Desti's Detour

Behind the Veil

Plot: Watching everything once again being ripped from her, Desti will do anything to get her sister back...or die trying.

(WARNING: THE FOLLOWING CHAPTER CONTAINS DESCRIPTIONS OF HORROR MOVIE LEVELS OF GORE. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.)

Time seemed to have no meaning left.

Desti kept staring off into the space, eyes leaking tears as she looked at the point where Laura was taken.

The reapers continued to hold her. If not for that, Desti's body would've more than likely collapsed to the ground.

She failed her, again. Only this time, there really wasn't anything she could do to save her. The guilt seethed into her very bones.

Memories flashed into her eyes, each one crushing her heart with sorrow and guilt, reminiscing about every single memory.

Innocent moments playing with Lily as a baby, playing with toys, cuddling her and lulling her to sleep, the moment she gave her away and then cried for months on end.

Then finding her again as Laura, giving her the pads, meeting her friends, saving her from falling off that roof, watching her train, the hug when she came back...

Desti didn't want to imagine what would happen to Laura when she got there. What she would think, what she would do...

What HE would do.

Victor could tear her apart again, over and over again, the image of Laura being dissected becoming engraved into her memory.

Desti suddenly felt...

ANGRY.

But this was more than her usual anger, more than being upset, frustrated or even mad...she was FURIOUS. She failed once, she wouldn't fail again! She wouldn't lose Lily, she would get her back...

EVEN IF SHE HAD TO SPLATTER VICTOR ACROSS THE ENTIRE TOWN!!!

Desti clenched her fist as she glared at the reapers, bending at the grip they had on her head. With strength she didn't even know she had before, she broke free!

Ripping her arms free from their restraints, she launched off the wall and kicked the other one back, landing on her feet as they all charged to attack...

And that's when she saw nothing but RED.

Desti caught the fist of the first one that came for her, then pulled so hard that she ripped the entire limb off, before driving it back into it's face and out the back of its head in a splatter of blood and brain with a few teeth.

Desti moved next in a blur of purple to shove her own fist into the head of the next reaper she saw. Her hand was scarped from the glass, but she withdrew it with brains covering her fingers, causing the reaper to fall to the ground dead.

Desti then moved to the final 2, knocking one down onto the ground and going right for the other. She climbed on its back, grabbed under its chin and effortlessly ripped its head off! A piece of its spine hung limply as Desti threw it aside.

Then the final one came rushing at her in an almost desperate attempt. Desti let it get close...then grabbed it by both sides of its head. She squeezed and squeezed, skin cracking and bones and machinery breaking until-

(POP!!)

The entire Reaper's head popped like a ballon, splattering brain and blood across her face as a broken skull was left with what was left, falling to the ground.