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Viktor
He woke up in the middle of the night to gunfire. Screams of his soldiers and something else? He looked around in his dark room to see the clock showing the time. 12:30am, it's half past midnight and something was out there causing his men into an uproar. Who thou? The infestation has been pushed back today and the Hex is gone, he made sure of that.
Screams and hollars filled the air as Viktor walked across the stage in front of his targets. 8 monsters that Doktor made and now it's time to end this tonight. Major said there were two others that were away when the moment was perfect and their secret weapon was also busy elsewhere. I arranged for my people to strike the mall when all but one is asleep and somehow the major kept the telepath from sensing us. Now they kneeled here waiting for my judgment. I stood in front of Arthur Nightingale and smirked at his obvious anger.
"I told you that you'll answer for your crimes. It's a shame your lover couldn't be here to watch this, I heard you two were close." He tried to shout through the tape and I chuckled before walking away. I faced the massive crowd of supporters and protesters. "Greeting Hollvinia! Are you ready to see justice today!" More screams echoed around us.
I grabbed my radio and turned it on to our frequency and was met with screams and noise that instantly made me nauseous. I took a breath and shouted into the device.
"What the hell is happening out there? Are we under attack? Someone answer me!"
"Sir! Oh Sol, there's more of them! There's so many monsters out here! Oh Sol, please help us-" Suddenly I heard a squash sound and dead silence for a moment. I threw some clothes on and ran for the balcony to see what the hell is going on out there. The sight before me brought chills down my spine and had me questioning things.
I looked across the table with the woman in both shock and weary.
"You want me to what?"
"Put the lover's head on a stake inside a hallway located in the mall. Specifically in front of the door that whispers. The kiddo will LOVE seeing that first thing leaving her little hideaway."
"Why? I'm not arguing, but why?"
"Let's say I want to see her snap."
"Very well. I'll see to it immediately."
"I'm very glad this partnership has worked out so well. I'll see you around darling." I watched as she just vanished and shook off the shivers. That's never gonna creep me out. I picked up my radio to start the process of getting Nightingale head as per request.
"Are you sure about this boss? What if the other infected monsters see it and wanted revenge?"
"Are you doubting my leadership?"
"No, no, no, of course not."
"Then. Get. It. Done."
"Yes sir." I gave a sigh after ending the call and took a hit of my cigarette. It'll be fine, the major wouldn't suggest this if she didn't have her reason.
Oh how wrong was I.
I look at the blood bath below me, bodies mangled to the point of no recognition, large pools of blood cover most of the street. And in the center of it, covered in and glissening under the moonlight was four new infection monsters. All of which sent shivers down my spine. Even as I gaze down they were still ripping my people apart like it's nothing to them, like a child ripping off the wings of a bug. Waves of nausea hit me as I took it all in. There were four of them, in full combat with no remorse.
A Angel like thing that was casting beams of green light, burning the ones in her path to ash.
A familiar looking infected creature that welded a sword similar to Nightingale. He carved through the armor like it was paper.
A blue devil with a blade attachment to his tail, sending shadows at my men and summoning walls of hell around him. Laughing with malice as bodies dropped around him.
And finally something I've can't help but feel a massive wave of fear seeing. A body that glowed pink with mangled limbs, small wire like pipes weaving though it's body, something about it said that this was spite in pure personification. And it stopped in mid slice of my men to look up at me. Chills filled me as I took in the gaze.
"Oh, she's mad mad. Didn't know the kiddos had it in them. Then again one of them wipped out a entire society in one night." I turned to see Major standing next to me also looking out the window with an unnatural grin. I stared at her in pure panic and looked down at the creature to see it staring at us.
"What are we gonna do?" She took a puff and walked away from me and the window.
"We? I'm not the one who stake her lover's head outside her home." I clinch my fist as rage filled me.
"You told me to do that!"
"Tsk tsk, little lamb. If there's one thing I can could count on with the kid is that she doesn't care for technicality. I wish you luck with her. Goodbye for now darling." The moment she vanished the glass behind me shattered and that thing of limbs was standing inside my room. Blood drip off the frame and daggers in hand. I took a step back and looked around for my weapons but immediately magically all the weapons on the room and then some was floating around me in that pink glow, pointed at me. I fell to floor in pure fear and crawled backwards. Immediately a pink energy appear on front of me a Arthur's little girlfriend was standing there in full glory. I believe her name on the radio was Drifter, no one said anything about her power over these creatures.
"W-wait, it wasn't my idea-"
That night was the most painful night that I will ever remember. By the time she was done with me I was bearly conscious and I'm pretty sure all my limbs and organs were damaged beyond repair. She knelt next to me and I flinched as her hand grazed my cheek and uncharacteristically gently. I stared at her in confusion unable to so anything with my voice and tongue gone. But I guess she can read my mind.
"Remember this. Every time you think about attacking the Hex, I want you to remember this moment. She didn't protect you and he only used you to hurt me. But we know better then that now, don't we?" Her neutral expression finally turned into a sick glee filled smile. I nodded my head without thinking hoping that means this is over. She stood to full height and took some steps back to be out of the ring of guns around me still floating. The moment she was out of range the guns exploded into me and I was filled with nothing but agony again. As I laid there bleeding out, though my blurry vision I saw her pick up a hand gun and pointed it at her temple.
"Again." I heard the shot ring out and blackness filled my vision.
I gasped awake in my bed to the morning sun coming through the window. Everything around me is as it should be and I was on one piece. I moved and felt pain all though my body but when I look down nothing was there. After a few minutes gasping in pain it finally passed and I was able to get out of bed. I look around confused and finally looked at the calendar on my far wall to see January 1st 1999. We were at the beginning of the year, impossible, absolutely impossible, how did-
"Remember this." What devil did the Hex allied themselves with? And why do I have a sinking feeling that this isn't the first time time reset?