Chapter 9 - Debt collecting
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The other two heads cry in pain as their middle head was removed, stumbling back after the attack it stands there crying.
“What, is that all you got?! You’re pathetic excuse for a monster.” Laughing as I watch the other two heads cry.
The middle head lays on the floor in front of me in a pool of its own blood, the other two heads cry turns into a laughter as they both stare me down.
“What’s so funny? Are you so scared of dieing you’ve snapped? Is that it?!” Shouting at the now laughing hydra.
The bare spot on its chest where the middle neck now started to move, the blood stopped flowing as the skin quickly started to scramble, looked like ripples moving through water. Three other heads erupted from the wound and each one of them looked pissed.
“You gotta be fucking KIDDING ME!” My jaw hangs open after witnessing the three newly born heads.
There was now a total of five heads, all of them laughing at me as I stand there dumbfounded. The hydra started to charge at me, each head screaming at me as they wanted to devour me.
“This is going to be fun.”
Two heads from the left lunges at me, I dodge one and kick the second one, causing blood to spew from its mouth, two from the right flew down from above me. I dodge one as it slammed face first into the floor, the second one continues to fly at me. I grab it by the nose with my left hand, sinking my claws into it causing blood to drip down onto my face. I take my right fist and punch the side of its head over and over again, destroying one of its eyes as my fist slams into its eye.
The middle head lunges at me, coming from ground level. I released the head and dodge the middle head, only to be bitten in the side by one of the heads to the left of me, ripping off a good bit of scales on my torso and causing blood to rush to the surface of my skin.
“You’ve tasted my blood and now you want more, come at me!” Yelling at the hydra as all heads start to lunge at me.
A head from the left flanks me and I grab it, stopping it before it could bite me again. A head from the right flanks my right side, I stopped it with my right arm before it could take a chunk from me. The middle head opens wide and bites down on me around my stomach, holding me in its mouth as it flings its head into the air, releasing me as my body flew in the air like a ragdoll.
“This can’t be good....”
The middle head opens wide once more, swallowing me whole. The hydra stands there in the middle of the room, happy that it has devoured another meal.
“Well then... Isn't this a load of fun... Being digested by a hydra...”
Standing there in the hydra’s digestive juices, my scales below my knees start to melt as the acidic juices start to do their job. Unable to see any thing while inside the hydra’s stomach I feel my way towards the wall of the stomach, only a few steps away and I manage to find it.
“Now lad, it’s time to show you a new trick, are you ready?”
Nodding in agreement after my friend asking me this, he starts to move the dark energy inside my body to my right arm. The red vein was not pulsing, but more of a vibrating motion as my friend cups my right hand into and swings our arm at the wall of the hydras stomach.
“SERENE DEMON SCYTHE!” Yelling this as my friend swings my right arm diganil, slashing through the hydras stomach.
The hydra’s chest burst open as I easily cut through it. The hydra shrieks in pain as I run out of improvised exit I made. The hydra falls over onto its new wound, blood pouring out of it making a small purple pond around the hydra.
“May you find peace in the abyss.” Praying for the hydra before I landed the killing blow.
I cup my right hand again, before performing the Serene Demon Scythe on the hydra for one last time. Bringing down my attack on top of the baseline of the necks of the hydras, cutting each one off at the same time. A purple mist spewed from the open wounds as the necks drop to the ground.
Looking up to the window that Colt used Cloud as a improvised rock to break through it. A small lake of purple blood surrounding my feet, I run over to the wall and sink my claws into the stone walling, climbing my way up to the window where they went through. Making my way through the window into the new room, I quickly search the room and found a staircase leading upwards. I charge up the staircase and reach a metal door, not even bothering to try to open it I start to bust down the door with my fist.
Colt and Cloud hear the door burst open behind them, they both shift their attention from The Master to seeing me standing in the doorway. My body was now completely covered by the black scales, my body spotted with purple blood stains.
“27... W-What happened to you?” Cloud saying nervously
“Hydra dead I take it? Good job 27.” Colt says with triumph in his voice.
“Subject 27 is not with us at the moment, Cloud.” My voice was darker than it usually is. A grin slowly creeps its way across my face I stare down Colt.
“I do have to thank you, Colt. Because of you, Subject 27 owes me quite a lot of debt, and I’ve come to collect.”
“Well if you want a virgin sacrifice, I think The Master would work!” Colt says as he swings him around.
“Subject 27! Kill this animal and I will release you and Cloud from here!” The Master trying his best to say as he is being swung around.
“A sacrifice would do for now as payment, but who should pay with their life?”
“Subject 27 you can’t k-kill me! I have a son!”
I stand there, licking my lips as I look over Colt, Cloud, and The Master.
“Well I can’t die, Cloud is your friend, and that leaves him, so do you want him?”
“Friend or foe, anyone can die Colt. A friend would pay handsomely, something that is hard to kill would pay decently enough, and someone with a family will pay just enough to subdue my thirst.”
“Alright then, LUNCH IS SERVED!” Colt yell as he chucks the unicorn towards me.
I catch The Master by his tail, lifting him up to eye level.
“Subject 27, If I die, Cloud’s collar will detonate and so will yours!”
“Oh yeah, I almost forgot, I broke your collar thingy.” Colt said.
“H-How?! That’s impossible!” The Master’s voice now filled with fear after hearing this remark.
“Well like most things I break, I just touched it.” He said shrugging his shoulders
“I-I see... That just leaves 27’s collar then. If I die, you die.”
“You can’t kill me, maybe Subject 27, but not me. Time for you to join the others in the abyss.” I bring The Master closer to me, raising my right hand to The Master’s throat.
My right arm starts to pulse once more with energy before my friend sinks my claws into The Master’s neck. His warm blood starts to flow out of his neck and runs down my arm. His body goes limp as he stops flailing about. The collar around my neck starts to beep quickly before exploding, tearing off most of the scales around my neck and causing blood to rush to the surface of my neck. Colt starts to golf clap as The Master dies in my hands.
“The toll has been paid for now, may the abyss watch over you both.” Saying this, my friend lets go of The Master’s corpse and I collapse to my knees as I regain control.
“I-I’m glad that I-I could persuade him to not take your lives for the payment.” Panting heavily after I gain control.
“Eh, knowing my luck, your friend would have ended up just beating me to a puddle, then I would come back and wash, rinse, repeat , etc.”
“2-27.. What was that just now? Who was that?” Cloud said, clearly confused.
“Cloud, I’ll explain everything in due time. Now let’s see if we can get your collar off. Colt, go through his desk and look for a key of some sort.”
“Okay,” Colt says as he destroys the desk for no apparent reason. He starts to look through the broken pieces of wood and finds a small key.
“Found it!”
“Good work, now toss it here and I’ll get that death trap off of you Cloud.” After I say this, Colt toss me the key and I quickly begins to go to work on the collar.
I hear a clicking sound as the collar unlocks and falls to the floor with a thud. After this victory, I look around the room to see double metal doors at the corner of the room. The three of you make haste towards the door, opening it with ease and ascending the flight of stairs behind the door, eventually reaching the top. At the top of the stairs sits a large metal door blocking our path from continuing forwards.
“Colt, would like to have the honor of opening this door?” I look at Colt after suggesting this.
“Oh fuck yeah!” Colt says as he runs at the door,
“FALCON KICK!” Colt and Daimon shout as he knocks down the doors with a jump kick.
As the door gives way after Colt’s Falcon Kick, I’m blinded by the sun’s light. Shielding my eyes with my hand, I step past the door to the world outside. I hear the wind blow through the trees as the sun’s light pours through the leaves and kisses my face with its rays. The natural warmth of the sun feels great, the sound of wildlife all around me puts my mind into a tranquil state.
“Are you kidding me? We are in the Everfree forest. . . FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!” Colt rages.
“Cloud, what’s the Everfree forest?” I turn towards Cloud with a questioning look on my face.
“Well 27... It's a place untouched by magic, the clouds move on their own, the weather can’t be controlled, and dangerous creatures live here.”
“Oh the creatures aren’t bad, I just hate being in the woods, animals good, nature bad.” He says as he starts to pout.
“That’s a shame to hear Colt. I feel rather at home when I’m out in nature. So Colt, since you know the area better than I do, what should we do?”
“Well. . . I don’t know what direction it is, but Ponyville is nearby. Hey improvised rock, fly up and check what direction the town is in.”
Cloud nods her head and spreads her wings and takes off, flying past the trees and into the sky above.
“Hey guys! I can see Ponyville! It’s maybe a days trot from here.” Cloud yelling down to us before coming back down to the ground.
“It’s this direction, follow me.” Cloud starts to lead the way towards Ponyville.
“Hey Colt, what kind of town is Ponyville?” I turn my attention to him as I begin to bombard him with questions.
“For the most part, it’s a quiet town, well at least until I got there, hahaha. Anyways, the town is pretty nice, but due to you having weird-ass powers like myself, you should probably go meet Celestia.”
“Sounds like a rather nice town. One more question, where do I get some new clothes? My pants got ripped up pretty bad by you and the hydra. I don’t mind walking around without a shirt, but since I’m now exposed to the elements, I might need one.”
“I know somepony who can help you there.” Colt says with a smile on his face.
“Awesome, thanks Colt. Hopefully the residents of Ponyville don’t run in terror when we come to town. Hey, how long have you been in this realm?”
“About a week, and don't worry, Daimon scared them worse than anything in existence could.”
“Hey Daimon... W-What did you do to the folks in Ponyville?” Cloud said, slightly hesitant to ask.
“Hahahahaha, why not ask your shadowy friend? She saw our memories, she can tell you every last detail. . .” Daimon said.
“2-27, what is he talking about? What shadowy friend? It’s just been you and me the whole time, right?”
I stayed silent for awhile before answering this question.
“Cloud, you remember after the tentacle monster when you found me laying on the ground in front of you? My body was already cold when you woke.”
“Y-Yes...”
“Well, long story short, that hallway was another test... It had this... This shadow in it that consumes the souls of anyone unfortunate enough to step in its trap.. Well I stepped in its trap and it nearly killed me. I was able to strike a deal with the shadow to spare my life, as long as I helped her with getting revenge on some unicorn that trapped her there. Ever since then, she’s been traveling with us inside my body, using me as a host.”
“O-Oh... Does she have a name?” Cloud’s voice a little shaky after hearing the news.
“Yes, her name is Fade... She’s been... Well she’s been keeping watch over you when ever I become unconscious.”
“I-I see... Do I even want to know what she saw inside Colt’s mind?”
“No, you don’t, trust me.” I say with a dark look on my face.
“Too bad! I tied up a stallion with barbed wire, hung him from the ceiling, poured salt in his wounds and beat him nearly to death with his daughter!” Daimon states proudly.
“Dude, you are WAY too proud of that. . . “ Colt says as Daimon began laughing.
Cloud’s face is stricken with horror and disbelief as she turns her head and looked at me for confirmation. I merely nodded my head, she turned around and starts to walk in the direction towards Ponyville, not saying another word to us for almost an hour.
“Hey, check and see how close we are.” Colt speaks breaking the silence.
Cloud lifts off the ground and flew towards the sky once more.
“We’re about four hours away from Ponyville, but it’s getting dark pretty quick, we should set up camp somewhere for the n-” Colt interrupting Cloud mid sentence.
“I FUCKING HATE CAMPING!” Colt yelled in anger.
“Why? You scared of the dark?” I start to tease Colt as I poke him with a stick.
“That and insects always seem to gravitate towards me.” Colt says with a grim look on his face.
“That’s an easy fix, best way to keep bugs away is having a fire and creating a lot of smoke. And I would suggest making camp for tonight, I don’t know how well you two handle yourselves in the dark.”
“LET IT BURN!” Colt yelled as he created fire.
“Colt... How can you manifest fire like that?” I ask with a concerned look on my face.
“The voices tell me things.” Colt says with a Scrunchy face.
"I-I see... Will these voices be causing us any problems tonight?”
“Nah, he isn’t like me, but he is a bit of a fire bug.” Daimon says with his arms folded
“I see... Daimon how many more voices does Colt have?”
“You don’t wanna know.” Daimon says shaking his head.
“Okay then.... As long as they don’t cause any problems while we’re traveling together then I’ll trust you on that, Daimon... Now let’s set up camp for the night, Cloud, you gather some wood, Colt you do... I don’t know, you go do something. I’ll go and try to gather some food.”
I begin to search the forest, looking for something for us to eat. I come across some bushes with barriers and a few mushrooms, not enough to feed all three of us so I walk past it. The cool night air felt great, the moon illuminating a good bit of the forest as its light pours through the leaves of the trees. I sneak through the forest, trying not to alert anything to my position or scare anything off that I could use for food. The night in the Everfree Forest seem rather quite, to quite infact.
I’ve been searching for roughly an hour now, trying to stay close enough to our camp so I can easily bring anything back. Coming across a drop off, I look over the small cliff side and see a manticore sleeping in the moonlight, perfect. The drop off was roughly ten feet, nothing to bad. I looked around to see if there was an easier way down, only a small hill leading down to the manticore.
I sneak over to the small hill and started to sneak down it before a rock under my foot wasn't as sturdy as I thought and slipped out from its place, causing me to slide down the hill side waking up the manticore. The manticore quickly rose to its feet and started to sniff the air trying to find me. There was no wind blowing, the forest was rather quiet besides the now raging manticore looking for me.
I ran over to a nearby tree and climbed up it, my bare back was cut up from the small rockslide leaving a small blood trail behind me. The manticore couldn't see too well in the dark but was able to pick up the scent of my blood. The manticore slowly followed my blood trail to the tree, only a few feet away from the tree there was only one thing I could do and that was ambush it.
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