The Burning saint: re-created

Cleansing

The streets of the ruined Russian capital were filled with bodies of dead humans, torn to pieces by the monsters that have made it their home. Before entering the city limits, Jack told guardian 121, "If you want to live through this, you'll have to stay as motionless and as quiet as possible."

As Jack was dragging the body bag through the streets, one demon got curious and got near them. Jack quickly told the demon, "You asshole! Keep away from that, it's just a bag of dead babies the king wanted." The demon stepped away, not wanting to upset whoever this king was.

Further in the city, Jack dragged guardian 121 into an apartment building. The demon looked to the side in the hallway to see an elevator and said, "I made sure this building has electricity, so the elevator is probably working." It then proceeded to drag the barely alive body of guardian 121 up the stairs, making sure she hits her head on every step.

Jack pulled the body bag with guardian 121 in it into an apartment and put it on the couch in the living room. The demon left its assault rifle next to her. It then walked up to a table and wrote something down on a piece of paper before saying, "I'll leave this note on the table, you'll want to check it out when you get the chance." Jack opened up the body bag and immediately guardian 121 tried to punch it in the face, with no results other than burning her fist. The injuries she had suffered and her lack of energy made her too weak to do anything. As Jack was leaving, it gave her one more bit of information, "There's an APC out on the street, it's full of guns, I believe they're exactly the kind that you like." The demon dropped the silver sword by the door and left the apartment.

As it left the building, Jack saw two demons on the side of the street, doing unspeakable things. Jack approached them and said, "You idiots! Those guys have been dead for a while now. Stop fucking them, there's a perfectly live one in that building right over there." The two monsters were excited to hear it and went into the apartment building, to look for their victim. Seeing the disgusting monsters go into the building Jack chuckled, "Those guys are so screwed. Well, I guess it's time I went back home." It went back in the direction to the demon portal, while singing the same song it played on the speaker in the forest, "Load up on guns, bring your friends, it's fun to lose and to pretend..."

Guardian 121 was barely able to move, arms and legs were in immeasurable pain, her spine was barely working from the damage caused to it. She pushed through all the pain she was suffering to sit up, and grab the assault rifle next to her. She was going to try and stand up, but then she heard demonic voices coming from outside the apartment. Whatever was out there, it was breaking down doors of every apartment in the building, probably searching for her.

The noise from breaking down doors was coming closer and closer, guardian 121 only had one chance of survival. The demons broke into the apartment she was in, they were the same kind of demons that were at that gas station. She managed to shoot one of them dead, but the rifle ran out of ammo, it appeared that Jack didn't want to make things too easy. The demon grabbed her by the neck. Guardian 121 put her hand on the demon's arm. She didn't get much out of it before the demon slammed her into the floor. It got on top of her and tore the top of her clothes off. Guardian 121 managed to grab onto the demon's arm again and her body started glowing. The demon punched her in the face several times, but she wouldn't let go. She pushed the demon off of her, knocking it on its back. She quickly got on top of the demon and kept punching until there was nothing left of its head. She drained all the energy inside the demon healed all her injuries, and went to the other demon to drain what was left in its corpse, using the energy gained to repair her clothes.

Guardian 121 then checked the note Jack left on the table, it said, "You're covered in blood and you look like shit, I'm sure you want to be presentable for your big moment, check the shower, warm water should be available. I included the instructions on how to use it on the back of this paper." She looked at the back, and it did feature very detailed instructions on how to use a shower. The instructions were so well explained, even someone who has never even heard of a shower could understand.

She walked inside the bathroom and checked the shower. It was cramped because it wasn't designed for someone with wings, but it was manageable. Her clothes disappeared, she turned it on and water started falling on her body. It felt cleansing and refreshing, the stench of death was disappearing. It had been a long time since she felt something so good.

While in the shower, guardian 121 was wondering why the demon named Jack not only didn't kill her, but even helped her. It said that it was a puppet, but that doesn't answer anything. Still, this was irrelevant, the demon was still a demon, still a murderous monster that relishes in the pain of the living. Even if it had redeeming qualities, it deserved nothing more than death.

Guardian 121 stepped out of the shower. She had her clothes reappear, and over them she summoned her armor over them. She took her sword and left the apartment ready to get back into action.