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Chapter 12 - CHAPTER 12

Cries of pain echo all over the place.Two hellguards dragged a chained Raed with the Hellhunter and Nick in front of them.He is brought to a throne room.Flames fiercely roar as winged creatures flew above them.Muscular demons snarl at him.Above them was a figure sitted on the throne.The Hellhunter and Nick bow to the figure,"My lord,we have returned with him."The demon lord gets up from his throne and walks up to them.Raed looks in the eyes of the demon lord.He turns his back on him," Throw him into a cell.He first needs to get accustomed with the energy of his new home."They nod as the Hellhunter pushes Raed,"Move it maggot!"As the Hellhunter shoves Raed,he turns around and punches him.Before Nick could react,he kicks him into the fire followed by the hellguards.Raed picks up a spear and dashes at the demon lord.He grabs his cape and presses the spear at its neck,"Where am I?Who are you?Why did you kill my people,my family?"he shivers with anger.The Hellhunter and a regenerating Nick are halted by the demon lord.He smirks,"You took out my most elite warriors."Raed narrows his eyes,"I'm not interested in playing games.Who in the hell are you?"The demon lord looks past Raed at the Hellhunter and Nick,"Which one of you idiots killed the mother of my child?"They look at each other when Nick clears his throat,"We had no idea of the woman my lord."Raed slowly puts down the spear and glares at the demon lord,"Are you my father?"The demon lord snickers and turns his back on him,"You are not ready for the truth."Raed is hit from the back by the Hellhunter and falls unconscious."Take him out of my sight,"he orders them.Nick grabs the ends of the chains and drags Raed.He then tosses him in a courtyard.The hellguards hoist him up chained as he looks on,"What are you going to do to me?"Nick grabs his face,"You embarrassed me in front of the demon lord.Your actions will not go unpunished."

Nick proceeds to savagely lash Raed.In a few minutes,his body swells up as he hangs on to his life.He is whipped till the flesh on his back is reduced to the bone.The following decades Nick continues to torture him in the most sadistic ways.From flaying him alive repeatedly,slowly drowning him in acid and brought back to life and drowned again.The barbaric Hell arena where he is brutally killed in unfair gladiator match ups.Raed wearily grunts and looks up at Nick who crouches besides him,"Don't get too comfy.Yes,your body is broken.The fun is just beginning.Now I fuck your mind,"he laughs.

Raed awakens in his home on the morning of the invasion.However,he is exposed to scenarios were he witnesses the barbaric murder of his friends.He is then isolated in his home,revealing Nick as the one who killed his mother and Nadine.He watches as Nick and the Hellhunter torture,rape and kill the women over and over again.Raed watches and is helpless to save them.

Raed falls to the ground,his face bruised as the Hellhunter and Nick pant,"I think that's enough exercises for the morning."The Hellhunter nods as the pair walks out of the cell and close the door.Raed curls up on the ground as his bruises heal."Son!"Raed slowly opens his eyes and looks around."Raed!"the voice of Farah echoes."Mother?"he looks around."Follow my voice son,"says the voice.Raed walks up to the door and sighs.He pushes and the door swings open.He looks around and wanders down the hellish hallways of the prison cells.He comes across a hellguard.Before it could alert the others,Raed snatches it's tongue and rips out it's heart.Black veins run across his body,his physique was bulky and eyes had turned black.He runs down the hallway,running over the hellguards.The voice of Farah comes to a stop when he reaches a shrine.From it a bright pure light shines.Raed reverts to his human form and reaches for the light.He is sucked in and disappears.A hellguard runs to Nick and the Hellhunter,"Sir!"it bows down."What is it?"Nick looks at the demon.It looks up at him,"Sir,we have a serious problem."Nick and Hellhunter are brought to the last place Raed was.They both look at each other,puzzled and panicked.Nick exhales sharply,"Maybe somebody did the prayer of salvation?"The Hellhunter shakes his head,"That is done when the soul is in Purgatory,not Hell.There was no presence of an angel here."Nick puts his hands on his head and grunts,"How in the fuck is it possible he escaped Hell?Of all places,what are the chances a soul can return to the living?"The Hellhunter sighs,"None sir."Nick frantically paces up and about,"If he finds out,we are so fucked!"At that moment,the demon lord steps in their midst."Find out what?That my son has committed an astronomical atrocity?And he slipped past through my most loyal men?"Nick looks at the Hellhunter and sighs,"Fuck!"

Present

Rita pulls the rod out of Lexi and rushes to Pierre.

"Hey,"she cradles him but he pulls away and gets up."Stay close to them.I need to find a way out for us!"Pierre runs out of the room as Lexi and Rita pick up Martine.

Entering the hallway,he finds demons waiting for him.Pierre's gaze frightens the demons.Dark veins run across his face as he turns pale.The demons screech and begin to run.Pierre shows no mercy as he violently batters them.He walks out of the premise and sees more demons waiting for him.Lexi and Rita navigate through the dead bodies of demons.The make it outside and stand there in horror.Pierre is seen in an intense fight.His eyes had turned black and fought like a possessed man.Even though hit and stabbed,he felt no pain.The demons instead begin to retreat but he grabs them one by one and smears the road with them,roaring violently.A nephilim brazenly lands a punch on Pierre's face.He stands still as the fist touches his face,shattering all the bones in its hand.The nephilim falls to its knees in pain.It looks up at an emotionless Pierre,"My turn!"Pierre's punch is dug into its face,smashing it's skull and brain before falling to death.

A portal opens and from it emerges Jacinto and the angels.They rush to Rita.

"Hey are you alright?"Celestiel asks."Professor?"Jacinto gasps and is left powerless when he sees the dead Martine.He shakes his head,"This is not possible.She can't be dead.This woman is the toughest.I have seen her taking worse and coming back."

Lexi looks down,"She died because of me."

Celestiel turns to Rita,"And where is Pierre?"

They hear shockwaves.

Jacinto turns to Rita,"We will attend to these two.Go and get him."

Rita shakes her head,"He is extremely angry.I can't stop him.I don't know how to stop such a person."

Celestiel places her hand on Rita's shoulder,"You will figure it out.He needs you right now."

Rita nods and rushes in the direction of loud crashing.She stops as a car flies above her crashing a nephilim.Pierre burns the leg of a bigger nephilim and proceeds to jump on top of it.He continuously punches it even though it had died.Rita hesitates before jumping onto his back,"Stop!"The berserk Pierre pays no attention and continues to splatter its brains.Rita tightens her arms around him,"Please stop!"Pierre stops his fist and exhales,retaining his humanity.Rita gets off him and turns to face him,"Just stop!"she places her hand on his cheek.Pierre falls to his knees and looks up.Rita embraces him tightly as Pierre let's out a painful wail."It's ok.I am here.Its ok,"Rita whispers to him and rubs his back gently.

Moments later,several cars surround the place.From them steps out guild members Jon,Aubrey and Zack.They rush to Pierre and Rita.

They are shocked seeing Jacinto carrying in his arms Martine."No way!That is impossible!"says Jon with much disbelief."Who did this to her?"Pierre turns to Zack and in a flash had him pinned against the wall.The others quickly rush to their side,"Easy Pierre!"says Jon."You killed her.All of you who abandoned our cause to help rid the world of demons.Like sad little bitches,you caved in."Rita goes to him and rubs his back,"Please Pierre.Calm down."

His pocket vibrates and Pierre looks at it.Travis was calling and he answers,"Hello dad."

"My condolences on the death of your dear old mother,"on the other end was Nick much to his surprise."I don't have time to waste.Yes,you forced my hand and I have your family."Pierre grunts,"You sick,twisted shit sack!If you touch a single fucking hair on them,I am going to rip your head.Do you hear me?"Nick scoffs,"I am tired of meaningless threats.I'm at the junkyard.Come and get me."The line is cut as Pierre let's out an angry howl and crouches.Zack walks up to Pierre,"Was this part of your fucked up plan?Use my family as bait?"he looks at Zack.He gets up and looks at him,"What are you even doing here?Y'all bunch of traitors."Jon sighs,"The professor was the best person we ever met."Aubrey steps besides them,"Without her resources we wouldn't have survived this far."Zack turns to Pierre,"Milo had us switch so we could find out their wicked schemes and be a step ahead.Right now,we are no longer with him.Whatever you need,we are at your side."He places his hand on Pierre's shoulder.He sighs,"Nick has kidnapped my family.They are at the junkyard."The angels then arrive as Pierre walks up to them,"Glad you are here.My family has been abducted and I need your help."Celestiel nods,"What's the plan?"Pierre turns to his former guild allies,"You and them will work together.Your objective is to rescue my family."Jacinto raises a brow,"What about you?"Pierre looks at him,"I'm the distraction."Lexi walks up to Pierre,"I can help."He nods and walks to Rita,"I need you to accompany Jacinto and take care of my mother."Rita hugs him,"Take care of yourself."She sighs and let's go."I will take care of everything sir,"Jacinto says to Pierre as they enter into a portal and disappear.Pierre walks up to his new team,"Everyone gather around."

3a.m...

Pierre is later seen walking into the junkyard.The place was heavily secured with the presence of demons who snarl at him.A nephilim walks up to him and inspect him for any weapons.He is led to Nick who sat on an old car.He sits up,"You are here."

Pierre attempts to charge at him but chains spring from below him,wrapping around his legs.He looks up at Nick,"I suppose your bitch ass don't want to fight fair!"

Nick snickers,"Do I strike you as a guy who fights fair?"He begins to walk up to Pierre."I wouldn't have resorted to this if you just willingly came forward and took the position your father was going to offer you."Pierre looks the other way and scoffs,"Hard pass."

He grabs his face,"Your pride is the reason why you get every one around you killed.And why they turn on you and side with me."

Pierre spits in his face,"Fuck you!You are the murderer in this story you little sad shit!"

Nick looks at the Hellhunter who orders the hellguards to bring out his family.Pierre struggles in his chains as Nick walks up to his family.He grabs the face of Travis,"Do you know who that is?"Sandra struggles in her restraints,"You take your hands off my husband you fucking asshole!"Nick laughs and shoved Travis to the ground,"Why are you all so hostile towards me?You should be angry at him.He is the son of a devil and we want nothing more than to return him to his father.But he is a stubborn asshole and if he comes up here himself,he will spare him and kill your fucking entire family."This revelation leaves Travis and Sandra shocked.Travis shakes his head,"I knew he was special.The day his mother died,I saw it.And I know he is a good young man.He has his family to support him."Sandra nods,"You are an envious prick with daddy issues.Using another man's family as bait,a bitch ass move.Where did your boss pick your sorry ass from?"

Nick charges at Sandra and slaps her.Travis and Pierre are incensed."Fucking bastard!I will kill you!"Pierre angrily shouts.Nick picks up a rusty pipe as he walks up to Pierre.He takes a vicious swing hitting him across his face.Pierre gasps as blood oozes from his nose.The pain felt real and looks around."Your chains?"Nick says as Pierre looks at the sigil carvings on the chains,"Pretty neat huh!"Nick punches him in the stomach.Pierre falls to the ground and coughs.Nick preys him,"In this life you have been a fucking pain.I have some time to spare.I'm not going to kill your family.Instead I'm going to embarrass you in front of them.When I've had enough,then I will kill you.And then kill them!"Nick pulls the chains of Pierre and drags him closer to his family."Behold,your righteous son!"Nick laughs."Please,let my son go!"Sandra cries to Nick.

Nick picks up another rusty pipe and beats up Pierre.He picks him up every time he falls and pummels him.His family watches helplessly as he is battered.Blood splatters on their faces as Pierre succumbs to the pain of a normal human.

"Please stop,"Travis pleads to Nick.He grunts and screams at him,"Shut up!"He picks up the weakened Pierre and punches him on his mouth,"When I ascend to power,"he hits him,"I will be the Prince of Hell."He shoves Pierre to the ground and stomps on him,"And you will languish for eternity in a fucking dark hole."He kicks him repeatedly.

Nick pants and takes a step back,"Time out.Let him have his final chat with his family."He grabs a towel and wipes off the blood of Pierre.His family looks on as Pierre moans in pain."You alright son?"Travis asks,tears streaming uncontrollably down his cheeks.Pierre moans and rolls with much difficulty."Brother,fight back!They are going to kill you!"Lily cries out to him.Pierre opens his eyes and gulps,"You shouldn't give a shit about me.I am trouble.I can't protect you guys.Once I'm gone this sadistic shithead will kill you.And it's all my fault,"he sniffs.

"Pierre,listen to me.I may not be your real father but I recognize you as my son.We are your family and we care about you.You promised to help me take care of your mother and sister.Do not die on me son,"Travis encourages his son.Nick applauds as he appears in their midst,"How touching.Ok time is up.Don't say I was never kind to you.You got your last rites."He kicks Pierre in the face and points a gun to his head."Say goodbye to your beloved son family."His family cries out as Nick presses the gun to Pierre's head ready to fire.

A rain of missiles explode briefly sending the small army into disarray.A spear is impaled into Nick who cries out in pain.Another spear cuts through Pierre's chains and breaks free.In no time,his bruises vanish and is healed.The guild come to his rescue gunblazing and engage the army of Nick.The angels fly in and begin killing the demons.Jon appears and kills the hellguards that were guarding his family.He looks up at Pierre,"I got this."

Travis looks at Pierre,"Son."

He smiles,"I will be fine dad.Go!"Jon guides them across the raging battlefield to a portal where Jacinto welcomes them and closes.

Pierre turns to Nick who pulls the spear of Celestiel out of him."You are not leaving my sight,"he says to Nick."Make me."

Nick and Pierre engage in a brief fisticuffs.Nick throws a punch to which Pierre blocks with his forehead.The hardness of his skull crashes the hand of Nick.Pierre proceeds to punch him,sending him flying into several heaps of junk.He climbs up the junk and finds his body was nowhere in sight.The battle rages on as slowly the guild lays waste to the oncoming demons.Pierre fights off the demons when Celestiel fights besides him.He looks across the field,his eyes meeting those of Nick who was escaping.

He grunts and turns to the nephilims by his side,"Stop him."The nephilim growl and charge at him.Their bodies shift into giants,thumping across the place.Pierre and Celestiel are joined by the Guild Aubrey."Go we can handle this,"he says to them.

Pierre nods,"Thank you."A fiery blade forms in the hand of Aubrey as he engages the giants in a vicious duel.Pierre and Celestiel fight their way out of the junkyard.Once on the streets,they spot Nick and chase after him.Pierre comes to a stop and looks at Celestiel,"Come on,this way."Nick looks back and noticed they were no longer chasing him.He makes his way through several blocks as the pair stalks him from the rooftops.He walks into a closed,run down church.They stop at a distance.

"It is probably another trap,"says Celestiel.Pierre sighs,"Well I have walked into a fair of traps tonight.Nothing we cannot handle."

Jaciel arrives,"What are we looking at?"he asks.Pierre looks at him,"How are the others doing?"

"Nearly killed the last of the demons.I knew here is where I should put my focus,"says Jaciel.

The trio flies onto the premises.A few metres into the yard,undead souls begin to rise."Not even wasting time,"Pierre says.The trio tries to out run the undead but are surrounded.They momentarily stop to fight this new obstacle.

"Go on,we can handle this,"says Celestiel as she swings her golden spear.

Pierre knocks down some of the undead,"You sure?"

Jaciel tumbles before quickly getting up and shoots an arrow at the undead,"Absolutely.Now go."Jaciel flaps his wings scattering the undead and making a clear path for Pierre.He runs into the building and winds up in a flower garden.He runs up ahead and finds himself back on the spot he had come from.He stops and scratches his head confused,"The fuck?"

He grunts and runs in the opposite direction and appears back on the same spot.He sighs and shakes his head,"Nice trick.You won't keep me here.I am going to shove your head up your ass!"

Pierre senses danger and ducks before rolling to the side.He dodges an enormous giant butcher knife.An obese being with a welder mask and dressed as a butcher wields it's knife.Pierre takes a step back,"What in the fuck are you?"

The butcher growls in a deep low voice and raises it's blade walking to Pierre.He rolls over and decides to pace about the place.It was perhaps the weight of it that made it slow,easy to counter and dodge.Pierre gets close and punches it's belly yielding no effect as it swings it's blade.

He scoffs,"Fatsol!I am insulted they sent your lazy ass to come and kill me."

Pierre aims his fingers at the creature and shoots a narrow crimson beam which incapacitates the butcher's leg.

He eyes the creature and crosses his arms,"So big you have to do a 360 to find me?"He shoots it in the buttocks and laughs,as it finds it hard to scratch the spot it had been stung.

Pierre falls back laughing,"Ha ha I never thought I would say this but I am actually going to enjoy this!"He continues to taunt the butcher and inflicting a series of fatal blows.

He prances around playfully,"Come on keep up."The butcher comes to a halt and gasps.He smirks,"Are you for real?Get your fat ass up.Gotta get you in a deadly shape."Pierre shadow boxes and fires another shot.The butcher stands up and charges at Pierre.

"Yes,yes!"he chuckles and begins to run.He narrowly dodges the blade and rolls over.However,the butcher gains momentum.Eventually Pierre is unable to dodge it's attacks.

He grunts,"Damn!How is a big thing able to move like that?"Pierre tries to kick the butcher but he's caught."I take back all the shit I said,"he limps on one foot.

The butcher sweeps his other foot and grabs both of them.He then ragdolls Pierre who is smashed to the ground.He is flung in every direction.Mid air,whilst being swung his head hits a statue and momentarily blacks out.The butcher takes another swing and feigns tossing him before catching his body. Its hand then drives him into the ground.Pierre moans and instinctively rolls avoiding being stabbed.The butcher turns to Pierre.He pants,"Fat sack of shit.Respect for kicking my ass!"

The butcher slowly begins its momentous charge.He cracks his neck and knuckles before exhaling,"Get some!"

Pierre shoots a beam at the butcher.The creature takes a step back stunned.Pierre smirks and continues to blast away,"Die motherfucker!Die!"He screams as his beam burns right through the butcher.As it falls to its knees,Pierre quickly picks up its blade and beheads it.He pants and kicks it's heavy body which falls with a thud,"Stay down porky!"Pierre staggers back and leans against a wall.He stretches himself as his injuries regenerate.He sighs and proceeds to scour the place.

After much searching,he walks into what looked like a dining hall.Torches had been lit as if someone had been there for a while.He looks around,"I guess this might have been a former outpost for Nick's goons."He picks up an old wine cup with webs and sniffs before coughing,"Uh gross!"From within the room,a figure creeps out of a dark corner.Pierre nearly jumps having been startled,"Holy shit!Fuck!"He puts his hand on his chest and exhales sharply.

A slender figure clad in samurai armor emerges.Judging from the physique,Pierre deduced it was a woman inside the armor."You very far away from the shogun era."The warrior preys on him.Her mask covered her eyes,leaving only her lips.She wielded on both her hips four swords.The manner in which she struts makes Pierre uneasy as he takes a step back,"I guess you don't do much pre match banter."The samurai draws out a katana and takes her stance.

"Ok I guess we are doing this,"he looks around and grabs a sword from a shelf next to him.The samurai begins to pace in a slow yet stalking manner.Pierre watches her movements in hopes of predicting her attack.The samurai draws her sword and hacks apart the table between them.

Pierre jumps back and chuckles nervously,"Shit!"

Before he could react,the samurai stabs Pierre.He cries out and blocks the next attack before getting kicked and flying,hitting the wall.Pierre grunts in pain when he realises his wound was not healing."Fucking markings!"he says and gets up.The room in which he was probably had sigil markings negating his angelic abilities.Distracted momentarily,the samurai appears in front of him and punches him.He staggers back and tries to keep minimal distance from the samurai.With unnerving calmness,the warrior slowly preys Pierre.

"You won't be so lucky next time,"he spits out blood and draws his sword.The samurai vanishes from his sight.Pierre frantically looks around and comes to a stop.He bumps into the samurai who stabs him.With one katana sticking out on his side,she draws out another in an attempt to slit his throat.Pierre blocks and pushes her back.He pins her against the wall and proceeds to punch the samurai in the face.She pulls out the katana from his flesh and stabs his foot.She steps on his knee and kicks him on his jaw.Pierre flies and crashes onto the wooden benches.He quickly gets up as the samurai disappears again."Fucking mecha creep,"he grunts.Pierre reacts quickly and avoids being stabbed.He quickly turns and fights head on.The swords clash loudly with neither relenting.Pierre attempts to over power her but is side stepped before being kicked and stabbed.He is pushed back but he shatters her katana.He stuns her before sliding and wrapping his arms around her waist.He tightens his grip and tosses her back with a vicious suplex onto the tables behind them.The impact is felt as it's back snaps loudly.It lays there unable to move.He gets up and pants,"Got you,mecha shogun bitch!"

Pierre turns around and limps towards the door,"I need to get the fuck outta here."As he reaches for the handle,he is tackled into the door.He staggers back up and sent flying through three walls.He is then tossed into the open field after being kicked.He groans in pain and slowly looks up at the sight of the samurai.He grunts and pants,"How are you still fucking alive?"Her mask had cracked in half.She takes the mask off as well as her breast plate.Pierre looks at the face of the samurai.Her eyes and nose were burnt,leaving only her mouth.Part of her chest was badly burnt as well.She draws out a katana and points at Pierre,"Prepare to die."

He stands up still shivering from his pain,"Oh yeah!"He grins and does a crotch chop,"Bring it!"

The samurai stands menacingly as Pierre puts up his guard.This time she charges at him and engages Pierre in a fisticuffs.Reeling from his injuries,he is outmatched quickly being swept up and kicked into a pillar.He gets up and finds her gone.He takes a step back and leans against a pillar."Die!"As soon as he hears those words,her katana digs through the concrete pillar.It pierces through Pierre,hitting his lungs.Impaled on the pillar,the samurai faces him and stabs him in the chest.Pierre avoids the hit to the heart.The samurai takes out a third blade and attempts to slit his throat.He grabs the katana as the samurai slowly tries to free the sword which cuts his palm.Pierre barely hangs on to dear life,trying to prevent losing his head whilst his attacker digs the other sword into him.Pierre manages to kick the samurai off of him.She quickly lands on her feet and kicks the pillar.Luckily Pierre rolls out of the way avoiding yet another blow.He attempts to stagger away when he is choked and slammed to the ground.Pierre once again rolls out of the way as the samurai howls.She goes berserk,unleashing a barrage of bloodlust attacks.Pierre could barely keep his hands up,taking in all the attacks thrown at him.His was soaked in his blood and trembles with the pain.The samurai then stabs close to another lung of his.Pierre grabs onto the sword shuddering in pain.He roars and tightens his muscles before unleashing a punch.The samurai is momentarily rocked.Pierre rolls and sweeps the samurai and picks her up mid air before she could touch the ground.Up on his shoulders he spins and slams her body onto a pillar.The samurai gets up and takes her bushido stance.She flies towards him with her blade.Pierre sidesteps and redirects her mid air and is buried into a pillar which cracks.The samurai staggers back as Pierre grabs her and tackles her to the ground.He gets up and grabs her feet.He raises his leg and stomps on her neck.The samurai lies there lifeless as its head is separated from its neck.He drags himself and picks up her swords.He pokes them into her with the final being driven,hitting her heart and twisting the blade.He pants,"Better stay dead bitch."

He gasps and falls,crawling to the other side of the building.He rolls and looks up gasping for air.He groans and sits up.His injuries begin to close up rapidly.He smirks and jumps to his feet.He takes a knee and channels his third eye.Through it he finds the location of Nick."Found you motherfucker!"he runs down the hallway.