Necromancy || Alex Gaskarth a.u

Chapter 45: Dirty Work

Fliss

"Captain, you must move. Immundus is moving swiftly through our front-line."

Fliss looked up from Jack, her vision blurred with hot, salty tears stinging her eyes.

"He's dead, Gabriel. Alex....Alex killed him." Fliss hissed through gritted teeth, looking down at Jack's corpse. She clenched her fists and felt her grief turn into sudden and uncontrollable anger.

"Captain, I am sorry for your lost but Immundus-"

"Don't you understand Gabriel?" she yelled, looking up into his crystal blue eyes, wiping the back pf her hand across her wet eyes.

"Immundus is nothing if Alex is around. Alex will keep on killing everyone if we don't take him down." she said, a lump swelling in her throat.

"I finally understand what Demon Alex's purpose is. I know what he wants, and I know his goal." she said slowly, staggering to her feet. Gabriel helped her up, his eyes confused.

"Goal? Capatin, I am not quite sure if I understand-"

"Everyone and everything in this life has a goal, Gabriel. Mine used to be to become a professional painter, Alex's was to save the world from his dark side. Demon Alex's goal wants the opposite." she said starting to wipe her blade on her torn up jeans.

"And frankly, I can't allow that." she added.

"So are you suggesting we forget about Immundus and take Demon Alex down?" asked Gabriel nervously.

"Perhaps we should leave him. Demon Alex has a better chance of taking down Immundus than we do. Demon Alex is indestructible, invincible. It could be a better option to leave him to it-"

"But you're missing the key point in Demon Alex's goal, Gabriel." sighed Fliss as she finished cleaning her blade off her jeans.

"Demon Alex wants to destroy every living soul here until it comes down to him and Immundus. He sees Immundus as more as a challenge rather than a threat. We are simply the opening act to his main event."

Gabriel's eyes lit up, finally understanding her view on the situation.

"So he just wants it to come down to him and Immundus? That's horrifyingly arrogant." he snorted.

Fliss shrugged.

"It gets it from Alex."

Suddenly Gabriel gave her a worried look.

"Captain if we take down Demon Alex....what will become of our Alexander?" he asked quietly, as if he knew he was skating on thin ice with her.

Fliss swallowed.

"In a war you have to make decisions that sometimes are hard to make." she said softly, staring at a burning building.

"In order to stop Demon Alex, we have to kill it's host."

"But Captain, you and him-"

"Gabriel, please don't. It doesn't matter what him and I were....I cannot destroy the entire planet to save one man who could end up killing me too." she said coldly.

She shook her head and tried not to over-think about it.

He would have wanted her to do this.

He would have wanted her to do this....

"I have a plan, Gabriel. But I need someone to be the bait for the monster." she whispered quietly.

"That won't be a problem."

Fliss and Gabriel turned around only to see Twink, her eyes blazing, her body covered in bruises and blood, a dead dwarf at her feet.