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The Room

*Lecter nods*
Lecter: Then how do we destroy the gate?

*The scarecrow finally stops defiling Sydney's body when it detects a new evil, and quickly limps it's way towards the Room*
*Be'lak steps out from the treeline, and looks down at Sydney's remains. He then bends down and retrieves his necklace*
I had higher hopes for you, mortal. Perhaps someone will do better.

The Room

*Lecter shakes his head and follows after the group, watching, listening, and smelling the surroundings for anything*
Lecter: Any way to stop the storm? Something holding it together, or do we have to wait for it to settle and hope that it doesn't kill anyone.
*His tone has a roughness to it now, contrasting with his usual nonchalant and softer attitude*
*The Devil Hunter subconsciously runs a finger along his blade, barely noticing it cut him*

The Room

*Lecter sighs*
Lecter: We get you to the Room, find out who else got shot at while we were gone, if my last few stops are any judge, then we can hunt whatever is hiding in this storm.
*He looks over at Vaseraga*
Lecter: He's not some primal beast. He's a Devil as old as humanity, if not older.
*He grits his teeth and tightens his grip on Karma his blade*
Lecter: At least you enjoyed yourself while we got the shit beat out of us, and while Karma died.

The Room

*Lecter nods*
Lecter: Fucker might send something else at us. Or let the storm hit us. Either way, we're in a bad spot. Should we continue with hunting the storm's creatures, or head to the Room for shelter?
*He reloads his pistol, taking care to use a specially colored bullet instead of his regular ones, and wishes he had a sheath for his new blade*

The Room

*Lecter slowly rises to his feet and walks towards John*
Lecter: I told you. I've been hunting that Devil for a long time. Now he killed Karma, and walked away laughing. I'm sorry you got dragged into this, both of you. It wasn't your fight.
*He notices the still form of Vaseraga, but is more focused on Sasga as he at least trusts Sasha*

*The scarecrow butchers Sydney, cutting her countless times while it laughs insanely, and seems to enjoy her screams*

The Room

*Lecter drops to his knees next to Karma, the main remnant of his injuries being heavy scars and tattered clothing*
Lecter: You're not done yet...
*The familiar simply turns her head to face John, her face even paler than unsual*
Neither is he. Take his heart, Lecter.
*Karma rests her head against the grass, and closes her eyes. As her breathing stops, she slowly shifts into black smoke, which reveals a dark blade (reminiscent of a Dao) where the Devil used to be. Lecter stares at the blade before slowly and carefully taking it into his hands*
Lecter: Your blood is mine, and rests on my hands. We will kill him together.

*The scarecrow attempts to curb stomp Syd with its blade while she's down*

The Room

*The centipede gets shot in the head by the quad guns, and faceplants into the dirt (Not that it has a face anymore). It's legs spasm violently and lightning discharges randomly from its corpse*

*Be'lak, seeing that his gigapede died, growls and blasts Lecter backwards, into a tree*
Enough. Expect Hell to meet you at your home.
*A red rift opens in front of Be'lak, and he walks through it, his back tendrils waving around him as he goes. The remaining tendrils from the ground wither and die as their master leaves*
*Lecter groans and slowly staggers towards Karma after disentangling himself from the tree, his Devil Trigger form trying to heal his many wounds*

The Room

*Lecter gets back up (again) in time to see Karma get stabbed by Belak's back tendrils, and hoisted into the air*
Lecter: Put her the fuck down!
As you wish.
*The two tendrils rip through to either side, basically ripping Karma in half, except for a small portion of her spine*
*The Devil Hunter dashes forwards, hacking at Be'lak as best he can, yet the Devil blocks each blow while laughing*
We go to Hell. But not as Damned, that is the mortals' title.

*The centipede gets slowed and turns it's head to look at Vaseraga, but goes back to charging John when he sees Vaseraga fall*
*The tendril turns to dust as it's severed, and Sasha falls to the ground (like a fifteen foot fall or so). The pistol puts another hole in the Devil's head, and it's moving sluggishly at this point, and occasionally it's legs trip over each other*

The Room

*Karma sees Sasha going to fire again, and lunges at Be'lak, trying to distract him from the shot at his back. Belak's tendrils (on his back) instinctively move to protect the Devil while he attacks Karma, yet the shot still rips through and into Be'lak*
Mortal...
*Another tendril forms in front of Sasha, and tries to impale her on itself*
*Karma takes advantage of Be'lak getting hit, and redoubles her attack, although she's still easily outclassed*

*The centipede gets shot in the side of the head and drops Vaseraga, turning it's attention to John. With the scythe and John's shot, it's head is a melted mess with stab wounds. The lightning it charged up fires at John*

*The scarecrow front flips forwards, aiming to catch Sydney in the head with its blade*

The Room

*Be'lak ducks under Lecter's blade to drive his claws into the Devil Hunter's gut, and sends him to the ground with a blast of lightning. At the same time, Karma slips out of the tendril by turning into smoke, reappearing next to Lecter in her Devil form, albeit battered and bloody*
He walks free.
*Be'lak simply laughs and advances on the familiar*
I created you in the depths of Hell. My tool, my perfect assassin. My mistake.

*The centipede bucks its head around, trying to lift Vaseraga from the ground as it charges. More lightning begins to charge up in the Devil's chitin, and it emits another shriek*