"Shouldn't we go to bed right now? Nobody tired?" Kung Jin closed his book "History of Edenian Warfare" and stretched. Cassie snorted. "How old are you? Five? Or mentally underdeveloped?" Jin pulled a face:
"No reason to become personal, Military Grunt! "
"I'll show you who's going to be personal!" she growled playfully and with a skillful Shadowkick, she hit Jin and his chair against the opposite wall. After a brief shock, the Shaolin was quickly back on his feet. "Well then, let's go Cassie! Expect no mercy." Cassie blocked his fist and gave him a chin hook. "No need, you butt." Takeda and Jacqui watched the hassle of their friends from a safe distance. "I'm betting Raiden's hat, let's see on who, let's do a FLAWLESS one, Jin!" Jacqui was already a fire and a flame for the fight. "Raiden would never bet his hat! Can he even bet? And even if, no one beats my BFF! And now: Finish him!" The fight didn't take long at last since Kung Jin was playing the martyr. He knelt before her, stretched out his arms, imitated Kotal Kahn's voice: "Well, Miss Cage, let's bring it to an end and kill me!" She giggled. "But first, let me take a selfie, duh!" Cassie pulled out her baton, and pretended as if. A little bit to hard. With a tinkling sound the ceiling lamp burst behind the two. "Opsi .." Cassie bit her lip. "She's killing me." "Oh, great! I'm going to load it up on FailtalityArmy." Jacqui said. But before someone could response, it was suddenly pitch-dark in the base. "Oh shit." Kung Jin and Takeda said at the same time. "It was not me! That cannot just come from a dumb lamp I shattered" Cassie protested and quickly pushed the baton with a foot kick under the couch. "Certainly, just outside the fuse flown out. Wow, that's like a horror movie!" Said Jacqui. "Chill, folks. I go out and watch. Then there is going to be Round 2 at midnight" Jin got up and turned to go, but Cassie held him briefly. "You want to go outside unarmed?" He laughed loudly. "Does anyone here fear monsters?" Cassie snorted. "Yeah, as if, punk." Jin grinded and disappeared outside.
Cassie, Jacqui and Takeda were still unconscious in the tent after almost 10 minutes. "Man, I cannot stand it, we need ... damn, Takeda, my toes! Does anyone have a flashlight?" Jacqui whispered. Cassie felt blindly through the darkness, over to a closet. "Here I would still have supported one, as long as none of you ..." She stopped abruptly as there came a rumble from outside. "What the hell is Jin doing so long? Should not we look after him?" Before any of the girls could answer, they suddenly heard a loud engine noise. And then the loud scream of pain from Kung Jin. Panic overcame the three friends. "Shit fucking, Jin! What's happening? I'm coming!" Without waiting for an invitation, Takeda ran through the darkness toward the entrance. Jacqui groped for Cassie's hand, "Was that .. a chainsaw?" She whispered. Cassie swallowed hard. "That cannot be a coincidence, there's someone out there, or something! And it seems to be a dumb!" Jacqui followed her boyfriend. "Takeda wait for...!" Too late. There followed a blow like that of a hammer. Takeda groaned, but he managed to get a knock-back to the stranger. A rumble; It must have thrown him on the ground. Takeda screamed; Cassie heard a crash as the young man was hurled against the crates. "NO! Takeda! Just wait, you mistress, you are mine!" This was Jacqui's rage cry that penetrated through the darkness. Cassie knew she was powerless in the dark. Weapons were needed to stop this beast. It had already knocked out Kung Jin and Takeda, how long would Jacqui keep him in check? She felt for the armory. He was locked and the key was missing. Damn it! She turned back toward the battle; somehow it would have been possible to kill him with the bare hand. And then, it rangs again, the screeching sound of a chainsaw, followed by the scream of her friend, full of fear and pain.
"No ... Jacqui! Hold on!" A croaking voice called from the distant part of the tent, it was Takeda: "Cassie, no ... Run! He ... I can read him ... He .. wants you! Only you." His voice fell silent. Before she could react, light flashed suddenly. She did not know why it was working again, maybe Kung Jin still managed to turn on the switch. The bright glow blinded her for a moment and Cassie opened her eyes again as he stood directly in front of her. Her heart skipped a beat. She did not know what kind of creature it was. He seemed to be a man, with a plaid torn shirt, a white apron and a necktie, blood-stained. With the blood of her friends. On his broad back stuck, besides a heavy hammer, a chainsaw, the blood and flesh of which ran through the blades. But the nastiest was his face. If you could call it a face. This leathery white incised skin and the seams on the mouth and ears. That was clearly not his face. He seemed to have pulled it off from someone and replaced his one. The empty black eyes under the ugly appearance stared at her with an uncanny obsession.
Cassie remained frozen. Behind him she saw the bleeding bodies of Jacqui, she lay stretched out on the ground, and Takeda, who lay with a bleeding head wound in a stack of boxes. She didn't know if they were still alive, because the creature took a step toward her. Cassie instinctively grabbed an empty glass bottle. "No! Fuck off immediately, you disgusting piece of shit! He did not respond. Instead, he reached into a brown bag and pulled out something bloody, rosy forth. Cassie would have liked to puke, because what he held toward her was a face. Rather, only the facial skin. It was grotesque. He waved it around in front of her. "What should I do with this? Take that away, vulture." No reaction, no, he even came closer. Anger came over her and she stepped into the man's hand. To her satisfaction she felt the cracking bones under her boots. The stranger whispered more than he shouted. The face flew behind him on the floor. He looked after him, and it almost sounded like he was crying. Cassie remained hard and even took a step towards him. She did not want to fight, she wanted to expel this monster and finally help her friends. "And now, get out before I pull you your wrong Expression" she snapped. The ugly face turned to her again.
There was no longer any obsession, there remained cold hatred in his eyes. Before she could react, he already pulled his hammer and gave her a blow against the raised hand. Cassie screamed as the blow broke her wrist. The bottle, which she held, broke with a loud clatter. Sharp splinters bored into her palm, the warm blood ran into her sleeve. The young Cage tried to ignore the pain and hit the face with her flat hand. She bit her tongue as her broken bones pressed through her flesh but the blow did its job. Sharp glass splinters slashed his face and right eye. He staggered back and screamed. Cassie took the chance and threw herself at the creature to force him into the knee with a Shadowkick. Flame pain shot through her lower extremities as he suddenly grabbed her leg and bend it over his thick thigh against the joint direction. Cassie felt the tearing cracking sound as her cruciate ligaments and masonry tore, and finally, with the sound of a gunshot, the knee disk snapped. She went to the ground with a cry of pain. Her counter-defense became weaker as the man pushed her a blow against the head. A red lightning flashed before her eyes as she fell on her belly. She wanted to get up, but she no longer felt her legs and arms. As through cotton wool she heard the engine sound of his chainsaw again, this time like a storm bell. Pain like hot lava flooded her body and her senses as he cut her into arms, legs, and back.
The blood pool, in which she lay with her right cheek grew larger and she tasted the metallic warm taste of her own blood in her mouth. He gave her a brutal kick in the side and broke her several ribs that pushed sideways from her chest. Blurred, she saw the tent roof. Again and again the red-spattered saw teeth flashed, her pain was never ending as he gave her several slashes on her belly. Once again she passed the darkness, a colorful game of blue, violet, and red. Cassie could not think anymore. She didn't know how long he tormented her. But she knew that her end would come. Yes. She's going to die. Cassie thought of her father, her mother, her friends. "Dad ... Mum ..", that was the last thing Cassie whispered before she lost consciousness. And the last thing she saw was, in his full contour, his face, so very close to hers.
Yes, she was prepared to die.