Through the Walls

Chapter 2: The Battle Continues

The Battle Continues

Asriel

I looked away, trying to keep calm. I hated Devourers, they were disgusting. They were 7- foot literal black blobs filled with the screaming faces of the people they killed. If you were close, you could hear their screams before they died, and the crunching of their bones as the Devourers consumed them. They're faces were constantly changing of the people they ate, their faces full of warning and anguish. The only difference? Their eyes. Their dead, black eyes. Nothing but eye sockets, but bigger.

Repulsed back. Disgusting. Holding my bo-staff steadily, trying to keep from shaking. I pressed the small black button near my thumb, it was so small, no one could notice unless the knew it existed. Suddenly, a five inch spear head popped out, dripping with deadly poison. Or at least, deadly for Devourers. I had chosen the poison for this exact purpose. Slowly walking backwards, I tried to focus on the trees near the gruesome monster. I gulped. "H-Hayden! Listen, I will attack from the front, and you attack from the back! Agreed?" I yelled, praying she could hear.

"Agreed, let's do this!" Hayden yelled, already running behind the Devourers.

Hayden

Sneaking to the back of the Devourer, I smirked and attacked it before it could process what was going on. Taking my spear and slashing one of the faces that was screaming at me, I laughed as the devourer howled in pain. Boy, do I love causing pain. It's sort of a dark pleasure I have, a very dark pleasure. Asriel was doing her part slashing away at the screaming creature.

"I think to kill it we have to kill all the screaming souls. If that is how it survives by devouring souls." Asriel yelled to me.

"Well then, keep slashing the screaming souls!" I retaliated

I was getting bored of just cutting off heads with my spear and having them instantly replaced by another one. I took out my daggers that are dipped in some poisonous, well to monsters not to us, liquid. I dug my dagger so deep in the side of the monster that it turned around, and lashed out on me. I ducked rolling to the side, but a soul nipped me at the hip. Internal screaming was heard in my head. I ignored the blood oozing out my side and threw one of my daggers through one of the million of eyes on its body.

"Asriel, keep it busy for a minute. I need to get my blood from spilling more on the floor!" I exclaimed.

"I don't care! Just destroy the freaking monster! KILL IT! Just fu--" She paused. "Just KILL the monster! AND DON'T YOU DARE DIE! I will KILL YOU!" Asriel replied, getting more and more disgusted by the creature. She immediately started to regret choosing to fight the front instead of the back.

Throwing my last dagger, I let the monster focus its energy on Asriel as she avoided getting lashed by the Devourer. Collecting myself in the corner, I tied my belt to my hip and tightened it enough where it would stop the bleeding but not cut off the circulation. After a moment of figuring out how to ignore the pain, I attacked the Devourer from behind with my spear. Adding my anger and frustration into each head I cut off. The Devourer was so focused on Asriel it didn't even notice me hacking away at it.

Asriel

I jumped back, trying not to gasp. The Devourer's head turned towards me, its sunken eyes as big as plates. It gave a wicked grin, all it's shagged teeth as large as a hand, showing sickly yellow grime. Then it's mouth widened, getting wider and wider-- almost making it seem like half of his head was cut apart. Thick red liquid oozed out between his teeth, as I saw bones stuck between its teeth. I quickly pointed my poisoned tip at the beast, and closed my eyes. "DIE! DIE! " I yelled, as I jabbed the monster's mouth, hearing the bones stuck in his teeth crunch.