Me and Anton gave our reports early, Brandon wasn't happy to say the least, Penny outright slapped me for nearly getting myself killed and for making their job that much more harder,
Leon sighs and mutters of course the noob makes their job that much more harder. Brandon leaves the room,
most likely going to report this to his higher ups,
Penny is crying,
Leon returns to his room and Anton sits on the couch with me and Penny.
"Don't you dare do something like that again! Dummy!"
She burries her face in her hands, I apologize to her and embrace her in a hug, she calmed down a bit but she was beating on my chest with her fists as she cried some more.
Seeing as Brandon wasn't returning anytime soon Anton left the room,
Penny ended up falling asleep on me and all I could do was hug her and be there for her, the next day Brandon enters the living room and pages me to the 1st floor,
Penny went to her room without a word so I followed Brandon,
he led me to a strange room that when he opened it,
the best I could describe it as was a portal. "What in the hell?!"
Brandon kicks me into it and we arrive at some underground looking place,
it took me half a minute before my brain processed what happend,
I noticed a bucket and puked into it.
"That's to be expected when you're not use to teleporting. Come on the Council wants to see you."
Brandon waits for me to stop throwing up before we continued down the hall, we enter some strange room that looked kinda like a underground colosseum, cut through the room and find ourselves on a lower floor with a giant white spiraling staircase with no hand rails, if you fell from this height it would be gg,
no revive, no restart.
At the very top their was a giant double door you see in fantasy type video games, Brandon knocks then says his name. The giant white doubke doors open, the room was huge, like huge huge,
it was the length of three football fields put together,
apon entering there was twelve giant throne like chairs,
each one numberd in Roman numerals, all the Council members wearing a dark red cult like robe.
"Council members, I have brought you the trouble maker, Seth Thompson at your request sirs."
They let their power be known as I immediately collapse into a nowing position with my head pressed to the floor, Brandon flinched at best.
"Do you know how much trouble you are in BOY?!" #12 asks.
"I have a general idea sir."
The Council dismissed Brandon and the giant doors close behind him, the Council members discuss amongst themselves before letting #12 speak on their half. "We have come to verdict on how to deal with you, a trial by combat should be enough of a punishment for you."
I break from my bowing position and look #12 in the eye, he was a elderly African American man with mild scars on his face. "With all due respect, I don't need to fight you all to know I'll get my butt stomped, just do your worst."
I stand there idle,
unflinching at the man before me. "Don't get a attitude with me BOY!"
#12 then proceeds to break and dislocate all the bones and limbs in my body and finishes by breaking my neck,
#11 looks like a Gorilla of some sort and uses his giant hands to smash me into a bloody paste.
Luckily my healing factor allowed me to regenerate a new body,
I put on my bloody clothes as I wait for #10 to come down,
#10 created two spears out of pure fire and threw them into me,
incinerating my insides,
I hit the floor, healing a little less with each blow.
#09 electrocutes me at a voltage that would kill a human, luckily I'm not human, then again if they wanted me dead they would have done it by now.
I lift my head up and regenerate new functional eyes sense they melted.
"Are you done yet?"
I get zapped more. "Are you done yet?" I get zapped with a higher voltage. "ARE YOU DONE YET?" I get zapped by fucking lightning. "ARE. YOU. DONE. YET?!"
#09 returns to his throne,
my body aches and continues to slow down but #08 blast me with a wind rune similar to Leon's and blows my head clean off, at this point I'm not sure if they are trying to kill me but regardless I regenerated a new functional head and I regrew all my hair to how it originally was,
unfortunately it wasn't spikey in the back! #07 creates a iron whip and whips my body repeatedly which funny enough that was what hurt the most,
#06 blasted my body with a water rune and upped the pressure to the point I was nothing but bones,
again I regenerated but that did quite a number on my healing factor,
it was at this point all my beatings and blast turned into permanent scars on my body.
"Thanks for the wash pops, I needed all the blood cleaned off it."
The Council binds #06 to his throne because I pissed him off enough to want to kill me, #05 turned my body into stone then smashed me into pieces,
I regenerated but I was on my hands and knees coughing bad.
My vision was a bit blurry too. "Where's all your tough guy talk now E rank?" My own shadow becomes a stake and impales me in the lunges,
I barf up blood but he lets me go thankfully, I barely regenerate from that,
#04 creates physical iron and steel throwing stars and knives and throws them at me cutting pretty bad,
I could tell he was a professional because he was missing arteries on purpose,
I fall backwards into a pool of my own blood, barely breathing, barely clinging onto life.
"Have you learned your lesson young man?" I respond with my middle finger. "Go blow yourself asshat."
A giant ball of ice falls on me turning me into a bloody smeer on the floor again, this time my healing factor kicks out and I couldn't regenerate,
is this my end?
"Oh no, you're not dying yet boy, if you're going to die it's going to be at the hand of the Exorcist."
A green mist surrounds my blood then I felt my body again,
though I was shivering cold,
#03 and #02 did their worst on me then heald me again to prevent my death and finally number one.
He incinerated my body with a litteral beam of light,
there was nothing to regenerate from,
not even blood,
skin or organs.
My ashes were surrounded by that green mist again and once again I was brough back from death's jaws,
I was on the floor in agony, funny thing about all this is that they held back, immensely.
"Let this be your lesson BOY! You cross us again and I gurantee your death. Brandon! Get your lackey out of our sight!"
Brandon comes to get me and he looks grossed out,
I clothed myself with minor assistance and by clothed myself I mean I put my trench coat on and Brandon carried my shirt and pants plus he thre me over his shoulders carrying me piggy back style,
we went home and he threw me on the couch much to my displeasure,
I let out a groan in pain.
"Your fault dumbass, you did it to yourself." I know I did it to myself,
I don't need you pointing it out douch! Brandon went back to his room and if I had guess it was anout three or four in the morning sense Penny hasn't come to pester me,
I try to rest anyway,
the next day Penny helped me to my room where I changed into casual clothes while Penny waited at the door.
I slipped on my shirt and lay myself on the bed.
"Your body has scars all over, what did they do to you?"
I list off everything they did and that set off the water works again,
Penny got beside me and beated on my chest some more calling me a idiot, dummy and dumbass,
when she was done she rested beside me holding my hand.
"From now on until further notice, I'm going out in the field with you, like it or not." I give her a nod and I turned on some television for us, she apparently didn't want to watch television so she rolled over and laid her head down on my chest, she was out like a light in minutes.
Over the course of the next several days I took to recover Penny requested to take me under her wing again to Brandon which he approved then Penny would bring me food, as much as I wanted to play the tough guy, it actually hurt a lot to move around, staying put was the easiest option.
After three five days,
they kinda blurred together for me but anyway I fully recovered,
my healing factor in top performance again, Brandon paged us to the living room where Brandon told ke Penny is pulling a double shift for my ass and to be greatful for her doing so.
Brandon told me tonight I'd be going out into the field again but instead of covering Mauldin I'll be covering Columbia,
me and Penny get breakfast and start heading back,
Leon comes out of his room for a change and starts teasing us.
"Well if it isn't the love birds, yo Penny, did you do it with him yet?"
Penny gets red in the face and stammers stating we're not like that and basically any excuse she could give,
I could tell though she had a thing for me. "Had me fooled, with all the time you spend talking and spoiling him, I'd say you have a crush on him."
Penny tries to shut Leon up but to no avail, I ended up returning to my room to which Penny returned after minutes of talking to Leon, now that I think about it, maybe a relationship with her isn't so bad, I mean how often does one get to say they have a girlfriend with demon powers? We chill in our room for the time being, perhaps I should ask Penny out one day........... one day.
YOU ARE READING
Artificial
AçãoA boy that always dreamed of being a hero that became a mercenary, Which became a demon. Follow Seth as he goes on a journey that blurs the lines of black and white, a corrupt system and equally corrupt race of higher beings. Can Seth fix both sides...
