, ran into Arlo, and he said that I have to do some spying on John, but I didn't want to so he, well....."
Isen shivers.
"Look man, why don't you just go to John?" Blyke suggests. "Uhh, I actually did that and well, he has my ability now, so Arlo found out I gave him my ability, and well he wanted to know more about our confrontation." Remi looks at Isen confused.
"And?" Isen shakes his orange hair. "He said I had to go out and spy for real now and that...." Isen pauses, hesitating as he contemplates whether he's telling too much info to the group or not.
"Ugh, man, I always get caught in their crossfire?!" Isen asked frustrated. "What made John tick?" Remi asked. "Arlo said he would cut off John and Seraphina, and now John won't think logically." Remi sighs. "Oh Jesus Arlo!" Blyke shakes his head. "Dammit, this can't end well. He poked a hornets nest." Isen stands up. "Well, it's fine, we should start setting up stuff for the club."
Remi and Blyke nod their head as Elaine pops her head in. "Hey guys!" Elaine starts to help out with the club preparations. Remi is on top of two desks putting up a banner when she recalls back to some past events.
"Rei, when you were king, no one wanted to listen to you, sadly, your system didn't last long, but you've managed to help influence a greater goal. And that's all that matters. Arlo was also on his own, he tried, but now we might have to switch over to John, The Golden God."
Rei entering Wellston.
"Remi, I want to become a King who's just like The Golden God, someone who's caring to all, not just the elite. He's so inspiring, a hope for us all to not give up on our lives. A hope that someone is watching us and protecting us, leading us to a better future. Where one day we can truly say we are-
Suddenly Remi sees a silhouette of a demon with white flames in its eyes and mouth. It crackled a hideous laugh at it stared down Remi's soul. "AHAHAHAHAHA, YEAH RIGHT, HOW FUCKING PATHETIC!" "AGH!" Remi falls down the desks she made as Blyke looks over, startled by her reaction. "What did you say, REMI?!" Remi falls down to the ground, Blyke uses his ability and runs towards her, he dashes and maneges to catch her, the tables start to fall on Remi, Blyke uses his ability and blasts the tables away, breaking the window.
"REMI, ARE YOU OKAY?!" Blyke asked. "Yeah, thanks for catching me!" Remi says. "Dammit, I broke the classroom." Blyke responds. "That was cool though, you can repel stuff now! Where did you learn it?" Remi asks. "Uhh, when I was fighting Lance that day we went out as super-" Remi cuts Blyke off. "Ohhhhhh, yeah, yeah, yeah." Everyone around stares, shocked at what they just witnessed. Blyke runs out to go get some help while everyone else cleans up, "After fighting Joker, Blyke lost a lot of confidence in himself, I'm glad he moved past it. I hope this helps him gain it back. He needs to realize he has a lot of strength.
Meanwhile in the ninth ring of whatever hell exists. A sinister voice speaks
"So Joker, your plan to use the Devil tiers is going smoothly, but some stuff so far has failed, how do you plan on doing this correctly?" Asked the prince of darkness. "Patience, It doesn't matter who's winning or losing, as long as they fight, I can assure my return will flow smoothly, and I will be able to fight John again." Joker responds. "Your plan better work, because it seems that they are starting to remember their pasts." Joker smiles. "That's the point. Besides my plans always work, I have in one universe a whole decoy Hell full of diversions and fake demons taking my place. I even have a fake Satan ruling there, and on their surface a human detective working with a reaper going on a whole killing spree. And other reapers in gangs killing other people oh man it's insane. Oh and another Earth where people and demons are battling to the death to the point where the Earth is destroyed and humans are turning into devils!"
Joker rambles on and on. Satan leaves Joker to himself, painful memories of him and Sera fighting cross his mind. Sera slaps him, she leaves only for him to grab her, demanding she hear him out. She slaps him and walks away.
"DON'T TOUCH ME!" Sera screams. "CLAIRE, DON'T YOU DARE WALK AWAY FROM ME! I KICKED YOUR ASS ONCE, AND I'LL DO IT AGAIN!" Arlo walks in and defends Sera, lecturing John on how stupid he is, terrorizing the whole school for her only to turn over a misunderstanding as John stands there and becomes the very enemy he must destroy. "LIAR, YOU FUCKED UP MY LIFE, IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE YOU TURNED HER AWAY FROM ME TOO! FUCK OFF, ALL OF YOU!" Joker punches Arlo. "WHO SAID YOU COULD BE HERE! I DON'T WANT TO SEE ANY OF YOU EVER AGAIN, GET THE FUCK OUT, I HATE YOU ALL! Go away, get out of my head, I never asked for this." Joker then looks around to find himself alone in a pit of darkness.
Meanwhile back on the surface
"This ends Saturday" John thought to himself. He heads back to Wellston to endure the school day and all it's wrath, unable to focus, thinking about that blonde woman crying over the man's corpse, torn up from a merciless Devil Man. "I swear, I'll make those bastards pay, and that freak who did that…."
Will suffer!
I'll fulfill the promise I made in front of my parents all those years ago.
I'll kill them all.
Every last one.
Meanwhile, Arlo and Sera are walking together on their way to Physics. Sera strikes up a conversation.
"Hey, mind asking what you said to John that got him so worked up?" Arlo looks up at Sera for a second. "No." Sera looks at Arlo. "Yes" she commands. "Please stop" Arlo says annoyed. "Make me!" Arlo sighs. "Wow you're such a persuasive person" Arlo grumbles. "You know, you shouldn't use your king power's to abuse someone mentally like that!" Arlo stops dead in his tracks, at this point the halls are empty as his eyes widen. "Well, then just say it! You already know what's up, so why are you still acting like you don't know anything? Tell me what do YOU think what happened?!" Sera chuckles. "Guess I wanted to hear it for myself, you know I can make decisions for myself, power's aren't what makes up an entire person." Arlo doesn't speak.
"Got nothing to say, fine, just do us all a favor and stay away from John if you can't act accordingly around him." Arlo loses his composure. "Ahahaha, or else what, it's not like YOU can do anything anyways." Sera in that moment snaps as one of her eyes begins to turn a sinister red.
Sera grabs Arlo by the collar and slams him against a wall, her right eye glows red and black as she looks intensely at Arlo. "STAY AWAY FROM HIM!" Arlo looks at her horrified as she just stares into his soul with her ability on. Sera then drops Arlo and heads to her class, leaving the blonde all by himself before getting a text from Elaine. Arlo takes a moment to forget what he saw and cools down, wishing to forget he started the entire encounter.
Elaine: Hey there hot stuff, meet me in your apartment tonight at 5. I got a surprise for you ;)
Arlo: Oh? Can you give me a sneak peak?
Elaine: Two of your favorite sweets in one place.
Arlo: Haha, can I see one?
Elaine: Which one?
Arlo: Whichever one you think I'll like more ;)
Elaine: Ohhh, so not the cake then huh?
Elaine sends Arlo a pic of her in a dress she bought.
Arlo: Damn girl your looking like the whole restaurant, you belong in the kitchen cause that's were the snacks are kept.
Elaine: Cya at 5 then.
Elaine puts her phone away and texts Sheene to meet up with her to get the supplies for a triple chocolate cake.
Later that day after school.
"Hey Sheene!" Sheene looks back and smiles. "Hello!" Elaine runs up to her. "So, are you ready to start this?" Elaine asks. "Yeah, just, be careful okay, and let's be quick about this, you mentioned this was a store near The south end of New Bostin." Elaine looks at her confused. "Yeah, what's wrong?" she asks. "That's near New Oklahoma territory." Sheene says rather nervously. "Trust me, this should be fine. Plus you know the area well. We'll be quick!" Elaine insists. "Okay" Sheene says nervously. "Plus the guy seemed he knew what he was doing." Elaine recalls to her talking over the phone with a french cake baker as they are on the train heading to New Bostin.
Meanwhile Arlo is heading back to his apartment, thinking about Elaine. He un-packs his bags when he hears a violent scream in his head, a head splitting headache drops him to the ground hard, he sees memories of his past that he long forgot, except everything's clear. "Now Arlo, be nice to your cousins John, James, and Blyke, you could use some high tier friends to take your mind off of school."
Arlo flashes back to Rein.
"But, I alweady have a high tier friend, and she's really nice and sweet, and I really like her." Arlo's dad smiles. "Well chum, just don't give them a hard time, this week will be fun, trust me!" A blond woman opens the door for Arlo and his family as they arrive at a house. "Oh hello Arlo and Blyke, JOHN, JAMES, YOUR COUSINS ARE HERE!" John and James run to the door. The four boys run in the house looking for something to do, then the image skips over to one month later, when Rein invades New Oklahoma City. Then violent images of Elaine being stabbed enter his head, scared and confused he looks around, the clock says 6:03.
"Elaine should have been here by now" Arlo tells himself. Arlo recalls to Elaine being stabbed in his head. Then he sees his Aunt and "Cousins''. "B-but, those are my friends, unless."
"Are we really cousins?"
Arlo shakes his head.
"No time for that, I need to go check on Elaine." Arlo calls Elaine five times, no one picks up. Scared, he decides to think where she would have gone. Assuming the worst he thinks of her last known location. "Okay, so she couldn't have been taken, those kids were expelled and brutally hospitalized, I highly doubt they would mess with us again. But still I'm so worried, what if…." Arlo breaks into a sweat.
"Dammit, what was she....?" Arlo looks back at his texts, he sees that she said something about sweets, remembering she loved baking he thinks back to where she would go. "No, don't tell me she went to that place!" Arlo remembers Elaine's favorite bakery as a child, before Rein went wild, there was a Bakery in New Bostin that she would love to go to as a little girl. "Elaine, WHY?!"
Arlo rushes to his room to find a mask, knowing that it's gonna get rough, he doesn't want to get traced back to his apartment. He pulls out a white mask with a part of it broken over the eye, it resembles the nose of a plague mask except it's white and made of plastic, not black and made of leather. He then rushes out of his apartment and heads to the sub.
One hour earlier, Elaine and Sheene are leaving the Bakery with a big triple chocolate cake. The two girls talk about various things before Sheene senses someone behind them, she uses her ability and looks around.
"Elaine, we're"
AAAAAAAGHHHHHH.
Sheene gets jumped on by some men in red robes, they're all wearing masks and hoods, they hold Sheene at gunpoint. Then suddenly from behind a big bulky man walks over and backpack holds Elaine.
"SHEEENE NO! LET ME GO YOU JERKS!"
A man with purple hair comes out of the bakery, revealing to be the baker who sold the cake in the first place. His hair was a dark shade of purple, and both eyes were red and black. He held a mask that covered one eye while exposing the other. On it was a sinister smile. The mask rather acted as a helmet that exposed the right side of the face, and covered half the face, head, and neck. Behind him are some scary deformed looking people who had tenticles and eyes poked out of the neck of animated decapitated corpses. On the ends of the rather pinkish tentacles were sharp metal blades.
"You?! What's going on?" Elaine asks panicked. "Oh my, you don't know, we could use your healing abilities. Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Sir Francis the Third." Elaine looks around scared as the man approaches her. "How do you?" He cuts her off. "We were able to acquire some information from a certain someone from Wellston, we know you Elaine Makaru!"
"Crap, they even know my last name" Elaine thought to herself. "Please, don't do this, we can talk this out!" Sir Francis laughs. "Oh don't worry my dear, we'll take GOOD care of you!" The bulky man ties up Elaine and gags her before throws her in the back of a van. "Sir, what do you plan on doing with the mind reader?" One of the corpses asks. "Hmmmmmm"
Kill her.
The man holding her at gunpoint puts his gun away and activates his ability, a long and scary sword pops out of his arm, he then aims it at Sheene's neck.
"Please, not now…." Sheene says as a tear escapes her starry blue eye.
The man prepares to swing, Sheene suddenly hears voices in her head.
"If your timing is always right, I trust you, just please, save Elaine." The man swings, ending it all in one swift blow. Behind a concrete wall a man is hiding, his arm is muscled, an eye lies in the center.
"Fuck, they just took someone, I can't fight them all now. But those things....." The ugly beasts that killed Sheene feast on her body, The red robed men at this point are gone, out of anger Joe jumps out and charges at the freaks. "YOU BEASTS KILLED MY WHOLE FAMILY, AND FOR WHAT?!" As the man tears each zombified freak limb by limb, he recalls back to a painful memory of when he lost it all, how his family cried out in pain as they were being torn apart for food. "FUCK YOU ALL, I HATE YOU, JUST DIE, GIVE THOSE BODIES BACK AND DIE!" He also remembers when Sir Francis broke into his house, after all of the zombie-like freaks had their feast they left his mother alive, gagged and tied up, he toys with her as Joe lays down, helpless to what's about to happen. "Please stop, NOOO!"
Sir Fancais places a small green worm on the woman's neck, it crawls up her neck as she struggles to get it off, the worm works its way to her ear where it crawls inside, the pain from it eating her brain makes her scream, only for the gag to muffle it. Each scream silencing the mushy noise of the worm using its natural physic to drill through her boney skull, muscular flesh, tissue, and into the grey matter of her brain.
"NOOOOO, I'll kill you, I SWEAR, I'll....." Joe's mother starts to twitch and turn, becoming a freaky looking zombie. Joe gets knocked out, he wakes up to find himself with a head splitting headache. He looks over at his arm to find the same parasite dying on his arm, giving him some kind of power.
Joe Rogers: Ability, increased smarts, 1.2.
Devil arm, 4.5
Joe starts killing more of the Zombie freaks, when the bloody battle is done, he looks down at Sheene with regret, not being able to help her and her friend. He starts to cry remembering how badly he wanted help when he was suffering. He then senses a presence. "Don't cry, I'm not in pain" Joe looks up with tears in his eyes. "You'll find a boy with blond hair wearing a white plague mask here in ten minutes, wait with him and you'll work together to take these things down." Sheene disappears, erasing herself from everyone's memories, she then flies up into the clouds, not to be seen again for a very long time. Joe spaces out for a while. "What the, what am I...." A sub is heard passing by, a boy jumps off of it landing on the station where it came out of the ground from.
"Wait a second, who the....." The Blond boy walks towards Joe, he see's the eye on his arm and traps him in a barrier.
"YOU, TELL ME WHERE ELAINE IS!" Joe looks down on the ground.
"HEY ASSHOLE, DON'T TRY TO IGNORE ME, I KNOW YOU KNOW WHO I'M TALKING ABOUT, YOUR ONE OF THOSE SLAVES THE DEVIL TIERS USE TO......." Joe laughs at the situation. Arlo starts to tear up, thinking about Elaine and all the pain she could be in, he grabs Joe by the collar.
"PLEASE, JUST DO A MAN A FAVOR AND HELP ME FIND HER! I may be an asshole but she doesn't deserve this! I DO!" He says in desperation, knowing Elaine was taking in a dangerous part of town. Letting out emotions that no one ever knew he even had in him. Joe and Arlo stare at each other, the sheer of shock. "Hahaha, Arlo is it?" Arlo shakes as he lets go of Joe. "How the…." Arlo slams Joe against the wall, shocked at what he just called Elaine, desperate and scared. "Hahahahaha, I may sound crazy, but we live in a world with super powers, zombies with tentacles controlled by devils."
Arlo stares at Joe with intense fear, losing track of the van's aura.
Hahaha,
An angel told me about you.....
To be Continued.....