When In Doubt

Dominic raised his Snap Rifle and fired at an incoming Hellspawn; a crawling dislocated human being, its face was stained with ruined makeup. Long black hair covered most her features and the nightgown that covered her body was stained with blood. Two hands protruded out of her back and an additional feet can be seen on her pelvis. She crawled on three feet, sewn lips mumbling something, tears flowed from her eyes. Eyeshadow streaked across her face as she crawled towards the frightened Protectorate.

"Will you open fire when in doubt?" The voice of Tribune-Commander Jemwolf asked him in his thoughts as he stood in the middle of a parking lot beside a shopping mart in Pennsylvania. Night had grown darker than before. The moon was absent and no stars can be seen. The only illumination available was a ruined lamppost that flickered every second. His aim was shaking, yet he wasn't showing his fear to the enemies. Behind the crawling thing was four more of its kind; disfigured women in ruined nightgowns crawling to him. He screamed in pain and anguish as he fired at the nearest one, blasting its face in bloodied gore.

"Will you fight in the presence of fear?" The voice continued to ask him in a taunting, yet encouraging tone. He fired at the second Hellspawn, watching it fly backwards, leaving trails of blood and gore across the slick pavement. He turned to the right and fired another shot. The girl with eight hands and no feet had its face blown apart. They were crying as they crawl across the tarmac, to kill him.

"Will you fight even if evil taunts you?!" The voice added as Dominic raised his foot and crushed a Hellspawn's head. He fired three more shots but more Hellspawns crawled at his direction him. The Swarm of the Flaming Lust advanced.

"Will you fight for your Lord and Humanity?!" Jemwolf asked, causing more pressure to Dominic as his thoughts both ravaged and encouraged him. He fired relentlessly at the Hellspawns, driving them away but the creeping things continued flowing out of the black swirling portal not far from him.

A woman in three bent legs crawled fast in a disturbing speed as she tried to bite the Protectorate. Dominic launched the stock of his rifle against the Hellspawn then blasted her face apart.

"Will you lay your life for your brothers and die for them?!" The voice asked further as he fired at a quartet of Hellspawns. They laid lifelessly across the parking lot, dying and dying as Dominic fired many shots, yet more flowed out of the portal. He advanced each second as he fired, mowing down Hellspawns after Hellspawns, pushing back the advancing tide.

"Will you shed your blood for the innocent?!" He fired repeatedly but more took their places.

"Will you serve the Lord for the protection of Earth?" Jemwolf asked it. He remembered that time when he was standing alongside with the other Tier-1 Soulbrothers in the Pantheon's training grounds. They were aligned in a row, standing stiffly in front of the battle-grizzled Tier-5 Tribune-Commander. They were about to fight a battle that time, somewhere in Detroit. They were scared but at the same time, honored to fight the enemies of Humanity under the banner of the Enochian Guards Protectorates.

"Will you repel the voice that tempted Humanity to fall?" He asked, eyeing everyone as he walked in front of them. "Know that what we're up against is a serious threat that should not be taken lightly. But know this too," He paused before continuing. "We will fight them with faith and reverence for the Lord. We are created by Him with the powers of the Angels embedded inside us to act as a Praetorian of Earth and her colonies." He said proudly. "Be joyful, for tomorrow you might die." He raised a fist up. "For the El-Shaddai!" The others yelled the same thing.

"For the El-Shaddai!!" He yelled as he fired three times, then advanced, four times and blasted more creatures in bloodied gore. He gained the courage to advance further. He grabbed a bottle of Holy Water from his belt and tossed it inside the portal. Soon, it disappeared and everything around him burned in ashes. They all disappeared, only those that had perished in bullets have remained.

"As I walked through the valley of darkness, I will fear no evil for thou art with me..." He muttered as he watched the last one fade away in ashes.

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