Notes:WARNING! This is probably the most graphically violent chapter I ever wrote so expect blood and gore.
"AAAAAAAAAAH!"
Scream, bloody scream was that interrupted the Fallers and SCPs' restful sleep.
Guns shooting, emergency alarms blaring, and howls of the slay woke them out of their relaxing sleep granted by the anomalous jellyfish like a thrusted drill on their skull.
Alarmed by what they heard, the gang got up from their beds in a rush. Dipper summoned the spear while grabbing his Magnet Gun which was connected to an outlet by a charger wire by unplugging it and he had no time to take the wire as well, Mabel held her mew grappling hook which she stole from a Chaos Insurgent during that hectic night at the Shack, Miller summoned a baseball bat with nails on it, Wendy unsheathe her ax, Leora made a robotic arm around her right wrist appear with a blaster and a blade, Eir sat on Dipper's shoulder, the Tickle Monster stood on both of their new legs steadily and Meri clawed her hands like she was ready to command plants to grow out from the ground.
The screaming continued until it was silenced by a unnerving development
SPLAT!
Blood spilled all over the after the sound of something sharp tearing flesh over the door's window blinds giving a shadow causing everyone to backaway, Mabel nearly cried out if she didn't put her hand on her mouth.
After that, it was only silence: a suffocating silence, the emergency alarms no longer ringed, no one dared to make a sound for a minute. After this, Wendy gradually gets her ax ready. She cautiously opened the door seeing the sight of medical tools tossed around and signs of a battle while the light of the hospital dimmed weakly and there were a few spills of blood. As it turns out the spilled blood they saw came from a decapitated Yeren with his head distances away.
"What the fresh hell…." Wendy uttered with a creased brow.
"This is not good at all." Leora said what everyone thought.
The daughter of a goddess then gave a worried look "Where's Bes? We have to find him."
Dipper gave an eyebrow that "But he's a god, shouldn't he be very hard to kill?"
"He handled a whole gang by himself." Wendy recalled.
"A god from a dead religion that hasn't been worshiped for 2000 years!"
The Fallers didn't get what she meant until Miller decided to elaborate for them being the most knowledgeable here.
"Pagan deities like Bes need Akiva energy which generates from an act of worship to maintain their power, why do you think we passed Thor and Sif themselves running a Turkey joint instead of fighting some Fee-fi-fo-fum!?"
That was when the Fallers understood the urgency, Bes while powerful wasn't invincible and whatever made this viscera carnage is no joke so the group continued to walk.
The walls were painted in blood as if the red lights weren't enough to make things reddier, it was a massacre. killed doctors, guards and patients were laying dead, some skewed and had their limbs ripped off and some being had knives and blades impaled on their bodies.
Everyone was on edge, Mabel breathed shallows rapidly, Wendy's Corduroy instincts were ringing in his head which she hadn't felt since facing the Old Man, Miller held his anomalous baseball bat more tight, Leora felt cold sweats coming in, Meri ironically felt like a deer on headlight, Eir did not dare to chirp, the sentient scarf around Lightfoot's neck tried to look smaller by tightening itself and the Jelly SCP was the only one who was composed the most and if they felt fear they didn't showed.
One of the most disturbing of kills was a dead guard with two daggers on both of his eyes slacked dead on a sitting position, blood still dripped from the knives and on a wall with the ghastly words on a wall written in blood with big and deranged words:
They Screamed and Howled like Pigs, so I painted the Walls REDD with their blood!
Everyone was aghast by this disturbing form of art and Mabel said in dismay.
"Oh this is Creepy Man all over again..."
"Why is it double D?" Dipper inquired with a narrowed eye.
" That's what you're wondering dude?" Miller asked rhetorically, misspell wasn't what he would find questionable in this grizzly show.
Leora pouted with urgency "Who cares if the psycho doesn't have the best dictionary! We need to get the hell outta here!"
Meri wanted to object as Bes was yet to find, yet without any warning, the lights went off and there was only darkness for 4 seconds till emergency red lights illuminated the place with a menacing red glow and they heard the voice of someone singing "O my Luve is like a red, red rose…." They immediately glance at their left to the end of a corridor.
"That's newly sprung in June…" steps of walking were heard coming slowly hailing the coming of a scarlet demise in an anticipation that felt like an eternity waiting for damnation.
"O my Luve is like the melody…" slowly a humanoid shadow was seen reflected by the red lights on the wall filling them with dread.
Miller in a fit of panic kept repeating "Oh gosh oh no, oh gosh oh no…!" If the assailant's purpose was to spook his prey out of their minds by making this parodied melody, he has succeeded as the dread they felt was becoming greater with each thunderous drum of their hearts.
"We better go!" Wendy hissed and everyone agreed as they started sprinting away.
"That's sweetly played in tune…"
They as they ran moving left and right reached Bes's office and there they went inside and closed the door, they tried to lock it but the lock was broken and they saw why. The office room was an utterly wrecked warzone with the table upside down, furniture slashed and a big hole at the wall near the place the table was, at the floor of debris was a picture frame.
Meri gently grabbed the broken picture frame with its glasses half broken and a drop of blood on the picture. It was the picture of herself with Bes, the Eyebots, Foundation doctors and Cain smiling for the camera back at the Foundation. Her moment of nostalgic and increasing worry about Bes was stopped when she and the others heard the sickly sweet but venomous voice again this time without feign jovianality.
"He's deeeead…."
That spurred them to steady in defense while Meri grabbed the photo off the flame and put it in her pocket, the carnage maker did know where they were.
"You'll be tooo…."
Shrill
The walls screamed from something sharp piercing slowly making them as they got out to look around frantically, yet they could not see this entity.
"Meet your eeeeend..."
After the shrilling was stopped, they looked and finally saw someone.
There it was the architect of this carnage at the corridor in distances away, with all the red lightning and the fact that he wore a red suit it was really hard to differentiate the shower of blood and the color of his clothing. A human-looking pale skinned man with red irises that glowed crimson even brighter than the red lights that can be described at best as that of the eyes of a nocturnal predator with a twisted lips looking at them with a blood-freezing feral smile the Fallers and Miller haven't seen since their confrontation with the sadistic ghoul.
"Say…goodbye!" Two billhooks came from the thin air in each of his hands ready to taste blood, then the humanoid with a speed came toward them as they got ready for his attack only for him to disappear from the red energy .
Dipper looked around with his spear in his hands. "Where did he go!?"
"I can't see him!" Wendy tried swinging her ax at the air, but she got nothing as everyone frantically looked around in exclamations.
Mabel who narrowed her eyes saw this transparent humanoid figure holding a sharp thing ready to bring it on the unsuspecting
"Look out!" Mabel pushed Leora away from losing her head and they fell, Meri then commanded vines to grow out and go after the invisible enemy and held him who oddly did not struggle as she then used her own powers to diminish whatever invisibility spell he had showing him visibly and before that she made him dropped his weapons.
"Who're you!?" Meri demanded him, who in response simply grinned, then ritualistic red symbols appeared all over his body, temporarily causing the vines around him to wither and die to her shock.
"Call me, Mister Redd, it's with double D by the way!" the red maniac then fisted both hands locked together and inexplicably daggers came between fingers which he with arealse throw them at his targets causing everyone to either disprese or shield themselves with Leora making a hard light shield to protect herself and Miller and Dipper jumping down with Mabel. Two of the daggers hit the Vermillion Prince but they didn't seem mind since they were a living gelatinous as the daggers were moved inside by their will and then got digested, one of the knives made a cut on Meri's left arm during passing who in instinct held the injury and Wendy was unluckiest as she was trying to swing her ax at the psychopath who before she could react to tossed daggers one of them hit right on the palm of her left hand and pinned her to a wall making her shout in pain.
"WENDY!" both Pines Twin called their Corduroy friends at the same time, they then glanced back at the smug killer with Dipper shooting his magnet gun at him only for him to dodge them with a maddening reflex that briefly looked like a red blurr coming near him and with a kick tossed Dipper flying away before hitting a locker and drop down.
Wendy in anger then tried to flung the ax using her only free hand at the Red wearing man who narrowly missed it not because she was a great shot, oh no just to taunt her as he by his face centimeters away from the flung his ax reflecting his face with the sharp tool in question instead hit Meri by her shoulder in exclamation of pain while Wendy wore a shocked face at what just happened and that she unintentionally injured Meri.
"Be careful! Lousy shooters like you give us redheads a bad name!" Redd sneered, making her growl.
Leora and Miller together attacked him at the same time with Leora constructing some exoskeleton armor of hard lights and Miller summoning a portal near him. From the portal came tendrils of light holding Mr Redd who struggled by cutting them with a razor sword.
Eir flow and tried to give a sonic blast but was stopped when Redd with a crazy accuracy snatched a medical tablet that lay down with other medical tools and launched at her hitting the intended target.
Leora with her armored exoskeleton and Miller with his bat with many nails came down to ambush him by throwing punches in case of Lightfoot and bringing down the bat in case of Rainer at the same time to not let the deranged killer get enough time to process, the deranged killer in question managed to barely miss the nailed bat not without giving a cut on his right cheek and he summoned a hammer from his left hand with its head cackling with unholy red and black energy which he used to smack the coming photonic punch and then smack it across Lightfoot's photonic helmet with such force that the photonic construct broke like glasses before dissipating with the unfortunate photonic girl being hurled away from the sheer force hitting the ceiling and then falling on the floor as she groaned in pain, despite the shielding the hard light exoskeleton provide the force of the smack was enough to give shades of purple on one of her cheeks.
Miller with a cry then tries to summon a portal from which a car comes down toward Redd who using his inhuman reflexes jumped and walked from the car to jump again while it was still midair who them was coming down toward the surprised anahmuan ready to greet him with a medieval ax he summoned with both of his hands holding it.
Only the clawed hilt of Mabel's grappling hook caused him to use the ax to bounce it away from hitting his face as he came down on the floor with one knee.
While the clawed hook was retracted back to its owner Redd touched at the cut on his cheek and saw the blood on his finger which made him smile once more as he looked at the two remaining that was Mabel and SCP-999.
"Ah look what we have here, Bill Cipher's last fool and the Harbinger of Apocalypse." While he taunted, the war ax disappeared and with his right hand which he gestured overcame a war scythe.
"You don't know me! You- you crazed nutjob!" Mabel shot her grappling hook at him who again deflected it by his weapon with a swing band came for her before being stopped by 999's stretched arms; however, something was wrong as instead of him feeling euphoria the arms that extend to hold him boiled when the red ritualistic symbols appeared again momentarily like boiling water causing the gelatinous SCP to screech in pain as the arms.
"Nonono!" Mabel in distress came on one knee checking on the jelly SCP as they dropped on both knees to check on them. Despite the slime being not even much of a facial expression beyond two black eyes and an open mouth-like part it formed to mimic a mouth she could recognize that it was in anguish from having their arms melted into a puddle goo on the ground.
Mr Redd walked casually and continued his taunts "The Pig-headed hypocrite who nearly burned the world for a little more summer And got to indulge in paradise while allowing the others to suffer and the blob of sugar born of violation trying to spread joy to make up for his mistake of existing out of a mother who never wanted him." He then gave a predatory smile at the helpless duo as he raised his war scythe "How fitting you both found each other, Glassy was kind enough to sing about his favorite patient!" The Pines girl's pupils wide in harrowing on the implication about Dr. Glass's fate.
Before the Red-wearing monster could swing his weapon at them as Mabel closed her eyes and held the jelly SCP to shield them who gurgled in protest.
Miller gave an uncharacteristic seethe and ordered a portal having his fear replaced by anger " You the sicko mass murderer don't get to judge ANYONE!" The portal dropped bowling balls on fire fast from up to down, the mass murderer in question in react caused the tip of her scythe using his powers to glow red and then used it to cut the coming balls in half, his foul magic heated the bladed part of his scythe so hot that it cut through the objects like butter.
Wendy as she bit her lip to suppress the painful shriek as held the dagger that pinned the palm of her hand on the wall away and tossed it immediately away like it was foul. As her uninjured hand was holding her injured one straining red she glared at the knife loving lunatic.
For some reason, Meri's healing of her injury as she noticed even after getting the ax out of her shoulder which was quite painful to her was very slow, only good enough to clot it to make sure she wouldn't die from blood loss.
Dipper decided to use his spear and hurled it with every power he mustered at him while trying to activated the combat mood which helped him to fight Jeser; nonetheless, there was no silvery hue coming from his birth mark, he wasn't supernaturally fast and the spear he throw wasn't as fast as he hoped because Redd simply bolted away.
Next, he came down toward Miller who was saved when Meri commanded a vine to move him away.
"Too sloppy!" He mocked, he then tried to take the spear which was logged to a container, yet when he touched it he felt his hand burning so he screeched away from it.
"CATCH!" Meri commanded a vine to give the ax back to Wendy who sprinted fast with determination who took the ax and swung it toward Redd with Dipper joining in commanding his spear to come to him to aid her, the unhinged humanoid in response blocked their attacks with his war scythe. Dipper took sport after the first Summer; nevertheless, he never practiced with a spear or much less how to fight it and he wasn't a muscular bulky, just average and yet against all those odds managed to stand on ground against Jeser and now Mr Redd, even though his 'super' mod wasn't activated, the Spear of non-believer it seem to have imported knowledge on his mind on how to use it, and yet as he will learn knowledge loses against experience and his enemy is well-experienced.
There were now constant trades of blows and attacks as they locked with ax and spear against scythe, Redd looked in malicious glee while Wendy and Dipper grunted. It was clear that this wasn't a fight for Mr Redd, it wasn't even a sport, it was a game to him. He in a surprise attack grabbed one of Dipper's hands and threw him with inhuman strength at Wendy causing them both to fall over.
Photonic chains were constructed around Redd's wrists and legs making him knee down and then the War Scythe disappeared in a mist of red, he did not appreciate being subdued as he then with a growl pushed and tried to get up to the point that the ground which he was on cracked and the chains slowly began to cry.
Meri who by now was almost healed tried to summon more vines directed at the psychotic redhead which only withered when they reached its proxy.
"What are you waiting for? Do it!" Lightfoot in a hurry told Meri as she struggled to keep the constructs solid.
"I can't! His magic is canceling mine!" She tried to push harder as it became a battle between thaumaturgists on who's magic is more powerful causing hues of red and green to clash. Unfortunately, Mr Redd wasn't going to play fair and he wasn't going to anyway seeing Vermillion Prince regrowing their arms, the Therapy Bird no longer uncious flow up and was gonna produce a sonic blast directed at him, Wendy helping Dipper to get up and Miller decided to summon another portal.
"PEEK A BOO!" Instead of using his energy to fight off Meri's powers, he concentrated and sent a blast of red causing everyone and everything to fall backward before Miller could summon whatever he was going to from the portal and Meri shouted to others in warning of what she saw he was doing. The photonic chains broke like glass before dissipating into nothing, the withered vines broke into pieces of necrotic plant biomass, Eir before making her sonic attack got hit by the shockwave and chirped in pain.
"EIR!" Dipper shouted the anomalous bird's name before being sent backward like everyone else.
The shockwave also broke some of the red emergency lights leaving only a few still operational, causing few black spots everywhere and making things hard to see.
Dipper, feeling his earring ringing gradually stood up in grunts same as Wendy while others tried hard, though not everyone as Mabel laid near a locker room with bedroom eyes till she lost consciousness and was being patted by the Vermillion Prince who gurgled in distress to get up.
Wendy held a hand on her head from the ringing and she felt a vibration in her skull.
There was no sight of the red coated man, only footsteps and his mocking chuckle either using the darkness or his transparent magic to hide from their eyes or both.
Miller yelped when he felt a cut on his right arm though not lethal, superficial. "Outliers."
The same happened to Leora but she felt it on her back. "Outcasts."
Meri then felt like something punched her from her guts making him lose breath. "Rejects."
"Lax." A container box of tools hit Wendy nearly knocking her out, helding her hurt head as she felt a cut where blood was coming, with her auburn hair and the darkness it was hard to distinguish blood from hair.
"Children." The unseeing predator smacked Dipper head to the wall making him disoriented and feeling blood coming from his nose as he tried to stop it from bleeding.
They tried to locate him through his voice but failed to do so; they tried looking around frantically; nonetheless, they couldn't see him.
Everyone panic-stricken looked around; nevertheless, they couldn't find Mr Redd. It was clear that he had the advantage and yet hadn't killed time yet, but playing with his prey like a cat playing with his food which caused every alarm in their body and head to blare as they desperately tried to see what they couldn't see as the invincible predator gave cuts on them not enough to kill them just savor their terror.
"You all over your head." the playful killer continued to taunt.
Wendy panicked but also was aggravated then jumped up "SHOW YOURSELF COWARD!" in a surge and demanded the madman to show himself, then with no warning something sharp broke her ax in half, it was so fast that the blade didn't fall down immediately but with a pause as her eyes went widen eyes looking at her now useless weapon all happening in just a blink.
"It was fun and all, you know what they say, business after pleasure!" Wendy did not know but as she searched around to see any sight of the enemy in frenzy, the enemy in question was behind her with two bladed weapons in an x formation ready to behead her as the killing blow reached her neck with a sinister grin. Then there was blindingly yellow light that disoriented everyone including the carnage maker.
From the light came a humanoid who held the caught off guard mass murderer by his throat and throttled him over the ground making rubbles and debris until Mr Redd with growl pushed the one who dared to attack him away who then landed on his feet.
It was Bes who seemed hurt with blood coming from a cut near his forehead. Thanks to Redd's canceling ability his wounds could only heal as fast as an average human evidenced even more by him holding a hand on his left injured shoulder, and yet he was not deterred and looked sternly with intense abhorrence at the psychopathic redhead humanoid.
Mr Redd got up and cleaned a bit of dust that was on his likely expensive suit from his tight shoulder and his front, his growl turned to glee quickly when he saw who dared to interrupt him "You're still alive? Good! I don't want my first time killing a god to be so underwhelming."
Bes looking at him with spite that made his detest to the gangsters pale in comparison with disgust looking at this creature. He snarked "Your blades will no longer taste innocent blood, twisted golem!"
"Wanna bet, little godling?"
Both with a growl then attack each other in a race causing clashes of yellow electricity and red energies with Redd having a twinblade sword. Each blow caused explosions of colliding lights.
Dipper crawled around trying to find Eir, to his distress Eir was breathing shakily with one of her wings seeming broken.
Eir wasn't the only one hurt though, Mabel was still unconscious.
"MERI! she needs help!" Dipper called Meri out in urgency as he gently held the SCP avian, she came in and tried using her powers by extending her left hand though seem struggling signified by the green hues that look weak and glitched out like a half working light bulb.
"He's canceling a lot of my power." After a moment her left hand no longer was toward Eir who this time seemed to breathe gently "I clotted her internal bleeding, but we have to get out the rang to heal her properly."
Dipper then hurried for his sister and said "Mabel, MABEL!"
Mabel slowly groaned and her eyes woke up feeling a headache "Uhhh, broseph?" She asked as he put a hand on her head in a failed attempt to reduce the pain while her brother and SCP-999 held her.
Dipper looking around seeing others hurt and injured including himself and her sister who was dizzy in his arms, Eir her companion in a world of pain chirping weakly paralyzed with likely some broken bones and seeing Mr Redd as he cackled fighting Bes who was still injured and was practically moving beyond his injured limitations to fight him to keep him stale made a choice "We…we have to go!"
Wendy was the first to object "What? But- !"
"Wendy, listen to me! Mabel and Eir are hurt as much as others! We aren't in shape for it!" She wanted to protest, yet did not as she trusted his judgment and did recognize that they are not in shape.
Meri did not agree with that notion "We can't leave Bes!" she then moved toward Bes to aid him.
Leora warned with a hand up "Wait! It's too dangerous!"
"Kids don't- !" Before he could finish his sentence, Redd smacked at his head by the wooded part if his twin bladed sword and then kicked him to the ground by breaking his left leg as he grunted in pain, next red and black energy began to circle around him as some sort of pentagram in ancient Daevite surrounded him making a force field that stopped him from getting out as found out when he hit the shield when he tried to get out.
Mr Redd then told him what he was going to do while replacing his twinblade sword with a Kampilan "Now excuse me, I have some CHILDREN TO MURDER!" He roared as he then made two circular saws in each of his hands buzzing.
Buzzing!
As he grinned and chased after them while Bes continuously tried to break the thaumaturgic shield with each powerful hit, then every ground he was on swallowed him whole leaving the pentagram losing its power and becoming a chartered smoking sign.
Meri decided to this time instead of using plant matter to use the elemental forces as she recalled she used before during that battle in Crash Site Omega; however, it was way harder than plant manipulation and more taxing and last time she had to lose her head in order for her body to activate like a safety protocol for survival and with Redd's dark arcane he weakened any thaumaturgical ability from his enemies to the point that even Bes found it hard to use his powers.
She tried to summon the metallic skeletons inside the concrete in the walls to pin and nail the red menace apart which as she struggled did come out, but failed to do so as it was like the metal itself was repulsed by the idea of being near him and fell apart to the ground. Subsequently, Redd brought down his buzzing chainsaws and ripped both of her arms with a sickeningly buzz.
BUZZ!
Flesh torned, bones broke and a shower of blood came out. Meri was in so much pain from losing her arms she couldn't even articulate a scream beyond gurgling sounds from her mouth as everyone else looked in horror at what just happened while Meri fell on the ground.
The day has dawned in Scarlet Color; befitting of today as its early light cast away the darkness to show Meri slacked on the ground gasping air in an agonizing limb near the sadistic humanoid.
There was a shocked pause until the Red Monster in a red blurr rushed toward 999 pushing the Fallers and Miller away with a gesture of his hand that glowed crimson tossing them away like ragdolls, before triple 9 could process this he switched his chainsaws and replaced them in favor of his tall war scythe with its tip glowing in red and black as he readied his weapon to strike them down.
"NIGHTY NIGHT PRINCE OF DARKNESS!"
The foul-powered blade came down toward SCP-999 coming to end them, the Tickle Monster survived things that would kill an ordinary creature from being squashed by SCP-682 to even having parts of it eaten, yet this was no conventional killing tool as it radiated with dark energies the stretch of which they unmistakably recognized originated from the Scarlet King's domain, this Mr Redd was one of his followers and seem to pleased the King with his bloodlust so much that he got empowered by it, not full ascension like Dehak but rather enhancing his anomalous abilities and now he was going to kill them.
The Photonic girl being the nearest came between and her left arm got up as it glowed in photons in form of solid hard light, unfortunately she failed to account that with the amount of dark energy gathered at the blade upon contact to her photonic construct it caused an explosion causing the construct to shatter and the blade taste her flesh.
Slash!
Once again everything went quiet as the disembodied arm of Leora fell only with her scream of every nerve feeling a lamb being ripped off as she dropped unconscious as the pain was too much for her to bear while everyone else witnessed another horrific gory display.
It was even worse in the case of Leora, they saw Meri losing her head only to regrow it later and knew she could regrow her lost limbs, but Leora? She may have photonic manipulation but she still bleeds and heals as much as an average human. Meri and Bes even if they survive don't have the ability to regrow lost limbs of others.
"Looks like she is disarmed from doing anything with her limit." Mr Redd gave a chuckle like it was some funny joke and then stretched his left hand "Get it? DIS-ARMED!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAGH!" Wendy with a enraged roar with her ax lashed toward him as he blocked her rapid and unorderly attacks, a bit startled by this, yet he was quick enough to regain his momentum, it was not just her going on berserk as Dipper joined with his spear as well sharing her spite not before he gave Eir to Rainer who then went to check on Leora.
"Wake up, wake up, don't sleep!" Miller checked her pulse and thanked whatever deity that was watching as she did had a pulse and fortunately the War Scythe's heated energy has clotted her bleeding before she lose a serious amount of blood; however, the red veins around it was not encouraging probably caused by foul magic while the sentinet scarf that was around her neck moved and held tight the infected wound to stop or at least slow the infection as it frantically pushed and said 'BAD!' again and again meaning she needed medical attention which was ironic considering the location they were in.
The Vermillion Prince just froze where they stood with their face betraying no emotions.
The Tickle Monster's gelatinous form was shaking like a moved jelly, this time not of joy but an emotion alien to them that they never felt before until now. Rage, rage against injustice, anger that good people get hurt, fury at their friends constantly being harmed, maybe reaching a state of their growth made them able to feel other emotions or perhaps seeing innocent people being harmed for the malice of his malevolent father and his followers has finally drove them on the edge, it did not matter. Their Vermillion color became slightly reddish like the coming of a boiling volcano ready to fire and their face twisted into a feral snarl of an animal.
Limit? LIMIT!? The Vermillion Prince has his limit right here!
Howling!
They let out an ear-deafening banshee mighty howl so high in frequency that resulted in mirrors to shake or crack and everyone closed their ears and slowly dropped on the ground losing cohesion. Consequently, Vermillion Prince got overloaded by this alien emotion that conflicted with their nature that they fell unconscious with their Vermillion color turned into a sickish orange and its head reverted back from their feral form.
Even though Mr Redd felt his eardrums bleeding and struggling to get up from the floor he couldn't help but give another sick quip "Oops! I think I broke him!"
Before he could get up again, all the emergency lights began to turn on with a surprising surge of energy briefly disorientating everyone, Wendy who was holding a hand on her eyes then felt like someone was holding her hand and make her follow her away as she struggled to not being so as she pushed and saw a brief humanoid silhouette that had silvery cyan eyes near what looked like to be a blue portal to some library at least from its appearance.
"Come! Quick!" The humanoid in a female voice told her she wanted to object but at this point with how hurt they were she knew they had no choice but to take a leap of faith with this stranger. So both went for others grabbing them to come, Wendy came for Dipper grabbing him as he carried his sister.
"Come on dude!"
Miller with the help of Silvereye carried the unconscious Prince and Leora while he held Eir in the palm of his hand.
Back in the underground. Bes raged, raged with fury hearing the unmistaken sound of flesh torn apart, the cry of those needed and Redd's cackling of others' suffering which he inflicted as he violently shook around to get out of his prison causing the ground to shake.
The ground shook, making them hurry faster to the other side of the portal.
Meri coughed on the small pond of blood on the floor with her face on it as she weakly struggled to get up, she managed to clot her own blood but she wasn't fast enough and lost a significant part of it and then the light bulbs exploded.
"Wait, Meri is left!" Miller recalled when he put Prince and Leora on a couch, he rushed back to the portal to get back to her; however, something was wrong as the Portal seemed to glitched like something was interfering with it, causing it to become unstable and keep glitching open and closed.
"It's closed!" Dipper exclaimed.
"The Portal! Do something NOW!" Wendy told Silvereye to do something in alarm.
"I'M TRYING!" She shouted in hurry as she held a book and chanted arcanes in a hast near a ritual site where she made the portal.
While the technopath tried to stabilize the portal, the humanoid half deer in shaky legs got up, she was too unwell to walk toward the portal as fast as she could hobbling feeling like she was going to lose consciousness any moment as her heart beated in dread of what could happen with her delay, seeing the portal become unstable as it glitched between reality and unreality while hearing shouts from the other side did not quelled her worries, this only meant one thing: Mr Redd was interfering with it, a suspicious that was proven right when she heard the chilling voice of his.
"Leaving so soon?" The crimson attire madman who now regain his stances utterred disgenuinely making Meri feeling dread like a deer feeling danger with her instincts screaming her to run, but she couldn't so she glance back.
Then, a twin-bladed knife glowing in red powers appeared in his right hand and was thrown toward her; Meri been through a lot, fight off an entire Insurgency Squad with an active reality bender to exhaustion until the Corduroys found her and even losing her head only to later regrow it; nonetheless, the blade that was coming toward her was imbued with dark magic to cancel her regenerative ability which meant she would die this time as she looked in fear as the blade came in, she was too weak to summon a vine to stop it, she knew her death has come as the blade came to taste her flesh.
RIPPED!
The unholy sound of flesh being torn was heard and blood spilled, but it was not from Meri who froze where she with widened eyes in horror, shell shocked.
It was Bes in front of her; had dirt over him showing that he digged through the earth to get out, he went between her and the coming knife, it tore through his back and came near his skin from the other side, his breathing hitched, the foul powers embodied by that cursed weapon then began to pulse around the wound like an infection while blood made his clothes wet in red, there a moment of pause that lasted for an eternity as Meri in disbelief and mental anguish traded stares with Bes in an agony of flesh who gave her a meaningful look and despite the pain he felt gave her a twitch of a happy smile until he extended his hand and gave a final push with an electrical surge.
"Bes..! BES!"
Just right when the portal became stable the surge sent Meri flying toward it as she repeatedly shouted his name. Last thing she saw before losing consciousness from losing so much blood was Redd walking closer toward the injured and kneeled Bes with a blade looking displeased whereas Bes smirked at him.
Even though there were stars in the night, there was no rainbow at dawn.
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Notes: DUM DUM DUUUUM! Here's the cliffhanger for ya! MWAHAHAHA! I'm so evil! Not gonna lie, I felt like I was torturing myself for putting the characters in hell.
Oh, the chilling song was A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns, so yeah Mr Redd's true love is killing and the red color of blood(unless it's the color of a different color depending on the species or some weird anomalous crap)