POV EROS
After dropping off the officer and making our way back to the rest of the sinners, both me and Hecate saw that the rest of the sinners had dealt with most of the toys.
Which was a good and bad thing. It was a good thing, since we no longer had to worry about being ambushed.
While the bad thing, we would be dealing with the main cause of this whole ordeal, and the mastermind behind all of this.
"Bishop two, assist both rooks and send pawn one to assist pawn two." Bishop two, also known as Hecate, sent nightmare, or pawn two, to Hella.
The reason I called the sinners by chess piece, is depended on their fighting style.
K.K and Che are both rooks, not only because of fighting on the front lines, but defending me when things are dangerous.
Hecate and Crache are both bishops, they both provide support and one can ambush most of the enemies.
As for the knight and queen piece, those would remain blank, no sinner can be called the knight just yet.
As for the queen piece, that one would remain empty. But back to the topic at hand, we had dealt with most of the toys.
The only remaining enemies were some straggling toys, and the monster that is to come.
"How are we with survivors and stragglers?" I shot a few more times to a few dolls that were making their way towards me, their heads popping like a ballon.
"Clear on my end, though I think a few of them were able to take a picture of us." K.K or rook two, answered, punting a small doll in the air.
Which was then shot by me, as I lowered my gun and sighed removing the now empty mag and inserting a new one.
"Not much we can do about it, let's just hope we can be done with this as soon as possible." The rest nodded at my words and we all made our way to the building.
Where we could see a fresh new wave of toys walking out, only this time, there were toy ducks with human legs walking out, their beaks containing fangs and a few dolls ridding on their backs.
"Oh great, nightmare fuel, just what I need to help me sleep." Che slumped forward, he then leaned far back with both arms pulled and threw both the tomahawk and kopis.
The two weapons flew in the air, cutting through all of the toys that had walked out of the factory with ease.
While a few had ducked in time to avoid both weapons, which were now imbedded on a wooden beam.
The toys that ducked began to laugh at Che, who only thrusted both arms forward, both hands open wide.
The weapons twitched, then began to shake, causing the wooden beam to crack and splinter, and soon the both of them dislodged from the beam.
Not only to cut down the toys as the weapons flew back, but it also broke the beam, causing the entire building to fall down on top of them.
Glass, stone, and metal beta to cover them all, some screamed, cried, and even howled as they were crushed and buried.
"Welp, jobs done, time to go home, kick back and reeeelllaaa-." The sound of rumbling cut him off and we all turned to the source.
Looking at the now destroyed building, the rubble began to rise, and fall from what looked like a large teddy bear.
It was held together with other toys, which were squirming and crawling on one another, its entire left arm had a large crocodile.
It moved and blinked as if it had a mind of its own, while the right arm was a large flame thrower, spew flame all around the ground.
It began to laugh, it sounded warped, it began to swing both arms around wildly, smashing anything in its path.
"Let's play, let's play, let's play!" Its voice sounded like there were many people inside, man, woman, young and old.
"Tag your it!" It threw the crocodile head forward, the crocodile itself widening its jaws, ready to bite down on anything in its path.
Which were K.K and Che, both of them had to jump in opposite direction to avoid being eaten, the jaw was able to pierce the stone, taking a large bite of the ground.
"Yummy, yummy, for my tummy!" The bear laughed as the crocodile chewed the stone, swallowing it all and giving us a sickening grin.
"Rooks one and two, fall back and keep a distance, bishop one, focus on the joints to hinder its movement!" I shouted while firing at the eyes.
K.K and Che soon did as I said and were able to avoid a large blast of the flamethrower, a bit of fire landed on Che's jacket.
Yet he didn't panic, instead, he only patted out the fire and shook his arm to remove any embers that stuck to his jacket.
"Man, now I have to go buy a new one." He whined while slamming his tomahawk on a small doll.
"Oh shut up and deal with it, if we can find that one chick from the garden, you don't have to worry about a thing!" K.K shouted in annoyance at Che's laid back attitude.
"But that'll take forever!" He whine again, K.K was close to smacking him on the back of his head.
As the two of them kept arguing back and forth like a pair of siblings, Crache herself was already behind it.
Around her were multiple shadows thanks to the destruction of the building, and she was able to call forth multiple shadow tendrils.
Each one was wiggling and squirming from leaving, but they soon began to pierce the back of the legs of the large teddy bear.
As soon as it felt the tendrils pierce its legs, it let out a loud cry, as if a child had scrapped its knee.
Even the crocodile let out a cry as well, dropping bits and pieces of the stone it had ate. The flame thrower soon began to burst, letting out a large flames across the ground.
"You meanie, I hate you, I hate you I hate you!" It swung the flame thrower side to side burning anything in its way, including Crache.
However, she had her hands in her pocket and used the remaining shadows as platforms to jump away to avoid the flames
However it wasn't long for the bear to calm down and laugh once again, chasing Crache through the street.
Using its crocodile arm to bite the buildings, cars, and even the road, while trying to burn her at the same time.
"Hey, king, mind sending in some back up? I don't want to end up burned." She blocked the crocodiles mouth with two shadow claws.
Both claws held the crocodiles jaws open, giving her a chance to avoid getting bit, and getting roasted alive.
"Both rooks, take out the flame thrower." Che and K.K had nodded at my orders and rushed to Craches side.
All the while cutting and punching down any extra toys that stood in their way.
As soon as they arrived, K.K took the initiative to jump onto the crocodiles' head, she then threw one punch after another, hitting it as hard as she could.
This caused it to pull back and swing wildly in the air, wanting to throw K.K off.
"No, bad cheater, you no play with!" The teddy bear tried to stop the crocodile and wanted to use the flame thrower on K.K..
But multiple shadow tendrils wrapped themselves around it and pulled it to the ground.
"Rook one, cut it." As soon as the nozzle had hit the ground, Che was lifted by a shadow platform and h began to run on top of it until he reached the elbow.
He then raised both weapons above him and began to cut into it, the bear cried in pain and tried to pull back.
But the shadow tendrils were keeping it in place, no matter how much it tried to pull back, the tendrils wouldn't budge.
It's cried echoed through the city streets, although the streets were now empty, there was no one nearby to hear them, that's what I thought.
But I couldn't worry about that, my worries were about the monster that was in front of us.
After a few more swings, Che was able to cut off the entire thing. The only thing that remained were the toys that were cut in half.
It seemed that some of the toys had merged with the metal, not only holding it, but acting like nerves to activate the weapon.
"You cheaters, all of you are dirty cheaters!" It cried and began to stomp around, cracking the stone under its foot.
"King, seems it's working, we'll be done with this very soon." Hella said who was next to me, leaning on her water pipe.
"Hella, you weren't here the entire time, you were back in the restaurant eating the burger." Hella then hid the bag in her hands and tried to play innocent.
"What, phss, there's no way, I-I was there you know, helping the people and all…" I only stared at her, the mask hiding the disappointment in her eyes.
"Okay… maybe I have had an extra burger, b-but I still helped." She tried to justify her actions.
"Save me a piece later." Was all I said before returning my focus back to the battle, and soon noticed a change.
"All pieces pull back, it's changing!" The three of them began to run, while some looked behind them.
The bear was now no longer crying, and it soon began to look angry. The arm that was cut, began to regenerate.
Some of the toys began to crawl on top of one another forming a new arm, while some began to drag pieces of metal and glass.
"Cheater, cheater, I wanted to play, but you should just die!" It roared and held up its new arm.
A new had was formed, with metal and glass acting like claws, and its innocent smiling now contorting into a sadistic grin.
The teddy bear then plunged its new arm into its chest, rummaging through the toys, pulling out what looked like a glass heart.
And it stopped pulling as soon as the heart reached the surface, giving me a chance to see what was inside.
I widened my eyes at the sight and gasped, it was playing dirty.
"If you cheat so can I!" It let out a grueling laugh as it stared at all of us and moved its claw.
Inside the glass heart was a girl she looked like she was reaching her twenties, her entire skin was pale as snow.
While her hair was loose and reached her back, the hair she had was silver, reflecting the sunlight.
She wore a two piece dress, the top was a white dress shirt with puffy sleeves, while the lower part was a long skirt that reached her feet.
But if you looked closer, her feet are prosthetics, both of them. The reason why, that's a story for another time.
But with what I was seeing, she was inside that glass heart, sleeping peacefully from what was happening, floating in the center.
"All pieces, we're going all in, no restraints, no hesitation, remove the masks." I said and began to walk forward as well, the shackles crackling to life.
"You sure? We'll be exposing our faces." I hear Crache asked, but I was sure, there was no way I was leaving Eve with that monster.
"We made sure every survivor was gone, and no cameras should be working, I'm sure." I then raised my hand, and the air around me turned red.
"Works for me, I was having trouble breathing through this thing." K.k chuckled and tossed her mask behind her.
The same could be said for Che and Crache, the masks soon were in front of me, all clattering against the ground.
Which were then picked up by Hecate, who had her mask in her hand. She even held out her hand to collect my mask as well.
"So, how are we playing?" K.K asked while staring at the now monster bears
"Hard and rough, I don't care, but I'm going for the glass heart." Hearing this, all of them looked at me as if I was insaine.
"Chief, are you sure you want to just run in that? The glass has to be a few inches thick, there's no way your getting inside." Hella sounded in disbelief.
"I'm sure, just get me to the heart." I said and removed my trench cloak to have better movement.
"Alright, you heard the man, let's do this." Hella smiled and did a few swings.
Seeing that we were about to face it once again, the large teddy bear roared, and a large wave of mania passed by us.
Causing a gust of wind to push us back, followed by the sound of multiple footsteps making their way towards us.
"Uh, chief, we might need a recharge, and a few quick heals." Che pointed to the source, and we all saw a large amount of toys walking towards us.
Instead of cute and cuddly, they were mutated into something dangerous and lethal.
Dolls that were small were, now the size of adults, dragging large knives across the ground, while faces were cracked like glass.
They gigglier and laughed, their mouths containing fangs and smiling like maniacs.
Cute plushy dogs were now large wolves, their beady eyes now showed crazed looks of hunger, with claws growing from their paws.
While small puppets had extra limbs, crawling across the floor and walls, acting like spiders.
Their strings floated across the air, and shot out like webs. Sticking to any surface, traveling across one building to the next.
"Hey chief, this feels like were back in the rust, right?" K.K had a serious look on her face, while Che only rolled his eyes in annoyance.
"I would be lying if I said no, but with some of the buildings now torn down, and corrupters in front of us, I would have to say yes." Everyone, minus Hecate groaned to what I said.
"Great, more work, thanks so much chief." Che sarcastically thanked me and began to rush forward and jumping head first into the pack of wolves.
"You're welcome." Was all I said and ran forward, with the rest of them following behind.
Seeing that we weren't slowing down, the once cuddly toy now turned monster, roared and raised its hand, commanding the toys to charge as well.
The dolls raised their knives and cackled, the wolves barked as they ran towards us, and the puppets opened and closed their wooden mouths.
The first to make a move was Crache, who used the shadows to act like sharp blades cutting down the toys that were in the front.
Some were cut in half, while others only lost limbs, yet they continued to run towards us.
The second person to act, was Hecate, who had nightmare rush forward and grabbed two of the toys.
One of them was a doll, while in the other it grabbed the knife, pulling the two apart, it began to use both as weapons against the army.
Yet the doll only laughed as it was used to strike at the rest of the dolls, wolves, and puppets.
Its body was being bent and twisted from all of the strikes, yet it laughed. It laughed as it was soon thrown away, even as it landed on the ground, it laughed, soon it went limp.
It's face was soon smashed by K.K's foot as she rushed forward with her arms raised in front of her.
She ducked and weaved multiple attacks, she dodged to the left to avoid a wolf pouncing on her, the jaws snapping shut as they bit the air.
She weaved to the right to avoid the threads of a spider puppet and grabbed it, pulling on the thread to force the puppet to get closer.
She then reeled her fist back, and soon slammed it against its head, cracking the wood and causing it to break into splinters.
Yet she didn't stop forcing her way through the sea of dolls and wolves, she only dodged countered and dodge again.
However as she dodged another wolf, she stood in front of a doll that had the knife close to her face, the tip was a few inches away from her eye.
Yet she parried the attack away, her tonfa and the knife created sparks as both objects grind against one another. K.K then took the chance to pull her entire arm back once again, and soon slammed her fist against the body.
Sending its entire body flying, it slammed into the dolls behind it, knocking them down to the ground.
With a path now in front of her, she ran forward once again, her boots smashing agent the heads of the dolls.
Yet as she ran forward to face another enemy, she didn't see that one of the spider puppets from above.
She saw the puppet from behind, all of its limbs were stretching towards her, K.K didn't have enough time to dodge or counter.
Yet, something flashed by her, passing through the puppet and imbedding itself into the stone.
The puppet soon split into two, both halves landing on the ground on both sides.
K.K then turned to where the weapon came from, and saw Che, holding up his hand and catching it with ease.
"Thanks." K.K muttered and passed Che, leaving him alone while he dealt with more of the dolls.
"I just want to sleep." He sighed to himself, but he didn't complain for too long, instead, he ran forward and chopped the first doll in front of him.
With the first attack done, the rest of the dolls rushed forward to attack Che, yet he didn't seem phased by this.
He ran towards the nearest doll and jumped into the air, swinging down the tomahawk and cracking the dolls skull with ease.
He soon ripped it out of the skull and spun around, stabbing the doll that had tried to sneak up on him from behind with the kopis.
The doll tried to stab him, even as it was stabbed, yet Che only smacked the knife away with his tomahawk and lifted both his arm and the doll in the air and cutting its head off.
Once he dropped the body, he ducked from a swing from a doll, which then raised the knife above him to stab him.
Che only rolled tp the side and used to he inside of his tomahawk to hold down the knife, while using the kopis to cut its arms off.
He then kicked the doll away and grabbed the knife, using it with two hands and wielding it with ease.
He ran towards one of the dolls quickly and used the flat end of the knife to parry the dolls stab.
He began to slide forward and raised it, slicing through the middle of the doll with ease and soon tossing the knife towards a spider puppet.
As the knife had imbedded itself onto the puppet, the doll behind him soon fell in opposite directions.
While the puppet itself fell to the ground, with the knife still imbedded in its head. Yet Che was forced to keep fighting, a few wolves had surrounded him and circled him.
All of them barking and snapping their jaws as they tried to get closer, yet Che wasn't concerned, in fact he looked tired than worried.
"Man, I don't want to deal with this." He slumped forward and was ready to fall asleep.
Seeing this, all of the wolves jumped towards him at the same time, thinking that they have the opening.
Che only reeled back both of his arms, and he flung both weapons to the side. As the two weapons flew in the air, they acted as if they were guided by something, accurately striking the neck on all of the wolves.
By the time the two weapons had returned to his hands, all of the wolves fell to the ground, while their heads rolled across the ground.
"Well, at least I didn't need to do much." As soon as he said that, more dolls and wolves were making their way towards him, and he could only sigh at his misfortune.
"Me and my big mouth." He sighed, yet he began to run forward, meeting the large crowd head on.
"Mind if I joint you?!" Hella, who ran to his side, didn't wait for a response, instead, she jumped onto the nearest doll and stomped on its head.
She then raised her water pipe to parry a strike from the side, and spun around, using the momentum to slam to on the dolls side.
While Che ran past her to jump up, wrapping his legs on the dolls head and leaned back, not only making the both of them fall, but also slamming the dolls head on the ground.
As he pushed himself up, Hecate took the chance to block an attack that went for Che, stabbing the ground a few inches to the right.
"Man, if it was closer, I would have flipped." He then raised both arms to where the blades reached the legs and moved them down, cutting the legs.
As the doll fell, he held up his sword to where it was going to fall, piercing the head as it fell onto his knife.
"Wow, I don't know what's worse, getting your ankle cut, or falling on a sword." Hella commented while she held the jaw of a wolf, then twisting the entire head in a one eighty turn.
"In my opinion, both are bad." Che pushed himself up onto his feet and threw his tomahawk at a doll that was about to stab her from behind.
"But not as bad as slipping on nothing and stabbing yourself." Hella crossed her arms and nodded with her eyes closed.
"Hmm Hmm, that is a stupid way to go." She said and cleaned to the side, letting a knife pass her.
"We should probably get back to work." Che twisted his body and countered a spider puppet by kneeing it on the stomach and stabbing it on the back.
"Yeah, we should." Hella smacked a doll on the knees, cracking the kneecaps hard.
[Wow, just wow, seems they're on the clock, and wow, the chief just looks hot while he's on the job, I just want to… mmm. Sorry, got a little bit handsy, but like always send some power stones to show your support, and show that you enjoy the story. Bye bye!]