The Eloquent Undead are Annoying

I'm liking this two-part posting system we got going on with Malik, leaves the readers in suspense when the story is unfinished.

We finally paid a visit to Malik's lead at the hospital. Malik told me that it'd be a good idea to leave me on one of the hospitals neighbouring rooftops to keep watch, little did I know that he brought me along as a distraction, I almost forgot why I saw value in that little rat, this incident served as a nice reminder.

As soon as I lifted them onto the hospital's balcony with my darlings help, we departed back to the agreed upon rooftop, from which I would be able to see what was going on in the hospital room through the balcony windows. I was about to interfere when the guy pulled out a gun on Malik and ordered Franky to go outside, but seeing as Franky didn't seem all that worried and was just standing outside the room on the balcony, I figured that maybe this is all according to some kind of plan, little did I know that Franky was standing outside not only because of the threat of the gun, but also because he was keeping an eye on me.

That's when it happened, a lot of people wonder why I request my darling to assume the appearance of a leather jacket, well, because my back is always covered by her, meaning that there are always her "eyes" literally watching my back and because she is already hanging outside of our body, that gives her a much faster response time, then if I were to house her within our body. So when she spotted a Molotov Cocktail soaring through the air, right towards us, she reacted immediately covering my entire back side with herself, preventing the fire from making any contact with my skin/bandages, I could still feel the heat on my back, but she was actively trying to suppress the fire to herself and put it out, meaning that she was busy and couldn't help me get the upper hand on whoever decided to throw the Molotov at us from behind. I began to quickly turn around, planning to form a sharp spike around my stump, but I was quickly interrupted by something hard and heavy, suddenly smashing into my arm around which I was going to form the spike, the force almost sending me to the ground. It was a metal spear, it had pierced my arm, right below the shoulder, barely missing the bone, hooking into me, the pain was immense and because my darling was busy putting out the fire on our back, she couldn't help me get it out and start the healing process. 

Looking up at where the spear came from, is when I saw him, Corpsy, standing on the ledge of the building we were on, spear gun in his hand which was attached to the spear in my arm by some kind of wire rope. He was waiting for us, in retrospect, not surprising, I was about to start charging him because my darling was just about finished with the fire on our back, but this decaying shit was ready, I saw him light up a lighter with his other hand after which he brought the flame to the wire rope, which instantly got caught on fire and the fire began to quickly extend in my direction, he laced the Wire Rope with gasoline or something, my darling quickly morphed around the body's entire arm, forcing the fire to spread onto her instead of the body's arm, rendering her to be busy putting out the fire that was now trying to engulf our arm, but I couldn't wait anymore, this fuck was tricky, another second of hesitation and he'd pull some other shit, couldn't let him, so I morphed a sharp edged spike around my left arm, where my left hand used to be and began charging at him, I can't help but imagine what it must have looked like from the side, some flaming dude charging at a guy in a green trench coat and a fedora who was standing on the ledge of the building, shit must have looked like an album cover or something. Regardless, either he didn't expect the charge, or didn't care, regardless, my spike connected with his chest and we both began to fall off the 5 story building, as we toppled over I saw him pulling out a knife in the air, planning to stab me in the head, in order to avoid it, I twisted my body in such a way where his back was now facing the several fire escapes that we were falling past, after which I extended the spike that was in his chest away from me, sending him into the fire escapes. I saw him hit his waist against the railing, must have hit it pretty hard, since I saw his legs stay on the fire escape and his torso proceeded to fall right behind me, although my enjoyment of the view was cut short, because apparently, his spear gun must have got stuck between the railings as well, because my fall was suddenly interrupted by a harsh yank from the metal spear in my arm, ending up tearing a good chuck of my arm's flesh off and twisting me up, forcing me to hit the ground with my back.

I must have blacked out for a few minutes, because I was woken up by someone's screams, when I opened my eye, my vision all blurred, I could see Corpsy without any legs, ripping some homeless guy apart, poor sap must have been napping in this alley. I began to slowly get to my feet, not taking my gaze off of Corpsy, who was now attaching the homeless guy's legs to himself, whilst the homeless guy bled out with his guts sprawled all over the ground, still trying to crawl away in horror, desperately trying to push his insides back inside of him. As I balanced myself, still holding my head, trying to make my vision go back to normal, so did Corpsy, at first, very clumsily getting to his newly acquired feet, with every move, his new legs crackled, but looking at his face, he did not seem to care.

"You're one persistent fucker, I'll give you credit." That's when I felt my darling patching up the wounds in my arm, meaning that there was no longer any fire on us that was hindering her. "But I'm afraid you've wasted all of your tricks." I morphed two sharp edged spikes around my hand and stump, my vision was still slightly fuzzy, but it would pass.

He in turn began to adjust his tie, the lamp above him lighting up his grotesque, sickly green, lipless face. "As eloquent as ever Mr. Oleg." that's when his left hand, that was encased in some sort of metal armour, reached into his trench coat and pulled out a shotgun "But you will find that I have more ways to conclude my undertaking."

That's when I rushed at him, had to avoid giving him enough time to aim that thing, he released a shot in my direction, but my darling, as ever vigilant, managed to prevent most of the shot from connecting, except for my right leg, but it was nothing serious, didn't slow me down at all. I closed the gap between us fairly quickly, however, when I lunged at him with the two spikes, ready to stab his face off, he blocked them by flipping his shotgun sideways and using it as a shield, redirecting my hand-spikes upwards, after which he quickly twisted, smacking me directly in the face with the butt of the gun. Hit was strong enough to send me back away onto one knee, I heard him pump his shotgun, that's when my darling acted and extended from the back of the jacket, which was facing him now, a giant tentacle which pierced him through the chest and sent him flying away from me, right against a dumpster, after which she immediately retracted the tentacle back into our body. Despite being stabbed through the chest and flung a few meters into steel, it was only enough to make him drop to one knee, however, I guess the impalement was too sudden for him, since he ended up dropping his shotgun after he was flung.

I laughed "Man you have such a boring job! I can't even imagine how long you had to sit around this dump." I got to my feet yet again.

As did he. "To be completely honest with you Mr. Oleg." The bones in his legs cracking with every move. "I'm bewildered that you even surfaced. I estimated that Mr. Kyle would have the proper decorum to caution you of my presence here."

Now this was getting interesting. "Who?"

He dusted his trench coat off "Your associate, the one's who's current presence is within the hospice."

I didn't offer a response, just a smile, I was too busy trying to calculate when he would make contact with this freak.

"It seems this revelation has gotten you to cogitate." His non-metal encased hand jerked to the side and out from under the sleeve shot out a handgun right into his hand. He immediately aimed it at me and was ready to open fire and I was more than ready to engage, but to both of our surprises, his aim was thrown off, with Franky seeming to Path in right into him, as if he was flung out of the Path, knocking Corpsy back onto the ground. Franky began to immediately run towards me, as Corpsy started aiming his gun at Franky from the ground, the only way Franky was going to avoid getting shot, is if I ran towards him myself, so I did. I grabbed Franky under my arm, heard the gunshot ring out, but we were no longer there for it to connect with anything, now we were in the middle of a black forest, right in the middle of soaring heat, white flames engulfing everything around us. But even among all the fire, all the trees, Slendy still stood tallest, why wouldn't he? It was his domain after all, the Path of Black Leaves and he was about to entrap his newest victim within it, I saw Malik, eyes darting around like a lost puppy. That's when I made a run for him, through the flames, my darling doing her best to combat the fire yet again, running past Slendy, I could feel him, hear his whispers, they were not pleasant, imagine the feeling of spiders crawling around your brain, yeah, not pleasant at all, but I blocked it out, grabbed Malik's face with my right hand and from there on Franky did the rest, Pathing us back to our home base.

I did not stop my momentum though, I let go of Franky, making him smack the floor and I proceeded to slam Malik's head into the ground. After which I picked him up by the collar with my right hand and pushed him against the nearest wall "Why did you contact Corpsy?" Malik was still reeling from what he went through in the Path, he had a sickly look about him, that's when I let him go fully anticipating that he was about to throw up, which he did, luckily not on me, otherwise, I would have killed him then and there. After a few deep breathes, he wiped his mouth and proceeded to address me, not looking at me, but instead at the ground where he vomited, probably anticipating another round of vomit to come through at any moment "I didn't contact him, while you were fucking around in the Catacombs, me and Franky decided to scout out the area." He paused, swallowing, desperately trying to keep his stomach together "He was already there, got the drop on us, told us that if we didn't take him here, he'd kill us." This is when he finally looked up at me, that annoyed/angry look that he always gives me "I told him that killing us would do him no good and that we wouldn't take him here, but I did tell him that we were planning on coming back there, he knew why, that's how he managed to find the hospital before us, I also told him that we were going to bring you with us."

"You little fucking ra-" Rat, is what I was about to call him, before he rudely cut me off.

"Spare me, you fucked me over with Fell, so the least you could do was act as a distraction for that living corpse, while me and Franky could get our answers." He began to walk away from me, to help Franky out, who was struggling to stand up.

I scratched my chin, thinking over what he was saying. "Ok, that makes sense, but why didn't you tell me that he would be there?"

He began walking towards his room with Franky hanging off his shoulder "Because I don't owe you shit and if you knew, you'd complicate the whole visit with some bullshit plan." he turned towards me "We done here?"

I happy smile took me over and I replied "Yup, all done."

As I said, I guess I forgot why I teamed up with this kid. Sure, he's a rat, but I can't exactly blame him for his reasoning and in the end, his plan seems to have worked out, he got what he needed and all of us are still here, I mean, that's exactly the results I expected from him when I came to an agreement with him, I'm not about to shit on his methods if they work. However, next time we're heading out together, I'll be sure to be a bit more vigilant, hehehehe.