Chapter 21: Demon's Never Cry, But Angel's Do
Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2021 1:00 pm
WARNING: This chapter is one of my more darker one's I really want to include one of my characters more, but first she needs to go through hell, you'll guess who it is just by the title. While yes this chapter does have a couple of USB scenes in, this one is more story focused, I'll return to all the stuff you know and love next time, but this chapter MUST be told. Please try and enjoy.
Note: The following chapter takes place during the events of the last chapter (Chapter 20).
CHAPTER 21: DEMON’S NEVER CRY, BUT ANGELS DO
The rain beats down over heartfelt city and the dark clouds block out the moons rays, encasing the city in complete darkness, the rain hammers down over an derelict industrial estate as four figures are seen standing just under a shelter, while all four are female, three of them seem to just be hired mercenaries wearing standard fatigues and body armour while brandishing automatic rifles, but the fourth female looks completely different.
She’s wearing a black hooded rain cloak that’s pulled up unto her head, she’s wearing a bullet proof vest on top of a dim greenish – yellow suit, attached to it are a few smoke grenades, her forearms have long black gloves covering them along with her hands having gold gloves, she’s wearing black laced boots and dark coloured trousers held up by a black belt with many pockets on it, there’s also a golden locket necklace dangling around her neck. When the lightning strikes we get a glimpse under hood and see she’s a pale white skinned woman, 31 years of age, medium to long jet black hair and autumn green eyes. She also has very heavy bags under eyes through sheer tiredness.
As they stand around waiting a fifth figure emerges from the shadows wearing a full black robe so her identity cannot be discovered, she ignores the three mercenaries and heads straight for the fourth female.
“This is all I could obtain, a friend of mine owed me from several years back, they managed to grab a vile of this serum, be careful though as this is the last of the dosage and I doubt the original maker would be happy if they knew that somebody else was using her serum.” The black robed cautioned.
The female she handed too, didn’t even look up from under her hood.
“Her name...........What is her name?” She said calmly.
“The one who killed your wife doesn’t have a definitive name, all I know is that they’ve simply dubbed as.......Demon.” The cloaked figure revealed.
“Demon huh, *scoff* fitting name for a monster, this is perfect because when she gets a load of me, she’ll find out why my name is simply........REALITY.” The female now known as Reality reveals herself.
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The next morning and the rain appears to have dispersed over night as a bright sunny days graces heartfelt city with its presence.
“Come on Demon let’s hustle up, you’ve got a bounty to do.” Maryse shouts out.
“Yeah, yeah I’m coming, why can’t anyone else do this.” Demon protested.
“Well, Libido, BB and Tinker are out on their assignment retrieving a pearl necklace aren’t they, Tina is currently on her way to stop Ricochet from an assassination job, Marie, Stasis and Mag are out getting shopping for us and Soph has only just come back from an assignment and she’s currently resting up, which means it’s all on you now.” Maryse explained.
Demon looked over and saw Soph passed out asleep on the sofa. “Uurrgghh fine.....But you don’t have to come with me.”
“Oh but I do, these industrial areas can be a nightmare to traverse through, especially the derelict one’s, come on I’ll take you there then leave to do your thing.” Maryse responded.
Demon grabbed a combat knife and loaded up a revolver she recently acquired before following Maryse out of the flat.
They used the underground subway trains until they reached their destinations, after that it was just a straight walk always to the area.
“Okay so we know that’s a group of smugglers are moving through and if this bounty is to believed then they are smuggling through a shipment of possible explosives, your job is to get inside and defuse them, now remember a lot of these guards probably have no idea what the cargo actually so I highly advice you think before savagely killing them.” Maryse said knowing full well just how much of a butcher Demon can be.
“No promises.” Demon whispered with a smile across her face.
After a short walk they came across the derelict estate, most of the warehouses and factories and been joint together, but now it seems this estates prime was long behind as most if not all the building were empty and void of life. Maryse and Demon crept from behind building to building until at last they found a couple of buildings with life in. Several female guards were patrolling the perimeter of a couple of heavily boarded up factories, Maryse signalled Demon to quietly take one of the guards out, to which Demon nodded and went in for a closer look.
A lone female guard marched around the outer most part of one of the factories, she was 35 years of age, light brown skin, long brunette braided hair and brown eyes. She was wearing black boots, beige combat trousers, black fingerless gloves, a red beret and a long sleeve dark green cotton shirt. She was wielding an AK47 in her hands and although it didn’t matter to Demon, her name was Marne.
As Marne walked her route she walked behind a load of stacked canister and barrels, this is where Demon made her move. Demon jumped straight from the top of the barrels, kicking Marne straight in the back of her head causing her to hit the floor hard, as Marne tried to get up in the confusion Demon used the back of her heel and cracked down again on the back of Marne’s head this time knocking her out cold. Even though Marne was knocked out, Demon sat on her back and wrapped one hand around her chin and the other around the top of her head, she clutched her grip and got ready to snap Marne’s neck.
“DON’T YOU DARE!” Maryse suddenly called out.
Demon didn’t turn around but just smiled and let go of Marne’s head, raising both hands in the air.
“This is the only way to make sure she won’t wake up and blow my cover.” Demon smiled.
Maryse checked Marne’s pulse, thankfully she was still very much alive, just heavily out cold.
“You shouldn’t do this........You don’t know who she is, she might have family waiting for her or anything, it’s not your right to take her life, she’s probably just a hired goon who has no idea what’s really going on, in other words, she’s just trying to make some money.” Maryse explained.
“Yeah, well so am I, look I need to get changed.” Demon said grabbing Marne by her ankles and dragging behind a load of canisters.
Demon pulled off Marne’s boots, unzipped and pulled off her trousers, unclipped and removed her fingerless gloves, slipped off her beret before sitting her up and yanking the shirt off of her body before just letting Marne fall back down on the ground. Here we see Marne is wearing a pink and white striped bra and a pair of dusky pink bikini panties.
While Demon was getting changed into Marne’s uniform, Maryse made sure that she was the one who tied up Marne as she didn’t trust Demon to do it, she tied up Marne’s ankles, thighs, wrist and tied her arms to her sides using several lengths of rope from a bag she had slung over her shoulder, she then whipped out a piece of cloth and used it as a gag, now that Marne was all bound and gagged, Maryse dragged her half-naked body further behind the canister and right out sight. Once she emerged from behind them, Demon was all changed and ready to go.
“Get in there and get it done, I’ll wait for you out here and for god’s sake being an infiltrator means, using your head, knock out women for their uniforms then move on, killing is a weak individuals tool and shows how uncreative you are, a REAL infiltrator doesn’t need to kill, just take what I said into consideration will you.” Maryse’s final words were to Demon before she set off.
“Hah, shows what you know, where I’m from I’m hailed as a hero the more I kill.” Demon thought to herself as she made her way to the entrance.
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Demon got passed the other guards at the door very easily with her disguise, once inside she saw dozens of both male and female combatants, most likely hired guns checking cargo and doing various patrols. Demon chuckled and their pathetic layout and thought about just how easy it would be for her to swiftly kill everyone in the building, but she just rolled her eyes and continued on course.
As Demon surveyed the area suddenly and massive and obvious sign was lit up above a doorway, it simply read “VIP Cargo holding area, authorised personal only.”
“Too damn easy, God I don’t know why it takes my sisters so long to finish a mission, I’ve been here less than ten minutes and I’ve already found my primary target.” Demon gloated to herself.
First things first though, Demon needed a change of clothes as she was certain a simple guard didn’t qualify as an authorised personal. Demon was correct about her assumption as a female emerged from the door Demon needed to get into holding a clipboard.
Her name was Katriana, she had white skin, long blonde hair in a Dutch braided hair style, teal blue eyes, a purple cap, red and white camo trousers, black boots and a dark grey sleeveless vest.
As Katriana began to inspect a shelf of crates she heard a voice behind her.
“Yo commander......Or whatever, it seems some idiot and smashed a case of important looked vials over in this storage closet, I don’t know it looks pretty important.” Demon said half arsing her disguise.
“You show some respect you simple grunt and besides that impossible we wouldn’t keep something like that in a storage closet anyway.” Katriana shock her head in disbelief.
“Oh no, then what the hell is this leaking all over the floor then, it looks like an expensive substance to me.” Demon replied with a shrug.
Katriana grumbled and cursed under her breath as she walked into the storage closet.
“Well come on then, where in this really expensive substance then.” Katriana looked around and didn’t see anything.
Demon didn’t even respond with a witty one liner or anything but instead kicked Katriana in the back of her leg causing her stumble to the floor before Demon gave her a vicious punch right in the temple of her head, Demon quickly shut and locked the door, before grabbing Katriana by her vest, violently hoisting her to feet and slamming her back into the wall which in turn also caused the back of her head to hit the wall too, then she followed this up with several punches to Katriana’s waist and finally one to the punch on her nose causing her to slump down badly beaten and heavily knocked out.
Demon bent down and pressed her knife up against her throat, before leaning in to whisper in Katriana’s ear.
“You’re lucky I’m being monitored, or make your neck drip ruby’s.” Demon whispered.
Demon got to work and stripped a badly beaten Katriana for her uniform, Demon unzipped and slid off Katriana’s boots, removed her trousers, her beret and violently pulled the vest off of Katriana’s body. As Katriana again fell back against the floor it’s here we see Katriana is wearing a gingerbread brown full cup bra and a watermelon pink thong.
Demon grabbed anything she could find, cables, string, bits of tape and tied Katriana up nice and tight, she tied up her ankles and her wrists before she found and old rag which she wrapped around Katriana’s mouth as a gag. With her out of the way, Demon hastily got changed into Katriana’s uniform before emerging from the storage closet in her newly acquired disguise.
Demon marched through the factory and barged straight through the Cargo room’s door. Much to her surprise when she entered, the room was empty, no cargo, no crates, no nothing, not even any other additional guards, just as Demon was about to turn around and try a different room, she heard to doors behind her suddenly lock preventing her from escaping, she then turned and saw Reality stand on a balcony in front of her, looking down.
“You.......I’ve been waiting so long for this.” Reality whispered in rage.
“Ha, what are you supposed to be, my so called main opponent, I’ve dealt with rougher one’s than you in my sleep, besides there’s a reason why I used to be hailed as a HERO you know.” Demon boasted.
“Hero.......Is that what you think yourself as?” Reality calmly responded.
Reality leapt down from the balcony and onto the floor, she then grabbed two katana swords from a table nearby and slid one across to Demon.
“If you have any honour, you’ll fight me one on one like a true warrior.” Reality said.
Demon smiled and pulled out her revolver before chucking it onto the ground.
“Have it your way, it just means you’re going to die slower.” Demon said while picking her sword.
Suddenly a faint sound of a gun went off followed by a whipping sound as Demon felt something hit her thigh, she looked down and saw a dart in her leg, she pulled it out and stared at Reality who was the one who fired the shot, but before Demon could insult her she suddenly felt all woozy as the room around her started to fade to black.
“Oh no, don’t go too far, we’re going on this journey together.” Reality said as she fired another dart into her own neck and watched the room around her too started to fade to black.
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Demon was now surrounded by darkness with a thick crimson red sun hanging over head, her body felt heavy and sluggish as she couldn’t move properly.
“You don’t know me because you’ve never met me before, but I know you all too well. Four years ago you took my wife, you butchered like an animal and I know for a fact I’m wasn’t the first who families you ruined, today you face the cold hard reality of your ways.” Reality said emerging from the shadows.
“You’re kidding I’ve never regretted a single kill in my life, your all just notches for me, nothing more than target practise for me to sharpen my skills.” Demon protested while struggling to move properly.
“I know that’s how you see us, but that’s not what we are and now I’m going to prove it, your body can’t move properly in here because the weight of the grief from all the families you’ve hurt and killed weighs you down like a boulder in the ocean.” Reality calmly explained.
“Ha, how could you ever convince me otherwise anyway?” Demon snarled towards Reality.
“Let’s find out shall we.” Reality replied.
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Suddenly the blackness faded and we see a young women with white skin and medium length blonde hair wearing a basic security guards uniforms cowering behind a table with her head between her knees, sobbing to herself as bullets fly all around her. The woman hands are shaking rapidly as she stares at the floor.
“Mum, dad, please forgive me, I can’t do this I’m not brave like my sisters, I’m not strong, I’m so weak, I’m sorry I was such a failure to you, I just wanted to make you proud of me, I love you all and I just want to go home.” The young woman sobbed.
Suddenly the bullets stopped but as the young woman stood up to see what was going on, three bullets smashed right into the woman and she collapsed over the table dead, Demon and a group of clone troopers just smiled and walked past her, clearly happy with their kill.
“She was only 19 years old, her name was Chloe Gill, all she wanted to do was make her family proud of her and now she DIED thinking she was nothing more than a coward and a failure to them.........She will never know how much she was actually loved and cared for, because YOU killed her, YOU ended her!” Reality shouted in Demon’s face.
Demon stopped smiling and her eyes widened at the horror she had committed in her past.
“But.......I didn’t know......I.......I” Demon tried o find the words.
“Let’s try another.” Reality spoke softly.
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We see a white skinned woman with long brunette hair sitting with her feet up on a desk, she’s listening to music with her head phones on and she had a massive cheerful smile across her face. Suddenly a pair hand grab her by her neck.
“NO, WAIT PLEASE. UURRKKK!” This is all the woman can muster before her neck is snapped.
Demon stand behind her with an evil smile on her face, she pushes the woman’s body on the floor and takes her keys to open a locked security door, that’s all she was to Demon another obstacle to swiftly eliminate.
“Her name was Holly Tarling, she was only 25 years old and do you know why she was smiling so much? Well I’ll show you.” Reality explained.
The darkness clears again then we see Holly smiling and crying tears of joy as her lover has just got down on one knee and proposed to her in the middle of a tulip field.
“She was so happy, she was finally engaged to the love of her life, little did she know that a week later, YOU were going to take her life from her, her family were so pleased she was happy, her fiancé and his family were busy organising a wedding venue while she was working..........God little did they know that a heartless and cruel creature like YOU, was going to come along and take it all away. YOU took it all away when you needlessly killed Holly, leaving her fiancé standing there at her grave clutching onto a wedding ring he’ll never get to put on her finger as he watches the coffin being lowered down!” Reality snapped in Demon’s face.
“Please........No.........I didn’t know she was engaged, how could I’ve known.........Please NO MORE!” Demon protested.
“No......You don’t get mercy.......You don’t deserve it.......I think it’s time I showed you mine......” Reality said with a glint of sadness in her voice.
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Once the darkness subsides again we see a beautiful ball room and in the centre, two women are locked hand in hand dancing, one woman with white skin, black and green eyes wearing a beautiful long flowing purple dress and purple shoes is dancing with another white woman who has long blonde hair but dip dyed black at the end, she has sparkling blue eyes and it wearing a long red dress with red shoes to match, both women are smiling to one another as they dance together in the spotlight while gently music plays in the background.
“This is the last time I ever saw her you.” Reality said as it’s revealed that two ladies dancing together are Reality and her wife.
“Look at her, so happy, so full of life, I danced until my ankles hurt, she could have carried on all night long but I was never as good as her.” Tears fall down Reality’s face.
“The next day she left for work, she was a sentry assigned to protect imports and exports of good from across the world..........That evening I got a phone call saying she had been murdered, when I saw the footage on the CCTV footage, I saw you.......No remorse, no care and most importantly........No heart.” Reality’s tone deepened and she struggled to talk for a bit.
“But the pain didn’t stop there, night after night after night........I’d lie awake THINKING, that maybe, just maybe........She wasn’t dead.........That she was just lost in the darkness, trying to find her way back home to me..........I turned on every light in the house, so if she was lost in the dark, then I was to be the light who would bring her back home............She never came back.......” Reality could barely breathe at this point as she tried to hold her emotions together.
“I’m sorry......I........What the hell have I done.” Demon slouched down to her knees.
“Her name was Laura Fry........She was only 30 years old.........She was my wife, my partner and my best friend..........But look who I’m talking to........A Demon.........You don’t care, you never have.” Reality bowed her head and disappeared into the black.
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Demon slouched down as she couldn’t speak, it felt her heart was in her throat, she was realizing all the pain and all the evil she brought, all the lives she’s ruined, all the families broken and it hurt her deep. Then it happened several copies of the company’s leader Anna materialised in front of her.
“Killing is the only way to assure victory Demon..........For the good of the company..........Remember, money is always right.........They’re just people, they can always be replaced.” The Anna copies mocked.
Suddenly Demon saw red as she got to her feet and picked up her katana.
“You.........YOU did this to me. You raised me into a monster, look at all the innocents I killed for no reason........All the pain I bought upon everyone, all the suffering..........YOU MADE THIS WAY!” Demon screamed as she cut and hacked her way through the Anna copies until there were no more.
Once all the Anna copies were gone, Demon fell to her knees and watched as a never ending cemetery appeared before her eyes with all the names of the victims she’s killed over the years with Reality standing in front of her.
“You said to me earlier, you were a Hero.............If that was really true...........Maybe they’d all still be alive.” Reality whispered in Demon’s ear.
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Demon suddenly feel a second injection go into her, it was the antidote as suddenly finds herself back in the factory, Reality then inject herself with the same antidote, she watches as Demon lowers her head in guilt and shame before noticing tiny drops of water land on the floor, Demon had been finally brought to tears.
“Good.......Now you finally have a small taste of how we felt........I was hoping to make you feel something before I killed you.” Reality said as she picked her katana blade.
Demon in turn grabbed her blade and also got to her feet. Both women rushed each other screaming, as their blades clashed and smashed into each other, both women had tears running down their faces.........All the rage, all the sadness, all the pain was rolled into one as both women attacked one another as if they were fighting the failed version of themselves as anger over took them, they were both angry and what they had become, what they should have done and what they can no longer do.
The fight lasted for a long time with neither of them seemingly getting the upper hand until all of a sudden Demon’s arms fell weak and Reality kicked the blade right out of Demon’s hands, Demon herself stumbled backwards and fell straight on her backside. As Reality walked towards her with victory almost certain, Demon quickly found that she had landed next to her revolver from before, now whether it was through sheer survival instincts or not she quickly grabbed her gun and fired a single shot at Reality.
The bullet hit Reality straight in her neck, but through either sheer hatred or adrenaline, Reality still managed to walk an additional six more steps before her body gave way, she collapsed to her knees before face first onto Demon’s lap, Reality was dead.
Demon held Reality in her arms for a while, mourning both her and the actions she had done which led to these events, then Demon grabbed her revolver again but this time placed it to her own head, she was monster, a horrible person without any compassion or love, she thought to herself she didn’t deserve to live..........She gently placed her finger near the trigger.......When suddenly.
The gun was grabbed straight out of her hand as Maryse stormed passed her, Maryse emptied all the unused bullets onto the floor and tossed the now empty revolver down the end of the room, preventing Demon from using it anymore.........Maryse then removed the jacket she was wearing, walked back to Demon and wrapped it round her shoulders for warmth.
“There’s no sense, when wisdom fails, it changes all..............blood red skies, I feel so cold, no innocence, I played my roll.” Demon calmly muttered under her breath.
“Ssshhh......Breathe, just breathe........You’re in a state of shock and fear, I’m here, I’ve got you.” Maryse tried to reassure Demon.
Demon looked up and slowly looked around the room.
“There was nothing truly bad being smuggled here was there.” Demon said trying to make sense of it all.
Maryse took a deep breath.
“No.........I’m sorry, but you were a remorseless killer, I needed you to see that all life is precious and the people you were killing were not just faceless goons, they all had loved ones, families who both needed them and relied on them, they all had wife’s, husbands and children were waiting for them to return home every evening, but sadly it never happened. I knew that Reality could wake you up, she was just one of the many lives you ruined when you killed her wife four years ago.” Maryse explained revealing that she was the black hooded stranger who gave Reality the serum the night before.
“Who is she.....” Demon said still holding onto Reality’s body.
“Her name is Isabelle Fry, she took her wife’s last name when they got married, she’s spent the past four years suffering because of you, I hope you now see the errors of your ways.” Maryse said.
“How did you........Is she at peace?” Demon said trying to find the right words to say.
“I have an old friend who’s life I save over a decade ago, he owed me a favour, then when Tina told me about Kuebiko and her fear toxin, I knew she had some in the evidence locker, so I called in the favour and he got for me, to which I gave to Reality here.............Also, no before you say anything I was never going to let anything bad happen to you, I was watching from a far, if I thought Reality was going to win I was going to step in and only knock her out to save you.......truth be told, I didn’t know if she was going to live through this, but honestly I hope she can find some kind of peace now.” Maryse said looking down at Reality.
A few minutes later Demon was still sitting down with her eyes closed, mourning her actions. When sirens outside starting blaring out.
“Come on, the police are here to secure the area, let’s get you home.” Maryse said.
Demon scooped up Reality in her arms and carried her body out of the factory.
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Later that evening...........
We see Tina going through various archive footage on her computer trying to find out where Glitch has gone to, when the door open and Demon slowly walks in. Tina looks up from a bean bag she is sitting on and see’s Demon as an emotional wreck. Then without warning Demon falls straight onto Tina’s lap and immediately bursts out crying in floods of tears.
“My God......What happened to you?” Tina whispers to herself as she cuddles onto her emotionally destroyed sister.
The next day............
We see that Demon has dyed her hair, the outer most part of her hair had been dyed bright Angelic Blue and the inner most part of her hair towards the roots has been dyed dark independence blue. This is to signify both her name change her heart as she is no longer a Demon but rather an Angel, it also represents that she has completely shed her past life from the company and is now a fully independent thinker just like her sister’s.
Demon......Or rather Angel as she’ll now be named from now in, is just looking at her new tattoo she just had done in a mirror, the tattoo on her back is that of a horrible red demon being impaled through the heard by a blue armoured female angel and underneath in black in excursive writing is the word “Reality”, to signify that Reality’s life would be the last life she ever took and to signify that her life as a heartless demon like individual was well and truly done, all she wanted to do was good now and try to help as many people as she could.
When she paid the tattoo artist she put her shirt back on and left the tattoo shop. She crossed the street and headed through one of the parks, it was a warm sunny day, with clear blue skies, then suddenly Angel felt a tap against her ankles, she looked down and she a ball.
Angle then looked up and saw a small girl staring at her, behind this small girl was all of her friends who were after their ball back. A warm smile went across Angel’s face as bent down to the girl’s level, she then grabbed the ball with both of her hands presented it to the child.
“Here you go sweetie.” Angel said with a calm and joyful tone.
“Thank you, you’re a kind lady.” The child said as she gently took the ball and ran back to her friends.
Angel while still smiling got back to her feet and gently brushed her hair over her ear. She enjoyed hearing that, that she was actually kind, with that Angel then made her way through the park and was on her way back home.
Yes it was official, she had stripped herself of the name Demon and renamed herself Angel, she knew she had a long way to go for her to make up for all the evil she put out in the world, but she was determined to put even more good out there, it would take years to do, but she knew she could do it.
END OF CHAPTER TWENTY ONE.
Note: The following chapter takes place during the events of the last chapter (Chapter 20).
CHAPTER 21: DEMON’S NEVER CRY, BUT ANGELS DO
The rain beats down over heartfelt city and the dark clouds block out the moons rays, encasing the city in complete darkness, the rain hammers down over an derelict industrial estate as four figures are seen standing just under a shelter, while all four are female, three of them seem to just be hired mercenaries wearing standard fatigues and body armour while brandishing automatic rifles, but the fourth female looks completely different.
She’s wearing a black hooded rain cloak that’s pulled up unto her head, she’s wearing a bullet proof vest on top of a dim greenish – yellow suit, attached to it are a few smoke grenades, her forearms have long black gloves covering them along with her hands having gold gloves, she’s wearing black laced boots and dark coloured trousers held up by a black belt with many pockets on it, there’s also a golden locket necklace dangling around her neck. When the lightning strikes we get a glimpse under hood and see she’s a pale white skinned woman, 31 years of age, medium to long jet black hair and autumn green eyes. She also has very heavy bags under eyes through sheer tiredness.
As they stand around waiting a fifth figure emerges from the shadows wearing a full black robe so her identity cannot be discovered, she ignores the three mercenaries and heads straight for the fourth female.
“This is all I could obtain, a friend of mine owed me from several years back, they managed to grab a vile of this serum, be careful though as this is the last of the dosage and I doubt the original maker would be happy if they knew that somebody else was using her serum.” The black robed cautioned.
The female she handed too, didn’t even look up from under her hood.
“Her name...........What is her name?” She said calmly.
“The one who killed your wife doesn’t have a definitive name, all I know is that they’ve simply dubbed as.......Demon.” The cloaked figure revealed.
“Demon huh, *scoff* fitting name for a monster, this is perfect because when she gets a load of me, she’ll find out why my name is simply........REALITY.” The female now known as Reality reveals herself.
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The next morning and the rain appears to have dispersed over night as a bright sunny days graces heartfelt city with its presence.
“Come on Demon let’s hustle up, you’ve got a bounty to do.” Maryse shouts out.
“Yeah, yeah I’m coming, why can’t anyone else do this.” Demon protested.
“Well, Libido, BB and Tinker are out on their assignment retrieving a pearl necklace aren’t they, Tina is currently on her way to stop Ricochet from an assassination job, Marie, Stasis and Mag are out getting shopping for us and Soph has only just come back from an assignment and she’s currently resting up, which means it’s all on you now.” Maryse explained.
Demon looked over and saw Soph passed out asleep on the sofa. “Uurrgghh fine.....But you don’t have to come with me.”
“Oh but I do, these industrial areas can be a nightmare to traverse through, especially the derelict one’s, come on I’ll take you there then leave to do your thing.” Maryse responded.
Demon grabbed a combat knife and loaded up a revolver she recently acquired before following Maryse out of the flat.
They used the underground subway trains until they reached their destinations, after that it was just a straight walk always to the area.
“Okay so we know that’s a group of smugglers are moving through and if this bounty is to believed then they are smuggling through a shipment of possible explosives, your job is to get inside and defuse them, now remember a lot of these guards probably have no idea what the cargo actually so I highly advice you think before savagely killing them.” Maryse said knowing full well just how much of a butcher Demon can be.
“No promises.” Demon whispered with a smile across her face.
After a short walk they came across the derelict estate, most of the warehouses and factories and been joint together, but now it seems this estates prime was long behind as most if not all the building were empty and void of life. Maryse and Demon crept from behind building to building until at last they found a couple of buildings with life in. Several female guards were patrolling the perimeter of a couple of heavily boarded up factories, Maryse signalled Demon to quietly take one of the guards out, to which Demon nodded and went in for a closer look.
A lone female guard marched around the outer most part of one of the factories, she was 35 years of age, light brown skin, long brunette braided hair and brown eyes. She was wearing black boots, beige combat trousers, black fingerless gloves, a red beret and a long sleeve dark green cotton shirt. She was wielding an AK47 in her hands and although it didn’t matter to Demon, her name was Marne.
As Marne walked her route she walked behind a load of stacked canister and barrels, this is where Demon made her move. Demon jumped straight from the top of the barrels, kicking Marne straight in the back of her head causing her to hit the floor hard, as Marne tried to get up in the confusion Demon used the back of her heel and cracked down again on the back of Marne’s head this time knocking her out cold. Even though Marne was knocked out, Demon sat on her back and wrapped one hand around her chin and the other around the top of her head, she clutched her grip and got ready to snap Marne’s neck.
“DON’T YOU DARE!” Maryse suddenly called out.
Demon didn’t turn around but just smiled and let go of Marne’s head, raising both hands in the air.
“This is the only way to make sure she won’t wake up and blow my cover.” Demon smiled.
Maryse checked Marne’s pulse, thankfully she was still very much alive, just heavily out cold.
“You shouldn’t do this........You don’t know who she is, she might have family waiting for her or anything, it’s not your right to take her life, she’s probably just a hired goon who has no idea what’s really going on, in other words, she’s just trying to make some money.” Maryse explained.
“Yeah, well so am I, look I need to get changed.” Demon said grabbing Marne by her ankles and dragging behind a load of canisters.
Demon pulled off Marne’s boots, unzipped and pulled off her trousers, unclipped and removed her fingerless gloves, slipped off her beret before sitting her up and yanking the shirt off of her body before just letting Marne fall back down on the ground. Here we see Marne is wearing a pink and white striped bra and a pair of dusky pink bikini panties.
While Demon was getting changed into Marne’s uniform, Maryse made sure that she was the one who tied up Marne as she didn’t trust Demon to do it, she tied up Marne’s ankles, thighs, wrist and tied her arms to her sides using several lengths of rope from a bag she had slung over her shoulder, she then whipped out a piece of cloth and used it as a gag, now that Marne was all bound and gagged, Maryse dragged her half-naked body further behind the canister and right out sight. Once she emerged from behind them, Demon was all changed and ready to go.
“Get in there and get it done, I’ll wait for you out here and for god’s sake being an infiltrator means, using your head, knock out women for their uniforms then move on, killing is a weak individuals tool and shows how uncreative you are, a REAL infiltrator doesn’t need to kill, just take what I said into consideration will you.” Maryse’s final words were to Demon before she set off.
“Hah, shows what you know, where I’m from I’m hailed as a hero the more I kill.” Demon thought to herself as she made her way to the entrance.
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Demon got passed the other guards at the door very easily with her disguise, once inside she saw dozens of both male and female combatants, most likely hired guns checking cargo and doing various patrols. Demon chuckled and their pathetic layout and thought about just how easy it would be for her to swiftly kill everyone in the building, but she just rolled her eyes and continued on course.
As Demon surveyed the area suddenly and massive and obvious sign was lit up above a doorway, it simply read “VIP Cargo holding area, authorised personal only.”
“Too damn easy, God I don’t know why it takes my sisters so long to finish a mission, I’ve been here less than ten minutes and I’ve already found my primary target.” Demon gloated to herself.
First things first though, Demon needed a change of clothes as she was certain a simple guard didn’t qualify as an authorised personal. Demon was correct about her assumption as a female emerged from the door Demon needed to get into holding a clipboard.
Her name was Katriana, she had white skin, long blonde hair in a Dutch braided hair style, teal blue eyes, a purple cap, red and white camo trousers, black boots and a dark grey sleeveless vest.
As Katriana began to inspect a shelf of crates she heard a voice behind her.
“Yo commander......Or whatever, it seems some idiot and smashed a case of important looked vials over in this storage closet, I don’t know it looks pretty important.” Demon said half arsing her disguise.
“You show some respect you simple grunt and besides that impossible we wouldn’t keep something like that in a storage closet anyway.” Katriana shock her head in disbelief.
“Oh no, then what the hell is this leaking all over the floor then, it looks like an expensive substance to me.” Demon replied with a shrug.
Katriana grumbled and cursed under her breath as she walked into the storage closet.
“Well come on then, where in this really expensive substance then.” Katriana looked around and didn’t see anything.
Demon didn’t even respond with a witty one liner or anything but instead kicked Katriana in the back of her leg causing her stumble to the floor before Demon gave her a vicious punch right in the temple of her head, Demon quickly shut and locked the door, before grabbing Katriana by her vest, violently hoisting her to feet and slamming her back into the wall which in turn also caused the back of her head to hit the wall too, then she followed this up with several punches to Katriana’s waist and finally one to the punch on her nose causing her to slump down badly beaten and heavily knocked out.
Demon bent down and pressed her knife up against her throat, before leaning in to whisper in Katriana’s ear.
“You’re lucky I’m being monitored, or make your neck drip ruby’s.” Demon whispered.
Demon got to work and stripped a badly beaten Katriana for her uniform, Demon unzipped and slid off Katriana’s boots, removed her trousers, her beret and violently pulled the vest off of Katriana’s body. As Katriana again fell back against the floor it’s here we see Katriana is wearing a gingerbread brown full cup bra and a watermelon pink thong.
Demon grabbed anything she could find, cables, string, bits of tape and tied Katriana up nice and tight, she tied up her ankles and her wrists before she found and old rag which she wrapped around Katriana’s mouth as a gag. With her out of the way, Demon hastily got changed into Katriana’s uniform before emerging from the storage closet in her newly acquired disguise.
Demon marched through the factory and barged straight through the Cargo room’s door. Much to her surprise when she entered, the room was empty, no cargo, no crates, no nothing, not even any other additional guards, just as Demon was about to turn around and try a different room, she heard to doors behind her suddenly lock preventing her from escaping, she then turned and saw Reality stand on a balcony in front of her, looking down.
“You.......I’ve been waiting so long for this.” Reality whispered in rage.
“Ha, what are you supposed to be, my so called main opponent, I’ve dealt with rougher one’s than you in my sleep, besides there’s a reason why I used to be hailed as a HERO you know.” Demon boasted.
“Hero.......Is that what you think yourself as?” Reality calmly responded.
Reality leapt down from the balcony and onto the floor, she then grabbed two katana swords from a table nearby and slid one across to Demon.
“If you have any honour, you’ll fight me one on one like a true warrior.” Reality said.
Demon smiled and pulled out her revolver before chucking it onto the ground.
“Have it your way, it just means you’re going to die slower.” Demon said while picking her sword.
Suddenly a faint sound of a gun went off followed by a whipping sound as Demon felt something hit her thigh, she looked down and saw a dart in her leg, she pulled it out and stared at Reality who was the one who fired the shot, but before Demon could insult her she suddenly felt all woozy as the room around her started to fade to black.
“Oh no, don’t go too far, we’re going on this journey together.” Reality said as she fired another dart into her own neck and watched the room around her too started to fade to black.
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Demon was now surrounded by darkness with a thick crimson red sun hanging over head, her body felt heavy and sluggish as she couldn’t move properly.
“You don’t know me because you’ve never met me before, but I know you all too well. Four years ago you took my wife, you butchered like an animal and I know for a fact I’m wasn’t the first who families you ruined, today you face the cold hard reality of your ways.” Reality said emerging from the shadows.
“You’re kidding I’ve never regretted a single kill in my life, your all just notches for me, nothing more than target practise for me to sharpen my skills.” Demon protested while struggling to move properly.
“I know that’s how you see us, but that’s not what we are and now I’m going to prove it, your body can’t move properly in here because the weight of the grief from all the families you’ve hurt and killed weighs you down like a boulder in the ocean.” Reality calmly explained.
“Ha, how could you ever convince me otherwise anyway?” Demon snarled towards Reality.
“Let’s find out shall we.” Reality replied.
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Suddenly the blackness faded and we see a young women with white skin and medium length blonde hair wearing a basic security guards uniforms cowering behind a table with her head between her knees, sobbing to herself as bullets fly all around her. The woman hands are shaking rapidly as she stares at the floor.
“Mum, dad, please forgive me, I can’t do this I’m not brave like my sisters, I’m not strong, I’m so weak, I’m sorry I was such a failure to you, I just wanted to make you proud of me, I love you all and I just want to go home.” The young woman sobbed.
Suddenly the bullets stopped but as the young woman stood up to see what was going on, three bullets smashed right into the woman and she collapsed over the table dead, Demon and a group of clone troopers just smiled and walked past her, clearly happy with their kill.
“She was only 19 years old, her name was Chloe Gill, all she wanted to do was make her family proud of her and now she DIED thinking she was nothing more than a coward and a failure to them.........She will never know how much she was actually loved and cared for, because YOU killed her, YOU ended her!” Reality shouted in Demon’s face.
Demon stopped smiling and her eyes widened at the horror she had committed in her past.
“But.......I didn’t know......I.......I” Demon tried o find the words.
“Let’s try another.” Reality spoke softly.
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We see a white skinned woman with long brunette hair sitting with her feet up on a desk, she’s listening to music with her head phones on and she had a massive cheerful smile across her face. Suddenly a pair hand grab her by her neck.
“NO, WAIT PLEASE. UURRKKK!” This is all the woman can muster before her neck is snapped.
Demon stand behind her with an evil smile on her face, she pushes the woman’s body on the floor and takes her keys to open a locked security door, that’s all she was to Demon another obstacle to swiftly eliminate.
“Her name was Holly Tarling, she was only 25 years old and do you know why she was smiling so much? Well I’ll show you.” Reality explained.
The darkness clears again then we see Holly smiling and crying tears of joy as her lover has just got down on one knee and proposed to her in the middle of a tulip field.
“She was so happy, she was finally engaged to the love of her life, little did she know that a week later, YOU were going to take her life from her, her family were so pleased she was happy, her fiancé and his family were busy organising a wedding venue while she was working..........God little did they know that a heartless and cruel creature like YOU, was going to come along and take it all away. YOU took it all away when you needlessly killed Holly, leaving her fiancé standing there at her grave clutching onto a wedding ring he’ll never get to put on her finger as he watches the coffin being lowered down!” Reality snapped in Demon’s face.
“Please........No.........I didn’t know she was engaged, how could I’ve known.........Please NO MORE!” Demon protested.
“No......You don’t get mercy.......You don’t deserve it.......I think it’s time I showed you mine......” Reality said with a glint of sadness in her voice.
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Once the darkness subsides again we see a beautiful ball room and in the centre, two women are locked hand in hand dancing, one woman with white skin, black and green eyes wearing a beautiful long flowing purple dress and purple shoes is dancing with another white woman who has long blonde hair but dip dyed black at the end, she has sparkling blue eyes and it wearing a long red dress with red shoes to match, both women are smiling to one another as they dance together in the spotlight while gently music plays in the background.
“This is the last time I ever saw her you.” Reality said as it’s revealed that two ladies dancing together are Reality and her wife.
“Look at her, so happy, so full of life, I danced until my ankles hurt, she could have carried on all night long but I was never as good as her.” Tears fall down Reality’s face.
“The next day she left for work, she was a sentry assigned to protect imports and exports of good from across the world..........That evening I got a phone call saying she had been murdered, when I saw the footage on the CCTV footage, I saw you.......No remorse, no care and most importantly........No heart.” Reality’s tone deepened and she struggled to talk for a bit.
“But the pain didn’t stop there, night after night after night........I’d lie awake THINKING, that maybe, just maybe........She wasn’t dead.........That she was just lost in the darkness, trying to find her way back home to me..........I turned on every light in the house, so if she was lost in the dark, then I was to be the light who would bring her back home............She never came back.......” Reality could barely breathe at this point as she tried to hold her emotions together.
“I’m sorry......I........What the hell have I done.” Demon slouched down to her knees.
“Her name was Laura Fry........She was only 30 years old.........She was my wife, my partner and my best friend..........But look who I’m talking to........A Demon.........You don’t care, you never have.” Reality bowed her head and disappeared into the black.
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Demon slouched down as she couldn’t speak, it felt her heart was in her throat, she was realizing all the pain and all the evil she brought, all the lives she’s ruined, all the families broken and it hurt her deep. Then it happened several copies of the company’s leader Anna materialised in front of her.
“Killing is the only way to assure victory Demon..........For the good of the company..........Remember, money is always right.........They’re just people, they can always be replaced.” The Anna copies mocked.
Suddenly Demon saw red as she got to her feet and picked up her katana.
“You.........YOU did this to me. You raised me into a monster, look at all the innocents I killed for no reason........All the pain I bought upon everyone, all the suffering..........YOU MADE THIS WAY!” Demon screamed as she cut and hacked her way through the Anna copies until there were no more.
Once all the Anna copies were gone, Demon fell to her knees and watched as a never ending cemetery appeared before her eyes with all the names of the victims she’s killed over the years with Reality standing in front of her.
“You said to me earlier, you were a Hero.............If that was really true...........Maybe they’d all still be alive.” Reality whispered in Demon’s ear.
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Demon suddenly feel a second injection go into her, it was the antidote as suddenly finds herself back in the factory, Reality then inject herself with the same antidote, she watches as Demon lowers her head in guilt and shame before noticing tiny drops of water land on the floor, Demon had been finally brought to tears.
“Good.......Now you finally have a small taste of how we felt........I was hoping to make you feel something before I killed you.” Reality said as she picked her katana blade.
Demon in turn grabbed her blade and also got to her feet. Both women rushed each other screaming, as their blades clashed and smashed into each other, both women had tears running down their faces.........All the rage, all the sadness, all the pain was rolled into one as both women attacked one another as if they were fighting the failed version of themselves as anger over took them, they were both angry and what they had become, what they should have done and what they can no longer do.
The fight lasted for a long time with neither of them seemingly getting the upper hand until all of a sudden Demon’s arms fell weak and Reality kicked the blade right out of Demon’s hands, Demon herself stumbled backwards and fell straight on her backside. As Reality walked towards her with victory almost certain, Demon quickly found that she had landed next to her revolver from before, now whether it was through sheer survival instincts or not she quickly grabbed her gun and fired a single shot at Reality.
The bullet hit Reality straight in her neck, but through either sheer hatred or adrenaline, Reality still managed to walk an additional six more steps before her body gave way, she collapsed to her knees before face first onto Demon’s lap, Reality was dead.
Demon held Reality in her arms for a while, mourning both her and the actions she had done which led to these events, then Demon grabbed her revolver again but this time placed it to her own head, she was monster, a horrible person without any compassion or love, she thought to herself she didn’t deserve to live..........She gently placed her finger near the trigger.......When suddenly.
The gun was grabbed straight out of her hand as Maryse stormed passed her, Maryse emptied all the unused bullets onto the floor and tossed the now empty revolver down the end of the room, preventing Demon from using it anymore.........Maryse then removed the jacket she was wearing, walked back to Demon and wrapped it round her shoulders for warmth.
“There’s no sense, when wisdom fails, it changes all..............blood red skies, I feel so cold, no innocence, I played my roll.” Demon calmly muttered under her breath.
“Ssshhh......Breathe, just breathe........You’re in a state of shock and fear, I’m here, I’ve got you.” Maryse tried to reassure Demon.
Demon looked up and slowly looked around the room.
“There was nothing truly bad being smuggled here was there.” Demon said trying to make sense of it all.
Maryse took a deep breath.
“No.........I’m sorry, but you were a remorseless killer, I needed you to see that all life is precious and the people you were killing were not just faceless goons, they all had loved ones, families who both needed them and relied on them, they all had wife’s, husbands and children were waiting for them to return home every evening, but sadly it never happened. I knew that Reality could wake you up, she was just one of the many lives you ruined when you killed her wife four years ago.” Maryse explained revealing that she was the black hooded stranger who gave Reality the serum the night before.
“Who is she.....” Demon said still holding onto Reality’s body.
“Her name is Isabelle Fry, she took her wife’s last name when they got married, she’s spent the past four years suffering because of you, I hope you now see the errors of your ways.” Maryse said.
“How did you........Is she at peace?” Demon said trying to find the right words to say.
“I have an old friend who’s life I save over a decade ago, he owed me a favour, then when Tina told me about Kuebiko and her fear toxin, I knew she had some in the evidence locker, so I called in the favour and he got for me, to which I gave to Reality here.............Also, no before you say anything I was never going to let anything bad happen to you, I was watching from a far, if I thought Reality was going to win I was going to step in and only knock her out to save you.......truth be told, I didn’t know if she was going to live through this, but honestly I hope she can find some kind of peace now.” Maryse said looking down at Reality.
A few minutes later Demon was still sitting down with her eyes closed, mourning her actions. When sirens outside starting blaring out.
“Come on, the police are here to secure the area, let’s get you home.” Maryse said.
Demon scooped up Reality in her arms and carried her body out of the factory.
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Later that evening...........
We see Tina going through various archive footage on her computer trying to find out where Glitch has gone to, when the door open and Demon slowly walks in. Tina looks up from a bean bag she is sitting on and see’s Demon as an emotional wreck. Then without warning Demon falls straight onto Tina’s lap and immediately bursts out crying in floods of tears.
“My God......What happened to you?” Tina whispers to herself as she cuddles onto her emotionally destroyed sister.
The next day............
We see that Demon has dyed her hair, the outer most part of her hair had been dyed bright Angelic Blue and the inner most part of her hair towards the roots has been dyed dark independence blue. This is to signify both her name change her heart as she is no longer a Demon but rather an Angel, it also represents that she has completely shed her past life from the company and is now a fully independent thinker just like her sister’s.
Demon......Or rather Angel as she’ll now be named from now in, is just looking at her new tattoo she just had done in a mirror, the tattoo on her back is that of a horrible red demon being impaled through the heard by a blue armoured female angel and underneath in black in excursive writing is the word “Reality”, to signify that Reality’s life would be the last life she ever took and to signify that her life as a heartless demon like individual was well and truly done, all she wanted to do was good now and try to help as many people as she could.
When she paid the tattoo artist she put her shirt back on and left the tattoo shop. She crossed the street and headed through one of the parks, it was a warm sunny day, with clear blue skies, then suddenly Angel felt a tap against her ankles, she looked down and she a ball.
Angle then looked up and saw a small girl staring at her, behind this small girl was all of her friends who were after their ball back. A warm smile went across Angel’s face as bent down to the girl’s level, she then grabbed the ball with both of her hands presented it to the child.
“Here you go sweetie.” Angel said with a calm and joyful tone.
“Thank you, you’re a kind lady.” The child said as she gently took the ball and ran back to her friends.
Angel while still smiling got back to her feet and gently brushed her hair over her ear. She enjoyed hearing that, that she was actually kind, with that Angel then made her way through the park and was on her way back home.
Yes it was official, she had stripped herself of the name Demon and renamed herself Angel, she knew she had a long way to go for her to make up for all the evil she put out in the world, but she was determined to put even more good out there, it would take years to do, but she knew she could do it.
END OF CHAPTER TWENTY ONE.
If you have the time of course.
), I've tried my hand at writing another series set during a Fantasy world of where we follow the adventures of Vendela, born half angel, half demon (or Nephilim for short), as she travels the land of Eredena............. Yes she will always have a human form, so don't worry.