Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Digimon Protectors - The Highton View Terrace Incident ❯ Believe In Monsters ( Chapter 2 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

The stand off continued, my attackers taken aback by my statement looking between themselves for a second. They must have been used to fear being the primary reaction. They charged none the less, one in front of the other in a lunging sprint. Trajectory. Speed. Form of attack. Reaction time. My mind zoomed out as a heart beat was an eternity between each thud. My surroundings were emphasized. My muscles tensed. My blade sprung out with a sharp twang.In reality all was a blur, they flew sideways in as my body spun and with my other arm my sent my poncho flying off. The heavy rubber liner hit the furthest away, his vision being blocked as my knife flashed out.My blade snapped across in a slash under the strike the nearest one. The edge tore through the side of his hood, the mask around his throat and right through whatever flesh was three inches behind it. My arm came out straight to the side as the one blinded reached to rip rain barrier away. My feet twisted in a pivot, knife flipping into an underhand hold and hammered the point into the second. A sick crunch through the ribbcage, the bottom of my fist digging into the fabric as he came to a full stop and me standing beside him. The poncho falling away but still pinned to his body, his eyes wide and burning brighter somehow, he froze in place stunned. His eyes with their black pupils quivering over in my direction of my own look of indifference as I ripped the blade out.He choked a yelp as the blade dragged out, my boot rose up I delivered a door busting kick right where I stabbed. My impact felt like I was hitting a dense sand bag but he still lurched back, wobbled down to the ground clawing at his chest. The stuck one babbled weak incoherent nonsense, writhing like he was on a hot plate on the ground. A toss of my blade up, one slow rotation freeing my hand up to produce my second weapon: a tan painted Glock from inside a hidden jacket pocket. The pistol flashed in the direction of the just finished stumbling into the fence, my off hand catching the blade out of the air. He gripped his throat with one clawed hand holding tight. He looked into my eyes from behind the barrel. "Embrace it." I spat back.The gunshot rang out as I squeezed the trigger, two more after that. The slashed one crumpled down but instead of the familiar pink mist from the exit, the hit caused a spark of embers, his ash colored flesh cracking with bright fractures of bright black light purple. His head shattered with a single hole after the third and his head cracked open in a fireburst of orange like a sledge hammer to a glass skull.A neon purple smoke and fire surged out from his neck, the rest of his body, armor and cloth obliterated itself before my eyes. The remnant chunks churned away in a twirling vortex and into oblivion in a few seconds. I took my hand away from my eyes as the heat singed me, blinking slowly to what I just saw. "That...didn't happen did it?" I spoke to no one.A growl came from behind me, my head whipping around along with my pistol brandished. The stuck one was getting up slowly, the same black lit glow radiating from his chest. It was radiating into itself, shrinking and the snuffing out leaving only a single line of puncture and a mangled scar. Instinctively I fir0ed once to five more shots, each round puncturing his body leaving glowing holes and bursts of black soot out his back but he kept coming! Gun empty and diving slash poised, I swapped grips and clanged a strike off the incoming blade, parrying and slashing down the bend of his arm. It barely effected him despite I should have cut through his arm clean, a limp but whipping flail of a aimed cut missed. His arm snapped back into place but a kick popped a knee with a rippling crackle. He jabbed and swung hard, my blade parrying the strike off. My pistol mag went flying with a spin away, both of us squaring off in a circle. I flipped my gun in my had to be a stubby club for the second. He paced around me, mirrored his distance. His wounds that would have easily fallen a man sealing away as he wetly frothed hisses at me through the mask. "What the fuck are you?!" I demanded."Darkness incarnate!" He answered as his knee cracked back into place, "Your demise in physical form!"
He twirled his blade around trying to fancy me into a mistake, I flicked my blade and parried it off and cross slash flurried him right back. He wasn't concerned for his well being, taking the hits with his forearms and even his chest at times. I carved him up every chance I found, he didn't care. I snuck an upper swing of my pistol butt under his chin, spun on the spot and snapped a spin kick right to his face. My foot hit with all the intention of taking his head off but it was like hitting a wooden post, my momentum ending in that second. I landed, my feet scooted me back in a defensive stance, his face having small fissures of glowing purple on his face slowly shrinking away. No time to wonder what he was.Dashing in, blades twanged off each-other, slashes went wide on both sides as I caught an opening. I caught his wrist with my blade, twisted it over his wrists but both blades ended up slipping off onto the ground. He unceremoniously shoved me and up and over I went like I was thrown from a speeding car. My back clanged off the metal fene of the wall, the entire wall vibrating all the air from my lungs. My vision again twisted in my head as he charged, my arms shooting out sideways, grabbing the bars tight. In a feat of strength, a kick of my feet off the ground I flipped up with my hips the pivot point, used his incoming torso to run up and leave him with a whipping steel toed chin kick on the way by. I landed on the top of the stone wall part on the other side, catching the top bar just below the spiked heads. The hit staggered him but he lepted from ten feet away at a direct angle up at me, fingers out stretched to claw me in half. I jumped backwards, twisting in air and rapping my arms around his neck as he grabbed me. Too bad he didn't see me clear the fence while his neck was in line for the dulled points of the speared metal decorations.I felt flesh again give way but a lot more resistance was met on the way down and before the first line of steel between the point and the bottom of the 'decorative' spear head. Gruesomely it stabbed through and his neck now had three inches of a spike through it. His shoulders in line have two on either side as well, impaled firmly on the black painted metal. I held onto him as he writhed and gargled with my arms keeping him in a head lock. One arm lose, I reached my hand into my pocked and pulled my spare magazine out from a pouch inside it, slamming it into the exposed butt of the pistol in my left fist. A clawed hand came around to my face as I yanked my Glock out from my hand, clicked the action forward and jammed it right to his temple. "Heal this."I fired one round point blank and he burst into the same flame and dust. As he faded from existence, I slipped off and hit the ground with the back of my head chipping off the edge of the stone wall, a jolt of pain shot through all the way to the tip of my nose. Finially, all was silent save the wind again.I picked myself up off the flowerbed and the bush I crushed, instinctively picking up the shell casing on the ground and putting it into my pocket. I slowly made my way over the fence, the steel points looking a little burnt but no one was going to notice. I landed on the ground, looking around cautiously and listening to any sirens or witnesses. Nothing so far. I collected the casings off the ground, pain in my body numbly throbbing away as the toll of this insane fight was adding up. I was about to make a run for it when I saw Railius at the end of the block.I stood off to him and my pistol snapped to his direction, shoulders square and gun aimed waiting for him to come forward a little more. Incensed I was standing there, he shook his head side the side slowly in bewilderment. My blade under my pistol pointing forward as he walked towards me, the quarter inch gouges in the blade apparent like a small torch sliced through the metal. "How?" He asked me with arms wide out.I wasn't interested in a conversation, I pulled the trigger instead. Multiple times. The rounds hit him right between the eyes within a quarter of an inch. His head whipped backwards, twisting away as I walked forward landing every shot somewhere on his skull till the magazine ran empty again. I instinctively reloaded, dropping the magazine and loading in the last one I had from inside my jacket. Railius didn't fall over or burst into unearthly flames. He turned around to face me again and only small gouges on his face were there and they all snapped shut with a one deep breath in from his nose and a thumbing of his cheek. Fuck. "Just so you know I'm going to kill you." Railius assured with a point, "I want to know how you are not afraid first."I didn't answer, my mind too busy rewiring my questions and uncertainty to find a way to get out of this. I glanced side to side but kept my looks mostly on him as he walked towards me with his blade in hand, flat side over his shoulder, shaking his head at me. My gaze remained the same, he was now angrily beside himself. "I can feel fear." He salivated at me with his hand like he was holding a wine glass, "I can sense weakness. You? You! There is nothing! You can't kill me! You can't beat me! Yet for some reason there isn't an shread of fear or dread in you! Why?!"
I kept my aim up, taking slow steps backwards without a word. Eyes glared right back, unyealding at him even if it was only indifferent defiance. "I don't know myself." I responded bluntly, "Guess neither of us will get an answer."
Railius slowly shook his head some more, disbelief overtaking him. It was like he couldn't comprehend what he was seeing or hearing in me. He seemed to fight with himself, pacing back and forth a few paces across the street. Pointing at me at times, aim following him regardless standing square with him, confusion and anger changing prominance on his face every few seconds. "Okay then I have a really great idea." Railus came up with something claping his hands together, "I like you. Really. I do. So you get something special. You belive in monsters human?""I met a few." I replied cocking the hammer back for a tight shot."Then maybe this monster be more to your liking." He snapped his fingers.From around his feet the smoke that formed the original attackers went out wide behind him. It churned with miniature lightning flowing through it. I settled my shots to put a few more into his face but I was stilled to see what he was doing now. A large form, size of an off road pickup truck rose up now and pushed through the fog. This one was a smooth bulb but still pointed haired adorned rear second shape, a painted skull and bones seemingly painted on the shell. Large tubes of limbs flared out, the hairs long and spiked on it, eight of them. A churning sensation of what that could not possibly be was right there in front of my very eyes, as the masked facearachnid face with long jutting horns to the side and the glassy red eight eyes popped out. Ayawned open a wide fanged mouth in a roar with two large mandibles flaring out, its front legs having three fingered clawed hands with armored gauntlets over them. Standing eight feet tall behind Ralius as he stepped aside. "Arakumon?" Railius pet the side of his face lovingly, "Drain every drop of blood out of his body."The monster's eyes showed my reflection as it lowered itself to pounce, a guttural laugh coming out of it letting me know what a voice of hell sounds like, its long tubular feet pads scratch the ground. One thing came to mind. "Note to self." I let the thought come from my lips, “Take cab home next time.”
Another roar of intimidation, me reacting by firing a round into one of its eyes from this distance. I saw it shudder and then whip its head away. As it came back down, I let off three more, two landing and my feet did the rest, a long screeching as it craned its neck up momentarily blinded. "What are you doing after him!" Railius yelled as I cleared the corner in a dash.My stride was long and right through the center of the street, escape and evade was my only chance now. I visualized straight lines through my paths, obsticals and cover for the shortest distance. Back alleys and parkways were my only options, narrow areas where it couldn't get me. An open manhole would be a blessing. I cleared blocks in under a dozen seconds, if someone had watched me blow past I was clearing my under four to the mile record. I glanced back over my shoulder and saw the creature barrel around the corner and scream rage at me, the sharp cry hurting my ears as I cut a street corner in a leap onto the other street. I slid over a hood as it scuttled after me to catch up, keeping my momentum and putting everything I could between me and it. It moved quickly, gaining fast but I was nimblely darting between vehicles and street lights. It reared its ass end up and shot a long thick strand of webbing up onto a high building, picked itself up off the ground and swung towards me to scoop me off the street. I shifted off the street, stepped on the hood of a car and flipped over, missing a swiping arm as it sailed up into the air, growling at me as it missed. "Acid blast!" I heard the monster cry out.I looked up and out from its mouth in a spit came a watermelon sized glob of green slime at me at high speed. I juked right on a strained ankle pivot and dove for good measure. I rolled and bounced back into my run as the fluid crashed to the ground. It burned right through the cement we ease, a few splatters burning holes in my jacket. Before it could hit my skin, I ripped the outer layer off and threw it away as the sleeve was dissolved like the street. I cut down another street as it landed against a wall high up a building, pressed down and then sprang off down at me. My mind saw where he was going to land, right on top of me so I changed my trajectory as well. I saw another half wall, jumped up on it and vaulted sideways back towards the street. The large creature landed where I would have stood as I twisted in midair, feet planting on the large skull symbol on his back for a moment before kicking off. It sprawled around trying to get me, flipping sideways itself over on its back but I missed all the scrambling greasy haired legs and hands all at once. It growled frustrated as I hit the roof of a car, rolled and landed back on the roadway in a full dash. "Web Net!" It called out again.I looked over as it bent its disgusting rear section over, I saw the spindle sack at the end of its ass point right at me. It seemed to bulge up and then explode a wet bulb of webbing, my eyes wide at what that was going to do. I threw my arm to my left, kicked off the ground and corck screwed through the air at my speed, one whipping past me and three more right behind it. My body contorting as I too was yelling out in adrenaline fueled determination, my legs flipping over and the last one gliding past between the Y of my legs and body. The attacks slammed into cars, the globs exploding out in large nets that cocooned them to the ground they were parked on. My feet hit the ground, I stumbled for a second and then was back off running. The monster kicked to its feet, traversing the vehicles and hot on my heels. I threw my arm back and fired a few bullets back in a wild aim, still managing to land a few hits in its face again. They bounced off the mask, making him only angrier as it barreled into a parked car with a slam. I swerved into an alley way, narrowed enough for me and hopefully not for him. Too bad my rash turn between two buildings netted me a dead end by a twenty foot steel fence barrier.I skidded to a stop and tried to get back onto a street I heard a roar and then something hit me in the back like a swipe, it kicked me like car accident. I felt my back explode into pain as I was lifted off the ground. I soared up, flailing around in a yell as I slapped off a dumpster. I skidded across the ground, rolled sideways and stumbled to my feet. My pistol came forward but a ball of web caught my fist and sealed it in a cocoon of white that burned my hand with a dull heat. A second caught my shoulder, spinning me around as the weight doubled there pulling me down. A third hit me dead center in the chest, lifting me off the ground and sent me a second time up into the air. I hit the fence, rattling off the chain link ten feet off the ground. Suspended, I felt the crushing tense webbing against my chest start to harden, breathing was almost impossible. The monster arachnid clawed its way towards me along the walls and ground, squeezing through the alley way to get closer. I aggressively writhed around trying to break free, the guttural growling getting closer as I took my only free arm and started to cut at the webbing. I sawed through the gap between my hand and the fence, the thick material like hot glue. That face, chomping mouth and stretching venom sack fangs stretched out at me as I hacked away. Dumpsters fell over, trash cans went flying, brick getting gouged out I slashed as hard as I could. It came within striking range and my last attempted cut wildly lashed out, driving a point through the closest eye. It hit, sunk in an inch and the beast cried out angrily, rearing its head back and then chomping down on my knife arm, the two points of those mandibles puncturing through.I roared out in pain, blood pouring from my arm as bubbling green slime seeped out with it. My arm felt like it was catching fire going up to my shoulder, I ripped my arm away and felt the flesh tear itself in the process. In retaliation my knife came back down in a hard stab with all of my strength and embedded the knife an inch in. This time it stuck and the spider abomination threw its head back wildly trying to pull at the steel in one of its eyes. It fell out as my arm went limp, the sensation in it deadened and my brain suddenly went haywire with red and black flashes. The spider poised above me as the knife popped out of its eye, the gouge there as well as empty gaze of rage. The intent clear of what was coming next, a wide open mouth in drooling salivation nearing my head with a heated, putrid exhale blowing in my face. "See...you...in hell." I spat my last words.
"VENGFUL DAGGARS!"I heard a voice yell out from above me.A dozen throwing daggers shot down from above my head, trailing orange light behind each pummel and drove themselves deep into the entire middle, large back end and face of the monster. It squirmed out screaming in pain as a flash of something in what looked like leather clad armor and a whipping black canine tail out the back flashed past with a streak of steel and flames. The monster's face split in two in a perfect thin line and then without a second more sound burst into nothing but energized partials. My head sagged down, the form wavering like a mirage before my very eyes. A hood covered its head, the tail scanned the ground in a wave as it lifted is slightly curved blade up and slid it into a hefty black leather scabbard on the back. As it turned to look at me, it seemed to have an elongated face like the muzzle of a dog and narrowed orange eyes looking up at me. That was about the last thing I remembered before darkness swallowed my consciousness.