Death's Stigma (NanoWriMo14)

Chapter 24

Grim was trapped inside of his head dozens of images swirling through his mind. Ever scar on his body burned and itched as he relived his life over and over.

"Get out of my head!" He screamed. His agony and misery were pushed away by his anger. He was done being pushed around and used. "You want to play bitch, let's play." His body started to move and the demon jumped back.

"How did you break free, no one ever has."

Grim said nothing as Nadia slid out of his fingers. The black fingers on his hand extended into razor sharp blades while his other hand was covered in scales. His eyes were blank and he lunged at her. One of his fingers grazed her and melted away a strip of her dress. He rapidly slashed at her but she blocked it with the wooden cross.

"You won't escape this time." She grabbed his arm and gazed into his eyes. The pink glow dissapeared immediatly as his eyes reflected burning flames. She pushed him away and put the cross on her back. "He's fighting on pure instinct, he never escaped in the first place." Grim blurred forewards and slammed his fist into the side of her face. She flew away and landed in a twisted pile of limbs. "Let's go deeper."

Grim felt her bearing down on his mind. He started to dip into another memory and he resisted. He concentrated on the rage boiling away in his body. He clawed his way out of the memory and focused on holding off the mental assault. The demon uncrumpled herself and drew the strings that conected her limbs and drew them tight.

"Come my children. I am Lilith, Mother of Demons and the Child of Darkness." A haunting melody resonated from the strings and chorus of moans started to echo down the halls. Dozens of toy like demons emerged from the classrooms and shuffled towards Grim. His blank eyes never shifted from Lilith. He formed his wings and blew himself backwards over the horde of demons. A powerful flap slammed him into the ground on top of the creatures. He ripped apart a kid sized puppet with blades for limbs as more swarmed him.

One slipped a blade around his neck and broke his necklace as he ripped it away. The clink of the metal tags on linoleum rang in Grim's ears. He was dragged into a new memory. He was sitting on a rock by a windy river with his backpack laying next to him.

"Sam, are you out here." Kelly yelled out.

"Yeah." He replied.

"What are you doing out here?" She said as she walked out from a group of trees.

"Dad had the day off so he's been drinking since noon."

"Look what finally came." Kelly said sitting next to him. She got a box out of her backpack and opened it. She pulled out two dog tags. "They're the tags I ordered for us."

"What does it say?" He said looking at the engraving on them.

"They're a set, each one is different. This one is for you and this is for me."

"I swear I will always protect you." He said as he read one side. "So what does your say?"

"That's for me to know and you to find out."

"Thanks Kel." He hugged her with one arm and slipped the tag around his neck.

The memory faded away and Grim snapped his eyes open. He flung the demons off of him and leaned down to pick up the tags. His was dented and bent, while Kelly's was pristine. He picked it up and flipped it over in his hand to read the back. He clentched it tighter as a tear ran down his face.

"You think you can fuck with me and my past. I will kill every godamn one of you that gets in my way of saving her."

"You are just one Reaper. My mother has killed hundreds of you for fun, what can you..."

Grim blurred and with an extra boost from his wings punched Lilith. She left a crater in the wall. He grabbed her by the head and pulled her away so he could slam her through the wall. A chain shot out of his hand and wrapped around Nadia. It snapped her back into his hand and sent a surge of energy into her.

"Nadia, listen to me. She can't hurt you. You can't let your past control you."

"She can't hear you." Lilith said. "Some people have just lived through to much to escape it."

"Fine, I'll finish you myself."

"That is truly adorable. Oh children." She said in a sickly sweet voice. The horde of demon children returned to attack Grim. This time he sliced through them with ease and lunged at Lilith. She brought up the cross to block. It was wooden but it felt like Grim had swung at concrete.

She knocked him back and started to vibrate. She split into two copies one of which ran at him. He flipped up a pair of the blade limbs laying from the fallen demons and kicked them at the copy running at him. They passed through it and towards the real Lilith. She slid the cross onto her back and caught the blades. Her own arms absorbed them and morphed into blades.

"Grim, can you hear me?"

"Myst! What have you been doing?"

"Her attacks were blocking me from talking to you."

"See if you can reach Nadia while I handle her."

"You got it."

Grim brought up the scythe blocking Lilith and kicked her back. He whipped it around a smacked her across the face with the spearhead on the end. It broke a hole in the side of her cheek. The shattered porcelain revealed a black void inside of her body. She swiped at him but he blurred away.

"Without your illusions and mental assaults you are powerless." Grim dashed to her side and shattered her shoulder. The rest of her arm hit the floor and broken into dozens of pieces.

"Shut up human!" She rushed Grim swinging her blade arm wildly. Grim blurred and knocked her legs out from under her. He put his scythe under her and she fell onto the blade. It punched through her chest and he wrenched the blade around, cutting her in half.

"Lady Skyra, I'm sorry." She moaned.

"Don't worry, you'll be seeing your mistress real soon once I finish her off." Grim lifted up her cross with one hand and slashed the strings holding her limbs to it. He let it fall out of his hand and crush what was left of her. She dissolved away and a single string floated through the air. Grim snatched it up and looked at the dissolving corpse.

"Good riddance."

...

"Lady Skyra, I'm sorry but Lilith has been killed." Venom said kneeling.

"My daughter has allowed her self to fall to the Reapers, I must teach her a lesson once I have returned. How long until the circle is ready?"

"One week milady."

"Good, soon I will claim my throne that I lost so long ago."

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