Chapter 17: The Second Sigil

Chapter 17

Part 17: The Second Sigil

Evie walks down the stairs with only her flashlight guiding her. "Aren't you nice?" She says to Leslie sarcastically.

Leslie follows behind her holding the gun in one hand. "Thanks for the gun by the way, I don't think I can bring out any big guys in her-"

Evie shushes Leslie as he finishes his sentence "Listen…" she says as Leslie quiets down.

They hear more chanting as it suddenly goes dead silent, leaving a tense feeling in the air. They continue to head down the stairs and find themselves at the end of the stairs looking down the hallway with dark red light emitting from the doorway at the end. A smell of fire and brimstone slams into their noses.

"Oh! What's that unholy smell?!" Leslie says holding his nose.

Evie stares at him "Really? Unholy? Are you really saying that right now? Besides it's not just the smell, it's the heat too, and I'm not sure I want to know what's going on down there."

They continue going forward as they hear the chanting again, going inside the room at the end of the hallway, seeing the church people from earlier standing around a mound of flesh chanting in tongues.

Evie whispers to Leslie "What the hell is that?"

Leslie looks at her "So now who is the one making puns?"

The chanting stops as the heat in the room increases as a portal opens, Evie and Leslie hear the sound of screaming and fire roaring from the portal.

A mound of flesh pours from the portal onto the flesh that the church people were standing around.

Leslie sees Evie aiming at the group of cultists firing a whole clip into them as they all drop onto the ground.

"Well.. I guess we're done." Leslie says as he starts to turn around.

Evie grabs his arm and starts heading upstairs "Leslie run!"

Leslie looks back and sees the bodies are fusioning with the flesh. Whispers and groans start to come from it.

They run upstairs and are confronted by a cultist with a knife. Evie aims at him with her gun but it doesn't fire "Shit! I'm out of ammo!"

Leslie finally looks back towards the front. "Why would you need ammo- OH HE GOT A KNIFE!"

The man charges at them yelling as Leslie pulls out his hand cannon "Pulls out the strap!" He shoots the cultist in the chest sending him flying out into the church.

They get to the top and sees two other cultists with guns aiming at them about to fire as Evie puts up her barrier deflecting the bullets. "We have to love before whatever that thing down stairs gets us!"

"When they stop to reload I'll blast em!" Leslie says waiting for his chance.

They stop firing and move to take cover as the barrier opens for Leslie to take a shot at them. He shoots and hits one in the shoulder then blasts another hitting him in the neck.

"Oh yeah! Got that aim!" Leslie says as he follows Evie out of the building.

They turn around to see the blob of flesh squeezing its way through the secret entrance they just left. It rolls over the other cultist "Join us brothers…" it says forcing the other cultist to fuse with it as they scream in pain.

Evie holds out her hand as a barrier wraps over the blob, she closes her hand as the barrier shrinks, crushing the blob of flesh. She makes another barrier over that one and does the same.

Leslie opens his portal as two hellhounds jump out growling at the blob of flesh as it gets crushed by the barriers.

The barriers start to crack as Evie looks at Leslie "You only have two hounds?! I think we'll need more! The barrier is going to break any second now!"

"It's fine! Just let the hounds do what they do!" Besides I have a plan!"

The barrier bursts open as the blob leaks out, the hellhounds lunges towards it ripping and tearing at its body. Liquid gold starts to shoot out of the blobs body as it groans from the hounds.

Leslie looks at it "Purple Vortex." The portal behind him starts to suck the blob inside of it.

Evie looks in shock as she starts to prepare another barrier. "Leslie I don't think that's a good ide-"

"Don't worry about me! Go down there and see if the portal is closed! I'll handle it here!"

Evie runs back inside the church as it begins to shake and crumble.

Leslie looks at the blob as the vortex sucks it and hounds back in. The portal closes as Leslie sighs "Alright that could've been easier."

Evie runs back out right as Leslie drops to the ground clutching his stomach. "Leslie! What's wrong?!"

Leslie groans as he looks up at Evie. "N-Nothing...this one is just a little spicy..heh.." he gets up slowly still clutching his stomach.

Evie helps him get his footing as they look back at the church "Leslie..I couldn't find the second sigil so I'm assuming that they couldn't activate it in time so we did good..."

Leslie lets out a sigh of relief as he smiles "that's good, now we're even with them then."

They walk back to the hotel checking on Jake as they see him playing with Nora. Evie waves at the little girl. Nora smiles brightly at her and waves back.

Jake looks at both Leslie and Evie giving them a sad look "Hey..I'm sorry guys, especially to Jaden,Xander…, and even you Leslie I should've told you guys what I had...even if I didn't know what it was."

Leslie walls in and pats Jake on the shoulder "Don't sweat it, we all have skeletons in our clos-" he drops to his knees clutching his stomach .

Jake looks at his with a worried look "Hey! Are you okay?!"

Leslie shakingly stands up "Yeah…my stomach hurts."

Jake sighs "it might be that pizza Jaden told me about earlier."

Evie nods her head hiding her smile "Yeah…the pizza..Leslie ate all of it."

Nora looks at them, turning her head sideways in confusion, "Pizza?"

Jake pats her head smiling "I'll get you some whenever we get back okay?"

-Chapter 17 End