The cave walls changed to flesh... Hundreds of eyes are looking at me, some Cats runs to me and start to follow my steps. The Mother is glaring at me on the deepest part of the cave. I can't lose time! 

The color of everything starts to change repeatedly. There's no trace of Akira. My heart starts to go faster-

Ah... I got scared for a moment there. I almost fell because of other body... His body is half-eaten, I can see how a Cat is sleeping on his left basin. I have to keep going. 

In an episode of despair, I start running around, feeling as if I weren't moving at all. 

-Argh! 

Crap! I swear to God... My head is giving me a lot of hurts time to time... 

-E... Exequiel!!! 

No answer. Shaking, in the verge of tears and fear, I remove my hands off my face and start running again. Looking side to side with the lantern only to keep finding the same thing over and over again; the eyes of the Cats on the walls, holes in the flesh where Cats from who knows what specie are sleeping, and when I look below me, I find myself with Cats half spiders or worms.

I try to ignore them. 

1... 58... 67... 

-Akira!!! Eh...? Aki... Akira!!! 

I let my knees hurt against the ground, smashing uncountable quantities of Cats, but she doesn't care. 

Akira was already being eaten by some bastards. I grab them one by one and start throwing them away, I even killed a couple when I grabbed them. 

The neck of Akira was open, a Cat escaped from it. Without leaving my eyes to get their view off it, I chase it down until my foot smashes its body. 

I grab the corpse of Akira. I ruined everything. I just... I just... Why did I have to remem...? Why did Zagal had to drop me? It was all his fault! His, the one of those two and everyone on this place! Right... He killed Akira. I should've had realized what kind of thing he was since the beginning.

I'm back at the beginning. At the entrance of the cave. I give up, I... What's even the point of continuing? If I try to go to the safe encampment, then the other recruits on it could recognize me... Even though the idea of someone coming back to life without a single scar... it is enough evidence to call someone out a demon...

I gave up counting how many Cats are around me, just like I did with the days, trying to eat the armament and corpse of Akira... At least what's left of him. I can't even hear the movements the wind is forcing the bushes to do. A Cat bits off a finger of Akira. 

-You little shit...! 

I grab the piece of crap and start to squeeze it until its fucking eyes popped out. The other bastards started to walk backward, I throw the garbage to them, making the Cats to run on the deep of the cave. I stick the corpse of Akira more to me. I'm afraid I could forget how a human face could look like. 

I've thought about walking to the Mother laid, but even after walking for hours only to find the corpse of Akira, it felt as if she was moving away from me. And that's the only thing I've thought about, ways of giving Akira a rebirth, giving Akira a way of getting him through what I pass through, so he could come back. But the more I demand something to the Cats, the more distant they get. I just can't... find a way to revive him, and I just've been lying here waiting for something to happen... 

I feel tired... I better go to sleep...

There's someone in front of me. He thinks I am asleep, once he moves again, I'll point him with the gun Akira had on his pocket. 

-Are you... the Door Guardian? ...

He's armed, I can hear the metallic sound of the weapon get closer to me. He has to be a demon that sneaked here, passing through the front lines. Those idiots are the only things in the universe that still uses weapons from the last 2 centuries. 

-... Hello...? -The demon starts to touch my head with his gun, trying to confirm in a strange way if I was alive. 

-... You sure are doing a bad job... -Another soft tone of voice appeared.

-Ah... Blood Angel... Didn't we say we were going to split...?

-Well... you sure were taking your time...

-But I found something...

-Yeah... I can see it... It looks like this demon is not under the influence of Micolash... nor none of those brain-deads... 

-Yeh...

It has been a while since they last talked. They probably left while I was faking dea...

-Ah... You were right after all... 

-I told ya...

A kid male of pale skin, who seemed a bit transparent if I had to say more, is glaring directly at my eyes, I move as fast as my muscles allows me and points the very little and weak plasma gun Akira had.

-Sorry to disturb you... Door Guardian... Have you... Can we go in...? -The one asked.

I grab the young male from his neck and start to choke him, without removing my pistol off his face. Something metallic touched my head, it was the same sensation I felt moments ago.

-Let him go... We just want to get to the heart of this Nest.

-... Angels...? -I mumbled as I glared above the head of the other kid.

Both of them were wearing nothing more than old sheets. Confused and almost drowned in fear, I let go the throat of the second Angel, which started to cough and grab deep breathing. Action that makes me wonder; Are they real Angels?

-We don't have intentions of harming you and your companion... We just need to... visit the Mother of those things... -The first Angel explained as he pointed, with what seemed to be an MK-14, to the corpse of the Cat I killed moments before.

I grab a bit of air, start counting on my mind and try to get my stuff together.

-It'll be impossible... No matter how much you walk, run nor how much you fly... -I said after grabbing a look at their almost dwarf wings. -... You'll never reach an end. 

The expression of both was disappointment. The first one sighs and looks at the black sky.

-Dear Door Guardian, I do not wish to offend you, but I have to say you are protecting the unprotectable. Because this Demon will end up ending with itself. Without an entity to follow, demons are nothing more but wandering souls, waiting for someone to come and proclaim themselves as their creator, their owner. 

I bit my lips and start to think deeply before giving an answer. I know there's someone those Cats are following, and the reason the Mother decided to start her nest here was maybe because she knows that the Cat Prince is wandering around the zone. What could happen to me, if I let those Angels get to the Mother? ... Does it even matter what happens to me? ...

-... Meow... -A cat on the wall meowed close to my ear, it has to be tiny, because the Angels don't seem to react, they still are waiting for my answer. -... Meow... -No... It is a rough meow. As if... 

I can feel how my heart freezes, nor how it thaws or refreeze. It was a psychopath who was whispering in my ear the word "meow". The heart is not letting me think straight, the dumbass Angels just keep staring at me on the wait for an answer, but for how long?! Breath, breath... Try to remember more information about those things species-

At the distance, the rain got a partner, it was the sound of an explosion. The trees started to burn, even with all the rain and coldness on this place.

-Seems like the humans are doing better than us, Door guardian and Death Angel... -Our faces got flashed by an orange blaze. 

-We should go give them a hand! -Demanded the "Death Angel". 

-... You are right... Door Guardian, we hope you can give us a yes by an answer. -The both of them spreads their diminutive wings and start to fly in the direction of the fire.

Those savages. I can hear how they scream victory at the distance. 

I let go off the corpse of Akira, stood up, and looked behind me. There are traces of someone big as a so called "bengal tiger", nor the size of a vigilante.

-Urgh... Blurgh! -A blood scent filled my nose. I fall to the ground, near the rotten face of Akira.

I can't breathe. I... I feel how my lungs are squeezing against each other. I can't...

This can't keep happening to me. 

I grab my heart with force and start to tear my neck's skin. Ahh... I can't believe it fucking worked-The face of Akira... it isn't... rotten anymore? It is... What was real...? Everything is the same... Ah, this cave is driving me crazy. It'll be better to leave while I can. 

It took me around 5 minutes to change my equipment with Akira's, they weren't on the perfect state, but anything is better-What... the hell?! The moon... is bleeding?!