"Samantha! Hey!" shouted Yakushi.
Samantha was frightened by Salazar, she crawled backwards while he slowly walked towards her. From behind, demons were about to strike, but Yakushi shot them off, but sadly he was open to the elder. With haste, the elder drew his sword and attempted to slice Yakushi, Yakushi attempts to parry with his pistols, but the elder's blade sliced through the barrels clean.
"What the….." said Yakushi.
The elder followed an upward slash, Yakushi tried to flee but the blade managed to cut his body. There was a huge rip on Yakushi's body, he was lucky, if he was any closer, he would've been in half already.
"Shit… that hurts…. Too close for comfort!" complained Yakushi. "Great… unarmed too…"
Yakushi looked around for something he could use as a weapon, until he spotted the daggers Samantha dropped. He sprinted for the daggers and dodged an incoming attack from a demon guard. He slid and grabbed Samantha's daggers, stabbed the floor and perform an all angle sweeping kick.
"Samantha! Hey! Get up!" shouted Yakushi, grabbing her arm.
Samantha couldn't move much, she was too frightened all she could do was shiver. The demons were slowly closing in on them, until they heard the sound of a car horn. It was Jenova in Yakushi's car, along with Azaria at the back shooting off demons.
"Let's go! Come on!" shouted Jenova.
Samantha still couldn't move over the fright, Yakushi ended up carrying her and made a run for the car.
"COVER ME!" shouted Yakushi.
"Come on! Hurry up!" shouted Azaria.
Yakushi sprinted as fast as he could, the demons barely getting near him. He got Samantha and himself in and Azaria handed him a rifle.
"Let's get out of here!" shouted Yakushi.
Jenova hit full throttle as they sped out of there while Yakushi and Azaria blasted any incoming demon. Soon enough, they were on the road back to the old headquarters.
"The hell happened in there man?" said Azaria.
"Yeah! How did demons end up in the temple?" asked Jenova.
"They weren't human to begin with…. I had a bad feeling but I wasn't sure…." Said Yakushi.
"What? You knew about this?" radioed Darren.
"I said I wasn't sure! They did look and acted like humans….."
"Let's focus on that later, I don't know what's up with Samantha…." Said Azaria.
"OMG! Samantha? What's wrong?" radioed Cai.
"I don't know… mid battle she all of a sudden became so frightened…. She fought Salazar, but I don't know what he did to her….. Look, for now we gotta keep moving, the village is now hostile towards us, and we've got to gear up before more trouble comes." Said Yakushi.
Yakushi tried to control the pain of his wound, but the bleeding wouldn't stop. Jenova noticed him bleeding out and panicked a bit.
"Yakushi!" she shouted.
"What's going on?" said Azaria. "Holy hell! We need to get you back ASAP!"
"What's going on down there?" radioed Noah.
"Yakushi's taken a hit! We need to get back ASAP!"
"Damn it! We'll fly on ahead!" said Darren. "We'll get the med bay ready for the two of them!"
"Roger that! See you there!"
After a few hours, Yakushi was feeling cold, he was still bleeding, and Samantha was slowly regaining her old self again.
"God man! What'd you get hit by?" asked Azaria.
"You fought the elder didn't you?" asked Jenova.
"Ugh…" coughed Yakushi. "Yeah, why?"
"His blade isn't an ordinary blade… our villagers call it the weeping blade, one hit, no matter how small the wound, you'll bleed to death unless given special treatment….. DAMN IT! He used those in executions! Gives them a slow death! Really Cruel you know!" said Jenova, hitting the steering wheel.
"Shit….."
The radio suddenly had a lot of static, Jenova picked it up and replied.
"Darren? Hello? Guys I'm getting a lot of static!"
"….don't…..quarters…move….. gah!" said Darren.
"Darren?"
"We need to get there ASAP!" added Azaria.
Soon enough, they made it back to the headquarters, Azaria carried Samantha while Jenova shouldered Yakushi. They took the elevator down, Jenova and Azaria had their guns ready, locked and loaded. When they got down, a gas grenade just flew in, and all four of them were unconscious.
Military soldiers occupied the headquarters and captured the group. They placed them in a holding container and loaded them on a truck. The truck headed for a military base, but on the way, it hit a bump and 2 of the containers fell off. No one noticed a thing and continued moving on. Inside the containers were Cai and Jenova, they shook their head and tried to stand up.
"Jenova!" said Cai.
"Ugh… my head…" said Jenova.
"What's going on? Who're those guys?"
"I can't really tell for sure, but the others are in that truck! We've got to follow it!"
Cai and Jenova tried to chase down the truck, but they felt weak as they just woke up. But with Jenova's sharp eyes, she spotted a symbol on the truck.
"Shit….." panted Jenova. "It's military…"
"Military? What do they want?" shouted Cai. "Ugh….. I'm not feeling too good….."
"We're in no condition to fight or anything, and we can't go back to the village nor the HQ…."
"What now?"
"I don't know… but I already have an idea where the others are being taken to…"
"Hmm… I've got an idea….. come on Jenova!"
The truck settled in a military base, guarded by a whole army. The containers were transferred to a lab. A man wearing a suit entered the lab, he had a walking stick with the symbol of an angel's wings on top of it. He was also escorted by a military general, who wore camouflaged uniform and has a huge scar on his face, from his nose down to his neck. armed with dual spas-12 shotguns.
"Excellent work General….." said the man in the suit. "So which one is the devil boy?"
"We're not really sure, my spies say that no devil form has released…. Although, one of them has showed signs." Said the General.
"Signs?"
"He has been acting weird, his power levels go off the charts sometimes, but it's probably equipment problems."
"Good enough... dispose the rest, keep that one….."
"But sir…"
"I already know who it is…"
"I understand…. Get the rest out! Leave the one in the black coat!"
"This is going to be interesting…."