Chapter 49: Storm (9)

( Jason )

"Do you sense the power within yourself? Look real deep and hard." I asked my gorgeous partner who walked beside me. Lily nodded her head, giggling like a hyena.

"Deep and hard, heh." She winked at me in a hinting sort of way. Ignoring her suggestion, which made her pout, I continued on.

"Good. Now, all you need to do is bring it up to the surface. Don't think of it as something separate, but instead apart of you. Sort of like a second skin. It's there, you just have to find it." I explained, making her stand in place and close her eyes.

Currently, we were walking down some no named street after the broadcast. Funny enough, we actually passed by one of Michael's safe houses. They seemed super busy in preparing for the storm, content to ignore us completely.

We've already seen some of the changes they've made to the city, what with the pipes made for traversing the streets unharmed and zip lines across rooftops.

That also reminded me about my infiltrating plan. Though, I definitely need a new meat suit. Showing up with Robert would be very suspicious, considering he's been missing for a while now.

Back to Crazy Seven, his description of the battle between the two Alphas really highlighted how fucking weak I was. I mean, they destroyed more than half of the city during their brawl. How am I suppose to compete with that?

As for the Queen Webspinner and captives? Brain fucked and well-fed. Though, I noticed a distinct change in Jessica. Much more… submissive so to say. Completely willing to do whatever I ask. Can't say I'm displeased with that..

Then there's Killgore's training. A definite improvement compared to the first time, with my own control over the infected growing. I did make a little... oopsy doopsy. See, when in the same room as the lady from last time, I released Killgore from my grip as I thought she had a handle on things.

Well, the torn apart body says otherwise. Luckily, that lady whose name I refused to remember has plenty of replacements!

Moving on, I was teaching Lily all about her new powers. In this case, the ability to call upon her armor. With her, I went in a different direction than Alice. At first, the little she-devil was a blank slate that had nothing special about her.

However, as she consumed a special infected she would gain a part of their power. For example, obtaining the ability to shoot acid from that one Night Hunter I killed.

Lily was different. The black veins that changed her followed the schematics I had planned, giving her a set of powers chosen by myself. Well, to my surprise, she did develop something of her own. A pair of thin arm-whip things, along with her hair that could transform into flexible blades. Honestly, the whips suited her domineering personality.

Anyway, I'm going to do the same with the others I transform into… us. Not really sure what to call us yet. Definitely not human that's for shit sure. The Evolved? Nah that's too unoriginal. Shame though, the name is really cool.

The reason I'm doing this, controlling them so heavily and basically restricting them, is because more powers and abilities does not necessarily mean better. Instead of having a bunch of random ass shit they have no clue on how to use, giving them a smaller set of powers for them to get used to seems smarter.

This in turn makes their combat abilities actually increase because they know their weapons like the back of their hand and train them extensively into their own fighting style.

In fact, I'm going to do the same thing with Alice. Combine her current powers with those that are compatible and unlock anything that may be hiding dormant inside her. I doubt there is, but who knows.

Now, I won't simply lock them from getting anything new. Instead, I've seen fit to make it so they can choose what they want and can redirect the excess energy in whoever they consume to strengthen their current abilities. This also makes fewer powers superior, as the energy doesn't have to split between so many.

Basically, they have a limited number of slots they can use. For example, one of them could choose to use a slot to shoot spikes out of their pisshole, but ignore cool ass laser eyes. If they want to discard one, they can do so as well. Though, it would be difficult. Like cutting off your own finger.

Besides the usual strength, speed, and whatnot, I've seen fit to give Lily the following: Spiky claws on hands and feet, eight eyes for 360 degree vision, powerful regeneration, acidic blood and a current resistance to green acid, and bone spikes that scale with how strong her bones are.

That, along with the hair blades and whips, can make her a deadly foe if she actually trains. Suddenly, I was broken out of my thoughts by Lily. A black, shiny, and spiky armor covered her entire body from head to toe. It looked thick and durable, with only a few gaps that would disappear as she grows.

As much as I wanted the armor to be feminine like in games, in that many gaps exist for eye candy reasons, having her stay safe is my number one concern.

"You look like a complete badass." She turned her armored head towards me, only the green emerald eyes able to be seen as she spoke excitedly, her voice muffled a little due to the face mask. I definitely need a mask for myself, shit looks extra awesome.

"I know right?! I FEEL like a badass! I look so goddamn cool!" As she looked herself over, I couldn't help but smile. She's so cute like this.

However, like the 'mature' adult she was, she eventually calmed down.

"Now you should be real careful not to be over reliant on it. At the moment it's not too strong." To prove my point, I lightly punched her on the arm. She yelped in pain as the armor cracked open.

"Fucking hell Jason! What the fuck!" Her angry eyes bore into my very soul. I suddenly felt a wave of guilt wash over me seeing her pained look.

"I'm sorry Lily. Just wanted you to know how weak you are currently." Uh oh. She didn't take that very well, snarling at me like a beast. 

Suddenly, she punched me across the face as hard as she could. I myself felt practically nothing. Her?

"Jesus! What the fuck is your head made of?!" She held her hand, once more the armor slightly cracked. I approached her and hugged her, ignoring her feeble attempts to escape my grasp.

"Release me asshole!" 

"Nuh uh. No can do. You're stuck like this until you forgive me." Her eyes glared at me, but I simply kept smiling. Eventually, after few minutes of our romantic hugoff in the rain, she huffed and sighed.

"Fine. I forgive you for being a sack of shit. Happy?" Out of nowhere her armor disappeared, allowing me to get a nice sneak attack in by stealing her lips.

She seemed surprised but leaned into me. Just as my tongue entered her mouth, the harlot bit me!

"Ow!" I backed up away from her. Checking my tongue, there was the tiniest bit of blood. Looking at her face, Lily had this smug expression.

"That's what you get. We're even now." Seems a little unfair considering I got attacked twice, but arguing seems like an... unwise decision. 

Moving on from that, she looked down at her clothes.

"Kinda weird how my clothes are fine, if a little wrinkled. So! How do I increase it's toughness?"

"Simple, consume something. Without you doing too much, the energy within your victim will pretty much strengthen every part about you. Go ahead and show me your other abilities. Get used to them."

She was like a little kid as she happily went through her new powers. I could definitely see an addiction starting to form, same as me and Alice. Having that much power is almost… corrupting. It just feels so good.

But when she got to her flexible hair blades and whips, I noticed she had a much easier time handling them, as if she were one with them. I suppose that made sense considering they were unique to her.

"You kind of look like a dominatrix with those whips. All you need is a leather suit and you'd be set." She looked at me seductively as she expertly wrapped one around my waist to keep me in place, approaching me with a sway in her hips.

"Is that something you'd like?" Without hesitation I shook my head.

"Fuck no. I like being in control, not the one on the receiving end. Well, I'd be fine letting you take the reins occasionally, but nothing too crazy." She sighed regretfully, almost in a sad kind of way.

"What a shame. I would have liked to try." Shrugging her shoulders, she continued on with her testing. Huh, you learn something new everyday I suppose. Hm, maybe I should let her do whatever she wants one day. It's only fair after all.

Eventually, we had made our way deep into the city, standing in front of a trashed police station. It seemed like they tried to hold out here, going by the fences surrounding the place. Though, the bullet holes everywhere, tons of blood, knocked down fence, and countless bones said they got their shit kicked in.

However, there was a slight problem. The two doors leading inwards were destroyed and the entrance was forcible enlarged by someone. Almost like they grabbed the top and ripped it off. Though, they shouldn't be too big. Maybe 10ft tall?

"That's not a good sign is it?" Lily asked, to which I nodded.

"You're probably right. Not to worry though, I'll kick whoever's ass is in there no problemo!" My confidence put a small smile on her face as I took lead. I just hope the bastard inside is super strong. Be a good first meal for Lily.

As we made our way through the bloodied police station, picking up any random stragglers of infected along the way, I noticed that Lily seemed a tad distraught. She sighed mournfully as she looked around the place, focusing on the bullet holes in the walls and the bones splayed about the floor.

Suddenly, she stopped and kneeled down next to one of them. With one hand, she lightly grabbed a necklace still on around their neck, but didn't take it off. 

"Know this one?" I asked gently, as I could see a hint of pain within her. Once more, a sigh came from her a she nodded.

"Cassie. A dispatcher that worked here and a… very close friend. Always wondered if she got out safely. Guess not." She didn't seem as distraught as I originally thought. Strange. The way she spoke about this person was... kinda off. Like she cared a lot, but at the same time didn't?

Oh well, not that big of a deal. To cheer her up, I snapped my fingers and beckoned an infected woman over. Personally, I think they taste better over men. Maybe it's got something to do with their fat.

"Here, a snack to boost your mood." Lily was a little confused as she stood up, but eventually got the message. I'd like for her to consume things my way, but it seems like she either can't do it at all, or just needs some practice.

"I uh, I don't know Jason..." A hesitant look was on her face, though I could see a bit of hunger within her. Hm, this calls for some convincing it seems.

"Come on Lily, just give it a try. What are you worried about? That someone will judge you? It's just me and you here. No one will know." I came in behind her, wrapping my arms around her waist and whispering my dark thoughts into her ear. This is not manipulation, this is… just a suggestion!

"Don't you want to get strong? So strong you could protect Alice forever and ever? Lift a car with ease? Beef up those abs?" I could see her slipping as I applied my Mimic voice siren thing. Never used it before, but always wanted to try it ever since I saw the effect on Kevin previously.

"Come to the darkside…" My joking tone in a Palpatine voice made her chuckle. She wiggled out of my grasp and approached the unsuspecting victim.

"Fine fine. Never hurts to give something a try right?" She said, but I could see desire within her to consume the lady.

Arriving in front of her food, she paused for a moment on how to play this. Eventually, her hair became bladed and immediately struck the infected in her head five different times, killing her instantly.

"Huh." Lily seemed surprised as her now bloody hair turned back to normal. Yikes, she looks a little too sexy like that.

"What's wrong?" She shook her head and squatted down next to the body.

"Nothing. I guess I expected to feel something is all. Any other time I killed the infected, I still felt a little bad. You know, because they basically look like humans. Now? Just… blank." Thankfully, despite her words, no concern could be found within them. She's accepting this nicely.

As she started eating, with her teeth becoming more like a monster's, I focused on her face to read her emotions. Initially, there was a tiny bit of disgust, however I believe that's the former mentality telling her this is wrong.

Within just a second, it disappeared to some unknown corner of her mind and instead was replaced with bliss as she tore into the infected's body at a rapid pace. She cared little for table manners, similar to how Alice and myself acted.

For some reason, this is filling me with a sense of accomplishment and a fuck ton of happiness. Wonder why.

Anywho, when she finished off the last of the body, it was like she snapped out of a hallucination or a fever dream. Peeking at me with a little embarrassment, she wiped the blood off her hands and mouth with the clothes of her victim. She got to her feet, becoming a composed Queen as she cleared her throat.

"Not bad I guess. Could've been better." With her head held high, Lily walked past me nonchalantly as if no shame resided within her. I laughed at that, which she naturally took offense to.

"The hell are you laughing at you bastard?! Got something to say?!" Fire seemed to pour out of her eyes as she approached me, hands on her hips. Suddenly, I saw Alice overlapping with her.

"Hehe, the face you made-" Out of nowhere I surprised her by wrapping my arms around her and pulling her inside my embrace. I turned around, my back towards the flying of object as my armor appeared in a flash.

As soon as the fleshy thing touched my back, it caused a massive explosion that deafened me slightly and sent us flying. I felt a surge of pain erupt from my back, making me hiss a little as my ears rung. When we landed on the ground, I rolled for a few meters before stopping, an unharmed Lily beneath me.

"Jason! Are you okay?!" Her hands grabbed my armored cheeks as her worried emerald gems looked up at my black ones. God, I'm so glad I kept them. So beautiful.

"I'm fine Lily. What about you though?"

"Not a scratch on me. Thanks to you." As I put out the fire on my back, the forty something infected I had racked up charged at the enemy with a roar.

However, all I saw was another fleshy smoking ball tossed from a hallway and into the middle of the group. Another explosion went off, making me cover Lily so she didn't get hurt or dirty from the body parts. Guess this guy must have great AOE, being a good counter to large groups.

Getting off her regretfully and looking at the foe, I paused. As soon as I laid eyes on him, I snorted like a pig and laughed hysterically.

"What's so funny-" Lily got off the floor and once she saw him, she too burst into laughter.

We couldn't be blamed for finding his form to be fucking hilarious. He was built like an actual bowling pin and had short chubby legs but long arms. His face had this goofy look to it that switched to one of anger.

His skin was extremely weird and almost flaky, with some parts of himself missing. Every so often little tiny pieces would fall off like snowflakes, making Lily frown in disgust. However, when these skin flakes fell to the ground, they exploded like mini fireworks. Honestly, it looked pretty cool.

Just as we stopped, I witnessed as two of his hands went towards his stomach. With an awful sound of skin ripping, like someone peeled off their sunburn, he literally tore a chunk of himself off. Strangely enough, the wound didn't bleed at all.

But, I'm not gonna just stand here and let this… Bomber have his way. Just as he lifted the little meat grenade in his hand, I shot a bone spike right at it. Instantly, the thing blew up in his face and basically disintegrated his head.

Suddenly, the rest of his body spontaneously combusted to create an even larger explosion. Within an instant, I covered Lily once more just in case. Only after the chain reaction was finished did I release her and look at the aftermath.

The hallway he was standing in was completely destroyed, with the roof being exposed due to it collapsing and letting rain wash away the fire. Unfortunately, that meant we had to find another way due to the rubble blocking the way.

Sure, I could move it out of the way, but that's peasant work. Hardly fit for a king, a God, like myself!

In the Bomber's place was a large pit that went a few meters deep. When we got to the edge and peered down, we saw that some of him was actually still intact. Of course, there wasn't much left. A half destroyed torso, a single forearm, a thigh, and a few ruined organs.

Curiously enough, the left over skin that still remaining continued to flake off. However, unlike before, they wouldn't pop like fireworks and instead laid there quietly. In a way, it was sort of sad. I turned to my lovely companion and cleared my throat to get her attention.

"I was thinking of naming him…" I used my fingers like a drum stick on my stomach, building the tension as Lily raised an eyebrow at my antics.

"The Flesh Bomber!" I spread my hands gloriously at my genius naming sense. However, she didn't seem to share my enthusiasm, staring at me with an impassive gaze.

But it seemed she couldn't hold back any longer and giggled, making me grin.

"You're such a child." Based on her tone, she clearly didn't mind it. In fact, she seemed to like it.

"You still love me though." Her hand caressed my cheek, a small smile on her lips making my heart beat wildly. Damn this woman!

"You bet your ass I do." How could I not lean down and kiss her? Only a cuck wouldn't. Or a dense and naive Japanese Protagonist. Hm, is there really a difference when you think about it? Man, Japan is really weird…

Our lovey dovey time unfortunately didn't last long, with us soon looking into the pit again, Lily's face scrunching up in disgust.

"Do you want the bomb ability?" I asked my partner, who shook her head without hesitation.

"Hell no! Just imaging what it'd do to my skin…" She shivered, using her hands to rub her arms as she took a step back, as if it would infect her.

"Yeah, I get that. The explosiveness seems cool, just not worth the trade-off." I am super curious though, how the fuck did he do that? The power of the fleshy bomb was actually decently strong, able to do some damage to my armor and the skin underneath it.

I leaped into the pit 'expertly', only stumbling a little but soon catching myself. Which then made Lily giggle teasingly.

"Smooth move Spiderman. Really opened my eyes with that one." Ignoring her assholeishness, I picked up the torso and sent my tendrils to work in analyzing him.

Huh, interesting. Turns out, this guy's entire composition is basically made up of two main components. Methane gas and a different kind of fat tissue which is highly combustible, much moreso than a normal human's. When the Bomber takes a piece of himself, he adds in a third and unique ingredient that primes the bomb. His skin.

As soon as he throws it and it lands on a solid surface, it immediately explodes upon contact. This is also the reason why when I shot the bomb before it left his hand, the rest of his body exploded as well since it's chock full of the stuff.

After finding out everything I wanted about this strange guy, my arms transformed into black tendrils that consumed all the remaining pieces left. I wasn't going to use it myself, but instead store the energy and hand it off to Lily. It wouldn't do me much good anyway.

"Wait a second, don't tell me…" Seeing what I was doing, Lily tried to persuade me to stop. As I jumped out of the hole, I put on a hurt expression and held my chest.

"I thought you loved me? You mean, you wouldn't be with me if I was a worm?" Not even missing a beat, she shut me down as if she cared little for my feelings.

"Fuck no! You look sexy now and extremely fuckable. But as that freak? I'd squish you underneath of my boot!" Her vulgar answer took me by surprise, but elicited a laugh from myself. I came up to her, placing my hands on her shoulders.

"Don't worry, it's not for me. Try not to resist the energy and accept it instead. It won't change you to be like him, just increase the strength of the current powers you have." She breathed a massive sigh of relief and closed her eyes as I transferred the Bomber's essence to her.

A few moments later and she moaned loudly, making me lose focus for a split second. Does this succubus seriously have to be so seductive at every waking moment? Anyway, it seemed like she was very much enjoying herself, almost like she was having the best massage in the world.

After all the energy was used up, her eyes opened as I took a step back. She clenched her fists, looking at them with awe as her forearm muscles rippled powerfully.

"Christ on a cross! I feel amazing!" Suddenly, Lily punched the nearby wall, making it crack a little. Her eyes were wide and I could tell, she was fully addicted to the power. Now I really feel like Palpatine, pulling and corrupting my sexy Anakin to the darkside!

"Shall me get a move on?" I asked, which she replied with a nod.

"Phew, you're right. We'll have to make a detour though. Luckily, there's a secret stairwell that leads to my locker."

"Oh? What makes it a secret?" She grinned deviously as we started walking.

"Because it was a common place where married men and women would have sex."

"And? What's so bad about that?"

"They weren't married to each other. Made for great blackmail material." I looked at her like she was a monster, despite admiring her deeds.

"Blackmailing?! Why I never!" She slapped me in the chest, staring at me like an idiot. Though, she did hiss a little in pain.

"You have no room to talk. Didn't you manipulate me into performing cannibalism? Kidnap a group of innocent people to experiment on, which will most likely end with their death? Eat a newborn baby after killing it's parents in front of it? You're one evil fucker."

My eyes narrowed at her. Saying it all at once like that makes me seem like some kind of Devil.

"Touché." Well, that's not so bad. The strong can do whatever they want...

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"Oh! I'm sure he'd love this one!" Alice muttered to herself as she checked out her own image in the mirror.

At the moment, she was in a clothing store's dressing room trying out new clothes. Relying on Lily's dwindling pile was not ideal.

"Really gives off that innocent young and pure Christian girl vibe. Bet it'll make him want to ravish and defile me."

The current attire she was wearing was a short and yellow skirt that had pink flowers on it. The shirt she was wearing was a white and black one that had the collar opened slightly, allowing one to barely see her cleavage. It was very similar to a school uniform.

Alice gave a little twirl, flashing herself with completely white panties. When seeing them however, she frowned a little.

"So plain though. Maybe black for a rebellious look?" After shedding her current clothes and putting on jeans and a tank top, she left the dressing room.

Eventually, she came to the main area of the store where the bodies of multiple people lay. Clearly, these weren't infected but instead healthy humans. They hadn't done anything wrong to her in the slightest, she just didn't want to take the chance with them peeping on her while she changed.

Ignoring their lifeless corpses, she placed her Pure Girl Set in a bag and moved on, whistling a tune as she headed for the naughty section.

She was dazzled by all the tough choices she had to make. Black and red panties/bras that covered next to nothing, plus the countless lingerie that came in different shapes and sizes. Alice loved the variety and stuffed all the ones she found the best into her bags.

"Hm, this one's nice. Gotta talk to Lily about this, surprise him with it." She held up a sexy and very revealing lacy black lingerie. With a grin, she stuffed two sets inside a bag and happily moved on, a pep in her step as she skipped along.

Suddenly, her eyes were fixated on a circular black object. She picked it up and held it in her hands as she admired it.

"Oh, I know damn well he'd love this." What she held was a small, but thick choker that had some writing on it. Despite not talking about it, Alice knew that Jason loved the Master/Slave dynamic.

"Huh? This says…" Seeing the words written in all bright white saying 'Fuck Toy', Alice blushed heavily and put it back.

"Maybe a little too hard-core. Though-" Her mind began imaging a perverse scene where Jason was over top of her, plunging his thick cock inside her without caring for her feelings. He leaned down, wrapping his big man hand around her throat and squeezing so hard she couldn't breathe.

"You're my dirty little fuck toy, aren't you? Just a cum dumpster for me to use whenever I please. My slut to fuck whenever I want~" Alice shivered and woke up from her daydreaming, her panties slightly wet.

"I'll… take it for safekeeping! Who knows what kind of hooligans are out there looking to cause damage to these wonderful things!" Deluding herself with nonsense, she took both the kinky one and two others. These too were an all black choker, but didn't have any writing.

"One for me and Lily."

Just as she put it on and admired it, the hair on the back of her neck stood up. It felt like… something was watching her. Within an instant, her claws and armor erupted forth as she scanned the entire store like a hawk. However, she couldn't find anything.

She wasn't stupid enough to ignore a strong gut feeling like this and pass it off as just being paranoid. Instead, she doubled down on trying to find the mysterious enemy. Still, there was no sign of them in the slightest.

"Strange…" Alice began moving forwards slowly, senses heightened to the maximum.

Suddenly, she heard a low clicking sound come from behind her. She spun around quickly, swiping her claws in a horizontal manner as she did so. However, they hit nothing but air.

While Alice was confused, an illusionary and large figure appeared on the ceiling and dropped down. The unknown creature used it's blades, from the forearm and up, to slice her back. Two deep wounds were produced as the armor split open.

"AH!" Alice wailed in agony from the searing pain that erupted from her back. At the same time she swiftly turned around, once more trying to use her claws to hit something solid.

Unfortunately, the mysterious enemy nimbly dodged her without effort by leaping backwards. With an angry face and blood running down her back, Alice got a good look at her enemy.

It was down on all fours and had a hunched over back. Despite that, it still towered over her at 7ft tall. Replacing the arms were instead thin, but clearly razor sharp and slightly curved blades. Her blood still dripped down their 3ft long form.

The back of the legs were digitigrade, like an animal's. On top of the entire creature's body were these small scales that would occasionally glimmer in a strange way.

The face of this unholy monster had a shape similar to a human's, but was nothing close to one. It's eyes were completely gone, not even sockets remaining as skin replaced it. It's nose was flattened, making Alice immediately think of Voldemort.

Suddenly, the creature began chuckling hoarsely as it brought a blade to it's lips. From it's mouth, a long tongue emerged and licked the blood, pissing Alice off immensely.

Using both of her wrists, she shot out six Bone Spikes in a row to cover all of it's escape routes. At the same time, her mouth opened to let out a glob of green and slightly yellow acid, aiming right for it's smug and annoying face.

However, the creature didn't panic in the slightest when seeing the barrage of attacks come it's way. With unnatural flexibility, it smoothly and easily slipped past everything, baffling her.

"What the…" Before she could continue, she watched with shock as the monster before her took a few steps back. It's form began shimmering like an illusion, the scales glowing lightly as it disappeared before her very eyes, leaving nothing more than a chuckle that echoed through the air.

"Invisibility? How does that even make sense?" She moaned and groaned at the ridiculousness, trying her hardest to spot her foe.

Just like before however, there was no trace of it in the slightest.

"Come out come out wherever you are~!" Nothing. Her expression then turned vicious and her voice mocking.

"Why aren't you coming out? Too much of a pussy? You fucking coward!" Despite her taunting, her enemy seemed smart enough to not fall for it.

A few minutes had gone by agonizingly slowly, enough time for her wound to heal up most of the way. Her nerves were high strung, eyes playing tricks on her by making a shadow appear here or there. Her rats were spread out across the entire store and beyond, but had no luck in finding the bastard.

Then a light tapping sound, different than before, came from a few feet behind her.

Without thinking, she turned around and used her full strength in a downward strike. She hit nothing, her claws going through the floor as it cracked open and shook the store itself, showing her high strength.

At the same exact time, the creature suddenly showed up in her blindspot and impaled her through the back. Alice screamed out in pain as she saw the two blades emerge from her stomach.

Before the creature could pull out however, she grabbed one of the blades with her hand and elbowed it's face. While doing that, she also ordered her nearby rats to jump on top of it's body, causing them to dig into it's flesh.

It groaned and wailed like a banshee, trying to back up. But it was firmly in her hold, unable to escape. In the same position, Alice used her free hand to claw at it's chest, producing five long gashes that caused the beast an incredible amount of agony.

Unfortunately, due to the angle, she wasn't able to do lethal damage.

The creature suddenly yanked it's blade back and out of her stomach, surprising her. It seemed her blood had made the blade slippery, loosening her grip. For some reason, that only made her angrier.

Once she turned around, she witnessed the bastard throw a bench at her direction, covering her vision. She easily used her claws to cut it into many pieces. During that time, the creature tried going invisible again. However, the rats across it's body let Alice see exactly where it was at.

She shot out another half dozen Bone Spikes in it's direction. A few of them hit dead on as it was too busy killing off the rats. But, just as Alice rushed forwards as fast as possible, the last rat died and the creature jumped up to dodge her furious kick that landed on the wall instead.

It impeded both blades into the ceiling to stay in place, it's form turning fully invisible now. Alice huffed in annoyance as she breathed heavily. Her injuries were starting to rack up, causing her regeneration to slow down.

As for using the blood to track it?

"Invisible blood too?! Fucking bullshit!" Alice was beyond infuriated at the constant nonsense that never seemed to end. Although the blood wasn't fully invisible, only the edge was able to be seen making it extraordinarily difficult to track.

Once again, to her dismay, the situation returned to the same as previously. Her remaining rats, coming from different parts of the store or the street, were spread out in an attempt to locate it. Unfortunately, the best they were able to find was a tiny pool of translucent blood that showed it was here for a period of time.

Suddenly, Alice heard the smallest sound of rustling coming from a dressing room in front of her. With a savage smile, she silently approached the curtain and roughly pulled it aside when reaching it. But there was nothing there.

Just then, the creature dropped form the ceiling and landed without making a peep right behind her. It's blades were raised, ready to kill this witch by cutting her head off. However, it was shocked to find Alice turn around knowingly and impale it's chest with both of her claws.

It wailed it agony feeling it's heart be torn apart and was forced to lean closer to her. She snarled at it with gritted teeth, looking like a proper monster with the armor covering her head.

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me thrice-" Growling came from her throat as she opened her mouth to show a row of horrifying chompers.

"And you're a fucking asshole!" Alice latched onto the terrified creature's throat with her teeth and tore out a massive chunk of flesh. She chewed on it and roughly threw the bastard out through the front doors, making it crash on the street harshly.

She approached it slowly, swallowing the flesh in her mouth and licking her lips menacingly as the beast tried to crawl away in fright. Before it could get too far however, Alice stomped on it's legs with her feet. Loud cracking sounds echoed out, along with the creature's cry of pain.

"Don't quit on me yet. You need to be properly punished for pissing me off." She kneeled down next to it's body and cut both of it's arms off. It's wailing brought a joyful grin to her face as she sliced open it's stomach, revealing it's organs ripe for the plucking.

"We'll yank these out and dance all about~!" She sang happily, grabbing it's intestines and pulling it out slowly. Her other hand wasn't idle, a finger beginning it's slow process of surgically cutting open the chest from the middle.

The creature constantly screamed, trying it's hardest to get away. Unfortunately, it was doomed to suffer.

Once the chest was opened and the skin peeled back, Alice's hand grabbed it's damaged heart. However, she didn't take it out and instead made little cuts to it. The other hand began making it's way up the beast's stomach to join it's sister. 

Her arm could be seen bulging out of it's skin and muscle as everything in the hand's path was shredded. Just when both hands converged at the heart, Alice pulled back.

With a sadistic and joyful smile, she instead decided to focus on it's face.

"Let's see what's under that mask huh?" The terrified creature wanted nothing more than to run away or perhaps die as her hands approached it's head.

Using her sharp claws, she slowly and delicately cut the top layer of skin off it's face. She started from the forehead and went down to the nose, eventually reaching the chin. Grabbing the two sides, she pulled the skin apart, letting her see the red muscle underneath.

Suddenly, just as she was about to continue, her fun was cut short when the poor victim died unexpectedly. A cute pout appeared on her face as she stood up and kicked it's ruined body.

"Couldn't even take this much? Loser." She snorted and spit on it. But then, put a finger to her chin and began thinking.

"What should I name you? Rather, what would Jason name you? I'd love to call you Invisible Piece of Shit, but he wouldn't like that. Hm…" It didn't take long before a name popped up.

"The Predator…" Her arms spread open a little, hands waving mysteriously.

"Too cool of a name for you, but I know he'll love it." As she looked at it's corpse, a contemplative look showed up.

"I want that Invisibility, that's just way too useful. But since I can't gain any new powers, I should bring it to Jason. He did say he would 'fix' me." Thinking of him, a loving smile appeared on her face unconsciously.

Suddenly, a feminine and deep voice came from behind her, whispering in her ear.

"What an interesting little thing you are~" Alice felt a chill go down her spine as fear overtook her.

'I… didn't even sense her!' She gulped as sweat trickled down her forehead. In her mind, she imagined the unknown person smiling teasingly, treating her like prey.

The seconds ticked by as she tried to come up with a plan. It was strange she didn't see a shadow, as the voice came from quite literally a foot away.

Deciding to wing it, she tried to attack the unknown thing behind her but felt something hard hit her upside the head as soon as she did so. Immediately, her vision went black and her body fell powerlessly. Just before her consciousness left her, she heard one last thing.

"Night night, little Bunny~"