Dexter ran. He hated running. Especially when he was running from something. He ran along the dirt road that was slowly being swallowed by roots. He ran further into the woods and ducked behind the cover of a tree.
His arm was broken, he was bleeding from his head and he still hadn't had his drink yet. He ducked from his cover just long enough to see his chaser stepping over a fallen tree trunk.
"You know it doesn't have to be this way Dexter" the woman cooed "you could of just left me alone and I would of been on my merry little way. Instead you and the Dead Men hunted me down like a dog!"
She was approaching Dexter's hiding spot.
"I was doing my job! Following my orders! Killing those that had to be killed for the greater good!"
Dexter clenched his fists. She's insane.
"I've killed thousands Mr Vex. What's one more to that list."
She was about to round Dexter's tree when he pounced. He rammed into the woman with his good shoulder, ignoring the pain. She stumbled only slightly but that was all Dexter needed. He shot a stream of light straight at her, there was no way in hell this girl could dodge it at this close proximity.
The stream of light scorched the left side of her face, she coiled back and screamed.
She recovered quicker than Vex had anticipated and grabbed Dexter's broken arm and twisted. He screamed in pain and fell to his knees.
Dexter looked up and saw her mutilated face. The light had burned away a part of her nose and jaw, leaving the muscle exposed. Her left eye was filled with red and blood was pouring down her face. She didn't look like that delicate woman Dexter saw outside the Saloon. She was a monster.
Her back arched and she let out a sudden shrill laugh.
"Look what you've gone and done." She laughed "you've ruined a perfectly good face, I was starting to like this one."
"What the hell are you" Dexter said through gritted teeth
She smirked.
That's when her face started to shift and swell. Her skin was vibrating, shacking into a blur. News faces were pulled up from her head one by one, until one stretched though and it all stopped.
Dexter felt sick. He couldn't believe what he was seeing. Who he was seeing.
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The untold tales of The Dead Men
Mystery / ThrillerA series of stories about the thrilling adventures of the Dead men, join them as they undergo deadly missions and slap death in the face. Witness as they punch their way through hoards of monsters and outwit criminals of all makings, nothing can go...
