Chapter 24

Warning: some disturbing imagery and extreme violence.

Harry felt nothing but rage and power flowing through his veins as he floated towards the elevators that would lead him to the upper levels of this cesspool of a building.

All the while Harry's pawns and rooks moved through the floors and turned every living thing and every price of technology that attacked into little more than piles of debris.

Harry finally made it to the elevators and with Vanna feeding off his rage flings her chains forward and send the doors into the elevator shaft leaving a gaping hole for Harry to ascend through. Harry's pawns led the way scuttling up the sides as the rooks waited at the door as Harry floated up towards the penthouse, but unbeknownst to Harry, a shadowy figure started to bend towards the dark corners of the shaft and deposit something that looked like living shadows and a bug had birthed an unholy abomination.

But Harry didn't notice this, nor that it had immediately started transforming from the wisps of power radiating off him and causing things to randomly mutate.

The metal that made the shaft started to turn into skin, and limbs and eyes started to grow out of them, cables and other electrical components became more nectar that crawled just under the surface of the new skin.

Crawling and chewing their way out as more sling and limbs grew the higher Harry climbed, gun emplacements ripped to shreds by the pawns as they fed off their masters rage and empowered themselves. Slowly Harry arrived at the final door that had been sliced open and chunks of the demons that had been on the other side lay in piles across the ground or smeared across the wall.

But Harry didn't see this, he only saw the door that was being broken down and hear the sounds of the thing that had dared to lay hands on his mother yell and shoot at Harry's pawns.

From his shadow Harry's rooks emerge to once again surround him as he floats into the penthouse and sees the moth man backed to the window and golden gun pointed at on of the pawns scuttling towards him.

Harry let his will be known, and the pawn froze, Harry floated forward and that's when Valentino decided that he had had enough.

"Who in the fuck are you?!! Do you have any idea who I am!! I'm one of the fucking vee's you little bitch!! If you think that for even one second that your going to get away with this the-"

Harry grew bored of Valentinos voice and so decided to revoke his speaking privileges, so a chain shoot forward and before Valentino even knew what happened, his entire lower jaw was turned into a meaty splatter against the window his back was pressed against. Harry continued to float forward as Valentino's attempts to scream simply left Harry feeling that this was only the beginning of the price he would extract from this sinner.

Valentino fell to his knees clutching at where his jaw used to be as a figure climbed down the window from above and started to grab each of his limbs lifting him into the air.

A figure that had three sets of arms with three long spindly fingers ending in large hooked talons grabbed onto a limb each as the final set of hands held Valentino's head up to stare into Harry's eyes.

The elongated head with no eyes or nose opened up its mouth and place a secondary smaller mouth behind Valentino's head clamping onto his scalp, the red matching the light streaks of red and pink running through the black that seemed to almost absorb light. A tail long and prehensile wrapped around Valentino's torso and the blades end rested just above his heart, an obvious and ready threat to not struggle, for the spider had caught the moth, and now it will feed the serpent.

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Vox was watching all that had happened with the radio demons brat and was fuming with rage that this little upstart brat raised by that bitch of a demon had the gall to come into his house and wreck his stuff.

"That mother fucker, it's time I finally dealt with that brat, maybe even send his remains to the radio demon, show him that he had no power to help protect anyone let alone his own kid."

With a tooth smile Vox stood from his chair and walked to the middle of the platform that was his office and letting the in built elevator take him to the depths of the building.

After a minute, Vox finally reached the bottom floor and kicked open the door that lead into his personal workshop filled with the latest tech he could get his underlines to make so he could improve them to his standards. But he wasn't here for the dross that he sells to the dipshits of hell, no he was here for the project that he had been saving for the next time he saw Alastor, but he guessed this would be a good trial run.

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Harry had just finished crushing Valentino's balls and force feeding them to him and was in the process of trying to scoop out his eyes with Valentino's own fingers he had torn off, when he was yanked away from his spot by Vanna embedding chains into a far wall and yoinking him that way.

A metal figure that looked like a skeleton covered in metal had just created a small crater where Harry had once stood, killing Valentino in the process of trying to kill its intended target.

Harry's anger only grew as the target of his ire was ended by another's hand, and that simply would not do.

The first to attack the new addition to this murder rampage was one of Harry's rooks, it lumbered forward and swatted the metal skeleton with a back hand, causing a loud hollow screeching sound to echo throughout the room as the metal skeleton was sent flying towards a pawn. The pawn instantly separated into its two pieces and started to attack with jabs and slashes once the metal skeleton was in range.

Horrible sounds of metal scratching against metal as dents and rents appeared all over the metal skeleton as it finally hit the floor, but it seemed that this interloper wasn't just a simple construct, it rolled with the fall back onto its feet and immediately set about attacking the pawns that attacked it.

But Harry's newest summon had left the Valentinos corpse to get rid of the threat to its master, so scuttling across the wall and onto the ceiling the creature dropped down onto the metal skeleton and brought it to the ground.

The creature completely covered the metal skeleton and then some, it seemed to be about ten feet tall, and that was before you added in the tail, but that was not enough to keep the metal skeleton down.

It started to slowly push its self off the ground and tried to get back onto its feet, but the creature instantly opened its mouth and let the secondary smaller mouth eject out and puncture the metal skull going all the way through and showing off bits of wire and metal clenched in its mouth. With a shudder the metal skeleton stills and goes limp in the creatures arms as Harry approaches with all the pawns and rooks tensed and ready to crush both the creature and skeleton of it still functions.

As Harry approaches the creature unbinds its self from the skeleton and approaches Harry crouched on all fours and tail wagging lazily behind it.

Once Harry is in front of it the creatures drops the wire and metal at Harry's feet and tilts its head up at its master, Harry reaches a hand forward and gives the creature a scratch along its jaw.

A rumbling hiss emits from the creatures throat as it pushes into Harry's hand and nuzzles it, a ghost of a smile crosses Harry's face before it just as quickly disappears as he looks down on the skeleton that had taken his quarry. With a final scratch to the chin Harry approaches the skeleton with the creature at his side and the rooks and pawns spreading out to cover the door and windows in case of any more surprises.

As Harry's hand touched the skull and lifted it up to inspect it better, a feeling like lightning rushed through his system as the skull melted in his hands and seemed to pool along his arm.

The creature at Harry's side hissed in worry but Harry wasn't worried, in fact he was interested in what Vanna wanted with this machine that had tried to kill him.

The emotions and feelings he got from his parasite was that she was excited and overjoyed at the machines presence once it had been rendered non functional. Chains shoot out and started the same process as the skull with the rest of the skeleton, turning it into a liquid and pooling along Harry's clothes and even a little bit of his face.

Once all the metal had finally stopped moving and resolidified Harry was not only happy but even excited to see what these new clothes had for tricks, his pants legs and crotch both had been fortified with the metal giving him better protection for some Maneuverability.

His duster had also received the same treatment along his shoulders and arms and along where his spine would be, his shirt had basically become some type of Kevlar rather then having plates placed in them like his pants and duster. His boots had also had some plates added to them making them slightly heavier but Harry could live with that, but the main change was the fact he now had a metallic mask that showed a smile similar to his fathers, but painted like his mother.

His mask covered from the bridge of his nose down to under his chin, and clasping all the way to behind his head, giving the back of his neck and head some protection as well.

Harry knew that a lot of metal was still missing from the rest of that skeleton but he wasn't going to question it, after all, he had to get the bastard who killed his quarry, and he knew that his new bishop was perfect for the job, so with his voice seeped in his power and timing through the room like he was a god unleashed he said a single word to his bishop.

"HUNT!!"