Author's Note:

Dear reader, I'm sorry for taking too long on publishing this chapter. Couldn't do it earlier because: lessons and exams in college (Russian College. aka 'technicum' where you get an average-specialized education), my laziness (I had some free time, but instead of writing this story I was playing Dead Space 1-3 with one broken button on my XBOX360 controller in an attempt to beat them on high difficulty), mixed-up ideas about this fic, some new crossover ideas noone seems to write about ('State of Decay' and 'Dead Rising' for example) and I was having some fun (unfortunately didn't get laid but still) in a Happy New Year and after HNY (It seems that I was not the only one to had fun, 'cause once I got my ass up in 3 P.M, almost whole Moscow was just as empty as London in '28 days later').

I'm saying this just in case: Nameless Sentinel from Argent D'Nur is reincarnated BJ Blazkowicz & Flynn Taggart, but with different appearance, personality, different opinions about what happened before (Example: Blazkowicz was in love with Anya and he found her strong. Night Sentinel (two lives later) still admits the fact that she is strong... But also realizes that she, him and the chemistry between them back there was crazy not in a good way) and born in different timelines/universes.

Disclaimer: I do not own DOOM (except from the game copy I bought on some random web page for 499 RUB (6.99$ maybe?) and Xbox360 versions of the previous DOOM games) or Familiar of Zero (wich I freely watched on the internet). This is just a fanfic of some crazy ass dude and most of the stuff I'm going to write won't be canon. Hope you'll enjoy this fic.

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Chapter 2: Arrival.

Once smoke fully disappeared, the students saw a tall figure in a werd looking armor and holding some sort of a musket... Aaand that said musket was the reason for the next statement:

"Well, well, well, who could've gess that Louise would summon a commoner?" said Kirche before starting to burst out in loud laughter. About ten or so male students joined her in that.

But those who weren't in any sort of relationship with her didn't share a laugh. Instead they studied that said 'commoner' who seemed to be the most intriguing summoning for this day.

Oh, I almost forgot to mention about other summonings... Familiars started to hide behind their masters and it seems that nobody, but the blue haired girl with glasses managed to notice that. Anyway, back to our students who kept on arguing...

"Louise summoned a golem?"

"It is too short to be a golem, but at the same time, it's too tall to be human... An enchanted armor, maybe?"

"I doubt that. I think I can see someone's face trough that... glass on his helmet? What idiot makes a helmet with glass on it?"

"Perhaps he is from elven lands or from somewhere beyond?"

"That's possible."

"You think he is a knight from a foreign kingdom?"

"Don't be stupid Malcorne! Not in case of the Louise the Zero! He is probably just a mercenary she hired somewhere in the streets..."

"How many people wearing that sort of armor you saw, Guiche?"

"Eehhh...none?"

"Exactly!"

While most of the students kept on arguing about who this man was, blonde girl with weird hair stile came up to the pinkhead and then whispered in her ear: "Louise, I'll be honest with you: if you summoned a knight from foreign kingdom, I'll be jealous."

Louise was still not sure about what she should feel right now... Happiness from finally succeeding at something or disappointment? She wanted to get a dragon, or at least a cat... But instead, she possibly got a foreign knight. If she did...

'I'm going to be in trouble...'

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Doom Slayer was expecting some savage nature, environmental heat, bandits who would've tried to kill him, anything hostile to him...

But instead, he was greeted by a green grass underneath his boots, blue skyes filled with white clouds and yellow light coming trough his visor. Somewhere, deep in his chest, there was a feeling wich told him to remove his helmet and relax for a bit. He was hesitant to do it, but eventually, he couldn't resist that feeling anymore and went for a helmet.

He felt a cold wind flying over his face, sunlight slightly burning his skin, some distant sounds of wild life and finally...

Air. Fresh air, free from the embers of Armageddon. Air full of life instead of death. Air, wich taste is so pleasant to his lungs and he had almost forgotten after eons spent in Hell.

To him, it felt like Heaven... A little piece of peace at last.

He didn't bother about a bunch of weird looking animals, the place he was at and kids in school uniform around him. All he wanted was to savor the moment...

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Once the Doom Slayer removed his helmet, almost every girl was at the very least impressed by his appearance... Even Kirche shut her mouth.

He was a man in the middle of his fourties, pale skin, brown hair, rough facial features covered in dozens of scars and a heavy look in his eyes. Female students found his looks brutal and attractive at the same time.

"He looks good... for a commoner anyway." noted Guiche. His noble pride just could not let him accept the fact that Doom Slayer is better looking than him.

That caused quite an interesting reaction from Kirche. "You're just jealous because he is more of a man than you would ever be, Guiche." Once she said that, crowd around her laughed, wich made him quite uncomfortable.

"Silence please." the crowd was shut down by professor Colbert who afterwards approached the Doom Slayer with an intent to find out who he is.

"Greetings, Sir. I'm professor Jean Colbert. And you are...?" Jean expected to get an answer, but Doom Slayer made some grunting sounds and pointed to his neck. Colbert seems to get it... So are the students.

"Ha-ha! He can't even talk! Another failure, Louise!" kid with rose 'joked' and some of the students supported him with laughter.

"At least he is better than your stupid mole!" pinkhead threw an insult right back at him.

"You dare to insult my familiar!?" he spilled with greeted teeth.

"Yes, I dare!" she spat back. And they kept giving each other a death stare (a pathetic one. Even I (non-violent, russian hikko anime/gamer) would've done it better).

"Grammont, Valliere, be silent!" Colbert ordered. And it seems to give some results. Once they've calmed down, he continued his *cough-cough* conversation with the Doom Slayer.

"I'm going to ask you some simple questions then..." he informed him and continued:

"Do you know where you are and why are you here?" Doom Slayer knew only that he was summoned here by Louise Valiere, the world they're currently in is Halkeginia and Nobility here comes trough magic. The rest is unknown for him. He shook his head, thinking that he won't hear anything new.

"You're in Tristian magic academy. You were summoned here to be the familiar of Miss Valiere... Though it is not a common thing for a human to appear." he told him. Doom Slayer rased his eyebrow on the last part. That was a new one...

"I suggest you are not familiar with this term?" Colbert asked and got a nod for an answer.

"Familiar is... They are basicly a lifetime servants of a mage. However, they are usually not humans like you, so it's going to be a bit... complicated". That still didn't lower Doom Slayer's eyebrow.

"The runes make animals bend over their master's will... But it's unknown how it will work on a human being like you." Colbert explained with a little worry in his voice. That made the Doom Slayer think for a while.

Seraphim did not mentioned that he is about to be someone's pet... And not only that, but they also plan on marking him with mind-altering runes like some sort of a slave, wich is not cool in his opinion, but right before he started to throw insults towards the Seraph, he remembered something...

Seraphim did give him the immunity to mind tricks along with immortality. Add to this also his iron will, incorruptible soul and so on...

"Perhaps we could let her retry the summoning, figure out how to sent you back from where you were came from and..." Colbert wanted to offer an alternative, but was interrupted by a wave of the Doom Slayer's hand, who afterwards looked at Louise...

She seemed to be really young in comparison to the rest of the students... Twelve or so years old, short and have a pink (wich he found odd but ignored it) hair colour. How Seraphim said: She was a key for something? He didn't see anything special in her but he'll do what Seraph asked him to do...

Keep her ass safe.

He looked back at Colbert and nodded. That seems to get the teacher by surprise. "You accept it? To be her familiar?" He asked. Doom Slayer nodded again.

"Sir, think about this again... Carefully. I cannot guarantee that you'll remain the same or that you'll be the man of your own will again." Colbert was really concerned about his sanity, though he really shouldn't be since the Hell Walker lost it a long time ago...

After a few more seconds of silence, he once again got a nod for an answer. "*sigh* alright Sir, you have been warned." he said, in a defeated tone. Then walked to a pink headed girl and said: "Complete the contract, miss Valiere."

The pink haired girl started to slowly walk towards him. Despite the fact that she was nervous, she kept on walking. Doom Slayer noticed that and mentally gave her a little credit for not running away.

Few more seconds later, she was in front of him. "Could you... Could you bend over please?" she asked him nervously. He did not understand why he should do it, but at the same time he saw nothing bad in it...

Once he kneeled low enough, she pulled out her magical stick and started to chant on an unknown to him language. Once she was done, she leaned her face closer to his and then...

She kissed him. Back on Argent D'Nur there were some rituals involving kissing... BUT WITHOUT TWELVE YEARS OLD GIRLS IN IT. He felt disgusted after that kiss... And it seems that the pinkette felt the same way, judging the look on her face.

She moved her head away from Doom Slayer and started to wipe her lips. "You... You can count yourself lucky!" she said quite embarrassed like that was her first kiss ever.

After Louise said that, Doom Slayer felt that the back of his left hand started to ich really bad. It wasn't as much annoying as the feeling when he used 'Invincibility' power up, but it still was.

In order to see the reason of that pissing off ich, he had to remove his gauntlet. He saw a red glow, wich was forming into wierd runic letters. 'So that's the familiar runes, huh?' The word those letters formed were pretty familiar and fitting to his nature.

Once that glow faded, Colbert approached him, asking to show him the runes in order to record them in his journal. Doom Slayer didn't see anything bad in it.

"Never seen those before..." Colbert mumbled to himself. Once he finished his recordings, he looked at the Doom Slayer...

"Are you feeling well after the bonding?" he asked him concerned. Doom Slayer looked on his hand for a while, then back at him and gave a slight nod. "I'm glad to hear it, sir." he said in relief.

After that, he closed his journal, turned back to his student and announced: "Alright, I guess we're done here. You all free to go." After that, students split in two groups: one group walked on their feet and others used their magic sticks to fly to their rooms.

Doom Slayer didn't find the ability to fly as something impressive. It's indeed an advantage in combat, but if you have a right weapon, this said advantage can easily turn you into a pile of molten flesh and bones.

"What's the matter Louise? Can't cast a levitation spell?" joked the red headed girl with a slight giggle. That made the pinkette turn red out of anger and mumble something to herself, but soon enough snapped out of it.

"Follow me please." she said still pissed on the redhead's joke. And of course, he followed her...

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The Doom Slayer observed pink haired girl's room when they arrived. It appeared to be small, but more or less comfortable. A king-sized bed, a wardrobe, table with a pair of chairs nearby, balcony and... a pile of hay to his left.

Doom Slayer realized that this girl did not expected a human as her familiar, so he did not comment on this at all. He simply sat down on the pile, removed his helmet and started to clean his double barrel shotgun.

Meanwhile, Louise was sitting on her bed, making her own conclusions about her familiar...

His rough face features were slightly similar to Germania's folk, yet his skin color was telling the complete opposite. He did not look like a noble, yet he wasn't looking like a commoner or some mercenary...

He was more like a warlord on her opinion. Rough face marked with scars, dark eyes and heavy death stare... Shit, even her mother wasn't able to glare like that.

She couldn't get anything else from his appearance. She would've tried to gather more info about him trough conversation, but here's a thing...

He was mute.

"*sigh* and how are we going to communicate with each other?" she wondered.

'Your guess is just as good as mine, girl.' he mentally responded. It's not like she is gonna hear it anyway he thought...

"Wha…? But I thought you are mute!" she said surprised. She could have sworn that he was mute and now he talks. His voice was deep, loud and full of power. Yet it sounded... weird to her.

And Doom Slayer was surprised himself. He didn't say shit, so how could she hear him "say" anything? Unless...

'A telepathic connection? Interesting...' he did not expect that he was going to communicate with this girl in a way he was communicating with the Seraphim.

"A tele…What?" This term seemed to be confusing to her. Now it's a time to do thing he was never good at...

Conversation.

'To put it simple, you can hear my thoughts, and... I guess I can hear yours?' he said/thought a bit uncertain.

'What kind of nonsense is this? It's impossible to hear someone's thoughts.' she thought to herself, wich Doom Slayer heard and replied: 'Since I heard it, it is possible.' that made her jump on her place. 'He…he heard my thoughts!' he nodded and it shocked her again. After that, there was an awkward silence for a little while…

'I think we should introduce each other, no?' he offered. "Huh?! Oh, sure thing..." she stood up and took a deep breath "My name is Louise Françoise le Blanc de la Valliere." she proudly announced. Now the name 'William Joseph Blazkowicz' seemed to be much shorter to him.

'I guess Louise will do.' he decided to himself. She didn't comment on him being disrespectful toward someone who was of noble heritage, but probably because she was thinking he is a noble. "And what is your name?"

'My name is...' now here was a problem...

He couldn't give her his name since he didn't remember it, couldn't give the name from his past lives because he is not used to them anymore nor he wanted to tell her his full title given by Hell itself. It took him a little while to think, be he eventually came up with something...

'*sigh* Call me Doomguy' He used a soft form of his title borrowed from his past life (Flynn Taggart). "It doesn't sound like a name..." smart girl, isn't she?

'I don't remember my real name anymore.' answer surprised her, not in a good way. "Perfect... A knight with amnesia... Were you even an actual knight?" she asked, slightly pissed. 'I was.' that woke some curiosity in her. "Was? What happened?" What happened...

The memories of Argent D'Nur rushed through his brain: what it used to be before and what it is now... In the flash, he saw faces of all of those he was supposed to protect before they all turned into one giant gore nest... memories of how he backstabbed his friends, Comrades, Brothers... memories of witnessing the birth of the Icon of Sin...

What happened? He was tricked by demons to betray his homeland, his brothers, his lords... everything. And what he got in the end for his desire to bring his son back?

Suffering.

'Doesn't matter. That was a long time ago.' he grimly replied. He didn't want to talk about it. Not in a million years.

"Alright then... Anyway, what you can do?" she quickly changed the subject.

'Take a guess.'

"Well, from the looks of you, you look like a warrior... But I'm not sure wich kind of warrior..." she said, a bit puzzled. We already know what kind of a warrior he is... But let's let her have her own opinion after all.

"Can you use willpower?" she asked hopefully. 'Can I use what now?' He had no idea what the hell she meant by 'willpower'.

"*sigh* …magic. Can you use magic?" she asked, irritated. Ohh, so she wants to see magic? Well, she'll get a bit of 'magic'.

He moved his hand with Super Shotgun towards Louise, made it disappear and materialized HAR afterwards.'That'll do?' he asked her, slightly annoyed by those questions already.

"Wha…? How did you...?" She was surprised. Not by the fact that he just summoned something, but by the fact that he did it without a wand, which is impossible for nobles... Unless he's an elf, but he can't be because his ears are not pointy... Half-blood elf then?

'That'll do then.' he said while switching back to his super shotgun to continue it's cleaning.

"Are you... Are you a half elf?" she asked cautiously.'No.' "You sure?" now she is just being an annoying pain in the ass. 'I'm sure.' "Are you sure that you sure? You probably say 'No' because of your amnesia..." oh, for fuck's sake, cut with this questioning.

'*sigh* I remember everything, but my name.' if he there able to talk for real, he would've said it trough his teeth. "So, you are not a half elf?" Doomguy was now trying really hard on not punching that girl in the face...

'I. Am not. A Half-blood elf.' he said, now really annoyed. "Then how did you summon that weird weapon without a wand?" finally, he gets not so stupid a question...

'My Armor.' he said while pointing at his torso plating.

"Your armor allows you to do it?!" she doubted his words. Doomguy nodded.

"I'm not buying that. No nobleman is able to create something like this." Somehow, her statement forced a shit-eating grin on Doomguy's face.

'I didn't say it was made by human hand.'

"Then who made this armor?! Elves?!" now it was time for her to get annoyed.

'Can't tell.' He couldn't believe it himself, but he got some sort of a weird satisfaction from mindfucking her.

"Just tell me something about it!" at first it sounded like an order, but when he gave her thatlook, she in the end added: "...Please." Now that's better, but he is still not planing on giving her much info about this armor or himself.

'All you need to know, is that this armor is nearly indestructible and I'm the only one who's capable of wearing it.' he said as calm as possible. The answer was a disappointment to Louise's curiosity. "Okay then..."

Once they've finished talking about his armor, another awkward silence was just hanging in the air. None of them had any idea about how to continue their conversation. Every minute this was getting more awkward. Eventually, Doomguy had enough of this. So he got up, put his helmet back and went towards the doorway.

'I guess I'll walk around this place for a bit...' "Oh, emmm... Alright." she said awkwardly. Doomguy looked at her for a while, and was just about to leave...

"Before you go..." he stopped him when he was already closing the door "Can you wake me up in the morning please?" she asked kindly.

'Sure thing.' was his response before closing the door and leaving Louise alone in the room.

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Doomguy walked around this academy for over three hours. He learned that this place was a medieval style castle with five towers, wich were forming a pentagram if you wold look down from the sky (*Junkie-like voice (Johnny Powell from 'The Darkness II' would be a good example)* wouldn't be cool if demons can use that to create a portal from Hell itself right? RIGHT?). Also, this place somehow reminded him of a "Harry Potter" book series, though this one seemed to be its poor rip-off and finally, he get a mixed-up opinion about people in this place...

Arrogance, disrespect and pride seemed to be a common thing for nobles here. For those three hours he had walked around this academy, he saw, like, 7 cases when a 'Noble' talks down a 'commoner' or even threatens them just because they can... pathetic.

Back on Argent D'Nur people with power (Night Sentinels in his case) used that said power to protect their home and its people from any threat... Even their own lords if they had to. And none of the Night Sentinels were arrogant. Proud warriors? Yes. Arrogant bastards? After tough training and power containing lessons with Wraiths, they had a lack of it.

Of course, there were few exceptions among those nobles: a blue haired girl with glasses. She is pretty calm and respectful toward the servants... Though there's something off about her... Unlike other nobles, she felt more... like a ghost, than a person. He been there, before. He knows how it is.

Professor Colbert seems to be a good man, but the eyes bearing a hint of a cold-blooded killer just don't add-up with the word 'good'.

Also a red haired girl... she seems to be nice towards everyone... Well, mostly towards a particular group of males a.k.a. members of her personal harem.

And that's about it. Other nobles are just assholes who think too much about themselves. That fact was simply pissing him off. He began to have a very strong desire to beat some sense in every damn noble in this place until...

His thoughts got interrupted by a *bump* sound in front of him. 'Damn it!' He knocked some maiden off her feet, but right before she hit the ground, he managed to catch her.

That maiden was a young girl... probably 21 year old, pale (but not as much as his) skin, black hair, blue eyes and asian-american-like features and with some little bag with her. She seemed to get a mixture of surprise, shock and a bit of fear.

"Uhh... Forgive me my Lord! Next time I'm gonna watch where I'm going!" she apologetically bowed to him after he placed her back on her feet. Doomguy wanted to tell her what she should not do that, but he was mute after all...

Then a strange idea came into his head. Maybe he should try sign language? The idea itself was stupid. What's the chance that this girl will understand it? But hey, that's worth a shot.

*Im not a noble.*

He was making his handsigns pretty slow for three reasons:

1) he wasn't sure if she will actually understand any of it.

2) he never-ever practiced that skill in eons

3) his gauntlets didn't allow him to move his fingers too freely

"Not noble? But then who..." she cut herself off in the end and then remembered rumors about a knight in an odd green armor, who was summoned to be a familiar of miss Valiere...

After a little while of thinking, she asked curiously with a bit of hope: "Are you happened to be a miss Valliere's familiar?" Doomguy nodded. He was actually surprised by the fact that maiden understood him...

Anyway, his nod made her sigh in relief and raise a little smile on her face. "My name is Siesta. What is your name?" She asked in a friendly way.

*Doomguy.*

"Nice to meet you Doomg... Wait a minute..." Siesta noticed that something was off in his introduction...

"You gave me your nickname... Am I not worthy to know your name, sir?" she joked and the smile grew wider. Believe it or not, Doomguy also smiled at her joke, but tried to stay focused on the conversation...

*I don't remember my name.*

After that statement, her smile fell and she took a 'Mister Thinker' pose and suggested: "Amnesia?" on wich Doomguy nodded. "Well, that's unfortunate. When you remember your name, reveal it to me one day, okay?" Doomguy nodded again and then he decided that right now would be a good time to finally get some answers on his questions...

*Siesta, Could you tell me about this place, kingdom we're in and other stuff? I'm just new in Halkeginia and I don't know anything about what's going on in here.*

She grabbed her chin and started: "Well, I guess I can tell you everything I know..." well, that's already was good news. As I said before, Seraphim did not bother with explanations, so it would be good to finally get some answers...

"But only If you help me with clothes cleaning." she required with a smirk. Doomguy frowned at that. On the one hand, cleaning clothes was something he was not used to do for a VERY long time. Yes, he was doing it with his clothes on Argent D'Nur, but now it's just shameful. Just imagine: The Doom Slayer, the one who slayed the Dreadnaught and the Great One, the one who spreads terror across the pits of Hell itself... Was now cleaning some fucking clothes?

But on the other hand, it was a perfect opportunity for him to fix his social skills and learn a bit more about this world... even if that means cleaning someone's pants.

'*sigh* here it goes...'

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A little while later. Near some fountain.

For about ten or so minutes, he was desperately fighting with... what he believed to be some sort of wine spot he couldn't get rid off. If he had a choice of what he would've picked, he would rather fight the Cyberdemon with his bare hands than clean that spot...

'I always hated wine.'

Siesta was watching him all this time, giggling at how bad he was at cleaning, but chose to give him a hand. She pulled out a little flask with yellow liquid out of her bag and gave it to him. "Take it. It should help." Doomguy started to study that bottle... It seemed more like some sort of a toilet water.

He took that flask, opened it and sniffed it. Smell was kinda nice... Anyway, he was just about to spill the whole thing on the wine spot...

"Don't waste whole bottle! Just a little drop." Siesta warned. Doom Slayer doubted that a single drop could get rid of the wine spot, but he decided to listen to her. He shook out exactly one and kept on cleaning...

To his surprise, that thing helped. The spot just disappeared. Like it never used to be there. Doomguy got curious what's inside that bottle, so he asked Siesta (by pointing at the flask).

"This? That's a Nature Dragon's urine. Very good at getting rid of the deep spots and cost a lot of money, so because of that, we're allowed to use droplets only." she explained to him... smiling a bit.

Doomguy was not expecting that answer. A dragon pee was able to clear a wine spot? Are you serious right now?

"Also some Nobles use it as a way to keep their mouths..." she couldn't finish because Doomguy started to stop her.

*Too much information*

"Sorry... That... That was a joke." she said trough laughter. Doomguy didn't find that joke funny, but he had to admit, Siesta had a cute laugh. "They actually use it to keep their hair glossy." she finished more or less calmly. Doomguy gave her a heavy glare after that, which she returned with an innocent look in her eyes.

'She just had to say this...'

Eventually, he just shrugged, and kept on cleaning clothes. The only thing that could be heard was complete silence. With occasional sounds of splashing water and cold wind rushing trough grass.

That silence remained there for five minutes and popped when Siesta finally started the conversation: "So... You want to know about things around here, right?" Doomguy looked at her and nodded. "Okay... So, first thing you need to know is..."

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Louise opened her eyes and was noticed in surprise that instead of being in her bed she stood in front of fresh remains of some massive creature with horns. It was bigger than any golem could possibly be. Its ribs were sticking out of it's chest, guts were hanging out of it's stomach and blood flowing out of it in small rivers.

Then she felt the smell... the smell of rotting flesh around her. When she took a better look around, she saw a field full of bones and gore... The taste of blood in her mouth... Sun covered by red and black clouds... Death, pain and suffering were surrounding her.

This horrifying image was supposed to scare her, make her scream in terror or try to run away from this unreal place, but instead she felt... anger, but not the one she used to feel when someone in the academy was mocking her. This one felt... stronger and literally unbearable to her.

After taking one last look at the Titan's remains, she turned away from it, loudly cracked her knuckles and slowly walked away, not knowing where.

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She lost the count on how long she was walking, but eventually, she reached some sort of palace.

Somehow it reminded her a bit of Romalian palace, but this one appeared to be darker, more sinister, with a stone head of some horned creature with dozens of eyes above its doors. She had a feeling like that head statue was following her with its empty eye sockets...

She went inside, put her palms between it's large doors and started to open them with a bit of struggle. Once she came in, Louise noticed that this palace indeed similar to the Romalian palace... but creepy.

Her attention was taken by a dozens of roars and glowing yellow eyes, shining in the shadows. Then those… creatures slowly started to come out of the dark and Louise once again, instead of being scared, felt something different...

Hate.

(DoomPowerMetal - Endgame (DOOM Unofficial Soundtrack))

The red-skinned tall creature made a battle roar and threw some Green fireballs at her, but she managed to dodge all of them. Despite the fact that she was far from being touched by them, she felt its hellish heat.

After she dodged them, she rushed at a Hell Baron, bumped off it's knee, cut off it's head with the long, red glowing sword and shoved it's headless body away.

Suddenly, dozens of creatures with razor-sharp teeth and claws tried to get to her leapt forth as one...only to be killed in one swing of that glowing sword. You could see in their eyes that they did not expect that outcome.

Louise kept on slicing the incoming imps over and over, but her killing spree was interrupted by a strong grip on her hand. When she looked behind, she saw a Hell Baron desperately tried to move her off her feet. This time, Louise felt Rage.

She punched that horned creature in the face so hard that its jaw just flew off and then pushed it's body away with her foot afterwards.

Right above her, Louise saw a group of massive bear bug-like creatures, but with body and horns, shooting some kind of energy spheres at her. With her red sword, she successfully managed to deflect all those spheres back at them, stunning them. After that, she used the closest Hell Baron as a trampoline to lunge on the first Cacodemon above her.

First one was cut in half, another lost its eye, third was smashed over the roof, fourth's jaw was torn off, fifth one was killed from the inside after attempting to swallow her and the last one was crushed by her feet.

Once Louise landed on the ground, she heard a roar, followed with loud and fast footsteps behind. She looked behind and saw another creature with pink skin, bone plates at the front and massive mouth rushing at her. Before that Pinky could take a piece of her, she stopped it dead in its tracks.

She tore off it's tooth and slit it's throat with it, making Pinky go backwards and knocking lesser demons off balance. When they recovered from being pushed aside by their fellow demon, they all looked at her with such hatred in their eyes...

That was something they shouldn't have done at all.

Suddenly, her vision became red, and the feeling of rage just increased. Heart is slamming against her chest, blood is boiling and fists are clenching...

'Rip and Tear.'

She crammed her fist inside an imp's mouth to pull out it's spine and use it as a whip on the next group of imps, cutting their throats open and tearing their faces apart. After that, she stabbed her palm into Hell Baron's chest to rip out it's heart, shoved it back trough it's mouth, torn it's horn and stabbed it in the face of another Hell Baron.

Pinky tried to knock her off her feet, but her fists just happened to be tougher than it's armored forehead since that pinky was turned into a pile of gore after a single punch. Another Hell Baron attempted to swipe at her, but in the end was crushed under the pressure of her foot.

When she killed the Hell Baron, a couple of different creatures tried to shoot her with some sort of red lightning. She rushed to the first one, ripped it's head off and flung it at the second one to punch a hole trough it's stomach afterwards.

Once she dealt with Hell Razors, she turned around and caught by the throat a tall, blue skinned demon who pounced on her from the wall, but as you can guess, it failed to do this.

Louise smashed it to the ground and started to punch it in the face over and over again until it turned into demonic mincemeat. Once she finished off the Prowler, every single imp in the vicinity literally lost its mind and bravely/foolishly/desperately rushed to her in a last attempt to cut her down. She was just standing on the ground, landing one punch after another and the pile of gore and viscera underneath her kept on growing and growing.

About a minute later, Louise heard slow and loud footsteps behind her. She looked back and saw a demon, in two or even three times taller than Hell Baron.

Demon had a green armor plating, large clawed gauntlets on both of it's hands, ugly face with dozens of glowing eyes and large horns.

That Demon stared at her... Normally, anyone else would've shit their pants after being stared down by the strongest demon who intended to rip out and devour your own soul. But again, she was not afraid. She waved her hands at it and took a prowling stance.

That Alpha Demon emitted a deafening roar and rushed at her. Louise landed a good punch in its face, wich made Alpha Demon slam into a wall, slightly breaking it's left horn, but that wasn't enough to stop it...

Once the demon recovered, it sent a strong punch in her gut wich made her fly backwards into the closest wall. A slight pain in the chest caused by the demonic abomination's punch just increased her rage.

Louise pushed herself off the wall and pounced on that demon like a madman. She pummeled it in the knee, dodged it's claw and landed another couple of punches in it's chest, cracking it's armor plating. The demon grabbed her by her torso, lifted her and started to smash her over the floor again and again...

It ended when Louise took its hand in a grapple and attempted to break it. Alpha Demon tried to get rid of her while smacking her over the wall, but failed. Few more seconds of struggling, and there was heard a loud *crack* followed by a pained roar.

Alpha Demon swung its hand once again, and eventually, Louise let go of it. Demon stared on its broken hand for a little while, then back at Louise. Its eyes this time began to glow red instead of orange.

It let out another roar and rushed on Louise once again. Her vision went back to normal and then, she unleashed her red blade and cut its left hand. Demon roared in pain, made a swing with its remaining right hand, but she was able to dodge it and cut its right leg.

The Alpha demon wasn't in any condition to fight anymore, but it was still alive. Louise was just about to fix that. She was slowly approaching the defeated demon, grinning like a lunatic.

That demon was now staring at her with fear in its eyes, but then it did something she did not expect it to do...

It started to laugh. Its laughter was so annoying and disgusting that she wanted to do anything to shut this disgusting piece of evil flesh. And she was about to finish it off...

But before Louise could do that, the floor underneath her feet started to shake and that demon just disappeared in a red flash. She didn't understood at first what was going on, but once she saw a lot of cracks forming on the floor, roof and everywhere alse, she realised...

"Slayer..."

It was a trap. Those demons she slaughtered were buying time for the priests of the Blood Temple. It was too late for her to run now because she was already falling down along with this temple...

"...You Will fall..." and with those words, everything went black.

To be continued..