TW: Lots and lots of blood and death in this chapter, I hope you're not squeamish.
I kept repeating her name in my head. Jade. Jade. Jade. Over and over in my head as the world seemed to blur. Time had seemed to slow down and I was seeing in red. I hadn't even thought about a plan of attack when I had jumped out but it soon came apparent to me. Kill was the only plan I needed. It took only a second before I realized there were a lot of them in this room, their heads began to turn as they tried to get up from where they were sitting. My sword was raised above my head as I jumped, Mono close behind.
I am now the blonde flying through the air with rage in my eyes.
My sword came down and green rich blood splattered my face and arms, the sound of the sword passing through her flesh rang out softly. She screamed only for a moment before the light left her eyes. Just like that in one strike she was dead. One down. The hive exploded in screaming at that point, my stealth had allowed the first kill unhindered but the rest would be more difficult. The loudest scream came from a huge demon who had his eyes covered, he didn't even bother pulling out a weapon. He charged. A purple eyed demon about five feet from him had pulled out his clubs and began advancing as well. In one fluid motion I bite down on my hand and whip out my body book quickly ripping out five or six spell tags. I smear blood on the tags and sling them at my attackers and watch as beasts tear free of their magical bonds. All kinds of beast, dogs, crows, large cats and even a bear emerge to face them.
I turn away and dash to the other side of the room, my minions ripping into the flesh of my attackers. This side of the room is larger and has more prey for me to take. Five demons with their weapons drawn advance on me. I dodge out of the way of a telekenetic beam that goes off from one of the demons in the back and raise my sword to a bronze one who is just a few feet away. He nearly earns decapitation for his stupidity of charging blindly into battle but my blade just nicks his throat after being forced back by some kind of magic. Red eyes glare daggers at me from the back on the group, her emery hair swirling uncontrollably as she lifted a couch with her magic and chucked it at me. My feet lead me away from the hurling projectile. I duck down to avoid a blue beam of light. A demon with short hair and red sunglasses emerges from the back sword in hand. She slashes at my face as I panic and step back. That was too close. I didn't need them knowing I was immortal too early in the fight.
Barking range out behind me and I duck again as Mono goes flying into the red glasses demon. He crashes with a force big enough to hear some of his target's ribs crack under the pressure. She lets out a scream as I'm left dancing around trying to avoid the telekinetic beam, force push and flying blue blasts. The latter slashes into the flesh of my left arm and I let out a scream. Pain and panic rings into my ears. Mono jumps up and tackles the she demon responsible for my pain. Her dice fall to the ground with a shriek and Mono goes for her neck. Cobalt blood splatters the wall behind her and a chocking sound goes as quickly as it comes. CRUNCH. Another scream pierces the air as the red glasses troll tries to get up only to be splattered with more of the blue blood. Two down.
"YOU FREAKING BITCH I'LL KILL YOU!" She shrieks. I jump past her and slash at the red eyed demoness. She pushes me away before I get the kill. I feel my back heat up and a sob escape my lips and a searing pain overtakes my back. The mustard eyed one got my back with his freaking laser eyes. I hear the sound of a loud manly cry ring out from the other side of the room where I had released my animals. I didn't have the time to look for the cause. A sword slashes my bad arm again and I am the one screaming again. Red eyes was going for another slash when I brought up my wakizashi, narrowly avoiding death. My back was screaming and my left arm was about to give out. It hurt, everything hurt. Jade. Jade. JADE. I pushed myself up to slash her blade out of the way and tackle her to the ground letting my fists pound against her face, my blade forgotten on the ground next to me. An animals cries accompanied by the sound of bones breaking behind me. The purple eyes and sunglasses must've been holding their own.
" Thiit!"
More barking and the ground shook as Mono pounced and started tearing into the flesh. Red eyes screamed and threw a couch into Mono. A whimper escaped his lips before he crashed into the wall. The floor was covered in yellow, I felt pride in my familiar. Glasses struggled to get free under me but I kept punching until finally picking my wakazashi up from the ground and ending her struggles. My sword slid through her neck and the turquoise began to seep. Three and four down. I sneak a glance back behind me to see the sunglasses demon full out brawling with the bear and the purple eyed clown getting his ass handed to him by the dogs. He was covered in blood and swinging randomly. My attention snapped back when the red eyed girl used her telekinesis to snatch up the red sunglasses demon's sword. She sent it flying into the seared place in my back.
My vision goes white.
"Damn." I mutter falling onto the corpse of the turquoise blooded demon.
"Why aren't they stopping!" I sob rushing forward to Gamzee and Equius, not daring to look behind me at the carnage. "Why won't her creatures just die already!" I thought a necromancers power only worked until they died, then their magic was done. I guess I was wrong.
I am now the sobbing red eyed demoness who had just seem some of her best friends murdered in a matter of two minutes.
"A... Ara..." Squeaks somebody, I spin around scared it could be the necromancer but it's just Tavros. He's huddled against the wall unmoving like he had been since that bitch had nicked his neck. He had done nothing but sit wide eyed as his friends were murdered.
"Get up Tavros." I growl rushing over to him and attempting to lift the guy up. He didn't budge an inch, just sat with his arms wrapped around his legs shaking with tears in his eyes.
"GET UP DAMN IT."
He didn't even look at me, I scream in frustration and ignore the coward. Moving past him and rushing over to my friends to help. The animals were beaten and bloody but still fighting, they were undead after all. I take out my whip and start working on the animals, claws and teeth biting at me the whole time. It takes a scuffle with a small dog before I realize that the big dog is gone. I spin around and look, no sign of him. A sinking feeling fills my gut as I look above me to see fur and fangs leap at me.
I stopped feeling the pain after the third bite.
No. It didn't seem real when Aradia hit the floor with the wolf on top of her. It didn't seem real when her blood spilled onto the brick floors of our home. It didn't seem real when Gamzee finally toppled over from all his wounds. None, none of this seemed real. I can't move, can't walk over to Gamzee to try and keep the dogs from biting at him. I can't move to go and try to help them. I'm paralyzed with fear.
I am now the brow eyed scared shitless troll sobbing to myself. I couldn't do anything could I.
The other demons who hadn't been close to the entrance of the hive were running forward, I could sense them in the brick corridors that made up our home. Some where close, others would still take time. Why was this happening? What had we done wrong? Was this because of Rose or was it all our fault for being the damned in the first place?
My arms wrap around my head as it beat like a drum. I cover my ears trying to erase the sounds of death all around me. I had to do something! I couldn't just sit here. But... I'm scared. I gulp and clench my fist. No. I won't let this happen. I slowly lift my head up and open my eyes, ready to get up and fight or at least try.
Huh that's weird.
I feel a stinging in my side, it continues to stink deeper and deeper. I whimper looking to my side to see brown drenching the floor. Out of my side was a small blade, attached to that blade was...
No. That can't be right.
My eyes grow heavy, I don't even have the energy to scream.
I could've sworn she was dead.
My entire dress is covered in colors, well at least the parts that aren't torn to shreds from all the damage. I pull the blade from the body of the useless brown eyed kid and stand up slowly. Regeneration after dying really sucks, the places on my back and arm that were once injured are now healed but they still hurt. I crack my neck not wasting a second before dashing towards the last one in the room. The rest are getting closer, I'd have to be fast.
I charge towards the one who previously had sunglasses, he'd managed to crush the bones of most of my summoned creatures. They were useless now, I growl in unison to Mono who is also running towards the blue eyed demon.
He's quicker than he looks. He slings the corpse of one of the undead dogs toward me. I dodge quickly as Mono pounces at him. There's an ear splitting crack for a moment as Mono falls to the ground, his neck snapped from the impact of a large fist. I gulp, fear pulsing through my veins. This demon could crush me with one touch. I dance around my fallen companion and swing hard and true at his abdomen. He's still trying to catch his balance so the hit lands true. He doubles over. I take the opening to put a slash in his back. He grabs my leg throwing my balance of before I can slice through him and I fall to the ground. For a split second I am scared he'll break it but he is stopped by the bear coming down on his back. No scream from him, just a grunt. I tighten the grip on my blade and lop his head off.
The next moment is a mix between panic and accomplishment, panic because my companion would not be getting up and I almost died a second time today. Accomplishment because now there were... I surveyed the room counting up the corpses that had stacked up in only about three or four minutes. Seven. What a lucky number. Seven down, god knows how many to go.
My back still ached and my arm was still shooting pain but I pushed myself forward to Mono's corpse. Quickly I trapped his body in a spell tag to reanimate later, at the same time I grabbed another tag which would be quite useful from my book and summoned the creatures trapped inside. Snakes wound their way up my arms and my body. I smirk knowing this next part shouldn't be as taxing.
My legs feel like lead but I ignore it. Jade. Jade. Jade. I push on, from the main entrance to the corridor further in. Footsteps are echoing, the place is no bigger than a hallway but that wasn't a bad thing. It would be so much easier than trying to fight seven demons in a large open space like the last brawl.
Thirty seconds pass to the sounds of hissing snakes and they're here.
Eridan and Kurloz had the good sense to tell Feferi and Meulin to hide out until the coast was clear, and if my senses are right things were bad. It had been an average day, granted everyone was a bit hungry but other than that nothing was different. Out of nowhere it seemed screams had begun to ring out from the main room of the hive, it was a few moments later that I sensed one of our lives being snuffed out. And not much later another and than another. After the screams started I did some screaming of my own, trying to alert Kurloz to the death. He came running and was about to head off towards whatever lied ahead when he turned around suddenly and bolted back in the room he had come from. Eridan must've hurt the commotion because he came out of his own room. A moment later Kurloz came back, this time toting Meulin who was completely oblivious to what was going on. Kurloz signed to her to go with Eridan and Eridan took her to his room where I suppose Feferi had been also.
I am now the concerned jade eyed demoness who is stroking her chain saw while running through the corridors. Kurloz is by my side looking more grim than usual. As we race on I feel more and more of our hive being snuffed out and my heart sinks. I can't detect anymore demon presence as we get close, they're all gone. Kurloz can't sense it, I'm the only one who can but there is another power. A strong power that is burning with hate. I can feel it coming towards us.
It's only a moment and we finally come face to face with that hate.
Oh my god oh my god oh my god make it stop. Please just make it stop! Something had attacked the hive today, I didn't know if it was a hunter or a glubbin monster but it had hurt a bunch of my friends. I knew as soon as Eridan shoved me in his closet and told me not to come out until he came to get me that something was up. A few seconds later and I found Meulin sitting next to me as Eridan rushed out the door.
I am now the princess who can't stop thinking about her friends, hoping their all safe.
But I knew that wasn't happening, I knew my friends weren't alright when I heard Kanaya's chainsaw start up. It revved and shrieked out the door and down the hall, I knew something was very very wrong. It wasn't until I heard a scream and the chainsaw stop that I knew I was going to die today. It wasn't until Meulin finally got tired of waiting and rushed out that I knew all our hive would be destroyed today. And it was when I heard foot steps walking over to the closet that I knew who my killer was.
She opened the door abruptly and just started. I wasn't sure what I saw in her pink eyes, something between pity and rage. There was a snake at her wrist that hissed and twisted itself around until it was looking at me. In the commotion I hadn't thought about grabbing my trident, but now I wish I had.
One more pitiful look and it was done.
One more look and her blade was tearing through my chest.
At least I'd be with my friends.
It was done. Twelve. All of them gone. I don't know what came over me, the fuchsia blood just looked... Innocent, she didn't seem like a demon on the surface. She felt human. That hesitation... I wish I could have felt bad for her, but I can't feel that at all. My work here was done. For now. I'd just have to wait for the purple eyed demoness to show up again. I knew this would hurt her but I wanted to make sure I got all of her friends. Everyone she cared about before I let her off. See her try to live with the guilt that her actions had led to all this. I could hunt them down now, even with all the pain and gaping stomach wound that the chainsaw lady had given me, I knew I could still take her and whoever she was with.
But it may just be better to let her hurt for now. Yes. Give it time to sink in before I pay her debt back in full.
My feet shuffle out the small room, down the hallway where the older purple blood, seaface and chainsaw demon lie in their eternal slumber. The jade one had been a challenge, she was good. The seaface demon wasn't very difficult, he was full of rage. The hardest had been the mute demon, he had magic that a demon shouldn't be able to get his hands on and it had nearly cost me my head multiple times. But I came through, I always do.
When I'm at the tube I initially entered the hive through I took one look back before crawling through.
This was a good day.
We had just got back to the sewer, thank god, after one of the stupidest hunts ever. Karkat's idiocy never ceased to amaze me. I mean seriously who yells at the guy who's trying to shoot him. The dude didn't even move out the way he just yelled at the guy until Rose and I saved his ass.
I am now the annoyed demon coming back from a weary hunt. It was nice to get out, but there really is no place like home. My stomach had felt a lot better since we started hunting, I figured out that I was probably just overeacting. Rose was right, there really wasn't anything to freak out about. So what if the necromancer wasn't there when she killed the witch? Boo fricken who. She wasn't there so she couldn't know who killed her anyway.
Huh I wonder if Equius ever found Nepeta? The thought struck me as odd but we were pretty much back to the hive by now. As we got closer though something seemed off, the pipe came in sight and I immediately recognized the spell runes but they weren't glowing anymore. I shrugged it off, none of the others seemed to notice anyway. Rose was still blabbing on to John about some magical factor of blah blah blah nobody cares. Rose begins to crawl through the pipe and we boys follow. When we get to the hive she stops.
"Oh my god."
Her voice sounds small and I panic, something was wrong.
"Yo Rose, can you keep it moving sister?"
She slowly crawled into the space and I heard John gasp and stop, and than Karkat's "WHAT THE HOLY HELL" rang out. Finally it was my turn to crawl through.
"You guys need to stop trying to scare me because it really doesn't work so you can just quit your..."
A sob escaped my lips, my cool kid facade shattered. They were dead, all around a rainbow of colors.
They were all dead.
A/N: Um... Merry Christmas :/? I decided to put this out a day earlier since I won't be home tomorrow. Sorry this chapter is a huge downer, lots and lots of death. It had to be done though, I hope you enjoyed it as much as one can with all that murder. At least there's still four of them right? ... Well anyway thanks for the reviews (guys those things are like my drug) fav's and follows! I appreciate everyone, have a happy holiday and see you again next week!