Sealing the Gate
"Hello, this is The Sinners Haven how may I help you?"
"Forget about the good boy act Mike I've got a job for you."
"What does the great and powerful Robert need help with today? Finding his slacker employees?"
"Very funny. Look, I just need you to go and kill some escaped hell hounds. They shouldn't take too long to find. Four got away from my group when they broke through the gate."
"Fine." I hung up the phone on him and grabbed my sword. "Time to go to work Abbaton." I walked out the front of the door and locked it behind myself.
I strapped Abbaton across my back and then headed off into the forest beside the city. I stood in the middle of a small clearing and listened for anything to indicate they were around. I put my paw on the handle of my sword as I heard the sounds of running wolves circling around me.
One of them jumped out to my side trying to bite down on my neck. With one swift motion I unsheathed my sword and cut him down the middle of his spine. Two more jumped out from different sides so I dodged them and thrust through ones chest when it passed me. I yanked my sword out of its body and prepared for the next attack. I looked all around me but didn't see or hear anything. From behind me I heard the sound of someone or something trying to sneak up on me.
I swung my blade right back and stopped just before it cut straight through a cat's neck. She started shaking when she felt the cold steel of my blade and saw my face covered in dark blood. I stared and saw that one of the last two hell hounds was about to attack her. I pushed her out of the way just as he jumped up. He clamped down on my arm and I screamed out in pain. I took the pointed hilt of my sword and slammed it into his head, piercing into his brain and crushing his skull.
I stumbled some when I was standing up but when I was up I looked over and saw the cat back on her feet. "What are you doing out here at this time of night? You should go back home before you get hurt." "I can't do that sir. You've killed three of my pets so I have to get revenge for them." She pulled out a knife from her pocket and flipped out the blade. The last hell hound walked out of the shadows to her side. "Such a good pet." She started rubbing it and it suddenly bit her arm. I watched in horror as he knocked her down and crushed her head between its jaws, spewing blood and brains everywhere. I charged at it and shoved my sword straight into its heart. Before I pulled it out I twisted it to the side to make sure he couldn't survive.
As I walked back to my store I pulled out my cleaning cloth and started getting rid of the blood covering my sword. While I was cleaning I noticed Abbaton was absorbing some of the blood. "Okay I'll leave it then." I put the cloth back in my pocket and grabbed my keys. I heard the hammer of a revolver cock back and the barrel push against the back of my head. "You scream or anything your brains will become a painting on the wall got it? Now open the store then hand me the keys and walk off. Don't try any funny business because my bullets go faster than that sword ever will."
I chuckled to myself as I unlocked the store and pushed the door open. "Come on in." I said with a grin on my muzzle as I walked into my store. I turned around to see that it was a rat with an old rusty 38 in his paw. He walked in and started looking around on the walls seeing all my 'trophies' on display while keeping the gun pointed at my heart. "What is this place, some sort of freak show?" I felt Abbaton quiver slightly in my paw. I gripped onto it harder and took advantage of the distraction my latest trophy provided to strike. I pushed through his neck and severed his spinal cord along with his carotid arteries. I yanked the blade straight up and the little bits of skin holding his head on gave way, causing his head to fly off.
I laid down Abbaton in the pool of his blood that was steadily forming and walked over to the decapitated head. "You know, even after decapitation the brain is still active for a few seconds. This is why you never mess with the owner of a shop like this. I'm a demon hunter and I protect people like you from the demons of hell. However, you ended up trying to steal from me so your life was forfeit. At least some good can come from your death, my blade was thirsty and he loves the blood of mortals, even if they are pieces of filth like you." I stood up and looked over to see that there was no blood left on the floor and Abbaton was resting at his neck. As I picked him up I saw that his blades symbol was shining bright red. "I'm glad that's over with." I picked my sword up and put him in his sheath just when the phone rang again.
"Hello, this is The Sinners Haven how may I help you?"
"Hurry over here now!!! We have a serious problem and we need everyone here we can get."
"Robert call back when-"
"I SAID GET YOUR ASS DOWN HERE NOW! Ronwe broke through the gates and he brought three of his legions. We're being over-run and overpowered so get over here. Bring something big too, I don't think that little sword of yours is going to do anything to him." Before I could reply he hung up on me.
I grabbed thirty throwing knives and ten regular ones that I clipped into place on the inside of my jacket. I also grabbed another sword that was slightly smaller. "Don't fail me when I need you Tiwaz."
I put them both over my back forming an X and grabbed my keys again. I ran into the garage and opened it up revealing my black first generation Suzuki Hayabusa. I jammed the keys into the ignition and gunned it out of my garage.
'How did he manage to break through the gate? I can understand those mongrels and other small fry but how could he have gotten out?' I weaved in and out of traffic that got in my way, sped through red lights, and even cut through open air malls when I had to. I looked down to see my speedometer reaching 179 miles per hour. 'I'm getting closer.'
Suddenly I looked in front of me and saw a hell hound in my path. "Shit!" I ran straight into his side and the bike crashed. I barely moved to the side before it ran right by me. I slid to a stop after a few hundred feet and watched as the bike slammed into a wall and knocked it in a little. I was barely able to stand up and it was hard to breath at first but then I grabbed onto Abbaton and my pain and discomfort started to very gradually fade away.
I walked for about ten minutes before I was met by twenty seven hell hounds, imps, and other lesser demons. They all rushed at me so I pulled out Abbaton and Tiwaz. They all surrounded me and started trying to stab, cut, or bite me but I kept slashing and hacking away at them. After the last one was killed I heard a gunshot. I looked and saw a raccoon was about seven yards away with his 45 in one paw and a smoking 357 magnum in the other. Together we started heading towards where the rest of the group were holding out.
"Robert, how could you and your company of idiots not notice a giant army and a true demon coming through the gate?"
"Well sorry but we weren't fond of the idea of going down to the gate to check the seal since you're the one who put it on there. We thought you'd be able to create a permanent barrier like you said but oh no it only lasted twelve years."
"I didn't think that a horde of demons would even work together let alone break through the gate. Why didn't you get someone to fix the barrier since you knew that demons were coming out of it?"
"Because few others knows how to do a proper seal and even less have a way to make the seal without dying." I jumped on top of a hell hound and shoved Tiwaz through its skull. I tried to pull it out but it was also stuck into the pavement below.
I yanked it as hard as I could and it barely came out in time for me to block against a thrown spear. I threw two of my knives at the demon and one hit her neck while the other hit her head. I pulled out one of my big knives and stabbed it into the monster that almost stabbed me. I grabbed his horribly misshapen knife and threw it killing someone in the distance. I ran into the building where rest of the people we had were shooting from.
"Look who finally decided to show up. Guess that barrier didn't hold like you said it would Mr. Big Shot."
"Save it. Robert already read me the riot act. How many of these guys have you killed so far?"
"Maybe we've all taken out about half a legion. Six or seven of our men are already dead because they were stupid and tried to kill Ronwe on their own."
"What weapon does he have?"
"What does it matter? You're nothing but a pitiful insect to him."
"Just answer my question."
"He's got a great sword with a blade that's eight feet long."
"What's his form?"
"He looks like a human."
"Don't see many of them anymore."
"No shit. Pretty much all of them were killed off."
"Where is he now?"
"He's only a couple thousands yards away, I'm sure you'll make it with no problems at all."
"Haha very funny. See you guys I'm goin to kill a real demon and seal the gate. Wish me luck."
"Hey." one of the youngest members of the group said.
"Yes?"
"When you die can I have those swords?"
"If they don't kill you then sure." I ran out of the doors and started to hack and slash my way through the demon hoard. Head after head, limb after limb, all severed and left lying on the ground. Gallons of blood flowed onto the street and screams of anguish filled the air. I lost my sense of time and distance for a little bit and just kept cutting them all to pieces. I only stopped when a spear grazed across the end of my muzzle right behind my nose. I turned and saw that Ronwe was standing there with his sword shoved into the ground.
"Well, well, well. Looks like the exterminators didn't learn their lesson the first time and decided to send someone else to die."
"I'm not the one who's dying to day Ronwe. Your body is going to rot in the dump and your head will be mounted in my shop. You'll become my latest trophy." He yanked his sword out of the ground and charged at me. I barely had time to raise Tiwaz before his blade slammed into mine. I thrust towards him with Abbaton but he easily avoided it by backing up. I let go of one blade and threw my last three throwing knives at him. He blocked all three and charged at me again, attacking from the side I didn't have a weapon in. I yanked out a survival knife and blocked it in time. I looked and saw that his blade was cutting through mine. I let go of it and quickly grabbed Tiwaz, blocking his strikes again and again. Suddenly I heard a shot ring out and Ronwe dropped his sword onto the ground. I didn't waste any time in slashing my sword straight through his neck and severing it, decapitating him in one stroke. After looking at his body for a moment some of the demons started to run away as fast as they could while most began fighting each other.
I sheathed Tiwaz and Abbaton before picking up Ronwe's sword and his head. I ran to the gate as fast as I could and saw that it was halfway open and a huge hand was trying to move it more. I slashed off its fingers and it retreated back. I set everything down and pulled out Abbaton, holding him up straight and looking down the blade to the gate.
"The seal must be renewed. I need you to awaken now Abbaton and seal this cursed gate yet again!" I leveled the blade to my wrist and slashed it letting my blood flow freely. Abbaton immediately started to suck some up and the rest swirled around it in a vortex fashion. "The blood sacrifice has been made so now I demand you to seal this gate so that nothing may come through again!" My blood that was swirling around the blade splashed itself across the gate forming an X pattern and shutting the gate.
I ran and smeared my wrist across the gates border to make sure it stayed put. Then I ripped my shirt and tied it around my wrist. The wound was already starting to heal up but it was still bleeding some. Once that was done I re-sheathed him and put him across my back with Tiwaz. I walked all the way back to my group and kicked in the door.
"It's all sealed and if any of you undo that seal I swear that I will rip out your throat." I then promptly fell to the ground completely exhausted. The young kid from earlier ran over and thought I was dead so he pulled Abbaton from his sheath. I looked out the corner of my eye to see him get cut into thin ribbons and fall to the ground with a clatter of steel.
"Idiot." I said with a grin before passing out.
"Hello this is The Sinners Haven how may I help you?"
"I've got another job for you."