Dark Exorcist 2 (Dark Exorcist Series) (9 page)

“I want this one.” Asia said. “I want her to eat my pussy.”

“Hell yeah, baby. That’s hot as fuck,” Cody said, licking his lips. Skip still didn’t trust that asshole. He and Asia were always glancing at each other like they were up to something. Skip didn’t like shit like that. Do your thing and get the job done. No stupid fucking glances or weird looks to each other. Dale was sitting there playing with the Laura chick’s hair. He was weird like that. He already fucked her unconscious, now he was all caressing her like she was his girlfriend. Asia began stroking Amanda’s hair, and running her fingers along her stomach.

“She’s so young and soft. What’s she doing? She asleep?”

“I don’t know. She’s been like that for a while.” Dale said. “Think she might be praying.”

“Well, she can pray to my pussy. Wake up, kid,” she said as she slapped Amanda across the face. Amanda moved a little, but didn’t make a sound and her eyes remained closed. Asia looked around at Cody, who just shrugged his shoulders.

“What the fuck is wrong with this little cunt? Wake up!” This time she punched Amanda, sending her toppling to the floor. Still, Amanda just lay still, her eyes remaining closed. “I’m about to cut this bitch if she doesn’t do something.”

“Leave her alone! She just a child!” Dietrich said.

“You shut the fuck up, or I’ll gut her like a fish and make you watch, asshole.” Asia said pointing a pocket knife at him. “Come on bitch! If I have to hit you again, you’ll never wake up!” She took the knife and poked it into Amanda’s side just enough to draw droplets of blood.

Amanda didn’t wake up, but her body started convulsing. Foam came from her mouth as she twitched and gyrated on the floor.

“What’s wrong with her?” Asia asked.

“I think you broke her, baby,” Cody said.

“Fuck. I barely touched her!”

Amanda gurgled and twitched for several more minutes before she went still. Lying completely motionless, Asia nudged her with her shoe.

“Is she dead?” Asia asked.

“Fuck if I know. She ain’t movin’. ” Skip said.

One of the lockers behind them flew open, banging the door against another locker. The crew jumped at the sound.

“What the fuck was that?” Dale said.

“Guess that locker swung open,” Cody answered.

“Well no shit, Sherlock. What fucking made that door swing open like that?”

“I don’t know. The wind maybe?” Cody said.

Every locker door opened and closed repeatedly, filling the room with metallic banging over and over. It was so loud they all had to cover their ears.

“What the fuck is going on?” Skip yelled. He pulled his gun and fired two shots into one of the lockers, but the banging continued.

“Put thing away!” Dietrich screamed over the noise. “You can’t kill her! No matter what you do!”

“What the fuck is that supposed to mean?” Skip asked.

“Amanda has left her body. That girl is stronger than all of us. You might be in big trouble.”

Before Skip could reply, Asia grabbed her own throat and began gagging.

“Asia? What’s wrong baby? Asia? Answer me!” Cody cried, but Asia couldn’t reply. Her feet left the ground as she gagged and struggled. After almost a minute she flew backward into the wall and hit the ground motionless.

“Asia!” Cody rushed over to her and knelt by her side. “Fuck! She’s dead! She’s fucking dead! What happened? What just happened?” Cody’s eyes darted around, but Skip and Dale just had blank expressions. He stood, pulled a gun from his waistband and ran over to Dietrich, shoving it in his face. “Did you do this? What the fuck did you do?”

“It wasn’t me. It was Amanda. I think you’ve made her angry.”

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s the men tormented Laura and Sharon, Amanda realized they would never break free. At least, not in the usual sense. She closed her eyes and focused. It was difficult with all the screaming and commotion going on. Every other time she’d entered purgatory it had been from the quiet of her own room. Never in a desperate situation such as this. But she had to try.

Clearing her mind, she focused on Purgatory. She imagined leaving her body and entering that third realm few knew existed. The realm where only demons could move about while watching this world and finding ways to enter. Soon the noise went away. It was just her. Finally she came to the tunnel. It was like going down a water slide, except slowly. Passing through a thick membrane from one existence into the next. Finally she was there. The whole realm was like being under water.

Looking back, she could see her body sitting on the bench. She could also see the others. All of them moving slowly. Their voices slowed down and distorted. Her movements were slow and deliberate, but not difficult. She had no body and was free to move about. Skip had just finished beating on Sharon. Amanda knew Sharon was dead. She could sense it. Though the dead did not enter purgatory. Amanda didn’t know why. They just weren’t there.

Asia had started smacking her body around. It was difficult to watch, but she felt no pain from Asia’s abuse. That was when she got the idea. In the past she had been able to manipulate objects in the physical realm. Just by reaching out and sending her thoughts through the watery membrane of the realm, one of the locker doors opened, and then she slammed it shut.

After taking a few moments to watch them react, she did it with all of the lockers, repeatedly. She was surprised at how effortless it was to manipulate the realm. It was almost amusing to watch them all stumbling around through all the noise she was making. It wasn’t loud to her. She could hear it, but it sounded like it was off in the distance. She decided to try something else. Reaching out through the membrane, she began choking Asia. Though Purgatory she was able to lift Asia off her feet, and finally hurl her into a wall. Her own strength impressed her as Asia was dead on impact.

As Skip ran over to question Dietrich, she started on Dale. Using the membrane, she snapped his fingers one by one. He doubled over and she could hear him screaming. Skip turned around and ran over to Dale. Cody tried to run out of the room, but she had the membrane close in around Cody, pick him up and slam him into the wall. He grunted and screamed as she slammed him into the concrete wall repeatedly. She pulled him away and prepared to slam him one final time, when a gunshot went off. This was incredibly loud.

It sent a ripple through the realm causing her to drop Cody and even shook her whole being. She looked where the shot came from and it was Skip, standing over her own body. He’d fired a single shot into her skull. Amanda looked at her motionless body. Getting a closer look, her eyes now stared lifelessly at the ceiling. She was dead. Even though she was in Purgatory, time still felt like it stood still. What would happen to her now? So far nothing to her current self. She was still in Purgatory, she just had no body to return to.

Cody was walking back up and began kicking her dead body. He then undid his pants and knelt down between her legs. He was going to rape her dead body? What a sick asshole. Using the membrane, this time she reached out and twisted his head all the way around. Even in the realm she could hear his neck snapping as she slowly twisted his head until it was facing in the wrong direction. His lifeless body fell to the ground.

Skip was standing there with his gun out. He began firing in random directions. One passed right through her, or would have, had she been real. She lunged at him and slid inside of his body. Unsure if she could actually possess him, she drifted around until she was able to take hold of his mind. He knew right away she was in there.

“What the fuck are you doing?” He said.

“I’m killing you.”

“What are you? We just killed you! Get out of my head!”

“You should have just left us alone. There’s enough death out there today. But you had to try and use it for your own desires. But that was a fatal mistake.” She said.

“What are you going to do to me?”

“You’ll know it when I do it,” she said as she sent her will out from his body back into the membrane of Purgatory. It grabbed hold of him and began to pull. First it was barely noticeable, but then he felt it and began to scream as it strengthened its grip, began pulling into different directions. His face became distorted as he tried to fight against it.

“Stop it! You’re tearing me apart! Please stop!” He screamed but she ignored his screams as she continued to push against his body. After almost a minute it happened. Skip exploded. His body burst into hundreds of chunks of bone and flesh as blood sprayed throughout the locker room. Much of it showered onto Dietrich who sat there helplessly with his hands cuffed behind his back.

Amanda looked around at the blood and the bodies. She had to laugh at the irony. Not too long ago, something else was possessing and controlling her. Now, she was the one doing the possessing. Drifting over to Dietrich, she used the membrane to break the handcuff off him. He stood and looked around.

“Amanda?” He called out. “Amanda? Is that you? Are you here?” She tapped twice on a locker to signal “Yes.”

“Did you do this? You’re still here? They killed you.”

She tapped on the lockers again. She wasn’t sure of another way to communicate from here.

“Can you help us from there? You’re in Purgatory now. Can you help us save Simon? And stop these afflicted?”

She tapped twice on the locker again, though she wasn’t herself sure. Especially after she heard Him.

“Well hello old friend. Fancy seeing you here” a voice said. Looking up she saw him. This was the first time she’d seen him as his true self. He was large and hideous with an elongated jaw, long and twisted horns coming from different parts of his head and hollow blackness where his eyes should be. It was K’rall.

D
ietrich went over and helped Laura up and walked her over to a bench. He went through a locker and found a large shirt for her and some towels so she could dry off. She was shaking and shivering, but probably not because she was cold.

“What happened?” She asked.

“Everyone is dead.”

“All of them?”

“Well, Amanda is kind of dead.” Dietrich said.

“What do you mean kind of?”

“She did that thing she talked about earlier. Going into Purgatory. That’s how she killed these thugs. It’s like she became a ghost. They killed her body, but she’s still in Purgatory.”

“Holy shit. That is insane.”

“How are you doing?”

“I’ve been better.” She rubbed the knot on her forehead where she’d hit the floor. There was dried blood under her nose.

“I tried to stop them. They handcuffed...”

“Don’t. I don’t want to talk about it. Let’s just get out of here,” Laura said.

Dietrich nodded, relieved, and helped her to her feet. She found her shoes and pulled them back on as they walked out of the locker and back to the main lobby.

“We still looking for Simon?” She asked.

“That’s the plan. Though we might want to get some sleep and wait until daylight. I’d rather not get cornered by those afflicted in the middle of the night again.”

“Good point.”

“We’re pretty secure in here. There are some couches in one of the offices. You can go rest there. I’ll stay up for a bit to keep watch.”

“You don’t have to. I’ll stay up,” she said, but her eyes were sagging as it was.

“No, you go ahead and lie down,” he said. She nodded without further argument and lay on the couch. He found a blanket and helped tuck her in. Once she fell asleep, he went back to the locker room and grabbed a couple of guns from the floor, then went back to the office. He found a comfortable chair to sit on while keeping an eye out.

“You should sleep too,” Laura said. He jumped and turned around.

“I thought you were sleeping,” he said.

“She is. This is Amanda.”

“What the hell?”

“I had to use her body so I can talk to you. But I assure you, Laura is sound asleep.”

“You’re possessing her?” Dietrich said.

“Sounds horrible when you say it like that. But I guess so. More like I’m borrowing her.”

“So what is going on?”

“Well, I think I stayed in purgatory since I was already there when they killed me. It’s like being under water, for real. So just figured out how to manipulate the waves, I guess you’d call it, to move stuff around. I been working on it before, but I kind of went crazy with it with those guys.”

“Yeah, I’ll say you did.” Dietrich said.

“In the morning, I’ll follow you guys to Simon. I’ll help clear a path for you if I can. But there’s something you should know.”

“What is that?”

“K’rall is here.”

“What?”

“I always knew he was around somewhere. I’d never seen him in Purgatory before. But he’s here. He approached me.”

“Did he, say or do anything?” Dietrich asked.

“He said it’s been a long time. Said he’s been watching me and now I’m one of them. Was really creepy. But I don’t think he can hurt me now. He said that, then laughed and drifted off. I never actually saw him before. He’s really ugly.”

“I don’t doubt that. Well, this complicates afflicted. Not sure what his relationship is with Yeshto’th.”

“You mean like they could be friends?”

“That’s not likely. They are both extremely powerful beings. Maybe K’rall doesn’t like that Yeshto’th has gained so much power. Something he couldn’t do.”

“Wow. So we might be in the middle of some demon war?” She asked.

“God I hope not.”

“Me too. Not sure what I can do against K’rall from here. I’m not even sure what happens to me now. I mean, I’m dead. I’m not even twenty years old and I’m dead. I’m dead, but I’m still here. How do I even process that?”

“I don’t know Amanda. We can talk about it later when we have more time. And I mean that. I do want to help you through this if I can.”

“Thank you Father.”

“Please, call me Dietrich.”

“You’ll always be Father Harlan to me.”

“I know.”

“You should get some sleep. I can stay up so both of you can rest.”

“Really? You’re not tired?”

“I don’t get tired. I’m dead.”