Music in My Hart: Huskerdust Children FanFic

Chapter 36: The Ultimate Price

             Dad walks over to Jessie and I, "hey, you guys okay?" Jessie and I both nod our heads and I help her to her feet. Jessie's mom, or I guess actually Isabella's mom if we're being politically correct here, Ditzy Diva climbs to her feet and attempts to use her mind control powers on us. This attempt however proves futile because Stolas had already given us anti-mind control helmets. She quickly catches on to this and summons her mind-controlled zombie demons.

          Blitzo grins wildly excited to be killing someone, "finally! The party begins!" Blitzo and his team immediately jump into action dismembering demons left and right. At the same time Vox and Velvette run to join in the attack only to be blocked by Stolas who towered over them in his full demonic owl form. He howled and lunged at them.

            Angel, clearly having the time of his life, lets loose with his Tommy guns loaded with angelic steel bullets. Vaggie and Charlie are fighting demons in the direction opposite from us. Frustrated that we've managed to take out all of her mind-controlled demons, she lunges and sprints towards Jessie and I. Jessie's reflexes kick in and she jumps out in front of me with a double bladed angelic steel naginata. She successfully blocks the attack wielding her weapon out in front of her and above her head.

            In that moment I swear she looked like an Amazon goddess surpassing Wonder Woman in every way and I felt myself fall in love with her all over again. 'Mmm... that's the ass I've been tapping? Damn,... I love this woman.' She shoots a glare at me knowing that I'm distracted. "Thanks, Babe," I saying grinning from ear to ear.

             "I love you but I'm... trying to... focus right now." She says grunting while grappling with her mother. I nod my head at her and look at my Dad. He grins back at me knowing exactly what I'm thinking and we both transform into our full demonic forms. My Dad took on the appearance of a black panther while I took on the form of a leopard.

           Suddenly I hear my Dad's voice in my head. 'Whoa how is he doing that?' He growls at me and licks my cheek, 'focus son. We're both related and are part of the same pride so just like wolves in the same pack, we can communicate telepathically. 'Wow cool!

             So just like in Twilight?' He nudges me with his head and purrs agitated, 'yes boy! Focus please we're in the middle of a battle.' I shake my head vigorously and make a submissive sound, 'oh yeah, sorry Dad!' 'Okay Junior, here's the plan, you attack from the right and I'll come in from the left.'

            I lick my paw before we take off running, 'okay, got it, Dad!' We both sprint on all fours and roar leaping into the air and pouncing on our prey. I bite into the demons neck while my dad bites into the hip and together we rip the demon apart. Of course, as soon as I ripped the head off I shook it around in the air like a rag doll and pranced around the room with the head in my mouth before finding Alastor and dropping the head down in front of him as an offering. He walks up to me and pets me on the head, "good kitty, just like your father."

            Just then I hear my Dad roar from across the room, 'Junior! Get over here you goof! You still have more heads to rip off!' I turn and prance back over to my Dad, 'oh boy! More bodies to decapitate?

             Cool!!' My Dad lets out an exasperated sigh and shakes his head. Coming around behind us, Nifty starts stabbing corpses with an angelic blade to make sure they don't resurrect. Gracie in her full gorgon form starts turning demons into stone while her wife transforms into a full werewolf and runs at people on all fours and assists us in ripping limbs off. Carlton of course was hiding somewhere picking targets off one by one.

           After hours and hours of battling, Dad and I have returned back to our normal form and Jessie managed to defeat her mother by electrocuting her and stabbing her multiple times with her blade letting out a scream each time she stabbed her. I run up behind her and place a hand on her shoulder, "Babe... baby... I think she's dead now." Finally snapping out of it, she drops her weapon and buries her face into my chest and starts crying. I wrap my arms around her tightly and hold her close in my efforts to soothe her. A few seconds later I hear a sound that will haunt me in my nightmares forever.

         It was the sound of a blood curdling gasp followed by the sound of tearing flesh. I turned around and was horrified to find out that my Dad had been stabbed. "DAD!!! NOOO!!!" I screamed out a loud blood curdling scream and ran up to him and caught him just before he hit the floor.

            I held him in my arms which were rested in my lap while I sat there knelt on the floor. Tears start vigorously flowing down my face from my eyes. "No, no, no, no stay with me Dad, please! Oh God, please don't close your eyes!! You gotta hang in there,...!!

            Help!! Somebody help, please my dad's been stabbed!!" I cry out sobbing hysterically like a lost little boy, "oh my God!!! Oh shit, oh shit, Fuck!! You're strong, Dad!!

           You're gonna be fine! You are gonna make it!! You have to! I still need you here, don't leave me alone in this shit hole!" Angel and Jessie collapsed to their knees huddled all next to me and around my Dad.

       "You stupid motherfucking, son of a Bitch!!" Angel shouts weeping. "You can't just leave us here, asshole!! We are getting married in a couple of weeks! You promised!!

           You said you would never leave me again!!" A single tear rolls down his face. "I.... will.... always be.... with you..." He utters out in a shallow, shaky breath. He tilted his head to look up at me and places a hand to my cheek to wipe my tears, "Junior.... I.... I.... love you. Take care of...... Angel.... and Jessie...."

            "No, no Daddy...don't go..." I beg him desperately while sobbing. At this point I'm completely beside myself with grief and it literally hurt like several daggers all plunging through my heart at once. "Don't leave me please, I can't do this without you.... I'm not.... strong.... like you are, Dad...." He shakily places his hand to my heart, "you're.... stronger than...... you think...."

          He says in labored breathing. I shake my head vigorously, "No daddy, you don't understand. I just got to know you! I just found out who you are and what you're like! I already lost you in life... I can't lose you especially now knowing that I'll lose you forever and I'll never see you again!!

         What about those plans we made? What about you teaching me your magic tricks? How to hustle someone at poker? What about that promise you made to fly with me and explore the sights of Jupiter with Stolas' crystal? There's still so many things we didn't get to do together! So many things I still have to say!"

          He holds my face in his hand affectionately and purrs. I buried my cheek into it in an attempt to soothe my pain. "Have faith, my sweet boy." The tears immediately pour more vigorously and sniffling sounds escape. He reaches for all three of our hands and my heart raced, filling up with dread because I knew that it's only a matter of time before we lose him.

         "stay...... together....my.... fam... family.... I...... l....lov....ve.... yoooouuu...." He utters out in his last breath before closing his eyes and dropping his hands lifelessly. I anxiously grab the sides of his face, "Dad? dad! Dad wake up!

         PLEASE, please.... Come back!" I place a set of fingers under his eyes and pull down on his cheeks praying desperately that I can get them opened again, "no, open your eyes, Dad. Please.... Please look at me." Angel and Jessie place their hands on my shoulders, "he's gone, Junior." "NO!! No he can't be!!

       I don't accept that!" Within a couple of minutes after that his body disappears into grains of sand and is carried up to the sky by the wind.