Chapter 134:Clawing Its Way Out
Adrian rose back up to his feet, already enraged because Zeus escaped again, and even more so now that he has to fight a monster prophet. He swung his blade at the creature, only for the prophet to catch it in one hand, while throwing a punch of his own at Adrian, only for him to catch it with his Gear arm, protecting himself. The creature then landed a solid headbutt to Adrians' forehead, making him stumble backwards while clutching his head,
"Now, young Devil," said the monstrous Prophet, his voice distorting from the new power coursing through him, "you shall be sent straight to hell where you belong!" The Prophet sent a fist down towards Adrian, but the Devil Virus caught it, giving him a brief evil smile as his eyes turning firey orange as his teeth became razor sharp,
"I guess I'll see you there," said Adrian, his Blade slashing underneath the prophet, taking his legs out from under him, then he leapt onto the creature, straddling its' midsection, formed his claws, and began to tear and slash into the chest of the Prophet. After a solid minute of twisted blood soaked glee, Adrian finally stopped, seeing the red blood sprayed everywhere, and his eyes and teeth reverting to normal. His arms reverted to their normal state as well as he stood up, taking a deep breath in regret as he began to walk away. But he stopped, feeling eyes on him, and he turned, seeing the Prophet standing back up, a mass on Blacklight Tendrils repairing his wounds. Adrian groaned,
"I am not doing this shit today!!" He shouted. He then formed his arm into the Whipfist, snagged the Prophet by his feet, causing him to fall, then with all his strength he whirled towards the windows, throwing the Prophet straight through the glass, and as the Prophet began to quickly freeze in the cold of space, an energy field was set up in front of the broken glass, keeping Adrian and the air inside. Adrian took a deep breath, then he grew concerned,
I felt it again, he thought to himself, my inner stray, clawing its' way out, and for a moment, it got what it wanted...
Adrian looked down at himself, seeing the blood all across his body and hands, then used the Blacklight to absorb the blood, cleaning himself up.
"Adrian...?" Asked a scared voice from the open doorway. With his vision still planted on the windows, he sighed deeply,
"How much did you see?"
"I saw the glowing eyes and razor teeth," said the voice, and it was revealed to be Pennie, keeping the aim of her Red Plasma Rifle on Adrian, "and I'm assuming that was your inner stray from before?"
"It is," admitted Adrian, "and it was almost unleashed again when I was fighting the Prophet." Adrian then stepped aside, allowing Pennie to see the mutated prophet floating further and further into space. Pennies' eyes widened at the sight of the massive creature, lowering her weapon,
"How did a tiny frail Prophet turn into a monster like that?"
"Blacklight from Zeus," answered Adrian. Pennie turned to Adrian, dropped the Plasma Rifle on the floor, ran up and hugged the Devil Virus,
"I'm sorry," she said, choking back a sob, "I just got scared for a moment, and I thought your stray took over, I didn't know what to do, I-!" Adrian grabbed her gently but firmly by the arms, and planted a deep yet gentle kiss on her lips, silencing her. Pennie melted into him, wrapping her arms around his neck as his hands rested on her waist, up until the sound of a throat being cleared was heard from the doorway. The two parted, and there stood Thatan, Cutter and the other humans, some of which were keeping themselves from making wolf whistles at the two while Cutter shook his head,
"Is this really the time and place for that?" He asked them, making them both blush as they separated. Thatan looked past them, his eyes widening, and he snatched a large gun off of Cutters back, approaching the windows as the half frozen Prophet was extending a set of tendrils towards the ship, anchoring them in and dragging himself back to the Corvette.
"Everybody hold on!!" Shouted Thatan, pressing a button on the controls of the main bridge, and lowering the energy field that was keeping the air inside. As the Prophet was near the windows as the field was lowered, air was rushing out, causing Adrian, Pennie and the humans to grab onto pieces of the ship to keep themselves inside.
"I AM SALVATION!!" Yelled the insane prophet, "I AM THE WAY!! THE TRUTH!! THE LIGH-ACK!!" The Prophet was then silent, for Thatan had forced a Plasma grenade in his open mouth,
"If you are a light..." began Thatan, brushing one of his thumbs across the thumb print scanner of the grenade, making it glow to life and causing the prophet to let loose a muffled scream, "...you must be extinguished!" Thatan raised the gun, and with one powerful energy blast, sent the prophet hurtling back into space, the grenade exploding and leaving nothing but body parts floating in space. Thatan pressed the energy field button once again, reactivating it and keeping the air in, while also letting Adrian, Pennie, Cutter and the others relax.
"Maybe a warning next time would be good," said Cutter, "now can I have my Railgun back?" Thatan handed the gun back to Cutter, then he and the other humans went to work figuring out how to steer the Corvette in hopes of taking them all home. Adrian, Pennie and Thatan turned to each other,
"So, Adrian, I've been meaning to ask...what is your home world like?" Adrian smiled at her,
"Well, if Thatan would allow it, and if I ever figure out how to get back there, I would be happy to show you."
"She can go," said Thatan, "if I can go as well." Adrian gave Thatan a raised eyebrow, "Adrian, there is nothing left for me here. All that remains is protecting Pennie, who underwent similar trials that I am just now going through, so wherever she goes, I go as well to protect her."
"The Humans, Devils, Angels and etcetera have never seen an Asari or a Sangheili before, so I don't know how they would react...and I can't garantee that you'll live in peace if for some reason you decide to stay..." said Adrian honestly, "...but I have no problem bringing you to my world if that is what you two really want." Pennie took Adrians' hands in hers,
"Just being with you makes me-AAGH!!" Pennie then fell to her knees, clutching her head, as did the humans, and even Thatan was brought down to one knee, keeping one hand on his head and the other on one of his Plasma Rifles,
"Guys? What's wrong?" Adrian asked in concerned shock, but his question was quickly answered when he heard a loud distorted bell toll. "Oh no." Adrian formed his Blade, whirling around and keeping his eyes open as he heard the bell toll a second time, and finally a third time,
"Adrian..." Thatan winced, "...behind you!" The Devil Virus, unaffected by what was harming the others, whirled around, fist up, only for it to be caught by a pure white hand, belonging to the faceless man Adrian saw in his dream. The young Devil was then hit with a high pitch ringing in his ears, forcing him to his knees in pain, giving him a clue as to what Pennie and the others were feeling. The faceless man then brought his free hand slowly to Adrians' forehead, and right before everyones eyes, the two vanished, and with them the high pitched ringing. The humans looked about the room, clearly frightened,
"What the fuck was that?" Asked one of the soldiers.
"Whatever it was, it's gone," said Cutter, convinced.
"But it didn't vanish alone," said Thatan, "it took Adrian." Pennie scanned the room, just to be sure and sure enough, with a single tear rolling down her cheek, Adrian was gone...
The Devil Virus landed roughly on his back in a dark forest, lit only by dim moonlight, the ringing gone, and so was the faceless man.
"Wonderful," said Adrian sarcastically, "first I had to fight an ugly alien prophet, now I am against some faceless fuck..." He scanned his surrounding, seeing nothing but bare trees, patches of brown grass mixed with dirt on the ground, and the air around him was oddly cold. "Just where the hell am I?" Adrian asked himself, but he didn't have time to dwell on it as a scream ripped through the air,
"ADRIAN!! HELP ME!!" Adrian recognized the scream instantly,
"Asia?" Adrian then sprinted through the woods, not stopping for even a moment, until he finally arrived at a twisted tree, and the sight below the tree made his stomach drop,
"Oh my god..."
