BEN Drowned watched as Eyeless Jack left the building. He had laughed at all the salt littering the halls, everyone seemed to be more scared of Heart and him than they were for EJ. It was really amusing to see, enough to distract him from his headache.
He grinned to himself as he began floating back down the halls, recalling all the ideas he had in his game of how to deal with the Shields and the Moon Children.
Unknown to him a few of the Shields are waiting for him to round the corner, already having a ghost proof net ready so he won't disappear. He just kept floating, already too deep in his thoughts to even care for a few shields nearby.
A net then gets thrown at him, successfully trapping him. He screeches loudly in alarm as he begins glitching, trying to get free.
"Don't try, it's ghost proof."
"Why the fuck are you doing this?" He hisses trying to bite and claw his way free.
"Letting only the daughter of the Chief try getting your memories back lead to more troubles than she's worth, so we're going to try making you sleep."
"I'm a ghost, I haven't slept in 9 years." He hisses at them, glaring through the net.
"You would only have to be in a half awake state. Janina was easier to get to that than you."
He struggles more, trying to get one of his knives so he could cut through the net. One of them takes out an amulet.
"Fighting will only make it worse, so look into this amulet."
He heard that and decided the best course of options, was to close his eyes so that he could avoid looking as he kept reaching for his knife.
"We can also do this the hard way and lock Lady Heart in a room with salt, alone with Janina so we will see how long it takes for a serial killer to snap and kill her mortal friend."
"And your chief will find out soon enough what happened, and sick Heart and me on you like he did to the last people that caused harm to Janina." He grinned a sick and twisted grin at that.
"He locked himself in his room with salt. He's as guilty as us. So better for you to go along with this or be the cause of the reincarnation of your sister dying."
"They're no fucking sister of mine. I'd rather not have any of the memories." He hissed, "All they are is a friend of Heart Burn's, who is very suicidal anyway."
"So you wouldn't mind them dying sooner then. Good to know."
"I'd like to see you try to deal with Heart Burn when she's pissed. The moment even some of the salt gives way, this whole place will be on fire."
"Not if we have more ways to kill Janina. We know of their pills, it would be so easy to make it look like an illness."
He huffed, if his eyes were open, he'd be rolling his pupils.
"We even went along with it already. If you don't want them to die you better get your memories back or in 24 hours the effects of the pills will be irreversible."
"Heart Burn will find out." He hissed as he did open one eye.
"She won't. It looks and acts exactly like the illness that nearly took away the first Janina."
He just keeps one eye open, not responding at the slightest. The amulet gets dangled in front of his eye, swinging slightly. He really doesn't know what they are trying to accomplish, its not like he even has actual eyes, just red dots in the void of his eye sockets.
"Just give in already."
"Yeah it doesn't seem to be working." he huffed in a bored tone.
"If you could just cooperate, this would be a lot easier for everyone."
"I am." He opened his other eye and rolled his pupils, "You just suck at hypnotism, or" he grinned, "it doesn't work when I technically have no eyes."
"We just haven't tried hard enough yet."
He only sighed a bit, already getting bored, "Yeah well your efforts are boring."
The amulet still gets dangled in front of his eyes. He fake yawned, really still not seeing a point.
"Really, I've tried sleep before, but I don't lose consciousness at all. I can fake it quite well though."
"Have you tried that then since Janina read the diaries to you?"
"No, I merely recharged in my game while wishing I could claw the Moon children to death." He grinned as his eyes glowed a bit, recalling the ideas of how to murder them, and the grin on his face when he realized he could also enact the torture onto these people.
"Try it then."
There's shuffling behind the one who holds the amulet and now there's several spray bottles.
"I haven't done so in almost 3 years." he hissed, glaring at the spray bottle.
"Either you do it or I just pick one of the spray bottles. Only one of them is filled with the holy water salt mix, the others are only water. If you're lucky it'll only be water."
He kept hissing, his sharp teeth almost biting his lip. He knew it wouldn't work, he physically and mentally can never sleep, or even get close. He was going to get covered in harmful anyway, that was something even he could see.
"I can't." he glared at the spray bottles, wishing they would catch fire, to no avail.
"One last chance, try or get soaked in different body parts."
He only hissed his response while trying to reach for his knife. His hand gets sprayed with the water.
"Bad little boy. No taking weapons."
He yelped in pain as he pulled his hand away, clutching it as blood dripped down his face.
"I did warn you."
He glared harshly as blood kept dripping down his face and onto his shirt, "Yeah and that wasn't holy water!"
"You got lucky then, the next one could be or not. Are you willing to get hypnotized now or will you resist more?"
He kept glaring at them, hissing out as his reply while his body glitched. Another spray bottle get selected and he gets sprayed with water on his other hand. He yelped again in pain, trying to ignite a fire but his hands were too wet.
"Still...n-not holy water." He hissed out, trying to brace himself for the pain to come, glitching out horribly.
"Aren't you one lucky individual then! Only three bottles left, one of them is the holy water salt mix."
He merely continued to glare, fear starting to creep in but not letting it fucking show yet.
"Will you now submit to the hypnotism?!"
"Nah." He grinned through the pain, blood still dripping from his eye sockets. This earned him another spray bottle, once again aimed at his hands.
He hissed in pain, but his hands were getting numb and glitching out more than the rest of him.
"Two left little boy. One has the holy water, the other doesn't. You can choose next too."
He only kept glitching, trying to brace himself for further pain but it was getting harder, he needed to get back to his game soon.
"One last time, do you submit to the hypnotism? Yes or no?"
"No!" He tried to grab his knife again, fighting the pain in his hand.
"Apparently you don't want to choose so we use both."
With that both of the spray bottles gets sprayed on his hand. He screamed in pain from the amount of water soaking him as he fell on his side, glitching horribly. The people only laugh at that.
"There was no holy water the whole time."
He kept glitching horribly, feeling his energy drain faster from the pain, it hurt so much and no one was fucking helping him. He hissed louder as he struggled in the net, trying to fight through the pain to get his knife, anything to stop the fucking pain. Blood kept dripping from his eyes and even his mouth as he kept fighting, glitching out wanting the pain to just stop.
"Would we get in any trouble?" One of them asked.
"Not really, a lot of us want the two ghosts gone. Makes it much easier to remember and maybe this will make Janina normal to care for children."
He hissed loudly in response to them, still trying to fight through the pain.
"How long until he dies from this?"
"Can't be long, technology is a fragile thing."
He glared at them, but before he could black out, there was a loud, "WHAT THE FUCKING HELL?!" as Heart was there, on fire, and glaring, and then blue screen everything.
Heart Burn knew something was wrong when she faintly heard yelps of pain, but the scream tipped her off. Something went fucking wrong. She left Janina's side and started floating through the walls listening to the sound to locate where BEN was.
It wasn't long til she found BEN trapped on the ground glitching and surrounded by shield members holding spray bottles.
"WHAT THE FUCKING HELL?!" she was on fire and pissed off.
"SCATTER!"
They all fled in different directions, running away from her wrath. She glared as the fire spread after them all, as she rushed to BEN's side. They all still continued to run away, though quickly found fire blocking their exits.
She yelped a bit as she touched the wet net, but still tried to rip it off him though it was burning her hands a lot. She glared at the nearest shield as her flames increased.
"Remove the fucking net and I might fucking spare you."
Only one of them moved forward and quickly removes the net. The others are trying to jump over the fire or even through it. The fire only increased, resulting in their screams of pain as she let the one who moved forward off with bad burns.
She was immediately there at BEN's side trying to get him to get out of the blue screen of death he was currently locked in, from his limp body and blue glitching out. Seeing the state he was in, she glared harshly at all of them before disappearing with his body, floating as fast as she could to the tv.
Once she arrived in the room, she quickly turned on the game and tv and once it loaded, shoved BEN's body in the screen, turned it off and grabbed his cartridge. The assigned guards of the cartridge are staying as far away from her as they can.
She glared at them harshly before floating right out of the room back to where she had left the ones who hurt her nerdling. Those people are still where she left them, writhing in pain from the burns she inflicted on them.
"You all tried to fucking kill My boyfriend." She growled out, her hair alight with fire. A few try to flee again, the same that had tried to escape the first time.
"You all signed your fucking death warrant. Your chief isn't going to save you this time." She approached them, the flames getting higher, stronger, entrapping them all. The one that stayed still the whole time is already accepting his fate, the others don't, scrambling to get up and jump through the flames.
"I thought you all worshipped us. I thought you loved having your so called hero here. Why would you attempt to kill him? Answer me before I kill you all in a blaze of the shame you are."
The only one that answers is the one that accepts his fate, the others are too scared, "We are worshipping the true Benedict, the Hero and the Knight. As much as there is evidence that Benjamin is Benedict reincarnated, some if not all can't allow Benjamin to continue like this. Some would say he taints the name of Benedict, others say that his existence is a torture. You can't deny that he's scarred, mentally and physically."
"And what you did brought him back to that point." Her flames flared up, "You made it worse with the water."
"I merely held down the net, the one in the middle sprayed the water."
"You all are fucking responsible for causing him more harm."
"I know, I am accepting death at this point."
"Which is why you all will suffer!" She yelled as the flames engulfed all of them. The screams of pain followed that, some begging for forgiveness.
Their screams were music to her ears as the flames finished them off slowly while she strolled past them.
Soon she made her way to just outside of Chief's room, "Hey! So apparently some of your people just tried to murder BEN, spraying him with water as if he was being tortured by the Moon Children all over again. I'm taking him and we're fucking leaving."
The Chief quickly opens the door, having heard what she said, a salt line under the door separating his room from the hallway.
"Lady Heart, there is no need for such drastic measures!"
"I'd rather not see BEN injured like that again. I'm getting him and myself somewhere safer. Oh and by the way, those people had an unofficial execution and their charred corpses will smell in a while." She glared at him, clutching the cartridge tight in her hands.
He had to sigh at that, "Very well. I will have to let Janina know that you will be departing with BEN. Will you both still continue the memory plans or drop those too considering the circumstances?"
"Most likely the latter, as they had gone on about Benedict in their dying words, the way they said it made it sound like they wanted to mercy kill him so they could have a better chance of getting Benedict back. Tell Janina to text me when they wake up. I'm leaving." She huffs and with that, turning invisible with the cartridge, disappearing from all sight.
The Chief sighed once more, not even a full day and everything went wrong with his plans. He'll deal with the charred corpses tomorrow, now is not the time to look at those since he had planned on sleeping.