I curl up into a ball, smile and shout as rain smacks against me, "I fucking love this place!" Man, she's definitely a hunter. I love that crazy woman. Ugh, shit. I grab at my head and chest. She really fucked me up. I get up and limp off, at least this will take less time to heal naturally.

Wincing and still sopping wet, I collapse onto the bed. My fist smashes against my pillow, I should have just killed him, he's in my damn thoughts now!

I stretch and walk into the abandoned factory, only to have my nose met with a thick scent of iron. "Haha! Muse upon muse upon muse!" Blood flies as I just watch Verank torture people. You really have no self control, do you? He has literally eight people, oh god, he's going back and forth. "Come on, it's like you're a kid trying to decide what kind of candy you want to buy." He turns to me, he shouts in the form of cheery, overly excited noises while parading his blood drenched self towards me. "Slim!? You're alive!" His eyes light up as he grabs my shoulders and shakes me. I slip out his grip and laugh, "Of course I did- Why is blood everywhere?" I roll my eyes, "Come on man, why can't you put a tarp down at least?" He lowers his head, "I'm sorry." I shake my head, "No more kidnapping without my say so, ok?" He groans wildly in frustration. He then turns to me, calmer than I had ever seen him and plainly says, "Fine." Don't laugh. Ooh, that's a tough one to keep locked up. Eh, screw it. I laugh and he laughs along with me.

Jessica sighs, "Damn it." I turn with a smile, "It's nice to see you're alive even though you backstabbed me." "I'm sorry." I shake my head, "Only say that if you mean it. You betrayed me to find I'm your best and probably only option. The army knows you now, so does anyone scared of people with powers."

She sighs and rolls her eyes as I smirk, "What now, Slim?" "We go steal equipment from a lab." They nod, but I point to Verank, "Get some clean clothes for Christ sake!" From her raw shoulder, spurts a tendril. It slithers onto Verank's clothes and the blood mixes with the water right away. When she lets go, not a spec of blood is left on him. I nod, "Let's go." The tendril flies from her body, towards a drain. She winces at her raw shoulder.

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I sigh, "Wait." Verank and Jess look at each other, "Let's get that shoulder fixed up." Jessica turns away, "It's fine." I shake my head, "That looks painful." She sighs, "It'll heal, worry about yourself. Wait-" She looks at me standing with no trouble, "Are you a demon too?" I smirk and start walking out the factory doors. Jessica and Verank chase after me as I walk through the rain.

Streets across streets, I point to the doors of a lab. Verank shouts and charges shoulder first, he breaks the door off it's hinges. I burst in and open fire on the security guards pulling their guns. They collapse and the alarms go off. Rubber boots clunk through the door behind us, I turn to a soldier, but water wraps around his neck, he fires into the ceiling as he falls out the door. Jess walks in with a bloody tendril. I point to a piece of equipment and Verank grips it, the bolts try to stop him, but the floor gives with ease. Jess shouts, "It's clear! Hurry!" I march out with her as Verank smashes the machine through the doorway. "Careful, Verank!" "We're going to get shot at though!" He drops it onto the truck we stole.

A jeep rolls up and their last mistake, they stop just close enough. Verank shouts angrily. Jess clings to him as he pulls the cleaver from his belt and rushes towards them as they open fire on him. She angles her watery body mass to slightly change all the bullet's trajectory, one bullet crashes through and tears into his side. He leaps as they reverse, but it's too late. He violently swings and the soldier's head comes clean off. Jess squirms through the open hatch as they shoot through the roof. It suddenly stops as their guns are forced to their own heads by watery tendrils. Jess drives up beside me as Verank sits crisscross atop the jeep. He uses the cleaver's edge to pop the bullet out with a wide smile. "Let's lose them!" They both nod as I stomp on the gas. I jump, a wave of energy rushes past. Shit! That's a demon. A real one.