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Ch 19: Shadow of the Bat-lossus


The cloaked woman hurried through the back halls of the windmill; due the secret nature of the passages she encountered no resistance. She slid open a panel in the wall and saw Trish siphoning Michael’s life energy like there was a gas crisis. The woman pulled out a rose with black petals “Go.” She spoke softly with a mature voice. The rose obeyed her will; its petals became small blades and cut through the Chandelier’s chain. She dropped the stem and walked swiftly down the passage, they thought she was dead and that’s the way she wanted it.

The Chandelier crashed down, interrupting the kiss. Michael came to his senses and pushed Trish away before falling on his butt, he was hanging on by a thread with hardly enough energy to stumble much less run away. Trish looked over and saw the passage open along with the rose stem on the floor “That b***h!” her face became contorted and her sleeves turned into batwings. Trish sped off down the passage way ignoring Michael all together.

Michael decided to count his blessings that he wasn’t killed just then. He rested on the floor before getting up and heading down the passage with the help of Nirvana. He came upon Diamond who was standing over an Incubus who was laying motionless face down on the floor. “What happened to him?” Michael asked, hoping to learn from the Incubus’s mistakes.

“Johnny lover boy here, well he got a little feely.” Diamond told Michael and shrugged, she was smiling all the while “So, I taught him a lesson.” She made a stabbing motion; Diamond was holding a bloody knife.

Michael was afraid to ask the question he felt he had to “Diamond, why is your knife bloody?” he asked her warily, afraid he knew the answer.

“Oh this? I stabbed him.” She shrugged.

“Good Lord, she killed him.”Michael thought, wanting to back away to reduce the chances of being stabbed by Diamond.

“Is something wrong?” Diamond asked him, grinning ever so slightly.

“No, nothing.” Michael laughed sheepishly “Psychopath” he thought. “Have you seen a succubus?” he asked Diamond, he winced not wanting to be stabbed again.

“Yeah, she went right past me after I stabbed him.” She pointed to the Incubus who had bled out by now. She eyed Michael a bit and whistled, which kind of freaked him out. “drink this.” She told him and handed him a crystal vial with a clear liquid in it. “Go ahead and I’ll get tweedle dumb and Izazu.” She walked down a staircase in the passage.

Michael looked at the liquid nervously and then drank it. When the liquid hit his tongue he could feel his energy being restored and he was healed completely when the liquid went down his throat and into his stomach “That hit the spot.” He grinned, partially glad he wasn’t beaten for telling such a lame joke. A hockey player flew past him and smashed him into the wall and skated off for telling such a lame joke. “What the hell?” he whined, he looked at the vial and and saw there was one more dose left “Maybe this is how she keeps fighting.” He mused before putting it into his pants pocket and going further into the passage.


“I told you I don’t know about any passage!” Rose yelled stubbornly and defended herself from the attacks by Trish, she had always been stubborn and wouldn’t give up a fight and she wasn’t starting now.

“Bullshit!” Trish spat “You’re the only one who can use black roses.” She swung down on Rose again.

“Selene does!” Rose yelled while trying not to get cleaved in half “What about her?” she asked defiantly.

“Face it Rose, Selene is dead.” She pushed Rose back and wanted to drive her point in even further “Your mother is dead, grow up already!”

“No!” Rose cried and struck back at Trish “She can’t be dead!” Rose was close to tears, her mom just couldn’t be dead, “She promised she would come back!” Rose’s anger made her sloppy.

“Goodbye.”Trish laughed and took advantage of the opening and kicked Rose in the stomach, she was about to finish Rose off when Michael arrived and got the sword out of her hand with the snake sword form of Nirvana ,The sword fell to the ground behind her. Trish spun around and saw Michael “I thought you were dead.” She growled and clenched her fists “Why aren’t you dead!” she demanded of him and stomped her foot to give emphasis.

“Sorry, living is a bad habit of mine.” He joked and swung at Trish who made a mad dash for her sword and blocked with it “You aren’t just a pretty face, huh.” He joked and the rolled to the side when Trish tried to skewer him with extending spike fingers. Michael brought Nirvana up and severed Trish’s Middle, ring, and pinkie fingers while chipping her index finger greatly.

While visibly hurt, it didn’t seem excruciatingly painful for Trish “You’re going to be annoying.” She broke of her index fingers and all of her finger reformed at their normal length “Just have the common decency to die.” She told him and swung her sword at him, neither of them landed a substantial blow as their sword clashed over and over again, producing a fresh shower of sparks every time the blades met each other. It ended when Michael spun around with Nirvana out and a thin red line of blood appeared across Trish’s neck “I give up.” She said indifferently.

“Wait, what?” Michael asked understandably confused, he wasn’t used to demons just surrendering though he could get used to it.

“I just don’t think this is worth dying for.” She shrugged “I’ll even uncover the portal.”

There was a loud steel clang when Michael blocked a metal disk that aimed to decapitate her. “Not so fast Traitor.” An Incubus dressed as a bishop made himself know “Lord, give me your power!” he held it up to the sky before sticking the orb into his chest.

“Idiot.” Trish muttered, knowing what the orb did.

The orb began to pulsate as its power flowed through Bishop’s body. In an instant Bishop moved from the other side of the room to Michael’s face and punched him clean through the wall. Michael landed in the desolate street with Bishop in hot pursuit. When Bishop came down on him a lucky shot managed to crack the orb ever so slightly though Michael still got punched again and sent into the wall of one of the chapels. As Bishop approached to finish Michael off, the bat demons attacked the cracked demon orb in order to get at the stray demon energy that was leaking out. The hole got bigger and the bat began to be assimilated into his being, Bishop screamed in agony as his bone structure changed around. By the end Bishop had become a giant white bat demon. The white bat roared and began to beat its wings to get off the ground.

“s**t.” Michael swore and fumbled for the vial, he chugged down the rest of the potion and started running as fast as he could “s**t s**t s**t s**t s**t s**t!” he yelled as the white bat gave chase. The bat picked up Michael by the tail of his coat with its mouth and flew higher. He got out just in time when he put Nirvana between his legs, a risky move for any guy, and lifted his arms up so he slid out of his coat. No sooner did he do that, the white bat scarfed his coat down as it started right before he escaped. Michael grappled the bat’s leg with Nirvana’s snake sword form and swung up onto its body “How did Diamond do this?” he thought back to the Leviathan as he climbed onto the bat’s back using its matted fur for a grip. When he got onto its back, he plunged Nirvana into its back for a steady grip and the bat squealed in pain and jerked violently from side to side to shake Michael. He took Nirvana and kept climbing, the adrenaline now fueling him, he plunged Nirvana into the bat near its neck.

The bat roared in agony and dropped in altitude and crashed into one of the old stone chapels, coming to a stop in front of an elaborate cross and Nirvana was lodged in the bat’s body. Michael freed the cross of its stand since moving Nirvana would probably wake the bat up and by association, kill him. Michael hoisted the cross and shoved it into the bat’s forehead bottom first. Due to the holy energy, the bat squealed once more and turned to stone. Michael got up on its back and drew his sword from the stone.