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Ch 24: Over the hills and through the woods.


“What happened?” Izazu asked, rubbing his head.

“Beelzebub tried to kill us with a killer fog, a demon that makes its victims relive their worst memories.” Vincent told him. “The only way to survive is realize it isn’t real.”

“Yes it is,” Izazu said “It is real.” He held up the katana to show them “I was there and changed what happened, and then I got this.”

Rose felt around her pack and pulled out a seal “I think I know more about this than you,” Vincent said arrogantly.

“He’s right,” Rose held up the seal, “I swiped this from my mom’s room and I didn’t before because I thought she would come back.” She said.

“Guess you can’t always be right,” Diamond told Vincent with a smirk.

“Well at least I don’t do what you do,” Vincent retorted.

“Oh, and what is that?”

“Well, first you get defensive then you punch the person in the guh-” Vincent doubled over when Diamond punched him in the gut.

“I do not,” Diamond said defensively and folded her arms. She walked to a door which opened up “Let’s go, we need get to Wrath and find Michael.” She displayed her talent of changing the subject under pressure.
I
zazu and Rose followed her, leaving a recovering Vincent to stagger behind. “So what is Wrath like?” Izazu asked her.

“Wrath is probably the largest circle since it is split up into many sections.” Diamond told him. “Michael is probably in the Silent Prison, that’s where the souls who were violent in life go pretty much all the serial killers go there.”

“So… we’ll find a portal there?” Izazu asked her.

“No,” Vincent said having caught up, “Beelzebub had the only direct portal sealed after he sent Michael. We’ll have to find another portal to Wrath and probably have to go through the Woods of the Suicides.”

After awhile they made it to the portal to Wrath and went through. They came out in a forest full of barren blood red trees. The sun beat down on them through the branches, and the walk was silent save for the occasional wind that swept through the trees, bringing an eerie moan from them. Rose looked at one of the trees and touched its bark, which was slimy to the touch. “eeew,” she rubbed her hand off on Izazu who tried to move away, “what kind of trees are these?”

“They are the Suicides.” Diamond said and stopped “They take the form of trees because they gave up their mortal body when they took their lives.” She held her head down in remembrance.

Izazu was walking ahead of the when he looked down at a large green button that appeared next to him, though it took a moment to realize what it was his eyes widened “Ho s**t!” he yelped, dropping to the floor as he realized it was the dreaded quick time event button. No sooner had he dropped had a large sword been swung so it would have decapitated him if he hadn’t saw the quick time event
for what it was.

A chorus of otherworldly screams came from the trees as the blade cleaved through them, blood shot up from their stumps and came down in a light drizzle. The attacker was a tall man with a raccoon tail, the same man who Izazu killed but now a giant metal pyramid covered his face jutting out so his actual head was at the back of the pyramid. He had replaced his pants with a blood stained smock and his sword with a large cleaver.

Izazu jumped back again as the man, tentatively named Pyramid Head, at him “
What did I do to you?” Izazu whined as he was attacked again, more blood coming down in drizzle along with the screams of the trees.

Pyramid attacked him again which was avoided with another quick time event as the mist of blood and screams continued. Izazu attempted to attack Pyramid Head with his katana and then with his claws but neither could pierce his skin. Pyramid grabbed Izazu and smashed his head into a tree, causing the tree to gush out blood as it howled in agony. He turned to the rest when Izazu was down, intent on
killing them all.

Vincent jumped back and formed a seal with his hands, he yelled, “Cerberus’ Dirge!” three streams of flames shot out of his seal and gained definition as flames peeled away to reveal three fiery dog heads; right before they hit, they merged into one giant dog head which clamped its maw down on Pyramid Head.
Vincent smirked confident his enemy was charred, but that faded along with the flames as Pyramid Head stood in place. His skin was horrifically burned but that didn’t faze him since the area of his brain that picked up on pain had long since been destroyed by one of the several spikes in his helmet. He lurched forward before resuming to walk towards them.

Diamond took aim “Let me handle this,” she told Vincent, “Honzeyu!” a torrent of water burst from her palm in the form of a Chinese water dragon, it was tinted red as it smashed through the trees which sent blood flying. Honzeyu collided with and was deflected by Pyramid Head.

Honzeyu curved around and hit him again, again being deflected. On its third try, Pyramid Head cleaved through Honzeyu’s head. The dragon’s head reformed almost instantly. The elemental dragon, the ultimate attack for Draconians, were controlled through energy and by sending the users mind into the dragon so it can adapt almost instantly and it reforming caused the user to expend large reserves of energy unless they were in their element, like a water Draconian in the middle of the ocean. Pyramid Head kept slashing at the dragon as it kept attacking, causing Diamond to expend more and more energy until Pyramid Head knocked the dragon back and it fell apart into water, soaking everyone. Diamond’s arms dropped to her side as her head swirled, she stumbled a second or two but passed out and dropped to the ground

Pyramid Head raised his cleaver to finish Diamond off when Vincent recklessly attacked him to defend her. Pyramid Head defended with his arm which was cut by Vincent’s blade, he grabbed Vincent by his head and threw him against a tree. He readied his cleaver to finish Diamond off again when “Poke,” Rose said as she lightly shoved him, which knocked him off balance “tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmbeerrrrrrrrrr!” Rose chuckled as he fell to the ground, stuck because of his giant pyramid head.

“ffffffff, oooowwww.” A tree that was ever so slightly nicked by the blade complained. “First the road and now this.”

“No…” Vincent said weakly “not, you.”

“I just can’t get any slack,” the tree complained. “When I got out of the road I thought, ‘Hey, no one will bother a tree!’ but all this screaming and blood is giving me a migraine.”

Rose and Vincent carried Izazu and Diamond, respectively, out of the woods and they got to a empty town. Vincent kicked down a door on one of the buildings and went inside, it appeared to be some sort of electronics store with a rack of handheld radios with bright orange rubber casing. “Where are we?” Rose asked, setting Izazu down.

“Silent Hill,” Vincent told her, “It is the place for those who are violent in death.” He set Diamond down “We won’t be able to go any further for now, though .” He sat against the wall.

“Well,” Rose stretched, “I’m going to put on some music.” She walked over to the radios and took one off the rack, she turned the rubber knob and got nothing

“figures,” she muttered dropping the radio on the floor as she walked back to where Vincent was sitting. Thick fog fell on the town killing the visibility, the radio on the floor began to crackle with static.


Meanwhile, deep within the silent prison Lestat was enlisting help from one of the most violent inmates “Oooh Dragoon.” He called in a song like manner.

“What do you want?” The Draconian inside asked, his hair was spiked up blonde and he had crimson eyes, Dragoon wore ancient armor.

“I have someone I want you to kill,” Lestat told him “I’ll sponsor you in the Gladius Maximus.” He opened the door and slid a seal to Dragoon. “Oh, and think of this as a gift of goodwill.” Lestat slid a large blade to Dragoon and left before he broke free.

Dragoon ripped the chains out of the walls and picked up his sword, and it roared to life at its master’s touch with flames licking off the blade. “Gladius Maximus, sounds interesting.”