Super Important! : This is completely New and Separate story, NOT: related in anyway to my other fan fic - DmC: the immortal hell kings
On that note, enjoys loves :D
Chap 1 : Punch Drunk Meds
Takes place during "The Trade"
Noon 4:35 pm
The dewiness of sea foam filled the air and dusk skies of Limbo city, on our most sacred adventures, I could never get out of the house at this time, especially with my little nephew, Pandorian.
Limbo city was a compact metropolis, but towards the outskirts of the pier it was more quiet and deserted. We would go enjoy our seaside adventures, Pandorian and I. Even though he's only 10 he has a good sense of direction. That noon was big blur... I remember taking Pandorian to the pier and sitting on one of the cargo tanks with him gazing at the infinite sea and deep pinkish sunset…
Until we heard loud inconspicuous gunshots Screaming… and lastly a huge explosion heading our way…all I remember… is grabbing Pandorian's small frame and jumping into the water…hearing a loud animalistic roar from Silversax tower.
The water engulfed us, welcoming and cold.
Wherever the sea takes us, we will always be together, Pandorian.
The following day 5 am: Limbo city hospital
I awaken, with the smell of rubbing alcohol and open white space. My limbs are laid out on a fresh cot. A monitor gracing my side, beeping…
"I'm in the hospital?..."
My arms sting like hell, as I see they are wrapped in plastic wires with end needles tapped to my skin. A dried IV bag hanging above me, my clothes gone. My room door slightly open:
"Nurse!...Nurse!, Is anyone there!"
I try to at least push myself off my hospital bed, but my body felt as if it were beaten down, and weighed tremendously
"Shit"
Looking over to my side my phone was cautiously set on the table with a huge crack spreading across the screen. A pitcher half full of water and random bottles of medication were also placed at my side. Pink and white pills spread about.
"How long have I been out?"
I look over to my other side to see the windows shades disoriented. Another window wide open, and on the hospital floor a cracked mirror. Instinctively I reached forward only to feel the sting of needles still attached to my arm. Carefully I lean lower from my bed to look down, into the mirror. My burgundy hair was a completely mess, my bottom lip cut, with bandages swollen and plump , a blossoming purple bruise settling on my forehead.
"What the fuck is going on?, Nurse!...NURSE!"
No answer. Looking towards the cracked door a dark figure brushed by, an almost animalistic growl followed. In complete fear I felt my body hop off the hospital bed and onto the floor, the needles ripping out of my arm , and the IV holder hitting the ground
"What the fuck was that?!"
My heart began to race, as my chest laid on the cold hospital floor, all I had on was a thick hospital gown, adorned with small blue dots. A huge sting in my arms became apparent as I saw blood was cascading on my sender arm. Finally I manage to get myself up off the hospital floor and grab a white towel from a nearby cabinet, looking over at the cracked door to close it completely, afraid of what might be on the other side...
"Was anyone even on this floor?!, where are all the doctors and nurses?.."
Reaching for my phone and a couple of painkillers I scarf down with the little water I had left. My courage urged me to leave the room and search for an attendant, and convincing myself that what I had saw before must have been an hallucination. Grabbing the cold doorknob , I see my hospital band tighten around my wrist, holding it up to my eyes as I could see it was covered with light droplets of blood.
::Patient #0773035
::Valentine D.
A stark realization hit me, Pandorian's small face came to view, the seasfoam water hitting our faces ….
"Pandorian!..."
Busting out of the room frantically, my heart thumbing through my chest, "My nephew? Was he ok? Was he here too?!"
Swallowing the random painkiller that seemed to be stuck in my throat I pause… The hallways of the hospital were completely deserted, silent, and most all a complete mess. Carriages of supplies on the floor, lights flickering. Like a horror movie. Moving my numb legs and feet forward desperately searching for someone …any one
Walking along a half dim hallway, a crouched nurse on the other end hits the floor. Her apron scattered with dirt. Finally she saw me, lost and only wearing my hospital gown
"Oh my god my dear child!"
"Nurse?, where is everyone? everything is deserted, what the hell is going on!"
" The monsters…the …the monsters"
She bent before me unable to breathe , I could see the tares in her stockings and the holes in her shoes. What ever happened, it certainly took place beyond the hospital walls. She steps on pieces of glass before me brushing them to the side. Probably because she saw I was barefooted.
Our eyes met and the undeniable look of fear remained in her eyes. I ,completely confused , oblivious to what was going on.
"What do mean monsters?..."
The nurse looks around frantic , as if she felt someone was watching. Panting she tries to comply while tightly holding my shoulders:
"My child, the staff… some of the hospital staff turned into monsters, it all happened so quick!, there's complete chaos going on outside, everyone had evacuated.."
I could feel my knees buckle…
"Was this a dream, or was this nurse crazy?, she couldn't be if the hallways looked this rundown and unattended too?.."
Her eyes still locked on mine,
"What is your name child?" she tells me, an abundance of fear and sweat graced her presence.
"My name is Valentine… I just woke up, Wait! Was a little boy admitted here too?! Pandorian my nephew?"
"I wouldn't now darling, I'm so sorry, I ran over here from the west wing of the hospital…"
As she held me tightly a gathering of cracks was heard further down the hallway. The nurses holding me closer whimpering
"Get away from us you MONSTER!"
My eyes became drowsy and the sensation of the nurse's arms around me squeezing me intensified my drowsiness. I tried to look at the direction she was looking in at the end of the hallway, and then I saw it…
A pale figure in a similar nurses outfit, its skin covered in black cracks, its hair burnt with red curls. Broken sharp wings, it looks up. My heart stops
"What the fuck is that?..."
The creature finally looks up at me , its eyes spilling black acidic chunks on the floor, it scratches this inhuman roar. In complete terror the nurse lets me go, and runs away leaving me alone with the creature…
My eyes lock with the inhuman entity, as it looks directly at me, then cocks its head to the side in the direction that the nurse went. Aggressively it departs following her instead. With this I take as my cue to get the hell out of this hospital.
"What did just see,? Was that even real?!...get it together Valentine…. Maybe it's just the meds…yeah..just the meds, there probably was some sort of terrorist attack on the city..yeah..that probably why everything is in shambles… ok breathe, lets get out of here and find Pandorian"
As I reached the hospital entrance the main lobby was completely destroyed, the doors angrily flung open and a orange debris filled the air. Before I was able to step out of the building still with only a hospital robe, I heard a terrifying scream , back inside the hospital…
"GYYAAH!"
It was the nurse that left me, maybe that thing got to her?, …my god… I look back to see the dark figure at the end of the hallway screeching. With that I took the hint to get the fuck out.
I finally reach outside and into the streets of Limbo to absolute chaos, buildings completely destroyed ,cop cars and vehicles toppled and impaled in building walls, papers and broken glass ,and street poles cracking along the city streets, Citizens running away, people frantically running about. All was complete pandemonium, none even looked my way, at the girl with the hospital robe on.I stayed running along the city streets trying to follow the crowd of people until a small piece of glass cuts my feet. I hit the ground instantly, the blurriness of my vision hit me again, possibly from those the crowd of people continued to frantically move about, most of them passing me screaming:
"Monsters, monsters! There everywhere!"
I curdled myself on the street floor pushing my body in the corner, trying to remove the glass form my feet. But something urges me to look up, and as I did I saw a man running along the building walls with what appeared to be a ….sword?
Squinting closer I could see he had a silver Mohawk with grey and red coat. He continued to run along the building walls and around the corner , reaching a destination further up ahead. Then disappearing into the distance.
"I must be dreaming, no human can do that…its just the pills Valentine…right..?"
Picking out the last piece of glass from my foot, I looked again amongst the street floor, as everyone else was running and being completely chaotic.
Then..
This dark figure, another man walked along the streets perfectly calm. I couldn't get a perfect look at him, but he was wearing a long black cape, and a black-gold cane
Suddenly my eyes refocus, and I see him….
His white slick back hair, and piercing oceanic blue eyes. He stops midway from his path and looks at me in the distance. I shriek unable to move, feeling my muscles tighten, my eyes growing heavy. I could feel the side effects of those pills kicking in. For brief second I almost faint , only to look up and see the mysterious white haired man looking at me with a alert expression…and now his tall black presence was walking towards me.
The feeling of terror reawakened my muscles as I finally regained feeling in my knees. With haste I got up and ran, as fast as I could away from him. Even with the shards of broken pieces of glass and other debris on the floor touching my bare feet. I make it across the other end of the street a couple of blocks ahead, when I hear my phone vibrate in my hospital gown. I pull out my phone to see my friend calling. Picking up to hear their static voice cutting off
"Valentine?! Valentine!? Are you there?"
"Yes , yes im here, what the fuck is going on ? was there some sort of terroist attack?"
"I don't know either girl, its all over the news, a huge explosion came from the Silver sax tower, and the whole city is in shambles, there are fucking monsters popping up left and right!"
"Monsters?"
"They came out of no where, they ca…"
Our signal got cut off, I look down at my phone to see the battery was also dying
"Monsters?..., could this really be happening?"
I continue to make my way down the chaotic streets of limbo , while people run by me, looting stores and screaming in terror, my body began to weigh heavier. Stopping in front of a TV store, I see people continuing to loot an grab TV's with desperation. I remain in front and out of the way, gazing at the monitors in the storefront.
The front windows of the store were cracked and most of the TV's were destroyed, all except one, playing re runs of Raptor News… Looking closer in to see Bob Barnas's face on the monitors, and then a side caption, "News Anchor killed by Terrorist"
"Bob Barnas is dead?, was it the masked man on the net?'
In complete shock I still keep my gaze on the monitors as I look closer into the reruns of old Raptor News footage and heavier into Bob's eyes. The TV flickers violently, replacing the infamous news anchor into a monster, it eyes glowing red.
Falling to the floor I look up at the TV monitor to see the monsters image still frozen on the screen. Pressing the weight on my knees I get up and run like hell away. Everyone seemed to be in complete panic, bumping against me unaware that I was a fricken patient straight out of the hospital. A crowd gathers further up ahead surrounding a mailman who's had also turned into a monster, I could see people taking out there phones snapping pictures and screaming
I see this creature with a chainsaw in his hands. As it lifts its chainsaw angrily into the air, people scatter, I among them. A sheer gust of light brushed by me, as I look back at the chainsaw demon, a long steel blade beheading the inhuman creature, and carrying the slim steel blade, was he the mysterious black cape man.
People continue to run as I remain still. The dark entity manvers the black goo off his sword and looks at me again. My senses become dull , as I could feel the feeling of fainting. In the midst of my lost sense, I get a glimpse of his face…he was …alluring… and was calling out to me… but I couldn't hear. And so I run away again. I don't now what compelled me to keep running away from him in the middle of this Armageddon… but I had to be sure he wasn't a monster too… More chainsaw demons suddenly gravitate towards him as he effortlessly slices through them, with that I took my opportunity to exit. I could feel my bare feet throb on the dirty pavement of the street floor. When I turn the corner my eyes sting from the pinkish lights of a nightclub, The Kiss,
Crowds of people running out with there drinks and drugs, I turn from behind to see the mysterious man was catching up to me, prancing faster and closer with a more persistent attitude
"Shit I gotta hide!"
Without any other alternative I run into the nightclub as people push and shove their way out, evacuating the building. The neon blue lights on the floor and walls were flickering, but the smooth carpet felt nice on my bare feet. Strippers and businessmen running out screaming in horror. I stick to the walls of the club while all this chaos is going on, the loud beats of music still bumping along the wall and vibrating my body. The dance floor appearing to beat out of the floor in geometric patterns. I hold my head as all the beats, colors and imagery increased my drowsiness and side effects of the haste I continue to go deeper into the club until I reach a tacky colored hallway and a purple and pink office, where I lock myself in. Falling to floor I try to catch my breath, never in my life I thought I would be in this popular club, never the less with a hospital gown on:
"Where the monsters here too was that why everyone was evacuating?"
Suddenly a knock hits the store startling me as I stand again, my tired palms on the door, until I hear two females
"OH for the love of god please let us in there everywhere those things!"
I opened the door, hesitant at first, as two strippers push their way in and lock the door. One was dressed as an angel while the other was a firefighter. The randomness in the middle of all this chaos was impossible to deny, as I began to crack up. The two strippers catching their breaths and looking at me. The firefighter one gawked at me
"Where the hell did you come from little girl…wait whatever, did you see those things outside those monsters, do you now what's going on"?
I take a smooth deep breath and reply, "No I have no idea, and I woke in a hospital, their chaos everywhere"
The firefighter stripper took a seat on the leather coach in the office holding her face in her palms
"My god, all I now is that we were dancing,... than these fucking monsters appeared out of nowhere"
My eyes begin to widen "so they are monsters"
The firefighter stripper shot up, drips of mascara dirtied her face: "Yeah kid, what the hell do you think, there weren't human they looked like… like things"
The room grew silent as I forgot there was also an angel stripper in the room, She just stood quiet folding her arms, looking at her friend than, out of no where began laughing
The fire fighter stripper looked up confused "what the fuck is so funny Betsy"
"You are, you pathetic filthy human…"
I back away as I hear the angel stripper say this, her voice instantly changed, and with enough weird shit going on I threw myself to the corner of the room away from her and completely silent. Her voice sounded inhuman and deep with hate. The firefighter stripper gasped
"Betsy whats amatter with you!?"
"My name is not Betsy you slut bag, and Iam not a monster, I'm a DEMON!"
Before my eyes the angel stripper morphed into the same creature I saw in the hospital, it stretched. Me and the firefighter stripper scream in terror at the hideous transformation.
Suddenly I feel the fire fighter strippers arms around me as she throws me in front of the. …Demon.
I look back in complete shock with my head lowered to the ground, until I hear the firefighter stripper pleading to the demon
"Please! Please Betsy take her instead please I want to live"
"Pathetic human, you have no dignity don't you, by the way, your dancing was horrible, I even got more customers than you, whorebag"
I try to crawl out of the small office until more side effects kick in, my eyes and body growing increasingly tired…
"Was this the end,? Was I going to be eaten with a stripper by a demon …demon"
Suddenly the door was kicked open, my body still laid on the ground unable to look up. I hear the demon and the stripper scream, and a sleek sling of a sharp blade impale the demonic entity before me. I look up to see the Mysterious black cape man before me looking down with impatience, he caught up to me. Before he could bend down before me the firefighter stripper jumped on top of him screaming in his ear
"Oh handsome Prince thank you for saving ,ME!"
Practically throwing her half naked self on top of him, completely blocking his view from me as I still remained on the floor. But she was frantic, as the white haired man tried to pry her off of him. The path to the door way was clear, and it seemed that things were less intense outside, I hardly heard any combustion. With the last bit of strength I crawl out of the office undetected. Away from him…
As reach the outside of the club, the sun was setting in Limbo, the streets were more clearer. The search for Pandorian became apparent, maybe he would at church…maybe? , An overwhelming sense of sadness came before me, as I didn't know what happened to my nephew, what happened that day, what happened today, But I knew it was all related, it all connected somehow…
I jog my way towards the nearest church, passing by I could see people calmer now
"Maybe the monster left, this area"
I finally make my way to a church, its doors wide open with a gigantic angel statue in the center floor, Stumbling with my now dirty hospital gown, my feet cut up and dirty from the constant running. And so I kneel before the angelic statue before me. The suns rays piecing through the church windows surrounding me. I could feel the side effects of the painkillers finally setting in further, my vision becoming lost, my muscles feeling like melted wax. Suddenly I hear persistent footsteps entering the church…
Trying my best to stand up in disillusion, I turn around, and there he was.. he never lost track of me, the white haired mind with the black cape and the sleek sword, he's stops and looks at me. I gaze tiredly at his chiseled features for a clear moment I see his eyebrows furrow under his black fedora.
Trying to keep my composure, but the feeling of dozing off flutters my eyes. I almost felt drunk as I tried to keep my composure in front of this regal man, who stood there ahead paused, like he knew I would try to run if he came closer. Than he spoke:
"Why are you running?"
"I … I …I don't know…" the drowsiness sets in, as my knees begin to feel soft again, "what fucking painkillers did I take? I wondered
I regain my composure resting my body weight on the angelic stature, I look up at the man, I was caught off guard by his entrancing blue eyes. With the last bit of strength I ask him one more thing
"What is your name?..."
As I looked at him again my body reached its peek of strength, my eyes were too heavy to hold up and my body felt like jelly, the darkness completely clouding my vision. As my eyes remain shut and my mind almost drifting into slumber. I felt broad massive arms pick me up, silk gloves holding my legs and arms…. And then a voice of the mysterious white haired man
"My name is Vergil"