The chick, back at it. Hope you like this chap too!
Don't own the devil or his nun, but maybe one of those killer repeller guns.....
Chap: curses
"You know, I could have been the bait for this, and he wouldn't have to go to such trouble," Chrono grumbled slightly as the two of them crouched near the servants entrance door.
"You? Chrono, I don't know if you've noticed, but you look a little young for their tastes. Not every woman on earth is like Satella."
"Don't even mention that god-awful woman!" he hissed. "She's scary."
"True. Although, if you did walk up to the house in your true form, you'd have the entire house all over you," the nun noted with a considering expression.
Chrono's eyes went wide at her comment and he blushed. Did she mean what he thought she—
"Look! The door's unlocked," the girl said as she twisted the knob. It opened with hardly a sound and the two of them quietly entered. The lights were very dim in the hallway, and there were odd stains on the carpet. Chrono scented the air a few times and recoiled. "Ugh! The whole place reeks!"
A smell of faint rotting blew from the doorway and Rosette frowned. "Of the men?"
"Yeah. My guess is that the girls have got the bodies hidden somewhere around here. I'm amazed the neighbors haven't noticed that smell yet."
"Well, don't think about it now. We need to find out where that devil is. Can you sense anything?"
The demon closed his eyes to try and focus on the auras around him. Blinking to clear his vision, he pointed to the right. "It feels like its upstairs."
"Lets go then."
They crept down the hall, pausing at the sound of footsteps approaching. Both scrambled for some kind of door just as one of the possessed girls walked into sight. She glanced down the hall, looking right at them, but simply moved on.
Rosette tried to breathe normally again as she and Chrono fell out of the doorway. "I guess that rosary works on possessed humans too."
"That's good to know," he said, helping her up from where she'd tripped. He froze as the same girl walked back to the hall, this time looking for the source of such noise. She looked down the hall once more, glaring at the empty space before stomping back out. They could hear the girl muttering, "I could have sworn I heard something....."
"Um, I guess it doesn't muffle noise," he whispered tensely.
"Guess not," Rossette replied, trying to calm down from her near heart attack. She glanced down and blushed. "Um, you can let go of me now."
Chrono glanced down to where their hands were still joined in a white knuckled grip and blushed furiously. "Um, I, uh—sorry." He let go of her hand, putting his own back on her shoulder to keep his aura hidden. "We—we should get moving."
"Right." They began to quickly move through the house, pausing like statues each time one of the occupants looked their way. With careful maneuvering, they managed to reach the upstairs, scanning for the room that held the devil. A door at the end of the hallway was partially ajar, and Chrono motioned his head towards it. "That's the one."
"Let's—"
"Ladies, ladies, are you sure this is nesecary?"
Both froze at the sound of the familiar voice. Father Remington? They crept forward as soundlessly as they could to check. A quick glance in the room revealed the story.
The rosary was crackling around him as the girls kept reaching out to try and lead him further into the room. Their eyes had gone from normal human tones to the red of demonic energy, and they kept trying to push him towards the back wall. Behind a large desk, sitting in a wingback chair, was an old—very old—woman.
"A woman? I thought you said this thing feeds on male energy!" Rossette hissed.
"Because men have more at any one time! Not to mention, the demon might be male, just in a female body," Chrono whispered.
Rosette cocked an eyebrow. That sounded very, very wrong. She shook her head. "But now, how do we get the demon out of her? I don't want to hurt an old lady!"
"We'll have to use holy water. Just splash her with some and it should drive the demon out of her," the boy replied.
"Right, but what about the others?"
"You mean the girls? We'd have to kill the demon to get rid of the hold its got over them."
"So old lady first, then the girls?"
"Right."
"Good plan. Now how do we get Father Remington out of there?"
"I think he can handle it himself," the devil replied wryly as the priest suddenly lunged, a silver phial flying open from his hand. Holy water sprayed everywhere, singeing the girls wherever it struck. But the old woman, who received the majority of it, barely twitched in reaction, even though the water burned like acid across her body. The three exorsists stared in shock as the woman rose from her chair, seemingly unruffled.
A hoarse voice came from the possessed, "You pitiful humans. You really think you can hurt me now?" Skin began to rip and tear off the woman's body, the clothing falling away. "This body has served its purpose, and now I can finally regain my real form." The old woman's flesh fell off, her skeleton turning to sick green slime as it slid off the demon's true form. Spikes and slimed skin grew everywhere, making Rosette turn a little green in disgust, and she'd seen some nasty stuff.
Chrono stiffened as the demon's form solidified. He recognized that demon. That was Taj-mere, the spell demon, a high ranking lord of Pandemonium. One of the most deadly Pursuers Pandemonia had ever birthed. If he was here in his real form, they were in serious trouble.
The spell, no longer needed to fuel the demon's body, had been broken, and now the remaining girls stared in horror at the monster before them. Rosette finally moved, lunging forward to grab one of the girls' arms. "Move!" She shouted, pulling the startled girl into the hall. "Run, get out of here!" The girls immediately ran for the door, nearly running over Chrono and Rosette in their panic. "I hate high heels," a distinctly stomped Chrono said as he sat up with a groan. "Never mind that now!" Rosette cried. "Look!"
Remington and the demon were going full force at each other, energy sword against a bone whip. They struck and parried with sickening force, literally sending shockwaves through the room. Furniture was blasted into dust by the force of their hits. Finally, a heavy blow knocked the sword from his hands and forced Remington back against the wall. His head cracked against it hard, and the priest's eyes rolled back in his head, slipping into unconsciousness.
Just as the demon went for the killing blow, two shots rang out through the room, shattering his whip out of his hands. Taj-mere leapt back barely in time to avoid the sacreds, staring at the door. Rosette stared back at it with hardened eyes. "Don't you move another muscle, demon."
"Who's there?" He hissed. His green eyes scanned the room for any sign of whoever had spoken, his body tensing to attack.
"Just us!" Rosette shouted as she leapt forward, guns blazing. The demon sank low, avoiding the first volley before ignoring the girl and going straight for-- Rosette nearly kicked herself. The moment she'd gone forward, she'd moved too far for the rosary's aura to protect Chrono!
The demon was attacking the first thing it had seen, despite Rosette shooting at it. Chrono rolled to dodge the attack, and desperately trying to avoid Rosette's bullets. She managed two shots before pulling back. She couldn't risk hitting Chrono. She reached for the watch---
Taj-mere sprang forward, swiping his claws down and leaving a nasty gash across the boy's chest. The force of it threw Chrono back, leaving an opening for the nun. She rushed forth, gun out and firing with killing precision. The bullets drove the demon back towards the desk, its blood spilling all over the floor.
Rosette went quickly to Chrono's side, crouching down to touch his shoulder. "Are you alright?"
"Yeah, its just a bad-(hiss)-scrape"—
"Yeah, and I'm Queen Victoria. You rest here, I'll take care of ugly."
He reached a hand for her arm, "Be careful, Rosette. He's not your ordinary demon. Don't let him touch you."
"Huh? What happens if"- the demon suddenly roared, charging forward for one last strike, to at least take the shooter out with him. She rolled, the rosary breaking from the impact.
"There you are, you bitch!" Taj-mere shouted. He let his claws do the talking then, striking time and again to draw blood, not letting the girl get enough room to fire her gun. He finally managed to force her to the wall to get in a blow, Rosette's blood slicing over his claws when—
BLAM!
"You shouldn't have touched her," Chrono growled darkly, the gun smoking in his hands. He pulled himself up off the floor, nearly slipping in all the blood. "Rosette?! Are you alright?!"
She groaned as she picked herself out of the wall. "My back is killing me, but other than that everything's Jake." She stared at him for a moment. "Hey, Chrono? I never knew you were a twin."
"What?" the devil's eyes widened in concern. "Oh, crap, are you having double vision?"
She shook her head to clear it. "Not anymore. This going to be a right lovely headache, I can tell."
Chrono sighed in relief. "Enough with the jokes, okay? What about Father Remington"—
"By the light of a dark moon, (pant), you will consume each other," the demon's voice came harshly as it died. Chrono whirled in silent panic, watching as the demon circled two red tipped fingers together in a pool of blood. "(gack!) You will go mad at the feel—of a touch, yet no hand—will be there, a voice—(cough, hack!)—will speak and no one will be there." The demon's breath gurgled in his lungs, blood spurting from his mouth in a death rattle. "He...will tear you—apart, from---within...."
The demon vaporized, the holy objects finally destroying it. The stolen astral began to slowly seep out of its body, rising in silver twists to the air like smoke. But Chrono stared at the spot it had been in with horror. He didn't know what spell had taken place, but it could only be something bad. Taj-mere had been well known in Pandemonium for his spells' cruelty.
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