18

I don't know where this new found energy came from, but from looking at the girl whose face I busted not too long ago, as well as her being possessed, I knew one thing for sure, I was sick and tired of this clown bullshit.

Lizzie stared up at me carefully, eyes flaring as she scrambled to grab the knives.

"It's obvious that your father isn't showing his face because he is using you all to do his work for him." I stared. She grunted as she charged at me swiping and attempting to cut me with the knives. I merely moved out of the way of each swipe dodging her moved. I stepped to the side quickly and sliced the back of her neck causing her to yelp. It wasn't a deep cut yet. Somehow I managed to barely break the skin. It must be the powers that are causing me to have such precision. She stumbled a bit touching the back of her neck and turning to me. "Maybe he wants you to bring him his victims so he doesn't have to hunt. Maybe he wants me to kill you all first and while we are at each other's throats, he is doing the real damage."

I was hoping to get a reaction out of her, or somehow make her give up knowledge of Pennywise's plans. She let out a roar a she charged at me again moving with such speed; I barely managed to dodge her. I felt a violent burn in my right leg and I jumped back and looked down to see a line of blood falling from a diagonal gash below my knee. I stared at it for a moment before looking up at her.

"You can't stop us. You're not strong enough. We are going to devour their flesh and feast on your fear!" she screamed. I pushed off the ground in that moment, my body gliding through the air at her and in one swift movement, I slashed at her stomach. She screeched and flew back into the sky landing on a tree branch high in the trees. I stared at her and scoffed.

"You think you can defeat me… you're nothing. You can't even fight me in your real form. You have to hide in a human's body to even wound me." I taunted. Her lips quivered in a snarl, her blue eyes rolling into the back of her head and gold eyes replaced them. Her teeth began to shift and form large grotesque jaws. She threw the knives away and I was tense at the sight.

"I'LL KILL YOU!" she roared pushing her body off the tree trunk and flying right towards me. I let go of everything inside me, everything that made me human. I let the darkness take hold of me and allowed my magic to fill me. I raised my arms noticing the deep grey complexion. My claws immediately took hold of Lizzie's face and immediately, I tore Gretta's skin down the middle as if she were tissue paper. She screamed viciously as I swung her body around and I watched a white form fly through the air and roll onto the ground. I stared at her for a moment, with Gretta's lifeless body torn in two in my hands. I didn't even acknowledge that she was ripped in half from face to groin. My attention was on the clown that was slowly rolling onto her back. I dropped the body and started to walk towards, claws extended, hair floating some in the air as my powers radiated from my body. I could hear drums and chanting in my mind. Each step I took, left the grass dead.

The clown Lizzie, looked just like Pennywise except she had two long orange locks falling over her shoulders. She looked up at me, gold eyes faded to blue innocent eyes. She gasped and trembled before me.

"So it's true… you have emotions just like me." I said, tone flat and dead. "Just like Ajax… you can die like me." These weren't my kids. These were just more killers connected to that clown was going to kill more and more people. Derry isn't a big town. If they succeed who knows how many more towns they could attack and terrorize? No it ends here.

"I'm not afraid of you." she whimpered and I nodded.

"I believe you. But unlike you, your lack of fear doesn't weaken me!" I yelled raising my hands planning to grab and rip her apart like I did her brother.

"STOP!" I hear a small voice call out and I pause in my movements to see Axel standing there between us, his small arms out and his eyes a deep brown. "Please don't kill her momma! She's my sister!"

"Get out of my way." I demanded darkly. Now he began to bawl his eyes out. I tilted my head to the side and watched him just wrap his arms around me burying his body into my stomach rubbing his face into my shirt.

"Please mommy!" he replied hugging me tighter and I stared at him for a moment before letting my eyes glance over at Lizzie with a hard stare.

"Why do you possess bodies?" I asked Lizzie backed away into a tree that stopped her from crawling any further.

"I-it's so we can lure children and kids to father. If they trust us then they will be even tastier when they find out they are about to be killed and the very people they depend on for protection and love are the ones sending them to their deaths." she explained. I frowned deeper at her and she jumped at the mere stare of my eyes.

"You have two choices, you can either go and try and survive another day before I eventually kill you, or…" I growled before I could feel my powers going dormant once more and I felt the warmth of the sun on my flesh once more as I reverted back to normal. I looked down at Axel who stared up at me with a wet face. "you both can help me fight your "father"."

"What? You must be joking! I cannot betray the creature who created me." Lizzie snapped and Axel raised his small hands wanting me to pick him up and I raised him in my arms staring at him, not really registering her words.

"What do you want to do?" I asked and he just leaned in to me and hugged me.

"I want to stay with you." he muffled into my neck. I looked at Lizzie.

"But he didn't create you. I created you. Without me you'd be nothing!" I snapped at her holding Axel to me. She looked at me carefully as if pouting. "But you are my child whether you believe it or not. A part of me is inside you. You are not just a monster."

As I spoke, I felt my powers moving into the ground taking hold of any dead body that buried inside the ground.

"But if you choose to be one then I will not hold back in killing you or the remaining 12 monsters and your dad." I stated watching as the ground slowly ripped a part around us. Lizzie looked around wide eyed at what was going on. Axel held me tighter while I just stared at the demon clown. Decomposed bodies groaned and rasped as they clawed their way through the earth. Most of them were skeletons with some of their rotten flesh still attached to them. Bugs and worms were crawling through their bodies. They let out dry rasps and gasps and Lizzie huffed and puffed some.

"Fuck you." she spat. Axel whimpered.

"Lizzie." he whispered in fear, and I just stared at her for a moment, eyes emotionless. Henry's face appeared in my mind as did Patrick and Vic. Then I saw Billy and Mike and Bev and then the rest of our friends. Last I saw Belch and Georgie and Jarred. She has made her decision and I would not ask twice. Immediately decomposed hands shot from the ground around Lizzie's ankles holding her as the creatures began to move upon her. With my powers flowing through their bodies, my light flowed in each of them. I merely turned and began to walk away listening to the growls and roars of the creatures as they began to pull and rip at her flesh. She would fight, but she would not win. I held Axel close to me knowing he was watching, knowing this too could happen to him.

Normal POV

Ben was standing at the library now waiting for Faline. He had been there for about an hour and was growing a bit nervous. She never missed a date to get together especially if it involved the clown. He saw a truck screech to a halt in front of the building. It was Henry and his friends in Patrick's truck.

"Hey, you and Faline finished reading yet?" Henry asked in his usual aggressive tone. Ben shook his head.

"She never showed up." he said. Henry tensed at this immediately.

"Get Billy and the others and meet me at her place." he said before driving off.

Faline's POV

I felt my powers fading from the lifeless bodies once they did their job and they collapsed into piles of dead flesh. I arrived back at my car and set Axel down on his feet. He stared up at me with watery eyes and I just looked at him.

"You must make a choice. You can either stay with me or go back to the sewers." I said and he sniffled looking up at me for a moment before leaning in and just resting his body submissively into my own. I just stared down at him for a moment before looking up at my car. "Come."

This was all I said before moving to my car. He followed without question and got inside.