"SILVER!" Lili screamed as we appeared in Kevin's base where he was training her. "Well…" Kevin said as he put down his drink, "this is quite… Eryk why the fuck are you here with angels?" I sigh and say, "If you could put the damn sword down I could explain on peaceful terms." "I'll put the sword down if she lowers the spear." I look to see Selaphiel holding the spear near Lili's throat. "Tuck your claws in, kitten." Michael says. "Ugh I feel sick of her whining. Can we really not do any…" Rian says as he walks in but is stopped when he sees the stand off. He and Ryan reach for their guns and aim at each other's head. Angry arguments erupt. "QUIET!" Asmodeus screams with such authority that everyone stops for a moment. "All of you are like bickering children. Can you not act like adults once in your lives?" I sigh. "You should see us on the weekends." I say and he gasps. "That much worse?" He asks. "I waste over $500,000 at movies sometimes…" I say. "I am not even gonna comment but really…" Asmodeus begins but seems to think better of it and says, "You brought us here to recruit those two to help track her down so let's go we have Canada to get to." A portal suddenly opened and a man in 15th century clothing stepped out." "Salutations, loyal subjects." The man I realize is Vlad Țepeș, better known as the impaler, says. "Îmi pare rău să vă informez , dar acest lucru nu este țara în care considerați că este." I say. "Eu văd că poți vorbi limba mea , așa că poate, te rog spune-mi de ce eu nu sunt în țară am petrecut luni cucerire?" Vlad asked. I sigh and say, "Sunt trist să vă informez , dar ai murit în luptă și nu a reușit să finalizeze obiectivul dvs. Așa că am presupune că au fost întocmite la energie noastră unică de a încerca să renască." "Renăscut ? absurd nu există un astfel de lucru ca renaștere dacă Domnul va da această șansă." Vlad states. "Există o șansă , deoarece șapte dintre lorzii arhanghelii sunt aici și ajută -ne." He seems shocked. "Văd nici o astfel de ființe , doar un grup de soldați." I laugh. "Pare poate fi înșelător , după cum știți foarte bine , domnule Dracula , sau ar trebui să spun , Vlad a treia ?" He seems shocked again. "Stii limba engleza numit , folosit în Insulele Britanice." He nods slowly, and asks, "Ai vrea să-l vorbească în locul acestei limbi ?" "Dacă nu te superi atunci da." I say and he nods. "Thank you, I know you prefer Romanian but almost none of the others in this group knows it." I say. His answer is deeply accented "I prefer the language you know best." I laugh and say, "That would require a whole different translator." He raises his eyebrow and asks, "Why do you say that?" I laugh. "Bo wątpię , że wiesz jak się do tego języka tak dobrze jak ja." He looks shocked at how well I can speak multiple languages.
"What did you say to him?" I ask Eryk. "I told him the truth of this world." "What did you tell him he died?" I ask and he nodded. "I would've broken my creed if I did not tell him." Eryk says. "Your creed?" I ask. "Live to die for others. Live to die for the truth. Live to die for the king." Vlad looked at Eryk more closely as he said the creed. "I heard of only 4 people with a creed like that. They were the knights of the British Isles, noting your armor looks to be made like the British would make their armor. I am to believe that you are one of those four?" Eryk nods. "Well now I lose hope. If you are the leader of this group you might as well buy tickets to Hell." "What in the hell do you mean by that Vlad?" I say as I turn to face Vald. "If you are implying that all us were not going to hell in the first place then you are sadly mistaken." Vlad looks at me with a smug grin on his face and says, "You think you got everything figured out little missy." I roll my eyes and say, "Yeah right, the only thing I have figured out is that you are dead, Eryk was killed by the demon sealed inside of me, you were once a bloodthirsty prince, Lili is annoying as fuck, you are like most of the guys I grew up around thinking you are all high and mighty when in this day and age you are not above me, and if it wasn't for these people here I would not have become the person I am now nor would I probably be here either especially without Er…." I shake my head and then say, "You may think I have everything figured out but Vlad you are so very mistak…"Asmodeus interrupts me. "You probably don't want to finish that comment. Vlad is known for literally impaling his worries or annoyances on a wooden stick and drinking the blood of the man, woman, or child at the business end of the stick. You also should watch what you say to a Catholic obsessor. He is a so called 'Holy Warrior' tasked with removing demons off the land that nice comment about killing Eryk with a demon inside you... Not a great idea." I chuckle at what Asmodeus said. "If you think I really give a damn about who he is and what he is then you are just as mistaken as he is. I know about him. I have been in history classes before. Also he can impale me on a wooden stick and drink my blood if he thinks that will scare me. I have dealt with a lot scarier people than him." I say then look at Vlad who is creepily molesting a wooden spike. "You think you're so high and mighty? You have no combat experience whatsoever and more to the point, have not had to face death. I have more than once." Eryk and Michael burst out laughing at Asmodeus trying to underestimate me. "And what are you laughing at?" Michael stops laughing and says, "Well sorry to spoil your mood .Professor of I know the details of battle, but she has a lot more experience than you, and she died nearly 5 times now." "That is complete bullshit if I ever heard it. There is only one person in the world that can do reanimations and why would E..." Asmodeus finally realized the point Michael was making and we heard a deep chuckle. "So, she nearly died 5 times. I died nearly 20 times..." Asmodeus begins but Eryk cuts him off. "You are mistaken for adding 'nearly'. She died 5 times and each time I revived her. She took more of my knowledge and inherited the skills I learned." Asmodeus looks shocked. I hear a jarring scream and turn to see Lili on the stick that Vlad had. "Vlad why did you impale her?" Eryk and I ask. "I found her lack of self control, disturbing." Vlad said. "Take her off the goddamn stick, Vladimir." Michael says. "I follow orders from no one but someone who can defeat me in a fair duel." Eryk laughed and took his sword out. "No not you if you are one of the four, which I am sure you are. I cannot best you in a single match, hand your blade to the person you trust with your life." Eryk walks over to me and places the handle in my palm while saying, "Până la moarte I slujesc, să trăiesc eu mor, această lamă și cu mine unsuntem a și cel care îl deține, deține moarte la sfaturi degetelor, până când moartea ne va despărți I încredințez acest blade pentru tine." Vlads eyes widen and he says, "Just for handing a sword over you take such a serious oath... This is gonna be interesting." "Interesting doesn't even begin on how much this fight I am going to enjoy. I am going to beat all the fucking cockiness you have out of your damn ass. It's people like you that annoy me more than any of the other fights I have ever had." I say as I ready myself for battle. Vlad laughs and then says, "You may be who he trusts with his life but you surely will not defeat me in this duel. No matter how interesting I will find this duel I can guarantee you will not win." I begin to laugh. "What is so funny that gots you to laugh?" Vlad asks. "What you just said. You don't really think I would lose to a cocky bastard like you do you? I mean come on I have had to deal with Austin the Armageddon many times. You will be nothing compared to that pesky fly. If you don't believe me then lets knock of this pesky verbal duel and let our swords and skills do the talking." I say and Vlad nods. I turn to see Eryk drinking a cup of tea. "What… When did you even have time to make that?" I ask. "If you grew up in Britain in the middle ages more specifically if you were from another country and sold as a slave to I don't know the king, you tend to get use to drinking and making tea." He answers and takes another sip. "Wait, you were sold as a slave?" I ask and he nods. "I have no shame in hiding that fact I was sold as a slave to Arthur who after 20 years of working for him released me and trained me to become one of his knights. The next three years, he released Sir Gawain, a former house slave as well and Perceval who was a house slave as well. We became his honor guard and defended him since that day." Eryk says. "How the mighty fall from heights… I thought I would never hear that voice again… Lancelot!" I turn to see a man charge and embrace Eryk. "This is quite a pleasant surprise, Gawain. How are you?" Eryk asks. "Like I've been through hell." Gawain answers with a smile. "What a coincident." Michael says. "We found Lance and his little group in Hell." Gawain turns to Michael with a smile. "We all go to Hell once. We all came out twice." Eryk smiles and says, "In my case 21 times." Arthur and Perceval walk out of the group and embrace Gawain.
"We missed you Gawain. Where were you hiding all this time?" Arthur asked. "I was hiding in this base with those fine gentleman, waiting for a chance to find you all again." "Hate to destroy this reunion, but we might wanna let the duel commence or Lili will bleed to death on that spike." I say. "You should not of made that oath Lance. If she loses, you will have to cut your arm and leg off to keep that oath true." Perceval says and I laugh. "You mix up oaths Percival. If she loses I have to die." She seems shocked. "Why would you make such a serious oath on one duel?" She demands. I feel Grim's presence behind me and say, "How do you kill the reaper of souls?" Grim rides behind me, in full battle armor and on his horse. "So you did finish your mission Lance. Now we can start the apocalypse." Gawain says sarcastically. "Least I can revive and re summon the souls of others. Unlike you who tends to start bloody massacres that strengthens me." I say and move off the field with them. "Good to have you back you crazy bastard." Gawain says. "Good to have you back too." I say. We take our place in the circle of people that formed around Vlad and Silver. "You are an insufferable piece of a woman. Who would ever love you?" Vlad asked as he charged. Silver parried the strike effortlessly and sliced at Vlad's exposed chest. "He really does not know what to say to make her submit, does he?" Michael asks me. "Not really… but such dirty tactics." Michael nods. I pull out a cup of tea and he raises an eyebrow. "Do I even wanna know where that was?" Michael asks while Silver is stuck in lock at sword hilts with Vlad. "I have pockets in this trench coat Loverboy." I say and take a sip of the tea. Silver punched Vlad in the nose, breaking it. "That will cost you, ya wee specky bastard." Vlad says in a convincing British accent. He grabs her wrist and attempts to stab her but she delivers a very well placed kick right on his crotch, denting the armor. "That will cost you dearly…" Vlad says before passing out. Silver walks over to me and hands me my sword. "Easy fight." Vlad wakes up again and throws a knife at Silver's back, but before the knife hits Michael catches it. I walk over to Vlad and squat down in front of him. "That little throw was a killing blow… for you." I say and take the knife and stab him in the neck. "Shame waste of bright talent." Lucifer and Asmodeus say. "Who said I was gonna let him bleed out and not be tormented?" I ask and look at Malphas who nods and places a hand on Vlad's shoulder and traps him inside the maze that is my mind. "Where did you put the wee…" Asmodeus begins but notices me looking at something over his shoulder. "I really hoped you died Austin. How was it being bitten?" I ask. "I did not come here to fight. I'm sure you can tell that there is no demon in me anymore." He says. "I did notice that you were more controlled. Care to tell me what happened?" I ask. "Leviathan left me to find a stronger host." "Why should I not kill you now and save me the trouble of you coming back corrupt again?" I ask. "I'm still one of the strongest members of your team, even without a demon." "You are also the one that nearly caused the apocalypse… six damn times." "How was I supposed to know that the four riders were locked in that chest?" He asked. "I specifically said that to keep that chest closed no matter what happened." I say. "Don't blame me, the dying one, blame yourself for not locking them away." "I set 300 fucking locks on that door…" I say. We argue for ten more minutes when he finally says, "Fine my fault. Now if you don't mind can you hand me a bandage or something so I don't bleed to death?" I summon the bandage and toss it to him. "Thank you…" Austin says. He wraps the bandage, which contained a mid level demon, on his arm. "Why would you put a demon in me again? Are you not scared I might turn again?" Austin asks. "If you turn, that demon is one I chose personally so it will take control of you until you learn to not become corrupted at every opportunity to increase your power." "So if I try to get stronger the demon takes over?" Austin asks. I take a sip of my tea and say, "If you try to get stronger for unjustful reasons it will take over." "So…" Austin begins. "Don't have the time for this. We are already an hour late for the scheduled rescue." I teleport all of us in front of Veronica's apartment in Quebec. I knock at the door with no answer. I try again and when we get no answer again I look at Arthur who nods so I kick the door down. The room on the inside is torn apart with a sign of struggle and we see a man exit the bathroom. "Who da hell do you think you are?" The man asks and points to the door. "You could try ringing the doorbell." I walk and pick him up by the neck. "Where is the nice lady that was living here?" I say. "I really would hate to break your neck in under 5 minutes of meeting you." "I'll bounce on ya, I swear I'll do it!" I hear a little voice say and turn to see a basketball bouncing and saying that. "I don't even wanna know how that works." I turn back to the man. "Now I believe that you have a question to answer." I feel the ball bouncing on my head so I punch it out the window and nearly 300 meters away. I hear the man gasp. "That ball turns as hard as steel when it is bouncing and weighs nearly two tons. Your spine should be in ruins." I spread my wings and summon my armor. "Gonna take more than that to stop me. Now answer my question or say goodbye to this world." "Fine. Some of the syndicates in the area got mad at her spoiling all their plans so the 'Bloody Axes' kidnapped her and planted me here, names Nick by the way, to stop all the people that might try to find her." I smile and drop him. "Good that wasn't so hard now was it?" I say then look to see the ball coming straight at my head, so I catch it and set it down next to him. "Tell me where they are holding the girl named Veronica and I might just let you leave this room intact." He is still gasping at me catching the ball but answers, "She is held at the abandoned factory in the south end of the city, but you have no people to wage a gang war to get the Axes to come out." I smile as I think of a plan. "You will gather the best 50 fighters of the Axes and I will beat them all. After they have been defeated I will recruit them to work for me and you will start this gang war with them." "Only fifty? The Axes gang has nearly 9,000 members…" He says but I cut him off saying, "That I can kill single handedly." "Fine. Your funeral. See you in hell cupcake." He says and winks at Lili. "You might wanna rethink that statement. She is a trained killer." I muttered only loud enough for him and he pales a bit. An hour later I see Nick approaching with nearly 500 men in gang outfits. "I said 50 Axes." "I brought 100 of the best men the Syndicates, who hate the Axes, have." I sigh and take a sip of tea. "So he is the supposed demon in armor? I bet I can kill him alone." I spread my wings, summon my armor and sword and set one hand on fire. "You wanna test that statement mate?" All the men immediately drop their weapons saying, "I will follow." I nod to Nick then indicate to the group in the shadows saying, "You might as well come out. I know you are there. You Axes really need to work on your stealth." Three hundred Axes charge at me but are stopped by 300 spartan skeletons rising from the ground. "I don't even wanna know why you chose spartans Grim, but really?" Grim glides into view and all the gangs gasp. "Thought you liked the hard as steel abs." "Yeah fuck you too bae. Love the way you make me feel." I say sarcastically. He smiles and all the spartans disarm the Axes' members and tie them up before dropping to the floor leaving their armor. I go to one of the Axes' members and pick him up. "I assume you will not tell me anything, before dying right?" He nods and I shrug. "Oh well I have means to get information with or without your help." I say and bite into his throat. All the Axes' members start to struggle against their bonds. "We will speak just don't kill us." I look at Grim and say, "No one has true loyalty anymore." "Too right. I remember how you started." Grim said. "Fuck you." I say and turn back to the 299 gang members that are left. "You have seen what me and my allies can do and you have seen how I will not stop until I save my friend, so all those who do not feel like fighting for me can leave now." None of the members left but the five representatives from the syndicates approached and said, "You have the full support of the 'White Rose'. I speak in honor of the 'Bloodied Dragons' and they follow you as well. The 'Demon Spawns' are yours to command. 'Blood Spawns' are yours to command." I look at the last representative who was wearing a mask that covered half his face. "I speak on behalf of the 'Ghouls'. We will follow you to hell and back." I smile. "Well I might as well introduce the rest of my allies." I snap my fingers and all the demons, angels, dragons and trainees appear. All of the gangs gasp at the sight of the two dragons. "Meet Ragnarok and Astarot, the raging dragon of the East and the shining dragon of the South. The men in red armor are the demon prince Malphas and Lucifer, the 'Crimson Satan'. The man in silver armor is Azazel, general of the first legion. You met Grim already, and the man in sleek blue armor is Asmodeus, demon prince of the seventh layer. The ones in pure white armor are the seven archangels. The rest of the group are all assassins trained by me. Names are not important." All but the Ghoul representative pale a bit after I finish but nod. "Ok here is the plan we unite the five Syndicates under me for a gang war on the Axes. If your gang leaders refuse ask them to send their best fighter to me, and fight me in a fist fight to submission. If I win they join but if I lose they lead the attack." The representatives runoff. Thirty minutes pass before all the gangs are in front of me. The Ghouls, Blood Spawns and the Demon Spawns don't oppose me. The Bloodied Dragons and White Roses sent their top fighter to oppose me while the leader stood behind them. I let the champions get close then deliver a single heavy hit in the gut and the champions collapse. "How they were taught by the Spetsnaz, they can ignore pain." The two leaders look at me and say, "I don't know who you are but we will follow you." I nod and snap my fingers. Everyone in the gangs got a crimson robe and a weapon of their choice. "For this battle we are not 5 different syndicates, we are the Crimson Satans." They all nod and march towards the HQ of the Axes. "What do you want?" Asks one of the guards at the entrance. "I demand a war over this location with the 'Bloody Axes' the guard laughs. "You and what ar…" He stops as he sees the nearly 8,000 members of all the Syndicates approaching. The guards run inside and shouts are heard. "So you are the one they call the Crimson Satan. You made quite a quick reputation for yourself. Your first day here and you already lead 5 syndicates." I look up to see the syndicate leader standing in the doorway with his 9,000 followers behind him. "All I want is a girl you kidnapped and seeing how you work I doubted I could walk in without help." He laughed and pointed at me. "You think you could rival the raging demon? Bring it Crimson Satan." He snaps his fingers and a ring is formed. "To the death or submission?" I ask. He smiles and says, "Submission, classic or modern?" I laugh and draw my sword. "Classic it is." He says and pulls a slim blade out of his cane. "Like your style, but you might want to drop the revolver. Quite hard for this to be classic with that little bugger." I say. He laughs and pulls out his revolver and throws it to one of his members. "Well lets see how you fare against a real demon, shall we?" I say as he charges. He stabs me in the gut. "Too easy…" He begins but I kick him away and pull the sword out of my gut. "Quite a cheap tactic. What if I died from this?" I say with a smile as I toss his sword to him. "I wonder how much your spine could take…" He is cut off by darkness surrounding all of us and demonic figures coming towards me. "Tartarus sends his greetings." Says one of the god ranked demons. "Time for you to die." He says and charges. I parry his swing but another moves from behind. "Ah now that's bloody unfair." I say and stab one of the demons in the chest. "Like you should be speaking Eryk." The voice of Tartarus says. "Ello bastard or should I say the guy I managed to stab." I say. "That is a mistake I will not make again." Tartarus says and I laugh saying, "You already stepped into my trap." Suddenly Tartarus appeared in front of me and a gigantic pentagram appeared from me pouring the last drop of blood on the missing area of the star. I look at the 'raging demon' as I said, "You get to see real demons fight." Tartarus spreads his wings and summons his axe. "Such a cliche for you to use an executioner's axe. We are with a gang that is named the Bloody Axes." He swings but I jump nearly twenty feet in the air and avoid it. "You really should know by now Tartu, it's hard to kill me. Nearly impossible." "As long as it's possible I will do it, even your power has limits." The axe came down and I blocked it with my sword, but as he swung again we froze as a girl screamed. I turned to see the Bloody Axes' leader holding a blade to Veronica's throat. I look at Tartarus and say, "Give me two minutes then we can go back to killing each other." He nods and lowers his axe. I step out of the pentagram and walk towards the leader of the gang. "Let her go or you will really see a 'Crimson Satan'." I say. "Take it up with Satan in Hell." He says as he moves to slice her neck but I teleport in front of him and stop his arm. "You really know how to make the demon in me appear for all to see." I say with a smile. He drops Veronica who scrambles away from us. "Good to see you Vero." I say and she seems shocked for a moment then realization reaches her eye and she gasps saying, "Eryk?" I laugh. "Good to see you, though to be honest you've had better days." I turn back to the leader and lean towards him. "Now you force me to do this, because you tried to harm her." I say and bite into his throat ripping it out. "This marks the end of this syndicates oppression, leave now surviving members or feel the full wrath of the Crimson Satan's." Nearly all the Axes run away but 20 drop their weapons and bow their heads asking to join the Satan's. " A better choice might be the Ghouls, seeing that they are gonna stay with us and help us in our operations." I nod to the leader of the Ghouls and he walks away with them. I turn to Tartarus. "Sorry to keep you waiting. I believe we have a duel to get to." I say and wipe away the pentagram. He charges forward but I catch the axe and spread my wings. "Remember what happened last time? Time for a repeat." I say and fly up thousands of feet, just to ram his head into the ground and pick up my sword and stab him through the heart. All the gangs but the Ghouls leave. "We are honored that you chose us over all the others, but where will we live? We only have canadian dollars." The leader says. "Leave that to me." I say and call a contractor to see if he could add a few buildings so I could house up to 1,000 more people. I teleport all of us back to Europe where I am surprised to see Nick. "What are you doing here?" I ask. He turns semi shocked to see us then tells me, "I want to join you." "Good luck passing my training, least you got some nice company." I say indicating to the Ghouls.