Reuel jolts awake, screaming. He suddenly hears Nicko calling out to him through his phone and he grabs it. He looks at the screen and the first thing he sees is Nicko looking mad at him, with matching hands on the hips. Nicko pointed to the television near his bed and Reuel grabs the remote and turns it on.
"Piles of corpses found strewn all around remote places. Few have been recognized as the very well known youngsters, Math genius Paolo, Heartthrob Lloyd and the Fabulous Stephano. Adding to that, mysterious and hideous creatures are appearing everywhere! Could they be connected to the piles of corpses? Find out later at our evening news." A female newscaster says, before Nicko suddenly appears on the screen, both hands still on his hips. He sighs and looks off to the side. "Just-- what.. happened to you? How are you in there?" Reuel asks as he puts the phone on the bed side table. Nicko tilts his head and points to the bandage around Reuel's right leg. "What happened to YOU?" Nicko asks him. Reuel looks at his leg and exasperately sighs. "One of the demons skinned my leg, trying to drag me to 'Amare et Servire' which clearly means religious bullshit again. And you know how much i'm against religion." Reuel looks at Nicko, Nicko puts his hands down and looks at him with worry. Nicko sighs.
3 years ago..
Reuel grabs his alb and heads down to the dressing room when he sees the others suddenly pass by him, already dressed up and chuckling, whispering at each other. The ministers tell them to be quick."We stilll need to prepare for the mass!" The minister shouts to them. Reuel sighs and continues to head inside the dressing room.He takes off his polo and starts putting on the alb "It's just another mass. It's already sunday, just finish this mass and go home--" "Reuel!" A female altar server comes into the dressing room and Reuel quickly puts the polo back on. "Y-yes?" He says, blushing. "Ah..eh..the minister and the priest is calling for you into the sacristy." The female altar server says, before leaving the dressing room. "Ah." He holds onto his alb as he leaves the dressing room. He looks at his brother preparing the altar. He nods and goes into the sacristy, the priest holds a cassock and a surplice, a smile of small excitement forms on his face. "Reuel, we thank you for being an altar server for more than 10 years already. And we have decided that it is best that we appoint you to being an acolyte." The priest stands up and walks over to Reuel. "But there is one condition," Reuel's eyebrows raise and his shoulders lower. "Son, you have to leave your friends for religion. Especially your girlfriend. She'll just block you from servi--" " "Then no thanks. " Reuel drops his alb and turns around. He walks away. "And, she isn't my girl friend." At least not yet,he was pissed off. He walks to the dressing room and grabs his bag. He leaves the dressing room and runs outside the church. "I'd rather get myself sacrificed by some fucking cult rather than leave the queen all alone." He says to himself, walking away from the church and looking forward, a girl with a lavender scarf around her neck smiles at him. The stress from earlier disappears and is replaced with relaxation .. and love. "How long have you been there?" Reuel chuckles and walks beside her. "Ever since you went into the church, I've been here." Kylie looks up at him, she rests her head on his arm whilst walking.
It's been 12 years, hasn't it?
He looks at Kylie. Childhood friends. That's the title he has around her, when he entered highschool, she wanted to follow him to the school he was going but didn't. "How long has it been since you've been like this?" Reuel looked up at the sky. "Hm?" They stop infront of his house. "Since they died?" Kylie lets go of Reuel's arm as he opens up the gate and they both enter. She sighs and her cute smile still doesn't fade away. "It's been 4 years." Kylie says, unlocking the door and entering. "And yet, they still haven't found you." Reuel replies, stepping into the house and turning on all the lights. She pounces onto the couch and lies down. She stretches her legs and lies down on her side, looking at Reuel as he sets his bag on a chair. "You were doing the same thing when we first met." Reuel looks at her with a confused face. Kylie burrows her head into her hair. "You were 4 years old. I was 3 years old. I confused you for another boy and followed you home." Kylie sits up before Reuel sits down and Kylie rests her head on his lap. "Yeah, and you scared the shit out of me." Reuel chuckles. "I was just finishing putting my stuff down and then i thought i saw a fucking gremlin in my house!" He exagerrately becomes shocked with the memory. He relaxes.
"But don't worry, For the rest of my life: I'll be your--"
"Servant?"
"Sure, if you want me to, hahaha."
"Don't forget to protect me."
Reuel chuckles. "Don't worry Nicko, I escaped! See? If i didn't, how do you think we'd still be talking, right now?" Nicko starts to cry and the screen glitches. "I punched the demon in the face and quickly called for help, but none of that anymore, how about you? how are you? You don't look so good there, stuck in a screen." Reuel reassured him,raising his hand. Nicko became pale and stopped crying. "Rooftop." He whispered before disappearing. Reuel pressed the emergency button and called for a nurse, and a nurse quickly enters his room, holding crutches. She hands him the crutches and bows before leaving. He gets out of bed.
As he leaves his room and starts walking by the other other patients rooms, he hears the crowd whispering to one another. "Is that one of the missing kids? After three of them were found in the same place, the transpo they used to get here flew away and crashed." Reuel continued to walk. "You mean the guy and the girl in the hoodies? I thought it was just two people?" Reuel stopped in his tracks. "The guy's unconscious right? Gal almost broke her arm. She pushed out another guy but he's alive, He lost his mind though, too traumatized about everything." Reuel stared at the ground, horrified. "The other missing kids crashed their transpo too except for that famous college guy and that guy over there. Seems that some of them were never meant to be saved at all. Surviving pilot said there were tentacles coming from the ground and it pulled the helicopter down, he jumped and landed on a tree." Reuel jolted up the stairs and into the roof top. He sees Ken by the ledge, enjoying the view. He felt a cold chill crawl up his spine. He feels something hug him from behind. Reuel coldly stars at Ken, he grips tightly on his crutches.
"What are you waiting for? Kill him." A sweet yet sinister vocie of Kylie echoes through his mind, The arms behind him let go and he hears heels clicking and land on top of the roof top."It will spoil Our story- Straightjacket." Reuel snapped and threw the crutches behind him, he smiles sinisterly. "And the queen wouldn't want it like that." He bent back crookedly, laughing maniacally. "I'll only give him a little push." He stood back normally and his smile turned into a snare. He swung his fists around and pretended to fight something, catching Ken's attention. Straighjacket chuckles and smirked evilly at him. "Reuel? You okay there?" Ken opens his mouth to say another question but was interrupted when Reuel suddenly shouts " You son of a fucking bitch!" and jolts toward Ken and pounces on him, stumbling over the ledge and making both of them fall off. And then time felt very slow. Ken's face transitioned from shock to horror as they fell. Reuel wrapped his hands around Ken's neck and arms suddenly wrapped around Reuel's waist. Ken muttered one last "I love you." then time suddenly flew fast. Reuel was pulled back up to the roof top and Ken's hospital jacket fells on the ground. He was nowhere to found.
Reuel stared at the afternoon sky- "You returned the favor, Your higness." Reuel said, he blinks. Straightjacket looks at him with confusion. "Do you even feel your arm?" She walks to his side. "If the queen wills for me to lose my arm like this then so be it. It's all for the queen." Reuel coughs out blood. Nurses and doctors rush into the rooftop and fetched Reuel. His vision fades to darkness. Straightjacket sighs as she could only watch.
They can't see her after all.
She follows them downstairs and heads to the ICU's. Straightjacket heads into Joshua's room. He breathes softly yet his heartbeat is so fast."What could he be dreaming of?" Straighjacket walks over to his unconscious body and touches his hand, his body twitches and she stepped back. She knows how dangerous it is for demons to just posess a human being or even touch them. Yet, these two. Reuel and Kylie were not a threat in anyway to them anyway.. "For now." Straightjacket walked through the wall. She enters David's room, It was empty save for the ECG machine which she pulled him through. She teleports back to the abandoned church. A certain red figure was holding a lavender scarf in front of a grave. "So she really believed what you said" Straightjacket pats the red figure on the back. He grabs her hand and looks at her. "I'm bringing her back."
Reuel awoke back on his bed. His right arm feeling very swollen. He stared blankly at his missing arm. Lianne enters his room. "Hey..heh..bad luck's been happening around most of you guys." Reuel looks off to the side, Lianne sighs. "Sorry for bothering you." She says before leaving the room and closing the door. Lianne heads back to her room and sits by the bedside couch. She slides off her jeans off her body and gently takes off her hoodie. Suddenly, someone from outside crashes into Lianne's room sending glass shards everywhere and Lianne onto the bed. "Fuck!" Lianne looks up and sees the red figure over her, smiling sinisterly at her. Lianne kicks him off and grabs onto the foot of the bed. She remembers she's just in her underwear. "Tch. You're just like --" The red figure's face twists to the face of Ken and laughs. " Like him?" Lianne looked at him with shock and disgust." Honey I'm a shapeshifter." He pounced onto Lianne as his face twisted back it's former look. "And you know what they say." He pinned her down. Lianne struggled then he put his hand around her neck and choked her.
"Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord."
He smirked and laughed as her eyes rolled to the back of her head and she stopped moving. He let go of her and got off the bed.He stepped on to the glass shards on the window and started to smoke. He smiles. "Everything's ready." He pinched the end of the cigarette. Reuel opens the door behind him and Straightjacket passes through. "I'm very curious, whose side are you really on, servant?~" Straightjacket hums and slides beside the red figure. Reuel chuckles and raises an eyebrow. "I don't really know and I don't care. I.. I just want my queen." Reuel walks into the room and closes the door. They all stand by the glass shard and look down. The sight of the abandoned church greets them. The grave sits wide open. They all jump down and land down near the grave. Straighjacket bends over the grave to look for the corpse but she sees none. "Hmm? has she already started without us?" Straightjacket pouts. "Oh boy. Well isn't this bad." Reuel starts to looks around when he was suddenly pulled and spun around in a tango position. The red figure and Straightjacket looked at them with awe. The Queen smiles.
"Did you miss me?"
Lianne jolts awake in a red surrounding. She was still in her underwear. "Am I dead? Is this hell?" She looks around as she stands up.She immediately gets a rock thrown at her. "No we got dragged to some fucked up version of our Earth. You're not dead." David walks towards her and takes off his plaid, putting it over her shoulders. "Thanks." Lianne blushes and looks at her surroundings. The two walk together around the seemingly quiet world when a bright light flashes at their eyes.
Joshua awakes at the church. He hears church bells ringing. Kylie is beside him in a ombre of white to blue wedding gown. In front of them is a priest. He looks at the smiling Kylie beside him. There's nothing else he hears except for the continuous ringing of the church bells and his own breathing. Kylie stares into his eyes. He breathes heavily and looks behind the pews, at the closed doors. The doors shook roughly and wildly. There is nothing sitting at the pews. Kylie laughs and Joshua jolts up in his bed. His heart beat races.
"I'm sorry for being a failure."
Joshua looks at the door. Her voice is coming past the door. He rips off all the medical equipment on his body and falls down on the ground. He crawls his way to the door.
"I never wanted to follow your bullshit dreams and system!"
The door budged open and he saw Kylie pointing a meat cleaver at a wounded man, while holding a twin barrel shotgun in her other hand. She smiled sinisterly and laughed.
"After all, it was in our blood to be a psychopath."
Joshua stares in horror as Kylie guts and butches a live man in their living room. She stands up and faces Joshua. "You wanna join?" She laughes maniacally.
"Ken."
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