The Breach

Slumbering through the dark paths of the Labyrinth, three cenobites looks at a purple light in the misty sky of the Hell. The two females were in the Order of the Gash, as Stitch and Little Sister. As for the third, the once fraudulent fortune teller was now a fiendish creature bearing the name: The Watcher. He was a tall figure, sporting a long leather dress with a hood covering a bigger part of his disfigured face. The Engineers had removed his cheeks and both his lower and upper eyelids. In the middle of his forehead, there was a hole. The hole was filled with a glass eye. On the back of his bald head, he had deep cuts, revealing parts of his skull. The Gash of the Watcher witness how five creature jumps out the portal.

"Humans?", Stitch whispers at her comrades.

"Filth!", The Watcher grabs a long curved knife from his belt and cut of the leg of one of the intruders as they land. The Divine sword the man carried, jamming it in the ground. The Watcher spills no time and he stabs the man's chin with the hook of the sword, and thereby throwing him in the abyss. The three men are accompanied by two monstrous creatures, Nightbreed.

"Why are you here!", The Watcher commands while point his weapon at the remaining intruders as his Gash followed his example.

One of the men throws a Divine dagger in the throat of Stitch: "We've come to bring you message. Leviathan's rule is about to end!"

The Nightbreed steps forwards and charges at the two remaining cenobites. The left Nightbreed was more human than the other, he was a bit bigger than regular humans with a brown skin and strange lines in his face. From the lines come short shark like teeth. His name was Cernal and the brother to the deceased Carginess. The other had more animalistic, he had black porcupine needles covering parts of his face. His name was Kilnaq. Kilnaq manage to pin Little Sister down but Cernal is less lucky. The Watcher evades the attack and damage the Nightbreed's right eye but notices they can't win this battle. As Kilnaq places his jaws around Little Sister's neck, he runs away.

"Are we being a coward, Watcher? Do you really leaving your gash behind."

From the shadows, a mysterious face appears. Pins were driven deep into the skull of the creature.

One of the men looks at the face and smiles: "Finally, we meet the 'great' Pinhead. It will be an honour to kill you!"

The man was wearing a black suit and wears a eye patch over his right eye. A golden cross rested on his chest. The cenobite looked disdainfully at the cross, before answering: "Something as insignificant as yourselves aren't even worth to be buried in the faeces of a Pet, let alone got the honour to lay your eyes on Him as he strangles you with your small intestines !"

It was a rasping unearthly voice but as she stepped from the shadows that concealed her, she clearly a female specimen. A skin-tight leather bodysuit showed her feminine body frame. She had four diagonal cuts on each of her breasts but her body looked less mutilated than by the rest of the cenobites. But the mutilation of her face was far severe then by the others, even The Watcher. In the image of Pinhead, a grid was cut into her face, and pins were driven into those intersections. The Watcher drops on his knees as he sees her. She looks at the kneeling Watcher with a uncaring look: "Why are you fleeing, Watcher!"

"Leviathan has betrayed us, he would protect us! We couldn't win this battle."

"Pitiful, a coward and traitor. Tell me, Watcher. Why shouldn't I execute you here on the spot?"

He was shocked by the accusation but before he can do something else, a man with a long beard steps forwards, wielding a huge battle axe, the Divine Axe. Morte Mamme's weapons! Spilling no more time on the pathetic creature by her feet, the Female Pinhead grabs a knife from the belt and throw it in the forehead of the soldier. Clearly shocked by the sudden end of his life, he falls down as his remaining comrades charge to battle. "Now fight, Watcher or your hide will decorate the library of Dis!"

"We can't defeat them alone. Leviathan should help us but does nothing!"

"I'll start to believe I should take an example of Atkins and end your treacherous life here and now. But I have no time for this. General, who don't you introduce yourself."

The General Cenobite steps from the shadow and raises a gun made of human flesh and bone, and fires at the Kilnaq who's the closest to Female Pinhead. Using teeth as ammunition, the strategic mastermind of Hell, shoots Kilnaq through the knee, only to be finished off with a second shot in the head. The Female Pinhead took the Watcher's sword and spares with Cernal who wields now the Divine Sword. She evades his blows and bring him down by cutting of his lower legs and pinning his hand down. With the final human realizing things are turning, opens another portal and tries to make his leave but The Watcher throws a knife at him, hitting him in the back. Fatally wounded, the human escapes the encounter with the cenobites.

The Female Cenobite grabs the Divine Sword and goes to Cernal. With the blade she forces him to look up to her before continuing: "Foul Creature, who send you here!"

"Go to hell!"

"Very well then." She raises the sword and bisects the Nightbreed's head horizontally. The top of the head disappears in the abyss below. She walks to the Watcher with the sword and forces him to his knees. She drops the sword and places her hand on his glass eye which she tears out of his skull: "Be happy this is the only thing you lost today, traitor! Next time, I'll serve your head to Leviathan!"

The General ignores The Watcher and looks stoically at the Female Pinhead: "Who do you think sent them?"

"I have no idea and I don't like it!"

In her rage, she crushes the glass eye in her hand.

"We have to inform Leviathan that Midian have declared war on us!"

"These two didn't represented Midian! They are rogue members of some splinter faction. Dyke would never declare war on Hell as long as there's a Nightbreed in Hell!"

Hell's only Nightbreed, Peloquin steps towards them, visibly annoyed by both the events as the accusation to his kind.

"Peloquin. How long have you been watching before showing up?"

"The only reason I'm here, is as part of the peace treaty between Hell and Midian. But like I said, those were rogue Nightbreed."

"How can you so sure..."

"Midian Nightbreed doesn't work with humans."

She turns around and looks over the abyss, knowing that somewhere the human was reported these events with his last breath. One thing was sure, this wasn't over.

The wounded man stands to the centre of the room, severely bleeding from a deep wound on his back. "Are you sure!"

"Yes, Mistress. She killed Arnold."

He felt down on his knees. A man behind the woman tries to help him but she raises her hand and stops him. "His life is no longer important, he has failed the mission. This news is only a small token of redemption."

As the man bleeds out on the floor, she stands up and leaves the room. So, Kristy Cotton was still alive, sort of. But no longer worth any mercy!