Ichor : Blood & Secrets

Chapter 12

Meanwhile in War World, Klaus who had seemingly managed to walk through areas of this hellish place undetected soon comes into a bar for slaves residing in the middle of nowhere which he dares to go within.

As he enters the bar with just a push, the crowd within are filled, but depraved of all happiness as they sorrowingly drink their way through life. Klaus finds it surprisingly that many slaves that reside in here turned out to be humans and vampires along with half blood, despite that, they still managed to possess a glimmering emotion of humanity still left within them.

"Nice to see at least they're along in here." whispered Klaus as he walks into the bartender and takes a empty seat ahead. "Hit me with anything." said Klaus as the bartender nods and begins pouring drinks into a cup and offers it to him.

"Haven't seen you in here before, where are you from?" asked the bartender after taking a deep look towards his face. "I'm new." said Klaus.

"Ah, they dragged another shipment of losers, didn't they? bet you're confused and lost about how you got here." asked the bartender. "Something like that.. what about you?" asked Klaus.

"I was born here.. the parademons snatched my parents when they were kids, managed to raise themselves in here and get married in the process as well, I've only heard stories of the worlds out there, never been in one myself." said the bartender. "Fortune favours the bold then, today might be your lucky day." said Klaus.

"How so?" asked the bartender.

"Well, let's say I'm trying to find a way back to my home, find me a way out with a ship and I'll take you anywhere you want." said Klaus to which the bartender pauses, then starts laughing, thinking it was a joke.

"Something funny?" asked Klaus once he drops the cup on the table after finishing it to which the bartender starts refilling after quieting down to laugh. "You can't get out of here, no one can, it's impossible." said the bartender.

"Well, shouldn't be that negative minded, right? after all, with the right contacts, a cargo deliverance might do the job." said Klaus.

"Listen man, the only thing that comes and goes out of here are the new demons and their lackeys, rest that arrive here are doomed with their generation in this hell, no one that gets in goes out." said the bartender.

"Until all of them had the pleasure of meeting the dangerous vampires in all of galaxy." said Klaus with a grin when suddenly they are interrupted when the door bursts open with a large parademon with a group of its minions enters within. "Well, look at here lads, another lump of fresh foodsss!" shouted the parademon.

"These things can.. talk?" asked Klaus. "No!, they are here, everyone, run! through the back door!" shouted the bartender as he takes out his shotgun from his drawer while Klaus finishes his drink and gets up while people panic and run away as the parademon while it moves forth to attack.

"Calm down, everyone stay in your seats, I've got this." said Klaus as he gets up, glowing in red eyes while his skin turns ash as he grins. "You can't defeat them, don't be stupid." said the bartender who holds him back.

"Piss off!" shouted Klaus, releasing himself from the bartender's hand lock. "You have no idea what I am, let me show you a glimpse " said Klaus who takes the entire bottle nearby and turns as he lunges out towards the minions who are torturing and killing residents, both humans and vampires until Klaus intervenes with one he rips the head out of the delights himself within fresh blood after a long while.

"Get him!" shouted a minion who flies off towards Klaus, grabbing hold of him to rip him out, but finds itself overwhelmed when Klaus turns out to be too strong for it, in which Klaus counters back and throws it off towards the celling to which it gets broken and thrown off at further distance.

"What in the.." said Bartender by shock of his strength while most of the minions who witness this start hurdling onto him, grabbing him down by force as it's numbers continue growing.

"Get him, pile him down!" shouted a voice, along with many others as they continue to whelm him down repeatedly as the large parademon too, starts to witness it's minions focused on one opponent, who by his brutal strength, manages to throw them all off by overwhelming them, with his eye lens in ash while within interior a burning fire of iris is seen as his strength is inclined.

In about two seconds of sighting, his rage takes complete control as he starts rampaging every single living thing that comes across, tearing his way down until the parademon itself comes to be his opponent in which he gets landed within a heavy punch that throws him off into the corner.

"What in Ahriman's name are you? where did you come from?" asked the large parademon.

"Hell." shouted Klaus who turns back towards the parademon in order to fight, but as he tries to counter, he immediately withdraws his fight and tears off a massive amount of cut from the parademons chest while he slides into the corner as the parademon screams in pain.

"You! bastard!" shouted the large parademon until it gets shot by the bartender's shotgun who fires right at its eyes.

"Damnit! who the frak was that?" shouted the parademon as Klaus looks towards to see the bartender aiming his gun at him while looking towards Klaus.

"Go, finish him off, now!" shouted the bartender as Klaus sprints off towards the parademon, launching several attacks towards the parademon from multiple sides as it tries to contemplate a counter move each time he tears him off and returns, but to each avail, all are proved unsuccessful as Klaus is too fast for him to counter back.

Soon, the surviving minions of the parademon too, try to tackle, but each time they try to get their hands on him, he either kills them off by ripping out their hearts, or vanquishes them by sucking the blood out of them completely.

"You think you can face the might of Klaus Azirel? I am a king, I am a God, I am the maker of all vampires and halfings alike, you can't end me, I will end you all!" shouted Klaus who launches a grapple lock into him by a failed counter move, in which he rips apart the head from the body using all his strength to which he drops down, having killed him by ripping his head from his body while none stand to witness except for the bartender who drops his gun down, shocked by this brutal display of Klaus as he stands tall amongst a whole pile of dead bodies.

"He.. he was indestructible, and you.. you killed him, you ripped his head out." said the bartender in shock.

"This one fared better than the one I met in the forest, still, that thing was hard to kill than this one." said Klaus. "The thing.. in the forest?" asked the Bartender.

"Before coming here, I fought one, killed it before it killed me, I need a drink." said Klaus as the bartender goes to search for drink while confused about who is he trying to mean.

"The only parademon I know, is Goliath, blood of Ahriman, closest thing he has to a brother, you couldn't have possibly killed him." said the Bartender. "I did, with some help, my name is Klaus, yours?" asked Klaus.

"Well.. I.. they call me bartender.. but before that, my mother called me.. Thomas?" said the bartender. "Well then, Thomas, it's nice to meet you, now, about leaving this planet, where were we?" asked Klaus.

Meanwhile, Ayame, on the other hand, has swam all the way form the river side towards the open sea close by where she reaches a cave over the coast of an island.

"Home.. I am.. home." whispered Ayame as she slowly starts to glimpse out of the water and begins walking towards the cave, shocked by once crowed and filled with her people when she was a child, but now nothing more than left to rot since no one bides anymore.

As she walks, accidently a small trample sound was heard to which she looks down, and starts investigating on what she did trample by taking out all the rubble, only to find a skeleton of a woman's hand which had been broken by her foot as she was walking.

As she was about to leave it behind, a strange feeling of a sensation drives her back to the broken women's hand, in which she starts to arrive where she stood and starts digging it whole to take the body of the women completely, but as she digs through, she also finds a casket just below the body which with a heavy lift, Ayame takes it from the dig site and places it in the plain ground, ready to open it after keeping away the skeleton that rested above it.

After opening, she finds a body of a women, skin fresh as she was alive, but darkened by the dust and rubble as she is woven in a elegant costly dress that remains still as she was.

Fascinated by this, Ayame takes a closer look towards the woman to a point where their noses touch, granting a sudden shift towards her existential plane, until she finds herself back in reality, warped in place of the woman while wearing her dress while nothing stands in the place she stood.

"No, what.. wait.. I.. I can..I can talk?" asked Ayame in confusion as she then notices while this dress around her starts to give her a feel of warmth, as well as the collection of rings that came with it starts glowing in their respective colours.