Mezameru: Demons Arise

Chapter 32 : Operation Alice

As Alexander ran down the rocky path, scouting the area, he started hearing loud, creepy noises that sent a shiver down his spine. He dove into the bushes and hid, then continued slowly forward. He saw hundreds of gargoyles everywhere, with Kaizo talking with them. Alexander decided it was best not to engage, so he turned left to see if he could figure out their plan. He ran through the bushes and got away from the hundreds of gargoyles, but then he ran into a giant warehouse. He climbed on top of it and used his sword to cut the roof off. He then took a peek inside and noticed that the entire warehouse was filled with gargoyle heads and baby gargoyles. His pupils dilated as he jumped off the warehouse and started running back to the base. Then he heard giant footsteps, so he dove into a bush again

Then he saw giant gargoyles with mechanical parts. Every time they took a step, the ground would shake. They nearly stepped on Alexander, but he dashed out of the way into a different bush, and they didn't even notice him. He then took the opportunity to run to Eleanor's house. As he got there, he ran inside to take a breather as Captain Marsalu came in.

Captain Marsalu: "You're already back? That was like 20 minutes."
Alexander sighed
"Yeah, I know, but I found something big. Like, this shit is inhumane."

Captain Marsalu raised an eyebrow, "Tell me then."
Alexander :"June is basically growing gargoyles for her army. She has an entire warehouse full of gargoyle eggs which she's definitely going to fill with chemicals, causing mutations like the ones on Gamas' team."

Captain Marsalu gasped,
"That's disgusting.."
Alexander nodded, "No kidding! Now we need to wait for everyone to come back and figure out a plan." After 40 minutes, everyone returned.

Frost exclaimed, "You guys, you won't believe what Saboru and I found."

Captain Saboru added, "Yeah, we found a giant warehouse filled with gargoyle eggs about 170 miles north."

Eleanor chimed in, "I found a warehouse too. It was 70 miles east."

Alexander nodded, "Me too..."

Eleanor realized, "She's gathering an army!! Like thousands of gargoyles everywhere. No doubt there are more warehouses around us!"

Captain Saboru agreed, "Yeah, we need to call everyone!"

Eleanor assigned tasks, "I'll call Evelyn's team. Captain Marsalu, get Gama and the mutant gargoyles ready for battle, and Alexander, go get Alice!"

Alexander questioned, "Alice? But wait... we haven't seen Alice since last week."

Captain Saboru shrugged, "I mean, she did say she was going to take time off."

Alexander stood up, "But there's no way she would take this long. Something smells fishy." He sprinted out the door towards the Heaven Islands.

After a couple of hours, he finally reached the entrance, finding the gates locked and a pile of armor from the guardian lying there, covered in blood.

"What happened here?" Alexander muttered to himself. He decided to forcefully destroy the gate, but his weapons couldn't cut through it. So, he tried using his ice powers again. He barely managed to freeze a part of the gate to break it.

"Looks like I'm getting cooler after all," he laughed at his own joke, then ran into the Forest of Heaven. He noticed several dead angel guards impaled on wooden stakes. Then he noticed something else – dozens of gargoyles harvesting materials and substances from the clouds and the river flowing through the island. He heard one gargoyle mention they were producing 'crospovidone and ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer,' whatever that was.

He continued forward to where the Heaven Mansion was, finding a giant red wooden mansion. He saw Ashley sitting alone on the balcony, but he knew he had to stay hidden. Kaizo then approached Ashley.