Perverse Thirst: A Ghost Walkers Prelude

Chapter 20

In shock, Ladieta looked down at the spear piercing deep into her skin. Nothing else in the room took her attention. The pain made her panic, and she commanded the group of compelled to surround her. Surrounded, deep in the crowd, Ladieta backed out of the room, hidden from view. When Ladieta, and her compelled group, were out of the room, Demini walked over to the door with a cocky strut. Lightly she rubbed her fingers over the edge of the door; when her fingernails caught against the wood, she flipped her wrist, and the door shut. Walking behind Pilo, Demini closed the exit off, and stood to his left.

They both looked over twelve of Ladieta's female, cursed, followers. The women moved into formation, and prepared to protect themselves. Seven of the women stood in front of the final five. All of them placed the tips of their spears out in front of them, to halt any attack Pilo and Demini would bring at them. In an attempt to make themselves more frightening, the women all hissed and showed their fangs. Pilo looked over at Demini, and they both shared a smile.

"Are you ready, my partner in death," he asked Demini.

"You know it."

"As long as you don't get pierced in the heart, you'll recover from anything. This shouldn't take long...I'll set 'em up, you knock 'em down?"

"Works for me."

Pilo turned his attention back to the women pointing their spears, and showing off their fangs. His smile slowly turned to a growl, until his fangs were in view. Running at the tips of their spears, he roared before jumping into the air. All of the spear tips raised in his direction as he disappeared into a black cloud. The bat carried him to the back of the group, and he returned to the worldly plane. Entering back in the air, Pilo used the momentum to crash into the back edge of the women's formation. His weight and speed knocked four of the women, on the end, to the ground. Grabbing one of the women by the wrist, he jerked her off the floor, and slid her at the feet of the formation, knocking the three women on the end, in front, off of their feet.

Grabbing the spear tip, next to his feet, from the woman beside him, Pilo took a firm grip on it before using his strength to yank the woman in his direction. She stumbled toward him, and he kicked her in the stomach. When she bent over in pain, Pilo yanked the spear from her hands, and shoved it into the floor, through the heart of the woman at his feet. He then kicked the spear, of the woman turning to ash on the floor, toward Demini. Using the woman's belt, that still bent over next to him, he pulled her toward Demini. The woman stumbled more before falling down on the floor, in front of Demini. Taking the spear Pilo kicked in her direction, Demini pierced deep into the heart of the woman, turning her to ash.

Pilo moved through the spirit realm once again, and exited behind the group. Placing his foot on the back of one of the women, he kicked her out of formation, and she stumbled into the tip of Demini's spear before bursting into ash. The woman on Pilo's right went to stab at him. Taking the tip of the spear in his hand, Pilo used her momentum to direct the spear into one of the ladies getting pto her feet on his left. Distracted, the woman focused on the death of one of her sisters, more than focusing on Pilo. With her spear still in his hand, Pilo kneed her in the stomach, and when she bent over, he grabbed her by the hips, and threw her through the air at Demini. Holding her spear out into the air, Demini, with perfect form, placed the tip in the precise position to have the woman fall down on the sharp end, turning her into ash. Ash fell through the air, and all over Demini.

"Not again, not again," Demini shouted as she coughed away the ash. "Don't throw them," she yelled at Pilo. "That was terrible...It's all over me."

Intimidated by Pilo, two of the woman, he knocked on the ground first, ran at Demini, thinking she would be an easier target. Pilo saw their movements, and went to meet them. Moving through planes, he exited in the air, next to the women, before they reached Demini. They ran beside each other, and when he collided into one, the force knocked them both off balance. He then turned his attention back on the rest of the group. Demini smacked the handle across the face of one of the women before running the spear through the other. As the dust settled from one, Demini moved quickly behind the other woman while she tried to gain her bearings. The woman fell to a pile of ash before she knew what happened.