DoomPet

Chapter 30

"Uuugggghhhh..." The marauder slowly cracked open one of his bright red eyes. Every inch of his skin was sore; he felt like one giant bruise. A headache throbbed behind his tired eyes, the crackle of pure argent energy still ringing in his ears. He carefully rolled over from his sore, tender back onto his even more tender side and looked out at his surroundings.

Yep, this was definitely in Urdak. The marauder hadn't even seen a picture of the heavenly place before, but it matched the architecture of the strange spear-like device they destroyed back in hell. Gleaming white, gold, and red palaces were perched atop the endless void below them. Stars and nebulas swirled far off in the distance behind the structures of the gods. In the distance he could hear the holy ambient noises of this heaven. The marauder laid on his side completely mesmerized by the beauty. All he could muster was a short and humble, "Wow."

All the sudden he felt something squirm in his arms, and he realized he was still clutching Daisy tightly to his chest. Her eyes fluttered and she whimpered as the marauder slowly relaxed his grip and set her down on the floor. He checked the half awake gargoyle for wounds but luckily he found nothing life threatening except for a few scrapes. "Thank the wraiths."

He gasped and scrambled to sit upright, looking around the area. "Slayer!" Turning, he spotted the man lying face down with his arms and legs splayed out around him. The marauder was by his side in a moment, rolling the man over and checking for a pulse.

Luckily, the Slayer wasn't injured. He swatted the fingers poking around his neck trying to find a pulse and groaned as he sat upright.

The marauder sagged with relief. The man was a lot harder to kill than something like a stream of energy, but still he doted over his lover, fussing and making sure he was unharmed.

The Slayer glared but allowed the demon to lift his arms up and check his torso front to back, making sure that there were no wounds.

Daisy limped over to the two males, her bladed arms clicking against the stone. She lightly butted her armored head against the Slayer's armored chest and curled up in his lap, all the while making contented clicking and chirping noises.

The Slayer slowly stroked Daisy's back and wings. He was just glad she was all in one piece. 'That energy beam hurt like hell.'

Grimacing through the pain of his headache, the marauder nodded in agreement. "I feel like I got punched all over. I'm starting to feel a bit better though." Since waking up his headache had subsided a good bit and he felt more coherent.

A bright red bush rustled nearby and a familiar four fingered robotic hand popped out. "Someone help me out... please?"

The marauder walked over and helped him out of the bush, also picking the branches out from in between his joints.

He was actually touched that the demon helped him pick out branches. It did bring him great joy to rip on the two but they were sweethearts.

"Are we in Urdak?" Samuel groaned.

The Slayer nodded, "Unf."

"We'll shit, cause all my advanced medical equipment is broken." The med bots that could stabilize a patient in moments were nothing but metal and fried circuit boards. Vega had forced him to put the most heavy duty version of them on and yet they still all failed. He felt squeamish and nauseous, despite not having a real stomach. He kept thinking in the back of his mind, 'is this an omen of what was to come?' Shoving the thought deep into the back of his mind, He was yanked out of his downward spiral of thought by the sound of laughter. He saw the Marauder laughing at some dumb joke the Slayer wrote. The demon's face lit up with joy as the Slayer held out more notes. Even Daisy started chirping in unison. His face darkened; he hoped they lived through the fight.