Chapter 2: True evil
The smile on my face was wiped straight off. The feeling of wrongness increased tenfold. The normally pristine lab was totalled. Lab equipment was strewn everywhere, tables where over turned and Anbu was not the cause this time.
The clear sign being Anbu lying at our feet. I heard a sharp gasp from John. I kneeled down and turned Anbu over to see if he was alright. His throat was torn out.
I thought 'shit sure hit the fan hard'
I smoothly stepped over the body disregarding it and looking at the green smoke that seemed to be everywhere. There were glowing green claw marks on the walls.
That peaked my curiosity
'The actual fucking hell. What the fuck did that do, better yet what killed them and how do I kill it?' I thought as I smoothly stepped over the bodies of the researchers and ventured further into the lab. Following my lead Johnathan had drawn his weapon and followed me through the lab.
There were more bodies and more claw marks that seemed to ooze out wrongness along with some other dubious liquids.
I moved to inspect one of deeper ones.
"Sweet baby Jesus fucking Christ on a Bloody tricycle" I mumbled while I inspected a rather deep gash on the steel wall.
I turned to John about to ask him to look for survivors so we can get the fuck outta here but the words died on my lips.
He looked terrified. The 1.8 meter tall giant looked meek. And afraid. Very afraid...
He was frozen stiff with fear. His brown skin looked pale. I didn't even know us brown skins could even become that pale.
Then out of nowhere the feeling of wrongness changed it turned into something sinister. Malicious. EVIL… It hit me with the force of a truck going full speed. 'God fucking dammit what the fuck!' I thought as my body froze in shock.
I forced my head to turn to where John was looking.
"Well shit" I deadpanned as a 2 and a half meter tall giant rounded the corner of the lab. He… or it had a dress made of various rags with a short, frayed and dirty cape. Pale rotting skin covered its body, its hands were tipped with the claws that gouged steel and its right arm was bare stark white bone that somehow moved. Where its lips should have been where 2 pieces of rotting flesh which were just hanging there. It had a massive horn resembling a great stag while the other was broken revealing the putrid decaying bone marrow inside.
It had no nose and sunken cheeks while its eyes were nothing but bottomless pits with a pale green light at its centre. Gazing into them like John had, I felt the world go cold. It felt as if I just got dropped straight into the middle of an artic storm. The cold bite and tore at my skin, it seeped into my very bones. The world went dark as only the... the thing stood there with its ever grinning face.
John collapsed while I fell to one knee. As the world grew colder and colder and the feeling of EVIL increased. It spoke...
It said it was the LICH. We had apparently summoned it. It destroyed humanity once and it was going to do it again. At that point I thought 'Fuckin hell they actually did summon a demon'.
I focused hard. I found my centre and tuned it out. I took a steadying breath. And laughed. I knew what I was gonna do. There was no way in hell 2 ordinary guys were gonna kill a bloody demon. So simple, 1 dies while the other lives. I knew no one was alive so there was no point trying to find survivors. I sighed as I realised I was about to die.
I turned to John and said "Run and get back-up. I got this…" I put a hand on his shoulder in an effort to reassure him. I looked him in the eye and saw his terror. His fear for himself. His fear of failure. His sheer terror that the country he loves was going to die.
I let him see the only thing in my eyes… The utter complete lack of fucks I gave.
Grinning I grabbed the magazine from his gun and the spare magazine he had on his belt and ran head first while shooting at the Lich.
"Go fuck yourself in whatever hole you came out of!" I yelled.
The suddenness of the attack allowed me to deliver a powerful kick to its chest and send it flying.
It crashed into the table behind it and slumped onto the floor.
"Well that was easy" I thought.
The Lich began to get up.
"God dammit" I thought as shot its head.
The bullet bounced off and didn't even faze it. It simply got right back up and proceeded to say "That was not a wise choice boy" calmly as if I just threw a piece of paper at it.
Looking around for something to use I saw how the researchers were able to 'summon' the Lich.
To my left at the end of the hall way was pitch black portal. The roiling darkness inside the portal seemed alive yet was confined to a perfect oval. The light and air around the portal seemed to bend towards it as if were being sucked into it.
"JOHN YOU PATRIOTIC ASSHOLE GET OUT OF HERE NOW!" I yelled at the top of my lungs feeling my chest vibrate from the loudness.
Hearing the sound of his heavy and rapid steps I turned my attention to the thing in front of me.
A mass of swirling green energy began to gather at its hands. I threw myself out of the way just as the blast eviscerated the body behind me. 'The fuck am i supposed to get him over there?' I thought as I came out of the roll.
I ducked behind tables, chairs and rolled out of the way of its blasts. After I got up from the 4th blast it charged at me.
'For a thing that looks and smells like a corpse it moved pretty fucking quick' I thought calmly.
As it neared I picked up the body under me, 'Andrew' a small part of my mind whispered, and used it as a shield. Its claws tore through the body while I took a quick step back. Before it could charge me again I emptied my gun as fast as I could into its face staggering it. I drew my knife and took a deep breath then threw myself into the feeling of EVIL. My skin felt like it was crawling with worms, my guts felt like they being kneaded and twisted. Holding my breath I relaxed my muscles and I became like a stone in a river, letting the feeling flow over me but not through me.
Using my knife I stabbed the thing in the shoulder effectively dislocating it while I grabbed its other arm and its torso. I simply lifted it up and charged towards the portal.
I felt its claws dig savagely into my back in its efforts to stop me. Blood gushed out of the wound and trickle down my uniform .
But I didn't give a flying fuck. I didn't care about anything. I knew I was about to die yet I was not worried. I didn't live for anything at least I could die for something.
"Eh looks like I am about die soon. Well time to burn in hell I guess. I had a good run." I thought calmly as I ran towards the portal while the Lich stabbed me through the back. I felt the claws puncture my lung and liver.
Even though I didn't care. It still stung like a bitch. I felt the claws pierce my organs again again as hot roiling agony flowing through me.
But I ignored it and charged towards the portal pumping my legs as fast as I could.
"SEE YOU IN HELL BITCH" I bellowed as the Lich struggled and roared in frustration. I threw the both of us into the portal. As my vision started to blur from the blood loss, I saw the darkness of the portal and felt the cool swirling darkness envelope me as I passed out.
