Chapter 12: the final frontier

Cecile walks with a small limp in her leg and Angelic continues to move forward in her tears over her sister, after this incident that Damien has caused she almost doesn't want to save him. She keeps trying to think to herself it wasn't his fault but the more trouble he causes the more she starts to doubt herself no matter how much she doesn't want to consider it she always thinks to herself maybe just maybe it was. Clueless as to where they should be going to find Damien, they just wandered around the town looking for any trace of him, Cecile desperate to find him to still try and save him short on options she re visited what she read from the book before it was taken from her and she recalled reading that the only way to draw power from the other realms was from where a door in between was open, she dug deep into the back of her mind and tried to think of what that meant. Where had the door been open before she asked herself, then one idea sprung to mind, the library where he "banished the book".

"Angelina the library, we have to go to the library." said Cecile,

"What do you mean, what's at the library?" responded Angelic with confusion on her face.

"I'm short on options the best place that I've got for now is the library."

"Well lucky for you it shouldn't be far from here.". They began walking towards the library and they walked and saw there town in ruins, the army was still at the front of town over powering what's left of the creatures. The more bodies they saw the more they thought to themselves, can they save him or should they? They reached the library and they looked inside some sort of weird red magic floating in the air and it would appear that Cecile would be right or to some extent Damien was long gone but there is strong evidence of him being here.

"What the hell is that?" asked Angelina

"I don't know but it looks like something Damien could create, but it's calling my name."

"What do you mean I don't hear anything" Angelina responded as she looked at Cecile with a small amount of worry towards her. Cecile began to slowly walk towards the red magic and it began to reach out to her as well, Angelina ran over and tried to stop her from going any further, but she was just too late. When she began to run towards Angelina the red magic grabbed her like a snake biting at her, Ceciles eyes began to glow red as the magic coursed through her arm into her head while it lifted her off the ground. Once it was done with her it let go and dropped her to the ground as she was still standing, it retracted back to where it came from and the mysterious magic disappeared into thin air.

"Cecile are you OK?" asked Angelina rushing to Cecile to make sure she's alright

"I'm fine, let's finish this." Cecile said as she lifted her head up with determination in her eyes.

"We still don't even know where he is." responded Angelina

"Yes I do now, he's going to where this all started, where he was born, which is why he became so demonic overnight at 12 when he was born, now let's go and finish this.

"How are we going to get there he's either halfway there or already there." Angelina said in worry Cecile then walked out of the library and saw a Hyundai hybrid outside parked and barely damaged except having a corpse sitting up against it, she walked over to it pushed the corpse off of it and gave it one small flick and it started up.

"Whatever that red thing was, it sure gave you some power." said Angelina

"That was the only amount of power it gave me and it only told me where Damien was going and that's it." Cecile said as she walked over to the drivers side and got in the car and Angelina got in the passenger seat and Cecile backed out and drove in the direction of the hospital where Damien was born.

Volkar walked quickly and wasted no time while Damiens two cursed parent corpses tracked behind him, the closer they got the weaker Damien became, while he didn't know it at the time the closer they got to where the door had opened, Volkar became slightly more powerful by coming closer to the source of his power.

"Don't worry Damien it's almost over, we just need to get to the hospital and it's just a few steps from there and then this will all come to pass." said Volkar

"I never wanted this to begin with, you killed so many people not to mention my parents, and I've completely lost my sisters trust and I'm a wanted terrorist. HAVE I FORGOTTEN ANYTHING?!"

"Well we did burn your house to the ground, killed your cat, and turn the asylum into a mini volcano."

"Again it was you, just YOU, you turned me into this monster."

"I made you stronger the monster thing was your doing." Volkar finishes the conversation leaving Damien to think of what he meant by that last part, what did he mean by I did the monster thing, he asked himself constantly, desperately trying to think of an answer. His thinking was cut short by them finally arriving at the hospital in the process of being evacuated,

"Alas we've reached the final frontier, after this we will never be able to talk ever again, but I have to say, it's been an honor to be your inner demon, Damien, I haven't had this much fun in many eons." Volkar said as a way of saying goodbye to Damien, and yet he still doesn't understand why he said goodbye or how he was the monster. The carnage began when Volkar looked at medevac helicopter taking off, as it started to pull into the air Volkar opened his mouth and released what appeared to be a smoke scream but has it hovered over the helicopter tentacle shapes began to form in the smoke. The odd shapes then grabbed the blades of the helicopter stopping them instantly, the smoke tentacles then wrapped around the helicopter like snakes, Volkar then shook his head around in a circle above him while still holding the chopper, with a loud growl he threw the chopper back to the hospital exploding on impact and destroying half of the hospitals west wing.

"The die is cast." Volkar said, and with that simple command Damiens undead parents charged to the front of the hospital tipping over and ambulance devouring a person being wheeled on a gurney, and slaughtering a number of doctors and nurses. They finished clearing an entrance for Volkar by tearing down the front doors to the hospital, one of them was thrown at two individuals trying to make a run for it. The hospital was mostly evacuated but Volkar still had the nerve to use the force and through every loose object into the air and then all around the room, he then tore down part of the second floor and made a ramp for them to get up. In one direction was the flame and wreckage of the medevac copter and it appeared that one of the pilots had tried to crawl to safety, and in the other direction was a group of doctors running as if they were coming to help the pilot and ran the other way when they saw Volkar, Damiens undead parents had already began to feast upon what was left of the pilot on the floor. Volkar stared at him for a second as he screamed in pain, then looked the other way and began to give chase to the doctors running down the hall, he jumped onto one of them and bit them hard on the neck spilling large amounts of blood once he had fully landed on the doctors right shoulder the doctor lost their balance turned in the left direction and fell to the floor on his back as Volkar completely chewed through his neck and sent his head rolling slowly down the hall. Volkar used his magic to pick up the head and send it flying like a bullet down the hall and straight into another doctors back breaking it and the skull of the head, Volkar made his way towards the doctor on the floor as the third and final doctor in sight tried to help him up. Volkar jumped straight onto the other doctors arm ripping it off and biting into the other one and slowly chewing it off, the doctor on the floor tried hitting Volkar in the leg to stop him, Volkar responded by stepping on and crushing the doctors hand once he finished chewing off the doctors last arm he turned around to the doctor on the floor and used the arm in his hand to smash his entire upper body he didn't stop until the bones had been smashed to bits. He then dropped the arm he was holding and spit out the one in his mouth to the floor in front of the arm less doctor who was desperately pushing himself with his legs to get away, Volkar picked up the arm with his hands and used the bitten off side to bash his chest dozens of times back onto the floor and this time didn't stop until the bone went straight through the body even then the doctor was already dead. Volkar finally stood up and continued walking down the hall not noticing the last doctor hiding behind the corner against the wall of the other room, but before he could call for help the smoke breathers (Damiens undead parents) showed up from the other entrance and charge tackled him, they stood up each holding him up by an arm and carrying him out and to Volkar, Volkar turned around and took one look at the doctor and shoved his hand right into the doctors chest as blood poured out the chest and the mouth, Volkar raised his hand straight up and out the doctors mouth with his heart in hand with a waterfall of blood coming out of the mouth, with the help of his own leg and the smoke breathers pulling him back, Volkar ripped his arm out of the body pulling out the front of the rib cage, the neck, and the bottom jaw with it. Volkar consumed the heart as the body fell to the floor,

"We are short on time we must hurry." Volkar said and the smoke breathers started to run to the next floor up and any person they saw they tackled and ripped open and devoured. As Volkar quickly made his way through the hall searching for the delivery room where Damien was born, walking through the hall he noticed the time on the wall was two minutes to midnight, so he searched quicker through the hall until he found the room with a crack in a door between worlds.

With almost no time left Angelina and Cecile pulled up to the front of the hospital and slammed on the brakes, Angelina still unsure whether she should go in and try to save him after he killed her sister, started to step out of the car and ran into the hospital as Cecile got out and stood watch until she saw a bunch of SWAT vehicles on the way and a firetruck and ambulance from the other direction.

It took Angelina a minute to finally navigate a way through the path of destruction in the hospital but by the time she found Damien she was already too late, the doorway between the realms had closed, the two smoke breathers collapsed into pieces on the floor and Damien fell to the floor Angelina walked over to him,

"Damien is that you?"

"Angelina? Yes, yes it's me." Damien responded, Angelina walked over to him and knelt over and comforted him with a large hug.

"Angelina you can't let me die."

"What?

"Volkar has completed his tasks all he needs is for my physical form to die."

"Why?"

"Because there can't be two beings in one body, you need to make sure I don't die." Damien said and Angelina listened and understood his request but she heard the sounds of cars and people stepping out of them, as a last resort Angelina ran down to try and stop them from killing him. She reached the bottom where she saw Cecile up front and a SWAT team approaching,

"Cecile, we can't let them kill him or else Volkar will be released." Angelina said and was standing with Cecile until she saw who was in the back of the ambulance in front. It was her sister Amelia somehow still alive, Angelina bailed on Cecile and went to Amelia, Cecile was left on her own to try and stop the SWAT team with no success, instead she was dragged along with them,

"Amelia? Amelia please tell me that's you." Angelina shouted,

"Angelina yes it's me I'm here." Amelia responded, Angelina ran over to her and jumped on her sister and embraced her tightly with her arms and Amelia did the same,

"How are you alive?" Angelina asked with tears in her eyes

"The part of the building with a broken window landed on me and the pile of zombies on me provided some shielding, and while they were crushed and impaled, I was at the bottom and still could not get up until firemen dug me out and I was put in the back of an ambulance and driven to a destroyed hospital." Angelina was so happy to see her sister once again surviving a near death experience she forgot about Damien for a minute.

Damien all alone on the floor in the hall was frightened by the SWAT team arriving, and as he jumped back in fear he heard Cecile shouting, don't shoot, don't shoot please, but it was too late, Damiens movement provoked them to shoot him, as he collapsed on his back Cecile ran over to him and slid on the floor to him, as Damien struggled to breathe he looked at his sister holding her arm,

"I'm sorry for all that I've done to you this is my fault all my fault."

"Don't you say that we both know it was Volkar."

"No it wasn't, I was the monster, all this time I never noticed that at any moment I could've stopped him and taken back control at any moment because it was my body my power, and all I did was watch as he took all these people's lives. Just promise me this, after I die do not let Volkar escape this realm, don't let him out, never let him LEAVE." Damien said in his dying breath as Cecile held him tight in her arms with sadness and regret.

Angelina heard gunshots from the ambulance and in an instant she fell to the ground screaming in anger and sadness knowing that Damien was killed, Amelia held her shoulders and pulled her back into the ambulance as they held each other close, the ambulance started and the two sisters embraced in each others arms were carried far away from Idaho, first by an ambulance carrying them out of town and then many other methods of transportation to get out of the state and never returned and the whole time they could never be separated from each other even after their tears dried up.

Cecile held Damiens body until his body started to twitch, she slowly crawled away from him as he continued to twitch, she hid in the room next to her and with Cecile out of the way the SWAT team shot at Damiens dead twitching body as it continued to twitch and sit up and as they stopped shooting he stood up easily. As his eyes glowed bright light red, he raised his head and roared and he raised his arms and his skin started to crack open with blood and smoke escaping the cracks, he started growing out of his own skin, ripping it like the hulk and he tore off his hand like he was ripping off a rubber glove revealing claws on each finger and his arms and hands caught black fire, he grew to ten feet tall as his ankles extended and he grew into dog like legs but with five longer toes and claws on each one, as he finished ripping off his lair of skin he grew a tail from his back which was long and snake like, his head morphed into a small snout with large fangs a forked tongue, with red fire erupting from his eyes and dark black fire almost everywhere else. He let out a large and loud monster roar and the SWAT team reloaded and resumed fire the bullets past straight through him like shooting through smoke.

He walked to the first person and grabbed them by the neck lifted them up and yanked their body in half spraying blood everywhere, he pinned the next one up against the wall and roared in his face and then chomped onto his face and with an upward motion he bit the face of him right off and the eyeballs which were still attached by the veins until Volkar yanked them out of his skull, still being shot at Volkar ripped his body open from the neck down and throwing his body with all his organs falling out through the air and landed in the far back, from the room next to him he pulled out a gurney and ripped off the arm and stabbed another one into the wall through the stomach and pinned him to the wall and left him there to bleed out he used his tail to pick up another one by the ankle and brought the person over to Volkar and Volkar grabbed their head and ripped it clean off the shoulders, the last one he grabbed with both hands and held him over his head and as Volkar opened his mouth wide he squeezed hi entire body and blood poured out the mouth, nose, and the eyes popped out and blood sprayed out of them, Volkar then ripped him in half from the waist and torso and barely any of the blood got in his mouth. Volkar roared to the air in victory, he ran straight through the walls and landed on the ground with a boom and glared at the remaining SWAT cars and members, as they pointed their guns at him he opened his mouth and spewed blood red fire straight at them, it melted their car and popped their eyeballs and melted their skin and organs right off their bones and sent their bones flying scattered everywhere. He looked into the distance and saw the military cars on their way, in his hand as he raised it up and he created a ball of burning purple energy he smashed his hand to the ground and the purple energy traveled across the land like a title wave, when it flooded over the soldiers it swept them away and turned into smoke as it carried them into the air it shredded their cars to bits and it got under the soldiers skin and blew them up like fireworks.

Cecile emerged from the ruins of the hospital as this giant upright standing lizard like demon turned around to look at her,

"The smoke blinds you while the fire consumes you, Damien was the smoke, and I am the fire."

Volkar said to Cecile and he turned around and ran into the distance and was gone in an instant, surprisingly he managed to leave slower than he arrived

SIX MONTHS LATER

A blinding white light was switched on, Cecile looked down away from the blinding light and saw she was sitting in a chair with no restraints, a man walked in from an unseen door,

"Cecile, I'm sorry to hear about what happened to your brother, all of us are and the story you told the police got you into this asylum, but the elaboration of that story will get you out. In court you claimed your brother fell victim to what you called, and I quote, the thirteen realms. Now this story while it seems ridiculous to the people we believe you, in fact we want to find and reveal these thirteen realms. So Cecile in summary we need you to tell us everything you know about the thirteen realms and once you do you can.... LEAVE…