It Takes a Monster to Fight a Monster || Event || Suzy
As people shuttled towards the portals, talking about the different abominations they were going to go take care of, Suzy noticed two things. First, no one had given the order for the guards to go with the Aces as backup, and secondly, no one had claimed the monster spotted in Inju. She remembered a shaky camera capturing the huge being, shaped like a man with a bull’s head, dripping with a slimy substance, which from the reports, sounded like if a person somehow got it inside, it would poison them, leading them to an untimely death. The beast carried two large axes, several hundred pounds each. Suzy could only think that these axes must have been something those doing the experiments had on hand for their test subjects to use, as they did not appear to be a natural weapon of the victim.
Once she was sure there was no announcement saying the guards had to stay put or go with the Aces, she decided to try her hand at taking down that particular being. She used her own ability to teleport there, the silence of her room broken by the sound of her black wings as she activated it, and moments later, she found herself in the streets of Inju, surrounded by people running around. A few were screaming, some more were crying, others were yelling about the end of the world. She made her way through the throng and towards the source of the panic. She saw a few men trying to fight off the beast, which seemed to respond negatively to a few reporters who were bold enough to take flash photography of it, causing it to lumber off into a nearby swamp, seeming to disappear into the boggy scenery. She made her way towards the edge of the swamp, only to be stopped by two armed members of government personnel.
“You can’t go in there miss.” the shorter of the two stated, holding up a hand to stop her. She looked at the hand, then up at the man, her blank expression still not changing. Being a nephalem, Suzy inherently had the same enhanced strength that both of her parents, an angel and a demon, had. In one swift motion, she grabbed the man’s arm, yanking it out of it’s socket. She then proceeded, as the other government agent pulled his gun on her, to move the first man in front of her as a human shield to stop his first shot, then swinging the now limp body into the other man hard enough to knock him out as well. Her expression never changed once, only one strand of hair came loose and she proceeded to tuck it behind her ear and venture into the swamp, no words uttered.
It wouldn’t be hard to imagine the weird looks this girl in the plain white dress was getting as she began to wade into the boggy waters of the swamp, not at all concerned for her image, or what might be lurking in the mud. The curious onlooker, those that were left after a monster attack and the proceeding gunshots. The creature couldn’t have gotten very far, she thought, as she had seen it escape through the murk. What she didn’t know, was that the lumbering monstrosity was more than okay with being in the swamp. And it now, as she had moved out of eyesight of the onlookers, had her exactly where it wanted her. Without any sort of warning that Suzy could tell, a tendril made of plant material, mud, and anything else you’d find on the bottom of the swamp, darted undetected through the water, gripping Suzy by the ankle, taking the girl by surprise, pulling her under the muddy water. Thrashing to get away, Suzy attempted to grab the tendril to loosen it’s grip on her, but it was pulling her too fast. She was able to get her head above water long enough to see the mutated monster with an arm raised, ready to strike with one of it’s gigantic axes once she got close enough. In this prone state, that axe would cut her right down the middle. She had to do something. She hated to use her teleportation for anything but travel, but she had no choice. Her wings extended, and in a moment, she was away from the tendril, barely avoiding the axe that came down. She hopped up to her feet, throwing a punch into the torso of the being, only to find that her hand got stuck in it. Surprisingly enough the outer part of the mutant appeared to be comprised of the swamp itself. Yet again, she found herself in danger as the oozing slime that was said to be poison was starting to drip, dangerously close to some of the scratches that she had just acquired from her being dragged through the marsh. She was about to teleport away when the brute decided he’d help her get loose instead, smashing a fist into her, sending her flying through the air, slamming into a tree hard, her body slumping into the dirty water. After a moment, her body kickstarted itself, and her eyes popped open under the water. She decided enough was enough. She was going to do something that she normally tried not to do. She was going to let her other side, her demon side, take over.
Emerging from the water again, those who knew Suzy would not recognize her. Her muddied hair clung damp to her face, her formerly white dress, caked with the dirt and decaying plant matter, was soaked as well. But the thing that if someone who knew her would notice the most? Her normally stoic, unchanging expression face was smiling, though that of itself would not be an apt description. It was more of a grin. A sadistic grin. Her eyes, once innocent and full of life were now pitch black, and twisted to match her grin. She finally spoke. Her voice sounding deep and dark and almost like a chorus of fifty demons were speaking through her. “This ends now.” She couldn’t have cared less at the fact that the bull-headed thing in front of her couldn’t understand what she said, all she wanted to do was to see it suffer. Calling upon her ability that she could only access via her demon side, Suzy unleashed her attack, sending a ball of Hellfire towards the monster, just narrowly missing it and lighting a tree ablaze behind it. The sudden illumination of the tree seemed to spook the creature, making her smirk.
“Oh...you don’t like light, huh?” she asked sarcastically as she recalled how it reacted to the reporter’s flashbulbs. It made a move to try to get away from the fire, but she just lobbed more at the tree next to it, causing it to panic more. Thinking this natural fire, it tried in vain to use it’s Swamp Physiology to try and put out the flames using swamp water, but Hellfire, of course is supernatural and the flames persisted. The mutant really did not seem to like this one bit, which caused a slight cackle to escape Suzy’s lips. “Something wrong?” she asked in a mocking tone, lifting her arms only to drop them, causing a ring of Hellfire to erupt around them in a circle, causing the creature to pace around, almost like a caged animal. It was swinging wildly with it’s axes, acting out of instinct, thinking it would just cut it’s way out of the fire. This of course would not do if she were to take him down. “Scaring you apparently won’t be enough. I’ll have to burn it out of you.” with that, she began aiming her blasts of fire at the mutant, catching the plant material that was growing out of it, as well as the poisonous slime on it, on fire. More and more trees in the swamp began to burn as she continued, the Hellfire spreading. The mutant, in a last ditch effort to stop her, charged, slamming it’s axe into the ground as she swiftly maneuvered away from the slow attack. As she did, she noticed that in the spots where the fire had burned away flesh, you could see bits and pieces of a second layer of skin underneath. The original mutant.
Gritting her teeth, letting out an inhuman growl, Suzy let forth a fiery explosion that jettisoned from the ground underneath the mutant, which let out a horrifying sound of pure pain and anguish as the Hellfire ate away at it’s flesh. Overcome with the torture of being burned alive, the monster fell to it’s knees, sinking into the swamp water. Suzy, with her pitch black demonic eyes surveyed the spot, seeing that her plan had worked. The outer swampy layer of flesh that had been hiding the test subject had burned away, the mental anguish of the whole ordeal leaving the original mutant unconscious. She reached into the water to pull them out, holding them up in front of her. They were burned, though not nearly as bad as they could have been, and they were still breathing. The demon side of her brain was attempting to think of other things that she could possibly do to punish this individual, but then she paused, closing her eyes tightly, shaking her head, pushing the urges down. When she opened her eyes again, her features were normal once again, eyes back to their usual brown, her expression back to being it’s stoic normality. Taking one last look at the destruction she had caused, with quite a few trees on fire, their flickering flames the only illumination in the night, she held onto the other person, and teleported back to base to the holding cells, not daring to attempt healing the person from their burns just yet, in case the tampering of their DNA was triggered again.
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