[Sarah’s POV]

Well shit, really? Really!? For fucks sake...

If you’re wondering what is pissing me off so much, we got an assignment from Death to work with Michael and some of his friends or some shit to go into some ruins and kill a sentiment or something. I don’t even know why that pisses me off. Maybe it’s mood swings. I think I might have been told I’m prone to those before. It would make sense, given how I act all the time.

Anyway, we were told to meet up with Michael and whoever he was bringing along and then head out to the ruins. Oh joy. And, if you’re wondering, me, Jav, Mary, and Sira were the ones who decided to go out with them.

Seeing as the walk into town is pretty damn short from the house, I saw Michael, Paige, and two other fucks I didn’t know. Yay, more fucking people to meet. No idea what they were talking about though, something about how they died or some shit like that.

One of the two I didn’t know said something, I didn’t really listen so I don’t know what it was, while Paige waved and said, “Hello!”

I waved back, “Yeah, hi. Don’t know you two people, hello to you too I guess. If any of you haven’t met these people,” I gestured behind me, “they’re Jav, Sira, and my sister Mary.”

The woman raised an eyebrow, “I’m Gwendolyn.” Nice to know I guess.

Paige waved again, “I’m Paige!”

The guy stared and said, “I’m Dr. Kondraki.”

I felt my eye twitch at that last one. “Did you say doctor...?”

He raised an eyebrow, “Yes.... Not a medical doctor mind you, just a title that The Foundation gave me.”

My eye started to twitch rapidly and I scowled, holding back my claw which I activated, “Must. Resist. Urge. To. KILL...”

He looked at me before blinking, “Hmm... 076-2 was scarier.”

Michael looked at him, “Dude... Don’t anger her any further.”

He looked at Michael, “I just told her my name and she freaked out when I said I was a doctor.... I’m being peaceful here.”

Mary stepped forward and pushed me back a bit, then looked at that Kondraki fucker and said, “She’s had some horrible experiences with Doctors. Really horrible.”

He looked at her tiredly, “Okay.... I won’t piss her off then.”

I glared at him as best as I could with one eye and growled, “Don’t even fucking come near me, or I will disembowel you with your own spinal cord...”

He glared back, “I’ve been eaten by a near immortal lizard monster and threw cat piss at a vampire. I’m trying to be nice but you’re really acting like a bitch right now, so calm. The fuck. Down.”

I snapped and shouted at him, “Calm? CALM!? I was tortured and raped for seventeen fucking years by fucks like you. I had my own body violently ripped open thousands of fucking times so that you assholes could do your sick experiments on me, and you want me to be fucking calm around you!? Not. Fucking. LIKELY!”

He just stood there calmly, “Alright then, you were tortured by doctors. Not me. I understand alright, I won’t bother you if that angers you. Just calm down and let’s just talk.”

“Stop telling me to be fucking calm. I am on the edge of another mental fucking breakdown, and you saying shit like that is only going to make it worse.”

He nodded, “Fine.”

I deactivated my claw, but still glared at him, “Now, you sick piece of fuck, tell me why I shouldn’t treat you like those sadistic monsters back at A.N.G.E.L.”

He blinked, “A.N.G.E.L.? That’s... That’s impossible. We raided their base and killed everyone.”

I spat at him, “Yeah, maybe the above ground complex. They had an entire underground network of laboratories and research stations. Obviously you didn’t think to look.”

He raised an eyebrow, “We did look, we found nothing. Nada. It was just the complex.”

“Then explain to me, just how they were kept running until a few days ago when Dean killed everyone in the fucking place. Explain to me how they kept their experiments running for all that fucking time, if you bastards killed them. Well, fucking explain!”

He blinked again, “I can’t... All I know is that a group went and raided the base, came back, was found infected with something, and killed.”

“And how long ago was this, exactly?”

He shrugged, “A week ago.”

I stared at him blankly, “The above ground facility was destroyed almost twenty years ago, and Dean just wiped the underground one clean a few days ago. What the fuck are you even talking about?”

“...” He blinked a few times. “I don’t know.”

That Gwendolyn person looked at the both of us, “Can we PLEASE just move on and get the supplies already!?”

I shrugged, but still glared at the doctor, “Fine. But if you come anywhere near me, I am not going to be held responsible for what I might do to you.”

He nodded, “Fine.”

Paige suddenly jumped off of Michael's shoulders and ran over to Jav. She looked up at him and said, “Woooow. You’re tall.”

He looked down at her and raised an eyebrow, “I know... And you’re rather short.”

She blinked, “What’s with your eye?”

He scrunched his face up a little, “My family mark. I’m from a family of Necromancers, this is how we show it.”

Paige grinned, “Oh cool. I knew a couple Necromancers. They were actually quite nice.”

Jav looked at her in confusion, “Wait... What?”

She smiled, “I’ve met Necromancers before. Took a class on Necromancy and learned how to cast some spells.”

“...Wait what?”

She raised an eyebrow, “I took a Necromancy class. It was actually fun, I got to summon a couple ghouls.”

“Wait...” He said slowly, “So where you’re from... They actually teach Necromancy?”

She grinned, “Yeah! It’s a required class.”

Jav stood silently, then slowly raised his head to the sky and shouted happily, “You hear that Knights of the Holy Lance!? You can SUCK IT!”

Gwendolyn walked over and looked at him, “Hunters are here?”

He nodded, “A couple, yes. Why?”

She grimaced, “I don’t get along with them... Not since I was killed by one.”

He tilted his head to the side in confusion, “Killed by... You aren’t human, are you?”

She shook her head and her hair... Started moving on it’s own. “Yeah.... I’m a Gorgon.” What the fuck...

Jav’s eyes widened a bit, “Huh, never met one before.” He stuck his hand out, “James Valentine, nice to meet you.”

She grabbed his hand and shook it, “Gwendolyn Pietra. Nice to meet you as well.”

After pulling his hand back, Jav said in slight surprise, “That’s the first time I’ve met a non-human who didn’t freak out after hearing my last name. My family was rather infamous in the non-human underground.”

She smiled, “I ran away when I was twelve. I never really met anyone from the underground.”

“Ah, that explains it.”

Her smile got larger before she whacked a strand of her hair, “No... I’ll feed you guys later. Go down for now.”

Well fuck me she has snakes for hair. I stared at her hair blankly before saying, “That... is fucking strange as shit.”

She looked at me sadly, “Please don’t insult me... I get enough of that from other people.”

“Wasn’t trying to be insulting, just... Not something I’m used to seeing...”

She smiled, “Understandable... Very few people know about us.” She sighed a little, “Medusa was the one who gave us a bad name.”

I shrugged, “No idea who that even is.”

Michael spoke up, “One of three sisters cursed by the goddess of wisdom because they were hotter than her.”

Gwendolyn looked at him, “Spot on...”

I raised an eyebrow, “That sounds.... Incredibly stupid.”

She nodded, “It is... And if you want to know, Medusa was beheaded so a guy could save this girl he loved.” She grumbled, “Didn’t help she went insane.”

“Huh. Sucks.” I looked up and noticed we wasted a bit of time, judging by how much the sun moved. “We should probably get going, we wasted a bit of time talking.”

Michael looked up and blinked, “Crap... Come on, we need to get some lumber for firewood.”

I tensed up a bit, “Uh, heheh, did you say firewood?”

Michael blinked, “Uh... Yeah. Why?”

I gulped, “Uuhhh... No reason?”

He blinked a couple more times before shrugging, “Oookay...”

Paige grinned, “You know.... We don’t need firewood. I can just summon a couple light orbs to keep us warm.”

I quickly agreed, “Yeah, let’s do that! sounds much better that murder- I mean fire. Hehe-he...”

Michael looked at us both, “Sounds good...”

Gwendolyn looked at him, “I think we have everything.”

Michael looked in his pockets, “Let’s see... Yeah just about.”

“Okay,” I said, “then let’s go. The quicker we get this done, the better.”

He nodded, “Yeah... Wait... what are you guys doing?”

I raised an eyebrow at him, “Didn’t Death tell you? We’re working together to get rid of the Sentiments in the ruins.”

He blinked and shook my head, “He just said to go and deal with the problem.” He pulled out the piece of paper and opened it. “Plus he gave me a map.”

I looked at the map, “Cool, let’s go then.”

        Michael nodded and rolled the map up, “Alright... Shall we?”

        Kondraki nodded and made sure to walk the long way around me, “Yeah.”

        Gwendolyn smiled, “Of course.”

        Paige started hopping up and down, “Hooray! Adventure!”

        Sira tilted her head to the side, “I do not understand the enthusiasm, but I am ready to leave.”

        Mary nodded, “Hopefully this doesn’t take long...”

        Jav shrugged, “That would be nice.”

Michael sighed, “Then let’s go.” He turned on his heel and started walking off, doctor fuckstick following him.

I looked after them, then at Sira. “Hey Sira, would you be able to point the ruins out if you were flying overhead?”

“Yes, why?”

“Right...” I shouted after Michael, “We’ll meet you there, we’re going on ahead!”

He turned back and shouted, “Alright!”

I nodded, then picked up Mary, while Jav got ready to run and Sira took off into the air. She went off slightly ahead of us, then we ran/jumped after her, clearing the town in about a minute or two.

We landed outside the ruins in a few minutes, Sira having shown us the way as we ran. I don’t know how long we waited for everyone else, because we sort of wasted the time playing poker with a deck of cards I brought along.

I heard Michael’s voice, “Hey!”

I looked up from the poker game and waved to him, “Nice to see you finally showed up!”

He smirked, “Well at least we made it here... So... About ready?”

I stood up, along with everyone else, then nodded, “Been ready. Where do you think the Sentiment is?”

He shrugged, “It might be in an area with a lot of room. I’d say the courtyard or the meeting hall.”

I nodded, then walked up to the entrance of the castle, which were two large, wooden doors. I was about to push them open when Jav walked up and placed a hand on my shoulder, “Allow me.” He said with a smile. Then... Jesus fuck what?

He just walked up to them, grabbed their handles, then effortlessly pulled them out of the walls and hurled them about a hundred feet.

“There we go,” he said as he dusted his hands off, “now we can go inside.”

I was shook out of my slight daze when I heard Michael say, “What... The... Hell?”

Jav shrugged, “I have the strength from being a sixty eight year old Necromancer, the fact that Equestria’s gravity is half as strong as Earth’s, and the fact that my power cuts that in half again. I’m pretty bloody physically strong right now.”

Michael blinked, “Ah... I see.”

I shook my head and walked through the door, “Right then, let’s just find the Sentiment.”

Michael nodded, “Sure.” He walked forward and blinked when Paige flew over. “Really Paige? Really!?”

She stuck her tongue out, “Nyeh.”

“Anyway...” I looked around the large room, “Think there might be one in here?”

Michael shrugged, “I think so yeah...”

I was about to say something, but a large axe slamming into the wall next to me cut me off. I turned to see.... OH SWEET LORD OF MERCIFUL FUCK, NO!

The Sentiment was on fucking fire. Fire! I don’t even know what is there are so many fucking flames covering the God damned thing. Oh hey it’s all gold colored too, that’s pretty neat- OH SHIT WHAT AM I DOING!?

I dodged out of the way as it swung it’s axe at me again. I was almost hit with it, but Jav jumped over and blocked it with his sword. The things... I don’t know I guess it has eyes, glared at him, and it drew back and prepared to fight.

Jav got into a defensive stance and gripped his sword, “Restriction levels one and two, release!” An explosion of dark gray energy burst off of his body, and I noticed the area surrounding him, which I was in, felt a lot heavier.

He rushed at the Sentiment and lifted his sword up and said, “Heavy Swing!” When he swung downwards and the Sentiment blocked, it was pushed down to the ground, and the force of the blow shattered the tiles on the floor, as well as kicked up a small wave of dust.

As the Sentiment pushed him off, he quickly pointed a hand at it and said, “Lock and Key.” The Sentiment stopped moving completely, and Jav, still holding his hand out said, “Everything but the Kitchen Sink!”

Suddenly every, and I mean every, loose object in the room flung itself at the Sentiment at once. It stumbled and fell to the ground after a pretty large chunk of stone slammed into it’s... Head I think, and Jav quickly ran up and swung his sword down, “Pack a Punch!” When his sword connected with the Sentiments body, a massive blast wave came out from where he hit, shattering the thing’s axe, blowing it’s body apart and smashing the surrounding floor within about twenty feet.

All that was left of the Sentiment was a small, glowing, gold fireball of a soul.

Sweet Jesus that was fucking cool...

Jav stood up, his sword returned to a cane, and he picked the soul up and looked around at all of us, “So who get’s the soul then?”

Michael shrugged, “I don’t know... Draw straws?”

I was about to make a suggestion, but a familiar wheezing voice cut me off. “I... Apologize... But the soul... Is to go.... To the young..... Sira Molante....” Wait, isn’t that...

I turned around and, sure enough, that clusterfuck of a thing that we saw when Mary got her power walked out of a shadowed corner of the room. “Weren’t you... Bheidh i Seilbh, wasn’t it?” I asked.

He nodded, “I am.... Glad you.... Remember me.... Young Akinson...” He reached down and picked up the remains of the axe, then placed them into it’s pile of junk like it did with that one Sentiment’s sword. “I have..... Come to inform.... you that the..... Soul is destined to.... Become young Sira Molante’s.... And no one else's.....”

I shook my head, “I still have no idea what the fuck you even are, let alone why you’re here...”

He shook his head as well, “I cannot.... Tell you.... Unfortunately.... Too many.... Problems would.... Arise...” He... Walked(?) over and took the soul from Jav and tossed it to Sira, “Eat up..... Young Sira.... It is necessary that Fate would..... Give you that power....”

Sira looked between the soul and Bheidh i Seilbh, then shrugged and swallowed it. Surprisingly, or unsurprisingly when you think about it, she didn’t really react to it at all.

After she did that, Bheidh i Seilbh turned to me and said, “We will not.... Meet again for some..... Time, young Akinson.... And my time here.... Grows to an end.... I am to leave now....”

“Al... right then,” I waved a hand in confusion, “bye.”

He bowed his head slightly, then slowly faded away like the last time I met him. As he did, I heard him say, “Time’s Ultimatum will.... Be reached soon..... Prepare in any way... You can......”

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...

No idea what that means! And... Why the hell is Michael screaming his ass off about what his life is?

I saw him look at a piece of paper that appeared in front of him and he muttered something. He then sighed and said, “Alright then....” He hopped up, “Let’s keep looking.”

I nodded and stood up, “So... where to next?” Maybe I should ask Death about that guy, he might know what he is...

He sighed, “Let’s check the secondary court, then the meeting hall.”

I nodded and motioned for him to lead the way, “I have no idea where any of that is, so you lead us.”

He nodded and looked around, “Let’s see... We entered through the barbican, so....” He turned and smiled when he saw a door. Pointing at it he said, “There, through the great chambers.”

I stared at him blankly, “... I have no idea what the fuck you just said.”

He blinked, “Just follow me.” I shrugged and followed after him, Jav, Mary, and Sira following too.

After a series of doors and rooms that I couldn’t hope to identify, we made it to a door that, after opening Michael announced, “Welcome, to the secondary courtyard.”

I looked around and said, “Cool, you think the last Sentiment or Sentiments are in here? Because I kind of want to leave, this place is boring the fuck out of me.”

“Yeah, it’s here somewhe-” He began, but was cut off by... Himself really, when he dodged out of the way of a giant black arrow thing. The, I guess, Sentiment that fired it looked like a middle aged woman in black armor and... She just fired even more arrows. The fuck.

Gwendolyn pulled out a hilt, “Wraith blade, activate. Restrictions one and two, release!” Pinkish fire burst from her body and the light around her darkened somewhat.

She ran forward and slashed the things legs, “Low Blow!” The sentiment stumbled a bit before lashing out with more arrows. Gwendolyn jumped over them and landed on the other side before slashing her sword which released a few black and blue bolts of energy. “Bulloni di Twilight!”

        The sentiment smiled, I think, and a wall of arrows popped from the ground and blocked the attack. “Vector technique...” A symbol appeared around it, “Blackened Sky!” The seal glowed black as hundreds of arrows shot from it and appeared in the sky before crashing back down all around her.

Gwendolyn smiled. “Shroud of Twilight!” An orb of black and blue energy surrounded her, slowing down the arrows. She raised her sword up to the sky, causing walls of the same energy to appear around the sentiment. She then thrust her sword at one of the walls, “Twilight Waltz!” A beam of energy burst from the sword and started ricocheting off of the walls. The sentiment screamed as it faded away, leaving a black, somewhat grey, ball in it’s place.

Michael blinked and started clapping, “Wow....”

Gwendolyn reached down and grabbed the ball, “Heh... Who wants it?”

Paige started hopping up and down, waving her hands. “Oh oh! Me, me!”

Doctor fuck shrugged, “I can get the next one.”

Gwendolyn smiled and tossed the ball at Paige, “Eat up.”

Paige caught it and put it in her mouth, chewing it for a couple of seconds before swallowing, “It’s good. Kinda like cotton candy but, better.”

“Anyways.” Michael turned and pointed at another door, “There’s the meeting hall. Just one left.”

“Yay,” I said, “then we can finally leave.” Seriously, I’m starting to get a weird feeling about this place, and I have no idea why...

He walked forward and tried opening the door, only to have it stick. He then slammed his shoulder against it hoping to force it open, but winced in pain as it didn’t budge. “Fucking door’s stuck.” He stepped back and kicked near the lock on the door, causing it to fling open. “Problem solved.”

“Well that’s efficient.” I say.

He looked at me and smiled, “Kicking always works.”

I rolled my eye, “If that was the case I would’ve gotten out of several hundred experiments and other... Things back at the facility.”

He just frowned and walked into the previously opened door. Yeah you go ahead and not respond. NOT EVERYTHING IS ALL NICE AND EASY MORON!

I shook my head and walked in after him, seeing just a bunch of rotted wood and broken roof. SO FUCKING EXCITING.

“So you’ve come at last~.”

Michael and I turned to see a tall guy in torn red robes, standing at the front of the room. “The master told me people would come again...”

I have an overwhelming urge to kill this guy, and I have absolutely no idea why. I think it’s his voice, just sounds weird as shit.

“And who the fuck are you?” Michael asked as he readied... I didn’t even know his weapon was a hammer. Huh.

He smiled, “Proditore ad Auallonia....” Traitor to Avalon? “Do try to remember it.” He flicked his hands, and two daggers appeared in them. “For it will be the last you ever hear! Discordia cadit super te!” Discord falls upon you? What the fuck is with this guy?

He leaped forward and swiped at Michael, but he brought up his hammer just in time. His other hand swung at me, catching me in the side. Mother fucker...

Michael kicked him away and said, “Restriction level one, release!”

I growled out as well, “Restriction levels one and two, release!” I surged with power, and my claw changed into a single, large scythe-like blade.

Michael ran up to him, “Midnight Smash!” He swung his hammer, but the Sentiment blocked and stabbed him in the shoulder, then ripped the blade upwards.

Michael smashed his foot onto the ground, causing blocks of metal to hover in front of him. He grinned and punched his hand forward, causing the blocks to hit the Sentiment in the chest. “Titanium Toss!”

While the Sentiment was slightly staggered, I ran forward at it and shouted, “Nevermore!” My body burst apart into ravens, which swarmed the Sentiment and tore at him with their talons and beaks.

He growled as he slashed at the ravens, “Chaotic Artistry...” A giant symbol appeared under him. “Bentley’s Paradox!” The ravens were dragged to the ground, and they slowly fused back into my body, which was completely pinned down.

I struggled to move, but I was almost completely immobile against the floor. Let me tell you, years of having horrible shit done to you in this sort of position usually leads to panic.

I think Michael might have done something, because the next thing I know the force keeping me down is gone, and metal blocks are spinning around the Sentiment. I quickly scrambled to my feet and backed away slightly, staring at the Sentiment in panic.

That rapidly turned into anger.

I looked up at the night sky through the roof and held my blade upwards. With a shout I brought it down and struck the ground, “The Day is Done!”

Complete darkness covered the room, blocking out any last bit of light there might have been. I could see clearly though, and I saw that bastard Sentiment not far from me. My breathing got faster and heavier, and I glared at him before suddenly appearing right in front of him. Without questioning how I did that, I swung my blade down across his chest.

He spun his arms to try and hit me, but I was behind him before he could even react, slashing at his back repeatedly. When he tried to turn and hit me again, I just appeared on a different side to hit him.

I did this over and over for a good four or five minutes, just disappearing and reappearing around him and taking shots at him when he couldn’t even do anything about it. When I felt I had done enough, I raised my blade again and shouted, “When Shadows Reign!”

As the darkness left the room, and the torn up Sentiment across from me could see again, he saw several large blades of shadow just before they slammed into him full force.

[Third Person POV]

Sarah got up from the ground where she had fell and sat up. She tilted her head to the side curiously as she moved her head from side to side, unable to see out of her currently blinded right eye.

She sniffed the air once or twice then pointed her head in Michael’s direction, tilting her head to the side again in curiosity.

He blinked, “Sarah... You okay?”

She just stared at him silently, then smiled and walked over to him, taking a seat next to where he stood and looking up at him.

Michael looked out the door at Jav and asked, “Um... What’s going on?”

He didn’t answer. Instead, Mary walked into the room, took a look at Sarah, then sighed sadly and said, “A result of some of the things she went through in the facility. She began to rely on basic animal instinct to survive when doctors thought it would be “fun” to blind her for their amusement.” She walked over and patted Sarah on the head, who leaned into it and smiled. “It’s kind of sad, really.”

He looked at her and sighed, “Yeah.... That is sad.”

Mary looked over to Kondraki and said somewhat tiredly, “I know she was rather harsh to you, but this,” she gestured to her sister, “is one of the nicer things they put her through. I hope you can at least understand her hate for Doctors by now.”

He walked in carefully and nodded, “Yeah... The Foundation at least has a moral standing.”

Suddenly, Sarah tensed up, then shook her head furiously.

[Sarah’s POV]

I shook my head and opened my eye to see everyone staring at me, while Mary was... Petting my head. What the fuck.

I looked around before realizing what happened. “God dammit,” I facepalmed, “I went all animal again, didn’t I?”

Paige nodded, “Yeah.... You looked kinda adorable.”

I stopped moving, and I felt my eye twitch. I quickly stood up and walked over to the nearest wall and began to punch it into pieces. “Fuck-,” punch, “-ing,” punch, “stupid,” punch, “scientist,” punch, “assholes!” I reared my arm back and punched the remaining wall, sending it flying to God knows where.

“Done relieving stress?” I heard Michael ask.

I nodded and turned around, “Yep. Now if you’ll excuse me.” I promptly fell flat on my face and passed out.

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