Chapter 9: System

("Brutal," said Sora.)

Ashkennot woke up randomly. Holding up the talisman, she cursed, "Shit—I dozed off. I hope that wasn't in the movie."

Suddenly, an irritated voice from beyond the door asked, "Man that guy was an asshole—!"

"I mean, we did rip out his heart and eat it," said one of Wolfgang's subordinates.

"Has anyone see Frankie? Sonuvabitch better not be in there stealin' my first dibs!"

"I don't hear nothin'."

Alarmed, the queen uttered, "Well, fuck." There, her silver-arrow crossbow sat on the dresser, but that was a slightly inconvenient distance away from the bed. Still, she shot up, flying straight for it and grasping it the moment Wolfgang crashed through the door; as she took aim, the leading Lycan zeroed in and disarmed her, then tripping her with a leg-sweep.

One of the other wolf guys, Benji or something, picked up Ashkennot's crossbow, saying some stuff, "You get this from a cereal box?"

Everyone laughed at that, and Wolfgang congratulated him, "That was good, Wallace! Excellent delivery!"

"Thanks, boss! I felt like badass while sayi—"

"My lovely queen!" Wolfgang greeted the monarch currently restrained in his grasp. "You look ravishing—!"

"Hurry up and get first dibs, Cap'n!" Benji or somebody eagerly interrupted.

"Goddammit, Mitch!" Wolf Leader yelled. "Can't you tell I'm trying to be romantic, first!"

"Sorry, Cap'n. It's Stan, by the way."

"Fuck you." Wolfgang cleared his throat. "Right, so—"

Ashkennot punched him and ripped his throat out, then being taken hostage by the other wolf-men.

Injecting himself with a first aid pen, Wolfgang was instantly healed of his ripped out throat, though he was thoroughly irritated. He yelled, "You dare put your hands on me—!"

"You had a fuckin' first aid pen?" Benji or someone yelled incredulously. "We coulda fuckin' used that both times we got blindsided by that trench coat fuck!"

Before everyone got too rebellious, Wolfgang introduced logic to the grievance at hand, "How the fuck are we supposed to share one of those? It's one person per use, you dumb bastards! And there's no fuckin' way I'd share a needle with any o' you rat-fuck, rim-lickin' ape-kissers, believe me on that."

(Sora laughed pretty hard at that.)

Nodding, Benji I think said, "Sorry, boss."

"It's all good, Rick. Now, all of you gimme some time to get hard first!"

("Oh, my god..." Kairi had progressively lost an acute amount of patience up to this point in the scene.)

As they held her down, one guy, Wallace or whatever, questioned, "How did that throat-ripping not get you super-hard already?"

Turned around and jerking himself, Wolfgang explained, "It's uh...the effect of the first aid pen—"

Rick said, "Really? Those things usually wake my dick right up, and I'm a chainsmokin' chronic masturbator."

(Someone laughed pretty hard at that too, and it wasn't Kairi.)

"Just shut up, you're making this hard—I mean soft—just shut up!"

Nonetheless, Ashkennot was eager to escape, thus her adrenaline was pumping. And as her heart thumped, she noticed everyone had started dancing to the beat of her heart, though it looked uncontrollably involuntary.

"Shit dude, what the fuck, man?!" Benji for real this time asked, shaking his ass to and fro.

Rick screeched, "I can't stop duggying!"

Another dude was all like, "Fuckin' A, this is nuts!"

Wolfgang admitted, "This is kinda working for me!"

Ashkennot was able to escape, and she quickly retrieved her crossbow. Switching it to fully-automatic mode, the queen shrieked while holding the trigger, "Time to die, you hairy fuck-bags!"

It's worth reiterating that each arrow she shot was plated with silver. And thus, the wolf-men exploded into dust. Notably, the place where Wolfgang exploded revealed a pack of unused first-aid pens. Great, so the dust then collected and formed into a floating, ash-colored human heart.

Ashkennot saw it and reached out for it. No, it evaporated.